The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _VOL. LX., NO. 9299. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —~ — ALLIESPLASTER JAP AIR BASEAT RABAUL American Tank Forces Advancing To Sea SOVIETS ARE ALL GERMAN ATTACKS ARE FORCED BACK Superiority of U. S. Planes Revealed in Stories of U._S. Fliers By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 24 —If ou have been gasping over the wumber of Army and Navy airplane wccidents and wondering if a lot Situation Regarding Mar- 5f them -aren't” the result of sab- eth Line Battling Confusing RN | Congressional concern over these ssocial S | A c The! m{ :t?nt:::d l:::?uon on weidents resulted in some inves- athie ; | igating and Robert A. Lovett. as- | the southern front in Tunisia in| 6 (OUNTS ot ksl i 4 B the North African campaign where { "‘N“L secretary of war in charge| § 5 do o3 the air force, has spread on xe‘r t:;:;:e;h%?;r:l:;a :‘i;em:gu?rth the record a pretty thorough anal- fantry the invaders of the Mareth | 7sis of the situation. Anoiher'N’ei Is Thrown| HOLDING NAZI FORCES BACK Germans Unable fo Make Gain on Donefs Front- Reds Near Smolensk (By Associated Press) The Red Army clings tenaciously to its position on the northern Don- ets River, beating back every effort |of the Germans to establish them- selves on the eastern bank. On the Central Front Soviet troops have plunged toward Smo- DAY, NIGHT Buster Bombs L RAIDS OVER ENG. CHANNEL 1AI lies HiimNazi-Oc(upiedi | France-Germans Crash GOVERNORIS ‘ e . CRITICAL OF SCHOOL TAX punches with the Germans across | sh Channel, Allied airmen | Istruck asain this mornk at enemy ! ets in northern France as Nazl warplanes resumed hit and run| i |raids on the coastal sections "”A”OWS Measure IOBecome England | | the On Japs at Kiska in Raid; New Runway Hit INBIGRAID Line but on the other side it is A d N . A ‘ f | said the British Eighth Army, o=t 3 p e which rammed the line yesterday, roun azl gen or mand is concerned (they has withstood all attacks and still maintain a foothold. Prime Minister Winston Church- ill told the House of Commons this So far as the Air Transport Com- |lensk, capturing more setilements | deliver | in their advance. planes and manpower to the 10 The Germans crossed the Donets | theaters of war all over the globe) : |east ot Belgorod during the night, |In 12 months, the ATC established |yt the Soviet morning communique la record of losing only one plane |reporws that they have been driven . German Foreign Office WASHINGTON, March 24, — Heavy explosions west of Bou- llogne rocked houses across the ¢hannel at Folkestone. The explo- caused by the bombs dropped by formations of Allied planes that streaked across the Isiens were Law Without His Signature | | Vigorously criticizing Rep. Andy Viereck, German/out of 333 delivered; but in the| since the first World indicted |George Syl propagandist morning the British have pene- trated the Mareth line and are slowly progressing. War, »hm been The German Military spokesman |COUnts charging Foreign Agent on six [been lost out of each 500 delivered. | violation of the! As for the Army- itself: In the| & e b i Registration Act | first eight months of last year (the, ';‘r::‘t’gg C'fiutmfifihmfif§?“,u-fy1“‘"1' the specification he failed to latest period for which figures have | g o o S SR B SRR disclose he was acting as a Nazi|been totalled) the srmy fiew 743 (Continued on Page Five) |agent for the German Foreign Of- per cent more hours and 98.5 murvi —_— |fice in this country. Recently, Viereck was freed from period from 1930-40 The washlngion {the District of Columbia jail after |accidents per thousand hours flown 4 serving one year fro a previous con-|was lower than in the previous ten Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) {vicuon of violating the Foreign{years. Agent Act, when the Supreme Courtl Warplanes of today are faster, {ordered a retrial on the ground heavier and some carry number: there was an error in the Judge's|of persons that only a few year {instruction to the jury. Eago would have been thought fan | It is indicated the step taken by tastic. When a big plane goe WASHINGTON. —In Sl:lp!.embcx, the Department in becl:lring new | down now, it is likely to carry with 1939, just a week “f!'" war_broke Findictmems is to eliminate any pos- it 15 or 20 men. Yet actual deaths| in Europe, the Washington Merry- |sible weaknesses that might be en-]por flying hours have increased Go-Round went to the War De- qontereq fn ar retrial on the old only five one-hundredth over the! partment to check on a "““m"""‘chnrges. [1930-40 period. tHEE ‘the Aviny Bild Plais fordralt=1" =o' ol glagl BT e T ing American youth for mimaryi service. We were referred to a red- | headed major, who said, with an; apologetic air: i “Yes, we have a plan, but we; don't call it draft; we call it ‘se-| lective service. It's nothing new.| It's just a carry-over from the last | war. Besides,” he added, “if I have | my way, we will never use this| glass bowl and these pellets. I ami a Hoosier and an isolationist, and | SIR EDWARD BEATTY Has CHANGESIN RATIONING ez PASSED AWAY Cuounep e et nendea maer 1s now o President of Canadian Pa- cific for Many Years major general, who presides over | Dies in Montreal they will be allowed to buy a max- the destinies of millions of Ameri- ! can men. The name is Lewis B.| Hershey. “But if we do have to get into it—,” Hershey added, leaving the| fg’gerfii;‘;h;::sé:_ts; ?:'}imum of two pounds of popular wal . ) ! e | /5 5 - Cansiia | Beckl 0 higa yia RS stk a3 i of e {burger per person. 1918 to 1942, is dead here. { Under rationing most people will Edward Wentworth Beatty, first| coua)ly buy less because they will (Continued on Page Five) I U T | WASHINGTON, March 24 — A] disclosure of coupon values for {meat today in the States showed Americans that starting Monday thought incomplete. Hershey mentioned the figure of | 7,500,000 men as the strength of the U. S. Army. This is the figure | the President is insisting on today. | Cenadian-born president of the wap the use of some of the same The record now reveals that it has|Canadian Pacific Railway and,jcoupons for butter, lard, cheese been a basic figure in War De- |When selected for the post in 1918, ang canned fish, and they have partment planning for years. »,o_ne of the youngest railroad execu- only 16 points to spend per week, Hershey said at that time, more | !ives in dominion history, g“‘dedlwuh the average coupon cost of than three years ago, that the first (the trans-continental system ejgny points a pound. draft would take men between 21|through the world depression ck“ * Typical Budget and 30, which, after deferments,|the late '20’s and early '30s, after, A whole group of foods on the would provide an army of about|Daving built up its steamship lines, yypical budget will probably con- 3,000,000 men. “This should be hotels and other travel auxiliaries|gist per person of two pounds of enough to make a powerful army,”|In the more prosperous years im-|meat, plus a quarter of a pound he said, “but if it isn't, other age mediately following the world WAT. | of butter and a quarter of a pound groups will be called, until a total| A lawyer by profession, heiof cheese, while an entire pound of 7,500,000 men are in uniform” |Worked up through the legal de-'of putter alone would take eight The War Department is still [Partment of the road in the face|pgings, ! sticking to these plans made sev- Of @ tradition that the head of " Tpe government announcement | eral years in advance. the system should be a practical gaig that the new rationing was| NOTE: The figure 10,800,000 men |oPerating officer. But it was point- | necessary in order to divide up the for the total armed forces is made |6d Out that by 1918 the construc-, curtailed civilian supply because up by Navy and Marine Corps per- |tion problems of the system had op the heavy diversion of these| sonnel in addition to the Army. MADAME CHIANG Priends of Madame Chiang Kai- shek swear that at seven o'clock on a recent morning, the telephone jangled in the apartment of a| minor government clerk. The clerk {phase of administrative conserva- lend-lease. Some packers and stock |tion had been entered for which men blamed the shortage to govern- Beatty’s experience was especially | ment interference with normal pro- { valuable. |ducing and marketing procedures. Goes Up Fast | —— et Beatty started with the I‘ailroad‘Dl'L STANLEY JORGENSEN July 1, 1901, a few weeks after fin- | ARRIVES FROM SOUTH stumbled out of bed, picked up the |ishing his studies. In 1905 he was Dr. Stanley Jorgensen arrived in receiver. A soft feminine voice at|made assistant 'solicitor, in 1910 qunenu from the south this morn- the other end of the line asked to|general solicitor, in 1914 vice presi- ing. He has practiced dentistry in speak to his wife. dent and chief counsel and in 1918 Fairbanks and other communities “Who is this?” mumbled the clerk [President. In 1924 he was elected |of Alaska as well as in Seattle. sleepily. “This is Madame Chiang Kai- shek,” was the reply. “Oh, yeah! Well, I am Napoleon.” retaining his executive duties. neau and 'attended the public He was born in Thorold, Ont., schools here before leaving for the October 16, 1877, the son of Henry south to attend dental college. The clerk hung up. Later, at|Beatty, who came from Ireland A breakfast, he told his wife about, o ————————————~ MR. AND MRS, J. E. BOYLE $68 oMl b TRk TR gty \iigre<| - - FEOBHNUEd . Pags, Two) RETURN FROM SOUTH cations about practical jokers who! s . v | James E. Boyle, Union Oil rep- Since 1906 the British infant mor- | resentative, and Mrs. Boyle, re- get people out of bed at seven in| 5 Sedhoattnei i e B WS B W ‘(Continued on Page Four), 53 per thousand. |eral weeks to the States. | Western | virtually all been overcome and a foods to the armed forces and to| tality rate has fallen from 154 to turned today from a trip of sev-| back There are no indications of last six months, only one plane has|mucl: mass crossing being repeated | turing the past few hours, although 4jhere have been more attempts. A German communigue told of the battle in the Leningrad area and said: “The defensive battle south of Lake Lagoda is continuing jmiles than in the whole ten-year with unabated violence. The Soviet| The rate of onclaught is supported by numer-| ous battle planes which strong ar- tillery fire has repulsed. Embittered sulted in high casualties inflicted on |the enemy.” The Soviet noon communique stated that the Red Army of the Front—when being de- scribed as the Central Front before the concerted drive on Smolensk developed—has continued its offen- sive by capturing several villages and wiping out of a force of Ger- man rapid fire riflemen who were surrounded in the forest north of Dukhovschino. The Russian Army’s arrival in the area about Dukhowschino mark- d one of the most significant marches to date in this area. The dispatches carefully stated that the fighting was actually in the sector north of this Smolensk Pro- vince town, which puts the Rus- sian force in an area about two score miles from the German base of Smolensk. S ik EXPLOSION AT DEPOT KILLS TEN RAVENNA, Ohio, March 24.—An explosion today spread death among the loading crew of the govern- ment's $7,000,000 portage ordinance |depot, killing possibly as many as | ten workers. Two bodies have been recovered Cause of the explosion is not learned as yet. The blast was felt as far as Youngstown, 30 miles distant. R U.S. AIRMEN ATTACK JAP BURMA LIN NEW DELHI, India, March 24 {The American Air Force has again |slashed out at the long Kokieik viaduct on the railway between {Mandalay and Lashio in Burma, chairman of the board while still | Dr. Jorgensen was reared in Ju-;lllfl Myitnge bridge in North Ran- death. He had been married just goon and the Thz railroad junc- tion in attempts to cripple the iJaps’ supply lines. iinge bridge and its approaches which have already prevented any railway movements over the struc- ture for several weeks. Damage also has bLeen repmied cn the Gokteik viaduct. fighting at close quarters has re-! Hits were reported on the My-| |Gundersen’s new school tax bill as a “striking ¢ ple of defective |draftsmanship,” a “masterpiece of |confusion,” Gov. Ernest Gruening 1 [this afternoon informed the Legis- |lature that he ! allowed the bill |to become a law without his signa- ture. Said the chi®f executive, “There would be ample justification for vetoing H.B. 14, but since it is a |revenue measure and one sanc- | tioned by long years.in the Terri- |tory, which moreover broadens the | hitherto restricted base upon which » . |the tax has been applied, it will, | with all its grave defects, become A l r' l el d I s | law without my signaturd.” i | The Governor said that the title } und A'Iack of the bill calls it a school tax, but nowhere in the body of the bill R | does it say that the funds shall be deposited with the Treasurer in| the “school fund.” WASHINGTON, March 24.—Jap| rrherefore, he continued, it is in- planes caused “some material dam-| . o0t to call it a hool tax. age” to the American airfield in| gaeher he said, it is a “head tax.” | an attack on Guadalcanal Tuesday | night, the Navy disclosed this af- | ternoon, However there were no . Gov. Gruening said the bill would lead to great confusion and much casualties to the personnel of the force. channel at the burst of daylight This activity folowed up night attacks of the German raiders al the English coast. German raides early today hit a southeast inland town and blasted a boarding school but the alert had: sounded and the 300 children were aroused and had | gone to shelters before the first | | bombs dropped . Guadalcanal lCanu'nul-d' on f’nge Tl\l;ml - .- wes. waTeRG. HELLAN - BRITISH SAY AND FATHER, T. J. RYAN, ‘ eérueh uow sou. JAPS BALKED Mrs. Walter G. Hellan and her | | father, Thomas J. Ryan returned | today from a six week trip to the | States. Mr. Ryan visited friends in Seattle, Spokane, Portland and Ta- coma, while Mrs. Hellan spent her time between Seattle and Tacoma. In Tacoma, Mrs. Hellan visited her son, Tom, who expects to enter the armed forces within a short time. Thomas Hellan, who was graduated last June from St. Mar- tin's College, has been in the ac- attle-Tacoma sh rds at Ta- coma, since his graduation. | | CALCUTTA, mdia, March 24—! | British troops have failed in four! |attempts to crush the Jap defenses | at the tip of the Mayu Pcnmauln: 'and are holding their own positions between the Ahakan and Mayu biv-| crs in Burma, but qualified observ- ers say the British have accomplish- ed the following three objectives: | | They have Kkilled some Japs, |sained valuable experience in jungle -, IJ. [oM. H, MUNIER ! arfare, and frustrated any plans the Japs ave had for in- REmR“I"G FROM ‘V:I_inglp:ndr?:ybe};::: :;::wd mgluso::n BRIEF TRIP- SOUTH | period. | Now the British must readjust |their forces’ positions which can be Lieut, Commander Herbert Mun-|upplied during e monsoary period ter is in Junedti today on his Wmy‘when upwards of 300 inches of rain back to his station from the south|M00d the hundreds of square miles where he has been on a brief leave.| Burma. Only a few weeks re- main before the monsoon breaks. Commander Munter went south| P : i . M following the death of his son, Lieu- | Penl‘:s[;:m:;'t'g“,sd“l“ . Te A |tenant j. g. Herbert Munter, Jr.| W, 0 anpalic s one o J B the chief objectives, marked a peak in an airplane accident on March |6 when the plane in which he was being checked out crashed get Sound near Whidby Island. Commander Munter and his son, both fliers,” received their commis- sion for active duty in the Navy on the same day, over a year ago. Lieutenant Munter had been on duty in the Aleutians for some time and was in the south for ad- ditional training at the time of his when the British intensified opera- i |tions in the Arakan area in Burma n Pu-| (where they had greater fire power |than the Japs. Onh one front, the Japs had ex- tended their positions eastward without Jap oppesition, but were unable to capitalize on their gains WASHINGTON, March 24.—Pre- sident Phil Murray of the CIO, ind President William Green of the AFL have half agreed to reopen negotiations in behalf of jurisdic- BT o) tional labor disputes and raids on WASHINGTON, March 24-The union membership. |Navy announces U. S. Army nghl-; The half agreement was arrived (ers strafed the enemy seaplane base |at a 4-hour closed session with the |at Rekata Bay on Santaisable Is- Special War Investigating com- | 'land yesterday. All planes returned |mittee during which Green pro-‘ \safely. Rekata Bay is 135 nautical posed signing a pact outlawing jur- Imiles from Guadalcanal, isdictional disputes for the duration. three weeks when the erash curred. oc- | Aleutian days. anded 250 ENEMY - PLANES HIT By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent Three Airdromes Bombed Terrific Attack Made on FROM AN ADVANCED ALAS- H United States Army airmen vy B drepped “Jap Busters” for the first| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN time today in the heaviest nerial| AUSTRALIA, March 24. — Allied |hombers plastered the Jap air base Big one-ton bombs made their|?t Rabaul, New Britain, in a two- Aleutian debut in a death cargo of | NOUr Taid yesterday, aiming 54 tons 47 tons which rained on the Ja))s'i": ""'“"“d“p‘;‘" "2“’ three airdromes island base in day-long operations.|'Der® 8bd the 300 enemy Pisnes e | clustered on them, striking a heavy The Eleventh Air Force Hell(l-‘m”w at the Nt;')ponexe air power. quart reported the exact figure| " " apiag SOMRIAA nnno\méed of 94540 pounds, as Nght-heavy |y e ona of the heaviest raids of bombers shared honors with the | e war was launched on the Jap bomb-carrying fighter planes. | South Pacific base after reconnais- The heaviest previous bomb to- gance disclosed the largest concen- tal reported in a single day’s oper- |tration of Jap aircraft ever observ- atlons was 30 tons. Toda pun- {od in this sector. ishing raid kept the Japs ducking | The Allied bombers showered the under cover intermittently for nine |airdromes with incendiary, frag- hours, one minute after the first | mentation and 2,000-pound bombs, attack opened at 9:45 am. | destroying or damaging a “substan- One Long Day | tial proportion” of the grounded Six groups of raiders swept over |planes. Kiska through the day, whichmust| Rabaul is a Jap naval base as have seemed longer to Tojo's co- Wwell as an air base. It lies some horts than the coldest, foggiest | 500 miles northeast of Port Mores- by, New Guinea, U.S. FLIERS DOWN ENEMY 4-1, RECORD were seen n the wir nil day and| AMerican Operafions Over | they weren't looking for a fight.| They jumped the weatner oer-| EUTOPe Now Number ‘ 51-Report Made vation patrol plane first sent out,, AT THE U. S. EIGHTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS SOME- |WHERE IN ENGLAND, March 24. |—U. 8. heavy bombers knocked !down 52 German fighters positively {in last week's raid on Vegesack near Bremen, plus 20 probably | downed and 23 damaged, it was | RAISE PASSES % Houst IUESDAv:dI&'In‘.&Pd today by Maj. Gen. Ira ] The House conceded today to | smash of the war against Kiska New Record Set | The six raids set a new record in the course of which the Kiska Japs got a glimpse—if any of them | kept their heads out of the bat-| tered shelters long enough — of at least 72 U. S. planes, more than| they had ever had a chance to see | in a single Kiska raid before, i The U. S. Air Force report list- ed only one fighter pilot missing, | while a second lieutenant met death | in a forced landing in the water. " (Continued on Page Two) S - { TEACHERS' PAY > Hous, The total of positive vietims s the: Senate’s request to return |equal to the highest previously the liquor tax bill to the Senate | cored, which was a raid over for a reconsideration, and the Senate passed the bill with a 6-2 vote, adding an amendment which makes the increase on the liguor excise taxes 100 per- cent in all cases except whis- key, for which the increase will be 50 percent. |France October 7. Eaker disclosed 1 Ithat the German fighter victims in i Monday'’s raid over Wilhelmshaven 1 itotaled 28 positively downed, and | nine probably damaged. This brings 'to a total of 51 the American op- | erations over Europe to date, with | |a record of 356 victims against the |10ss of 90 American bombers. The House yesterday afternoon| The Vegesack raid, Air Force passed the teachers’ pay raise bill| commander said, marked the end by a 16-0 vote, and the measure of the “experimental” period for | now goes to the Governor for con- |high altitude daylight precision BIABERBRINL 2 2t 2 {bombing, which is now definitely The bill provides for a 25 percent cgiaplished as being practical and increase as follows: First Division ' W from an $1,800 minimum to $2250 vithout HBsogrAnRGRL JosmE. @4 year; Third Division, $1980 to $2475; Second and Fourth Divi- w ' | sions, $2,100 to $2,625. The bill originated in the Sen- ate where Senator Edward D. Cof- fey was the author. Also passed by the House was NEW YORK, March 24 — A broadcast made at Tokyo today and picked up here, gave warning to the Japangse people to expect air raids over Japan and also in- Coffey’s memorial urging Congress to 4ake favorable action on a pend- creasing submarine attacks upon shipping. ing bill to bring defense workers in Alaska back under the Alaska Un- employment Compensation Law. The Senate yesterday afternoon killed Rep. Harvey J. Smith's bill tp allow any non-profit benefit so- ciety to admit to beneficial mem- bership (insurance) any person be- tween the ages of 18 and 65 with- out @ physical examination. A move by the Senale to re- consider its vote on the liquor tax r > BUY WAR BONDS bill was futile when the House!® ©® & © & ¢ o o ¢ ¢ ¢ voted 8-8 to refuse to send the bill| ® DIMOUT TIMES . back to the Senate which killed ® ey - it by a 4-4 vote earlier. Senator® Dimout begins tonight e Senator Ed Coffey asked for the ® at sunset at 7:20 p.m. . reconsideration. (® Dimout ends tomorrow e e ® at sunrise at 6:48 a.m. L] Since 1906, children from poor ® Dimout begins Thursday at e homes in Great Britain have ceived free meals at school. re- ' ® sunset at 7:22 o'clock. . ]0..0.........