The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LX., NO 9300. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD Y, MARCH 2 25, I‘)43 Find Haas, Walker‘‘Used’’ Labor Depar Eden Greeted by Hull COMMITTEE HANDS TS REPORT IN lnvesfigatofiecommend Legislation fo Cor- rect Evil A report of the special legislative | committee investigating the Terri- torial Department of Labor, issued | to the Legislature this afternoon, finds former Commissioner Michael | J. Haas negligent for failing to keep books of accounts and records of the Department, guilty of using the office to advance the political interests of himself, and also finds | former employee Senator A. P.| Walker used the facilities of the | office to advance his political cam- paign. | The report exploded like a bomb- shell on the last day of the ses- sion. All members of the committee except “Chairman Joseph W. Kehoe signed the report. He submitted a separate minority opinion. Concur- ring were Reps. John J. O'Shea, Harvey J. Smith, Christian R Roust, Senators O. D. Cochran, N R. Walker, Edward D. Coffey and Hjalmar Nordale. The report was not whitewashed | Personal Telegrams The committee found that Haas comed Britain's Foreign failed to keep books of accoun leaving only vouchers as record that of 84 telegrams sent or re- ceived by Haas during his incum- | bency, only copies of 94 were left ! in the files, and a few of these were of purely personal nature or | political nature, having no xofex- ence to any business of the Depart- f ment and of no use or benefit to| the Territory. The committee report stated shortly before the primary elecuon last April, “at which time Mr. Haas | was a candidate for election to the | office of Labor Commissioner, one | of the inspectors employed by him,” | (Steve McCutcheon), “unnecessar- | ily and without benefit to the De- partment, the Territory or anyone | else, except that of Mr. Haas and | said inspector, proceeded to An-| chorage for the sole purpose of | making a political speech at An- chorage in the political interests of | said Michael J. Haas, and that said | political speech was made on the eve of sald primary election; that the cost of said trip together with the per diem of said employee were | charged to and paid by the De- partment of Labor out of funds ap- |! propriated for its legitimate use.” Office for Politics The report continued, “The Com- mittee further finds that the fa- cilities of the office of the Com- missioner of Labor were used by said Michael J. Haas to advance his political interests and those of one Inspector A. P. Walker, who, at said time, was a candidate to| the office of Senator from the First Division.” Regarding a trip made by Walk- er during February and March of last year while he was employed | by the Department, and while he was a candidate for Senator in the primary election coming up in April, 1942, the report stated that he made two trips to various points in Southeastern Alaska, including Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg for the “ostensible purpose of inspect- ing canneries at said points and at, other places; that at the time| said trips were made no canneries were operating anywhere in South- eastern Alaska, which was well- known to said Walker.” 1 Walker’s Trip The report went on, pointing out) that Walker “made no inspections at said points, that on said trips Le carried with him and distribut- ed campaign literature in his in- terest and the interest of said Michael J. Haas. That said trips| were of no benefit to the Depart- ment of Labor, the Territory or| anyone else, except the said Walker and Haas.” | Finally, the repart. stated, “we| = 1 | (Continued on Page Two) MINE TOWN IS SETTLING With a hearty handclasp, Secretary of State Cordell Hull (right), wel- Secretary, Department for the first of a series of conferenc Biggest Man, Present Congress, Is 6-Fooler From Stafe of Oregon INTO DEPTHS {Panic Strikeszesidenis as Between 80 and 90 Homes Take Drop PITTSTON. Pa. March 25.—The main movement of the destructive earth cracking and mine subsidence has stopped after damaging be- ween 80 and 90 homes, the $400,000 high school building and causing damage running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in this east- ern Pennsylvania anthracite city of a population of 18,000. Mine inspector Daniel Connolly | themselves before announced cessation of the subsi- dence after touring the mine wprk- ings under the four block affected area where sections of the earth sank throughout the night in one of the worst cave-ins in years. Connolly warned however further “pulls” could be expected. Panic spread among the many in the heart area. Yawning Pagnotti of the enterprises residential crevices opened and pavements and 91 e started on a shoestring, till- lawns dropped into holes from 2°‘mg the family's 450 acres. to 25 feet deep. Some homes were twisted, p]aster cracked and windows broken. -e NURSES’ AIDES SELL TICKETS TO DANCE ATBARANOF TODAY Attractively crisp in the blue and white nurses’ aide uniform, Mrs. Joe deGanahl and Mrs. Sam Ware, members of the local Nurses' Aide organization, were in the lobby of the Baranof Hotel at noon today selling tickets to the Nurses' Aide dance to be held at the Elks' Hall jon April 3. Proceeds of the dance are to be given to the American Red Cross, to help swell the War Fund Drive, now underway. that o; the same wheat ranch he runs ! today. |vesidents when the earth began to” farmer, rumble and crack "‘bm‘" 7:30 0'clock | yotired and moved the 23 miles into last night over No. 9 mine of the ! pendleton and there were family |arguments against his ambition. ‘ { EXTRA BULLET Gruening — Gov. has signed the General Appro- priation bill as submitted by | the Legislature last Monday afternoon The amount called for is $4.335,861. R s RED FORCES _DRIVING ON NORTH FRONT 'Fresh Headway Made To- | ward Smolensk in 3 | Directions Today March 25.—~The Red >d drive through slush, wrds Smolensk has Eden, to the State s in Washington. Anthony MOSCOW, | Army's dc ce and mud tow vands o the Soviet defenders, the | Russians announce in the midday | | communique H | Additional villages were taken on| the Smolensk front, as the Soviet| troops broke through the outlying| defense of the city. The Soviet’s sharpest thrust ap-| By JACK STT peared to be north of Dukhovsch-| WASHINGTON, March 25.— An| DO, miles northeast of Smolensk. | imaginative young newspaper man | The official war bulletin said that state dubbed him | n this sector, the Red Army bat- Th(““‘“’ hand to hand with the Ger-| ovs here call him “the biggest man |mans in an unidentified settlement in Congress” and “the man all|heavily fortified, after hurling Waushington looks up to.” Sewr,]wwnadm to clear the path. South call him “Mr. Six-Foot-Six.” ‘ui this sector the Russian column Fresh phrases or old, they con-|is reported moving toward the dis- vey the idea. Lowell Stockman of | |trict center of Dorogmbuzh on the Pendleton, Ore,, certainly is the|Vyazma-Smolensk railway most striking new member of Con- | One section of the battle will be gress. He really is six-foot-six and | | fought in a swampy area cut by the weighs 270 pounds. And within|Dneiper River and many small Stockman’s huge frame is .\ome-wfiflms The large scale offensive thing typical of the new Congress,| for control of the upper Dneiper a healthy something that makes a|ls already encountering heavy con- | ot of us here in Washington sure centrations of artillery which the that the day of the old machine|Germans are backing up by in politician is passing. | tantry. In his place, the voters, s]owly[ e D S R but surel e sending good, solid, | serious citizens to represent them— men not hidebound to the political | party under whose banner v.hey{ ere elected; men who don’t talk a| lot or make any ranting speeches,' jAp BASES but do considerable debating with | they cast their But Few Defails of Allied Atfacks Released in Report trem his home the Oregon political colossus.” votes. Perhaps telling you a little about Rep. Lowell Stockman of Oregon’s cecond district will make my point. Stockman is a northwestern wheat farmer. He was born 42 years ago He decided to go to the college and become a| his parents had ,agricultural although i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IV AUSTRALIA, March 25. — Allied \ade overipla“cs made smashing attacks on nine of the Japs’ South Pacific bases and bombed a Jap merchaht |man off New Guinea, the -High When he was only a s T\\'Pnt)" years later he has an ‘enviable rec- ord of farm pioneering behind him.| Command announced today. He was one of the first men in the| A 5000-ton enemy merchant ship northwest to ship bulk wheat in-|was bombed off Kaimana, in north- stead of using the costlier, more Western New Guinea. tedious bagging process; and one| Three Jap planes attempting to of the first to buy eombine mach- |attack Allied medium bombers wer ines, tractors, ete. |driven off and one was' damaged Last year, as he explains it, (This clash occurred some 500 miles ‘after 20 years farming had sort north of Darwin, of lost its glamor,” he turned to. Two formations of Allied medium politics. In his district there was bombers caused heavy damage virtually a legend that Rep. Walter low level attacks on several Pierce could never be deh-ated,,mw,,,w bases, and for the Stockman won the Republican gng day, on enlarged scale sweep nomination and started his own'wnacArthur's in Jap aerial artillery was brand of campaigning. He visited|raported over the Mubo sector of every town in his distriet, ”"‘"“""‘New Guinea. at one end of Main street and| ¥ working his way to,the other. His| qu. (oo B g friendly smile and his greeting:| o€ CUET DOVEr BUER T CWOE “I'm -Lowell Stockman of Pendle- e Europe, about which the swan sone legend it told, has no note at all. (Continued on Page Five) nade fr headway in three di- |k cctiors while on the ‘Donet front.} terman attacks to control the nor- rern Donets River valley is slack- aing after their setbacks the \fl- 'VlBl R ASSOCIM D PRhSS U. S. TROOPS REPULSE NAZI ATTACKS tment MacArthur's Troops ik o was followed in New Guinea from Buna to forces of General Douglas MacArthur's troops. gun positions behind dense banks of Ku men move up on the Japs, heads held low because of Nip snipers. grass. S. Sign;x! Corps newsr from a U. Traglc Tale of Army's Fight with Northland Storm in Valdez Area VALD] Ala March 25, lNDU(IION |“Died im the line of duty.” That's Fine War Department requiem for brave young soldier who sleeps 5 deep in a creva the Valdez FARH}% ] E slacier on the famed trail to the cld camps of '98 H ow seals his tomb, and the I ring mountain peak are his A mornment, | His 20 companic barely i ' caped the same fate when hurri-| Govemor Of Colorado‘muu winds and avalanches caught them on a training trip. It was| Takes Defmi'e Im_ {five days after the storm broke, b land while the gales still howled, mediate Action that the first survivor staggered und crawled back into camp i It had taken them five days to DENVER. Colo. March 25.—~GOV. cover the 16 miles to camp. That John C. Vivian today ordered an g. siv weeks ago, and not all of immediate halt to the induction of y. 90 gurvivors are yet able t Colorado farm workers in the yo .y 15 aetive wuty atmed forces. This action followed "o 4o declined to make pub the recent assertion of the GoOv- . ' oo™ .00 C : { | ernunent - thak: Qolorado. Wk, crop' s it SUMUBRL Hiames. This slofy goals could not be attained unless “°NoTMS S8 e who were silll he workefs' were permitted to stay DUWBE WO Apparent survi o The TakeE s were brought into camp and i hey were given up for dead A unew searching party set out wid found the bedies of two of the FIRSI BMEMA“ nissing three caught in the shallow dge of an avalanche. They strug- MllE OF GIAN‘I’S led out and crawled and stag- ered Back to town on the seventh ay. Lo rics for help, and saw before them ST. LOUIS, March 2.—Johnny the snow, too weak to stand Mize, 30, New York Giant's first ruzen and almost unrecognizable baseman has been accepted by the € flgure -of ithe twenticth sur armed service after passing his VO £ physical examinatipn at Jefferson e b DS Approximately seven draftees out of every 100 are rejected because BUY WAR P'ONDS of mental ill-health, Mop Up’ Top: A gun is moved along the beach to knock out Jap Wet feet don’t worry the Yank: These | o GAINS MADE INMAKNASSY .. AREA TODAY Progress Repbried Central Tunisia Front-Rommel Siops Advances ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 25—U. 8. troops have repulsed heavy Nazi armored attacks in the Gafsa sec- tor and made local gains in the Maksassy area on the central Tu- nisian front while the battle of the Mareth Line dwindled to artillery Buna Beach duelling after four days of bitter fighting, military quarters said. Strong resistance and counter- attacks of Rommel's forces pre- vented further major Allied gains for the time being. In some cases the resistance and counter-attacks have wiped out the advance achiev- ed in a few days. On the southern Tunisian front, i2rman counter-assaulfs last night largely wiped out advances made by the British Eighth Army where the Eighth had driven a wedge in the upper end of the Mareth Line. British and American light bomb- ers hammered the important Axis armored positions near the town yof Mareth, In the communique issued today there is no mention made of the Lask force that flanked Rommel's positions. The task force was last reported eight miles from Elhamma, the Axis air base at the rear of the fortifications, 20 miles west of bes. Field dispatches said the U. 8, troops have won control of the last mountain chain overlooking the coastal plain of the Axis supply routes between Maknassy and the Gulf of Gabes, after beating back the Axis armored forces in the re- gion of Elguetar, itself 12 miles southeast of Gafsa on the road to Gabes. BOMBS AGAIN HURLED DOWN rpe i ON SCOTLAND banks “The Alaska Highway.” LONDON, March 25. — For the Since the completion of the high- ' first time in weeks, Nazi bombers way it unofficially became known raided Scotland early today fol- the Alcan Highway which re-|lowing the raid on the southeastern celptly drew criticism from Dimond coast of England yesterday where who said it sounded too'much like more than 12 persons were killed 5 wcan.” - GOVERNOR'S "fi’;‘,‘;fl;g;;o VETO LOSES BY PRESIDENT Present War nananda Point by “mopping u) Below: U. S. infantry- Associated Press photos are Dimond Wants "Alaska Highway" Official Name WASHINGTON, March 25, — A resolution has been introduced by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond that would officially name the new 1,600 But Senate Has Yet to Vote e WASHINGTON, March 25—Pres. on School District lidenf Roosevelt has signed legisla. Bi” |tlon extending the Veterans' Pen- don laws fo provide rehabilitation |to those serving in the armed fore- By a vote of 13 to 2, Reps. Stan-|2s during the present war. y McCutcheon and Jesse Lander| Veterans rated totally disabled {voting no, the House this after-|are eligible for a training course con passed over the Governor’s '0 not more than four years. to Rep. R. E. Hardeastle’s bill to! The Act also established a halt provide that in advance of holding million dollar revolving fund to (an election to form a new school Take advances up to $100 to in- district, a review of the question be!dividual trainees. held in front of the District Court . S e judge to determine whether or no BUY WAR BONDS uch an election is justified e I'he Governor said that the rea- PP e e 1 on for the veto was that the bill DIMOUT TIMES . would withdraw- power now vested @ity 2 in the people Distriet Court where the and place if in the He called the bill a Legislature cks to| Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 7:22 o'clock. . diminish the power of the people lemm‘n Pn..dg tomorrow e Hardeastle said he believed the & l;““““ at 6:45 a.n. . bill would have the effect of safe-| Dimout begins Friday at' e sunset at 7:24 p.n . . 5 . o . - ° ° . . (Continued on Page Three) ® 00 00 00 0000