The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1943, Page 1

THE DAIL VOL. LX., NO. 9302. Y ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1943 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS _— JAP INSTALLATIONS BLASTED BY ALLIES areth Line Is Cracked Deeper By Smooth Pathfor U.S. Bombers NEW NIPPON MONTGOMERY FORCES AXIS TROOPS BACK Am\ericans §rfi(ing Out in| Surprise Atfacks in North - ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AFRICA, March 27. — General Montgomery’s British Eighth Army | delivered a successful attack on the Mareth line yesterday, and opera- tions are “proceeding according to plan” in spite of stiff resistance, the Allied command announced to- | day. [ This report came shortly after an Algiers radio broadcast, appar- ently referring to midweek devel- opments, said the Eighth Army had | evacuated the bridgehead at the north end of the “Little Maginot” fortifications. The late war bulletin, however, | indicated the British forces instead | of making a fresh withdrawal, are | surging deeper into the 40-mile | long defense works. | Meanwhile, in Northern Tunisia, | General Anderson’s First Army | stabbed out in a series of recon- | naissance probes in operations which may be aimed at aidim:' Montgomery’s _advance. An Allied Headquarters commu-} nique said “many prisoners have | been taken” in the last two day: oy | | (Continued on‘r’age Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) MOVIE STARTLET | VISITS JUNEAU | WASHINGTON.—Another Jesse Jongs' interesting banking | deals has just leaked out This time the genial Jesse has, . . extended his generous bank-roll— | AND GSO DANCE on behalf of the U. S. taxpayer— | to the Aluminum Corporation of | Ty Cahada to build a giant power Men of the armed forces and plant in the wilds of Quebec, ri- ‘local GSO girls will have a chance TELEPHONE NUMBER, PLEASE WOULD USE | ALASKA OIL RESERVES| Urging Investigation in Congress WASHINGTON, March 27.—Rep. Norris Poulson, California Repub- lican, said today he soon will fmi- tiate inquiries to learn why the Navy has not developed the 35,000 cquare miles of petroleum reserve n Alaska. Both Poulson and Alaska Dele- gate Dimond told reporters they believed immediate steps are need- led to utilize the rich oil deposits, not only to facilitate the present military effort in the North, but ¢ to supply oil for use in Siberia. | Said Delegate Dimond; “if we | ever moved into the Japanese do- | main, the oil which could be sup- | plied from the Alaska petroleum re- | serve would be invaluable.” ‘ Poulson said during 1939, the Jap “good will” expedition to Alaska, :(-untmmnu Jap milit visited the Alaska reserve. He said { he believed the Japs have full data | coneerning its potentialities. Dimond and Rep. Poulson | ary authorities, | Poulson said te would ask the liomal committee, to carry the in- | vestigations further if warranted. REDS CLAIM " NEW GAINS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S NEWCOMERS, Harriet Olsen, above, has | her first chance to make good in a new musical. (International) | MOLLER RACE corrans Rosied in and- STARTS AT 1 o Hand Fghting P.M.SUNDAY ~IsRepor . | —_— The first racer for the coveted| Moller Trophy will be sent from Soviet dispatches declared today |that the Red Army Eas seized the the starting line at the upper cab- and also request a congress- valing Boulder Dam. There it will on to’ pass judgment themselves be beyond U. S. control, will es- {the charm and talent of skyrocket- cape U. S. taxes, and will increase ing youthful Marjorie Reynolds, the conttol which Alcoa holds in|Who plays an interesting starring both Canada and the United States. [Tole in the film “Holiday Inn,” The ' Alcoa power project to coming here soon. which -Jesse Jones has been so generous is the Shipsshaw develop- ment. on the upper Saguenay River. To build it, the Aluminum Corpor- ation . has received from Jesse a For Miss Reynolds will visit in ! Juneau for the next few days while {on tour with the USO Camp Shows iand, if she arrives in time, will be |in attendance at the USO formal dance to be held tonight from 9 loan of $68,500,000 of U. S. Gov- | ernment ¢ash. Furthermore, Jesse to 12:30 pm. in the Scottish Rite is charging no interest. | Temple. But most interesting of all, he Miss Reynolds, blonde lovely, was provides that if the plant’s con- born in Idaho and moved to Los tract is cancelled before Decem- |Angeles at the age of three. She Jbet 31, 1945, the balance of the made her screen debut at the age $68,500,000 not repaid by the de- |of four. After appearing in West- | livery of aluminum will remain in erns for several years, Miss Rey- Alcoa’s hands and need not be re- paid to the United States. Since everyone hopes the war will be over long hefore the end of 1945, in which case the U. S. plans to cancel all war orders immediate- ly, the Aluminum Corporation stands ready to get a nice little windfall. MORE MONEY FROM JESSE 1n addition to this $68,500,000 ad- vanced without interest, Jesse also | has advanced the Aluminum Cor- poration $34,240,000 at three per- cent. In other’ words, the original $68,500,000 will just about pay for | the cost of the power plant, after which Alcoa can borrow up to $34,240,000 at three percent to op- | erate it. Thus Alcoa has no ex- pense and absolutely no risk. While Jesse was helping promote this giant pfant in Canada, with its large use of strategic materials, various American public power pro- jects, which could have supplied ample power, were abandoned for lack of strategic materials. Among them were the Shasta project on the Sacramento River; Grand Coulee units 7, 8 and 9; — (Continued on Page Four) 3 nolds appeared in several Para- mount pictures, including “Three Cheers for Love.” Her starring film, “Holiday Inn,” opens at the Twen- |tieth Century Theatre April 17 | wherein, she does several whirlwind |dance routines with Fred Astairg. | Skagway's four-piece dance band | |is also in town and will sit in for | part of the time at tonight’s big function, Sid Cowgill reports, add- ling that “with all the starring at- |tractions there should be a grand {turnout tonight and everyone of | {the 150 GSO girls will be needed.” - . Mrs. Kennell and Son io_Lgave Soon Mrs. W. C. Kennell and son Ed- mund expect to leave tomorrow for the south to join Lieut. Kennell, former director of the Territorial Department of Health's laboratory Khere who is now on assignment at | Modesto, Calif., for the Army. | On the way south Mrs. Kennell iplans to stop off and visit her parents at Rainier, Wash., and her husband’s mother in Portland. ’,. in promptly at 1 o'clock tomotrow afternoon, the racing committee of the Juneau Ski Club state. | Many skiers will meet at 8 o'clock for breakfast at the Baranof hotel| before proceeding by car to the| foot of the ski trail. From there the| group and any additional skiers| who want to accompany them will begin the ascent about 9:30 a. m. for the top cabin. All race entrants| must register by noon and applica- | tions will be accepted until that time at the upper cabin. | Racing numbers and lot drawings|troops have smashed deeper in the jon its training of German defense zone on the outer | yeceived a number of letters Lo for positions will be made just be- fore the starting time. | OFFICERS'CLUB OPEN HOUSE BE HELD SUNDAY Lieut. Col. Roy W. Riegle and| other members of the Officers’ C]ubl will be hosts to the civilian public| of Juneau Sunday afternoon be-| tween the hours of 5 o'clock and| 9 p. m. when open house ‘will be held at the club on Franklin Street. Resident of the city as well as members of the Territorial Legisla- ture and other visitors in town are, cordially invited to call and meet the officers who have been stationed in the Juneau area, in addition to| those recently arrived and others; lo¢éated at nearby communities. | This will be the second open| nouse atPwhich the civilian publi hag been entertained at the Offi-| cers' Club since it was opened early last fall. ———————— { | SAMUEL HOLM DIES Samuel Holm, 81, Past President of the Yukon Order of Pioneers and an oldtimer of the Klondike, died recently at Dawson after an | illness of four months, | initiative in the fierce battle around Belgorod, has stormed the German trenches and routed the Nazis in hand-to-hand fighting. Field reports said the Germans are making a gigantic effort to score a major break-through south- east of Kharkov, and are throwing vast numbers of dive bombers. tanks and motorized troops and in- fantry into the assault. BEARDED SUB-BUST Allies Chinese Soldiers se soldiers, grasping ropes, puil a drag to level k Force fighting the Japancse in China. | 1S BOMBED = WEWAKBASE M;Airdrome,blbwn, Docks ERS — These U. S. sub crew- men grew these beards during a long undersea patrol. Women Pilols Are Coming Back; Move Generally Sgonsored By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 27.—Be- cre and after Pearl Harbor; T wrote stor about what womén cveral The' Russians are holding every yjjots were going to do in this war. point on the Central Front, the Soviet Command said, and Russian approaches to Smolensk in the worst weather of the year. RECENT SCOTTISH RITE CLASS WAS ALASKA'S LARGEST The degree team of the Scottish ' Rite Masons returned yesterday after a week spent in Ketchikan engaged in conferring the Scottish Rite degrees on a Class of 25 can- didates, two of whom came from Petersburg for the ceremonies. The work took place at the Mu- gonic Temple there with the aid of local members and was the first time the team had gone to Ketch- ikan since March 1937. This was the larges} class in the history of the Rite in Alaska, the largest one previous to this being Ithe 1940 class at Fairbanks. ane degree team making the pilgrimage consisted of James W Leivers, Edwin Sutton, H. D. Stab- (ler, J. J. Pargher and Walter B Heisel, all officers of the local Scot- tish Rite Bodies. It was announced by General Secretary Heisel that a class of can- didates was to take the work lo- cally at a Reunion set for April 1- 10 at the Scottish Rite Temple. When the Civil, Aeronautics Ad- ministration was forced to aban- women pilots, ich there was no gnswer. The ladies had beensgrounded and told to go home and tend to their knit- ting. Congress (through its powers of appropriation, but with recom- mendations from other quarters) had decreed that the CAA had bet- ter expend its energies and funds training men who might be useful to the Army and Navy air forces. Now comes word from the CAA that it has graduated ten girls from re “Women’s Instructor Training School” at Nashville, Tenn., and that these may he “forerunners of thousands of new women instruct- That has a familiar sound, but one not too much to be relied upon, in view of what has gone before. Nevertheless, in spite of all the se- crecy about women aviators in the war effort, the girls in the CAP, CAA, and Air Transport Command have a remarkable record. It may be that the wall is finally breaking down. Using the Tennessee record as a lever, the CAA is asking Con- gress for a supplementary appro- priation of $2,500,000 to turn out 500 more women instructor pilots within six months and backlog that with 400 more in training In view of that, it may be well to run over the record of the ladies of the airways. Each had 'logged 120 hours in the air be-| fore entering the school and each bad logged 1656 hours or more be- Each fore she was ‘“graduated. qualified for a commercial pilot's license before she got her “wings" from the Nashville school, as well as qualifying as a pilot instructor. In ‘addition, each had at least five ratings in ground school subjects (meteorology, aerial navigation, air- craft structure, aircraft engines and civil air regulations) Flight contractors all over the south have bid for the girls’ serv- ices. One of the biggest schools in Miami' has offered to hire all ten graduates; Stephens College for Women in Missouri has asked for two; a Tennessee school board ha come through with an offer of $2600 a year for two; schools in Paso, Phoenix, New Orleans and | several other eities , have made | tempting offers. | Phoebe: Omlie, veteran woman | pilot and CAA education speciali t | in charge ‘of the Tennessce project points out that they can accept| any of the offered jobs and still bt directly in the war effort In a way, this is essentially a state project but only because Tennessee has seen fit to divert its CAA funds ( ed from airplane gasoline taxes) to this cause. Some other ates have similar projects to a esser degree—all under CAA-super- vision If the CAA appropriation through, it will be a nationwide project and the training of women pilot instructors again will be on a coast-to-coast basis. -, The Hwang Ho River in China has changed its mouth 11 times i centuries. i goes n airfield for an American bomber stationed with the | _MAY SERVE ! Are Pounded in Raid by 19A~Planes | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ,AUSTRALIA. March 27.—Dipping las low as 75 feet to loose their | bombs, Allled four-motored bomb- i lers blasted newly-constructed in- }.\(.’l“d(lon\' and shipping at the new Japanese base of Wewak on the north coast of New Guinea in a three-hour attack last night. An Allied communique said our planes used 500 and 1,000-pound | bombs, that the Flying Fortresses | scored two hits on a 4,000-ton Jap merchantman In the harbor, leav- ing it badly damaged. “ The 19 planes which took part in the raid also pounded the Jap air- drome there and the town and docks with 19 tons of explosives. { Al planes returned safely to their base. >oo— WITH ARMY TREASURER Indications Are He Will Be. | S GUI LTY Brigadier General Y ‘Washington State Official LAGUARDIA wi in Africa | | WASHINGTON, March 27. — C0||eded w'age Reb.aies White House press Secretary St point toward service in the Army” sk of Mayor Fierello H. LaGuardia of| SEATTLE, March 27-—A Super- New York, but - that he could not|ior Court jury deliberated two hours confirm this definitely. LaGuardia|last night in convicting Carroll a flier in the first World War.‘\carter. King County Treasurer, on The New York Daily News, mean- (eight counts of collecting rebates while, said a Washington dispatch | from the wages of his employees in from Roosevelt ordered LaGuardia!his office. to report to the Army immediately, Carter sald the employees ‘had that the dispatch was being held | voluntarily collected the money to by the War Department, awaiting help him clear up $3,500 in personal official clearance. | debts. he newspaper said LaGuardia Eacr conviction is punishable had been nominated for the post of With a maximum of 90 days in jail Brigadier General and it was a or a $250 fine. “cinch his first assignment would be Africa.” > - RAF POUNDS ELKS PARTY BE HELD TONIGHT DUISBURG, NIGHT RAID The Elks will give a party tonight in their club and ballroom for Elks ondy and their ladies. The club rooms will be open at 9 o'clock and Lillian Uggen's or- chestra will begin playing for the dance at 10 o'clock. Big Rail Center in Ger- many Attacked-Other Targets Also Hit LONDON, March 27. — RAF bombers heavily attacked the big rail hub at Duisburg and pounded other targets in the Ruhr last night The air ministry announces that four bombers failed to return to their base g - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 27.--Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today at the short session is as follows: 33, utilities 17.91. - > 44, American Can T9%, Anaconda R L A, 3 L B e e 6 29%, Bethlehem Steel 65%, Com- * DIMOUT TIMI . monwealth and Southern 11/16, ® L] Guriiss Wright 9, General Motors ® Dimout begins tonight e 49%, Kennecott 33%, New York ® at sunset at 7:26 o'clock. . Central 15%, Northemn Pacific 12, ® - Dimout ‘ends tomorrow & United States Steel 56':, Pound ® 8t sunrise at 6:39 a.m. . $4.04 e Dimout begins Sunday at e Dow. Jones averages tcday are ® sunset at 7:29 p.m. . . . . . . BUY WAR BONDS industrials 134.56, rails . There is an admission to this event and that is the unique fea-, ture—one book, new or used but in good shape. This night is the Vie- tory Book Night and the books are to be turned over to the service men. This is the Elks contribution to this worthy cause. Indications are the Elks and their ladies will be there in numbers and the “admission” should stack up high - - ENDS VISIT HERE | Mrs. Alice P. Selmer and infant left last night for Skagway after visiting in Juneau for several days. e Dimout ends Monday at sunrise at 6:36 a.m. e Dimout begins Monday at |® sunset at 7:31 p.m. ® 8 s 0 0 0 % 0 00 00