The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943 VOL. LX., NO. 9307. ———————xm MEMB!:R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —== ALLIES PLANNING DRIVE ROMMEL T0 SEA Russians Begin To Close On Black Sea Ports This Is Army's 90mm Gun RED ARMY ADVANCES ONESECTOR Small Villaég Are Taken- New South Action Is Indicated MOSCOW, April 3—Three more villages have fallen to Soviet troops closing ‘about Novorssisk and other German positions along the Black Sea coast, the Russian official communique states, but on the long front, only minor tivity is reported. * The Russians have launched a series of strong attacks south of Lake Ladoga but German fire and pow at close range, are holding the Red Army almost at a stand- still in that section. The Red Army is expanding gains around Novorssisk, especially in the vicinity of Anastasevskaya, 33 miles north of the Black Sea port and closing in on other sea sections. THREE AREAS BOMBED IN ac- Allied PIan_e~s_Make New Raids-Two Jap Fight- ers Shot Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, April 2.—Allied planes have raided hafen and Saumlaki, today’s communique. Medium bombers attacked Saum- laki, 300 miles according to at Finschhafen, and attack planes strafed Jap positions at Mubo, 15 miles south of Salamaua. A A medium bomber shot down two | Jap fighters. —————— North Wales is said to produce| the world’s best slate. The Washmgion Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — The all - im- portant question of rthe nation’s health plus the current shortage of doctors has been the object of some back stage footballing. The Public Health Service warns that we may be in for disease epidem- ics worse than those of the last war. Tuberculosis and influenza al- ready are on the upswing in cer- tain areas. The service is working on a plan for a medical pool, from which doc- | tors would be “drafted” and sent to parts of the country where they are most needed. However, the American Medical Association, which operates a pow- erful lobby in Washington, frowns on this plan as a step toward “so- cialized medicine.” They argue that relocation would break down state licensing laws. (Their critics claim that actually AM.As st'n.e and local units don't want ~outsiders coming in and competing with lo- cal doctors.) To get to the bottom of all this Senator Pepper of Florida propos- es a thorough investigation by the Senate Education and Labor Com- mittee. Meanwhile the Office of War Information has made a pre- liminary probe of its own. This, together with soundings already made by Senator Pepper, discloses sho i bae o i (Continued on Page Four), elsewherd IN | north of Darwin; | single motor bombers renewed fires | e ~« U.5.GunCrew on Gafsa, Mareh 17 to 18 and is newly-opened U. S. Army Signal Algiers and the War Department one of the first transmitted by a | Corps radiophoto circuit linking at Washington. Transmission time from Algiers to Wushingmn was seven finutes. British Helped Pul Democracy’s Arsenal INVASION ~ JITTERS HIT AXIS anew Mubo, Finsch- 'Allied Parachute Troopers! Reported in Norway ~Trouble in South LONDON, April 2—The Axis is 'cxhibmng signs of jitters over an !invasion, the jitters extending from |the Balkan frontier to the Scan- jdinavian Peninsula. Roundabout sources claim Allied |parachute troops have already es- | tablished a base in the Norwegian | mountains and have sallied out vand raided Nazi-controlled fac- {tories and the jitters of the Axis| lare shaking the Germans. One report is that the ling Germans appear alarmed” over developments and how about the south? Stockholm dispatches said an Allied parachute base has been established somewhere in the Hardanger - Vifea mountain - lake | area, an ideal district for airdromes and meteorological stations. Meanwhile, Italian _Propaganda Minister Pavolini warns of a pos- sible invasion from the Mediter- ranean. ALLEY CAT CLAWS WAY T0 VICTORY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, April 2. — Alley Cat and her crew of young Am- erican air fighters had never been on a combat mission before, but nev- ertheless they clawed and fought their way to an impressive victory in North African skies. | Alley Cat—she’s 2 B-25 medium bomber- came back from her first sea sweep near Tunis punctured by more than 200 bullet and cannon '—7ééfitlfiuéd Mon Page Five) “Quis- | genuinely | if such things happen in the north, SOLOMONS On Buy-Buy Fooling By JACK STINNETT ‘ WASHINGTON, April 2. — The | British ~ Purchasing ~Commi {through Lord Halifax, Ambassador |to the United States, has just lnn«de public some figures that are food for thought. In view of the threatened re- olt against Lease-Lend, it's a safe uess that they not only were time- hey were timed. There never | was any doubt about the continu- Hure of Lease-Lend (as the 407- tc-6 vote in the House indicated), but the fact that someone Lhought | there might be was enough to bring out an indication of just how im- 1 | | | | |ish consider this phase of our war ) program. | Instead of expressing indignation over Admiral Standley’s intimation that the Russian people hadn't been { fully informed of the extent of our {aid, the Soviet government rushed every ounce of aid the British and we have given them. But BPC and Lord Halifax were a jump ahead. Already, they had | written into the record that Great | Britain, since 1939, has spent ap- proximately 3' billions dollars for war supplies in this country and of that was spent soiely for new ‘plants and plant expansions—and | lmost of that before Pearl Harbor. !actually plunged into war, the Brit- ! {ish were pouring millions into ex- | pansion of “the arsenal of Democ- |racy” and laying the groundwork ‘Kror the remarkable production rec- 11941, | A little more than half the total |p1q the world record for the num- | |sum has been spent with aircraft | factories. This approximate 1750000000 may not seem like much | ‘ln view of Congressional appropria- | ,lmns for Army and Navy aircraft Inow, but the natural question is: |Where would we be today if the )Bnush hadn’t started the ball roll- {ing? It may stagger those who like to think that Henry Kaiser is purely an American- product to learn that he got his start as a shipbuilder on British money. The British Merchant Shipbuild- ing Mission came here with an or- der for 60 Liberty ships—almost the same in design as those being turned out today. Unable to get the job done with the shipyards we had; they suggested building new ones at Richmond, Calif., and Port- (Ccmmued on Page Five) . OF JAPANESE ARE BATTERED | portant the Russians and the Brit- | jout with an all-out explanation of | that nearly a quarter of a billion | Thus, 16 months before we were; jord we have (et since December 8,'Gaclareq: L. |brigadier had fallen in this war.” easily digested. BANKHEAD'S FARMBILL | GETS VETOED Roosevelt Declares Legis- lation Full of Infla- tionary Dangers WASHINGTON, April 2— Ernnd-; ing it full of inflationary dangers, | President Roosevelt has vetoed the | Bankhead bill to increase farm| prices by excluding benefit ments and figuring farm price formulas Returning the message unsigned to the Senate, the President said: 1 am compelled to take this tion by deep convictions the meas- ure is inflationary in character and breaks down the barrier we erected and which must be main- tained in order to avoid all disas- ters of inflation. “The measure is wholly inconsis- tent with our stabilization program, therefore dangerous alike to our constructive farm policy and our whole war effort.” | It was estimated the would add approximately lion and ane-half dollars Nation's food bill It takes a two-thirds vote both the House and Senate override the President’s veto -o 5 DESTROYERS i ? | | | parity | ac- | measure one bil- to the of to American Bombers in Ac- tion-16 Nippon Planes Shot Down in Fight 2 WASHINGTON, April Ameri- can bombers battered a Jap force of five destroyers southwest of Ko- States airmen pay- | @ The a minute. The straight up—for shooting at enemy planes, and it can be Axis-Jap Spies Now 90mm. gun in this picture will send a delivers 18 projectiles every 60 seconds. y this entire Making "Last Dilch Fight” fo Gef Info BIG SMASH: BLOW STRUCK AT CAGLIARI Flying Fortresses Grealest of War Planes De- clare U. S. Airmen ALLIED lomnangara while almost at the the Flying Fo same time fighter planes were en- are the world's gaging 30 to 40 b Zero planes, planes Nearly 100 of shooting down 16 of them, the Navy announces. In these Solomon Island engage- ments six U. S. planes have b lost in aerial combat fought north- west of Guadalcanal but two pilots 'heir air raid sh Were' rascied. J. Werner, of F it g A TR n return after 1w 1,000-pound nd they seemed joats or destruc PEOPLE UNAWARE fortresses ort of Cagliari and su bor attacke: and land mighty greatest the d the HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, April 2 proud of s and say of they war four-motored Sardiniau she d har- ‘T'll bet the Ttalians are still in hem.” All of the Flyir elters,’ Port the big bombs to be tively ng Huron, Mich. rgid exploding harbor, dar Foriresses turned to base, whereas 14 enemy fighters were shot down and bursting in ¢ sinking maging | 57 thers were smashed on the ground OF WAR LOSSSES LONDON, . April 2.—Aldo Valori a Rome radio political comment |tor, complained on the air recent- ly that Italians are not being in- formed of what is going on and a- “As in the last World War, we ber of fallen generals.” The broadcast was recorded the Associated Press. The commentator’s remark about the generals followed his statement that “yesterday we were told that 14 of our generals, two of our ad- mirals, an air marshal and an air by FLAVOR THEM KANSAS CITY, April 2 Mis- souri’s sales tax token—a metal disc larger than a nickel but smaller than a quarter—is a dangerous play- thing for children. Dr. John 8. Knight, who has re- moved 16 of them from infant throats in the last two years, rec- ommends they be eliminated—or the size reduced so they can be more All fifth the airdromes. - BombersRoar 50 Feet High Over Germans Royal Air Force Celebrates Anniversary by Mak- ing Low Attack LONDON, April 2. celebrated anniversary by attacking a German town where the Germans stood and gaped as low flying Swift mosquito bombers roared in 50 feet high to drop delayed action bombs on the important power sta- icn and Ehrang near the Luxembourg frontier. r Force and railway its shops t at - The Royal wenty- only Trier IN, United | NEW YORK, April 2. javal Intelligence, Rear Admiral Harold Train, asserts the Axis are gearing for a “last ditch fight” and have spies “combing bars, restaur- ants and shipping centers for every stray bit of information that might fit into the Nazi-Jap espionage pattern. Rear Admiral statement in an address and ed that definite information been obtained that Axis spies are still operating in fhe United States The speaker warned Americans to use care, particularly about let- ters from service men, to prevent use of information against rela- “daily risking their lives to this country and free- the stat- has Train made I preserve dom.” ->-> PROGRESS IS REPORTED BY ) CHINA FORCES Southerh fronl Situation Good —_Jap Gunboats | Hit Mines, Sink | LHUN()KING A]ml 2 The Chinese spokesman said the situa- tion on the front in southern Hu- peh Province is “very stabilized aind improved” during the past week ()n enemy force former treaty port of Yangtze River “more iestroyed,” ‘sald the spokesman [ although the Japs still cling to leunn" in Hunan Province near the shore of Lake ‘Tungting The spokesman said that south of the less or during this week the Chinese repulsed 13 Jap attacks in different localities |and launched 17 of their own with marked success. CH ESE BEST JAPS CHUNGKING, April 2 The Chi- nese have gained the upper hand in fighting in the Burma-Yunnan border region, in the southern pro- vince of Kwang-tung and far i the northeast in Kiangsu Province the high command said in a com- munique. Chinese forces, the communique said, repulfed two Japanese at- tempts to enlarge their area of oc- cupation on Luiclmw Peninsula, (Continued on Pngv Five) It can be elevated to 80 degree depressed for firing at tanks. Chief of Shasi on the ightly over — mnearly pile of ammunition in SEVERE RAP IS TAKEN AT UMW CHIEF Senate War Investigating| Committee Condemns John L. Lewis De- “must WASHINGTON, April 2 claring that labor leaders now demonstrate they men and riots as well advocates of worthy causes,” the| Senate War Investigating Commit- condemns John L. Lewis' at-| titude, asserting his no-strike pro- mise is not “nec rily binding.” are tee The committee says: “Labor has become of age. country ex- pects these leaders to recognize that labor has duties as well as rights, but, no citizen has a right to jeopardize this Nation's exis-| tence in wartime.” In its first official comment of the dramatic exchange between the committee and President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, a week ago, the group headed by Senator Har S. Truman, observed an “obligation rests upon Lewis; it is an obligation to, the United Stat arising out of the war emergency. - LEWIS CHARGES INTIMDATION, MINE WORKERS Declares Milifary Agents Are SuggestingSecond | Front” in Coal Fields NEW YORK, April John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers Union, charges that an of the Military Intelligence is intimidating mine workers “with the implied suggestion that a sec- ond military front may be estab- lished the coal fields of the country.” Lewis told stiation of achian soft coal mine opera- “a new disturbing situation entered the situation in the I refer to the intimi- dating actions and tactics of the Military Intelligence in the Fifth and Sixth Corps areas and perhaps elsewhere,” he said - - 2 agent in newsmen that session after has coal fields. Robert Louis Stevenson the last five years of his Upolo, small island in the spent life in Western Samoas. states- | as paid that | northerng 2ND ROUND BIG BATILE INDICATED Quiet on Ttifiisian Front as British and Americans Get Ready to Spring —ALLIER HEAD- QUARTERS IN NORTH AF- RICA, April 2—Reports from the front said the Americans have launched a new attack against the Axis in the region of Maknassy and tank sup- ported thrusts have been start- ed at El Guetaria Pass. BULLETIN BULLETIN—London, April 2. —A Berlin radio broadcast picked up here tonight de- clares that the Rommel forces in Tunisia have succeeded in Joining the Axis Legions under von Armin. There are no de- tails given, BULLETIN—Rome, April 2.— It is announced tonight Ad- miral Carle Bergamini has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Italian naval forces; Ad- miral Eduardo Somigli appoint- ed Commander-in-Chief of the naval forces protecting the Axis. life line in the Mediterranean, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 2. — The | British Pirst Army is reported |edging east and north of recap- tured Sedjenane while the Ameri- cans in the central sector are en- gaged in some fighting. Montgom- jery has maintained pressure on the iew German and Italian lines 24 |miles north of Gabes but on the average the “Tunisian front isgen- m'ully quieter today than yester- |day,” the official communique an- nounces. Tt is indicated that the Iull in operations is preparatory to the next round in the battle to out- fox Rommel the fox and drive him |to the sea. ‘The official communique says: ‘Our patrols are very active on the whole front. The Eighth Army is |engaged in ‘wrinkling out’ proceed- ings, which it is assumed here | means Montgomery is mopping up the remaining enemy pockets of tance north and west of Ou- Patton’s forces are again in action but no details are available,” The Algiers radio says Patton's ' |divisions are establishing a junce- |tion with the Eighth Army by a |push eastward from the ElI Guetar | sector but movements are slowed |down by mine fields. | The British and French forces | under Commander Gen. Anderson | have pressed from Sedjenane, 40 |miles southwest from Bizerte toward Mateur. The Akguers radio says advance units are already in the outskirts of Mateur. - .- Income Tax Refurns Hit New Record WASHINGTON, April 2. — The Treasury reports that March in- come tax collections will total over five billion dollars, the highest on record. , Last March, returns were billion dollars, 1942, the income tax slightly over three ® e o 0 0 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES . - . 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