The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9309. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY FORTRESSES WIN 3-DAY FIGHT WITH JAPS American Forces Capture Hills Fr NAPLES GETS ‘Tons of Bombs Pound Down on Kiska Base In 8 Heavy Atfacks HEAVY BLOWS PATTON NOW FORCING HIS —————————— e | | | ARMY AHEAD Driving for Junction with British Eighth Army in Tunisia " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 5. — The American Second Army Corps has repulsed a German counter-attack in the El Guetar sector and is con- tinuing the drive toward a junc- tion with the British Eighth Army. The Second Army Corps is in command of Lieut. Gen. George Patton, Jr, and late today he put on a small scale attack against the hills near the Gafsa-Gabes road and won all in hard fighting. He is barely 40 miles east of Mont- gomery’s Eighth Army. In Northern Tunisia, the British (Contlnued on Page Five) e Big One Is a "“Super Block Buster” SMASHED BY FORTRESSES ! | WASHINGTON, April Amer- Greatest Raid of War Made ican neavy and medium " bombers lon Friday poured tons of bombs on Against ltalian Sea Supply Port !the Jap base at Kiska in eight as- caults, the heaviest yet made, Navy reports. Heavy bombers almost simultan- ALLIED HEADQUARTLRS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 5—United States Flying Fortresses have £mashed Naples in the greatest raid eously pounded installations at Attu but the re- |of the war against the sea supply port sult..s are nor mpnm-d in d(‘Lall but Nearly 100 Fortresses from Ma‘m‘ General James Doolittle’s - North- west African Air Corps stole the show with the raid on Naples, the | first against the base from the French North African field Naples has been raided five times previously by Liberators from the Middle east but sources here said the last attack was four times heav- ier than the others Besides ships sunk and great damage done to the waterfront, many parked aireraft were de- 5. smaller Needed, the s Japanese | it is disclosed bombs hit target areas. All bombers and fighters returned safely to their bases, the statement s, adding that no fighter plane opposition is reported On Thursday last, 50 reports, Kiska, raiding the enemy's main camp area four times and scoring several pl unounced hn.s the Navy al- Wilds of Alaska Being Searched for Minerals WarProduction WASHINGTON, April, 5.— Pros- pectors take new interest in Alas-| ka mineral resources heavy bombers also hit, following | om Germans CRUISERS OF ENEMY SUNK, Predawn Ailaéks Made on | Fleet-One Warship Ex- | plodes, Blows Up ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 5.—Flying Fort- resses, using battle technique, have decisively won a three-day battle at the new Japanese base at Ka- vieng, New Ireland, sinking or |severely damaging seven Japanese lcruisers and destroyers and five | merchantmen aggregating 36,000 | tons. The official communique an- inounced no Allied planes were lost ‘m the stunning blow to the Japs. Only 10 Allied planes were used |Friday and only eight in the pre- m\wn attack Saturday and Sun- :day | The first report of the battle |was made Sunday when the High .Comm:md announced. that heavy BIG PROBE ON OPA IS stroyed. All Fortresses returned to their base safely. many of the trails blazed by the Allied bombers had blasted Japan- sourdoughs of '98. lese warships in a devastating pre- Exploratory crews of the Bureau dawn raid on Sunday and blew up of Mines are braving the Muskn“lwo enemy cruisers and left one wilds in quest for war minerals to destroyer sinking, two others being The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round ‘the huge object at the right, w h looks like a water tank, actually is one of the 8,000-pound “super block buster” bombs now being used by the Royal Air Force in its night raids on Nazi-occupied Europe. By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) P ASHINGTON — Efficient Post- nfiler General Frauk Walker has got himself into a situation where- by certain zealots of the church to which he belongs have become unofficial censors of American magazines. And Frank is playing into their hands. The situation has gone so far that scores of American magazines, before going to press, send their manuscripts to the representative of Bishop John F. Noll, of th Catholic National Organization for Decent Literature, where they are examined. The NODL office is at 1312 Mas- | sachusetts Ave., Washington, and is under the supervision of William | Smith, who reports to Bishop Noll | in Ft. Wayne, Ind. It has no con- nection at all with the Govern-! ment, except as a volunteer adviser to Frank Walker’s Post Office De- commander Returns {0 accept an invit partment. ‘Through the powerful weapon of | removing magazines from the sec- ond class mailing list, a most ef- | fective censorship is daily. Undoubtedly some censorship mails, which are subsidized by the For Cnmpnrzllve idea of its size, take a look at the 500-pound bomb at left. AlASKA FISH One Girl fo Every 250 Men in Hawaiian Isles Is Report by Military BOMB ATTACK FISENHOWER “HAS PRAISE FOR TROOPS Headquarters for Con- ference on Next Blitz ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN - Gen. re- being used | | Dwight By JACK L\!\lu’l'l WASHINGTON, April 5. — Mili- tary men and those in our labor battalions, just back from Hawaii, snort in disgust at the complaint ¢f Washington maidens that there are um enough men here to go In Lhc Islands, the men claim, there are by actual statistics 250 men who would have to share feminine company for an evening to every one woman who can or will ation. Our Pacific outpost, once advertised as the Is- land of Romance, has become a great desert of femininity. The explanation is simple. . the horror of Pearl Harbor, civilian and military residents of Hawail have shipped their women-folk out by the thousands, while mili- tary and civilian labor garrisons Since Government, used for the distribu- 'turned to Allied Headquarters for there have been strengthened by tion of salacious literature. ever, the NOLD has set itself up as the unofficial censor. Here is one report from William Smith, head of the office in Wash- ington, to his chief, Bishop Noll,' which shows how the system works: “Your Excellency: . “During the past week, Mr. Se- linka, Counsel for the Dell Pub- lishing Company, brought to me a revised dummy of Modern Romanc- #s magdzine. Since they made the changes which I suggested I have | already written to your excellenc}’ that this magazine does not vio- late the code. “Mr. William H. Fawcett, accom- panied by the new editorial direc- tor of -their Confession magazines, Mr. William H. Lingel, called on e with the dummy of Romantic Etory. I carefully read this dummy, made a few minor changes in it, but had to object to one of the stories. Mr. Lingel assured me that this story and the others I object- ed to would be changed. 3 “1 talked to Mr. Hassel, Counsel in the Solicitor’s office of the Post Office Department. He told that the following magazines had been cited for hearings to show cause why their second class mailing pri- vileges should not be revoked. They are: Special Detective Cases, Ro- mantic Story, Crime Confession. I shall of course attend these hear- ings. “The Post Office Department is gomery and Alexander. He declared ! 'fresh Allied foYces are "commumg in making satisfactory progress.” | Eisenhower inspected the Mareth front and declared that gvery American has a right to feel proud of the progress made in the five months’ campaign. | It is believed the Commander-| In-Chief and aides will discuss a quick offensive to drive the Ger- mans and Italhms into the sea. | BRIG. GEN. RAMEY AIR COMMANDER, LOST ON MISSION Is Sxth High Official o Die in Service in South | Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 5—It is offi-| cially announced that Brig. Gen. Howard Ramey and his crew were lest in.a recent bombing mission. Ramey was 42 and was Comman- | der of the Pifth Bomber Command | of the Air Force. He succeeded Brig. Gen. Kenneth Walker who was lost in a bombing mission on apparently trying to avoid as much publicity as possible with regard| (Continued o0 Page Toun). Rabaul last January. Ramey is the sixth Brigadier General to be listed as killed or missing in the present war, | How- | conferences with Generals Mont- | {housands of men. I recently talked to a young Army officer who has done, a stint in both Hawaii and Iceland. He said: “Except for the weather, T'll take Iceland. Reykjayvik, with all its limitations, is gayer than Hon- olulu.” The Battle of the “Patriotic Towns"” is on. 1 Champion service flag at thc‘ moment is claimed by Rep. Luther A. Johnson for the village of Ko&se, lin his home state of Texas. | i !dio broadcast picked up here an- | nounces jails Kosse, s Mr. Johnson, has a (Contmued on P Page Five) —————————— Appoiniment of ‘ LaGuardia fo | Army Gels Rap WASHINGTON, April 5. — The published reports that Mayor La- Guardia may get a high Army Com- mission brought frem Chairman Harry S. Truman, War Investigating Committee, | military leader of the French, Gen the | comment that “I don't think he of the Senate | has any more business of beéing a| Brigadier General than movié mak- (er Darryl Zanuck has of being a Colonel.” Zanuck is a lieutenant Colonel in the Signal Corps, commissioned from civil life. Senator Truman tossed the re- marks into a committee hearing at which Under Secretary of War Ro- bert Patterson testified Zanuck had asked for an inactive status. | COMING UP Double Barreled Congres- VESSELS WILL {Army, Navy fo Relinquish wasssaron. apm Many Craft Needed | Sravessionn: i took congressional investigation Moior Armamen‘ ifl Salmon Indus" ministrator Prentiss Brown Y steps to cultivate -better relations works WASHINGTON, April 5. — Fish- with the public. eries Coordinator Ickes announces Soon after Brown disclosed he the War Shipping Administration had authorized Deputy Lou Maxon LONDON, Aulll 5. — A Sunday will return 30 vessels taken over by to review all.actions which bear on night communique announced that|the Navy from the Alaska salmon OPA relations with the public, 133 fortress type bombers lAln('dw ndustry owners. These are in ad- Chairman Patman, of the House destruction in daylight on the Ren- dition to a number of vessels re- Committee for Small Business, an- ault Motor and German armament!‘urned by the Army to Alaskan nounced he had ordered an inves- works in the suburbs of Paris in owners. tigation into Brown’s agency to de- the Yanks, first foray on Paris, and| Four other vessels will be turned termine whether it exceeded pow- the Yanks shot down 25 enemy back to the sardine fishers of Cal-.ers granted.by. Congress. fighters enroute back. (fornia. “Our Committee,” said Patman, Returning crews id: “We don't Lack of vessels has been one of ‘“is convinced the emergency Price see how anything can be left now the chief reasons for the falling Control Act has not been complied Four American bombers and sev-|off of fisheries production, Ickes with.” en fighter escorts failed to return -aid, and this at a time when “we Vairous operations of the OPA, it from the blasting raid. have Leen asked to produce as nev- is also stated, are slated for study The RAF and other Allied planes °r before. Every boat that can be by a special House Committee in- meanwhile struck another heavy will be returned by the Navy and igating actions of Federal Agen- blow on the German munitions city | Army to the fishing industry ‘and cies. of Essen, plus attacks on the Ger- | “hese boats ought to be put back man airdrome at Caen, the rail in the service a.s rapidly as pos- yards at St. Brieuc and targets in sible.” Rotterdam, Abbeville and Dieppe. -> 'HOSTAGES FROM FRANCE SENT T0 GERMAN PRISONS LONDON, April 5—A Berlin ra- SUBURBS OF PARIS GIVEN 5. — The Daylight Rald Is Made on a as Ad- MINERS GET LARGEPACK PRIORITIES OF SALMON PREDICTED !war Production Board regional mining division said today western miners and prospectors needin equipment to, speed production of strategic war minerals have been given increased priority assistance - WASHINGTON, April 5.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold Ickes, as Coordinator of Fisheries, pre- dicted today the Alaska salmon industry will increase its pack over last year because of the 5m°°'h'!hrough rating order P-56 and an operation and concentration pro- |, o yatj 3 ng for the purchase of sup- gram which centers in 74 of the plies for repairs. most modern plants rather than > 2y the transfer to German of former French Premiers Daladier and Blum and Ex-Allied Gamelin, because of a “planned Anglo - American coup demain” which might free them. The radio broadcast also revealed carlier, that in addition to hun- dreds of thousands of hostages handed over by Petain and Laval one hostage included former Prem- ier Reynaud and another former Colonial Mlnlsper Georges Mendel — - DIVORCEE HELD, SLAYING CHARGE TULSA, Okla. April 5—Common Pleas Judge .Cornett has ordered Mrs. Ella Howard, Fort Worth di- vorcee, held on $10,000 bail on a charge of manslaughter for the slaying of Mrs. Karl Simons, wide- ly known horeswoman, in a hote! 100m, 120 previously used. !ckes said the mduslry, as roncentrauon order issued early in OF BOMBER; NINE Ickes also said the armed serv- ices and War Shipping Administra- tion has cooperated as “far as ABOARD ARE DEAD they could in restoring vessels and equipment to the salmon packers.” EPHRATA, Wash., April 5—Dis-| Ickes added that the returned covery of the wreckage of a 4-mo- vessels, together with the ships tored bomber that carried nine men | still possessed by the cannersshould to death, is announced at this Army permit of efficient operations. Air Base by Warrant Officer Harry Capt. J. Steele Culbertson has Verner, Public Relations Officer. been named by Ickes as special The wreckage was found about representative and he will reach 35 miles west of here and near El- Alaska in June to oversee the year's lensburg. operations with his headquarters n The bomber failed to return from Juneau, a training flight a week ago today. supply metals for war: factories, Secretary of the Interior Harold L\ Ickes said .in describing the Burs| eau’s accelerated exploratory pro- gram for mercury, Tungsten, tin, and other strategic materials with a view to getting minerals for war, end to foster a greater development or Alaska's ore reserves. The Bureau's crews are moving in by pack train, airplane, river boat and dog team to remote areas of the Territory. The men must double-barreled build their own camps, clear their| own trails and often establish transportation systems. In many instances the ground must be thawed to samples. Dr. R. R. Hayes, Director of the Bureau of Mines, has informed Sec- retary Ickes, oddly enough, that| much of the Bureau's search cen- ters in the discarded material, tail- ings left at placer operations and | dredges by mining men of former 'days’ who sought only gold. Many of these tailings contain some val- uable tin ore of which Alaska to- day leads the nation in output. The Bureau's exploration of the) Lost River tin mine on the Seward Peninsula has indicated a substan- tial tonnage of low-grade tin ori | Tailings are being examined in.the Buck Ceek Mountain area at Cape |Mountain near Tin City and in the Lost River area, all on the Seward Peninsula near the Arctic Circle.| Near Sleetemut on the Kuskokwim | River, another Bureau of Mines jcrew is sinking a shaft in search of more mercury ore. At Moose Creek, near Anchorage, coal pros- pecting has been done. | On Prince of Wales southeast Alaska, Island, in the Bureau is (Continued on Page Five) — .- SAYS ENEMY SUBS HAVE BEEN SEEN, CANADA'S COAST OTTAWA, April 5—A. W. Neill, British Columbia Independent, told the Canadian House of Commons' |that enemy submarines have been in the “vicinity of most of the ]nshmg towns” on Canada’s Pacific Coast and he paid a tribute to the Fishermen’s Coastal defense that has alwnys been on the alert. Thousands of Women Are Now On Active Duty NEW YORK, April 5—Naval au- thorities announced today that more | than 15000 women are now on active duty in Navy, Marine and Coast Guard Reserves, relievin |men for sea duty, obtain ore | damaged off New Ireland. Flares were used to light up the targets ‘m the early morning. | Subsequent details gave further particulars of other craft beinz de- 'stroyed or damaged in the Friday and Saturday raids. One bomber sank one light cruis- er by four direct hits and then other bombers laid four bombs on a heavy cruiser which exploded, 1linging debris 400 feet skyward. More details are expected to be |released by the High Command, | perhaps today. SUBS ARE ACTIVE WASHINGTON, April 5. — One Jap destroyer, a large transport and two freighters have been sunk by American submarines operating in |the Pacific, the Navy reported late last Saturday. Another destroyer was damaged and two other freighters were suc- |cessfully attacked, one listing and probably went down. i No further details |out. Since the start of the war in the | Pacific, American submarines have sunk a total of 143 Jap ships of all types, probably sunk 24 and damagéd 40, including those listed by the Navy in the Saturday bul- letin, were given - BODIES OF PLANE CRASH USO GIRLS BEING SENT HOME Remains R&h Seattle from Vancouver with Military Honors SEATTLE, April 5—The bodies of three USO entertainers are enw route home with full military hon- |ors. The three were killed in a Cana- dian plane crash in the Alaska jarea on March 26. The bodies arrived here from Vancouver. They are those of Max- inz Gretchen Gloechner of Uni- versity City, Missouri; Marie Kaiser of Glendale, New York, and Christine Street, of Bar- ! berton, Ohio. Three Canadian fliers were killed in the crash and one flier is miss- ing. ® o 00 0 000 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES . . Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 7:47 o'clock. 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