The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9313. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ————= JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY — TWO MORE BASES DESERTED BY ROMMEL Fortresses Continue Raids In Solomons Area ATTACK JAP POSITIONS | AT KAHILI Navy Chanfig Figure forl Sky Battle-34 Enemy Plarfi Lost WASHINGTON, April 9. — The Navy reports that Army Flying Fortresses and Navy Avenger light bombers delivered a smashing at- tack on Japanese positions at Ka- hili in the Shortland Island area in the Solomons, but due to bad weather, ‘“observation results were not reported.” The communique also scaled down yesterday's Navy statement concerning the destruction inflict- ed on the Japs when 98 enemy planes attacked American shipping off Guadalcanal. Instead of 37 planes destroyed, the Navy said, only 34 were officially destroyed. There was still no announcement concerning the American ship concentration which the Jap planes were on their way to attack when intercepted by American fighter planes. e — A new type of glass has been developed for use in airplane cabins to render alrmen immune to dangergus ultra-violet rays. :I-‘B:Washingtoni Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Anthony Eden ! left his diplomatic language be- | hind when he went to Capitol Hill | for a private luncheon with con-! gressional leaders. | Not even Harold Ickes could have ! been more forthright in answering questions shot at him, at Eden’s own invitation, during the lunch- eon. ‘The young British foreign minis- ter touched on a variety of sub- jects dealing with international af- fairs, but got in his most effective | shots in answer to questions re- | garding the isolationist bremide | that the British are inv.erest,ed; Drastic Steps fo Inflation Sud Combat denlyTaken An American Patrol Under Fire on the Tunisian Front By FDR; Orders Are Issued FOOD BOSS e e bublic utility rate authorities to a| Chester C. Davis (above), Presi- dent of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was appointed by President Roosevelt as Ad- ministrator of Food Production and Distribution. DAVIS SAYS MORETAXES NECESSARY New Foodfi A]ministralor Warns of Surplus Spending Power WASHINGTON, April 9. — Food Administrator Chester Davis said WASHINGTON, April 9—In a | stic tightening of all wage and ! price controls, President Roosevelt has taken steps to combat infla- | tion by placing ceilings on all com- { modities affecting living costs, ex- cept where some adjustment is al- {0 necessary. | The President has also directed that under the same conditions there will be no further wage or ,salary increases beyond the Little | Steel formula, He has also directed /Paul V. McNutt to prevent switches in jobs to obtain higher pay un- less such shifts will aid an effect- ive war prosecution. Accompanying the statement, the President also cited Federal, State and municipal common carrier and tabilization program “so rate in- creases will be disapproved and rate reductions effected” consistent- ly with the Stabilization Act, and other applicable regulations that go to help keep down the cost of living. The President also directed Food Acdministrator Chester Davis and Price Administrator Prentiss Brown to “authorize no further increases in ceiling prices except to the min- limum extent required by the law.” | Ceilings on Essentials The President said dollars and | cents ceiling prices probably will be placed on all food commodities {which affect living costs Meanwhile, Economic Stabiliza- tion Director James Byrnes said the OPA might be able to present specific price ceiling plans tomor- row, following those laid down | now on meats. Byrnes was sitting in on the Presidential press conference which dealt mainly with the President's vew order designed to help combat inflation through more rigid re- strictions on prices and wages. The President said the whole yroblem resembled a fourslegged =100l. Food prixes were one leg. wages another, rationing the third and taxation and saving the | fourth. He said an effort is being |mede to prevent the ups and downs |and get on a more even level, us- ing ali four legs to prevent the |stool from falling over. His executive order is a step in that direction, he said, but Con- i ::‘l‘f’ll:’. v‘e" ul“:“‘g‘ “;‘EJ Nazis la"dllast night that $35- billions in sur- |gress still has to provide the fourth ght Japan alone. | spending power will have to|leg—taxes and.savings. “Let's forget emotion and senti- ment and look at this as a cold-!| be recaptured by the Government | if present price and wage controls Revenue Goal blooded business proposition,” de- |4, o it inflation threats are ef-|Was the Administration’s goal in clared Eden. “After finishing with | Germany and Italy, we have every | fective. In his first press conference after |new revenue as mentioned in his Ludget message to Congress, Roo- reason in the world to continue "he.taking over the office from Secre- |sevelt said it was the Administra- fight against Japan until we have' crushed her also.” Reminding his listeners that Ja- pan was as much an enemy of Great Britain as of the United States, Eden observed with biting | emphasis: “Australia and New Zealand are part of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Among other common- | wealths and dominions, they have! been in this war from the start. we are going to let them down? Do | you think for a moment that any | true Englishman would desert u\cscf vallant people? We \will fight to- | gether until the Japanese menace, like the Nazi, is wiped from the | face of the earth. “Yes, and there’s Singapore, gen- tlemen,” remarked Eden coldly. “It’s | a matter of pride with us to re-; venge Singapore.” Eden pointed out that it was! realistic for the United States, if | for no other reason, to pursue the war against Germany and Italy un- til those nations were smashed. Just as Calais in the control of the Nazis is a dagger pointed at the heart of the British Empire, he said, “so would the British Isles, occupied by the Nazis, be a dagger pointed at the United States. Nei- ther of us has any choice. The United States, Russia, Britain ani all the other United Nations are going to keep on fighting until we have annihilated the Axis powers. e 2 AR PR _ (Continued op Page Four) tary of Agriculture Claude Wick- ard he recommended higher Fed- \eral taxes and sharply increased !increased investments in war bonds to re- lieve the strain of too much pu chasing power on declining su: plies of consumer goods, including | crease except that he had received |the act calls for a “generally f food and other living items. *This is no 10 percent war,” he declared, with apparent reference to the Treasury Department’scam- | paign to get that percent of sal- men e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5'%, American Can 78';, Bethlehem Steel 637%, Com- monwealth and Southern %, Cui- tiss Wright 8%, General Motors 47%, International Harvester 67%, Kennecott 327, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 54%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 131.22, rails 3359, utilities 1821. - DR. S. K. JORGENSEN ON WAY TO SEATTLE AFTER SHORT VISIT HERE Dr. Stanley K. Jorgensen, who has been visiting in Juneau for the last few weeks, left yesterday for Seattle where he expects to open a dental office, ;Lmn's hope. | Also asked how materially he had the powers given to Byrnes, the President turned the }quesuon over to Byrnes who re- \Kplied he knew of no material in- |greater authority to determine | questions that arise on OPA and the War Labor Board. As to the border and hardship | cases, such cases he said under the |him for consideration instead of !to the President personally. | Under the new plan the \OPA |is working on, Byrnes said it would !be possible for the purchaser to .see the ceiling price in the store fon the article he wants to buy. Housewives, he said, would have to do the police work. JACK CARVEL, UES INTERVIEWER, 1S BACK FROM SITKA After spending the last sixty days in Sitka in the effort to re- |cruit workers for various defense projects now underway in Alaska, k Carvel, Senior Interviewer for the United States Employment Service, returned to his headquart- ers in Juneau. The trip was successful and Mr. Carvel was able to keep many men irom leaving Alaska for the States and instead, to accept @ssential Jwork in the Territory, Asked whether $16 billions still | 5 i Do you think for a moment that|, s yledged to war bond invest-|new order would be submitted to | | | S 8 ™ PACKERS IS NOW SERIOUS Both Davis and Brown Ad- mit Situations Is Dangerous | | WASHINGTON, April 9. — OPA Chief Prentiss Brown and Food Ad- ministrator Chester Davis agrecd in testimony before the House Small Business Committee today that the price ceiling squeeze on meat - packers has “become serious and untenable.” The Committee members de- manded immediate action to cor- rect the situation and to stamp out the black market in meat. ( In response tb questions | Chairman Wright Patman, Brown acknowledged “to be frank,” the present price ceilings on meat pro- ducts may be a violation of the Price Control Act. A provision of and equitable margin” ing. Both Brown and Davis | price ceilings might have Iplaced on livestock to alleviate situation, although Davis dec] “God knows I don’t want that be- cause of the administrative aches involved.” in process- hintec begn head- 'WORK ON HAINES | HIGHWAY GOING | AHEAD RAPIDLY| While work on the Haines high- way, which is to "connect with the Alaska Highway, is still in thej initial stages, work is going along| frapidly and it is felt that freight| b }wm be moving over the road by autumn, according to Everett Smith, Office Manager for the United States Employment Service who has just returned from a brief trip to Haines. He made the trip on the Vencedor, Capt. Gus Brown. The forty-two miles of road, from Haines to Pleasant Camp, on the Canadian border, is being im- proved and it is expected that work will progress rapidly for the re- mainder of the season, bers of the patrol: a half-track (center), and two amphibious jeeps. | ently firing at the cnemy. Cattle grazed in the background. §QUEEZE ON Machrthur Remembers That Fall SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, April 9.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a statement issued today in com- memoration of the first anniver- ary of the fall of Bataan, said “a vear ago today the dimming light of Bataan’s forlorn hope fluttered and died. ts prayers. by that time—and prayed as well as fought—were reduced to a simple formuld ren- dered by hungry men through parched and cracking lips: “Give us this day our daily bread The 'light failed. Bataan was tarved into collapse. Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat Wariime Policy for Civilian Yacafions fo Be Announted Soon By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 9. — Any day now, the government will an- nounce ite wartime policy for civ- ilian vacations. 1t f best Defense Production Board, . probably will be a wishes from the Office of Transportation, the War the War Man- composite {power Commission, the Rubber ad- admin- of Price the Petroleum the Office ministrator, istrator, and Administration If I knew the exact wording, T would be psychic, because it hasn’t »een written yet. But I can give you 1 nutshell version. It's going to we “Hang your clothes on a hickory imb, but don't go near the wate: In other words: Take a vaca- tion, folks. You need it. You de- serve it. It will be both an anti- dote and preventive medicine for war nerves. It'll zoom your morale. By all means, take a vacation—but don't go anywhere If the country’s 130,000,000 cleav? to the government’s wartime pol- icy, there will be more “wish-you- were-here” postcards sent from bhackyards and on-the-trolley-and- too | bomb hits, dangerous close to-AMerican units on patrol action against the Axis sent smoke and dirt skyward, while in the foreground, a | soldier wounded in the leg by hemb fragments, lay on his back while two Medical Corps men bandaged his wound. Three vehicles carried mem- | Ahcad of the cars, two soldiers lay prone and two others crouched, appar- of Bataan upon, in the gutter. “The wrecks of what once were our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil. Our faithful Filipino wards, 16 million souls, gasp in the slavery of the conquer- ing soldiery devoid of those ideals ' of chivalry which have so dignified many armies. “I was the leader that lost the cause, and from the bottom of my seared and stricken heart, I pray the mereciful God may not delay long, that their redemption, that the day of salvation be not so far removed that they will per- ish—that it be not again too late.” for busline golf courses than ever be- fore. If.they dont cleave, lock out for the ax on all vacation travel As a matter of fact, no matter what the government’s hopes and wishes are, due to car driving and rail travel restrictions, stay-at- home vacations are going to be a necessity almost everywhere The American Automobile ciation has been secking a fication of 1943 vacation policies and it is pretty positive now that there will be no relaxation of pre- sent automobile mileage controls. On the other hand. it is likely that OPA rationing regulations will be revised to prohibit any gaso- line beyond that provided in the “A” books for vacation driving any- ere. This could' be done by pro- hibiting the holders of other than i cards from purchasing any gasoline anywhere outside of their own residence areas. Asso- clari- 8o much for automobile travel Train and bus passenger accommo- dations already are taxed almost to the limit and if would-be vaca- A(?nnflnufl" on Page Two) GERMANS ARE RETREATING, WIDE FRONT Americans Commended for Action Earlier This Week ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 9. — Axis torces are abandoning Mahares, only 22 miles south of the vital harbor of Sfax, and are also giving up Mezzouna, continuing their withdrawal under Allied blows iong the broad front between the central Tunisian mountains and the sea. The armored vanguards of the British Eighth Army, meanwhile, are continuing pursuit of Rommel's heaten men who are fleeing north from Mahares and northeast from Mezzouna under the hammering of he western Desert Air Force. Mez- souna lies inland from Mahares on he rallway, is about 52 miles south- | sast of Sfax. 4 A communique announces the British Eighth Army has taken 9,500 prisoners since its initial attack on Rommel's Wadi el Akarit positions Tuesday. At the same-time, military quart- . °rs revealed that 1,300 more Ger- mans have been captured by the American Second Army Corps in he Mopul and El Guetar sector. | The achievements of the Ameri- an forces headed by Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton in engaging the | bulk of the Axis armor earlier this weck on the Eighth Army's left flank was highly praised by Gener- lal Alexander, Allied Deputy Com- mander-in-Chief. A late German dispatch tells of the capture by United States troops > e o o o DIMOU TIME Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 7:56 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 6:02 am, OVERRUHR (Continued on Page Two) | - ; Twenty-one Bombers Fail| | Aps (lAlM to Refurn-Full Results Are Unobserved VICTORY IN LONDON, April 9. — The Royal| Air Force, resuming the Allied aer-| ial offensive against western Eu: ope after a lapse of three nights, attacked targets in the industrial| B Ruhr Valley last night. | . Twenty-one RAF craft failed commufllque Broad(as' to return from the attack, several| . of them among Britain’s biggest from Tokyo Says A"led bombers which participated in the raid. The attack is described as being | “heavy” but weather over Germany was bad and it was difficult to ob- (By Astvciated Press) serve the full results, the com- The Tokyo rudio broadcasts a munique said, on specific targets communique, mecked up in New on the Ruhr Valley. York, reporting that large Jap- I e R anese Naval Air formations attack- ed an Allied Fleet off Florida Is- land in the Solomons on Wednes-~ day, sinking one cruiser, one de- stroyer and 10 transports. In addi- tion, the broadcasted communique said, three other Allied transports were damaged and 37 Allied planes A were downed against a loss of only » |«ix Japanese planes which “crashed n dives on enemy objectives.” The communique apparently re- ferred to the same action announc- T o ed yesterday in the U. S. Navy = communique which reported that - Red Army Confinues fo 3 planes of a force o s8 Jap % planes were downed Wednesday Hold Ground in Donefs ' when they attacked Amercian ship- ¢ ping near Guadalcanal R[ver Sedor Florida Island, mentioned in the 5 Japanese communique, is about 25 MOSCOW, April 9. — The Rus- ™iles north of Guadalcanal. slan-German front, taken as a The Navy's communique did not whole, is quiet but along some i monig theloss of any U, 8. abi ctors sharp thrusts are being PINE oF participation of any enemy made on both sides. South of Bal- naval unils in an engagemen. akleya, which Is midway between Chuguev and Izyum on the Donets river, the Germans, during last night, attempted an assault on the Red Army positions but lost 200 killed and gained no ground This sector includes the area where -the Soviets have a bridge- head on the Donets. 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