The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 1943 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY e —— — — -~ — VOL. LX., NO. 9315. : ALLIES CAPTURE SOUSSE AND KAIROUAN Fathers Are Now Deferred From Draft List NEW ORDERS SPEND LESS, NAZIS LOSE RECLASSIFY SAVE MORE, | TANKFIGHT* REGISTRANTS ISWARNING IN TUNISIA Dads of Babies Born Be- 1Spetu|aiiori Stirred Re-fy Amen(ansfar_ne Through fore Last September gard Possibility of: Faid Pass-Axis Air 15 Are Safe New Legislation Losses Huge WASHINGTON, April 12.—Thou- ON, A WASHINGTON, April 12.— ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN sands of men who became “dads” Ident Roosevelt, in a warning, said | ORTH AFRICA, April 12. — The between the summer of 1941 and |the Nation must be prepared to ‘ritish Eighth Army entered Sousse last September 15 have been spend less and save more to “hold | ¢ 8:30 o'clock this morning in its draft deferment status as fathers the line” against inflation upu‘l push northward along the the first time the new regulation The warning stirred speculation T'unisian coasi, and at the same has been announced by Selective as to whether the Administration time, British First Army units Service officials. |is planning to recommend to Con- knocked out the armored remnants Local boards have been told to compulsory lending or com- f the German African Corps on classify as fathers all those whose y savings tax proposal re plain northwest of Kairauan, children were born before last Sep- Such levies have been advanced and from Sousse, after occupy- tember 15. {by Treasury officials as part of the g this town yesterday Fathers are now the only men M‘Xpimdl’“ tax program to siphon off Ficld Marshal Erwin Rommel’s deferred solely because of family sixteen billion dollars estimated in 1en were recling under heavy blows relationship, and cannot be draft- |excess of the public purchasing Jth on the ground and in the ed until further orders are sent. | power. ir, .and offered only light opposi- The new regulations eliminated of the strategic aw 1orces | propenents say cither tax would ien in the Kairouan plain en- the nine-month-old 3-B classifica- {partially meet the President's de- agement, The tank battle took tion which put all men having de- nd for firm inflation control by | lace as the German armored units pendents and holding any job es- spending power ttempted to escape northward. sential to the war behind 3-A men power for 18 Tanks Destroyed of like family relationship in order | n Women War Corrcspondcnts Pose in Londo ing Jackass” Presi- e F Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, commanc: in North Africa, sits at the controls of his carricatured plane just before taking off on a flight in the North African batle zone. Gen. Doolittle was recently awarded the air medal for his personal leader- ship of five air sorties. This Associated Press photo is from the U. S. Army Signal Corps via radio from Algiers to Washington. | ma | freezing the current |or create a purchasing | the p .o LJ ts pose in their uniforms. The picture was ife magazines; Dixie Tighe, Interna- Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago OR THE FIRST TIME, U, S. women war col responden taken in London. Frum the left are Mary Welsh of Time and Li : Kathleen Harriman, Newsweek magazine; postwar The first dispatch from the Kair- ot dalil; uan battlefield said 18 of a for- The new rule ordered x--cl.xssm- cation to 1-A all men outside (Contlnued on Page Three) The Washmgton Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Fearing possible j outbreaks in the coal mining states, the War Department has made se- cret preparations to use troops if necessary. | But Ed McGrady, crack labor adviser to the Under Secretary of War, feels that the best way to keep qrder in the mining districts is to talk to the miners in their own language. Formerly Assistant Secretary of Labor, he suggested to the War Department that in- stead of using troops, he be com- ' missioned as a one-man army to keep order. , H Accordingly, Ed McGrady has left for the coal areas, to keep his finger on the pulse of the coal min- ers—and to keep that pulse down. At the White House, Mrs. Roose- | velt was chatting with Madame | Chiang Kai-shek. Said the first | lady of the United States: i “I was offered $1,500 to write a{ magazine article giving my impres- | sions of you.” Smiling, the first lady of China replied: “I was offered $3,000 to write a magazine article giving my impres- sions of you.” ¢ Both were ladies. They had both declined to write about each other. i LADIES FIRST E | | FOOD CZAR II Friends who know Chester Davis, the new farm czar, say he is the best qualified man for the job— which probably is about the tough- est in the country. But they also wonder whethey Davis is going to have the brass knuckles to put farms on a com- plete war footing. Chester, as he is called in Wash- ington where almost everyone knows and likes him, is an unusual mixture. When he was on the Na- tional Defense Advisory Commit- tee in the old prewar days with Big Bill Knudsen, he tangled with Knudsen about the concentration of war contracts in the hands of a few big corporations. He wanted them spread out among many firms, as the British did. And his- tory has proved he was right. Chester Davis also bucked the chemical trust when it moved heaven and earth to block the pro- duction of ammonia under the TVA. And even in those early days before Pearl Harbor he demanded more farm production, with the (Continued on Page Four) * Hifler's Greal War MachineBaseSeems To Be Inactive Now; THEIR BOMBS CH I EF S —Philip Murray, C10 head (standing), and William Green, head of the AFL, snapped at hearing before senate war in- vestigating commitiee. MUNDA AGAIN BOMBED,ALS KISKA RAIDED WASHINGTON, April 12.—Two bombing raids, causing heavy ex- plosions and starting fires at the Jap base of Munda in the Solomons is reported in a Navy communique this afternoon. ‘The communique also told of raids on Kahili and bombs espec- ially smashed on the airfield there. Raids were also made on Kiska in the Aleutians last Saturday, but the results were not observed. —————— BUY WAR BONDS LONDON, April 12. — The gmnt Krupp armament works, one of the | mainstays of Hitler's war muchine,‘ has almost been completely idle as the results of the RAF's shattering| 900,000 tons of bombs in raids on! Essen, the British Air Ministry an- nounces. | The latest evidense of the dam-| age done to the ,works has been ob: tained from reconnaissance phoLo- graphs two days after the big at- tack on April 3 and April 4. ! These photographs fail to show' any smoke rising from the hun- dreds of chimneys. The photographs are the clearest| ever taken and the 800 acre plant| works “appear to be almost entire- ly inactive.” EIGHT AXIS SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH |Seven Others Damaged by Subs in Engagement | in Mediterranean LONDON April 12, — Fifteen| more Axis sels have either been ! destroyed or badly damaged-in chel rMednormnean by British submar-| !ines the Admiralty announced. | | The subs sank eight Axis ships| {and it is known that seven ou-.e:‘ | ships were damaged. | REPUBLICANS LOSE OUT IN. TAX MATTER | ! r u | \ Green, JAPS LOUSY IN DROPPING Two Army Sergeants from‘ Alaska Give Opinion of Enemy f\ilacks EPHRATA, Wash. April 12 When Jap planes roar over Alask | Army bases, the boys just roll ove! to go back to sleep, Sergeants Clyde Weaver and Bernard Hovelman re; ported here. “We are raided by Japs but they are lousy when it comes to dropping {bcmbs and we just roll over to go back to sleep. They never hit any- thing to amount to much,” the two sergeants said here enroute home on furloughs after two years in Alaska. - FREEZING ORDER ONWAGES GIVEN COLD RECEPTION |AFL Presudent Green Re- serves Decision-Carey Is Not Talking NEW YORK, April 12—William President of the American | Federation of Labor, said he is re- serving a decision on Roosevelt hold the line freezing order on sal- aries .and wages. James B. Carey, CIO Secretary- | Treasurer, declined to make any |comment on the order during conference with newsmen Paymenl ol $2 000 To Be Made Been For Loss in Blaze WASHINGTON, April 12 ident Roosevelt has signed the mlhormng payment of $2,000 Pres- bill to inley Park in settlement of claims tional News Servic WASHINGTON, April 12.—Alas ka's Delegate Anthony J. Dimond |zays he is preparing a bill for in- |troduction to Congress authorizing | Alaskans to elect their own Gover- _ nor. “I have every reason to believe |the President will favor this mea- sure because he has already an- nounced he his in Iavul D.uly News; Leu Miller of Vogue magazine, |D|mond Prepares Bill Giving Alaskans Righi To Eledt Own Governor 3. pe- well action in Puerto Rico and lieve the Alaskans are just qualified for such a privilege, Delegate told reporters. The " recent Alaska passed a House Joint Memorial by Representative James V. Davis urging ‘Congress to grant Alaskans !the power to elect their own Gov-| of snnh‘ ernor. Reselllmg Disabled Soldiers; Bill Passes; Benefiis Men, Women DANIEL ROPER PASSES AWAY Rooseveli's First Secrefary of Commerce Dies in Washington WASHINGTON, April 12—Dan- iel C. Roper, President Roosevelt's first Secretary of Commerce and former Minister to Canada, died last night at his home here. He had been ill for the past two and one half months of leukemia. * When Roper of South Carolina ame Secretary of Commerce in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4, 1933, he brought to the inner circle of the new deal” a wealth of political experience. For two score years Roper had been climbing the political ladder, but through appointive rather than ;ror loss of personal effects when a elective offices. State legislator, con- WASHINGTON, April 12—The fire destroyed his park residence gressional committee clerk, first as- House Ways and Means Committee| ‘voled down 16 to 9 the effort of;| | nine Republican members to reopen| | consideration of the pay-as-you-go legislation. | in 1939. ——-——— The Bismarck Sea and archipel- ago were named in 1884 for the German “Iron Chancellor.” Inter- prac- and ant Postmaster’ General, nal Revenue Commissioner, ticing lawyer in Washington (Continued on Page Three) jm IN HIS HOME practical while Two Articles) STINNETT (Tirst of By JACK WASHINGTON, April 12.—Just wiiy one of the best legislative stor- izs of recent weeks cr less ignoted ystery. Its the so-called “Rehabilitation bill.”* With little more than a mur- mur, it passed the Senate and then the House without the necessily of a record vote. But with the pos- sible exception of raise-in-pay bill, this probably is impor ant to our armed f than any meusure voted since first draft bill. omething of a more the Here s why (1) Under this bill ev per- on honorably discharged from the armed forces before the end of ‘thi war for reasons of he aggra ated by training ordeal dis- abilities incurred in (raining or combat, will have access to the Veterans' Administration’s rchab- ilitation training program (2) This means that for four years, these persons paid from $80 to $100 a cording to dependency and given other they are studying their new plages in vocations which they are suited. (3) That even when this was being prepared, which was Lefore casualties were being re- turned from North Africa, India, and other recent hot ts, there were more than 809 such persons some of (he reason ery up tof will be month benefi to take to bill (Continued on Page Five) the Legislature | Lias been more | obliga- | and Tama Long of the New York Times. (Imunanoml) ROOSEVELT - CRITICIZES DEBTRIDER ‘Bill Be(omgl_aw Without President’s Signa- ture Today WASHINGTON, April 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has permitted the | debt legislation bill and salaries ri- - |der to become a law without his signature “to avoid embarr: ent |to our war financing program.” In a statement condemning Co! gress for its “ill considered action’ in permitting salaries to stand on last year's basis, the President |called anew for a special war su- | pertax, holding every individuals net income to $25,000 annually. He said the war financing pro- gram already has carried the na- tional debt near the old 125 bil- [lion limitation. i Radio Stations Must Go Silent when Raid Alarms Given Ouf| SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, April 12—Radio stations will be ordered off the air hereafter whenever a public air raid warning is ordered by the Fourth Fighter Command General John DeWitl wrote James Sheppard, Regional Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, Sheppard complained that during California public refused believe anything serious was as the radio stations | ontinued to broadcast and with- out mentioning there alr raid warning. - 'ASK ROOSEVELT T0 BE CANDIDATE FOR FOURTH TERi DENVER, Colo., April 12. T Colorado State Federation of La- bor has passed and sent to Presi- o recent southern warning, the afr rald impending was an dent Roosevelt, a resolution asking| him to run for a fourth term. R BUY WAR BONDS iation of 40 enemy tanks were de- woyed by the British armored orce, and 20 Nazi anti-tank guns nd 20 motor vehicles also were mashed up. The 40-tank formation was de- cribed in the dispatch as the rear uard of two German armored di- isions. The fall of Sousse leaves the \xis only two important ports in 1l of Africa—Tunis and Bizerte. The Aliles are continuing a ter- ific air offensive in support of he ground troops. A*Saturday re- ort said that American Lightning ighters had knocked down 80 lanes in 36 heurs. Taday, U. 8. and British airmen truck hard again, leaving scores { enemy vehicles scattered wreck- ge or in flames, shooting down a otal of 41 more enemy planes yes- erday, against a loss of 14 of their wn ships, 31 Downed Sunday ‘The American Lightning fight- ors, P-38's, are taking a terrible oll of Axis planes. A group of Lightnings yesterday caught an- sther enemy fighter escort for an Axis transport formation cressing he Sicilian Strait and destroyed 31 planes. This would bring the three-day score of Axis planes destroyed wound the 150 mark. Meanwhlle, the Second U. 8. Army Corps under Lieut. Gen. seorge 8. Patton, Jr, “Old Blood nd Guts,” took Faid Pass on the ‘oad between Sfax and Kasserine without opposition, adding another wenue through the central Tuni- (Continued on Page Three) > SHOES NOT - RATIONED INALASKA ‘ WASHINGTON, April 12.—Clear- {ing up a reported misapprehension, the OPA repeated an announce- ment that shoes are not to be ra- tioned in Alaska, Puerto Rico and |other territories or possessions. s or shippers in the conti- nental United States can get cer- tificates from ration boards replac- ing shoes sent to these unrationed areas. ® o o0 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 8:03 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:53 am Dinfout begins Tuesday at ® 8:056 pm. e #0000 00 00 00