The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9316. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY APRIL 13, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———= ALLIED FORCES ROLLING ng Fields For Attack Japs RUNWAYS ARE SEEN AT KISKA, ATTU ISLANDS One Shoultri3—e Done This. Month, Other by Fourth of July By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent A FAR WESTERN BASE IN THE ANDREANOF ISLANDS, Alaska, April 3. (Delayed) — Notwith- standing the fact that the Japa- nese are pushing to completion a long fighter field on Kiska, and a bomber field on Attu Island, the (Contmued on Page F‘ive) The Washington TOWARD TUNIS Buildi TODAY is the 200th anniversary of the birth of » Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. These words, which he wrote dur- ing the Revolution and soon after, while the nation struggled for existenice, ‘are still pertinent today as the country fights its greatest war for survival. “We have counted the cost of this contest and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.” | | | \ | | ""Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.”’ “A bill of rights is what the people are entit governmenf on earth.” “The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness end per- severance, employ for the preservation of our liberties.” "“All eyes are opened or opening to, the rights of man.’ Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Some of the members of the Rockefeller office are chafing at the “Spanish a peasement policy of the State De- partment. They would like tomove against the Fascist activities of certain Spanish elements in Latin- America, but every time the sub- Ject is broached at the interde- partmental conferences, the State Department vetoes the proposal. Both the Rockefeller Office and the State Department have been told the inside story of what these Spanish elements are doing below the Rio Grande, and that Spanish Legations taken over the anti-United Nations propaganda formerly done by the Axis diplomats before they were kicked out. and Embassies have| Hitler and Muss AdmilWa DEDICATE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL President F. D. Roosevelt Speaks at Ceremony in Capital WASHINGTON, April 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, dedicating a marble temple to Thomas - Jefferson, de- |clared today that those fighting today’s war rn what Jefferson LONDON, April 13. — Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Italian Premier Benito Mussolini have just con- cluded four-day conference in |the shadow of the most alarming | Axis prospect since the war began, for the Axis expulsion in Africa is imminent and also the Allied in- vasion of the European continent. The Axis leaders, according to the broadcast made by the Berlin radio station, admitted the meet- a 1 |knew, that a ot Now Most Crifical seeming eclipse liberty can well become the dawn Continuation of these activities in part nullifies the effect of break- ; ing relations with the Axis by Of more liberty.’ Latin-American countries—the pol- Said the President, “Those icy which the State Department fight tyranny in our own time come has been pushing ever since the O learn that it is an old lesson.’ Rio conference more than a year | Surrounded by high officials and ago. Not all of the Rockefeller of- |diplomats from many nations, the fice are agreed on policy, some President said in speaking of the being ultra - appeasement minded’|author of the Declaration of Inde- But others, though wanting m,pemhme at the dedication of the stop the Spanish activities, are| |Shrine of Freedom that the nation afraid of the State Department. “13 paying a debt long overdue. | The third President’s words were |chosen to be enscribed on the mem- | orial. They are: “I have sworn upon the altar of ! who | LABOR PROTECTING FARMER CIO President Phil Murray raised | some strenuous objections to Gov-|God eternal hostility against every ernment price statistics at a re»‘fmm of tyranny over the mind of | cent conference in the Office cl’m.m »? Price Stabilizer James Byrnes, at- tended by Cabinet members and farm and labor leaders. Murray contended that the cost of the nation’s “Food Basket” had risen a’ great deal more than of- ficlal price indices showed — far more, he stated, than correspond- ing increases in wages. “I don’t know what these price statistics are based on,” the CIO leader asserted, “but they don't accurately reflect the higher living cost which the average worker must pay these days.” Murray was aiming his shots at Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins, who was present and whose Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles data not only on wages but on living costs. Looking daggers at the labor leader, Mrs. Perkins shot back: “My department for those figures. with them?” “They favor the farmer, Murray. At this juncture the conference was interrupted by a hearty laugh from Farm Bureau President Ed ONeal, whose genial sense of hu- mor is admired both by his anti- inflation foes in the Administra- tion and by his friends in the Con- gressional Farm Bloc. “Oh, I wish some of my farmer friends could listen to this,” chor- tled O'Neal. “Just imagine the La- is responsible What's wrong snapped IRAID KISKA FOUR TIMES | Fires Are Starfed in Camp Area, Navy Dis- | paich Reports “ WASHINGTON, April 13. — The {Navy reports Army planes contin- ued the almost incessant pounding |of Kiska with four raids Sunday by Mitchell bombers, Warhawks and Lightning fighters. Direct hits were scored and fires were started in the camp area, the Navy said. The attacks were num- bers 54 through 58 this spring. At the same time, Jap anti-air- craft guns were silenced and fires started in the camp area when Army bombers struck five times at Rekata Bay and at Munda in the Southwest Pacific. e Mountains rise to heights of 24,- 000 feet in Lisuland, on the border between Burma and China, ON SUNDAY: "Rehabiliiation Bill” Is Now Effective for Soldiers, Present Wa DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR - BILL IS UP Hearings on Alaska ltems| Concluded - Action Expected Soon By ANTHONY J. DIMOND Delegate from Alaska WASHINGTON, April 13.—Hear- ings on the Alaska items of the Interior Department Appropriation I Bill for the fiscal year 1944 have | been concluded. The budget calls for substantial increases made nec- essary largely by the 25 percent differential for service in Alaska of Interior Department employees, in line with similar differentials for other classes of Federal employees in the Territory , serving undex other departments. In accordance with practice es- tablished many years ago, I was permitted to appear before the Ap- propriations subcommittee having jurisdiction of the bill with the representatives of the Department and thus able to give explanations where required. The subcommittee was particularly interested ,in the RAID MADE | BY NIPPONS - ONMORESBY ‘Heawesi Bombmg Attack of War in Solomons Area Reported ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 13.—The Japs flung 100 planes at Port Moresby yesterday, the heaviest bombing raid of the war in this theater, but 37 of the Jap planes were shot down or so severely damaged by our s that the enemy aerial offen- 8! seems curbed. Allied Headquarters revealed that !this toll brought the total Jap los- ses for two days to 76. In addition to the Port Moresby losses, the ; communique asserted 15 other Jap planes were shot down yesterday in other actions. Allied bombers, meanwhile, soar- ing far in punishing raids, sank an enemy submarine off New Britain and damaged enemy shipping two other areas, slashed at an airfields, also. One Flying Fortress, intercepted in a lone raid by 12 Jap fighters, knocked down seven with "ony neglible damage to the bomber.” {The communique failed to reveal damage, if any, inflicted by mc“ J1ps in the huge raid on Port | Moresby. | led lggfoim olini r Situation ing of Hitler and Mussolini was | F E A R J A p S held “against a background cf| ‘ stern military events, especially as| MAY INVADE to the Italian realm.” But, the broadcast came up with the typical Axis statement they |Aussie General Tells of Huge Enemy Con- centrations 1 have dedicated themselves and their people to “complete annihilation of any future danger that might threaten the European or African area from the east or from the west.” ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IA’T‘ AUSTRALIA, April 13—Japan has concentrated some 200,000 first- |line troops and a great air force sbove Australia and may be ex-| sected to undertake an offensive it any time, Gen. Sir Thomas Bla- | mey told correspondents at a spec- |ial press conference today. Blamey, Commander-in-Chief of he Allied ground forces in this| wrea, said Jap air assaults rhe | 3 Allied in the Solomon: o] md New Guinea on recent days' marked the opening phase of the |enemy’s struggle to regain parity, then mastery of the air. The “profcund shock” of the en- emy’s losses in the Bismarck Sea | battle and other actions has taught (Second of Two Articles) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 13. other day I received a letter |a soldier discharged from the| ‘Amxy for reasons of health. He is| | one of probably several thousands |of such cases. When our hospital 'shlps start rolling in from the | war fronts, there will be m'm\‘!he enemy. he can't move large | thousands more. £ Although this young man mlm; orces without gaining control cf‘ | the air, Blamery added. | saw action at the front, his case [ “ls Grpioal. HA I8 ore ot e who Several 100-plane raids have been will be benefited by the new “Re- | Lorrcd from the Southiwest Pa- habilitation bill” for veterans of | Cc M the last week. | World War II, whether men | women, or KNOX COMMENTS WASHINGTON, April 13.—Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox said today it is impossible to debermlnl-‘ |whether the Japs have built \ulrong points in the area north of | Australia for the purpose of at- tack, or defense. He told newspapermen “you must remember that an attack on Aus-| .m‘ualla must be accompanied by al C viad AR R }uemendoua sea force. There is no e j a | indication of such a concentration |my physical disability. | pointing to that.” “I wonder if there s a chanct|” ageed about Prime Minister Win- of getling some kind of a pension |geon Churchill's statement in the | to at least defray the cost Of[poice Gf Commons today that we| medicines, etc., that I'am forced ,pe «more than holding our own” o ROLTOW MiatieN ko buy now.” gainst the U-boats in the Atlantic, Because this case is so "””"al‘Knox said Churchill is entirely right, | and because there may be thou-! «dding that when he reported the sands affected by the new Rcha- | . . S bilitation bill who don’t know tha ‘::5‘:;? ‘ffe ‘;?crtu:h:: ;:eydvazo ,,:fi:. it has just been passed by CON-ling only of that month. gress, this young man's query is| - worthy of an answer. | In the first place, there is noj “I was drafted into the Army April 8, 1941,” he writes, “and was honorably discharged April 1942, because of a physical dis- ability (bronchial asthma). “There was nothing said about a pension of any kind whe was discharged. When I re home I began to seek emplc ed | Some of the parts of a torpedo must be accurate within a limit of the appointment of a resident of Alaska as the Territory power Anthony J. Dimond has written to | | been informed that the nomination Senator Robert B. Reynolds, Chal man of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, that placement of such | war activities under ing in the States would be colonialism at the letter many is United from afar as an appendage to some state or area | pletely On Alaska ENFIDAVILLE IS REPORTED AS CAPTURED N .Rommel Mavwaake Stand in Narrow Tunis- ' Bizerte Lane ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 13.—Allied forces today were pushing the ene- my in Africa into a steadily con- Manpower Commission, has | tracting area on the northern tip been delayed because it is believed |0f Tunisia, having gained |a Director of such activities is not €W ground north of Sousse and I needed there and the salagy of @S0 in the Kairouan sector, driv- $7,000 is excessive ing the enemy hard on the south- ot ern side of the Axis “strong box” | Explaining the “pressing |in the Medjez el Bab region. |of such a Director, at a good sal-| The British Eighth Army under ary, Delegate Dimond wrote to ,Gen Sir Bernard Law Montgomery Senator Reynolds that the cost of | went thfough Sousse early yester- ‘hvuu, in the Territory is 16 per-| |day morning, and the British First cent higher than in the states and | |Army occupied Kairouan and |living costs in Juneau are 48 per- |smashed a German armored rear- than in Washington, |guard on the Kairouan plains. Delegate Dimond Goes To Mat for an Alaskan As Director for Alaska Manpower (ommissio Urging | Manpower Commission. in Alaska is | through an Alaskan office headed by an Alaska Director.” Delegate Dimond said WASHINGTON, April 13 War Man- Director, Alaska Delegate he has uf Ike P. Taylor, of Juneau, Al- aska, to be Director of the Alaska official d- “narrow | an worst.” said in to Senator Reynolds that of Alaska's troubles ‘“have arisen by the thought that Alaska an insignificant part of the States and can be ruled Delegate Dimond his need" That thought is com- and the only is to | cent higher unjustified Ipractical and efficient way in|handle the activities of the War |D. C. | 20Percent W|Ihholdmg Levyon Wages, Salaries Now Proposed in House INTRODUCES BILLTO ELECT - ALASKA GOV. WASHINGTON, April 13, Speaker Sam Rayburn has called for joint Democratic and Republi- can action to enact quickly a 20 percent withholding levy on the axable portion of wages and sal- arles as a measure to help pre- vent inflation, Rayburn left the Speaker's ros- trum late yesterday, to give newspapermen the statement after Chairman Robert L. Doughton, of the House the | Yesterday, military observers were |of the opinion that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would make a stand [in the Enfidaville.sector, 27 miles north of Sousse. But today, an Al- giers report said the British Bighth | Army had reached Entidaville, just |60 miles south of Tunis, capturing nearly an entire Italian division. | Tunis is the next big goal. Threat From West Apparently Rommel must make a stand in the Medjez el Bab area, or attempt a “Dunkirk” evacuation | from Tunis or Bizerte. The British ! Pirst Army still maintains a threat !to Axis forces from the west In the Medjez el Bab area. Military quarters in London es- timated that Rommel is withdraw- ing into prepared Tunis-Bizerte de- fenses about 100 miles long and 40 miles wide, with a force of about 210,000 men, 150,000 of them Ger- mans. Added to this force would be those of Von Arnim’s troops. As Rommel maintained his with- | Delegate Anthony jMeaSUreS AlSOVPI'OVideS mittee, told the House if the lcad- | for Lieut. Governor to Be Elected WASHINGTON, April 13.—Alaska J. Dimond has introduced in the House a measure to permit Alaskans to elect their own Governor for a four-year term at a $10,000 yearly salary. This can be changed at the discretion of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. The Legislature will also be em- powered to create the Lieutenant Governor, also to be lected. The measure also transfers e at office of | ... FIRMS FINED Juneau from | Ways and Means Coin- | drawing action, Montgomery’s sea- soned' Eighth Army patrols engaged ership of both parties agree to sup- |the rearguards of the fleeting “des- port a simple withholding levy, he ort fox" on the coastal road be- will introduce such a bill and seek |tween Lake Kelbla and the sea, to bring it before the committee keeping the enemy under constant and also the floor immediately. pressure in the retreat from the Gkt Enfidaville line. French Take Part B o Y ( 0 TT IS This would indicate that Mont- poadl 4 gomery has advanced from 10 to 15 miles north of Sousse. British First |Army, units were last reported 15 (Continued on Page Three) - AlertOn | bombs. Governor's Ho the United States erty of the Terrtory -+ KONIGSBERG "AIR RAIDED BYRUSSIANS Aerial Ope;;ibns Pressed Now as Resulf of Mud, Slush Underfoot MOSCOW, April 13 Russian | planes bombed Konigsherg last Sat-| urday night. This is according 4o a communique released here The attacking force was led by Capt. Alexander Molodchy, Wwho sent a ngssage to Stalin once when he was over Berlin and dropped to be the prop- Rates-Stores Found Guil- ty of Not Advertising WASHINGTON, April 13.—Eighty thousand dollars in fines have been luvu.d against 15 of the leading York Department stores of he New York Retail Dry Goods Association in an anti-trust case. In the case they were charged with conspiring to boycott the New York Times because it increased the advertising rates. The announcement is lalso said there was no contest of pleas of nolo contendere to the charge entered and the defendants {were given 48 hours in which to pay the fine of $5,000 each. - - THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS ARE The attack revealed that as the spring thaw has halted most of TAKEN, TUNISIA the major operations at the vari- | ous fronts, the attention of the ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Russians' has been turned to the NORTH AFRICA, April 13. — The air. Apparently more emphasis is British Eighth Army has taken now placed on aerial operations as 20,000 prisoners in the battle of the result of mud and slush under- | Tunisia since March 20. This is the New York Times Raises| made by, {the Department of Justice which! | Thursday | A practice Alert will be held at {7:15 o'clock Thursday evening, an- nounced R. E. Robertson, Director of the Civilian Defense Council to- day. The first ald problem will be to furnish first aid to a patient suf- fering from a simulated fractured right forearm and wrist. Ambulances will be used, as the patients must be taken to the ras- valty stations for attention by phy- sicians, First Aid Station No. 7 has been moved from the Tom Dyer resi- dence to the basement of the R. J. Sommers residence, 339 Distin Avenue Pirst Aid Station No. 13-A, in the Blomgren Apartments at 423 Gold Street, will not be used during this Alert. Pirst Aiders, customarily re- porting to it, should report to First Aid Station No. 11, in the Grover C. Winn residence at 513 East Street e o 00 0 0 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 8:05 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:51 am. e Dimout begins Wednesday at e sunset at 8:07 p.m. "(Continued on Page Four) '25 millionths of an inch, foot, lomcml announcement made here, ®» @ ® ¢ ¢ ¢ o ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ (Continued op Page Four). (Continued on Page Three) lW