The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_— | | VOL. LX., NO. 9317. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1943 LVIEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ] OMMEL BEGINS STAND IN NORTH AFRICA Japs Start Aert RAID MADE INDAYLIGHT | BY NIPPONS Strong Forre‘fla(ks Milne Bay-Terse Announce- ment by MacArthur ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 14 — Gen Douglas MacArthur tonight an- nounced tersely that a strong force of Japanese aircraft raided Milne Bay in daylight today. Details were not immediately re- ceived but the raid is believed to have been approximately on a scale of other big raids recently made in the southwest Pacific. Gen. MacArthur recently said the raids were the beginning of a Jap-) anese aerial offensive in this area The raid in daylight today fol- lowing those of the past two days on Oro Bay and Port Moresby in which scores of Japanese planes were used. It is said 85 planes made the offensive on Oro Bay and ap- proximately 100 on Port Moresby Early today, Gen. MacArthur nounced a heavy raid was made by low flying American Fortresses on Jap shipping in Hansa Bay on the north coast of New Guinea and a 10,000 ton Jap ship was bombed and sent down and an 8000 ton Jap ship was set afire. MacARTHUR N COMMENT ON WAR SCENES Tells of Large Japanese Naval Forces Near Australia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ‘IN AUSTRALIA, April 14—Gen. Doug- las MacArthur warned today on the heels of a statement by Aus- tralian Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, that powerful Jap naval forces are within striking distance of Austra- lia, forces which can be held off only by the Allied command of the skies. “Allied naval forces will be count- ed on to play their own magnificent part,” he said, “but the battle in the Western Pacific will be won or lost by the proper application of air and ground teamwork.” His communique made no men- tion of a new Jap aerial thrust, but) made clear the United Nations are again the masters of the skies around Australia. Gen. Blamey had stated that the Japs have concentrated 200,000 crack troops and aerial forces north (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. When the White House butler says “Dinner is served,” it doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Most of the time, it’s nothing more than a simple three-course meal for two or three persons, served not in the state dining room, or even in the family dining room on the first floor, but in the President’s study on the second floor. Except for the occasional visit of a South American President, so- cial activity at the White House has disappeared. Roosevelt dines with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hopkins, Justice Byrnes, Judge Sam Rosen- man, or perhaps with Grace Tully, his blue-eyed, white-haired private (Continued on Page Four). FLYING FORTRESSES BOMB LORIENT U-BOAT BASE — SMOKE RISES FROM THE BURNING U-BOAT BASE at Lorient, France, as American Flying Fortresses pass over it and drop their deadly missiles. Damage from Allied bombings, according to information reaching Switzerland, is estimated to have curtailed Nazi production by thirty percent. (International) NO JAPS ON WEST (OAST SAYS DEWITT "Too Vital airrd Too Vulner- able’ to Take Chances, Declares Commander SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 “A Jap's a ference whether citizen or not,” Wwitt said today sentiment that !bring back some of to the West Coast.” DeWitt, commanding general of | |the Western Defense Command, in| testifying before the House Naval Affaivs sub-committee, said, "I don’'t want any of them. We got them out because they are too dan- !gerous an element on the West Coast, which is too vital and too vulnerable to take any chances.” He told the sub-committee there |are only eight Japanese under his command, seven in the Federal | Communications Commission de- |partment as translators and one in |the Immigration Department as in- terpreter. DeWitt said further he is oppos- ing “by every means I can the sen- (timent that the Japanese-Ameri- cans should return” to. the coast. The General also said: “I couldn't say as to any particular element” AMERICAN HEROES PR he’s an American | Gen. John L. De-| in opposing “the | is developing to the Japunn-» Lt. Clarence Lipsky, United States Force, from Great Neck, L. 1., was one of the first Americans to participate in the bombing of Germany and the occupied countries. Forced down over enemy territory, Lt Lipsky is now in a Nazi prison. To free this American soldier, as well as guarantee your own future liberty, buy Second War Loan Bonds with every cent not needed for the essentials of living. | Nafion's Wood Woes Now Becoming Most Serious of wa"imei:r:;":r“:.,:::"z:é:s ;e T lare constant requests concerning cooperation of the U. 8. Forest individuals.” Service. { Regarding those who are Ameri- can zens, the General said: “You can't change hlm by giving him a piece of paper NAVY BLIMP IS WRECKED (First Of Two Articles) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 14—Some weeks ago I gave the lumber in- dustry critics their innings. One of the chief points they raised was: “Why hasn’t the recommended Forest Products Service (a sort of wartime finance corporation for small business sawmills) been approved by the President?” The President has answered. Into the discard went the FPS plan, with the White House announce- ment that “this and similar plans were shelved in an effort to at- According to the lumber indus- try, as represented by the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and the National Lumber Manufac- turers Association, all that's swell,| except— That the WPB is demanding the utmost in production, calling for, 120,000,000 tons of forest products. And that the War Manpower Com- mission and Selective Service have made no effort to restore the 80.-| 000 men who have been drafted from or allowed to desert the lum- | Jap, it makes no mr-‘ tain the same result more simply RUNWAY AT KISKA GETS BLASTING 'Bombs Also Land on Gun (- Emplacements at Jap Base WASHINGTON, Aplll 14.—Bomb- |efs have blasted the Japanese run- ,\Qa\ and gun emplacements of v.hr‘ main camp area of the Japs on Hiska according to a communique idsued by the Navy today. Six attacks were made Monday | by Mitchell medium bombers and Corsair Lightning fighters. The raids raised to 63 the num- ! ber of attacks on Kiska since March % | - SPEZIA IS POUNDED BY BRIT. BOMBS Naval Base in Northern | Ilaly Attacked - Also Palmero, Messini LONDON, April 14. — British home based bombers heavily at-| tacked the -naval base at Spezia, Northern Italy, last night and it is 2lso disclosed that RAF raiders | from the Middle East blasted Pal-| mero and Messini harbors Monday night. Spezia is on the Ligurian Sea ibouts 50 miles southeast of Genua\ lon the west coast of Italy and was | | pombed twice last February by the RAF. AIR ACTION INCREASING RUSS FRONT |Aerial Operations Break Out from Scouting to Heavy Bombmg (By Amcllted Press) no essential chantes have taken place on the Russian-Ger- man fronts, large scale air activity | is reported in many sectors, aerial | operations including everything from scouting to heavy bombing. In these mounting air bflfll(‘fir there is good reason to believe U. S. planes, flown by Soviet pflols, are taking part in many of the operations and will continue to play a part as U. S. production of planes swells. The Germans haye swung a considerable number of troops | against Soviet bridgeheads but | have again failed to capture ob- jectives. Band Leader Is Rejecied: | | | | i | | Allres Gain in Tunisia BIZERTE A 5C Mcducnancan Sea STATUTE MILES Scdrenane Djebel Abrod L/ by i |4 ALGERI b TUNISIA i » i The Algiers radio reported that American forces driving from Gafsa in South Tunisia had joined with the British 8th Army chasing Rom- mel north of Gabes. Violent fighting was reported near Fondouk in the central region. To the north, the British First Army left Sedjenane “far behind.” Airmen pounded the Axis retreat corridor along the coast north of Gabes and bombed an airfield near Sfax, then captured Sfax. Rommel flew in fresh troops to reinforce his battered Afrika Korps, but is riow being squeezed. Look Out! rTWOINJURED Japs Ready ' IN SHOOTING To Strike SCRAP HERE s \Domestic Quarrel Ends in Tragedy for Will- iam Jacksons {Tokyo Broadcast Declare Preparations Made Af- fack Amer. Conhneni LOND})N April 14—A broad- cast picked up here from Tok- yo gives a speech made by Gen. Satoe, Chief of the Bu- reau of Military Affairs, de- claring that preparations for a Japanese air offensive against the American continent have been completed. Gen, Sate, in his speech, further said: “A vast air attack on the American mainland” is envisaged in which the Japa- nese, German and Italian forces will strike in collaboration. - STATIONS IN ALASKA GET BIG BOOST ‘Full $37,500 Recommend-| ed for Agriculture Ex- periment Bases WASHINGTON, April 14. — The| House Appropriations Committee | | | William Jackson, and his wife, | Marie, are in St. Ann's Hospital | today critically injured as a result of what was apparently a private | shooting scrap in their rooms in the Keystone Apartments on Lower Franklin Street last night. A shotgun blast blew the woman’s |left arm off below the ejbow, and a shot from the same double-bar- |of the husband’s jaw off, officers reported. | been Juneau | years. Keystone Apartments, | divorce, and officers believe that |the ditorce summons served on Jackson yesterday afternoon led up ' to the shooting. ‘The affair took place shortly be- |fore 10 o'clock last night. Juneau vpoflce officers Cleo Commers and |Jack McDaniel were called to the | rsccne, first finding Mrs. Jackson severely wounded. The officers had her immediately taken to the hos- pital where Dr. J. O. Rude perform- rd an operation, amputating her | shattered forearm. Resisted Officers Commers and McDaniel then weni to the second ficor of the building | to the Jackson apartment, where | they called upon Jackson to come |out. They could hear him working with the shotgun inside, and he shouted to the officers that they would have to kill him if they wanted him to come out "| Field Marshal || Tunis. reled gun blew the lower left half | Both are Negroes, have | residents for many | Mrs. Jackson operated the She was suing her husband for | ber industry for higher sa!ax'hzdL war jobs. Lumber workers now are| HOLLISTER. Calif, ‘frozen”—but, they say, too late.|Navy blimp, and economically.” “I am in agreement,” said the President in a letter to WPB Di- vector Donald Nelson, “that unusu- A the April 14 described by : i il !” presentatives here, the U. S. Forest | tine flight patrol, struck the top of vfrlrl;Cultwc?l X;nrxgd;(:oé?ml?sa‘;;]ch:nh:;r: Service seeks to compel forest and @ 2000 foot hill five miles south- level as an essential aid in prosecu- farin. wooljARd. QREEEE e aopt o 8 s aany wday and gt S s P “sustained yleld” forestry practices. threw the crew to the ground. The B ; The lumbermén claim that thou- Pilot and co-pilot were injured “The WPB,” he went on, “has gunds of them already have pmced‘ Others on the blimp were shaken sole legal responsibilty for produc- millions of acres under sustained-|UP- tion, and of course must maintain yielq management, but that to try The blimp is a wreck but parts that position.” He then said he " |are being salvaged. Luckily the could assure the WPB the fullest (Continued on Page Three) | craft did not burn, According to lumbermen with re- | Twelfth Naval District as on a rou- ¢ reports it has approved of $37,500 for an Agricultural Experiment Sta- | [tion in Alaska for the next fiscal LOS ANGEI.ES Aplfl 14—Doc- 'year. This is an lncrense of $12,500 tors of the Los Angeles Induction over last year. Station announced today that a| Appropriations for Territorial well-known band leader has been stations, it is said, have been held rejected for military service. The below the amounts authorized by dectors did not disclose the exact law but the committee feels “exi- disability gencies of war justify appropriat- ———eee —— ing the full authorized amount this year.” Roman soldiers wore heavy hob-| nailed sandals during their cam- paigns, - BUY WAR BONDS Nevertheless they were able to persuade him to come to the door where they wrestled the shotgun away from him and took him into custody. Chief of Police John Monagle and special agents of the FBI went to the scene of the shooting at once and had Jackson taken to the hos- pital. A shotgun blast had blown the left side of his face away Jackson, later questioned by of- (Continued on Page Three) al Offensive In Solomons Area MOUNTAIN DEFENSES ARE SEEN Terrific BrBlows Con- tinue-84 More Axis Planes Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN :| NORTH AFRICA, April 14.—Allied forces in Tunisia have driven up to Erwin RommeTs mountain defenses ringing Tunis and Bizerte, a communique from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s head- quarters reports today. The British Eighth Army, con- tinuing to press the German Afri- {|can Corps northward from Sousse, ran into Rommel's “prepared posi- tions between Enfidaville and Djebel Bou Hadjar,” the commun- que spid. This apparently is the Nazi chieftan’s mountain defense line, running west from Enfidaville, and upon which Rommel has fixed Yis main stand. Enfidaville is 27 miles north of Sousse and 50 miles southeast of Djebel Bou Hadjar is 32 miles west and south of Enfidaville, end 25 miles northwest of Kairouan. Axis Has Enfidaville Despite contiued pressure by the Eighth Army, however, the Alglers veport yesterday that Enfidaville was captured appeared to be un- true. The British First Army is exert- ing steady pressure from the west flank against Reémmel's narrow corner of Tunisia, and has pushed the Germans back along the Beja road, northwest of Medjez el Bab, to within three miles of Sidi Nsir, |about 40 miles west of Tunis. In between the British Eighth and First armies, the French al- s0 squeezed the Germans back far- cher in their bridgehead with an- other advance at the extreme north of the secondary Tunisian Dorsal Range of mountains, upon which the western range of Rommel's | southern front apparently is an- chored. | \ | Air Offensive Meanwhile, the Amevican and British airmen continued to main- tain one of the most ferocious air offensives of the war, destroying 84 {more Axis planes as the mass de- |struction of the enemy's aerial | strength continued. Flying Fort- |vesses led the attacks. | Reconnaissance showed Allied {airmen to have destroyed 73 Axis planes in two raids on Sicilian air- ‘m‘l(ls thoroughly covering the run- | ways with bomb bursts. One hun- |dred of the enemy's aircraft were |seen on one field. The destruction of the 84 Ger- man and Italian aircraft is rated (at Allled headquarters as a crush- ing blow to Hitler's Mediterranean strategy. The raids were carried out with la loss of only three Allied planes, a communique said. At the same time, a Reuters dis- Ipatch from Switzerland, where round-about reports from Rome and Marseille gathered, said Rom- mel already is beginning his eva- cuation from North Africa, that at least a part of his forces are be- ing removed. Algiers Report The Algiers radio said his forces are being removed in considerable number, especially the German technical personnel. If this is true it would suggest |that the Germans might be re- moving their air force ground per- connel, no longer needed in Tun- isia The British radio said Rommel has only three airfields left in Tunisia, and all are under heavy ir attack constantly A P S BUY WAR BONDS DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight ® at sunset at 8:07 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow @ at sunrise at 5:28 a.m. © Dimout begins Thursday at | ® sunset at 8:09 p.m. ...'..."'.. . . o000 00000