The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9318. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1943 MFMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CENTY ALLIES GAIN MORE BASES, AFRICAN FIGHT Bombs Smas RussifiSTip Wrecked BI6 ATTA(KI ON JAP BASE LAST TUESDAY One Thousafid_Bombs Have Been Dropped Since March 1, Says Navy WASHINGTON, April 15. — The Aleutians Air Force Command broke all previous records in the number of attacks made on Kiska in a single day. The Navy reported today the is- land was bombed 10 times Tuesday by both heavy and medium bomb- ers. The ten raids exceeded the total attacks on Kiska for the entire month of February when the is- land base of the Japs was raided nine times. The planes have dropped a total of 1000 bombs since March 1 on Kiska and the base has been at- tacked 73 times, the Navy report says. Army Liberators heavy bombers, Mitchell light bombers, Warhawks and Lightnings tooks'part in the raild Tuesday, many hits were scored, fires started and the run- way and main camp area suffered from blasts. WARNING GIVEN BY GOV.LANGLIE ON FOREST FIRES Public Carelessness Fear- ed More than Bombs Russian freighter piled ashore off storm April 1. Fifty-three members of the crew, including eight women, were rescued by the United States Coast Guard with difficulty after this small the North Pacific coast in a bad Wars Whmlmg Info Nation's Wood Supply; Demands Are Outline (Second of Two Articles) ‘MANPOWER dSHORTAGE GEIS . PROBLEM IS OUTLINED Deputy Chainfian of WMC| Tells of Coming Difficulties DETROIT, April 15—The Unit- |ed States has a possible labor force of 65 million, Fowler Harper, De= puty Chairman of the War Man- power Commission told members of the American Chemical Society here last night, basing his estimate on the nation’s 130 million people, He said we must permit people to work as close to home as possible, cease our dislike for employing women and Negroes, abandon age limits, stop labor pirating and la- bor hoarding, job shopping and ab- senteeism. By the end of the year, he said, 4,300,000 additional workers will be | taken for milita service, while & abiactnent. of X1, i ‘addltinnnl 2100,000. He forecast ing an advance under fire, Licut. { |that 2,000,000 housewives, mpstly | leads. ! without children, will have to enter John Thorp, M | ind s, along with 2,500,000 . ;hund apped persons for limited n |work, a million from the retired |list, and physically handicapped persons and youths. But with all of these we will | still have a deficit of 3,000,000 work- | lers Harper said, and “these we can |obtain only by shifting people ‘rmm jobs less important in time of | vmr than in peace | AIR FIGHTS By Mayor Devin fo Gel Ready, Possible Invasion SEATTLE, April 15.—Taking note of the London reports that the To- kyo radio broadcast a statement by Gen. Sato, Japanese Chief of the Bureau of Military Affairs, declar- ing that preparations for a Japan- ese air offensive against the Amer- of Our Enemy SEATTLE, April 15. — Gov. Ar- thur B. Langlie has issued a warn- ing to citizens of the state of Wash- ington that “more bombs may fall on the Northwest Pacific forests this year if the Japs can drop them there,” but, appealing for greater vigilance against starting of fires, he added that forest guardians fear public carelessness more than en- emy threat. Last year thousands of acres were threatened by forest fires, started either by careless throwing away of cigarette stubs or leaving ashes still glowing from camp fires. The Washnigion Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — The Congress of the United States, one of the few parliamentary systems left in the world, is now conducting a unique exhibition of how to lose the confidence of the nation. It is staging an investigation of the Federal Communications Com- mission solely because that Com- mission voted unanimously to rec- | ommend criminal action against a | member of Congress, Representative Gene Cox of Georgia. To defend him, his brother Congressmen not only voted to spend the taxpayers' money on an investigation of the FCC, but they also placed the Congressman who is under fire at the head of the committee investi- gating his accusers. This threat of investigation is| the time-honored method by which Congressmen defend themselves whenever they get in a jam. They may rant and rave against some insignificant government bureau which spends a little extra on paper, or which hires a $2,000 clerk beyond its budget. But should the Justice Department begin a crim- inal probe of certain shady Con- gressional practices, the cry of “INVESTIGATE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT!” goes up from the Capitol Dome, and the hounds are S R R {Continyed op Page Fous), STUTTGART - ISBOMBED BY BRITISH Allied Plafi;&ABeIieved fo Be Russians, Hit Ber- lin, East Prussia | LONDON, April 15--Great Bri- tain’s powerful 4:engined bombers raced 400 miles across Nazi held Europe last night to strike the Ger- man industrial city of Stuttgart in a highly concentrated raid in which 23 bombers failed to return. Simultaneously other Allied ! planes, presumed here to be Rus- |sians, hit Berlin and East Prussia. ‘l The attack on Stuttgart was “very heavy” the British Air Min- |istry reports. The raid was aided by clear wea- ther. U —— BIG FORCE OF MEN PLANNED FOR OVERSEAS B | {Quartermaster General of | Army Announces Pro- | posed Food Delivery WASHINGTON, Aprll 15, — Ma-‘ jor General E. B, Gregory, Quarter- | master General, told the Senate War Investigating Committee, the Army plans call for delivery of food this year “for an average of 2,000,- {000 men overseas and 4,500,000 men in this country.” > In ancient Egypt, slaves and the poorer people usually had no shoes. | - CONTINUE, RUSS FRONT |Red Army' Fiiérs Concen-' By JACK STINNETT ‘WASHINGTON, April 15. — AC- cording to the lumber industry, termites—not even the white anls of Australia, one colony of which| | can take a two-room house apart| oremighi ure, us soracious Lo Possibly Only 16,000 Men for Industry, Instead ican continent have been completed, Mayor William F. Devin warned Seattleites, in an interview, to a- rouse themselves from their “com- fortable lethargy” owing to the in- vasion threat. Mayor Devin the number one target area of the United States. There is no coinci- said: “Seattle is Production Board. | | | . e | i ftack on Nazi dence in these boasts. They come T R 10 S e 0'27,000,0[1"00'( 3 tra"ngA .0 when Military authorities tell us {{(:-l)d;:;fi?;a:n:\‘l)xo?rl;;’; l;:.,;::?:fl — ! Supply Lmes ithe Ji«fpanew are vcom'!)lethig air- on the industry is 120,000,000 tons, SEATTLE, April 15—Manpower | - f““'d* in the Af",“i"’" while the peak estimates of war- shortage may result in a turnout MOSCOW, April 15.—Air battles time needs for steel run in the nei-|of only 16,000 Alaska, Washington | are increasing over the Russian borhood of 100,000,000 tons. land Oregon fishermen and can- |front and Red Army fliers are con-| ‘Where does it all go? Inery workers instead of the custo- |centrating again on the Nazi sup-| When we were only preparing mary 27,000 but an effort will be Ply columns Tneir fighter planes; for war, lumber was needed for| made to meet the Govenumnu;dl'e successfully battling off the | German raider: | The land armies are jabbing one; barracks, mess-halls, hospitals, and | |request for a six million case sal-| housing. Other vast quantities were | 'mon pack ,this season. INTERNEES, FARM JOBS Secrefary of Inferior Se- demanded for scaffolds on the ship| Representatives of both manag: |another in various sectors and new, ways. tAnt ana’ labor. taeliteing . before |SHHHDE. bes “broken out ;notih. Of ! B DO | ohuguev and south of Izyum on Woed is also one of the chief the five-man Fisheries Commitice materfals in our now-famous PT ot the Regicnal War Labor Bmx' boats, in mine trawlers, patrol|gisclosed intentions sto underts boats, barges and training planes. (). big order and cooperate <.\,-1, One of Britain’s well-known bomb-“he Government in the program (o the long Donets River battle line. | | Several Red Army divisions, sup-, ported by tanks, have struck at the) Nazi defense again in the Kuban River sector of the Caucasus and ers, the “Mosquito,” is made most-| 1] Al q! }closi l:om!r;l canneries and diver |are reported to have been [u“lyi (ures Amen(an bom work to others. | successful. . % Aside from this, much of our| Hearings on wage claims and| domemc and foreign shipping of | Japs to Do His Work WASHINGTON April 15—Sec- jretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today said he has negotiated for the relegse of three American born Japanese internees to work on his Olney, Maryland, farm, because he | counter claims of all parties should | ‘be completed this week and then | another two or three days will be |needed for the committee to pre-| | pare recommendations. These rec-, |ommendations must then be rati-| r |fied by the Labor Board in| HOME FRONT ‘Washmgtom D C. | | ! r Jwants to help ease their lot and | STOCK QUOTATIONS MORAI.E Now nlp bady | | “(Continued on Page Two) B Yes. lu(ky . ves He Has (orred Name CAMP HALE, Cfllfl.4 April 15. —“Lucky” first lived up to his name when a fire destroyed the blubber house in Byrd's Antarctic camp in 1940. The newly-born Alaskan malamute pup was. inside, but survived. Two weeks later, he fell into a deep pit, breaking both his | Secretary Ickes also said he has arranged for the release of four other internees at the Poston, Ar- izona, camp. Three. married couples and other man will make Ickes. NEW YORK, Aprfl 15. — Closing | |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 6, American Can 81, |Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel {64, Commonwealth and Southern %, {Curtiss Wright 87, General Motors 149%, International Harvester 687, |Kennecott 32%, New York Central forelegs, and that's when he 17, Northern Pacific 15 United acquired the name. “He’s lucky 'Sta'.es Steel 55%, Pound $4.04 to be alive,” the scientists con- | Dow, Jones averages today are as ‘Rubber Director Jeffers Proposes Plan for Gov- - | ernment Agency | WASHINGTON, April 15—Rub- |ber Director William M. Jeffers has recommended the creation-of a sep- {arate Government Agency under a an- Deferment Move cluded. {follows: 1industrials 133.49, rails| i 613 A Later he was separated from 3427, utilities 18.80, Sno-fte AdBIRRIRC. 0 408 his adopted master, Malcom | BRI that essential civilian needs are — . | |supplied to bolster the “home front WASHINGTON, April 15. — The Douglas, meteorologist with HARRY DAVIDSON RETURNS | p oo bose MUREEEEE | o e Byrd, and now Lucky’s serving | Harry Davidson, oldtimer, night| " jemers told the Senate Banking commended to Selective Service Di- the Army at Camp Hale as a veteran on a dog team. His last luck was when Doug- las turned up as a private at Camp Hale. It was a joyful re- union, . | watchman for years at the Alaska|gommittee that he has reached this Juneau, has returned here after a|.onclusion as the result of his ex- ViSIY. of several weeks at Haywardwperiences as Rubber Administrator, view their files” “with a view of |Calif,, and other coast sections. He |aithough a little more than two climinating all deferments of gov- 'says it is warm in Juneau to what | months ago he opposed such a pro- eérnment employees not mmoughly it is in California where he visited. posal, Jmuned in supporting evidence.” rector Lewis B. Hershey to issue di- rectives to all draft boards to rve- | bases at Palau, up the seven Is Now Proposed | mountain height which had been ‘Ihe western anchor S. infantrymen leap into the icy waters of a stream somewhere in Alaska in simulat- ansfield, La., following custom of U, 8. Army officers, Two men (rear, center) carry a machine gun and tripod. WARNING ISSUED | |due west of Enfidaville, 50 miles h On Kiska 10 Times In One Day May Be Them’v, Bul II s lce Water STRONGHOLDS IN MOUNTAIN IONETAKEN | Air Offensi.véWCominues— 28 Allied Planes Are Reporled Lost ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 15.—French ind British infantry forces suc- cessfully stormed two important hills on the south and western | fronts of Field Marshal Erwin Rom- | mel's defenses yesterday, capturing 500 prisoners and bringing to 30,- 00 the number of Axis prisoners in he Allied bag since the opening »f the ‘offensive on the Mareth | Line. Attacking Djebel Sefsouf, ‘the French rounded up 400 Germans and took possession of that Axis of Rommel's new Enfidaville line. Djebel Sefsouf lies about 30 miles - | southwest of Tunis and seven miles { {northeast of the village of Ber ! | | Halt Montgomery Field dispatches, meanwhile, said further advances by the British Eighth Army in the Enfidaville sector have been halted by heavy artillery with which the Germans are commanding the coastal road through the mountains to Tunis. But Lieut. Gen. Anderson’s vet- eran British First Army infantry- |men have captured the mountain Heavy Concentration ofnnp of Djebel Ang, eight miles Jap Shipping Near New Guinea | ALLIED HEAD(;)UARTERS IN/ AUSTRALIA, April 15. — A great| Japanese combat fleet is constantly | giers radio, not confirmed, being maintaifned in the Truk area,|yepeated “within less than three days sail-|Allies have captured Enfidaville, 50 |ing distance from New Guinea,” a spokesman for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur revealed today. It was the third warning state- ment issued from this area in as| many days by the Allied command boosting to more than 200 the num- and came soon after an announce- ment that the Japs had launched their third air attack in four days against Allied bases on New Guinea. The latest attack came against Milne Bay, costing the enemy prob- ably 30 planes, ers. Written in-between tlie lines of this report is an indication of the | tremendous number of planes which !must have participated tack. including 20 bomb- in the at- The third warning supplemented alarming reports of Jap attempts to concentrate air, sea and ground | forces reach of Alliéd land-based planes. in the area just beyond The spokesman said “as regards merchant shipping, a (Jap) con- centration of approximately 250,- around Rabaul, alone, for the past several months, and other Japanese Manila and Soera- baja are within easy concentration range of the 2,500-mile battle line which envelopes the upper half of Australia. Australia.” R SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE REACHES UP WASHINGTON, April 15.—Secre- | tary of Treasury Henry Morgen- hau reports that already there bas been raised more than one third of the thirteen Billion dol- lars sought in the second war loan campaign which opened last Mon- day. Morgenthau told the newsmen at a conference this afternoon that subscriptions up to last night both from banking and non-banking sources totaled Five Billion, Two Hundred and Fifty Three Million ‘dnllurs, Hmh-s west of mmm was taken above Medjez el Bab, and some 30 Tunis, itself. The in fierce fight- |ing in whicl the British wounded up fhore than 200 Nazi Alpine troops. Premature reports from the Al- today the an assertion that miles south of Tunis, and Djebel Mansour, 38 miles to the west. Al- ed headquarters issued an official |denial of this report. Aerial operations continued apace, ber of Axis planes downed in the | Mediterranean® theater in the last Ifive days, an average of 40 a day. We Lose Planes Yesterday, however, 28 Allied air- craft failed to return as Flying Fortresses again paced the Allied alr assault with heavy raids on Axis landing fields at El Aouina near Tunis, and El Mas Monferra- tion, Sardinia. Some official observers in Lon- don predict that the next Allied stroke might well be a smash north- eastward toward the Gulf of Tunis from Medjez el Bab or the Beu Araba sectors to cut the remaining Axis forces in Tunisia in two. Such drives presumably would be 000 tons has been maintained in orcoordinated with heavy pressure from the south by the Eighth Army, flanked by the First Army. - SWEDISH COAST BEING SPIED ON Two German Bombers, Near Karlskrona Driven Off STOCKHOLM, April 15. — Swe- dish Fighter planes and antiair- craft drove off two German bomber planes flying in the vicinity of Karlskrona, on the south coast. This is the second such incident reported from the area of the na- val base- in recent weeks. e o o 0 0 0 0 0 00 DIMOUT TIMES . e Dimout begins tonight @ at sunset at 8:09 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow & at sunrise at 5:45 am. L Dimout begins FPriday at e sunset at 8:12 p.m. . P00 e 000990