The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9319. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL MhMHlR AbeC]ATL[) PR[;Sb PRICE TEN CENTS — ] S. FORTRESSES BLASTING J AP CONYOY- Rommel To Face Montgomery’s Big Guns FIRST ARMY IN ADVANCE ON TEBOURBA French Smafing at Ger- man West Flank, Kill 1,000 Nazis ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 16. — Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomerv is bringing up his big guns to “blast through Rommel’s main defense bulwarks,” 50 miles below Tunis, while the British First Army in- fantymen push an attack toward Tebourba, attempting to split the Northern Tunisian Axis forces. Tebourba, ‘captured last fall by the Allies, then lost, lies between Tunis and Bizerte, and the British pushed to within 15 miles of the key road junction in some of the fierciest fighting of the Tunisian campaign. Meanwhile, local atacks east of Medjez el Bab were good for Allied gains in the new Allied mountain line which now contains points with- in 25 or 30 miles of Tunis . But the enemy made it clear in powerful counter-attacks that Rom- mel still has the strength for throw- ing heavy counter-blows at the Al- lies. A dispatch from Gen, Dwight Eisenhower’s headquarters, however, reports all of the enemy’s “attacks eventually were beaten off, and the g (Contlnued on Page Three) The Washmgion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Behind the pro- posed banning of the press from | the was a test of whether international food conference | the press and the public should be in on' future international particularly the peace conference. ‘When the press censorship code was first devised, the State De- partment wanted criticism of for- eign policy and diplomatic - dis- cussions barred from press com- ment, but other government partments refused to back it up. So also did Chief Censor Byron Price. Later, however, the State Depart- ment squeezed into the censorship code a very loosely worded rule banning “premature disclosure of diplomatic negotiations or conver-| sations.” The real nouncement of the food conference, when the President volunteered the statement that the press would not be permitted in the neighborhood of the conference. After this announcement, the President asked Press Secretary Steve Early what he thought of the idea. Early reacted against it. The President, not pleased, went on to push his point home, explaining that he didn't want newsmen but- tonholing delegates. Early shiffed, concurred with his chief. However, OWI Director El- mer Davis did not. When he heard | this news, he emphatically argued that newsmen must be permitted to cover the food conference. He won his battle. The victory is not so important regarding the food conference. But it is important as a precedent when it comes to writing the peace. BRITISH JAIL NEWSMAN Reason New York Times Corre- spondent Frank Kluckhohn was jailed for ten days in North Africa by the British army was that he impugned the motives of British military leaders. He tried to send a gservice mes sage to his paper in New York— not for publication but for the edi- tor's information—to the effect that the British were using other troops to do the dirty work in North Af- S RIRBRACRE T k. S TSEE (Continued on Page Four), conferences, | de- | | | test came with an- || i Sitka, Lend-Lease Dividends b ) This Amencan cat, pet of an army ordnanre facility in’ the United States where mass production is the rule, was nailed into a lease-lend tank crate and two months later appeared with four kittens when the crate was opened semewhere in Egypt. The cat (above, with her offspring) kept alive by eating the grease that covered the tank The kittens were in the best of health. engine, but was vey weak. Col.E.D. PosilsNow Brigadier General af Andreanof Isle Base By EUGEN Associated Press War Correspondent Spring Blossom Girl ; | AT AN ADVANCED BASE IN | THE ANDREANOF ! April 3—(Delayed)—How . does a brand new general act? Human, the officers working with Brig Gen. Elwyn D. Post will tell you. When notified that he was a brigadier general, the then Col. A |Post asked, “How'll I answer the | telephone?” | Maj. Gen. Charles Harrison Cor- !lett pinned Gen. Post’s stars on, and Capt. Roy - Craft ' observed, “Your wife’ll be pround. Too bad, !sir, she isn't here.” | Then the new general looked at lof Seattle, and two children, soberly. How did the staff receive his promotion? For one, Capt. Kenneth 'R. Lenzen of San Francisco drank a toast, explaining, “first hard li- (quor T've tasted in better than 18 years I wouldn’t do that for mnny ! men | Then the staff went back to work | : at the business of exterminating | Japanese. The new general has paid sev- |eral visits to Juneau as Chief of i Staff for Alaska Defense Comman- !der Maj. Simon B. Buckner, Jr. f .- ZBerIin "Free of SURT O"'IDED BY PEACH BLOSSOMS, | Jews,"” Nazis Say “ovn after she was selected as _ STOCKHOLM, April 16.—The Southern California’s Spring Blos- |Nazis are boasting that Berlin is Girl. Noney comes from Los | “Judenfrei” (free of Jews), reli- Sorry—no phone number |able reports from Germany said (International) |today. | The final purge was reported to |have followed the recent heavy RO} Air Force raids when the e whose homes escaped damage were ousted to .make room for| bombed-out Germans. — e - BUY WAR BONDS SITKA BUSINESS MAN HERE FOR FEW DAYS Dave Fenton, business man from is in Juneau for a few days. He is accompanied by Mrs. Fen- ton. While in town they are 1t the Gastineau Hotel ! 500,440 pounds of explosives since | |their occupation of the tslands last ‘Jnn(' i Heavy Gunfire ISLANDS,| |a photograph of his wife, Virginia, | KISKAJAPS STRONGER THAN EVER Correspondénf Gives Fine Report on Aleutian Problem By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent | A FAR WESTERN BASE IN THE ANDREANOF ISLANDS, Alaska, | March 31 (Delayed)—The Japan- ese are “stronger than ever on Kiska and Attu” returning Army Dpilots reported after dumping March’s thirtieth load of bombs from 25- foot elevations. The raid set a new all-month high of 320 tons of explosives dropped on the two Jap bases, Eleventh Bomber Command figures show | March heralded the opening of a ! mighty spring offensive to eradicate the Japs from the islands. Including the previous nine | months, the Japs have dodged 2,- | | A returning pilot who has flown over Kiska since last July says “gun- fire is the heaviest yet. More lead | {is being thrown into the air at us | today than a month ago. And it's | more deadly,” A minute study of aerial photo- | | graphs show the Japs have more | gun emplacements on the two islands | than they had March 1. March had | only one good bombing day, but it | was the best month yet. | | Twenty of our airmen died vio- | ll—mlv during the month in attacks | | on Kiska, crews of heavy and light | | bombers, fighter pilots and two | bombardiers. | Capt. William Thompson, of Port- land, Oregon, who questioned llu'" ireturriny nilots closely, gave this sununary : | Discouraging | “The pilots report the heaviest | anti-aircraft fire of the year.” The | | Japs are getting stronger all the time.” Said another officer, “we can keep on bombing them until the year| 1960, and they’ll still be there!” March 15 was the only real good | bombing day on record. The Am- erican fliers raided the Japs six (Continued on Page Threc) - MORE HITS ARE MADE ON KISKA Camp Areajiunway, Re- vetments to Profect Aircraft Bombed WASHINGTON, April 16. The {Navy Department announced this afternoon that heavy raids con- tinued to be made on Kiska in the North Pacific and hits were scored on the camp area, the airplane run- way and revetments built to protect aircraft on the ground. JAP BASES BOMBED IN ~ SOLOMONS | WASHINGTON, April 16.—Amer: {ican hombers battering Jap pos! tions in the Central Solomons Thursday destroyed a building b .lleved to be a power generatit |station and sank an 80-foot vesse the Navy Department announced this afternoon. i | | | t | American Bombs Find Their Marks Flying Fortress cameramen returned to their North African base with visible proof of damage wrought by U. S. bombs on the docks of Palmero, Sicily, a vital supply port for Axis troops in Tunisia. The docks w The docks are approximately five times the size of the S| 7 WELDERS ARRESTED, jammed with supplies and the basin with shipping. city blocks. AMERICAN HEROE BY LEFF Announcement-Liberty Ships Are Involved WASHINGTON, April 16, FBI1 Director J. Edgar Hoover today anncunced the arrest of seven for- mer welders on charges of sabotag- ing Liberty ships being built. “The men admitted faulty work of welding in order to quickly fin- ish the work and earn more money said Hoover. “There is no evidence of any Axis direction of sympa- With the bomber pilot killed, the co-pilot seriously injured, both this.” e and a swarm of Jap Zeros all A ‘ & contsols Abbve Bow: Many improper welds are vital gainville, escaped the Zeros and saved his seven aining crew m parts of ships and are only dis bers’ lives by a crash landing on the water at 95 miles an hour. Navy cernible through X-rays, salid craft rescued them. Hoover They give their lives—You lend your money. Buy Second War Loan Bonds. -y (ongresswoman luce " PRISONERS Makes Specch; Nervous When Time Is Called " E(APE i Two Notorious Characlers Led Others in Break SABOTAGE FBI Diredof Hoover Makes NINE SHIPS ARE SPOTTED; 'ATTACK 1S ON i | | [ \ \Planes Swoop af Mast Height, Bomb Enemy (raft, Solomons ALLIED "EADQUARTFRb IN AUSTRALIA, April 16. Flying Fortresses today kept up the at- tack on a Jap convoy of three wi 1ps and six merchantmen, The convoy was spotted at dusk last night, A light Japanese cruiser is among the escort. The Fortresses swooped down at mast height in waves of 15 min- utes to half an hour apart. Bombs dropped by the Fortresses started an 8,000-ton cargo ship sinking by the stern, caused an- other of equal tonnage to start list- ing and forced a third ship, a 5,000-ton craft, on the beach, The bombers also blasted three major Japanese air bases at Ra- saul and Gasmata, New Britain, land Lae, New Guinea and raided nemy-occupied Trangan in the Aroe Islands. JAPS (1AM HEAVY LOSS FOR ALLIES Assert 11 Transports Sunk, 44 Planes Shot Down, Milne Bay Raid (By Associated Press) A Japanese communique by the Japanese Headquarters broadcast from the Tokyo radio and record- ed by 2he Associated Press, said 11 Alliéd transports .were sunk |and 44 Allied planes were shot down Wednesday in a Japanese rald on Milne Bay. These claims bore no resem- blance to the figures issued by the Allied Headquarters in Australia coneerning the raid | The Japanese communigue, as | brondcast, also asserted that 10 ‘more Allied planes were destroyed ‘..‘n the greund and five Japanese ig)lz.uns were lost when the pilots (dived on their objectives. Schmelmg Captured|s Reporl Now By JACK STINNETT leney Girl"? well, he won't be E : disappomted in the utiention her % § WASHINGTON, April 16—Notes . na:oia ave givin Congress- n Georglfl ’ LONDON, April 16.—The Daily [u: a Zr;e«'ggn';; (fff.‘,’a (?‘:;‘Uf“‘;:l'ft men are flogking back to the floor * Sketch says it has heard a broad= i, gy g by two notorious escape artists, 22 fAC0 SAVEE LM MER G oy % Mrs, Luce—"Mr. Chairman, not S prisoners, described by den M.t had Q:,l.‘,,:l’:“,\d’:,n%hc Rm- being & tax expert there is litthe T My Luge—'t does not take any R Duvall as the “worst we have gy S s sey;'louily“s- can add to the current confusion giant brain to figure out that how- SOL” escaped during the night from “gopneling a paratrooper in the on the pending legislation.” ever healthy Mr. Doughton’s bill the Tattnall, State Prison Nazi army, last was heard from on (Note: ( Gosh, that’s a natty gray imay be for the of the na- Three guards were overpowered. yhe fighting front when the Berlin spring suit. Wonder if it’s 60 Der tional exchequer, it will be dashed the telephone switchboard was radio announced on September 8, ent all-wool. The lady certainly uphealthy for the Congressman smashed and dismantled and 2 1942, that he was wounded seriously | etting a hair style with those who supports it.” witch was pulled which plunged in Crete and never would enter the little bows in her hair. Already, (Note: That's langnage all your the prison in larkness. ring again. about one out of eve eight of colleagues understand, Lady, but - > Schmeling has not boxed since f}(jl!;l‘(“suln':- nieces here has adopt- ;(.‘kv,.» did you get tha dvln»]'l'y NURSE JACKSON 18 1939. ]Wh"ll he k;‘lofk"d out the Ger- e now, now-the theater. . Clare y « rriy Man heavyweight, Adolf Hi T. Mrs, Luce—“What was the ori- Boothe Luce Is an actress in the Regurning l::‘.:“’:“": .‘,"“.,,le,u,:, s sl ginal jtax bill ‘aimed to achisve— dispiise Gf K @obgresswoman. The grors o fleld trins (o Kotohikan wae.s .50 % ‘6. s 's s el revenue, reform, vemitment, or re= yuy > skips from crest lo crest .o 4 Hisalth f g ; e s MOUT TIM o leation?" Of iafiacalBE e o s public health nurse Dortha Jack- DIMOUT TIMES . (Note: What a'shame o be Wast ures; bha BB gonfidential modu-ory Fho while in Ketehika' famfl-{9 85 i ing all those wisecracks on the lation of her voice as if she were wrized herself with public lv(-ullh" Dimont bhe v'»s tonight e Congressional Record, which, 88 talking with you, not at you—all organization there and asssted i |e® at sunset at 8:14 o'clock. . literature, strictly perishable. of it spells theater.) hid work. 9. Dimeut enda. . jomumony Well, wh'd'yu know, that tall black= My, Luce—"Many of you will in- n ® at sunrise at 5:43 am. L browed fellow taking his seat In sist that thus arbitrarily to put| The common cold usually runs o & Dimout begins Saturday ate the press gallery is Henry L. Luce, B sy .. definite course of from three to ® 8:16 p.m. L Come to check up on his “Globa- | (Continued on Page Two) (ten days. [o 0000 e o 0ese o0