The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS éLL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOND»\\ APRIL 19, 1943 VOL. LX., NO. 9321. MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS —_— PRICE TEN CENTY ——— | 85 AXIS PLANES SHOT DOWN OFF AFRICA U. S. Bombers Smash Bremen Plane Factory BIG ATTACK ISMADEBY AMERICANS Heavy Dan?a&e Reported i fo Have Been Done- 16 Planes Missing LONDON, April 19.—Big bombers of the Eighth United States Army Air Force destroyed or heavily dam- aged more than half of the Focke Wulf aircraft factory buildings at Bremen in a raid last Saturday in the European war theatre, the headquarters of the United States Army announces. Photographs show exceptionally heavy damage to two of the largest assembly shops. One large hangar was entirely destroyed. Billows of black smoke swept sky- ward from the bombed area. Sixteen bombers failed to return, the largest American loss yet suf- | fered in this area. More than 50 enemy fighters were | shot down going, during the raid and remrning SURVIVES | BLOSSOM GIRL — Peach blossoms frame pretly Nancy Brinckman, Southern California’s Spring Blomm Girl 130 DAYS, ENEMY SHIPS Air Blows LIFE RAFT ARE BOMBED Are Struck LONDON, April 19. — The War Transport Ministry disclosed today the story of a Chinese who survived 130 days alone on a life raft after his ship was torpedoed, 47 days | ‘Base at KahiliiAso Raided Raliroad Ya—ris Bombed—} longer than any man is known be- fore to endure the rigors of a life- boat or raft. The ship was sunk in the SOuth Atlantic. The Chinese is now in South America, presumably in a hospital. He was picked up by coastal forces close to the South | American coast recently. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Today in the State Department many of the re- actionaries will admit they made a tragic mistake in boycotting the Spanish Loyalist Government dur- ing the Spanish civil war. Had the career boys not thrown the United States on the side of Franco—and indirectly on the side of Mussolini and Hitler who were supplying Franco with arms — the American army in North Africa to- day would not have to keep troops marking time on the borders of Spanish Morocco, worried over a Fascist thrust from Spain. Even more important, many dip- lomats now believe that had the dictators been crushed in their practice war in Spain; had the United States shown it meant to throw its weight firmly. behind de- mocracies, the present war might never have happened. Believing this even at that time —in 1936 ‘and 1937—several hun- dred American youngsters went to Spain, enlisted in the famous Abra- ham Lincoln Brigade, fought for the freely elected Spanish Republi- can Government against Franco. Many of them were wounded. Many | were killed, among them the son of Ring Lardner, famous American humorist. Those who came back, possessed a first hand knowledge of modern warfare—warfare which many West Point graduates who run the U. S. Army had not then tasted. ONE WHO CAUGHT ON In Germany, Hitler used the Spanish civil war to test out planes, tanks and men. But in the United States, most (Oootioucd op Page Tour), BY AMERICANS Where Big Fires Re- ‘ porfed Started — ' 1 WASHINGTON, April 19.—Amer- lican fliers, battering the Japanese ‘m the Solomons, damaged two en- lemy cargo vessels, probably sink- ing one, and started big fires on !the enemy base at Kahili, the {Navy said in a communique to- | day. One lone Liberator bomber on a reconnaissance flight bombed a 10,000-ton Jap merchant ship in Kavieng harbor Sunday and on {the way back to the home base shot down an enemy fighter over| Vitiaz Strait. | A large formation of Mitchell | medium bombers raided the Penfoe | airdrome at Koepang, Capital oil |Dutch Timor, shortly after dusk| Sunday night, SWEDE SUB FIRED ON " BY NALIS 133 Sailors ETrapped in Another Swedish | Submersibe 1 STOCKHQLM, April 19. — 4| Swedish communique says a Ger- | man merchant ship fired on the| Swedish sub Draken on April 16| im Swedish territorial waters near {Marstrand, where the sub Ulven {went to the bottom on the next jday. Rebcue workers battled rough seas and drifting mines in an ef- | fort to save the 33 Swedish sailors trapped in the Ulven, disabled and {lying on the bottom in 120 to 128 feet of water off the west coast of Sweden. Reports from the scene said sig- nals were heard from within the sub and it is believed the crew might hold out for a week on the available supply of air and food. l At Palermo Two Ships Hit, Left Burning (By Associated Press) In new air blows, Allied planes made a heavy smash on the railroad | vards at Palermo, Sicily, the air-| field at Sardinia and the harbor where two cargo ships were hit and left sinking or burning. The Italian communique admits that great damage was done at Palermo by the American planes and 43 persons’ were killed in var- ious plau-\ - 'Naval Base At Spezia Is Raided RAF Bombers Cross Alps| on Mission-One Bomb- er Fails fo Refurn LONDON, April 19.—The Royal Air Force spanned the Alps last night and made the second attack | in six nights on the Italian naval base at Spezia. One bomber failed return. 'WMC Modifies Wage Control Regulation WASHINGTON, April 19. — War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt discloses his job wage con- trol order will be modified to permit essential workers to take higher pay- SABOTEUR IS GIVEN v ™ — ] ™ — = e (First Case in Nation Quick- | lyDisposed of-Weld- er Convicted BALTIMORE, Md, April 19: George Arnold Steele, 20, shipyard welder, one of 10 arrested of charges of sabotaging ships doing defective work, was today | sentenced to one and years' imprisonment. Federal Judge William Colcmm. 3 declared that$ sentence, “must be importance in passing war workers real the work."” Federal prosecutors said they be: ‘heved this is the first conviction |and sentence in the Nation for such. an offense. | Steele was convicted of improp- |erly welding six 60-inch pieces of ship steel in the Bethlehem-Fair- !:)uld shipyards. | The other nine men are held in bail of $5,000 and hearings are set | for April 22 | e 10 ATTACKS 1DAYUPON KISKA JAPS. |Bombers, thhters Score| Hits Last Friday-Attu Also Crashed WASHINGTON, April 19.—In the | North Pacific last Friday, Liberator | | bombers joined Mitchell medium bombers, Lightning and Warhawk | fighters in carrying out 10 more | attacks on the Japanese base at| Kiska and scored hits in the vicinity | of the runway, according to a Navy | | Department communique. Raiders also hit the Japanese base | at Attu. The attacks brought to 124 the | number of times the two bases have | been bombed since March 31, 106 |of them on Kiska® | | The Navy also announces that |on Saturday Kiska was atlmknd‘ pune times, raising to 115 the num- \ber on that base since March 3! Hlts were scored on the main| {camp, gun positions were knocked | }out and three beached planes were | strafed. | Army Liberators also bombed | |Attu Ssmrday, the Nuvy says. ALLIEDAIR | "POWERTOPS CIN ARRICA Spaatz Says We Have Held| | Supremacy Since Mareth Fight ALLIED HEADQUARTERS II\ NORTH AFRICA, April 19.—Lieut Gen. Carl Spaatz said today our| Northwest African Air Forces have “secured supremacy in the air ~mu-‘ | the Mareth Line battle began.” He said we have shot down 519 ! Axis planes against a loss of 175 of our own, that nearly a thousand| enemy planes have been destroyed or damaged on the ground by con- | tinual attacks against the enemy air i bases. Allied losses in the last category | |are “less than two figures,” he said, of { | one-half‘ MOTHER OF SULLIVANS CHRISTENS NAMESAKE SHIP mond, U. S. M. C Pacific Isle recen These men are wil Buy ¢ lend our money. AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF ng out a steady stream of machine gun fire, Corp. Leroy Dia- and just two bud One of the men, Pvt. John Rivers, was killed. Diamond and the other man were saved. ng to give their lives. The least we can do is cond War Loan Bonds. ward to avoid the splash as she ch S. The Sullivans, named in honor of her sons. vieve. looks on. At right is a view stemmed a Jap advance on a How One Deslroyer Commander Gof His Orders, then Beached SEA RAIDER 1S REPCRTED OFF BRAZIL'S COAST Berlin CI;i;s Merchant Ship Sunk-No Con- firmation BERLIN, April 19. — Announce- |ment is made today that a large | Axis auxiliary warship, presumably a surface raider, has sunk an Allied merchant ship near Fort Aleza, on Brazil's north coast. This report is not confirmed from any Amcd source. - - ALLIED INVASION FEARED; BALKANS SUPPORT SOUGHT BERLIN, A];lll 19 If is officially announced that Field Marshal Kei- | tel, Chief of the German Command, has arrived in Bulgaria to organize |a unified command in the Balkans ing jobs with new employers any-|adding “we have been constantly on in event of an Allied invasion. where in the country, providing the the offensive and the enemy on the WMC approves, defensive,” e~ BUY WAR BONDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON make me take an story is true, but of men in a sea our armed for April 19 ath that this 1 know a couple going branch of who will ere His name “isn't John Henry, but! we'll call him that. He's a New| York millionaire in his forties. He| has a big estate on Long Island Sound. His hobby wa seagoing speedboats four of them. Immediately after this salt water spor the Navy, offered them Ris boats and his owr explained that he knew every wave and ripple of Long Island Sound, had been sailing it since he was old enough to hold a tiller The Navy was deli told him so, They boats and his harbor Commander Henry. patroliing certain and he had pearl Harbor, sman went to the use of services, He ed. They over his nade him charge of in water Sound. In that capacity he acquit- ted himself to the complete satis- faction of his superiors and so it went for months. n one night, in the midst of a party at his seaside chateau, the commander was called to the tele- phone and told to report at 90 Church Street, New York City, the following mornipg. The command- er did, and met' his superior. The superior said: T Commander Henry, are your sealed orders. You will pro- ceed to Brooklym where you wil (Continued on Page Five) MRS. THOMAS SULLIVAN, mother of the five Sullivan brothers lost aboard the cruiser U. S. S. Juneau, Don't | is shown above, leaning back- ristens with champagne the U. 8. | Her daughter, Gene- of The Sullivans. (International) FISHERMEN'S UNIONS ARE INSQUABBLE Little War lz; bor Board | Asks Jurisdiction | for Seattle | SEATTLE, April 19.—The Alaska |salmen industry panel of the Re- glonal War Labor Board unani- mously recommends that jurisdic- ;Ilnn in two inter-union disputes in fish canning operations be trans-| ferred to Seattle. Monsignor Theodore Ryan, panel | chairman; said inasmuch as the| galmon industry is centered in Se-| |attle, union jurisdiction should be| | centered here, too, to. help speed| the effort of labor and industry to product 6,000,000 cases of fish Lnlll‘d u"" by the Government this yoar‘ The group recommends ‘emer- gency jurisdiction for the pmsom season be § ted to Seattle unions | The disputes are between the mach- union local in the San Fran- cisco bay area, and the same union in Seattle, both affiliated with the |AFL, and between the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, San | Francisco, and the Alaska Fisher- men's Tinion, Seattle, the CIO. The third dispute, between the United Cannery and Acricultural Packers, Allied Workers of America, ind the Alaska Fishermen’s Union, |has been withdrawn by both par-| ties. | inist >->e SCORE AIR VICTORY IN SOLOMONS Lighting Fighters Knock | Down Six Enemy ‘ Planes WASHINGTON, April 19. — Bat- tling over Jap bases in the South- west Pacific yesterday, American pilots sent six enemy planes, three of them bombers, plummeting to the ground in an apparent effort to keep the Jap air strength earth- bound in the Solomons. The victory by American Light- ning fighters was won over Kahili, Jap base on Bougainville Island A flight of P-38s engaged two enemy bombers and six Zeros and knocked down both bombers and three of the Zeros. The Lightnings then continued their flight into en- emy territory where they met an- other bomber and shot it down e | BUY WAR BONDS speed boats | Marine | affiliatéd with | PREPARING FOR PUSH ONGROUND 58 Junkers_TFOOp Trans- ports Destroyed in Adlon Sunday (By Asmlnled Press) American desert fighter planes, engaging a huge armada of 100 Ger- man transport planes, downed 58 of the big flying box cars and 16 of their fighter escort in the greatest aerial victory of the Mediterranean. The victory helped to amass a total of 85 enemy aircraft downed in action on this front yesterday. Allied ground forces, meanwhile, were preparing for the conclusive assault on the mountain walls guard- ing the Axis stronghold in North Tunisia. Axis sources reported our forces to be engaged in hard hitting action. The Paris, German-controlled radio, said ground fighting raged along the road from Pont du Fahs to Tunis, strategic sector where an Allied break-through threatens. Italian Report The Italians, in a communique, said “more intense fighting” has developed near Rommel’s Enfidaville positions as the Allies attempted to | infiltrate . through the Nazi chiel’s positions. The Algiers radio said French troops also have made a. forward thrust in the Pont du Fahs area, about 34 miles southwest of Tunis and about the same distance north- | west of Enfidaville, Pont du Fahs is the midway sec- tor, forming a sort of hinge between Rommel’s southern line and Von Arnim's German lines west of the Tunis-Bizerte box. 4Cmntnuui- un FREN(HMAN IN LETTER TO AMERICA Admiral Roberts Gives AP Writer Nofe on Col- Iaborahon WASHINGTON Aplfl 19. — Ad- miral Roberts’ letter to Joseph Dy= Associated Press correspond- ent, concerning conditions under which he will swing his French Caribbean domain into the Allied camp, is something of a hot potato in the State Department in Wash- ington which has reserved com- meny pending a careful study of the document. Roberts, who has been holding lout against full collaboration with the United Nations despite the food blockade maintained around Mar- tinique since November, placed the letter in‘the hands of Dynan for transmission to the American pub- lie. Roberts stipulated in the letter that before he will join with the United Nations there must be unity for all French forces fighting the Axis. The interests of the French An- tilles must be safeguarded, he said. Sources close to Girauds mission at Washington were reluctant to <ay anything at the moment about Martinique. At Fighting French Feadquarters, however, the Ad- miral's letter was viewed as a most significant document. “putting the in a nut- nan, whole French situation shell.” . . . . . ° . . . e o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES . — . Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 8:20 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:37 am. Dimout beings Tuesday at sunset at 8:21 p.m. e e 0 s 000000 . . . . . el s