The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1943, Page 1

i} i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9324. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 MEMB[:R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TEN CENTS ALLIES CHARGE AXIS AFRICAN DEFENSES Japanese Threaten Murder Fo THOSE WHO 1U . Fliers, Captured by Japsat Tokyo Bombing, Barbarously Execufed RAID JAPAN | BE KILLED Doolittle Would Like An- i other Crack at Tokyo | Area-Nips’ Threat (By Associated Press) | The threat to execute every United States flier captured during a bomb- ing of Japan was implied today in propaganda broadcasts from Tokyo. Said the Japs, “we will leave noth- ing” undone to prevent the repe- tition of the Allied air attack of last April. This broadcast, in the English lan- guage, was recorded by the Federal Communications Commission. It added, “by the way, don't for- get, Americans, to make sure every flier who comes this way has a special pass. He'll rest assured it's strictly a one-way ticket.” Doolittle Comments From Allied headquarters in North Africa, meanwhile, Brig. Gen.: Jimmy Doolittle said that he and other American fliers will “want to be in the next raid over Japan.” Commenting on the President's announcement that some of the Am- erican fliers captured after last year's raid were executed, he said, “we’ll drop each bomb in the mem- ory of otir murdered comrades. Qur bombs will not be missing their mark.” In Washington, at the same time, | it was revealed that the American fliers who raided Tokyo passed up good military objectives in order to carry out specific instructions, and any assertion that they struck civ- | ilians or civilian industry is a “damned lie,” two of the participat- (Con;.lr'\uedfion F:Eé Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Thomas J. Watson, irrepressible head of In- ternational Business Machines, who has received more foreign decora- tions than almost any man in Am- erica, has got himself into income tax troubles. The Treasury has de- manded that he pay up around $350,000 for 1937 under circum- stances which affect not only Wat- son's pocketbook, but thousands of U. S. merchant seamen. Watson waited until just a few! hours before the deadline, then filed a petition with the Treasury contesting its tax clafms. Watson’s tax difficulties arose while he was president of the In- ternational Chamber of Commerce in 1937 and was out of the country for what he contended was more than half a year. He spent a lot of his time abroad on Chamber of Commerce matters and on what he told his stockholders were efforts to sell business machines in Eu- rope. Among other things, inciden- tally, he received a medal from Adolf Hitler, which he later asked Secretary Hull to return. When the year 1837 was over, Watson reported to the Treasury that he had been absént from the U.S.A. six months plus a few hours over. He had it all figured down to the last minute. Under Treasury ruling 116 A a man who has been absent for more than six months gets a substantial tax reduction. However, when Internal Revenue experts began to probe closely into Watson's operations they discovered some interesting things. In May and June, 1937, he took six trips out of the United States, carefully cstimating the exact number of hours he was away. SIGNED DIRECTORS' MINUTE! Then after some travel in Eu- rope, he came back to the United WASHINGTON, April 22—Pr dent Roosevelt announced in al formal statement the “barbarous ex- ecution” by the Japanese Govern- ment of some members of the Am- lerican armed forces who bombed | Tokyo and who fell into Japanese | hands as an “incident of warfare.” The President’s statement was i sued by the White House late yes-| terday afternoon as received from him from Corpus Christi along with a note of protest of the State De- partment to the Japanese Govern- ment. The newspapers, the President said, have “just carried the details of the American bombing of Japan a year ago” and giving information that crews of two American bombers NAZISFAIL T0 CRACK RUSS LINE Heavy Assaults on South- . ern Front Repulsed | |were captured by the Japanese On October 19, 1942, the Presi- dent said, this Government learned the Japanese radio broadcast the capture and trial and seve ishment of those Americans This Government continued and made an endeavor to obtain con- firmation but it was not until March 12, 1943, the Government received a | communication given by the Jap- anese Government stating these Americans in fact were tried and the death penalty pronounced The President said “it was further | stated the death penalty was com- Last Night MOSCOW, April ~The Ger- mans kept up unceasing assaults | in the Kuban Valley of the Cauca- | sus last night, trying with great| weight of men, tanks and planes | to crack the Red Army lines from | the southern shores of the Sea of | Azov to the Black Sea and I\u\m— 22, Daily Bombings Have |issisk. | muted for some and the :~!-n|.(‘ncu Al ietforts fatlsd,. the ' Rustiati) of death applied to others.” | report, although in some instances | Eight American fliers were pre- e 3 sumed to be prisarier of Japan, |DUWEE GF fHe S0 GOSPe N8 o m e 7 Ve s RIS able to reach the first line of the Red Army's defenses, only to be, cut down by murderous machine- qun, rifle and mortar fire, and by | Russian bayonets in hand-to-hand | fighting. | A Soviet communique said in one the Germans are reported | {to have lost upwards of 1,700 men laps U.S. 0|I|cer Says EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTOF TOKYORAID Fliers in Afrlca Tell About| Bailing Out Over | China | By EDWARD KENNEDY Associated Press War Correspondent | | A NORTH AFRICAN AIR BASE, April 22.— Giving for publication | the first eyewitness account of the American raid on Tokyo by any} participating airmen, three Army | Air Force fliers here disclosed Lhat‘ after the attack the United States| bombers flew 50 miles out to sea to; make the Japs think they were go- ing back the way they had come,| thereby hiding Chmn as their des-| tination. After that feint, the planes turned south and finally to the| westward over the Yellow Sea, plunging on in darkness to China.l Went Inland | They went well inland until they believed they were out of reach of | the Japanese. The three are Maj. Charles| Greening of Tacoma, Washington; Capt. Henry Potter of Pierre.‘ South Dakota, and Capt. James Parker of Livingston, Texas. _Between bursts of laughter from the other two, Greening told how he had ordered his men to bail maps in their pockets. “I took mine in my arms,” he said. “I left the plane with two arms full of groceries, a gun and a searchlight and other things. A Problem “It wasn't until I was 500 feet| down that I realized the problem of pulling the ripcord. My arms| were full so it was a choice of one| or the other. I had to let every- thing go except the flashlight and the gun.” Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, in- formed that the ban on secrecy was lifted, commented: “As far as I'm concerned, the Tokyo raid is ancient history. We are engaged in making history.” Fifteen of the men who made the raid are here with him, ———————— | JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 20. —Gov. Forrest C. Donnell has sign- ed the marriage health bill requir- ing Missouri couples to prove them- selves free from communicable | phhilis to obtain a marriage li- cense after January 1, | 'going to the westward over |in the last 48 hours The German air force, mean \Nhlh‘ is being engaged in vast in-| | tens air battles as Russian m,m.ex planes met strong attempts s by the Axis to dive bomb the R.ed\ SANTA ANA, Galif, April 22. —|,pmy ground troops into submis- Daily Bombings by American planes | have no apparent 01193[ on th-’kbor The two-day score of plane de» llike activity of the Jap Jrorkmen | struction in this sector is reported building an airtield on Kiska Is- .\ g3 1 45 in favor of the Rus- land with hand labor, says LI€Ut|goic ang the Red forces are in-| | Col. Jack Chennault, just r”u”“d'ueasnu, $hat nimibess - of amuks {from 14 months’ service in the‘on enemy ground troops. Aleutians. e 3 “On our best days we can blast | them only 30 minutes out of 2% hours,” the officer explained tO‘BOMBERs OF m | that | route. | Army Air Corps cadets here yes- terday, saying weather condmons are responsible. He said: “Kiska has no mctl(‘al advantage to us, but in the hands | of the Japs it prevents us “Our daily bombings have no ap-| parent effect on the work at the| base. They scem to be gomng anead,| Gilbert Island Base of Japs Ibuilding an airfield on the pick, | shoved and dynamite fashion of the | H“—K|Ska A"a(ked Burma Road job, practically all‘ o hand labor. [ Ten Times [ One of the cadets listening was| WASHINGTON, April 22. — A his §ounger brother, terson Chemmulr 22. |ing far north of Guadalcanal h |ily damaged Jap installations at |Nauru in the Gilbert Islands on Wednesday. The communique of the Navy Isays at least five Zero fighters fwerc destroyed. All planes returned |to bases despite stiff enemy re GovERNoR tance from both antiaircraft ;righter planes. { Army planes also strafed Jap in- pASSES o“ stallations at Kiska 10 times Tuesday, damaging one of the run- |ways and the camp area. Luren Dickinson, Former Chief Executive of Michigan, Is Dead i | | | CHARLOTTE, Michigan, April 22, | i | {hit Kiska 113 times this month. SALARY BILL GETS BOOST WASHINGTON, April 22.—Abill to increase salaries of about 1500,- 000 government employees has been passed by the Senate and sent to —Former Governor Luren D. Dick- inson, 84, died at his home here as the result of a sudden attack of the heart. | A blast at the evils of “high life” brought Dickinson out of relative obscurity to national attention. He was little known beyond Michi- | the House. gan, when, past his 80th birthday,| The raises would total about he fired a verbal barrage against the | twenty-three million dollars a ye annual conference of governors at more than present temporary in- Albany, N. Y., in 1939 to place him- |creases. The legislation grants a self-in the spotlight. $300 wage boost for workers in the At the time he was Governor of |lower salary brackets whose present Michigan and President of the State |temporary increase of 21.6 percent Anti-Saloon League. A frail, mild- |for a 48-hour week does not reach spoken individual of kindly appear- |that figure. ance, Dickinson was a champion of | 4 similar increase is granted on righteousness and a hater of iquor. sajaries of part-time workers and a “Hellish Reckonings” After he had returned from the meetmg of the governors he spoke | , of his observations and asserted “the u::m in, hourss e .dms“ mfl_lfm" hellish beckonings of drink” ‘put $ a year in this PRLIOTY LN “innocent girls on the brink of sin.” |15 Percent raise is given. The tem- That he chose so august an assembly | POYa7Y 14w, expiring April 30, pro- vides for only a 10 percent in- crease, >others receiving up to $2,000 year whose work cannot be meas (Continued on Page Three) italians Dlsplayed Whfle Hag aIGabes‘ an soldiers are shown waving white flags, as they s\lrremlfl to a Illuhld d officer of (:en Vlmfln ing the fall of Gabes. The British stayed a short while at the former Axis gomery’s Eighth Army du stronghoid, and then moved on in pursuit of Marshal Rommel's forces. (International Radiophoto) miles north of Gabes. Y Wnler Tells of Burial 0f Three Sailors, with Aleufianlsle Cemefery By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent AN ADVANCED ALEUTIAN BASE, April 2.— (Delayed) — Five men were buried far from home today in a cemetery overlooking a mountain-girt harbor in the Aleu- tians. They died when their helped turn back a numerically su- perior Japanese escorting force on| March 26 off the Russian Koman- | cof dorske Islands. Two of them lived leng enou"h‘ had | Claire Pat-“mgp force of Army bhombers wing- been routed and their own ships | see bombs, and not far away were 2 thanks to their action in the | high octane gasoline drums. to know that the Japanese safe, battle. Badly Mangled One of the men was buried blasted bits, with 65 cents in it was found in his guts. ents drove through his head Two of the highest rank :rs of the North Pacific area, an rites were administered. swain’s Mate John Brennan, destroyer | A third died when slug | on admiral and a general, stood side |lake, by side as Catholic and Protestant | They ba-iday is done.” The Aleutians Air Force has now luted tight-lipped as Chief Boat-| 40, | I've seen in Alaska,” Cal., fire!” Park, ordered, aim | Huntington “ready—load Thirty caliber shells over the flag-draped coffins and Brennan explained later, “We couldn't find blanks up here so we used live ammunition.” That live ammunition is typical, of a burial up here. Men of the three services—air, sea and land— stood frozen at attention, dressed {in fighting clothes. A heavy duty| six-wheeled truck brought the five s to the cemetery over the| | tundra, a snowfield and grass. Bombers Overhead Nearby, in open racks one could whistled | were for the Liberator and Mitchell | bombers roaring overhead during| in | the service, returning from a raid another badly man-iln the direction of Kiska. gled. His blood-soaked money belt | from four two- (engined bombers vibrated the ground on which stood, a young | bugler, Lynn Russell of New Mex- As the props offi- | ico, blew taps. . « gone is the n from the from the hill, from the sky . all is well, God is on high . . “That's the third new cemetery said my driver "Grow Yourself Some Fish” Is War Cry by Ickes Given Farmers By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Apnl 22 —Grow by Mr. yourself some fish. That's the war cry which Harold L. Ickes' Fish and Wildlife Service, with the aid of Soil Conservation and several other agencies in Agri- culture, are shouting at the farm- ers. If you have a farm that boasts 1 stream, a fair-sized spring, or even a generous puddle fed by urface drainage, it may be no trick at all to grow a goodly crop of crappie, perch, bream, catfish, or bass. One North Carolina farmer s had such a “fish farm” for years, comes through with this 'story: He built it under directions who ‘01’ the Department of Agriculture stocked and is replenished Ickes’ fishmen. In spite of all the fishing this farmer, his hands and his neighbors can do, the It was large-mouth black bass grow so big that in order to keep them from eating. all the other fish, he has to drain the little lake every few | years and take out the cannibalistic granddaddies. When he drained the pend last, one bass whopper that had eiuded the hook since infancy tilted the scales at 12 pounck It your farm lends itself to such a fishery--and there are few that don't—the chances are that all you need is a little grading, a dike (Continued on Page Two) They | Our Fliers FIGHT RAGES THROUGHOUT ALL FRONTS German Cdfinfer-blows Smashed-500 Nazis ‘ Are Captured | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, April 22—Mont- gomery’s Eighth Army is charging | German positions northwest of the Enfidaville sector and a fierce bat- | tle, including bayonet and grenade | fighting, raged throughouw today |as the British infantrymen drove |against Axis defense lines south of Tunis, From the First Army side comes !a report that British infantrymen, | tanl and artillery have beaten |back three major thrusts by Axis |ground troops seeking to ease the | pressure on their Tunisian defense ihes, inflicting losses which in- cluded the destruction of 27 tanks and the capture of 500 Germans in the Medjez el Bab sector, alone. Hold Gains The British are now fighting 25 Fresh British gains on the south- |em front are being held firmly today, a communique reports, | Major action is reported from the north where between 60 and 80 German tanks and at least five w 1 | battallons .of German . infantry, perhaps 3,000 men, struck by moon- oF MEX'(O ;!igh! against the positions of Lieut. | s WPa| The assault forces were described as being composed of some of the |Camacho Returns Roose- 5 N heavy fire, resulting in heavy cas- Ve" S .IOUI' Wakh | nalties. The survivors withdrew at {dawn, Flylng cade's | Big Tanks Wrecked | | Bab, itself 35 miles southwest of and the assault was met witn Gen. Anderson’s First Army in the mountainous area near Medjez el | |best men from Rommel's African | Corps. The British were prepared | Among the wrecked tanks which | left behind were two of the CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, April|were 60-ton Mark Sixths. |22—President Avila Camacho of | | Mexico promptly repaid President| On the Eighth Army side of |Roosevelt’s visit Tuesday to the|the field, Gen. Sir Bernard Law |1and across the border. Montgomery's massed artillery bat- Aboard a special train, the two |teries beat off two counter- attacks m,.‘sgninsl. its new lines anchored in | the region of Takrouna, five miles north of Enfidaville. {Presidents arrived here from Mexican industrial city late yester- | |day forenoon. After a noon lunch at the Flylm,' Cadets’ mess hall at the mammoth |Naval Air Training Station, they made a half hour tour of the huge | Itraining center situated on the Texas coastal flats and watched a WEE L 1 demonstration. DR'VE Now Following this program, the Pres- ident shook hands and then went on their separate ways. - D - 'NEW AIRLINE 'West Coast Eg_ging Behind | OVER ALASKA | Campaign Dedlares IS PROPOSED Appllcatlon Filed for New| "Northwest Passage’ from Indles | | | MEMPHIS, Tenn, new “Northwest Passage” from In-| The Secretary added the West dies by air over the Polar Great|Coast s lagging behind In the Circle is the post-war plan of the drive, asserting the Twelfth Fed- Chicago Southern Airlines, Inc eral Reserve District is “at the The company announces it has|bottom of the barrel” in the cam- tiled an application with the Civil|Paisn Secy. Morgenthau WASHINGTON, April 22.— Bond |sales of the Treasury's thirteen bil- |lion dollar Second War Loan |amounted to eleven billion three |hundred and twenty-two million dollars up to last night, Secretary |of Treasury Morgenthau reported - A this morning. April 22 | Aeronautics Board to operate a| The Secretary further said that trans-Alaskan air service from Chi- /i “peculiar because the West cago to Singapore, Batavia, after Coast is closer to the frout than the war. any other part of America and This line would link another from has always led the way heretotore the West Indies to New Orleans, because it has always felt the war | which application was filed previ- more closely.” ously, to form the shortest route B between the East and West Indies. ¢ o o o @ o o o o o o Officials estimate the new route e DIMOUT TIMES . is 1,543 miles shorter than the e —_ . present air service via San Fran-ie Dimout begins tonight e cisco and will require 22 hours less e at sunset at 8:25 o'clock. . flying time e Dimout ends tomorrow e ‘The route' would cover 8800 e at sunrise at 5:26 a.m. . nautical miles. Stops proposed in- e Dimout begins Friday at e clude Winnipeg, Edmonton, White-| e sunset at 8:27 pm. . horse, Fairbanks and Nome. LI I I i