The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1943, Page 1

] ¥ S e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9325. = MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943 20 MAMMOTH AXIS WARPLANES DOWNED Americans Now Occupy More Pacific Islands ELLICE ISLE GROUP TAKEN OVER BY U. §. More Reve;rmi by Navy Telling of Jap At- tack There WASHINGTON, April 23. cupation of the islands in the El- lice group in the South Pacific by U. S. forces is revealed in a Navy communique telling of an enemy 'Government Experis bombing raid on American instal- lations there. The Ellice group, -approximately 1,100 miles east of the Solomons, lie on the supply lines of the South Pacific to Australia. The little island group of nine atolls was last mentioned in a Navy communique last October 4, when it told of a surface engage- that the Japanese moved in, pos- sibly with land positions. Today's communique said that light casualties among the Am- erican personnel were suffered and minor damage was inflicted in the | bombing of Funafuti, scene of the bombing on the largest island of the group, the width of “which varies from 50 to 150 yards. The jsland is about six and 8/10 miles long. The Navy spokesman said that occupation of the island by U. S. forces was unopposed. Date of the occupation was not given. GOSH DARN A U. S. ARMY AIR FORCE BOMBER STATION IN ENGLAND, e ~—Staff Sergeant Joseph Uhor of Follansbee, W. Va., a Fly- ing Fortress gunner, has been on six raids over Europe without re- ceiving an injury. Today he is in a hospital with a dislocated shoul- der, suffered when he fell off & bicyqle while riding around the bhomber station. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON —It won't be an- nounced, and may even be denied, but for all practical purposes we now have a new Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, over 170, having given 40 valiant and fruitful years to public service, gradually is step- ping aside. Looking out of his window upon the magnolia trees, gorgeous in the spring, Hull thinks back to the days when he was a circuit judge in Tennessee, then a mem- ber of Congress; to the days when he helped pioneer the first income tax law; to the fight he made against the sky-high, disastrous tariffs of the Smoot-Hawley days. and to his briefer career in the Senate. Looking back over that vista, Hull has thought many times he might retire. But two chief things have held him on. One is his ambition to see his trade treaties continued and renegotiated (this bill is now pending in Congress). The other is Mrs. Hull, who, nursing his strength : carefully, is ‘determined that he not resign. Hull frequently finds, however, that he simply does not have the physical strength to carry on. The daily grind is too much and he absents himself a part of each week. Last year he was forced to spend a total of six months away from Washington. THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE | — Oc- BRITISH BOMB' Do Figuring; Shadows NEGRO MUST 'DIE, OREGON . MURDER RAP Train Worker Guilty o Slashing Young Bride’s Throat ALBANY, Ore., April 23.—Robert Folkes, 20, Negro, must die for the bizarre “lower 13”7 knife slaying of comely Mrs, Martha Virginia James, a circuit court jury of eight women and four men decided in a verdict convicting the Southern \ | | 1 Pacific cook on a first degree mur- | | der charge. The verdict carried no recom- mendation of leniency and ideath sentence is mandatory for execution in Oregon’s gas chamber. | The jury deliberated 17 hours jand 23 minutes. The jurors, most of | them farmers, found Folkes guilty of sneaking into the lower berth | in which the 2l-year-old Navy |ensign’s bride was sleeping, and |slashing her throat when she re- |sisted him, as the train thun- |dered through Oregon before dawn {January 23. | D RALPH VOGEL IS TO TAKE CHARGE OF NEW OFFICE ferred to Omaha, " Nebraska Ralph C. Vogel, Special Agent-in- | Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Alaska, has been notified of his transfer to Omaha, ! Nebraska, where he will assume charge of the FBI office there, it was learned today. Vogel came to Juneau in the sum- mer of 1939, assuming the position in charge of the FBI in Alaska, a job he has held continuously since then. Previously, Vogel had served with | the FBI in Buffalo, Boston, Char- lotte, N. C., Washington, D. C., Chi- cago and Des Moines, Towa. This is his ninth year with the bureau. Clinton W. Stein, Agent-in-Charge of the FBI office in St. Paul, Minnesota, will arrive in Juneau in the near future to take charge of the FBI in Alaska. Vogel also has held the position As a result of these absencesand |of Department of Justice represen- the fact that Mr. Hull moves more R AR R L R _ fCootinued on Page Four) tative on the Alaska War Council since it was formed last year under an executive order of the President. | the| FBI Chief forTlaska Trans-: now Special y JACK § l‘lf\]\E’l"l i WASHINGTON, April 23-—Some We(‘kb of off-the-record talks here | with military and civilian officials |have produced some interesting | 1"shadows of things to come.” Take llhpm for what they are worth, but they are the well-sifted consensus of some of your government ex- perts. Here goes: ! That there isn't a possibility of flmockmg Germany out of the pic- ture before 1944. The Nazis, prey-| ling upon the nationalistic fear of | |what will happen to Germany if | they are defeated now, are going | to get more cooperation, not less,| |in the months of waning militaris- | |tic power. The Russians, even with | U. S. and British lend-lease aids, | lcann do the job alone. The Axis!' |campaign in North Africa has had‘ |but one major ob)ecuve*upsettlng the Allied time-table—and it has | accomplished that. That doesn'u |mean a United Nations defeat. It | ydoes mean delay. | That it is unlikely that major | aid in airpower, manpower or sup- | plies will be diverted to the South ! Pacific and China immediately. Re- | {duced to its elementary terms, th»\ | United States still is fighting a | liwo-front war, with one-front men land equipment. In spite of the un-‘ publicized appeals of Gen. Douglas | | MacArthur, and the open appeals | of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, | strategists broadly consider the | Pacific theater a Navy problem ' |of holding the Japs at bay, while | (ne or more fronts are opened |against the Germans and Italians| !in Europe. Briefly, they contend [that is the Ibattle extended over -EYE VIEW OF BERLIN WHILE BERLIN WAS STILL SMOULDERING from an earlier mass raid, British four-engined bombers again plastered the German capital with more than 1000 tons of bombs. Twenty-one planes were lost in the record attack, an indication that the raiding force may have numbered nearly 400 bombers. The target area in the center of the city is shown in circle. The raid was the 60th of the war on Berlin. (International) FORTRESS HAS BATTLE WITH | of Thmgs (ommg Up JAP FIGHTERS ment there. It was assumed then Engagement “Extends for 150 Miles-New Enemy Positions Strafed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Il\ AUbTRALlA April 23.—~The U. 8.| ifliets of a Flying Fortress over Kavieng, New Ireland, fought off | four Jap fighters yesterday. The 150 miles, l.ln, High Command announces. Jap positions near New palamu- lua have also been heavily humbud and strafed. e JAP THREAT UPS SALES, WARBONDS Many Eastem Commun ities Overshoot Quofas Already WASHINGTON, April 23.—Stirred by the Jap executions of captured American airmen, many cities and istates overshot their quotas in the $13,000,000,000 Second War Loan Dr! New York over-subscribed by $475,000,000 over the $3,000,000,000 only way to take ad-quota. Non-banking buyers declared cording to the OPA. This is caused | yember RED ARMY 'BEATS OFF | NAZI MOVES | Fail fo Dent Lines of Russians, Kuban MOSCOW, April 23.-The Ger- !mans are hourly reinforcing their land armies in the Kuban sector jand have shifted hundreds of their | bombers and fighter planes for use in the north Caucasian battles | but despite the incessant attack: these new forces of Germans have failed to dent the Russian lines. The Red Star, Russian Army | newspaper, today said the Nazis have been employing numerous Ru- | manian troops during the past few | days and forced them into spear- |head assaults which are costing them hundreds of lives. The noon communique to bO(l of the enemy have been slaugh- |tered in two Kuban sectors alone, | during the past 12 hours, bnngmg, toll of the past 24 hours W(‘ll‘ | above 800. i The Nazi air lcarry out a heavy attack last night on the Soviet Black Sea port at| Poti but was nnnuy beaten off. | 128 | | | | | STATEHOOD FORALASKA FAVORABLE WASHINGTON, April 23.—Senti- ment of Congress concerning state- hood for Alaska is “distinctly fa- vorable” said Alaska Delegate An-' thony J. Dimond today. “There is more than a fair like- lihood Alaska can be a state just! as soon after the present war as| qha people of the Territory want | said | | SKI CLUB BANQUET SET FOR MAY ONE; T0 MAKE AWARD Award Banquet of The Annual | (Delayed) said Delegate Dimond in & the Juneau Ski Club will be held alau‘menl Saturday evening, May 1, at the | > | Baranof Hotel, according to an an- nouncement made today by Ernest pRI(E (ONIROL OF Parsons, Chairman of the Club's S 1 Committee ALASKAN GROWN take over the Gold Room at the |Baranof for the entire evening of May 1. The banquet will start at 7 p. m,, during the course of which trophy awards will be made. The dinner will be followed by dancing to the music of a popular local orchestra. The affair is open to all Ski Club and their invited guests, SPUDS ANNOUNCED SEATTLE, Aprll 23.—By OWI Price control of Alaskan grown po- tatoes will start immediately, ac- ntage of the magnificent mili-|a new quota for the state of In- by the rapidly rising cost of this Reservations may be made by call- 'tan accomplishment of the Rus-|diana and went over this $4,000- most popular of vegetables that ing My, Parsons, Mrs. W. P. Blanton sians. To fail to take advantage 000,000 mark by $2,000,000. caused many farmers to abapdon or Mrs. Don Abel. The deadline on lof that, they argue, would be to! Iowa raised its goal by $10,000,000, other lines of farming to concen- reservations is 6 p. m, Tuesday, {and Chicago reported bond sales trate on spuds. April 27. The Ski Club will be bungle the war. That very shortly the U. S. sub- | marine war in the Pacific will be- ‘»ome a greater thorn in the side : or the Japs than the German sub- | | marine war is against the United |Nations in the Atlantic. “Gay |chtms strategists in the Navy,| |who considered the submarine no more than a reconnaissance unit |attached to a task force, have | |either been weeded out or whipped | into line by our submarine records. Figures are not available but I would be surprised if our sub-, ‘marlnes, which probably didn't | number more than 60 or 70 effec- | tives when the Japs hit Pearl Har- |bor, haven't by now piled up an |official record of 200 Jap ships| |sunk, and an actual record of ‘nearly twice that. In numbers, | |that doesn't tie the Nazi Atlantic | record. In effect, it may exceed it. That the next big “inconvenience Americans will have to take on| theshome front will be the raclon- ing of train and bus travel. i That the “inflationary spiral®— just plain high cost of living—is in its most critical period, and tha events of the next few weeks may (Continued on Page Three) _l | in Lake and Cook counties have leaped from $6,000,000 a day to $15,000,000 a day. The West Coast area, is still lagging behind. e e NNEED TRIP TOTOKYO, SAYS ACE WASHINGTON;, April 23. however, Joe Foss, ranking Amerlcun ace with 26 Jap planes to his credit, said he would like to pay “a short visit to Tokyo” to help settle |counts for the execution of United .,‘Stnws airmen who participated in of Mrs. the little raid of a year ago In the first press conference after returning home from the South Pacific, the Marine captain said: “Everyone's ambition is to actually t get to Tokyo, then maybe we could lof the landlord. talk it over and see about this.” R BUY WAR BONDS One farmer is reported to have unable to accommodate any member begun slaughtering his dairy herd or guest not making reservations by to devote all of his attention to the that time. growing of potatoes. - Costs of freight on potatoes shipped to Alaska from the out- u S lEGA"ON ide and under maximum price L4 regulations and control, makes it necessary to establish control over Alaska grown potatoes and this wil be just as vigorously enforced as in any part of continental United Arrangements have been made to | States, the OPA says. — - —— w. IINGTON, April - The State Department officials con- lANDlORD WINS firmed this afternoon reports from | Helsinki that the personnel of Ithe United States Legation has SUIT TO EVICT & & | The action is described as an “ad- minisiration move” and this was| the only answer to questions if such a move meant anything important U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray in the relations between the Unit- issued today a judgment in favor ed States and Finland. The State John F, Morrison who Department ofiicials insisted they brought suit to eviet R. Hanson had nothing rew on the subject >e e from quarters which he rented from CAPT. BOAZ ON FURLOUGH her at 848 Basin Road, holding that the tenant had no right in the Capt. R. A. Boaz, Chief of the (quarters if there against the ishes Junean Traffic Control Office, has left here on a short furlough for The defendant had argued that|a Visit to Hot Springs, Arkansas under OPA regulations, he could This s his first leave in Inot be removed, months force attempted o/ COMNGRESSWOMAN AND DAUGHTER —gep. .Clare Luce (R-Conn.) (left) and her daughter, Ann Clara Bro- ‘kaw, 18, converse in the House speaker's office.Miss Brokaw is the dauxhler o{ the congresswoman by a previous marrhu. Kiska Japs Build Shrine Out of Mounfainside; Is Revealed by Phofographs: By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Corre 'punllelll FAR WFSI‘l‘H.N BASE ON AN-| DREANOF ISLANDS, April 1. The Japanese have com- pleted a shrine on Kiska to wor- ship their ancestors and Emperor, according to a study of enlarged photographs taken by low ’flymg Army planes, The shrine is built on the moun- SIX - MOTORED TRANSPORTS ARE BAGGED {New Gains Réporled on | Ground on Rommel's, ‘ Defenses ALLIED ' HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 23. — The charging British Eighth Army has |captured the village of Takrouna and is driving on north of Enfi- daville toward Bou Fischa on the | coastal road in twin drives | The British First Army, mean- | while, stabbed ahead for three !miles in fierce fighting against | stubborn resistance in the Bou Arada sector in western Tunisia. | The gains on the ground were ‘coup!vd with aerial action as Kit- |tyhawks and Spitfires downed every jone of 20 six-engined Messer- schmitt 323’s, some carrying troops iaud others laden with freight. Ten of the air mammoths’ escorting ‘flghwrs were sent down in flames. Carry 120 Men | The battle came off over the i(‘.ul! of Tunis. The giant Messer- | schmitt transports, which dwarf isuch carriers as the big Junkers 52s on which Rommel has relied '1: rgely for reinforcements and sup- 'plles, are designed to carry 120 ‘\%nldlers or almost 10 tons of cargo. | These were carrying gasoline and | personnel to Tunisia. “The entire | formation” was destroyed, an of- | licial communique said, adding that |38 planes were downed by Allied | fighters for the day against a loss of five of our craft. The battle with the air trans- ports here is regarded as the most [important strike against enemy supply lines since the start of the | war, Short Fight * | The air fight lasted less than 110 minutes. Flames burst from many of the great carriers as they ran into fighter bursts, and all of them, along with the 10 fighters, idropped, sparking and smoking into |the Gulf of Tunis, sea approach to [the Axis base. The troops who broke clear of the wreckage were seen struggling |in the water by our fighter pilots. | - e CEILINGS PLACED ON tainside and the worshippers are protected by heavy stone earth- WOorks. The shrine faces toward Tokyo and as erected with two levels, laboriously dug out of the moun- tain. There are 17 steps from the first level to the second level. Wor- shippers pass through an arch and | step to the open awr altars are at a level climb 15 mo; altars. These - MEATS, ETC. ATLANTA, Ga., April 23. — The regional office of the OPA has with the shrine at Guadalcanal where the Japanese built a temple | but did not complete all of the buildi ‘The Guadalcanal Tel mx)l(‘ is n used by the American Air! Command as headquarters. The Kiska shrine if it follows the usual pattern of altars, and should contain three relics of the first Emperor, a sac- red mirror, a sacred sword and a sacred scroll The worshippers reverance. As they approach, they clap their hands to drive away evil spirits, bow low and reverently. They do not tarry long and after they complete their worship, they approach with bow again, then go back strength-| ening their fortifications and gun positions, awaiting the next raid of the United States bombers - - JOHNSON - MARSHALL WEDDING YESTERDAY IN MEMORIAL CHURCH Miss Lucille E. Johnson and Frank Thomas Marshall were mar- ried yesterday in a ceremony per- | formed by the Rev. Walter A. So- boleff in the Memorial Presby- terian Church, Both are residents of Juneau and will make their home here D BUY WAR BONDS is well policed, | | placed ceiling prices effective April {26 on all meals and food items, - cluding wines and other alcoholic beverages sold at eating places in the Southeastern states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- ida, Mississippl, Tennessee, Vir- ginia and Alabama. . & In these states affected by the order, maximum prices are to be limited to the highest price charged for a meal or for a food or drink item during the week of April 4 to 10, Subject to the order are all res- taurants, hotels, cafes, delicatessen stores, soda fountains, boarding houses and “any other drinking or eating place.” | DI DIVORCE GRANTED A final decree of divorce has |been granted in U. S. District Court in the case of Athena Vali- son vs. Milton Valison. ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . . o DIMOUT TIMES . . —_— i . ® Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 8:27 o'clock. - ® Dimout ends tomorrow & ® at sunrise at 5:2¢ am. . e Dimout begins Saturday at e e sunset at 8:30 p.m. - ‘9900000000000