The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1943, Page 1

¢ e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9326. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " - = JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRlL 24 __MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS JUMP INTO AFRICAN BATTLES Heavy Bombers InSmash A ttacks In Solomons LARGE JAP : “BATHROOM"--SOUTH SEATSTYLE SHIP SENT T0 BOTTOM " [ Pa—, Destroyers Are Hit in Con- voy-Hidden Airport | i Under Attack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 24 —Gen. Doug- las MacArthur’s heavy bombers made solo excursions to the Jap bases in the Southwest Pacific on Good Friday. One bomber, encountering a small enemy convoy south of Kavieng, dropped a bomb and started an 8,000-ton Jap ship on the way to the hottom. The four-engine Lib- erator scored a hit with a 500- pounder directly amidships and the craft buckled, burst into flames and started toward the bottom. Three escorting destroyers are be- lieved to also have been hit. Two other heavy bombers report actions, one sinking a small craft and smashing a Jap base at an undisclosed destination and another Liberator making a surprise attack on a hidden airport and blasting craft on the ground. Ground Activity For the first time in many weeks today’s communiqué reports ground activity, although of a minor nature. The report, delayed since April 16, said Allled ground patrols operating beyond the main positions near Mubo, New Guinea, made a surprise attack and wiped out a Jap outpost of 20 men. e eoes 00000000 WEATHER REPORT e (U. S. Bureau) . Temp. Friday, April 23: . Maximum 47, minimum 36. e - o . eeesee o o e o o ¢ The Washmgton Merry - Go-Round, START WORK | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty) | WASHINGTON.—Air Force offi- cials in Washington are amazed | and delighted with Gen. Mach- thur’s recent blast about the Jap- anese threat, and his dec\arauon that air power is necessary D control the sea lanes. Here is the highly background behind their significant : amaze- | Mac- | ment, including reasons for Arthur's “switch,” as the Air Force calls it. Traditionally MacArthur has cried | down the importance of air power. ! Most people have forgotten it but he was one of the opponents of Billy Mitchell and sat on the court | martial which threw him out of the Army. But when Lt Gen. George Kenney was in Washing- ton recently, he warned of a change in MacArthur’s thinking. “The maestro has switched,” said | Kenney—"“keep your eye on him. Even then, Air Force officials were skeptical. Their skepticism | vanished, however, when MacAr- thur publicly declared, that air power rather than naval power was the key to victory in the South Pacific. “ANOTHER CONVERT” When they read this, champions of air power in the War Depart- ment almost threw their hats in the air and shouted, “Another con- vert!” Here is the reason why MacAr- thur came out with this blast. The Japs, still licking their wounds from naval action, are busily bring- ing up a force for retaliation. And MacArthur knows that force is not naval, it is air. MacArthur has reports indicat- ing that the Japanese have con- structed a tremendous number of new airfields in the long string of islands reaching down from Ja- pan across the East Indies toward Australia. And they have already |trash i: H g HIS MORNING ABLUTIONS are performed by this American soldier in what goes for a bathroom (and it's really an ingenious one) in the South Pacific. A tropical tree trunk supports shelving and the floor is a piece of metal stripping used to pave emergency landing fields. The floor rests on two logs.; (International) Alaska’s Seals Give Food, Clothes, Light For ON CLEAN-UP ON WEEKEND Whether you have to handle the e rake with a raincoat on, or whether you can ‘scrape up the in your bathing suit, this weekend is the time to get into the spirit of Juneau's Clean-Up Week, according to Mayor Harry I Lucas. His men, piloting City trucks, will be out on the rounds starting next Monday, rain or shine, to pick up the junk you place on the curbs or in the alleys, and according o [FPoreman Bert Lybeck, if his men are willing to work in any kind of weather, Juneau residents {shouldn’'t mind. Lybeck asks all who will have trash ready for the pickup service next week to call the City Hall 2t 88 and tell them about it. Tt will make the ‘work of finding the trash easier and assure speedy ser- vice. All districts of the City will be covered thoroughly Monday through Friday, with the town divided into three districts and a truck as- signed to do the work in each Remember, if you don't get it done this weekend, hext weekend may be too late. — e MATERNITY CLASS MEETS MONDAY AFTERNOON, 1:30 Meeting at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon in Room 108 of the Ter- ritorial Health Center, the Mater-| nity Class will hear discussion on| the topic, “Suiting Clothes to the | Mother’s Figure for Appearance and Health,” used these bases for delivery of al Wardrebe for the Baby.” en gives class instruction. Miss Hel- Aleutian Bases By WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated Press War Correspondent) AN ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, April 17—(Delayed)—Out here Am- erican soldiers are making use of everything—from old cracker tins for water buckets to remade boxes for officers’ desks. In the more remote posts, many times, les: ntial supplies are held up for ne ry ammunition. Food and everything else has to wait its | urn. But at least one outpost hege has solved many of its problems with a | single solution . The solution is to' shoot seals which occasionally come ashore on the rocks below a point at the outpost. Shooting seals on the rocks or in | the water may not be sporting but | neither is war, and these soldiers shoot them for food, clothing and light, just as the natives have al- ways done. The sealskins are being used to make home-style mukluks, which may not equal the Eskimo product, | but are dry. The hearts and livers are fresh meat on any diet, and the precious blubber is rendered for oil which, in turn, is used as a light- ing fluid after the fashion of the old whalers and natives—in a bowl with a wick in it, and arrangements to keep the top of the wick above the bowl. Even unrendered blubber finds lth use as a waterproofing agent for boots. - > CDA EASTER PARTY NEXT TUESDAY E\r’l‘l1 Women of the Catholic Daugh- ters of America will enjoy an Easter party next Tuesday evening, [ April 25, held at the home of Mrs. Felix Toner. | Miss Vivian Tise is chairman for | | the evening and an enjoyable time | is assured. D | HOWARD LYNG TAKES PASSAGE FOR HOME | Howard Lyng, member of the its | has just recenty completed Johnson, public health nurse, session here, has left for his hume| in Nome. |thony J. Dimond | cerning | “distinctly favorable,” US.FLIER TOLD JAP COURTOFF One of Men Executed in’ Tokyo Raid Defied Captors ? NEW YORK, April 24.-A New York News corrspondent, in a story sent from Washington, D. C., quotes an American pilot captured after the Tokyo raid and later executed, as hurling defiance at the Nipponese court which sealed his doom, saying: “Sure we bombed your damned town ,and we'll bomb it again. We'll bomb it twice and three times a| day and T'll bomb it myself so often God will lgt me!” The story was written by Powell | Limpus and appeared in Saturday | editions ‘of the newspaper. Wrote Limpus: “Those were the gallant| words which one of the three Doo- | little aviators who were executed sealed his doom as he hurled de- | fiance at the Nipponese, according to well authenticated reports which | seeped out of the island kingdom “The Japs killed him for it, but | this hero is martyr—so far name- and like Captain Nathan Hale of the Continental Army, has passed on- to his countrymen a slogan_to spur them in the coming strife we’ll bomb it again Limpus said the trial took place last “v*])l(mln r STATEHOOD FOR AI.ASKA} HAS SUPPORT Senator Langer Ask Back- ing on Bill from Alaskans In a letter written to Territorial Commissioner of Labor Walter P. Sharpe, Senator William Langer of North Dakota expressed opinion that there is a genuine interest in the United States Senate on the | bill asking statehood for Alaska Langer, member of the Senate | Judiciary Committee which has the measure under consideration said, “I am really finding a genu- ine interest in the Senate on thi a; [bill and I hope that we will cct some backing from the men up in | Alaska.” Alaska Delegate An- reported t the sentiment of Congress statehood for Alaska and "tlmo is more than a fair likelihood Al- Yesterday, con- laska can be made a state just as |soon after the present war as the people of the Terriwry want it Two Athletics Combine, Shut:: Ouf Red Sox = i PHILADELPHIA, April 24 Russ |Christopher and Luman Har combining to hurl shut out ball y ' |terday, chalked up the first victory {for the Athletics by whipping the 'Red Sox 5 to 0 in the only game |played in the major leagues. Christopher, who was charged |with the first defeat in the game |with the Washington Senators on the opening day, yielded only six | hits before weakening in the eighth }lnmng. passing two men - with one out. Connie Mack then called in and “Supplies and Territorial Welfare Board which Harris, E— o = BUY WAR BONDS HEADING FOR HOME SHOT TO PEFCES BUT Ej S. FORCES S TRANSFERRED 7O NEW FRONT {Yankees Puf in Northern - | Sectors, Fighting. Tak- ) ing Hill by Hill | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 24—Amer- jcan troops, suddenly transferred from the southern Tunisian front to the north, have advanced six miles toward Mateur, 18 miles southwest of Bizerte. The British First Army has taken a hill 28 miles west of Tunis. HER LEFT WING AND ENGINE NACELLE RIDDLED by shrapnel, a B-26 Martin Marauder, piloted by Lieu- | Dispatches from the front said tenant Frank P, Bedford. of Whittier, Calif, heads for an Air Force base after a bombing mission in {another American unit has hacked Tunisia. Lt. Bedford jockeyed the plane in for a landing. U. S. Signal Corps radiophoto. (International) its way seven miles through stiff \ nemy fire northeast of Beja on the SCOTTISH RITE e MASONSTOHOLD - .. iln Ian ears rlsls + While the American forces pound- |ed forward in the most difficult - r Air Forces Active Easter Services of Alaska Chapter terrain in all Tunisia and parried 2 s Ameri(an Oflitials violent enemy counter-atfacks, the Alhc(l air forces, bflmbf*rs and [eave Counry by Plane /s them s of Rose Croix, Scottish Rite Masons Hmmbvr of .serties in (nllnboraung will take place tomorrow afternoon British First Army extended Allied advances, hammering out gains. | with the Allied ground thrusts.” tul Press) An official statement said despite at 2 o'clock in the Scottish Rite (By /\-m 4 Temple, The Northern Light Presby- Tronclad censorship has been | the fact these sorties numbered at terian Church Choir, directed by e a or e 1 political dispatches | 1east 18, only six Allied aircraft wers George Schmidt, will take part in T pinland s teision. gFipped | 19%: REAtAL fus diminishing Axis | the musical part of the program the country in recent weeks and ap- | opposition. & The British Eighth Army is en- to be developing to an Easter . Underground reports from Hel- sinki recived in Stockholm indicate such a crisis might go far in de- | and Herbert L. Faulkner will make pe the address at the Relighting of the Svmhu]lv Lights, The program fol- gaged in vigorous patrol work dur- ing which they repelled several Ger- man counter-attacks on the south- ern front Juneau Boy “Fling Wide the Gates' from x / Stainer’s Crucifixion, Choir 5 Machin. PLIetiY “";‘2“,' A\‘)": termining Finland’s position in the Americans Advance Intmdu(lmn and Welcome, Vergne 5““ bu “:‘l“"kt““'“ :V( m":“”“‘ oy war. She is now fighting against The official statement says the 5 neau, aska, £ ecently bee * ol - v - , Acting Wise Master }.‘é_d e Modal by Brig, Russia as well as her relations with | Americans keep advancing toward awarded the Air Medal Ly 8. Bizerte in the face of determined Gen, James E. Parker of IiI Bomb- the Allied Nations, German pressure er Command, on the Finns s said to be increasing. staeant Kiuise, was. raflo. opai- FeMAtALC wes announced that | cer shcard ol plana. it 0. light | e main gaytion. of A staff of T tots mediui: bombers. which at- | the United Riaies Legation suddenly | R e nter ahin st Atk | 16(EEMITK] Jukterdey sdiatnon by Despite heavy anti-aircraft 0pposi- airplane, bound for Stockholm. Rob- ton, the freighter was left stranded - :"’N“rl:nz’fi-‘f/;":")flcl_‘;( o s e A W ter surrounding ‘4TS 3 ¢ In el alon, X3 8 | other officials and families left. Hok bnlu Th(' Cross” by Harriet Ware, sung by Mrs. John Headland. Relighting the Symbolic Lights by Officers of Chapter—Light of Char- ity, Harry 1. Lucas; Light of Honor, Walter B. Heisel; Light of Patriot- ism, Ellsworth F. Clements; Light of Truth, Howard D. Stabler; Light of Justice, Jack B. Burford; Light of Light of enemy resistance and are making successful attacks, capturing already | several hundred German troopers. Advances are made most difficult in the hill country but gains are | reported. The Second U. S. Army Corps, commanded by Lieut. Gen. George Patton, Jr., made the transfer along Tolgmtion, Sam ReMoN jts hiding place in a cov>. Sergeant Bt thie: D rati . Hoke. b2 i piac i o er Schoenteld le e length of the Tunisian fron Veneration, Vergne L Hoke. 'w;quce conducted himself in such | ARRCAR Minister Schoenfeld lett | B% (EREL D Thiocult mountain Hosanna” by Grainier, played by KXause SoRCUCIT bl o ack-ack |for Washington last December and| . did not return. ranges. Aurora Trio piano, Mrs, Carol Beery Davis; violin, Miss Shirley Davis: cello, Mrs. Phylis Langdon. Address, “Death Never Has the Last Word,” by Herbert L. Faulkner. “Is It Nothing to You?” from tainer’s c-ummmn ung m choir. MRS. DAHLGREN HOSPITALIZED Gen. Alexander, it is disclosed, has begun attacking the enemy through | heavy brush covering the mountain- sides. He started at daybreak. il R COMEDIAN BACKHOME barrage he was nominated for the Air Medal which was pinned on him by Gen. Parker. '-mrneam Krause entered fhe army rch 23, 1942, at Anchorage, The Berlin radio station made a | broadcast yesterday stating the Am- erican officials had left Helskini and (.\kl'n their famiiies with them. .- SEATTLEUNION WINS FIGHTON S .o > ‘Meanest Trick- Theft of Plant In Kaser's Yard WITH FRACTURE .o oo v o o lfif"::‘,::lJURISDI(TION; FOR REST - First White Woman fo s s b | has been the | SEATTLE, I\pl ll 24 ~The new Rc- | el War Labor Boara has dvaded | JO@ E. Brown W||| Returii unanimously in favor of two Seattie \ 'O A'aska |" Nea[ iyard of Dr. E. H. Kaser {stolen. This was done during absence of the family in the south Climb Mount McKinley | Suffers Accident absence of the family i e S yjon Tocals in a dispute with San ,,,,, in ‘Seatilh » unions involving about 125 | qufe St | e s in the Alaska fishing in- | LONG BRANCH, N. J.; April 14. |,?u}‘fh:h;‘,t tl)'f1 th'-‘lw w‘nl" h-:; l»-l;‘lv Sustiy srought e attention o (Delayed)-—The first white Wwo- L T 0. ? " One dispute is between locals of | g 4 RN " el e ot MKinley. 1n 01ty Police, 161 thousht that the |e. APL Machinists' Union, Involy- _SAN FRANCISCO, April 24— culprit is known, If the plant bl » g WOI'" Comedian Joe E. Brown. dead se- Alaska lies ill. : : ing jurisdiction over machinists em- | “OHECN L L A e the s Mrs. Edgar Dahlgren, widow, re- returned to the Kaser yard, N0 pioved by two companies now having | o0, how he made the sexvies i Gen. Dahl- |action will be taken, police 5ay. offices here. The other is between men laugh fn the Par Pacific' Dats lated by marriage to Gen. It it is't simed the vandalism o s i ¢! 'tle areas, but added, “they need il War fame, and,a di- it isn't returned the vandalism g San Francisco local of the CIO gren of Civil War fame, and,s At bt ak1d it e £y co local o e i, more air strength and more en- endant of the great com- will be dealt with according to the Marine Cooks and Stewuids’ Union | oo .0 rc i Mon. | 1aW- and the Alaska Fistermen's Union |80 stian Bach, is in Mon G B e it Union | Arriving home from u three h Hospital as a result of & ocal bere over jurisdiction OF COOKS | g trip to bases from Alaska '"“‘“ , 5 and stewar ; . . fracture sustained when she feli OLDTIMER HER} e to Australia, he said he felt each down two steps of a Long Branch A. W. Stroud, an oldtimer of show was his greatest of his life. public building after attending & |Skagway, is here and staying @ He is returning to his Hollywood woman's club meeting. | the Baranof Hatel. |home for a rest before returning The aged woman is doing nicely il lu Alaska. > land expects to leave shortly for o g b A her apartment afl 224 Broadway of MRS. STEVENSON LEAVES this city. Mrs. Roger Stevepson left \Iu~ e o o 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 Mrs, Dahigren bas relatives i, |morning for the south on an 4-\-; : DIMOUT TIMES . Juneau, Alaska. A niece from Al- tended visit. | Tk "I’“ . . aska visited her last year i e \KON IGSBERG s Pimostiwesind GENELY “ J ' i i sunset at 8:30 o'cloc w:f;*r D‘:“““‘")‘; o~ 1‘:“;‘\"‘“')‘1“‘(’;" HERE FROM FAIRBANKS | e Dimout ends tomorrow e (llwet:) roxum‘myelyoms and says: o A5 KBS Ropinson & | o ® 8t spnrise a4 831 am. b ‘I can’t understand How people in li‘tfj in Junesu ‘yesterday from| 1ONDON, April 24— Two hun-|® Dimout begins Sunday at e | Fairbanks: and are registercd at the | gre iy 1 y bs. ® 8:32 pm . Germany can - accept the things| Bar, dred Russian planes bombed Konigs : 2 hings | Baranof Hotel, | berg in East Prussia last nigh e Dimout ends Monday at e that are going on there. Her ne) g o S ast night and s i e er l' P- | —— did extensive damage. This is mc- | ® sunrise at 5:19 am. . i l}‘ ol s lel_ ‘lll.mhl'l. s (.nnllmml cannon fire has been |cording to a Moscow radio broad- ® Dimout becing Monday at ® | e American Alr Corps of the heard 100 miles from the scene of least recorded here by the Soviet © 8§ nset at 8:34 pm . e 00 6 s 00 00 000 U. 8. Army. lu\e firing. lmunltul, i