The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1943, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9328. ALLIESARE ON OUTSKIRTS OF Duisberg Blasted In British Mass Air | ~ When Roosevelfs Arzived in Monterey & 1,000 TONS OF EXPLOSIVES ARE DROPPED Seventeen Allied Bombers Fail to Return After Foray LONDON, April 27. — Britain’s biggest bombers blasted the great ' German inland port of Duisberg last night in “one of the heaviest raids” ever carried out against the Reich, a British announcement declared. - ot Seventeen bombers are reported missing. The communique indicat- ed that at least a thousand tons of bombs were dropped on the city, the weight of explosives probably approaching that of the first 1,000- homber raid on Cologne May 30 of last year when 1,500 tons of bombs were dropped. The night raid followed swift blows by Mosquito bombers late yesterday on railway centers north- near the Loire River, shot down. INDIAN OFFICE LAND OFFICIAL NOW IN JUNEAU T. W. Wheat, Assistant Director of Lands in the Office of Indian Aflairs headquarters in Chicago, has been detailed to the Alaska Office and is now in Juneau, Gen- eral Superintendent Claude Hirst announced today. Wheat has been assigned here for a year to work out land matters re- garding the Indian office preperty and also to assist Indians in Alas- ka in matters pertaining to their lands. | The Washington . Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 5. Allen on active duty.) } i WASHINGTON.—With American | planes increasing their bombuwfl. tempo over Europe, it is now per- missable to lift the curtain and reveal ‘the true picture of British versus American bombing methods; | also to answer the question,“Where | is the Luftwaffe?” | It is generally known that the British send out their bombing missions at night, and the Ameri- cans operate in the daytime. Bul { 1t is not generally known that me, British still think their methods | superior, in the face of highly suc- | cessful American performance. Also | it is not known that as recently as| the. conference at Casablanca, | Churchill argued with Major Gen. Ira Eaker for two hours in an ef: fort to convert him to night bomb- ing. Churchill used all his persuasive magnetism to press home the point that American bombers require fighter escort for daylight protec- tion, that they need such heavy| armor and armament that their | s AR e 0 o572 T~ M. komb load is only a third or aly fourth of the British, and that bad ‘weather prevents precision bomb- ‘ng a large part of the time. But Gen. Eaker held his ground. He has been fully supported by Gen, H. H. “Hap” Arnold, Chief of the Air Forces, with the result that American methods will not be changed. Inside fact about this friendly | A'lied argument is that American' methods are rapidly proving super- jor to British. Key to the whol question is the damage done to the enemy. American planes are not; oniy hitting their targets with re- | markable precision, but they are! crawing into action so many Nazi fighters, and knocking so many out b 2y _ §Continued on Page Four) west of Germany in the Rhineland | It was the 59th raid on Duisberg. | The Germans said 16 planes were | M. | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1943 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE E—————— "MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY | | | ! o, with his party for a brief stop- over. In group with him beside his train are (left to right) Mrs. Roosevelt, President Manuel Avila Cam- acho of Mexico, and Mrs. Camacho. With his wit flashing, Presldenl Roosevelt arrived in Monterey, Me» Kiska Japs Will Be Hard fo Qust from BIG BLASTING, Base, Writer Says U.5. BOMBERS i ey Ry Base Attacked 13| T ss tracers go into Tlmes Durlng Eas‘er By EUG Associated Press War wihite my fighters which had been in hiding {the past two weeks were spotted by eagle-eyed Lieut. Herman !Humphrey, 22, of Parker, Idaho, three on the beach and five others in well-concealed revetments. Humphrey and two other fighter plluls strafed them. Humphxey re- | (ongress Providing War Work for Those Who Are flier's name later. Japanese anti-aircraft fire was heavy today. The enemy used white bursts with black. The white bursts | might have been spotter re. Pre- \'mu;ly the Japs used green and [from a base in the Andreanof dated April 18 (delayed) says Army fighter planes kept a hurricane Japs at Kiska unloading 18 1/2 of bombs between 6:45 a. m 6:49 p .m. There was heavy antiaircraft fire but machine gunners did good | work. Three beached enemy air- craft afforded excellent target Four RCAF pilots participated in the raid. Two of the Americans planes re- ceived battle damage from anti-air- craft fire. tons and (Continued on Page Five) | an examination but sugges | pass a physical examination now is in Juneau on his way to _ the school. i at " (Continued on PflT,'eiTWOJ KISKA IS GIVEN .= ' | tails TWO KILLED " INCRASH OF have been notified i In spite of the fact that censor- | ship regulations prohibit publica- | {tion of the details of such crashes ionly when they are-a result of war ca local authorities refused |this afternoon to release any in- | .ormation | | Late this afternoon, The Empire | | received a wire from the Ketchi-| }kan Chrenicle asking for informa- ition concerning the crash and| naming cne of the vietims. ! It is not known whether or not ! [ the. next of kin have been notified | or how information concerning the | accident reached Ketchikan. ‘[ { The bodics have been taken to Mortuary. have . .been | information | W. Carter newspapers asked to print only | {rom official sources on ters, The Empire regre which have reached | newspaper from other sources may x“mtrd | not be STRIKE IS THREATENED, Correspondent e af tham ‘ S He was shooting with cannon AN ADVANCE BOMBER BASE |, .. oo SUnday, Says NBVY | IN THE ANDREANOFS, April 13 One ., Plane Lost WASHINGTON, April 27.—Army | (Delayed)—Seventy planes released | jjou; Royal McCarthy, 27, of bombers broke a 4-day lull in raids| 63% tons of demolition and frag- | ycka, Calif, saw his left wing- ¢n Kiska, the Navy reports, blast- {mentation bombs on Kiska's nearly | aps plane slip, slow up, then g the enemy 13 times on Easter iAot completed Jap fighter plane run- ..o inio the cold Bering Sea Sunday. Results were not observed; WASHINGTON, April 27.—Strike way and on North Head gun in-| wiicic The fighters circled for 15 btcause of poor visibility. , teports came this morning from| stallations and barracks today. minutes, watching the tell-tale oil The Navy communique says that'two sectors of the bituminous coal The Eleventh Bomber Command | .. growing. Their flying mate at the same time heavy bombers fields as President John L. Lewis ;announcvd that in tonnage, it w""*nmmtml& rode the plane to the struck Attu and scored hits on the | of the United Mine Workers con- the heaviest jolt dealt the Japs m:u(‘rana floor. runway. tinued to ignore the War Labor the Aleutian campaign. | It was the only American plane =T | Board's effo to settle the con- Eight float-type Japanese Zero | i The Army Will: announce the A release by Associated Press iract disputes affecting 450,000 min- War Correspondent Eugene Burns, fers Lewis allowed to express, word from him, the }a. m. today deadline at which time without death dealing appointment with the he was to submit the nomination labor member to the three fact finding board. The Board, it is announced, will now use “it's own common sense” in selecting a board. Some 9500 miners are reported on a strike in sout stern Kentucky and southwe Pennsylvania and warning that walk- of a man m is outs might spread because of dis- given satisfaction among the men as to| the progress of increased wage ne- gotiations: | the east. ~ ' PLANE HERE { | Absolutely No Defails o Accident May Be Released Two persons were killed in a planc ecrash shortly before noon today in an accident at the Juneau ™ airport | Censarship regulations prevent lthe publication of the names of | these killed until the nekt of kin McMeyers and Ismael Vosotres. w‘ TUNIS PLAIN ‘Mine Assessment Work MOTORIZED ToBe Suspended; Billls UNITS KEEP Up fo Roosevelt fo Sign ADVANCING WASHINGTON, April The ¢f July after cossation of hostilities|R# H logislation previding for suspension. The genetal laws of the United H 1 {of annual assessment work on min- Etates have been in force more Near Tun's B’zerte ing claims In the United States, in-| than 70 years and requires $100, |cluding Alaska, woith of labor must be performed| Americans MOVI“Q The suspension, in event the m improvements made upon or SEeey ' President signs the bill, will be un-; for the benefit of each unpatented) ALLIFD HEADQUARTERS 1IN {til 12 o'clock moon of the first day mining claim during each year, NORTH AFRICA, April 27—Allied rarmored forces have driven to with- |in four miles of the Tunis-Pont du |Fahs road, and destroyed 80 Ger- /man tanks in a big scale battle that has raged since last Sunday Farther north, the British First | Army infantry has cleared 11 miles |of the road from Medjez el Bab to | Tunis. | Frontline dispatchs report for the first time since last November that the Allies are again on the thres- hold of the Tunis Plain. The same reports said the French i"'“ skirting the Mediterrdnean and {bave penetrated within six miles |of Lake Achkel that almost ad- | jeins Lake Bizerte. Apparently this i+ placed the British and French within 23 miles of the twin cities of Bizerte and Tunis. In the sector between Medjez el Bab and the Mediterranean Lie Gen. George Patton, Jr, and 'l ! Amevican forces continue 4@ rvance sb rapidly that the Ge: rearguards are unable fo Biry. | dead. The Americans have assaulted |two strategic kuobs, Green. Hill |and Bald Hill, two of the most | heavily fortified mountains in the | northern sector. There the Allied thrusts have been accompanied by gains all along the 100-mile front {end fighting, according to the offi- | clal communique, continues with | “unabated ferocity.” L Allied Air Forces have flown |more than 1,000 sorties in air offen- cives and these are now “increasing 1i;| intensity.” ! The armored spearheads of the | British are jabbing southeast of | Goubellat and threaten to cut off {{he big supply base of Pont du | Fahs, Juneau lumber Mlll | Tunk battles are raging and they |¢2em to be the key to the great "h'ht xnglng nll alung the front. NUISAN(E To Speed War Ellorl‘ AIR RAIDS Linc,, let down the bars today ‘\lul‘ «nnuunu-d that from now on Oul‘| | Secrefary of | Navy Knox, awe| However, Discounts ‘CLEANUP GIRL’—with paint and tools poses atop a Los Angeles building as the uly el WLB's 9:30 _ Heavy Losses For Enemy in w«‘nu-n as well as men, wil \aought for jobs in the mill For some time women ' )\()pw(l up in Juneau as taxi d(lv-x N A to run elevators, and in other | A b I orlh "(a lines of work easily adaptable to| ny POSSI ||'v ‘Iln- feminine touch, but the idea WASHINGTON Aprll 27.—Secre « |tary of Navy Frank Knox today ‘always a chance” of |of women in the lumber industry| is a new one, Allied Headquarters Re- . [] SUIRE SRR LRI, | George Schmidt, Assistant Mana- | said there is | g , ERE ger of the mill, says that all of the lenemy nuisance air raids either on thSl(a"y Hifldlfippfld 37 i merons” | 1 vinom i wens - ease Figures rom Jan- 5 Ly Sl e vt o ot ot of e i TS ) LEE e Temp. Monday, April 26 o Electrical Company of Seattle, is uafy 1 '0 Apfll 15 using women for some time, that “fl: States, but he wn'uderf the pos- | : Bt 3 £ Woatavtiaont e Bade women now make up about 25 per- |SIPility of such raids as remote. By JACK STINNETT o) Maximum, 66; (stiinimm 3¢. o in Juneau and'staying st the 728" e cent, of the payroll in many mills,| -Secretary Knox was asked at to- jquAu ODDFEllows ’ v il 2 SEO IS GRS R © anef Hotel. o B4 T - lday's conference with the news= WASHINGTON, April 27.—Con. Bl ALLIED. ‘HEADQUARTERS N He said that Juneau, Lumberi®FF SO0 ML ool pionste OBSERVE BlRIHDAY gress has spread on the statutes |NORTH ABRICA, April 21—t s Mills will pay the women the same | )I“. s ‘-(<i-l o L‘; Fade 3“; provisions for taking care of the |anHoufuli e -Germans lost 66,000 Scale “as men, that they will " be IAI[v\uuu‘l‘n‘ N o whioh 't0. atea WITH BIG Dl“"ERlphx cally lmx\)dlc@p;:fd who will e" I an Ir n ls s | men killed! Wounded or taken pri- | Used in the lighter jobs : et coust by air wnd he. Tes Commemorating v.he 124th anni- ha o 'a i jcb‘ » In the same period the Germans WOt an A'q, ieation for per-|; nnnk it is a very remote possi- cary of the founding of OddjPas been tg!‘}g P E e "c st 230 tanks, 3000 motor vehicles, mission to pay T% cents an hout ey "rather than a danger.” Fellowship in America, tonight's l’rde‘ pgmg i pOCl nts are ,iming n er n rge 425 guns and 34 ships were sunk more than last year, and il this' phe Navy Secretary said he con- 0Odd Fellows dinner will entertain a | 190® Some wak PIEUS @ Be I |hy 1and based aircratt alone omes through It will make thesidered it remote he. explained, hee guest for each year of the historic [HFPURC VN d_fiMC{n_“n Ii is certain, from all reports, base pay $1 an hour. When the|cquse of the improved American organization’s existence, since 125 m‘ i B Fe;"rmon n[(lhg M Now N Y Bound 36000 Germans have been taken raise is granied, it will be made|defenses and the fact “we are en- reservations have been made for eyt b S e or s' . M priconers and the others were killed retroactive lgaging the enemy elsewhere and the event, it was reported today. llwuiql et S8 herepp‘;- mxn’r’nabely or wounded. Practically the entire output of !the Japs are already spread pretty With subordinate, Rebekah and prttUC O | €N L0 TR per- et In air combat, United Nation the mill is being taken by the|thin" {encampment branches as invited (20 B COH Clerea v the e SEATTLE, April 27, — Miss Ella Ketclikan, which she did. She planes destroyed 918 cncmy planes Government for War purposes. H - guests, members of Silver Bow Manpower Commission since it Westra, blonde from Ketchikan, then had to get an Army permit to and probably destroyed 278 more -y BUY WAR BONDS Lodge No. A-2 will stage one Of oo 0 W 1 cinecs That sounds Alaska, is on her way to New York leave Alaska and finally. reached and damaged another 596 0 i 3t L e their memorable entertainments POREC T L for training in the Seaman Waves Vancouver, B. C. When she left! Land based afreraft also sank 11 PIONERNCISOOBRGN - o0 . | e e this evening, when an informal pro- ““Cb P Sln, e dent of At Hunter College. the steamer she found no rooms U-boats. _ U BACK FROM. VRAGWAY | kgl o o 9NN ram will follow the dinmer and i Jb B mself deaf, Miss Westra applied for enlist-| available. She slept in a hotel e T. J. Jacobson, pioneer, is back DIMOUT TIMES b ancing will be enjoyed for the re- says there a"_' 23,000,000 phvsicall,} ment last summer; was notified there | lobby that night. i . in Juneau to visit for a short ® v L mainder of the evening. | handicapped persons in this ‘coun- Was Do provision for enlisting in Miss Westra arrived last Wed- _( OUPLE WED HERE time. He has jus{ finished a nine-|® Dimout hw*vnt tonight e T A T try and that a large portion of Alaska, when she wrote to a Naval | nesday, passed tests, found her ton-| Melchor P. Padilla, of Juneau, month contract as gway . with|® A susiset, 1t 8:31 o/cioels 2 John B. Schetze, new shop in- o "o Toniovable. If that is Officer in the procurement office sils were affected, had Dr. A. C and Fannie . McKinley. of Hoo- | the Betchel, Price and Callshan|® Dimout ends tomorrow e structor for the Alaska Office Of . ..° the 92000 figure becomes here. She was told she might be!jordan remove them, then she be- nah, wef(- married in Dougla 'Lm Company e at sunrise at 5:14 am. L) Indian Affairs school at EKIutna, .. i insignificant and it looks as eligible if she came here to take night by U. 8. Commissioner Felix el ot ® Dimout bez 3 ted she came a Wave and left Saturday for Gray. Witnesses were M Ruth | ® at sunsst at BUY WAR BONDS | ® o a0 s e e o0 Raid T,