The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1943, Page 1

g i i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” m——— ] VOL. LX., NO. 9329. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRXCE TEN CENTS AMERICANS STORM BIZERTE APPROACHED Canadians Join 'Ajap'salap” BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY BOMBS Lafest Attack Was Carried Out Two Days Ago, Says Navy WASHINGTON, April 28. — Al- lied fliers including Canadians as well as Americans, raided Jap po- sitions at Kiska 13 times Monday and destroyed a number of build- ings, the Navy reported today. This is the first time the Cana- dians have been reported in action in the Aleutians since last Septem- ber. Said the communique: “On April 26, formations of Army planes carried out 11 attacks against the Japanese installations on Kiska. Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Lightning and Warhawk Curtiss fighters par- ticipated in these raids. “Hits were scored in the main enemy camp area, on the runway, and a number of buildings were destroyed. Damage was also inflict- ed on North Head. “Canadian pilots flying War- hawks executed two other attacks.” JAP SHIPS, BASES ARE ATTACKED Supply Dump at Finsch- hafen in Solomons Is Blown Up by Bombs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 28—A Libera- tor bomber scored a direct hit on a 4,000-ton Jap ship and a near miss on another large Jap vessel 50 miles northwest of the Dobo Aroe group of islands late yester- day. A Flying Fortress destroyed the wireless station at Gasmata, New Britain, and a Catalina exploded ' supply dump at Finschhafen. Heavy bombers also attacked the Lae airdrome during dusk last night and other smaller craft strafed Jap positions at Mubo in the Allied lines. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON. — Things the President might remember about diplomacy and freedom FROM the press: Most successful dlplomauc con- ference in recent years was held in Rio De Janeiro a little over a year ago when all but two American re- publics went to bat for the US.A. and severed relations with the Axis.| For some governments this was not | easy. But one factor which made | it impossible to do otherwise was | the power of p‘blic opinion stirred | up by the power of the press The Rio conference was held in an atmosphere of frank, open, sweating diplomacy. Newsmen crowded into cducus rooms, talked | with delegates during sessions, held press conferences with Undersec- retary of State Sumner Welles twice a day. Welles was absolutely frank. So were other delegates. They knew that so long as their goal was altruistic the press could be of immense value. As a matter of fact, so powerful was the influence of those great newspapers La Prensa, La Nacion it QT v s e B i §Ooutinued oo Page Four). RIVER ICE ATNENANA 15 SOLID | Conditions )\ré Reported from Tanana Where Waters Now Open BULLETIN —Nenana, Alaska, April 28.—The Nenana River is open at Tanana, on the Yu- kon, below the town, ceord- ing to advices received here, but the ice is solid at Nenana, nd also above the town. The water raised two feet but is dropping again and get- ting shaky. - FIFTY SOFT - COAL MINES ~ ARE (LOSED iWalkouls Continue Despife | - Appeals Made by War * Labor Board this radiophoto, which was sent fror “A Jap's a Jap” and “It makes no difference whether he is an Am- erican citizen or not,” Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt (above), testified in San Francisco before a House Naval Affairs Subcommittee in oppos- ing emphatically the sentiment developing to bring back some'of the Japanese to the West Coast. — Selechve Service Is Displaying Greatest of | Confusion of Wartime WASHINGTON, Aprll than 50 mines have shut down as| |the strike of miners spread and | ihvld the possibility of halting pro- |duction of soft coal by Saturday. | More than 26,000 miners of an: lestimated total of 450,000 are Te-| Npw VORK, April 28—Admiral Iported to have already left then‘Elm,“ J. King, Commander of the Wk, {United States Fleet, declares that The War Labor Board appealed|expansion of the Japanese in the to the miners for patriotism and pgcific has been checked. not to walk out and also sent in| Admiral King told the members LR | . By JACK STINNETT |messages to President John L.|of the United States Chamber of Somethlng New 5 {Lewis and other labor leaders that | Commerce that “we were appre-| WASHINGTON, April 28. —'If(the Nation is at war and needs hensive in December, 1941, " whether | there has been any greater warum"{umnwrrupuzd production. ‘llIE Western Homhphcx( would bo‘ cenfusion than in Selective Service,i However, in Pennsylvania, 26 |invaded but “we don’'t worry on I don't know where it is. ! mines shut down during yesterday | ity (143-to-T) by which the Kilday!|ions a day. bill, delaying the induction of fath-| yewis has flatly opposed turn- ers. passed the House Indicated a'jng over the wage dispute between | radical change in induction p«m-\‘m riflagel and opatRtors to the cies | d i . | War Labor Board. Some classifications have been | AR SRR 55 L] ebolished and new ones set up. Bllt ‘\vhm it boils down to is snnply‘ ‘\what has been known for months, land actually no serious change m‘ the induction schedules is ron(em- NO SURPLUS plated. (By Associated Press) ed i i The Japanese radio reports a d,Tm]r_"" Dy mapgeiesl oo, cwith M U N IIIONS trcng ccncentration of United :t.(ff','“';‘ i f"l";’ftno;"_bc posloasi- | States bomber and fighter squad- pERd s 1-A%; Ibg Ele Ao R s rons in Alaska and the Aleutians |ried men in’ “essential industries”) The broadeast was heard by the ssociated Press and quoted a tor- respondent of the Tokyo newspaper Asahi as saying the “Japanese should not take American boasti about coming air attacks too light heartedly but should prepare ment- (nlly and malumlly to frustrate to be abolished; that there will | be a special classification for farm- {crs and “essential” farm worker: ‘hat there will be a reclassification | {of the 4-H's (men 38 to 45) to see | what uses they might be put to in| the armed forces or industry, | means very little. £ . 5 p In sum and substance, depen- | {dency is no longer groundapfm‘ Of Afmy Yet | automatic deferment; but actual- |1y, married men with children in| NEW YORK, April 28—The U {the home, and men whose induc- Army, instead of accumulating sur- tion would cause real hardship to plus munitions, is so far from its dependents, will be the last to be|needs that it will not be able to called. That is not different from|furnish all of its troops with basic the program previously follow equipment until late next year house war plant at Lima, O., has | Lieut. Gen., Breton Somervell said| added women members, among| Frimarily, the armed forces before a U. S. Chamber of Com- them Mrs. Rita Foltz, above, who | W20t single men, from 18 to 37, merce meeting here. checks the identification pass o”who are not essential to industry| He asserted “there have been no Harry Jerew. (Intemanonzl)““ agriculture. Their last wish is huge accumulations of stores which IN AMERICA Somervelle Says Not Enough to Outfif All POLICE FORCE at the Westing- | Japanese Expansion in .. Patific Checked; No Fear erler lells of Men In Observafion Posts In Lonesome Aleufians 0 disrupt the American home, but Record Cach of ore this would be an injustice to| rose millions who are willing to couldn’t be moved overseas.’ He paid caustic respect to the “drugstore admirals and powder | room generals,” and said specifi- cally, “we are not neglecting the Southwest Pacific. We are not neg- By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent ARTILLERY BATTERY HEAD- serve. 5 UARTERS, ANDREANOF IS- ‘ lecting the submarine menace. We @ " Secondly, the military powers are not neglecting civilian economy. LANDS, April 17.—(Delayed)—We hat be, want the armed forces rights | Were in artillery Capt. Roy Osad- We are not neglecting the built up t p to around ten or eleven|o iopo: And we are mot neglect- ¢chey» quonset hut with an eight- ing the rights of industry. (foot snowbank right smack up “We are giving each of these|B88inst it. hey are not blind to the fact that ome marry and have children nerely to escape the draft. To ig- Halibut Landed ‘mullon men. At present there is no indication that it will be less, SEATTLE, April 28. — Schconerlman that. To maintain an army of Kanaga, Capt. Severin Tynes, hasithat size, and supply it and yom_‘whn we think is consideration in, We were calling an isolated ob- | arrived from the halibut banks with |allies, requires millions more in in-| ‘S Proportion and at the properiservation post by field telephone. the season’s record catch of 50000 dustry‘ sea and land trlnsporlauon |time. But one thing above all elsc 'There are temns of thousands of pounds. The Brisk came in pre- iwe don’t neglect is the business of jAmerican lads watching the Jap- viously with 41,000 pounds, 1 (Continued on P-ge Five) winning the war,” lanese in such “seeing eye” posts m Cairo to New York, that score now as expansion of the Japanese forces has been checked.” checked.” Admiral King asserted the sub- | marine menace in the Atlantic will be entirely controlled within four or six months shipping losses will be well below construc- tonnage and effort overs to where ion of new “we can v(pa'ld the war The new “rules and regulations”|afternoon and 14700 men wers, issued a few days ago smmded;ldle. The - production loss there xs drastic. The overwhelming '“"Jm”"thus increased more - than 88,000 | p Says Air Squadrons Massed, Alaska attempts.” aid the Americans establishing large in all of the Aleutians, enough o accommodate 5, runways) planes and mu- are “few: airfields’ large nition dumps. The correspondent said the largest base is said to be at Kodiak, Al where three squadrons are established The Japanese reports have no L-om’n'matlon from any other source. in Alaska—“Yes sir. This is Hiss. 27, Hiawatha, Kansas, speaking Everything fine, Telephones work- ing, boys. Well it's my watch, sir “In our six by six hut thr of us have been up here since De- | cember. Lonesome? Not exactly, except at night: Yes sir, it sure does get cold.” He laughed at that question “What does it look like up here? Bare, except for the tundra stick- ing out of the snew in spots. Plenty of scenery providing the wind doesn’t ram is down your throat. o !conw-\';ed'o.d’?nge Five) Some of the hundreds of Axis prisoners taken by American troops in the Gafsa-Gabes drive are s AXIS HAPPY | - 0f Invasion, Says Admiral | OVER RUSS, POLE SPAT Suggest Investigation of | Murder of Polish Officers | | (By Associated Press) | The International Red Cross at Bern, Switzerland, held today to| its original position to request all countries concerned to carry out a necessary investigation of Ger- man charges that 10,000 Polish of- licers were slain by Russians near | Smolensk, The Russian-Polish diplomatic | breach didn't affect its decision. | Informed sources sald German and Polish requests were made to name a neutral ‘commission to investigate the alleged killings, but under Red Cross rules, all parties concerned with the investigation must join in the request Private sources in Bern said it| is believed British and Umuri States views also will be considered | if the question of investigation is| pressed since in the Allied setup, they also are interested parties. The Axis, itself, is pushing its allegations against the Russians to (Continued on Page Two) | > Gov. Stassen Quits Office: Enters Navy Lt. Gov. Thye Is Successor, | line | tled |in the area of Mejerda, village 21 | miles In 13 Raids On Kiska Japs Prisoners (aplured byAmemans in Tunisia FIGHTING IS FIERCE INAFRICA Three Hills Attacked by Yanks Are Strong- ly Defended ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 28-—Am- rican troops stormed three fierce- ly defended hills straddling the |road from Mateur to Bizerte, front- dispatches ported today, the British First Army bat- for the commanding heights while northwest of Tunis. As the Allles hammered unceas- ingly against the tenaciously de- fended but weakening Axis bridge- heads in Tunisia, the British First nd Eighth armies, the' Second U. Army Corps and the French all made “steady progress,” Allied headquarters reported. Hard Fighting But the advances were made in some of the hardest fighting of the North African campaign, espe- cially in the Medjez el Bab sector where Allied attacks were followed by Axis counter-attacks all day. Yesterday, Americans under Lieut. Gen. George 8. Patton, Jr., gleaned, ‘Von Arnim's northern ; Germans jand Italians out of the djebel of |Daroyss and occupied an impor- {tant high ground. Another contin- gent was pushing toward Jefna, station 28 miles southwest of Bi- zerte, and swept enemy forces of the djebel of Azzog north of Jef- na, also taking the hill of Ajred. just southwest of the station. These two hills command much of the approach to Mateur, impor- |tant Axis crossroad point 16 miles cast of Jefna. Take Prisoners The British First Army attacked Djebel Bou Auokaz, 12 miles north- e of Medjez el Bab, against avage fighting Germans, and reached within 400 yards of the rest. Thirty or 40 prisoners were taken. This point commands a great section of the Medjerda Val- ley, only 21 miles in a direct line from Tunis. A dispatch received late ywster- day said French troops had reached the outskirts of Pont du Fahs, stra- tegic crossroads town and Ger- man base 34 miles southwest of Tunis. b CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS WILL BE PUT TO WORK iSeventy Wil Be Sent to Chungking, China- Others 1o Dairies WASHI NGTON Apl il 28 —The Selective Service Bureau of the War Manpower Commission has announced that 70 conscientious ob~ jectors to military service will be sent to Chunking, China, to work on medical sanitary and health pro-' jects. Designation of the Chunking project as work of national import- ance was included in an announce- ment of four spheres for registrants who object to combatant and non- combatant military service. out 500 conscientious objectors v.lu be used to produce necessary dairy products and will be assigned to.this work under the Agricultural as Minnesofa's First Farmer Executive | Labor Administration of the De- partment of Agriculture ST. PAUL, Minn, April 28 Gov. Harold E. Stassen, 35, the D Nation’s youngest Governor, has/® ® ® e o o o o o o @ resigned and left for the Great ® DIMOUT TIMES . Lakes Training Stations where to- w— L morrow he enters active duty as ¢ Dimout begins tonight e a Lieutenant Commander”in the ® at sunset at 8:39 o'clock. L] Navy. e Dimout ends tomorrow e Stassen is succeeded by Lieuten- ® at sunrise at 5:11 am. . ant Governor Ed Thye who will ® Dimout begins Thursday at e be Minnesota’s first farmer . set at 8:41 p.m. . Gov- ernor, i ® 00 00 00 000 00 4