The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LX., NO. 9330. —_— ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS "PRICE TEN CENTS — | AMERICAN GAIN NEW GROUND IN AFRICA " AlaskaJap Bases Attacked From Sea Al Government May Take KISKA, ATTU | POSTS GIVEN 2 BOMBINGS Nippons' Main Advance Outpost in South Pa- cific Is Bombarded WASHINGTON, April 29. — The Navy reports that an Army bomb- er force struck heavily at Te a Island, one of Japan’s main ad- vance outposts in the South Pa- cific, while in the North Pacific an American Naval force bombarded the Japanese occupied Attu Island in the Aleutians. Surface units also bombarded Jap positions at Holtz Bay and Chich- agof harbor on Attu Island. The Navy report says several fires were started by the bombard- ment and no enemy gun resistance is reported. The bombardment was madé on April 27. Army planes carried out one at- tack against the Japanese instal- lations at Kiska but the results were not observed on account of bad weather. Regarding the attack on Tarawa Island, Jap base in the Gilbert land group, the Navy Lommuniqu\ says ‘“‘extensive- damage was done and it is indicated that enemy fighter opposition was encount- | ered but all planes returned safely to base.” ’ Liberator heavy bombers attacked Jap installations at Kahila Vila but results were not observed. LOGGERSURGED TORETURNNOW 10 LUMBERING — - WASHINGTON April 29. acute has the lumber shortage be- come that the Government has started a campaign to persuade loggers who left the industry to en-; ter shipyards and other essentxal‘ industries months ago to return to| the woods to produce the mabeuals‘ for boxes and crates with which to‘ ship the implements of war to the- battle fronts as well as supplying; lumber for bridges, cnmonmenL: airplanes and shipyard uses. To induce experienced lumber‘ workers to return to their former | occupations the Government has| assured them of a 48-hour mini- mum work week and special con-| sideration in their selective service| status. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) i WASHINGTON.—When you sift down allithe hullabaloo about El-| mer Davis and his Office of War Information, the only valid criti- cism you can. make against the drawling Hoosier is that he is working too hard. The last two weeks when he went on the air, he was so exhausted he had a stand-by alongside ready to take up his script if he collapsed. Davis works far into the night tries to read all that his volumin- ous office produces, sees almost everyone who wants to see him. But given a tough situation, basi- cally he has done a good job.Sena- tors like Montana’s Wheeler and Nevada's McCarran, whose acid di- gestive systems are always poison- ing their political outlook, make a wry face at Davis. But Wheeler and MecCarran are always demand- ing more facts and inside fact is that Davis has been fighting their battle in keeping the American public informed. Most of Davis’ fight is getting news, squeezing it out of goveru-| W (Coutinued on Page Four) |between synthetic rubber and high American Bombers Over Jap-Held Atfu Island An American Liberator bomber, framed by a machine gun and tail of another bomber, flies over fog- shrouded Attu Island, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, now held by the Japanese. In recent days the CHANDLER " SAYS JAPS THREATEN Points omNééa for More Men, Munitions in Pacific bombing raids on these rn(‘mv-llcld Seaifle War labor Men Set Uniform Wages for Alaska War Workers SEATTLE, April 29. — The Re- |gional War Labor Board's first de- | cision affecting Alaska sets up a | uniform wage scale for all work- employed on war agency spon- * ICKES FLAYS meud jobs in the Territory, Dr. George Noble announced today, de-‘ cribing it as the first of the na-| WASHINGTON, April 29. Call- tion. ing for a greater military concen- pR RAM He said the order provides for!traion in the Pacific, Senator Al- lanket uniform wages for alli bert Chandler of Kentucky said workers doing the same job, apply- | that if the Japanese are given more ing to thousands of workers. ttime to dig in, the conflict “may “Until now, laborers, for example, ' last 10 years or 20 years, or may go received 90 cents an hour for someion forever.” war construction projects and 96| Gen. Douglas MacArthur's fore- MIX-Up and a half cents on others,” he said. es must be strengthened, he said, “Now the uniform rate for all la-|to enable him to carry the war to - borers on war construction work of the enemy. WASHINGTON, April 29.—Secre- private contractors operating un- Chandler, tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes ger war agencies is a flat $1.01 1/2 Senate committee which last y told Senators it would take a per hour. investigated Alaskan and Aleutian ‘catalogue of Washington” to list Other scales include carpenters military establishments, said mili- the persons in high authority Who and concrete finishers, $1.50 per tary men are agreed that if the displayed a “really baffling lack hour; mechanics and millwrights, Japs had attacked Dutch Harbor in of understanding” in the impor- $1.56 1/2 per hour; crane, clamshell force last June they would have tance of the high octane gasoline and derrick operators, $2 per hour; taken that important and strategic program. | welders, $1.61 1/2 per hour; fore- harbor. “Some of them are military and men will continue to get differen- The committee was so impressed some of them naval,” he said, “but tials of 12 1/2 to 25 cents per hour. with this danger that it appealed in the final analysis we couldn’ Joe Flakne, specialist for the (o the President for prompt addi- o0 ahead without new materials, War Manpower Commission praised tion of troops, planes and equip- There is only one source of new the decision. ' ment for this area. materials—Washington.” {Claims Many in High Places Responsible for chairman of a special ar | I(lrc\ said this obvlously \uas a Board in testimony late yesterday pefore the Truman Investigating [ 4 | FoR BullDl"G Committee concerning the conflicts VICTORY SHIPS WASHINGTON, April 29 tracts for the construction of new merchant ships, including new design Victory ships as well as 206 high speed tankers, were recently' awarded by the Maritime octane gasoline programs. HORSE MEAT Ickes reported despite all ob- les the Army is going to get lhfl —_— hngh octane gasoline requested last' WASHINGTON, April 29. — The summer, “but we would be getting price ceiling on horse meat, sched- a lot more in the near future if uled for adoption on April 20, was we had been able to do the build- postponed on the evening of its ing of refineries necessary for the adoption by the Office of Price manufacture of more,” he added. |Administration. con- 469 189 AFTER-WAR - SERVICEIS PREDICTED ; "President, Back from 20-| | State Tour, Gains New | Impressions | WASHINGTON, April 29.—Presi- jaent Roosevelt T ended his 20- |state war inspection tour with the |idea that the youth of America now | making use of the industrial plants and military canps, might as well| give a year’s service to their gov- fernment in the post-war era. | The President traveled 7,652 miles {in 17 days, checking up widely scat tered war activities and dropping {down to Mexico to confer with ! President Avila Camacho. | Presicent Roosevelt told the re- | porters accompanying him on his| | tour that he is convinced the armed | |forces on the home front and the | | tactories are in their stride but he | |is wondering what could be done | |after victory is won with the camps | |and plants in which millions of |dollars are invested. | The. President has no specific | |plan or program to offer but he | | emplfasized the physical condition | and mental alertness of men and | women in the service and war warkers in uniforms has been real- | |ized during the past few months. | |He indicated though their training | |should be extended to all young| &mcn and women in some form after we win the war. The President objects to the term | | | of ‘“compulsory military service” and prefers to speak of it as a| | year’s contributidn to the serv |of the Government if any prog g wiz\wlup probably only partially | | military however. The President left Washington April 13 and visited 11 Army posts, | 4 war plants, one marine base, one WAAC school and one naval air training center. He talked with a dozen Governors and at least double that number of plant exe- cutives. Everywhere the President went he saw action. One of the deepest impressions he brought back to Washington was one of the vast improvement of the armed forces since he made a similar tour last September. As on the former trip, the Presi- dent returned with the opinion the whole temper of the country is far more sober and far more intelligent on ghe war efforts than those in Washington. | The President said the people | elsewhere do not magnify some- thing of tenth degree importance and put it on the front pages. | - | GUS HOLMSTROM VISITS FRIENDS IN JUNFAU Gus Holmstrom, of the U. § Engincers, frcm Brainerd, Minn, | visited in Juneau today with O. B. | Millet. Holmstrom is a member of | the Alford John Bradford Post of | the American Legion hefe, and | also visited with Commander Al- fred Zenger. R BUY WAB BONDS Japs Bulchered {than 58000 goft coal miners stayed |or | whether the Army had plans AMERICANS Chinesein Area Where American Pilofs Landed Drastic Steps If Soff Cozl Miners Call Strike BUL — Washington, case at closed hearings April imated at As yet, the walkouts are not of- oon today that 70,000 soft coal ficially regarded as strikes bul miners are’out. John L. Lewis, President of the UMW, promised his workers will not work after midnight Friday un- less demands are met in full. The WLB is debating WASHINGTON, April 29-—More The War Labor Board took up the to work. SENATE 0 STRIKERS (ONSIDER =~ ORDERED MINE GRAB | miners who choose 10 A.M. Saturday, or Else WASHINGTON, April 20, — The WASHINGTON, April 20. — The pyogigent has appealed to soft coal Senate has voted to consider Mon-1, ;.. 72000 of which already are day 4 bill by Senator Tom Connally | i) ve “Pbl ™ TR T e authoriize seizure of 4 i struck mines or industrial plants|Gie o Y GO0 €8 after measures for other remedies @ i yn 2 . i {power as President and Comman- |der-in-Chief” to protect the m;' l:(xluutl:”x.;‘:;f “‘;‘l’l‘i“‘(“:’””’:‘_:“'l:;:" ional interest and prevent further in the person of United Mine Work- | 1ierference With im Pl et ers chief John L. Lewis should be| DEOR SE W permitted to override the consti-| Lh¢ uP'”Isll,d(.lll)Lel:vl'ut!:llw‘:hefntghlte};‘: tutional guthority of the Govern- WA8€ dispute ! ment. :und mine operators after it was Secretary of War Henry Slixmovl‘mme‘l i .mm by the Was it “T have no-comment” ‘when| 005 BpaId whish was dgnored by ed during a press Uohl(’rence John L. Lewis, labor leader, a_nd for his associates of the United Mine ment Seizure of Struck | Operaions all of his moving soldiers to the-mine fields| WOrkers. i where 172,000 workers have quit A Bends Wires 'work. President Roosevelt sent tele- grams to Lewis and to Thomas —_— e e Kennedy, Secretary - Treasurer of | the union, asking the men of the mines to “resume work immediatelv tand to submit their case to the ! National War Labor Board for final lruonllnued on Png« Three) RAID ITALY YESIERDAY ACTIVITY IS CAIRO, April 29.—A concentra- tion of American Liberators drovped | a quarter million pounds of higrn explosives yesterday on the Bari ’ airdrome in southern TItaly, key Axis aireraft. | r-muly mlm for Every Be Linked with Seattle, Declares Maverick SEATTLE, April The Alcan Highway to Alaska must be linked directly with Seattle for the d opment of Alaska, the Pacif ( | | | | l 29. Asia, Maury Maverick, head of- tlu of Government division | Production Board dec! {said if they don’t do so by 10 am.| na- | whether| away from their work yesterday in the wage dispute that threaten- this constitutes outright defiance) ling to develop a full scale strike And calling for action or whether it| on industry, fuel, power, war plants, should be ignored pending actual motive power and trains shutdown. There is talk of the use of troops Speculation arose as to what the| piedia ik e ; " Government will do if the strike| to guard and protect those who | might want to work. This is heard 96YelOPS: 5 X o Albhe s ‘he decis i resident | s miliiaeibegan ‘clpaing’ down - one! o Lo Aeelkln: 1s “up. to, Presient Roosevelt. ter another in Pennsylvania, = o 5 Kentucky: Alubama and West Vir.| Some sources said the Govern- A cky, Alabama anc PS Pe " ment will probably move in and ginla, give military protection to any Highway fo Alaska Must | erican soAir BRITISH IN STIFF FIGHT WITHNALIS Vanguardsr of First Army Forced Back Near Medjez el Bab BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NORTH AF- RICA, April 20—~The U. S. Troops have gained some im- portant ground in North Tu- nisia but the Axis resistance has stiffened along the entire front. Indications are the Ger- mans are determined (o resist to the end. Tank supported shock troops are engaged in many counte ks, West of Tunis, the French forces are reported tenight to have broken the Axis counter-attacks. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 29.—Tank- upported German tank troops counter-attacked twice yesterday northeast of Medjez el Bab, and although they were at first re- {pulsed with heavy losses, the Nazis T0 WORK May A ufhor”irze Govern- | President Set; Deadline at| compelled the British First Army vanguards to withdraw slightly. At the same time, United States and French units galned anew on the flanks, The Second U. S. Army Corps under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., “made further progress and gained some important ground” in its push through the” brushy hills in North Tunisia toward Ma- teur and Bizerte. French Gain, Too The Nineteenth French Army Corps in the south, operating at the hinge between the British Pirst and Eighth armies, is credited with additional local gains. The first Nazi counter-attack igainst the British penetration were launched with infantrymen supported by 30 tanks late yes- terday afterncon on Djebel Abou | Auckaz, 12 miles northeast of Med- iez el Bab. The British defenders hurled the first attack back in one of the sloodiest battles of the North Af- rican campaign. A considerable oumber of German riflemen were killed and several Nazi tanks were knocked out. The Germans their reformed (Continued on Page Two) -e LAND LAUDS BUILDING OF BOATS TO (E“TER ‘SaysGreaIesiShlpbmldmg Chapter in History of World NEW YORK Apul 29.—Rear Ad- miral Emory S. Land, chairman of e U. 8. Marine Commission, re- ported today nearly 19 million dead- | weight tons of dry cargo vessels and tankers will be constructed in Am- yards this year, compared | with eight million tons last year. l‘ years as the the Warlfor He described the record of Ame crican industry in the past two “greatest shipbuilding | “hapter in the history of the world.” |He said the nation has a capacity building at least 20 million tons ed on hisiof shipping annually as long as it Commission. | . - | OPA said the action was taken (The new vessels, all of which willl SAN FRANCISCO, April 20— (“now I must bring to you with a|recent tour of the Pacific North-|is necessary, and asserted if steel (to allow horse meat dealers to ad- he completed by the end of 1944, Jap troops slaughtered every man, deep sense of shock and anger this| west land manpower is available “we can More power lo Be |Just their inventories because Dack- il be constructed in all parts of | ¥OMan and child in the coastal | further news” Tomorrow's accent will be on the produce npproximately 2000 mer- lers reported a considerable number the United 'States ,u" the Henry areas of China where the Ameri- He read the message in which the | Pacific, Maverick decla pre- | chant smps a yeal {of live horses on hand and f tran- J. Kaiser ds ” w:l % s | can fliers landed after bombing Chinese leader said “ulter they had dicting Seattle will be the new geo- i leell 'o Se(relar' [sit and retailers in possession of ‘. oS 8ENAS e 0 D ony TOkYO, Secretary of the Treasury been caught unawares by the falling graphical political center of the , o large stocks decided additional time Zom,fcf?, ‘4’;‘;“’”“ St "';‘1” Henry Morgenthau said here last| American bombs at 'Tokyo, Jap world on the Pacific. 2 b “:“'w; ‘r. il o' Inie"o' on land‘w necessary *for these dealers to| 0 ““" 68 100 "Victory ’1“ night. | troops attacksd the coastal areas of Direct lines by air, land, or se Ll TMES * adjust their businesses to con- | “'¢h Wil supplant the familiar| “ge guig he received this informa- China where many American fli- 80 to Moscow, Alaska, all of Can- ” Vi . WASHINGTON, April 29, — The form with the new price schedule, - | 14eFty ships as the pruicipal emer-|yion by cable from Gen. Chiang ers had landed. ada, all of the United States across' ® Pimaut becins tonight e Senate Public Lands Committee has - geacy freighter type. The new shibs|gaj shek, and read the message at| “These troops slaughtcred every the Pacific to Chunking and to all ® 8t sunset at §:41 o'clock. . approved of the measure to auth- : are larger and considciably {aster. |y gathering of war loan workers. |man, woman and child in those Uhe capitals of the vast populations|® DPimout ends tomorrow e orize the Secretary of Interior to 10 Prevent dust or dirt from| In addition to the coniracts for| The Secretary spoke of the hor- . - of Asia, Afriea and Australia with ® at sunrise at 5:08 am . defer or waive payments under eutering binoculars workers as- Victory ships, Kaiser also was gi vor throughout the nation at the o Let me repeat ¢ FOOPS u)1 their wealth and possibilities of ® Dimout begins Friday at o non-mineral leases on public lands semble them in air-conditioned 'contracts for 95 tankers and 17 word that some of the American S!Aughtered every man, woman and human improvement, Maverick ® sunset at §:44 pm. . in Alaska. ,atmosphere electrically cleaned. Laberty ships. 'fliers had been exécuted, then said,|child.” said. ® 0 00 0 s 00 e a0 k.