The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1943, Page 1

VOL. LX., NO. 9331. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ey ICE BREAKS, MOVES OUT NENANA RIVER Americans Reported 17 Miles From Bizerte FDR on Tour Reviews the WAACS HOLD NAIZIS ON PLAINS NEAR mms'; Both Wings of Allied Units| & Make Advances Yesterday ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 30—Al- lied troops smashed forward on both wings of the Tunisian Front yesterday while Anderson’s British First Army fought off powerful Na- zi counter-blows in the Medjez el Bab sector to continue to hold all but one of its positions before the plains spreading out to Tunis. The Second U. S. Army Corps, pushing through enemy resistance in the northern Tunisian mountains toward Tunis and Bizerte, contin- ued to chalk up gains. French and American detach- ments were reported in a dispatch filed from Tunisia late last night to have fought their way to with- in 20 airline miles of Bizerte, wip- ing out several concealed German machinegun nests in their cross- country advance. 3 The dispatch said these men were within three miles of Lake Achkel, the western shore of which lies 17 miles from Bizerte. Lake Achkel flows into Lake Bi-- zerte which empties into the Medi- terranean. HUGH WADE BAC IN JUNEAU TODAY Returning to Juneau this after- noon after an absence of three weeks, Hugh J. Wade, Territorial Director of the Social Security Board, arrived home today. Mr. Wade went to Anchorage to conduct business pertaining to the disposal of recreational facilities of the USO andalso attended to other departmental business. The Washingloh Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — It seems in- conceivable that war contractors could conjure up any more devices for swelling the cost of the war than those already being commit- ted under the head of “adminis- dent’s cape. LIBERATORS MADEAIDON NIPPON BASE Fires Are Started by Bombs Among Barracksand . Hangi:rs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 30.—Liberators cxecuted a strong morning raid Thursday on the Japhnese seaplane base on the island of Ambonia, Dutch East Indies. Bombs started fires and explo- trative expenses” in cost-plus con- tracts. However, the shipping industry has thiought up a new one—charg- ing charity contributions to the government. ) Since last October, shipping com- panies have been charging up to “overhead expense” their donations to the United Seamen's Service, an ization which maintains rest homes for torpedoed merchant sea- men. This “overhead expense” is passed on to the government through cost-plus contracts. Amazing fact is that the War Shipping Administration fully ap- proves, even encourages, this prac- tice. On October 7, William- Radner, WSA general counsel, sent a con- fidential -“Legal Bulletin” to ail merchant ship operators giving his blessing. He said: “Inquiries have been received as to whether contributions made by agents (shipping companies), under service agreements, to United Sea- men’s Service, Inc., are reimburs able, or may be considered as part of the agent's overhead expenses under general order No. 12. “Although contributions by agents to United Seamen’s Service, Inc., are not reimbursable under the pro- visions of the service agreéments,| the amounts of such contributions | may be included in the overhead| expense of the agents in calculat- | ing any adjustment of compensa- tion under the provisions of sec- tions 10 and 11 of general order| No. 12 ’ ; One of the companies which (Continued op Page Tour). sions among the barracks and hangars. At Halong, 15 Zeroes attempted to intercept the Liberators. Two Zeroes were shot down. All American planes returned safely to base. NORWEGIAN FILMS WILL BE SHOWN HERE TOMORROW! Interesting moving pictures of Camp Little Norway and Norway in Revolt will be shown in the Odd Fellows hall tomorrow night for the benefit of the Norwegian Seamen's Relief. The showing of the pictures to- morrow night is sponsored by the Sons of Norway and the interest- ing subjects should attract a good audience. The public is invited and a col- lection will be taken up for the enefit of the Seamen’s Relief. Starting at 8 o'clock, the two pic- tures will take an hour and forty minutes to show TEN ARRIVE HERE FROM WESTWARD Arriving in Juneau this morning from the Westward were the fol- lowing passengers for Juneau: M. L. Boyd, Verna La Valle, T. Mc- Daniels, Mrs. C. Odean, Robert Sommers, Barbara Smith, H. J. Wade, Tom Cronin, L. Jacob, and J. Holley Seated beside Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, head of the WAAE, President Roosevelt rev on his tour of the southeasiern mi The review took place Elastic Lack for Panties May Bring (haoi!_Repori? | | | ¢s the army auxiliaries | ce man, adjusts the Presi- Fredericks, Secret St 'REPORT TRAFFIC REGULATIONS FOR ALASKA DISTRICT WASHINGTON, April 30. — How| Highway traffic regulations which {he American female is going to|are being revised and which are keep her unmentionables in place | expected to become effective soon, if she can't get elastic is the latest|contain no radical changes but con-| problem facing Rubber Director|form generally to practices every-| William M. Jeffers. | where that motor vehicies are driv- | “Will you kindly tell me,” asked en. ik a lady in Orlando, Fla, in a letter! Apart from certain restrictions to Jeffers, “how you expect the|where local conditions make fur- women of America to keep their/ther limitations necessary, the max- | pants on? I am not referring to|imum speed for motor vehicles in slacks, that imitation of a man’s| Alaska is based upon the national |attire, but to those undercover gar-|limitation—that is 35 miles per {ments, variously known as panties, | bour. | briefs, stepins, bloomers and snug-| Reckl hit-and-run and drunk- gies, a most vital part of a woman's|en drivers, covered fully by stat-; ry posts. at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. attire |utory acts, remain of course as| “At the present time no store in|they are by law and are not and this city has even one inch of |cannot be affected by any regu-| clastic tape,” she continued, “and|lation but every effort will be made | (for your information I will say to remove {that it is elastic and it alone which | confines those garments to the |vocation of their licenses. | ‘emale form. | Garages and repair shops under “And therefore, Mr. Jeffers, we|the traffic act are prohibited from extremity | waking any repairs on any motor | {appeal to you in o and for our extremities) be it|vibicle that could have been in- such | synthetic recaps, or serap, but give!volved in any collision until Lus elastic taper” vehicle has been officially r Jeffers wrote a reply to the lady,|20d failure to report any wr cked | * vehicle or the making of any false {but what he told her was not dis- | closed. statements in connection there- | - RPN bl with is punishable, by fine or im- prisonment. Upon the sale or transfer of any | motor vehicle the person to whom | sold or transferred is prohibited | from using the license plates | | MRS. GALLWAS HEALTH | IMPROVED; FAMILY | EN]OYS REU"'O" HERE‘«'uch vehicle until he has notified i the nearest licensing officer of such = sale or transfer. _H.\mld Gall Alaska Star| Emphasis is made upon the prop-| | airlines executive, arrived in Ju- er equipment such as lights, brakes, neau by plane yesterday from An-|horns, etc., and the care of the same | chorage to visit his parents, Mr.|and with the exception of police,| and Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas. |ambulance or fire department| Mr. Gallwas, formerly with the!equipment, horns may be. only of Ala:ska Game Commission, has been ! the regular stock type and used only assistant operations manager for when reasonably necessary to in- | the Alaska Star Airlines with head-|sure safety and avoid da{l\gc‘x but quarters in Anchorage for the last|not for celebrating purposes Mariin Gallwas artived Tuesday IHREE ARRIVEI 8 60 WEST ON to visit his parents on his first trip north in six years. He is with | the Pacific Telephone and Tele- | graph Company in Tacoma. Both| |of the men were brought up in| Douglas where their father was | s ‘in the grocery business and was| SIAR AlRlINES Mr. | | mayor for many years. Both | nd Mrs. Gallwas were prominent | in civic affairs in Douzla: odon Bl R eane, piloied Mrs. Louis Delebecque, Dmy‘by Chet Brown and Robert Totten, daughter of the family arrived last| *TOUSht three passengers from the week from Seattle with her small| " c5\Ward. They were John G. Za- daughter, Katie. Mr. Delebecque is bc'; B: M. Dunlap, and Harold versonnel director for Pan Amer-‘Gauwas' ican Airways in Seattle. Returning to the Westward on The illness of Mrs. Gallwas, the plane were G. T. Stevens, Earl which occasioned the family gath- B. Brewster, Thomas Platt Jr, J.| ering in Juneau, has greatly im- Bradshaw, W. R | happy reunion, | Frank Howard, | | b MAY DECIDE WHOLEWAR, IS REPORT| Moscow Tehsé with Excite- ment After Latest An- nouncement MOSCOW, April 30.—Russia's of- icial Government paper, Izvestia, aid today the coming month will j¢ the beginning of an intensive ummer land campaign which may well decide the outcome of the This astonishing pronouncement ame as a violent air war mounted along the Russian front The newspaper’s editorial recalled that the Russian winter campaign ian control. The Russian press ounded a prophetic note that tre- mendous events are in the making, and a significant air of expectancy pervaded Moscow. The German command reported hat the Russians attacked again and again yesterday on the eastern ine of the Germans’ Kuban defense in the Caucasus but were repulsed lespite strong tank and artillery support. ,The German report credited Nazi pllots with 67 Soviet' planes. The German propaganda agency said the Russians opened a Kuban of- fensive Wednesday with 10 infantry divisions, 150,000 troops, strongly supported by tanks and planes, but a2t no point, said the German re- port, did the Russians gain. R 17 OWI MOVIES AVAILABLE FOR SHOWINGS HERE Dr. Dale of Office of In- dian Affairs Has Bookings Dr. George A. Dale, Associate Supervisor of Education for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs. such drivers from the|announced today that he has re-| | nighways by the suspension or re-|ceived 17 separate movie reels from| MONTREAL. April 30. ~The RAF the Office of War Information which may be furnished to all groups having facilities to show them from now through nextsum- mer. Arrangements may also be made sed | with local groups to have the Of-| the he iice of Indian Affairs show movies and provide an operator said. All persons intercsted in having the moving pictures shown shoulc all Dr. Dale at 586 to arranze for bookings. A number of bookings al- ready have been made for schools | interested in showing the movies before the end of the school year, |and other groups, but the films will | be available for some time yet. Six of them are 800-footers which ast for between 30 and 40 min- utes. These are “Building a Tank,” “Building a Bomber,” “Western Front,” “Winning Your Wings,” “U. S. News Review No. 1,” and ampus on the March.” The others, which last about 20 to 30 minutes each, along with some special short features, are: “Power For Defense,” "Women in Defense,” “Safeguarding Military Information,” “Aluminum.” “Ring of Steel,” “Lake Carrier,” “An- chors Aweigh,” “Keep 'Em Rolling,” “Cassions Go Rolling Along,” “Men and the Sea,” “Manpower." -+ EMERGENCY NEW YORK — Four police radio cars and two emergency trucks rush- ed to Centre Street when a passerby reported a man was about to jump off the roof of the Hall of Records, After police stretched out life nets, the roofwalker, Joseph Sirelli, came strolling down through the huilding work, stored 480,000 kilometers to Rus- | generally | [ at an advanced army ba: camp's electrified. ACROSS ATLANTIC [N RECORD TIME T'ransport Command discloses that Capt. W. S. May flew 2200 statute miles from Landfall, New Found- ‘and, to the United Kingdom in } hours and 20 minutes. Capt: May flew a Liberator with ibout 56,000 pounds of cargo, in iense clouds about 20,000 feet al- | itude. A tailwind sometimes ap- | proached 100 knots an hour. | — . MPROVED METHODS | DECREASE LABOR | TURNOVER, REPORT | | | | As an indication of far-reach- ing effeets of the training course during which the Territorial Health | Department prepared certain se- {lected persons for inspecting food estabiishments, is the results re- ported at Excursion Inlet. | | Two men from Excursion T t | were trained during the course and have since,. through ground work laid by Stedman Green, sanita cngineer for the department, in- i augurated many jmproved methods {of caring for and washing ser utensils and dishes Within the last few days when an executive from the Inlet visited the ® Department of Health offices, he reported that improved sanitation methods are almost certain to show |4 definite decrease in labor turn- lover, since fcod preparation and serving is one of the chief causes (of laho- discontent. Prior to the radical improvemen? in handling and conserving foods, frequently men who were employed ate one meal and left, it was stated. The executive also expressed very keen appreciation for the availabil- i Johnson. and told police he was cleaning the [ily of the Territorial laboratories proved, and they are enjoying a Frank P. Read, Robert Stoft, and roof gutters. Then he went back to &nd also for the activities of the di-|* vision of engineering, U.S. Tankin Aleutians in the Aleutian Islands. Pvt. Earl Krech (bottom) South St. Paul, Minn., weary of washing clothes by hand at his Alaskan base, harnessed the Aleutian winds with this wind- mill washing machine he contrived from wood, wire and an empty oil drum. All he had to do was hold the bucket steady. FLIES LIBERATOR } 1CE MOVED " ATT:22P.M. ON APRIL 28 { No One on Exact Minute- Award Is Split-Juneau- ites Among Fortunate The ice went out in the Nenana River on April 28 at 7:22 p.m, according to a de- layed dispatch from Tom Jones, manager, reaching The Empire this afternoon. The Foster Pool of Juneau came in for a sixth of the ’ i money. No one had the exact minute so the stakes were divided be- tween holders on 7:21 and 7:23 p.m. Hall of the winnings go to 21 soldiers of Fairbanks for being on 7:23 p.m, and the other half goes to the Foster Pool of Juneaw, Allan W. Lee of Fairbanks, and August Jun- tunen and Margo Lester of An- chorage. Each of these three tickets wins a sixth of the money. The ice went cut last year on April 30 at 1:28 pm, and in 1941 on May 3 at 1:50 am. Holders in Junead on the Foster Pool who will split a sixth of the winnings are Frank and Clara Foster, Jack and Betty Burford and Marian Richey. ALASKA COASTAL KEEPING BUSY; Today Alaska Coastal carried many passengers to nearby points. Leaving Juneau for Sitka were Jack Lokke, John J. Zohen, Mar- ion Wood and Virgil Baker. Return- ng on the plane were E. F. Wyller, Peter Hoolis, W. M. Faust, Bonnie Grover, Herb Young and the Rev. Walter Soboleff. Leaving Juneau for Wrangell were Beatrice Cable and T. H. Mc- Daniel. Taking passage to Excursion In- et were Artle G. Emerloff, H. C. “ryant, Christian F. Hansen, Ray Higgens and Chester Neff. Return- ng to Juneau with the plane were Alex A. Gazoff, Geo. Cartetti, Carl C. Stafford and Geo. Amattury. * The following flights were made late yesterday: from Juneau to Haines: Ted Reynolds, Dave Fen- on and Margaret Fenton. Return- - - ng were H. R. Sprague, John Sutic OSSINING PRISON, N. Y. April| ind Daniel L. Sappola. John Mur- 30.—Eli Shonburn, 35, and John|dock, H. G. Date and John E. Pol- Cullen, 45, convicted murderers,| ari also took passage to Haines. went to death this morning in the| On the trip from Juneau to Ex- clectric chair. Shonburn went to|cursion Inlet were the following the chair first and after pronounced | passengers: John Peyton, Tom dead, Cullen was placed in the| Gary, Easel Lynn, Wm. G. Strong, chair and the current applied. M. N. Knight and T. Taylor. Com~ Both men were convicted of ng to Juneau from Excursion Inlet strangling to death Mrs. Susan|were Ray Liebsle, Arthur Stephens, Reich, wealthy Polish refugee in a| Kenneth L. Kiger and Royal Kai- New York City hotel dast March| dera. 4, after robbing her of her jewelry. Madeline Webb, partner in the e weica”s o He Slept on the Job S0 To Jail He" 0 Jail He's Gone wish and he received a farewell let- ter from Maacline Webb. | - { SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Ench Plier, 42, couldn't resist the temptatien to curl up and go to sleep. As a TWO ARE GRANTED ¢ ( I I I l E" S H ' p IN ;'esull!.l an employee who opened a SPECIAL HEARING i vy o s suiy i | found slumber. He also found the Now the 2SLAYERS EXECUTED IN PRISON One Murdéfefl Is Granted Last Wish—Gefs Farewell from Woman in Crime . - District Court Judge George F. door jimmied and the safe tampered Alexander held a special naturali-|with. 8till yvawning, Plier was ar- zation hearing yesterday for sev- rested for burglary. eral men who are on their way to become members of the armed TR formes. Granted citizenship papers » o ® o o o o o o o o e the following . DIMOUT TIMES . plipe Ramos Tango, formerly of ‘e — ] hikan, of the Philippine Is- ¢ Dimout begins tonight ® lands. ® at sunset at 8:44 o'clock. L] Leo Kotsarelis, former subject of e Dimout ends tomorrow ® Great Britain from the fsland of e at sunrise at 5:05 am. . Cyrus in the Mediterranean. e Dimout begins Saturday at e > " ® sunset at 8:46 p.m. . BUY WAR BONDS e @ 9000000090 00 »