The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1943, Page 1

| | { | (=) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXI., NO. 9333. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOM)AY MAY 3, 1943 MEMBER ASSO(‘,IATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY COAL CRISIS AVERTED; STRIKE IS ENDED Mateur | Falls; American Troop LULL SEEN | ELSEWHERE | IN TUNISIA Both Sidesfi&ering from Effects of Violent Battle BULLETIN—London, May 3. —A broadcast from Algiers to- night, picked up here said the Allied Headquarters in Africa announces Mateur has fallen and American forces have en- tered the city which is enly 18 miles south of Bizerte and 34 miles northwest of Tunis. A French communique broad- cast, also picked up here, said that the Germans pulled out of their northern positions after a terrific pounding of almost two weeks. Mateur is the key junction of rail and highway communi- cations between Tunis and Bi- zerte. French forces are also report- ed to have swept to within 15 miles of the. naval base. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 3.—United States and French troops occupied | a group of hills 12 miles northwest of Mateur yesterday. But a lull appeared to be devel- oping throughout most of the Tun- (Continued on Page Six) The Washlngton Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) R i WASHINGTON.—Here, is what happened behind the scenes last week in the coal mine negotiations which made John L. Lewis so boil- ing mad. Charles O'Neill, representing the Northern coal operators, flatly re- fused to make any counter-pro- posals to the United Mine Workers’ demand for a $2 a day increase. Lewis had proposed that even if the coal operators couldn't meet those demands, they should *offer something and then, by continued negotiations, it might be possible to find a basis for agreement. «“Offer us something, even if its only two cents a day increase,’ pleaded the big miner, “so we'll have something to negotiate on.” “No, we're standing pat,” re- plied O'Neill, knowing he had President Roosevelt behind him, also wanting to get the dispute before the War Labor Board. “We will agree to no wage increase.” “All right, will you offer counter- proposals to some of our other demands, not involving money?” Lewis persisted. This met with another turn-down from O'Neill, who had insisted al- most from the start of conciliation talks in New York that the mine dispute be turned over to the War Labor Board. And he knew that any counter-proposal by him would delay reference to the Board. “Well, if that's the way you feel about it, you know our position,” exploded Lewis. “If we don't have a new contract when the 30-day extension expires on April 30, we won't be trespassing ou your pro- perty.” EXAMPLE FOR BIG TAX- PAYERS Since publication of the recent Merry-Go-Round report regarding U. S. Treasury-Thomas J. Watson tax difficulties, I have been in- formed that Mr. Watson paid_the | Treasury’s additional tax assess-| ments of around $350,000 in 1940,/ and that his present claim ngau\sl the Treasury for a refund will not ! be pressed. Mr. Watson lodged this claim on advice of tax counsel only because of precedents set by the Tax Court §Continued on Page Four). Joins WAVES ONLY SISTER OF THE FIVE SULLIVAN BOYS who gave their fast fuil measure of devotion when the U. S. S, Juneau sank in the Solo- mons, is pictured as she was sworn into the WAVES by Captain G. L. Arnoeld, U. S After completing her tour of war plants in company with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomis Sullivan, Miss Genevieve Sullivan will report for naval ir at Hunter College tn New York City. ing U. S. Army Uses Long Range Arfillery for Firsflime, Mateur Fight WITH THE UNITED 'STATES ARMY SOUTHWEST OF MA- TEUR, April 30—(Delayed)—The U. S. Troops have captured Djebel Tahent Hill No. 609 after bitter fighting, 16 miles southwest of Ma- teur. The troops, for the first time in the Mateur campaign, turned long| range artillery into the enemy. The fire brought counter battery |fire, the heaviest artillery duelling |since the Amerfcan attack began April 23. Fifteen or 20 Focke Wulfs were dispatched into the air by the Ger- Coast Guard Boat Makes H"—Thl'ee Of NaZiS mans lm a \{\mvatll.ce;pts to locate cap'ul_ed and silence the n gl ttes guns. WASHINGTNO, May 3. — A KISKA HIT Coast Guard Cutter sank a man U-Boat off the Carolina CoaSL FRIDAY BY several months ago, the Navy has just revealed. It also reported that three of the sub’s crew were cap- tured, including the commanding officer, and then presumably held in a prison camp in the United States. Although the Navy does not com- Y ment on the destruction of the U- WASHINGTON, May 3.-—Flying boat, it was achieved by the 165 1N weather so bad the results were foot Coast Guard Cutter Icarus. not observed, American Lightning A depth charge brought the sub fighters Friday twice hit Kiska, to the surface. Then the Icarus the Navy reports. raked the deck with gunfire. The American fliers bombed Kiska 13 U-BOAT IS SENTDOWN BY ICARUS raider began to sink and the crew times Saturday and heavy explo- sought to man the deck gun, then slons were caused at Northead, the went mouth of Kiska harbor. Fires are jumped into the sea. Some down with the sub, others drowne before they were picked up, but runway also damaged. three were rescued by the Icarus. Other bombers attacked Attu . Saturday but results of the raids GIRAUDSAYS iy 1 o WE'LL GAIN SEN. H. JOHNSON 1S SERIOUSLY ILLL WININ 44 q reported to have been set and the! WASHINGTON, May 3.—Senator Charles L. McNary said today he has been informed that the condi- tion of Senator Hiram Johnson, 76, vof California, has taken a serious turn for the worse at the Naval Medical Center at Bethseda, Md. where he has been ill for several ALGIERS, May 3.—Gen. Henri |Giraud, presenting diplomas to ex- u*puonul war workers, predicted that all of Tunisia will be liberated 4&YS. from the Axis this month and the Senator Johnson was taken to war will be ended victoriously for the Medical Center after he de- the Allies in 1944, | veloped an exceedingly bad cold, IF JAPS COME THIS WAY NAZIS QUIT| BRIDGEHEADS KUBAN AREA Positions Raked by Red | | Army Artillery-Thwart | New Offensive ‘ MOSCOW, May 3.—Artillery of | the Red Army raked the German positions in the Kuban sector, | western Caucasus, throughout the night although the Soviet midnight communique only announced the | German efforts to expand their bridgeheads in that region had been | | abandoned after a six day drive in| | which the Nazis lost 7.000 men. | | Today's midday communique said Russian shell fire killed 200 more ! and 16 mort nd ar v batter-s ies have been silenced, also German | blockhouses destroyed. | The violent spring air struggle contives along the entire Russian| front as Soviet bombers and fight-| |ers sought to disrupi any uerman‘ | plans for a new offensive. i —————————— | MAJOR AIR BATTLES ON RUSS FRONT an ice-covered, wind-swept Alaskan hilltop. Sub-zero temperatures. BIGATTACK ISMADEON AXIS LINES T AlhedAlrForce in"All Qut'| Nazi Aufomatic lelemen‘ Assault on Supply Company Forced Back | Ships, Convoys WASHINGTON, May 3. — A | mountainous wave in a stormy sea washed Sailor John Andrew Urt- choke into the jaws of death, but him out again and started him safe- in lcy Donet River .o T " A Urtchoke, second class seaman MOSCOW, May 3. — Major air| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS N ;¢ New York, was washed overboard NORTH AFRICA, May 1. — (Dex|y ) pig gwn destroyer and for 40 battles continue up and down the long Russian front, the sharpest fights above the narrow Kuban bridgehead the Germans hold on the western Caucasus. On the Donet’s front, a company of Nazi automatic riflemen, who forged the river, were exterminated or forced to swim back to safety in the icy waters. A company of riflemen nominally numbers 250 men. Only a few managed to swim back to the right bank. layed) —Allied Air Foi went “all out” in a most successful attack yet on Axis shipping and direct hits were scored on at least eight vessels including a light cruiser and two destroyers. Doolottle’s Mitchell bombers en-| countered enemy war vessels mr Cape Bon and raked the cruiser with hits, forward, amidships and iastern and left it a mass of flames land apparently sinking. | The bombers then hit a destroyer | afloat as another minutes managed to stay one rescue attempt after failed PRI , land sent it down and soon after direct hit was registered on a or cond destroyer and it was also y sink beneath the sur-] 'HIGH COURT GIVES DRAFT RULING OUT 'Declare Conscientious Ob- jectors Must Listen to Board REPORT ON f",z:’ Al FOOD SENT 10 AI.lIES The other vessels were a Lanker‘ and several pply craft. One-tenth of U. S. Meat Sent Out First Three When the sun set off Cape Bon“ ithe sea was a mass of flames as WASHINGTON, May 3. — The iLease-Lend Administration report- led it has shipped to the Allies about REVERSED BY one-tenth of the available meat | the bomber craft were only burning bulks said to have been sucoes.s- cuted, were made on other ion ships of all varieties as the Axis made desperate effort to rush supplies to North Africa,| |especially the Tunisian front. j‘ i - < The a draft WASHINGTON, May 3 Supreme Court rules that registrant claiming exemption from mimary service as a conscientious Objtcbl)l must report for mduction |if his claim is denied by the draft board or by the President on ap- supply for the first three mumhs of this year. Administrator Edward R. Stettm- ius said he expects the year’s food transmittals for 1943 to exceed last year’s which aggregated about 6 percent of this countries supplies. 1 i Declare Taxing Religious vea: ' i :(mmfi PRICES - Literature Uncon- | e (;';:.‘.‘3;;:L;:’_.lt;;j(::fgi:f; | Whitney Bowle: N.J. Justices | dissented @i ¢ Bowles said beforc he was born, SHINGTON, May 3. — The | p rainer was killed in the first Supreme Court of the United States | yoq war and that this implant- shiuhonal Jackson and Reed ONUSED CARS TO ~ BE ESTABLISHED | in effect overruled a decision it a s g aver: WASHINGTON, May 3. — The handed down last June when it :: (‘:’:hi: "1,‘,"',‘,,,,':. “‘,,'“m" i g _OPA announces it is preparing to declared unconstitutional municipal 2 Lpie it i ,—__ |establish ceiling prices on used ordinances imposing a license tax e cars. on the sale of religious literature. The regulations will prevent the The action was taken in a ;4 IIDES IOMORROW sudden advance in prices resulting opinion read by Chief Justice Stone from the growing shortage of used who said the Supreme Court de- High tide—1:39 am., 18.8 feet cars, it is said. cision delivered June 8 was re- Low tide—7:59 am., -25 feet - versed, Justices Reed, Roberts, High tide—2:15 pm, 168 feet. BUY WAR BONDS |Frankfurter and Jackson dissented,| Low tide pm.. 08 feet. tempting to land here would find the Marine-made “climate” far too hot for them. Washed Overboard by One Wave, Another Puts Sailor Aboard Vessel another great wall of water washed -WILL THEY BE SORRY! HARDY, INDEED, are these members of a United States Marine Corps machine gun crew, on duty on may prevail but any Jap force at- (Intunzuonal) | Finally, as darkness was settling down, a second destroyer made an; approach. One wave washed Udt- hoke near amidships but took him away again. Another wave came up and slammed Urtchoke on the destroyer’s fantail where grabbed him and hung on, finally pulling him to safety. Urtchoke was nearly exhausted but revived| and later sent ashore for hospital- ization. "Lick the Platter Clean,” New Slogan Food Problem By JALK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 3—If you| ’hdvent heard of Rep. Chester H.| ross, the little Republican tmm Mancheau‘l. Ra. the chances ai you soon will, by indirection at least. | He's the “Lick-the-platter-clean man, who is staging a one-man war| on food waste—not at source, but on the home and restaurant tables and in the American garbage pails | Congressman Gross is a double- | dyed freshman in the House of Representatives. He served one term| in 1938-39, lost what little seniority that amounted to on the minority s side of the House, and came back again this year. But his past record dcesn't give him any right to be heard or seen any more than other freshmen. Until a few weeks ago, Mr. Gross observed perfect behavior so far as this House tradition is concerned Then he got up and made a little one-minute speech. He has made half a dozen since. The theme of all of them is, “lick the platter clean.” While others are blustering| about production and distribution! of foodstuffs, the gentleman from Pennsylvania has hit upon the idea of mopping up at the table If you don't think that's a good idea, listen to the last report Mr. Gross had from the Department of Agriculture. Summed up, it am- ounts to this: 15 percent of our food supply is wasted somewhere between the stove and the garbage can. If we could just cut this waste in half, he says, “our food problems would be solved ' Those are strong words, but the congressman already 'has the De- 4("nnlil|m-d on Page 'l‘wm sailors | s Enter City MINERS ARE GOINGBACK INTO PITS Full Crews Expected by To- night - 15 Days for Negotia_tions BULLETIN — Washington, | May 3.~The coal crisis in the | Nation has been averted and the miners have started back i to work. The trickle is promised to grow into a stream by night- fall and the mines will be op- erating to capacity as usual by tomorrow. Advices state that 350 men started work at Gallatzin, P: and they led the return at 6 o'clock by entering the shaft. At LaFayette, Pa., over half | of the full force reported dur- ing the forenoon. Operators everywhere report they expect full crews by to- night and the beehive of the coal industry will again be humming. SPECIAL APPEAL MADE | WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt last night in a spec- ial broadeast to the striking coal miners, told them that “every idle miner is directly and individually” obstructing the war effort | The President sald that a coal production stoppage, “even for a short time would involve a gamble with the lives of American soldiers aind sallors dt stake and the future security of our whole people. | “It would involve an unwarrant- »d and unnecessary terribly dan- | jerous gamble with our chances for victory,” he’ said Calling on the essential patrio- tism of the miners and the non- istrike pledge of the mafjor labor (nganlzatlons. he added, “tomorrow | the Stars and Stripes will fly over the ‘coal mines, T hope every minér will be at work under that flag.” BACK TO WORK NEW YORK, May 3-—John L. Lewis announced last night an |agreement with the Government | snding the work stoppage in the nation’s coal fields for 15 days starting tomorrow pending negotia- tions on new wage coutracts for anthracite and bituminous coal | miners, The UMW chief said the policy committee decided unanimously in favor of this action after Lewis |returned from a conference with | Fuel Coordinator Harold L. Ickes. Lewis said he didn't see the President in Washington. He made |the announcement shortly before |the President made his speech. cl10 (,‘IIIEF .COMMENTS OAKLAND, Calif., May 3. void- ing like the President any direct |reference to John L. Lewis, CIO President Philip Murray told repre- [semanves of the CIO that labor ould avoid creating an internal \erisis because it's helping to fight the war in which the “issue Is bigger than any of the petty things over which we struggle.” FDR ISSUES ORDEIL ALSO AN ULTIMATUM WASHINGTON, May 3.—Follow- ing the official announcement that over 500,000 miners in both the bituminous and anthracite coal fields had struck, President Roose- ivelt on last Saturday ordered the {Government seizure of all struck coal mines and directed the War Department to take any action needed to provide protection inei- (Continued on Page Two) DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight ® at sunset at 8:51 o’clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 4:58 am. . e Dimout - begins Tuesday at e ® sunset at 8:53 p.m. L 2008 PSS O Y