The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1943, Page 1

ya THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9334. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1943 ———— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —= NAZIS FEAR NEW ALLIED INVASION MOVED Bizerte Now Threatened By American Units VON ARNIM 1S ON RUN FROM YANKS | | Ferryville, ia;al Base fo. North, Next Big | Objective : ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN TUNISIA, May 4.—Swift driving American troops, quick to capital- ize on their middle position after _ seizing Mateur yesterday, pounded forward today, pushing the retreat- ing Germans toward Ferryville, 10 miles to the northeast, and the dock area and naval base for Bi- zerte. At the same time other forces fanned out toward the southeast and smashed to a point eight miles south of Mateur toward the line of the River Tine, only six miles north- west of Tebourba, gateway to Tunis. The forces edging into Tebourba al- so are American. | Meanwhile, one report said the long-range guns of the Allies are already pounding Ferryville and several Axis airfields in that area. and the shell fire has made the use of these fields by the Axis im- possible. Ferryville, located. on the south shore of Lake Bizerte, is 'only about eight miles from that main Nazt base. The Americans are reported to have come up against a “new line of resistance” in their advance on Ferryville, however. Bizerte is the most strongly fortified point in Af- rica. In their northeastward push, Yanks crossed the River Tine spite destruction of a bridge Von Arnim’s retreating forces, to shove on toward Ferryville, an of- ficial communique said. | Meanwhile, to the north of Lake Achkel, French African fighters with fierce Moroccan fighters and also some American elements, pressed in upon Bizerte’'s western hill defenses, threatening the Ger- man’s flank. I ‘This latter force is 15 miles from \ | 1 1 SIBERIA l (ISSIA) i HERE AUSTRALIA the de- by War Material Is "ETS5 GREENLAND The Washington TRAGEDY IS Merry-Go-Round 1y 501 0SED Bizerte and is continuing to close in through the thicket covered highlands. (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) wasmiNGToN. —appearing ve-| Five Men Die in Attempts fore the Truman committee the| other day, Gen. B. B. Somervell to Rescue Stranded | testified that about 25 percent of | . ! the Army's proposed plant facili- A"men i ties were being cancelled. | About the same time, WPB closed | | approximately ten big war plants| WASHINGTON, May 4. — The for fear of overextension. Simul- |War Department today released a taneously CIO’s Phil Murray warned grim story of the rescue of seven that 650,000 war workers would be airmen from a Greenland ice cap idle in about two months, that 25_.{nfter five months of persistent at- 000 aircraft workers would be laid tempts in which five men died. off soon. Col. Bernt Balchen, Arctic ex- Behind this is the story of a long, plorer and flier, landed a Navy bitter feud over war production be- flying boat and took off three times tween two government agencies on the snow. diametrically opposed to each other| The drama started when a plane. on almost everything. On one side 'ferying to England, piloted hy was the WPB planning board or capt. Armand Monteverde, of Ana- | the “Long-Haired Boys.” Opposed | peim, Calif, was diverted to search was General Somervell and the ro another plane on November . Army, or the “Brass Hats.” |The other plane was never found. Leaders of the Long-Haired Boys| pfonteverde’s plane crashed and were: brilliant, cantankerous econ-|p.oke in two. The radio was| omist Bob Nathan, mining cngineert‘wrfl,km and Sergeant Paul Spina, | Fred Searls, and Tom Blaisdell,|of Prankford, New York, was in-| New Deal economist since 1933. |jyred. He lost his gloves and his | This group of tough-minded crit= Langs froze before he could be| ics has stepped on the toes of | ypried into the cabin of the plane. Donald Nelson, the Army, the Navy Rig Quarters | w;;\:ly h::e mbeg;::eps ,::no::mgv ‘The cro}n rigg«d quarters under backstage Washington. the plane’s tail, but were wm_lout rations for 10 days as high winds EARLY ROWS drove snow against the wreck.Then More than a year before Pearl a fissure opened beneath them and Harbor came Row No. 1; to raise they roped their quarters to the the war program’s sights and shoot forward part of the plane to pre- for more steel, more aluminum,'vent them from sinking. | more copper, more airplanes. Steel,| Corp. Loren Howarth, of Lacross, aluminum, copper companies fought Wis., repaired the radio and es almost every inch of the way. Fin- tablished communications with the (Continued on Page “Four) l—‘lCo;til;ued on Page Three) UNITED NATIONS' SUBMARINES PROTECT VITAL UNITED STATES SEA LANES BULK OF JAP FLEET PRESUMED CCONCENTRATED 200,000 JAP TROOPS | CONCENTRATED HERE SOLOMON 1S. be munnum; . NEW ZEALAND ? Sentfo Russiafrom U.S.by Way 0f Alaska, Berlin Reporis STOCKHOLM, May 4—The Ber- lin correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen has cabled here through tight German censorship, that Rus- sia received a steady stream of war material from the United States via Alaska and the Arctic during the summer months, along a route free from menace of German sub- marines and planes. The report says convoys leave the United States and Canadian west coast and travel more than 6,000 miles to Khararovo on the Kara Sea and “not lose even one small thing.” The correspondent says the Rus- sians ‘are said to be rushing to completion a supply line from wegian coast. The report added that the North- west Passage from the United States might prove more successful this year because of the mild win- !ter and early spring. The fact the story has been per- mitted to . pass through German censorship is interpreted in some quarters that Nazi leaders are lay. ing propaganda groundwork for ex cuses should the German campaign in Russia bog down this summer. e GIRAUD ASKS DEGAULLE T0 MAY MEETING ALGIERS, May 4.—Gen. Henri Giraud has asked DeGaulle to meet him in North Africa “as soon after May 5 as possible” to conclude an agreement between Giraud and the Fighting Rrench forces, it is an- nounced. B - Bison meat was a main item in the diet of gangs building theenrly'Hyde made 23 trips, 14 of which Lightning pilots made forty-two ‘railmads in the West. the Aleutians for NATIONS' Y UNES ALLIED BASES JAPANESE BASES . INDICATES PROBABLE JAPANESE OBJECTIVES PRELIMINARY TO POSSIBLE ATTACK UPON AUSTRALIA JAPANESE TERRITORIES AREA OF PACIFIC DOMI- NATED BY JAPAN A WARNING by Gen. Douglas MacArthur of the vital necessity for the United Nations to maintain control over the skies to insure the safety of Australia and another by Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey. who commands the ground forces under MacArthur, that the Japs are massing 200,000 troops in the South Pacific for a possible all-out assault on the c the headline news. At the same time, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, as saying that the Japs lacked sufficient naval concentrations in the South Pacific at the moment for an invasion of Australia. The map above shows the Pacific situat ontinent projects the Pacific war front into in Washington, was quoted ion at a glance. (International) 'WALLGREN SAYS USE ALEUTIANS | LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Senator Mon C. Wallgren of Washington, on a trip surveying war plants as chairman of the Truman investiga- ting subcommittee, today called for more United States action in the Aleutians, where, he said, the Japs keep coming in behind the weather jlike ants and are improving their positions on Kiska. Wallgren suggested a fwo-fold campaign—starving ‘em outa’ Al- aska and seizing one of their Kur- ile islands as a bombing base. He told interviewers the Japs might bomb the West Coast but the “great danger is the establishment of footholds nearer our mainland | Archangel, already served by con-|which would permit them to get | voy routes that sail past the Nor- over here with heavier loads” from |the Kuriles. | “We could bomb Paramashiri ev- ery day from Agattu if we'd jusi use this and we |wouldn't have to negotiate for per- mission of the use of Russian or any other bases,” he said. Assessments On Mines Is ‘Suspended ; WASHINGTON, May 4. President Roosevelt has signed the legislation suspending for the duration of the war the ! requirement that $100 worth of | labor or improvements must be | made annually on mining | claims. The new act is designed More than tripling war bond in- | vestments -for any previous month, to Alaskans, during the recent Second | War Drive have purchased | overcome the manpower and oo R R ety |, ity saterial shepsges: and Savings Administrator Fred is effective until July 1 fol- 4 announced today, and not all lowing the end of the present | > returns are in yet. This is | war, compared to the quota | - of $1,780,000. The highest amount | purchased in any one month pre- KUBAN DELIA vious was $868,000. i ward, the Kodiak bank and other communities still are seven | to send in returns which may A the grand total by a great Juneau and Douglas exceeded - GREAT FIGHT i | | | [ | May Be Start of Struggle. ' for Summer - Both | Sides Holding By Associated Press The battle of the Kuban Delta area, reaching roughly from Movor- ogdsk on the Black Sea northward, to the Sea of Azov, is in full swing| |and it is not unlikely this is the| | beginning of the great struggle for| | the summer. | Both sides apparently are fight- | ing behind strong fortifications and | they have managed to hold their ground positions without any | change in the past few days | A Tass dispatch from the Kuban Isector tells of another gigantic air |battle test of Krasnodar’ in which Soviet airmen downed 54 German | (planes but losing 21 of their own.| | This is the second time the Ger- !mans have attempted to strike the | Krasnodar region since the resump- | |tion of the spirited warfare | | The Kuban campaign however | finds the Soviet aviation able to| meet any and every challenge of| the German Air Fol It is said | the American made planes are car- rying the load in the still indeci- sive fighting. There is increased activity in other sectors of the long Russian front with the Russian Air Forces making thems=lves felt on the Ger-| man communication lines and air-| dromes by constant raids o MUSSOLINI ASKS HELP OF HITLER = ; it : | SHOWN BUTTONHOLING PRES | | ceased ex-service man. The curly- n home for capital from a Michig men. LONDON, May 4.—The Morocco radio, in a report credited to “Ber- | By JACK WASHINGTON, May 4. — The statements that lin correspondents of neutral mews- |tWo home-front papers,” asserts that Mussolini in!bave caused mor buzz in in re- a note to Hitler asks for immediate | Washington than an military and economic assistance. |cent weeks are: | (1) Industrialists’ screaming that By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War Correspondent AN ADVANCED ANDREANOF BASE, April 21.—(Delayed) —Lieuyt. Marshall E. Hyde may have estab- lished in the Aleutians a record by | crowding 14 bombing and strafing fights over Kiska in one week, | Army Fighter Headquarters report here. As a matter of fact, fliers here would like to know if any world front pilot has done any bet- ter. From April 2 to April 17, Lieut were made during the past week. | Aleutian Lightning Pilot ‘Believed fo Have Set Big | Record of Any War Froai - the “back-to-the-furm” movement is helping to cause a shortage of | manpower in some of their plants (2) CIO's estimate that we are jembarking immediately on a rocky |sea of unemployment and that within the next few months at least 650,000 may be out of work Some conservative observers in government circles say both could true | they : resull in home- front dislocations and the greater the production and manpower e forts expanded, the greater the dis- ,On these flights he released bombs on Kiska's main camp area, on a beached Jap freighter in Kiska Harbor, strafed gun positions and had the satisfaction of secing build- Mimony Forced ings blow up as the result of m{uP by High (0“ bombs. { On two occasions, Lieut. Hyde over sandbags surrounding their machine gun nests he had bombed and strafed. His Lightning usually carries two 500 pound bombs. the same LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 4.—The State Supreme Court has directed Oscar Tay, Mountain Home merchant, to increase his $15 monthly ali- mony to $25 because of higher living costs. | | During week, fellow| | mission trips to Kiska. Jurieau Area in Second Place as Alaska Rolis UpRecordin War Bonds first Buddy Poppy is ¥Florence Ollita, 7-year-o-ld daughter of a de- The annuzl Buddy Poppy sale is conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to raise funds for relief work. 21 Home-Front Issues Cause of Discussion; Pros and Cons Stated JUMP ON EUROPE I INDICATED ’“-“*”"Oc(upaiion”of Sicily, Sar- ing up sales which hit the $! their $200,000 quota by far, ring- mark to hold second place among int o bank 15 with $565,519, Anchor- H i age is third with $473213, Ketch- lleved lmmmem ikan fourth with $461,564, Skagway e next with $410455, then Sitka with| LONDON, May 4—A broadeast $173432, and Cordova with $163.- by the Vichy radio, picked up here 940 this afternoon, said Allied move- A remarkable thing about the Al-/ments, reported simultaneously aska sales was that sales of Series| from Gibraltar and Algerian wat- E bonds the kind bought by the|ers, may point to a large scale in- little investor, accounted for more|Vasion attempt against Siclly and | Sardinia Islands, stepping stones than a million dollars of the total,| fon North Africa to the European one-third in excess of the usual|mainland. A broadcast also reported by | Reuters declares that commenta- |tors in Germany suggest, with the approval of the German Chief Min- isteries, the Allied Forces might monthly purchases for such bonds Buddy poppy ior FDR | pounce immediately on the two big Islands without waiting to end the campaign to drive the Axis out of Tunisia. The Germans, according to the commentators, fear landings on these two islands and these fears {Lave been betrayed in numerous broadeasts recently by Capt. Ser- possible the Allied High Command has refrained from throwing in misses of véserves on the Tuhisian | Front because planning large scale landing operations that may be | planned for landing on the Sicil- |lan or Sardinian Coasts even be- |fore the Tunisian campaign comes to an end. | Nazi controlled radio stations re- {port this afternoon that a huge i:un('entraLlon of Allied shipping is ilwmg assembled at Gibraltar, in- | cluding a number of landing barges. | Capt. Sertorius also said that the American Fifth Army is held in re- cerve in Algeria and Morocco un- der Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark and is (now being trained as a nucleus for several Allied Armies. | S eee - _ Sl FRENCHDEA THAT FAILED haired tot traveled to the nation’s | widows and orphans of ex-service | ~ ISSHOWNUP | SRS | NEW YORK, May 4.--Camille Chautemps, French Vice-Premier at the time of the German armis- | tice, vs in a letter in the New | York Times, that Marshal Petain auranged for him to transfer the French Government in North Af- |rica in June 1940 but violent inter- vention of Laval prevented fruition of the plan. | Admiral Darlan “worked loyally” - ————— |for the plan although he had no locations, New York City suffered|Part in the decision, said Chau- unemployment long after manpower | temps. shortages in other localilies had Chautemps caused critical dela; Small busi- Chase, Md. nesses capable of producing bil-| He further writes lions of dollars worth of war sup-|designated him as Chief of the plies still are folding for lack of New Government abroad because contr With more oil production the Marshal preferred to stay in in the country than we know what France and fulfill his promise to 1I LT with 1943's T ROOS now lives in Chevy that Petain tu do with, part of the nation spent the people a winter hivering from lack of >+ e heat and so limited on gas that & chls werh. Ainaos. \iies Hakne Nomma'ed When you can't get potatoes in Washington, D. C., meat in Chicago, HH o s s For New Posifion bean: anywhere in the United ' States hing can happen—even # back-to-the-farm 1 wave of War Manpowei WASHINGTON, May 4.—Presis dent Roosevelt has sent War Man- movement or unempioyment. | aking of fuel oil shortages, power Commission nominations to Distriet of Columbia wrote on~'the Senate. These include Joseph the bock the other day. While Fiakne, of Alaska, as Senior Place- vernment red-tapers argued over ment Specialist in Seattle. nule: and regulation: a shivering = S i 1 T District - police station filled the.s o o © 0. » o o o o o urnace tanks with “mosquito oil” and enjoyed the first warmth In : i I;“MES : days. thing—the police station had been'q ot o i'de tom unable to convert its heating sys- o Nt b tem from ol to coal. Because they & "t Surise at 4:33 a.m. b hadn't converted—or something— ° Dimout begins Wednesday at @ % ' ® sunset at 8:55 pm. . 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