The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO to lift the smoke, giv-| look at the occasionally Japs a movements American d ing € new | American T'hree troyers were s which were then firing. just won't be there,” the er Withont even &V rhce, ‘the ithout even a verbal wince the ookl GBatian, destroy captains acknowledged | PR, THE BEER 3 the order and sent down their THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS |little ships at high speed into the [Jap heavy ships came at 12:40 3 k : | conce! ion of enemy fire power. |Pn . Copr. 1948, Jos. Schittz Brewtng Co., Milwaukee, Wik, X \ The Jap destroyers never were | 3 i close enough for effective action, Then, either because the Japs # g ’and the heavy Jap ships, prevent- | (feared this new attack, or because | lthey thought the American flag- fray ed by American ' strategy More Detailed Report On Sur'a(e Ba"le in ship meant more of our forces com- | * b e 5 i ing up, the enemy halted his clos- | e AiePloRn .iorcp L Bennq Sea March 26 ms in tactics and made no movel, SH¢ CIETERR OO CRlght it to stop our task force as 1t} : |turned east for the first time, mak. there is any attefmpt by the Japs (Continued from Page One) ing an end run or flanking XZ]O\'C-}LO Bip_into She" wedperti AMHians 1 this area's first Japanese salvo |ment which continued: for mm‘c'::lrl;“f.{?j‘" CUE LR TR oUW o at Ameritan ships was remarkably |than an hour as our destroyc 10 s R ummed shells in rapid firing of ; 3 : ot piade fuff |their. five-inch’ guns down thal! . Coriéspontent ;Werten cpprats ok ) while the |throats of the Japs ently accompanied lhe_ task foree oved southedst.| . ONr, hedvy - units” fired at" ¢ |W sccure this giory MU S held m until the Navy Department flank ships of the enemy, and fin-} ally the three American destroyers returned, backing off not to the | west from whence they came, but to the southeast. For what reason the American | {commander can only conjecture the Japs refused to close with u: again and instead, drew their forces Iback to the westward It might have been of his ships were so ba he do otherwise. Jap may have been just outgu ed and outmaneuvered American command Battle Over The last exchange of shells be- tween the American destroyersand JUNEAU HEATING SERVICE B. E. FEERO 211 SECOND STREET INSTALLATIONS and REPAIRS Heating Plants Oil Burners Stoves Phone 787 or Green 585 WANTED 25 Men or Women AT SAWMILL Register at U. S. Employment Service, 121 Marine Way the fight, more than a month late The official report follows.) Jap warships we northeast of 1 line American ships joined form s. The other th NAVY'S BELATED REPORT WASHINGTON, May 5—Late esterday the Navy, in a communi- que, released a brief bulletin re- sarding the sea battle on March 26 in which it was said an Ameri- can light naval force, outnumbered to one, repelled a Japanese expedition west of the firing Cut Us Off east, outnum- the i om th | outgunned and verthele turne that some ly damaged | or the simply by couldn't i upply the |at least two enemy heavy cruisers and one light cruiser. Later yesterday, the Navy re- leased an addition to the commu- nique which said: “Announcement may now be made of additional details of the surface sngagement between a light Unit »d States patrol force and a Jap- anese force to the westward of Attu Island on March 26. “The U. S. force, consisting of »ne heavy cruiser, one light cruiser and four destroyers, was patrolling the area southwest of the Koman- dorski Islands when contact was made with the enemy shortly after dawn on March 26. Jap Force's Size “The Japanese force was com- posed of two heavy cruisers, the but Tt flagship cketed vessels alve other Jap and cored no direct hits on this ves- el. One near miss shook the en- Quiet Heat Oil Burners two transports, headed \Lu\vnrd the Aleutians. Chocelates There’s & flaver 0 Whitman's oace tasted, always prefesced. All packages direct from the makers! Sewplor, 17-n. 100 pleces, $1.38, Also the sew gift Sanpler st §3. Other daes ot §3 aad §7.50. Pairbil, the popular bex u $1 B Calf In aad sslst NOW! Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. " BRINGING UP FATHER YOU HEARD ME-| WANT YOU TO GO OUT AND SPADE THE YARD FOR OUR VICTORY GARDEN- || BEFORE IT RAINS-YOU THERE'S NO USE TRYIN' TO ARGUE WITH MAGGIE- SHE WON'T GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO START AN | KNOW - -BUT THAT PROMISE RAN OUT LAST PROMISED TO DO IT WEEK- VLL AR - LAST WEEK=- PROMISE TO ChIVI DO IT THIS re ship and others splattered the ¢ with water How Io While our aft guns were still| ing it the nearest enemy | . ) jean vesséls Were| AP Feotures 15 and tongs ' blow The Navy goes in for a new training technique ; WL oshort ranee. | with a booklet “Dunking Sense’ which relies ) Dapsd I“““'l .“fl‘,‘f“‘,‘ on witty lines and humorous sketches to put "” ¥ 5 ‘(\]““ > 1[<:in~,l\[,:1::‘j over sober advice to fliers on what to do if plocking the way to the north- forced to crash at sea: west as a very potent n rth and the stronger Jap ~]IIS/ THE :;:;H ros whole horizor. to b e i s 3 Th serican commander or- KISS OF THE HOPS Rl 04 the destroyers to lay a eov- i rir w0ke and just then ¢ have to drink 2 cruiser began belehing Schlitz methods of wpparently from a;| Lrsvanl 51 NhiE sy the d retired temporarily S s Rl R i “ttion ns the other Jap ves- LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP—'If you are inter- delicate flayor of the hops, not began' closing in . ested in old-age pensions,” say the instructions, their harsh | ess. That's Change Our Course study your raft before you fly. Learn where to one réason f 1 mous fla- However, the American commans find, and how to use, all its equipment. ¥ : der, ~while ostensibly retreating rotanac oa yinagh toward the Komandorskis, actuaily Schlitz and you'll never want to . headir west and south, and go back to a bitter beer. 1 éach 1 course swing in- | reased the southern turn behind screen Jap cruisér had ceased to » now and had rejoined the The Japs were pouring con- s fire at the American-made moke screen Visibility otherwise remainéa| good, and there was enough wind | bringing their full weight to bear,; Aleutians and reported it damaged two light cruisers, six destroyers and eastward iring was opened at long range THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU ALASKA -Na\vy Style Survive---- ““Aunt Mabel’s pi: also Aunt Mabel 7_ HELL BE ~ DRINKING — SALT WATER NEXT / then sent on the almost suicidal! |ASH AND STOW! Rafts are HOT-HEADED? Better not task oy, dplivering L_"”"‘d‘“ “"“‘"‘f‘l unstable, liable to capsize be.on a raft, the Navy eral sig st the four or five major Jai | gnd “What ain’t lashed urges. It recommends cov- used ca ing head and body, dunk- ing yourself dressed. tnd the engagement continued for | four-and-a-half hours Hits ' were | scored on both sides at the s(ar!‘ of the engagement. { “The enemy force was to the| eastward of the U. S. force, and in maneuvering to reverse positions, | three U. S. destroyers launched a torpedo attack which caused the enemy to break off the engagement and withdraw. “The extent of damage inflitted |on the enemy vessels is not defin- litely known, but shell hits; were !scored on both Japanese heavy teruisers and on one of the light lcruisers. At least one torpedo . hit | {was scored oh a heavy cruiser. i ! sMinor damage was sustained by Washington sent out releases on |the United States vessels and casu-|o e health nurses and - those | ealties were extremely light.” ! Jap Aim | There is no doubt among authori- | | !ties here that the aim of the Jap| |férce was to land reinforcements | jon Kiska and Attu. That they | !didn't succeed at all in this en-| |deavor, even though the American | |surface craft lost track of thels is | lindicated in the fact that subse- |quent reports have not told of the| 'presence of any of these ships at| cither Kiska or Attu. | This is the first report of the | cperation of American warships in | |the Bering Sea as far west as the | vieinity of the Russian Komandor- ski Islands. | 'The Navy gave no explans for withholding the report more than a month. ation for THIRTY-FOUR ARRIVE HERE THIS MORNING Thirty-four passengers arrived in Juneau this morning from Se- attle and southeast Alaska ports. Arrivals ‘from the Queen City were Norma Alvord, J. S. Brittain, Frank S. Cook, E. L. Cox, James C. Connell, Phillip Carmichael, Mrs.| Isabella Carmichael, Stephen Car- michael, Erman C. Endsley, Jo- seph LeRoy Harbert. Robert C. Knowles, Stanley E. Kiler, Rozella Kavanagh, Morace Ulmer Lowery, Mabel M. Moore, william H. Miller, Mildred Noftz, Donald Ray Parvin, Robert C. Prather, Floyd E. Rife, Henry F. sSavage, Herman A. Stopples, Rich- ard A. Stonewall, Mrs. Ann Shel- don, Mrs. Alice T. Thorne and Da- vid H. Wood. Passengers from Wrangell clude: Chester Maleski, Victor Gardiaff and Walter Moreno. From Petersburg—H. K. Carlyle, Richard A. Gribble, W. A. Chipper- field and E. A. Hasbrough. in- J. Owen I. Lewis was the only pas- senger from Ketchikan. > ELKS INITIATION | Tonight. Full attendance of mem- ;burs is desired. ady. | Empire Classifieds Pay! | WISH IT WOULD RAIN-I'D LIKE TO GIT OUT OF DOIN' THIS= tives into office or keeping them there. Elections mean politics and THE Presidential elections mean poli- BARAN“F |ties in capital letters. 5 | | Walker and Spangler are both Alaska’s Largest Apartment {quiet, easy going fellows, more con- Hotel cerned with organization and fi- * THE LIP OF THE CUP—If dunking seems inev- |nances of their respective parties EVERY ROOM WITH TUB itable, get rid of all excess baggage—even | (han playing kingmakers. Some and SHOWER think that neither, by choice, will * CHAMELEON TURN—Rafts have sev- as signal to friendly planes, blue side for hiding when enemy appecrs. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5{ 1943 BUY WAR BONDS Length of 7Poli|i:al (ampaign This Year Starting Fireworks | (Continued from Page One) e ORDER YOUR RABBIT SKINS NOw Tanned, cleaned and all ready to make up. VALCAUDA FUR COMPANY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON | to talk politics in the midst of war, |they might well get over the idea. |Our Constitution provides for the | 2lections. They are the basis of our | democracy. There's no other way of |getting our constituted representa- —— cture in the plush frame, and | if she happens to be along.” | ; stay on in their respective national Reasonable Rates D. B. FEMMER—AGEN. | chairmanships after the conven- * j tions are held. HEY ! ITS US! | It is not expected that either Phone 800 PHONE 114 NIGHT ml lin more than a general way (that is by attacking opposition policies | generally) will be verbally active in | firing the big guns of the 1944 cam- | | paign 1 . | URSE RETURNS | Mabel M. Moore, Army Nurses Corps, returned to Juneau this PLY P A A 5 morning from temporary duty in | the States. ] || = THE YAKOBI will leave Juneau for Petersburg, Port Alexander and Way Ports | EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 6 AM. ! Please have all freight on City Dock Tuesday, before 1 P.M. | For Information Phone 513 MARTIN FEIST. nal devices but they are to be | utiously. Sail has orange side | SEATTLE - WHITEHORSE FAIRBANKS - NOME BETHEL NURSES' AIDE INSTRUCTOR 5 GUEST AT PARTY A farewell party given last mgh(; y s and Nurses’ Aides hon- ored Mrs. Andrew Gundersen, who is leaving Saturday for Seattie and | expects to remain south until Sep- | tember, Held in the social parlors of the | Northern Light Presbyterian Church, the party was attended by! about 50. It was arranged by | nurses from both hospitals, the &% @ . B o PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS 135 So. Franklin Phone 106 bs from the Juneau Health Clinic. | YOU CAN FLY Miss Elizabeth Terhune was elected treasurer at last night's| contact any local” a meeting, it announced. Refresh-| Canadian Pacific J u N E A u t o ments served were sandwiches, cake | and coffee | Following about ten days in Se- | Anchorage Kodiak Fairbanks s o e o | FOR SALE |l Vakott Valdez Nome town, where she will visit with| | g her brothers, Charies, Ed_and | PRE.WAR PRICES Cordova Seward Bristol Bay Henry Shafer and their families. | Kuskokwim and Yukon Points since | She is also looking forward to attending the annual reunion of 7 i University of Texas grads, her| 0 V E w d d r -d s d i y ednesday Friday Sunday first in ten or twelve years, to be held this summer at Austin. Both in Ketchikan and {coming to Juneau last fall, 'Mrs.| | Gundersen has acted in a strictly | volunteer capacity as instructor for {Nurses’ Aides for the Red Cross.| | Twenty-nine of the 43 Nurses’ Aides {in Juneau have received their in-| |struction under Mrs. Gundersen, | |who expressed pleasure that there| |has been built up such a trained | ALL-METAL General . Electric KITCHEN CABINET * ALASKA STAR AIRLINES parargice e, Phone 667 NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY ) : |corps to serve in case of emer-| {gencies. || Finished in White Enamel { Andy Gundersen expects to go,| and Stainless Steel Trim [to Ketchikan in about a month, and will spend most of the summer in that vicinity. — e MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERSTEA | GIVEN FRIDAY: | ! ! Dimensions: Height 36”, depth 24%”, width 18”. Can be used either right or left end, your electric range. The annual Mothers and Daugh- iters' Tea will be given by the Ju- 'neau High Sehool girls this coming | Friday, May 7, from 3:45 to 5 p. m. To be hgd in the math room of the high schocl, the special observ- jance is one to which all mothers of high school girls are cordially imvned. After this stock is ex- hausted, no more will be available for the duration of this man’s war. Call and inspect it in i T our sales department. | WELL BABY CONFERENCE The Juneau Well Baby Confer- ence will be held tomorrow from | Alaska Electric Light 1 to 4 pm. in room 108 of the| A ool seat coner, i | and Power Company | states. | ree—— — 4 s T e o B ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES | Juneau Alaska | largest paid circulation of any Al- | aska newspaper. Serving Southeast Alaska: Passengers, Mail, Express SITKA TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. 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