The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9337. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ———— CAPTURE OF BOTH TUNIS, BIZERTE IS NEAR Red Army Storming Novorissisk Approaches FIVEGERMAN | ATTACKS ARE TURNED BACK Dozen Moréfillages Tak- | en by Russians in | Offensive | | LONDON, May 7—The Red| Army has advanced “far beyond”| Krymskaya in the Caucasus and. are storming the new fortifications ! PRESIDENT SENDS NOTE FOR STALIN Contents Not Disclosed- May Suggest Meet- ing of Two WASHINGTON, May T7.—Presi- dent Roosevelt told a press con- ference today that Joseph E. Davie: will leave almost at once for Mos- according to a Moscow radio re- «<ow to carry a personal letter to ‘Russizn Premier Joseph Stalin. (ommander Warns U. S. Says Optimism Dangerous, Slows Down Produc- tion Here INDIANAPOLIS, May 7.—Home | from Africa, American Legion Com- mander Roane Warning said he was ‘deeply concerned over the general | feeling of optimism prevailing in | this country. JAP PREMIER ONINTALK Makes Broadcast in Manila About Great Steps Now Taken in East Asia (By Associated Press) Japanese Premier Tojo is quoted tor E. V. Robertson, Wyoming Re- ( Congress;M L. S. Element Trouble Br:a;/ing Unless| | Pampering Petting ‘ Is Halted WASHINGTON, May FINAL PACT 7 Senafor Hits South Rules Roost in Of Legion TOGORAVING Disloyal Jap embers Are | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, May 7. — The | other day I received a letter from a | Imiddlewest editor. Its theme was| |th Why can’t you explain why | {50 many Washington commentators | consider the ‘“rebellion” of south-, |ern Democrats so important in | making legislation? | | That certainly is a legitimate | in an Axis radio with saying in|publican, warned the Senate that Manila where he flew yesterday,| trouble is brewing unless the gov- that the Japanesé fighting forces ernment stops “pampering and pet- have “strengthened all atrawgncally‘mm disloyal Japs” in relocation {question. The south, even with ad- | joining Democratic states to the — Sena- o G |west, has a minority in population, | {wealth and area. Yet on the Dem- | OUTSKIRTS OF TWO TUNISIAN Committee Chairmen CITIESENTERED Heavy Fighli#ng_ in Both Sec- tors for Americans, British, Reported 'DRIVE ENEMY INTO SEA"" ORDER OF DAY Enemy Aifcréfl Reportes port picked up here. | The President fended off at-| “So many of our people have an Other developments on the RUS-|tompts of reporters to get informa- idea the war is practically won and Knocked from Skies- More Ships Sunk BULLETIN — Allied Head- quarters in North Africa, May 7.—Allied troops have pene- | * trated the outskirts of both Bi- zerte and Tunis, it is officially announced by Eisenhower's Headquarters. Heavy fighting is reported in progress in both sectors as the United States Second Corps and British First Army capital- ized on the deep penetrations through the collapsing enemy positions all along the north- ern Tunisian Front. said MOSCOW, May Army, hammering the approaches of Novorossisk, taken a dozen more villages in the area additional to Krymskaya and nine other towns the Soviets an- nounced they captured Wednesday The Red Army is now smashin through the Kuban Delta bulge toward the Black Sea port. e s a decisive blow against the enemy.”|Heart Mountain Camp in north- mem a' war l.abor {House and Senate, it is the most | casus. Five Nazi counter-attacks pring a reply. > in a celebration marking the anni-{ohito and are free to preach Jap Given any one issue which south- | battles which cost the Germans but will not be gone long. It is be- | Tojo also said in his broadcast| He said they are being fed better war Labor Board panel has started prayer to get it through. Given any 7—The Red |Churchill. solving to continue the war to a|8iven control over the Japanese | President |10 the Republican-spensored Ruml | | ..lonly a ghost of a chance i fall was designated as an official | holiday in Manrila, also in Japan. - > ! | the! door.? | speaking, goes back to three things: | | only coal operators and were | important bases in Greater East|camps. H 1 ROk and v o prepared to deall He sald an investigation at the Operaiors Subm it State- [acratio sifle’ 61 char sisibe in toth sian front saw a Red Army drive tion concerning the contents of |this false optimism tends to slow to split the Germans in the Cau- the letter or whether Davies would |down production,” he The broadcast said Premier Tojo|Wwest Wyoming disclosed 1200 of [potent single force In the legis- addressed some 400,000 in Manila|10,000 there profess loyalty to Hir- : {lative branch of government today S il aachE o e e D Board Hearing to Novorissisk naval base in violent !self, does not know the contents, | versary of the fall of Corregidor doctrines and to threaten those who 5 ern Democrats oppose, such as anti- RUSSIANS into the hands of the Japanese. ;pmfi‘&s loyalty to the United States. WASHINGTON, May 7. - The |lynch legislation, and there isn't a nearly 10,000 dead. |lieved the letter might propose & | |meeting similar to the ones with| = that one billion inhabitants in East|than many Wyoming citizens and public hearings in the soft coal Other issue on which they will string Asia have “voted unanimously re- demanded the War Department be|wage dispute with the expressed #long together, such as opposition northeast | hope that John L. Lewis, H 4 ] have | victorious conclusion.” T > of the UMW and other officials Pay-as-you-go tax plan, and it has The anniversary of Corregidor’s| r |will change their minds and de l Bowl |cide to attend the sessions. | Chairman Morris Cooke said the| There is more to this than clique- “latchstring is on the outside of [VOting. The root of it, broadly| DIRE(T AT BYH . . their | (1) Our legislative branch of gov-| V I Sh | nSkY G I VeS Talk | representatives and reports ‘ummml is primarily ‘n committee | present as the public hearing opened | [O™ Of Bovernment; (2) Control of One of the villages captured is | about nine miles northeast of No- vorossisk in the hilly, marshy coun- try through which the Russians are sweeping the Germans toward the sea. : The drive is gaining momentum The Wa'sh>ingr;uto;fl Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) (Continued on Page Three) WASHINGTON. —What most| people don’t realize about the coal| crisis is that during the one month | of long-drawn-out negotiations in| New York, there wasn't any ne- bill is aimed at President John L. &'V gotiating at all. i Actually, the mine operators made no proposals or counter-offers to| John L. Lewis. For one solid month | they sat, in effect telling Lewis: “You may not like it, John, but this time you have to go before the War Labor Board.” The War Labor Board was the| last body the big miner wanted to appear before. There were several| reasons. First, some of the labor members of the board are old per-| sonal enemies of his. Second, he suspected Will Davis, WLB chair-' man, and Public Member Wayne Morse of the University of Oregon of being out to get him. Pinally, he knew that ex-Senator Ed Burke of Nebraska, attorney for the Southern operators, was a bit- ter foe of FDR.’s and was sus- pected, rightly or wrongly, of want- ing a strike. F.D.R. VS. JOHN L. Thus personalities—not excluding the old, bitter enmity between Lewis and Roosevelt personally — played the most important role backstage in bringing on the coal crisis. Possibly the mine operators might not have been so recalcitrant if they had not received a tip that the dispute would be sent to the War Labor Board. This tip came in the form of a telegram from the President to both sides, urging a| speedy, peaceful settlement and warning that the War Labor Board would be called in if necessary. When Secretary of Labor Perkins read this telegram, she immediate- ly saw the implications. Also she knew the operators would take this as the tip-off to stage a sit-down. So, calling in WLB Chairman Wwill Davis, the man credited with drafting the telegram, she lost no time conveying her feelings. “You've put the boss on spot,” she accused Davis. the J. L. LEWIS Represenléfiw)é Gathings Would Class Strikers as-Insurrectionists WASHINGTON, May 7.—Repre- sentative E. C. Gathings, Democrat of Arkansas, has introduced a bill to treat strikers as insurrectionists in cases where the President de- clares work is necessary to war pro- duction. The bill includes that “whoever counsels, commands, induces or procures” strokes are insurrection- ists. Representative Gathings said the Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, and others like him. B e CALIFORNIA SECT HEADS T0 PRISON Federal Court Finds They Violated War Sedi- tion Act Federal cour: convicted 12 reputed leaders of Mankind, United, in- cluding Arthur L. Bell, “The Voice,” on late the wartime Sedition Act, and four were acquitted. The court took the case Wednes- day night, and government wit- nesses testified the defendants op- posed the draft and advised mem- bers of the organization not to purchase war bonds, and praised Hitler. Amer.lflggi?m Conclave Sef - For (I!icago INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, May 7. -~The American Legion Convention Committee has recommended that Davis countered that it was (Continued on “Page Four) this year's conclave be held in Chi- cago on September 14 and 15, LOS ANGELES, May 7. — A charges of conspiring to vio-| Charging Espionage in Russia LONDON, May 7 Andrie Vi- chinsky, Soviet Foreign Affairs Deputy Commissar, in a Moscow radio broadcast declared Polish rep- resentatives in Russia are engaged | in espionage under cover of chari- | table activities on behalf of their countrymen. He reiterated charges that the Polish Government in exile is “un- der the influence of pro-Hitlerite elements.” Vishinsky said the principal or- anizers of the anti-Soviet activi- ties are members of the diplomatic staff. He said Gen. Volikovski, for- mer chief of the Polish military mission, played the leading role and told of the formation of an of 30,000 Poles in Russia. Russia granted the Poles three hundred million rubles for the |army, he said, but the Poles kept |uelaying the dispatch of the unit !to the front lines, and finally nro- posed their employment, which meant they wouldn’t fight. D LEADING U. §. ACE IN CHINA DEAD, ACTION John Hamp;fle, Jr., Who Shot Down 12 Jap Plangi,l(illed Grants Pass Oregon, May 7.— John Hampshire, Sr., said the War Department has notified him his son, America’s leading ace in Chi- na, was killed in action on May 2. Dispatches of May 2 credited Capt. John Hampshire, Jr., with shooting down his twelfth Jap plane. ——er——— DAIGLER TO SKAGWAY Cliff Daigler, manager of 20th Century Theatre, left morning for Skagway on busin in connection with the Gross| chain of theatres. | D NURSE IS NOW ADDED TO ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL STAFF As an addition to the nursing staff of St. Ann's Hospital, Mrs. | Rozella Kavanaugh has reached Juneau and is now on full time |duty at the hospital. Mrs. Kavan- augh is from San Francisco, where she was formerly employed. the this 55 | payers except those with DISCUSSEDBY' SENATE COM. Version of VSkip-a-Year Proposal Seems Favored by Many Senators WASHINGTON, May T With a majority apparently leaning to- ward some version of the Ruml skip-a-year plan, the Senate Fin- ance Committee has begun con- sideration of the House-approved pay you-go tax plan The chief issue before the group apparently is whether to accept in principle the House-appr bill, which excuses about 90 percent of taxpayers from 1942 levies, or to adopt a modified version of the Ruml plan under which all tax- windfall incomes would skip payment of a full year’s taxes. The committee’s eight Republi- cans and at least three of the twelve Democrats were reported to e HELVI BARRAGAR JOINS | STAFF OF FRANCES ANN'S ' BEAUTY SALON, MONDAY Helvi Barragar, well-known Ju- neau beauty operator, has joined the staff of Frances Ann’s Beauty Salon, Mrs. Hanson, owner, an- :nounced today. | Mrs. Barragar will start Monday |as an operator for Frances Ann’s. { -eo SPECIAL INITIATION | BY MOOSE TONIGHT At the regular business meeting of the Loyal Order of Moose, to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the \club quarters, a special initiation will be held. Refreshments will be iserved following the meeting. -e FROM SKAGWAY | Donald L. Capron arrived here |yesterday and is at the Baranof | i BY J APANESE'mer a brief ciosed session. | | In New York yesterday the an- |thracite coal operators submitted what they termed their final work contract 'New Offensive Starfed in |smm wonon sepressine. wiling- ' China-Fierce Fighting Now Progressing 1 e (Continued on Page Two) than a (Continued on Page Two) mutual as- | icummmees is based on seniority; tand (3)" The south, either through political wisdom or force of habit, |v|u-|.~ many of its Representatives | and Senators “in perpetuity.” | | Five of the first seven ranking| | Senators come from the south or| |southwest. In the House, seven of ithe 11 oldest members in point of | jservice come from the same area.| | With two exceptions in the House 'and three in the Senate, all these | men are Democrats. | I don’t know one of these Dem- |ocrats in either chamber who isn't | chairman of some important com- | | mittee or otherwise a respected | |leader in the majority ranks, en-| | trusted with sponsoring. much Ad-| ministration - approved legislation | | or leading the fights against that| not in favor. | Of the 33 standing committees ‘in the Senate, 19 have southern | Democratic chairmen. These in-| {clude such powerful committees as| | Rules (Byrd of Virginia); Agricul-| |ture (“Cotton Ed” Smith of Suu!h‘ | Carolina) ; Appropriations (Glass |of Virginia); Finance (George of Georgia) ; Foreign Relations (Con- nally of Texas); Military Affairs (Reynolds of North Carolina): To try to summarize the situa- |ton in the House would take more | |space than this column allows, but | |it won't hurt to mention a few committee chairman: Agriculture (Fulmer of South Carolina); Mili- ’tary Affairs (May of Kentucky); Naval Affairs (Vinson of Georgia); (Continued on Page Two) ‘ “Our troops have continued “their victorious advance and late today reconnaissance ele- ments are said to have pene- trated the suburbs of Bizerte,” says an official communique. STORMING BIG GATES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 7.—Ameri- can troops have today stormed within nine miles of the great Bizerte Axis naval base, capturing more than 1,000 prisoners in the two-day advance. Farther south, the British First (Continued on Page Threel FINAL GREAT OFFENSIVE IN INPROGRESS "Pay Off Battle"" Is Raging on Last Front, Tunis- ian Campaign ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 7—It was D ITALIAN HARBOR BOMBED | WASHINGTON, May 7. — The! |Senate’s Truman Committee re- ports the blame for “confusing lines | Raid on Di Calabria at Daybreak CAIRO, May 7.—More than 50 American Liberators strewed a ese communique says. The southward push is below the Yangtze and is probably designed to seize or despoil the great rice| Fierce fighting is report i, & Is reported to be gy of Russia, in a letter to the |New York Times correspondent in | Moscow, states that Russia wishes [to see a strong and independent | Coon Gl Hacks Away at Division of . . | Authority in Senate | j Ap B AS[ |N of authority” among the top war |administrators, and recommends |strengthened since this is |the necessary heads 5 {either o y m“d‘m”“fbe"“"“kw non and machinegun fire at the | Chairman Truman told the Sen- oy lr%)oph U. S. Liberafors Make Big| Hotel. Mr. Capron is with the U.S.| - quarter of a million pounds of high Engineer office at Skagway. e HANS FLOE HERE Hans Floe, superintendent of the P. E. Harris Company at Hawk In- let, is in Juneau and registered at !!he Baranof. A - - CALGARY, May 7.—Dr. Zhitlov- isky, 78, world famous leader of |Jewry, and a philosopher of Croton- on-Hudson, New York, died here of a sudden illness. Dr. Zhitlovsky was in Calgary on a lecture engagement, Japanese offensive against the crop now ripening in that region. The offensive started Tuesday but |Poland established after Hitlers defeat and says that if Poland de- MACARTHUR'S HEADQUART- |that WPB Chairman Donald Nel-|ERS. May 7.—Gen. Douglas Mac- |ate Nelson's authority was un- | equivocal in the original directive, ‘rice bowl” of China in the north | Hunan and south Hupeh Provinces | has been launched by a force of Soviet Head Offers Post- was thrown back, the communique| War Alliance with says, but has been resumed when the Japs surged forward in an at- -ee TrumanHifs ST the Soviet Union would euter fa war alliance of |sistance against Germany ;son consult more freely and fre-|Arthur announces the capture of ‘Bobdubi, only five miles from the big Jap base of Salamaua. CHARLES FOX HERE {but the appointment of rubber| Charles A Fr’:vx returned 4ast eve- f::: ‘W;“f“l" Jeffers and of Sec-!ping from Seattle, where he has ry Harold L. Ickes as petroleum peen for the past several months, explosives in the region of Di Cal- abria harbor at the toe of the Ital- ian boot at daylight yesterday Almost all of the bombs found their mark, the official report says | officially announced last night that |the Allied offensive had begun on |both the Second United States [Army Corps and the British Pirst {Army fronts in the Tunisia field. | The “pay off battle is underway," |says the official communique. American and British troops are 'advancing on a broad front against the Axis in the final mountain de- fenses before Tunis and Bizerte. The mountain defenses are re- peatedly battered by Allied aerial bombardments Moreover, the French detach- ments of both flanks of the new offensive movement are maintain- {ing pressure on the German and Ttalian lines. The French communique says op- erations of the French African Corps are moving along on the Mediterranean coast sector in the direction of Bizerte and are de- veloping favorably. A special communique late last night said the British First Army has captured Massicault, 17 miles southwest of Tunis. The U. S. Army fliers were led by Col. Keith Compton, of St. Jo- seph, Missouri ->-oe SOLEY between 7,000 and 8000 soldiers tack supported by more than 20| NE?ghborS Top Men for Written a little more Iquently with rubber, gasoline, and | Allied warplanes roared 20 times 'admlmslralor made the lines “con- and will resume his duties for the with heavy aerial support, a Chin- planes which bombed in relays. | wpw voRk May 7. Premier onfusion other czars ‘and his hand will be | “where | o o, the nearby area, pouring can- [fusing even on paper, and as a|summer with the Bureau of Public | practical matter, they breed dis- Roads here. | putes.” | - [ COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT ! The City Council will meet at 8| {o'clock tonight in the City Hall|® Temp. Thursday, May 6: |to consider routine matters of city ® Maximum 65, minimum 37. ladministration, 9 0 00 9 0.0 0 00 - >-se —— e eec 00000000 WEATHER REPORT «U. 8. Bw2au) MRS. HERE Mrs. Vern Soley having arrived last visit to Seattle. She her home in Sitka is in Juneau, night from a - . . * is enroute to DIMOUT TIMES Dimout bezins tonight at sunset at 9 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:48 am. Dimout begins Saturday at ® sunset at 9:02 p.m. e e v 002009 s®00sveces!