The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1943, Page 1

- > , “>» « (ool P w THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9338. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1943 ¢ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRlLE TEN CENTS — | AMERICANS TAKE BIZERTE NAVAL BAE Tunis Has Now Fallen To British First Army Dedicate Mothers’ Day Here fo Mother of Sons DEVERS IS NAMED AS BIG CHIEF New Commander of U. S.. Forces in European Theatre Appointed WASHINGTON, May 8. — Licut Gen. Jacog L. Devers, Commander of the Armored Force, has becl named by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to succeed Lieut. Gen.| Frank W. Andrews, killed in a plane crash in Iceland, as Com- mander of the American troops i the European war theatre. Devers, said Secretary Stimson has already shown an “immense ca- MINERS QUIT WHEN FINES ~ ARE LEVIED 11,400 Sirlke in Biggest Captive Mine in Pro- test Action pacity for ofganization and admin- | istration” as head of the armored force and “in addition has been especially prepared for the Euro- pean Command by his recent trio for study and inspection of the entire European, North African und Middle East theatres of war. Devers was graduated from West Point in 1909, e BUFFET-SUPPER HONORS THREE Mrs. George Hays will entertain this evening at her apartment i the Assembly with a 7 o'clock buf- fet-supper comdplimentary to Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Council and to her husband, Dr. George Hays. The birthday of all three honoree’s comes during the month of May, and the affair is being given to celebrate the occasion. Guests asked for the evening in-, Dr.! and Mrs. Council, and Mrs. Paul A. Lindquist, Mr Florine Housel, Miss Mildred Kea-| ton and Mr. J. D. Bogart. clude: Dr. The Waéhingionz Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON —It is now missible to reveal that several months ago about 300,000 tons of shipping were tied up in the Per- sian Gulf waiting to be unloaded. This represented a super attempt to aid Russia, and although some ! ships were tied up for weeks, it was not the fault of the War Ship- ping Administration or the Army. This was an attempt to show good faith to Russia when she was un- der terrific seige, when the battle of Stalingrad was in the balance. In some cases ships rode at an- chor fifty and sixty days in the Gulf of Persia, waiting to unload, their crews idle. Basic reason for this delay is that port facilities along the Guif of Persia. are backward if not medieval. There were no modern docks or cranes, and to unload lo- comotives without cranes is almo:t impossible. Also the railroad, run- ning north from Basra to the Cau- casus is a meandering affair, never completely finished, originally bwilt to reach the Shah's hunting lodge rather than port facilities on the Caspian. Very little had been done by the British to improve this line, unti American engineers got busy. Even Letore Pearl-Harbor, when we first started sending aid to Russia, Am- erican railroad men were rushed to Basra. But it was a tough job, and - was still unfinished last fail &.0 summer. At that time the Nazis were knocking our Murmansk con- voys off Norway into smithereens. €0, to keep faith with Russia, ships were piled into the Gulf of Persia. Today the situation, though still difficult, is greatly improved. In fact, hard-hitting Lew Domglas, dy- namo of the War Shipping- Admin- istration, has pepped up unloading (Continued on Page Four) per- | PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 8— Fourteen hundred employees of the largest captive coal mine of the Jones and McLaughlin Steel Co. struck in the first stoppage since _the Government took over. It occurred shortly after Presi- dent Roosevelt implied at a press |Lonrmon(e that the miners are not free to strike now since they are ,Government employees. | Today's walkout protested -efforts lof the company to levy a fine of $5 against last week’s strikers. - - . ICELAND PLANE CRASH WAS DUE T0 BAD WEATHER Craft Struckfii" in Isolated Section - Fourteen Persons K|IIed LONDON, May 8. — The plane |crash in Iceland last Monday in which Lieut. Gen. Frank W. An- drews and 13 others were killed loccurred when “weather was bad, ia very low ceiling and poor visi- bility due to rain and low clouds.” | The United States Army Com- mand here also 'said the plane Istruck a hill in an isolated section near Grindavik and was demol- ished. The only sur®ivor was rear runner, Staff Sergeant George Eisel. The announcement said it is not |known who was piloting at the time of the crash. ARE REPORTED AT GIBRALTAR LALINEA, Spain, |violent explosions shattered calm of Gibraltar Bay at 6 o'clock this morning, after which British naval tugs beached three merchant {ships in the harbor. The report an attack was made by Axis submarines is not ,con- firmed immediately. ARMSTRONG KNOCKS OUT TOM JESSUP BOSTON, Ma. May 8.—Before a glove could be laid on him, Henry Armstrong, the only triple cham- pion in ring history, knocked out Tommy Jessup, of Springfield, with a two-fisted attack last night in the first round. '3 EXPLOSIONS May s.—'rhmf thop | Another Aleutian Base Established, Navy Says; Is 0n Amchilka Island WASHINGTON, May 8 The United States Forces have estab- lished an air base only 63 nauti- cal miles from Japanese-held Kis- ka, in the western Aleutians, the Navy announces, on Amchitka Is- land The establishment of this base was accomplished late last Janu- and cut the flying time to Kiska by bombing planes averag- ing 300 miles an hour to 12 min- {utes. This base has made possible the .avy daily raids carried out, when \her permitted, since March 1. Phe announcement of the lishment of the new base is made in a Navy communique which also said Army planes raided Kiska six he £ times on Wednesday of this week and attacked Attu-held Jap base, farther west, four times. Kiska has now been reported to have been raided 215 times in the last gtwo months. The Navy communique said that previous to the occupation of Am- chitka, Adak in the Andreanofs, was occupied. The announcement of the occupation of Amchitka was withheld, the Navy says, until’ our positions in the islands was fully consolidated. The Navy communique further raids on Kiska Wednes- resuited in bomb hits beine scored on Gertrude Cove, main camp and North and South Heads, submarine base, and fires w started, one building being de- stroyed. Attu was bombed and strafed and hits scored on Jap in- stallations. One enemy plane was destroyed. stated the - ATTU BOMBED SEVEN TIMES ON THURSDAY WASHINGTON, May 8-—Ameri- can planes operating from advanced positions in the Aleutians have stepped up attacks on Attu, the Navy discloses, stating the base was raided seven times on Thurs- day. operating from the base on Am- chitka Island, only 63 nautical’miles from Kiska and 233 nautical miles from Attu. - 350 GERMAN PLANES ARE Russians Mfie Claims of Big Attack on Front on Thuysday LONDON, May 8.—A radio broad- cast at Moscow, picked up here, says 350 German planes massed along the front have been de- stroyed or damaged in the great attack of last Thursday when the Germans suffered an overwhelming attack. The radio broadcast asserts | the Russians only lost 24 planes, i b Lo HENRY SULLY, SISTER, FLY TO SITKA TODAY Henry Sully, of Sully’s Bakery, flew to Sitka this morning with his sister, Mrs. Henrietta Soley, for @ few days’ visit. Mrs. Soley is returning to her home after spend: ing several weeks in the States. stab- | new | The bombing force apparently is BLASTED OUT RUMLPLAN WINS OUT FISH COMES IN FINE S0 IN SENATE FAR, REPORT Commiite Okehs It - Abating Year's Tax Is Due gill But Must Have Boals and .. | More Manpower to Reach Quota B s = WASHINGTON, May 8.—Despite WASHINGTON, May 8. — The # manpower and boat shortage, Ruml plan supporters won a smash- | ries Coordinator Harold L ing victory when the Senate Fi- Ickes' quarterly proddction figures “ lindicated the fishermen are haul- nance Committee voted 13 to 6 to adopt the principle abating a full ing Dbigger catches to American Years tax in installing a pay-ase|ibles. “far from the goals set by Y eiogo collection, and voted to lay|the War Food Administrator aside the House’s current collection! The War Foods Administration bl and use the skip-a-year plan|8tked for six Ilnll‘mn pounds “((1:\ Ak yesr PAMivear against last year's entire f,?;‘.l“llfi,lun.‘,:‘fi(;;(:, to closely par= icn, including Alaska, of three 8 1 billion elght hundred milion | pounds Ickes said the industry forecasts [that last year's can’t be met unless the armed forces return the boats and more manpower be made avail- able for fishing and processing. His quarterly figures included nul but and shark landed at Seattle, 4747786 pounds against 1,382,788 the corresponding period last |year, and miscellaneous other fish jat Seattle 4,300,028, agalnst 3,526,-| 410 last year ON NIPPONS, BURMA AREA American Heavy Bombers| Drop 30 Tons on Japan- ese Headquarters | fm -+ GABRIELSON SAYS FISH NEW DELHI, May 8--American heavy bombers dropped more then | 30 tons of bombs last Tuesday on Jap installations at Toungoo, Bur- ma, blasting enemy headqua there and causing great damage e oanan weanne s Wit <Dnly Get About Half! :.:‘P‘]‘;;‘li,l("(:wll S. Army Air Force com of Nahon S Demand This Year The raid was carried out by the Tenth Air Force and following the NEW YORK, May 8--Dr. Ir Gabrielson, Deputy Fisheries Coor- smashing attack on Hainan Island, off Southern China, by the Four- dinator, estimated the fishing in- dustry will supply only half of the teenth Air Fm"ce nation’s demand this year He said some 50 fishing boats re- BIG FIGHT quisioned by the Navy and Coast Guard have been returned and ef- stantial contribution forts are being made to provide essential equipment. He added that ADVAN(ES By VESSELS SUNK - BY JAP SUBS ¢ Undersea Boafs Operating Off Australia Make Killing HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, May 7 Japanese subs sank five ships, including one medium United States merchantman, tralia. Most of the crews were aved by prompt Allied naval pa- trols. The subs are in an attempt to the fish i |Violent Sin@e Reported on Approaches fo Novorossisk 1 MOSCOW, May 8-—An extremelv vmlent battle is reported in pro- gress southwest of Neberdjevskaya, \nnlv nine miles from Novorossisk, with the Germans rushing up re- serves, tanks and motorized artil- lery in an attempt to halt the So- viet advance. In the face of growing resis- tance, the Red Army units which | turned southward after separating | the Germans from the Rumanians north of the Kuban River, Rus- sians in the south are driving hard |to follow up the force of their first thrusts in the direction of Novorossisk. There is no indication that the city is surrounded, but the Soviet troops are on three sides and are ALLIED IN in force “lifeline operating to cut the BRI Ak 1 B or0) ‘::}r_ A;Jslruh but “defiantly our The Germans attempted to re- |ml’lp e "““““""l'l’ llubr;p(-lmu-lvir- ¥ . {tually in an undiminished volume |group their sagging forces yester- > P 8 ¥ under proteciion of our naval air- |day and threw several heavy tank- B craft units,” nique states, Capt. C. C. the official commu- |led counter-attacks against the Red | Army advanc Endstrom, of Alame- A major struggle developed on | 4 |an important hill southwest of da, Calif., commander of the Am- ‘Neberd_wvsknya! erican ship, and his entire crew | e S of .81 were rescued after 12 hours ’ in a lifeboat POWDER. MAN HERE A. W. Foster, with the Atlas Staying at the of, Daxn Powder Company, arrived here yes- terday from Excursion Inlet. He at the Baranof Hotel. Jin from Sitka last night. | sport fishermen are making a sub- (Delayed)— | Allied! is Noonan, well known salesman, came | | WHEREAS, honor and distinction rightly should be conferred this sar upon Mrs, Thomas F. Sullivan )¢ Waterloo, Towa, mother of five valiant sons who gavé their lives for their country when they went down in battle on the cruiser, USS Juneau in the Battle of the Solom- on Sea last’ November, and, WHEREAS, many mothers have given their sons in the great battle to defeat those ruthless nations who would wipe out all forms of dem- ocracy throughout the world, but few have made the huge sacrifice for their country comparable to the sacrifice made by Mrs. Sullivan, and, WHEREAS, Sunday, May 9, has been designated Mother’s Day on which sons and daughters throughout the United States pay tribute to their mothers, and, WHEREAS, it is especially im- portant that we follow out the tra- ditions of this day in this, the sec- ond such observance in a year of as Widespread Operallons Of Black Markefs Cause Gasps, Washingfon,D.C. By JACK NETT | WASHINGTON, May 8.--Nothing !that has happened on the home front has caused any greater gasps ‘m Washington than recent revela- tions about the widespread opel (tions of the black markets, There are few Congressmen and government officials who aren’t old enough to remember the gangsters of the -prohibition era and all ar- rows now point to a similar situa- jtion. OPA and the Department of |Justice are being congratulated here for the prompt action they have taken in trying to ferret out these worst of all possible war protiteers, but the consensus is that |they can make little headway if the public plays the prohibitoin game all over again and supports the racketeers. The main trouble is retailers and operators are unwittingly playing into the hands of the black market that many | tion set-up have either restaurant and hotel | operators. In a quick survey of sev-| jeral leading eating places in Wash- ington, I found none who would ad- mit patronizing the black markets but several who were paying ceiling prices PLUS (1) delivery charges; 2) d ing charges; (3) handling charges. \COUNCIL ADOPTS - 1943-44 SCHOOL ~ YEAR'S BUDGET Totalof $110,290 Approv- | ed, ButCity's Cost Is Less east of Aus- Members of the City Council last Inight approved a $110,290 school budget for the year 1943-44, a con- siderable increase over last year's budget of $89 but the city's por- Ition of the bill is $1.357 less than ast year. | The general increase in the por- Ition borne by the Territory is due to an increase in teachers' salaries Ifor this area from 181,800 to that of $2250 Superintendent of Schools A. B Phillips pointed out that the cost o the city would have been even less, but for the fact that it has Ibeen found necessary to add four teachers to the stafl for the new year. The Council approved Mayor Harry I. Lucas’ appointment of Howard Button as fire truck drlver,‘ On Cruiser USS Juneau war, and, WHEREAS, the members of Ju- neau Elks Lmlgv have publicly in-| vitéd all who 1 to honor their mothers on this day to attend spec- | fal services which will be held at| afternoon, ' Elks Hall, 2:30 o'clock on Sunday May 9, in the Juneau now, THEREFORE, I, Harry I. Lycas,| Mayor of the City of Juneau, do by proclaim that Sunday, May | 9, be dedicated to all mothers, especially to all those mothers who| have given their sons for their| country, but above all that this day be dedicated in Juneau to Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan—to this gal- lant mother in memory of her five heroic sons who gave their lives in the sinking of the cruiser Juneau, and let us all pray to our Heavenly Father that blessing be brought by | all of Juneau on this little mother for the sacrifice which she has made upon the altar of freedom. } SIGNED, LUCAS, Muyur ‘ HARRY 1. These “extras” In most cases are 5t the black market operator way of trying Lo get around the p: riotism and law abidance of his| '|~lt|m~|~ In all cases, these “ex-| tra are passed on to the consum- 5. Off the record, nearly all gov- rnment officials believe that only he consumers can forestall black market operations. The OPA, De-| partment of Justice, FBI, and Food | Administration could quintuple| their in igation staffs without | having half enough men to copel with the situation. The extent to which Chester C.| Davis, the ‘“new broom” in the| Food Administration, is sweeping lean hasn't really been publicized. Nearly all of the “key men” in Sec- vetary of Agriculture Claude R. | Wickard's wartime food administra- | resigned or | transferred and nearly all of them have been replaced by former offi- cials in Davis’ old AAA organiza- tion, s Off the record, some unbiased ob=| servers are pretty sure that the| clean sweep would have included | Wickard, too, if the story hadn’t been pried out in advance nm\ that was what was in the cards. | I | (Continued on Puue 8ix) The Council also ordered a tel- | ephone installed at the Upper City | Float for the convenience of police, the U. S. Coast Guard and fish-' ermen and dock patrolmen ——t—— ALASKAIS minimum of | SEPARATE TAX AREA Internal Revenue Collector Announces Creation of Division 8 of Clark Squir Internal Rev- TACOMA, May Distriet Collector enue, announces the Alaska offices have been organized into a sep- arate division with headquarters in Anchorage. Thomas Walker has been tran: ferred from Aberdeen, Wash., nd will take charge at Anchorage fol- lowing the retirement of O. 8. Sul- livan, chief of the division. | were ‘Ino AXIS FORCES ARE FLEEING FROM ALLIES \Offensive fo Be Kept Up Until Last German Driven from Africa ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 'NORTH AFRICA, May 8.—Allied troops are hammering the scat- ‘tered pockets of resistance and are pursuing enemy detachments flee- ing from conquered Bizerte and* | Tunis. The official statement this alt’\ noon says “the battle will continiie as long as a single German is on African soil.” . Bizerte and Tunis were cap- tured by Allied forces, an over- whelming force by land and air. Doughboys in Base The naval base at Bizerte was occupied by American doughboys in mid-afternoon and five minutes later the official announcement was made that the British First army took the capital city of Tunis. Both the naval base and Tunis choked with Germans and Italians who started to flee to the S |coastal hills and Cap Bon Penin- |sula, between Bizerte and Tunis. Pounding by Allied warplanes is in progress today. Historic Fall The fall of the two chief Tuni- slan cities occurred on the eve of | France’s Joan of Arc Day and co- incidentally the Rome radio broad- cast, picked up on the North Afri- can front, said Sunday would be jobserved as thd “Day of Ttalians in Africa.” The fall of the two ecities took place just six montss to a day after the Allied landing barges were grounded on the French North African beaches. French Move Up Today's Alliled communique also states the French troops have cap- tured Pont du Fahs on the high |zround east and will roll up against right wing of the Axis lines on the southern front. The capture of Bizerte followed the great advance of the Ameri- n forces, nothing stopping them they were supported by artillery and with planes roaring overhead and dropping bombs on the Axis resistance. The advance was made after the Americans took Ferry- ville, just eight miles from Bizerte. The Americans then rushed pell- mell toward the naval base. Air Force Aid ‘The British First Army captured {Le Bardo, on the highway at the edge of Tunis and Allied planes, completely dominating the air, aided the British force to advance rdpldly into Tunis. Roads are reported clogged “n all directions by the retreating Axis forces which are being bombed by planes. 25 Ships Are Torpedoed Twenty-five enemy ships been sunk in the Tunisian Strait by subs making a powerful sweep against surface transports by which an attempt might be made to with- draw the survivors of the Tunis- Bizerte front. TIDES TOMORROW High tide--4:26 am, 151 feet. Low tide—11:08 am. 09 feet High tide—5:30 pm., 129 feet. Low tide—11:16 pm., 53 feet. Tides Monday High tide—5:07 am., Low tide—11:56 am, High tide-6:21 pm,, - 138 21 121 feet. feet. feel. e o 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:02 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 4:46 am. Dimout begins Sunday sunset at 9:04 pm. Dimout ends Monday at sun- rise at 4:44 am Dimout ends Monday at sun= set at 9:06 p.m. @00 00000 e at at P00 0scsesneve s