The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1943, Page 1

“r " Al ‘Merry - Go- Round THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9339. _JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1943 ) MF'VIBPR ASSOCIATPD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TEN CENTY NAZIS SURRENDER TO AMERICAN FORCES Agree To Unconditional C | TOMMY GETS LIGHT FROM CAPTIVE iN()V()R()SS[SKI . NIPPON ISLAND SHELLED | | Tokyo Bro?d?asi Infers American Submarine | Atfacks Jap Locality | BULLETIN—New York, May | 10—A radio broadcast from | Tokyo today, picked up here, reported that the war has been romcy carried directly to the islands of Japan. The radio asserted that a village on the island of Hokkai- do has been shelled by a sub- marine. The broadcast said the shells, presumably American, missed the mark but landed on a field. The shelling is reported have taken place before mid- night yesterd: Problems at Home Kept Him Qut Late; | Divorce Is Asked LOS ANGELES, May 10.—There were “so many problems at home™ that Gene Fowler Jr. film editor | and son of the famous writer, often stayed out all night, Mrs. Jane Fowler, studio artist, testified in ob- taining a divorce. She said she asked him why he stayed out so much, and he told her there were so many problems at home he didnt want to come‘ home. “But I didn't know what the problems were,” she told the court. | Mrs. Fowler was given cmsnody of their two-year-old daughter, Martha. 1 The Washington to By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | (The Brass Ring and a free ride on the Washington Merry- Go-Round is awarded today to Gen. Ira Eaker, the man who holds the shert cut to victory —bombing the heart of Hitler- dom.) WASHINGTON.—Before the sum- mer is over, Adolph Hitler will know that he has a tough poker player to deal with. This is more than a figure of speech, Major Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Commanding Gener- al of the Eighth U. 8. Air Force, in England, is not only a top- fighting flyer, but also the best poker player in the Air Corps. He knows when to fold a bad hand, and when to stay in to the finish. This summer, with more air power than any other Ameri- can officer ever commanded at any time or place, Gen. Eaker wil stay into the finish. And he firm- ly believes that the blow he in- tends to deal will be decisive. For months he has been fighting for more equipment, and now he is ready to fight WITH it. Until now he has had so few bombers that the number has been a strict military secret. But beginning now, he is getting so many bombers that it's much more of a secret. There is a lot of guesswork about where the Allies will stage an in- vasion of the continent—and when. But there is no guesswork about Gen. Eaker’s invasion. He has now finished with - experiments, and is ready to supplement the RAF raids by putting great formations of American bombers in the air, three, four and five times a week. He is prepared to carry such destruction to factories and rail lines on the Continent that Hitler's troops can- not move from one place to an- other. " (Continued on Page Four) L ONE OF THE MANY NAZIS TAKEN PRISONER by the British in Tunisia offers a light to the British private who captured him. Both men were wounded in battle and are awaiting behind the flxhhng frout for (urlher Real "War Cabi an ambulance to carry them back medical attention. (International) net” of President Is Revealed; (Iose "Advisers" Noted BONE DRY AMERICA PREDICTED Founder ;flnfi-Saloon League Says Pendulum Is Swinging Back WESTERVILLE, Ohio, May 10.— Dr. Howard H. Russell, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Anti- Saloon League he founded after swearing off on hard liquor, proph- esied America will be bone dry again by 1950. Dr. Russell said the pendulum of public sentiment is swinging back “and won't be stopped as it is spearheaded by local option already under way.” BIG ALLIED TRIUMPHIS TOUGH PILL Italy Mak—es Curf An-, nouncement of Tunisian Win, But Not Germany (By Associated Press) Italy curtly announced the fall| of Bizerte and Tunis. The Rome radio said the Allied forces out- numbered the Axis ten to one. The Berlin ‘radio sugar-coated the bitter pill of defeat by intimat- ng that “dire things are to come” and hinted of a “secret weapon” which might be used for an inva- sion of England, stating that “in- vasion is not out of the question by.a mass attack of air forces and U-boats.” The Berlin broadcast also said “PBritain's position is desperate.” The broadcast also stated the cap- ture of Tunis and Bizerte “struck astonishment into the Germans” but admitted it was an Allied tri- umph. —————— BUY WAR BONDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 10.— Since we got into this war, almost a bil- lion words have been written about the President’s “war cabinet.” Com- mentators have written reams of copy and spent hours on the air telling about how thin authority was spread; about how necessary it is to concentrate that authority in a few responsible individuals. There were periods when this was so but out of the muddle of divided authority, the true picture of the “war cabinet” is beginning to shape up. It started when Associate Justice James F. Byrnes was pulled off the Supreme Court bench to become Di- rector of Economic Stabilization. Tt was put a bit forwarder when Charles E. Wilson was given added powers in WPB that made him ac- tually the superior of Donald Nel- son in most executive matters; and when Prentiss Brown was placed at the head of OPA. The President war cabinet” to- day actually consists of: (1) President Roosevelt, whose decisions are supreme in the mat- ters of global war strategy, and in so far as the executive branch of government is concerned, supreme in matters of economic, production, labor, and manpower controls on the home front. (2) “Little Jxmmy" Byrnes, who 'COl‘l“lluLd on Page Threel (lARK GABLE'S HANDS GO NUMB IN RAID ATTAC Actor TakiEMovie Pic-, tures from Foriress in Antwerp Attack LONDON, May 10.—The hands of Clark Gable nearly froze while shooting movies from a flying Fort- T raid last Tuesday over Ant- werp, members of his unit disclosed. During the attack, Gable's first, the former movie star wore leather| zloves under electrically heated ones but when the picture taking was over he pulled the warm gloves off and his hands soon became purple and then numb. Contrary to earlier reports, Gable's plane was not badly dam- aged although a German 20 milli- meter shell smashed the nose but PENETRATED BY RUSSIANS | Outer Defensefi Crumbling | from Aftack-Gains | on Other Fronts (By Associated Press) | Russian Red Army forces have penetrated the outer fortifications | of Novorossisk, dispatches from the front said, and "pn'sxsl.cntlyi crumbling of the enemy defenses | is breaking the depth of his po- | | sitions This Soviet advance in. the Ku= bon sector coingided with the fierce fighting in the air which the Rus- slans d has resulted in the de- struction of 930 German planes during the past seven days. Resurgence activity in the Llsi- chasnsk of the Donets basin, | linked with the smashing Russian ' raids on German communications behind the Ukrainian front, is ap- parently part of a well conceived | plan to smash the Nazi prepara- tions for a summer offensive. e German communique today suggested the Russian landings on top of the Caucasus bridgehead was miscalculated as a large number of the force were destroyed by an artillery bmmgo PEACETALK ADVANCED BY FRANCO Declares World War Has Reached Deadlock- Neither Can Win MADRID, May 10. — Francisco Franco, speaking last night, said the World War has reached a dead- lock in which neither side has pow er to destroy the other and “there- fore those of us who witness the struggle serenely consider it sense- less to delay peace.” Franco said additional victories will be at the cost of great sacri- fices but sooner or later the dead- lock forces of belligerents will listen to the voices calling for peace like those from Spain and the Vatican The feeler Speech by the Spanish leader is considered significant in view of the massive Axis defeat in Africa and successes of the Rus- ' sians in the winter offensive. Sl N FORMER GRID STAR MISSING EAST TAWAS, Mich, May 10.— Second Lieutenant Wilmeth Sidat Singh, former Syracuse football star, is reported missing after a pursuit plane crashed in Lake Huron. Oak Leaf Cluster Is Awarded for Bravery WASHINGTON, May 10.—Briga- dier General Theodore Roosevelt, son and namesake of the late President, has received an Oak Leaf cluster for bravery at a for- ward observation post in North | Africa during the repulse of an enemy counter-attack. D MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses were issued Saturday night by United States Commissioner Felix Gray to Saul Aguirre and Margaret Stevens; and Battle Flagofa U.S. Sub in Li. Arnold G. Plemons, USN, San Francisco (left), and G. played the battle flag of their submarine after returning to their Pac The two miniature Japanese flags represent two Japanese vessels definitely sunk while in enemy waters. . Hoppe, seaman first class, Joppa, Mo., dis- the Padific ol ¢ base from a successful ps ‘lle turprdn device in the upper left hand corner signifies two torpedo hits on additional enemy ships. ATIU GIVEN Martial Law SHELLING BY Is Proclaimed TASK FORCE Over Holland Vessels Get dbse fo Shore Germany Jifiéfy Over In- —Ammunition Dump vasion Prospects, Puts Is Blown Up Out Iron Hand 10. .'Navy photo. By EUGENE BURNS LONDON, May The Nether- Associated Press Wi lands News Agency reports the Correspondent Germans have placed all of Hol- land under martial law, Jittery over ADVANCED ALEUTIAN BASE, |invasion prospects. April 30~ (Delayed)—Steaming in| The martial law edict prohibit, at high speed, an American Task (crowds of more than five persons, Force shelled Jap positions at Attu|imposes a curfew from 8 p.m. to for 25 minutes at dawn today 6 am, and forbids strikes and The bombardment was made dur- | lockouts under penalty of death. ing snow squalls which did not in- - .- terfere with the visibility, however. | The ammunition dump on Attu| II er a es was hit and blown up and bursts in were seen from 600 to 800 feet the air On April 24 another landed many salvos and get of Atiu was again hard pounding task for the ta given a Broadcast On 'Anniversary Shore installations at Holtz and Chichagof harbors were also hit at. relatively close range. Shells| [oNDON, May 10.—Adolph Hit- dropped onto the airfields underjer is quoted in a Berlin radio talk constryction. | declaring the past winter “involved The Japanese did not return the the heaviest suffering and hardest fire on Attu burdens on our soldiers.” - - il | The broadcast, reported by Reu- \ters, was on the occasion of the H anniversary end of another “win- Juniors, Frosh g . A broken any other army in the iter campaign” by halting the Rus- Taking advantage of the radiant world.” 15 in- counter-attacking. Hitler said the German soldiers weather, both Juniors and Fresh-| He declared further sacrifices on men of J-Hi are taking their pic- the home front paled before the nics tonight after the close of privations and suffering of “our school. coldiers and only love of their coun- Both classes are taking their out- try sustained ()'em ing at the Auk Bay recreation cen- ter. Friday, May 14, is the date set for Senior and Sophomore outings, | with place of the' Senior all day | outing still a secret. Final decislon has not been reported in by v.he Sophs. Alerl On plans, the J-Club banquet set for| A practice Alert of the Juneau tonight in the Iris Room has been Ciyilian Defense organization will cancelled, A. B. Phillips, Superin- pe held Thursday evening of this tendent of Schools, states. SGAR. | annonnced’ Disector iR, B Mok Robertson today. No ambulances American farmers have been Will be used. Announcement will none of the crew members was t0 Woodrow Wolverton and Joyce asked to produce 57 billion quarts be made later of the specific pro- seriously injured. R. Barlow. jof milk in 1943, x am for the Alert, POWERFUL U.S. CRAFT IN ACTION 400-Mile-an-Hour P-47s| Now Operating in Euro- pean War Theatre LONDON, May 10. — Powerful 400-mile-an-hour * American ~P-47 Thunderbolt fighters are disclosed to have gone into action in the European theatre of operations. Squadrons of them, flown by Am- ericans under the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, have made in- | termittent sweeps over the contin- ent and have constituted a big por- tion of the escort and helped the Flying Fortresses, especially on May |4 when Antwerp was raided. The craft is a powerful heavy single engined monoplane armed with 85 caliber machine guns, like those on the Fortresses, excel in high altitudes like 35,000 feet. - " CANTON HIT BY RAIDING U.S. FORCES Sixteen Japanese Planes Shot Down in 15-Min- ute Running Fight CHUNGKING, May 10—American airmen destroyed at least 16 Jap- anese planes in a 15 minute run- ning battle during a shattering U, S. raid on Canton last Saturday, says a communique from Stillwell's Headquarters The communique added that five other enemy planes were probably destroyed and two damaged. One U. S. bomber is reported missing in the action A broadcast from Tokyo, picked up in Chungking, offered tiie Jap- anese version of the attack, saying that seven U. S. Bombers with orts of Warhawk fighters at- tacked the Canton Area but failed to hit any military objectives. The broadcast said two raiders were | downed apitulation Terms 25,000 LAY DOWNARMS, ONE SECTOR | Another Twenty-five Thou- . sand Are Capured ' by British Forces 'BOATS CARRYING AXIS SOLDIERS SENT DOWN Panic Reported by Those | Trying fo Escape from ‘| Tunisian Inferno ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘NORTH AFRICA, May 10—Naval | Air forces threw a blockade around Cap Bon Peninsula and have al- ready sunk many boats, both small and large, carrying Axis soldiers at- tempting desperately to escape from the Tunisian inferno. The American Second Corps has |obtained the unconditional surrend- er of all enemy units in its terri- | tory southeast of Bizerte. | German - resistance has stiffened in front of the British armored forces smashing against the en- trancé to Cap Bon Peninsula, a po- |sition the Axis troops are still fight+ ing for in Tunisia, described offi< | cially as “worse than’desperate.” It is certain that no important number of Germans or Italians will escape from the African front, Details of the German surrender to the Americans in the north are disclosed at Headquarters as fol- lows: At 11 a. m. Sunday, Major Gen- cral Krause, commanding the Ar- tillery of the African Corps, sent an emissary, Maj. Gen. Bradley | who requested- an armistice so sur- render might be negotiated. Bradley's terms were as follow: One—Unconditional surrender. | Two—Prompt acceptance by the | American officer. It was further demanded that all® | destruction of German equipment ° cease immediately. The wholesale surrender of the enemy battalions was then accept- Ipd and this began early in the (Continued on Page Three) >e THOUSANDS ARE TAKEN PRISONERS Offensive, Th;n Capture of Tunis, Bizerfe Witness Many Captives ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 10.—Many thousands of prisoners were taken |in the conquering of Bizerte and Tunis and subsequent offensive by the American and British forces and up to early Sunday morning it | was estimated that the number |might easily run as high as five figures, As the troops entered Bizerte and Tunis there was some sniping but this was quickly put down. Al |straggling elements were soon 'mopped up. The Nazi forces in both Tunis and Bizerte seemingly were un- aware of the close proximity of the “(Continued on Pngc Three) ’. ® & 0 o 0 o 0 0 0 . DIMOUT TIMES . . —— . e Dimout heeins tonight e ® at sunset at 9:06 o'clock. . ® Dimont ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 4:41 am. . e Dimout begins Tuesday at e ® sunset at 9:08 p.n. .