The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS XI., NO. 9340. ERMANS, [TALIANS TRAPPED BY ALLIES ‘SaysJapan Must Attack U.S. Mainland By Air BROADCAST RAIDS MADE ' First Photo, U.S. For teslanding al Amchitka | AXIS UNITS GIVEN OUT | | I - ON ENGLAND "7 NOW IN NET BY OFFICIAL ALONG COAST ON PENINSULA Nippon GeH;Fal Admits Many Girls Killed When British Make Complets Japanese Air Foree | | Bombs Hit Inn - Al- | Break-through on Cap Inferior fo Allies | lies Refaliating : | Bon in Tunisia i LONDON, May 11.-—The sky over ! Jmm‘B"cgfthfl“f)dsr's::‘” i |the English Channel was filled with | { ENEMY FORCES SEEM apan @ e y tha t diyee i s SHEYD 8cs vaunted air force is inferior to the two-way braflic foday. ip SHD 88 To HAVE los' NERVE ‘ P perial Jap Army, acknowledged Anglian town, dropping bombs in- that the Nipponese fliers lack the | from the smoking embers, while searchers probed the ruins for the tivity by Allied bombers and figiit- Allies' aerial battle armor. | - - | discriminately and killing many Rock-Ribbed Moun technical knowledge exhibited by remains of at least seven others | | ers saw the battered continent | Broadcasting from Tokyo, Lieu- blasted anew | tenant General Uchida of the Im- girls in an inn which was struck. | s ; ¥ . y gl Bt i i Allied pilots, technicians and de- Bodlas of 11 girls wete! ¥ocarared | AN g NS * ‘ tain Section Wans Fe signers, but claimed that Jap “gpiritual strength” is superior to ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH 11.—Gen- that of the Americans. He did not 55 ‘ . say of what value this spiritual Five other civilians and two sol-| Landing beats take U. S. troops ash f leral Dwight Eisenhower's Head- superiority is when a Flying Fort-| NEW PORTRA I T—This new portrait photograph of Pres. | diers also were killed in the raid,| = of the Aleutians, landing 2t Constantine Harbor. Oiher ships which took part in the Army-Navy expes |quarters announced today the Bri- ress is dropping bombs on a Nip ident Roosevelt was made recently at the White House, which was of the hit-and-run type.| tionary thrust in January are in the distance. Associated Press photo from U. 8. Navy. tsh armor unit forced a complete outpost. Fiftcen Nazi planes dashed in, [ break-through on the neck of Cap 2 lossed their deathly cargoes and [Bon peninsula, closing that blind The Office of War Information i . | alley at its th d ke h Wmel A scooted quickly back to sea after | adley-at its mouth AB: packeting:fe Al e e i o Big Allied formations swung a- iting. Siegooly. .40 J08 . GUATE 808 the Ja . | cross thes channel soon after noon o vikie. A gac e addionds! B e . e TR Advancing from the Hamman Lif area on the north side of the Cap Bon neck, the British First Army to bolster greater efforts in Jap ward France to resume the Allied jcrosced the base of the peninsula war production, declared that Ja- aerial offensive. pan must attack the American W 3 10 the outskirts of Fammamet o - |the south side and took Soliman, ISR mainland via the air. He said the nie t gre Pacific war, which he termed an E BI d F h! ymbalia, and Menzel Bou Zelfa “unparallelled war of years” soon the center, the communique said, will enter the critical phase which A Reuters news agency dispateh will determine whether Japan is'| Giving all Juneau fishermen, jleges it is an entirely volunta |from Allied headquarters said the “to eat or be eaten.” pleasure craft yachtsmen and other groanization of civilians,” Wattel British entered Hammamet early ——,———— cmall boat owners an opportunity worth said. “As soon as a flotilla Ra In Toda this morning. to participate in maritime protec- -ganized, it elects its own Offi- is organized, Scorched by Allied fire from PROPOSALS BY GIRAUD |tion o (hie Morthwest Sea Frontieiil sor foid! astalillehies 1 ows Motk= Innd, sea and air, the remnants of he German-Italian army, crowded S |a Juneau branch of the U. S. Coast jng program; full co-operation is | ¢ ALGIERS, May 11.—Pending es- Guard Auxiliary will be established extended by the Coast Guard, of OVIeI ron' lon the’ peninsula, appeared to have tablishment of a provisional govern- here immediately, Lieutenant Earle cours but each flotilla operates lest its nerve after this bold and ment of Free Frenchmen here, Watterworth, District Coast Guard ynder its own officers.” | swift stroke by British armor. Pros< to General Charles DeGaulle today Auxiliary Director, announced to- Requirements full member- pects of a last stand in the moun- tain-ribbed peninsula is diminish- Governor-General Giraud proposed day. sh he Auxiliary are si le. i ! ip in the Ausitiory wre simpie. Red Army |s Encountering, ng and the opposition of thess a “swap arrangement” between the Several flotillas of Auxiliary ves-| Any vessel owner or part-owner | snared Axis troops is slight, the laeders ,of the French forces. The sels to execute volunteer civilian who is 18 years of age or older and HiY H two would switch between President tasks connected with Coast Guard gn American citizen may join a Sm“es' Of Resustan(e | dispateh said. The trapped soldiers of the Prench council and President |activities in this area are needed in | flotilla. ‘Associate membership is from Germans | |are inciined to surrender at the of the committee which executes Juneau, Lieutenant Watterworth extended to boatmen who do not | “’l‘»“l opportunity, the council’s orders. |said. He came here from Ketehi- own a share of a vessel but volun- r 2 | | As British naval forces scoured kan to inaugurate the pragram. All for crew duties. Members may! MOSCOW, May 1l. — The Rus- \ idjacent waters in what was de- owners or part owners of motor the Coast Guard Ausiliary flag Sian Red Army troops are crawling i ‘wl'llwd as “mopping up” of small cnemy parties which attempted dis- organized escapes, Allied aviation | vilots who continued to sweep the forward d by yard, in some of The Washln to vessels under 65 feet in length are and wear all authorized insignia of . by yard, in s Jinvited to a meeting 8t the Legion hiaite the bloodiest fighting of the Rus- the organization, Dugout at 8 o'clock tonight when ! i sian-German war since the days 0 i Y ’ . 2 4 Merr - Go _Roun Watterworth will explain the AuX-| .y, K O s _lof the battle of Stalingrad. ‘/.« - ; ot 5 3 4 y i v /4 |beaches reported little activity and [Hiary plan and the opportunity 6| . o oo, &r¢, 50 many potential ser-| "The Red Army is battling fur- g 2 |said the cornered enemy apparent- By DR offers oivilian boatmea to serve | Vices Which Auxiliary members may jously within the German defense| Carrying more supplies to a beach on Constantine Hirbor already piled with war materials, U. S. Army |iy has recognized the futility of ate s Xab HEV&‘PEARSE?N“ : {their country both duing working |PerOTm that no one . ever has jines of Novorossisk but it 1s re-| amd Navy men join in the ope ration, wading throu :h sumbo mud. The foree landed on Amchitka Island, |‘empting to get away. Huge fires ajo! e en on active duty. |néurs and in thelr leisure time counted them,” Watterworth said,|ported they are meeting with stif-| 70 miles from Jap-held Kiska in the Rat Istand group, last January, but it was just anno meed. Associated |blazing along the roads on the but already the Auxiliary in other fened Axis resistance X homb-r AT Rt 1€ Xis ista 3 Press pheto from U. S, Navy. omb-ridden cape indicated that WASHINGTON.—More and more . o s districts has proved to be of inval-| The Red Army Air Force mean- the . Cefihis slvaedy Sie ki # Cabiil 3 and o Although Auxiliary membership o110 peln to the Coast Guard and B 4 . £ people on F ill and in the o, iiti06 civilians to wear the regu- | . neip ast Guard and while keeps up a major scale series | their supplies. More than 5,000 pris- Governmc;ntr se new wondering | 1ii0** Cfficer-type uniform ana | ¢ Nauon. Fishermen, who Carty|of attacks against the German sup- o b H jU"EAU HRSI oners were taken in the British how much faith they ean place in ,jies them many Coast Guard priv- tontinued on Pade POl ply lines all along the front but - s oi g I 4::‘nu::,)oncmssbthe p:m};mula. includ~ ‘ g 600 members of the crack Her- IN SE(OND WAR | (Continued on Page Two) the Navy's official announcements | 5 apparently not successful in halt- - of losses at Pearl Harbor and com- ' . Reinforcements of Germans are . H H ing aown 10 xnovs recent e W FIT@F F €S FIOW QLY being pushed into the Kuban sector apier in i ary as LOAN DRIVE i to feed their r g at- | Beginning with the annosuncement ing the flow of supplies. L cessful argument with the Truman numerous counter-at Committee over submarine Ilo: tacks. The Germans are bringing | | *» the unfortunate effect has been to . up tanks, armored car, motorized J With a quota of $1,780,000 set for| ouTlooK FOR A shake public confidence in Navy| en ccup'e : e p artillery and heavy field pieces n omes' rese“ ar he Second War Loan Drive, Deputy| communiques. i W Sav Administrator Fre o8 gk, Laigag Boyiie Beualy oy l | By JACK STINNETT [vice to “experiment” with ‘drafting |kans have more than trippled that| v ficient chief of Navy Press Rela-| WASHINGTON, May 11—Among | 1-Bd. How to train them was @|mark, with $3546.12470 worth - of } bonds having been purchased. i tions, at the National Newspaper the records in the War Department stumy until a couple of fellows . Promotion Association in New York ' g ~ e Y is one file that is causing more at Camp McCoy, northwest of Chi- '01 that total, $100731325 was SAYS IN A H. 4 i " solu. derived from Series E bonds, the . | Voluntary Organization Well-1'11-be-darneds” from oldtime cago, decided that only in which he told how the Navy - 4 g d wRa.URnEeHEopeRs 0. 0ombat m(‘\Fwo AREAS W \“l“!‘“‘ll ¢ “‘::‘m“\ 7 Army men than any in’ the eab- tion was a special training course. ’,“\‘, n‘yf u?;x’u- ]llA;"ll"'.:'! to Ul(’”mm;\ll submarine. | Associated Press War s, Tu's the file on the training' On the recommendation of Gen.| vestor. The tolg) L1is monii Was = oS 1Y g By Tepmm AR one-third more than at any pre-| LONDON, May 1l. — Axis pros- ord of the 1-Bs Heny Aurand, commander of vious P ¢ Juneau's chases bects for thelr final Africa and Sixth Service Command, the Vious time and Juneau's purcha r their final African stan >~ Capt. Lovett went into some de- Garresponfiont l s [ tail regarding the use of helicop- 7 v i K The way I get it, it became ap-' U ¢ s and, i e JelA on Cap B i “ ters over Atlantic sealanes. How- | (Ed. Note: When American | parent only a few months after first 1-B boys marched into Camp limped_to, 930438 T0c P Ibisi THR SUR BUNNMAR. Ave. SR i ’ ’ city in the lead for all Alaska Deputy Prime Minister Attlee told anc ever, a caretul check in Armwv,| troops occupied the island of | Pearl Harbor that the strict phys- ' McCq t nin nths ago. Totals from Anchorage, Fair- the cheering House of Commonsg Navy and Maritime circles discloses | Amchitka in the Aleutians last | - ical requirements of the Army (and had missin er fin-|, T ; S k¥ N i . - . . sanks, Seward and Vhittier anc oday. that not one helicopter is in use| winter, Associated Press war S £ _|Navy) W knocking out more ! gers; others had glass eyes, little | i 4 U. S. saips t correspondent William L. Wor- IX'Y 'hree Persons lnjur el EhaE Tthey” Sould spave. Aer | inches in the back, or limping| rRnm include the payroll sav-' Britain’s First Army suffered 1, on U. 8 ps today. PING e deductions from the Alaska 200 casualties in all £ th Furthermore, the platform on one den prepared an account of | & D d 111, they argued, there should be! hangovers from spinal-meninkitis ffioan A1) bepiogg AEee . A stages of the )¢ ship from which a helicopter x- the operation in January, and ed ead Includes come place they could use young or football days, Some had a ’é(‘)’(i: ;" ‘“:"';“; Ao P “"'“‘l“"”‘ advance on Tunis and Bizerte, with perment will pe made, has not b later visited the island in time Noied Tesi Pilot fellows who didn’t quite fit into the |mouthful of bridgework, a deaf ear | gomilate L SUll In- a total of 8400 since April 17, he ‘ yet been completed. The experi- U S Bombefs and F] hlers to see the first plane take off bluebook of military physical re-|or a few toes vt of the usual “,:1““:““” Lt Rl {sald ¢ ment should tale place within two| = 7' g from the new airfield there quifements. en. Don't get me wrong; these |y in war Bond Sales i Hl‘ ‘\‘I‘TL THe Mighth: - Aroavs . camii " weeks. Mak Swee Sat Mun_ | February 18 to bomb Kiska. SAN DILGO, c.m May 11. —| A survey of Army jobs, from com- | weren't and aren’. wre R Al el n the Ter- frem April 30 to May 3 are just , e e p T o ot by |Four persons were killed and 63 bat pilot down to counter and desk | were and are sturdy lads who just it spag 49875; Fairi S o ver 2,490, including the wounded i M e e s |were injured when an Army exper-| jobs, showed that one-fourth of missed a step or on the ladder | .. AHDANES, 590004 | 1nd. . missing, e ted PROGRAM BUNGLED d V | the Navy following the official |} =° 7 i Y y . g 1 a step or t 1 the ladc with 519 AHetadent “ ssinz, he state . rmoamam mxaizn | (a, Also agavanga the Navy following ihe offial |\ i) piane crashed and burst the ‘work couid bo handled_ easlly | to_ physical periection Wi fshaln; Alchocage, lad Nl sl tion.) into flemes in a recrult hub area by men who are “sub-standaml 0Bl Probably nin> out of tep Of them | Lap Taotes Gkie olkan, fOUrth either tadly misinformed, or else| WASHINGTON, May —Amer- 4 of the Marine Corps base late yes- physical examination records. That could and would b0 ekt ‘o LD MAGLEM; Blagwhy, Hith Wil Sl sl e sl S was pulling the chestnuts out of |ican bombers and ll"hu'h ‘attacked terday afternoon mewna that in an army of 10000008 18 Jap yell unle : $URGE SURN, suih WA BB |, DIMOUT TIMES . the fire for his superior officcrs cnemy positions at Munda and | AN ALEUTIAN ARMY BASE The dead includes the noted Con- at least 2,500,000 wouldn't have (o|the field of battle 10s just . TR PAOED D U8 < i 3 who bungled the helicopter pro-|Vagavanga in the central Solom- (Delayed) — American troops on goligated test pil cMaki ¥ 3 5 M0 ward and Whittier, eighth i b 1 s e st pilot R. A. McMakin ‘ce the mark physically. And, if because the has found A e Dimout begl gram. Or there may be one o the Navy reported January 12 occupied Amchitka IS- ang three Marines. the Ky ook i » ey e Gt Wircimh. ‘sekts of ey e, th $130,392.25; Nome, ninth with u egins tonight e v explanation. The Truman Commit- today. al fires were started. land in the Rat Island group, only AL R e ting Aless bays i1, thero Would bBlihe .k roy e jce Ll $125275 and Wrangell, tenth with ® at sunset at 9:08 o'clock. . tee report, criticizing the Navy for| Vagavanga was attacked for the 70 miles from Kiska, thereby SRk i ¢ Attty Tdi i ‘K':;“‘"‘.: e S st $115,03750 s Dimout ends tomorrow ® \ not using helicopters, had been sent first time on May 4. while Munda. threatening that Jap-held base. | MRS. LEMIEUX LEAVES and war plant workers who could ‘nn "1’-‘1' rM‘ “ laced Y 3 e o 8k Sunciae A ML A0 s . to the Navy in advance and was ODe Of the most bombed spots in Gen. Simon B. Buckner ‘m_‘ Mrs. Louis Lemieux left Sunday pe gpareq pirit, that it has placed them on| wno Ot Smithberg, at St. Ann's ® Dimout begins Wednesday at i the Solomons, was hit for the 119th | — - __ |for the south for a visit in the k] Hospital for surgery, has been dis- ® sunset at 9:10 p.m. . (Continued on Page Four) time since last Nocember 23. | (Continued on Page Three) Pacific Northwest. | That's what caused Selective Ser- | (Continuea on fase Two) missed and has returned home , <+ ® ®@ ® & & & & ¢ ¢ ¢ o ¢