The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXI, NO. 9341. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943 SSOCIATED MEMBER A PRICE TEN CENTY —_== CHURCHILL IN U.S. TO CONFER WITH FDR ONE POCKET |Ickes fo Siudy Bill " Permiffing Alaskans ~ ToFlect OwnGovernor OFFIGHTERS RESISTING Italian General Refuses to Terms of Uncondition- al Surrender BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRI- CA, May 12.—Col. Gen. Jur- gen von Armin, Axis Comman- der in Tunisia, has been taken prisoner by the British. His capture is announced in the last hours of the Axis struggle in North Africa. It is also reported the Ger- mans and Italians are holding only a rough circle nine miles across in the area north of Enfidaville below Cap Bon Peninsula. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 12.—British land, sea and air units completely surrounded Cap Bon Peninsula to- day, needled inland and rounded up isolated enemy forces which sur- rendered freely. Fiercely hammering from all sides at the last remaining pocket of organized enemy resistance in Tunisia, the Allies had only this one small contingent of surviving enemy troops to worry about. The pocket is southwest of the penin- sula. On the peninsula itself, General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters reported, Allied patrols penetrated s0 thoroughly that Lieutenant General Anderson's patrols had to be protected from their own aerial support. The Allied avjation bom- bardment therefore was called off 7réoin;i;\;md on Pag The Wflashington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) - . e Three) W A SHING T O N.—Democratic party chieftains have secretly de- cided on two major points of stra- | | WASHINGTON, May 12—Sec- retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has notified the House Public Lands Committee that his Department is now studying the problems involv- ing permitting Alaskans to elect their own Governor Ickes has asked Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond for the bill in- i s s Sl Crew of a U. S submarine‘adds struction of a Japanese trawler in enemy waters. expenditure of a torpedo, the traw now the sub crew has tossed “Molotos ing fires will soon complete her de:truction. from U. S. Navy. Quick Work Saves Alaska Attack Plane tegy for the 1944 election campaign. FIRST—not to talk about a fourth term for President Roose- velt. The strategy is, “Mum’s the wor regarding the President. Speeches by prominent Democrats urging him to run again will be taboo from now on. SECOND — Democratic leaders have decided to concentrate activi- ties during the campaign on keep- ing a two-thirds majority in the Senate to support the President on the peace treaty. (The House does not vote on treaties.) It passed unnoticed, but there was a tell-tale illustration of the “no 4th term talk” strategy at a recent dinner in Philadelphia for the Democratic organization of Eastern Pennsylvania. New Deal Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsyl- vania made an all-out 4th term speech, but three speakers who fol- lowed him — Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker, Attorney General Francis Biddle and former Representative Joseph Casey, a White House adviser—didn't breathe a word about a 4th term. ~ DowninMove Against Attu | | By EU BURNS | | Associated Press War Correspondent i WITH THE ELEVENTH AIR FORCE IN ALASKA, May 2.—(De- layed—Lieutenant James Ryan, navigator of a four-motored bomb- er, told today how on a reconnais- sance flight over Attu a quick |thinking sergeant saved the plane |ecrew of 10 when a short-circuited wire blew out all the fuses on the circuit working the electrical pump which lifts gasoline from the bomb- | bay tanks to the main tanks. The last fuse went out, leaving| the plane with 800 gallons of gaso- | ling but none for the motors—and just enough in the main tanks to| {get within five miles of land. The! {pilot radioed he would make a |crash landing' in the water and or- |dered _the bombs to be jettisoned. The 300-pound bombs had to be shoved into position by hand, be- | TWOSTIFF | FIGHTS ON RUSS FRONT troduced oughly 50 gone i The Interior Secretary bill will not acted on until a complete study is made. He said he is in sympathy with the move but thinks changes are necessary in the a Organic- Act action taken said the at Leningrad-Situation in Kuban Sector MOSCOW, May 12 1000 German troops killed on the’ Lening the past 24 hours, Russian dis- patches said today, as the entire battle line surged with new activity from that northern or to the E: throbbing struggle around Nor- ovossisk on the Black Sea action before Leningrad whose 515-day siege was broken by the Russians in mid-January, ap- peared to be only a scouting oper- ation in force, intended probably to establish a new German sector on that line. It was not the beginning of an all-out Nazi offensive The German attempts failed af- ter two attacks, however, and the Russian guns opened up after the assaults and pounded the German g positions inflicting extensive dam- age, The Red Army was reported to be generally holding the initiative everywhere along the line. Izvestia official organ of the Soviet govern- ment, declared editorially today “the war with Hitlerite Ger- has entered its decisive be More have ad front in than been before se e BOTTLENECK R - ON MACHINE Not worth the ler was first subjected to gunfi cktails” aboard her. Result- SR Sweeping Cut in New War Plant Construction Is Ordered Associated Press photo WASHINGTON, May 12 Be- cause the nation now has the plants |and tools it needed to “build pro- |duction to beat the Axis,” the War Production Board today ordered a sweeping cut in new war plant con- struction and machine tool output An estimated four billion dollar: worth of approved and government- financed plant projects and ma- chine tool contracts will be re- viewed by the WPB and in every case where existing plants or ma chines can do the job the new con BATTLING tracts will be cancelled and plant construction stopped | Signalizing the final breaking of A Tllhe machine tool bottleneck, th: |WPB stated a number of tool | makers will go out of that busi- |ness into direct production of mu- of Remarkable Exper-: | ience on Cap Bon jApS (I-AIM BRITISH ARE ~ ROLLED BACK 1 ot 4 from Going War Correspondent Tells By DANIEL DeLUCE Associated Press War Correspondent ON CAP BON PENINSULA IN| Strangling Enemy Surrounded On Cap Bon Allied Troops Emerihg Tunis $ . ;) ; Axas resist- Tunis as the v ires at & punt of A tank rumbling through a street in k of half-buiit flats and a truck speed: past, says the eaption of this British official photo ance in a bl viers by the U. 8. Signal Corps. Tunisians Swarm Over Allies radioed from Exdle g g% g | | 1 |over the Atiantic from England was | | 0 & y of Tunis swarm over an Allicd vehicle This official British photo was Wild with excitement at the coming of the Allies, natives of the ¢ after troops had complgted the rout of the last Nazi pockets of resistance, Signal Corps radiophoto sent from Algiers by Army Soldier's View of His Mail from Home;They're Like Kids, Want Letters RADIO SHOWS IS JITTERING, |cause the electrical failure prc-’TUNISIA- May 11—(Delayed)—The | vented use of the automatic bomb|German fighting spirit has ebbed e !into nothingness. Tens of thousands Struggling feverishly to get ndlor Nazi soldiers threw up tnuu" of the bombs, Technical Sergeant'arms and raised white flags to John H. Miller of Hibbing, Minne- |surrender when a squadron of sota, happened to glance up and | British armored cars reached Cap spied the gold bars on the should-|Bon’s lighthouse at 3 o'clock this er of the bombardier, Second Lieu-|afternoon tenant George Mosher of Chicago.| It was one of the most incredible Miller selzed one of the bars, rushed sights of the war to look at order-| to the fuse box and inserted it into'ly columns of infantry, grenadiers, The thrust is not confirmed from the fuse sockets. The pump started' gunners, armored crewmen, air any Allied source. working and the plane winged safe-|force detachments * and supply| The British communique gives no ly homeward. | troops marching to three Tommies bint of a major setback and said B ST T Y at the crossroads just east of mc!mo British artillery has bombarded MES. COUNCIL VISITS whitewashed and bombed earthen'Japanese troops along the Maung- Mrs. W. W. Council left for Pet-|homes of Hamuaria village. | daw—Buthedaung Road where the ersburg yesterday to visit for a few | The Germans made no real at-|enemy gained a foothold. The com- days with her sister, Mrs. Les El- |tempt to hold Cap Bon. They, quit Munique also says RAF fighters kins. She was accompanied by herl, i | machine-gunned the Japanese year-old daughter, Carol Ann troops in that area Walker’s recent trip through the nation, made to tap political sen- timent, convinced him that it will be very difficult for the Democrats to retain their slim majority in the House next year. That is why Walker and his as- sociates have decided to concen- trate on the Senate. In doing so, Walker will not hesitate to cross party lines and support Republi- can candidates (behind the scenes, of course) who'can be counted on to back up the President's peace policies. One GOP candidate the Demo- cratic leadership will definitely support is Ernest M. Hopkins, presi- dent of Dartmouth College, who will run against isolationist Sena- (Continued on Page Four) By Associated Press A Tokyo broadcast asserts the Japanese troops are rolling back Gen. Wavell's British forces and have advanced to within 12 miles of the India-Burma frontier and an invasion yet confronts India’s now one of the gravest threats of millions. (Continued on Page Three) STINNE not hear I've seen army know doing a whale he mail through his war didn’t ix months outfit are guy can stand about the from home and By JACK dier down quicker than ing from hc ald them and I know. The it too and APO i of a job in getting to places that up to get a mall 1 If the fair cross it about fifth day he begins more than ten days. and that’s no place for man. But ought change of face wi roll in ‘I don't (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON, May 12 recent Saturday. hile among the boys scuttlir hot dogs and bee tt Press Club Canteen, I came upon a fellow T had known in Texas. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He had been overseas. He “used to be A\ newspaperman himself.’ We got onto a subject that has been often talked about, but not much by the soldiers themselves When I asked this chap if I could quote him, he said, “Gosh, don't use my name; it might sound maudlin.” The subject home.” “There’s nothing that gets a sol- On a milling the free » National b a fon week no r droop a 1g of to usy ¥ y he's re In a week or dumps t the you wes ‘mall from know what it is Commentators Try fo Re- main Calm Over Recent | Events-Voices Quiver By Associated Press Axis Europe, if not actually shak ing in its boots, at least heard a quiver in the voices of its radio commentators today as they ulated the primary purpose of Prime Minister Winston Church- ill's newest visit to the United spec- as to e States. Attempting to present an out- ward front of calm confidence, the commentators betrayed themselves (Continued on Page Six) ‘99 00 e 0 e e e LEADERS OF TWONATIONS MEET AGAIN British Prime Minister Makes Sudden Flight Across Atlantic PROBABLY CHECK PLANS 10 OPEN ANOTHER FRONT Staff of Military, Naval Ex- perts Members of Visiting Party WASHINGTON, May 12— ainst a background of the Tuni- fan victory and German jitters at | tears of an invasion of Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has arrived here for more war talks with President Franklin D. Roosevelt Churchill is accompanied by a taff of military and naval experts This leads to the conjecture that checking of plans to hammer open another front in the European con- inent and possibly even laying of trategy further, is underway. The announcement from the White did mnot give ' any pecific detelis as to the exact pur- of the fifth meeting between Lie two leaders of the two big Allied Nations in 21 months Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the London Evening Standard, and ormer British Cabinet member, al- o arrived, although not a member of the official party. He has been | 1 close collaborator of Prime Minis- | ter Churehill on industrial prob- lems and it is thought he will sit in on the parleys. Indications are House Jose the official trip made hurriedly after the Tunisian lowup. A Al previous | Churchill and rence here tous events The names of the British Party had not been revealed early today, verhaps to prevent tipping a hand | s to what theaters of war will be nvolved in the conference. .. - MAY PLAN ATTACKON JAPAN SOON Three Leaders in India Op- erations Accompany Churchill Here WASHINGTON, May 11 White House discloses today dritish Prime Minister Winston hurchill brought three important aders in the India theater of op- rations with him, which provided indications that he and President Roosevelt might place em- phasis on strategy against Japa, They are Field Marshal Wave! Commander - in - Chief of British military forces in India, Admiral Marshal Webbering, Commander-~ n-Chief of the Eastern Fleet based it Ceylon, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Air Force offi- er commanding chief in India Their presence here for the im- meetings Roosevelt, foreshadows between the con- momen- The that much ‘Continuea on lagse Two) DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight sunset at 9:10 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:37 am Dimout begins Thur: ® sunset at 9:13 p.m, at lay at