The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE THIE" i VOL. LXI,, NO. 9342. ; , T S ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY MOP UP HITLER'S TUNISIAN REMNANTS British Bombers Blast Germany In Night Raid DUISBERG IS | Capl. Foss Greefs Mother 16GENERALS | cAPruseo Nazi sus crew uanoso on u.s. son | ROUND UP ATTACKED BY e OFAXISIN & |, +\ ] dw cawan (ONTINUES, LARGE FORCE S H ALLIED BAG Big % it | 0 R OER e NO. AFRICA Smashing Assault Is First |Marshal - Qon1mander of : = : ‘ : _«4 Only Slight Group Resist- Since Dorfmund Bomb- | %4 EECEEE =l lfalian First Army Is ~ 5t ance Now Reported ed, Night of May 4 AN 3 | AmongCaptured | e gt from Fronf ALLIED HEADQUARTERS mw‘ & ; : : ; bo A g f : VON ARMIN REFUSED i |[NORTH AFRICA, May 13.—At LONDON, May 13. — British gt ) S o bl 7 bombers delivered the heaviest at- 1 e o lénst 18 A% Geiiectly’ JRN R - : ; T0 SIGN ANY TERMS tack of the war on Germany last bagged in the Tunisian campalgn night, dropping more than 1500 and among these is Gen. Giovanni tons of bombs. fhat hatsred the : % e il | Messe, whom the Rome radio, pick- ¥ : b . S5 | i : industrial city of Duisberg : { led up here, identifies as the Mar- ' A Surrenderd to Indian Di- Thirty-four bombers are reported S . g shal-Commander of the Ttalian| ) & ’ P ‘ : | ! . 4 ; vision when Corner- to have been lost. ; ' Bir o # The raid w the first great ; i : 34 i : » Messe was e las 3eneral to ¥ Rlght attack the Raloh sinoe. | . ; hold out in the southern pocket. ; ed on Cap Bon v { Yian - called Eilgpaigss & . . the smashing assault on Dortmund b f | |When called upon to yidlh JN-ses GhT MY 4 ; e o { |tused to surrender to any but his| 4 » % ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN The raiders followed up this as- § v e e e il g ‘.‘m"”:('“h‘ In:the Brifsi SENES { NORTH AFRICA, May 13—Allied sault by streaming across the Eng- ; L 3 AR e i 4 § : ’“" I'”]\l was finally® arranged mopping up forces are hunting the i £ # he S o r ~ as & formality | last ragged remnants of Hitler’ lish Channel this morning in the ¥ 1 . T LR ooF e ) . | ¢ X T's R it & laan. thehoats 5 ] ~One of the sons-in-law of King { : : A | African: armiss {n Tunisin s it ngl nd[; 0 S & . 5 > : Vittorio manuel, fighting under f . out the great victory. of occupies rance. ] L ¥ 32 { esse, § rel s WAas g . 3 3 a X% fumblc £ R : ; Mes . \}1’ ul;(u‘(l He was caught Gen Sir Harold Alexander said y S 2 ko 3 ¢ o § in a small pocke |“The outcome of the Tunisiar rolled back across the channel and Tt 455 e =" | None of the Generals had heard | campaign is one of the most (‘;m-] later twin-motored bombers came Marine Cap Joe Foss, who downed 2 anese plans to becom about . the general debacle. of til P plete and decisive victories in his- winging home under a swarming the top-ranking ace of this war, greeted his widowed mother Tunisian campaign. That was the c e g S 2 3 ; APTURED CREW MEMBERS of a U-boat sunk by the Coast Guard cutter Icarus off the Carolina coast, dis- | 'V eacort G etk b o .‘.I.:\“,‘,l(“;.,:,‘":l :,";:l as he arrived at Canton, Bouth Dakota, with |reason they ;»w‘u;-:wd to fight rath- k from the Coast Guard craft at the Charleston, S, C., Navy Yard. Leathernecks stand with guns | The Military spokesman esti- Duisberg is situated at the junc- d d - er than summender ready as the landing Nazis are lined up. The 33 Germans were fished out of the sea after enemy sub sank. | ates the total number of prison- S DUNIE PRI g June- - - Lieut. (now Lieut. Commdr.) M. D, Jester was skipper of the cutter. Official Navy photo. (Internationat) ° “Will be near 175,000" when, the A last holdout detachments are and is a vital transport communi- | i cation center .in .addition to being P ¢ |rounded up. There is now oniy the site of important war indus- | WHEElER lABOR | slight ground resistence. v - en- ear' ne o The offensive was launched May The Washmgifln lABOR BOARD Plane Crash BROADCAST ;... . tocsicer : PR By DREW PEARSON Mav Make Wage Adjusi- Former Managing Edior Prime Miniter on Air To- "e2U: Fairbanks Bring e British Pirst Army, received von Arnim yesterday at his headquart- aator Ravert 8. Atlen on sctive auv> | mantc in One Partficular | of Spokane Chronicle morrow-Will Also Ad- COmmlSSIO"erNOf-h COI.I.INS DENNY’ WASHINGTON, May 13.—Come|crs in a tent after the German, the end of May, Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, tefusing to accept terms of an un- WASHINGTON.—The problem of Production Branch Killed in Louisiana dress Congress Charles A. Wheeler, United States FORMER BISHOP’ commander of the second Army|conditional surrender, was driven Commissioner of Conciliation, will be automatically retired nearly 100 miles by automobile going out to dinner, once Wash- Raif L tngton's outstanding industry, is| WASHINGTON, May 13—Econ-| SHREVEPORT, La, May 1 WASHINGTON. May 13- Britisn | PAFiment of Labor, arrived in Ju- l I HMOND He was 64 years old yesterday Anderson told the war correspond- and according to Army regulations, ents the “situation was such that getting, oh so difficult. Old inhabi- omic Stabilization Director James Major Cheney Cowles, former man- poovrcer winton Ghurchill| 28U vesterday on assignment {rom fants predict that at the present Byrnes has issued a directive thataging editor of the Chronicle, after- | " g ecs C(mr‘,s\":cx( Tourehill| washington, D. C., to settle labor jat the end of the pay period he's Von Amim would not sign any rate of decline, dining out will permits the War Labor Board to/noon newspaper at Spokane, Wash. |, Ny 10, ek Dm0 ik P,‘c”"' disputes in the Territory through—with, of course a com-|terms” soon be as rare as dinosaur eggs. Mmake wage f;‘““-“""“’“' in air pros one of five killed in an air-[g ot 00 ™ b Erroute narth. from his -head- Me'hodlstEplS(Opalchur(h able pension for the rest of his - va. Alimm was cornered by the 3 , ecution of the war to correct gross 6 . bile, Al res-| | o w8 S life. It doesn't necessarily mean Fourth Indian Division 4 Full dress evening clothes are now ©cutio! 8 I ar Mobile L, Yes-| o oker Sam Rayburn of the Quarters in Portland, Mr. Wheeler| F ’ jeee near Ste seen sbout as-frequently. as the old [inequities, provided these adjust-|ierday. O was Intelligence O1- |, oborser S i gt vue siopped in Ketchikan to investi- oe 0 Umh(ahon that in wartime, but by the Gen-| Maru du Zit, midway between Tunis ments do not increase production 3 House invited the Britisher to make | eral's own statement he will nojand Enfidaville on ti r coach-and-four in which Wash-| " % F fi connected with the Second e % 5 ! e disagreement between the cold ral's 1 statement he ne 2 on the approaches costs X the address and acceptance was PGSSGS wa Siiies A o [to Cap Bon Peninsul i . ove ' to din- s, Air Support Command 9 3 e et e thes flab ger command combat troops. | ninsula. He sent out ington dowagers once drove to din-| i rebiilation wis dde t8 ot P¥ readily given. storage warehousemen e fish | It that ‘ P " to| envoys with hite ner. And even less formal dinner | 4 e & a0 - > e A e e O e .. 'buyers. Briefs have been submitted at means that he is going: $o (= SHeY- a white flags, then kets have largely been relegated | th¢ WLB demands for clarifying Rayburn will return to the Na- %0 - 0 0 0 B rehousemer be sandwiched between a desk and|surrendered but he declined to sign Jackets “‘l" ’“f“" BeaY. Teiogs the President's “Hold the line tional Capital City and mrange 9 - K‘i’ 7z i warehousemen | oo OND, Virginia, May 18.-=|a chair in Washington for the dur-|any terms. These were the enemy to the moth ba |order of April 1 for a joint session of the Houst "‘; AR b Ket.|COllins Denny, 89, retired Bishop ation, itll be a bloody shame for should cease destruction of war ma- This is really astonishing for a rriving here yesterday from Ket-| 050 " vrov odice Episcopal Church!the army in training. Because, ac-|terial, turn over weapons undamag- town "which once fought vitriolic | | battles over who should sit where, | Churchill will make a radio ad- With preliminary hearings in the ypae chureh with other branches of many of his men, Ben Lear has|assist in clearing them a town in which the Vice Presi- | | dress tomorrow noon, Pacific \ar Juneau Lumber Mill dispute andjpethodism, is dead here {had few equals in the Army for - 2 i the labor dispute between the un-| pepny abandoned a promising [turning out fighting men. 1 h 3 and Senate. Meanwhile, the Whils House said °hikan, Mr. Wheeler has been bUSY|,ng militant foe of unification of cording to most of his friends and|ed. reveal details of mine fields and dent of the United States issued Time. It is understood he wiil de formal communiques to the effect vote most of the address to heme 100 and the i dutest Gold career as a lawyer in the belief| that his half-sister must go in to | consumption in England. [he Mining Company. With plans toithat he could render greater serv-; Born in Canada, Lear was grad- ‘ dinner ahead of the wife of | broadcast will be made over tne Cave tomort v Fairbanks, helice through the ministry |uated from the bus oftice of a Speaker Nick Longworth. Mutual Blue. will return to Juneau within a week The decisicn made, he devoted his|Pueblo, Colo, newspaper to top Reasons for the change are: at 5 8 U or ten days and hopes then to com- multiple talents to the church, be-|tergeant of the First Colorado In- i # e lete, the conci; n of the local ginning as circuit rider and be-|fantry Volunteers in the Spanish- first, gas rationing against pleasure c P b : g S| A”led De'a(hmems ree labor problems. coming a bishop of the Methodist|American war. He was 19. His driving; second, food rationing; and i 5 oo Be%: 2 e Sy Lt 2 < 2 now all the flurry over the Big | i e Mine, Mill and Smelter Episcopal Church, South \father, Ben Lear, Sr, was a pri- hoa Howse an T Strel, o other , Up on Enemy-Air Bases W g | S was ‘s advacate of|vate in nia company st _ther i | ) , | complete separation of church and{sull is a story of how the sergeant words, you can't tell whether ployees in the power plant of the compl i v you're gggng to sit beside a war New ngh Of Over SeVen< Are Ralded at ngh' Fairbanks Exploration Company will |state. gressed down his “old man” for . contract lobbyistthese days and| P | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN be before Mr. Wheeler, acting as| As @ leader in the Southern|srousing about K.P. duty gel your name in the headlines l”!on DO"ars Rea(h- | AUSTRALIA, May 13.—Allied pa- conciliator, in Fairbanks | Methodist ~ denomination ~ Bishop! Whether it's true doesn't matter,! Ay1IED HEADQUARTERS IN by d During Aofil | trols killed a scove of Japs in three A graduate of the University of Denny frequently used his HIIH;I-‘ ecuuse s & pertect HlUSUration NORTH AFRICA, May 13, Allied When gas was rationed for pleas- ed During Apr! B ) -“”‘”l"fl"“” Moo Alaska, Mr. Wheeler was a resi-|¥1C€ I suppor gr this RELOEIBIE 1 nd of “1':"”""‘:"“““ “‘“";“ Alr forces dropped the final bom o ter tting the: oy " iR H e 1€ pd 1O e any part ir 1e| Lear becan o at ar, 3 8 Ly = atg Movine - & cartatn: amount - of = After cutting. them g8 fud sging dent of the Territory for a num-|He¢ refuse » i After that war, he ', worth Africa during mid-morn- v W, LR s .| a village seven miles from the front wide-spread opposition to Alfred E.|served in Cuba. He helped Persh- dining went on anyway, although| WASv};ImHON. MAy A%, X WHL e 1 Smith in the presidential cam- ct Vills in 1916, He went| "8, Yesterday most people ‘observed the regula- |CXPenditutes yeached a new BWH T geion last night, with clear ; nual visitor here since his as600ia-| iy of 1928 and so strongly did |into the World War a captain and e bomb was. dropped by Hie tlons. Some used public transporta- [0f Seven billion, two hundred and on with the Department of D o thay ompsition from, minc{oame oub with the temparary Fank|DoEert Alk For i : 259} weather, resulted in intense bomb- F h c H R . S . tion, some walked, including the million dollats in APl iy of five different areas in New rench Cruiser Reporfs vor tnree years ago isters was injuring the cause of the|of lieutenant general, which rank Th¢ first bomb loosed by tne is the report made today et church that he issued a statement | made permanent two years “Hied Air Force in North Africa Vice President and Mrs. Wallace; Guinea and New Britain. Air bas- t 2 : and some considered dining out an [Py the War Labor Board es were the targets and good results First Action Since of his bellef that ministers wer r i ok eru- 11, 1940, on Tobruk, e ay after Italy < { p official business. The April vxw‘ndmfrw bringsthe | ... polieved to have been attained s e . FIRST AID ON called apart for service that prohi-| reral Lear has the reputation As 8 matter of fact, some of it|total since July, 1842, to ninety MR JOlnIng Allies hited their activity in the political for being a “strict disciplinarian” War is business, and is so recognized by |four billion nine hundred million sk} field. One of his chief tenets is “Never, The Air Force commar > the State Department. Visiting dig- {do1ars pRoposEs (HANGE pROGRAM FOR The fact that an issue may be let a mistake go uncorrected.” And 9ay announced there w o nitaries to the USA. have to be e _ DAKAR, French West Africa \ moral question,” he once said, “is| he never considers himself too high etup and means me attacks wined and dined. American Visi- ALASKA lEASlNG May 13—French Cruiser George AlER"‘ '!’ON’GHT no excuse for the church to enter snd mighty to correct the mistakes Will concentrate “across the Medi- Iwo OFFI(ERS Leygies hias returnad to port and i ¥ | polities .ty question affecting Of buck privates as well as those terranean tors are royally entertained in y i TERAE Aberitivek. ackin sinpe join- ociety involves a moral issue.” of two-star generals. It was that WIS [hen-fom:jlrles, ;md‘u:é would»fx'ul OF (OASI ARMY A('I‘ OF (OA'. lAND ing the Allies Bishop Denny left the legal pro- habit which got him onto the front ux.xdenmn it if we not reci- | The .commander of the cruiser A practice alert will be held to- fession while practicing law in Bal- Pages with the “yoo-hoo" incident BUY WAR BOND¥ procate : 3 WASHINGTON, May 13—United announced the sinking on April 13 night 7:15 o'clock with the |timore to take the position of a cir- That attracted so much attention Recognizing this fact, the State GE"’ BOOS'I' RANK States Senator Carl A. Hatch of of a large German supply Ship. problem of First Aid being given cuit rider. He received $40 for his but the General never retreated o o o @ Department has flllOW_ed extra point New Mexico has introduced a bill| News of the sinking was with- attention according to R. E. Rob- first year's service. Six years later from the position that he was $ -. u rationing for embassies and lega- to make the Alaska Coal Leasing held until the Axis learned of the ertson, Director of the Juneau Civ- he was M';ll i;\ the church to visit merely disciplining soldiers for mu: e tions which must entertain, and| WASHINGTON, May 13. — The Act conform to other general leas- loss by failure of the ship to arrive ilian Defense Council Asiatic m ms, spending a \..(,.v',,, duct he considered ....m.?..\..,g also for certain hostesses who are|appointment of Commander of Al- ing laws. at a designated point. No ambulances will be called, the the Far East, principally in un:‘.\nr Rimoun bestns fediehs asked to entertain Latin American |aska Defense Simon B. Buckner, The general leasing laws provide, The supply ship was sunk by air raid wardens will serve as pa- ion v\w’lk Only a short time later, Lear it R dilatinns. 3. and. Pacifc Coast Defense|thab maxisuim ‘hereage Agkrbgate [gifite when it atiempted to flec. \iemts’at the various irst Ald kts|.-A short thinie ‘sfter his Teturn todented & lot of brass hats In'g siorohe canaN: MEaRN Cabinet members also have to do|Commander John L. DeWitt to holdings be 2560 acres instead of Ninety survivors were picked up tions and all members of the Aux- America he was appointed chap- his command by a general weed- " a certain amount of dining out,|temporary grade of Lieutenant the present provision limiting Alas-{and taken prisoner. They have iliary Police, - First Aid and Air/lain at the University of Virginia ing omt of incompetent ulh’(-«-x! DY % oo 'Generals has been confirmed by ka holding to only a share of that been transferred from the cruiser to Raid Warden corps are urged to ; (Continued on Page Four) the United States Senate. | amount. shore detention stations turn out. ber of years, and has been an an- A rise at 4:35 am Dimout begins Friday ~at 4 sunset at 9:15 p.m (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page PFive) L I