The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9344. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDA Y, MAY 15, 1943 ATTU AMERICAN FORCES PROGRESSING M EMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ Japanese Are Prepared To Receive Bad PRISONERS American Forces Landed On Attu Under Cover of Fog, Following Shelling COAST LINELENINGRAD Million Tons OF BRITAIN FRONTNOW Smail Craft TAX PLANS ARE GIVEN CIN TUNISIA UNDER GUARD IN ACTION ~ To Be Built NEW KNOCK COMING, U.S. Sweeping Order Issued by‘Germans Make New At- House Acs SWifIIy When Admiralty Hitting at tacks Under Cover of Purposes of Vessels All Small Boats Arfillery Barrage Is Explained LONDON, May WASHINGTON ing speculation as measure authorizing where the Allies will strike next of 1,000,000 tons of comes a repeated Admiralty order craft for amphibious that all small craft, except those i reported in Red Star dispatches passed the House swiftly officially authorized, must be im-|{rom the front. heard the boats will be mobilized or taken out of the water _G€rman infantry, under the bar-|.open new fronts on on the castern Scottish coast, just 148€ advanced toward the city and|gpepever necessary below the Firth of Forth, down lex‘::..l-.‘vj\f‘x:xl\m;‘:m(\{\.:‘nu iy Chairman Vinson the east coast, around the English' oo "o 8 oo T Committee told the Channel coast to Plymouth and oo plans call for using even up to the Bristol Channel. The newspaper said it is too the new craft for The stretch takes in all the Brit- carly to say whether- this is the be- and tanks ish coast line facing the European uinning of another German offen- il continent from which an invasion gjye bhut it is said the Germans of the mainland can be logically ave been massing great power on launched. The stretch is also Or- {he Leningrad front dered under special guard by land - B “ U.S.Bombers May 15 A construction small naval 15.—~Amid mount- to when and' MOSCOW, May 15 German attack on Leningrad, pre- ceded by a heavy awmillery barrage, A sharp new used "to foreign soil | Naval the | of | | the Ho 70 percent invasion troops of sides believed is e e SECRETARY OF VIRGIN ISLANDS IS IN VERY BAD 'Suspecled of Subversive Affiliations=Unfit for Government Job WASHINGTON, May 15 The House Appropriations Committee has approved of the subcommittee's recommendation finding Robert More Lovett, Secretary of the Vir- gin Islands, unfit to hold a Gov- ernment office. The full committee has ordered Chairman Kerr of the subcommit- | tee investigating Government em- ployees suspected of subversive af-| filiations, to offéer an amendment to the pending deficiency appropri- ations bill denying any funds for payment of Lovett's salary. Formerly a Professor of the Uni- versity of Chicago, Lovett has been |Secretary of the Virgin Islands since July 25, 1959 at a salary of $5,800. The committee said Lovett testi- fied under oath and “admitted either membership or association in many organizations” of a subver: |sive nature and writing various ar- ticles published by the Communist Front over a period dating back to 1922. The Wa;hington Merry-Go-Round [n Big Sweep By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Over Europe Aerial Offensive Believed Curtain to Raider mark coal the WASHINGTON.—You ¢ it down as definite that the mines will remain open for duration John L. Lewis will not resume the strike when I 15-day ‘“truce” with the operators expires. | Battle At the same time, don't be sur- s prised if there is no real settle-| LONDON, May 15—A four-p ment of the coal wage dispute in sweep of American hombers yester- the form of a new contract between qay was the greatest force mus- Lewis and the operators. tered during the war and topped This may sound like a parados, off two days of a -paralyzing rec- for the mine labor boss has stated org, shattering aerial blows over repeatedly that members of his gpyrope from east, south and west. union won’t “trespass” on the prop- — Opservers here regarded the erty of the operators unless they geyial offensive as a curtain to a have a contract. However, to insid- yaiqer pattle in Europe, as British ers who have been close’to the coal patrols kept air offensives going crisis from the beginning, the an- quring the night. Intruder flights| swer Is obvious: were made over Northern France,| Lewis is willing for Interior Sec- the Air Ministry said, with two retary Harold Ickes to continue as enemy planes destroyed and railway czar of the nation's coal mines gupniy shop attacked. In addition after the 15-day truce expires, in 1o sending out the greatest num- which case the mines still would per of planes in a single day since be the property of the government. tho American Air Forces were en- When Ickes, in his capacity as gaged in a round trip flight more Solid Fuels Administrator, an- tnan g thousand miles to blast the| nounced, two days after a long con-! German naval sub base ‘at Keil, | ference with Lewis, that he was'nis marked their deepest penetra- retaining control until the “coal‘“c,n into Europe. business is a going concern,” he| D e e ,——— { | | meant until he was assured of con-! IN FRAN(E tinued production—or for the du-' | ration, if necessary. YOUTHS UNDER 16 | | While Ickes didn't say so, he as | sumed that Lewis might not sign| (AN"OT WORK I" { | a new contract with the operators| i while the War Labor Board had| R, | jurisdietion of the case. This hns' ALASKA (A““ER'ES _ 3 | been bome out by devclopments, ki {Eighth U. S. Air Force bkt SEATTLE, May 15.—Alaska can- HH H DOESN'T LIKE WLB minimum age regulations when hir- Aircrafi WOI'kS The mine labor boss not only ing youths residing in Alaska for| has refused to negotiate with the work in connection with the 1943 P ik } War Labor Board, which he sus- fish pack, Mary B. Perry, consult- LONDON, May 15.—The heaviest pects of being prejudiced against ant for the western region of the concentration of bombs ever un- the miners, but he and his ad {U. S. Department of Labor’s Child- loaded on a single target was| ers have decided privately to sign|ren’s Bureau said. poured on the Meavite Aircraft| no contract with the operators as, The Fair Labor Standards Act works in France on Thursday oy | long as the WLB has jurisdiction. [0f 1938 sets the minimum age as 16/ the Eighth United States Air Force, Lewis would rather take his and applies to any cannery produc-|according to official announcement.| chances with Ickes, who has shown ing goods shipped or delivered for mhe pombs started fires that en- no great love for mine operators Shipment in interstate commerce. |yeloneq the plant in a sea of in the past and who already has| Since there are no provisions in fame ang smoke. | made two concessions to the min-|Alaska for issuing work permits to, " ppoooranhs taken at the height s since taking over—a guaran- MinOrs 16 and 17 years of age re-{,; ypo swoiq made by the largest| i day work week and a pro Siding in Alaska, Miss Perry ex-|o .= "ol T des e oy wf‘d NEE Y we? 5 g & l)”)“x:]z:ixu«*zi that employers may protect s “0 9_2_"‘ : A"_‘ ¥ ‘., £S5 mise to clean up pl‘of.ltemmg by themselves from unintentionally bombers ever in a raid Ltll the con-| operatorlowned commissary stores. employing those below 16 by keep- tinent, showed -the area almost | Also, Lewis would like noLhmgzmg on file birth certificates for completely obscured in smoke and| better 1!1311 .Lo hold the WLB UP|each minor under 18 employed. flames. | to' ‘public ridicule for failing 0| " Questions relating to the child z Bt < <R settle the coal strike. This, apPar-iiapor provisions of the act may be SMAll I.' 'l'o 'I‘ | ently, is part of his strategy, since|aqdressed to Miss Perry of the | he knows that Ickes will be com-|chjdren’s Bureau of the U. S. De- pe.lled to retain control‘ of ““fmartmpm of Labor, 785 Market! sailing to Sitka late last night mines. Wlle.i.hr'r' the. IRIrioE SE.CI‘L- Street, San Francisco. were the following passengers: ta::']e::fi; it or not, if there is no - Leonard Taylor, Dorothy Loy, Ed-| se 3 ¢ % = BIZERTE—Over 500 planes have Win Thompson, Dr. Evelyn Butler, At the end of the 15-day truce| T tnd H0: this eatior: - all |Reymond Wolte snd.:Oiwtide: M| knocked by Allied Air Forces. Hiwet. (Continued on Page Four) Amendmentto Pay-as-‘iPresident Says He Pre-, You-Go Revenue Bill® on Credit, Rejected WASHINGTON, May 15. — The Senate erday afternoon reject- ed by a vote of 57 to 21 an amend- ment to the pay-as-you-go revenue bill, to credit current payments against this year's income and col- lect the full 194 ye March 15, WASHINGTON, May 15 The Senate last night passed by a vole of 49 te 30 and sent back to the House the modified Ruml skip-as year plan for current collection of income taxes this or last ever is lower cept those - TEA ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT OF MISS E. BOYD This afternoon at’ Mrs. Charles Haegele'’s in the Roden Apartments for all taxpayers ex- |a tea is being held announcing the her Boyd teaching Browning engagement of Miss E: member of the Juneau stafl, to Earl Johnson of Mont The wedding is planned for the coming fall, and will take place at the home of the bride’s parents Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Boyd of Hob- son, Mont. Pouring for the announcement tea are Miss Marjorie Tillotsen and Mrs. Helen Webster, with Mrs Haegele, Miss Evelyn Ohlson and Miss Margaret Maland assisting. Miss Boyd, who has been a mem- ber of the Juneau teaching staff for the past two years, is a gradu- ate of the University of Montana Her fiance operates a sheep ranch near Browning, Mont. EVALUATION THEME FOR LEGION MONDAY “Why I Am an American” is the probing topic for the Monday night meeting of the American Legion to be held at 8 o'clock in the Dugout. Following discussion of the chosen theme, several matters per- taining to Memorial Day events will be discussed. Eats of a rare sort will be furn- ished by Major Victor Nutley. LATE WAR BULLETINS STOCKHOLM — Reports printed here that Allied parachutists have dropped in Bulgaria in an effort to encourage a revolt LONDON-—Heavy attacks are re- ported made by Allied Air forces last night. The port of Civitavecch- ia, 37 miles from Rome, has been heavily bombed. LONDON-—The terminal ferry on Cardinia was attacked this morn- ing by Allied Air forces and several ships in the harbor were hit and explosions resulted. Storage and ammunition dumps were exploded leaving fires. visible 60 miles away ALGIERS—Ttalian bases in the Mediterranean are being bombed and smashing blows are reported registered. BERLIN—The German radio re- ports over 1000 persons have been killed by Allied raiders over Pal- ermo and 22 churches, two hos- pitals, an orphanage and three theatres are among the damaged or destroyed properties. tax in two semi-| lannual installments beginning ne\(t{lwfl!"\ I sumes Some of Cap- | tives Be Sent Here | WASHINGTON, May 15~—Presi- | dent Roosevelt said he assumed that quite a lg number of the hordes of Axis prisoners captured in the Tunisian campaign will be {brc to the United States | conference with the en, the Tresident said hat plans are not yet | plete end the prisoners lor any other country | phacac- it KT MN LOS ANGELES ne how- com- to this which would (;chl‘ ear's income tax which| HAS RE(ORD with windfall incomes, - IN BASEBALL (By Associated” Press) The fourteenth consecutive of Los Angeles yesterday gave Angels the nation's b winning streak of this season as they scored another victory over the Seattle Rainiers. For the first time in the present series, the Rainiers caunc close to winning Hollywood's Don tight pitching duel Dickshot yesterday GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League acramento 1; Hollywood 3 Los Angeles 5; Seattle 4 San Francisco-Portlgnd, poned San Die; win the Pulford with won a Johnny post- 0-Oakland, postponed League St Boston 4 nings. Pittsburgh 5; Brooklyn Chicago 2; New York 3. Other game postponed National League Washington 3; Cleveland 1 Boston- Louis, postponed { Philadelphia 7; Detroit 6, twelve innings. New York 0; Chicago City League Louis Blues 6; City Team 0. STANDING OF CLUB> 4 Coast League Won Lost 203 1310 14 1 13: 13 12 13 9 15 17 15 League Won 13 9 Louis 3; ten in- 2 3 Sy Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Oakland Hollywood Portland Sacramento Seattle 5H20 318 National Brooklyn 7 St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia New York Chicago 650, 563 526! 500 500 S 42, 368 American League Won Lost Pet. 13 650 11 ¥ New York Cleveland Washington Detroit St. Louis Philadelphia Chicago Boston 500 455 412 350 - INSTALLATION BANQUET IO BE HELD IN PRESBYT I1AN CHURCH SOCIAL ROOMS The installation banquet of the Juneau Woman's Club will be held in the social rooms of the Northern Light Presbyt, an Church this coming Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock. All members asked the change of place and to re- mind others who plan to attend Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Floyd Fagerson or Mrs. Ray Wolfe up to 9 am. Mon- day morning. are to note J 1dio, Tokyo force: der cover “The island erican The landing of invade from artillery and at airmen dropped dispateh made the shore I'ckyo foree NEW YORK picked dispatch approached ug May 15 here said Attu A Berlin quc American Island a dense fog the s first shelled with ting w t Naval me time Am- bombs.” then a superior diately enemy was numer the Japanese (roop: took up the fight still raging on PFriday a ' ically i n- ' which evening The said Kiska Attu is also in Japanese hands, so far that which also of he broadcast to the east included in the American is not aid nd operations.” landing U. . Maneuver at Affu (auses Speculation of Direct Attack on Japan, BOMBERS HIT KISKA CAMP THURSDAY Furious Air Battle Fought Over Russell Islands in Solomons WASHINGTON, May Ariny 13 the results poor On ports hawks Islands a and American bombers in the main area of Navy were visibility the same formation fighters struck Russell in the Solomons group. A furious air battle resulted but Fighters not of 25 Jap Zeros were lost but two pilot heavy ili Island, attack L day northern 1 announc obsery of shot Five U raids - .- the Army 15. the ed N Hea due avy down S were saved, The Navy communique also said bombing made on Jap installations at Kah- Solomons, we! . W. STEIN AKESOVER NEW DUTIES e m, Ralph Vogel Leaves Next Week fo Assume Charge | plan re a of FBI Office in Omaha Clinton W. Stein ‘421 13l Agent-in-charge of the FBI of- fice in St. Paul, Minn in Juneau yesterday and has taken over the duties of Ralph C who will neave Nebraska office aha, the Special work in years Al Al next there to 1 Ve nt-in-charge a A graduate of the started April 6, the Angeles, hom fir: his Low High Low High tide tide tide- tide tide- tide Low High Low 1931 Department Washington City and Om trip to work the University of He for the the law Minnesota, with b ha in D ha Territor - o TIDES TOMORROW 5:44 tide—11 3 544 11:57 pm., 164 feet ide: 6 12:3 6 4 am aum., p.m., Monday am., p.m pm formerly ek for me 1 has been of past chool of e - 18 Spe Vog char ¥ Ste FBI served with Portland, C, This 1 is I feet 139 feet 02 feet . feet. 149 feet 16 feet. War- Oom- four Okla- WASHINGTON, May 15.—There is no indication and Navy authorities, tack has been made on Kiska following Altu This led Lo speculation that the United States maneuver is designed to outflank the more strongly held enemy base, if possible, and place a garrison in an untenable position betore attack there. | Attu has been ubed as point, it is said, for Kiska Presumably, possession .of Attu will greatly reduce the. usefullness of Kiska by the enemy as a po- tential airbase and submarine op- erating base The possession of Attu will also .y Give the American Aleutian's Com- mand a weather observation station st of Kiska, a fact of supreme wportance in the Aleutians be- no weather moves from west that any at- by land forces the landing on supply camp Kiska on May byt~ t he to Cause to e Pos is ession of Attu, provided Ki ka nocked out, will speedily afford an American base within 530 nautical miles from Japan's great base at Paramushiru, at the northern end of the Kuriles, ex- tending between Japan proper and Kamchatka If the Japs succeeded in carrying an airbase out of Attu's mountain- ous landscape, Americans undoubt- edly will devote full energies to 16 nes Iso complete it as speedily as possible | in order to bring Paramushiru un- der aerial bombardment The sudden action in the Aleu- Uans comes as crystalization of re- cent suggestions that the war in the Pacific will be intensified. Prime Minister Winston Church- il brought with him for the con- ference with President Roosevelt, Marshal Wavel, British Command- er, Lieut. Gen. Stillwell, U. 8. Com- mander in China and Major Gen Chennault, Commander of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, are also in this country where they can be summoned for conferences with numerous high-ranking American military men from Australia, the South Pacific and Pearl Harbor Attu 1,778 miles from _‘Tokyo s bombers fly and about 600 miles west of Duteh Harbor, Alaska D STOCK QUOTATIONS PRIC Junes at Anacon Steel 63 Southern 1 International necott 32% 0~ ota, arrived el, ge FRIDAY u mine stock closed American Can at 28 Bethlehem Commonwealth Curtiss Wright 8 Harvester 66, Ken- New York Central 18% Northern Pacific 16%, Republic Steel 17%, United States S Pound $4.04 Dow, Jones averages as follows: industrials utilities 18.70 - MEAT AT SITKA IS ROBBED litary Meat Market at Sitka, owned by J. W. (Jack) Guck- er of Juneau, was entered and robbed of $900 Thursday night, ac- cording to reports received by United States Marshal Wil L Mahoney Alaska BI Friday and ein on 05 1is Friday 136.82 were rails 35.57 SANITARY The m according to Army | PRICE TEN CENTY —_——————————— | News [ NORTHPACIFIC ACTION NOW GOING AHEAD [ Secrefary of Navy F. Knox | Says Movements Be- lieved Satisfactory | ARMY, NAVY INVOLVED: NO MARINES ENGAGED Former War Minister of Japan Broadcas's State- ment on Fighing WASHINGTON, May 15.—Belief that the American landing forces n Attu Island in the Aleutians a {going ahead satisfactorily Is ex- pressed by Secretary of Navy nk Knox but he declined to any details regarding the cam- paign which is today starting on the fourth day. { The Secretary declined to venture |any prediction as to the length of time it will take to “clear the enemy | out.” It Is stated only the Army and Navy is involved in the landing ind no Marines are in the attack 15 they were in the Solomons where they battled the Japs in the jungle Ifor several months It is also announced the landing |on Attu was made under cover of |a dense fog. | The size of the landing force is | not officially known, neither is the |size of the defending forces | Secretary Knox did state that when detalls are received from the Worth Pacific action, they will be |made public In an apparent effort the Japanese | regarding the | give to prepare people for bad news fighting on Attu, former Minister of War Araka is quoted in a German radio broad- cast picked up by the Associated | Press here as saying that “setbacks |there and at home will only in- ir‘x'N«M’ our strength.” | At no point in the broadcast is | Araka quoted as predicting a Jap | Victory at Attu. He said merely that | whatever happens there will “in no wise affect the will of the cer- | tainty of victory for the Japanese people.” Officials in Washington are of the belief the Japs at Attu are be- |ing defeated and possession of the | sland may now be in the hands |of the American invading forees. PGSR FBIROUNDS | - UP 552 ON DRAFTLAW WASHINGTON, May 15 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said to- day that G-Men arrested 552 men in 20 cities yesterday on Draft Law charges, and on the look- out for 2,000 more. “Now that the mand for ned sery manpower is by day,” registered in the de~ becoming Hoover urged to consider seri- greater day every man his obligations ous light.” All be most those being arrested raigned before the U. S. in the various judicial Eight were arrested in al | missioners | districts, Seattle ® o o 0 0 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES ins tonight 9:17 o'clock ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:31 am Dimout begins Sunday sunset at 9:19 p.m Dimout ends Monday at sun- rise at 4:29 am Dimout begin Monday sunset pam. D I I Y at sunset Dimout at at at 8000000000000