The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI, NO. 9345. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 17, l‘)-H; A SSOCIATED PRESS \if WCIATED PRESS ;fl,Mbl R A THREE FORCES OF YANKS LAND AT ATTU Heavy Fighting Now Reportec To Be 2 IMMENSE NAZIDAMS ARE BROKEN Terrific Raid by British Hits Germany with Par- alyzing Effect LONDON, May 17.—British bom’- ers attacked Berlin, the environs of Rome and the Rhineland night and burst two of the lar dams in Germany, flooding the va |l-‘ leys of the Ruhr. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air Min- ister, said the walls of the Mohne and Eder dams were broken. One dam held 134,000 tons of water and the other 202 million tons of water. He said destrugtion constituted « most powerful blow at industrial Germany and added the Germans themselves cfficially reported the bombing and breaking of the dams, making the announcement over the Berlin radio. It is also said heavy casualties resulted in the breaking of the dams. Both dams produced hydro- | electric power for the Ruhr Val- ley industries. Probably this is the | heaviest blow yet dealt the Reich-, land. bl " The bombers raiding also pressed home attacks on strong defense n-\ gardless of dangers. Eight big Lan- | the casters were lost in three raids. MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was this morning by United States Commissioner Felix Gray, to M ‘ June Pesley and Leo W. Moran, both of Juneau. | The Washmgioni Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) | | lsaued WASHINGTON. — Few Congres- | sional proposals have been shroud- | ed with such secrecy as the de- bates on the Post-War Planning| resolution of precocious young Sen- ator Ball of Minnesota. i To imsure ultra-secrecy, somv} meetings of the Senate Foreign Af-| fairs sub-committee, considering Lhe‘ Ball Resolution, have been held| away from Capitol Hill, far from! the prying eyes of newsmen. Some | of them have even been held be-| hind locked doors in the State De- | partment. ! At one meeting on Capitol Hill, all Senators present virtually had to swear they would not divulge any of the discussions which took| place. This secrecy, in view of Senator- ial criticism of Roosevelt’s “Free- dom From the Press” policy at the Hot Springs food conference, has caused some eye-brow raising. Furthermore, the peace after the war is supposed to be something of vital interest to every w mother, every family, in fact every citizen of the U.S.A, and not the particular monopoly of young Sena-| tor Ball. One thing which worrying the Senator is the de- bate over his proposal for a mili- tary police force to be maintained by the United Nations to suppress future aggression. This is reported to have aroused some vitriolic views seems to bej from Senatorial colleagues which!| the solons are not anxious to have| published. HERBERT HOOVER POINTS Herbert Hoover was addressing a group of distinguished New Yorl ers not long ago on the ineffici- encies of the Roosevelt Admin tration, particularly the rationin; program, which he compared wun}, his own Food Administration in World War 1. “We now have 90,000 bureaucrat regulating the American people on food, whereas I had only 3,000 peo- ple to help me' feed the world. " (Continued on Page Four) *"eeuee- To This Ground” Where men flglll alld suffi»l, thV also die. The soldier in this board box fought and died flying against the Japanese from an Alaskan base. committed his body to a grave ato already were buried. Army Signal Decoration Day As soldiers hold a flag over his grave, Chaplain Jesse H. Gros p o hill where seven ather soldicrs Corps Photo, from OWI. Near; Flag Should Be Flown If Weather Favorable ELEVATED RAILROAD TO ALASKA That Is Proposa! Made by - Secrefary of Interior -Harold L. Ickes May WASHINGTOR 17.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes |favors construction of an elevated railroad to Alaska. This was re- vealed during testimony at the hearing of the Interior Depart- ment’s appropriation bill Secretary Ickes said he not only approved of enactment of the au- thorization of a second road to Alaska, understanding the work will be deferred until after the war, but said “as a matter of fact I am inclined to suggest to the Army Engineers that instead of another highway, they build an elevated tailroad, eliminating this trouble of snow and ice and bogs and all that sort of thing. Originally they to use wooden piles.” - would have U. 5. DESTROYER AARON WARD S SUNK BY PlANES‘ Two Other Crafl Are Sent| Down April 17 Off Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, May 17. — Tl.(" Navy has identified three . Allied ships sunk by Jap planes off Guad- alcanal on April 17 as the American |destroyer Aaron Ward, the Ameri- can tanker Kanawha and the New Zealand corvette Moa. By JACK WASHINGTON, ation Day ner. a flag day Wh May is just around the co That means everyone who has 17.—Decor- should" display it on that t I'm wondering is whether everyone knows that Congress has laid down the law about display saluting and honoring the flag. For example, if Decoration Day is rainy, too windy or otherwis sted by “inclement wekther, ag should not be flown at all; it hould be flown at half mast. That last law is probably violated more often than any other in the whole flag code Decoration Day is just one of several when the flag is to be flown. According to law, just as import- ant days are New Year's, Inaugur- ation D Lincoln’s Birthday, Ar- my Day, Easter Sunday, Mother’s Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Constitution Day, Col- umbus Day, Navy Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas —plus any other days that the| President shall designate—and all state birthdays and holidays. score of other reg- U. 8. flag can't' be the and that until noon on that day, There ulations. The draped around a float, for instance.| interesting, however, is the the old flag salute for the right arm to the brow, with the palm no longer good form, or permissible. That, says Con- is too much like the Fascist salutes. The Schickelgrub- Most fact that civilians—raising parallel open—is even crs swiped it from us, therefore we will no longer have any part of it. Just what will happen to you if you don’t obey these laws is NOTH- ING, except that you had better 0t try to look your neighbors in he face. Congress has provided no you consistently violate this statute, watch out for FBI. J. Edgar Hoover's boys will want to know why. - senalties, but if the | FIRE DEPT. ANSWERS CALL SUNDAY MORNING Answering a call at 37, Fifth and East streets, the Juneau Fire De- partment rday morning ex- tinguished a blaze which had been caused by an overheated i Damage was reported as slight. stove.’ R COWLES QUITS OWI JOB; HOYE 1S SUCCESSOR Publisher of Porfland Ore-j gonian in New Posi- fion on June 20 | WASHINGTON, May 17.—Gard-{ |ner Cowles, Jr., Director of the Domestic Operations Branch of the Office of War Information, has r -" signed and Palmer Hoyt, Publisher | |of the Morning Oregonian, Port-| land, Oregon, will be his successor. Cowles' resignation will be effec- | tive June 20 but by that time he will have defended his share of the| OWT’s forty-seven million del- lar budget before Congress. This budget runs the Government’s machinery telling Americans about the war requests. Cowles, who is a prominent Re-| publican, sidestepped questions con- cerning reports he planned to en-| gage actively in the Willlkie President Campaign but admitted| he is an “ardent admirer of Will kie.” Cowles will return to Des Moines, Iowa, where dent of the Register-Tribune, paper Tre s he is mouncement of Hoyt's ca {ried the unusual line “he is publican.” This is believed to be the first time a political affiliation I been mentioned in an OWI re- leas It is indicated that Chester Davis, Director of OWI, desired to make it clear Cowles’ departure has not upset the existing balance of OowI Cowles said Hoyt's designation to deal with the American press and radio “should be applauded by newspapermen everywhere.” Hoyt is an Oregon man. He climbed from copy reader to Pub- lisher of the Oregonian in 12 years acquiring that title in 1938. He is 46, a veteran of the AEF in the first world war and President of Sigma Delta Ch| WLB TAKES ACTION ON J. L LEWIS Wanfsto Knioglf President of Mine Workers 'Be- yond, Above Law” WASHINGTON, May 17. — The War Labor Board has risked it existence in an all-out, head-on conflict with John L. Lewis, Presi- dent of the United Mine Worke interpreting the mine leader’s re- fusal to appear before the WLB at a meeting to arrange for re- sumption of collective bargaining in the coal wage dispute. The WLB says this failure to ap- pear at “lawfully established pro- cedures of the Government” is a bold effront - at defiance of the Government itself. The WLB has instructed the soft coal operators not to proceed with !negotiations “until both partie ready to proceed under instructions are and decisions of the Board. No other agency of the Government has any auth The WLE statement was issued today declaring the issue s whether Lewis is “above and be yond the law.” The 15-day strike suspension en at midnight on Tll('s'duv TIRES, TUBES 5 ISSUED SECOND WEEK IN MAY Certificates lux tires and tube were issued to the following during the second week in May: Erick Larsen, (for defense) 1 tiré, 1 tube; Cole Transfer, 1 tub Juneau Transfer, 1 tire, 1 tub M. P. Munter Co., 7 tires, 7 tubes a Re-|} an heart ailment. i k HarTa s I for| ° 4 President Rooseveli drove up (o the White House May 11 hill, who arrived in Washington against a background of ters over accompanied by Prim Allied victory nston Chur the in w a and German j Minist Funi vasion. RUSSIANS Navy IssuesSIX ENEMY AID JAPS First List of SHIPS SUNK IS CLAIM War Prisoners BY U.S. SUBS Siberian Coast Fishing En-_ Seven Names Appear as Iorpedo Bomber Affack Is ables Advance Weather | Those Assigned fo Ves- Reported - Ship Is Set About Aleutians | sels Now Missing Left in Flames ~ PRICE TEN CENTS aging MORE TROOPS ARE POURING UPON ISLAND Bomardment_, Both Naval and Air, Covers Ad- vance of Americans JAPANESE SPOKESMAN MAKES VARIOUS CLAIMS | Navy Denies One Stafe- ment that Poison Gas ‘ Is Bemg Used YORK, May 17. Tokyo radio broadeast today quoted the Japanese Army spokesman as saying that Am- erican attacking forces are landing a steady stream of re- | \forcements at Attu under | cover of both naval and air bombardments but the Jap | troops, however, are ‘holding onto their positions and have made a number of damaging connter-attacks against tre- mendous odds. ‘ The spokesman declared that | American troops are still pour- ing ashore at Attu, but subor- dinated it at the end of the broadcast, making emphasis | seeking to show the Japanese \ gained in early phases of the { fighting. ‘ HEAVY FIGHTING RAGING | NEW il The broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said heavy fighting is raging on the nor- thern coast. (Continued on Page Six) - SAYS KISKA IS NEXT FOR “YANK ATTACK Give Americans One Day | of Good Weather and [ Attu Will Be Taken | WASHINGTON, May 17-Naming BOSTON, Mass., May 17 Ad- WASHINGTON, May 17 The, WASHINGTON, May 17.—Ameri- miral H. E. Yarnell, retired, ad- Navy hds announced its first pri-|can submarines in the Pacific dressing the City Hospital Alumni soners of war list contaising 104 waters have sunk six enemy ships,| Association. said the recent Rus- names, held by the Japanese, most- including one destroyer, and dam- \-Japanese fisheries pact . re- 1y in tfe Philippine aged another Japar vessel, the newal is a help to the enemy in The list included seven names of Navy reports. the bitter battle for the Aleutians. men 1 recorded as assigned toy 1 communidue told also of ‘The pact permitting fishing off the cruiser Houston, two to the torpedo bomber attack on four Jap the Siberian coast enables the ve oyer Pope, two to the submar- cargo ships off Buin, Northwest| el to send advance weather in- ine Perch Solomons, and one of the ships formation of the fighting lorces in {‘v“ by \’A!" are listed as mi ”“” was set ire the Aleutian Islands Navy officials made no comment phe ginkings by the American - these names but other author- subs brings a total of the num- i id the omly conclusion POS-ipay of Jap ships sunk, probably | SAYS U S HAS if.that %, ! hips did oy or damaged in action in the . 'l nct go down w all ands aboard ¥ fic since the war began > e - NO MONOPOLY ON NAME "AMERICAN' Vice-President H. Wallace Addresses 100,000 in DR. JAMES EWING, PATHOLOGIST IN CANCER, 15 DEAD BUSSES NOY IN OPERATION NEW YORK, May 17-Dr. James | New York Park Ewing, iipted pathologist in can NEW YORK, May 17.—Vice Pres- cer research, is dead here after ident Henry A. Wallace told an es- a long ill lmm,td 100,000 at “I Am An Am-. Dr ing, who devoted most of A ™ Day celebration in Central his life to the medical profession's| D@mage from Spring Thaw Park that on his tour of Latin fight cance cor was hailed America he found “millions of Am- by the Dniversity oo . Less than Feared-Sum- ericans at work in the service of 1934 as “the member of the medi ; the common cause. cal profession who has done mq mer Work Planned The Vice President said he hoped during the ten preceding year {he United States would not for- advance sound ige of i set that “we possess no monopoly practical kind in medieal art or WHITEHORSE, Y. T, M 17 on the name American” as he science he spring thaw damaged the Al- found “the greates pride in Demac-! International tr was pald to @kt Highway less than feared and racy” among all of the nations he him in 1931 wi reat patholo- ly, b like those on the sited. ists of nine con ted highway in the States are in op- In Chile he said he found 'a ‘0 a “homige vol of- “Annalg €ration and amagze settlers deep 'In - IS N the heart of the Nomthland nigher percentage of Communists Surgery” In honor of his 64th| ™5 0 the dry and comparatively SHERGRRS cxcept Uy Russis. pirthday ‘| watmy' months ahesd, Btig Gen, il Gt The contributions were papers o y,meq 4 'Connor, Commander of M the subject of cancer. In the fore- ;0 Noripwest Command, is donfi- of the leading active pathologists pigory of Alaska will become per-| Dl[s SUDDENLY of the world" and “the foremost mupent the year around American investigator of cancerous| The General said, in an inte NEW YORK, May 17.—Maj. Gen. diseases.” view, the “pioneering “phase of the Stephen Fuqua, 68, USA retired, Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns Alean project has ended and the formerly Arms Chief of Infantry Hopkins University, wrote that i job now is to improve, maintain and nd later military attache in Ma- the study of malignant growths, develop the 1,630 miles of road we irid during the civil war in Spain, there was “scareely @ domain” pushed through from March (0 No- died suddenly here as the result of (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three) lof Kiska as likely the next objec- |tive of the American forces in the | Aleutians, Army officers predicted |today that the troops that landed ‘un Attu will be able to sweep the |Japs into the sea, as soon as | weather cleared sufficiently for | combined sea, air and ground op- | erations, | Col. Ernest Dupuy, in a review of the week's operations of all war efforts, described the surprise land- ings at Attu as the, “second steps in the process of sweeping into the the Nips from both Attu and Kiska T'he first steps, Col. Dupuy said, were the occupations of the islands f Adak d Amchitka. Details are lacking on ting, said Col. Dupuy, but the est - officlal reports said heavy still impeding operations, use of air and surface and bringing virtually to a movements of the Americans However, he added, the ican success is inevitable with full day of good weather and that will be about all ihat is need- d to achieve success the Attu is fog preventing halt ashore. Amer| one e o o o 0 © DIMOUT TIM Dimout begins tonight unset at 9:21 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 4:26 a.m. Dimout begins Tuesday at 9:23 pm D R R I Y at at Lescescecesn s es0ceecaes