The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1943, Page 1

-~ - B — A e S o e A~ - ~ . - s 3 r 7 - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIL, NO. 9347. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNE 19, PRICE TEN CENTY ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SDAY, MAY PINCER TRAPIS CLOSED ON JAPS IN ATIU Allied Air Forces Continue Raids On Germany PLANES ROAR OUT IN MORE NAZI ATTACKS Eighth Day of Round-the- Clock Assaults-Aerial Mines Dropped LONDON, May 19—The roar of a large formation of planes was heard over the English Channel afternoon, which signalled the con- tinuation of an Allied aerial war with the Nazis. After a night of light activity, the RAF sent a strong force that swept over the straits in a south- easterly direction toward Boulogne and Cap Gris Nez, and then riding high over the haze of the flood waters, which are rapidly empty- ing the Moehne and Eder reser- coirs in Germany, bombed on Sun- day night. Spectacular aerial mining con- tinued to spread devastation, and paralysis to Germany’s Ruhr and Weser industrial areas, as the of- fensive entered the eighth day of round-the-clock activity. The NBC said in a broadce from London, it was reported the that a mine, dropped by the RAF on a large reservoir six miles south of the Moehne Dam; started seep- age that threatened further dam- age. Don Hollenbeck, NBC, reported that frantic efforts were being made by German engineers to halt the seepage before the heavy weight of water ploughed through the in- cipient break. Enemy raiders don for a third giving the capital alerts. Bombs were dropped at several points, which caused a small num- ber of casualties, but little damage. is struck at Lon- successive night, two separate E‘E—W—a—sflifigion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — There is a very good reason why the two mysterious witnesses summoned before the House Military Affairs Committee have flatly refused to answer any questions about the dinners given at the swank house at 2102 R Street in connection with war contracts. If these two witnesses did tell who came to their dinners and poker parties it would make their house on R Street as famous as the “Little Green House on K Street” which received such notor- iety in Harding's day. Among the guests reported to have gathered at the big Georgian House were such personages as Secfetary of the Navy Knox, Under- secretary of War Patterson, Don- ald Nelson, Rubber Czar William Jeffers, General Lewis B. Hershey, head of selective service; General Levin Campbell, Chief of Ordnance; Senator Happy Chandler of Ken- tucky; Senator Bridges of New Hampshire; Senator Austin of Ver- mont, and a large number of Con-|" gressmen THE GEORGIAN HOUS Probably all or most of these famous guests did not realize that they were being used as window- dressing for war contract lobbying. Yet the Georgian House on R Street illustrates how high officials, even in war time, will partake of food and champagne with hosts they don’t know much about. Had they checked carefully on their hosts, these cabinet mem- bers would have found that “John Monroe,” actually John Kaplan, had been sued 22 times for debt, and that Mrs. Eula Smith, their hostess, a few years ago worked with John H. Swisher and Sons, Jacksonville, Fla., cigar-makers, where she was (Continued on Page Four) | [ ; B ¢ : b P Coast Guidrd SPARS took .o the at Seattle, as they took practica liferafts. Gel (hi_l!y T\raining - chill, "Rl Qut” Againsi Japan Is Demanded by Senator Chandler;Action Wanted . BOMBER IN FLAMES IN KISKARAID SANTA ANA, Calif., May 19— How an army-manned flying boat braved a avy sea and a hail of {of a flaming American bomber off | Kiska harbor was disclosed here Iby an eyewitness, Lieut. Hawley P. Mills, fighter pilot from Seattle. “My flight of Lightnings had been assigned as bomber escorts for a raid on Kiska, Lieutenant Mills id. “We had spotted some Zeros sitting on top of the clouds above {us and we were climbing to get at them. S “Suddenly one of our Miwhell bombers came roaring out of the harbor in flames. It.landed in the channel near Little Kiska Island, billowing heavy, black smoke “The minute it hit the water a bunch of Zeros started strafing it. |Just then a Catalina flying boat swooped out of the ov and |landed in the heavy sea right along- | de the burning plane.” ‘he Catalina’s army crew went about rescuing the others as the Japs wheeled about for another at- tack, Lieutenant Mills said “By that time we had reached them. We singled out enemies and started shooting. One Zero crashed ind exploded. Another went into a cloud, trailing smoke. The rest dis- ared, with Lightnings on their The last I saw of the flying boat it was heading for home with the rescued crew aboard.” Lieutenant Mills, just back from six months in the Aleutians, is sta- ticned at a Southern California | r base. He has veen awarded 1€ eleven combat missions over Kiska,| where he shot down one Zero and destroyed several others afloat in the harbor. (Continued on Page Three) Japanege bullets to rescue the crew ° Medal for participating in|¢ ‘H:.zm-. WASHINGTON, May 19 ates Senator Albert B Chandler, Democrat in a radio broadcast last called for ' GERMAN AIR - SUPPLY BASES ' Nazis Shift Planes from. themseives in (Happy) of Kentucky, immediate war strategy BLOWS DEALT Crimean Airdromes as Reinforcements MOSCOW, May. 19 Telling | blows were dealt the German Aair| supply bases the past three weeks | as Soviet airmen reflected in front| line dispatches to the Red Star which said “the Germans have be-| gun to shift their air force from the Crimean airdromes to rein- force their exhausted air for % There was no elaboration made by Red Star, but Russians announe- ed officially that they had destroyed or dar i 930 enemy planes dur- ing the week of May 2 to May 8, and they destroyed 370 planes from May 9 to May 15. Russian pilots shave downed 25 German planes in the front lines in the past three days, when they attempted to raid the Russian com- munications behind the Svesk front. Their bombing was ineffec-| tive, the dispatch said W fighting failed to keep in {cp wit hthe bitter aerial warfar although renewed activity is re- HEAVYRAID orted in the Kuban and Lisichansk | Launchings ENEMY IN RETREAT ON ISLE FRONT U. S. Forces Gain Ridges Forcing Nipponese fo Make New Stand HINGTON, May 19. — The American forces have closed the pincers’ trap around the Jap po- | sitions on Attu Island, the Navy reported this afternoon and at least part of the enemy troops are in i retreat toward the last ditch stand The communique said that “on May 18, during the morning, the U. 8. Forces working inland from Holtz Bay gained possession of the high ridges southeast of the bay |and the U. 8. forces in the Massa- |cre Bay area were advancing northward during the day. The | Massacre Bay advance forces moved lup the pass toward the Holtz Bay force and the two advance patrols | joined during the late afternoon. “The advance patrols cleared the enemy troops from the positions and the Japs withdrew toward Chi- chagof harbor, leaving only a few |snipers behind.” According to information here the Japs may make their stand at Chi- | chagof Harbor . which les north- t of Holtz Bay, about 10 miles P | F 'Y away t | 1t appears fighting with their backs to the sea and have no other chance to e water on one of the five wnd Robert Butler, ly 1o swing a boitle of or, Wis. Her four sisters watch ixhi), ene of the famed Dioune Quints, got =< , the Cahadian children helped 1 at Super and Mr, and Mrs. Dionne (rear, left to right), shipbuilder the Japs are now IS MADEON ITALY ISLE ase at Trapani Bombed by Flying Fortresses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN |/ at will recognize Japan as the NopTH AFRICA, May 19— Today' chief enemy of the American people ! ¢ communigue announces the heav- and to deal with the Japs accord- joot air raid ever made on the Ital- ingl; ian island of Pantelleria, only 45 If the plan is not adopted, Sen- yiiecfrom Cap Bon, Tunisia Chandler said losses of ator maximum in the Earopean the Jap campaign low.” Senator which also time to develop the less definite fighting Nippons is not started now. “we will American lives campaign also in will Chandler said Americans fighting the Germans first and giving the Japanese ag opportunity to consolidate all of their gains and resources of the lands conquered and “there 15 bare possibility that we may er win the war with the Japs against The raid was carried out by U S. Air Forces and Flying Fortres at the same time smashed the im- portant Sicilian Air Base at Tra pani, blowing up a ship in the har- bor and showering the docks rail y yards with bombs. - - - CARE OF U. . FORCES RATES and r Washingion Swarming M & L] |make a stand. “ als a I 0 s | Although all details are not avail- [ |able, it is indicated the American | forces now command the heights. F = 1 Efforts will be made to shift the u a c er s Ire | American forces to prevent the [] Japs from becoming too strongly entrenched at “their last stand.” | I'he Massacre Bay force may strike House for Third Time Re-|cu 3 iy ticn safety record of this war Alu in the directtion of Chichagof WASHIN May 19 The just been racked up by the Civil X g Harbor. Capitol is full of rats. So much 50, Ajy Patrol. Tn 12 months—its first Je(fS Senate’s Sklp' JAP BROADCAST hat Congress has appointed an of- v r of active duty—the CAP flew NEW YORK, May 19.—A Japan- icial rat-catcher millions of miles in patrol, courier, a_Yealr Proposal se broadeast recorded here by the He is Junnw1 Ynm\lul ex ltl'\‘\""l‘ wnd training services with H‘u loss | Federal Communications Commis- ind down in the sub-basement of of only 11 men, and eight of these sion declared the Americans were. e Capiiol, he runs a trap line yere lost in the coastal patrol, fly-| WASHINGTOR, May 19--Hedd | “continually landing fresh troops hat keeps him hopping of his ing little land planes far out over ing the threat of a poss ", |“on Attu” and “under the protect- dential veto, the House has reject- ed for the third time the Senate's approved skip-a-year income tax, The action was on a roll call and the vote was 202 to 194 ight hours a day. Trapper Young Mexico wat- doesn’t any more than get his last at the first “catch,” The | ing gunfire of naval units and with |the help of the air forces.” Atlantic and Gulf of The record is truly remarkable in view of the fact that individuals trap set than he's bac picking one up his RIDGE job pays him $120 a month in CAA are respon: for the ser- IS CAPTURED Young says the rats in the Cap- vieing and inspection of jheir gwn' There is now a new stalemate on| WASHINGTON, May 1. — In itol aren't just ordinary rats. He plan the income tax issue nnouncing - late yesterday to the has a theoty that they came over - | T newsmen that the American fofces ich were torpedoed in . (were reported as capturing the e rats swimming the 25 fl @p N BI ar Blgws |vidge on Attu Tsland, Secretary of way. At any rate they e K | {the Navy Frank Knox further stat- dd: of all rats |ed it was his understanding the ig gray ones would rather ??.’ a ’%! | main enemy defense force was in than run i é-i! gg Ou]. | 0 Be '1“{ [the region south of Holtz Bay and The District of health H B ,,fi 2 }tms was smashed by the Massacre ‘lepartment wrote wte to | Landing = expedition he described he Capitol's rat story t other s the main American fo The av when s permit division was @i: [;('“ sser's 1) Erigomg oo £ o i to ndon its qu tem- |chine guns from which the Japa- - F'NESI EVER porarily because rats had crawled sl [ o walls anc :d frol - e ALASKA (OA“M. —_— ‘flnm;::: m..“;xn.}x:;lu(i“u: ,‘Ar;?p::n‘:n : : T BOSTON, May 19. — The outer| Secretary Knox said that once | WASHINGTON, May 19.—More had been ordered because rats had A"led AII’ FOf(e '5 BUSY 113 fons of the enemy have been|the American line is established it PLANES S“(K than 97 percent of Navy men and literally taken over the building. SO'OmOnS—("a‘inq broken down and “the hour in n«:‘flf:(f‘l:mt;‘ly certain that the small . (I_OSE .I.o HOME.M;”-mes who were wounded at i - i which we shall strike .x! his main l, l e ri“ enemy ' in the area st Pearl Harbor have survived, the Ope of the un-rainy day sights I R ? 1 fortifications, both in Europe and the end of Attu will'be wiped ous, i Office of War Information reported | in Washington is to go down to S Keporied in Asia, draws near,” Secretary of then operations will extend to wip- No flights were made up to pl.,%‘xoddy_ ower -Constitution avenue beyond Navy Frank Knox declared in & ing out all other opposition includ- time today by Alaska The wounded don't die,” is the (he munition iilding and watch IN ¢peech at the annual dinner of the ing the Japanese installations, planes. exhaustive theme of the OWI re- 3000 or more ¢ and navy depart- AUSTRALIA Allied Massachusetts Committee of the chiefly located in the vielnity of Completing yesterday’s schedules POt regarding the treatment of ment worke: T hele moomdiy bombers yesterday raided Rabaul, Couference of Christians and Jews. Holtz Bay and Chichagof Harbor. were the following trips: to Excur- S. Army and Navy casualties. meals from the outdoor lunch bar, Arawa and Cape Gloucester all in Knox said that the ed nations ecretary Knox said that as sion Inlet, Harl Dempse A. Findings were summed up in these [i's probably biggest outdoor Britain and report yod re- were acquiring greater and grealer far as he knows, the rest of Attu Truce, F. Young, Jr., Bd J. Cassidy, Words: “Never before in the history cafeteria in Goiiel ulls domination of the enemy’s lines of Island is without military signifi: M. Morrison and M. Collins. Re- |°f 1_1\9 world has fighting men had The Navy it a Hollywood alamaua was bombed and straf- communication cance and is bare of Japanese in- turning here were Lea Schwure,|@Vailable the medical c: and sendoff the other day when it open- €d vest by bomber This can only mean a swift In- siangtions, Donald Ogeard, B. Ryndak, Lou °auibment which the United States ed for the spring-summer-fall sea- Twent . Japanese planes are Crease in the number of human Operations Completed e A Dk now furnishe its defende on, For three hours, the Navy band ¢ported to have been put out of lives sacrificed, heavier and heav- guoretary Knox sald the oper Mork Of all the Naval and Marine per- played for the grand opening. The|#ction during the day’s work of ier expenditure of wealth to support 4o, againgt Attu were particular- On a return trip from Ketchikan, Sonnel listed as wounded at Pearl next day, war workers, thinking the |the Allicd Air Forc the forces, more and more restric- |, .onsicated because violent the only passenger from the first Harbor, only 2.06 percent died sub- band coneert was to be a daily - Uons, strain and sacrifices on the yeiiner prevails at almost - gny city was James Huston, with H. B. Scquently, the OWI report stated. feature, crowded the lunchbar to hatme' fhont,” Knox ARerse time in May, high winds, heavy Camplur coming in from Fifty-three percent returned 1o nearly twice maximum capacity M APIHUR FOR Our young manpower I8 steadily Lo to0 - rain or even siow. Ryt duty by March 31, 1043, while 435 Jerry Kluttz, the Washington acai being absorbed by the fighting serv- "o, "qly "of good weather will John J. Doyle, R. A. Staples, Ray Percent are still receiving treat- Post’s father confessor Lo the prin- N icés; the supply of vital materials : Bowling and Addison Kephigen Ment. Only 9 of 1 percent have cipal biographer of government em- pRESIDENT (ldB for civillan use grows smaller and; " (Continued on Page Three) were . brought in. frots Exeursion. *;:'f'n m\;;\hdl-d from the service. ployes, tells this one on the War ity ”\'m'”’\ V“M“"“l”“ and e There were no passengers on the Figures for the Army wounded are Production Board. WPB decided ¢ H ! erviges, SIEARGE . SITMHAY, ¥ trip over. o |unavailable but the OWI said that & new plan to Sl ‘]).4;|~'|'I,uvt'1rn:lv? ES !H(OR?ORAIED tafled, will contract, still more. Thai > ® & S 2 ‘& 3. & S5SL8 The last flight to the Inlet was “Plainable data showed “recoveries cut an order that was to go Lo Taloning of Toof NeG PNIE DRRAN | DIMGYY. T * made with the following passeng-| 8¢ comparable to Naval and Mar- 3P0 officials and supervisors, SPRINC g R s e i 5 = * R. E. Marcy, Geo. W. Distler,| n¢ percentages.” Someone got the printing order The ,m,‘“”“.”.:.m of a General (,"l"»" BEALYR ,‘,‘{'\FL"’H“.H &P bs hwvlu.s tonighy & M. Hogis, W. F. Kalince, S. Jen-| - WA AR 20,00 jcoples ol thb. SeaEATthar for Dresident Club G| TCHEDULED. HEGE [FONORICN 2:8¢ sunsch At S0 S o | nette and 7. Odnddms. Coming| HERE FROM SITKA Al rere vast off, thus WAMHIRE veroriat by tne. office of Backethrsl s tIS puc Hosith: ior Well Faby 8 Dimout ends tomorrow e {back with the plane were John M.| F. K. Ruskton, proprietor of the all the paper that went into the | of s e Conference, will be held tomorrow, ® at sunrise at 4:23 a.m. . Cheney, W. Harper, George C. Silver Foam Cocktail Bar at Sitka, 27,000 of the save-paper directives, DS Thursday, from 1 to 4 pm. in ® Dimout begins Thursday at e Chapman, A. Peyes and George A ar ved here yesterday and is L room 108 of the Territorial Health ® sunset at 9:27 pm. . registered at the Baranof. | For my money, the hest avia- BUY WAR BONDS | Center. (s es e ses0 o0