The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9348. PRICE TEN CENTY = JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, l_943 MEMBER ASSNCIATED PRESS “JAP FORCES NOW ENCIRCLED ON ATIU Russians To Smash German Counter- JOHN LEWIS Churchill Pledges Britain ' ISCHANGING Wil Fight with U. S. Unil ~ Japan's War Industries, REDS HURL NAZIS BACK, KUBAN AREA Heavy Losseé 'Ihflided—Ex- : tra Troop Movement Not Confirmed MOSCOW, May 20—New Ger- DECORATE FLIERS FOR JAP DESTRUCTION ttacks - BED FELLOWS - Applies fo Américan Fed- . | eration for Readmis- sion of Miners Union WASHINGTON, May 20.—John Lewis’ return to the doorstep of the ] man counterattacks in the Kuban American Federation of Labor has Valley, fed by fresh reserves of stunhed all but a few insiders men and tanks, have been smashed *among labor circles and left them by the Red Army artillery and groping for an ,explanation of the planes and Russian dispatches an- move by the unpredictable Presi- nounce heavy losses have been in- dent of the United Mine Workers flicted on the Nazis as they made Lewis has defied the AFL since the second unsuccessful effort in 1935, when he was suspended from two days to cross the River Kuban he union for organizing the rival delta. %3 CIO. There is a constant air and land 7 Now he has formally petitioned action along the Russian-German SOMEWHERE IN THE ALEUTIANS, First Lt. R. W. Tarvin, of Orange, Calif., after receiving his Distin- n behalf of the miners for read- from the Karelian isthmus north guished Flying Cross, is congratulated by Lt. Col. R. B. Cone, of Champaign, Ill. L. to r.: Captain mission. An AFL statement yester- to Leningrad where the Finns are Tred Turner, Flagstaff, Ariz.; Tarvin, First Lt. Walter Carty, Trenton, N. J., Lt. Col. Cone. (International) day said: “The application is wel- reported to have manned the for- P s O R N * |comed and is being considered in ward lines. More heavy guns have an orderly and sympathic way. been added to the arc northeast of Novorossisk where the Germans still hold positions. There is no confirmation to the claim voiced by the German radio that Russian troops have launched sharp attacks on the German lines at Staraya, or that the Russians are developing big troop movements on Tampa Peninsula, Caucasus ar- ea and at Kursk above Leningrad. S e Admiral Wiley Is Dead in South Stafe Offensive Force PALM BEACH, Florida, May 20 % —Admiral Henry Wiley, 76, Com- LONDON,” May 20—Far-ranging mander of the United States Bat- Mosquito bombers of the RAF car- tle Fleet from 1927 to 1929, is dead 'led a continuing Allied air of- here. Death is attributed to hard- fensive over Berlin itself last night, NIGHT RAIDS ON BERLIN CONTINUING Fourth Aftack Within Week on Reich Capital-Large ening of the arteries. the British announced today. e —— - | The RAF raid on Berlin consti- BUY WAR BONDS tuted the fourth attack on Berlin within few The w a s h i n g 10n Fortresses Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) ', ¢iqcveq | yards at Kiel and Flensburg. not announced Air Ministry raid iately, were the RN S S WASHINGTON.—John L. LEW]S‘ would have got the surprise of his phone recording of the conversa-| tion of Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. B. B. Somervell regard- ing the use of troops in taking over the coal mines. Lewis had expressed public ap- ! prehension that the Army had a' ARE BOMBED plan to seize the coal mines in case of a strike. Undoubtedly subordi- nate officers did have suc_h a plan. But when Secretary Stimson sat Supp|y S'O(ks, Fuel Dumps Set Afire in Smash- ing U. S. Raid down with Secretary Ickes, plus General Somervell and other offi-| cers, the Army expressed vigorous| opinions to the contrary. General Somervell made this remark: “The last thing we want is an issue of the Army against the people.” Secretary Stimson also expressed Tenth | 4 United States Air erty, had been selected by the Pres- es and communications in eastern ident to handle the coal crisis. |Burma, dropping the heaviest During the period that followed weight of bombs ever delivered by —and up to this writing — there the force in a single day. was only one brief moment when! Supply stocks, fuel dumps, rail- use of troops was even suggeswd_‘mads and installations were smash- An excited representative of the bi- €d leaving fires. the smoke from tuminous coal commission in Penn-|Which was visible 100 miles away. sylvania phoned that miners and| -y their families were walking over . . coal mine property. Matkenlie Klng Is . . Now in Washington Ickes told him to keep his shirt on and that was that. Herbert Hoover has been telling| wASHINGTON, May 20.—Prime groups of businessmen: “People Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of have been kidding me for a long Canada has arrived here for con- time about my promise of two ferences with Prime Minister Win- cars in every garage. But now look ston Churchill and President Roos- where we are—every car is in the evelt on new steps in the war. garage.” Hoover might also, > say, regarding his famous chicken-; in-évery-pot promise—“Chicken is CAPITOL CHAFF Despite a steady growth in popu- i lation the United States in 1940 in can npw sheut the QU PNOE W0 had fewer children under 15 than (Continued on Page Four) it had in 1920 Russia Wamed'by Japan smashed Germany and| | [] blasted the submarine shipbuilding, r 'Sou rpuss H umorl SI’ ' i Results of the British overnight| immed- ! saying | merely that targets in Berlin were OF JAPANESE ! dents, Two Organiza- | | | | NEW DELHI, India, May 20— gictment of Joseph Fay, Interna- Heavy and medium bombers of the,yigna) Vice-President of the Union Force|of Operating Engineers, AFL. on relief that Secretary Ickes, known have cascaded more than 100 tons! .hayges as a staunch defender of civil lib- of bombs on Japanese supply bas-|$300000 from construction syndi- of his desire for a suitable labor movement. Critics doubted if that M » a told the whole story and many believed he made the jump because while still seeking top spot in the American labor movement. L Thr .| “When Lewis lost control of the ases o [] uy ea CIO and left it last year, he vi . tually burned his bridges behind 1"‘ him. He tried a third movement under the banner of the District 50 NEW YORK, May 20.—The Col-(oases for use of Am in a umbia Broadcasting System today | program directed at India and Bur- catchall unit of the UMW, and re- quoted a British raglio reporting a|ma.” sults were decidedly less than Tokyo radio broadcast that warn-| The Tokyo radio broadcast ex- Spectacular, it is remarked ed Russia against placing Siberian| pressed the following threats at ————v bases at the disposal of the United | Russia States | “At present relations between RAIDS ARE The CBS gave the following as|Japan and Russia are on a basis the text of the London Polish lan-|of neutrality, but if in the future guage broadcast directed to Europe: jRussia ever puts Siberian bases at “As a result of American advanc- the disposal of the United States, es at Attu, the Japanese are show- ing anxiety over the fate of towns liable to be bombed. They warned AGAIN MADE the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg and deal the heaviest the week and came only a!the Soviets against giving Siberian blows Russia has ever known.” hours after American Flying' Increased Kdifity Is Re- ported by High Com- mand in Solomons Visits Washingfon; Is | [ . —— | To Do Some Blistering .:::z. oo AUSTRALIA, May 20 Two Jap planes were destroyed, two dam- LABOR OFFICIALS INDICTED, CHARGES * OF BIG EXTORTION By JACK STINN WASHINGTON, May 20.—Irvin S. Cobb, the “sourpuss humorist” from Paducah, Ky., has just visited ‘Washington for the first time in nearly ten years and Washington will never be the same again The teason for that conclusion Command announces The Japs, continuing their re surgence air activity, raided Oro Bay, 50 beyond Buna, New miles % i . |is that Cobb is going to do a picce airdrome, 500 miles northwest of } International Vice - Presi- or two on Wartime Washington and Darwin, strating from tree top you can bet odds-on that he will height. Bombers then followed, set- place a few comic blisters on the the buildings. nation’s capital that weren't there ting fires At Oro Bay, the raiders dropped among tions, in Trouble before. 20 bombs but all “in the bush or NEW YORK, May 20.—District Being lnlel‘\'iflwgd by a lady mem- | water and causing no damage or | attorney Hogan announces the in- ber of the press in his hotel lobby, casualties.” Cobb complained of the drafty - . breezes. “Let’s get out of here” he said, “there’s more air here fThan there is in Congress.” That started him off on the ject of colds and Cobb can k longer about colds than most people do when they are “Speaking of Operations.” He remembers for in- stance, that it was a Washington friend that cirected him to a p! sician who used the “baking out” BAN PLEASURE DRIVING AGAIN, of extorting more than cates building the $300,000,000 Del- aware Aqueduct project. Both men pleaded innocent when arraigned in Sessions and Judge Goldstein fixed bail at $25,000 each. Hogan asked that bail be put at $50,000 each. Move Suddgly Taken by was a little gravy poured over and some water cress stuck in ears.” However, it must have work- ed, because the Cobb didn't even have a sniffle in his big nose. Cobb said he was glad he came to Washington < because he had found that all he read in the pa- pers wasn't exactly fact. Washing-| - ton isn’t really 50 all-fired crowded, ‘OR of food.” he observed. It's just that a million| The ban, lssued last people come in here every day and CAM€ effective at noon today in the same number go out. He thinks|NeW England states, New York, Union Station is probably the seat| NeW Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvan- of the trouble and if we could get ‘& Maryland, Virginia, the District (of Columbla and eight eastern 1(’0Imtlps in West Virginia, PRIC WEDNESDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed Wednesday at 6, American Can 83';, Anaconda 287, Bethlehem Stegl 65%, Commonwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gramby Copper and Mining 6%, International Harvester 67, Ken- necott 32';, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 17%, Pack- ard Motors 47, Republic Steel 18%, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.04 Dow, Jones averages Wednesday were as follows: industrials 139.15, ils 36.69, utilities 20,49 - method of curing colds 0PA-Gas Needed for When that doc got through % SIO(K OUOTAIIONS with me,” says Cobb, “all I needed Mllnary and Farms WASHINGTON, May 20. — The OPA has reinstated the eastern |ban on pleasure driving to “meet 'the gasoline supply crisis resulting !from tremendously increased mili- |tary demands and also to assure adequate gasoline for farm produc- night, be- rg (Continued on Page Three) Friends said his action is evidence | (CAPTURE OF AIR FIELDS ANNOUNCED Cities Are Laid in Ashes aleuian Fight Progressing FISHERMEN IN. ALASKA GET BOOST Pay Increased Seven Per- cent Over Last Year to 16,000 Workers SEATTLE, May 20.—The Region- |al Labor Board has granted a sev- en percent increase in pay over last year to 16,000 Alaska fisher |men and cannery workers by a lto 8 decision | The Labor Board members indi- |cated they might appeal to the |National War Labor Board, not 6 = lover the wage increase, but on some other clauses. Capt. John Fox, Labor member of the board, said after a conf ence with officers of the negotiat- ing committee of the Alaska Fish- ermen’s Union, such an appeal will Inot result in any stoppage of fish- ng. “They are not going to be like John L. Lewis and stop work.” The seven percent increases *in lexcess of the Little Steel formula |wage increases and was granted fol- | {lowing telephone conversations with ‘lhe Labor Board in Washington. Other terms of the decision grant war risk insurance paid by employ- ers to the amount of $5000 plus $150 for loss of tools and clothing during fishing operations. Fishermen who sign on at San |“in ashes they must surely die be- | |investment of 950,000 soldiers, mil- ~Equipment, Sup- WASHINGTON, May 20.—Setting ' . his jaw firmly, British Prime Min- p|IeS Selled ister Winston Churchill pledged e British participation in an eventual| BULLETIN — Washington, finish fight until Japan's war in-| npay 20—The American troops dustries and cities are laid in ash-| pave completed encirclement 5 of the remnant Jap forces on The British, Churchill said, Will Ay’ after capturing the par- be in there fighting “side by side| oy " comnleted ememy air- with you while there is breath in . cath W1 fields. Japanese equipment and our bodies and blood in our veins| (ttn FREECRE L ane When that finish fight will come, | e 3 Churchill did not specify but the| ‘Ured ringing prophecy of utter destruc- The U. 8. forces captured tion of the enemy in the Pacific was| _ SArana Pass, flanking the sounded at a joint session of Con-| enmemy's positions and the sress. It went out over the air| Japanese are now fighting with waves to the world, abroad to the| their back to the sea. On the cnemy and Allied countries alike, to| Se# American warships, it is thunderous applause of the mem- | officidlly disclosed, are giving bers of Congress, high officials of| smashing assistance to the the United States Government and| land forces. U. 8. bombers attacked mili- tary objectives in the Chicha- gof Harbor area. the British Government, as the| black suited Prime Minister, spread feet apart, stuck his hands in his pockets, his characteristic ges- ture and made the declaration Then the Prime Minister disclos- x ed a moment later that he and! WASHINGTON, May 20 The President Roosevelt hope for a United States Army troops at Attu méeting soon with Russian Premier|are making satisfactory progress Joseph Stalin and Generalissimo in the face of difficult conditions, Chiang Kai Shek |Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- | | | | PROGRESS AT ATTU | Germany on Defensive son reported today wirchill declared also that, They already have in their pos- Great Britain's air offensive is session the partially completed air- forcing Germany to withdraw base the Japs were building in the “more and more” planes from the!Holtz Bay area. Maj. Gen. Eugend fighting fronts “purely for defen- M. Landrum, described by Stimson sive” operations at the expense and 'as a “veteran of former Aleutian loss of aggression initiative and this, operations,” commands the troops he said, will prove the “major factor i, the Attu expedition, planned '”A'”‘l"‘f“;! victory 't'. |some time ago. s for Japan's cities and war in-' gyimgon told the press confer- dustries, Churchill flatly declared ence the soldiers are specially Itrained for the job and- proceeded (to Attu under heavy naval escort. Under cover of a dense fog to surprise the Japanese, and under |cover of a naval bombardment, Sec- |retary Stimson added, a small fore' peace comes to the world.” The Master Minds in Berlin and Rome, Churchill recounted, lost an! lio; s of gross tons of shipping and | |over 8,000 planes in an att | Francisco, plus . 3,000 Cahfomialhold A!ricapd d 0. atkemih m“mrly of Army scouts made the }:‘x,‘lpnln.?i (,‘mnl.x) 1“1’”'“-‘.\. .(x)ecdlvg One great danger of the Unlled[“"" landing near the west arm us, train or coach fare north plus|wations Churchill said, s “un-|on Holtz Bay. These were followed $6 subsistence. Fishermen also receive a differ-|war ence between first class fare on due prolongation” of the present|closely by another wave of troops |in the same area and later another For 50 minutes Churchill address- |landing was made on the opposite which it has been accustomed '.O‘pd the lawmakers of his American|side of the island on,, Massacre travel to and from Alaska. ‘There is a possibility a bonus will applause. be the Bristol Bay workers given ther consideration. The Alaska Fishermens” accepted the decision of the WLB for a up. -ee’ 12 BILLION 90 MILLION for Huge Sum - Big Aircraft Program WASHINGTON, May 20.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con- gress to make available nearly sev- enty-two billion, ninety million dollars for the Army for the fiscal year starting July 1 and boosting the January budget figures more than six billion dollars. White House Secretary Stephen Early explained the increase is ac- counted for by the projected ex- pansion. of the aircraft program the Army expects to get. | The unexpected production of |airplanes, it is said, will exceed the combined production of all other nations aged on the ground and three were because of special hazards by Jap| shot down in an Allied raid on operations there, but this was re-|effective Koepand, Dutch Timor, the High ferred back to the panel for fur- most urgent of our common task,”|c Union | discussion of the war in the Pacific, seven percent wage increase 8Neous remarks, as if Guinea, and long range fighters and the cannery workers' office hasOf I opéned an attack on the Koepang opened and crews are being signed W8INg war against Japan be given|jjitje [l | Churcnill said: | | | | - ARMY BUDGET EASTERN STATES president Asks Congress. | Ally winding up amid tremendous |Bay, Stimson said | The troops in the Holtz Bay area Aid To China are commanded by ° Commander rd bringing immediate and|Col. Frank L. Culin, Jr., but he d to China as one of lhotilldn't have the name of the offi- leading the assault on the Churchill said as he turned to a southern side of the island. “I reg There was little opposition from soon after beginning his extempor-|the surprised Nips in the first taking note|phase of the Attu operations. in the Senate| gtimson reported the troops had precedence over the destruction orh"o"g g;:‘:z::é:ds l::nd e:::rlb:::-i Hitler and Mussolini in Erope. lable to hold against the Jap coun- Recounting the loss of the D"(Ch‘(er-atlacks Although a dense fa East Indies, Malayan Peninsula, the |, oo 50 o 1u§|dmg> they ;u;g greas British Dbase. st S""‘apm'e]lmnmered subsequent operations, “All this must be retrieved and|™2KIN8 air support almost impos- much else must be repaid. Let no sible for selection of targets by the one suggest that Great Britain has|"8Ya! and other artillery extremely not at least as great an interest in, difficult the Pacific War the United| The soldiers States.” Japs inland Problems in Pacific Enemy resistance stiffened along Churchill said he brought mili- the high ridge in the center of the tary leaders from the India thea- | island. Numerous machine gun nests tre of war with him to the United K Were encountered, Stimson said, but States but he did not bring them Culin’s force fought and groped “merely to improve the health and|their way slowly forward through happiness of the Mikado of Japan.”|fog until they seized all the high They were brought here he added, ground overlooking Holtz Bay to thrash out all points raised in| The southern force was held up the Pal'lfl{‘ War of which “there | by heavy concentration of Japanese are_many. {machine gun fire in the pass and Churchill said if all that is nec- high central Tridge but this pass essary to curh forces in the east was eventually cleared by patrols upon Japan is an order “then that and the southern force made con- order wi P vel afte; 3 byt e addec B vt |2 TR fhe trope from the, Hls governed by what American mili-! tary leaders call the *“science of logistics,” the art of supplying mili- of recent speeches as slowly pushed the (Continued on Page Three) tALY foreos. ® o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i . 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