The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1943, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9351. PRICE TEN CENT® —_— ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS FIVE JAP PLANES SHOT DOWN OVER ATTU 2,000 Tons GREAT AIR ATTACK AT NIGHT TIME Vast Blazes Are Kindled in | Big Industrial Center of Germany ; LONDON, May 24—In thegreat- | est air attack in history, the Royal Air Force dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs last night on in- dustrial Dortmund and raided other targets up and down the water- logged Ruhr Valley in Germany. | Incendiary bombs kindled vast blazes in Dortmund and the smoke licked angrily in the sky at least three miles above the city The bombs dropped topped the previous record of more than 1500 tons dumped on May 12 on Duis- burg, also on the Ruhr. Importance of Dortmund has in- sed greatly recently because of turation and battering of Es- sen which caused shifting to Dort- mund of many war industries. The British lost 38 bombers in the night raid Returning pilots described the hammer blows as highly successful although accurate observation was obscured by clouds of smoke and flame. The raid was carried out in ex- cellent weather, l The night's operations became apparent early in the evening when watchers on the channel coast saw a procession of bombers pass non- stop for two hours toward their targets. | i‘he Washinugrton” Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) Of Bombs Dropped On Dortmund MUSSOLINI'S CITY is Carbo Dissolve; Order Issued, Moscow Executive Commitfee of In- ternationale Gives Reasons for Move MOSCOW, May 24—In the midst of daily increasing cooperation be- tween Soviet Russia and her Al- ies, the Executive Committee of the Communist Internationale has asked its centers in all parts of the world to dissolve. The resolution passed, said forms and methods and regulations of the Comintern have become obsolete | and in some cases actually has hin- ldered workers of the world in their WASHINGTON. — Secretary of the Navy Knox, who as a news- paper publisher has broken many an embarrassing story about the Mayor of Chicago and various other bigwigs, is getting more and more addicted to bottling up the news. The other day he sat in on a meeting of the House Naval Af-| fairs Committee at which it was decided to hush up a report’ by forthright Congressman Lyndon Johnson of Texas showing how some Navy officials had helped draft dodgers. The report was similar to the.in-| vestigation of the House Military, Affairs Committee into draft-dodz- ing. The Military Affairs Commit- tee, however, has done its busine: completely in the open. There has been no hush-hush stuff. It has; taken the position that the draft was the nation’s business, not to| be discussed behind closed doors. Several months ago, however,| Chairman Carl Vinson of Georgia, ! jealous of the prerogatives of the| House Naval Affairs Committee, made a deal with Representative Andrew May of Kentucky, chair- man of the Military Affairs Com-| mittee, whereby the latter would lay off the Navy Department. Soon after, a Naval Affairs sub- committee, headed by aggressive young Congressman Lyndon John-; son of Texas, which has been prob- | ing Civil Service operations, was instructed to checkup on draft de- ferments of the Nav civilian em- ployees. BOMBSHELLS AND HIGHJINKS Representative Johnson did a thorough job, turned up some| bombshell evidence about official highjinks in the granting of defer- ments to draft-age civilian em- ployees in the Navy. One case involved a young, un- married soda jerker, deferred by his draft board because of his pros- pective employment by the Navy in an “engineering” capacity. The; soda jerker got his deferment, and also the job, largely because an' E}Enunuéa on lsaie Four) land workers |a pack “at le battle against Germany satellites, The action is considered here to open admission that the Comintern, which stood for solidification of the workers of the world under the Communist banner, should dissolve in each country get down to the job of beating Hitler. Many observers in Moscow see in the decision, one of the most sig- nificant measures yet toward com- plete cooperation among all nations with the primary objective to defeat Nazism. The resolution as broadcast to the world from here said that “even before the war it became clear that together with increasing complic tions in international relations various countries, stacles and her] in insuperable ob- in solving problems were (Continued on Page Two) i > | ICKES LOOKS FOR RECORD SALMON PACK Expects Prbvdu_dion to Be Ten Percent Greater than Last Year WASHINGTON, May 24. — The Alaska salmon industry, though working “close to actual military operations,” begins the season this month and is expected to produce t 10 percent greater than last " said Harold L. Ikes, Secretary of Interior. The Alaska salmon industry will provide the Nation with 5,500,000 cases, said Ickes, and should thus earn about seven times as much as the purchase prjce of the territory. “The salmon pack is the most im- portant item in the territory’s econ- omy,” said Ickes. : iNAZiS BEATEN Sniping Japs ai Alfu ATTACK IS OFF IN SEVSK Are Soon Silenced by ALSO MADE AREA, REPORT Rifle, MachineGunFire ON KISKA E |Forfy-four German Planes; w wiuiaw 1. wompex bos Jut wppanching e beich {Ground Forces on Western (B owever special groups of rvifle- 4 | Shot Down Near Im- | Correspondent wen and o umber of machine guns| - |s|and Battling Stub- | left already on the beach for just 3 | ortant Russ Base MASSACRE BAY, May 13—(De-such an attack, swung info action | bom Res's'an(e | p layed)—The first Japanese attempt immediately to counter the Japan-! o t0 1ike” the. Tuintili ation tac- effort while @ minesweeper, : | MOSCOW, May 24—Sharp a e 1‘\1”“1::”\ ,,\\:ml.x,‘,((f.},‘,l, troops at moving in close, let loose gunfire BULLETIN =~ Washingien, | w5 cleared away the e ded nfter the Japanese on the range and it was, all over| “May 24—Five out of 16 Japa- {arca near the important I e Ty ock on' & precipice in @ few minutes and fire from| nese two-engined bombers {base at Kursk where 44 C cverlooking the beach at Massacre the ridge ceased | raiding the American forces al |planes were down Saturday when| g, . The body of one lone Jap sniper,| o Attu were downed by U. {the region was attacked by a latge| "oy, attempt at the sniping at- Dis rifle thrown aside he re-| fighter planes Sunday, the Na: | formation of fighters and bombers.| . 1 wis Jaunchéd against the Am- | ceived a death shot, crashed down| reported foday. Nine U. | The German infantry is reported|cyicang unioading > on the [rom the fog bidden rock position| fighter planes are missing. An- ed and partly annihilated by|yeach. 1t was launched by a small While hundreds of Americans| other was downed beating off a § 3 llery fire after the scouts noted| ... . Japanese, either laying in Walched fox holes and other shel bomber attack, but the pilot was h? g o § |beavy troop movements northwest iy for 48 hours or who had worm- | ter works rescued. — - fof Kurek ! i their way toward the beach on| Unloading of the shore boats was| The raid was the second in OF COAL_A certain objective should the Allies invade Sardinia rhe midday communique said ;. pigh ridge bounds on the right interrupted only a h'\:‘ v:nInulv: and| as many days. On Saturday 15 immediately , shown here at its dedication by Mussolini as his “city of coal.” Communisis fo DOGS AID ALASKAN Large (left) of Hoguiam, Wash., Las Vegas, Nev., are accompanied by their Army dogs on duty at an advanced American MRS. TAFT, 81, PASSES AWAY, WASHINGTON Wife of Form—er President, Mother of U. S. Sena- for, Buried Today — Mrs, widow Chief WASHINGTON, May 24 William Howard Taft, 81, of the former President and Justice of the United States Su- preme Court, died at her home here last Saturday. Funeral services be held here today and will be in Arlington Ceme- are to burial tery. Mrs. Taft was the mother of United States Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio, Charles P. Taft, As- sistant Director of the Office of Health Defense, and Helen Taft Manning, history professor at Bryn Mawr. Ability of Mate Confident in the ability and leadership of her husband from the start, Mrs. Helen Herron Taft was credited by intimate friends with having played an important part in planning the career of her distinguished husband, William Howard Taft. ¥ During the years when Mr., Taft resumed | four more Nazi planes were report- then twin-engined bombers made an unsuccessful raid. Weather lifted and American raids have been made on Kiska, ide then to the eagtward. The sni- — |ed down pers opened fire shortly before dusk, . Overnight, improvements in the|,no o Jow hanging cloud bank as | Russian positions were made novth | brogection, Thelr target was a mass | of Novorossisk and at Lischansk on | ¢ Incidentally two Jap landing bar- were captured, in working or- on Temnac Bay earlier today, ed tonight to| der, i . humanity struggling to get car- and both are being w with good results. [the. Donets River o ashore. Other sniper fire was take American cargo ashore from| Pressure of the S. Army | Late dispatches indicate further|.oneentrated on Coxswain's small the ships to Massacre Bay fighters against the pockets {artillery action in the Kuban sector, | 14 | . of the Japanese resistance on {the first time mentioned since last | Attt - conbinges A -saidber of Saturday | g o : ; i o | enemy positions have been li- First Plane Crash Is | The Navy gives no indication as to whether the Jap bombers suceeeded in accomplishing INCOME TAX Reporied as American | pass | Holtz Bay. The forces that landed |at Holtz Bay remained in control | jof the heights overlocking the bay | FORTIFIED |and about 400 yards from it is a| SENTRIES — pfc. Richard [small section that will enaole it and Corp. Robeft Rabigson of o combine with the Holtz Bay ntry i3 i b : base somewhere in Aleutians. jeroup at the proper time All advances are extremely slow IS BoMBEDi:md are hampered by Japanese | i machine gun mortar fire and sni- | pers who worked from the tops of was politically active, his wife wa his constant companion as he vi ed the four corners of the earth - . the snow covered and fog hidden and made a record as a traveler 1) ridges. none in public life. A"a(k on Par.te”eria ‘ The first attempt to use Air Keenly alive to the possibilitic | Forces to support the front line of that lay before her husband and _RAF FO“OWS Up roops was made this afternoon by deeply interested in the carec ¥ " which she was desirous that he r e 2 .| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN was an intimate | opr ) pRICA” May 24—United| | States medium bombers and fight-| |ers attacked Pantelleria three times | |in five hours yestérday and RAF| lassault with raids on docks and| What Mrs. Taft had in mind for Wellingtons followed up the nighL: her husband was indicated by an|airfields at that fortified Italian incident said to have taken place island. | at one of the White House recep-| No enemy air resistance Ts re-! tions during the Roosevelt admin-|Ported however. | | pursue, Mrs. Taft confidant and champion of “Will, for whom she entertained political ambitions long before he had such aspirations. istration. In the course of a con- - % | versation participated in . H By EUGENE BUR ] ourPerishin woinow by Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt and M ag(\):i“xr.«-l.{ Tu!(.‘“u .' x ;mud v‘;m‘[ Correspondent o1 oosevelt, predicting wha MASSACRE BAY, Attu, May 17 the future had in store for Mr | (Delayed) —The American forces wou called to one of the two lof Hollz Bay today after seven days highest positions in the country . . lof fighting and are now on the “Make it Chief Justice,” broke in | ridge looking t. This is the re- Mr. Taft. ornlng lre port made by Catalina fliers and Mrs. Taft followed quickly with {also from positions on vessels on “Make it President.” | . | Massacre Bay as gunfire is seen With blue-grey eyes, of slight, OLYMPIA, Wash. May 24.—Fire on Massacre Pass 4000 yards away build, Mrs. Taft’s calmness and de-'swept the home of Ronald Paranto, A comparatively small scout xrum-} liberation sometimes conveyed (031, Tacoma shipyard worker, near Dhaissance unit landed under a strangers an idea of coldpess and Yelm, early Sunday and killed him, blind cover midway between Stel- distance. Those who knew her were his wife Jennie aged 21, daughter ler Cove and Holtz Bay and crossed charmed with her frankncss and Donnette, aged 4 and Karen, two the 3,000 foot ridge through waist Ler hatred of insincerity, her 'ove Months old. |deep snow of family, and the genuineness and| Neighbors tried to rescue the It is now believed they have warmth of her friendship. Speak family from the burning house but'ed the assault forces that landed | join- | ing rapidly, she used French, Ger- Were 50 quic] did | About three and one half miles man and Spanish fluently, expre . northeast of the Jap positions on| - - - Holtz Bay and advanced with them | (Continued on Page Three) BUY WAR BONDS lon their mission to neutralize fire |third day and firing is still being pumped into the Japs_that seem to hold the passes tonight. | Occasionally there is assistance from Naval batteries. The Ameri-| cans so far have captured no Jap-| anese prisoners ‘ Hand-to-Hand Fighting | Numbers of Japanese snipers members of the regular front line units have been killed in hand to| hand fighting, including a surpris- | ingly high percentage of Junior ofll-‘ cers. { American losses so far have been| (Continued on Page Two) Remarkablé Scefies Are gof Valley, | their mission on their raids. Some officials here believe the DEADlO(KED A [ ATTU FIGHTING WASHINGTON, May 24.—Of the | By WILLIAM L. WORD! group of fighting planes that|battle at Attu, “There has been L Associated Press War roared up the valley from ,Mas-|no change in the general situa= SO e e A N Correspondent sacre Bay to the bleak mountains.|tion ashore,” said the War Departs | jotht?: Sopferance committee has| SEASSACRE BAY, Stiu, May 14— | Rowewr fog shrouded the peaks ment in a review of the situation failed again o reach any compro. | (Delayed) — Reinforced American and prevented effective use of Sunday night. The communiqué mise on the Senate and House dif- | nvasion forces continued to push planes that resulted in the loss of guyq. | ferences on the pay- you-go taxes toward the high places on Attu to-|one of them that hit a lqu(la-x The enemy stil on high but the committee is scheduled to |48y against stubborn Japanese op-|mountain in full view of the frontigoung west of Chichagof Harbor, meet later in further attempts to position, selling each foot of buu- “"‘“. 'll)tr[xs. and crashed in flames. {also in Chichagof Valley and moun- agree on a compromise. sozgy ground to the highest possible The General commanding the |4 o patween Chichagof Harbok The Republican members still bidder. ground .lorum ('nnnnfw(l lu_ hold up and Sarana Bay. |stick to their modified Ruml plan| The forces that landed at Mas- | costly {rontal attacks pending elim-| .y present the American forces to skip a year legislation passed by|S2Cré Bay are about three miles|ination of machine gun nests and .. ".packing the high bills just the Senate. { from the beach and the rough|mortar positions. An artillery bar-| ..\ " " Ghichagot Harbor where Fs | battlefront is extending across the rvage was laid down and continued ““'. P “‘“d m;mw?\‘l A s [floor of the last valley before the all day. Shore guns passed the 500| Hi¢ West G4 SOWERL BEHS e between. Massacee' Bay and |round mark before the end of the|Fise o 1900 feet. Another attack is directed on the valley area pas§ from Sarana Bay to Chichagof Har- bor and a third attack is being pressed against the hill north of Lake Nichols Slashing at Japs Last Saturday afterncon the Navy Department’s communique said the American forces at Attu had slashed at the remaining Jap troops that were in three groups, in the final phase of the campaign to restore the island to American control. The groups were listed as being on Chichagof Harbor, in Chicha- which extends south- from the harbor, and on the northern shores of Lake Nicholas, suutheast of the harbor. Attu village, presumably the cen- west (ter of the enemy's Chichagof har- Enacled in Attu Attack By Both Army, Navy Unifs on enemy positions overlooking our troops attacking from the West arm of Holtz Bay. The advance has been accomplished despite the cru- el hardshipé. It is doubtful if they were warmer than below zero cen- tigrade weather throughout their six days travel. Meanwhile at Massacre Bay our troops are being held by the enemy gun positions just above and a tan- talizing fog blanket just low enough to give the Japs gun coverage and make our artillery and machine gun field ineffectual This morning once again the fog | blanket formed an impenetrable 800 foot ceiling Bombs Start Fires While patrolling in a Navy Cat- alina yesterday, the pilot, Lieut Frank' Ralston, saw Army Libe tors unload bombs on Chichagof, (Continued on fage Two) split and their bor position, has been wiped out by Army planes and the fuel depot and other installations set afire. The communique further stated that on May 20, during the night, strong enemy positions on the ridge of Sarana, Massacre Bay area, was neutralized. “An enemy ded in penetrating our lines was wiped out.” Although the unit sue- but three groups are backs pinned to the a in the rough country, they are apable of putting up stubborn lo- resistance - - RETURNS FROM SOUTH Mrs. Madelina Stevenson, who has been south for a couple of weeks, returned to Juneau Satur- day evening ® o o0 0 0 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:35 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:14 am. Dimout begins Tuesday at sunset at 9:36 p.m e e e s 00000 0 Leecescescese Pecsccense