The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9352. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TU ESDAY MA\ 25 l‘)43 Ml;MBPR ASSOUATP D PRPbS PRICE TEN CENT3 12 Nippon Planes Knocked Out, Attu NAVY MAKES NEW REPORT, ! | | AIR BATTLE Communiqu;Elaims Only; Four Nip Bombers Es- caped Unharmed WASHINGTON, May 25. — The Navy reported this afternoon that seven of the 16 Japanese twin- en- gined bombers that ventured into the Attu battle area last Sunday were “probably destroyed.” This is in addition to the five planes or- iginally reported as “definitely de- stroyed.” The statement this afternoon amplifies yesterday’s report on the air fight that occurred over Attu when six Army Lightning fighters intercepted the Japanese bomber formation. The Navy declares that the four remaining enemy bombers, appar- ently unharmed fled west without doing any damage to American ships or positions. The communique today further said that “on May 23, United States Army forces continued to advance and exert pressure on the Japan- ese forces at Attu despite sleet, snow and rain that handicapped operations.” e BUY WAR BONDS The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Some of biggest bigwigs in the Air Corps have flown out to Cincinnati re- cently to probe a serious situation in the Wright Aeronautical plant uncovered by the Truman visiting the Wright plant are As sistant Secretary of War Lovett, Lt. Gen. William Knudsen, Bill O'Dwyer (former candidate for the Com- ! mittee. Among the worried officials Mayor of New York, now the Air Corps' chief investigator) and Gen. C. R. Branshaw of Dayton, Ohio. What the Truman found was certain alleged defects in airplane motors plus lack of careful inspection. Engines were tested in part by running a pink liquid through the cylinders and if any of this pink coloring came through, there was a leak some place and the cylinders were defective. How- ever, even when defects were indi- Committee | | dent, |the Federal it indicated 'YANKSARE PRESSING JAPS ORANGE PICKERS—High school girls of Duarte, Calif., wave a greeting from high ladders as they pick oranges from a giant, 67-year-old seediing orange tree, largest in California. The big tree stands 34 feet high. (ongress, Afier 1944, Will Be Teugh One for Any Presidenl foHandle AP 15 LOSER FIRSTROUND COURT FIGHT co.| Anti-trust Procedure With- out Precedent in In- Jun(hon (ase NEW YORK, May 25.—In an an- ti-trust procedure without prece- the Government has sasked Court for a summary judgment against the Associated Press, without taking testimony by witnesses during the open court trial. The motion was made in a civil suit pending before the special three cated, testimony taken by the Tx'u-:jlldges. man Committee states that the en-| gines were okayed by inspeclors. The court seeks, by injunction, to require the Associated Press to Gen. Knudsen, long the produc-| | furnish its news and picture serv® tion wizard for General Motors, wrote a report following to Cincinnati, tending to play down the seriousness of the Committee findings. He said that almost all engines had minor de- fects in them, and that the pink his trl]) its proportionate share | Truman | ices to any paper willing to bear of the cost | of gathering news. Counsel for the Associated Press declined to comment on the Gov- ernment’s latest move but it is un- derstood that the Government’s contention was- that there are no markings which indicated defects (material facts that remained un- were not serious. However, the Army appears wor- ried over the entire situation and | controverted. The action will be challenged by the Associc vigorously ed Press, is moving if to clear it up. On“ it is also understood. Probably 30 factor difficult to explain is the days will be required to prepare | Truman Committee testimony that a file of answering affidavits to sup- | two inspectors objected vigorously port AP’s position that the normal to okaying engines which appearec defective. They were civil service employees es in open court, not of the Wrighi litigation offering documentary ev- of the Army, procedure in anti-trust cases is to take the oral testimony of witness- each party of the company. Eventually the two pro-|idence in support of testimony. testing insopectors weve iransferred, one of them being toid not to set| foot on Wright property again, ac- cording to the testimony. This is v hay looks had. The Tru- | i DID HiS BEST man Committee is waiiing for the| LONDON-—The manager of a Army to clean up the situation Middlesex restaurant won his ap- completely |peal against conviction and a $5 MEMO T0 THE PRESIDEN'® MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT: The anti-tank troops you saw at thought fine imposed for food waste by stor- |age exposed to mice. He testified lP got 12 traps and three cats and that should be sufficient Dallas, Tex., on your recent trip safeguard. (Continued on Page Four) R BUY WAR BONDS | BIG NIPPON | INSOLOMONS ‘Two Formations of Heavy | Bombers Plaster Ra- | baul-Fires Started ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | AUSTRALIA, May 25—Two forma- |tions of Allied heavy bombers at= tacked the important Jap airdrome |at Rabaul, New Guinea, where a large concentration of enemy air- | eraft is reported. | Tons of explosives were dropped were started, flames of which were visible for a distance of 100 miles. Reconnaissance flights previously reported the concentration of the; Jap planes at the Rabaul airdrome. Flying Fortr s opened the raid | and were followed by Liberators. | The seaplane base as well as |three land fields were showered with bombs. | Other Allied planes bombed Gas- | ita, Leopang, Timor and Lae. -- OPA (ONTROL OF RENTS IN HIGH COURT Unanimous Opinion Hand- ed Down Regarding Constitutionality ma JACK 8 By WASHINGTON, May 25—Add a few statistics to the prognostica- o ok i 4 43 L tions of some of our most conser-| WASHINGTON, May 25 — The vative political guessérs here, and Supreme Court has ordered the dis- the conclusion is that no matter Missal of litization challenging the whether a Democrat or Republican | Constitutionality of delegating rent sits in the White House after 1944, control powers by Congress to the it will be an uneasy seat so far as| OPA- S8 Congress is concerned. In an unanimous opinion, the No President has ever had any- | Tribunal held the suit filed in the thing but trouble wWhen he had a|Federal District Court at South Congress -divided against itself. It|Bend Indiana was “collusive” be- was a Republican Senate that whit-|¢ause filed by an agreement be- tled President Wilson's 14 Points 'Ween interested persons. At the same time the Tribunal down to zero and isolated us from the League of Nations. Republican|'2cated judgment by the Federal President Hoover had to cope with court declaring unconstitutipnal the a4 Democratic house. These are delegation of rent control powers to the Emmgeuq Price Act DELIVERIES INEASTERN within our own time, but the story stretches back into history and ev- ery time it appears, the presidency | has had more afflictions than Job, with no time (because ,of coming elections) to apply Job’s patience Practically all unbiased political observers here say ‘positively that the House of Representatives elect- ed in 1944 will be Republican. They | know the swing of the pendulum. They point to the 1942 elections| that carried the Republicans wnh-‘ in 14 seats of the Democratic ma- jorty (which means that if the | Gas Shortage Curfals Dis- o the 22 oppesiion seats, ey iTiDUtiON of Many Commodities would have been in the saddle). They argue €ven that if a' Demo- tic President is elected—even if| WASHINGTON, May 25. The be' Office of Defense Transportation restricted all* wholesale and ident is reelected—it will impossible to change this swing of has the pendulum in the congressional|retail delivery in the northeast districts. | gasoline shortage area, covering the Grant it is a possibility and you|New England states, New York will see what is ahead for the next| Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware President of the United States. Be-|and south to Virginia West cause only by a miracle could the Virginia. Republicans capture control of the: Retail delivery of 15 commodi- S“;:i'l:‘, IRk Jrace: Seskis ties, including soft drinks, alcoho- bot, ,“,‘DJ,T;'A?ZP“&?.’-;')fi]};x.ffiiili" d:: lic beverages, ice cream, magazine one Progressive. To gain control, the u".fi, B g P proliiced Republicans would have to unseat WG DAIRS AL Cellinrieg in, one 10 Democrats, without losing one. |"ok 7€ limited to all items Since’ hinke. ave 81 sests now Sunday -deliveries, except fresh milk and cream, arc forbidden Democratic and only 11 now Re- ¢ publican to be filled next year, that| Al overlapping duplications o delivery routes are also forbidden appears on the surface a pretty simple matter. | - Pre and But wait. Thirteen of those Dem- JOHN HALL S ocratic Senators come from Solid 'M!r()l‘l;llfn(A ECENTLY South Democratic states or from| % o : John Hall, public health engineer ¢ even on the basis of 1942 elec. | With the Territorial Department of ticns, that there seems no pfl\sl_!Hvalm has gone to Sitka for the bility of the Republicans getting 1)ur_posv of conducting departmental = business” He expects to return by Jthe end of the week. tates so overwhelmingly Democrat- (Continued on Page Three) | BASE RAIDED | in the early morning raid and fires | Fight Affu Island, Where American Troops Landed KNOX SAYS Cape Wrangell (above), and it is here that Amer . 8. Navy nhoto. n troops How U. S. Planes (ould Threalen Japan KAMCHATKA PENINSULA MARIANAS" ISLANDS ‘GUAM TRUK CAROLINE IS Ser e United States forces which have landed on Japanese-hiid Attu Island are now battling the enemy. of the Alentians, is only 2,005 miles from Tokyo, which would be within the theoretical range wostery of U. Amc hnl\ a was announced recently. RUSSIANS ASK/ FOR GREATER FOOD SUPPLY 108t HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 25. The Russian delegation attending the United Nations Food confer- ence declared the Soviet Union needed more than they are now receiving from the United Stat to carry on the war against Ger- many. - - - SAN ANGELO, Tex.—Mrs. R, C. Williams lost the engagement ring her husband gave her 26 years ago. It turned up on a piece of toast four days later. Mrs. Williams be- lieves she dropped it in the butter, and when she buttered the toast, she buttered the diamond out of its hiding place. n Attn Isla AGAT,TU ATTU] KISKA WAKE * : \\IZ . bombers based on the isiand. ENEMY 1S CORRALED ; ‘Navy Secrefary Asserls Many Enemy Pockels Are Eliminated | "SEA BEES'” HAVE LANDED 'O ISLAND; START WORK No Official Comment Made Regarding Tokyo Re- | port, Warship Sunk 9 | WASHINGTON, May retary of Navy Frank Knox {the battle at Attu is against the Japanese Ltroops have been pressed back to | northeastern extremity of the |land Secretary Knox told the new |men at a conference that he had no fresh information to add to yes- | terday's Navy communique which |sald pressure of American soldiers | against the pockets of the Jap's re- sistance at Attu was conunm% and |that a number of enemy points had been eliminated. | Knox said the fighting continues nd “we have those men coralled out there on the peninsula.” Asked as to the origin of enemy bombers that made a raid on the | American for in which five out |of 16 Japanese two engined bomb- | ers were shot down, Secretary Knox |said: “We do not know where the | planes came from but we have a suspicion they came from the Kur- iles." The Kuriles are the Japanese anchor about (from Attu, | Asked whether any reports had come in to show the airfield prq- | ject initiated by the Japs at Attu was feasible, Knox said no reports | have arrived “but I assume that | what the Japs have started, the [\.lllkx can finish.” | It was disclosed that the enemy | made considerable progress in lev- jelling a flight strip up to the time | when the American invasion be- |gan two weeks ago at Attu. Becretary Knox disclosed that a proup of “Sea Bees,” Navy con- | struction men, are on the job and began development of the island Jolmosl as soon as the §irst waves 101 the American combat troops 0 1000 landed. The “Sea Bees” in fact are trained to fight as well as work, [ STATUTE MILES Attu, caid continuing who the Is- \nd, is the westernmost point of land on the North American continent, ave landed, Attu was occupicd by the Japanese nearly a year ago. ALEUT|AN ISLANDS ./ .#®" Dutch Harbor e AMCHITKA 0 northern 630 miles Francisco HAWAIIAN : ISLANDS : Honolulu ! | ' | | said Knox and those at Attu will Ibe most useful as this gained from experience at Guadalcanal. | “This type is extremely useful,” said Knox No official mention made __ |garding the Tokyo broadcast, heard 2 by Reuters in London, that “all indications now are that an Amer- om ln s 'ra |n s lican battleship or cruiser is re- |ported heavily damaged by a Jap By U. S. Planes in Fog submarine in the Aleutians or was Japanese have been holding Attu and Kiska. U. S/ occupation of re- actually sunk.” There has been no confirmation this from any other source. e e i HALIBUT SALES, 27,000 POUNDS of us down Our Holtz Bay toward weighted side of sembly By EEUGENE BURNS . northwest Associated Press War 4 Jap positions. Although flying more! Twenty-seven thousand peunds Carrespondent than 250 miles and hour and per- of hallbut were sold today at the haps seeing little of our troop Juneau Cold Storage, with priceq ABOARD A LIBERATOR RE- movement, he reported that “one at 1615 cents TURNING FROM ATTU, May 12, soldier was so clearly outlined The Merrimac sold 11,000 pounds ~ (Delayed) Our four - motored ' against the brown tundra that I,to the New England Fish Company, | Liberator bomber convoyed seven could almost read the expression U and 1 sold 9,000 pounds te New | twin-engined Army Lightnings to on his face as he looked up at England Fish Company, .and the Attu today to assist our Army as- me Tern, 7,000 pounds to Alaska Coast sault forces that landed during the| Lieut. Wayman also saw Ameri- Fisheries. pas 24 hours. can troops disembarking farther up % Fighters have just joined up the beach e o o 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 with us, returning from their This is my second flight . DIMOUT TIMES . death-dealing bombing and strafing pefore dawn, I left on a Navy . iizal P of Jap positions about 1500 yards ajing patrol boat. An impenetrable ® Dimout begins tonight e from our advancing troops. fog forced us to climb at 6,500 to!® 8t sunset at 9 36 o'clock. . Flight leader, First Licut. OWVrl, .., .. meayy ice formed on!l Dimaut ‘ends. . SSoue § Wayman, 27, of Salt Lake City, e at sunrise at 4:12 am. . reports over the interphone to this the leading wing ledge and tall as- ¢ pimout begins Wednesday at e “mother ship” that he saw a file ® sunset at 9:39 pm . of 30 men advancing along the (Continued on Page Three) U R I I T I N Y