The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9354. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY =" JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1943 Naval Bombardment, Air Attack Aids Action STALIN SENDS SECRET REPLY, FDR'S LETTER Joseph Davies Leaving Moscow for Direct Return fo U. §. with Message | MOSCOW, May 27.—Joseph Da- | vies announces he has received a written sealed reply from Joseph | Stalin to the secret letter Davis' delivered from President Roosevelt. The letter from Roosevelt was de- livered to the Soviet Chieftain last week. | Davies said he did not know the contents of Stalin's message which is solely for the President. Davies is leaving for a direct return to the United States. Davies conferred with Stalin again last night in the Kremlin in the presence of Foreign Affairs and Vice Premier Vischeslav M. Molotov. This is the third time Da- vies has seen Stalin since his ar- rival here. | A picture of Stalin, Davies and Molotov in the Kremlin is publish- ed on the front page, four columns wide, of the Izvestia today. Stalin is smiling and appeared very pleas- ed and Davies and Molotov look satisfied. S e ‘The ‘Emperor Claudius’ Aqucducl,‘ built during the Roman Empire, required a tunnel three and one- half miles long and took thirty thousand workers eleven years complete. Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON ! (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—The clock-work | coordination of British naval and military strategists with Prime] Minister Churchill during the cur- rent White House conferences :s the secret envy of U. S. naval- military men. All day, British and American, strategists eonfer, the British re- | porting to their Prime Minister twice a day. Since Churchill has no domestic problems to worry| about, he is able to give his mili-| tary-naval men all the time they| need. However, what somewhat worries U. 8. strategists is the fact that the | President necessarily has to give| attention to certain domestic prob-' lems. The Ruml tax plan, for in- stance, is of vital importance to the nation, and he has had to take time to study it carefully to see| whether it should be vetoed. Like-[ wise the coal strike is a problem which cannot be sidetracked. ’ As a result, some of the Presi-| dent’s advisers fear that when he| sits down with Churchill and Harry | Hopkins in the evening, British' strategy plans are likely to come out on top. | Naturally there have to be clashes »f opinion regarding military mat- ters. It is by such clashes that the best plans are evolved. But Church- ill twice a day listens to his mili- | tary-naval men, gets from them! the full picture of the American viewpoint. Then in the evening “he is completely prepared for counter- arguments to American strategy plans advanced by the President. | Of course, the President is one of the best military and naval strategists ever to sit in the Whnel House. He began studying Admiral Mahan's tough naval logic at the age of 14. Nevertheless, some cf our own strategists are a bit wor- ried over Winston Churchill's per- suasive charm. ! PAPA DIONNE When the Dionne Quintuplets launched the five Sullivan ships at Superior, Wis., a huge dinner was given in honor of the occasion. (Continued on Page Four) ‘2‘134 killed, 9,437 wounded and 6,937 LIFE ON FARM HAS ITS ATTRACTIONS--TWO OF 'EM & ¥ STRIKERS ARE RETURNING T0 RUBBER J0BS Acton Roose\/elt's Threat- Walkout Violation of No-strike Pledge AKRON, Ohio, May 27—Striking CIO unionists are straggling back "u their war jobs today in three | major Akron rubber companies, but only one concern has resumed nor- | mal production, | The B. F. Goodrich Co. remained |inactive in the face of a Presiden- | tial ultimatum in what the Presi- {dent described as most “inex- | cusable and shocking” the five-day |stoppage which made more than [50.000 men idle. | The company spokesman said | that about 2,000 workers, or less ythan half the normal force, turned out for the 6 a .m, shift at Good- rich, and only 25 percent at Fire- stone and Goedyear. The Goodyear spokesman declar- ed it would take “all day and a good part of tomorrow to balance {up our production.* The General Tire Company ed a full working force. President’s Reaction Acting as Commander-in-Chief ;nr the Army and Navy, the Presi- |dent termed the work stoppage “a flagrant violation of the no-strike | | OFFER of the Santa Fe railroad to permit folks to plant Victory gardens along its right-pf-way finds Fen Margaret Gramley and Patricia: Twombly of Pueblo, Colo, out bright and early, tilling the soil. Ad- mitting the girls add much to the scenic beauty as viewed from the windows of the streamliner thun- | port that f”Complete VAg-reem en Reached,” Declares Roosevelt Enemy Césfia]tiles Are Over legislationEeTaling fo Al- Four Times Those of Al- = aska Gets Exteqsnon ies, Says Stimson by Seqqli Action WASHINGTON, May 27.—Amer-| WASHINGTON, May 26. — The jcan Army casualties in North Af- Senate today passed and returned rica from Nov. 8 to May 15 total to the House the bill> authorizing the Department of the Interior to defer or waive all or part of any payment due on won-mineral land in Alaska ‘until six months after the close 6f the war. Secretary of, the Interior Harold L. Ickes told the Senate Public Lands Committee that some farm- ing and grazing leases in Alaska embrace lands which have been or are, adjacent to zones of military operations. . He said that the lessors have suf- ered losses because it recommend- ed enactment of a bill or measure ren( avor |which was returned to the House (in with the Senate/ concurrence amendment, making it effective un-, til six months after the war instead | {of during the war only. ALGIERS, May 27. — Formation of a French central authority and merging of the effectives of Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle are seen /certain by all shades of ‘political opinion here and De Gaulle was expected to arrive within a few days to seal the ar- rangements. A Giraud spokesman asserted that full ‘union, in effect, already had beer achieved. Spokésmen for both leaders said innumerable differences between them have been settled by exchang- es of letters and that both agreed a central authority should now be formed. Under Giraud's plan, each of the generals would select two men and the six together would choose three more to form an exe- cutive cgmmittee under the pre- sent proposal. This committeg would be the central authority of all liberated French territory and of French re- sistance on soil still in enemy hands. dering by in the background, someone should advise Garceners Gramley and Twombly that high- ! 1 pledge. a men S 0“ | “If this strike has not ended by |noon Thursday, your government e | wili take the necessary steps to pro- No AFRI(A Non - Mlneral pARlEY ENDS | Executive Boards of the United " ‘Ruhlv'r Workers locals of the Good- 3 year, Firestone and Goodrich com- TOTTED UP LandsWaived IN ACCORD i of war work. At the same time their | Presidents made radio appeals. e loss in production of war ma- | terials might exceed $18,000,000. The walkouts started last Saturday with | had reduced to three cents an hour ‘m panel’s recommendations for an cight-cent an hour increase. heeled shoes are hardly appropriate footgear for the task of tending a Victory garden.'(International) [v tect the interests of the nation.” | panies promptly adopted a resolu- | Industrial sources estimated flin the news that the War Labor Board - missing or taken prisoners. Secretary of War E. L. Stimson said the total of Allied casualties in the Tunisian campaign including the British and French figures has not yet been reported in detail. The total loss is less than 70,000, Stimson said, by contrast to the Axis loss of 30000 Kkilled, 26400 wounded and 266,000 prisoners. RN e, leases dent Roosevelt announced today | following the close of the War Culki ference between British and Ameri- SALVAGE DAY | ’ | ‘ “in complete agreement on future operations in all theaters of war.”| statement at the end of the mo-| IS NOW SEI mentous parleys which began here May 11, when Winston Churchill | ident. The British Prime Minister was accompanied here by top mil- {Trase Bayali A Kiicdvisors: Be Opened Every Thurs- day, 9A. M.to 5P. M. 4 WASHINGTON, May 27.-—Presi- an staffs that the two nations are 2oo0sevelt issued the one-sentence arrived to meet the American l’n’.~-<$ . . | alvation Army Depot Will Aot R C. A. B.EXECUTIVE Capt Dyck, of the Salva- ticn An has designated every | Thursday as salvage day and the depot at Front and Main streets | will be open that day from 9 a. m. ifo 5 p. m. 2 3 | Everybody is, urged to contribute, Raymond W. Stough, of Wash-iisying” tneir salvage to the depot ington, D. c;. Director °fv,‘m'AF‘_(. |so that at the proper time it may onomic Bureau of the Civil ACr-ly, ghinpeq south to aid in the war onautics Board, arrived in Juneau go.. yesterday on his third trip to Alas-| Sal;'age consists of brass, copper, ka, 5 - aluminum, zinc, electric wiring, car Mr. Stough made trips through radiators, etc. Alaska_in h1939 and in 1941 and lxs st Dok anNouiioss be b v here on_his present JnuH“‘T Olable to handle bulky salvage at n}ak(‘ a personal survey of the €I~ | present, as he has no crane nor ritory and its airlines, to learn M‘derrick but asks that everybody changed conditions so that the tak A . g o | e in their smaller collections for Board will be able to deal With Cur= ugpic ¢imo we are all in on it.” rent air transportation problem Rt - The need of estahlishino a local office in Alaska of the Civil Aeron- S. F. Bay Area Put . On 48-Hour Basis autics Board will be investigated by J ON ALASKA TOUR TO MAKE SURVE ‘Family Allowance Boo_sL Proposed WASHINGTON, May 27.—Sena- tor Lodge, Republican, of Massa- chusetts, has introduced legislation to increase by 15 percent, because of higher living costs, the amount of the government’s contributions to the dependents of enlisted men en- titled to family allowances. These allowances now total $50 a month for a wife; plus additional amounts for each child. Of the $50, the enlisted man contributes $22 and the government $28. Mr. Stough while he is here and hearings that might be neces= sary in nnection with airline op- erations will be held { - | Mr. Stough plans to join R. P. ar s ee | Monson, Chief of Rates and Audits| jfor the CAB, in Anchorage the fir: At 8 Tonigh of the week. SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.—Em- | ployers in the San Francisco Bay industrial area have received the long-expected word they must go on a forty-eight-hour work week. They were given until June 24 to get ready. Mr. Monson is making his first trip through the Territory, exam- {ining the system of accounts the carriers are using to aid him in : | prescribing a system of accounts for| The War Manpower Commission’s al- © Juneau unit of the Alaska |carriers and to assist him in de-|Tegional office ordered hours Territorial Guards will meet to-|vising a system of reports to bellengthened upon classification of night at 8 o'clock in the Elks Hall, used by c rs to show the Board this area in “Zone 1,” which means ‘m-cordm;z to Capt. Harold Roth the results of their operations, ‘“an area of acute labor shortage,” R In a year of sugar rationing most nine billion pounds of re- fined sugar have passed to Amer- ican consumers, + Excursion |come to Alaska More Yanks in India - G United States, soldiers who just arrived at a base in India u bags with their belongings and equipment alonz u cobble-staned witer- front. Possible war theatre for them may he the China-Burma-India area against the Japanese. Japs Are'FighIing wiih U.S. Supplies; Make Use of Everything Ihgy Find TWENTY-SEVEN INDUCTED BY " ARMY LOCALLY Nine Residents of Gas- tineau Channel Among Those Entering According to a release of the Ju- aft Boerd, 27 men reported to the U. 8. Army here today for induction, Juneau and Douglas re- sidents who were to be inducted to- day are Frederick Lewis Barragar, Jensen, Kenneth M. McLaughlin; Wil- Nance Ernst Morris ‘Tons- watson and neau D s Blaine Jot T endy g, Perry gard, Roy Lafayette Louis A. Wright Prederick Barnett Reynolds of Juneau is reported by the Anchor- age Draft Board as being inducted at the same time Other Alaskans also entering the armed force Wayne William Fox, Bill Lauzlarich, and Aldo Ro- berts of Seward; Arnold Carl Am- undsen and Gpiridon Paul Chulik of Inlet; Cooney Charlie Angoon; Glenn Luther Anchorage Angle Rock Peterson Gustavus; Benjamin David Jackson of Hoonah; Ray- mond Hill of Skagway; James Wil- liams of Sitka; Darrell Bernard Pike of Palmer; and Rodney Wil- liam Hunter of Tenakee Inductees who have recently and who were ac- are starr Bush of of of cepted today Aubert of Montana; Schmaltz of Oakland cis G. Tate of Sandy, Utah; Wil- iYam Anderson Winn of Los An- geles, Calif and George James Whyte of Seattle - are Carl Calif.; Hans Fran- JOE GREEN RETURNS Joe Green, tax collector for the Treasurer's office, returned today from Haines, where he has been on business, on an Alaska Coastal Airlines plane, Stanley Richard | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 27- really wasn't any mystery about the fact that the Yanks, barging into Mateur, found among cap- tured boodle 300 pounds of Cali- fornia prunes. When you recall that only a few weeks ago, Army was itself retreating in Tunisia, it's not sur- prising that the Nazis turned up with a few American supplies But when this war is over, or maybe sooner, there will be a good story about how the Japs have fought on our supplies. A young officer recently back from the Paci- fic told of a commando raid on one of the smaller islands preceding the battle for Guadalcanal. The Mar- ines made short work of taking over, and the Japs had very little opportunity to destroy their stores. There our Imagine the landing party’s con- sternation to find case after case of soups, vegetables and meats bear- ing nationally advertised United States product labels. Later they ame upon the huge caches of oil and gasoline, all U. 8. A. products They found trucks, typewriters machine guns, rifles and ammuni- tion, all manufactured in this coun- try, an the radio station equipment smashed to bits, they were gwvinced that it too was made here. Of course, this doesn't mean that American shippers have been plying the Japs since Pearl Har- bor t stuff probably came from Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, Manila, Burma, etc. But 4t does prove that the Japs are making use of ¢ vthing they have been able to hands on The move to make our boys in the military forces the hest taken- care-of of any in the world keeps right on Rep. Jerry Voorhis, of California, bas dropped three bills in the hop- per to give the boys additional benefits when they come back. The most important of these to most of the youngsters who have had their education interrupted is a measure which would provide gran of $500 a year for up to three years to aild ex-service men (Continued on Page Three) sup- | POSITION IS GAINED AFTER 2-DAY FIGHT Fires Started o& Jap Instal- lations - Kiska Is Also Raided AMERICAN LOSSES RELATIVELY LIGHT Secrefary of War Stimson Gives Views on Gen- eral Situation WASHINGTON, May 27—Ameri- can forces, supported by a naval bombardment and attacking Army bombers and fighters, have won a foothold on the ridge south of enemy-held Chichagof Harbor of Attu TIsland after two days of hard tighting, the Navy reports. Despite ferocity of ,the fighting at Attu, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson reported the Ameri- can casualties are relatively light, | preliminary reports indicating the Army- s dosts 127 -men killed, 899 wounded and 118 missing. The Navy communique today said: ‘On May 25, a U. S. naval vessel bombarded the Japanese shore in- stallations in the Chichagof area ind started numerous fires. “Army Warhawk fighters bombed the main camp in the Kiska area ind hits were scored in the vicin- ity of the gun displacements and other installations, 'On May 26, all buildings in the Chichagof area, Attu, had been dg- stroyed and the right flank of the U. 8. Army's southern forces, op= posed by Japanese forces, dug on the ridge south of Lake Cories. “The air support was provided by Army Liberators, heavy bomb- rs and Mitchell medium bombers. They attacked the Japanese posi- tions in the Chichagof area and Army Lightning fighters assisted by afing attacks.” Two Jap Forces Discussing the situation from the | communique, Secretary Stimson said it appeared the main enemy »osition 1s at the head of Chicha- gof Harbor, and is being heavily pounded by sea, air and ground iorces. However, the communique brought out, although Stimson did not develop it, the fact that the Japanese also still have a force in the area north of Lake Nicho- las, whigh lies south of Chichagof Harbor, about three miles away. %'l‘hu two enemy positions are obvi- i“”bly isolated from each other. | So far there is no report of any {heavy American action against the |force in the area south of Lake |Cories which lies north of Lake | Nicholas, | Atta on the ridge dominating he area around the head of Chi- chagof Harbor began last Monday ind yesterday's communique re- vealed the action was carried out by combined units of both the outhern and northern forces on the island. Authorities here believe that once the high ground is taken, the Jap- anese position will entirely col- lapse The ground overlooks the area of the village of Attu, or rather where the village was located. The |village consisted of a few build~ ings including a church Attu Village Gone few days ago the Navy A re- Page Three) ‘Conunued on DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight sunset at 9:41 o'clock. Dimout ends | Dimout begins e sunset at 9:43 pm. 9002090000 Friday at