The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” i T VOL. LXL, NO. 9355. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —— | SLASHING RAID MADE ON JAPANESE BASES Wilse Coost QRPN A 300w Ar PSP Russians Start Big Drive Against Germans ONE HUNDR[DE(laims Japan Plans io REMOVAL OF ‘ Attu Village as it Was Before Baifle HEAVY AIR THOUSAND IN. InvadeU.S.;Leadersof - DEWITT IS [ 4 ATTACKIN BIG ATTACK Forces Are Picked Now CHALLENGED »,° gt S % SOLOMONS h WASHINGTON, May 28. — The | The Committee members apologized S » % . ifi f New Forces Strike Blow on ixorean teader who said he predict- | for not heeding Haan's warning. Secrefary of War Stimson Re. , \ ; Most Te”vlvh( Assault o A ed the attack on Pearl Harbor two an has now told committee £ C b s T U i migration Committee that the Jap- Tokyo at hi residence last s 5 - ¢ x s Kuban Sedor anese plan to offer China a separ- month to honor aged Admiral Miy- Wes'em Defense i i o 9 g ; : o 2 ed by A”IeS ate peace not later than September. a chosen to lead the naval Vi e ” 2 5 E This Korean leader said Premier gainst the United States be-| WASHINGTON, *May 28.—Secre~ Tojo has already chosen officers to June and October of this,tary of War Henry L. Stimsonsaifl | head an invasion army against the yea Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt has &, United States General Hata is to head the inva- “fine successful record as Comman- The informant, Kilsoo Haan, sion Army, Haan said der of the Fourth Army, particu-| = Washington representative of the Haan said he prepared his state-'larly in handling the difficult piob- ban bridgehead. The attack Was gorean National Front Federation, ment from gist of speculative talk lem of evacuation of the Japanese made on a front several miles long ypmitted to the committee in Oc- in Japan from .the coastal’ areas.” and two millimeters deep, the DNB {gher 1941, documents and maps Admiral Miyazaki will command| The -statement was made ifi* a announces in a dispatch and broad- that coworkers gathered from Or- six percent of the Navy in the at- cast over the Berlin radio ient Committee attaches and said tack on the United States and Gen The German news agency said these showed detailed plans for the H more than 100,000 the defenses all along the Delta ' Japanese attacks on the Pacific.| picked trops stronghold were battered by the attacking force that struck with Witt to be replaced because E s ;i down but the Allied force suffered shngerous ARLBEY. PEEDATABION ¢ of differences with the War De- : 3 only slight damage ported made up of six Soviet rifle % 0 partment over the question of treat- i i ¥ AR — 7 & BERLIN, May 28.—Attacking with a force of nearly 100,000 strong, Red Army infantry and tank men have forced the Germans to fall back on the frontline sector in the Ku- STRALIA, May ir raid of the war was un- sashed northeast of New Guinea on the Jap bases late Thursday. Mitchells, Liberators and Beau fighters let loose more than 28 tons of bombs and these rained down on the airdrome dispersal g i i k ireas and supply dumps, igniting reply to questions at a conferehce : ; : 3 Fakety i hiige. fikoe. HINE - Cha el ('rms‘;, with newsmen who asked about a 244 . pre 3 g 575 ? X $ § |from Morobe, about 80 miles be- s by Representative | 4 s ; e K y b ; SR o 5 ; low Lae to Douglas Harbor above Richard Welsh, Republican of Gali- | ” el Buna fornia, who said he understood De- | 3 - oy y £) : Thirty enemy planes were struck divisions and three tank regiments. ment of the Japanese DNB said the main attack wa g -5 S i % " i3 ; g b s delivered “against the German po- B : B | Scoretary stimson wided: CHEH| : Bl Eap v : sitions between Moldavanskoje and ' g P o 2 St : R " ; ¢ i R » ; Kijevskoje in the area of Krym-| \sz\y‘l Vi -20 Sl X:I]l*m e | 4 3 " B _‘ # ANOTHER AN i GIVEN | Here is the latest offic of Attu village. That & as it was before blasted, as an- | i o}n?( xm(:;stici( are reported R % HONOLULU, May 28.—Lieut. Geh.| nounced in Thursday’s Na by the navy bombardment. There is the church and the large | b L Delos C. mmons, who helped bring | pouse used by the J f 3 ich were the last to be destroyed. pres 8 sisk a order out of chaos in taking over| the Bl alanR, SRk or e % the Hawaiian Department of the months here, o Kuban. , s R N 1] ; D i Mot Harhar %" |. “d' Housewives F OR I D Av | | S TR e ingon Atfu efR T N A N § B W ¢ % 1 the now well defended Tslands a g Mus' c’der LOOORT My T e Red B 4 P i for a new assignment after 7 Arers qEiiiio . wies, 150000 : Rt ' 3 Lieut. Gen, Emmons supervised | B RED For Two Days Record Is Established by .“dp-,m'_ ot “““‘ 5 i ;‘ [“ : throwing up new defenses costing | KRESTA Jo' 'Am : d and guns, is in an all-out effort to 4 : 5 i hundreds of millions of dollars, | H — Housewives must order to- n erican an: drive to the Kerch Strait, the Ger- . : : — . : 5 14 ¢ g ol B e b B T N . Emmons will be succeeded by : y worrow for a two-day holiday, British Act nokx\-&dmu:: “;il:ic.s‘ :?sml{wj-u b::- Wil g . s ! Maj. Gen. Robert Richardson , N SR Chichagof Sunday and Monday, as stores crion i Bl eI Have heen Speculation is immediately raised < N A, o Harbor are closing in observance of e wiped ‘out. .- that he might go to San Francisco| 2 2 Q,[/Kg/,\ s B Memorial Day which falls on UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR Tha-tuugsian, pod Sepmmmque Commander of the Western De- | = A AN arana Boy | g4y but the next day is |FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN was silent today on the German 2 NS A observed " this yes NGLAND, May 28.—American and reports. fense in command of the Fourth @, Army. Asked about this, Emmons 7 ¢ 2 - British heavy bombers established ! y said he is unable to announce his Z Ry v record for a single day’s bag by v 3 | £ ; . n “ 7 4 $ia N destroying T4 C I JONN HALL COMPLET! | % : 7 new post but “there would not be - ying ierman planes on BUSINESS IN SITKA 4 4 Z a more pleasant place to serve” A 7 [May 21 during unescorted raids on Returning this week from a de- * ® | than San Francisco. X Massacre PT. submarine construction yards at partmental business trip to Sitka 4 The Fourth Army Command is| Bay | mfx.dun and Wilhelmshaven was John Hall, public health en-| ; i E ' now commanded by Lieut. Gen.| | This joint action of the record gineer with the Territorial Depart- 1 i T i John L. DeWitt, | CHUNIKSAK PT. THEODORE bag brought to a total of 297 planes ment of Health. | Emmons has received ‘the Dis-| : T nown to have been destroyed in |tinguished Service Medal from Ad-| Nevidiskov eight raids embraced at 16 targets. - I " . B mical Chester Nimitz for out- y 0 5 The previous day’s record for May The Washington o i it | STATUTE MILES | - o Pl | - o 3 NO COMMENT BY DeWITT | Arrows ate . 8. forces landed on Attu Island in their L 3 MGH’Y = GO % Round 1 4 5 3 ‘.ZHSAS.‘\:R[:‘:TEISL?:;;/“f:“xl:;.:i \1:\') i al ;.um-kl. Main landings, the Navy said, we; ‘ effected at Holtz ‘Senafe' H ouse Confe[ees (arl Zeiss By DREW PEARSON ; 9 T ; comment on reports he is to be re-| . Break Deadlock Make (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) | 2 lieved of his command as Weslern ona)| Chairmen of the 48 delegations attending the United Nations Food \U!:""_‘-*" Commander (of the Fourth - | Re(ommenda“ons p'anl Ge's WASHINGTON. — Congressional | (e oo ¢ Hot Springs, Va., are shown at the first meeting of the | A ap nlpers ay a leaders marveled at Winston = 3 i | S MRS 5 Churchill's frankness when they | Exosutive Commtiies, WASHINGTON, May 28.—Break MOt SRR BRI { : 3 ag [ met with him in a closed-door ses-( — 2 i ngs . ing a seven-day deadlock, the Sen- i i i ! | late and House conferees late yes- sion after his historic speech in | | ‘ the House of Representatives. At | terday agreed to a compromise on the start he said with a grin: |the pay-as-you-go tax plan which — e star : L e i o) " THREATENED Killedby U.S.T s ot UL 5 % | Speedy Mosquito Bombers e i o o . Sem Down 0" A"u das ’ e y s roops“él'fli‘f“J,"’.,.‘.fi‘.i,.l“‘“'.1;,..,,,,]..,“ w2 Penelrate Heavy Nazi better. If it’s within my power, I'll " leffective against wages and salaries . ancs:wer memén took him at his H BY NIPPONSI By WILLIAM L. WORI {on the high ground on top, (0 bat-}y; guly 1, | Ddenses at nght < o orpe 0 a e Ig e | Associated Press War tle there presently. Centering our! mpig will bring taxpayers to the| et whrd, beppersa i wid qucstiuns! battle line, it now consists of a cyrrent basis of ]lt':(‘l']lL still to| LONDON, May 28.—Speedy Mos- for mpre-than §n baur. Some ¢ of [ half moon of patrols closing In ON | e pavable over a two-year period|quito bombers darted 500 miles last Churchills yeplies, invalved highly T v — Concentrations of Formid" MASSACRE BAY, Attu ‘Isiana, the fop of Chichagof, with a small with the added 1944 and 1945 taxes.|night and pentrated the heavy Nazi confidential military information| RS e e tor wake” he said, as he reached SSRGS aved)_Fighting | in Portion of the half moon also eli-| " Chairman Doughton of the House|defenses to homb the world famed and cannot be repeated. However, By EUGENE BU m:s down and pointed to a crack be- able For(es of Japan. L o etican troops at Mas. €aged in trying to hold the Japa-'conferees announced the compro-|Carl Zeiss Instrument Works and he answered all questions straight Atpocialod Fiimy War tween the plywood floor that ran {sacre Bay and Holtz Bay made pa- Nese in the Sarana area. These mige |other targets in the central Ger- o b the length of the quonset hut ese Are Repof'ed ltrol contacts on high passes be-May escape over the hills to join| yy 5 pelieved the compromise will|{man city of Jena ome HEROHG IRgag et ! A “The. wake was just as straight 5 | (ween the two points and haye (e main enemy force in a fiialipe adopted by the Semate and| Two formations of bombers much in the press that it is N0l ,p pap 5L AND BASE, May 13./as that,” he said. CHUNGKING, May 28 The[driven the Japanese back to the|Stand. Some may already have done pouge next week |pressed home the attack from be- :;i:;“txhpdprobnt:lx?tyseo:rpimgmul re. | —(Delayed)—An alert Catalina pa-| The plane dropped smoke flares ;qi.,ec6 have concentrated a for-|heads of Chichagof Harbor p: 50, there ha been little action 1, winding up the work on the low 200 feet under difficult condi~ 1 T M A it wyan op- | (TOLHORD- OTCR BDokiad 4 AR 1072 along the course from the point of'yigapte infantry, tank and air| where the batiie is still continuing, | TSt a Bay proper pay-as-you-go tax system, the con- |tions. bz {stic ‘about the‘ oenect of ‘]m pedo wake off Attu, the second the torpedo’s origin, clearly visible gorce along the upper Yangtze and! Meantime, American guns bom- Massacre Bay Lroops the past tWo ferees recommended additional re- Preliminary reports, as announced :::::,, Shrin, b i anliov of the landing of forces at At- because of oil slick, Jolly added. |,perations are alveady well under{bard Chichagof Harbor pass and %a¥5 have vital kg ”"V'I"' lief to smaller taxpayers with the by the Air Ministry, stated that o it GnBhakla? i, dlesenr. | 7L The craw localed the dIDSIGH A destroyer steamed out full tilt yuy “apparently pointed to Chung-|{bombers drop tons of explosives. | oD Which nated our vlley provision that persons with abate-(both of the main factories of the I attact ‘(hat TkISE TR ‘ot ot| PRl /and marked. it witl stHoke and after taking ~soundings it g e Jopancse have concentraled|SdVence and sre now proStSMing.ment on this years up. to $§077{mstupant works wErs hit by the the war would have on G(‘l_l“u“y:llfll‘(’h and called destroy! whicn dm_pncd six depth charg after! qhey will have to open the great|there, meeting troops from two at- rhrough a welter of fu-li 1"“1 ~" get a flat $50 credit having to!bombers. and Japan threw depth charges at midnight which large slicks appeare river itself as a supply route as|tack points. They are not yet there h'v. a week of naval .uuI ‘u)u M;.n- pay only the difference, the idea Three Mosquitos were lost, two of N nan Giber |things b woula|They: (were effective and as the| Red-headed Murphy interrupted. |y, a5 Tehang, the Chinese mili-|in great numbers, but the few Jap-|iire which has reducec | the Jap|peing to prevent too much dis- which were seen to collide in the » sollapse of Ttalian armies|damaged sub surfaced it was blast- But how those depth charges Ift-|yapry gpokesman said. |anese there in the top pass argue|BUn bositions and ousted snipers. |crimination between those, for|air during difficult and confusing CAUND! I COUEIE e B ed the ocean. The whole damn sea & : 5 Generally speak the most des- | example, who owe just under $50 maneuvers for bombing sit in other areas, such as Russia and ed to bits ot ¢4| TIchang is 1,000 miles from the With them o e F 0 ¢ positions. : d the Prime Minister] Commander Lieut. Jess Jolly, of fam¢ uP: then another destroyer|yoyoizers mouth and 462 miles| Fighting has virtually ceased on|Perate Nipponese TessEEA and those who owe just above $50 FrpII00 A1) ! ; care along and dropped four more . : ; N ased On| 4s far has been on the lower i revealed that Italy had around|Turlock, Calif., and his co-pilot, below Chungking as the river winde.|the Holtz Bay side, but heavy ar reveal 1% i . depth charges. T saw a lot of fish 4 or isitillery i § reaches, and on the highlands above ® e ® o o o o o 120,000 troops in the Balkans alone. Lieut. (j.g) John Murphy of Ja- i bel | The mnorth side of the river is'tillery action continues on this sid s R ¥ ADS GUILTY > maica, New York, told the story “x); 'l”L‘)’"“" ) ]“‘“‘,_ bellies. UP.|exposed to attack by mobile Chin-|Meanwhile the Americans have|Méssacre Bay, G Margaret Kararder was arrested DIMOUT TIMES : about three feet long. s A Yl Here the snipers have sts .| Margs " ’ " @ 5 C. Ep | today, less than 12 hours after it A ese units, it is said. crossed the top pass leading down o 7 ° 5 i ' o WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED it Jolly added: “We circled two o o Pemere they v |t Killed. The batteries fired unti vesterday by the Marshal's office UP EONDE . half & mile due wes; DO, then were ordered 10 an-|jouN PISENBURGH e ey, e e el . | rilned on the Holtz Bay slds, while and pleaed gullty 1 fhe clitigo of The Prime Minister prompted e were hall a mile due wes L o . ey " |{he Jap commander made one more being drunk ‘and disorderly. She g A i R .. other sector, after which plane AVES : 3 > 288 AFe quite a chuckle when someone in-{of a battleship standing off Attu"| oo o We Meyer j LEAVES HOSPI \L} A mall lm\l_? of Japanese are now o e his troops and Was given 60 days in the Federal YU John Eisenburgh, surgical patient|partially contained in the Sarana S5 id Murphy, when Jol saw the 8 quired about the hope expressed, o took up the patrol in his Catalina' retired when the position became |Jail Dimout i s: rence torpedo waike headed for the battle- at St. Ann's Hospital, was dis-|ares, roughly speaking, and are|™ 5 : ot wins Saturday at in his speech for a conference % | e o] sunset at 9:45 pm. . ship, ___lcharged yesterday and returned|coming up from Sarana Bay, Mas e (Continued on Page Four) “It looked like an outboard mo- (Continued on Page Five) home. p Jsacre Bay and Chichago!l to meet (Continued on Page Five) | BUY WAR BONDS ® ® 0 00000 Correspondent Dimout begins tonight at sunset at ©:47% o'clock. 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