The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9356. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — ] BREAKING UP ENEMY FORCE ON ATTU ISLE Japanese At Lae Showered By A Allied RAIDS MADE ONTWODAYS AT NIP BASE Nearly 19 Tons Dropped ! Yesterday-28 Tons on Thursday ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, May 29—Defying ex: tremely bad weather, Allied bomb: ers followed up Thursday's heavy raid on Lae, New Guinea, by drop- ping nearly 19 tons of bombs on Friday. Twenty-eight tons were dropped Thursday. The airdrome base at Wewak was also in the attack. The Japanese unsuccessfully sent eight bombers and six Zeros against the Allied fleet but damages were slight on either side. Fires were started at Lae. For several months, heretofore, Allied bombers have given Lae only passing attention, striking frequent- ly but never in any force compar- | able to try bigger raids on Rabaul, New Britain. The obvious reason for the raids for the past two days is that the Japanese have succeeded in getting | in reinforcements since the battle | of the Bismarck Sea in March dur- ing which Allied bombers destroyed | an entire twenty-two-ship convoy | of men and supplies bound for Lae. At that time, the Lae garrison’s | supplies were believed to be getting extremely thin. | The Washlngton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) i 1 WASHINGTON. — The President soon will announce the resignation of another topnotch official of the War Production Board. He is Wen- dell Lund, hard-hitting chief of the WPB’s Labor Production Di- vision. Lund, former head of the Michigan AFL State Federation, is| stepping out voluntarily for two reasons. First, he wants to make way for equal representation of both the AFL and the CIO in ‘the WPB labor setyp, which would enhance its prestige with the rank and file of organized war plant workers. Lund was very frank about this in discussing plans with WPBoss Donald Nelson. “My job here has been accom- plished,” he told Nelson. “I have set up an organization that is func- tioning as well as could be expect- ed, but we have come to the point where we need to have both the major labor organizations of the country represented in my division, on equal footing, in order to pro- mote greater confidence of the ma- jority of American workmen in the WPB.” Lund recommended that the La- bor Production Division be placed under two well-known labor lead- ers, from AFL and CIO unions, both with the title of WPB vice chair- men. He said that discussions with numerous workmen during a tour of war plants had convinced him such a step was necessary. Nelson at first wouldn’t hear of Lund’s stepping out, but when the Labor Production director refused to change his mind, the WPB chair- man agreed to approve the reor- ganization plan, would remain on as one of the two co-directors. This also ran into a flat refusal from Lund. | NO GUARANTEED MINIMI WAGE The Labor Production co-chiefs will have equal standing and will rank as WPB vice-chairmen direct- ly under Planner Charles Wilson, as Lund recommended. However, the young labor official failed to tell Nelson gt 8. ot ol A el : (Continued on Page Four) IN | sury E Chosen Rose RoseQueen AI.ASKA WAGE | ;3BOOSI ORDER IS RESCINDED | A ; {Jurisdiction Rdling Is Now | Made by National ¢ N L Labor Board After rate TTLE, May 29.-- a blanket wage on Government is Alaska, the Regional War Labor Board has been forced |to 1 ind the action when the | National Labor Board declared it | s without jurisdiction The original action was taken on | April 26 at the request of represen- | tatives of the Wages and Hours Di- | vision, Department of Labor. The War Manpower Commission and National Labor Board ruled that because construction jobs were ; |being financed by the Government, il wage disputes must be left to |the Wage Adjustment Board of the | Department of Labor. All pay rais- es granted must be revoked by June 24. estab- SE lishing workers tion jobs - - LIST OF DRAFT BOARDIS GIVEN Draft Board classifications releas- SMILING ROYALLY — and premly. you'll agree—Kathleen Turner ac~ | cepts enthronement at Cypress 1 Gardens, Fla,, after being selected | GROVER (. WINN for | construc- | BUILDING NEW WESTERN ALEUTIAN BASE_with the busy harbor in the background, two members of Amers ican forces which landed on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians are hard at work. New advance base mak=s bombing Jap invaders easier. Germany, Halv Bombarded Until Utler Defeat, Declares Eden fo Be PORTSMOUTH Anthony England, May British Secre- tary of Foreign Affairs, at a lunch- eon of the Wings for Victory, said Germany and Italy will be bombed ‘until utter defeat of the Nazi and Fascist regimes 29 | for.” Eden said we have not that it was Benito Mussolini Food Subsidy lssues | (ause Headaches; Just and all they stand| | turn forgotten | Italy to positive who | ing,” Queen of Hoses. (lmcruatmnal) IREASURY S ET‘WI today show the followin 1-A--Gildo Angelo Battello, George ‘I)U\l;:lns Benson, Karvan Axtel Chase (waiting physical), Andrew To Applv NEW‘Junca Johnnie (waiting physical) Varnon John Joyer, Edwin Kaako u\\am.u., physical), Jacob Kochutim | (waiting physical), Harry Guy Ma pAv Go IAXESI\‘&II Jr., Malcolm Arnold Moe, Yer: | enty Philemonoff (waiting physical), |John Vance Ritter, Holly Olivers | Sanders, Jacob Sorri (H) | e i | 1-C—Fred Charles Sharp, Jr. | WASHINGTON, - May 29 T“‘“" 2-B—Thomas Arthur Colter, Oliv officials disclosed that prelim-| “o. w10 Gowell, Jr., Frank Mar inary arrangements had been com- |Gt SRR S o pleted for putting into effect July| "5 o "y' i Alpert Hudson, Man- 1 the withholding tax of 20 percent |, .| Gomes Isturis, Carl Brussman above exemptions provided for by | oi.o) the new pay-as-you-earn tax bi 4-F—Arthur Willlam Hedman (H), Democratic leaders in _cungre&\Jm\“ Simpson MacKinnon, Jr. generally expressed the belief that, | i lif the President vetoes the bill, it| probasty will be mpossivie o enact|NO TRACE YET OF any kind of tax legislation this year. The President is reported to be dissatisfied with the 75 percent for- giveness feature. Conferees Meet Again Meanwhile house and senate conferees, who adopted the 75 per- cent forgiveness provision as the only way of breaking a deadlock, met and put the finishing touches on the compromise measure. They | agreed specifically to the following forgiveness formula: 1.—Taxpayers whose taxes for 1942 or 1943, whichever is lower, i $66.67 or less will be forgiven ex- actly $50. | 2.—Taxpayers whose tax for 1942 | or 1943, whichever is lower, is mor Readion After Another .. provided Lund|* Nelson and Production |- - 19,000 POUNDS HALIBUT SOLD Halibut was sold at the Juneau| Cold Storage this morning for 1 and 15% cents a pound. The Diana sold 5000 pounds of | fish to Booth Fisheries and the Avona sold 14,000 pounds to the Nqu England Pish Company | An intensified search is still on| for City Magistrate Grover Winn, who disappeared at Sitka, May 18. |No clues as to his whereabouts have | vet been found | MA ( H I NISTS According to a wire from the Deputy Marshal's office there, re- ward money amounting to $100 h as | been offered by local citizens. L. ARE LEAVING than $66.67, w rgive r WASHINGTON, May 29. — The cent of the :ilxb‘;l)‘l‘mbl;emlo’\’:e;mof; Because he likes to hunt and fish|yternational Association of Ma- these years. and always wanted.to come to Al-|cninjsts, with a reputed member- 3—In case the taxpayer s re-|2kd Ray Harrington left his jobiship of well over 500,000, announces -eiving fat war profits or mwmm‘“m the Harris Trust and Savings windfalls.” he will be forgiven 10| B0k in Chicago o come to Juneau| percent of the tax at 1942 rates and | 'O P¢ @ traflic representative In the »xemptions on what he earned m‘local Pan American Airways office. ‘ 1937, 1938, 1939 or 1940 plus $820,000.| Harrington is a graduate’ of the This formula has been,worked out | UPIYersity of Illinois, was on the mainly 1 a view of pxe»emmg‘u"m‘lrsmg besbil ', @amn. that| » large amount of tax forgiveness|\oured the norfiwest in 1923 and, on war profits, and to enable tax-| mads s trip tg the‘grient. A pitch-| payers to shift their income tax|Sf he went from College to the| payments, in point of time, nom:clncinnati Reds and was with them | \ year behind to a current basis, | UNH! he injured his arm in a fif- he internal revenue bureau, it|'cCR inning game. was learned, is ready to print and |, MFS Harrington is with her mo- send out about one hundred i\ndl'hcr iy Waukegan; Jll, and hopes million exemption certfficates |\ D€ able to join her husband here ctween 2,500,000 and three mil- | ‘PlS summer. ‘ion emplo, soon as it is R known definitely whether the com- promise tax bill will become law. The tax will be 20 percent of all gross wages or salaries over and| above exemption of $24 a week for married persons, $12 a week for ingle persons and $6 a week for »ach dependent. Employers would stop deducting the present 5 per- “victory tax” on July 1. S e - ‘The first stripping of cork from young trees takes place they are 15 to 20 years of when | | age J | Company, 31 juris- it is quitting the AFL on May because of the long starding |dictional fight involved chiefly wit |William Hutcheson’s Carper Union The Machinists contend the C: |penters’ Union is “muscling” in |its field with the sanction of |AFL Lxct.umc Council ONE BLOCI: AT OAKLAND FIRE SWEPT May 29 A an entire block threaten= and AT~ on he OAKLAND, Calif. 6-alarm fire swept vesterday and for a time ed the huge Moore Drydock | Shipyar: The fire destroyed the lumber mill of the Western Paper and Box Grandma Baking Com- pany and warehouse at Fifth and Magnolia streets, ked Adoiph Hitler for the privil- ege of sharing in London bombing “We did not start this thing and we will bombard to the bitter end. Goering gloated over the destruc- tion of Warsaw and Rotterdam and he also will suffer. It is now our to bombard Germany and| defeat and crush- said Eden MISSISSIPPI CREEPS BACK 70 0LD BED {Flood Waters Slowly Re- ceding - Tribufaries Also Dropping (By Associated Press) Mississippi River, crested |with an alltime record of 424 feet {at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has |begun creeping slowly back into its bed and the tributaries are al- WASHINGTON, 1 9. — The S0_receding. Office of Price Administration, in! Below Cape Girardeau the river cubsidizing processors of meat, but- | {l0Ws between strong levees that ter and coffec, is like the boy wad- have easily held the flood waters. ing hestitantly into cold water. It's' The water, after reaching with- waitir for reaction before taking P six inches of the top of the con- ancther step. crete seawall at McClure, Illinois, is receding. For time it looked is a tangled jig0 the town be entirely situation, which could wiped out. face of the harrled! Aymy Engineers said some of the and Department of Africul-|figoded land will not be tillable for another month at least - further By JOHN GROVER a Behind the would political blow up in the OPA ture. Subsidies are anathema to !arm' bloc members. What they want higher farm prices, and no nnn- * BY BILBO ON LEGISLATION been given the gravy | and the farmer ubsidie: be away haven't got enough| to spot a vest To bolster this contention !hc\v‘ say that industrial labor—currently moaning about high food prices— is actually paying a smaller fraction’| of its income for food than at any time in recent history In other words, the farm hlo( :fl?:il‘:lcn‘;‘.}.xx prioce nave been ' Will Conduct One-Man Fili- booste ! he war, but says they buster on Anfi-Poll baven't zoomed nearly so fast as Tax Bill wages. Cold turkey figures prepared by the Bureau of Agriculture Econ- omics bear out their argument. WASHINGTON, May 29.—United States Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Democrat of Mississippi, announces When subsidies were brought out and dusted off a while back as a that he is ready to conduct an 18 months one-man filibuster, of nec- solution to spiraling prices, Con- gress slapped the subsidy idea down in short order. Farm members wanted copper-. rLes ) & vqudlvu with industrial wage in- it m,‘d Nhap v BMSALIR which can be used for a V¢ Senate vardstick after the war, too. They fear the subsidy idea would getythe old heave-ho once the armistice is Bilbo helped to talk death a similar House measure the last session The present |ends January to at sion 194 of Congress (Continued on Page Six) Many-Fronf Invasion | Believed fo Be Plan As Next Move in War = | States Bombs ' FISH HOOK RIDGENOW TAKENOVER U. S. Troops Make Import- ant Capture-Enemy in Mountamous Area TON, MJV 29 —United have captured Fish an important Jap WASHING troops Hook Ridge, | stronghold on Attu Island, the Navy | reported this Saturday morning and | the main force on the island is now contained in the mountainous area only three to four miles square. The conquest of Fish Hook Ridge, | flanking the main remaining Jap- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 20 is a composite of capital | predictions and plain guesses two major issues The invasion of Europe ly will take place on merz than one front. and President Roose- velt’s threat that the’ Allied Na- tions would attack from Norway to| the farthest islands of the Aegean | wasn't idle chatter | In the first place, “cleaning up| the Mediterranean” means knock- ing out all the Axis-held islands from Rhodes and Crete to Gibral- tar. To neglect the North Sea,| | Channel, and Bay of Biscay coasts | Here opinion, on actual- | unese-held area, | ficers here as contributing security fof the Chichagof | Chichagot Harbor. is described by of- to the northeastern part of the Peninsula of Attu into the Chicha- gof ‘Harbor area The Navy communique said th Jape positions on Fish Hook Ridg bove the cloud lines and the an soldiers had to scale 60- degree ridges in the fact of strong enemy fire to reach them The communique said furthe¢ Little Japanese activity is reported in the Khlebnikod area except only an enemy -position on a ridge at | the east end of Lake Corifes. Other island seem devold Air operations the activity. parts of »{ enemy !are hampered by bad weather.” A naval communique yesterday said the United States troops have ittacked the third main Japanese position south of Lake Cories on Attu and indications are the en- tire enemy force is being rapidly broken up and into very small re- sistance points. “We have gained several impor- tant points along the ridge south corridor amid continving hard hand - to - hand | fighting and have also penetrated part of Fish Hook Ridge south cf Our troops are | effectively supported by Liberators, Mitchell medium Lightning fighters The communique also reported three aerial attacks on Kiska and numerous hits were observed on the main Japanese camp area and run- bombers and ' way on May 26. - would allow the Axis to concen- trate their forces. Feints probably | will be made in several places, with| the main forces going in at most| L vital points. That is what the Uni- ted Nations did in the final drive in Tunisia Some commentators here now are ! positive that Italy won't be the point of main concentration. Italy, they contend, is virtually .out of (By Associated Press) would present more problems than| Large forces of Russian and Ger- invasions from the coasts. If these!man planes are continuing aerial armchair strategists are right, Italy | fencing with increased intensity may be merely by-passed when lh(.“ Northeast of Novorossisk tank- big drive comes. One or two well-jled infantry forces clashed with the the war now, and if that nation! were occupied, attacking France establisned bridgeheads on the con- Germans in sharp fighting, accord- through the Maritime Alps or Ger- many through the Brenner Pass tinent probably would result, they| argue, in the unconditional sur- render of Italy without a shot bhe- ing fired The coal called on threatened results (1) They will cause vigorous leg- islation against strikes in war in- dustries; (2) They will bring about either a new War Labor Board en- tirely, or the present one will be much strengthened by authority to circumvent the Little Steel 15 per- cent wage scale increases in spec- ial ¢ (3) They will force OPA positive action holding price cellings in heavy in- areas and in seeing that areas get plenty of energy- vreducing foods; and (4) in spite of any general unpopularity that accrues to United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis, he will come out of this with a stronger grip on labor than he has ever had since he was the czar of CIO. strikes, those and off and will have those four still prime take down dustry those to wis has abilizer angled WLB, Economic James F. Byrnes and (Continued on Page Six) ‘e o 000 00 ing to a Berlin radio, but no results are given One hundred and German planes are have been downed ninety-seven reported to in three days already of heavy air fighting. The Red Star's correspondent said the Germans seem to be stag- ing local battles around the Kuban bridgehead to stave off Russian at- tacks. The Moscow radio says the Ger- man losses are heavy and the Ber- lin broudcast said the Russians have lost heavily D BUY WAR BONDS DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins wnl,lht at sunset at 9:45 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 4:04 am. Dimout begins Sunday at sunset at 9:46 p.m. Dimout ends Monday at sun- rise at 4:05 am. Dimout begins Monday sunset at 9:48 p.m. at at “ee0evsvscevoscs