The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, M VOL. LXI., NO. 9357. ATTUISLAND CAPTURED BY YANK FORCES Bitter Battling "1 ENEMY IS KILLED OFF, WEST ISLE Tokyo Imperial Head- quarfers Admits Defeat After 20 Days' Battling Japs Are Conquered After ITALIAN AIR Body of Winn BASESRAIDED, Found Sunday KNOCKED OUT In Swan Lake Relentless Pounding Made Remains of Juneau AHOT- i s padb g P IR G G by Masses. Flying Fori- ney Discovered by : . i : . e resses, Liberators Soldier - Inquest GERMAN RADIO SETS Bk B oo v B | o ot AMERICAN FLAG IS ing in Swan Lake at Sitka; Sunday J v '”5 o Nip Delachmenfs with Ex- New Unity of Fighting i W ba | e ey ception of Snipers, Annihiliated Yon Arminin England the time. The body was about 100 French Also Declared . . ; fect off shore. There Was no ovi- fi B c mat d S TP dence indicating foul play. This 0 e onsum ae % 4 3 R ¥ 0 S | the brief radiogram received ik i 3 ¢ B by United States Marshal William (By Associated Press) | T. Mahoney late yesterday after- Almost denuded of air protection £ 2 - noon from knockout blows, the Italian ¢ £ Lol The body was badly decomposed, Peninsula and island outposts shuddered today under heavy new assaults of American Flying Fort- resses and Liberators as new found Prench unity provided a solid basi: for an Allied invasion of the con- tinent. B . INVASION POINT? point for the Allies. U.S. Leaders in London WASHI TON, May 31. — The Navy issued a one sen- fence communique today say- ing: “On May 30, the U. S, —Scheveningen, Dutch resort near The Hague, offers a possi invasion This peacetime view shows the wide beach edging the North Sea. Army forces at Atlu continued ——— THIS FORENOON ., \ociict v The Anm'fl:mx Flag flew trium- phun on Memorial Day over Attu, Direct Neanlng Bfough' '0 conquered 20 days after bitter bat- American soil re- ik tling, the first Maska, Declared Bart- caiea atter soisuve By the srisrty. l “ Add Admission of the defeat came E m feSS from the Imperial Japane: Head- quarters in a broadcast from Tokyo, then a communique later by the Navy Department at Washington, has never had quite the meaning .pnouncing . annihilation of the that it has on this occasion. ThiS, large enemy force on Attu and tell- | the greatest of all wars, is belng jng of the enemy counter-attack fought in part on our own soil. War on chichagof Harbor at dawn last has come home to us as never before gaturday, saying: and the blessings of liberty, which % for snipers, this enemy having been in the water since May 18, when Winn was last said to have been seen Representative of the FBI at| Sitka, radioed the office here late yesterday and reported that the body of Grover Winn had been The German radio times the in-) found floating in Swan Lake about | vasion, suggesting it about June; g unday afternoon and | 22. e £ i £ y ¢ # (hat there were no external bruises In. Algiers, . Generals DeGaulle o S s K P 5 2 = ating foul” play and Giraud, leaders of the Pighting| G ¥ Yok ; do 4 p French in North Africa, got to-| ke Sy S b . 3 s The gether with at least a new 7-man ks 5 3 ¢ y My Executive Committee, to give uni-| % % 3 d f fied direction to the war effort With this new unity also came o'clock valuable diamond ring, Winn, was found still on| discounting first theories worn | To us in Alaska, Memorial Day n forces, A | | WASHINGTON —Insiders believe | that if Ambassador Joe Davies, on| his Mission to Mascow, was able ; bu-n scovered and giving other to persuade Stalin to sit down for ‘ ¢ G : a confab with Roosevelt, he will w eln e(o “Ile brief particular | Miss Suzy Winn, daughter, who be a miracle worker. The Russian Premier has been has been attending Reed College L R |in Portland arrived here by steam-| The battle of Attu is won.” No further details were given out at that time, The Japanese told in a Berlin broadcast, quoting an official Jap- S. n An inquest was scheduled to be | of the defeated Axis Tuni il carried a | Skuse of the Charles W. Carter! [the body during this afternoon e, Slep Sisters” of Army |dard, Mayor of , sent radio- [life itself to a hundred and thirty of the War Department’s News Di- arrive ai the Royal Military Chapel, Welling Barracks, London, to |of the day at the Memorial Day that this might have been a motive (Continued on P‘“‘" Thes) | 6l < . held at Sitka this forenoon. | — | Col. Gen. Jurzen von Arnim, captured German Commander-in-Ch Acting on advices that'no unders | The washlngion carried him to England. He wore high-topped shoes s r stick. Photo radioed from London to New York. Mortuary in Juneau, left by plane | Sitka at 9 o'clock this ll)(lln-V Following the official radiogram perhaps did not seem s0 p;.uurulur' force has been annihiliated.” (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) to the Marshal’s office, Winn God- | . 4 important when they were not Assertion of a definite victory H H M H i E 0! EYTL] |grams to Mayor Harry acas, b y { ‘ y SR [] {o e . i L With this appreciation of Mem- viewing the war news, who declared others, stating Winn's body had; miral Harold R. Stark (left) and Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, U. |orial Day, 1943, E. L. Bartlett, Sec- ; Ad bluntly: attend memorial services for Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews, | exercises in the Elks' Hall this fore- Adna Leonard and 12 others who were killed in an iceland plane crash. | hoon. for foul play strode from an airplane which taker w available at Sitka, Don Merry - Go- Bound ke : ling and is expected to return with | sailed, are now more important than came later from €ol, Ernest Dupuy I and army commanders in chief in the European theatre, retary of Alaska, began the address Bishop | Presided over by Alfred Zenger, about as leery of conferring with| the President as John L. Lewis is of sitting down with the Wa Labor Board. In some respects, their attitude is similar. According to the diplomatic grapevine, Stalin figures that & conference with thé President means a substitute for a Second Front in France. He sees only one reason for the President of the United| States wanting to talk to him, namely to explain why a Second Front can't be started in France. And he would much rather have| the Second Front than a few hours| of conversation, delightful as it| might be. i Several weeks ago U. S. Ambas- sador Admiral Standley went to Moscow from Kuibyshev to invite Stalin to confer with FDR. But he couldn't even get to see Stalin. After cooling his heels for time, he got word through Foreign Minister Molotoff that Stalin wa too busy fighting the war. Neverthelegs, the White House i hoping that Joe Davies may be able to perform the miracle. NOTE: Last summer another| high-up U. S. visitor told Stalin| that the United States was deter- mined to start a Second Front in France. Stalin’s reply was: “Yes, if the British will let you is not interested in a Second Front in the Balkans which he feels would take too long and would enter Russia’s sphere of mlluvmv- He is lnuneqted only in a front| THE SECRETARY OF WAR | ARMY’ NAVY F!XED ‘ Secretary of War Stimson, now nearing his 76th year, is not the energetic man he used to be, but is no substitute—character. Stim- son’s character sticks out all over him—his fairness, his determina- 2ross (Continued on Page Four) miitee on LEGHORN BOMBED, FIRSTTIME Port Near Rome Left in Devastation by Fly- ing Fortresses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 31.—Almost triking at the most distant signed, on an | bombed Leghorn sm,,m,‘lO[) Flying Fortresses, objective attack nd left rain of devastation of of docks and shipyards port 160 miles north of Rome. Cairo dispatches said Americ Foggia score of smashed 80 miles east of This is the fir an Lib es on a yet as- Corps was { {1942, with a |were not to be By JACK STINNETT WASHI [ON, ] 31. — The| ‘step-sisters” of the Army are a old this month and in spite| of their phenomenal record, their| treatment at the hands of the Army at disappointment to have backed them from the start The Women's Army Auxiliary established in May, set limit of 25,000. They members of the subject to benefits, itings, .overseas ser- h applied to the men Army, a Army vice, etc., wh regular {in training Ttaly, smoky il refiner- at that some two e rators and dropped 80 # st time (Stalin| ;o0 (Livorno) has been bombed. - PAY-AS-YOU-GO WASHINGTON, May he has one quality for which there House and Senate confes pay-as-you-go |tons of bombs on'that airbase just Naples. that Leg- 31. Within a w months, the valup of the sel was so apparent that the legal limit was raised six-fold to 150,000. After nearly 11 m()nlh' less than half of that quota (or only 60,000 WAAC officers and non- commissioned personnel) are m training or in service Mere infants compa to the| WAACs are the WAVEs, SPARs and the Women's Marine Auxiliary, yet these services alread; have enlisted a far greater percen- tage of the total male personnel than the Army. The women in the naval servici however, have the ame ranks, pay, benefits, and pheres of action that the men in their respective services have Where the WAAC situation lies is file at Army headquarters here wre more than lalf a million re- qu for WAACs to supplement nd supplant the Army’s manpow- An Army officer returned from rseas told me recently that over- generals have requested assign- nearly 20,000 women *to nearly one-third fault in the ment of overseas divisions. ot T““!«n the total now in service or in nee com- | taxation training—yet only a few so far have been assigned outside the borders have settied on a $1500 exemplion of the continental United States. ary and income of all mil | WAACs are being given training! {naval personnel without distinction ___ LS ,,.‘ 'as to rank or family status. (Continued on Page Two) Corps| Lard to On, jer Saturday evening. William Winn, | son, is expected to arrive here hy| in(ym this week from Seattle. Diligent search had been made af Sitka since the disappearance of |Mr. Winn and rewards have been |raised both at Sitka and in Juneau | by various organizations. Mr. Winn went to Sitka on 17, in connection with legal m: ters, which he transacted, and pected to return to Juneau on \va 18. He was last seen about 1 o'- clock on the morning of May !£, |when he left a party of friends and ‘v\.ns returning to his hotel. e - CHINESE ~ SCORING VICTORY Troops, As;;I;d by U. S 14th Air Force, Clean Up Japanese CHUNGKING, May 31.—Chinese troops, supported by the United States Fourteenth Air Force, I damaged Japanese installations ne Ichang Yochow and have occup a number of points east of Lake | Tungting. Yuyangkwan, 35 miles south of Ichang Yochow, was captured yes- terday when 2,000 Japaness casual- ties were inflicted. This is the greatest Chinese success since the invaders started | Yangtze toward Chungking R s J BUY WAR BONDS north along the | Firsi Casuallies lrom Atiu Are Brought Oul; | Commander of the American Legion Post, the program observing the day and honoring the soldier dead of this |and other wars, was sponsored by Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, | American Legion The impressive exercises began at 11 o'clock this forenoon with open- ing remarks by Mr. Zenger, followed by the Advance of the Colors by ¢ " L] " | “The Star Spangled Banne: y 29.—(Delayed)— casualties have come out from the fog wrapped north. They have arrived at a Pacific |Northwest Army Hospital and all are agreed that fighting the Japan- |ese would not be bad if they could be seen. Eight men arrived on a steamer and all but 'threé are listed as gickness cases.” They told interviewers how they went ashore at Massacre Bay on the second wave after the initial May 11th landing without®encount- ering enemy [fire ey told of trudging along with heavy packs through mud and snow and it was cold A damp fog hid the snow covered peaks Private John Terknett, 23 land, Texas, said {he Yank s rushed to their tasks from the land- ing barges like a bunch.of colle- gians coming ot of a foothall ¥ | huddle. “I wasn't scared.” he said as he reclined on a hospital cot with a wound across his chest. “The men went in chattering and hollering a8 though having a good time after the suspense of being cramped up on ship. I got a little wet getting ashore, but only up to my knees.” Terknett brought back a purse iwnd notebook which had n {ripped by shrapnel in his pocket. Most of the men never logk at a Jap soldier tunnels |said by the Rev contri- buted to conc One of the returning men did get a good look at one vate Woodrow Wilson French, Pri- 33, of the spotted threc machine gunner : two of doing , with a got them They was close were they? for one to put a him got llln\l“ fall over the Pri- Detroit Meredith, of Springtield Eisenhower Is Decorated Henri It is with a sense shirt Giraud Grand Cross ity and pride that we 2ot a good Eisenhower, Commander. | sung by the gathering, led by est Ehle companied on the piano | by Major Victor Nutley. Prayer was Willis R. Booth. A tribute to the pioneers since the beginning of our country was made by Post Commander Zenger when he mentioned that they, too, since the first movement west, had been soldiers in their own many giving their lives to the development of their country—as had pioneers coming to Alaska, paved the way for the territory we here today “The pioneer led the way to the Alaska that is now being defended against the enemy by soldiers from every State in the Union—and from A a also,” said Mr. Zenger. “The pioneers who came to Alaska in the early days gave their lives for thei country, too, and we honor them today as we honor our soldier de Following the address of ¥ Bartlett, Mr. Ehler lead the singing of “America,” the colors were re- tired and taps were played, ending the simple and impressive exercise | which observed the day A parade to Alaska Steamship Dock flowers were cast upoh the in memory of those soldiers and sailors who had died at sea, and to Evergreen Cemetery whe final observance of the day was made with prayer by Capt. T. J Dyck, followed the program at the Elks' Hall Bartlett's Mr. Bartlett Timely Talk in his address, said of responsibil D, (Continued on Page Six) " (Continued on 'i’;ge”l:hree) R, St s 2 THOUSAND JAPS KILLED, ATTU FIGHT Premier Toj?\}isi's Shrine fo Pray for Departed Spirits of Men NEW YORK, May 31.—Premier Tojo and Navy Minister Shimada today visited Yasukuni Shrine to on the gallant fighting of the Japanese garrison at Attu and pray for the repose of the departed spirits of the men” who wiped out United States forces, the Tokyo do- mestic broadcast said. This broad- cast was picked up here "ojo “pledged strong determina- tion for consummation of the Sacred War.” The Japanese propaganda ma- chine portrayed the Attu campaign as an epic of heroism in an apparent tempt to veil the defeat. It is also reported, according to Japanese sources, that upwards of 2,000 fighting Japaness were killed, e o 000 0 0 00 DIMOUT Tines Dimont heoins tonizht at sunset at 9:48 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:03 am. Dimout begins Tueésday at sunset at 9:49 pan. L I I I Y se0evsse. e