The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL. NO. 9359. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, YANKS CONTINUE MOPPING Big Italian Island Base Bomb SHELLING OF Davies Wings Over Alaska ‘og--Dattle with PANTELLERIA On His Flight 1S REPORTED e | SEATTLE. June 2 Craft of Brifish Navy Make | Do, "1, e, 0 Seetiiont Two AHacks Within - | e saerday ot 48 Hours jlux'nnon by Major Frank Williams, /Commanding the Air Transport | Control Detachment here. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| The former Ambassador to Rus- NORTH AFRICA, June 2-—British|sia declined to be interviewed but warships, in a second bombard- announced through the Military: ment of Pantelleria in less than|“I am flying to Washington immed- 48 hours, yesterday heavily shelled |lately to report to the Commander- — Joseph 1ly yesterday the harbor area, barracks and bat-|In-Chief and President, Franklin teries of the Italian island. | ; U. S. Flying Fortresses joined also | battered island while other Ameri- can attacks were made on the is-| lands of Sicily and Sardinia. | The British warships blasted Pan- | OF OU I N TS | telleria Sunday night then “‘“i turned yesterday afternoon, the Al- lied * communique announ to | carry out heavy shelling without | loss although some retaliatory fire| was encountered from the shore. | The Italian fleet, dispersed along the Italian west coast, appeared powerless to intervene against the British Navy. No enemy air attacks were made against the warships. It is also reported the Italian 'Dr. Allan Roy Defoe Pass- | es Away Suddenly in | (anadian Hospital tContinuea on cage Two) e % e NORTH BAY, Ontario, June 2. Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe, former physi- |cian of the Dionné quintuplets, died The Washington |teday in a hospital here. He passed Merry ¢ Go e Round laway at 11 a. m. five minutes after being admitted to the hospital. By DREW PEARSON Allan Roy Dafoe was an obscure country doctor in sparcely settled (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) | northern Ontario, Canada, until | May 28, 1934, when he sprang into fame over night by bringing the |Dionne quintuplets into the world. For 27 years before that he had worked along the frontier, unhon- lored and unsung, bringing ordinary | |babies to life, mending the torn| |bodies of injured lumbermen, und} It was the reference to the dual|fighting north country blizzards to| position of Roosevelt as both lhe:mmisv.er the average ills of men!' President of the United States and|and women and children. Commander-in-Chief. Political ad-| At 4 o'clock in the morning of visers detect in this the seeds for|that eventful May day, he was| the 4th term campaign, if there|awakened at his home in Callender“ is one. What Churchill said was: |by a vigorous pounding on his front | “The wisdom of the founders of| door. It was Oliva Dionne, the the American Constitution led them |father of the quints. The doctor; to associate the office of Comman-|had attended Mrs. Dionne at the| der-in-Chief with that of the Presi-|birth of three of her five previous| dency of the United States. In this| Children, and knew that another they were following the precedents |Paby was expected, but not so soon.| which were successful in the case| SO he hurried to the humble| home, where he of George Washington. | Dionne e found | “It is remarkable that, after everything in confusion in the dim o more than 150 years, this combina- | 8ht. TWo babies already Had been : " e born prematurely and no arrange-!| tion of political and military au- 9 Ehesth hak hef: fobnll Tiacess ry | ents for their advent had been e g Mg 1Y | made. The father disappeared but not only in the United States but| s 8 V . ltwo midwives were in the case of Marshal Stalin in| Russia and of Generalissimo Chi- ang Kai-shek in China.” WASHINGTON .--Naturally Harry Hopkins and the President both read over the Churchill speech in advance, and one particular por- tion, according to insiders, bears the stamp of Hopkins. rivals and building a fire. 1CKES MAKES from yovie! ' CHARGES IN Land Boundfo Washinglon (OAL STRIKE_‘“ D. Roosevelt.” The announcement Davies' p urday, crossed Siberi Nome on Monday and early yesterday. An earlier dis- | patch from Fairbanks said Davies was also there on Monday Davies took a secret message to| Stalin Moscow Declares Walkout Is Di- rectly Against Gov- ernmentof U.S. BULLETIN Washingten, June 2.—The War Lapor Board has checked the coal mine walkout back to President Roo- sevelt for such action as he deems appropriate and told the disputing parties to stop con- tract negotiations as far as the Board is concerned. further said ane left Moscow last Sat-| arrived at rrived here in from Roosevelt and is now returning to Washing- ton with Stalin’s secret reply to the United' States President WASHINGTON, June 2. — A | walk of half a million miners ELKS RITUAL FOR lof the United States while the | Who is to blame for the .ihut-f down and how to get going again | Services Set for 2 P. M.—|u aucstions. ‘ J. A. Hellenthal Isfo Give Eulogy Harold L. Ickes, Fuel Administra- |tor, charges the “strike is against| the Government.” | Ickes accuses a “few powerful| | operators” with deliberately oppos- | ing a compromise and forcing the | miners out. He has demanded both | sides resume deliberations und» reach an agreement. - The operators say the miners are “adament” in their demands for a $2 a day increase John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, replies the |miners offered to stay at work on a lemporary compromise of settling | portal raise of $1.50 a day increase. - Mayor Harry I. Lucas has requested that i possible all business houses close tomorrow afternoon between 2 and clock during the funeral ices for Grover C. Winn, City Magistrate and for years a member of the Juneau School Board. man and longtime resident, are| JAP AIIACK ON { will honor the wellknown member Bar Association of which Mr. Winn |enemy's fifth futile attack on the bers. |lieved to have been launched from T B11; 2 Shi ek, J. F. Mullen llen attuc fog . Wes - 0 ‘ABRAS B4t - Porest Simpkins, R. E. Robertson, H. L‘du'cctly Interment will be in the family| followed the sound of the motor a 3, 1886, in Wiota, Wisconsin, and dropped. MEMBER " PRICE TEN CENIS UP ATTU JAPS PRSI ENS SOMIRSS R rships ed By Wa making upl wrappings hurriedly for the new ar-| Then Churchill proceeded to em-| phasize that total war today re-| quired coordination by the chief of| government and the chief of the Six Lives in Danger He rolled up his sleeves and soon three other babies, crying feebly,| were born. The mother’s life was in| immediate danger and he was| | Funeral services for Grover <FU'I"lE FIF]‘H Winn, active Juneau professional| set for tomorrow, Thursday, at 2| pm. in the Elks Hall, when the| full ritualistic services of the Elks| COAS'I' REVEA[ED John Walmer, Acting Exalted, Ruler, will preside, and J. A. Hel-| PORT ORFORD, Oregon, June lenthal, representing the Juneau|2.—The public today learned of the was an active associate, will givel West Coast, a sneak incendiary the eulogy. Mrs. Crystal Snow|raid of a lone plane, more than Jenne will sing two vocal num-|¢ight months ago. The plane is be- s Named as active pallbearers are|" ’I“]lup ”l‘fb ]ars'lt .Septefnber 28. Henry Messerschmidt, H. I. Lucas,| The Plane flew over the coast L region early in the morning. The Charles Waynor and Walter ShArPe. geryice ~Lookout was unable to PRAERIYY D 8%l see the ship although it droned by his tower on a m - Faulkner, Dr. G. F. Freeburger,|iain near hege. §mun Ben Leaming and Henry Roden. | mpe Tookout:! Eauren ' Gfebner, plot of Evergreen Cemetery. ‘Alhe plane moved northeastward Early Juneau Graduate jand heard the blast and saw the Grover Winn was born January|flash as if a bomb had been jcame with his parents and broth- ers, John and Milt, to Alaska in | September, 1893. He attended school in Juneau and was one of the two tirst high school graduates. As a student at the University of Wash- ington, Winn was a member of | Giebner immediately made a re- port to Forest Headquarters and {then watched for a fire. When the fog lifted, two hours later, he spotted the fire in a heavily tim- bered canyon three miles from the tower lookout. and forest fire fight- Army and Navy all under one head.| weighed down by the tremendous! Interesting fact is that this dove- | responsibilities: of saving her life| tails with the strategy already de-|and keeping the spark of life alivei vised by high-up political advism’s;m the five newly born. | of the President, that in any 4th| “I didn't see how all of the| term campaign it should be ham- babies could possibly live,” he re-| mered home that Roosevelt is the(lated later, “so I baptized each of Commander-in-Chief and that the them separately"—Yvonne, Emilie,| job of Commander-in-Chief must|Annette, Cecile and Marie. A Pro- not be changed in war time. i(e.\lam. he frequently did this for| It is also proposed that the Roman Catholic babies, whose lives President open no campaign head-|Were in danger, using the Latin{ quarters and make almost no|form of the rite. i speeches. All this, of cour is de-. Constantly, it seemed as if the| A tiny infants were about to die.| pendent upon whether or mnot hef 'V 4 runs for a 4th term—which he will| B2 wrapped them in the only cov-| not decide until June, 1944, ioing avallsvie-vamuanie: of g Anyway, it looks as if the Prime cotton sheeting and napkins—laid Minister had already laid the|tem in @ corner of the bed and rroundwork for '44. covered them with a heated blanket. o 3 Meanwhile, the mother appeared to be dying. After emergency mea- CLAUDE WICKARD'S HOGS |05 pe started out to get a priest | The air-cooled office of the Sec-|_pn, onee else was available—and | retary of Agriculture has been va-|nage the trip to Corbell, nearly three | cant. This is corn planting time i“;miles away, in record time in his Indiana, and Claude Wickard has aygomobile. When he returned with | gone back to Carroll County 10 (he priest, Mrs. Dionne had rallied take care of the planting. land a few hours later was out of Most of the time, Wickard man- danger. ages his 380-acre farm by long dfiS-} Surprised to find the babies still tance telephone, -and by writing alive, he gave his undivided atten- | letters to his mother, his daughter tion to them. For 24 hours he fed (Continued on Page Four) I (Continued on PB;;L:"FWO) 2 ers hiked two hours over the rugged | mountains to reach the blaze and the Delta Chi fraternity and of the Fir Tree Society, historic ath-| it letic honorary society, as well 'as|control it. other organizations. This is the second incendiary at- | He completed the law course at '¢™MPU on the forest in this isolat- the University of Washington | ed southwestern corner of Oregon in| i i 1910 and upon returning to Ju-| L0€ Army previously announced A |8 small plane flew in from the se: neau, served as U. 8. Commissioner | i ma—es 8 Bookings last September 9 i near r several years, first taking of-|, i:’:e gi‘(mr‘:}l‘xeyl‘?’n\:(hnfls aking of-{ang° ¢=opped two bombs, The plane ¥ |was also spotted by a lookout and age of 25, under Judge Thomas R. Lyons. | the fires controlled quickly. Grover | . 3 On February 17, 1912, Ewiy o Winn and Bessie Louise Anderson | dence, including service for 22 years| 30 years. For the past several Ye""sltrum last Friday midnight to Tues- were married, since which time the couple has lived in Juneau andi EAT participated actively in civic af-| | fairs of the community. | . Many offices have been held by | Mr. Winn during his years of re: | as a member of the Juneau Schooi| Board. He has served as Speaker ; . (By Associated Press) pf the House wiEn. a. member “i! Holiday deaths, despite wartime that legislative body, and has Prac-{ work which kept m their ticed law in Juneau for more Lhaniwbs totalled 2‘;’ uve:rlli’xe O\:\mk‘:‘:l 3 veeken he has acted as city magistrate {day midnight. ~ Close Relatives | Included in this death poll made Surviving relatives are Mrs. Gro-|by the Associated Press, 107 dicd ver Winn, his mother, Mrs. Annalin traffic aceidents, 51 drownin Winn, a son and two daughters jand 77 from other causes two grandchildren, and two hrolh-| -oo (Continued on Page"!’hree) BUY WAR BONDS ir way pinoar 8. Navy photos of actual fighting at Attu. Lan {4 o 5 American soldiers and y dro ¢ photo. Fighting Japs and Fog ai Massacre Bay Americal Attu Island in the fain threugh slate [ Yanls ai Massaae Bay, Allu cquipme e to meet another force in a pincer Aleutians r scas and fog, into Attu move forward te batile are rn the fire of encmy snipers This U, landed .on th ® black volcanic beach at Massacre 1,500 NIPS * KILLED,FOUR TAKEN, ATTU Navy Deparimeni Makes Estimate of Enemy Casualties in Battle WASHINGTON, June — Over 1500 Japanese were killed and four captured in the first 20 days of fighting on Attu, the Navy report- ed today, as operations on the is- Tond continued in the mopping up phase. {he communique said that from the start of the American invasion on May 11 through to midnight of May 31, enemy casualties are so es- timated The Navy spokesman, amplifying stimate, said the figures are used an on actual count of bodies but the total number of killed might be greater as it is impossible, for instance, to estimate the number of those killed by high explosive Navy shells or those buried by their comrades under the snow. The number of enemy soldiers remaining on. Attu cannot be es- timated. The Japanese reported ap- proximately 3,000 of their force was on the island at the start, e LAE BOMBED; LIBERATORS SCORE HITS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 2. — Liberators duplicated Tuesday the raids of Monday when 36 tons of bombs were dropped, and dumped more bombs on the great base of the Japs at Lae. In another daylight raid, a Fly- ing Forfress also dropped bombs on Finschhafed, also in New Guin- ca, and shot down five, possibly six of 16 fighters which attacked the bomber. Over 100 tons of bombs have been dropped on Lae and nearby upply bases, the High Command reports. s, landing boats bea fighting men who A destroyer leads the way. from (ranspol beyond This is one of the ) Point, s which pinned the Japs into a fast-shrinking pocket. Attu, from e ENEMY SUB LOSSES ARE PYRAMIDING LONDON, June —Increasingly deadly Allied convoy escort services ank more enemy subs during May than in any other month of the war. During the past two months the number of operating U-boats in the Atlantic appeared decreased, First Lord Admiralty Alexander said today. He told the House of Commons that in the past twelve months the total of enemy subs sent to the bettom exceeded the number sunk in all of the previous period of the war. In the p: six months the of destruction has been 25 per- above the previous half year. R rate cent RALPH McGEES IN and Mrs. Ralph McGee, Bu- 1 of Indian Affairs teachers at Killisno, spent the past few days n Juneau, returning yesterday. Mr res * e e e s e . DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:51 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 4 am. Dimout Thursday at 9:52 pm “«® 08 s e 00000 who with the aid of 1 Navy photo from a combat photographic unit is one at sunset the first o