The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI, NO. 9360. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1043 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE KISKA CAMP Five Hundred German Planes Hurled on Kursk FIVE ATTACKS ARE MADE ON SOVIET BASE SpeculaiionvA;ises as fo What Nazis Mean by Showing LONDON, June 3.—The Germans hurled 500 planes against the big Central Russian base of ‘Wednesday in five attacks. The Germans lost 123 planes in| the attack, the Moscow radio broad- | cast picked up here declares, with| only 30 defending planes knocked down. The announcement uf this display | of Axis sky strength caused mediate speculation as to Ger- many's intentions when Allied ob-| servers were seeking answers to two questions, the reason for the delay of the expected summer Ger- man offensive on Russia and the | disposal of the major part of the carefully husbanded Axis air fleet. ———————— WASHINGTON, June 3. The Senate’ has completed legislati action on the measure for two more years, without change, the President’s authority to make reci- procal trade agreements with other nations. The vote was 59 to 23 The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert . Allen on active duty.) WAbHINGTON —With the entire country rationed, the Truman Committee has just unearthed fact that 21 percent of the Army’s food has been thrown away. However, the Army has now dis-| covered what every housewife knows—that if you count on ten persons for dinner and only persons come, left over. Distressing thing is that it took the Army months of survey and experiment to discover household truth. After hearing stories of wastage, the Quarter- master Corps made a survey at three large posts—Camp Lee, Va. Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Benning, Ga. They made the discovery that 21 percent of the edible food was being thrown away. Having established that fact, the QMC began a scientific examina-| tion of pogsible causes. They be- gan to ask the question which any housewife would have asked in the first place: Are we preparing more food than is needed? They discovered the astonishing fact that rations were being issued | for everybody on the camp’s ro: ter, regandless of whether they wer: present in camp that day or not By equally laborious study it was | discovered that when soldiers are on weekend leave, they don’t come to the mess hall for meals. Especi-| ¢lly on pay-day weekends. Result of the study was that 80] rercent of the wastage was fou‘xd o be from “excess preparation.” Having reached this formal conclu- sion, the Army took action. Quartermaster Corps, acting through the Quartermaster Board, “formulated a system which issued one ration for each man actually present eating.” This eliminated the rations pre- viously issued for absentees, and the wastage promptly fell off. Army could do with a good hoise- wife in every kitchen, but as the Lext best thing the Army has now | horrowed Miss Mary I. Barber from the Kellogg Company, Battle Creck. Micii., to help save food and pre- pare better food in Army kitchens Sne is bringing about some impor- tant changes. NOTE: When the Truman Corm- rmittee looked into this situation, it was told by OMC that the high-| est percentage of food discarded was of “edible kale’—three-quarters (Continued on Page Four) K\n'.\k‘ im- | the | six| there will be food | this simple | Ths| The| BOLD BLOW IS STRUCKBY | ALLIED NAVY Esconed Convoy Attacked 0ff Southern Tip of Italian Boot H FADQUARTERB 1, MRS. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT CCNY ALLIED | NORTH AFRICA, June | vessels, {and drove ashore whe: | The attack w {voy off Capo Spart: The Navy communique said! | forces suffered no casualties |of the Italian boot, between |damage.” | Capo Spartinvento |main waterway from the east | the west coasts of Italy, the suppl: an enemy e it.was left burning. made on vento, Italy. STUDENT LILLIAN GILLMAN leads Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt through |to the Strait of Messina. rows of R.O.T.C. members at City College in New York City. The First | The Lady then addressed the college’s faculty and students. The title of her = | oyyer . talk was: “American youth and the rest of the world.” (International) IN ‘ ’AI\N destroyers sank two Axis mérchnnt‘ one escorting torpedo boat | destroyer | a con- "Dur’ the | is at the “foe | Lto | route. It is at the southern approach attack was & daring mané | of the Allied naval force di- ;rec(ed against the heart of Italy’s e i Yanks af Holtz Bay Find Trophy | | { | A wrecked float-type Zero was the cheering sight for U. 8. soldiers landing at Holtz Bay in their drive to oust the Japs from Attu. The plane had been machine-gunned by attacking U. S. planes several days before the troops landed on the fog-shrouded Aleutian island. ' s s _ |sea communications and in direct { |defiance of the Italian fleet | i (om ensa"on laws {1t is indicated the Allies have SHQWER--OF BOMBS--FOR .KISKA | | ichiéved haval supremacy as well | v g : i | as air supremacy in this great| 2 C < p; > 57 F | theatre of the war. | e G | or as a ro | American planes also raided| i {Panteleria and the southwest coast] of Sardinia without the loss of a| ingle plane D Will NotBe Changed GOS0 | 1 s oo STRIKE CURB | | Delegate to Congress from Alaska | || s —" - i ] WASHINGTON—The hazards of | Starts Charges sustained by all persons working on| DIESATHOME John F. Stevens Executive Engineer, Passes Away | attempting to get legislation| . through Congress is illustrated by | at Age of Nlnety [ the bill, H. R. 336, to make the| A kit - SERAPEUICH. It o SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. June Aladkn appUpRs ©F MK LRSS 3.—John F. Stevens, 90, engineer TR ATl 3overnme a g s R g B Connally Bill Sud the Paoaima’ Caval s dead at his | Congress, the Longshoremen’s nnd d I c i S‘:‘ ; e alter n 'm\, 'I ne h..‘ Harbor Workers' Compensation Act | en Y omes '0 Llfe“ | ;lt\“hx(-.\ was ..ln 'dM‘:‘ ive g ‘1“{ applies with respect to all injuries |of the “go ahead” type and left ApE pe juries | his mark upon such memorable Federal lands and premises. In works as the extension of railroads |tany respects. the Alaska’ Works| WASHINGTON, Jgine ‘3.advo- |across the Rocky Mountains, the men’s Compensation Act is more|cates of Congressional cur on building of the Panama Canal and i favorable to the injured workmen|wartime strikes won a major vic- the rehabilitation of the Siberian | “ 5 and, therefore, I have uugmpu*d bY|tory with & yoll call “vete of 211 :\x[ld]('hlln. se Eastern railways in R s l’l(\:'-hk:l:ll xl;I:|‘x‘\m)i;1;*"1‘(14(’11;1(;::)’1‘()01?({:&';‘)(:‘m 163 when the Smith-Connally| “BOMBS AWAY“——They're heading &Irdu.,lll for/Jap. Installations on ‘ Z’“‘lh:“‘;il 'l":'l“‘“‘/"_ s e | w and Harbor Workers' Compensation bill was called up to the House| Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians. Enemy-Neld positions on Kiska are .., royiag pass, where the Great ‘ g |floor amid charges of chicanery| beinig bombed continuously by United States airmen operating from &t FEEAS SHE: B EE 6 0 g and warnings of adverse effects on| Fecently occupied base on Aleutian island. - (Iaternational) |30 aesn REUWAY, Grosses the Roc PALMER HOYT, populat pub- Upon introduction, the Cha"m"“‘ploducuun 3] Las ana obher nec- ies in Montana, and the name of i & ; of the Committee on Labor, Hon [ Stevens Pass in the Cascades, com- lisher of the Portland Oregonian, | nary T. Norton, wrote letters to| CSarics: : ! Pl | memorate his work in the north- | ko has ibeen granted n alx. |the Departmerits af-oustice; Navy,|.: THmedingaonasmngtion, of John Home Fron' Su | | west. The Panama Canal testifies | months' leave of absence from |War, Interior, Labor and to the L. Lewls, President of the United pp y to the,energy with which he backed | his desk to take over the do- |Federal Work Agency, asking for hibe WO R iahabia0e g8 the Gen, William C. Gorgas in eradi- mestic directorship of the Office | expressions of opinion with respect|FHouse began consideration of the [ |cating yellow fever from the isth- ol : measure which would outlaw strike F & of War Information in Wash- |to the bill i Efiss is u eYVIs’n mus, and the official files of the ington, . O, Heyt § i yocw The Attorney General has re-|in Government operated plants and L., da W aian . | ington, D. C. Hoyt is well known 1 ), 0" o ving: “I find no objection|CWb them in other war industri o, ‘I pOTimERy) M Washington | tonewspaper executives through- | 100 SN he legislation.”| The measure will also require un- [veveal how he, while head of the | out the country. The Secretary of the Navy recom-|ions to file annual financial and BI Mass ot produ(lsfi;“” b“‘l;(’ ;""ll‘“‘"“l posrd 40 Al — i mends against enactment of the membership statements, and| iz lked JJapanese- sohemes 't | [ bill, and his objection appears to be | |strengthen the power of the War |seize: the Chinese Eastern across Negro (ombal | based upon the difficulty of secur-|Labor Board. | oo S ‘ t ‘M‘;‘l“‘:‘f““' i ‘I‘““ Ry ling insurance for such operations| There fs little prospect of a By JACK STINNETT league business analyist but in ap-| SIEYeDs was bomm at ‘West Gard- | under the Alaska act and concludes |vote before late tomorrow. : . pearance and manner he is as un< Qi 3 Wi RO | Flghters Ar"ve that the passage of the bill “would| The Senate passed the legisiation| JWASHINGTON, June 3.—FXoM pretentious as a village druggist. |ed the state normal school and then |impair the war effort.” . e Hioeisation|a tiny room in the War Production "ynoiqentally, he points out that followed the still current advice of N The Seoretary of War entertains |mittee sharply revised it, |Board’s mammoth building, &N gyay gown and rural storekeepers|Horace Grecley to “go west, young ‘ Ill or "(a similar views and says the bill| st e e {amiable little white-haired mian of g (ol C00 F e been|mMan, g0 west.” Stevens picked Min- i {should not be passed. His objection | 160 guietly supervises the flow Of a | yorqest pit by an uneven distribu- Deapolis and became in 1874 assis- |also appears to be largely based| }m‘”““‘d‘ of products to the folks jon of consumer products "-“” engineer of the young city ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN upon the alleged difficulty of se-| |at home “This job will be a dache for| TWo years later he went into rail- NORTH' AFRICA, June 3—Ameri- curing insurance against mjunem Arthur D. Whiteside, newly ap-' p. fi;st few month he said.|way work, for rails then were can negro combat fliers have ar- under the Alaska act. {peinted director of civilian supplies, .py¢ after that we hope to get mer- | pushing across the northwest prai- [rived in North Africa to take a| The Secretary of Labor recom- | |winces at being called a “czar,” but | chandise flowing in various chan-|ries towards the Rockies and the place in the aerial war against the mends that the act be passed with | I-EG'S[AT'ON WPB Chairman Donald Nelson has peis on a more equitable distribu- field was open to surveyors. Ste ‘AXxs, it is official announced. lan amendment which would ex- given him sweeping powers L0 5€€ tjon pasis, It largely a matter ens first ran a transit for the The new arrivals will compose a clude from its provisions all lands that essential articles and Services of making adjustments in distri- Sabine Pass & Northwestern Rail- | Fighter Squadron equipped with occupied or used by the United |are made avallable, within war-'puion with a particul AV ES | way. then wils mada. CRIAL- aHaiiaas P-40 Warhawks. States for military or naval pur- IS pI Wugmg limitations, to consumers. |pheining jsolated areas of that road ; T |poses. Such 'an amendment, if He . recommends to WPB what Ll el gl s |2dopted, would practically nullify |raw materials, manufactured ar- e nastl v"l“:“z "“"d“‘““" for i the bill because most of the work e ticles and repair facilities should My Whiteside is a veteran gov-|so). the Chicago. Milwauke e SIOC' pl’Odll(“On done on Government land in Alaska Sen ' P P |be allotted for civilian needs. All' qypment handy-man. Back In | g pau “!‘Lv’;’ Miwaykes gnd is done on land used for military aie Fasses aY'as"c""}""{"“; P and services, €| World War 1, he worked with Ber- Pa ,‘.m‘m;,'.,“”:g"“;‘ d”:‘;fif“\‘:"““"‘ | land naval purposes. Y G M S |cept food, housing and transporta- p, Bty o W frien | o i i en. was in } Io D’op Unless (oal The Sechtal")y?so( the Interior fa-| 0u-bo Measure-. en' jtion, are under his direction. l}“m'du lllll:vmu{i’-l»l l.“:v *W I\:\];‘xlel:]m;u- e AfsJoching SHC DRUARS Wi 1 vors the billtE 1k 1s ammended 80 as) ' Wh'i H | He has to keep posted on the went to London and Paris with the I)}uiu}tln SUH"}I Shore and Atlantic, { Flow Is Kept Up to leave out all those employed on 0 11e House |vequirements and supplies of count-| American delegation to the Peace " icn follows the south shore of military or naval reservation or| WASHINGTON. June 3 — The|less products ranging f{rom castor conference Lake Superior from Duluth to Sault lands, 5o his opinion i substantially|Senate has passed the legislation |0il, corsets and coffins to washing| He was one of the four division Ste. Marie. That work consumed - that of the Secretary of Labor. {putting the nation’s income tax-|machines and furnaces. He will Ter administrators of NRA and served 1387 10 1889 and then James J. Hill WASHINGTON, June 3—Chair- o sqministrator ayers o S s asis|commend what goods and how . ; s “the empire builder -of the north- f e s of Federal DAy n a pay-as-you-go basis as chief of the Iron and Steel e north man Nelson, of the WPB, an- wwou Agency appears to agree 8Nd the measure has been sent to/Much of them ought to be rationed. Branch of the Maritime Division enlisted Stevens to run his nounces steel production will drod with the Secretary of Labor and the White House for the signature of OPM, forerunner of WPB at Northern Railway from Mon- shortly late this week unless the the Secretary of the Interior. So|Of President Roosevelt. Whiteside, long-time president of He is a fresh-water fishing en-| 'ana to the Pacific coast Iflow of coal to the steel plants is 5 >’ Expectations are the measure the business reporting firm of Dun = iwherds (Continuea on 2age Two) will soon become a law, ‘and Bradstreet, is rated as big-| (Continued on Page Two) | (Continued on Page Two) maintained, SCOREHITS ONRUNWAY, WESTISLAND Enemy Groups on Atfu Be- ing Wiped Out - Jap Death ToII Given 3.—Bomb- WASHINGTON June ing raids Kiska, in the Aleutians, ing out of small enemy Attu are also reported Navy communique. The communique raises the known Jap dead at Attu to 1,791 It is also stated that “on June 1, on Attu, United States troops combed the scattered areas by noon and eliminated minor groups of Japanese troops encountered n the Kiska raid, hits were ed blasting the Jap main camp continue to be made on and wip- groups at in today’s area, the runway and gun em- placements. “A number of Canadians, pilot- ing Warhawks, participated in the raid.” ACTION BY ~ MR-STARTS, 50. PACIFIC American Bombers Re- sume Poundings-Bou- gainville Is Hit WASHINGTON, June 3.—A re- newal of aerial activity in the South Pacific by American bombers pounding Jap positions at Bougain- ville is reported in today’s Navy communique Large fires were started by the bombs. Northeast of the coast two small enemy vessels off the Tinputs were bombed. One of ‘the vessels was s0 badly damaged that it was beached. - - RATIONING OF BEEF IS - ON, STATES OPA Raises Point Values - Pork, Veal, Lamb Now More Plentiful WASHINGTON, June 3.—In an effort to switch civilian tastes from scarce beef cuts to more plentiful pork, veal and lamb, the OPA to- day increased in the States by one to three points a pound the ration points on nearly all classes of beet effective next Sunday morning. Th increase does not apply to Alask: where there is no rationing. The” new order will increase the most popular beef steaks 11 or 12 points a pound or a 33 to 37 per- cent increase. The general level point values of the other three kinds of meat will be changed very little. Certain soft cheeses, previously exempt, are also given point values - BUY WAR BONDS OUT TIMES . . . e Dimout heeins tonight e at sunset at 9:52 o’clock. e Dimont ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 3:59 am e Dimout Friday ® at 9:54 pm Pr e e e at sunset LR J