The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1943, Page 1

- - R e * - - » - > e e —————————————————————————— — ———————————————— . —————— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI, NO. 9361. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943 AS PRICE TEN CENTS - ROOSEVELT ORDERS MINE Chinese Forces DEFENDERS Allied Bombers Now Blanket Foriress Europe MOVE FAST ALONGRIVER Various Bases of Nippons Are Now Threatened ~Drive Is Rout ' CHUNGKING, June 4.—Advanc- ing 30 miles in three days, the Chinese forces today engaged the Japanese garrison at Itu, 23 miles below Ichang, the Japanese base, and street fighting is in progress Itu is a point through which the Japanese are retreating from Changyang and trying to cross the Yangtze after a rout by the Chin- ese. The Chinese are also reported to | have penetrated the outer defenses of Kungan, the Japanese base in| southern Hupeh Province. | The Chinese High Command de- clares the drive against the Japs on the upper Yangtze is the big- gest rout of the war. The position of the Japs at Nan- hsien, stronghold north of ‘I‘un-‘ ting Lake, is also believed to l:vi untenable. | Late yesterday it was reported the Chinese forces had driven to| the right bank of the Yangtze op- posite Ichang in an air supported | counter-offensive against the Japs and had surrounded 4,000 Nippon- | ese farther down the great river. | It is estimated that over 30,000 Japs have been killed so far. | The Washingt;n Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—There was one very hush-hush conference staged for the benefit of Winston Church- ill in Washington which was no military secret. It was a parade of beautiful modeis dressed in the latest New York fashions. It came about when the Prime Minister asked Mrs. Harry Hop- kins about the latest styles worn by American women. He said he would like to see some of them. So Mrs. Hopkins got Mrs. Averell Har- riman and together they organized | a fashion show. Sending to New York for the latest gowns, they staged a private ultra-éxclusive fashion show for the Prime Minister of Britain, with the help of several important models. Churchill got quite a kick out of it. Friends say that his photo- graphic mind will remember most | of the details, and the first thing| he will do when he gets back to] London will be to tell Mrs. Church- ill all about it. “She's sure to ask me,” he re- marked, “just what the women are wearing in America.” EAGER JOHN L. LEWIS i Only insiders know it, but Johui L. Lewis wanted re-admission to the | AFL so badly that he enclosed wimi his application a check for $60,000 advance dues. | He hoped to take his old friends by storm and win immediate ad- mission. The AFL Executive Coun- cil was sitting at the time he sent the check, and would not meet| again until August. Lewis hoped! they would act pronto, so he could lay plans for throwing his weight | around at the next AFL convention | in October. i But quick admission of the Mine | Workers was blocked partly by two| independents inside the AFL, part- | ly by the White House, where tem-| peratures rose rapidly for fear Lewis, bitterly anti-New Deal, would swing the AFL away from coop-| eration with the President. | Lewis had nursed his plan to| rejoin the AFL for a long time. Re- | cently, he had begun to feel deep-| ly the public resentment against “(Continued on Page Four) & GREAT <g§mm ATLANTIC ALGERIA CIRCLES DENOTE ALLIED BOMI ING RADII OF 750 MILES | SHADED AREA COVERS AXIS- HELD EUROPE ALL BUT A SMALL CORNER of Hitler's Festung Europa shadow of the wings of United Nations bombers swarming daily from bases in ,""l British Isles, North | Africa and Russia to bring death and destruction to the enemy’s homeland. MAYOR DEVIN Dismissal ofief of Police Kimsey Announced- Up to Council . SEATTLE, June 4—Mayor Wil- liam F. Devin has issued an order of dismissal to Chief of Police Her- bert D. Kimsey and has asked the City Council to concur, which is a necessary procedure. This is the lavest development over vice conditions in Seattle which was brought to a head when near- by Airfield Commanders declared 72 blocks out of bounds because of venereal diseases. Federal authorities threatened to invoke the Mann Act. Chief Kimsey refused to resign and the Mayor took summary ac- tion. - e FDR ASKS HIGH ARMY ADVANCES WASHINGTON, June 4.-—Roose- velt today nominated Maj. Gen. Omar Nellson Bradley to become a Lieutenant General. Nelson took command of the Second Corps from General Patton when the Tunisian warfare shift- ed from the armored to ground Lroops. The following Brigadiers were Generals: Stafford L. Irwin, Ninth Infantry Division of the Artillery; Job K. Cannon, Deputy Comman- der of the Northwest African Tac- tical Air Force; Lowell W. Rooks, commanding Eisenhower’s Staff of Operations Division. NORTHW. | Pirst o (Fortress New Army TAKES ACTION, Gun IsPut HAS REPLY SEATTLEVICE OnDisplay PORT CLINTON, —Newsmen today got their first |sight of the Army’s new .30 calibre carbine, weighing less than a Gir- and and firing 15 high velocity |slugs from a single magazine. Col. Forrest C. Shaffer, Com- manding the Erie Proving Ground, aid: “In combat, this is the best weapon ever turned out,” and rapidiy replacing the .45 pistol. PLAINS RED * MANSTALKS Ohio, June 4. is ~ ATTU JAPS Wounded P?v ate First | (lass Tells of Getting " Nipponese on Island TRAIN ENROUTE TO THE ARMY HOSPITA ST, June 4. Private Elijah Petonquot, Chip- pewa Indian soldier of Bark River, Mich., got a close look at the Jap- ranese on Attu—almost too close. | He was one of the wounded | aboard this train of half a dozen | cars who disembarked at a North- | west port. He had been stationed lat a Nipponese ammunition dump to which it was hoped the enemy | would return. | They did. About 20 came, sneak- rocks. Sweating, little Petonquot inominated for the ranks of Major opened up with his automatic rifle. ‘I'm not sure just how many I got, but not one in that bunch got away,” he said. “When they heard snovting the rest of our boys came | up and helped me finish them.” Then a mortar shell one of his arms. Europe) ‘ sion on a round-the-world via 'his understanding with Stalin Was eleven, and said that small bodies ABOARD A SPECIAL MEDICAL | cxcellent, commenting on the L OF THE PACIFIC| ing ‘through a narrow defile in the shattered Cab Company, was arrested yester- Aduy for speeding and fined $20. ake Big ARGENTINA - ELECTIONS ~ ARE FIERY Conservative Party’s Na- tional Convention WASHINGTON, June 4-Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson gave off-handed indication that at Itacks are to come on Japan terri- I H tory proper @ moscow | S | 1ar'$F|reW0rkS In ual matter of fact re- mar e War Secretary told the RUSSIA | de Janeiro, |pewsmen at a conference that ti 4 { radio deast virtually completed = recanture o xursx ! Dicked up here says the Argen- |ty Island in the Aleutinns, put tinian Government has be wnatov | i | moved to a warship in the | Plata River and that the re- velting army troops have occu- pied police headquarters and as result of street fighting, the st casualties have reached (he hospitals. Over 8,000 troops the city of Buenos Aires. | J entered BULLETIN — Montevideo, | June 4—The British Legation | here said it is understood late | | this afternoon that the Argen- | [ tina revolutionary movement | been suecessful. { BUENOS AIR! June 4.--Eig ‘(Imm.uui men are reported advanc- ling on the capitol of Argentina.| iPn‘sldl‘l\' Ramon tillo has v {€Ganeral Rodolfo to defend it, and | | | {the results are undisclosed | “The military movement” is at |Campo de Mayo Army Base, 15| miles from here. Police said the | | situation was in the hands of the Ie has now fallen under the ‘!"‘3“;‘5”11“_:‘ ok 2 e n |Rear Admiral Mario Fincat, Min- | \SITTING PRETTY ister of Marines, “in the absence | tiosen iklas Poveign Trae |of the Minister of War." mpl army movement | hours before the | Pedro Ramire's |occurred a few !U nservative Party’s national con- | vention was scheduled to meet to proclaim S President Robus- tiano Patron Costas its presi- dential candidate Castillo as neutrality leader U.S. NAVY REPORTS ON 70 LABOR ~ ATTULOSSES MEN KICK, ‘Five Japs fo One American Is Ratio of Conquest of Island N, June 4. — The a big globe_desi | nate as | en- Joseph Davies Completes "Mission fo Mascow" '~ Speculation Arises WASHINGTON, “ June 4.—Joseph Davies has completed his second “mission to Moscow” and set the| Capital City speculating to whether a meeting has ranged between Roosevelt, and Churchill. | The former Ambassador to Mos- cow returned from his special mis- Al- aska, arriving at 4:50 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. | as been ar- Stalin to Deal with Issues— WASHING Vi i Navy annc ced today that the Davies went immediately to the h White House and delivered Stalin’s[AtU conquest = cost ..”“',,Jj'.“‘fl“ ,Pl’O'es’ fo FDR secret reply to the secret message "‘:1“"“.] i’:; (A"l‘.”»‘ d‘“‘f‘ “li\nr-l\:dn;: £ Davies carried to Stalin from Roo- | Mhdnight fast AR e WASHINGTON, June 4 342 dead, 1,135 wounded and 58 . . ol i sevelt, | mifasin: men of the American Federation Davies remained in the White| ™ H0E. Sgaltist the previously anx|0f LAbor and the CIO have farmal- House two hours. {Siminged 1701, Japanese Bodiesil: oeked Prgsident Rooseuslt to S | He left Washington for l\(n\tn\vlco‘”“‘ld on Athu. of 8t B Tablo of|lErvene” W the OPA, contending | during the middle of last month tive Japs to one American. Pu,\.u‘\\ Brown, Price A(lm;m:v.l.r At a conference With the news-| mhe new announcement raised|l0F 15 unable to deal with the ‘e~ men toda quirements of-the situailon™ arising President Roosevelt sald tha {otal of Japanese prisoners to from the inereased food prices. | b i oAb of combined let-|of troops still roaming the island l-xl:’u‘x' M oy 3 At ter Davies brought back with him.|harrassing the Americans would |5 W50 LG0T brotest to The repor: ress R0O- | 2 Wipe g e N . wf““ ‘“P‘:L:‘* _‘““ Tips press Ko rotasion be wiped ‘.““ {his appointment of Lou Maxon as se or getads. DS R Depity Administrator on the - o 4 grounds his policies rau counter rolling back the prices tion prices MANY INJURED IN EXPLOSION 17,082 American ANY PRESIDENT [N MARYLAND gy capives . WASHINGTON, June 4.-—UnitediBetween 35 and 40 persons were in- 0' ou' Enem|es States Senator Josiah W. Bailey of|jured, at least five seriously, when PROPOSES ONLY . TWO TERMS FOR | - st North Carolina, has introduced alan explosion virtually wrecked on- WA;*:)HNv(;'IlH:’\‘l ""“";‘_.“" ”IU:.(; resolution proposing a constitution- |building of the plant of the Cel-|SUemy mow FOHs W EEE EOU al amendment to limit the tenure|anese Corporation of America ‘(‘T".‘L"'“ ""’“W"I s iz of future President to two lerms| There were no deaths. retary of a 4 K only. { - on 4 SRS NI ! Of this number, Stimson said ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING E The petard, used centuries ago|!1:307 American prisoners are in of the Japanese .o BUY WAR BONDS {the hand to blow up bridges and palistrade; |was the forerunner of the modern| Jland mine. | John P. Lee, driver for the OWw for foreign trade week, p lof War Information will (& tough, smart e: OPABROWN | whaek out errors and personal opin- Says Administrator Unable “»s. to to stabiliza- Stimson Infimafes Attacks fo Be Made On Japan Terrifory “in striking territory. further elabora- ‘4t I8 a he American forces of Japanese Stimson would no requests for with distanc #o rning away tion of his remarks pretty long distance” from the re \ined American position in the tern Aleutians to the th Jap bases we in Kuriles v Brinckman of Los Angel hes aton e the importance of traffic wilh n neighbors. - Gimlef Eye for OWI; Tough, Smart Ex-copy Reader Is Now on Job By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June &—Work- ing newspapermen are betting that most future mistakes at the Office be killed before they happen. Reason: Ep | Hoyt, the new domestic director, is opy reader. Copy desk men are the unsung editors who make newspapers make ense. They edit the copy turned in by reporters and mercilessly been the consensus of capital scribes that OWI's releases were long on enthusiasm and opinion, fand short on tight editing by a {téough copy reader like Ep Hoyt West Coast - newspapermen who TOP know Hoyt say the pamphlet “Bat- 1 tle !OWI apologized, would never have - passed his gimlet eye. Stations for All,” for which Hoyt is now publisher of the Portland Morning Oregonian, one of the top dailies on the Pacific slope. He skyrocketed to the top job on that venerable paper twelve years after he was hired s a copy reader in 1926. In the ime it took him to reach the pub- lishe office, Ep was a reporter, drama editor, nig city editor, ‘ex- ecutive news editor and managing editor He's still close to the copy de: though. Ever since he be to !make policy as an Oregonian exe- cutive, Hoyt has insisted on a eracking good copy desk When Ep took over as one of the orial chiets, the Oregonian was wn to Portland press club wags T'he Old Lady of Sixth and Alder streets.” Front-page makeup was fnviolate by long tradition. Old- fashioned lengthy headlines and stories that “slopped over” inside to run three or four columns had made it respectable but very dull Ep gave the old lady & page- |lifting. The sheet began to have (Continued on Page Three) BACKTOJOBS Advance On Japs MEN GIVEN T0 MONDAY TO RETURN President May Resorf fo | Various Adis for Re- | suming Mining i - WASHINGTON, June 4.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt has ordered the |striking §oft coal miners to return |to their fobs hy\&)v Monday. | The White Hollfe statement says |the President has also “instructed {Fuel Administrator Harold L. Tckes to proceed to reopen the mines iclosed since last Tuesday on re- fusal of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to work the men without contracts. The President said: “Just as soon as the miners return to work, dis- position of the dispute between the miners ' and the operators will !forthwith proceed under the juris- diction of the War Labor Board in accordance with customary and established procedures of the Goy- ernment in all cases of this sort.” | Back to Work Order | Late yesterday afternoon in- formed quarters said the President was prepared to issue a back to ‘work order by Monday and a pro- gram of more drastic action was being held in reserve if the first demand goes unheeded It was said the President would use hi : power, his author- ity and laws under the Selective Service Act enforcement of among the literal governing aliens there are thousands mine workers, and [troops finally if nec y ‘The President has called AFL and CIO leaders, also the full membership of the War Labor |Board for a conference at which many lssues regarding the walkout ‘of the miners will be taken up of all whom the use of WASHINGTON, June 4. Presi- |dent Roosevelt this afternoon said striking coal miners and others who have stopped essential war work, are subject to induction where they have been given oceu- pational deferments. The President declined to answer a query at today’'s conference with the newsmen if troops would be provided for the miners who, obey his order and return to work Mon- day. Commenting without guestioning, the President said there is nothing startling or new about inducting miners or others who are no longer working essentially for the Nation. HOUSE VOTES PUNISHMENT 10 STRIKERS WASHINGTON, June 4.-—Subject to a later roll call, the House by a tanding vote today approved legis- lation for stiff penalties for per= ons instigating and directing strikes in government - operated plants, and also requiring a ballot workers before the strike is called Provisions also included strength- ening of the authority of the War of Labor Board and continuing pro- isions of the Senate-approved Connally Bill, plus the substitute House measure. Removed was the clause which |would prohibit the War Labor | Board from issuing a closed shop of membership and maintenance orders. ( i e o o o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:54 o'clock. Dimont ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:38 am, Dimout begins Saturday at sunset at 9:55 pam. L I N N