The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL, NO. 9363. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1943 MINERS GO BACK TODAY. WORK RESUMED Blows MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS !‘ Italian Air Bases Are Struck Terrific —— ( MANY AREAS AREPOUNDED, ALLIED FORCE 24-HOUR ‘‘SAMPLE"’ OF BLITZ VR LIEUT. FOLTA ISHEREFROM . ATTU BATTLE o |PITS AGAIN ' OPENTODAY, ALL FIELDS Mussolini’s Hideawa e e e omets s Majority of Men Return |abcard a U. S. destroyer, Lieut y & Fleet Located, Bomb- i15y George, Polts, Jvy il et Following Fourth | ed by Fortresses bombers, the Middle East Command neau for a week's visit before go= East Coast for sub sehool | New London. ng to the training at sion from the Naval Academy at Truce Agreement | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Licut. Folta has seen service in | ARG TON, | o 1 he 13 NORTH AFRICA, June 7 Hit- | the Alr._xmn\ since January, most sulk of John L._Lewis' half & mil- { ting from two directions, American i “'t““ ]“”‘;‘ “]“?k “p“x:’ “(" ‘:; lion coal miners trudged back to v and British airmen smashed the b R s ol | the pits today under a fourth truce rail and ferry facilities on both | Attu” He was in direct battle with | agreement even as indications ap- sides of the Strait of Messina at enemy forces at Attu taking Pese peared of & new: criia, i the Jog 5 . F . {in a two day and two night shell e 8 : ll;e‘-mg:d (rllh the ]Il:;lml:_ l;:nml 1(1‘ nd B e Talard & ing prolonged dissension, especially e island n eria 4 y SO p 4 ine Pra- e i S | Betore coming: o AMAEE hip | among southern coal mine opera again Sun following up last e o = o g tors Saturday’s smashing attack s 25 ) 8 DAYCIEE | : 1 cikits i et bl iR the Batile of the Coral Sea, and | Hours after the men returned to . o Midwav #nd Bougainville 4 work, United Mine Workers chief- planes attempted to intercept the b : ALEUTIAN PATROL-A tiny U. S. Coast Guard patrol boat is rocked by the choppy North 5 # # A Lieut. Folta received his commis« tain Lewis and his aides were Pacific as it patrols the lonely Aleutians. In background are snow-covered mountains. oeeted Huliil R’ Mrisatece: ati ! representatives to discuss the next announced, but the majority were FRANCE Annapolis on December 19, 1941, 1 shot down. and was sent directly on active n | tep in their interrupted negotia- “Fifty of our aircraft took part duty. Fo UR MEN tions. in the raids,” the communigue an- While in the Westward, Lieut. % | A few minutes later Lewis nounces, “but every one returned | Folta has seen Lieut. Commander | merged saying the miners re- essed to permit the operators to safely.” | It is also announced that hits| were scored on railway sidings, oil| installations and other terminal ia-| cilities on both sides of the Strait of Messina. | Italian warships at La Spezia were also bombed again. SPEARHEAD ATTACKS | | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS | IN IF GERMANS THINK they have re ready, they have further surprises in store for them. Much more in- tense bombings of the Axis are pl tioned by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. in his address to congress. Shown on the map above is how Allied bombers struck Germany in less than 24 hours of aitacks. U. S. Flying Fortresses attacked Kiel and Flensburg by day, B. A. F. Mosquito bombers raided swept the invasion coast across the English Channel. (Internztionai) | Simpson J. MacKinnon, Lieut. (j.g.) | Wayne Olson, formerly of Juneuu‘j | both at Adak, and at Kodiak, Gil- | bert Bixby, local boy now on serve ice with the Navy. | In June, 1942, after the Scuth | Sea epic, Lieut. Folta. made a trip ! 40 the Aleutiams; ~at -which Lime| | he saw Lieut. Comm. MacKinnon, | Lieut. Douglas Gray and Iormer; Juneau police chief, Elroy Hofiman,‘ | ceived heavy aerial poundings al- anned for the near future, as men- activity in some of their “sample” Berlin at night and fighter planes now in business at Kodiak. DROWNED ~ NEAR HERE Excursion Irfiet Workers ' Lost Lives Enroute fo Jaucus. The negotiators have received no word from the War Labor Board since last week when they ordered -ontract talks halted until actual roduction of coal was resumed. The ~Wat Eabor ‘Board is also silent today but one unnam member of the Board said he doubt - ed 1f the board would issue formal instructions for resumption of ne- " (Continued on Page Two) | M | Lieut. Folta arrived by plane 1 B R | from the Westward on . Saturday, | Hoonah Sa'urdalegh' ;:ouuuun? as he put it, and then | | and while in Juneau is being greet- | said: “The miners and operators The washln ion | ed by his many friends and former iy will be smart and just go ahead, | . . | Juneau High School classmates. = | our men were drowned and two| vithout waiting for a nod from | ’ A R | were rescued from the waters in|the Board. Merry i GO ™ Round | w wo | % i R Icy Straits Saturday night when Operators are reported divided ! ¢ G [the gasboat Maybe on which theylon the question of whether to seek [ MOSQUITO’S STING_Britain’s new “Mosquito” fighter | were aboard suddenl rang \ new contract conference table DREW | ) ritain’s ne Sq were aboard suddenly sprang a | atract conference ta by PEARSON | | packs a mean sting in its nose—four 20 mm. cannon and four .303 leak and sank within 15 minutes. or ask for adjudication of all is- (Malor Robert B. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON.—It will proba- | Ships Collide at Sea‘AGMN QUIET machine guns. Two Rolls Royce engines power the plane, which is constructed of wood. The men were enroute to Hoonah |sues by the War Labor Board to attend dance and entertai; ment a de- most While fined geographical »f the northern operators are rep- there is no clearly division, n- bly be denied, but the inside fact | NORFOLK, Va. June 7—An Am-| & . | The dead are Robert C. Kirton »f g 3 5 il | he 9 9 - | 1 is that U. S. Ambassador Bill Phn.»! Jcrican tanker and ammunition| ve|| | Montecello, Ark.; Earl Morrisey of|resented as feeling the portal pay .“W came back from India wm‘1 al laden (ujmhtur collided off the east | | Chicago; Alex S. Black, Grand Cou- |issue should be settled with the blunt, l_n spots bitter, report agannslI coast before dn}vm severalld'. ago1 | lee, Wash., and Robert M. Baker of junion in negotiations while a large the British. | ‘and the terrific explosions and - { M " | Seattle. All died from exposure,|segment of the southern operators He felt that the United States| Iblazing oil slicks took the lives of | NN Dles l e n ul | {having. been . kept afloat by . life|are reported holding out for & should do something about the | 8_4 of 151 men aboard the two P A" G A' R | | preservers which they managed to|referees ruling by the War Labor festering Indian political situation, | | vessels, ro-Ally ben. Ariuro Kaw- {put on before the boat sank. Board. that the Indian army and people | Survivors were landed here by o [] | e gt s 2 il ¥ 8 conld-mit BeTs Tah b the war | FR M TRlp Coast Guard and Naval rescue| — SOM at Helm of Mili- me place ln 0" a“ jle:[:«:::‘“v‘t{‘.‘l:;:fxlw((,’l.:.lu‘:w.‘.‘:::{ Lioyd | Fioklrg s until the question was cleaned up. | ships. i : 3 SHINGTON, June 7 s 748 By ! Sl rocosding. in s dlrach B | Leaving Excursion Inlet about|Sau aders Marsha. avell whom he feels is | ra %/ LLETIN — Buenes Aires, TAS YTON. June 7. — Last|small gas L sh the < c iind suAderty IR nan : naEs WASHINGTON, Jun ast {small gas boat on which the six - % not suited for the job and shouhLJOurneyed Home from US e e o p:’:l M;(}l S| June 7—Gen. Rawson, revolt 752 6En FS ,-,}A Saturday afternoon the War De-imen were traveling sprang a leak | (Continued on Page Two) he Iemoved . ia North Africa=0 NIis, exploddons: S 40 treman] DL ILISN. BEL GRS B 13! AT TAY partment sald Major Kermit R0OS-|somewhere off Porpoise Island ey Phillips not only gave this report via Nor rica=uver Sl ihab PreckEEE and | Acbrie o 2ooh today as President of Ar- evelt, 53, son -of President Theo-{about 8:30 o'clock. The water to the President, but he also had | . . . | Bhrtled through the air and show‘-‘ gentina’s new military regime, dore Roosevelt, died on June 4 in|pushed in faster than they were a conference with Prime Minister BIS(GY in nghf erod the Gacks (bl -const: gand| ORISR MM SARS Wikernnon p!.é F i‘l ARk able to pump or bail and in an| Churchill last week. b ship one quarter of a ralle away saying he and Gen. Pedro Ra- S s w AR The cause of death or Roose-lagtemnt to save their lives, ali Ambassador Phillips' report is Sixty six of 69 men on the am.| Mires his aide in the revolt, | velt’s assignment at the time ofliyanageq to get on life preservers most . significant, because he has| LONDON, June 7.—British Prime e s B could not agree on a constitu- ANRE B2 Zg |his death was not late Saturday iR 3 : v | 5 2 munition laden freighter perished. 1] ] | at the same time trying to launch been pro-British, served as Minis- | Minister Churchfll arrived home The blast tore the vessel into pieces tion and new cabinet. Rawson hw 1! @* ™ ven out by the Department, thrm Rotaly o hoat which Was. oYor ter to Canada, has been a consis- | last Saturday via Mot .‘l““.c‘; and she plunged to the bottom al-| immediately charged Ramircz 1% 8%y =3 BY | announcement simply stating l"'} urned in the process tent believer that our policy must from the Washington Counc‘l wit! most immediately. with organizing the new regime bad been on duty in Alaska for Losing his life preserver, Lioye] go hand-in-hand with the British, | President Rfmég"e‘fi at Which be " pighicen of the tanker's comple-| 3nd the latter issued a state- : several months LRirol younger brother of ‘Robéi Phillips is mild, not addicted to|id full accord was reache - nent of 82 were lost in the inferno| Ment advising the people and Roosevelt served with the British | 00" e 4 ’ arding the Allied course on all ondber " 2 T 'd States n, mang i to climb upon the crusading, but a thorough, consci- |BFCHE KA O b 5. that devoured the lifghoats before| armed forces he will assume the : Army before the United Stales] . ...4 i1 By keeping himseit| entious diplomat, reporting what he | Tonts which is expecte € IN- 4hey could be launched. | powers abandoned by Rawson. |0 Comlnue on RUS- ntered the present war, repeating | "= F i £ A believes to be the facts. {$erprated Sithi. fivst action, the, In- z{mong the victims were 35 mem- | g Saiche b the First giorith VIR :I; g B g ‘m“} i . i i > ¥ : ey . B ible to save his life, Wallace Clare, Among: other things, Phllips re- vavslll:heOIinE;r;xz: Africa, Churchill Pe™S Of the Navy gun crews, 25 on| BUENOS AIRES, June 17..— Fol- sian Fronts “th zl“ kR ”“1 -BXUHM-" R A ubarlanced boAAR: WED s \Jcargo ShIpS, Corvette Lefi ported that mediation between dif-| b % & CHE 0T Dwight D. the freighter and 10 on the tanker. lowing the short one-day revolu- ,x\m _nv_;; r”‘“}’\ll.["H‘lhvyihirl"v ,‘f’ g s pirdsitey) B'alin b A"a(k 0 ferent Indian factions and the Brit- | gicennower. : i ‘e Navy {s;making an {nvedhi-iton of. last BrORs (g cont thelSgosnow! ! June 7 —Cftizesy ‘fl’:l? l\t\xJ':ll\‘wll e e e e anaued. to keep out of the water| g by n ;:o(zluverxLTent was po:slblgx noW: | Ghurchill also had what he de- gRaaR.r ;:::"’ozffl_f:":;é 32 ‘g‘dtf}ff:‘f""‘"f * Moscow looked forward to anothes ~ - {for about an hour by clinging to BOUgaInVl”e 8 esirable. He feels that if some scripeq as a “most cordial” meet- sl s o £ tflfa‘ 05 BOVEIT” Isignificant week of acrial warfar |she bow of the submerged veusel | such move is not undertaken NOW, ing with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud U S SOlDIERS ent; the Argentinlan nation 18| "y 0 weont to work reading Re lAp pOSITIONS ON { which was for a time above water.| he should not ge back to India,!and Gen. Charles De Gaulle, who s Js back to work, ordered so by the B Borce reborté of Achievemel 4 He stayed afloat and was consci WASHINGTON, June 7. — In a nor should any other U. S. Am- carlier last week settled their dif- new military Junta headed byPro-jo.” oL Tl g5 (“.”m‘_ lous the entire time. iraid on Japanese shipping off en- bassador, since the presence of an ficulties and set up a Provisional IRAINI"G IN pALly. Geuts. AEIY: Revion Wiod with Russian losssy af o (HOSEUL ISI.AND I North Star Rescues emy held Bougainville in the Sol- American envoy would be taken as| French Government under their | Al celebrations have been gyt HC TR B R J' s | About 10:30 o'clock, the men were omons, Allied fliers beat off heavy e | | > b om May 30 throug e 5 v ) gletbs:‘ampl.of U. 8. spproval for|joint leadership. 5 ‘ ::aauned alncl the country is back|“'% oM May 30 throus 1 ‘“" GIVEN BOMB'NGN“““(‘ and picked up by the hali- fighter plane opposition and sank ritish policy. |” Churchill was accompanied home 0 normal. g 5 VIETS . “Wares ) AauY but boat North Star |a destroyer, left a cargo ship and What the President said to|by British Foreign Secretary An- Castillo and his ministers fled :’4_“”‘ last night, hammering ai | Pishermen Chess Moodv, U. D. ¢orvette blazing on the sea. Churchill on the Indian problem is| thony Eden, who flew to North [arge Body of TI'OODS aboard the Argentina_ minesweeper| dICMes behind the Na lines 1 Aunda Also Affacked by |Moods. Robert Moody and Charies| The announcement by the Navy . his secret. But it is known that|Africa to meet him, and Gen. Sir! {Drummond. It is undevstood Cas-|te Lesichanks arca of the Donet W1 SeRViE huard the noeeh drcs took Said dive bombers, torpedo bombers - Roosevelt has hoped for a year that|Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial Rea(h There for Du'y [tillo and his five ministers veached FVer front A”| d Ail’(ra” Dur: [the two survivors and four bodies PG fighters joined in the raid and the British would do somethmg‘QBneffil Staff with him in Wash- 5 Montevideo aboard the Uruguyan RS s e I back to Excursion, where they were & furious air battle lasted at least about India. However, he also leelsimgmnfl i ey in combai Zones |gunboat Salto to which they wsked mg Re(em Rmd urned over to a Coast Guard cut- '0 Minutes. Several Jap fighters Churchill flew over the Axis pa- { s G k . bauses 5 T were § . Ve meonely. i ckbe. Tplted d o ey of Blscay in ‘iR mpm‘ AUKLAND, New Zealand, June 7./ 10 P® transferred from :he Lrum RAID REPORIED - otk s 4 States should not interfere in Bri-| ay scay g W f Y »/mond d | Fi id g planes are missing sin's. eolonial arutdotis |during which the moon did not —Rear Admiral Wilkinson, Deputy, “gnope are gpen in Buenos WASHINGTON, June T—Enemy[, F ov @id was glven for an hour “geyer) of the largest bombs hit " . |appear. His plane was escorted by| Sommander in the South Pacific 4 ol ! tions on Choseul Island in the| !0 the four men taken from the 1o gectroy Meanwhile, the British, with an| ) p! Area, disclosed here- that a large and order is prevailing here und i positions on Ch il Isla BB S athr, bt all etforts’ fatld & ve: the destroyer and sent it down. army large enough to handle any | '8hter SEath . Qnuyrablll . punsed body‘ of American troops recenuylelsewm"" | 2 FRcns Daye, boed nDARiSL 2 (vive them ; 6 v problem inside India, seem content [t @ TEPOIt 10 be made 0 the me direct to New Zealand from| ONe report received is that Cos- ARMAME"! CWY sy spRounced. In i SR Fly To Excursion N B merely to sit on :he lid—despite P88 Commpne. the United Stales and are now|Ullo has signed his resignation as i e \lh(,l.',‘,\‘,,,;m” gun emplacements Were | y; 5 Commissioner Felix. Gisy ® DIMOUT TIMES » -~ American pleas that the Burma| training intensively before being |President. e s (i tas. chdmatEviaM S et B Don. & with the Charles ® e . Road must be reopened and de- About 75 men out of each thou- sent to combat zones. | Several of his ministers have re- ! LIS was also bombed by Allled sir|W. Carter Mortuary here, weresum- ® Rimout becins tonight e spite the fact that Indian troops sand rejected by the armed forces Some of the troops, the Admiral turned here, surrendered and ¢/ . BERLIN, June 7 The DNB, ;0 2% moned to the sqene and took the ® At sunset at 9:57 o'clock. . will not fight the Japs whole'are turned down for psychiatric Said, also recently came to New Placed temporarily under arrest. German news agency, says German R R 3 first available Alaska Coastalplyp: ® Dimout ends tomorrow e heartedly unless they have a small reasons, Zealand from Guadalcanal and all Other ministers have been left free. |8iF forces heavily raided Gorki, im- to the nlet 7 e at sunrise at 3;55 am . investment in the Four Freedoms AL except those suffering from malaria, The ministers under temporary ar-|POrtant Russian armament center| The caribou doe is the only ant-| The bodies were brought to Aug ® Dimout besins Tuesday at e ————————————— e | are in training and will return to rest include Navy Minister Finca- il the middle Volga, east of Mos- lered female deer in North Amer- ® sunset at 9:59 p.n tinued Four ‘ : . 2 (Conf on Page ) BUY WAR BONDS | combat. ,4i and Agricultural Minister Vidella, OW, Sunday night ica, (Continued on Page Three) ® e 00 0000000000