The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIL., NO. 9364. JUNE 8, 1943 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. PLANTOINVADE Allies Keep Blasting WLBRULES | BOMBS ARE SHOWERED ON PANTELLERIA Mass Aftack by Planes of All Kinds Reported- Smoke Pall High HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 8. — The concentrated strength of the Allied Northwest African Air Forces yes- terday poured a deluge of bombs cxplosive and incendiary, on Ita sentinel island, Pantelleria Formations of every type plane from Flying Fortresses small Warhawks, flew in the tack, the Allied Headquarters nounces Clouds of smoke soared 4,000 feet | above the battered island and drifted wide over the sea. The smoke pall almost reached Sicily, 65 miles away late this afternoon Fleven enemy planes were downed when the outnumbered de- fenders tried to ward off the waves | of attackers. | Two Allied planes are reported to have been lost in the mass at- tacks. ALLIED of to at- an- - - A human being consumes a daily | average of 10 milligrams of man- ganese. The Washingrton‘ Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—It hasn't leaked out yet, but the Justice Depart- ment is on the trail of another big anti-trust case which is going to create headlines—if the War De- partment doesn’t intervene. This time the giant Lead Company is involved i The case is similar to the deals| of Standard of New Jersey and| the Aluminum Corporation before the war to control synthetic rub- ber and magnesium in cooperation with Nazi cartels. In the National Lead case, Japanese as well as German business connections were | concerned. | The deal was to control the pro- | duction of titanium, a rare sub- stance essential to the manufac- ture of paint, also to the cutting edge of tools. | The Justice Department has un- | earthed documents showing that National Lead had an agl‘eement} with I. G. Farbenindustrie of Ger-| many whereby, if war came, Nazi patents would be so held by Na- tional Lead in this country that| they would not be seized by the | Alien Property Custodian, but could be transferred back to Germany| after the war. This is not the first time tional Lead has been under fire| for its international business ac»! tivities. For many years before the| war, it cooperated with the big| British-Duteh tin combine which| forced the United States to ship| raw tin all the way round the world from Singapore or Bolivia| to England to be smelted, then back | to the United States. | It took months of inter-govern-! ment jockeying before Pearl Harbor | to persuade government friends of | National Lead to build a tin smel-| ter in the U.SA. so this country| would be independent of the inter-| national tin cartel. | Fletcher Rockwell, president of | National Lead, is also chairman of| the Board of Patino Mines and| National Na~! Enterprises, the company organized bombers on Monday by the big Bolivian tin king, Pa- Japanese bases in Ne | | tiny tino. ENEMYBASES, - VI1CTOR A new portrait of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, who led the victorious British 8th Army. 400 Atiu Velerans in San Frand Suffer Lili Gets Divorce . L] | STAGE AND SCREEN ACTRESS Lili Damita received her final divorce decree from Errol Flynn. Lili, at the time of the couple’s interlocu= | tory decree hearing in April, 1942, | told the presiding judge that “Mr. | Flynn said that he didn’t want a | wife or child.” (International) i NEW GUINEA, ARE BOMBED Allied Ait Forces Make| Raids on Madang, Lae, | Muby and Wewak ‘ H HEADQUARTERS June 8 Allied the hit- ALLIER AUSTRALIA, struck Guir and a Madang and Lae NOTE: Whether the War Depart-!ing enemy positions also at Muby. ment now steps in to block the Jus- tice Department remains to be seen.| Undersecretary of War Patterson | has writhed in agony and protested | to the White House when the Jus tice Department has tried to pro- (Continued on Page Fou) | Last night Allied bombers raided Wewak on a large scale. - >os Gyroscope mounts for automatic | cameras have been devised so that the camera remains vertical when the plane tilts, sco; Many ‘Invasion Fool’ SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,, June 8.--Nearly 400 veterans of the Attu fighting have arrived here, going to the Letterman General Hospi- tal to recover from gunshot wounds and frostbite The veterans tell of indescribable hardships in the battle against the Japanese Most of those ving here are victims of the extreme cold and several are unable to alk from “invasion foot,” which is explained from ting their feet wet in landing on the Attu beaches, then continuing without changing to drv £ocks. - - WAR PLANS ON PACIFIC | ANNOUN(ED Russia Bombarded by Additionalfaces fo Be Shifted to West - To Strengthen Fleet WASHINGTON, June 8—Admir- al Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval - TEN CENTS m———— ] ONSALMON - DIRECTIVE Many lssues Cieared Up| , : Regarding Operations | . o of Alaska Industry X SEATTLE, June 8 The War | Labor Board ratified portions | of the directive of the Northwest War Labor Board pertaining to the Alaska salmon industry and | suspended other portions pending | further interview, Dr. George Ber=| nard Noble, chairman, said tods The Board has approved fou | major points, one that employers | provide war risk insurance of $5,- | 000 for all employees traveling in| " |AMPHIBIOUS " ATTACKNOW British Prime Minister NG \ Churchill Qutlines Cam- o paign in Talk Today DESTROY AXIS IS BIG DETERMINATION All Allied Governments Now Have Only One | Positive Intention LONDON, June 8--British Prime war risk areas. | | Minister Winston Churchill told the The escalator clause of union | |House of Commons today that a agreements which would provide | large scale invasion of Europe is automatic pay increases in propor- | 2 5 . . % ipproaching as the Allies deter- tion to increase in the cost of livs | < : 2 mined to destroy the Axis by air |ing, was declared inoperative | READY TO BLAST THE AXIS—Long lines of tanks (left) and tank destroyers (right) nd other meuns The seven percent crease in yeady for shipment from the tank depot of the Army ordnance depot at Chester, Pa, Churchill voiced confidence that the of fish, with the same | e deadly submarine menace is increase for cannery workers' sal- 7 ; wiftly being overcome, aries was approved. All issues ot} E z IN¥ASEON Churchill said: "It is evident that already determined are to be s = | 'mphgbious operations of a peculiar ferred back to the panel for cls i v omplexity and hazard on a large fication and speeific recommenda- B cale is approaching and operations tion | i THREAT IS are now impending in the European heatre of -war @nd have fitted in Labor Bourd nug further The National War suspended approval penc sludy of local panel recommendsu- t 1 the executive order dealing with overtime pay, saying i shouldn't apply to the salmon in- dustry Approval wa suspended also re- garding questions of certain bonus payments for fishermen who are residents of Alaska, fishermen whose work was terminated be- cause of the tion, and fish- ermen sent north by Army trans- port instead of by first class pas- senger ship. S eee GORKIUNDER ATTACK FOR THREE NIGHTS Great Industrial Center in \\M ‘u«‘ SULTAN'S CUARD — Lined up outside the mosque in Rabat, Morocco, where his majesty the sultan, Sidi Mohammed, goes to worship every Friday, are members of his gus escort him in manner befitting his station. Press Censorship in Warlime; Mucn Criticism Resulis Nazi Air Forces (By Associated Press) An official Soviet disclosure re- |veals that the German air force |raided the industrial center of Gor ki, 250 miles east of Moscow o1 |the Volga, two nights running and |emphasizes the belief of observers |the conflict has now more of the — |character of a war of attrition with NE N vv L of two articles on wartime |the zero hour near. Operations, has conferred on the| 4 : S west const with Admiral Chester| The German radio, quoting B BT Nimitz, visiting the continent from military spokesman in Berlin, e s # b4 s Honolulu, on war plans. This 1s of- the Soviet losses in four battles : “f\'?',“N('“ lw he “;:j“‘;“ o orlosed, and. the state.|the Kuban bridgetiedd in the C censorship anc resitiotions o ‘ e Fohdug difihe Sihe: vast Kt Whek [ have had three important effects on ment further said the talk is linked| ' 0000 9 ine i | the visits of such foreign personages with informal conferences recent- | ibed, los 8 &ie, divisions, and el Biits, Anntster Winstop. 'Ot neid’ in’ North ¢Africa by = Gen.|2/mosh twelve Sapk brigades. Sran Jeorge: Marshall ‘ghd ‘Gen; Dwight|; A Ferlin) Bivadeast, recorded Dby OUI l | (1) Ou the surface, they have cut D. Eisenhower. the Assoolatent “apes 11 New ¥ork complications for the newsmen and It is said the Field Commanders|S2ld the Germans raided Gorki the +| yisiting bigwigs fo the irreducible have information of plans rz-u-xuly‘tz:’]’::i s:::]t:‘.dhmd“:?h:. :”')”*" fire | minimum worked out by the American and! "e'® ® ed, and that 500 tons of . (2) They have simplified the . job worked out by the Ameriean 4oy piosives and 100000 cencinrs Program Disclosed byTes-l(,, R s e conferences between President Roo-{00Mbé were .dropped during the = . | charged witti guarding these vistor sevelt and British Prime Minister |\Nre¢ raids. t!mofly of Admiral lin spite of the fact that war has Winston Churehill | Gorki is where the Ford en h | increased Secret Service responsibil- It 15 said there is no change in|Sipeers helped the Russians (:0( rane | ities a thousand-fold the Allied global strategy but addi-|PUlld 8 great auto fac L Bl '!im» 5 e S et serous precedent against complete Hobhstptgs Bas g e Ahiline | WASHINGTON, June 8.—The 1x-n-u1.,m'm the pre: cently mani- to IN|the Pacific and a gradual strength- | GOVERNME"I l" [ ening of the Pacific Fleet is still going on. RY OW SEATTLE VACATION To visit her family in Seattle, Mrs. Henry Owen, Jr., whose hus- band is in the Juneau traffic of- fice of Pan American Airways, left for a short vacation recently. She was a plane passenger south last Friday. A JR., ON Nayy is planning a new three bil-| s imposed at lion, nine hundred and twenty-two | million dollar ship construction | program, envisioning 480,000 tons of vessels ranging in siz¢ from small boats to aircraft carriers and heavy fested in the restrict the international refugee conference in Bermuda and the world food con- White Snlphur Spring ~ ALGIERS NEARING SETTLEMENT NOW ference at W. Va. cruisers. While the latest visit of Churchill ALGIERS, June 8.—The French Congress learned disclosure of |io this country docsn’t quife cove Committee on National Liberation the plans for this new program |all the points, it does illustrate the has expanded itself from seven to which came in testimony of Rear|lengths to which news restriction ithirteen members and assigned a Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, Chief | have gone, Newsmen here weren't ,number of portfolios but failed to of the Bureau of Ships. This was|even warned that Churchill was on agree which ministeries will be un- made public by the Senate Appro- | der Generals De Gaulle and Giraud. Priations Committee. | (Continued on Page Three) Seivice Men their proper place in relation to the reneral war.” Just after Churchill spoke, the {Ttalians usserted that the British ittempt to land on the Italian Med- literranean island of Lampedusa had been repulsed but the Rome radio report 18 not confirmed. Nazi Milifary Circles Count- ing Hour — Where shsguidlih. Mo Alipa hit Set Strike Expe(]ed s the British Government, the Nominion Governments, also the Government of the United States WATCHED STOCKHOLM, June 8.—The Ber-{,n4 pugsia are concerned, nothing correspondent of Stockholm's | iyt g from our endeavors en quotes Nuzi MILtary | ng intention to accomplish the as saying German OfHCers . .mpete destruction of our foes. must count the hours before thel,y jombing from the air and using Allied invasion of Europe. {in addition all other mesns of a These circles, the correspondent|.iaqqy wearing down of the Ger- asserted, are depending on a sub- marine fleet to aid in wrecking {he invaders’ landing operations. man and Japanese air forces, pros ceeding remorselessly.” Churchill disclosed a “very long The correspondent also said these|vanwe of alr, V. 1 and R" ws 1o v German sources told him they are|ggled, ¥ watching for Allied blows against In effective operations against Belgium and the nothern French|submarines during the first week coast, southern France, Italy and!of June he said it “was the best even the Balkans ver.” Churchill said the successful | The Berlin correspondent of [uattle of the U-boat menace is one Svenska Dagbladet quotes Dr. Kurt|move against the “Axis defeat since Pseisser, German military analyst|the Axis is banking heavily om the | a5 saying the “first attack will come | — i |from the Mediterranean” since, he said the Allies there are well drilled (Continued on Page Three) —————— and have excellently equipped wmies, two Bri one American r and reserve French troops RI E -oe BOWLIS SAFE RoundingUp = FROM NIPS ZOO"S“"G“ {Defending Ft;r ces Score , . Great Vicory Over Hoodlums AreFerreted Qutl Japs on Ya¥|gtze n I'OS Angele_.s and | CHUNGKING, June 8.—China's leen Bea'mgs |great “Rice Bow! is no lohger in |danger” the result of Chiang LOS ANGELES, Calif. June 8.~ he greatest victory againsg For the third consecutive n = se i the upper Yangtze River section, the army spokesman service men ferreted out zoot-suited hoodlums who are blamed for nu-|*3id In & commmunique today merous attacks on service men with| The Chingse forces are now in women and also civilians complete possgssion of Ttu, 18 miles attempted below Ichauge o the Yangtze and Many attack were while crowds filling the streets from [fUrther pregréss is made in a toward the river port be- curb to curb looked on while thrust vice men, mostly sailors, appearcd !Ween Shasi and Ichang ser- to administer beatings | In one night, service men caught and badly mauled seven zoot-suiters and almost completely tore the suit off the zooters - FRANK WRIGK | Prank Wright, Jr, canneryman, is at the He came in from Hoonah where is manager Dimout begins Wednesday at superintendent the Icy Straits ® sunset at 10 pm, Imon Company ® ® 00 000 0 00 00 DIMOUT TIMES . . . ¢ Dimout begins tonight at 9:59 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 3:54 am . . e at . IN at sunset Jaranof he of MAPPED OUT -