The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1943, Page 1

3 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9365 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WED\LbI)/\\ JUNE 9, 1943 MI'MBI' z Aw CIATED PRESS PRICE T DEMANDS SURRENDER OF ITALIAN ISLAND CUTNIRRRR M s e el Choice Of Next War Move Our.s Says Knox Reports Armed Might of| United States Now Is Mlghty NAVY CHIEF SAVSENEMY 1S FEARFUL - Reports Armed Might of; Unifed States Now Is Mlghty 1 June 9.—Secreta of the Navy Frank Knox, declarec today that “secret information to the United States says the feeling in Tckyo and Berlin is akin to ours after Pearl Harbor—the choice of | the place and time of striking now is ours.” The Navy graduating class of 760 naval emy midshipment, asserting French Generals Meet ANNAPOLIS, Secretary spoke to a| wcad- . tienri Giraud (left), Commander of the French Forces in Nnrlll is a lot of irresponsible talk about | 2 sdbond iont A | Af rected Gen. Charles DeGaulle (right), leader of the Free | “Today there are eight fronts,” he | French Fore upon the latter’s arrival by plane in Algeria. Army said, “not just one.” | Signal Corps photo radioed from Algiers. T e e Socred Sepvice Had - The Washington Drablam in Guarding Merry - Go-Round gy First Lady of China By DREW PEARSON ‘ (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | X ere o > . . Second of two articles on war- oV ASHINGTON.—Here o e on.| Churchill Kin Weds iine news restrictionsa much against his will, got him-| By “.;( 71‘l!\‘.\ - self catapulted from the relative T o peace of the U. S. Senate into the asked the Secret Service (which is| vituperptive. birmoll of. the OPA. | responsible for the safety of all After Brown's defeat as’ Senator| from Michigan, Senator Robert| Wagner of New York wrote to the| resident urging that Brown's ex-| perience be used in the interest of | © the country. The next day Wagner visiting dignitaries) you probably wouldn't get an answer, but those who should know will tell you that the toughest job of guarding they have had since we entered the war was that of seeing to the safety of received a reply from the White Madame Chiang Kai-shek. House: “I agree with you com- That may be surprising in view pletely. Nuff said—FDR." of the fact that Great Britain's Minister Churchill has vis- Meantime, Marriner Eccles had Prime tempted Brown with a job on the ited this country twice; President Federal Reserve Board. It carried Roosevelt has been to Casablanca a ten-year term, and Brown was| and Mexico, via all the interme- delighted with the prospect of diate states; and that there has serving in his special field—money | been an endless parade of Latin | American presidents. and banking—and being spared the grief of political controversies. The reason Madame Chiang was On the day the President sent such a nerve-wrecker for the ss-i for him, Prentiss Brown encoun- | men _simply that ‘her cross- tered his friend Senator Wagner, |country junket was mapped in ad- “I have heard,” said Brown, “that | vance and there was no secret s | about where she was today or President wants me to take| g‘:ndfl.son.; OPA job. But the Fed- where she would be tomorrow. stel Neserva. logks Boter o M. When Churchill arrived for his There's too much grief in the OPA,”| Brown said stautly. “And I just| won't take it.” | |latest visit in the United States,| there wasn't a word of warning to| ambodv but the White House in-| Wagner smiled. “I warn you, 'ner circle, a few military officials, | Prentiss. Look out for that guy.| and Secret Service. His way was| He'll charm you into it.” paved with precautions, but not! Next morning, Senator Wagner [the kind that took local police | and the American public read of| popmER Lady Sarah Spencer forces, press, radio, port officials, ! and others into confidence. News photographers were allowed to tak2 his picture as he climbed into the President’s car for his drive to the| White House, but there was no pre conference. i His visit made the Secret Service | ‘jittery. So did the President’s trip |to Mexico. And the Roosevelt hop Brown's appointment to the job of OPA administrator. The President, had turned on the charm. ! COX AND CONGRESS On May 21, 1906 Senator Joseph | Ralph ‘Burton of Kansas was told| by Lhe U b supmme Cuuu Llu([ Churchill, 22, daughter of the Duke and Duchess bf Marlborough and kinswoman of Prime Minister Churchill, was married to Lieut. Edwin F. Russell, U.S.N.R,, in Lon- don. England. (International) | He had been convicted of accept-| lof that ground before the President tock off, but if one word had| in ]axl, pay a lme of $2,500 d"d Ito Casablanca was a nightmare of never again hold a public office. | | ansat Senlcs yeapesmipllity. AW hilte | House Secret Service Chief Michael ing money for using his influence| FlAG D | “Mike” Reilly covered every inch before a branch of the Federal| government. Specifically, he had| = accepted $2,500 from the Rialto| EREMONY l:,“,’,‘ff‘ fl[l}{l::mL:l:L thl:Cafl:ll(l‘;:]d:n;'()\:l?(;‘ Grain an curities Company 01! |have had to be quintupled. = s AP 5D ey fi: l:;ulshe rtn;i\“wzse“::;’r?dmfi;f:\ During ~ Churchill’s visit, there e J0Afls. J on | uv re extra guards on the White| tried to persuade the Post Office| !House, starting with the ring of Department not to bar the Rialto, Juneau Elks Lodge will meet at y\p. 'mum,y assigned to gmmi Company, and accepted money for|8 o'clock this evening in fhe FIKSTo o 0y von” hardly would have | his influence. {Hall to consider and announce final oicaq it° The only time that The case was fought for twoPlens for the annual Flag Day yn. white House has the appear- years up to the U. S sUp,»e,m.~E.xr‘rmsvs which will be held June . . of being super-guarded is Court, which handed down a ring- |14 next Monday. when some announced arrival or ing decision that members of Con-| All members are urged to attend gress cannot accept “pecuniary re- this important meeting. The public ot ward.” |will be invited to attend the im- Which brings us back to Madame W | preseive ceremonies and witness the -~ g b (Continued on Page Four) ritual. | (Continued on Page Three) departure is taking place. | where—and |of the Bureau of ELEVEN JAPS KILL SELVES ATTU FRONT |Surrounded by U. S. Army Troopers, Grenades Used for Suiciding June 9.—A Navy additional WASHINGTON, communique reports a eight Japs were killed Monday at Attu and eleven more enemy “killed themselves with grenades after be- ing surrounded by U. S. Army troops in Chichagof Valley. The total known enemy dead on June 7 is given 826." - MTU JAPS - ARE TOUGH, SAYS BURNS Correspondent Gives Proof Nippons Hard to Conquer (Eugene Burns, Press correspondent with Am- crican troops who wrested Attu from the Japanese, sizes up the Jap fighting man in the fol- lowing account. Burns has seen the Jap in action at Pearl Har- bor and the Solomons as well as the Aleutians.) Associated By EU NE BURNS I'm scared of the Jap. After fly- than 25,000 miles in fif- over and ound Attu and landing at both M cre and Holtz bays' fronts, I am convinced the Jap is the toughest foe in the world. Essentially, Attu was the easiest Jap-held or Jap-owned island in the Pacific we will ever take away from him. It took us, with whelming force, three weeks- yet the to the t man. Kiska—where the Japs are about five to ten times as strong—will be harder. Many strategists have said “the Japs will fold up in six months once we have unquestioned air su- periority and have sunk the fleet.” If Attu buncombe. At Attu we had the air and we had the sea and, with fog helpin® ing more teen days and Jap is an example, that an unopposed landing. That wi not happen often. Air superiority is not enough beat the Jap. Both Kiska and Attu 'have been pounded unmercifully It did not deter the Jap at Attu |and it does not seem to faze him at Kiska. He is still digging in Naval superiority is not enous We had the sea to ourselves e cept for a few submarines. Our in- vasion fleet was perhaps the bi gest we have ever assembled in th racific for such a job. At Attu the Jap was whipped a the point of the bayonet. If Attu, Guadalcanal and Guinea are examples of Jap ten acity and will to fight, then we must expect similar resistance else- more. These were I New These Are Ten Possibie RoadsfoBerlin | PANTELLERIA 57| GIVEN BLAST, & | NAVALFORCE Flying Foriresfies Simul- taneously Bomb Is- land Foriress WHITE FLAG MUST BE RUNS UP, SAYS SPAATL Leaflets Dropped on Be- sieged Garrison— Deadline Stated : FARoss POLAND GERMANY FRANCE SWITZ, - F Bilbad Bordeaux oMilan_ (By P I S PORTUGAL A communique issued this momn ;o Madrid Novth, Afri teks 0 Terse, Mol A8 "the shore defenses, poured shells at short range and punished the land Pantelleria again yesterday while its garrison was blinded by and smoke from Flying Fort- which attacked simultane- GIBRALTAR dust Oran Algiers resses "Casablanca over- | Jap is fighting in the hills| cently acquired outposts of his em-| pire and least defended That scares me. - |NURSE MABLE MORGAN PAYS CHICAGO VIS!T Miss Mable of nurses for '\‘lur;).m supervisor the medical division Indian Affairs who went to Seattle a month on official busin has proceeded 120 |to Chicago, where she will continue |work for pected to take a brief leave of ab- - sence and be back in Juneau by the the division. She is ex- latter part of this month. ously. The Italinre communique broad- ‘MOROCCO from Rome, said the Italian rison lgnored the demand to surrender, perhaps as a prelude to TUNISIA the invaslon of the fortress isle ALGERIA Tripoli : o midway between Tunisia and Sicily, ; 3 Dropped Leatlets . Sirte Cairo*l ne Rome radio brondcast said the demand to swrender was con- EGYPT £ LIBYA - tained in leaflets dropped yester- I'his may indicates the ten potential routes of invasion of eontrolled Europe as outlined I the Field qov and iomed by Lieut, Gen, Carl Journal by Col. Conrad H. 1, retired army and one of the country’s most noted mili Ia, Spoats, Allled Commandes of students. The routes discussed are (1) Norway enmark and North Germany; (3) Northeast Ger- {he Northwest African Air Force. many and th stern Dutch coast; (1) the Low Countries south of Dutch Island of Texel; (5) North Six p.m. British time, and 9 am. France and Brittany; (6)) Western Europe south of the Loire River; (3 South France; (8) the west Pacific War Time was set as the side of Italy and Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica; (9) the Adriatic and South Italy; and (10) the Aegean deadline for the Axis garrison, to run up the white flag. Sea area. % 3 British communique from g Malta, meanwhile, ahnounced that . light naval forces conducted a lneieen ap eros coastal reconnaissance of the Ttalian island of Lampoedusa, 80 miles south of Pantelleria, Sunday night without suffering any casu- alties or damage to the force, it- BOMBED BY AMERICANS French lndo Chma Port | Under Tremendous At- Shof Down in Bafle ‘ Near Russell Islands WASHINGTON, June 9—United States fighter planes shot down 19! Jap Zero fighters and damaged six l(unlhl\l(‘d on Page - e POUND JAP SHIPPING Three) WARNS JAPAN l-o wl“ ElSE more of the enemy planes 'in ui swift air battle which raged near o e sussen 1uancs| 18Ck-Great Damage Seven of the American planes| CHUNGKING, June 9-—Ameri- were lost in the sky fight, but three can bombers attacked Hongay, 30 American pilots were saved {miles northeast of Hainpong, Crush Brl'aln afld Unled Between 40 and 50 of the Jap|French Indo-China yesterday, heav- A”Ied A"-men Bomb En- fighters were attacked by the Am- |ily dan s docks, warehouses, States Rally Speak- erican fighter pilots, the Navysaid.|railrgad yards, and power trans- | emy North of Aus- i The Jap aerial thrust apparently |misgion lines. This is the annour er Ge's Despera e was a counterblow by the enemy in yent made from Stilwell's head-| "a“a Toda the vicinity of the Russell Islands|qyayters | ¥ . northwest of the main American B seme! als aid (By Assm'laled‘ Press) base ‘at Guadalcanal, prompted by| ‘Tlu -1““;‘-‘““1“‘""‘;:[- .n(lst)lv :‘;::;: ALLIED HEADQUARTEDS IN Tadahiko Okada, Speaker of thef e BX Vi ClE b over Boy. | dense clouds of smoke, rising 5000 \ySTRALIA, June 9—Jap ship- Japanese House of Representatives,| .0 &n O e northwest- feet, were visible for 30 miles AWAY | ping i the morthwest and northe told & mass meeting in Tokyo that |E& VS E0RE B0 1 B ipelago| (Tom the marked target ared after|cyq soctors around Australia was Jepan must utterly destroy the | i he raiders had done their work n & heavy .pounding today, the United States and Great Britain or | % SRR o bek on the big|. T ngined Mitchells and War-|heaviest blow falling oh Waingas be destroyed hersell Fani biise, - the Am”“m sank a |Dawks encountered no enemy in-|poe on Soemba Island in the lesser The Tokyo radio broadcast re- destroyer and set ablaze a corvette terception, the communique further|sinday group where a formation of ported the grim nature of the global " > ship states, and all planés returned safe- |Literator bombers attacked. war at the present time — e {ly to bases. In this area, the Allied airmen Okada is quoted by the radio as .o damaged®a 5.000-ton Jap freighter two saying: “We will permit of no half- i narrowly missed smaller baked distinction between the victor MARINE t (E 42 500 pouuDS vessels, one a gunhoat and the vanquished,” and he fur- L | A Jap convoy was also sighted ther declared it is a question of joff Kavieng, New Ireland, and at- the “survival of the fittest, eat or HA”BUI SOLD acked by a lone Allied bomber on B8 iaaben WINS MAJOR sconnaissance flight, but the Okadé spoke at a “Crush Britain esults of the attack were not ob- and the United Stetes Rally” and | with halibut prices up to 17m erved he accused the Ursied States of \nd 1655 cents, 42,500 pounds were| Babo, north of Darwin, Dili, on ‘attempting to control Europe pROMoTIoN\ old today at the Juneau Cold Stor-|Portuguese Timor, and Koepang, across the Atlantic and east Asia | age. |also were hit by Allied airmien but across the Pacific in an outspoken | The Rosario sold 7,000 pounds to!vesults were not given 1ction of extreme Imperialism.” | |E. E. Engstrom, Dixon sold 10,500 - - - | WASHINGTON. June 9 ']“ Am-lnounds to Alaska Coast Fisheries,le o o o o ¢ o o & o o p ace Joe Fo other honors!p. e ) MRS, ARTHUR TVE B rocintib askne i paud 400 powne'io Jigs Budh s DIMOUT TIME . HERE FROM PETERSBURG rank of major in Lhe Marine Corps,|pounds to E. E. Engstrom, Nui- ’ |the Navy announce® today Isance sold 17,000 pounds to . New s, Dimout haging Seashss Mrs. Arttur Tveten arrived Mon-! The flier, 28 years old, of S10ux|gnoland Fish and the Tennessee|® ', SWnsct at 10 o'clock. . day from Petersburg where she has Falls, South Dakota, recently re- colq 8000 pounds to Booth Pish-|® Dimout ends tomorrow e been visiting Mrs. Mamie Tveten,' turned from Guadaleanal where oo, o b > at 3:54 am, . mother of her husband, Corp. Art he downed 26 Jap planes. He has' PRI o L3 e Dim begins Thursday at e Tveten, former employee of The been awarded the Navy Cross and |® cunset at 10:01 pm, . Empire, now ih the service here. |the Congressional Medal of Honor.! BUY WAR BONDS LR B B R R R R R )