The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9366. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS - — . e - - - e - —— — ] [TALY WON'T ANSWER SURRENDER First Break Is Seen In Coal Mine Deadlock e r PRODUCERS = Tacoma Girl REACHPACT WITH LEWIS 65,000 Miuers Affected in Pennsylvania-Many : More Out WASHINGTON, June 10 central Pennsylvania coal produc employing 65,000 miners, bro the deadlocked Appalachian | wage conference today and | a separate peace with John | United Mine Workers calls for a v for underground T ers, from joint made L. Lewis’ The agreement boost of $1.30 travel time Lewis originally increase. The pact still is subject to t approval of the War Labor Boa Lewis said he is ready to offer the same terms to other operators employing 450,000 miners. | One obstacle is in the way of a final settlement, however. The | employers made the Pennsylvania pact contingent on getting govern- ment approval for higher ‘coal] prices asked for a $2 pcause a movie scout was in the ICKES b WASHINGTON, June. 10. tary of the Interior Harold L.Ickes, as government coal mines czar announced today that all miner in the June 1 to 7 walkout will be fined in accordance with the con- usually specifying a dolla day penalty for work stoppa without good reason. lConlmucd on Puge Three) Jaden, 20, of Tacoma, Wash., has M-G-M. She came to Hollywood ‘Argentina Will The Washmgion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) As Wel For ‘Doug’ and ‘lke’ WASHINGTON.—One of the most significant and frequent questions asked of Vice President Wallace on his recent trip through Latin Am- erien was: ‘“What will happen to the good neighbor policy after President Roosevelt leaves office?” Time after time he was asked: “Will you continue to be good neighbors when a Republican ad- | ministration comes into power?” His reply was always the same. “President Hoover,” he said, “was | the first President of the United | States to come to Latin America and he was a Republican. I am sure that Republicans feel just as deeply the importance of being| good neighbors as do Democrats.” | R | HOUSE RATIONING | Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit has just got through with the task of| stretching her ration points to feed, in one month, four Presidents and a Prime Minister, with a re-| turn engagement of Madame Chi-| ang Kai-shek thrown in for gnu(l‘ measure. | “It was a struggle,” she says. “I| had to squeeze like anything. | | | | ol [ | | WHITE 4 Y | HERE ARE the old badge and collar The ration board failed to Teckon | (gop)and star (bottom of gold on with all these Presidents when it| gilyer which may be worn by U. S. issued points to Mrs. Nesbit, White| Generals Douglas MacArthur and House housekeeper. It reckoned on| Dwight D. Eisenhower. King only one—Franklin D. Roosevelt— George has just named them and his family, plus the Hopkinses, Knights of the Grand Cross, Order with a meager allowance for enter-| of the Bath. (lfltefuauonal) tainment. The ration bozud wrote down thc- White House as an ‘“institution,” A‘"‘u ENEMY and dealt with it like a hospital, hotel or an asylum. That me.mH Mrs. Nesbit was issued ration! points on the basis of December’s | “business.” But the White Hnuse\ had little “business” in the month of December, for there were nw‘ visitors and few parties Result is that wnen May came along, bringing the Presidents of| Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, and Li-| g beria, plus the Prime Minister 0.1 WASHINGTON, June 10. — A Great Britain, plus a repeat visit|Naval communique said the known by Madame Chiang, Mrs. Nes- encmy losses at Attu have reached 1 1.845 Japanese killed and 20 taken (Continued on Page Four) prisoners, i "Gels Break program during her first visit to the Hollywood Canteen, Donna Mae trained in the studio’s song and dance school instead, With America by Ads | as INVASION IMMINENT " ISREPORT ALB. Bombing Confinues-Pan- telleria Garrison Holding Out The entry sections Allied Mediterrancan Targef Areas 2 YUGOSLAVIA M o N 1007 SUIT FIGHT HAS LULL TODAY. Sailors Strip One Youth of Fancy Pants in i Theatre LOS ANGE! enforced truce ‘the five-day battle suited street rovers the SCORS|.CA -.QAdIiat{c Sea ' “La Mggdalena N » aTerranovg gl Barlettaw- R g ndi Al hero' SARDINIA B\ Carlof rre LONDON anniversary of the war today the press and unofficial observers asserting that an Allied invasion of Ttaly is imminent. There was a eneral feeling that the move onto the Trallan mainland might come any time now With Pantelleria and the boot facing this growing {he London Daily Express linec official news of a expected this morning.” Offer Unanswered special official Allied stated ominously for surrender ve the garrison tants of the island of unnecessary suffering.” In view that the capitulation de- mand was not answered, the of- ficial communique added, “Pantel- leria will continue to be subjected to bombing, bombardment, block- wde™ The Rome radio, | voluble all last among other things rison under ord the defenders were “proudly accept- ing all privations and sacrifices.” Another Raid At the same time, Allied Head- guarters in North Africa issued a communique telling how Allied air- blasted Pantelleria yesterday the eighteenth successive day. Cairo headquarters announced that American heavy bombers at- tacked two Sicilian airtields and cald 12 enemy planes were shot Full Scale Attack on Japs down over Pantelleria and at least three over Sicily. May Follow Defens- One Allied plane ive Strategy Cairo announcement -+ CANBERRA, Australia, June -~Prime Minister Curtin, in a f'“- MOVE HUGE mal statement today, said pressure on Australia has been thrown back ! M E RI( ! N |on the enemy and the time is now June 10. Ttaly’s found third into of An o today in between zoot= and men garbed armed forces. | : Last night saw only isolated in-| i | stances flict between ‘the| warring groups { The dr move by the Eleventh | Naval District headquarters —was designed put an end the fighting and placed all of Los An~ geles on the arvea list foR| Marines and Coast Guards=| . Cagliari 3 in uniforms of of con jo Calabria: sk threat, head- landing : ina Marsalaé San Giovanni SICILY to w restriced sailor men Squadron. A nique “demand commu- that the was made and inhabi- Pantelleria patrolmen | night to entorced. | “out of} except | duty | of shore TPANTELLE RIA treets last order the city personal or ranged that The oirder for the the mace &Sousse TUNISIA ™ bounds naval those gnment The downtown on special passes STATUTE MILEG & s In the Mediterranean theatre of operations, Allied attacked in raids which’ struck hard at Sar- ng Switzerland said velogees. were at Cagliavi, streets were vir<| fually free of youths clad in zoot badge of the street gangs which engaged in the recent clash- with the service men In Long Beach, a group of Navy en in a small theater spotted a zoot suited lad in the audience and went after him. The zooter ed to the stage where he was cor by the seamen and stripped his peg-topped pants while the and the audience here | Circled areas were objectives of recent Allied air v T at underlined cities were and the toe of “Itabi Reports red said th fensive. audience when she appeared on a suits, the 8 communigues disclosed. Targets y Pantelleria Island, northward from southern Haly, and a Rome broadeast as a result of the Allied air of a long-term screen coniract with e to study grand opera, but will be “eity districts proper” meanwhile, was night, stating that the gar- to resist, and Sardinia, had been abandoned of Davies, Stalin Shake Hands ~ BIG MOVEIS 5€00t- nered of show Work went on cheered men r was said lost, the Apprunhnu{ when the Allied defen- sive strategy in the Southwest Pa- leific may give way perhaps to a full scale attack on the Japanese. /i | Curtin made his declaration fol- {lowing a conference at the ran !with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on' 9 1, e dass seo ‘Second Air Force Now Has Largest Headquarters ODDHIES OF | in Colorado A'[]'U BATTLE s’ Vi ARERELATED | Wash. June 10.—The hehdquarters ‘4.1 the Second Air Force, largest lhcuv; bombardment training or- ulenani Knew Fight, Was Over When Red Tape Began ganization in the world, has moved 1,500 miles from this Army air base to Colorado Springs, the Army Pub- WORDEN ress War | President Roosevelt’s envoy, shakes ha Russia, at the Kremlin in Moscow. Joseph E. Davies (left), with Premier Joseph Stalin, Associated Press photo. Duke and Duchess of Windsor Nearly Steal Welcome fo Churchill MANY ATTU ‘ JAPS TOOK -OWN LIVES Final Enemy Counteratfack Caught Americans Sleeping of (Continued on Pa:,e Three) il Lol S i (ONFEREN(E GROUP OKEHS STRIKE BILL Measure Bristli ng with Penalties Now Goes fo House | WASHINGTON, June 10~ {linz with penalty provisions, the FORT |lic. Relations Office announced today Maj. Gen. Davenport, command- |ing general, announced the change two months ago. The transference of the headquarters has been grad- {ual and is now completed The organization trains {crews for America’s heavy | > STINNETT 10—A look- By JACK WASHINGTON ing back on Winst Churchill’s econd speech before Congress makes it fairly skyrocket in import- ance as a historic incident There wa il outside to estimate the persons ATTU VILLAGE, Ju who were turned but 1 have layed)—The battle heard guesses all the way from 5000 was completed erday to 20,000. If the volume of cheers weary young lieutenant I R that greeted the minister on nothing he heard about the end of ¢ = P b i his approach i criterion, it action until he picked up a phone,© Anchorage, headquarters of CAA. as closer to the number. I in a tattered ten was using for | - stood by a score Britishers and supply headquarters and voice half of them had tears in their |said: eyes when that cheer went up. “Lieutenant, When Churchill made his ap-|here say I can't pearance on' the House floor, there | tions you want were 1,100 persons in the galleries— |isn't right. I which is just about twice capacity. |copies of it.” They choked the and the “Now I know s and used Lhe as bleach- | fighting is over er seats |ant, ‘“when they {seven coples we're son.” n all the bombers. | | | By WILLIAM Associated no offici Correspondent CAA TECHNICIAN FOR SHORT William Peck but beliaved CAA, arrived here from Haines this HERE ™ DAY technician with 1.—(De- for Attu! number of away )-day -Brist a prime ny er a BUY WAR BONDS these guys down draw those ra- because fhe order to have three coal ® o o 0 0 e o DIMOUT TIMES got and Dimout beégins tonight at sunset at 10:01 o'clock. |® Dimont ends tomorrow a damn garri.|® 8t sunrise at 3:53 a.m |® Dimout begins Friday |® sunser at 10:02 pm s e s e By WILLIAM L. WORE Associated Press War Correspondent CORIES LAKE, Attu, May 30 | (Delayed)—The final organized re- . . . lamn well ti 2 da el e aid the lieuten- b get to wanting doors teps at seem, the >so BUENOS AIRES, sune 10—Ar- cooperation with her sister Amer- ica through acts as well as words, in a brief statement on foreign pol- 1 Y Foreign relatiohs. iwitl -be. resu-| 0O} suiters Meet Up with in practice and by our acts to draw us ever nearer to our Ameri- - "Black Widows” leader stated The statement was issued after| (By Associated Press) ment also announced the lifting of |Los Angeles, a zoot-suited juvenile martial law which was declared gang of 125 clashed early today threw pro-Axis leader Castillo. |the former were detrousered before Dispatches from Mon v.dm;mv military ~police and reserves ing an eventual break with the Axis by Ramirez. tion Approved-U. S. MOSCOW, June 10. — The last ) vestiges of the Comintern have new anti-strike bill has been ap- mittee announces that sections in/€nce committee in a form ’which 30 nations have approved dissolu- SPonsors assert will keep plants The United States is not included | PY walkouts “if anything can” its Communist Party received, Almed particularly at the The Comintern was established|authorizes the government to seiz in 1919 to mobilize the working Strikebound mines or plants Sl The bill superimposes a 30-da “cooling-off” period before walk of Rangoon, was a_haven for giant|owned war industries. turtles until occupied by the Jap-| The measure goes to the Hou: | as Words Now GANGS IN gentina intends to work closer in President Ramirez said last night lated not only »\uh words but (xlxo‘ Seer(emen—Glfls as can brothers,” the new A nlm('; a cabinet meeting as the govern-| At Watts, outlying district of Friday after a coup d'etat over- with 90 Servicemen and many of quoted observers there as forecast-|quelled it. | R | v 30 NATIONS Not Included been serapped. The Executive Com- Proved by a Senate-House confer- tion which was decided on May 22./and mines running uy.in;vnnplul permission to withdraw in 1940 |wage dispute, the revised measuic class all over the world |outlaws strikes. Diamond Island, 140 miles .snmhmuts .can be called in privately- anese. Jor consideration first, Strange as it may big- (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three)