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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME VOL. LXI., NO. 9367. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRHY\—Y JUNE 11, 1943 "y PRICE TEN CENTS ——— | PANTELLERIA ISLE FORT SURRENDERS Russian Air Power Now Whipping Invaders ( | | NAZI GROUND From Moscow Mission ~ ARGENTINA (oast Guard Boal Biasts, Sinks Nazi Sub | WHITE FLAG TROOPS LOSE {3 i RECOGNIZED v 1S HOISTED AIR SUPPORT BYU.S. NOW BY ITALIANS Soviel Bombers Dealing New Government Formal-‘ American Forces Begin Oc- Severe Punishment ly Notified Says Sec- cupation of Outpost fo Enemy refary Hull at Once Whongr ool g it ot ey ot ‘ate Condet’ 2l il AXIS DEFENSE RING BROKEN BY AIRMEN premacy over the Kuban Valle |announced the United States has after two months of violent ma | recognized the new Government of Not a Single Ground Sol- dier Used in Capture aerial combat over the Axis’ West- | Argentina headed by President Ra= of Vital Base ern Caucasus bridgehead . | mirez i Dispatches from the front said R 2 3 Lo | At today's conference with the| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 11—Pantel- | | i { | | { [ I | | | enhower’s for promptly moved ashore to take ow the Italian cutpost in the Sicilian Straits, breaking the ring of Axis ) A 11.—The British| officially reco BRITAIN AL X()\l)()\ nment iz d the new Government of Ar- gentina \ | |a [ garrison was announced in a spec- ial communigue. Greatest Attack Yet The climactic raids on Pantelleria vesterday and last night were de- scribed here as the greatest Allied air attack of the war from the . point of bomb tonnage dropped e was depth-cha on al at Seattle, New York on their surprise arriv this fact is declared to account for { newsmen, Secretary Hull said U.8.| +Government at mnoon today the end of May “our Stormovik Buenos Aires. | bombers have been able to punish leria surrendered - unconditionally A | States and Argentina either direct- | if deprived of their strong air sup- {1y or indirectly ] i & 3 § war. port, and the German airmen are x | 2 2 s " 3 & ¢ Gen. Dwight E the Russian lines with hundreds of tanks and plane-supported troops. The fall of Pantellevia came ex- y aftel cost the Germans 300 men, five| tanks and two planes. the comparative lull in fighting in Ambassador Armour delivered th Asked whether he expected any! German troops on the battlefield today after 19 solid days of bom- unwilling to engage the stronger | ; 3 e & 3 : e« fortified islands guarding Southern The battle occurred bet . W : ! RS v/ > o e S B g R G S S s ik urred between Rostov g —— o e T A 1'% ¢ i+ actly three years and one day r gl Bt o . :"'1- "»'I i Ttaly entered the war. The uncon- n with Lt. J. D. Stamm (left) his naval aide, and Dr. b i o ditional surrender of the Ttalian 5 ] The Washinaton Relocation Camp Japs that area. | recognition note to the Argentinian | | change in Argentina's neutrality | at will without loss to themselves.” said nothing of that nature has| derRniaie that’ “ihE - Cermah pardment and the most concen- Russian air fleet and its faster and A Soviet communique told of a Europe from invasion for the first and Taganrog. Joseph E. Davies (center), the President’s per temporary German gain was Arthur F. CH ( U TS F F Merry -Go-Round L Sl e erry - L0 - houn fore Food for ineir Deterted il ssemping 10 e foko an it somvoy, & German, ebmar | | New Govemmem Beheves (top) by the Coast Guard cutter Spencer, formerly stationed in Alaska. The “ash 8 An Izvestia dispatch said since i 4 sition in the war, Secretary Hull Military observers said it is un- been taken up between the United S fenone EeetnbbABELnE to do batae wrated Allied aerial attack of the higher climbing planes. German lunge yesterday against time, Thirty-five miles to the west, a' Staun, is sk pushed back by the Red Army and| Wash., from Mos target of similar size. By DREW PEARSON crew of the cutter | The island is 32 square miles in : watch their work which forced the sub to the surface (center) with its conning tower blasted open by jarea and is formed by a long dead (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) e Expeded Para!roopersf bismain b e v nificant fact regarding the after-| | math of the Roosevelt-Churchill| o RN 5 | continuing to take troops out of SEATTLE IN ‘,old Townsend, former chief of sup-|new Argentina Government has ay' » the toe of the Italian boot. Western Europe and pile them into ,))15 and transportation officer for|cancelled all facilities which per The garrison's white flag was Russia. |the Poston, Ariz, Jap relocation | mitted the Axis embassies and their " " B BRI i S S ot i displayed on hill 74 on the north- This means one of two things: HOI w l IER | center, testified before a Dies con | nationals to transmit code messages B | I I l S Slg n ed by | ern part of the island. This infof- at picked up members of the | volcano. The isle lies about 45 mules east ul Cap Bon, Tunisia, and is about miles by air south of chily. 1 to settle (bottom) the cutier crewmen in a lifeh Coast Guard photos. 1. The Nazis are not worried| | gressional subcommittee that thp{dml)-_ Japs there cached bread and other| Many observers believe the code (Continued on Pnge Three) over the prospect of an Allied in- vasion of Europe. | food in the desert for invasion messages contained information A 48 T 2. Hitler is determined to make| forces of paratrooper | that was aiding Axis submarines. resl e“' ooseve ' one last gamble, throwing all he| OVER VI(E‘ The committee made the testi-| In the meantime both Germany pRESIDENI mony public after hearing it in|and Italy sent notifications to the : has into Russia, in a win or lose| attempt to take the Soviet out of | % secret session on May 26. | Argentine Foreign Office recogniz- | | Townsend said “we purchased|ing the new Government. MAJOR s"l[S ls | WASHINGTON, June 11 l’ns}v- Sh’lke Ihreaiens Anew the war. |dent Roosevelt has signed the ps iplomatic information coming | 750 pounds of bread daily. They| (1'(’>:x’npl:euu|:al céu;trlestis unmmak‘z, Federal OflKlals Charge are um)»‘ ‘-xvlwt l:xe:d :\L:‘st :nd Ul” | ss Au‘o USE 'Ax (AllED OVERSEAS as-you-go income tax bill abating A"er l(keS Pena"y ‘ ASKS 'TALY able that German troops have been| Police Department |maiory of it was dried and) {frem 75 to 100 percent of one year's taxes and imposing 20 S'aeemem | withdrawn from (a) Norway, even 3 iy stored away. : 3 though there is talk of a British with Inefficiency | “They stated they hoarded thci STAMPS ON SALE |~ rovvine new vork ciry the tat- (e M0 g Tevy against | landing operation there; from (b) S food—bread and other supplies— ter part of for overseas €U |gajapjes and wages, effective July WASHINGTON, June 11 An- France, despite newspaper gossid| gpapTLE, June 11. — Several [or invasior b | The new Federal auto use tax was Major 1 S of ;"‘f 1. other coal strike is threatened. about a cross-Channel invasion;! peqera) officials appeared unan- | % stamps for the year beginning July U. 8. Alr C ; of Mrs.| pepresentative Harold Knul\un John L. Lewls, President of the e also from (c) southern Italy, d("nuun('ed at a meeting of Seattl 1, 1943, are now on sale at the Jo M of Minnesota, Republican AX yynited Mine Workers today angrily Ul’geS Peop’e '0 ESfathh Major Stiles was a pilot for Unit- | gooioc o e i : SPOKGRORRY Bl "””"‘“' A Genounced what he called “brutal " " spite daily Allied bombings of that ity council yesterday and churged Post Office here. area, ! I Every person who operates ed Air Line operating between | ig wgeyenty-tive percent Ruml plan.” @ o . 5 ik police officials to their faces with | Y : S ase | New . Yok and Chicago until, &6 s application of economic sanctions OWH NOH'AXIS GOV' Apparently the Nazis figure on|failing effectively to enforce laws, automobile is required to pur ew . York and Chicag el Promising ' an increase in indi-'g "oCq0 oo o puel Administrator letting the Italians defend their|against prostitution. this stamp and display it on the|was called up from the reserve vidual income tax revenues 10 poioa 1 Ickes that bituminous emmem [] own homeland, and reckon that the| Police Chief H. D. Kimsey has w Iness windshield. They cost $5 each and fall, Nines ‘\\lnch‘ ,m"]l.fl ‘h'l ‘;;-m?i.:‘ |about sixteen billion dollars in the| -t L Ul S L v in the June islands of Sicily and Sardinia are|been asked to resign as a result ! | the Federal laws provide penalties an instructor a ) g |new fiscal year beginning July e 8 qilkout e fined a daltar s PR failure to have the stamp dis- |Fort Bragg and other Uaining cen- | the measure makes radical changes WASHINGTON, June 11, — Presi- as good as gone anyway. At any|of the recent disclosure of vice |for day rate German military activity in-|operations in Seattle but has ve-| H npl'xyed "ters in the southern states {in the revenue system in use since! " Dol Lop0 pimcelf, from dent Roosevelt declared today that side Italy is confined to the indus-|fused to quit. ! Bom ardl“ { |1913. Some of these chan [ saying what he would do, but some the surrenderof Pantelleria is very trial North, where strong fortifica-| One of the officials charged the 1--Puts into effect July 1 a 20 m;““ workers' officials in the coal good news, and at the same time y he appealed indirectly, but very tions are being erected. | police knew all of the madames| X | percent withholding levy on Wages gioids warned of another stopps All this would indicate that Hit- and prostitutes in town and even b s [ |and salaries, above basic exemp- guiitaveously with the an- SUOnE. to Italy to get out of tha ler figures Italy is more or less of “call them by lhl’“‘ first names” Amarican General Aboard | tions of $12 weekly for single per-}, ot O Lewis and some VAT a weight around his neck and that Hl [ P . [ " sons and $24 weekly for married, mine operators had gotten together: The Commander-in-Chief of Am- he would be glad to drop it just as ORIGINM. DRAWING “ British Crafl She"mg Ex( u 'n |“ese pius dependent. aliowances o wabes (o break the deadlock €/iCVS arimed might said at a press long as he can keep the Allies from | 2 Abates a full year's tax (the|yeciaraee foges issued a statement CORferencé that the United Nations ey would ne Could assure the Ttalian people that 1 penetrating beyond Italy. And with | OF AD( |"S|G"|A ; Pamellena ; lesser of 1942 or 1943) for f“.' Per- iy forming mine | | ons owing §50 or less in that year.|gnaq for their June 1 to 5 stop- they now have the opportunity of the Alps to help him, this should‘ H Do Pomdisle-—AL lessl Wiks atier he i P I n s ow A “notch” provision gives everyone'y ..o iy B . : . Choosing to find if it is a non- xdel GIVEN T0 MUSEUM suozmo sesnavsrzes o v e e s e P8, And warned al any new v govsrman finishes his great and last i NORTH AFRICA, June 11—Gen.| walkouts would cause the same pen 3 3 they want established after Fascism > Haen alties to be inflicted in Russia. o Dwjght D. Eisenhower : ¥ | Territorial Museum Curator Ed- PRl - ‘ 3 e | 3.—Can 75 percent. of the has been driven from Italy o AN TVt e S fward 1. Kéitann. received Soaay. L EEUE STUEE R 00 s oo By JACK STINNETT B iiate: are. woldiEs A RO e o T g e, uMoal of the qoerttons'. cuntrhels " SE L CRIRC L R » LAND 1) N | v R T s Ora. forces within close rang Pan-| \wASHINGTON, June 11.— Old- T oiatation Ty SRR S| 0 Oy 3 LaXes with the miners have a clause call- A The opinion of this columnist,| from Col. William L Wilson, Ord- pending legislation has U for other persons, with provision jno for a dollar a day fine when 'N€ United Nations, he sald, that telleria’s shore batteries last Tues- ny | = 5 | 3 he Alask De-1 {timers on Capitol Hill can't recalllgnye perfunctory notice in this . urel. rsonal, is tha nance Officer for the ska " ” : nc ' was Y I that purely personal, is that both of| day when the fortress was bom-j., .., any proposal has caused 50 |country, : h ve ded . [fense Command, the original draw- p.. e ape MEHions. A fipe, pnd bded, |little stir in this country and 0| Ttaly will be restored to nationhood they pay the remaining work is stopped “without _good | percent in two equal installments reason | (Continucd on Page Three) that there will be no real land in-|ing of the insignia of the ADC, qhis was disclosed here today by % sheond se: fhis wanding meas- § , A : ; in March, 1944 and March, 1945, e | vasion of Europe this year (the i \‘“‘“H»'"““ by Col. Wilson and ac Admiral Cunningham, Allied Naval L",‘:f Lfl):lm :Lm; ll:‘ww ‘,;u”( iing Here’s why the mg o are $0 4. Requires persons with more A DGRATMER : e s lands of Sicily and Sardinia being|ed by Gen. Simon B. Buckner as commander in the Mediterranean, Chmn; ottt 1ing | important, according to I' "”,”'.”L,h” thath | $100. - thocrne” ekl siada: TTW NOG -,-"‘“”‘ ot S A N exceptedy, and also that Hitler, ap.the ADC's official insignia to be who also witnessed the bombard-|*pyir CP¢ 3 % draton m,.‘“’*;‘i;‘(;;"‘“:iv"”‘l_l'::"“”‘;f”';U,“‘ - and salaries, and all single persons| '\ M”"“f” ""‘_" :"A";“fl":"‘m" DIMOUT TIMES parently confident of this, will do|Worn by the defenders of the Ter- ment with Eisenhower. with $2,700 income and married per- - watchxng the progress of these bills oan pest be described as “tonchy accepted the position of assistant PR ER R tonight hs utmost to take Russia out of ritory. T o 1i g X . ons with $3500 income, to esti- el RIS | ike hawks. They could have a Pro- | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has st athnoevant e o, the war this summer. | The insignia is the head of a 1ERIES AGENT [found effect on relations between -done ,',1 m;"_““‘”‘ Y e X % mate their earnings for 1943 in o ;:l‘-:.;:‘lx;:x\«:x. '»:’ir I“‘“““,“.'i\:i‘x at sunset at 10:02 o'clock. i Isnarling bear, Ursa ajor or -3 N ) v i o NCRE | aturn 111 Py I Internal Revenue h She arrive g These deductions are relatively Snarling bear, Ursa Major or’ the IN FROM WRANGELL|ihe “Big Pour” of the United Ni-|dissident clements in line, and '¢'Wm filed before September 15,000 three weeks ago from Poit- ,,l:’,‘,‘,‘:&: R ?:,\ n:nmm and to pay quarterly beginning land, Ore simple and can be drawn by any Big Di|>£)er, protecting Pola; the Mark M , Fisheries agent atitions right now, and even mMOr® keeping Chirfa steadfastly in the good military observer. Since the North Star. The bear represents Wrangell, is in Juneau assisting|tar-reaching repercussions on post- United Nations ranks. | September 15, 1943, on all of that the ODC and the North Star, Alus- on repairs of vessels. He was ac-!war planning. i £ | | 22 ) i i (Continued on Page Four) ka. The background is blue. companied here by Mrs. Meyers. It's a cinch, too, that Axis pro- (Continued on Page Four) | (Continued on Page Four) | BUY WAR BONDS Dimout begins Saturday at sunset at 10:03 p.m. e e e s e