The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9368. JONEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12,1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S. BOMBERS HIT WESTERN EUROPE e Air Attacks Made On Jap Pacific Bases SHOWER 42 TONS BOMBS ON NIPPONS Koepang Is Mass of Flames -Rabaul Airfields Blasted ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 12. — Heavy| bombers of the Fifth Air Force struck unusually strong blows in two directions yesterday, turning Timor's capital of Koepang into a “mass of flames,” and dumping more than 42 tons of bombs on the two Rabaul airdromes More than 19 tons were dumped in one two-hour attack as 15 Liber- ators roared over Koepang in the| most extensive raid ever made on| tconunued on Pagt. Threel The Washmgton‘ Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ! (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON —Not many knrw’ it, but during the early stages of | the coal controversy, John L. Lewis received scores of telegrams from | labor groups not affiliated with the miners, many of them rwuli CTO unions, lauding his stand in| bucking the War Labor Board and | the Administration. | This was one of the things which | spurred Lewis' fight, also caused Lewis’ rival, CIO's Phil Murray, se- vere headaches. But if those who wired Lewis | could have sat in on the confiden- ! - tial session of the House Milita Affairs Committee when it consid- | ered the Smith-Connally bill, the might have had a different reac- tion.. They would have seen the! effect John L. Lewis’ tactics had on Congress and the irreparable harm he has done the labor move- ment. Working like greased lightning, the Military Affairs Committee ap- proved the Smith-Connally bill in record time. Sincere hard-working Chairman May gaveled it through | with such speed that many mem- bers scarcely knew what was it. Several Republicans, very signi- ficantly, were much more friendly to labor than the Democrats. | Southern Congressmen were for | going the limit. But Mrs. Clare Luce of Connecticut and LeRoy Johnson of California protested a good many of the drastic anti-| —— labor pl‘OV_isions, and were the ernment and managers of mines. | only comljn?Wee members to» reserve Three Alabama mines also were their decision to vote against the‘ shut down because of a walkout| bill on the House floor. Later when Assistant Secretaly of War McCloy, most liberal execu- tive in the War Department, testi- fied before the committee in oppo- sition to the bill, the chief ques-| tion thrown at him was regarding John L. Lewis. Congressmen want-| ed to know if some legislation such| as the Smith-Connally bill was not needed to curb strikes of this kind.| McCloy, a genuine friend of labor admitted that Lewis' action had in sel GIRAUD'S MEDAL FOR EISENHOWER » LAMPEDUSA | NAZIS GAD ATLANTIC COAST AGAINST INVASION iu S. PLANES SURRENDER HEEEEE. B - MAKE RAIDS NOW ASKED & i = . - TWO POINTS Allies Turn Air Power on§ . ‘Smash Shipyards, Installa- Second Fortified tions at Wilhelmshav- Italian Island en and Cuxhaven ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| S 4 > 1 LONDON, July 12—A formation NORTH AFRICA, June 12 The | : - i S of more than 200 American heavy Allied Air Forces made history by| i i L 3 bombers renewed the Allied offen- forcing the capitulation of Pantel- x foi sive on Western Europe, smashing leria without the intervention of &y _ o L . e 3 o " at (hlvl [(‘-c fm :!,nlx;_vfluu: ;1||th }.)m:‘ single ground soldier, and today! .t " installations at Wilhelmshaven an | Cuxhaven, turned the full weight of its pnwer; A B i X s b i e against the Ttalian island of Lamp-| & . s P b ne bembers flew a round trip of | i {more than 600 miles without a | edusa, 80 miles south. | : % % e | ' ¢ ‘ fighter escort, the United States AT CEREMONIES in the Palais D'Ete in Algiers, French High Commis=- sioner Gen. Henri H. Giraud (left) places his own Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, American commander of Allied forces in Africa. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (Internationel) MINERS IN NEW STRIKE IN DISPUTE Workers Protest Ickes’ Fines - Four Mines Shuf Down WASHINGTON, June ]2 N(’V\ walkouts threatened in coal dispute today as Fucl Com- dinator Harold L. Ickes qualified a plan to levy fines on soft coal miners who struck last week. The War Labor Board, mean- while, prepared a decision in the dispute. At the same time, the Uml('d |Mine Workers' local of Windber,| Penn., voted to strike because Sec-! retary Russell Folt’s board “refused to sanction $1.30 portal pay and be- cause of Ickes' proposal to deduct $5 from the men’s pay.” Nearly 1,600 men in the three| COLORFUL— Shirley Pat- ‘pix.s voted and nearly 200 Ia)led’ terson, film player, models a sun | t0 show up for work on the mld-j suit with full ballet skirt of |night shift. | seersucker in bands of pink, rose Earlier in the evening, Ickes an- and wine. The bra is pink, trim- | nounced the workers would have a med with darkest shade of skirt, |chance to escape the payments| ~ |through bargaining with the gov-| described as a protest against the FROM ATTU UNION ASKS A captured Japanese tlag hangs| l E G I 0 N F 0 R' the Governor's office today, pre- i , i {|sented to Gov. Ernest Gruening ln‘ weakened the War Departmem's‘me Commanding General on Attu. ‘ After three weeks' absence, Gov. position. One day after this hearing, the Military Affairs Committee met for| 1 Gi I ni, ruening returned by plane last! ght, direct from the Aleutian bat- final consideration of the bill. 1t|tieground—Attu and Kiska. SaYS Amerl(afl leglon Is allotted from 10:30 a.m. to noon to rewriting it, rushed it to the floor at 12 o'clock sharp. In other words in just one hour| }m \“L and a half, the safeguards labor|Pravery’ Commending those who took part the battle, the Governor said Readlonary_Womd he boys did a magnificent joh, they \)mwvd great courage and Form Own n the face of adverse had built up through two strug- ‘weamm All(l terrain conditions.” TORONTO, Onr.ann S an. gling decades, many of them with| GOV. Gruening spent several days The United Automobile Workers the help of F. D. Roosevelt, were oD Attu Island, and flew over Kis- | international * Executive Committee | gavelled out the window—largely| ka a number of times. He visited sqopted a resolution today asking! hecause of the manner in which |81l of the various military sighs the CTIO to consider organizing a one labor leader, John L. Lewis, " had put his interests before those| of his country. ‘ SURPRISED AND MIFFED When the President announced 2! the new Office of War Mobiliza- the Aleutians and talked With papor Legion of returning United local boys seeing service in that gtates soldiers. |part of the country. UAM President R. J. Thomas Before going to the Aleutians, saiq the Flint, Mich., local asked it JGov. Gruening made brief stODS (, combat the “reactionary influ- ong the Alaska Peninsula for ¢ ce” of the American Legion. |the purpose of establishing Alaska ¥ Gl s | Territorial Guard Units at the (Continued on Page Four) various villages, BUY WAR BON 'at Killisnoo, are in Juneau enroute Can’t be determined positively yet, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's head- : ) quarters announced - that Lampes 2 3 o Air Force Headquarters said in the dusa is only about half the size of 3 s 5 ok & e communique, Eight of the American bombers Pantelleria, which turned in its ¢ checks yesterday after the great| FEARING AN ALLIED INVASION, the Nazis are hurriedly preparing to stave off the Allies as shown by these failed to return. massive guns which line the European Atlantic “wall.” This picture, which was copied from a German A large number of challenging est deluge of bombs ever to fall| p ¥ . ¥ g on so small a target since air war= magizine, and reached us through a neutral source, shows huge cement-set guns in action. (International) enemy planes were shot down > k - fare began o e IR The Allied airmen began a sin . B day afternoon and last night and have issued an ultimatum on the| : Lampedusa garrison asking sur-! # - % ) , -; render of the Italians there. { § i ;. v But an ‘Italian report said the ,,uxnv\m is “heroically resisting” | COEEEE . L e : L A communique indicated Allfed’ G s A naval for also are hitting the - o ; { island, de ing, “naval and air action yesterday was rencwed and (mcreasedagainst the smai gurri- g o Huge Crowd Expeded at K|5ka Bombed Four Times son on Lampedusa.” The Htalians also issued thei fiss : o & Baseball Park Here Thursday by U. S. communique since the fall of what they considered their Gibraitar, ; % 2 ng the Pantelleria garrison : i v Tomgh' | PI|0fS surrendered “12,00 to 15,000 strong.” : § : T Previous estimates were that there WASH!NGTON June 12. — The were 8,000 Italians on the island With the weather promising, a Navy reports continued fighting in The initial blows at Lampedusa ihuge crowd is expected to turn out the western Aleutians revealing yesterday brought down 14 more ” for the U. S. Army vs. Coast Guard that American bombers raided Jap enemy aircraft at the loss of three M i ; Islugfest in the baseball park to- installations on Kiska four times Allied pl:mm oo o night to see Juneauw's Sgt. Hank Thursday and that 66 Jap strag- : 4 Majcher tangle with Coast Guards- glers were killed by U. 8. Army man Harold “Red” Rasmussen in Palrols on Attu a few days ago. i : . 5 the main event of six bouts. The communique said “during Judges, referee and timers were Uhe night of June 8 and 9, U. 8. AWARD FOR OPERA DIVA —o0pera Star Lily Pons g # oot Army patrols on Attu Island killed |announced this morning. Secretary (right) receives the Essex County (N. J.) Symphony Society’s |of Alaska E. L. Bartlett, Hank Har- 00 Japanese and captured one in Annual Achievement Award from Mrs. Parker 0. Griffith, society | % - . the area between Sarana Bay and 5 mon, former pro, and E. C. Adams _ b . i woRR'ED jAp president, at opening of a Grand Opera Festival at Newark, N. J. of 1he " Biite’ Btudios, oldtims. ath- ‘C"Lr::“ Kl:lrr“llx’r‘nkor T:‘!mf v}ah‘ no 2 letic trainer, will be the judges. iy Sotiviky | on: other DRSS the island. E. L. Com- | R"\"”e"d“"'“ "L R v . L Som-| “on June 10, during the after- arm a or ro em |mons, and timekeepers selected 8r¢ oo, - Apmy Mitchells and Libera- | Lieut, (jg) Lanee Hendrickson, torg along with Lightning and ‘[j'n.xted States Coast Guard, and wurhawk fighters, made four at- First Lieut. Lowell Addis of the tacks on Japanese installations on {American Propagandists 'S Repflried on Me“d; R it nd Bating - SRR L Played on Supersti- J | Just in case it does run, the placements and slong the runwass ] eld a a et n ) ! |bouts will be held in the Juneau and barges were strafed by the tion of Nips Swing-Back Is Moving = 2 g : { The preliminaries will all be four| The total Jap casualties now re- WASHINGTON, June 12—Am- | two-minute rounds, with contes- ported from Attu reached 1,911 evican! toftes. on Abtn 'plagued tt By JACK STINNETT ationwide and likely to grow inj@hts wearing 8-ounce gloves dead and, 21 captured with this aps with their most dreaded om WASHINGTON, June 12 This v The main event between Majcher latest announcement of Bad Ik Aa well ds with billets' syt ‘the. Kind of speculatioall ‘A" (hird phint is that labor gh§ind. Resmussen, “however, will be. The A Kiitre minoe remnatiy and bombs. agriculture and labor officials won't agriculture officials now talk six three-minute rounds, if it lasts Of the enemy are trapped s at the Dipping into Jap mythology, Am- |ike, since they are in the midst of terms of a land army of 3,500000.|that long, and the welters will extreme nesthesstern Hp of 198 erican propagandists . discovered g vast recruiting program for a|Some of these will get jobs aplenty Wear six-ounce mittens s that in Japan there is nothing more land army to work the farms, but| when the seasonal farm work The bouts start at 7:30 o'clock feared than the premature falling if things keep on at the present| reaches its peak, but it’s a pretty(on the dot and the price of ad- 2 . of leaves from the Kiri tree. All rate farm labor is going to be one safe guess that some will never do|Mission for civilians is $1.50. Serv- Bn“Sh ouldals kinds of misfortune is supposed 10 of the least of our war problems. |'more than a few days or at most/icé men can crash the gate for befall any village where this oc- T don’t mean that some sections a few weeks of work. At the mo- |90 cents. Rea(h" "h A'rl curs. Plays have been built around wen’t be hard hit when harvest ment, the Women's Land Army is | The Card o ta I this superstition. comes, because farm labor is pri- aiming at a “standing army” of| Here's tonight’s card in brief, i ol So the propagandists arranged marily a sectional and seasonal only 10,000 full-time farm work- | with the Juneau man listed first: | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN that many Kiri leaves fall on At- matter that can only be taken care ers and a veserve of 50,000 addi-| Speedy Trevino vs. Erwin Cape, NORTH AFRICA, June 12. — Sir tu. of by a surplus of labor on hand tional part-time workers and offi-}flyweight James Grigg, British Secretary of The story came to light after Ar- or itinerant Jaborers who move with | eials are going about it in the in-, Sgt. Eddie Pinelli vs. Seaman State for War, and Air Secretary, thur W. Schuett, Jr., naval avia- the crops. telligent manner of building corps|2nd. Rehm, lightweight Sir Archibald Sinclair, arrived in tion machinist's mate back from But there is every indication that where they are most likely to be —Swede Stutred vs. Gunner's Mate NOFUh Africa today. the Aleutians, told how American the bottom of the scarcity of farm needed. Henninger, middleweight 4 RS e i Ll:et: dropped “maple leaves” on iabor .ha.\ \wr.‘n reached ;m({ L_hat 'bA pur’im;»:) rm‘; }:;nd ;..Irmi' will be Cook Cooper vs. Carpenter Jack PLEADS GUILTY an “OWT job,” and that the leave : e o s eofd ayelag I e Bl va, Red Ein, pice MENE MIBEIRMASD Ai N L TR e s oo id ‘exe o $his] dreweight a drunk and disorderly charge. He r Selective Service orders, land army idea, since most of the — yunx Majcher vs. Red Rasmus- Pleaded guilty and paid a fine of - Kiri leaves. 1 vor] | deferment of farm labor is now Workers will be inexperienced and|g., welterweight $50, plus doctor's fees The Kiri tree known in the play, being recognized as a necessity, unused to the hardships of farm “One Leaf Kiri," related how the Drafting of essential farm laborers life. But when they are driven to e | %4 power of grabbing militarists met has virtually ceased desperation by labor scarcity, farm- JUAN ‘RRERO SERVICES le o o o o its downfall because the Kiri leaves Secondly , farm workers who €rs will welcome them. Farm offi- | FOR MONDAY MORNING ' e i i tell too soon. flocked to Industry to get some of Cials here are positive that once i S | MMOUT TIN Although enlarged somewhat, the those seemingly fabulous wages the farmers try land army labor, 3 i : : Kiri leaves dropped on the Japs have disgovered the truth of the|they will be happy to have it back Final rites for Juan Guerrero,|® Dimout begins tonight on Attu were colored to resemble old adage about all is not gold, ete former Juneau f’v\lih’nl who died ® at sunset at 10:02 o'clock, the real thing and were made of High rents poor but costly food, Purthermore. the much ma- " Sp‘“”]r Mu\‘ 35,.will ba held Iy 9 Tumgut. e ”d.,\ Somarme paper. and in’ many instances appalling|ligned Farm Security Administra- yhc Catholic Church of the Nativ- ® at sunrise at 3:52 a.m, B - living conditions have resulted in|tion s doing a whale of a job in ity Monday morning, June 14, at ® Dimout bs s Sunday at INDIAN AFFAIRS % back-tq-the-farm movement. that | bringing farm labor from Jamaica,| ® 2™ | & e A 380 D TEACHERS HERE bash caused numerous squawks Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and| LD deference to his own request, ¢ Dimout ends Monday afsun- Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. McGee,|(fom war industry management. To Mexico. Over-all figures on these CUerrero’s body will be buried be- @ rise at 3:51 a'm Bureau of Indlan Affairs teachers What extent this is taking place|temporary importations have not de that of his wife in the Ever.'e Dimout begins Monday at green Cemetery. Mrs. Guerrero died ® sunset at 10:05 pm (Continued on Page Three) here last August LI I B B B B ) i} ®escecscscessos to their new post at Port Graham, Put some observers here think it