The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE 1:!""15" JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1943 VOL. LXL, NO. 9369. SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - e e U.S. STARTS HEAVY RAIDS ON SICILY " Nonstop Air Raids On Germany Continued NAZISEOWN | YankBase af Adak AMERICANS Field Piece Crew in Action on Ath 'AIRDROMES 26 FLYING | FORTRESSES Many EneTTTy Fighter Planes Destroyed- Attack Still On (By Associated Press) Royal Air Force objectives in the Rhineland and other parts of Ger- many were bombed heavily last night and the RAF laid mines in enemy waters as the virtually non- stop offensive from Britain was ex- tended. The specific targets were not named, nor was there any specific indication of the size of the raid- ing groups. One British plane was lost, the Air Ministry said. Formations of the big Blackbell bombers were heard passing over the channel last night, taking up the offensive where the U. S bombers left off after Sunday day- light attacks on the German sub- marine plant nests at Bremen and Kiel. Berlin Repprts Raid The Berlin radio reported British planes over the north and west scetions of Germany but declared (Continued on Page Four) The Wa;lylinglou Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—No longer a se- cret inside the Diplomatic Corps is the jealousy between Madame Chiang Kai-shek and her brother, T. V. Soong, the Foreign Minister of China. While they were in Washington they did not speak, and it is doubtful if they exchanged more than a few words all dyring Madame Chiang’s visit in the East- e USA. On one occasion when Madame Chiang was in Washington, the unhappy Chinese Ambassador had to remain at his home hoping for a call from Madame Chiang, there- fore was late getting to dinner at Madame Chiang's brother’s. Arriv- ing at the Soong house, the Am- ~ [ HITIAPS number of storage buildings on the harborside in various stages of completion, 5. Navy Seabees, construction battalian members work on docking facilities as improvement of American advanced bases goes forward on Adak Island in Dutch Harbor. the Aleutians, 397 miles west of Propose Name Alaska's Aleutians in Honor of General Billy Milchell BOMBERS IN BIG ATTACK, * TWO SECTORS ‘Fires Are Started on Kan- aur Airdrome-Visible for F[fiy Miles bassador was kept waiting in the| drawing room for a full hour and| a half until all the guests had fin- ished dinner. Only then was he permitted to great them. Reason for the jealousy between Madame Chiang and other mem-, bers of her family is the fact that she is the “kid” sister. And sud- denly through her marriage to Chiang Kai-shek she has taken all | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 14.—Flying For- itresses and Liberator bombers, con- | tinuing pounding of Jap airplane consentrations, dropped nearly 30 tons of bombs on Kanau airdrome and Rabaul yesterday and numer- | ous large fires were visible for a | distance of 50 Mmiles. | Fires were started on the air- PITTSBURGH, June 14.—John M. Phillips, Pittsburgh naturalist known as the “father of conserva- ti suggests the Aleutians be pamed “Gen. Billy Islands” in honor of the late Maj. Gen. Wil- liam B. Mitchell. Phillips said he proposed renam- g the Aleutians as a. tribute to Mitchell's predictions years ago that control of Alaska is vital to the control of the Pacific Said Phillips, “Bfilly told me” whoever controlled Alaska con- trolled the Pacific Ocean. He want- ed us to fortify Kiska Mountain end install underground airdromes there. * “We would then be safe forever from Japan,” he said, asserting that “Kiska is better than Gibral- tar and would control the Pacific as Gibraltar controls the Mediter- ranean.” ————.—— AMPHIBIAN IN CHINA {Nanchang Airfield Raided Heavily Sunday by Yanks CHUNGKING, China, June 14— | American planes carried out heavy bombings and strafing raids against | Jap strongholds in northern Kiang- si Province yesterday U. S. Air Force headquarters said | more than 100 bombs were dropped on the big airfield at Nanchang, Jap-occupied capital of the pro= vince, where direct hits were ored on the runways and gasoline dumps The Nanchang airfield probably is the most important Jap air base between Shanghai and Haukow All of the American Mitcheil bombers and P-40 fighters that | struck the blow returned sately to | their base. The raid was the eighty-secornd staged by the medium hombers. The squadron is commanded by Allen Forsyth, of Minneapolis. Front line dispatches, meanwhile, aescribed the Chinese raids Friday against the Jap defenses in - they Yochow area in northern Huuon Province. Four hundred Japs were reported slain. ! The Chinese struck swiftly in commando-like raids, then withdrew safely. Dispatches said food and ammunition dumps were set afile Counter-attacks by Chinese force: in three other sectors also were re- ported successful, a continuation of the drives which freed this pro visional capital’s rich farm lands and Hunan Province from immedi- ate danger. -+ SOVIETS ON - TTH WEEK OF AIR ATTACKS Moscow Cla—im—s3,3l9 Ger- man Planes Destroyed in Aerial Warfare MOSCOW, June 14.—The Red | Army Air Force today began the | seventh week of a fierce air bat- |tle that the Russians claim ha already cost the Germans 3310 1planes. | Soviet scouting detachments rc- | port offensive gains in the Orel | sector. Aitu Island swun The crew of a U. 8. field shell containers in forcground and men at left unpacking the deadly missles Sharpened Up Kodiak Defenses iire ircraft guns into positions, Should the Japs attack during ed Press photo from U. S. Army. NAZI PLAN ‘Deluge of Bombs Rained TO R E p E l. : . Sg:moon I()):JnSSZIdng , After (rucks have pulled their Island, Alaska in the background is ready to fire, Women, Trained af Heme, Fitfing Info = BLASTED BY LIBERATORS Lampedusa, Linosa Garri- sons Surrender fo Americans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 14.—Ameri- can heavy bombers of the Middie East Air Command smashed again yesterday at eastern Sicily and the airdromes at Catania and Gerbini, carrying the Mediterranean offen- sive to the island gateway to Italy. Fliers of the American Northwest African Air Forces confined their operations to patrols An Allied communique said ap- proximately 250,000 pounds of ex- plosives were dropped on the Ge: bini and Catania fields by large formations of Liberators of the Ninth U. 8. Air Force. British Escort ta - based fighters—Spitfires— again escorted the huge four-en- gined bombers on the last leg of the approach to the targets and during the attacks as well as for the first part of the return trip. Both targets lie about 125 miles north .of Malta. .. About 25 Axis aircraft were re ported in a U. S. bulletin- as ob- served in the revetments and the disposal areas at Gerbini “which with the runways were blanketed with bursts.” Three island stepping stones for the invasion already are 'in = the hands of the Alli Pantelleria, Lampedusa and Linosa. Lampedusa Island was occupied last night after 24 hours of intev- mittent naval and aerial bombard- ment forced the garrison to sur- render. Linosa, the third island to fall, was spared aerial attacks or naval bombardment by a swift, bloodless surrender, Sicily Is Next Sicily, at the toe of the Italian boot, appeared to be the next logi- (Continued on Page Four) it RAF SMASH TARGETS IN HEAVY RAID War Industry Jobs INVASION "™ the i - ¢ di ily, in Chis '}drume where reconnaissance pho- o o l;:etlk:z:ltwoo‘:'mng; {he head“:‘“ographs the day before revealed ‘{ Action is also in the rogion souti the family. And her older smer.;thg;:gag}:ne;:ierewz: tl:;egn::x;:i. }ELVCM;::SWEXDZ?::: L;h:naz'f";‘,’f night the RAF, resuming their Madame Kung would play a much | sian 3 ] : ' ; r ' § atrols hi oy 1 ' A S WA pige e it T B ot 08, Sack 1 Lo s s (o et MG e R L i ey e i blibger e “HAx Whard both 'of e big Jap base. | et settlements, the Soviet com- By JACK STINNETT a a score of . B I c | W Id M ment centers in the Reich, sent the e e Mitehell bombers raided Dili and | munique says. (L . —the job is calied burring ertin Lircies wou IN€ greatest force - of heavy bombers 3 y them out of their traditional place., poepang, Duteh Timor, and three A special Soviet communique i SEASPINCTON; duce fhoutSiep it of the war in attack: several In China, T. V. Soong had built| fjyeg 2 : % g TR b A que 1n-leffort to tap the last great labor A” B”hsh Harbors € 1 attacks on severa’ | fires were started at Koepang where dicates the ferocity and scope Of peservoir in the country, the Wo- 8 ¥ e ¢ ’ targets in the Ruhr and Rhine- ¥ The bureau found that this na- land, concentrating the greatestde- up an important position for him-|photographs showed a total of 50 “/ the Russian 3 » : 5 S air assaults, claiming 0 reau of 2 Departme! self and, his critics said, was plan-|puildings were destroyed in the two ar Depar'men' Reveals thit /the Getman. ot - Idsmés: 1as e Bureau of the D - ‘v“" of | ion of household gadgeteers and lates' Repor, luge of bombs on Dusseldorf -and W sses 1ast Labor has just finished an amazing yoppuicts have been equipping the T, s Dusse @ ning to ease the Generalissimo out|rajds made on that base last week S D i f week wer aids ma at base las : were 498 planes. 15- S g suivey o s s A Prrmtaind ome Defails o |Jeek were 480 planes. The Rus-land amusing surve) v fomate ot the species for. YOAFS 10 eptlagy Ui o S | s y oviet plaves Beeking to find what peacetime | grop right onto assembly lines and| STOCKHOLM, June 14—Berlin P l;"l“ 1‘"{"’“” Are zepaites o0 have been los! even had his own trained guards.| 0 : o % { were lost I it 5% g e However, while he was out of the T Y SECON perahon | lost last woek. pursuits, hobbies and household | jn many instances master the stint correspondents of Swedish papers country conferring with the inter | . | Moscow is today ablaze with the duties basically equipped WOmMeN . ch facter than their husbands quote German military circles as In a daylight raid Saturday, 200 e | " | 3 7 £ Red Flag of the Soviet Union in for work on the victory lines, the . o. ., y & 2 " American four-engined planes at- national bankers, Chiang Kai-shek | ARIER S '"(OME ! WASHINGTON, June 14. — The ever could. declaring the Germans will try to | * ) commemoration of United Nations’ bureau really = some discov- ¥ this s srhaps the tacked the naval bases at Wilhelm~ took over Soong's guards, trans-| (development of a 2%-ton amphi-|pgy i Back of s 1s perhape '€ smash any Allled amphibious in- g vo o e e % an ferred them into the army, and| TAX ON TOMORROW bien truck “capable of performing| i : re y women, barred by mas- vasion from Britain by using 2,000 - $ha; JQUxbaven . A 4 . : B ——————— For example, if you have ever| ., maat Tedtors weight of bombs dropped probably Brother T. V. came back to find |as reliably in water as on land, \ sewed on buitons or made button e | st factory planes to lay mines in every Brit- excacAing-tha % 600 oo himself shorn of power. Now Soong| |has been announced by the War b 2y jobs when war out, have lit- jsh harbor § - she tons l0o8ac i Second quarter income tax pay- ¥ | holes with your sewing machine, epally set the serers. baek| o Dortmund on May 22 remains more or less permanently| > a i Department. | 5 SRRy ‘st the a5 The correspondent for the Sven- & . in this country |ments, the last before Alaskans go| ™o "o t = L al : you are practically a spot welder. on their heel t ped With ! Jko Dackiadet said mining -apers Great damage is reported to have 5 < lon a pay-as-you-go plan which goes i ment engineers sal Any operator of an electric sewing| whjch they have become highly S M’[ 0 i ‘m“;'“ d:‘url-. been done at Dusseldorf to muni- : ‘t;we;:; :}111: G:;\eral:‘ss f:r lt‘;:‘zs into effect July 1, are due not mwr;tp‘o:sc:izblc of lx‘novm% troops, wea- | machine is in fair way to become| proficient in all industries from e tre il e g, tion works, dwellings and publie e v 8 & ~|than tomorrow, according to the supplies over land and a parachute maker. light to heavy. A b 45 puildings alo | | % WE ter than T. V. gets along with his| ajacka Office of Internal Revenue,|3€F0SS water and obstacles. The | Those women who have fine em-| ‘A women may have to be me- s it own sister. Payments must be made at the | Propeller slides into gear when the| | broidery or tinkered away at mak-|chanically minded to run a lathe Field Marshal Sperrle, one of Ger-| NOTE: It was one of Madame|jocal office in the Federal Building 'TUck hits the water. The vehicle| e ing their own jewelry or ‘worked|or milling machine, but any one|MANY's top alr commanders, wowdis * ® ¢ % < Chiang’s nieces, Miss Kung who got | eyt to the Post Office not later CAI Carry approximately 35 men on| On Thursday evening at 7:15 in costume jew factories can| who has done a fair job of sort-|direct the minelaying maneuver and REYOUT, TIl people in the White House so Up-|than tomorrow, or mailed in not land and 50 in the water. o'clock a practice alert will be held, assemble time es, radio tubes ing dried beans or berries can in- finish the fight. the -paper said set by her manner. Not satisfied|jater than tomorrow in order to e ;acc[ordlng to R. E. Robertson, Di- and the delicate control instru-|gspect and sort small munitions Some Berlin circles, the article re with the White House service, she|avoid the penalizing fine. | L " 2 S rector of Civilian Defense. ments used on airplanes and sub- parts and some of the best women lated, also are discussing the pos- | P o | FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE | Purther details of the alert will marines with hardly more than a f’,,,,‘,‘.m,f ;,j""l‘_ Bad no more ':,,‘ sibility of a limited German '“,, picked up the telephone to call Sec-| - 2 retary of State Hull to complain/ | Lester Lee Page, an alleved ‘(ugx—lbe announced before Thursday, Mr. refresher course. liminary education than @ reputa- | vasion of ‘Britaiv to him personally. Fortunately be- By careful tending of soil Chi-|tive from‘ justice, was arraigned Robertson stated. Any lady of the house or kitch- tion for keeping their houses spot- SOV ese farmers make a square mile this morning and his bond set at 2 > len maid who has pulished silver 4 (Continued on Page Four) support 3,800 people, | 1,500, i BUY WAR BONDS on an electric buffer can find a | (Continned on Page Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:05 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:51 am Dimout begins Tuesday at unset at 10:05 p.m Four) BUY WAR BONDS e ee s 00000