The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LXIL., NO. 9370. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TU SMASH OBERHAUSER IN NIGHT ATTACK ESDAY, JUNE 15, 1943 MEM BER ASSOCIATED PRESS | y 1E N CENTS —_— ] R Western Germany’s Cities Being Evacuated RAF HITS * Troops Occupy Buenos Ai AIR MIGHT OF ALLIES 1S REASON Resulfs of 180 Atfacks- Hitler Asks Take in Homeless BERN, Switzerland, June 15. —| Gérman newspape received here said a mass evacuation of the cities of Western Ggrmany is under way as a result of ¥he 180 heavy raids by Allied warplanes and the 600 air raid alarms caused. The Nazi press is engaged a campaign to impel residents of | rural homes to open their doors to| the many refugees who are fleeing to the countryside. Hitler's newspaper, the Voelk- ischer Boebachter, said “comfort must bow to the demands of neces- sit adding that it is better to take in the evacuees than to have a “few live in fine homes when many don’t know where they can live.” | Much bombed Dusseldorf, target| of a recent 2000-ton Royal Air| Force raid, is one of the chief cities | being evacuated. ’ | Berlin reported very heavy losses | there and considerable_damage to houses and public bufldings. Das Reich, another German| paper, said not only bombed-out families but those yet untouched by | explosives are to be moved out and the men left behind to work Das Reich said the people should get out of the target cities “not as an obligation but as the. law of common sense” dictates. | in Near Miss on U-Boal - A near miss by a bomb on a German U-boat sy an RAF Lockheed Afri attack by an official British photo. Later the bembers got the range ys up water during North This Hudson bomber based in and sank the U-boat. German Spy Aided Japs By Sending Movemenis Of Pearl Harbor Fieet | | The Wéshington; Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Near historic | Williamsburg, site of Willlam and| Mary College, and recently rebuilt; by John D. Rockefeller, is Camp| Peary, training ground for the, Navy's famed Seabees, and named for the Admiral who discovered the North Pole. Camp Peary has weathered various stormy contro- versies, but most interesting is the | story of the hogs of the command-| ing officer, Captain J. G. Ware. Capt. Ware is raising hogs on U.S. property. | Originally, his hog farm was lo-| cated nearer the center of things,| but enlisted men complained that “the pigs are on high, dry ground,| while we're in the mud.” So today, if you visit Camp Peary you will find Captain Ware’s hog farm on the edge of the camp but still within the limits of the gov-| ernment reservation. You will also find Bulldozer “B-16" parked on‘ the farm for clearing space for‘ feed troughs, access roads, etc.;| also Navy Dump Truck No. 18924, driven on a recent afternoon by! sailor L. Bartels and carrying 1,- 8 raid by two Jap planes caused allding 400 pounds of slop from the camp in one morning alone. ! The garbage in itself is not to be sneezed at as hog feed—full of| peas, beans, and a lot of food which | looked as if it had been dumped| out of Navy kitchens, some of it| untouched. According to Bartels, | trucks make three trips a day to the hog farm. Capt. Ware says that| he buys the garbage from the con- tractor who purchases all the gur-' bage from the camp. | In charge of the Navy comman- dant’s venture in livestock is First| Class Petty Officer O. L. Hooberry, | who devotes his whole time to hog' raising. He is paid $151.50 a month by the U. S. taxpayer, lives at the| taxpayer's expense, wears govern- ment clothes—and does nothing but| look after the hogs. : HOG HEAVEN | Questioned about his “Navy” duties recently, Chief Petty Officer Hooberry waxed eloquent. “I can get anything I want out here. I LONE PLANE FIRES JAP FREIGHTER Two Dirediffis Scored by Liberator Off New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN AUSTRALIA, June 15—A delayed communique told today of a raid last Sunday by a single Liberator bomber over Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, in which a Jap 4,- 00-ton freighter was set afire with 'two direct hits by 500-pound bombs. Allied air activity yesterday was limited to one raid on Rabaul where photos showed 200° enemy combat planes concentrated despite the previous sizegble Allied raids on this Jap base. The only Jap activity in the Southwest Pacific yesterday was a sthall affair on Goodenough Island, northwest’ of New Guinea, where no casualties or damage. - DIVORCE CASE OF DEMPSEYS UP TO REFEREE Jack De niefi He Biffed Broadway Beauty with Fistic Fists WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 15. —Jack Dempsey’s divorce and his wife’s counter-claim for separa tion, has gone to Court Referee the stand and denied he punctuat- ed his marital life with the Broad- way beauty by socking her with his fists that made him famous. Referee Addison Young promised to reach a decision “as promptly as possible.” \ i | [ 'MATANUSKA ELEC. ™ the Supreme| after Dempsey took | The reports agents WASHINGTON, June 15. Office of War Information that German espionage helped the Japs prepare for the at k on Pearl Harbor. At least one of them was sentenced to death but the later was com- muted The OWI report d Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn, Nazi agent, tried before a military commission at Honolulu on char of betray- ing the United States fleet in Pear Harbor five days before the De- cember 7 atts He was convicted February 21, 1942, and sentenced to be shot Oc- tober 1942, but the sentence was commuted to 50 years at hard la- bor. The reason for commuting the sentence was not given The members of Kuehn's family are interned for the duration either in Hawaii or in this country. These include Mrs. Kuehn, a son, Ebe1r- hard Martin Kuehn, and a dau) ter by a previous marriage, Kate Ruth Kuehn. The OWI report is based on in- formation from the FBI. It said Kuehn went to Honolulu in 1935 for the ostensible purpose of study- ing the Japanese. In three years he banked more than $70,000. He was picked up December 8 and both Kuehn and his wife de- nied at first any negotiations with the Jap government, the OWI said, “but increasing eviden by the FBI contradicted their as- sertions. On December 30, Kuehn signed a statement admitting he prepared system of signals with the Jap consul general and the latter dis- patched a letter to Tokyo Decem- ber 3. The signals, the OWI ex- plained, were used for reporting the movements of the American fleet at Pearl Harbox - sentence a COMPANY TO GET FEDERAL MONEY WASHINGTON, June 15. — The Rural Electrification Administration announced today the allocation of $5,000 for the Matanuska Electric Association in Alaska’s Interior. BUY WAR BONDS | ago. {Olive Springstead, daughter of M: |also survive, levent will | Woman’ ITALIAN SHIPPING Messina Blasted - Ifalians Warn People of Invasion | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS . INJ| NORTH AFRICA, June 15.—Wel-} lington Workhorses of the RAF| drilled east Sicilian shipping &t | the ferry terminal of Messina with | two-ton block busters ered incendiaries on the port day night, Allied Headquarters ported today Meanwhil continued on guarding the proaches to Tt For the second Suc however the Northw Air Force delayed an sault A and ‘show- | Sun- re- attacks islands | Sea ap- preliminary the larger Tyrrhenian pssive dny.‘v African | l-out as-| communique said yesterday were confined naissance and patrolling Meanwhile, the Rome radio told the Italians to stand by for an Allied invasion, and other Rome and Berlin broadcasts contrived to| give a picture of intense air and| 2 activity in the invasion trianglg’ between Malta, Bizerte and Sicily. It is not clear, however, whether the activities centered about the| massing Allied invasion fleet fer- rying Italian prisoners of war from Pantelleria, or Allied preparations | to convert Pantelleria to an Allied naval operations to recon- -e A. C.BLANCHARD | DIES, SKAGWAY Was for Mény; Years Gen-| eral Auditor of White | Pass, Yukon Route | SKAGWAY, Alaska, June 15.—A C. Blanchard, pioneer of Skagway and for many years General Audi- tor of the White Pass and Yukon| Route, passed away at his home here yesterday morning. He is ~u:-' vived by his wife and three sor Mr. Blanchard was born in Glasgow, Scotland, about 64 years With his family he came this country as a small child settled in Washington Territory 1900 he went to Skagway. Thir two years ago he was married t0 and In to P. S. Ganty. Active in the civic affairs Skagway, a past exalted ruler the Elks Lodge, Mr. Blanchard wa one of the town's foremost cit zens. Known for his excellent voice he sang in opera in the States a young man. Two brothers, William Blanchard,| former executive of the Whit Ps Company and now retired and living in Washington State, and George Blanchard, whose home is in Port Orchard, survive. Three sons of the family Alex, J of Warren, Wash., and Gordon and Douglas, both in the Army in Alaska. Douglas Blanchard Jecently entered the service and| is at Duck Creek. He plans to ¢o to Skagway on the first available | transportation. Three dren, sons of Alex Blanchard, J of a grandchil- MEETS | Schol= COMMITTEE Committee for the Nurse's arship Dance will meet tomorrow| evening at 8 o'clock at the apart- ment of Mrs. M. O. Johnson in the Assembly Apartments. Further plans for the June 19 be made at the mect ing and the complete list of com-| mittee members announced, ' Mrs. John McCormick, president of the sponsoring agent, the Juneauj Club. { - states, BUY WAR BONDS {the Auxiliary, |the w {for |deep and to Sulticis wecupred toe troops, led by Gene Arturo Raw ed on the city constituted to take over the Argentine go Man-Made Steel Isles Buenos A s police son, an associate 1d subsequently a provisional legislative council under the ch adioed from B ernment. This picture r May Make Sea Airways To England More Safe HELP PEACE COL. ROY RIEGLE DELIVERS FLAG DAY TALK HERE Fine Program Given by Elks for Public Last Evening “Our flag is but the outward sym- bol of the ideals which inspired the birth of our democracy,” said Lieut Col, Roy W. Riegle in an address delivered last night as part of a public Flag Day program held in the FElks Hall before assembled Flks, American Legionnaires and and attending towns- people. “It symbolizes the soul of Am- erica, typifying her fine spiritual values, aspirations, institutions and traditions. It reflects ments and progress of the Ameri- can people in art,” science, culture, and iiterature, invention and com- merce, transportation and indust “It controls the strong, protects ak, relieves the suffering, and ctrives constantly for the better- ment of all mankind. It stands tolerance. It is the badge of greatness and the emblem of its destiny. Our Symbol “Our flag was woven on the loom of the Revolution by the indomit- able valor, the ination, and the invineible faith of men and women who wished to be free from the rule of the tyrant. {They made it their symbol through- out the world. “The story of America—the epic of the mightiest nation earth today told in deeds and not by words. That tale is written on no scrap of paper. It is carved large for all the world read—carved across the length and breadth of a nation over which flies the Flag we commemorate today. And what a story it is, that America has given the world in the past 175 years! The mem- ories of Bunk Hill, John Paunl Jones, Zachary Taylor in Mexico, Custer at the Little Big Horn, Dewey in Manila, Hobson and the Maine, Chateau Thierry, the - gonne, where men through the undergrowth face of whistling death “And now Guadalcanal Africa, and Attu tage of the Amer our heritage, too real on bored in the North That's the heri- Flag. 1It's Thousands of can (Continued on Page Three) the achieve- unwavering determ- | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June 15—S8Since one of the major airlnes applied (for permission to establish & post- war “seadrome” route from here to Great Britain, some people have |asked if the ‘“seadromes” are military secret; if they aren’t just anothe mechanical magazine dream; whether establishment of them would mean that the United States intends to tdke over the At- lantic as its private flying fiel and what benefit they would be in view of the faet that present trans- atlantic hops of bombers and the clippers seem to be so successful. Pennsylvania Central Airlines has answered most of those questions and since they are making the ap- plication, they should know In the first place, the dromes” are no military secret The vast amount of steel which would be used in these “floating islands,” spaced at 800 mile inter- vals 0ss the ocean, would not make them practicable for use in “sea- | ac (Continued on Phage Three) - QUAKE HITS JAPISLANDS ON SUNDAY | NEW YORK, Juue 15 'I'wn‘ main islands on the Japanese Ar-| chipelago were shaken by a gquake Sunday but damage was ¥ ported” according to a st. A dispateh from Domei news a; that the broad- cast was intended for foreign con- sumption The shock wa felt at Honshu is located north A Rome very ‘violent lieved to Aleutians, Florence morning no Tokyo broad- | a Tokyo ney, said said to have been on which Tokyo and at Koddaido in the broadcast reported that be- the the yesterday earth tremors, ited in sistered on have ori were 1 seismographs - o MRS, RALPH WILCOXEN AND CHILDREN VISIT HERE FROM SITKA and her and Patsy from Sitka few days at Mrs. Ralph Wilcoxen children, Ralph, Jr |arrived here Sunday |and are spending a llhf‘ Baranof Hotel our 7,000 ister, mov- ch into the city. Some former War M anship of Ramirez was nos Aires. BOMBING OF GERMANYTO Maj. Gen. Royce Says De- stroy Nazi Homeland from Air June com- d by FIELD, N. ¥ Ralph Royce, First Air Forc win the peace * MITCHELL 15—~Maj. Gen mander of the clares “we will bombing Germany.” Said Royce in firmly believe the destroy Germany fore the war ends, chances for a lasting pe: “A man who has had his e plucked out by an eagle whose nest he was robbing isn't lkely to rob the eagle’s nest again.” The veteran aiyman is in charge of the defense of the East Coast of the United States - DEPUTY AUDITOR JIM MCALISTER SUCCUMBS TODAY James K. McAllister, 50, account- ant and Territorial Deputy Auditor, died early this morning at his home at 730 Gold St., following a chronic illness of nearly a year - In addition to his wife Helen, Mr McAllister is survived by daughters Caroline, Katherine, Marilyn and Batricia The family ibout 15 years a where they formerly home. In referring s Deputy Auditor Territorial I can be- are ce ¢ interview, more we from the air the better an to Juneau Skagway made pir to his for the Auditor first came o from i servi past 13 years Frank Boyle He times gave hi be he held. Acting is unusual Allister made office his own nd all the time anxious to serve McAllister wa. er, British Ci was a4 member The Charles funer: aid it all office a principle that days, Mr. M ness of the first last always and the was very efficient t to on in the the busin He public.” in Vancouv- lumbia, in 186 H of the Elks Lodge. been taken to the Mortuary where pending busi wi Lhe born body ha w rter ments - WEST CONST. CO. FILES Constry ARTICLES The West Massach tion filed the Company of has arti 3 of incorporatior Auditor's office here company gaged in the driving of u tunnel at Whittier, Alaska, and in other con struction work in the Territory, in ce STEEL CITY American Bombers Out Over Channel Again This Morning LONDON, June 15—The Royal Alr Force frontline heavy bomb- ers made another mass attack om Germany’s much battered Ruhr Valley objectives last night, con- rating the important stesi and coal city of Oberhausen, three miles west of Essen Keeping up the nonstop -batter- ing of the Nazi homeland, another formation of planes, possibly American bombers, were seen 8s the channel today rvers said the daylight med to be headed on big heavy roaring Coast obs attackers southeast Down Three Nazis Even as the big bombers roared the continent, two forma- tions of Allled fighters were ready returning after a sweep over the Pas de Calasis area where they downed three Focke Wulf 180s out of two formations @f 50, presuma- bly setting out to harrass the Brit- ish coast. : Eighteen British bombers were missing after last night's foray over the Ruhr Valley, the fourth in sue- toward al- sion The RAF's night activities includ- ed mine laying in enemy waters. The huge raid on Oberhausen caused many casualties and heavy damage, the Germans admitted. Nazi Report A Nazi communique said “Allied hits among the residential quarters resulted in considerable destruction and losses among the civil population, especially in Ober- hausen Twenty enemy bombers been downed so far,” the dispatch concluded. The results of the bombing were not given in the British report. e TURK-SYRIA BORDER T0 BE CLOSED No Reason for Move Is Known - High Brit- ishers in Ankara ANKARA, Turkey, June 15. — Allied authorities will close the border between Turkey and Syria at 6 p.m. today, semi-official sourc- reported Turkish know why or how bomb have enemy es authorities the border long it will profess not is being remain to closed shut Syria is under the control of the Fighting French. Admiral S8ir John Cunningham and new British Commander-in- Chief Levant arrived here by plane from Cairo Saturday and spent an hour-and-a-half in conference with Turkish Pr dent Inonu yesterday. Cunningham is re- urn to Cairo today scheduled to DIVORCE GRANTED Mary Ann W anted a divorce from Fr: est West yesterday afternoon Judge George F. Alexander S. Dis- trict Court by in U i DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight 10:06 o'clock. ends tomorrow at 3:51 am, Dimout begins Wednesday at sunset at 10:07 pm. e e 000000 0 at sunset at Dimont at sunrise