The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL, NO. 9372. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943 D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — 'MEMBER ASSOCIAT JAPS LOSE 77 PLANES AT GUADALCANAL Last Friday Raid Cost Germans — | STIMSONIN REPORT ON CAMPAIGNS Only 40 Airmen Lost in Capture of Ifalian Islands WASHINGTON, June 17.—Secre- tary of War Stimson disclosed to- day that 85, possibly 105, German fighters were destroyed by Ameri- can and British fighters raiding Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven last Friday. The War Department Secretary asserted heavy damage was done to the enemy industrial areas. Eight Flying Fortresses were lost in the raids, he said. Earlier reports had placed Nazi fighter losses at only 54. Stimson also revealed that the capture of Pantelleria, Lampedusa and two other small Mediterranean islands cost “only about 40 airmen and a few planes.” He said the Axis prisoners taken on Pantelleria numbered about 11,- 135, at Lampedusa, between four and five thousand. the The Secretary also said that lhc‘ Allied raids on Kiel and Bremen resulted in heavy damage, that 24 instead of 26 Fortresses were lost. This raid was last week. The VTashingf&h Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert B. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley played a shrewd and somewhat humorous game of “poker” in an automobile while riding to confer with the Vice President last week. And the state was a decision on one of the most important questions facing the American people—the foster- ing of cartels similar to those by which Germany gripped Latin Am- erica and even the USA. After the auto ride, the entire question was threshed out in a meeting with Vice President Wal- lace, attended by Crowley, Attor- ney General Biddle, Nelson Rocke- feller, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Wayne Taylor and Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson The issue was whether the Unit- ed States should sanction a deal by which American Cyanamid, hav- ing had previcus monopoly arrange- ments with the giant Nazi cartel, 1. G. Farben, should now take over| the German drug, dye and chemi-| cal companies in Mexico and op- erate them as a monopoly. | Leo Crowley rode to this meet- | ing in the same car with Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson| ! Berry, {who has filed suit against Charlie| ament, Girlin Chaplin Case 17 ALONG SYRIA TROOPS MOVE BORDER LINE Frontier Has Been Closed Since Yesterday Morning | ANKARA, 'I'\nk(:\ British Embassy source |today the Turkish-Syrian frontier has been closed since yesterday June 17—A disclosed ¢ |apparently Joan Berry, 23-year-old film aspirant, rests in her apartment in Hollywood after a suit was filed by her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Berry, asking that movie comedian Charlie Chaplin be named the father of Miss Berry’s unborn child. blficial Name of Alcan IsNow Alaska Milifary Highway, Says 0'Connor 5 £ FUROPE GIRL SUING CHAPLININ HYSTERICS Expectant Mother Told of Actor’s Latest Marriage HOLLYWOOD, June movie-struck ~ 23-year-old, 17.—Joan ' us to name | | WHITEHORSE, Y. T., June 17— | The 1,630-mile Highway from Daw- |son Creek, B. C., to Fairbanks, Al- aska, henceforth will be known of- ficially as the “Alaska Military | Highw Brig. Gen. James A. | 0'Connor announced here today. | Gen O'Connor seid that the name “Alcan,” as the famous road originally was called, had never | gained wide acceptance. | “We called it the ‘Alcan’ High- way,” General O'Connor explained, “because we wanted to include in the name of the road some men- |tion of our Canadian Alles, on whose land much of the Highway was constructed. Yet the Canadians | themselves took the lead in urging the road the ‘Alaskan jighway.! From members of parli- from Canadian newspaper morning to “protect troop move- ments” on the Syrian side. The border is strongly guarded, to prevent Axis agents | from entering neutral Turkey and reporting the Allied plans to Berlin.{ This announcement followed an | Axis charge yesterday that the Allies are using “intrigue” to lure Turkey into the war on the side lof the Allies. The length of |bas been closed indicates that a {considerable force may be moving | through Syria, probably from Bri- tish garrisons in Egypt, but the objective of the moving forces could not be predicted. Axis reports indicate the enemy fuily expects some sort of an attack in which Turkey will figure, either as a portal for entering into Bul- garia or as a jumping off place |for an offensive to regain Greece and hit Italy from the back - - RESISTANCE GROWING, time the border ‘Berlin Spokesman Speaks of Attack from that Area By STEPH BARBER Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt, June 17. In- c sing resi ice by opposition groups in the Axis satellite coun- tries of southeastern Europe, which the Nazis apparently are handling with unusual liberality, are report- ed here by underground leaders Rumania and Bulgaria both are becoming more outspoken. In Bul- garia, where many elements have strong ties with the Soviet, has been a resurgence of the here old Chaplin alleging he is the father| editors, from 'average citizens of | Mother Russia” sentiment. of her expected child, became hys- terical when one of her attorneys advocating received letters the road be sim- have that {Canada, I A military critic Berlin paper said: of a leadir “The Atlantic told her of Chaplin's marriage to' ply named the ‘Alaska Military |tront is considered impreguable Ona O'Neill The trial in the paternity suit has been indefinitely suspended after Chaplin, although denying he and many newspapers in both the| is the father of the unborn child, | Highwi ! General O'Connor pointed out that Delegate Dimond of Alaska had | United States and Canada and Attorney General B‘df“;‘t Du]::‘agreed to pay her a total of $15,800 urged that the name “Alaska” be ing the ride he kept a straight poK- ', ygpious expenses in the pending|substituted for “Alcan.” er face. He knew that Acheson and the State Department were batting hard in favor of the American Cy-| anamid monoply in Mexico. But he did not tell Acheson that in his pocket at that very moment he had a letter from the President of the; United States opposing the State| Department and siding with Crow-| ley against the American Cyana- mid monopoly. CROWLEY SAWS LIMB | In fact, Leo said nothing about his letter even after the debate| began in Wallace's office. He let the conferees get way out on a Neill, daughter of playright Eugene limb, Nelson Rockefeller went to bat vigorously in favor of the | monopoly program. Bo did Wayne Taylor, Jesse Jones’ Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce. They argued even more strongly than Acheson that American Cya- namid should be given the former German companies in Mexico. «But,” replied Crowley, still not revealing that he had already seen (Continued on Page Foun | birth. PR R CHAPLIN IS MARRIED T0 FOURTHWIFE SANTA BARBARA, Calif, June 17.—-Charlie Chaplin and Ona O'- O'Neill, were married at the home of Justice of the Peace Linton P. Moore, retired Methodist minister at nearby Carpenteria this morn- ing. Only the actor's most intimate friends were present. It was the funny man'‘s fourth marriage. B The legal bureau of the Army is known as the Judge Advocate General’s Department, “Public opinion in this respect !seemed to be nearly unanimous in {both countries,” he said, “so from Inow on the Highway will' be of- ficially known as the ‘Alaska Mili- | tary Highway. . STOCK QUOTATIONS PRICES WEDNESDAY | Alaska Juneau mine stock closed | yesterday at 57%, American Can |85%, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 62'2, Commonwealth and Southern 15/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gen- eral Motors 544, Granby Copper and Mining 5%, International Har- vester 71, Kennecott 30%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pa- cific 15%, Packard Motors 4%, Re- public Steel 17, U. 8. Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages for Wednes- day were as follows: industrials 139.78, rails 35.19, utilities 20.23. - The Ordnance Department pro- cures all motorized equipment for the Army, | Steel 54,| the in | There remains one hope for iencmy*to press an attack (southeastern Europe.” | i LRl SRR IS | ((OLOGNEIS - BOMBED BY ~ RAF FORCE | LONDON, June 17.—Roaring on |with the nonstop blasing of Ger- |many’s industrial areas huge four- \engmed bombers of the Royal Air iForcc smashed Cologne last night ! The British lost 14 of the war- planes, an indication of the size of !ille raiding party. This was the on-hundred-and- sixteenth foray against German's third largest industrial city since the war. Meanwhile, British fighter planes were reported out over northern France and other Allied bombers carried out several other attacks in |the Rhineland Six Nazi fighters were shot down land one British fighter was lost > i BUY WAR BONDS - 5POILS OF WAR NOT SPOILED FOR US AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN TUNISIA stands on the cab of an Axis truck and looks out across scores of enemy vehicles gathered by the victorious Allies. This and similar concentration fields held great qu: tities of serviceable materiel and supplies taken from the beaten Afrika Korps. AB.HART, More People Ki in Bathiu lled b Slipups Than Plane Wrecks GOVERNOR T0 GET COPY OF 0LD JOURNAL Famous Telegraph Trail. Diary to Be Pres- ented Here of the famous Bulkley Trail Journal will be presented tomorrow to the Alaska Territorial Museum and to Gover- nor Ernest Gruening by Colonel K. B. Bush,. chief of staff of the Northwest Service Command The journal was kept by Colonel Bulkley in 1865, when he led the celebrated exploration which strung telegraph lines from San Francisco to British Columbia and thence via Alaska to the Siberian sea- coast. The expedition was a factor in the purchase in 1867 of Alaska Territory from the Russian Gov- ernment. Copics Telegraph | Officers Here Colonel Bush said on his arrival that he had come to Juneau as the | representative of Brig, Gen. James A. O'Connor, commanding general of the Northwest Service Command. He was by General O'Coniior’s Lieuten- who in and a Legisla- civilian member ture, The presentation ceremony will take place in the Wickersham room of the Alaska Territorial libvary. Representatives of the various Territorial and Federal govern- mental departments have been in- vited to attend have officers of the Army and Coast Guard in- stallations stationed in the Juneau' area. life of is an the Oregon as To Respond Governor Gruening and E. L. Keithahn, curator of the Museum, will respond to Colonel Bush's re- marks. Within recent months General O'Connor has presented copies of the Bulkley Journal to Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King of Canada, Vice-President Henry A. Wallace (Continued on Page Three) make | accidents, | conference By JACK N T WASHINGTON —The capital in wartime: Complaints about the number of training and home front plane ac-| cidents continue to the Army Air Corps safety e who have really done a phenomenal job of increasing the safety quotient by leaps ahd bounds One official here who knows his alrways and the men and machines learning to fly them griping at the gripers The Army public know of and nearly reported in every city in the Chat makes them *seem like In one year, 32,000 people country Wi killed "teen - time: number of men killed and flying the home United States last bath-tub accident lic, you would day “As a matter of fact, I know 95 out of every 100 pilots in training now will go off to the wars with- out ever having had an accident of kind.” harass perts was failed to that I one 18 land a lot. in this bath-tub over the in training front in the If all those made pub- 90 such a has never an accident every in were read of any recorder of govern- affairs for the compiling a of red tape few sam- Jerry Klutz, ment employment Washington Post “Washington diction: language.” Here are a ples: It's under never heard consideration in the files consideration consideration of it. Under will try to find it Has received careful it’s in a state of in- activity covering time lag. Have you any remarks: give me some idea what it's all about. The pro- ject is in the air: am completely ignorant of the subject You will remember: you have forgotten or knew, but try’ to find out, I don’t know either. Am transmitting to you? you hold the I'm tired of it. I concur generally: haven't read the document and don't want to be bound by anything I say. In (the now almost trite phrase). It may mean anything from he’s home nursing a hangover to he's in gassing with a couple of other red-tapers. Passed to higher authority pigeon-holed in a sumptuous office Kindly expedite luvva mike, try means active never because bag runaround more the those reply: for to find (Continued on Page Three) (International) HISTORIAN, PASSES ON Famous i(}\&lar Dies in Boston-Former Har- vard Official BOSTON, Mass., Bushnell Hart and department of here yesterday. 89 years old on Generations of nell Hart as of his but throughout known as a great curate forecaster ington. He was vard, where he university actively a century n an ment of maintained Library. magnificent th of June famed retired chairman of government, He would have been July 1 Harvard men af- fectionately knew Prof Albert Bush- “Bushy'" institution had for after ment as chairman of Government quarters Fine Writer He plete would ing books or set of number A keen predicted after the war, that the in United States In March European war claring Germany land and Cz within four we: On his 86th 1940 he 4 would invade sphere within said that “the either give up trine or else protect what it interests 1938 Predicted War predicted within “Whether people cannot conditions war. not In seneral decade, he or neutrals United States very dangerous next European uicide for u danger and vnwillingly plomacy ment.” A huge voice, he platform 1935, when said the to new man and (Continued on his about written with collaborators student 1914 beginning Allies would win 1916 he predicted the entry of the into the wa rted European armament was a prolific writer bound 250 by of a few of he the he war to with thundered study Page on white world torian said inev would choslovakia It a from His 17 -Albert historian 105 Fighters VICTORY IS BESTRECORD SETSOFAR | Only Six American Planes Missing in Big Action WASHINGTON, June 17—Inone of the great air battles of the Pa- cific, American planes shot down 77 Japanese aft over Guadal- canal yesterday, losing only six of their own, the Navy Department announced today. Never- before have the air losses in that area heavy. The total was almost exactly twice the Jap losses on April 7 when 39 were destroyed in a single raid The total included 32 bombers, 45 Zero fighters, a 13 to 1 score being turned in by crack American pilots in one of the best, and pos- sibly the best combat record ever set down, The communique listed American planes as “missing,” indicating that some of the pilots might turn up later. The makeup of the enemy force suggested that the . Japanese have returned to thelr earlier tactics of fighters escorting bombers. It is not clear why there were s0 many unless the Japs believe Guadalcanal will play an important role in the next big American push and ‘are trying to disrupt opera- tions, enemy's been so —p e —— BRAZILTO FORMA.E.F. Harvard's he at 1926 history months the world In conflict another itable, de- annex Po- w ‘perhaps birthday, July 1, Germans the western hemi- five years United the make He once States must Monroe preparation to believes to be of escape of of booming lecture great Three) account beard was an ac- epochal events and an authority on George Wash- _on Har- served the nearly his the in A com- volumes includ- him alone half retire- Depart- he | he Doc- its allies the the the would be foresee aceept conditions and that however di- enlist- RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil, June 17.—Amid increasing clamor for a Brazilian expeditionary force for war, the War Ministry has called for young army volunteers to fight foreign soil if necessary for a United Natlons' victory, according o President Vargas. - - TWO KILLED IN CLASHES died Martial Law Enforced in Beaumont, Texas, by Rangers BEAUMONT, Texas, June 17— |Acting Gov. A. M. Aikin invoked martial law here after the deaths vesterday of John Johnson, Negro, » is said to have been shot by white men while entering the ice plant where he was employed, and Ellis Cleveland Brown, of Norns- beck, Louisiana, who is said to have been beaten by three Negroes. ‘This city has been boiling with mob clashes after the rape day- before«yesterday of the white mo- ther of three children. A Negro is being sought in connection with the violation, | Texas Rangers were called into a action and arrested 80 whites. Mobs lingered on the city hall lawn and were dispersed by the Rangers at the 8:30 o'clock cur- few last night. e o o 0 0 0ie o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:07 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 3:51 am e Dimout begins Wednesday at ® sunset at 10:07 pm. LI I I B