The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9373. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Huge Allled Moves In Mediterranean Museum Receives Copy Of Historic Telegraph Trail Epic Here foday For Records SAY TURKEY BREAKS WITH | VICHY GOVT. Enemy Claims British Mass Along Southern Turk Border (By Associated Press) Reports of new Allied shipping activity in the Mediterranean were coupled today with increased cu- lation concerning the part Turkey may play in the coming invasion of the continent A dispatch from Madrid said 75 Allied ships, including a battleship, two aircraft carriers and 10 de- stroyers, are concentrated in Gib- raltar Harbor. Eight more large the United States are reported have joined the concentration day. freighters from to to- Rome Report The Rome radio also reported new Allied activity in the Medi- terranean, claiming a concentration of “many landing craft” from the North African coast was seen making its way toward the Allied- conquered island of Pantelleria. Many observers believed that the next step in the Allied Invasion You'd think Ale: she’s hired to be, from the (Contlnued on Puze Three) The Washmgton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON —Assistant Pres- jdent James Byrnes has ju stepped in, at the instance of the Justice and Interior Departments, to stop a deal that, in its back- grounds, recalls the Teapot Dome oil scandal. The deal is a contract between Standard Oil of California and the; Navy whereby the Nav. choicest oil lands, Elk Hills, Calif., are turned over to Standard in toto for five years, and after that operated for the Navy on a percentage basis. Elk Hills is the same oil reserve which the late Edward Doheny leased from Secretary of the In- terior Albert B. Fall in the Harding days, in return for which Doheny sent him $100,000 in bills in a little black satchel. In this case there, is no suggestion of a little black satchel. However, Elk Hills, totalling 43,- 000 acres, is considered by long odds the richest oil reserve in the United States and the second rich- est in the world. Only one other, in Arabia, tops it. It had been held CHINA FORCE PUSHES JAPS | IN RETREAT : Owchichkow, Important| Japanese Stronghold, Is Surrounded CHUNGKING, China, June 18.— Chinese troops, officially uedlled with killing or wounding 40,000 Japs in pushing the invaders back from the Hunan rice bowl, are re-! byt thie Navy Jfox. the day when um‘poned to have completed the en-| nation’s oil reserves should become |circlement of Owchichkow, 90 nnle\ depleted, and had been jealously | ; guarded by Josephus Daniels and southeast of the Jap base of . e 5 _ | Ichang. his ;‘l“‘s‘““‘ Secretary, F. D. ROO- "o onkow is one of the last sevelt. important Jap-held strongholds west of Yochow and south of ROOSEVELT SIGNE Yangtz Despite this, however, Mr. Roose-| American planes which Imn\bul velt, as President, signed his aP-/{nhe city Tuesday in support of proval of the contract, and returned ! ground forces further paved it to the Navy Department in ON€jway for the success .of this day. Actually it would have taken i him a full day to have read it, and| pigpatches from obviously he leaned heavily on his fyont said a Jap Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, | qrive started Monday against Chi-| who signed it as principal. | nese positions near the coastal port In the Harding oil scandals, it ¢ Swatow in Kwatung Province, was the Navy Department whichi,nq has been “intercepted.” opposed transferring its oil lands i ot S e 10 SENATE DASSES LARGEST NAVAL Ilh the Denby came into office. The In- terior Department, on the other| hand, had pressed for transfer of the precious oil lands so Fall could‘ Jease them to his pals, Doheny and | Harry Sinclair. But in the current lease of Elk; Hills, the situation is reversed. Sec- retary of the Navy Knox was the] WASHINGTON, June 18 The| one anxious to lease Elk Hills this|largest naval appropriation in his- time, and Secretary of the Interior tory, $27,637,000,000 carrying $9. 118,- Ickes knew nothing about the deal 000,000 for new warships and auxil- except by accident. For some iary crafts as well as funds for oy Rk A b other naval operations, was passed (Continued on Page Four) by the Senate by a voice vote. is Smith was an acrobat instead of a fiim way she puts the palms of her hands on ile thel ac- Chinese three-columied | APPRCPRIATION o rctress plank and keeps her knees from bending. Members of Congress Do Most of Their Job Outside of Chambers [ By JACK STINNETT { WASHINGTON, June 18.—He was |just a voter. For several days he had clomped up the worn steps to {the House and Senate galleries to {see what goes in in Congress. H( was coming down at 2:45 after a two-and-a-half hour session of the House at which one nmpou.uu vote had been taken, \\(hrn met him in.the great ‘dlLlll’(l (mn(im' that leads to the enate side. He was filled with dL\L’,u.fl he said, “tell me what vl‘cxu Congressmen do to egrn their pay. There wasn’t any session yés- terday. They worked only two and 1:\ half hours today, passed one bill | lon a voice vote that sounded to me |like a photo-finish, and admurned i (C(mtmupd on Page Five) | ‘ | FIVE- YEAR oo " PAUL FEIST IN ~ AUTO ACCIDENT Tot Is Struck by Truck, In- 1 jured, on Thursday | Afternoon Suffering from bruises and pos- sible internal injuries sustained in an automobile accident at 4:30 pm. yesterday, little Paul t, | 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.| ,Martin Feist, is now in St. Ann’s Hospital. The child was run over | truck when he dashed m.upumllv {into the street in front of the City| | Cafe. A. E. Glover was the driver.| Parents of the child, in Kake at| the time of the accident, were| brought in last night in an emer- gency fiight made by Don Brady| for Alaska Coastal, and arrived in Juneau about midnight. { During the absence of his par- ents, who operate the mailboat to F Kake, the boy was in the care of| his grandmother, Mrs. E. Tanner,| lm the Scandinavian Rooms. !ment of $1,748408 by the Navy ‘Slandard Oil in return for could | daily of oil. REDSTAKE BIG TOLL OF NAZIS 1 Germans Using Reserve! Green Troops on Russ Front MOSCOW, June 18 efforts to recapture northwest of Mitsensk Russian battlefront “hinge” at Orel were the smashing Red Army has inflicted hr:ny losses on semi- | PEACEHERE Rearine troom nave been (,\.w..wBroadcasi Says Terms Will i Caplial The Russians said several man attacks in this area were re-| pulsed yesterday and enemy man-| % (By Associated power and equipment cut into. | By | Fleet Admiral Dispatches from the front quot-| e vading the serman prisoner as admit- | b land dictating peace tern division was composed en-| " White House, wa Jap war aim covering all Diet by ol the Association, JAPS STILL TO DICTATE lost positons | above the Press) Late = idea of ed one C ting his tirely of reservists the highly trained troops h killed. There were along the last midnight said. letin told heavy being inflicted at Mogilev, held. river and rail base, cent air raid v+ NAVY DEAL, ~ OIL FIELD IS pROBED ‘Bullet Enfers Wall of Room : .| on Fourth Floor-No Confract with Standard Ol Artucis Made Called Illegal, Invahd -1 dhemiter e — | night involving three WASHINGTON, June 18, — An|Portedly a -soldier, a agreement between the Navy and|® 1ady companion, c i the Standard Oil Company of C Li‘ibll“‘(‘.‘((’ll"mi'nt with no arrests re- fornia to develop the Elk Hills A»J;‘ui‘“ng‘ 3 o ccording to Police reserve is termed as “illegal [ Monagie, the shooting invalid” by Assistant Attorney Gen-|ngen ang “no arrests were m:mu" eral Norman M. Littell | Occupants in the room next to Littell made this remark during|which the shooting occurred a House Public Land Committee|gtartied by the sudden appearance ! hearing. |of a bullet entering from the left Rep. Alfree J. Elliott of Califor-{wall into their room. The time was nia termed the deal as “something ) verified as being around of an inkling of the Teapot Dome|o'clock scandal of some years ago | He suggests that the commitiee take a free ride to California study the situation. Littell told the committee he hud made an exhaustive examination of the contract and has submitted o report to James F. Byrnes. The contract called for the pay- to title to ‘equipment and 8,297 acres of lnm the company owns. The comp,.m operate the ' works for Im\ years and would be permitted 1r(cox(l breaking 120-plane air as- production of 15,000 barrels sault by the Japs against Guadal- |canal Wednesday cost An authoritative u,n,;mmnmx forees 76 casualties source says he expecls the Presi-| The Navy announced in because ' the of the director eedings no important <'\,n\g¢-x“ CRARS a report h\lnd’:\;";m/\ o but another bul-{ ‘]‘ " ‘“‘ bind ))\mnhnwntl i Sappcte tadmiral will not rest in peace Cermangly) we haye carried sthe war n-a 1# RS 2 front, ot over | won our terms of peace in, the chambers of the White House.' - SHOOTING FRAY LAST NIGHT AT the Hotel persons, civilian | A shooting re- Chief Juhn “involved - 16 AMIRICAN CASUALTIES INSOLOMONS to| yesterday dent to order the contract cancelle: rt‘LhM the Japs lost 77 fighters and |in view of the findings by the Jus- lonly six American planes were lost. tice Department, \ Today’s communique said the pi- and | caused consider-| 10:30| Yamamoto's United States the emphasized again pro- Ryutary Imperial said, late fleet un- | sure bis"body (o American shorcs and| g, very | war | Curator E fourth| ! last | | were | | | [ WASHINGTON, June 18. — The | come from Cuba American | (See Drew Pearson’s Washington |lot of one of those planes was res- Merry-Co-Round in this issue further details.) - 'WOULD SET ASIDE TONGASS FOREST LAND FOR SITKA for|cued. | Personnel loss to the American |forces on Guadalcanal included 25 ’klllrd. 29 injured - MRS. ROOSEVELT ~ MAY VISIT IN SOUTH AMERICA WAbHIN(xI()N June 18— Alaska | WAS a Delegate Anthony J. Dimond hasi WASHINGTON, June 18. — Mrs introduced a bill proposing some|vO0S€velt is reported planning a |tour through South America this land in the Tongass National For- est be set aside to provide re-|Sutamer. Although no official an- ve water supply for Sitka {nouncement of the proposed trip |has been made, sources which can- - y not be identified said details were Itaking shape. and 22 missing. a BUY WAR BONDS | Empire Seeks Court Order of the Bulkley Telegraph were presented this Alaska Territorial to Gov est Gruen- by Col. K. B. Bush the Northwe pies rrail Journal ifternoon o the Museum ing of chief Service This porfer Access fo Public Books through to the and e Alaska of Aff Command journal was Colonel who brated exploration telegraph lines from to British Columbia of t The Empire, its will apply District Court here which pire reporters City Police Court recor Although all such deemed public kept in 1 led the cele- which strung San Francisco and on through Bulkley ney Monday will for court order allow acer to Alaska » id Col that records and open ny citizen who wishes to inspe last to the capital of the them, Chiet of Police John which he was so influ- agle and Mayor Harry I adding to the domain of both have refused to allow Bush, It is\ highly fit- copy of the frontier journal and letters should T records colonel come at rerritory ential in the Un a Lue: State Canadian Friendship of Canadian-American cooperation, he said the “Bulkley Journal underscores only one phase of the historic friendship between the United States and Canada. Thi friendship has made possible in North America the longest unforti tied boundary in the world “Some day our alliance will also be a part of of the two Jands. And that the construgction Military Highway, great importance and peace, will be brightest chapters. As he presented the journal L. Keithahn of the Ter- ritorial Museum, Col. Bush said: Apprapriate Alaska Territorial Museum, interest have reported they have officials inspect the Not The ( an Empire the records et Police not accustomed to He said it would be Mayor authorized it Mayor L ¢it hadn’t aut as yet The right items of Other the Empire news citizens that turned down by cit quests to Speaking in v records om reported this said When to the ¢ of he howing w thi his- teel the| pro- both the in the 1 of a in war Al right tory ject of Mayor sald it list each the od said would be day one ol give th requesf porter, and also nothing to hide. He to the jail where kept and tried the locked, but the Ch only a few feet aw had a key | Ninnis Says No WHISKEYTO -t = ~ (OST MORE HEXT WEEK a reporter the ‘ Ninnis head | Blended Liquor t0 6o Up| wiemer or mot pusiic 30 cen'S Per Oua”, |are to be open to the (OUNCIL TO DECIDE OPA Says ‘S'.;‘[,',‘ ded upon IF RECORDS SHOULD {up 30 cents a 'of the higher neutral spirit The incre become effective Ithough | whiskies in (unl to carry the nation for sev- irul years, the neutral spirits which | WASHINGTON, June 18 represent as high as 72 percent of Nnvy reports that on June the cheaper blends, are not aged additional Jap soldiers were but made as required by the dis-|tured in the Khebinikof tilled surplus. The neutral spirits| Attu, making the | there 24. a wrests and was to which by the there the door recor w “The (Continued on Page Five) - e pres to see shook his no. BE OPEN T0 PUBLIC o public City Council starts at 8 The | Hall, 18 whiskey will take cost of imported the OPA announces. , the OPA said, will June 24 stocks of waresouses are June The | €0 |y presentatives from the Juneau C den Club to appear bLefore councilmen quart to - o 3MORE JAPS the straight suffi- area British Hit Sicily Port the RAF are blasting at Messina, eastern s the Allies carry the offensive to invasion-jittery ular harber, open on the north side only, is rved like a sickle, whic ve the city which is on Sicily, was the last city taken from de a part of the United Ialy under King Vigtor Messina’s population is 192,051, Wekithltuu ] Sicilian ferry port Italy. This city formed by 2 BomDers its name, the Bourbons and o Emmanuel, City Refuses fo Allow Re-| attor- United States | the Em- ; were Juneau'British Spitfire fighters during the are Mon- report- ers to look through the books A()l‘v been morning,’ them il the aid the City (.Iouu» wized this |>Nm-m|u" information | ‘ then went duwn at tonight’s meet- regu- o'clock in | the Council Chambers of the City | lhl' The | 16 three | cap- on total of eaptured | AMERICANFLIERS BLASTSICILY AIRFIELDS RAF RAIDS NAPLES AT SAME TIME {25 Tons of Explosives Rained on Comiso, Biscari ALLIED HEADQUART N NORTH AFRICA, June 18.-—United States Liberator bombers flew from Middle East bases to bomb the Sie- ilian airdromes of Comiso and Bis- carl by daylight yesterday after night attacks by Wellingtons of the Northwest African Air Force on Naples docks. Nearly 50 Anserican protected by Liberators Malta-based Sicily attacks. They dropped 25 tons of explo- on the two airdromes. ct| A Cairo dispatch said large col- |umns of black smoke arose as the raiders headed home. Workshops, the dispersal areas, 'hangars and runways at the Com- so airfield were covered with explo- sive bursis. | At Napl the RAF's Wellingtons dropped several two-ton blockbus~ along the waterfront and showered other explosives on the (lmk and milwny yards. to sives |~\ to| e- |ters asked | as BRITSH oUT OVEREUROPE LAST NIGHT ‘Germans Refaliate with Minor Raid Over Londen, Coast 18. m of ‘ e LONDON, June The RAP Council-learried its current offensive against 5-|the Axis to more targets across the should .Hlu'vwh.mm'l last night while the Ger- records and man air force dropped bombs on London and a south coast town. The British planes dropped their |nightly packet of bombs on the airfield at Poix, near Amiens, and peppered a speeding E boat off the {French coast. v ‘With cannon fire, the RAF planes hot up railways, trains and barges lin Nazi territory and one Mosquito records | Pilot reported he believed he hit an will | ammunition train with a bomb, anding at the station. So he went ack and fired through the train- shed, touching off more explosives. Nazi raiders, running at top [qm-d over London rooftops, plopped The dog and cat situation in Ju- down a single surprise bomb in a au will also be discussed with re- major street, wrecking a post office and killing two persons. Two others were mjured - RECORD WAR SUPPLY BILL IS PREPARED WASHINGTON, June House Appropriations fired a financial broadside at the Axis today, sending to the floor a $71,510,500,00 War Department upply bill to equip and maintain W army 7,500,000 enlisted men nd {o the enemy skies with warplanes It was the largest appropriation * in history and boosted almost by | $200 billions the War Department's B funds since July 1, 1040, to an es- 8. Coll\mllwe of and war purposes since that date All money carried in the bill, Army and Navy officials said, will be spent or obligated during the 12 months té start July 1. ....‘.'.“.... . DIMOUT TIMES . St ® Dimant taright . at sunset at 10:07 o'clock. |® Dimout ends tomogrow | ® at sunrise at 3:51 am. |® Dimout be urday at ® sunset at 1 pm, |#eeecsccccsne