The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9375. JUI :AU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_— CONTINUE SMASHING OF SICILY TARGETS erman Cities Take Terrifi ONSLAUGHT ONMONDAY Swiss AreaTeeIs Rever- berations of Huge Blasting LONDON, June 21.—Berlin re- ported British attacks in southwest and north Germany last night, and Swiss dispatches said a Reich city near Lake Constance was bombed so heavily the reverberations of the destruction shook houses in Switz- erland. Meanwhile, great waves of Royal| Air Force bombers swept out at daylight today to resume the bat- tering of the continent. A 90-minute silence of the Kal-! undborg, Denmark, radio stations suggested another raid on north- ern Germany. The roar of motors was heard for a half hour contin- uously. Many Air Alarms The report of the night attacks was not immediately confirmed, but the attacks were foreshadowed by widespread air raid alarms last night in northern Swiss cities. One of Germany's largest pro- duction centers is around the Lake Constance area. It is. Friedrichsha- " (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—So many Presi- dents and Prime Ministers have been visiting Washington that State Department protocol experts have worked out a production line sy tem for handling visiting digni- taries. The pattern of entertain- ment is set from the time the ba- sic structure is begun at the White House, until the finished product is delivered aboard the outgoing plane at Miami. Whether it be the President of Bolivia, Liberia, Czechoslovakia, or Paraguay, there is always a one- night-stand at the White House with a formal dinner, followed by three days at the stately Blair House across Pennsylvania Avenue, where new green sod was laid in the front lawn just before the sea- son opened. Detroit is the next stop, where a tour of Willow Run wearies the visitors' legs but amazes their minds at American production, and where Henry Ford (now that Edsel is dead) entertains at lunch. In the afternoon, they see skeletons of tanks at one end of the Chrysler line, then finished tanks at the other. PFinally they take a ride to see what the interior of a tank is like. Buffalo displays its aircraft next day, with luncheon by Burdette Wright of Curtiss-Wright, and din- ner by Larry Bell of Bell Alrcrau.‘ At New York, the visitors stay in the presidential suite at the Wal- dorf, and move about the town be- hind motoreycle police. From one city to another, they ride in a pair of luxury Pullmans, of which the Presidential car is equipped with five bedrooms and two lounge rooms. All in all it’s a breath-taking ex- | perience. Axis countries started entertaining Latins abroad before we did, but if we learned the trick from them, we added wrinkles they never thought of. Most important wrinkle is that we give an indelible impression that the United States is producing the men and the materials which will win the war. NEW TAX CZAR Here is one inside reason why the President lost 75 percent of his battle against the Ruml tax plan, and also why he has finally put 46};;mn71§1 on Page Four) CONTINUE Supreme Court Says | | (an Exclude Japs From Padific Coast CONFERENCE OF OPA NOW IS UNDERWAY All Field Rie/preseniative in Alaska to Attend Meeting Here S ( WASHINGTON, June 21 The U. S. Supreme Court has held con- stitutional the military regulatiol imposing the West Coast curfew law | on all persons of Japanese ancestry, excluding them from specified areas. Justice Stone delivered the opin- {ion on the challenge to the regula- | tions, made by two American-born | persons of Japanese ancestry who contended they were citizens of this country against whom restrictions could not constitutionally be placed. | Stone asserted: “In case of threat- | ened danger requiring prompt ac- | tion, it is a choice between inflict- |of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands|working in most | Thirty-two officials of the Office ing obviously !l!‘(’dl(‘SS‘lIHl'dahlll) on | of Price Administration, - including D8N, ar siiting Dessive &nt Hani executives from the Juneau office Tesisting in the ("1‘,‘;;“::::; % thregs and field representatives from every y . - St i o “We think the constitutional gov- district in the Territory, weve Pre-|, . ment in time of war is not so sent this morning at a breakfast powerless it does not have some | D otk Iris Room of the oo\ iuision, and so had a choice. s | “Those charged with the responsi- | The breakfast was the OPeNINg vy of our national defense have event of the first field conference| ., (nqpie grounds for believing the beld by OPA since the establish-| ) n¢ 45 reql. The challenged orders | ment of the Alaska office on May|, . gefense measures for the avowed | 16,1942 and all members of the Ju-| ;5000 of safeguarding the military neau organization except the cler-1,,., 'y question at the time of ical staff were in attendance. | ihreatened air. raids, invasion of | Mrs. Mildred Hermann, OPA Di- | 5, nan0ce forces, and from the dan- rector for Alaska greeted the snafl‘,ge‘_ of sabotage and’ espionage,” members from other parts of the g .o wrote . Tetritory and Guy Green, Enfoce-| Japs Challenged ment Attorney in charge of en-| .ppoce challenging .the | forcement for the 9th Region, spoke | .. were Gordon Hirabayashi of briefly about the plans for the con-|gaaitle, and Minoru Yasui of Port- | jerante. |land. Hirabayashi was a senior at| In Charge the University of Oregon at the time | Mr. Green, who arrived recently|of his arrest, and was sentenced to | from Washington, D. C., Wil have three months' imprisonment for vio- | general charge of the conference jgting the curfew regulation and and individual sessions will be un- | fajling to report to the evacuation der heads of the various divisions center. | of OPA from the Juneau office. Mr.| vasul is a graduate of the Uni-| Green recently completed a sim- yersity of Oregon, who was sen- ilar program in Puerto Rico and tenced to a year’s imprisonment and regula- KISKA JAPS " ARERAIDED ~ ON SUNDAY Accounts of Oirher Pacific | ;' Aftacks Reported g by Navy | WASHINGTON, June 21 - The {Navy announced Ventura medium | bombers attacked Jap installations |on Kiska yesterday, but the results | were not observed ! Heavy bombers | number of hits on scored a ap airfield | also the J on Friday, the Navy reports, and on Saturday, Liberators attacked the Gilberts. { “Although seven enemy Zeros were in the air over Tarawa,” the | Navy said, hey didn’'t press & determined attack against the Unit=} ed States bombers. ; “Phe Liberators also attacked Jap | positions at Kahili in the Buin area and fires were started | “Dauntless dive-bombers and Avenger torpedo planes attacked & | base on Kolombangara Island. A supply dump. was hit and a fire started,” the communique. conelud- »d. S e NAZI SUBS LICKED IN LONG FIGHT from Alaska expects to proceed to Hawalii to hold a conference in that Territory. Morning and afternoon sessions will be held at the American Legion Dugout during the remainder of this week and may extend int next week, Mrs. Hermann said ! today. Today's session was in charge of B. P. Falkenberg, of the rent de- partment of OPA, and was spent in taking up rental matters through- out the Territory. Those Attended Now in Juneau to attend the con- ference are Mrs. H. G. Romig, Dis- trict Manager in Anchorage, Frank Kelly, O. K. Krueger and Juanita 3Kugon. Inspectors in the Anchorage ’district: Miss Alice Smith, Inspec- {tor and Acting Manager of the Fairbanks District, who is repre- | senting that OPA office in the ab- sence of Steve Af=Cutcheon, Dis- trict Manager, and Everett Hepp, Associate Inspector who are on a trip down the Yukon; Evelyn Gra- bam, Acting District Manager in Ketchikan, Carl Nevenheim, In- spector at Ketchikan and Reuel M. Griffin, recently appointed Inspec- tor at Ketchikan, Rationing Board Clerks in various parts of Alaska who are here for the conference are Mrs. Karen Baldwin, Nome; Mrs. Marie Mul- care, Skagway; Mrs. Ruth Metealf, | Sitka; Mrs. Frances Mathisen, Pe- tersburg; Mrs. Edna Alspaugh, | Wrangell. | Rationing Board Clerks who are |still to arrive are Mrs. Klaire John- son, Palmer; Mrs. Hazel Irwin, |Seward; Mrs. Blanche Sullivan, ! Valdez and Mrs. Alice Carson, Cor- dova. In addition to those from out of town, members of the Inspection | Division from the Juneau office are attending the conference, making a |total of about twenty-five OPA re- | presentafives. | It is planned to hold a conference | |of OPA field representatives each year, Mrs. Hermann said. | ————— | [ EMERSON LEAVES | Dr. Rupert Emerson, Regional Ad- | ministrator of Territories and Pos- sessions for the Office of Price { Administration, and his Administra- |tive Officer, F. Patrick Kelly, left Juneau yesterday for Washington, D. C. Dr. Emerson and Mr. Kelly were in Juneau for 10 days, | fined $5,000 for violating the curfew regulation | e i House Okeh GivenioHuge - War Request | WASHINGTON, June 21.—With- lout a dissenting vote, the 'House passed and sent to the Senate today |the $71 billion War Department | appropriation bill to meet the | Army’s request for funds to bring |the war home to Japan, Germany | and Italy. | It's the biggest supply bill in his- |tory. The measure, War Depart- ment official said, will permit the recruiting of 7,500,000 men by the lend of this year and furnish ap- | proximately 100,000 planes for the incessant bombing of the Axis. $IX TRIED IN POLICE COURT THIS MORNING Brought before the City Police Court this morning were the fol- lowing: Joaquin Bentillo Carlos, arrested Saturday on a charge of being drunk and concealing a dag- ger and crooked dice. Fined $25 and 20 days in the City Jail, sentence was suspended on good behavior. | arrested Satur- Reece Murray, day on a drunk and disorderly charge. He did not appear and his $25 bail was forfeited. Richard E. Parsons was arrested Sunday on two counts in a traf- fic violation. He was fined $4. Thomas Gavin ‘was arrested Sun- day night and fined $20 on a dis-| orderly conduct charge. Jimmy Gardner, day, paid a fine of $100 on a charge of drunkenness and was given 30 days in jail, the sentence being suspended if he leaves town Rayford O. Decker was arrested yesterday on a disorderly conduct charge. His fine was $20, arrested Sun-| LONDON, June 21.—British air and naval units protecting an At- lantic convoy sunk two to five of | | Hitler’s submarines and probably | damaged several in a five-day run- | ning battle. | Land-based Liberators and Fort- | resses teamed with the warships to defend the convoy. Ninety-seven percent of the ships are now safe |in port. DARWIN IS BOMBED BY JAP PLANES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 21.—Spitfires destroyed 9 Japanese planes and |damaged 13 which raided Darwin, |and four-engined Allied hombers struck at Rabaul, New Britain, |dropping 31 tons of bombs o |grounded aircraft. There were 38 Jap bombers in the Darwin raid, escorted by 20 |fighters. Two Spitfires are reported Emls.smg. Damage on the ground was llight. MOSTMINES More Defails on New Pay-as-You-GoIncome STILL WORK IS REPORT May ANemp;t'N"ew Confer- ence fo Seftle Difficulty WASHINGTON, June 21.—United Mine Workers and soft coal operat- ors have agreed to return tg the erence tables, if possible, to another tieup of the nation’s co avert mi The working truce expired night at midnight, but miners wt areas today More than 20,000 left their jobs Saturday after the War Labor Board refused to approve pay for under- ground travel time. - last er DAVIS SAYS HE'LL QUIT ASOWIHEAD Director States that He's Through If Senate Agrees in Cut WASHINGTON, June 21.—FElmer Davis says he’ll quit nis job as Director of the Office of War In- formation if its domestic bureau | is abolished. The House voted on ursday to cut the domestic service out after Rep. Joe Starnes said the kind of propaganda handed out by the do- mestic branch was an insult to the American people. “If the Senate concurs in the! opinion of the House,” he said, “there will be no OWI and that’s that.” | In an informal pr conference he added, “it will also end me as director. This is a combination overseas and domestic job I was called down to do. If the Senate concurs in the view of the House, that job is ended and it will be a job for somebody else to take care of whatever they choose in foreign information.” - FOREMEN STRIKE AT WILLOW RUN DETROIT, June 21 Foremen went on strike at the huge Willow Run plant h but some union- ists are working Pickets are stopping cars enter- ing the plant to look for foremen. There has been no violence. The foremen struck when the company diseiplined several of them. - There are 62 collegiate, 59 pro- fessional and 18 honor fraternities in the United States of 77, WASHINGTCN, June 21. — The total of Jap planes destroyed in the great air battle over Guadal- canal last week has been boosted Ly the Navy from 77 to 94. The bulk of the destruction Iis credited to a force of 74 American |fighter planes, piloted by Army |Navy, Marine and New Zealand | pilots. A Navy communique issued late ‘Salurday gave these new details of Jwhat Secretary of the Navy Frank *Ameiricalii»bowned 94 5 Jap Planes, Instead in Huge Fight Knox called a “glorious victory. It also was disclosed that at the time of the attack, a group of Am-| erican cargo vessels, escorted by destroyers, was in the vicinity of| Guadalcanal. | Approximately * 30 enemy dive- bombers tried to attack this con-| voy, but succeeded only in damag-| ing a cargo vessel and a landing| craft, and “minor”| damage on a second cargo ship. inflicting only 1either | tation.” | furter dissented. ¢ Pounding Tax Plg SIGNIFICANT - MOVES SEEN, RUSS FRONT Germans ThroWing Every- thing to Regain Lost Sector MOSCOW, June 21.—Continued Nazi counter-attacks, aimed at re- capturing the strong points north- west of the Mtsensk-Orel sector of the Russian front are viewed by military observers as increasingly significant. The Germans made repeated at- tacks during last week, shoving fresh reserves and heavier equip- ment into the fight in an attempt to take positions recentily lost to the Red Army troops. These observers point out that the fighting, although Joeal, has been stronger than any other re- ported along the front for days. They don't believe the Germans would be making a special effort to retake the lost ground unléss it holds unusual value for them Both sides are reported to have concentrated large reserves and supplies in the Orel area, which hinges the central and southern fronts, and is considered a possible strong point in the offensive on front. - HIGH COURT RULING ON COMMUNIST Can't Revéke Citizenship on that Alone, Is Opinion WASHINGTON, June 21.—In a 5- 3 opihion, the Supreme Court ruled that American citizenship of a form- er alien cannot constitutionally be cancelled merely because he is a member of the Communist Party. J : Murphy, who delivered the majority opinion serted the can- ellation of citizenship is not justi- fied by impugning “the reprehen- sible interpretation” of the organ- ization to a member unless there are “overt acts” committed by a mem- ber, “indicating such is his interpre- Justices Stone, Roberts and Frank- The Justice De- partment didn’t participate in the action. The decision constituted a victory for Wendell L. Willkie who represented the Communist in- volved, Murphy declared “clear, un- equivocal, convincing” evidence is required for setting aside a nat- uralization decree. Such evidence, he said, has not been ented against Willlam Schneiderman, ¢tate secretary of the Communist Party of California, a native of Russia who became a citizen in 1927, MAN SHOT DURING FRISCO BLACKOU SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. — Harry Hennig, 55, engineer on a dredge, was critically injured by shots fired by police attempting to wake him up to turn off the lights during a blackout which las ed 3§ minutes, caused by approaci ing planes, later identified as friendly. nNow Received Beginning July 1, employers will have another deduction headache as the nation goes on a pay-as-you- go basis for the collection of in- come taxes, the employers deduct- ing 20 percent of what the em- ployee makes after allowable ex- emptions are made. According to advance informa- tion recelved by the Empire on new tax bill, taxpayers can get an idea of how much they will have to shell out from the follow- ing list of exemptions: A single person with no depen- dents must pay 20 percent of what he 4 ITALIAN CITIES HIT BY ALLIES 'Algiers Radio Broadcasts Warning of Interior Forays ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 21.—Lieut Gen. Carl Spaatz' air fleet is de- clared officially to have wrought new destruction on Sicilian tar- ots from Marsela to Messina, shooting down 16 Axis fighters in the process. The Rome radio said Naples and four other Italian mainland cities also were raided terday Medium bombers and fighters co- operated to round out the heavy weekend blows against Italy and Sicily. Others Raided An TItalian communique said makes each week over $12 a| the basic exemption. Naples and Foggia, railroad city A married person, claiming the|Near the spur of the Italian boat, whole of ' personal - éXemption = fop| SPIIASSCIR. ¥ zaliss southeast. . of 1., 'Reggio, and Calabria and San Gio- withholding head of family, = vani on the toe of the boot were all pays 20 percent of what he makes| .. attacked by Allied airmen yester- over $24 a week. ay. A married person claiming only These raids were not reported in half of the personal exemption fOr'|ajj0q announcements, but the Ital- | withholding is in the same boat a8|i.n¢ on occasions have told of such |a single person, paying 20 l’””""llhrusts before they have been re- of what the person makes Over!ported in Allied communiques. $12 a week. . | The Alglers radio, meanwhile, Dependents warned the Italian people in a But taxpayers will be allowed an broadcast that Allled air blows |exemption of $6 a week also forwhich have been largely confined each dependent other than the first'to port cities will be spread now to dependent in the oase of the head the interorof Ttaly. - . of the family Curt Warning Employers will be able to avoid| Said the report: “If you want to detail work in making an exact save your industries and see Italy computation of the amount to be Testored to the position it deserves withheld ‘from each employee’s after the war, demand peace and wages by making use of wage- demonstrate peace.” pracket withholding tables which! The Northwest African Air Force appear in the act. lost five planes in fresh operations The Office of Internal Revenue|“hich included a heavy assault by has failed instructions |RAP Welliigicne on Messitia, fints concerning | the new tex to all eviployers neg: | Rony BIDHECEIN wete vinliis 43 istered in this district. Only 10| miles away afterwards. copies of Form W-4, the Employ-| 5 he | week or {da; plihe Srinll TN ce’s Withholding Exemption Cer- tificate, however, have been mailed. Therefore; employers of more than 10 persons, unless they have heed- ed the recent warning printed in| the Empire and have sent for ad-| ditional copies of this form, should | take steps at once to secure the forms. | May Print Them | The Collector of Internal Reve-| nue has announced that due to a deluge of mail, there may be some delay in distributing extra forms, but that the Commissioner of In-| ternal Revenue has authorized em- | ployers to have their own W-4| forms printed. A sample of this| | | | [ (Continued on Page Three) - WANDBCLUB | WILL HAVE BIG PICNIC TUESDAY, The 40 and 8 Club has complet- ed all arrangements for a big picnic to be held tomorrow night, the windup of the longest day of, the year, at Treadwell Beach for| all Legionnaires, their wives, fami-| lies and lady friends | All who plan to attend will meet at 6:30 o'clock at the Dugout and transportation will be furnished In charge of the entertainmeut and sports will be Claude Carnegie and Les Sturm will handle the| eats and other necessary refresh- ments. - BRUIN SEEN SUNDAY | ON DOUGLAS HIGHWAY' | Bicyclists along the Douglas high- |way early yesterday afternoon were | greeted by a huge black bear, who came dashing up from the beach just past the cemetery and saun-| |tered leisurely towards the Doug- las city limits. The Bruin was dis- turbed by a passing car before reaching Douglas, however, and plunged into the thicket the mountain side Numerous reports recently of pedestrians having |sighted bear along the Glacier ‘Hishwny and other nearby pmn!s.‘ on have come in QUAKE HITS TURK CITY: 15,000 DIE Berlin Report Say 40 Per- cent of Houses Are Destroyed LONDON, June 21.—The Berlin radio says a violent earthquake rocked the northwest part of the Turkish province of Amatolia, and unconfirmed reports placed the number of dead in the city of Ada- pazar alone, at 15,000, half its pop= ulation. The account, which came from the none too reliable Transocean News Agency, said the quake oc- curred shortly after 7:30 o'clock last night during a heavy thunder- torm, and muffled subterranean rumblings below the earth’s surface added to the terror. The center of the tremor was said to be at Adapazar. Transocean said 40 percent of the houses were de- stroyed and another 30 percent of the dwellings received severe dam- ages - POOL'S READY The swimming pool in Evergreen Bowl will be open for business at 7 o'clock this evening, Harold Roth, Recreation Director, announces. - is the “Friendship” Texas. motto of e o o 0 o MOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:08 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:51 am. Dimout begins Tuesday at sunset at 10:08 p.m. e ee v 00 .