The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI. NO. 9377. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — TWO-TON BLOCKBUSTERS HIT SALERNO RAF Smashes Big German Steel Cente NAZISDOWN Magnuson Wonders It Russians Supply (rab 35 ALLIED WARPLANES Great Fires Still Burning! at Refeld from Yesterday LONDON, June 23. — bombers of the Royal Air Force blasted the German steel and com- munications center of Muelheim in the Ruhr last night in a continua- tion of the mighty round-the- clock offensive. Preliminary reports, the Air Ministry said, indicated the bomb- ing was “well concentrated.” A British communique declared returning fliers reported they had seen great fires burning at Refeld, also, main objective in a smashing RAF assault on the Rhineland on the previous night and also attacked by Flying Fortresses in daylight yesterday. Fighter Action British fighter planes simultan- eously carried out intruder patrols over Holland and France today, shooting down two aircraft in the course of operations. A Berlin broadcast said Ober- hausen also had been hit as well as Muelheim, but -this -was not con- tained in the Allied report. ‘The British sald 35 bombers and one fighter failed to return from (Conunucd on Pnge Throeu The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen ou active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Despite the fact that the President has little time for most domestic problems these days, he got aroused last wecek over undercover knifing aimed at —protection of investors through the Securities and Exchange Com- mission. Ever since July 1940, Wall Street and banking groups have been try- ing to amend Securities and Ex- change legislation—someof the| amendments making sense, others cutting the heart out of the SEC.| Hearings regarding these proposed | amendments have been held before the: House Interstate and Foreign| Commerce Committee, but for about a year now they have lain dor- mant. Out of the clear blue, however,| the proposed SEC amendments have been revived. Apparently the big Wall Street boys figure now is the time to strike while Roosevelt is busy with the war, and Congress is lackadaisical about New Deal; reforms. To this end, Chairman Clarence| Lea of California has announced that hearings, in effect, to stymie the agency which Roosevelt creat- ed in 1933 to keep the money changers out of the Temple, would begin immediately. Further he has revealed the amazing fact that the consultant for the House committee is none other than Paul Frum, partner in Newton D. Baker’s Cleveland law firm, and representative of the Na- tional Association of Security| Dealers. In other words, the National As- sociation of Security Dealers, an organization active in the drive to gut the SEC, has had its man sit-/ ting on the staff of a Congression-| al Committee supposed to be im- | partial and supposed to decide! things for the best interests of the country, not for the Wall Streel traders. Furthermore, Frum is sitting with the House Interstate Commerce Committee at closed-door sessions, with no member of the press or‘ public present. This caused SEC Chairman Gan- (Continued on Page Four) ATTACKS ON STARTWORK; To Japanese Markets KISKA JAPS SIRIKE ENDS JAP THRUST IN NEW GUINEA - HURLED BACK 1100 Nippor?Are Killed or Wounded in Island Ground Fight ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 23—The largest Jap force to be hurled against the Allied lines on the ground front on New Guinea Island at Mubo was thrust back by Australians with !was told Russia had asked for crab I American air support on Monday. | One hundred Japs were killed or wounded At the same time, \mmbflx's in bad weather attacked an enemy float plane base in the Aroe, Islands, 500 miles north of Darwin, shooting down one ceptor and damaging four Jap planes. The Japs were over Darwin Mon- | day, also, but reports didn’t say it any bombs were drom)cd | FR. FORCES ARE SPLIT ON LEADERS Liberator othm ALGIERS, June 23. — One Africa Army recruiting came the fore today as the French forces of liberation remained divided in | allegiance DeGaulle and General Honore Gi-/ raud. It became apparent that the after a year of military service in/ | Park home with Queen Wllhelmun duel power between the leaders and the Territory. ! their sumed after tlement of yesterday continuing the | status quo in military control. Giraudists indicated that insist the recruiting be on a terri-| | torial basis, thereby excluding the | | Fighting French from drawing| | manpower from North Africa. De- | Gaullists declared that not only| factions will be quickly re- do Giraudists threaten to “freeze the Jews of Amsterdam have been | North Africa where they as-| |deported to Poland by the Ger-| out”’ serted that many civilians wanted !to join the Fighting French, buly also are |Africa army. 'WPB STATES - MINE RULES - TO CONTINUE | WASHINGTON, June 23. — The | War Production Board said today | it has been decided to keep in ef- dect the order closing non-essential gold mines. The War Production Board said |they reached their decision after careful study of the effect of the order, and added that evidence |submitted to them showed that the |closing order has resulted in an increase of available labor and sup- plies, and that it has also stepped up production of such critical min- erals as copper and zinc. - B | California golfers bring their own ll‘addles now, inter- | | Anchorage to issue up to $1,250,00( of \in bonds for the purchase and im- | one of his first New Deal reforms the hottest issues in French North ! provement of the Anchorage Light to|and Power Company. between General Charles | bers of the armed forces in Alaska |President and Mrs. Roosevelt would the compromise set-| minor those escaping from France Approximately 180,000 persons were being channeled into the North | classified as Jews by the Nazis at 'DEATH TOLL OF | which struck Anatolia, Turkish city, might be interested to attend this! | rails 35.01, WASHINGTON, June resentative Warren G announced today that he gating the aid extended Ru increase its catch of crabs for food 23.—Rep- Magnuson is investi~ a to Only Weather Has Hap- Will Stay on Jobs Unfil pened Since Attu- | October 31, IsAn- | Army Reports nouncement to determine if such aid is not | eing ere cause competi- | :JIK(:II\U,L:I)t;\x“win\lfi‘n'A:t‘ nl‘:\:‘l‘nvm By WILLIAM L. WORDEN WASHINGTON, June 23 A industry after the war Associated Press Writer back-to-work movement in the He said he inquired of the Lend Pennsylvania and .Vu-gnnu captive Lease Administration just what aid ALASKA DEF SE COMAMND [coal mines today signaled the end | had been extended, after the Pa-| HEADQUARTERS June 23.—The of the nation’s third g('»lu'r‘dl war- | cific Northwest Crab Produce question of “what’s happened in Al-|time strike, and indications point- learned of the project. He said he|aska since the capture of Attu”|ed toward virtually full-time pro-| | oW, | brings one answer from the Army: duction tomorrow. | Only the weather has happened. | Responding to instructions from| nets and equipment to produce and | / The fact is, the weather brought|John L. Lewis and his policy com- materials | preserve crabmeat and - to repair some floating canneries|operations against Kiska to a vxr-‘mn‘w the miners have agreed }o operating in the Pacific |tual complete standstill even while return to work until October 31 Representative Magnuson said he | the Attu attack was underway, be- upon the condition that the Gov- was informed that the material |cause aerial assaults against Kiska ernment continue to operate the sent Russia wouldn't last long|became almost impossible due to mines | enough to constitute a source for |[the heavy Aleutian fog which be-| The main issue of the »quabblo,; postwar competition. “In view of [gan hovering over most of the|the portal pay demand, still is not| the Russia-Japan agreement con- |Aleutian Islands about a month | settled, merely postponed cerning salmon fishing I'm inter- |80 and is \llll thel'e | “n\lt‘ Formal (‘)rderuv e ested in learning whether Ru»\m‘ | Except ‘Im the captive pits, few| is buying crabmeat for Japan,” |of the mines went right back to| M X aid. work today, the miners’ local un-| agnuson sai i b J 1 - |lons awaiting receipt of forma ur(lvn from Lewis to return to their | | Jobs [ Fuel Coordinator Harold L. Ickes! jassured the miners that mintmum wages prevailing will be continued. Alaska Game AID CHINESE DR Lewis did not explain the rea-| laws Okehed CHUNGKING, June 23—United|son for the October 31 deadline. It |States Mitchell bombers and War- | js pelieved the portal pay issue may | hawk fighters supported Chinesepe taken to court in the interim. B s troops on the Tunging Lake and Aupedl “To Prestdent ena ors Yangtze River front Monday, heav Only a few hours before, the |1y bombing and strafing Jap bases| war Labor Board had referred the | |and shipping. Thirty-one huge fires | sirike to President Roosevelt, ask-| ‘\wu* left burning with many di- jng him to use all his powers to| ‘Senate Also Passes Billfor | | et hits noted among warehouses| g s resumon m Hwajung, north of the lake, the Yesterday, Ickes and Lewis met Anchorage Bond | communique said. | - 'WILHELMINA T0 in conference for a half-hour, but| declined to say what had trans- pired. Lewis said nothing and Ickes issued a statement simply saying WASHINGTON, June 23. — The the conference had taken place. Senate passed a bill revising nl\‘ RPN JERRY GUCKER IS QUALIFIED BEAR HUNTER; Jerry Gucker, GUEST SUNDAY WASHIN(JTON, June announced 23. — The today that Also passed was a bill revising| Alaska’s game laws to enable mem-| Whitehouse to obtain a resident hunting license |spend next Sunday at their Hyde 13-year-old-son Uf‘ The bill now goes|of the Netherlands as their guest. |j w " Gucker, is following in the | back to the House for action on a Wlilitehuuvs; flfl;c;}l'«}lfi said they .vm\\. footsteps of his father as a bij amvndmrm |po reason for belleving the visit gome hynter from the looks of | |of Queen Wilhelminia was anything things, and already has a big black ore than social. The Queen has . : Ews MovED |been in Ottawa, Canada, for some hesE te hala credit Lhe3 iy The hunt took place last bundd\ S on the mainland off the west side| OU'I' OF HOH-AND of Shelter Island where Jerry, his (OMMUN"Y SI"G 18-year-old brother Jack and Mr; Gucker went for the weekend ! LONDON, June 23 —The last of | Jerry sighted the bear and, using | A' lulHER‘" ON the new 30 rifle given him by} his father as a graduation gift mans, completing the removal of THURSDAY EVENING Holland’s entire Jewish population. | Members and friends are invit- ed to attend the first of a series when he finished grade school this| year, fatally wounded the animal| with his first shot. The bear was downed and Jerry's brother Jack| | the time of their 1940 invasion of‘of community sings and Christian followed up with a shot which| | the Low Countries. |entertainment to be held Thurs- killed the animal. e, |day evening at 8 o'clock in the Jack Gucker senior is proudly | | Resurrection Lutheran Church, The Thursday Evening Sing will ‘7e followed with motion pictures OUAKE A'I' i 30 by the U. S. Forest Service, en- |titled “Wild Life in the North.” 1 The entertainment will close with LONDON, June 23.—Reuters re-|a half hour of Christian Fellow- | ports 1,304 dead have been counted [ship and refreshments. so far as a result of the quake‘ We cordially invite any who showing off the skin to callers at| house and plans to have it tanned | Jerry's collection Mr. Guck of trophies. and his two sons left Juneau Saturday and spent that night in the open. They returned | to town Monday night after spend- ing Sunday night and Monday at! Sunday program. their cabin at Point Louisa. G ——— it BUY WAR BON NC! v | STOCK QUOTATIONS s wonomsor sriomer | PRICES TU! Alaska Juneau mine stock closed Tuesday at 5%, American Can| 85%, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 62%, Commonwealth and Southern 13/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 537, Granby Copper and Mining 5%, International Harves- ter 69%, Kennecott 302, Northern Pacific 147, Packard Motor 4% Republic Steel 17!z, United States Steel 55%, Pound $4.04. w. J e avera-es for Tuesdav were as follows: industrials 139.02, utilities 20.13, MAKING SHORT STAY T John E. Mande s, au.orney of An-‘ chorage and legal representative of Woodley Airways, and his daughter, Miss Letha Manders, arrived in SDAY OPEN HOUSE AT P All the people of this com- munity are cordially invited to tour the Post between the hours of 2 and 5 in the afternoon, on Sunday, June 27, 1943. Visitors will be shown through the Post by guides. Transportation through the camp will be fur- nished. Street clothes should be worn. with the Woodley plane Mr. Manders and Miss Manders will return to Anchorage with the \plane late today or tomorrow morn- ing. i - > LIEUT. COL. ROY W. RIEGLE | Gount Fleet’s handler calls the ifast race horse “Old Zeke,” ¢ | recommendation for | million | Railway Juneau yesterday from Anchorage ppijadel here cancelled his gasoline junket as not r FOG HAMPERS| (OAlMINERS Eddie Rickenbacker In Surprise Journey To Russian (apifal MOSCOW, June 23 enbacker has been in Moscow since Sunday on a as a repre- sentative for of War Henry Stimson He made the four-engined news of his capital was made terday during a ceremony in which Ambassador |Standley presented 60 American military awards to Russian soldiers and sailors The trip is Rickenbacker's mission Secretary trip to Russia in a Liberator and the presence in the Russ public late yes- Kremlin Palace a continuation of tour of various high ranking military and {public officials here. - Vinson Nips Wage Raise For Workers WASHINGTON June 23. — An informed source says Stabilization Director Vinson has issued an order | setting asifie the Emergency Board's | an eight-cent more than a| men in the non-operating Employees’ Union. Vinson's order, it is learned from this source, said the Emergency Board may reconsider its award on the basis of a memorandum he will prepare within 10 days. - hourly increase for RUSSPLANES RAID ENEMY LONDON, June 23 Russian |bombers hammered against Nazi ?lrdlumes behind the lines last night but only ground activity was reported in the Russian midday communique which consisted of scouting and artillery bombard- | ments. - FEW ARRESTS, POLICE COURT THIS MORNING Three men, all drunkenness, were arrested and pbrought before the City Police Court this -morning for penalties. Gilbert Billy Johnson was fined $25 and given 20 days in jail, the charged with sentence being suspended on good behavior. Don Gallagher appeared before the court this morning and was the Alaska Trading Company ware- fined $25. David Hansen was fined $25 and and mounted as the beginning of given 30 days in jail, sentence being |suspended on good behavior. — e, — The Signal Corps installs, oper- ates and, maintains all the com- munications systems used by the my. - - Jeep Trek fo |Alaska Nipped In Bud by OPA TOLEDO, Ohio, June 23.—Herbert Lanks, author, planned a Iphia-to-Alaska jeep expedi- tion to photogzaph the Alaska Military Highway. He got C gasoline his local board, but when national G. rations from was stranded OPA officials being in the interest of the pub- lie, world bat-| tlefronts. It is assumed he will see| | begin | targets ) Eddie Rick- U. 5.-RUSS UNITYNOW STRONGER |Recent Notes Are Still Se-| cret,, But Action Significant | 5 | TORONTO, Canada, June 23 ‘Ju.-wuh E. Davies, who recently de-| {livered messages between Roose- | velt and Stalin, declared the con-| \'I‘Illb were secret but the m'unn“ In-spvaks of unity with reference| ‘t,o military activities or other plans | between the leaders. Davies spoke at a Canadian-So- viet friendship rally, saying, “we Will soon be closely interlocked with |airplanes across the pole. Moscow ! will be o\t'lnigl\t from New York'| BIOLOGICAL SURVEY AID IN BATTLES Supplied Information| Helped Yank Land- - | ing on Attu , WASHINGTON, June 23.—Credit for supplying exclusive information {which “played an important part” jin the recent successful campaign! {to cover Attu is claimed by the| |U. S. Biological Survey, in a state- | ment made to the Senate Appro- | for VITAL RAIL CITY TAKES HARD BLOWS British Follow Up Amer- ican Raiders in Twin Aerial Attack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 23.—Sweep- ing in with heavy bomb loads less than 12 hours after American bombers jolted the same targets by daylight, Wellingtons of the Royal Air Force smashed Salerno on the Italian mainland last night in a continuation of Allied efforts to knock the underpinning out from under Mussolini’s supply system for southern Italy and Sicil Two-ton blockbusters were plant- ed squarely on the freight yards near the barracks at Salerno, key port 30 miles south of badly-bat- tered Naples Start Fires Huge - fires were started, Allied Headquarters said Salerno is the key point in the main electric railway running southward from Naples to the toe of the Italian boot. The American raiders already had caused extensive damage to many rallway sidings, repair de- pots and approaches to the yards there, Reconnaissance reports showed railway traffic already interrupted 24 hours by the smashing of the roundhouses, turntables and other installations there and at other points along the line. ‘The Wellingtons encountered only light anti-aircraft fire as they |swept over their targets. No Opposition No enemy fighters took to the sky and all planes returned safely to their bases. ‘The only other aerial activity by the Northwestern African Air Forces yesterday was some patrol- ling and reconnaissance. The bulk lof the Allies' hundreds of bombers land fighters were inactive. Reconnaissance photographs tak- en after the Flying Fortress attack on Naples Monday showed 40 per- cent of the Italian Royal arsenal there had been destroyed. At least 25 fires were started there. D ROME NOT priations Committee during hear- ings on the department’s appro- | priation bill | The Interior Department’s letter urged restoration of $100,000, the !amount the House reduced the al-| |lowanee for the Biological Survey.! | After studying the letter the com- mittee recommended restoration of | the money to the department. It/ stated that Survey personnel “is in constant communication with of-| | ficers of the Air Force and accom-| plishes strategic service for other| agencies.” - ALASKA GUARDS | MEET THURSDAY AT RIFLE RANGE The regular meeting of the Ju- neau Company of the Alaska Ter- ritorial Guard will be held Thurs- day night at the Mendenhall Rifle Range. The company will leave in two groups, the first at 6 p.m. un- der Captain Roth and the second at 7 oclock commanded by Major | G. F. Freeberger. All 'members who |can are requested to bring cars to the Elks Club where the groups will assemble. Rifle practice will as soon as the phone com- munication between the firing line and the pits is established and the are set to go. Members | should bring materials for cleaning guns with them Members of the 4th Platoon are requested to make a special effort to go out with the six o'clock group as four machine guns will be used for training and practice firing Both groups will leave promptly at the scheduled time. - BUY WAR BONDS SAFE FROM BLASTING RAF Commentator States View on Subject of Bombing LONDON, June 23.—A Royal Air Force commentator made it clear md‘n that Rome could be removed | indefinitely and permanently from |under the threat of Allied bombing {only if made an open ecity and the |United Nations were convinced it |was not participating in the Axis war effort, ‘The commentator, who wouldn’t permit the use of his name, empha- ized he did not mean a decision |bad been reached to bomb Rome. He reminded the press confer- ence, however, of Churchill's past declaration that Rome couldn't con- sider itself exempt from bombing if such an attack is deemed neces- sary to the Allied war effort. - D - LRI R R R R I . WEATHER REPORT N . (U. 8. Bureau) . ® Temp. Tuesday, June 22 ® Maximum 80, minimum 50 = Brooklyn outflelder Augie Galan started as a shortstop. ® e 00 0 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:08 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow ® at sunrise at 3:52 am Dimout begins Thursday at e sunsetl at 10:08 p.m. LIRS I R B A ) ®eesrev s