The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9378. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943 MI ‘MBER ASS()( IATED PR}SS PRICE TEN CENTS .. ROUND TRIP RAID ON GERMANY, ITALY Nazi Raiders Strike English Coast Tow HULL PORT IS RAIDED; MANY DEAD Fires Burn mNight—Hun- | dreds Fill Raid Shelters HULL, England, June 24.—Fif-| teen German raiders pounded this northeast England port city of 250,000 last night, showering down thousands of incendiaries in attack that lasted more than hour | The raid caused many fires which today. | The museum and its valuable ex-! were not controlled until hibits were destroyed along with part of the shopping center and residential property. Casualties were still climbing as 1escue squads dug out the bodies of those buried in their homes. Hundreds fled to air raid shel- ters clad only in their night dress. - eee STOCKDALE IN JUNE few days’ leave MRS. L To spend a Juneau, Mrs. teacher for the Office of Indian Affairs, at Hoonah, arrived here yesterday. Mrs. Stockdale is staying at the | Gastineau Hotel while she is in the city. The Washlngion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) in WASHINGTON .—A German| plane that flies at the terrific speed of six miles a minute and fires shelis at the rate of 10 per second was responsible for knock: ing 26 U. S. Flying Fortresses out of the air over Kiel and Bremen on unlucky June 13.- This is the latest type of Messer- schmitt fighter, known as the 109 G-2. Air Forces experts admit it is| “hot stuff,” and that it is causing casualties when big formations of Flying Fortresses penetrate Ger- man skies without fighter protee- tion. The German fighters are not better than the American Light- nings or Thunderbolts, or than British Spitfires, but American and British fighters can't be there to carry out the comparison. When U. S. bombers make their daylight raids on the Continent, they pene- trate farther than fighter planes,| with limited range, can fly. Thus the bombers must depend | on their own guns and their own|an attack against Italy. armor. They fly at 225 to 250 miles| he said, might be simply to try for the dock, was an hour, compared with 350 to 390‘ made by the German fighters. The Nazi gun which is doing| most of the damage is a 20 mm| cannon which fires at the rate of 700 shells per minute. (But it can | fire for only a few seconds at a time, then must stop to cool off). NEED LO! RANGE FIGHTERS Both the Messerschmitt and the Focke-Wulf fighters are reported to have been airmen plenty of trouble last fall The Focke-Wulf is believed to have| a speed of 390 mph, and carries four cannons and two machine guns, while the Messerschmitt has also been brought up to !2 390 speed with similar ar N Airmen who are planning the big show over the Continent this summer insist that the loss of 26 bombers in a single day is not alarming, in view of the results. These results are: (1) Destruction of industrial targets. (2) Destruc- tion of German aircraft; (3) With- drawal of German planes from other fronts, especially the Rus- sian front, for the defense of the west. It does not follow, however, that U. S. raids will continue to be as costly as the one over Kiel on the (Continued on Page Four) an| an | Imogene Stockdale, improved this spring | over the models which gave U. S\ ALLIES POUND SICILY—FRONT DOOR TO ITALY B R R R m—== CASTELLAMAR PIANA DE GRECI MARSALAI;V N ‘l\‘" ? of X N S SCIACCA) @®CASTELVETRANO ™— ARA @MENFI - A 74\8‘ \RIBERA AGEQENTO. Sy "“SIL'ILH BARCELLONA MzsguA PATTI /‘\Recm 5. AGA <X 3\ TERMINI /,éy\ OTAORMINA SSMT. ETNA y—~— /@Q/j\ ~Z OENNA = O CALTANISETTA CASTELTERMINI R \4@\<\§ ®CATANIA %GUSTA QSIRACUSA ——E = L) PANTELLERIA >) w\_ WHILE ITALY QUAKES with “invasion jitters,” Allied bombers are pressing their nonstop blasting of Sicily and tiny Pantelleria. Ferry terminals on Sicily are the latest objectives to be shattered. The terminals, located at Messina on the northeastern tip of Sicily, are reported knocked out as a result of the newest attack. Residents of the area, according to the Italian newspaper Giornale d'Italia, are using heavy con- crete shelters which were originally built as protection during earthquakes. The Allied earthquake ap= parently is as effective. Bombings of Pantelleria are punctuated by warship fire. Nazis Fear Invasion of (onhnenl German Press Chlef Warns Balkans Must Be Watched June 24 declares with an A German that “in this tension” the Allied offensive “directed primarily against Italy,’ but “of course the other Mediter- ranean coasts, especially the Bal- kans, must be watched, too.” Expects Invasion is expecting invasion, editor in LONDON, press chief hour frau signs indicate " said chief “Italy Erich Schneyder, (International) Brifish Columbia Would of the German news agency, Trans- | Berlin radio broadcast the Associated Press. preparations for an asserted, included ocean, in a recorded by The Allied assault, he concentration of warships especial- raid and Alexandria,” craft Cibraltar of landing ly in fleets among them units” of British soldiers. Anxiety Haunts Them But all this, said Schneyder, |traying the anxiety haunting Axis peoples, does not “guarantee” tions, chute Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, not the Italian mainland, in order to clear the Mediterranean. “The advantages of invasion of anti-aircraft fire was encountered. E.uropean territory in the center lof the Mediterranean are obvious,” I he said, describing Italy as a land with trains “full to bursting” “great armies” were lined up repulse any landing. .—— GOVERNORS HIT RATES ONFREIGHT Lu “a believed including tors smashed at tank carriers and troop concentra- Dutch Celebes “strong para- damaging a Jap cruiser. be- carrying 38 the and high explosives, some of them The plan,| and'A cargo ship also was hit. | ( Put Up Cash for Roads leadmg Info Territory southern Canadian province with he Alaska Highway in the Peace Riv distriet Hart also said British Columbia is willing to spend six to seven mil- lions for a All\\d\’ connection be- Believed to Be Second tween Quesnel and Prince George if United States military authori- longest of War- ties will undertake construction of Hit Jap Ship a railway north from Prince George. HEADQUARTERS TN 24—In what is second longest by land-based force of Libera- Macassar in the yesterday, heavily VANCOUVER, B. C, June 24 Premier Hart told members of the Neorthwest Trade Association at meeting here the British Columbia Government is prepared to spend 1$6,000000 for the immediate con- struction of a road linking the Government-Owned The Pacific Great Eastern, owned by the British Columbia Govern- ment, runs from Squamiss to Quesnel Four survey parties are now work- ing out of Prince George to de- termine the best possible route for cennecting with the highway, he said, stressing, however, the diffi- American fliers flew 2,000 culty of obtaining equipment and for the devastating attack, supplies if it. is decided to carry tons of incendiaries out the project now. Adopt Resolution Delegates to the meeting adopted cruiser, moored to a resolution expressing their ap- enveloped in flames. Preciation for Hart's offer, but |stating they favored the “B" route, crashed into one @ highway running north to con- nect with the Alaska Military Highway at Watson Lake on the | Yukon-British Columbia border. | The delegates pledged themselves (to urge both the Canauian and 'United States governments to a: ln Lhe construction of the ALLIED AUSTRALIA, June to be the the war a heavy of bombers, The miles 2,000-pounders The enemy A Jap fighter Liberator, both going down. Heavy ———— : MORE COFFEE FORRATIONS PHIE GILMORE, . FOR OUTSIDE IS COMMISSIONED ENSIGN, U. 5. NAVY WASHINGTON, June 24. — The Pete Gilmore, Jr., formerly assis- next two coffee rations will be on tant to the Attorney General of the basis of one pound every three the Territory, received his com- | weeks, the most liberal allowance Mission as Ensign in the United smu- the beginning of rationing, States Navy on June 22 according COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 24—The| 1o office of Price Administration |t Wire received here by Walter P West and South have united In ,p,,,unced today. The present ra- Sharpe, battle against freight rates de- scribed as discriminatory as seven governors agreed to meet in Den- ver during September to ask for a cut in the rates charged on goods in their sections. The resolution declared that “strikes gravely threaten the secur- ity of the nation and endanger the cause for which we fight.” Gov. Leverett Saltonstall of Mas- sachusetts was named new chair- lm:ln for the coming year, ‘ Territorial Commissione: tion four of Labor. weeks. ! Ensien Gilmore was to leave at The OPA said that the large Once for Arizona, according to the stocks of green coffee already on Mmessage. hand, as well as the more regular arrival of imports which maintain stocks, has made possible the in- creased ration. i -e is one pound every —— WALTER P. SHARPE MAKES SHORT TRIP TO HAINES Walter P. Sharpe, Territorial A Cleveland radio station gives Commissioner of Labor, returned war bonds to Indian pitchers who last night from a short trip pitch shutout ganes, Haines on husiness to n -, KETCHIKAN - CITY CREW ON STRIKE ilities Ouiside Workers Stage Walkout on Wednesday ETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 24 The municipally - owned electric, | telephone and water utilities main- | tained service yesterday despite {strike which was called at 8 o'- | clock yesterday morning in which | fall outside employees failed to| § |show up for their jobs, i | Some telephone operators and one powerhouse operator continued {on the job. The employees had pledged coop- {eration with military authorities, but attributed the walkout to the | failure of the company to prose- cute wage negotiations and to re- instate two dismissed employees. The strike vote was taken Tues- day night and notification deliv- lered to the military, which in turn, | notified the company management ! - - Many Miners President Would Raise Still Refuse Age Limif fo Draft All To Take Jobs Miners Who Won't Work e b Nk g, S, ARMY | s (ASUALTIES ARE 63,958 PITTSBURGH June steadily increasing number nation’s half-million mine workers But Enemy'’s Losses in All Theatres Greater than Ours returned to work today, although WASHINGTON Sword Taken at Attu U Col. Frank Conlon, of Tucson, Ariz., (left), llnllnlh the edge of a sword taken from a Jap officer in the Holtz Bay action on Attu. Capt, L, H. Methias, of Fresno, Calif., his chief of staff, watches. June 24 The WASHINGTON E intended to ask President said he Congress to raise the age limit for non-combat military service to 6 years under the Selective Service Act a means of meeting any future threat of interruption of work at plants, mines or establish- ments owned by the Government He aferted as 2 A or operated of the in a statement pre- pared before the leaders of the United Mine Workers decided to direct the coal miners to go back cn the job “The Government steps to set up r ducting into the miners subject to the vice Act who absentee without just cause from Unit- g mines under Government the | tion.’ total oy L. has taken hinery for in- armed service all Selective Si themselves work in opera- miners re also jobs. 24 sinee June 1altie to date Henry war of President sald it was a good thing the miners were returning after interrupting coal production for the third time within a short period and slowing down war pro- duction. “The action of the leaders United Mine Workers and the coal miners is intolerable. It has rightly stirred up anger and disapproval in an overwhelming mass of the American people,” the President added War today died of wounds, 22,687 are are officially the enemy our casualties s certain that of engaged ses have the trend was noticeably slow. In Pennsylvania, where local un- ion units represent about 24,000 bituminous coal miners, they voted ainst going back, Thousands of anthracite in eastern Pennsylvania fused to go back to their Field Reports Reports from the field showed at ¢d States Army least 25,000 of the hard coal in- beginning of the dustry’s 83,000 men idle, including 63,958, Secretary virtually all of the 15,000 employees Stimson reported of the Glen Alden Company, larg- Of this total, were est producer in the world killed in action’or One mine official said the “tieup 17,128 were wounded is general” in the Luzerne and missing and 16,615 Lackawanna county areas in which reported prisoners of more than half of the industry Stimson said “while workers are concentrated have been heavy it Many of the mines in practically all open were compelled in which our troops with reduced forces. the enemy, the encmy’s los been much greater than our - America Has Hundreds of New Weapons AKRON, Ohio can industry is dreds of new war weapons, Ssays Maj. Gen. C. M. Barnes, chief of Attle Municipal League the Ordnance Department’s Tech- . nical Division S B INK . He mentioned pecifically the Taos i AMERICAN WINS bazooka rocket scores of military most them kept secret a and-a-half pound WARREROTON, | Jups tains explosive more Japanese sub was sunk by TR~ and ingide do fire from a United States sub S SR (s aimad on war patrol in the Pacific with He also told of a new anti-air- ® direct hit at 800 yards in a dar craft weapon which shoots a 47| attack by Commdr. Marvin G Kennedy of Henrletta, Mo, who was awarded the Silver. Star for the job. There are few instance: shell 60,000 feet high when one sub sinks another. which did war to operate theaters have - FORMER WPB MAN POSTS BAIL ON SECRET CHARGE w. D priorities Vote To Continue own.” At least five United Mine Worker locals of the anthracite region membership of more than 400,000 voted formally for continued work stoppage. A large portion of coal diggers in the minous producing . state of Virginia trooped back to the under a four-month truce -> ALERTIN SEATTLE TUESDAY SEATTLE, June 24-—Seattle had 33-minute alert Tuesday when unidentified aircraft, later identi- fied as friendly, approached the city The planes were as friendly for more than a half- hour after their presence was first noted. It was the first alert for attle in six months | a 130,000 bitu-~ West pits the biggest SEATTI June 24 Shannon, former district division manager for the duction Board, posted $1,000 on a secret Federal indictment Shannon former county fare directot apartment manager and former teacher who once headed wel- hotel is 2 an oping Ameri- hun- June school the Se- dev gun uses, ol It fires two- shell which con- % powerful then wlw- fires of a tank not identified > BUY WAR BONDS of the War Pro-| BOTH AXIS 'COUNTRIES AREBOMBED First Time Sflsh Daring Aftack Made with Blg For(e | June 24.—A new tech- nique in air bombing was demon- strated dramatically by several squadrons of Royal Air Force Lan- casters which early today com- pleted a shuttle roundtrip between Britain and Afrl bombing a German target on the way down and an Ttalian port on the run home without the loss of a plane. The Air Ministry disclosed the aircraft devastated three acres of the old Zeppelin works at Fried- richshafen Sunday night and con- tinued to a North African base, then returned home to England early this morning by way of Las- pezia, blasting the naval base at the latter port. First Time The shuttle technique been used before on such scale The long-range attack on the Italian "port was but one of three or more newly reported blows against Italy and her guardian is- lands. Wellington bombers of the North- west African Air Force made a fire-setting raid Tuesday night on the northeast Sardinian port of Olbta, and a communique from Allied headquarters in Africa said heavy RAF bombers of the Middle East Command generated two vio- lent explosions and a number of fires in an attack on the airdrome at Comiso on Sicily. Other Targets And an additional communique, it was announced in Cairo, report- ed Allied planes had attacked the Sicilian towns of Porto Empedocle and Cantania, The Cantania raid said to have caused 190 casualties and wrecked many civilian buildings, according to the Italians, The Lancasters’ extraordinary rald on Laspezia, city of 100,000 and housing a number of ship- LONDON, has never a large is (Continued on Page Three) - 31 KILLED, 700 HURT, RACE RIOT Defroif Experiences One of Worst Disturb- . ances Yet DETROIT, MlL‘fl June 24, — ‘Those who did the killing and loot~ ing in Detroit’s race riots which have been raging since Sunday !were hunted down relentlessly tcday as the death toll climbed to 31 Another white man injured in Monday’s rioting died last night. One person stoned by a Negro aroup and another struck on the head by a brick marked the only disturbances last night, police re- ported today. More than 700 persons were in- jured in the disturbances which (took the line of a clash between Negroes and whites. The city was tightly guarded last night by 3,800 scldiers. Troops had to be called to stand by, however. while the senior class at Northwest- ern High School held graduation exercises, | A crowd of restless youths stood outside as the seniors including 29 oes, recelved their diplomas. ® ® o 0 0 0 o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:09 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:52 am Dimout begins Friday ® sunset at 10:09 p.m. @ e e e 000000y at