The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9379. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1943 “MEMBE .S()( l/\lhl) I’Rl SS R Al PRICE HN CENTS GREEK GATEWAY T0 BALKANS IS BOMBED Another Rhur Valley Czty Is Flattened WUPPERTAL IS RAIDED BY BRITISH Nazis Down 35 RAF Planes in Extensive Foray Last Night 25—The Royal its offensive on LONDON, June Air Force carried the German Ruhr Valley to a new | peak last night, returning to the bomb-shattered city of Wuppertal in great strength and making al concentrated attack on the import- | ant chemical and textile plants there The British lost 33 bombers Wuppertal lies between Essen and Dusseldorf. The Germans reported “great damage appears Lo have been done” and losses among the population of the town were heavy . Also hit in the attack was the industrial area of Elberfeld, the Air Ministry reported, adding that the attack was nearly as heavy as the one recently made on Bremen British fliers reported heavy de- fense activity over Wuppertal .- BRITISH SUBS ACTIVE LONDON, June 25-—British subs operating in the Mediterranean have sunk an armed Axis mer- chant vessel of 7,000 tons, two medium-sized supply ships eight small supply ships, the miralty said. and Ad- CHOW TIME - o o i LINING UP FOR THEIR DINNER, these members of the combined army-navy task force that occupied Am= chitka Island, slosh their way through knee-deep mud. The newly captured Aleutian island is only seventy miles from Jap-held Kiska. and therefore makes an excellent base for bombing Kiska. {Imerrufiwnnlb Navy Adds Air Group For Alaska Freight, The Washington, Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — You don't see much about them in the headlines, but here are some people who, in their quiet way, are more than pulling their oar to win the war: COL. TRUMAN SMITH — Once retired from the Army because he was suspected of writing Lind- pergh’s speeches. Now he is back oh active duty and gives vital ad- vice on the German army, on his service as military attache in Berlin. He was able to predict, for instance, that Gen. von Arnim would surrender quickly in Tunisia, Mail, Passenger Us 1 JAP BASES ARERAIDED IN PACIFIC Ground Achon Seen on basea.- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA, New Guinea — 200 Enemies Killed IN 25.—Mitehell June Sam air SEATTLE, June 25—Capt LaHache, commanding naval transport for the West Coast, read an order at the Sand Point Naval Air Station yesterday commission- |ing Squadron No. 5, the Alaska Ser- vice Squadron The new flight group will be based here and will operate land ‘planes for an extensive freight, | passenger and air mail service to iand from the Alaska ar - - - SUBS FAIL bombers set big fires at Salamaua, ! T0 CHECK because he had known von Arnim New Guinea, yesterday in low-level | and his lack of stick-to-itiveness. |attacks and destroyed two Jap FRED SEARLES — Bernie Bar- pombers while over the Tanimbar uch’s mining engineer expert, now Jslands, 300 miles north of Dar- L adviser to WPB, War Shipping Ad- | win. | ministration and the Office of War| New ground fighting flared at| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Mobilization. Owner of a big share Mubo, New Guinea, and Allied at-! NORTH AFRICA, June 25.—Hit- in the Empire Star gold mine intack planes strafed Jap positions ler’'s submarines have failed to California, Searles helped close'on the wooded island, supporting|check the flow of food supplies down all the gold mines of the ground troops. At least 200 of the; and war materials to the Ameri- country, which cost his company enemy were killed. Allied losses were {can Army in North Afr | In the last six months the loss alone $40,000 a month to keep the, h,fim mine pumped free of water. POSTMASTER GENE WALKER—who has one o( \hr toughest jobs in the country. With| the manpower, airplane and truck shortage, it's a tremendous task to keep the mails running on time, but despite these handicaps, he is doing a good job. Walker has now turned over his vast personal of- fice to ladies of the Red Cross for sewing purposes, and has put his own desk in a cubbyhole. OCD's JIM LANDIS — With German air raids, to keep air vast Civilian on its toes for no 101 it. THE GREY LADIES OF it’s no easy job| raid wardens and the Nathan Defense organization grandson important war famed Confederate jobs at home. But without any fan- June 13 in one of histo fare or hullabaloo, Landis is doing aerial flights during {erican ‘THE Germany. The RED CROSS—Much less spectacu-| lar than the WAACS, the WAVES, a or some of the other Red Cros workers, the ing bandages and sewing for GEN. FORREST IS MISSIH INBOMBING LONDON, heavy bomber sault ladies who are roll-|alive, the | seen men at the front are doing an im-|to earth. Twenty-four 25.—Brig. Forrest, namesake gene Gen. great of the was l0st greatest Am- June Bedford and al the mass daylight attack on an observer on leading the and may have come down although the plane was last crippled and spiraling down American general was as- portant job, day in and day out, bombers were lost in the raid. it. and getting little credit for (Continued on Page Four) | in— BUY WAR BONDS Kiel,| I in shipments have been negligible. | Millions of tons of shipping cre ing the Atlantic to maintain the American Army continue to move and convoys still stream into ports here. Palmer Hoyl Hits at Delay in Releasing | WarReporisfoPress WASHINGTON, June Pub- lisher Palmer Hoyt, new domestic director of the Office of War In- formation, believes military author- ities exercised too much caution in holding up so long th2 an- nouncements of the Tokyo bomb- ing and the Jap occupation of the sleutians. I‘mthmmmr- 25 says Hoyt, many are unfamiliar with the War- ities IN DEZP MUD ON AMCHITKA ISLAND © Parade, Adivmes Will Be: o al, military and civilian author- journalism and written before Hoyt THOUSANDS Starlet 1 OFMINERS | -~ STILLOUT | Officials ofrUrni-on Promise. Work ““About Next' Monday” PITTSBURGH, June ~A Te | volt of thousands of hard and sofy coal miners against the back-to- | order of the United Mine s' policy committee headed by John L. Lewis continued today with dis officials of the union | promising normal operations “about im\ Monday.” Estimates of the number of men working are available in this biggest | mining state, but latest reports put H\Ir t half of the nation's 521,000 | miners still out of the pits. { In West Virginia, it is n-~(|m;\lml‘ a quarter of the 130,000 miners still are out. Forty percent of the 36,000 in Pittsburgh’s district five worked yeslerday. - LABOR BOARD SAYS MINERS oty Foukte SHOULD OBEY CELEBRATION | Officials Resolved fo Insish Decision Is | PLANS MADE, Miriam Lavelle, 13, of St. Louis, practiced dance steps to, over- come a foot ailment and became so adept she landed a job in a B whe ent se to o contract in Hollyvood dway musi put signed here July Fifth-Dance on Third announcement Abided by WASHINGTON, June Far |from accepting the resumption uli by|coal production as final, the War Board is resolved to insist| According to Mayor Harry I. Lucas, plans were |Labor | the House to tumultuous debate by made #t last night's meeting in thejon full compliance by the United| declaring President Roosevelt, once Council Chambers of City Hall, for| Mine Workers with its order in the | F the world’s “outstanding isolation- this year's July Fourth celebration.|wage dispute | ] ist,” had now become a “renegade Monday, July 5, has been designat-| The Board said the labor dis-| interventioniat.” ed as the day of celebration, start- pute had been determined 2 h\li ; Catealls and rebel lls punctu-| ing with a parade in the morning'cnly enforcement remains to In~‘ E ated the debate following her and other activities during the |accomplished. AT I charge that the administration had day. Fuel Coordinator Harold L. Tekes | Ho forelg > policy or. positive Post- A dance will be given by the meanwhile, .\\xm‘munn-d 20 muc| Iwar policy American Legion Saturday, July 3, OWwners for a conference | c Mrs. Luce also referred bitterly | at the Elks auditorium and addi- T‘““I } Says ongress Must Take‘m the “dunterheads” on the right tions to the program on the fifth At the same time, President BOp=} ihili Iside of the House who followed T s i by e g e R noc. recounie| - - RASEDRSIDIINY TOI 3 N Glenn Allen of the Moose Lodge or accept “the October 31 deadline| | i fatinn will take charge of the parade. set by the UMW for continued coal |flx|81|0n Mayor Lucas is in charge of the production in government-operated | finance committee and he mines. | WASHINGTON, June 25— Presi- the help of volunteers to ass The President said many in the|dent .Roosevelt pos in securing the nec ry funds for United States get away from fhe|today against setling up the so- the program. fact we are at war and the life of called position of food czar and Harold Foss, representing the the nation is very much at stake. |said the question on the issue Is Rotary Club, stated that the Rotary | Simultaneously, Price Adminis-|whether, we are for inflation or would give a prize of a $25 war trator Prentiss Brown declared that|against it. bond, which is the John W. Jones {he Wa# Labor Board and the Pres-| In a press conference he stated | Memorial Prize for the best 4th of |ijdent have prevented a seriousiCongress could take the path to- July patriotic display in the yards|preak on the wage front, and now|ward inflation if it wanted, but the | of the residential districts of the jt js pecessary to hold the price|responsibility would rest 100 per- = city. The Rwtary has also started|gone The cost of living, he said,|cent with the legislators WASHINGTON, June 25 ihe work on their, July Fourth float. nag jicreased since last Septem-| He characterized the sucgestion bomb-harried Axis got more bad according to announcement, With|pe' wia” e ound must be re-|that someone’ should be given com- | news as Gen. H. H. Arnold, com- the ”muul being “international .o plete authority over the food pro- manding the United States Air peace i Must Cosply |gram in all phas red her- | porces, disclosed airplane produc- Present at last night's meeting Phe War Labor B bu'(l id ving” and said the real question IS gion in the year starting Juue 1 were the Reverends Willis R. Booth, | oo A 0 T ase strics. | Whether prices are (o be kept down. | will reach 115,000 ? R. Meithews, Walter A. 80bo- 1. o5e of compliance by John L.} g He reported there are 2,000,000 (Continued on Page Three Lewis and the union to the Board’s| A-AU. Secretary Dan Ferris says men and officers in the Air Force & ruling. ‘n.uk and field performer are now and the number will be 3, Thousands of miners have ig-|Sub-par this year 000,000 by the end of June, 1944 nored the order to go back to| - B work and the steel industry faces| a crisis in fuel shortage H * ere Is Sub-Sink mg DEVERS SAYS ~ StoryOnly TIDE TURNED time Censorship Code and som: “have never hear 2 g el Hh? w"“lfi ”‘nv:f‘ | LONDON, June 25— Licut. Gen.| TACOMA, Wash. June 25 Ma. s s given as the| j, 1 te o o Jacob L. Devers, U. S. Commander |Eyerett Holstrom revealed himself publisher of the Portland Ore-|gp " 4 gonian in an article written for of the European theater, declared|last night as the successful bomber ’ " the “tide of war has turned” and of an enemy submarine which was Journalism in Wartime,” a survey by the American Council of Pub- final victory will be followed by aisunk 40 mil off the Columbia {stern pea River mouth early in the war ;liu Affairs in cooperation with the DONPRS SR | Also one of Doolittle’s raiders on | University of Missouri's school of {Tokyo, he told interviewers his Count Fleet, in two races, earned plane sank the Jap undersea craft -Ih;ht|y more than $100,000 for near dawn on December 24, 1941 | became an OWTI official. four minutes of running 4s it surfaced ahead of a rain (ONGRESS WARNEDBY | LABORITE Murray Says Unless Prices Down-Higher Wages to Be Asked WASHINGTON, June hief Philip Murray served t a congressional committee that unless an effective back subsidy program is operating by July 15, organized labor will be compelled to demand that Congress liold the line against inflation He said the “Little Steel formula” would be scrapped, indicating labor all out for higher wages. followed before the spec- studying consumer problems by Mayor Fiorello La- Guardia of New York. The “Little Flower” testified All hell will country unless mediate attention” situation (lare Luce Starts Riot In Congress Calls Rooseveli Renegade Inferventionist’ in Debate WASHINGTON, June Blonde Rep. Clare Luce, female Re- from Connecticut, stirred C10 notice hear- roll- 5 will He jal committee g0 w break loose in the Congress gives im= to the food price k 25 publican 'AMERICAN AIR MIGHT FewYears Old; Happened in"41 qmll He said he made two runs, get- ting the sub with the final bomb and then headed back. Enroute, however, bad weather set in and he had to land at Boeing Field in- stead of MeChord Field. His account confirmed reports which re eurrent at the time that » sub was sunk off the Oregon and Washington coasts. HISTORIC | SALONIKA - IS RAIDED {Also Report 300 Allied Planes Out Over Sicily Today 'AIRFIELD IS HIT; | MANY FIRES BURN Round Trip of More than 1,000 Miles Made by Pilots ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTHWAFRICA, June United States Ninth Liberators struck for the at the historic Greek port of Sa- lonika, while about 300 bombers and fighters of the Northwest Af- rican Command battered communi- it is reported to- N 25 The Air Force's first time wtions o Siclly, than w of ay Communiques said 50 bombers, attacking in rained more than a quarter |million perids of bombs on |Axis base in occupied Greece Seore i Hits Direct hits were scored on thres hangars at the Axi alrdrome there, leaving all of them in flames, Explosives _also burst on admin- istration bufldings at the Salonika ‘I) se {from which Aliied forces were |charging up through the Balkans n 1918 At lec: three |were destioyed on |the airfield and oil | blazing. None of ‘he Allied planes | missing after the attack | Salonika would objective of any the Balkuns Long Round Trip The raid involved a round trip of more than 1,000 miles across the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, it was reported enemy airfields, docks and shipping on Sardinia and Sicily were at- tacked by other American squad- Irons along with RAF Wellingtons. The Wellington attacked Canta- nia, Sicily, but the Sardinian ob- (Continued on Puge Three) e AXIS MOVE - BACK FORCE ~ ISREPORT Enemy Shifiing Line of De- fense in Mediter- , ranean Sea | LONDON, June 25.—Indications the Axis is withdrawing troops from their outpost islands in the | Mediterranean from Sardinia to |the Dodecanese Istands to find a stronger line with which to meet jan icipated Allied invasion is |reported by an unofficial source { London L& This information is keyed the Berlin broadcast that the ian garrison already has inore two a the enemy the fires airerait eround at were set Wi b: tne possibie invasion through n with Ital- been |evacuated Cas from six-mile long Lelre , easternmost island of t Dodecanese. This source said it appeared that the Axis garrisons on Sicily, S |dinia and Corsica are being re- |duced, indications that the main Italian ‘holdi line is being de- veloped somewhere between the toe of Ttaly and Naples e o 8 o 0 o 0 o s s . DIMOUT TIM - . - . Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 10:09 o'clock. . | ® Dimout ends tomorrow e e at sunrise at 3:53 am. . e Dimout begins Saturday at e ® sunset at 10:08 pm . e e e 00000 . that .