The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL.. NO. 9380. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —= ALLIED PLANES RAIN BOMBS ON AXIS WOULD RILE LABOR, SAYS ROOSEVELT Both Houses_T;ke Speedy Action on New War Measure WASHINGTON, June 26—Presi- dent Roosevelt has vetoed the anti- strike bill and Congress has passed it over his veto. Roosevelt rejected the measure, which was kept on his desk until the zero hour yesterday, on the grounds it would ‘“stimulate unrest.” The Senate promptly voted to override the veto five minutes after receiving the message 56 to 25 to make the bill a law over the Chief Executive’s opposition. In the House the veto was can- celled by a vote of 244 to 108. Sharp Contrast The speed in which the action was taken was in sharp contrast to the long months of debate on the bill in Congress. ‘The veto was no surprise to those “in the know” on Capitol Hill. In his message to the Senate, the President said the measure was en- tirely praiseworthy, but he was con- vinced that in some cases it would produce strikes “in vital war plants which otherwise would not occur.” The bill was sponsored by Sen- ators Tom Connally of Texas, Elli- son D. Smith of South Carolina, and by Rep. Forest A. Harness of (Contlnucd on Page ‘Three) The Washmgion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—What really hap- pened at the White House confer- ence called to discuss the question of one over-all food “czar” was that the President jumped the gun on his Congressional callers. Before they could get started with their oy . demands he gave them a 10- minute talk on how Great Britain was meeting its food problems. Al- though the President didn’'t come out and say so flatly, his remarks were calculated to show that the United States. eventually will have labor | Alaska Na valleader |Term Measure | OF LABOR IS STRIKE@ ""Major | Disaster”-Much Con- | fusion Seen ‘ WASHINGTON, June 26 gress, in its stunning reversal of | the will of the President, has put| American war production under the | whiplash with an anti-strike law | s0 stringent union leaders pre- claimed it a “major disaster.” 1 Republicans saw it as a blow at| the Administration | Resentful coal miners exploded in | new revolts The whirlwind action was settlement of long-argued The apti-climax set in today it came doubt and conftv:ion the full effects of the iaw how it could be applied That it inspired a coal \\.\lknut‘ caused a certain amount of lmr\ as to the tion all along Lhcv work benches of the “arsenal ur; \ (,'un-t o um! l.\&lll‘.‘ With nll: &Illd 1 a democracy.’ ! ALEUTIAN NAVAI. CHIEF — Rear Admiral T. C. Kincaid, USN, looks out over Kuluk Bay from the shore of Adak Island in the Aleutians, during an early morning walk to head- “guarters. He is in charge of Naval operations in the Aleutians, ¥ Shé’ll Be Nurse to come around to (1) mobilization”] of labor and (2) reduce prices. The President pointed out that there was no such thing as a cri- tical labor shortage in essential British industries such as can- neries. All British labor had been mobilized to meet the emergency, he said, and could be moved about wherever most needed. He pointed out that the Brmsh government controlled and direct- ed all industry—farming, manufac- turing, distribution and processing. | “They tell labor and management what to do, and when and how to do it,” he added. The President’s ideas met wnh‘ varied reactions. Republican Lead- er Senator McNary of Oregon and House Republican Joe Martin Massachusetts opposed price sub sidization. So did Senator Walter Getrge of Georgia, chairman of the Finance Committee, and GOP ch- resentative James Wadsworth of New York. On the other hand, New | Deal Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania was opposed to the total mobilization of labor. When his callers finally had a; chance to propose the appointmen of an overall food “czar, dent replied t! longer necessary because of the re-| price subsidies to cent establishment of the Office of jule and a War Mobilization, headed by Jus-|Minister He said the OWM/up and he alighted all smiles. |smile faded when tice Byrnes. should be given a chance to worl " the Presi- |motored bomber, hat this step was no Spitfires from North Africa. WITH MORE THAN 2,500,000 air miles to her credit, Miss Mary Ellen O'Connor, above, of the United Air Lines, quits her career in which she won the title of. the “flyingest woman” to become a Navy nurse. (Interaational) KING GEORGE BACK HOME FROMAFRICA ‘ N 26.—King-George yesterday from June home LONDON, VI returned | his extraordinary tour of the North t| African battlefields in a big four- escorted by 10 He arrived home ahead of sched- short time later Prime Churchill's auto speeded The the King told and he deprecated warnings by sev- him he was late. eral of his visitors that the Unit- ed States might face a food short- age before the war ended. He main-| (Continued on Page Four) of pioneers moving west rmh century, - eee—— Buffalo meat was a food staple in the &MERI(AN - SUB LOST, TRAINING {mentous day Some of M'egn-i’robab|y‘ | Saved-Submersible Sunk in East WASHINGTON, June 26. — The loss of the submarine R-12 while| |engaged in training off the East Coast of the United States is an- nounced by the Navy. It is indicated some of the normal complement of 28 men were saved after the sinking. The Navy said the loss probably was due to an accident, not enemy action, and is checking the sur. vivors now to determine the cause. The R-12 was commissioned in 1919. It has a displacement of 530 tons afloat. No names of the dead | were given oul KNOX OKEHS QUERY INTO | OIL POLICY WASHI\(-TON June 26.—Secre- | tary of the Navy Frank Knox,| signifying complete agreement with the procedure of the House Naval| Committee, has decided to order a full investigation ihto the Navy's oil policy in general. e MARTINIQUE REFUGEES ARE IN U. §. WASHINGTON, June 26. — Ap- proximately 1,000 refugees from the| French Island of Martinique ar-| | rived in New York Thursday after| escaping in small groups to other| islands, it was learned last night. Practically all plan to join the Allied fighting forces, i | | [ e | |or | ernment-operated ,000 Miners Quit \ The attention was focused on the coal fields where 250,000 men, about h._llf of the total of all n\ln-i ers, failed to return to work de-| spite orders from John L. Lewis ending the recent walkout, ll)(‘ third in seven weeks. any of the large steel dependent upon coal to turn | jout the much needed war metal,| |are facing shutdowns. | On top of this, the passage of | the law was followed immediately by fresh strikes Roosevelt touched off a mo- when he vetoed the bill as being more likely to fomeit | labor troubles than to settle them.! Penalties Severe The bill provides fines and im-| prisonment for persons instigating| aiding wartime strikes in gov- industries and| outlaws stoppages in other war| plants without a ballot by the| fac- | workers. | It also broadens the the War Labor Board. The congressional action was rapid that the Department of Jus-| tice was not prepared to say how| it will proceed to enforce the l.nw‘ nor was any pronouncement forth- coming from the War Labor Board concerning its plans, now that i is given the power to force atten- dance of witnesses. Lacking this subpoena power in the past, the Board has sLe'un.x t- ly been ignored by Lew! handling of the coal wage contro- | versy. powers of 50 General May Have Landed With Chute LONDON, June 26.—Eight para- chutes were seen to open from the bomber in which Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was riding as an |observer when it was shot down in an air battle over Kiev June 13 The Americans lost 24 bombers in e attack. Forrest, 38 years old, is the !Zrandson of the famous Confeder- |ate leader of the same name. He was in the lead bomber. Other tliers saw the damaged craft drop out of formation and go. spiraling toward earth. The crew has been listed as missing. Forrest is the first American cas- ualty of that rank in combat in Vhe European theater of operations A number of admirals and generals are now listed as missing or killed Forrest was a graduate of West Point. The plane was piloted by Capt. Harry Stirwalt of Spokane Wash. The crew included Lieut Donald Scavotto, of Seattle, of the councilman, thi son WHERE ALLIED BOMBERS UNLOAD 'SSARDINIA Porto Torres @sassari Alghero T il | '\u i H. @Gu: ® Villacidro San_ ‘/‘ Calasetta = BRITISH AND U. 5. BOMBING PLANES continue to rain their destructive missiles on Italian targets with unceasing regularity. Many cities on the strategic island of Sardinia are bearing the brunt of theheavy attacks, softening them up for the day when Allied forces may strike out from Africa on the first leg of continental invasion. Rome Radio reports that a number of the cities have been considerably damaged and Olbia “completely destroyed” by the attacks. (International) President Turns Home Front Over fo Bymes; Turns Attenfion fo War By JACK STINNETT Capi- some of June 26 there are appointment as supreme di- i REDS REA(H | WASHINGTON, ‘tal observers feel aspects of the lemm F. Byrnes Xl’LLDl of the new Office of War | Mobilization, the establishment of K RE!—- oy v ;cessor as_ economic stabilization \director, much more significant s {than has been pointed out | { To me the most interesting of ed ifl Savage Hand 10 |dent apparently has turned. the Hand Entounlers {staf, and the flock of lieutenants . headed by such men as OPA Direc tor Prentiss Brown, Rubber Cza LONDON, June 26. — Attacking| N & 3 s Russian troops broke through the“fiffi'lt IMH:EYA’:’“‘; L(v'"::‘:"';::;“ Finnish trenches on the northern| o N Soorod A Karelidn front la | Ickes, and that man of many title the office itself, and the naming of |Fred M. Vinson Byrnes' suc- lvital home front job over to “Gen- feral” Byrnes, his five man OWM night and wiped | e Secretary Jasse Jones. out about & company of the enemy COmmerce Secretary Ju x[ll'lgms;:::ge bayonet and grenade“ Whiy‘has the 'at this time? Certainly The Soviet noon communique said . 0 o passing through its most that ten dugouts and two blOCk- jmpotant crisis. Besides, the Presi-| houses were blown up, and MOItar!geni was never one to turn over| batteries and an ammunition dump any vital job to anybody unless he\ W dasizoped had something more important to The Russians said com- do. The inevitable conclusion is that | munique broadcast Moscow he does have something more im-| president done this the home | that a in |stated that two German stabs in a portant at hand and the only thing| effort on| the | reconnoitering attempt in the Sevsk that could be is th area southwest of Orel and south the battlefronts of Balakleya, attempted to cross: Some months the Donets River. They were beaten battle of Tunisia off with enemy losses, the war bul-|started, the President pushed mldu letin said. ‘his war maps, locked the dmu The German communique stated |against his military and naval ad- | that several tanks which supported |visors and plunged into the task of | the Red Army attacks in the Orel|straightening out the home front. sector were repelled. | The collapse of the Axis armies s in Tunisia came much sooner than expected. War doesn't wait for home fronts to untangle. The home front had to be turned | wer to some else. The natural selection was home front war cabinet that many had been| war ago, when was BOYLE NAMED S AT FAIRBANKS MRS. MAUL POSTMISTRE % one WASHINGTON, June 26.—Post- master General Frank Walker, has named Mrs. Maude H. Boyle Act- |- ing Postmistress at Fairbanks. | } A (Continued on Page Three) il | [ Override F.D.R. Anti-Strike Veto REACTION 100 FORTS RAIN DEATH ONMESSINA Vital Sicilian City Obscured| By Dense Clouds of Smoke ALLTED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, June 26 than 100 Flying Fortresses in the greatest raid of the terranean war, hit the vital city of Me in eastern yesterday. The attack kicked up such a huge cloud of fire and smoke that the entire target area was obscured at end of the 18 minute smash RAF Attack the Fortresses' attack essential in ferry links Itallan mainland and Royal Air Force Wellingtons roared over Olbia in northern Sardinia and started at least seven fires and a big explosion in the port area near.the railway station and among military instal- lations Describing on Messina the * IN More striking Medi- straits Sicily the Rivaling on Messina between the Fascist outposts, the Ame an attack the official report said ‘port aiza and the marshalling yards were thoroughly smothered with bomb bursts, and when the last raider attacked, much smoke and dust that further observation wis impossible A Reuters dispatch said 200 tons of bombs were dropped in the assault. Greek Raid Meanwhile, it was announced that yesterday’s raid on the Greek port of Salonika was the first ap- pearance of Liberators over Greece since the spectacular raid on Nav- arino Bay in September. Hundreds of thousands of posters urging the Greek people to be en- couraged were dropped over their cities in the September raid Salonika is Greece’s second larg- est city with a population of 270,000 before the war. It is only 50 miles from the Bulgarian border. It has| been the main German supply base for the Mediterranean. —— - NAZIS RUSH TROOPSFOR ITALY AID LONDON, June 26—Ten Ger- man army divisions of roughly 150,000 men are being rushed to northern Italy to guard the moun- tainous approaches to Brenner Pass, gateway to Germany invasion from the south. An unofficial source close to con- tinental connections asserts the there was so| ( NAZIRUHR VALLEY IS DESTROYED Last Night's Raid Climax | of Three Months’ . AMtacks LONDON, June 26. — A heavy force of British bombers spread new | destruction last night in the Ger- man Ruhr Valley, hitting targets at Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, neutralizing this great industrial vhlley almost completely as a re- sult of unceasing attacks, one ob- server sald This source estimated nearly 30,- 000 tons of bombs, many of them blockbusters, have been owered on the compact Nazi industrial re- gion since the massive bombing experiment started three-and-a- half months agor Smoke Thins Out The normal industrial haze which usually hangs over the once-busy war production area now has thinned put and disappeared en- tirely in some places. More than 500 Allied bombers have been lost during the three- and-a-half month period, and some /3,000 men killed or captured when planes were downed by the enemy. Last night's attack on thg coal mining and steel area cost 30 of |the big RAF bombers. | The British attack followed on the heels of an American raid in | which heéavy United States bombers |attacked undisclosed targets yes- terday, encountering cloud forma- tions so ‘that the results couldn't be observed accurately. Huge Fires The Afr Ministry reported huge |fires were started in Bochum and | Gelsenkirchen, and that strong new |defensive German squadrons were thrown iInto the battle in force |last night. | There were many air battles and two enemy planes were destroyed. GERMANS MOVE OUT BERN, Switzerland, June 26.—A | reliable source estimates between four and five million persons not vital to Ruhr Valley industries have been sent to other parts of |Germany to escape continued Allied | bombings. e OBJECTION against Allied | TO TAYLOR move suggests Germany is distrust-| ful of the resistance would put up against the Allies. - GREWSAYS CHINAWAR SAVED DAY Resistance by Chinese Gave Us Time fo Build Forces BUFFALO. N. Y., June 26.—Stiff | resistance |J by Ghina resulted in apan attacking the United States uccess, former ambassador Joseph Grew said in an address here last night He credited China with giving ‘he Allies enough time to build up their forces. Without stamping out the military in Japan, he said, ther: will never be permanent peace it the Pacific area - - Streamlined used by the U non-slip and aucers, plastic tablewaré ‘s S. Navy, featuring non-drip cups and the Italians| WITHDRAWN |Wallgren Says Questioned Appointment Economically WASHINGTON, June 26—Sena- tor Mon C. Wallgren, of Washing- ton, notified Chairman Paul V.Mc- Nutt of the War Manpower Com- mission he is withdrawing his ob- jection to the appointment of Ike | Taylor as Area Director for Al- aska which had held up confirma- tion of the Juneau official's ap- pointment by the President. Wallgren said the objection was not to Taylor, but the creation of a $7,200 job to handle manpower problems for an area with little Just getting (1o late for any hope of ultimate [More than 72,000 population. e e o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 10:08 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:53 a.m. Dimout begins Sunday sunset at 10:08 p.m. Dimout ends Monday at sun- rise at 3:54 am e e e e at