The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9382. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TU ESDAY, JUNE 29, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS -~ —— ~ —— | SIX MORE RAIDS HI KISKA ON SUNDAY Another Target In Italy Smashed By LEGHORN 1S ATTACKEDBY _ FORTRESSES - Great Havbt Created on| Shipping, Installa- fions, Plants [ [ | VIEW OF TORPEDOED JAP VESSEL Iw WANTSJAPS " 10 REMAIN AT CENTERS | Chairman of Investigating Committee Urges Re- lease Stoppage . — Re- WASHINGTON, June 29 presentative John M Costello, Democrat of California, and Chair- man of the House Sub-Committee investigating Japanese relocation centers, today urged that the re- lease of Japanese from the centers be stopped immediately. Costello declared there is “no genuine effort to determine the! firness of the Japanese who are be- | ing released.” .- NEW (LASH ONBETWEEN FDR AIDES, ! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, June 29 One | hundred Flying Fortresses, flying round trip more than 1,100 miles, | smashed the northern Italian port of Leghorn with several hundred| tons of bombs yesterday, damaging | a light cruiser, four supply ships| and creating havoc among oil tanks, railway yards and industrial plants The bombers hammered the port for nine concentrated minutes and then returned home without the loss of one Flying Fortress The announcement also said such havoc was created that for “five hours after the raid the entire port was still so heavily covered with smoke that accurate inspection of the damage was impossible. Later, however, it was learned that all storage tanks and the oil refinery were ablaze and the light cruiser| and the four supply ships were not;___ in action from the damage done| ==} U. IND o ’ - ’ » A TORPEDOED AND SINKING Japanese medium-sized transport is pho- tographed through the periscope of the U. S. sub that hit her some- where in the Pacific. U.S. submarines have accounted for a large number of Jap ships since Pearl Harbor. Navy photo. (International) Wallace A&uses Jones of Obstructionist Tac- fics, Etc. WASHINGTON, June 29, In a new clash between two major Ad- ! ministration figures, Vice-President Henry Wallace has accused Secre- talty of Commerce Jesse Jones of “obstructionist tactics” in harrass ing the Board of Economic War- |fare in its “single-minded effort to help shorten this war and to be securing adequate stocks of stra- tegic minerals.” In a statement prepared for the Senate Appropriations Committee, | wallace, head of the Board of Eco- |nomic Warfare, also said Jones, . (apilal (ily Going Slack-Happy; Organized Revolt By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 29.—If you have never heard of the Brother- | hood of Sensible Men, this may be your last chance. Great movements often die aborning. On the other hand, it could really develop into a sartorial revolution. As far as I can find out, the idea (Continued on Paéei?&'o Vi The Wéshington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robgrt 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—The Duke of Windsor is too modest to take) credit for it, but one reason we are getting ahead of the submarines today goes directly back to his in- tervention with the U. S. Navy to get a secret anti-submarine device developed and used. The device was invented by Lt.| BILL WOULD | BOOST ARMY Allies FIGHTERS ~' DIVE-BOMB JAP CAMP Lack of Aflack' Yesterday Brings Rise to Speculafion WASHINGTON, June 29.—Six or more slashing aerial attacks were made against Jap installations on Kiska Sunday, the Navy reported today, raising to 22 the number of separate attacks in four days. Yesterday, Army planes followed up the attacks with a raid against Little Kiska, nearby island Meanwhile, there was no explan- ation of a decline in raids yester- day on Kiska. It is assumed here that the weather has closed in again, Softening Camp Up The attacks are regarded as a pre-invasion softening up move, preparing the way for an amphibi- ous expedition expected to smash the last Jap hold on the island chain, ’ The lack of raids yesterday on Kiska, while Little Kiska, only a short distance from the main Jap stronghold . was attacked, gave rise to some spéculation. At the same time, it was re- ported that Japanese anti-aircraft installations on Kiska were sub- Jected to a new type of attack to meet the difficulties of bombing through overcast in the Aleutians. The plan makes use of high- speed Lightning fighters, each carrying a bomb load. Speedy Dives The fighters make speedier dives than regular dive-bombers, go down through the fog at high speed onto the heads of the Japs, dump their bombs and get away before the gunners have a chance to aim their weapons, The system has wreaked havoc on Kiska positions in the last couple of raids, e i ol Smoke Rises OverPaniellerialsle nd these b sio-worn puadings when ®ritish troops marched assault had beaten the Italian outpost into submission. Chester Davis Quits RAF MAKES Food Job; Says Plan BIG STRIKE Of Susidies IsWrong ON COLOGNE smoke and dust were still rising from bel ashore on June 11 after an Allied ae | WASHINGTON, June 2. — The | President has accepted the resig- & | nation of Chester Davis, War Food iAnlnumnu'uLur, and has appointed | Marvin Jones as his successor. | ‘ Hamburgirlso Hit in Double Bladed Attack During Night 1944 food production Associated Press) been formulated, it was announced, but the President made the change effective earlier, asserting he was calling on a new to administer the Davis pro- a general program had til (By returned in great strength last night over Cologne where 1,000 bombers blasted 300 acres of destruction last May, 1042, The RAF man Comdr. Carl Herluf Holm, an Am- erican naval officer born in Den- | mark, who has been working for years on @ method of protecting merchant vessels, and who gave, the Navy 'the benefit of his in- vention. | Naval bureaucracy, however, held up the device for approximately two years. And it was to help blast the anti-submarine weapon out of this red tape that the Duke of Windsor intervened. Having known Holm and being convinced that his invention had merit, the Duke wrote several letters to high-up| friends in Washington urging that | Holm'’s plan get a thorough test. | Chief stumbling blocks were: | first, that the Navy is always a perfectionist, wants to have a new weapon absolutely perfect before it! is adopted and Holm's invention required considerable experimenta- tion; second, the device became the victim of rivalry between three dif- | ferent Navy bureaus. They were; (1) the Navy's Ord- nance Laboratory, which is under the Navy Yard; (2) the Bureau| of Ordnance; and (3) the Bureau, of Ships. Among these three, lt; got bogged down. For two whole years the invention moved with | snail-like speed, at times didn't) move at all. | During at least one of these! years, Allied shipping was being| sunk at the sickening rate of one million tons per month. The pub-| lic did not know this at the time, but the Navy knew it. Nevertheless, the Holm device was not lifted oui| of the red tape snarl. It was to help push the device that the Duke of Windsor put In| a friendly hand. Not being an Am-| erican official, however, he could| not be too forthright. So in the| end, it was an executive of the War| Shipping Administration, Fred Searles, who finally blasted the Holm device loose. Searles threatened that if the| Navy did not get busy and use the anti-submarine weapon, the Mari- ) (Continued on Page Four) ALLOWANCE Dependenfi of Soldiers Would Receive More Money WASHINGTON, June 29.—Con g has recommended an in- cl se of 10 percent for dependents of those in the armed forces in al- lowances for children of those in the services. The proposal broadens the whole allowance system and would boost the allowance of a soldier with a wife and one child from the pres- ent $62 a month to $68. Each ad- ditional child would receive $11 in- stead of $10. - e — Meat, Bufter Prices Will Remain Same Rollbacks fif&live Until Congressiona Ac- tion, Subsidies WASHINGTON, June 29.—Roll- backs on the prices of meat and butter will remain in effect until the final enactment of the law against subsidies OPA officials declined to com- ment on the action of the House and Senate in voting against food price cutting on subsidies to pro- cessors but emphasized no immedi- ate price changes are in prospect. - BUY WAR BONDS , hot, sultry days of this Washington started with Charlie Planck, at Civil Aeronautics. Washington sum- mers are nothing new to Charlie. Neither is hard work. Nor has he sver been a nonconformist in the matter of male attire. Putting them all together, he got an idea. | “Beginning now,” he said, “let’s start the B. S. M.—an organized revolt, en masse, to throw off the shackles of collar, tie and coats. Let’s plant the idea in high places and low. Let's start wtih cabinet members and get them to promise to wear sports shirts (collarless and tieless) and . slacks throughout the | who heads the Reconstruction Fin- Corporation, created a ‘“false impression” in testimony before the Cony ional Economy Committe¢ headed by Senator Harry Byrd srepresentations” aid “it is time to pre- vent further harmful misrepresen tations of this nature. Although the President, on April 13, 1942 }translel'rrd full control over the programming of imported strategic minerals from the RFC to the BEW which operates under broad directives from the War Production | Board, Mr. Jones has never fully :m_re)nl*d that authority. “He and his personnel down the |line have thrown a great many ob- stacles in our way. Our eferci of power was given us to carry |out wartime assignments. “Some of these obstructionist tactics have been minor and an- noying, and some have been of major consequence in this job | waging total war,” he said. | Discuss Stockpiles Wallace discussed stockpiling of various strategic minerals and said Congr had made available funds for such a purpose as far back a 1939 and in the summer of 1940 The RFC was given funds for stockpiling, and “from the summer ance Wallace summer. Planck felt that there would be no trouble at all getting Secretary of Interior Harold L. “Curmudgeon” Ickes into the fold. It was sug- gested that if enough opposition | could be raised to the idea, Ickes undoubtedly would want to lead the saratorial emancipation move- ment. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard is almost a certain charter member. | He might éven make the kick-off campaign speech, telling the nation how much more comfortable are “farm clothes” than the toga of a cabinet member. Secretary of Labor | Perkins is, as Planck points out,! already ‘“sartorially emancipated,” | as are all Uncle Sam’s nieces. of 1940 until well past December By common consent, there will be 1941, the RFGC failed dismally as no proselytizing in the Department|far as the import field was corl- of State. -While Secretary Hull is| cerned to build stockpiles author- of | not unfamiliar with comfortable at-|ized and directed by Congress nea:- tire, protocol would probably for-|ly 18 months before Pearl Harbor.' | ———————— ‘ (Continued on Page Two) | 2N CLAIM BRITISH by COMVOYATACKED L LONDON, June 29. — A Reuter ireport from Lisbon declares that | British convoy heading south was |attacked by German planes off the | tip of Portugal and two ships of the |convoy were sunk. | —— .- 2 Law Right Now WASHINGTON, June 29— A bill propesing repeal of the Smith-Conally Anti-Strike Law has been introduced in the House by Representative John Lesinski, Michigan Democrat, BUY WAR BONDS Six Chi(agoiéfiisifiiven New Chance to Face Treason Rap CHICAGO, Iil, June 29 The United States Circuit Court of Ap- 1s reversed the conviction of six Chicagoans on charges of treason and remanded the cases to the dis- trict court for a second trial Defendants are Hans Haupt, Otto Wergin, Walter Froehling, all sen- tenced to die in the electric chair, and their wives, each sentenced to years in prison They were convicted Novembe 14, accused of harboring and aid- ing Herbert Haupt, son of the Haupts, one of the eight Nazi sa- boteurs brought to the United; States in German submarines last spring. The opinion of reversing the de- cision was unanimous. Said the| court, “as we read it, the jury was told that the act of one defendant was the common design of the a of all and all were chargeable Therewith we think the conclusion inescapable that the jury under- stood that one or more defendants could be convicted for the act of another.” - Ancho;age o Now Purchase gh 1 Syslem WASHINGTON, June 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill authorizing the city of Anchorage, Alaska, to buy and improve the slectrie light and power system, for this purpose the city may issue bonds up to $1,250,000 in excess of the present statutory limits, | public | gram, Davis submitted his letter of res- ation June 16, giving two main ons, sayis ‘1 find 1 assumed responsibility while author- ity, only over the broad food policy, but over day-to-day actions being excrcised elsewhere You must have a man in my position who wholeheartedly - will defend the program of broad food subsidies which you announced on June 15. “I cannot do this for the reason that I do not believe in such sub- sidies or believe they will be ef- fective in controlling inflation un- fess accompanied here in Eng- and by current tax savings ograms to 1 excess buying power, by management supply.” not is as and the ight thie control over food - ARMY SAYS JAPS WILL BE SMASHED Unifed Nations Rapidly Approaching Victory Is Report WASHINGTON, June 29 Con- gress has been assured the United Nations rapidly is approaching vic- tory and the war will be brought home to Japan with such strength that the “whole empire will feel the full impact in the most violent and destructive way #This statement Lieut. Gen. McNa of staff, and was included in testi- mony made public the Senate Appropriations Committee as the Senate made ready to pass the Army’s $71 billion war bill, made by deputy chief 1S I} when they laid a pattern from city to city, razing German war jn- dustry. In a double bladed attack British heavy bombers also struck overnight at Hamburg, submarine building center, Continued minelaying, according to official sources, announced yes- terday had caused the sinking of at least 400 Axis vessels since the war started. Twenty-five bombers ported missing after thundering over the scene of the world’s first thousand bomber raid for the 117th fime. The above tra were re- RAF left fires leaping the overhanging clouds. The German command called the Cologne attack “another serious terror raid against residential quar- ters T up also German command (Continued on Page Two) - Giraud|s Invited fo Visit U. S. Statement Is Issued from White House - FDR Made Proposal WASHINGTON, June 28. — Gen® Henri Honore Giraud, High Com- missioner in French Africa, plans to come to Washington on an of- ficial visit. This is in response to a formal invitation given by Presi- dent Roosevelt. The White House statement said the invitation sent throueh Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, at his headquarters in May 217, Algiers on INVASION T0 START SATURDAY American - Brifish Move- ment Is Heralded- Axis Wants Tip LONDON, June 29.—A Reuters dispatch received here said Ger- man report§ reaching Stockholm asserted the American-British in- vasion will start not later than Saturday. The Axis in the past has issued statements on dates ex- |pected Allled action in the hope of elieiting information. | - ALLIED UNITS INRAIDS, MADE ~ SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, June 20.—Heavy Al- lied units yesterday bombed Cape Gloucester, New Britain, and other raids were made on the bay of Rapopo, the airdrome at Tabaul and the airdrome on Ambonia Island. DIMOUT TIMES Dimout bheeins tonight at sunset at 10:08 o'clock. Dimont ends tomorrow at sunrise at 3:55 am. Dimout begins Wednesday at © sunset at 10:07 p.m. R I R ) . . . . . . . B ®ee0ces e