The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1943, Page 1

" THE DAILY A VOL. LXI, NO. 9384. 4 PAlERMO IS BLASTED BY U. 5. BOMBERS Fifth Probably Sunk by, Submarines in lfal- ian Waters (By Associated Press) United States bombers and fight- ers and also bombers of the North- west African Air Force blasted Pal- ermo and four Axis airfields on Sicily yesterday, virtually without opposition of enemy fighters. The Italian communique reports that “great damage and many cas- ualties” was done at Palermo, the big port in northwest Sicily. Sardinian targets were also at- tacked and fires were started, sev- eral buildings are known to have | been destroyed at Cagliari. A predawn attack was ugnlnj made today on Messina and also on | the nearby Italian mainland, es-| pecially on Sangiovanni and SauE Marco. Many fires were observed by the pilots who brought all planes buk safely to bases. CITY COUNCIL WiLL MEET TOMORROW EVE, There will be a meeting of the City Council tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, Mayor Harry I. Lucas announces, during which routine | business will be discussed. BUY_WAR BONDS The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—A certain soph- omoric trick is running like a di- sease through the halls of Con- gress. One member phones another and says, “This is Donald Nelson”; or “This is the President of the Anti-Saloon League,” and invites the victim to make a speech at a; “giant rally,” but when the mem- ber shows up, there s no rally, Recently, Congressman Brent Spence of Kentucky was calfed on the phone by @ man who said he was Claude Wickard. But Spence| had been bitten before, so he said, “Oh, yeah?” ‘1 ‘want very much to see you,” said the voice, “to talk about funds for the Commodity Credit Corpor- ation. May I come to your office?” “No,” said Spence. “I'm busy.” “May I see you later in the day?” Spence put him off by saying, “Come to my hotel, if you want t0,” That afternoon there appeared in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel! none other than Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture. For it was really Wickard who had called Congressman Spence. Spence was not in the lobby, so Wickard phoned his room. “This is Claude Wickard,” he said, “I'm waiting in the lobby.” “well,” sald the Congressman, “you can just cool your heels a » and he slammed down the| Stlle 89 (its work for the next fiscal year.' . telephone. Claude Wickard is a patient man, but this was too much. With ris- ing temperature, he waited a few minutes, then called again. This time Spence was really mad. “Listen, this is the second time you've disturbed me, and it's not a: joke any more. Get the hell off| this line.” Wickard stamped out of the ho- tel and drove home. It is not often| that a Cabinet member is snooted by a Congressman, and Wickard was puzzled and hurt. Days later, he mentioned ti fair to his friend Marvin Jones, former Chairman of the Agriculture seoizi it i ol iy (Coptinued o Page Four) J “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, | i i | | HUNDREDS KILLED IN | MASS RAID RAF Aflack on Wuppertal Section Causes Death ‘ and Destruction STOCKHOLM, July ! patches received here said 1,342 per- sons were killed in the massed RAF raid on the Elberfeld section of Wauppertal, important Ruhr indus- trial city late last week and the city is still without water, gas, electricity and telephone service. The dispatches also state great fires blazed for more than 24 hours after the raid on the chemical and textile ‘works. SENATORS RESTORE OPA FUND Vote fo Reverse House De- cision~Give Full - Request WASHINGTON, July 1.—Revers- ‘ing the action of the House, the Senate voted to restore to $3,000,- 000,000 the war agencies appropria-' tion bill, giving the OPA the full 1$177,000,000 requested to carry on | The Senate gave voice approval to the amendment. The House had |lopped $47,000,000 off the OPA ap- propriation request. ASKS U. §. T0 FIX AUTHORITY ATMARTINIQUE NEW YORK, July 1.—Admiral Georges Robert, Vichy French Com- ast, has asked the United States ito send an envoy to “fix terms for |a change of the French authority” on the island, 1. — Dis- 4 KING GEORGE INSPECTS u.s. TROOPS IN AFRICA o ———— Congressman Slips Silver Serial Info (ongressmnal Record HONOR MAN — cadet Thomas K. Oliver (above) of Vicksburg, Miss., was the num- ber one or Honor Man of West Point Military Academy's gradu- ating class of 514 membem FOUR SHIPS SENT DOWN BY BRITISH Buildings Sany-ed, Trem- bled for Full Minute- Damage Is Slight 7 | SR LONDON," July 1—The British Admiralty announces that British submarines have destroyed a large fast transport and three supply af- missioner of Martinique, in a broad- ships and probably sunk a fifth ship in Italian waters, boosting to more;than 20 the humber of enemy craft sunk or damaged in the Med- |Mterranean during the past Ieek.‘ . i Capital today but declared the damage was LL THE TIME” SDAY, JULY 1, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS == " Sardinian Targets, Also ' Mainland Areas Report- ed Under Atlack (By Associated Press) The Tokyo radio reports a sharp carthquake shook the Japanese City and adjacent areas 5 slight. The broadcast from Tokyo said the cpicenter location was near & |miles northeast of Tokyo. PAST RANKS OF AMERICAN INFANTRYMEN King George of Great Britain (right) walks with Lieut, Gen, Mark Clark, commander of the U. S. Fifth Army, on the monarch’s recent visit to North Africa. While in Africa, King George presented to Gen. Dwight Eiser hower the emblems of General Eisenhower’s new honm- as K.nw:t Commandzr Order of t.h.e Bath. Signal Corps vhoto. (International Radiophoto) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 1. — TI've been wondering how long Rep. Compton I. White (D.-Idaho) was going to be allowed to go along unchallenged. It has come at ‘ast. Rep. Pete Jarman (D.-Ala.), /nahman of the House Committee on Printing, and vice-chairman of the joint (House and Senate Committee) on Print- ing, has let it be known that “some- thing just has to be done” to curb Mr. White's verbosities in the Ap- pendix of the Congressional Record as well as take a half-hitch on all members who are inclined these wartime days‘to “clutter up the Record with drivel.” For many weeks Congressman White has been running a “serial” in the Record—under the title, “Money, The Most Important Issue In the World Today.” The first 30-odd installments comprised re- prints of one Senator Cockrell's speeches in the Congressional Record about 50 or 60 years ago. (Cost to the taxpayers, somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000.) When last heard of, Congressman . White had launched off on a re- print of “the fight that took place 1100 years ago between President ‘Andrew Jackson and the’ money powers.” | There is no accusation here that {Mr. White’s insertions in the Rec- ord are “drivel.” Mr. White has a (cause. It's silver. In the light of World War II requirements, the silver question could very take a little airing, but regardl of the merits of Mr. White's “se- rial” there is behind it one of the amusmg stories of Congressional Record procedure today. Four or five years ago, a lame ‘duck Congressman approached Rep- | resentative Jarman with a volum- inous manuscript. He wanted it man esumaud,lu cost and prom- ised to put it before the Jotnt Com- mittee on Printing. There was a rule at that time that before any | member of Congress could reprint more than two pages of other than his own speeches in the Record. he would have to obtain estimai°s (Continued on_ ,“‘ buildings - Tokyo, swayed and trembled for at ‘jleast one full minute without caus- | printed .as.a public document. Jar-| The DNB, (*ferman news agency, broadcasting from Berlin, said high in the lower section of ing serious damage but did admit that in some areas bricks were 100s- ened ancl walls: collapwd -eo LEMAN IS ATTACKED, U.S. FORCE large Alrplane Engme Manufadurmg Center in France Bombed DON, July 1.— Flying through heavy overcast clouds and encountering weak enemy fighter opposition, a strong force of Ameri- can heavy bombers attacked the railway and industrial center of Le- mans, France, and returned without the loss of a plane for the flr.st time, The site of the large airplane en- gine works was bombed twice in March. No results of the raid were im- mediately announced because the solid cloud blanket made observa- tion difficult. Many of the big bombers re- turned with all bombs on the racks rather than jettison. TAMAN IS RAIDED BY RUSS FORCE Soviets AII;fiEfing to Re- pulse Proposed Offen- sive of Germans MOSCOW, July 1. Russian bombers have attacked Nazi held Taman on the Sea of Azov for two nights in succession and it is con- cluded by military observers here ' the Germans are moving tresh! troops through that port for & possible offensive action on Taman Peninsula in the Kuban Delta. Soviet aviation is being used ex-' tensively to upset the German plans for an offensive against the east- ern front. - .. ELKS LODGE RETIRES Secretary Merv Sides announces Juneau Elks Lodge No. 420 is pay- ing off the last of the bonds for the Elks Building Corporation to- day, putting the Juneau lodge back in the black. The payment retires a $30,000 'bond issue dated July 1, 1940, Shimotsuma, approximately 50 LAST OF BOKD ISSUE 4 i \ | { i NEW YANK THREATS—P-47 “Thunderbolts,” newest American fighter planes to operate from England against the Axis, take off from a U. S. fighter station somewhere in Engiand whlle other: are’ lined up lwnlllnl lhe lllnbl for u:en- ukeoll. Hol Confroversy Has Flared BetweenTwo MERs Members ol (abmel MINERS WHO | REMAIN OUT | DISLOYAL Ickes Makes Charges in! Demanding All Men Return fo Pits | WASHINGTON, July 1~sl=cu=-‘ Wallass,: hogil -of tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, g 0. Warfare, sent a state- who is Fuel Administrator, has ment on Tuesday to the Senate Ap- told the coal miners who are still propriations Committee, saying that striking that America today stands Jones, who heads the Reconstruc- on the “eve of the greatest wnili- tion Pinance Corporation, had “cre- tary campaign of history” and gteq a false impression” in testi- ‘ccmplaints of no man or groud meny hbefore the will be placed above the military Economy Committee, headed by| goal"” Cenator Harry Byrd. Wallace Ickes urged a full return of men charged Jones with using “obstruc- to the coal pits, saying: “The man tionist tactics” and resented “stock- ‘wha does not carry the full share piling of various strategic minerals ‘ot the country’s fight, does not un- for which Congress, way back in derstand the present crisis or [llberm.ely sabotages m this ithat enemies may win.” | — e Grandson of Wilson Now Army Officer FORT WASHIN(.’ION Md,, July | |1.—Woodrow Wilson Sayre, grand- son of President Wilson, was com- missioned a Second Lieutenant at the Army graduation exercises of the Adjutant General's School here. The new Army officer is a son o 'Prancis Sayre, American High| Commissioner to the Philippines, | and the late Jessie Wilson Sayre. S i I | | i | je | | | | Byrnes, War Mobilization Director, ‘Lhe man assigned front, yesterday called Vice| \Plesldem Henry A. Wallace and |Jesse H. James, Secretary of Com- merce, to discuss the vigorous quar- ‘101 they are engaged in over stock- | piling of war materials. Before the conference, Byrnes ma‘d he has made some progress in \dmsulvlng a number of inter-gov- ,emmental differences but he knew| as long as there are “men with ;slwng convictions in their depart- | ments, there ‘will be differences of jopinion,” and he has been assigned 10 help smooth out these differ- ‘enccs ansmg in executive branches the Board of fight purposes.” |was “all wrong.” Democratic Senators generally are adopting a hands-off policy on the argument and flareup but Re- publican members are clamoring for an investigation ACCUSATIONS ARE MADE WASHINGTON, July 1. — The Capital’'s hottest controvery flared again as Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones issued a statement JAaccusing Vice-President Henry A. Wallace of making a “dastardly and untrue” charge against the Recon- | struction Finance Corporation un- | der Jones' jurisdiction Earlier, Wallace had said after the conference with James Byrnes |at the White House, he had no in- “tenuon to reflect upon Jones' pa- | triotism or interest in the war ef- | fort but intended to assert that de- lnya in RPC action on projects had deluyed the war effort. This brings | the sharp reply from Jones. The angient Egyptians are be- This is the first time there has |lieved to have brought the art of been such a sharp exchange of 'tanning leather to a high state of OPinions between leading officers perfection, | of Roosevelt's Cabinet, 4 WASHINGTON, July l—James | to unify the| Congressional | de- 1939, had created funds for such| | Jones hotly replied that Wallace | AMERICAN k ORCES MAKE BIG CAPTURE Is Reported F. ought _SHARP QUAKF v YANKS TAKE VIRU HARBOR NEAR MUNDA | Nippons lo_s:65 Planes- We Llose 17 and One Big Ship WASHINGTON, July 1.—Ameri- can invaders in the central Solo- |mons have captured Viru Harbor near Japan's Munda alr base, the |Navy reports, after a fierce sea and air battle off Rendova Island in which at least 65 enemy air- {craft and 17 United States planes were lost and one American ship lost. The Viru port and village has been used by the Japs as an out- |post of Munda and lies about 30 |nautical miles northwest of New | Georgia Island. Also employed as a place for llam’hng supplies, its loss by the enemy marks the first specific American territorial triumph in the currently developing offensive to (drive the Japs out of the central | Solomons. | It developed as part of.a general |thrust being conducted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces, strik- ing northward in the New Guinea |area toward the great Jap base |at Rabaul, Stimson Comments Secretary of War Henry C. Stimson said in a press confer- encé that the operations are pro- gressing satisfactorily according to plan under the general direction of MacArthur, but added strong enemy reaction is expected. ‘The first such reaction, the Navy disclosed, came yesterday morning a few hours after the American troops landed from naval trans- port at Rendova, five miles south {of Munda. | The Japs at that time counter- |attacked with a force estimated |at 110 planes of many types includ- ing Mitsubishi medium bomber: Aichi dive bombers and various others. The attacks continued from morn- |ing until afternoon against the | United States nuval forces putting tconunued on Paxe Two) THREE MORE AREASTAKEN FROM JAPS {Two Islands in Sou'h Pa- | dific Occupied by Allied Forces ! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 1.—Allied land and naval forces under the person- al direction of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, yesterday occupied Tro- briand and Woodlark Islands in the (group of islands between New |Guinea and the Solomons, also at- |tacked the neighboring New Georgla islands and engaging Jap- anese land forces near Salamua, New Guinea. i ‘The occupation of Trobriand and | Woodlark Islands was without op- position and the sneak was appar- ently unknown to the enemy. In New Georgia, forces also suc- ssfully landed on Rendova Island engaging the enemy’s defenses. DIMOUT TIVES . . . e Dimout begins tonight ® ® at sunset at 10:07 p.m. . e Dimont ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 3:57 am. 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