The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM: VOL. LXI., NO. 9385. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JULY 2, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS DIVE BOMBERS ATTACKING MUNDA BASE (4 138 | | Threaten to Call Police to‘3 Make Counsel Be Seated | ! WASHINGTON, July 2. — The | WASHINGTON. — One of the | Congressional investigation of the| most secretive of all secret lunch- Federal Communications Commis- eons was held on Capitol Hill “,e\nun started off with a bang today other day. Big Jim Farley inspired as Chairman Cox threatened to both the luncheon and the secrecy. ¢l police to force the FCC counsel Jim warned agsinst the slightest |to be seated. { This action came after Charles| leak to the press, and -elaborate | f X |Denny sought to interrupt Eugene were taken to prevent prochptions A E EGareyz committee counsel, during any. s vendl 2 > .| Garey’s reading of the list of charg- | Senate dining room emploVees| oo ygningt the - Commission. les were forbidden to reveal the room ., S in which the meeting took place, |, k:zwc<e);n£;s;lo:h0$u?:il ;l;i:f‘ and not even Ed Halsey, omniscient | qure He'll be heard later,” Fox secretary of the Senate, Who usu-gaig. 4 ally arranges such affairs, knew! There were more than 50 charges anything about it. . |ranging from general incompetency - The list of attending Senators to endangerment of the national was equally guarded and all those|security. present refused to comment on the — e luncheon. 1 Here was the reason for the se-| uN(lE SAM crecy. At the luncheon Jim Farley | and a group of anti-Roosevelt Sen- | ators launched their campaign to: Government Order Signed by Ickes - West Coast Action block a fourth term and put for- ward their own candidate. He is| handsome, white-thatched Senator Guy - M. Gillette, Democrat, of Towa. | Farley Mas had Gillette in mind for some time and had a long talk{ with Texas Jack Garner about the| WASHINGTON, July 2. — The Government today took complete | control of catching and the deliv-| ery of pilchards (herring-like fish, | young called sardines) on the west coast for the duration of the war. | Secretary of Interior Ickes signed the order for the Government's' Towan's chances. | The luncheon which launched the | | control of the billion pound indus-' try. | Gillette campaign was held in the Senate Rules Committee room on the third floor of the Capitol. Be- The general supervisor will be| O. E. Sett, in charge for wartime fishery problems in California. sides Farley and Gillette, those present included Senators Walter George 'of Georgia, chairman of the Finance Committee, Harry F. Ickes said the control is designed to increase the yield of pilchards |and the placing of available boats land men in waters where most of Byrd of Virginia, chairman of the Rules Committee, Bennett Clark of the fish can be caught. The order | applies to all vessels of 20 tons or| Missouri, and several others, all| veteran foes of the Administration. over which fished for pilchards after May 31, 1940. Permits must be obtained to oper- ate the boats. A_a near as possible, boats will be assigned to their home ports. — e : BUY WAR BONDS J H 7 itler's U-Boats Are have been punished by Allied planes | An unofficial German broadcast | ican merchantmen, totalling 107,000 | BY Jo N E S\ This is a far cry from the 000 tons, the Germans claimed were . ing sunk by German subs in June Ahead, Investigate British Naval observers in London | WASHINGTON, July 2—Secre- and construction is now slow and mittee he welcomes a Congressional|Allies are waging an intensive war- ‘Wallace over stockpiling of war BTt ton Fish how he felt about an in-| said: investigation. | " Geltin Walloped' Only ! | (By Associated Press) | p R 0 B E I S Hitler's harrassed U-boat fleets |and surface craft recently as never | ‘hrfurl'. | WELCOMED %.&u_\.\ that only 20 British and Amer- tons, were sent down by U-boats in June. merchant vessels, aggregating 851,- § submarine victims last March. | Tells Committee fo G0 “wen tne ciam of 20 vessels be-| is without Allied confirmation i Charges Made Sstiidate (L IhdAP pedaUckiont cel LI isubs by the Germans has ceased | tary of Commer™ Jesse H. Jones,!costly. formally told the House Rules Com- Planes and surface craft of ‘the| investigation into the feud between | f2 on U-boats in the Mediter- him and Vice-President Henry A,/ranean and Atlantic | materials. | Asked by Representative Hamil-| quiry into “charges and counter-| charges,” the two have made, Jones | STARTS OFF “I have said on two occasions T welcome such an The Washington By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) BLOCKING 4TH TERM Farley did most of the talking. He said that a fourth term for Roosevelt must be blocked “at all costs"—otherwise’ the kind of de- mocracy -we inherited from ‘Wash- ington and Jefferson would be “through” in the U.S.A. Jim disclosed that surveys of sen- timent in various parts of the country had convinced him that most voters were in a rebellious mood against the Administration, especially the farm belt. Roosevelt definitely could be stopped at the next convention, he said, if oppo-! sition forces at the convention were -_— | (Continued on Page Four) | rts | The ruling pointed out it had been lon cut alfalfa YY) . | Prime Minister Winston Churchili {Will Be More Drastic Ra- nas suia ta an ottensive i i FIGHTER PLA canal Island afe Grumman fighter planes of the U. S. Marine Corps, part of the growing ai VITAMIN PATENTS INVALID {Universify of Wisconsin Loses Case on Appeal by Firm FRANCISCO, July 2. SAN | Patents governing Iun' manufacture |of vitamin D, said to have brought $1,500,000 in royalties to the University of Wisconsin Al- umni Research Foundation, were declared to be invalid yesterday by the United States Court of Appeals. The case developed in California after the Wisconsin foundation sued -the Vitamin Technologists, | Inc. of Los Angeles for an injunc- tion, alleging infringement of the patent. The decision of the lower court favored the University. The Los| Angeles firm appealed and the cir-| cuit court ruled all vitamin D patents held by the University are invalid and hence couldn’t be in- fringed. The court noted the patents in- volved the production of the vita- min for the care of rickets and for subjecting food, to the radiation of ultra violet rays such as produced with quartz and mercury lamps.| more than | | . known for years that the sun's rays| hay in a field re-| sulted in an anti-rachitic food for| pigs. > SITUATION 1S SERIOUS TINNETT WASHINGTON, July 2--Critics Jof our failure to concentrate on |the Pacific are going to have (o |bide thein time—for a short while at least. By JACK the United However, exchangin Pacific, backed by all | Nations, is imminent. Army strategists are knowing winks. They that President Roosevelt | maneuvered some highly |person “te take the heat off.” They argue that the heat defi- nitely was on to concentrate ow energies on the Pacific—even in tioning Steps Soon, Ickes Says saying AL WASHINGTON, July 2—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Fuel Coordinator, said the midwest is to have closer and tighter gaso-| line curbs than ever before and de- " . clared the Pacttic Coast also prob- “PLE of victories in North Africa ably will be restricted more sever _(Madame Chiang Kai-shek had ju ably evere ly before the end of the year, visited W}]Ahtnglou and made @ He told also. of the obening 0“trmm—nununo‘nlul tour. Her appeal big pipelines eastward within the | “OUdn’t ignored, next few weeks which will bring the ‘The President knew that Church Midwest still greater restrictions |1l Was coming over lony without easing the drastic curbs| @Dy one else had dreamed of now in effect in the East. | Then up jumped Sen. A. B. “Huap- Declining crude oil production in PY” Chandler of Kentucky with a California, plus heavy military de- | third-alarm attack on our neglect mands almost certainly will lead to Of the Pacific. He still was shouting a deficiency in the West Coast When the Prime Minister arrived tates before the end of the year,! The only thing Churchill could do, Ickes said. |the strategists say, was to i before promise [ BOATLOAD OF TROUBLE FOR Offensive On Pafic Must Waif GASSUPPLY For Proper Moment NES READY AT GUADALCANAL—Lined up beside a landing st (Internationat) To Drive Japs Fro TOJO A LARGE DETACHMENT of American troops lands by lighter at a Soutk« western Pacific port in this photo just received from down under. Field artillerymen have poured from a troopship ontb a barge which will be towed ashore. U. S. Signal Corps photo. 4 5 | 1 p at a picturesque field on Guadale might of this country in the South Pacific. LOSSES OF FOEHEAVY . IN PACIFIC Associated Press Writer Tabulates Two-Day Box Score By TOM YARBROUG (Associated ress Wi Correspondent) Pacific nounced 123 Jap planes down over the New Georgia jlands Wednesday and ‘Thursday against American of 25 planes and 15 pilots A total of 101 enemy knocked out of the sky Wednesday in the day landing and 17 Ameri- can planes were destroyed, but seven pilots were saved. The next day, the Americans lost eight planes and the pilots of three landed safely. Headquarters an- were shot South losses planes were .o GERMANS SET DATE, ALLIES' BIG THRUST ;Broadcast Says Troops Be- ing Transferred for Invasion Aftempt i an immediate offensive in the Pa-| LONDON, July 2.—The German cific. Whether that diagnosis can't say at c pretty and there of House here were attack on for failure fensive Lirst the to Some war obscrver uch unshaken by They argue that there are possible ways to open an offensive against Japan now the the an attack (1 To Jurma, and start pied China (2) To get Japan, knock reopen on with men and plane the nearer the heart pire from of is randler close numberless surprised by war has to open a lend-lease Setting base: could get by a couple fighting up from the south. If the second could Pacific situation might be (Continued on any truth the situation, this writing. Senat been ¢ the all er border and drive Sun em- th han years happen, Three) White observers his out | Monday administration Pacific o war we the as clear- |controlled Paris radio made a | broadcast saying British troops sta- tioned in northern England and rinorthern Ireland have been trar . ferred to southern ind The broadcast further stated this transfer is in ‘“anticipation of events scheduled for July 3.” The Axis has broadcast since alternately suggesting and ien discounting the coming Satur- - day as the possible date for the | Allied invasion attempt of the con- in however, are,tinent of Europe sculations. | - Housewives Must only two v ot ot Order Saturday Burma srom unceen-| FOF Two Days Russia to declare Road Housewives are reminded that next Monday iday and all stores will be closed. Orders must be placed early tomorrow "¢ morning or late this afternoon | to insure delivery and a | thoroukh check of needs should be made to see that there will be no shortages for Sunday aid | Monday. is a on m Is-| (4 Solomons ENEMY IS GUNS HIT ASSAULTED BIG CAMP FROMAIR ' Shore Batteries Pour Shells | U. S. PiIoIsr lr?airn Death on | On Nipponese Con- | Main Invader centration ' Positions ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN|' WASHINGTON, July 2. — The | AUSTRALIA, July 2.--Americans|Navy, in a special communique, says |landing in the central Solomons|@ive bombers have assaulted the have speedily completed their con- Japanese defensive positions in the quest of Rendova Island and| Munda ares turned their shore batteries on| Dive bombers have also hit posi- | the nearby Jap base of Munda. [tions in the mammoth Lambeti The Yanks destroyed’a total of |plantation, starting fires. This was {101 enemy planes which tried to|yesterday afternoon and at the break up the Solomons landings|same time torpedo planes and dive |and 17 American planes were lost | bombers attacked positions and The High Command said grovnd camp installations at Vila, | troops had ample support from the| The attack on Lambeti followed against the Jap bases, includ-|an assault on a native village three new one established at Sal-{to five miles east of the Munda ., New Guinea | airfield. ican casualties were light. | Vila is several miles northwest of Some landing boats were dam-|Munda and one of the Key posi- | 1 well as a Japanese defen- The United States troops landed |s on Rendova June 30 and have com- | pletely smashed the Jap garrison | | there | - > - NAVYSEES ~ ACTION IN BIG FIGHT Speculation as fo Whelher‘ Hit-and-Run or Main Push AMERICAN air | ing the - > - JUNGLE-CLA TROOPS USED INOFFENSE Thousands of Young Am- ericans Swarm Nip Isle Oufposts By J. NORMAN LODGE (Associated Press War Correspondent) WITH U. S. INVASION FORCES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN/ON NEW GEORGIA ISLAND, AUSTRALIA, July American| juype 30, — (Delayed) Combined Navy surface units are reported Army Navy and Marine forces to- active against Japanese DOSItions| gay swarmed over Rendova Island in the area which forms the ap- j; the greatest American offensive proaches to Bougainville Island, the| vet “undertaken in the South Pa- heart of the enemy’s strength ingiric. | the Solomons. L A multitude of all types of planes Whether this action is only a|provided an umbrella for the ac- | diversion hit-and-run raid or """';livlties of the amphibious forces resented the beginning of expanded|ghich rushed the various beach- operations was not immediately aP-|peads and immediately began push- parent. ing the Jap forces northward. The Jap bases hit The invasion began at dawn with Faisi and Balance. Faisi is a set-|y number of simultaneous land- tlement in the Shortland Islands, jhos on Rendova Island from which about 30 miles southeast of Bou-|the jap airfield at Munda on gainville, across the strait |'nun‘“m“,by New Georgia Island will the major Jap base of Buin. |be stormed. Balance is not shown on Thousands of young, well-trained | maps. ;Amcricans took on the job of wresting the valuable airfields from the Japs and driving them toward Bougainville Island, eventually out of the Solomons altogether. They are clad in spotty jungle suits and equipped as well as any military men in the world. "The in- vaders plan a war from various Rendova landing places toward There the huge landing awaits the successful termin- ation of the large-scale offensive. were given as| the .. SAY LATEST " LANDING IS - SMOOTHJOB -t {July 1-In a smooth piece of operation, Allied ground forces | were dovetailed in the latest South- | west Pacific operations with Aus- PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 2—It is {tralians driving toward saua now estimated that less than one- {Bay where American troops estab- fifth of the country’s miners are |lished a beachhead in a hazardous still out on a strike. ‘The upsurge to go to work again has been felt mainly in Pennsyl- vani the biggest coal producing co- {landing yesterday | The amphibious operations started from an advanced coastal base established since the conclu- sion of the major Buna-Gona cam- palgn six months ago. The operation of darkness after midnight, ful navigation Some of the withdrawing after troops were state. DIMOUT TIMES Dimout hegins at sunset at 10:06 p.m. Dimout ends tomorrow sunrise at 3:58 am. Dimout begins Saturday sunset at 10:05 p.m. |eo e @060 000 00 0o was under cover tropical night, required skill- landing craft had trouble putting their o ashore. . - - ° WAR BONDS of a and of boats: tonight at BUY