The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1943, Page 1

' "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1943 VOL. LXI., NO. 9387. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) NAVAL BATTLE RAGES IN SOUTH PACIFIC Germans Open Summer Offensive In Russia REDS RESIST [Test Made of Freight Glider Over Atlantic Pronounced Successiul NEW GERMAN ONSLAUGHTS Enemy Denies New Large- | Scale Move-Losses Are Heavy PREMIER OF | 1of a sky tr POLAND DIES MOSCOW, July 6. — The giant German drive along the 165-mile Orel, Kursk, Belgorod Frontopened the Nazi long awaited summer of- fensive against Russia on Mun- day. The fierce German offensive en- countered savage Russian resistance that cost Hitler in one day, 586 tanks, 203 planes and 3,000 slain in one sector alone. The official communique says all attacks have been repulsed al- though wedges were driven into the Russian lines. In the Orel and Kursk sector the Russians said 100 tanks broke through their lines but the So- viet infantry barred the way for the oncoming Nazi foot troops and Russ artillery fire from the rear shelled the tanks, after which the Germans swung around and rolled in swift retreat. Thirty-eight of the Nazi tanks were damaged. The Russians also admmed the Germans succeeded in occupying two settlements in a sector on the Belgorod Front but were dlslodged (Contmued on l;nge Six) The Washington Merry - Go- Round‘ By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) LR l WASHINGTON. — Most umm-{ tant subterranean leak to com from Republican cloak-rooms of late is the decision of Philadelphia’s | powerful GOP Boss Joe Pew to| groom Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court for the presidency. Pew is reported by close ruends‘ to have finally decided to throw | his millions behind his fellow Ph\l-: adelphian Roberts as the idenll‘ choice for the Republican Party and the only man who could defeat PLANE CRASH 'Six Other Passengers, All of Crew Except Pilot, | Are Killed | S \ LONDON, July 6.—Gen. Wladis- law Sikorski, Premier of the exiled Polish Government and Comman- der of its armed forces, six other passengers, including his daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lensiowska, 26, and all f the crew members, except the pilot, were killed Sunday night when a Liberator plane crashed into sea shortly after the takeoff at Gibraltar. i Gen. Sikorski had been organiz- ing the Polish forces to take part in the offensive operations. The victims of the crash included two Polish officers and a British Colonel. The Polish Council has designat- ed Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mi- kolajezyk, Peasant Party leader, as acting Premier, and Gen. Karian Kukiel, Defense Minister, to com- mand the Polish armies. e R he |man Truman Ploneerol ‘ — The been first towed LONDON, July 6. freighter glider has across the Atlantic, ing great possibilities of air trans- port. The British Air Ministry said the !glider, of a ton and one half cap- acity, was towed by a twin- vng,med Douglas C-47 transport across the' Atlantic, a distance of 3,500 miles,| Henry A. Wallace, apparently were |thay 30 Flying For NYA KiLLED BY ACTION OF CONGRESS Death Senfence Is Written| by Senate on De- mands of House WASHINGTON, July 6. — The Senate has voted 39 to 33 to yield to the House demands for ending the National Youth Administration. The death sentence, given to the agency provide work and relief for youths between 16 and 24, was written into the billion one hundred and thirty six million dollar Labor and Federal | Security Appropriation bill over the protests of a group led by Chair- of the Senate’s War Investigating Committee. Truman argued in vain that the NYA's pre-| csent program for training youths |for work in war industries is “ab- Ketchikanls FoundDead 'Martin Bugge FoIIows: Wife in Death by Only Several Hours y July 6.— Roosevelt, should he run for a! KBTCHIKAN, Alaska, fourth term. | Martin Bugge, pioneer resident, was Pew, who controls the Sun Oil toung dead beside a bush in the and Sun Ship millions, has not'packyard of his home yesterday ! been renowned for his success as afternoon,-several hours after his a political picker in the past.|yife died in a hospital. Nevertheless, his political influence! Bugge was an early day miner} in Pennsylvania—a highly impor- and piledriver operator. He came tant key state—is now greater than to the Ketchikan district in 1901 that of any other man, and his ,and returned to Alexandria, Min- | power inside GOP smoke-! filled ‘nesota, for his marriage with Anne councils is not to be sneezed at. |Jeannette Holvorson in 1913, and| Pew was not too enthusiastic a|had lived in Ketchikan continu- Willkie man at the last GOP con- ously since then. vention in Philadelphia, and has| Survivors include a niece, Dor- not been since. However, his groom- |cthy Holvorson, Ketchikan school ing of Justice Roberts, according|teacher; three brothers, Sidney | to friends, is not aimed entirely Holvorson, who is still living on| at blocking Willkie. {the old family homestead in Evans- He figures that the GOP con- ville, Minnesota; Henry Holvorson vention is likely to reach a dead-|Of Seattle; Walter Holvorson of ook ety Helena, Montana, and a sister, Mrs. Willkie and Dewey, | and that a safe, sound middle-ol-|:"35£;| Wrnpass; of EpRneniaR Min the-road candidate will then be Funeral arrangements were not needed to step in. determined late yesterday. In the opinion of Joe Pew, Jus- tice Roberts fills that role. He has supported the President’s foreign J dapanese | On Kiska policies, has cooperated 'with the White House in probing the Pearl Harbor scandal, and was not as much of a bitter-ender as other Republican Supreme Court justices in opposing New Deal philosophies. Roberts is also a forceful speaker, tall, handsome, and should be a good campaigner. From a_physical viewpoint his only handicap is his age. WORLD PEACE PROMOTER Justice Roberts has always suf- g . fered from a slight touch of “presi- Kiska, scored damaging hits in dentitis” and was talked about MiN€ raids and anti-aircraft guns as Republican candidate as far 20d camp areas were destroyed back as 1936. Recently he has been The raids were the heaviest since the offensive started in the North- (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON, July 6.—Ameri- west Pacific, solutely essential.” CHINA'S FIRST LADY IS FLOWN T0 HER HUSBAND | « CHUNGKING, China, July 6.— | Mme. Chiang Kai Shek has return- ed to this war capital city and had a joyful reunion with her husband, the Chinese Generalissimo, after an extended tour of the United States. Mme. Chiang Kai Shek landed at | here after a 15,000~ the airdrome mile trip in an American plane. BRIG. GEN. (. 5. HARRIS AND MAJ, H, E. TODD ARRIVE HERE MONDAY, Brig. General Charles S. Harris, i Anti-aircraft Officer of A. D. C, arrived in Juneau yesterday and ,will spend a short time making an inspection of nearby military posts. General Harris is accompanied on | his trip by Major Harold E. Todd, , staff officer. e 'MANY FINED IN POLICE COURT . The following persons were fined in City Police Court this morning: Daisey David, $20, disorderly con- duct; Mrs. Lawrence Prokopioff, $20, drunk; Reece Murray, $25, drunk and disorderly; James Miller, 30 days suspended sentence, drunk; Charles B. Martin, $25, drunk; Will- ard Gayhart, $15 and 20 days sus- pended sentence, drunk. .- SEATTLE, July 6. — Americans | wounded in the battle at Attu have{ all now reached care in Pacific Coast hospitals, even before the final Jap resistance there was de- can airmen, battering the Japs on stroyed most were brought to the States. All wounded are the States. It is officially announced now back in 1,139 were wounded in the fighting at | Atty a successful test' n technique and open-, that was created in 1935 to| JONES GIVES OPINION OF ~ VICE - PRES. Henry Wallace Given Ver- . bal Slugging Before { Senate Committee WASHINGTON, June foot-two Jesse Jones, Admmlslra» tion Banker and Vice President ‘only warming up in a week long | |verbal slugging match appraisal of | | each other. A new high was reach- ed in recrimination when Jones, ac- | cusing Wallace of hdlding up Board | Economic Warfares purchases strategic war materials, opened up both barrels last night and |about Wallace and none were com- plimenta In Wallace’s absence, his second, Milo Perkins, took up the cudgels and shot back at Jones and hlb Reconstruction Finance Corpor-| ation, which he said acted like sleepy Rip Van Winkle. Both addressed statements to the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senator Bridges demanded “Congress ought to find out who is | vight.” WILL SOON WANT MORE MEN, NAVY WASHINGTON, Julv 6. — The rapidly expanding fleet will result | The WMC officials said probabl\ | there will be no appreciable increase in the size of the Army during the first six months of next year. The total strength of the armed forces is now 9,300,000 officers 'md men, JAPANESE- . — Six-| of | used | 7800 words to tell what he thinks | in an addition of half a million men | in the Navy personnel during the| (first half of 1944, the War Man- power Commission reveals. ITALIAN OUTPOSTS - ARE HIT Smashinafir Blows in Mediterranean Hit New High ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, July 6.—Allied air ‘(m es, spearheaded by a fleet of less resses which shot German fighters in one of the greatest feats of the Mediter- 11anmn warfare, ruck paralyzing I blows at the Axis in battles for air supremacy over Sicily and Sardinia The smashing aerial offensive |against the Italian outpost islands went through its third straight day with bombers roaring over Gerbini, ‘M'Al.l\. a, Licata, Sciacca, Catania, |all on Sicily, and at Villacidro on | Sardinia All of these are bases of the de- tonumu Axis aerial fleets. At the end of the 24 hours ending yester- day, 42 enemy planes had been knocked down against a loss of 1 for the Allies. | Meanwhile, more than 60 Lib- {erator bombers of the Middle East {Command joined in the devastating raids, shaking Messnia -on Sicily with nearly 375 one thousand-pound- ers. The hits blanketed the ferry i’wnnlna! installations and’ caused “extensive damage.” Bombs were laid on the railroad | tracks, roundhouses, ~warehouses, { freight yards and oil tanks. There were swarms of German fighters eev ere, indicating the | Germans are rushing reinforcements | to this area. | | dowr GERMANS IN NEW THRUST ~ RUSS FRONT \ R LONDON, July 6.—The German ‘Hr’h Command broadcast Monday |that a sudden thrust in the Kuban | Lagoon district resulted in the Kkill- ling or capture of 2,000 Russian troops and that 700 small boats and |much material"was_seized The Russian communique, broad- vast from Moscow and picked up Prominent Wrangeli Men Missi ( | | | ng; Search Extended, Wide Area (OL.RIEGLE GIVES FINE ATH SPEECH Solemn Services in Fire- men'’s Field Well Attended Gathered in Firemen's Field for their Second straight wartime cele- bration of Independence Day, hun- dreds of patriotic Juneauites yes- terday afternoon heard Lieut, Col Roy W. Riegle, Commander of United States troops in this area deliver an address on the 167th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence As troops in full military stood at attention, Col. Riegle’ words told of the birth of a na- tign, and the principles upon which it was founded—the principles for which the nation is now fighting in the greatest conflict the \m)ld has seen. During the program, an Arnn band under Lieut. Robert Lagle, and conducted by Corp. Seymour Standish, played military Chaplain Andrew H. Beahm gave the prayer and benediction, and an Army bugler played Taps for “those who have made the supreme sac- rifice.” | Col. Riegle outlined the prinei-| ples of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, then said here is a prediction world events that have in the years since 1776. Govern- ments older than ours have de- cayed and passed away. Govern- ments have been overthrown and abolished because they strivéd to subject their p(-oph- to despotism, in (Continued on P.ugr‘ Three) - OUR FLEETS kit music. | the: occurred | WRANGELL, Alaska, July 6. — Search over a wide area continued | ‘lu(h_\ for three prominent Wrangell | {men missing since they left on a | | fishing trip last Saturday night ex- | ‘)xu[m; to return Sunday evening. | | The missing men are Dr. John H | Clements, physician; Dr. E. J.| Wheeler, dentist, and Orville Keen- ey, hardware merchant | The trio left in a sturdily built | 'mllmm( powered boat, for Thom- | as Creek, about 30 miles from | Wrangell on the south end of Wrangell Island, shortly after mid-| night Saturday, planning to return by 4 pm. Sunday. | When the men failed to show, the Coast Guard went in search but | without success. Cannery tenders ! and other craft also joined the |search, | | The Coast Guard found embers| lof a camp fire & Thomas Creek Sunday night indicating, they be- lieve, the men had been there. | Dr. Clements is the only doctor and Dr. Wheeler the only dentist in this community. All three are| (good outdoors men and familiar! with the country. | - - Coal Miners Again Asked To Go Back UMW Leaders Admonish | Men to Return-Strike | Gaining Nothing | WASHINGTON, July 6. — The |leadership of the United Mine Workers admonishes all members to !return to work because there is “nothing to be gained” by continu- ing striking, and “the war cannot e won without an adequate supply of coal.” Thousands are still report- | ed to be off the job in various coal | tields. | | The leading editorial in the UMW Journal says: | | “By returning to work, mmc | workers are not forfeiting collec- | Central U. {u. |shooting down two and that AMERICAN ~ HASPLE WASHINGTON, July 6. — Mike | Masaoka, who said he joined the | United States Army to show his loyalty to his native America and enmity to his ancestral Japan, | urged before the Dies Commuu- that loyal Japanese-Americans given that “Chinaman’s chance w, stay here after the war.” Masaoka, former Secretary of the | Japanese - American Citizens'| (League, also asked for present day assistance saying the War Reloca-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS tion authorities “should get more NORTH AFRICA, July 6. — U. Japanese-Americans out of the re-|Mitchell bombers made a big at- location camps and restore them to|tack on the Castelvetrana axrrleld | normal life.” | Sicily. | A private in the Army since June| An enemy attack was beaten off | Masaoka ~ said the relocation |largely through the escorting Ne- agency “should take more firm gro P-40 Warhawk pilots, one of steps to inform Americans generally | whom downed a Folke Wulf to score | of the loyalty of the Japanese-Am-|the first victory of his squadron in| ericans now in this country.” the first Negro air unit to see action h re, said Russian artillery smashed | German preparations for a German aILack in the Belgorod section west \o( Kharkov. ! - - Negro Unit Gefs Action, North Afric IN > /in the North African war theatre, | - (GIRAUD'SVISIT | | - MILTARY:ALS INVASION UNIT ;ALSO ~ ESTABLISHED BY NON-PO[III(A[ wassverox. sy o . NALI MILITARY| | White House today laid stress on | the strictly military and non-politi-| STOCKHOLM Juu 6—Dispatch- cal nature of the impending visit €s received here from Berlin report of Gen. Honore Giraud, Command- | the Germans have created u new er of the French Troops in Africa. military branch, a “General Service” Gen. Giraud will spend some time branch, to combat any Allied in- with the U. S. Military leaders. His vasion. stay will probably be brief in view Grand Admiral Erich Reader has of impending action by the Allied|been named as head of * ien- ‘larmh’s in North Africa, eral Service,” |tive bargaining or the right to ne- |gotiate wage agreements with the {cperators of coal mines embodying \the portal to portal pay and other benefits. “Certainly under these conditions, ithe coal hminers have nothing to ilose by their resumption of work and until such a time as a satisfac- tory agreement can be reached or| the Policy Committee calls a meet- Frank Knpx said here. ing {o again canvass the situation| “Our fleets are on the offensive to determine the further course of| and headed straight for Japan,” action.” Knox told an Independence Day crowd, further stating: | “The war has been close to you of the Northwest. We know how the Japanese fishing boats were * part of a well laid plan for an m- vasion of Alaska.” - ‘Oueen Whilhelmina ' Is Back in London After Christening LONDON, July 6—The Nether- |lands Exiled Government announces |Queen Wilhelmina has returned |here from the christening of her| \newest granddaughter, Princess | Margriet Francisca, in Canada, and |a visit to the United States White| | House. 1 —e—— ARE HEADED FOR JAPAN | SEATTLE, July 6. can air raid on Tok: “pioneer raid” Secrets 43 FIGHTERS OF AXIS ARE Attack Fields on Sicily ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘nnd United States aerial squadrons | attacked five major landing fields on Sicily on Sunday and shot down 438 Axis fighters ‘The squadrons encountered the heaviest opposition since the height WASHINGTON, July 6. — The War Department announces pre- sentation of the Distinguished Ser- vice Medal to Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, former Commander of the |Army forces in the Central Pacific 13 planes Sunday night and former Military Governor of A broadcast picked up here from | Hawaii, now assigned to temporary Rome claimed the Italians downe: d| lduty in Washington, ‘xna planes over the weekend SHOT DOWN; |Aliied l\efil~ Squadrens| | | NORTH AFRICA, July 6.—British| of the Tunisian campaign and lost| JAP FLEET IS FORCED INTOOPEN IsIand-by-I;Iand Advance of Americans Is Conhnued BULLETIN Washington, July 6.—The Navy reports to- night that on the basis of in- complete information the bat- tle of Kula Gulf indicates an encounter has taken place and the Jap fleet suffered some severe setbacks. It is indicated light susface forces were en- gaged but whether bombing planes took part is not known. One U. 8. destroyer is report- ed to have been sunk by tor- pedoes of enemy craft. WASHINGTON, July 6—Officlal reports of a naval battle in the Solomons indicate the |South Pacific offensive is rapidly |gaining one of the most important objectfves, that of forcing the Japanese Navy to come out and fight. Even the absence of word of ma- jor forces engaged in the “new battle of Kula Gulf,” is regarded with great significance and showed the Japanese fleet has felt com- pelled to accept the challenge and |risk at least a part of the South Pacific fleet in an effort to check |the American advance. The Navy announcement says only “brief reports from the South Pacific indicate a naval battle is in progress in Kula Gulf, north of New Georgia Island, but no details of the action have been received.” FIERCE FIGHT IN AIR ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 6.—Fierce air battles are raging over the Cen- tral Solomons and in one fight, planes fought off 40 Zeros, raising to shot down since S. 157 the June 30. U. S. dive bombers struck the Japanese anchorage on the west- ern end of New Georgia and tor- pedo planes hit the Japanese sea base at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel Island One U. 8. plane was downed over Rendova but the pilot was saved. number CAPTURE VANGUNU ISLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 6. — American forces, surging forward in the new southwest Pacific offensive, have captured Vangunu village on Nav- gunu Island off New Guinea, kill- ing 300 Japanese. Our ualties |are given as 33. JAP PLANES DOWNED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 6.—Over Redo- va Island, in the central Solomons, {21 Japanese planes had been de- |stroyed up to Monday mornlnfi n |air battles, raising to 155 the Jap aircraft sent down since last | Wednesday. 1 Gen. Douglas MacArthur is in personal charge of the South Pa- cific action, combined air, land and forces. | sea - HOOVER MAKES CRITICISM OF FOOD PROGRAM NEW YORK, July 6. — Herbert |Hoover declares that President | Roosevelt’s food subsidy program |“does not get at the heart of the |food problem” and he predicts that food prices will get higher and food scarcer. R EEEEEE . DIMOUT TIMES . ¢ Dimout begins tonight ® at sunset at 10:03 p.m. i e Dimout ends tomorrow !® at sunrise at 4:03 am. ® Dimout begins Wednesday at ® sunset at 10:02 p.m. ' P90 02000 00 090 ®ecesvcces