The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9388. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNE DAY, JULY 7, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) SIX JAP WAR VESSEL Germans Losing Heavily On R States Are Now in | " Lead,Posi-WarPlans;, MANYNAZI | TANKS ARE | DESTROYED Enemy Clai-n; Red Army Suffers Losses in Ber- lin Report (By Associated Press) The Germans have paid a Lm'rmcI toll in tanks and manpower for! “insignificant gains” in the two days of bitter fighting on the Orel- Kursk-Belgorod Front, the Rus- | sians said today. Acknowledging the loss of two towns near Belgorod at the south- ernmost end of the 165-mile front, the Red Army announced last night | that its artillery has smashed 1271 enemy tanks, shot down 314 planes, killed more than 10,000 Germans in the last two days. | The Germans reported heavy | Soviet attacks in the Belgorod sec- | tor “by very strong forces failed.” /The Nazis claimed 300 Russ tanks | and 637 Soviet planes were de-l stroyed. | The Berlin radio quoted a Ger- man military spokesman in an- nouncing the Germans had broken through the main Soviet fighting line at several points in the Kursk | area, the center of the .Russian/ bulge below Moscow, but gave no details. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—The manner in which old line GOP leaders are already maneuvering backstage to pick Chicago for the Republican National Convention next June in- dicates the deadly grimness with which they are out to do two things: (1) block Wendell Willkie (2) dominate the Republican plat- form in regard to post-war isola- tion. ’ To this end, reactionary GOPers are pointing out that Chicago is the most important eonvention city in the country; is in the center of the USA.; that more political gatherings have been held there than in any other city. Backstage, however, what they are whispering is something else again. In private their chief ar- gument for Chicago is the fact that the anti-Willkie, pro-isolation- ist Chicago Tribune dominates the city. To hold the convention under the protecting wing of the Tribune, they figure, would be a powerful influence in putting across their candidate and platform. If the con- vention gets deadlocked, there is nothing like the constant day-to- day pounding of a big newspaper to stampede delegates. On the other hand, liberal Re- publican leaders wanf the conven- tion held in a more neutral city such as Cleveland or Detroit. They accept the geographical advantages of Chicago, but maintain that De- troit or Cleveland are just as cen- trally located and not dominated by the Tribune. . INTERVENTIONIST REPUBLICANS Meanwhile the non-isolationist| peace bloc inside the Republican Party is growing. They believe that the United States cannot possibly pull in its horns from world af- fairs after the war, and that it would be political suicide for the Republican Party to take the lead in so doing. Typical of this new, more lib- eral wing is Montana’s GOP Na- tional Committeeman Dan Whet- stone, a member of the GOU advis- ory committee which will meet soon to formulate future foreign policy. Whetstone’s peace proposals, briefly summarized are: “A world police force, under law, disarming of the Axis na- {resentative of the State Depart-| jaware of the importance of LAGUARDIA Kiska Gets HEADSPARTY Bombarded OF OFFICIALS From Sea FISH PRICES United Stafes - Canadian: Naval Task Force in Action fOPA Announces Rollbacks | Last Night on Jap IsIanjfiBase WASHINGTON, July 7. — The Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, of NeW|american Naval Task Force bom- York City, man of the on Defense Defense Commission on Trip North Permanent Joint Board | ine Aleutians, Alaska, last night. and Joint Service Com-| The Navy announced the attack mittee for the Pacific Coast; Col. was apparently coordinated with O. M. Biggar, Chairman of the the offensive against the Jap de- Canadian membership, and other| fenses in the South Pacific. officials of the Board arrived in| The report on the Kiska attack Juneau yesterday afternoon and was very brief saying only shore left last night for Skagway, on batteries were bombarded and the way through Alaska and Can- ‘they did not return the fire oo DARWIN IS RAIDED BY JAP PLANES Seven Are Downed in De- fense of Port-Dam- age Is Slight ALLIED HE:D_Q'UARTERS IN USTRALIA, July 7.—Darwin has i |been raided by the Japanese but Canadian Members slight damage was done. ada The Board is holding its July meeting in the Territory of Alaska and will stop in Whitehorse, Fair- banks, Anchorage and possibly Ncme before leaving by plane over the Alaska Military Highway route on the return trip to Edmonton and Ottawa, from where the Am- erican delegation will return to the United States. Both Mayor LaGuardia and Col. Biggar have been on the Joint Board since its creation in August, 1940. Other members of the Ameri- can membership who were in Ju-| neau are Major General Guy V. Henry, Vice Admiral A. W. Johnson, | Capt. John P. Whitney, Col. E. W.| Hockenberry, J. D. Hickerson, rep-| ment, and Lt. Col. Paul V. Ben-}A ters. i British Commandoes Stage Surprise Aftack and Withdraw Safely (By Associated Press) The Allied Headquarters in North Africa announces that small bodies of |British troops dashed on Axis- held Crete in shallow draft vessels last Sunday night and raided air- fields, destroyed grounded planes and left a number of oil dumps afire,"then withdrew safely. Canadian members of the Joint Seven Jap planes were downed Board, in addition to Col. Biggar!including five bombers and two are Admiral G. C. Jones, R.C.N.; | fighters. Major General Maurice Pope, Air| Afiied loss was seven planes. Vice Marshal N. R. Anderson, Col‘{’rhree pilots are safe. Three bailed J. H. Jenkins and H. L. Keenley-iou( but are not reported. side, of the Department of Exter- e ,,-— — nal Affairs. On the way to Juneau the party| stopped in Minneapolis, Vancouver,| Prince Rupert and Ketchikan. “This board was created in Aug-| ust, 1940, between the United States | and Canada for the purpose of | F clearing all matters of joint de-| I fense and, in January, 1942, many| of the plans that had been made| HElD (RETE were put into operation,” Mayor | LaGuardia said. } “Many of the present military in- stallations in Alaska are a result| of this planning and the purpose | of our present meeting in Alaska | is to see the results of our pluns. as completely as is pessible,” he stated. ” | “See Alaska and Live” Mayor LaGuardia said he was/ enthusiastic concerning what he had seen of Alaska. “Some people | say ‘see Naples and die’; I would| say, see Alaska and live,” he de- clared. “There is an enthusiasm about your people and a peace about your country that is won- derful. | wh(l) v;:: c l:::, r:;r;x;;on;i::e : ;s;:in a broadcast_ to Greek patriots in armed forces in Alaska to kuowlcm_m that this wes Bt "sn fa- that they are not forgotten by me|vns|on‘ and cauua?led. them not to folks at home. And I assure you‘;betray themselves in premature re- both Alaskans and servicemen, that |Sistance. people in the country are well London sources said apparently me[the dash was made by commandoes. work being done up here. | ARG 5.1 A P “The servicemen have done spleu-i did work in chasing the enemy out Hous! I“oule of part of the Aleutians and I, hope it won't be long before they, I“To B'G (ASE are driven out altogether. | Long, Hard War | I.OCKED “We have a long and difficult| Now B war on our hands and we have no} Eatile illusions about it. Things are going finished until we have beaten, Jace-oones quarrel has been crushed and destroyed the Japs. blocked, at least temporarily, by the As a matter of fact I would say House Rules Committee, Chairman the lousy Japs. We want to crush Adolph J. Sabath says. them so that the Pacific will be| The action was taken because a free from further wars for the next ‘majority of the committee felt an 500 years,” LaGuardia said. ’ |effort was being made to straighten Confer With Officials out matters within the Administra- Members of the Permanent Joint tion.” Board conferred with Gov. Ernest| Gruening and other civilian offi-| cials as well as with military of- vote by the committee in taking the stand. e (Continued on Page Four) ) BUY WAR BONDS (Continued on Page Three) A Cairo communique announced | WASHINGTON, July 7. — The; our way slowly but we will not be House inquiry into the bitter Wal-| SET CEILING FORALASKA | for Most Grades of Salmon, Halibut | SEATTLE, July 7—Victor |son, area coordinator for the Sam- Fish United States Chair-lpaeq the Jap base at Kiska, in| ;4 wildlife Service, said he has/men. missing on a fishing trip since been advised the OPA has set these ceiling prices to fishermen, effec- tive July 13 Salmon—Ila reds 22 cents, small reds 18'i, white 14, silvers |16%, medium halibut 17%, small and large 16, The prices represent reductions of about eight to twelve cents pound from recent sales. Samson said the OPA also set | prices for wholesalers as follows: Medium halibut 20, small and |large 18%, salmon dressed with heads on, large red 25, small red 20%, white 16, sil 19, salmon | dressed with heads off, large red |27%, small red 23'%, white 18, sil- ver 21 | He said the prices are for troll- caught salmon and that the Al- aska differential applies to quoted | prices. These are at Ketchikan, 1% iuents a pound less, Petersburg and | Wrangell, 1% cents less, Sitka, Ju- neau and Pelican City, 2 cents less, {Port Williams 2% cents less | At the same time, specific maxi- |mum prices at the canning level ‘were set up by the OPA on five itypes of canned salmon. | The price of another irolled back $2 a case. | Maximum price per case for Al- aska king one pound tall Gan!‘. is |$14 a case; for Alaska chinook one pound flats, $17.60; cohoe fourth pound flats, $5.20; pink fourth \pound flats, $3.90; Puget Sound sockeye fourth pound flats, $6.40. | These maximums do not affect |the prices of consumer levels, the |OPA said, but it rolls back from $12 to $10 a case the price of one- half pound flat cans on Alaska chinooks. The OPA said the de- |crease at consumer level should |be about six cents a can. - WAGE RAISE NOW SOUGHT BY SHIP MEN Ask 9 Per;r; t Increase, | Which Is Only Half | of High@ng Cost type was | WASHINGTON, July 7. — One /million shipyard workers are add- |ing -weight to labor’s pressure for f)iberallzacion of the Little Steel for- mula. This was stated as 'the War Labor Board hearings open on Union demands that the cost of liv- |ing force necessary wage increases to shipyard workers. | The shipyard workers seek a (wage boost of nine percent which their union says is only one half of the rise in the cost of living dur- |ing the past year. COAL STRIKE PRACTICALLY COMES TO END | PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 7.—The Nation’s third big coal strike, which |started June 20, is virtually ended United Mine Workers' leaders re- | | | Sabath declined to disclose the port that less than 9,000 of 521,000 ' |diggers remain idle. The UMW leaders predicted these men will be back in the pits by nightfall or tomorrow, aj MISSING WRANGELL MEN SAFE Are Found l;yr(iame Com- gp; Givefi mission Plane on !Damned Good Etolin Island (Licking; Knox | S { | WRANGELL, Ala T BREMERTON, Wash, July 7.— {'The three prominent Wrangell gecretary of Navy Frank Knox told a crowd of cheering shipyard work- ers yesterday that he had received . word the “Japs had taken another Congr !last Sunday, were found by an Al- |aska Game Commission plane late |Muesday afternoon on Etolin Is-|damned good licking. lland. The three were safe. - - - | The men were Dr. John H. Cle- ments, physician; Dr. E. J. Wheel- er, dentist. and Orville Keeney, hardware meichant. An extensive search had been {made by the Coast Guardsmen and lcannery tenders, especially at Tho- |mas Creek, 30 miles from Wran- {gell, where they went on a fishing trip shortly after last Satur midnight and were to return Sun- day afternoon. The Coast Guard ifound embers of a camp fire at Thomas Creek showing they had {been there. AIR FLEET | OF GERMANS ~ STAY HOME ‘England NoTEaided for| Two Weeks-Observ- | SMASHING GERBINI OFF MAP 34-Hour All-Out Effort Is Made fo Blast Enemy Air Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, July 7. — Flying | Fortresses and Liberators yesterday |poured hundreds of tons of high explosive and fragmentation bombs on the Gerbini airdrome, southern Sicily, in an air siege of this vital enemy base. | The Flying Fortresses and Liber- an all-out effort to knock Gerbini and four satellite off the map. ‘ Photographs reveal terrific dam- | ators roared through 34 hours of ernment ess Acling Lale JACK STINNETT | COLUMRBUS, O, July 7. Whil\-\‘ 1\’.‘nshilmwn has been fooling around | with post-war - planning, $he states; | have been going to town. The 35th] lanhual governors' conference here proved that.as mothing else. has. | In Washington, they have ap-; pointed several committees to study | the situation. Some are partisan,| some bi-partisan. None has pro- gressed beyond the talk stage. The | states are writing a different story. | There wasn't one of the 40 repre-| |sented here that hadn't made some actual post-war headway. | Most of the governors hre posid | |tive the states have not gone far lenough. The surpluses that they| |have piled up (as in the case of Ohio $20,000,000 for the state] welfare and education programs, | plus $50,000,000 for ‘“other pur- ‘pusrs” on appropriation) won't, |they say, make a dent on thg | post-war situation unless the na- tional government comes through or unless the states develop a | self-sufficiency not now apparent. | As Governor John W. Bricker, | Republican of Ohio, put it: “If unemiployment becomes extensive, the states can provide but a small |part of the necessary employment.” | Governor Leverett Saltonstall's| Massachusetts is working on the| idea that “jobs in private indus-| [try for all who are able to work BIG DEFEAT FOR ENEMY IN PACIFIC One Americéh truiser Re- ported Sent Down by Japanese ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 7. — United States warships probably sunk six and damaged four of the Japanese cruiser and destroyer force in a close range battle on Kula Gulf in the Central Solomons, the Allied High Command repo This is the | first big sea victory of the week-old | Pacific offensive and was scored on the night of July 5. One United States sunk. The battle came the day after the predawn fight of July 5 in which the United States destroyer Strong was sunk. Nine Japanese planes were shot down in Kula Gulf bringing the total to 166 Japs bagged in the new offensive. Flying Fortresses repeatedly pounded Rabaul, on New Britain Island, with 100 pound bombs. An early communique left many details untold, including how many enemy ships were hit. One, definitely a destroyer, was blasted with 500 pouhd bombs by | American planes after being beached. The communique gave reassuring news that American forces on Rens dova have been reinforced. cruiser was are the surest, solution to post- war problems.” Thinking of gov- projects (both national jand state) as merely “stop-gaps” between V-day and full peace time employment, the Massachusetts | ' The defeat of the Jap naval fore- jes left imperiled the most immed- |iate American objective in the Sol- omons—the enemy air base at Munda, and above it, Bairoko, an- chorage and main source of supply for the Japs. age to Administration buildings, ’ TRy 5 g . . | o ) post-war planning committee has ers Give Views hangars, parked aircrat and Jand- beep meediing private Industry to| ,, ¢ 14test Navy communique dis- |ing strips. % i o s S el closed an American cruiser was _ S i {1IERE. 18, ;l; P il “1 ond to|lost in the battle with Jap forces LONDON, July 7. — It is two Governor Saltonstall is prous |at Kula Gulf on July 6. She was weeks, up to last night since bombs 'have been dropped on England, the |longest lull since the war began. {cite as typical one major war plant|g. 9,700-ton light cruiser Helena | which has (ig::rvtl out how it can|ynder the command of Capt. ! |convert to 175 percent of pre-war|Charles Cecil of Louisville, Ken- Military observers see in this lull! an indication of the terrific strain| that has hit the German Air Force. | The Nazis have bombers to make a strong attack, and there is no indication they can't, but it is be-| lieved men and machines cannot be diverted from the central pools to the eastern front and also the] American day raids are keeping the Fockewulfs at home for defense against Fortresses and Liberators. e STUBBORN ON VAGNU Contrast meeri(an Easy Conquest. of Ren- dova Island | A | By TOM YARBROUGH | SOUTH PACIFIC HEADQUAR- | TERS, July 7.—The Americans have |gained control of Vagnu Island . \ | southeast of New Georgia in addi- |tion to Rendova. \ Our troops have captured im- | portant positions there but there |is no information that the Ameri- cans have complete control of the island> [ The isle is perhaps 200 square three-day holiday, discovered that miles in area. Stubborn Jap resis- wartime curtailment of highway|tance has been encountered here | (By Associated Press) The Nation which was forced to stay put, to a large extent, in the travel saved scores of lives. |in contrast to the opposition on The Associated Press survey shows Rendova which wilted in little more |131 were from traffic accidents.| o ot There were 89 deaths from drown- Last year there were 320 traxfic.JAp Bovs deaths and two years ago 500. . . Air Batfle Reminds w I I.l. H.Y . Fighter of Seventh NEW YORK, Yuly 7.—Indicating Ngflgme FOl}TRESS BASE 1IN the Tdkyo radio broadcasts say the 'H AFRICA, July 7. — Staff training period of Japangse air that in at least 307 deaths, only than an hour June 30. ings and 87 miscellaneous. | There was not a single death| from fireworks this year. ! | . . Wedding Anniversary | iy G Japan’s severe losses in the air, Sergeant Benjamin Warner of San cadets has been cut from three Francisco watched seven German years to one and one half years. fighter planes plunge downward The broadcast also says l4-year flames over Gerbini yesterday old primary school boys are now from the fire of his machine guns. accepted in the Army training He said the sight reminded him sehools. that it was his seventh wedding i 2 il anniversary, | BUY WAR BONDS |employment without actually firing |any war workers - | Governor J. Melville Broughton| of North Carolina has a little dif-| |ferent slant on the situation. Stand- ing firmly on “states’ rights,” the | Governor feels that post-war prob-| lems “cannot be solved by busines tucky. Neither the fate of the skip- per nor the crew members was reported. “The next of kin of the casualties aboard will be notified as soon as possible,” the Navy saids SUNK GULF BATTLE ussian Front The cruiser was damaged at Pearl Harbor and restored to service. It and industry at once and should |was the only announced loss by the not be solved by government alone.” | As outlined here in Columbus,| | there is really very little difference | | between the opinions of the Demn—l jcrats and Republicans on post-| 'war planning. Leaders of both| parties were emphatic that neither the states nor the Federal govern- ment could do the job alone. That| should point the way. The only| ‘questions apparently are to what xtent Federal and state controls |will regulate private industry. | It becomes pretty clear now that, |these differences will be used as the basis for the 1944 campaigns, |both for the presidency and the seats in Congress. | If the Governors' Conference tells any story at all, it is that the states are demonstrating more “unity” than Washington, and that unity consists in winning the war and in winning the peace. . ENGINEER 4 IS HERO SKAGWAY, Alaska, July 7. — James Jordan, Chicago engineer, has been. awarded the Soldier's medal for heroism in putting out a fire in the cab on a locomotive on the White Pass and Yukon Route which is now operated by the mili- tary railway battalion By putting out the fire, the train was saved. Lt. Col. William Wilson made the (ward, i | Americans in the battle, | e e Japs Left Warm Rice On Rendova By J. NORMAN LODGE (Associated Press Correspondent)” WITH U. S. FORCES ON REN- DOVA ISLAND, July 1.-—(Delayed) —The Jap soldiers fled so suddenly before the invading Americans on this central Solomons island that their breakfast rice was found still boiling. Some ran to sniper posts in the stumps of trees and in tree tops when the - doughboys swarmed ashore yesterday. The job of ferreting out the snip- ers continued today. As I sit atop a rough outcrop- ping balancing my typewriter on my knees because of the lack of a more suitable place there is the cccasional zing of a Jap 25 calibre bullet going through the coconut trees. No one pays much attention e o o 0 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout at sunset at 10:02 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:04 am Dimout begins Thursday sunset at 10:01 p.m. L R I B begins tonight at @eecoesceee ®es00000 e