The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9390. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — 'YANKS NEAR CAPTURE BIG MUNDA FIELD Intense Battle FRESH NAZI |Amphibian Engineers’ “Ducks™ Go Anywher FORCES NOW | *.c JOIN FIGHT Germans Make GreaIEffort‘ ¥ fo Exploit Wedge in Defenses MOSCOW, July 9. — The great battle of the Kursk salient mounted today in intensity as the Germans threw in fresh troops and tanks to qxploit the wedge in the Russian defenses near Belgorod on the northern end of the fiercely blazing 200-mile battle line. The Russians said Soviet troops regained lost ground in a series of counter-attacks yesterday. This action was taken while hold- ing firm against the mighty stab of some 90,000 Nazi troops against one narrow ared. :I'he Washing}ion Merry - Go-Round i By DREW PEARSON [ Pacific Coast.” The versatile craft (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | troops and supplies in invasion maneuvers to put in WASHINGTON.—Real inside fact about the row between Jesse Joncs and Vice President Wallace was that the Vice President cleared his vitriolic statement with his chief in the White House before hurling it at the President’s Secretary of Commerce. Actually, the President did see the press release which the Vice President prepared for the newspapers. But he did know all about it. Henry went to see him on Saturday, June 26, and told him MILITARY CRITICISM COMING U Truman Committee Will in detail how he had labored pa-‘ Issue Repon I_ashing not tiently with Jones and hpw month | after month, Jesse had held back and quibbled over details. ‘ Out in Detail The Vice President also told his chief how Jesse had been up on Capitol Hill lobbying with Senators to try to undercut the President’s own order making the Board of Economic Warfare supreme over Jesse Jones in ordering strategic materials abroad. WASHINGTON, July 9—A for- mal report criticising the Nation's Military Forces in permiiting con- tinued production of planes it is considered are obsolete, will be issued this weekend by the Tru- man Committee. | | Authentic but unquotable sourc- es said the committee will last out at what is termed the failure |of military men to reduce the num- ! iber of various types of fighting, CAPITAL CHAFF There was a time when you had to come from Harvard and l‘we east of the Allegheny Mountains to get ahead in the State Depart- ment. But now the State Depart- ment has just appointed ‘as Ameri- can Minister to Iraq, efficient Loy Henderson, born in Arkansas, reared in Kansas and son of midwest preacher. He knows what it is to know the Us.A—as well as the Near East. . . Rives Matthews, the Maryland editor who ted for criminal libel be- a state official for driving to Georgia for his son’s wedding, has been deluged with so much congratulatory mail he cnn.t answer it all. He even got adver- (Contimned on Page Four) He told how he had exercised the only thing to do was to blast Je;:: p::‘s:::m listened, gave the | transport and trainer planes now e y | rumber about 60. Wallace also sent his statement| S n B T S to the Office of War Information | | pefore giving it to the press. He\u S p l A N E S The Office of War Information ! a [ ] 3 even sent the statement on to the White House with its OK, before sent merely for White House infor- i mation. The President did not read it in advance. A'I' H AIRPONG with the President in almost every Eae | move he has made since 1940. l;l'he 5 jace two_ men work as a team. Wallace| Erench |ndo-China Area Is issuing a statement blasting Martin Dies, and he didn't have to be a 2 mind-reader to have known how Based Air Force mittee. NEW YORK, July 9.—A Domei broadcast picked up here from China-based United States planes, including Flying Fortresses, bombed the suburbs of Hairpong, French The Japanese broadcast was re- corded by the United States For- eign Broadcast Intelligence Service.| SPOKANE, Wash, July 9.—Ash- ley Holden, newspaperman, has won in a $250,000 suit against the Maga- zine Distributing Company for an article describing him as friendly all sorts of patience, but believed Vice President the green light. |under construction and said to followed all the rules meticulously. | it was published, though it was STR I KE o u T NOTE: Wallace has cooperated even consulted the President before Bombed by China little FDR loved the Dies Com- Tokyo reported a formation of Indo-China, yesterday. - NEWSPAPERMAN a jury award of $15000 damages to the Japanese, . 3 i The “Ducks,” the U. 8. Army amphibian engineers' two-anda-half-ton amphibious truck (at top) wallowed into the sur{ and (below) broke out of the water for a landing during demonstrations “somewhere on the ated miles are capable of being na asion troops into U.S. ForcesLand on Rendova &(iou BOUGAINVILLE & SHORTLAND b VELLA uvnu% 50 LI | STATUTE MILES he Navy announced that combined American forces (arrow) had landed on Rendova Island (A), in the central Solomons. is 110 miles northwest of the American-held Russell Islands and five eing Fought Russian Front | | TAKE RECESS ed by Senate-Bills Sent to FDR BULLETIN — Washin July 9.—Congress has wiped the calendar clean and recessed until September 14. The session appropriated one hundred and thirty billion dollars to finance the war and for home front ac- tivities. Congress enacted the pay-as-you-go tax bill, renewed lend-lease, anti-strike bill over the lent’s veto, abolished the ional Resources Plan- ning Board and National Youth Ad tration, two major New ngress also repealed the President’s $25,000 limit on salaries. WASHINGTON, July 9. — Con- ter is prepared to recess today |after disposing of the subsid {issue and passing the disputed ap- | propriations measures The Senate passed the bill ex-| tending the life of the Commodity ‘©Oredit Corporation after abandon ing its efforts to insert a propo: tion clause against all food subsidy payments. The House then soon passed the measure and it was im- mediately sent to the White House. SOLOMON | “The Senate also abandoned at- | tempts to revive the Federal Cro ISLANDS i : i under darkness to move action and keep them fighting. at sea, Insurance Corporation and make | mondatory confirmation by the Senate of all persons employed by war agencies receiving a salary in; the high brackets | With these stumbling blocks out of the way, iSlative action was completed on the two billion nine hundred thousand dollar war agen- cies appropriations measure and also the one billion thirty seven| million dollar labor and Federal | Security supply bill. | These were also sent to the White | House for FDR's signature. | LOT TO DO LATER | WASHINGTON, July . 9.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt, at the conference | with newsmen, said Congress will have a lot to do when it comes back in September. He made no| further comment on the subsidy issue but intimated he might have | something to say later. | - zS|CILIAN AIRDROMES Pacific Ocean FLORIDA RUsSELDE_SavO, ‘” 3 TULAGI The island miles south of Munda. Flags indicate the major U. 8. and Japanesc bases. Role of Congress in War Mobilization Is (redi!ed,(ommillees‘ (First of two articles on how Congressional committees push the war effort.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 9.1t is the custom to deride Congress and few men on the Hill wen't admif, that much of the criticism is well de- served. However, credit should be given where credit is due and in spite of the limitations of the Congres- sional committee system, some of the committees operating on the Hill have certainly pushed this war forward. The activities of the Truman committee in uncovering some of the more shameful aspects of the national defense program are well known. Senator Byrd's economy committee has Kept the executive agencies cautious in expansion| and expenditures. The House Nmmll i ATTACKED Allied Plan;sarike Italy’s First Line of Defense for Sixth Day ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 9. — Hun- _ |dreds of Allied planes shuttled back and forth across the Mediterranean | Affairs committee has saved mil- yesterday for the sixth consecutive lions by blocking war contract chis-|day and rained explosives on Sicil- elers and forcing the re-negotiation jan airdromes and ports which are of contracts. Rep. Robert Rams- Italy’s first line of defense. peck’s Civil Service committee was > for a while (it seems to have gone to sleep lately) doing yeoman ser- vice in keeping the vast, unwieldy government personnel expansion from bursting its seams, creating inequalities for the workers and inefficiency for Uncle Sam There are others that deserve mention, but that’s enough to bring us to a concrete case. Magnuson Seeks Aid 0f Dies Commitiee in, Jap-American Case SEATTLE, July 9.—Representa- tive Warren G. Magnuson of Wash- ington state said he will ask the Nearly everyone in Washington Dies Committee to investigate the expressed surprise when the Presi- ¢asé of three Japanese-American dent set up his new Office of War soldiers recently apprehended in Mobilization and named James F. their homes on leave in this state. Byrnes as its chief. Even severe Agents dug up a camera buried be- administration critics called it 2 {Ore evacuation from one of their Jficd 3 homes. One of the homes near Sumner, (Continued on Page Three) sier nose opencd up, this Navy LCT boat, which can just as easily land {anks, guns and men for an invasion in the same manner, brought supplies to the American base on while fighting still raged against Enemy Noncombatani Ships Are SentDown by e CONGRESS T0 Supplies Unloaded on Attu FIGHTING 73 MILES FROMBASE . Australian j&?Units Con- finue Smashes at Pacific Enemy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 9. — American Army and Marine ground patrols pushed forward yesterday from landing beachheads on New Geor- gia to feel out the Japanese de- | fenses around Munda, huge enemy air base. Advance patrols of the Ameri- cans beat off the Japs in a clash near Elelo, three miles east of the Munda field. The seizure of the air base would give the United States a base with- |in fighter range of the enemy air | fortress of Rabaul on New Britain. Meanwhile, the Japs are reported to have made a light air raid on Rendova Island, held by American forces and within artillery distance |of Munda. The Japs also made a futile effort to land barges on Dugiri Tnlet off the north coast of Rendova. At the same time, observers not- ed that the battle for control of the air over New Georgia had | slackened, but American planescon- | tnued to push ralds against Mun- da’s source of supplies. Mitchells dropped 50 tons of hign lexplosives on the enemy at the |other end of the 700-mile arc, and | Allied units also struck heavily at |the Japanese barring the way in the Mubo area, New Guinea, to | the air base of Salamaua, 12 miles |away. Five Jap Zero [fighters are re- ported destroyed over Koepang, Dutch Timor. Attu Island. The he Japanese, U. S se was started Navy photo. U.5. Subs, Padific Area §, fbi([s' FDRWONT ASK LEWIS 10 AGREE President Indicates Clearly No Note Will Be Sent Out WSHINGTON, July 9.—President Roosevelt gave clear indication today that. pe had no intention of asking John L. Lewis to sign a new agreement with coal operators as the union chief has been ordered to do by the War Labor Board The President asked what good it/ would do if he sent Lewis a note in longhand and on pink paper asking him to conform with the order and Lewis did not sign. - CLAIM JAPS MAKE ATTACK INSOLOMONS LONDON, July 9.—A Tokyo dis- patch broadcast from Berlin quoted the Japanese Headquarters as an- nouncing that “units of the Japan- ese Air Force attacked enemy troops which were of Rubiana"” Wednesday. The island is densely wooded and is off the New Georgia a short distance southeast of Munda There is no Allied confirmation, [ tacking on the island | ¥ WASHINGTON, July 9. — The Navy announces that American submarines have sunk ten enemy noncombatant ships and damagedl four others in the Pacific area just| [recently. | | The list includes one large and | |one medium sized transport, two| medium sized cargo vessels, and one large tanker sunk, four medium | sized cargo vessels damaged. The | loss of life estimated in the smk-i |ings is Aot given. American submarines to date| have now sunk or lamaged 283 on Munda enemy ships in the Pacific area| e which includes 200 sunk, 29 prob-| By J. NORMAN LODGE ably sunk and 54 damaged. (Associated Press War - . > - Correspondent) | (10 UNION | GOES AFIER | torrential rain, combined American forces today had gained every ob- | jective in their drive toward Munda ). L. LEWIS = - L] L] | Heavy weather was not. antici- pated in this normally dry sea- son, and slowed down efforts in pl But the entire offensive is reported very little behind schedule. D Alaska Pacific To Pay Dividend SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 9. The Alaska Pacific Salmon Cor- poration will pay a dividend of 50 nts a share on July 31 to those on record on July 20. One dollar was paid last yea PUSH GOING ONSCHEDULE Jungle Iro&)s-fight Heavy Weather in Advance | | WITH A U. 8. OCCUPATION FORCE, NEW GEORGIA ISLAND, July 6. — (DELAYED) — Fighting |through an almost inpenetrable }Jungl(', soaked with four days of Wanis Sedition Laws In- voked Against Presi- dent of UMW NEW YORK, July 9.—The Na- tional Maritime Union of the CIO has adopted a resolution ealling on | the Attorney General to invoke se-| iinst John L. Lewis. | the resolu- enemy pro- pr m designed to ds American way of life.” - J. W. GUCKER AND JERRY RETURN HERE THURSDAY W. Gucker, merchandise brok- and property owner, returned ay from a business trip to Ketchikan and other communities in the Southern of the Di- vision. Mr. Gucker was here by his younger | dition laws ag Lewis s described in tion adopted as “an motin stroy the DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins at sunset at 10 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:07 a.m Dimout begins Saturday a sunset at 9:59 p.m. L By AL O S SN B A tonight end accompanied son, Jerry. evsceseccoes ®0e0000even