The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XLH., NO. 9514. “GIVE IN OR DIE” ULTIMATUM T0 NAZIS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED F PRESS PRICE TEN CENT Loaded Jap Transport, Tanke Alaska Statehood Bill Introduced by Dimond; ENEMY SHIPS| ARE SPOTTED, THEN BOMBED Victorious Attacks Made at | | Sea, Also by Lland in | South Pacific Area | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 3—A loaded 10,000-ton Jap trans- port and a large tanker were de- stroyed and two destroyers damag- ed by alert Allied reconnaissance planes who spotted a sudden in- crease in enemy shipping activity off Kavieng, New Ireland. | The Fifth Air Force opened an assault on the econvoy, consisting of two destroyers, a transport, a large whaling ship, and two uni- dentified vessels moving northwest toward Kavieng. After two direct hits were scored on the transport, heavy explosions occurred. The hu- | man cargo abandoned the vessel before she sank. Bombing Successes Several ‘hours later two Unlf.edl States Catilinds on separate patrols scored bombing successes at almost the same moment. One spotted twWo destroyers, scoring a -direct hit oa|” each with 500-pound bombs. The Mli!fl.i‘b!ondehdy In the phato Catilina crew were unable to. ob- serve if either sank. | The other Catilina located be- tween 10 and 12 good sized ships (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go- Round (Major Robert 8. Allen on active quty.) | | e oS ll WASHINGTON—Army Air Chief General “Hap" Arnold was called| before a closed-door meeting of the! Senate Truman Committee the other day to explain, among other things, why more planes weren't reaching the fighting fronts. Arnold, while being cross-exam-| ined by the committee’s number one aviation expert, Senator Mon Wall-| gren of Washington, admitted one| significant fact: \ That the number of planes of all| descriptions on opr Pacific and| European fighting fronts is lower than most people realize and lower than he desires, despite the fact that we are producing combat planes—bombers and fighters—at the rate of 8,000 a month. For a while, the cross-examina- tion of Arnold made the sparks fly. “'m amazed to learn that the)t British have mare combat planes| in action thag we have’” grflled‘ Senator Wallgren, “though we are producing more planes than the British. Why is that?” “We're doing the best we can,” retorted Arnold gngrily. “You can’t expect us to send planes to combat areas ynless we have trained crews| = to operate them. However, I can| tell you that we have many more planes on the way, and ready for shipment, that will soon give us a great numerical advantage.” i “That's fine,” said Wallgren, “but| why has it taken so long? It seems| to me that we should have more, than the number of planes you! mention on the battle fronts when we are producing at the rate of‘ 96,000 a year.” Arnold replied that some planes had been cracked up or damaged| in training accidents in the United States, though trainer crashes were being reduced considerably. Also, many planes coming off assembly lines have to undergo “modifica- tion.” For instance, planes slated for Alaskan'duty have to be “win- terized.” Also, it takes longer than most people realize to deliver planes to combat areas. | en, of Brooklyn, N. Y,, is teaching 'three. Requirements Given 'Adopted by Yanks { | | | { 1 Has just-been adopted: by a' U. S. Army Engineer aviation battalion in England. Sergt. William F. Bliv- i the small girl the whys and where- fores of jeep-driving. U. S. Signal | Garps ohoto. (International) AIRDROME AT TAROA | ATTACKED U.S. Army Liberators Shoot| Down Seven.Jap Fight- ers, Damage 4 Others WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. — Army { Liberators bombed the Taroa Air-, drome in the Marshal Islands last | Tuesday and shot down seven Jap fighter planes and damaged at least four others without loss to them- selves. The Navy disclosed American | bombers fought off 30 Zeroes. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Com- mander in the Pacific made the announcement and also said a Navy | { Liberator was attacked by six Zeros! jon a scouting expedition and es-| caped undamaged after shooting ! down three of the attackers. Another report received is that two destroyers in the Gilbert Is- lands area repelled an enemy tor-i pedo plane attack and destroyed | | SIGURD WALLSTEDT 10 GET GOVT. PAY; MERRY CHRISTMAS WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—The President has signed the bill au- thorizing payment of $4,000 to Si- gurd Wallstedt, wellknown travel- ing man of Alaska and former resi- dent of Juneau. Wallstedt was in- jured near Seward July 17, 1942, when an Army automobile over- turned and pinned him down and he was 50 percent disabled. {of {lic |appriated lands. {the Third, |the change from territorial statu,s! !air battle raged over the city Ior: ‘smoke were rising to great heights. | - - . . . . . . . L L) . WEATHER REPORT . . (U. S. Bureau) L4 . —_— . ® Temp. for Thursday. Dec. 2 @ i ¢ Maximum 34; Miimum 30 e ® Rain .15 L4 ® Snow 11 . ? 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 WASH[N(:TON Dec. 3.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond pro-| posed that Alaska be granted state- | hood with all privileges enjoyed by other states of the union, and bas introduced a bill for the admission the Territory as a state and the transfer to the state of all pub- property and vacant and un- ‘The bill requires that after its enactment the Governor of the Ter- ritory call a constitutional conven- tion of eight delegates to be elected from the First Judicial District, four from the Second, eight from five from the Fourth, and one from the Territory at large, ‘to be elected as are members of ,the Legislature. The convention is to draw up a| cmxst!tuuon. a necessary routine | for the Territory to become a state. | The constitution will have to be | lanIed by the people of the Ter- ntory and at the same time the| elec(mate will cast ballots on the} adoption of the constitution. 1 They will vote in on Representa- tive, two Senators, a Governor and a full complement of state officials. After the elections, the Governor is TéqUIred td’ cerlily Uie rebuits tof the President who then is required' to issue a proclamation that the State of Alaska is admitted into the | Union. Delegate Dimond said he beligved | Ito statehood would increase the| cost of government by two milllon! dollars to a total of four million dollars, ,and said he believed the, main objection to giving Alaska statchood would come from “vesied | interests.” BERLINERS HIT BY 5TH HEAVY RAID | | | Huge Air Battle Rages Over | Reich Capital-Fires | Mount fo Skies (By Associated Press) Royal Air Force heavy bombels attacked Beriin in great strength | again last night for the fifth time 'in,two weeks, starting great fires, the Air Ministry announced. Mosquito bombers simultaneously | attacked targets in western Ger-| many. Forty-one aircraft were lost | in the operations. | German broadcasts acknowledged | that the raid was on a large scale | and said an almost unprecedented | an hour, and that 30 raiders were | shot down. The Germans apparently | were waiting for the attack and had | concentrated every weapon at their | disposal to protect the capital, a| third of which lay in ruins after the heavy attacks of last week. The Germans said the attack blanketed the whole greater Berlin area, and returning fliers to Lon- don said “very large” fires and | The raid probably brought the total bomb load dumped on Berlin since the start of the campaign to well over 15000 long tons. More than 1,000 tons were dropped on the city last night, still in a great state of disruption from the previous blows, Reports from Stockholm yesterday said that fires were still burning, only a few transportation lines run- ning, streets full of debris, and peo- ple getting their supplies from im- provised stores in cellars, automo- biles and tables set up in the streets. —— HIGH-PRICED MENU {Correspondents Go Out on Mediterranean Algiers Aijaccio; CORSICA FAR-FL U N G T H EA 1 l EO F W A R_From the Pyrenees to the Crimea, the area north of the Mednerrmun plays an im- porlant Me in World War II, as the Allies press the attack upon Hitler's “Fortress lumpe. flllbusler Brews for . Poll Tax Bill: Adion ™~ Expeded foBe Iomd UNDER FIRE o REDS CARVE OUTGAINS " i i { NEAR GOMEL Soviels Kill 2,900 Natis- Capture or Destroy War Equipment MOSCOW, Dec. *3.—~While Ger-| “mnn infantry and tank divisions, | heavily reinforced by mechanized forces rushed from western Europe battered in vain at the Cherkasy bridgehead on the Dnieper River, the Red Army carved out new gains northwest of Gomel, captur- ing more than 80 .towns. Fighting continued with unabated ’rury all along the front in rain, slush and snow. In Thursday's 1baules. according to the Soviet | communique, 2,900, Germans were fkmed and 72 tanks and ‘other war jequipment were destroyed or cap- ‘tumd THREEWAR NEWS MEN NOW LOST -fail fo Refurn | correspondents have _tniud to re- ternational News Service; Norman temporarily. | Bomber on Berlin Raid | LONDON, Dec. ] turn from a raid on Berlin. The three are Lowell Bennett, In- | Stockten, of the Syndey Austra- lia Sun, and one name withheld Young Bennett made the flight | as a representative of an “Ameri-| with another INS man, William | Wade, as to who would make the trip, and Bennett won again. Stockton flew previously with FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — At a war bond sale-auetion rally, a pig brought $10,000, a pair of ducks $5,000, and a bushel of oysters $1,000, Australian Squadrons of Lancasters. AGENTS NIP | (RANK'S AIM 10 KILL FDR Man Gefs InSIde Whne House Military Guard Plans Revealed DETROIT, Dec. 3.—Willlam Carl- son, supervisor of the Secret Ser- vice Agents, said that his agents this month thwarted the plan of a mentally deranged Pontiac, Michi- gan, man to assassinate President Roosevelt, Harold Best, 38, former factory worker was adjudged insane on November 23, ten days after his arrest in Washington. His wife informed the authorities here of her husband’s plan after receiving a letter from him saying he intend- ed to “get rid of Roosevelt.” Carlson said: “Best described how | ‘he got inside the military guard at |working hard behind the scenes the White House while soldiers | were busy unloading & truck, and| was deliberating whether to steal a | soldier's gun which was on the ground nearby when he was dis-| ]coveredf' Best has a brother in the United | States Army in Italy. MOVE 10 BALLOT -BY PROXY GIVEN KAYO BY SENATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Driving can Pool” to write an eycvmness‘wward final action on the’armed account for the American news ser- 'service vote ballot, the Senate reqpoll taxes as a voting requirement. | vices, the Associated Press, United |jected the proposal that service men At least two other states, Tennessee Press and International News Ser-}and women ballot by proxy. They|and @#rkansas — have reportedly | vice. Lots were drawn and Bennett | voted down by 50 to 30 the Dana- strong movements to do away wn.h‘ won. Bennett then flipped a coin | her amendment which would per- | it. mit those in service to designate | back home proxies to st ballots next year. s B i 2V The American n The bomber on which the three |non-existent at the war correspondents were making century, totaled 48, the raid on Berlin failed to return, |Jast year, r Sent Down FINAL NOTE OF WARNING T0 GERMANY "Big Three"’ May Give Out Statement Today from Iran Conference STALIN NOW MEETING ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL ‘Washmgfon a nd Londan Keep Silence Regard- ing Great Doings (By A;ml.u:d Press) The Dally London Star today says | President Roosevelt. Joseph Stalin 1nnd British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at a conference in the | Middle East, have drawn up a final | “Give In Or Dle" ultimatum to Ger- | many. | 'The Star declares that Stalin is (at the war parley meeting with }Roosqven and Churchill and the ul- ‘timatum has been officially drawn Lcndon afternoon newspapers, fol- i edition.-of, the Star, also blazor forth with the same "“‘1 |news and headlined. the story as‘the i ‘tops of the day. (Last night, United States Senator | Tom Connally, Chairman of the Sen- ute Foreign Relations - Committee, lared at Fort Worth, Texas, that "anozher great conferénce iIs taking \place In the Middle 'East” } finong |three United Nations teaders and he |described the conference as “of |pnrnmoum" importance.) Continent Gets News Official Washington and London |gmaintain a discreet silence but con- tinental radios told the world the IN conference is under way in Iran, The Berlin broadecast, quoting ad- | vices from Lisbon, declared the meeting would end during today and predicted a communique announcing a decision has been reached will be i | (lARl( TOURS : Allied Armies in Ifaly Con- tinue fo Push Forward in | Wake of Heavy Barrage BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—In midst of war, when Congress swamped with its heaviest leghla tive log-jam since this: session | started, Old Ma Filibuster is just around the corner. Yep. It's the old anti-poll tax | bill again—that now hardy peren- ;nml that. crops up in the congres- |sional garden almost every season.| \ No sooner had the bill been passed | fuce (10 s 1o (e :‘;::'M‘h: ‘hy the House and reported favor- ‘rollmg barrage of artillery shells and (issued before nightfall. nbly out of the Sana}.e Judiciary | aerial bombs. i Conference at Tabriz »Comjnlwsv by a 12 to.8/vote than| 'pne Eighth Army also continued The German controlled Paris radio [thredts of a filibustér: Game from \to smash the Germans back beyond asserted. the big three conference half a dozen quarters | the Sangro ridge, and captured | is being held at Tabriz, jn northeast the is ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ALGIERS, Dec. 3. The Fifth Army, | After a long stalemate, cracked for- {ward through the machine gun Once rather widely used by the states as a voting qualifcation, pay- ment of a poll tax is now exacted ' in only eight states—Alabama, kansas, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginida. Since representatives in| Congress of the other 40 states Ar-| | Castel Frentano on the lateral road | !west of the important German de- fense town of Lanciano, and pushed on toward Sanvito on the Adriatic coast, six miles beyond Wednesday's line. A force of Liberators pounded I Bolzano, on the Brenner Pass line in northern Italy, and the British Iran, across the border from Russia. |The Paris radio said Soviet troops were congentrated at Tabriz to as- sure safety to the Allied $tatesmen. Unconfirmed press dispatches from ‘Turkey says the demand that Ger- many surrender now or be bombed to destrution is being prepared ang, that the ultimatum would provide have little more than an academic or localized political interest in see- “‘*"‘"DY"‘ Queenborough and Raid- ing it abolished or maintained, it's ©f bombarded Nazl installations a apparent that the only defense of the Albanian port of Durazzo dur- | the Senators of those eight states!iNE the night. is to talk the bill to death. Gen. Mark Clark was under fire tm some time yesterday during a i | tour of the battlefront; a half dozen (m stripping Germany of all her t {war gains. “Big Three” Declaration In London it is thought the “Big: Three,” in the declaratior, might as- | sure the German people they will not be enslaved regardless of how heav= { surveying Senate leaders, the 1ily Germany must pay. shells falli; by | prospect of long-winded floor battle shelly R_ o "ia'.L The Soviet War News, weekly, in the midst of war, have been | published in Moscow, ' republishes | Stalin's assertion of two years ago !that “we have not and cannot have such war aims as forcing our regime 1 Slavonic or any other enslaved Eumpeun peopleq to avoid it. Senator O'Mahoney| (D-Wyo.) has introduced an anti- poll tax constitutional amendment 1whlch would throw the matter back to the voters. Observers, however, |believe that the O'Mahoney reso- OF jAPANESE lution would have very little more |chance of dodging the filibuster | Ithan the original bill. Faced with| |the certainty thav the constitutional lEW WILLIAMS IS CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. -~ The Senate today confirmed Lew Wil- liams, wellknown newspaper man of the Pacific Northwest and South- |cast Alaska, to be postmaster at Wrangell, Alaska. He has been act- ing postmaster for several months. amendmem would be passed, thel! pou tax advocates would be just .;’,:,,;';‘”““““ to put it up tor the (Cgeyjf Courl of Appeals buned un‘dep;c lla L‘:; nl::l:c ol;“w:::;] SaPys Govlerweru”as ower fo Win War ‘There are many sound arguments {against. In the last 30 or 40 years, Loumnnl. setts, 1- | vanin and Plarida. have abollahed| SAN FRANCISCO, Calit, Dec. 3. | —The Circuit Court of Appeals hu {upheld the legality of the evacua- | {tion of Japanese in critical West| | Coast areas. The ruling is made in the r:nct lof Fred Korematsu, 23, a Jap who! remained at his San Leandro houe| after ordered to leave. | ‘The Circuit Court of Appeals '.n| the ruling decided the Government,| | while prosecuting the war, has the | power to do everything necessary to | carry the war on successfully, | Why then, you ask, are poll tax- ers so vigorous in their objections | to letting it be abelished nationally? | There’s one good reason the poll| taxers number in their ranks some + widely recognized men of vision in| (Continued on PI&E Two)