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Evening star., 1943-03-03
u. 5. Flyers Pursue
Convoy After Blasting
Out Four Jap Ships
13 Enemy Fighters Also
Shot Down in Bottle
Despite Bod Weather
BY The Associated Press.

! DH tHe associated PTeSS.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, March 3. - The
crippled and widely-scattered
remnants of a 14-ship japanese
convoy, smashed by Allied bomb
ers and fighters yesterday, stag
gered through the fog -shrouded
Bismarck Sea today toward the
enemy base at Lac, New Guinea,
with Gen. Douglas MacArthur'S
planes relentlessly on it's trail.
At least four transports and cargo
vessels of the original armada OF
seven japanese warships and seven
merchant ships have been sunk or
damaged and 13 Japanese fighter
planes out of the umbrella of 80
or 40 that tried to provide protec-
ton to the convoy have been shot
out of action, Allied headquarters
announced
Our losses are light. The battle
continues" headquarters COM
munique said.
The bulletin said 1O,OOO-ton
transport had been hit five times
and left awash and in flames, an
8000-ton transport had been sunk
after breaking in two, a 6,OOO-ton
vessel was directly hit on the bow
and smaller vessel was damaged
and set on fire.
Attack Made in Heavy Weather.
Allied Flying Fortresses and Lib
orator bombers, with feet escort
of P-38 fighters, stabbed through
murky haze. thick clouds and rain
to deliver their blows in the face
of heavy anti-aircraft fire and Jap
anese fighter planes.
"Other hits or near hits were
scored against warships and cargo
ships, results of which have so far
been impossible to assess" the COM
munique said. Pilots reported a
near hit on japanese light cruiser.
Gen. MacArthur's sirmen also
pounded Lac, bomber and attack
! planes Furnishing the airdrome area.
At the same time his bombers at
| tackled airdromes on Soemba and
Soembava Islands, northwest of
Australia, destroyed an ammunition
ship directly with 5OO-pound bomb
at Wide Bay, New Britain, and
smashed at the Gasmata, New
Britain. airdrome in an after-dusk
raid, the communique said.
Elated pilots who participated in
the attack on the convoy saw heavy
/ bombs explode amidships on the
3,000-ton transport and watched
it split in two and sink in flames
within two minutes, reports from
operations bases said. Flames which
poured from the wreckage of other
ships were visible for a long dis
tance, it was reported.
The battle began at $50 yester-
day. Reconnaissance planes had
spotted the convoy slipping along
the New Britain coast under cover
Of bad weather the day before.
The first FortreSSes on their Wav
to the target were intercepted bv
Zeros but broke through, DESTROYING
three of the japanese fighter planes.
Ten minutes later more Fortresses
Joined the attack breaking through
flight of dozen enemy fighters.
Pilots of the Fortresses said thev
saw japanese destroyers cluster
See PACIFIC, Page AS
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Knox Warns Nation to Expect
10 Pct. Navy Casualty Rate
PIon Disclosed for Force Big Enough
To Dominate Secs All Over World
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
A grim warning to expect a 10
per cent casualty rate in Navy
personnel was laid before Con-
gress today as Secretary of the
Navy Knox disclosed an operat-
ing force plan calling for Navy
big enough to dominate all seas
over the world"
The solemn, Navy estimate that it
would lose, and have to replace, one
man out of each 10-killed or
wounded-came as Mr.. Knox and
ranking naval officials unfolded their
program for building up personnel
strength to 2,250,O0o by July, 1914.
Mr.. Knox's outline of the Navy's
operating force" plan and his f1g-
ures on potential casualties We're
made public by the House Subcom-
mittee on Naval Appropriations as
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Navy Fund Bill
Testimony Gets
Close EDITING
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
Reading parts of the testimony on
the supplemental Navy appropria-
tion bill. made public today, was like
playing a guessing game.
Never has the censor so energeti-
cally edited the transcript of
House committee hearing before
publication. For example:
Representative Thomas, Democrat,
of Texas: You have - actually
commissioned now; is that correct?
Rear Admiral Edward L. Coch-
rane: About -: yes. sir.
Mr.. Thomas: About how many do
you have under contract to be con-
structed, in addition?
Admiral Cochrane: The total by
the end of the year, which includes
contracts. will bring it up to -.
There will probably be about -
more
Mr.. Thomas: That will be -,
and in addition to the - you are
asking funds to build -?
And so on.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Canadian Tax Plan
Is Seen as Possible
Compromise for U.S.
Congressional Stoff
Calls On Ottowu for
Additional Details
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Canadian plan to forgo
so per cent Of 1912 taxes on
earned personal income was
viewed as a possible pay-as-you-
go, compromise for the United
States today by some leading op-
ponents of the Ruml plan, which
would abate all of one years
taxes.
The joint congressional tax staff
requested Ottawa to furnish Wash
ington with more details on its plan
Immediately.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee pointed
out that Canada's action was similar
to suggestion he already has made
to break the deadlock on the ques-
ton OF how much taxes should be
aDated to ease the transition to pay
as you 60.
However, Representative Carlson
Republican, of Kansas, author OF
legislation embracing the proposal
by Beardsley Ruml, New York
banker, to bypass a full tax year
said he could accept no plan that
required the collection of more than
one years taxes within one year,
In the sWap-over to a current COL
lection system.
Insists on Full Abatement,
He let it be known he would con-
tinue to battle for full abatement of
one tax year. though expressing
qualification that Canada had "ac-
cepted half of the Ruml plan"
MIR. Doughton, leading congress
sional opponent of the Ruml pro-
posal, refused to be quoted on the
Dominion's plan as to what he
thought should be done in the
United States, saying he did not
want his committee associates to
think he was trying to tell them
what to do"
Some other members Of Congress.
however, privately expressed the
view that the Canadian system
might supply an acceptable COM
promise.
The Ways and Means Committee
three weeks ago voted down both
the Ruml plan and the Doughton
suggestion, and constituted q five
man subcommittee to draft a conf
promise.
A majority of the committee ap-
pears grimly in opposition to the
(See TAXES, Page A-16J
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Kiska Raided Nine Times
Without Loss Of j. 5. Plane

BY the Associated Press.
Carrying out nine raids through
fog and storms in the Aleutians,
American aircraft during February
dropped half a million pounds of
bombs on Japanese positions at
Kiska without the loss Of any planes,
the Navy reported today. Ten enemy
planes were shot down.
The Navy also reported that the
S1st raid on the japanese base at
Munda on New Georgia Island in
the South Pacific had been carried
out by patrol bomber No details
were given.
Estimates of the weight of bombs
dumped on the heavily battered
Kiska positions, were based on the
average weight of 500 pounds each
for bombs carried in the type of
planes customarily used in those
attacks.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
By be Associated Press.

By be Associated Press.
Former German and Italian con-
suls general at Algiers, their staffs
and members Of their families, cap
tured by the United States Army in
North Africa, have arrived in this
country and are under guard in the
Ingleside Hotel, near Staunton, Va.
The State Department, in making
this announcement today, said nego-
tiations are under way for the ex-
change Of the Axis officials. They
would be exchanged tor officers of
the United States and other Ameri-
can republics seized by the Germans
in France and now held in Germany.
American newspaper correspond
ents and Red Cross personnel held
with these officials in Germany, It
was added, also figure in the ex-
change negotiations.
The State Department said the
American officials, together with
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Varsity Sports Fail
To Condition Middies,
Academy Aide Says
Men Weren't in Shape
When War Broke Out,
Officer DiscIoses
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Navys peacetime program
OF varsity sports was reported to-
day to have provided excellent
recreation for the Midshipmen
and top-notch entertainment for
spectators, but it failed to get
the men into proper physical
condition for the war.
That was disclosed by Capt. Homer
Graf, an aide to the Naval Academy
superintendent, in testimony on a
supplemental Navy appropriation
bill for 1943 which was reported to
the House today.
Capt. Graf said the academy
found it necessary at the beginning
of the war to overhaul completely
the entire physical training pro-
gram" because I'VE have found we
have been just kidding ourselves and
we were not in good physical condi-
ton to meet the exigencies of the
war and the requirements of the
active service
Tunney's Views Recalled.
Capt. Crafts testimony indi-
Gated that the Navy was leaning
TO the views of 1t. Comdr. Gene
Tunney, who was involved few
months ago with Comdr. Tom
Hamilton, former Naval Academy
coach, over the physical training
value Of spectator sports to fight
ing men. Comdr. Tunney con-
tended that such sports did not
harden the athletes sufficientlyD
Capt. Graf, outlining a need for
additional employees at the Academy
said next fall the intramural phys
ical training program will be in
creased to include 81 types of ath-
letic contests designed to reach a
large group of physically inactive
midshipmen who heretofore have
taken no active interest in physical
training.
Under the present program, he
said Everybody must get out and
do some ground work. four or five
days a week. He added that the
new program in conjunction with
varsity activities should provide the
Naval Academy with one of the best
wartime training courses to be found
in the United States
Sports Income Drops.
Capt. Graf. asking for $4,000 in
additional funds for the physical
training program, told the commit
tee that the Academy Athletic AS
sociation on June 80, l943, will have
an estimated deficit of SlO4 900 be-
cause of reduction in receipts from
last years games.
The income from all academy
sports for the year ended June 80,
1912, he said. was s432 900, and ex-
penditures s500,OOO. The l943 in
come, he estimated, will be sl8O 1000
less.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

1t completed work on new S4,O00.-
100000 supplemental naval spending
bill.
AS it emerged from the subcom-
mittee the measure carried $685.
206,583 in direct appropriations
reduction of sl87, ,793,417 from the
budget estimates-and contract au-
thorizations amounting to $239, ,740,-
400.
The subcommittee pared the
Navy's estimate of Sat 100000 for
clothing an estimated personnel
strength of 2,25O,OOO down to an
even 100000, 900, advising Congress
that:
While no ceiling has been i'm
posed by law upon naval enlisted
strength built up through the Re-
serve, an expansion of such magni-
tuoe should be the subject of
fSee NAVY CASUALTIES, Pg. A-6)
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Raj Planes Raid Railway
Center Near MandaIay
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW DELHI, March 3.-RAF
bombers attacked the important
Japanese rail and communications
center of Sagaing on the Irrawaaddy
River near Mandalay last night,
scoring many hits in the taget area
and starting large fires, a British
communicate announced today.
The bulletin also reported that
Raj fighter patrols had shot up
enemy transport in the Pintha area
Of Burma Monday, damaging rail-
way cars and motor trucks and in
ficting casualties on enemy troops.
Yesterday morning, the commu-
nique said, formation of Japanese
fighters appeared over the Chitta-
gong area, but turned back before it
could be engaged.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
New Zealand Minister
Plans to Return Home

Walter Nash, New Zealand Min
lister. intends to leave Washington
for New Zealand soon, his legation
said today He is member OF the
Pacific War Council and often has
acted as its spokesman after its
conference with President Roose-
welt at the White House.
1t is possible that Mr.. Nash who
Is his country's first Minister to
the United States, may not return.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Allied Bombers
Pound Reich
For 9th Night
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated Press.
LONDON, March 3.-Objectives
in Western Germany were at
tackled again last night by the
RAF. the Air Ministry announced
today, acknowledging that three
Allied aircraft were missing after
the seventh successive night of
raids on continental targets.
The ministry did not identity last
nights targets. 1t said also that
mines were laid in enemy waters.
The Berlin radio announced that
British air raiders were over West
ern Germany last night and the
German controlled Paris radio told
of attacks on Occupied France.
The Berlin broadcast said COM
paratively few planes participated
in the raids on Germany and spoke
of bad weather over the continent.
The Germans acknowledged, how
ever. that the Raj raiders had
Evening star., 1943-03-03
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Evening star., 1943-03-03
Driving Bon Hits $50

BALTIMORE, March 3 (P,.-
Cornelius P. Mundy. chief enforce
ment attorney for the State Office
OF Price Administration, announced
today that 1850 Maryland motorists
had been reported to the OPA in
two days for possible violation OF
the pleasure driving ban.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

(See RAIDS, Page A-16.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

|See NAVY CASUALTIES. Pe. A-6
Evening star., 1943-03-03

(See WPB, Page A-6o
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Guide for Readers


An Associated Press kewspoper.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

tSee BUTTER, Page AS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
DIVISION NUMBER ONE. AT
JUNEAU.
MARY RHODES, Plaintiff, VS.
WESLEY GEORGE RHODES, De-
PENDANT, No. 4967-A, ALIAS SUM-
MONS FOR PUBLICATION.
TO: WESLEY GEORG E
RHODES, above def en- d n t 4,
GREETING: IN THE NAME OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AM
ERICA, you are hereby command
ed to be and appear in the above
entitled Court, ie: In the United
States District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Division Number
One, at Juneau, in said Division
of said Territory, and answer the
complaint filed against you in the
above-entitled actiC., lie: That
certain action wherein MARY
RHODES is the plaintiff, and
WESLEY GEORGE RHODES. is
the defendant, which is numbered
No. 4967-A, on the docket OF said
Court, within thirty 800 days after
the completion of the period OF
publication of said summons, which
said summons by an order made
and entered by said Court in said
action on December 10Th, 1912, was
ordered to be published for a peri
cd of once a week for four "a con-
secutive and successive weeks, COM
mencing on December 21st, 1912,
and ending on January 18th, l943,
in case said summons is published,
or within thirty 800 days after
January 18th, 1913, or within forty
days after date of it's service upon
YOU, in case this summons is
served upon you personally, and
answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff on file in id
Court in the above-entitled action,
and if you fail SO to appear and
answer, for want thereof, the plain
tiff will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in her COM
plant, lie: For an absolute divorce
and dissolution of the marriage
contract between plaintiff and de-
fendant; and for the exclusive care,
custody and control of Wesley
George Rhodes, Jr. and Marvin
Albert Rhodes, minor children of
plaintiff and defendant. And for
such other and further relief as
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
MAY ALLOW CABS
TO PERFORM few
SPECIAL TRIPS

Considerable modification of the
regulations of the Office of De-
Tense Transportation in regard to
the operation of taxicabs is an
nounced by Mrs Mildred r. Her
mann, Alaska Director of the Of
flee of Price Administration. Taxi
cabs are now permitted to make
special trips whenever in the opin-
ion of the Alaska representative of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton the emergency is grave enough
to demand it.
Previously the regulations pro-
vided that only under certain
specified conditions could special
trips be made by taxis. The modi-
fication of this regulation makes
it possible for special trips to be
made at the discretion of the Of
flee of Defense Transportation S
Alaska representative.
Mrs. Hermann has also announced
that she was appointed Alaska rep
resentative of the Office of De-
Tense Transportation during her
recent visit to Washington, and it
will not be necessary in the future
to wire Washington for permission
when these special trips are in
dictated.
1t is pointed out, however, that
the work of the Office of Defense
Transportation is entirely separate
and apart from the work of the
Office of Price Administration and
the two should not be confused
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
EIGHT PRISONERS
TRANSFERRED HERE
ON SlTkA CHARGES

U. S. Deputy Marshal Sid
Thompson returned to Juneau from
Sitka by steamer early this morn
ing, bringing the following prison.
ers:
Fred M. Buchanan, held on $10,-
600 bond on a morals charge; Law
renee Swenson, Carl Junkins,
James Gordon and William Glib
son. all sentenced to serve IT'S days
in jail on drunk and disorderly
conduct charges; Kenneth r. Hold
son, Arnie G. Meisenhelder an
George E. Purvis, all sentenced to
serve six months on assault ana
battery charges.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
SoIdierIs
Being Held
In 5iabbinq
Native Girl Found Dead in
Cordova on Safur-
day Night

CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 4. -
Lena Allen, 25-year-old native girl,
was stabbed to death Saturday
night, dying almost instantly. A
soldier, Pvt, Floyd Stephenson, of
st. Louis, Missouri, is being held.
The death was revealed when
Stephenson directed military police
to the crime scene. The girl was
evidently an orphan. She is sur
vived by three sisters and one
brother, all born at Tatlitlek.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
BABY GIRL IS BORN
TO {. W. STEvENS0NS

Word has been received in Ju-
neau of the birth of girl baby
to Mr.. and Mrs Clarence w.
Stevenson, now living in Montana,
ON November IL. The infant has
been named MargO.
Mr.. Stevenson was popular
druggist at the Butler Mauro Drug
Store for a long period and Mrs
Stevenson was employed in the So
cial Security Office before the cou-
pie went south several months ago.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
0RRlN KIkBAlL IS
TRANSFERRED TO
KE1(HIkAN OFFICE

Orrin Kimball, for number OF
years assistant agent in Juneau for
the Northland Transportation Com
pany, left by steamer early tn lis
morning for Ketchikan where he
has been permanently transferred
as assistant agent in the Ketchi-
kan office.
Making the trip with him was
his father, w. B. Kimball, who
spent the holidays in Juneau with
his son.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

to the Court may appear just and
equitable.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, / have
hereunto set my hand and have
affixed the seal Of the above en-
titled Court at Juneau, Alaska, this
18th day of December, 1912.
ROBERT E. COUGHLIN,
Clerk of the District Court.
BY j. w. LEVERS.
Deputy Clerk of Court.
Published Dec. 2l-28, 1912, Jan.
Ali, 1913. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
ATTENTION

The 1913 Automobile License
Plates are now available and on
sale at the office of the City Clerk.
The operation of motor vehicles
not bearing 1913 license plates is
prohibited after December 81, 1912.
Eta MAE DUCKWORTH,
adv. City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
TIRES, TUBES ISSUED
LAST WEEK, DECEMBER

The following certificates for
tires and tubes were issued dur
ing the last week in December. M.
p. Muner Company, 7 tires, z
tubes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

curious spectators, used every trick
l knew but to no avail. Finally the
zero hour approached. The three
of us approached the stove on tip
toes, with me slightly in the lead.
With the hot breath of my two
visitors on my neck, I jerked open
the oven door.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

The situation was ideal. My wife
was out in the timber falling the
winters supply of wood 1t was too
nasty out for me to attempt game
of golf so I decided that the time
was ripe to surprise my wife when
she came home at dark, with a nice
upside down cake.
Downing one of her lowered
aprons, I sailed forth into the
kitchen. On page 16 of Mother
Murphys Favorite Recipes ] found
what ] wanted.
Sift two and half cups of flour.
Ridiculously simple I thought as /
measured the flour with slide-rule.
Fold in the whites of two eggs
Humm :. {. how do you fold an egg?
1t seemed to me that they should
have clarified that but being an
analytical thinker it didn't take me
long to find out that you can't fold
an egg in it's limped state. Quickly
I fried the egg and folded it tsome-
what awkwardly. to be sure) and
placed it in the batter.
The rest of the recipe was duck
soup (and it looked like it too. l
did have a little trouble when Moth
er Murphy failed to state in her
booklet whether T stood for table,
spoon or teaspoon but l took a
chance and used the tablespoon
exclusively .
With loving hands, placed the
batter in the oven No sooner had
/ placed it safely within the environs
of the red-hot stove than two of
my neighbor ladies chose that mo-
ment to gush through the door in
search of my wife.
Seeing me in the lowered apron
was enough to start torrent Of
questions. Bashfully I had to admit
l was baking a cake That's where
l made my mistake. Amid squeals
of laughter and plump nudgings of
one another, they decided to stay
for the unwilling or launching or
whatever it is when a cake is ready
to be taken from the oven.
In an endeavor to get rid of my
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
LOST and FOUND

LOST - Watkins leather covered
order book. Return to 172 Frank
lin ST., room a. Receive reward.
FOUND - Green knitted hood.
owner can have by proving
o,siseis,,lt3 and pay for this adv.
Empire Office.
FOUND Bunch of keys. Finder
ray claim same and pay for this
ad at Empire office.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

Downing one of her lowered
aprons, I sailed forth into the
Kitchen. On page 16 of Mother
Murphy's Favorite Recipes I found
what / wanted
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04

The sight that greeted me would
have unnerved a more unsteady
man. The cake" fairly leaped out
at me and there, staring at me in a
cold dispassinate stare from the
center of the overlooking pastry,
was an eye. Later, viewed in a
calmer light, it turned out to be
the fried egg that had somehow
worked to the top of the batter.
The shrieks of laughter that greeted
the unwilling brought police car
to the scene.
Well, to make short story stop,
1 slinked out of the house with a
moral gradually forming in my
mind. When attempting an upside
down cake, be sure and get the
recipe right side up, s..s.f...s,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-01-04
TRAP Lines
by
HENRY PEARSON

Anyone can cook. All one needs is
perseverance and a good cook book.
That's what I thought when start
ed out