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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
TWO STIFF FIGHTS ON
 RUSS FRONT
Thousand Germans Killed at dfLeningrdd-Si Situation
 in Kuban Sector

MOSCOW, May l2-More than 1000 German troops have been killed on the Leningrad front in the past "A hours, Russian dis patches said today, as the entire battle line surged with new activity from that northern sector to the still throbbing struggle around Nor ovossisk on the Black Sea.
 The action before Leningrad, whose 515-day siege was broken by the Russians in mid-J January, ap- peared to be only a scouting oper- ation in force, intended probably to establish a new German sector on that line. It was not the beginning of an all-out Nazi offensive
 The German attempts failed af- ter two attacks, however, and the Russian guns opened up after the assaults and pounded the German positions inflicting extensive dam age.
 The Red Army was reported to be generally holding the initiative everywhere along the line. Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet govern ment, declared editorially today that the war with Hitlerite Ger many has entered it's decisive phase"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
Quick Work Saves Alaska
 Atta(k Plane from Going
 Downin Move Against Afu
By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press War
 Correspondent

WITH THE ELEVENTH AIR FORCE IN ALASKA, May 2.-tDe- layed- d-Lieutenant James Ryan, navigator of four -motored bomb CT, told today how on a reconnais- sance flight over Attu a quick thinking sergeant saved the plane crew of 10 when a short t-circuited wire blew out all the fuses on the circuit working the electrical pump which lifts gasoline from the bomb- bay tanks to the main tanks.
 The last fuse went out, leaving the plane with 800 gallons of gaso- line but none for the motors-and just enough in the main tanks to get within five miles of land. The pilot radioed he would make a crash landing in the water and or dered the bombs to be jettisoned The 300-pound bombs had to be showed into position by hand, be- cause the electrical failure pre- vented use of the automatic bomb release.
 Struggling feverishly to get rid of the bombs, Technical Sergeant John H. Miller of Hibbing, Minne- sota, happened to glance up and spied the gold bars on the should CT of the bombardier Second Lieu tenant George Mosher of Chicago. Miller seized one of the bars, rushed to the fuse box and inserted it into the fuse sockets. The pump started working and the plane winged safe ly homeward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
JApS CLAIM BRITISH ARE
 ROLLED BACK
By Associated Press

A Tokyo broadcast asserts the Japanese troops are rolling back Gen. Wavell's British forces and have advanced to within 12 miles of the India Burma frontier and an invasion yet confronts India s now one of the gravest threats of millions.
 The thrust is not confirmed from any Allied source.
 The British communique gives no hint of a major setback and said the British artillery has bombarded Japanese troops along the Maung- daw-Buthedaung Road where the enemy gained foothold The com munique also says RAF fighters machine-gunned the Japanes e troops in that area,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
British Prime e Minister Makes Sudden Flight
 Across Atlantic
PROBABLY CHECK PLANS TO OPEN ANOTHER FRONT
Staff of Military, Naval Ex- perts Members of
 Visiting Party

SLING TON, May l2,- Against background of the Tuni- sian victory and German jitters at fears of an invasion of Europe. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has arrived here for more war talks with President Franklin D. Roosevelt
 Churchill is accompanied by staff of military and naval experts
 This leads to the conjecture that checking of plans to hammer open another front in the European con- inent and possibly even laying of trategy further, is underway
 The announcement from the White House did not give any specific details as to the exact pur- pose of the fifth meeting between the two leaders of the two big Allied Nations in 21 months.
 Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the London Evening Standard, and Iormer British Cabinet member, al- % arrived. although not a member of the official party He has been q close collaborator of Prime Minis- ter Churchill on industrial prob lems and it is thought he will sit in on the parleys.
 Indications are the official trip over the Atlantic from England was made hurriedly after the Tunisian blowup.
 At previous meetings between Churchill and Roosevelt, the con- 'erence here foreshadows momen- tous events
 The names of the British Party had not been revealed early today, perhaps to prevent tipping hand IS to what theaters of war will be involved in the conference.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tMajor Robert S. Allen on active duty)

w A SHIN N-Democratic party chieftains have secretly de- cided on two major points of stra- tegy for the 1914 election campaign
 FIRST-not to talk about a fourth term for President Roose- welt. The strategy is, Nuns the word" regarding the President Speeches by prominent Democrats urging him to run again will be taboo from now on.
 SECOND - Democratic e d r have decided to concentrate activi- ties during the campaign on keep ing a two-thirds majority in the Senate to support the President on the peace treaty eThe House does not vote on treaties)
 It passed unnoticed, but there was tell-tale illustration of the mo 4th term talk strategy at a recent dinner in Philadelphia for the Democratic organization of Eastern Pennsylvania. New Deal Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsyl- vania made an all-out 4th term speech, but three speakers who fol- lowed him - Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker, Attorney General Francis Riddle and former Representative Joseph Casey, a White House adviser-didn't breathe word about 4th term.
 Walkers recent trip through the nation, made to tap political sen- timent, convinced him that it will be very difficult for the Democrats to retain their slim majority in the House next year.
 That is why Walker and his as- sociateS have decided to concen- trate on the Senate. In doing so Walker will not hesitate to cross party lines and support Republi- can candidates (behind the scenes, of course) who' can be counted on to back up the Presidents peace policies.
 One COP candidate the Demo- cratic leadership will definitely support is Ernest M. Hopkins, presi- dent of Dartmouth College, who will run against isolationist Sena-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
MAY PLAN ATTACK 0 N
 JAPAN SOON
Three Leaders in India 0p- erafions Accompany
 Churchill Here

WASHINGTON. May II. The White House discloses today that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill brought three important leaders in the India theater of op- erations with him, which provided indications that he and President Roosevelt might place much em- phasis on strategy against Japan.
 They arc Field Marshal Wave Commander in Chief of British military forces in India, Admiral Marshal Webbering, Commander .n-Chief of the Eastern Fleet based at Ceylon, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse. Air Force off cer commanding chief in India.
 Their presence here for the im-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, May 12.-On a recent Saturday, while milling among the boys scuttling the free hot dogs and beer at the National Press Club Canteen. came upon fellow I had known in Texas. He was a sergeant in the Marines. He had been overseas He used to be a newspaperman himself"
 We got onto a subject that has been often talked about but not much by the soldiers themselves When I asked this chap if I could quote him, he said. Gosh, don't use my name; it might sound maudlin."
 The subject was mail from home"
 There's nothing that gets a sol
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
Soldiers View of His MaiIfrom Home;;They're
 Like Kids, Wani Leiiers

dier down quicker than not hear ing from home" he said. I've seen them and I know The army knows it too and APO is doing whale of a job in getting the mail through to places that up to this war didn't get a mail packet every six months.
 If the boys in my outfit are a fair cross-section, a guy can stand it about a week Along about the fifth day of no mail from home, he begins to droop and grouse more than usual Tn week or ten days, he's really in the dumps and that's no place for fighting man. But you ought to see the change of face when the letters roll in
 T don't know what it is, exact
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
SPIRIT OF
 BATTLING
 EBBS FAST
War Correspondent Tells of Remarkable Exper-,
 ienee on Cap Bon
By DANIEL DeLUCE Associated Press War
 Correspondent

ON CAP BON PENINSULA IN TUNISIA, May 11-(Delayed)-The German fighting spirit has ebbed into nothingness. Tens of thousands of Nazi soldiers threw up tn eir arms and raised white flags to surrender when squadron of British armored cars reached Cap Bon's lighthouse at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
 It was one of the most incredible sights of the war to look at order ly columns of infantry, grenadiers gunners, armored crewmen, air force attachments and supply troops marching to three Tommies at the crossroads just east of the whitewashed and bombed earthen homes of Hamuaria village.
 The Germans made no real at- tempt to hold Cap Bon. They quit
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
ONE POCKET 0FFIGHTER5
 RESISTING
Italian General Refuses to Terms of UnCOndition-
 al Surrender

BULLETIN-ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRI- CA, May 2.-Col. Gen. Jur- gen von Armin, Axis Comman- der in Tunisia, has been taken prisoner by the British. His capture is announced in the last hours of the Axis struggle in North Africa.
 It is also reported the Ger mans and Italians are holding only a rough circle nine miles across in the area north of Enfidaville below Cap Bon Peninsula.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
Strangling Enemy Surrounded On Cap Bon
Itkes 10 Study Bill
 Permitting AIaskans
 oEIed Own Governor

troduced so that it may be thor oughly gone into
 The Interior Secretary said the bill will not be acted on until a complete study is made He said he is in sympathy with the move but thinks changes are necessary in the Alaska Organic Act before action is taken.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 12.-British land, sea and air units completely surrounded Cap Bon Peninsula to- day, needed inland and rounded up isolated enemy forces which sur rendered freely.
 Fiercely hammering from all sides at the last remaining pocket of organized enemy resistance in Tunisia, the Allies had only this one small contingent of surviving enemy troops to worry about. The pocket is southwest of the penin- sula.
 On the peninsula itself, General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters reported, Allied patrols penetrated so thoroughly that Lieutenant General Anderson's patrols had to be protected from their own aerial support. The Allied aviation bonn bardment therefore was called off
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12

WASHINGTON, May 12.-Sec- retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has notified the House Public Lands Committee that his Department is now studying the problems involv- ing permitting Alaskans to elect their own Governor
 Ickes has asked Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond for the bill in-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
MRS. COUNCIL VISITS

Mrs. w. w. Council left for Pet ersburg yesterday to visit for few days with her sister, Mrs. Les FL kins. She was accompanied by her year-old daughter, Carol Ann,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
AXIS EUROPE IS UTTER ING,
 RADIO SHOWS
Commentators Try 10 Re. main Calm Over Recent
 Events -Voiees Culver
By Associated Press

Axis Europe, if not actually shak- ing in it's boots. at least heard a quiver in the voices of it's radio commentators today as they spec ulated as to the primary purpose of Prime Minister Winston Church ills newest visit to the United States
 Attempting to present an out ward front of calm confidence. the commentators betrayed themselves
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-12
. . . . . . . DiM0UT TIMES

Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:l0 o'clock.
 Dimout ends tomorrow
 at sunrise at 4:37 am. Dimout begins Thursday at { sunset at 9;i3 pm.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09
By DAMON RUNYON

tor, to let II out, and some OF
them insinuated that Pearson is
a low fellow at best and most
unethical.
Now l have never met Pear
son. l have never even seen
him and know him only by
reputation and his work. He
may be a complete jerkola for
all / know TO the contrary, but
just the same / thought the Pat
ton business a good newspaper
job. In fact, the only thing
wrong with it as far as / am
concerned is that l did not do
il myself.
And l think the cry babies of
this new school of journalism
were entitled to a bawling out
from their editors for getting
licked on the story instead of
being given space TO squawk
about ethics What l say about
ethics when it comes TO a big
news story of national import
ance and interest, is get the
story in the paper first and dis
cuss the ethics afterwards.
IN THIS war there has been
L plenty of poppycock about
news that might aid the enemy.
Some of the lads said they held
out the Patton yarn on this
ground, though the enemy has
made no secret of drastic pun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09

terS or any other foreign news
agency.
1t is being pushed around by
the hIgher-upS right here in
Washington. and has been from
the start. This Owl is a pure
fake, as an office OF information,
and has been since IL was hastily
created 30 prevent Congress
from cracking down on its
propaganda predecessor. headed
by Lowell Mellett and Archibald
MaCleiSh
Thus OWL has been ignored
by the army, by the navy. and
BY the White House. all of
which. and others besides. have
controlled their own sources of
information.
II has been a New Deal pub
Lefty setup from the beginning
and was caught with the goods
trying 10 promote a Roosevelt
fourth-term among American
soldiers abroad-to say nothing
OF the Arabs OF North Africa.
MR.. ROOSEVELT ignored FL
Nl mer Davis. and didn't even
consider him important enough
10 take him 10 CaSablanca. He
didn't take him 10 Quebec.
He didn't take him to Cairo.
With all sources Of information
as 10 these recent events in the
hands of the British, is II any
wonder that the American news
papers have been compelled 10
SIT around waiting for the for
elcn cables TO come in?
Where did the first news Of
the Atlantic Charter come from?
II came from London. Mr..
Roosevelt had no American
press staff with him. Mr.
Churchill did
First news Of the CaSablanca
conference came from London
Mr. Churchill, before the House
Of Commons, revealed the init
mate details of that meeting,
while the American press re-
NAMED muzzled and docile.
4 Ii the Washington CORE
"A spondents got out of il was
a nice patronizing pat on the
back az a White House confer
Ience by the President. who
commended them for KEEPING
A SECRET. AS though keeping
a secret were the mission Of
free press in a free country.
The facts are that Just as
the whole concentration of the
Roosevelt administration has
been upon the Wv in Europe,
so the whole tendency of the
administration has been 10
MUZZLE WASHINGTON and
make LONDON tho news cen
ter of the world. as il is the
military center OF the world.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09

What are me fields. or fovers
Or all I see,
Al TGStcless al,
II not enjoyed NTH thee.
-Parnell.
The foregoing is No. 25 in
poems intended to be used for
clipping and sending 10 sweet
hearts in the armed forces. The
demand for this type OF poem is
terrific. Evidently the girls
they left behind are anxious 10
keep on telling the boys that
went away they love them in
the same old way
WHAT Is more depressing than
w TO see a fireplace which
could burn wood having a gas
heater in IL? A wood-burning
fireplace is great morale build
er. / hope 10 live TO sec the day
when there will be one in every
home.
incidentally If you have a
husband who is inclined TO
want TO 60 out too much nights
get yourself a good fireplace. II
a fine woodworking fire won't
keep the old boy home on a
winter night he is hopeless. He
is either up 10 no good or should
be a bachelor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09

book (due in the Spring. will
be called Twilight in Turkey"
go. Joel McCrea covered Africa
and South America. entertain-
ing Soldiers-just being among
them and eating the same food
and being a good guy,
IL can't be new, / know. but
/ like it-and it's my colin :.
Raymond Paige revived it, The
time a card magician (enter-
tanning a group including
WoollcotD said 10 Alex:
name a card" Wooll-
colt pointed 10 one card and in
his best regal manner intoned;
II name thee Felix"
SOUNDS in the Night: In the
- Cub Room The cities the
Nazis conquered are now safer
than those they live in" g.
Al the Zanzibar: Get load
Of them-Jerk and Jill" 3.
In ArmandoS: Ones her hubby
The other her hobby,
DEACE has been made among
L Democrats b h i'm the
scenes Dec 4 marked the
beginning OF our 18th year for
the same sponsor on the air.
We are entering our fifteenth
for Mr. Hearst's papers In
my will is this stanza; "And 10
William Randolph Hearst thanks
Tor allowing me the use of his
printing presses, paper and ink
all these years 10 disagree with
him EX-Cong. Elmer j.
Holland (sorely missed in Con-
greSS) and his Mrs are Sing.
He's an officer in the army Of
occupation. etc. Lovely eX-
model Babs Beckwith. sans pub
licity, won her wings as a pilot
Doris Duke. at the Reno
tables, puts 500 bills (often
5000 on a card.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09
THE BRIGHTER SIDE

iShments of high officers of its
own, and apparently does not
feel such revelations can be
of any aid and comfort to us.
The aid and comfort thing. I
believe, has been overdone in
the suppression of news in this
country.
1 claim the relationship be-
tween war reporters in the
field and the censors is neces-
sarily a battle of wits, not a
working partnership.
The reporters duty is to get
the news out to their papers
and If possible get it out ex-
clusively and / do not believe
the publication of news that has
happened and is history and is
most assuredly known to the
enemy can be harmful to our
cause, no matter what the CEN
sors think. Censors are not al
ways the smartest guys in the
world.
IT HAS been my opinion there
Il was too much censorship OF
news in this country. but 1 am
now wondering if it has not
been suppression by the new
school journalists rather than
censorship. Since they in
variably claim, after some en-
terprising chappy spills the
news, that they knew il all
along, they must have been de-
liberately holding it out on
their customers.
And oddly enough. the new
Schoolers are not kids. They are
mainly old timers and / cannot
imagine how they became in
fected with this weird concep-
ton Of newspapering unless il
is just the spirit of the times.
Anyway. / know an editor
who is thinking of taking up a
collection to send some of them
Mother Hubbards for Christmas
presents.
Copyright, 1913, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09
One Word Led 10 Another
By ARTHUR BUGS BAER -

Now Anything or Nothing Is q Woman's Hat
Well, folks and people, l never thought the palp
tatng would get any dizzer in their millinery asyums
| never suspected for miserable century that
they would go to greater extremes in those laughing
academies where they buy their decorated pancakes
But they've gone and done it. They've worn hats off
their faces their heads their and under their
chlns.
They have worn everything with feathers and glass
eyes They have stuffed snakes They have worn
hats double-hats and tripetaras of petrifed duffe
bags and twining octopuses.
They have decorated their knobs with swimmers
folders, cngers fappers and wingers. They have
debris that looked like skyrockes just before they
explode. They have and out hats that looked
like legess centipedes.
But they have really gone and done it.
remember their Merry Widow hats in 1903 that looked
like cafeteria patters in the fruit and berry Now
they have gone the other end of the bowling alley
They not wearing hats.
They wearing half-hats And you pay just as
much you do for a total bonnet.
Now feather stuck in your dandruf is hat.
ribbon tied in your curs used to be bow. Now it's
ensemble.
Now the millners have figured out style that lets
them sell one hat to two people
Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09

dow OF his house and stuck his
bare feet out into the open for
relief waving genially TO the
laughing crowd and drinking a
small stein of beer as he did so.
Then il apparently disap-
peared.
] knew a good number Of
bibulouS gentlemen from 1890
20 1925 and cannot recall a
single one who had a equity
complaint And ! practiced
medicine from 1907 10 1880.
and never made diagnosis Of
govt in all that time
But IL seems 10 be coming
back. have FIVE boon COrI-
panions who are afflicted with
n. and the reports and discus
SionS in medical literature in
dlcate that IL is now once again
prevalent Or. Hench. OF the
Mayo Clinic. states that 5 per
cent Of all cases OF chronic
arthrluS coming TO the clinic
for diagnosis are govt.
ONE may suspect he has govt
" when
l. He IS a middle-aeed man
who has attacks OF pain and
swelling in the big toe or elbow
Joints which come on suddenly,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09

A NEW school of Journalism
"A has developed that bewil-
ders me. When a big news beat
is pulled off on the devotees of
this school, they sit down and
piteously bleat foul"
They say they were aware Of
the news all the time but re-
Trained from publishing ii for
reasons Of state. or ethics, or
some other consideration that
must give their editors a severe
pain in the neck when they
read the news in rival pubfIca-
tons or hear il on the air, which
amounts 10 the same thing.
1t has now reached a stage
where governmental depart
ments join in the uproar of the
scooped and complain about
leaks" and threaten investiga-
tions. as In the recent case Of
the Cairo conference when II
was their fault in muddling the
handling of the situation.
HOWEVER, an incident hav-
IL ing more direct bearing on
this new school l am telling
about, was the revelation of the
Gen. Patton matter. This one
really had the I-knew-it-all-the-
time boys shedding tears. They
implied il was a snide trick for
Drew Pearson. the Washington
correspondent and commenta-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-09
DEAR Boss:
Letters From Times Soldiers

Times Soldiers --
was a blonde, didn't hear that
hot line. She pulled her sweet
nose out of the air and said:
"Oh, dear, we don't know
where we are, do you: Please
tell me where we are"
That was it. She spoke TO
me. I'm not the same any
more. I'll not be the same for
a long long time to come.
ITO SAY that I fell all over
Il myself looking up. around
and down trying to find out our
location at the precious instant
is putting it mildly.
/ practically broke my neck
stretching it.
But the red-head saved the
day
She spoke all right, but not
TO me.
Taking her friend firmly by
the elbow. she gave out:
II know where we are, dearie.
Let's get out Of here"
They did.
From now on, Boss, I'm
spending more time at the Red
Cross. WILL.