The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1943, Page 1

e —— S Yt i 1 “ALL THE NEWS'ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXI., NO. 9389. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD AY JULY 8, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN C U.S. JUNGLE FIGHTERS BATTLING JAPS e Soviets Deal Nazi War Machine Heavy Blows THOUSANDS ARE SLAIN Russians H_oEng Line on New Front - Tank Battles Fought MOSCOW, July 8—The Russian communique claims the Red Army has dealt the Nazi war machine the greatest blow in history, for the moment, in the German onslaught the Central Front by Kkilling 30,000 Nazi soldiers, destroying or | damaging 1,539 tanks and shooting down 649 planes in the first three days of the present German offen- sive. | Soviet troops hold the Orel- Kursk-Belgorod line except in a few “insignificant villages” that have been driven into the Red Army de- fenses near the Belgorod area. The Russian communique says the Germans are using 30 divisions in the new offensive. | An afternoon Soviet communique says the Nazi Air Force Squadrons are attacking constantly as armored columns move forward apparently attempting to pinch off a Soviet salient westward of Kursk. \ The communique admits tank battles yesterday south of Orel were the greatest ever fought on the eastern front. ThveUVAIashinrg}tr(‘mz Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | | | —_— | WASHINGTON. — White House | intimates say they have never seen the President so resolute on any issue as on the question of holding the price line. One of his intimate advisers remarked: “The President really had his Dutch up' ™~ when he fired Chester Davis.” | Usually Roosevelt would rather find a compromise than to offend people. Sometimes he goes to ex- treme lengths to find a new place for a man who doesn't fit. But when it came to a choice of letting prices rise or offending Chester Davis, he took the latter course with a vengeance. { His letter to Davis will go down in the Roosevelt records as one of the sharpest letters he ever penned. Though it opened with the usual first-naming (“Dear Chester”), it told Davis to get out immediately, instead of waiting to announce his new program for 1944. It also charged that Davis was unwilling to “support a program to hold down the cost of living.” | HOEING HIS OWN ROW Davis was brought to Washington because of his farm support, but inside fact is that trouble began as soon as Roosevelt found Davis was using that support for his ownI food program rather than the Presi- dent’s. | Davis has always been close fo| Republican farm leader Earle Smith | and conservative Ed O'Neal of the| Farm Bureau. But when he began| to play the Smith-O'Neal game on| Capitol Hill—opposing “subsidies and the roll-back of prices — the President thought it was time to get rid of opposition within the of- ficial family. The question of how much au- thority Davis had or didn't have l | OF GERMANS Navy Pilot Is O o War suppl easternmast link in the three well-supplied Adak, bombing 244 miles distant. U, S. Navy photo. dvance bases in the Aleutians. Dewey Held Spoflight At Governor's Meet Recemly Held in Ohio By JACK STINNETT on one Thomas E. Dewey from Gov. Dewey not be a candidate for the Rep lican presidential nomination 1944, as he (insists, who tries to draft him may get sock in the eye from Albany,” his intimates here declared, but ernors’ Conference. all eyes were on him. He was swamped with requests for ferences and press interviews tl his private secretary, Paul with the demands on his time. | that Dewey has made a public | racket-busting days as district torney, and later during his mand Center at Miami Beach, ferent Dewey. although no one accomplishments his press able and tioned his prosecutor, Killed,Duich is incidental. He might have had Imagine the difference then, more if he had played ball and o’ ras i : tried to hold the line in the first (Continued on Page Two) place. But as it became apparent - that Chester was not a holder-of- e HIH the-line, he was more and more| SEATTLE, July 8- Ml'\l V"““*L‘“ M“'IOI’IS o' frequently overruled by Jimmy| Thatcher said the Navy has mnoti- Bygues fied her that her husband, Lieut. American Women So Davis raised the cry of divid-iComdr. Thatcher, 33, ha | ot suthonits killed as the resul® of a NAvul‘In War Work 1 4 8 Transport plane he’ was piloting, | 5| over the ques- | winal Suilt. optoe k crashing at Dutch Harbor. WASHINGTON, July 8—Pre tion of subsidies, which the Presi- dent believes is being used as 2a red herring by food processors, who found in Davis a convenient (Continued on Page Four) Thatcher lines. was a former Seattle- dent Roosevelt reports that e BUY WAR BOnDS munitions and | job.” . ] s were piled up along the shore of Adak Island, important From Supplies af Aleutian Base NAZIS SAY " INVASION | i BEGINNING { |and aircraft 5 | g ids have been made on Jap-held Kisku., COLUMBUS, O., July. 8. — Notes the biggest Conference of Governors in all the 35 years of these pow-wows of the state execs have been held of New York ma v ub- in and anybody | as he was certainly top man on the Gov- From the moment of his arrival 50 con- hat Lock- | wood, had to take them in relays and the Governor forewent a lot of social engagements to keep pncc’wcakest as her ready resources ‘are . This is the first time since he| #P. | nas become Governor of New York | SELECTED — Nadine Con- ner (above), radio and opera singer, was named “Sweetheart of the Center” by an Army Air Forces Technical Training Com. ap- rpearance outside of his state. To | those of us who knew him in his| at- ill- fated drive for the Republican nom- | ination at the Philadelphia conven- | In those days he was stiff with formality. He played unapproach-| que as a conferences frankly were a pain in the neck. the { | Allies Broadcast Repori of Allied | Movements of Ships | ; and Troops | LONDON, July 8. — The Berlin radio reports battle units of the in the Mediterranean- fleet | | recently have been reinforced with | the arrival of American cruisers/ carriers which have left Gibraltar, leading to the “sup=| position the American Allled com- mander is preparing for an’ attack | |against Europe.” This report was recorded by the! Associated Press. The report said the Allies, in addition to strong | concentrations of warships and| | transports, have 44 infantry divie| |sions and 15 to 20 tank formations | between Morrocco and Syria. | | Said the German broad the | forces also include parachute ba-| |tallions and airborne troops whose ! | task “would be to create at first one | {or more bridgeheads.” | | } The report continued, “at first {sight these figures appear consid- | erable, but at least half the Allied ! {forces originally were tied down iy | Algeria, Syria, Palestine, Ekypf.’r' Cyprus and elsewhere. “Also it is an open secret that ! Bisenhower’s American divisions have been thoroughly overhauled in regards to training.” The report ended with the claim that several hundred tons of Allied merchant shipping still are in Gi- braltar - eee STRIKENOW IS PLEA OF CHINA GEN. Chiang Kai Shek Calls on' United Nations to Hit Japs at Once CHUNGKING, July 8. — Chia Kai Shek has issued a call to the United Nations to strike at once and with force against Japan be- cause now is the opportune moment |to “reap great results” and reduc- ing the time and cost of a final victory. In a message to the people of the Allied Nations on the anniversary of the day, six years ago, when China was attacked, Chiang Kai Shek asserted Japan now “is at her |approaching tion.” the point of exhaus-| AL P 27,000 WAR WORKERS AR Hundreds of Families Are | Evacuated in Ohio- ' Water Stops Power | AKRON, Ohio, July 8.—Several |bundred families have been evacu- {ated from their thomes and war iproduction has been curtailed by floods that have already ken o1 |life and caused widespread dama i Twenty-seven thousand war work- i-|ers are idle because of the floods 16,-|as water is in the power houses Oakland pilot of the United Air- 000,000 American women are now| One mother and her child are five tons for newspapers using less dolph Forste: working and 2,000000 of them in missing as the result of their home than 500 tons a quarter. This pro-|cutive White Houst “doing a grand being swept away in’ the rampa 'ing Mills Creek. -l vision, aid operators of the smaller papers. |in his bed today. YANKS LAND ‘D ensed, American soldiers wave a GEN. GIRAUD ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON Commander of French Forces in North Africa IsNow in U. S. July 8 Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, Commander of the French forces in North Africa and Co- rman of the French Committee of the National Liberation, arrived here by plane to confer with President Roosevelt and British and American leaders. When the plane touched Bolling Field, a 17-gun salute was fired in his honor .- Chinese in Drive Upon Jap Forces Recapture of Bbrder Town Staris Nipponese in General Refreat WASHINGTON CHUNGKING, July 8-—Chinese troops have driven the Japs from Mengting, the Burma-Yunan Pro- vince border town the ihvaders oc- cupied a week ago, and staried them in a gene retreat to the westward, the High Command'’s communique announces. Several hundred casualties have been inflicted in the brisk Chine counter-attack that began last Sat- urday. ! -, WPA CUTS USE OF NEWSPRINT, LARGE PAPERS WASHINGTON, July 8 ’I‘hl-! War Production Board has ordered | newspaper publishers o reduce | further consumption of n«wsprmv,[ for the third quarter of the year,| The restrictions cut the range up| to five percent for large users. The | additional five percent reduction | does not apply to the first twenty- | WPA said, is designed to | | strike of the elevator operators. ~ ,’ \\ e ~ L OWN UNDER’ — Smiling and happy that their long voyage has cheery “hello” from their troopship at a port in the South Pacific. "16LOO QUEEN" CONTINUING, - ITALY BASES Sicily, Sardinia Bombed for Fifth Day-Gerbini Hit 19 Times ADQUARTERS , July 8 ault on Sicily ALLIED HE IN NORTH AFRICA lentless Allied air | and Sardinia went through the fifth consecutive day yesterday with heavy bombings of airfields and other military targets. Enemy fighter opposition was on a “re- | duced scale.” The Gerbini airdrome, at this jvital enemy base, was again bat- |tered 19 times by Fortresses and Mitchells and no opposition from |the enemy was encountered. - UTAH COPPER 'PRODUCTION FOR THE BARRACKS' WALL. Popular pastime with U. S. serv- icomen fighting in all parts of HAS (EASED the globe, is the selection of fa- vorite “pin-up” girls. One unit of the Yankee armed forces sta- i tionad In the Aleutians has nom S'”ke of 125 Railroad Men inated Mary Elliott, pictured here, | as the girl who could best bright- | en up an igloo. Mary, a Holly- | wood starlet who has never bright- | ened up an igloo, posed in this Arctie costume and provided just BINGHAM CANYON, Utah, July what's needed for the barracks’ |&-—Processing of approximately one it |third of the Nation's copper produc- 3 _|tion has ceased with the closing of the Ulah Copper Company’s mills Closes Big Mills in State . | D. D. Moffat, company President ofllte workers [sald operations of the nearby Ar- % {thur Magna Mills ceased transpor- S"anded When [tation of ore from the huge Bing- ham open cut mine to the plant with the walkout of 125 railroad men in a labor dispute Operafors Strike nen ' i s ™ Senale Wanis fo NEW YORK, July 8. — Twenty- | eight thousand office workers and visitors were stranded on many pass on A" 'I’hose floors of the high buildings of the Rockefeller -Center during an hour Named fo Agencies WASHINGTON, July 8. — The Senate has made the demand that it be privileged to pass on all ap- pointees to the War Manpower Commission and 18 other war Rudolph Forster Found Dead in Bed ated agencies drawing $4,500 WASHINGTON, July 8. — Ru-| The demand was made a point in 70, long time Exe-|the dispute of two measures for - cre- or Assistant to|funds, one of which covered the eight Presidents, w found dead | War Manpower Commission em- lpluyees, ‘The re-| FIGHTING IS RAGINGNEAR MUNDABASE Landings Are Made af Two New Points in Of- : fensive Move NINE WAR VESSELS OF JAPS SENT DOWH |Allies Make Heavy Air | Raids on Various Areas in South Pacific | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN | AUSTRALIA, July 8 United States jungle fight today battled [the Japs within six miles of the | Japanese air base at Munda for {two new landing points. This is | disolosed in today’s communique The communique also discloses that at least nine and possibly Japanese cruisers and de- i1 were sunk in the battle of | | cleven [ [ Kula Gulf as compared to the Am- erican loss of only the cruiser Helena. | The communigue, quoting a dis- | pateh from Admiral William F. | Halsey, says no other American j uship sustained damage in the |battle with the Japanese. Most of {the 800 officers and men aboard the |Helena are reported to have been {saved. The dispatch also says the lenemy fleet was numer ly . su- |perior to the American fleet. | The communique says landin |by the American jungle fighters | were made on Monday near Munda, 1t Rice anchorage, four miles northeast ot Bairoko, also that ight at Zanana, six miles east of Munda, | Further developments in the of- |fensive in Che Solomons were re- {vealed in an earlier communique which said that Allied planes |dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the Jap positions near Mubo |and Australian troops have also |moved up and taken an important {hill below Salamaua. The Japanese, in an attack on Rendova, now occupied by the Al- lies, lost 12 bomb The Allies have made a heavy raid on the Jap air base at Kahili |and caused large fires to be started. I'wo Allied planes failed to return. . | The airdrome in Shortland Is lands was set afire by Allied bombs, In the first phase of the battle on Kula Gulf, four or five Jap de- | troyers* were sunk and two or three | 7ap ships fleeing were also sunk or damaged JAP BATTLE BROADCAST NEW YOR July 8—A broad- st from Tokyo, picked up here, |admitted in a lefthanded way the | United States offensive in the | South Pacific in the Solemonos {area was gaining “showing their |efforts were simply desperate and let the United States admit the tubbornness of the enemy.” | D - SALVAGING OF NORMANDIE ABOUT FINISHED NEW YORK. July 8 -The one- time French superliner Normandia may yet earry troops for the United Nations. Platforms on the side are !’,umv torn down giving indications {that one of the greatest marine |s*lyagine overations in history is near completion. ! vaging, rebuilding and outfit- ing will cost twenty million dollars L T I R . DIMOUT TIMES . . . ° Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 10:01 o'clock. . ® Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 4:05 am & e Dimout Reegins Friday at e ® sunset at 10:00 pun . ‘e s e e e 00000000