The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9391. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY., JULY 10, 1943 MEMBE! R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = SICILY INVADED Americans In Th PRESIDENT JAP FIELD HIT FROM ALL SIDES More thanWO Bombers| Aid Ground Forces, Destroyers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, July 10.—More than 100 American bombers teamed with destroyers and artillery yesterday to give the Jap Munda base and surrounding defenses a three-way pounding in heavy attacks intend- ed to soften the New Georgia base of the enemy in the Central Solom- ons for ground forces. The American ground troops al- ready have landed on both sides of the big air base and are now apply- ing the pincers. . In the air, Avenger torpedo- bombers and Dauntless dive-bomb- ers dropped 70 tons of bombs. From the seas, destroyers jected the area to an intense shell- ing, and heavy artillery on Rendova Island, five miles across the water from the Munda Japs, continued to pour a barrage at the enemy. The Japs made an ineffective at- tempt to dive-bomb United States positions 12 miles south of Sala- maua. Allied planes continued raids on the island of Timor and also on the north Solomon bases which might md Munda. The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Worst long range problem worrying Adminis- tration leaders during the hectic closing days of Congress was the ever widening gap between factions of the American people similar to that which preceded the Fall of France. In France, a labor government had its own way to such extent under veered in the opposite direction, labor was in the public dog-house and reactionaries were in the sad- dle. Labor became bitter, sulky, un- cooperative, Whlle bxg French bus- iness had its my‘ Neither side would cooperate, Bom' hated each other. So France fell. Today, in the U.S.A., public re- action against labor hit the full swing of the pendulum with the anti-strike bill. Labor had enjoyed | the largest degree of power under Roosevelt ever achieved by Ameri- can unions in their entire history. Now, as in France, labor is in the national dog-house. Whether it remains there is the big question; also whether labor becomes sulky, bitter and unco- operative as in France. Upon the ability of both sides to cooperate, to see the other side's viewpoint is going to depend a great many things in this country—not only winning the war, but the kind of government we have after the war is over. WAR PROFITS The War Production Board has just made a study of certain war industries, the result of which is not going to help labor’s mood. The WPB shows the profits of airplane companies from war con- tracts, which even after deducting taxes, are enormous. These profit figures are based upon invested capital. For instance, North American Aviation, which suffered a strike and seizure of its California oper- ation by the Government, made 51.06% profit in 1941 after paying taxes. Before paying taxes its pro- fits were 134.53%. North American’s 1940 profits were even higher — 57.33% after deducting taxes. Consolidated Aircraft, another big company, made the gigantic profit of 94% in 1941 after paying taxes. Boeing, which turns out (Continued on Page Four) SAYS NEXT IS FRANCE ”Beginninfi 7o'wand of Hit- ler's Europe’” Roose- sub- ¥ Blum that public reaction | velt States WASHINGTON, July 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt considers the inva sion of Sicily virtually the “begin- ning of the end” for Hitler's Europe In the White House last with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, he 'predicted confidently the liberation 'of France, referring to it in a manner which suggested the possi- bility of military operations to drive the enemy from French soil, indi- cating the drive will come from England as well as Sicily. “General Giraud can rest as-ured that is the ultimate objective,” he said. ‘We will do it and in the best ay. The best way is to liberate the people of France, not merely those in the southern part of France but the people in the northern part and in Pari: | The state dinner started quietly at 8:15 pm. and wound up in dra- *matic excitement after the Presi- dent disclosed the attack on Sicily. Giraud responded with a toast to the President and a toast to France. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early disclosed the details of the dinner toda GERMANS TOLD OF LANDING OfficiaIsSayTKIIied Invas- | ion Proving Cost- 1 ly to Us | LONDON, July 10. — Military |circles in Berlin presented the ini- tial details of the Allied invasion of ‘chny to the German people in a broadcast at noon today, saymg op- erations were launched by “con- siderable forces with support of strong naval and air force forma- tions.” The broadcast said it could not be stated whether attempts were made {to land on other points than the southeastern part of the island. “The invaders were immediately engaged in heavy fighting which proved extraordinarily costly to them. Parachutists were encircled iand rendered harmless,” said the Berlin broadcast, ending with “coastal batteries and xis bombers sank a number of landing trans- FIVE FIREMEN 'KILLED AT FOUR ALARM Collapsing Walls But Rescued CHICAGO, Iil., July 10. — Five firemen were killed and several others trapped, but later rescued from under tons of debris of a 4-alarm fire that swept a four story office and factory building on the north side late yesterday afternoon. The side well of the building col- lapsed and caught the (Tiemen, in- ¢luding Capt. Mathew McDonough, and Bob Walsh, McDonough told the men trying !0 reach him to hurry, “we are all tight but get the pressure off soon.” Both men later were freed and they suffered only minor injuries, Others Are Buried Beneath ‘ BY THREE ALLIED FORCES night | BRITISH AND (ommitiees Sart Congressin Adion To Push War Effort U. 5. BOMBERS PASTE ENEMY jFighter Bases in France and Central Ruhr Are Pounded LONDON, July 10.—Strong for- mations of United States heavy bombers and flights of Royal Air Force light bombers attacked Ger- man fighter i daylight raid. Fortresses bombed air fields at Caen and Abbeville according to the point announcement of the United States Army European The- atre headquarters and the British Air Ministry. The report _said bomb bursts were observed. Three bom-b- ers were reported missing. The for- ay followed a ‘“very heavy attack” on the central Ruhr by the Royal Air Force four engined bombers at night. Gelsenkirchen, twenty-seven miles west of Dortmund, was among the targets hit. Ten planes failed to |return from Lhis attack LONDON, July 10. — A Reuters dispatch said “all indications sup- {port the belief Gen. Eisenhower is {making his first extensive use of glider borne troops to overcome bitter resistance in Sicily.” The dispatch added “the invad- ers landed at least in three areas.” It is also said here the British Navy carried the main burden of transporting the military forces to Sicily and guarding the supply lines but some U. S. warships were “in at the zero hour of the in- vasion.” — e —— Tn 1939 the United States bought 600,000 p ds of raw silk from ther nations a cost of $121 000,000, at N : ON' KISKA JAPS BOMBARDED FRIDAY A. M. Second Shé—llir_l_g in Three Days by U. S. Force Is Reported bases in France in a SHINGTON, July 10.—Bom- bardmcnt of Jap positions on Kiska were reported by the Navy Depart- ment. Shells from big guns whistled into the Gertrude Cove area in the early morning hours of Friday while shore batteries that returned the fire caused no damage. | The bombardment is the second in three days. The phrasing of the |Navy communique *“U. S, light sur- Hacc unit” indicated that the bom- barding force was small, possibly not more than one destroyer or one \uulser Warshlps of Two Nations Aid Invasion LONDON, July 10—t is officially |announced that both American and ! British warships formed part of the invasion spearhead on Sicily. The attack was launched in moonlight sometime between midnight and o | i j e SAYS FRENCH WILL FIGHT NIPPONS T00 Gen Gnraud Pledges Aid| fo U. S. After Axis De- | feated in Europe When (Second of two articles on how Congressional committees push the war effort.) NE July 10, muddle and the of attention to affairs forced the up the Office of War Mobilization, he discovered that a little heard-of subcommittee of the Senate Military Affairs com- mittee had already done the spade- work for him The subcommittee Sen. Harry M. Kilgore, dug a lot of things. It probed the re- Jationship of wages to price con- trols and production and their con- your side to liberate the Pacific clusions on that score are inter- from Japanese domination.” Gen. esting. | Giraud &pokv in French. “If wages and prices had been - administered as production and manpower instruments,” the com- mittee said, “stabilization of beth wage and price structure by in- dustry-wide agreements, with in- centive paym s for inc sed pro- President Informs Pope | Yanks to Respect Vatican City duction, would have become a basis for policy at an early stage “Only if wages and prices be- come production instruments will it be possible to achieve, overall stabilization of economy.” " fore tion ca oug SR and the natichal pestdey| o NARIIROTON, Jiy 10 stabilized on & ‘“hold-that-linew| 3Rt JRoosevelt has advised Pope 8 | Pius XIT that as American soldiers front. More surprising, perhaps, was the ! |and British fight Tid Tialy of | committee’s “l)l‘;l! that “Jimmy” Facism, the “neutral status of the {Byrnes testitied that M5 function as | Lorican Clty as well as of the papal *|domain throughout Italy will be director of . Economic Stabilization " primarily was one of settling dxs-’r%pflud ey s desoribed his “m“m"[ This announcement given out at BB ol oo of sl aodt| the White House left littie doubt [ that 1o problem was condldel i ¥, Thether or not the. AMaY s S | tend to swarm to the Italian main- 1iand from Sicily. By JACK § WASHINGTON the home front greater pressure global military President to set WASHINGTON, July 10. Henri Honore Giraud, il closed, promised President is Rooh' - African Army of 300,000 men and pledged the French forces will help fight the Japanese after defeat of the Axis powers in Europe At a conference later with the by newsmen, and in the presence of into Secretary of State Stimson, .Gen. Giraud said: “I give you the follow- ing pledge, that France will be headed That may sound like something out of a college textbook, but it may be the keynote of a new govern- ment policy—in fact, in a small way, already is—and its simple meaning is that prices, w and manpower have to be correlated be- ages to (Continued on Page Two) velt he will equip the French North| at | | Presi- ree - Way Attack On Munda " YANKS SMASH ITALIAN T0 INTERIOR ISLANDIS iINlANDING‘ STORMED Allied UmtsSwarm Ashore | Americans, English, Can- | on Southern, Eastern | adians Occupy Stepping Sides Also Stone fo Mainland FIGHTING THROUGH ‘HEAVY BOMBARDMENT BARBED WIRE, FIRE PRECEDES LANDINGS Nerve Center Two Miles Gen. Eisenhower Com- From Mainland Is | mands-Issues Warning Destroyed | toFrench People (BY Associated Press) American, English and Canadian Swarms of Allied bombers and |fory under American Gen. Dwight fighters roared across the Medi-|D, Eisenhower Saturday (today) terranean narrows at dawn to form|morning stormed the rocky shores |an aerial umbrella over the fight-lof Sicily, the stepping stone to |ing men of America who invaded Italy’s mainland, to open.another | Sicily this morning, Mediterranean front in the European war. time | Allied war planes bombarded the | Axis broadcasts said the Allied coastal .defenses preceding the drive spearheaded by para- janding of the Allied forces. | chute units and was strongly 5up-| Warships pounded the enemy | ported by sea forces, that the from offshore as the first of the [ Yanks landed on both the south- landing craft sped up to the | ern and eastern coast of the bomb- beaches. battered island | The special communique from the The Italian High Command Sl\|d‘A]l|(-d Headquarters in North Af- “Axis armed fo are decisively rica, tersely announcing the open- counter-attacking.” ling of the second front said the A German dispatch implied the “landings were preceded by an air | invasion mounted from Malta and attack of naval forces who escort- Pantelleria, saying the heaviest con-|ed the assault forces and bombard- centrations were between Gibraltar'ed the coast defenses during the and Cyprus. The Germans observed | assault.” the long-heralded battle of Europe Six-Day Slamming is under way. The action of the invasion of Through Hot Fire | Sicily came on the heels of six | Naval bombardments covered the days of almost constant slamming snubnosed shallow draft landing by the Allied air might over the vessels as they slipped in from|island of Sicily which has been their convoys a mile off shore and rocked by bombs from the air both headed for the rocky, precipitous'day and night, giving no rest to coast through wire and hot ma-|the enemy defenders. | chinegun fire The Algiers radio announced that First the Allied forces cut out landings on Sicily were made at their bridgeheads and then beganthe western tip of the island, 260 hattermg their way to the ‘Xl(?nnl'}n\ilgs from Rome. uf the island. The War Department in Wash- Official details of the first phase | ington announced the invasion of |of the invasion are expected later.|Sicily in a 50-word communique } Meanwhile, Liberators of the coinciding with a broadcast from | Ninth Air Force, striking from Mid- | Algiers that in a bold thrust ih |dle East bases in daylight, smashed |command of Gen. Eisenhower, Am- |the general headquarters, “nerve|erican, English and Canadian forc- | center of the Axis and Sicilian de-|es had invaded the island under ‘fense forces” at Taormina. :the protection of naval guns pre- Near Mainland |ceded by Allied air attacks. This detail came 'hum a Cairo French Warned | communique. Taormina lies on| Gen. Eisenhower, in a broadcast | Messina Strait, narrows which sep-|to the people of ~Axis-dominated arate Italy from Sicily by only two| | France, said their turn was coming |in this first stage in “liberation of | miles. The target area was “reduced to!the Eurppean continent. AN e rubble and left in smoke flame,” a communique reports. (Continued on Page Six) - In this attack and other in- vasion missions by Allied warplan | many enemy craft were destroyed on the ground and 20 were shul - |down. We lost 11 bombers. Former Military Command- er in Hawaii Crosses | 0ver Atlanhc ‘ LONDON, July 10.—Lieut. Gen. Delos E. Emmons, recently Com- mander of the Hawailan Depart- ment of the United States Army and also Military Governor, has ar- rived here. It is officially announced he will confer with Lieut. Gen. Jacob De- vers, American commandipg Gen- eral of the European war theatre Puture plans are not disclosed -o BUY WAR BONDS (By Associated Press) LONDON, July 10. — A radio |broadecast from Algiers at 9 am, today, Pacific time, said everything !is going according to the outlined plans in the invasion of Sicily. A radio broadcast from Rome, re- corded here, indicated the Italian |people have been told of the inva- slon of Sicily. ® o 0 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:59 o'clock, Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:08 am Dimout begins Sunday sunset at 9:58 p.m Dimout ends Monday sunrise at 4:09 am. Dimout begins Monday ® sunset at 9:57 p.m. js e e e 00000000 S eeevsccecsnns 4 at