The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9395. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943 MEMBE! R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = AMERICANS MAKE BIG ADVANCE IN SICILY All-Out Offensive Begins In New Guinea Area DRIVEIS | MADEUPON | 2 SECTORS Americans and Australians Charge to Clear Japs from Areas ALLIED HEADQUARTERS THE SOUTH PACIFIC, July 15 American and Australian troops in the New Guinea theatre are keying for an all-out attack in the drive against Munda and closing in on Japanese positions in the Mubo area “for decisive action.” A new offensive is announced in a special communique from Mac- Arthur's Headquarters stating this offensive is designed to clear the long contested Mubo zone of all enemy troops and also pin the Japs back on the lines around Salamaua, on the eastern New Gueea shore- line, 12 miles to the north. As a preliminary move, Allied Forces have captured Green Hill and also an enemy force of “medium size” cut off from Mubo. S eee | BLASTING JAPANESE | AT MUNDA Air Forces M Make Many Separate Attacks in Solomons Section | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTH PACIFIC, July 15.— The Munda battle has settled down to a methodical blasting of the Japanese out of their foxholes be- fore the airbase. United States Air Forces pounded the shipping and airdromes the | enemy uses to supply Munda. Two Japanese barges were de-| stroyed near New Georgia and a| cargo ship was also sunk northwest of Munda. Flying Fortresses struck enemy | airdromes at Buna Buin and left| many installations in flames. Over Salmaua, Kittyhawks broke up a dive bomber formation and shooting down three of the Jap‘ craft. One Kittyhawk was downed in the fight but the pilot was saved. B GET 58-POUNDER William Stevens, of the Signal| Corps, and Verena Murphy caught a 58-pound king salmon off Tee Harbor last night and have the fish to prove it. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON.—When you see how Navy brass-hats get completely | off base on a simple matter like uniforms, you can get a better in- sight into why the Navy has been so inexcusably slow in building es- cort vessels, using helicopters, and| adopting auxiliary airplane carriers. The inside story on the Navy's new uniforms becomes more amaz- ing as more leaks out. It is now revealed that last fall when the subject of new summer uniforms was debated, Procurement officials warned that new uniforms would strain the textile industry, so they wanted notice well in ad- vance. g Finally, in December, Procure- ment officials got a promise that there would be no new summer uniforms, but that the old khaki (Continued on Page Four) BELOW THE HIGH-FLYING PLANE which took this picture, a B-24 Libera- tor of the Middle East Command port of Messina, Sicily. Some bombs (upper right) land in the but others hit docks and oil tanks. Who Is "Assistant President!” 2 Men MESSINA GETS ALLIED POUNDING STOP NALIS, ~ BIG FRONT ! Red Army Has ‘Gone Over’ in Oren Offensive- Repulsed Germans LONDON, July communique picked up here from {Moscow this afternoon announced the Red Army has “gone over” in| the offensive against Oren, 200 miles south of Moscow, and also advanced 12 to 15 miles on the 25=| mile front north of Orel, capturing more than 50 populated places An earlier communique stated that halted the everywhere in attacking Germans the Belgorod sector and dislodged them from several positions in local counter-attacks, gaining momentum daily. Front line dispatches said they Germans have discontinued attacks altogether on the other end of the Kurck salient where they tried in vain to breach the Orel sector. The Red Army Air Force resumed night operations and made a fierce attack on the Orel railway junction. hovers over the battered Italian Air Force photo. (International) Stalin’s powerful armies have| 15. — A spectal || The battling so far, according to Moscow reports reaching London, bave brought the German losses to’" more than 40,000 killed, 1,329 planes | downed and 2919 tanks destroyed | e the start of the summer cam- ign. - Put as Long Shots MORE BEEF Four Amemans (a ture 52 !Iahan Officers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 15.—Four American Rangers, charging the heavily mined beach at Gela, cap-| |tured 52 Italian officers in one| bullding after a short fight. This is confirmed with the arrival of the |Ttalian officers accompanied by one lone ranger, who took them. - LEWIS MAY BE CALLED ONCHARGE Treasury Gives Evidence to ' Attorney General | for Action | WASHINGTON, July 15.—Secre- | tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-| genthau said the Treasury is for-| warding results of an investigation | involving the United Mineworkers’ | Union and its President John L. Lewis to the Attorney General for | “such action as he sees fit.” | He said the investigation con-| cerned relationships six years ago| between Lewis' union and the so- called B mine near Springfield, Il The Chicago Daily News in an, article last Saturday said Lewis was subsidized in the recent ms-‘ pute by a unit of the Progressive| Miners of America, an AFL outfit. | - ALERTATT:15 v There will be tonight starting First Aid Corps will render first, aid to a patient suffering from a simulated fracture of the lower left leg with wardens acting as patients. All members of the Auxiliary Po- lice and Air Raid Warden Corps are urged to report for duty. Traf- fic, both pedestrian and vehicle will cease during the alert, practice Alert 7:15 o'clock. a at | President”- | then 'Move on Sicily Just Starter of IS COMING By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 15.—There are two schools of thought in Washington. One holds that James F. Byrnes, head of the Office of War Mobilization, is the Assistant President,” with greater powers than ever were accorded before to an appointive official. | The second contends that Har- Hopkins is the real “Second that behind the scenes v stock Mart the same old “New Deal” is being perpetuated; and that the recently WASH[NUTON July 15.—Price |established OWM already is being sqminjsrator Prentiss Brown pre- |circumvented on some orders issu- | dicts beef for hungry civilians will ing from the White House. be received in increased supplies as This group argues that HopKins , yesul¢ of heavy movements on the is closer to the President than any livestock market. lother individual; that he is Brown also said pleasure driving jmentor of that group of “adminis-| oy the Fast Coast will be lified for | trative assistants"—the men with A card-holders as soon as possible |a passion for anonymity; and Lhat: He told reporters there is no pres- {he has: his own “little cabinet” nt move to place a ceiling at the made up of Ben Cohen, Supreme!jivc "animal level of beef because Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and|the OpA wants to give the industry Samuel 1. Rosenmsn. “every chance to work out the prob- e lem.” In naming these men, the secvnd\ He said the price of corn will re- school of thought has some argu-|main at present levels. |ment about perpetuation of the Ncw OPA Chief Reports Heavy | Movements on Live- Ty Deal that reached its zenith during the second administration, because | most of them were as influential | as they possibly could today. H The Byrnes school doesn't ignore | these contentions, but says umply‘ that the “old New Deal”—that out- | growth of the depression Brain | Trusters—is dead. They ask you to| {point to one piece of New DPal‘ “social legislation” that has been | |passed since Pear] Harbor and ask you to think of any that is likely to get by the present Congress. They single out such legislation | as the modified Ruml Plan and/ 1]‘(-' anti-lubor legislation which pare for Worst, Says A e e Patferson Houses without” serious protests' | WASHINGTON, July 15. — The <Cmmnued on Page Three) | sicilian campaign has progressed - !be expected when the imminen | battle comes with the strong Axis |forces on the island, Under Secrc- Euro D . tary of War Patterson told the peall rve |newsmen at a conference this s 3 |afternoon. WASHINGTON, July 15 — | “Heavy casualties were escaped The Allied invasion of Sicily is |in the first few days of the inva- only the “first of many fronts in the campaign of Europe” said Elmer Davis here who is | - leaving for New York to depart | The California redwood from there shortly for Lon- !largest tree found in don, pessibly North Africa, Ameri later,” said Patterson. is | sion but this may not be repeated but the said, North fects directly the lives of everyone This is the wreckage of a theatre direct hits the time. ter diving through heavy At least 12 persons were killed. a southwest Enl anti-aircraft’f Hopkms Kiichenette Cabinet Is Attacked; NewGroupDemanded BY WARSHIP| SAYSBROWN AXIS GIVEN HARD BLOW IN SICILY Vichy Broadcast Declares Situation "Extreme- ly Serious LONDON, July 15. — A radio broadcast from Vichy depicted the tuation of the Axis in Sicily as extremely serious” and declared that further “infiltration attempts must be checked in order to avoid endangering the Axis defensive positions on Catania plain. The radio also mentions that the crack Goering Tank division has been “cracked” already in the battle in Sicilv INSICILY IN LOU MAXON FIRST MOVES Casualties Light But Pre- Can’i Go On, He Says, But QUITS OPA Declares Organization Must Continue WASHINGTON, July 15. — Dy- |far ahead of schedule but sharp Damic red-haired Lou Maxon, De- |fighting and heavy casualties must troit advertising y/over as & non xecutive who took awried Deputy Ad- ministrator in charge of the OPA public relations several months ago fuil of confidence, has resigned and expressed conviction that only a Houdini himself could untangle the OPA's legislative tape Maxon said he was offered a po- sition as General Manager of OPA hed the conclusion he could not continue with the OPA associa- tion in any capacity, “however,” he “OPA must not fail as it af- in this Nation.” teen TOPEKA, Kansas 15, -~ United States Senator Arthur Cap- per, veteran senior Senator, cele- brated his 78th birthday yesterday by making a plea for a nonpartisan War Cabinet to replace “‘Harr July Hopkins and his Ketchenette Cab- inet.” Senator Capper said: “I am not attacking the war effort, but I be- lieve it is best to have a new group, officially recogniz d rather than the Hopkins group.” .o BiG FORCE POURS INTO PACIFICNOW Submarines Continue to Send Down Many Ships of Japan PEARL HARBOR, H. I —8hips, planes and troops are pour- ing into the Pacific in sufficient force to insure retention of the Al- lied initiative in that area, Chester W. Nimitz say Submarines are destroying enemy shipping that Japan can ill afford to lose. R THIRDWAR LOANSOON COMING UP WASHINGTON, July 15.—Secre- tary of Treasury Morgenthau the Treasury expects to announce the goal of the third war loan drive by August 1 which opens Septem- ber 9. The loan is expected to be higher than the thirteen billion dollar drive which brought sales to eigh- and one-half billion dollars, says h town where a German hit- Many children were watching a cowboy film at Photo radioed from London to New York. July 15.] Admiral ~ i un raider scored t KISKA JAPS ARE SHELLED Observers Still Feel Time for Invasion Close i at Hand WASHINGTON, July 15 reported today that | warship bombarded Jap jon Kiska Island early (making the fourth shelling |U. 8. surface craft against {enemy base in eight days | The bombardment was againsi Gertrude Cove and the enemy guns {did not reply, evidently fearing to reveal positions of gun emplace- | ments. | Kiska was shelled {July 6, 9 and 11 | These attacks are the first since |last August and observers believe the move may be a prelude to an amphibious invasion The time for an summer is growing short. The opinion is that if the strategic base is to be taken this year it is lessential that operations begin soon as possible -e Delegate a light positions yesterday, from the | Navy previously oni| offensive ‘his { The | as | RUSSIANS | EngllshThealreWreckedbyTwoDlredHusv U. 5. FORCES MOVING IN TWO SECTORS Another Im_pdfiani Airport Is Captured-Heights of Another Taken | BRITISH ARMY FIGHT OFF ARMORED ATTACK Two Towns Taken in Big Thrust Toward Axis Base at Catania ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, July 15. jaws of the Allies have clamped ifown’ and taken a deeper bite into :astern Sicily after a furious bat- tle, the British Eighth Army hurl- ing back a powerful counter-attack of Nazi armored forces. The American Seventh Army has scored the greatest advance. Driv- ing inland, on a line paralled with the British East Coast push, Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton’s Americans that dug into the Ragusa and Viz- zini sectors, moved forward some six or seven miles, captured an- other important airdrome and alsc took the important heights of an- sther airdrome. Italian Staff Surrenders Another Italian General, com- manding the 54th Napoli Division, has surrendered with his entire staff, Hurling forward against stern re- stance, Montgomery's Eighth Army m. driven to the town of Beucoli, ‘mm miles north of the port of Augusta after weathering a crisis vesterday when German armored | forces, counter-attacking, actually reached the harbor at one time. Advances on Catania Alfred Wagg, NBC correspondent, reporting from a cruiser off shore, {sald the British advancing upon Catania, captured both Lentini and Carlentini, 13 miles to the south, The official communique said |heavy and medium Allied bombers dropped more than 400,000 pounds IN The (Contlnued on Puge Three) 12 THOUSAND CAPTURED IN SICILY NOW | American Take 8,000 as | Prisoners—British, Can- Dimond Coming: Expeded fo Be in Seatfle “ Today Then to Continue His Trip to Alaska WASHINGTON, July Delegate Anthony J. Dimond is re- turning to Alaska for his summer vacation and should arrive in Se- attle today, traveling there by air. Delegate Dimond will go by steamer to Ketchikan, visit there and other sections in Southeast Alaska for several days before go- ing to Valdez. Delegate, Dimond expects to in- spect the northern end of the Al- aska, Military Highway from -Fair- banks during August.’ - BUY WAR BONDS 15.—Alaska adians Remainder ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 15.—More than 12,000 Germans and Italians |hdve been taken prisoners in the Sicily invasion. The American forc- have captured 8000 and the Bnlhh and Canadians the remain- M(M of the prisoners taken have already been evacuated from Sicily “There are no signs of enemy | withdrawal from any points of lS".“)‘ The Sicilian population is friendly and helping to unload ships. The Allied troops have been cau- Itioned that Axis forces of a higher calibre are ahead ® e o 0 o o o DIMOUT TIMES begins tonight at sunset at 9:52 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 4:16 am. e Dimout begins Friday ® sunset at 9:51 p.m, e 0 20 9 0 0 0 09000 Dimout at