The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ VOL. LXI;, NO. 9397. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATUrRDAY. JULY 17, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =] ALLIES MAKE NEW CAPTURES, SICILY ISLE Terrific Aerial Attack Made On Munda Base 100 PLANES MAKE RAID, DROP BOMBS Softening-up for Ground Movement Is On-Bob- duri Under Attack BLASTR.R. THRUSTS OF 'NAZIS ARE! HURLEDBACK Germans Making Desper- ate Efforts fo Prevent | Soviet Breakthrough I VIERECK IS ' CONVICTED, = SYSIEMSIN AXIS AGENT NOR.ITALY L ‘ i 'Alleged Pro-German Pro- | RAF Drops Bombs on Mus- | solini's Electrified pagandist Is Found | Transportation Lines | 17—RAF bomb- Guilty by Jury 1 WASHINGTON, July 17. A‘ LONDON, July i 17 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Federal Court jury convicted George ers smashed at Italy’s transporta-| MOSCOW, July ‘ THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July Sylvester Viereck, alleged pro-Ger-tion system last night for the sec- man High Command has thrown | 17.—More than 100 American planes man propagandist, for violating the ond consecutive night. The assault|two new divisions, one armored. dropped 82 tons of bombs yester- foreign agents registration act. day on the Japanese air base at The jury was out nine hours and Munda, Gen. MacArthur's Head- found Viereck guilty on all six quarters announces. |counts of the indictment. The writ- The aerial onslaught, the great-'er was first convicted March, 1942, | est on this base considering the and served a year's sentence before number of planes ever made, is the case was remanded by the Su- intended to soften up the Japanese preme Court. foxhole and bunker defenses nNow {Under the new conviction he being approached cautiously by the faces a possible maximum sentence American jungle fighters, now with- of 12 years and $6,000 fine. in one mile of the base. i > = The ground situation is thus practically unchanged, indicating DE(ORATE that heavy rains are slowing down the Allied advance. | In another offensive, Allied planes bombed the Jap positions at Bobduri, only five miles from Sala- maua air base which is the objec- tive of the Allied ground troops above the Australian Aroe Islands. Hudson bombers also started large fires on the enemy seabase at pr gl Taberfane. The Washington Receive Awards for Merry - Go- Round Services By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, July 17.—Brig. (Major Robert 8. Allgp on active duty.) Gen. Lloyd E. Jones, who command- |ed an Army force in establishing an advance base in the Aleutians, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious ser- vice, the War Department an- nounced. WASHINGTON. — High ranking officials of the Agriculture Depart- ment are frank in saying that far- mers are impeding the war effort just as much as striking coal min- % ers when they stage a sit down Lieut. Col. Frank J. Zeller was strike on corn. |given the Legion of Honor for con- Feed corn is desperately needed duct “in performance of outstand- by poultry farmers, dairy farmers, g services as post officer in Al- and corn processors. But corn is aska since December 30, 1940." not moving to market because far-! SRR — Gen. Jones and Col. Zeller 1 i ] ! 1 ! i | | | | |was again made across the Alps:and one infantry, against the Rus-| |and power facilities feeding Musso- |sian spearhead, attempting a threat | |lini’s electrified railways were on the Orel front, dispatches said | | blasted. |this morning, but the Red Army [ Mosquito bombers also battered|is reported to have repulsed all |Munich on the German-Italian|Nazi thrusts and are continuing | Brenner Line. |the advance, one wing having suc- | - eee ‘cessfully smashed a counter-attack | |and rolled the Germans back to | E R l E within 25 miles of their heavily for- | tified base. | The Germans are frantically | rallying all available manpower and |stave off a major breakthrough of | |the Russians. DL L L —— | . ' . Cerfain Don’t Pointed Out by War Production | MAY ENI_IST Board | oo AS FLIERS WASHINGTON, July 17. — A| wartime code of selling practices, | aimed .at discouraging excess buy- ing and thus heading off .rationing int s v i g 10 e L0cal Examining Board | 3 d ction 5 e by Sl Swiwenl VLI TR Donald Nelson said the declara-| 18 to 26 tion of policy dooms for the dura-| {tion all “scarcity” advertising and b 2gen s such remarks by store clerks as| Announcement is made by Capt “you had better buy several of these Lawrence E. Reck, head of the local | | because ‘we may not get any more.” | Aviation Cadet Examining Board' Even the time honored compari- that the opportunity still exists for son appeal, “Our Price is $6.95, Re- young men to become Aviation gularly $8.95" must be eliminated Cadets. ' from advertising unless the sale| If the individual is 18 to 26 years! iold, inclusive, and has not yet been is a clearance. H |called for induction under the Sel-| anis shows part oi the harbor at Mes: the map. in ruins. Wiped Off Map asResult Aerial Bombing Messina, Sicily, opposite the Italian na from the mainland, which, according to Associated Press dispatches, has virtually been wiped off Pictures taken on reconnaissance flights show that the main area of the City of Messina is : Paithes oan. l. Sieéves Armament Engineering Weather Communications Something new has been added to the sleeves of enlisted technical specialists of the U. S. Army Air Forces. Shown are the recently adopted insi; Japs for the five classifications of technicians, Have Brought mers afe holding for a higher price. The typical farmer in the corn belt today is looking at his bins full of corn and reasoning that he might as well hold it for a while, since he doesn't need the cribs yet, and since the price might go up. Washington is partly to blame for this. The attacks on OPA, the firing of Chester Davis, and the Congressional demands to set aside the price ceiling, all have created uncertainty. So the farmer sits tight, saying, “I'll just wait till they make up their minds.” But when thousands of farmers do the same thing, it creates a scarcity which throws the national economy out of gear just as much as the lack of coal production. The patriotic thing to do, say Washing- ton officials, is to send your corn to market now, especially since the farmer is guaranteed the benefit of a price rise, if it comes. Meantime, the corridors of the Department of Agriculture are seething. Pressure for a corn rise is terrific. This is Marvin Jones’ first big battle. WICKARD GOES SHOPPING Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard went shopping with Mrs. Wickard the other day. He stood in the grocery store watching the shoppers, while Mrs. Wickard did the buying. He noticed a crush in front of the meat counter, while the vege- tables, including potatoes, were going begging. “That’s human nature for you,” mused Wickard. “Only a few weeks ago, when potatoes were short for a few days, there was a great howl from the public, and potatoes were sold in the black market. Now there’s plenty of potatoes — but everybody wants meat.” When Mrs. Wickard appeared from the crush, she announced with pride that she had some meat. “How much did you pay for it?” s splGrsstin 6 oy (Continued op Page Four) D i s ective Service Act, he may apply! M I I A R |at once to this local Aviation Cadet! | Examining Board for the physical} and mental examinations. No school | GOVERNOR | woN’T SEEK {or college credits are required. If | " ONINVASION 4TH TERM |the applicant passes the examina- |tions and is found acceptable, no- tice will then be given to the local {First of Ifs Kind Accompan- [ Two Outspoken Senafors ies Secretly Trained Voice Their Opinions American-British in Washington induction station requesting assign- ment to the Army Air Forces upon induction. ‘The applicant may then volun {teer for induction through the Se-! lective Service Board in Juneau,| and after induction assignment will /be made for preparatory training. Upon completion of this training Eibert D. an appointment as an Aviation Aasked by ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| wWASHINGTON, July 17. — Two NORTH AFRICA, July 17. — The outspoken Senators, one a Repub- 'first combined American and Bri- lican and the other a Democrat, tish military government of its klndiwdfly voiced the belief President accompanied an invasion army of Roosevelt might not seek or accept |hundreds of American and British|the nomination for a fourth term. officers and men trained secretly for| senator Gerald Nye of North Da- | months by the government. kota asserted that if the President In occupied enemy territory they “finds there is a large chance of | quickly established headquarters | being whipped, he will step aside.| Cadet will be awarded the appli- 1941, why he was trying to hard |cant, and from there on he will to avert war with the Japs when |and General Dwight D. Eisenhower |1f he looks around he will find | designated General Sir Arnold Al-‘”usz that.” have the opportunity to become a Many auphorities said we cpuld bombardier, navigator, or ' pilot— Wipe them out in three weeks. one of the “Three Musketeers of LThe Senator answered: “I do exander, Governor, in supreme; genator E. D. Simth of South authority in Sicily. Carolina declared in another inter- | The Allied military government | the Air!” not want war in the Pacific to come | If you are 17 but not yet 18, you because it would be a terrible thing. can go to this local Aviation Cadet M It does come we will be shocked iv!ew with the newsmen that Roose- | {organization itself is headed by Ma-'velt won't win the nomination even | jor General Lord Rennel of Rood,|if he should seek it and “by con-| Examining Board and volunteer for 85 We never have been shocked in lenlistment in the Air Corps Cadet OUr whole national history. |Chief Civil Affairs officer and Brig.|vention time I think he will be! General Frank McSherry, U. 8. de-|convinced of this.” Enlisted Reserve. Air Corps Enlisted Tnomas kne.w then wh.n§ a great Reservists are called to active duty MAany of us are only learning today puty chief. (Nt 1R (Second of Two Articles on the Japanese strangle-holds in the Pacific.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 17. — Sen. Thomas (D.-Utah) was newsmen in November men,” the Capt. added, “under w'the southwest Pacific, north of must have their parents written Australia, and the whole of eastern consent.” Asia from Manchukuo to Singapore IR to Burma in an Asiatic alliance against the white races. . FORT KNOX, Tenn. July 17.—' With the possible exception of The Armored Force of the hardhit-|the Dutch and the United States ting branch of the United States|(Whose only important possession Army, tanks, self propelled field in that area was the Philippines), artillery and mechanized infantry the Japs already have done more and other units on wheels, will|{to bring the millions of that vast hereafter be known as the Armored area over to their for pre-flight training at the end 80d what our own military and of the first school semester after Raval leaders have come to realize reaching the age of 18. through bitter experience: that the Capt. Reck went on to say that if Japs hsd_ planned well to use their an individual belleves that he has|Comparatively meager reserves of the stamina and physical endur-|War stores and equipment in a ance, and education to' become!Dltzkrieg to gain their main ob- qualified to fight our enemies n i€ctives and, once having gained the air, volunteer now. “Young them, to consolidate the whole of - ON SUNDAY FLEETIS | | Weather permitting there will be| 'a baseball game tomorrow after- N MovE noon at 2 o'clock with the City | playing the Mules, a regularly| Command. IOccldenwl nations did in the many |scheduled contest. The Army recently reorganizedidecades that they had ruled there. BERN, July 17—Areportreceived| Also weather permitting, two|the ground forces, Air forces and| The Senator thinks the Filipinos here via Stockholm says part of games postponed from last week|Service forces, and the Armored Will remain loyal, in spite of the the Ttalian fleet has steamed out will be played early next week—the Forces, now part of the ground|fact that a puppet government is of Laspezie and is expected to en- Webfeet vs. ti City, and the City forces, have been renamed and thejreporiedly functioning well in all gage the Allied warships, vs, the Biues, change is made Lo avoid confusion, but the matter of adequate food Side, P_resenl War -1 The Governor t side than the |® fo Their under Japanese rule. | Naturally, all he has to go on is | the reports now leaking out of these Japanese-conquered islands and lands, but he doesn’t think |that a lost Frenchman in Indo- | China, or a lost Britisher in the |wilds of Burma or the Malay states, would find many friends among the natives Apparently the Japs have played | well their propaganda of Asia for | the Asiatics and have learned far ybelter than the Germans that sub- | jugated nations can be brought to {Lhumb'thmuuh a certain amount of | self-government faster than by slavery. The Senator is NOT one to sneer at the ability of the Japs as colon- |ists. If they haven't been able to | convince many Japanese to settle in Manchupia, he points out, they have attracted 25,000,000 Chinese to | that country since they took over and less than 1,000,000 of them have returned to .China proper since | those nations went to war. “There will never be a collapse in the Far East now,” says Sena- | tor Thomas, “for lack of food, man- power or raw materials.” If those were all the things nec- essary to victory, the Nips already have them in their palms. It's good that even Senator Thomas thinks ultimately they will need more than that. - SAN FRANCISCO, doctors have rum to prevent influenza Inhaled directly into the lungs from a mist, it neutralizes the in- fluenza virus, announces Comdr. July 17 developed an Paul Krueger, director of the naval | laboratory. He is an ex-professor of bacteriology at the University of California i | | 1 | DESERT ARMY APPROACHING BIG PLAIN Momgomer‘y";Eighth Divi- sion Makes New Ad- vance on Catania FLEET 15 BATTERING ENEMY ALONG COAST ) toe and just across the Strait of OPAPRICES ONFISH HIT BY GOVERNOR Protests 10—Washington— Ceiling Too Low for | ‘ Fishermen With fishermen tying their boats {up in some areas as a protest to |the new maximum price regulations n fish sold to wholesalers, Gov.| |Ernest Gruening this morning pro- :lested to the Office of Price Ad- | ministration in Washington, asking |adjustments in the price schedule. | Governor Gruening said he has received many communications from }flsh(-rm(-n and their organizations [nnd that he has been informed the black cod fishermen have tied up their boats while trollers are de- bating this mo e ived wires from iLHe Petersburg Vessel Owners and |Deep Sea Pishermen’s Union, from the West Coast Trollers, and other |organizations protesting the prices which evidently were set in Wash- |ington. Harold Aase, Tom Ness and Russell Elliot called in person this morning to deliver protests and ask relief. | Injust The Governor’s message, sent to Deputy A. M. Shaw of the OPA, | said that maximum price regulation 418, setting prices on fresh fish at| producer and wholesale level “rep-| resents a manifest injustice to Al- askan fishermen.” The following conditions were out- | \lined by the Governor: ! 1—Fishermen feel that the size differential should be fixed at 12 pounds and over for large salmon |instead of 14 pounds since all fish (over 10 pounds are used for mild- cure and smoking. i blefish have not in recent | been priced on the basis of size. All sizes have commanded the same price. | The wire said that establishing a differential as to size cuts across |an established business practice that | fishermen have fought for years to obtain, and the margin between | the price paid to fishermen and| the price allowed the wholesaler inl |Alaska is “too great relative to the price paid fishermen,” | Not Applicable Said the Governor, “the regula- tion apparently was written to cover the situation Outside and does not give consideration to Alaska's par- ticular needs. “I understand neither the fish- ermen nor the Alaska OPA offi | years | (Continued on Page Six) {the French Goumiers, Americans and Canadians Keep Steadily Moving Inland, Seize Towns ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 17. — Gen. Montgomery's great Desert Army is believed approaching the outskirts of Catania after smashing back Herman Goering's crack motorized forces and elements of the Fif- teenth German armored Division in the biggest battle yet in Sicily, and is now going forward. The powerful Allied war fleet sea- ward is gunning the enemy’s posi- tions. The Desert Army has captured Lentinia and Scordia, at the en- trance to Catania Plain. The Headquarters communique announces that in all other parts of Sicily the Allies ance con- tinues. Lentinia is about 15 miles below Catania, a prize seaport and air- base, half way up on the eéast Sicilian Coast, and Scordia is nine miles inland. The capture of the two points rounds out the capture of four more towns, The Canadians have taken Caltagirone, 20 miles inland. The Americans have taken the bridgehead between Gela and Grammichele, six miles east, while the fierce knife and Tommy gun wielding warriors of the Moroccan campaign, have joined with the left flank of Gen, Patton'’s Americans and ., are believed to have emerged on the hilly ground that rings the beach- heads. Patton’s forces have pene- trated about 30 miles inland. The Canadians have cut into the heart of the enemy’s defense system in central Sicily and have captured Caltagirone 28 miles due west. session of the lateral east and west The Allied forces are now in pos- highway, also the valley that great- ly facilitates unbroken communica- tion between Patton’s and Mont- gomery's armies. WARRANTOUT FOR ACCUSER OF H. FONDA LONG BEACH, Calif, July 17.— Deputy Marshal Jack Bernard an- nounces he has an arrest warrant for Barbara Jean Thompson, pa- ternity case plaintiff versus Henry Fonda, movie actor, accusing her of failing to appear for trial on vagrancy and disorderly person charges after police found her in a hotel room with an Army offi- cer. Her attorney says she has en- tered a hospital because she is nervous over the Fonda case. | DIMO o o o T TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:49 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:20 a.m. Dimout . begins Sunday sunset at 9:47 p.m. Dimout ends Monday sunrise at 4:22 a.m. Dimout begins Monday sunset at 9:45 pm. LR B B O A e at at