The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK VOL. LXI., NO. 9399. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED ;RFSS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1943 o | U. S. LIBERATORS BOMB PARAMUSHIRO Americans Stab Deeper Into 2 Sicily U.S. FORCES HEADING UP IN CLEANUP Gen. Palionmoried Only 60 Miles from Paler- mo, North Port BRITISH FORCES ARE FORGING TO CATANIA ltalians Sur—r;ldering in Mutiny Against Their German Officers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 20.—Ameri- can troops are stabbing deeper into western and central Sicily against weakening Axis resistance, especi- ally by the Italians, who are re- ported mutinying against their German officers. The British forces, in the vital battle of Catania, have smashed back desperate German tank at- tacks. Allied troops are within artillery range of Enna, the ‘central Siclly stronghold, commanding the main roads and railréads cast and west. A terrific pounding of the gates to Catania is in progress. Front line dispatches this after- noon said the U. 8. troops have ad- vanced 10 miles west of Agregento on the southwest coast. Front line dispatches also state there are many indications of mu- (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—A new phrase has developed among war depart- ment strategists in mapping out operations in Sicily and the Medi- terranean. It is “classical warfare.” The army air forces have coined the phrase in their desire to throw cold water on the “classicial” foot- ARMY BLASTS KISKA AGAIN, - BIG ATTACK | Target-Also Gertrude Russians Smash at North Norway Coast In Sea-Bome Atfack Enemy’s Main Camp Area l LONDON, July 20, f’rhe Russians | have attacked the north coast of| Norway. i A Berlin radio broadcast, cany-1 ing first word of the move, said| a Soviet amphibious force attacked | the coast in Varangerfjord, an in- |dentation in the coast of extreme northern Norway above Finland. The broadcast said the Russians doe, small town on the peninsula| which juts out in the Barents Sea across Varangerfjord toward Fisher Peninsula, 1 Cove Defenses WASHINGTON, July 20. — The Navy's communique today says a formation of Army heavy and me- dium bombers attacked Jap posi- tions on Kiska and blows were di- rected at the enemy’s main camp area and defenses about Gertrude] 'Cove. Due to overcast skies, results were not observed RUSS GUNS HIT NAZIS NEAR OREL New Gains Reported Al- ; though Germans Re- | sisting Strongly \ (By Associated Press) Russian siege guns blasting at| then said he deplored the Curlent‘plunps \Lhe Nazi pivotal bastion on three sides today as the Red Army tight-| ened a semi-circle around the for- ]tress of the |sector. Dispatches from the front said' a powerful Soviet column west of| Orel had penerated 30 miles into the German rear positions as far | as Ilinskoye, scooping in 130 more quired to win in Europe, Horne said‘ villages and bringing to 240 the total of towns taken since the Rus- sian counter-offensive began. | While the Soviet communique re- | The attack was beaten off, the | Germans said, after Soviet landing craft were shelled from shore bat- |teries which sank or damaged many | LONG BATILE WITH JAPAN 15 FORECAST ‘Vlce -Chief Naval Opera-| tions Tells of Plans for Long Sfruggle WASHINGTON, July 20—Vice-| | Admiral Frederick J. Horne today |revealed the Navy is planning to| | war against Japan for at least until | 1949. | The Vice-Chief of Naval Opera-| | tions appearing at a conference | with newsmen, made the statement, vand Secretary of Navy Frank Knox {optimism over winning the war m |a hurry. Supporting his opinion regarding invader in the Orel'a long war against Japan, Horne| |declared “we still have a long way, tremendous distances, to go in Pacific. We have to build bases from the ground up as we advance.” Questioned about the time re-| his opinion is “entirely a guess” }and he would give no date. Horne declared there is a good deal of wishful thinking in expec- soldier methods of the older serv-! |ported only a modest advance of | tation of a collapse in Germany” ices of the Army, and to pu: ush | ahead with all-out air attacks. Clas- sical warfare, they say, is like | studying Greek and Latin in a day when we need Spanish, Russian and French. The method used in invading Sicily was a compromise among land, air and naval elements, re- suiting in the “pecullar amphibious operations” Churchill talked about. But the air forces believe they can move even faster and more effec- tively in conquering other parts of Italy if they don't have to be tied down by classical warfare. For instance, with bases in Sic-| ily, Army airmen think they can| so pulverize the industrial plants of Northern Italy that they can bémb that country out of the war, without waiting for huge landing operations to come up and help them. Then with air bases in Northern Italy, they are within range of the hidden synthetic gasoline and rub- ber factories which Hitler moved into Austria and Czechoslo- vakia. Thus, step by step, the air forces believe they can knock out the enemy without resorting to; classical warfare. Here is one significant thing Army airmen point to. During the ten days just before we invaded Sicily the Nazis had been sending a lot of new planes into Siclly and’ Southern Ttaly. But after one day of fresh Axis air strength, which was heavily damaged by U. S. planes, there fol- lowed a day or two of weak re- sistance. In other ~words, Axis planes were knocked out and md A L o 1 T (Continued on Psge Pour) has! from four to six miles, it indicated \how furiously the Germans are re- |sisting, with the disclosure that the Russians had rebuffed 12 enemy | [ SN LT | (Continued on Page Three) but he predicted “no such morale collapse in the army” as in 1918 be- cause the German soldiers of to- day, trained in Hitlerism, are sep- (Continued on Page Three) VastAm | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, July 20. It won't mean anything so far as| taxes are concerned for years to come, but it’s considered certain lup on the Hill that wartime ap- propriations for the last two fiscal |years hit the peak. Starting with 1944, war appro- priations probably will taper u(l sharply, even if the war still 1s |raging, and may even do a crash dive if victory is in sight. As a matter of fact, members lof Congress, now returning home for the first long period in more ithan three years, probably will |make a point of this. There has | to be some answer to charges such| as that hurled by Secretary Commerce Jesse Jones in his tiff with Vice President Wallace: “Squandering the people’'s money, even in wartime, is no proof of patriotism.” Couple this with the declaration Congress Is Drawing Purse Strings Tight; ounfs Expended lof Sen. Robert M. LaFollette: “I |do not hesitate to make the state- ment that if Congress refuses to lapprupuate another dollar, this |war could be carried on for two| | years without any (further) action by Congress.” And that from Sen. Harry S Truman: “The Army and Navy . know how to waste money bet-| !er than any other organizations I |ever have had anything to with.” Wrap these statements up with that of Sen. Harry F. Byrd: “At ‘the beginning of the 1943-44 fiscal | year, there was more than $203,- 000,000,000 in the' Treasury, appro— priated for war purposes, but un- °“expended and the war agéncies of | the government have authority to make contract authorizations for nearly $25,000,000,000 more.” He pointed out that this stag- gering sum (only a book obuga- lCnnnnued on’ Page P!ve) AT MUNDA attempted a landing south of Var-| the most northwesternly | {point of the Soviet Union. ';(ANTON ISLE Areas BIG NIPPON NAVAL BASE AIR RAIDED U. S. Tank Hits Beach af Sicily CLOSE - IN . i § i : \,’ i ‘ | | i Hand fo Hand Engage- ments Reporfed on New Guinea Front ALLIED FORCES ARE GOING AHEAD SLOWLY {MacArthur Now Making Raids by Using Up fo 200 Bombers e i | Aleutians, Make Smash in North Pacific IFIRES ARE STARTED, - NEAR HITS, SHIPPING First Big Attack So Closely | fo Japan Since Doo- ‘ little Raid | < ! WASHINGTON, July 20. — The ALLIED 4HEADQUARTER:: IN| |Navy Department announced this |SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 20.—~1 morning that Liberator heavy {Sharp jungle fighting, some of it igrim hand-to-hand engagements in| which the Japs have lost 260 dead,| G . 3 | is reported as the Allied forces| [ Tk i press attacks near Munda, New| Plunging into the water off a landing craft, a U. S. tank, with pennants flying, hits the beach at Siclly Georgia. during the first moments of invasion. This Associated' Press photo was transmitted via U. S. Army Signal American troops have made a Corps radl«phntn, Algiers. | bombers, winging over the Japan- |ese side of the North Pacific, have |bombed the great enemy naval base {of Paramushiro in the northern Kurile Islands, ‘The Navy reports that fires were started on the base and near hits § |limited advance near Lilio, with| — - ————— |were 'scored on shipping in. the casualties reported light. { naval base harbor. | Australian troops continue to Y nk Da h Ash I“Ios C|| r' 1 The big Army planes, described advance, like the Americans, on| a s s ore l y u 'as “a formation,” may have been a dozen of so, and apparently op- erated from Amchitka, in the Aleutians. | The distance from Amchitka to | Paramushiro is 861 nautical miles. | This is the first big raid of American bombers in the North Pacific that have struck so closely |to Japan propey since the Doolittie raid on Tokyo. Attack Expected American air operations against | the Japanese sea and air bases in | the Kuriles have been expected ever |since the Americans occupied Attu and completed the bomber runways |there which the Japanese were | building. Attu is only 765 miles f‘from Paramushiro and Japan proper |is only 2,005 miles distant. It is believed, however, that the Liberators on the present raid on Paramushiro started from Amchit- ka where a large base has been established. ¢ | Some military experts believe the quickest route to victory over the | Japanese lies via the Aleutians and Kuriles. Pressure on Defenses Paramushiro is at the northern end of the Kurile Island chain which runs south like an arrow ‘mc slopes of Mount Tambu, in| |the same area around Munda. P — PAREELIO Bombers are supporting the ground forces and have carried the {fight to enemy bases. | Liberatpors have repeated a new record flight to Macassar on Cele- | bes Island, in a night raid. Large | fires were started and flames were visible for 80 miles away. Fires | were started on the waterfront, fac- tory area and airdromes. The flight |out and back from base took five | hours. Gen. Douglas MacArthur is now using up to 200 planes in single |raids whereas two weeks ago the |raids were limited to 20 to 50 1 ] i ‘(UT lIVING 1M.<< L # Guns ready, Yanks dash off landing barges into the surl as first American troops open the' invasion of Sieily, strategic Italian island close to the boot of Italy. This Associated Press photo was tranmsitted via U. 8. Army Signal Corps radiophoto, Aligers. Ultimatum EsaadbyPresi- R . dentG f Amer. i - ke & e Ubabor Allied Invaders Sail for Sicily DETROIT, Mich,, July 20. — As- serting that the “line of inflation has failed to hold,” William Green President of the American Federa- tion of Labor, today served notice that “unless the prices of food are brought down to a reasonable {level” organized labor will “have no |other recourse but to demand wage |increases.” ol _1Conu;1ue:i on ‘Pfie “Three) REP.LUDLOW “HITS LACK OF PEACEPLAN ESays United Nations Only Using Half of Re- sources Now | ~WASHINGTON, July 20. — The | United Nations are waging war | with only half their resources un- til their peace aims are stated, i |Rep. Louls Ludlow, Demoerat from Indiana says, | He said military might is being |used, but propaganda on peace aims is untouched. He said the use of such propaganda would aid inter- inal collapse of the Axis nations and |give war wearied peoples plaps for an | Green’s ultimatum was in |address before a convention the Brotherhood of Maintenance iof Way Employees. The ultimatum was followed by |less than a month of the warning |of CIO President Phillip Murray that labor will demand the scrap- plng of the “Little Steel” formula unless prices are roued back. 1S BOMBED " better world. Part of the greatest invasion fleet in history, United Nations landing craft, head for Sicily. This phnlo |- was made by a British army film unit aboard one of the 2,000 craft taking part in the invasion. This pic- | BY jApANESE ture was transmitted by radio from Al;lers by the OWL le DIMOUT TIMES . PE 3 THANEM IS HERE ! M. S. WHITTIER BACK | TROUTMANS HERE FROM * Dimout begins tonight — SHORT VISIT e at sunset at 9:43 o'clock. FROM SKAGWAY 'Illll" WASHINGTON, July 20. — To- !day's Navy communique disclosed that Japanese bombed Canton Is- land, north of Samoa, last S !day night without causing personnel casualties or material damage Oswald Thanem, with the Con-| tinental Can Company, is here from | Seattle. He is at the ranof. |S. Whittier ) P b 0 from an official BUY WAR BONDS trip to Skagway. Dimout ends tomorrow and Mrs, Sam Tmulm.m are e at sunrise at 4:2¢ am. returned Jast night here from Sitka for a few days' e Dimout begins Wednesday at routine business visit. He is principal of the Office nset at 9:42 pm. 4 lof Indian Affairs school there. ‘Poeeeeccrcs 3 Assistant Collector of Customs M ‘ Mr. American CTafi, Based in