The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . ——— JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =i VOL. LXI., NO. 9401. AMERICANS CAPTURE BIG AXIS AIRPORTS 150 U.S. Bombers Hit Japanese Pacific Base AMERICANS BEAT JAPS ONGROUND » Nippons Lose 19 Zeros in ’ 3 » + Dogfight Over New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 22.—Allied bombers poured 132 tons of bombs on Bairoko Harbor, New Georgia, in the heaviest air raid of the Southwest Pacific war, while American troops sent Japanese jungle fighters reeling back after unsuccessful counterattacks near Munda. A total of 150 bombers, with strong fighter plane support, as- saulted Bairoko in a raid that lasted throughout all of yesterday, sup-, porting the ground troops moving against this harbor from the north- ern tip of New Georgia Island. Bairoko is eight miles north of Munda. Meanwhile, the Japs got a second setback over Madang, New Guinea, in a swirling dogfight as a smal force of American Lightnings de- stroyed 19 Jap Zeros and probably shot down 11 more at a cost of two of our planes, One American pilot was saved. | At the other end of the 700-mile (Conum;e;i“o; “Page Three) The Washington, Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) i WASHINGTON,—With the inva- sion of Sicily, the question of whether Germany and Italy can pull together as a team now be- comes something much more than a subject of amusing wisecracks. | The basic hostility always existing between them—both the armies and the people—may now prove to be the fatal fault in the Axis. | United States diplomats and YANKS NEAR 50 Frenchmen 'CAPTURE OF | Executed for " MUNDA BASE Killing Nazi One Man Escapes During| March - Innocent By- stander Seized, Shot ;Spokesmaniiays Amer-} icans Few Thousand Yards from Field i Seiz | SOUTH PACIFIC HEADQUART-‘ BERN, July 22. — Fifty French ERS, July 22.—United States ground | citizens were executed in Paris last troops are within a “few thousand | week in retaliation for the shoot- yards of Munda airfield and now |ing of a German Lieutenant ac-| |are within reach of capture” of the cording to information coming big Jap air base. !across the German frontier. | The beleaguered Japs are clinging| One of the fifty selected to be| tenaciously to this key to the New |executed made his escape during | Georgia Island positions and are|the march to the execution grounds | situated behind strong defensive land members of the German firing | positions ringing the field, a spokes- squad seized a bystander and exe- | man for Rear Admiral Halsey says, cuted him with the other 49. | but the Americans are making “very - e | satisfactory progress.” The spokesman said the majority of the enemy's artillery has been knocked out of commission and the Japs are fighting chiefly with mor- small ,tars, machine guns and weapons. He said there is no sign the enemy can break through our ground, sea and air blockade of Munda and no important Jap forces have gotten through to relieve or reinforce the Jap bastion. ATTACKED . alians Re;;rt Several WARSHIPS | Nev; Rda:)d's by Al- 1 ied Planes HIT ITALIAN 1 LONDON, July 22. — An Italian communique reports British aircraft MAINLAND ‘atlempted to machinegun an air- { drome in Rome this morning. The Italians said casualties from Monday's American raid were 1,717 LONDON, July 22. — A Reuters | llied and 1599 injured. £ | The rePort also said Allied air- dispatch from Allied Headquarters| .. . isoq Naples and Gresseto in North Africa says the Royal Navy | t has bombarded the Italian mainland at Crotone in the Gulf of Taranto on the sole of the Italian boot | BB S iy across from Greece. | | the latter 90 miles north of Rome and Salerno, south of Naples. newsmen wifo lived interned in ' damage. Tighe said the object of Italy until May, 1942, recall manythe raid apparently was to cut one an expression of Italian resentment | of the routes by which the Axis against the Germans. On the night before the interned Americans left Rome to return to the U. S, a group of newspaper- men, including Richard G. Massock of the Associated Press, visited a restaurant called Biblioteca, which had been a favorite haunt for most of them before the days of intern- ment. The place was packed, largely with Germans, but when the head waiter recognized them, heé hustled some diners off, to make room for his old American friends. An Italian at the next table mumbled something about Ger- mans intruding, whereupon AP's Massock spoke up, “We are not German!” “Excuse me,’ said the Italian, indicating clearly that to call a man a German is a fighting word, This prompted another Italian to come to Massock, the first Ameri- can he had seen for months. With an affectionate embrace he said, “Please give my kind regards to President Roosevelt!” ! BLACK HAND FIFTH COLUMN United States officials who know Sicily suspect there may have been a Sicilian fifth column operating in favor of the Allied invasion forces. They base this suspicion on the fact that Sicily has always been an insurgent area—“the unrecon- structed south” of Italy. Sicily was the scene of the Mafia Society, known in the United States as the Black Hand. It was more respectable there than here, how- ever, being bitterly anti-Mussolini as the result of Il Duce’s successful efforts to drive the Society under- ground. Members of Mafia were the vigilantes of Sicily, undertaking to settle family feuds and personal problems outside the realm of the law. The people of Sicily have always (Continued on Page Four) Desmond Tighe, Reuters corres- pondent, reported cruisers hurled shells at the harbor area for five minutes in the early hours yesterday causing a number of fires. The British warships suffered no [ | might send reinforcements to the | 3RD loAN‘ toe of the Italian boot for trans- | | shipment to Sicily. } | A ok i | WASHINGTON, July 22. — Dig-| | |ging deeper than ever into the MINISTERS ASK | ' ELIMINATION OF | SUNDAY FUNERALS The Juneau-Douglas Ministerial | Association in a special meeting | has approved a resolution favoring the elimination of funerals on Sun- for financing the war. Starting September 9, the Na- tion’s third war loan drive will be- gin and the goal is to seek fifteen billion dollars, all of which is to come from non-banking sources. A day. It reads as follows: of difficulties in obtaining labor at | the present time, ‘and “WHEREAS, the ministers of | | Juneau are taken up with numerous other services on Sunday, and “WHEREAS, the minister's ab- | poll(v SA Y , ship upon his congergation, and “WHEREAS, the funerals could just as conveniently be held on week | . days, be it 35 be it o, et the suneau-| BYINES Announces Change Douglas Ministerial Association go | in war Agen(y Or_ 1 tion of funerals on Sunday.” ganilafion >, WAGE BOOST DENIED FOR MILLION MEN| |Director James F. Byrnes said the; - “WHEREAS, in the consideration 1STATE DEPTI | sence from duty often works a hard- | on record as favoring the elimina- | WASHINGTON, July 22. — OWM | WASHINGTON, July 22. — The State Department has been given| War Labor Board has refused the complete control of the foreign | Nation’s shipbuilding workers a re- economic activities of the office quest for a general wage increase after the recent shakeup which fol-| to offset the rise in the cost of lowed the dispute between Vice- living. President Henry Wallace and Sec-| The decision is based in the Lit- retary of Commerce Jesse Jones; tle Steel Formula. over foreign purchases. | More than one million Byrnes said Leo T. Crowley, new | are involved. | director of the Board of Economic - > Welfare, “must consult with the workers | Roy, DESPERATE BATILE ON RUSS FRONT Soviets C I;fi Smashing Through Nazi Lines in Orel Fighting (By Associated Press) German reinforcements are being rushed to the Orel breaches by forced marches and are counter= attacking viciously in desperate ef- forts to halt the Russian onslaught of yesterday, but all have been smashed back as the Soviet offensive rolled on within nine miles of the German stronghold ,the Moscow communique announces. | Soviet advices from the front lines state the battle is increasing in violence and rages 200 miles south of Moscow, The Russians claim they have beaten though the masses of enemy tanks and infantry for gains of four to nine miles and have overrun 90 villages. A London radio says Hitler has ordered the Orel hinge and the entire Nazi south and central line to be held at “all costs.” The German communique says the Russians are attacking along the MEAT FOR | Congress s ALASKA IS CURTAILED Dealer in South Says New | OPA Regulation ] Responsible der which requires that dealers in | lthe States supply Alaska retailers | AS MlSSING lout of their domestic quotas already is being felt by Juneau butchers | who have been informed that be- | cause of this no more meat wil {be shipped north in July and Aug- ust’s shipments will be drastically curtailed. This news came from the ‘Car- than 12 Jap Ships in Pacific -, The meat restriction order be-| .14 raider came effective as of July 1, and| gymed lost.’ | cancels the exemption previously | peated assurances from Washington | by Lieut. Commdr. George McKen- | that there would be no rationing in| zie, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y. ;Alaska. ; The vessel carried 8 normal com- Due to the difficulties in obtain-| plement of about 60 men. It is the ‘mg shipping space and the scarcity | tenth undersea boat lost by | the 450-mile front from the Sea of Azov to Orel, the heaviest thrusts in the | Orel sector being made north of | The Nazi communique asserts all Russian attacks have collapsed in defensive fire and that hails of bombs have arrested the main fight- ing, much of which is at the point of bayonets. i NEW ATTACK LAUNCHED LONDON, July 22.—The Russians | launched a strong attack near Len- | ingrad and fighting has been raging since dawn, according to a German | radio broadcast this afternoon and | recorded here by the Associated Press. | I 36 PASSENGERS . ARRIVE HERE THIS MORNIN Passengers: arriving from the south this morning were as' fol- lows: From Seattle: Richard R. Rob- |pockets of the average citizen, |y, o, Robert ©O. Duval, Pierce Uncle Sam will set out in Septem-|y;,qrelgon, Joseph Caron, J. V. ber to break his own world’s recordlflawkins, Mrs. J. V. Hawkins, F C. Melang, C. B. Michael, Stanley Wright, Mrs. Sylvia Murphy, Henry Martin L. Bryant, Robert Johnson. Ellis Bellanger, William E. Dolan, Frank Galbreath, Bernard Garran Eugene Ballinger, John Harris, Walter Ralph, Mrs. Constance H Dickman, Alvin H. Dickman, Miss Constance Dickman, Lina M. Ove- son, Mary T. Barnes, Louis R Barnes, Mrs. Wayne Taylor, Fred Spaulding, A. M. Uggen, and Peter Schneider. From Ketchikan — Bernard J Traeger, R. M. Griffin, E. Wright, and George Englerth. From Petersburg—Margaret Morris. From Tyee—H. T. Evans. Booked for Sitka are Arlene Do- lenc, Mrs. J. L. Dolenc, George A Collette, Mrs. Lillie F. Cease, Mrs. Elizabeth Copernall and baby, Mrs E. Lindquist, and Mrs, Mary Mc- Kallick. Leaving Juneau for Sitka were L. |Lilly Hooles, Ernest Wright, George Englerth, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, H. A. Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. P. Troutman. SALT LAKE CITY.— Maybe the U but he’s rolling in wealth compared with the Turkish fighting man. Corp. Robert L. Alertson, who was interned in Turkey for 11 months after an Army bomber was forced An average daily play of $1283,- State Department in every field to 299 brought in $33434,081 to the determine what the foreign policy Jamaica race track in 27 days. s down, said the Turkish soldier's monthly pay is 90 kurus, or about 45 cents in American money. | Belforod, at Kuibeshovo in the | Donets River basin and also at Lzyum 1 basis for the past two or three and two non-combat accidents in {months, and have been obtaining | the Atlantic. | no more than enough meat to sup-‘ United States subs have account- ply customers. ed This was pointed out by Roal |Copstead at the Chamber of| | Commerce meeting this noon, and | ihe said that in addition to supply—i ‘lng regular resident Alaskans, new | (War agencies and war contractors | {look to local butchers for obtaining | their supplies. He also said that| |the fishing industry calls upon lo-| |cal butchers to supply their fish- ing boats with fresh meat. Copstead, proprietor of the 20th) Century Meat Market, was appoint- | ed chairman of a committee to discuss the problem with the Al-| laska OPA office. Wallis George was | |named another member of the com- mittee and they will choose the third member. ; A forecast of togay's news came| Repo" from Seattle last week with the |information that all manufacturers| WASHINGTON, July 22. — The exporting to Alaska would have 0/ ynjted Mine Workers announce the deduct such shipments from their signing of a contract with the Il- domestic quotas. The Seattle Chamber of Com- calling for lengthened work days q! or damaged, including 200 sunk. | 3 —— MINERSIN | CONTRACT FOR WORK Make Agreement with Il nois Operators, Is merce at that time protested 10'and a portal pay agreement sub- I 7 Washington. |Ject to the approval of the WPB. TG The contract runs from April 1, 11943, to March 31, 1945. There Is |no direct increase in wages but |the work day is lengthened from AANGELENOS - STRANDED; | CAR TIE-UP LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 22—, Cars and buses of the Los Angeles | Railway that carry one million Angelenos to and from work daily | Flights yesterday of the Alaska, ceased operating at 3 a. m. today. | Coastal Airways took P. B. Villa- |seven to eight hours and time- and-a-half will be paid for the extra hour. . - MANY FLIGHTS ARE MADE BY of meat in the States, Alaskan im-| United States in this war, including | porters have been on a strict quoml eight lost in combat in the Pacific for a total of 263 Jap ships sunk | |linois Coal Operators’ Association | ALASKA COASTAL| The stoppage resulted from a vote of 3,000 members of the local Am- erican Federation of Labor Drivers | gancia and Edward Ances to Hawk Inlet and Sid Thompson to Todd. On one trip to Excursion Tnlet ! | and Motormen Union as a protest |were William McNabb, S. Martin- | to the WPB refusal to approve a son, and James Johnson. The retum]‘ 10-cent an hour increase over the |flight brought in R. O. Shumate, | present wage scale which ranges|Harry G. Dempsey, H. C. Casv.eex_l from 80 to 90 cents. }E A. Galbraith, and S. Hawkins. ! Thousands of workers stood on|Later passengers for the Inlet were street corners awaiting cars or walk- | H. W. Stout, Le. E. Love, R. Roemer, ed in the direction of their jobs. |Bill Connally, Ray Higgins, and re- Aircraft plants sent out trucks and | turning to Juneau were Lee Swift, trailers equipped with makeshm,vonnm Oppegard, George Leace, | seats to round up workers. Harvey Groks, Howard Croks, and | The radio appealed to motorists | Frank Yarnot. | to fill their cars with workers. i | It is understood the tie-up will las passengers K. Kiger, F. K. Hen- only last 24 hours. e | Dajakanoff. of So Slow IfItReally - v WanfsioSpeed Up SUBTRITON ' REPORTED The result of a recent OPA or-| { {Vessel Destroyed More| of Jap shipping, is “pre- |that long. Fourteen minutes after The TriL‘m\ destroyed more than a placed its stam rovs i s stamp of approval on |in effect for Alaska in spite of re-|dozen Jap ships, was commanded|the 27 billion cx])el\di!u];":' sent it { ‘THUNDERBOLT DRIVE IS MADE INSICILY AREA o A STUNEYT e | U-S. Forces Make Extensive £ , July 2 ll‘; . that Congress is a slow, unwieldy| |mp0|‘fan| Clhes . body that gets nothing done with- out days of harangue, tell them this little story: The Naval Appropriations bill for (OLUMNS REPORTED 1048 4" ity ALBAERR Hetordl Tho NEARING PALERMO |Snate. The amount was for more hvipsalic than $27,600,000,000 — 2 larges 0 . . , apropriation ever varea Brifish Fighting Near Ca- Si el more than 24 bilten | tania_One |falian Force Sen. John H. Overton (D.-La.), Surrendering subcommittee chairman, arose and said almost apologetically that he | ! v 1‘“5;": P'_“k":‘ ,C"':p“"-‘hfl‘l T“f":‘l“ . |would like the Senate's indulgence| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN griicl Sup les about half ' of “| WASHINGTON, July 22. — The “for 15 or 20 minutes” while he|NORTH AFRICA, June 22. — The aska’s meat supply. | Navy announced the sub Triton,|explained the 'bill. It didn't take|American Seventh Army has cap- tured Castelvetrano and Sciacca, on the Sicilian south coast, both with major Axis airports. ‘The capture was the result of a thunderbolt drive that placed the American Seventh Army nearly 20 miles from the western tip of Sicily. The Allied Headquarters com- munique also said these two major bases were captured in a coordinated he started talking the Senate had back to the House for minor con- currences, and had recessed for the day with as little flurry as if it hadn't spent a nickel. | The stories about the officiousness | of guards on public buildings here are numerous but the prize of all is that one about Vice President Wallace, who was also chairman of | the Board of Econpmic Warfare. After Senate adjournment the| other day, the V-P hurried over to| the BEW offices at 12th and Con- stitution for a conference. The| guard on the door wouldn't let him| by until he had obtained a “Visi- | tor's Pass.” Mr. Wallace is ordinar- ily a most even-tempered man but that reportedly was one occasion | when he wasn't. The biggest subject around Wash- ington today among Uncle Sam's| mephews and nieces is how to get | a half-day off a week for shopping, visits to doctors and dentists, etc., without disrupting the 48-hour week. If it sounds like such a little thing, note that the President has concerned himself with it consid- erably. He slapped down the idea of Federal employees working nine| sweep in which other U. S. forces took San Stefano and Ouisquina, about 30 miles south of Paléermo on the north coast and 40 miles west of Enna. San Caterina, seven miles north- west of Caltanissetta and 28 miles south of the north coast and Menfi, midway between Castelvetrano and Sciacca, have also been captured by the Americans. Nearing Palermo The American columns are now approaching Palermo and are cross- ing the northern side of the moun- | tain range which guards the Axis | supply port and military camp. The communique also reveals the (Continued on Pigt;.—‘i';ree) - R PARACHUTERS PROVE STUFF .on Saturdays. hours a day five days a week, and| closing after a three-hour session INSICILY FIGHT ‘American Airborne Glider Forces Beat Back Nazi Apparently the President as well as many other officials feel that the wheels of government should be kept turning a full six days \] week to avoid the long delays that often result from the 5%-schedule. However, the President aia snits| Armored Unis his approval of the half-day aj week off. It probably will be worked| LONDON, July 22.—By repulsing out on a stagger schedule so that|German armed forced and protect- —— ———— |ing the beach landings, airborne (Continued on Page Three) - - ELMER DAVIS NOW BOUND FOR LONDON Has Double i’urpose for Trip-Propaganda to Axis Planned NEW YORK, July 22.— Elmer| |troops proved their worth in the | Sicily fighting and have won the | right to a more important part in | the invasion, Maj. Gen. Joseph | Swing déclared here at a conference | with the newsmen. | American airborne forces descend- ed on Sicily in larger numbers than 1m any other set-down in a single | operation, said Swing. He did not |give the exact number of troops {employed but indicated it was élose | to the entire personnel of the 82nd Air Borne Division. In the first test under fire, these 1 young parachute and glider troopers {used anti-tank guns and .75 mili- | meter field howitzers to bzat back efforts of the 15th German Armired | Division that smashed down on the | beaches where the first 45th In- fantry divisions were coming ashore. The soldiers from the sky held staunchly against the best the en- Today’s first trip to the Inlet took | Davis, Director of the Office of emy could throw at them from War Information, is reported en- |shaw, F. E. VanArden, and Cecil |route to London to coordinate the | Returning were N. news Friday night until the land forces reached them on Monday, Maj. Gen. CHUNGKING, July 22. — In a|Norom, Dennis A. Sheppard, Mr. | fronts. three-day offensive action the Unit- | Hudson, Sgt. F. N. Pitts, C. M.| ed States Fourteenth Air Force at- | Sheppar, and F, P. Rice. tacked targets in the vicinity of | China, to make a sweep of the were J. E. Salmon, Ernest E. Lin- Hankow area in central China and soln, Palmer W. Holmes, Capt. A. also bombed the Jap advance base M. Ledbetter, and from Sitka to at Tengchungy'n Yunnan Province. | Juneau K. C. Nordby, A. B. ueciger, Direct hits{ were scored in the | June Conroy, and E. Roy. |attacks in Freach Indo-China on | - eee - 'floating docks and also a large | cement plant i BUY WAR BONDS Those flying to Sitka yesterday,erican propagand: lic v 3 S. soldier won't get rich on his pay. Haiphone and Hongay, French Indo- | with the Alaska Coastal Airways way fgr "i;i l"‘av;::::‘y RyviaRthe |might shorten the way. service from the fighting Swing said. . | London sources said Davis will — o AR T, |work out a joint British and Am-/e o e ¢ e e L s . DIMOUT TIMES . of Europe ® . and these sources also assert that « Dimout begins tonight e “Washington has devised a scheme ® at sunset at 9:40 o'clock. . to inform the Axis countries of ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow e precise terms for any peace they ® at sunrise at 4:30 am. . might expect,” and according to ® Dimout begins Friday at e the London Daily Sketch, the “terms| ® sunset at 9:38 p.m. 2P 000 00