The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LXI., NO. 9403. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 24 1943 “ME MHI R /\SS()( l/\ll D PRE SS PRICE TEN CL'NTS e e} PATTON'S FORCES MOVING ON CATANIA Invasion Of Kiska Now Strongly Indicated ISLAND BASE IS ATTACKED | BY SEA, AIR Combined Operations Are Reported by Navy- | RCAFFlierin Action | WASHINGTON, July 24. — Th(‘\ Navy discloses that heavy Ame: can air raids preceded and fol- lowed the American warships’ bom- bardment of the Jap positions at Kiska, in the Aleutians, last Thurs- | day. As the result of the combined air and sea operations, the enemy coastal batteries, anti-aircraft po- sitions and buildings in the area were hit and many fires were| started One large explosion was observed, | the Navy communique says The communique also d closed | that Canadian fliers are participat- ing in the campaign to soften up the Jap positions on Kiska. Some | of the fighter planes in the at-! tacks are piloted by RCAF fliers. One American plane has been downed in the attacks by anti- aircraft fire but the crew was rescued. 1 The bombardment by the Navy,, as- announced yesterday, was par- | ticipated in by both heav and | light surface units. They assaulted the enemy shore positions. Enemy | shore guns replied but none of! the American attacking fleet was| damaged. ‘Today's war bulletin gave the first intimation of the coordinated sea and air drive and an amphi- bious invasion of Kiska is strong- ly indicated. Much heavier damage than ex- pected was accomplished by the raid on Thursday which raised to 20 the number of attacks on Kis-| ka this month. Surface bombard- ments this month have totaled | e ee— JRTIS SHATTUCK RETURNS Curtis Shattuck of the Shatmck‘ Agency, returned by plane this morning after several days in Skagway on a business trip. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—With Allied troops storming Sicily, French les- sons from the current row over Generals DeGaulle and Giraud are vitally important today—(1) as an example of the mistakes we should avoid in Italy; (2) as an example of how not to get divided into two opposing camps at home. American-British opinion already is almost as divided over DeGaulle and Giraud as in France. If we are not careful the same dissension may occur over different political factions in Italy. To get the full benefit of cur- rent French lessons it is necessary 1o go back to the days shortly after tie Fall of France when the Allies needed at least one French leader around whom to urge the freeing of France. General DeGaulle, a relatively low-ranking officer who had distinguished himself as a tank expert, was the only man available. He was not the best choice, but there was no other. So he was built up as a symbol of Free France. Very soon he turned out to be a temperamental, sometimes conceit- ed, always strong-willed symbol. Among other things, he wrote a letter to the British and American Governments comparing Allied stra- tegy to a drum and saying: “No one man is beating the drum. But l (Continued on Page Four) 1Six Die in Accident Near; cl Coast area; Capt. Charles Paddock | aide to Gen. Upshur, and Lieut. Comdr. Station. in the nation. “DIAMOND LIL”" GIVES GEMS TO WAR | | i | damaging jand torpedo planes sent the tender {to the bottom protection, rose to meet the attack, were shot down. The Allied Nations lost three. lin |Salamaua and Lae | |the ground situation at Munda. USE OFHER CELEBRATED DIAMOND collection, estimated to be worth half a million dollars, has been turned over to the War Production Board for armament manufacture by Actress Mae West, famed as “Diamond Lil” ¢n the screen. The government will use the gems in precision instruments and cutting drills._ (International) | ALLIESMAY TAKECRETE, MOVE EAST Belief Grows Russ Will Be Linked by Our Fighters ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 24. — There is a growing conviction here that the Allies are about to strike in the Eastern Mediterranean to link up with the Soviet offensive. The unrest in the Balkans is in-' creasing. The Germans are taking complete charge of all Greek ports and the Corinth Canal region. Many observers believe the island of Crete will be the next occupied by the Allies. OIHER VI(TIMS | OF PLANE (RASH | ARE ANNOUNCED 'Flier, in Precarious | Situation, Chules ' Safely fo Earth UNITED STATES BOMBER BASE IN GLAND, July 24. —Sergt. as Thomas, 21, of Gratham, Pa., dangled from an open ball turret of a Flying Fortress for a full minute, then decided he could not get back in and let go and parachuted safely. Because it was his first flight over England, Thomas decided to squeeze into the ball turret with his chate. He said: “I was darned glad I did.” Ball turret men usually fly without their chutes. | f GOP LEADERS 'ARE TO MEET ONSSEPT. 6,7 Perha ps—FEndation for 1944 Platform Will Be Laid at that Time S“kfl—ArmY Sergeanl's | WASHINGTON, July 2. — Re-| H ublican Party leaders announce Name Withheld ~ 'c they will meet September 6 and 7, WASHINGTON, July 24. (on Mackinaw Island, Michigan, and‘ — The lay the foundation for what might Navy announces the names of addi- | turn out to be the nucleus of a| tional men lost in the Navy plane Party platform for 1944. crash near Sitka, Alaska, last Wed- | This will be the first meeting of nesday as Harold Morris, Aviation |the full Party Advisory Committee Chief Radioman, 23! of Cedar Rap-|0f 49, composed of Governors, Leg- | ids, Towa, and Donald Whetstone, | islators and National Committee aviation machinist® mate, third | members, since organized last May | lass, 21 of Minerva, Ohio. |by Republican National Chairman| The name of an Army Sergeant | Harrison E. Spangler. is withheld pending notification of > P Otbar victima o the oraih, .”(GA FLOTILLA WILL MEET MONDAY NIGHT announced yesterday, were Maj. Gen. William Upshur, Cmnmundun- General of Marines in the Pacific | An important meeting for mem-! bers and prospective members of | Joseph DeGanahl, Execu-|the Coast Guard Auxiliary flotilla | tive Officer of the Sitka Naval No. 2100 has been called by Dr.| J. O. Rude for Monday night at| 8 o'clock. The meeting will be held in Dr. offices in the Triangle J 1 —e e ‘There are only about 5,000 Rocky Mountain bightrn sheep left!Rude’s Building. 9,000 - TON {Allied BorfiBers Smash THE SOUTH PACIFIC, July 24— |Allied bombers smashed & Jap at- | tempt strong |Island, | “Little Steel” | |81 Ibow for (tween 10:30 and 10:45 o'c JAP TENDER SENT DOWN'. Nippon Attempt to Run Supplies, So. Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | to run supplies to their base at Buin, Bougainville last Thursday night, sink- ng a 9,000 ton seaplane tender and an escorting destroyer, A heavy force of dive bombers under strong fighter five enemy Zeros, which Allied bombers sank twelve Jap harges and damaged thirteen others Huon Gulf, where the Jap bases of are situated. There no reports on have been Island in the central Solome offensive uudin\i the Japanese in th - WAR LABOR BOARD WILL HOLD LINE _ Won't Junk Little Steel;‘ Formula, Written Opinion Says WASHINGTON, July 24. — The/ War Labor Board has served notice it does not intend to scrap the wage formula even though other divisions of the anti- |inflation army may weaken. This opinion was written by Wayne Morse, public member of |the board, denying wage increases' |for the Los Angeles transit workers | who went on strike Thursday. “The time has come for labor to realize if we're going to stop infla- tion we cannot continue to raise 5 |wages In brackets which are not ubstandard,” the opinion said. i e s Navy Officer Passes Away, = Alaskan Post :: SEATTLE, July 24. — Lieut Comdr. Edward L. Carpenter USNR. died in line of duty at an | Alaskan Station, according to word received here. He was known widely in Alaska and the Pacific North- west as a construction engineer One of his major projects was the Lake Washington floating bridge here. Amrllan ~l)ldnr~ lmulul a light f unw the niral Solomons got underway. Slreamlmmg ol RA!NBOW GIRI.S WiLL ATTEND CHURCH SUN. Members of the Order of Rain Girls will attend service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Lo morrow mnrnmg All girls are requested to at the Scottish Rite Temple be ck in order to attend the 11 o'clock ser |vices in a body. D JUDGE HELLENTHAL LEAVES Judge Simon Hellenthal of the Third Division left yesterday on the Woodley plane for Anchorage - By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 24 move to streamline, Congress, dicted here some months ago, finally been brought into the open | in the Senate at least. Sen. Robert | M. La Pollette, Jr., Wisconsin Pro- gressive, has introduced legislation which would result in a thorough overhaul of the Senate committee system. Almost overlooked in the hectic | closing sessions before the summer | recess, the Senator’s proposal may well become the basis for the long- | awaited streamlining, without whi -many members of both chambe now agree—Congress can’t hope to NICK BEZ ARRIVE; fulfill with any independence its Nick Bez, of the Peril Straits function as the le ive branch |Salmon Company at Todd, came (o Of government. Juneau yesterday afternoon. He at the Baranof. The pre- has meet | | | | | There are now 33 standing com-' s during the beach at Rendova as the American offensive | mittees of the Senate | trative Husky American soldiers fell to and pushed a big truck out of the water and onto the b ng operations when hat area. The island was m-vuph-ll Gun for Rendova Ballle ield piece through the water and against the Congress Finally Broughl Inlo Open Senator La Follette would reduce these to 13 Eight of these would be substantive committees and would be limited to 12 members each, none of which couid serve on of the other | eight, The other fiy ould be com | mittees of more or less adminis- function and their member- ship would range from 12 to 24 Probably the most sw ping change would be the establishment of a committee the Armed Forces, which would absorb the Military Affairs and Naval Affair o1 | | committees. The Senator’s eight substantive committee would riculture Armed For Finance and Mone- tary Affairs; Foreign Relations; In- terior, Natura! Resources and Public be (Continued on Page Three) AP h at Rendova opened the opposition. the Amer] forces without serious enemy NAZI JULY RUSS PUSH n LIGUIDATED Stalin Sen(?s Eongratula-_ tions fo Generals- Germans Through (By Assd Russ Premicr ted Press) Joseph Stalin in| | his order of the day, congratulated three of his generals for the “com- | plete liquidation” of the German | 1July offensive and said the enemy suffered 70,000 officers and men killed in the abortive drive. Stalin said 2900 enemy tanks !were destroyed or disabled, 844 guns | and 1,392 planes along with morg ithan 5,000 trucks were destroy |July 5 to 23 in the Orel-Kursk area. | “Yesterday, July 23, through suc- cessful operations of our troops the | complete liguidation of the Ger- man July offensive was carried out | in the area south of Orel and north ;oi Belgorod, and in the direction of Kursk,” the report said. The order of the day was address- | ed to Generals Rokossovxsky, Va- | tutin and Popuv. - DIMOND EXPECTED IN JUNEAU TODAY OR TOMORRO Delegale W|II Inspect| Haines Military Road from Here Anthony J. Dimond Juneau today for to the Territorial cap- ital in & number of years. He is on a tour of Alaska and expects to visit many points in the Territory before his return to Washington {D. C. Lieutenant Richard aide to Brig. Gen arrived in Jun to take Deleg an inspection trip Haines Military Road Neuberger said that work on the Haines project is progressing well and that crews are working miles north of Chilkoot Barrack In addition, he said, Army troops are cutting their way down from the north and only about 30 miles separate the two outfits working from opposite directions. ‘The Haines road poins the ka Highway 108 miles Whilehorse near the River, Dele waited first, visit is in his L. Neuberg- J. 0. O'Con~ u from White- Dimond on the new nor, horse ate of Alas- north of Dezedeasiy 1. S. Soldiers Boosi Truck Onfo Rendova Beach MARSALA IS - ATTACKED IN NEW THRUST ViciorioEAmeri(an Troops Pushing To- ward East Coast Fury of Air Blows Indicate Island Near Greece Is Next CRETE IS RAIDED BY HUGE ARMADA (By Associated Press) Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton's American Seventh Army troops, victors of the knockout of western Sicily, are reported to be moving today toward a showdown battie | with the elite German divisions which have failed to crack thus far under an eight-day asgault by the British Eighth Army at Ca- | tania on the east coast of the is- land. The progress of this new Ameri- can thrust was indicated in a Ger- man broadeast which said the Unit- ed States forces are driving north- |east from Enna in central Sieily and are attacking with “numerically superior forces.” The American armored units broke through Axis ~defenses (o apture two more towns, this broad- cast said, but the Germans were reported counter-attacking New Balttle Meanwhile, a fierce battle is de- veloping for one of the last two major cities in western Sicily— Marsala. The battle me as a rapid fire sequel to the fall of | Palermo, and the city is believed (to be cut off and doomed to early | surrender. At the same time, Gen. Dwight |D. Eisenhower reported that the |Allies so far have taken 60,000 ipruonms and - the Americans are |expected to round up 50,000 and more. Harold Boyle, Associated Press {war correspondent at the front, said Palermo, largest city of Sicily, |fell without a shot being fired in |its defense.' The Italian officers (had their bags all packed and had been waiting all day to hand over the city, Boyle wrote, and the Ger- mans had already fled. More Prisoners An Alglers broadcast reported more than 40,000 prisoners were captured by the Americans who entered Palermo. The entire Italian | Fifth Division is said to have sur- rendered. Action from the sea {reported as on the east flank of |the island, Allied warships sent |tons of shells screaming into enemy | positions in Catania. | And in the air, United |bombers plastered cities on the |Italian mainland with explosives, including Salerno and Bologna. From Bern, Switzerland, means \while, came roundabout reports |ihat the battered Axis forces al- ready have begun to evacuate Siciiy, but authoritative confirmation of these reports was lacking Simultaneously it was that a powerful armada of Greek and Royal Alr Force planes has smashed at Nazi-occupied Crete in widespread raids, striking with such fury as to suggest an invasion of that strategic stepping island loff the southern tip of Greece might be on the calendar. . 5 also was Nationg” disclosed stone ® e o o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:36 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:3¢ am. Dimout begins Sunday ® sunset at 9:34 p.n e Dithout ends Monday ® sunrise at 4:35 am. e Dimout ends Monday ® sunset at 9:32 pm L R R Y at at at ®e0s0c0c0sere