The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9404. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — MUSSOLINI RESIGNS; ARREST IS REPORTED Allies Put Tighter Squeeze TERMINI IS CAPTURED BY U.S. FORCES Americans and Canadians, Movmg Toward Mes- sina Along Coast ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, July 26.—Allied’ troops are squeezing tighter on Tne Axis last stand defenses in morth- eastern Sicily against bitter resist- ance. It is announced the American troops are mopping up in western Sicily and have captured Termini, 20 miles east of Palermo and taken 7,000 more prisoners including six Itallan Generals and one Italian Admiral. “Further pressure on the enemy is maintained in all sectors” by the American and Canadian forces and the British forces are closing in on Catania and Etna in the Messina area, the Allied communique states.' The Canadians are striking east from central Sicily and ‘“‘continued to advance from central Sicily but progress has been slowed face of bitter resistance.” The communique also says some units of the American . Seventh (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON. — Final - decision to oust both Jesse Jones and Wal- lace from any connection with Eco- nomic Warfare, replacing them with Leo Crowley, was attended by much inner White House debate and per- sonnel juggling. It showed signi- ficantly how the President’s new crop of advisers line up. i The solution first proposed by ex-Justice Jimmy Byrnes was to make Wallace's director, Milo Per- kins, an Assistant Secretary of State under Cordell Hull. This would have kept Perkins, an able administra- tor thoroughly familiar with . Eco- nomic Warfare, but put him back under the State Department, where | Economic Warfare was originally. Two years ago Secretary Hull got | his Tennessee dander up when this| job was transferred away from his slow-paced diplomats and he has never stopped pulling wires to get it back. Not many people know it, but in the- end, it was Tom Corcoran who, in the present imbroglio, swung the Economic Warfare job away from Hull to Leo Crowley. The young brain truster, former- ly the President’s closest adviser, had been euchred out of his White House intimacy by Harry Hopkins. So this was a real triumph. Hopkins, now closest to the Presi- dent, spiked Corcoran long ago; but Tommy still has a powerful friend in Justice Byrnes, also in| Ben Cohen and Leo Crowley. Thus indirectly, Corcoran was able to convince the White House that Economic Warfare should not go back to the 8tate Department, where it had sagged woefully, but should get fresh, new blood through Crowley. NOTE: Whether it can get that fiesh blood through Crowley re mains to be seen. An Al executive, Crowley is already overburdened! with Federal Deposit Insurance and Alien Property Custodian. He has done a good job, but so did Jesse Jones before he took on too many responsibilities. HOPKINS VS. WALLACE Pinal line-up’of the White House inner circle on the basic question of ousting Henry Wallace was a split vote—3 to 2. Harry Hopkins, Judge Sam Ros- enman and Byrnes all voted against the Vice-President. Hopkins has al- (Continued on Page Four) in the | STRATEGIC ADAK ISLAND is the easternmost link in the arc of three advance American Deikes’ whick This dramatic photo shows a great array of is pouring men and munitions and swing south, east and west of Jap-held Kiska in the A 'eutians. American supply ships at anchor in Kuluk Bay at Adak. The U. S. uppll(‘\ nto the big advance base at Adak in the battle for control of CHARGE 8 AMERICAN RENEGADES Citizens Broadcast for Axis‘ Against United States Is Report | WASHINGTON, July 26.—Eight Americans, including two women, who have broadcast regularly in Germany and Italy in behalf of the Axis war effort; have been indicted for treason, Attorney General Fran- cis Biddle announced. When caught, they will be brought to trial.| Indictments involving this charge gy ' ar asua y | i 1 | i | i " I | By DON WHITEHEAD Associated Press War Correspondent PALERMO, July 23— (Delayed)— The Yanks are swarming through this great capital city of Sicily while most of the approximately 400,000 inhabitants are cheering their presence and welcoming them with an amazing show of hospi- tality. Even the old ca.mpaigners, like carries the death penalty. The indictments were returned| before Federal District Judge Mol ris, District of Columbia, and was| the culmination of many months.of preparation by the Department of | Justice. The charge is similar for each of the alleged defendants, that Lheyw jaided this country’s enemies by re- |peating broadcasts designed “to| | persuade citizens of the United! e |States to decline to support the |country in the conduct of the war. w'OlI(thWII k 1 h b broadcasting 1n Germany and one | Ordered in Palermo Battle lin Ttaly. Six are native Americans| and the other two are naturallzed Americans of German birth. The defendants are: WITH THE AMERICAN Ezra Pound, 57, a poet, native oi SEVENTH ARMY IN SICILY, Hailey, Idaho. | July 26—An American Force Robert H. Best, 47, native of Commander last Thursday sent Sumner, South Carolina, former U.| {his message to Lieut. Gen, George S. Patton, commanding the American forces in western ” Sicily: “Can we make a touch- S. Army officer. Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach, | down on our own initiative? Rush reply.” 48, native of Dubuque, Iowa. Douglas Chandler, 54, from Chi- Thirty minutes later this an- swer came back: cago. Edward Leo Delany, 57, born in Olney, Illinois. B o i s “You have the ball. Calls for a touchdown play.” With this “go ahead” signal, the American armored column Darmstadt, Germany. Jane Anderson, 50, born in At- swung toward Palermo. lml:/}:‘x Oxto Koischwitz, 41, born lnj ' Alaska Weather Man Goes fo New Orleans Germany. SRR R e R WASHINGTON,* July 26. — The appointment of Howard J. Thomp- | son, of the Alaska Weather Bureau, MADRID, July 26. — Dlapatches to succeed R. A. Dyke, head of the received by local newspapers from| New Orleans Weather ' Bureau is Rome emphasizes the overwhelm-}announoed today. ing superiority of the Allied forces| Thompson is now in Seattle. He | in Sicily and left no doubt that| will serve on duty in Washington | | Allied bombers were heavily at-|for at least one month before going | {tacking all evacuation points. to New Orleans e — > 48, native o!“‘ In 1918 seven out of every thou- Plywood adhesives, thin sheefs sand men discharged from the U. of veneer glued together, can be 8. armed forces were released for bent or molded into any shape and psychiatric Teasons. In 1942 the rate are widely used in the aviation im- was four per thousand, | dustry. f(onquenng of Palermo Greatest Blifz in All History, Asserts Patfon - Lieutenant Cook Back g v s, B On Line of War Duty Supply Fleet Anchors in Kuluk Bay af Adak the North Pacific. |Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, s slightly bewildered by the enthu- | siastic reception given him and his| men “They even threw flowers, lemons | and watermelons,” he chuckled, “but it should be emphasized all the fruit tossed at us was in a spirit Patton termed the drive on Pa- lermo as the “greatest blitz in all Puls By JACK STINNETT ! WASHINGTON, July 26.— Lieut Lindley Cook, 23, of Asbury Park.| N. J., is a casualty. His rechd shows “wounded in action.” | walks on crutches. His left llu\hm leg, empty from below the knee, is neatly folded back and pinned. Above the left pocket of his lumu {he wears the somber little ribbon that is the Order of the Purple| Heart. Below it is the vari-colored band that tells of service overseas. i Lieutenant Cook was in the Bat-| tle for Morocco. He was an officer | {in an armored division that went fanning out through the Atlas mountains to scout out pockets of French resistance. A day or so be- fore the French capitulated, Cook |was in command of a jeep advance | scout car. It rounded the shoulder | |of a mountain and came head on| |into a French armored car. | The jeep and the Lieutenant and his men were tossed down a 75-| \root embankment. When Cook came to, he was in a French hos-| piLBl and his leg was off. |is a war |vantage is on otr side” “The United ' States is gradually| TEN RAIDS ON KISKA SATURDAY 30 Attacks on Jap Aleutian| Base So Far This Month WASHINGTON, July 26. — Ten battering assaults, carrying on the campaign to soften the Jap base in the Aleutians for occupation by ground troops, were reported by the Navy today. Army Warhawk fighter made the assaults in a speedy ser- ies of fralds Saturday, bombing and strafing the Japs and scoring nu- merous hits on the runway. Other bombs struck gun emplace- | ments. One U. 8. plane failed to return from the attacks which brought to 30 the number of raids on Kiska so far this mont.h DAVISSAYS KISKA WILL BEINVADED 'Speaks in England- States‘ Sicily Is Only Begirnning LONDON, July 26.—Elmer Davis, OWI Director, said here that “you will see more American soldiers in Europe. The Sicilian campaign is only the beginning only the beginning.” He said more than half of Amer- ica’s war strength is deployed in the Pacific and that front will be stead- | !ily reinforced until victory is won. “This island-by-island hopping of attrition and the ad- he said. chopping down the Jap' merchant marine to a point where it cannot supply outlying garrisons.” He also said ‘“we will Kiska.” * Davis named four recover |to Japan—from the Aleutians, the south and west and open sea. He said more than 2 1/2 million men | of the U. S. Army out of 7 million are overseas. D BIRTHPLACE OF FASCISM DESTROYED (By Associated Press) Dispatches reaching Bern this |afternoon from Italy say the birth- |place of Fascism at Milan has been set afire and destroyed along with |the buildings of the Fascist news- paper Il Popolo D'Italia. Broadcast picked up in London said Italian Commissioners of Pub- lic Safety in frontier cities are re- ported to have been ordered by the military authorities to remove planes ! i routes leading On Axis In PACIFICIAP | 00 BASES TAKE HUGE RAIDS More than 200 Planes Hit " Munda-Air Action | " Is Heavy | vl | ALLIED HEAIFQUARTERS IN; THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 26.—Allied bombers delivered their heaviest raids of the war against two Japanese bases over the week- |end. | More than 200 bombers swarmed |over the key air base of Munda,| New Georgia, raining down 186 tons ( | | | t | | | | ) | | | | | i | t! i | | | Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, has quit his post and his resignation has been accepted by King Emmanuel. FASCISM IS ON WAY OUT - SAYS (. HULL | Makes Oflmal Comment| |+ on-Displacement of Mussolini WASHINGTON, July 26—Secre- tary of State, Cordell Hull, said to- day it is a very timely and appro- priate ending of Mussolini's rule in |Italy and is the first major step in ic|an early and complete destruction and eradication of Fascism, making | his first official American comment | lon the displacement of the Italian| | Dictator. Hull also told the news- men at a conference today that the Allies were fighting like the devil, when asked what the United States and Allied Nations were doing in |the face of Italian internal devel- | opments. | Secretary Hull indicated there| will be no change in the uncondi- tional surrender policy laid down ,by President Roosevelt and British (Prime Minister Churchill and he . |said further, that in all minds the wl'h Army’A}lies will keep on f{ighting like long-range fighters swept up the coast of New Britain in a dawn at- Itack against Gasmata airdrome. The radio station was destroyed and grounded aircraft on the run-| ways and a supply dump were strafed. Strong forces of aircraft in all‘ calegorles took part in the Munda | raid. | Onme plane was reported missing. ‘ Meanwhile, off the Island of Buka ‘m the Northern Solomons, a lone | reconnaissance plane attacked an |8,000-ton Jap transport with unde- termined results, but six 500-pound |bombs hit. within 40 feet of the ship. Qver Bougainville, south of Buka, \bombexs shot down one of seven | attacking Zeros, { At the same time the Japs tried to raid Allied positions on Rendova | |Island with a force of 60 planes .\nd our fighters shot down eight | !of the Jap planes while we lost four, | saving three of the pilots. American PT torpedo boats san five Jap barges off Cape Certain, {50 miles east of Lae on Huon Pen- |insula, New Guinea | There were no reports 11'(~sh ground action. e of any the devil and will win the war much | sooner. IRA GABRIELSON HERE TO SPEND REST OF SUMMER sh and Wildlife Director Gives First-Hand At- fention fo Area ‘Red Forces Confinue En-| circling of Nazi Troops at Orel MOSCOW, July 26. Russian | troops, inspired by the personal visits of Joseph Stalin on the Rus- sian front, continue slnahlng | through the stubborn German -re- sistance and have advanced hom‘ two and one-half to five miles on| the Orel front and now stand wilh‘i in six miles of the rallway junc-| tion that is supplying the powelrul Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, Director| Nazi base. Thirty more populated of the pish and Wildlife Service { F Sicily DICTATOR OF FASCISTS HAS QUIT OFFICE ?King Emmanuel Names Marshal Badoglio as Premier of Iltaly MARTIAL LAW NOW PROCLAIMED, NATION Developments Are Closely Watched-May Mean Peace Overtures (By Associated Press) Magtial law has been proclaimed throughout Italy in swift suceces- sion of the Government's shakeup that has eliminated Benito Musso- lini and his Fascist Government and the installation of Conservative Marshal Pletro Badoglio as Pre- mier, A brief announcement Sunday said King Victor Emmanuel had accepted the resignation of Premier Benito Mussolini and assumed comi- maud of all Italian forces for a wounded the sacred soil of Italy.” Marshal Pletro Badoglio, former |Chief of Staff, who was dismissed by Mussolini, was immediately pointed Premier by the King. The change in war leadership is the. first major break on the Axis front and a possible prelude to an ITtalian bid for peace. Mussolini Arrested (?) No Axis announcement as to what became of Mussolini came early ap- today, but unconfirmed reports from Stockholm said he had been ar- rested while trying to flee to Ger- |many. Dispatches from Switzerland and Sweden also said Mussolini has been arrested but these are without confirmation from Axis sources. A Reuters dispatch from Stockhelm said officers seized Mussolini as the Italian Dictator was trying to escape from Italy into Germany. Bern dispatches said he and his ministers were taken into custody, Demonstrations Occur Roundabout dispatches also tell of demonstrations in Northern Italy where thousands ot Italians are \huutmg “Down with Hitler, out 1Comlnueu on Ban Two) NORWAY IS ATTACKED, DAYLIGHT American Heavy Bombers |Places have been taken by the RUS- | arrived here yesterday and will sians. spend the rest of the summer in German positions are today in aAlaska in close contact with prob- most precarious situation as coun-|lems of the fishing industry where| ter-attacks fail with heavy Nazi he will be in a position to issue! losses of men and material immediate extensions of seasons in| Stalin has spent most of his|all districts where such action is time at the front personnally super-|warranted | vising operations, it is disclosed, as| Gabrielson, also Depity Coor-| the Red Army moved slowly toward dinator of Fisheries under Secre- the encArclemenl of Orel. tary of the Interior Harold Ickes,! plans to leave soon with Executive Make Raid Along East Coast of Country LONDON, July 26—Heavy Am= erican bombers attacked Norway for the first time in daylight last Saturday, an official United States ‘Hmdquurtflb communique an- nounced last Saturday afternoon. The communique said two large BREAKING GERMAN DEFENSE| Officer Frank Dufresne of the Al-|formations of big planes flew a | “It was a rather hasty job,” he | explains, “and when they got me | back here they did more whittling to get it right. But it's perfect | now.” | At that point, a grin spreads over his handsome face. You wonder| Mussolini’s downfall browght a why. Is it because the chemical|flurry of activity among Axis satel- |company he used to work for has lites at Vichy, Helsinki, Bucharest, offered him his job back? Gosh, Budapest and Sofia and cabinets no. He turned that down. |have been summoned in special ses- | It's because he has an artificial giong, [leg “in the works” and because the|* A proadcast from Algiers says| \Army has allowed him to re-enlist| Badoglio is reported to have or- z:r:: intelligence officer in the ‘"“dered 22 Italian Divisions home from 2 Yugoslavia and Greece and recalled Tt will be grand to get back ’three or four more from France. says. “My sarge has bes AR BUY WAR BONDS {to and from Italy are also ordered Ito remove party buttons. An unconfirmed report from Rome says Italy will ask for an armistice by the end of this week. he (Continued on Page Three) jall Fascist insignia and travellers] MOSCOW, July 26-—More than| 4,500 Germans were killed at the approaches” of Orel where the Rus- sian forces on Saturday were clos-| {ing the pincers about that bastion. The Russians continued to throw |back the Nazi counter-attacks an |forged ahead two to four miles,! front line dispatches said Saturday as the fierce battle raged with |mounting German losses. The Red Star, army newspaper, |said the battle of Orel has crushed Hitler'’s plans for a new general offensive on the eastern front and has also lost him the battle in Sicily as the “Red Army offensive is, " (Contirued on Page Three) laska Game Commission and ex- | Senator . Frederic Walcott, Presi- dent of the American Wildlife In- stitute, for a trip to the Interior on game problems. a After this trip he will make head- ' | Quarters in Juneau and devote all Fjord, one mile and one half south of his time to the fishing industry. He said fishing today that the Alaskan area 1s holding up better than any like industrial area any- where due to the wise regulations enforced by the Bureau of Fisher- ies. Gabrielson gave no indication that in order to secure more fish for packing this year regulations would be more liberal. He said that (Continued on Pnue “Three) round trip of 1,200 miles in carry- |Ing out the assault along the east coast, less than 100 miles south of Oslo. The principal target was the fac- tory at Heroya on Langesunds of Porsgrunn, DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight @ at sunset at 9:32 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 4:37 aumn. . Dimout begins Tuesday at e ® sunset at 9:30 p.m. . Tlesrrrereeeree