The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL, LXI., NO. 9407. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEVENTH ARMY POUNDING ON IN MICILY Eisenhower Broadcasts Peace Plea To Italians MARY BERLIN WELCOMES HER DAD ‘ AMERICANS SURRENDER | HONORABLY, APPEALNOW American Garal Calls on Axis Nation fo Lay Down Arms SAYS GERMAN TROOPS NOW ONLY OBSTACLE Hull Says American Com- mander Permitted o Act for United Nations (By Associated Press) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the Italian people in a broadcast at noon today that continued pres- ence of German troops on Italian soil is the only remaining obstacle for an immediate and honorable’ peace. | Gen. Eisenhower also told the' (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) I WASHINGTON. — The Army’s promiscuous granting of ‘“cello- phane” commissions to all sorts of people during the first year of the war is riow coming home to roost. There is such a huge surplus of commissionel, offiéers “holding down desk jobs on thi front that hundreds will be sent back to ci- vilian life. Older officers with re-' serve and national guard back- ground will be relieved first. There has been no ballyhoo about it, but a systematic weeding out of such officers already has begun. An order has gone out that of-! ficers below 'the ratk of brigadier general serving in the United Allied Forces Capture Enna in Central Sicily 0 25 | STATUTE MIES Mediterroneon Sea United States and Canadian troops captured Enna, i1 central Sicil forces had battered closer to Catania, on the east coast. proxlmne battle front as of several days ago. SITUATION ISTENSE INITALY ECroaIs, Slovenes Now Join| | Clamor-Fascists and | | Anfis Clashing | | | | | BERN, July 29. — Italian and | German troops are reported to be| rushing to Fiume and Trieste where | Croats and Slovenes are demon- | strating for a separation of the Istrian Peninsula from Italy. The situation in other eastern| sections of the Italian' Kingdom | are also described as tense. Swiss newspaper dispatches told RED ARMY ADVANCES, OREL AREA One Column n Drives 0ver German Bodies To- ward Nazi Bastion MOSCOW, July 29.~The Russian columns, advancing on Orel from the south, drove over bodies of 1,500 Germans to force a claw in the giant pincers tighter about the city and to keep pace with |the northern and eastern on- slaughts, masses of Red Army troops and tanks have made a general that advance of two and one-half to |four miles and have now battered {the Germans out of the hedgehog | defense systems and are storming : |the enemy bastion. it was announced, while British Arrows indicate drives. Heavy black line is ap- | RUHRS REAL TA RGETS ITH ;hadily‘ mounting fury, Allied bombers are hacking | Russian advices state one colum:i }ad\‘axwmg on Orel from the north is fighting its way through swamps |and across rivers raised to the |flood stage by heavy rains. BURNING VILLAGES MOSCOW, July 29.—Retreating | Germans are burning villages and impressing the inhabitants into, Yiabor gangs and forcing them to ‘dlg trenches and dugouts in a last desperate defense of Orel on the central Russian front. | The Red Army dispatches last night declare that Field Marshall | von | Klueges' army is continuing |to fall back as the Soviets pressed | on three sides against the Nazi base. Savage battles are being fought {in the sector northwest of Orel where the Russian troops are cut- ting in toward the Bryansk Rail- way. The exact location is not identified but it is believed to be in the vicinity of Orel, possibly at Studenkovo, five miles distant from the base, The railway is the only avenue of escape for the German forces which are being encircled. Rains are greatly hampering the Russi#n “otfensive operations. — e Froniline dispatches indicate| § MARY ELLEN BERLIN—she's §uite a big” gifl, "fow -is' showr here greeting her famous father, Irving Berlin, as he arrives in Grand Central station, New York City, from Hollywood, where he has just completed work on the Army film, /This Is the Army"—opening in New York, July 28. Though tops mnaw must look up to his tall and in his profession, Songwriter Berl) pretty daughter, (Iaternational) President Counts lfaly Ouf of War in Talk fo Americans Last Evening DIMOND IN ’ WASHINGTON, July 29. Presi- |dent Roosevelt virtually counted ‘I!BLV out of the war in his report {to the Americart people last night |and indicated greater things are |coming. “Ahead of us are much CAPTURE 4 " MORE AREAS :Canadians Aid in Seizure | of Vifal Central Road Junction | GERMANS REPORTED T0 BE ABANDONING NICOSIA Fighting Continues Around Catania, Southern An- chor, Axis Defense BULLETIN — Allied Headquar- ters in North Africa, July 29.— The American forces have taken Nicosia, a stronghold, while the Canadians have cap- tured Agira, both important advances. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 29. — The | American and Canadian troops are today pushing steadily forward in northeastern Sicily under a raging aerial support, have captured four more . towns, including the vital road junction of Leonforte, an# inflicted heavy casualties on the stubbornly retreating Axis forces. Scouts claim Nicosia is being Puge Three) U. S. BOMBERS BITING DEEP IN GERMANY PlantEight Miles from Ber- lin Is Hit - Blasts Shake England xCont‘nued FAVOR OF at the heart of German industry in the Ruhr. This map shows how the mass raids have beep directed industrial targets in a definite gattern. The names of cities 1 States shall bé retifed when they of the crisis on the Istrian soil Italy reach the statutory age limit of 60‘ annexed from Austria - Hungary biuger figh he said, | LONDON, July 29.—Boldly dery- The President” said the Allles ing Hitler's fading air ' strength, years. The statutory age limit. for| a_brigadier general is 63, and for| a major general, lieutenant gener- al and full general, 64. The order will lop off an esti- after World War No. L. The Istrian peninsula juts into 'the Adriatic Sea between Italy and the Croation coast. The Bern Tagwacht said the mated 1,000 officers in the United Croats and Slovenes number 600,- States (only) who are about 60. 000 on the Isttian® Peninsula andj ‘They are chiefly majors, neutemmxthey have been demanding inclu-| colonels and colonels who were sion of Istria from the south Slav | shown by chief 2.—Huels; 3.—Krefeld; 4.—Duisberg; 5. 8.—Bochum; 9.—Dortmund; 7.—Gelsenkirchen; ndustries in the map are: I—Hcm 0! 5.—Muelheim; ssen; 10. -M-m-‘ 11.—Duesseldorf;, 12.—Wuppertal; 13.~Cologne. Two Democratic Arch taken from reserve and national guard inactive lists and placed on active duty after Pearl! Harbor. NOTE: Officers overseas will not be retired even when over age. General MacArthur, for instance, has passed the age for retirement, 64, but will continue on active' duty. FIFTH TERM?? Here is the latest “fourth term” joke going the rounds of the capi- tal. A friend called on a New Dealer who had just become the father of a bouncing boy. He was ush-. . ered into the nursery, where the, infant was engaged with the busi- ness end of a bottle. “What do you think of him?” inquired the proud father. “He sure is a fine-looking boy,” replied the visitor. “Yes, sir, sure is. Have you ever thought that some day he might grow up to be President?” The New Deal back in rage. “Say,” he exclalmed, “what’s the| matter with Roosevelt?” father reared VETO MYSTERY Most talked of incident during the closing days of Congress was why the President took his admin- istration leaders completely by sur- prise and sent up his veto of the anti-strike bill without warning them in advance. ’ military censorship. State. Clashes between Fascists and anti- Fascists are reported at var- ious places in Italy and Premier | Bagdolio struggles to maintain order and save the country from Despite Bagdolio’s orders for de- struction of ' all placards, platsred inscriptions bearing the words: “Mussolini has liquidated, now war must be liquidated. Long live the! Social Republic,” are appearing in various sections. A British radio broadcast, record- | ed by CBS, says families of numer- ous Fascist officials are reported to i “arrived by plane in Berlin.” ., By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 29. — The Capital In Wartime: “Big Jim” Farley, in town for a ‘few days for activities purely social, 'ls telling the boys that any of the political pundits who say that his trip to Mexico City is anything but that limb. Mebbe so. Mebbe the ex-chairman of the Democratic National Com- mittee is just going to stop off at Uvalde, Texas, to take ex-Vice Presi- SCREWY German news agency, broadcasts| soda pop to mix with his branch from Berlin that Gen. Christiansen, water and to discuss the kind of Commander of the German Air Wweather nature makes. Forces in The Netherlands, has If there is real trouble hatching been relieved of his command of for the fourth term within the party, the Nazi Afr Forces in that area in | it Would be pretty hard to make any order that he might concentrate Ohe believe that its two Democratic | his military duties elsewhere. | arch foes won't do a little egg-settin’ The Netherlands news agency, down at Uvalde. Maybe what Gen- {Aneta, yesterday carried a Moscow | ial Jim meant by vacation was vaca- radio report that Gen. Christiansen tion from his beverage export busi- had been courtmartialed on a ness. If Farley ever took a vacation charge of cowardice. | from politics, no one ever caught > | him at it. The Army Air Transport Com- Those in the know here are pre- They did not know the veto mes- (Continued on Page Four) mand flies more than one million dicting that the Civil Air Patrol is pounds of cargo each week to points one wartime activity that will go within the western hemisphere, . right on in the post-war world | Foes, Farley, Garner, in Blg Powwow af Uvaldg Although now an auxiliary of the U. 8. Army Air Forces (which proves its wartime worth, since it is the| | only civilian volunteer organization | i a vacatiop are just crawling out on | LONDON, July 29.—The DNB, dent John Nance Garner a case of | that the War Department has eag- erly sought to bring under its wing) | the CAP has become a civilian life |saving and disaster combat corps equalled only by the peacetime Coast Guard. ‘While there isn’t any talk of put- ting CAP volunteer workers on a wage basis, it is rumored that a move may be started when Con- gress reconvenes to extend to those credited with sizable hours of serv- ice some of the veterans' benefits. When Lieut. Max Miller, the San Diego author, left the other day for sea duty in the Pacific, he was given a farewell party by his immediate commanding officer. At one point in the proceedings the C. O. called a solemn halt and with full ceremony pinned on Max's chest a “service ribbon, for great valor and devotion to duty in the Battle of the Potomac.” In every detal, the tape resembled a bona fide service ribbon, except that it was composed of horizontal " (Continued on Page Three TURKEY MAY = BE MEDIATOR, * PRESENT WAR Two Forelgn Mlmsiers Hold Secret Confer- ence, Is Report | ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 20.— Turkey has been projected dram- atically as a possible mediator in (he present war. Italian Foreign Minister Rafaela Guariglia and Turkish Foreign Minister Numan Menemensiogiu are reported to have held a meet- ing amid Indications of secrécy and urgency aboard the Italian Em- bassy launch on the sea of Mar- mora. Immediately after the confer- ence, Menemensioglu left hurriedly for Anka#, and Guariglia it is asserted has left by plane for Rome. L T S TR BRITISH NAVAL FORCES BATILE OFF CHERBOURG LONDON, July 29.—Light British naval forces fought at close range a battle with a dozen armed enemy trawlers and motor torpedo boats off Cherbourg early yesterday morn- ing and left two German ships blazing. One British ship was hit and seriously damaged but was taken ‘into port safely would accept nothing less than to- tal vlcwry over the Axis with the !defeat of “Hitler and Tojo on \Lh(:u own home grounds.” He called the Italian cause al- STATEHOOD swarms of American Flying Fort- |resses flew unescorted in broad’ daylight yesterday within eight miles of Berlin to smash at the | the nation’s capital led in to write such a bill. Delegate Tafis on Subject —Also Criticizes OPA Action Alaska is ready for statehood and it is the next step in the Territory's progress toward economic happiness, Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told members of the Chamber of Commerce and their guests in a talk in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel this noon. “We have covered 20 years,” he said. “We s in two have forged steadily ahead and when the war is over we will have more people com- ing to Alaska than we can take care of.” Dimond said that if anyone asked him two yeats ago if he was in favor of statehood he would prob- ably have answzred in the negative, | A year ago his answer would have been uncertain, but now, he said, he is absolutely in favor of such a move, “Statehood would bring us the control of our own destiny,” he told his audience. He admitted that the present tax system is a “series of | patchworks” but added he believed the necessary revenue could be ob- tained to pay for the added expenses such as the fish and game program, |a police and judicial system and other expenses. Dimond said he did not think that any past member of the Terri- torial Legislature would have been capable of writing a bill setting up a good tax system. He sald what should be done is what is done in an expert call- (Continued on Page Six) Nazi aircraft plant at Oschersleben. Kassell, site of the big Fockewulf assembly plant about 200 miles southwest of Berlin, also was ready lost, and asserted the war will go on until the Italians real- ize the futility of continuing to had | fight in a cause which the Italians |never gave their wholehearted ap- proval. “Plans made for knocking out Mussolini and his gang have large- ly succeeded,” the President said, “but. we still have to kn(b(k out Hitler's and Tojo's gangs.” Warns Japs ! The President pointedly re |frained from discussing futur plans for action against Germany but warned the Japanese that “if the Japanese are basing future (plans in the Pacific on a long pe- riod to consolidate and exploit con- quered countries they had better revise their plans now. “I give them this gestion.” helpful sug- are still unconditional surrender! and that the first crack of the Axis came with the Fascist regime going to pieces, “Mussolini will be brought to the book,” he said. “No criminal will escape by resigning.” FDR said that the heaviest] fighting still is in Russia and he was glad the United States and Britain are able to help in the striking power of the Russians. Post-War Plans The United Nations are substan- tially agreed on plans for the post- war world, he stated, and also have agreed that this is no time for an international discussion of peace terms. He said the detaills of the future are important bul now is _ | ® sunskt at (Continued on Page Three) Roosevelt said the terms toItaly| smashed by bombers which are re- ported to have downed upwards of 60 Nazi fighters attempting tc beat them off. | The Americans lost 23 bombers {in the roundtrip of more than 1,000 | miles. | Squadrons of RAF fighters |crossed and recrossed the channel |this morning in a continuation ot widespread sweeps in northern France and Belgium. Later, Allied bombers headed for the coast once more and fighters followed for heavy bombings of objectives in Germany and occu- pied France. The terrific ‘assaults continued | this evening. One correspondent of the Asso- |clated Press telephoning from Folkestone said the “explosions across the channel are shaking the doors and windows as I telephone |this message. It is like the days fof 1940 when the Germans were ‘bombing this side.” Oschersleben has been the deep- lest penetration into Germany by the Americans in daylight in this war, DIMOUT TIMES e 2 e . . Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 9:26 o'clock. L ® Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at-4:43 am. . ¢ Dimout begins Friday at e 9:24 pm N 3 ‘o000 000000000