The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXI., NO. 9408. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 MPMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TEN CENTS ALLIES DRIVE THROUGH MT. ETNA LINE Americans Advance 200 Yards To Jap Base - Halian Troops Surrender Near Enna, Sicily \iMAKEPlANS FDR Warns All Neutral | U. 5. FORCES ARENEARING GREAT GOAL Enemy’s Supfiy Reported by MacArthur fo Be Cut fo Bone TWO DESTROYERS ARE | SUNK, ALLIED PLANES Salamaua Under Concen- trated Attack—Explosions and Fires Are Started ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 30.—The Americans have made further progress against the Japan- ese airbase at Munda, New Georgia Island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur declares, and the campaign is pro- | gressing satisfactorily. The enemy's supply has been cut to the bone by a ceaseless pounding from the sea and air, the General said and the forces have advanced another 200 yards and are within 1,900 yards from the airdfome. Details of the attack on Japan- ese shipping. off. Cape.. Gloucester, New Britain, on Wetinésday and Thursday, discloses that two Jap destroyers were sunk, one transport (Continued on Page Three)* The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON.— Most criticized man in Washington these days is the President's White House com- panion Harry Hopkins. Harry gets it going and coming, not only from liberals, but especially from con- servatives. | What most of the conservatives don't know, however, is that Harry works closely with certain conser- | vatives, especially Jesse Jones. | What the secret of the Jones : Hopkins friendship is, no one| knows. Their backgrounds have lit- tle in common except that both served as Secretary of Commerce. Also both are fond of poker and Harry spends frequent evenings at Jesse’s house playing until the late hours. Sometimes the Presi- dent phones for Harry around mid- night and asks him to come home. On one occasion, no word of which ever leaked out, Hopkins went to extreme lengths to pull Jesse’s chestnuts out of the fire. This was just after the Truman Committee had exposed Jones' woe- ful lack of foresight in setting up synthetic rubber factories. Jones had ducked responsibility by an- nouncing that, the President had okayed the delay. Rushing to the President’s de- fense came Ed Stettinius, who had been in charge of raw materials for the National Defense Commis- sion. He prepared a letter showing how he had implored and besought Jones to start synthetic rubber b ol s An l(ahan soldier held this hands high and displayed the whil fellow soldiers from their wrecked emplacement near Enna, Sicily. OWI radio. A column of Italian prisoners moved through Syracuse, Sicily, enroute to an Allied internment camp. Ifalian Prisoners Head for Infernment (amp This is an official British photo by OWI radio from Algiers. flag of surrender Th PERSONNEL Retummg Soldlers Would | Receive Readjust- ment Aids ‘ WASHINGTON, July 30.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has released wlth‘ his approval as to its general ob: | jectives a report on demobiliza- | tion readjustment in the posmuh { period The report proposes among other | things that service men be given| three months’ furlough at base pay, but not to exceed $100 a month ¢ | plus family allowances. | The report was drafted by :\: conference which, Roosevelt estab- lished to deal with such problems. | |The report was made through the | {now defunct National Resources : i | Planning Board. | as he led a group of | The conference proposed that a | central administrative agency be {set up to handle the postwar demo- | _ | bilization program and also pro-| |posed that at the end of the jlhlf_’!‘ month period, if necessary,| | unemployment insurance be pald‘ for 26 weeks for those who regls—\ |ter with the U. S. Employment ‘-Sorvice. The tion | i R an official British photo by report also payments for suggested tui- | veterans who want to study. | & . 7TH SMASH ONHAMBURG LAST NIGHT Over 2,000?065 of Bombs Rained Down on Big German Port LONDON, July 30.—RAF bomb- | ers last night dropped more than, 2,000 tons of explosives on Ham-| burg, giving the great north Ger-| man port its seventh pounding since Saturday night. | The Air Ministry said they at- | tacked “in great strength” with 28 bombers missing and a -half-a-doz- en enemy plan/‘s destroyed. ITALIAN TROOPS REVOLT Milan Scene of Turnabout- Badoglio Replaces General production; how he had warned that we risked losing the Dutch East Indies and that rubber plants must be started immediately. | BERN, Switzerland, July 30. — Stettinius’ letter clearly showed Italian troops have revolted in that any alert cabinet member Milan, Italy, refusing to obey orders would _ heve " urged the’ President 814 8re firing on. demonstrating to okay rubber production, instead compatriots. who sweep the streets of urging him to delay. by thousands shouting demands for peace. A e sioneal. A dispaton from, Ttaly. tepetved by Stettinius, Harry Hopkins here said Premier Badoglio has 4 ousted Milan military commander stepped in and held ‘it.up. The Gen. Canale and ordered Gen. Rug- letter was suppressed, Harry Hop-| gero, chief of the’ Alpinist Division, kins, for some mysterious reason, ¢, tare over, jumped in to protect his old poker —This was only one among sharp pal, Jesse Jon(p measures taken by Badoglio to quell domestic unrest. EXIT LOWELL MELLETT Reports. from Chiasso, Swiss Inside fact about the exit of frontier town 28 miles north of Lowell Mellett, former White House Milan, said the Italians “despite all (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Three) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 30. The ! moment Congress had slap-banged | the administration by over-riding the President’s veto of the anti- | strike bill, politicai - commentators here rushed to their typewriters [to give the matter their interpre- tation and immediately some found themselves in a guandary. It is true that, to all outward appearances, the President had re- ceived his worst setback in: years and the worst ever handed a Pres- ident in wartime, for the records fail to show that the veto of any President has been over-ridden while this country was at war. It's the first of the President’s vetoes that has been knocked down since 1940. it s true, on the surface, that President Roosevelt was once more stringing along with the New Deal policy toward organizing labor | ,and (not incidentally, either) gath- | RooseveltPlaced On Spot When Anti-Strike Bill Was Given fo H|m - ARREST FASCIST - LEADERS " All Members of Council, Except One, Report- ed Under Guard LONDON, July 30.—Transocean, German propaganda agency, re- ering an early harvest of votes for| | 1944. But there was more than that to the veto and the action of Con- gress in over-riding it. In the first place, organized la- ports all members of the Italian /. bor, if it read the President’s veto Fascist Grand Council, except one, message at all, could certainly have been arrested and are under | have found little consolation in it. guard. The agency did not identify | “I am unalterably opposed to the exception except to say he was strikes in wartime,” the President “particularly radical” nor give rea- | wum:unm ‘m»l |leaders Ivadio conference |care with whom the {as it is not with ¢ |of the Pascist party. ! | after they dispose of a certain | FORSERVICE NationsNotoGive Any Asylum to Axis Leaders Mayor of the City of Rome. In a formal statement, the Chief Executive took cognizance of mors that “Mussolini or members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory.” “One day,” the President added, “Hitler and his gang, and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it dif- ficult to believe any neutral would give asylum to or extend protection to them.” WASHINGTON, July 30.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt issued a virtual ul- today to neutral nations offer asylum to the Axis He elso told a press and that he does not United States in Italy, as long definite member to government deals The President expressed willing- ness to treat for peace when the time comes with the King, the Prime Minister, or even with the Allied Gain in Sub Warfare on 2 Oceans Now Reaching Peak | ‘ By HERMAN R. ALLEN | | Date in Berlin WASHINGTON, July 30—It's a two-ocean war, and both oceans are the scene of submarine war- fare the like of which was prob- |ably never dreamed of even | Jules Verne. | In the Atlantic the submarines |are German. In the Pacific they jare American. The German subs have been whipped to at least a ! temporary standstill, but out in % ' the Pacific our “pig-boats” con- tinue to take a heavy toll of Jap shipping with inconsequential loss- ps. Why is there such a difference in the two pictures? In June a year ago, Nazi sub- marines sank 111 Allied and neu- | tral merchant ships in the west- jern Atlantic. For this June the Navy has announced | only two. Prime Minister Churchill said it was “the best month we have ever known in the war” from the point of view of Atlantic sink- ings. U-Boat Toll Drops What may have been the begin- ning of the end of Nazi submarine power came last December. Sink- ings had simmered down to 31 that month. January and February were fairly. favorable, bad, but losses for that month { were cut in half in April. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, reported losses for April | and May together were below the December-February level. All this time the blasting of submarines by Allied naval forces was increasing by leaps and bounds. The announced destruc- ! tion reached its peak in May, when laccording to Churchill some 30- odd U-boats were sent to the bot- | (Conunued on Paxe Three) B Ten Japanese Vessels Sent - Downby Subs PRETTY Marguerite Chapman, film player, has been chosen by the men of Bergstrom Army Air Field, Aus- \ tin, Tex., as “The Girl With Whom i Wwed Like To Keep An Appoint- ment In Berlin.” Of course that's man there. NEWSPAPER OF (International) | ru-| by | the loss of | t00. March was| AMERICANS, CANADIANS PUSHING ON Wavering E;r man De- fenses Hard Pressed on Sicily Isle NEW AIR BLOWS ON ISLAND, MAINLAND Gen. Patfon’s Men Exploit Breakthrough and Push Forward ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 30.—Amer- icans and Canadlans have driven deeper into the central right flank of the Germans’ wavering Mt. Etna as the Nazis strive desperately to line, Allied Headquarters announce, repair the breach. A communique declared the Can- adians “advancad against strong opposition.” The Americans, the communique said, have pushed from the north coast of Sieily inland to capture Nicosia and have “advanced in sev- eral places.” The whirlwind American assault I has driven the Germans back about 120 miles in two days and threatens to trap the Nazis around Catania lor force a general retreat toward Messina. Gen. George S. Patton’s Seventh Army is advancing beyond the stra- tegic prize of Nicosia and is ex- ploiting the breakthrough made in the temporary Nazi positions. The Canadians who captured | Agira to the southeast, central pivot in the Mt. Etna line, are menacing Regalbuto, six miles to the east. Meanwhile, Allied air power struck repeatedly heavy new blows | to shatter the port facilities at Mes- sina and Milazzo on Sicily, and also ranged over the Italian mainland to blast fields near Rome and Naples. 'WAVES T0°BE INCREASED T0O 91,000 TOTAL Organizafiork One Year 0ld Today-Admiral Praises Ouffit WASHINGTON, July 30. — The Navy plans to increase the strength of the WAVES to 91000. The WAVES are one year old today and total 27,000 in the personnel. Admiral Ernest J. King, Com- |mander-In-Chief of the United ;stnzes Fleet said to a gathering of | WAVES here that the “expectations |of the Navy in you have been jus- | tified by your hard work and dedi- |eation to duty.” - > MARY JOYCE IN said. And again: “It is clearly the Sons for his escape. will of the American people thst' Members of the now outlawed no war work be interrupted by Council under arrest are Mussolini, | strike or lockout,” Count Ciano, his son-in-law; Carlo/ Then, citing the first seven Scorza, Secretary of the P‘ascuti sections of the bill, which contain P8Iy, and other widely known Ital-| virtually all the teeth in the bill against wartime strikes, the Presi dent said: “If the bill were limit- |ed to these seven sections, I would sign it.” ‘There is nothing equivocal about! that sentence. In it, so far - >-e U. 8. COMMISSIONER | HERE | FROM HAINES Everett S'mth U. 8. Commis- I'sioner at Haines, is in Juneau. He| is registered at the Gastineau Ho-| tel, (Continued oh Page Three) ) MUSSOLINI 1S SUPPRESSED LONDON, July 30. — The Swiss radio said Mussolini’s newspaper Il Popolo D'Ttalia has been suppressed by the new Italian Government and has not appeared since last Friday. ‘The newspaper's plant was pre- !viously reported burned by Italian |demonstrators following Mussolini’s [ |ouster. Other newspapers, for the first time in 21 years, are printing the news, uncensored by the old Musso- Iini regime. D s BUY WAR BONDS Four OthersReported 10 Be! mary sosee 15 1 suneau trom Damaged in Pacific w,'If’mT.,““SM';Z‘lT —_ Operations i D - HI'.RF. FROM SKAGWAY WASHINGTON, July 30 The, Norman T. Valentine of the Navy announces American subs|M-HKCB Company at Skagway, have sunk ten Japanese merchant|A/Tived in Juneau and is at the vessels and damaged four others Baranof in operations in the Pacific. In-|~ > cluded in the sinkings are two, large transports and two large car- ‘LO vessels. | These sinkings raises to 210 the number of Japanese ships sunk by United States submarines dur- ing the war to date. 1‘ In addition to the sinkings, 29 1ve«ssel.:x are reported probably sunk and 58 damaged, ® 6 o 0 0 o > DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:24 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:46 am. ® Dimout begins Saturday e sunset at 9:22 pm. g 990009000000 B . ° . . . . at e . .