The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LXI., NO. 9409. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATU ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EMPIRE __PRICE TEN CENTS CENTS ALLIES SMASH AHEAD IN SICILY BATTLE Americans Use Flame Throwers At Munda NEW ACTION IS TAKEN BY U. §. FORCES DiveBombers and Fighters, Help in Atfack on Jap- anese Air Base . —_— ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, July 31—Using* tanks and flame throw- ers, American troops pressed closer to the vital Munda airbase Friday after hurling back a counter-attack by the hard-pressed defenders. Dive bombers,” escorted by fight- ers, also lent assistance to the ground troops advancing on the Munda air base. Allled war planes made wide- spread sweeps of enemy shipping grounds and installations, especi-| ally at Bairoko, ten miles north of Buin and Faisi, northern Solo- mons. Six enemy bombers with 10 fight- | ers attacked ineffectively the Bena Bena area, New Guinea. | Today's communique for the first time mentions flame throwers as, being used in the Southwest Pa- cific. | | l e ——————— A postponed game between the Ofty and the Mules will precede tomorrow's regularly scheduled game between the Blues and the Webfect, making it a double fea- | ture. | Weather permitting the first game will commence at 1:30 o'clock and the next one will follow. Both will probably be seven innings. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Last September the War Department announced it would convert enough Army posts along the Atlantic seaboard from oil to coal to save 15,000,000 gal- lons of fuel oil per year. Real fact, however, is that| neither the Army nor the Navy has stirred itself about converting to, coal. OPA officials estimate that if the armed forces really wanted to, they could save tons of fuel oil along the Atlantic Coast. This does not include oil used for fuel in naval vessels. Nor does it include gasaline or oil used for Army trucks and tanks. It includes only fuel oil to heat Army and Navy establishments or to operate Army and Navy factories. Both the Army and Navy get a blank check for oil requirements to be used as they see fit. The OPA hasn’t authority to talk to the armed forces about either conver- sion or conservation. Here are some of the requests made by the Army for fuel oil within the fiscal year beginning this month: Army Engineers, At- lantic City, 1,980,000 gallons; Army Engineers, Cape May, 1,980,000; Quartermaster Corps, Atlantic City, 838,000; Model City, N. Y, Ord- nance Works, 4,943,000; Springfield, Mass., Armory, 2,785,000; Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1,240,000; Water- town, Mass., Arsenal, 6,675,000 — plus an extra 2,000,000 for storage. The Navy requirements for fuel oil for next year include: Phila- delphia Naval Hospital, 1,100,000; Marine Corps Supply Depot, Phil- adelphia, 1,960,000; 1,960,000; New York Navy Yard, 4,200,000; Lake- hurst Naval Air Station, 1,500,000; Pawtuxent River Naval Air Sta- tion, a new establishment, 1,531,000. NOTE: Though located in an area where oll is not so scarce as along the Atlantic Seaboard, the War Relocation Authority at Riv- ers, Ariz, a new establishment for Japanese, has just requested 1,- 260,000 gallons of fuel oil for the coming year. COX COMMITTEE CLOWNING Congressman Cox's investigation _ (Continued on Page Four) KISKA 1S !erican plane on Thursday. Gunner '[{’rnnk Schnabel to Juneau. Joseph| BOMBARDED ON FRIDAY, Light Warshlps Shell Shores at Main Base and Gertrude Cove WASHINGTON, July 31. — Amer- ican light warships bombarded the Jap defenses at Kiska, Aleutian Island, on Friday, the Navy reported today. The Friday bombarding followed a bombing mission by a single Am- | Surface vessels, which have either been destroyers or light crulsers. poured shells into the enemy's main | camp as well as at Gertrude Cove but at neither place did the enemy batteries make reply. DISARM LARISSA ITALIANS German Tr;ps Starting New Stunt in Greece, Says Reuters LONDON, July 31—A Reuters| dispatch received here today says “it is just learned that German troops have begun to disarm Ital- ian troops in the neighborhood 0f| Larissa in Greece.” The Reuters dispatch quoted a broadcast from the Cairo radio. Larissa is about 70 miles south- west of Salonika. MANY FLIGHTS ARE MADE BY ALASKA COASTAL The Alaska Coastal Airlines were busy yesterday afternoon and this morning. Yesterday the follow- ing passengers were taken to Ex- cursion Inlet on ong flight: Serge Evans, A. F. Whetstone, John Headland, S. Hawkins, and Donald Oppegard; and coming back were John Schutz, M. C. Haggard, Ruby B. Weiman, S. Torkelsen, Leo Mur- phy, J. B. Anderson, Maj. William 1. Fisher, and Col. Noble M. Coe. On a flight to Sitka, the pas- sengers were A. R. Burns, A. Mor- gan, Harold H. Bates, and H. James Brown. Coming to Juneau from Sitka were F. S. Hanson, Mrs. E. E. Lincoln, E. E. Lincoln, and C. C. Brattien. A later trip to the Inlet took Alfred L. Baylies, Peter Solheim, George Wright, and Dr. L. O. Ri-| sem, and Mrs. Harold Wheaton was a returning passenger. Walter G. Hellan was a round- trip passenger to Gustavus, and| Mrs. H. Goodwin went to Hoonah. Returning from Hoonah were D. G. Jarman and Archie D. White. The following passengers went to the Inlet: K. C. Hardesty, L. F. Todd, Roy Westfall, S. J. Thomp- son, and Rudolph Stoper, and re- turning were Col. A. L. Baylies, Ruby Weiman, Mrs, Fannie Lee,! Mary George, and John Lee. This morning the Alaska Coast- al made a trip to Haines with Rosalie Ward, H. W. Wellons, Har- ry Elligen, John DeMasters, and Johnson; and brought; G. May, Paul C. Grening, and Mable M. Coe were flown to Skag- way, and Mrs. Ruth Farquerson to Haines. i Returning passengers were James| Baines, Gordon Miza, Catherine| Peterson, Zoe C. Price, A. J. Wig- gins, and W. E. Painter. | Another flight to the inlet this/ morning took Lee Swift, Julius Ci-| astro, Merrill Scott, Sid Cowgill, | Valle; | commander-in-chief is. announced | Ciano Quits Vatican Job; Is Arrested LONDON, July 31.—A Rome radio | broadcast said Count Ciano, Mus- | solini’s son-in-law, has resigned as | Italian Ambassador to the Vatican. | The Count was accredited to the | Holy See on February 7 after six leaders years as Italy's Foreign Minister, | —— 3 which he finally lost prior to the LONDON, July 31.—The Russian appointment to the Vatican in the |government backed up Roosevelt’s shift of mmebers of the Italian| warning that neutrals not give Cabinet. |asylum to “Mussolini and promin Rome newspapers that have been lent Fascists or other war criminals’ permitted to cross the border into |in notes to Turkey and Sweden. Switzerland print stories that Ciano' The Moscow radio said Russian and Mussolini have been arrested|gmbassadors have been instructed | RUSS BACK WARNINGBY Caution Nafi&als Not to Protect Fallen Axis and are held under guard at Palazzo | to present notes which contain Soy- | Chigi. |iet “appeals” not to give asylum to T SR | Axis leaders and added, “Moscow would consider granting asylum or| any help or assistance to Fascists n violation of the principles for which | | the United Nations are fighting and |which they are determined to up- IARGET IS thold with nll means ln their power.” LONDON, July 31—The Allies’ pow[RS IN rolling air. offensive shifted to al new target last night as RAF bomb- ers blasted the Remscheld German steel center on the edge of the Ruhr the first raid of the war on this place. EIE Remscheid was singled out for LONDON, July 31.—The United heavy assault following the massive States and Britain along with Russia blasts at Hamburg which was hit are acting in close harmony in for seven times in one week. dealing with the Italian. situation, The air offensive continued in'and it is learned that it can be daylight today as tight flying for- presumed any armistice terms laid | mations of Allied bombers were down with Italy must carry the shepherded over the channel by approval of all three powers. droves of fighters and an almost| All countries have instructed their unbroken rumble of explosions and ' representatives in neutral countries heavy gunfire reverberated in Europe and Argentina to notify throughout the morning in the the governments they consider har- Folkstone area, particularly. | boring Mussolini or any other of the Two fighters were missing after ' Axis leaders an infringement of the last night's attack. Remscheid is the United Nations war principles center for the manufacture of This manifestation of Allied unity machine precision tools and is vital became known as Churchill notified to German pruducnon of munitions. all British cabinet members and heads of the fighting services to stand by for the weekend for any | possible developments in the Italian | situation. Other Allied governments also are “ollowmg these developments close- ly. Anthony Eden summoned Brit- “AME (HIEFS | ish officials for a conference shortly after 2 o'clock this momlng | FOR BAT“-E[GM Scouts Will Meet Monday to ALGIERS, July 31.—The unifi-| cation of the French armed forces! under Gen. Henri Honore Giraud as| officially together with the appoint-| 4 —_ ment of Gen. Charles DeGaulle as| All Girl Scouts and Brownies are permanent president of the newly requested to meet Monday after-| formed Committee on National De- | noon at 2 o'clock in the basement fense. of the Methodist Church at which Spurred by the imminent collapsemme plans for a contest to be of Italy, the French National Com-|carried on during August ‘will be mittee for Liberation has unified all | discussed. Mrs. Willlam Gulbran- fighting forces of the empire under |son Will be present to explain the Giraud. rules and regulations. The Committee appointed Gen. Proceeds from the contest will ROOSEVELT Discuss Confest’ |sponsored by the American Legion Paul de Gentilhomme, veteran De-| | help defray expenses from the sum- Gaullist and military leader as As-| | sistant Commissioner of the na- tion’s defense, leaving the Commis- sioner, himself, not named. Gen. Leyer was made chief of the army general staff, Brig. Gen. Pierre Koening became assistant chief, Rear Admiral Le Monner was| appointed chief of the navy staff, |Gen. chief of the air force. By solving the eight month old dispute between Giraud and De- Gaulle the French presented a uni- |fied front in seeking recognition by the’ United Nations. - LEGION DANCE TONIGHT The Elks ballroom will be the scene of a public dance tonight Auxiliary. Bob Tew and his orchestra will| provide music for the affair and| dancing will be between 10 and 1 o'clock. In charge of the dance are Mes- dames W. J. Mathews, Bert Lybeck and Ernest G. Whitehead, and Frank Mutch, Rene Bouscat was named\ mer camp at Eagle River and prizes | |are also in the offering for the troop leading. A representative from Douglas will be present to take notes and she in {next week for the Scouts in that division. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 31. quotation of Alaska Juneau stock at today’s short session the New York Stock Exchange Is 5, American Can 84%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Com- monwealth and Southern %, Cur- tiss Wright 7%, Granby Copper and Mining 5%, International Hai- vester 66%, Kennecott 31%, New York Central 16, Northern Pacific| 147, Packard Motors 37%, Republic| Steel” 17, United States Steel 54, Pound $4.04. — Closing; mine | are turn will call a meeting in Douvlas | or; DIMONDTO LEAVEHERE ONSUNDAY Delegate Wmisii Haines Road Work, Con- tinue North Delegate ' Anthony J. Dimond plans to leave Juneau Sunday for Alaskan points to the north and west after a five day visit at the apital of the Territory. Accompanying Delegate Dimond will be E. L. Bartlett, Secretary of Alaska; Lieut. Richard L. Neu- berger, aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. James A. O'Connor, and Lieut. | Warren Caro, captain of the Ju-| neau Coast Guard unit. The party intends to inspect the new Haines Military Road, which will link the Inside Passage with the Alaska Highway. Mr. Dimond will spend several days at Skagway and then proceed on to Whitehorse with Lieut. Neuberger, while Mr. Bartlett and Lieut. Caro will return to Juneau. | Col. K. B. Bush, chief of staff of |the Northwest Service Command, will meet Delegate Dimond at Skagway. After a day or so at Whitehorse, main base on the Alas- ka Highway, Delegate Dimond will fly to Pairbanks. ‘While in Juneau, Delegate Di- mond conferred with many of his constituents and with Gov. Ernest| Gruening and other Federal and; Territorial officials. PETSHOWDREW | LARGE CROWD AT EVER. BOWL The annual pet show took place at Evergreen Bowl yesterday after- non, drawing a large crowd of chil- dren, adults and animals. Squirrels, rabbits, kittens, and every specie of dog showed up for the pet show. Buddy Hunter's cocker, Taffy, won first place for the smartest dog. | Largest pet, a collie named Jack, entered by Bob Sprague. Smallest animal was a two month old puppy entered by Bobby Rhodes. The most interesting animal which received | first prize for the queerest animal| was a squirrel entered by Dick| Christenson. Judges for the pet show were Miss Ruth Johansen and Mr. Rich-| ard Byrns. Winners of the events are as fol- | lows: Largest — Collie, Jack, Sprague; Golden Labrador, | Schmit: Italian Spaniel, | Alice Davis. Smallest — Kittens, Joan Mon- agle; Sister. Golden Cockers, Jean Moody; Puppy, Bob Rhodes. ‘Queerest—Squirrel, Dick - Christ-! enson; Rabbit, Flufy, Kerm$ Bow- ing; Toy Terrier, John Holmquist. Smartest—Tafly, Buddy Hunter; Beans, Jim Soldie; Jiggs, Mike/ | Grummett. | Boys' standing broad jump 11-13| —Johnny Harris, Jim Sprague, Blll, Schmitz. Girls’ standing broad jump 11-13 —Mae Depcevich, Helen Dapcevich, | Mary Thibodeau. Three legged race for boys 8-10—| Arnold Dircso and Bob Sprague;| | Virgil Holts and Arthur Peterson; |Don Burford and Sonny Weidman. | | Girls’ three legged race 8-10—/ Norma Dee Cook and Benita Clark; {Joan Martin and Doris Ann Bart- {lett; Joan Rhodes and R.Oberlnl | Brown. | { | | I | | Bob Jacky Spot, | | -> oo Janice Jorgenson Has Matinee Patry| ! other on |ecutive Secretary, |James ©. Ryan, James McNaughton, Treasurer. | . Home After Eddy Gilmore Is Back 3Yearson European Battle Lines GUERRILLAS BREAK INTO ITALY FIGHT Slovene Irregulars AreRe-{ cruiting Inhabitants in North LONDON, Jul 31.—The Yugoslav government-in-exile decPared 50 to 60 brigades of Slovene irregulars who live and have been fighting inside of Italian territory have bro- ken through enemy lines in north- ern Italy to reach the Udine re- gion. The apnouncement said these guerrilla troops are recruiting Slo- vene inhabitants of the area to oppose the Axis. ‘The pepulation “in 'lrem. num- bers” are joining the irregulars, the government report said. Earlier reports told of fighting | between the Slovenes on one hand and Gemans and Italians on the Italian territory but no {hint of a penetration as far as the Udine sector, which is 40 miles northwest of Nazi-occupied Trieste and about the same distance west of the old Italian and Yugoslay border. 'NEW FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS STARTING HERE Through the joint efforts of the Territorial Department of Health and the Alaska Tuberculosis Asso- cmuon. an active field campaign ‘chmbat tuberculosis throgghout | Alawhs is about to begin, it was annouficed following a meeting of the latter organization yesterday afterncon. Working together for the past few years, these two groups have concerned themselves primarily ,|With research and educational ac- tivities. This part of the program will continue as in the past, but di- rect action to reduce the number |of tuberculosis cases, and f; talities therefrom, will augment the pro- gram. The Association, to assist with the activities yesterday voted an- other $1,500 cv its funds to the De- | partment of Health Mrs. Bess Winn has been named by the Association as its new Ex- Hagmeler who has served in that capacily for the past several years. Continuing officers of the organi- zaton are E. L. Bartlett, President; Secretary; and Other members of the directive board are Claude Hirst, H. L. Van- derLeest, J. B. Burford, Curtis | Shattuck, John Hagmeier, Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. W. P. Blanton, Dr, George Hayes, Dr. Russell R. Hen- drickson, Dr. Paul . Lindquist and Mrs, Wfluam Paul JUNEAU YOUTH RECEIVES BID FOR ANNAPOLIS Alfred Bob Phillips, son of Mr, |and Mrs. A. B Phillips of Juneau, has been informed that he has been selected as an alternate for replacing John | F JACK STINNETT — Eddy By WASHINGTON, July 31. Gilmore is back. Three years ago, Washington knew Eddy as. 212 pounds of jo- vialty who turned out for The Asso- ciated Press the kind of baseball \writing that made a worthwhile istory on even the sorry Washington Senators of those days and the ‘kimd of features that made a story 'on the Smithsonian Institution sound like a hayride to Mars. Since then Eddy has had months |of the London air blitzkreig and nearly two years of covering Russia and her efforts to hurl back the Nazi hordes. He has covered the U.S.S.R. from Archangel to the |Caspian Sea and from the long jwestern front to the Bering Straits. | When Gilmore flew to London, his traveling companion was Wen- }dell Willkie. When he flew across the Straits and Alaska on the way back, it was Joseph Davies, return- ing from his second “Mission to Moscow.” Some call it luck, but (whatever it is, Eddy's the kind of newspaper man who has a knack jof being in the right spot at the right time. He's as full of unwrit- ten anecdotes about Russia and the Russians as his belt is 01 walst- lipe. | There was, for example, the story about Brig. Gen. Pat Hurley. The l;;emul General had met Josef Stalin |and captivated him so completely that Stalin designated him the first foreigner to be taken to the Russian |front lines. { On the Don steppes, outside Sta- ‘llngrnd. General Vatutin had a por- tion of his army drawn up for General Hurley to review. The Gen- eral was told that the men had just marched 17 miles through hell-fire and that they were re- turning immediately to battle. Through the interpreter, he told | Vatutin that he would like to send lmem off with “a good old Okla- homa Indian war-whoop.” Vatutin looked puzzled, but gavé his con- sent,, “The General,” says Eddy, “threw back his head and let out an un- earthly yell that rolled across the steppes like a tornado. The Rus- sian lines wavered. Even General Vatutin jumped. “Some of the men told me later that long after they have forgot- ten the bloodcurdling screams of (Continued on Pnge élx")“A ARREST MADE IN EXCURSION INLET STABBING AFFAIR United States Deputy Marshals Walter Hellan and Sid Thompson | | | made three arrests at out-of-way| | places yesterday and brought three | prisoners to Juneau to face vari-| ous charges. Deputy Thompson arrested Le- THREE MORE ISLANDS IN SURRENDER Americafiombers Hit Rome Suburbs and Other Airfields ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, July 31. — Both the British Eighth Army and the American Seventh Army made good progress in the northeast sectors of the Sicillan front, Allied Headquar- ters announced, as Allied naval forces swept the Italian coastal waters and alrcraft laid down a heavy offensive against the Ital- ian mainland airdromes. Very heavy casualties were in- flicted by the Americans and Bri- tish in new advances, a commun- ique reported, saying the Americans had captured more than 500 Ger- mans among nearly 1,000 new pri- soners in the northerfi sector. Unconditional surrender of the islands of Favignana, Levanzo and Marettimo was reported, mean- while. These islands form a triangle off the west coast of Sicily, the most westerly being Marettimo, 25 miles from Allied-occupled Trapani. At the same time, American bombers returneéd to the suburbs of Rome to pulverize the Practica di Mari airport 11 miles south of the . | capital. Flying Fortresses returning to the mainland for another of their sledgehammer blows attacked Grot- taglie airport near Taranto on ths Italian heel. Allied Headquarters also an- nounced that American Warhawk fighters In @& savage fight over Sardinia shot to pieces a formation of German and Italian fighters, destroying 21 out of about 35 Axis planes. For the total, the Axis air power reeled under the lopsided score of 26 Axis planes to one Allied plane missing for the dny NEW PLANE FOR ALASKA COASTAL ARRIVES, JUNEAU 1-Passenger Curtiss King- bird Flown Here from Tacoma by Simmons The plane seen and heard about 8:30 o'clock last evening circling the city was the new bi-motored land plane just added to their equipment by the Alaska Coastal Airlines. The plane is a Curtiss | Kingbird, and was flown here by Sheldon Simmons, accompanied on the trip by Robert Meek, mechanic of the company. They left Tacoma Tuesday evening, spent the first night in Vanvouver and arrived the following day in Prince George. Yesterday they left Pince George, |and followed a circuitous route to Juneau | Toy A. Black at Excursion Iniet| The plane will carry 7 passengers lon a charge of assault with a!'besides the pilot, and in a few days dangerous weapon on the person Will be put on the Skagway run. of Richard Huffman who is in the From the cabin, the visibility is hospital at Excursion with serious|extremely good, the seats are roomy (knife wounds. Black is being held|8nd newly upholstered, and very lon $2,500 bond. | comfort § le. Deputy Hellan arrested D. G.| Officials of the Alaska Coastal Jarman at Strawberry Point and | State that the new plane will main- Archie White at Hoonah. Jarman 'iD sustained flight on one motor, was taken into custody on a tele-|CORtributing fo the safety of pas- graphic warrant from Anchorage Sangers ang oeew, 11 1s fhe S and is charged with issuing a check|pmne Raw owned by .the | company: with insufficient funds in his ac- count, is held on $500 bond. White is charged with contribut- ing to the delinquency of minors | o and is held without bond pendlng e a preliminary hearing. B A Al DIMOUT TIMES e Dimout begins tonight |® at sunset at 9:22 o'zlock. Janice Ann Joregnson, daughter |an appointment to Annapolis upon is celebrating her seventh birthday this afternoon with a matinee party, After the movies, the young guests will be treated with birthday re- g Ao Y e |has received a scholarship to Stan- Those attending include Donnrmrd University where he plans to egate Anthony J. Dimond. This is the second honor ac- corded young Phillips who already Dow, Jones averages today as follows: industrials 13597, 3451, utilities 20.69, rails Leée and Bruce Gould, Joe and Dom”‘"’" this fall in the pre-medics | Able and Gordon Oaks, i of Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgenson, | the recommendation of Alaska Del- | LONDON, July 31.—The manu- facture of clothing in Germany is jordered to be stopped, effective September 30, the Berlin radio broadcasts. | ‘There are only i pliol’s uniforms clothes, two exceptions, and. moyrning | 4. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:48 am. Dimout begins Sunday at ® 9:20 pm. !® Dimout ends Monday at sun- |® rise at 4:50 am. ® Dimout begins Monday sunset at 9:17 p.m. 29000000000 at