The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1943, Page 1

'THE DA 7 / 7 ! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXL, NO. 9410. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =1 AXISNORTH SICILY BASE FALLS TO YANKS . Americans Bomb Axis " 10 KILLED {75 PLANES ROAROVER | REFINERIES Largest _I.o;[;vel Smash in History-Many Sh |p_s Lost CAIRO, Aug. 2—An armada of | 175 Liberator bombers of the United | States Ninth Air Force flew a 2- 400-mile round trip yesterday to dump many tons of explosives in a | low level attack on the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania, one of the chief sources of the Axis fuel supply. The raid was described as the “biggest low level mass raid in his- tory” in an announcement by Maj. Gen. Brereton, Commander of the Ninth Air Force. His communique said “twenty Lib- erators were reported downed over the target area and a number have | not yet returned to their base.” | At least 51 enemy planes were claimed to have been destroyed. Enemy opposition over the target | area and on the return trip was heavy. A German report said 36 bombers | had been downed, that 125 planes partjcipated in the attack but only | 60 to 70 were able to make al “coherent attack.” { Ploesti is aboul 35 salles nortir of Bucharest, supplies one-third of the Axis oil requirements, according to Brererton. The fields have a daily (Continued on Page Three) The¥Washingion§ Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | | W A SHING TON—Postmaster General Frank Walker and Czech| Ambassador Hurban called on the | President the other day with a sheet of newly printed stamps com- ! memorating the valor of Czecho-| slovakia. FDR immediately began: kidding Walker about the fact that| he was getting bald. | “Boss,” replied the Postmaster! General, looking down upon the seated President, ‘“you're getting bald yourself. Any worries?” | “Not a worry in the world,” re- plied FDR, running a hand over his thinning hair. “Well, you mustn't worry,” joked Walker, “we don't want YOU to get bald.” Then he and the Czech Ambas- sador handed Roosevelt the new stamps for his collection. The Pres- ident, one of the leading philatel- ists in the country, examined the new issue carefully, complimented ‘Walker on it. Then as his callers were about to leave, the Postmas- ter General remarked: “By the way, how about some money? We're selling these to you,' not giving them.” | The President laughed and felt in his pockets. They were empty. Carefully, one by one, he exam- ined each pocket. He didn't have a cent to his name. Finally he had to send out and get some money to,pay for the stamps. NOTE: Most people don't realize it, but the President of the Unit- ed States seldom has an oppor- tunity to spend anything for him-| self. All his household bills are paid by the housekeeper. When he travels, an aide takes care of all expenses. So the President gets out of the habit of carrying money. STOP MINERS' DUES? If John L. Lewis could have heard what went on at a secret meeting of Assistant President James Byrnes and War Labor, Board members his hirsute mane would have shaken like a bush in a windstorm. One thing seriously discussed at) this meeting was a government stop-order on further collection of dues by Lewis from United Mine Workers if he carries out his threat (Continued on Page Four) —Adak, Stronghold on Kiska Island Front in Kuluk Bay. These are the food now on the threshold of ousting the Japs from Kiska. vance bases swinging in an are south, east and west of Kiska, the other islands keing Attu and Amehitka. SIX MISS | DEATH IN | ALEUTIANS Dramatic @e of Crew of Bomber Shot | Down at Kiska 1 WILLIAM L. WORDEN (Associated Press War | Correspondent) i By ADAK, July 30.—(Delayed)—Six| American fliers are congratulating, themselves for a rare extra lease, on life obtained after Kiska’s guns riddled a Mitchell bomber, forcing them down in the frigid water less than two miles from the enemy- occupied shore. | The six were given a virtual death sentence when their plane was hit by anti-aircraft flak dur- ing a mass raid on Kiska and the motor began smoking, then quit.' The plane nosed into the sea, but so easily that none were injured. However all faced death in the water, so cold that a man can hardly last more than a half-hour. The water has claimed probably more lives than Kiska's guns. A Navy Catalina flying hospital, piloted by Lt. Jesse Jolliy of Tur-| lock, Calif., was cruising just out-; side of range of the short guns, however, and when he saw the bomber hit the water he went in and lit. His crew doctor aboard the Navy | plane pulled Lt. Everett Genricks| of Chicago and his entire crew| aboard, saving their lives. | ——,,——— | German Civilians | Told fo Quit ltaly i BERN, Aug. 2—German civilians living in Italy have been advised by consuls to return home imme- diately, according to advices given out here. | - | ASSASSINATION BERN, Aug. 2—A dispatch re- ceived here reports the Ttalian Chief of Police Renzi Chierici and his assistant have been assassinat- ed at Lasuisse. There is a report the assassination was at the insti- gation of the Badoglio Govern- ment. War supplies are pictured here piled up on the shor: at Adak after having been unloaded from transports and munitions foi American fighting men who captured Attu and are Adak is one of thre Working Model fo Rebuild Europe Is ! 'Being Blueprinted ! notice in any labor dispute.” ARMY AIR £5 SRS A # b SIR’KE BAllO'I‘ | (First of Two Articles on “ | Ecuador's model for post-war IS OFFICIALLY ™ By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — Blue- print for resuscitation of the war- torn world is being drawn today in little El Oro province in Ecuador on the west coast of South Amer- ica. Pl’OViSiOnS Here was a tiny pattern for re- habilitation from the ravages of — war that had everything. The WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. ~— The border war between Peru and Nation'’s first strike ballot under Ecuador in 1941 had driven 40,000 the Smith-Connally Act has been people from their homes. Homes, ordered in a Department of Justice schools, hospitals, public buildings opinion opening the way for such phaq peen razed. Malaria and other ORDERED NOW Justice Department Gives Opinion, Announces | votes on motion of a minority of a yjseases developed as constant cpi- | union as well as one already certi- gonmios as water supplies became ‘f)lrct; 2?;;:c majority of the workers polluted; " tiaslc’ Taol Supplies were The act provides strike votes may s“b g”' and medical care was re- take place after a:80/days’ Botice; , -+ ourea 0 Done. ab all, The first strike Ballot will take 7, 4oreo¥er, . is/ ‘was a one-crop place Wednesday at the Springfield, Province (cocoa) and this havin Titinois, plant of the Allis, Chambers Peen destroyed by the local war Manufacturing Company. and ‘reestablishment of it blocked The National Labor Relations PY transportation problems that de- 'Board announced the election is Veloped with World War II, the economy was reduced released by the opinion of the Jus- Province's tice Department under the act and to zero. also permits the “representative of Into this pictifte a year ago any group of employees may file stepped the Office of the Coordina- tor of Inter-American Affairs. A itechnical mission was sent to /Oro. By that time the | States had a stake in the future of this strategic little nation be- cause Ecuador owns the Galapagos ————— | 1Islands, those rocky nubs in the lParmn which are almost the only western stepping stones to the Panama Canal. The future of Ec- uador and its small war-stripped province had become important for defense as well as for humanitar- ian reasons. GROWING WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — The Army Air Forces are proud of their growing might and are get- ting approximately 4,500 planes monthly, which exceeds the total| production of Germany, Japan and Italy. Thirty-four years ago the Army bought its first plane. In 18 months, ending July 31,| the Army has accepted 73,132 planes. | The estimated Axis production’ has been, until recently, about 4,000 planes a month. Today, El Oro is rising from the ashes and sickness of war. El Oro means “gold” and although itcan't be said yet that the province i living up to its name, it has come a long way in that direction. This year the cocoa crop is good and distribution is becoming a problem as the western hemi- sphere frees itself from the U-boat threat. The rice crop is a record= breaker and tobacco and coffee now are important products in the (Continued on Page Three) United | jTembIe Offens IN CRASH AirfoBe R OF GLIDER | s g | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘Prominent Men Die when | ik amica. aus 2. tast st H urday the Allied High Command | Wingsof Army Craft | \iiioa s Siern warning to the | Ttalian people that a terrible aerial | Crumb|e | offensive against Italy will be re- | sT. LouTs, Aug. 2 lincluding Mayor William Dee Beck- | ler and Major Willilam R. Robert- pioneer aviator and manufac- ing space” is ended The Allied Command said ponsibility for resumption of the air onslaught is laid directly to the Ten persons, e, son | turer, were killed Sunday when the |doors of the new Badoglio govern- |wings crumbled from an Army| . {glider and cast them 1500 feet| lo the ground. ‘ A PROPOSAL Thousands of spectators, watch- — ing the public demonstration of the| | Army’s troop carrying air auxili-| aries, stared horrified at the worst| air disaster in the city’s histo Others who died in the c are as follows: | Max H. Doyne, Director of Pub-| |lic Utilities of St. Louis ! | Judge Henry L. Mueller, Presid- im‘" Judge of the St. Louis Cuunly‘ Court | Capt. Milton C. Klugh, F ' | Troop Command Pilot Glider. | Lieut. Col. Paul H. Hazelton, |the Army Air Forces Harold A Kreuger, General Manager of the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of which Robertson is President of the firm which made the glider. i ash | of Private J. M. Davis, attached to| |the First Troop Carrier Command. | Thomas N. , President of | |the St. Louis Chamber of Com- merce | Charles L. Cunningham, City Comptroller. A guard was thrown around the | field fmmediately and the FBI,| {with the Army Intelligence Service |began an investigation. ‘There is no official indications of | | sabotage. | Deputy o fim A ) ‘4 i i . | | rr ] HALBUT Tt | ACTRESS SHELLEY WINTER . | received a telephone marriage (ANNING proposal from Air Force Lieu- | ~ STARTED tenant Mack P. Mayer in Texas ‘Libby, McNeiIIV and Libby‘ before he left for overseas. She accepted. Then she returned to Begin Operations af | 5ot BACK FROM TRIP ABROA her act in Hollywood KETCH]KANf’.;;xska, Aug. 2. Says American Troops Are "Sober, Defermined to The first sizeable quantity of halibut ever purchased solely for canning purposes b been bouzht here from the Seattle halibuter Wizard, 55,000 .o Win" Present War The Wizard’s catch was removed from the boat here, dressed, iced | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Secre- and boxed and shipped on the tary of War Henry L. Stimson ar- Wizard to the Libby cannery at rived back in the United States | pounds by Harold Heaton, Super- | | intendent of halibut operations for | Taku, near Juneau, for canning. ijast Saturday after three weeks on tour that took him to Iceland, Libby, McNeill and Libby. | Heaton said the canning of hal- ibut is now beyond the experimental i {a {the British Isles and North Africa. He reported a “sober and deter- mined will to win" among the Am- stage. ‘ { troops he visited on his | FLEEING DANES ASSERT HAMBURG 5= IS MASS OF RUINS. - 'Wants More Money Block After B]oék HasBeen| For Dependents of | Wiped Out - Debris, | BodiesEverywhere | Those in Service STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2—Hamburg | sentative R. Ewing Thomason of lhas “ceased to exist,” Danish work- Lers who fled from the horror of the | devastated German seaport, declared | royas member of the House Mili- to a Swedish correspondent, . ¥ “ .. (tary Committee, he will ask Block after block of the city | : < the committee to consider, as the has been wiped out. Many Danes |y o pagier of business after the iwere killed in the bombings and | o MAUEr O B ate’s ap- others left thelr jobs with little [SUMIEr recess, (fhe eRECR %" {more than the clothes on their|Proved measure fo increase the backs. While leaving Hambuyg the Government’s contributions of de- | workers who fled stated they wound Pendency allowances to families of ! between heaps of debris and bodies,” Service men. - - says ~ Warning Given lfalians sumed immediately as the "brl‘mh-‘ STIMSON IS ive by esumed Is ment for temporizing the Germans in giving them time to strengthen ‘H\vn positions in Italy The warning was the first broad- | cast of the powerful United Nations' | radio here The message warned the Italians fac- [to remain clear of railwa; tories and depots and also German military barracks, also all other military objectives. SOFTENING UP PROCESS ~ FORMUNDA umanian Oil Fields RITISH IN NEW DRIVE ONCATANIA ‘American Troops Enter Sanstefano, 60 Miles from Messina | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 1.—-Amer- ican troops have captured Sanste- | fano to crumple the north flank of the Axis line in Sicily. At the same time, the British Eighth Army has really opened up with a big push near Catanta. And in the air, American Flying Fortresses struck a shattering blow st Naples, following up Satur- ultimatum that Italy quit or be bombed. Allied wayships also entered the picture with bombardments of the lower Italian mainland Sanstefano is the northern anchor B " | of the Axis Mt. Etna line and its | loss to the Yanks threatened to roll \Bombers Preparing Jap| Base for General Ground Attack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1N THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Aug. 2 ‘Torpede and dive bombers continued | raids on Munda, softening up the | Japanese attack. | United States air forces dropped 2 tons of bombs on gun emplace- | ments at Munda and Mitchell bomb- ers worked along the south coast of New Britain Island hitting govern- { ment buildings, also destroying five | erlemy barges loaded with troops | and reinforcement supplies. - FIGHT OVER WAVES LOOMS IN CONGRESS Senafe Committee Bucks Knox on Sending Wom- | enfo Overseas Duty | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.--Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox may find ' the legislative seas stormy if he | | renews his plea to Congress for | authority to send members of the | WAVES to non-combat duty over- | | seas. | | The House has approved the bill | to permit such assignments and the | | measure is now anchored quietly in the Senate Naval Affairs Committee | and some members of the commit- | | tee predict privately that nothing | short of an administration broad- | side will move it. | | Nevertheless, Secretary Knox told an assemblage of WAVES on th-, first anniversary of the organization that he hoped Congress would see fit to give the Navy the “right to use you in billets anywhere you are | needed, both at home and abroad.” - - > SHIP LOSSES ON ATLANTIC DECREASING (By Associated Press) Ship losses in the western Atlantic in July continued at a low level as in the previous month, a tetal of six ships in each month in contrast with an average loss of tre ships weekly at the start of the war. The German High Command in a broadcast claims Nazi warcraft sunk 194 Allied merchant ships, three de- stroyers, one submarine and three smaller naval vessels in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during July. i deéienses for the ground the Axis armies back rapidly to the coast of the dwindling enemy Mes- sina bridgehead. The town is about 60 miles west of Messina. Gain Another Anchor Meanwhile, Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery’s Torces gained impor- | tant new positions near Catania, the | othet™ anichor of the Axis defenses, in a series of furious assaults. HBoth the French and German i radios admitted these gains. In the ' attack on Naples 500- | pound ‘bombs were rained on the dock ftea at Naples and a nearby airfield, putting into action the’ warning by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- | hower, Commander of the Allied | armies, that Italy would be rocked i again and again from the air be- | cause Badoglio’s government is giv- | ing the Germans time to strengthen | defenses. | Shattering Bombardment The Allled warships steamed per- haps at the heightening decisive action, shattering railway communi- | cations at the foot of Italy and | setting Port Crotone afire. American warships shelled enemy land positions in Sicily ahead of the advancing United States Seventh | Army. This American advance also | swept Mistretta, six miles directly south of Sanstefano, as troops of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton cracked through the defenses. Steady Progress Steady progress is reported of- ficially all along the Sicilian front. The British Eighth Army has re- pelled strong German counter-at- tacks with heavy losses. The Canadians are battling ahead in the central area and are engaged in heavy fighting but the advances continued. The Americans have taken 10,000 more prisoners at Mistretta alone, the majority being Nazis. e - LADY ASTOR GIVEN FINE LONDON, Aug. 2--Lady Astor, Virginia born, member of the Bri- tish Parliament, has been fined 50 pounds and the costs, 10 pounds, after pleading guilty to a technical violation of the rationing regula- tions. In a statement she said she had no idea she had done wrong. It was brought out at the trial she wrote a letter to a member of the American Red Cross asking his wife to buy her things in America, and he could fly back with them after a trip home. .. BUY WAR BONL Dimout begins Tuesday at e sunset at 9:15 pm, . e e e 000000000 e o o o0 o 0 0 0 3 e . DIMOUT TIMES . . —— . e Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 9:17 o'clock. . e Dimout ends tomorrow e e at sunrise at 4:52 am. . . . .