The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1943, Page 1

’y THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9411. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS — ] MOUNT ETNA LINE IS REPORTED CRACKED Gains On Ground, In Air On P 1iAmericansTake Palermo; Split Sicily's Defenses YANKS INCH FORWARDON MUNDABASE Artillery Tlmd on Sala- maua-Many Bomb- er Raids Seen | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST, Aug. 3.—Am- erican ground forces drove forward 500 to 1,200 yards along the Munda, New Georgia front, as Allied ar- tillery for the first time was brought to bear on the Jap base at Sala- | maua, New Guinea 4 Reports from Admiral William F. | Halsey, Jr., gave no details of the manner or direction of the gains against Munda except to say con- siderable quantities of material were captured. 700 Yards Away 4 The last previous position given said the Americans were 1,900 yards from Munda so it is possible they are now only 700 yards from the Jap base at one point. ‘The artillery on Salamaua directed at an airdrome. Planes were | destroyed on the ground and a 60- | foot section of the Francisco bridge | was knocked away. Direct hits were | scored on Jap anti-aircraft bat- | teries. | In the air Army and Navy planes | delivered punishing blows at the enemy base on Bougainville Island A freighter was set afire, a tanker hit and eight barges were sunk. Five hundred bombs were dropped on Kahili airdrome, damaging (Continued on 2age Two) The Wasilin:qionE Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON H (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Unsung U. S heroes who contributed heavily to| Mussolini’s downfall were Italian- | American boys smuggled into Sicily | several weeks before U. S. troopsl landed. How they got ashore must re- main a military secret. But the| fact that they got there is now 1ecognized as a part of military operations, just as the advance landing of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark i’ North Africa, carrying bags of U. S. gold. These Italian-Americans were especlally trained in the danger- cus, delicate job of winning over military garrisons in advance of a lending force. In Sicily they had| the advantage of speaking the lan- guage and being able to visit the bhomes of their relatives, few of whom loved Mussolini. From there| they were able to work around to various military leaders. It has long been known that Italian military leaders were of two types. Oue is the professional| soldier like Field Marsnal Bado- glio, who was n the army before Mussolini’s time and hds no love for the Fascists. Also he has noj love for the Nazis, and so was not too difficult to win over to thel Allied side. Other type of Italian military leaders is the Fascist Blackshirt,' wro rose through favors from I1| Tuce, but who usually 1s susceptible to coin of the realm. Presumably U advance scouts were supplied with what Gen. Clark took with him in’ advauce into North Africa. At any rate, expert advance work’ by patriotic .fialian-Americans, plus tae popularily of the United States in Sicily, confributed to one of the most bloodless landing expeditions in nistory. Also the psychological shock of the headlong U, S. rush through sicily was what toppled Mussolini cff his thorny throne. GEN. GIRAUD’S WATERLOO Gen. Giraud was shown all the sights of Washington during his stay here, including the War De- | GOVERNMENT partment’s massive Pentagon Build- (Continued on Page Four) 4] 25 = STATUTE MILES ; [} Purzo f L ps "";"Mm €OLIE . 'TALY { usTICA el ISLANDS cart Bocca Messina s VITO di Falco Milazzoy .\ o 7% PR A Barcellona Empedocle SICILY Mediterraneon Seo Arrows indicate Allied drives in Si olating the western end of the island. Black lines indicate t An Ame Palermo, is Sicily as they appeared from dispatches of July 23. western west of Catania. Economic Model for Posi-War Europels Supplied by Ecuador ! (Second of Two Articles on | Ecuador’s model for post-war | Europe.) i By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.— When| BE SETTLED ! province in Ecuador might become an economic desert or a disease-| ridden agricultural jungle as re-| Congress Likely to Oppose New Taxes Unless Curfailed \sult of the border war between | Ecuador and Peru, United States| WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. The Import Bank lent the newly or-| President’s request for “stiff” in- ganized Ecuadoran creases in taxes, made in a review Corp., formed to develop the econ- of the revised $105 billion budget omy of Ecuador as a whole, $5,000,- for this fiscal year, appeared like- 000. | ly to be countered in Congress as Rockefeller’s office appointed a| bipartisan demands for closer scru- commission of men with practical | tiny of public spending popped up. experience in equatorial medicine, | Senator Kenneth S. Wherry of rehabilitation, agriculture, and eco- Nebraska told an interviewer he nomics. This commission was as- believes the huge financial prob- signed to the Ecuadoran Develop-| lem ought to involve reduced gov- ment Corporation, an insurance | ernment outlays as well as enact- against overlapping activity and ment of new taxes. authority. Senator Robert Taft of Ohio pre- dicted Congress will have trouble The commission’s first act was finding additional revenue sources to fly in great quantities of vac- for a “truly stiff program of ad- cines, sulfa drugs and. quinine. Next ditional taxes, savings, or both” ~came food—potatoes, rice, beans, The President said both should onions, canned milk. After that be enacted in his budget summa- came soap, cooking utensils and tion, the first in five years. Roo- tools for building and clearing the sevelt said that while the overall jungles. Sanitary squads were set| war spending outlook remained un- up. The 40,000 refugees: from the | changed, the Army is now expected — PR L WA to use $6 billion less than the $62 (Continued on Page Two) billion estimated for it last Janu- e i o | ary, and the Navy's share has been | Happy Falher i|| i upped $4 billion to $28 billion. | e eating o rater o | Alaska, Gefs (ensor : § ‘ Excited Too, $10 5 fensive power is being sought for| the Pacific theater which is do- } CLIFTON, Kansas, Aug. 3.— | proval and cooperation of the local; government, moved in. | Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the| lars for the task, and the Export- i minated by the Navy. - — From somewhere in Alaska a | happy father, Private Jack At- kinson, sent a letter to his wife about her new son, born in the Clay Center Hospital on July 4. The father wasn't the only one who enjoyed the good news. Pinned to the letter was a note and a $10 bill. The note read: “Buy the baby | @ trinket. The Censor.” BISHOP CRIMONT TO ATTEND CELEBRATION Bishop R. J. Crimont is enroutel to Ketchikan to attend the Golden | Jubilee celebration of Sister Borro-| meo, Superior of the Hospital, who will have been in the order of the Sisters of Saint Joseph for 50 years on August 5. . where an American force sweeping up from leven before the U. S. Flying Fort- nna had captured he fronts in western and eastern an force was pushing toward the south- ip of the island; British were pounding at Catania; and Axis reports indicated an Allied thrust 10 INVADE MAINLAND OF ITALY" peps MAKE NEW GAINS German Information Bu- reau Admits Breach, Says Temporary Last Warnifigfio Surrender Given in Algiers Broad- | cast Last Evening | LONDON, Aug. 3.—Italians were| again warned in radio brofldca»ls[ from Algiers last night that Allied| land forces will soon invade the| > RED ARMY TAKES TWO OREL ROADS \German Communication | Are Now Threatened in Fighting Area (By Associated Press) Ihe Red Star, official newspaper {of the Soviet Army, reports the Russian troops have captured iwo main roads leading from Bolkhov |as follows to | ¢ the German |cease all resistance | south to Orel and southwest | Karachey, threatening | communications with Bryansk and |leaving the Nazi forces only one | unmenaced highway from the great | base southwest to Dmitrovsk German broadcasts last night seemingly admitted the Russian penetration southwest of Orel proper and today’s German communique ald fresh and strong | i of Orel” | break through “southw | but were warded off by “heroically fighting” German troops and ground ly lost was regained, tempora The Germans have concentrated | large forces northwest. of Orel and | have established a strong system lof fortified points in an effort to | hold two roads, the Red Star say | appears that Orel itself might be lin danger of complete isolation as | the Germans continued to withdraw westward of their shattered posi- tions. NATIS SAY mainland as a follow up of the re-| sumption of the aerial offensive Government of Italy on the de-; mands to surrender. [ “We warn you Air | again our the Italian mainland.” | Radio interferences generally of broadcasting stations attempted to black out transmission of the message to Italians. | Hundreds of thousands of Italian civilians are reported fleeing from the metropolitan and military areas resses headed for Naples on Sunday to pick up where they left off when| surrender demands delayed bomb- ings for several days. U.S. AIRMEN WHO | BAILED OUT, BIG | RAID, CAPTURED LONDON, Aug. 3—A Rome radio| last night said 60 United States! airmen who bailed out from planes down in the raid on the Ploesti| LONDON, Aug. 3.—The Interna- propaganda agency, said in a broad- cast from Berlin tonight that the Red Army has made a “temporary Coordinator of Inter-American Af-|porce will strike at you and 500 preach” south of Orel in an effort fairs set aside half a million dol-jour land forces will be fighting on o break through German lines to Bryansk. ‘This the probably means that Development | were reported as the Axis operators Russians have practially overwhelm- ed Nazi defenses in this sector and that the German people are being let down softly for the bad news to come. The broadcast said “in violent counterattack the German troops dislodged the Russians from the two dominating heights, thus ef- fectively nullifying the breach.” KRUG MAKES ESCAPEFROM PRISONCAMP German Prisoner of War il fields on Sunday have been cap-| Anolher Gelaway- tured by German or Russian troops.| NAZIS, ITAUAN | war who was befriended by the De- | ASH | troit " restaranteur, Max Stepha N In Swim Truqks Russian in- | fantry and tank forces attempted to | ] but intensified Russian attacks have | . broken the enemy line and it now| Seven-Point Armistice Proposal Is Reporfed Submified by Roosevelt REGALBUTO LONDON, Aug. 3. — The DNB, S | German news agency, broadcasts a | Geneva dispatch recived from Il Poplo Di Roma and recorded by the Associated Pr here, declaring President Roosevelt has advanced a seven-point armistice proposal to Italy. The Axis account is, how- ever, without confirmation from Al- {lied quarters The listed points as reported arc | | | | | | | One—The Ttalian Army and Navy Two—Collaboration with Germany must cease at once. Three—Ttalian troops in Grecce, Albania and France and former Yugoslavia, be withdrawn at once. Four War materials must be handed over to the Allied Nations nndamaged. Five — An Anglo-American-R sian military government will be iblished in Italy until the end of tions. ix—Arrest all war eriminals, Seven—Release all Allied prison~ of war on Italian soil Roundabout reports, through Axis channels, followed up repeated ¢ man and Ttalian rumors for negotia- es oper (Continued on Page Two) Last Jap Ouipost, Aleuians Bering Sea SIRIUS PT. k2 PILLAR VULCAN ROCK T g = HAYCOCK WITCHCRAFT (&R T ROCK Rt CAPE ST. N Here's a detailed map of in the Aleutians shelled the island. Frequency of tion thata sea-borne invasion of Kiska might be impending. Ploesti il Field “Good Neighbor agencies,” WIth 8P~ cyseq by the temporizing Military | tional Information Bureau, German | i TANADAK Kiska 7o o4 A O TWIN %, % Poj ROCKS 4% > 45 Pacific Ocean 0 5 — STATUTE MILES a Island, only remaining Japanese base The Navy announced American warships have naval assaults has led to specula- Aflame as Result of Mass American Attack BOMBING BY U. §. FORCES |3.—Peter Krug, German prisoner of | e - RGER TO tand who later i ied against | HIKAN FOR. WEEK Stephan at the treason trial, is rve- - ported to have escaped from the| Dr. George F. Freeburger left |for Ketchikan to attend the an- IN CRETE AREA LONDON, Aug. 3—Bitter clashes| between German soldiers in Crete and Italian troops whom the !ux-‘ mer seek to disarm, and growing | friction between Axis garrisons on the mainland of Greece are re- ported here from' both Cairo and Istanbul. prison camp again. Krug has escaped several times nual meeting of the This last escape he was|tal Examiners. He expects to | before. Board of Dea- swimming with fellow officers and turn on Monday did not ‘report at roll call after- wards, } Unless he cached some clothe Krug is only in his swimmific trunks. I - - The Kiel Canal cuts 60 miles northeastward across the neck of the German-Danish peninsula, | ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 2 — | (Delayed)—Rumanian and German fire fighting services are battling a | great fire which rages throughout :lh« entire petroleum area of Plo- esti, hit Sunflay by American Lib- erator bombers. This is according to first reports of eye witnesses reaching neutral Turkey. At the same time it is learned that seven of the American bomb- near hysteria and obviously awed acific Front (CANADIANS - HAVETAKEN i Americans Rout Germans | at Capizzi Cerani in Offensive 'CATANIA PLAIN 1S % ENTERED BY ALLIES iSubsIanfiaI Bridgehead Is Established North of Ditfaino River ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 3.—Canad- | fan forces have eaptured Regalbuto, | a breach in the Mount Etna line, and the American doughboys routed the Germans at Capizzi Cerani in a decisive Sicilian of- fensive. "he Germans, backed into Sicily's ape Bon,” reeled under fiery con- certed attacks of the American, nadian and British troops heavily supported by air forces. Enemy Battered The American Seventh Army ex- orably battered the weakening northern flank of the enemy as | Montgomery’s men established a, substantial bridgehead north of the Dittaino River and entered the west end of the Catania Plain. | These successes are but highlights of the series of vicious fabs that have cost the Germans hundreds of | dead. | Rage on to Troina Patton’s American troops are re- ported raging on from Capizzi Cer- ani to within five miles of the strategic inland road junction at Troina between the sea and Mount Etna, 20 miles southeast of the American held San Stefano. Late this afternoon it was reported the Americans have entered Troina. The Canadians and British are manning the bridgehead north of the Dittaino River, where they are | fighting the new Fifteenth German Armored Division, successor to the Fifteenth lost in Tunisia. | Fierce Struggle On the north bank of the Dit- taino River, five miles south of Regalbuto and 22 miles west of Catana, the struggle is reported to be a fierce one, ‘The capture of Regalbuto gave the mixed Canadian and British left wing of the Eighth Army com- mand a crucial angle in the Mount Etna line which guards the west | Catania Plain, No official sources give informa- tion as to the progress of the Brit- ish attacks across the plain. - - NAZI SUBS THWARTED E— ers were forced down in Turkey and an eighth crashed near the Wharves, Warehousesand e, i enios e e | NCFIGHT Shlpplng Fa(i““es made their way to shore in rub- ber boats. The raid involved a : Are B|as'ed round trip of 2400 miles. LONDON, Aug. 3—British war- All crews of the United States ships end planes, working together, planes were interned by Turkish Sank two of a force of between 5 NEW DELHI, Aug. 3.—American authorities. Three bombers came and 30 U-boats trying to intercept B-25 medium bombers heavily down in the Tzmir district on the @ big Allied convoy, and probably blasted wharves, warehouses and west Turkish coast. There are no destroyed another. shipping facilities at Katha, Jap oc- details concerning the others. A British communique said the cupied head of navigation on the Witnesses Hysterical defense was so successful the U- Irrawaddy River during Sunday ac-| The first reports of the Ploesti Doats were unable to launch a |cording to an official communique fire came from telephone conver- single attack. The fight between 0, Aug. regarding Burma operations, sations with eye witnesses who were the British warships and planes and the subs lasted for three days. he action was some weeks ago. by the U fic destruction of the raid-—the greatest low-level mass ARy bombing attack in history SR One witness said the fire was ®* ® & @ 8 6 & & .8 38 the biggest he had seen anywhere. ® DIMOUT TIMES s He said the bombers hit just about ® e . everything that was worth hitting ® Pimout begins tonight e in the entire mile-long oil pump- ® @t sunset at 9:15 o'clock. " ing and refinery district. ® Dimagy ends:jomoron i | A terrific air battle raged dur- ® Ot sunrise at 4:54 am. o ing the attack. Swarms of Ger- ® Dimout begins Wednesdayat e (Continued on Page Three) ® sunset at 9:13 p.m . ‘OOICOOIDQ.QCCQ