The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1943, Page 1

VOL. LXI, NO. 9412. “ALL THE NEWS ALL{ {THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, ME MBE! R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s URIOUS ATTACK LAUNCHED ON SICILY American Forces Reach One End Of Jap Base U.S. Battlewagon Blasting Japs FALL OF | MUNDAIS | EXPECTED Yard by Ya}d_éalile Being | Won-Supply Barges Are Sunk ALLIED HEADQUARTERS !N! THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.| 4—The east end of the Japanese airdrome at Munda, New Oeorgin Island, has been reached by hard ' fighting of the United States in- vasion forces in a yard by yard battle against cave entrenched en- emy jungle fighters. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur made the announcement today, addinz that siow progress was made against the key objective in the Central Solomons because of the jungle fighting but the action is part of the general advance and will suc-, ceed. ‘; | At the other end of the 700-mile battlefront, Allied planes in New Guinea and New Britain destroyed or damaged 29 barges, bringing to 200 the number of enemy supply boats wrecked during the past Len days. In a night attack, a plane bombed and hit an enemy ship, believed to be a destroyer. Heavy exploswes from some ot (Continued on Page Three) The Washlngton Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Just before he' left the United States for the war | zone, Archbishop Francis J. Spell- man of New York, the President’s closest link with the Vatican, told | friends of weekly conversations he; had had with Pope Pius XII in, which His Holiness expressed hope | for an early understanding between | the Vatican and Soviet Russia. Archbishop Spellman was secre- tary to the Pope when, as Cardinal Pacelli, the Pope was Vatican sec-| 1etary of state, and he remains one | of Pius XII's most trusted confi- dants. All during the war and until the New York archbishop left the United States, the two conferred regularly by trans-Atlantic phone | at 1 pm. on Wednesday. These phone calls, never before publicized, are one of the anoma- lies of the war. Though this meant a telephonic hookup of two enemy countries, connections were made promptly and the conversations never censored or garbled—at least from our. side. When the history of this war is written, it may show that the trans-Atlantic calls between the Pope and his closest adviser in the United States played an important part in paving the way for a rap- prochement between the Vatican and Russia. Pius XII dropped many tell-tale hints in these talks about discord in Italy, which were relayed to the President. > | i | | POPE AGAINST DICTATORS Speaking from an enemy country, the Pope could not of course un- burden himself of his innermost feelings toward the Axis, but Arch- bishop Spéllman told friends that he manifested his contempt for Hitler and Mussolini in subtle ways. He was extremely depressed about the state of affairs in Europe and once confessed to his former sec- retary: “I'm very lonesome and worried. I wish you could come over and visit me because I need your advice very much.” It was shortly after this that Archbishop Spellman left to visit the Pope and to take up his new duties as “military vicar” of Catho- lic chaplains of foreign war fronts. In the light of the foregoing back- ground, his itinerary is interesting. (Continued on Page Four) Move Supplies Porter Back NAKING ALONG A JUNGLE TRAIL in the hard-to-reach Wau- Mubo area of New Guinea, these natives carry on their backs the vital supplies for the Americans in that region. Australian “digge L,Udld the train of \um)lws Here's Dope Aboul Boss: Not Unknown America's New Food EISENHOWER LED BATTLE FROMMALTA British Island Is Used as Headquarlers Dur- ing Invasion ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 4. The island of Malta was disclosed today as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's op- erational headquarters for the Allied attack on Sicily. The general and his staff went there four days before the scheduled beginning of the offensive. He stay- ed in the place built in 1540 by the Knights of St. John as a guest of Field Marshal Lord Gort, Governor General. These facts were disclosed as the Allied general paid special tribute to the people of the “most bcmbed spot on earth.” Offices on the island are placed in limestone tunnels, grim reminders of the year in which Malta was subjected to more than 2,000 air raids. > BOMB NAPLES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 4.-—Much damage is repcrted to have been done in a raid on Naples last night Outlying sections and military ob- jectives were bombed. el s Lo S BUY WAR BONDS | RED CAPTURE OF OREL IS INEVITABLE | Russ:ans Crash to Within | Five Miles of Base- ! Nazis Flee MOSCOW, Aug. 4—The fall Of the German stronghold of Orel ap- | peared inevitable today as the | smashing Red Army offensive car- | ried to ‘within five miles of the | city and the German retreat from | points north and south of the city | proceeded steadily | It seemed only a matter of time before Orel, itself, is abandoned,| | eliminating the entire enemy sali-| | ent on the central front | | The British radio, quoting | Reuters dispatch from Moscow, de- | “clax'ed the Germans' escape uurrl-| of Orel threatening a dor is | 13 miles, | with another disaster perhapsequal [to that suffered at Stalingrad. ‘ | west narrowed {0 i the Nazis The fighting Russians crashed | | into. suburban villages of Orel last! station | an- railway Orel and miles east capturing a | seven miles from other village five the city. night, EDENSAYS ~ NO PEACE OFFER YET {German Report About | Roosevelt Offer Is Termed False i LONDON, Aug. 4—Anthony Eden Jmtcnatfld in the House of Com-| [mons today that the Allies have | ‘uflelcd Italy no peace terms when |asked how it happened that Gen | Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke of |the honorable conditions of peace in a recent broadcast to the Ital- lian people WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The| pgen said the Allies continue Washington wiseacres ‘have Just gemand unconditional surrender about quit predicting that anybody | ..4 that “I don’t want to argue will amount to anything in this War .. yoiter now but I can under- flm,“ |stand circumstances under which Whenever someone starts shout- 4 | unconditional surrender might not ing praises for a new figure on the B D O o Thws cms.song a |be dishonorable to those who made little unrhymed couplet. “Knudsen, * Kimmel, Henderson, Brown—Wick- ard, Davis, Odlum and Shor! | { | nd Australians battling the Japs | armed with sub-machine guns, | rst of two articles on Food Adml istrator Marvin Jones) By JA(‘,K s’l INNETT to Eden’s statement gave a lie to | German broadecasts which quoted 2 That generally ends the conversa- | Geneva dispatch as saying Roose- tion. There isn’t one in the list mat‘vel! had advanced a seven-point hasn’t been touted as the modern | peace proposal to Italy. Moses who would lead us into some | - kind of an economic or mlhmry Promised Land. And there hnh | one who hasn't stubbed his toe on | one or more rocky problems and| had to limp off to a back seat or oblivion. The couplet could easxl\*‘ be expanded into a quatrain. The Davis, of course, is Chester C (not Elmer, who, however, has been | having his own trouble with the | critical hurdles lately(. That’s why | Marvin Jones slipped into the post of War Food Administrator without | any fanfare of trumpets or a single prediction. MADRID, Aug. 4 — Marshal Having had my own optimistic|Badoglio's regime is slowly but firmly imposing a military dicta- fingers burned, I'm not going to prognosticate anything at all about | torship of the toughest Marvin Jones, but it can be said |the prospects for an Italian sur- here and now that no man has|render are now extremely dim, ac- entered the wartime food picture |cording to Italians who left Rome with more- undeserved uninterest ! only last Sunday and arrived here from press, radio and politicians by plane. type and than he. While the Italians, in general, {are anxious for peace, these new If there ever was a man in Con- arrivals here declared that the! gress who accomplished more with |peace movement lacks a capable such a genius for anonymity than |jeadership. Marvin Jones, T don't know who it| Badoglio, the arrivals claim, could have been. From 1833 to 1940, there wasn't a piece of farm | legislation passed by Congress that | didn’t bear his stamp of approval,| snonsorshin or name. That portion of the Texas panhandle which he re m esented from 1916 on to his ap- ‘:hnws every sign of doing his best \to keep the situation muddled Peace demonstrations that fol- followers to ascertain possible peace | leaders but it is said many of them have been jailed, (r‘onhuurd on Page ’I‘hrw) of | - IN pher- Munda in the THE DAW) early S EARLY LIGHT an American warship sends salvo after the central Solomons at Kula Bay on New Georgia Island. morning of July: 12 this ¢ Two-Day-0ld Baby Is Kidnaped iu Strange Mysiery; No Ransom WASHINGTON HITLER IS ARGENTINA T0 IGNORE BLOCKADE: Merchant Ships to Go fo New York- Sub Danger Over BUENOS AIRES, Aug acknowledges tina Allied war agair has ordered s ships to use instead of disregarding the ships ordered tc issued in July, 1 announced a bl The Germans fered to permit the to run the blockade without danger i the kidnaper. but the offer The decision Wi connection with any possible fiance of the Axis governments or! a break with them but rather ap- pears that the Allied patrols have; made the route safe from at- tacking Axis submarines. TRADE SITUATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-—Atlan- tic coast officials said the action of ignoring the German blockade | is probably motivated by the ad- vantageous trade situation e ate New 4.—Argen- submarines and owned merchant port of New Orl 15t R reby blocka Germ ) use New Orle 942, after Germa sckade on June 6. at the time of-] Argentinian as disregarded. Guards Meet OnT The Juneau unit hursday of the Alaska ‘Territorial Guards will have the last | shoot tomorrow the range, before the squad for Labor Day. ‘Transportation 7 o'clock Thurs range. Guardsmen wil, night at the rifle determination for the big shoot on will facilities be {lowed the fall of Mussolini enabled provided and guardsmen will leave | Premier Badoglio and his military | the Elks’ headquarters at 5:15, 6 and ay evening for the | | wear coveralls, Ips'ruded Plywood Workers' local. York land wa appears to have 1o }* de-! | have | ainagar and six other ! | 1 ALBANY, Oregon, Aug. State, county and city police were engaged today in a widening search for the | kidnaper of a new-born baby taken from the hospital early today. Judith, two-day-old daughter of iMr. and Mrs. W. B. Gurney, was snatched from her crib by a person entering the second story window by climbing up vines. He fled through the fire escape. i The father is head of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor Veneer and The only clues were | outside of the building | The family not ransom is sought. Police appealed to Oregon doctors for aid in solving the crime, asking them to report anyone uasking footprints is rich and no success of the !medical attention for a new-born baby. | The child was in perfect health s wrapped in a light blanket fwhen taken. The doctor broadeast the proper formula for feeding the | baby, hoping the kidnaper would the broadcast The mother is grief stricken father and relatives know of ¥ The no ships | enemies which would help. identify ‘The nurse heard the rhnh. £rying, went into the nursery and found the baby gone | > 2,000 ARE " DROWNED IN FLOOD One Town,rsix Village In- undated by Water 10 t0 15 Feet High 4 the Flood waters town of Vij- villages and BOMBAY, Aug submerged have taken the lives of more than 2,000 persons, an official state- ment says. Vijainagar is about 40 miles south of Ajmer. The torrent of water reached a depth of 10 to 15 feet in less than half an hour e, BUY WAR BONDS | scene was registered through the len: Ivo on Jap installations at Munda, ki The ship is part of a task force that blasted 71 KILLED IN | waukee company of a Navy photogra- v enemy airbase in TRAIN WRECK, Moses Lake Scene of Acci-" dent-Twelve Injured ~All'in Army SEATTLE, Aug. 4-—Seven men were killed and 12 injured at 12:50 am. today when a 19-car Pullman train sideswiped a locomotive at Moses Lake, in southeastern Grant County. Fifteen ambulances sped to the scene from the Moses Lake Army base 23 miles away but not until 4:15 am. was the last injured freed by acetylene torch All dead and injured were mem- bers of the armed forces. No train- men were injured although both locomotives overturned. The Mil- said the branch line was instructed to walt at the siding to follow the passenger into Othello but apparently over-ran the switch at the clearance point - ITALIAN FLEET IS BIG ISSUE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-—There is growing optimism in naval cir- cles here the Allies can count on reasonable certainty of captur- ing or destroying the major por- tion of Ttaly’s hapless fleet and possibly soon What becomes of the Italian fleet is of utmost interest to mili- tary and naval authorities here be- cause the effect it will have on the war against Japan With the fleet out of the way or used by the Allies, the war on the Japs in Burma can be inten- sified At present the Italians should be able to muster about half a dozen battleships and less than a dozen cruisers and a maximum of about 100 destroyers and some 70 sub- marines. The fleet is believed to be based mostly at Spezia and Teranto. - -- a An American destroyer consumes 250 gallons of gasoline for every minule it is moving, ‘(OMBINED FORCES IN BIG PUSH Air, Sea and Land Units . Bombard Axis Mt. Etna Line ALLIED HEADQUAR’IERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 4.—The Mt. Etna line trembled under one of the greatest concentrations of fire the war has seen as huge forma- | tions of Allied bombers and fighter- | bombers joined British and Ameri- | can warships and hundreds of bat- | teries of field artillery in hammer- ing at Axis fixed defenses. The full fury of the tremendous combined air, sea and land bom- bardment was unleashed in support of a big push by land troops which; a communique reports, marked up an advance of six miles by Ameri- cans in the northern sector and a gain of “several miles” in the cen- tral zone flanking Mt. Etna. The American Seventh Army was strengthened for the final push by rested veterans from North Africa who took over from weary advance guard forces in Sicily after the latter captured Caronia, four miles east of Sanstefano and 18 miles west of Cape Orlando on the north coast. The Algiers radio declared night the *“victorious end of Sicillan bnme is in slght o last the REPORTED AS INSANE People in E;Fmany Talk- ing About His Suc- cessor AIready LONDON, Ang 4.—A Reuters dis- patch from Stockholm gquoted an unconfirmed veport from Bern that Hitler's health is giving cause for anxiety in Germany The correspondent, Daglight Al- lehanda, said Himmler, head of all German police organizations, “asked Hitler's physicians to give a true report which was very bad. The Fuehrer often appears apathetic and depressed.” ‘The correspondent added, “in Ger- many discussions about his eventual successor already have begun.” - > - GEORGIA CUTS VOTING AGE TO EIGHTEEN YEARS ATLANTA, Aug. 4—Georgia has apparently become the first State of the Union to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years and Gov. Arnall today announced his intention of seeking a plank in the next Demo- cratic platform to extend this throughout the nation. The Governor led the campaign for the adoption of a constitutional amendment under the slogan of “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote.” Incomplete returns from yester- day’s election showed a margin of about three to one in favor of giving the voting franchise to teen age youths, TR L6 e o o 0 o o o DIMOUT TIMES e Dimout becins tonight e at sunset at 9:13 o’'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 4:56 a.m, . Dimout begins Thursday at e sunset at 9:11 p.m, £ . . . . ° . . . . e s 00 00000000