The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9413. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, Tf | ANIA SEIZED BY BRITISH 8TH ARMY U.S. MAIN LINE OF NIPPONS IS BROKEN Planes Roar Overhead then Sweep Down in Sirafing Atfacks | ENEMY GROUND FIRE | REPORTED SILENCED Air Vicloryngtored Over Shortland lsland- ! Barges Sunk ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug 5.—The hard fighting jungle troops of their way south and northeast the center of Munda airdrome after overrunning the strongly held cov- ered trenches barring the way to the core of the Japanese defer The infantrymen broke the Jap' main line south of the airdrome by slow and bloody progress i The Thirteenth Air Force threw powerful formations of fighters, dive and torpedo bombers against the enemy positions along the (Continued on Page Two) The Washgfiéion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) of WASHINGTON —Inside fact is that President Roosevelt's fireside radio talk was sent to Churchill in advance for his OK and approval Churchill's talk before the House of Commons, however, was not sent to Washington in advance. { If it had been, tactful suggestions might have been made to tone down the “seared, scarred and blackened” threats, since U. S. pol- icy is not to be harsh with the Italian people now that they have kicked out Mussolini. Italians, un- fortunately, are extremely suspici- ous of England, think she wants to keep certain Mediterranean islands, Pantelleria, perhaps Sicily, The man who. prompted Roose- velt to rebuff the OWI for calling Victor Emmarruel a “moronic little King” was Admiral Leahy. He hot- footed it over to the White House immediately, warned the President there was no use heaping abuse on the new Italian government un- til it had a chance to act. Trouble was that OWI's broad- casts have been operating by a group of well - meaning Italian exiles who are so close to the situ- ation they don't see the over-all,| long-range picture. | | OVER-ALL COMMITTEE | The above hemming and hawing over Italy points to the importance of the new Italo-American steering committee recently organized in New York under such leading citi-| zens as Judge Ferdinand Pecora| of the New York Supreme Court, Judge Felix Forte of Boston, Judge D’Alessandroni of Philadelphia, Generoso Pope, editor of 11 Pro- gresso, Congressman D'Allesandro| of Baltimore, Dr. A. H. Giannini of | San Francisco, James Montana of Batfalo and many others. This committee represents Italo- Americans from all political groups —Democrats and Republicans, some with Fascist leanings before Pearl Harbor, some bitterly anti-Fascist— put all united now to do two things: (1) take Italy out of the| war immediately; (2) save Italy from the mistakes of, a Giraud-De-| Gaulle cat-and-dog fight. the United States have slashed | thrives even unpopular |were not all great CHICAGO BEAUTIES EYE TITLE & B2 FOUR PRETTY CONTESTANTS for the title of Miss Chicago are, left to right, Mercedes Cameron, Naomi Vokoren, Lillian Curtis and Norma Meyer. Winner will compete for the national Miss America of 1943 title at the Atlantic City pageant of beauty. | . (International) Drew Pearson Recalls Mussolini Inferview; Grandsfanding Career By DREW PEARSON ing they were great, some really SHINGTON, Aug. 5—Twenty had the stuff which makes for vears ago almost to the month, this greatness. They included President columnist, then a very young news- Ebert of Germany, Benes of Cze- paperman, interviewed Benito Mus- choslovakia, Cosgrave of Ireland, solini, then a very young dictator. | Herriot of France, Seipel of Aus- tria, Theunis of Belgium, Balfour of England, Cassel of Sweden and 50 on President Ebert fell in the gory of really great men. There was no pretense about him. A for- mer socialist and saddlemaker he was sincerely struggling against overwhelming odds to make a suc- cess of German democracy. He was simple, direct, completely frank in discussing Germany’s trials and her need of world cooperation. Great and Near-Great Il Duce at that time was rela- tively fresh in office. He was at the peak of his popularity. TItaly on drama, and Mussolini was the matinee idol. To eriticize him was rank heresy inside Italy, outside Italy. Peo- ple said he would inaugurate a new era, a new type of government which would replace outmoded de- mocracy. Mussolini could *do no wrong. But as I look back on that inter- view with a man who rése so high, cate- but fell so low, it was all too ap- Benes of Czechoslovakia was parent even then that he was br equally so. In fact most of the tle. Even to my inexperienced eyes|“great men” were simple, direct he was a papier-mache play-actor whose success depended on grand- standing. I had been lucky enough to get and unpretentious. Charles Schnei- der, head of the giant LeCreusot munitions plant in France, which ¢ even then was doing business both an assignment to interview Eur- in France and across the line, was ope’s Twelve Greatest Men. They surrounded with more pretense Some had been | — able to fool the public into think- Is Food Boss ]ones Being Groomed for (Continued on Page Three) ¢ | (Second of two articles on Food Administrator Marvin Jones) By JACK STINNETT T WASHINGTON, Aug. — One question that already ‘askvd here is this: “Is Marvin KIDN pE ['Jones, now elevated to War Food | Administrator and the War Mobili- | zation cabinet being groomed for | something bigger? | That something bigger could only be the post of running mate to the President should he make a bid for a fourth term, as political leaders of both parties now con- sider certain, So far as I can determine, the first mention of Jones as a vice- presidential possibility came from that little circle who pass freely in and out of the doors of the President’s study. That mention may have been no more than a trial balloon, but the probability that it was more than that makes ALBANY, Oregon, Aug. 5.—Mrs. W. B. Gurney appealed foday for the return or her kidnaped baby, Judith, while clue-short officers in- vestigated the purchase of infant’s supplies by a woman at Portland. The woman didn’t know what form- ula the baby was supposed to have. A formula is usually prescribed by the doctor. The babe, two days old, was taken fromp a second story room as she slept in her crib by a man who climbed vines to the win- dow and fled from the fire escape. When this group met in New York, Dr. Charles Fama, head of| the Medical Board, New York City Retirement system, had not spokun: (c&nm;ua on Page Four) The mother said, “I bear malice toward none. All I want is my baby back.” it worth exploring. The only three other men men- tioned so far as possible harr S DR, BUY WAR BONDS .;xva-an P:;.:;c Thiee) ~'3 EMPLOYEES Something I}igger!z RED ARMY - CAPTURES ~ NAZI BASE Stronghold of Orel Taken -Over in Blazing Climax. | of ‘43 Offensive | |OTHER SECTIONS ARE EXPOSED T0 ATTACKS \Where Soviet Forces Will | Strike Next Puzzling | Germans Now (By Associated Press) The battle for the German strongs ‘ | hold of Orel has reached & blazing | | climax as the Red Army fighting | \ the way through the streets of ‘the lcity have made a complete recons | quest in the first major objective of | = ARMY 7 MILLION (Officers to increase from 570,000 to 605,000) 1 ap Feotvres | 1943 and signs of danger on other | | exposed sections of the German | lines in Russia appeared mmed- | iately 1e German Command announces Orel was evacuated last night after | all stores had been removed and ajl | military factories methodically de- }stroyed. The German - Command | claims the withdrawal was planned | for “quite some time.” | IS SEEN ON STRIKE LAW Where the Russians will strike next, after eliminating the Orel %, salient, remains a Soviet military W . orkers Ballot in Favor of | secret but no doubt the Red Army will strike again as the Russian | forces edged forward on both sides of the Kharkov salient and im- | proves positions near Belgordo. The Germans have begun to show signs of uncertainty whether to| make a defense around Smolensk |nation’s first election under the in the central or Moscow sector | Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Law de- The German communique s~id the | gigned to forestall work stoppages Russians have launched a series of | jn wartime found a majority of the violent counter-attacks against the | workers in two Allis Chalmers newly won German positions north | Manufacturing Company’s plants | of Kuibyshevo on the Mius River |yoting in favor of str |front but said every thrust was| No immediate strike is likely. The | thrown back with heavy losses. idispute is jurisdictional between | The communique said the Soviets | District 50 of John L. Lewis’ Mine were also continuing attacks on the | Workers vs. the CIO United Farm middle of the Donets River in the | Equipment Metal Workers. | Belgorod area. | The men marked yes or no to this o i o SRR | question: “Do you wish to permit |an interruption of war production T |as a result of this dispute?” | | The result was 1,005 for and 836 J | against. | : - PETER KRUG 'RECAPTURED EARLYTODAY U. S. Government s Escaped German Airman Interrupting War Production | s SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 5—The ARE INDICTED Company I; Ciarged with Conspiracy to Defraud | i | DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 5. The | Bohn Aluminum and Brass Cor- Arrested at North | poration and three of its employees . {have been indicted by the grand Bay Station :jury ‘The charges are that they| kit !conspln-d to defraud the Um\rd; NORTH BAY, Ontario, Aug. 5. | States Government by the manu-|pjeyr. Peter Krug, German airman | facture of castings for airplane en- 8 MILLION aa than gress, JUNE ‘43 DEC. DIETICIANS AND PHYSICAL » THERAPY AIDES i Jungle Troops Win Bloody Mun GROWTH FOR NEXT 6 MONT IN the half year ending December WACS 31 Uncle Sam expects to put more 1,000,000 men and women into the khaki dress of the Army. According to estimates used by Con- this is how the manpower stood June 30, how it will grow: KXl 59,000 32,000 51,000 H 150,000 (Officers to increase from 4,000 to 10,000) 1l JUNE ‘43 DEC. ‘43 2,800 5,600 Delegate Jeeps Over Haines Road; Dramatic Break Through Occurs NEW ROAD IS - PROJECTED IN REGION NORTH Skagway and Dyea to Be Linked-Dimond Urges | Further Extension SKAGWAY, Alaska, Aug. 5—The possibility of a road between Skag- way and the Haines military high- way was envisioned today by Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond as he touched off the first blast on a road | linking the two historic gold rush ports of Skagway and Dyea. The Skagway-Dyea road is a proj- ect of the Alaska Road Commission. It will connect the inlets where the 9gers embarked for the Klondike | almost half a century ago Skagway is now an important military port but Dyea is only the remnant of a ghost town. The road | is being constructed under the di- {rection of Ludwig Frolander of Skagway. After the first geyser-like blast of rock had dropped into the ‘blue waters of Long Bay, Delegate Di- {mond told Col. Caryl R. Hazeltine, Deputy Chief of Staff of the North- | west Service Command, that he hop- ed the Skagway-Dyea road could be [continued until it connected with i the Haines military highway. Such !u connection, Dimond said, would | greatly supplement the road system | of this part of Alaska | The Haines military highway will | be the first link between Southeast Alaska and the interior of the Ter- ! incidentally Alaska, Aug. 5.—~In an Army jeep, Anfhony J. Dimond, veteran Delegate from Alaska, in- spected the new Haines Military Road and predicted that its com- pletion would be of “first rate im- portance as a link between South- cast Alaska seaports and the Alaska Highway.” Dimond also sald that he believed the Haines road would eventually rank “one of the great scenic drives of the North American con- tinent.” The Delegate’s trip was the first journey by a visitor over the loft; summit of Three Guardsmen Ps HAIN as which the Haines road crosses on its winding route from the Inside Passage to the Alaska Highway. Dramatic Break Through The Delegate’s trip occurred co- with the dramatic break through by Army Troops working from the north and civilian contractors pushing up from the south. Shortly beyond the rocky hump of Three Guardsmen Pass, bulldoz- ers operated by Engineer troops of Brig. Gen, James A. O'Connor, Northwest ervice Command, bumped radiators with the cars of the Foley Brothers Construction Company. Congratulations Delegate Dimond congratulated Lt. Col. Thomas J. Hayes, Haines C Engineer, on the early joining of the units working from opposite ends of the 166 mile road. In addition to Delegate Dimond and Lt. Col. Hayes, other members of the first party to travel the new road, were E. L. Bartlett of Juneau, Secretary of Alaska; Lieut. Richard L. Neuberger, aide to Gen. O'Con- nor, and Capt. Charles E. Whit- Bptue who previously escaped and Who{ ieorw and every possible ¢ | tiny 4 Slalak: Afiny B being | gines in a manner contrary to War |joq "n 2 b gl vt £ and every possible community | tington, United States Army En- {led to the conviction on a treason .ould pe linked to the Haines high- l gineer. | Department specifications. char agains Stepha g |~ United States Attorney John uhrn"h'"ge against Max éuplmn, has| way either by road or by short The Delegate said he was “im- 2 the IndlEmnt Hodtuded two ROEL Meosptured after his second | ferry connections (uu-n.wlv pleased” with the progress consbizacy eonnta and three counts | ™oPe last Monday night | Dimond spoke last night at a|made on the Haines project. He {under the sabotage statute He | ,H" was retaken at the CPR sta- | community meeting in the Skagway | also added that his trip had given sald thetd was 1o evillenes: of Mm_}uon at North Bay by an alert ser-|school. He said that despite present | him great respect for the traveling versive intent, One conspiracy count [8€80¢ in the Canadian Provost) hardships and difficulties, Alaska |prowess of the Army jeep. sharges the defendants conspired to Crollps, dmum ; Krug's brief period vu;mld be \1x.:ll)‘ developed as a result | Weekend Pans | commit acts that “would injure, in-|of freedom. Sgt. Devine recognized of war construe o | ™ alne: > Del { terfere, and obstruct” the United |Krug at the railway station at 2 - RED R :(nvt-t:l'*'(li"u:“:s:fn;;‘w:y u:n);‘-lr:‘rl\fz :’x;:- States and Great Britain in connec-|0'clock this morning and irosted TAXI DRIVER FINED ferred with Mayor G. A. Benedict tion with the conduct of the war by [Dim. Tt was six hours later before and the members of the Town | furnishing the Packard Motor Com- [Krug himself admitfed his iden- taxi driver, was| Council. He was driven around |pany welded plugged peened cast-|lity. {ings. “Peened” means hammering = !m’ll"ih;netu;\:’.ee Bohn employees m-ijo FINED lN (IIY MAGISTRATE’S COURT dicted were Frederick Eaton, A | sistant Manager of Plant No Paul Cordes, Plant Superintendent, |and George King, Trim Room For:- | %2050 Two were fined this morning in |City Police Court. Duane Martin vt/ paid a $2 fine for parking in a i man. hj]n'ohihi(ed are d William Her- ‘hert was fined for being drunk. - > - e ! The horned lizard is able to sq Jjets of blood from the corner of eyes when alarmed. Norman Moller, fined $30 fc speeding on the Gla- cier Highway by U. S. Commis- sioner PFelix Gray this morning. It was Moller's second offense, He as ar ted by Traffic Officer A C. Lubcke | .o HERE FROM B¥ NGHAM Déniel Campbell, cannery man from Bellingham, is here and i a guest at the Barano! Hotel. way's military installations by Frank E. Abrens, Port Com- and was the guest of the Rev. G. Edgar Gallant at the Catholic Mission, Today Delegate Dimond plans to travel to Whitehorse by train where he will confer with Gen O'Connors, Chief of Staff. Col. K B. Bush, Gen. O'Connors Chief of Col mander, (Continuea on Juge Two) Fight SEAPORT IS - TAKEN AFTER ~ LONG FIGHT Forces then Sweep Around Mount Etna, Captur- ing Paterno 'NAZI LINE CRUMBLES; LAST STAND IS TAKEN | Americans and Canadians | Push Ahead on North Coast Toward Messina N The ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 5. British Bighth Army seized Catania | early today and then swept around the base of Mount Etna to the northwest, capturing Paterno, ten miles away, to erumble the German line on the east coast of Sicily Catania fell to the British Eighth JArmy at 8:30 a. m. today (11:30 p. m. last night, PWT) after a bitter defense since July 15. Following seizure of the port, the British pounded ahead in a light- ning advance around the base of Mount Itna. The heart of the German Army Corps appears to be broken. Paterno is 10 miles northwest of Catania. It is assumed that Misterbianco, three miles northwest of Catania, has also been engulfed. The German withdrawal of the non-essential personnel in Siclly has been in progr for the past five or six days. Defense Blasted It is learned authoritatively the German defense road around Mount Ftna has been blasted apart by the British succes: The next rman line is expected to run from Taormina across the northeastern tip of the island to the seacoast northeast and behind San Fratello which is already men- (Continued on Page Three) HEARING IS PROCEEDING, MURDER CASE Testimony isifilroduced in Slaying of Wealthy Man af Nassau NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 5—An American detective, testifying at the hearing of Alfred de Marigny, charged” with the alleged slaying of his wealthy father-in-law Sir Harry Oakes, declared it was hat- red that was the cause of the crime Activities of de night of the murder to the court De Marigny said he aitended a dinner party at the house he hared with his lifelong friend, Marquis Georges de Viscelou Guim- beau. Following the dinner party he drove two guests to their homes, then returned home and retired. He heard of the death of Sir Harry Marigny on the were related the next morning. Nancy Oakes de Marigny, in New York at the time of the mur- sald re- “Naturally, der, has returned and garding her husband: he is innocent.” Dimout tonight at sunset Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 4:58 am Dimout begins Friday sunset at 9:08 pm e s e e 00 e e begins at 9:11 o'cloek, at