The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL,, NO. 9415. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MOP UP MUNDA JAPS IN BLOODY DRIVE Germany Jittery;, UPHEAVAL INDICATED IN REICH Crisis Appr;aaljng - Dis- orders Reported-Con- ferences Are Held LONDON, Aug. 7—The Interna- tional Information Bureau, Propa- ganda Agency, in a broadcast to- day said it is “understood in Ber- lin that a number of important confergnces of both military and political nature have taken place at the Fuehrer's Headquarters dur- ing the past few days.” All information from various German sources indicate a rising crisis has come and reports filter- ing into London tell of fears in Berlin that are approaching almost a panic “over the possibility of massed air raids.” These reports tell of (Continued on Page Six) ———————— About 40,000 paper cups are used daily in the ton lunch bars in the War Department'y #entagon build- ing. iglies The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Though it hasn’t got all the publicity of the coal mine strike, one of the tough- est labor problems FDR faces is the threatened strike of 1,100,000 non-operating railroad workers. What the President is up against is overriding one of his top and ablest administrators, Judge Fred Vinson, new Economic Stabilizer, or facing a possible strike of RR. clerks, machinists, telegraphers and shop-workers. What happened was that a spec- ial emergency panel appointed by the President recommended a blan- ket wage increase for the non- operating railway workers. But Economic Stabilizer Vinson turned the recommendation down as in- flationary and contrary to the War Labor Board’s “Little Steel” wage ceiling formula. Vinson has compiled a careful study of wages and prices, contends that prices actually have been rolled back more than labor real- izes; also that labor’s total “take,” figuring in over-time rather than just the hourly wage rate, is high- er than the price rise. So he “held the line” against the special panel’s recommendation. Whereupon ~William Leiserson, chairman of the Mediation Board, and George Harrison, head of the Railway Clerks, went to the White House and held a long session en- deavoring to overrule Judge Vin- son., They came away confident that they had succeeded. The Pres- jdent seemed sympathetic, and Harrison reported back to his un- jon that he was on their side. Actually, however, the President sent a note to Judge Vinson ask- ing him to check regarding the situation, and it doesn't look as il he would overrule his Economic Stabilizer. If he stands pat, the President' ommonly called holding operations on fire and then jump. in and the nation face the danger of a serious railway. strike. How- ever, White House advisers are eonfident that rail workers will be they may be got at with the means giving lessons in swimming life saving. Monday he more patriotic than John L. Lewis; also are shrewd enough to see the terrific national reaction against labor which resulted from the coal miners’ strike. MILO PERKINS' FUTURE One of the really top men the war picture, whose advice is generally heeded, telephoned Leo il 3 A 2 RS (Continued on Page Four) FRANCES RAFFERTY, shown here, a 2l-year-old movie starlet, has announced her engagement to wed Lieut. Dewey G. Barnes, flyer on | & B-17 bomber. They met four | months ago at Stockton, Cal. Be- | eause Lieutenant Barnes expects | to be ordered overseas, Miss Raf- | ferty says their wedding will i i | 1 | | | | | await his return. (International) BY ADM. KING Russia and Ciina fo Be Aided All-Possible Ways Now ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—Admiral Ernest King outlined today a world Allied strategy aimed at keeping China in the war against Japan and exerting every “possible effort” to assist Russia by diverting German forces from the Russjan front. The Commander of the United States Fleet said that in the Pacific area the Allies are following a “con- ‘certcd plan of operations” to put increasing pressure on Jap com- ! munications and also to capture strategic positions which will “en- !able us to give the enemy more hell as we go along.” H Guadalcanal Anniversary | King discussed the war in an in- | terview granted at the request of ‘press association reporters. He had i been asked particularly to discuss | the situation in the Pacific. This is i the anniversary of the start of the | conquest of Guadalcanal, the first American offensive operation of the | war. I FILM STARLET TO WED ARMY FLYER STRATEGY OF WARISTOLD W o CAPT. GABLE_This pic- ture of Capt. Clark Gable, USAAF gunnery instructor now in England, was made as he walked around his Flying Fort- ress at a British field. SAY NAZIS EVACUATE - SMOLENSK Red Army Threatens Khar- | kov and Bryansk- | pic? MOSCOW, Aug. 7.—Information has been received from Russian | guerrillas behind the German lines | that evacuation of the civilian popu- | lation in the Smolensk area is being: | carried out by the Nazis. | Smolensk is 220 miles west of | Moscow and is probably the most important German base in all Rus- | sia. 1 | It is endangered by the complete deflation of the Orel salient to the southeast as the Russians already hold positions less than 50 miles to the northeast between Yartsevo and | Vyazma | Information from partisans said | the Germans are moving their pop-~ |ulation to the west and are also | taking away all metal and other potential war materials, even the tin roofs of houses. The two main army groups which | outflanked Kharkov in the quick drive through _ to = Belgorod ar Uiteatentig - rear of Germut positions around that third largest city of Russia. Front line dispatches said the Russians descended the valley by way of the Uby River and are racing through Zolochev, a little more than 25 miles northwest of Kharkov in a flank attack similar to the action further north which drove the Germans from Orel and opened the way for simultaneous | pushes toward Bryansk. Both Bryansk and Kharkoy are threatened in the drive. FATHERS MAY BE DRAFTED BELTON, Mont., Aug. 7.—Senator | Burton K. Wheeler said today that | War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt had advised him Selective Service officials will not delay draft- |ing of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers be- vond October 1. | Wheeler asked him to move it McNutt answered October was the deadline. Wheeler said he would | move to reconvene Congress ca. 4 | than September 14 to consider ban- !ning such a move until all single | men are in the service, King said: “Boiled down to the simplest terms and oversimplified the grand strategy of the war in Europe is: | “Russia has the geographical posi- | tion and manpower which is para- ' mount with regards to Germany. | “In order to take advantage of this situation two things follow. We must get in there and implement ! this manpower and exploit that posi- tion. It further follows that the Allies are bound to exert every pos- sible effort to divert German forces | from the Russian front so Russia can do even better.” | China Is Same | The Admiral declared with regard to the war on Japan the position of China is somewhat analogous to | that of Russia in the war on Ger- | many and Italy. Operations in the | | Pacific, he said, to date in general |© terms are “rather more than what is | © ‘bec:xuhe we have a general plan | | whereby we maintain unremitting | | pressure on the | 1 SEE MARSHAL MAHONEY SOUTH available.” WILL SET BOWL swimming | for those the Evergreen POOL ON FIRE MONDAY EVENING Aquatic Sta;I—oShow How! to Warm Water Up- for Swim Ben Carpenter, star, has the Bowl pool is hilly. - So Monday evening at former Olympic ALASKA COASTAL " MAKES FLIGHTS 70 MANY POINTS Flying to Sitka with the Alaska | Coastal Airlines were the follow- |ing passengers: Lula Coleman, R | Black, Vena L. Crone, Leo C Schweers, and Stanley F. Yassis. |Return passengers were Lena ¢ land Russell Clithero. Flying to Execursion Inlet were solution | Gene Anderson, H. S. Dobbie, He who think the water inlpert Mercer, and Calvin Morrison. | s t00|Coming in from the Inlet were FE.| To SEVENTEEN J. B ‘clock he’s going to set the llml‘Schmn, Francis Mercer, H. Mercer,| 8 Hendrickson, R. A. Stonewall, J. B. for a Tom Dyer, and H. L. Shaag wim. | O. F. Benecke was a round Carpenter, instructor for theltripper to Haines, Others coming WITH SEVERAL PRISONERS still survive. Eigh{y-flve kids have signed up| U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- for instruction with Carpenter but; honey left for Seattle by steamer he reports that too few aduits have| will show from Taku Harbor were | how seamen from a torpedoed oil Peterson and Michael Haas. | tanker can swim through fire and Japanese wherever | American Red Cross, is in Juneau from Haines were Rienbold Wicse and and W. E. Jacobsen. Returning here | Howard i - e |CROATS ORDERED TO TURN IN THEIR GUNS BERN, Aug. 7—The Commander Pushing On ; BYOCTOBER | back at least to November 1 and | " Rubber Wi Airmen Pick Her # #u | | | | ‘?«‘ |2 RUTH SORENSON, above, Chicago actress, has been picked as their “All-American Sweetheart” by soldiers attached to Strothers Army air field, Winfield, Kan., in a poll conducted by the post news- paper there. Miss Sorenson is 5 | feet 3 inch n height, weighs 116 pounds, h: blue eyes and—oh, yes!—dimples, {International) . FLASH FLOOD ' TOLL MOUNTS \Two More Bodies Found in | W. Virginia Region | as Waters Recede ‘ ; ! SUTTON, W. Va., Aug. 7—Search- lers have found the bodiv: of two youthful victims, bringing the toll last night with two prisoners, one signed for lessons in swimming or|at Trieste has ordered all Croats|to 17 deaths in the flash flood ex- and the other for an insane asy-| lum. s eee BUY WAR BONDS in'to be turned over to Seattle police life saving. A class will be held this eve- Ining at 7 oelock, the time for| adult classes. L lessons in the. mornings, Soldiers will have explosives within 48 hours. Th Croats have been demonstrati for a separation of the Istrian Pen- insula from Italy. 2| watel The Red Cross is helping to check supplies and aid in the re | habilitation of scores left homeless | by the flood. Synthefic, Natural I Soon Go | Te Mat in Big Fight °Hitle May Be On W. | (Second of two | rubber problems.) | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—~In the coming battle of rubber between synthetic and natural, if therd were nothing more at stake than the development of a new industry which would further increase uhe | world leadership and independence | of the United States, withoyt placing |4 heavy money burden on the peo- | ple, there would be no argument. Those battling for concentration on the development of natural rub- | ber in the Western Hemisphere ar- | gue that such wouldn't be the case jat all. | Their summary seems to add up | to these contentions | ; (1) That synthetic rubbers can Inever be produced as cheaply as | natural and that high tariffs and | | direct subsidies will have to be es- | | tablished to protect the industry | against natural rubber competition. | | The result: John Q. Taxpayer will | get it in the neck again. while an | | infant industry grows to lusty man- | |hood and its parents get rich. } | (2 That the agricultural lab- | oratory can produce in Latin Am- | erica cheaper rubber and better | strains than have been given the world thus far. Even natural )'\lhb"l" that will do the few things for | which only synthetic now can be used. | | (3 That hemispheric prosperity, | by returning to Latin America the |natural rubber industry which was | thriving there before the British and | Duteh took it o the South Pacific, ! will more than offset any sacrifices | the United States will have to make in lending a helping hanhd and fore- ! of another going the development subsidized industry. | For a full exposition of the sub- |Ject. I refer you to Dr. Earl N | Bressman, director of the Inter- | American Instit of Agricultural | Sciences, an agency sponsored by | | the Pan American Union and Nelson | A. Rockefeller’s Office of the Co- | ordinator of Inter-American Aiv; | | | Tairs. | Where Rubber Director Willlam | Jeffers may be singled out as the | spokesman for the synthetic rubber I proponents, then certainly Doctor | Bressman is spokesman for the nat- | to turn in guns, ammunition dl\‘liperlenced here on Wednesday night. | farms and how it can bring pros- | capital to be W IN NER —Betty Lou Gilles- pie (above) was chosen “Junior Miss New Orleans of 1943” in a field of 32 contestants. She’s 15 years old, weighs 124 pounds and is 5 feet, 7 inches tall. BERLIN IS NOW BEING EVACUATED Nazi Propadé}l}ia Minister Goebbels Says Capital Target of Attacks LONDON, Atig. 7 Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, in a broadcast in Berlin and picked up here said Berlin was partly evacuat- ed because “we expect the German the target of enemy attacks. - MUROI KILLED IN ACTION IS ural rubber backers in this country IOKYO REPOR]’ In his capacity as director of the Inter-American Institute, Doctor - Bressman now has at his fingertips NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — A Tokyo the whole of the rubber development | broadcast says Commander Sueteji program in the 15 Latin American Murol, intimate of the late Admiral | countries with which the United | Yamototo, and an authority on | States is now working. naval warfare, has been killed in action. He can tell you why rubber is 50| The broadcast did not state when adaptable to the small, one-family | or where the action took place. >o | perity to great areas of our tropical hemisphere. He can exp y why In some species of shark, the a i are hatched within the mother's (Continued on Page Two) | body. ay Out U. 5. FORCES - CLEANING UP ~ SEIZED AREA {Annhiliation of Enemy | Remnants in Swamps . Is Now Underway 'FIRST ANNIVERSARY - SOLOMONS OFFENSIVE ‘Big Airfield Being Recon- | structed for Basing Fortresses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. T United States, jungle fighters, who captured the big Japanese air base | at Munda, have chased the fleeing remnants of the Japs into the near- by mangrove swamps where the enemy is being annihilated in a bloody mopping up. This is told In this Saturday morning’s communique as released by Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the fir nlversary of the Americans’ offensive 4n the: Solomens. . It is officially reported that 1, 671 Japs have been killed at Munda but the cleanup will result in a larger toll. The Thirteenth Air Force has shot down seven of 30 Zeros over Buni Faisi, unloaded 65 tons of bombs on Rekata Bay and ‘sunk one Targe trogp-laden barge. American engineers are now re- constructing the airfield at Munda, making it up to requirements where- by Flying Fortresses may be based to make ralds on all sections of the 700-mile front. GROVE LOSES SECOND GAME THIS SEASON Detroit Blanks Chicago- Balks White Sox Star Hurler (By Associated Press) League leading American League hurler Orval Grove dropped the second game of the year for him jagainst '10 victories as the Detroit ‘Tigers blanked the Chicago White Sox 6 to 0, collecting 10 hits from the Chicago star. Rudy York got his fifteenth homer of the year, | Emil “Dutch” Leonard, Washing- ton knuckleballer, gave up 10scat- tered hits but managed to give Washington a 4 to 2 victory over Boston. ‘Two other shutouts yesterday. Allie St. Louis 1 to and Roger Wolff baller, for letics. were seen Reynolds blanked 0 for Cleveland, another knuckle- blanked the Yankees 4 to 0 the lowly Philadelphia Ath- - - GUTTENBERG, N. J. — There may be more wedding bells than usual in Guttenberg. The town clerk, Peter Heinz, announced that the men in the armed forces who want to marry Guitenberg girls may do so without paying the $2 marriage license tax. e o o s 0 s 0 8 s e . DIMOUT TIMES . . . e Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 9:06 o'clock. . ® Dimout ends tomorrow e e at sunrise at 5:02 am . e Dimout begins Sunday at e ® 9:03 pm . . Dimout ends Monday at e ® sunrise at 5:05 am . ® Dimout ends Monday at sun- @ ® set at 9:01 pm . e e eeces oo