The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL., NO. 9416. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1943 Mb MBF R ASSO( IATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS m—« ] I-Sb 'GERMAN SICILIAN LINES BEING SLASHED Hammer Blows Hit Three Large Italian Cities LARGE AREAS IN RUINS AS RESULT, RAIDS Two-third of I1al y's War| Industries Under At- fack by RAF EISENHOWER'S THREAT IS NOW CARRIED OUT Factories, Ey—al Arsenal, Shipping Given Ter- rific Poundmg LONDON, Aug, 9-~—Large areas of Milan, Turin and Genoa, three cities that contain two-thirds of | Ttaly's war industries, are reported | in ruins under the hammer blows of British based Lancasters. | The RAF blasted all three cities| Saturday night in a triple attack,| the heaviest since Italy was warned | more than a week ago b, (Continued .onAFv"a;(:Tv;mv The Washington, Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — One amusing | sidelight on Congress was its sud- | den loss of interest in legislation | broadening the powers of the Wru‘ Food Administrator the minute | Judge Marvin Jones, then ex- -col- | league, was named to the job. Farm blocers in both Houses | were clamoring for action on leg- islation giving the food administra- tor supervisory authority over prices as well as the production and distribution of farm commo- | dities. This was while Chester Da- vis, secretly in league with farm bloc efforts to rig price ceilings at inflationary levels, still held the Job. Representative Hampton P. F‘ul-\ mer of South Carolina, chairman | of the Agriculture Committee, had the stage all set for the bill en- larging Davis' powers. He even an- nounced, after unsuccessful efforts to get White House approval, that he was going before the Rules| Committee and demand a “rule” to bring his measure to the House floor. Events at the other end of Penn- sylvania Avenue, however, caused Fulmer to drop his bill like a hot potato. The President abruptly fired Davis and replaced him with Jones. Jones was Fulmer’s predecessor as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, and everyone in Con- gress knew he was a tough hom- bre. So the last thing the farm/ bloc wanted was for Jones, a stal-| wart supporter of the President’s anti-inflation policies, to have the powers which had been tailor-made | for Davis in the Fulmer bill. Also, there may have been a personal motive in Fulmer’s case.| Friends say he never has quite forgiven Jones for holding on to the Agriculture Committee chair- manship for six months after his appointment to the Court of Claims/ in 1940. Fulmer withdrew his request for| a2 Rules Committee hearing and| hied himself to Myrtle Beach, S. 8., for a summer vacation a week before Congress recessed. To Capi- tol newsmen, he ducked comment on his about-face but said frankly to colleagues: “What's the use of pressing for action on my bill now?” MARINE MAVERICK Maury Maverick, the fighung‘ Texan, has waged a lot of hames‘ in his life, including one at the | Argonne in 1918 when part of his (Continued on Page Four) This Is "Main Sireef” at Affu rabor pattalions haye taken over /\ILu Island, westcmmn\l of the Aleutians, which was wrested from the Japs and are now busy with hammer, saw and bul dozer such as these traveling down (he mud-ruited v between rows of tents and the supply -laden waterfront Economic War Taken- Up by Secrefary of SIaIe, Is Disclosure WASHINGTON MOVING UP NEW REGIME ISINDICATED FOR GERMANS Military chtatorshlp, September, Is Most Persistent Rumor In; BERN, Aug. 9—The Neue Zue cher Nachrichten reporting a tra eler just as saying that rumors are sweep- ing the Reich and the “most per- sistent one” is that a military dic- tatorship might be set up in Sep- tember. This report is ‘given support by hints recently made by Spanishyictory goes to Hull on points be-|President's personal ph: correspondents in Berlin that mo- mentous developments are shaping |going to dictate the policy in th#‘ inside Germany. The traveler stated there is ex- pectation that Hitler will be re— placed by a military dlctalorshlp in September but this may be more ' | “wishful thinking than truth.” The traveler added there is cer- tainly much speculation reported among the people of the possibility and returning to peace which with human wisdom will again have the upper hand.” The traveler said that when he reached Berlin he was “bombarded with questions considering the war but mostly “when will the war end?” 6,000 LOSE LIVES, FLOOD AJMER, Rajputna, India, Aug. 9 —Six thousand persons are offici- ally reported to bave lost their lives in the recent floods in the state of Rajputna. The rainfall ®%as the worst ever recorded. Some sections reported 30 inches of rain fell in one day. returned from Germany | (During Jack Stinnett’s vaca- tion, his column is being con- ducted by various members of the Washingten staff of The Associated P Today'’s col- umn is by Irving Perlmeter.) By IRVING PERLMETER WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The man who won the Henry Wallace- Jesse Jones feud didn’t even muss 'his silvery hair, His {this is news—is Cordell Hull, venerable Secretary of State All the kudos are going at j moment | politico—able and quiet-spoken Leo {T. Crowley, who became director the new Office of Wariare, replacing both Vice Presi- the the !dent Wallace’s Board of Economic| Warfare and Secretary of Com- merce Jones’ corporations. Not taking anything away from Crowley, for whom the appoint- {ment was a tribute to the rave| | Washington knack of doing things as quietly as possible, the real cause the State Department is |new operation--and that’s what all ‘the fighting was about. Hull's name never appeared in the controversy at all, but behind the scenes the State Department was embroiled as much body else over such questions |how much rubber or of ending the “devastating battles | hall we buy where at what price ;| (Continued on Page Two) CATHOLICS ARE URGED TO PRAY, LONDON, Aug. 9—Roman Cath- |olics throughout the world, and the people of Italy in particular, are called upon by the Pope to turn to God “in penitence and prayer” that peace might be brought to the world. In a letter to Cardinal Magluoni, Papal Secretary of State, the Pon- tiff said: “We who carry in our souls the sorrow and anxiety of all shall not leave anything un- tried to substitute hatred with charity in the struggle for victory with serenity and peace.” I name—and | to another white-haired Economic | in as any- : mercury | RESTORE PEACE| with landing barges PRESIDENT IS BACK IN along the Refurns from Vacation Trip in Canada, Announce- ment Today Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. ‘The White House announced the Presi- dent has returned here after a “short vacation in Canada.” The President’s secretary, en Early, told the reporters ‘1 sident “did not see anybody to my knowledge” on his vacation. The official statement said: |“The President has returned to Steph- | Washington after a short vacation| |in Canada on the north shore of Lake Huron near the McGregor and White Fish bays. “The President was accompanied liam D. Leahy, Rear Admiral Wil- son Brown, Major General Edwin M Watson, Rear Admiral Ross Mc-| | Intire, James Byrnes, and Harry Hopkins.” Rear Admiral McIntire is ician, the {Navy Surgeon General. i L | JUNE SHIP OUTPUTIS ANNOUNCED Was Greater than All Al-| lied, Neutral.Losses This Year (By Associated Press) Ameri June shipyard produc- | I for Allied and neutral shipping losses in the western Atlantic for the first seven months of the year Against that figure, Axis subs took a toll of 98 ships from Janu- ary to July. A total of 1,046 new ships was delivered for the first seven months of the year. Three sinkings were announced last week raising the total to 679 in western Atlantic since i bor, | | | | | | | 4 controls the the | the | Pearl Hur T GOERING IS BIG CHIEF "Powers of Enormous Mag- nitude’ Reported in Marshal’s Hands Au received by Spanish report that “powers of are centered | Marshall MADRID, from Berlin, newspapers, enormous magnitude” lin the hands of Reigh |Hermann Goering. | This was accomplished, the news- | paper dispatches state, at a meet- |ing of Army leaders and Nazi Party chieftains at Hitler's headquarters. | It is considered this is in con- firmation of a general military tak- ing over of the Reich’silong war defense by a triumvirate composed of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chicf of the German High Com- mand; Grand Admiral Karl nitz, Commander-In-Chief of Navy, and Goering. Garing is real Germany with Keitel representing the armed forces. He will be middleman between the | Army and Navy but Hitler as head of the Nazi Party. If reports are true, the Army now pr production, g foreign affairs and tran. the { head now tioning, port. | >oo RUSSIANS Soviet Forces Concentrat-| ing in Various Areas —Keep Advancing MOSCOW, Aug. 9.—Russian tank forces, gates of Kharkov from the north, have encountered stubborn resist- ance of fresh German reserves | rushed to the battles raging near Dolzhik, front line dispatches re- port. Soviet infantry is reported, how- ever, moving up through the path | |of German wreckage left by their | | big armored units and are moping foreign-purchasing by his Chief of Staff, Admiral Wil- | up and consolidating their gains in | | preparation for renewed advances. ; The capture of the Bogodukhov | railway towns of Bolshayapisarevka and Tarasovka, northwest of Khar- | kov, on the upper reaches of the | Vorskla River, is considered to have reduced the German chances of | rushing further reinforcements w | that area. Russian forces have also captur- Pd Krasnoopolye and another col- »umn of Soviet forces is driving in | from the north and are. within 21 \ miles of Sumy, rich Ukrainian agri- | | culture center which lies about 80| miles northwest of Kharkov. Soviet | columns are also crashing westward | from fflllen Orel. - Big Toll of Axis Vessels Is Reporle LONDON, Aug 46 months of the w: tion was 158 new ships higher than| the unofficial tabulation announced| 9.—During up to June 30, a total of 9,450,683 gross tons, of German and Italian was captured, sunk or damaged by surface ships, submarines, or mines, the Allied Navies Ad- miralty announ This total doe Air Force. e BUY WAR BONDS IN GERMANY Doe- | in | and Doenitz | ON KHARKOV crashing back toward the | aircraft | One Japanese Cruiser, ~ DesiroyersSeniDown By Forces of U. S. Navy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.| A special communique issued | mday said American naval forc in a brilliant hour battle on Aug- {ust 6 (Friday) sank a Japane: 1uiser, two destroyers and proba bly sank a third destroyer after Dispatches | AIR ATTACK IS MADE ON NIPPONBASE |Vila, on Kolo‘mbangara Island, Raided by Two Hundred Planes ALLIED THE HEADQUARTERS SQUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. Allied victories in the South- west Pacific “have been decisive of the final results in the Pacificl! Gen. Douglas MacArthur -said and |added that “Japan on the Pacific fronts has exhausted the fulle | sources and concentrated a | defensive.” | The optimistic report of MacArthur accompanied a report of a heavy attack by dive bombe on the Jap base at Vila, Kolom- bangara Island. Vila is 17 miles northwest of Munda, New Georgia, {and the next in line in the cen- tral Solomons of stepping |leading to Rabaul, the \LX(\HL air and base Bll[ull) | Bombs dropped on Vila included |one tonners. Two hundred planes 1were in the attack and all returned | safely. “We are doing what we can and with what we have. Our resouces are limited, results are modest, but continuous successes are cumula- |tive to a point of being vital,” said | Gen. MacArthur. The statements are interpreted u.u mean the “final outcome of thu war on the Pacific is now clear.” Gen. MacArthur sent congratula- |tions to Vice Admiral Willlam F. Halsey for his naval victory over the Japanese in Vella Gulf in | which one cruiser and two destroy- |ers were sunk and one other de- stroyed and believed to have been sunk. The Americans suffered no | losses. Ind Fron! Issue Is UpAgain |Soviet Magazine Takes Rap at Both Great Brit- ain and United Stafes MOSCOW, Aug. 9.—The Soviet publication “War and Working |Class" asserts that Great Britain, the United States and Russia agwcd in June, 1942 that one eof stones enemy’s sea in New | | | ‘«he urgent problems was the cread | ‘mg of a second front but more than one year has passed without action in western Europe. | Referring to agreements reached the both in Washington and London by | €¥im and bloody | Molotoy in 1942, the magazine said: |“It was plain at that time that in shipping |any case, a second front in western | termined to res the | | Europe weuld in spring of 1943." The magazine further asserted |that only a few German and Italian be opened not include losses| Divisions fought against the Brit- | Year's Day that Japan will be de- inflieted by the Russian Navy orish and Americans in Africa and |feated by the end of 1943. | Sicily while ihe Russians are faced by more than 200 German Divisions and about 30 associated Divisions | IN re-| [nave failed and she is now on the| Gen. | DRIVE BEING PRESSED ON ESCAPE PORT Alhed Right Wing Within 42 Airline Miles from Messina 'FORTRESS TOWN OF © TRIONA CAPTURED American Naval Forces Oc- cupy Another Island North of Palermo vessels carry- garrison | intercepting the ing supplies to the enemy on Kolembangara Island Gen. Douglas MacArthur | there were no American losses This raised the Jap warship loss- s in the current Solomons offen- sive at least to 23 and possibly 26, EYE WITNESS TELLS ABOUT ‘I)uwht D. Fhvnhuwm s armie slashed a huge chunk of the Ger- nmn defense lines across the Sicil- | tan bridgehead over the weekend. . The attack of the Allied right wing poised within 42 airline miles |of Messina, Detachments of the United States Seventh Army, starting the attack | |from the sea behind the German ABOARD FLAGSHIP OF U. S. strong positions on the north coast I|NAVAL TASK FORCE, Aug.sT.-- of Sielly, captured San Fratellom {1 Delayed ) ~Idghtr Anterican mvmv“lld Sanagata, the latter *but’ 50 | forces of “Jack, The Giant Killers,”|miles from the Axis escape port. sank at least Japanese war-| Another American force seized ships today in of the most Cesar in an eight-mile advance daring attacks of the war. from the captured inland citadel | The United States ships steamed ©f Triona, right into the enemy’s stronghold, The British Eighth Army sweot in Vella Gulf in the Solomons and through Acireale port in a nine- déstroyed one cruiser and three Mile drive up the east coast from destroyers, Catania and also captured San I was the only war cerrespondent Marina de Licodia high on the aboard the American flagship with Southern slopes of Mount FEtna the task force. where the British armored charges Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Aug- knocked out the Nazi tanks, ust 8 communiqye said one cruises and two destroyers were definitely sunk and a fourth vessel “prob- ably sunk.” NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 9.—An of- The battle started shortly be- ficial communique issued late last fore midnight August 6. From the Saturday said the American first bridge and the direction platform division of troops stormed and above T had an unopposed view of captured the vital mountain fort- the entire battle in the narrow, PR gulf between the strong Japanesz, bases of Kolombangara and Vella Lavella islands. I saw a Nipponese cruiser, three-stacker with an auplane hoist, explode soon after it was hit by torpedoes and shells from our shipg in the waters northwest and broadside to us. At first she caught fire at her bow and when our guns opened up on her I saw additional fire break out, followed by a terrifying ex- plosion as if a 100-watt lamp of fire in sheets of yellow, orange and red spread over the water, lighting up the channel from shore to| shore despiw the overcast weather,| - o ted Press War WARTOBE " JAPAN NOW SOUTH AFRICA, Aug. 9.—Ameri- NAVAL HEADQUARTERS IN can amphibious forces, made up of Third Division units, made a land- | THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Aug. 9.— Vice Admiral William Frederick ing Saturday night at Torrenova, Halsey, on the first anniversary of three miles up the coast from the beginning of the battle in the Sanagata. American manned Warhawks and south Pacific, promised the United States Wwill carry the war to Japan Spitfires provided the air coverag as the troops cut the coastal road and took positions in the hills, pocketing the Germans to the west. itself. The daring mphibious ground Admiral Halsey told the news- men at a conference: “We will de- stroy the enemy. We shall push forward until the battle in the operations were coupled with the aerial blows on railways, roads and | South Pacific becomes the Battle of Japan. We have learned by a bridges in Southern Italy and fresh experience the raids on Ifalian communications best manner to deal with the crafty and enemy shipping Enemy traffic is under foe, who appears desperately de- st, is to totally de- war \:\'xl IN Associated Press War | Writer Aboard Am- erican Flagship By ART BURGESS | (Associated Press War Correspondent) four one FORTRESS TOWN CAPTURED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN a (Continuea on r'xwe “Two) - AMPHIBIOUS UNITS MAKE GREAT MOVE American Forces in Land- ing at Torrenova - Ifal- ian Mainland Bombed By JOSEPH MORTON constant attack in Messina Strait. ! DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 9:01 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:07 am, Dimout begins Tuesday at sunset at 8:59 p.am e o0 ee e 0 stroy him.” The inevitable question came up |at’ the conference regarding Ad- miral Halsey's predictions last New The question brought a broad ear to |ear grin and he said: “I refuse to |gaze in the crystal ball anymore,