The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI, NO. 9417. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 =] REPORT ADVANCEINSICILY EVERY WHERE Allies Make Violent Attacks In S. W. Pacific BOMBERS IN | MASS RAIDS, MANY AREAS Heavy Dan;ie Done in Assaulton Big Japanese Base at Salamaua ENEMY BARGES SET DOWN ALONG COAST Large Fires Are Started at Former Dufch Naval | Base at Ambona ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 10—Taking advantage of the im- proved weather, Allied bombers struck heavily at enemy bases on the entire southwest Pacific battle- front. The Allied bombers made a vio- lent attack against Salamaua, big Jap base on Huon Gulf, New Gui- nea, raining 103 tons of explosives on the town, harbor and river areas, causing heavy damage and starting fires and causing explosions. Ground activity In the Salamaua area was limited to patroling and artillery fire. Madang, New Guinea, was left in flames and enemy barges were smashing along the coast. The Vila airdrome on Kolom- bangara Island was hit twice, 63 tons of bombs causing large fires. The airdrome was bombed again last night. Across Kula Gulf from Vila, tox- pedo dive bombers attacked Bair- oko Harbor. Eleven enemy planes were damaged. | Three Liberators dropped 36 tons of bombs on Ambona, former Dutch Naval base, setting fires and caus- ing explosions, Large fires were set at the Doela airfield, Kai Islands, 500 miles north of Darwin TARGETS IN REICHLAND AREBOMBED Heavy RAF Craft Make Night Raids Over Ex- ¢ | ftensive Sections LONDON, Aug. tions of RAF's heavy bombers blasted Mannheim and Ludwig- shaven last night while speedy‘ Mosquitos attacked targets in in-| dustrial Ruhr Valley. The Air Ministry announces .that nine bombers were lost in the night’s operations. | RAF fighters also attacked enemy airfields and railways in France and the low countries, downing several enemy aircraft. Large fires are reported to have been set in Mannheim and Ludwig- shaven, the twin towns situated on opposite banks of the Rhine near its junction with Neckar, 43 miles southwest of Frankfort. To- gether the towns form an impor- tant armament center. STOCK QUOTATIONS quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 847%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehers Steel 597, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 66', Ken- necott 37%, New York Central 16, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 53'4. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 136.23; rails, 34.54; utilities, 20.77, i 10.—Big forma- ! TRED ARMY 'ROLLS ON - TOKHARKOY 1 Soviet Forces Reported Are ‘ [ Within 12 Miles of | German Held City ‘ | OTHER (OLUMNS PRESS ' ON NAZIS, 3 DIRECTIONS ' Berlin Radio Claims New | Offensive Is Launched North of Smolensk - | BU Lll‘Tl\'—London. Aug. 10 —The Russian forces have cap¥ tured the Khotinets center vailway station 45 miles east of Bryansk, and 30 other hamlets, the Moscow radio announced tonight, ‘ (By Associated Press) | The fast rolling Soviet offensive {today mounted in speed as the Rus- sian troops surpassed the western- most point reached during the win campaign and hammered‘ PRETTY WAR WORKER — Taffy Miller (above), Navy ordnance inspector at a Lancaster, Pa., plant, was chesen “Miss Stardust” in a contest to pick the nation's prettiest war worker. Mlss Miller, 20, went to schoal in St:nnlnnv Pa. | forward along the wide front/] — reaching within 12 miles of Khar- kov While one column was within 12| miles of Kharkov on the north an other was 30 miles west of the city a third column was 20 miles away| and a fourth was driving south |after crossing the westéfn bank of | the northern Donets river and was within 25 miles of Lhe big Ukrain- | ian center. Last night Soviet troops had ad-| vanced four to seven miles in the| direction of Bryansk and had cap- jtured 80 populated places. The Berlin radio this reported heavy fighting in the| Kharkov area and also said the Russians had launched an offe: sive to the north of Smolensk. Sc iet forces were also stepping up saults in a drive against the big| Sklpper of Sub Chaser Tells of Ramming Nip Sub and Smkmg Craft SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—Lieut. W. Gordon Cornell, commander of a patrol chaser which rammed and sunk a Japanese submarine in the Pacific, told the stoy on arrival here with his stove-in craft He said depth charges drove the sub to the surface while the little German base at Bryansk. Navy boat was helping to escort| It is officially announced the Red a convoy. The Jap'undersea raid- Army has covered one-third of the er'’s periscope was broken off in g5-mile distance between Orel and the first rafaming. Then the boat|points south and resulted in the circled again and rammed the sub|capture or more than 100 villages once more, climbing right on its back and hanging there for a min-| i morning | Poses for Soldlers |German announcement will be |made soon, stating Italy will “con- (tinue in the war and still more| SCREEN STAR Anne Gwynne, the serviceman’s favorite “pin -up” girl, poses for a pin-up photo at the Hollywood USO clubhouse. Anne, in addition to mailing pictures of herself to the boys in the service, also poses for them. (International) FIREMEN MEET FOR FIRST AID WORK ON TOMORROW EVENING "Ben Carpenter, American Red Cross instructor, will meet with members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock for first aid work. All members are urged to attend. Beverage Use WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—A lim-| ited diversion of alcohol for pro- ‘ductiun of beverage uses is “defin- itely under consideration” | ute before it slid off. Cornell ‘got the Navy Cross for this action as executive officer, and | the Silver Star for leading the dam- | ABOU' I TA l Y age control party which saved the| ship after the ramming. Machin-| ists Mates Dana A. Linden and | Floyd A. Seyler got Silver Stars for | | their work in damage control. e — : | Germany Expeded to Say | | MADRID, Aug. 10.—The Berlin |correspondent of a Madrid evening p 0 ST To D A v newspaper says it is reported a lactive, with the help of Germany,| Will Devote e Time fo Civil- |t b e | ian Problems of | g H | | podudion Alcohol May | WASHINGTON, Aug, 10. — Brig. | | Gen. Robert Wood Johnson, Chair- | e Iverled 'o ! Corporation, announced his resinga- | | tion from the Army saying it ha»“ become necessary for him to take a | strong position in behalf of produc- | tion essential to civilian goods. | Johnson said he had become a “champion for civilian economy to a plants not yet converted to war production were most suitable and officials | essential to civilian production. of the Chemical Division of WPB| He said in a letter to the Secre- |said. { tary of War that his position would| Final decision must come, how-!| be “less embarrassing to himself and |ever, from Fred Vinson, Director of | the Army” if he returned to civilian the Office of Economics Stabiliza- Lieut. (j.g.) A. Parker Bryant got| GEN JOHNSON National Will Continue | man of the Smaller War Plants | large degree” and he felt small life, tlon, the WPB officials said I U.S. Tank(rew(heered by Palerimo Throngs ite flags made of sheets, natives of Palermo, Sicily, lined the narrow streets to cheer American s they rode through the captured Sicilian capital. Note the sheets hanging over the tradi- U. 8. Bignal Corps radiophoto. Waving w! tank crews tional Italian balcon Sicilian Cifizens Mob Yankee Truck 5. crowded close around this American truck as it broad smiles, four young Sicilians hopped aboargl Citeoring natives of the capital city of Palermo, Sicily, entered the captured city. Arms waving and wearin the vehicle. U. S. Signal Corps radiophoto. ‘Congress, Roosevelt MayRace Dead Heat, WLB OFFICE IS SET UP IN JUNEAU strong from its vacation, crowd . (During Jack Stinneit’s va- the executive into the rail and win Will Be Branch of Twelfth cution, his cotumn s being soing away . . conducted by various members 2. The executive will out-smart Regional Organiza- S s Wewtinsten staff ot |ibe oppeeifion, sl fhrougls ke r H The Associated Press. Today's |crowded field unbumped and 1on, owever column is by Jack Bell, chief |bound under the wire anywhere B, b/ of AP’s Senate staff.) from a nose to five lengths ahead 3. A photo finish will show it's WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 A, < a dead heat branch office of the Twelfth Res By JACK BELL {2ional War Labor Board is being ~WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Step established iri Juncau, Alaska, the right up to the window, folks. Have Ay o wnich is just another way War Labor Board announces. The your $2 bills ready. They're round-| ¢ covine that anybody willing to office will have a wage stabiliza- ing the turn in the most excitiig | yieqict what Congress and the tion director ‘and an attorney to horse race of the year, with Presi-|prociqent will do this fall when {handle disputes dent Roosevelt running strongand ype jegiclators come back to Wash- A director will be appointed to Congress saving strength for the jnoton” after their own private iserve in Juneau with the same home stretch. (This is one contest gmpling of public opinion — will authority - within the Territory as where you can gel your mMODEY pet on horse races that exercised by similar officials' down when the bangtalls are al-| g, o here goes with my own lof the regional board headquar! ready beating the breeze.) prediction iy An Alaska tripartite panel will| Depending on the window YOU| pregident Roosevelt will tighten hear disputes in Alaska and make Pick. you can get odds on any of the reing on the executive depart- recommendations to the Twelfth these combinations: P s : Regional Board for final decision. 1. Congress come buck‘ (Continued on Page Two) Then Wait for Break | ) ALLIED SEA FORCES HIT AT GERMANS i Yanks Landfihind Lines, | Capture 1,500 More Nazi Troops SLOW, BUT STEADY ~ ADVANCE REPORTED American, Bnhsh Spear- head Toward Last Enemy Outposts ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 10.—Allied ground forces made prog: every- |where along the front Sicily, | Allied headquarters announced,and heavy warship units rained torrents of shells on the enemy's exposed in { |coastal positions. American doughboys captured 1,- (500 German prisoners in a landing /behind the lines near Cape Or- !lando Sunday night. The feat re- sulted in the fall of the enemy's !northern coastal anchor positions ot San Fratelio and-San Agata. | A naval communique said heavy United States warships continued |to batter the way for the seventh Army. British destroyers shelled the coastal road and railway at Riposto north of Acreale and nine miles south of Taormina on the east coast after blasting similar " targets at Taormina. The progress of Allied troops spearing toward Messina is offi- |cially ~described as ‘“slow but steady.” Headquarters said the enemy is resorting to “every device to hold up the relentless advance of our forces.” ' The report said, however, the German’s position “daily becomes more difficult.” Despite heavy demolitions, the rugged country and lack of roads, difficulties interfering with the swift advance of the British Eighth Army, the British of this unit are described 8s making considerable progress and “closing around Mt. Etna.” Advancing up the coastal shelf ACnmlnued on Page Slx) CHURCHILL SEEN TODAY IN CANADA British Chi&?ops Up for Another War Talk Series QUEBEC, Aug. 10. — Prime Minister Winston Churchill ar- rived here for war talks, it was disclosed this evening. It is his fourth visit to the American continent, His garrival ccinecided with United Nations’ victories in fhe Mediterranean, Russia and Southwest Pacific. With Churchill was a top- flight array of military advis- ers. He will consult with Presi- dent Roosevelt after a series of conferences with Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King of Can- ada. DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 8:59 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:09 am Dimout begins Wednesday at sunset at 8:56 p.m. LU RN B B B R I )