The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXL, NO. 9418. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = [TALIAN SHORE INSTALLATIONS BOMBED mericans Tightening Grip On Solomon Japs Allies Closing in on Axis' Sicily Triangle U.5. FORCES | CLOSING IN | ON NIPPONS Making Ad;a—aces at Bai-| roko Harbor, Last Enemy Point in New Georgia JAPANESE: ATTEMPT ‘RAID OVER RENDOVA Reconnalssance Flight Over Australia Is Frus- | trated by Allies ‘ BU LLET!N—A ed Headquar- ters in the Southwest Pacific, | Aug. 11.—The American Army | and Marine Forces has com- pleted encirclement of the ! Japanese in the Bairoko area | and are now tightening the | squeeze on that last outpost of | enemy resistance on New Geor- " | | gia Island. The encirclement was effected when the Ameri- can right flank reached the Bairoko River two miles south- east of Bairoko Harbor and joined the advance patrols of the Marines. Spokesman Ad- miral Halsey said the enemy’s only chance of escape is an at- tempt to a night withdrawal (Continued on Page Three) The Washmgton‘ Merry -Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robest 8. Allen on sctive duty.) (The Brass Ring—plastic for the duration—good for one free ride on the Washington Merry- Go-Round, is awarded today to the new premier of Italy.) WASHINGTON. — Pietro Badog- | lio, the man who tried to pick up the broken 'pieces of Italy where| Mussolini dropped them, will go! down in history for his blind de-| votion to his King and for his inability to make up his mind when the fate of his country hung" in the balance. | Twice in two decades, Badoglio could have changed the entire| course of his country and perhaps the world. But each time he hesi-| tated and failed. The first was when he was chief of staff in 1922 and Mussolini staged his march on Rome. Weeks before that march, Mussolini’s Fas- cists had been getting arms andl ammunition from the Italian army| right under Badoglio’s nose. He must have known about it, unless he was asleep, and he does not sleep soundly. Even retired army officers, still; answerable to Badoglio, were enlist- ing in the Fascist cause. He could have check-reined them easily. MARCH ON ROME When the march on Rome fin-" ally was consummated, and Benito; Mussolini stepped out of his spec- ial sleeping car (after his Black- shirts had made it safe for him to enter the capital) Badoglio sent word to the King that he could easily drive them out of Rome with two regiments. But the King hesitated, and Badoglio hesitated with him. A few days later it was too late. Badoglio’s second tragic moment of hesitation came just in the past two weeks. He and the King at last had the courage to oust the man who had cowed Italy, who had led the Italian people to de-, struction. But having taken that one bold step, the new Premier of Italy waited. True, he faced a tragically complicated situation. German troops in the north could make al (Continued on Page Four) SHE'LL BE HOSTESS TO BEAUTIES ]ROOS[V[H WINNER in a field of 25 local candidates, Miss Barbara Lu Dora Jbnes becomes “Miss Atlantic City, 1943.” Daughter of Mz, and Mrs. Jones, she will be hostess to visiting beauties in the “Miss America” contest, September 6-12, in Atlantic City. Kidnaped Baby Woman Placed Under Arrest; HUGE RAID ON ANOTHER GERMAN CITY More than 68 Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nuernberg by RAF LONDON, Aug. 1L bombers dropped more bombs, more than 68 night on Nuernberg, important railway and industrial center in southern Germany and Nazi rally- ing point. At the same time nounced that the RAF bomber !command is switching its offen- sive to industries turning out the finished product, now that the Ruhr’s heavy industry is crippled seriously. than 1,500 tons, last it Sixteen bombers were lost in the the second successive night on Germany, and enemy fighters were downed. Ironically, it was just four years ago today that Goering boasted to the German public that not a single enemy bomb would be per- mitted to fall on Germany. Nuernberg was raided six times previously, the last on March 8. i Wife of Turkish Official Is Killed By Rfme Patrol LONDON, Aug. 11.—The German radio, according to a dispatch from Rome, said the wife of the First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Romk, was Kkilled by Italian police when her husband failed to hear a challenge. A patrol sought to halt his auto during a curfew on August 1, raid, attack 'ALBANY_ Ore., Aug. 11 Mrs, out at Quebec, where Churchill ar- | Katherine Wright, 26, wife of Ser- rived yesterday. | | geant Jesse Wright, has been for- The President sand‘ he expected to | | mally charged with stealing two- meet Churchill bgl did not say when | | dagiol - Judii: ‘deibier: daughter| OF Where: He sall cooperation with | v v o """ Soviet Russia is considered essential |of Mr. and Mrs. W, B. GuINeY, ;. ynited Nations' planning but | — British was an- three| CHURCHILL T0 CONFER | 1 | Minister Are fo Meet in Canada 'PRELIMINARY TALKS | HELD IN WASHINGTOR State Departmém Officials, Military Authorities | — | WA\HI'\T(vTO\' Alu, 11.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has met with high military and State Department ad- visers and the conference is possibly a preliminary talk to the forthcom- ing war talks with Prime Minister | Winston Churchill in Canada. The gathering at the White House | consisted of Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chairman Norman Davis of the American Red Cross, Dr. Isaiah Bowman of the John: Hopkins University and Dr. Leo Pas. volsky, Special Assistant Secretas of State in charge of postwar plan=" ning Altred (International) miral Willilam D. Leahy, Chief of | Staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief Found; ry H. Arnold, Commander of the Army Air Forces. Postwar Planning H The President told the newsmen that talks with the State Depart- | ment group concerned postwar plan- ning Concerning Churchill’s visit to | Amer] the President gave no in- formation beyond disclosures given She Confesses from the Albany Hospital early on g 2 only Anglo-American exchange of | the morning of August 4. Pollow-| ormws ‘soe ¥ . views seemed possible until Russia ing the arrest, a confession Was couiq be brought into the Roosevelt- secured late late night. Churchill conferences. The Presi- | The woman told a long story that| gent said he did not believe there she plenned securing a baby t0 would be any Russian participation fool her husband who was away in the meeting but would be glad | | The German radio persists in re- at an Army camp much of the to have such. | !ports the Russians have launched time. —_— their third major offensive on the " PR y - ICILIAN GIRL AND FR'END—AnAmnrlransol- J The woman said she walked into] NEW MILITARY COMMAND $ Gicr pavies to falk with s liktle ml Sk ki hore in Siolly: Sl front adat. of MaheE. the hospital and took the first| LONDON,Aug. 11.—Creation of a iAs . |driving on that important Nazi baby she came to in the nursery e Mo g | stronghold with heavy infantry and and walked out the rear door, | ‘Continued on-Page Three) tank attacks, The German radio She claims she was injured in l “a er |insists that the sharpest attack of the P Harbor bhombing. 1 the Soviets was delivered yesterday The case was solved when neigh- bors noticed diapers hanging on| the line, and knowing Mrs. Wright CHURCHILL, had no baby of her own, called the police. KING MEET | . . the Russians as pocketed on three - | !sides by a five-pronged drive and po p U lA T I 0 N l l'el I n elu:her columns have bitten {into the rich grain territory, AIRMANIN CONFERENCE REMARKS ON :Bnhsh Canadian Chiefs of | A((IDENTS Session Ouebe( | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—More| SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, —| S [ & |canned salmon will be available| Thomas Henry Robinson, Jr., won| A BT i 7 ’ to housewives this year than last,|a long fight from behind the walls| VIATION (ADEI SaYS lack of Disci p| ine | JUERRC, Aup. HoRithn €| Goordinator of Fisheries Harold L. of Alcatraz and has been granted | ’ s bbsolete i | tor ress, Prime Ministers of Great Ickes announces. a new chance to present his de- ¢ 2 LR DTN . o e R T mrrverodti i B Cioa! cosoite, o€ e e SRR B 0 chares of Kituapins] PN WA G Hls neartaning - sucessess. of !m;- A“'“_d son’s operations in Bristol Bay M s. Alice Speed Stoll of Louis-|vate Ingram W. Varnell, 19, former Cfews Here e aak o am Shew a total of 1203869 cases, the ville, Ky., in 1034 Juneau boy and graduate of the stabs al._!he Axis need_ed to expanc biggest pack there since 1938 Granted a writ of habeas corpus|high school in that city, has arrived BLYTHE, Callf, Aug. 11. —Brig. ‘a;‘: designed fo aftain: total "“"' Reports from other areas, he|by Federal Judge Roche he has)at the State College of Washington Clo. ott I SRAVLE o ‘Thebs |~ Thw coifesibioss |stated, show encouraging results been ordereg returned to Loulsville {in this city for a course of instruc- ¥ 3 A s between Prime for 90 dd)\ for new proceedings. |tion to last approximately five crews are being lost due to viola- Meeting the British Chiefs of Staff Gastineau Channel, and a guest at the Baranof Hotel, | ANC€ tions of instructions,” throughout the day.” President, Bnhsh Prime | Summoned P Later the President met with Ad-| of Naval Operations, and Gen. Hen- | Tyrrhenian Sea CAPE ORLANDO their goal (open arrows row, and Andrano (open arrow). attempt to take Catania (flag symbol and arrow). llO(IVIlIAN; GefsNew Ickes Reports that Armed | Plea from Acatraz Grant-| : Forces Won't Take as Much This Year are expected second from top and open arrow). Palmi usocowo gon 5 CAPE MILAZZO r:oSci"a CAPE \ catava Gulf of M"‘““ MESSINA Patti Brolo__ /& Barcelldnay 4 MELITO POINT {onian SICILY ‘A:ntah The Canadians (flag symbol and arrow) headed for B At the southeast coorner of the triangle the British found going hard in their Catania has now been captured. 7" REDFORCES ROLLING ON | Smolensk Theatened 1 (By Associated ‘‘ress) {checked in its twin drives Khmkov and Bryansk, ;\fllage after mans, the Russians declare. | between Yartzevo, 21 west of Smolensk, and Kirov, | miles south of Smolensk. east ol the Capital City of Kiey - ed-Another Chance fo Defend Self EINGRAM VARNELL as primary reasons for accidents in Minister Churchill and Mackenzie| Jthe heavy hombardment tralning |King and their chiefs of staff, are|, L isiol Bay pack in 1842 was By e an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air program: |a prelude to the coming (“\“h,yo“ly #07,183 cgnes b Forces Flying Training Command Lack of knowlédgl'ot equipment, |gions hatween: Ohnrohill and Presi-| wiit 28d 50 percent of the "*"" en. noicom ep During this period he will study lack of discipline, “plain bullhead: | gont esseenie wos w00 PYS WLl be set aside for the armmd) numerous academic subjects and re- edness” and in a small degree “acts | o\ coioo e and British 27% forces this year, while 60 I"’ru’h'} on as Marlne (hle' ceive elementary flying .lrainlng of God. ol o experts. - |was taken last year. Upon completion of the course he He said the first two reasons can |, *Ffle Minister Ghurehill wen' 9} e T e ne Will be classified as a navigator, be remedied in training. “We have |N¢ Chateau Frontenac this mom-fyyoppy STAYING Hogutat” SREEION, Ay 7 e pilot or bombardier and : ol & ing to attend a war Committee of| ‘ 1128 . | White House announces Preside er and go on to overcome what we term metal par- | AT BARANOF HOTEL <) schools of the Flying Training Con alysis—freezing of the mind in an|'h€ Canadian Cabinet presided - {Rogsevelt will let Gen. Holcomb, ;.o ¢ training in these - ,;- y . : : a 1 se special- emergency,” he said, “but the sit- |OVer by King. 4 | Cnarles wortman, proprietor of | Commandant of the Marines, con- .., ; vation with respect to discipline| An official statement late suid the Alaska Drug and Jewelry Com. |UnUe ~despite the fact he has >oe s starts at the ground. Too many|the “Canadian Chiefs of Stalf are|pany, of Sitka, and an oldtimer on Yeached the retirement age of i, is in Juneau Pecause of his excellent perform-! Otters frequently eat only the heads of captured fishes. UNCHECKED ‘Twin Drives Eeing Made on Kharkov, Bryansk- * The Red Army is rolling on un- on capturing village and inflicting | heavy losses.on the retreating Ger- miles north- 130 Kharkov is officially reported by deep only 14 miles from Sumy and 190 miles months prior to his appointment as BRITISH WARSHIPS IN ACTION Shipyards, Also Other Mili- | fary Targets Get Salvos of Shells from Boats 'BRITISH TROOPS IN ADVANCE, EAST COAST American S—ev‘enih Army, Amphibious Troops, Make nght Dash ALLTED HEADQUARTFRQ IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 11. — The British Eighth Army in Sicily has advanced within sight of the Ttalian mainland while British warships bombarded the Italian shipyards in the Bay of Naples, 130 miles south of Rome, and also other military targets. The British forces advanced seven miles along the east coast of Sicily under the shadow of Mount Etna to capture the town of Guardia, 16 miles south of Taormina and 40 miles from Messina. The latest. bulletin announced the British Tommies were on the east slopes of Mount Etna and thus gain- ed the first view of the Italian mainland. Navy Bombardment ‘The bombardment of the construc- tion and repairs yards at Castella- mare, southern edge of the Bay of Naples, occurred Monday night, the British destroyers and cruisers mov- ing in close to their targets to pour round after round of shells into the yards capable of handling ships of 500 feet in length. At the same time other units of the fleet attacked at Cape Vaticano, the instep of the Italian boot, and about 25 miles north of San Giov- anni, where the main Italian rail- road lines operate close to the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Romantic Isle Bombed ‘The communique said the railroad bridges were bombarded in the naval attack at Cape Vaticano and at the same time daring seamen shoved the grey warships between Nap':s and the romantic Isle of Capri and let loose thunderous salvos almost in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. ‘The British advance of seven miles from Acireale, along the east coast of Sicily, placed Montgomery's vet- erans barely 30 miles from Italy. With American Forces The American Seventh Army on the north coast has consolidated positions at the mouth of the Rosa- marino River about three miles west of Sanagata, where the amphibious | troops plunged ashore in small boats Sunday night and pressed forward in the stiffest of fighting. Heavy fighting still rages in the area of Randozzo where the converging Brit- ish, American and Canadian troops wrestled with the difficulties of end- s mine fields. U. 5. Ambassador Visits Indusiries 0f Soviefs in Urals MOSCOW, Aug. 11 Admiral Standley, United States Ambassa- dor, has returned to Moscow after a four-day aerial visit to Soviet Russian industries in the Urals. He and his aides expressed sat- isfaction and pleasure in the trip which marked one of the few war- time occasions in which the Ural strongholds are open to a foreigner. e o o 0o 0 0 0 0 0 >0 . DIMOUT TIMES . . e . e Dimout begins tonight @ ® at sunset at 8:56 o'clock. . ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow & ® at sunrise at 5:11 am. . ® Dimout begins Thursday at e ® sunset at 8:53 p.m. . e e ee e o eeosvees )