The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS A LL THE TIME” VOL. LXIL, NO. 9419. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THUR SDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943 _ _ MEMBER ASSOC TATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e KURILE ISLANDS RAIDED BY U.5. PLA NES Yanks Land From Sea Behind German Lines SURPRISE ON NAZI FORCES | PULLED OfF Daring AmpthIOUS Oper-| ARMY IN SICILY, Aug. 12. - (Germans Evacualing Sicily for Mainland; Troops By NOLAND NORGAARD WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH The and Equlpmenl chine guns and artillery and ex- tensive road demolitions continue. | The Allied forces are converging OFFENSIVE WIDENING, 50. PA(IFI(; Further Menace fo Jap? Holdings Hinted-Ra- = g BURNING HAMBURG AT HEIGKT: GF ALLIED RAIDS LIBERATORS, ' FORTRESSES IN ATTACKS | Approa(he;ENips' Main- land Assaulted Says on Messina and the evacuation | beaches while the German troops | are withdrawing, determined to save ations Made on North Coast of Sicily | German evacuation of troops and | equipment from Sicily to the Italian mainland is reported in full swing Tokyo Broadcast baul Is Next Goal ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 12.—A task force of the American Infantry again landed from’ the sea behind the German lines on the north coast of Sicily in amphibious operations even more daring than the first and established a bridgehead east of Cape Orlando after cutting hrough powerful Nazi resistance. The Yanks had to fight their way ashore to launch an assault at dawn on Wednesday and they were met immediately by strong German counter-attacks. Reports from headquarters said American warships and swarms of fighter bombers covered -the land- ing, pouring a storm of shells, bombs and machine gun fire into the German detachments as they surged down to the beach to give battle to the surprise element which contributed to the success in out- flanking the San Agata-Cesaro line from the sea at the weekend. The Americans broke up the counter-attacks, a field dispatch says, and “they successfully estab- lished a bridgehead.” 4 The action was near the mouth of the river, 40 miles west of Mes- sina, and probably has resulted in the trapping of a large force of Germans within a 10-mile area be- tween the main American Army at- tacking from along the north coast and the landing party at the rear. Elsewhere the battle of Sicily has resulted in steady advances on all fronts and also large scale attacks on the Italian mainland which were resumed, The villages of Prajola and Zaf- ferana on Mount Etna have fallen into British hands. A strong force of American Flying Fortresses have bombed Terni, an important railway and manufactur- ing center, 50 miles north of Rome. | today. At least 80 vessels are plying night and day across the Messina Strait under a record umbrella of anti-aircraft fire growing steadily in intensity. Strong German rear well entrenched with mortar FLYING FORTS MAKETHRUSTS guards are , m IN RHINELAND INDUSTRIES DaylighI—Raids Follow Clark Gabfe—Aboard One! Night Thrusts of Royal Air Force Mosquitoes LONDON, Aug. 12—Flying Fort- resses of the United States Tighth Army attacked industrial targets in Germany today, it was announced at American Headquarters. The American thrusts were madg across the channel in bright sun- light, following night raids in the Rubr and Rhineland valleys made by the Royal Air Force Mosquito bombers. The German radio said that tar- gets in the Rhineland, particularly | Bonn, which is 15 miles southeast of Cologne, were hit by the Amer- ican raiders. The Nazi broadcast said that a strong force of four-engined bombers made the attack, taking advantage of the excellent cloud cover, to swing down the Rhine, and added: “The raiders were spotted before ! reaching the French coast and were CHURCHILL GETS VIEW OFNIAGARA British Prime Minister Is on Way to Confer with Roosevelt NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 12. — Prime _Minister Winston Churchill left here today enroute ' to meet President Franklin D.Roo- sevelt, after viewing Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. The time and place of the meei- ing was undisclosed. * Churchill crossed to the Ameri- can side of the falls after a half hour sight seeing trip on the Can-| adian side of the cataract. He was accompanied by his youngest daughter, Mary Churchill and a large party of the Auxiliary Ter- ritorial Service. When asked if he had seen the falls before, Churchill replied: “I saw the falls before you were born.” He then explained that he first visited them in 1900. Asked if the falls looked the same, Churchill as- serted: “Well, the principle re- mains the same, the water stilll keeps falling over.” —,——— GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL TO MEET ON MONDAY’ 1nAFx !ing the night. ! intercepted. Many heavy ai battles were fought above the clouds.” Bonn has been the target for five nce the beginning of the war. It is a large railway center in the Rhine Valley, and forms one of Germany’s most important north- south communications systems. About ten German raiders dump- ed incendaries an on unnamed southwest England coast town dur- Eight persons were killed and a’'number were injured. Bombs destroyed a number of dwell- ings and stores and damaged two schools ,a church, and several shops. GERMANS (CUT SWEDE TRADE TO ITALIANS Say No Mo;e—Commercial Goods Can Be Ship- ped to Italy STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 12.— Qermany has cut off Sweden’s trade to Ttaly by refusing to transport Swedish commercial goods on the Reich’s railways, it is disclosed in an official statement by the German railway director in Sweden. Said the statement: “We can no your goods.” The change came a week after| Sweden announced the transport of | longer transport all possible equipment The German command is reported to have decreed that a “passport to | Italy is a gun,” meaning troops must bring weapons along if they want places in boat crossing the Messina trait. U. S. PLANES HIT GERMAN Fortress — 25 Lost in Attacks LONDON, Aug. 12, — American Flying Fortresses attacked Gelsen- kirchen, Wesseling and Bonn in Ger- many’s Rhineland yesterday in day light and U. S. Army Air Forc headquarters said 25 of the bombers were lost in the three-way assault At the same time, however, crews shot down more than enemy fighters, Thunderbolts and Spitfires knocked down three more. The report said only that “large | formations” of Fortresses attacked | the synthetic oil factories at Gelsen- | kirchen and Wesseling, and others struck industrial targets at Bonn. 20 CLARK GABLE ON RAID LONDON, Aug. 12—Clark Gable rode in the leading Fortress of the flight which attacked Gelsenkirchen and returned to his base unhurt although enemy anti-aircraft fire cut 15 holes in his ship. Gable stood during the entire six-hour flight between the pilot and the co-pilot shooting scenes for a gunnery training film. He refused to comment on his ex- periences. Stalin Has Talk With 2 Officials American, fish Ambas- sadors Confer with Premier, Moscow LONDON, Aug. 12—Russian Pre- mier Joseph Stalin conferred yester- | day with American and British ambassadors in Moscow. The talks appeared closely linked with the forthcoming meetings between Churchill and Roosevelt. In making the announcement of | the conference, the Moscow radio | offered no comment. Timing the meeting coinciding with prepara- tions in Canada for the sixth Roose- velt-Churchill conference, left little doubt here as to the nature. The Yorkshire Post, Foreign Min- ister Anthony Eden’s newspaper, to- day said that the Soviet Premier was being informed “almost hourly” of all developments. e WELLMAN HOLBROOK BACK our | and escorting| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. | 12.—Hints that all Jap holdings in the Southwest Pacific, now men- aced by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, | |are to be further attacked in the South Pacific offensive are con- | tained in the latest communique. | | "Details report attacks by Libera- |tor bombers on small convoys in |the vicinity of New Ireland, and |the supply point of Japan's big air and shipping base at Rabaul, New Britain, is believed the ulti- mate objective of the present Al- |lied drive up the Solomons. mashing Barges The communique also reports | aerial activity against barges in the southern New Britain Vitiaz Strait, between New Britain and New Guinea. The entire areagserves| |as the barge supply for channel | movement of both men and ma-| terial to Salamaua, New Guinea. Having lost many ships, the Japs are mow using barges to run D% supplies. The Allies are blasting the | barges and softening the enemy |base in northeastern New Guinea | squem on Bairoko | (Continued on Page - Three) RED FORCES DRIVING ON TWO AREAS Russians Get Siranglehold' on Kharkov - Roll | | TowardBryansk | BULLETIN-LONDON, Aug. 12, — The Russian troops ad- vanced to within five miles of Kharkov from the northeast to- day while other columns driving up from the southwest have captured Chuguyez, 22 miles away. This is according to a Moscow radio broadcast to- night. (By Associated Press) The Russian stranglehold on | Kharkov tightened today as the Red | Army troops drove to within seven and one-half miles northeast and severed the Loltava-Kharkov rail- { way, main lifeline to the defending Nazis. The front is over a 10-mil¢ stretch west of the city and the bastion is nearly encircled. An unofficial dispatch says Khar- kov is already under fire from Rus- sian guns. | Drive on Bryansk Dispatches also state a big drive against Bryansk rolled ahead through fresh German tank divi- sions that rallied in a desperate effort to halt the advance. Perfect coordination of Soviet tanks, infantry, artillery and avia- tion has been an important factor in the high speed rush to envelope Kharkov, the Red Star, newspaper, says. The Soviet infantry and ar- tillery is waging the battle against the Nazi strongholds while tank | forces by-passed towns and severed communicaions and aerial forces at- tacked German holds on hills On Smolensk Front The Nazi Command, according to| | Transocean, German - propaganda | agency, says heavy Russian attacks | continue south and southwest of ) ¥ \ ) A SMOKY PALL of death and destruction hangs overithe'Germamport of Hamburg after giant Allied bombers raided the city for the ninth time in ten days.) This;photo, [taken from a Flying Fortress, shows bombs bursting on the Howaldstwerke U-boat shipyards. U.IS. Army, Air Force photo. (International) A % l BEFORE THE A LLIES STRU C K—Tlus view of a section of Hamburg was made before u:e Allied air lorces showered thousands of tons of bombs on !he German city. | ; | | l | i 'Synlhellc Gas Age Looms;Petroleum|s Plenlllul Howeve More ons For Kiddies Of Brifish LONDON, Aug. —A sign that happier times in Great Britain are in sight is the a nouncement that trade will permit 25 percent more toys being made for Christmas this - year than last, - GEN. PAT(H 10 12. (During Jack Stinnett’s vaca- tion, his column is being con- ducted by members of the Washington staff of The Asso- ciated Press. Today’s column is by Francis Le May.) in the hydrogenation process for coal, and its finding is in effect that for many centuries ahead Americans nue to buzz along the iirways and seaways as law allows The bureau says the process, “if | applied to the total coal reserves of WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Unless | the United States, could yield enough 5 g finds something better, the | oil to supply the nation’s needs for IROOP DR“.I.S “gasoline age” has some 3,000 years | almost 3,000 at the present to run—notwithstanding that known | rate of consumption.” ‘l)etm]eum reserves are esfimated It figures the coal reserves at 3.- sufficient for only 13 or 14 years | 000.000,000,000 (three trillion) tons more igh to yield 3,800,000,000,000 bar In the view of some Washington |rels of oil. The nation now con | highway wys | far and as fast as the By FRANCIS Le MAY years 12, Jr., WASHINGTON, Aug Gen. Alexander Patch, mander of the Army forces at —~ Maj. Com- NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—A Japanese | broadcast recorded by the Federal | | Communications Commission reports | American fliers attacked the “north- ern section” of the Kurile Islands, approaches to Japan and also warn- ed that “further appearances of !e'n('my planes from the north may be expected.” In a later broadeast by ‘the Tokyo ! radio, also picked up by the FCC here, it was stated the raiding planes were identified as five Lib- erators and three Flying Fortresses, The broadcast said the raiders were Aleutian based. An earlier announcement said Japanese anti-aireraft “promptly re- pulsed” the American planes. | A Domel broadcast placed the at- ltack at *7:20 a. m, morning” but announcement beamed by the North { American station fixed the time 10 minutes earlier. ‘The Tokyo broadcast warned the Japanese the raid must be regarded «as resulting from ‘‘positive meas- | ures” the United States is taking to “rald ‘our mainland, Japan, from the north.” The Japanese naval base at Para- mushiro, northern Kuriles, was heav- ily attacked by American planes on July 20. 3 | NAVY ANNOUNCEMENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The Navy Department announced this afternoon that nine Army Liberator boruvers attacked enemy installa- tions on the Kurile Islands that guard the northern approaches to the Japanese homeland. At least five enemy fighters were downed. Two American bombers are missing. The Navy's nnnaunvement says numerous hits were scored on desig- nated target areas and that about 40 enemy fighter planes intercepted the arid about 3:11 p. m., PWT, yes- terday. This is the second attack on the Kuriles which lie almost 1,000 miles west and slightly south of the Am- erican Aleutians air base at Am* chitka, UMW Charler Be Referred Open Forum 'AFL Exetuhve Council Turns Lewis Application to Convention CHICAGO, I, Aug. 12 ‘The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has referred the charter application of John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work- ers to the annual convention with- out recommendation. The Executive Council to exercise the power used. Lewis insisted that the AFL talk on jurisdictional problems afterwards and he strongly hinted he may withdraw the application rather than submit the charter ap- plication to an open forum where he will have neither voice nor vote, declined commonly e o 0 0 o o o JDIMOUT TIMES German troops and war materials | FROM WESTWARD TODAY i Vyazma on the Smolensk’ front but A meeting of the Girl Scout Coun- | over Swedish railways between Ger- | Assistant Reglonal Forester Well-| 5 pint hag been made of this of- cil will be held on Monday after- | man and Norway and Finland would |™a" Holbrook returned to his Ju-' fengive from Moscow. noon at 2 o'clock in the penthouse | be discontinued this month. ‘"“““ headquarters today after a| A Berlin radio this afternoon con- of the Alaska Electric Light and| Sweden principally shipped to|wip of three weeks on official| ceded the Russians were driving on Power Company. It will be the regu- Italy cellulose for artificial silk and | Work in the Chugach Forest. He Kharkov but the milltary annou Jar monthly business meeting and processed textiles. Italy exported | visited Cordova, Anchorage and ment said the city is not yet threat- all members are urged to attend, to Sweden fruit, principally. | Seward. ened, Dimout begins tonight e sunset at 8:53 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e Congress, when it peturns after | ® At sunrise at 5:14 am. & the summer recess, will explore the |® Dimout. begins Friday at e __|® sunset at 8:50 p.m. B e ee s 00000000 experts, we are approaching an-era | sumes about 1,400,000,000 barrels of synthetic fuel for locomotion wally While some Americans might be- lieve that right now the time would be better spent in devising a syn- thetic beefsteak, the Bureau of | | Mines already has made experiments | Guadalcanal, will direct the fall of the Fourth Corps in cinity of Bend, Oregon, from September 6 to October 31, the War Department announced today. - BUY WAR BONDS at (Continued on Page Four)