The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1943, Page 1

} v pushing them vigorously. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LXI.. NO. 9420. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 . 500 U. S. PLANES MAKE RAID ON ROME ARMY, NAVY BASES HIT, BY BOMBERS Alaskan Pilofs Took “Own’ Sweet Time" Over | Target Area By WILLIAM L. WORDE (Associated Press War Correspondent) ADAK ISLAND, Aug. 13. The 45-minute Kuriles raid yesterday caught the Japanese by surprise as nine Liberators dropped fragmen- tation and incendiary bombs on Kotaoka, Jap naval base, and Ka- shiwabara, enemy army base on Paramushiro and Shimisho islands. The Alaskan pilots and their crews fought off 40 enemy fight- ers which took to the air after the bombers arrived and shot down five. Two American bombers failed to return and three were damaged but returned without casualties. : Hits were scored on the enemy installations and many fires were started. | Returning fliers said enemy anti- aircraft fire was heavy but inac- curate and came mostly from war- ships or freighters. <Commued on Pnge Six) The Washington‘ Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) \ | ‘ WASHINGTON.—It hasn't leaked out yet, but ex-Secretary of War Pat Hurley and the State Depart- ment have got themselves into the middle of a hot debate over Pal- estine and the Jews which has got Zionist leaders very much upset. | The debate concerns a proposed statement to be issued by the U.S. and British Governments barring any further discyssion now of Jewish settlement in their nncient home, Palestine. Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Eden have been | against barring further discussion | of the Palestinian question, but| the State Department has been | The question arose following the | visit of Pat Hurley, now a Major General, to Arabia where he called on the famous Arab chief- tain, Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud, now recognized as the most powerful of all Arabs, gave Hurley some strong words against, the Jews in Palestine, saying he was determined to drive them from all Arab lands, Hurley reported that he had told Ibn Saud diplo- matically that he was in agree- ment. NEW POLICY Following this, and after Hur- ley's return to this country, the| State Department prepared a new | policy for the approval of the| White House and the British Gov- ernment. The policy would bar any further discussion of Palestine and the Jews until after the war. Those in the State Department who prepared and pushed this new policy are: 1. Wallace Murray, Hull's politi- cal adviser on the Near East who also has been an ardent champion of the King of Italy and future Italian rule by the House of Sa- voy. 2. Adolf Berle, Assistant Secre- tary of State and an original Brain Truster, who began some time ago to “build up” a series of buffer states in Hungary and Poland against Russia. 3. Harold Hoskins, former chief detective and investigator for Berle, now in the Army, who was raised in Syria, where his father was an official in the Syrian Protestant (Continued on Page Four) |—one Sicily on the outskirts of Catania. sh photo by OWI It radio from Algiers RELAXATION N. C., and Pharmacist Mate Texas.:njoy a bit of relaxal Hospl(al ol the Charleston, — Seaman E. W. Third Class Carrie Yater of Amarillo, tion from their duties at the Naval Carothers of Gastonia, 8. C, vay Yard. Two Presidents U.S. at Work;Byrnes ' Gels F|rs| Nofice (During Jack Stinnett’s vaca- tion, his column is being con- ducted by various members of the Washington staff of The Associated Press. This is first of two columns on the White House by Harold Oli- ver.) By "ARULII OLIVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 It's two “White Houses” in one these days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for President Roosevelt and other for James F. “Jimm: sometimes referred to for the the Bymes, tant president” as home front. The public visitor who used to enter the historic mansion through the low-slung east wing and park his camera before being taken on a limited tour of the Presidential living quarters, would see some in- teresting changes—both structural and human—if permitted to peek inside its portals these days. Not since March, 1941, have ists been allowed inside the White House. But for those who are curi- sus as to what goes on inside this beehive of World War activity on a typical sweltering Washington day, let’s take a quick look, from tour- left to right, as the photo caption- writers would say: | First, that east wing acr street from the Treasury — which Byrnes with a smile calls his “left has been enlarged consid- erably. Where the tourist checked his camera in the pre-war days there’s a large conference room for the home front boss. Also in this are Admiral William D. the wing’ wing chief of staff to the com- {ne philippines, said the message resenting the Soviet Union is not| er-in-chief; Harry L. HopKins, | il encourage the Filipinos envisaged.” munnm:)rj nssw‘::l:i;]bufi‘:d cklxeaup greatly. RN man and presi end - S PRI 1 CAPC consultant; Mrs. Roosevelt’s corres- SIO(K OUOIAHONS pondence secretal a room re- [l . | served for the Army; the mansion’s W|"k|e sa NEW YORK, Aug. 13. — Closing social staff, and extensive quarters ys quotation of American Can stock for the Secret Seyvice, | today is 84, Anaconda 257, Beth- — | lehem Steel 59%, Commonwealth Byrnes, as director of the Office hould |and Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wright | of War Mobilization, has half a| 7%, International Harvester 68, dozen rooms for his staff, reserving | Kennecott 307%, New York Cen- o tiny one’ fqr Ribeld. He, gets A 8 tral 15%, Northern Pacific 14%, PSR S 7L A n an | Republic Steel 17%, United States a white linen suit, takes off his Steel 53, Pound $4.04. coat, rolls up his sleeves and wades | Dow, Jones averages tgday are in. RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 13 as follows: industrials 137.38, nun Unlike the rest of the White Wendell L. Willkie, talking to the 3446 utilities 20.83. House, Byrnes' first floor quarters Republican leaders of the E | ———- JERRY NEWTON HERE are not on a central air-condition- Indiana Congressional District ing system. They have four old in- the Republican Party “should an (Continued on Pa;ze Three) sh identified this picture as showing an artillery piece used as a coa deseribed asa 307-millimeter weapon of a 1917 pattern. ROOSEVELT |Jap yoke,” Both British 7ar71d American Troops Advance on Messina | ALLTED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 13 |ican forces were reported less than 132 miles from Messina, pushing |along the coastal road to the north | this morning and British forces |were pushing up from the south in a squeeze play from Mt. Etna. At the same time, Allied war- ships continued to hammer at | maining Axis bases on the Sicilian IN |face of continued Allied gains for [tear of being trapped. | - GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY IS SHIFTED Part of Nau Officialdom | Reported as Taking Quartegs in Vienna BERN, Aug. 13, — Reports ceived here said a substantial part al gun which was captured in This s ADDRESSES FILIPINOS President Promises Full Independence when re- Japs Ousted S5 ie" eriial’ Oovernmént Had 44444 been transferred to Vienna, which WASHINGTON, Aug. lK.A--PL'P.\l-i(IIty is still outside the Allied| dent Roosevelt promised the Fili- bomber range and the Nazis are pinos full independence from the considering proclaiming Berlin as United States the “moment the an open -cCity. power of our Japanese enemies is destroyed,” saying such freedom would come quickly. The statements were made in an address the President broadcast to the Philippines on the forty-fifth anniversary of the American occu- pation of the Islands. “You will be redeemed from the said the President, “and you will be assisted in full to re-| RUSS NOT INVITED 10 CONFAB pair the ravages caused by [hpi | war, aniCa: The President’s remarks are . . nterpreted i prnppine circies| INdicates Churchill-Roose- here as countering Jap Premier| . " | Tojo who is reported to hi ve“ SeSSIOII on Mlll“ _! mediately after | will require amendatory action by | Congressional elections, pledged the Jap-seized islands, they will be made independent at the ;end of the year which will be im- the successful war. Freedom from the United States fary Aspect QUEBEC, Aug. 13. — A Tass broadcast that Russia was not in- vited to sit in on the Churchill- Congress which set the date for|Roosevelt conference here suggest- independence on July 4, 1946. ed the conference will emphasize The President in his broadcast| military rather than political and told the Islanders, the Japs are post-war prospects of Allied war already tasting defeat in the South- | plans. west Pacific, adding: “The g (Tass is the official Russian news day of liberation will come as agency. | surely as there is a God in the, Said the Russ statement, “be- cause of the ence, participation Heaven,” Manuel L. Quezon, President of by anyone rep- way and registered at the Gasti- neau Hotel, can” win the nexl Presidential and SAY GERMANS Amer- | |coast and also at towns on the |lower Italian mainland as bombers lin huge force struck at Italian| feities Unofficial reports said the Ger- mans were evacuating their re- maining troops from Sicily in the nature of the confer-| Reports reaching the Swiss border Turin (2), and Milan (3) in the a defense line (sawtooth line) Pressure fo Be Put killed in widespread rioting in Italy increase was noted in heavy traffic through the Brenner Pass (arrow) from Germany, which was reported attempting to pour 10 along the Po River. . | | | | say hundreds of persons have been , with open fighting at Genoa (1), A sudden anti-Fascist outbreaks. isions te | ing | rail yards, Japs Surprisea' In Kurile Islands Bombing Tension in ltaly AIRARMADA IN ATTACK UPON ITALY i‘Key Hubs of Axis Com- munications Systems Are Smashed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 13. An American air armada of possibly 500 planes, swarmed over Rome shortly before noon today, smash- the San Lorenzo and Littorio key hubs on the Axis communication systems. VISITS SCENE POPE LONDON, Aug. 13.—A radio broadcast from Rome, picked up ! here, says the Pope visited today's bombed areas immediately after the planes left ((OLOGNE IS BADLY i - OnCongress; Labor WRECKED Glrdmg for Battle SAYS JAPAN PLANS GREAT AATTACK,CHIN |Air Force Being Sirength- eend—Gasoline Sup- plies Are Cached CHUNGKING, Aug Chinese Army Japanese are pre |China offensive and are ening their air forces and stor- ing gasoline in three war theatres| during the current lull before the storm. 13 The paring for a new strength- - e - EVACUATING - NAZI CITIES REPORTNOW {Hundreds of Thousands of | Civilians Taken from " Bombed Centers BERN, Aug. 13—Reports indicate |that more than 1250000 of Ber- ‘lms total population of 4,125,000 ci- vilians have already been evacuated. Dispatches indieate that Leipzig,| !Muzdenhung and Brunswick are | also being evacuated | Railroad yar#ls are reported jam- ‘m('d with trains awaiting orders where to go. A dispatch this afternoon said | Goebbels is one of the first to suf- fer loss of power under the revision of the Government by which home |and foreign propaganda has been |divorced, The latter is now under {Von Ribbentrop. - - - SID THOMPSON T3 SITKA THIS AM. | U. 8 Deputy Marshal | Jerry Newton is here from bkug-‘ Thompson flew to Sitka this morn-|gent’s veto of the Smith-Con ling with Alaska Coastal Alrway; lon ofticial business. pokesman said the| By ALI‘XA\DLR R GEORGE WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— While ongressmen are resting and in- { specting the political grassroots in their own home fronts, organized labor is swinging into a campaign to “bring about a change in the at-| rd labor.”” | ‘When Congress wi ssembling in | dmmatic, angry ¢ on to override | th President’s veto of the Smith- \Connnlly anti-strike bill, The Amer- | |ican Federationist, official organ of the A. F. of L. warned: ’ “We shall endeavor to vote out of office any member of Congress who | supports this bill.” | Pressure Goes On | titude of Congress tows i Now union labor—A. F. of L, C. 1. O., and Railway Brotherhoods —has gone to work to put on the | pressure, Immediate goal is to | prevent Congress from “scuttling the subsidy-price rollback program” when it reconvenes in September. | Long-range objective is to block | hostile legislation and to rejuven- “aw organized labor’s admittedly | |waning strength in the political | field. | Richard T. Frankensteen, sending to members of his union the voting record of Senators and | Representatives on “20 major is- {sues together with the admonition that they see their Senator and Congressman, praise him or warn him, depending on his vote.” [ “It may be wise,” advises Frank- {ensteen, “to picket some Represen- | tatives and Senator | Rail Unions Push Fight Edward Keating, veteran editor |of Labor, official organ of the rail- | way unions, says that chiefs of the {railroad organizations are sending letters to their locals urging every {member and every eligible member {of his family to register so they may vote in the next election Keating, a former Congressman from Colorado, says that “if labor makes as poor a showing in 1944 as it did in 1942 the next congress will |be emphatically anti-labor in both branches.” Says A, F. of L. President Green: |“Labor and consumers are being |discriminated against. Unless prices of food are brought down to a rea- sonable level, organized labor will have no other recourse but to de- mand wage increases. Unless mem- | bers of Congress protect the work- and the consuming public, they will be swept out of office in the | next election.” A large majority of Congressmen who voted to override the Pres Sid (Continued on ane six) | legisla~ |tive director for the Uhited Auto- | mobile, Aircraft and Agricultural | Implement Workers (C.1.0O., Iis; British Air Mlmstry Makes Report on Three RAF Raids LONDON, Aug. 13—Eighty per- cent of the central part of Cologne and 75 percent of the district on the west bank of the Rhine has |been destroyed and eight factories were damaged in the last three RAF raids there the British Air Ministry announces. The engine and truck works, bat- ‘tery plant and cable factory are among the ’idustrial works de- | stroyed. CLOSING IN ON BAIROKO HARBOR NOW Last Foothold in Central Solomons Encircled by Americans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 13.—Advance units of United States jungle troops continue to close the trap on the encircled Jap garri- son at Kairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island. Bairoko is the last Japanese foothold in the Central Solomons. Bad w her prevented many operations. Surface craft main. tained a blockade against aid com- ing to the trapped garrison, and one enemy vessel was sunk. Ameri- can planes raided Kaimana, Dutch New Guinea, and the airdrome at Timoeka was bombed and set afire. .- SULLYS TO SITKA Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sully flew to Sitka yesterday for a brief va- cation and visit with relatives. - MONAGLE BACK Attorney M. E. Monagle returned home last night from Skagway where he has been on a business trip. e o o0 0 0 o o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 8:50 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:16 am. 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