The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9421. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 ~ MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZIS EVACUATING SICILY UNDER FIRE Jap Airbase Laid in Ruins by U.S. Bombers SALAMAUA IS WIPED OFF MAP Shattering Igloéw Dealt Nip- pons-Advance on Bai- | roko Harbor Made ALLIED HEADQUARTEHS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 14— The big Japanese airbase at Sala- maua has been laid in ruins and portion built on the isth- rtually ceased to exist” as the result of a 177-ton bombard- ment by American medium and heavy mombers. The communique from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters says the shattering blow was the latest in a series in which more than 1,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the New Guinea base The announcement of the demo- lition of the airbase at Salamaua is coupled with the official report that Americans have advanced an- other mile ag4inst the last Jap foot- hold in New Georgia island at Bair- oko harbor. Fighter escorted bombers, attack- ing the Kahili airdome on Bougain- ville Island and destroyed or se- verely damaged 32 of 42 Jap bomb- ers and fighters caught on the ground. | | | OPA MAN HERE At the Baranof Hotel, Guy Green, with the OPA, came in from the Westward enroute south. The Washington, Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—When members of the AFL executive council took up the application of John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers chief, for re-entry into the AFL this week in Chicago, they didn’t bother to tell reporters that Lewis might have been back in the AFL some time before, except for strong in- tervention from the White House. It can now be revealed that the President was extremely perturbed about the burly mine labor chief’s efforts to climb back on the AFL bandwagon. In fact he expressed himself to friends in very bluni language about how foolhardy it would be for the AFL to welcome back a man who was in disrepute for openly defying the govern- ment during the mine dispute. It also can be revealed that Wil- liam Hutcheson, AFL carpenters’ boss, and other Lewis friends on the executive council had the stage all set for a special meeting of the council last May to consider Lewis’ application. This was the inside reason why John L. enclosed a fat $60,000 check for advance dues with his application. Just who blocked the move—and how closely the President himself was involved—is a secret. Bui Ad- ministration insiders report that Marvin MecIntyre, the President’s secretary, a great friend of the railroad brotherhoods, had a hand i it. Furthermore, immediately after| Lewis requested readmission, the President had separate conferenc with Dan Tobin, teamsters’ boss and a top-rung member of the AFL executive council, plus George Har- rison, railway clerks’ head, who is the most powerful figure in the wrotherhoods. Immediately afterward, the move for a special executive council meeting was abandoned.In the course of one of these conferences, the question of Lewis’ application for readmission was discussed at some length—and the President ex- pressed himself point-blank agains’ it. UNENERGETIC HOPKINS When Winston Churchill was last in Washington, one very pri- (Continued on Page Four) e like Trapped Ratin W., SEN. MOORE This Pin-Up Hit Jackpot | L | tense When the Daily Oklahoman printed this picture in its weekly paper ue Breeding, 15, (left), received fan mail from ail for service men, $ over the world. With her is Beverly Martin, | | Mussolini Drowned Atiempling fo Escape St‘:'reen Szur Weds NEW YORK, Aug. 14—The New York Evening Post said it had reports from circles that are fre- quently well informed that Mus- solini drowned like a trapped rat when Allied planes sank a sub-} marine in which he was attempt- ing to escape. WARN JAPS NEW RAIDS COMING UP i At | Tokyo Tells People U. S. Planning Attack on Mainland (By Associated Press) | Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, commander of air activities in the Solomons, warned the Japanese even greater aerial blows than the second attack on the Kuriles are|] coming. | He added that the Pacific offen- |sive has reached the “second quar- |ter of the game with our force in | possession of the ball and an im- | pressive score behind them.” Two Liberators are reported miss- ing from the raid on the Jap is- lands in the north. The. ~Tokyo radio, meanwhile,| warned the Japanese people the| United States is apparently prepar- ing for a ‘raid on our mainland from the north.” TROOPS IN EUROPETO - AID ALLIES s b ALGIERS, Aug. 14—General Roy Lever, Chief of Staff of the Unified TULSA, Okla., Aug. 14. — SeN.ipench Army, said “an important | E. H. Moore of the Senate ‘Posl force of European troops” are ready Office Postroads Subcommittee, to participate with the Allies in a planning a trip to inspect the Al-| European offensive whether in Italy aska Highway, said he isn't going or elsewhere. to go because he doesn't consider - the trip will make any contribu-| FINED $25 tion toward a fuller understand- Finlay G. Murcheson was fined $25 T SCREZEN AND RADIO actress Ger- trude Niesen, 26, was married to Albert Greenfield, 36, Chicago res- taurant owner, at Las "Vegas, Nevada. This is the first marriage tor Miss Niesen, and the second tor the groom. (International) NOT COMING ON JUNKET |lines of trenches all interconnected ing of the highway and also that in City Police Court this morning time is too limited. IM being drunk and disorderly. RED FORCES AT STREETS OF KHARKOV Firm Hold fiow Obtained Around Ukraine Steel Center (By Associated Press) The Red Army is battering its way to the streets of Kharkov in several directions and have obtained a firm viselike hold about the Ukraine steel center, frontline dis= patches said To the north, where Russian forces piled on another offensive in the gradually developing summer campaign, two other German de- hubs at Bryansk and Smo- lensk have been menaced by smash- | ing strong fortifications in the Spas-Demensk sector. The Red Star, newspaper, described the fortifica- tions around the Spas-Demensk a midway between Bryansk and several continuous official Army 1 Smolensk, as by strong pillboxes and dugouts of advanced firing positions. It said he defense included machine gum positions every 50 yards with mine- tields and wire entanglements be-| tween them. Trenches and fortifications| around the Spas-Demensk sector were erected during the retreat at Moscow in 1941 and were improved last summer. The front lines were broken through first in the north by the Russian infantry. After a long march through the swamps they received the order to attack the enemy in an unexpected quarter. A German communique broadcast mania,, oil refineries Augnst 1. action bombs exploded. U. Anothe said the heaviest fighting was in| the Belgorod area, a jumping off | place in ‘the Russian offensive on| Kharkov. The- Germans said the | ; Russians . suffered “very heavy cas-| ualties in the swaying battle on| Kharkov.” | The Soviet tank losses in the sxx\\ weeks summer offensive places them | in excess of 9,000, according to the German radio. - D WARPLANTS IN AUSTRIA | UNDER FIRE Raid Made by U. §. Liber-| ators on Hitherto Un- | reachable Targefs CAIRO, Aug. 14.— A strong force of American Liberator bombers at- tacked Wiener Neustadt south of Vienna in daylight yesterday. “All| aircraft taking part accounted for the Middle East air communique said. The attack was made on pro-| duction factories and assembly | plants in Wiener Neustadt. | This Is the first heavy Allied| raid on former Austrian territory| macde in this war. Hits were scor>d| on hangers and factory buildin The blow, deep into Hitler’s south- B east industrial empire, was made| by hundreds of giant bombers ? winging a record distance, 2,000 | "M."' vaea- miles roundtrip, to hitherto un-| tion, his column is being con- reachable war plants. 1 ducted by various members of The German government's relo-| the Washington staff of The Associated 1 This is the cation in Vienna, where almost all| of the high officials have fled, now within the reach of Allied air power. second of two columns on the is \1 White House by Harold Oliver.) B S ! : | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-—Presi- RABON IN JUNE | dent Roosevelt’s wartime workday H. A. Rabon, with the Treasury|starts about the same time as that Department at Washington, D. C,|of his “assistant president,” former returned to Juneau today and is/Supreme Court Justice James F. at the Baranof. |Byrnes — about 9 am—but he — e doesn’t reach his desk until 10:30. MRS. KIRMSE IN Mr. Roosevelt’s daily schedule| Mrs. Hazel Kirmse came in yes-|has not altered much since the terday afternoon and registered al War begai. Ile gets up around) the Baranof. 8:30, takes his time dressing, reads An oil storage tank, left, bursts into flames as bembs from U. Piciurc of Sweep As Bombs Rain on Ploesfi Refineries S, Photo was made during the first moments of the raid, before delayed- S. Army Air Forces photo via OWI radio from Cairo. ssem 5 : , Against a backdrop of billowing flames, U. 8. Liberator bombers sweep low over the Ploesti oil refineries during the raid on this major source of Axis oil supply. Army Air Forces photo via OWI radio from Cairo. President Pufs in Busy Day; Warlime Wo;k Slar!s Early four or five Metropolitan dailies while breakfasting'in bed, then re- ceives his three secretaries to go over the de gements. Sometime: alls in Byrnes or Admiral William D. Leahy, his chief of staff, before going to his oval office. His callers are few- er these days, as Byrnes s many agency, departmental and congre sional delegations for him His mornings are given over to caller: Many of his afternoons now are devoted mostly to reading reports including military me and dictating mail to Miss G Tully, his personal secretary. Only on two afternoons a week are there fixed (Continued on P Two) FULL SCALE GETAWAYON BY GERMANS Fleeing For}gBeing Pelt- ed by Everything from Air, Sea Artillery ALLIED FORCES SWEEP ON, CLOSE TO MESSINA Stait Filled with Craft A tempting to Take Troops fo Italy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 14—Pelted by everything from block busters to machine gun bullets from the ur, artillery fire and from the sea, the German Army has begun a full scale evacuation effort to save as !:nnull material and manpower as | possible from the wreckage of Sicily {for the battle of Italy. { With the iter caved in by the |Allied capture of Randazzo, north {of Mount Etna, the Geérmans put {the evacuation machinery in full | swing, 1t is officially announced to- * |day (Saturday) and they are re- T A K E s T E p S treating behind strong rear guards. | he Germans have fallen back | J | The apidly on all fronts. | victorious British and Am- lerican infantry attacks are sweep- \MAKING Ro |ing them within 34 miles of Mes- | Isina in virtually all sectors. | | T OPEN CITY | The Allied commentator | firmed all field reports of the Reuiers Repofl Quotes German withdrawal and said it is no longer any question that the Statement from lfal- | The Allles have captured Piraino |central sector and Riposto Giarra Germans' sole ainr is to escape to ian Government |on the north coast, Floresta in the Milo on the east coast. con- | the Italian mainland with as many |troops and equipment as possible. & Aerial reconalssance showed LONDON, Aug. l4.—A Reut ships are crossing the narrow dispatch ys the Italian govern- bomb-tossed Messina Strait, many ment is “taking the necessary steps|arriving empty on the Sicilian according to international law” to)beaches and leaving loaded. declare Rome an open city without| The “escaping craft” are under further delay. | constant fire, from British light Rome was bombed twice by Fly- warships and coastal Alliled bomb- |ing Portress formations of Ameri- ers are shuttling back and forth can bombers, once on July 19 and dropping everything from 2,000~ the second raid yesterday. ! pound block busters to cannon and Its railroad network was the prin- ' machine gun ammunition. cipal target each time. The elim- RO R ST ination of the use of these tracks for movement of troops and mli- | 3) tary supplies would be one of the {obligations entalled if the capital is declared an open city | Other obligations would be the withdrawal of troops from the city| and the cessation of the manufac- Reuters quoted an Italian news S agency as sayng the “Ttalian gov- QUEBEC, Aug. 14—The Ameri- ernment, announced July 31 through o chiefs of staff have arrived and lits intermediary of its intention o (hejr presence suggested the mo- declare Rome an open city and has mentous ture of war supplies and the ad- mission of an Allied war commis- sion to see that obligations are car- rvied out. doghee o ; Churchill-Roosevelt war hbeen waiting to know the circum- oonferences will soon begin. jtances under which this declara- The American arrivals include [tion would be accepted. Gen. George C. Marshal, chief of “In view of the repetition of airf giaff of the Army; Admiral Ernest (raids on Rome, center of the Cath- King commander of the fleet; Gen. {olic ‘world, the Italian government g 1. Arnold, chief of the air {has decided to formally and public- forces; Admiral William D. Leahy, {ly to declare Rome an open city the President’s personal chief of ’wllfnf'i'l further delay talf, and Gen. Brehon Summer- The Ttalian government is tak- yille, chief of the Army services |ing the necessary steps according to foree TR & international law.” - & tieE FROM TAKU LODGE Mary Joyce is in Juneau from Jer lodee at Taku. She is staying at the Baranof. ROME RAIL e 5 ¢ o o o 0 0 0 0 . FA(I[IT'ES . DIMOUT TIMES . . — . e Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 8:48 o'clock. . E ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 5:18 am. . e Dimout begins Sunday at e i e sunset at 8:45 p.m. . LONDON, Aug. 14—An Italian ® Dimout ends Monday at e communique today said 218 persons ® sunrise at 5:21 am. . were killed and 57 injured in yes- ® Dimout begins Monday at e X bombing of Rome's ® sunset at 8:43 pan. - railway facilities. CRCRURCRE BRI SR R A