The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1943, Page 1

- " HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9422. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1943 Ml MBl R ASSOCI\TI D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — U. S. FORCES 14 MILES FROM MESSINA 48 NIPPON PLANES ARE SHOTDOWN Bitter Comt;at_Rages Both Ends of 700-Mile Batlefront ALLIED HEADQU’\R'IEFLS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 16.—Air fighting broke furiously i of Karachey on the 26-mile road at both ends of the 700-mile battle- % to Bryansk after severing the 1359; front when the night brought to main line of escape "of the Nazi an end the bitter combat. Forty-eight Japanese planes were downed at a cost of five Allied planes. ests seeking to prevent the Ger-! ~ American ground troops are clos- mans organizing adequate defense ing the pincers in the north and lines on the Desna River. south on the enemy center below Karachev fell, Pravda says, afler Bairoko Harbor, New Georgia. the four divisions stormed the| In aerial combat, 22 enemy fight- er planes and 12 dive bombers fell prey to an undisclosed number of Allied fighters over the Solomor The United States Air Forc enjoyed the best hunting in months on Sunday, breaking up an enemy formation of 12 bombers and 25 fighters. Three United States planes were lost in this engagement but the Americans got 11 bombers and three Zeros. Nineteen barges loaded . with troops or supplié$ were also in the bag of the Allied planes around New Guinea. Ninety-nine tons of bombs were dropped on Komiatum, south of Lae. A small Japanese Air Force made ineffective raids on Allied posi- (Continued on Page Two) The Washing ton Merry - Go- Round ISSUED BY =¥ ™™ Tremendous Ay Bar- By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Only members of the Roosevelt family knew it, but relations between Mrs. Roose- velt and Harry Hopkins for a long time have been at the breaking point. It is with great relief, therefore, that Mrs, Roosevelt has received i BEAUTIES ENRICH BLOOD BANK IF EVERYONE could dress as a(trac(ively as these Hollywood beauties donating to a movie company's blood bank, the lines would stretch from here to yonder. June Wayne (left) and Eileen Fenwick helped to over- (International) subscribe their company’s quota. Womanpower Must ~ Now Help to Carry | BaII Right to Goal QFFENSIVE “NEWRULES WMC CHIEF Occupation, Not Family | Status, fo Be Yardstick After October 1 (During cation, his conducted by column is Jack Stinnett’s va- being members of the \‘\'ashiuglnll staff of The Asso- WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, walr’s manpower scoreboard that it's up to women to ca ball .over the goal, fray yanked out willy-nilly. they'll of the have to grandstand - This shows ry the and unless the | gals voluntarily warm up and geL‘ linto the be The team needs replacements, by the millions—and for non-combat | 'KARACHEV CAPTURED BY DRIVE Four Russian Divisions in | Possession of Nazi Bastion MOSCOW, Aug. 16 Army divisions pushed Four Red troops trapped in the Orel salient. | Pravda says the Soviet forces are cutting through the dense for- | commanding the approaches to the | city, then pursued the fleeing Nazis | town, The result of a Russian lightning drive | westward. | Tass reports the battle for Khar- | _ climax as the | kov has reached the |Germans are throwing troops into |the battle as soon they reacn the front. Resistance REDARMY'S DESCRIBED rage Opened Big Summer Push By HENRY CASSIDY (Associated Press War Correspondent) WITH THEE RED ARMY AT !THE BRYANSK FRONT, Aug. 16 —It can’ now be told that the Red |Army’s summer offensive was ahead and| have captured the German bastion | g Nazi fortifications and nills | hrough the streets of the burning | { capture of the city was the increastiis!] | | | | | American Rangers moved through ITALY TO MAKE ROME OPEN CITY Repeated Rald by Amer- | ican Bombers Bring Quick Results | LONDON, Aug. 16.—The Italian | government has announced that as a result of last Friday's American raid it has “decided publicly and | formally to declare Rome an open city without further delay. The Italian government is taking the | | necessary steps according to inter- | national 1 the announcement said. The Rome radio reported that such a decision was first com- municated to the V: drive that overran the western part of the Italian island. can two weeks | Air Fighting Breaks Furiously In Solomons United Sfates Rangers (ome o Town REARGUARD OF GERMANS IS OVERRUN {British Also Pushing Up Along East Coast, Near- ing Escape Hatch 'END OF SICILIAN CAMPAIGN IN SIGHT Axis Claim Strait Heavily Guarded-Defies Allies to Stop Ferrying ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 16. The | United States troops are over-run- \mm. the Axis rear guard in the | vicinity of Milazzo, 14 miles west of Messina, it is officially reported and the end of the Sicilian cam- | paien is “now at hand.’ The Americans have pushed up {between 12 and 15 miles and are well beyond Barcellona and within heavy artillery range of Messina. It is assumed this main escape hatch of the Germans is already | under ground fire as well as aerial | bombardment. | The Germans are in flight and all indications are the Nazis have pulled out and left the Italian units to face the climax of the British and | American push. The United States Seventh and nnnsh Elghm armies are racing captured in the Porto Empedocle, « n the south coast of Sicily, iBombers Make Record ~ Distance Flight; Raid Bomeo, Set Area Afire i i | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS m;lwrmns. | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. The campaign 6 VESSEI.S’ Allied- planes on Sunday made | 5ix weeks old. 2500-mile round trip flight and | The British have captured Taor- ‘Imn\bud Balik Papan, on the Island mina, strategic harbor and road | or Borneo. junction on the east coast and only adn | Oil refineries, reserv The record breaking raid carried ~Admitting the Axis forces are All bombers ed and firmly in German hands and Submanne Destroyer and | vases s and tank- | 28 miles by road from Messina, and | ers were set afire. the bombers the greatest distance Quitting Sicily, the Berlin radio |the “Anglo-American attempts to " Gunboat Are Among he Japanese Casteglione, eight miles inland, also i ~ ARELOST | | so far in the P | broadcast declared this afternoon stop the (enylng will be futile.” Craft Gone Down still less than acitic war, a was left ablaze. returned to their were taken by complete surprise. the town of Kaggl. ‘ The whole 4 | the Messina Strait is heavily guard- - MILAN LAID pogseya, purposes the manpower reserve nuw, open a trej 1y is womanpower. pened by mendous artille the news ‘that Harry and his wife,' the former Louise Macy, finally (yASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Occu- have decided to move out of the' pation, not family status, becomes White House and look for a home the principal yardstick in determ- of their own. | ining whether men 18 to 38 will be Relations have been so cool be- inducted into the army under a tween Hopkins and Mrs. Roosevelt scries of new regulations issued last that her intimate friends and fam-'weekend by the War Manpower ily say he has actually weakened Commission. her influence with the President. Although Draft Boards are ex- . To get the full significance of pected to continue giving due con- The numbers of women ponding to appeals for service — with the armed forces, as nurses, in war production work, in essen- tial civilian industries and ser ices—fall far short of the absolute | minimum required, “If the shortage becomes very great,” Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- this break it is important to recall sideration, to hardships caused by|cpce it will lead to registering that it was Mrs. Roosevelt who the induction of men with depend- |, taking in of people of certain| really promoted Harry Hopkins. ents, after October 1 the main ques- ages.” tion will be whether they are physically fit and can serve their | country better in the armed ofrces | |or in war production. geryioes. ALY She discovered him when he was a social worker in New York, first as director of the New York Tuber- culosis and Health Association, recruits within the next five| later as director of the New York anMgwcTr:;r‘:; P::sl ‘{hx:N:éf months—vwhich. e a8 many s State Temporary Emergency Re- AJL”’“H to hold essential war work- | they've enlisted to date, although| the WAVSs ha\c for more than {the WACs and been recruiting year. Add the facts that Secretary of| lief Association. FDR was then o on yseful jobs, to insure the Governor of New York, but it Was| yansfer of workers to jobs aiding Mrs. Roosevelt, an ardent wm‘kur‘me war effort, and to supply men for the under-privileged, Who needed in the armed forces without pushed Harry with her husband. cutting war production. The regula- |tions list 149 “critical occupations,” more WACs, the WAVEs HOUSEHOLD HOPKINS and announced that persons em- mum quota is 91,000 by the end| Today, however, Mrs, Roosevelt’s' ployed by them gain super eligibility |of 1944, and the Marines and| for deferment. Draft Boards are instructed to|at 1,100 and 700 a month respgc. give greater consideration to occu-,uVely pational defelmems i closest intimates complain that Hopkins even usurps Mrs, Roose- | velt’s household duties. On at least one occasion, for instance, he re-| arranged the seating at a White B ey House dinner after the First Lady' ~ (Continued on P“Ke Two) had given specific' instructions to the major domo as to how the guests were to be arranged. The first news Mrs. Roosevelt had of £ S mm TRA?:SE Byrmes On she arrived at the dinner table, | A|r Tonlgh On another occasion Mrs. Roo- ‘ WASHINGTON, Aug. sevelt had an engagement Wwith| Elmer Davis, director of War In-| formation, regarding a speech she was to deliver. Abruptly, Davis Libera- Stat NEW DELHI, tor bombers of the Aug. 16 United telephoned cancelling the engage- Tenth Air Force disabled a 150- Byrnes, Director for War Mobili- ment. Mus. Hoosevelt @ifkined the 100t’ enemy: vessel near Diamond;zation,’ will dgliver ‘g radio sd- Island off the Burman coast and dress at 6 o'tlock tonight, PWT. cancellation on Harry Hopkins. Other incidents have come back “Wlil To Win” ubject will be medium bombers attacked rail iu- stallations at Showebo, destroying rolling stock and also an oil dump. (Continued on Page Four) the White House res- | velt asserted at her press confer- | Women's units of the mxlnary‘ more than 100,000 | | War Stimson has called for 500,000 mmi-! |SPARs want to maintain induction | ‘The surgeon general has ass ru:d\ [barrage, rated by the Soviet com- |mand as the greatest in history, | |touched off against the German ’|lines at 3 a.m. on July 12. | It is estimated the bombardment " |was at least 10 times heavier than | the barrage at Verdun. About 3.000| gun barrels were massed each mile |along the front. | The artillery was so concentrat- ed it formed two or three lines The hub of the offensive is now uollmg steadily westward from Orel |toward Bryansk, while later attacks Between Bryansk and Smolensk |measured 20 to 25 miles wide. :Shangrila ToBeName Navy Vessel WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—There Iwill be a Shangri La in the United |States Fleet, it is officially an- nounced. ‘The name has been assigned to a |new aircraft carrier now under con-| | struction at the United States Navy | Yard at Portsmouth, The name came from the Pre: ‘dems facetious designation of the | fictional city that was the base of {the Doolittle raiders that flew out 16.#+James and bombed Tokyo. 701 i SN EINSTOSS AT HOTEL S. Einst: well known fish buyer, ccording to an announcement by returned to Juneau Saturday and |Ships is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel |a break through was made which| |are being pressed around Kharkov. .lurther bombardment, is the onlmou:(z(:mdl ago and the “government has been WAS}{IN(}T(;&. Aug. 16. — Bix| | waiting to know the circumstances ynited States war vessels, battling| | N R U I N S B Y ‘zndcl th“(l_“b“':; 'fi'fi‘l:’d“"" will |the Axis the world around, have| (HuR(HIll e acceptes y the S, ibeen st fur as vo'! “In view of the repetition of au-'b ”ll B uu,““" ‘(h(-‘ _lht lvml | ratds on Rum“ it ha de_ months, the Navy reports. | | action without “““‘“ el ‘\\m\ h includes the gunboat Ply-| 3 | : . h, submarine chaser PC-49§ % i | MAYBE BADOGLIO TRICK | ™Mot ) ' . . | 4 aon A e the veer mine sweeper sencinel and sus-tT@rrible Destruction | that the Tatian deciration (o do- mArine sescue vesel Red Wing, | ; Two Confer at Hyde Park L e L e e city 13| There are no cerats given re-| Wrought on Ifalian {merely & trick by Premier Marshal |garding the loss of the Pickercl, . : for Three Days, Says | Pietro Badoglio to spare the city nor Where she went down. Lt CI'Y LaStnght A Augustus H. Alston, Jr., Whl'e House | growing throughout Britain. |15 missing and presumed to be| LONDON, Aug. 16.—Milan, Italy’s Lord Beaverbrook’s newspaper and ! also all other London newspapers are bluntly demanding the Allies | Italy is known to be out of the war | or “surrenders unconditionally.” | There is, however, no official com- ment in London on the Italian declaration The Rome radio itself warned the | luanans they can expect security | from bombs only after the Italian | declaration is accepted by the Al-| lies. - 'Amer Subs - Sink Seven JapVessels ASHINGTON, Aug. 16 The Navy ,announces that American sub- ‘marlnes operating against the Jap supply lines in the Pacific, have sunk seven more enemy merchant and have damaged five others. | continue air attacks on Rome until| llost in the Pacific where the, subs greatest industrial city, was smash-| WASHINGTON, Aug. i6. — The jare taking a heavy toll of Jap ed at for the third time in four president has returned to Wash- |ships. Yesterday the Navy reported nights by Royal Air Force bombers ington after three days of confer- American subs have sunk seven last night and accounts {rom neu- ences with British Prime Minister ]nm«my ships and damaged five tral sources indicate the city is an winston Churchill at Hyde Park, |others, bringing to 309 the number area of desolation and panic. N. Y. |of Jap ships of all types sunk or| As the bombers took the long trail .ye white House gave out no ‘ddr;nhusvd in the war oves 'g" ‘i‘\"vl"““‘“'j“R‘:\“P;" ]‘V"‘ MUAD fyriper detalls of the President’s it g d]eslxmu Maddox was sunk Il(nmb ng. umi Iu l\;l””» . ‘I’Nl::l\“‘ trip beyond that statement inouth was sunk by an underwat P 3 ¥ " ferences at “Quebec” this week, explosion off North Carolina. The dicated much thought is being given - : { - the White House statement also {others were sunk in the Sicilian 0 the idea of declaring Berlin an .. cq iurea. | open city. ki ! DAY 20,V Dispatches from Switzerland fol-| OBurchill has ‘returned to Que- lowed the Milan raid with reports DeC Whers ‘the joint Chiefs of | A . telling of how thousands' of Milan Stalfs have been meeting for sev- |Swiss - "ahan inhabitants paraded in the streets eral d i this morning, five hours after the The President's scheduled con- attack, in a peace demonstration. ferences today were with Secretary Cordell Hull, and Secretary Postmaster of tate - Communications | Are Reporled Cut With debris now 15 to 30 feet high of General Walker in the streets, Milan has ceased to exist as a city, these reports said. |the Navy Knox. The strong force of British bomb- ers left Britain on their way over ¢ o o © ¢ ©¢ © o o ) » BERN, Aug. 16-A Swiss tele-|the Alps in a formation that took o DIMOUT TIMES . graph agency dispatch from Chi-| W0 ""_'”“\ to leave, . i . asso on the Italian-Swiss fron-| The attack on the ltalian city Was o pimout begins tonight e tier said this afternoon that all|Tade in the light of a full moonand o g gunset at 8:43 o'clock. . the targets were easily seen. FPires telephone and telegraphic commu- ware sot Which el visthile ks thia e Dimout ends tomorrow e nications between Italy and Swit-|gui. ™ fontien hours after the ® 8t sunrise at 5:23 am. L 54 zerland have been broken attack ended. The firsts wave of ¢ Dimout begins Tuesday. at @ - | ® sunset at 8:40 p.m. . BUY WAR BONDS jeooeees e L) 1 (Continued on Page Three)