The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIL, NO. 9423. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1943 _ SOCIATED PRESS _____ PRICE TEN CENTS = == — i e AMERICAN FORCES IN MESSINA TODAY Hand to Hand F ightin RED THRUST ONBRYANSK MOVES FAST Russians Wmn 15 Miles of City - Stiff Resist- ance af Kharkov MOSCOW, Aug. 17.—The Moscow drive on Bryansk, hinge on the German front southwest of Mos- cow, is moving in the fastest pac2 of any three ef the current Red Army thrusts, the Red Star, of- ficial Army newspaper, indicated With Soviet troops meeting stiff resistance in the battle of Khar- kov, other Russian divisions are moving steadily ahead toward Bry- ansk, supported by the push fur- ther north in the Spas-Demensk sector around Kharkov. The Red Star said the Germans are hurling large concentrations of reserves, backed up by units of 40 to 50 tanks and air squadrons in an effort to improve their pre- carious position. The Soviet monitor in frontline dispatch in which the “(Continued on Page Three) The Wash;xiqion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8, Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON —It hasn't had the public fireworks of the Jones-| Wallace row, but one of the most intense and disastrous paper bat- | i London recorded a Moscow broadcast of a | | | { | el 3 s 15 an air view of the Italian mdustrial city of Muan wi uare before Milan cathedral. BIG FIGHTS ARE COMING 350 NIPPONS 5Stabi|iz$mn Director Promises Reduced 1 Cost of Living hich is reported to have been partially laid in ruins by RAF bombers in the past several days. The picture shows the princ Debris is reported from 15 (o 30 feet high in the streets. | BYRNESSAYS Germans Are Nearing Result of Allied Bombs & g Takes Plac L4 eets S - ein 4 Str IND FRONT INDICATED ON EUROPE | Fortified Sedibns in Eng- land Are Now Being Evacuated NEW BLOWS T0 BE STRUCK AT HITLER ‘Many Phasés of Entire Sit- uation Are Given Out Today LONDON, Aug. 17.—Great Brit- ain began clearing all non-residents from her barricaded coastal areas today as the conviction gripped the nation that the hour is near for powerful new blow at Hitler's fortress. talk is heard every- | where, amid cries from both Great . |Britain and Russia for a speedy opening of a second front. From eve angle, the new moves appeared directed toward invasion, |but whether from the Mediter- “ | ranean, through the Balkans or ia | European { Invasion pal thoroughfares leading to the ret of the Allied war chiefs. Significant however, are these de- | velopments: 1—Heavy repeated American air ralds on Axis airfields in France, ‘an natural targets as a prelude (to any new offensive. | 2—Declaration of a state of ‘swm- in Norway by apparently jit- {tery German Occupation authori- (During Jack Stinnett’s va- his column is being conducted by members of the Washington staff of The As- sociated Press. Tod column oS, 3. Virtual isolation of Italy by | severance of that country’s tele- | e |across the English Channel is the| "Cracking” Sfageas | PRE-INVASION BLOWS FOR KISKA sunomGs. outeosty = BY SEA AND AIR, Amer] principal airfield (3). an forces are giving Jap-held Kiska the sort of going-over which usually precedes invasion. Latest attacks are a bombing of installations at Gertrude Cove (1), a naval shelling ot the submarine base at Kiska Harbor (2) and a heavy bombing of the (onscriplion of Labor s it Looming Says Patferson; Must Have All-Out Effort ( [ [ | CAMPAIGN CINSICILY IS ENDED (U. S Forces Push Rapidly | Along North Coast to Captured Port BRITISH ARMY JUMPS ALONG ON EAST COAST Mainland ofr iialy Being Shelled by "Long Tom’ Allied Guns ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 17. — The American forces entered Messina this morning virtually ending the Sicillan campaign. The Allied Headquarters also an- nounced the enemy is carrying out demolitions on the south coast of the TItalian toe, thus indicating in- tention of withdrawing farther out on the Italian Peninsula. | Complete occupation of Sicily, the entering wedge to Fortress Eu- rope, is only a matter of howrs as | the Americans on the east coast of the island wiped up the hapless | Ttalian forces left stranded by the | German Allies, Hand-to-Hand Fight The American doughboys fought hand-to-hand with the enemy through the bomb-scarred streets ‘:md sprawling hillside of the port, |less than three miles from Italy. | Already their 155 millimeter “Long | Tom” artillery is shelling the enemy on the Italian mainland, according to front line dispatches. The American Third Division, in tles of the war is now raging back- | stage between the Maritime Com-| o d mission and the Navy over Liberty| WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.— War ships. Mobilization Director James F. The battle has, become so hot Byrnes promises a substantial re- that it has been referred to Jus- duction in the cost of living in tice Byrnes and Bermie Baruch for |outlining a home front program LOS ANGELES, Calif,, Aug. 17| ¥hich Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Under Secretary of War Robert P,|oNcé commanded a regiment, Patterson declared here that labor ;‘:"’Z"da “""r f:“-l‘kf*'ls ~of Messina is not being used on an all-out basis | *P" o'clock last night, then tormed the city this morning. in the war effort, and declared thal |This divis f ! “national conscription may be the|This division was the first inio answer.” Palermo, several weeks ago. is by Alexander R. George, AP Features Writer.) A | CAPTURED BY | phone and telegraphic communica- |tions with Switzerland, giving rise |to the belief that important devel- G u S Fo R(ES B! IXANDER R. GEORGE | opments might be in the offing. 1 St JASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Allied| Dispatches from the Swiss bor- bombing may not yet have cracked|der town of Chiasso quote the the morale of the German 1>eox'le.\5wiss telegraphic agency as saying & Attu Barber Shop | arbitration. Delays caused by the dispute probably will cost the na- tion exactly half a million tons of merchant shipping this year. The controversy has become so bitter that the War Production Board, which sides with the Navy, actually sent out telegrams to man- ufacturers of ship turbines in- structing them not to allocate any more materials for Maritime Com- mission turbines. Whereupon pep- pery Admiral “Jerry” Land, Mari- time Commission chairman, tele- graphed the turbine manufacturers to ignore the WPB order. How- ever, manufacture of turbines was stopped, hence the delay in ship construction. Seeds of the-dispute go back to the fact that slow-moving naval admirals are jealous of quick, up- and-coming Maritime Commission experts; plus possible British worry about U. S. shipping competition after the war. SLOW OR FAST SHIPS? Chief issue involved is whether the Maritime Commission shall build only slow-poke Liberty ships which are easier targets for sub- marines, or also build speedier C-1, C-2, C-3 and Victory ships which can operate without convoy: Digging back even further be- hind the dispute, the row is over the question of turbines. In brief, far-sighted Admiral Howard L. Vickery of the Maritime Commis- sion two years ago began building turbines for merchant ships. Now hind-sighted Navy Admirals want those turbines for fighting ships. One thing that gripes naval brass-hats is that back in 1933 they “passed over” Vickery for pro- motion and he was eased out of the Navy. Since then picked him up, and put him in the Maritime Commission where he has been sailing circles around his old friends in the Nayy ever since. Two years ago, he forsaw that turbines would be one of the big (Continiued on Page Four) | Roosevelt | |geared to much major fighting. | T a broadeast tust niene ne 1100PS Land on Vella Lav- ety saing e anesnave| ella Island-Take Japs Without Fight |the initiative but this is of no |value unless it is followed vigor- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ously with great forces.” i On two of the most agitated do-| {mestic problems, food prices |coal preduction, he said progress 17—American troops have landed is being made. {on Vella Lavella Island in the Sol- The President, Byrnes stated, has omons, by-passing Kolombangara, |authorized a 48-hour week in the and hastening the doom of Japan's I mines jencircled garrison at Kairoko, New | Byrnes strongly advocated a roll- Georgia. e SOBe i S |back through subsidies, which Con-| ©Occupation o e island was achieved last Sunday in a surprise |gress has opposed. ¢ move and was not opposed. Production has slowed down since A b e R S : Three hundred and fifty Japs | victories have been coming, l?e b&ld,]werc captured all unarmed, surviv- but there is nothing to justify Lhemr.\ of Jap vessels sunk in the two thope that the Axis powers will sur-|p.ujes of Kula Guif, render in the near future. | This is the largest number of Japs The fight against inflation can iy (he Solomons ever to surrender {be won but not if demands for|ywithout a fight. |higher wages and higher prices| i |prevail. He said we can't ask the! soldiers to do the fighting and then |pay the taxes on their return. | An election is coming in 1944, he |stated, and until then the less po- |litical discussion the better. | | | “Americans have faith in the free e S u s ro m, world for which they are fight- |ing,” Byrnes declared, “and they s Ploesti Raid AIR BATTL ERé)oseveII —A&n&wledges ? \ tulat OVER LAE; 12 "fon'kng e JAPS DOWNED WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt in a message to King George said information disclosed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 17—In an air battle over Lae 12 EJup planes were shot down. One Allied fighter was lost and two planes were damaged but man- laged to return to base. | e — BUY WAR BONDS of the Nazi-used oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania, did greater dam- age than originally anticipated and a large number of the refineries were “put out of commission.” ‘The President's message was one |acknowledging the King's congrat- |ulations on the raid made by the |American Ninth Afr Force. GreaiDamage that the recent American bombing| Ir, IN|ing and THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. some cities, the Germans put out|touch with Prime Minister Winston | { | but conservative observers believe!the situation throughout Italy “re- the nerves of thousands of people|mained grave with possibility of in oft-shattered cities of the Reich|radical changes from one moment are nearing the “cracking” stage. [to the next.’ In the last year of World War( 4-—The British War when Allied planes were mak- yeported in constant relatively puny attacks onlaay yesterday, keeping Cabinet is session ~ all in direct “feelers” for an agreement be- Churchill in Quebec. tween the belligerents which would| 5—The diversion of Royal Air limit bombing operations. Force heavy bomber attacks from In February, 1918, the Spanish|German war industries to an all- Ambassador to London told the out attempt to knock Italy out of British Foreign Secretary that the|the war by destroying her indus- King of Spain had been in com-|trial facilities. munication with the German gov-| ernment with the object of get-! ting some check placed “on the bombing of undefended towns.” u S S Alaska i In March of that year, the| awsws ! Reichstag requested the German l v l} High Command to present mnus-] ures looking to an agreement with regard to air raids. The Brn-i ish government then took the posi- | tion that such an agreement would| BAST COAST PORT, Aug. 17— be only to give an advantage 10|ppe United States Navy's cruiser the enemy. Alaska was successfully launched |Sunday with Mrs. Ernest Gruening In June of this year it was the|christening the craft. Spanish government again which! The U.S.S. Alaska is the first of proposed to “humanize” air bomb-|a new group to be larger than ex- ing. It was suggested that belliger-|isting heavy cruisers of 10,000 tons ents declare zones of “total bom-|displacement but smaller than bardment,” zones of partial objec-|battleships. - A D (Continued on Page Three) . Missing Bomber (omes Back Home Loaded with Fruit LONDON, Aug. 17.—One Hali- "Movement Held Best - CHICAGO — The best treatment for sprained ankles is to use them immediately and normally, A i ing to Lt. Comdr. Paul E. McM: 'l‘l:u:::':'b" :"h"“"" since last |y'g N R writing in the Journal of sday in the raid on Milan, |¢he American Medical Association. came home today loaded with | Reporting on 500 cases he has ob- bananas, grapes, melons and |served, Lt. Comdr. McMaster says lemons. |that when the pain in the injured The oxygen supply failed |part was suppressed, either by in- soing over Milan and the |jections or by adhesive tape, the btir‘nber was flown on to a Tu- |patients who returned immediately nisian base, loaded with fruit, and then flown home to the base here. ‘{oot and ankle improved more rapid- J1¥ than those who did not. | ing men.” | SILENCE ON ‘Secrelary of Navy Makes . For Sprained Ankles | ALTHOUGH not going any place in particular when this photo was taken, members of the U. S. Am- phibious Force on Attu Island get their tonsorial needs taken care of by a barber in his open air shop. Note the men waiting their turn. U. S. Navy photo. (International) to normal activity and moved the ___ BUY WAR BONDS Patterson said further that “we British Make Advances must have a steady monthly in-| Meanwhile the vanguard of the crease in military and aivcraft pro-|British Eighth Army, forced to duction that is now lagging, and|deal with greater demolitions, and failure to overcome this lag means|Set back by strong enemy counter- a longer war and death to our fight- |attacks. leap-frogged a point eight |miles south of Messina by staging a commando landing with the main |force, at Santa Teresadiriva, about 20 miles south of Messina. The lightning advance of the Americans, 14 miles from Messina vesterday, was facilitated by the seaborne landing of amphibious troops from the U. S. Navy. The fourth such attack in the last ten days was near Milazzo and was NEws. KNox carried out yesterday morning with- I | - lout great difficulty. A late dispatch this afternoon |said strong Allied naval forces ars [ blockading the foot of the Italian Peninsula from the gulf of Poli- castro, 150 miles up the west coast and half way to Naples, to Cape {Rizzuot on the heel of the boot. Comment on Lack of Any Reporis WITHDRAWAL ADMITTED 17.—Secre-| BERLIN, Aug. 17.—A broadcast ank Knox said to- this afternoon ays the German prolonged silencé |and Italian forces have evacuated on operations against Kiska “no Sicily with all equipment “to the news 1s good news.” |last machine gun” after destruction There has been no announcediof all military installations ahd action since July, 30. When Knox|harbor works at Messina was asked at P conference D why there should be such an ab- STILL IN ATHLETICS sence of information about the fs-| land which .uumu)m-nh-u!.si BOSTON —Ralph Hewitt, former were previously made almost daily,!Columbia backfield star, is a mem- he first said that he presumed that|per of the Massachusetts state athe bad weather had brought A letic board. The Lowell resident period of inactivity still holds the world's interschol- Newsmen then suggested that nitic’ poait. for 800 verds, He wed perhaps warships bombarded the|not a trackman in college. island tmes in July they| __ 5 should be able to operate regardless I weather | Knox grinned and said: “Well,, you know the old story that na news is good news.” - WASHINGTON, Aug. tary of Navy F day of the Na a on on several 3 e e 00 0 0 0 00 0 DIMOUT TIMES . e . | Dimout begins tonight |® at sunset at 8:40 o'clock. . | Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 5:25 am. . distillation ® Dimout begins Wednesday at ® American ® sunset at 8:37 pm. . e e 00000000 Unless it known that water ® is plentiful Wd pure, cquipment accompanies expeditionary forces, is