The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMF,"’ _fl VOL. LXI., NO. 9424. ME MRI ‘R ASS()(I\H D PRE S5 Axis Forces Fleeing From Sicily Prime Minister Churchill and Family in Quebec 170 NIPPON WAR CARRIED U.S. Sub Finishes Off Jap Shipu NOW DIRECT TO MAINLAND Bombs Bein-g—Dropped on Escape Unifs and Guns Boom Across Strait ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 18—Allied guns boomed today in a duel with the heavy Axis batteries across Mes- sina Strait in a warmup against the European fortress as the battle for Sicily is finished “ahead of sched- ule.” With the occupation of Messina yesterday, massed formations of Al- lied warplanes are already carrying the war to the Italian mainland in pursuit of the foe, sprinkling bombs along the highways and roads and chewing up troop-carrying trains. Planes are roaring over freight yards and dropping bombs and blow- ing up networks of highways as the escaping enemy is fleeing in a panic. Bridges are also being blown up to prevent passage of trains from the escapé area on the mainland. CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE ON TOMORROW AFTERNOON The regular weekly Child Health Conference will be held tomorrow afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock at the Public Health Center in the Territorial Building. The Washington Merry - Go- Round } By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | | WASHINGTON. —If the Boren Committee really wants to dig be- low the surface in the newspnm‘ situation, it might probe the lush| bonuses paid by the International| Paper Company to its executives, j At a time when the paper cnuel* has been. gouging publishers for higher prices and throttling news-| papers by supplying less paper, it| has also betn paying juicy sums to International Paper officials. Since 1930, International Paper has not paid a penny in dividends on its common stock, Yet at the| same time International Paper has‘ paid annual salaries of $412,250 m six of its offieials. Then in addi- tion to these salaries, the same of- ficials got bonuses of $112,500. President Richard J. Cullen re- ceived a salary of $102,000 plus an additional $50/000 paid every year toward a t fund. The Vice President, W. N. Hurl- but, gets a salary of $43,600 and in addition a retirement benefit of $10,000 annually. Also, Hurlbut has borrowed $25893 from the com- pany. There “is nothing illegal about this, though borrowing by officials from their company is a| speeial privilege and constitutes an’ additional burden on the company’s financial position. In addition to its officers 'md directors, International Paper also’ paid 14 other employees total sal-| arfes of $383,900. | | | ISOLATIONIST CUPID | ‘The nuptial rumor that the Chi-| cago Tribune's Col. Robert R. Mc-| Cormick was going to wed Mrs., more Sun correspondent, was told to the President recently by one of his aides. Both Col. McCormick and Mrs. Essary are ardent isolationists ana! vigorous critics of the Administra- | tion. In fact the Colonel is consid- ered the leading isolationist of the midwest, if not the nation, while the Widow Essary, writing in the Washington Times-Herald, is pm-] bably the leading lady isolationist in the nation’s capitol. So the President received word of this isolationist romance with considerable interest. | “I wonder,” he mused, “what These pictures, taken through the periscope of a U. S. submarine graphically tell the story of the finish of 4 Japanese freighter about a mile off a Pacific island. (Top), the freighter is in the sub’s ights; (center) the torpedo finds the mark, shattering the ship with a ter- rific npluu n, and (below) the shlp settles rapldly Staunch Labor Men Gef Things Quickly Done for Government DAY, NIGHT RAIDS MADE ONGERMANY Allied Thrusts Deep in! Reich by RAF and American Bombers LONDON, Aug. Force heavy : bombers Air a 18.—Royal made strong attack on a German Re-; 'search establishment at Peenemu- |ende, 60 miles northwest of Stet- tin last night, while Mosquito raid- ers attacked objectives in Berlin. The Air Ministry said the attack wds on the largest and most im- |portant establishment of its kind in Germany, and was carried out by moonlight which was almost as| light as day. Forty - one bombers and night’s operations, which included | intruder attacks in northwest Gex-‘ many, France and the Low Coun-| tries by fighter squadrons. Daylight Attacks The night raids followed can Flying Fortresses which bat- tered two important aircraft fac- tories deep in Germany yesterday, inaugurating daylight Britain to Africa shuttle bombing borrowed | one Helen Essary, widow of the Balti- fighter are reported missing in the| from the technique originated by‘ the RAF night raiders. American heavy bombers flew to Regensburg in the southeastern corner of Germany and dropped (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Six) | { within (During Jack Stinnett's va- cation, his column is being conducted by various members of the Washington staff of The Associated Press. Today's column is py Sterling Green.) By STERLING GREEN WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Lab: old suspicion that dollar-a-year men were coloring War Produc- tion Board policy with a big- business tint should be pretty well allayed by now. A pair of staunch seph D. Keenan of AFL, hold two of WPB's prized vice-chairman- ships and are getting things ac- complished in a hurry. Appointed in June, they have begen so busy trouble-shooting that they have not had time to get their staffs set| up. Here's a sample of the way, they operate: Golden was notified that the Great Lakes Steel Corp. had to have 20 bricklayers at once to re- line a furnace; lacking them, 40,000 tons of armor plate would be lost. There were no brick- layers within many miles. Golden, whose title chairman for manpower put in a call to the AFL brick- layers’ international president. Six | experienced men were on the job 48 hours and the others is vice iwere on the way. wide- | spread daylight assaults by Ameri- Another Keenan, sample : WPB vige-chairman for labor production, was called to Se- ' attle to help out at the Boeing plant, tresses. Boeing was running eight-hour shifts around the clock, but the| graveyard shift was under-mnnmd and wasn’'t producing. (Continued on Page Two) i President Going to Otfawa | Allied High Command. ; |early next week and this is taken |to be the first official intimation | labor men, | |Clinton Golden of CIO, and Jo- liaison, | where a manpower problem | was hurting output of Flying For-| ROOSEVELT, (ONFERRING | 1 Next Week-Plan Form- ula for AXIS Doom QUEBEC, A\lg 18 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred today on stras | tegy at this Citadel, the sixth war conference, with members of the is also made that | go to Ottawa Announcement the President will the present conference might be | completed by the end of this weéek. | The task of preparing the formu- | la for the Axis doom is now bemg; outlined Roosevelt and Churchill eon- ¢ ferred until 1 o'clock this morning | and were up again and resumed | deliberations at 9 o'clock this mern- | ing, calling in numerous key ad- visers. i British Foreign Minister Antheny | Eden arrived here late today, hav- | ing flown acress the Atlantic from | CHURCHILL 7 Are Pelted { London. e SECRETARY HULL GOING T0 QUEBEC i | i |Says No Word Received | . Regarding Rome to Be Open City WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull said he may go to Quebec and join the | conferences between President Roosevelt and British Prime Min- | ister Winston Churchill, explaining his participation, however, means the political aspects of the war| situation were being discussed. | One reporter asked whether rela- | tions between the United States and Russia are involved in the Canadian discussions, and Hull said he has not been advised as to particulars of the conference. Hull, in reply to another ques-| tion, said no word has yet been received from the Italian Govern- ment relative to a declaration of Rome as an open city, as far as he | knew. | Secretary Hull also said that the | Quebec conference, which has en- tered the second week, indicates it is being handled and designed de- | liberately to intensify the Axis nerv- | ousness over major military devel- opments. Dana Doten, representing the Office of War Information here, de- scribes the Quebec conference as| | the “greatest gathering of military | experts ever held.” | SWEDES RESENT | GERMAN ACTIONS STOCKHOLM, Aug. 18. Bitter public reaction to the latest Ger- iman moves in Norway have swept | to Sweden and broke out in violence | when windows of the German tour- ist agency in Kungstan were smash- | jed by mubs ‘ A A | Lieut. Roosevelt On New Asslgnmen SAN F'RANCISCO Calif., Aug. 18. —Lieut. John Roosevelt, youngest | |son of the President, is leaving for | |shore duty, assigned to the War| |Zone, Twelfth Naval District He| |has been attached to the Naval| Supply Corps, serving in San Diego and Oakland. British Prime Minisier Winston. Chi L. Macke Prime M ister W. sie King' after Clhwrehill, iliary Territorial Serv Rickenbacker Gi er Mackenzi thi ival in Qnuh«' e: Ives His Dope About When War Is llkely fo End STATEHOOD . RED TROOPS HOLD FIRM ATKHARKOV German Counler attacks Held Off - Russians Stage New Blows MOSCOW, Aug. 18.—The German command today mounted powerful counter-attacks with troops, tanks and planes at two points on the Kharkov front, but Russian lines held firm, battlefront dispatches reported. Seeking an opening with the counter-offensive, Germans struck at a settlement west of Kharkov, but were held by the Red Army along the water line where Rus- slans maintained a bridgehead on | the west bank, the dispatches said. The fourth battle of Kharkov, which was taken once by the Red Army and twice by the Germans, | became a tug of war for the in- itiative. Two other Russian drives at Blydnsk Pass and in the Demensk sectors in the mnorth also met tougher going, the German broad- casts declared. The Soviets are attacking all along | the winding battlefront, ging new attacks in the Isyum area in the Denets Basin, southeast of Kharkov and local ssaults near Staraya | Rusa and in the Neva sector near | | Leningrad on the northern front. | Russian aftacks near Isyum were | broken after heavy fighting, Ber- | lin said - -o MILLARD AT G Registered at the Gastineau Hotel, | Kenneth Millard arrived here yes- | terday: An opossum is one-half inch long at birth. | “Mr. NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, just l't‘l.ul'ne(l from a 25,000-mile inspection tour | of the war zones, predicted that at the present rate the war “Germany will not crack before the fall of 1944 at the best,” then he said it will take at another year to defeat “another savage and treacherous the Pacific.” Rickenback also predicted that “only a miracle can bring victory sooner,” but he added: “I have confidence that the miracle ac- complishment lies in the hearts, the heads and the hands of every American man, woman and child and our faith in God." Capt. Rickenbacker, who 97-day tour for Secretary Henry L. Stimson, made that he is speaking as a citizen,” Ritkenbacker made a of War it clear “private also asserted that Stalin has not seen fit nor has he considered it advisable to partigipate in any conferences with our President or British Prime Min- ister Churehill, for we must bear in mind he is the head of a na- tion fighting a total war and has little time for anything but imme- diate results.” - Wanis Bombs fo Be Dropped On Bureauacracies 0, Calif., Aug. 8.—Representative Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat of the State of Washington, told the egates to the California Am- convention that some draft exempt officials 51 Washington could be replaced wifh service men fighting over- seas. the war might end six months earlier,” and “the enemy would do us a faver to drop bombs on some of the bureau- cracies in Washington and de- stroy them.” - SAN FRAN( building offices housing occupies The Pentagon War Department & square mile. of progress of' least | enemy on . ;um. concerning Alaska comes ! for | will have | learning Leu_ to.right: Mrs, Churchill, Prime Minister King, and Mary Churchill, who 15 a subaitern in the British Aux- REP. ANGELL INFAVOR OF Oregon Congressman Here. Says Alaska Ready for Change Rep. Homer D. Angell, ‘congress- man from Oregon, arrived in Ju- neau last night on sthe first leg the Interior and out over the Al- aska. Highway. for the purpose of better acquafiting himself with Al- aska and Alaskans. A member of the House Commit-| tee on TFerritor Angell ex-| pressed himself *as in favor of statehood for Alaska “Statehood is the thing to wmk for,” he said. “Alaska has out- lived its knee pants and is rrudv to take an active part as a state.” The veteran Oregon Ropubllum legislator said his trip to Alaska,| the first of his life, is purposes. 1. To situation, 2. He is interested in the Terri- tory in connection with conserva- tion of wildlife and other natural resources. 3. As a member of the impor- tant Committee on Territories he is intensely interested in seeing at first hand the Territory and its people- in order that when legisla- up he look over the highway discussion in Washington, a better understanding Interested in Roads Angell said he is interested more of the details sur- rounding the proposed coast high- way route. A bill is now pending in Congress to build such a road which would take off from Prince George and follow the coast more closely than does the present route, plan favored by the Western states. A member a special commit- tee on conservation of re: Angell said that no part United States is richer in wealth a of source of the 'and the committee of natural resources than Alaska “is intensely in- terested in this.” (Continued on Page Six) of a trip which will take him into| for three v in! - PLANES ARE ~ SMASHED'UP. Fmeen Hundred Japanese ' AirmenReported to Be Killed 'SURPRISE ATTACK MADE IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC \Craft Spotted on Ground, ' Wing fo Wing, then Airdromes Bombed ALLIED HEADQUAR’I‘ERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. |18—The Allies have won the most smashing victory of the Pacific war in the battle for air supremacy in |New Guinea, surprising more than 225 planes, wing to wing, on the ground in the Wewak area and de- | stroying or damaging 170 and kill- |ing at least 11,500 Jap personnel. | Ten thousand fragmentation and | incendiary bombs were dropped and they spread havoc among the rein- | forcements Japan had gathered to |support the ground ferces which were sent reeling back to the: jun- | gles. Liberators tacks. The first raiders found the planes packed on the airdromes at Salamaua and Wewak. The last |raiders saw only smoke from the |fire of burning planes, fuel and (ammunition dumps, The attack was a complete sur- | prise mut cost the Allies only three | planes (x(-‘ll Douglas MacArthur's Head- quarters said that the attack was decisive and crippling one for H\u Japs. Allied reconnaissance planes found the enemy planes on the air- ‘dromes and quick work brought the | attackers. | At one airdrome 60 fighters were (lined up and the crews were warm- ring the motors when struck. The air crews tried to take off but were burned in their planes. Photographs reveal the great de- struction. A night attack was also made on the Japanese seaplane base at Terfane, Aroe Island, 500 miles ynorth of Darwin. A transport was |set afire and many of the enemy were killed, Ground forces continue to conso- lidate their hold on Vi vella | 1sland, selzed lfllt El ON JAPS IN NO. PACIFiC WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.— The Navy has disclosed that thres rather than two bombing missions have been directed against Jap positions in the western Pacific north of Japan The first raid was on July 10 and the second on July 19'and the third was on August 12. The Navy said the weather was bad on the August 12 attempt and the planes had to fly blind. The targets could not be seen when the tombs were released. It is there- fore impossible to tell definitely whether explosives actually fell én enemy targets or in the ocean. { | | i | i | led the mauling at- | DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight sunset at 8:37 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:27 am, ® Dimout begins Thursday at ® sunset at 8:35 pm, j*eesses e v at