The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1943, Page 1

b THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9426. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1943 MEMBEI R ASbOUA’l’I‘D PRKBS PRICE TEN CENTS S — — — U. S. SEIZES TWO MORE ITALIAN ISLES Allied Forces Approaching Big Jap Airbase BIG DRIVE ON NIPPONS AT SALAMAUA Americans flAusiralians Ferreting Out Japs | Along Ridges ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.| 20—Slow but sure progress is being made by the American and| Australian troops in ferreting out the Japs from the mountain ridges barring the way to the Salamaua airdrome and are reported five miles southwest of Salamaua on hard won ridge positions and are| consolidating their positions. The capture of the Salamaua air- drome will put the United States in easy fighter range of the big Jap positions in New Britain. The attempt of the Japanese to! land forces on Vella Lavella land, which the Americans took | last Sunday, failed with a loss of | nearly 30 barges and nearly all of the 1,500 Japanese troops carried on them. Admiral William F. Halsey re-| ports that in the same cngag,e‘ ment when the barges were sunk by bombers and fighter planes, one * Japanese - escorting destroyer was funk, a second damaged and a third hit. The Washington Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—The capital watching an agricultural conference called in Minneapolis by ancso- ta’'s anti-Administration Congr man August Andresen. | The conference consists of Con- gressmen and some Senators from Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and possibly Towa to discuss farm| problems and foreign policies. An-‘ dresen, an isolationist reactionary. says he wants to take Congress back to the people and is plan- ning to throw the meeting open; to public discussion. It is suspected, however, that him chief idea is to strengthen his own political fences and boost the, Farm Bureaus and Cooperatives as| against the Triple A groups. What particularly intrigues Washington, however, is a letter| recently written by Congressman! Andresen in which he giv en- couragement to the “Black Mar- ket.” Writing to R. H. Suhr, butcher in Lewiston, Minn., Andresen gives thi$ pointed advice: “Speaking confidentially, I think that if I were running a butcher shop, I would make every effort to get meat from local sources irre-| spective of some of the unjust and‘ unfair rulings.” In Washington, this is interpret- ed as meaning just one thing: ad- ‘ vice to deal with the “Black Mar- | ket.” Coming from a member of Congress supposed to uphold the! laws of the land and help create respect for government, Mr. Andre-| sen’s letter is considered unusual,| to say the least. | CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT PROBLEMS The Churchill-Roosevelt confer- ence in Canada boils down to one| main thing—will Great Britain use| the Army she has been training m England, plus whatever U. troops may be there, to launch I al \ second front across the Channel in 83 France? \ To understand this question fully‘ and to understand what Churchill and Roosevelt face, it is necessary| to know the background of what, has been going on (1) with Rus-1 sia, (2) Casablanca, (3) at the May- | June conference between the Presi- dent and the Prime Minister. Here (Continued on Page Four) 2NNy Man Responsible for AMGOT Is Dead;Policy Advocaled Being Used DANES ARE RESORTING, SABOTAGE Countrywide Cam paign Waged Against Nazi Supply Lines Fathad umpawn ' of sabotage, appar- |entdy aimed at destroying land and _|cea transport facilities used by the| Nazis supply forces to Norway, is reported by travelers arriving from Denmark. These travelers said Danish pat- riots are systematically wrecking ’h(louu\ producing war material, as | m.nmus ago, when he was 56. And well as railroads and harbor stallations. 'LIEUT. - (ig.) BODDING visis PARENTS HERE | e | I { (During Jack Stinnett’s va- cation, his being conducted by membe: of the Washington staff of The As- sociated Press. Today's is by William Frye.) column | | | | | i ing Up Capture of Nazi Bases By WILLIAM FRYE | MOSCOW, Aug. 20—Difficult WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. The!going with the terrain naturally man chiefly responsible AM- | lending itself to defense is reported GOT never lived to see fruit|slowing down the Red Army as it of his labors, pressed its offensive against the AMGOT-—Allied Military Govern- Nazi bastions of Bryansk and Khar- ment of Occupied Territories—now |KOY: is operating im Sicily, marking the Frant line dispatches reported the ; g countering “considerable first time that the United States,|fo0Ps encountering ¢ e | difficulties and enermous strain” on which has established many mili- o the central front in battling through tary governments, has ever been prepared for the job. forests and swamps. But some 20000 Germans were Credit for this preparation—the | mwlul decisions on policy, the de- lwiped out and 30 towns captured |as the Russians smashed forward termination of possibilities and limitations, the choice of methods | west, northeast and southeast of harkov. With only one rail route the intensive schooling of officer: for AMGOT and nothing else emaining open for escape, the Gef- 1S mans have been reported ordered to (shared by many men, but most of!fight to the last man, |it goes to the late Col. Irvin Le-| - land Hunt. B E Rl I N IS column for the Hunt died in Washington 10‘ for 10 years before that, nuhtun |government had been no concern of his. Nevertheless, AMGOT is RAIDED AT Hunt's brainchild. For Hunt was the officer in of civil affairs in the Rhineland, the man responsible—| under the military government of| Lieut. (jg) Gerald (Bud) Bod-| ding, United States Naval Air, Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs, Olaf, Boddmg and graduate of the Ju-| \ne.lu High School, was a visitor here tions of that experience came his | through Tuesday. full analysis of the problem and| last Saturday |home in over a year. | This was Lieut. Bodding’s first visit/his the area. Airfields Attacked- French Bases Hit urgent if ever, recommendation th.n\ | when, America again faced | Coming from Adak, where he wasia similar prospect, the Army get SERGEANT JOE SMITH HOME ON FURLOUGH, Home after a two years' absence, Sergeant Joe Smith, with the United States Army Air Corps, is in Juneau on a thirty day furlough, Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smith, Joe has been stationed .at Gardner Field, California, where he is on duty as an athletic and instrument instructor. SPEEDER IS FINED LICENSE IS TAKEN| Elmer T. West was fined $20 in City Police Court this morning and his license suspended for driving a private auto for a period of 90 days. He was charged with speeding while intoxicated on South Franklin Street. At the same time, Carl Lester was fined $25 for being drunk and a 20-day jail sentence was suspended pending good behavior, - | SQUIRES LEAVES FOR ANCHORAGE THURSDAY Clark Squire, Collector of In- ternal Revenue from Tacoma, left Juneau by plane yesterday for An- chorage and Fairbanks to visit of- fices in these towns before return- ing to Tacoma. Squire is in charge of the Inter- |nal Revenue offices for the State of WJshlllgLOn and Alaska. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel ern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- Harvester 67%, Ken- necott 30%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 14%, Republic Steel 17'%, United States Steel 52'%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 13693, rails 34.44, utilities 20.85. {with the Admiral's staff, Lieut. Bod-ready is|dng is now on relief duty at Sitka.|group to handle the task. His re- Iport was one of the most complete | | Commonwealth and South-|Seattle on an official business trip. with a specially trained LONDON, Aug. 20-—Fast Brit- |ish Mosquito bombers again at- |tacked targets in Berlin last night and meticulous ever written by an| i e on. anq|and fighters struck the airfields Army officer on any operation, and|,ng rajlway targets on the conti- it was documented with specific ex-| oo amples of every kind of problem o iont raids were followed by encountered, and the action taken blows Ixom Allied planes, Including to meet it. ‘ (Conunued “on Page Two) Many Dead any’s most impor- bases in Holland and tant air |Prance were attacked and great| damage done. The joint American and British communique says 50 enemy air- . :rrufl were shot down. | Glissingen and Gilze-Rijen, in Explos‘on |Holland, were battered by Fort- I | resses. | Earlier, Maurauders and Mitchells |attacked Poix, Amiens and Glissy - en Ire |in France. EXCHANGE PRISONERS | KEARNY, N. J., Aug. 20.—A mass of rubble hid the fate of at least eight persons believed buried in the ruins of the three-story brick and concrete building of the Congoleum Nairn, Inc., plant following an ex- plosion and fire late yesterday af- terncon that left a known three dead, 10 others injured, eight crit- ically. The blast rocked a 10-mile area in the heart of war-busy northern | New Jersey. \ it {United States Asks Safe| SEVOONGA NATIVES Conduct for Liner BUY MORE WAR BONDS| Gripsholm Fred R. Geeslin, Assistant Sup- WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—Un- erintendent. of the Alaska Office dersecretary of State Sumner Welles of Indian Affairs, reports receiv- announces the. United States has ing orders this morning from Se- requested safe conduct for voonga, St. Lawrence Island, for |exchange ship Gripsholm and has one $50 War Bond and nine $25| 6000 reason to hope" the ex- bonds. change of American for Japanese civilian internees will be carried out at Mormugao, Portuguese In- dia, by October 15. ‘This ship brought iAmericaus last year. - GEORGE SALO BACK FROM BRISTOL George Salo, proprietor of the |Midget Cocktail Bar, Tuesday from Bristol Bay where he has been employed during the e OPA OFFICIAL LEAVES Guy Green, Jr,, Chief Enforce-! ment Attorney for the Office of Price Administration, left Juneau with Pan American Airways for home 1,500 He has been in Alaska from Wash- ington, D. C, for some time in- vestigating regulations. S e MANPOWER OFFICIAL OUT iflshing season. Mr. Salo had two Ernest E. Lincoln of the War narrow escapes when boats were | Manpower Commission left Juneau swamped under him, and on one! on a PAA plane today for White- horse on official business. occasion was in the water hours before being rescued. ) Out of the successful xmpxuvim-i Four |m'p0r|am G erman; the | BAY | returned | two| | o Join Allies, Euro- | pean Invasnon | LONDON, All[, 20. Newly equip- vasion One force of 80,000 men is based bat - FORPLOESTI AIR ATTACK CAIRO, Aug. 20-—For {call of duty in the 1 raid on the Ploesti oil fields, Roger of Shreveport, La., William Johnson of Moline, August Kan,, Given Out Italian KingiMakes Broad- cast-Implies Peace in Offing Emmanuel Iold '-umhdns in a proc- lamnmn broadcast from the Rome io that the present isolation Sicily from the rest of Italy “will not last for long.” The King made no mention of continued prosecution of the war. Later, a broadcast over the Rome radio indicated, however, is trying to forestall a separatist movement but implying peace Iis lin the offing ->e 'French Commander ' Is Killed in Action ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 20.-— Gen. Louis Marie Koeltz, Commander of the French Nineteenth Corps, has been killed in action. The death of the General, whose troops fought alongside the British First Army in the Tunisian cam- paign, was disclosed in an an- nouncement of a posthumous Le- gion of Merit Award. The award i§ lan American decoration. - }WRAN(H'II,L LUMBERMAN LEAVES FOR SOUTH Herbert M. Olson, Wrangell lum- berman, left for Seattle via Pan American Airways today on trip to secure equipment and man- power to operate his mill, D BUY WAR BONDS | i |« numpull-‘ (ns‘ gallantry in action beyond the|War ped by the United States and Great man 3ritain, two superbly trained Polish House Agriculture Committee, pre- | Armies are ready to fight their way dicting a serious food shortage this DECORATE3 WILL TAKE ° Cols. John|October, and Leon |ing pre-Pearl Harbor |operators of the . ToSidlians the Ktllg“" the lounge of the Baranof Ho- ¢ | She Difficulty of Terram Hold- Commanders Awan Signal| Congressman Predicts Food Shortage Com- ing This Winter WAHH!N("T()N AIAL, 20.—Chair- Hampton P. Fulmer of the announced he would seek into the European continent back winter, a to their homelands, and command- compulsory “furlough for farm labor lers only wait the signal for the in-|{out of the Army during harvest son. Tons and tons of food will not in the middle east and the other be harvested if we don’t get the force, undisclosed thousands, is in|labor to the farms” he said, “and England despite all orders that have been | In addition to the two armed|publicized they are still drafting | forces, 4,000 Polish women, trained farm labor while thousands of bush- for defense purposes, will also ac-|els of vegetables ave rotting on the | company the troops in actual com- ground.” D MORE DADS INOCTOBER WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Manpower Commission today the draft quota initial month for dr: fathers, will the Sep- The dis- closed for be “only a shade” under t)mv,\ been warded the nation's tember figure of 312,000 and it highest decoration, the Congres-|Seems certain that pre-war fathers sional Medal of Honor. ‘“‘m be needed to fill it Brig. Gen. Uzal Girard of North | it ! Cumberland, Pa., was awarded the| [Oak Leaf Cluster for the mmH d {raid and outstanding service in| en rl( sen the Mediterranean | SoftSoap | OnNew Job RENO, Nev, Aug. 20—Ray M.| Henricksen, veteran California and, Alaska mining man, has been ap-| pointed general superintendent of the M-G-L Mining Corporation, Cowles tungsten Nevada. P thcers Dance W|l| Be Tomorrow Night ‘The Officers’ Club will hold a dance tomorrow evening at Union Hflll with the Duck Creek orches- | tra providing music for the affair. Jancing will begin at 9:30 o'clock. The dance will be formal and invitations have been issued. All casual officers who wish to at- tend are requested to obtain invi- tations through the Date Bureaa mine at Nixon, tel, — eee CITY COUNCIL MEETS The City Council meets at 8 o'~ clock this evening in the City Hall with only routine business con- templated for discussion, according to Mayor Harry I. Lucas. - . RETURNS TO FAIRBANKS Mrs. Ingeborg Baggen left Ju- neau by PAA today for Fairbanks. has been visiting here for some time and returns to her home there. - Progress of War in Pacific Is Excellent HONOLULU, T. H, Aug. 20. —Under Secretary of War Ro- bert Patterson says “progress of the war in the P ex- cellent” and Japanese strength on the sea and air is consid- 'ALASKA COASTAL JACK TUERO IN erably diminished. Patterson is in Hawaii in- | specting defenses, RUSS GAINS TWO POLISH FARMLABOR NEW BLOWS STRATEGIC SLOWED BY ARMIES ARE DRAFTED AS ARECOMING = AREAS ARE BADGROUND READY, WAR FOOD SPOILS FOR JAPAN JAPAN TAKEN OVER Believe Tremendous New Naval Forces Take Posses- Operation in Making | sion of Lipari and at Conference “ Stromoli MADE UPON FOGGIA advance the zero hour for the in-| | | vasion of Europe, has produced strong official indications that a emendots M e """t Mainland Centers Bombed M- —Gaps Torn in Rail- Brenden Bracken, British ter of Information, the first high| participant in the conference to on behind the guarded portals of i o Quebec's citadel where Roosevelt BULLETIN—~ew York, Aug. and Churchill are meeting said 20—A radio broadcast from “These plans are to bomb and| Vichy, picked up here by the burn ruthlessly, to destroy in every| Associated Press, says “for 24 way available to us the people re-| hours now Allied artillery, air sponsible for creating this war. I| forces and naval units have think the war is going very well| been plastering southern Italy | in one of the most formidable combined attacks ever see but will last a long time. “We will not lay down our arms| until we have completely conquered | Japan,” he added - Peisoned By Food; 300 I ALLIED HEADQUAR'H*R‘# N Nflltl"H AFRICA, Aug. 20.—United ates naval forces have seized the |islands of Lipari and Stromboli | which contrel-the sea area between Sicily and lower TItaly. This announcement was made as the Allied air and sea power lore great gaps In Italy's vital vaillway system, Stupendous air assaults shattered {the industrial and rallway city of Foggia, across the peninsula from Naples and 20 miles inland from P @ the Adriatic Sea, in one of the FRANTS PASS, Ore, Aug. 20. heaviest raids of the Mediterranean Thirteen Mexican hop pickers re- war, In the formation were Flying (mained in hospital beds today while| Fortresses, Liberators and Wel- \mu of more ill were in tents lingtons with escorts and 34 enemy at the War ‘Food Administration fighters were shot down. Camp as the result of food| The occupation of the islands polisoning. took place last Tuesday morning Physicians said the danger of and puts the entire Aeolian Island any fatalities is passing group in Allied hands. Three hundred Mexican impor-| The island of Stromboli is only tees were stricken yesterday after|37 miles from the Italian main- eating UWFA prepared lunches land. Lipari is 35 miles northwest which had been left in the sun|of Messina. for several hours. | British warships pumped shells B linto Scalia on the west coast of (Cdlabrm Peninsula. i ano after wave of British and merican bombers, concentrating TRIPS ARE MADE ‘UH Poggia, struck saturation raids, lymml of the attacks which | wrecked every lmpmmnb target in TO INLET, SITKA s Liberators of the Middle F \l Command, joined in daylight |attacks on the city which is 160 miles wutlmast o( Runn- GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY QUITS BERLIN LONDON, Aug. 20.—The United Nations Radio at Algiers broadcast OIA wElFARE HEAD a Bern dispatch quoting Hitler's newspaper, the Voelkischer Beo- A flight to Haines and Skagway | today by the Alaska Coastal Air- lines had the following as passen- gers: Fred McDaniel, Walter F. Reynolds, Mrs. A. H. Avery, Mrs.| Lucille Love and Joe Wiggins. Dan Noonan and Lawrence An-| nedson flew to Sitka and Mrs‘ Thomas Gamble to Tenakee. Pas-| sengers to Excursion Inlet were| Harold Lee, Ken Hunter, B. H Buch, and Wilbur Phillips, and bound for Honnah were Daniel A.| White and Joseph Johnnie, Returning here from the Inlet were N, Ovrom, E. Camden, A. N.| Russell and H. Mendenhall. | - bachter, saying the “whole of the German Government has left Ber- lin” g iy Leonard Allen, Social Welfare Di- I_ul,.] g ‘(l;.)».nl“:l‘:;.l;duxwzr: . "?ZL'I“' rector for the Alaska Office of In- . gy i Joe: Mo ment, but came as a surprise here dian Affairs, left Juneau today for Fairbanks on a Pan American Air- wa, plane on a trip through the although there have been numerous reports during the past three weeks that some of the Government offic- Territory for an investigation of s0- jals have been transfered cial welfare problems, T : . i KR i Reports have told of gredt vans _Allen will visit Anchorage, COr-'peng joaded to the doors in Berlin dova, Nome and Copper Center, and and ministers sibly to Vienna, rolling away, pos= the surroundng regions. Linz or Breslau. - s e o s o DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight sunset at 8:32 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:31 am. e Dimout begins Saturday at @ sunset at 8:30 p.m. jeseecassseetn UPSET NET WIN SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, Aug. 20. Youthful Jack Tuero of New Or- leans upset Sidney Wood, Jr., for- mer Wimbledon champ, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2 round robin tennis tourney at eeceeas in a here.