The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 2427. l‘)43 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— JU‘\IH\U ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUS1 (4 S 4 J SKY BATTLE OVER ITALY - INPROGRESS Full Power of AIIied Forces Directed Against Lifelines CONCENTRATED FIRE ON BIG "HELL'S TRIANGLE" Americanand Brmsh War- ships Join Atfack by Bombings ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘ NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 21.—The sky | battle for southern Italy has fully begun with the Allies shifting the | focus of their overwhelming bomber power with the objective of knock- ing out strategic. railways connect- ing the south with the north, while | American warships, moving at will | along the Italian toe, poured a con- | centrated fire on the left side of “Hell's Triangle,” the lower pen- insula. The Allied Headguarters an- nounces that heavy new blows have been struck day and night by bomb- | ; | 4 L4 & (4 She Is Flaitered, Bul.... i ¥ 4 ers at already battered railway life- | ° lines of the defenders, especially in | the Naples area. ; American naval units again nail- | ed fortified points and railway tar- | ;conunued on Paze Six) SEES The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—When you get| your new set of synthetic tire don't expect to go tearing down the road at sixty miles an hour. The sad news is that passenger tires made of synthetic rubber will not be strong enough to endure high speeds or rough roads. Present plans call for production of passenger tires from synthetic rubber without an admixture of | natural rubber, except for a mere | five ounces required to cement the | plies together. This will mean an| indefinite continuation of the 35| miles-an-hour . speed limit, and it/ will also mean that you can’t drive| with absolute safety on rocky coun- | try roads, or over any very rough| surfaces. A jagged stone or rock will read- | ily rip a synthetic tire, and the break tends to “run” or become | larger without further abuse. | In short, synthetic rubber will be conspicuous for -its quantity| more than its quality. It will not serve for heavy duty of any kind, either civilian or military. The Germans have recogmzedthe weakness of synthetic, and have mixed 40 percent natural rubber| with 60 percent synthetic in the manufacture of heavy duty tires.! Sometimes they rely on natural rubber 100 percent. Tires received ! from captured Nazi aircraft reveal that they contain no synthetic. | (The Germans have continued to, receive natural rubber until early} this year, via French ships which| brought the rubber from Japanese- held East Indies. In 1942, they re- ceived 50,000 tons. This commerce has been cut off, however, by the! North African campaign and the end of French overseas collabora-| tion with Germany). In the early hopeful days, U. S. experts planned to mix only five percent natural rubber with 95 per- cent synthetic for trucks and com- (Continued on Page Four) |of Juneau, is here from Petersburg | |for a few days’ visit. During her|iy.¢ put the sampling gives you a Film Actress Elyse Knox (above), approved the pin-up girl idea, but she thought members of a bomber crew in New Guinea might be car- rying it to an extreme. They wrote asking for 1,000 pictures of her to decorate the entire interior of their plane. ‘When Will Germany Be Cracked? Yarious 0p|n|ons Are Given By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—One L)l uhe Hollywood movie producers h; grabbed off the title “Appomlment Anthony Ed;flday BeCon- ference Emissary-Sent fo Moscow, Russia QUEBEC, Aug. 21--Secretary of, |State Cordell Hull arrived here, vesterday accompanied by Jamns Dunn, political adviser. Speculation hi is that a con- ference emissary will be sent to Moscow. British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden is mentioned fre- quently as the likely messenger to carry results of the Quebec meet- ing to the Soviet capital. e |in Berfin.” | to high heaven, or it may be an- | other of thr)be perennial Hollywood | ;’ masterpieces” which is | week, gone to the neighborhoods to- | morrow. I wouldn't know. But I do know that the company’s | press department was on its pro- motional toes. They went out and got all the wartime commentators who would answer their query to guess when the Allied Nations would hold their appointment in Berlin. August 1944; Upton Sinclair picked Washington’s birthday next; Wal- ter Duranty year’ Clark Lee and Tthan say “before October 31, 11944"; Jesse Stuart thinks the Al- lied Nations armies will spend | Christmas, 1944, in Berlin; Corey Ford agrees with Jesse Stuart. Hendrik Willem van Loon is the most insistent optimist. He'll take “even money” that the Nazis will be pleading for peace come late aut- umn. Fannie Hurst is probably next in line with her forecast that we’ll CHIPPERFIELD IS VISITING HERE | Mrs, W. H. Chlppexrwld formerly | MRS. the calendar. The stay she is the house guest of MT. g i1 jdeq. and Mrs. J. G. Shepard at their Noticeably absent from the home on 11th Street |are any A Vi o o |be identified with Washington, |the armed forces. For any . whose horizon is bounded by ® o 00 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Friday, Aug. 20 Maximum 67, minimum 44 99 e e 9 e a . the ton monument, ® derstand. o % . A few incautious (Continued on Page Two) 4 BASE TAKEN WITHOUT OPPOSITION & & 4 S 4 (4 L4 PROUD OF HUBBY'S NEW MEDAL T JAP JUNGLE | FIGHTERS IN - FLIGHT NOW Advancing Americans (rack Defense Line at Salamaua ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. {21.—The Jap jungle fighters are in | full flight from the mountain ridges |around Salamaua, New Guinea, fall- ing back to the inner defenses be- | {fore the advancing Americans. | The defenses have been cracked | wide open as the Japanese are short of food on account of air attacks on the coastal barges and the air sup-| port of the American ground forces | virtually cutting off and wiping out; any reinforcements. | The advance now give the Ameri- cans a solid line for the big attack on Salamaua as they hold all vital l.dges | | | ROOSEVE[T KING MAKE STATEMENT QUEBEC, Aug. 21.—In a joint statement issued here by President Roosevelt and Canadian Premier | King, they said the occupation of! Kiska “frees the last vestige in the North American Territory of the Japanese forces.” | | Premier King, in a broadcast, said | AS ANY PROUD WIFE WOULD DO, Mme, Chiang Kai-shek leans over to admire her husband'’s newest decoration, the Legion of Merit medal bestowed a few moments before in Chungking. Lt. Gen. Joseph Stil- well presented the medal in behalf of Pres. Roosevelt. (International) Allied Superiorify in 7 Air Admitted by Nazis; German Losses Increase here this| John Dos Passos called the date,| says “the end of this Lowell |ring out the old and ring in the new there when this year is torn off list is more extensive than view from the top of the Washing- that'’s easy to un- souls | |he was highly pleased that Domin- |ion forces were in at the occupation ;and the “operation just completed |is the first in which the Canadian | |and American armies have partici- pu!ed in this section of the world, especially in the Aleutians.” The Canadian infantry and three artillery units of considerable size | were in the occupation. -e (onlerence At Quebec GivenRap Soviet Ma g azine Takes Shots—Calls for Three- Power Talkfest MOSCOW, Aug. 21.—The maga- zine in an editorial titled “Quebec and the Soviet Union,” says “The Que- bec conference is serving the in- terests of the Anglo-American forces and expresses their opinion, still does not express the opinion that the time is ripe to change over from words to actions and The picture may smell | strike a decisive blow from the east| and west.” The magazine calls for power com’erpnce Noled Yale Professor | ~ IsDead at His Home NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 21— Dr. William Lyon Phelps, 78, Pro- fessor Emeritus of English at Yale, |author, lecturer, and man of I ters, is dead at his home here after a long illness. \ — | BUY WAR BONDS a three- list names that could possibly or one “War and the Working Class” | i By HERMAN R. ALLE | WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—What has happened to the Luftwaffe? The authoritative British Maga- zine Aeroplane reports that the ratio of Axis losses to United Nations losses has risen steadily and that by the end of May was nearly 50 per cent higher—13744 Axis planes knocked down since war began against 9,358 Allied craft. This did not include operations on the Rus- lel Address Dominion| Parliament on Next | {losses in January against 52 enemy | QUEBEC, Aug. 21—Formal' an-|fighters: 28 in April against 144 nouncement is made that Presidentienemy fighters; 85 in June against Roosevelt will spend next Wednes-| 304, day in Ottawa, Canada’s capitali So, obviously, one thing that has city. He will address the members|happened to the Luftwaffe is that ences between the President and the offensive. The more we ven- | British Prime Minister Winston | ture, naturally, the more we lose— Churchill will end Tuesday |but we gain more too, whereas the i P Germans, with their primarily de- | fensive strategy, can do little but | SANITARY ENGINEER lose and lose Axis losses, however, mean little sian front. of the Dominion ,uhamull \‘ large part of it has been shot | BACK, I"SpE(TIo“‘é’xcep[ in the light of replacements, Total and Official figures on operations of the U. S. Eighth Air Force alone (the Eighth is based in Britain) |since the first of tbe year show a {widening spread between our and Secretary Stephen y said the down. Our losses are increasing, |President will speak for about llr‘loo but this may be taken simply | minutes the address will belas evidence of our mounting plane broadcast. |production, which allows us to It is disclosed that the confer-|throw more and more planes into | al German and Ttalian front Gint. R. 5. Green sdmt.-x\En-‘i"zngogl"““ were estimated at about gineer, returned yesterday after an| ,wmm‘q"h‘,“‘ :;‘ ',':ML“'B.:”'“; |absence of over a week during which | e " o 000 e Fidisn [time he attended to water suppl At the first of this (proble at Haines and sewage \problem\ at Skagway. Food handling inspection work and other miscellaneous matter affecting public health was also {carried on in the two towns. Capt. # JGreen announces that at Haines it | ® Dimout begins tonight as necessary to’ bring about the| ® at sunset at 8:30 o'clock drrest of one food establishment be- Dimout ends tomorrow |cause of faulty food handling sunrise at 5:84 a.m William Salt, construction en- Dimout ins Sunday . gineer with the Federal Works sunset at p.m Agency, accompanied Green on the Dimout Monday | sunrise at am Dimout begins Monday sunset at 8:24 p.m. F (Continued on Page Three) DIMOUT TIMES at be at 8:27 ends at - BUY WAR BONDS KISKA ISLAND NOW OCCUPIED 4 & 4 4 & mmcmho THEY FLED ONLY RECENTLY:121 BOMBARDINGS BULLETIN — Washington, Aug. 21.—The Navy announced this Saturday forenoon that American and Canadian troops have occupied Kiska, Japan’s last base in the Aleutian Islands, without opposition. WASHINGTON, Augv-21.—In announcing the occupa- tion of Kiska the Navy said the landings were made on the narrow beaches of the much bombed island on August 15. That was last Sunday. “No Japanese were found,” the communique reported. There were indications that the Japanese had only re- cently fled the positions which they had so laboriously built up on the rocky terrain. Said the Navy, “presumably the heavy bombardments by our ships and planes which were carried on for some time, the danger to their supply lines by our capture of Attu Island, made the enemy positions on Kiska untenable.” HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS These bombardments, not reported for the past three weeks, were among the heaviest ever made on enemy posi- tions in the Pacific. Army and Navy bombing planes during the period from August 1 to August 14, the Navy said, struck at the island 106 times, dropping ton after ton of bombs. Surface units joined in the pounding of Kiska, standing off shore to hurl shells from their big guns into the Jap po- sitions in 15 separate attacks from the sea. JAP ESCAPE MYSTERY How the Japs escaped from Kiska under the heavy bombardments has not been vxpl ined. The Navy said, however, it is possible that enemy sur- face ships, taking advantage of the heavy fogs in the North Pacifie, slipped in to evacuate the remnants of the garrison, estimated at one time to include 10,000 Japs. 'q)l.unm;: the three.weeks of silence concerning the Aleutians, the Navy said that air and surface bombardments in the latter part of July destroyed the enemy’s radio equip- ment, cutting off Kiska from communications with the Jap homeland. Any mention of the campaign being carried on by our forces “would have conveyed information to the enemy which he otherwise would not have had,” the Navy said. SIL EN(‘F HELPED US The silence, the Navy said, was particularly desirable during the period lnmw(h.flM\ prior to the landings when our trasports were in the areas and were exposed to sub- marine attacks while unloading troops and equipment. The enemy evacuation n-]n'l-wnted the first time that it has been officially reported in the war that the Japs have given up a major base without a fight. Just previously on Attu the enemy in the Pacific fought almost to the last man. WERE THERE AUGUST 13 The Japs were on the island August 13, but this was the last time any resistance was reported. Light anti-air- craft fire was encountered by our fighters and bombers that afternoon when they carried out nine bombing and strafing attacks on the island, destroying buildings at Gertrude Cove and North Head by direct hits, and setting others afire. That was only two days before the Americans and Can- adians stormed ashore to find the enemy had fled. This bombing assault was light compared to other at- tacks during the August 1 to 14 period. 24 RAIDS, ONE DAY On August 10, the bombings reached a peak of 24 sep- arate assaults by our bombers. The planes carrying out this mission encountered only weak anti-aircraft fire and started numerous fires among Jap installations. A chronology of the aerial blitz showed also that 18 as- saults were hurled at the island during the 12 hours of Aug- ust 4, starting many f and causing numerous explosions. On August 11, American bombers roared over Kiska 21 times, and the Navy said “fires were started in all areas. Considerable debris was observed among enemy replace- ments on Little Kiska.” (Continued on Page stx)