The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1943. VOL. LXI., NO. 9428. Ml MBER ASSOUMH) PRFSS PRICE T NOTHER ALEUTIAN ISLAND IS SEIZED Kharkov Falls io Soviets; Nazis In Retreat Kiska Occupation ~ Strangest Maneuver 0f Modern Warfare BIG CENTER INUKRAINE CAPTURED DNB Broadcast Claims Ev- i acuation - Installa- tions Destroyed (By Associated Press) The Germans today admitted the | loss of Kharkov, the greatest posi- tion in all of South Russia What appears to be a general re- | treat from the fallen city is pre-| sented in a DNB broadcast however | an evacuation and the Russian |} pressure takes no part in the radio|} announcement from Berlin. | The broadcast announcing the | withdrawal said briefly that Khar-| kov is “no longer a valuable center of traffic and supply” and further| declared that all important instal- Quebec (on!erence Guesls (onfer - -_.--.‘ As representatives of the United States, Great Britain and Canada convened in Quebec for conferences vernor SALERNO IN " RUINS FROM - BOMB RAIDS ‘Alhed Forces Leave Rall way Yards Sea of Flame —Cortona Is Hit ALLIED HEADQUARTER: NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 23. |might of the Allied aerial {naut rolled over Salerno, important point in the mainland railroad system, | smashing the city in day and night ‘ S another T | | | | i dian n|of Kiska without finding a single _ The! Japanese defender Jjugger- | WORDEN War By WILLIAM L. Associated Press Correspondent BAMBOO BAY, Kiska, (Delayed) — American troops completed Aug. 18 and Cana- oceupation nor having them, a shot fired at one of It is the strangest anti-climax of Ttalian |a military campaign in the history virtually | of modern warfare. The occupation of Kiska Island raids and leaving the marshalling began Sunday morning, August 15, yards a sea of flames when the first units hit the quisling Headquarters said that Salerno is|cover on the west side of Kiska fon the coast south of left a trail of ruin on the railway | centers in raids on Friday and Sat- urday. The Germans, determined Naples, | |around which Allied heavy bombers |head Rubber boats established a beach- while the Naval artillery pounded the Gertrude Cove area from the south. These units were followed by re- shortly after nothing but abandoned | artillery pieces in the midst of wreckage caused by the months of American bombing What could have been one of the bloodiest battles of the Aleutians became a simple landing job, be- use the enemy preferred nol to try and save the island. It is not known precisely how the | Japanese escaped nor how many were on the island. Officlal esti- mates of the garrison less than one month ago was between 7,000 and 10,000 men although officials ad- | unywhere, mitted there could have been con- | siderably fewer. Several possibilities exist regard- ing the escape of the Japs as a number of Japanese landing barges were seen here early in July but they disappeared after the last na- | \ | 1 | (ANADIANS AMERICANS, ON SEGULA |Landing Reported by Navy ' Today-No Japanese Are Found 'MARINE RAILWAY AT KISKA SUB BASE FOUND North Pa(i}ic Forces Are Consolidating Strate- gic Positions Spreading out Kiska, Canadian Aug. 23 — from recaptured and American val bombardment two weeks ago. A'trops have seized the little island of considerable portion of the garrison Segula and are now consolidating |could have put to sea in them al- positions on Kiska and in the ad- though that would have been a jacent Aleutian area horrible trip even if Japanese sub-' Segula is 20 miles east of Kiska marines or surface craft were wait-/and could have been used by the Prime Minister MacKenzie King; |gular landing forces Princess Alice and Prime Minister Winston these principals posed for pictures. Left to right: Canadiz General of Canada, the Earl of Athlone; President Roosevelt, Churchill. |to defend the key points of their | lifeline, threw in about 100 nghwr.s‘ll““'“ and before dawn on Monday {to battle the marauders and their|morning, August 16, thousands of | escort. troops poured ashore at the two | Although today’s Allied commun-|principal landing points. lique said 28 enemy fighters were| Patrols penetrated all lations there were destroyed by the Nazi forces before they pulled out.! No mention is made however of the fierce fighting between the Red Army and the Germans. Kharkov, the great indusl important for the center of the Ukraine, was last re- | captured by the Russians in Feb-[ ruary and lost by them again 1n’ March. The city has changed hands | four times in less than two years. Kharkev represented the major! Nazi position east of the Dneiper| River and has been the base salient from which the Germans could | thrust vout and menace the Rus-| sians anywhere from Moscow to the Caucasus. Russian broadcasts reports the Germans indicated themscives tiac fighting west of the city is now ris-| ing toward perhaps some r'\telul conclusions. The Nazis in a broadcast lrum; |L0nln|ll9d on Pa"l‘ Two) ; The Washmgton Merry - Go-Round By DRHW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ‘WASHINGTON—The sSpanish] and Nazi radio blaved forth a mes- sage recently, which, if true, sounds, very suspicious for supposedly neu— tral Spain. On the basis of the | Axis-Spanish announcement, m would appear that Germany had . established a secret bomber base in the Spanish Balearic Islands ul] somewhere in Spain. What the German radio claimed was that a squadron of Nazi torpedn' planes (on Friday, Aug. 13) sank | 70,000 tons of Allied shipping in- cluding two destroyers and four| Jarge merchant ships, just East o(! Gibraltar, as a big convoy was en- | tering the Mediterranean. ’rhi interesting thing about the Nazi communique was that the raid was reported made by torpedo planes. It happens that torpedo planes have a very limited radius between 300 and 400 miles. Because of the tremendous weight of the tor- pedo they cannot fly far; cannot | spare much time hovering around in the air looking for their target. In fact some of the torpedo planes which went out to get the Bismarck were purely sacrifice planes never expected to come back. Compared to this 300-400 mile ra-| dius, it is a full 800 miles from Gib- i 1 f \ l |6 of |c raltar to the nearest base in France.| involving where | Canada. Big mystery, therefore, is the Nazi torpedo planes came from. | Was it the nearby Balearic Isles, or o a hidden point on the coast of|for Spain? This is the first case in a | Britain, long, long time that Axis torpedo | t! planes have been able to penetrate anywhere near Gibraltar. The Spanish radio gave further| corroborating details, told how the | Allied convoy was composed of 70 ships bound for Africa and how German pilots had been picked up by Spanish ships, while a German plane made an emergency landing at Aguilas. But there was nothing to explain how German torpedo planes were able to make this record-breaking flight. . So, either the Nazis have| developed a new long-range torpedo plane or else Franco has given the (Continued on Page Four) 1 i i | 4 unton(irm(—‘d report claiming fparges and loxpedo boats, SEC. KNOX (Canadian Pnfie Minister yesterday for the Quebec military | conference along with T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister. of the Navy, rank Knox is expected | momentarily from Washington. | MacKenzie official, Canada. MINING MAN SAILS ence Mine, sailed south this morn- Juneau on business. He will spend{ a month in the States before return- | JAPS CLAIM/ REPULSE OF NEW ADVANCE Says Our Forces Thrown; Back in Attempt to Take Island 1\S\m‘mh'fl Press) radio broadcast an “dead- y fire by Japanese land units de- ndm" Kolombangara Lsland foil- landing attempts of Umbed (By The Tokyo | States forces at dawn yesterda Kolombangara Island is probably he next American objective after‘ he capture of Munda. |- ‘SWOOSE’ 'l LOT—_Back The Jap broasicast said the land- | ng was attempted with about 15 swhnmel. was on U, MAJ FLEMING WILL INSPECT STIMSON IN QUEBEC He and PRA Chief Mac- Donald to Meet Sen- King Announces New ! ate Committee War Board | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The e artiad heve | Federal Works Administration an- nounced that Administrator Maj. | Gen. Phillip D. Fleming and Public | Roads Administration Commissioner Thomas H. MacDonald will meet the | Senate delegation August 26 at ‘At the same time, Prime Minister | Great Falls to inspect the Alaska d | Mighway. King announced the; "2 4 A g 5 i The group is expected to travel reation of a joint war air commit- e grouy e b in via Edmonton to attend the dedi- ce to study lease-lend problems| .o, ¢ the Peace River bridge the United States and|, “rucior Plats in Canada August H. Bi o ekaonitive 30 and then go to Fort St. John. Ma): Gy, U. H. BEeDg, | Among the Senators intending to f the Munitions Assignment Board‘ ek the ripiake Baues G- Berug- the United States and Great| ham, William Langer and Dou;,]axs was mamed _ch.mman of C. Buck. he United States section. 2 E. P. Taylor, Canadian producuon: was named to represent| Secretary > ROBERT PASQUAN BACK The committee will study prob-| Robert Pasquan, son of Mr. and ems of lend-lease operations. |Mrs. John Pasquan of Juneau, has PR |returned from Fairbanks for school |after spending the summer driv- mg a truck on a war job. He ar- P \rived by PAA plane last night. e William Stoll, wnh the Independ | WMC OFFICIAY SHRE FROM WHITEHORS SOUTH THIS MO ng after spending a few days in Ernest E. Llnooln of the War Manpower Commission, returned to ng north. 1 .- BUY WAR BONDS ihy PAA plane, ALASKA ROAD from the southwest Pacific where he piloted the famous Flying Fortress, “The Swoose,” is Lt. Cos. Frank Kurtz, shown with his wife, Margo. Col. Kurtz, a noted 1936 Olympic team. OPA Hits Halibut Market ‘Americanfisufiips Sell at | Prince Rupert Instead 5 of af Seatile | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. 23. —Large vessels of the Puget Sound halibut fleet are continuing to sell their catches here instead of mak- ing the additional 500-mile run to their home port in Seattle where the price ceilings prev ent receiving additional remuneration. During the week of August 14-20, inclusive, 1,258,000 pounds of hali- but were landed at Prince Rupert, of which 1,123,000 pounds were from American boats. | ‘The price was 17% and 16 cents for American fish and 18.2, 17, and | 16 cents for Canadian .- ‘(‘LAREN('H RHODE TO BE STATIONED HERE | Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission said today that Wildlife Agent Clarence Rhode is to be stationed in Juneau soon along with his two- place pontoon plane. Rhode is now in Fairbanks. BROKERS RETURN HERE A. Van Mavern and N. A. Mc- Eachran, brokers with headquarters in Juneau, have returned from trips | |Juneau from Whitehorse last night in Southeast Alaska ports where Beau from Hawk Inlet. | they called on the trade. |downed at Salerno, later | place the number at 33. | While Northwest African forces were slashing Salerno, British Lib-| erators and Halifaxes from the rail | switching yards Saturday at Cor-| | tone, a port on the arch of the Ital- ian boot explosions and fi some near chemical factory, a Cairo announce- ‘mt-nL said. --e NEXT MOVE NO.PACIFIC INDICATED Takmg of Kiska Gives An-| other Stepping Stone Toward Tokyo WASHINGTON Aug 23.~—Japan’s | most ambitious scheme has been liquidated on the rocky shores of | the bomb-pocketed beaches of Kiska |and one more base from which the ‘r'm-mv hoped to use in crushing (hb United States, has become in- tead a stepping stone for the umxn rd path of his own defeat. The swarming ashore of the Agr- | erican and Canadian troops up the | rugged slopes of Kiska has won a position from which to carry the | war powerfully to Japanese terri-| | tory. Eventually it is expected Tokyo itself will be raided by long range hombers from the Aleutians. The American forces are already dominant in the North Pacific and may strike the enemy bases from the sea as the stmu’gy dlttates Northwest Airlines in Quick Move WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Northwest Airlines have asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for author- ity to establish the first postwar air route to Tokyo via Alaska President Croil Hunter said the proposed air route will start either from Seattle or Anchors touch- | ‘Paramushiro, Tokyo, Shanghal an Manila. “The Northwest Airlines has set the pace for postwar planning in the air transportation industry,” said Hunter. - Hans Floe, canneryman, is in Ju- He Is at the Bara m,{ Hotel r(-purLsL fortress also across to Little Kiska, The British fliers observed | (Chain of Bases Now that | | | | { | | | ing at Dutch Harbor, Kiska, Attu, |Curtiss | | completed chain of (817%, | Steel | York Central |eific 137, Republic Steel 16%, Unit- parts of the former Japanese island and found nothing except gear the Japanese abandoned in their hasty lllgms apparently about one week or 10 days ago. There was no living Japanese ing for them somewhere at sea. Also, it is possible the Japanese may have been reducing the garri- son a few men at a time for months and so gradually that it was not noticed by. the observers on aerial reconnaissance. Complefed fo Strike, Break Japan s Back JAPS ON RUN i BURNS (Associated Press War Correspondent) ADAK, Aleutians, August 19, — (Delayed) —‘Our recapture of Kis- ka, without opposition, means we have completed the northern road to Japan,” said Vice Admiral the North Pacific, adding: “Our Thomas Kincaid, Commander of air and naval bases also will protect surface ves- sels and shipping units two thirds| of the way to Tokyo.” Kincaid declared the Kiska battle | _ was actually fought on Attu for “by the capture of Attu we obtained means of preventing supplies from reaching Kiska and the means of bombing Kiska from bases to the westward, thereby insuring the fall of Kiska itself. That we could not kill more Japs was disappointing to | everyone, however, had the Japs chosen to stay and fight from their entrenched strongholds and fox- holes, our casualties would have been heavy. Northern Route Cleared | “The northern (Continued on Page Six) When or Where Japs Went fro mKiskals Very Moot Question SIO(K QUOTATIONS NEW Y()RK. AHH‘ 23 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5'¢, American Can Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem 57'%, Commonwealth and Southern Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 67, Kenne- cott 30%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 13%, Republic Steel 16’2 Pound $4.04 Dow, Jones averages as follows: industrials 135.07, , rails 13369, utilities 20.42 — The | PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock last Saturday was 5%, American Can 82, Anaconda , Bethlehem Steel 58z, Com- monwealth and Southern 11/16, Wright 17, 607, Kennecott 31, 15%, Northern New Pa- Harvester ed States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 136.1, rails 34.01, utilities 20.65. - o BUY WAR BONDS , United States Steel 50%, | today are| ,| 8. soldiers, Marines and Navy, International | { from leaking out.” A | SEATTLE, Aug 23.—"“There nre! | several schools for thought about | that,” said Lieut. (j.g.) James Miller, of Los Angeles, Naval Air Opera- tions Officer, back from Adak, Aleu- tians, told interviewers when asked “what happened to the Japanese at Kiska?" He added: body knows went. “One theory is that the Japanese force at Kiska, officially estimated at cle to 10,000, was evacuated piecemeal under cover of recent very foul weather. Another is that much of the Kiska force went to| reinforce Attu and was wiped out.” Lieut. Miller continued: “I can't [say much about the activity up there except that it has been a won- derful show. There have been big operations of amphibious forces, in which a large number of Canadian soldiers were included with the U for weeks at Adak and some at Am- chitka. Rehearsals for landing op- erations have been going on for six or seven weeks and we were all set to go. None of the men who took part in the Kiska landings have returned here. Many men were due for leaves for weeks but were de tained in Alaska to prevent an word of the intended Kiska assault | “Frankly, I think no- when or where. they route — shortest | |® at sunrise at 5:38 a, Japanese a3 an main base. The only information available, the Navy said this morning, is that the landing on Segula was made, “no Japanese being found.” ‘The communique in telling of the landings on Kiska and Segula also reported that three Jap midget sub- marines apparenfly atempted to destroy bombs before fleeing from Kiska, The landing forces at Kiska also found a marine railway at the sub- marine lm.se thel’e outpost INPACIFIC DEWITT SAYS Hails Kiska Occupation on Highway to Japan- ese Empue AN ADVANCED ALEUTIAN BASE, Aug. 23 —Commenting on the capture of Kiska, Lt. Gen. John | L. DeWitt, commander of the West- |ern Defense Command, said “we are now on the offensive in the Pacific and the Jap is on the run, “The occupation of Kiska cleared our shortest highway to the Japan- ese empire, Gen. DeWitt expressed the belief that the Japs completed the with- drawal from Kiska August 8, es- caping in subs or barges. He added | that it is doubtf{ul if many of the Japs ever reached land. He tauntingly asked, “Where is the Japanese fleet?"” ‘Then answering his own question, said, “the Japanese Navy now is in hiding on the ocean floor.” -+ |DR. HENDRICKSON IS . BACK FROM Dr. R. R. Hendrickson, Tubercu- losis Consultant for the Territorial Department of Health, returned yesterday by PAA. He has been in the Interior on business for the past 10 days TERIOR - IKE TAYLOR RETURNS FROM ‘ATTLE MEET Tke Taylor, Acting War Man- power Commissioner for Alaska, ye- turned to Juneau via Pan Ameri- can Airways last night after spend- ing several days in Seattle on War Manpower Commission business. . DIMOUT 1 . . Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 8:24 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow e m. begins Tuesday at e 8:21 p. m, - L IR T T T s Dimout sunset at .