The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9429. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1943. ¥ Ml‘MBER AS“}()( l/\l D PRESS [EN CENi3 ——1 Hd(l MIGHTY AIR BLOW SHATTERS BERL Capture of Salamaua Alrdrome Now Near JUNGLEITES INADVANCE ONJAPBASE Mountain P—o;i—lions Won- Naval Units Aiding Ground Forces ALLIED HLADQUARTFRS 'lN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 24.—Pushing down from the hard-| Allied the ‘won Jjungle mountain troops positions, have crossed Francisco river and are within two | miles of the airdome at Salamaua, New Guinea. The Allied naval units moved in close and have shells into Salamaua and Lae, hammering dock and dumps. There are no indications that the Japs opposed the river crossing. The Japs seem in retreat before Allied troops now in a position to advance on the airdrome There is some fighting mountains at Komiatumm, the Allies are mopping - up stragglers. Liberators have attacked the Jan airplane assembly repair base at Kendari, Dutch Celebes, and a have | poured also at supply in Jap freighter has been straffed off New | Salamaua, located on an isthmus a mile long and 300 and abandoned. Army Air Forces phuto. Ireland. Dutch flown Mitchell and Australian manned Beau fight- ers hit Tanimbar Island, 300 miles | north of Australia. The Japs made a weak attempt at an air raid on Nassau Bay with two planes on coast below Salamaua. There is ing in the Solomuns The Washmgton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ‘WASHINGTON.—Certain govern-| ment officials who deal with the liquor industry strongly suspect that | a multi-million-dollar bootleg op- eration has developed in the United | States. They began to smell something when they got the latest figures, which show liquor being withdrawn from ware- houses for sale ‘0 the public is only 55 per cent of last year. sumption of liquor not only has not dropped to 55 per cent, but is even greater ‘than last year. America learned the tricks of| bootlegging some years ago, when| bootlegging was really beset with difficulties. It was illegal, prohibition days, to distill liquor, to| bottle it, and to sell it. Today, how- ever, none of these processes is in itself illegal. Temptation to carry on bootleg operations is very strong because of the vast quantities of alcohol avail- able, and the tremendous profit in marketing this alcohol as a bever- age. Industrial alcohol costs only 90 cents a gallon. for “cleaning” the denatured alco- hol, another five cents for bottling, and you have a 190-proof gallon of | “peverage” which, after adding| water to reduce the “proof,” is mar- ketable at $38 a gallon. The difference between a cost price of $1 a gallon and the retail price of $38 is apparently more than some producers can resist. NOTE: Alcohol tax unit inspect- ors are assigned to distilleries, but not to plants using industrial alco- hol, as in the manufacture of paints or anti-freeze mixtures. MORE MEAT A Washington housewife walked into a chain store market with 35 red points and a hunger for ham. She said to the butcher, “Could I get half a ham? I have only 35 ints.” The butcher produced a six-pound piece. The lady did a little mental arithmetic. Nine points a pound, (Continued on Page Four) bombers | the New Guinea no other word of fight- that the amount of | And there | is every evidence that actual con-| during | Add five cents| ( \ | { | the | the | where | Salamaua--The Targe! for a Hail of Bomhs KEY POINTS '~ NEARNAPLES AREBOMBED | Liberators, Warhawks, Wellingtons Make Other Unopposed Sweeps ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 24.—Allied |bomber fleets hammered (wo more key railway points near Naples | without meeting a single Axis de- fender, s United Liberatc ing in from the middle east, Bari on the southeastern coast Italy, downing 14 enemy planes in a blazing air battle. No Liberators States p- swept of f | were lost. As MacArthur's bombers roared over Salamaua, strategic Jap-held New Guinea base, to hail 177 tons of bombs down, cargo vessel, beached “has virtually ceased to exist.” GESTAPO T0 BE SUPREME INGERMANY ¢ iHimmIer, S STHead, Ap- | pointed Minister of In- | ferior-Vast Powers LONDON, A\IL 24 German home affairs fell wholly under Ges- tapo rule by the announcement that | Hitler had appointed Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Secret Service, police and also will serve as Min- ister of the Interior, and “chief of Reich administration.” ‘The announcecent came as a DNB spatch broadcast from Berlin and the dispatch did not enlarge on the term “Chief of the Reich Adminis- tration,” but apparently vast new | powers have been laid in the hands |of the Nazi Gestapo chief. The DNB dispatch said that Himmler, Reichleader of the SS |and chief of German police suc- i | | ceeded Reichminister Dr. Frick, who is being relieved to take |over the post of Protector of Bo- hemia and Moravia, part of ulfl Czechoslovakia. | The move throws out “at his own | request,” Baron Von Neruath, long- time major party functionary who was formerly Ambassador to Lon- | don and was once German Minister of Foerigi Affairs. He also has been Chairman of Hitler's Secret | Cabinet Council. Also “retired at his own request,” is Acting Secretary in the Geérman ‘Mmlsh) of the Interior, Hans Pflundiner, who was appointed Min- jster Without Portfolio, the an- ,nouncempm sald Damage Suit Is hled ' Agains Commander 0f Western Defense A $100,000 damage suit has been filed against Lieut. Gen. DeWitt, Commander of the Western Defense Command, in the Fede! Court by Max Ackerman, cafeteria | operator. | Ackerman charges DeWitt's order excluding him from the coast de- fense area should never had been made against him. this (above) was one of the targets on whic as head of the German) Wilhelm | LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 24—} yards wide. “The poriion of the town on ‘Spolhghl Is Tur STEPS TAKEN T0 DECLARE - ROME "OPEN’ = iTwo Broadcass Indlcate Demilitarizing of City Taking Place LONDON, Aug. 24. — Italy formally advised the British American governments that are being taken to demilitarize has i { | Italian capital city treated as an open city. This is according to a Stefani broadeast recorded he)e by the Associated Press. The broadcast is dated August 14 and said the Italian government has decided to declare Rome an open city without further delay. stcps have already been taken to neutralize defensive installations aircraft batteries not to fire on interceptor planes are directed not to defend Rome. DEMOS PICIC - HASKELLFOR LIEUT. GOV. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. — Lieut. Gen. William Haskell, 64, of Gar- | rison, N. Y., was picked unanimously by the State Democratic Committee | the party’s candidate for lieu- election. A special election after the death of Lieut. Thomas Wallace. e Up to the time of the Civil War each American soldier cooked for| himself. was ordered Gov. h bembardiers The ship at upper left is a large Jap and | steps | Rome with a view of having the | Today's broadcast declared lhat[ and orders have been given to anti- | planes over the city and Ttalian | xed their eyes, the town of the isthmus,” MacArthur reported, ned on | Federal Jobholders; By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. why case of John Bovingdon, | 5,600 a year economic analyst with \the Office of Economic Warfare, | who once practiced and gave graph- {ically illustrated lectures on “ph ical thera caused such a nation- ¥ ! wide furore is quite a mystery to| Rep. Robert Ramspeck's (D.-Ga.) | Civil Service Committee. all, Mr. Bovingdon does have from Yale universities and in pedagogic circles |is entitled to be addressed as “Doc- | tor.” | The Ramspeck committee has in lits fil a score of “more sens | tional” cases than that and may start releasing them publicly any day now. Last March when the committee uncovered what they considered one of the most flagrant cases of un- justified elevation of a federal | worker to high plac it got no more than three paragraphs any- \wlu’l'('. Yet that was the case of a | $1,080-a-year messenger who in less |than two years promoted to a $4,000-a-year job as “business ans | alys | The cases coming up as a result of the House Civil Service Commit- tee's recent investigations are almost certain to go into the file which will b gressional action in blogking the |free hand that many departments | and agencies now have in rapid pro- motions or upper-bracket appoint- ments. For example, investigations have | been completed in the cases of a | former soda jerker who stepped from that job into one of personnel | director; and of a bell hop and an | elevator operator who now are job | placement officers. | In none of these three cases, I'm told, has it been discovered that the men investigated have acquired de- grees form Yale, Columbia or any | | other university. The question is not one of pre- ‘\iom occupation, but of fitness by education or experience for the jobs they now hold. In each of these jinstances and several more, the John L.|tenant-governor in the November Ramspeck committee will be pre- | pared to charge that the education or experience is nil. | It is the opinion of this and a | zood many other observers here that most of these “sensational ¢xpos l (Continued on Page Two) 'RUSSIANS IN Just | and Columbia | » used as the basis for Con-| | No enemy fighters rose to chal- |lenge medium Mitchells slamming loads of bombs at daylight on Bat- tiplagia, south of Naples nor on British Wellingtons that pounded Baguolia in the suburbs of Naples before dawn today American Warhawks had a sim- ilar experience, no enemy inter- ceptors, in a sweep over Sardinia, where @ sharp raid was made on |enemy barracks and factory build- ings at Eagliari. | - after it was taken by our forces. NEW DRIVE ON UKRAINE Kharkov Is in Flames as | Nazis Retreat-Railroad | Captured by Reds (By Associated Press) | The Red Army drove west and south through the smoking ruins of Kharkov . today pursuing Germans who were thrown in full retreat |back of recaptured Kharkov. Front- line dispatches said Germans ap- plied torches to the Kharkov base. Giving Germans no time to re- {cover, the Red Army is expanding in a drive in reconquest of the Ukraine. Poltava, the historic bat- tlefield southwest of Kharkov where Charles the 12ih of Sweden met defeat, appeared the next Red |Army objeclive. Farther south in the Donets Ba- !sin another Russian push gained {momentum after taking the Donet- sko-Ambrosievka railroad station 50 miles north of German held Tag-, armrog. A German communique asserted that the Nazi troops have repulsed the Russian advance in the Khar- kov sector but admitted that the Russians had made “small dents in the German lines” near Izyum in the Donets Basin, which appeared to become a most important scene of fighting in the new phase of the Red Army’s summer offensive. The Russian newspapeg, Pravda, said the German resistance had been broken after a three day battle along the strong line for- tified by the populated points southwest of Voroshilovgrad. The Izvestia, another Russian paper, said that during the evacua- tion of Kharkov the Gestapo exe- cuted 1,500 Soviet citizens. DATE —pers strom Army air at Austin, Tex., chose Marguerite Chapman (above), movie star, as the girl with whom they'd like to keep a date in Berlin, 10 ZEROS DOWNED BY RELATIVE OF FRANK A. BOYLE “Perritorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle had a surprise this week when he attended the Capitol Theatre and Capt. T. J. Lynch, a hero in the air war Young Cap- for 10 lique announced that the Red Army | Brand-nephew, had broken through the German Was hailed as lines south of Ixyum and south- in the South Pacific. west of Voroshilovgrad in a smash-| t8in Lynch had accounted ling assault apparently aimed at|J2Panese Zeros wresting the entire Donets Basin , Frior to the fRecy tho Nasia: the war, Capt American entry into Lynch was an in- structor at an airplane hool S New York State He w in Bel- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT |}ingnam Washington, on December LONDON, Aug. 24—Marshal Sta- 15, 1941, and immediately went to lin, in a broadcast from Moscow | the Philippines, and later to Darwin, tonight, officially announced the Australia, which has been his base capture of Kharkov and tha. the since. Germans appeared in a general re-| The young flier hails from Catau- treat across south Russia. Stalin, in sauqua, Pa ‘an Order of the Day, told of the 1 seizure of the city by storm. - BUY WAR BONDS ! Last night a Red Army commun- 58w the news reel in which his| in REST FOR THE WEARY | diarie WHETHER IT BE ROCKS or a mattress he sleeps on, it doesn’t matter to Captain O. Paul Herzig, of Briston, R. I, almost two days in a “sleep” trench near Castle Di Tt first sleep in , Sicily, just (Internationat) who enjoys h Heep Searchingon Kiska for Possible .lap Suicide Squads By WILL l\\l WORDEN Associated Press War Correspondent KISKA HARBOR, Aleutians, Aug | (Delayed) —There is a remote possibility a few Jap suicide or a few stragglers who mis ast boats off Kiska may appear somewhere on the island and try to win glory with the Emperor by kill- | s | ing ing as many of the landing force possible before they die or are trying | only to get some food. No one is yet ready to discount this possibility entirely athough it grows 1 daily as more and more | thorough investigations are made of the island’s rocks dark caves in which the Japs spent most of the time during the alr raid hours and in which they might be cowering while our occupying troops tramp over their heads .o WORKERS ARE NOW NEEDED ON WAR JOBS iTwo Million Six Hundred Thousand Must Soon Shift Positions 24 of WASHINGTON, Aug Chair- man Paul V. McNutt the War | Manpower Commission, today called for 2.600,000- workers to shift from non-essential to war useful jobs be- tween now and next July Two hundred thousand workers | are needed before New Year's Day in war industries now ing rising schedules of operations which need more men, also women, McNutt N. D. Rhinehart, or, was $100 by U Commissioner Gray this morning. He was charged with reckless driving on the Glacier Highway. Territorial | Patrolman Emmett Botelho, who made the arrest, said Rhinehart ran a parked car, also - BUY WAR BONDE fined Felix into and numerous | BERLIN HIT HARDER THAN EVER BEFORE More than 2,000 Tons of Bombs Dropped-58 Planes Lost (By Associated Royal Air F smashed a last night Press) on Land in 4 twice s heavy as a has suffered capital 2,000 long tons of ¢ nd and openit of- ipreme fensive to “Hambur Hitler of power I'he fact downed by fire, the large British plainly that 58 bombers were anti-aireraft lost by the howed the at- German st number in the huge scale of One boiled returning up Yrom in the air Very Great Strength British Air Ministry's story operation did not mention ize of the force except say that was twice 15 heavy any made before on [any European cap and that it |was made in “v eat strength.” ‘The previous, heaviest raid on the | German capital, was the March at- ack on Berlin in which 900 long ns of explosives were dropped night's attack, Royal Air Canadian and some Ameri- volunteers participated | RCAF headquarters said the weight of the Canadian sroup was thrown the {and of the were Canadian craft Lowell Bennett, American corres- pondent at the Midlands bomber “some 5,000 veteran RAF American in the raid, drop- their loads in 42 minutes On the basis of 10-man crews, {this indicated that more 500 !bombers hit the Nazi city. A German alrman i the ta moke arget, three | The lof the {the raiding the assault 1S as In last an full bomber attack planes into seven missing , said | 11 and some part volun- ieers” took ping than communique, strong formations wer Berling said “r |defenses prevented a concentrated attack on the city and shot down 60 multi-engined bombers. “According to reports received thus far,” the Nazi dispatch tint explosive: des residential guarte and hospitals, T} tion suffered losses.” Two big formations bombers which appeared to be ing Fortresses winged their strait of Dove ternoon toward Northern - British Isles Most Feasilile Invasion Base Enormous Strategic Ad- vantage Is Cited by Moscow Paper MOSCOW newspaper Pra article that t be the “mair of the conti on Germ t- of 5 organized con~ «d ndiary to the bombs caused uction public buildings civilian popula- across the this af- France, 24.—~The Mogcow oday said in an sh Isles should for an invasion A crushing blow s almost impeossible to tilizing the enor- age of the British Prayda decl saved En, ired the Soviet. Union 1d from invasion, « o s 0 DIMOUT TIMES < Dimout begins tbnight at sunset at 8:21 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:38 a. m. Dimout begins Wednesday at 8:19 p.m. D L R N es 00 ev e ®esensssse