The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S— VOL. LXL, NO. 9430. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1943. 4 MLMBI-R ASSOCIATI D PRES % PRICE TEN CENEY — —_—— ] HAMMER BLOWS NOW STRUCK ON ITALY Roosevelt Invites Axis To U.S. DEFENSE RCAF Vessel Missing On Inland Passage; 16 PRESIDENT SPEAKS T0 CANADIANS Says Enemy Would Find It Worth While fo Surrender OTTAWA, Aug. 25. — President Roosevelt told the people of Can- ada this morning that if Hitler and his generals had attended the Quebec war conference they would have realized that “surrender will pay them better now than later.” | bring URGED 10 BE IMPREGNABLE "Come Hell or High Wat-| er’” Nation Must Have Great Bulwarks NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Clarence Buddington Kelland today present- ed the Repulican Party's post-war foreign policy, based on United Na- tion’s collaboration but added that| the United States, regardless, must itself to such defense that The President came here direct|.no Nation and no coalition of Na- from the war Quebec which ended yesterday. Roosevelt extended a virtual in- vitation to the enemy to lay dowil| their arms now in peace tower mentary buildings ion. He talked on Canadian and Am- erican friendship and extolled the part the dominion is playing in the but not a hint did he drop on specific matters of war strategy | in the, domin-| ((,nnunued on P‘lge Slx\ The 7Wa’s’fiin§ton Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—It looks as if the whiskey distillers never learn. For more than a week they have been closeted with the War Pro: duction Board trying to put over a deal whereby they will be permit- ted to resume manufacture of whis- key on a limited scale—even at a| time when the nation is so desper ately hard up for feed grain that it is feeding wheat to cattle in- stead of humans. To start the distilling of whiskey would mean a further use of grain, thus depleting the supply for cattle, hogs and chickens. Despite this, the whiskey distill- ers_have been waving the constitu- tion, roaring about involuntary war- time prohibition and arguing that there are ample stocks of war olco- hol on hand. The latter, of course, is true. Al- cohol stocks are ample and the manufacture of explosives has been | curtailed. However, two counter- factors have been pointed out by WPB officials. One is the discov- ery of several new uses for alcohol. One of these is an important war use, so far a carefully guarded secret, which may require more al- cohol. But even more important, WPB3 officials point out, is that the coun- ry is desperately hard up for grain. Seldom in history has wheat been fed to animals instead of people. And should there be a drought next year then with reserves depleted, blame. More than 10 million bushels of gramn per day are required for feed- ing livestock and poultry. Where we are going to get it during the coming year, already has the War Food Administration baffled. The estimated 1943-44 supply of grain is 12 percent less than last year's, and simultaneously livestock farms will be five to ten percent greater. The Agriculture Depnrtrnenc has already warned livestock producers 1o conserve feed. Yet at the same time, the distillers have been lobby- | But Mrs. Littell thought her hus- band would be a bit embarrased at having the Vice President of the Unitéd States act as his valet. A moment later Littell arrived, slipped on his collar, necktie and cummerbund, and went down the receiving line. Each lady—Mrs. Bruggmann, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Mc- Cloy, Mrs. Batt—greeted him with: (Continued on Page Four) council meetings m: and the wheat crop injured,| the | whiskey distillers would get the| | | i i | ing northward from captured Munda | tions will ever ke able to penetrate our fortifications or reach our shores.” Kelland, is GOP National who the address, committeeman from Arizona, con- which he gave from the archway (’”C(*dr‘\ in the main parlia-{gram he proposes might fail, leav- that the collaboration pro- this Nation alone to face a world, declared’that “come peace, come upheaval or come whirlwind or con- high water, ing hostile war or revolution, vulsion, come hell or and shall be mdd(‘ lmpn“'lmb]v JAPS MAKING LAST STAND ATBAIROKO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug 5.—Artillery opened fire for the first time on the Japs making a last ditch stand at Bairoko on New | Georgia in the Solomons after Am- erican troops had succeeded in scor- substantial advances to the air base. Liberators dropped 112 tons of ombs on other areas of the Pacific war front. On Wewak, New Gilinea, | where more than 300 Jap plnnes wele destroyed last week on the | | ground, the campaign to oust the last Japs from New Georgia has been in progress since seizure of Munda on August 5. Ten miles from Bairoko above | New Georgia, Jap planes tried to‘ raid Vella LaVella Island which | the Americans occupied on August Nine raiders were shot down. The Liberators attacking Wewak 15. | were escorted by long-range fighters. | Twenty Jap fighters failed to halt the | attack and one was shot down.| Hundreds of United States planes | took part in the Wewak raid. ————————— Blows fo Be Struck At Japan ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, Aug. 25— |Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson has arrived at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters here and predicted that “blows in- creasing in strength” will not be | Japan. Patterson said the twin Allied| offensives in the Solomons and New Guinea are playing a vital| part in bringing the Japanese near- er surrender. Patterson also noted the United States is now producing more than 7,00 planes a month and pointed out that the “growing power” is being sent to the South-| west Pacific war zone. The supplies, said Patterson, will be accompanied by Lieut, Gen. Knudsen, Army Production Advisor and other high| ranking General Staff Service Sup- ply Officers of the Army. striking | - Men Gi VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 2‘)— The B. C. Star, Royal Canadian Air | Force vessel, with 16 men aboard, | has been missing since July 23 when | ‘lt sailed for a northern British Co- lumbia port and must now be pre- sumed to be lost with all aboard, the West Air Command says. The fate of the vessel was sealed by the discovery of two bodies and two life rafts of the craft. The Western Air Command says BERLINIS HIT AGAIN, RAF MOSQUITOES LONDON, Aug. Force Mosquito squadrons 25—Royal Ailr struck i |the United States of America must ggain at Berlin last night in a quick follow-up of the devastating raid by Britain’s heavy bombers on Monday night and found fires still burning The city was half obscured by smoke columns, but. was dimly lighted in some areas by the glare of hun- dreds of searchlights. This stab came only a few hours after American Flying Fortresse |dealt another daylight blow at en- |emy aircraft production in France, loosing bombs on the Bordeaux as sembly plant while enroute to Great | Britain from North African bases where they landed after the raid on Regensburg more than a week ago. No fighters were seen during last night's sweep over Hitler's s blackened capital, but anti-a guns weré active. The Mosquitoes returned to their bases without the loss of a plane. Other night flying planes laid mines on enemy waters, A German communique picked up | here said that slight damage was done to buildings by the light bomb- ers which “undertoook harrassing | flights last mght to the north Ger- i man region.” i : LABOR BOARD SAYS STRIKE IS ILLEGAL | WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The | War Labor Board ordered the strik- | ing employees of the Brewster Aero- | nautical Corporation at Johnsville, \Px“ to return to work immediately and unconditionally, and notified {union officials that it would take | all steps within its authority to force ! { compliance. Thousands of the Brewsfer work- ers quit, protesting the military ar- rest of four guards, members of the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve, charged with refusal to take their posts in violation of the oath of | allegiance. At a stormy mass meeting the workers formally declared a strike despite the WLB order. The union leaders said that another meeting has been called for Thursday- to !discuss the situation. It was im- possible to arrange an earlier meet- ONllong delayed in the war against ing. The walkout is in violation of the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act which requires a 30-day notice be- | fore a walkout vote. The Philadel- phla ReBional Office of the War | Manpower Commission directed no | statement regarding freezing men to jobs and ordered the States Employment Service not to send new workers to the plant. —_————— LONDON, Aug. 25.— The | controlled Paris radio this morning reported that 25 persons were killed and over 100 injured in raids on the Paris avea late yesterday after- noon. United } Nazi uit Fight Now iven Up as Lost ‘ apparently disaster overtook the vessel on Queen Charlotte Sound be- | | tween Vancouver Island and Quoen Charlotte Islands. | The number of those lost was set | reported missing, but was later rais- ed to 16 The B. C. Star was a 70-foot craft, wireless equipped, but observed si- lence in certain coastal areas under war regulations RED ARMYIS DRIVING ON TOPOLTAVA LONDON, Aug. 25. — The Red Army continued, to hammer away at the off-balance Germans retreating from Kharkov. A Soviet com- muniue reports successes all along the line as Russian forces drove toward Poltava, 75 miles southwest and a little more than half way to the Nazis' Dneiper line. A war bulletin broadcast from vioscow said that the Nazis, ex- hausted from the battle of Kharkov, wre rushing reserves to the line, but in spite of this the Red Army ad- vanced both south and west of the city, killing 2,000 Germans and dis- ibling 25 tanks in sharp fighting northwest of the city. Other units »f the Russian Army captured sev- ral villages. The communique indicated that the German retreat from Kharkov is reaching the proportions of a out. Nazi troops are abandoning onsiderable stocks of war material { ind armored equipment. The German command reported that “the big battle of defense in he east continues with unabated ferocity,” but insisted that the So- viet attacks collapsed. Parade, Show Will Begin Bond Drive Gastineau Channel’s campaign to sell $250,000 worth of war bonds in the Third War Loan Drive will get underway next Tuesday evening, August 31, with a huge community rally Theatre and a parade. The parade in the drive to “Out- fit the Outfit” by buying more bouds than ever before will start at 7 o'clock in the evening, after which a program has been arranged to be o'clock, There will be all kinds of enter- tainment, but the highlight will be a talk by an Alaskan veteran just back from the fighting in the Aleu- tians. Bond booths will be opened Tues- day night under the supervision of the War Savings Committee, and the regular schedule will begin on the next evening, booths being open frm 7 to 10 p. m, each evening It is also planned that an ex- hibit of the equipment needed to. keep a soldier fighting will be on display near the theatre. The entire committee will hold a final meeting before the drive starts at 5 p. m. next Monday in the City Hall in Juneau. All mem- bers of all committees should make it a point to attend. The meeting! will be short and. to the point Further details concerning opening night will be published | — e M. E. TIPPETS HERE At the Baranoi Botel, Mr Mrs. M. E. Tippets are in Hirst-Chichagof. Mr. Tippets Is | Superintendent of the mine at that place. and at 15 when the craft was originally | River defense’ in the Twentieth Century held in the theatre, starting at 8 the | from WAR IS TO Future of GOP May Be Determined When Seplember Meel Held " BE CARRIED 10 NIPPONS Definite Decisions Made, - at Quebec Regarding | Action on Pacific TRIPARITE CONFERENCE ALSO STRONGLY HINTED' Re(ommendations of Com-| | 1 | bined Chiefs of Staffs AreGiven Approval QUEBEC, Aug 2’) President, Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill | closed the Quebec war conference with a statement hinting of a tri- parite meeting with Ru and de- claring “nece y decisions were taken to provide forward action u: fleets, armies and air forces” Great Britain and the United Sl,.\ti‘k Talk with Newsmen The President and Premier brought the meeting to an end yesterday afternoon with a conference with the newsmen on the terrace of the citadel where deliberations for the | past eight days have been held Nothing of the strategy directives sent to military commanders in the field were disclosed but the two leaders spoke of utter confidence in the future. Triparite Meeting | The President and Premier said they have decided to confer again before the end of the year “and in addition a triparite meeting may be | possible to arrange with Soviet Rus- They also said full reports of | decisions reached here, as far they effect the war in Europe, will be supplied to the Russian govern- ment. sia War Against Japan ! Premier Churchill made it clear that the war against Japan held an important spot in the Quebec con- ference . He also left a definite im- ! pression that as Russia is not fight- ing Japan, the Soviet Union was not invited to send a representative hexe for that reason. | French Status The two leaders also disclosed that consideration was given to the »quesnom of the French Committee jon National Liberation and further i state announcements might be ex- | pected by the weekend to many gov- ernments in that cannection. Future Conferences Both Churchill and Roosevelt said future conferences porbably will be necessary at shorter intervals as| the war efforts of the United States and Great Britain “spreads” to the| Pacific. } Pac Decisions Decisions were reached here, Roosevelt and Churchill said, that | can only emerge in action and ad- ded: “It may, however, be stated that military discussions with Chiefs of Staffs turned very largely to the | war against Japan, also bringing | effective aid to China.” 1 Both leaders said that in the field ‘0( conflicts against Japan, as in the European war theatre, they received 'and approved unanimously the rec- ommendations of the combined | Chiefs of Staffs. Military Operations They said that an “agreement was also reached upon political is- sues underlying or arising out of | military operations.” | The two leaders also apologized | { to the newsmen for being unable to | | provide them with any exciting an- | nouncement of the results of the war deliberations and their inability to| describe it with wit, a slogan or a | phrase which might mark it for the . WEATHER REPORT | (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Tuesday, Aug. 24 Maximum 57, Minimum 47 o o o . ° . e o 0 00 o o e Berneta Block, Public Health | Nurse, has returned to Juneau from | Whitehorse on a Pan American Alr- way plane. |submitted to the Chamber |search in which the | Juncau lout representation | lo their WARNING GIVEN TO BOATMEN A warning is given to boat operaty that beginning at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, August 26, until 8 a.m. Friday, August 27, all boats forbidden to oper- ate in the Auk Bay area east of the line extending from Outer Point to Point Lena. The warning order is issued by the U. 8. Coast Gu; , Cap- tain of the Port, of Juneau. - oo * FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEAR DEBATE ON 'ALASKA STATEHOOD Capacity Attendance Marks Regular Monthly Meet- ing Held at Baranof National Feder- Employees and the Gold Hotel for regular Members of the ation of Federal their guests crowded R(mn\ of the Baranof today's luncheon and s |monthly meeting during which time views were cited on both sides of the pending question of Statehood for Alaska. Speaking as representative ' of the Committee on Statehaod for the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, Allen Shattuck read, in part, the report of the committee which.was after a lengthy study and considerable re- committee was a lof the opinion that the time had not yet arrived for Alaska to be admitted into the Union as a State. Mr. Shattuck contended that al- ithough many desirable things might be secured through state- hood, the additional financial bur- dens involved would not make such a step advisable at the present time. Figures were quoted by Mr, Shattuck giving sound reasoning for the committee’s stand against statehood at this time R. E. Robertson, well known Ju- neau attorney and President of the Bar Association, took up the question again, giving his views on the subject favoring statehood for Alaska. “In brief,” Mr. Robertson stated, “that only when Alaska becomes a state can her people exercise suf- frage and the full rights of Am- lerican citizenship.” “I maintain money is not so abhorrent as expense I maintain Al- are qualified and entitled full, sovereign American askans ship.” Hugh J. Wade, President of the Federal Employees, introduced the speakers, stating that the Federa- tion took no stand on the question, but that they were vitally inter- ested in the bill and appreciated the opportunity of hearing botn views on the subject. During the meeting announce- ment was made that the organiza- tion would participate in the bond drive scheduled for next month and that the Federation would take over one of the booths on the night of September 13. Fred Geeslin, member of the general comhittee, gave a brief resume of the quota for Alaska and other information in regard to the Third War Loan Drive, It was recommended that the Board of Trustees for the Federa- tion be increased from 3 to 5 mem= By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—1It could well be that the future of the Re- publican Party, so far as 1944 is concerned, will be determined at| Mackinac Island in the first weel in September. There on September 6 and 7, the Republican Postwar Advisory Coun- cil of 49 will meet to lay down the G. O. P. principles for postwar for- eign policy and all matters which | will effect the home front, come peace. On land that nub of vacation | which juts out between Lakes Huron and Michigan, 22 Republican Gov- ernors, five Senators, 13 Congre | men and a handful of party leader probably will write the Republican platform for 1944, The meeting is sponsored by the Republican Na- tional Committee and will be at- tended by virtually all potential G. O. P. candidates. The Mackinac Island delegates al- ready are roaring mad. President Roosevelt stole their thunder in his recent fireside chat when he laid down a blueprint for demobilization benefits to men in the armed serv- ices. That put them on the spot twice over. In the first place, they have had in mind a foreign postwar policy that would come pretty close to coineiding with what the President already has suggested. They hoped, at Mackinae, to bury forever the idea that the Republicans have any truck with isolationism. In addition, they wanted ta be first in the political arena with a demobilization plan that would as- sure jobs for all men in the service, and give them interim pay to carry over until such jobs could be found (Both parties seem determined to avoid the bonus plan that caused so much controversy after World War D. 6 Non-partisan observers here see a great deal of significance in the resolution introduced in the Senate just before recess by no less than Senators ' Arthur H. Vandenberg (Michigan) and W. H. White, Jr. (Maine). It contained only a few more than 75 words, but incorporat- ed the ideas of Senator Vandenberg, who was identified with the pre- Pear] Harbor “natlonalists” and Sen- ator White, who has been one of the stronger G. O. P. “internationalists” in the upper chamber. Briefly, the resolution calls for victory first; and United States par- ticipation in an international peace lConunu(-'d on Page Three) bers, with nominations to be made at the next meeting. Announce- ment was also made by the Presi- dent that an entertainment com- mittee was to be selected to make plans for a social function to be given by the organization this fall. Guests were the meeting as well as the follow- ing new members: Arthur Hedges, Francel Latky, Ernest Lincoln Frieda Romanoff from the Manpower Commision; Alex F. | Petroff, U. 8. Army Transport Ser- James Huston, Raby, Har- vice; Floyd Herin, B. W. Matheny, Allen old Skoog, ‘Rulon Watson, O. M Wilkening, USED.; Charles T. Battin and Michael Haas, War La- bor Board; Ardys Stiles and Jo- seph Werner, Forest Service; Gladys Kupight, Office Indian Affairs of D $T0CK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 6, American Can 81%, 257, Bethlehem Steel 58'z, Com- monwealth and Southern %, Cur- Wright 7% er 68, Kennecott 31'4, New York Cent 15%, Northern Pacific 137 Republic Steel 167;, United States Steel 51':, Pound $4.04 Dow, Jones averages today are a: follows: Industrials, 135.90; rails 34.12; utilities 20.76. - One of the sulfa drugs is help- ful in preventing a parasitic disease of chickens. vests introduced during | Anaconda | , International Har- | ALLIED AIR SQUADRONS RAID ITALY ’Communlcahons Blasted- | Blockbuster Attack Is Made Near Naples (RUISER BOMBED OFF COAST; IS SET AFIRE Railway Faiilifies,EasI and South Coasts, Struck by Dive Bombers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 25.—Allied air squadrons, significantly meeting no opposition from Axis fighters, hammered communication centers in southern Italy again yesterday, including a blockbuster assault near Naples last night. The air squadrons also left an | Itallan cruiser afire off the south coast. The official communique also says dive bomberz and fighter bombers last night swept out on attacks on |the depleted Axis air forces which refused to do battle for the second successive day. The only opposition encountered Ifrom the Axis air forces' was by | Liberators last Monday when Bari was raided, No Liberators were lost | but seven enemy fighters were shot down. One deadly American A-36 dive bomber rammed home two hits with 500-pound bombs on a cruiser off the south coast, blowing off the stern. Fires leaped from the cruiser as the attacker winged away. Qlllvl‘ A-36 bombers blasted rail- | way facilities at Capri on the south- ern Italian coast and Sibari on the | east coast. FDR ASSERTS EUROPE WILL NOT STARVE WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted that except for responsible Fascist leaders, “people of the Axis need not fear unconditional surrender to the | United Nations.” In a report placing the total lend-lease aid at nearly $14,000,000,~ 000 the President again promised to feed the people of liberated areas, jand declared the Allies “are strik- ing hard and ready to strike hard- er” to attain complete victory. The report showed that the United States sent its Allles during |the year ending June 30, 17 out of War | every 100 bombers produced, 25 out of every 100 fighters, 22 out of ery 100 light tanks, and 36 out of |every 100 medium tanks. | For the quarter ending July 31 the report showed that lend-lease aid to Russia through June 30 to- | taled $2,444,000,000. | - | | BE Y GRABLE TO | HAVE EABY HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 25.— SLreen actress Betty Grable, pin-up gnl in thousands of army tents around the world, announces she is | going to have a baby next spring. “I am so happy,” she said. | She was married last July 5 to | trumpet player Harry James and is the former wife of Jackie Coogan. e ® o0 0 0 0 0 > e DIMOUT TIMES . . Dimout begins tonight e at sunset at 8:19 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow e at sunrise at 5:40 a.m . e Dimout begins Thursday at e ® sunset at 8:16 p.m. . CRCEEIE S SR Y