The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9431. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1943. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIC [TALI AN SS ure LORD LOUIS MONTBATTEN INCOMMAND Appointment Means Que- bec Strategy on Nip- pons in Effect WASHINGTON, Aug. sharply accelerated pressure Japan from the east, together with & sea, air and land drive to reopen | the Burma Road, is regarded as likely outcomes of the appointment of Lord Louis Montbatten as Su-! preme Allied Commander of South- east Asia. Montbatten is chief of Great Britain’s Commandos and is a! cousin of the King. He is due in| Washington today to begin plot-‘ ting details for the broad opera- tional plan laid down at Quebec | by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill for crush- ing Japan. | Appointment of Montbatten is| the first conerete result of the mo-| mentous conference between the Allied leaders and placed the Paci-| fic part of the global war to the front, serving notice of an impend- | ing spurt in Allied efforts to take| aid to Chiha, Reopetiing of the| Burma Road will serve a double| objective, getting more supplies to 26, — A on! (Cofilhnuéd on Page Six) The w;;fiingion Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON.—Officials of the U. S. Air Forces operating over Europe are maintaining a high morale among the fliers in the face of daily losses of scores of Lheiri comrades. | Official communiques report onlyi the number of planes lost on a given flight. They fail to mention that when ten Flying Fortresses go down, 100 men go down with them. This not only requires replace- ments, but also requires that the men who survive, shall not brood | too much over their friends Officials calculate the chances of survival, just as the men do, and they regulate the flights to keep| those chances favorable. No flier is kept on operations for more than 25 or 30 flights, depending on the ' percentage of losses. | Also, officials take pains to keep! the mess halls filled. If 50 men fail to return from a raid, they make sure that there will not be| 50 empty chairs at mess. | A high official of the War De-| partment, just back from a tour of | the air fronts, reports that morale| is good among the fliers. | “If you sent them out against| heavy opposition to bomb a truck by the roadside,” he said, “they might not be so keen about it, but these boys know the importance of their targets, and their fighting spirit is high.” One officer, a squadron leader,| suffered an injury to his foot, whica was put in a plaster cast. But he hobbled out of the hospital, with-| out being discharged, and made four flights over Europe with his crew, before attendants discovered his trick and took him back to bed. LUDWIG'S WARNING | Emil Ludwig, famous German au- | thor and biographer, recently had | a unique session with the Army's| School for Military Government at| Charlottesville, Va., 8s to what the| Allies should do with Germany afte. the war. Ludwig gave a series of lectures on how to prevent another Hitler | from arising and plunging the wondi into another war 20 years hence. Based upon years of studying Bismarck, Hindenburg and the| Kaiser, the German historian urged | (Continued on Page Four) AFTER ALLIED RAID ON LE CREUSOT TAKEN FROM A NAZI-CONTROLLED propaganda magazine, this photo shows workers digging in the ruins by Allied bombs in the raid on Le Cr of some of the buildings wracked ewusot, France. Of course there are no pictures of the severe damage done to the Schneider plant ma- chine shops, which made war equipment for the Nazis, (International) ,Flying lilfifi'rives On Scrap; Wreck Now Rebuilt, Blasts Nazis WASHINGTON AIDE FACES SPY CHARGE ‘South American Indicled trom by Federal Grand Jury NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Robert Lanas Vallecilla, 35, foreign lan- guage translator and Federal co- ordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washington, has been charged by a Federal grand jury with con- spiracy to commit espionage with the German Reich. He is a native of Colombia and told Judge Knox at a hearing for arraignment that he wanted to plead guilty but the jurist refused to accept the plea. The indictment said the alleged conspiracy occurred before the United States entered the war, making 20 years in prison the max- mum penalty upon conviction. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 80%, Anaconda 26', Bethlehem Steel 587, Commonwealth and Southern %, International Harvester 68, Kennecott 32, New York Central 16, Northern Pacific 14, Republic Steel 17, United States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 136.25; rails, 34.31; utilities, 20.94. S R. E. SHELDON NEW MEMBERS DRAFT BOARD According to announcement, R. E Sheldon has replaced T. J. Petrich, resigned, as a member of the local Draft Board. ——————— BUY WAR BONDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—When some months ago, a movie showed a batteréd crash-landed bomber be- ing rebuilt out of junk scattered over a bomb-pitted airfield in the Philippine jungles, and taking off to fight again, the skeptics pooh- ;poohed it as pure Hollywood. | The skeptics hadn't heard of | Madame Lily (nor has any one else in this country until now, because y came in a private letter station manager at a base in North Africa, where one of TWA's intercontinental groups, un- der contract to the Air Tr: port command, is helping to keep the military airlines open). Madame Lily is a Flying Fortress, but she was a very ungilded lily when the ATC’s TWA ground crew found her. For three months she has been grounded as a wreck. She has been stripped of everything that was movable—mostly for use on other planes. After the erew first moved into this base, and when every plane, truck and even armored car in the neighborhood had been put back in working order, there was no place to go and nothing to do. If aviation ground crews ' have jany phobia, it’s idleness.. A - few days of it and thes+ bored crew Istarted speculating on whether they could get Madame Lily in the air again. Then they went to work. What that gang did to Madame| Lily is a mechanical saga that no aircraft engineer in this country would believe, | They installed two completely| “new” engines with parts from! A20s, B26s, and P40s. They put in ja left main wheel and gear rebuilt from a wrecked B17. | The instrument wiring, panel and instruments they borrowed from junk piles of wrecked P40s and| B26s. When they heard about a (Continued on Page Six) | ——————— | ® o 00 6 0 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, Aug. 25 e/ Maximum 58, Minimum 43 e Rain .09 .‘L LN I B R RN 2! BERLIN IS HIT AGAIN 3RD NIGHT RAF Mosquitoes Make At- tack-Embers from Mon-’ day Blast §fi|l Seen LONDON, Aug. 26.—RAF Mosqui- tos kept the nerves of the Berlin- ers on edge last night by the third raid in as many nights. One of last night's raiders is missing. Simultaneously with the new stab on Berlin, other aircraft laid mines in enemy waters. A dispatch received here via Stockholm said the death toll in Monday's raid, when it is estimat- ed that over 700 bombers hit Ber- lin at night, was large and would have been greater if the women and children had not been evacuated a week ago Every able-bodied man was mo- bilized for fire fighting and rescug work Pilots of the Mosquitoes wha flew over Berlin last night reported that even at a great height they could see patches of glowing em- bers from fires started by the heavy bombing in Monday night's saturation attack. Theee Germali airfields and a power station i France wefe also raided yesterday by American and British bombers without loss. - NAZIS ARE MOVING OUT OF CAPITAL Berlin Is Madhouse Swiss Weekly Reports-0f- fices Moved BERN, Switzerland, Aug “Berlin lives in real panic,” and many persons terrorized by the Allied air raids are “fleeing to the protection of surrounding forests,” an article in the Swiss weekly, Die Nation, reports. NBC correspondent John McVane said in a London broadcast that the German government offices of Ber- lin are being dispersed throughout Germany as a result of the Berlin bombing. “Apparently the damage to Berlin by the Allied air raid was greater than first reported,” McVane said. The article in the Swiss weekly was written before Berlin took its heaviest pounding on Monday night. It said Berliners have had their “eyes opened” by the flaming red placards signed by Joseph Goebbels, telling them to protect their lives and property. “Goebbels speaks with perfect frankness,” the report said, “other- wise he is powerless. The wiping out of Hamburg has been a terrible phantom in making Berlin a real madhouse.” The article added, “eyewitnesses reported the English used new weapons of artificial fire. Coal dust, sulphur and phosphorus were fol- lowed by incendiaries making a terrible explosion, comparable only to a coal mine fire or a dam catastrophe.” | 26— e Capt. M .J. Whittier Is at Camp Roberts CAMP ROBERTS, Calif., Aug. 26. —Officers who have arrived here recently for duty in the Infantry Replacement Training Center in- clude Capt. Maurice J. Whittier, of Juneau, Alaska. Ceee BUY WAR BONDS Messina i These two radiophotos transmitted by the U. as they entered the city to put an end to the Sicilian campaign. | e as the result of Aliied bomber attacks. | in Messina explain, in part at least, why the Axis ran out of gas in Sic wrecka air attack. ARMY STILL RUNS COURTS INHAWAII Gen. Richardson Orders Judge to Drop Court Proceeding HONOLULU, H.I., Aug. 26.—Lieut Gen. Robert Richardson, Jr., Army commander here, was held in con- tempt rt $5,000 during a the suspension of co and fined proceeding involving of habeas corpus pro- ceedings. Federal Judge Delbert Metzger imposed the fine after Gen. Rich- ardson failed to appear in court to show cause why he shouldn’t be held in contempt. The judge declared the general had shown an “open and notorious defiance of the mandate of the court.” Meanwhile Richardson retaliated with a general order forbidding further action in the case or any attempt to enforce the fine. He said that while martial law was partly relaxed in the Hawaiian Islands, the civil rights of habeas 'corpus was still suspended, and as commanding general of the Army here he positively forbid further action in the case in order to elim- inate and ‘“prevent and prohibit interference with military personnel in the performance of their military functions and duties within the Territory of Hawail and to further jthe defense and international se- curity of the Territory.” ‘ The order forbids anyone con- nected with the court from applying ' for, issuing, serving or accepting any plea for a writ of habeas corpus. | Under the Army order, violation yby Judge Metzgar or anyone else makes the violator subject to a five- year sentence or/and a $5,000 fine. The order gives the provost judge the power to try any civilian, judge | or member of the civilian court for | violation of the order | The order specifically orders Judge | Metzgar to drop the case on Japan Will Begin From Eas n Ruins as Yénks Take City . t AXIS BASE ATFOGGIA SMASHED. | | { » S, Signal Corps from Aigiers show what American troops saw Top: Railroad yards ripped and strewn with Bottom: These ripped and riddled oil and gasoline tanks They were wrecked by Allied Nazis Driven DANESRIOT Back byReds, INPROTEST UkraineDrive NAZI RULE | Akhtyrka Taken by Rus.:Pairiols Fired on by Ger- sians Affer Seesaw | man Troops in Copen- Struggle hage_n "Sflquare STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26.-German > : ; soldiers who have sped to Den- MOSCOW, Aug. 26..— The Red mgrk to stamp out the people’s Army driving straight through thelyeyolt against Nazi occupation, fired a volley of shots during a distur- heart of the Ukraine covered one- | third the distance from KharkoV|pance in a crowded Copenhagen |market place last night. to Kiey dispatches from the front disclosed today. ; The Steckholm newspaper Afton- pladet said that despite the influx The Russian surge forced the! Germans to retreat from the region ' & of troops of the Gestapo, general strikes have spread to the harbor near Zenkov, captured yesterday the Red Star said. This put the sast Bt Eckay (,x“)nl(lll!(gv( he state ‘(il ommg;nv\ Striking across the broa e led to seventh city, Ros- g across the broad plains " Stories of the shooung it 40 miles north of Poltava, key rail- way junction, the Russians appeared to be making a beeline towards °°curred at Raadhuspladen Center, Kiev, parallelling the northwestern COPeénhagen, where Nazi machine Star Buns were reported spotted at strategic points. Travelers reaching Malmo said they were unable to learn whether there were cas- ualties Production was Submarines was a said |bend near Dnieper the Red said. The Germans attempted to make {a stand at Zenkov, concentrating {numerous reserves and organizing special units for a counterattack battle at this point which wa fought along the river covering Zenkov from the east. The Red,'De Paper Dag Army crossed the river at night the Deter 6,000 workers Red Star said and forced the Ger.|Monday at the important Burmeis- mans to withdraw another large ter main works of Copenhagen. LR o roroe. reparted. dafeatad No official casualty figures are | The battle at Akhtyrka, 25 miles 8Vailable but unofficial reports in- |northeast of Zenkov, was finally!dicated that about 80 were killed taken by the Red Army yesterday|31d 150 injured in clashes betwee: EAIRE & “incosw: sivunats the Danes and Germans as a re- ult of sabotage since st 16 a A critical food shortage has de- | > - | THELMA THOMAS GOING g . | /eloped at Fredericia due to the bl of the railway lines. TO SALT LAKE Seven citles now under “em- ergency rule” and it estimated any for Nazi warships to Ny- struck materials and other disrupted Stockholm when according ens cITy Thelma Thomas, employee of the are | local disbursing office of the Treas- |ury Department, will le that more than three German di- next week for Salt Lake C visions, * between forty and fifty former home, to-which she has been 'housand troops are now quartered | transterred in Copenhagen. Protest parades in Miss Thomas has been in Juneau Which over 5000 participated are since last November, reported. | is ! ; Lightning Fighters Prepare i Way for Ail-American Bomber Atfack 'ITALIANS ALONG ROUTE " WAVE, CHEER ONPILOTS iFreight Yards at Taranto Blown Up in Early Morning Aftack | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug Roar- |ing swarms of Lightning Fighters | hedge-hopped all way across Italy and shot up the ground de- fense forces at Fogs without the Uu of a single plane the official | communique states attack | prepared the way ali-Am- erican wrecking irome satellite fields by waves of Flylng Fortresse and Lightnin equipped for th southeast of ide of the | Twen enemy plu |down in the combat and scores of |others were on | the ground Going the whole distance an altitude less than 100 feet, | Lightning pilots said Italians | along the route waved and cheered |as they passed at tree to | The raid threw the |area in confusion i ground forces were | the snarling enemy | paratus was snapped | RAF Wellingtons Canadians, followed th |ralds by smashing the frei at Taranto before dawn ing. The for of the an and 10 three Liber- latter run 5 B ators specially 'to” Fogela, Ithe Adriat veninsula. were ic knocked to pieces at of level Foggia Axis d and Ap- whole anc € outw detective ia yards - ht ROOSEVELT RETURNING WASHINGTON Churchill May Also Visit U, S. After Rest, Que- bec Conference OTTAWA, Au President Roosevelt left here night on his return trip to Washington and British Prime Minister Churchill is remaining here to rest up after the Quebec conference Churchill will make a radio ad- ’(inm\ Sunday morning at 10 g'e | PWT. | Churghill told the ne he did not discourag that he ht later after a re .- ROME NOT YET AN OPEN CITY WASHINGTON has not yet be city far Governme; last wsmen that ition ston go to Aug. 26.—Rome an open States This Secretary a confer- stategient was made by of State Cordell Hull at ence with newsmen. is conce * o 0 e 0 DIMOUT TIMES } Dimout sunset begins tonight at 8:16 o'clock Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 5:42 Dimout begins sunset at 8:11 p LI I L I I I I ) at Friday m ®ceeesevss . . . v . . . . . . AIRDROME WRECKED IN RAID ®