The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXI., NO. 9433. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATU — = —— RDAY, AUGUST 28, 194 3 [TALIAN RAILROAD SYSTEM Iy BLASIED Japs Facing Defeat, Evacuate Stronghold BAIROKO HARBOR DESERTED Nippons Fle;Eefore Allied Forces - Salamaua Climax Near BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PA- CIFIC, Aug. 28—The conquest of New Georgia Island is now com- pleted. This occurred near the end of the second month in the Pacific offensive which opened June 30. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 28.—The Japanese resistance on New Georgia Island where the Japs have been clinging to a foothold at Bairoko Harbor, has ceased ac- cording to an official communique issued Saturday morning by Gen. RESTFUL—Lovely Georgia Kyser’s _orchestra. play suit after a swim between appearances as vocalist with Kay The play suit material has been specially treated to give it a silken appearance. | iRED ARMYIS Embarking in Aleutians fo - HALFWAYTO POLISH LINE [Drive 500 Miles from Stal- ingrad Since Winter— Sevsk Captured MOSCOW, Aug. 28—The Rus- isian’'s westward drive across the |Ukraine has pushed the Germans |back another 15 miles and have |reached the Psel River, tributary {of the Dneiper a hundred miles |west of Kharkov, Red Star, official Soviet army newspaper, disclosed. | This places the troops 15 miles west of Zenkov, the farthest point previously announced as gained only la few hours ago. | | The earlier communique an- |nounced that Russian forces had struck west in a new ctor over- whelming the German defenses at | Sevsk, midway between Orel and Carroll relaxes in an all-cotton Douglas MacArthur Headquarters. The Jap garrison 12 miles north of captured Munda has apparently evacuated across Kula Gulf to Kol- ombangara. An earlier communique today an- nounced a climax is near in the battle for Salamaua as the Allied ground troops have advanced to the outer edge of the aibase field ————— The Washington i Merry - Go- Round NUERNBERG | i By DREW PEARSON | BOMBED BY (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Thiriy-thre; B;mbers Lost According fo Nazi Radio Reports WASHINGTON. — 1t missed all the news sleuths standing around the Citadel in Quebec, but one of the most significant developments in American foreign policy occur- red when Secretary of State Hull walked into the Churchill-Roosevelt conference. He took Wwith him‘ James C. Dunn, the worst hater of Soviet Russia in the State Depart-| ment. | Jimmy Dunn is Mr, Hull's intim- | ate adviser who is most opposed to| LONDON, Aug. 28.—Immense for- De Gaulle, who argued for the re- mations of British bombers, said by tention of the Italian royal family, coastal observers to be the greatest who ardently championed Dictator force e sent over Germany, bash- Franco, and who fought the pro- ed Nuernberg last night, throwing democratic, Loyaltst government in down hundreds of tons of explosives Spain. But more than anything on tue southern German industrial else he hates Soviet Russia. |city and center of Nazidom. When you put that and a lot of| The air ministry called it a “very other things together with the fact heavy attack,” which meant the that Dunn is alse Mr. Hull's most British threw in an assault intended intimate adviser, you begin to'to virtually obliterate targets in the understand why the Russians are night-wide operations. miffed and why Ambassador Lit-| Mosquito aitacks in the Ruhr vinoff was recalled. {were fighter inuruder sweeps Jimmy Dunn got fo be Secretary against the railways and Axis air- Hull's close adviser in a peculiar fields in France and the low coun- manner. In 1933, when Hull jump- tries. ed from the relatively simple life of | Thirty-three bombers were lost, a Senator to the corhplicated fol- the Nazi-controued Vicny raaio de-rol of Secretary of State, Jimmy said. was in charge of protocol. That| The RAF was over northern meant that he set the place cards France again this morning. ; at dinner, met diplomats at the| The Nuernberg attack by the Union Station, and decided who RAF was the second major assault should be invited to diplomatic re-{or the week. Berln was blasted ceptions. Monday in the first bursting of This job brought him into close steel. contact with Mrs. Hull, and the| Last night's raid was answered in Dunns became great friends of the a deciaration by the Nazi labor Hull family. Jimmy and Mrs. Dunn, chief, Robert Ley, “owing to its for- who is a member of the Armour midable position, Nuernberg was meat-packing family, are a charm- well protected.” i ing couple. The round-trip flight of about 1,100 miles operation with such tre- mendous force, stirred the whole of England, particularly the coastal |watchers who heard the unbroken, muted growl of the bomber engines for more than two hours. - - FROM PROTOCOL TO POLITICS Jimmy was perfectly suited to the job of deciding who should come in first at dinner. But in the job of No. 1 political adviser to the Secre- tary of State, his mind harks back to politics, attuned to meat-packing millions, which would have been backward even in the Harding ad- ju“uu Bovs BA(K ministration. FROM WORK Io WESI He was, for instance, in complete | sympathy with Secrgtary Hull's pub- lic denunciation of the “alleged”| A Dumber of Juneau boys Who Free French, when the Free French|P2ve been employed 10 the west- tadk e 1sln;nds of Pwm-mqueluniward during the summer, returned from Vichy. He was also heart-and.| [0 thelr homes today. Among the soul in favor of Mr. Hull's granting |Umber were Robert Detman, Mar- a passport to Peyrouton, in order lin Feero, Delbert Kinney, John to permit the first Frenchman who Lowell, John Newmarker, Donald . Pegues, Nathan Skinner, Chester establis! concentration camps, > shablished o ;o Zenger, Rodney Nordling and Frank ‘Duh'm\& (Continued on Page Four) | Army Medical Corps ~ HasHeroes; Seldom o Are They Dgcoraled JAPAN MUST 'lance for hour after hour through| The party intends to visit Juneau | Belgorod. These advances place the Rus- |sians almost 500 miles from Stalin- |grad where last winter's far-reach- ling drive began, also more than Stalingrad to the (Second of two articles on bat- | tlefield medicine.) BE OCCUPIED; TOTAL DEFEAT Vice-Admiral Greenslade%‘ WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — The| By JACK STINNETT heroes of the U. 8. Army mnd)ca]“ corps rarely get medals. “If we gave medals for every act of personal heroism under fire,”| says Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kn‘k.} surgeon general of the Army, “w i | Declares Nipponese soon run out of medals Must Be Disarmed The reason is simple. Decorations | are generally awarded for “gallantry | gaAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, Aug. 28. in action above and beyond the|__apcsiute occupation of Japan pro- call of duty.” When an infantry-|per 'ty destroy completely any Nip- | man, in the words of the citation, | onese ability to rearm, is advocated ‘with complete disregard of his own |py yice Admiral John W. Green- peysonal safety and under heavy|qade. enemy fire,” leaps from & foxhole| .rot] defeat must be made on to silence an enemy strong poinl,|japan to embrace total disability he probably will sin » medal. |to wage war again,” the Comman- When a medical corpsman—the |gang of the Twelfth Naval District enlisted men of the medical de-|gecerted. | partment—with the same disregard | for safety and under the same fire, | advances to minister first aid to the wounded, he is just doing the Jjob cut out for him. WILLOPEN | NEW BRIDGE ON MONDAY Senate Committee Inspedt-| ing Highway fo Be on Hand EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 28. Members of the United States Sen- ate subcommittee investigating the construction of the Alaska Highway {will attend the official opening of |the 2,000-foot bridge across Peace | River near Fort St. John Monday. The group is headed by Sen. James | G. Scrugham, Democrat, from Ne- vada. Although the medical corpsman is technically an unarmed “non- combatant,” and under international | law is not supposed to be fired up- on if he is wearing the red and| white brassard of the Geneva Red| Cross, in practice medical depart- ment casualties are among the| highest proportionately. Shells and| bombs are no respecters of inter-| national law. Men in the medical corps, how- ever, have been decorated and Gen- eral Kirk picked a little handful at random just to give you an idea of the stuff that heroes are made of. There are, for example, Jimmy Anderson, 19-year-old New Castle, Pa, truck driver; and Dick Jacob- sen, 24, a Humboldt, Iowa, me- chanic. On a bloody day in April in Tunisia, they drove their ambu- such heavy gunfire that the infan- | early in September before continuing trymen began to wonder if the old|back to Washington. wagon had substance at all. Finally, | e — Anderson was wounded and had to| { make the last trip in his own am- jUK bulance, with his buddy alone at | the wheel. Both men today wear the silver star and Anderson the purple ki | A UNITED STATES BOMBER| ; |BASE IN BRITAIN—Fortress boys Bob Lakin, 22, Newton, IOWa,|pere cut the rug to jive from their and Bob Franer, 25-year-old former|,on american juke boxes fed by| Cincinnati city clerk, both privates|yeal American nickels | first class, were liaison men be-i The outfit claims to possess the| tween a battalion aid station and only home-grown jukes over here. a collecting gompany evacuating' But how the juke boxes got here wounded to the rear. When the aid|is something of a mystery, for it station was virtually cut off bylisn't regulation to be hauling them enemy fire, Lakin and Franer kept across the ocean. “Maybe,” said one GI Joe, “somebody made a mistake and marked them ‘motors,’” (Continued on Page Six) |lief the |assassination g e i v into shallow-draft hoat on shore of an unidentified Aleutian i an land, sea and air attack which resulted in the capture of the once strong Jap North Pacific and Canad base. Swarming ashore from landing barges (top) U. 5. and Canadian troop west coast of Kiska looking for Jap defenders. and for t At this moment the in he start of the combined American file up the hills from the north- sion barges did not know that the Japs had fled the island. This picture and other aerial views of the landing operations were taken by an officer of the U. 8. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics from a Vega Ventura PV1 plane. Transports as far as the eye can see (bottom) stand off Kiska's shores while landing craft ply back and forth from the beaches, bearing men and equipment for the invasion of Kiska that turned out an occupation as the Japs had fled. Associated Press photos from the U. S. Navy. ATTEMPTTO TAKELIFEOF | KING BORIS No Details Given - Report Only Says He Is Seri ANKARA, Turkey, Bulgarian radio announc that King Boris is “seriously ill” and circumstances led some to the be- King is a victim of an attempt. were given Aug. 28.—The No radio, details on the SYNTHETIC TIRES ARE TRIED OUT First Test Carried Ouf af Indianapolis Speed- way Today INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 28. — In what was described as the first pub- lic test of synthetic rubber tires, a test began on a speedway here as an auto started a 500-mile cruise around the oval at a steady speed of 35 miles an hour, Artl spokesman for the Goody and Rubber Co., sponsor of the test, said he had the approval of Rubber Director William M. Jeffers, and the test was the first of a series of public demonstrations in which 36 tires will be used in tests here, at Pike’s Peak, Bonne- ville Flats, Chicago streets and cross-country drives, r Grant - .. DRAFT EVADERS ARE ARRESTED Two men were arrested yesterday on a boat in Ketchikan on warrants issued in Juneau on charges of fail- ing to report for induction. They are Rogers Russell McCormick and William Joseph Dimond. Dimond is wanted by authorities {in the States Kiska Invasion RELENTLESS AIRATTACK ~ (ONTINUED [Flying Fortresses Cover Wide Area in Lal- est Sweeps HEADQU blasted the railvoad yards at Suloma east of Rome for the first At the same time B-25s pounded the freight yards and locomotive at Benevento, near Naples American ALLIED NORTH AFRICA, Fortresses imp: 100 miles time congested works and Maurauders bombed the yards Caserta, also in the vicinity of Naples British warships continue shelling towns on the southern heel of the |Ttalian Peninsula and on the east coast Reconnaissance fliers report pe- lculiar, ground activity in the north- ern part of Italy but whether it is German forces moving in or out, is not known Southern Italy’s railroad system in entirety is now disorganized by the relentless bombing of the Allied Air Forces and train traffic has been brought almost to a complete standstill, the official communique states, B-2 at o> JAP LEADER CITED FOR ATTUSTAND (By The late commander wiped out in the Attu, was cited posthumously for |his “dauntless spirit and absolute loyalty to the throne” by the Jap government A broadeast was the “paragon of ti ldier’ and defended tu without asking for reinforcement by a single soldier or for builet, lead- ing the final charge c May 29 to avoid the ignominy of being taken priscner.” His men were cited. oo SUPER GAS PRODUCED, IS REPORT SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 —Am- erica can now produc super-gas to boost airplane engine power, The super-g blended with the before it can take Dr. Gu ed Press) Yauyo Yamazaki, the Jap garrison suicide stand at Assoc! Col of Japan said he Nipponese from a single n also be 100 oct fuel lo! usual the ung tav Egloff, president the Am Institut Ch made public the of new prodiuction | He is direct the Universal Oil Products Co. Chicago The first ,000. Now a small pilot § turning it out allon and tisk st down to of mists the at a 1 the woped to 0 cents. DIMOUT TIMES . @ Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 8:11 o'clock. Dimout tomorrow sunrise at a.m Dimout be; Sunday = at at 8:08 pm Dimout ends Monday at sun- at 5:51 am Dimout ends Monday at sun- set at 8:05 p.m LR R S ends al 5:49 eecsecscoe sunset rise ec e ‘S8 e e00 000 e