The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” =l VOL. XL, NO. 9435. _MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e ’7 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1943. ALLIES, AXIS IN TERRIFIC 37 Jap Planes D ‘H__Suppligs for Ki_ska Invasion T_roop_‘s NIPPONBASE | IS ATTACKED ' BY 2 FORCES Lightnings and Liberators, Make Smash—Report on Ground Action ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 31—Thirty seven Japanese planes were destroyed in a new raid on Wewak, New Guinea, where more than 300 enemy craft were wrecked in recent raids, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's Headquarters announces today. | Lightnings downed 25 out of 60 Zeros in the air and Liberators got at least 12 on the ground. Ground fighting for the Sala- maua airdrome continues. American and Australian forces repulsed Jap- anese counter-attacks, exacting a heavy toll on the enemy defenders. at Madang between Salamaua and Wewak. { The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Most people don't know it, but while the Can- adian newsprint trust has managed to hike the cost of newsprint again, one of the largest newsprint com- panies — which will benefit from that raise—has a man right inside the Office of Price Administration. The OPA had to okay the price in- crease before it could be made. The newsprint representative in- side the OPA is Hugh Phillips, for- merly with the International Paper Co., one of the leading membeys of the Canadian newsprint group. Phillips says that he has Severec all connection with International Paper and receives no renumera- tion from them. He acknowledged, however, that: “I am frankly partial to the in- dustry viewpoint, and of course, I have many old familiar friends throughout the industry.” He also points out fhat, the in- dustry had bad sledding after its! founding in the twenties because | of the depression, and was not able to wipe out early construction costs. He emphasizes that Scandinavian newsprint was very harmful to th«1 Canadian industry, which has made | no money in the past. I Part of Phillips' job is to advise! on whether the OPA should permit an increase in newsprini. Twice during the year, newsorint nas gone up, $4 each time. slmul—“ tuneously, President koosevelt h been declaring for a roll-back in prices | MOTE: Internationa! Faper, whil2 paymg no dividends on common stock since 1930, pays its six tcp cificials $412,250 annually, plus ad- ditioral benefits of $112,500. | “THE JESSE JONES APARTMENT” If you are ever desperately hatd up for a place to stay n Washing- ' ton and are flush wi:n cash, just go to the Statler Hotel and ask for the “Jesse Jones Apa:tment.” It will cost you $85 for one niz™t, but some business moguls are paj- ing it when they can’ find avv place else to sy their heads. The apartment is 4 penthouse oi- iginally designed fo: Secretary of Commerce Jones, and whei it coines to de luxe suites it is really some thing. It has a grass lawn all its own, bigh above the streets <f Washington, where you can sit out and have a mint julep on a mid- summer evening. It also has a little promenade wa'k, and rooms decorated in exquisite iaste. 1t happened that when the Eiat- ler was originally plarned, Jésse Jones said he would like to have a permanent apartment ia the hotcl, Bl A i d ke S Sy (Continued on Page Four) AERIAL FIGHT s e Boxes of all sizes, containing food, ammunition, fuel and other supplies for and as ships in background are loaded for the attack on Jap-held Kiska Island, which | on this Aleutia was captured by American and Canadian forces in a combined air, sea and land atts ~ Air Cover for Kiska Landing [ i Three Vega Vent PV1 atiack bombers, zoom past the cloud- Press photo from U. S. Navy. in’gi Occufiélion of Kiska Maj. Gen. Holland K. Smith, Commanding General, U. S. Marine amphibious force (left); Brig. Gen. James W. Barnett (center); and Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commanding General, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, study aerial photographs of Kiska as they make detailed plans for the occupation which was carried out by American and Canadian forces. | apped peak of Kiska voleano as they flew cover for the ships and the men who were landing from them on the beaches below to occupy the island from which the Japs fled without a fight. | Kiska volcanoa is nearly 4,000 fegt high. Associated 'Russian Army Smashes at | near here, was picked up by a Ger- | I H p N jman-owned yacht, “Blue Danube,” | manned by the secretary of the (RASHES IN SEA German Legation. The fliers parachuted from the B plane before it was forced down for LISBON, Aug. 31.—The crew of a |lack of fuel three-engined British plane that' The fliers were turned over to the crashed seven miles off Cabo Raso,'Pm'l\lglwse authorities, CHURCHILL REPORTSON CONFERENCE [Military Success Is Para-| mount in Invasion- | Political Out § ! QUEBEC, Aug. 31— Prime Min- {ster Winston Churchill said today: “Nothing is nearer to the wishes of | President Roosevelt and myself than | |2 three-fold meeting with Premier | Stalin but he further declared,| "‘An Allied second front will be | gpened on the continent of Europe | 21 | only when it promises every chance | | of military success, and unswayed | by political considerations.” | ... | Churchill said that he didn't blame | | Russia for any criticism it has lev- eled at the Allies for not having i [launched a new offensive in west- | ern Europe. He made it clear, how- ever, that the positive factor of m i military success is paramount. | | Urges Meeting vasion forces crowd the beach In the address which was broad- | | cast, Churchill said: “The President |and T will persevere in our efforts | to meet Premier Stalin; in the| ~ | meantime it seems most necessary | | and urgent that a conference of the | | British, United States, and Russian | | foreign ministers or their responsible | | opresentatives should be held at | { same convenient place in order nu!‘ | merely to explore the various im- | portant questions connected wuh; | the future arrangements for world | security, but should carry their dis- | cussions to the point where the | heads of states and governments | may be able to intervene.” | Mr. Churchill, refreshed after the labor at the Quebec War Conference by a week of fishing in the Laur- | entian Mountains, turned again to the question of a second front in Europe by declaring: Looks Forward “We once had a fine front in | France, but it was torn to pleces | by the concentrated might of Hitler. It is easier to have a front pulled down than to build it up again. I | look forward to the day when Brit- (Conunued on Page Thive K. STRIKES ~ FLARE IN A ~ DENMARK REDS TAKE iNine Cifies in Violent Out- TWOTOWNS | iy foned IN DRIVE s STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31.—Harassed German occupation authorities in Denmark, having crushed the last vestiges of a military revolt after two days of violent fighting, today faced a new threat when a series of general strikes against dgictatorship | broke out in nine cities. With King | Christian X, a prisoner in Sorgenfri | Castle, most of the government members are under arrest along with other prominent Danes who alse are in prisoy. Gen. Hermann Von Hannecken moved a tighter German military Center of German Front Line - BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 31.—The Soviet Army has cap- | tured the towns of Yelnua and Glukhov in twin drives against the center of the German front, Joseph Stalin announced in two orders of the day. Stalin first announced the capture of Yelnua and a short time later followed it up by an- nouncing the second drive in the Sevsk sector that netted Gluk- hov, 42 miles northeast of the railway junction at Konotop. | Von Hannecken rushed troops to | the areas where strikes are reported, paralyzing every type of business Cities affected are Skagen, Jhoern- ing, Saeby, Aalborn, Viborg, Aarhus, Grenaa, Fredericia and Shnborn. Extraordinary efforts are being taken tos prevent the spread of strikes in other industrial centers. ARTIST MODELS POSTER — Artist Elliot Means, dressed in a Red Army uniform, shows Henry C. Alexander of Russian War Relief how, using a mirror, he posed as his own model for the figure of the wounded Russian soldier in the poster. "Xt will be used in the National War Fund drive. Iwo-Mafi'Subcommiilee Reaches Seatle; Will Come North, Probe Trip mittee. They intend to visit all major military and naval establish- ments in Alaska and also see what has been done in improving trans- portation “We will go over into Canada,” Senator Kilgore said, “and investi- gate the development of the oil ! supply adjacent to the Alaska High- way.” lanfidings HST TRAIN Reporfed HITS ENGINE; In [taly MANY KILLED SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—The special two-man subcommittee of the Tru- man Investigating Committee of the United States Senate, has arrived here enroute to Alaska and northern Canada to scrutinize the nation’s war expenditures in the Far North. Senators Harley M. Kilgore of West, Virginia and Homer Ferguson of Michigan comprise the subcom- L - Attempted Invasion by?Twenty-five Persons Are British Reported by ' Scalded to Death—-60 1 German Radio | Reported Injured | LONDON, Aug. 31.—-The German o radio declared today that British) troops attempted a minor landing in southewst Italy at Reggio-Cala-| bria, acruss the straits from Sicily, put it was “immediately scotched.” | Neo details were given in théige.m from the [broadcast which said the landing | gmjeq the passenger | was attempted Sunday by 400 men. |jng the passengers. The German report brought no, |official comment from London. | The news was viewed with skepti- |cism as it was felt here that if any| Among landings were made it might have gix men and two children, many WAYLAND, train locomotive, broken Limited with a passenger freight {and mail cars were derailed. | grip on the country by rounding up been a small scale hit and runipurned by the steam beyond recog-: |all Danish army and navy officers. |attack against some enemy instal- pition, and fingerprint experts are {lation | = 'DENMARK CRISIS | | WARNING TO ALL [ | ASSERTS HANSSON | trying to identify them. James E Limited, was and cut through .o - - going at high the freight loco- REV. ALSOP LEAVES N. Y., Aug. 31.—At least 25 persons were killed and 60 were injured when a Lackawanna collided and cylinders coaches, burn- Three coaches, the diner, baggage Most of the injured were scalded. the dead aré 15 women, Leroy, engineer of the speed | motive as it was coming onto the Stalin, according to the Moscow broadcast picked up here, also said the push has captured Rylsk, 44 miles west of Sumy | and 67 miles east of Konotop. | Yelnua is east of Smolensk. | LONDON, Aug. 31.—According to | a Moscow broadcast, a smashing | vietory has been obtained by the | Soviet Army.in two days on the} (Continued on Page Three) The strikes indicated that the | Danes are not cowed by threats of | drastic penalties, including death, | under Von Hannecken's martial law. The decree was instituted be- fore dawn Sunday when the gov- STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31.—Swedish Prime Minister Hansson asserted in a speech at Kalmar that swiftly charging events in Denmark are a ernment was stripped of all power, | “warning to us all to be watchful” and the Nazi captain was sent to| Hansson, in observing the Danish tell the King “you are my prisoner.’}| crisis said this is an example that Danish citizens living in Stock- | “situations can change very soon’ holm expressed a belief that the and he added, “Our hearts are bear- (Continued on Page Six) ing with Denmark.” | The Rev. A. A | been at the Resurrection Lutheran church for the past several mouths during the absence of the Rev. O. Herbert Hillerman, filling in at Sitka, left for the south early Sun- day morning to again enter a Theo- logical school. He friends during his Juneau, short time -in Alsop, who has| made scores of estroyed on Raid on Wewak AIR BATTLE FOUGHTOVER ITALY AREAS ‘Enemy Suddenly Concen- trates, Makes Atfack, Allied Raiding Force ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 31.—Newly | massed concentrations of enemy | Pighters battled American Mau- |rauders, Bombers and = escorting Lightnings yesterday in the bitter- est combat in the air of war over Ttaly. Medium Bombers blasted the rail- road yards at Aversea, north of Naples. Seventy to seventy-five German and Italian planes jumped the |Allied fleets near the coast and |over the target in & great running |battle that continued afterwards more than 100 miles out at sea. | The Axis lost 17 planes in one |attack but in all, 21 enemy planes |were downed in aerial fights. The | Allies lost 15 planes. Flying Fortresses smacked Vitebo airfield, north of Rome, by a heavy rain of bombs. RHINELAND HIT- AGAIN ~ BYRAIDERS ‘Combined British, Amer- ican Aftack on Industrial Area-28 Borp bers Lost LONDON, Aug. 31. — Royal Air Force heavy bombers pounded home a heavy concentrated attack on the German Rhineland last night, Mighty fleets of heavy bombers roared across the continent to bring the fourth year of war to a thun- | derous close. | War-busy industrial cities of | Muenchen, Gladbach and Rheydt | were hammered by the RAF bomb- ers last night, the communique an- |nounced, while Mosquito bombers raided Dulsberg at the same time, ‘ex\dlnu a two day lull in the aerial |offensive. Twenty-eight bombers | were lost in the operation. . American Marauders raided the German airfield at Lille and Van- |deville in France, and the power |station at Mazingarbe today. Head- |quarters of the Eighth American | Air Force called the attacks “suc- cessful.” One B-26 bomber is miss- ing, preliminary reports showed, and three enemy fighters were de= stroyed. . The virtually unbroken proces- sion of raiders began drumming across the coast at daybreak, close on the heels of the massive RAF sweep against the sprawling Rhine- land industrial area. German broadcasts said that 2§ raiders were downed, and said that Muenchen, Gladbach and Rheydt were especlally hard hit. The eciv- ilian population suffered losses and considerable damage was done (o churches, schools, hospitals, resi- . dences and public buildings, accord- ing to the German broadcast. - e HERE FROM SKAGWAY Francis E. Inghram and mother are here from Skagway. They are registered at the Baranof Hotel. DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight & at sunset at 8:02 o'clock. . Dimout ends tomorrow ® at sunrise at 5:55 a. m. . e Dimout begins Wednesday ® |® at sunset at 8:00 p. m. . R T