The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 1, 1943, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI.. NO. 9436. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, bH’I‘PMBl RI, 194 Berlin Is FIFTH YEAR OF WAR IS USHERED IN "Greaf Damage’" Inflicted onGerman Capital Last Night LONDQN, Sept. 1.—Great fleets of Royal Air Force heavy bombers cast thelr familiar shadows of death over the German capital again last night as Berlin again became the target for a flaming 45 minutes. The British raiders celebrated the beginning of the fifth year of war (Continued on cage Two) g The Washlngton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — The newspaper PM, which has a healthy influence on Washington, has recently got its owner, Marshall Field III of Chi- cigo, in & most embarrasing spot. PM has been riding the shirt off anyone who ever succcumbed to the wiles of Mussolini and received from him a Fascist decoration. Es- pecially PM has been riding Gen- eroso Pope, Italian-born New York newspaper publisher, now ardently anti-Mussolini, because he once ac- cepted a decoration from Il Duce and once gave the Fascist salute before the grave of the Unknown Italian Soldier. What the editors of PM app:r- ently don’t know is that their own financial godfather and publisher, Marshall Field, himself, also re- ceived a Fascist decoration from Mussolini. Mr. Field bears the title “Com- mendatore,” and so far as any pub- lished records show, he has not re- turned the decoration to IlI Duce. Marshall Field went even further and was elected president of the Italy-America Society on January OWlonTo e Bul SENATORS IN ALASKA TRIP Two Senate parties were in Ju- neau last night and today. Arriving here yesterday evening, and leaving this morning, were Sen- ators Harley M. Kilgore of West| Virginia and Homer Ferguson of Michigan, members of a 2-man subcommittee of the Truman In- vestigating Committee, author of the numerous senatorial pa)u‘.--;y which have toured Alaska in lhc\ last year for purposes of investiga- | tion. Brig. Gen. Frank E. Lowe accom- panied the Senators. Arriving here by boat after tending the opening of the Pe River bridge Monday were Senators James G. Scrugham of Nevada,; William Langer of North Dakota | |and Douglass C. Buck of Delaware. ! They are members of ‘a poetroads subcommittee investigating the Al- aska Highway. | Kilgore and Ferguson left for Sitka this morning and may return | before going on to the Westward. | Senator Langer is a co-author of the bill which would make Alaska a state. CHAMBER WILL VOTETOMORROW ON STATEHOOD The question of whether or not Alaska is ready for statehood will be voted on tomorrow when the Juneau Chamber of Cmmerce meets at noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. at- | | 1 | | Office of | come in for a lot of criticism lately | JUNEAU FOR 3 RAID JAP ISLE 1,200 MILES FROM TOKYO PRICE TE N CEl arget for Anothe Quebec Parley Put ugh Spot, Orders Obeyed By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — War Information The has vis’s gray hair is a good reason and if Elmer Da getting grayer, there's for it. Trouble doubled for OWI on the Quebec conference between .Chur- chill and President Roosevelt. The quota of newspaper men and wom- en was limited and OWI had to use everything in the book of jour- nalistic etiquette and diplomacy to | keep from being thoroughly black- balled by that portion of the work- ing press that wanted to get in the show and couldn’t. None of it was OWT's fault ex- cept where it might occasionally have stubbed its diplomatic toes in | the handling of this or that detail. The simple fact is that Canada would have been happy to take over the whole show. Certain White | House and OWI press representa- tives here stepped in. The result was that Canada agreed to be Bost | to 50 accredited U. S. newsmen and | women; 50 more from Canada; and 25 from other United Kingdom na- unns and the other countries in the ! United Nations alliance. That didn’t really bar anybody from coming to Quebec for the ses- sions. Jt merely meant that the U. 8. corresporidents” 'wha would have accommodations and creden- tials as guests of the Canadian gov- ernment would be limited to 50. The listing of these 50 was tossed into OWI's alp. OWI didn’t want it. But like a good soldier, it did its best to obey the order. Look at the agencies who were interested. First, there was the Army which, being responsible for many things, wanted the newsmen and women “accredited for foreign service.” If the Army blocked any one on that score, I haven't heard of it yet. Then there was the White House. Its only limitation was that members of the press corps going should be accredited to the White House. Most of the press already is. After that came the “safety” gang the State Department, which wanted to be sure that nothing | | Three Separate Fronts Now ' r Mass Rai ‘GERMANLINE !BOND DRIVE U.S. Battleships of Air Will Soon Blast All Enemies from Sky CRUMBLING, | IS OFF TO REDASSAULT, FINE START : ‘large Crowds Outf Last Night for Opening Parade, Rally Threaten Entire Nazi Defenses System MOSCOW, Sept. 1 The Redfid & total of $184 s Army is bearing down heavily on [ionds, and $12 w amps was the southern sector of the Gt-rm:ul"“"‘" in the “p"”"'"" rally at the eastern front, smashing to bits the jfwienth Century Theatre last night. remnants of -the fortifications of |This was a very poor showing. If the Nazi army which the latter this average was maintained even has held for two consecutive win- for the full two weeks of the drive ters, along a 600-mile front that the cmbined total would reach only stretches from Taganrog, on the Sea about §25000. The Juneau total is of Azov, to Smolensk. $250,000. The Russian Army today poured its way westward on three desperate | fronts in a tremendous offensive | that threatens to crush the entive German defensive system. One of the Soviet forces in the | north has driven to within 45 miles of Smolensk, the big Nazi base. atre here last night as Gastineau On the central front, two Russian Channel began a campaign to buy columns penetrated 40 miles into §250,000 worth of bonds in the next the fertile Ukraine. | two weeks. On the south front, Cossacks and ‘ As a climax to a parade and show, worth of war A reverse strip tease, in whic )\ two underwear-clad service men mu 'their clothes on instead of taking | them off, s arted a session of fren- zied purchases of war bonds in the rally in the Twentieth Century The- { tank units are methodically stamp- |a member of the U. S. Army and a ing out remnants of the Taganrog |UT §. Coast Guardsmen shivered | garrison after capturing the ecity ! in their unmentionables as residents | and driving on toward the industrial 'of Juneau and Douglas came for- center of Stalino and Sea of Azov!' ward to put up the money to buy port of Meriupol. | their clothes and equipment in the The successes of the Red :wvh»‘ soutfit The Outfit” drive. on the north and central fronts was1 Shortly before this, Lieut. Jerry held back to permit Moscow to have | Ciral, just back from the Aleutian a two-day celebration over the vic- ' hattle a, main speaker at north and Taganrog in the south. Gen. Sokolovsky, commander on the | tians, “the boys have never spent a | western front, was honored yester- ' cold night or a hungry day.” day by a salute of guns in Moscow Support Needed for the vlctory at Yelyna | But he added that the troops in | Alaska’s battle zone will continue sage which was read by Mrs. Betty ‘lime to build them out there, al- ‘lnuup,h we put our money into war | Ummls just the same as you do.” Gov. Ernest Gruening, unable to ‘ be the | itory of capturing Yelnya in LhP,x.x]]v told the audience that what- ever else has happened in the Aleu- ! tion and P-40s and “we haven't the | present at the rally, sent a mes- | WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—Battle- ships of the air, pomb capacity and flying range, round trip to Europe, will soon he blasting American enemies from the ays General Henry H. Arnold, |Chief of the Air Forces The ittleships will have au- tomatic fire control of powered guns, heavier than cannons, or any- thing now used, in turrets. CRISISNEAR, POPEPLEADS - JUST PEACE air | Address at Vatican Today Gen. DeWift Says We Have Marks Fifth Year of Bloody Struggle ‘ ‘ LONDON, bt‘pt 1.—The Pope to- day called upon the wurld leaders W0 resel a ‘‘Just peace,” expressing {the hope and faith that 1943 will |see the end of the ar and the dawn of a new peace ! The Pontiff spoke for 14 minutes | from the Vatican in a broadcast which was recorded and translated | at an Associated Press listening post | here. The Pope recalled his efforts to halt hostilities before they b and suggested his present wor Aa\h a mediation, addressed especially “to all those who are willing to co- operate in the bringing about of | peace.” which, he said, would be to | the advantage of every belligerent without exception. Speaking on the day which op- ened the fifth year of the greatest | and bloodiest struggle in human his- with half a carload * The bomber planes will also have s" to help guide them to their ts with bombs of a new de- sign The Ain Forces will soon have the new fighter plane, said Arnold, “which will have advanced almost beyond recognition in form and combat equipment that is now car- ried, and will make the Flying Fort- resses a dwarf in comparison.” WILLBOMB JAP ISLAND FROM ALASKA Bases as Close as Hornet Was SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, Sept. 1. —The United States now has air- ficlds as-close to Japan as the aire craft Hornet when it loosed planes | James Doolittle on for the bombing of Major Gen “Shrangri-La” Aleutians. DeWitt said he believes there will | be shuttle bombing trips over Japan from the Aleutians to China with heavy four-engined bombers. These | flights would not be as difficult as | Doolittle’s flight as the question of | bases at both ends with supplies has been solved. - ARMY EQUIPMENT IS ON DISPLAY IN of ! Japan, Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt | said here on his return from the | MANY PLANES, WARSHIPS IN DAWN ATTACK Marcus Island Onslaught " Reported by Jap- anese Radio NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—A Japanese broadcast said United States war- ships and “many planes” attacked Jap installations on Marcus Island, only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, at dawn today. There was no immediate cons= | firmation of this report by United States authorities. The Jap-held island lies 900 miles northwest of Wake Island, is on & line with Wake Island and Tokyo. The Jap broadcast declared “many enemy planes raided Minamitou and Shima on Marcus as dawn today. “The enemy shelled the land by naval guns.” The broadcast warned the Japan= ese people that the island is close to Tokyo and the “enemy could have raided the mainland if they wanted to, so the people of Japan | must further solidfly their detense against the enemy.” Marcus Island has long been held | by the Japs. | This is the second attack of me- | war by our forces. | It was raided March 4, 1942, by an American’ task force which vir- [tuully wiped out the Jap installa= tions there and on Wake Island. ATTACK CONTINUES i WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — The |United States Pacific Fleet, chals |lenging Japan's still powerful Navy, in a battle in its home waters, has: |hurled a powerful force of planes and ships against the enemy bases on Marcus Island. News of the tm-; |eration against the strategic out- |post came this afternoon from both Washington and Tokyo. ‘ Washington says the action was: plnnned for September 1. The Jap-} ‘uuese time is August 31. The do-! Imestic indicated the attack mighty be in progress today. If this is true, {to need food, equipment, ammuni- | ‘MCCDImle Chairman of the Ga: El tineau Channel War Savings Com: tory, the Pope took the pains to i | stress concern that not any. one mnteev » “Alaskans should be particularly —_— | happy to contribute to this loan i WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — The because for the first time in many \‘;au‘]”k lr’"‘ thmwhole h‘:’;“’t“ fam- | President announced the promotion months our Territory is now free of ;“V‘ ask for nothing now “but peace, | ad and work.” The members will at that time!gwent wrong diplomatically, and the today of Dwight D. Eisenhower to enemy invaders. The Pope placed a special bless- the intent apparently is to -le the island's defenses. The first information came mu TENTS DOWNTOWN . In cooperation with the Third Washington followed this wn.hpn take action on a report submitted FBI, Secret Service, Sgotland Yard, War Loan Drive, Army equipment announcement stating the carrier 27, 1930, when Mussolini was in X 1 I two weeks ago by the Legislative | nd | the permanent rank of major gen-, “With the recapture of Attu by| :‘:.e:;::dgwi::;d w:':en ‘mu;: I;nl:« Committee. The report urges Lhnt}}ifingxla: gfi:,‘:gm}fwm,’,',’:,fid 1:“1 eral. Eisenhower now holds the,'he American forces and the evacua- ‘::iu‘:p(\::ul:?: u‘:ih‘:e‘:"‘“t:;"a‘:‘z::‘e displays are being held in two tents task force raid was planned for Sep- considere 3 e beel Yiall attempts to pass the bill now in!peace officers here, there and en temporary rank of full general, and tion of Kiska by the Japanese {Apparently this was an *indirect which have been put up in the|tember 1 and the first plane-laden had been holding the permanent !enemy, the threat to our Territory | P downtown section of Juneau for|ships and their escorts should have many as an adjunct of Fascism. On November 24, 1931, he w“'SJCnngress be halted, contending that | also reported by N ) jalthough many benefits would be‘ pupersl: belngyprees:,ntY::kn r’:;‘::c_Ider‘lved from statehood, Alaska | ial dinner in honor of Count Dmolxould lnfnbbed;fl:ne to undertake the Grandi, Mussolini’s foreign minister nancial burden attached. and ambassador to London. I | special staff writer. Miss Arne 0 Rl e Tty she had been ordered to report in ImERIoR DEPI ‘messuge doRoTiaRd xuxuefi\ed that he believed the time Way and Decker. The displays are| w 4 for a crisis had arrived and that open between 1 o'clock in the after-| America Society. After this term PUBLIC SCHOOLS | route, who had to be sure that nothing went wrong with the show in any way. As for OWI service, take the case of Sigrid Arne, Associated Press Quebec, although the quota already rank of colonel. The President also| which has hung over us since Pearl | announced that Gen. George C | Harbor has been removed, and the | Marshall's appointment as chief of ROrthern route to Japan lies open. staff of the Army will be continued ‘Alaskans have hitherto exceeded indefinitely: { their quotas on every loan drive. I Hl'ol certain they can be counu-d on Five Reasons | thrust at Hitler's “new order. Passon and violence, in a sense, approaching a crisis and the course of direction for the duration is to be a struggle, was implied in | the Pope's address. Althcugh he mentioned no country the war was in, or very near, its this purpose. Anyone interested in|arrived on schedule and the “ats viewing the exhibits each day are tack presumably in progress.” free to do so. No report has been received One tent is located directly across none is expected until the radio si- from the Juneau Drug Co. on Front lence can be broken i and Seward streets and the other| - i noon and 8 o'clock in the evening. 4 expired, he was elected a member £ : was full. The answer Wwas this: “As ofrl(lAl HER . of Et:t: i:xecm:e Committee in 1934, soon as we get your clearance, Miss wl’:’;’;fl’:‘;‘;fi;’fi“;fi; fl‘:;e’:;’:n‘;‘j:‘;g* last great act. | Following is a schedule of the| n as as April 21, 1937, o“ opE“I“G D‘Y Arne (it came through the next, | ——————— {daily exhibits: Sept. 1 and 2 at| morning), well call Quebec and| Benjamin W. Thoron, Director of (Continued on Page Two) Tent No. 1—small arms display; | after Mussolini had horrified the civilized world with his rape of de-! fenseless Abyssinia, had torn down' The Juneau Public Schools opened the peace machinery of the League, today at 10 o'clock for registration make your hotel reservations and while we are at it, we'll get one of the women on the phone and find the Division of Territories and Is- land Possessions of the Department of the Interior, arrived in Juneau THREE OUTFITS POHUIU GEYSER SHOOTS UP FOR | AUKLAND, New Zealand, Sepi. i Tent No. 2—Browning machine gun | cal. 50; September 3 at Tent No. 1— ngm machine gun and mortar, Tent | AlEUlIANSf demonstration. Tent No and was pouring arms into Spain of pupils, assignment of classes and out whether you need summer or A % ) today on a Pan American Airways | No. 2—clothing and equipment to support, a Fascist dictator, Mar- | distribution of text books. This year woolen clothes. ; e o Bt ! pUR(H ASED A‘I’ | September 4 at Tent o, T Hatvy . (3 3 ne ik ek 2 4 Lyasloy R . 1. 3 On that date, he was reported in| the high school. Both figures are |nskp: (He iyl wialt tho fpferior. | w vand equipment; September 5 andGen. L. DeWitt, commanding the * | L Hv ! | 1 6 at Tent No. l-—chemical warfare| western Defense Command, has ! ik, X 2—light received the Distinguished Service' il . higher than for the same time last oo of s, Ambassador Bavicn Y6 GROUSE SEASON 24 Mes. 20 P Mo 1§ Fiaikiin D Reminiid hia | Tomorrow morning regular class- Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Munter left! py, representatives from the arm- ’Nr-w Zeclbht Sonis Browghit B th :::L;ug:dg:;l;Luf;:“:!m':‘:m] ‘Zm)t::x]g fv:mml :md(;x dtxunou il'.nulcln:;; “ nspired and animated” leadership’ given by the Italy-America Society. Yet Marshall Field’s newspaper | es will start at the same time as in now pounds away almost daily at former years, at 8:45. A teachers’ everyone who ever received a Fas- mee":mi wa‘s h:;d ““? motming a.t cist: decoration. b | 8 o'clock prior opening the doors IS OPEN TODAY; DEER ON SEPT. 16 | South. He heads the M. P. Munter | Construetion by Pan. American Airways for the eq forces were “outfitted” last night by Juneau men, women and children Co. which has been who purchased War Bonds and doing work on the Glacier Highway Stamps during the rally at | Twentieth Century Theatre. the | Rotorua where she viewed the fam- | ed thermal attractions at Whak- | arewarewa, and with a Maori guide saw pools of boiling mud water She exclaimed: “Well now, that is and equipment, arms display; No. 2—display of heavy Tent No. 2—small lof the troops which ousted the Japs: September 11 at Tent from the Aleutlans. The presenta- 1—communications, Tent No.! was ordered by President tion machine gun Roosevelt. Gen. DeWitt already had’ f the school to the returning | here. NOTE: Real fact is that Gener-| & | g Pl oo f 080 Pope went to Rome in 1987 at students. — - | As each piece of GI clothing was| peally beautiful,” when a Pohutu cal. 30; September 12 and 13 alione so he gets an Oak Leaf cluster —————— The grouse season opened here| Barrie G. Clarke, assistant recr -|“auctioned off” on the stage, indi- | | geyser played to a height of 60 feet Tent No. 1—light machine gun and o, wear with the first. i b mortar and heavy machine gun, it the request of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to try to dissuade Mussolini Josephine White this morning very quietly with only a few school boys out early to try ation diréctor for Bechtol, Price viduals in the audience stepped for- and Callahan, contractors, arrived ward to buy enough stamps to equal and shot boiling water and steam in the brilliant sunshine. Tent No. 2 icals. small arms and chem- RELEASE PRISONER f'x;o;t; whfl?';l?l“:nhea::‘s“s:]fl::; & their luck before settling down to|here from Whitehorse yesterday on the cost of the various articles AR i SRS A. B. Phillips, recently of Excurs} i ; needed to fully outfit e - ; i A R 3 h } to lay a wreath on the tomb of the Re'urns. Va(ahon work during the school year. a PAA plane. 1\'”:'“" o fully outfit each sailor or | pON HAGERTY HERE A special communications display |sion Inlet, held on a charge of is- Unknown Soldier, and that was the r The season on deer opens Septem- - - oldie i ON WAY TO NOME|Dhas been scheduled for September guing checks without sufficient , as ber 16, and duck shooting will com- [INDIAN OFFICE TEACHER One complete outfit was pur-| po, gagerty, Field Representative |+ Which will be held at the vacant junds, was let off with a six- monm" occasion of PM's picture of him| ;oepnine White, assistant in the mence September 21 ON WAY TO ASSIGNMENT chased by Steve Vukovich, well | lof the Division of Territories sud) lot in front of the American Legion | suspended sentence today pmvld- giving the Fascist salute. Alaska Historical Library and Mu- —— - Margaret Pirkey, teacher for the :l')"‘;w:m;’:':;iu”;l:lf:‘r": ;"0](;"’:;:2 Island Possessions, Department of | Pugout. jing he pays the money back. | JORN L. LEWIS DESERTS |°cU returned to Juneay last night| CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE |Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, Tl Won 50 iete ouffits were {the Interior, is here from Seattle| S i ] WILLKIE after her vacation in the south.| ON TOMORROW AFTERNOON |left Juneau by PAA yesterday for .. .c.q by the following indi- | his way to Nome. |CARL. MUBSO LEAVES ¢ s 8 00 0 0 00 o % ihe' Bisiosie politioal While below Mrs. White visited her | Tne regular weekly Child Health | Fairbanks enroute to a teaching f yiq ore. Hagerty, who represents the Ter-| FOR VACATION 'TRIP ® DIMOUT TIMES . ’ speeches of the 1940 campaign came d“fl:wr 1p Tis Angeles and her | conference will be held tomorrow |#Ssignment in the Interior, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas, Capt. D.|fitory on food problems, arrived on C.“” Daen, of ST, 0. Weather) 8 b son, “Strolier” White, his wife and | afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock - - - |W. Dean, Lieut. Lowell Addis, Const |® Pan American Airways plane. Bureau, left by PAA for Whitehorse ® Dlimout begins tonight e yesterday on his way to the St e at sunset at 8 o'clock. . when John L. Lewls deserted Roose- | cpjjgren in Fullerton, where Mr. at the Health Center in the Terri- TWO NEW RADIO Guardsmen Paul Hoffman and Ray- " 2B R on vacations | Dimout ends tomorrow ® ie. "’fl' o;:" meh:d s White is purchasing agent for one | torial Building, OPERATORS Hru mond Kline, Mrs. Michael Haas,| MICKEY CROWELL LEAVES | v b”fl m“ """""‘, = lof the largest fruit and vegetable — -, Robert Otto Daly and Peter M. Mrs. Gertrude Wood, Mrs. Risen,| Mickey Crowell, daughter of Mr. P {® at sunrise at 5:57 a.m. * most powe! supporte! canneries. fn California. Hebert B. Carbray, with the Boynton, Pan American Airways Nathalie Bailey, Shirley Risen, and Mrs, Pred Orowell, has left for| Robert Sommers of the Sommers ® Dimout begins Thursday at e Construction Co. arrived here bye sunset at 7:57 p.m. ® contributed more than $250000 to Mrs. White met many former Ju- LA I G TR (Continued on Page Four) |neauites while on her trip. ;s Seattle Hardware Company, Is in (radio operators, arrived here yes- Juneau. He is at the Baranof Hotel terday on assignment. Stuart Johnson, Wilber Seivers. Ger- ald Shaw, and Dean Johnson . | the South to attend the Pacifio Lutheran College. PAA from Fairbanks, 4