The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1943, Page 1

(3 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9437. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBE R’ AIR Allies Closing Upon Another J (anadian Parllamenl Hears Presldenl WIPE OUT Salamaua Under Fire TWO ENEMY A W AL POSITIONS L Salamaua @ned fo Fall? as Arillery Com- | mands Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACFIC, Sept. 2.—The Japs of two strongly dug- in positions south and southwest of Salamaua, New Guinea airdrome, finally have been overwhelmed by American and Australian jungle fighters. ‘The Allied forces are now ing in on the main base. Allied artillery commands most of the enemy defenses from ridges overlooking Salamaua, and accurate fire from these guns have sapped the garrison's power to resist by sinking supply barges. Allied torpedo boats also been taking terrific toll of rein- forcements along with planes in| the New Guinea coastal waters. | our surface forces sunk 12 Jap barges at Huon Gulf where a Jap clos- have (Continued on Page Three) - The Washington, Logui village. Harboy and its airport to be brought under artillery fire. Inset details progress of Allied column from a point 44 airline miles from Port Moresby vlrmally to Salamaua. SALAMAUA Bayern Bay NEW BRITAIN Rabaul \ | | Arrows indicate advancing American and Australian troops which | have reached a semi-circular front (line) enabling Japanese Salamaua | Allies also raided Merry - Go- RoundV By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen op active duty.) WASHINGTON—A sltuauon which may bring the entire Nex,m question to the floor of the Demo- ‘ cratic National Convention is brew- cey Sparks is laying pLum. first, to'! elect a pungently anti-New Deal|” delegation to represent his state in, the Democratic Convention. Sec-| ond, he proposes to make a speech | on the floor of the Convention on the race issue, denouncing Mrs.| Roosevelt, and attempting to uh-' tain adoption of a plank in the | Democraic platform for white su-| WASHINGTON, Sept. premacy. | Food ‘Administration has suspended | Pest His moves have met with the vig- Ameman Plane Is Reds 'Secret Weapon; Orders Are Piled Up By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. ‘This must necessarily be a story without | names. orous opposition of certain of Ala- | the slaughter of livetsock to increase | bama's libe Democrats, led by | the civilian meat supplies, The move forthright Col. Harry Ayres of the IS also made to stimulate the early “Anniston Star.” They feel that | movement of livestock to the market any anti-Negro move such as that| and relieve the drain on feed sup- proposed by Gov. Sparks would do "1“" the country no good, would nlien‘xte‘ millions of colored voters in New; York, Philadelphia and Chicagu,_ and would definitely swing the Negro vote securely back to its tra- ditional position in Republican columns. As a result, one of the hottest | pre-convention battles of the South is already on in Alabama over send- ing an anti-Roosevelt or pro-Roose-{ velt - delegation to the Democrauc; National Convention. | NOTE—War Department execu-i tives are aghast at the Sparks pro-| posal, say it would play directly into the hands of Jap propagand-| ists, already doing a good job of} harping on the color issue in the Orient, “U. OF W. BELLE WINS FILM ROLE HULL'S AMBITIONS | War Secretary of State Hull went to the White House to demand the custing of the man who had served as his chief aide for ten long years, the President replied: | ‘Why don't you fire him, you're! the boss over there.” | Mr. Hull mumbled that he didn't) feel he was the man to do it, so later in the day, Roosevelt called| in Undersecretary of State Sumner| Welles and broke the news that he| was to be relieved of his post. ‘ Fourth graduate of the University What the President probably| of Washington at Seattle to win didn’t know was that the major, her way to stardom in filmland is break between Welles and Hull had | pretty Jean Hearther, known on occurred in 1940 over the question| the campus as Jean Hetherington. of a third term. | She wis “signed up” for a test on | | | orders direct at our plant.” ‘The Russians are making a run on one of our airplane manufacturing companies. The plane the company 2. — The | turns out is admittedly one of our but it isn't an all-purpose {for two months all limitations on | Plane. The company vice-president tell- ing the story put it in this way: “We were amazed at first, when Russian orders piled up higher than our heads; but we were completely | dumbfounded when reports from the Russian front began to drift back that our plane was knocking Nazi fighter planes out of the air three and four to one. “We also heard that the plane, flown by Russians, could turn on a | dime and was maneuverable in and out of small temporary or hastily built airfields. “You can imagine our interest. We immediately started querying the Russians. We asked them what changes they were making in the plane that made such operations possible. That was a good many months ago, but not one word of information have we received. I guess our plane is a Russian military secret that even we can't find uul‘ iabout.“ 1 asked him if the orders for the | plane came through lend-lease. “They not only come through lend-lease, but through every other possible cannel. They even place he said. (That's a severence of red tape--by- | passing government agencies—that | | no nation has dared to use since we got into war.) “Not only that,” my informant wailed, “but when we started pro- duction recently of a new and im- proved model that was so secret that lonly a few of our own engineers and top-ranking Army officials knew anything about it, we got a direct order from the Russians for 500 a month of the new models. That order came in before we'd even flown a test flight. “Apparently something new has been added and our engineers would Mr. Hull had been led by Jim| gommencement Day in Seattle. |give years off their life to know Farley to believe that the Demo-| cratic ticket in 1940 should be Hull| for President, Farley for Vice- (Continued on Page Four) two feminine lead roles with Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens and in an Otis Skinner novel. I Since then she has been given |What it is’ In spite of the trrmendnm numlwr l(.unlxnurd on Ps,ge Three: PRESIDENT, HULL HIT - (OLUMNIST Drew Pearson Jumped on for Charge Against State Dept. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 columnist Drew Pei author of Washinglon Merry- Round, had the big guns of Presi- dent Roosevelt and Secretary of | State Cordell Hull aimed at him | today. | Hull termed as “monstrous and diabloical falsehoods” the charges in.nmn made that Hull and other | ington thigh State officials wished the | Soviet Union “bled white.” | Pearson, whose column appears President Roosevelt (on rostrum) tell them that if H tier daily in the Daily Alaska Empire, Conference they would realize that | answered, “T hope Mr. Hull’s denial luf my charge that he is anti-Rus- ||sian will stand up better than his ‘lr‘('L‘lH denial that Sumner Welles | will resign.” (Welles laid his resignation on the | President’s desk recently and then took a trip to Maine. Pearson had |reported the move in his column, {but Hull had denied it.) | The President, meanwhile, said Ithings are coming along pretly weil |with respect to a triparte confer- ence of Russia, Britain and the United States, singling Pearson out |for criticism at the same time. The | President said he had been as much ‘dm\ubod as Hull by Pearson’s com- DANES STAND ment that Hull afid other high |State Department officials were 4‘ anti-Russian, that such comment | was detrimental not only to foreign relations but 'also to the unity of the United Nations in winning the NAZI REGIME war. } The President said the column 2 represcnted an act of bad faith - P toward this mans county 1e FOrmMer Prime Minister Re- said the writer was a chronic liar President Roosevelt also said that Government Sept 2 kind of journalism hurt the press of !lll(’ nation. Pearson promptly repeated the e STOCKHOLM, Eric | contention that Hull display an scanevius, Danish Prime Minister | “anti-Russian attitude” and added: who resigned the post when Ger- “If the President needed a scape- goat, I'm glad if anything I have said now forces the administration to make clear by words, what cer- tainly was not clear before, that the Russians are fully aware of many clamped military dictatorship on Denmark last weckend, has de- clined the offer of the Nazi gime to feym g new government, according to Danish vefugees arriv- ing here re- Pearson added that he has been to discuss, the situation of the pos- ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL - MEETAGAIN | Government. Hannecken, it is wmd is anxious to have the Danes |handle civil affairs with the Nazis retaining the power through tial law to punish saboteurs u.ppnm disorders, is said by the refugees that strikes of last Monday were ended when Hannechen threatened shoot every tenth worker. - 'BthPmM fer Ar- ¢ ‘ InI;ed ::1 \ilaslhlzlnsg?onr 2 000 DAN[S Late Ycflerday | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill NAZI pURGE arrived at the White House lut-- STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2 yesterday afternoon from Quebec to spend several days with President Roosevelt in furthering plans of | the war effort. Reports sumed their war discussions last cate that at least 2,000 have been | night, emphasis apparently on col- killed or wounded in fighting that |laboration with Russia. Ibegan before dawn last Sunday be- The President was host to the tween Danish soldiers, sailors and Prime Minister and Mrs. Churchill (civilians and the German Occupa- at dinner last night and in the ab-|tion Army sence of Mrs. Roosevelt, now in New1 Zealand, the President’s hostess was | Mrs, Elliott Roosevelt, wife of the| President’s second son, a Colonel in - - AT BARANOF HOTEL J. G. Ellson and Dah Hitchman are returning to Seattle, stopping ‘)43 Hull's long and, consistent anti- "o 0 o $of tila. £ | Russian’ athitiide and. it diin's take |, SOAueYIISAs ope of the.few Dan- O e thain SbeatiE> ish polit leaders to escape arrest . after last Sunday’s bloody revol. | complimented “and joined by a long H¢ Was asked (o fonm a new cab-| list of newspaper men whom the inel by Gen. von Hannecken, Nazi President has attacked.” Military Dictator. Other members - - of the cabinet refused to even meet with Hannecken or other Germa sibility of establishing a new Danish | re- | mar- | and | | vasion and Mediterranean The President and Churehill re- received here from Denmark indi- the Air Forces and who has just enroute at the Baranof Hotel. They returned from the Mediterranean, are with the Douglas Fisheries | where he is an aerial photographer. Company. = ap Fortress and his ene: Japs' Hasty Flight AtKiska Saved Many , Lives Ior Amemans By N(C MAN BELL (Associated Press War Correspondent) I)\/AN("l'.‘l) ALEUTIAN | BASE, Sept. If the Japanese had fought at Kiska with the weapons | they abandoned in their hasty flight | they would have killed many more Americans than fell at Attu The weapons included machine guns, ha y artillery, anti-aireraft guns, Power plants, communication lines, rubber tires and ammunition dump were not destroyed either. The Japs were either in too much of a hurry or feared the explosions and fires would reveal their plans for flight Kiska beach was so well fortified and organiz American and Canadian troops go- ing hore might have been de- stroyed. Much of the abandoned material is being used by the Allies in build- | ing up a base to carry the war closer to Japan Three midget abzndoned, wrecked, s subs. There was a 50 planes. submarines and two small junk pile of - - INVASION PLANS ARE UNDERWAY : Axis Radio Commeniators Give Out All Dope Allied Moves (By Assor l('d Press) In a series of nervous broadcasts, Axis radio commentators declare the Allies massing for a vast in- armadas, both on the and Britain, are ready .for a two directional con- tinental assault that might be {sprung at any moment Whether these broadcasts are bas- are “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS >d for defense that the | were | In session on the Parliament grounds at Ottawa, O it, members of the Canadian Parliament listen to rals had attended the Quebec War “surrender would pay them better now than later.” ALLIED AIR - OFFENSIVE HITS ITALY Toe of Peninsula Gets Brunt of Attack-War- ship in Action IN The Ttaly toe 46 by ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, S Allied air offen has been concentrated on the of the peninsula for the past hours and carried on mainly fighters and figher-bombers, | Flying Fortresses and most of the medium bombers of the squadrens iwere held to the ground by bad weather for the first time in weeks | Royal Air Force Wellingtons rc- | turned from railway targets at | Aversa, north of Naples, where they | scattered two-ton blockblusters dur- nst ling the night | American Warhaws stabbed the lzine factory at Igles in southwest | Sardinia Step Up Air Offensive Pressing the aerial offensive Italy with even greater American Flying Fortresses Tuesday made a 1,000-mile late vound trip flight from the northwest { African bases to pound the railway lines, airfields and aircraft factory at Pisa. Medium bombers mean- | while delivered strong blows on rail- way communications at Salerno, | Cosenza and Catanzaro in southern llnl\ American Liberators from the Middle t pounded rail installa- |tions yesterday at Pesara on the castern coast of Italy. Freight ym(l\ ‘well covered with bombs re- ,nlnnu in fires and explosions.” Mainland Pounded British battleships joined in a daylight offensive | against the Italian with 16-inch guns poured | bombardment into the enemy ¢ batterfes in the region of Reggio abria on the Italian toe. At one big gun was knocked out and fires were caused, also explosions indicated an ammunition dump had been blown up. BURMA AREAS Two | vesterday heavy ed on fact or in the hopes of glean- | ing information of Allied plans for a sudden spurt is not known but un- casiness is displayed by mentators. The Paris Nazi-controlled radio today gave considerable attention to reports from Lalinea, Spain, which tells of the presence at Gribaltar of two battleships, four aircrafy carriers, 20 cruisers, 48 destroyers and 45 merchantmen. The military commentator of DNB asserts in a Berlin broadcast that “jt cannot be denied the Anglo- (Continued on Page Six) the com- | ARE ATTACKED W DELHI, S ept. 2.—Liberator bombers of, the United States Tenth Air Force dumped a “great weight of explosives on the railway at Mandalay yesterday. Mitchells also attacked the Jap rail installations and communica- tions in other parts of central Burma All planes returned safely. i yards Pl(l(l _TEN CENTS — s BATTLE OVER JAPANESE ISLAND ATTACK ON | | { A (By | mainiand and | astal | {Juneau Elks Lodge last night as | | admitted MARCUS 1§ SEVERE ONE Informahon from Japs | Says Grounded Planes - Are Destroyed Associated Press) carrier: Grumann Fighte |about sixty bombers” that parti- |cipated in the attack on Marcus |Island, the Domei broadcast at To- |kyo said today. The broadcast was picked up in New York. The broadcast also asserted that 12 planes were downed in the at- tack on the Island which is less than 1,200 miles from Tokyo but damage to Japanese grounded planes resulted from the attack. | Another Tokyo broadcdst quoted the Japanese communique and said “although we received slight damage to our planes on the ground, damages inflicted on our personnel and military facilities are almost negligible,” off and Two aireraft nt { “ninety ( Up to this morning, no announce- ment Of the Marcus Island en- gagement came from Washington. | Yesterday's announcement said that presumably, the attack was still in progress but 10 {nformation’ would be received until the “radio silence is broken.” It was however indicated there was complete confidence that the task force was so powerful it would be able to cope with any forces the Japanese might throw against it. The attack was also believed to be a deliberate attempt to confront the Tokyo Admirals in a direct challenge so they would be com- pelled sooner or later to throw the main Japanese fleet into action. Late this afternoon Washington said the big unanswered question in the Pacific is whether the dar- ing U. 8. Navy's raid on Marcus Island is a feint or a well-timed knockout punch. There are three possibilities em- erging from the meager accounts of the spectacular rald, as follo! One—The carrier task force in bombing and shelling ' the island may be preparing the way for oc- cupation, although it is not a big place, in the hands of the United States could serve as an outpost to harry the Japanese communications in the South Pacific, Two—The attack could have been a feint to cover some highly im- portant move elsewhere, conceiv- able the occupation of Wake Is- land or a drive on the vital Jap positions on the Kuriles. I'hree The Navy may have moved in with a slashing hit and run blow for a phychological effect alone. 'ELKS INITIATE 11 CANDIDATES HERE LAST EVE Eleven more new members were added to the swelling ranks of the following candidates were in- | itiated P. T. Allen, F. D. Bachman, Jr., C. I. Cedergren, J. V. Cole, J. W. Freeman, B. L. Holbrook. D. O, McKay, J. A. Norris, A. C. Ostella, A. R. Vacura and C. W. Wallis. e SANDY HOLDEN TO SCHOOL Sandy Holden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Holden, left this morning by steamer for Victoria where he will enter the Glenlyon Preparatory School for boys in that uly LI I B I I B I I I ) . DIMOUT TIMES . . . ¢ Dimout begins tonight e ® at sunset at 7:57 o'clock. . ¢ Dimout ends tomorrow e ® at sunrise at 5:59 a.m. . ® Dimout begins Friday at sun- e ® set at 7:54 p.m.