The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1943, Page 1

i DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9439. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1943. INVASION FORCES ADVANCE IN ITALY Jap Convoy Attacked, 3 Transports Sunk AP Features DESTROVER | ses wos Avemca ciom™ [ANCASTERS AMERICA'S INVASION FLEET NEW ALLIED ATH VESSEL | SET AFIRE Balloon Béfiage Fails fo! Halt Attack - Nippon Move Discovered ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 4.— Three Japanese transports of a convoy were sunk by Allied bombers near Wewak, New Guinea, and a destroyer and fourth transport were set afire. In the attack on the convoy, twelve Zeros were shot down The Japs used a balloon barrage in a futile attempt to halt the at- tack. This is the first mention in a month that Jap convoys were 1n the vicinity of Northeastern New Guinea where the enemy has re- lied almost entirely on barges to supply reinforcements. The transports were 7,000 ton freight ships. Thirteen other of the 35 attack- (Com.lnm-?i on Page Three) The V;ashington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Don't be sur- prised if ‘Hollywood opens one of the | ! strongest —and strangest — lobbie: ever set up in washington. The film comp:=lies are making plans to this effect, and the Jobby would not be to influence legislation, but to keep Congress acquainted with the multiple problems of Hollywood. ' The film industry now ranks, after farming, automobiles and steel, as one of the most important | in the U. 8. A. .The farm lobby is all-powerful in ‘Wwashington. Auto- | mobiles and steel are potently rep- resented through the U. S. Cham- per of Commerce, the National Manufacturers’ Association, as well| as their own private lobbies. | By Hollywood so far has let it.s: views percolate to Congress through glamour girl photos plus Wwill Hays' | peregrinations between New York, | Washington and Hollywood. Both have been equally ineffec jve. Will Hays is now as dead pol tically as the Haeding Administra- tion which spawned him. He car- ryies no weight in Washington. Two years ago, the film moguls hoped that the appointment of ‘Wendell Willkie as counsel in the Senate “smear” investigation, and later his chairmanship of 20th Cen- tury Fox, would help Hollywood. But today, through no fault of willkie as his objection to what he calls “New Deal propaganda” in Mission to Moscow. That is why film industry leaders want to establish a streamlined, non-political lobby right in the Na- tion’s capitol. | | | CAPITAL CHAFF | Quite a few Italian soldiers in sicily undressed, hid their uniforms, | put on overalls and went home to work to avoid becoming prisoners; % » » Tom Corcoran, the ex-Brain Truster, is helping his old friend Mayor Ed Kelly and his ex-Boss Jesse Jones in a proposed amalga- mation of Chicago's street car lines, buses, elevated and alleged subway » = » Milo Perkin got off to Mexico to be gone until November—the first vacation in seven years * * " The State Department’s chief of the American Republics Division, blue-blood conservative Phil Bon- sal, thinks “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is entirely suitable for for- eign distribution. Paramount cen- sored most of the anti-Franco criti- cism out of it * * * When forth- right ex-assistant secretary of war Louis Johnson got back from India nis report was so critical of the British that State Department of- ficials scarcely believed parts of it. But after Ambassador Bill Phillips B (Continued on Page Four) ERE are the landing 1 craft that will carry in- 3 vading American troops to the shores of Europe. Test- ed in Sicily, and of differ- ent sizes and designs, they have one aim: to bring war home to the enemy. UNITS SENT - OVERSTRAIT [ British andVCa;adians Get | Firm Hold on 10-Mile Briqgehead (By Associated Press) | British and Canadian troops have (clamped a firm held on a 10-mile t | bridgehead including Reggio Cala- b | bria and San Giovanni and are plunging ahead against weak oppo- \ ’filllmls only and many hundreds of Dock landing ship, one of new, ‘, “'i;«];‘l,“;,,“]'." hul‘l:(‘lldt‘l'l‘ng‘ Aot et has uses:shIl uns | ne Italian Headquarters acknow- France and sowed mines in enemy disclosed by Navy. ot - g ey : » - e France - “I-m (-d'g.;wm] :lw Italian toe, plus the i : The British lost 22 bombers over | Lcr Lcve [ ”t;ln(-y ('.\: n‘\: S | Germany. The German broadcast \ : . ¥ ol S Kb hetaa | cla Melito o Cape Spartivento. Berlin. Later the German communigue however, declared the Allied at- tempts to land behind the ad- vanced Axis lines has been re- 'DROPBOMBS. OVERBERLIN | 22 Planes ERie'prorted Lost- Calais and Dunkerque Also Hit by Planes { | { | | LONDON, Sept. 4—A erent bom- | | | | | | | ) bardment by a fleet of Lancasters smashed Berlin last night for 20 minutes from a clear sky with tons | of fire bombs and steel = # b It was described by the British | § 4 - $ Air Ministry as “highly concen- ’-C" e s '”m“”‘%w i trated | S 3 . i Other British airmen beat the | This large infantry landing craft can cross the ocean under in | its own power. Men debark from gangways along each side, protected by anti-aircraft guns. | enemy by flying over fields WIFE OF A U. 5. NAVY ENSIGN, Mrs. Marjorie Wietinger, of West Med-, ford, Mass., has been selected as the prettiest married woman in the Boston area. She will represent Massachusetts in the “Mrs. America”™ beauty contest this month at Palisades Park, N. J. (International) | AFTERNOON ATTACK | LONDON, Sept. 4.-—A scant twelve | hours after the Berlin bombardment, Allied aircraft roared across the channel and observers reported big 1 explosions from the direction of i i THREATENED Calais and lnmk.:q:-. 2ot | __ BY RED ARMY. DIRECTOR OF. , Giab-Allod masin— DESIGNS JOB ek iz it vt SURRENDER wi | hore. It's in test run hare. of miles on its own power. i : Divides Strength ’ . g 6 | A l I_ A R MS Landing ship for tanks, about 300 feet fong, carries other |Pulsed craft on decks and in davits. Tanks below deck leave | Allied Headquarters announce new \hrough gate in exirems B | Allied renforcements are pouring (across Messina Strait and the “ad- | vance is continuing.” | No mention is made in any com- munique this morning regarding |the American Seventh Army. e i | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—James The conquering Red Army over- D, Lecron, former Des Moines, Towa, ran more than 400 villages Friday |newspaperman and friend of Vice- smashing a 12-mile gain and threat- President Wallace resigned as di- ening early seizure of the Donets! rector of the Food Supply Division steel center of Stalino and the nor-| under Nelson Rockefeller, Inter- thern Ukraine citadel of Konotop. American Affairs Coordinator, and Moscow disclosed officially today wrote the latter that he couldn't that a four-mile lunge on the cen-'abide by the State Department’s tral front also carried the Russians|“interference, obstruction and un- over the bodies of 4200 enemy! intelligent dictation.” % A L g oy T 7] | troops to a point within 40 miles of | S g craft for mechanized equipment carries tanks, Craft for vehicles and personnel Also - Dictator Gives Order STOCKHOLM, Sept. 4, — Gen. Von Hannecken, Nazi military dic- the major base at’ Smolensk, whence i 7 " & . . e | ‘lhc G‘,:rmi,m tried to take MOSCOW no'gv;_{s_q artillery, heavy vehicles. It works like this hauls either soldiers or trucks and ‘::“"D in Dl':nmark,dtudfly ordered i . G ) ot W, Mppcoy S ‘Marihe. Cor tigrocodils boat.” - - - = == _light cars. e Danes to surrender all weapons {two years ago. The Germans are EVA(UATION (-1 ocodi b ey gl e e ‘m.d ammunition by Sepember 7 |under pain of severe punishment, apparently in headlong retreat in lhg Donets Basin, and are alao‘ ] possibly death, being hurled back at other major war In i sl 1 G AR points along the 600-miile front. ! 4"0 RESTRI("ON A communique recorded in Lon- ot @ ' |don from the Soviet monitor said! oo s NALIORDER Of Purple Heart Is To Celebrate ~ ON AMMUNITION BEAUTY —Blue-eyed Frances General Kurt Dittmar declared in Virginia Eakes (above), 18, of |a broadcast that military develop-| Chattanooga, will represent Ten- ' ments in Russia are “re ‘ . B gosie il : ~ FOR TERRITORY nessee in the 1943 Miss America |critical” because of the necessity oi} BERN, Sept. 4. — A German ow u y xp alne { n a or ayx 4 ;4. a | I | | : | pageant. | dividing the German strength o'y ., ier dispatch said the Nazi gov- ; 1 Dealers May Place Orders | - T | evacuate Vienna, the entire popu- g | kmoln being Aiinslruuled to go to BY JACK STINNETT {with the civilian populations of na-| juneau Labor will celebrate La-| —-But Supply Is | southern Austria WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Answer- | tions retaken from the Axis. v " | Austr a s. bor Day this year by selling wa lim"ed | cover the Allied threats in the West. | emment has decided that Italians b | | T 5 ing the atl apers: | Nevertheless, all of these agen-|ponds at the Labor Sales Booth in| pRI(E low 1 GIVEN IODAY DIMOUI SH'E[DS B. DeB, Sitka, Alaska—CONtrary cies feel they are separate gen-|frong of the First National Bauk| 1 ' y | to popular misconception, the Or- cies with specific, indispensable | Monday night from 7 to 10 (m(*,k{ Executive Officer Frank Dufresne der of the Purple Heart is not duties. Besides hustling the bond sale,|0f the Alaska Game Commission prings to light| Station KINY has donated time for|announced today that he has been | | E DRAFT BoARD‘ Io BE REMOVED given l-‘u:-ry man wmn!ded in a\\lxul{.‘ A quick survey : | By order of President Hoover,| iho folowing, with a very brief|labor. The American Federation of |advised the War Production Board | | Released by the local Draft Board the ditak Kot e are the following new listings: | ON WES'I' COAS'[ e citation was revived on the suement of their duties Labor of Juneau has arranged for|hes decided these will be no.imes occasion of the George Washing- (j) AMGOT-the Allied Military |a short program, with local musical | Striction on the sale of ammunition e tot Sjowpfenziibl balabration, Feb. Government of Occupied Territories, talent, which will be heard startin:! " Alaska this year. 1-A—Hervey E. Aldridge, George . 1033, and the words of the ori-|wpich takes over as soon as the at 8 pm. Monday, and on Sunday| Scawabecher Mardware Gom 4 _ The| Bageen, Jr, Gene H. Covey, George WASHINGTON, Sept. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 4 Northern Commercial Co., and Se- : A C. Denman, Floyd S. Epperson, Sig- Office of Price Administration today i DX p.CE i ¢ N rinal: cohenanderdn-ch - authorized price increases of half-|Urd Fause, Albert W. Fleek; Clayton | —Dimout shields on authorized traf- ginal commander-in-chief, in cre-|,mies have moved on afternoon, at 5:15 o'clock the Ju-! o 3 & denbata ‘one. gent per’ pRckage on o Fiock: Mictigel IWOERAEh Gaw- |fic lights may be removed on the |ating the order, were used: (0| (2) Office of Foreign Relief andnean Central Labor Commitee has Sl HeTAWNN. 0. a1l of. St 8 9 | entire west coast except those areas persons in the United States AYmY gepapilitation— the Herbert H. also arrange ; ., and Hunt and Moffett of Tacoma, 2. ehabilits also arranged for a short musical pueecia said have available for ryluke, Jewell J. Hill, Vernon tfi:nd:“:}t mgarumtsftiu “eliol::g;\l.;fludgfis. Sven Honkala, Frank J“ck_‘vlalblg from mf- sea on six sp«:cfh_(-mho perform any singular meri- penman committee-—whose respon- program and each organization willl o) la . " tes, Lo the m B e K Sotinaon George | bodies of water inclding the Stralt tous act extraordinary fidelity Of gibility is providing relief and re- be given s bt tov it T sa e A GRRIIE. the Tollawith s mum retail of 13 cents a single|galiey Agafon Krukoff, Gerry Me- |Of Juan de Fuca, the Regional essential service.” habili < ¢ e I e talen’ Tonth| LA A0 oaliee Ioue Iy package purchase or 124 cents for| Giil. Walter F. MacKinnon, Richard | Office of Civilian Defense stated| The misconception undoubtedly \abilitation and coordinating the cize their day for the sales booth.|cartridges, 190,000 rounds of 30-30s, V| efforts of civilian relief agencies. - - 2,000 of 30-06 cartridges, 35000 of two or more | McRoberts, Dagiel Malavansky, today. arises because the order specified s, 10,000 35 calibre Remington, It denied the manufacturer’s pe-'Tawrence Mallach, Earl A. Misoff, - {hat citations prior to Feb. 22, 1932, 50000 of 12 260,000 of 12-gauge shotgun shells, tition for price increases on stan-|Gregory Nozekof, Edward Q. Paine,! hou ; 3 e o rarfs ) . o} " ‘ should be for members of the| (3) Office of Economic Warfare ; s O(K 0 o A“ONS AEF. who had received the meri-|Whose chief interest will be In see- rug ores o i'”lrliulr?-é mnsa( :S-E:::flvc;hfl:fi ry sne s 1s 1s a vel dard brands on the grounds that|Thomas Powers, George Peter Ra- | tous service citation dertificate, or| - limited supply compared with former an increase in volume of sales en-:kmky, Hugh Rudolph, Richard Shu- | ~— ables them to absorb the increased |man. Royal A. Smith, Daniel Stan-| NEW YORK, Sept. 4. — Closing 2 Al ke Y p (Continued on Page Three) | costs. { worth, Nicolai Stepentin, William L. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ::,],'(:.,m::,“)(::,'l:,,f”:‘“,’\(,h,(,x f::‘,.,‘“,::'f:: years and that it will be up to R ALl ‘Sloddflrd.Rohm'l P ieha Kasew | stock’ at today's short sesslon 18 |ire S T0cos the wound chovron, |® © ® © 8 & o o o 3 & ose 0“ ayi"*’“""'“ b FRaa0 e MUKV > i Tvedt, Wallace C. Tkyeward, Will- | 6%, American Can 84, Anaconda | e g g 1 DIMOUT TIME A out very carefully to those who COUPLE WED HERE liam A. Vivian, Ralph Vogel. Gud- | 25%. Bethlehem Steel 59, Common- SR S8 WAQs are now. fReid- | 2 2 need it the most. He said he pre- BY COMMISSIONER | mund Winther, Kenneth L, Wood, | Wealth and Southern %, Curtiss| " of the U. Army, there ls T ® | S the first time in tHe history |*Umed that sny ‘desler in Alasks 1-A (L) Wilfred L. Fleek. | Wright 71¢, International Harvester nothing in the order to prevent|® Dimout begins tonight e 5 BRRAN deve stores. db this city | €an order from the companies. Steve Magboo of Seattle and .y, _ Holger Sofus Larsen,| 68%. Kennecott 31, New York Cen- them getting the citation e at sunset at 7:31 oclock @ Lurp Tk all day next Monday R i ES Minnie Fulton of Sitka were mur-\(,m.1 Russo, Alexander Sokoloff, | tral 15%, Northern Pacific 14, Unit- Incidentally, the citation e Dimout ends tomorrow ® po.uiniqy the drug Sts bavk ob- ALMA THOMAS HERE ried by U. S. Commissioner FeliX|pon .o williams. 'l ed States Steel 52. created at the instigation of o at sunrise at 6:04 am ¢ mtved: Baliday lmu',\ !|uln‘| "“, ¢ Alma V. Thomas, registered at Gray yesterday afternoon in (‘uurl.; 1-C—Stanley DeLong, James H.| Dow, Jones averages today are as German, General Washington es- ® Dimout begins Sunday at ®lp o pyt next Mlmd;’n} nix the Baranof, is here from Chilkoot Witnesses were Ruby Ebna and|yiodges, Vernon J. Joyer, George M. | follows: Industrials, 137.33; fails, tablished it in 1782 on the recom-|® sunset at 7:49 pm ® " This means that you will have to Barracks at Haines. 0. B. Paquiz. | Moore. Claude Woolman, |3437; utilities, 2135, mendation of Baron von Steuben. |® Dimout ends Monday at @/ check up on your toilet articles, etc., B i R TSR, . R | 2.A(H)—Leland Dunlap. 7 S {® sunrise at 6.06 a.m. ® and make purchases by 9 o'clock SKAGWAY VISITORS HERE FROM SITKA } 2-B—Richard Hoyez. | AT BARANOF H( C. L. R., Trenton, N. J.—You are ® Dimout begins Monday at @ tonight or from noon to 6 p. m Mrs. Connie Tucker and Miss Here from Sitka, Mrs. Clarence| 4-F—Lowell W. Hayhes, David| Arne Boe, here from Pelican, is!right in saying that “a surprising . sunset at 7:45. ® Sunday, because you will draw a Charlotte Kardau, both of Skagway, Moy is at the Baranof. ;‘\mum. registered at the Baranof. number of agencies” will be dealing|® ® ® ® ® @ ® ® ® & o 6 ¢ | blank Monday are staying at the Baranof, i z e