The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1943, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI, NO. 9440. “ALL THE NEWS A LL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =S ———— | AMERICAN PARATROOPS SURPRISE JAPS INVADERS SMASHING WIDE ARC Two More tfiers Captur- ed-Wedge Driven from Coast fo Inland ALLIED HPADQUARTER§ NORTH AFRICA, Sept, 7. — The British Eighth Army drove steadily ahead on the Calabrian coastal Road extending the invasion arc around Italy’s southermost tip to about 60 miles and smashed an- other 10 miles inland from the N Rev 'MANY BURN TODEATHIN - HOTEL FIRE Searchers Hunt Through ¢ Santo Stefano sector to Delianuova o tum-‘weet;‘cosst . Smouldering Ruins for The British and Canadian gains extended some distance east col- | umns pushed ahead at least as far| as Palmi while on the south their| Unaccounted Victims | HOUSTON, Texas, charred ruins Sept. T.— Big Push Looming Against Japs; ~The| gperational plal of a small midtown | pl§ eals New Action By JA(K le\NFTT WASHINGTON, Sept. Whllr all eyes were centered on Lh( Que- | bec conference (and nobody was seeing much of anything) the Brit- hh made a move here which may one of the most significant in ()]l‘ whole future of our war in the Pacific, The British Information Service revealed that a special British mili- , naval and air mission had ar- nwd here to study all the problems tactics, weapons, supply, com- munications, transport, and medical | services connected with the war | against Japan. { The point was underlined that | this commission would have no de- cisions to make in connection with ing. All of which adds up to the fact of Melito. The l:.'((’lplul'v of Palmi and Del-|hotel which swept by fire, dis-|that talk that the Quebec confe januova is announced at Headquar- 8orged the bodies of 45 persons and |ence was centered on strategic plans ters today. {searchers are still digging through|for the war against Japan was so With the coast arc held, Mont-.the smouldering building for others much eye-wash. gomery's fighters are now approx- still unaccounted for among the| Missions goncerned wholly with imately on a 60 mile front and the 133 war workers and transients| details about weapons, supply lines, * known to have registered for the etc, aren’t even thought of until wedge driven inland with the ori- ginal bridgehead consists of a tri- angle running about 15 miles east! and northeast of Regio Calabria then to the -coast at Palmi. Indica- tions that the Allies are already speeding farther northward on the coastal road came from the Ger- man High Command in today" communique, picked up here, which said the “British attack north of Palmi has been repelled.” Although the Axis Monday reported by the German and Italian Commands said evacu- tion of southern Calabrian had been affected, today’s Nazi bulle- tins said “on the Calabrian (Cmmmwd on Pnge Three) The Washlngion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARoON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Just as he did in the Wallace-Jones showdown,, the President is ousting one of his most loyal supporters by accepting the resignation of Undersecretary of State Welles. For exactly ten years Welles has been the President’s chief adviser and administrator on the diplomatic front. He initiated Roosevelt's highly successful Good Neighbor policy, took the rap on a lot of things he didn't initiate, and, like Henry Wallace, never made a move without knowing the President thor- oughly approved. But like Wallace, Welles is now being ousted. As with Wallace also, Welles case involves a showdown with the conservative, or southern wing, of the Democratic Party. Where the President picked be- tween Jesse Jones and Wallace in regard to Economic Warfare, he has now chosen between Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. HULL DEMANDED SHOWDOWN Inside story is that Secretary Hull, spurréd on by Mrs. Hull, call- ed for a showdown with the Presi- dent, declaring that either his Undersecretary of State must re- sign or he, Hull, would get out. The President has known Welles since the latter was a boy in knee breeches. Welles and Mrs. Roose- velt had the same godmother. Welles was a pageboy at the Roose- velt wedding. ~Later, when Roose- velt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he got Welles his first appoint_ ment to the diplomatic service. broadcasts' Pen-| night's lodging. Eye witnesses said many escapes. after midnight. | The fire quickly cut off one of |} s the two fire escaps and the inside k | Prime Minister Churchill and Presi- of the three story bri was likewise made impas stairway building sable. The building was one of the old- est in Houston. The fire was so hot, could not lay ladders building. against - - 'NEWEST SIGNAL | CORPS ENROLLEE | ARRIVES HERE Kenneth Francis Rudolph, latest | enlistee in the Signal Corps here, | was born last evening at St. Ann’ Hospital to Sgt. and Mrs. Tom Rudolph. The young fellow tipped | the scales at seven pounds, two ounces, The Rudolphs have a little girl, Vonnie Lee, seven years old. The proud father is traffic chief at the Signal Corps, U.'S. Army,| here and the mother is the former well known Juneau girl, Mary Len- {non, Both baby and mother are doing splendidly. Volunteer Nurses’ Aides Will Meet - At 8 This Evening| ‘There will be an important meet- ing of all Volunteer Nurses' Aides of Gastineau Channel tonight at 8 o'clock in the basement of the Nor- thern Light Pyesbyterian* Church. Certificates for the third class of Nurses’ Aides will be given out at this time. All three classes are u)ged to be present. i §5I3 R ‘Condems Wartime Liquor Restrictions NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—The dele- ! gates to the Marine Corps League convention have adopted a resolu- tion condemning wartime liquor re- strictions as prohibition’s entering wedge. - - MRS. FENTON HERE Mrs. Dave Fenton, here from Sit- ka, is at the Gastineau Hotel. The blaze was discovered shortly the firemen! the |the major operational strategies are men |laid out. , ' jumped from windows and the fire| | The broad outlines for a com- bined British-American - offensive against the Nips must have been aid down long ago—probably at {the Washington conference between ent Roosevelt last May Th when Generals Stilwell, Chennault, Evatt (from Australia) and Wavell (from India) were present and re- |porting. It is possible that at that time, too, there was a decision to appoint a new Southeast Asia com- {mander to lead the operations |against Burma, the recently named | Lord Louis Mountbatten. There are two important things about the new British mission that seem to have been overlooked: (1) Tts composition. It is headed by Maj. Gen. J. 8. Lethbridge, one of England’s most distinguished of- ficers in the Royal Engineers. Naval members are topped by Real Ad- miral F. H. W. Goolden and Su geon Captain H. W. Pitzroy Wil- liams. Also from the army is Brig- adier H. Bartlett; and from the air corps, Air Commodore L. L. Mac- {Lean and Group Captain W. R. Cle- ments, of the Royal Canadian Air Force. And when Mountbatten ar- rived in Washington, that covered about the entire field of military operations. | (2) Its plans for survey. These plans include not only a series of thorough conferences with supply, maintenance, communications, etc., in W ’hlnglcn but a vmt AConlinued on Pngp 'rhrre» 5100 REWARDFOR - MISSING PERSON, | Friends of Charlie George, miss- | ing since August 23, this morning | posted $100 with the U. S. Marshal’s Office as a reward for any in- formation leading to the finding of | George, dead or alive. | The man was first noticed missing on August 23 from the boat Grander in the vicinity of the city float. Anyone having information should | get in tuuch with the U S. Malshal STOCK OUOTATIONS New York, Sept. 7.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6'4, Anaconda 26, Bethlc- hem Steel 58%, Commonwealth and ' Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 7%, ;Im,ernauonal Harvester 68'%, Ken- necott 30%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 14, Unn.ed Welles has virtually grown up under e ©o o © o o o o o o o States Steel 52%, Pound $4. Roosevelts tutelage. . Faced with the Hull ultimatum, however, the President went on his Great Lakes cruise, with Jimmy Byrnes and Harry Hopkins, to think o ‘When he got back he cast o it over. his choice with the conservative wing of the party. ‘Welles resignation. To get the full significance of (Continued on m& Pfllfl) He accepted K WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. Bureau) . ® Temp. Saturday, Sept. 4 @ ® Maximum 54, Minimum 45 | Rain—24 inch . Temp. Sunday, Sept. 5 @ ® Maximum 62, Minimum 49 e Rain—45 inch . 'e Temp. Monday, Sept. 6 e +® Maximum 62, Minimum 47 e ® ® 0 0 00 00 0 0 Dow, Jones averages wda) are| as follows: industrials 13759, rails/ ;‘54.32, utilities 21.29, | > | JUN MAN PROMOTED Mr. and Mrs. Harold Aase have| received word that their son, Ola!‘ has been promoted from Technical Sergeant to Master Sergeant. He is stationed at Seward and is well | known here. RED ARMY British Eighth Army Drives Ahead in Italy CLOSING IN ON STALINO City Reporied in Flames—‘ Axis Withdrawing on | 600-Mile Front | (By Associated Press) The Soviet forces were reported Monday night by the Moscow radio as within three miles of burning Stalino, key German position in the Donets Basin, At the same time the Berlin radio | reported Soviet naval forces tried to land a force about 80 miles behind the German lines at Ritschi Luga | Bay on the eastern part of the Guif of Finland where the Russians would be within striking distance of Tal- lini lifeline to the Leningrad front. Strong Soviet attacks in the Don- | ets Basin in the Kharkov area con- | tinue with “undiminished ferocity. ”\ Moscow reports said the Axls forces arc withdrawing along the | 600-mile front which extends from | the shores of the Sea of Azov to L)\E Smolensk sector, in some localmes the communique says, the Red Annv units have stabbed as much as nine miles deep into German territory. R RECAPTURE OF DONETS BASIN NEARLY ENDED Russian Forces Advancing| on Kiev-Red Aval- | anche Closing Exits MOSCOW, Sept. T. The Red Army in the Donets Basin has prac-| tically completed recapture of the| rich mining area, while Russian| forces are advancing in a genewal| irection toward Kiev, Capital City| of the Ukraine, jomping forward | after capturing the rail junction at Konotop and now nnmumng\ Bakhmach. The Soviet Air forces are snlll'n- ing the way for the u!\muln;‘ ground troops and are poundnn,‘ the enemy front line near the rear | of the bases where the (.vnmlu\ are retreating to concentration points where they expect Lo r ganize and attempt to stem the| Soviet thrusts. | The Russian forces are encount-| ering heavy rains and miles of! mine fields, also demolished bridges. | Today the Red Army’s Donets| Basin avalanche is pounding the last two exits from the industrial districts of Krasnoarmeyskoye - oo o WEST COAST LABOR 10 BE MOBILIZED FOR WAR PURPOSES' WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—In a 'move to assure sufficient workers | | on the West Coast in airplane ship- building and other war industries, the Government has tightened con- trols over all coast labor and pro- vided for curtailing other nroduc- tion in the region if necessary. | James Byrnes said 60,000 ui_i are | needed for the shipyards and 100,000 for airplane compames | DUCK CREEK BAND BOOSTS WAR BONDS The-Duck Creek Band helped the war bond sales Sunday night and last night, playing for the big rally| |of the Firemen on the first night and giving a spirited concert last| night. .. MINING MAN RERE Casper Ellingen, mining man, at the Gastineau Hotel, is | twin war factory cities of Mannheim | on southwestern Germany. J11) miles from Milwaukee. BIG RAID Allies Storm Ashore East of Lae; Surprise Atfack Is Sutcesslul i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. |7 ~Powerful Allied forces, mostly Australian troops, have landed on the coast of Huon Gulf, east of Lae, | N~ w Guinea, isolating the wa and | { ‘Mannheim, Ludmgshaf 62 K"-I-ED; Royal Air bases Striking with paralyzing force, the | MADE UPON NAZIS AREAS Twin War Fadory Cities of LONDON, Sept. 1. | Force bombers of “very great strength,” probably 700 or more '\nw troops stormed ashore under | | tour-engined giants, carrying 1,000 cover of a smoke screen last Sat- {10 1,500 tons of bombs, turned the lurday morning after naval forces| laid down a heavy bombardment Japs Caught Unawares and Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, | into smoking ruins sunday nnt. | Limited Piles Up on Curve| e Jupanese were caught un- American bombers followed up the aware aid Monday with daylight attacks GOlng af 26 M||eS Coordinated ground, sea and air operations cut the enemy's line of communication to Finschafen, on the north coast of New Guinea. The move was a complete surprise and an Hour The English Channel sky was Ill]-‘ ed all Monday morning with forma- | | tions of aircraft as the Allies began the fifth-consecutive day of around | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 7| o0 was little opposition. the clock ‘\Hsdulh |The last crumpled coach of the| "y, is ine principal Japanese base £ Pennsylvania Railroad's Congres- | "“central New Guinea, 15 miles sional Limited was cracked Open|n o tywect of Salamaua, where Am- {this morning by rescue workers|orjcans and Australian troops are| ielding four more bodies to bring |the total to 62, the number known | lu have perished when the train| gix hours after the landing, Allied !piled up on a curve last night. |air cover dispersed an enemy for-| RAID | The railroad officials said three|mation of medium dive bombers es-' |to five more bodies a still in tne corted by 35 fighters which struck EuRopE wxe( kage and search continued. closing in on the enemy airdrome, Jap Formation Downed at the invading forces causing only | At least 132 were anfong the labor [a few casualties. day crowd .of 541 passengers in-| Twenty enemy fighters were shqt| jured as the 16-car Washington-|down as the infantry moved ashore. | | New York Express developed a “hot | Heavy bombers blasted Lae with | bu\ and crashed with a roar. 96 tons of bombs. Aftack can’led Qut by Al-| ‘Many in the nospitals are re- Rabaul Raided |ported near death. | The great Jap naval base at Ra- l]es A"er RAF AS- | Newly discovered bodies and|baul, New Britain, not attacked for |remnants of bodies were taken to!months, was raided for sault on Munich LONDON, Sept. 7- |fires and explosions loff and antiaircraft | silenced. were touched |rowing relatives, some hysterical, positions were American | filed past the long rows in an at- heavy and medium bombers, carry- tempt to make identification ing H e Alliad - aarial urrsnslxr Among the first bodies discovered| Medium bombers hit the Gasmata against western Europe for the by the rescue workers as a crane uh‘dfnmr on the south coast of New, h day. blasted targets in Bel.|raised parts of 8 car, was that of EFItAlf. setting fires and hitting gium and Prance this morning after'a Marine Lisutenant, then twol*hUalrcraft positions, |a heavy RAF night raid on Munich, other Marine Lieutenants and a P Larger formations of Fortresses sailor., A Marine guard was then |and Marauders spearheaded the summoned and posted throughout D H daylight assaults, launched only a the night r r Ic a few hours after the RAF raiders re-‘ Eight cars of the express were turned to bases. | wrenched loose from the pile-up Sixteen bombers were lost in last | night’s, raid on Munich, which was mest effective although clouds pre-| vented full observation. - of one of the Nation’s worst rail| disasters. The electric powered train | makes 226 miles an hour and was| at a curve at the Frankford Junc- (tion, northeast of Philadelphia, | |when the accident occurred. PassesAway; | Il One Week box | % The waste packed journal ¢ {ran hot. bumning the wheel loosc (|@imed Human Race! [from the axle. One coach was ; b [hurled agamst o sear pote sup-| Came fo America Via [porting the overhead power lines |which were cut in two. GET MANY i NAZI SUBS MARSHALL MAY BE COMMANDER More Than 9 O ot s ™ INVADING UNITS Announces ;Chief of Staff Is fo Lead 4 | Forces Across English | WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—An an-| (: | nouncement by the Navy Depart- ment dnsdu' s that of the more| hannel' IS Repor' ‘ than enemy submarines de-| WASHINGTON, Smy\:?lfux&:f“gt:x; J:Lxe :ll\:fl-ll:‘ll\:) Daily Evening Star says it has his contention that the first in- 2 Y |learned on the highest authority |habitants of the American contin- forces alone, that Gen. George Marshall, Chief |ent came from Asia by way of Ber- American naval forces sent 24’ of gtaff, will be named Commander- | Ing Strait. He made dozens of trips subs to the bottom ang five more in_cChief of the Allied forces in the |t the Aleutians and Siberia in pur- Bering $trait, Alaska WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.— | Hrdlicka, ia Czechoclosakian immigrant boy |at the age of 13 years and won world renown as an anthropologist, died Sunday at his home here. The !scientist, who was 74, one of the leading exponents of the theory that human life did not exist on the American continent in the prehis- toric days, died of heart disease after 1 week’s illness. Many Trips to Alaska Dr. Hrdlicka made many trips to Alaska and Russia in support of . Ale; Sept. 7. — The were sunk by U. 8. Army aircraft. | Buropean theatre to direct any in-|Suit of evidence to support his Secretary of the Navy Frank vasion from England. theory Knox, told newsmen that although Selection of Gen. Marshall to com- | Found Human Traces the sub menace may appear less mand the invasion forces, the Slar: New finds of human traces on serious for a few months, the lack that | this continent convinced an ever- of enemy activity may mean that preparations for operations across 8§rowing number of scientists that Germany has withdrawn many | the English Channel sufficiently |man lived here at an early period, U-boats for repairs and for refit- advanced to select a leader” for the | possibly 20,000 years ago, some said. ting additional anti-aircraft guns troops who will participate in the | But Hrdlicka did not retreat an inch before launching new attacks. | assault. from his original thesis. He saw ed sources emphasized Marshall’s nurseries” and traced the migrations Horse 'h,ows John forthcoming appointment must not |eastward to New York. 8 |will not begin in the next few| He was born in Humpoletz, Bo- (“dah Io H|s Dealh weeks, |“emia, March 29, 1869. His father, ( - e, - —_— | this country when he was 13. Stoned MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 7. — Dr. Jacob P. Eberhardt, m'n‘ml" ind jeered by street urchins in New John Cudahy, former Ambassador surgeon with the Public Health | York for his European appearance, time Minister to Treland, was killeo | ment with the Alaska Office of [spent his first years here helping yesterday when thrown from e Indian Affairs here, left for the his father in his shop and studying horse while riding on his estate, SOUh over the weckend, golng Lo i | The Star added that well inform- Alaska and the Aleutians as “race be interpreted as meaning invasion | Stoned and Jeered |a cabinet maker, brought him to | DE. EBERHARDT SOUTH to. Poland and Belgium and o,,, Service, who has been on us:sluhhum unable to speak English, he Seattle for medical attention. says, is a “clear indication (Continued on Page Three) four hours| !the morgue where crowds of sor-|last Saturday night and numerous | _ | partment announces. U.5.TROOPS DROP DOWN BEHIND LAE |Complete Encirclement of | Twenty Thousand Nip- | ponese in Area 'GEN. MacARTHUR 1S ' INTERESTED SPECTATOR | Infantry with Artillery Units, Make Surprise | landing, Attack | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 7. — American paratroops were {watched from a Flying Fortress by ‘Gen. Douglas MacArthur as they floated down to the Markham Val- ley and landed behind Lae, New | Guinea, to complete the encircle- 'ment of 20,000 Japanese in the Lae- |Salumaua sector, The landings were achieved in considerable force Sunday and jcaught the Japs completely by sur- |prise just @s the strong force of Australiang had the day before in sto:ming ashore af Lae. | Seize Strong Positions Geil, MacArthur, in a bomber | which was part of the huge forma- |tion, cruised over the lending point and saw the Americans seize strong positions with no immediate resist- |ance. This Markham Valley action, coupled with the Lae-Salamaua |action encircles the Japs and com- pletely cuts them off from the es- cape route up the valley from Lee. Artillery units with guns went down with the paratroops, mostly | Americans, who encountered no opposition, Allied bombers dropped 95 tons ‘ur bombs on Heath's plantation, headquarters of the Japanese’ line behind Lae, reducing it to ruins. The attack of bembers roamed ‘u\'m' Markham Valley enemy artil- lolv posts and dropped 60,000 |)0und5 of fragmentation bombs. | - ;Soulhem ~ Francels Fortified who came to America as Germans Cle—ar Civilians ' Out for 59-Mile Strip on Coastline LONDON, Sept ’ld German mili- tary authorities, apparently fearful of an Allied invasion thrust in southern - France, are reported to have cleared all civilians out of a 50-mile stretch of the French coast- line between Narbonne and Mont- pelier and are rushing construction of addtiongl fortifications in that area. | The area has been cleared for a | distance of 10 miles back from the sea, a flat sandy sector of the coast that would lend itself naturally to landing operations. In addition the Germans are said ve sent from 5,000 to 10,000 eers to Marseille and Toulon to strengthen fortifications at those ports. COMDR. LOGAN IS KILLED IN CRASH WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — Com- modore James Alexander Logan, 54, Commanding Officer of United States Naval Operations at London- derry, was killed in an airplane crash jast Saturday, the Navy De- No details of | the accident are given,