The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1943, Page 1

Y AP | g s | HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— ] VOL. XLL, NO. 9442. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY = ALLIES MAKE NEW LANDINGS IN ITALY err BIGFORCE ISHURLED AT ENEMY Greatest of Plane Forma- tions Strike Enemy Air- | fields and Ports LONDON, Sept. 9.—With the Al- lied forces swarming into the heart of fallen Italy, the greatest forma- tions of American and British bombers ever hurled across the channel in daylight, pounded the enemy ports and airfields in nor- thern France and carrying out for the eighth consecutive day a terri- fic aerial offensive that may form| the final prelude for the invasion from the west. The unprecedented assault was launched in conjunction with the largest invasion exercises ever seen on the English channel and cli- maxed 18 hours of steady pounding of Hitler’s Atlantic fortifications Not a single Allied plane was downed by the German Air Units. Enemy naval vessels ang coast artillery were among the prime ta gets of the vast bombardment ac- companying the invasion rehearsal that kept the French coastline alight. “Bomb bursts and ~ anticalveraft fire rattled windows six miles in- land from the English shore. —————— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ED. NOTE—This is the first in a series of Washington Merry- Go-Round columns on the State Department, now holding the spotlight in Washington. WASHINGTON—Except for two brief and faltering steps from 1918 to 1920 under Woodrow Wilson, and from 1930 to 1932 under Henry L. Stimson, the United States has never attempted to take any world leadership for peace. After Wilsons’ attempt failed, Secretary of State Stimson picked up the Kellogg pact, tried to give it teeth, and used it to the best of his ability to check the first Japanese rampage and the World War which he felt was sure to follow. | Both of these attempts were blocked, partly by inertia at home, partly by old-fashioned European diplomacy in which British balance- of-power politics played its role, and partly by lack of preparation by our own diplomats to play a major role in world affairs. The game was too new to us. Our State Department had been rutted too long in the comfortable grooves of traditional American isolation. Our diplomats had had dinned into them with their first ABC’s that if Marcus Island Raid Surprised Japs; v. S. TaskForcéinSmash RAILTOWN | S | PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 9. —| Antiaircraft batteries were s!»“ Eighty percent of the Japanese mil- |lenced by the attackers, and fires itary installations on Marcus Is-|were still burning the day after the! land, 1,200 miles southeast 'of Tokyo, ! raid. No enemy planes were left on were probably destroyed by the air-|the ground craft carrier task force in the at-| Seven twin-engined bombers on tack on September 1, Admiral|the runway were destroyed, as well Chester Nimitz announces. The Japs as hangers, fuel ammunition dumps, were caught by surprise. and quarters. Two The United States lost two figh- | shops ic Bombardment Hi ts French Coast RED FORCES Soviet Move Virtually Splits Nazi Cenfral, Southern Defenses LONDON, Sept. Gen. Con- PRESIDENT * SEIZE KEY | SAYSDONT CELEBRATE ;Hails Ifaly Capitulation as| Victory-Big Fight | Coming WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-—Presi- 1anding | stantine Rokossovsky's swift-strik- dent Roosevelt declared last night| oo o take strips were damaged and enemy ing central front army stormed and that the armistice with Italy iS & German oppresso !trawlers were sunk. | captured the rail junction at the|“great victory” for the United Na- Vengeance Time Has | Come, lialians Told, | Ailies Backing Them' (By Associated Press) As soon as the announcement of the surrender of Italy was broad- cast yesterday, Allied planes roared over Italy, not with bombs, but tak- ing to the Italians the news the Allies were no longer fighting them Planes dropped pamphlets telling the Italians the opportunity has jengeance on the The pamphlets declared also the communique said the British and Canadian troops, expanding the in- | vasion_hold on Italy’s toe, had ad- | vanced more than 70 miles and | occupied Bova Marina, 10 miles east | of Melito in the south and pushed | up the west coast to the Petrace| River, The German communique at the same time declared the Allied forces | had swung 40 miles up the coast: ANOTHER INVASION UNDERWAY Landings Made in Naples Area - Germans Put- fing Uprfiifler Fight BULLETIN — ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 9.—Allied troops landed early Thursday (this morning) in the ters and one torpedo plane. $250,000 IS GOAL 3RD WAR LOAN; WATCH IT GROW! ARMY UNITS TOMORROW Typical Mes?aEe Center to Be Set Up - Public Is Invited | ‘Tomorrow afternoon from 1 | o'clock p. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. the | local army units will cooperate with | Juneau by showing to the public a typical Messag> Cénter, or Com- | munications Center | All persons in Juneau and Gastin- ecau Channel gre cordially invited to inspect this installation on the |lown in front of thg American Le- | gion Dugout in Juneau. The ex- hibit will include a communications section in operation under battle conditions. Communications are a vital necessity during the prosecu- tion of a successful engagement, and everyone is urged to observe how} this is carried out. | Important, during this Third War | Loan Drive, is the knowledge of the | {cost of each piece of equipment and | |how each instrument is used. The Committee, therefore, urges each citizen to see how his money iih going to help to “Outfit the Out- | fit.” il TV LATEWAR BULLETINS BERN—The heart held Europe is rushing troop re- inforcements to all frontiers. | | $107,319 $ 90,903 - IAN VESSELS | WARNED Told to Make Allied or Neutral Ports - Don't | Surrender fo Nazis (By Associated Press) Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, of German- LONDON — A Reuters dispatch | says Iran, formerly known as Per- | sia, has declared war on Germany. Previously Iran has cooperated with | the Allies, however. the Third War Loan-Committee of {or the. pas man communications supply system in the northern Ukraine, the outer | I I | DISPI-AY BY | bastion on the route to Kiev, Pre- | pnira war mier Joseph Stalin announced to- night in a triumphant order of the ay. This victory broadened the whole offensive front along which the paralle! columns of Gen. Rokos- sovsky and Gen. Nikolai Vatutin have smashed to within a little over a hundred miles from Kiev on the middle Dnieper River, and cutting the last lateral rail lines short of the Pripet Marshes, virtually split- ting the Nazis' central and southern defenses. Bakhmach is fifteen miles beyond the Konotop main rail line. Kiev is already flanked to the northwest by the advance which cut the rail- way to Gomel, and which has been averaging close to ten miles a day t week and a half. S eee 6 MORE JAP 2 g SHlpSSUNK, MacArthur i?;;oris Weak- 4 DAMAGED WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — Six more Japanese merchant ships have been sunk by American subs and four damaged, the Navy Depart- ment has announced. The attacks raised to 319 the total Jap transport, cargo and warships reported sunk or damaged by subs since the war started. The total includes 223 ships definitely listed as sunk The ships sunk in the latest re- port listed two large freighters, one cargo vessel, one medium tanker, one small freighter and one medium go ship; damaged, one large cargo, two small cargo vessels, and one medium freighter. - SURRENDER WAS TREACHEROUS ACT, GERMANS ASSERT LONDON, Sept. 9.— The Berlin radio broadcast an official state- ment last night saying that since | town of Bakhmach, key of the Ger- |tjgns, but we must “drive the Ger- «Italians are now backed by the mans out of Italy.” might of the Allies in aiding them Speaking on the opening of the for expulsion of the eternal enemy Loan Drive in the| from Italian soil.” States, the President asserted the Before the announcement of the Nazis must be driven out of France surrender was made, the and other captive countries and “we must strike them on their own soil from all directions.” The time has not come for cele- bration, he warned, saying the war is to become bigger and tougher- not easier. “We must put money into war| bonds which is not normally saved,’ Allied | Six Big Oueslidns Arise On Surrender of lfalians to the north to new landings on' '/ the Gulf of Eufemia INaples area, one third way up the Farlier, a Berlin broadcast said |!talian boot in a move to capital- indications were that the United ize fully on the military advantage States Seventh Army, victorious in |of the fall of Italy and an attempt Tunisia and Sicily, had put out to trap. the German units still in to sea the southern part of Italy and to engage the Germans still fighting in the north and central parts of Italy. A bitter battle is reported 'developing. 5 ALLIES SURGE ASHORE | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 9.—A pow- erful American and British force (By Associated Press) ‘under United States Lt. Gen. Mark the President declared - - HARD FIGHT JAPS MISS " ARpowen NPROSPECT IN PACIFIC Large Force of Germans in Italy fo Meet Allies, Says Stimson WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Amer- Iican troops today landed in con- IN | siderable force under Lt. Gen. Mark . er Resistance in Solomons ALLIED HEADQUARTERS THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. Clark in the vicinity of Naples, Amd‘ 9.—The Japs still are not pufting are in contact with the German up stiff resistance to Allied forces | forces and making satisfactory pro- |at Lae, New Guinea, so desperately | gress, Secretary of War Henry L. FOR ALLIES These are the questions arising Allen surged ashore in the vicinity out of the surrender of Italy: of Naples at 4 pm. today and im- 1. What becomes of the Itallan mediately was engaged by German |fleet, built around seven battle- forces fighting fiercely midst the |ships, split between Pola on th® chaos of Italy’s unconditional sur- | Adriatic and Spezia on the Itallan penger, | west coast? It is announced that operations 2. Will the Germans retire from 2 B are - going. according to plan and Po Valley in"the north where they gy ao 0l . i are reported to have 15 or 20 di- have lebn takeb: visions? p 3, What will Bappen to 25 or, 30fc The CIErss ISORGIase. Said SHie Ttalian divisions in the Bfllkans,‘“lca" formations landed yesterday France, and 250,000 JItallan work. /2% Amaltl, 20 miles south af Niples men estimated to be in Germany? | the north side of the Gulf of Salerno, however the Americans 4. What effect will the Italian| surrender have on the wavering have not yet come in contact with: the Germans. morale of Hitler's Balkan satellites, | Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Croa- Wiping Out Process | At the same time the Germans jtia? The Hungarian policy has" been linked more closely with Italy broadcast that waves of Fortresses struck six hours before the armis- |than Germany. Al Balkan States have shown signs of war weariness.[tice with Italy was announced yes- 5. Does surrender include the terday and wiped out the German French Island of Corsica, barely 30/ (Continuea on Jage Two) miles off Southern France? The! .- [talians occupied the island when! [ BERN German and Ttalian | Allied Naval Commander in the Mediterranean, has broadcast a mes- the U.S.A. would keep its fleet in the Pacific, rely on the powerful British fleet in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Never in their wild-' | ONDON—The Paris radio says est greams did they conceive the German authorities have disarmed |open enemy of the Italian people day when a badly crippled British iajjan troops guarding strategic |and intend to seize your ships.” fleet would rely on th N.S. Navy| prigges in northern Italy and placed | Commanders of Italian ships were in European waters and thal an ngazi machine gunners are in charge. |told to make Allied ports or at the | American Army would be fighting D R 4 | worst, neutral ports, and merchant n the Moediterranean. | | vessels unable to make port were | | told “do not let your ships fall into | | German hands and in last resort | scuttle them or resort to sabotage, {rather than let them fall into the hands of the Germans to be used against Italy.” troops are fighting on the streets of | sage to the Italian fleet of merchant Tortonia. | marine, telling them that “German armed forces, following the sur- |render of Italy, have become an HAGERTY LEAVES BRITAIN'S SEAPOWER Don Hagerty, Field Representa- Since the British fleet dominated | tive for the Department of the the Old World, the cardinal policy | Interior, left Juneau today for Fair- of the State Department was to|banks on a trip made in connection follow British diplomacy not onlijnh checking on the food supply in Europe, but the Near East, the problems for Alaska. Middle East and to a considerable| He arrived here from Seattle extent the Far East. Only in Latin headquarters last week. It is be- ON VACATION TRIP | America did U. S. diplomats exert lieved he will go as far north as, Faith Cushman, clerical worker any degree of independence. | Nome and Point Barrow before |with the U. S. Forest Service Ad- | ‘This is cited here now not as a returning. miralty Division here, left by PAA criticism, but to indicate how de-| plane today for Whitehorse on the | pendent our diplomacy was in those | first leg of a vacation trip down relatively simple days, and how | | the Yukon by river boat. | much our diplomacy has to learn| Last night's scheduled game post- | - if we are na: to w’;m a perman- | Poned by a wet field, the champion | WMC OFFICIAL TQ ent peace. | Skagway baseball nine which lost ' FAIRBANKS TODAY | This i something in which mei’!‘uesday to Juneau’s St. Louis Blues,| Glenn A. Robinson, of the War| entire nation is vitally interested, | take on an All Star Juneau team Manpower Commission, left by Pan | S e | FAITH CUSHMAN | BALL GAME TONIGHT July 25 the “German Government was prepared for such treachery as Italy’s surrender, therefore, took all military measures required.” The broadcast also declared that “this criminal plot will fail just as all similar actions.” Swiss Reports Claim Nazis Quimng Ital BERN, Sept. 9. — Allied forces presumably in the Naples area, and began moving northward with an advance guard of TItalian troops. Reports from the Italian frontier said that Milan, Turin and other industrial centers of northern ItAly are said to be in the hands of the Italian military authorities, and that the German soldiers are leaving those places. B GRANTED CITIZENSHIP Kenneth Roy Beckett, subject of Great Britain, member of the armed forces, was granted citizenship in a special hearing before U, S. District Court Judge George F. Alexander this evening at 6 o'clock on Lhe;American today for Fairbanks on (Gontinued on Page Four) Firemen's Field. an official business trip, landed on the Tyrrhenian coastline, | yesterday, J are they in need of air support. They depleted their plane strength on other fronts. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports the enemy is becoming weakened and vulnerable through air pene- tration. He said the Japanese lost 400 planes at New Guinea and more than 500 over the Solomons since August 1, and have also lost 21 listed as probables. Today Australians and Americans consolidated the! ound positions | around Lae, and enemy opposition was weak. Twenty Jap Darwin, Australia, downed or damaged United States planes raided southern Bougainville, site of an enemy air base, and Kahili. Five enemy planes were downed - LEWIS WINNER OF - JUNEAU NET TOURNEY Private First Class C. D. Lewis, Jr., yesterday won the Juneau Ten- |nis Tournament for 1943, taking the |semi-final match from Sergeant | Gordon Rennie by scores of 6-1, 6-0, planes were over and 14 were First Class [scores of 6-0 and 6-0. | The three men are all from Seat- | |tle and are attached to the ACS m’p {Juneau. Lewls is a former Univer- sity of Virgniia net champion and ranking player in the Pacific North- given as Wednesdays and Thursdays | |instead of as they are designated,| west. | Swensson reached the final round| |by defeating George Schmidt, local |tennis player, in a semi-final by| scores of 6-2 and 7-5. > SMOKED SALMON | FOR HUGH WADE NOW‘ NO Hugh Wade was smoking some|the Oceanic, Captain Ole Westby,, 'salmon in his smokehouse in his vard Tuesday night when he stirred up a liitle too much smoke. By the time the firemen arrived the smokehouse was burned out. A roof fire on a house in the rear of the Government Hospital called out the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department last night but |little damage was caused | Stimson announces. The landings in the Naples area | were effected seyeral hours after the announcement of the Ttalian | surrender, Stimson said, by Allied | troops in “considerable force, includ- ing units of the Fifth Army. “The trcops went ashore on sev- eral beaches and are aiready re- ported to have captured some/Ger- man prisoners,” he added Capitulation of the Italian arm- ed forces was a hard blow to the enemy,” Stimson continued, “but cannot be interpreted as meaning that the Italian Peninsula can be occupied. without tonsiderable hard fighting “As many as 15 divisions may be in Ital; “This is a larger force than any met by the Allies in Tunisia or Sicily; furthermore,” he added, “the Germans can increase their strength in Italy if they choose.” to 20 German ," he said. VISITING HOURS AT DUCK CREEK HOSPITAL GIVEN ON THREE DAYS Visiting hours at the Station Hos- jand the final match from Private pital at Duck Creek are on Wed-| Kenneth Swensson by nesdays and Saturdays from 2 tol 4p.m,and 7 to 8:30 p. m, and on Sundays and holiGiays from 2 to 4 m In the announcement in yester- day’s Empire the week dates were Wednesdays and Saturdays. - - - HALIBUT SALES On September 7 the Avona, Cap- tain Martin Brandal, sold 5707 pounds of halibut at the OPA ceil- ing prices of 15'% and 14. Today | s0ld 8,957 pounds on the local mar- ket at the same prices. The Alaska Coast Fisheries was the buyer. - D LAWRENCE FREEBURN IN Lawrence Freeburn, canneryman, is in Juneau at the Baranof, - Here from Fairbanks, David Best is registered at the Baranof Hotel | the Allies landed in North Africa. 6. Will scattered German units still in southern and central Italy| be allowed to return to Germany? | e UPPERHAND IS CLAIMED ~ BYGERMANS H | | LONDON, Sept. 9.—The Germans| |announced tonight that Italian troops occupied the Brenner Pass lon Tuesday, one day before the an- | nouncement of Premier Pietro Ba- doglio’s unconditional surrender, and acknowledged that Italian troops are fighting the Nazis in some parts of Italy. | In a broadcast emphasizing the WILL FIGHT TOLASTMAN SAY NALIS German Milifary Spokes- man Gives Views on Situation LONDON, Sept. 9. — A Germar military spokesman announced that “north central Italy is occupied by German troops.” | A Berlin broadcast said “insofar as the occupation has not been car- ried out already, it is now being done. In most of the towns the |Nazi line of Italy's capitulation as | Itallans allowed themselves to. be ‘treacherous,” ’ i ! ous,” the German Inter-|jicarmed by the Germans without national Infor i - i L R Bureau Pro-|,erering resistance,” the broadcast paganda agency made the disclo-|goclared sures while cla internal | . i i e claiming the internall Ay (he same time the Nazi miii- situation in Italy is still generally , under German control “The most important” lines of | communication are in the hands of jlhc Germans or “Italian troops loy- al to the Axis” sald the Berlin|imminent Wednesday evening.” broadcast. This indirect claim of| A Reuters dispatch from Stock- Badoglio's orders not to resist thefpoi coid that Hitler held a War ary spokesman announced that llied troops landed Tuesday on the sulf of Eufemia at North Palmi, and were enveloped by Germaa troops and “their anihilation was |Allies any further is not being|council today which decided to re obeyed in all cases by the Italians.|i.rorce the German Po line in e northern Italy and are preparing to fight to the last man. At the same time the German radio began issuing a stream of orders apparently for the purpose of confusing the Italians by con- tradicting the earlier steps taken by the surrendering of the Badog- lio regime. Emperor (Hirohifo 1" At Ease” NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The Tokyo radio told the Japanese people that Italy surrendered unconditionally, | and the Japanese government| % 6. Sy A “deems this most regretful.” ® 90 99090 0609 0 Nevertheless, Japan is resolved fo|® WEATHER REPORT . “crush America and Britain to the|® (U. 'S. Bureau) . very end” thus putting Empero Temp. Wednesday, Sept. 8 o Hirohito “at ease,” the broadcast Maximum 63, minimum 45. e said, © 0o 0 00 0 0 0 0 00