The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI, NO. 9443. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS YANK FIFTH ARMY CLOSES IN ON NAPLES Rome Capitula SAY HITLER I S25000015 GOAL 10 "PROTECT” WaTch o VATICANNOW Field Marshal Rommel in Command in Iltaly- Genoa Taken (By Associated Press) The Germans announce tonight that Rome has capitulated under the German assault. It is also said the Nazi Army will assume pro- tection of Vatican City. The German radio said the at- tacking forces on Rome were led by Field Marshal von Kesslring, this announcement coming frdn Hitler's headquarters. | Field Marshal Rommel, also ac- cording to tonight’s Berlin radio, has been placed in absolute com- mand of the German troops in northern Italy A broadcast from the Rome radio tonight also took up Nazi propa- ganda indicating the tion has | fallen into German hand: (Continued on Page - The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) $140,607.50 hree) WASHINGTON — The State De- artment’s policy in not issuing pass- ports to American labor leaders to| visit Russia is significant. There has been a steady stream of Am- erican business and labor leaders to Great Britain, but for reasons best known to itself, the State De- partment has frowned on similar visits to the Soviet Union As this is written, not one pass- port had been issued to American labor spokesmen to go to Moscow. last January CIO'’s Sec- -Treasurer James B. Carey applied for a passport to Russia to confer with labor leaders on war| production problems. After waiting months for the State Department WAR LABOR BOARD BRANCH OFFICE IS SET UP IN JUNEAU The National War Labor Board announces the establishment at Junezu of a branch office of .the Twelfth Regional War Labor Board. A wage stabilization director and a disputes director have already been appointed, and an attorney will be to move he gavegup in diagu‘sy. chosen immediately. ipartitite R. J. Thomas, president of the panels for hearings on dispute CIO United Auto Workers Union,|cases will be established in Alaska {to hear evidence and make recom- mendations to the Twelfth Re- |gional War Labor Board for final approval or disapproval. Michael was given the same brushoff when he applied for passage to Russia early this summer. After negotia- ting with State Department offic~ ials for several weeks, Th.0"§“5 "e“l’; J. Haas, special representative of ized he was wasting his time and ine wage and Hour Division of the remarked: Department of Labor, is dispute “1 guess I'm too anti-Fascist fOr| 4 ooior and in general charge of ‘hims,:at‘el:z,z‘:“i::f:f "t vun afoul|the Alaska office. Charles T. Battin £ lhi department’s policies is |15 wage stabilization director. Miss 3umes “Curran, raw-boned chief of|Kathryn Kennery, Wage and Hour jonal Maritime Union. Division, and Miss Jessy Epstein, ;&Lf‘fmsgsessml attempts to get,War Labor _chrd, and the attorney, a passport to look into the hospital- whgn appointed, will complete the ization and welfare of U. S. tor-|office staff. pedoed seamen in Russia, Curran| All requests for rulings and appli- finally decided to paddle his own cations for approval of voluntary canoe. He shipped out as an able-|Wage and salary adjustments with- bodied seaman from New York. |in the jurisdiction of the War La- {bor Board will be flled with Haas, MAIL FOR SOLDIERS |the Territorial representative of John Steinbeck to the contrary,|the Wage and Hour and Public the Army is doing a great job in| Contracts Division of the Depart- the delivery of mail. The “Of Mice ment of Labor. The applications and Men” author claims he sznw‘wnll be referred to the branch of- bags of mail stacked up on the|fice of the War Labor Board for docks, but if so, it was merely forlacuon. and dispute cases arising in a day or two between ships. |Alaska will be referred to the Actually the Army moves 20 mil-| Twelfth Regional War Labor Board lion pieces of mail overseas DI upless otherwise directed by the week. This is not domestic mail %0/ Nqtional War Labor Board. The Army camps inside the U. S. A—ajaska disputes director will have BUT OVERSEAS. jauthority to-set up the usual tri- 2 One_thlng you've got to remember’parme panels to conduct the hear- in writing is that a six-cent a"‘ungs on the dispute cases. mail stamp doesn't guarantee Air " . oooe Bernard Noble, Chair- | Z:,“‘lrgg:;‘é& '{EEEA‘W";"L""; jvlls;?y‘man of the Twelfth Regional War supplies are more urgent, air mau‘Labor Board, arrived in Juneau has to come second, may sometimes Yesterday to study Alaska's wage be sent by ship. Air postage doesn’t stabilization problems first han.nl. guarantee air mail—unless you take He will study the needs of ihe advantage of V-mail. {branch office, and hopes to meet V-mail always goes by air and|Some representatives employers costs only 3 cents. |and employes in order to talk over But however you send it, write.|With them their wage stabilization Capt. George Vournas, reporting re- | problems. cently to members of the White i e House staff, said: “The specific gravity of mail for| morale cannot be over-estimated. (Continued on Page Four) Ann’s Hospital. BIG NIGHT IN JUNEAU FOR BONDS Rotary Club Out fo Break . Record Tonight- Two Shows Juneau Rotarians, out to break the record for bond sales in a single night in the Third War Loan Drive, have arranged a smash hit program for this evening in Juneau. All Rotarians will be out as sales- men, operating from the booth in front of the Coliseum Theatre from 71010 p. m But that isn’t the half of it. Starting at 7:45 o'clock, one of the strangest auctions. ever held anywhere will be pulled off right on the streets at the Triangle Place. This will be something no one will want to mis Then, starting at 8 o'clock, the doors to the Gastineau Cafe will be thrown open to all who can gain admittance by showing war stamps or bonds purchased in the drive and movie showing the naked truth invasion will be shown for the first time in Alaska. It tells the truth about what happens when the men go over the top. Many of the scenes were taken at the front and the film has been prepared and released by the Of- fice of War Information R LATE WAR BULLETINS LONDON, Sept. 10.—Nazi con- trolled news agency, DNB, an- nounces Albanian ports of Valona and Durazzo, and important Al- banian town of Elbasan occrnied by German troops. of LONDON, Sept. 10, Swiss dis- patches received here said a pow- erful Allied fleet is racing to Al- bania. former kingdom across the Adriatic Sea from the heel of Italy. A major battle is said to be im- minent for poss on of the little country. LONDON, Sept. 10. — A Berlin broadcast recorded here says the 1 is have occupied Ragusa, Yugo- slavia. MADRID, Spain, Oct. 10. — The Germans, it is learned here, have gained control of Brenner Pass, the line through the northern Julian | Alps, after severe fighting with Italian garrisons in which a num- ber of casualties were suffered. German reports said the Italian | units now are withdrawing to the west in the Alps near Caporotto. | LONDON, Sept. 10.—Rome radio denies reports originating in Switz- erland and broadcast from Berlin, that the King of Italy has abdicated | in favor of Crown Prince Umberto. | [“All these reports are untrue” | Stefani, Italian government news ' agency, said. Princess Marie Jose, wife of Umberto, arrived in Switzer- |land last night. | | | LONDON, Sept. 10.—American air | | operations set a new high over | Europe today for one day as U. S.| | Eighth Air Force heavy and medium | bombers attacked targets in nine areas in north and northwestern France. Observers believe invasion | from England will follow increasing | | air raids. i 'KURT SCHUSSNIGG - KILLED BY NAZIS | NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Austrian | Action, Inc., unofficial Austrian or- | ganization here, said that Kurt von ‘Schusnigg. son of the former Aus- | trian Chancellor, was beaten to| carrying a 70-pound stone. | tes to German Forces, Report Roden Says Territory Educ Attorney General Henry Roden an opinion delivered yesterday, holds that the Territory of Alaska is required to furnish school fa ties for children of pure Native blood; and failing this, such child- ren must be admitted to white schools when demand for such ad- mittance is made The opinion Commissioner C. Ryan. & “I deem ions to be es ion 1. 1t is the duty torial Legislature to quate school facilities youth of the Territory 2. The Territory, having under- taken the establishment and main- tenance of a public school system, supported by general taxation levied was requested by Education James Roden: the following ablished by proposit- this opin- Terri- ade- the of the provide for all upon all residents irrespective of rvace, color or sex, cannot deny to any of its citizens and residents the equal protection of its laws; and hence must either admit all child- ren of school age to white schools or provide colored children and those of mixed blood with cqual in all substantial respects to those established for white child- ren; the Territory has no legal right to exclude any child from the pub- lic school system. Admit All 3. Children of mixed blood are entitled to admittance to the white chools in the absence of schools of equal standard maintained especial- ly for them by the Territory. “4. Children of pure Indian, Es- 'kimo or Aleut blood also are entit- led to admittance to white schools, unless the Territory provides schools for them in every respect equal as to facilities and advantages with those maintained for white child- ren KIEV IS NOW THREATENED BY SOVIETS Pincer Movement by Reds on Key City ok Ukraine -Advance Continues BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Sept. i0. —Russian troops have captured Mariupol the important seaport on the Sea of Azov about 55 miles went of Taranrog. This is announced in a special order of the day. It 1s also announced the Red Army has also captured Barvenkovo Chapline and Volnovakha, in a general clean- up of Southern Ukraine, MOSCOW, Sept. 10. — The Red Army has marched across the Nor- thern Ukraine along a hundred mile front from Bakhmach to Zenkov, closing in on Kiev, the German’s middle Dnieper River defense line Ktev is less than 80 miles away. The new push in the center of this front, as reported by the Red Star, brought the Russians to a series of small streams northwest of Nomny, and 133 miles east of Kiev. While the right wing bore down from Kakhmach whose capture was announced yesterday, toward the northeast of Kiey, the left wing, which served' as a base for the im- mense turning movement against Kiev, rested on’ the Zenkov Psel River defenses which already has been. outflanked from the north by the Red Army arc swinging west. The immediate Soviet objective in the center is plainly labelled Priluki, 50 miles southwest of Romny, and 81 miles east of Kiev A break through this sector will A son, weighing six pounds and death by Nazi storm trdops early |create a direct threat to Kiev, and {four ounces was born on September | last year in a concentration camplshalwr the German defenses to 9 to Mrs. Russell Hopkins at St. near Berlin after he collapsed while the southeast araurtd Poltava and on the eastern bulge of the Dnieper schools | Is Responsible for afion of Nafives | “5. The fact that the Federal | government operates ‘Native’ schools in the Territory under the direction eili- | of ‘the Secretary of the Interior is! and Inone of the Territory's concern |does not militate against the right | of - colored children or those of, imixed blood to avail themselves of |the facilities of the Territorial schools. The choice is theirs whether to attend the ‘Native’ school or the ‘White’ school in the district of their residence, unless a school is provided for them by the Ti- tory on a plane equal to the white schools. 6. As a matter of economy, it may be wise for children of pure native blood to continue to seek ad- mittance to the schools conducted under the supervision of the Secre- tary of the Interior, but they can- not be compelled to do so, for Rights Equal right of all children in the Territory, of whatever color, race, complexion or sex, to its edu- cational facilities, must be equal under its laws. | Roden points out that the Terri- | tory, alone, is responsible for the education of its youth. “It must provide equal facilities and oppor i'.u:nuv\ for all of its children,” he |sa'd, “it cannot give bread to one | class of citizens and stone the other, | the more so when all are paying taxes for carrying into effect the governmental functions cast upon it | “Indians and Eskimos, both male and female, pay the sehool tax,” he continued, “and their property is subject to the taxation as that of whites, and under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act, are en- titled to the equal protection of the | Territory’s laws.” Kiska Isle Visited by 2 Senalors Ferguson, Kilgore Believe Aleutians Natural Route to Japan KISKA ISLAND, Aleutians, Sept 10.—~The Truman Committee visit- ed here Monday, three weeks behind the recccupation forces, and ex- pressed the belief that Kiska and Attu, the latter which l‘z visited, will be developed into major bases. | Senators Homer Ferguson, Re- publican of Michigan, and Harvey Kilgore, Democrat of West Virginia, of the Senate War Expenditures in- vestigating committee, expressed the belief that the Aleutians are the |natural short route to Japan. R e 2 ‘New Officers for Garden Club; $25 Awarfi Is Offered Mrs. M. D. Williams was elected to succeed Mrs. Wellman Holbrook as President of the Juneau Garden Club at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. J. Connors. Mrs. Esther Boyd was co-hostess for the occasion Mrs. G. F. Alexander was elected as Vice President, and Mrs. Hugh J. Wade as Secretary. It was decided that the club offer a $25 award to anyone leading to the apprehension of Victory Garden thiefs. Other business matters were discussed and it was announced that the next meeting would be held at the home of Mrs. M. D. Williams after a vacation of four months This session has been scheduled for the first Thursday in February. ‘Territorial same also been | ALLIES ARE 'Hitler in CLOSING IN First Talk, NEW GUINEA Six Monlhsj 500 Tons of Bombs Soften Italian Capitulatior) I,),”e fof Up Airdrome-20,000 Absence of Will"~ | Japs Trapped af Lae Was Forseen LONDON, Sept. 10.—Hitler, speak- | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 55 e R e o0 ing in the midst of the crash of the SOUTHWEST PACTFIC, Sept. 10—/ pyajjan end of the Axis told his Australian troops have closed with- people in a broadcast tonight the J | QUARY | Septe 10.—Allied forces have landed FIGHTING IS - FIERCE BUT ALLIES GAIN Monfgomery's Forces Are Moving Steadily North- ward, Is Report TIN — ALLIED HE tS IN NORTH AFRICA, BULL in two miles of the Malahang air- | cpitulation of his southern partner |and occupied Taranto site of the drome at Lae, New Guir and! was foreseen due to “absence of |Italian Naval base inside the heel the defenses at Lae have been re- | will” |of the Peninsula, a. special duced to practical ruin by 500 tons| In his first speech in six months | nouncement says ight. T} of bombs dropped by Allied planes Hitler said “it frees us from the|ings yesterday evening were with in less than a week of softening load which has been upon [the assistance of the British N up the enemy air shipping base ince a long a long time ago, s for capture by Allied forces ad- and from pressing expectations. The CLOSE IN ON NAPLES vancing virtually unopposed from moment has come now when I can| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN the northeast and northwest talk to the German people wll]ll)ll\.}N()]('l H AFRICA, Sept. 10.—Naples deluding myself or the public.” I He said in the speech recorded from the Berlin radio by the Asso-|q clated Press that the collapse of through the jungle. Allied Liberators and Mitchells demolished the enemy artillery in- stallations, and heavily punished the Jap garrison. Gen Douglas Mc- Arthur said that the big new guns being rolled forward and the fire- power is devastating to the enemy garrison. Allied paratroopers who chuted into Markham Valley, 20 miles away are now within 8 miles of Lae. It is estimated 20,000 Japs are trapped in Lae. | Allied warships entered ‘the nar-! ol German support not forthcoming, but rather as a result of the absenc of will of those elements who, to crown their systematic sabotage | have now brought about capitula-| tion.” J( Usual Harangue | Silent through the reverses of Tunisia, Sicily and the summer Russian campaign, Hitler thus be- gan his harangue, the- first since | D! which events in Ttaly | a o southern Italy was not because of “NECESSATY | gqy | sounding terattacks, resistance in the Naples area. The Americans have established strong second port and hub of her communications system, almost within the grasp Dwight D. Eisenhower {(o- Allied forces struck re blows by land, sea and ir, aimed at ridding the peninsula { the last living German. Initial groups of the American taly ppeared f Gen as Fifth Army led by Lieut. (ten. Mark Jlark, smashed five German coun- beating down German ridgehoads, pushing the assault yward the first great objective of ow ers between New Guinea| March 21, and New Britain to shell Huon|finally wrung from him, and pro-|the campaign. peninsula coastal area, and Fin- | ceeded to reveal a few hidden chap-,| American and British troops now schafen, 60 miles above Lae ters from the German standpoint | rushing inland but have en- on European history, and take out}v-umnmml strong resistance from - 'a few skeletons from family closet. v lini-Hitler Italy was bound by treaty Coast Guard ' Band Arrives, ~ Two Concerls The Coast Guard Band of Ketch- ikan 30 m |Lt. (jg) J P. Towey !Junean last night for stay during which a jbe given at Duck © said, “but elements which brought | about capitulation prevented the | immeédiate entry of Italy into the| , war in 1939." Blames Mussolini Mussolini determined to the treaty, he added, but, “I shown understanding of Il Duce’s difficuliies and didn’t press him, I left it to Mussolini to not enter the | rrived in! war at all or enter it any time| three day | convenient to him.” concert willl Turning to Mussolini's downfall, | 0! |k honor | had | " cha of ans, in the Musso- | G tolents are identitied a eclare its solidarity with Germany | German Armored Division and the at once at the outbreak of war,” he | first sharp blows dealt out by the & that the reck at 7 o'clock | he charged that 11 Duce was ousted [ miles south of Rome, the dominat- the immediate Their oppor- the Sixtéenth forces in of Salerno erman icinity srmans been repulsed. The: counterblows racteristic of the Nazi forces, nd are aimed at throwing the Al- ed invaders off balance in a v al stage of operations and indi- ¢ Gen. Clark’s warriors ave weathered the first crisis of bold campaign Istand Taken Ventotene Island, 25 miles outside { the Bay of Naples and only 70 are ithis evening, and a concert, free to| because of his demands for more |ing feature in the front of the Ithe public, at the 20th Century|complete powers to carry on the |Gulf of Gaeta, also has been seized Theatre Sunday afternoon starting war after the last meeting with fand the Italian garrison hasesur- promptly at 2 o'clock. The concert| Hitler at Brenner Pass. rendered | i -es A headquarters communique said |should pack the show house with| L in Ketchikan, all elicting praise for | |the artistic renditions of the vunml‘ programs The concert Sunday afternoon| | Will consist of marches and concert| pyiernational Information Bureau,|, ‘n\unlu-ls of a wide range. in a broadcast from Berlin, says| The band is directed by Ralph|German naval units have made a W. Girton, GM 1c and J. W. Steel,|sirong attack on the Arctic Tsland 9 SK 3¢, who plays clarinet, as assist- o Spitzbergen. le ant director. Mrs. B. E. Abegglen, of | Ketchikan, muscal advisor, accom- | panied the band to Juheau. The musicians, none of them pro- | LONDON, Sept. 10.—~The German ARCTIC BASE L(C LONDON, Sept. 10. louncement is made An this an-| after- play, are as follows: Arctic island base, 600 miles east Anderes, C. E, Sea 2c, clarinet; of Greenland, to the German land- Balley, W., Em 2¢, saxaphone;|ing force. This is indicated in a Barks, E. E, Cm 3c, alto; Barlow, communique issued by the Nor- ¢ F. R, Sm 3c, snare drum; Berry,|weglan Command in London F. E., Momm 2c, alto; Bruce, C. C.| The communique said full de-P Mm 2c, trumpet; Bunter, R. E, tails of the attack were disclosed© Selfridge, R. B., Sea lc, baritone; Selfridge, R. H., Sea Ic, .wusuphom-:‘ LONDON, Sept. 10.—British sub- %?:cldun. R. V., Sea 2c, trombone;!pmarines sank 13 enemy vessels in- {Siner, E. W, Sea lc, baritone; cluding a number of supply ships ® Smith, G. H., Cox, trombone; Steel, guring the concluding stages of the ® J. W. Sk 3c, clarinet, assistant di-|gperations in the Mediterrane: . rector; Stewart, C. R.‘Mus 2¢ against Italy. This is the official ® trumpet; Woolard, R. D, Sk 2¢,'announcement made by the British ® trumpet. Admiralty, . | bombed fessionals, and the instruments they inoon of the loss of Spitzbergen, MOVilg up more fores troops of east it under the guns of the Allied {music lovers of Juneai | [ The Coast Guard Band will m‘splllbergen | fleet commanded by Viee Admirai one year old next month on Octo-| Henry Hewitt of the U. S. Navy, {ber 20 and has given many concerts | the Allies have poured a great ad- | tablished bridgeheads with the ob- | || k d‘dmmml force onto the already es- s A a( e jective of lopping off all of south- rn Italy. Notwithstanding the armistide for te tremendous Allied air power objectives heavily up and lown the peninsula, smashing roads cading to Naples, hurling tons of xplosives at rail bridges at Capua, {north of Naples, and Cancello to the ast, and many other targets in an ifort to prevent the Germans from Progress In South Meanwhile, British and Canadian Gen, Sir Bernard Law's umous Eighth Army drove up the west coast of the Cala- rian Peninsula against only light resistance. On the west and Jerman Sea 1lc, saxaphone; Cirelli, V. J.,|over the German radio and implied €025t ‘he column made a junction Sc 2c, saxaphone; Delorenzo, J.|that the small garrison on Spitz-|With infantry commandos landed Sk 2c, claginet; Eveland, C. W., Sk bergen was overwhelmed by Ger-/Dear Pizzo at Vibo and Valentia, jlc, clarinet; Faa, I. S, Momm 2c, man forces. |and this combined force drove pa alto; PFerry, T. E, Y 2c, clarinet;| - D Pizzo Forcucci, G. J., Sea lc, clarinet;| gm g On the east coast, the column Fordyce, W. E., Sea 1c, tympani, | |captured Monasterace and Mariaa | Hiatt, C. C., Amm 2c, lwmwnv:{Blg Mop'up The Eighth Army is now more {Horn, W. V., Em 2c, snare drum.“ than 60 miles from the southern |Johnsen, J. J., Sk lc, bass drum;| tp of the peninsula |Monsen, J. L., Mus 2c, trombone; Is Done b | ——————— INelson, W. K., Mus lc, trumpet; TWO FINED |Melcher, D.'W., Sea 2c, clarinet; Two were fined in City Court runk. John Miller and Jim Zav- Rasmussen, H. J, Cox, baritone;| nge this morning on charges of being Reichert, M. F., Mus lc, trumpet; | rl Is u : | ginoff each were fined $25. AR ¢ e ® * o 0 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Thursday, Sept. 9. Maximum 60, Minihum 48 Rain—51 inch. s s e 0