The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI,, NO. 9444. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 ALL ITALY AFLAME IN FIERCE BATTLES Being Surrounded on New Japa ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN ON NIPPONS Twenty-five Pounders Are| Ready fo Pour Shells Into Lae Sector ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Sept. 11 The situation of the Japanese gar- rison at Lae, New Guinea, is now desperate. “Qur forces from both sides are rapidly closing in on the main ciadel defenses,” the Saturday com- | munique says Above the airbase, Australians have crossed the Busu River near the Malahang airdrome. This force, | which landed from the sea, have now wheeled into position 25 pound- ers to pour shells into Lae Eighteen miles below Lae other | Allied troops are enveloping the airbase at Salamaua and also tight- ened the pressure on the enemy. More than 100 miles above Lae, at Madang, Mitchell medium bomb- | ers destroyed 21 supply barges on | which the Japane ely so heavily - The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—A new Eepubli—' can candidate for President of the | United States has bobbed up in the | midwest recently. He is Wheeler McMillen, editor of the Farm Jour- nal, owned by Pennsylvania’s mon- jed political boss, Joe Pew. Mr. McMillen has been making | the rounds of Indiana, Nebraska,| Jowa and the corn belt as an open | and avowed candidate for the Re- | publican nomination. His reception | has been one of surprised specula- tion. Since Mr. McMillen obviously has no chance of getting anywhere, it is presumed that GOP’s anti- Willkie Joe Pew sent him out as a decoy to attract farm votes away from Willkie and generally to con- fuse the issue. However, one interesting thing turned up about Mr. McMillen in Indiana. He is the president of the Chemurgic Council, which aims to promote the use of agricultural products in industry. However, when Senator Gillette of Towa led a brilliant crusade for the use of alcohol from grain in making synethetic rubber, McMillen strangely enough took a strong position that rubber should be made exclusively from' petroleum, not | from grain products. (McMillen’s | boss Joe Pew of Sun Oil is one of the biggest oil men in the country and is operating an oil synthetic rubber plant for the government.) So when McMillen put himself in the position of working against the use of farm products in industry, outraged Hassel Scheneck, head of the Farm Bureau in Indiana, called | for his resignation as president of | the Chemurgic Council. This bob- bed up to haunt Mr. McMillen on his tour through Indiana recently. NEWSPRINT EXTRAVAGANZA While President Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Churchill and Mac- kenzie King were cementing friend- ship of the British Empire and the United States in Oftawa, an an- nouncement was made in Windsor, Ontario, that made many U. S. publishers broiling mad, especially in Detroit. The Windsor Star, published di- rectly across the river from Detroit, announced that on September 3 it would issue a 180-page special an- niversary. editon, including a 64- page rotogravure section. Like most newspapers throughout the country, the Detroit papers have had to cut down their editorial con- tent to get within the strict WPB limits on newsprint. They have had to cancel hundreds of thousands of — (Continued on Page Four) neseé | Italy’s Nearly Up; Our Quofa, 01000 Drive Toward Quota Up}GERMAN $235,738.75 ‘ROTARIANS IN RECORD SALES FOR WAR BONDS ped Considerably Last Night Juneau Rotarians last about popped the top off the Ei thermometer recording sal just 1- night pire's in the Third War Loan Drive. The, sold to total sales of the Rotarians and credited to the club up noon today reached the stupendous figure of $99,252 Total sold at the booth last night was $78,387. Another $15,000 pur- chase for Rotary went through to- day and sales in stamps, and bonds at the banks, Post Office and other issuing agencies for Rotary brought the figure up to more than $99,000. Bond purchasers bid almost $75,~ 000 in bonds last night to hear Lil- lian Uggen sing “Whoep Other songs by the popular Juneau song- stress went cheaper. Arthur “Scotty” Adams was the auctioneer. The amount recorded on the ther- mometer today includes only sales for yesterday and last evening. Tonight the Douglas Eagles and the American Women's Volunteer Services will handle booth from 7 to 10 o'clock. Tomorrow night will see the Picncers of Al- aska and the Juneau Women's Club in the booths, Monday evening will find the Ju wu Elks Lodge and the Federal Employees selling and buy- ing the extra bonds A large purchase to help the Ter- ritory reach its quata of almost two million came through the Standard 0il Company of California which authorized the purchase of $100,000 sales | worth of bonds in Alaska out of (OAST GUARD BAND CONCERT ON SUNDAY Band from The Coast Guard Ketchikan, will give a free con- cert tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock sharp at the 20th Century Theatre. The program will consist of marches and popular concert numbers. Yesterday afternoon the . band ave a concert on the school grounds and last evening at Duck Creek. FLEET OF ITALY GIVES UP Surrender I—natated with Arrival of Vessels at Various Ports LONDON, Sept. 11. — Four seven battleships are safe |at Malta and the modern 35,000 ton | Ronia, plus eleven other vessels are reported in the neutral sanctuary of the Spanish Island, Palma de Mallocra. German bombers destroyed one ship off Corsica. Allied Headquarters announced nine cruisers, six destroyers and smaller units have also reached Malta. Two cruisers, two destroyers and two smaller units have reached Gibraltar and surrendered. - D - NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 86%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester 68%, Kennecott 30's, New York, Central 157, Northern Pacific 13%,! United States Steel 52, Pound $4.94.| Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 13804, rails' 34.22, utilities 21.54. the the in company s whole of the the Third War the $15,000,000 spending for United States Loan Drive | Anchorage will have $20,000 cred- ited to sales there from Standard, |and Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchi- | kan will each get $15,000. Amounts {for other towns include: Seward, 1$7,000; Cordova, $5000; Seldovia, ($2,500; Kodiak, $3,000; Sitka, $5,000; | Petersburg, $5,000; Wrangell, $5,000 |and Craig, $2,500. SEIZURE OF 'ROME CAUSES NO SURPRISE etake of Eternal City Is Delicate Problem - Al- | lies Have Advantage | R | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Ger-| imany's swift deployment in Ttaly, | including the capture of Rome, in- TED MEMBER ASSOCIA! PRESS _ ENTY s __PRICE TEN Guinea ALL GREECEDeWitlls NOW UNDER Relieved HEEL Sepl. 15 : ed Under Severe of Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, of the 1 Threats Western Defense Command, ef- fective about September 15 11 said The until Ha- De- as Lt. Gen. Delos Emmons, regently Chief he Army's The waiian Command Will succeed today German yyjt ha all of Greece, in- commandant of formerly occupied by navy Staff College who had been ordered to p ¢ gather in coastal towns and await orders. The Ttalians were disarmed by force The Greek population was warned of severe penalties for violating the of CAIRO, Sept Helenic News Agency troops took over been assigned the Army and in Washington, who cluding Italians, zones .- HEALTH GOOD OF SOLDIERS AT ATTU,KISKA ADAK, Aleutians, Sept. 11.—De- spite cold winds and fog, the health American soldiers in the Aleu- jans is good, Admiral W. L. Mann, Ji Navy Senior Medical Officer reported after an inspection trip. The Of- Hospital facilities are well estab- s4ys 4 Jghed on Attu and Kiska, and the reports a rather 4o 8f fllness of Navy personnel severe earthquake in Soutl 1 in the ‘Alaska area is one third of ast night. Many were killed ¢ne percent, compared with two and Wt damage was reported in one-half the of Inaba military governor's orders. > Earthquake " Reportedin ~ Japan Areas Sept. 11 Tnformation of t NEW YORK, 1 of War Tokyo ‘broude Japan b and three percent, g to Tottori percent capital Pro- the havy avers vince. Most common ailments are The quake was also fell in Kobe, {jgns of the upper respiratory tract Osaka, and Hiroshima, where houses i, winter. The year around it rocked and people Jled to the open gihjete's foot, which is the only ail- country. ment apparently prevalent than in other areas, due to wearing heavy leather and rubber boots. | There is practically venereal disease. e infee- more - ALASKA BO no reliefy story of Time on the Chicago Air program - ITALIANS ~ ARE URGED, FIGHT HARD Roosevelt and Churchill Broadcasts Appeal- Liberating Blow sole ridor The came | CHICAGO, Sept. 11. — The pre- {mier of a new operetta About the |tonight, also short waved to Alaska and the Northwest country. Words German Retreat Becomes and music of the libretto are by v l R ' E Kent Cooper, Excutive Director p The broadecast will be on the Mu- [tual Network between 6 and 7 Pa- Theatre MOSCOW, Sept. 11 The Rea °f the Army troops battering the fleeing Germans along a 400-mile front from Azov Sea to Bryansk,imperil- eust of the Dneiper, threatening the yemaining German escape cor- from Crimea retreat in many places be- up 300 towns and vill Upwards of 60,000 Germans were slain, the Soviet communique said, following the capiu\ of Mariupol and Chap- SOVIET TRAP iy, insons, way will be broadcast nationally [the Associated Press Corridor Threafened |u led the entire Nazi defense system a rout as the Germans gave lino. GERMAN BERLIN, Sept REPORT 11.—The German High Command today reports the Russians have made large scale landing attempts in the Novorossisk area, where the Germs: hold a | VAS GTON, Sept resi- small Caucasus bridgehe WABHINGTON, Bept.« Li=-EtH dent Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ave made a joint appeal to the Ttalian people to “strike hard and strike AAMERICANS IN CAPTURE OF SALERNO Most of talian Fleet at Malta-ltalian Roy- alty Flees (By Associated Press) Licut. Gen. Mark Clark’s Am- crican Fifth Army has ed Sal- exno, throwing back more German armored attacks to deepen the Allied wedge in the Naples area Meanwhile, chaos reigned through- out all of Ttaly. Berlin reported the Germans in pitched battles with Italians in the north of Italy. Official reports from Allied head- quarters said smashing aerial as- saults kept the enemy from “get- ting reinforcements over badly bat- tered roads and railroads” to the Naples sector, At the same time it learned that a large portion of Ttaly's naval strength has reached the safety of Malta Several hundred prisoner Germans, have been taken in the Naples area, Flee to Siecily Simultaneously, the German radio quoted a foreign office spokesman - e |home" at the Germans on Halian s saying that the King of Italy 80 Premier Badoglio and Crown Prince | The appeal is addressed to Mar-, ymbperto all have fled to Sicily. M shal Badoglio and “to the people of ' Following this was a German re- Italy” by the two United Nations' port that the Italian naval base of leaders which also said: Polo on the Yugoslav side of the “Now is the time every Italian Adriatic, and Rhodes Island in the Steps Out After Storm o must strike a blow liberating them pogecanese hfive surrendered and as the armies of the western world the “major part of the Italian pen- Criticism Induced by Hull Statement ale coming to your rescue.” insula is under the control of Ger- The appeal said the Allied forces man armed forces.” are “entering at many points” and gaid the German report, “our further declared the Giermans “have troops have marched into Milan, « always deserted . the Italian troops Tyrin and Padua.” But the Nazis |on the battlefield.” added, grim fighting was being ex- The statement added that Hitler perienced from the Americans and is now prepared to subject the Peo- British around Salerno, with count- ple of Italy to “all cruelties he is er-attacks gaining back some terri- BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 11.—The perpetuating in so many lands.” SAFE, WELL EISENHOWER ASPRISONER SAYS "HOME ~ RUN’ NEEDED By CLARK LEE Representing Combined American WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Lieut. | James Seater of Anchorage, Alaska, | interned by the Japs in a Philip- pine military camp is reported in | “good health. Aides to Alaska Delegate Anthony | 9. Dimond received a card from Newspapers Seater who was attached to the wiTH GENERAL EISENHOWER U. S. Engineers and was listed 8s 2 ApyANCED ALLIED COMMAND prisoner by the War Department posT, Sept. 11.—‘We are playing |last May. This is the first direct (), Big Leagues. You can't hit a msssago from hin. run by bunting. You have vasion of Italy rather than by at- | | BoEING MEN ! tacking other “stepping stones” such as Sardinia, Corsica and Crete. pAY RAISE General Eisenhower told me on home to step up there and take your cut ‘at the ball.” | In those words General Dwight D. Eisenhower explained why the Allies decided upon an all-out in- | 1 the islands, and to hit the Germans | jects no new unexpected element ! | into the situation as envisioned by of | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and as substantial wage increases for Boe- far as can be determined here. | The speed with which Gen. Mont- gomery's British Eighth Army and Gen. Clark's United States Fifth | Army move to counter aggressions | { depends on the strength of German | dispositions and the effectiveness of | the Allied supply operations The Allies have the advantage of | two decisive factors, aerial super- | iority and sea control. | The attempt to rid Rome of the | Nazis is one of the most difficult jand delicate tasks. The city may | be taken by heavy aerial assault |and a frontal ground attack or er | circlement and siege. The latter is | the method believed the most fav- | ored to safeguard religious centers. ‘The Italians might themselves spearhead the force to elear their capital, depending on the existence of -an Ttalian government with a, where it hurts. I don’t believe in fighting battles to chase someone |out of somewhere. Our object is A to trap and smash the enemy.” ing Aircraft workers, justifying them | 2 i e as “rare and unusual” cases with | 'ghe G;"‘?BITS e be trap- the avowed purpose of boosting the pediin. Siclly And got ' good share sl e ey of their forces out, but if Eisen- Top pay for the day shift is fixed hower is successful in the present at $1.60 per hour, representing an "I"“’;""m_’tm" Piasa wen't' et out of increase of a dollar for an eight- faly, whhayt. teavy Jomes. | - e s ; { Free lfalians in ~ SWEDISH TANKER oy Lot 15 ATTACKED BY | pily by the Free Italian Organiza-| STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11—A Swed-| tion here and by Greeks, who called ish communique says six crew mem- | | it the biggest step taken yet for lib- | bers were killed when an unidenti- | | eration of their countries. fied torpedo plane attacked the Andrew Simoni, head of the Free | Swedish tanker-Svea Reuter in the Italian movement, said: “It per- Baltic. the eve of the invasion, “The time has come to discontinue nibbling at WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 The War Labor Board has authdrized *sojourn in the Capital City No mention is made of Italy's ruling dynasty of the House of Savoy The message is beamed on the short wave radio to Italy and will be broadcast regularly. re: aation' of Foreign Minister Storni, closely following his un- successful bid for lend-lease aid from the United States, has re- move from the Argentina govern- ment one,of its most strongly pro-| Allied members, | =ty Storni submitted his resignation last night to President Ramirez under a barrage of criticism from t the Nationalist press which ook‘EYE |TNES the view that he exposed Argentina to open rebuke from the United TElls STORY btoias st i from Washington that Secretary of State ‘Cordell Hull had refected his | request for lease-lend aid on the @®und that Argentina had failed | to de her share in protecting the Western Hemisphere from aggres- NORTH AFRICA, Sept sion. from a flight over Naples, District — Flying Officer John Vasicken, 20, EMBASSY GUARDED [said, “The whole area of approxi- BUE Sept. 11. — A mately 1,000 square miles was police guard has been placed about |swarming with the invasion fleet.” the United States Emba: to pre The Canadian brought back the vent any public demonstration re-|first eye-witn account of the Al- suling from the resignation of For-!lied landings. He flew over the eign Minister Storni. |region on his way to his reconnais- - |sance mission shortly after dawn |and said, “Through the haze 1 TRIO FROM PORT ALTHORP |suddenly saw what first appeared as Howard Newell Pierce, C. L.|a moderately large amount of ship- Owens and Chester Nyle Parker, ping, then as I got closer to the all of Port Althorp, are guests at bay, I got a more accurate picture the Baranof Hotel and realized the whole area was —_————— swarming with fhe invasion fleet. The fleet varied in size from as- sault barges to warships.” -oe FHA ANNOUNCES - FAIRBANKS HOUSE . PROJECTIS OKEHED WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 The Federal Public Housing Authority | has announced approvel of 10 family dwelling units in Fairbanks and 15 family units in Anchorage The units will house the familics of employees of the Federal W h- er Bureau he Foreign Minister has been under fire since-the announcement ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 11.—Back UTAH BOUND Wilda Nielsen, who has arrived in | Juneau from Skagway is en route to Salt Lake City, Utah. During her she is at the Baranof Hotel -o a guest XCURSION INLET Registered at the Baranof Hote! from Excursion Inlet George | Longazo and Cecil Young - FROM ANCHORAGE John Crombie and Al Dickaw of Anchorage are the | Baranof Hotel el FROM are registered at tory for the Germans. Salerno is officially reported in "American hands. Taranto Taken Meanwhile, a British force has completed the occupation of Tar- anto after the German evacuation of this city. An Algiers report said the Brit- ish have fanned out in three direc- tions on the move inland, A British broadcast, at the same time, said Berlin has announced the !annulment of Crotia’s treaty with Italy, guaranteeing Croation inde- pendence . . And the Zagreb radio urged the Croats to support the Germans in | the struggle against the Italians. The Germans, at last reports, were attempting to throw more planes into the flaming battle for Italy in an attempt to halt the American Fifth Army at Naples. A o da NEW HEAD NAMED - 11TH AR FORCE, NOW IN ALASKA WASHINGTON, Sept War Department has announced that Major General Davenport Johnson, bombing expert, is to com- mand the 11th Air Force in the Alaskan theatre, according to Major ! General Willlam O. Butler, who hasi been transferred to Washington General Johnson headed the 2nd Air Force at Colorado Springs. - SALMON INDUSTRY 10 PUSH PROGRAM OF CONSOLIDATION SEATTLE, Sept. 11. — Approxi- mately 100 representatives of the salmon industry met here and fa- |vored the continuation of the con- | solidation plan for the industry to 11.— The | | | will to fight, | haps is too soon to talk, but it is a The tanker reached port two days | | happy thing for Italy to be out of after the torpedoing after 13 un- 'the war.” seatched crewmen ~manned the Some sources are cautious in their | PUMPSs to keep the ship from sinking. | Mabel Wilbur and Mary Abilyn of views but stressed the Axis may be | WP T iR { Haines are registered at the Bar- able to continue domination of the| The earliest known bird had anof Hotel. | Balkans for the present. |row of teeth set in its jaw. | . HERE FROM HAINES al e e 00 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Friday, Sept. 10 Maximum 60, Minimum 39 e % o o 0 0 o 0 o e utilize the best available manpower e |and materials. e Dr. Ira Gabrielson presided, and o recommended the immediate *ap- e [pointment of a committee to work e jon a 1944 consolidation program. BERKELEY, Calif, Sept. 11 Former Governor Friend Richard- son, 178, is dead here, caused by heart trouble. He had an attack two months ago and grew steadily worse,