The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9447. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1943. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY SEESSSS o AMERICANS, GERMANS LOCKED IN BATTLE British on Move Toward Balkans, Report | NINTH ARMY GOING FROM SOUTHBASES THAT $250,000 QUOTA RAISED; BOOTHS CLOSE $347,236.00 'Heavy Damage Done by American Fliers During Largest Raid on Kuriles | By NORMAN BELL | Eisenhower Walches lfalian Fleet Pass Brifish Officials Make No| Associated Press War Correspondent Comment-Action Is Possible LONDON, Sept. 15.—Unconfirmed reports reaching London from Stockholm via Ankara, Turkey, said the British Ninth Army has been designated for an Allied drive up through the Balkans and is on the move from Middle East bases which face the pathway into the Balkans torough Greece. British military officials had no comment to make on the Ankara reports. (Continued on Page Three) The Washingioni Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robers 8. Allen on active duty.) ¢This is the second .ip, the ser- ies. of Washington Mefry-Go- Round ‘columns on the State Department, now considered the most important agency in Washington.) WASHINGTON — We have al- ready seen that one of the handi- ¢aps in bullding up efficient ma- chinery for foreign affairs is lack of sufficient money. This i not the fault of Congress. Many times in recent years, various Senate leaders, including such iso- lationist-inclined men as Bob La- Follette, have sent word to the i t5 the Gastineau channel|hundred thousand officers and men. | State Department that they could have more funds for the asking. Despite this, the State Depart- ment has been content to limp along, geared to old-fashioneéd dip- lomacy, apparently unworried over the fact that the fate of the world, after the war, rests largely on its shoulders. This penny-pinching i partly due to a laudable, though misplaced, pride on the part of Secretary Hull in keeping down his budget. But even more it is a hand-me-down from the halcyon days when the State Department was a rich man’s club and no one was afraid to ‘ad- mit it. Chief change is that today no one will admit it AGAINST HIGHER PAY In Coolidge’s day, career diplo-! mats quite openly worked against the Rogers Act, which boosted their salaries, because they sincerely be-, lieved that high salaries would open the gates of diplomacy to hoi polloi and that responsibility for Ameri- can foreign policy should rest only on the shoulders of the wealthy few. Result is that today, while sal- 4 ARMY NEEDS 7,700,000 BY END OF YEAR | Deputy Chief of Staff Gives Testimony at Sen- ate Hearing WASHINGTON, Septi 15.—Lt. Col. Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, told Senators today that the Army “needed seven million seven hundred thousand men by the end | of this year for the “Minimum force | required for the task ahead” and warned that any reduction in num- ber would necessitate a change in the nation’s strategical commit- ments. MeNarney is the first all-star wit- ness in the procession of high Army | and Navy officials called by the Sen- I'ate Military Comniittee to testify to | the need of further enlargement of the fighting forces. Congressional leaders that the decision, whether to defe: or end the general drafting of fath {ers, hinged upon the High Com- | mand’s “justification” of such en- largement. McNarney said that the Army figure was approved by Gen. George C. Marshall and added that “the collapse of Italy doesn't affect these figures.” He said that on Septem- ber 1 the Army’s strength was ap- last proximately seven million, three Another boost was given area $250,000 quota of the Third, War Loan and the amount has now been swelled to $347,236. | A Tonight the Chamber of Com- merce and the Douglas Firemen will| man the, two booths, one in front| . of the First National Bank and| ' FBI Director Hoover An- the other at the entrance of the! Coliseum theatre. Tonight clofi»enji nounces John Purvis Is in Custody the campaign as conducted from|. the booths but not the campaign itself. According to announcement, September 17 has been named as “Back Salerno Day.” Salerno, Italy, is where our forces are now:en- aged in battle with the Nazis. Juneauites are reminded that al- though the total is over the top, the amount to be raised by Series| A | indicated | E Bonds (those purchased by the small investor) is still short. The quota set for this series is $150,000 and to date the local sales for this bond is only $124,428. So small investor-buy bonds to- night! NATIVES TAKING - aries are somewhat higher, young diplomats sometimes have to scrape along on the pitiful pittance of around $50 a week, and no man can get anywhere unless he has a ACTIVE PART IN WAR LOAN DRIVE wealthy wife, was born with a sil- ver spoon in his mouth, or has made a fortune of his own. In addition, personnel inside the State Department is so limited by a scanty budget that its abler men are worn almost ill with work. In contrast to skimpy American salaries (a U. S, Ambassador gets | Native and Native associations of Alaska have subscribed more than $25,000 to the Third War Loan Drive, it was learned today. The Alaska Office of Indian Af- fairs is purchasing that amount in 21, percent Treasury bonds of 1964- 69 issue which are available for pur- only $17,500 plus the most meagre Chase today, from surplus funds be- expense . allowance), the British longing to more than 200 individuals Ambassador in Washington gets and Native organizations throughout $80,000, while the French used to Alaska, many of the buyers béing get $70,000. ~ from small villages not assigned All of this means: (1) that Am-'fluons in the drive. erican diplomats look upon our m.l Credit for this purchase is being ternational problems through the 8iven to the Alaska Native Brother- ~tinted glasses of entrenched wealth; hood and Sisterhood, bringing total or (2) the man with no private in- sales for this organization to more come becomes so anxious about than $27,000, plus stamp sales of $50. keeping his job during shifts be- SO e 5 SR tween Democratic and Republican|GIRL SCOUT TROOP NO. 4 administrations that he becomes TO MEET ON THURSDAY skilled in the poll-parrot practice of| A meeting of Girl Scout Troop telling each Secretary of State ex- No. 4 will be held tomorrow after- actly what he thinks the Secretary|noon at 3:45 o'clock at the IOOF wants to hear. Hall. This will be the first meeting .'of the fall season ‘and all troop members are asked to attend. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Fed- {eral Bureau of Investigation Di- | rector Edgar J. Hoover today an- nounced the arrest in Newark, N. J., of John Da Silva Purvis, 43, on charges of acting as a German spy. Hoover said Purvis transmitted information to his “principals” in Europe on two occasions and re- ceived cash payments for his service. Purvis, a Portuguese citizen, al- in the early part of 1942, when he was contacted by a crew member of a neutral vessel, who was re- cruiting for the German Intelligence Service. Smashal Airfields “InFrance {Renewed Embardmenl of German Facilities Resumed Today LONDON, Sept. 15.—~Flying Fort- | resses, Liberators and Marauders | renewed bombardment of German alr facilities in France today, one force striking “aircraft installations” near Paris and the another force at- tacking air fields in scattered parts of France, | ADVANCED ALEUTIAN BASE, | Sept. 13.—(Delayed) — American | Army fliers told vividly of their | latest and largest raid against the | | Japanese on the Kurile Islands. Col. Frank Fogle, Intelligence Of- ficer of the Eleventh Air Force, sald {of the planes in the raid, five are| | presumed to be lost and five others | | missing may have reached land. | The raiders reported heavy dam- | age to Kashiwabara installations on | the Paramushiro Island and ship- ping in the Straits. One ship was | | sunk, one exploded from a direct hit | and other was left afire. Japanese fighters centered the at- tack on Liberators, which dropped ! bombers at a high altitude. Return- | ing fliers said ten Zeros were down-~ | ed and possibly four others in the | fourth raid on the island | | Fliers who had been on previous | raids, said ground and Zero re- sistance was more aggressive. These pilots said Zeros, an estimated 20 to 40. attacked the big bombers as | | they started back, towards the Aleu- tians. The leading Liberator, with one | motor _afire.gcrashed into the sea. | breaking up as it hit. The tail| gunner kept firing at the Zeros. l !*" cort of Allied ships. (U. S. Army Wt | £ NO- STRIKE ACT GIVES WLB TEETH Legal Effect Is Given All Board Orders, Says | Member ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.—The | Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act gives legal effect to orders of the | National War Labor Board, Wayne | {L. Morse, public member and en- | forcement officer of the board de- | clares. Five members are in San Fran- | eisco to hear appeal cases. | | The anti-strike act has imple- | mented the board's policy in en- forcing decisions on both industry and labor, Morse said, and the board | will impose sanctions against labor | and employers, alike, who attempt to stop war production. Morse warned that employers will 3 lose their plants and unions will lose their contract benefits, which would wreck them. “In no case can any decision go| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN unenforced,” he said. 11‘HE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. T 3.7 0 15—The bulk of the Jap garrison |has been routed from the air and | (U. 8. Army radiophoto from Algit JAP BASE ATLAEIS |Guinea, and has been destroyed. radiophoto from A'giers). 5 Ilaliafi Ships Race fo Allied Port ers). Special Message To Be Given Congress Friday | | FIGHTING IS MOST SAVAGE ALONG FRONT | Americans Forced fo Give Some Ground - Rein- forcemen&_s§peeded ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 15.—Allied troops have beaten off fierce Ger- man counter-attacks against the | Salerno bridgehead in Italy but wera | forced last night to yield some ground gained earlier in order to straighten lines. New support has come to Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s forces as the strong- attacks of the Mediterran- {est air ean war are reported. The thunder Af Ay Gen. Eisenhower, Allied Commander in Chief (third from right) and Admiral Cunningham, (behind Eisen- hower, partly observed), watch as part of the surrend >red Italian fleet steams by their destroyer, under es- i . |the Germans, | savage, jof naval guns, offshore, also in- ! dicates help by a bombardment. Today's communique discloses close combats are raging |along the whole Fifth Army front from Salerno to Agropoli, 20 miles | south, both sides throwing heavy | reinforcements of troops and. ar- | mored units' into the battle. v Help Speeding Up The British Eighth Army is | speading up the west coast to give isupport and has pushed through jthe village of Belyedere, 61 miles | from Agropolt to close the ‘gap be~ |tween the Allied forces. Heavy seesaw fighting swirls in the , Salerno region to the north- | west. Air Force In Action | The African Air Force has hurled {all planes in its command against flying more than 12,000 sorties from dawn Tuesday |to dawn today, in the greatest air attack ever witnessed in this war theatre. The Nazis have managed to bring | up more troops to the Salerno sec- = tor despite concentrated poundings { An Ttalian battleship (rear) and a destroyer of the Artigliere class, under Allied escort, pass close to a destroyer carrying Admiral Cunningham and Gen. Esenhower, after the surrender of the Italian fleet. [ FALL RAINS 'HAMPER PUSH |shipping base at Salamatia. New | OF RED ARMY | I | MOSCOW, Sept. 15. — The Red Star, official newspaper, | that a night attack broke the Ger- | man Lozovaya WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, — Con- gressional leaders said the President ! will send a special message to Con- | gress Friday to report on the | “progress of the war.” Rl B CHINESE CREW in the central reported | | as e Red Army pressed on in a' | legedly began his espionage activities | LATE WAR BULLETINS |Small scattered groups of Japs who {got away into the jungles, face cer- | !tain annilhilation, General Douglas | {MncAnhux_' says in the day's com-| | general advance toward the Dnieper. KILL OFFICERS 0" JAP VBSE | Autumn rains started falling in | the Ukraine, the dispatch said, bog- CHUNGKING, Sept. 15.—Mutiny | 8ing down roads and fields, slack- 1mun£que, | Another triumph, even in greater proportions, is in the making at LONDON—Russian troops have‘ue' enemy stronghold which s captured Nezhin on the Kiev- |crumbling under the Kursk railway, 80 miles northeast| of Kiev. Way now opened to crmkii‘;:wsl #above 8nd° behind the big Middle Dnieper defenses. v | Quantities of enemy equipment weight of | |of 18 Chinese seameh who wiped‘““"g the speed of the maneuvers, out Japanese officers and other Jap but tanks and motorized infantry| continued to push forward in pur- cuit of the retrearing enemy. No further reports on the position |around Bryansk were issued, but | vesterday’s dispatches said the Red 4Army had marched within view of | members of the crew of the trans- port Mia Maru and then delivered the ship and cargo to Chinese au-| | thorities, is disclosed here today. | The seamen have been awarded ({the Kwang Musa Glorify China of roads by the Allied air craft. Reinforcements Naval forces this afternoon are reported landing reinforcements all along the Salerno-Agropoli front. German attacks are strongly sup- ported by tanks but in many cases | have been driven by blistering Am- [eflcun fire. One U. S. combat team jalone has destroyed 13 tanks. The Eighth Army’s advance to | Belvedere represents a 25 mile push !beyond Cosenza, announced yester- |day as its position. | (o U X AN PRSI RSTLADY VISITS MRS. MacARTHUR SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, j F | intermediate line defending Sept. 15. — The Liberator bomber Ukraine Which carried Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt more than 3,000 miles . inlong Australia’s east coast for the | past ten days, has left for an un- ' announced destination. | During one stopover the FPirst | Lady was a guest of Mrs. Jean MacArthur, wife of the General. SILENT ON CASE OF COMMANDERS CAIRO—Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce| has taken over command of all 7| S. Forces in the Middle East. Maj.| Gen. Brereton has left for undis- closed assignment in another war| theatre. | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| NORTH AFRICA, —The Northwest African Air Force is hurling every plane in its command this after- noon, smashing at the Salerno Brideghead. | LONDON—An undisclosed radio| stalion broadcasts that street fight- ing continues in the streets of Rome.} No word has come out from Va:—i ican City for three days, |360 planes were destroyed in a sur- were captured at Salamaua, includ- | ing heavy field artillery, the Japs| left behingd. The ridges along the Lae-Sala- maua road above Lae are under ar- tillery fire by the Allied forces. Liberators have destroyed 25 Jap planes at Wewak where last month | prise raid. Twelve of 40 intercept- ors were shot down. Three Allied planes are reported lost. | 1t is not known how many of the | 20000 Japs reported in the Sala-| maua-Lae sector, survive the ter- rific aerial pounding plus ground attacks. - e BUY WAR BONDS medal. D Judge Rosenman fo Be Spedal Counsel For U.S.Presidem WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 —Presi- dent Roosevelt announces that Judge salary will probably be $10,000 or $12,000 a year compared to $25,000 as a jurist, the city, and the Germans are re-! rorted to have evacuated Eryansk. ATPEARL HARBOR { | The Soviet drive west across the' waSHINGTON Sept. 15.—Secre- Jkraine proceeded steedily despite|tary of Navy Pl'l.nk x,‘mx'd“]mflg aqmitted difficulties created tem-!to discuss the published reports on porarily by mud. Losovaya is 39! the statute of limitations wAbnr miles northeast and Pavlograd 65|trial of Rear Admiral Kimmel un- wiles to the northeast !less he is arraigned before the Daweperopetrovsk. one of the last|court martial before December 7, old Ukrainian bastions left to the| the second anniversary of the Jap- Germans, served as one of the main | anese attack on Peal Harbor. defenses south of Kharkov during| War Department officials also re- |the first winter offensive and thelfused to discuss the case of Major | samuel Rosenman is resigning from |scene of one of the counter-attack;| General Short, Army Commander of | the New York State Supreme Court | during the second winter. It was the | Hawall, where Kimmel commanded to become his special counsel. His high water mark of the Russian|the fleet during the disastrous J ap- | anese assault. & { ——— V¥ WaB BoNDy | counter-offensive in the south. A A I R A (Continued on Page Three) L