The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1943, Page 1

THE — VOL. XLI, NO. 9448. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1943. ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— =] PRICE TEN CENTS — . —— YANKS HOLDING LIKE ROCK AT SALERNO Allies Crashin MAINCORE OF DEFENSE IS SMASHED Air Victorie?,fiso Chalked Up in PacificWar Theatre ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 16.—Allied forces have crashed | through the main core of enemy| resistance west of the Jap base of Lae, New Guinea. 4 Meanwhile, the other arm of the| Alifed pincer moved steadily east| and Is within two miles of the town's center. ! Heath Plantation, eight miles west | of Lae, where bitter fighting was | expected, fell to our forces moving | down the Markham Valley. | Ahead of the Markham Valley | raiders, Mitchell medium bombers | (Continued on Page Three) —————t— — The Washington Merry - Go- Round ..~ By DREW PEARSON (Mujor Rebert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON—One of the last| things Big Bill Jeffers did before announcing his resignation as Rub-| ber Administrator was to sit as ar- biter in a hot and very important | session between rubber workers and | rubber manufacturers over the question of constructing more tire | factories. The Big Four rubber companies| (Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and | U. 8. Rubber) had drawn up elab-| drate plans for new tire factories in’ new locations, chiefly in Texas and the South. Apparently they wanted to break away from Akron. The United Rubber Workers, wor-| ried ovér maintaining union mem- | bership in the South, was much opposed. So Jeffers listened to both sides of the story. United Rubber Workers President S. H. Dalrymple came loaded with facts and figures. .He said the rub- ber companies had tons of tire- making equipment stored away. All they had to do was wipe off the dust, not build new plants, using scarce strategic materials, Spokesmen for the rubber com- panies admitted they had & lot of tire equipment, but clsimed it was not enough to manufacture 30,000,- 000 passénger tires needed for fb44. JEFFERS STOMPS Jeffers lstneed attentively, then swung his- weight vigorously-on the side of 1abor. He put his foot down categorically on the ihdustry’s ex- pansion program in the South. “Some plants will have to be ex- panded,” he said, “but do it in ex- isting locations. * Purthermore, some of your plants now doing war work will be converted back again. by Kelly-Springfield in Cum- berl: Maryland),” Jéffers con- tinued. “They converted to an am- munition plant and set aside a lot of their tire-making equipment. But Ordnance has now abandoned the plant, and it cap get back to pro- duction of tires. The sathe thing is happening at the U. 8. Rubber plant -at Eau Claire, Wisconsin.” Incidentally, Jeffers was irked because the rubber companies sent their third-string men, instead of top executives, He felt strongly that for such an important meeting the industry should be represented by such men as Harvey Firestone, Jr., or J. W. Thomas, President of Firestone, or P. W, Litchfield, Presi- dent of Goodyear. But they were absent. With a scowl at the industry's representatives, Jefférs made a crack | against the practice of driving workers hard by something like the ! infamous Bedaux methods. | “What you fellows need,” sald Jeffers, “is less stopwatch and more common sense.” 5 (Continned on Page Four) QUOTA REACHED, | A THEN SOARS UP REDS BREAK awavovirtor NAZILINE $389,263.50 ONDNIEPER iKey Cities of Kiev, Zapor- ozhe Threatened by Soviets MOSCOW, Sept. 16.—Red Army troops, surging swiftly toward Kiev |and Zaporozhe,” key cities on the Dnieper River, are reported to have |ripped apart the German defenses |east of the river, The Red Star |said that the Germans no longer {hold a continuous line. The Russians drove on Kiev from | Nezhin, 75 miles to the northeast 'and on Zaporozhe from the line |between Gulai Pole and Pokrov- |skoye, some 45 miles east. ! - - - Novorossisk ~ (aptured by ~ Soviel Army \Vifal Black Sea Naval Base in Russian Hands- Taken by Storm LONDON, Sept. 16. — Russian forces captured Novorossisk, Black !Sea naval base in the German |bridgehead in the Caucasus, Mos- |cow has announced. | In a broadcast, Premier Stalin Idi.sclosed the capture in a special |order of the day to the Russian The active campaign as conduct- |troons in the northern Caucasus ed from the two booths, in the third | p, cooperated with units of the o ’”:‘ “;"l";;gr“)bo““f °‘::ed(;“d!nlnck Sea fleet in combined land the quota o ’ or the Gas-| tineau Channel area, including Ju-!mrgh:e :n:f‘?:::o::s taken by storm neau and Douglas, has been reached | ,qqy gfter five days of fierce fight- and hit the high mark of $389,263.50, |y jn which the Russians routed away over the top. three German divisions, a Ruman- But, included in the quota of|joy giyision, and a detachment of :250'00" l‘"‘i’ meE“:“z‘ "ih“‘w'oz‘ German marines, Stalin announced. or exclusive nds, those of | VIR westward be- small denominations. This quota twi:s [;:‘;,giszfl.hn: Nezhin cap- of $150,000 is still shy, the amount|y,eq Novogorod Seversky, 80 miles credited to E bonds being now|gom the White Russian border. $133,155.50, leaving E bond pur-; — s chases remaining of $16,844.50. | Bonds sold during the remainder M ANPOWER of the month, will, however, be WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — The credited to the Third War Loan Drive. Sautrday night the War Finance Committee will be hosts with an| informal public dance at the Elks ballroom, with admission to the af-| fair being the purchase at the door| of at least one 25 cent War Stamp. The Duck Creek orchestra will pro- vide music for the occasion. Permission has been granted by r Thro 'UNDERATTACK the Alaska Electric Light and Pow- er Co,, for pictures of local boys in the service to remain on display in their window until the end of September. e DURE TELLS 'EM, B'6OSH Windsor, Royal Governor of the Bahamas, struck at his opposition in the Bahamas Assembly in a speech today, closing the longest session in the colony’'s history. In qutspoken criticism of efforts to block some of his proposals, the Duke accused those responsible for “dallying methods” in dealing with war /measures. NASSAU, Sept. 16—The Duke o{. Army and Navy will require 1,- 221,000 more men during the last | four months of this year and only | about 775,000 non-fathers are avail- able for that period, General Lewis D. Hershey, head of the Selective Service, told Congerss today. | parently must be met from a pool of 5,286,000 men of military age and with children. During the hearing Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler called for a Con- gressional investigation of what he |said was a “wastage” of labor in | the West Coast war industries. He was joined in his request by Senator Rufus C. Holman of Ore- gon, who told the committee one report of an investigator for the Truman Committee lay “buried.” Rear Admiral Jacobs, Navy Per- sonnel Chief, sald the Navy needs to draft 553,000 men to meet its ! manpower requirements for the last | four months of the year. — e | | The deficieucy, 446,000 men, ap- | The Duke delivered a severe re- buke by declaring he would proceed | e without legislative approval to ex-|e ecute the 100,000 pound bulk food purchasing plan which the legisla- ture turned down. f He said he would act under his extraordinary war powers, o 0o 0006 00 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, Sept. 15 Maximum 58; Minimum 42 Rain—.07 § P9 000 0 000 OF HITLER IS Berlin Alsoianbed Again Last Night - Other Targets Smashed BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 16 Fortresses, following up the inau- |’ gural dusk raid on Hitler's Europe, probably the Allies biggest night assault on the continent, bombed naval installations at Nantes, France, in the second foray in two days. Nantes is the big French in- dustrial center at the mouth of the river Locra. Thunderbolts escorted | the Fortresses. | LONDON, Sept. 16.—Berlin was | bombed last night in a widespread aerial assault which included an at-| tack on the vital rubber factory t¢t| Mont Luzon, in France, which fol- lowed an early evening attack on Paris aircraft plants and surround- ing French airfields. The United States Eighth Air Force squadrons thus made their first dusk flight. The attack on Berlin was the first on the Reich Capital City since the pre-dawn hours of September 4 and was presumably carried out b/ [the RAF'S' swift Mosquito Bombers striking heavy blows. Other fleets of the RAF, the ma- jority composed of 4-engined ‘craft, struck additional targets in North- | |west Germany. Mont Luzon is only 43 miles northwest of Vichy and was the| principal target in France. Mont Luzon’s factories supply- tires for Hitler’s war machines. o The Vichy radio says the town of | Chartres was also attacked but no announcement of this is made by the British Air Ministry. SIX INDICTED ON CHARGES, MAIL FRAUD Mass, Rep;;;nlafive, 51 i Others Alleged Involved | in War Contract Racket | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — Rep. James Curley, Massachuestts Demo- crat, and five others have been in- | dicted by a Federal Grand Jury on 121 counts charging violation of the ! mail fraud statute in connection | | with the operation of an aueged‘ |government war contract brokerage | | racket. - Another defendant is Donald | Wakefield Smith, former member of i the National Labor Relations Board. |All six defendants are described as {'officers, directors and engineers in la gorup of offices in Washington, | Chicago and Boston. Curley has long been prominent | in Democratic politics and is a former Governor of Massachusetts, former Mayor of Boston and mem- | ber of the Democratic National | | Committee. The indictment alleged that be- tween June 20, 1941 and February | 120, 1942, the defendants "fraudu- | !lently” represented themselves as being experienced, competent con-! sulting engineers with special facil- ities and qualifications for obtaining produce any services for which they were paid.” — e —— MISS ADAMS EMPLOYED | AT FIRST NATIONAL Miss Louise Adams, formerly tele- phone operator at the Baranof ! Hotel, has today accepted a position | at the First National Bank, She is the daughter of H. O. Adams, agent | for the Alaska Steamship Company, | and Mrs. Adams, u TIRE FACTORY gh war contracts from the government, | but had little or no experience in | ithis field and “couldn’t and didn't| Japanese Many Killed in_T.raianrec!(v By At least 78 persons were killed and more than 100 injured in the wreck of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s crack Congressional Limited Labor Day night in nort heast Philadelphia. The torn wreckage of some of the derailed coaches is shown. = e S Washinglon Over Top As Tourist Town, But SALENRO IS Majprily in Uniforms ~ BITTER ONE sy sack sovverr |Commanders Confident - WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.— This ”No Though' of used to be one of the greatest tour- | e Evacuation ist towns in the country. It still is. The only difference is that today | most of the tourists wear uniforms. 2 If Norfolk, Pensacola, Miami (o, cuiNGTON, Sept. 16 — The g‘;‘;:'ng:n:“:ms:y& s:;::l:'cs: : position of the Allied troops in the want to argue about their propor battle of Salerno is serious, Secn‘a- Honate number: of uniformed men|'8XY QI War Henry-L. Simson sald and women, I'll quickly concede.\z‘::“x'ée:""f ot Cox;lmal\?ers are 3:1‘ ;lluaflgt ':Qgp:? SR ! Describing the struggle south’ of The Washington Monument, the Naples as one of ‘the most critfeaf I battles of *the Mediterranean cam- paign. Secretary Stimson said re- mforeements and additional sup- plies ate reaching the Allied forces now and he also reported the con- ~ IBATILE 0 WAR JUST STARTING 1S CLAIM Morgentbatl_T;IIs of Loss- es-Sicily Outpost of European Forfress WASHINGTON, Sept. & h, childish, over- ing at “this foolish, c! 5| Mbat &y Stimson | Lincoln Memorial, the recently | opened Jefferson Memorial, all | white and shining just across the Tidal Basin, are doing‘a*land-office business, And the officials at these 16—Lash- three monuments tell .me that 50‘sohdated beachhead is making pro- per cent or ‘more of thé customers eress. optimism,” Secretary Henry Mor- these days wear kH@ki, blue or| “There Has . deyer genthau disclosed last night that White. The visitors stand ga-ga be- thought of evacuation,” the conquest of Sicily was “merely fore these memorials, look over said emphatically. an outpost of the, fortress of Eur- them in a sort of daze and walk off| AR S e e ope” which would cost the Allies starry-eyed., { material losses ranging up to 54 per In the national Capitol, this glint | ]Ap lINER cent. isn’t as quickly kindled. The Cap-| He warned that the attack in ‘tol is a “pile of stone,” full of his- | Italy is the “beginning of the war toric murals, chambers, statues, and| as far as the United States is con- Congress—but all of them, including | IS SUNK Bv cerned.” Congress (when In session) are a| Speaking in behalf of the third little confusing. Nevertheless, the, war loan, the Secretary of the Capitol is still in there pitching and | Treasury declared that losses of ma- b least 30 per cent of the tourists, terial ran to 13 per cent of all 155 €ven in sumniertime, are in uniform. | MM howitzers, 46 per cent of the' e | 57 MM guns, eight per cent of the & These four Wzsm::xtori) shrines ¢ 438 SR medium tanks and seven percent of Dave seen some reduction in visitors R i the light tanks that were put into in the last year, but the reduction m;fl:flzfl:&flg::; rll,‘:)'m Tol‘:yoconi‘d action in Sicily, not to mention the doesn’t compare with the loss in g0 5o50pece pi;ssenger liner :ln killed and wounded. civilian tourist travel. The only moto Margi carrying 1,095 passengéys “Let labor think less about fun 5POt that can compete with them is| .4 crew was sun\f bvy a ':ubmdrlne on Saturday night,” he cried. “Let the White Housé and just w“lk"‘g{wmcu was in turn, destroyed by Jap ! management spend less time ,,emngjaround the White House iron le““"‘warsmps on September 13 between the public what a magnificent job'i‘“ such a succession of challenges by | Japas and Formosa it is doing and think more about| Military police guards that even the "“ryo communique said that 31 per- the ways to increase production and MOSt persistent tourists are discour- (ns apoard the liner were lost. buy more bonds.” aged after half a block or so. The Yi 4 G 17 el Getting inside, which used to bewsw’emn‘m"m MArLiwas 8 Al o8 5 a relatively simple matter (White House tours were on the regular! A(KERS |daily agenda) is now as impossible | - BUY $25,000 IN . WARBOND DRIVE i The Alaska Packers’ Association | ALLIED SUB - e Snow Hifs Coffee In Brazilian Area, as trying to get a clean slate from| J. Edgar Hoover, with a swastika on| your arm, ! In spite of all this, the National | Capital doesn’t hold the same ap- | peals for tourists that it used to. | RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 16.—A | dispatch from Sao Paulo reports A tourists' gathering place is aidamage to the coffee crop as severe Near Lae NAZIS HAVE STEPPED UP OFFENSIVE British EighTh_Army Races Toward Scene from " South BULLETIN — ALLIED HEAD- ® |'QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, | Sept. 16—~Powerfully reinforced Am- { erican Fifth Army have driven the | Germans back more than eight miles from the sea in the first serious offensive from the Salerno bridgehead and the Eighth Army is less than 30 miles from Agropoli, (the south anchor of the 24 mile long Salerno bridgehead. et i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 16.—Amer- ican and British troops, engaged in | the biggest beachhead battle since i Dunkerque, today held the Salerno bridgehead like a rock for the ,eighth straight day, while the Bri- tish Eighth Army raced northward 'townrd Sapri, only 39 airline miles away. The Salerno battle 1s still in.a icritical stage, however. German at- {tacks to break the Allled foothold il e ebAliS rgtt - agea back and forth, under the thunder {of 15-inch guns of British battle- ships and fire from lesser warships, Allied naval might poured a flood {of reinforcements into Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's area. Largest Force Yet Clark's force, composed equally of British and Americans, now is the largest Allied force engaged in & single battle since the Mediterran- jean war started. | It was supported again yesterday |by more than' 2,000 sorties by Al- |lled airmen of the powerful North- |western Air Force. Separate raids .were carried out by bombers of the Middle East Command. The entire Allied air force thus joined the istruggle and for the second straight |day hurled hundreds of tons of ex- iplosives at German positions in earth shaking barrages. Meanwhile, with unchallengeable control.of the sea, the: Allies have lexploited this advantage to the ut- {most By moving mobile naval bat- |teries close ‘to the blackened and ismoking beaches, hurling tons of |screaming steel into the teeth of {the Germans. | "The British warships Valiant and \ (Continued on Page Three) CLARK SAYS BEACHHEAD 1S SECURE Not One Foot of Ground Will Be Given Up, He _gg!es ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 16.—Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark today declared the American PFifth Army’s bridgehead at Salerno is secure, adding, “ad- ditional troops are being landed levery day. We are here to stay. Not one foot of ground will be given up.” In a special order of the day to his troops, Gen. Clark said the British Eighth Army is advancing. “In a matter of hours its presence will be felt by the enemy.” He congratulated the British and American troops for their stand at the Salerno beachhead. has boosted War Bond sales in Al- aska’s Third War Loan Drive by $25,000. This amount has been distributed evenly throughout the Territory, $3,- 1300 being credited to Juneau sales. ——— BUY WAR RONDS little shack in Post Square. I think |10 8 cold wave, which has been | its official title is “Free Tickets to Accompanied by snow which reach-' At the same time, Clark launched |Service Men Hut.” To give it jis| €d @ depth of more than a foot in #n offensive in the southern sector. proper designation is more painful| M€ Places in the gripped area. |driving the Germans back between the junction of the rivers and" than that. It's the creation of the G Calor, north of Altavilla. The of- Salor, villa. - Amusement Division of the War Ac- FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Fulton of Sitka |fensive came after four days of de- are guests at the Baranof Hotel, 'fensive action by the Allies. (Continued on Page Three)