The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943. VOL. XLI, NO. 9449. ALLIED ARMIES IN CONTACT ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 —— Jap ALLIES IN BIG RAID ATWEWAK Ground Forces Capture Malahang—Night At: facks Reported ALLIES IN BIG RAID ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN! THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. | 17.—Allied bombers and fighters shot down 59 Japanese fighters at| the cost of one Allied plane in a great aerial battle at Wewak, New Guinea, General Douglas MacAr- thur reports. Ground forces have captured Malahang, landing two miles east of Lae. The Wewak attack saw 66 tons of bombs hurled on the target area in 15 minutes, scoring heavily on' runways and dispersal areas where ! 20 to 40 aircraft were parked. Ten bombers were destroyed on the, ground and fuel dumps were set| afire. Seventy Jap fighters attack- ed for nearly one hour. These raised enemy losses to well[ The W;Sh’ifi'a'lon Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Washington of- | ficials who know Italy say the length of Nazi military resistance, there depends as much on the Ital-| jan people as on Nazi soldiers. i Except for the first few days after, Mussolini’s fall, Italians have been apathetic. They have seemed con-| tent to let the Germans and Allies| fight- the battle while they stood on, the sidelines. But that was when the battle was localized in Sicily. Now the battle, has come to the mainland, and an armistice prevails with the Allies. anes e Congressman Homer D. Angell, member of the House Committee on Territories, visits the new Haines Military Road and stands at the International Boundary between Alaska and British Columbia. This scene shows, left to right, Capt. Richard L. Neuberger, Aide to General O’Connor; Capt. C. E. Weddington, U, 8. Army Engineers; Representative Homer D. Angell, from Oregon; and Lt. Col. T. J. Hayes, District En- gineer at Skagway. This picture was taken at the mrker indicating the boundary. the old cabin where Royal Mounties checked in. gold s jekers as they went over Chilkat Pass in 1898. The Inside Passage with the Alaska Highway. Los Marker af Infernational Boundary e Investigation of Civil Service Reveals Big, Usele IR, SEA FIGHT IS [ [ | ss, Costly Adion ; | e 1 (First of Two Articles on Civil Service Methods) | By JACK STINNETT i WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — Thcj House Civil Service Committee, headed by Robert Ramspeck, (D! Ga.) is hopping mad. | In its extensive investigation of| In the background is { SECTIONS IN FRANCE ATTACKED Lancasters Strike Directly ; at Enemy Efforts fo | ~ Help in laly ‘ | LONDON, Sept. 17.—A large force of RAF bombers swept deep xnm} Southern France last night, to | Novorissisk, the Russian Black Sea claim to the capture. | Sy 59 Planes in NAZIS ADMIT EVACUATION OF BRYANSK Red Army Plunging For- | ward fo Cross Dnieper Before Heavy Rains BULLETIN — LONDON, Sept. 17.-~The Russians announce the capture of Bryansk, junction of six yital railways, at the gates of White Russ The major vietory of the Soviet Armies is triumphantly announced in Sta- lin's Order of the Day and came shortly after the German Com- mand officially announced Nazi troops had evacuated the city, 210 miles southwest of Moscow. LONDON, Sept. 17.—Three Soviet armies surging westward through the southern Ukraine are closing in on Krasnograd, Nazi bastion and tail junction on the Kharkov-Dnie- pepropetrovsk railway, a Reuters dispatch from Moscow reports. Other Red Army columns, having scored four impressive victories yes- terday, are plunging forward in many sectors on the 600-mile it t intent on throwing the Germans back across the formidable: Dnieper River barrier before the heavy autumn rains. A DNB broadcast from Berlin ad-| mitted the Germans have lost| naval base in the Caucasus. The German broadcast from Berlin also conceded that once more the nazis have evacuated Bryansk, important base on the central front. Berlin announced three days ago | that Bryansk had been evacuated,| but denied it in a broadcast yester- day. The Russians have made no CONSPIRACY New Allied Adi Definitely IN THE BAG | Frances Rafferty, movie starlet, was notified that she had been voted the “Barracks Bag Girl"— .e., the girl the boys would like stow away in their barracks bags if they were shipped overseas— of 2nd Battalion Headquarters Company, Fort Benning, Ga. Miss Rafferty takes her honors seriously—at least long enough to try on a bag for size, for the still camera. 25THURT, | 2 FORCES TOGETHER IN ITALY Eighth Army-Makes Amaz- ing March o Reinforce American Fifth |ENEMY'S RING OF ~STEELNOW BROKEN 'Nazi Forces Reported With- drawing from Southern Part of Bridgehead (By Associated Press) The Fifth American Army and the British Eighth Army have fused fronts and established contact ons Planned, Roosevell Announces WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. »Prl‘si—: dent Roosevelt said that “spegific and precise” plans have been llhldl‘; |for great new blows against Ger-| | many and Japan, including “defin-| |ite times, places and other landings on the continent of Europe and elsewhere” in a war review sent Lo congre | The commander in chief said Hitler left “vulnerable spots in the wall of the so-called fortress which we will point out to him in due time” but the blunt fact is, it is a long way to victory in any of the| major theaters of war and there| . can be no letdown anywhere. Oriental Fight “We face in the Orient ‘a long, difficult fight” he warned. “We, must be prepared for heavy losses| in winning the fight and the pow-| er of Japan will not collapse untll]| be utmost folly for us to try to| pretend otherwise.” In discussing the European phue‘ of the conflict, Roosevelt gave a possible hint that the Balkans may, be the scene of one new thrust in the immediate future. Unrest In Europe Reporting “definite information™ of unrest and of the growing de-| sire for peace in Rumania, Hun-| gary, Bulgaria, as well as in Fin- land in Northern Europe, he said,| “We hope in these nations that the spirit of revolt against the Nazi| dominance, commenced when Italy burst into flame will become a con- | suming fire.” ! Perhaps significantly he didn't urge people of those nations to de-| lay any longer the hour of their revolution. | Victory Distant The President in his 6,000-word review which fitted all of the pieces ‘ol' current war developments into a single pattern of global strategy, spoke of victory even as he warned| that it is yet still distant. | | Never-the-less, he said, the time; is here to begin planning even for| legislaton regarding the lumobmm-‘ | | AT SALERN — S R . Aerial Battle | literally pounded to,dust. It would between patrols in the Salerno sec- tor on the Italian front. The fusing was accomplished after an amazing northward march |of nearly 200 miles from the Ital- ian toe of Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army veter- ans, these forces of Britain beat- ing it up the coast of Italy from Taranto, Allied Headquarters in North Africa says contact begween. Montgomery'’s warriors and Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army has been made some- where in or near the southern end . of the Salerno bridgehead. Ring Of Steel Broken Linking of the Armies broke the enemy’s ring of steel around Clark’s Tommies and Doughboys and ap- peared to have ended the critical period of the battle against four or more German Armored Divisions on the bloodstained beaches. A Reuters correspondent with. the Fifth Army said enemy movements indicate the Germans are beginning to withdraw from the front facing the southern part of the bridge- head. Convoys Enroute ‘The Berlin broadcast of the In- CHARGEDTO 8 PERSONS |Conviction of Four Men, the government employe set-up, if /make a concentrated attack espec-| finally has come around to the re- ially on the enemy railway station | port-card system. Once each year,'at Mondane, on the French-Italian| all federal government employes are frontier. subjected to what, is known as the| Mosquitoes again hit Berlin. “Report of Efficiency Rating.” Big British Lancasters, striking Each of now more than 3,000,000 directly at enemy efforts to rush employes (exclusive of armed forces|reinforcements on the Italian bat- personnel) receive these report|tle_grounds, also made low leval cards, and they can be fired, pro-gttack on the Antheor Viaduct near | tion of the armed forces, and to,ternational Information Bureauy ad- ! provide for the millions of armed|Mitted the Fifth and Eight Armiés men, economic protection and edu- have made contact and also ‘seid | cational opportunities. {that three Allied convoys, totaling Expl OSI 0“ He spoke too, of the necessity of 00 ships, are now steaming toward seeking now to establish ‘fair inter- | Salerno. i national relationships\ on a per-' The announcement of the con- manent basis.” |tact of the Fifth and Eighth armies | Inother statements looking to-!Was made by the Allied eadquarters |in North Africa shortly after the moted, demoted or given salary This should be the moment for REPORTED release. of all the pent-up leeung‘ against, Germany—a feeling tradit- —_— 2 jonal in Italy. To Italians, Ger- mans, Austrains, Bavarians are all IOkYO Broad(as‘ Gwes 0“' alike—foreign peoples who swarm H i through the Brenner Pass to mo-‘| Rumor Bu' No""“g Def lest them. int Meanwhile, German armies can-! m"e, I-as' 35 HOUI‘S 2 not fight without trains, telephone riptyct . and telegraph, food supplies, water,| NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Althqugh shelter, fuel and the endless variety more than 36 hours have passed Up ‘L.oicec ‘on the basis of their “effic- | of facilities and equipment which an to midafternoon since the Tokyo iency ratings.” This applies to every army requires. Though the Ger- mans have placed white-collar of- ficlals in all strategic activities, the man who drives the locomotive, or pumps the water, or dispatches the | telegram is an Italian. This opens up tremendous oppor- tunities for sabotage—from hinder- ing troop movements to dropping poison in Nazi spaghetti. ll MARY CHURCHILL AND . | SOL BLOOM Attractive Mary Churchill collect< | ed several souvenirs during her first, visit to Washington, including a pic- ture of her famous father address- ing ‘Congress and ‘a colorful booklet| on the 'history of the Constitution.| The booklet was the gift of its! author, Representative Sol Bloom! of New York, who autographed it as follows: ‘“Please read and study, this carefully, and after you know the history of the American Consti- tution you will be able to argue bet- ter with your Dad.” “You don't know what it is to argue with my Dad,” replied Miss Churchill after reading the inscrip-| tion. ! radio reported an air and sea battle lin progress in the waters between year executives. New Guinea and Kolombangara islands in the Solomons, no further word of such an engagement has come from either the American or Jap sources. The Tokyo broadcast, recorded by the NBC here, said, “The Imperial Command reports the naval forces of Japan are gradually getting the ‘upper hand against superior anti- Axis forces. .- FINLAND TIRED OF FIGHTING Finnish Spokesman Makes Known Informal No- tice fo Germany STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17.—Finland, Bloom told her about his many trips to England early in the cen- tury, as a song plugger. “I wrote some of the hit songs of that era,” in effect, has given Germany an, official, though informal notice, the‘: Finns are tired of fighting along- he recalled, “and most of them|side the Nazs and wants peace. | were introduced in England. per_l Premier Linkomies provided the! haps you've sung some of them. ' Official touch to the notice by an- “The Honeysuckle and the Bee’ for ‘nouncing he is the anonymous Fin- | instance.” nish spokesman. “Heavens, I'm not that old, Mr. Linkomies said Finland regrets Bloom,” scolded his visitor. “But the war with England and desires I remember that particular song | Peace with Russia if the little na-| ——-'_—‘———_—'lmn can be assured of her pre-1939 (Continued on Page Four) independence and teyritorial status. gne from charwoman to $10,000-a- | Three copies of the “efficiency, ratings” have to be' filed. That means over 9,000,000 sheets of good |stock white paper. Just short of a/ imillion copies of the 32-page “Ef- i ficiency Rating Manua}” have to be issued, which means tons more of | precious paper, thousands of man-| hours spent in reading, preparing| and tabulating the reports, and probably millions of dollars a year lost to the taxpayers. | Members of the Ramspeck com- mittee, who cannot now be quoted by name, already are saying Con- gress will positively pass a law to shear off reams of this needless red tape. | The “Efficiency Rating Report” |'gives the so-called rating official ;(slwuys the person who is just one jump out of his underling’s job) the privilege of making a check, minus, jor plus after stch queries as how ]u their hireling on: “Attention to! iBroad Phases of Assignments; At- | tention to. Pertinent Detail; Accur- |acy of Operations; Accuracy of| Final Results.” { The “check” means adequate; the| minus mark, weak; the plus, out-! standing. i Just how are you going to explain by those definitions a floor-mop-' per’s “attention to the broad phases | of his. assignment”; or where the difference comes between the “ac- curacy of operations” and “accur- acy of final results” is just a couple (Continued on Pfage Two) {frontier town near the opening of {Three Hunfers 1 St. Raphael on the French Riviera.| “A heavy concentrated attack”| was made on Mondane, the French the Montcenis Tunnel, says the British Air Ministry and “first re- ports indicate that both attacks were effective.” The communique said four night bombers were reported missing. B g Short Short Story About’ Deer season opened at the crack of dawn yesterday and among the | hunters getting an early start at the | game were three Juneau High School | youths—Franklin Dufresne, Marlin | Feero and Donald Pegues. | Starting out about 11 o'clock the | night before last, these three hardy | hunters with only a flashlight to| guide them, fought their way to the | top of Table-Top Mountain on Douglas Island. Tired and hungry, | the weary hunters were spurred on only by the thought that their climb | was not in vain, for they would be | alone at this point to get first | choice of the game which survlyi would be plentiful. | Their dreams were shattered, how- | ever, when, upon reaching the top shortly before daybreak, they were | welcomed by at least 50 other | hunters. The happy group spent the hours tracking down one lonely buck, which was shot by an unknown party and the 49 remaining sports- men gathered around to view the animal and drool. Four Women May Car- ward the war's end, he said “when| POPULATION ry Death Penalty DETROM, Sept. 17-—Four men and four women accused of :wLingl as spies for Nazi Germany have been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy. Un- der the Wartime Espionage Act conviction on the charges carries a possible death penalty. Six of those indicted have been detained since August 24 when two men and two women were arrested on warrants and two other women held as dangerous enemy aliens. Two other men were arrested to-| day. i Sixteen other persons, including! residents of Budapest, Stockholm, and Lisbon were named in indict- ments returned today as co-conspir- | ators but not defendants. OF SEATTLE | 17 Persons Known Killed when Ammunition in Transit Explodes NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 17.—A ter- rific explosion, originating from am- munition in transit to the Norfolk Naval Air Station, killed approxi- matel 17 persons and injured about 257, of which 14 are critically hurt. The blast damaged a number of buildings and naval authorities em- phasized the number of injured as only an ectimate. They said it would be some time before they could make an accurate tabulation of all persons | treated in the service and civilian hospitals. 4 Rear Admiral H. F. Leary, Com-~ mandant of the Fifth Naval Dis- trict, said witnesses reported they believe¢ the explosion was caused by ammunition in transit. NAZIS G GET BUSY, TWO Hitler and the Nazis go out, the! Prussian military clique must go | with them. This war breeding gang {of militarists must' be rooted out {of Germany and out of Japan if| |we are to have any real assurance | of future peace. | Can’t Trust Japan | “It goes without saying,” he said, “that when Japan surrenders the| United Nations will never again let| her have the authority in the' islands mandated her by the League of Nations, Japan obviously is not to be trutsed. “The same vast te thing goes for the ritories. Japan has stolen (Continued ;;rifl\xe Two) ' ENGLAND ON INSPECTION LONDON, Sept. 17.-—Secretary of { Navy Frank Knox, in England on a ! 10-day inspection trip, warned that | the main battle against Japan is still | to come, but added it “may seem significant that our navy hasn't AT A SWISS-ITALIAN BORDER seen a Japanese aircraft carrier in TOWN, Sept. 17.—German author- the last four months. Apparently jties are reported rounding up allthey don't like to come out where tration estimated earlier this week, |Allied prisoners released by Italyit's wet.” The State Census Board at Olym- | fter capitulation by the Badoglio In a statement at a press con- pia placed the city’s population at|Government and also ordered all ference, the secretary said, “It is a 480,000, an increase of 111,608 over| Italian troops to report for dutyjov to see how thoroughly we Brit- the 1840 census. | with the German Army. ish'and Americans work together.” TAKES JUMP SEATTLE, Sept. 17.—The popula- | tion of Seattle, based on the is-; suance of ration books is now 529,- | 047, the Office of Price Adminis- NEW WAYS { | communique told of Montgomery's capture of Valla Della Lucania, only 15 miles from Agropoli, the southern end of the 27 mile frouit held by the Fifth Army. Recapture Village At the same time, Clark's army struck out from its hard-won (Continued on Page Two) ———e CHINA WILL SO0N DRIVE NIPPONS OUT ¥ ;Hull Makes Statement on Anniversary of Muk- den Incident WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull express-* ed confidence, as more weapons be- come available to China, that the Japanese will be driven from Chi- nese soil. His statement was made in com- memoration of the anniversary of the Mukden incident of September 18, regarded as the start of the present war. China hgs made, is making, and will continue to make an important contribution toward the common cause of victory over the aggressors, Hull said.