The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XLI., NO. 9450. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1943. ml'm — Ml— MBI;R ASSOCIATED PRESS - PRICE TEN CENIS TEN CENTY NAZIS FLEEING SALERNO BATTLEFRONT Allles Capture Jap Coastal Air Base at Lae ~ Allied Invasion Craft Dodge German Bombs 1AllIES ARE BIG vmonv; IS REPORTED [ IN SOLOMONS Powerhouse Drive on Nip-| | pone Successful- Trap Is Set 5 ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. | 18. — The Japanese main New| Guinea coastal base of Lae has been captured, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique announced, just 12 days after the unleashing of the| ! powerhouse drive on the base. | A few remaining enemy, who es- caped, are heading for a trap laid| (Continued on Page Two) | | The Washington Merry-Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON. — The . deadlock between ; Secretary Hull and ex- CQov. Léehman, of New York, over the ‘administration of foreign relief is ' expected to be broken by Con- gressional action soon. | This s one of the first things to| come before Congress and will also {est out Republicans as to whether | they will go along with the lofty principles of world cooperation es- pnu'ced at Mackinao Island. . Congress will be asked to auth- orize a new international agency probably,_ called the United Nauonnl; Relief and Rehabilitation Admin- istration. On its executive committee | will sit representatives of Grea(' Britain, Russia and China, as well| as an American chairman. The White House has already| given private assurances to Gov. Lehman that he will be made chairman. To this end, Lehman shortly will resign as head of the Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, where he has not! been happy since it was placed under the State Department. Leh-| man has felt that the State Depart- ment was a péligy organization, not geared for administrative functions, | and that his work had bogged down. In the last war, Herbert vaersl food administration functioned as 2! separte agency, and the new inter- | national organization to be creaeedi Jeeps Push Ahead Infolfaly RED DRIVE i jeeps of the Fifth Army which is hulllln-' (-crman Panzer uml.s within sight of Mount Vesuvius form a long column pushing into the Halian mainland after landing at Army radiophoto from Algiers). BERLIN IS BLASTED ON THIRD NIGHT ! | NewRound-Ihe-CIockAer | ial Offensive Is Also | Inaugurated | LONDON, Sept. 18—RAF Mos-i quitos blasted Berlin in the third| successive night raid last night. | This morning great formations of Allied. ‘bombers droned ' across the| Southwest coast toward Dieppe to! {carry a new round the clock aerial |offensive into the fourth day. | Berlin referred to the attack as a point west of Salerno. (U. 5. 24 KILLED IN NORFOLK EXPLOSION Train CarryTrE 24 Depth Bombs Blows Up as Fire Starts NORFOLK, Va, Sept. i8. — A train transporting 24 depth charges, touched off by fire, caused a tre- mendous explosion at the Naval Air station, killing 24 and injuring 250! an eye witness discloses. This eye witness was standing 100 yards away and-escaped injury by | throwing himself flat on the run- by Congress will alsp be sndepend-[‘ “nuisance” raid. A broadcast said|way. He said he saw the train and ent, though Lehman s anxious to|pombers struck both Northern and|six small trailer type conveyances, cooperate with the State Depart- ment on all policy matters. Note:—Isolationist GCF senator Vandenberg, of ‘Michigan, vigorous- | ly opposed to U. S. committment: for post-war relief two months ago, has now been won over by Assist- ant Secretary of State Dean Ache.- son’ and will support the new Leh- man organization when it is de bated on the Senate floor. WHITE HOUSE GRASS White House Gardener William| Reeves recently looked disconsolate- ly over the grounds, burn' brown by a hot, dry summer. Lacking an automatic sprinkler system (such as| the grounds of the Japarcse Em- bassy still enjoy, the Whitc House lawn had suffered sorrowfuliy. But since then one day of heavy rain has turned the grass from brown to green again. There are some bare spots, but new grass is Leing planted fof the Fall and Winter covering. Reeves is using a mixture made up of 85 percent 1.luegrass, 7 percent red top, 5 per- cent clover, and 3 perc:nt coloninl Lent. He is omitting the Italian rye tnis season. because it is actually +00 good. The rye springs up so fust that it requires regular cut- 4ing unt:l frest. The White House has its own manpower problem, and lacks the Leip to keep the mowers, going. ‘' For all who want to revive their (Qontinued on Page Four) Says Hitler Southern Germany. The Berlin ra- dio also issued a repdrt which was !viewed here as highly quesuonablm that the Flying Fortresses desuoyed omes of 10,000 persons on Thurs« day's raid of the French port r{ | Nantes. D Ordered King Boris' Death LONDON, Sept. 18. — The Daily Telegraph, quoting reliable sources, | today said that King Boris III, of Bulgaria, was assassinated by orders | from Adolf Hitler because he was | trying to free Bulgaria from Ger- man control and had asked Russia for aid. ———— SPERLING BACK FROM EDNA BAY PROJECT! | Harry Sperling, Executive A;sm—‘ ant with the Forest Service, has returned from a routine detail to| the Edna Bay Logging Camp of | the Alaska Spruce Log Program| on the West Coast of Prince ol by PAA today to return to work at Pan American Airways is registerc.! ratings,” | Pairbanks. Wales Island, | hauled by a truck, moving into the | hangar. There was fire on one of them and the driver disconnected it, as the fire engine raced up, the explosion occurred. The death toll would have been |much higher if it had been five| minutes later because a long line of enlisted men were due to pass by., | Among the dead, all were enlisted personnel with one excption of Sea~ man Second Class Elizabeth Kor- ensky, of Philadelphia, one of the, first members to join the WAVES. Lesser buildings were smashed. The dead includes Weslie Lacldei of Port Orchard, Washington. STANDLEY I (OMING HOME WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The State Department said Admiral William Standley, American Am- bassador to the Soviet Union, is returning home for consultations about discussions being carried on between the British and Soviet gov- ernments. Newsmen Were given no explanation and speculations arose over whether he would return to Moscow after the consultation. — e Mrs .Helen Forrest left Juneau ~ CONTINUES ALL FRONTS Soviet Capture of Bryansk (lears Way fo White Russian Border MOSCOW, b(‘pl 18. — Military dispatches reported that the Red Army has reached the gates of White Russia after crossing The Desna and capturing the key cen- tral fortress of Bryansk. Thus one of Russia’s most im- portant networks commurications including the central stretch of the Moscow-Kiev Railroad and the junction leading to White Russia has been cleared. A German communique broadcasit from Berlin said that a strong rainfall for several days has im- paired operations in the southern sector of the Eastern Front. ! White Russia is about 70 miles west of Bryansk at the nearest' point. FDR POLICY : TO BEAID T0 CONGRESS Good Neiprbor Idea of Western Hemisphere | Extended fo World | WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's suggestion that the good neighpor policy of the Western Hemisphere be extended to the rest of the world as a peace insurance, furnished a generally sympathetic Congress with a guide for action in its own post-war foreign polficy resolutions of the coming week. Representative J. William Ful- | right's (Democrat of Los Angeles)< resolution, putting Congress on rec- ord as favoring the United States’ membership in an international machine with adequate power to prevent aggression will be consid-| ered in the House on Monday. Senate action is expected later on ! a similar proposal now in the hands of a Foreign Relations sub-com- mittee. One Deslroyer Two Tugs of Navy Go Down | WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The | Navy Department announced the loss of the destroyer Rowan in an underwater explosion in the Medi-| terranean last Saturday. | The tug Nauset was sunk by {enemy action on September 9 and | the tug Navajo was sunk in an | underwater explosion last Sunday in the South Pacific. The 1,500 ton Rowan went down two days after the Salerno beach- head was established, the Navy communique disclosed. The tug Nauset was lost the day, of the landing. No casualty reports have been| |received, the Navy states. _ e JACK FLETCHER ON TRIP Jack Fletcher, manager of the Baranof Hotel, left yesterday aboar:i the Alaska Star Airlines plane fo! the Westward for a short business and pleasure trip in Anchorage and| X ——— PAA MAN HERE L. R. Murill, associated with the at the Baranof Hotel. | fired; ,and checker-checkers to A rocket bomb from a high flying German bomber hits in open water with a towering splash amid a group of Allied LST (Landing-Ships-Tanks) boats moving to the Italian mainland in the invi (u. S. Army radiophoto from Algiers). ion thrust. Supplies Landed lor(lark sfmhdfmy On a beach west of Salerno, supplies for the Fifth Army commanded by Lt Gen. ———————S # Mark W. Clark are landed and piled on the shore, constantly in peril of bombing and strafing by German planes. (U. S. Army radiophoto from Algiers). Efficiency Rafings Of Civil Service Areto Be Rapped Good, Hard (Second Of Two Articles On Civil| Service Methods) | BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The first time we ever got a job, the boss | said: . “If you're no good, you're| if you are, you get a raise.” Uncle Sam, these days, is taking so many words to say the same thing; so many hours of employes’ time to find out ‘how good or bad they are; and so many millions cf | the taxpayers’ money on checkers classify | workers, that the House Civil Ser- |vice Committee, bossed by Robert| make a major issue of it. The road to success with Uncle Sam is paved with nine “efficiency ranging all the way from | 1I-E (for excellent) to 9-U (for un- satisfactory) and in between are such things as 4, 5, or 6-G (for good). The way you get to be a 5-G, for example, is to have your teacher (immediate boss) mark’ your 32- question report card with at least a check (which means “adequaf:” on all important queries about the job you do and “minus marks (meaning weak) fully compensated | by plus marks (meaning nulsland- ing) or a majority of underlined | elements (important factors in your particular job) marked at least with | a check, and minus marks on un- derlined elements overcompensated Fairbanks. He will return next week.|Ramspeck (D.-Ga.), has decided mlby plus marks on underlined ele- ments.” Don’t ask me what that meaus. it takes the Civil Service Commis- (Continued on Page Six) Japan's Doom Is Now Sealed CHUNGKING, Sept. 18--In | first public appearance as | dent, China’s Chiang Kai Shek de- |clared the surrender of the Italjan fleet “determines Japan's ultimate doom.” On the 12th anniversary of the Mukden incident, he opened the 4th plenary session, the people’s punucul council, > > From Bad To Worse his WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Repre- sentative Willlam B. Barry, Demo- | crat of New York, has introduced a bill abolishing the Office of War Information and the transfer of its }functlnns to the Department of State. Presi- +|18, Northern Pacific 15%, i DRIVINGON - TO INTERIOR Capture Islands Near Na- | ples—Push 11 Miles ; Inland . | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 18. — The battle for the Salerno bridgehead has virtually ended, ‘The Germans are pulling out in the south where the Allies knifed inland for 1l -miles. Meanwhile, other Allied forces seized two islands off the northern spur of the Bay of Naples. Headquarters reports the “British Eighth Army now has joined the American Fifth Army and they are virtually acting as one unit” and are in a position to drive on Naples. Still Fighting ‘There s still heavy fighting near Salerno, - the gateway city to the port of Naples, but the bridgehead, itself, is being expanded rapidly. Procida Island, 12 miles southwest, of Naples, and only two miles from land, and the island of Penza, 65 miles West of Naples, were occupled by our forces Wednesday. The Allies alread have taken pos- other side of the Bay of Naples. German headquarters announced the capture of and occupation of the Island of Elba, Napoleon's exile home, 32 miles east of Corsica, and eight miles from the Itallan west coast. The Germans said a garrison of 7,000 Itallan troops .surrendered. The Allied spearhead captured the town of Roccadaspide, 11 miles inland. Air Blows Fall Allied air forces have begun to pound the Nazi airfields south of Rome, operating for the first time from bases on the Italian main- land. It is also announced that the Island of Ischia, off the Cape of Naples, surrendered to Allied naval units two days ago. The garrison was installed only seven miles from the mainland. One group of 150 Nazi prisoners was taken, They were all described as young d tough, including a “thick sprinkl of veteranl !rom the R.u.sshn front. . NEW VESSEL - OF GERMANS SENT DOWN Large Enefi(rafl, Also | Smaller Ships, Dam- 1 aged in Raid ‘ i LONDON, Sept. 18.—Flying Fort. |resses raided Nantes and also El Palais and sank a new Nazi de- | stroyer off the latter port and scoredy, | possible hits on three large enemy vessels and a number of craft in the harbor at Nantes. These facts are proved by photo- ‘graphs made during the operations. g STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Sept. 18. — Alaska |Juneau mine stock closed today at |the short session at 6'4, American |Can at 88%, Anaconda 26%, Beth- {lehem Steel 597%, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester T70%, Kennecott 31%i, New York Central United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 140.94, rails 35.40, utilitles 21.80. e & & & 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . WEATHER REPORT L] . (U. 8. Bureau) ° e Temp. Priday, Sept. 17. o ¢ Maximum 51; Minimum 44 @ ¢ Rain .09 . b g . 0 0000 000 0