The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 9451. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1943 ¢ [, v —— e ALLIED FORCES SMASHING Lunge on WAR FLEET 1S MOVING | UP AEGEAN Another Invasion Move U. . Naval Forces in TwoSuccessful Raids On JapaneseIslands PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 20.—Thq‘ ‘The raids were probably mnde:’ Japanese airbase on Tarawa Island | from carriers and were the most| JAPS TAKE AIR LOSSES Lae Airdrome: Is Found:in’ E IN PACIFIC Balkans by Allies No Fires Burn fi_ertely on Martus Island Raid ~ MEMBER w Indica ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ON IN ITALY iéz A FIFTH ARMY _ IN CONTROL — \Occupation, Three Islands, Reported - Artillery NAPLES BAY {in the northern Gilbert Group, and | 4.,y attacks as the enemy could Can Get Action Believed Planned- Islands Oc_cupied LONDON, Sept. 20. — An Allied war fleet is reported steaming up the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey, stirring talk on an im- minent lunge on the Balkans. Italian refugees reaching Turkey reported the presence of a large concentration of war vessels and London newspapers today quote them as saying the Allies forces occupied the island of Castel Rosso, the most southerly of the Dodecan- ese Group, four miles from the Turkish coast, and only 90 miles east of Rhodes. . These refugee reports linked in with London accounts of four days ago that the Allied forces occu- pied the islands of Samos, Lero and Cos, all in the Dodecanese Group, north of Rhodes, and with the reported departure of Britain’s Ninth Army from the Middle East The Efigion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen om active duty.) WASHINGTON — Several weeks ago this observer had the temerity to suggest that we revise the low} salary of the poor Congressman. With living costs up, wages pyra-; miding, with Congressmen facing the problem of maintaining two homes, carting their children all around the country, and spending | almost as much on eampaign exAl penses as their annual salary, I} suggested that an increase in 'Con-l gressional pay was long overdue and ! waquld help to provide better, morei efficient Congressmen. v Seldom has the resultant storm of mail been so heavy, so scathing and so abusive. The public, if the crogs-section of mail s .any criter- jon, does not like Congress. At $10,000 a year, it considers a Con- gressman overpaid, overstuffed and underdone. Having lived close to Congress- men, and having ' considered them reasonably conscientious, definitely hard working, and generally pa- triotic, I was surprised at this del-' uge of wrath from the people who elect them. 1 was also alarmed,. You cannot | i the one on Naura Island, west of the Gilbert Group, were attacked by strong American naval forces, Ad- miral Chester Nimitz announces. The islands form the eastern spearhead of the Japanese defenses. American Naval Force Is ""Mightiest in World History™; Ships, Planes use land-based bpmbers for an at- | GOOd Shape-A"ies l The Japanese were taken nbso-] i i lutely by sulfxijem?y?themmw.kus.i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept.3 {20. — Intensive air action in thej | Southwest Pacific is highlighted by almost daily blows in mounti 3 force and is costing the enemy mueh i in ‘planes. * [ Reports today said in the latest | full scale combat, 14 additional Jap fighters were destroyed from a force of 60 which rose to meet flghoer-/& escorted dive bombers in a raid ond: the enemy airdrome on Bougainville 'GERMANS RETREATING FROM SALERNO AREA Fortress Island of Sardinia Completely Evacuat- ed by Germans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 20. — The | American Fifth Army has seized control of the south side of the Bay (By Associated Press) { The shipyards of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts added nine naval | vessels and merchants ships to Am- | Island. | This loss lifted to 200 the total of | Jap aircraft desroyed in this sector | in three weeks, while the Americans | lost. two bombers and four fighters, | WHEN YANKS HIT MARCUS ISLAND—This pictu e, taken from an American bomber, shows the fierce fires burning on the island of Marcus at the height of attack by planes of a U. S. Naval Task Force on September 1. It was estimated that eighty per cent of the military installations on the island were de- stroved in the assault. Seven columns of smoke on the left side of the island mark the pyres of Japanese Marcus Island is of Naples by capturing all com- manding heights of the Sorrento Peninsula, it is officially announced, and has also put the padlock on the seaward side by occupation of jerica’s growing sea might with launchings on Sunday, | A giant fleet, 'the “mightiest in | world history,” how carries the Unit- 'ed States flag on all oceans and in | s .the skies for the “most powerful | naval and aid force of the world.” 2 T THE Navy “DEpRrement”describes | but two pilots of these were saved. Lue airdrome, won by the Allies, | was found to be in fair shape and will soon be used by Allied planes. Meanwhile, 16 tons of bombs were | dropped on Finschafen, one of the Japs’ last remaining bases on Huon Culf. . 1 Two Jazp barges were sunk off the present strength on the seas as a fleet composed of 14,072 vessels, including 613 warships. H | Three years ago there were only 1076 vessels, including 383 war- | ships. } The Navy’s Air Force now has| | 18,000 planes. | Jution and demonstrated suffi- | cient strength to pass it by a | (onso“dale { two thirds vote. The debate was extended four hours. The final vote will probably be deferred | until tomorrow. Fulbrighl’fi-efisoluiion on Post-War Collabora- tion Debated Today BULLETIN —WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The powerful biparti- san House group fell in line today behind the Fulbright reso- | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The House Foreign Affairs Committee today wrote into the Fulbright Post-War Collaboration Resolution, : ‘Plan This Year Successful- e s o o x| UK TSNS 0 or reject any international arrange- | 2 ment to preserve peace. | mon Prices | Ne)iSeason The qualification was demanded | by the Republican majority and was accepted unarimously by the| committee a short time before the House was called into session tp act upon the resolution itself. { Leaders of both parties predicti approval of the resolution with the/ amendment. \ WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Con- forming to the requests by Alaska salmon canners that the “concen- tration plan” be continued next year in meeting the manpower and equip- ment problems, Coordinator of Fish2 eries Harold L: Ickes quickly agreed to appoint a committee to work out plans for 1944. make a democratic system of checks The committee rejected another| | New Britain Island. At the same time, the enemy | raided the Australian port of Darwin but did no damage. STALINGRAD ' RUSS DRIVE Victory Guns. Boom Out in Moscow - Ukraine Push Rolling MOSCOW, Sept. 20.—Red Army | troops under General Yerminko, hero of the Battle of Stalingrad, cracked through the gateway to Smolensk on the Central Russian Front after a weekend of fighting as the Soviet advance shifted into high gear all along the active 700- mile battle line. i The victory guns boomed out in ' Moscow again last night as Russian -~ — HERO LEADS and balances work efficiently if con- fidence in either the legislature or the executive is undermined. In Germany it was not until the petty blundering of the Reichstag had de- stroyed public confidence that !-m-‘ ler came into power. In France it was not until both the Chamber of Deputies and the various Prench| cabinets had sapped government prestige that France fell. | The U. 8. A. in my opinion is a long way off from anything like| this. Nevertheless, it might be a good idea for the gentlemen who' have come back to the halls of Con- gress do a little inventory-taking as; to what decreases their most im- portant stock-in-trade—public con- | fidence. WHAT'S WRONG? Here are a couple of traits which they might think over: 1. The egoncentric, cocksure idea that a Congressman is above sin, Under this plan the industry has amendment offered by Representa-| .o tered operations in the most ef- tive Karl E. Mundt, Republican ol fisjent plans. Transportation, mov- South Daota, to set up a biparti-| gple equipment and labor is rationed san “Post war Planning Commission” | among the various canneries. to study the methods of Intern Dr. Ira Gabrielson, Deputy Co- tional Collaboration to preserve| ordinator, also head of the Fish and peace. | Wildlife Service, reported to Ickes | that both industry and labor feel {the plan has been suecessful, and | {ask continuance. usso Inl | The Office of Price Administration | has revised price ceilings in Alaskan canned salmon for consumption in | Alaska, explaining the change will roa (as s J aid government agencies in the pur- e chase of 10,000 cans. The regula- 3 } tions originally provided 50 cents per His pro ram'cm be subtracted from. the price g ‘Lhe Territory, since 50 cents is the average shipping cost from Alaska when the salmon was consumed in !to Seattle. ————————— LONDON, Sept. 20. — A DNB i broadcast speech last Saturday, at- ' tributed to deposed Italian Premier Benito Mussolini, quoted the former Under the new regulation, the actual shipping cost from the point | of the nearest canner to Seattle will troops drew nearer Smolensk and Kiev, two great German bastions on the Dnieper River. In the north, the Red Army mov- ed to within 30 miles of Smolensk, capturing Dukhovschina, while an- | other Soviet column, striking down | the railroad from Nezhin, is only 42| miles from Kiev, capital of the Ukraine. ! A Russian bulletin indicated the Soviet Army is sweeping westward rapidly and is meeting only lightly- armed rearguards of the Nazis as the Russians capture village after vil- lage. » | Huge stocks of food and am- | munition are falling into Russian | hands; but there is little mention of the heavy armored equipment the Germans expended so rapidly in the earlier days of the campaign. ‘The Smolensk area apparently is the focal point of the present drive. ‘Yeremenko is bearing down heavily tw engined bombers parked on runway and which w only a fraction over 1,000 miles from the Japanese miinland. MARCUS ISLAND L RAID CHIEFTAIN On the bridge of his flagship, Rear Admiral Charles A. Pow- nall, N. 8. N, is pictured here. Tle was the Commander of the United States Naval Task Force that reduced Marcus Island, a Jap base only 1,000 miles from the Japanese mainland. CHURCHILL BACK AGAIN IN LONDON British Prime Minister fo Report fo Nation on Talks with FDR b Destroyed inM destroyed by American planes. |{the islands of Capri, Ischia and | Procida on either side of the bay. Italy's second largest port there- by comes under the gaze of Allied a forces across 12 miles of water, within range of the “Long Tom” e artillery and eastly within of Castellammare, recently bom- barded by the British Navy, and key raiflway town of Anninciata, both on the lower bay with smoking Mount Vesuvius rising about 10 miles away, from the mountain positions. Germans on Retreat |* While the troops occupied the \ peninsula, stretching 22 miles west | of Salerno, other parts of the Fifth Army slashed eastward and north- |ward from thelr Salerno beach- | head in the Monte Corvino and Battipalgia sectors where the Ger- ! mans are apparently making a full | scale retreat under merciless air lashing reminiscent of the days when the British were trying to get out of Greece under the blows of the Nazi air force, ‘The British corps is closing in captured Gioja, 28 miles from Tar~ anto on the road to Allied-held | Bari. | Sardinia in Allied Hands | Headquarters’ spokesman said the | Germans have completed evacuation {of Cardinia, the huge island base that Mussolini regarded as his number two defense outpost of Italy. The German Command ad- mits that Sardinia has been given up to the Allies. ———————— Burning briskly is this Japanese trawler, struck by bombs from planes. ¢t an American naval task force that devastated Marcus Island, Jap base close aboard the mainland. The raid occurred September 1. Note the Jap flag painted on side of bow. The trawler sank after the machine gun strafing she underwent in the wake of the bombing. i FRENCHMEN American Legion Will Insist on Trials for | Three War Criminals TostuDy SECURITY Congress Is fo Look Info Fund in Light of | OMAHA, Sept. 20.—The American Legion will insist on trials for “all war criminals, including Hitler, Mus- | " Wartime solini and Tojo.” | Milton Campbell, Director of the| WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—Con- American Legion’s National Defense | 8ressional study is expected of the Committee, made the above asser- drain on socjal security funds now tion in an interview here and said | held by the Government, in the light - ONSOCIAL ' BLOWINGUP LONDON, Sept. 20.—British Prime Minister Winston Churchaill return- ed to London Sunday night and a resolution to that effect will come before the national convention on the opening day which is tomorrow. (of wartime developments. | The study was suggested by Chair- man Walter F. George of the Senate from the northeast, and another . inged into preparations for his |7 Smencted of mh 0 g column under General Sokolvsky 15 .port to the nation on his talks ‘plus the haste of his colleagues to Dictator of accusing: King Victor gather around and protect him if someone on the outside raises the whisper of suspicion. Emmanuel with ' plotting the sur- render of Italy to the Allies and announcing a four-point program 2. Being very vulnerable them-|of his new Republican Faseism, in- selves, the alacrity with which most | cluding taking up arms again on the Congressmen rush in to cast the side of Germany. first stone at somebody else. ‘The broadcast quoted the former In other words, before it can' Il Duce as declaring he was carried | heave bricks at gn ex-ballet dancer 8way in a Red Cross car from the recommended by Civil Bervice for a|steps of the King’s private office on government job, ress is going|July 25, the day he was ousted from to have to clean out its own Augean office. He also said he was rescued stables. Probably nothing has decreased his faithful “brother” Hitler “in my public esteem of ‘Congress more ' Very adventurous life which was the most_incredible of all adventures | that have happened.” on September 11 by parachutists of | The OPA pointed out that ean- ners from whom the government will take 10,000 cases are all at Ketchi- (kan, and the -shipping cost from | there to Seattle is only 23 cents a | case, not 50 cents, | e o 0 0 00 00 00 0 0 . WEATHER REPORT . o (U. 8. Bureau) . 'e ‘Temp. Saturday, Sept. 18. e Maximum 55; Minimum 43 e! Rain—Trace . e Temp. Sunday, Sept. 19 e I Mnx.imum 55; Minimum 45 e ‘e Rain 87 Ay . pushing into Yartsevo on the left i President Roosevelt covering RAIL LINES | Finance Committee. George ex- pressed agreement with Sen. Arthur > flank. | the global situation, diplomatic and STOCK QUOTATIONS | Vandenberg; ranking member of the ;«'ummitu‘e. that a close re-examina- | tion be made before any decision is .{ish Minister of Information, also Legion Auxiliary | se.? Mee's TO[“O"OWH,'L.‘,’,’:“"’ The trip was made by | The party received a big ovation v | from crowds on reaching London. A social meeting is scheduled to- | - e —— morrow night by the American | Legion Auxiliary and during a short business session, election of a secre- tary will be held. J. M. McDevett, here from An- Members will meet at 8 o'clock ‘at’ chaorage, was registered at the Bar- the Legion Dugout. anof Hotel over the weekend. J. M. McDEVETT HERE against railroads in southern France over which the Nazis are pouring supplies and reinforcements to Italy. These attacks on the railroads are causing grave delays in German | troop movements. ° Dispatches received here report the rail line between Bellegrade and Bouvert, only recently re-establish- ed, has been dynamited again and caused further disastrous delays. military, BERN, Se ¥ ¥ o ‘RN, Sept. 20-—~From French | Mrs. Churchill and daughter Mary, | yngergound sources there comes | and Mark Brenden Bracken, Brit- | e mation of increasing attacks | NEW _YORK, Sept. 20.—Closing reached on doubling the contribu- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine z‘;’;o;ietshe T by, smployers &5d stock today is 6%, American Can| g g #8%, Ansconda’ 20, Bethlehem |l o ROW-IAYS ove pecsent thin . | salary trust fund from which bene- Steel 60%, Curtiss Wright 7%, In-| e are paid under the original law, ternational Harvester 71, Kennecot:‘“m this rate was to have m,\' 31, New York Central 17%, Novtk- 'doubled to Awo percent for each ern Pacific 15, United States Steel*‘_)mu"y 1, 1943, But Congress has 54's, Pound $4.04. |twice ordered the hike postponed Dow, Jones averages today are on the grounds the fund held a as follows: industrials 141.75, rails large reserve to meet all conceivable 3543, utilities 2171, needs. i range also of the Ttalian naval base from the Italian heel and have ° T Sl o R