The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1943, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI, NO. 9452. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1943 BER ASSOCIATED PRESS EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT3 = | VENICE BOMBARDED IN es Southw ALLIES HIT | MANY AREAS WITH BOMBS Airdromes Under Attack, Enemy Villages, Sur- face Craft, Strafed . | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. @1.—The New Guinea and New Brit- ain bases of the Japanese most im- mediately menaced by the Allied capture of the airdromes at Lae and | Salamaua have begun to rock under | the increased weight of bombs. ‘ Ninety-four tons were dropped | Sunday by Flying Fortresses and | Liberators on Cape Gloucester, wes- ACcminued>on Page ’l:hre}| The Wash Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Mstor Robert 8. Allen 6n active duty.) WASHINGTON—When President Barclay of the Negro Republic of Liberia- was o) his. official visit to ‘Washington, President Roosevelt said to him: “When you get back home, don’t forget to send me some of those stamps with leopards on them.” The remark illustrates what still remains the President’s favorite| hobby, despite the war. There is| nothing which helps so much to| give him a moment’s relief from the: _ worry of war as having a volume of stamps sent up on his breakfast tray on a Sunday morning. And on most Sunday mornings he shuffles new stamps, pastes them in his albums, and personally keeps| his collection up to date. Some col- Jectors employ experts to keep their‘ collections in shape, and the Presi- | dent has had a small amount. of| help from Gerard Beekman, who | also helps Secretary Ickes. For the; most part, however, Roosevelt; handles his stamp collection per- —- HELPING THE CAUS mand is for more and better “ tribution to actress, poses fetchingly for the boys in the service, whose de- High Army Officers Are Courfmartialed; Seniences Are Severe Pacific (CHURCHILL "IN SPEECH | .~ INLONDON ST, } ' Tells When Second Front: Will Be Opened-Gives Other Information | LONDON, Sept. 21.—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill deciared today the second frons will ‘be} % | |thrown open “at the right time and| then a mass invasion of the con- { |tinent from the west will begin.” | Calling the Mediterrunean battle- | t field the “third fron?" Chlll'('ni:li {told the members of the British, | House of Commons that the second front “already exists poteutially and ! ! is already rapidly gathering weight, | ! The second front as it caists is :nainly the preoccupation with the caemy. It has not yet been thrown | into play. That time is coming It} i. when we and our American Al- lies will judge to be the righi time. ‘Then this front will be thrown| open.” | 1 Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinwaid, Not A Moment Lost Surveying the whole sweep of the J war with serenc confidence, Church- | ill also deciared that no. one :no-; ’, ment is lost needlessly in opera-, .. G tions against Italy excepl fullure of '( y the Italian guards to do their as-') 0"' signed duty and Mussolini would’ have been shot when Hi s ugeuts 4 rescued him at Gran Sassu. man Committee investigating the Frontier, and Admiral Kinkaid Churchill said the American forces landed on the island of Sar-| dinia to assist the Ttalian troops and they drove the German gar-| —— rison over to Corsica wnich is now, . eing occupied by French units. Tripartite Confer Churchill said the tripa of ference between representativ DR AFTI“G OF | pin-up” pictures. This is her con- the campaign, the United States, G Buitain| and Russia, will take place at an | “early date” and no question will o be barvc¢d during the discussions. pREwAR DADS The confercace will be “between the President of the United States,| WASHINGTON, Sept, 21.—Sen- ate consideration of the Wheeler Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Sta- lin of the Suviet Union and n:self, and all differences will he taken| SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich., Sept. 21.—A courtmartial has found Lt. ~ To Hit Enewmv | Jap Bases A Kinkaid of Adak Greefs Truman Committee at Adak in the Aleutians, is pictured as he recently gr Virginia, Homer Ferguson of Michigan, Vice Admiral Frank J. B Rules Property OFFENSIVES ~ Takenby Government Be Refurned fo Owners U. S. N.,, Commander of the North Pacific Fleet, with headquarters base | seted the members of the United States Senate Tru- Left to right are Senators H. M. Kilgore of West Alaska campaign. Fletcher, Commander Northwest Sea | st | | SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—In a runng‘ SEATTLE, 1o a g Gen. Marshall Makes Im-| Sal by attorneys 0 e without | B soodiant, - oderal. Judga Johs G| porfant Talk to Amer- | Bowen declared the Government il- % g, & | ican Legionnaires Jegally occupied a building at a port of embarkation and ordered the building returned to the private] onMAHA, Sept. 21.—The great of- QmpiEs fensives which will have the full Condemnation proceedings pre- strength of America’s armed forces viously were rejected by the judge, to be hurled against the enemy in but the building was seized by the Asia and Europe, are “just about to Army. The new order calls for an begin,” Gen. George Marshall, Chief immediate return of the building, of Statf, U. S. Army, said togay in Although the President’s stamp collection is probably the most fa- mous in the world, it is not the best. The late King George V far sur-; passed him, had some 300 volumes. The President’s eollection numbers | only 40 volumes, with from 25,000 sonally. | | NAZI HORDES ENDANGERED, Col. Charles G. White, suspended opyienil) said the Allics are jre- {and if this is not done, the Gov- addressing the delegates to the Am- | Executive Officer of this Army Air Base, guilty of five of 15 revised counts charging violations of the Articles of War, and recommended pared to place large armies in lialy for a weighty, active fighting front against the enemy on whaiever line he chooses to resist. “We will main- 'bill to defer drafting of prewar; fathers for the rest of the year| has been postponed until next Tue day, Majority Leader Barkley ernment will be held in contempt erican Legion Convention. of court. Gen. Marshall said there appeared Assistant United States Attorney to be some public misunderstanding' Norman Littell said an appeal as to the recent Allied successes and | his immediate dismissal from the service. tain any line against him with in- creasing weight and viger and if Senator MeNary. Minority Leader, woiq o taken, Littell argued the n tendency to believe the final steps and Senator Wheeler have aL’,lovd!wm, powers of the Government were of the war are now being taken. to 30,000 stamps. In this country, also, the Presi- dent's eollection is easily surpassed by those of Sol Newberry, of Chi- cago, and E. Albert Eisenstadt, an Army dogtor from Picher, Okla. Though he may miss some of the fine points of philatelism, the Presi- {Reds Threaten German dent mises e o the Lo, oen! Troops Massed at Bend of they do it as & couple of boy—| Dpjeper;Drive Continues | trading stamp for stamp, and not bargaining for value. . | The President bas received many | a rare set from foreign govern- BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. | ments—an autographed stamp from 21.—The whole German Desna | Ignace Paderewski of Poland; plus! River winter defense line has | some rare Turkish stamps sent by| collapsed under the terrific Red the late Kemal Ataturk. And when| Army onslaught that broke the Soviet Ambassador Litvinoff came| Nazi stand along the entire west to the White House one day, he| bank and took by storm the carried under his arm a handsome| important bastion town of Cher- book of Russia stamps, embosaed‘l ni.mw, 30 miles from the Dnieper with the hammer/and sickle. | River, 77 miles northeast of Kiev, { Technically, it is against the law| Stalin announced tonight in the | for the President to receive these| Order ofthe Day. gifts. To protect presidents against/ the blandishments of foreign prin- ces, the' Founding Fathers wroke| LONDON, Sepi. 21.—Blasting into | into the ‘Constfution a provision the Smolensk defense zone to out-| that “no person holding any office flank the German central fronc an- of profit or trust * * * shall, with-‘chgr, Red Army forces stormed on out the consent of Congress, accept|from captured Velizn 65 miles to of any present, or title of any kind the northwest, while further south | whatever, from any king, prince, or|they slashed across the Kiev-Cher- foreign state.” Imigov Highway on the middle However, nobody seems xrentlylnmeper River to cut the main Cri- worried about whether the President mean escape railway between Zap- receives pictures . of piano-playing|orozhe and Dniepropetrovsk. presidents, Turkish seimitars, or Li-| A Moscow communique disclosed berian leopards, so long as he gets|the amazing list of triumphs mark- some fun out of it. ed up by the hard-slugging Rus- NOTE — Many recent Presidents sian troops, including the start of have been stamp collectors, includ- |the great wheeling movement point- ing Coolidge, Cleveland and Teddy ed toward Cherkasy, key rail cen- Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover ter on the Dnieper southeast of had an excellent collection of Chi-|Kiev, in an attempt to entrap hun- nese and Australian stamps when dreds of thousands of German (Continued on Page - Four) SOVIET TRAP (Continued on Page Three) | | occasions; guilty of misappropriat- The verdict was reached after seven hours of intense deliberation. i The courtmartial found White Vinter. guilty of being drunk, to the prej- ‘The French Army of 390..0 to udice of the service on two distinct 400,000 is being steadily organized and the battleship Richeiieu will soon take its place with the Miench to the delay to permit members to| study the voluminous testimony ta- | ken before the Military committe.. | STOCK QUOTATIONS need be, all through the fall and; ing civilian labor to repair his pri- vate auto, and guilty of gross neg- :'eet. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Closing; ligence. | That Big Conference quotation of Alaska Mine k| Col. William T. Coman, deposed, Speaking again regarding the big today is 6%, American Car sm.; Commander of the field, whose de- ! prospective conference, Churchill,! Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 607%,| motion to the rank of major was Roosevelt and Stalin, the British|Curtiss Wright 7%, International recommended at a previous court- Prime Minister said *“no meeLlnngarveswr 71, Kennecott 31, New martial, took the stand in White's' during this war could carry with it| York Central 17%, Northern Pacific defense. |so much significance to the future 15%, United States Steel 54, Pound Boun convictions are subject to world as the meeting betwean the| $4.04. i review by higher authority. theads of the three governments,| Dow, Jones averages today are| - - g L 'as follows: industrials 140.49, rails | TALKOUTON _ | wepNespay Following War Going | Roportedifis Will A To Be Great Problem‘ nounce Drastic Meas- | ®y roserr m. FarRINGTON ure for Home Front vidon o America secoming the ivision of America becoming the e | world’s greatest sea power with her NEW YORK, Sept. 21,—The Ber-|huge prospective fleet of 50,000,000 lin radio groadcasts a report that deadweight tons (the equivalent of Premier Tojo will make an import- the pre-war merchant marines of ant speech tomorrow and announce Britain, U. S, Norway, Germany “drastic measures and changes and Japan combined) must be tem- within ‘the home- front to meet the pered with at least two realistic serious war situation.” | considerations. The Japanese Cabinet is also re-| One, the cost of operating Am- ported in the broadeast as having erican ships is high (because of held an “extraoi conference” better food and wages) and make lasting from 10 a. to 7 p. m., with subsidies inevitable. After the war, only half an hour interruption. /taxpayers may be sensitive about (Continued on Page Three) America's Sea Power i |laying out money indefinitely for| operating bills which_in 1940-41 ran| over $13,000,000 when we had some 10,500,000 deadweight tons of ships.| No one will even guess at the sub- | i sidies on five times this tonnage. Two, foreign nations, especially Britain, depend a good deal on the income from their shipping and will| build their own vessels to carry their goods—and probably half of| ours, togp. Not since clipper ship| days (when American costs and wages were low) have we carried (Continued on Page Six) . GUADALCANAL IS | reports. The court replied the-On the contrary, Marshall said, the of the Government is last year and one-half have been spent largely in preparations for op- erations and large forces are still ! to go into action and in establishing bases for future campaigns. » Gen. Marshall said the success in the Mediterranean will release great naval forces for the war against Japan and he said this means ad-| vance planning for bases from which | THIRD TIME, WEEK s may opere - ’ | A message from President Roose- | R velt was read to the convention| WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—JaP jojepates during the day. The Presi- planes, raiding’ American positions g, called for “increased, rather on Guadalcanal, caused slight dam- (1., jessened effort in many phases age and minor casualties, the Navy . the national program” and point- preme. il power superior to war powe UNDER RAID FOR ed to civilian defense as necessary | The raid, which was the third in 5,4 not a latent need. one week on Guadalcanal, apparent- - gyje Johnston, President of the| ALLIED DRIVE it B s i msidir g il re Pounded CONQUEST IN ITALY KEEPS PROGRESSING. Fifth Army_l—’;shingi mans Backward from Salerno Beachhead KEY TOWN OF EBOLI REPORTED CAPTURED French Trogp—;and Native Guerrillas Mop Up Nazis on Corsica BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NORTH AF- RICA, Sept. 21.—A French com- munique announces tonight that the “whole western shore of Corsica has been liberated from the Germans and the advance French troops arg in possession of St. Lorient in the north.” ALLIED HEADQUARTERS TN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 21.—Ameri- can Liberators threw a new weight in the conquest for Italy by bom- as French troops and native guéril- las proceeded to mop up German, resistance in Corsica. The United States Fifth Army registered new gains in the Saler- no beachhead, slowly but steadily pushing the Germans backwardy The Fifth Army stormed and caps tured the key town of Ebol, 16' - miles inland which has served a an enemy communications cent during the last days of heavy fight- ing about Salerno. Sustained Push Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s soldiers ulso battered their way to Montey corvino, nineé miles inland in a sustained push, the official source discloses. The official spokesman also an- nounces the Germans are swinging the lower end of their line former- ly enclosed -on the Salerno bridge. head, 10 the north and east 1o avoid being trapped. X The British Eighth Army contin- ° ues to advance. * Heavy German Retrept The German retreat, the officidl ., spokesman says, has already takei the bulk of the German forces north of the Sele River. The Ger-- mans are using infantry, suppested by small groups of tanks. A The Fifth Army is also enconnt- ering elaborate minefields and Aem- olitions but 'is slowly continuing the advance north of Salerno fa-" der these conditions. ! German prisoners are quoted in reports from the frort as ‘giving eloquent testimony to the devastat- ' ing effect of the inccssant Alsied air attacks on the retreating Ger- man cobizns, Cair) anundunces the Royal Air Force has extended Allied air dom- ination of the Meciterranean by landing and starting operations on the liallan Dodecanese island of | Cos. PR o o ly is of the nuisance variety, and ypited States Chamber of Com- | probably carried out by bombing jerce, advocated universal service | planes on reconnaissance Missions. | as a means of making replacements | T R TG {in the country’s peacetime force. | - | | FIRSTLADY 2500MEN HASARRIVED 70 STRIKE INHONOLULU - ON FRIDAY HONOLULU, Sept. 21.—Mrs. Elea- LOS ANGELES Calif., Sept. 21— Jor Roosevelt has arrived here after Representatives of 2500 Pacific| a 20,700-mile flying tour of the Pa- Electric Rallway workers, irked over cific war theatre. failure of the Economic Stabiliza- The First Lady of the Land told tion Director to approve of a 13-| the newsmen at a conference she cent hourly wage increase approved| believed the return of the war's by the company, have voted to, wounded and crippled into the na- strike Priday mornin { tior social life constitutes the The present wage greatest of postwar problems. an hour. ' ale is 87 cents CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER FOR BRITAIN DIES LONDON, Sept. 21—8ir Kings- ley Wood, 62, Chancellor of Excheq- uer, died at his home here today. Sir Kingsley is credited with being the man largely responsible for keeping Britain's wartime finance on an even keel. He died on the eve of his anticipated announce- ment of his pay-as-you-go plan for workers’ income tax. ——e————— Low tide—2:14 a. m., 33 feet. High tide—8:50 a. m., 11.7T feet. Low tide—2:34 p. m., 67 feet, High tide—8:42 p. m., 129 feet, !