The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI, NO. 9453. NAPLES IN FLAMES AS ALLIES [ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1943 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ L N Allies Sei ze LAND TROOPS IN SURPRISE AERIAL MOVE Aussies Dr(;p in on Enemy from American Air Transports ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PAOCIFIC, Sept. 22.— Australians, landed by American transport planes, have seized Kaia- pit, 60 miles above Lae, New Guinea, 70 miles south of the Japanese base at Madang. General Douglas MacArthur re- ports that the transports were land- ed on a grassy field last Saturday‘ and Sunday in a daring move that outflanks the Jap base at Finsch- aven on Huon Peninsula. The Japs attempted sever al counter attacks but were defeated and driven from the area. Meanwhile, American heavy hombers wreaked havoc on enemy supply lines above Kalapit, and 97 tons of bombs were dropped on We- wak. At Madang, numerous planes were set afire on the ground, and two out of seven interceptors were 4 ey ol (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Members of the Senate and House Military Affairs, Committees are lodging strong pro-! tests with the War Department | over the impending transfer of Gen. George Marshall from Chief of Staff | to Allied Commander-in-Chief for| the second front in Western Eur- ope. They regard this as an attempt to get Marshall out of the pm.ure} as far as the Burma, Italian and South Pacific campaigns are con- cerned. For when he loses the key post of Chief of Staff and becomes Commander-in-Chief in Western Europe, he will be in charge of only; that one operation, cannot super- | vise the entire American Army on| all fronts. Friends of Gen. Marshall are in- dignant over his forthcoming trans- fer, and he himself is none too happy., Senatorial friends attrib- ute the shift to the British, who are reported to haye had some stiff altercations with Marshall over a western front. Gen. Marshall long has thought that the quickest way to Berlin was | across the English Channel, while Churchilt- has publicly favored the “soft ‘tinderbelly” approach via North Africa and Italy. Senators and Congressmen who oppose Gen. Marshall’s transfer are among those who have supported Roosevelt’s war and foreign poli- cles. most ‘vigorously and believe they have a right to be heard now. If they fail to make an impression on Secretary Stimson they may in- troduce legislation to make Marshall Chief of the Armies, a title still nominally held by Pershing, and which would mike Marshall su- preme over every other American officer. NOTE—Gen. Marshall has Ttec- ommended Gen. Eisenhower to re- place him as ever, Gen, B. B. Somervell, Army supply officer, is an old friend of Harry Hopkins. QUEZON ON THE JOB It's bad news for the Japs that President Quezon of the Philippines is back in Washington. They knew —though it was not generally real- jzed in Washington—that Quezon - chief of staff. How-| OF JAPAN IS 10 BE MOVED Drastic Measures Hitting Civilians, Industry Announced LONDON, Sept. 22.—The Japan- ese Government has decided to prepare “for moving of all Govern- ment departments, industrial es- tablishments and civilian population from Tokyo as well as other impor. ant cities in Japan in the inter- est of improving their defense.” This is announced in a 'Tokyo radio broadcast today, that listed & number ot drastic measures inciading total mobilization of the civilian populatior., abolishing age limits and make all persons liable to National Se:wice, which the broadcast said weould be oificiaily cunounced by the Tokyo Govern- ment’s Information office. The official announcement said the measures to be taken is *“in view of the decisive phase the war will enter during the coming months”’ Other measures announced to he craft “air protection of the industrial region,” special measures for pro- tection of government buildings factories in Tokyo and other big cities of the country, and strcngth- ening of government contrsl over all industry and centralization of traffic on land and water. - e 67 YEARLINGS SOLD TUESDAY ATBIG AUCTIO NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—A total of 67 yearlings from nine breeding farms in Maryland and Virginia sold for $182350 at auction in the annual Saratoga yearling sales. The top bid of the day was $33,- 000 by Henry Lustig of New York for a chestnut colt by Stimulus out of Heloise by Friar Rock. e, - REV. LE VASSEUR BACK FROM TRIP 10 STATES, CAN. The Rev. William G. Le Vasseur, 8. J., Pastor of the Church of the Nativity in Juneau, returned yester- day from a two months’' vacation in the States and Canada, which included a trip to his native Province of Quebec, and a visit with a host of relatives. ‘The occasion of his visit was given added interest by his presence at the golden jubilee of his eldest sister in the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, which called for a gathering of all the members of the Le Vasseur fam- ily over a wide area. As the family |dates back to, the 16th century in Quebec and most of the descendants have remained deeply rooted to the soil of their native province it meant | quite a large assembly. | From Canada, Rev. Le Vasseur went to- New York City, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and ‘Seattle, and in each city showed 3,000 feet of colored motion pictures of Alaska, which at this particular time of heightened | interest in the Territory were much |appreciated by the audience, par- ticularly by the Sisters and pupils in also | taken is increase ‘of the - astiair-| ’ defense forces especially for | WILLKIEIS WILLINGTO ~ RUNIN'44 ‘Says He WiII—Accept Nom- | ination or Be Worker on Liberal Platform NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—If the Re- publican Party adopts a liberal 1944 platform, Wendell L. Willkie is will- ing to give complete and undeviat- ing service “as the convention’s nominee or as a worker in the ranks.” Wwillkie made this statement in response to one of a series of ques- tions in the Look Magazine which are using their liras, etc, to provide > o: e i r 4 of the London War Cabinet as ex- asked: “Will you be available (91’_1 A\;‘a‘h)e an.c: _c.(r),nvemem mfdlumkof pected, it will put Marshall at the in| exchange, which the countries taken p o4 of o super global field of com- | the nomination |19442” Republican fHeari‘nfi on Judge Pratt Sef Friday | WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Chair- 'man Pat McCarran of Nevada, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee, said the Presiden- tial nomination of Harry Pratt, Judge of the Fourth Judicial Di sion of Alaska, with headquarters at Fairbanks, wili be submitfea to the full Judiciary Committee on Friday. No witnesses Sub-Committee's today. Judge Pratt is now service office ,under appointment that expired on August 5, 1943. | B i , I.egioiril Aux. H;;rs | Reports; Election Of Officers Is Held The American Legion Auxiliary meeting last evening in the Dugout was of special interest with members giving reports on various activities. Mrs. Bert Lybeck reported the program of investigation being made regarding the project for which the “Ernest Polley Memorial Fund” will be uesd, and Mrs, W. J. Manthey told of the plans by the Girl Scout Council in regard to the celebration of “Girl Scout Week” in October. Elections were held during which time Mrs. Peter Oswald was given the office of secretary and Mrs. Les Sturm that of treasurer for the at the nearing appeared i special officers has been set for the first meeting in October. A food sale is scheduled for Sat- yrday, October 2, which is also “Molly Pitcher Tag Day.” Heading the committee in charge of the sale is Mrs. Jack Mutch. Further de- tails as to the time and place of the food sale will be announced later, An GOVERNMENT Money by Bale Being ~ Printed by U. S. for | Occupied Lands: By JACK STINNETT k WASHINGTON, Sept. . — Thelt Bureau of Engraving is printing! money by the bale—the kind of money this country never printed before, but probably will keep on printing for months to come. i The money is “Allied Military Liras,” “Allied -Military Francs™ drachmas, marks, krones, florins, belgas zlotys and yens, In Bicily, the liras already are circulating. It may be presumed they will also be used in Italy. It may be pre- sumed, too, that the above men- tibned, in the order named, will be used in Greece, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Poland and Japan, when and if we move into these countries. This is a chapfer from the Axis warbook, because the Germans and Japs even took their printing presses lwith them on their invasion jun- kets. But it's a chapter that must; be read another way. The Axis |usea its spurious bills merely as fiat money with which to strip conquer- led nations of supplies. The Allies rover can readily understand. ! |+ On the surface the procedure is |simple. In Sicily, for example, the Allied i MARSHALL WILL HAVE HUGE JOB American Krmf Chiefto Ba! Named Supreme Alligd Head By KIRK L. SIMPSON (Copyright, 1943) (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — The blunt fact about General George C. Marshall is that he is tentatively slated to become the virtual global commander-in-chief of all Anglo- American forces in the field—on the ground, in the air, on the sea. He is to put into effect the pat- tern of victory for both East and West, shaped at the Quebec con- ference. Just when an announcement to that effect will be forthcoming from Washington or London is uncertain. This writer can say, however, that nomiation of the U. 8. Army Cilief of Staff for this task was per- niffs the major decision made at Quebec. 1f it meets with the final approval mand, with authority to coordinate aggressive action an all fronts under the Quebec strategic directives. It will also recognize that in the successive inter-Allied military con- other Jap Pacific Bastion " Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt paused review the Samoan Marines, native troops organized as part of the U.S. Marine Corps.. Major C. F. B. eral of the area, and Captain John R. Napton, Jr., UCMCR, accom- panied the First Lady. U. S. Marine Corps photo. /| Samoan Marines Inspected il il FIFTH ARMY. ' TAKES THREE MORETOWNS French Pursue Fleeing Germans on Island of Corsica -t | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 22.—Huge ! demolition fires scarred Naples today as the Germans hastily threw |a defensive ring around the city in |an attempt to retard the Allied armies which are pressing steadily | outward from the Salerno bridge- head. . The great Italian metropolis, home of nearly a million, is de- scribed officially as churning in | | smoke. | A military spokesman said the L_enemy is establishing a strong de- fense line at the approaches of ‘Napl:s from the south and east, | but“the extent of their demolitions . /in and near the city appeared as evidence that the Germans hoped |to hold back the attack toward the {city from the Salerno area. | Fight Way Steadily j( The American Fifth Army, mean- | while, feught its way steadily east |and northeast from Salemo, the : + { § } i during her South Pacific trip to Price, USMC, Cormmanding Gen- ! towns” of "Ca : y and Rovella, while the British |chased the fleeing Germans from i armies are paid off in AM liras go.ences from Washington to Casa- | which are guaranteed to be redeem- 1,65 that the American Chief of able on the basis of 100 liras to the gia¢r was the outstanding con- dollar and 400 liras to the English ¢rputor in fashioning strategic plans pound. * for vietory. . These lira notes are also used t0 pe rumors that Marshall is to be ipurchase supplies from the natives ggseq out of his present Chief of Staff on the same basis and are even gegighment due to the pressure in- given or rather “lent” to lécal in- terests opposed to him, presumably | dustries, utilities, and local govern- mritish are in direct conflict with | ments to supply particularly their ne facts. ; | payroll needs, with an understand- R ing, of course, that they will be re- paid from earnings or taxes. | | In the case of local merchants, { Rockets Bu?srin Moscow | | banks, municipalities, etc., the post- war redemption value is not guar- anteed—presumably leaving this a !matter to be settled at the peace table. [ Apparently, issuance ‘of this | money ‘is a’ matter of convenience iand humanitarianism, There is no ~ thoueht of flooding these lands with worthless legal tender, For the mo- ment, at least, nobody stands to get gypped out of a penny—certainly Mrs. Roosevelf Stops One Guadalcanal Gag By Visiting Fighiers By ART BURGESS M a( ARTHUR | Associated Press War Correspondent | GUADALCANAL, Sept. 17—(De- ¢ | layed)—One gag, a favorite for STAIEMENT more than a year with American fighting men here, was laid away today when Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited the battle-torn island. “When is Eleanor coming?” boys in foxholes asked facetiously' be- | tween rounds of shooting at the | Japanese. With the Japanese gone, S— | the gag still remained. The boys were stunned as the not the soldiers who, any day, can trade their liras for the dollars or (Continued on Page Three) TIDES TOMORROW " Low tide— 3:32 2. m,, 3.5 feet. High tide—10:12 a. m., 12.1 feet. Low tide-- 3:57 p. , 64 feet. High tide—10:03 p. m., 13.1 feet. - e ® 0o 00 00 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp, Tuesday, Sept. 21 Maximum 52; Minimum 47 Rain—6 ® & ® o 0 0 o o 0 o C. OF C. TOMORROW The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce will hold its regular noon ! meeting in the Gold Room of the . . . . fortheoming year. Installation of | Baranof Hotel tomorrow. A program |in Chernigov, then drove down to is being arranged. MEETING OF ELKS | LODGE TONIGHT A meeting of the Elks will be held but all members are asked to keep | tonight in the lodge room ‘at 8§ the date in mind. o’clock. Refreshments were served follow- Committees for scheduled fall ac- ing the business session, at which tivities will be appointed and regular time the President, Mrs, Alfred |Dusiness matters discussed. had suffered a relapse of his old ill-, ness, tuberculosis, which has plag- ued him off and on for twenty years. Quezon was a well man at the time of Pearl Harbor. But confine- ment in the dampness of Corregi- dor, during the Jap attack, brought the illness back again. That was one reason MacAfthur urged him the parochial schools. \Many former Alaskans were met on the trip, and all of them retained, a great interest in Alaska and in- quired about persons and places in the North country. Parents of en- listed men stationed in the Territory were especially interested in learn- to return to the U. §. in a submar- (Continued on Page Four) ing about Alaska. L A BUY WAR BONDS Zenger, was greeted with the song g M RAYMOND WOLFE BACK Raymond Wolfe, Credit Agent for the Office of Indian Affairs, return- ed last night from a business trip to Ketchikan. Rl ——— . PARK SERVICE MAN HERE | O. A. Tomlinson, representative of the National Park Service is a guest |ut the Gastineau Hotel. “Happy Birthday” | with a remembrance for the oc- casion, —————— BELLAMYS TO SKAGWAY Ben Bellamy, well known travel- ing man, and his wife were pas- | sengers to Skagway aboard. the northbound steamer last night. and presented | as Soviet Army Drives on Toward Kiev BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 2—The gilt on the church domes of Kiev are glistening in the brilliant sunshine and is now visible to the Soviet troops, marching through crystal clear autumn weather, dispatches | from Moscow state. | MOSCOW, Sept. 22—History turned back upon itself in the valley between the Desna and the Dnieper Rivers as the Red Army pushed on in the direction of Kiev after capturing Chernigov, for this was the way the Germans took Kiev. | Smashing through the lush vailey,| of course in the opposite di tion, the Nazis in 1942 settled therrselves | Kiev. With the Russians pushing | on to the Dnieper, the Germans have been forced back to approxi-| mately the line held two yesrs ago.| Here in Moscow where hopes soar, with rockets arching skyward in salute to the latest victories. there is a feeling among the people that the Russians can duplicate) their trick at the Chernigov gate-| way on the Dnieper 20 miles away.| The open road to the Dnieper lies ahead as the Red Army smashed | forward from Chernigov. Authorities Puzzled by, resident’s lady visited Matanikau Generalvs Remal'k—DiS- River battle site and also visited the| | cemetery where whité crosses mark ,the graves of men who died in the| |the town of S8an Cipriano. | On the island of Corsica, at the same time,, French soldiers and na- | tive patrols pursued a Geyman gar- irison estimated at 12,000 men to- - | ward the eastern shores while Am- jerican Liberator bombers blasted |the principal avenue for the Ger- |man evacuation of the island—the (harbor of Bastia and the Italian port of Leghorn. i German Fleet | A military spokesman said he ‘had nothing to add to Churchill's statement that American troops had ‘lnnded on Sardinia, but tLe belief I prevailed here that whatever units were sent were intended only to |cooperate with the Italian division |already there, which st Badoglio’s ¢ommand, took control and com- {pelled the Gérmans to flee | As another menace to the Ger- mans on the Italian mainland; Montgomery’s Eighth Army drove |key highway and railway center'of ' Potenza, jufiction point of five main roads, glying the Allies control wf the entire inland highway and ra‘l systems in the south, and extend- satisfied with Supplies': WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—Gen. ' Douglas MacArthur Has the usual military and naval neéws sources professedly puzzled by his statement from Australia that, however sub- ordinate his role in the war may be from here on he hopes to “play it manfully.” 1 The statement, made late yester- | day, made two points. One is that | Gen. MacArthur will carry on the| fight regardless of how subordinate the assignment might be, and the | |other that he feels that his strategy of advancing on Japan by taking the key island positions offers the cheapest way to win the war, par-| ticularly as against the "xslmul[ hopping.” | These sources insist that the state- | ment, viewed in its entirety, doesn’t | | it any particular situation known | to them. With respect to the assignments, the commands such as Lord Mount- | batten’s in Burma or Marshall, now | Allied global director of Anglo-Am- | erican offensives, authorities here | Japanese. ing eastward from Salerno. | — first successful ‘push! against the! | Her night's rest here was spoiled twice by alerts but no enemy planes appeared. This was two nights be- fore the Japanese bombed Guadal- AMERICANS mmowar !N DRIVE L0ANBOND O CORSICA DRIVES Up idins Frenchmen fo Rid Island of All Enemies; . o | Says Command Splendid Sales Reported! s ~One Alaska C"Y 'rx_jo‘r’{;"xxfo AFRICA, s:;n?: The Gets Notice g o s i —_— drive the Germans toward the WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.— The 'ortheastern garner of Corsica. The Commpnd says that already profess knowledge of no changes in | Treasury reports this morning that the relationship between the naval fup to last night the Third War Loan command in the South Central Pa- ‘Bond drive has resulted in a total cific areas and Gen. MacArthur's 'of $11,170,000,000. The goal is fif- command in the Southwest Pacific. [teen billion dollars. | They say the basic stragegy in the Pacific war remains unchanged. One suggestion advanced is that MacArthur has been advised within recent days of how much strength As the Russians grabbed that im- portant communications center on the western bank of the Desna,| they shut off Gomels last rvilway to fhe south and seized a series oqm trained men, ships and planes}ht‘ highways leading to White Russia. | couldd expect durine the coming Rl A A {months, and is dissatisified with his FROM CORDOVIA {allocation Mrs. J. Jackson of Cordova is | guest at the Baranof Hotel. - - WAR BONDS BUY Yesterday's sales were $425,000,- 000, Only one state has gone over the quota and that is Maryland, 107 per cent subscribed. From Alaska, a report has been received that one city, Juneau, au- thorized to make a drive before the regular date, has gone away over more than 1,000 of the enemy have |been slain “and several hundred ! Germans have been taken prison- o ———e—— BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept, 22, — The German Infermation Bureau breadeast over the Ber- lin radio the Germans have eva- | cuated the harbor at Anapa, tiny Kdban port on the Black Sea, about 25 miles northeast the top in bond sales. The quota for that city was $250,000. of Novorossisk, already fallen to the Russians. . the . . redh - northward inland and occupied the' CLOSE IN