The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLL, NO. 9454. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943 RRRTL 3T T MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS s PRICE TEN CENTI = ALLIES WITHIN SIGHT OF FLAMING NAPLES anover CARRIED OUT | BY BOMBERS Big Nazi Industrial City Is Damaged Heavily in Attack LONDON, Sept. 23—The Allied| air forces threw a quadruple punch at the enemy in Europe yesterday and last night, carrying out four separate assaults within 18 hours. A mass raid was carried out by the Royal Air Force last night on| the German city of Hanover. Flying Fortresses of the U. S. Air Force smashed at Nantes, and two U. S. bombing assaults struck deep in France. The Air Ministry said, “a very| strong force” raided the important| raflway and factory city of Han-| over. Twenty-six bombers were list-| § ed as missing. “Ppreliminary reports show a high- (Continued on Page Three) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round " By DREW PEARSON (Msor Robert 8. Allen on sotive duty.) | City. “Miss Florida” was runner-up, wh | Mass., entered as “Miss Boston” was third. - Guadalcanal Large Fleet_ Makes Attack| WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt is about to tackle the namite in many years—encourag- ing food cultivation in Latin Am- ‘The problem is being placed upon . his desk by war advisers, incluzungllwo R a I ds Economic Warfare. They point to| the tremendous draln on our own| . are soon going to face the job of By ja ps on feeding the world. Only solution | our Good Neighbors to increase their own production of farm pro- This is bound to raise a tremien- dous storm on Capitol Hill. point out that only a few years ago it point out that only & 1% dreentins.| ON Tuesday-Repeats caused a series of wheat confer-| Agam WEdneSday ences to try togurtail erops. Fols| 4 curtail, but Argentina did not. |ing- two enemy fighter planes, Am- Farmers also remember the long, erican Fighter planes drove off a of Argentine food products. During the Navy reported today. the Hoover administration, Argen-| The enemy raiding group was the of #bout one million bushels of corn jand in many weeks and was com- along the Atlantic Coast, where it|posed of “twelve or sixteen enemy most explosive piece of political dy- erica. Leo Crowley of the new Office of | food resources and the fact that we for this, they say, is to call upon| ducts. Farm bloc leaders are certain to the United States and Canada,! lowing this, the United States didj WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Down- bitter dispute Gver the importation|Jap bombing raid on Guadalcanal, tina exported to us a mere handful jargest reported made on the is- was used chiefly as chicken and pompers. Only light material dam- feed. The ensuing howl zge and a few casualties resulted| from American farmers brought an pefore the Japs were driven off on increase in the U. . tariff on corn. morning of September 21." melnr:e;?;nc::m dflgm‘:“l’:::;j The Navy reported also another on, 2 quantities of alfalfa seed. In order|T®id When six. Jap. planes dropped to check it, Coolidge’s Secretary or‘ Agriculture, Willlam Jardine, ruled | that, Argentine alfalfa seed must be alcanal but only slight damage was suffered by that raid which was yesterday, September 22. bombs near the air strip on Gund-] Blasted OTHERRAIDS Miss America 1943, Runner-Up TWOBLOWS l " HIT ENEMY IN PACIFIC p Garrison Destroy-| ed-landing Is Made Near Finschafen ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 23.— Two new blows have been struck’ at the Japs in the accelerated Pa- cific offensive. The first was a sea- borne landing, under air protection, of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s troops north of Finschafen, New Guinea.| The second was the complete de-| struction of the enemy garrison on Arundel Island in the Solomons. The Finschafen stroke was de- livered Wednesday, six days after the fall of Lae, 60 miles to the @ | southwest. The landing is aimed at| jOne Ja | i the capture of the base which would | give the Allies complete control of i of Arundel which Huon Gulf, potential against New Britain. | The destruction of the garrison is adjacent to American-héild New Georgia puts springboard ' the forces of Admiral William #.| % Blonde Jean Bartel (center), 19, “Miss California” of Los Angeles wore the Miss America of 1943 ribbon after winning the title of Atlantic Muriel Elizabeth Smith (left), 19, of Miami, Fla, entered as ile Helen Mack (right), of Boston, ‘Rescuer, Re;med V Meet Again After Aleutians Tragedy AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23.—W. D. Denning, of Los Angeles, first met L. R. Gribic, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, #hen Denning aided in the rescuing of Gribic in the icy Aleutian waters. ‘The rescuer and the rescued, one of the survivors of a plane-downed in the Aleutians campaign, turned up in the same class at the Naval Flight Preparatory School here at the Uni- versity of Texas. Both hold air medals. o OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS IN SPURT August Witnessed Grea Production in Many } colored orange red, an indication to farmers that it winterkills. Lines, Says WPB The raids raised to five the num-| ber of attacks by Jap planes on ARGENTINE COW KICKED FDR the Guadalcanal area since Septem- |ber 13. Again there was FDR's mmous‘| PR, B crack about the Argentine cow/ being better thgn 'the Amarican‘GovER“ME"T cow, a remark which was seriously| . resented in ms! quarters and | which hurt him among farmers. DEFERME“IS Despite this certain political | backfire, however, it looks as if mili-, lOOKED I“‘l’ tary necessity would send the Presi- dent squarely into the teeth of poli-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — The tics with a food cultivation program |Counsel of the Congressional Com- in Latin America. - Argentina, not mittee investigsting draft defer- having bfoken with the Axis, is not|ients of government workess, a Good Neighbor, and will not be|pa.ged that approximately 300,060 used. Nor will wheat and corn, tWo gyyft, age non-fathers in government staples of which the United States ;o.yice had not been called yp for has & normal syrplus, be encour- |, yctjon, although less than half aged. However, sother important Lad actually been given a deferred crops will be pushed in Brazil, Mex- | ... ico, Bcuador, Pgru, Chile. | Ralph Burton, Counse! for the These crops ipclude: soy beans,| g, e pylitary Subcommittee, di peas, dried egys, #nd dalry pro-| o0y study of the governments ducts. The greatest need is foods 3 i rich in proteins. jown deferment policies and made the charge. umum:mh&msorwz ;:I:l Subcommittee chairman Costzllo g AR R T o D A MR NG (Gontinued on Page Four) maae, WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Muani- tions output spurted ahead in Au- |gust, scoring the greatest gain since April and now ,‘appears to be get- .iting it’s second wind,” according t.o‘ the War Production Board. Chairman Nelson’s monthly re- port said the overall arms produc- ition went up four percent over !July. The total number of war- planes delivered jumped = from 7373 to 7612. The number of heavy bombers produced gained 11 percent 'and fighters gained fivepercent. De- and fighters gained five percent. De- all time record, climbing four per- cent over July. The total work dene for Naval ship’s ordinance equipment passed the $1,000,000,000 mark for the first time. Destroyer ran 20 percent and escort deliveries ahead of schedule. - AT GASTINEAU HOTEL Jack Strutz, bookkeeper with the | tineau Hotel, Halsey within artillery range of the large Jap garrison at Vila, across Brackett Strait on Kolom- bangara Island. { The landings were opposed by the ' Japs, but no details of the fighting are available. The Japanese, sensing the perils - to Vila, have been moving reinforce- ments at night across the strait on barges. Six barges were sunk by infantry weapons. The Allied air arm, meanwhile, struck heavily north of new opera tions around Madang. Forty-six bombing and strafing passes were 'made. Nine Jap planes were shot down at Hopoi, 20 miles east of Lae, and a Jap cargo ship was sunk in the Bismarck fea. | B Strategy of Navy s Told ByAdm.King U S Fl eeI—Commander‘ Makes Telling Talk fo A. L. Delegates OMAHA, Sept. 23. — Shattering blows against the enemy “with all the weapons that can be brought to bear, synchronized and coordinated with an overwhelming assault” con- stitute the aim of the Navy forces, Admiral Ernest J. King, Command- |er-in-Chief of the United States |Fleet, asserted today in addressing | the delegates to the American Legion iNauoual Convention. Attacks recently carried out which resulted in great damage to Jap ‘positions on Marcus and Gilbert islands and in the Southwest Pa- cific only “shape things to come,™ said King. The Admiral emphasized the im- 1 | portance of the Navy's swiftly grow- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |ever, there wasn't much in the or-|{west of ing air arm now striking hard on stock today is 67, Anaconda 26, In- iginal committee draft to indicate|Thus the Germans are menaced New |that Eaton’s “internationalist ma-!from three directions as the Red strategy tactics always have revolved York Central 17%, United States|jority” had won an all-out victory.!army continued to roll up victory| around those weapon bearers that Steel 53!, American Can 87'z, Beth- [t certainly lagged behind the broad ,rter jenemy bases and said, “the Navy's | ;can hit the farthest and hardest. afrcraft this,” thoroughly understand SENT DOWN, AEGEAN ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 23. — Two enemy convoys operating in the Aegean Sea were destroyed recently by light Allied naval forces without |loss to themselves, the British Navy announces. One of the escorting damaged ve Two-ManSubsBehindon P Japane;e_' [ga Japanese two-man submarines, apparently damaged by them before they left, were found in wrecked sub- marine sheds about a mile from the main camp on Kiska Island after U. §. and Canadian forces landed. Guard of GOP GERMANS IN Opens Door; Young RETREAT T0 MenNow Admitted' - THE DNIEPER iPollava Is A_bandtmed as Nazi Lines Are Broken Near Polish Border By JACK STINNETT MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, Sept. 23—One thing definitely can be said of the Republican post-war advisory council conference just concluded here: The Old Guard still is in the saddle but they really Lrlcd| oot (o bend over backward to give the| LONDON, Sept. 23.—The Moscow party’s “bright young men” a place;l’fldlo announced that Soviet troops in the party councils. jare storming White Russia in the When the opening session of mc‘comel sector, shortly after the Ger-‘ 40-odd present members of me‘man report that Nazi forces have Council of 49" was held, Spangler abandoned Poltava, gateway to the was' designated to appoint the com- heart of the Ukraine. mittees, and out of his pocket he| The announcement in the news- pulled the list. | paper Ixvestia, recorded by Reu- JAP ISLAND BASES GIVEN HEAVY RAIDS Gilbert Group Bombed and in Mass Raid by British GERMANS ARE BOTTLED UP /N CORSICA Axis Troops Scuttle 30 Ships, Wreck Ital- Harbor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 23.—Allied headquarters today reported ad- vances of 10 to 15 miles in the cen- tral and southern sectors of Italy in a forward sweep which is gradu- ally forcing Field Marshal Kesselring to uncover the inland approaches to the smoke-smothered, dynamited, shattered city of Naples. Allied soldiers now are within sight and sound of the city in which the German forces are carrying out a systematic wrecking operation. Nazi demalition squads are wreck- ing and firing every building they can in an effort to cancel the city's value to the Allies. The sounds of frequent explosions in the smoking city rolled over the hills to the ears of Allied troops facing the” approaches to Naples today. Meanwhile, Allied headquarters announged.that the Germans have scuttled” at least 30 ships in the Naples p every M)WM /At the same time, news. from the island of Corsica forecast the end of Nazi troops there. Allied air and sea power threw a blockade around the island, cutting off the German troops which are fleeing from French and American forces closing in on them at Bastia, the enemy's last | seaport, and it appeared doubtful that the Nazis owuld be able to hold out on the small island much longer. i Combined aerial and naval forces bombarded a strip of road along which the Germans were fleeing close to the sea, carrying out a furious attack near Solenzara, 60 miles south of Bastia. On advanees on the Italian main- land, the. British and American 2 ENEMY CONVOYS Damaged in Series " of Heavy Attacks PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 23.—Ad- miral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that four Japanese bases were heav- ily bombed and damaged in the raids last Saturday and Sunday in the Gilbert Islands area. A carrier task force collaborated with land based Army and Navy bombers in the operation, covering 500 square miles of the Japs equa- torial outposts. Navy and Army bombers made 200 sorties against Tarawa, Kamin and Apamama islands .in the Gilbert group, and against Naura Island, 400 miles southwest of Makin The United States lost four fight- er planes in the entire action. En- emy airdromes were damaged, four- engined bombers were destroyed on the ground, and enemy camp in- stallations wrecked. Siz Zeros were shot down, four probables, eight fighters were dam- aged, and two medium bombers were blasted out during the action. AN I A STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — Closing ternational Harvester 170%, lehem Steel 58%, Curtiss Wright [outlines suggested by the President, 750 mile fre i . *| 73 ont fr De In the present war, the bearers of |74, Kennecott 31%, Northern Pa-|Wendell L. Willkie and Gov. Thomas (ne north to the K‘L’:&n b’::;::,e::f |cific 14%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 140.30; rails, 34.93; utilities, 21.56. PRICES WEDNESDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed | Wednesday at 6%, American Can 159%, Curtiss Wright 7. Interna- tional Harvester 70%, Kennecott |31%4. New York Central 17%, North- jern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 537%. Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Wednesday eaid a full investigation will be cannery at Tenakee is at the Gas- fleet was also sunk and two others were as follows: Industrials, 141.09; | — rails, 35.20; utilities, 21.86, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michigan, was named chairman of the foreign policy and international relations committee, and Sen. Rob- \ters, says that Gomel, in the area where the new break through is announcd, is a rail center about midway between Kiev and Smo- lensk, is within a bare fiftegen miles ert A. Taft, of Ohio, chairman of the postwar enterprise, mdustry; !and employment committee. of the Dnieper River, and within 150 miles of the old Polish borger. Poltava, a city of 90,000, lies on Spangler couldn’t possibly haveithe vorskla River in the fertile |done any better by the Old Guard.|ypeatiands of the Ukraine, and is The only two other possibilities, s0!a control center of the network of far as the convention lists and apP-|yajjways radiating between Khar- parent appointment policies were |y , giey Kremenchug and Dnep- concerned would have been SN opeirovsk. It is 80 miles west of Charles L. McNary, minority leader |y ..oy and 187 miles southeast of of the upper house, who wasn't| L, there; and Rep. Joseph W. MArtin,| ™, "o ynan proadeast said that jJr. minority leader of the lOWer|y ., . o gestroyed all military | e, W ’ that Bouse, personally L2 installations in Poltava before their S 00orathistaed besatian of the pres_fconunued retreat westward toward sure>of his job in Congress. |the_ Dnieper. From there on, the eight perman-\ With the Red Army charging ent committees which will try to|forward unchecked along the whole hew out the major planks in the 750 mile front, the Rerlin radio Republican platform between now |said the center of gravity has siil and next summer are something of |¢d southeast to Smolensk, the Ger- a different story. |man | central front bastion. “The On Vandenberg's foreign policy |Nazis reported that the Red Army committee, “internationalist” Rep. is storming their positions there | with * strong infantry and tank 87%, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel | Francis P. Bolton, of Ohio. How- E. Dewey, of New York. On the permanent postwar enter-| prise, industry and employment | committee, Gov. John W. Bricker, | iohxo. a Taf¥ conservative, was made ' chairman, and former president of! the United States Chamber of Com- | | merce, Sen. Albert W. Hawkes, of| New Jersey, was second in line. But| the committee also included such party scrappers as Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, and Rep. F- Smith, of Racine, Wis.,, wife of | Everett Dirksen, of Illinois. On the other hand, Gov. Dewey Wisconsifi District in Congress, was | drew the chairmanship of the gov- (Continued on Plu‘(e Three) | Charles A. Eaton claims a major-| ity, with such advocates of postwar forces. collaboration as Sen. Warren R.| Austin, of Vermont; Gov. Edward Bloody fighting is said to be rag- ing west of the Yelna, 40 miles Martin, of -Pennsylvania; and Rep. southeast of Smolensk, also in the| J'emidov region, 42 miles north- the key center of Kiev. victory along the flaming on the Black Sea. - - PRESIDENT OF A.L. AUXILIARY ELECTED TODAY OMAHA, Sept. 23.—Mrs. Lawrence the Representative from the First today elected President of the Am- erican Legion Auxiliary at the Na- tional Convention, forces swung the right side of their line forward toward the Adriatic, with Salerno serving somewhat as a hinge, and straightened out their lines. CLARK GABLE TAKES PART, NANTES RAID U. 8. FORTRESS BASE IN ENG- LAND, Sept, 23.—Capt. Clark Gable who went on today's raid on Nantes disclosed that he will leave for the | United States soon with a gunnery training film he had been directing. Gable said he hopes to see active service in some other theatre before the war is over, and added, “but - |you know T just do whatever the | Army tells me to.” In today's raid Gable acted as combination ¢camera man and gun- ner. The ship was hit by anti-air- craft fire, but none of the crew were wounded. “I didn’t hit a damn thing” Gable said. | - FIRST LADY BACK HOME SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 23. —Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, has arrived here after a tour of New Zealand and Aus- tralia. She said she is particularly anx- ious to visit her son, Lt. Col. James Roosevelt. The Flrst Lady's plane flew the 2400 miles from Honolulu in the unusually fast time of 10 hours and 35 minutes, | | | | | |