The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9455. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 = | YANKS NOW OPEN UP ITALIAN OFFENSIVE Australians Capture Finschhafen Airfield JAPS FALL BACKFROM Nippons lo?fl) Planes During. Allied Land- . . ing Fight ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 24 —Australians who landed by the | sea six miles north of Finschafen, New Guinea on Wednesday, are pushing the resisting Japs south- ward reaching the airdrome, two miles north of the base and placed the coasial town under armlery‘ fire. The air fight on the day of the| landing cost the Japs 40 plaacs which were downed with five pro- kables. Three Allied plamres were los! but one pilot was saved. A preliminary count shows 6,500 vaps were killel here before July 1. ‘The capture of Finschafen gives Gen. Douglas MacArthur a base from which to strike at New DEr tain which outflanks Bougain® "'z, principal Jap holding in the Sol- omons. The Jap :truck at the landin:g force uff Finschafen but no ships The Washington Merry - Go- Round "Pin-Up” Girl 4GERMAN By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on sotive duty.) | | WASHINGTON — Faulty military| intelligence information which is| reported to have contributed to heavy casualties and terrific (ighc-‘ ing at Salerno has focused the | Washington spotlight on both the army and navy intelligence units. That something has been wrong with intelligence operations in both services is indicated by the steady turnover of their chiefs. No chief has remained more than a year in| either naval or military intelligence. | Latest to go is Admiral Harold Train, easy-going, likable chief of naval intelligence, now being re- lieved. Meanwhile the efficient FBI has been under one man for well over| a decade. One reason ‘attributed for ineffic- SECTIONS BLASTED Industrial, Transportation Centers Receive Strong Heavy Blows by RAF LONDON, Sept. 24.—In the sec- ond heavy blow in 24 hours against Nazi industrial and transportation centers a fleet of RAF bombers blasted four German cities las: night. They heavily bombed the twin cities of Mannheim and Ludwig- shafen, hitting Darmstadt, 35 miles An Army Signal Corps unit overseas named Ella LeMay (above), 20, of Miami Beach, Fla., as official “pin-up” girl and an Army Air Force training group at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., voted her “Queen.” GOP Mdves Toward Unify in 1944; First Strides Being Taken fency inside the naval and military|DOrtheast . of ~Mannheim, and intelligence has been the practice|Aachin, near Cologne. of bringing in blue-blooded young | Thirty-two bombers failed m re- men from the best families and giv-turn. The two cities at the junc- ing them cellophane commissions | tion of the Rhine and Nekar rivers (you can see through them, but they protect from the draft.) " This has now been largely dis- continued, but both services are still | glutted with boys culled from the| social registers. NAZI DEATH TRAP One trouble at Salerno was that| military intelligence reported only a skeletonized division of Nazis at Naples. Therefore, it was consider- ed safe for Gen. Mark Clark to land | with a medium-sized force. How-| ever, Marshal Badoglio warned, General Eisenhower at the last min- ute that U. S. intelligence officers, suffered under the impact of 1,500 long tons, dropped in 45 minutes, 17 tons less.than the record load dumped on Hamburg in the sequel Wednesday night after the attack on Hanover. American Marauder's carried out the latest big scale aerial assault for the third day in another day- light raid on the Evereux Fauville airbase, 25 miles west of Paris, also hit Wednesday. Today’s operations of Maurauders was the 77th day they have blasted enemy bases. Other formations of bombers crossed the channel early this after- noon to continue the daylight at- were wrong and that the Germa: /| tacks. had two and a half divisions at| VR g s Naples. In fact, the Nazis were| simply lying in wait for American | troops on the bluffs over the Sal-! erno beaches. In view of Badoglio’s warning, additional troops were sent | to Gen. Clark immediately. MEMOIRS OF MacARTHUR Lovely Louise Atwill, ex-wife of General MacArthur, is preparing BLAZE DOES BI6 ' DAMAGE TO RADIO | STATIONSKGW, KEX | | PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 24—A! three-alarm fire chased the em- ployees of the Oregonian Radio| Stations, KGW and KEX from the; Oregonian Building early today and destroyed considerable radio equip- her memoirs. One incident which will tickle al- most every husband and wife runs like this: Scene: The MacArthur suite in Manila. Time: 8:35 p. m. Mrs. MacArthur is seated before her dressing table putting a last do- dad in her hair. She has on an of the Oregonian’s final edition. The damage is estimated at $75,- |ment and also delayed publication | evening gown, obviously is dressed for an officlal dinner, Behind her!®; (Continued on Page Four) The cause of the blaze has not been determined. and ""Queen” | | I By JACK STINNETT MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, Sept. 24—The Republican Postwar | Advisory Council conference just| (held here probably made greater |strides in uniting the party than | any move sifce before the 1940 con- | vention, but with several serious | defections. (1)~—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of| |New York walked out in a bit of a huff, not, as nearly as I can find| out, because the parley ignored his all-out postwar plan for a United Nations military alliance, but be- |cause Sen. Robert A. Taft’s “home ![mnt committee” wouldn't take a |more solid stand on several issues. Dewey was a member of the Taft {committee and although his oppo- sition views were said to have re- |sulted in some modifications of the }orlginal report, the Taft-Dewey {breach through which Wendell L. | Willkie walked to the 1940 nomina- tion apparently was as wide as ever. (2)—Mr. Willkie, who _ggrnered {more popular votes for president lthan any Republican candidate iever has, wasn't on hand—and if jabout 95 per cent of the “council of 149" has its way, never will be. (3) The explanation from the floor that the two clauses in the adopted Vandenberg report which would commit this nation to a policy that “peace and security (of ‘the world) ought to be ultimately established upon other sanctions than force” and “with organized! |justice in a free world” is open to| the charge that the party has only now caught up with Woodrow Wil- son and is merely seeking B revival of the League of Nations and the |World Court. (4) That the Taft committee’s “home front” report is too indef- inite, except in its charges against| | ! | | | H (Cominue—a on Page Two) GLOBAL RELIEF OF WAR VICTIMS 1S NOW PLANNED WASHINGTON, Sept. 14~A rte- vised scheme for global relief' of victims of the war is being projected by the State Department which is inviting Allied Nations to a White House meeting to sign the pact. The agreement provides for a director general, operating all over the world within limits set by the; |committee, representing the United States, Britain, China and Russia. This committee will be responsible | to the council of representatives of | all participating nations, in which| small and large alike will have an equal voice, { | 1} |to cross the Dnieper, but declare -|failed to bear out the report, lhet {points, Red Star said. | RUSS FORCES AMERICANS REACH BANKS OF DNIEPER River—Reds Only Nine Miles from_Smolensk (By Associated Press) London Regarding Fight on Nips i iDONDON, Sept. 24.—Secretary of The Red Army has Jied! the merican Navy Frank Knox asked L 5 the newspapers of Great Britain Dnieper in force, and other Soviet| unitespenorlhwe:? of‘nSmolensk hnve“0 educate the English public of the reached the village of Tarasenki, only | 1c¢esSity of fighting in this Jap- three miles from the border of|®"¢¢ Wal White Russia, according to Soviet | Knox bluntly told the newsmen dispatches. | {at a conference today there is a The Gérmnn Cor ARl l_epm,‘.s‘disruptinx growth of opinion in the that the Russians are already ik~ [l ited | States of - & ‘lack .of coop- leration from the British. There is ing heavy thrusts in their efforts % % % 4 8n opinion that the British will feel that when Hitler is disposed hoy . Weie ZRpplesy lof it will be all over. Evacuation By Nazis ; | Knox was asked if Churchill's Alth, ! Ithoughi, tho. German CommaRMige oot wnt nad niot dispelied German Berlin radio said the Ger- (81, SUCh fseing, and te War Sec- mans are systematically evacuanng‘d‘spe”ed i Adiarice their heavy equipment, installations | g and civilians from their bridgehead | across the Kerch Straits in the} ul Sl Caucasus. With the Red Army only nine| ’R miles from Smolensk after captur-| ing Luzanovo, the Germans are in| Nation Admonished Not fo Be Lulled Into Sense immediate danger of losing thel centrol front cltadel which they] . of Security : \ Acquisition of Italian airfields in bombardment will Previous raids on Ploesti meant a Africa or the Middle East. Have held since the early days of their smash teward Moscow. | Big Drive Made | A dispatch from the Red Star said the Russian troops first reach-' ed this big objective through No-! vomokovsk in the lower Ukraine.! In the drive to‘ Poltava strongf forces of Soviet troops arrived on| the banks of the Dnieper at other| Now Provin As the Russians reached fihl:“ Dnieper, the Germans threw in BombrsBlast Closer air forces brings all of Hitler's southern ramparts within easy bombing range for the first time. Observers believe a prime target of continuous be the Rumanian Ploesti, from which the Nazis obtain one-third of their oil needs. The round trip from Naples is 1,400 miles. The result is that bombers can carry about four times their previous loads to Ploesti. The map shows how an 800-mile bomber arc encloses all of the Balkans, Berlin, southern Germany and Paris. The inner arc shows a 250-mile fighter plane range. ail Labor Shorfage Program ls S!g“gesledé FIFTH ARMY " MEETS MAIN NAZI FORCE Fighting Is—S;/ere, Says Spokesman, But Al- lies flante ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 24—The |American Fifth Army has launched 'a full-scale offensive against the !German mountain positions guard- 'lng the route to Naples. At the same time, Allied motor torpedo boats stabbed at Valona, harbor on jthe coast of Albania, sinking two {enemy vessels. | An official announcement said the Fifth Army has captured Oli- {veto, city 24 milles east of Salerno, while Matera, 38 miles northwest of Taranto, was captured on the |British front. * The announcement said that Al- tamura, 43 miles northwest of Tar- anto and 10 miles north of Matera, also has been capturpd in the drive lagainst Naples, now launched in full force after a period of consoli- dation of the Allied springboard. Driving northward into strongly defended saw-toothed positions, |Gen. Mark Clark's troops are en- jcountering heavy artille: tar oposaR s ot i’ e e fields. Fighting Severe One spokésman sald the “fighting |15 bitter and severe. The enemy ob- . viously intends to hold onto Naples ' as long as possible. The Germang' ‘| have been: forced to concen al- " most entirely in the Fifth Army area. The British Eighth Army is uble to advance swiftly and almost at will." Meanwhile, the Germans are re- ported to be engaged in carrying the Naples-Foggia area by Allied oil fields, centering about 2,400-mile round trip from North g Serious; By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON everything they had in an attemp!, WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Gen. {to halt the Red Army drive west|George C. Marshall today asserted BOND DRIVE WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Lurk- ing around the next curve in rail- lout demolitions on a wide scale in iNuplen. apparently with the idea of of Poltava. that “we face grim months of fight- i Front line dispatches related how ing on all fronts over the globe” | the fall rains made a sea of black and admonished the Nation against mud through which the troops urd being lulled by initial successes into machines had to move. Mud clung a “false sense of security.” Gen. Marshall said in the China’ and Burma areas “we are getting {ready for heayy nghunz against the |Japanese and the present war calls (for huge "supplies on the . battle- |fields and unsurpassed amounts of |war equipment.” The General urged the buying |of bonds. | The total sales in the Third War |Bond campaign are now slightly, lover twelve billfon. ‘The, ‘goal fs (Continued on Page Two) COAST MAN CHOSEN A. L. | | AT LUNCHEON Credit Given to Various| i Organizations-Awards Are Made Today REPORT MADE: roading is a holdup that will make "making the harbor installations use- Jesse Jones’ interferences with train less to the Allies when they occupy schedules look like improvements the city. over the 1943-44 running time. | The Allied controlled Palermo The threatened hold-up can be radio said Italians are escaping summed up in two words: M.un-;lrom Naples and residents of the power shortage. |ty are battling the Germans in ; Headlngt o potes al:ea:':r l’idlng‘u.‘e :treetu,xflrmg at the Nazis from 0 preven S fens ‘anspor- vindows of their homes or tation Director Joseph B. Eastman,'stones if without firearms. i with a 13-point program stuffed In| “Citizeas who vebel are shot with- his Lru::'yuk:ls:e: ) cut any mquiry by the German (f- o tl {cials,” the Palermo radi 3 If his program . doesn't Work.|: Numerous Italian officers :m':o‘f Eastman has promised labor and diers alse are shot on grounds of management alike, he will ask Con- | ;o5 _coLaboration.” gress for legislation to keep the Nazis Flee Island COMMANDER OMAHA, Sept. 24—Warren Ath- erton, 51, of Stockton, Calif., a law- fifteen ‘billion dollars by October 2. B s yer and who advocafes a universal service act, has been elected Na- tional Commander of the American Leaping Legion. He was the only candidate | Eleano nominated for the position. i Yesterday, the delegates to the| War bonds and stamps totaling $347,691.75 were sold the first 15 days of this month by Gastineau Channel organizations, Mrs. John McCormick, Chairman of the War Finance Committee, announced to- ' day at a luncheon of the latter group in the Baranof Hotel. A lengthy and detailed report of ! the organizations’ part in the Third | War Loan Drive was made and Fred American Legion Auxiliary, elected | as their President, Mrs. Lawrence; NEW YORK, Sept. 24. — Mrs, Geeslin presented awards to repre- F. Smith, of Racine, Wisconsin. She Farnklin D. Roosevelt, back from a sentatives of clubs who participated is the wife of the Mpre.qemanve‘flve.week, 26,000-mile tour of the in the drive on Gastineau Channel. railroad wheels Furning. Everyone! should cooperate, he advises, but just in case it doesn't seem worth! while to all parties, he points out the government can take over the railroads and deal “drastically” with the. situation’ What makes the railroad man- power shortage unique among in- dustry shortages that preceded it is the almost total lack of figures. No- body knows how many men (or wo- men) the railroads will need to avert the shortage, how many it will save by following Eastman's program, how many are draft-eli- A report from Corsica said the Germans are continuing their hasty withdrawal northward - from that island. A French report. sa’d Allied force es thére have occupied Bonifaclo, Toit and Veechio. Allted planes are intercepting |German attempts at aerial eva- jcuation and seven Cierman traus- perts, evacuating tioops, have been shot down. Bast'a, on the norcaern tip of the islanc, has beea rendered almest | uselcss tc the enemy through con- from the First Wisconsin Distrlcc]‘squm Pacific, eagerly greeted her The greatest number of bonds and to Congress. “ |son, Lt. Col. James Roosevelt as stamps was credited to the Juneau The American Legion convention|she alighted from a transcontinental Rotary Club, who reported a totai delegates adopted a resolution ask-|plane. jof $96,642.50 taken in during the ing deportation, at the end of the| The First Lady of the Land fairly period. Henry Harmon, represent- | present war, of all allens and all|leaped two feet to the ground from 'ing the service club, accepted an American born Japs found disloyal |the Army plane into the arms of award of American and Alaskan to the United States. her son flags. —— —_— i —— The flags were mounted on a Ne Alaska S|a| ' ood wooden frame, which also supported a carved lvory figure. Organizations . Bill Is fo Be Infroduced; r Dimond Talks on Defens ‘slamps sold at the booth: and the WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—Alaska hood and the people are anxious to total accredited to each society: Delegate A. J. Dimond plans to in- have a state, Delegate Dimond said| American Legion—$4,068.75, $6.50, troduce legislation to give Alaska OR his return to Washington yes- $4.556.25 statehood as soon as the war is}terday. Catholic Daughters of America— ended. | 'The !l);leglte came home via the *$3,600.00, $45.50, $4,675.00 | Alaska Highway after a visit in the| Odd Fellows—8$412.50, $22.50, $4,- The statehood bill introduced Inst:mhml He declared the high-|§75.00. spring is not satisfactory and a ne“’lm was a good road and also said| Douglas Island Women's Club— |which sold more than the other | | clubs having a booth the same night | werd also presented United States and Alaskan flags, but mounted on | | plain dark wood. Small silk Amer- | {ican flags, also mounted, were pre- !sented to the other organizations. Following is a list of the various organizations, the amount of bonds | sold at the booth; the amount of | (tinued air raids. end the aerial biockade is being intensified. e - Longest Stage ‘Mail Roule in World Is Opened DAWSON CREEK, B. C. Sept. 24.—~United States Army trucks have opened what is de- scribed as the lengest stage mail route in the world, a 1,000~ mile overland route from Daw- son Creek to Whitehorse along the Alaska Highway. gible or how many left for other jobs in the past year. In the fiscal year 1942-43, rail- roads hired 1000000 new workers, twice as many as the previous year. How much of this represents labor turnover and how much increased employment, .is anyone’s guess. Eastman hopes to dig out some of the missing figures with his pro- gram. The first of the points de- mands immediate filing of “replace- ! ment schedules” — agreements be- tween the railroads and selective service, as to which and how many employes may be induoted, and when these will be ready for call. Feel ‘All Needed 8o far most of the companies have refrained from touching the sched-| ules with a ten-foot pole. They take the view that all of their em-| | ployes are needed to do a high-gear |job day after day, and don't want any inducted. | Selective service, however, keeps | jright on taking railroad men, so | Eastman suggests that the roads The 72-hour trip includes two mountain ranges. Daily northbound and south- bound mail schedule is planned. e FROM YUKON COUNTRY —— Marcella B Ph'nn and Emma L. Schultz of Whitehorse, recent list their draft-eligibl d gible men and | rivals in Juneau, are guests at the bill is being drafted. Alaska is well defended from at-|————— . g - 140 The Territory is ready for state-| tacks by the Japanese, Qontinyed. 0B Page THIN Continned o Fage Twor ) Baranof Hotel,