The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ Il dadivi i B VOL. XLI., NO. 9457. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS ) 27, 1983 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN FORCES Red Ar | | RUSS DRIVE HITS WHITE RUSSIA NOW (ities of leer Dneiper Objectives of Soviet Army Thrust MOSCOW, Sept. 27.—Pushing on from captured Smolensk, aided by a spell of good weather, the Red Army troops moved deeper into White Russia, drawing hourly closer to Gomel, Mogiley, Orsha anl Vitebsk, the German defense line on the banks of the upper Dnieper River. The Russians already have reach- ed the swampy, marshy forest-cov- ered land characteristic of White Russia, and progress from now on “(Continued on Page Six) et e The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen en active duty.) WASHINGTON = There's an in- teresting angle about Mrs. Roose- velt’s trip to Australia which only the Australians, the White House and Wendell Willkie know about. It is the fact that Willkie was in- vited first. “1 guess I am partly responsible for the First Lady’s goodwill voy- afe,” he recently joked to a high- ranking Republican friend. What happened was that Aus- tralian Minister for External Af- fairs Herbert V. Evatt had several talks with Willkie urging him to pay a visit to Australia. Then the President, hearing about this, step- ped into the picture to have Mrs. Roosevelt go. Apparently he want- ed to head off Willkie. External Minister Evatt’s conver- sations with Willkie began some time ago during one of his trips through the United States to Lon- don. He told Willkie that it was important that the Australian and American peoples get to understand each other and that, working ' to- gether as a team, they could dom- inate the Pacific after the war. Wwillkie said he would be delighted to make the trip if it were cleared with the White House and State Department. Evatt sald he would arrange for all this, including the transportation. This was the last Willkie heard about thé” matter until he got a phone call at his old home in Rush~ ville, Ind., the other day from an Australian newspaperman. He told Willkie that when the Australian government had taken the matter up with the White House, Presi- dent Roosevelt suggested that Mrs. Roosevelt go instead. Naturally, the P | i | [ } i | B i Rip German Airt ield A formation f Fiying Fortiesses roared ever.she German aiefield at Amiens-Glisy, Franee, in a recent raid. Bomb bursts blanketed the fighter plane base. Steftinius, Jr. Named . To Succeed Welles as - \} WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 | Australian Govgrnment had to bow] to the President’s wishes. NOTE—High-up Republicans who know about the White House *play are more certain than ever that the President is going to run for a fourth term, They figure that he did not want Willkie grabbing the international spotlight by a trip to Australia. However, White House intimates still'yare_not convinced that ‘the President will run again. GRAVY SPECIALISTS Capitol Hill gravy specialists do a jot of tricks with the taxpayer's dollar. Sometimes they quarter rel- atives on the payroll, sometimes they pay others for not working, and negotiate salary “kickbacks.” But here is the latest wrinkle, this time from the office of Representa- tive Lawrence Smith, Republican, of ‘Wisconsin. Congressman Smith has an em- ployee on his payroll who is also a member of the /Wisconsin State Assembly. He is Ora R. Rice, listed $1,500 a year. Thus Rice knocks down a PFederal salary of $1,500 and then turns around and gets a state salary of $1,200 a year. He spends all of his time in Wisconsin on state (Continued on Page Four) 4 ADO?TED P o squadron of the U. S. Army Air Force in Great Britain has adopted Moy« ra (above), an English orphan,’ Here she gives the British salute and wears her air force wings. PaulSorensen . (Capfain No neau, iforced to close because of and equipment shor'sxge. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — The War Department announces that offics Ea¥r thflul Merrick Sorensen, of Kimshan as & clerk on Smith's office o 2% Cove, Alaska, has been appointed —Presi- dent Roosevelt, in a three-way move economic administrations, last Saturday announced the ap- pointment of Edward Stettinius, Jr., to succeed Sumner Welles as Under- secretary- pf State. The resigna- tion ‘of Welles was announced after prolonged reports. Simultaneously, the President grouped all foreign economic ac- tivities, except for Inter-American | Affairs, under Leo Crowley, who has | been Director,of the Office of Econ- omic Warfare. The President also designated for- mer Governor of New York state Herbert LeHiman, special Assistant to the President to arrange the United Nations relief meeting in November. The President expressed sincere regret at the resignation of Welles. The President said Welles desired to {resign because of his wife's health. | THREE NAZI - WARSHIPS | ~ SABOTAGED i Crews Repfid fo Have Sabotaged Their Own Vessels in Norway LONDON, Sept. 27.—Three Ger- man capital ships, the Tirpitz, Lut- zow and Scharnhorst are reported to have been sabotaged by their own crews in Alten Fjord, Norway, fol- lowing surrender of the Italian fleet. This is according to a Reuters dis- patch from Stockholm, which also said no details of the sabptaging are given. e Captain in the Specialist Reserve. GgO GIRLS MEET Sorensen has been manager of the Hirst-Chichagof mine near Ju- Alaska, until the mine was labor GSO Girls tomorrow night at 7:30 TOMORROW NIGHT There will be a meeting of all ,o'clock at the USQ clubhouse. ?Ways and Means Commif: iy to bolster the foreign policy and| | |foreign my Forces Push HOUSE GROUP MORE TAXES 1 | | | | | tee fo Rush Revenue - | Measure ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 27."— The House Ways and Means Commitiee has voted against the repeal of hhe: renegotiation law of recovery on ‘excess profits” in war contracts.) At the same time, the Committee threw into high gear its considers- tion of taxes with the view of com- pleting a new general revenue I by January 1. | While throwing out suggestions that the renegotiation law be re- pealed, the Committee referred the matter to sub-commijttee for com- sidgration of important amendments uggested by industry. ! In the drive to speed considera- tion of the new revenue act, in response to the Administration’s request for an additional 12 billion dollars over present annual collec- tions of 38 billion, the Committee has decided to hear no withesses on _lotteries, community property, mfl_;joflm returns o a levies onf a state’ ‘Borids. However, Chairman Robert L. Doughton stressed this {didn't block the study of these sub- |jects by the Committee in execu- tive sessions, explaining the Com- mittee has sufficient evidence with- out hearing new witnesses on these issues which in the past have been time-consuming. ' -~ BUILD ROAD T0 HIT JAPS FROM INDIA American Engineers, In- dians and Chinese, Hack Out Trail AN AMERICAN BASE IN INDIA, Sept. 27. — Despite hills and high water, American '‘Army Engineers, assisted by Indians and Chinese, have hacked a roadway through the jungle from India into Burma, along which, if our strategists are willing, an attack may be launched upon Japan. Headquarters calls the highway the Lebo Road, but the engineers call it the “Tokyo Road" because, says Maj. John Moyer of Tuskegee, Alabama, “the stuff transported over it will eventually wind up in Japan.” Japan lies some 3,000 miles away. The road already has penetrated enemy territory, however, and Chi- nese soldiers, led by trained Am- erican officers, are fighting the Japanese back further and further as construction progresses. The road’s most immediate pur- pose is to supply attacking forces in the early stages of the campaign to clear the Japs out of Burma. Its second purpose is to connect with the Burma Road, if and when the Americans, British and Chinese manage to drive the Japanese out of northern Burma so that supplies may reach China by land as well as by air. Pursuing generally an eastward direction, the road runs along the southern slope of the Himalayan range and through some of India’s thickest jungles. BOEING WORKERS ‘WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 27.—Stab- {ilization Director Fred Vinson has notified the War Labor Board of his approval of upward wage ad- justments recommended by the Board' for Boeing Aircraft workers at the Seattle plant of the concern. ‘The decision makes starting pay at 82 cents an hour. WILL STUDY! Pe i’osl_-War First Aid (Firsl of four articles on the peace- men to be demobilized. servers fre |asked by American fighting men is {“What'’s cooking for us when we Division of the U. S. come marching home?” |want anything handed them on a who want jobs. silver platter, these observers say,| it's just that they want to be sure| tion Division of the Veterans ad- they’ll get a slice of those Four| ministration, whose duty it already Freedoms they are sweating andis to see that no veterans with any bleeding for. men who have known them best,|Jack of training or education. they consider most important the | | freedom to work and earn a decent|vision of the U. 8. Office of Educa- living for the missus and the kids. tion, agencies and organizations are op- erating: fon of Selective Service, whose chief is Col. vision in time will have one com- mittee member on every Selective | Service local board to each 20 or 30/ clien e . | | | Pressens Mild, Swedish picture ageney, advised this picture arrived in Stockholm from Berlin with caption describing it as German paratroopers capturing an Italian armored car in Rome suburbs during German occupation. Caption said the parachutists landed with motorcycles. Picture was radied from Stockholm W MOVE, NEW GUINEA Enemy Resistance Stiffen- ing But Japanese Face Encirclement ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. {27.—A frontal attack on Finschhafen by Australian jungle troops slowed down before stiffening enemy re- ! sistence, but the Japanese, desper- ately defending the East New Guinea coastal base are simultan- eously confronted with a threat of | encirclemenit from the rear.” S COAST CUARD VETS — Lieut. Cmdr. Jack Dempsey (center) meets two Coast Guard veterans — James Wes Brown (left) of Ft. Worth, who was at Guadalcanal, and Willard Troches- sct, Biloxi, Miss., who was at Guadaleanal 2ud o North Africa. | emy defenses in strength after cross- | ing the Bumi River, less than a mile | from the heart of the Japanese base. | The Australians are approaching ‘)cauuous]y against a system of trenches and have slowed down | voluntarily to permit them to hit | Japanese positions in force with as- surance of breaking through. The second Allied foree is moving !east and north from Lae and has ireached Hanisch Harbor, half way \to Finschhafen from Lae. A third unit, composed of units which land- [] ] For Fighting Forces; ’ Future Now Planned ed above the base on Septemebr 22, lis as Dampeir, a straight 10 miles 1t will be from Finschhafen, and air forces are | their duty, briefly, to see that me;flt!flcking enemy bases by bombing |soldier gets his old job back and|and machine gunning. | that all rights and benefits speci-| R L e e T | fied under the Selective Service law | By JACK STINNETT lare allowed him. If his job BM'(ASUA[TIES WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — Ob- there or he doesn't want it, the com- | returning from the war mittee member will direct him to| 0 time future of the veterans of World War II) onts say that the question most| the other channels of employment.| 2) The Veterans Employment Employment | hot and! | Service, the clearing use all veterans | It isn't that they're selfish or|placement agency for (3) The Vocational Rehabilita-| ' American Report Gives Di- [ rec Lie fo German Announcement WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — The And according to the disability go without employment for (4) The Vocational Education di- which, in cooperation with| This much assurance can be given state vocational education depart-| re-employment | year for training 50,000 physically ! killed, wounded or missing. | handicapped. | The announcement notes the (5% The Red Cross, which will|Period as including “September 14, be the final buffer in hardship|the date of the German announce- cases and will act both as a relief|ment that from 8,000 to 10,000 Am- and advisory agenecy. |erican soldiers were killed and an (6) The National Clearing House °dual number captured.” Committee. | The period covers the time dur- |ing which the Germans made counterattacks on the Allied beach- |heads and then the Allies took the inig offensive. and A survey discloses that these (1) The Re-employment Divis- Lewis Sanders. This di- This last group hasn't even the (Continuea on Page Three) on From Smolen | The Australians encountered: en- | ARE LISTED LOSING INON NAPLES sk GERMANS IN 'WITHDRAWAL 'NAPLES AREA Only Rear Guard Opposi- tion af Bay Port Re- ported Today BRITISH ARMY: MOVES UP ON AIRPORT (ENTER Are Only 22 Miles from | Foggia and 12 Safel- lite Airfields ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 9 |NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 27.—~8mash- ing a 19-mile deep salient into the mountains, the American Fifth Army under Lt, Gen. Mark Clark, has captured the town of Cassano, 50 miles due east of Naples, today's communique announces. As the result of the smash, the Giermans began withdrawal from that sector, east of Naples and their positions around the broad bay port :,:‘;: JOffer, only reak. SNATS. oRposin Simultaneously, the British Eighth Army drove rapidly up the east coast and are within 22 miles of tiie airport center of Foggia, cap- turing the Adriatic towns of Cerig- nola and Mergherita di Savola, the latter the large salt manufaeturing center. g British Sweeping Along - The British, after crossing the {Ofanto River which empties into |the Gulf of Manfredona, is meei- ing wth only the slightest resist- |ance, sweeping along the straight |roads across the flat open country |that extends 30 miles beyond Foggia. | One broadeast from Cairo re- corded by Reuters, said the British are within 18 miles of Foggia and the airbase there, with twelve sat- ellite fields, give the Allied Air Frqees a springboard for attacks on all parts of the Balkans and mucn of the Germans southeastern do- ! main. GERMAN COMMUNIQUE BERLIN, Sept. 27—The German communique today admits that Nazi Army groups are carrying ont {another of their retreats in Italy but these retréats are “undisturbed {by the enemy.” The retreats are in the eastern sctor and traffic in- |stallations are being destroyed. ! The communique declares attacks |northwest and northeast of Salernd |have been repulsed but admits the | Americans have captured Cassano | (Continued on Page Three) | FRENCH ARE PRESSING UP: ONGERMANS 'Sharp Engagements Re- . ported in Liberating | Corsica ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 27—French - J them right now: If all or part of ments in the last three years, has' War Department ‘reports American . ... . goneing to liberate Corsica, |the war ended tomorrow, they would | trained more than 7,000,000 war casualties at Salerno up to and m'mnx.z‘t):lxedg to :reu closely on the :::L bzill]:. zrogrnm of demobilization,| workers and has a program this cluding September 15 totaled 3497 oo . 0ne iy the narrow northeast- 1 ation GEI WAGE Boos‘l‘]nlremy functioning. em corner of the island’ yesterday |and :harp engagements with enemy |patrols is reported in the French communique. | Allied air attacks are making em- |barkation of the Germans from ;Coruu A most serfous attempt. |Both air transports and sea trans- !ports are being bombed the minute they take the air or shove off from shore, B i