The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9458. _JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1943 MEMBER"ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_—_] B REAT ITALIAN AIR BASE IS CAPTURED Russians in Control of 400 Mlle Battlefront REDS REACH EAST BANK | | | | | | | I i OF DNIEPER Nazis Still Fight Desperate- ly Near Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk MOSCOW, Sept. 28—Thrown back to the Dnieper River from the Zaporozhe area in South Russia to positions almost as far north as Gomel in White Russia, the Ger- man Army has summoned reserves and regrouped their battered forces. Except in certain sectors the Red ¢ is virtually in control of the eastern bank of the Dnieper. The Nazis are still fighting a desperate battle in the Kremenchug area out- side Kiev and before Dnepropet- rovsk, but the Soviet forces are doggedly breaking down resistance, and it seemed only a matter of hours until the Russians will be en- camped on the entire eastern bank of the Dnieper. Along a 400-mile stretch from po- sitions slightly south of Gomel to the area west of Smolensk, the Red Army has pushed on toward the Japanese Now Losing e of Largo Shlps, Fight Is Still On By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — We have won another great naval battle against the Japs—a piece-meal’ | battle that is still being fought, but just as real as the smashing victor-| ies at Midway and in the Coral sea It is the battle of merchant ship- ping. | We are sinking about ships for every one built [cx-ushum rate of destruction could force the Japs into withdrawing from Wake Island, Rabaul and the Marshall Islands, though not with- out a fig After a { Marcus I three Jap and this heavy raid such at nd, the Japs have to | end f supplies and equipment !to repair the damage. Knowing | this, our submarines lie in wait and |sink the cargo ships which are now jalmost as precious as warships to |the Japs as " Because she badly needs siipping | {to get ready for the Allied drive jcn Burma and to bring home raw ! | materials from Malaya and the| | Dutch East Indies, Japan may have ito stop reinforcing her outermost TH Italy, clesed because of the plundering, “Swiss Guard” i MEN GUARD THE VATI the situation in Rome under N are said to be looting, sparing not even the churches pictured in their ceremonial uniforms. According t) reports rea domination his reached a new All church reminiscent of the medieval “Sack hing s in Rome, ex It is doubtful, however, neutral countries from chaotic high in confusion, The Germans ept St. Peter's, have been of Rome.” The Vatican's famed if the pontiff would permit eastern bank, while at Smolensk, of {bases and withdraw her forces (as armed resistance if the Nazis The Germans announced that they BIG BLOW FOGGIAIS 1S STRU(K TAKEN IN AT GERMANS, BIG DRIVE Capture of Vital Air Base Kesselring's s Defenses Are Puts Nazisin Grave | Broken-12 Satellite Situation Fields Seized HITLER MAKES SUDDEN |FIFTH ARMY ALSO MOVEMENTS; AURMED} REGISTERS GAINS ‘SectlonsofFuehrersCoun Two Towns on Eastern try, Captured Lands Flank Now in Hands Threatened of Clark’s Forces LONDON, Sept. 28.—With Fog-| ALLIED HhAl)QUARTERS IN gia’s elaborate string of airfields in NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 28. — A Ailled hands, the Germans struck |Strong British mobile armored force at once today to shield themselves | raced 15 miles through Kesselring's [rom grave strategic consequences, defenses and have captured the it the loss of the vital air base, |8reat Italian air base city of Foggia Almost at the moment Eisen-|@nd twelve satellite airfields. nower's communique disclosed| Official reports disclose that the Montgomery's forces had overrun|Vanguard of Gen. Sir Bernard Law Foggia, the Germans unlmunced!M"“'—Sl’lm'l'y's Eighth Army Troops iwo quick steps of their own, throw- |entered the clty at 3 o'clock yester- ing of landing forces on the island|day afternoon, easily overcoming of Corfu, off the west coast of|MiNOF oppositions. course, the Russians are well beyond the western bank. B o S Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — A lot of debate over drafting fathers was held be- hind closed doors. been let in, it would have witnessed a hot flareup between Senator Wheeler of Montana and Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarhey, deputy uuer of staff. McNarney touched off the fire- works by declaring that Wheeler's bill to postpone the induction of fathers might “prolong ‘the war for a year.” “The time factor is all important in defeating the enemy now, rather than waiting until the next year or the year following,” said Gen. Mc- Narney in caustic tones. “If you give the enemy time to establish his defense,” continued: McNarney, “the cost and time of 1f the public had our operations may be greatly ip-, creased and it will mean the drafi-| ing of many more fathers in the future. It would be tunate if you pass a bill of restrict- ive character to control the war ef- fort—to put the hobbles on it.” “That doesn’t make sense to me,” interrupted Wheeler. He declared that there need be no holdup in increasing the Army, since there were enough deferred single men who could be taken. He added that the Army still had about 2,700,000 troops in the U.8.A. to draw on. “Well, maybe you know more very unfor- | WINNER | — Jean Bartel (above) of Los Angeles, “Miss Cahlornla in the 1943 Atlantic City beauty pageant, is the new 'Miss America.” She's 5 feet 8 mchcs. V\elghs 130 rmunds‘ ONE PLANE “SENDS DOWN THREE SUBS Gunner of Grumman Aven- ger Bomber Registers Direct Hits WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — De- struction of three German subs and the damaging of a fourth U-boat by a single American plane flying from an escort carrier on Atlantic convoy duty, is reported by the Navy De- partment today. Lieut. Robert Pershing Williams, 26, of Snoqualmie, Washington, scor- ed heavy damage on three undersea raiders when he was flying a Grum- | jman Avenger bomber. about it than I do,” snapped Mc-, Narney. The three subs went to the bot- | tom as the result of his bombs. Sixty-five Germans of the crews 'of the three subs were rescued at “No, I don't claim to know more oo, hy destroyers. than you,” shot back Wheeler. A little later he fired this critical statement at the War Department: “The taking of married men with children is breaking up the Ameri- can home. The Army manpower | question has been mishandled to a; point where it has done more break down the morale of the peo- ple back home than almost any- thing. It ought to be corrected.” LATIN AMERICAN TROOPS Under Secretary of War Patter- son was questioned closely by GOP Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and others on the pos- to | ) — .o BIG MERGER IS APPROVED Western UH and Postal’ Telegraph Companies May Now Join WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — The «ibility of recruiting troops in Latin sFederal Communications Commis- America, chiefly Mexico and Brazil. !sion has approved of a merger of target at Brunswick. Brazil probably has the best train- ed troops south, of the Rio Grande, Patterson replied,’ but he added, “We cannot alter our plans chrough the hope of getting Mexicans and Brazilians.” South American nations are giv- ing us greater assistance, (Continued on Page Four) in the’ the Western Union and Postal Tele- graph. The move is designed to give the! United States one vast telegraph at Kiska) or abandon them to fu- tile death (as at Attu.) |~ Japanstarted the war ‘400000 tons of shipping, the third |largest merchant fleet in the world| | (Britain, first; U. S. second.) By |seizure of foreign ships and new | construction, she is believed to have | |increased this to 7,500,000. | | In the 21 months since Pearl Har- | bor, and more particularly in the| {‘pasl six months, we have nt one- third of this fleet to the bottom— 12,500,000 tons. No nation, and certainly not une with the material shortages of | Japan, can stand body-blows such as this for long. Even by over- icading ships and postponing dry- deeking and repairs indefinitely, as she has done since 1940, it is doubt- ful whether Japan has enough ship- | ping for the 2,000-mile run to Ra-| baul, the 4,300- to Rangoon and to her thousand island strongholds, all | at the same time, There is no hope for: Japan in balaneing her losses against new| | construction as we have tried to do| in the battle of the Atlantic. Jap- anese shipbuilding has been a close- ly guarded secret since 1939, but| «Cnntmued on Page ‘Three) -+ THREENAZI (ITIES ARE ~ HITINRAID Rubber Cenferof Hannover; Gefs Worst Beating | -Emden Hit ‘ | | 28.—Great Royal |Air Force bomber armadas struck| {threes German cities during the night, concentrating on the rubbcrl center of Hanover, the second at-| tack in force within a week. | Amid indications that it was due| {to the same destructive punches leveled at Hamburg, the three ply‘ night offensive also hit the big Ger- | {man naval base at Emden as a, swift follow up to, the Flying Fort- | ress slash yeswrday in which Am- erican bombers dropped a mixed | load of high explosives, incendiaries, and pamphlets on another LONDON, Sept. | Last night's attack is the eleventi ‘hemy bombing delivered to Ger- many .this month, and the forty- eighth time Hannover, which is with 6, RAF| vtnlm.ed the sanctity of the Vatican. had taken the Vatican under tReir “protection.” - SOUVENIRS FROM S|CILY_Lt Blair Walliser shows SPAR Jessie Frye of Medford, Mass., German and Ifalian helmets and bayonets which were captured during the invasion of Sicily. ‘Misn Frye wears a German helmet. Walliser is from Chicago. Planfo Prowde for Veferans of Present War Now Underway (Second of Four Articles on the Peacetime Future of World War IT Veterans.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Except for laws providing benefits and re- | habiitation for disabled veterans, the | | only “guarantee” for the veterans of World War IT on the statute books today is Section 8 of the Selective | Service Act—the so-called job sceur- ity clause. It provides: (1). That if a veteran applies to his employer within 40 days after his discharge from the service, that employer must restore the man (or woman, for the women in all services are included) to his old job at his old pay, “or one of like seniority, | status and pay, unless the employer’s | circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreason- ‘able to do so0.” (2). The employer must maintain insurance and other benefits for an employee in the service in accord- jance with terms prevailing at the time of his departure. (3). An employee so rehired can- not be fired without cause for one system that can operate efficiently about 83 miles from Britain, has year. and economically. The FCC action climaxed years of study by Congress and Govern- | ment agencies, |been bombed since the start of the| War, The Hannover raid cost the Bri- tish 38 hombers, (4). And if the employer fails to do so. he can be compelled by the ,courts and forced to compensate “ “for 'any loss of wages or benefits” from CERTAIN GRADES CLOSE TOMORROW EXTRA—Supt. A. B. Phillips an- nounced late this afternoon, that on advice of Dr. W. W. Council, grade there will be no school for kindergarten, first, second and third | grade pupils for the balance of this | week, effective tomorrow morning. | Closing of the grades is because of | the time the veteran made applica- tion for the job. This being part of the Selective Service Act, it is administered by the Reemployment Division of Selective Service. Section 8 has been described var- iously as ambiguous, impractical, un- | enforceable and as full of holes as Hamburg. Certain it is that is a declaration of intent—but a power- ful one—-rather than an attempt by Congress to set up an ironclad sta- tute to put the veterans back in civilian life just where they left off. | Such an attempt would be more impractical than Section 8. The important thing is that Sec- tion 8 is working. Men are being discharged from the armed services | at the rate of about 7,000 a week‘ (more than 500000 already have | been mustered out) and while men are still going into the services at | many times that number it has pro- | vided a fair sampling. Selective Service says as yet it has had no report that court action has been invoked to enforce Sec- tion 8: In most cases where difficulties' have arisen, a compromise between the veteran and his former employer has been worked out by reemploy- (Continted on I;rinr ‘Three) the present spread of measles. TROOPS MOVE AGAINST JAP HELD MADANG Aerial Blows Made Against| Wewak, Hansa Bay-Ac- tion Limited, Solomons ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN HE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 28, — A ground movement against| he Japanese shipping base at Ma- fang is disclosed in an Allied com- nunique, also that a force moving up the Yati River has captured the Markham Valley town of Sagerak. Madang is 170 miles up the New Guinea coast from Huon Peninsula where Gen. Douglas air base at Banschhafen. Aerial blows have been driven home against the Jap bases at We- wak and Hansa Bay, and the Dagua air field installations have been ct afire, and three Japs shot down, Activities are limited in the Sol-| omons, ‘The Tokyo radio boasted that Jap reinforcements have landed Vella Lavella, and that two Allied transports have been set afire, but this has not been confirmed from Allied aoulce EVACUATING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sepf. 28.—Ger- man troops pressed into a tight| pocket in the northeastern sector of Corsica have evacuated the town of Akeria, 40 miles south of Bastia,| jon the east coast, says a French! communique tonight. -oe Light covers the 93000.000 miles Greece, and regaining a Yugoslav| At the same time the American MacArthur's| men are bidding to capture the Jap, on| narbor city, previously stormed and and British forces of Lt. Gen. Mark eized by Yugoslay guerillas. Clark's l"n!m Arl registered gains T these operations, Hitler 150 two to five miles north in the moving with all urgency against |Salerno area in face of stubborn he menace suddenly and vastly| Geiman resistance. .ncreased against his Balkan rmm‘ The Tifth Army has captured the for the capture of Foggia means | town of Lioni and Castelnuovo on ‘ne whole northern part of Italy,| |the eastern flank of this line which the Danube Valley and southern lis heid by the Americans. Germany itself is now brought| The historic city of Melfi more adequately under the shadow|als0 been taken 5 Ahb: ATIRA - A3t/ Avrn. ‘ | The British Forces continue ad- IR A ;mmluk north of Salerno. BRITAININ NAZIS SUFFER FIFTH YEAR HEAVY LOSSES, OF CONFLICT s ALERNO AREA Churchill Warns Women ey | Against Slackness and ongu?egfrnzgig:lv_'émi:"' Apathy-Wil Fight On Gives Statement LONDON, Sept. 28.—At an un- — precedented meeting in which the (By Associated Press) British cabinet took the nation's| Some idea of the intense fight= | womanhood into its confidence,|ing encountered by the Fifth Army Prime Mihister Winston Churchilljin the Salerno sector is given by told 6,000 feminine conferees that|prisoners of the German 16th Pan- Britain’s job is to maintain its pres- zer division. They said their divi- ent war effort “through the titth |sion was virtually put out of action, \year of the war or the sixth 'ye its losses exceeding 50 percent. if need be.” { A German communigue today | The fifth year of the war began said “the pressure” of the Anglo- |for Great Britain on September 3. |Americans in southern Italy is con- | Women representing industry, siderably increased by the landing {military units and voluntary ser- of fresh forces and added: “while vices were brought together from all the attacks were beaten back all parts of the country to hear in the Salerno area, our troops re- speeches of members of the Wax|treated to prepared mountain posi- |Cabinet especially concerned with tions. b was evacuated after the questions, destruction of all installations “im- [ Assembled in Albert Hall the Wos| portant to the war,” the communi- men of Britain heard Churchill is-|que added lsue a warning against slackness On the Eighth Army front “con- and apathy in the United Nation's| siderable casualties” were inflicted final victory effort. |upon the Germans in the drive on - | Poggia, headquarters said, but in- dications of the German resistance No Earlh uake {was slight on the swift advance against Kesselring's rear guard fore- | Many persons phoned The Empire |this morning asking if an earth- jes which were left at the mercy of |the British columns Allied advances were made with only limited air power because for | quake was felt about 4 o'clock this | the second day in succcession baa morning {weather grounded most of the air- Nope—no quake. But you guess 'aft what it was—as it came from Taku | | way, some force, shook windows, | ! tossed rain drops about, levelled | all brush and many light-framed buildings jumped about on founda- tions. | No big damage 1s reported, how- | ever. but it is said some glass on sidewalks and lawns bespoke of has - STETTINIUS, JR. IS NOMINATED WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has formally sub- mitted to the Senate for con- | between the sun and the earth in some .shattering atmospheric con- firmation, Edward Stettinius, Jr., eight minutes, | dition, | to be Under Secretary of State,