The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAI VOL. XLI., NO. 9459. LY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1943 EMPIRE .’}’l[iMBER"ASSOCIATED PRESS —— e PRICE TEN CENTS = 2 NEW ATTACKS ON ITALIAN MAIN Jap Base Smashed 7 VESSELS, | 60 PLANES | DESTROYED Wewak Is (fitt of Lafest| Pacific Theafre | Attack ! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS INE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 29| In a surprise heavy air attack lasting 90 minutes, Japanese instal- lations at Wewak, New Guines, have ‘been virtually wiped out and the enemy has lost seven ships and 60 more Dplanes. 1 The Allied planes sank seven ships out of a newly arrived convoy, shot” 10 Jao slanes out of the air and destroyed 56 on the ground in the shattering attack. Three of the ships sunk wer2 tankers. They were uit with direct bits that left them enveloped in flames. Four merchantmen were smashed from mast height hombing. Th: raid cost the Allles thre2 planes. Gen vt (Contirued on Page Three) | we -rthw said the The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON 1 (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) SHINGTON — Congressional ub‘;vo:em of drafting fathers plan to point an accusing finger at the manner in which old-fashioned war chiefs have amassed tremendous quantities of old-fashioned war weapons — artillery, shells, and bombs. 1f the generals were soO ext_rava.- gant in ordering such quantities of this old-fashioned military mater- jal, Congressional critics say, they ought to, think twice before going through with a tremendous army of lompofl men. , In modérn_war, it i§ airp) nob . massed footsoldiers, which turhed the tables. y At present, 8 board set up by Jimmy Byrnes to see why our ware- houses are stocked with military cquipment which - may never, be used, makes this frank nd.ml.ulon:{ “We have so damn many dpmom-; jon bombs that they are running out | of our nose, eyes, and ears!” { Early in the war, we began to manufacture demolition bombs in astronomical quantities, simply be-; WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The campaign ting ardor (1 of the German sailors that the 1D Nazis now must draft crews to man Rear Admiral Francis S. Low. He warned however cause the British had required them. But now we have turned to incen- diary bombs for 60 to 70 percent of our requirements, and the demol- ition bombs are choking the ware- houses. This is only one sample of what is being unearthed very quietly by ‘ the procurement review board of, the Army, Navy, War Shipping, and Lend-Lease Administrations. Their reports are to be submitted to | Byrnes, but will not be published. | When war broke, procurement of- | ficérs made fantastic estimates of everything, from shoestrings to heavy tanks. They wanted to be on the safe side. But now it discovered that the services have so; - many shoestrings and so many tanks—not to mention a thousand other items in between—that they can’t find storage space. Also, in the field of Lend-Lease, you mever know what your custo- mers may do. It's as bad as run- ning a department store, where you have to take back madam’s fur coat, because she changed her mind. Coats, for instance, were what the British sent back. They had order- ed great quantities of Lend-Lease overcoats, but changed their plans and asked Uncle Sam to take them back. The Russians sometimes order masses of goods, then change the order, as the war changes and re- quirements differ. The boards which are today re- viewing this vast procurement busi- ness have found enough surpluses " Six-Poinf Projiam" N N 5 I "SLIM AND SHORTY_pvt. R. D. DeFrank (left) of New . York, 5 feet tall, and Pvt. A. D. Deaton, 6 feet 6 inches, farm worker from Indiana, are “Slim and Shorly” -fo- their Londéil . pals. Twenty years old, they joined the USAAF the same day.. "To Aid World War Two Vels Is Worked Over CAMPAIGN ON U-BOATS NOW BEING FELT Nazis Forced to Draft Sail- ors fo Man Under- sea Eafl Navy's anti-submarine has so chilled the figh the U-boats, says (Third of Four Articles on the | Peacetime Future of World War I Veterans.) By JACK INNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—So far most of the program for putting the veterans of World War II back to work in peacetime America is com- posed of plans and promises. ‘When Congress returned from the summer session of pulse-feeling, it found in the hopper more than 100 bills dealing with veterans’ problems. | Scores of them will never see light | but others are so close to the Presi- | dent’s now much discussed “six- point program” that it’s safe to say ,they are already slated for passage in some form. i (= The President’s program includes: Mustering out pay for persons the armed services and merchant marine. (2) Unemployment insurance for those who can’t find jobs readily. (3) Provisions for further educa- that the U-boat is not driven from tion and trade training at govern- the seas: Destroyer escorts and escort car-, ment expense. (4) Oredit for both unemploy- riers of the Navy and also shore pent jpsurance and old age pen- based aircraft are credited with the blows at the Nazi subs. HINT GIVEN ON INVASION WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—A pos- sible hint in the direction of next year’s invasion campaigns was given today when Lt. Col. William Gaud, Jr., of the Army General Staff, dis- closed that 10 percent of the military lend-lease shipments of 1944 are |earmarked for such countries as Belgium, Norway France, Greece. —————a— AMBITION ABROAD siofis for the time they were in the | service. { (5 Improved hospitalization, re- habilitation and medical care. (6) Adequate pensions for dis- ! abled members of the services. An effort is being made now to take this veterans’ legislation out of the realm of politics. Almost all observers agree that it would be a ,good thing. There are a few, how- ever, who think the national elec- tions are too close and the aumed services vote is too big a plum to avoid a scrap over it. | -Nevertheless, the fight, if there is jone, will be over the forms the | benefits will take — not over the | benefits themselves. Most of them !are considered here a foregone con- ! clusion. | | There is certain to be consider- able debate, too, over how much the Treasury can stand, with the econ- omy-minded hattling to keep within ISLAND IN ELLIS GROUP 1S OCCUPIED U. S. Forces Take Posses- sion of Namumea-Used ! for Attack on Enemy | PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 29.—Am- erican occupation of Nanumea,| northermost island in the Ellis group, by the United States Mar- ines on September 4 was disclosed tod: by the Pacific Fleet Head- quarters. The island is about 450 miles southwest of the major Japanese | post on the Gilbert Islands. An air- field there puts the United States within striking distance of the en- emy's outer Pacific defenses south of Nanumea in ‘the same island zroup The airbase, developed on Funa- futi, was occupied last Apuil. ENEMY SU _ARELURKING " IN ATLANTIC Craft Equim;t; with Heavy! Anti-aircraft Armament ~Fight Is Reported OTTAWA, Sept. 29.—The return »f enemy submarines to the North Atlantic with heavy anti-aircraft armaments is confirmed by the Royal Canadian Air Force Head- quarters. The RCAF announced that six separate attacks were made by Can- adian based long range aircraft against a U-boat pack, which chose to stay on the surface and fight a two-day running battle. The RCAF made no claim to sinking any submarines in the six engagements, but described one for- ay, when a sub was caught on the surface and a plane dropped depth charges in a perfect attack. One aircraft returned with a dis- abled motor and a wounded crew- man, There is no report of any| attack on a convoy protected by planes. 2 WHOPLOTTED 10 SLAY DUCE ARE SET FREE By H. R. KNICKERBOCKER Representing the Combined American Press (Distributed by Associated Press) WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY—(Delayed)—Two men, who | many years ago attempted to assas- !sina_te Benito Mussolini and were | condemned to ‘life imprisonment, | have been released by Allied author- | ities from notorious penal islands, | but one of them, by a ghastly mis- chance, was killed by a German shell just seven days after he had been at liberty for the first time in 16 years. # The unfortunate victim was the less well known of the two. He was an anarchist named Lucetti, who,, in the early days of the Fascist, but missed. Nazi Shell Got Him ! At that time there was no death! penalty in Italy. Lucetti was confined on the island of Santo Stefano and was freed by Allied forces September 10. He was taken to the island' of Ischia and in BS | Surprise Air ITALIANS HAIL ALLIES AS DELIVERERS i 2 of a regiment of Alpine troops which all combatants in the First World War recognized as one of the hest fighting units in the world. He had every decoration for valor that Italy could give. From the beginning of Fascism, Zaniboni declared against it. In 1927 he made up his mind that the best thing he could do for Italy would be to kill Mussolini. He bought the finest high-powered hunting rifle with telescope sights. Zaniboni planned his attempt on Mussolini’s life foer months. One of the few places the Duce could be relied upon to appear in public during the first half of the Fascist regime was the balcony of Palazzo Chigi, which Mussolini used to use as his prime ministerial office. Zaniboni finally managed to rent a room about 100 yards from the Chigi balcony and overlooking it. He had practiced with his hunting | rifle until he could hit a dime at | regime, threw s bomb at the Duce, | 100 yards. Mussolini was a doomed | man. Zaniboni lived in his room and waited for Mussolini to come out. It was not to be. Zaniboni had entrusted his secret to one man, but that was one man too many. His S(rbnd became panic-stricken at the | |1ast minute and just before Mus- and Valdez on official business. L WITH APPLAUSE AND CHEERS OF WELCOME, natives of Stale!tol,_ their village street. Note the message, Italian girl is displaying. On the Italian mainland, as in as invading enemies but as friends, OWI rzdiophote. PEDIGREED PORKER —A blue-blooded pig gets some attention from Lydia Parrott at a swine sale at Los Angeles union stockyards. The little porker was from a litter of 15 by Lady In-, ! come, grand champion sow st the Pomona show. AND Blow \lARGE FLEET 'REPORTEDIN - GENOA GULF ‘Afiack SaidFHave Been Made on City of Genoa liself BRITISH FLEET ON MOVE UP ADRIATIC 1;‘One Island Said to Have | Been Bombarded as ' . Italy, greet American and Canadian forces in crudely lettered on ‘he sign which the native the oncoming Allies have been received not ' (International) “Hurrah for Americ: Sicily, SETTLEMENT REACHED ON | OVERCHARGE Liquor D?sfibulors and | OPA Reach Terms in Alaska Case { SEATTLE, Sept. 20.—The OPA |announces a tentative settlement |for overcharges on whiskey to Al- |aska retailers from the Alaska Dis- tributors Company, declaring the | company liable for a triple penalty lon the overcharge of $30,233 on oue brand of whiskcy. Alfred Shymen, company manas- ger, said when the fiim started selling this whiskey it didn't know 'of a ceiling price so it set the price at the markup allowed by the JOPA. Later, he said, ihe company heard that a ceiling had been set and offered to refund the money [to dealers, He said the company was then t21d by the OPA it couldn't do tms but must pay w the Treasury tne amount of ovecharye, This brand of viuskey is sold in Alask: 1t & loss to balerce the oveicharge, Shop Clerk Chases Thieving Cusfomer ™", % ....cco ortce w- !proves of the seitlemens, the firm ELIZABETHTON, Tenn—Seven- will not be ifeble for triple dam- teen-year-old Georgia Hart is a ages. clerk in a department store, but! HEESTG TS SR she might be converted any day B. . Biggest Duck Flight Sinc now into a floor detective. The other day, she said, she spied a 40-year-old man slip a man's suit under his raincoat and hur- riedly leave the store. Georgia, pretty 100-pound high school student, gave chase, She caught up with the culprit, shamed 'him, and he returned the suit to the store. 1 21 | WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.- The biggest southward flight of ducks and other migratory waterfowl since 11910 has begun, Dr. Ira Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife | Returning by PAA plane from the seryice, reports. He has just re- | Interior, Ike Taylor, Area Director turned from Alaska, where he saw {of the War Manpower Commission, the ducks. |is back in Juneau after a four| He told Interior Secretary Harold | weeks' absence. L. Ickes that the flight may consist | Taylor spent the greater part of!of as ny as 150,000,000, and prob- his time at Anchorage, Fairbanks ably will reach its peak in October. 'WAR MANPOWER HEAD 1 RETURNS FROM TRIP R Ships Steam North (By Associated Press) Unconfirmed reports indicate two new strikes have been made or are expected to be made on the Italian mainland. The Berlin radio broadcast a report this morning that many Al- lied warships were off the Italian coast in the Gulf of Genoa and had opened fire on Genoa. This is not confirmed from any Allled sources. Another report from Vichy ‘says German advices state British war vessels have moved. in the A~ driasio: Txernitt] Tea land and ' then proceeded north- ward possibly to make cttacks on northern Italy. It is believed Gérs mans are on Tremiti Island with immense anti-aircraft armament prepared to open fire on aircraft of the Allles leaving the newly caps, tured Foggla air base for raids on’ the Balkans. ;i Anxiety still prevails concerning Rome. No broadcasts have been made from the Vatican station now |for over one week. POSITION OF ' MARSHALL IS UNCHANGED Any Announcement ls De- layed-Fall of Foggia Most Important WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt indicated at a con- erencé with the newsmen that any |announcement of a change of Gen, { George” C. Marshall’'s position 'with the Allied High Command will be delayed for some time, indicating new blows on Nazi Germany. The President also described the fall of Foggia, in south Italy, as one Jf the most important Allied sucs sesses yet, from a strategic point of view, bringing the Allied air forces 1earer Germany. > FISHING TACKLE FO SERVICEMEN SENT BY CHICAGO COLUMNIST The second box of fishing equip- ment for servicemen in Alaska has urived at the Alaska Game Com- mission Office from Outdoor Editor, Joe Godfrey, Jr., of the Chicago Sun. . ‘The tackle is shipped directly to Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer »f the Game Commission, who, in urn, sends it to the various Army >utposts in the Territory. The first ‘hipment was sent to the boys at Kodiak and this load will go to Adak. Godfrey runs an appeal in his was awaiting transportation when solini appeared on the balcony {flight “may create problems in ag-|column for the fishing tackle and ricultural areas,” especially in view | bis collections are packed and ship- WENDOVER FIELD, Utah—PIc. | reagonable bounds those who think Harry F. Courtney of San Francisco ypcle Sam’s pocket has no bottom. hopes he gets the chance to practice | Tomorrow: Polities and the Serv- his trade in Tokyo one day. Before 'j.e yote.) he entered military service, he was | ———————— 2 typewiter repairman, specializing | % in Japanese and Chinese machines. | BUY WAR BONDS he was killed by a German shell September 17. Far more famous was Col. Tito Zanboni, who was on the island of Ponza when he was liberated. Zaniboni was onk of Italy’s First World War heroes. He was colonel |agents of Mussolin’s secret police | POPEJOY ON TRIP | broke into Zaniboni’s room and over-' Charles_J. Popejoy, senior inter- powered him. viewer for the United States Em- {. Of Zaniboni’s 16 years in prison, | ployment Service, left this morning three were spent on San Stefano, | for Excursion Inlet, where he will which Italians know as their Devil's |spend a few days on business for Island, his department, of the fact that an acute shortage of ammunition probably means that But Gabrielson said he believed the |problem of protecting food crops ‘could be met by local measures, fewer birds will be shot than usual | ved at intervals to the local Game Commission for distribution. e e PR R HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Margaret Miller of Archorage is registered at the Baranof Hotel,