The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI, NO. 9460. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1943 MFMBER“ASSOCIATF D PRESS PRICE TEN CENT CAPTURE OF NAPLES REPORTED NEAR g RIS B T Japanese Munitions Dump Blown Up In Raid U. 5. BOMBERS AGAIN SMASH WEWAK BASE Towering fi?és Seen as Fliers Leave Scene-Ex- .plosions Tremendous ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 30. — American bombers smashed again at the Jap base at Wewak, New Guinea, destroying a large| munitions depot. Pilots in the attack said the re-| sulting explosions from the bomb-| ings were the largest ever wit-| nessed. The bombs also touched off fuel supplies. | The fliers counted eight tower-| AP Features 'HE Bazooka, recent additio ica’s arsenal, is an anti-ta ing fires as they left the scene. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur termed | the raid as a continuation of the campaign to deny the enemy use because of its small size. Usab which would be inaccessible anti-tank weapons, rocket gun is officially listed as Rocket, AT, M-1.” (Continued on Page Three) The Washington - Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Bazooka, and the projectile i | WASHINGTON — L eon Hender- son, two-fisted father of the Office of Price Administration, recently | had a tire blow out on his 1938 jal- lopy, filled out all necessary papers for a new tire, took them to his; ration board. There, the OPA, which Leon cre- ated, turned him down. “There are just too many mre certificates already outstanding,” OPA explained, “and not enough tires. Youw'll have to wait until there are some new tires.” This means that what a lot of of- ficials long have worried about, has A L CHIEF . | | that can be carried by soldiers on foot the Army's Above, a soldier dem- onstrates the proper way to hold the n to Amer- nk weapon i | le in places 4 | to larger ;. | new 5 | “Launcher, it fires is 5hown c' the ngh'. "Soldiers’ Vole” Wil Be Biggest Pumpkinin Field on Election Day s 4 (Last in a Series on the Peacetime Futyre of World War 11 Veterans) o STINNETT 30—If the By JACK WASHINGTON, Sept. | soldiers and sailors of World War II are fretting about the kind of peace- time America they will have to live in, they can stop it right now and | powerful now happened. The hiatus has ar- | start worrying about what kind of Early today Moscow reported the Bazooka Plays Tank Dirge |NAZIS FIGHT ' TOMAINTAIN RIVER lINE { ' Attempt fo Hold Bridge- | heads on Dnieper | (By Associated Press) | Unleashing a concentration troops and tanks at the battle the Dnieper River, the Germal counterattacked strongly in a bl to maintain the bridgeheads on the eastern bank, front line dispatchés | said The Nazis are holding favorable ! positions and launching ten o twelve counterattacks daily unden! air support, Pravda re~ ported, and at one point the Red Army was put in a its relief. No further progress is reported “,“ the immediate directions of Zapor- | ozhe and Dneipropetrovsk, the two major objectives on the lower Dnieper, Zaporozhe lies on the east bank of the Dnieper behind a solid ring of fortifications. The mai part of Dnepropetrovsk, the subu@ of which haye been reached, lies e, | the west bank. A German communique broad- cast from Berlin said the German troops are engaged in heavy de- fensive fighting on war front, that they lost ground temporarily yesterday, out their losses by a counterattack. The communique added that Rus- sian attacks at several points on tue west bank of the central Dnieper | Russian bombers raided Constanta, a Rumanian Black Sea Port. Sharp new Red Army advances are reported in White Russia where dispatches said that a considerable avea has been occupied in the Gomel and Mogilev sectors. “critical situgly tion,” but Soviet artillery came to| Nice hu- Y Y GOSLAVIA J‘ou : u Legh CORSICA Ajaccio = Barcelona MAJORCA Q@ | |@ BALEARIC IS | Mediterranean Sea | | S TG ALGERIA: the Dnieper | but wiped | frustrated and reported that| Nazi Gefs His Man e ittt L S : SARDINIA Cagliars Palermo. Messina S A P RS A MEDITERRANEAN ARENA — Topographical features of Mediterranean lands where World War II has reeently blaued afresh are shown in this map. GREAT IRON CITY BOCHUM |15 HIT HARD British Bomber Fleet Gives War Industry Center Fifth Pounding ‘ | | LONDON, Sept. 30. Returning to Germany's great Ruhr concen- tration of war industries after an interval of a month, a British bomb- er fleet last night gave the big iron city of Bochum its fifth heavy pounding this year, the official compunique says. Eight bombers |are missing. | Other objecfives in the Ruhr Val- ley were also hit in the raid, the | Royal Air Force’s third attack on X FIFTH ARMY ROLLING ON INTO NAPLES I‘City Being];f—esied from South and Southwest- Scene oi Sflambles BULLETIN STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30.—The Germans have evacuated Naples after destroy- ing the harbor installations, a Berlin dispatch to the newspa- per Aftonbladet says. The Ger- mans said a “communistic re- volt” also sabotage on a big scale was partly forcing the evacuation and the “rebels are cooperating with the Allied troops south of Naples.” ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN INORTH AFRICA, Sept. 30. — The American Fifth Army today rolled across the coastal plain at the foot of Vesuvius towards the towers of the smoke and flame marked city of Naples, Italy's second greatest 'port, overrunning Pompei, the mo- dern town of 4,000 persons, built on the ashes of the ancient namesake destroyed in the year '79. As Clark's troops drove to the southern slopes of Vesuvius they 1&1-&&%“0&&.‘-% proach to Naples, around the base of the voleano. Eisenhower's communique an- ucunces the capture of both Pom- ipei and many towns along the COES! Naples, shaken and swept a week 'Ly explosions and fires set by Ger- man demolition crews and riddled by vengeful machine gun squads, is reported excited by a reign of terror, . Probably the Allied forces are closer to Naples than disclosed as the daily communique usually con- tains no information of operations later than 6 o'clock p.m. of the pre- vious day. The Cairo radio says the Fifth rived between exhaustion of our carefully conserved rubber stockpile and the beginning of synthetic rub- ber production. Last year, Henderson tells friends, the OPA warned Rubber Czar Jef- fers not to be too generous with new tires, that we would reach a vacuum at the end of 1943 before the new synthetic tires began to roll. Hen-| derson also urged Jeffers to manu- facture more tires from reclaimed rubber, thus saving new rubber. But Jeffers listened to politically- minded Jesse Jones who was de- | voutly anxious to prove that he was ! not so wrong on fubber. So now the man who advised caution can get no tire for his jallopy. NOTE—There is also no rubber for the heels which Leon Hender- | son now advertises on the air. HELP WANTED: FEMALE } The Government wants more stenographers—thousands of them— for work in Washington. The Civil Service Commission has sent ngencsw into the field, beating the bu.shesl for new recruits. Any one of the, major ‘war agencies could use sev-| eral hundred more girls today. But they just aren’t to be had. ‘Trouble is that girls haye come tol ‘Washington for the thrill of working | _ in the Capital, and have found that | there 1 s (ot bara ok GERMANS BEING SQUEEZED TIGHT ON CORSICA ISLE ‘Warren Atherton (above) 51, at- torney of Stockton, Calif., was elected Commander of the Am- erican Legon at the national convention held at Omaha, Nebr. Atherton has been National De- fense Chairman of the Legion. He was the only nominee for the position. ings to dry. They live in what they call “the more-the-merrier apartments,” work 48 hours a week, and can’t even find time to go shopping. They had expected Washington to be roman-| tic, but there are too many girls in proportion to men, and they never get a chance to see the important people who come to town. They have trouble with the dry cleaner, eat poor food, and get dates only with the file clerks across the hall. And worst of all, the salary| that looked so handsome from a distance melts away into the with- holding hands of Mr. Morgenthau. If a stenographer’s salary is $1620,| The following were fined at Po- p‘l’a 21 omu& for overtime, the|lice Court today: Mrs. Sam Carrilo, t W nearly $2000 & year, |g15 on a charge of being drunk and Which looks pretty handsome. But 4ieorderly; Frank Johnson, §25 on W ‘the same charge. - NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 30.—The Germans now hold only a 15-mile istrip along the east coast of Cor- sica in the Bastia-Gorgo Folelii area, the French Command states. D POLICE COURT ARRESTS |a bed they want to make for this Soviet forces had captured Krum- | nation to sleep in for the next 30 enchug on the east bank of the| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN; or 40 years. For just about that long, say poli- ticians ‘here, the “soldiers’ vote” will be the biggest pumpkin in the field. Using round figures, the problem is so elementary it wouldn't stump even the youngest political quiz kid. By the next election, there will be 10 to 12 million potential “veteran votes” in the armed forces. Sup- on any issue and through family and friends could swing -just two jor three votes. That would be be- H.ween 30 and 40 million votes—about ;70 per cent of the greatest total pupulxr vote ever cast in this coun- 'try in a national election (about ‘:;0000000 in the 1940 elections.) It won't, of course, ever work out that way because the basis of de- mocracy is difference of opinion. It jwill, however, work enough that way that on any issue on which most of the veterans stand united the result. The pattern for the political fu- ture already is being drawn. With the next national elections 14 menths away, the battle for the “soldiers’ vote” fury. ‘When 1nounced his “six points” for demob- ilization and rehabilitation, Repub- making a “shameless” bid for the fourth term and courting the soldier vote. Il | ever. vision of political time ‘on radio broadcasts, especially those short- waved to the four or five million service voters who may be overseas next year; over the right to print stories and statements criticizing the administration and the Presi- dent (who is also, of course, Com- mander-in-Chief) in Army, Navy Dnieper between Kiev and Duelpxm\ Army is rapidly investing the city from the south and southwest. The German communique .said harbor installations have been de- |German war targets in the past ! eight nights. Bochum was last attacked on President Roosevelt an-| lican *opponents accused him of. petrovsk, Red Army guns shelled the Ger- mans on the high cliffs of Kiev from numerous positions in The Russians are in pos- su- Dnieper. 'session of the entire eastern pose this voting body could be united 'burbs of the city, some of which| lies less than a hundred yards across the river. ‘They are at the railway highway bridges on the eastern sul:- where the villages of Posdnyaky,| Predmostnaya, Sloboda, and Tru- kanhov Island are all in Kiev's! |front yard. These, just across the river from the city are actually not villages but subdivisions of the ecity. Russian troops are so close to the city in many places they are able to rake the cliffs with machine, that there will be no doubt about SUNS: and snipers are busy picking afl unwary Germans. The Soviet| {forces which have pushed suburbs on the eastern bank of the river are exposed to heavy fire from the natural fortifications along the o | |towering west bank, the Berlin radi |ing big scale crossing thrusts along the central Dnieper, but gave no revealing reports on the success of | the assaults. ‘The fall of Gomel, river (ortmca- tion above Kiey, appeared immin- ent as Soviet troops advanced with-| {in twelve miles of the city from CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. — The Senate has confirmed the nomina- | | | the ! suburbs on the eastern bank of the| to mu has burst with a|S8id, and Soviet forces are continu-| Found on a German war prisoner, this photo offers proof of Nazi barbarism on the Russian froat. a road is a Russian peasant. Enslave Chi Womeni BY DON WHITEHEAD Associated Press War Correspondent WITH THE UNITED STATES NAVY ON THE GULF OF SA- LERNO, Sept. 30.—The once beauti- iful port of Naples is now a ravished leity full of horrors created by des-| |perate German troops, ruling by torture, spreading destruction, ma- chine-gunning women and child- ren, forcing Ttalian soldiers and |civilians alike to slave in labor bat- talions, with death to those who re- | This horrible story is brought out | lrom Naples by terrified refugees The storm didn't end there, how-lthe northeast and other columns|Who escaped on fishing boats, risk- Disputes have arisen over di-|advanced rrom the south and egst.[In8 drowning in the sea rather than face the fury of their one time Ally. | 'Most of the refugees are not so |lucky. | The Germans tossed hand gren- |ades into their boats as they at- |tempted to slip away in the harbor jor their frail craft were machine- (International) Germans Torlure I(|II June 25. Tt is the center of the Ruhr coke and steel industry. A |heavy raid on June 12 devastated 130 acres. The city had a popula- 1tlfln of 320,000. | ——————— | STIMSON IN STATEMENT Idren,Men, QN MARSHALL in Naples Bame Will Be Placed Where He The victim of this execution along | { value remains when the Allied' troops take the city. The port is rapidly becoming a shambles, refugees said, and the o : WASHINGTON Sept. 30.—Secre- h.|:;x; facilities are being blasted (o1 of War Henry L. Stimson said | snd bysnaciny and pight. today that any new assignment for | T o o Gen. George C. Marshall will be ice in Global War ! Stimson replied in a formal state- ment which follows in part: “I am in a position to say with absolute confidence that whatever duties General Marshall may’ be | | ator Sheridan Downey told the Sen- pose of placing this supremely able {ate the High Command had failed officer of the United States Army to recognize the capacity of the in a position where he can render American people to create a “de- 'the best service toward the suc- structive air power which might |cessful conclusion of this war. with the idea of putting him where he will do the most good Asked at a news conference if he | . { | S AY Y hereafter called upon to perform will be decided by the President in a spirit of entire confidence in| have brought Germany to the dust | ‘“Furthermore, the attitude of of defeat months ago.” President Roosevelt toward the Chief Predicting a “quick surrender or of Staff is entirely consistent and had anything to say on the subject, WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.— Sen- 'General Marshall, with the sole pur- terrible destruction” for the Nazis in keeping with his attitude in other Can Render Best Serv- | I | stroyed in an effort to prevent. Al- lied landings and “very severe mea- sures are being taken against Com- munist riots which constantly flare up.” Montgomery's army along the Adriatic continues to consolidate the newly won air bases at Foggia. The weather has turned from cold rain and wind and today is warm. GERMANS ARE ROUTED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 30.—Yes- terday’s official communique an- nounces the Fifth Army has driven the Germans from their last moun- " (Continued on Page “six) - e — 'FULBRIGHT PEACE PLAN IS SHELVED Senale Commitee fo Draft Own Post-War Policy Proposal WASHINGTON Sept 30. — The Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Com: mittee has decided to pweonhole the House approved Fulbright “last- ing peace” resolution and draft their own declaration of post-war foreign policy without specifically mentioning the Fulbright proposal, Chairman Tom Connally announces. Connally heads the subcommittee | tions of Harry Pratt to be Judge of | Sunned. the extent to which, if any, political | the United States District Court in }beTh‘ aim of the Germans seems to addresses can be made to soldiers| the Fourth Judicial Division of Al-| to infuriate the Italians against and Marine camp newspapers; over in camps; over how candidates for|3Ska and James Patterson for Unit- |the armistice with the United Na- ed States Marshal of the Third tions and wreak vengeance on the Congress are going to make their (Continued on Page Two) Judicial Division. Both men wpre:hfllhn people and destroy Naples renominated by their positions. as ‘meh as possible s0 nothing of ! with air power's effective use, the resvects toward all his military |Of el8ht as well as the full commit- Californian appealed for the passage advisors in the Army.” tee and sald the Senate subcom- of the Wheeler bill to delay the Gen. Marshall has been reported Mittee draft of a resolution will be induction of prewar fathers in the as the likely choice for Global Com- {eXPressive of its attitude and will Army. He said: “It is already too mander over all the American and then be recommended to the full large,” British forces. committee,