The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 4, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLL, NO. 9463. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” B PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1943 _ MEMBER"ASSOCIATED PRESS = ————— | LLIED FORCES ADVANCING IN ITALY Big FINSCHHAFEN CAPTURED BY AUSTIE[IANS Defensive Values of En-! emy Held Centers Is Now Eliminated - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, OCLE 4_The capture of Finschafen last) Saturday by veteran Australian . troops eliminates all defensive val-| ues of enemy-held centers in the north and west as far as Madang, Gen. Douglas MacArthur says in| today's communique. . i By the seizure of the Jap air and | naval bases on the eastern coast of Huon Peninsula, the Allies have gained complete control of Huon| Gulf and has also forced the Jap- # anese to withdraw to the north shore of New Guinea. The Australian forces moved on Finschafen from three sides, push- ing the Japs with their backs against the sea. (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) (The brass ring and a free ride on the Washington Merry-Go- Round this week goes to Gen. George C. Marshall, who in the opinion of critical Drew Pear- son has been the best chief-of- staff commanding the U. S. Army during all the days that the veteran reporter has been covering Washington.) ! WASHINGTON—In the Nation’s | Capitol folks think they know Gen.; Marshall. Congress, which has gone | to: bat unanimously for him, knows him for his patience with Congres- sional probes and his ability at pry- | ing money out of Congress even in | the peacetime days when prying was not easy. | Army strategists know him as the young , officer who executed the most brilliant maneuver of the last| war, the transfer of one million men from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Ar- gonne front, plus 40,000 tons of am- munition, 34 hospitals, 93,000 horses, 164 miles of railway and 87 depots— all with no enemy aviator discover- ing it. Gen. Johnson Hagood knows him as the “most outstanding military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson”; Pershing knows him as a gangling, sandy-haired youngster | who was_ his aide for five years; while real old-timers know him for the maps of the Texas Blg Bend country which he made while a lieutenant and which are still standard for the War Department. Others know. him as one of the few, Democrats who have been chief | of staff; as one of only two chiefs-| cf-staff who have not been Westy Pointers (the other was Leonard Wood) because his father, a Demo-| crat, couldn’t get him into West, Point during the McKinley Admin-| istration. But few people in Washington| know the great secret of Gen. Mar-| shall’s ability to keep calm, keep un- | worried, yet get things done. Even Mrs. Marshall says she doesn't know the secret — though actually she, does. Moving about the bedroom of her | home at Fort Myer last week, pack- ing her bags for a trip to Leesburg, Va., she shook her head and said, “I don’t see how he does it, really 1 don't.” She and her husband were just back from a trip by air to Mexico City, and she was running off to| Leesburg for a rest. ON THE MOVE “It's all very well for me,” she said, “but does the General get a (Gontinued on Page Pour) ® Victo NEW PLASTIC INNER TUBE HOLDING A NEW PLASTIC inner tube for automobiles at the Glenn L. Martin plant.in Baltimore is pretty Mildred Cook, a company employe. The tube is made of a material called Marvinol and is cl aimed to be | better than rubber. It is airtight, whereas rubber tubes are known to | lose about two pounds of air per week. itongress Pullsin (International) Its Horns; Dynamite Failed fo Explode GOEBBELS GIVES SOP 10 NAZIS Makes Profii;es, Spiced with Threats-More Babbling Talk LONDON, Oct. 4. — Alternately threatening and reassuring, Pro- paganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels promised Germany enough food for the winter, but he warned anyone who placed personal “com- fort “above honor of our people” would be beheaded. Goebbels warned that heavier Allied air raids are coming but boasted that the Flying Fortresses will become flying coffins. He con- tended that Germany would win the air war in the end because attacks have failed to destroy the muni- tions industry. Explaining retreats in Russia he said “our disengagements originated from audacious rational reflections” and concluded with the boast that the “march on. Berlin has failed.” HULL, 72, WAITS FOR SIGNAL TO CROSS ATLANTIC WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. — Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull, master of many a tough job in his long public career, celebrated his seven- ty-second birthday last Saturday resting for one of the biggest and perhaps most historic tasks ever thrust his way, vacatiening with his wife at Hot Springs, Virginia. There he awaits the Presidential assign-! ment that is expected to take him on his first Atlantic crossing by air, either to Moscow or London for the momentous conference with- the British and Russian emissaries. TIDES TOMORROW High tide— 5:39 a. m., 13.7 feet. Low tideé—11:34 a. m., 4.4 feet. High tide— 5:30 p. m., 15.7 feet. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—1If ever a Congress was supposed to be coming back from the grass roots loaded with dynamite this one was. And if ever Washinngton observers were surprised, they were when the dyna- mite failed to explode. As a matter of fact, the first ten days of the session were about the chummiest little get-together you ever saw. There were some indica- tions that it might continue that way for a while. I haven't found any agreement yet on just what caused all the promised fireworks to be filled with wet powder, but several reasons are worth examining: (1). That the voters weren't near- ly as dfssatisfied with the conduct of the war as Congressmen who had been away frem their districts for the better part of three years thought they were going to be. As a matter of fact, according to the members, the country is only agreed on two points — alarm at the spread of bureaucracy and disgust with po- litical bickerings here in the national capital (2). That the President's new “war cabinet,” set up during the summer, has been working like mad to straighten out many of the kinks that Congress was gomplaining most about when it went home. There probably is much truth in both these conclusions. The way the move to postpone ry Gained in Southw - New Administration Pro-. RANS MEET AT OMAHA PROPOSAL ON MORE TAXES .TREASURY IN ! | i { ‘ gram Would Hit 3 Individuals | ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau taking 6 billion and a half from program which embraced also big, Omaha, Neb. One of the principal events of the meeting was the presentation of the Legion’s Distinguished | Morgenthau presented the pro- - - o | | | It proposes to raise the rates to ors (ean rage y ; tory Tax with the income tax, to emptions for dependents from $350 1 It proses to raise the rates toy vorable treatment.” RAF Bombers OVGY Rhlne' | authorities. They announced the | | liquor, beer, travel, soda pop, gum vember, presumably by a submarine, | LO s Hhsront - | would furnish 6 billions and & half, 4 INPIRL, Pt e imerion Rl upo“ EI'IDEN been witheld for almost one year over Germany tod: and The additional tax plan is de- i . SyE a0, o thicked lm nearly one third of the national | The Germans announced last De- | Force heavy bombers struck last between two and three billion will survivor. The Germans said the big | bombers and Mosquitoes bombed Royal Air Force f | |mines in enemy waters, | disability and hospitalization. oy |“heavy damage was doue at this last Saturday afternoon, following a | for the RAF’s night operations, Four | ey, of Hagen. | 1 more than half-a-million, big in- center and U-boat base has been | Hagen has a population of 150,000 have landed in strength on the well as other war factories, had its N . iron and steel foundries, engineering Middle East Command annnounces. | today’s daylight raid. | ring Given Orders fo | ! !serious counter-move against the |which followed the now familiar ordered Marshals Rommel and Kes- 3 o l E R o S | |attacked from the air all day yes- Tuhrand the other to the southeast. Allies from the borders of Ger- | today asked Congress to provide' individual incomes. increases in corporation and ex-, Service Medal to Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, Marshall gave the veterans a report on the |gram to the House Ways and Means | |dividual incomes be raised and ex- ' isclo | lower exemptions of married per- ar s | ‘ BY to $300 and to retain the $500 ex-! corporations but that small cor<}’ s . CAPETOWN, Oct. 4—One of the Enciss taxss would be given sttt land Last Night-Heavy | sinking, without a trace, of the 18,- | land cthers. between England and Capetown. |ing Fortr 8 corporatims another billion and ex- 2 tfises Subpotied. by long because of the uncertainty of the targets at Frankfurt, 81 miles south- |signed to boost the Federa) revenues income and of the increased take 3 H H cember the sinking of the Ceramic 'night. City of Hagen, in Ruhr Dis- g |be refundable after the war. How- liner sank quickly in rough seas. |Hannover targets in the Rhin:land | | A British communique describad | B e S LONDON, Oct. 4—Flying Fort- {the Kassel attack as "very heavy.” | !important industrial target” The Fridav night assault by the Royal . bombers were lost. This is the third time Emden, | Nall For(e i land port and the main river and bombed since the vigtual destruc-| I persons “and is 10 miles south of Island of Coo, Italian Dodecanese, | thirty-seventh raid of the war. That and armament works and is a big| “Fighting continues today” says! TFortresses and long-range escorts | Allied infiltration among the islands, | Allied strategy of splitting the Ger- selring, commanders in northern and | SHOT DowN iterday and many hits were scored. - v 3 REPLACEMENT OF t Termoli Ca |draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers, ! considered the ‘biggest potential ex- i plosion of all, went off with a little |pop and gave no indication that. it | would prove a delayed action bomb, is not a very good illustration, for it doesn’t fall truly into either cat- egory. However, it's positive that demand for action on this matter from the folks back home wasn't nearly as important as the declara- tion of the military that such action would actually., hamper the war effort. Instead of coming to a vote, the first day or so as several members of Congress vowed it would, it was tossed to the committees where spokesmen for the Army, Navy and Selective Service were again given an opportunity to toss very wet blankets over it. What happened to the threatened fight over food controls is probably a better example. When Congress started off on its vacation this sub- Jject was as hot as the fhterior of a blast furnace. Before the Congressmen could even get out into the farm sections (Continued on Page Two) from Berlin which stated whether the stand will be along the Po' River or elsewhere in northern Italy is not disclosed. | The Germans have conscripted | |dollars a year in wartime taxes, included in the Administration tax | yETERANS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION are shown assembled at the opening session of their convention at cise taxes. _gwegress of the war. (International Soundphoto) Committee. | emptions lowered, to merge the Vic- sons from $1,200 to $1,100, and ex- emption for single persons. g A"er Nea rly a vear’ UI Sl plA“ES rath a-| | | porations be given “special and fa present War's, worst ocean tragodies{ |has been disclosed by the Naval | |increases an the so-called luxuries, | B I G Al lA(K |000-ton British liner Ceramic, with Damage Reporied {more than 500 passengers, last No- — | Unde: the program, individuals i | Ly > | ! | The official announcement has'range Thur 1 s, § |clse taxes 2 billion and a half. 5 o s A | |fate of the passengers and crew. west of Kessel, where Royal Air in incomes, Morgenthau proposes and claimed the rescue of only one The Air Ministry also said 3ritish frict, Also Raided by | > > |last night and other bombers .aid \social security system, increase job | | It said preliminary reports indicated (attacked the German port of Emden IS Take“ by | weather was described as escellent Air Force on the Ruhr industrial | i INSTRU(TION Fraukfort, with a population of German’s North Sea shipbuilding tion of Hamburg, CAIRO, Oct. 4. — The Germans | oil refineries and chemical plants as Marsha's Rommel, Kessel- quent target. Hagen has important in fighting the British garrison, the | however, since last December, until i HOId Noflhem "aly i - | This German offensive is the first | the war on Frankfurt in twin blows STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4—Hitler has The enemy’s boats off Coo were a hundred miles apart, one east of in northern Italy and keep the !an additional 10 billion and a half The repeal of the Victory Tax ‘s jever, he suggests broadening of the 1 ’Blo c D wAll’ resses, escorted by Thunderbolts, - | railway center, and the site of large Dortmund which has been a fre- and secured several important points | city was untouched by air assualts, { railway center. | the communique. made its first precision attack of the stepping stones of the Aegean. man defenses as cities lie less “han | central Italy, to hold a “Blood Wall” | - e This is accordinng to dispatches ovER (HINA FOUR DEAD v OVERSEAS UNITS - T8 INJURED ~ TOBEADVOCATED thousands of ltalians to work on | iharafors, Escort Fighters in Running Battle, - e Germans Win Out | HEADQUAR’I;R; OF FOUR-} War Inspection Committ BRUSH HRE Going tol;)llnakgrggcl- » T ommendations Six Thousand Acres Swep] WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 Powerful | TEENTH AIR FORCE IN CHINA, Senate support has gathered behind re u Oct. 4—American Liberators and by FIameS—Repor'ed the proposal to speed up replace- | 4 |escort Pighters shot down 30, Jap| 0 ‘ c I ment of troops long overseas with . |Zeros and probably destroyed 14| u' 0 Ome fresh units, fully trained in United more in a running battle last Fri-| States camps restless for action. orsl(ada} over Indo-China. Six Liberators| SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4—The umber'“:ea:‘t:"‘l C*‘”": 1“"(‘:39‘ “‘l“"“’" of ‘were damaged but returned to bases. |and brush fire that swept 6000 ' f;-um’r'f;ml)?)l-lml}):‘t‘:u;fi' g::' The big bombers dumped 50 tons acres and taken a toll of four dead| g & AlAflLllggg, chtAr:Q_l::‘lmfih;:ol heavy explosives .on the power and 78 injured, has broken out anew ;:‘1‘(;:;::5. »Z:ti[,?ei.a:(::fl: l'o"::: V;I.:; of Ohitvss sesltation. ab Cdsisics 1s:plant, warehouses and docks at and is reported completely out of‘l,,pm.“m,“l for such a policy. inarked by the entry of French laiPhong in one of the heaviest | control. | “Senator Richard B. Russell, of forces at Bastia, raids of the war. Naval authorities are pressing an Georgia, chairman of the commit- Remnants of the German forces| Sergt. Arthur J. Benko blazed in|investigation as the result of the|tee declared the entire group is in are still scattered along the beaches {the leading if not the top of aerial deaths of four marines and the in-!gccord with the recommendation and at isolated points both in the |Sunners of the United States Air jury of 76 others, all trapped by the and believed it is entirely practical. north and south of Bastia, but these | Force by shooting down seven at- | flames. “I think it would make better are being pressed by French troops)tacking Japanese. He has now shot! Two cjvilians and 13 marines are |soldlers and sailors if the plan is and American Rangers, dowri 16 Jap planes, lin a critical condition. jcarried out,” said Senator Russell, est Pacific 1 iEIGHTH ARMY ' MOVING UP ; ON ADRIATIC @ed by Am- phibious Forces-Amer- icans Threaten Nazis ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ' ALGIERS, Oct. 4. — The British Eighth Army, with the support of the Allied naval forces, have pene- trated the Adriatic and landed and clinched positions at Termoli, on the Adriatic Coast, almost midway, be- tween the TItdlian heel and the mouth of the Po River in northern Italy. Otficial front line dispatches said that simultaneously United States troops of Clark’s Fifth Army have surged forward from Benevento in the march on Rome from Naples and have captured the important crossing on the Calore River, thereby threatening to turn the flank of any water defense line the Germans may attempt to hold along the Volturno River. Montgomery's advance up .the Adriatic Coast is along the historic path of conquerors toward Emilian Bay that leads to the Po Valley and likewise threatens to turn the de- fenses of Rommel and Kesselring that-may be centered around and the Appenines. His march has been greatly stimulated by leapfrog tactics. The amphibious landing forces seized Termoli by surprise and he then beat off German count- er-attacks and took an undisclosed number of prisoners well behind it.e enemy's rear, then made & junction with the main body of the Eighth Army apd continued to pound up the coast. FALL RAINS ' SLOW DRIVE ~ OFRUSSIANS Lull Caused by Impassable Bogs Over Most of Long Biflle Line MOSCOW, Oct. 4.—Activity on the _ Soviet-German front was confined to Red Army attacks in the Gomel and Mogilev sectors in White Russia as autumn rains prevailed over most of the long battle line, where the Russians kept up a sharp scouting activity and long-range -artillery duels. Elsewhere along the front where the Red Army lines lodged against the German defenses on the upper Duieper and west of the Dvina River there is a lull in military operations customary this time of the year in Russia when the rains create vir- tually impassable bogs in vast stretches of the country. A German communique indicated a considerable slackening of activity along the entire eastern fromt, re~ | porting only local Soviet attacks. in the Kuban Peninsula in the Cau- casus scattered clashes with Russian troops forced the crossing of the Dnieper. Last year's Russian winter of- fensive did not begin until Novem- ber 19, and the line generally appeared stabilized until the early winter frosts freeze a new hard track fit for campaigning. - MRS, SIMPKINS BACK Mrs. Simpkins returned Saturday evening from the south where she has been visiting for the past four months. While in the States, Mrs. Simpkins spent the time with her daughters Barbara and Jean in Seattle and Mrs. Ed - Metzgar in Smelterville, Idaho. - ,ee —— MRS. GEMMILL RETURNS Mrs. Lynn Gemmill, wife of the Territorial attorney for the Office of Price _Administration arrived home Saturday night after a visit - n the States.