The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1943, Page 1

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XLI., NO. 9467. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS FIFTH ARMY FORGES ON TOWARD R Urge Attack on Baruch May Help Out NEED HELP OFRUSSIA | ON FRONT i InManpow JAPS SNEAK ' FROM: VILA: Congressmen Globe Trot- fers Report to Sen- ate.on Trip i to straighten out our muddle, too? 1 mean the veteran Bernard M. erMuddle; Suggestions ALe Made By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — Is it possible that the man who straight- ened out our rubber muddle is going manpower BIG CITIES IN GERMANY REDS SMASH NAZI LINE o DNIEPER !Three Bridgeheads Made | on West Bank-Germans | Are Caught by Surprise | MOscow, Oct. 8. — The Red Powerful RAF Bomber Foces Make Extensive | 'Raid-London Attacked LONDON, Oct. 8—Ranging over AREBLASTED WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—One of the most touchy points in the rela- tions of the United States with Russia was thrown open for con- LEAVE BASE {Baruch, who is holding more con- ferences on the benches of Lafay-|Army, pressing a new surprise of- ette Park these autumn days than|fensive all the way from White Rus- ever he holds in his office. sia to the Black Sea, are reported Recently, the war Cabinet’s dean|expanding three bridgeheads west lof the Dnieper. Particularly the a great area of Southern Germany last night, a powerful RAF bomber fleet pounded three important cities, Stuttgart, Friedichshafen and Mun- | of advisors has laid it on the line ich, while a much weaker force of sideration on the Senate floor as members heard an estimate that one million American lives would be saved in conquering Japan if Rus- v Evacuate from Kolom- B e bangara Island tacking Japan from the north. ¢ This statement came along with ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN many others as the Senate got a THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. bombbay view of the fighting fronts §—Starving, and out of ammuni- from three globe-circling Senators tion, the Japs have abandoned the who have just returned from an ex- pig base at Vila and fled from the tensive tour of the battle zones. entire southern half of Kolomban- According to Senator Henry Cabot gara Island in the Solomons, Gen. Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator poyglas MacArthur reports this Albert B. Chandler of Kentucky, morning. two of the globe trotters, there are pyscuation of the island is under- | four possible routes to Japan, and way. Twenty seven Jap barges and striking down from the Aleutians i ghips have been destroyed and 12 planes have heen downed. No Allied planes -have been lost in the attempt to break up the gi- gantic retreat and escape. —— Making Gre_aTAflempt fo \Continued on Page Two) The Washington, Merry-Go-Round FEELERS FOR By DREW PEARSON i ~ALEEE | DEACE GIVEN YNAZIS Tried Armistice with Rus- sia, But Failed-Now Trying Allies STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8—New re-' ports of German peace overtures are | being circulated, according to the| Senator George picked him up Stockholm newspaper, Social Demo- jmmediately. “Looks like you{and kraten, 1 were running again in 1044 he ‘The newspaper said it learned remarked with a, bropd smile. | that efforts of some Naazis to discuss «Well, if so, I won't: make any an armistice with Russia collapsed | speeches in, Georgla,” the President when the Soviets demanded custody shot back in egual. humor. |of Hitler and the withdrawal of the . “If you do,” countered George, *I German Army behind the old Ger- be on the o] ite man frontiers. :i:gef:;:lyu;ullut time.” o The reports were attributed by The President laughed, seemed to the paper to information given by agree that this would be the case, high German military official men and continued with the discussion in one of Germany's satellites. ‘WASHINGTON—Possibility of a fourth term and p:‘h.lde!‘ 01193 :hz. :;“ ouT B mous purge campaign o! up thep:the'r day at & White House! conference attended by Senator George, of Georgia, whom the Presi- dent tried unsugoessfully to defeat by invading Georgls in the 1938 primary. At the conference also were Representative Doughton of North Carolina, Justice Byrnes nnd‘ e Vinson. i Ju’gge President. was discussing the new tax program, it8 effect on Con- gress and the public, when he re- marked: “Now let's get political.’ | ! | { | in two red-tape slashing declara- tions. In one he told Congress either to give Gen. George C. Mar- shall everything he asks in the way of manpower or fire him. This is very much in line with Baruch’s idea of occupational deferments first and _ dependency deferments second. ut evem more than the statements of General Marshall and other military and Selective Ser- German bombers hit London and Southeast England in the sharpest retaliation blow in several months. The British said that heavy cloud |formations prevented full observa- |tion of results of the RAF opera- {tlons. But, according to the com- munique, a German radio said “ex- o itensive damage” was inflicted at [Stuttgart, where the junction of lone below Kiev threatened to c:rv in Germany's entire Eastern 3 Frontline dispatches from the Army newspaper, Red Star, said the major crossing of the Dnieper was south of Oereyaslav, 50 miles below Kiev, which may prove to be one of the decisive operations of the war. 3 The operation caught the ene by surprise and was carried out | Japs From Siberian German Barbarity Is Revealed;MinePlanted In NaplesP.O.ExplodesIN RAIN, MUD } NAPLES, Oct. 8.—One of the wars greatest atrocities perpetrated |against the Neapolitans by the Ger- |mans has been revealed. | This was when a delayed action mine, containing several hundred \tons of high explosives, planted in Ithe basement of the Post Office 1 Building, exploded. GEORGE VIG 15 MISSING FROMBOAT | | Scores of civilians, women and children were Kkilled. The explosion came at the busiest time of the day. Reaction of the Neapolitans Is fierce and resentment against the Germans is expressed by thou- sands of hysterical persons calling fo vengeance. MORERAIN KEEPS CITY CREW BUSY Gold Creek Threat Not THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT3 OME Bases FORCES UNDER CLARK MOVE . Montgomery Advancing . on Adriatic Coast—Can- N : . adians Under Fire ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN N AFRICA, Oct. 8.—Battling in heavy rain and mud, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Pifth Army forged @ahead and has reached the Vol- turo River, the German defense line north of Naples and on a 16~ mile front from Capua to the sea, the Allied communique says. Capua was captured on the south side of the river and a crossing has been made at Castel. The line is now 97 airline miles from Rome. Capua is the main town on the Mazzoni plain on which the first phase of Clark’s battle for Rome is being waged. The town was taken |four hours under cover of darkne: feight main line railways rival its in- vice leaders, it put Congress on the spot by making the father-draft vote a vote of confidence for our military leaders. His second and more extensive statement of manpower policy was a report to War Mobilization Di- rector James F. Byrnes, recom- mending ways and means. of break- ing the manpower bottleneck in |West Coast airplane factories. | The important thing is that if 'this Baruch plan is successful, it ,will become a blueprint for the en- !tire country and would forestall na |tional service legislation which al-| {most everyone agrees is a necessary | evil if other efforts fail. In view of this, some of the sal- ient points of the Baruch plan are well worth recording. Most important is the suggested system of labor priorities, which would take out of the hands of the Individual employer the right to hire, fire or hoard employes, and out of the hands of the worker the right to work wherever he chooses. The Baruch plan suggests that WPB determine, on a basis of production needs, what factories should hire and which might even have to turn loose some workers they now have. However, Washington would only determine the factory priority rat- ings. The actual details would be worked out by local committees for Baruch is an apostle of decentrali- zation. Baruch also would have a more positive policy on essential labor deferments ‘and suggests even re- turning to essential ‘industry: men now in service, He opposes the sys- tem of temporary deferments (all of which are supposed to expire the last of November.) : | dustries in importance as bombing | targets. The Russian forces formed wedge in the German's vaund | Dnieper River line, and are repor§-| The Air Ministry said that the |ed to have already organized a bagle Germans were able to push through point, consolidated their ground and |to London but only 15 of 60 raid- enlarged the bridgehead for further ers crossed the English coast before crossings. 'midnight and dropped slightly moie Dozens of populated places e than 33 tons of bombs in London. already been captured on the: | Mines Are haid bank of the Dnieper at the oentrnli Besides blasting three important crossing and at two others north of German cities, British planes laid Kiev near the confluence of the mines in enemy waters the air Pripet and Dnieper Rivers, also ministry said. Seven aircraft are a |southeast of Kremenchung, between 'missing as a result of last night's that captured city and Dnepropet-!extensive operations. ra;')s_k. teh The London alert lasted approx- menlim fflas‘ said the+ “"“D“"u"imnuly two hours, the longest one R tg e ctrhosslnss are taken gince May, 1942, when raiders cawme | mean the Red Army po-|i, two waves and were exceedingly sitions beyond the Dni eper are NOW gma)l hy comparison to the great ‘?ecur;. alnd ;he battle is underway: ayeq Armada which has been or the liquidation of the Germans! on the main defense line and the‘:n'::‘;fl};no:lt;s:mg WecBah. g occupation of Kiev. {Pontpes R O British officlals described the at- — .- ck as a propaganda reaid, ob- | | { | tad s | viously intended to take the Ger- troubles. SIMI ISLAND {wcnsualueu. The last. great raid on |London was on May 10,1941, when 450 tons of bombs were dropped CAIRO, Oct. 8.—British occupa- | | tricts causing damage and some B e | les . ! M { ‘Situation on Coo Island Not B REM E N H" Communique | miles north of German held Rhodes |Island In the Dodecanese is dis- of taxes. The report added that Nazi emis- He suggests that some part-time ,saries are now making attempts to schooling system be worked out to }closed today and a German-attempt |man people’s minds off their | Bombs fell in several London dis- i IN ADR'ATIC and nearly 1,500 people were killed. e . v ~ Explained in Today's | |tion of the Island of Simi, only 25| Fo RIRESSES LONDON, Oct. 8.—American For- «SENATOR" HOPE | contact the United States and Beit- |give back to industry at least a ‘ain through Madrid and Lisbon. portion of the more than 1,800,000 ‘;f.o retake the Island was beaten off tresses today struck by daylight at {with heavy losses. Bremen, Germany’s North Sea U- Disappears_Near Marmion Island - Coast Guard Makes Long Search George Vig, age 55, gasboat en- | | gineer, was lost overboard last night |from the gasboat Pirate off the | Faiba enis searehed the.area. sl the area all | inight and today without success, | returning here early this afternoon. | The B3-foot gasobat, owned byI |capt. Andy Gundersen, left Juneau | shortly before 5:30 o’clock last eve- ning enroute to Excursion Inlet.| | About an hour out of port, as the | | vessel was rounding Marmion Island, Vig went on deck for some swresl and after a considerable length of | | time had elapsed without his return, | Gundersen went in search of him. ! He found the supplies on deck but{ there was no trace of his engineer. | | Gundersen spent over an hour and the boat continued to Auk Bay, | reporting to local Coast Guard of- ficers from that place. The Coast Guard boat returned | early this afternoon, reporting no success and the search was aband- | oned. The waters in the area were patrolled and a search was made along the shoreline from Marmion | Island to Midway Point. A Ketchikan man, George Vig is survived by a brother and family, | all residing in that city. e HITLER SAYS T LOSE MORALE 1S 70 LOSE WAR | \ | Over-Water Rising Again Today More rain kept the city crew busy hauling rock to Gold Creek again today as the water in the creek began rising once more, but there were no break-throughs in evidence. City trucks wetre hauling more rock to the breach near the Home Grocery and the Willoughby Avenue bridge, where another few feet rise of water might cause trouble. Part of the baseball park fence was torn out to give trucks another avenue of access to the creek. It was learned today that between the hours of 4 and 8 p.m. on Wednes- day, when the water was highest, some 600 cubic yards of coarse rock was placed along the washed out banks of the stream. This huge amount of rock was |searching the stormy waters, but |iransported by 24 trucks, mostly | poor visibility slowed any progress ynder the direction o fthe U. 8. E.| D. and was supplied by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company bins which were kept full by the com- pany's crew working overtime in the emergency. By the time this supply was used up at 8 pm., a power shovel was in operation and it supplied the bal- ance of the rock necessary. . The downpour is reported as gen- eral in this region. At Skagway, passengers arriving here said, it is possible that the White Pass and Yukon Route will be out of commission for 10 days due ito slides and washouts along the track of the raging Skagway River {dred jmen have been working | frantically to repair the damage and | prevent further destruction. Passengers said they walked through water in Skgaway to reach iWarns Nazi_[;aders that | the docks. Heavy rains and slides were re- | ported at Excursion Inlet and one and in the mountains. Several hun‘ in a 10-mile advance along the two roads leading from Naples to Rome. The other road is nearer the coast on the right where the British Eighth Army Is fighting another battle which approaches the side door to Rome. Montgomery’s forces have beaten back more. fierce. German counter- attacks and have taken the offen- sive in the occupied important high areas along the Adriatic Coast above Termoli where six German Divisions are. reported. The Germans are reported to be throwing tanks, including 60-ton Tigers into the fight with infantry making stabs on Montgomery's flanking force. Montgomery's forces are now holding the area and threatening Pescara, the coastal terminus of the broad highway across the Apennines to Rome, Dispatches from the front dis- close that Canadians are in action with the Eighth Army and mounted in: strategic positions facing a steady fire of German artillery and mortar batteries, the heaviest the Canadians have encountered but late reports are the Canadians con- tinue to force the Germans hack. Halians Concerned O'Er Pope Fate of Pontiff Uncertain- May Be Taken fo | One thing about film somedian 3 i g0 | p R R youngsters who have been contrib>y 1he Middle East Communique poat shipbuilding center. Thunder-| Home Front Splms | report was that stores of filled ofl | Bob Hope that didn't: get into the| cable dispatches was: how he posed as a U. 8. Senator. 1t happened while the globe- trotting legislators, led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, efllledl at No. 10 Downing Street to chat/ with Winston Churchill. As they were being escorted in to| meet Churchill, Hope suddenly appeared from nowhere and joined the party. “He might have drop- ped from the ceiling or popped out of a closet,” remarked one Senator. “The first thing we knew, there he! SEABEES PRAISED FOR CONSTRUCTION ‘OF ALEUTIANBASES Are Credited with Adtually Building Short Cut was marching in with us.” 10 TOkyo Hope was introduced to Churchill| along with the rest, The senators BY NORMAN BELL uting to the war production effort but who now are returning to, school. He wants all war production com- | !munities to wage a real battle| against labor turnover (more than 100 per cent in some areas) by im- proving housing, transportation, day! nurseries for the children of work- ing mothers, a maximum of enforce- | ment of price and rent ceilings, nd-; (justed shopping and personal service schedules. He favors wage incentives 'but thinks they should be determined locally, not by a blanket policy.| He wants a re-examination of the; farm labor deferments to be sure| makes no mention of the situation|boits supported the Fortresses in to- of Coo Island in the Dodencanes,day's attack, which is the 105th occupied recently by the Allies and|raid on Bremen. The last previous severely attacked over the weekend attack on Bremen was by the by German forces who later claimed'Eighth Air Force on June 30. SRS |NSON AGANST - FORCED SAVINGS, Coo and Rhodes Islands off Wes- tern Turkey. FELIPE ESPIL IS RECALLED BY ARGENTINA WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Congres- sional oppositipn to any prograny for “compulsory savings,” developed to- U. 5. SALES TAX| { | Be Kept Aloft | LONDON, Oct. 8.—Adolf Hitler told Nazi leaders, gathered at his| | headquarters, that the German/| {people must not be permitted toj llose their morale and if they do! |the war will be lost. { In a patent attempt to whip up! |lagging spirits on the home front,| | Hitler is quoted in a Berlin radio| saying: “Weapons alone will drums were washed away. Many slides are also reported there. HAMBURG ATTACK IS DESCRIBED AS MAJOR HOLOCAUST BERN, Oct. 8—A terrific Allied Nor_lh_lialy BERN, Oct. 8.—The Pope is a | “prisoner of an undesired protecting | power," and the Catholics in Italy |are concerned over his possible fate. A Swiss weekly quoted a writer recently returned from Rome, ap- parently a prominent person, who )dvc]nr!d that he had spoken with |the Pontiff, and said, “Whispers, worry and concern” have circulated |in Rome since the Germans an- not| hombing on Hamburg, which leveled nounced their assumption of pro- tilt the scales unless human will/that port early in August was de- | tection of Vatican City. Ibacks them, and the party never scribed here as a holocaust in which | People ask: “Will Rome be sack- |allows itself to be discouraged by men, women and children fought|®d? Will it be a second Naples? nudged each other, exchanged grins. War Corespondent of Associated But Ambassador John Winant could | \ farms don’t become hideaways for| day when Economic Stabilization Di- WASHING' N . 8-—Feli # O, ot e ling rector Vinson told the House Ways set-backs to its powers of action. Will the new protectors of the Vat- “Hard resoluteness and extreme| Pire won the battle as flames \CAn feel it incumbent upon them |against fire for oxygen and air. readiness to help provides the Ger-/soared to a height of three and‘}m rescue their Holy Charge in their see no fun In the performance.’ Press ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, Oct. 8.—Construction work by a battal- After the introductions, Winant grabbed the comedian by his coat Jion of Seabees and Army Engin-| lapels and hustled him from the eers is praised by Vice Admiral room. Later, the Ambassador told Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander the visiting Senators: in the North Pacific. He said.they “I still don't know how that actor yere gctually the builders of the got in here, but he certainly em-|pjeutian short cut to Tokyo. barrassed me. I ‘really believe he| . immense tasks at Kodiak and expected to stay and participate In/, 0, were done by the Seabees and Mr. Churchill’s copference with you gentiemen® one of the jobs dwarf peacetime ROTE - tow Hops mamagus w[¥00e 23 Bodr _pum, v crash the gate is still & mystery, but| .~ $75,000,000. g the other four Senators on the tour s are pointing the finger at gregar- r Robert Meade of Scotland Neck, North Carolina, (Continued on Page Four) commands the Seabees, | costly cost-plus system of letting others also feel opens the door to hoarding. of Nome, are guests at the Baranof | Hotel. Jr., both of Hoonah, are registered | at the Baranof Hotel, unessential workers. And he prefers a change in the| contracts — a system that many waste, extravagance and labor ———— TWO HERE FROM NOME C. Robert and Harvey Grant, both ——“0;*— FROM HOONAH P. J. Audrae and Frank Hugh, at the Baranof Hotel, Espil, Argentina’'s Ambassador whu has served his country in the U""_Yand Means Committee it would be |better to raise a $6,500,000,000 ad- | :;S::;’“b;or!::‘"l’;afiifz‘ hgzv::': |ditional tax on the revenue-of indi- Bt Uy Lardad The sascitity of viduals without any post war credits. iy 3 3 y Vinson, appearing the second time successor is not disclosed. before the committee considering — et Inew tax legisaltion, renewed opposi- FROM PETERSBURG tion to the Federal sales tax. He F. J. Fryer and R. M. Allen, both|said such a tax would break the ! economic | of Petersburg, are guests at the government's wartime Baranof Hotel. “hold the line” policy and open the ———————— | way for dangerous inflation. PETER WOOD HERE | b — | Peter Wood of Skagway, repre-| P. O, INSPECTOR HERE sentative of the Morrison Knudsen| Roy J. Paquin, of Seattle, United Construction Company, is registered |States Postoffice Inspector is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel, |man people again today with moral’ geven tenths miles, the Swiss news- {own way?" A Reuters dispatch from Zurich backing and support, particularly In|paper Aligemeine Volkszeitung said.| the difficult hours of air attacks.”| e e Almost no one escaped in the heavily populated area of many |square kilometers in which planes |planted a “carpet” of hundreds of ;lhouunds of explosive incendiary bombs. M. D. WILLIAMS BACK FROM INSPECTION TRI M. D. Williams, District Engineer | The Phenomenon resulted when with the Public Roads Administra- |fife drew oxygen from the sur- tion, is back from an inspection [FOUnding air, forming a constantly trip to Seward, returning via the |increasing air chimney in which the Glenn and Alaska ' highways, back | flames mounted higher and higher, to Whitehorse and flying from there | increasing in violence, finally form- to Juneau. He was away for about|ing a compact roof of fire, the three weeks, lnewmper said. said it is reported in Switzerland that the Germans are planning to ]“remove the Pope to a North Italian town offering greater security,” be- | cause Rome 1s in danger of capture | by the Allfes. ,ee — I e @9 o6 ¢ 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Thursday, Oct. 7 ]o Maximum 58; Minimum 44 ® Rain 81 * 00 090 00 000