The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9470. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = PRICE TEN CENTY = HEAVY AIR BLOWS STRUCK FROM ITALY Huge Fires Starte LIBERATORS MAKE LONG TRIP, ATTACK American fmled Bomb- ers Smash Dock, Fuel Oil Depots at Makassar ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 12. — American manned Liberator bombers, making the fourth 2,400 mile roundtrip from an Australian base, unloaded 25 tons of explosives and started huge fires among the dock, fuel and oil depots at Ma- kassar, Dutch Celebes, Gen. Doug- las MacArthur's communique said today. One Liberator bomber set afire a medium sized enemy freighter Sunday night after Australian Beaufort bombers sank or seriously damaged a 2,000 ton cargo vessel, both off the southern #ip of New Ireland. On the New Guinea advance, Australian patrols caught up last Sunday with the Japanese rear guards and meager reports said the enemy patrols fell back. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—Military reports that have leaked out of Germany in the past two or three weeks indi- cate quite definitely that Nazi morale is cracking. These reports, through channels which cannot be revealed, were quite definite even before Propaganda Minister Goeb- bels delivered his give-away speech warning that saboteurs on the home front ‘would be beheaded. Reports also are definite that the German Army mno longer has the reserves, no longer has the fighting backbone for a long war. Resent- ment against Hitler boils beneath the surface in the German Army. German soldiers will keep on fight- ing, and are toughly-trained, des- perately-hitting adversaries. But their heart isn’t in it anymore. All these factors, plus powerful wallops by the Allies, have created ‘an atmosphere in which anything might happen. It is an atmosphere not unlike that which existed in the autumn of 1918. There are those in high places who think the war in Europe might be over anytime this winter, depending entirely on Nazi morale. But in Asia the war is moving at a snail’s pace. In Burma, though, the rains are already over, nothing | has happened. Many observers think that nothing will happen until-late this winter, and that the real drive through® Burma toward South China will be reserved for a year from now—the fall of 1944. OPA GOES TO OMAHA American Leglonnaires returning from the national convention in Omaha have a lot more money in} their pockets because of OPA and| John A. Fath. Fath is both a Legionnaire and an OPA official, and he was determined that the boys should pay omly ceiling prices for their hotel rooms, and for the ice, ginger ale and other things that make Legion conventions what they are. Fath attended the New Jersey state American Legion convention last August in Newark, where he found that the boys were being charged a dollar for a quart of roomservice ginger ale, and another dollar for a bucket of ice. He also found that the double room he oc- cupied, normally priced at $9, had been upped to $12 for the conven- tion. Pulling out his OPA credentials, Fath forced hotels and restaurantg to kneck their prices down. Two weeks later, Fath hopped a plane for Omaha, and, working with (Continued on Page Four) e A ground crewman of the U. S. 14th Air Force waves goodbye and good hunting to an American B-24 Liberator bomber as it wings over a line of shark-nosed fighter planes at an American base in China. The craft, landing wheels folding up, is on her way to bomb some more Japanese installations. U. S. SALES TAX BACKED BY CHAMBER Opposes Proposed In- 6nwFor.éign'PoIicwy, | It's Regular Duel; BothPartiesLine Up creases in Income | Leviesby Treasury | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — The United States Chamber of Com- | merce joined today in proposing a federal retail sales tax as a substi- tute for the Administration’s $10,- 500,000 new revenue program. | The Chamber’s spokesman, Ells-t worth Alvord; referred to the Ad'i ministration plan in testimony be-; fore the House Ways and Means Committee as a plan' “supported | solely by political expediency.” } He opposed the increase in levies| on income taxes to individuals and| corporations suggested by the Treasury and said the chamberi made no specific recommendation | on the size of the proposed sales; tax, but that a 10 per cent levy' would bring in about $6 billion in;bem the life out of industrial Ger- came on the heels of the Mackinac 1944 and a 5 per cent tax, about many and thus hasten the day of |conference of the Republican “coun- | $3% billion. e —— Coal Mines Given Back WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has terminated government possession of 1,700 coal mines remaining under his control and announced he will im- mediately liquidate the coal mipes administration and take the Gov- ernment “out of the coal mining business.” SPAIN IS T0 STAY NEUTRAL MADRID, Oct. 12. Franco's For- eign Ministry announced, in con- nection with the Portuguese grant of submarine bases in the Azores to | the British, that Spain will continue to maintain strict neutrality in the present war, YANKS ARE PRAISEDBY CHURCHILL », Br"iSh Prime M i n Is'“{;::iisa”n become apparent lhal‘ Gives Congratulations to 8th Air Force LONDON, Oct. 12.—Prime Min- ister Churchill declared today in a congratulatory message to the |United States Eighth Alr Foice that “we shall together inexorably final victory.” In a message to the American |unit, Churchill said its achieve-|this nation’s participation in a world imems in the battle of Germany |alliance to maintain peace. {“have contributed notably to the| success of the Allied arms every- where.” ——————— HURRICANE IS HEADED UPTOU.S Sweeps Along 150 Mile Strefch Around. Maz- atlin - 52 Dead MEXICO CITY, Oct. 12. — The Pan American Meteorological Ser- vice said last night that a hurri- cane which swept the west coast f Mexico and left 62 dead and 102 injured along a 150 mile stretch| around Mazatlin, is headed for the United States. | | | * By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—To any- | (one who has followed the political | history of the United States, the | way in which both parties are lining up for a vigorous post-war world | policy to preserve the peace must be the most heartening phenomenon to come out of this war. When Secretary of State Hull took the air recently to declare for a post-war alliance of all nations, L“with a readiness to use force, if for the maintenance of this nation’s political leaders arni fully as united for winning the| peace as they are for winning the | war. Nobody here doubts that Mr. Hull was speaking for the administration. | No such important address would | have been made without sending it | over for the President to scan :\ndi initial “Okay, F. D. R.” | It is interesting chiefly because it |cil of 49" where G. O. P. leaders | ‘also put themselves on record for| It is true that the council wrote |into the resolution a reservation for |the use ‘“of other sanction than force,” if possible, but that shouldn’t | be taken too seriously. It came out | of a star chamber session where con- | |servatives definitely had the whip | (hand. After all, it isn't the 1944 Republican Party platform and it's a | |fair guess that when that plank is | ilaid down the followers of Gov. iThomas E. Dewey and Wendell L.| | Willkie, who have been outspoken {in favoring an international police | |force, will have something to say | about it. Regardless of that resolution, it's |apparent now that both parties are | | solidly behind post-war foreign pol- | icy in which the United States would | | take its proper place: | (1 In a world leagué of na- | tions. * | (2) In a world court. | Since, according to the public | opinion polls and the last election returns, it may be assumed that| Dewey and Willkie are speaking for millions of Republicans who think | as they do, the third point on which | DODGERO the party leaders are virtually united | * d at Japanese 824 LIBERATOR TAKES OFF FOR JaP Bomaine GOMEL READY, Yugoslavs Threat to Natzis T0 FALLTO RUSS FORCES Reds Are Fighting Way Through Suburbs of Strategif City MOSCOW, Oct. 12 {Army fought its way through the suburbs of Gomel, the first major objective in White Ru which is on the upper Dnieper Ruver. Control of that sector will® bring further support to the salients on the west bank of the Middle Dnie- per, and will strengthen the entire line of the Russian forces along the hundred mile east bank of the Sozh River for an assault against the stream which runs south through Gomel at its junction with the Dnieper. Some suburbs of Gomel, includ- ing Novo Belitsa on the east bank of the Sozh, have already been ‘ak- en, and bridgeheads established on the west bank. DRAFTGETS - HIS CHOICE Judge Tells Him fo Pick Another Country, If He Wants NEW "HAVEN, Conn,, Oct. 12— An American citizen who asserted he wouldn't fight for his country because it had never done anything for him was pointedly invited by a federal judge to pick another and thus become the modern “man without a country” today. 1 Judge Carroll Hincke gave Stan-! ley Mocarsky, of Hartford, 30 days to decide whether he wished to, quit his native land forever after he pleaded guilty yesterday to fail- ing to report for induction. The jurist didn’t specifically say; what the penalty on Mocm‘hky‘ would be should the accused refuse to leave the United States. There was no word from Mocarsky, either, as to whether he would accept the tourt’s invitation. The judge said he had no legal vight to throw Mocarsky out, be- | | cause he was a citizen, but he numerous rumors that the Por- tary pecessity,” adding that geo- | *ould see no reason why the United States should feed him for three or four years. > THREE COLONELS GIVENPROMOTION TOBRIGADIER GEN. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 12.— Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., of the Alaska Defense Com- mand, announces promotions of} three Colonels to Brigadier Gen- erals, George J. Nold of Napanee, Indiana; Earl H. Deford of Des Moines, and Dale V. Gaffney, of Portland, Oregon. Nold, Alaska Defense Command Engineer and Officer-In-Charge of all Alaska construction, was recent- ly awarded the Legion of Merit for the feat of building the Annette Island Airfield on muskeg from 6 to 18 feet deep. Deford is Commanding the Elev- enth Air Force, Bomber Command. responsible for part of the Kiska and Attu Raids Gaffney, Comman-ing the Alaska Wing of the Air Transport Com- mand, formerly commanded Ladd "l at. Furbanks. He bas heen | aska since April 1 1840 and came up through the ranks from a pri- may be added—namely, an interna- | ik & | (Continued on Page Three) vate in the Massachuset:s National]cessary because of the tremendously|and Belgium and overrun western Crovd, Inst 4 2 o alof STATUTE MILES Germans, facing an advancing Allied front in Italy (black line), have their troubles with fighting patri Italy. Germans have garrisoned Adriatic Sea. Most recent Yugosla of Lussino Island, near the head rail lines northeast of Trieste and northeast of Zagreb. Yugoslav partisans also are operating in t Trieste, Fiume and Pola. (AP wire photo) | ijGéSLA\)I;_ so‘v‘n Y iots in Yugoslavia and northern underlined coastal cities of the v successes (A) include occupation of the Adriatic, and severance of he Italian Peninsula bounded by Congressmanls Probe Into Forf Norman Oil Area BRITISH GET BASES FROM PORTUGUESE Anti - Submarine Facilities| in Azores Are to Be Strengthened 1 LONDON, Oct. 12.—Portugal has, granted Britain anti-submarine| bases in the Azores, the island’ group which lies off Lisbon, amid tuguese, now engaged in the big- Sééking , Versus Alaska WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Repre- | sentative Norris Poulson, Republican | of California, said the Army and Navy Petroleum Board has spent | $100,000,000 in development of the| Imperial Oil Company wells at Fort | Norman, in Canada, while there are | 35,000 square miles of naval petrol- | eum reserve north of Nome, Alaska, that has remained unexploited. Poul= son urges an investigation. Representative Poulson also told the House it should investigate cor- | porate connections of the oil com- | pany, he described as a private en-I terprise, for production of Canadian wells, which he said, did not exceed 3,000 barrels daily. Poulson also said the 500-mile | pipeline was built over “extremely mountainous , terrain” to reach the wells whereas a pipeline in the Alaska reserve could readily be laid and would be “favorable for mili- | |logists believed there was a possi- | taken allations ACTION ON 'LANDFRONT BOGS DOWN Corfu Airfi;Id— on Greek Island Raided—Crete Is Attacked ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | ALGIERS, Oct. 12—Northwest Af- | rican Alr Force bombers, pursuing | attacks on the Germans in the Bal- | kans and eastern Mediterranean for |the seventh successive day, struck | smashing blows yesterday against | the Nazi airfield on Corfu, strategic |Greek island dominating the en- trance to the Mediterranean. On the rain-bogged Italian battle- field, however, only artillery and patrol actions were reported as the American Fifth Army troops along the swollen Volturno River front prepared for an assault on the powerful German positions. The raid on Corfu was carried out by Mitchell bombers, sweeping from Ttalian bases to the attack, escorted by Lightning fighter planes. They |struck at the airfield at Garitza and also scored two direct hits on a mer- chant vessel in Corfu harbor. New raids also were carried out against Calato airfield on Rhodes Island; and Herakleion airdrome on Crete. These missions were under- by ~American Liberators, which poured their bombs among | parked alreraft and the buildings | near the field. ————— SUB MENACE IS SERIOUS SAYS KNOX Navy Secretary Back Home After Tour of Bat- tlefronts WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — ‘Back at his desk after an extended tour of the European battlefronts, Sec- retary of the Navy Frank Knox as- serted today that the renewed ac- tivity of German submarines in the North Atlantic can be considered “very serious.” Questioned about the reappear- ance of the U-boats after the late summer lull as evidenced by the gest military maneuvers of the war, bility of obtaining more oil from |fecent attack on an Allled convoy might declare hostilities Japan. Prime Minister Winston aga Chur- the Alaska reserve than the wells | now operated in the Fort, Norman | larea. (Read today’s Washington | in' which several ships were sunk, Knox saild “let's not make a mis~ take about it. Submarine warfare chill disclosed in the House of Merry-Go-Round on the Fort Nor- | Will be serious until the end of the Commons that Antonio Salazar's government has accepted the British | request for facilities to aid the Allies in the fight against the sub- marine menace. While negotiations for opering 'man oil deal.) D — | Death Comes the Azores to the British progressed | { a report came from Bern, Switze:- land, that Alliel warships were patrolling off the Azores. | It is rumored the bases may be made available for the duration. e Gasoline Cuf, Western Area | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — The OPA has cut the value of ABC gasoline coupons in the Far West from four to three gallons effec- to Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 85, « tive today. The order affects Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Mon, tana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. Petroleum Administrator Ickes and the OPA said the order is ne- increased military demands, Suddenly fo Once Offered Reward for! Capture of Hitler | 'AIivg,Unhufi' | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12. — Death came unexpectedly last night | President of Carnegie Institute. | Dr. Church offered $1,000,000 re- ward in 1940 for the capture of Adolph Hitler “alive and unhurt.” | Dr. Church believed at that time |the German Dictator intended to |violate the neutrality of Holland Europe, | | war." He sald the British subs which immobilized the German battleship Tirpitz, operated thousands of miles from home with two-man crews, that the subs slipped through mine fields and mazes of submarine nets to launch their torpedoes against the battleship in its Nor- wegian hideout. e 2 ST N Dr. Church maxes prepicTioN ON END, TWO WARS Buy Defeat of Germany, Japan Is Put Up fo Peak Production NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Germany can be defeated by the end of 1944 and Japan by the end of 1945 if the new peak of war production is reached next year. This is the statement made by Lewis H. Brown, President of the Johns-Manville Corporation, after a thorough in- vestigation of the production facil- ities of the United States,