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VOL. XLI, NO. 9471. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —_— ] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENEY JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943 — T WAR DECLARED ON GERMANY BY ITALY Allies Seize FIFTH ARMY OUTFLANKING NAZI TRODPS Tremendous Artillery Duel| Raging Across ' Volturno ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1N ALGIERS, Oct. 13.—Battering down; powerful enemy positions in cens tral Italy, Allied troops punched| nine miles northeast of Pontelan- dgifo today to seize Sancroce, while the British Eighth Army, advancing glong the entire front, captared Riecia and Bonefro. | Frontline dispatches said the, plunge to Sancroce sent deeper northward the spearhead outflank- ing the strong German Vol'.urno; River line. | . Although the dispatch didn’t| identify them, American Fifth Army| tfoops apparently took Sancroce. Riccla, seized by the British, i (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | | | | WASHINGTON—It was Secretary of War Stimson personally who re-| versed his Army subordinates and ruled that major league baseball tcams could not visit the war fronts to entertain the traops. Stimson felt that the troops would resent the sight of apparently | healthy ball stars not in service uni- form; would not realize that each ball player of military age had been exempted from the draft because of some »physical infirmity which does not handicap him as a hue-I ball star but apparently prevents, him from meeting the requirements of the Army—such as half an ear gone, a toe off, or a finger missing. | This was the second veto of a project by Stimson, the othe'r‘ having been his refusal to let Joe| Louis box with Billy Conn for the entertainment of troops. Stimsorr also thought this would have a bad morale effect, In both cases, Stimson overruled his press chief, Maj, Gen. Alexander Surles, who was irked. Subsequent- ly Surles came;to one of Stimson’s advisers, said: “I've given a lot of thought to' the protection of Seefetary Stim- son and Undersecretary Patterson.” “Protection from what?” was the reply. H “From the baseball pedple,” an swered Surles. PROHIBITION MOVE What looks like an ingenious scheme to increase prohibition areas, while the soldier vote is ham- strung, has been unearthed in New York by Democratic leader - Bill Morgan. ‘Mor'gan, remembering how prohi- bition was put across during the last war when soldiers could not vote, tested a Women’s Christian| Temperance Union move in the New York courts. The WCTU had inserted a local option law on the Fort Norman Oi Gels Big Rise Ouf of Representative Gavin ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Repre- sentative Leon H. Gavin, Republi- can of Pennsylvania, said in the House today that if the money being spent by the American Government | to develop “questionable Canadian !oil fields had been spent on petrol- | eum fields in the United States, American production would have been increased several hundred thousand barrels daily.” Gavin referred to the Canol pro- ject on the Mackenzie River, 75 miles south of the Arctic Circle, as- serting it was widely publicized in Canada, "including printed maps, showing the location of the field end pipelines, but the War Depart- ment refused to make public the terms of the American-Canadian contract on the grounds of military secrecy. Gavin said: “There can be no valid reason for their refusal to tell exactly what the War Deépartment contracted to do with this petroleum venture. The only reason for the refusal to; make the matter fully NEW FIGHTER . W.PACIFI, DOWNS THEM Four Thunderbolts Tackled | 32 Jap Fighters-Eight | Sent Crafhing 13—The latest addition to Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s aerial armory, the Thunderbolt Fighter, took the wak and led 32 Japanese fighters at We New Guinea, downing eight ique states. public is the fear of letting the full truth be known, which is a tacit admission that the whole thing is La failure.” Gavin’s statement in the House followed that made the previous day by Representative Norris Poulson, Republican of California, charging the Army and Navy Petroleum Board has spent $100,000,000 in de- velopment of the Imperial Oil Com- pany wells at Fort Norman, in Can- ada, while there are 35,000 square miles of Naval petroleum reserve north of Nome, Alaska, unexploited, and he demanded an investigation. Drew Pearson, in his Waghington Merry-Go Round also calls atten- tion to the Fort Norman project, which is to be turned over to Can- ada at the end of the war, although financed by the American Govern- ment, and asserted the Truman Committee of Senators has asked the War Department for all data, which has been slow in coming, causing the Senators to suspect that the oil deal may be just as smelly as that at Elk Hills. Tri-Power Conference In Moscow {No Frontierfie Discusse ~Only Second Front | fo Defeat Hitler i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN MOSCOW, QOct. 13.—In the first THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. announcement here of the tri-power oo4 tone g year. conference, it is officially stated the ! conference will be held in Moscow. The Communist organ Pravda’ to- ts spotlight, when four of them [,,C,(.;day let the world know s:mphm::all;,nLhe world inspection tour, Roose- {that the Soviets do not intend to |discuss frontiers or the status of lond front to defeat Hitler will be More Towns in ROOSEVELT GIVES OUT MORE NEWS | | i President Talks About Azores Bases - Hits Out at Traveling Senators - WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Pregi- dent Roosevelt is showing increas ing signs of being less chary about giving out war news. = With official reports from all over the world at his elbow, he vol- unteered at the last two confey- ences with the newsmen, his ap- praisals of late developments ‘21 Europe, in the Pacific and at homg, | While no reasons were given for offering these analyses to the Am- erican people, there have been comj- plaints=from the newspapers, fre Congress and from other quar',:f; of the country to the effect thai they were not getting enough wai news. Prime Minister Winstop Churchill has divulged informatioi the American correspondents knew but were honor bound not to prinrj That Portugal Affair Yesterday, minus prompting, the President singled out as the ims portant’ news of the day, Britain's agreement with Portugal to use the Azores bases. He said it seemed ob-| vious in emergencies for the United States to use British facilities protect American lives and ships. Both Britain and the United States, 'he said, assured the Portugese they JAP ‘HO | | | EVACUATED BY GERMANS Exultant Rusfins in Sightf of Long Awaited Goal | on Dnieper River %] nad no territorial ambitions on the island. | Subs In Pacific The President stressed what he called the amazing record of Amn- erican subs in the Pacific, the destruction of enemy shipping being | P faster than it could be replaced MOSCOW, Oct. 13 — fhe Fed during the past six months. I_le‘Army has drlven_w within one asserted the sinkings averaged about |8nd eight-tenths miles of Kiev, the o 130,000 tons monthly or about 1,400,-|8Téat German bastion on t Y Dnieper River, the Soviet official % Chides 5 Senators newspaper Izvestia announced. | | Discussing the statements of some| The frontline dispatch said “Kiev +!is ahead and we can see the steeples! i 'S five senators just back from a round in Kiev of Pechera and Lavra, the| ME’ FOR U. S. FORCES_in the harbor abandoned Japanese ship furnishes living quarters ft | velt made it clear he thought this no time for stirring up bitterness. such | possibly ten, the official commun- |the Baltics, declaring firmly a 56C-\ w0 gisplaying no evidence him- |self of any deep seated resentment,| | biggest and the oldest Monasteries, | |and the big building of the Councii| \,ur Peoples’ Commissars of the| | Ukraine.” | The announcement declared that |at Madang, expanding their holl- 'Congressman of The communique today also re-|the question before the meeting. ports new Allied air blows in the! Pravda says: “It should be know: Solomons to stir the Japanese air to everyone the borders of the Sov- activity. {iet Union could no more serve to More than 400 Japanese were be a subject for discussion than killed by the Australian forces in for instance, the borders of the mopping up north of pmsch.fenvivnmd States or status of Cnllm-—‘ New Guinea. The Australians are nia.” "IN "TOP" JOBS, | SAYS lAMSPE(I( WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—A Con- gressional Committee has charged that “inexperienced youngsters” are ings by driving the enevy outpesis from high ground. g Kentucky Passes Away al Home HODGENVILLE, Ky., Oct. 13.— Representative Edward Creal, 56, Democrat, died at his home here today after a paralytic stroke. He is survived by his widow and two sons. in Washington, and “constitute a real bottleneck” to the government's war effort. The youthful executives lack the | “experience and tact” necessary for “top-notch management offi- cials,” declared the House Civil Service Committee headed by Re- presentative Ramspeck of Georgia, WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—House holding some top personnel jobs he did take definite issue with things the legislators have been szy- | "1 t by 5€5 4 X ing about ofl, Russian air bases near |, . "oe the'city and damaged Kiev Japan and American civilian tru "f‘useu‘ the Gernfans, as on many other | occasions laid the torch to the su-| |in Australia and indicated he c not stand criticism. i) To the question as to whether ihe shared the Bruish feeling.about {current ' discussions concerning Di"AFl Re land postwar rights as unfortunat-,| | he replied that he didn’t know. l . T I Lifer Gives For Re-eniry E His Skinfo Burned Gir ‘Undergoesfiinful Opera- " fion Because He ‘Want- | ed Help Somebody’ jeds | i | BOSTON, Oct. 13—The Resolu- | tions Committee of the American | Federation of Labor has refused to | {recommend the immediate seating | |of the United Mine Workers, but| | proposed empowering the Executive | | Council to act finally on the John | | L. Lewis application “on a basis in | ikeepin; with . traditional require- ! | ments of the Federation.” | | Although this amounted to re- | | jection of the Lewis terms by the| Being | NEW NAVY PLANE IS | HELLCAT Can Hold Its Own with Best Japanese Can Put in Air WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. reports of the newest Navy fighting plane in combat shows it an “ex- cellent fighter, superior in all re- spects to the Zero and able to hold its own against the best the Jap- anese have to offer.” The new plane is designed to| meet the speed and maneuverablity of the Japanese Zero, the Navy De- - First of Kisks in the Aleutians an k or American forces. KIEV BEING 3,000,000 Employees 0f Government Now " i it e ITALY TURNS ONNATIS;TO WAGE FIGHT Joint Announcement Made by Roosevelt Chur- chill, Stalin 'BY MARSHAL BADOGLI0 ‘New Status Does Not Change Armistice Terms -Government Plan WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.— Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill | and Joseph V. Stalin of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, an- nounce that Italy has declared war against Germany. The White House this morning said Marshal Pletro Badoglio com- municated Italy's declaration against the former Axis partner to Gen. Dwight D. Efsenhower. Badoglio's message to Gen. Eisen hower :;t:: 3 © “By this act, el ties ‘ful past, has been y Government is proud to be able to march with you on inevitable vic- tory. wd ey Investigate 5 Joint Statement <5 In a joint statement issued by the By JACK STINNETT White House, Roosevelt, Churchill WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—There and Stalin, accepted “active coop- are more Congressional committees eration of the Italian Nation's investigating government manpower armed forces as co-belligerents in with an eye to whacking the day- the war against Germany.” lights out of it than I have ever Italy has thus turned against her seen concerned with a single sub- former partner in little more than ject before. a month after the armistice with Rep. Lyndon Johnson's sub-com- the Allled Powers, mittee of the House Naval Affairs Proclamation Committee has even taken up offices 1, the proclamation to the Ital- in the Navy Department building, ju), people, Badoglio said; “Shoul- better to study the situation at first ger 4o shoulder we must march for- hand. The House Miliary Affairs Com- gy a0 o e mittee has a sub-committee at wor 3 gy on the same thing in the War De- And: all o D d TRMAEA partment. The Byrd committee, concerned with governmental expenditures, is devoting much of its time to gov- ernment employment, The Ramspeck committee on civil service in the House is up to its ears in the problem. That’s just a starter, and these activities are certainly not going to be curtailed by what the con- gressmen heard from the home folks. Apparently the expansion of . Badoglio said “the Italian ‘Gev- ernment, headed by ' myself, ‘will be completed shortly and “tepresefi- tatives of every political party has been invited to participate so the Government may constitute a trile expression of a Democratic Giov- ernment. T Government of Italy “The present arrangement will. in‘no way impair the untrammelede right of the pegple of Italy to choose their' own form of a Dem- partment says, and the Hellcatmfi;mmun government employment to octatic Government when peace is bigger, faster, more MANEUVerable | oy more than 3,000,000 has a lot restored, Italians, I Inform. you, and it is a better climber than its predecessor, the Grumman Wildcat.” >e- - NO COURT-MARTIAL DEMAND MADE, SAYS REAR ADM. KIMMEL i NEW YORK, Oct. 13—Rear Ad-| {miral Husband E. Kimmell denies| reports that he drafted | of Navy Frank an immediate published a letter to Secretary Knox requesting court-martial. Kimmell said: “I did not send nor authorize anyone to send such a| In my position I do feel I of voters hopping mad. Investiga- cases. They keep the departments and agencies on their toes. Already, |it has led to a lot of housecleaning many.” here, and there will be more, John- son's committee, even before it has brought in its report, has caused |the Navy to do a lot of shifting of manpower. A little prodding around turns up a lot of stories about how agency heads are humping to increase the efficiency of their bureaus before they come in with 1944-45 budget requests. A deputy administrator in OPA, @ former Philadelphia banker, dis. covered that OPA was using 30 pay- voll department His that his Majesty, the King, has |tions are a healthy thing in most given me the task of announcing today, the Thirteenth of Qctober, a declaration of war against, Ger- { ‘The British, Soviet-and American Governments have acknowledged the Italian pledge and will submit to the will of the Italian people after the Nazis have been driven from the homeland. d Right of People Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin said. it is understood that “nothing can detract from the absolute and untrammeled right of the people of Italy for constitutional means to decide the Democratic form of Government that will eventually while experienced executives are| |’AFL to take them in “as is,” foes of | etter. employes. (Continued on, Page Five) irt-martial and ballot in Cortland County, N. Y. Significantly, the proposal was in-| serted on Sept. §§, despite the fact that ballots were malled to the sol- diers on Sept. 20. In other wordp, the troops would not get the m!t with the local! option law writfen on it, therefore would be unable to vote on it. Democratic [gader Morgan ap- pealed the before Supreme Court Judge Coens in Cortland County as ui tional. Morgan contended tha¢ if any prohibition measure is to bg on the ballot here| at home, it must also be/on the bal- lot voted on by sgilors and soldiers. Judge Coon ruled the WCTU-spon- sored move unggnstitutional, since it deprives the soldiers of their right to vote. (Continned on Page Four)_ action on legislation to boost benefit payments to dependents of service men in enlisted grades, was put off today by the death of Congressman Creal. e ORE DELEGATES FOR 1944 6. 0. P. CONVENTION SEEN WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. — The 1944 Republican Convention will have a delegate voting strength of 1,058, an increase of 58 over 1940, 30 States and Hawali showing gains in delegates. Alaska's number will remain the same—three delegates, turned down. ——————— House Commitiee To Study Requests For Public Money WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. — Con fronted with mounting Congression- al economy demands, the Senate Appropriations Committee decided on an enlargement of its staff of experts to permit closer scrutiny on requests. The Committee also temporarily delayed a decision whether to un- of lend-lease spending. dertake an immediate investigation PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.—Daniel | the miners’' chief made plain their i Donohue, “lifer,” entered the hos-| dissatisfaction, and plunged the con- i pital room of nine-year-old ,pvelyn‘venuon immediately into a debate. ;Henderson and laid some miniature| Four speakers took the floor, all toys he had carved on her bed. |eritical in some degree with the A few minutes later he under- | committee’s report. went, for the second time, a painful | e Iskin grafting for the badly burned.; |back of the little patient. | | Donohue when first chosen said he | “MK ouo'Arlo"S “wanted to do something for some- | body.” He again volunteered to give | NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — OClosing more skin when it is needed. |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Donohoe is serving a life term |Stock today is 6'x, Anaconda 25%i, ifor the killing of a police chief in |Bethlehem Steel 57%, Curtiss | Hamburg, Pa., in 1929. | Wright 7%, International Harvester ——————— |67, Kennecott 307, New York Cen- HOTEL GUESTS |tral 17%, Northern Pacific 1 Among the guests registered at United States Steel 52, Pound $4.04. the Baranof Hotel are Sidney T.| Dow, Jones averages today are Harrington, Wilson B. Seltzer, Fred as follows: industrials 13648, rails McGrath and H. E. McMahan, 34.80, utilities 21.19, {am entitled to a cou | welcome one anytime, however I |realize a court-martial at this time' icould only be had at the expense of “the war effort because of re-| |ulting interferences of very im- portant witnesses in very important duties. Essential witnesses of high rank are now active in the theatres, |of war and there would also be igreat difficulty in assembling | them.” v Kimmell is now associated with a INew York engineering firm He :was naval commander at Pearl Har- | bor at the time the Japanese at- tacked. ——.———— | PAA MAN HERE L. A. Poster, employee !Pan American Airways is at the Baranof Hotel, of thl‘ a guest, i payroll is going out today as effic- bank, with one-third of OPA’s per- sonnel, employed only three. He sent some of his best to Philadelphia to .study the bank payroll depart- ment system. As a result, OPA’'s JAP PUPPET EMPEROR IS CONSIDERED SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.—Rep. ® | Will Rogers, Jr., saying the problem ® of conquered Japan will “be tough 0|tndnd." has passed along for eon- ® 'sideration installing a Japanese ® puppet emperor by the United States ® on the grounds he would be useful iently as-ever and so are a lot of those 30 employes. The FBI probably has the tightest and most efficient personnel of any government agency. In _ spite of (Continuea on fage Twor ->e e o 00 v 0o 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. for Tuesday, Oct. 12 Maximum 49; Minimum 41 Rain .10 : o o o 00 0 0 0 0 o @ in reaching the Oriental mind.