The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 14, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XL, NO. 9472. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943 _— PRICE TEN CENTY = —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS STRONG NAZI LINES IN ITALY CRACKE Japanes | | | | PLANES ARE SHOT UP IN BIGATTACK Seventeen Thousand Ionsf of Shipping Sunk- ! Raid Is_§tlrprise ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct 14—A huge -air armada crushed Japan'’s « southwest Pacific fortress at Rabaul on Tuesday, wrecking 30 percent of the planes and sinking 17,000 tons of shipping in one blow that is assessed by the American Alr. Commander as the “turning point of the war” in this sector. Lieut. Gen. George Kenny's Air Force surprised the enemy com- pletely, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports. The raid was carried out at high noon, taking the Jap force at Ra- on Page Two) - The VWashingion (Continu MEALTIME ON Fortress a MUDDY ATTU' WHEN THE BOYS on Attu toast an American victory, they never use that old standby: “Here’s mud in your eye!” This photo of a Yank eating outdoors is explanation enough. Almost everywhere you turn on the island you sink into mud above your ankles. (International) Merry - Go-Round Sgate Depariment on By DREW PEARSON { (AMator Robert 8 Allen oo active dutr.) | i WASHINGTON—Big Bill Jeffers has left town, giving the impression that all is well with rubber, but the pinch in production of new synthelic yubber tires has already begun. | Jeffers did net disclose that ac- tual ‘production: of tives is falling 50 per -cent behind schedule. The syn- thetic rubber is coming out in xc_;od quantity, but the job of converting that rubber into tires is lagging dangerously. Exact figures cannot be dLsL‘]OaBd‘ for reasons of security, but offic- | ials here do not conceal the fact that the production of tires, month by month, is only 80 to 60 per cent of the estimates of the Rubber D". rector’s Office. ! Synthetic rubber began coming out of the factories around January, 1, and all new tires for civilian pur- poses have been made of wholly synthetic rubber since the first of April. But there are severe shortages of fabric ‘material;, tire-making equip- ment, and manpower. These short- ages, rather than rubber, are hold- ing back new tires. This is why OPA has denied most motorists the right to buy new tires. Until a few days 8go, anybody who grove as much as 241 miles a month | (only 8 miles a day) could get a certificate for a new tire if an old tire, wore out. Now the figure has been upped to 601 miles a month. This means that 75 per cent of U. 8. cars will be eligible for only “grade three” or used tires. i ! Spot: (an It Stand Up Under Presep_@lrain! REPATRIATE LINER NOW U.S. BOUND 0ver.0ne Thousand Amer- icans Coming Home | | By JACK STINNETT ’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Credit for successfully steering us through world affairs or blame for ineptitude | will come to the Department of State, not on the basis of what has happened to date but what happens from now on. The State Department building, flanking the White House on the west, is a relic of the Jast century. |It’s a gray, towering rococco fire- itrap. Tt's the .oldest-fashioned build- ;‘mg in Washington and the depart- ment it houses was the same way |when we were plunged into war. | None of our government struc- jture, our Army, Navy, or State | | JAPS STRIKE UNSUCCESSFUL BLOW AT A Highly Flyin_d_Bombers it First Raid Since Occu- 4 pation-No Damage WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. — The| ! Navy Department today reported that the Japs have attempted bombing of Attu Island, the first' since that Aleutian base was wresf- ed from the enemy late in May, A communique, not giving' the |date of the raid, said the Japs flew high over the island, aiming | their bombs at Massacre Bay in- |stallations. It was the first pdid | carried out since the American .ge- cupation, according to the report, and the bombs were dropped with-' {out causing damage. 5 The American fighting craft flgw up to intercept the bombers and they were driven off. No planes | were downed. } The Jap bombers presumably |came from the enemy base at Para- ! mushiru, and it is assumed the as- i an attempt to halt Ameri- raids on that Jap base in the . hit cn various ocrasions by bembers flying the 630 3 2Chieti I \ Arrows indicate Allied Fifth Army occupation of Pontelandolfo, coine of the Calore River, and the Eighth Army advance ngar the Adriatic nautical mile route from Atiu, - %4 reported poised to sirike up the Volturno River Vally throken arow). in Ttaly as of October 11. (AP Wirephoto map) GREEN AGAIN FOUR MAJOR CHOSEN HEAD, ‘pyss ¢ITIES A.F.OFLABOR - ynpp siEGE Delegates to Convenfion Choose New Orleans for 1944 Meet BOSTON, Mass.,, Oct. 14.— Wil- liam Green has been elected Presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor for his twentieth term. The delegates to the convention Saving Ar Soviets Hasten fo Liberate . Kiev Before German | Demolitions Destroy It POLITICOS RAPPED BY MOSCOW, Oct. 14—The Red| Army, now inside or on the thresh- old of four of Russia’s largest cities, in Italy. Fifth Army forces were Navy Men, Cited for AreinTurn Resmed; |advance, from Far East | Department was totally prepared for {global war. When Presdent Roosevelt started WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. -— One |looking around for men and agencies thousand two hundred and thirty- jon which to place the responsibilities six American repatriates from the |of our relationship with foreign na- Far East are aboard the exchange tions in this struggle, he bypassed liner Teia Maru now enroute to the State Department almost com- Portuguese India, the State Depart- ipletely. The Board of Economic ment announces. | Warfare, many phases of lend-lease, Also aboard are 121 Canadians the Office of Coordinator of Inter- and 41 nationals of Latin American | republics. All repatriates will be exchanged next week for an equal number of Japanese nationals who left this country September 2 on the ex- change liner Gripsholm. No names of Alaskans who may be |aboard the Teia Maru have so far Dealers today have “working in- ventories” of mnew tires amounting to only one million, as against a desired. figure of four million, and a normal peacetime figure of 16 million. NOTE—Most serious is the truck tire situation. Current require- ments call for 750,000 new truck tires per month, but spokesmen for the industry warn that not more than 300,000 should be expected. CAPITAL CHAFF Governor Tom Dewey, dining the other day with ex-Congresswoman Ruth Pratt of the Standard Oil mil- lions, reaffirmed that under no cir- cumstances would he run for the presidency * * * John H. Perry, the Florida publisher, had to fill out no less than 11 forms in an effort to try to buy a dump truck been released. ——e - AMMUNITION SHIP IS BLOWN UP, HAMBUR '10,000-ton German Craft Explodes - Airdrome Reported Damaged for his Kentucky farm. But though the truck had awaited a Ccustomer for two years and the tires were deteriorating, the local OPA board STOCKHOLM, Oct. 14.—A 10,000 ton' German ammunition ship ex- ploded in Hamburg harbor is the American Affairs, foreign relief and i rehabilitation, part of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, for- eign propaganda (now under OWI) and several other activities all nor- {mally would have been State De- | partment activities, The hidebound structure of the | State Department couldn’t possibly | be stretched to include these activi- i ties. New agencies had to be set up | outside, with Secretary of State Hull and his staff never employing more | than certain advisory and veto pow- ers,” That some, sort of a blow-up was coming seemed inevitable to many observers, but that it was coming i within the department wasn’t quite !so clear. The differences between | Secretary Hull and long-time under- Isecretnry‘ Sumner,; Welles, were {fundamental. = Primarily they are | the differences between a log-cabin statesman who has given the best ipart of his life to purely domestic ‘anms and a polished graduate of Groton and Harvard who has de. ivoted his entire career to the frock: coated diplomacy which is bound up 'in generations of State Department tradition . / 7 2 Nor was there ever any doubt when the showdown came which said No. Finally Parson Albion Ar- report received here by the Nor- nold, for whom Perry is rebuilding a Baptist church, threatened to de- nounce the board from his pulpit. It looks as if Perry would now get the dump truck * * * The Ameri- can Red Cross e (Continued on Page Four) wegian Legation. The explosion occurred near the Banak airdrome used by Nazi bombers striking at Murmansk- bound Allled shipping, and was has received many Probably caused by Allied bombs!\ dropped during a raid. The air- drome was heavily damaged. man would have to go. To sacrifice and ‘court the enmity of a man who jcommands the public and. Con- gressional respect that Secretary Hull does would have been an un- thinkable Administration error. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that ‘| (Continued on Page Two) which has been in session here for one week have chosen New Orleans for ‘the 1944 convention city. e e S FOURPEOPLE MAROONED AT ARCTIC POST Planes Mus?fllempt Res- cue-Both Canadians, Americans fo Aid OTTAWA, Oct. 14.—Isolation of three men and one woman at Can- ada’s northermost trading post, 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle was disclosed today by the authorities. They plan to rescue by long- range plane Mr. and Mrs. W, Heslop, D. W. Munrow, and C. L. DeLisle, Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable, who are at Ross above the ice floes, which for two years have kept away the supply ship. Heslop, manager of the Hudson's Bay post, sent word of their plight by radio, saying there was only a month’s supply of food left. The trading company asked the Royal Canadian Air Force for aid, and American flying aid is also| possible. by e, SELLS HIS DRUG STORE AT Kiev, Gomel, Zaporozhe and Melit- opol, appeared today to be on the way to winning some of their great-| s victorie. ‘Britisher Doesn’t Name| Surging across the mud flats on| 5 the lower Dnieper River, the Soviets coun'ry Bu' Implles United Stafes fought their way to Maelitopol, a city of 76,000, after breaking the German hold on the Molochna | b 14—Prime Min- River line. ! LONDON, Oct. On the middle Dnieper River, the 1., winston Churchill observed in| Red Army forces, within two miles 1o mHouse of Commons that as ided with the seizure of both banks -Solid line was approximate front my Fliers, - ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, Oct. 14.A Navy bomber crew, cited for the rescue of Army flyers under Jupanese gunfire at Kiska, are thankful to the Army in return for their early rescue from a lonely is- land. “We had only two cans of peanuts for emergency rations when we made the island beach,” said Lt. J. D. Jolly of Turlock, Calif. Thirteen men, eight of the crew and five passengers, crawled wet and cold onto the beach when their plane was forced down due to me- chanical trouble on October 8, and wrecked on a rocky reef. “We still had one can of peanuts next day,” recalled Jolly, “but Army bombers came over and signalled and we knew it wouldn't be long, so we afe them right away.” A boat was notified by the Army flyers which rescued the men from |uninhabited Amlias Island in the iCentral Aleutians. Radioman An- {thony M. Mitchell, Owensboro, Ky., {said the plane taxied for three hours along the southern end of! of the Ukrainian capital of KieV, weoon as the war is over the sol- hastened in their eyr_(orl.s to take the‘ diers will leave off fighting and the .n.v. hefore the Nazis complete their politicians will begin. deniclitions. The capture of Kiev, “Perhaps that will be rather a will be a prize of the first order for| pjpy » e | | pity, he continued, “but at any "“"e Red Army. At the time of itsrate, it will not be so bad an ex- capture by the Germans in Septem- | mple as some of the other coun- {ber, 1941, the population of KieV|tries which I will not venture to ‘\no withdrawal appeared underway Fort' | was 850,000. | Gomel, at the northern end of| |the active front, became a battle-| |ground as the Soviet forces crossed | the Sozh River and reached that| |center in White Russia. | | The Red Army in the south ap- !peared battling for a substantial prize, that of bottling up in Crimea the German 17th Army. * Russian frontline dispatches said | | | and added the German's main rail- way communcations in the Crlmefl.‘ are already cut at Melitopol, leaving | ithe Nazis only a single track line | | recently completed farther west to | {Kherson to effect evacuation. 1 { A Reuters dispatch from Moscow {received in London said that fresh‘ divisions of German troops are being rushed to Kiev in an effort to fend | off the Russian drive. H i |namel where the soldiers are fight- ing abroad and the politicians are fighting at home with equal vigor.” FLYNN AGAIN | INVOLVED IN. COURT CASE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14—Actor! Errol Flynn has been sued by Shirley Evans Hassau, 21, who alleges he is the father of her daughter. ‘The complaint demands that | Flynh be rmally adjudged the | J Amlias Island seeking the beach. |“We were bailing all the time,” he said, “then about a hundred yards from the beach we hit a reef, the plane balanced on the rock bottom, but the waves of a 20-foot high! Dreaker knocked the plane off the| rock and it sank.” Radioman Johnny C. Butts of San Antonio, Texas, said: “The water was awful damn cold. Boy, we got a fire going right away, and just about sat on it all night.” They were spotted about two a. m. the next day. KODIAK BEAR IN COLORADO 20015 - TOUGH CUSTOMER COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Oct. 14.—Alaska Lou, 600-pound The dispatch asserted the fighting | er o aBout e v 1o 108 Mobdtaat thee. s (father of hér child led be required | Alaska Kodiak bear, gave Sitka, Battld ot Drel bl ek |to pay for the child’s monthly sup- [1,000~pound killer the brush-off, but and Belgorod 1ast {port. The child is identified as her indifference to Sitka's ardor s | Marylyn Evaps.Flynn, Mrs. Hassau cost her life, ¢ Rabaul Crushed in Raid Allied Forces Gain in Central laly FIFTH ARMY IN CROSSING OF VOLTURNO Bridgeheads Established- Tanks Rushed Over 1o Smash Germans CLARK'S FORCES TAKE ' ADVANTAGE OF WEATHER “Hit Them Hard" Is War Cry - Troops Face Lash- ing Hurricane of Steel (By Associated Press) British and Americen troops of Clark’s Fifth Army have cracked the strong German lines along the Volturno River' in a fierce night attack and early yesterday estab- lished several armor reinforced |bridgeheads across that most form- |idable obstacle path. Clark struck at a time to take advantage of favorable weather when dry , ground 'allowed deploy- ment of his forces after a terrific’ artillery barrage had softened the enemy's defense positions on the north bank of the. river, Engineers bridged the Volturno River to get American tanks across the stream which for days had been virtually impassable because of high | water, but the Germans rushed fresh contingents south from the Rome area. in recent days to meet the expected attack. As the British and Americans clawed their way up the steep banks, fierce fighting raged up and down the north side of the Volturno, Seven German divisions are in the line across Italy to oppose the Allied Landing Admitted The German news agency, hroad- casting from Berlin, admits Allied troops landed at the mouth of the Volturno tonight in a flanking at- tack on German positions which have been held motionless for sev- eral days because of rain which swelled the 100 to 200-yard Vol- turno River into a torrent and bogged down the enemy under Maj. Gen, Clark. Clark immediately took advantage of the subsiding floods to send his warriors against the Germans with the battle cry of, “Hit Them Hard." Hurricane of Steel | The Germans attempted to throw the projected offensive off balance by a desperate attack of their own against Capau on the south side of the Volturno but Allled troops did " (Continued on Page Two) WARSHIPS SHELLING GERMANS Berlin Radio Broadcast De- scribes Great Battle, Volturno River (By Associated Press) Several warships, standing off the Volturno River, are hurling shells into the German positions, the Ger- man radio tonight says. The broadcast also describes the attacks of the American and British forces as most violent and these attacks are launched alony the broad front in Italy. “In carrying out the large seale attack in the Volturno sector,” the broadcast says, “the enemy now has support of warships and a large T e 1is the wife of Henry Hassau, singer, CONGER. IN TOWN {whom she married in April. The Frank Hermann has sold his drug| Gene M. Conger, with the Nationaj | 1ild is two years old. store at Kodiak to L. K. Wodlinger | Housing Agency, is registered at the | 28T e and is now in Juneau associated |Baranof from Seattle. He has been 1he First snow fell at Kodiak on with his brother, Russell Hermann,'On an official trip to Haines and September 24 and hilltops were at the Juneau Drug Company. Skagway. jcovered, KODIAK, COMES TO JUNEAV| ‘anding formation for the purpose of rolling back the German lines is wnnounced. One landing party is tonight under the withering fire of ur artillery. Airplanes are roaring overhead attempting to put our shore positions out of commission,” | Cheyenne z00 attendants found Sitka raging over Alaska Lou who |was eviscerated. They drove him loff with a fire hose. He killed two Russian brown bears in the Spring and is kept in selitary confinement now.