The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. XLI., NO. 9473. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRI-SS PRICE TEN CENTY ENEMY THROWN BACK IN ITALY FIGHTING 60 U. S. Bombers Lost on Raid on German NATZIS FLEE, TERRIFIC AIR FIGHT REPORTED Shambles Made, However, '; of War Industry Plants at Schwein furt BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Gen. H. H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Air Forges, reports that 60 Flying Fortresses and 593 crew mem- bers were lost in yesterday’s raid on Schweinfurt but at “least half of the crew members are believed alive and prisoners of war, on the basis of past ex- perience.” Arnold added the American bombers encountered the “most 4 intense figher opposition so far mel in Eurgpe but the payoff is the destruction of the Nazi ball bearing industry.” LONDON, Qet. 15.—The Germans, " massing the most effective opposi- tion, downed a record number of 60 American Fortresses of a heavy raiding force that yesterday made I RS Al AR e /2 (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | WASHINGTON — Now that the tumult over the Senate's secret ses- sion has partially abated, Senate leaders are carefully evaluating the report which their globe- clrcllng colleagues brought back. Here are the main points whmh‘ have stood out after the first jolt of the report subsided. 1. The five Senators were not called in by the President or the State Department for consultation after they returned. Despite the fact that cooperation with the Sen- ators is all-important, and despite the fact that these Senators had first-hand knowledge, no one in the executive branch of the government asked them gbout it. 2. State Department policy has been so generous with the British (some Senators feel it was Church- illian influence over F.D.R. that American public opinion is likely to feel that the British have put us on the little end of the Allied horn. Such a reversion of public opin- ion, it is believed by the majority of Senate leaders, would be tragic in the extreme, since the backbone of U. 8. policy must be cooperation | with Britain. However, unless the : State Department and White House ¢ tighten their policy, American pub- lic opinion is bound to become anti- British. As one Senator expressed ' it, “There is nothing the American people resent more than being taken ? for suckers.” LAND-GRABBING 3. The five globe-trotters brought § back a pictyre of pational grabbing for territory and bases which more than ever convinced saner senator- ia} heads that the only solution for { “iworld peace is collective security. “If the big three—Russia, U. 8., and Britain—now begin grabbing among themselves,” remarked one Senator, “we might just as well get ready for the next war right away. Nevér were three nations stronger and better equipped to grab. The only alternative is for these three giants to work out their future by cooperation and collective security.” 4. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts emerged not only as the “chief villain” of the drama, but the man who is already plan- ning to play the role of his famous grandfather in knifing any collect- ive security pact after the war. This was the conclusion not only of Democrats but Republicans, some of them New England neighbors of Lodge’s. Both sides were boiling mad. His only defenders were Sen- ator “Happy” Chandler of Ken- (Continued on Page Four) Invasion (orner No. 1 SOUTHAMPTON | | | ArGENTAR { Monfacne N ! J In his recent speech before the House of Commons, Prime Minister ‘Winston Churchill emphasized that the primary aim of Allied strategy is to strike at the Nazis across the channel in occupied France. This map shows the area where the story of the “second front” may begin —the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, starting at Le Havre and | running around the Brest peninsula to St. Nazaire. This section is i within easy access of supply bases in Britain and could be covered | by an Allied fighter plane umbrella. | President's Swmg o | Right Already Slarlmg | Plenty Chin-Wagging | . By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—What- ever else may be said about the ap- pointment of Edward R. Stettinius,| Jr., as Undersecretary of State (and much may be said, none of it bad) | Washington political observers saw ----yelous| it as just one more step in the President’s long swing to the right| ‘n\nd another bit of setting the Dem- ocratic administration house in lorder before the 1944 elections. In view of the swing and the BUTBLOW UP DNIEPER DAMiE Dmeprosiroy Dynamued in Desperate Effort to Halt Russian Drive (By Associated Press) Waters from the great Dnieper, Dam, tryside once more as the German |troops in their flight from Zapor-: ozhe blew up the $110,000,000 Dn‘e- prostroy Dam. This announcement came over the Berlin radio, acknowledging the Nazi retreat irom Zaporozhe, long held southern key base and guar- dian fortress of the Crimea. The {report indicated the Germans had succeeded in repairing the dam after |the Russians had destroyed its use- fulness themselves when falling 'back from the Dnieper in 1941. It was then declared to be the great- est piece of self-sabotage of nll time. By blowing up the dam, fl'vw {miles northwest of Zaporozhe, the! Germans evidently hoped to sull‘ the Russian advance westward and prevent entrapment of the garri-| sons in the Crimea believed to num-‘ i ber more than 100,000 trogps. ‘The dyns “of “the dumn . wakk. unable to spoil, however, the real Russian victory at Zaporozhe brideghead, the Red Star said, |which was the last German hope of | protecting the railway to the Cri-' mea through Melitopol A from the north and by checking the Russian |offensive in the south. One military columnist wrote in |London that victory “may even be much greater than at Stalingrad,” pointing out by crossing the Dnieper in force at Zaporozhe the Russians are in a position to drive along the inner lines of the German forces south of the Dnieper and in the Crimea. { Other London commentators said the German forces in Russia are 'divided both geographically by the |Russian successes and by the ne- cessity of sending topnotch fighters the largest in Europe were’ |sent rolling over the Russian couh- Look, fellers—Hedy Lamarr's a pin-up girl now! Her studio savs this is the first time in her career she’s posed for leg art. Maust come under the heading of contributions to soldier and civ- ilian morale. POLICE COURT FINES John Anderson was fined $25.in/ the City Police Court this morning on a drunkenness charge and Christian Raymond Graham was fined $25 and given 5 days in the City Jail on the same charge, | State Department vacancy, it’s sur- prising that none of us here saw ithe Stettinius appointment coming. | Stettinius is not only a scion of, but a success in, big business. His young Edward was born to wealth. For some years after his graduation from the University of Virginia, he was known by the very dubiously | complimentary title of Prince of Steel.” He lived; or rather worked it down. Coming up the| hard way, through the General| * | Motors shops, he became the $100,~ 000-a-year chairman of the board of G.M. before he was 40 and quit - |that job to take a $1-a-year assign- ment in the war effort three years ago. In spite of that capitalistic back- " 1ground, if there is any delicacy .of | relationships with. Russia, as has been hinted, Stettinius should be one of their first choices for a| man in the State Department to deal with. As Administrator erally conceded that he has been one of the greatest successes in ‘Washington, he battled long and hard to fulfill Russian demands when they needed help most. | servers here see as most significant {the fact that Stettinius is one more of the President's moves to gouge out the political sore spots and plug them with conservatives. “They consider it as part of the whole cloth that was started on the loom when Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox were brought in to be Secretaries of War and Navy; when |the parade of production officials iénded with Donald Nelson, as chief of WPB, and Charles L. Wilson as his right-hand man: when ;OPA was shaken up to make way for Prentiss Brown and then reshaken to put in Chester Bowles as virtual {business manager of the price con- trol agency. | (Continued on Page Two) father was a Morgan partner and “Crown of | Lend-Lease, in which job it's gen-| Regardless of that, however, ob-| to the Italian front. The North 'Russian forces are now divided from Ithose in the south by the great Pinsk marshes bordering the Nor- !thern Ukraine in White Russia which form an effective barrier un- til the arrival of extremely cold | weather. | Meanwhile Melitopol, about 125 miles south of Zaporozhe, is iso- lated by other Soviet columns and m.s fall is expected hourly, a Rus- sian commumque indicated. AXIS. PROTEST AZORESUSEBY ALLIED FORCES Germany Doesn’t Say Whether or Not She { Will Declare War | LONDON, Oct. 15.—Germany and Japan have protested to Portugal |over the granting of bases in the Azores to the British. The Nazis angrily served notice | they reserved the right to take re- taliatory action. Germany left un- stated, however, whether she would | g0 so far as to declare war on the Portuguese. Announcing the protest, a Berlin {radio called Portugal’s act a “severe violation of neutrality.” | The Toyko broadcast gquoted lly | Japanese spokesman as saying the‘ Allled acquisiton of the Azores was | “one more example of the Anglo- American violation of international law as in the case of the seizure of Madagascar and was a strong, un-| justified pressure exercised on a weaker power,” | prehension at the taking in ——s Naples Rallroad Llnes Deslroyed American troops entering Naples after German troops had been driven this wreckage in the railroad yard. Terrific aerial bombardment and artillery fire caused damage. Wirephoto via biznal Corps Raldiophoto) Air Dreadnaught Is Now “Added fo Army Forces; Super-Bombers Dellvered ARGENTINA ‘Amerlcan super-bomber, hauling more explosives and with a greater | {is now in production, A number of the deadly air giants Dwmnng the Liberator and Boe- mg Flying Fortresses, the new dxcudnaughl is reckoned capable of bnngmg the innermost Nazi pro- !duction centers and also the Japan- hylese Empire “within sight” of the , United States. The bomber’s statistical compari- ‘son to the Flying Fortresses are |not obtainable at this stage. | Gen. H. H. Arnold, Commander Army Air Force, however, Suspensmn of Jewis Newspapers Draws | Sharp Words b Lob lof the WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. fPlul-‘upped off the difference with the dent Roosevelt has sharply rebuked remark the Liberators and Fort- Argentina for suspending publica- [resses are the “last of the small tion of Jewish newspapers, terming | bombers.” weeks Argentina has been reproved for being the only American nation tions with the Axis. Secretary of State Cordell Hull previously sent a | 'said that primarily the suspension | of the Jewish newspapers concerned | ple, but added: “I cannot forbear to give ex-| cost for Mo'onsfs Tires still maintaining diplomatic rela- | the Argentine government and peo- | Says w0u'd Mean ngher i the action in line with character- istics of the Nazi doctrines. This is the second time in recent RooSEvElT strongly worded message refusing HIIS TAR'FF Argentina’s request for lend-! lease‘ assistance. | Roosevelt made the statement at a | ON RUBBER | press confefénce with newsmen nnd‘ pression to my own feeling of ap-! this | hemisphere, action so obviously anti- | Semitic in nature and so closely | identified with one of the most| WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — The repugnant features of the Nazl | president advocates that in the post- | doctrine.” war world, any effort to impose a | |high tariff on natural rubber be; Slo(K ouol“'"o“s ! opposed in order to assure a cheap | and plentiful supply of tires for American cars. NEW YORK, OC'- 15. — Closing | This view, he said, was expressed | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine last night in toasts at a stag dinner stock today is 6%, American Can given at the White House for Presi- 88%, Anaconda 25':, Bethlehem ‘denL Lescot of Haiti Steel 587, Curtiss Wright 7%, In-| At the dinner, the President said, ' temuuonal Harvester 68%, Kenne- | “When I'm out of the White House | cott 307, New York Central 18%,'I hope Congress won't put any kind | Northern Pacific 15%, United States |of tariff on rubber for American | Steel 52%, Pound $4.04. tires just to keep some synthetic Dow, Jones averages today are as plants going.” e follows: Industrials, 137.90; rails,| Roosevelt said if the tariff were 35; utflitl?h 21.40. {fmposed it would mean that every BB, o Vs 5 ! American owning a car would have HAS NEW JOB |to pay 50 percent more for his rub- Joseph Whiting, for several years ber, a resident of Juneau, today begun] The President didn’'t say when he his duties as traffic representative hoped to be out of the White with the Alaska Coastal Airlines, House, range than any existing warplane, wexe delivered ' to the Army last | from the coastal Italian city found (AP *l( AHILLIS | SMASHEDBY U.S. PLANES \ 1 WASHINGTON, Oct, 15.—A new‘Japans Chlei Alrport on| Bougainville Island Under Heavy Atfack 'THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct.| 15—A new raid on Kahili, Japan’s chief airport on Bougainville Is-| land by American planes downed 12 Zeros, according to announce- ment from General Douglas Mac- | Arthur. The commumque added that the| latest bag of enemy planes is added !to the previous report of 21 Jap planes downed ‘in the Bouwglnvme sector, In the néw raid more than 100 American bombers and fighters at- tacked Kahili, Mitchell’ medium | bombers being used: for the raid, land attacks on shipping are believed [to have sunk two. enemy cargo ves- sels. Japanese: Air Force raids on Al- |lied New Guinka positions are .characurlud as harmless. The Kahili Airdrome is the big- gpst now barring the northward pxogress of the Allies toward Ra- baul New Britain. In the daylight attack by American Liberator heavy | |bombers and other aircraft, fires ‘wele started in the supply area and |were visible for 30 miles. Twelve! out of twenty-five interceptors were | |shot down, and all raiders got home |safely. - e ‘Operations of Lend-Lease fo ! | | Be Invesfigaled‘ WASHINGTON Oct. 15. Senate Annreniatiops Committea bas agreed to informally investigate | lend-iease opeartions in conjunction wuh the Truman War Investigating Committee. ' OSBRI Sr ant McCORMICK ON TRIP John McCormick, Director of Se- lective Service in Alaska, is out of| town on a routine business trip.| His itinerary will include Wrnnull, Petersburg and Ketchikan. — eee FROM KETCHIKAN Hugo H. Schmalck of Ketchikan,| is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN/ — The; FIFTH ARMY RUSHES MEN OVER RIVER ,Advances Along Entire Front Reported- Warships Aftack BULLETIN — LONDON, Oct. 15.~The Cerman radio tonight says the German forces in Haly have evacuated C om the main Termoli-Vinchiaturo highway after embittered street fighting on the outskirts of the town itself and said four in- fantry divisions and one tank division under American General | | Clark are attacking along the Volturno Rive ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 15. — The main forces of the Allled Fifth Army poured across the Volturno River to newly-won bridgeheads today, and dispatches from the front sald Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark’s forces are throwing the enemy back along the entire front, from the west coast to the mountain backbone of Italy. ‘The message told of decisive gains all along the front in the course of furfous and bloody fighting. It was told of British infantry and tanks, landed from Britirh vessels on the north. side of the Volturno early ‘Wednesday. ' At the same time the PFifth Army was carrying out this frontal as- sault, Gen, Sir Bernard Montgomery's | Eighth Army also was advancing on the inland sector of the trans- peninsular front, capturing the town of Casacalenda, 20 miles northwest of Bonefro on the north side of the Cigno River and 20 miles southwest of Termoli. Aid From Sea Rolling up on the enemy’'s coast- al anchor, the British amphibious |force which landed on the north |side of the Volturno quickly dug in | positions along the canal, while British naval gups beiched steel at the strong German defensive positions * behind the coastal rail- road line on the high ground four | miles north of the river. The British destroyers Leforey and Lookout, and the Netherlands gunboat, Flores, hurled, tons of ex- ploqlvel into the hills as the terrific fight raged along thecoast. ‘The Germmns obyioysly were un- easy over the possibility. of such a (landing and had concentrated huge :|artillery groups donlmuu the heights, 3 19 Storm Olm | Meanwhile, American: ‘troons |stormed the heights northeast of Capua in the.face of deadly Ger- man resistance, and consolidated | positions to hold the high ground screemnc the all-important Capua [ bridgeheads where the major body (of the Fifth Army is streaming into | the offensive. | A German communique said the Allies have “superior infantry and tank forces on both sides of Capua.” | ‘Britisher fo Head | Mounlb_afle_n Staff * WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — The appointment of Lt. Oenenl Sir | Henry Royds Pownall,'British Army, | e Chief of Staff on Lord Louis Mountbatten's South Asia Allied Command, and Major General Al- bert Coady Wademeyer of the United States Army as Deputy Chief of { Staff, has been announced by the War Department. In (July, 1936, Wedemeyer went |to Berlin to attend the German | War College and remained there un- il Auxusl 1938. -> PETERMANS IN JUNEAU Mr, and Mrs. Ray Peterman, who recently enjoyed a trip Outside are rec‘lsurod at the Gastineau until {they secure passage to retwn to | their home in Sitka. Peterman is a building contractor, formerly in business in Juneau. received after another communique