The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI, NO. 9474. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” J UNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1943 : MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY =iaa—— | GERMANS FALL BACK IN CENTRAL ITALY New SHIPPING OF ENEMY GETS Raids | Hit National War Fund Drive Staris Here Last Week, 0d_qber The drive n Juneau to raise at home, I ask all of you to think Ja 'WILLKIE IN TALK ABOUT NOMINATION CRIMEA TRAP 100,000 NAZI TROOPS FACE | | | panese 1In Cheaters of Public, Smoked Out of Hole, Found Cheat \ {$12,000 for the National War Fund about it carefully before you give. | I ask you to remember that the, USO is your share of what we are! doing for our own fighting men jand the forces behind the lines. |I ask you to consider that War, | Prisoners Aid does what no govern- ! ment can do. I ask you to think! of United Seamen’s Service in terms| 1of the people's debt to the men Gives Keynote Address in ;Russians Plungé Steadily Campaign for GOP * Westward Despite Ger- (Candidate ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.— Declaring (By Associated Press) he knew from personal observati Beating back waves of desperate that all the world looks to Amex-|counterattacks in and around Mili- can leadership, Wendell L. Willkie topol, Russian troops are plunging| warned the Republican party not steadily westward across the low DETAILS OF ATTU RAID i GIVEN OUT " South Pacific ing Govl. BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—If you want to find a rat who's cheating Uncle Sam these war days, pump |a little smoke down the.hole and you'll chase out one that lives by cheating the public, too. That at least is the conclusion {of W. H, Woolf, chief of the intel- ligence unit of the U. S. Treasury. Wooli is one ofe Treasury Enforce- ment Agencies Coordinator Elmer to choose a presidential candidate L. Irey’s boys, and his unit's ac- flat plains leading to the Crimea, !tivities alone are now bringing more And I ask you not to forget that “who hedges and qualifies, or whose |in an audacious attempt to entrap ) Juneau, every man,/ woman and ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN, will Jap air bases and shipping at New|and in Juneau, Mayor Harry I. darkest hours of the war. ized in a 350-ton bombing attack of bombs. Heavy bombers made the A meeting of representatives of all the people of Russia, and China, organizations will be called short-|and of all the other United Nations ly to map out a quick drive, butifland especially the unfortunate, in the- meantime, anyone leaving| hungry men, women and children | this locality and desiring to con-|of all the overrun and enslaved tribute may leave the donation wlth{countries——see in your personal and Mayor Lucas. |friendly concern.the brightest ray Instead of conducting 17 separate|of hope and the greatest power for record is ambiguous on the issues ypwards of 100,000 Germans report- of the day.” |ed garrisoning on the great penin- | willkie spoke in a 30-minute g, | radio address last night, considered) nioscow by some to be the keynote address f,rces have in his campaign for the presiden- zgporozhe, industrial city at the lm“lynmnr:m?uon. |bend of the Dnieper River, and ou have heard men call me 1 \g5 il north they are battling said other) invested dispatches successfully Only Damage Is Slight Wound fo One Soldier’s Ear BY NORMAN BELL (Associated Press War Correspondent) than $56,000,000 a year into the Treasury from income tax cheaters, 'to say nothing of the hundreds of millions saved by scaring the pants off crooks who would be holding out on Uncle Sam if the Treasury Woolfs weren't so active. ¢ Among some of the choice chis- elers whose cases have .been writ- | Planes Make Affacks on |wn stare nere on october 24 ana 2 |end on October 30, one full week, VarIOUS BGSGS—RUH- |in which every organization in ways Are Torn Up | child should in duty bound be free — |to subscribe liberally as the fund benefit 17 different national THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct.| organizations. 16—Fliers of the Fifth Air Force; Dr. W. W. Council is chairman and PT boats struck new blows acjor the fund campaign in Alnskn,!wm took our ships across in the Britain this week, a communique| Lucas has been named Chairman. reveals today. | Rabaul, Jap air base, was pulver-{ and Cape Gloucester, airbase on/ New Britain nearest New Guinea, also took a blasting from 24 tons attacks. | ! p Runways were torn up. Fires were campaigns, all are grouped in one,'good in the world today—the sov- started among camp’ installations. the National War Fund. The fol-|ereign voice of the people of the lowing organizations will be bene- United States. At the same time, med‘:mcat‘}‘]d;med, all receiving a certain per-| I ask you, therefore, to give heavy bombers also smashed a €l cent of the total fund: | thoughtfully, and generously, and (Continued on Page Th_"”) United Seamen’s Service. proportionately — remembering as love America less, but because I love her more,” he declared. LT cn PRI internationalist,” he said, “with the| railws | implication that I, thereby, am less wiy “dowh the istiway Bef- |American. I do believe in inter- national cooperation not because I | their ;’ing into the valley. l AN ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, ten off the books in recent months, | Front line dispatches quoted by Oct. 16.—One trivial wound, a bomb| Woolf lists a card sharp, a couple BBC report that half the town ol}xplimer in a soldier's ear, was the of blue-sky mining stock opera- Melitopol is in Russian hands. {only damage inflicted by the Japsitors, a Boston lottery king, a crook= SRR [in their first air raid on the Aleu-led tax advisor and three Japs. |tians since they were driven out. The Washingion |you give, that a share in the Na- !tional War Fund is a share in win- |ning the war and in winning the iright of free men. to live in a | better world. War Prisoner’s Aid. British War Relief Society. Biritsh War Relief Society. French Relief Fund. Friends ‘of Luxembourg. Greek War Relief Association. | | J JapOulpast GERMAN WAR Col. Jean Fogle, intelligence aide to Maj. Gen. Davenport Johnson of the Eleventh Aiy Force, reporting on the October 13 raid, said the Jap timing was good, with eight two- engined bombers striking just be- The gambler was a New York- er, who, Woolf estimates, counted his annual take in six figures. He's' now serving 2% yea t for gambling, but for failure to give a true and honest account of his Norwegian Relief. USO. Polish War Relief. Queen Wilhelmina Fund. Russian War Relief. United China Relief. United Czechoslovak Relief. United Yugoslav Relief Fund. Refugee Relief Trustees. United States Committee for the Care of European Children. President Roosevelt, in Merry-Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—The War Pro- | duction Board has just launched a new drive for iron and steel scrap,| but the drive is imperilled by thei apathy of the steel industry itself.| Last year the industry, worned,l RAMIRELIS MIFFED AT | FDR REBUKE | | | | | | IsRaidedfor Second Time BE SMASHED PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 16—The Japanese equatorial outpost at Makin, more than two thousand| i i miles southwest of Hawaii, was| RedU(e F | g h ' I n g bombed Wednesday for the second fore 8 p. m. | At that period of the day the | visibility is good below,” he said. The raiders were able to escape | puxsuing fighters in the darkness | which' fell ‘an hour later. Five ihundred bombs were dropped in string pattern, he said, aimed at the landing strip and at shipping |in Massacre Bay. Three bombs hit the land and six fell in the’bay as |the planés crossed from the south- take to the Treasury and paying his allotted tax thereon. The lottery king served a short sentence once before for income tax evasion,’ but didn't learn. His{ second offense got him three years. Two Nevada men were the mining stock peddlers who weren't content with sharing their profits with Uncle. In addition to a year apiece, they each drew $20,000 fines. What Woolf describes as “one of INDUSTRY 10 | ‘AIIied Aerial Pounding fo threw everything into the drive, spending a total of $1,800,000 for advertising, for speakers, and for the traveling expenses of school‘ children who had won the right to; christen Liberty ships. This year, the industry is not put- ting up a penny. It would seem toi be gambling on a quick end of the| war, in which case there would be | a sudden drop in the demand for steel and in the price of scrap. I the industry got caught with heavy! inventories of scrap, there would be a big financial loss. Whatever the reason, WPB of—€ ficials complain’ that they are not getting the necessary cooperation from the steel industry. The steel boys admit that there is a threatened shortage of scrap, with a requirement of 15 million tons for the last half of this year, and an inventory of only about § million tons. And there is no ques- tion that the produetion of mu- nitions, merchant ships, and naval the National War Fund campaign, makes the appeal for contributions in the {ollowing address: { "Wi" NOf TO'em'e" A“y My friends and fellow Americans: |ll'el'fel'en(e, SBYS !ra'e We, the people of the United| tory is certain—but that it is still! Afgen'lfle President a long way off and that for it we! a great price. ‘stmngly worded communique from In the genius of the American"-he office of President Ramirez; States, know now that ultimate vic-| are paying and shall have to pay| BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16. people—for freedom, and decency, applied the label “foreigners” to| land friendliness among neighbors some of those who signed the pro- | —lies one of our best weapons for democratic manifesto published yes- that victory and certainly our terday, and said the government greatest insurance for a peace that would not “tolerate any tampering.” will be just and lasting. Our men ! The announcement was distributed ! and our allies know they have at the morning newspaper confer-| made no cevenant with our govem-lenc& ment alone. They know they have; The manifesto published in yes- the backing of all the resources terday morning’s newspapers urged and spirit of the American people!the government, which has persist- themselves. In that conviction'ed in its poliey of neutrality, to ‘sprend operations in the Gilberts, alone lies the winning morale which | no slave of a dictator can ever know. ships is far greater than last year. Furthermore, shipments of iron| ore have fallen off this year by 8! million tons, due to ice and the month-late opening of Great Lakes| navigation last spring. Result of all these factors is that Three Simple Aims That is why I am glad to speak to you about the National War Fund. It is a philanthropic feder- ation with three simple aims: First, to determine the nature and the extent of the war-related at a time when the demand for steel is at record levels, some of the nation’s open hearth steel mills needs; second, to see that everybody has a chance to contribute to the funds required, and third, to chan- may have to shut down for lack of | scrap—unless the scrap drive really: goes places. | NOTE — War sand Navy Depart-| ments are lending their trucks and men to help gather scrap in locali- ties where local manpower and trucking are inadequate. 1 nel the sums raised for its member on time. The National War Fund has the hearty approval and support of all the government agencies concerned |with our management of the war. |agencies wherever American help is! currently most needed—enough andI INSURANCE LOBBY Here are two recent developments in the giant fire insurance lobby to persuade 'Congress to exempt in- surance from the anti-trust laws: (1) the lobby is getting more in- tense; mystery as to what congressmen are really behind the bill. On the House side of the Capitol, the bill exempting insurance com- (2) there seems to be some; {For the National War Fund, by its lunity, its economy, its competent | management, and its elimination of | waste, duplication and delay, is playing a part of Qur total war ef- fort which all of us in Washington regard as an absolute essential. In its unity of purpose and, its federation of agencies without sur- {render of state and local freedom of method, the National War Fund | swing to American solidarity. Today's Presidential pronounce- ment followed President Roosevelt's rebuke yesterday on the banning 'of the Jewish language newspapers. | The ban was lifted last night. " LEWIS ASKS " MINERS T0 END STRIKE Many Thafi;nd Out in| Alabama, Indiana, Is Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—John L. Lewis today called upon thousands of striking Alabama and Indiana miners to return to work, to sacri-| | fice personal interest in favor of|are centers of the Bosnian !imber{MB’o, Gen. Eugene Landrum, com- ! | the war etfort. Power of Nazis U. S. BOMBARDMENT HEAD- QUARTERS IN ENGLAND, Oct. 16. The German war industry will time in less than a month by Am- erican Navy Liberators. No details were given except say the force was small and e ‘turned safely to their land base without loss. On September | to result of Allied aerial 18, during wide-|p o no/ic won't be able to fight| Makin was<hit by both land based and carrier planes. - jor in the air, according to Brig. |Gen Curtis Le May, 36 year old| veteran of European air battles. General Le May said: “The win-' ter holds no hope for Germany, because by spring the Allies will | |have destroyed enough German war RE(APTURE industry, so she cannot fight efféc- | tively, any more.” ! heavy bombardment sguadron con- Le May, commander of the U. S. Two TOWNS | éended the bombing of the Schwein- furt ball bearing plant, where an | | | estimated 50 percent of Germany’s roller bearing are produced, would virtually put out of commission 50 percent of the enemy’s war produc- Two Victorfza_s_Answer Hit- west at 18,000 feet. One landed neaw a house where the soldier aforementioned received a slight ear wound. American fighters took to the air fire. An hour later a full moon to the west. The raide) fighters as stirred up American ager as beavers.” D MURRAY IN WARNINGON RETAIL TAX the neatest rackets recently un- covered by the Treasury” was that rconducted in Ohio by an income tax “expert.”” He lured clients into be so smashed in the spring as a iy time to count thr fleeing planes his office, got their signatures on pounding, and get in one burst of machine-gun income tax returns, collected the tax payments, then changed the FIFTH ARMY TAKES TWO - MORETOWNS Eighth Army Endangers Nazi Volturno Flank ~Fight Bitter ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Oct. 16, — The |th Army, knifing deeper into the territory north of the Volturno Ri- ver, against fierce German counter- attacks, has captured the towns of Caiazzo and Amorosi and the Ger- mans appear to be trying to break away from their positions near the mouth of the river. Calazzo s in the hills a mile north of the Volturno, and Amorisi Is five miles away from the east bank. These towns give the Allles control of the area where the junc- tion of the two rivers is formed, the Volturno bending northward. Fighting is bitter all along the front. The Eighth Army is crashing speedily through heavy resistance in central Italy and has seized the vital road junctions of Vinchia- turo and Campobasso, putting Eighth forces in 10' g S0 Whole Tk of e Nazi defenders of the Volturno line, Several bridges have been thrown across the Volturno and the Fifth Army is pouring heavy equipment into the fray on the north bank. The Nazi's battered air foree came out of hiding for the f time in days, and Allfed anti-alr-’ craft brought down seven of the planes as 15 attempted to destroy. one of the bridges across the Vol turno. % B Allied planes, meanwhile, struel at German communication cem of supplies and medium bombers raided Salonika airfields in Greece. British destroyers in the Adriatic intercepted two Italian ships, load~ ed with Germans, sinking one and capturing the other. effectively any longer on land, sea arose to light the raiders’ way back forms to bring in greater exemp- itions and pocketed the difference betwéen what he paid the collector ’und what his clients had paid him. |One of the slips was listing a $400 immm‘ child exemption for an un- married school teacher. The judge |gave him three years to think that one over. L The Japs, a trio of Joes who operated a restaurant in St. Pe- :m-sburg. Fla., might not have been ,caught at all if it hadn’t been for Pearl Harbor. When the alien property seizures were made right THREE GOLD THIEVES IN JAIL, YUKON WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Oct. 16— after that memorable Sunday, they | The Royal Canadian Mounted Po- ifound two sets of books—one kept|lice pressed the investigation of .in Japanese and one in English. The what is believed to be one of the Jap set showed a profit of $40,000 Yukon's most sensational gold theft . ion. |er'S Appomimen' | “What other method of warfare used would destroy that much in 0' Rommel |the war effort and the loss of“only LONDON, Oct. 16—Yugoslav patriots answered Hitler’s reported Erwin of Marshal 1600 men?” Le May said. appointment Rommel as Commander of Opera- tions in Yugoslavia with two im-| LANDRUM 1§ Says If legElEion Enadt- ‘ed Labor Will Demand Wage Increases WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.— Presi- dent Philip Murray of the CIO blasted away at proposals for the national retail sales tax, bluntly portant victories in widely separated sections of the country, a com- munique from the National Army of Liberation reports. Partisan columns, driven out of their Croatian coastal strongholds at Crkvenica and Kraljevica by German tank formations on Octo- ber 10, reformed to storm the ene- ‘TRANSFERRED warning if such a levy becomes a llaw, labor demand for wage in- | creases will “make up for this un- more than those set up for inspec- {tion of their foster Uncle. It will be noted that with the exception of the Japs, all the wor- thies in this . cross-section were, according to Woolf, playing other games of tag with the law for which they might well have been tapped out. In other words, when nobody else could catch them, the Woolf pack did, These “pros’ in the rackets aren't| rings. A third man, Ian Matheson, was arrested in Vancouver, B. C., and is on his way to Whitehorse for trial. Matheson is alleged to have sold gold “at a rate lower than ac- tuml value.” E. C. Fitzsimmons was sentenced on Thursday by the Territorial Court to 21 days in prison and fined $100 for possessing gold stolen from the Yukon Consolidated Gold Cor~ poration at Dawson City. The | new sales tax levy would be equiv- :]llflifled wage cut. FROM “oRTH Murray added: “The proposed ,alent to a military defeat.” | Murray spoke before the House second man sentenced in the case was Donald Duncan, em- ployee of the Gold Decker Company, for a four-year term in Dawson for having in his possession $22,000 the only ones to try to cheat the' Treasury, of course, but it's sur- prising how many times criminal| action turns up a criminal. Out my's positions and finally expelled {*hem’ from both towns in hand-to- hand fighting, the communique said. More than 150 miles to the east, units of the First Bosnian Corps are tighting under General Tito, Liber- ation leader, and have captured the| town of Zivnica near the patriot-| held town of Tuzla. Commander af Capture of Attu Island Goes South- Thompson Successor HEADQUARTERS OF. ALASKA Both towns| pgPENSE COMMAND, Oct. 16.— {industry. News of the victories mangj neral of the for were broadcast from the free Yugo-| he g 'Ways ard Means Committee con- sidering new tax legislation. ! — e Former Chief of Armed Forces of Haly Takes Life BERN, Switzerland, Oct. of 112 criminal indictments filed |in stolen gold. 16.— | stock at today’s short sessions is last year, the intelligence unit got; 107 convictions and nearly all of! Bt z"““ i _E{chd' them were operating on the shadv} side of the street, not in legitimateg busineses. IMPORTANT NAZI - > STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine panies from the anti-trust act was|compines the American genius for : | | The government took ov - ‘"""’:i““;’v l':y ,'g R"";‘“;“:“"!organmuon, the American capacl- jon sy ok ik dariv ‘:;toae:;s Er?::nsh ;u?’whe:m:r;xg: ums- ty for economics, and the best of girike and Secretary of the Interior Dificial went to see Walter and ask. |0\, American tradition for EIVINg garold Ickes' this week completed O him if he realized the implica.|(e€ly, Promptly, and in proportion srrangements to turn them back to tions of the insurance bill, Walter|® "m"wm ow;::s.mm : it t it. ers’ no-strike pledge ex- Y ‘;:el:fufw e o ‘sum.| For these reasons, when YouT'pires October 31 TWenty-two thou- ners,” replied the popular Penmyl-!m war fund or community chest sand are out on strike in Alabama - asks you to give—for our own forc- and 3000 out in Indiana, on the es, for our allies, and for 'the needs|old slogan, “no contract, no work.” (Continued on Page Four) slav radio. e G INDIAN AFFAIRS Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Leraas, awaiting transportation to new post. TEACHERS l"‘lREy Bureau of Indian Affairs teachers enroute to Karluk, are in Juneaw thelr ithe capture of Attu and earlier oc- ! |cupation of Adak, has been given The Swiss newspaper Dovere said!6', American Can 88, Anaconda 26, a new command in the States. Marshal Cavallerq, former chief 0(1 Bethlehem Steel 59%, Curtiss It is also announced ‘that Brig. the Ilalian armed forees, killed him- | Wright 77, International Harves- Gen. Harry Thompson, veteran in- Self after informing the Germans ter 70%, Kennecott 31%, New York fantry officer, will succeed Landrum ©f the Italian capitulation, thereby Central 18%, Northern Pacific 15%, .las commander at Adak post. | forcing the Allies to change invasion United States Steel 53%, pound ) As leader of the Attu-Adak op- Plans. | $4.04. Iemuong, Gen. Landrum commanded! Cavallero’s suicide was reported| Dow, Jones averages today are as two of the most difficult and im-!Previously by Steffani, the German | folows: industrials 138.40, rails 35.05, utilities 21.53. portant Aleutians actions, controlled Italian news agency, . LONDON, Oct. 16. — A major battle over the strategic Save River \railway bridge, midway between ‘Ljubljana and Zagreb is being |fought by the Slovenia-Yugoslav patriots who have captured several important fortified positions, killing more than 1,200 Germans, accorGing Yo a report in a communique from the Yugeslav Army of Liberation.