The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1943, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XLL, NO. 9475. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1943 MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENIJ = ALLIES TAKE 3 MORE TALIAN TOWNS Berlin, Other Targets, Bombed in Night Raid OFFENSIVE BY AR IS | UNDERWAY, = = = \Senate Naval Committee reports the United States shipping food and lequipment to at “least 32 different fronts, some 17,000 miles from point lof origin.” The Committee ALLIES NOW HAVE UPPER HAND IN AIR Gen. Arnold Says Loss of 60 American Bombers "Incidental” Allies Resume Aftacks on' European Mainland- Going in High Gear LONDON, Oct. 18. — Royal Ailr Force Mosquitoes bombed targets in Berlin and western Germany last night without loss of a single plane. The Fighters attacked airfields and communications in the occu- pied territory, the British Air Min- istry said, indicating the Allied air offensive is again going at high gear after a lull since last Thurs- day when American Fortresses made the terrific attack on Schweinfurt A large force of bombers also crossed the English Channel this morning toward the continent. About 15 German planes stabbed at Britain last night, hitting points (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) also says the WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army cidental.” i “We're getting the upper hand in every theater of this war now, but don’t conclude the war is going to be over soon or is about over or anything of the kind, but that we are getting the upper hand is clear.” Germany, he said, desparately is turning every effort toward Fight- ers to defend against the growing Allied bombing and Japan is “now a fifth or sixth team” in the air over the Southwest Pacific. The General arranged conference to which half a hun- dred Washington reporters, news ex- ecutives, columnists and radio com- mentators were admitted by special invitation only. Arnold said the of the Allied Air war over Europe is to hake easier ground for the troops to go in, in a final dash to save thousands of lives.” ST S ALASKA DAY " ISOBSERVED Part of the town of Juneau is| closed up today and part is func-| tioning as usual—it is Alaska Day. Territorial offices are closed, also the banks, the schools and city of- fices: Drug stores are operating on hol- iday hours and close at 6 o'clock lhis evening. WASHINGTON—On top of sena- torial revelations regarding British use of Lend-Lease goods, a secret negotiation regarding further con- cessions to the British has just leaked out. These concessions, now under con- sideration by the State Department, would permit the British to in- vade Latin America commercially, the one area so far exempted where they cannot benefit directly or in- directly from Lend-Lease. The British would also secure a pledge from the United States not to infringe on British areas of com- petition during the war, and if so, to surrender that trade after the war. Finally the negotiations would provide that all Lend-Lease be dis- tributed through the most expedit- jous channels, but not interfere with the established channels of trade. (The British control most of the established channels of trade.) To understand the full story it is necessary to go back to September 10, 1941, when Ambassador Winant and Foreign Minister Eden drew up a Lend-Lease White Paper, which provided, in brief, that Britain would not export commercially Lend-Lease goods or other mater- jals released because of Lend-Lease except under certain circumstances, such as if the goods were needed overseas and mot obtainable from the U. S. A. Almost immediately this agreement was suspended. was then provided that exports were to be surveyed case by case, also that the British were free to export their own ‘goods, some of them re- leased because of Lend-Lease, to any part of the British Empire or to Allied countries in the Eastrn Hemisphere. In other words this permitted or- dinary British exports to Canada Australla, India and other parts or‘ the Empire, plus virtually all coun- tries in the Old Woerld. Churchilll BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 18—Seven-| also secured an agreement from the teen of Alabama’s 81 coal mines re- President that Britain should dis- opened today but a survey of the tribute Lend-Lease in Turkey, dnd coal fields indicated that at least as a result American airplanes now 80 percent of the 22,000 idle miners have the label pasted over with the label “Britain plea by President John L. Lewis. Delivers the Goods.” e P - This also meant that the only| In Juneau from Taku Lodge, is area where the British agreed to Mary Joyce, who is a guest at the stay out was Latin America. | Baranof Hotel. Recently, however, the Britishije o ¢ © ¢ &« ® o o have sent a memo to the State De-|q WEATHER REPORT partment proposing—as stated|e (U. S. Bureau) above—to (1) waive the White| o rday. . Paper altogether, which would open' o 3::5.,‘“;”;; d;:i'mz;:] :l{g up Latin America ; (2) agree that|q Rai, 08 : the United States not infringé om| o Tflnp: Sunday, Oct. 17 established British areas of trade,|q Maximum 52, Minimum 36 (Coptinued on Page Four) * 0 0 00 00 0 0 a press “main objective Lhereaf:er, It are busy with customers who are cleaning up the fresh that arrived Saturday. Tomorrow—business Say Poof fo as usual. Stores are open and the grocers vegetables i “Curtiss-Wright” failed to heed the return to work {United States Now Shipping Equipmient And Food fo 32 Fronls| MENACEKIEV “United States has built a Navy, sea-air power on The statements are made in a re- view of the Navy's part in the war through the conquest of the Aleutians in the Pacific and the landings in North Africa. %wmm SAYS GREATFRAUD 1S REVEALED Complroller General Op- 1 poses War Depariment | Sefllmg Clatms WASHINGTON, Oct Warren, Comptroller 18.—Lindsay General, told Air Forces, speaking as if in reply day that Army contracting officers Soviets are to a discussion of the loss of 60 have allowed hundreds of erroneous German reserves brought from Po- American bombers at Schweinfurt,'the House Military Committee to- land, France, the Netherlands and Germany, asserted the loss was “in- contractor’s claims, including in the Denmark, but added that they are ,charges such items as false teeth, liquor and juke boxes. Warren opposed legislation re- quested by the War Department to give its contracting officers final and conclusive jurisdiction in set- tling terminated war contracts Warren cited 270 cases, in which he said claims were allowed by the officers and they “have all the ap- pearance of being put forward by special pleaders for industry.” | He declared “untold billion of dollars are involved in the question.” Warren testified “in national in- terest.” He said heatedly that the War Department should “peremp- torily be stopped in its present con- tract settlement procedures.” : - PAA BUSY OVER LAST WEEKEND Pan American Airways arrivals and departures over the weekend include the following: Leonard Taylor, salesman for Schilling and Co., arrived here from Seattle Saturday. Mayor William A. Stolt and Al- | mer J. Peterson, city attorney, hoth lof Anchorage, left for Seattle yes- terday. | Arthur Hedges of the War Man- power Commission and U. S. Em- | ployment Service left yesterday for Fairbanks. K. N. Neill, and Mary K. Neill, director of public health nursing |for the Territorial Department of Health left for Fairbanks yesterday. Virgil Farrell, director of educa- tion for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, left for Fairbanks yesterday on business for that office. T Ty T T FORMER JUNEAUITE HERE Mrs. Esther Diamond of Anchor- age, the former Esther Ryan, pro- prietor of the Vogue Shop in Ju- neau, is in the Capital City for a few days. She is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. BOUND FOR KA Leaving here Saturday afternoon for Sitka were Buddy Darlin, Emma Wingate, Clarence E. Carter, Sig- mund Einstoss, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peterman and Dr. T. J. Pyle. Bl el FROM WHITEHORSE Howard W. Inabnit, of Whitehorse, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. SKAGWAY WOMAN HERE Margaret E. Gray, of Skagway, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. R 0T S g HERE FROM SKAGWAY Here from Skagway and a guest at the Baranof Hotel is Mary Reetz. Ry S oA FROM FAIRBANKS a guest at the Baranof Hotel, NEW DRIVES BYRED ARMY Thrusts Are Made Through Widening Gap Inside Dnieper Bend MOSCOW, Oct. 18 The Red Army rolled forward on two new offensives west of the Dnieper to clinch their hold off both banks of the river and to threaten the dis- integration of the entire German front. Battleline dispatches said the So- viet forces are pouring through a widening gap made yesterday in the German defenses inside the Dnieper bend in the Kremenchug sector, and behind Dnepropetrovsk an im- portant new bridgehead was simul- taneously established north of Kiev by crossing the Dnieper in the Gomel sector and the capture of Loev. Red Army this brideghead forward against resistance Both drives menaced the Ger- mans in Kiev by encirclement. The reported encountering troops consolidated today and pushed furious German pushing forward irresistably -+ ALASKA COASTAL FLIGHTS MADE OVER WEEKEND Flying to Sitka on Sunday with the Alaska Coastal Airlines were E H. Snider, Clarence E. Bugg and Aubrey Perrin. On the return trip the plane brought Leah Fitzgerald and Irene Harris from Sitka, and Mrs. S. Asp from Tenakee. Another trip to Sitka had as pa. sengers Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Pie Austin W. Fury and Owen Butcher. The return flight brought in N. A McEachran, Joe Massey and Mar- shall Crutcher. Flying to Excursion Inlet were Gene Gertz, Willard Brown, Ralph H. Hardin and C. D. Ball. Coming in to Juneau were Darwin Phelps, Howard Solloway, Mrs. Paul Bierly and Thomas Roberts. On another flight to the Inlet the passengers weer Dale Blyberg, Dale Timmons and Vince Yapapatz, and return passengers were B. Putnam, Everett Hay and Jack Austin Alan McNamara made a round trip to Funter Bay and other re- turning passengers were Mary Vas- ila, Harold Marx, Glenn Allen and John A, Bryant Today a plane flew to Haines and Skagway with Sophia Biekon, Mrs S. Sheldon, Fred Erickson and John Marin, and on another trip the pas- sengers were Ernde Whitehead, P. A. Tondevald, P. L. Gognor, and Max Reynolds. Harry 1. Nielson was to Excursion Inlet. Flying to Sitka today were William F. Frost, Wes Overby, George F Shaw, Floyd Fagerson, Vic Powers, Leonard Holmquist, Hugo Schmalck Ray Roady, M. H. Sides, and Ellis Reynolds. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 18. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6'.c, American Can 89%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 59'%, Curtiss Wright 7% International Harvester 70', Ken- necott 31, New York Central 18 Northern Pacific 15';, United States Steel 53, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 138.40; rails, :35.0!; utilities, 21.58. | e | TO BE BURIED HERE | The body of Clifton McWilliams: service man of Excursion Inlet, was brought here at the request of his mother, Mrs. Ella Brown of Skag- !way, and will be buried in Ever- |green Cemetery. The remains are 4 passenger Eilton E. Johnson of Fairbanks is now at the Charles W. Carter Mor- ) tuary TALKS ABOUT LIVING COST Delegate Urges More Money for Alaskan Soldiers’ Wives Oct. 18.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond today urged the House Military Affairs Committee during ‘hearings on a Senate bill to increase allowances for dependents of enlisted men and to act at once to give families of service men more money He said he knew from experience the cost of living in Washington, D. C. and Alaska, and from re- ports, it is as high as living in New Yo Detroit, San Francisco or Seattle Dimond said “to assume, if it can be assumed from the legislation be- fore that a wife and child can live on &68 month is simply frivolous. In the Territory of Al- aska it just cannot be done, In fact it would take twice that much to adequately care for a wife and child and T am not even sure they could live on twice $68.” The Delegate said most govern- ment agencies recognize the higher living costs in the Territory and have granted their employees 20 percent more pay to meet these additonal He said the aska is good, WASHINGTON, us, a costs food situation in Al- the stores collected there before the war have been turned over to the Army and new stores brought in. He said rent con- trol has ‘been effective but hous- ing there is like the situation every- where else ry bad.” He suggested a differential be allowed families of service men in the Territory, on the same pattern allowed government bureaus and their employees. They get 25 per- cent additional for living costs. He added, however, that 25 per- cent more-in Alaska wouldn't meet the difference in the cost of main- taining families of service men in the Territory, compared with the cost in the States Many young men of Alaska, Di- mond stated, were inducted into the armed service. “Our own men, whe- ther truck drivers or anything else, were drafted. Then hundreds, T sup- pose altogether thousands were sent from the States, are exempt from the draft on account of their occupation, and are doing the very jobs our boys were doing before thay were drafted.” He said despite this the Alaskan men have not complained. - Moose Women Hold Initiation Women of the Moose, Chapter 439, held initiation last Saturday in the Moose quarters in the Seward Building. The Alumni observed a Chapter Night Program, with the following alumni class initiated Grace Skaret, Irene McKinley, Emily Karvidan, Ariel H. Shanon. Edna May Jensen. Della M. Clark and Thelma Butcher. Following the ceremony pictures were shown to the by A. B. n. Chairman of the refreshment committee was Ethelruth Burreson, assisted by Sedella Berget, Mayme Bergstrom, Ethel Colvin and Annie Cook. A delicious lunch was seryed after the meeting November is library month with Chairman Mary Miller, who will be in charge of entertainment with Lillian Allen and Mary Haas as her assistants. On November 6 the re- freshment committee will be com- posed of Belle Campbell, Esther Commet and Cora Costello. On November 13, the Women of the Moose are planning to hold an Alumni Dance at the Elks’ Hall e David Hoffman, representative of the Leomen Commercial Company in Juneau, madé the round trip on the steamer to Skagway and is now lat his headquarters here, moving smbly TONY DIMOND Japan Sees Collapse of | Germany But Nipponsto FIFTH ARMY IIS SLASHING Continuelo FlghIAIone AHEAD TODAY Portuguese India officials MORMUAGO. Oct. 18 to expect Japane appear Germany to collapse war strain, but will continue Chilean on a re- under the they declare the war for five years after a newspaper correspondent, turning exchange ship, The correspondent” said the Jap- anese are quite positive of the Ger- man collapse but this will not ef- JAP LOSSES IN AIR ARE present asserted PILING UP Enemy AHempi to Win Initiative Is Cost- ly Process ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 18.—The Japanese attempt to wrest the initiative from the Allies Southwest Pacific air war has cost the enemy 400 planes shot down or destroyed A communique las MacArthur today enemy losses in a new series of battles which cost the Allies only two planes and cost the enemy 84 planes over New Guinea, two more over Vitiaz Straitgh, aud six more over Buin from Gen. Doug- told of heavy d fect Japan's position, and the an» pons are prepared to stand alone| against the Allied Nations, especial-| ly the United States. | The Japanese officials feel thel ultimate fate of Germany has been foreseen for some months, and this | ffected Japan's moves. So far as the correspondent could) ascertain, the outward appearance of the Japanese people is still that| they will win the war HITLER SWIMS VOLTURNO RIVER AND SURRENDER! ALLIED H DQUAR/ IN ALGIERS, Oct. 18.—A Ger- man private named Hitler has | surrendered to the American | Fifth Army after swimming naked ross the Volturno Riv- | er. His first name is not given. >o o GET NAZIS BETWEEN TWO AIR FRONTS in the Big Offensive Be Launched Soon from Italy, England ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 18.—Powerful bomb- er fleets of the Northwest African | ALGIERS, Oct. 18. | that | Eighth 'Germans Now in Full Re- treat from Volturno River Section 'NAZIS DESTROYING AMMUNITION DUMPS ‘Indications'A'ré"Sliff Resist- ance Will Be Made fo Defend Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTFRE N Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army is slashing a- head in a give and take battle and driven beyond the Volturno River and “firmly occupied” the towns of Cancello, Ruviano and Nerrone. The Germans, late Satur- day were in full retreat north of the Volturno, withdrawing to the mountains under protection of ar- tillery fire, This withdrawal was done to avoid encirclement by henvily reinforced Allied formations. The evacuating Nazis ‘destroyed bridges and military installations as far as possible under fire from the Allies, The British Eighth army patrols are stabbing at the westward Ap- cnnine backbone toward Rome. Germans Fire Dumps Allied headquarters today said from both the Fifth and Army f{ronts come reports of numerous fires in the enemy rear areas and this points to the pos- sibilty the Germans are destroying has When Allied medium bombers ex- | Air Force which swept all before supply dumps, preparatory to & ecuted their low-level attacks on the Wewak and Boram airdromes, six enemy bombers and four fighters parked in dispersal areas were de- stroyed, 12 other bombers were de- stroyed or badly damaged, and “numerous explosions and fires were seen in the dispersal and supply dump areas.” The communique enemy fighte! tion and 16 were shot down probably shot down.” e Sales Tax Is Proposedll Money Needed said 20 to 30 three attempted intercep- | them in the Mediterranean, are pre- paring for a great offensive against Germany An official announcement from air force headquarters said, “within a short time the Allies will be in a position to hit vital military ob- jectives in Germany either from gland or Ttaly, taking addvantage of the most favorable weather in each case.” At the same time, the strategic air force under Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle is ready to hammer Bul= | | garia, Rumania and Hungary out of | the war in the same manuer Italy | |was beaten to her knees. TUESDAY, US.-JAP NATIONALS ARE TO BE EXCHANGED | attacks general withdrawal Although there is nothing else to indicate further Allied advances to- ward Rome in any direction will be made in the face of stubborn oppo- sition High Ground Taken Late this afternoon details of the capture of Ruviano and Nerrone | were received. Both towns are on the high ground dominating the lowlands and their capture was after fierce “merry-go-round” fight- ing in which strong formations on leach side repeatedly stabbed deep into opposing lines creating a fight- ing area of five or six miles deep in which some of the units at times were completely isolated. Cancello, which: has been occv= pied, is the former important Axis airbase and is eight miles inland on the north bank of the Volturno. The capture was made after beat- ing back massive German counter in the course of the ad- National Association of Actual Transfer fo Take ‘e s e a Manufacturers Against Proposed New Taxes WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. ‘The National Association of Manufac- turers has asked Congress to reject all proposals of new taxes, but add- ed if the lawmakers decide more re- venue is essential, then the national retails sales tax should be imposed. J. Cheever Cowdin, chairman of the Assoclation’s committee on gov- ernment finance, told the House Ways and Means Committee, the administration’s proposal to raise $10,500,000,000 through increased in- come excise taxes is “unsound and unrealistic to the point of bordering on the fantastic.” Cowdin, who is also board chair- man of the Universal Pictures, ar- d against further taxation say- the present revenue laws will $44,500,000,000 to the Federal during the next calendar ing give Treasury year The rent revenue 000,000,000. e CLITHERO HERE Russell Clithero, of Sitka, spent the the Gastineau Hotel. | to his home today. Treasury estimates the cur- collection rate at $38,- He returned weekend in Juneau, a guest at| Place in Portuguese India | MORMUGAO, PORTUGUE: INDIA, Oct. 18 - The American Consulate today announced that ex- change of American and Japanese nationals aboard the liners Teia Maru and Guipsholm will take place tomorrow morning beginning at 8 fo'clos The announcement the consulate after with Japanese authorities While expectant repatriates hung over the rails of the two vessels eagerly awaiting the transter, the Japanese asked for a day's delay in the exch: » to enable them to \finish arrangements accommodating their was made by a conference nationals For Americans it was a one day | postponement of holiday they have been awaiting for 21 months They were frantically eager to get abcard the Gripsholm and enjoy meats and sweets, the prin- the intern- cheese, cipal shortages during ment on Tela Maru However there were no shortages fine champagne or French and Italian lquers, unknown in these parts for many moons D s BUY WAR BONDS of | heran Hllll EDEN ENROUTETO CONFERENCE New Soviet Ambassador Harriman Also in Iran on Way to Moscow LONDON, Oct. 18 ‘The Berlin radio said that Secretary of State Cordell Hull has arrived in Teheran, Iran, enroute to the Tripartite Con- ference in Moscow. Anthony, Eden, British Fofeign Secretary, and W. Averill Harri- man, newly appointed United States Ambassador to Russia, also are in Teheran enroute to the gonference A Moscow broadcast said Russian sources gttributed the information as coming from “Teheran radio” as a later Berlin broadcast said that Hull and Eden had left Te- and plan to be in Moscow “Monday afternoon.”