The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o VOL. XLI, NO. 9476. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CENTS = PRICE, TEN ALLIES WIN VOLTURNO RIVER BATTLE Rages in Solo Big Triparite Conference 'IND ATTACK NOWSCENE NowinSessioninMoscow; erial SCORES OF JAP PLANES SHOTDOWN Raid on Allied Shipping Disasirous fo Nippons —Aussies Move On ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct 19—The jungle-wise Aussie (roops stra have beaten a Jap thrust to recap- O ture strategic Finschafen, New Guinea. Attempting to land at dawn lasty ™ Sunday, sharp fighting took place and the Jap attack was beaten off. The Aussies then moved north of Finschafen toward Satelberth where the enemy is reported in a sizeable force and forced the Nippons back. The Japs attempted & raid on Allied shipping at Oro Bay and 24 of 35 planes were shot down in repetition of last Friday’s fiasco when the Japs lost 46 planes sent against the same are | Aerial activity rages through the Solomons from New Guinea and into Spice Island between New Guinea and the Celebes where Lib- | | | ( 1 LONDON, Oct. 19.—Field Mar- shal Smuts, Prime Minister of the | Union of South Africa, predicted a | 3 :gl‘:ln(l assault on Hitler's Central |Fortress of Europe next year, and said that American troops may have to play a decisive part “in view of the intense and prolonged in, and the excessive demands the British Commonwealth American manpower is rightly looked upon as our grand strategic Spotted, B U. . SUBS Activity American Troops Are Expeded fo Win War In Europe, Says Smuls ‘Mert Sounded on Oahu; Unidentified Plane Is RAF MAKES ) ON GERMANY Main Blowr Struck at Hann- over — 17 British reserve in the vast final moves \:(‘ the we said the South African soldier statesman in a war com- | mentary at the London Guild Hall and added: | “While, therefore, every ally must| Bombers Lost go all out to bring about the finai —_— climax, the United States of Amer-| LONDON, Oct 18.—The Royal Air fca is the latest, freshest, and most Force attacked Germany in greal potent newcomer to the field and| trength last night directing the may have to play the decisive part|main blow against Hannover while in the conclusive act of the great|Mosquito bombers blasted targets war drama.” in Berlin and Western Germany for the second consecutive night ‘The Air Ministry said full re- sults of the night raids are not known as clouds obscured and par- tially covered the targets Seventeen British bombers lost in the operations R were | | ut Speeds Away FREE SPEECH | mighty fortress on Oahu Island of the Hawaiian Islands group was thrown into an alert before dawn on| MELITOPOL { - BIG FIGHT Titanic Stn@gle Rages in | Sireets of Gateway City fo Crimea (By Associated Press) The Germans are reported rush- ing reinforcements from the Cri- mean manpower reservoir in a des- perate attempt to hold the South |Ukraine stronghold of Melitopol in |the face of Russian offensives from the east and north aimed at crack- ing that gateway to the Crimea, engulfing hundreds of thousands of Nazi troops on that great peninsula yme of the bitterest fighting of the war is raging inside Melitopol itself, and the Red Army shock spearheads are battling with bayon- ets and grenades in a blinding dust inching their way through formidable maze blockhouses and street defenses. Several districts have been cleared last ditch defenders a Soviel communique reports, and strong German counterattack south of the city has been hurled back, the storm a of of ~ Hull, Eden, RUSSIA TO AID ALLIES, LEND-LEASE Soviets to 'Fhrrinish Critical Materials Under New Agreement 19.—Soviet more a WASHINGTON, Oct Russia is going to do for her Western Allies under new lend-lease agreement signed in Lon- don today State Department sources that under the new agreement, understood here, Russia will under- take to furnish raw materials such as manganese and other critical ores to the United States and the United Kingdom in return for arm- said mons Action s future AMERICANS, BRITISHIN ' GREAT PUSH Molofov at Meel | | United Forie? Cross River at All Points, Make | MOSCOW, Oct. 19. American ‘Sm‘n-uu\’ of State Cordell Hull, the highest United States official to| | ever visit Moscow. plunged quickly | into the 's first full dress tri-| New Caplures partite conference meeting with his| British and. Russian connterparts, | LASIERRRERESURESIECINE, v |ALGIERS, Oct. 19.—The battle of Eden and Molotov, only a few hours Volturno Ri o b after concluding & 14,000 mile fHght.| o “po me"”;m;s :“dfld in a vie- As the Foreign Secretaries settled | o "0 S g PO, ‘e i down to the first day's business, the ‘mer c ;‘] -“‘ troops crossing Soviet newspapers turned their| e at all points. Th ARt spotlight on the long awaited get- e American troops .have cape tured five villages ¢ together in which the Russians con- e ' lllages in the eastern second front” in western the important topic to be| e Fifth Army line has swept to d |an advance of from three to five Quick To Action ‘\??nm and simultaneously, British |troops, between Capua and the sea, Despite the long hard trip, Hull|swept over the difficult river bar- and Eden were eager to begin dis- . . cussions with Molotov immediatély. ! Both the American and British Foreign officials expect the confer- will lay the groundwork for conversations with leaders of the United Nations. Muscovites stood in long today to purchase newspapel of them splashed with pictures of Hull, Eden and Molotov, taken at sider a Europe ldiseu | rier, At all.points bridges were con- structed by the American engin- Eighth Army Advances At the same time the advance of 'lhe Fifth Army is reported, Mont- gomery's Eighth Army continued to push the Germans back and have captured the towns of Santo Ste- fano and Montecilfone in a drive ence lines EMPLOYERS Sunday by the approach of an un- ild('llll“&d plane which turned and |sped out to sea when caught on \the beam of powerful searchlights Red Army “capturing large quan- (tities of war materials.” f - from the Adriatic. The Fifth Army's push has put them astride the Titerno River ament and food. Heretofore Soviet the airport. These pictures were reciprocation has been limited clear across the bottom of the front largely to servicing Allied ships in pages of the newspapers | (Continued on Page Three) — - SENDDOWN The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) JAP SHIPS New Figuréi Given Out by | Knox-460 Sunk, Dam- | aged Since 1941 | WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Ameri- can submarines, rrying the war even into the home waters of Japan, have sunk or damaged 460 Jap ves- sels since the war began. The figure was contained in a communique released by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox at a press coenference, and included 148 ships not previously listed as struck by torpedoes in the war against Jap- anese shipping. | The Navy's totals showed 319 Jap ships sent to the bottom, 36 prob- ably sunk, and 105 others damaged since December 7, 1941. WASHINGTON—Sage heads among the diplomatic corps figure that the peace of the world for the next 20 to 50 years will be decided during the next three months. specifically, they believe that at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, the die may be cast as to whether our children will have to fight Germany (or possibly Rusa}a combined with Germany) again i twenty years. But if Great Britain, Russia and the United States—the three most powerful nations in the world—can work out a collective security pact, agreeing to protect each other and | “mission keep the peace, then there is good reason to believe this war may see the end of major wars for some time to come. | The meeting at Moscow, however, will not be easy. Here are the ob- stacles it faces: 1. Russian territorial demands. 2. Russian suspicion, plus the fact that she has been given the run-around on a second front in Western Europe and many other diplomatic moves. 3. Russia now holds the balance of power in Europe. I | | WHAT RUSSIA WANTS Russian territorial demands were first expressed to Anthony Eden when he went to Moscow in Feb- ruary 1942, shortly after Pearl Har- bor. The British were quite ready to accept them then, in fact vir- tually did accept them. But the United States stepped in and said No. Since then Russia has put for- ward her demands again. They have not changed much. Here is| what Russia wants: a. All of the Baltic states—Es-| tonia, Latvia, Lithuania. b. A slice of Finland—more or Jess the boundary won by Russia after the Finnish-Russian 1940 war. New reports of sinkings and dam- age to ships included 98 vessels sunk, five probably sunk, and 45 damaged. The report said that prompt announcement of the sink- ings by the subs would prove “means to help the enemy and they were withheld for that reason.” He ad- ded that the information is now no longer of any value to thé enemy. The new announcement means that the subs which inflicted the toll have completed their war patrols. e e, — WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Intend- ed as a good-will gesture to a val- jant ally, legislation to repeal the Chinese exclusion law is certain to start a congressional fight, and imove half of all immigration quotas (curity the Navy didn't remove the| EXCLUSION LAW REPEAL STARTS ROW r. & ” of nationality. ¢. Half of Poland, including the city of Lwow. d. All of Bessarabia, plus about half of Buchovina in the heart of Rumania. e. A tripartite commission—Tur- key, Britain and Russia—to guard the Bosphorus. i Several of these are likely to raise| unshirted hell with American pub- lic opinion—particularly with the Polish vote in Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Detroit, to say nothing of those who would point out that we started the war to save Poland and (Continued on Page Four) regardless Legislation started a move to per- mit 105 Chinese to enter the United Statts a year and become citizens. The House Immigration Committee Administration backs the original proposal of President Roosevelt in urging prompt enactment. Sponsors of the legislation re- strict all immigration and served notice they seek to amend a meas- ure to cut all immigration at least 50 per cent. - — FROM TAKU HARBOR Swen Olson, of Taku Harbor, registered at the Baranof Hotel. Apparently the plane was a small float type ship. The Navy surmises the plane w launched from a submarine but the was unsuccessful.” ‘Supreme Court Says They | May State Opinions on Union Membership WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 The United States Supreme Court left in effect a ruling that the employer has a right to express an idea wheth- er employees should vote union | representation provided there is no coercion used and the employer agrees to abide by the election re- sults, The decision, based on the con- Istitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, by the Federal District Court | of New York, involved the American Tube Bending Company of New Haven The Circuit Court ordered dis- 4 missal of charges brought by the JapS on Kiska {Labor Relations Board that the |company engaged in unfair labor SR T | practices, by refusing to review the ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19.—Two months | jacision, The Supreme Court let behind schedule, with a 73-year re-|{he lower court ruling stand cord in. the number of seal skins| BB ' u. SI Seai Iififileis . Break Record In Pribilofs St. Louisiar;a-nd Natives Were Under Noses of taken under the noses of the Japan- | ese, 40 St. Louisians are expected home tomorrow l A The expedition to the Px’ibi\o(‘ group is the first wartime sealing| expedition of the Fouke Fur Com-| pany, Philip Fouke, President, said | today. | The hunters arrived, in Seattle last Friday with 117,000 seal skins.| The expedition completed work | August 18, but for reasons of se-| men from two| MORMUGAO, Portuguese India weeks ago. lOct. 19—Like holiday picnicker Their seal hunting accomplished, put with much deeper joy, 1,500 the Louisians, with 143 native seal-|americans and nationals of other ers and several government em-|countries of the western world ployes, were almost isolated from!marched off the Jap ship Teia the mainland and until x'e(',('xlt“Mm.u and boarded the exchange weeks were not permitted to com-jiner Gripsholm, which will carry municate with their families or re-|ihem home after months of inter- ceive letters. {ment in Jap hands. J When the expedition secretly ar-| Again free men, they stepred into rived in the Pribilofs in May and|the hot sunlight, shouting jokes began operations, members Were anq wisecracks. within bombing range of the Jap-| The exchange of repatriates was anese, who then were in possession completed at ten am. today, Mor- of Kiska. mugao time, without incident The seal skins will S UPER. auction next year, GERMAN TALKFEST | ARE HONORED Supreme Council of the Southern the islands until | ' be sold ot | L | LONDON, Oct. 19.—The German radio tonight announced that Hitler | received “leading personalities of the State Party who attended aljicgiction Ancient Accepted Scot-| meeting called by the Chiel Hign i, Rite Freemasonry today elect- Command of the Armed Forces.”|eq 253 Masons to receive the Thirty- Home subjects were discussed 2nd Third Honorary Degree. |Hitler spoke cu the political and| Among those elected are three | military situation. All high officials| Juneauites: John James Fargher, is of the Army ai:d Navy altended the Herbert Lionel Faulkner, and James|C.P.A. man from Ketchikan, ar-| session. | Wilfred Leivers. White House Calls Labor To Talkfest Demands of Wage In- crease to Be Taken Up -Big Strike Looms WASHINGTON, Oct. 19."-# Presi- dent Roosevelt today summoned labor leaders to a conference to be held Thursday to discuss labor de- mands for higher wages with a probable view of heading off a threatened nationwide strike as the result of a ballot taken by railroad workers. Russian ports. The third and latest agreement for lend-lease supplies to Russia was signed by representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Canadian and Soviet govern- ments, the State Department re- port said. This is the first time Canada has signed such an im- portant document. - Ramirez Gets Hot Public Officials Who Sign- ed Manifeso Against Neutrality, Fired BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19.—Presi- Comment where enemy resistance is reported | slackened, Hammered By Air Force The North African Alr Force maintained battle supremacy, ham- No Editorial The Mdscow newspapers front- paged the statements made by Hull| and Eden upon their arrival but| the newspapers did not comment editorially on the conference. mering the Germans from one end Hull, who made his first air- of the line to the other but the plane trip to get here, arose early|biggest air news of the day was and ate his favorite breakfast ofjmade by American bomber fleets | American rolled oats. It took con- who blasted the railroad yard at ble effort to locate the oats,|Smoplje, Yugoslavia, on the only (he American Supply Mission |railroad running from Belgrade to boxes to solve the|Athens, RAF heavy bombers also attacked the airfields at Martiza Calato on |Rhodes, also at Kastel Heklion on |Crete and the harbor at Skyros in |the Aegean. | Troops Are Weakening ‘ Kesselring’s troops are* showing | ‘ p ED Bv |signs of weakening in the desper- jate defense against the east flank | lof the Pifth Army line and five l REPUB”(A“S‘V"“”' were taken in the rough | siders but furnished problem six - oo — e Labor sources said the White qent Ramirez has ordered the dis- House has called the meeting, what missal from their jobs of all public will be known as a combined Labor fficials who signed the recent War - Board, consisting of repre- mapijfesto urging the government, sentatives of the CIO, AFL and in- which has persisted in its policy of dependent railroad Brotherhoods. pentrality, to swing to American There is spreading restlessness golidg { among railroad workers over failure [y ol. Hector Ladvocat, Chief to win wage demands and which of resident’s pr se, sai IO U of the President’s press office, said " ypempers of the tax framing 5 3 e I the Jewish newspapers suspended House Ways and Means Committee The strike frder it is said will from publication last week and the z y,‘ Z ey “‘l { g depend largely on the attitude of pan lifted Friday night, was because today took a solid stand against any the five operating Brotherhoods, of an “unfortunate niisunderstand- further federal taxes on individual whose representatives meet in Chi- ' ing” and there was never any in- cago next week, |tention to close them permanently. PO President Roosevelt sent a hot message to President Ramirez re- House passes Seal garding the suspension of the Jewish newspapers and Ramirez issued a statement that he will not “tolerate Treaty Befween v wmwerine® “wom ousiae sources, I It is declared here that Roose | message was wholly uncalled for. - imountain country after a hard | battle. Government Economy De- manded Instead of Tax Increases WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Repub- jor corporate incomes. | The statement was made by Rep- resentative Knutson. The Republi- cans proposed a program of Gov- crnment economy instead of fur- ther tax increases. Knutson’s statement made no mention of the sales tax proposals but one Republican said “that issue is dead.” t his | _—r WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — The House has passed the bill to give effect to the fur seal agreements . between the United States and In'e"‘ed NObe| p"le IN RETREAT Canada. i « Man Reported Dead, The agreement was made in 1 after Japan abrogated in 1940, the treaty to protect the fur seals in' the Paeific. Concentration Camp AT SALWEEN FRENCHMEN FIGHT NALZIS ALGIERS, Oct. 19.—The French | Commitice of National Liberation announced tonight that “bitter fighting on a fairly large scale” has brokcn out between German troops and Frenchmen hiding in the moun- tains in upper Savoy Province, Southeastern Prance, to escape forced labor in Germany. 'MINERS DO NOT RETURN T0 JOBS BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Oct, 19, —Approximately 18,000 of Alabama’s 22,000 coal miners remained away from their jobs today despite the return to work plea of John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers Presi- dent. Local officials made no im- mediate explanation of the failure of the miners to return to work. Under the agreement, the United States and Canada will prohibity| NEW YORK, Oct. 19--A DNB sealing 3 o se o broadcast from Berlin picked up| i ¢ :.u;u-d:.ngmu.t.m ),.,‘:-Z‘s“ 1:(':"c:;)xlltn\;:fll.‘lh-n- says the morning llu-wxpupn-m CHUNGKING, Oct. 19.—One of |8 8 @ e . the main Jap columns in the drive protection of the seals as under Of Paris announce the death of ; ;s s ¥ { to force the Chinese in to Gibvioae trakty | Romain Rolland, 76, noted anti- . i {20 pVRUSD hamalsy Province back across the east b The measure permits natives of|Nazi French suthor, Nobel Prix A 08 Tha it Henk ! of the Salween River was broken Alaska to hunt the seals in canoes Winner boats propelled by oars or sails,| Rolland was interned by the Ger- up and is now retreating in several directions, e Chinese C 4 > > mans an undesignated concen- by iingse 'Oommand tration camp where he died | has announced. -ee or | The communique said that Jap |Column 13 which was pushing along |the Burma Road where it enters Southwestern China, suffered jvere losses from Chinese fire, | ACCOUNTANT HERE Registered at the Gastineau Ho-| tel, Marshall Crutcher, well known FIN COVE from Flfin Cov |1s at the Gastineau. se- rived here yesterday. STOCK ifipimous NEW YORK, Oct quotation of Alaska stock today is 6%, American Can 89, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel 60, Curtiss Wright 7'i, Internation- al Harvester 70, Kennecott 31'% United States Steel 54's, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as {follows: industrials 138,71, ralls 35.29, utilities 21.70. 19 Closing Juneau mine