The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI, NO. 9477. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943 — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY = - — NAZIS RETREAT FROM VOLTURNO R 60 Jap Planes Conference |NAZI FORCE At Moscow TRAPPEDAT Safisfies RIVER BEND THREEENEMY SHIPS ARE SENT DOWN New BombihgiAMa(k Made on Nippon Base - Re- verses Reported ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. Destruction of 60 Japanese in a new bombing assault on Rabaul, New Britain, bringing a total there of more than 200 planes in less than one week is reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur but with this victory however the spokesman disclosed the first Al- lied ground reverse in many weeks on the New Guinea jungle front. Mitchell medium bombers, in three groups bagged the Jap planes and sank at least three enemy ships including a destroyer in a low level strike. They pounded Rabaul with 350 tons of bombs. It was the largest air force massed in a single operation in that sector. The success of the Japanese ground forces is not specified as (Continued on Page Threce) —e——— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) (The brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washington Merry-Go-Round, is awarded today to Wendell Willkie.) WASHINGTON—Wendell Wwillkie has just launched what is regarded as his first campaign speech. Be- tween the Willkie who spoke in St. Louis last week and the Willkie who battled that hectic 1940 campaign against Roosevelt, there has been a tremendous change. It may not be apparent from a distance, but to those who have seen him close up, it is quite clear that the war, his trip around the world, his conversations with such men as Churchill, Stalin, DeGaulle.l Chiang Kai-shek have left a def- inite imprint on his political soul. You' can see the change between the Willkie of 1940 and the Willkie of 1943. You can see that he is now voicing a platform of his own, his real convictions, not the plat- form devised for him.by a pussy- footing Republican convention which considered him as a political | pig-in-a-poke whom they could dis- card if he didn't make the grade. willkie is now proving himself a tough person to discard. In fact he is a bear-by-the-tail and Republi- cans can’t let go. They found this out during Willkie's recent tour to pep up GOP state committees, which turned out to be one of the most unusual political jaunts in recent political history. . For, instead of wooing Republi- can votes, he almost rebuffed them. In unvarnished language he told local Republican big-wigs that the Party could not come back to power ! with such time-honored cliches as| “free enterprise” or “back to mor-| malcy.” He has delivered courage- ous, critical and almost scathing Jectures on social progression and what's wrong with the Republicnnl Party. He knocked down some of | the most sacred cows in the Grand | Old Party, yet with such frank and breathtaking charm that most peo- ple, while disagreeing, liked him. | SECRET MEETING ! Typical of these secret Republi- | can meetings was the Willkie ses- slon with the Republican State Cen- | tral Committee in California. Be-, side him at lunch sat Lieut. Gov. Prederick F. Houser, Mayor Fletcher | Bowron of Los Angeles; clurlie} Lyons, GOP speaker of the Assemb-| ly, and Republican National Com- (Continued on Page Four) CANADIAN 0IL DEAL 15 RAPPED ‘ Investigation of Norman Wells WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — Rep. |Leon H. Gavin, Pennsylvania Re- MOSCOW, Oct. 20. — Apparently | publican, asked the House today to satisfied with results of the first investigate the oil project in north- formal talk yesterday, Secretary of ern Canada which he said is cost- State Cordell Hull, British Foreign ing the United States $128,000,000 Minister Anthony Eden and Soviet lon the basis of reimbursement representative Molotov settled down which will take 158 years. to a program of daily conferences Saying he drew these figures of wartime and post-war matters Are to Meet Daily for Big Talks from R. W. Gallagher, president of The initial meelm_g yesterday last- |the Standard Oil Company of New ed two hours and_ 15 minutes. 5 |Jersey, Gavin reported repayment While no details are ‘an‘nounu‘ , |to the Government would come in 6 /18 funderstong She 365800 (¥ | 1o Freaiistion - fram *§145" to. 50 satisfactory and the conferees dis- N NS Y Closed they will meet once a day cents a barrel in the price of oil ,¢"yne spiridonovka Palace until from' the fleld discussions are concluded. After the first 1,500,000 barrels, he | Ng formal announcement concern- [said, the price would increase 50 jyg the progress of the talks will be |cents a barrel. United States pro- jssued while under way. ducers as a result would produce > {“more oil in a year than will be produced at Norman Wells for the next 50 years,” he claimed. | New S alus > - OTHER ALASKANS Established GIVEN HONORS BY For Air A - scorrish Rme FOr Alr Arm According to announcement made | wASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Equali- today by M. S. Whittier, Deputy of ¢y for the Army Air Forces and | the buplfeme Council in Alaska for ground troops was established for- | the Ancient and Accepted Scottish . AR A Chief of Staff Rite of Free Masonry, four more mally by order gt > George C. Marshall. The step ap- | members of the Rite in Alaska have S | received honars from the Supreme |Pe8™ 0 employ the principle of a | Council now in session in Washing- | %Parate sair arm without . acfual ton, D. C. dlvorcfment Axel Victor Osberg of Ketchikan, | The manual governing the com- Jens Martin Jorgensen of Fairbanks, mand and employment of air power | Charles Phelps Kirtland, formerly of ‘has been in use quietly for the {Wrangell and Anchorage, and Nor- past three months, and describes | vin Willlam Lewis of Nome, were land and air forces “coequal and in- Hesignated as Knight Commanders | terdependent,” and neither auxil- {of the Court of Honor. These hon- iary to the other. ors given members of the Scottish | Specifically, the theatre com- | Rite in Alaska at the present session mander must not attach the army |are in addition to those announced air force to the ground units ex- in The Empire last night as having | cept wheh such units are “operat- ‘heen given to John James Fargher, 'ing independently or isolated by dis- | Herbert Lionel Faulkner and James tance or lack of communications.’ | Wilfred Leivers in their election by | Thus has been written into the the Supreme Council as Inspectors war Department’s field service re- ;Ge_neral Honorary of the Thirty- gyjations the principle already wide- i i JDighest honorary |1y used in this war, which 1s au- jfagree of Sooos AsONIY. tonomy of air and land forces in | “The Scottish Rite lodges and mem- ., ngle theatre to coordinate ef- [bers in® Alaska are highly pleased ¢ P | over the recognition of these breth- - | ren for additional honors because of oo | services rendered,” stated Mr. Whit- ALASKA COASTAL Fargher, Faulkner and Leivers {have been members of Mt. Juneau |lodge of Masons for several years, | TRIPS ARE MADE | Mr. Fargher having been twice | Master of that lodge Mr. Leivers Io INlET SIIKA |is also a Past Master and has been | [} | Secretary of Mt. Juneau for ap- | — | proximately 12 years. All three men| An Alaska Coastal Airlines plane | have been officers and heads of most flew to Sitka today with Mrs. Jenny i of the Scottish Rite Bodies. Mr. Jack, Maxwell Hage, John Harris | Faulkner has been Almoner of the and Charles Windeman. | Juneau Bodies for several years and James D. Ross and Cliff L. Ro- 1has been heard on the public plat- form and radio on numerous oc- |the plan | casions speaking on Masonic and | Nease, Melain Stacy, Billy Gomez, | allied subjects. ‘N. Avrom ahd Ernest® Rockne. DTS . g T A flight to Skagway took W. J. i) Brown and Irene Harris and Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Schmidt made a ! round trip to Whitewater. . Don Oppegard was a passenger to | were V. Powers, Ellis Reynolds, BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Oct. 20.: @ides, Wes Overby, George F. Shaw, | the Inlet, and the plane came badk | trophe. jwith Alice Osborn, F. J. Thorpe, /Ole F. Nilsen, | August L. Davis and S P. Hanber. | Ppassengers returning from Sitka |since the war started, even count- M. ing Stalingrad. radio, died this morning after a and F. J. Archiball, long illness of pulmonary affliction | and cardiac complications. Mrs. Bernie, and son, Bernie of the U S. Army were at| the, bedside at the time of death. 1' Private from Ketchikan. S ee—— e o 00 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Tuesday, Oct. 19 Maximum 49; Minimum 35 — —.——— MRS. STOLT FLYS SOUTH Mrs. Lillian Stolt, wife of Mayor | ® william Stolt of Anchorage, left ® by Pan American Airways yester- | ® day to join her husband in Seattle Rep. Gavin Urges House || Eden and Molotov Germans Figh {bards flew to Excursion Inlet, and | e returned with A. J. Mc- Wwilliam Graham, War reports since yesterday have Ben Bernie, 52, old maestro of the piouq Fagerson, Leonard Holmquist, | that it is the Russians, not the Ger- James Huston came here from the Red Army force, instead of Wrangell, and Charles Wiedeman |growing weaker, grows stronger, pil-| . ® behind the latest conference be- ® tween Hitler and other Nazi leaders ® | than was announced by German o o © o 0 9 o o o e olofficial agencies, J Destroyed t Doggedly for Time fo Evacuate Large Army MOSCOW, Oct. 20—The whole German position inside the Dniepe: River elbow is threatened as the harassed Nazi commanders hurled fresh divisions of men, tanks and artillery into the fight in an at- tempt to halt the Red Army: flanking drive west of the river The Russians, in a major break- through southeast of Kremencnug swept in to 130 settlements anc captured the railway junction ai Pyatikhatka to outflank Dnepro dzerzhinsk, 40 miles east of Dnep- roetrovsk and 70 miles east of Py- atikhatka at the junction of th. main railway between Znamenksa and Dnepropetrovsk and one run- ning south to Krivoirog. Capture of the junction of Pya tikhatka leaves the Germans with but one line through Krivoirog td cvacuate the whole Dnieper bend This most recent Soviet advance actually carried the Red Army to a geographical position west of the Crimea, whcre the German Army southward of the Zaporozhe-Meli- topol line are in a precarious posi- tion. Hitler's commanders have not gotten themseveles into such a ser- ious tactical situation since they were outsmarted and cut off in Stalingrad. Red Star, official army newspape said the Germans are counter-at- tacking violently at the Dnieper River elbow. A Pravda dispatch reports that a considerable number of German bombers were shifted here from the deep rear of Westrn Europe. Al indicatiorns are that the Nazis wan to stand and .fight. A second sore spot for the Ger- mans is north of Kiev where th Red Army is bearing down upo Kiev, and have captured Vyshgorod six miles away. D RUSSGAIN ADMITTED IN REICK Last 24 Hours Blackest of War - Puts Stalin- grad in Shade | STOCKHOLM, Oct. 20.—The past 24 hours, in which the Red Army cracked the German eastern front | defenses in a major break, are the blackest in the war for Germany, according to a Berlin correspondent quoted in the Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet. He said that if the Soviet troops can follow up their smashing break- through “the Germans realize it cannot mean anything but catas- It will put Stalingrad in the shadow, as the whole of the {given Germlany the blackest day “It is obvious to every ‘German | mans, who have the initiative, and ing up great troubles for the Ger- man Army." ‘The dispatch passed the German censorship. There is considerable| speculation here that there is more NATIONAL WARFUND | DRIVE ON Commiflee‘ Is Selected 1o : Have Charge of Cam- .| paign lasting Week | The big National War Fund drive J0 benefit 17 different organizations \as started and will be pushed en-; rgetically for one week, beginning next Monday, October 25, and end- | ng on Saturday, October 30 | President Roosevelt in a procl nation asked that every man, wo nan and child support the drive ind contribute as much as they can fford, because of the many or- anizations to be benefitted At a meeting last night the Ju- ieau War Fund committee was ormally launched. Mayor H. I jucas is Chairman, and Mis. John vdcCormick is Assistant Chairman. Jommitteemen are as follows: Sam Saul, Charles Miller, H. L. Faulk- 1er, Fred Geeslin, Capt. T. J. Dyek, Frank Marshall, the Rev. M. A aranoff, Frank Heintzleman, A. B. sain, Perry Hillary, the Rev. G. {erbert Hillerman, Elmer A. Friend, 3ill Carter, and John Kennedy. | The publicity committee wili be 1. L. Faulkner, Bill Carter, A. B. Cain, and Perry Hillary. | Juneau's quota is only $12,000. | The drive embraces the following organizations: United Seamen's Service. War Prisoner’s Aid. British War Relief Society French Relief Fund Friends of Luxembourg. Greek War Relief Association. | Norwegian Relief. i USO. | Polish War Relief. | Queen Wilhelmina Fund i Russian War Relief. ‘ United China Relief. | United Czechoslovak Relief. | United Yugoslav Relief Fund Refugee Relief Trustees. United States Committee for the Jare of European Children. | Twenty-seven organizations in uneau have been asked to actively id in the campaign, and the var- us ministers have been asked to 1ake special reference to the drive ext Sunday. On Friday. night, ‘at 8 o'¢leck. all )mmitteemen and others’are ask- d to attend a general meeting in he council chambers at the City Iall. A special -picture depicting purposes of the Nationdl War “und will also be shown. Tm‘morrnw morning at 10:15 clotk a special broadcast will be :ade over station KINY. ->e ALASKA STAR PLANE ARRIVES, DEPARTS Larry Flahart and Roy Doogan siloted an Alaska Star Airlines plane to Juneau yesterday from the westward. | Arrivals were Frank Dahlin, L. R. | Roberts and Mrs. Emil Krause | The plane returned the same day with E. J. Conkle and daughter ind Mrs. Esther Diamond, all for Anchorage. ! RN, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct, 20. - Closing uotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock is 6'i, American Can 89':, | Anaconda 26, Bethichem Steel 9%, Curtiss Wright 7';, Interna- tional Harvester 69, Kennecott 31%, New York Central 18, Northern Pa- ific 15'«, United States Steel 54';. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 138.88; rails, 35.14; utliities, 21.80. DR. EBERHARDT ON TRIP Dr. J. P. Eberhardt, senior surgeon of the U. S. Public Health Service, assigned to the Alaska Office of Indian ‘Affairs, left by PAA plane vesterday for Fairbanks, | S il l LEHTOS RETURN | Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lehto returned |today by boat after a month's trip the peninsula were firmly in their Ihnnds in the States, West Germany \gets in western Germany In the |goio & Truman sald his work as [VER in Rabaul Raid Construction Boss Gets Star AMERICANS ~ INADVANCE ~BY 5 MILES ' ‘Germansfiieéve Behind One of War's Worst Destruction Scenes " TN | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 20.--Threatened on | the left flank by the swift American | drive that has cut forward five miles, | the Germans fell back from the Vol- turno Valley to a fresh mountain line, leaving behind one of the war’s worst scenes of destruction. The Germans, in their retreat, will establish a strong new mountain line anchored in the high Massice ridge town of Mondragone, six miles north of the mouth of the Volturno River, and extending 27 miles northeast to iVenuIm | The retreating Nazis burned houses, civillans were shot, livestock was destroyed, railroad were tom up, roads dynamited and haystacks burned to provide a smoke screen for their movements. Devastation of the countryside and wiping out of civilians as well as |their farms was the most comblete yet encountered as the German fury toward the Allies reached a new peak. | 'The new enemy line is made up jof a series of high -and.ditficult | ridges with deep valleys ' through which pass the main highways from | Naples to Rome. U. S. Bombers APATHY OF .oucers e e and northeast of Capua the Am- ericans have eliminated the Ger- man’s last hope of making a stand ] George J. Nold who, as Staff Engineer Officer for the Alaska Defense Command, dirccts one of the largest construction programs of the war, was recently promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General. The new General supervised the Alaska Railroad Cut-off project near Whittier, a big step in linking interior Alaska with the outside world, and was awarded the Legion of Merit for construction of an airfield at Annette Island in the face of great difficulties. Gen: Nold became responsible ' for all Army Engineer assignments in Alaska, including the Aleutians, in May, 1942, when cemstruction authority for Alaska paksrd from the Seattle District Engineer to the ADC. y anywhere south of the Mondragone- Venafro line. The advance has carried the Fifth Army into the towns of Pignataro, six miles north of Capua; Riccart mana, five miles northwest of Liberl, |and the highway junction town of Dragoni, two and one-half miles | northwest of Avignano. The ad- vance has put the Fifth Army 11 miles north of the Volturno River, | Attacking heavily along the Adri- | atic coast, the British Eighth Army has captured the town of Petacciato, nine miles west of Termoli. e 17 ARRIVE HERE | Large Craftili_ccompanied} : ' ; by Thindadtiols g {Americans Aren’t Pulling Spitfires on Raid Together Says Sen. LONDON, Oct. 20.- United Stat Truman heavy bombers, supported by Thun 4 derbolts and Spitfires, attacked tar- | | | { | ST. LOU Oct. 20. — Senator seventh major operation of month American bombers were out in the | chairman of the committee investi-| gating the war program disclosed FROM Sou'“' " force for the first time since the because of & fafiure to inspire th destructive smash on Germany's big | catise of & faflure”to Inspive 4 = | péople with common unity of mind, 3 la lack of teamwork in national life ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt on’| heart and will October 14 ;s The fact that both Thunderbolts| ~We know something of what we but too few and Spitfires accompanied the are fighting against, bombers suggested a heavy pre-|know what we're fighting for,” he| cision assault on some war produc- Said, “the war effort is long on| tion targets. | things money can buy, but we're A small force of German raiders | short on the will to pull together dropped bombs on widely separated and the will to sacrifice that which places in eastern England last night |money cannot buy.” and four persons are reported to| > e have been killed. { A bomb dropped on one of !hviMUSSOlIN' Is Io Mehaffey, Gordon Winegarner, suburbs of London, and twelve per- sons were buried in falling debris Iavs 1 G o v E R N M E NI Ralph Therriault, and Gladys A. i 2 | Therriauit but all were rescued alive BERN, Oct. 20.--A dispatch to, For Skagway — Frances Smith, - - H the Swiss newspaper Gazette de William Smith, Anton L. Pierce, o' al's Lausanne from Budapest says Mus- Mary M. Pierce, Everett H. Schneid- solini tof resigning has indicated his. intention er, William J. Moore, Philip Dattola, |n landing‘"vnscm Republican Governniént”’ as heéad of Italy’s and Clarence Carter. For Valdez—James J. McAvoy, and has acked the directors of the Party in Berlin to name Marshal LONDON, Oct. 20--The Yugo- Graziani as his succ slav Partisan Forces smashed a Ger- | The dispatch also said the former Lee E. Swift, and Eli Rudman. - - man seaborne attempt to land troops Duce has never left Germany al- on the Delmatian coast and at two|though it has been reported he re ER 4 nearby islands in the Adriatic, ac-'turned to Rome after the “libera- H EYESIERDAY' cording to a communique issued by tion” by the Nazi parachutists General Titos' headquarters and | The dispatch said Mussolini has br‘f;’ddtfls! by the free Yugoslav|never actively participated in the A - Woodley plane came in from radio. new government wh is “ag 9 . T anding AtGMDDAs, the bullstin de- | Hist hegre L e s ;"J"‘lu:":;‘:::m;fi"g:fn i s clared, were directed against the (‘llfll'lt"s‘ s Al r‘ Peljesac pepinsula, which juts (’Mm_“ i i P e: northwestward in the Adriatic be- o rank, Ida Frank, Jenny tween the split of Dubrovnik and Williams, Katherine Miller and against the islands of Hvar and Susie Cox Mljet, which guard the approaches Flying to Ancho’::g:e xon tll:lemrne; to these ports. turn trip were &l Wil 5, Yugosll:\,ra said the Marvin Leraas, R. M. O'Pale, Dar- rell Prank, Alberta McVeigh, Chris Paulson and Robert Seeman. ‘This morning a northbound steam- er arrived with the following pas- sengers for Juneau: John Antila, Mrs. Ruth DuBois, Richard Ed- wards, W. D, Gross, Zalmain Gross, Sonia Gross, Hermel Gross, David Gross, Hansine Gross, Howard Hart- ley, Carl Lehto, Hilda Lehto, Paul Leska, Willlam J. McDowell, Gilbert K. Moi, Marie 8. Moi, and Arthur Sime. The boat left early this afternoon with the following booked for the Westward: For Seward—Mrs. G. F. McLaughlin, Ebba G. Hamm and three children, Carl Wickman, C. E. D GROSS FAMILY BACK Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gross re- turned this morning on the north- bound steamer after a stay of sev- and €ral’ months in the States. Their four children accompanied lnelr' parents north islands