The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1943, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9478. e ERICAN BOMBERS HIT BALKAN AREA A JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943 - EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ RIS Leipzig Alaskan Aii Base in the INDUSTRIAL NAZI CITY 15 RAIDED Mosquito Bombers Also Roar Over Berlin- Bombs Dropped LONDON, Oct. 21.—A great fleet of Royal Air Force heavy night/ bombers went out last night for the eighith time this month and smash- ed the second line of Geman indus- tral defenses, hitting the big city of - Leipzig, where many of the Ruhr’s bombed out industries had moved. ' Mosquito bombers roared swiftly over Berlin for the third time this week * while other bombers ranged over widespread areas of the Reich. Leipzig has not been bombed since the sixth raid of the war on Navember 23, 1940, Last night's raid was in sharp contrast to a tiny force of German bombers over England during the night hours. The raid however gave OPA BROWN T0 RESIGN 1ondon the fiftieth successive night AN EXAMPLE OF airport conmstruction difficul- U. 8. Army Engineers Making s shown dragline. dragline is bring- VICE-PRESIDENT LASHES OUT AT TRANSPORTATION ing up material to fill in for taxiway and hard- standing construction. Note bomber to left of —(U, 8. Army Engineers Phote.) ADM.POUND Struck Destructive Districls, Captains Are (GERMANS IN - EVACUATION - .OF CRIMEA |Mass Withdrawal Begun to Escape Red Army Encirclement LONDON, Oct. 2ly—German arm- fes in the Crimea .have begun a mass withdrawal from the penin- sula via the Perékop land bridge, according to Russian advices, which indicated the Nazis hope to escape |the entrapment made by powerful Russian advances which threaten the line of retreat. The Germans are battling fur- fously to stem the steady progress of Red Army troops pouring through Kremenchug bridgehead west of the Dniepér River, the German Com- mand said, throwing all available reserves into the breach, but the | Soviet drive is hourly increasing in momentum. They have smashed| i further west through the Ukrainian' steppe country to overlap Crimea.| A North' Russian communique Blow by RA U. S. FLIERS . " Named/for National War HIT TARGETS ~ FundCampaignin Juneau INYUGOSLAV Mayor Harry I. Lucas' central ommittee in charge of the Na- tional War Fund Drive for Juneau has divided the city and adjacent territory into canvassing districts and appointed a captain or captains in each district to direct the so- licitation work. It is expected that the captains will select one or more persons from their respective dis- tricts as assistants. Further infor- 'Long Flighvaéde fo Help Guerrillas-Fifth, Eighth Armies March On | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN be- ALGIERS, Oct. 21.—The Fifth Army has made slight gains in the area north of the Volturno River and q| advanced elements are probing the Street down to Gold Creek, Mrs. Waino Hendrickson, Capta | District No. 6—East of Street | including east side of “C" Street to| Gold Creek, and north from Gold| Creek to and incjuding both sid of 12th Stréet and Irwin Street, Mrs. E. L. Hunter, Captain. District No. 7—Entire area tween Gold Creek and pipeline or Capital Avenue, including both mation on the plans for the drive ran be obtained by the district cap- tains from Captain Theo J. Dyck of the Central Committee, telephone 254 In addition to the solicitation of funds from firms and individuals, the Central Committee has asked all churches, fraternal orders and labor unions to present the need for financial support for the National War Fund to their respective groups and ask that organization contribu- tions be made. This drive is to be only one week, starting next Mon- day, October 25, and ending Sat- urday, October 30. All district captains and organiza- ' DIES TODA said that a second Red Army col-|y;,5 representatives should arrange sides of Capital Avenue from Gol Creek bridge, and extending south region to determine exactly where to Willoughby *Avenue, but not in-'theé Germans are setting up de- cluding Native Village, Mrs. B. D, fenses and bases on the Massico Stewart, Captain. | Ridge. District No. 8—Native Village, in-| Ditches and irrigation canals of cluding all Native residences alongthis fertile Volutrno Valley, now and adjacent to Willoughby Avenue |devastated agricultural terrain, is to “E" Street, Tom Dyer and Mrs. slowing up the progress of Clark’s Jack Cropley, Captains. l(orces. District No. 9—Distin Avenue, In-| On the Eighth Army front, dian Street, and Calhoun Avenue | Montgomery's forces have stormed on both sides, or from Reck Apart- the high ground dominating the ments to and including Cliff Apart-|roads running northwest from Vin- ments, Mrs. W. J. Lievers, Captain. jchiaturo, and occupled Busso, District No. 10—Gold Belt\ Ave-|mountain village, about four miles nue, including Dixon ?ueet, nfld_ofl due west of Campobasso. The S ' Orantino, a few miles north of Dedlares Sy;';m Rapidly IN LONDO“’ also including residences on West! B 7th, 8th, 9th Streets between Gold o:;sfm;m’: g ::‘"':“:o::‘: Belt Avenue and Calhoun, Mrs. Stabbing deeper nto the Bal alert. Six. persons were killed by a handful of scattered bombs. 'I'akmg on Monopol_ | {umn is racing south toward Krivoi- 1o attend the meeting of National The RAF lost 17 bombers in the i g itog, fmportant rail junetion and|wgy Fund Drive workers which is 'center of the South Russian iron scheduled for 8 o'clock Friday eve- POSITION raid last night, the same number lost in the big raid on Hannover The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Rebert 8. Allen oo sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Henry Moruen-l thau, who has just finished such an excellent job ‘of selling war ponds, is certainly jealous of his Price Admihileuwr Pleas- ed with Work of Bowles BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — President Roosevelt late today accepted the resigna- tion of Prentiss Brown, Office of Price Administrator Admin- istrator. Brown turned in his resigna- tion, a six-page letter, dated last Tuesday, October 19, stating he thought the price control program is well defined in the laws and in Presidential orders ’ isfi; f?”" fFormer Fleet Commander | with Great Record, Passes Away DALLAS; Texas, Oct. 21.—Vie i President Henry A. Wallace said: “Public transportation is again be-| ing brought under a monopoly con- trol with evil consequences every-' where and with an apparent ac-| LONDON, Oct. 21.—Admiral of counting to come.” g the Fleet, Sir Dudley Pound, 66, He leveled five charges against: who resigned early this month as excessive transportation rates: | First British Sea Lord, because of 1. It is a burden to agriculture,ill health, died in London. industry and trade. | He directed the British fleet 2. Non-competitive rates deprive through four of its most critical agriculture and industry of bene-'war years and is credited, more fits of more efficient and cheaper than any other man, with the forms of transportation shaping of the course of Britain's 3. Discriminatory rates are keep-' modern naval policy. + WSerman - stronghol {industry. This column is reported ning in the City Council Chambers Jaes Ryan, Captain. to be within 35 miles of that key as instructions for the work will be| District No: 11—East of Main, guatding the given at this meeting. Information Stfeot, including bothi sides thereof, last escape by a railway route from/on the purposes of and need for toind including west side of Frank- the Criméa. |the drive will also be made available!lin Street from 7th to 4th Streets, More than 1,500 Uazis were slain | there through moving pictures, talks but excluding Federal Building and in the advance, a Russian com-|and the discussion of literature on'Assembly Apartments, Mrs. H. L. munique says. ‘lhe subject. | Faulkner, Captain. Business District Captains District No. 12—All that area A. Front Street (both sides) Tri- Dorth of 7th Street but not in- n!cluding 7th Street, on upper Gold Street and Basin Road, Mrs. R, E. Robertson, Captain. BREAK THROUGH REPORTED | LONDON, Oct. 21.-A broadcast angle corner to Main Street, Joh: tonight made by the International |Reck, Percy Reynolds. Information Bureau, German pro<1 B. Franklin Street (north from paganda agency, said eight Russian | Triangle corner) Seward Street,! District No. 13—East 7th Street, rifle divisions and several hundred |and Main Street—all as far north|!ncluding both sides of street, to tanks have made a three-mile break |as Fourth Avenue. Includes the ?Nd including north side of 5th through on the front northwest of intervening portions of cross streets, Street, and from east side of Frank- Chernogov. . Allen Shattuck, Rod Darnell, Har- lin Street to and including west than on any previous flights, Am- erican. medium bombers from. the Northwest African forces wrecked a |roundhouse and locomotives at Nis, Yugoslavia, to lend assistance to the |guerilla forces fighting the Ger- |mans there. Nis lies between Bel- grade and Sofia and is an importaft ! junction through which the Orien | Express passes. From Nis the line branches south to Salonika through | 8kolplje, recently raided by the | Northwest African Air Force. Railway objectives in Nis were |left a mass of flaming wreckage. Marauders were escorted by | Lightnings. . d ain task is mow the and the main The location of the break through old Foss. [side of Harrls Street, Mrs. Willlam | Sir Pound was taken ill while job_as tax collector. He even re- sents Justice Byrnes and Judge Vin- son being too prominently in the tax picture. When the final tax sehedules were prepared he refused administation of them. The President is expected to send the name of Bowles to the Sen- ate sooh as successor to Brown. to let Economic Stabilizer Vinson| sée them before they went to Con- gress: Vinson knew in a general way what they were, having sat in on the preliminary discussions. But| Henry wouldn't let him have a peek at the final tax ‘tables me{ night before their transmissign to| Congress. The other day Representative Bob Dotghton, of North Carolina, was lunching with tired, nervous Mor- genthau at the famous table cover- ed with. silver plaques where the | Allied Governments signed their debt-funding agreements after the| last war. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Doughton is the key Congressman on taxes. He remarked to the Secretary of the Treasury: “I'm so glad that Fred Vinson is going’ to help us out with the tax bill, Mr. Secretary. He used to be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and he speaks our lan- guage.” Morgenthau bristled. “Vinson is not handling the tax bill,” he countered. “As long as I'm Secretary of the Treasury, we're fully capable of handling that.” After luncheon, Morgenthau cour- | teously offered Representative Doughton his car and chauffeur to take him back to the Capitol, and Doughton asked the thauffeur to go around to the Federal Reserve Building, where he stopped to call; on his old colleague Judge Vinson. Later he went up to the Capitol, and subsequently received a phone call from the Secretary of the Treasury complaining that Dough- ton had used his car and chauffeur to call on Judge Vinson. “I 'didn't lend you my car to drive 'round there,” complained the| Secretary of the Treasury. Doughton, who will be 80 years old in three weeks, listened. After he hung up, he remarked: “1 don't know whether I can get along with Henry, he's getting so childish in his old age.” | ICKES' TIRE Harold Ickes and the OPA were (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Asso- ciates of Prentis Brown said he “definitely had made up his mind to resign.” Office of Price Administrator Brown was not immediately avail- able for comment. Brown told for- mer colleagues late in September he was ready to step out of the OPA job, but intended to stay on as long as he felt his services were needed. Brown, however, is known to be pleased with the manner in which Chester Bowles, whom he named OPA general manager, has taken to OPA operations. U. S. Airmen’s Score Is Four Enemy for Each of Our Planes WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Amer- ican Army and Navy planes are besting the enemy score 4 to 1 or better, an official report says, in every phase of air fighting.' Army aircraft, the Office of War Information says, destroyed almost 4 Axis planes to every American craft lost between December 7, 1941 and September 1, 1943. The Navy says its air arm has taken a toll of 4 or 5 enemy planes for every United States loss. - FAMO]IS FLIER IN SPEECH ON PEACE CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker who is here, advo- cated “better understanding of Am- erica and England with Russia for the sake of the future peace of [the world.” Steps should be taken now, he said “in order to eliminate the strong possibility of laying the foun- dation for World War Three.” ing the southwest in a colonial sta- tus. 4. Monopolistic conditions of transportation are fostering mono- polies in industry. returning from attending the Roose- velt-Churchill conference in Que- | bec. ! He resigned as first Sea Lord on 5. Newer forms of transportation|October 4, and was succeeded newt are being brought under monopons-‘,day by Sir Andrew Browne Cun- tic control. iningham, who had been commander - |of the British Naval Forces in the | Mediterranean. | Like Churchill, Sir Dudley was | half American. His mother, Eliza- . | beth; Pickman Rogers, of Boston, | married Alfred John Pound, an ‘English lawyer. 1 e e I 3 PATTERSON Union Plans Undersecrelary Denies Denflun(ed by Charges of Ineptitude | and Waste WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Under| wasuinveron oen 21 — His ?:xr:::fil;‘dx:dR:;b:r;{g"l;a&‘;i:}lace flushed with anger and fist fary Affairs Committes hearing that | [NUMPINg his emphasis, Frederiet the War Department contracting . = i contract of the Brewster officers are “inept, inefficient, and are dishing out the property and Aeronautical Corporations plans as money of the United States with|“hellish reckless abandon.” | He termed the actions of th2 The statement was In reply to union’s leaders as “damned despic- charges made on Monday by Comp- E able,” and told the House Naval troller General Lindsay Warren Committee to start digging reasons who testified his opposition to the |for the production failures of Brew- proposed legislation giving the War | sters. Department final authority to nego- | He left his retirement in Florida tiate settlements on terminated war to take over the company’s presi- - Head of Corp. indicated the' Russians are attack- ing on the eastern edge of the | Pinsk marshes, south of the con- | fluence of the Sozh and Dnieper rivers, between Kiev and Gomel. D - BIG PLANT DESTROYED ~ ATCORDOVA Gulf Packing Plant Goes Up in Flames-Loss Es- mated at $40,000 CORDOVA, Alaska, Oct. 21.—Fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed tha Gulf Packing Company's plant here with a loss estimated at $40,000 in buildings, plant and equipment, and a loss upwards of $60,000 annually to this community through dis- continuance of operation as the crab packing plant is operated with local help in off-fishing season periods. The fire is believed to have start- ed from sparks from the burner shortly after the shut-down of the day’s shift. The fire set fuel oil afire creating a nasty blaze to fight. E. A. Haltness, Superintendent for the Oceanic Sales Company of Se- attle, the W. R. Gilbert Company, C. South Franklin Street, from| Artic Bar to Snow White Laundry| and streets on the hillside to the east of this section of Franklin M, Whitehead, Captain. District No. 14—From east side Harris Street to and including both sides East Etreet from Basin Road south to Mine Trail, also including FIGHTINGIS retort | | Street, I Goldstein, Dr. Wm. M. Whitehead. ;fi:grg:;&"}]{wl. Mrs. Leonard Al-l Now E | D. Lower South Franklin Street Diitrict No. 15 mast of mast| 3 {from’ Cold Storage Plant to roc |Street and North of 5th Street, but | bt | i 17 -t 4 31 |dump including the sawmill but eX= 1o, 00 noith side of street; Mrs,i SONG RIVER | cluding the Alaska Juneau, Mnyor 1. Hogans. | Lucas. District No. 16—East of Japanese Attempting foGo Through Aussie Lines. East | side | D. W. Building, Drs. {1500 Admisl W TRoRd WAy streot, but including east | Marine Way il e 0. Adams, thereof, and south of 5th Street, but | nue, to Totem Grocery, H. O. ' including south side of street, Mrs, Special Districts ‘Diatr } 4 i i strict No. 17—Franklin Street, : /;jarmbly Apartments, Mrs. H&ITY | i ojyging east side of street, to Har- | ugas. ris Street, and from 5th Street in. | tams. 1 18 . | - Alaska Juneau Mil, Joe WA, 1L ging outh sde of stret, 10 and| Solomons Batfle a Laundry, Charles Nagel. |nciuding ‘both sides of Second! s Baranof Hotel, Jack Fletcher. | Street, except Baranof Hotel, Mrs. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS n | Gastineau Hotel, Wilbur Wester. | " o 0 P M0 0™ of Main | 21—Several thousand troops are . .Govern.mem Hospital, Katherine gio00 conth and including Feldon locked in bitter fighting along ‘the « i o L o Apartments, down to PFirst Street|SON8 River north of Finschafen in Cigos Apartments, Dr ,and including all houses on hill,|NeW Gulnea,” where the. Japanede "Know es. . | Mrs. Alfred Zenger. |are attempting to cut through. Juneau Hotel, Clarence Wise. | £t e | FElements of the Australian 8th Phillips. [] |enemy tre Indian School, George Murlandcr.‘(asuali|es 1k.;r“d)mm,(;o:’;a:lfooT:W::i:mvnh:‘u GSL‘?;::JTHOSP""L the Rey. w.i iday in repulsing a series of fierce i . . |attacks, but the enemy is making iy x {some progress at the mouth of the n a y re Song River, the second straight day. Mrs. J. C. Thomas. | U. S. Army, Duck Creek Camp, of Japanese forces Tuesday -and |Lt. Col. Roy W. Riegle | U. 8. Coast Guard, Lieut. W. M. % : | Ccaro. | | ground .units. U. S. Engineer i PFourteen planes dropped 86 bombs in advance of the attacking troops. mBWle,:Sl:(IN;)TON, Oct. 21.—Esti- In the Solomons an American 5 merican casualties in raid on the southern Bougainvi Ttal g gainville aly from September 8 to the be-|area resulted in the downing of 17 | Elroy Ninnis. |Edwin Sutton, Captain, Federal Building, E. L. Bartlett. 576 v i onon b | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Ock/ | Juneau Public Schools, A. B.| |division at sea have joined other ‘ \ Twentieth Century Apartments, | A spokesman told of the progress De(reased:lrcuvc in an. attempt to suppert Department, Jss.' Houston. U. S. Weather Bureau, Claude | | Brown. that the jgnemy ‘airforce was inefs . contracts. Patterson said Warren's General Accunting Office approved 99.99 percent of the vouchers submitted by the War Department for audit ! during the four months ending Aug- | ust, 1943, and added “but the record is even better than these figures indicate. The majority of the sus- pensions by General were merely temporary until further support documents are submitted and do not involve any real ques- “tion as to the propriety of the pay- | | ) ment.” { ————— BUY WAR BONDS Acdounting | dency and “I didn't care whether |I got money, marbles or chalk just so long as I could serve my coun- [try.” » Predecessor to Henry Kaiser as {the company’s President, Riebel tes- tified that he attempted for three months to follow the policy of co- |operation with the union and its head Tom Dé Lorenzo. In an effort to increase production of bombers {and fighters for the Navy, “I got lin bad with Tom, you might say I {sort of bundled with him for three {months,” Riebel said. had proved one sided. have been operating the plant since | Glacier Highway from Norway' the death of Ed Pfister, former point to Eagle River, Emmett owner. Bothelho. Local boats came to the aid.of| Thane, Geotge Getchell. the City Fire Department by pump- ’ Residences Captains ing four streams of water from the | pjstrict No, 1—Waynor Tract, also | ‘:)ay and this prevented extensive |poth sides of Glacier Highway from oss to the city pler on which the |.jiy poundary to Norway Point, Mrs. cannery is locatud Mike Haas, Captain. e | District No. 2—All of Seatter GRAND LARCENY CHARGE Tract, east of Waynor Addition, George Edward Fife was arrested north of Cemetery, but not includ- by the U. S. Marshal's office yes-|ing Irwin Street, Mrs. Alex Holden, ",erday, charged with alleged grand | Captain | {larceny and his bond was set at| Districc No. 3—West of “E” 1in default of bond. Street, including both sides of 12th ginning of the battle on “ie Vol- turno River, were reauced sub- { | stantially in recent reports, flccord<‘| ing to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He told a conference of newsmen that the latest reports were that 879 were killed: 3,047 were wound- ed: 2,848 were missing. The preliminary estimate two weeks ago totaled 8,307 casualties. ANCHORAGE MEN HERE' J. F. Ryan and R. V. Ryan, both at the Baranof Hotel, |Japanese planes out of-a force of 55. More than 100 United States Navy land Air Force planes took part in |the Northern Solomons offensive |Monday. Enemy gun positions and ‘dumpa were blasted. { -- ZENGER TO KETCHIKAN Alfred Zenger, of the Empire | Staff, left by Coastal Airways plane |this morning for Ketchikan for a {visit with his son Ned, now in the | He contended that the cooperation |$1,000. He is in the Pederal Jail|Street and north of West Ninth!lof Anchorage, registered last night Coast Guard. Zenger expects (o re- turn next Monday.