The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI, NO. 9479. ‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 22, 1943 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ — A ‘AR FIGHT TAKES PLACE OFF ATTU FIFTH ARMY BEATS OFF NAZI ATTACK Dalife and Piedimonte Fall —Raids Are Made on Rome Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS | IN | ALGIERS, Oct. 22—Pursuing the . s Transport Ferry Command in the Aleutians. retreating enemy too close to permit establisment of new defense posi- tions, troops of the Fifth Army captured the important road junc- tion town of Dalife in a ten-mile advance and beat off a furious Ger- man counterattack, Eisenhower’s headquarters said that besides Dalife the town of Pied- imonte also fell. British troops, in a left flank, beat off a massive German attack | aimed at Cancello on the north| bank of the Volturno River, eight miles from the sea. All have been‘; bombed repeatedly. The communique also reported an- other aerial venture over Yugo-| slavia, with fighter-bombers attack- | ing Skoplje. 1 Six German planes we i‘iie Wasfling‘tonf Merry - Go - Round| Lo | By DREW PEARSON | (Mador Robert 8. Allen on éctive duty) | WASHINGTON—Here is one rea- son why we needed the Azores 80 badly as an anti-submarine base.f The U-boats not only have new de-| vices, but also a new strategy, and| may converge around the bottleneck | to the Mediterranean between the| Azores and Gibralter. DEVICES: Latest Nazi torped-| oes are superior to the former type which exploded only on contact.| New torpedoes are exploded (1) on! contact (2) b;y magnetic attraction | on coming close to the steel hul (3) by the vibration of the engines | of the ship under attack. This makes it possible for the submarine to succeed in its mission much more frequently than before. A torpedo is much less likely to miss, | since missing actyal contact with the target does pot now mean, as! previously, that if misses the target.| STRATEGY: Qonvoys have now| discovered that Nazi subs are hunt- ing in packs of sufficient number to employ the same gort of naval strategy which large wnits of naval| vessels are able A group of !that doesn't "books, by taking the mix “upstairs” mericans Yukon Fliers Make Ice Cream a NAZIARMY with Aid N CRIMEA 0f Jack Frost and How ENTRAPPED PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 22.— Members of the American Dietetic Association got the lowdown on a new method for freezing ice cream appear in any cook about 10000 feet and letting Jack Frost do his stuff. A navigator in on leave in Piysburgh told officers of the Association Airmen at Fort New Ambassad Nelson, Yukon, Russia Is Said fo Be Favorite of Kremlin in forays off the Yugoslav coast. The Northwest African Air Force ere destroyed | destroyed 16 enemy aircraft in the | appointment of W. past 24 hours. Allied planes also made attacks 'on airdromes and airfields in the |pected for a long time—that the Rome area and escaped without ! Administration is convinced the Rog iron ore center on the g")'“zl loses. e use this technique to m: use his tectmique 1o make ice eresm Redg Encircle Dniepropet- N e e - | TOVEKHORTIEN Line in Disorder product of the Fort Nelson boys when dropping down one evening (By Associated Press) BULLETIN — LONDON, Oct. !enroute to one of his missions to the Alaskan mainland and points 22, —The Red Army threw test- ed veterans of the battle of Stalingrad into the bold drive to isolate some half million Germans in the Crimea and the Dnieper bend. A Reuters dispatch placed the Russian vanguard only 18 miles from Krivoi Rog, and the Germans themselves acknow- ledged in their daily commun- ique that the Soviet attacks are boiling over into additional sec- tors. The German report said the Russian assaults are particularly strong north of the Sea of Azov, but they claim that a So- viet attempt to land forces on the East Crimea coast yester- day was repelled. He found the ice cream to be | “just like any other good homemade ice cream.” orfo By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — The (for William) | Averell Harriman as ambassador to Russia confirms what has been sus- German positions north of Krivoi | language Communist Russia under- Dnieper bend, lost all semblance of stands best 1§ that which comes ; }i« pefore the massed Red Army from the mouths of ‘“‘f:l";*“‘" ”:‘ drive. The retreating Nazis ‘are erican h‘;-fl‘z;\‘ Cinse “3 l“‘-"(”:‘{: : fighting hastily improvised actions Tall, slightly stooped, handsome, g, a¢ one point and then another, STALIN SEE { Gary Cooperish Harriman is one of Russia’s favorite American people. a Reuters from Moscow said. dispatch EDEN; MAY GREET HULL Conferencer D&isions May Stand Without Going fo Nations’ Heads MOSCOW, Oct. 22. — Joseph Stalin, Premier, took a personal hand in the tripartite conference in receiving Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister at the Kremlin yesterday and indications are that he will also see Secretary of State Cordell Hull soon. At the conference itself, talks are said to be proceeding so satisfactor- ily that spokesmen intimated de- cisions on a number of subjects might stand without going before Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. a | He has been since he went there in . September, 1941, looked over the German broadcasts reported that defenses against the Nazi hordes Germm\»nuval forces are bombard- then rolling eastward, and - told \nE Soviet positions on the north Josef Stalin that our flow of tanks, C08St Of the Sea of Aziv In an ef- munitions and food under Lend- fort to halt the Reds squeeze of- Lease would be “limited only by the fensive directed toward the throat problems of transport.” of the Crimea. He came back to tell the United/ A Swiss radio that States generally and the military Russian troops have completely en- and Administration in particular, circled Dniepropetrovsk, and the that the Russians could hold out best information received here indi- announced |against the Axis. Military experts calgd that two German armies 2t Melitopol and in the Crimea threatened with entrapment - AMBULANCE "OF AIR IS DOING JOB were giving the Russians 90 days. are A rich man's son, whose heritage meant 'railroads, banking and Wall Street empires, Harriman could have coasted through life. Instead, when he graduated from Yale in 1913, he went to work in the grimy Union Pacific railroad shops in Omaha, Neb. Without skipping any lessons, Harriman rose to chairman of the board of Union Pacific, chairman of executive committee of Illinois Central, an official of Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., in Wall Street, JAP FORCES - FORGING ON, - NEW GUINEA Infiltration Disclosed in Jungle Northwest of Finschhafen | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |'THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct The Japanese troops in the ] northwest of Finschafen, | New Guinea have advanced farther {in an infiltration move. This is dis- |closed for the first time by the {Allied spokesman. . The infiltration is intended to save the forces by reaching the coast and is not aimed at the re- | capture of Finschafen, it is said. | The spokesman however acknow- |ledges some enemy progress in the sector for the third straight day, |the Japanese seeking to achieve a Isolid line along the Song River. |The Australian Ninth Division is |barring the way to the coastal con- |trol areas on both sides of the river. Thirty enemy planes harassed the | Australian positions at Finschafen | Wednesday, but bombs dropp |caused only minor damage and ca | ualties. 1 D TARAWAIS RAIDED BY LIBERATORS Navy Makes Atfack on Major Jap Base in Gilbert Islands PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 22.—Tar- awa, major Japanese ba: in the Gilbert Island, was attacked Octo- |ber 19, last Tuesday, by a small force of Navy Liberators, the Navy Announces. The bombers encountered “con- iderable anti-aircraft fire, but suf- fered no damage,” the Navy report says. No enemy aireraft during the raid. | e was sighted ke Ten-Mile Advance in Ita ?Eddie Rickenbatker' Visiting Aleutians On Tour of All Fronfs the world war fronts as a personal representative of Secretary of War Henry ‘L. Stimson. He predicted that «bombing will cut the heart out of Japan.” Fifty-five | AT AN ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, Oct. Capt. Eddie Rick- !enbacker, observing the anniversary {of his being lost in a plane adven- 22 lture in the South Pacific, said he foresaw the collapse of Germany, covered by Capt. Rickenbacker possibly by next fall, and the de- the past three months. Concerning feat of Japan a year later “if we're his being lost last year he said, “T lucky.” guess I'm still looking for that is- Rickenbacker is here on a tour ofland.” ko EmmonsSays DR GIVES Coasf Must PLEDGETO Be Prepared FILIPINOS Western Defense Com-jPromises fo Drive Out Japs mander Stafes Requ- | and Establish Genu- lations fo Stay ine Republic | I ot SACRAMENTO, Oct. 22.—Declar- WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — Presi- |ing there is “always the possibility, dent Roosevelt declared today the Lmore than the probability of a Jap- United States will drive the |anese commando raid and submarine “{yeacherous invading Japanefe” attack on the Pacific Coast,” Lieut. fyom the Philippines. and esthblish Gen, Delos C. Emmons of the West- ! thousand miles were | in} a truly independent Philippine na- ern Defense Command, said he Was o and meanwhile “we never will afraid a relaxation of defense regu- {lations on the West Coast which SCnHA¢r (A3 egsl aoy ek, ot he | he had talkkd about had been mis- interpreted. He fold newsmen he expected the regulations would be modified in “some minor respec and “T do not fear a serious invasion at this time. | - — CARRIERO 'BRITISH IN PACIFICWAR Victorious Took Part in Several Campaigns, Is-Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 —Partici~ former collaborationist Philippine Executive Commission nor the pre- sent so-called Philippine Republic.” The formal statement discussed the formation of the puppet govern- ment on October 14, noting that its first act was to sign a military al- liance with Japan, and its second to direct a hypocritical appeal for American sympathy, This appeal “made in fraud and deceit was designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people,” the President said. i The President’s comment followed a Tokyo broadeast which described the second day of a special session of the. Jap-controlled assembly, which approved “by an overwhelm- ing majority” a treaty of Alliance with Japan, “thus ensuring the de- fense of the Philippines.” | The assembly also said a national | i planning board was organized whose work will include a survey of the |Nation’s economic resources in or- |der to “ensure self-sufficiency” and provide the government with the SLE ly US.BOMBER, ' JAP BOMBER IN BATTLE r Brief Engag"eh;em Yester- day *Is Reported in Navy Statement BULLETIN—-WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—A brief engagement between a big naval patrol bomber and a Jap bombing plane off Komandorski Island is reported this -afternoon by the Navy Department. A Catalina patrol plane en- gaged a Mitsu Bishi medium bomber yesterday afternoon, 135 miles west by nerthwest of Attu Island in the Aleutians. The location put the engage- ment as southwest of Koman- dorski, which is a Russian island, 190 miles from Attu. Both bombers scored hits but neither bomber was shot down in the brief engagement and the patrol plane suffered no casual- ties to personnel and no material damage. The area is near where sur- face action took place betweem American and Japanese war- ships last March. IMPORTANT TALK HELD IN CHINA Mounlbalte?fililwell and Chang Kai-Shek in Conference (By Associated Press) Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, has completed talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek and Lt. Gen. Joseph W, Stil- well at Chungking Mountbatten and Stilwell have left Chungking after. a five-day conference with Chiang Kai Shek. Predictions of a closely coordinat- ed action against Japan by Great Britain, United States and China s voiced in the Chinese newspapers following the conference between the three officals at Chunking. It fiscal resources needed for its sup- is revealed that both . Britsh amd port. |American military experts were at The Tokyo broadcast acknow- the five day conference. ,ledged that “sedition” and “gueril- The - Chinese Army organ at r la activities” continued in the PHil- Chungking today says: “We shall a member of the board of directors of the Guaranty Trust Co., NeW wqunged and sick men totaling 125,- York, and Western Union. | P 3 dirig 000 have been flown from combat Harriman didn't confine his in- g reqs (o hospitals in the past 20 pation of a British aircraft car in U. S. Pacific Fleet combat opera- tions against the Japanese was dis- closed by the British Admiralty. KAISER IS CALLED BY It seems to be generally under- PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 22 stood that a personal meeting of the heads of the three great powers | definitely will follow the conference. 1 submarines will 15?:39 on one side of the convoy, and thus decoy the escort vessels in that direction. Meantime, another group of sub- marines on the other side of the convoy will appréach within easy firing range and discharge their torpedoes. { Observers believe, however, - that | the main artery_gf commerce from the United States to the European | theatre of war—the North Atlantic run—is still so well guarded that | the submarine menace is licked so| far as that run is concerned. It is| feared, however, that the Nazis will now strike at another vulnerable| point, namely, the Straits of Gib-| ralter. Since these straits must be| passed by all Allied merchant ship-| NEW YORK, Oct. 22—The Wall ping supplying the Mediterranean g ,eat Journal says informal, but | theater of war, including North Af-'¢ceotive, rationing of cigarettes «m:‘ Fich, Qiclly, Sardinia, Lorsios, Icaly,ia nationwide basis is” taking place| aid e Adnatl_c—not i mexfuon as makers of the five most popular | sl dbe L eNmnnK. BV pansmg brands are forced to place sales on through the Mediterranean boun ia quota basis. this area is due for a concentrated HGHI lufik FOR SITKA, THREE | 60 T0 SKAGWAY submarine attack. Leaving here for Sitka by steamer' |last night were David Hoffman,' | Harry Hazen, V. W. Jones, susanne | {Greitzaroff, Elizabeth Price, C. F.| Coulson, Edward Grider, W. N.| Craigie, and W. A. Thomas. Booked for Skagway were A. L.; Nelson, Margaret Gray, and Ruth, Rock. Secrecy surrounding the meetings | deepened as officials said even the‘ identities of those called !in could | not be revealed if it might disclose ! information. | —————— CIGARETTE RATION NOW EFFECTIVEON _ NATIONAL BASIS " HIGHER FOOD PRICES In spite of the White House, the OPA and all the economic stab- ilizers in Washington, you must soon expect to find the price ot; strawberry jam increasing sharply. The one-pound jar of strawberry jam ‘from the new pack will cost you five cents more in the grocery store. All dried fruits and vegetables also are going up in price at the umner{ Jevel. This will mean increases at| the retail level, except for a few (Continued on Page Four) ————————— BUY WAR BONDS | i terests to the counting houses. BY nonths l928.t hel “”';s one of the nation’s ~one thousand fifteen men were great polo players, & member of the i foy, from battles all over the United States international team.|yworld all the way home to the His Genesee Valley farms turned ynited States. out some of the finest race horses. : A bushel basket wouldn't hold all|Twelfth Air Force fl lew 25,000 wound- the blue ribbons his Labrador “"!ed to hospitals without a single trievers won at dog shows. He was gccident and onl: th 3 the man behind Sun Valley, Tdaho.| royte, s A en Once Madeleine Carroll picked him | hege highlights of one of the as one of the world’s ten “most war's most dramatic stories were handsome men. |given the Association of Military Today, at 52, he doesn't swing alsurgeons by Lieut. Col. Richard mallet from a horse as he used to, Meiling of the Air Surgeon’s Office, but he’s one of Herbert Bayard Army Air Forces. Swope's stable of international ‘cro-| He said the planes had done what quet experts, and while in England medical men, generals and airmen played frequently with Mrs. Win- had believed impossible a few years ston Churchill, another expert. Ski-|ago. Men were flown from Karachi ing and bowling are his additional in- India to the United States in forms of recreation. |less than a week, a trip of two- . | and-a-half months by boat. Politically, Harriman is a turn- —— e coat. A Republican by heritage, he startled Wall Street and the umonYDlsuulw 0"l League Club by coming out for Al{ Smith in 1928 and backed Roose- velt through three terms. He has' w‘v Io I.osE been one of the President’s ‘main- | stays since N.R.A. days. For more| WAR K"ox SAYS than ten years he has been in one | ’ important government job or an-| other. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — The - e — |only way to lose the war and kick ELECTED A. L. COMMANDER [vicory away is by disunity in the C. Don Miller, wellknown Wran- navy, Secretary of Navy Frank gell Legionnaive, has been elected Knox said today. Commander of Merlin Elmer Pal-| He said that a L’ 000 mile trip to imer Post No. 4, American Legion, the war theaters corvinced him of at Wrangell. “certain ultimate victory.” From North Africa and Sicily the COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 —Stand- record, Henry Kasier, newly-named President of the Brewster Aeronau- tical Corporation, which has been having trouble in production, pre- dicted an ultimate. 500 percent in- crease in the output of naval fight- ing planes from the plant He told the House Naval Affairs Subcommittee he is digging into the plant’s failure and the company needs the all-out co-operation of the Navy, labor, management and the committee, itself e CHINESE HOLD JAPANESE AT SALWEEN RIVER The 23,000-ton aircraft carrie Victorious served with the Pacific ippines by asserting that the na- Fleet task force for several months, tional assembly of the puppet gov- covering the Coral Sea, Southwest ernment had voted in Manila to jand Mid-Pacific areas, averaging grant an amnesty to anyone engag-l 19,000 miles of sailing monthly. ed in such activities if he swears' | This is the first time the par- “to become a good citizen.” | ticipation of a major British war- | - eee ship has been reported from the | Pacific since the Prince of Wales GR'pSHOLM Rl ucurliiey [ | i | | KENTUCKY MINERS ~ SAILS WITH IDLE IN FIRST wawour e, NATIONALS HARLAN, Kentucl Oct. 22. — MORMUGAO, Portuguese India, | | Approximately 3,840 miners quit Oct. 22—The American ship Grip- |work in the mines of two coal com- sholm pulled away from the shore panies in Harlan county and one here at 8 o'clock this morning with in Floyd county, bringing to about approximatefy 1,500 repatriates eag- | 1 | v, 7,700 the number idle in the Ken- tucky fields. | |, The majority of Alabama's 22,- 1000 Union miners er to get far away from Japan. Their departure followed by one cday the sailing of the Jap ex- | soon see on the battlefields, the de- cisons reached and there is a possi- bilty of a gigantic pincer movement against Burma.” TWOPLANE CRASHES REPORTED Believe 13—f:1;y Have Per- ished-Transport in Lake Bennett According to meagre information received in Juneau by travelers from Whitehorse, two planes re- cently crashed in Lake Bennett and G > also remained change ship Teia Maru. Thefe were there is a possibilty that 13 men CHUNGKING, Oct. 22—The Chi- ,uqv from the pits. Four hundred no bands or cheering. The ship may have perished in the two ac- nese High Command declared the' i, .. i, Western Arkansas are should reach New York on Decem-|cidents. Japanese offensive on the Burma Road has not succeeded in pushing across the Salween River. It is in- dicated a three-pronged drive was halted on account of action against |the 8-day Japanese drive in western Yunnan province. Chiang Kai Shek’s headquarte reported no change in positions. rs still out. Harlan first n walkouts, the b |isfaction over the lack of a con- |tract between the United Mine | Workers and the mine owpers | - - BUY WAR BONDS ber 2. A fifty-eight year old missionary! had a stroke and died aboard the Gripsholm. He had been in the Orient for 35 years. i BUY WAR BO! ‘ An Army Transport is reported to have gone down with 10 aboard, Kentucky, is atttributed to dissat- who had been ill for a long umo};md another plane, sent out to in- vestigate, also is said to have crash- ed with three aboard A diver left Juneau yesterday for ithe scene of the creshes to attempt 1o recovr the bodies of the victims,