The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9480. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_— JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1943 PRICE TEN CEgE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAP SUBS APPEARING OFF WEST COAST Nazi Tanks Are | Smiling U.S. Generalsin lfaly. ALLIES BEAT OFF ATTACKS; ON ADVANCE Nazis Attempting to Throw Fifth, Eighth Armies Off Balance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 23.—American ar- tillery, “Queen of the Battle” in | Africa and through Sicily, crushed a Nazi counterattack at Alife on the Pifth Army’s right wing in Italy yesterday, knocking out “a number of tanks” in the central sector where | the Fifth Army troops have seized the commanding heights. | This is the first appearance of; German tanks in any number for| some time, but Kesselring’s counter- attack failed as did a similar effort | on the Eighth Army front near Mon- | tecilfone where the Germans, Now firmly entrenched in new mountain positions, launched a series of count- er blows designed to throw the Fifth | and Eighth armies off balance. Allied troops not only beat off every attack but the Eighth Army forces advanced two miles to take Lupara, Wwhich controls the highi ground in central Italy. (Continued on Page Three) 2o 53 The Washington| Merry- Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (MeJor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Secretary Hull| .might have got some interesting pointers for his Moscow trip from| Cuban Ambassador Concheso, only Latin American diplomat who has met Stalin. *Brilliant Sengr Concheso is both Cuban Ambassador to the U. S. A. and Cuban Minister to Soviet Rus- sia. Recently he came back from | a visit to the Soviet capital durlng; which he presented his cretientials | to Foreign Minister Molotoff, andwl expressed the polite hope that he might also call upon Stalin. Know- ing that ‘Stalin was one of the bus- jest men in the world, however, Concheso did not press the point and actually did not expect to see him. So he almost fell out of his ballet seat one night when someone tap- ped him on the shoulder and told him that Stalin would see him in 20 minutes. How Stalin knew the Cu- ban diplomat was enjoying the fa- mous Moscow ballet, Concheso did not know. In fact, he thought at first that someone was playing a practical joke. However, he was told that a motor would call for him at the theatre in 15 minutes, and he should be ready. Concheso consulted a Brit- ish diplomat, also present at the ballet, who told him that the man who had tapped him on the shoul- der was te Russian chief of proto- ca), so he had better be ready. .| It was May, but zero weather in Moscow. However, Ambassador Concheso did not find it cold .in] the Kremlin. (Churchill wore aj zipper-suit when he called on Stalin, and Mrs. Hull has been worrying on behalf of her husband about the cold in the Kremlin) Only two officers guarded Stalin. One officer met the Cuban at the entrance of the building and escorted him toj Stalin’s office. There he was met by another officer who took him the rest of the way. There was no pomp or ceremony. GENIAL JOSEF Stalin himself was not fierce, but kindly and genial. His eyes, accord- ing to Ambassador Concheso are deep and penetrating, but with wrinkles of humor in the corners. The Soviet Premier seemed sur- prisingly well-posted on Cuban problems, knew something about its labor laws and its economic ques- tions. However, he was not familiar with Cuban-U. 8. relations and NNatio Proving that American generals can laugh as well as fight, this photo, taken on the Italian front, depicts Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commander of the Fifth Army, Allied Commander in the North A uproarious mirth. session preceding the march on Naple: and General Dwight Eisenhower, rican Theatre of War, engaging in They exchanged guffaws following a military No one was able to ferret out the joke that gave rise to their risibili nal War Fund Drive Starts Monday; Juneau's campaign to raise $12,000, for the National War Fund Dnv"j will get underway Monday morn- ing when Captains of the various| districts of the city begin their can- vass of homes and business houses for the benefit of 17 different or-| ganizations. | Last ,evening members of the committee in charge of the drive and captains met in the city hall to plan the campaign. Harry : 24 Lucas, chairman, introduced Mrs.| John McCormick, who explained the | purposes for which the funds are| to be allocated. The total amount| to be raised in the United States is| $125,000,000, and for the Territory| the amount is $80,000. This amount has been carefully| allocated to the different organiza-| i tions by experienced and skillful relief workers. For instance, $2,150,- 000 is 'to be spent in the relief of prisoners of war, furnishing medical | supplies, books, and food. Chinese relief has been allocated $10,000,000, Russia, $10,400,000, Britain, $4,580,- 000, and Greece, whose people are in the most desperate condition of all the occupied countries will be benefited by $5,580,000. Following is a complete list of the organizations coming under the United War Fund Drive so every- body should be interested: United Seaman’s Service, War Prisoner’s Aid, Belgian War Relief Society, British War Relief Society, French Relief Fund, Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War Relief Association, Norwegian Relief, Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War Relief, Uso, United China Relief, United Czechoslovak Relief, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Refugee Relief Trustees, U. S. Committee Care of European Children. Dr. W. W. Council, Chairman of the Drive in Alaska, spoke briefly saying: “For the first time we are | putting the collection of funds for|tives of 350,000 members of five op-| these agencies on a business basis. It will cut down the expense and | confusion of separate drives. We in} Alaska have not suffered from this war, We have not had to dig, but| now we must dig, and must put this! drive over.” ( Capt. T. J. Dyck, of the Central | Committee, explained that each cit- seemed to think that Cuba was still ot el e i e SR _ (Continued on Page Four) izen of Juneau may well give a day’s pay for the fund, considering the fact that so many organizations | 1 $12 ,900 in One Week are benefitting, which ordinarily made a separate drive. District captains are allowed to select as many helpers as they wish and they will furnish a sticker for the doner’s window, as well as a receipt if desired. The drive will last only one week, that is from Monday morning until Saturday night. In connection with the drive a| short sound picture was shown last | night by Pat Dooley, entitled “Last | Will and Testament of Tom Smith"\ showing the last 20 minutes of ani| American ' flyer's life before his! death before a Japanese firing| squad. The film has been shown to the schools, Chamber of Commerce, and the Juneau Woman's Club and is available to any group wishing!| 'to exhibit it for the benefit of the War Fund Drive. | Starts Ball Rolling | To get a one day start on the drive, it is announced that all Yu- | goslavians and Russians in this vi-| cinity are requested to meet at the }Cm- Hall Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock and incidentally to take their contributions and prepare to line up others of the nationals to of the campaign. st S5O STRIKE VOTE OF RAILMEN IMMINENT BULLETIN—CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Executives of five railroad operating unions today author- ized a strike vote because of dis- satisfaction of the proposed hike of only four cents an hour. The men are holding out for an increase of 30 percent. CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Representa- | erating Railroad Brotherhoods are! meeting here in an atmosphere of general dissatisfaction. The representatives declared a strike vote is imminent to bring to a head the fight of 10 months for higher wages. £ P T NOME MAN HERE From Nome, W. R. Marson is in Juneau for a few days, a guest ai the Baranof Hotel, NAZI ARMY GROGGY ON ~ RUSS FRONT Continuous Soviet Attacks Crumbling German Line-Many Trapped MOSCOW, Oct. 23. — The Red | Armies, speeding up their marathon offensive, are attacking violently in many sectors throwing the Germans back scores of miles in the face of | very heavy counterattacks. There are signs that the Germans are unable to halt the break- |throughs in several areas, partic- ularly southeast of Kremenchug at the Dnieper River elbow, and both north and south of Melitopol, where |the Soviets are fashioning a south- {ern arm clamp southeast of Kiev lat the Pereyaslav bridgehead. Moscow is expecting to be able to |hold a Saturday night celebration | for another major Russia victory, the fall of Melitopol, ravaged ror} |many days by fierce street fighting. | o 2emud | London dispatches said that pos-' | sibly a million and a half Germuna" are treatened with entrapment at/ the Dnieper bend in the Crimea.| Heretofore, by the use of fresh| | troops and masses of artillery, heavy' | units of “tanks and bombers, ; the Nazis in general have succeeded in slowing down the Soviets after the |major breakthrough, but today, al- though similarly reinforced, the | German lines appeared to be crumb- ling. | This is the first time the Nazis ! {have had a real war of attrition | practiced on them, and over the (long front, Marshal Stalin as mas- ter Russian strategist, appeared to |have them groggy. | At present the Red Army is strik- ing in first this sector and then another, straining the already thin line of German communications, forcing them to shift men and ma- terial to meet the sudden attacks. ARMYPLANE NOTSTOPPED BY SHELLING Fliers in Aleutian Cam- | paignKeep Going -Awards ALEUTIAN BASE, Oct. | 23 A |do the same thing during the week cannon shell explosion in the pilot’s |compartment failed to stop an | Army Liberator bomber's raid on ‘J apanese Paramushiro Island, Major General Davenport Johnson, Commander of the 11th Air Force, | disclosed today. He announced awards were made to the fliers of the September 11 |raid, when the shell exploded in fthe face of Second Lt. Raymond K.| Underwood, co-pilot of Cleveland, Ohio, and First Lt. Jerome J. Jones, pilot, North Hollywood, California who remained at the controls with a severe arm wound. Unconscious, Lt. Underwood was removed from the cockpit and given first aid by Technical Sergeant Dwight Lambe, also wounded, and Technical Sergeant John Stroo, radio operator. Sergeants Lambe and Stroo then alternated as co-pilot and attending| Underwood, and brought the plane safely back to base. R Former Governor 0f Alabama Dies ANNISTON, Alabama, Oct. 23— |Thomas Erby Kilby, 78, former Governor of Alabama and one of died at his home last night, four days _after he suffered from a heart attack, Crushed in Battle in Ita | | SOLDIERS OF THE U. S. OCCUPATION FORCES maké themselves at home in a crudely built Japanese hospital in Kiska, in the Aleutians, after the Japs moved out. Although an old-fashiongd cast iron stove provides the heat, the building is a welcome shelter for our boys on the bleak island. U, S. Navy photo. (Inter! RAF | HIT KASSEL, 9TH ATTACK Brilain'stofifisl Raid This Month-44 Bombers Lost | Over Nazi Country LONDON, Oct. 23.—A great force of Royal Air Force bombers fought | their way through many Nazi fight- | ers last night to deliver a concen- trated attack on the German war industrial center ‘of Kassel, in *the ninth ecostliest major British raid this month. Forty-four heavy bombers failed to return from the mission, but the plahes fought back stubbornly, send- ing “several” fighters hurling down in the dark skies A smaller force of heavy planes struck at the same time at Frank- furt, making it the second raid in 18 days. Mosquitos rounded out the night's bombing assault on the Cologne | area. German raiders stabbed in the seventh successive dropping a few hombs. While the official report men- tioned bad weather was encountered | on the 400-mile round trip to Kas- | sel, it is said visibility was good over | the target. | First reports indicated explosives | were concentrated and that the RAF probably equalled or even ex- | ceeded the 50 tons of bombs dropped in the last Kassel raid on Octo- ber 10. Nazis Claim Recapture of ‘ Dodecanese|. | | i LONDON, Oct. 23, — A Berlin| broadcast from the International | Bureau said that Nazi troops have | |occupied Astypalea Island in the \{western part of the Dodecanes| | Group. | The broadcast said that numer- ous German prisoners were freed | |from the British, who they report-| London night, the state’s leading industrialists,|€d occupied the island late in Sep-| Eileen Lynch, Genevieve Wood-|suirendered wasn't yet any reason | | tember. No confirmation has been |received in London in regard to Jthe German claim, | JAP HOSPITAL SHELTERS U. S. TROOPS m' BOMBERS ly TWO VESSELS ATTACKEDBY NIPPONSUBS Crews of Tanker, Freighter Make Reports-Navy Now on Defensive LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, Oct, 23.— Crews of a tanker and a ffeighter, returning from the west coast of Hawaii and other Pacific points, re- port Jap submarines have reappear- ed in strength in the Pacific for new attacks on Allied shipping. The tanker crew said they were attacked twice. The crew of the freighter said they had a short brush with a Jap sub- marine but escaped damage. The location of this attack was not given, In both incidents, gun crews aboard the two vessels beat off the attacks, The Navy Department is non- committal in the defense measures to be adopted but admit steps have been taken as sub movements of the enemy have been reported in the past two weeks. These are the first definite reports of activity of Jap undersea craft off the west coast. Early in the war, ships were torpedoed, several were | sunk and later a California oil field and- the Oregon coast were. shelled. One plane was sent over Oregon in an abortive attémpt to start a forest fire. Yesterday, in Sacramento, Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, of the West Coast Command, said he was afraid to relax defense regulations on the West Coast as there 1§ “always the possibility more than the probability of a Japanese commando raid and submarine attack on the West Coast.” He said, however, that he did not fear a serious invasion af this time. NEW GUINEA JAPS HIT BY BOMB RAIDS PulverizingKiFAssaulisby MacArthur's Men Pre- cedesLand Operations ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. - |23 —Many Japanese soldiers were In the few days between the col- killed when their jungle defenses lapse of Italy and the bad uuws‘,were levelled Thursday by a record !from the beach-head at Salerno,|weight of 221 tons of bombs dropped | business men stationed in Wash-|by Liberators on their imperiled er each | positions northwest of Finschhafen, |New Guinea, | The enemy in a frantic attempt ‘national) Bad War NewstoBe Told Now fo Prevent Complacency Feelingl BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—1I Wl\)l[‘{ to dedicate this column to a little . |better understanding between Washington, D. C, and the 48| states. The Eva—Bosun’s Mate most frequent complaint of occasional visitors to Washington is: “What makes us sore is that you folks here, from the President down to the youngest stenographer ; |seem to think that we don’t know * lwe are in a war—that we are dodg< | ing our responsibilities and trying [to go on with business and life as usual.” It such feeling exists here, [it's confined to the few observers| |who can't see across the Potomac. | All communities are afflicted with [persons who are near-sighted.| | Washington perhaps has more than |its share. ington practically tripped ov |other trying to get back home to ; peace- | |convert their businesses to time pursuits. As T mentioned in a|to escape entrapment, directed an recent column, a foggy rumor that|9ssault in the Sattleberg Mission the Office of Civilian Defense was|8rea, where the Japs in considerable golng to fold, because there was no|force are imperiled by the Aussies further danger of invasion of this|from both sides. g country from air or land, caused| Despite the raid. the battle 1s ex- mare than s thivd of ite personnet|Pected 0 ASsUE largey Trovoxtione, ta tidke .| The bomb weight is the heaviest 0 take run-out powder. There : 4 |unloaded in a single day attack in |were few states and fewer citles | oo Guinea, altHough it was. ex- |of similar size that had a harder| .coqeq by the 350 tons mpp;d s |time topping quotas on the Third|¢pe jarger target at Rabaul on Oc- War Loan drive than Washington. |¢oper 12 Those and many kindred facts| pylverizing air assaults’ by Gen- over-emphasis on poli-era] Douglas MacArthur's Air Force tics and the operations of the War|on enemy jungle offensives preceded brokers, to mention only two) give large land operations on the Jap the sincere Washington official cold | reinforcements to the Sattleberg |chills. Couple that with reports from|force, which came by way of Ma- (war industry areas that pmducuon}dang. itself threatened by an Aus- |draps off like a spent rocket every|tralian force in the Ramu Valley. s (such as THE U. S. COAST GUARD has scored another victory. And a beautiful one at that. Lovely Eva Gabor, |time the war news turns good, and | |you can understand why some gov-| ernment bigwigs make statements | The Sattleberg force is believed to have been first intended for Fin- schhafen, captured on October 2, Hungarian actress, has just been married in Hollywood to Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate Charles Isaacs, 31, formerly a Hollywood real_estate agent. (International) | the press and on the radio employ-|Where the Australians dug in. ing that unfortunate phrase “na-, The Sattleberg force evidently ex- tional complacency.” pects to be driven out eventually, B but is trying to keep open the ave- That's why President Roosevelt|hue to the sea. w0 —————.———— said recently the great news from General Eisenhower that Italy had FROM INLEY Ernest McClanahan, Ida Landry, of | for celebration (and how true that|Pat Cavanaugh, De Loss W. John- the' - . |son, from Excursion Inlet, are re- | sistered at the Baranof. TRIO FROM FAIRBANKS ward and Janet M. Kimball, Fairbanks, are registered at Baranof Hotel, (Continued on Page Two)