The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 9481. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ) ALLIES START 2-WAY SQUEEZE ON NAZLS Violent Mountain Battles Raging in Italy FIFTH ARMY DRIVENALIS INTO POCKET Eisenhower Sees Allies Make Advances-Eighth Army Forges Ahead ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Every Five (Complete Airplane Soon Producedin U. S. Decorative Miss ALGIERS, Oct. 25.—Violent moun- !} tain Fifth Army front in Italy as the result of the Allied drive of three miles that resulted in the capture of the railroad junction of Sparan- ise, 13 miles from the western coast. | The advance was witnessed by ' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower while on a tour of the front. The driw_ placed the American and British' troops north of stoutly defended Regia, defense canal leading to Lhe the Nazi forces in that area. battles flared today on the ¢ [ One commentator said if the Ger- | mans “don’t get out of the area they are caught in a pocket.” The military commentator also said the Germans have launched counter-attack after counter attack in an effort to relieve their position but these were beaten off with bloody noses. (Continued on Page Three) ——————— The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | WASHINGTON — The diplomatic grapevine reports that inter-Allied relations with Russia are going| pretty well know. This is certainly JUST TO MAKE SURE the boys in service don’t lack for pin-up beau- ties, we want them to have this photo of shapely Patricia Lowry of Chicago. So far as we know she hasn’t' won any contest, but we think that's irrelevant. (International) true on the surface, and while some irritations have occurred below the surface, both sides have shown a real tendency to try to get along. Most serious sub-surface irrita- tion was over the Mediterranean Council, through which Russia, the United States and Britain were to confer regarding Italy, North Africa and the Balkans. The Russians, snubbed earlier in the summer regarding preliminary Italian armistice terms, took the Mediterranean Council seriously and appointed as their representative Andrei Vishinski, the famous prose- cutor in the Russian purge trials. This was the equivalent of second- ing the most outstanding member of the U. S. Supreme Court or the leading lawyer of England. Vishinski is a man of national stature, capable of making Mediter- ranean decisions without consulting Moscow. But to represent the| United States on the Mediterranean Council, Secretary Hull sent Ed Wil- son, U. S. Ambassador to Panama, Wilson is a thorough-going, com- petent ' diplomat who can handle any routine job and handle it well. But almost no one outside diplom- acy or Panama has heard of him.} He has no national stature and he /Another Link Planned for Alaska Road Rep. Magnuson Suggests| Highway Through Northwest WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Repre- sentative Warren G. Magnuson, of the State of Washington, today an- nounced the Alaska International; Highway Commission will carry to President Roosevelt a plea far an immediate construction of a link of | road to go through the Pacific Northwest to Alaska. Rep. Magnuson said he conferred | with Thomas Riggs, former Gov- ernor of Alaska and a member of the commission, who approved the cannot act on his own. Immediately it developed that| Wilson was to act as a glorified plan. He said British Columbia was ready to appropriate $6,000,000 for messenger and report everything 'its share in the connecting link from back to Washington. The British Prince George to Watson Lake. representative was to do the same.| . Rep. Manguson said Canada would In other words, Churchill and be asked to put up $6,000,000 and the Roosevelt were to make the de- United States another $6,000,000. He cisions, and the much publicized suggested that the United States Mediterranean Council was to be a'furnish equipment and material used mere reporting agency. by the Army Engineers on the Al- This immediately roused Russian aska Highway to British Columbia wrath. They had welcomed the Council, appointed a top man. So for a moment they considered with- drawing. However, for the sake of! Allied harmony, they stayed on and| pRESIDE“T on the road. e, — are giving the Mediterranean Coun- cil a trial. - POOR “PA” WATSON and thus enable an immediate start | Toughest job White House secre- tary Maj Gen. Edwin (“Pa”) Wat- son of the White House secretariat has to tackle each day is keeping the President’s appointment sched- ule on time. Frequently FDR will sit talking to: an old friend for 15 or 20 minutes! (Continued on Page Four) IMPROVING WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — The | President’s temperature is improv- ing today, Rear Admiral McIntire said, The Chief Executive is still ia little achey and grippy but will probably be able to get up and work in his study late today. WASHINGTON, Oct, 25. — This country will “very soon” be turning out a complete airplane every five minutes, Charles Wilson, Executive Vice-President of the War Produc- tion Board, said here in a speech to the graduating class of the National Police Academy. ‘This production will be at an an- nual rate exceeding 105,000 or 8640 planes in a 30-day month Since January 1, 1942, Wilson said, the United States has pr duced 110,000 m)lnary planos COLLECTIVE SECURITY IS ISSUENOW |Sen. Tom Et)fially Urges| | Senate to Adopt Infer- national Peace Plan WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Opening one of the Senate's most important | debates of this generation, Senator | Tom Connally of Texas, declared to- [ day the hour has struck when Am- | ierica must show its might is dedi- | cated to world peace and against | aggression henceforth. The chairman of the Senate For- ‘eiL,n Relations Committee took the floor to urge adoption of his reso- ) lution for the United States to “join [with the free sovereign nations in | |the establishment and inaintenance of an international authority of |power to prevent aggression and | preserve peace in the world.” | with every indications pointing to | |the eventual approval of the reso- | lution by an overwhelming vote, | Connally told the Senate, “Isolation | ! has failed.” | “Let us try collective security. | {The United States cannot write a | |pattern of its own and expect all The Senate cannot blueprint advance, action of nations whose | influence, power and arms, | secure the desired results.” (COAL STRIKES 'RESULTING IN LACK OF FUEL WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—“Wild- cat” strikes spread today to more isoft coal pits and work stoppage was emphasized by the Solid Fuel's Administration report, of a sharply idropping off of produetion of vital fuel, as reported last week. Meanwhile there were increasing | indications that the War Labor Board will not approve, in its pre- sent form, the proposed Illinois Bit- |uminous Contract the miners held up as a model for the whole in- dustry. Most striking miners attribute |idleness to the United Mine Work- ers’ traditional policy of “No con- tract, no work.” o leaders to go back to work without ip:ejudicim,' its own case, workers refused to enter seven' more mines in Harlan County, Kentucky, boost- ing idleness there to nearly half of 12,000 miners in the county. ROTARIANS TO ENTERTAIN LADIES TOMORROW NOON Rotarians will ladies at the regular weekly lunch- eon tomorrow noon in the Gold iRoom of the Baranof Hotel. A special program has been plan- ' ned for the occasion. other nations to accept it in detail. ' in must | In face of appeals from Union | entertain . their | WAR FUND DRIVE IS UNDERWAY District Capt—afls Start So- liciting-Campaign s Extended to Nov. 3 Juneau’s campaign to raise $12,000 for the National War Fund got off 'to a good start today when district captains and their assistants began a canvass of homes and of the busi- | ness district. Much interest is being shown in the drive due to the fact that the sums realized will go to 17 different relief organizations gathered under one head for greater efficiency and economy. In order that everyone will have the opportunity to contribute to the | fund, the drive, instead of ending Saturday, as was formerly planned, |will be extended until Wednesday, :Novembel 3. The added time will }(,ne the captains time to contact | everyone, and will contribute to the |success of the eampaign. Tonight, following the regular | meeting of the American Legion in | the Dugout, the film “Last Will and | {'I‘csmment of Tom Smith,” will be | shown at 9:30 o'clock to Legion- naires and Auxiliary mmebers. The | picture is a moving account of the | 1inal minutes of a soldier’s life in a Japanense prison before facing & firing squad, and is guaranteed to infuse any one who sees it with a desire to do everything to end the Iwar as quickly as possible and lu‘ alleviate as much as they can the Jap Bomber Operalmg Near Aftu, Is Atfacked By Navy Pairol Bomber WASHINGTON, Oct bomber, operating in the vicinity of American posttions at Attu, was|damaged attacked by a U. S. Navy patrol| This is the third recent occasion bomber and probably damaged yes- in which the Navy has reported the terday afternoon, the Navy reports,| presence of enemy craft in the vi- The attack was about 175 miles| cinity of the Aleutians 25.—~A Jap southwest of Cape Wrangell The U. S. Navy bomber was not suffering of the unfortunates cap- | | tured by the enemy. >>>o BRITSH ~ (RUISER Destroyer Also Sent Down as Result of German Torpedoes { LONDON, Oct. 25.—The British | cruiser Charvydis was sunk and the ‘destroyer Limbourne damaged so extensively that the craft had to |be sunk during a channel naval | battle last Saturday, the Admiralty | officially announced this afternoon. The two ships were part of a | British force engaged in an offensive sweep off the North Coast. Both vessels were struck by tor- pedoes. Unofficially it is said the torpedo boats were protecting a German | convoy. ! British casualties are not given. e —,-—— SUB DORADO NOW LISTED - AS MISSING | \U. 5. Craft, in Commission| 2 Months, ‘Long Over- due’ - 65 Aboard WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, — The submarine Dorado is listed by the Navy Department as lost after serv- ing as combat ship for less than two months, the Navy communique says. | The sub is “now long overdue,” the Navy says. The Dorado was commissioned on August 28. She carried 65 officers and men and was in command of Lieut. Comdr. Earle Schneider, 31. The craft was a 307 footer. E. O. Schofield of guest at the Gastineau Solder-Sailor Vole Geifing Is Headache To All (ongressmen CONFER OVER chambers are in perfect agreement, | It is the proposition of getting in WAR Iss UES the soldier-sailor vote. If there is By JACK STIN WASHINGTON, Oct. One of the sweetest little headaches in the congressional offing is, strangely enough, a non-partisan matter on which almost all members of both {anyone who is in favor of denying | the constitutional right of the men in the armed forces to cast their | ballots, he hasn’t even whispered it ighes U. . Ofcil Eer =i 525 22 By‘ the time of the national elec-. fo Visit Soviet Union, . Talks with Premier |tions in November next year, four MOSCOW, Oct. 25. or five million men may be scat- !tered over the whole globe. Another seph Stalin received Secretary of State Cordell Hull today, as the three or four million will be in train- —~Premier Jo-'j ., .. o gl ing camps, in most cases, outside their own states. Even considering the number of | tripartite conference on war and yhese under 21, the five or six mil- post-war problems moved into its Jjon who could and would vote com- seventh day. prise easily the most important body There was no indication of thelof balloteers that the get-out-the- subjects covered in the talk be-|vote advocates ever have had to deal tween Stalin and Hull, the highest with. National elections have been United States official ever to visit' won many times by far smaller ma- the Soviet Union. !jorities and it is likely the service Stalin .talked last week with An-!vote could be the determining fac- thony Eden, Britain’s minister. Dip- |tors in hundreds of congressional SUPPLIES FOR ALASKA_A vessel from Seattle, carrying cargo for the interior of Alaska, docks l( wmmer. where the new rail connecllon provldes an enler, shorter route. TAUSTRIAIS BLASTED IN NEW ACTION U. 5. Bombers Make Day- light Atfacks as RAF Hits Ruhr Sections (By Associated Press) Royal Air Force Mosquitos bomb- ed targets in the Ruhr, and other Relch localities last night, the Bri- tish Air Ministry announced, as the Berlin radio, hinted the start of a | | | | | | Melifopol Falls After Fierce Battle - Nazis Threat- ened in Many Areas BULLETIN—Moscow, Oct. 25. —The power city of Dneprope- trovsk, in the upper corner of the Dnieper River sector, has been captured by the Red Army according to an official com- munigue tonight. The city of Dnepopderzhinsk was also taken, Press) many, Austria and Hungary yester- The American bomber attacks are not forthcoming immediately (folded in Britain for a 2-direction- In Berlin, a broadcast by the Melitopol, Gateway (o Crimea, Austrian province and Styria was of the day. territory extended westward to the crunching 2-way Allied aerial —— |day. | The brief British Air Ministry Ru p |announcement of the RAF raids ignw- no details of overnight opera- yesterdny, as reported by the Ber- lin radio, were apparently on a but the German broadcast gave every Tidteation the ‘attaék was a jal attack against Germany and all |installations from British bases, | German -news agency DNB said 300 'heavy bombers, escorted by 200 has been captured by the Russian|among the obmm.« forces after nearly two weeks ur‘ The major victory threntcnru} entrapment of the Seventeenth Ger- mouth of the Dnieper. The Nazis lost more than 20,000 squeeze on Germany, declaring that | American 4-engined bombers, based Unns but included mine laying in KEEPING up memy waters. All planes are report- loNG FRONT large scale. Fuil details of the day- Ilight flight, presumably across the |great surprise and was carried out at the very moment when major {Squadrons of P-38 Lightning Fight- equipped with extra full tanks, | Fighters, attacked unspecified towns in Germany and Austiria, further some of the fiercest battles of th' Russian war, Stalin announced last i man Army of from¥00,000 to 1,000,- killed in futile building for the de-| fense of the town, Stalin’s arder! in Italy, attacked ‘southern Ger- |ed as safely returning. | Adriatic mountains and Yugoslavia, new developments were being un- give them a range of 1,100 miles. (By Associated explaining some targets were in the Saturday night in a special mder 000 men defending the Crimean | said. |tives of the United States, lomatic experts meanwhile were w'el—i'd"d many state contests. points agreed uppn by representa- ting down in black and white, Britain and Russia, at the Conference. Bowles Is Nominafed OPA Chief | Except for the setting-up of bal- lot distribution machinery in the /many camps and training stations, 1getting in the soldier vote within the United States |tieular problem. The principle of |absentee balloting has been in prac- |tice for years and the blueprint al- {ready exists. It was, however, pretty flat fizzle in 1942. The cen- sus bureau estimated that only |about 28,000 service men voted for representatives and Senators at that time, nearly 30 million and that there presents no par-| al compared to a total vote of| ENEMY IS Nasrs Desperate mia | Many Jap l;at;es, Barges, tillery and fought back violently threatened to pin them in a large, ALLIED HETDQUARTERS IN x miles of the iron and rail cen-|ily at the enemy in the Southwest the Nazis is a 50-mile wide gap at Wewak, New Guinea, and scored As the Soviet right flank pushed Buka in the Solomons. broken Zaporoshe-Melitopol line planes were caught on the ground itely outflanked and it appeared du- Many Cities Threatened ! Dnefrodzerhnish, one time centers Today the Germans threw in| ? in a desperate bid to stem the In Heavy A"a(ks mighty Red Army offensive which sack at the Dnieper River bend, as| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. the Russians rolled on to within!25~Allied warplanes, lashing heav- ter at Krivoi Rog | Pacific, destroyed 23 Japanese The only way out of the sack for!planes, several barges and two ships from Krivoi Rog southeastward to eight direct hits on a large ship the Dnieper. |resembling an aircraft carrier near down toward Krivoi Rog, and other| Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- powerful groups moved through the munique reported that 20 enemy {toward the Crimea, several highly important cities are already defin- bious that the Germans could hold them much longer. The cities thus threaténed includ- ed Dnepropetromsk, and nearby of Soviet electric power, and also | Nikopol, where some of the iet Union are located. There is only one way Dnepropetrovsk for the and that is down i out of a single track finest manganese ore deposits of the Sov-| Germans | of the Jap stronghold at Wewak and were destroyed in the raid. Medium bombers swooped to an altitude of 200 feet to bomb and machine gun the airdromes at Dagua. Out of 28 enemy aircraft that rose to intercept, three were shot down and three were listed as probables., Four Allied fighters failed to return. An attack on large ship off Buka was made by a Liberator |bomber and three direct hits were |made amidships, followed by large explosions and fire. Marked improvement a | of the pmhubly were more than 4000000 railway to Nikolaey through the|gfound situation at Finschafen was (ll)'lbh' voters in uniform at that bottleneck at Kosionovo. umled and the communique said WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Chester time Bowles, New York city advertising man, who has been serving as Gen- eral Manager of the Office of Price ' Administration, was today nomin- ated by President Roosevelt to suc- | ceed Prentiss Brown, who resigned | 1| last week as Office of Price Ad- ministrator. The real problem vomes in try- (ing to work out means of getting in the overseas vote without dis- |rupting the war effort. A number of bills already have been introduced in Congress, but it (Continued on Page Two) At the Dnieper elbow a big Red that “efforts of the enemy to break |Army breakthrough at the Zaporo- |through to the coast north of Fin- zhe-Melitopol line brought another schafen are terminated.” threat to the almost encircled Ger- | ps e sppaes |mans there, and if the Russians| SEATTLE MAN HERE push on through the Askaniyn| A. J. Anderson of Seattle is a _|steppe, the exit from the bend will guest for a few days at the Bar- be threatened from two sides. anof Hotel.