The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9482. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER _2-6L l‘)i3 i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 r——— | = ALLIED ARMIES KEEP ADVANCING, ITALY TWO SURPRISE ATTACKSMADE ON JAP BASE One Desfro}eT,Five Coast- al Vessels Sunk by Allied Air Force ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 26.—An official communique issued this Tuesday morning says Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s air force de- stroyed 123 Japanese planes last Sat- urday and Sunday in surprise raids on Rabaul, New Britain, and prob- ably damaged 45 others on the ground. The raid made on Saturday was from a high altitude but on Sunday, Lightnings screened Mitchells that went in at tree top level i One Jap destroyer and five coast- | al vessels in the harbor were sunk | during the raids and other shipping | was generally attacked. | The loss of the 123 Jap plaues: brings the total Nippon air losses at | Rabaul in the last four weeks to, 300 and a total loss of enemy planes | | | | | i (Conunued‘ on Page Two) ———————— The Washington' Merry -Eg-Bound, By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) | i | WASHINGTON—Last week’s sgc-i yet session of the Senate Foreign: Relations Committee to COhSldEl‘J‘ plans for permanent peace should have been witnessed by every, mother anxious to rid the world of future war. ; The doors were closed to press and public, but here is what hap- pened. Four senators called on the Com- mittee to urge a resolution with real teeth, embracing a police io}'qe, and authorizing the U. S. A. to join with United Nations and others to‘ set up world machinery for peace. | These four Senators were Ball of ! Minnesota, Burton of Ohio, Hatch | of New Mexico, and Hill of Ala-{ bama. Por short, they are called‘ B2H2. They are not members of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, so handsome chairman “Long Tom” Connally kept them waiting while he polled the Cm_'n» mittee on the more conservative; resolution which its own members had drawn up. Their much more vague resolution has the approval | of such isolationists as’ North Da- kota's Nye, which makes many non- isolationists leery of it. \ Chairman Connally went the rounds. He asked what each mem- ber thought of the Committee’s own resolution. After he had put most of 'them on record for the, con- servative resolution, he finally men- tioned the fact that the four non- member Senators— B2H2—were present. “Does the Committee wish to hear them?” he asked. | | | | { INTRUDERS FOR PEACE | Senator Barkley of Kentucky moved that the intruders be heard. Whereupon Hatch of New Mexico read a long statement, able but wordy. Republicans Ball and Bur- ton appeared more briefly. This left five minutes to Hill of Alabama. Then Senator Pepper proposed that the Committee hold public hearings. On such an important subject as permanent world peace, Pepper said, he thought the people who have to sacrifice and suffer during war should be heard. He especially suggested that the Com- mittee’call as witnesses the Cath- olic, Protestant, Jewish groups which had adopted broad resolu- tions for peace machinery. Senator Murray of Montana, and' Hiram Johnson of California, a de- vout isolationist, agreed with him. But the Committee voted otherwise. Chairman Connally said that it was important to bring out a reso- B ety w0 S AR AT (Continued on Page Four) 123 Jap ALEUTIAN SsIG SHAKES AREA, CALIFORNIA Severe Jolmlt for Half Minufe-Windows Are Broken in One Town SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 26. —A sharp earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay area for half a minute at 9:51 o’clock last night. The severe jolt was felt down the peninsula as far as San Jose, 50 miles south, and windows in the city were nearly all broken. Residents of the entire section rocked by the quake said it was the most severe in years. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS BETTER Fever Disappears-Confer-| ence with Newsmen, However, Cancelled WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt who has had a case of grippe since last Friday, is re- ported by the White House spokes- ;man as “feeling a good deal better” today. The fever has disappeared. The regular Tuesday conference with the newsmen was however cance\ued _today. N POSTS—American trcops on Attu in the Aleutians have fixed up the mess tent and barber shop with humorous signs. Note also the “highway marker.” "ATTU STATION HOSPITAL — Attu Island in the Aleutians, serve as a station hospital. H i R k| i Prefabricated Pacific huts, erected by U. S. troops on EARTHQUAKE Tax Talk fo Engage Congress for Weeks; Just Plain Eyewash By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—In the next few months, you are going to hear more about taxes than I have heard for years and I'm afraid a lot of it is going to be just plain‘the inflationary spiral which has unadulterated eyewash. [.sp(‘]l('d want and starvation in many | countries in this war. The reasons are complicated, but| the simplest one is that next year is election year and our national legislators are not keen to anger At the moment, the weight of ar- gument seems to be on the Con- ‘gressional side. If the public were |shoveling out that 25 billion with a YOU coa] scoop, the Treasury program wouldnt be half enough to head off But the fact is that the public |isn't spending that way. Only re- any group of constituents with a cently, no less a person than Vinson brutal tax program. More difficult|himself announced that the ifla- ;qnunderzulllnd 3 the ;':;5:25 ;“’{g‘tion line was being held. illion ollar tax rogram, | “ B 50N istenc at it through i " ® Aong, oalslente 11 40 ®%isay, but there’s no doubt that a as proposed. 1 ¥ ! = _{lot of it is due to native American Both Treasury Secretary Morgen: intelligetice. thau and Vinson have. made it | pretty clear that they are not near- That's why some federal officials ily so interested in revenue as in And members of Congress are say- |lmlding the line against inflation. (I8 now that what we need isn't should be just about three times | 88ainst spending and insistence on what . Using round figures, the 'saving for the day when we return American people will put about|t0 Peace, and industry will need $150,000,000,000 in their pockets lhs]bulions in sales to cross the gap fiscal year. If they buy everythinge“'om war production to civilian in sight, they can’t spend more than |£00d. |about $90,000,000,000 of it. That | leaves a surplus of seo,ooo‘ooo,ono.l There’s even a definite under- Existing taxes (of all types) and!ground move in Treasury circles to war bonds will draw off sometmng:abandon the bla-bla about the pa- more than $35000,000000 of that.triotism of buying war bonds and {That leaves $25,000,000000 that|sell them for just what they are, might be diverted into inflationary"one of the best investments that | channels. jany government has offered. ‘The Treasury, Vinson and thej That there will be a tax increase | Administration say that 10.5 billions ' goes without saying. That it won't ;or it will have to be skimmed off if!be anything like what the Treas- the nation is to be saved from in-|ury has asked for and Vinson back- ;t]ation. Tax leaders in Congressied is also almost a certainty. Best |say no more than four or five bil-|guesses here now are thut Congress lions will have to be dragged out of | Will try for their four or five bil- \that kitty, * llion.s along the same old lines. 1If that is true, their tax program mMore taxes but a continued drive| Planes Destroyed in Rabaul ONEMILLION !Jap Subs Were Sunk GERMANS IN MASS FLIGHT AsEnemy in "“Disordered’ Re- freat in Russia | MOSCOW, Oct. 26.— Four hard thitting Soviet armies are pursuing :lhv battered legions of Adolph Hit- ler who are retreating a s south- lern Russin from the shattered | Dnieper River defense wall toward | the Bug River, 175 miles west. | Front line dispatches indicated that the badly mauled Nazi forces [nre waging a desperate but futile | iAlaska Command |rear guard battle along the 200-| imile long front from Kremenchug | Isouth to the Sea of Azov, intent | 7 i(’"ly on saving as much as possible {from what may prove the greatest | | |German disaster since Stalingrad. | The German retreat is accelerated {by the Russian capture of the in- |dustrial cities of Dnepropetrovsk jand Dneprodzherinsk in the great | Dnieper bend yesterday Bluntly characterized by the Rus- |sian communique as “disordered” |London dispatches estimated that Iperhaps a million Germans are in- |volved in the mass retreat across| the Ukraine, SEALHERD Eifie GROWINGTO AP LEADERS BIO FIGURE' MEET, 83RD Value Now Estimated ati DIET SESS'ON $100,000,000, Says | ‘ Government THIS IS TME latest portrait taken of Lieut. Gen. S8imon B. Buckner, -commanding general of the Alas. kan Defense Command, taken ag he rode in the gun blister of a Navy PBY Catalina bomber oves the Aleutians. (International) | . ‘ {Outlook on War Given { WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — The! H Sober Appraisal-New | presenting 85 percent of the fur Iseg)s in the world, has grown to between 2,500,000 and 2,700,000 ani- 4 NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—A radio |$100,000,000. ’broadrn.\l made from Tokyo today | The herd was down to 130,000 said that Japan’s two highest lead- | when the | |the sealing in 1910. The Interior| Tojo have joined in giving the | Department announced this year's'(-mmy-mird special session of the 'fur take now is safely in the United diet a sober appraisal on the war skins, the largest record yet, worth| Tojo asserting that the Allies “de- $5,000,000 after processing at St_lrum'd at the beginning are now Louis by the Fouke Fur Company, overcoming many difficulties and When the United States pur- intensity.” ‘chased Alaska from Russia, the, The Emperor in one of his in- |herd was estimated at 4,000,000, but frequent declarations of war termed vate firms until 1910. grave.” | e ->oo His Imperial rescript was read in llouo IA his presence at the formal opening | Pribilof Islands fur seal herd, re- P St i d rogram Starte mals with a -capital value of about| C Government took over ers, Emperor Hirohito and Premier States and amounts to 117,164 outlook. Federal agents. the dangers of war are growing in |sealing rights were leased to pri-|Japan’s present situation as “truly of the diet session on domestic is- | sues | The Tokyo broadcast reported be- ! cause “there is no time to slack 1 in war Tojo said the government has de- | cided on a new industrial manpower mobilization then the production of war mater- |lals, especially ‘airplanes, so our de- | fensive structure may be made un-| |wavering we must further exert our - PERGALLON WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — The House Ways and Means Committee today voted to boost the tax on |liquor from $6 to $10 a gallon, but |rejected proposals for increases on |tobacco and gasoline. s, committee members esti- mated, under the increased liquor | Itax will total approximately twelve | land a half cents levy on a drink of | | hundred proof liquor, and will be! smaller for lower proof liquors. — e | CHRISTIAN SERVICE ASKS | MEN, ASSIST WED. NIGHT ‘The Women's Society of Christian Sarvice reuests the assistance of | men of the Methodist Church to attend a work session Wednesday eyening at 7:30 o'clock when the social room of the church will be) calcimined. > o Monigomery In Win Over Pete Scalzo PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26. — Bob Montgomery, 137 pound holder of | the New York-Pennsylvania ver- sion of the light weight title, scored a technical knockout over Petey Scalzo, 136 pounds, in the sixth round of a nontitle fight, RAISED $4 | program to ‘“streng-| confidence on our ultimate v‘rlury."l Evacuated Kiska, Kincaid Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Vice- Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, Com- mander of the Aleutians area, dis- sed today that “quite a few" Jap- anese submarines were sunk by American destroyers while the enemy was evacuating Kiska. | "We got quite a few-—enqugh to make it hurt,” he said in a press conference. Kincaid, Secretary of the Navy | Frank Knox explained, is in Wash- | inngton prior to his taking over the new duties as Commander of the naval forces in the Southwest Pa- cific theatre, succeeding Vice-Ad- miral Carpenter who became Com- mander of the Ninth Naval District with headquarters at Great Lakes, | Illinois, succeeding Rear Admiral i Downs, who is retiring. | Kincaid described how his de- stroyer force shut off the enemy's ac to Kiska. “We had some succ in getting Japanese sub- marines and hope soine of them were full of evacuees but don't know,” he stated. | Saved Lives | He said he believed the evacua- tion of the Jap garrison, previously estimated at some 10,000 troops, was «carried out by submarine, that if the Japs had not given up the island, “heavy casualties” might have re- sulted when American and Canadian troops landed there in August, “When we landed,” he said, “we (found that the beach was much more strongly covered than we had jever dreamed.” Kincald said he believed the troop funits not needed for combat were levacuated first by subs and the |Japs started taking off the combat | units later. | “They were very clever about it,” he said, adding that even 24 hours after the landing it wasn't known definitely if the Japs had given up the island. For a time, he said, it (was believed the enemy bad moved Iback into the hills, which would have been necessary in case of a ,long period of fighting. That belief, +he explained, was based on the Jap :conunuflncv of road building opera- 'tions until the last day any action |was noted on Kiska by our fliers. ! 'He also reported some of the enemy buildings had been torn down and this led to the belief that the Japs might have been thinking about using the lumber for new installa- tions in the hills. Admits Surprise Kincaid said frankly, ‘We were surprised that they all got out. 'When we got on the beach without being fired on, we thought they were all back in "the hills, and couldn't afford to assume they had, (all got out.” | Kincaid described the Aleutians as “extremely important” in the of- fensive against Japan, explaining, they “provide a short route to Japan protected by land bases.” | He added, “from Seattle to Para- mushiro’ it is roughly 3,000 miles, ‘nnd three quarters of the way or (more it is protected by a chain of bases. It is the shortest route from our territory to Japan.” Kincaid described the appearance | of Jap planes over the Aleutians | recently as “just routine of war.” Kinsaid's successor in the Aleu- tians has not been named by Sec- retary Knox, i PSR S, MANPOWER SHORTAGE KO'S NEVADA RENO, Oct. 26.—The University of Nevada tried desperately to keep power shortage, but gave up the ghost by informing (he Alameda Coast Guard the game Sunday must | (be called off on account of the fact that Nevada no longer had avml-‘ able eleven men for the starting lineup, on with football despite the man-!s 7 Raids MORETOWNS CAPTUREDBY TWO ARMIES German Opposition on Clark’s Forces Diminish- ing-Nazis Make Stand ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 26. — The Allied Armies in Italy have captured ten more towns and made advances up to four or five miles against Ger- man opposition. The German opposition on the Fifth Army front has diminished as the Nazis apparently fell back to new positions. Gen. Clark’s Fifth Army has seized Raviscanina, only 15 miles south of the large transport city of Isernia, Montgomery's Eighth Army col- umn, striking up from the south- west, took Objano, some 15 miles from Isernia on the main road from Campobasso. Isernia is the key point of German supply and is being threatened by the Fifth and Eighth Armies from the south and south- east. Some German rear guards still offered stubborn resistance. This official information con- firmed »urlwy the Ger- mans were ing for a major stand along the line from Mon- dragone on the west coast, north- wesiward through Venafro, then across Italy to the area of Vastro on the Adriatic. SUBURBS OF LONDON ARE AIR RAIDED German Planes Sef Siren Screaming-Veer Away Soon LONDON, Oct. 26—German war planes swooped over ouflying dis- tricts of London last night and set the capital city’s air raid sirens screaming for the ninth time in 10 nights, but veered off without passing over the city itself, after drawing a sputter of anti-aircraft fire. A few enemy raiders also ap- peared over southeast England last night, dropping bombs but causing no casualties. There was no indica~ {tion of any night activity by the RAF'’s heavy bombers, SITKA IS T0 BEHONORED, SAYS KNOX Name Wilm Given fo New United States Frigate-What Is If WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox announc- ed today that Sitka, Alaska, former Capital City of the northern Terri- tory, will be honored by having the name Sitka given to a new United States frigate. Prigates are described as twin rew corvettes with little more am and longer and a little faster than the present corvettes. The displacement of a frigate is about 1,100 tons and the craft will be used primarily as escort ships. i LW B0 0K BUY WAR BONDS