The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XLI., NO. 9483. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ NAZIS MAKE NEW LINE TO DEFEND ROME Japs Bombed O NIPPONS IN BLOODY LOSS, FINSCHHAFEN Make Des@te Attempt to Reach Coasi-1,000- Ton Ship Crippled ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 27.—Constant bombing by hundreds of American planes have compelled the Japs to quit Kahili and Karat airfields at Bougainville, two of the| most important bases in the north- | ern Solomons. The Japs have also| quit Ballale in the Shortlands. | | | | Manpower Situation Takes on Queer Quirt Especially wfll Navy By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — The/ manpower situation here has pro-‘ duced some queer quirks but none stranger than the fact that al-j though the Navy doesn't recruit for uniformed duty any more, it is con- ducting a virtually nationwide re- cruitment of civilian employes. In 136 states, the Navy is urging civilian | employes (mostly girls) to’take jobs with the department in Washing- ton. While no effort is made to |glamorize Washington, the recruit- ing officials go in heavily for de- bunking a lot of adverse publicity that has flowed out of here about EYESIGHT OF JUNEAU BOY SAVED Jimmy Russe_N, Four, Was Flown fo Seattle ut BIRTHDAY U.S.NAVY | OUTSKIRTS, IS TODAY KRIVOI ROG | S 1 Fall of Key Nazi Defense. City at Dnieper Bend | 168th Anniversary of Fleet Gives Chance for Talk of Two Solomon REDS REACH - (Japs Fear Atfack from North Pacific; Attempt Raids on Aleutian Bases By NORMAN BELL Associated Press War Correspondent ADAK IN THE ALEUTIANS, Oct. 27.—Resumption of Japanese air ac-| tivities in the Aleutian area may | Airfields ALLIES PUSH 'ALONG RIVER, SEIZETOWNS Enemy Refiuards Pull Back - High Ground October 13 bombing at "Attu at which high-flying bombers inflicted no damage and escaped at fall of night. The Japanese are believed to be on Future Battles (By Associated Press) Pride in its growing might of gal- lant deeds, tears, ships and men who don't come back and warnings of battles ahead, today marked the! 168th birthday of the United States| Navy. While its and planes are warships, on the move all submarine | Declared Imminent LONDON, Oct. 27.—With Soviet troops storming the outskirts of |Krivoi Rog, the German Command| took the gloomiest tone toward the Russian front since Stalingrad in an apparent effort to stiffen the public and the army alike to the impending military catactrophe. “A large German withdrawal! | | | | | |over the globe, all geared to Knox’s | movement” at the Dnieper bend ls‘ Now Occupied ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |indicate increasing nervousness of | frantically building defenses in the| | Tokyo war-makers over what new:lmme lands on the Kurile Islands |trouble is brewing for them in the |against danger of any new Ameri- | stormy North Pacific. | can thrust along the northern short ALGIERS, Oct. 27.—Allied troops, cut to Tokyo. advancing three to six miles, have | Paramushiro and Shimushu, nor- taken two more towns on the Trig- thernmost of the Kuriles, and less no River in Italy but fighting has than 800 miles from Attu, have al-'generally subsided as the last of ready been raided four times by the German rear guards have pulled the Army's 11th Air Force since pack to the massive new mountain July. {line guarding Rome. The presence of enemy planes, probably for reconnaissance, in Alaska was disclosed in a Navy an- | nouncement that two Japanese craft ! were encountered and driven off in the past week near Attu These air contacts followed the | Official reports disclose the air | warfare has been intensified, Greek Allied bombers crippled a 1,000 ton {the town’s bad working and l“'mg‘order to “Seek out the enemy and|announced by the Berlin radio. By airfields have been smashed and ! : " .. Jap ship off Wewak and also for Opera“on ‘Co,l;?x“or?b' | destroy him,” speakers at home ex-|their own accounts the Nazis are Adve"lsmg o' he truth of the matter is that |ioneq of the power and achievements being pounded back from the Meli- strafed positions north of Finschaf- ] i en where the Japs were bloodily| Jimmy Russell, four-year-old son Washington is getting such a bad| r the fleet in the second obser-|topol area all the way up to a .~e-wWar Bonds Goes repulsed in new atacks to try and of Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Russell of name as a place to work and live |y, . "ot Navy day, since the pre-|gion ey il gl g b gt fooi B g g B ol B reat and taterul tank vatte s/ 10 NEWSpapers hack their way to the coast. | Juneau, is on ther - fedbiel 1 Revo sent conflict. MacArthur's spokesman said new healthy childhood after an opera 101 i agg::mfi“(‘;"‘:he‘“l;afi‘"d;:f_ President Roosevelt said, in a|thundering at Krivoi Rog, impor - it WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — The Banking Committee has | : reports Teceived regarding the Sat-|tion in Seattle to restore the sight * % y Navy day letter: “I know what may [ant iron and steel center and north day raids on Rabsul! g g shortage. In spite of Navy's re-| ° ~ o° 0 0 ¢ o . g i :::;};s::dm::%zl umber of Jap OIJ:::mrvg:utrvl;s eye a cruiting campaign, it is having dif-| %™ like huge achicvements in the|to Kvemenchits Hier DeTmAl S £ 11 to 5 th ; il iy faa i i Ly )h. 'cia’ll% Rebslpoli ficulty keeping its personnel up to past will, Ix‘n confident, "f" dwarfed |attempt to retard the advance fr approved by a vote of ‘, 05 e planes destroy! il an uneau phys . the 20,000 employment that it now by those in in future|the Red Army but even this big Bankhead bill authorizing lhei {enemy supply and transport ships have been hammered. . | The Nazis are withdrawing to pRISONERs Ithe left bank of the Trigno River. | Near the Adriatic Coast, the | GET HoMEIman Army units, inland on this flank, are approaching the Fifth {Army. American troops have occupied |nigh ground facing the Massico as week ago, prospect which 45 and 55 probably destroyed. | needed an operation for which the SIS will " restore | counterattack could do no mere | Treasury Department to spend up| % )y ive to $30,000000 in annual war bond advertising in newspapers. There was only one minor amend- ment to the bill and that is the advertising be placed at the pre- vailing rates. BRI Sa £ TRIPARTITE | CONFERENCE PROGRESSES "So Far, So Good,” One, Participant Says-Long Session Indicated MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—Delegates to| the Tripartite conference arrived at some of the most important| questions of the meeting, it is re- ported as the party moved into the o BABY CONFERENCE TOMORROW | The Well-Baby Conference in Ju- | neau will be held tomorrow from 1:30 to 4 o'clock. in the Health Couneil room in the Territorial | Building. | The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Robert 8. Allen on active duty. e | WASHINGTON—If ever Wendell| wilikie walkeq Thto a ‘lion’s den” it was when he addressed 100 GOP congressmen the other night. The majority, including the 65 GOP “freshmen” who arranged the meet- ing, seethed with hostility. Not a few came with the intentions of jeering, but almost to a man, they stayed to cheer. Willkie opened the off-the-record * meeting by tellipg his listeners that lthe Elks at their regular meeting cies concerned with foreign rela- g from the field that girls have re- So Jimmy and his mother flew ¢ oy ¢4 join the wfvras and wg-: south at once on a Pan American ..., ‘narines unless they are prom-‘ Alrways plane because it might have jeeq that they won't be shipped to been too late to save his eye if he washington. had traveled by steamship. | Part of the iris of the eye was re- e jnyasion of Italy has got one | placed and Dr. Frederick Adams, of the agricultural agencies burning| who performed the operation in $°- the midnight oil. It is trying to attle, reports that barring complica- develop a super-dooper spaghetti tions, Jimmy's eyesight will be un- that will contain all the vitamins, impaired. | proteins, etc., needed for a balanced - diet. If it works out, we may be Y shipping Italy a spaghetti that will A be meat, potatoes, salad, fruit and nnua s a dish of ice cream. | As a matter of fact, some agricul- tural chemists are toying with the idea of putting all the essentials of o a s a balanced diet into the basic food jof each of the nations which will . have to be fed as this war pro-! Event Tonight - i —— | Whether it had anything to do A }with it or not, the shake-up in the It is going to be a big night for State Department and other agen- tonight. It is the annual Roll Call tions was certainly a triumph for Night and every member of the Ju-|Harold D. Smith’s Budget Bureau. Smith’s bureau for a long time {and add new glory to the flag under (than score a few isolated defensi | trations.” |OPEN HOUSE AT USO dom on all seas for all nations|successes at frightful cost hich all so proudly served.” This is taken to indicate | Admiral King, in an address atjSoviets are broadening the base of | Indianapolis, said the Japanese are|ghe triangular salient driving dowa | “still convinced he can wear us out|{upon Krivoi Rog. The fall of this by his known long term strategy to city, the key of the whole German | keep the United States at arms defense at the Dnieper bend, is im- length from his important concen- minent. | Spearheads of one Soviet force of | |the northern army have formed a |great pincers designed to trap those ‘onemy units still inside the Dnieper EVE"T I.AS‘ “IGH"and. and have aleady captures |Karnovatka, main rail center n !the Krivoi Rog area on the north| Hundreds of Juneau residents vis- |bank of the Saksahani River. a ited the USO headquarters last Russian communique reports. night at the open-house affair and - scores were surprised at the com- | fortable, well-arranged and well- posl ar p'an patronized quarters of the armed i | f; | wl tue forces. The large assembly room with plenty of easy chairs, daven- ports and other comforts of a home- like nature greeted visitors, at the headquarters for the first time. The snack room, with appetizing flavors, pool and pingpong tables, all in play, was visited and much astonishment was expressed at the homey and spacious reading and 5 Rials |Ridge, the anchor of the new Ger- One Tells of Being Threat- man une they estalished them. & !selves on the “Mad Dog Hill"” ened by German Civil- | canadian troops, in the thick of . e . (44 the fierce fight (W today ians ~ "Tough Time” |trom T T - lacquitting themselves well, fromt NEW YORK, Oct. 27—The Her- line reports state. ald Tribune in a copyrighted smry> —————— - today from Liverpool = says that wounded Americans who were;AMERI(A" among the exchanged prisoners, tell of being threatened and. spat upon by German civilians, some of whom thought the American bombers had | flown all the way from the United States, Pvt. Herbert Ehrich of Brooklyn, one of the exchange prisoners,| wounded in Sicily on July 31, re-| ported he had “a tough time of it"| & until he reached the prison camp . . . at Memmingen, about ten mnles‘She”mg ou' Thls FlS(aI from Munich. Along the way he re- . ceived only casual medical treat- Year More than Brit- ment, although he suffered serious | . . head and chest wounds from an ISheI’S, canad'ans exploding mortar shell. He said he received excellent medical treat-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Ameri- ment in the Serblan doctor’s hos- cans, who have been paying an esti- pital. mated " Forty Nine Million dollars g Federal state and local taxes Is I{rgposed? WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—A bil- in this fiscal year, will be shelling out more per capita than either British a grass-roots canvass of the nation ;... jodge of Elks is asked to be| had convinced him he could have ,ecent as weu as Elks from other has been urging consolidation of ninth day of the session One of the participants in the | British, United States and Russian e writing room on the second floor. The slumber room with 28 pullmans the Republican nomination again in lodges, who arc now in the cify {all these agencies and much along 1944 If he wanted it. He glated. this Visiting Elks will have their nary as a fact, with no seeming conceit, sent to their - membérshit! lotges but with a disarming {rankness m“‘as answering the Toll call. charmed the GOP politicoes Jiead Heinie Messerschmidt, one of the o(“anugon!zh;g fi;:lm.w“ e very‘trustees, declares it is going to be o ki b ed, “ z e the Some night. He is only chairmen of frankly,” he continued, “un ; : kind of platform that the refreshment committee but has pu;;ty :n; ":: are n‘:m:clous of me‘served on so many Roll Cali nights ;,aict ih:t the United States can no|that he knows what should be done a natjon isolated from |and he has passed this info along ol ) |to Trustees Ralph Beistline, who is f the world, I will not ac- ] :::;tre:l:eo nomination.” | the big Chairman of the night and He added that if he is to be the!ls heeding Heinie’s hunches. minee, the platform must; ge‘:rl;w ::ll for U. S}? collabcntionimenc and Trustee M. E. Monagle, with other nations to insure the chairman of this committee, says future peace of the world. On do-"'Bmther. don't miss it.” mestic issues, he stated that there| Refreshments will be served fol- will be no return to reactionary, lowing the lodge session and en- anti-labor policies of former GOP | tertainment. administrations if he is to lead the party. ufs 1 understand there are a number; of men here who want to ask me a I I u sofe embarrassing questions,” Will- kie declared after he had finished| R " d I Be Missing tain members of the GOP Missouri| delegation who were present hadi WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—A sub- had several questions planted” on marine runner is lost, the Navy them by Edgar Queeny, St. Louis|announces. his opening statement. Well, gentle- men, the only way you can em-! munitions maker and a leading| pesumably GOP financial “angel.” barrass me is by failing to ask those | questions. I kmow what some of you have on your minds.” | He then proceeded to inform his, slightly baffled audience that cer-! " sibles are taking a heavy toll of “PLANTER; QESTION Japanese shipping and cutting into “One of the quesijons Mr. Queeny the enemy supply lines behind their has requested that I be asked i5—| ooiiered bases. WILL “Spport. Wacerer, o nomin-i Fourteen subs have been lost since ated by the party, if I do not winl "0 "cioiteq bl Mg Hal. sisndine The runner, 1,525 tons, command- There will be special entertain-| ! it was operating in the Pacific area, where submer-| the same lines that brought lend- 'lease, the Office of Economic War- (fare, the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, and the State Department’s old Economic Coor- dination division, all under Director Leo T. Crowley's new Office of For- eign Economic Administration. , ! The witch-hunt for professors in key government jobs probably |reached its climax the other day when one of the anti-administra® tion congressmen referred to James | P. Mitchell, civilian personnel di- |rector of the Army service forces, as a Harvard graduate and protege of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. As a matter of fact, Mitchell is |2 graduate of New York University’s night school courses in personnel and labor relations. Much of the time he took the courses, he was working in the shops of Western Electric Co., of which he eventually became personnel chief, Strike Vofe | Now Ordered, | Railroaders WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Chiefs of fifteen nonoperating unions of ;railroaders have ordered a strike vote among more than 1,000,000 members, the vote to be returnable |by November 25. | The official statement issued says pugnaciously from right to left. His listeners turned questioning| eyes on the Missouri Congressmen | b e ) (Continued on Page Four) ed by Lieut. Comdr, Joseph Bour-}the chiefs see no other way to ob- land, 33, was a sub-size runner, tain a “satisfactory wage increase.” | | | | all neatly made up, also opened the eyes of the visitors. ‘There was no special program, the usual routine of USO Tuesday’s programs being carried out and GSO girls giving out any information when questioned. Zack Gordon, Director; Miss Alida Matheson, As- sistant Director, and Miss Mary McCormick, hostess, informally re- ceived the guests of the evening, while conducting their usual duties. Next Sunday, from 4 to 11 p. m another open house will be held and those who have not visited the USO headquarters are invited. BILL UPPING DEPENDENCY PAY SIGNED WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed legisla- tion increasing servicemen's de- pendency allowances all along the line, providing monthly paymenn.,"tor married men, plus $10 for each tw, men the same job or overlap- of $30 for the first child and $20 for each additional child. The new law is effective immed- iately, and does not change the present allowance of $50 monthly for a wife, nor does it require any additional contribution from ser- vicemen, who continue to pay $22 toward the monthly total if he has a wife or child, and $27 if he has a wife, child and collateral depend- MLARERCINL . FROM THE INLET Arthur Johnson and Barney Hun- ter, both of Excursion Inlet, are carrying a crew of approximately| Operating unions last week or- 65, | dered taking of a strike ballot, | registered at the Baranof Hotel, lion dollar program to provide post- |war educational opportunities for |men and women in the armed serv- ices has been recommended to Con- |gress by the President | The program was developed by.a special . commiftee of educaters President Roosevelt appointed last |November when he signed the law drafting men of 18 and 19. He re- commended that the Federal gov- |ernment make it financially possible for every man and woman who has |served six months or more in the, |armed forces since September i6,; |1940, when Selective Service went| |into effect to receive a year's| | training ‘at an educational institu- | |tion to equip them for gainful pur- | suits “in peacetime. | A limited number of the .wrvir:u“ | personnel will be selected for spec-| |ial aptitudes, and permitted to |carry on their education an addi- tional one to three years. | The Pederal government will meet |not only the educational costs but |will provide for their maintenance. |'The committee on financial ar- rangements suggested giving every full time student tuition and fees in an approved institution, plus $50 a month for single persons and $75 child to meet living expenses. S e | NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — Closing ‘quoution of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 86%, Anaconda 267, Bethlehem | Steel 607, Curtiss Wright 7'y, In- ternational Harvester 69%, Kenne- |cott 32%, New York Central 18%, | Northern Pacific 15', United States | | Steel 55%. Dow, Jones averages today are |as follows: industrials 139.38, rails discussions is quoted as taking the\ officlal view “so far, so good,” but the conference is in no sense near) its end and will probably continue | for some time. The drafting committee met in joint session yesterday, and progress is reported in framing agreemen arrived at by Secetary of State Cordell Hull, British Foreign Min- ister Antheny Eden and Premier Molotov. WILLKIE TAKES HARD SLAM AT U. 5. PRESIDENT NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — Wendell L. Willkie, writing in the current | Reader’'s Digest, says mismanage-| ment prevails throughout the Gov- ernment “because the President is | zealous of accuculation of power and | |is loathe to disburse.” Unless this condition is corrected, | Willkie said, the war may be pro- longed and peace may be lost. “A good manager does not give |ping parts of the same job,” the GOP leader added. R g President Improves; 'Makes Appointmens | WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Presi-| | dent Roosevelt has nearly recovered from his attack of the grippe and| [for the first time since last Thurs- | day made formal appointments. At | noon today he met a group of busi- |35.58, utilities 21.94, ness leaders, or Canadians. Comparable figures given by the, Treasury place the tax of each American individual at $357 com- pared to $291 paid by a Britisher and $261 by a Canadian, U. 5. BOMBERS HELP CHINESE IN TWO AREAS CHUNGKING, Oct. 27.—Ameri- can bombers based in China have struck heavy blows at the Japanese in Burma and Ingo-China in sup- port of the Chinese ground troops. This is the substance of a com- munique from General Stilwill’s headquarters. DraftBill . Of Fathers Sent Back House Adi&n-l;uis Prewar Dads af Bottom of Induction Pool WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—An overwhelming House voice vote sent back to the Senate the legislation putting prewar fathers at the bot- tom of the draft pool and strength- ening the authority of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey in administration of the Selective Service Act. The bill passed on October 6 by the Senate is in a different form and puts the draft quotas on a| China-based Liberators dropped nationwide basis and requires avail-|many bombs on Htawgway, 75 miles able single men and married men|northeast of the Jap base at Myitk- without children be called for in-|Yina in Southern Burma, to help the duction before fathers are taken|Chinese held the front along the regardless of occupation. Salween River. The bill restates the principles of| The Japs are trying to push the the Kilday bill passed last April by Chinese across the river to mini- the House which emphasizes that|Mize the danger of Allied counter- dependency shall be considered in|3ttacks. Possession of Myitkyina is granting deferments, considered essential for the open- MR 5 A 3 ing of the land supply route to China. R FROM OKLAHOMA Cissna, of Seminole, Okla- is a guest at the Baranof FROM SAN FRANCISCO Mr. and Mrs. P, D. Kavanagh, of San Francisco, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. FROM THE INLET c. cC homa, Hotel. - eee Registered at the Baranof Hotel from Excursion Inlet are Joe Lembo, Lelan Morley and Ralph Thurman, FROM SEATTLE H. E. Biodstrup, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel,