The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1943, Page 1

\ VOL. XLI., NO. 9484. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE LIBERATORS, LIGHTNINGS IN NEW HIT ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 28. — Continuing the “Smash Ra- baul” campaign, a strong force of Liberators and Lightnings, hit the key Japanese New Britain base last | Monday for the third successive| day, dropping 151 tons of bombs, destroying 21 aircraft on the ground and knocking 37 planes out of the| air. It was the fifth raid of the month on Rabaul during which more than 400 enemy planes have been de- stroyed or rendered unfit for action. In the raid on Monday, news of which was made in today's com- munique, six waves of Liberators and Lightnings swept Rabaul for 10 minutes and antlaircraft fire and 70 interceptors were used in a futile attempt by the enemy to break up the formations. In addition to the enemy planes destroyed on the ground or knocked out of the air on the Monday raid, 117 planes were destroyed in the raid on October 12, 60 more on Gc- tober 18 and 153 in the raids on October 23 and 24. The Washington| Merry-gg-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | WASHINGTON —Inside the White House, word is being passed| around that the President “has the| old Dutch up” regarding food sub-| sidies. He is determined to con- tinue and increase his subsidy plsm, despite the negative action of the| House Banking and Currency Com- | mittee which voted to ban most sub-; sidies on food and other items after January 1. % One thing that has made the President sore is the report he got on what happened inside the Bank-| ing and Currency Committee. Two things occurred behind closed doors | 1 | | H ase at R | | | Arrows indicate how Allied forces i ' southernmost Japanese penetratio | broken its back.” A. P. photo. BIGBATILES FORECASTIN CEN. PACIFIC Movement Against Japan- | ese-Held Islands Is Now Predicted WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The next few months are almost certain to bring some of the greatest battles of the war between sea-borne and land-based aircraft over Japanese- held islands ,in the Central Pa- cific. Naval authorities here are con- fident that carrier-borne planes in sufficient numbers can nullify the enemy’s land-based aerial defenses{ as demonstrated, they say, by task force raids on Marcus and Wake islands. The battles appear likely to be joined when the powerful forces of the United States aircraft carriers strike the outer Japanese defenses | (wsts NEW < GUINEA which never leaked out. jand then seize bases from which to One was the method used by launch new attacks even near the Chairman Henry B. Steagall of Alabama, sponsor of the bill, in keeping the legislation - conceal from his Democratic colleagues un- til the last minute—so they had no chance’ to study its technical con- tents. Meanwhile, Steagall con- ferred at length with Representative James P. Wolcott of Michigan, ranking Republican of the commit- tee, the day before the bill was considered. Second unreported fact was how Steagall left a loophole for the pro- tection of his own farmer constit- uents. The bill calls for continued subsidies on three commodities— soy beans, peanuts and cottonseed. Two of these, peanuts and cotton- seed, are leading products of Stea- gall's Alabama district. On the rolicall, the Committee’s 11 Republicans lined up solidly with Steagall, plus three other Democrats and one Progressive, Representative Merlin Hull of Wis- consin. Ten Democrats, Representatives Wright Patman of Texas, Thomas Ford of California,! and James Wright of Pennsylvania, | put up a vigorous fight against the farm bloc coalition but were out- numbered. RUNAWAY INFLATION Patman bluntly charged the Re- publicans with “condemning to death” the Administration’s anti- inflation program “without even suggesting an alternative” to keep the lid on consumer prices. The big Texan said the Steagall bill would cause wild price increases on virtually all necessities and would cost American consumers 15 bil- lions next year. Pennsylvania's Representative Wright accused the farm bloc Con- (Continved on Page Four) led by| led (long and tough job, probably com- | { Japanese mainland. The authorities say it will be a parable in some respects to the Solo- mon Islands campaign but they emphasize this is absolutely neces- sary to carry forward American bases in the Central Pacific to posi- tions at least in line with the ad- vances already made along the Aleutians in the north and the Solo- mons archipelago in the southwest. | ——— |the government here between the| \‘:}F RABAUL NEW 3 TROBRIAND i IS, ,,' MURAY QO FERGUSSON > °& %NORMANIV % - Samaria-. , s . R n the Southwest Pacifi coast of New Guinea and by overseas seizure of all but the two northwesternmost major Solomon Islands (arrows) —are reducing the flanking bases of Japanese-held Rabaul (center circle). n in the Southwest Pacific sector. cessfully at Wewak and Kahili (circled). Gen. MacArthur reported that Allied air raids on Rabaul “have 71N “‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 3 COLUMNS IN Sz HOT PURSUIT 11 ARMY OFNA Strong Russian Forces Clos- ing in on Fleeing Troops ing -Rumanians Warned | | (By Associated Press) Russian tank units and strong | l NEW Lo GEORGIA RENDOVA baul Ra PRICE TEN CENTS US. TROOPS DRIVE INTO GERMAN LINES S ided Fifth Food Plates in India Emply g { | ALGIERS, Oct. GROUP . |advanced infantry forces pouring west of c—by overland occupation of the northeastern’ Ry [fhlo the desert steppes L Melitopol, seized all the little roads ! | erisscrossing the area and are mov- |ing rapidly on the flanks of the fleeing Germans. One column, moving south from Akimova which is 14 miles below ! Melitopol along the railroad to the |Crimea is already within striking | distannce, and another group just | south of Nikopol, manganese mining: | town, is moving up to meet another force moving southwestward upon the town with in the Dnieper River ~— —————= | elbow. %cumuam Coral Sea Solid line shows Allied planes have smashed sue- oc By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Rumors that the Office of Civilian Defense would be liquidated, following the resignation of Director James M. Landis, have almost wrecked the home office here. More than 400 workers have quit the 1,100-em- ploye agency in recent weeks. Act- ing Director John Martin has had to make mass and individual ap- peals to slow down the wave of resignations. As a matter of fact, if present! plans are developed, OCD might be' one war agency carried right on into peacetime. As the danger of/ air attacks has lessened, OCD has been concentrating more and more on disaster aid. The effectiveness of the OCDers in aiding police, fire- men and medical authorities in the; Boston night club fire pointed up the value of such a nationally su-' pervised agency in peacetime. ! | One of the more tiresome storms in the congressional teacup is the continued complaint that there are| a lot of government workers still at| their desks who should be in the| armed forces. The long-drawn harpings on the subject resulted recently in the; Bailey-Clark bill in the Senate which would restrict the employ-| ment of any able-bodied males in' ages of 18 and 38. One of the local columnists who devotes himself en-| tirely to federal employe matters| RCAF PLANE MISSING INPR RUPERT AREA VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 28.—A twin-engined Royal Canadian Air Force monoplane missing in the Prince Rupert area since Tuesday |is reported by the Western Air Com- mand, which added, “We can't say” how many men were aboard the plane which was last reported in the vicinity of Dixon Entrance. An extensive search is under way to find the missing plane, but is hampered by bad weather con- | ditions. — e o ON BUYING TRIP Mrs. Jessie Stevens of the Jones-| Stevens Shop was a passenger south yesterday for her semi-annual buy- ing trip. Mrs. Stevens intends to ) visit Seattle, Portland and Cali- fornia cities, and expects to return|young men” and a protege of Su-|Project are dealing with the situa- preme Court Justice Felix Prunk-:‘ before Christmas, | i has issued a challenge to the Sen- ators or any one else to find him one government worker within those | ages who isn’'t 4-F, a father, or de-/ ferred as essential. The revision of the last named lists has been going; on for a year or more and there| could hardly be many left who are not legitimately essential. Oddly enough, it’s the Army and Navy that are most opposed to the Bailey-Clark bill. They are in the; throes of trying to get their uni- formed personnel here, capable of| combat duty, into the field. The! number of civilians they will need! to replace them in coming- months! may run into the thousands. f There is no doubt that there were | many abuses here early of the de-! ferment for essential duty clause; but congressienal criticism started cleaning that up long ago. In fact,| congressional criticism drove out of the government 8 good many men who really were essential and in! some cases men who were ill-suited ; for military duty. | One such case was that of Edward D fiayie One Kd-eh(y To Confinue After War Ended: Duties Oufline | United States air and naval super- iwill win the war, although ‘it is not i | The breakthrough between Za- porozhe and the Sea of Azov has | already recaptured upwards of 300 ;squnrc miles south of the Dnieper | where the shreds of the German line |are falling back toward the Crimea {in the south and toward Kerson in the west. | A German communigue reported “bitter defensive fighting in 'the |southern Ukraine as the struggle | continued with unabated violence.” Swiss reports quoted by the Brit- |ish radio said all Rumanians living east of the Dnieper River some 200 furter, Prichard was fair game for >-es JAPAN WILL BE ATTACKED anti-New Deal Congressmen. He pjeq from the furthest Russian board to induct him. At Fort Cus-|,repare for immediate evacuation ter he became the biggest private { ., pumania. of his first month of basic training in Fort Custer’s post hospital. }xe‘R l ll S l of overweight and bad legs, and| e a' a es probably will be returned to, some| example of what extremes some fed- Iax pro osal { would escape the stigma of hiding under the essential deferment clause. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The House Ways and Means Committee National retail sales tax and there- |by virtually completed action in| finally gave up and asked his draft| ,enetration have received orders to in the Army, only to spend most| R i e now has been discharged because| government civilian job here, an eral workers have to go to if they Knocked Out has rejected all proposals for a |line with the vigorous Administra- 4 |tion objections of retail sales taxes.| | The CIO has given warning that SAYS N'MITZU the retail sales tax is enacted, |Labor will' demand proportionate | wage increases. Rejection of the retail sales tax HONOLULU, Oct. 28. — Admiral came after the committee voted Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in down a motion by Representative | Chief of the Pacific Fleet unequiv-|Robertson, Democrat of Virginia, tol ocally states that the fast growing jmpose a ten percent levy with e o ’ ‘cost of living” exemption certifi-| fority will be brought to bear on cates and a ban against using the! mf Japanese homeland. |sales tax any more than any other Japan knows that Germany suf- tax in computing parity prices and fers day and night attacks Irom‘makmg wage determinations. e air. s now crystal clear we‘wfl.l’ 'iap._.KINSES ARE TO QUIT | WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— Harry| L. Hopkins, close personal advisor| to the President, and Mrs. Hopkins| will move out of the White House| as soon as a new house in George- ! town is ready for occupancy, Mrs.| Roosevelt told the press conference.| Mrs. Roosevelt answered the query whether the departure meant | the Hop!g'ns' influence with the strong army guard at the double President will be diminished by say- barbed wire fence kept 15,000 recal-|ing she thought the word "mflu-‘ citrant Japanese under control at|ence” is misunderstood and fur- the Tule Lake segregation center,|ther said that “any man with a while volunteers from other centers'great responsibility, wants around were mustered to harvest the largefhim at all times people with whom | crops. |he can call upon for all kinds of | Robert Cozzens, Assistant Direc- |information.” tor of the War Relocation Authority | in charge on the west coast said MPKINS LEAVES the Tule Lake internees are “pas-| George Simpkins left yesterday! clear when the end will come. It is| realistic to believe we face hard,| tough going, but I am optimistic enough to believe it will be over, long before the gloomy prediction of 1049, 15,000 JAPANESE INTERNEES REFUSE | TOWORK AT CAMP SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. — A > Prichard, the 300-odd pound assist- ant to Economic Stabilizer Vinson.! Being one of the New Deal's “bright, sively refusing to work but no sign|by steamer for a three week’s trip of violencé has appeared and none to the States, primarily for a rest is expected. WRA officials on ,h,.’snd vacation. While below, he will |visit his daughters in Seattle and his sisters and brother in Tacomaq, tion firmly” : » Two woinien With their three child India, their empty food plates alongside. relieve the mounting death toll India’s worst famine in years. It National War Fund Drive, now help out. ren syuat in the street of Calcutta, Aid has been asked to due to starvation as a result of is a case like this that the present being conducted in Juneau, will Dimout Restrict On Padific Liffed ALLIES LAND, MONO ISLAND, idhs Coast Are on November 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 28. —The Western Defense Command announces that effective next Mon- day, November 1, all dimout restric- tions on the Pacific Coast will be| lifted. 1t is declared that the move is in| accordance with a nation-wide pol- icy formulated at Washington, D.| C. by the War and Navy Depart- ments and related agencies. | JAPS REPORT Nippon Broadcast Claim One U. 5. Warhsip Sunk | ko oot Do b e wester and Another Damaged | Defense Command, said. the laws| iy’ Fpiipistet, |and regulations relative to black-| RIS y Mro:d: o A ':” English | 0Uts are not effected by suspension e Tokyo 0, in an EngUSh|,e the dimouts. | Dimout restrictions are subject to| reinstatement however in the event| of an emergency. { Time FIFTH ARMY STABS HIGH 'INTO ENEMY Eighth Army~E Advancing Under Shellfire-Out- posts Mo_vgd Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 28.—American troops stabbing high up in the val- ley of the upper Volturno River have driven a deep salient in the enemy’s lines northwest of Ravis- canina while the Eighth Army en- gineers have thrown bridges across the Trigno river under heavy shell- fire, the official communique says. Enemy resistance is reported jel- ling along the entire front as the two Allied Armies punched dogged- ly forward over the rough country- side, mowing down one strong out- post after another and approach- ing the new German main lines. At the Adriatic end of the front, Montgomery’s Headquarters said his British troops are firmly secured on bridgeheads over the Trigno River despite sharp and continu- ous enemy fighting to wipe out his position especially northwest of Banos. 15 PLANNING NEW ACTION i ol \General Reported Concen- frating Large Forces Against Italy STOCKHOLM, Oct. 28.—Corres- pondent of the Svenska Dagbladet said. reports reaching Switzerland indicate Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is planning new amphibious opera- tions against Italy and that a large concentration of Allied transports, supply ships and warships are re- ported off the west coast of Italy. Previously, according to the gor- respondent, Allied troops were re- ported massing in Corsica for a new attack or possible invasion above Rome to cut the Germans off. e Joint Adion language broadcast beamed for Americe, .And . picked up. in NFW; Presumably this means the tin York today declared that Allied 7 : | fored. earl Wedtisaday Innided cans will now come off the globes| orces early on Wednesday landed ., vy jupeau street lighting sys-| Next Week, on Mono Island, also known as Treasury Island. One United States warship was sunk and another damaged, accord- ing to the broadcast, but no con- firmation has been received from U. S. Headquarters in the South Pacific, although a dispatch today from Associated Press correspon- dent William Hipple from General Draft Issue WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The | postwar policy debate in the Sen- {ate delayed final Congressional ac- |tion on the issue of drafting fathers. | Chairman Andrew J. May of the |House Military Committee = said | House and Senate conferees are |seheduled to get together to adjust e ijTo Plan Now For Postwar | | Halsey's Headquarters said Treasury | Island was attacked for the first time by American airmen. ! Treasury Island is 20 miles south| Jobs, Report and west of Shortland Island, and, o is thought to be garrisoned by Jap-| CLEVELAND, Oct. 28.—Vice Pre-| anese artillerymen guarding the sea|sident Henry A. Wallace declared | approaches to the enemy held|there can be postwar jobs for every- Bougainville Island in the Northern ene, but added: Solomons. ! “We must plan to produce 40 per- | - |cent more gencr time goods than| ever before ¥If peace comes as we thope next year the problem of 'wconwr.smn will be on us at ounce, ‘firsl industry, later agriculture. L] MI"ERS DEMAND “Within a few weeks tens of bil- ¥ llions of dollars in war contracts wAGE I“(REASE’MH be cancelled, and factories will seramble to get back to producing WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The | autos, e radios, refrigerators and War Labor Board has rejected the washing machines. Illinois coal miners demands for a “There can be jobs for everyone differences between the bills on this question which were passed by the two chambers, the meeting havirg been postponed until next week. — . e Anti - Trust Suil‘ Brought Against Big U. . Compan | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The Justice Department announces filing {of a civil complaint in Trenton, |New Jersey, charging Merck and | Company, Inc., described as the larg- lest producer of pharmaceutical |chemicals in this country, and E. Merck Chemical Works of Darm- tadt, Germany, with maintaining a daily wage increase of $150 and provided there is the closest coop offered a counter proposal of $1.12'; |eration among labor, business and | a day for a six day week, “uo\‘n-rnmmt," cartel agreement which is a violation of the anti-trust laws,