The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9485. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _PRICE TEN CENTJ TEN CENTJ NAZIS RETREAT TO ROME DEFENSE LINE U. S. Navy Takes Two More "Petty Girl” in Person e SURPRISE LANDINGS ARE MADE Another Thrust Made To- ward Japanese Last Strongholds ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. | | | | | | NAZI ARMY FALLS BACK TOWARD BUG Russwn Army Pouring Into Ukraine in Pursuit of Routed Germans (By Ai\ocllltd Press) Germany’s routed army continued |today to fall back before the strong | Excting War Story Revealed; Thrilling Event Aids Medicine | crumbling Bataan to bring quinine hmk to the western hemisphere How Lieutenant Colonel Fischer, By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—One of the most thrilling stories of medi- cine in the war is how Lieut. Col.| Arthur F. PFischer and a gallant crew of a battered Flying Fortress | flew 2,000,000 cinchona seeds off | (CHARGES NO | REALITY IN - PEACETALKS Hoover Opposes Military Alliance with Great - Britain and Why KANSAS CITY, Oct. .29 —Herbert Hoover is “impressed with a certain lack of reality” in the current peace discussions and proposed that the | | | Solomon Islands FIFTH ARMY ADVANCESIN 2 SALIENTS Montgomery's Forces Mov- ing Up-Movement at Sea Is Reported ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 29. — The Fifth Army has driven two salients into the enemy's lines far to the north- 29. — Amphiblous forces of Adm.| forces of the Soviets, reinforced by ) himself wracked with malaria, lit- ¢ William F. Halsey, thrusting toward| ‘tank units and infantry divisions erally snatched those seeds under|lading powers pool their control|west of Raviscania and scouting {from the north, as the Russians “I.‘, “from Jap guns blasting the and “a people’s peace' be written for planes report a general retreat of Japan’s last stronghold in the Sol- omons on the Rabaul front, achiev- ed surprise landings at dawn Wed- nesday in Treasury Islands, in the| face of mortar fire, and chased the| defenders into the hills. Admiral Halsey's spokesman at Headquarters, said the landings sup- ported by shells, were made by a Naval task force on two islands of mdke their bid to bag something !like a million Nazis in the trap at the Dnieper elbow. The fall of Krivoi Rog, key city of the German defense is expected momentarily, if not already an ac- complished fact. German forces are retreating in disorder from the Rus- slans who have broken through the |line between Zaporozhe and the Sea | cinchona nurseries he had once su- perintended on Mindanao; how he ran a gauntlet of Zeroes in a wheez- ing Fortress with one motor conked lout to get them to Australia and; for Formal Signing Of Agreemen' | then took them across Nip-infested ‘pmnc to San Francisco, is an ex- WASHIN(flON Oct. 29.—Presi- | oiting chapter in war history. But dent Roosevelt said today that the| it wouldn't mean a thing more than| been Roosevelt Says All Ready | a people’s war” with a world-wide authority to maintain peace. The former president said he op- | posed common citizenship and cur-| (rency, as well as a military ulll.\ncc, with Great Britain as being both unnecessary and dangerous. In- stead he called for collaboration of lall the United Nations for a com- !mon ground of national thinking. German forces toward Rome's de- fense lines. Montgomery's forces are also re- | ported advancing in their Sectors and the British fleet is said to be moving northward in the Adriatic but no information is given out as to where the “strike” will be made. There is no officlal confirmation ships are off the west coas: of Italy a group 30 miles south of Bougain-| lof sd are ponciig H0 Hh | Moscow Conference has ala gallant wasted effort if it weren't et ville. O1 h ds is identi- | OV PG A0 Fa P t success, and indicated thaty tten right|He 58 iy e L e orhis rich valley of the Ukraine. The Ger-| {0t M0 o ses where | i é?e’t::;:xl:e;:[fi written Tight| ", " hould discard all proposals|of transports, supply ships and war- ; AR for a military alliance, as in the of reports that Allied concentration fied at Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s| Headquarters as Mono Coral Reef| (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) (Editor's Note: Drew Pearson’s column today takes the form of a letter written to his sister, | mans are falling back toward Kher- \son at the mouth of the Bug River. | The capture of Krivoi Rog, man- |ganese mining town, will effectively Over in Glenndale is what is known as the Department of Agn and agreement formal documents are being drafted. The President told the press con- ference also that he is very much culture’s plant introduction garden. 1t is presided over by B. Y. Morri- Because her figure so nearly approximates that of the “Petty Girl,” Virginia Mayo (above), may get the title role in a forthcoming Holly- wood movie on the subject. She’s 21, 5 feet 4'4 inches *tall, weighs 115 pounds and has ash blond hair and blue eyes. (AP Wrevhola) ’Hi, Fellasl’ | | BAllOT bottle up the Nazi forces in the river|’ {bend. Their efforts for the past few 'days have been to fight a delaying action to allow for liberation of ;!hcsc trapped divisions. German communiques admit their desperate |situation, and report “bitter de Ifensive fighting” all along the line. Rumanians, living east of the Dnieper River, have begun an exodus from that vulnerable spot, and are | evacuating into Rumania. Red Army troops are reported to- duy to be plunging through the wide slvppcs in the southern Ukraine, less son, who has a title three lines long, but whose chief duty is to see what important plants can be developed for use in this hemisphere a mother hen had a favorite brood of chicks, the Mindanao einchona seeds are Morrison’s. in favor of a Senate declaration that will avoid war in the future, and for the United States to coop- erate with others, but didn't care ‘w say that the Connally resolus tion under discussion by the Sen- ate is adequate. Roosevelt asserted the net results of the meeting of the Russian, Bri- tish and American foreign minis- ters will make it a tremendous suc- cess, not only from the point of view of the definite items of the, agreément but also from the stand-| All available space in the nurser- ies has been turned over to the growing seedlings from Fischer’s stock pile. There still are hundreds of thousands of perishable seeds on | hand which have been niirsed along If ever| ipast many have produced wars in- Istead of peace. I am one who be- lieves in collaboration and coopera- Ition between Great Britain and the, United States as the first necessity for peace, but collaboration which does not require amalgamation.” Hoover said he feared that legal ties between the United States and Great among the other ninety percent of the world’s population of mastery by the En[,hhh apv.akmg pcopk‘w 'YUGOSLAVS Britain might arouse fears| but a “surprise” is expected within the next 24 hours. There is still no definite reports of actions north of Rome, although severe raids have been made on airfields and much damage has taken place. NAVY IN ACTION ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Oct. 29.—Late this after~ noon the official communique says American cruisers and destroyer poured broadsides into Rommel's lines of communication along the ancient Appian Way and pounded the Minturo area at the rear of his Mount Massico positions. s, e i from Perekop, 1 Ifor all these months and are still more, Pa., congratulating her on :lh“_‘ (?;) cl?:l::( ;"’;‘"“ t:)“l:z) N:;t point of the spirit of it. to be pisnlad Late this afternoon It is An= the birth of her boy. Looking c‘;?rlnu an g.ar‘liaonspMoscow says the S jpuded SEA. the Shieauys, ot‘ Almost evcr‘y day, new seeds are nounced the Fitfh and Eighth twenty years ahead to the time | Russians are advancing at the rate | 0% Wax peade ifor, the. | worl | going mto the nursery \ofl armies punched out short advances 8 |than 110,000 seednngh have been ghting. Largugh & e , Pearson discloses his postwar philosophy.) | My Dear Sister: } Congratulations on the most glor- ious achievement of life! I would, give all my books and all the col-, umns I have ever written to be in your husband's shoes right now. | When I look around at the pol- OF YEAR Minor New York Elechon Previews 1944- Other Hof Cases reach the gates or Perekop within a week if the pace is maintained. PAN AMERI(AN AIRWAYS MEN President seemed “confident of Ru“'ruhlpped to Peru, Ecuador, El Sal- sia’s willingness to cooperate N y,qor Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. | maintaining peace.” Roosevelt said|yn aqdition, more than a quarter| emphatically that he always had f million seedlings are maturing such confidence and said he did not | |toward the transplantation stage at know anything more than he had[c,]em,dd]e two weeks ago about the possibility: The seeds brought in by Colonel lof the Moscow discussions leading Fischer are the Ledgeriana type, to another Tripartite talk which with a high alkaloid content, de- forces of General Tito struck one of the most effective blows against Germany’'s campaign in Yugoslavia by cutting the’ important Zagreb- Belgrade railway in 130 places along INNER WAR LONDON, Oct. 29.—The Partisan | the Fifth Army smashed through rivulets up the bristling mountain |sides to gain three miles in the Sparanize area and they have threat= ened the town of Teano where four roads join to the east of Mount Massico, the left anchor of the Rommel line defending Rome. Teano is only 94 miles southeast of Rome. The Fifth Army's coastal flank still q i 1] itical bickerings of Washington and| | ARE I“ k he, Churchill and Stalin would be| vel years : i - b oped after years of experimenta- . ‘ v . the way personal jealousies are put g . | A Is | o4 A the 40 mile streteh just east of|faced the Regia Canal only four BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE )nnmpa s. |tion by the British and Dutch in Zagreb, the National Army com-|miles north of the Volturno River. ahead of the war, I realize all the| more how great is your achievement AP Features Writer Fife Symington, Pan Ammluan {the South Pacific from seeds orig- inally “stolen” from South America by the British. As a matter of fact munique said, and added that two large and several small bridges were —— WASHINGTON Oct. 20.—In this zj,yays executive from the com-| and how great is the sacrifice and year of second stringers playing in pany’s New York office, and J. V[ achievement of all the other Ameri- blown up and four trains dnutroyed,‘ju"EAu DAIRIB it was by bribery'that Fischer per- as well as more than 1,000 tele-| can women, who are really bearing the chief burden of the war. You women give birth to cmld-if ren, you watch over them, you cherish and guard them from sick- ness and accidents, you carefully educate them. And then after twenty years, you send them off to war. 1 remember how Mother felt about | | your two brothers in the last war. She never knew, T think, that twice | | I tried to enlist in the Navy before I finally got into the Army. She was hoping all the time that the war would end, and I very {oohsh-! ly was hoping that it wouldn’t. i YOUTHFUL ZEAL When it did end, you may possibly remember coming down to the dock| in New York to see me off to Ser- bia. You wete only six years old then and probably wouldn't remem- ber the ambition that flamed in my young and enthusiastic breast to help carry out the Woodrow Wil- son pledge of “Making the World | Safe for Democracy.” During the immediate years of relief work that fellowed, I found that the real people of Europe were | willing enough. They were eager, anxious, but helpless, waiting to be led. They craved permanent peace‘ as nothing else. I shall never forget those Balkan| nights around the campfire high up in the Serbian mountains when our Bulgar prisoners and their Serb| Giving the boys a cheery greeting is lovely Joan Blameuser, 19, a resident of Skokie Valley, which is located just north of Chicago. Joan posed for this picture so troops would not want for pin-ups. Nice idea, isn’t it? GLENN E. ALLEN QUITS AS GOVERNOR OF MOOSE | A new governor to replace Glenn E. Allen, who resigned last Monday |; night at a House committee meet- {ing, will be selected tonight at the regular meeting of the local chep- ter of the Loyal Order of the Moos: Plans will be completed for ohser- vance of annual Mooseheart Day,| i | plum {as a possible indicator of which way jity for Hanley to show that the | governor has a strong hold on the [ | varsity events, New York's election November 2 of a lieutenant gover- i nor, ordinarily a very minor politi-| cal fuss, shapes up as the ballot battle of the year. The outcome of that contest will draw “big time” political attention | the 1944 presidential winds are blowing. Several other -elections, while relatively unspectacular, also are viewed as weathervanes to some extent. The Empire state, with its larg> electoral vote, rates as the No. 1 in a contest for the presi-| dency. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. pos- sible G.O.P. nominee for the presi- dency next year, heads the forees | supporting Joe R. Hanley, Repub- lican governor. The Dewey people would like to pile up a large major-| | voters of the state aiud could cprry‘ it in a presidential election. On the Democratic side, the| { forces working for the election of Lt. Gen. William N. Haskell are| contending that a vote for Haskell| is a vote of confidence in Presi-| dent Roosevelt as the nation’s war-| time leader. Haskell’s candidacy has| been indorsed by the American La- bor party, whose average voting| strength of some 400,000 normally comes close to being the balance {of power in New York State. Warm Race In Philadelphia Roscoe, Assistant Division Manager | for the Alaska Division of Pan Am-| erican,.arrived in Juneau this af- ternoon from the Interfor and are| staying at the Baranof Hotel. The two officials are making a tour of PAA ports and offices in; | Alaska on business for the company MOVIES FOR GIRL SCOUTS TOMORROW In connection with local observ- | ance of Girl Scout Week movies are | to be shown to the Girl Scouts on | Saturday evening at 7:15 o'clock at | the Northern Light Presbyterian Church by Floyd Fagerson. All Scouts are asked to go and take their parents and friends, sored by the Scouts will be held at |Bert’s Cash Grocery during the morning and afternoon hours. morrow night the big event is the Girl Scout dance in the Elks’ Ball- room to which the public is invited. SHIELA CROPLEY DIES HERE TODAY Sheila June Cropley, two years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cropley of Juneau, died this morn- Tomorrow the candy sale spon-| To- | HARD COAL wuaded a sea captain to smuggle the ~eod~ out of Java for his original ‘Pxpéllm(-‘nh at Mindanao. t6 make about Western Hemisphere quinine which won't be importantly \ wAGE RAISE’))roduuuvr before 1946 or 47, think again. It has been proved that | Ledgeriana Cinchona can be grown WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — The in the Western Hemisphere more |War Labor Board has awarded a cheaply than in the South Pacific— | general wage increase of 322 cents that is more cheapiy to us at least. a day to 80,000 Pennsylvania an-| The medical laboratories have thracite mine workers, also free|Produced two synthetics but noth- tools and equipment estimated to ing haa_been found so effective in be worth 225 cents a day, and an|Ccombatting the dread resmlts of in vacation allowance a-|Mmalaria as quinine. War demands {mounting from $20 to $50. ALS ERRua A P RORINOE G | The case was a separate one !rom‘;".':l" w’:“y be even more s0. It Is (the larger bituminous coal cases s how that Ohina alone, gy A percentage of the world's supply if e it is to stop the disease there. 'DlE SOFT (oAl 000 deaths annually from malaria. B sl 77,000 NOW OUT| SCHEDULED SESSION WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — The‘ The Pioneers will hold their first 77,000 today in 11 states while the at 8 o'clock in the Odd Fellows President withheld any hint of his Hall and all members are requested the fourth in six months, replyivg‘ The Auxiliary will also meet and on news of conferences. after the business sessions of the . Wi ipiniyg bR within a few years, will need a large India, there are more than 3,000, MINERS GROWING; v_ | PIONEERS MEETING, number of idle mine workers neared | meeting for some months, tonight plans to meet the new coal crisis,!to attend. The number of idle soft coal two organizations are ended, a joint | increase If you think this is a lot of fuss; In; 270 German troops slain. Meanwhile Yugoslavia’s bitter in- ner strife is flaming anew with Tito ovic, and each denouncing other. Independent Balkan advices indicate the trouble may have been followers clashed in sharp near Bistrica with units of Mihail- aided by Ttalian Quislings” were led by a pro-Nazi Milan medic. Rockef Guns, "Silver Fire, the | graph poles felled, and more than| opposing the faction led by M\hau-; | German inspired, adding fuel to the fire. Tito's communique asserted his| action | ovie's army who, the bulletin said, | “Blackshirts and| | | | | Used by Nazis WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Rocket guns are on German fighter planes attacking the Allied bombers, but they lack accuracy, the War De- partment reported today. “Some of these weapons may be the defensive weapon referred to in INCREASE MILK PRICES 2 CENTS Frank Maler, of Juneau Dairies, |Inc., today anounced an increase in the price of milk in Juneau, approv- ed by the Office of Price Admin- istration. At retail, cash and carry, the | price will be 22 cents a quart ahd 12 cents a pint—a rise of two cents a quart. Delivery and credit prices will be 23 cents a quart and 13 cents a pint. In restaurants, where milk is consumed on the premises, the price | will be 10 cents a half-pint. Maier said that increased produc- tion costs made the increase neces- sary. He cited these examples: Cows which two years ago could be obtained for $150, now are com- manding as much as $350. ‘The cost of grain two years age was $42 and now it costs as high as $54. “We also have a serious problem as far as labor is concerned,” he sald. Maler pointed out that where a dairy worker used to get $150 or $175 a month, he now must be paid much higher wages “Unless we can get more money | for our milk, few dairymen wil! be in business not long from now.” he Hitler's recent speech when he °fl‘d;snld guards and our Albanian mule y i ; which this year is Saturday. To-| ywhjle Dewey has said that he is b :l;irt:;m(c;x‘z:cgi rblun"::mnj:t) m morrow evening members of ”‘E‘not a. proidential gandidate, the :)“glo:lt StBe:::ine: g::p‘l:::":::’:’u:h:!mmers is expected to grow hourly social session will be enjoyed. :e"vm':* b;mt: ;‘Gd"e“’p"" l“’! ————-— i t # 4 revent mbing of ermany,” the to talk about the futility of war lo‘dge v{“‘]’ e::"enlfl mmtohe;r:d;:ml::fi | possibility of his being “drafted”|child is survived by one sister, Hflr';:‘,,;:t;e ;:cu‘:;:e'}:] ?;:ms;u":;;} statement added‘g i llo e e 00 0 0 0 0 0 at a celebration In N iby the party is not too remote. In riet, and two brothers, John and| oo oo o I i o e POSTPONED The War Department also com-|® WEATHER REPORT and how they might attain per- manent peace. I can still remember their con- stant reiteration, “Natcha Vilson taku,” which meant, referring to (Continved on Page Four) In addition to entertainment, "e'iany event, the political dopesters freshments will be served. The parly i) view the outcome of the Han- is slated to begin at 8 o'clock. !ley-Haskell contest as some sort of o P 5 e test of Republican versus Democrat- Albert. Funeral services have been set for | Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the] Memorial Presbyterian Church, | Interment will be in Evergreen Amphibian animals such as frogs| ¥ have three-chambered hearts. l (Continued on Page TWo) JCemetery. The Masonic card party sched- uled for Wednesday, November 3 in the Masonic Hall has been indef- initely postponed, according to an announcement made today, hard miners were given a raise. AL B, New York OCity’s high "schools graduate more than 50,000 pupils every year, i mented that besides the rocket guns the Nazis aye using aerial bombs, “silver fire,” massed clusters of white discs, probably pHosphorus, which fall on bomber formations, (U. 8. Bureauw) Temp. Thursday, Oct. 28 e Maximum 50; Minimum 39 ® Rain .72. s 00 00 0 0 0 00