The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL.XLL NO. 96" . o o G JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, I943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 ALLIES MAKE 3-MILE PLUNGE IN ITALY Paratroops Make New Invasion in Solomons CHOISEUL 1S fTHREERUSS Japanese OCCUPIED BY U. 5. FORCES Japs Taken by Surprise, Flee from Section-Two Actions in Two Days ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACFIC, Oct. 30.—American paratroops in a spear--heading drive to clear the Japanese all-out from the Solomons, landed Thursday at the village of Voza on southwestern Choiseul Is- land. The Japanese fled north with- out stopping to fight. | This is the second invasion within | as many days and increased the threat on Bougainville, the last big' enemy island barring the way to the Japanese key fortress at Rabaul., Bougainville’s southern airfields are already bombed out and unable to figure in opposition. In announcing the Choiseul strike, | | 1 the communique this morning also| (Continued on Page Two) B The Washington! Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) i | | WASHINGTON —Recent wage conferences at the White House and | the War Labor Board have sent officials away with brows even more furrowed than during the coal strike crisis last spring. For today, with the coal strike deadline only a few days off, the Administration also faces a serious rail wage crisis. Having both these disputes come to a head at the same time, ad- visers admit, may be disastrous. For | if a real wage increase is given to the miners, the rail men will be seething mad; may call a general strike. But if the coal miners don't get| any real wage boost, they are al- most sure to strike. So the Ad- ministration is caught coming or; going—unless wage boosts are ngenl all the way around and the plug is| pulled on inflation. Meanwhile, there has been more grousing against the President among hitherto vigorously pro- Roosevelt labor leaders than at any time in ten years. Dave Robertson, President of the Locomotive Fire- men and Engineerg, has been saying privately that the President has let the railway workers down, that his men are so rebellious he will have to get wage increases for them if he wants to keep his job. George Harrison, of the Railway Clerks, has been saying much the same thing. At the A. F. of L. con- vention recently he let loose a rip- roaring speech against the bungling of the railroad wage question. Last week at a White House conference, A. F. Whitney, of the Railroad Trainmen, also did some stiff talk- ing, though his criticism was aimed not at the President, but against' Economic Stabilizer Vinson. DOUBLE-TALK White House labor advisers fear that part of the railwaymen's ire results from the fact that the Presi- dent told them one thing, while Judge Vinson ruled another. Back in mid-summer, when the special railway mediation board recom- mended a wage increase of 8 cents an hour for non-operating work- ers, they say the President told Brotherhood leaders that this in- crease was in the bag. Then, after the Brotherhood bosses had gone back and promised | their members the raise, Judge Vin- son, whose job it is to prevent in- flation, partially ruled otherwise. He ruled that the 8 cents must go | this ARMIES ARE CLOSING IN Demoralized Germans Abandon Huge Amounts of Military Supplies LONDON, Oct. 30—Three Rus- sian armies converged on the key Dnieper in a multiple drive to com- plete the entrapment of the Ger- man forces in the Dnieper bend. Two other Red Army forces at the same time surged west and south positions on the Crimean penin- sula. One, a squadron of hard- nding Cossack cavalrymen and tank units smashed through eighty towns; and the other has captured a town less than $0 miles from |Perekop which bottlenecks the es- cape corridor on the nolthwexwm edge of the Crimean Peninsula. sector with the demoralized enemy abandoning huge stores of military equipment. Krivoi Rog, Ukranian iron center, | is still holding out against the fierce ed assaults. — e — WHEELER TALKS AGAINST PEACE RESOLUTION NOW critical of cies, Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, told the Senate that pas- sage of the Connally peace resolu- as backing her “demands for a large Senator Wheeler vesterday on the fifth day of the debate after Senator Walter F. George of Georgia told a reporter he believed half of the effectiveness of the Connally proposal is de- phrases in a seemingly CONNALLY BILL PREDICTED SURE OF GOING OVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The Senate’s only woman member pre- dicts the adoption of the Connally resolution calling for postwar inter- national cooperation that will “post- pone, if not forever, and banish world war.” Asserting “isolation of America is archaic,” Senator Hattie W. Cara- way, who has two sons in the ser- perative the Senate give prompt and |overwhelming approval of the pend- | 'mg measure.” House Commitfee Favors Bill On WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The House Public Lands committee has voted to report favorably on the bill to permit lease holders of coal lands in Alaska to acquire title to that total acreage does not exceed 2,560 acres. The bill, introduced at the request chiefly to lower bracket workers, with upper bracket workers getting proportionately less. White House labor advisers now wish the President had consulted (Continued on Page Four) Anthony J. Dimonhd, amends an »{act providing for the leasing of coal| lands in Alaska so as to put such leases on the same basis as those in the states. ——— BUY WAR BONDS Properly Taken Over WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The Treasury Department, moving to protect extensive property holdings of three wealthy Japanese citizens, who moved to’ Southern California homes after Pearl Harbor, an- nounced it has taken over super- vision of financial transactions of seven California farming concerns. PAYMENT ON BOATS WILL | Dimond Says Board Ap- | pointed fo Work Out Problem WASHINGTON, Oct COME SOON 30.—Alaska ‘American Subs Sink 10 Jap Vessels in Pacific; Four Others Damaged {with increased activities on the Pa- cific it is deemed advisable to im- prove and repair facilities on the west coast so construction of three cruisers and seven destroyers would be transferred from the east coast ship yards. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Ameri- can submarines, cruising in the Pa- cific have sunk ten enemy vessels and damaged four others. These figures are contained in a communique Secretary of Navy Knox issued at a conference with the newsmen. stronghold ‘of Jikopol on the lower| The Treasury Department said the action is the first of the kind and is intended to prevent “dis- ! sipation” of assets amounting to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond re- ports that payment for fishing boats, scows and vessels of a sim- ar type which were requisitioned The announcement raised to 474 the number of Jap ships sunk, or probably sunk or damaged. Japs Admit Sinkings LONDON, Oct. 30.—The German news agency in Berlin, broadcasts a dispatch from Tokyo saying the| of Melitopol to seal off the German| Gains of 15 miles are reported in; WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—Sharply | moves to commit the| {United States now on postwar poli- tion will be interpreted by Russia | slice of Poland, the Bosphorus, Bal- | |kans and Baltic States.” | took the floor ; vice, told her colleagues “it is im- | Alaska Coal Land| more than one such lease provided| of Alaska's Delegate to Congress,! {more than half a sons. BIDDLE IS OPPOSEDTO EXEMPTION WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —P‘ls.mlgl“ ‘o( legislation exempting insurance | companies from the anti-trust laws “would establish a dangerous pre- cedent under which,” Attorney Gen- eral Francis Biddle told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “bills pending | in both Houses would provide noth- ing for the Sherman and Clayton i anti-trust acts to apply to the busi- ness of insurance or acts in the | conduct of that business or in any impair the regulation of that busi- ness by several States.” R OFFICIALS GIVE OKEH TO VOTES FOR SERVICEMEN | |lation to permit service men and abroad to vote in the 1944 election has been endorsed by the Army, Navy and Government officials. Republican senators called for candidates as well as Federal of- able™ {by those who want to spell out postwar commitments. ficials. — - Senator Lucas, of Illinois, said he | { thought the governors of the states | should convene special legislative | sessions to remove legal barriers in state statutes governing absentee | voting. — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 30. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session is 6, American Can 86, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60, Curtiss Wright 7%, International Harvester Kennecott 31%, New York Central 18, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 54%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 138.37, rails 135.24, utilities 21.98. PRICES FRIDAY 1 neau mine stock Friday was 6, Am- erican Can 86, Anaconda 26%, |Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtiss | Wright 7%, Kennecott 32, New York | Central 17%, Northern Pacific 14%,| | United States Steel 54%, $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Friday were as follows: industrials 138.29, rails 35.04, utilities 21.93. CONVICTED ON RAPE CHARGE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 30.— Roy Tanksley, 32, taxi operator and formerly of Seattle, was convicted last night of raping Bernice Eggles- | Prangisco. Sentence was held up pending a possible appeal by the defense. Con- viction carries a penalty of from three to twenty years imprisonment. | million _dollars | of H. Y. Minami, Sr., and his two | WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.~L€'gis-: women and American civilians | 68, Closing quotation of Alaska’' Ju-| Pound | ton McClellan, 19, formerly of San | BATHER — A gay figured swimming suit with palm-t cattern is modeled by Janet _Blair, film actress, at the edgg_of, ~ & California pool. ITALIANS IN PRISON CAMPS GET BREAKS { War Department Relaxes ' Rules for Ones that Are Trustworthy WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Ttalian war prisoners who have been 11 | custody at least six months and| who have shown by their demean- stroyed by haggling over words and | strictly bipartisan machinery to sup- |or they can be trusted” are to be| ; : gly “intermin- | ervise the voting to permit service allowed to do work outside of pri- discussion carried on largely men to vote for state and local|gon camps without guards. the wiil op- The War Department said new system for these prisoners be instituted gradually and its | reflected the first change in poiicy regarding the Italian prisoners since {Italy became a co-belligerent of lllm Allies. ee—— KISKA MARKER LEFT BY JAP 3 i oy |~ . { In marked contrast to their usual attitude toward their enemies in this marker found over the grave | down during the raid on Kiska. The sign reads: “Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his mother land, July 25" The marker was signed “Nippon Army” and evidently was the work of an American-educated Jap. than Saudi Z;\E is larger Mexico. erations ‘“‘closely supervised by mui tary authorities.’ This announcement Apmremlv of an American pilot who was shot | y the Government in Alaska £1941 may be expected in about three months The Delegate said the payment had been held up through an “en- | hancement clause,” that the law provides requisitioning is not deem- led to be at the enhanced value of ithe vessels. ! "He said the Comptroller General be paid for the vessels than the value at the outbreak of ‘the Euro- ipean war in 1939 on the Alaskan wyessels which were taken two years || But, said Dimond, these vessels thad increased in value about percent over the 1939 value, many owners who were offered in- |cl< sed prices in 1941 nevertheless k!uuwd uwlr boats over to the Gov- 'vrnmen Dimond said that while the War | Shipping Administration was au- ‘Lhun/vd to pay “fair value,” it hesi- tated Lo do so in view of the Comp=|" troller General's ruling. A board has been appointed by | the President, Dimond disclosed, to unbhah rules which will be fair and equitable for all vessels taken over by the Government, and this board is expected to report within three months. In the meantime, he said, the owners wishing to do so may accept 75 percent of the value of the ves- sel already assigned under Comptroller General’s decision and/ bring suit for the remainder in the | Federal District Court if the value| is under $10,000, and before the Court of Claims is the value is more | {than $10,000. Dimond added, “it seems certain |the board is bound to follow the constitutional amendment requiring payment of just compensation lm | preperty requisitioned by the Gov-| ernment. In view of this it doesn't seem possible the opinion of the Comptroller General will be follow- ‘(d by Lhe COIHLS 4, 0DD FORE(AST RECEIVED FROM INSIDE EUROPE LONDON, Oct. 30. — A Reuters |dispatch datelined “Inside Europe” |said it had been learned from an |changes may be expected inside Ger- |many within the next fortnight. They will affect the entire war sit- uation.” The dispatch was credited to a special correspondent whose name was not given, who centinued, “The worst fear officially is in regard to| the Russian offensive where the po- sition of the Germans is becoming more desperate. “This necessitated drastic inter- nal emergency masures. Important discussions are already progeeding in this connection in Munch.” ———————— 'GERMAN VESSELS BEING SENT DOWN, NORWEGIAN COAST NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—A Swedish | broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission said Allied Air and surface forces have sunk at least 17 German vessels, off the Norwegian Coast since Sweden withdrew permission for German transit traffic across Swedish ter- ritory to Norway. | in has ruled that no higher price could| _ the | authentic source that “far-reaching| LAnchange. It was also stated the improve- ment of the submarine situation in the Atlantic made it possible to |discontinue plans for construction of 427 vessels to be used in anti- sub work and use construction fa- cilities thus released to build vessels to aid amphibious operations over the world Secretary Knox Japanese merchant ships Kamo Maru and Fuji Maru have been tor- pedoed in the East China Sea, one sinking and the other badly dam- aged. The broadcast further said 10 members of the crews were killed and 20 are missing. The report did not state ship sank. AIRPLANE WORKERS - DEFERRED ASHINGTON, Oct. 30—United WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, — War Mine Workers leadership must act Mobilization Director James Byrnes which also said that FDR STEPS INTO COAL MINEROW. . by Monday to end the spreading said today that the Selective Ser- | coal strikes or face presidential ac- vice System is arranging to . defer tion, was President Rosevelt's ulti- “all nec ry workers in the West matum last night as the number of Coast airplane plants including idle soft coal miners exceeded 80,- those employed in their production 000 and continued to grow. by sub contracts.” Roosevelt said he would await Byrnes said workers in these the miner’s policy committee meet- plants are divided into those cur- ing Monday confident the War La- rently irreplaceable and those re- bor Board’s proposals would be ac- placeable, Irreplaceable workers are cepted and added: deferred for six months and will be| “If T am mistaken and the miners eligible for additional deferment if do not accept, I shall take decisive they remain lrrvplncenblp | action to see the coal is mined.” f"fl"; - “ZI,"J m‘i‘,‘.if “ JAP FREIGHTER CANADIANMINERS SUNK OFF SOUTH WILL STRIKE AT | (OASJ_OF CHINA MIDNIGHT SUNDAY "0k . "1k 14th United 30 —The Exe- ago sank a Jap freighter off the |cutive board of district 18, CIO, South China coast and attacked a United Mine Workers of America Jap barracks at Fort Bayard, in- has ordered to strike approximately flicting many casualties, and struck ,000 British Columbia and Alberta at other enemy installations. miners at midnight tomorrow. Headquarters also announced that The order was issued a few hours B-24 Liberators dropped four tons after a royal commission, to in- of bombs on the Burma Road town quire into coal mine wage rates, of Mangshih. !began hearings” The miners ask —_———— {two weeks a year and all holidays off with pay, also an increase of $2 Fredj Fos'er "amed 'Fisheries Commission daily plus time-and-a-half for the sixth day’s work. nd L EF RO ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Fred J. Foster, Director of the Washington |State Department of Fisheries, has| 0“ GOVER“MENI | been named by President Roosevelt to represent the United States on SpE“DI“G REPORI,LM International Pacific Salmon { Fisheries commission, filling the WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, — The ! position left vacant by the resigna-! House Ways and Means Committee,' tion last July of B. M. Brpnnnnl after producing only Two Billion s mm“_..,_,-,“,,_ Dollars of new revenue, has turned to study how to curb Government . ] Australians Worry The Committee questioned Budge Director Smith for three hours and| over S'a'emen' by . Admiral, U.S. Fleet it is learned that Representative Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma Dem- ocrat, will propose an overall of CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 30.— The Australian Government is “con- cerned” over Admiral Nimitz's Navy the Congressional Budget. ‘The committee will make a closer Day address in Honolulu in which ‘he predicted a new drive against | scrutiny of Government outlays. Of Smith’s testimony, one Demo- the Japs. It "is stated authoritatively the icratic member said “Mr. Smith official view here is no statements CHUNGKING, Oct. | cALGARY, Oct. | t came to town after a couple of Democrats got through wnh him and it is goodbye Mr. Chi —————— should be made about forthcoming HEADS ELKS LODGE operations and the Government Dick Witt has been installed us|spokesman said operations should BRITISH.IN, . DRIVE OVER REGIA CANAL Ram Right Against German Anchor Line-Americans Make New Threat ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGERS, Oct. 30.—British troops of the Fifth Army, storming across Regia Canal in a three mile plunge, have occupied the seaside town of Mondragone and rammed squarely against the lofty Mount Massico, the western anchor of the new German defense line in Ttaly. Farther inland the American forces are developing a flanking threat on the towns which domin- ate both the upper Volturno River valley and the main Capau-Rome highway, Simultaneously, the British Eighth Army has forged ahead to take Montemitro on the lower bank of the Trigno River, 14 miles inland from the bridgehead. Flying Fortresses have hammered Genoa, the first bombing by planes based in the Mediterranean. The Ansaldo steel works were hit and also the freight railway yards. Heavy air support is given the aly. Mondragone, 90 airline miles south of Rome, has been eaptured after the troops slogged three miles through torrential rains and the Regla Canal which the Germans stubbornly held back the Allies for one week, then crossed at all points. The attack on Genoa was disas- trous to the holding forces. Turin and Milan have already beeén knocked out by heavy bombings. Genoa is 40 miles south of the river Po, the most important rear area target in Italy. British Wellington bombers have also attacked the rail yards at Gro- setto, main coastline railway, 100 miles north of Rome, cdusing many fires and explosions. Trains loaded with ammunition were blown up. — e - JAP ULTRA FASCIST IS SUICIDE Seigo Nakano Believed Japan Doomed So Shuffles Off CHUNGKING, Oct. 30.—A Domei broadcast from Tokyo, picked up here, reports the death by suicide of Seigo Nakano, ultra Fascist member of the Japanese Diet after the spcech of Premier Tojo before the Diet last Wednesday night. Chinese newspapers attribute Na- kano's reported suicide to his con- viction Japan faces ultimate defeat in war. Nakano is characterized as per- haps the most ardent advocate of aggression against the United States and Great Britain. It is believed here he took his life after some- thing he heard during the Diet ses- sion that eonvinced him Japan is doomed, TIDES TOMORROW High tide—3:11 a. m.,, 16.0 feet. Low tide—9:03 a. m., 22 feet. High tide—2:59 p. m., 18.2 feet. Low tide—9:38 p. m., -14 feet. TIDES MONDAY High tide— 5:53 a. m,, 15.6 feet. Low tide— 9:44 a. m., 3.0 feet, High tide— 3:38 p. m,, 17.7 feet. Low tide—10:23 p. m., -0.9 feet, e i be “carried out first and talked about afterwards.” Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge at BUY WAR BO operations. of - the """’;M"'