The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS = ACT Rabaul PEACE AIMS. VOL. XLL, NO. 9487. ___ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BIG 4, UNITED NATIONS, SIGN NEW P Blows Again Hit 'Mlaska Defense Command Sledge Hammer JAP AIRBASE i Here's How Rabaul Raid Cripples South Pacific Japs IS A“A(KED, —— e o:ec.s%x:g:: =—=—1 Is Severed from Western; ARE REA(HEQ 88 DE- 200 LARGE FORCE Forty-five Enemy Planes Knocked Down-Other Raids in Solomons ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 1.—The important Japanese airbase at Rabaul, on New Britain Isalnd, suffered another one of Gen. Doug- las MacArthur’s sledge hammer blows last Friday when a strong force of Liberators, escorted by Lightnings, knocked down 45 enemy planhes certain, against four losses. Meanwhile, American and New Zealand troops, invading Choiseul sland, encountered some opposition in the Vagaravoza region in the ad- vance from the southeastward coast of the island which is only 30 miles from the Bougainville stronghold. Liberators unloaded 115 tons of bombs on the Vunakanua airdrome at Rabaul and 20 Japanese planes in dispersal areas were wiped out, bombing an additional five and probably seven before reaching their targets. The Liberators were intercepted by 40 Japanese fighters The Lib- (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON. — The American 1 public doesn't know it, but blame | for current civil war in Greece traces direct to the doorstep of the United States and its new policy of following the British policy of king- | bowing. Here is the inside story, _as told by uncensored diplomatic dis- patches. : More than a year ago, a British colonel, sent as a sapper to blow up a railroad bridge between Athens‘ and Salonika, failed to make con- nection with British naval units which were to take him out of Greece, and was forced to remain there. For one year he led and mingled with Greek guerillas, final- 1y making his way to Cairo this past summer. In Cairo he reported that while the Gretk underground controlled much of the country away from the main highways and cities, the chief thing which held back greater anti- ENEMY PLANES STROYED SINCE MID- ALLIED GROUND FORCES STEADILY ADVANCE Destroying 60 per cent of Japan milifary installation: JAPANESE BASTION Nazi insurrection was Britis-Ameri- can support for King George II. George 11, sponsor and abettor of the hated Metaxis dictatorship, had been brought to the U.S.A., wined and dined by President Roosevelt, and groomed to take over Greece after the Nazis were driven out. This, the British colonel reported, did not go down well with fighting Greeks, who could not see much difference between Nazi rule and royal Greek rule. Following this, the Greek under- ground groups sent representatives to Cairo. Simultaneously, George| Exindaris, representative of old line| Greek political parties, was persuad- ed by the British colonel to come to Cairo, independently of the underground leaders. ¥ NO KING FOR GREECE Whereupon, the seven under- ground leaders, meeting with Exin- daris in Cairo, agreed that the Greek people should shun politics, and concentrate on the enemy, and that King George should remain out of the picture. He should be given a regular ailowance, they declared, but should not come back to Greece until the Greek people had had a plebiscite after the war on whether they wanted a monarchy or a re- public. The underground leaders drew up a protocol to this effect, and hand- ed it to the Greek cabinet. In a joint meeting it was unanimously approved. This was one of the few iployment of disabled veterans of |to be 1-A on the nation’s job list. New Guinea to Jobs for Disabled Of Present War Is - Situation Existing By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — This is a footnote on a series we wrote some weeks ago about the postwar employment and care of veterans of this war, but it deals with a sit- uation that now exists—the em- World War IL It already has become apparent that insofar as the Government can force it, disabled veterans are going The Civil Servicé Commission is the nation’s biggest employer. It isn’t the only agency concerned about reemployment of disabled vet- | erans, As a matter of fact, it is only concerned with the Govern- ment employment of such veterans. As such, it already is laying down the blueprint for private enterprise because the employment and re- habilitation divisions of Selective | Service, Veterans Administration, | (Continued ;fl Page Four) Federal Security Agency, and War| Manpower Commission have declar- in the Solmons virtually unten; portant Japanese base on New Britain, upon which are converg- ing _Allfed drives from the Solomon Islands to the southeast and ALLIED FORCES FIRMLY ESTABLISHED Huon Gulf e o ORGANIZED ENEMY |5 RESISTANCE IN CENTRAL TROBRIAND 1S, |__ISLANDS ERADICATED |— pBUNA————— el o, HEAVIEST SURPRISE RAID —-— SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Nov. 1.— | Severance of the Alaska Defense Command from the Western De- | fense Command, and its official !deslgna(ion as the Alaskan Depart- | ment, is announced by the War De- partment today. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, Commanding General of the Alaska Defense Command since July | 22, 1940, remains Commander of the Alaskan Department. The headquarters of the Alaskan | Department will remain at Camp | Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. Announcement was also received in Juneau today by officials relative | to the above change in command A HENDERSON \ |as was also the suspension of all | dimout regulations which were is- sued in Proclamation No 7. FIELD able. | i Blanche Bay | RALVANA ‘ =) e i S =~ — Closeup map of Rabaul, im- the southwest. | ed their determination to do every- thing they can to see that private enterprise gives disabled veterans as good a break as does civil service. That's why it js important that the Civil Service Commission, spur- red on by Representative Robert Robert Ramspeck's (D-Ga.) House Civil Service Committee now is making one of the most extensive surveys of employment of physically handicapped persons that ever has been undertaken by the Govern- ment. The Commission already has: sur- veyed more than 2500 types of work in the federal service and classified them with regard to the degree of physical handicap with ir strength at the enemy’s great Southwest Pacific base of Rabaul on New Britain, a withering two-hour assault by Allied bombers and fighting planes has, according to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, given the Allies “mastery in the air over the Solomon Sea and adjacent waters and thereby threatens the enemy’s whole perimeter of defense.” ArmyM FDR MAKES LONGREPORT T0 CONGRESS Asks Subsidy—Program Be Continued-No Short- age of Food WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in an exhaustive review of the world food situation, urged congress to continue and to increase the administration’s $800, 000,000 food price subsidy program. This he said, is to assure an ade: quate supply and to prevent a “ser- ious and dangerous cycle” of in- |flation. The legislature has been | sharply critical of Federal subsidies | which leaned rather toward higher farm prices to encourage greater | production during the war. The President sent the longest special message during his nearly 11 years in the White House—a message of 10,000 words, which he checked and recheckéd many times and spent almost a month writing and shorn of its historical data. The message assured the Ameri- ican people there would be “enough food to go around.” He specifically nailed reports of a “meat famine” this winter and declared price {support program is proving reason- ably successful with these two ob- |jectives — of increasing production iand maintaining fair food prices ifor the consumer. v —— ROBERT VAN WINKLE JOINS MARINE CORPS Taking advantage of the recent |opening for 17-year-old enlistments in the U S. Marine Corps was Robert a Van Winkle, Juneau, it is reported by Major William O. McKay, Seattle which they can be performed. “We have found out what abilities and faculties are needed in partic- |reserve and will be called at a later |United States trained fliers tri- ular jobs,” says Ramspeck. “Then!date for recruit training After pass‘-}umphe& sinking the sub with five we have taken persons with these abilities and faculties, even though (Continued on Page Three) district recruiting officer. { He was placed in the inactive Ilng recruit phase he will be assigned |to the branch of the Marine Corps {he desires for further speciaized luaimng and study, | The raiders destroyed or damaged 177 Jap planes | enCitedin Heroic Rescue of 3; (rash at Metlakafla A. Van Winkle, son of Archie C.! FIFTH ARMY TAKES VITAL ROAD POINT ing Japanese Continued March Up Italian Peninsula ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The Sil-| NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 1.—The Al- |ver Star has been awarded to Ed-|ljed Fifth Army seized Teano, con- ward R. Bagby, tech. 5th grade of|{rol point to important roads flank- the Alaskan Defense Command ut“ng the enemy's Massico Ridge an- Medra, Alaska, for gallantry in ac-|.hor in a relentless mile by mile tion at Sarana Valley on Attu Is-/papch up the Italian peninsula, land last June 1, the War Depart-| 5)jjeq headquarters announced to- ment has announced. | day. In P‘nL.\hmgl‘. three Army mc.n‘ With equally steady progress the were - £lted Py. flie.Carnegle }_‘elo;Eigmh Army smashed through the Pund. Qosanissiol for helping Save ., qins to capture the village of e e O e hat. | Cantalupo and the town of Sing- plane was forced down at Metlakal-|,, ~wo glong with Macchiagod- la_on Sept. 21, 1942. One of those| e - AAvRACE 3 lena and Frosolone. s Clectrician Jack R.| 04 4NC SO B naan placed Montgomery's warriors with- | | ! | | Bassett, Brewster, Wash., and the A : 5 b others who have only Army post| D Bine miles of Isernia, ventre office addresses are Charles R. Mar- | bastion of the German mountain |chant, Chief Radio Electrician, and ine. ¢ jic.!| Between two seetors Am- Loren H. Sasseen, Senior Mechan | ““Marchant’s citation states he erican troops periormed cne of the saved John W. Huggan, and the campaign's most spectacular single cther two helped save John w. day achievements when they ad= Wallace and William N. Gray. Gray!vanced five miles through a down- nd Wallace were thrown clear and pour up steep mountain slopes to 'lay injured near the plane's nose.|seize Vallearricola, a citadel perch= Huggan was unconscious inside the ed on a 2,000 foot hill four miles ship when fire broke out in the north of Raviscabina in a pusn nose of the plane. !toward Venafro. With one wing in flames and ma-| One military commentator said chine gun cartridges exploding, that reaching this objective would Marchant and Basset ran to the have been “hard enough on an or- plane. Marchant climbed to the dinary peacetime Sunday afternvon |edge of the wing and attempted to walk,” but the Americans covered |reach the door but the heat was t00| the distance in the face of intense intense. Then he ran to Huggan'sienemy artillery, mortar and ma- | { { | well-placed bombs. | The U-boat's anti-aircraft guns !wounded one member of the crew | of the plane. |gun compartment, the door of Which|chine gun fire, and despite careful- | Iusilnge. sat astride it, and pulled approaches | Huggan part way out. | G Ey A | plode, Marchant slid to the ground AlASKA SAlMoN tand pulled Huggan the rest of the |dragged Gray and Wallace away.!| (AI(H IS UPPED Iblew the plane to fragmnets. All the flyers recovered. | R i % \Production for First Nine Same 1942 Period ! W|NS DuEl WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — The fisheries for the first three quarters wlTH SUB:ol 1943 are ten percent ahead of | Ickes says. Jeke i The Alaska salmon canneries in | Brazilian Air Force plane and a|to 4,973,020 cases In 1942 | Nazi U-boat met in a duel to death| Ickes said the outstanding season |the poor catches in Southeast Al- aska. for the first nine menths, was 84,323,250 pounds which is up from |was torn off, and climbed to the 1y 14iq mine fields guarding the | . As the cartridges continued to ex-| |way and dragged him to safety. | pA(K HERR'NG | Meanwhile Sassen and Bassett| v | Pifteen minutes later an explosion | ok e S SRR BAF (REw Months of 1943 Over catches of the major Unted States 11942, Fisheries Cordinator Harold L. RIO DE JANER}O. Nov. 1.—A|1943 packed 5,327,620 cases compared inot far from this city, and the|in Bristol Bay more than balanced ‘The Alaska herring catches in 1943 47,721,000 over 1942, New Official Namg Q@yen EXTRA ENEMY SUB | SENT DOWN OFF ALASKA KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Nov. 1 Destruction of an enemy submar- ine by a Canadan plane and two small Coast Guard vessels from Ketchikan at an unannounced time and place was revealed by District Coast Guard Headquarters here to- day. ‘The former halibuter, Foremost, well known in Seattle and Alaskan waters, and . the Gutter McLang along with the Canadian Air Force plane, are credited with the Kill. The sub was sighted vy the plane which dropped a charge on it. Then the vessels rushed to the scene, narrowly escaping a torvedo. They saw the periscope and dropped depth charges and saw air and vil hubbles but still heard contact. Théy then saw the periscope again, the unidentifed skipper wrote, and “the Foremost made a dash for it. We cracked the submarine; hard, knocking our false keel abou! % <Co|xtinu;£lvon P_age ‘Three) LAST ESCAPE ROAD CLOSED 10 GERMANS Nazis Reeling—Ba(k in Con- fusion as Russians Close in on Last Exit MOSCOW, Nov. 1.—-The Germans are reeling back in utter confusion along the choked retreat roads above the Crimea as the Russian’s Fourth Ukraine Army battered lv.si way to within eight miles of the| ast rail exit to the peninsula. “Fast Soviet units” have broken through the German lines south of the lower Dnieper, a German Command communique announced in a broadcast, but asserted however that flank tacks by German mo- bile units have inflicted severe los-| ses on the Russians, while Nazii | counterattacks have made good pro- gress in the Dnieper bend. With the Russians driving toward | the Crimea over a broad front it| is now impossible for the Germans to evacuate their large forces any longer by the only railway which runs up the Perekop Isthmus, which is only four miles wide at its nar- rowest point, to Kherson on the lower Dnieper River Railway, and which the Russians brought within easy artillery range yesterday. With | the capture of Chaplinka it has be- come virtually useless to the Ger- mans as a ling of communication today and in another 24 hours should be severed. Nazi troop concentrations and transport columns attempting to flee the death trap are being| pounded continually by Red Air Forces. The seizure of Novo Troits- koe also gave the Red Army strong central positions for operations westward toward the Perekop- .Kherson Railway. IN MEETING Far - Reachi;l;Agreemenl Is Signed at Mos- cow Parley (By Associated Press) The United States, Great Britain, Russia and China have pledged themselves to united action in the peace which will follow the defeat of their enemies in the establish- ment of a ‘“general international organization” for maintaining peace and security. This declaration has been signed by the Big Four of the United Nations at the Moscow conference, attended by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, British Foreign Min- _{ister Anthony Eden, and Russ For- eign Commissar Molotov. It was made public simultaneous- ly in Washington, London and Mos~ cow in statements highlighting the fruits of the conference which in- cluded declarations governing the restoration of a non-Fascist Italy, a free Austria, a Roosevelt-Church- ill-Stalin pledge to punish those guilty of atrocities and other im- portant' points. ‘The four-power document stressed unity of action and consultation between the power with the com- mon enemy in mind until the sur~ render of the common enemy is achiéved. Set Up Commission It was agreed to establish an Am- erican - British - Rusglan “European Advisory Commission™ in London to examine European questions arising as the war developed. The foreign ministers also decid- ed to set up an advisory council on Italy and with representatives of the French Committee, Yugoslav- ia and Greece. The council on Italy will deal with day-to-day questions other than military preparation and make recommendations designed to co- ordinate the Allied policy with ré- gard to Ttaly. The foreign ministers also said military experts in the conference had -discussed definite operations and already have decided now on being prepared to “create the basis for the closest military cooperation in the future between the three countries.” Other questions besides the eur- rent problems were taken up at the (Continued on Page Three) STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA, SAYS DIMOND Delegate_aves Great Boost to Territory in Radio Broadcast WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told a radio audience last night that Alaska is ready for statehood and with great resources could support a population of ten million. Dimond, speaking at the Inter- American University over the NBC network, said the “possibilities for the future development of Alaska are simply boundless: and without dealing with exaggeration, Alaska gives sure promise of eventually being not only one of the wealthiest but cne of the most populous states of the Union.” The Delegate said Alaska lies north of the temperate zone, has a climate and growing conditions com- parable to Norway, Sweden and Fin- land, whose people have “attained a high degree of civilization and eul- ture and made magnificent contri- butions to the welfare of the world,” o