The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1943 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9488. EMPIR MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY — GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER COAL MINES Bougamvllle Invaded; Japs Are Challenged AMERICANS IN SURPRISE, BOLD ATTACK Occupy Augusta Bay Area at Dawn - Entire Jap Position Threatened ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN. THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 2—American ground forces hwe captured the area on Augusta Bay' in a bold invasion of Bougainville Island. The invasion took place at dawn yesterday according to an official communique. At the same time, General Doug— las MacArthur issued a challenge to the Jap fleet to come out and fight. ‘The invasion was planned by Gen. MacArthur, Admiral W. Halsey and other high officers. The invasion moved the Allies 200 miles from the scene of the recent victories in the Solomon Islands and threatens to unhinge the entire Jap position in the Southwest Pa- cific. The attacking force on Bougain- ville achieved the landing with such (Continued on Page Two) - e — The Washington Merry - Go- Round' By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8, Allen on active duty.) | | WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Bill Douglas, whose sense of humor always is a great cheerer-up to the President, is telling this story‘ on himself. | When the American Medical As- soclation case was before the Su- preme Court, Dr. Morris Fishbein pointed out to the AMA attorneys that oral argument in the case would begin on Friday and continue on Monday. Therefore, he suggest-| ed that if their argument didn't get across with the learned Justices on' Friday, they should switch to a new line on Monday. i “That's fine,” replied the attor-| neys, “but how are we going to flndw - out how the justices like our argu-| ment?” “That's simple,” replied Fishbein, “just see what they say to each| ® other about it.” “And how will we listen in on their conversation?” asked the in- trigued, but puzzled lawyers. “That again is simple,” Fishbein, according to Douglas’ version of the story. will hire lip-readers to watch them.” The lawyers confessed that the idea, though novel, was worth try- ing. So they employed two lip- readers, brought them into court' replied Justice early and made sure_that they had| - front seats. One lip-Teader was de- | tailed to watch one side of the bench, the other kept his eyes glued onthe other side. The session on Friday was long and a bit dreary. Except for Jus-| who habit- tice Felix Frankfurter, ually fires a long series of ques- tions at the attorneys, the justices, kept solemn silent faces. Felix, as usual, kept up a barrage of cross- examination. Finally, over and make a remark to Justice Stanley Reed. After it was all over, the Medical! Association attorneys gathered round the two lip-readers. As Jus- tice Douglas tells the story, the lip- readers were quite discouraging. “There is very little to report,” they said. “But what did Justice Douglas say' to Justice Reed?” asked the lawyers. “We're afraid it won't be much' belp to you,” replied one lipreader,' “but anyway here it is: Justice Douglas leaned over to Justice Reed | and said: ‘When is Felix going to keep his — trap shut!” ARMY ADVISES HOUSEWIVES The Quajtermaster Corps feeds (Continued on Page Four) i | | “we ' Justice Douglas leaned, ALEUTIAN PARTY—BEER ON HOUSE AAGREEMENT IS APPROVED BY 2 COUNTRIES Brmshers Amen(ans Hail Moscow Results as Aid Toward Peace | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, — Con- | gressmen generally hailed the Mos- |cow agreement as a long step to- ward collective action to insure the future world peace, but differed over the relation of the Senate toward the postwar resolution. Under Secretary Edward Stettin- |ius termed®the agreements encour- aging and said: “The American people owe a great debt of gratitude to Mr. Hull for his magnificent contribution toward the success of the Moscow con= ference.” Chairman Sol Bloom, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the House that the State De- partment review of the Tripartite conference ‘“shows that current problems were frankly met in an at- ' mosphere of mutual confidence and understanding which characterized all the work of the conference.” THIS IS A HAPPY OCCASION for these members of the 11th Air Force Bomber Command in the Aleutians. The men are lining up for their share at a beer party—two bottles each. For some of the group attend- ing the party, it was their first taste of the amber fluid in more than a year. The officers paid for the beer. (International) "Public Opmlon Polls” To Be Conducled; First Of Kind Taken by Govt. By JACK STINNETT ENGLISH VIEWS LONDON, Nov. 2.—Official Brit-| ain hailed the sweeping declarations | at Moscow, as a death blow to Ger- many's most effective propagandu} weapons, and is “a very consider-| able contribution to hastening_the | m to Work | | MOSCOW, Nov. 2—Secretary of [State Cordell Hull views the achievements of the Moscow con- ference which established a broad basis for postwar political and econ- omic cooperation as rendering as {impossible any isolationism on the |part of the United States, Britain |or the Soviet Union. P He was gratified, he said, when |the Soviet leaders turned away| {isolationism and accepted what he| rdescubed as a policy of moderau- \international cooperation. I have never been a poll addict.; Recalling the prewar aloofness nf‘ I have always felt that a poll is/the United States, Secretary Hull much like a lie-detector. The an-‘expresaed the belief that people; swer is there, all right, but it takes everywhere are now convinced of the | |a scientific genius to interpret it|necessity for practical international| |correctly. However, I have seen the|cooperation to avert another war. |20-odd page questionnaire which| This cooperation, he said, will| ‘OCR plans to circulate under the[take a concrete form in London in |direction of the University of Den- a few weeks when the new European ver's National Opinion Research| Advisory OCommission created by 'C(ntel and I have a hunch that the|the Moscow Conference assembles gcv‘mment is going to learn a lot!to continue the work started at |from this one. {the Moscow meeting. Present plans call for presenting| This body is composed of hlgh‘ {it to some 10,000 housewives. OCR|pérmanent officials of the State| dunng and after the war has' . | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—One of dupes to expect dissention among! | Production Board is the Office of | His primary objective is to 5ee‘Hull TAlKS lies There is no intention on the { rock in the lap of luxury, but it does | ‘hcalth. morale and efficiency might Secrefary of Slate Sees End| front. Iweeks with one of the most exten- | |going to be a cross-section sampling | |agement; te list all the civilian| | {on those things, both national an |end of the war.” knucked the props from under “Nazi! |the frequently unhappiest, often the Allies.” | civilian Requirements, headed by | that the war effort isn't hampeledi part of the government to fix thmgs 0“ MOS(ow | recognize that there is a civilian break down and cause home-front ' f Isol | ‘That’s why OCR is going dnwuy’ o1 Is0 ahsm n sive “public opinion polls” that the | jof the nation’s housewives: to find gripes as well as the sacrifices which | | sectional, which are causing the A Foreign Office spokesman s.nd propagandists who encouraged their, | scrappiest, divisions of the War| —_——————— | Arthur D. Whiteside. by bottlenecks in civilian necess! : .up so that civilians in wartime can supply minimum below * which| | setbacks just as vital as the loss of to the source within the next few United States | government has yet conducted. It's |out just what war economy has| are being made cheerfully and might | jgreatest civilian grief. |that evidence of collaboration both | important battlés on the fighting| done to homelife and home man-| |even be extended; and to check u; | GLAMOROUS Gene Tierney, one of Hollywood’s most recent mothers, has announced she will return to | picture making soon. She gave birth to a son Oct. 15. (Intefnational) LT, GEN. SPAATL 1S COMMANDER sian forces have landed in the Eas- Kerch. 100,000 Each Week | mately 100,000 persons are dying nl‘ GIANT LANDING CRAFT BECOMES A SHIP OF MERCY LANDING CRAFT are proving to be almost as versatile as the jeep. Here the spacious interior of a tank= carrying craft is utilized to evacuate a group of wounded and sick Marines and other servicemen from a South Pacific isle to a base ho;pl(nl U. S. Marine Corps photo. (International Soundphow) AllIED FIFTH REDSPRESS . SOUTHINTO (RIMEA _ Landings Made by Soviets| : in Eastern Sedion- Control Black Sea (By Associated Press) The Germans asserted that Rus- Sml ing Warnor Americans, British Make Gains on Massico Ridge ALGIERS, Nov, 2.—The Allied Fifth Army troops, battling against tierce enemy opposition, pushed forward Ridge and Matese Mountain, lofty in TItaly. | Gains were punched to wichin | artillery range of the communica- | tions center at Venafro cn the Gar- igliano river, 18 miles above the mouth of the Volturno River. British elements of Gen. Clark’s Army advanced four miles, seizing the towns of Casanove, high on the I slope of the Massico Ridge. American troops, farchier inland 'from the coastal area, won a good tern Crimea north and south of Moscow dispatches declared other Red troops are compressing the Nazis into the peninsular death trap lyy a fresh advance from the sealed” northern entrancz. According to the Germuns, a Nazi |counterattack was immediately |launched on the Rusians in the castérn Crimea and “ annihilated the main part of the Bolsheviks who landed and compressed the re- |mainder on the narrow space im- i / s ; | mediately near the coast.” i part o atese mountain section Russian troops which cleared the! GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR pre- | which dominates the upper Vol- .._| Sents a broad and confident smile western Caucasus now stand at Ta- | man Peninsula opposite the Crirea across the shallow ¥erch St and the Russian fleet dominates the Black Sea, reporis & DNB an- nouncement, The Fourth Ukrainian Army led |by General Tolbukhin hLas, moved deep into the Crimea heyond cap- |tured Armyansk againsi growing |German counterattacks, according (to a Moscow dn;pntcn he poses for his latest picture, fumo, Bver. valiey as e /[TO v " Wl i taken while inspecting United | he Eighth Army, on *he Adriatic ‘.\ldL‘ mnlnlums steady pres States troops carrying out large eastern Australia. (International) ‘mmn ground o lhe wuthrm end —— lof 'its flont AlaskanDepl. SAVANNAH IS Forward Step DAMAGED IN Says Budmer! Dying of Famine NEW DELHI, Nov. "Means We've Grown Up," | Cruiser Hit | by German| Comments Commanding Bomb at Salerno General in North Operation 2—Approxi- ‘ starvation in Bengal each week, K. Santhanam, former member of the central legislative assembly and a widely known Indian journalist, (le- clared in the Hindustani Times to- | By NORMAN BELL day after a study of the famine Associated Press War Corre situation. He predicted this figure| HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN DE- \ | | ) pundent*“ German bomb off Salerno, Italy, ;Lhe light cruiser Savannah was ?FIER(E FIGHT L& | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| to occupy lggge parts.of the Massico two anchors of the German line| ITALY FIGHT | | MINES ARE - SEIZED BY FDR ORDER Pres.emfri-s"is—lck President Acks Quickly in Takes Command WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-—Presi- dent Roosevelt, confronted with an- other general coal strike, has seized the mines for the second time in recent months and authorized Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes to conclude bargaining agreements with the miners, subject to War Labor Board approval, and ordered the miners to report for work to- morrow (Wednesday) morning. “Coal must be mined. The enemy does not wait,” the President said. Ickes immediately signed the order seizing all mines producing 50 tons or more daily where a stoppage has taken place or has been threatened. Presidents of the varlous coal companies have been designated as managers and told to fly the U. S. Flag and also post notices the United States Government is in pos- session of the mines, The President acted two hours and 15 minutes after the United Mine Workers Policy Committee put over for another day the detision to send the miners back to work. Over 300,000 soff coal miners are out. CONFERENCE HELD WASHINTON, Nov. 2—President John L. ‘Lewis of the United Miné Workers conferred with United " States Mine boss Ickes for 45 min- utes this morning as the American flags were raised again over the Nation’s strike paralyzed coal work- ings, signalling the Government's seizure for the second time this year. Neither Lewis, nor Ickes, now au- thorized to enter into collective bargaining negotiations with the UMW, would talk immediately about the parley. In the far flung fields where the latest work stoppage became nearly 100 percent, time was marked as, the min2 properties went through transition to Federal control. Yes- terday's general walkout affected an estimated 374,000 bituminous miners, while the anthracite work- ers are having their traditional All Saimte Day holiday. A survey today in Pennsylvania indicated that only about 250 of the states’ 80,000 hard coal diggers are back on duty. 19,561 SEAL SKINS SOLD AT AUCTION Average Price Paid Fifteen Percent Under Last Spring Bidding | { | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN quirements on this poll, which ALGIERS, Nov. 2-—Lt. Gen. Spaatz !makes it about the most important has been appointed Commander of dulz program the governnfent has! lthe new All-American -Air Force “:"l"tfl*;“d since World War II t the same time a new United |52 e - The questionnaire will - cover f:::;’dp“we‘“h Army Air Force is everything from diaper pins to au- 3 |tomobiles and in the kitchen di- This will concentrate long range“,uon will range from pots and strategic bombing against Germany. pans- to garbage cans. Spaatz's command will include sectional and national shortages, both the U. S./ Twelfth and Fif- price ceiling punctures, black mar- teenth Air Forces. . |kus and surpluses will be ferreted e fout. BUY WAR BONDS )‘m_(aontmued on Page Two) ‘Ls planning to base 1944 civilian re-| Departments from each of the three“ {major powers, and will take up| matters pertaining to the winning {of the war and the settling of Lhe |peace as well as seeing that peace |is kept up after victory. Hull said he was deeply impress-| ed by the Russians and declared the United Stats and Russia are| better friends because of the con-| ference, better friends than they| could have been without it. -t John Adams, second U. S, presi- dent, was the only president to attain the age of 90, would increase weekly until the end | of December. MORGENTHAU BACK FROM WAR FRONTS WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— Secre- genthau has returned to the Treas- ury after a three-week tour of the Mediterranean battlefronts to dis- cuss fiscal problems with military leaders. |tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-| PARTMENT, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 2.—Establishment of the Alas- kan Department, announced yester- day, marked a long step toward the! prosecution of the war by the crea- tion of a defensive bjfwark agains future Pacific wars, asserted Lt General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr! “It means we've grown up,” said | the General, and disclosed that he also favors land occupation of Japan i of a knockout by air, “You've gotta march into a coun- -(Conmlued on Page Two) proper regardless of the prospects | try to make them realize their com- | Allied | —— {damaged and some of her crew Kill- led or wounded, the Navy Depart-| ment disclosed today. The bomb landed atop the gun turret, the Navy said, but flames started by the explosion were con- ‘uolled in 20 minutes as Navy doc- tors treated the wounded and the ship carried on in support of the landing of troops, continuing to operate effectively in spite of the| damage. The Navy said the Savannah Was |assigned the job of covering the landing of troops with the crulsers| Boise and Philadelphia and other| ‘nnval units, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 2. — Nine- teen thousand five hundred and ~|xty one skins of the Government's {owned seal part of the 1942 catch | netted $742,147. None of the skins from the catch this year were included in the auc- WASHING'KON Nov 2.—Hit by tion sale. The 150 bidders went quickly to the ceiling prices for the skins, then their names went into a hat with the lucky numbers getting the lot. The average price for all lots was $42902, which is 15 per cent under last spring’s biddmg 'DEATH OF L. COL. FARRELL REPORTED ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 2.— Death of Lt. Col. Leo J. Farrell, for- mer member of the University of Minnesota football coaching staff, is reported at Fort Richardson.