The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 3, 1943, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 9489. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ~ MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 — 3 SEVERE QUAKE REPORTED WEST ALASKA wo SEA CLASH IS . REPORTEDBY ADM.HALSEY Infercepting Fleet of En- emy Forced fo Withdraw -Airfield Is Bombed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 3.—An American warship clashed with a Japanese warship in a battle ! which may have an important ef-! fect on the ability of the United States Marines to control the new invasion positions on the west cen- tral coast of Bougainville Island. Preliminary reports from Admiral | W. Halsey state that Jap destroyers and ecruisers were intercepted in the Solomons Sea and were ' forced to withdraw after clashing Monday night and early Tuesday, following the landing of the Marines dawn in Empress Augusta Bay. Headquarters pieced together the fragmentary reports that indicated the sinking of two big Jap mm.s-f ports and that enemy airfields were blasted and enemy planes burned on | the ground by coordinated air and sea blows. ; Also, off Kavieng, New Ireland, planes sank an 8,000 ton Jap trans- port and damaged a smaller ship. | A Navy Task force Sunday night The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—Morris L. Cooke, former Rural Electrification Admin- istrator and New Deal trouble-, shooter, has been tentatively select- ed to unravel the toughest economic g job of the war—the plight of small business. | Four different business wizards have now tackled this job, from Wall Street magnate Floyd Odlum & to Johnson and Johnson's medlcine‘ man, Brig. Gen. Robert Johnson. All have retired disgusted and dis-l illusioned. Today, the Roosevelt Administra-| tion, supposed to bring a New Deali to the little man, has witnessed a| concentration of 75 per cent of all war contracts in the hands of 56 big companies, has sat by powerless | or incapable to act. At one time six U .S. companies| had more than sixty per cent of U.! S. war orders — General Motors, duPonts, Curtiss-Wright, Bethle- hem, Newport News Shipbuilding and New York Shipbuilding. Mean-I while thousands of little firms have had to close or have limped along| on the verge of bankruptcy. The Administration. has wrung its hands, has realized that after the war the country will see a] greater, concentration of industry in} the hands of a few than ever be- fore, but so far its attempts to remedy the situation have been| tragic and feeble. | The Army and Navy have ignored' little industry—partly because big concerns have been efficient, speedy; partly because of an ex- pert lobby in Washington; partly; because of old Army-Navy friend- ships established years ago. 1st attempt to help little business was the appointment of Robert L. Mehornay, a small businessman, in charge of a Defense Contract Ser- vice. He struggled valiantly, got no support, fizzled. 2nd attempt was by sensational Wall Streeter Floyd Odlum, who after much publicity found he had only advisory powers, resigned in disgust. 3rd move came when Congress, seeing red, introduced legislation, earmarking $150 millions to small business, with a special agency to administer it. Immediately .the “Small War Plants Bill” ran info tough opposition from Jesse Jones. . (Continued on Page Four) | orphans of war, she stands in her | i nursery was the residence of a | YANKS & U. S. GROUND TROOPS hurrying across a completed steel-pontoon bridge over the Volturno are pictured here as the Allied Fifth Army under Gen. Clark moved its entire strength ing the Nazis back toward Rome. at — 0il Troubles Some Allied Wa Young War Viciim | | i ! | o THIS UTTLE GIRL lost her parents and home when a Nazi bomb land- ! ed in England. Now a ward of the | State in a London nursery for | crib and wipes away a tear. The | wealthy American. (International) WALLY FORREST ON ; FURLOUGH IN CITY, Wally Forrest, Signal Corps. United States Army, for years in the interior, now slauom‘d; at Fairbanks, arrived here yesterday by plane on a furlough. Forrest be-| fore transferred to the interior was| on the Juneau staff for several years. He will visit relatives and is busy like a chicken scratching gravel in shaking hands with his scores .of friends, | STREAM ACROSS VOLTURNO () ECTIONS Senators Explain It | vears; and that before 1950 we will | several | ) 6G0T0GOP CANDIDATES Democrats Lose Out in | Yesterday's Local ; Campaigns | | (By Associated Press) The Republicans elected a Gov- | ernor of New Jersey, a Lieutenant- | Governor of New York and a Mayor of Philadelphia in yesterday's elec- tious, the fourth major race of the year, A Democrat is leading a hot race | for the Kentucky governorship. The" big tide of Republican votes led most leaders to predict a GOP landslide in 1944. Harrison Spangler, /GOP Chairman, asserted the ‘“re- turns indicate the country is tired— very tired of the present national administration.” to the right bank and began push- (International Radiophoto) said, however, he saw no connection !between the local campaigns and the national one next year. Democrat Vincent J. Murphy con- | ceded the election to Walter E. Edge, | Republican, for the New Jersey gov= ernorship, while in New York, Demo- cratic Lieut. Gen. William Haskell did the same, giving the election to | State Senator Joe Hanley. | Former Ambassador William G. | Bullitt, friend of President Roose- | velt, lost the Philly mayoralty m; Bernard Small, GOP incumbent. | In Kentucky, a race is still on , with Demo L. Lyter Donaldson lead- | |ing Republican Simeon Wilson by | ters; Five By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Noy. 33.—Capital <cothsayers are opining that the veport of the five Senators who made the global warfronts junket ;’\:“::fl‘d"t be taken (oo much 10,10 g 000 yotes with a third of the From time to time we hope to Precigst el B | — e clarify several things, but for the| moment we will consider only pe-| troleum. Some of the Senator: :(RIMEA Now came back to report that we are | | supplying the world with about 65 i | per cent of its fighting oil and gaso- line; that we have only enough re-’ serves in the ground to last a few SEALED OFF BY RUSSIANS Forty Miles Covered in One Day as Reds Sweep Past Perekop (By Associated Press) Bounding across the steppes of be totally dependent on Great Bnl.-‘ ain for our petroleum. { As a matter of fact, the globe- trotting Senators haven't gone far enough. The United States is pro- ducing something like four and a quarter million barrels a day. Iran,! Irag, Arabia, Egypt, the Middle| East, Russia, Colombia, Canada,! Trinidad, and Mexico are now pro- ducing about a million and a half barrels a day. | Outside the United States, there| is supposed to be about 24 billion barrels of crude; within it, about i e : D southern Russia far beyond the 19. b.m,"m‘ U, 8 !nvescqrs hdd:by-pnssed Crimea at unslackened pragtically allthe Jaogl Subply. a.“d'pace, General Tolbukhin's Cossacks| ?:;ucwz‘?mpr" cg'r'ea‘:r ::;:x:“':;gelare cleaning up swiftly the last 30 ¥ " |miles remaining before they reach trols about 50 per cent of that avail- » & Kherson at the mouth of the Dnie- abl tside th ’ A e oytslde. hosPRfed BN, R |per Estuary on the Black Sea, says sia about 20 3 i ou per cent; and other| "y oo oo aieatch, United Nations the remainder. 2 The retreating Germans showed signs of demoralization as the Red This doesn’t, of - course, consider| the crude supply in Axis hands—in| Ty SWopL. Wostiana ' sealed - off| the Dutch East Indies, Rumanla.;z:‘:jmc{l‘::easm'{h;" ":e Ge;'m.nn‘& Bessarabia, etc.—but it does give a| Y WIS Sixong shroes, clear picture of the situation. ‘gr:y f :‘.fles Wera ooyared by the Through the government (anedxbeve 9y in & sipgle duy's sweep, Petroleum Reserve Corp., a subsi-|26Yond captured Perekop, the lust diary of the Reconstruction Finance entrance to the Black Sea Penin-v Corp., presided over by aggressive!Sula from the north. Harold L. Ickes, we are definitely in| A German communique termed the market for foreign petroleum the reported Russian invasion of production. By the time the war is the Eastern Crimea south of Kerch | over those “control” figures may|a8s “an enemy landing head.” They! have to be revised. If they are asserted the Russians holding. the only maintained, it is unlikely that beachhead are “further compressed the U. S. will be coming out at the|despite embittered resistance.” | short end of the horn. Moscow has now confirmed the Then why did the Senators come|landing communique heard from back all perturbed about the petrol-ithe Berlin radio, which spoke in| eum situation? vague terms of heavy fighting| There are three reasons. The against strong Russian tank and | first is_ that the potential future!infantry forces at the northern en- moduction of petroleum seems to|trance to the Crimea in the area lie almost entirely in the Enstern “east of Khetson and in the big | Hemisphere and therefore it is rea-|Dnieper bend.” | sonable to believe that once West- : il tern Hemisphere stocks are depleted The focus of the battle ai the| he U. S. A. will be in the same|hi€per bend is at the great iron| position for oil that it has been for and rail center of Krivoi Rog, 120 rubber or quinine. miles north of the Crimea. There| Secondly, “our foreign polic: _|the Germans have persisted in, nies us the right togsw:nlnyw‘::h their counterattacks in a desperate} government funds te control these effort to prevent the northern aumi potential oil reserves and it fa[Cf the vast Russian pincers from doubtful if our private corporations, snapping shut the. . second d"‘“m} 450 il Pl trap on scores of thousands ull (Continued on Page Two) Nazis, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York Tanker Flames After Ships ( Big Jap Transports Sunk in Solomons ollide One of two blacked-out tankers which collided off the Florida coast setting off an explosion of thousands of gallons of high test * may be seen in the distance. (AP Wirephote from Army Alr Porees), Coal Miners Ignore FDR’s Directive fo Refurn fo Jobs; Conferences On SACORIDGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. — The President’s directive to the Nation's |coal miners, who struck at the ¢ workings now under governmeni | seizure to return to their jobs has been generally ignored. The four ms producing states | this morning showed a quiet sus- |continued absenee of a working | contract and spread to an estimat- B”hSh Spl“lfes in Re_ As the conference looking toward newal of Attacks | some settlement went forward here |John L. Lewis and Fuel Coordina- tor Harold Ickes, reports generally Teflected the lack of any sort of demonstration in the fields where |the Stars and Stripes fly over the | deserted tipples. | pension of activity which began Y “w«; weeks ago in scattered wild- |cat walkouts stemming from the oft coal min- BULLETIN—London, Nov. 3. —The largest force of American heavy bombers ever to operate out of British bases, has raided northwestern Germany. The | 4 typical word came from Mary- bombers were escorted ) v l'm.. land where the miners “just didn't range Thunderbolt Lightning | ic 0 Fighters. | e T WA R T | LONDON, Nov. 3. - American H E A l T H o N Marauders attacked a German mr-‘ field in~northern France in a Te- newal of daylight raids on Um} continent. The Britain based planes| made the raid after Meditervanean | based bombers of the new 15th| Force United States Air wrecked | the Messerschmitt plane factory mi Weiner Neustadt in southeastern | GECI;:::K;: weather after two wceks;, 3 0 ’ 000 Ca ses of FOOd, Medicine Clothing Sent of heavy fog and rain in England made possible the latest thrust. Marauders escorted by Spitfires ai- H H . tacked enemy airfields at Standre -Will Help Sltuahon de Leure. BY RAYMOND CRON PORT ELIZABETH, Nov. 3. - General health at the Santo Tomas internment camp at Manila, where {1 was a prisoner for 21 month is gradually deteriorating be of lack of essential foods Heavy cargo of relief supplies, to- One of the greatest air battles of | the war took place in the Weiner Neustrda area as Nazi fighters in great force re to intercept Amer- ican Fortresses and Liberators. Full results are not yet known, but Allied Headquarters said that se at least 30 of 75 to 100 enemy g gome 30,000 cases of all fighters were downed and six Am-|y,q; of food, medicine, and cloth- SEEAp pmbens 1ogt. ling are going to Manila aboard i o GV {the Japanese repatriaiion ship, Teia Marn TIDES TOMORROW | (it reuchs the internees it win stave off a serious situation for at least a few months, but a longe range sure-fire food and medical supply program is nezessary urless lsmedy repatriation is planned, Low tide— 0:11 a. m., 08 feet. High tide— 6:42 u. m., 138 feet. Low tide—12:33 p. m, 54 feet High tide— 6:24 p. m, 149 feet. . soline and taking a toll of 88 lives, pours out a column of smoke. between United Mine Workers Clu(:lI The shoreline FIFTH ARMY " HAS SEIZED Western Anchor of German line Taken - Eighth Army Makes Gain ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 3. — The Allled Fifth Army has seized the Heights of Saco Ridge, the western anchor of the German line in Italy and nearby Mount Sancro. The guin has a cou.plete observ- ance over the broad Garigliano | River V:ley. ‘The American units ou the righ® flank routed the Nazis from tie |1ast heights before Venafro and !won the new high grcund covering 1Lhe extreme upper Volturno River {Valley across which ‘he assault |against Venafro and other strong |points on the mountain line have been launched. On the three mil> advance there they swept up to | Pratella, nin> miles southwest of | Venafro. | The British and Canadian war- riors of the Eighth Army have bat- Itered their way forward to establish la new bridgehead over the Trigno River on the Adriatic flank. This Inew crossing is at distance inland from the original bridgehead near San Salvo and close to the river's mouth, wn CR ER IS ' BOMFPE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 3.~A German held Italian cruiser of the Regolo class, the Ottaviano Augusto, was put out |of commision when American | Mitchell bombers hit her in Ancona harbor Monday during reconnais- sance flights. Photographs show the crulser suf- fered direct hits and the 44 foot \warship now lies on her starboard Iside in the harbor with a large patch of oil coverinz the waler nearby. DRI = PAA EMPLOYE WHITEHORSE Joseph H. Goding, PAA iraffic representative, Winfield C. Scott, PAA accountant, and Edmund H. Herold, Seattle PAA traffic repre- | sentative, have left for Whitehorse. undisclosed | Earth Tremor ~Is Strongest In Over Year Believed k;?é on Alaska | Gulf or East of Ko- diak Island (By Associated Press) The Rev. Daniel Lineham, seismologist at Weston College, reports at Boston what he term- ed the “strongest earth tremor to be recorded on our seismo- graph in a year.” Lineham placed the site of the tremor 3,450 miles from Boston, in the Gulf of Alaska or east of Kodiak Island. The beginning of the tremor was recorded at 10:41 o'clock this afternocon (EWT). At Pasadena, California, the Institute of Technology record- ed two “very strong” quakes 2,200 miles northwest in the general direction of Alaska The shocks occurred at 7:50 and 7:44 o'clock (PWT) this morning. The seismograph at Mount St. Michaels Scholasticate recorded: an. “extremely. violent. quake continuing 45 minutes” and the location northwest or west. | At Seattle, the University of Washington's seismograph re- | corded an extremely strony | 4quake beginning at 7:32 o'cloex this morning. The center is es- timated at 1,400 miles northi- west. The first shocks were so severe that the needle was knocked off the drum and an- other one had to.be substituted. The shocks continued untit 9:56 o'clock this morning. & | JapsPlanfo - Mobilize All - 0f East Asia Mililarists.tme o Fullest Extent Manpower in Conquered Countries BY RUSSELL BRINES (Copyright 1943 by the Associated Press) PORT ELIZABETH, Union of South Africa, Nov. 3.—Japanese militarists, making every effort to mobilize totally all of East Asia, {in anticipation of Allied attacks, |warn the people it is a ecrucial | time, | There is ample evidence Japanese | militarists are attempting feverish- lly to utilize to the fullest all re- sources in' the manpower reservoir of their newly conquered territories. | Meanwhile, they are reported to |be constructing a series of defense \lines “for a vaunted to the “last iumn" battle for the Japanese Em- | pire. | Through censorship and intern {ment walls these tnings are dis- | cernable : | 1. The Japanese are anticipating |a big Allied land smash against | Burma, 2. The Japanese militarists are still holding sizeable and presum- ably crack forces in Marchuria to {protect the rear agairst Pussia and | probably are maintaining other key {units in the Netherlands Fast In- dies and Malaya. P | 3. They are exploiting to the limit their coilities and raw ma- terials are Leing diverted to war production with considerable forced {labor used. 4. A controlled press is preparing {the people in Asia for a long de- fensive battle ahead and the moc- ‘vuh' of Japan appears unshaken. e BUY WAR BON DS