The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9491. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1943 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MhMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENT3 JAP CRUISER, FOUR DESTROYERS SUNK German Line Collapses; Allies Move On AMERI(ANS | IN ATTACK ON VENAFRO Hub Center Is Expected to Fall-Nazis Flooding Lowlands . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN' ALGIERS, Nov. 7.—Moving in hard swift punches deeper into Central Ttaly over the collapsed Massico- Trigno River defense line, the Al- lied Fifth and Eighth armies have | advanced in all sectors. { The fall of Venafro, one of two inland highway centers, which held the defense line together, is be- lieved imminent. | American troops are this after-' noon fighting on the outskirts of Venafro. The Fifth Army, followed by the Eighth Army's capture of Isneria,' the other highway hub in the de- molished line, ha: nashed through OUTDOOR GIRL_screen Aciress K. T. Sievens makes use of a_spare moment from her iilm duties in Hollywood to get a good dose of sun, enjoying nature from under an umbrella, the German positions to reach the [] Only One All-American vicinity of the Garigliano River,' 80 miles south of Rome. { The low banks along the Tyrr-' aml |n on ,ess been flooded by henian Sea have the Gemans to delay the pursuit Montgomery's Eighth Army has routed enemy resistance in the San Salvo area after several days of NEW ASIA STRATEGY {Chungking Conference | Ends in Complete Agreement WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — Presi- jdent Roosevelt has announced that the United States, Britain and China have reached complete | agreement on new military opera- a | ese. | The President disclosed at a press conference. the agreement ;le:\ched at a conference in Chung- king among Generals Stillwell, | Chenault, and Somervell for ‘Unned States, Lord Louis Mount- {batten, New British Commander ‘in | the Southeas Asia area, eralissimo Chiang Kai Shek and his Chinese military advisers. ———————— MILLIONS - HOMELESS, | NAlIlAND' fierce fighting and captured that town and rail center. | iy Raider planes have shelled the BY JACK STINNETT | Germans out of their holes in the ome s ow WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — Not Montemitro area some 12 miles in- many people know it, but that| land from the Adriatic. By the fall of Isneria, the Ger-! mans have been cut off from the westward road connections with their right wing. WAR FUND DRIVE OFF TOMORROW The Juneau drive for the quota of 12,000 for the National War Fund | ends tomorrow. Contributions may | be made at the City Clerk's office | and at the Baranof Hotel, where there will be a representative all day | stationed in the lobby, by courtesyl of Manager Jack Fletcher. Everybody should give something to this campaign in which 17 or- | ganizations are covered in one drive. Following the last checkup from man LaVern Ralph Dilweg, Demo-| crat of Green Bay, Wis, is nonol other than Eleanor Coleman, the| onetime Olympic swimming star. So far as the records reveal that makes the Dilwegs the only all-‘ American family in Congress, be- | cause the Representative hlmself( was all-American end on the Mar-| quette team in 1925; was a star of all-victorious Green Bay Packer in 1929. '30, '31; and for three years| before giving up football in 1934‘ was named all-American pro end‘ Right now the Dilwegs are do- i ing free-stroke and broken field dashes trying to find a house in Washington that will take care of MURRAY (HOSEN their family of six. Eleanor says| iwmmng swim championships was AGA'" BY ('o 3nolhing like this. She has finally | reached the point, she confesses, I where she would be willing to_ lease AS pRES DENI two houses, apartments or what-| | have you; one to take care of the pH[LADELpH]AV Pa., Nov 5 senior Dilwegs, the other to pro- Delegates to the sixth annual con- |vide a roof and four posters for | vention of the CIO today un-|Jon, Bob, Tom and Dianne, ages | animously elected Philip Murrav'M to 4 respectively. las President fm his fourth term. [ Being Mined BARI, Nov. 5-—Italian refugees arriving here from Rome said the !city is heavily mined and quoted the Germans as saying they will do to Rome what they did to Naples, “Eternal City or no Eternal City.” The refugees said Nazi engineers hrne mined all large buildings in ;Rome and tons of explosives are under every ministry, large hotels, bridges and main a(‘quoducw the various captains of the soliciting ; committees and other agencies the | T don’t k"‘}‘w ‘Why_ a Ne’v York | amounts from various organizations |press agent didn't think of it soon- including the labar ranks as groups WlB WRES".I“G ler (except it didn’t need any pub- will be announced, also. contribu- city boost there and doesn't here| tions, in a lump sum, made by that matter), but when Lhe individuals, but no individual names WASHINGTON NOV 5. — The|Lynn Riggs - Rodgers - Hanu-ners'.em‘ will be given. War Labor Board today continued operetta “Oklahoma,” opened here | Remember the quota is $12,000 for | to Wrestle without a decision over at the National theater, Gov. Ro- 17 organizstions the coal miners’ wage agreement pert Kerr and a fistful of other . 5 g worked out between John L. Lewis oklanoma state officials were house |and Fuel Administrator Harold L 'ICkes e Spo"',y production waa. re u\j\;;en last seen, burly, suspen- URGES FooD |sumed in anticipation of the WLB derish “Bob” Kerr and his co-| z\mn‘oval {horts were getting a whale of al 1 :knck out of the whole business. i ‘Oklahoma” is, as far as any mu- i 'HAI FOR You |sical can be, about as native as the |red dust that blows out of the Can- ladian river bottoms. However, when | they came to that line in the musi- cal’s smash song hit, “Oh, what a WASHXN(-TON Nov, 5.—Presi- ent Roosevelt was asked to dis-| cuss the election results at today’s) conference with the newsmen butPeautiful day” where the lyrical his only comment was he is very |2uthor talks about the corn being much interested in returns from |as “high as an elephant’s eye,” one President Herbert Hoover declared ria)y gouthwest Pacific and Chinese \01 the party stage-whispered to the today that confidently “at the pres-'y. . theatres. | Governor: “Lordy, what a growin’ ent moment we are certainly in the , |season that must have been.” last stages of the European war —_— and probably the last winter of -I-OM HARMO" lOS‘I‘ | Congressman James P. “Jim” !Richards of South Carolina and a fighting in Europe.” Hoover made his statement ir Inative of Liberty Hill, 8. C., has testifying before the Senate For- only one complaint to make about eign Relations Subcommitte con- what the war is doing to our liber- ties: It’s depriving us of hominy sidering food to Europe now. grits. Hoover urged immediate action! saying the need of hupgry child- | peen informed by the War Depart- | Representative Richards is Just ren as well as adults is reachingiment. Harmon was lost in the [as willing as the next fellow to |make war sacrifices, but when OPA the peak and that dispatch of Am-|Caribbean Sea area several months o |starts taking away hominy grits, IN EUROPE WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—Former ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 5.— Tom Harmon, famed Michigan foot- ball star, is reported missing in action in China, his family has millions will have valuable militory ARG pretty wife of freshman Congress-| Thousands Are Reported Killed as Result of Recent Bombings STOCKHOLM, Nov. |patches give these figur bombings in Germany: There are now 8,000,000 bomb victims homeless in Germany: 152,- 000 persons killed at Hamburg in bombings; 42,000 in attacks on Kassel; 3,000 killed and 12,000 made ' homeless following the RAF at- tack Wednesday night on Dussel- dorf. of Allied not explained in the dispatches to the Swedish papers. g L MORE ALLIED CONFERENCES WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — Presi- dent Rosevelt told reporters at his press conference that the Moscow postwar peace agreement would un- doubtedly lead to other United Na- tions meetings aboard, but said that the question of his own pros- pective conference with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Church- |11l was still undecided. still very anxious to meet Stalin, because it is always a good thing to know the other fellow. The other meetings Rosevelt re- ferred to would be the two com- missions set up at the Moscow con- ference, one at Moscow, earlier that and the second to be set up in London. He said Secretary of State Cordell Hull would be home soon. R GUNDERSONS IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. Gunderson daughter of Wrangell are spending a few days in Juneau and are reg- istered at the Gastineau Hotel. Gunderson is here for Scottish Rite work. — e ® 0o 000 00 0 ¢ WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Thursday, Nov. 4 Maximum 50, Minimum 40 Rain .09 (Cont;n:xed on Page Three) erican food to Europe’s starving!ago but got out safely. as well as humanitarian advantages, BUY WAR BONDS L IS MAPPED tions in the Chinese theater which will mean bad news to the Japan-| Just | and Gen-| Swiss dis- | How the figures were obtained ls‘ (OMING, FDR The President added that he was| of the Mediterranean Commission, | and | | b (GERMANY IS GIVEN ~ STRAFING |Americans and RAF Pilots | Blast Targets in Round | the Clock Atfack LONDON, Nov. 5—American For- tresses and Liberators, escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings, today (blasted targets in Western Ger- many, and medium Marauder bomb- |ers attacked targets in Northern | France. The daylight assault came within a few hours after RAF Mosquito bombers hit the same general area |last night, in the wake of the most | devastating 24 hour punishment )EL thrown at the Reich. Five aircraft were lost. 0pera~ | tions included laying mines in en- emy waters. There was no official indication as to the size of today’s force, but on the basis of Wednesday's 2,000, ton daylight attack on W)lhvlm- shaven, by about bombers, and escorting fighters, it seems - likely the new operation ‘coupled with the RAF's 2,000 ton attack on Dusseldorf Wednesday, boosts the total tonnage loossed on Ithe enemy in the past 48 hours to a new peak. Last night's returning Mosquito fliers said fires still burned in Dus- seldorf from. the attack when ex- $plosives dropped at the rate of 74 itons a minute. 'DE MARIGNY ON STAND TO BEAT ' MURDER CHARGE | NASSAU, Nov. 5.— Fighting for |life in deadly earnest, the dashing Alfred deMarigny made his appear- ance on the witness stand and swore he was home about the {time his father-in-law, Sir Harry |Oakes was being bludgeoned - and burned. His estate is five miles way from the place where Sir Harry died on July 7. On the 16th day of his trial for murder before Bahama's Supreme Court, the tall husband of Sir Harry's daughter Nancy made his in ly of his movements the night of the slaying. Willis Is Governor, ~ Kentucky (First Time Since 1927 Re- publicans Have Suc- ceeded at Polls 1,000 American ' today | big bid to escape the gallows and’ a firm and at times fervent| voice told for the first time public- | LoBISVILLE, Ky, Nov. 5—Sim- {eon Willis, 63, attorney and former Judge of the State Court of Ap- peals, .will become Kentucky’s sixth Republican Governor next month. His party has not elected a Gover- nor since 1927, Willis won by over ,000 votes. The Republicans also won Lieutenant Governor and five other state cabinet posts. The Democrats only won an At- torney Gcncmlsmp HEAVY TAX PROGRAM ADVOCATED ‘Sfablllzahon Director Vin-| | son Makes Sharp Re- . quest of Congress | NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Judge Fred M. Vinson, btulnhz.,\lmn declared the “love for ease, political cowardice and per- |sonal ambition” threaten the be- trayal of fighting men overseas \hmm;h failure to enact a tax pro- ‘gr.lm adequate to prevent infla- | tion He declared a minimum of $10,- 500,000,000 in new taxes is neces- sury to prevent a runway inflation and financial disaster. Congress trimmed the request to less than $3,000,000,000 The stabilization director said that income taxes must be raised, the lowering of the pr dependency allowances and the normal and surtax rates will be the most satisfactory method based on a “tried and true principle | of the ability to pay.” Vinson declared the present spend- ing spree for luxuries called for a sharply increased excise on non- essentials. - e FROM ANCHORAGE | Charles T. Neil of Anchorage is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, a! ALASKAN HICHWAY _Army trucks roll along the Alaskan highway near Whitehorse— 1,000 miles above Dawson Creek and more than halfway o the northern ferminus of the route. REDS HOLD LAND EAST ~ OFDNIEPER Invaders Dnven from Banks of Big River, Gomel-Zaporozhe | BULLETIN—London, Nov. 5 ! —The Berlin radio, in a broad- | cast tonight,said Russian forces rammed their way to the east- | ern Crimean port of Kerch but have been beaten back from the city. The radio said the *Rus- sians have two bridgeheads on two sides of the city. | (By Associated Press) | The Russians hold virtually every |foot of land east of the Dnieper | ;me from its mouth below Kherson | |along its 650-mile course through | | the heart of the Ukraine north to l(:om:.l as the prize of their summer (lnmpmgn ‘This has bled the Ger- { mans by 2,700,000 casualties, accord— mg to Premier Josef Stalin’s rrsume ol four violent months of combat. { The report listed 900,000 GennansI |klllcd 98,000 captured, and 1,702~ }000 wounded, thus hoisting the Ger- | ‘man casualties claimed by Russia to the astronomical figure of 11,000,000, |or which the Russians say 5,000,000 | |are dead. Swift sweeps over the Black Sea Isands of the Southern Ukraine| |brought the Cossacks to the river | Ibank opposite IKherson. 65 miles | Inortheast of the sealed-off Crimea Official maps published today |showed the Russians in possession Director of Economic |of all the east side of the Dmepel' from Gomel to Zaporozhe. In the bend south of Zaporozhe the only | German holdings east of the Dnieper |are limited to the Crimea, a thin strip 52 miles long opposite Nikopol, |and a minute bit of land in the | Dnieper delta due south of Kherson. | Moscow reported nothing from the Crimea, but the German radio said “German troops are engaged in ‘hmvy fighting at Beachheads south |and east of Kursk and on the | northern approaches to the Crimea.” | Moving into newly won positions, the Red Army has achieved two )brenklhrouuhs in the German lines jand are pushing westward toward \the Latvian border and the old Pol- |ish frontier. LT 5 Do S TO GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henning and daughter, Anne Louise, are guests at the Gastineau Hotel until Mrs. Henning and Anne Louise secure passage on a southbound boat. Hen- {ning will remain in the hotel until his family returns from a four jmonms‘ stay in Arizona, SEABATTLE - TAKESPLACE - INDARKNESS Americans, Nlppons En- gaged in Fight Over Allied Beachhead (By Associated Press) One Japanese cruiser and four destroyers were sunk in a naval anese warships near the Allies Bou- gainville beachhead it is officially {announced today by the Allied | Headquarters in the Southwest Pa- | eific, Previously the Tokyo radio con- ceded the loss of a cruiser and two | destroyers in the Tuesday morning | battle. The battle lasted more than two |hours and occurred when enemy |units were intercepted heading for {the Empress Augusta Bay sector |on the west central coast of Bou- gainville where the American Mar- |ines landed the day before. Two other Jap cruisers were hit {in the battle but no Allied vessels were lost, l After the battle, the Japs sent 67 planes to attack the American fleet and 17 were quickly downed adding to the Japanese losses of the |same day in the attack on Rabaul when three detroyers were sunk, two cruisers damaged and a score of shipping sent down in the har- hor. - The naval battle off Bougainville tuok place in the darkness with rain squalls reported and generally heavy weather. | Today’s communique reports am- other strike on Rabaul when a mall force of Mitchells in a night | atrol dropped bombs and started fires at the Tobera airdréme, one of the five fields in the Rabaul sector, | The Mitchells also bombed and sm\k an 8,000 ton merchantman whlch is added to the approximate- |1y 100,000 tons of sipping sunk or |damaged in the Rabaul Tuesday | raid. | Late this afternoon it is said thnt |greater enemy losses in the naval | battle off Bougainville may be re- 'venled as the first reports are be- |lieved only prellmmury reports. fAIaska Road - Repair Fund - Brought Up | WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — The | House Appropriations Committee | has recommended that the House |include in the first supplement to | the Appropriation Bill for 1944 over $800,000 for' improverhents to. roads | and the care of the insane in Alaska, The committee recommended $1,- "loo for caring for the insane, and 1$300,000 for repair and maintenance of roads, and $500,000 for continua- tion of comstruction of the Richard- son Highway. | Brig. Gen. George Richards of ‘me War partment, told the com- | mittee supported the Interior | Department in urging the appro- | priation of funds for the repair of about 800 miles of roads in Alaska. |He said 162 miles on the Steese Highway between Circle and Fair- banks, 192 miles between Anchorage and Palmer and across the Glenn Highway where it connects with the Richardson Highway at Copper Cen- ter, with access by roads to mili- tary posts, should be repaired. He also said the Richardson High- way from Valdez to Fairbanks should be kept in repair. - CARTERS TO WRANGELL Dr .and Mrs. C. C. Carter took passage to Wrangell last night on the southbound boat. They plan to do some hunting in the Stikine River country, ibattle between American and Jap-