The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9493. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EN CENJ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE T ——i] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1943 FIFTH, EIGHTH ARMIES ADVANCE IN ITALY Jap Shipping in Solomons Given Blasting NEW BLOWS ARE STRUCK AT NIPPONS Naval Craf',_C;rgo Vessels Are Bombed — Calm, However, Prevails ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 8.-—-A probable torpedo hit on a heavy Japanese cruiser at Rabaul and night bombing attacks on a light cruiser, a destroyer and a tender in New Ireland waters with unknown results, was announced as Jap shipping is moving in the area for a showdown battle. The actions followed by a day the initial heavy Allied aerial blows which sank a heavy and a light enemy cruiser and damaged seven others, two destroyers, and two large cargo ships in the Bismarck Sea in the Rabaul area. More Destruction Australian flown Beauforts scored the probable strike at the same time they destroyed a cargo vessel in the Friday operations against Simpson Harbor at Rabaul. Mitchell bombers of Admiral W. Halsey’s 13th Air Force swept the southern coast of Bougainville, sink- ing and damaging three coastal ves- sels and numerous barges. A spokesman said the ground op- erations on Bougainville and Chol- seul islands are apparently proceed- ing according to plan, and that land, sea and air operations were | the lightest since the spurred drive to take the northern Solmons began on November 1. Comparative Calm A comparative calm which is prob- ably more ominous to the enemy than the Allies, prevailed over the eastern hinge of Japan's South Pa- cific defense barriers, one week after the Americans resumed their north- ward campaign in the Solomons in a storm of bombs and naval salvos. This lull is less likely to.mean the Japs, though previously mauled, has nothing left to fight with and the enemy is tog urgently occupied trying to restore his defensive posi- tions in the Soyth Pacific than in- dulge in further costly ventures agains the Allied spearhead thrusts in central Bougainville Island, 240 miles from the bastion base at Rabaul. Terrific Jap Losses In one week of the storm created by the 200-mile amphibious advance of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s right wing, the Japs have lost or battered out of immediate action 15 cruisers, 12 destroyers, 31 seagoing cargo ships, tankers or transport vessels, and 143 planes. . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—Stocks top- pled today under heavy selling pressure in one of the broadest markets of the year. This was be- cause of speculation on early peace in Europe. The opening of moder- ately irregular then revived offer- ings attained such momemtum the high speed ticker tape fell two minutes behind the floor transac- tions. Losses of leaders ranged from one to four points and a few vol- atile issues went down as much as eight points the most substantial relapse sirice July. Transfers were around two million shares the larg- est since May 10. Alaska Juneau closed at 5%z, Am- erican Can 81%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 55, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 65, Kennecott 30, New York Central 15, Northern Pacific 11%, United States Steel 50%. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: industrial 131.67, rails 31.80, utilities 20.15. PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock last Saturday was 6, American Can 82%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Stdel 57, Cyrtiss Wright 7, International Harvester 66'%, Kennecott 30%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 13%, United States Steel 52%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: industrials 135.24, rails 33.55, utilities 12,12, SHINEsE'MVARCH'FORWARDVYON BURMA'’S ‘TOKYO ROAD’ Men and Motives in NAZIFORCES | Burma Drive of Allie - DIVIDED BY - SOVIETPUSH | Red Army g;l;eps Toward | Rumanian Border- Kerch Improved | The LONDON, Nov. 8 Army is rolling swiftly toward the Rumanian border after taking the| | rail junction of Fastov, miles| | e | southwest of captured Kiev, thus| | MOUNTBATTEN {snapping the principal rail link| Allied Commander, Southeast Asia i STILWELL Chief of Staff, Allies in China Generalissime, Chinese Forces /. {between the German forces in the Ukraine and the Naz | northern !still battling at Krivoi Rog, a Reu- i e ters dispatch from Moscow reports. | b ¥ i Russian forces have already driv- | i, Y 7 %’% . en ten miles beyond Fastov and| |3 fmfl.. »%‘m ' b e i e Ly are engaged in heavy fighting with | N Nazi armored reserves rushed into the breach. The mighty push, mov- ing along at a speed of 24 miles a| threatened to crack German re- | |sistance at the Dnieper bend and Iraised the possibility «of trapping| | huge numbers of beleaguered Nazis ; Seizing trainloads of undamaged |German equipment at Fastov whose | | |capgure was hailed in Moscow with a hundred 24-gun salvos, the Rus- giapn tank and infantry. units also reported they swept up 70 towns jand hamlets as they swept toward | Rumania, one of the Nazi satellites, Stalin said Saturday, who are “anx-| ious to find a way” out of the war.| In the Crimea far to the south- THESE AMERICAN-TRAINED CHINESE soldiers are marching forward on a Yankee-built Burmese high- way. which the Americans have nicknamed “Toyko Road * These Oriental graduates of Lieut. Joseph T Stilwell's Chinese-American training center in India have already skirmished with the enemy. and given a good account of themselves. .Note the P-40 giving them air protection. » (International) FLAMES RAGE OVER SECTION ales of Prisonsin 46 States Raise Fund of the expected Allied campaign against Here are the main details counterattacks on their bridgeheads | near Kerch, and positions in that| area are generally improved. | Broadcasts from Germany said| the Russians are bringing up in-| fantry reinforcements to the Perc- | |kop Isthmus at the northwestern| igateway to the Crimea peninsula. B TURNING POINT INWAR HISTORY to China. | ; i aleast, frontline dispatches from the| jJapanese-held Burma: the men who will lead the drives by Anglo- o uy ree om erS' Red Army report the killing of| American forces in India and the Chinese pushing west; and (he 1,000 Germans and are repulsing| pupose—opening the Burma Road to speed the flow of war supplies REACHING FOR A STAR Fire Hits Over 100,000 Acres - Is Believed | Under Control SANTA MONICA, Nov. 8.—Aided by more favorable weather condi- tions, fire fighters today believed they are gaining the upper hand over flames which swept an esti- mated 100,000 acres in the Santa By JACK STINN WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. — Easily the most amazing war bond drive ever conducted in this country was the “Buy a Bomber” campaign sponsored by the Treasury Depart- ment and the Prison Industries Branch of WPB. The final figures have just come across the desk of Maury Maverick, | director of WPB's Prison Indus- | tries. Approximately 120,000° inmates | [one German Raider Makes Disastrous Air i 22,986. | $22,986. | Malibu Beach, but turned back be- salute to the Russian offensive. |dance hall, many being couples Increase Not in Propor- be required to work an hour longer | However, steel toilers were reported to be ready to seek a l5-cent an meeting of the Senate House con-|summer, Stalin declared the Soviet ferences on legislation to delay fur-|armies during the past four months ther drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor |“liberated two-thirds of the territory | Norfolk, Mass. 2. “Striped Lady,” selected the prisoners at Concord, N. H. It's pretty to see why Jeanne Crain (above) has been tabbed as one of Hollywood’s ]3. »"F‘ightmg Felon,” picked by stars-of-the-future. She’s 18, |fathers today ended in a deadlock. |captured by the enemy in the prev- |hour boost, in pay | the inmates of the famous state auburn-haired, a native of Bar- i The conference broke ~up” after ious two years” and further said this| Roosevelt backed consistently , Fl :penitentiary at San Quentin, on; failure to reach an agreement on|year has brought the turning point |members and instr ucted them to re~ Ge r m a n (Ial | easy by RomeBombed stok, Calif., was a contestant in { | in the same ratio as living costs. Chairman Davis, of the War Labor men who know their prisons and| screen debut. ' prisoners and the three names are Shlutada: deciocrat yeported. { broadcasts made over thé Berlin ar Liquor Cosfs The No. 1 bomber was named for WASHINGT(A);il\' 8.~Ct , Nov. 8. hang- Dies in Spokane Recorded teersd to undergo a dangerous William R. Abercrombie, 86, dis-! |plasma test conducted by U. §. coverer of several routes now used It is recalled heré that Allied iea lets dropped on Rome warred tl NEW YORK, Nov. 8—The Brit-|t0 boost the liquor tax to ten doi-| Mr. and Mrs. Emmett B. Connor | Navy physicians. It cost St. Ger- in Alaska by railroads or highways, ish Broadcasting Company s an|lars a gallon against the present | sailed Saturday, first for Vancouver main his life, but as a result, the 2150 the glacier that bears his name, earthquake shock of great intensity,| tax of six. |and then to Seattle and the States, lives of thousands of soldiers and i dead here. In his early days Col. believed to be in the. neighborhood| BY the jump the committee ex-|where they will be on their wedding Abercrombie was also an Indian of Japan, has been recorded in’pects to gain $487,000,000 in annual trip. Until her marriage recently fighter, lBombay. India, revenue, Mrs. Connor was Miss Doris Swap. Rome and blaming the Allies, (Coptinued on Page Two) CHIANG KAI-SHEK Attackon London Area High Command, repeating earlier |Pl20€S a previous A it & elles ot ke 1 |well as damagir the Governor's Norfolk who, with 40 others, volun- SPOKANE, Wash,, Nov. 8.— Col. ing its opinion again the House HONEYMOON IN |Palace,” the German communig Ways and Means committee voted | said ‘world in July of the possibility of the Axis Powers dropping bombs |Intentionally on Vatican City and | SMASHHITS s AREMADEON | NAZI FORCES Germans Are Preparing to Evacuate Gaefa-Many (ities Captured | | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 8.—Repeated ex- plosions in Gaeta today indicated the Germans are preparing to aban don that port, 70 miles south of Rome another one-mile Allied gain 1§ announced, made by the | American Fifth Army in a push that | threatens to short circuit the coastal mountains where the enemy has an- hored a new defense line. | Sweeps on Five Miles hth Army has also the | The British Ei swept five miles ahead along Adriatic coast against fierce r ance and taken possession of the entire length of the Sinello River, also advanced on the Sangro River, next to the natural barrier in th area, capturing Scerni, Casalbor- dino, Carunchio, Gissi and Salcito. New Defense Line Montgomery's veterans took over la stretch of the lateral road inland from Vasto and at some places are | within seven miles of Sangro, where | the Germans are apparently prepar- ing for a new stand | Clark’s Americans have driven lahead over the roughest country in the whole Allied line to achieve the ne-mile gain and have captured Calabritto. Maore Gains Registered Gains of sev miles are also registered beyond Isernia along the Ivond from Foggla to Rome across ¢ bruzzi Mountains This is tige first anniversary of the {Allied landings in French North |Africa and it finds the Allies de- livering stronger blows than ever | | agamnst the Germans along Europe southern “front Enemy Displaying Weakness yday finds the enemy displaying . { more weakness than ever. The Ger- {man desperation over inability to {hold back the unspectacular but relentless tide is weflected in the rush to dismantle the port of Ggeta :’r, prisons in 46 states and the Dis- | { Monica Mountains and held out | S AL i 10 LR " rict of Columbia bought 3983,000‘ B 2 i e 4 where heavy explosions are heard % F 5 | tentative -hope they might get the | | LONDON, Nov. 8.—~In one of the| § z E MOHD ot ar. bonds, /3035 Bex, edh | E 3 | eonflagration under control before | ) : W e Ty i““"“‘ is the best port gn the Tyr- of their quota, and more than i % . inightf;ll { | |I1W»‘~l| l‘ll-\il»‘ll”“;] air AIL{NHK» (();\‘ Zl\u"‘h.-nmn Sea and if captured, which enough to buy three bombers. This 4 o " | e | and ip months, a lone PTINAD f4e i1l be, will be used by the Allies s G Clem Peoples, of the Sheriff’s : . afid o ndon ban| : " e anvi e Z N plane bombed a London suburban|, . . ... o ¢ e ?;’;'l":m:sx:wr“;,“r”:‘“fi “EL “;f i + | criminal Division, leading the bat- S'alm Says Caplure of Kiev il e wreckitd | a| oy ""‘l‘ for getna, aupplies Tain Ho aidoners o ndi- ey bfl] vou%l '" tle in one sector, estimated that S- .‘. ' . | crowded dance hall and causing e battle for, Romy B R R . [close to 150 dwellings, ranging from ignitican -Praises ; oahy Hatalitias S ekl "le;mad;Zmb::'“ d:ve R |cabins to pretentious residences, Mlmary Pad [ \ One witness described the scene | é 2 | were destroyed. ! “like a battlefield” with dead and| sig“‘?fl;‘:g S:z“’rse;f:h";:g Gef;’;;i " He said the damage to improve Sl | _injured lying in the streets littered| others failed to exceed their quotas. | ments might well pass $1,000,000 in | (By Associated Press) | jwith broken glass, timbers and| The Jackson State Prison in Mich-‘i addition to incalculable harm done | Joseph Stalin, indicating the sig- | lbm.k‘\ | igan alone purchased $130471.55 in| torttie:miepahid. /¢ ¢ nificance attached to the capture of | L Two emergency mortuaries were| i 3 b‘onds_ ASA Stanie am{ougn n‘)‘;! The flames at one time approach- Kiev by the Russian forces, ordered | set up. ! 141 5 8 ) @ ed to within one quarter of a mile cannons to boom out 24 salves in i Many dancers were among those quota for the entire state was only to the seoliddys ilns - oeitny - AbiRMOSSRY el ks tedy T oo vire WILB to Siudy Charge thatm_mw e stk ARng: i of IS IN SIGHT on’lrhzsazsrrlzge 1:'ison worker n'lal‘(es fore crossing the highway. Stalin also announced Saturday Allied Servicemen and th girl stazces oAl f: 133““‘1(1 in ;m-)“ in- Although thousands of men, in- night that the capture of Kiev fion to COS' of Living > | friends. Tk priviliged to pm.c;m"e imi !:e is cluding many troops, are engaged meant the “real Second Front is The German raider swooped over B ave come in the battle, no casualties wcre inow behind the hills,” Russ] i 3 3 i i s,” & Russian and dropped explosives just as hun- out of that. j; reported. jidoim meaning “not far off,” WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Most of | qreqs “!Sl,.,) pouring to the ‘;“:.,% One RECOmmefldahOfl by | e Speaking in Moscow in celebration | the nation’s coal miners today began | from (hree theatres adjacent (e ilizati i pl_‘;\s:m:?r\: l::egri;mglsgke:! gle d;ivg':- i i | of the 26th anniversary of the Soviet |reurning to their jobs of producitg the dance hall ; flges gl S'ablhlahon D"edof 4 submi |revolution, Stalin indicated Russian |war vital fuel, under the new wage |- vk i i " i C n, S d { A single bomb crashed through 4 \::mes“‘,‘;,re ‘hfhbombe’ ey wim fo FAIHERS B“.I. S Hataction ad thie: FRiNCATS prograrn |sfrashent; as Profident. BAOKSYSILS | it secund e af. the. deces. fal Vinson s ReJeded Sb B ::B] o in, Kihoge | ior the United States and Britain |special industry-labor-public board jnic“the basement restaurant. ; e e, an .ol selic-tz?d. The IS DEAD[O(KED‘nnd declared the Moscow conference |opened a general inquiry on wartime | one whole block of buildings was WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. . The ee names selected were: [ {laid down plans that must lead to |living costs. damaged V3| specal Presidential Hoard, consids 1. “Spirit of~St. Germain,” sub-| % L _— {victory. The miners pay is raised from 7| L ring wage demands. of 1,100,000 mitted by the State Prison Colony, - WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The first| Reviewing the victories of the [to 8'¢ cents an hour, but they will {non-operating raflway Tk = wage ir lemmended today ranging from ten cents an ho the lower paid brackets, to four Ficents an hour in the top wag groups Director R Economic Stabilization Vinson said the new recommer San Francisco Bay. 5 i . . y " " an i i g o5 g ithe house provision stripping Paul|in the history of this war. port within 60 days on an inquiry 4 2 71 Shiche e eatne ARl e Lo :94 ,‘ma-:uc e .:“h;,“g McNutt of authority over the Se- e followed by complaints from the tion approved increases effective No it off. They were picked by three| beauty pageant, soon makes her o ... oo vice Senator Johnson,| workers that wages had not risen| LONDON, Nov. 8-—The German Vémber 19. The sliding scale re of hour I wage in \d | eight cents an | —— e~ | full of significance. When that| ma f ! sk | | Board, supported the labor leaders Rome radios, asserted “enemy s assifications, which Vinson re- significance is understood, it is Dls‘overer o‘ | |in that contention and told Congress |craft Friday night attacked Vatican | Jjected. doubtful if any bomber crews flying Ithat the present wage controls are City and Rome.” |s How r, union spokesmen today will be prouder of the names Ala k Gla i l ua e s a o u | forcing the workers fo bear a greater The Associated Press has no con- | PFEmptly rejected # their ships sail under. s a (er | Ishare in the anti-inflation struggle firmation of any such attack B. M. Jewell. chairmen of the |than any other segment of society.| “Bomb hits caused destruction of |Rall Employes Wa Conference - eee - the world famous Masiac fact as | Committee, called the recommenda~ entirely unsatisfactory.” le fteen unions affected, repre- ing' ghe railroad workers who t den are now taking a strike vote. increase would be February 1. actually run trains or engines The retroactive as of & he ->->o BUY WAR BONDS