The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLII., NO. 9494. ALLIEY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —— PRICE TEN CENT JUNEAU,-ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1943 UT INTO NAZI LINES 5 MILES Russians Near Polish, Rumanian Frontiers RED THRUST SMASHES ON NAZIS' HEELS Shattered R—e;nants of 12 German Divisions Being Trapped LONDON, Nov. 9—Two Russian! armies commanded by Gen. Vatutin, conqueror of Kiev, are pounding westward toward the Polish and Rumanian frontiers on the heels of the shattered remnants of twelve German divisions, about 180,000 | men, blasted from Kiev in the four day battle which ended Saturday. | One Red Army force is reported as surging forward beyond Makarov, 28 miles west of Kiev to within 50 miles of Zhitomire, key junction on| one of the last two north- south railways available to the Germans! toward the Polish border, 65 miles away. The second Soviet spearhead is striking southwest of Fastov, ac- cording to a Russian communique, which said it is within 140 mies of the Rumanian frontier. This drive. is apparently aimed at envel- oping countless thousands of Ger-, | | | STALINGRAD, s REBUILDING, NOW A CITY OF TENTS ! “FHiIS CITY OF TENTS within a city houses Russian workmen who are rebuilding the badly bauei-Ed‘ch-" det ¢ clty of Sq.ungrnd. um Red A.rmy 's defense of_which is An epic of World War IL, (Intunatmnal), 1Yankee Undrscharged Bullet Gels Prisoners; Heroic Tale (Continued on Page Three) The Washingtion| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — The smashing' Republican victories have had two effects upon the White House. | Effect No. 1 is on those around the White House—a greater deter-| mination that the President is the only man who can save the Demo- ocratic Party, that he must run for| a 4th term. Effect No. 2 has been on the President himself. As usual he is keeping his mouth shut. But close friends report less inclination to run for a 4th term. Even FDR's severest critics have| to admit he is one of the shrewdest | political observers in the country. As previously reported in this col- umn, he had warned White House associates that politically the Ad- ministration was trailing. His exact words were, “We're behind.” . If he thinks he is still bgl hmd' next June, it will take. more Lhan Frank Walker to drag FDR into a| race for a 4th term Meanwhile, tides may shift. Any- way he will not make up his mind until June. NOTE~Middle-of-! t.hc-road Dem- ocratic leaders who believe ‘the Party should begin thinking about a candidate if the President steps aside, more and more have their eyes on General Marshall, the Chief of Staff. Marshall couldn’t get into West Point because his father, the only Democrat in Uniontown, Pa., could not get an appointment from the McKinley Administration. [FOOTBALL TICKETS { Capital football enthusiasts couldn’t beg, borrow or steal extra tickets to the Army-Notre Dame griditon game a week before the contest. Even Postmaster General Frank Walker, a Notre Dame alum-; nus, 'and Idaho’s Senator D. Worth Clark, another graduate, couldn't get extra tickets. However, four of the precious pasteboards were sent by mistake to a Senator who has been dead for 48 years. They were addressed to “Senator Al Thurman, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.,” Sen- ator Thurman hailed from Ohio and was the Vice-presidential running mate of Grover Cleveland in 1888 in the latter's unsuccessful bid for the Presidency. ‘The football tickets weren't re- turned to West Point. They were accepted and used by the late Sen- ator’s grandson of the same name, Al Thurman, able director of in-l (Continued op Page Four) ' winds, SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED; SNOW FALL IS HEAVY Traffic Generally Impeded | in Wide Area in Mid- dle West States CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—Heavy snow, whipped into drifts by powerful has closed schools, blocked traffic and otherwise impeded ac- !tivity in a wide area in the Middle West. Snow " has fallen in Minnesota, | Towa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Mis: souri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinoi Indiana, M\chigrm and Pennsylvania. 21 German By JACK STINNETT ASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Over in | the War Department they are mak- mr, a collection of the little .smucs‘ lof heroism in this war that the| cables are too crowded to carry They are the 1,001 tales of the fab- ulous knights in khaki. Many of them will never see the light of; print. Some of them will be told| | over Army | for years. Here is one, picked almost at ran- dom (it would be impossible to cull| | the files for the most outstanding f deeds.) It happened on the long push that | has bridged the Mediterranean and | |carried the United Nations armies! {well up the Italian boot. | Pfc. Harvey T. Muckey of Maple- ‘tou. Iowa, lay dug in on a hillside. {Around him were fourteen members lof his platoon. The others were killed or captured. Their ammun- ition was almost gone. Suddenly Muckey’s platoon leader, Second Lieut. John Hager of |Houston, Texas, heard German voices in a ravine farther down the| wooded slope. He asked for volun-| and Navy mess tables, 1 |day by Secretary of Navy Frank “was anchored in the harbor of the ALLIES HIT 1 HEAVY BLOW Sixty-three Planes of En- | emy Destroyed in Ac- | tfion in Solomons ALLIED HFADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 9.—Allied airmen in the south and southwest theatres of war during the | last 48 hours have accounted for the | destruction of 63 more Jap airplanes. | Air actions ranged from a major | strike at Rabaul to interception of | feeble Jap attempts to blast Allied bases. The air action covered the area from Madang, New Guinea, to New Georgia Island in the Central Solomons. | The heaviest blow was struck at | Rabaul where 23 Jap fighters were | downed. | Off the northern coast of Bou- ) | RADIO BASE OF GERMANS DESTROYED Weather Station on Island | 0ff Coast of Greenland * | | gainville, Mitchells of Halsey's Com- mand, sank an enemy corvette and five small cargo boats. - e — FRIENDSHIP | ' OF RUSSIANS Is Drscovered Now NEEDED o et e 24 Nelson Declares SovielUn- coast of Greenland is reported to- |on W|I| Repay Obh_ gations fo U. S. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Soviet Rus- | sia intends to repay her obligations in full and not just token payments, Donald M. Nelson declared in an| address before the delegates su\d others at the convention of the| American-Soviet Friendship in| Madison Square Garden. Nelson, who has just Knox. The station was small but was a {well constructed base, Knox said. |1t is indicated the plan of the Ger- {mans was to maintain the station peummentlv It included a radio station, power house, emergency gen- |erator, radio transmitter, defensive {machine gun emplacements, food supplies and a small supply ship returned little island. Telephone communi- from a special trip abroad, quoted | cations were established with all Stalin to that effect and he further | principal shore points, Knox fur- said he is “convinced there will be ther stated. The German base is the second destroyed by American forces in the Greenland area. The base was discovered by an United States Army sledge patrol’ and the Germans attacked but the found no two people anywhere better qualified to win each others’ fri iend- | ship and respect than the Russians | and Americans.” Secretary of Interior Harold L AT JAP BASE Ickes, also present at the conven- | * I.LOYD GEORGE WEDS HIS SECRETARY | | | & | DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, 80, British Prime Minister in the World War, is shown with his private secretary, Miss Frances Louise Stevenson, 55, whom he married at his country home at Churt, Surrey. This photo was made last January, when the British statesman visited his farm. The oclogenanans first wife died in 1941. "~ |CHURCHILL SEES RUIN FOR NALIS Warns Aga;st Overcon-| fidence—Calls Hull ‘Gal- lant American Eagle’ LONDON, Nov. 9.—British Prime 4 (International) Sifuation in Solomonsls Badfor Japs {Position of Nippons Most (ritical Declares U. S. Navy Secrefary WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Secre-| |tary of Navy Frank Knox this af-|Minister Winston Churchill today | ternoon declared the present situa- | declared that “impending ruin” is ruon in the south ‘and southwest|facing Germany but he warned Paul‘ic warrants a statement the against the belief the defeat of the ‘Japanese are now in a more crit- | Nazis will be before 1944 and as- ical position than ever before in serted the campaign next year might ARE dran ™ !surpass the tragedies of Waterloo Knox further stated it is and Gettysburg. He also said that A bngen-ie husekion of “unless some happy event occurs on which we have no right to count, | that the Japs| POSITIONS OF ENEMY ARE SEIZED "Winter Defense Line”" of Germans in Italy Pierced ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 9.-Cutting a new swath five miles deep through the anemy positions, the British Eighth Army has seized positions overlook- ing the Sangro River heights beyond which the Germans are reported establishing the eastern anchor of the Italian “winter defense line,” headquarters announces today. To the west the Nazis have massed heavy formations of troops and guns in the Mignano area in an attempt to halt the American drive toward Cassino on the main road to Rome. The Germans massed a powerful striking force for a counter-attack in the area five miles south of Mignano and west of Gallucio yesterday but the Al- lied guns laid down a curtain of artillery and mortar fire before the assault could be launched, dispers- ing the enemy. German prisoners reported unani- mously the Nazi Command planned _|to dig in for the winter on a line anchored in the west along the Garigliano River and Aurunci ! mountains, through the mountains near Mignano where the American troops have already won footholds, and then across the Appennines to the Sangro River where the Fifth and Eighth Armies are already ramming against this line in most sectors. JAPS CLAIM BIG VICTORY SEA BATTLE Many Allred od Vessels Re- ported Sent Down in Solomons teers to investigate. Muckey and a, bucdy of his, Staff Sgt. Harold Pier- | (10 WORKERS | patrol managed to report the dis- covety although two of the members tion, asserted Americans must real- |holding their positions at the low- ize Russia will be as powerful inlest possible cost but it is a ques- peace as in war and it is of the tion of actual survival.” 1944 will see the greatest sacrifice by the British and United States TO ASK FOR WAGE RAISES Philip Murrafly—Says Unions Will Try fo Break 'Lit- le Steel’ Formula’ PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9. — The Executive Board of the United Steel Workers of America has re- solved to reopen 13,000 collective bargaining contracts and to ask for wage increases in excess of the “Little Steel” formula for the na-| tion's 900,000 steel workers. Philip Murray, President of both the United Steel Workers of Am- erica and the Congress of Industrial Organization said “one may assume similar wage requests of all other CIO unions will follow the Exec- utive Board's resolution which marks the opening drive of a break in the ‘Little Steel’ formula.” The board said the latter imposed an “unfair burden” during the per- iod of increasing living costs. Murray said reports that the Union would ask 15 cents an hour Thcrease are “in the realm of spec- ulation.” "The extent of wage de- mand, he said, would be decided by the Union executives, whose meet- ing is tentatively set for November 30 in Pittsburgh. e son of Sidney, Iowa, were the Ihst to respond. Taking separate paths, they ap- proached the ravine. Muckey al- most fell into the lap of forty Ger-| mans preparing a machine gun nest.| ! Then out of nowhere came Sgt Pierson, yelling like an Indian and' spraying lead from a sufo-machine | gun. He killed seven of the Nflflax and the rest took to their heels.| Muckey didn’t hesitate. He set orf into the woods in the direction the Germans had taken. He round first one Nazi then another. a short while he marched back w Lieut. Hager with 21 prisoners. Lieut. Hager was all grins. “Nice going,” he said. “By the way, how ! much ammunition did you have?” [ Muckey jerked open the bolt of ! ihis rifle and one cartridge poppedl |out. “Just that one, sir,” he said.| That's all I had when I staned; out.” If you are one of those who think there isn’'t a new broom In the Gov- | ernment that can sweep clean and! really do a job of reorganizing, hold | your opinion until you have heard the story of Leo T. Crowley. The chief of the new Office of | Foreign Eqonomic Administration is making hash out of the ten agen-! cles that have been consolidated | into his new department. Heads! are rolling right and left. H In the first place, Crowley is re- organizing on a commodity basis. There will be divisions for rubber, oil, metals, drugs, food, engineering, finances, etc. In other words, Lend- |Lease (that part of it which deals with rehabilitation problems) For- | BUY WAR BONDS (Continued on Prage Three) {Perekop Isthmus leading into the “utmost importance that our two nations understand each other.” of the patrol were captured and a third, Eli Knudsen, was killed Army Air Force planes and the > - Coast Guard cutters Northland and . North Star joined in wiping out the Hol"ewlves enemy base. The cutters were under command of Capt. von Paulson of Cambridge, ass. Must Order {For Holiday Housewives are varned to make their purchases tomorrow to cover their needs for Thurs- day as the stores will be closed that day, which is Armistice Day. e Although tomorrow is meatless Wednesday and meat markets are closed, they will open to- merrow, according to announce- ment made today. Incidentally, meat markets will be open on Wednesday, November 24, which is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day. NEW W MOVE BY SOVIETS | ON CRIMEA LONDON, Nov. 9.—The German | controlled Paris radio declared late this afternoon the Russian Army, has launched a violent assault on e {Crimea and a strong force of the AR ‘rfifs{»‘écflir“s W son trapped on the Peninsula. The Elks are to meet in a spec- M“o"‘l WAR Fu"D : al session tonight at 8 o'clock, the! COMMITTEE T0 GET |5y i ' B s TOGETHER WEDNESDAY & %o come up call being issued by Exalted Ruler‘ | armies.” | The valiant and brilliant Russian | offensives have wrecked the German war machine and inflicted wounds 1 rnm may well prove fatal,” declared e Prime Minister, and he asserted ‘thdl the back of the Nazi submarine rwfll‘fll? is broken, and devastating ! .m war upon the Reich “has been | om‘ of the prime factors in the| um)ending ruin of the Hitler re- |gime.” ! - SIXKILLED | AS BUS IS { In the address, broadcast, Chur- |chill said that Hitler still bas 400 BLACKSTONE, Virginia, Nov. 9. divisions thgt promise a desperate Six persons, including a baby, |struggle and “we cannot exclude the | were killed when the side of a bus ! possibility of new forms of attack |was ripped open by a protruding upon this island.” | blade of a bulldozer on a truck. The In other high points Churchill truck sideswiped the bus, | noted that next year is election year | e lin the United States and com- | | mented: | | “I'm sure I speak for all those on | | both sides of the Atlantic who mean | the same thing, and they are num-| bered in the scores of millions, when | I say that our supreme duty, all oll -us, British and Americans alike, is | | to preserve the good will that now Iexists throughout the English-speak- |ing world. This is an aid to our! ! armies in the grim, heavy task.” | No Liguidation | 'The Prime Minister vowed again | 9.—One | his intention not to “liquidate the | 1) British Empire” and stated bluntly “This is no time for those who have practical war work to do to dream of a brave new world.” OAKLAND, Calif., Nov fireman was killed, several injured |and damage estimated at s‘»uuooor was done when a large warehouse | LONDON, Noy. 9. — The Berlin radio today quoted Japanese dis- patches saying three Allied battle- ships, two cruisers, three destroyers and four transports have been sunk by Jap warships and planes in an attack on a convoy south of Bou- gainville beginning yesterday morn- ling. (No Allied confirmation of this claim has been made). A second broadcast described the battle as the “biggest Japanese na- val victory since Pearl Harbor.” The broadcast further said the Japanese have Been lying low for such an op- portunity by ‘“economical use” of their planes in recent actions. N Sl Army Arsenal Explodes But No (asualfies METUCHEN, N. J, Nov. 9. — A series of explosions in the Army’s Raritan arsenal is reported to have destroyed two magazines without | killing or injuring any employees, the Public Relations’ Office of the Second Service Command said. French ammunition brought here from overseas was stored in one ‘Tomorrow night, following the re- | All members of the National War | gular session of the Lodge the an-| holding quantities of truck equip-| |nual Thanksgiving Turkey Gobble | ment and an adjoining war plant |wlll be staged and the public is in-| Were burned during the night. |vited. A. B. (Cot) Hayes is chair-| TR | man of the event. The Black Hills of South Da- > —— kota are estimated to be nearly a| IYV WAR BONDS billion and a half years old, Fund Committee will meet tomor- | row at a luncheon in the Gold Roonr | of the Baranof. The purpose is to | make a findl check of the contribu- tions and attend to other perllnent matters in connection with the re-’ cent successful drive, | Of the Moscow Conference, Chur- ‘cmu said: “We all have been cheer- led.” He paid tribute to Secretary |of State Cordell Hull as “that gal- | lant American eagle.” 4 (Continued on Page Three) of the magazines that exploded. The damage unofficially is esti- mated at $50,000. The Army officials said there will be no interference in production. ———————— BUY WAR BONDS