The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1943, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9496. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1943 i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 3 U. S. MOUNTAIN FIGHTERS ROUT NAZIS Marines Kill 150 Japanese on Allied Pincers Closing on Rabaul ONE HALF OF LANDING UNIT STRUCK DOWN Nippon Raiders Make At- fack-Army Troops BOUGAINVILLE SHORTLAND: SOLOMON ISLANDS Invaded Nov.1 ta [Invaded Oct.28 R X HEAVY RUSS ATTACKS ALL ALONG FRONT Soviets Slogging Through, Heavy Snow in West- ern Ukraine Bougainville l AMERICANS ' DRIVE INTO NAZI LINES Chase. Germans from Fortified Positions Join Marines _ \\.:‘:&: AES ‘THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 11. — United States Marines have killed an estimated one-half of the Japanese force that landed under cover of darkness from barges north of the Bougainville bridgehead es tablished by the United States troops that put ashore without loss despite the enemy air attack. £ The U. S. Marines, employing tanks, defeated the Japanese Tues- day four miles north of the original Marine position at Cape Torokina, withdrawal of the Japs. FERGUSSON '+ NORMANBY RENDOVA CERoue. '?u ANAL lOU! Feb. 21 Coral Sea Open arrows point to Rabaul, New Britain, Japanese base toward which the Allies press in their South Pacific drive. Boxed dates, beginning at Kokoda a year ago, indicate day of capture from or announced Allied forces have invaded Bougainville, last step in the Solomons which opened with American storming of Guadalcanal August 7, 1942 and its capture February 9, this year. Capture of Rabaul, often bombed by Allies, would open sea lanes to the Philippines. (AP Wirephoto). through wet snows in the western | Ukraine ‘toward Poland and Ru-| mania and pushing forward with “far superior forces,” according to a German communique. Berlin broadcasts pictured the | whole Russian front from the in-| vested Crimea to the frozen fields around Nevel ablaze with heavy Soviet offensives. A violent tank battle is reported | near the White Russian rail center CLOAKROOM GREETING — wendell Willkie (lett) FACILITIES, 2 HARBORS 'Eighth Ame Is Forging Ahead in Snowstorm- Capture Town ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 11.—Skilled Ameri- can mountain fighters of the Fifth ‘*Ax'my stormed up the heights and | G8p. . MacATihur¥cGoununiqie of Gomel, where Berlin said, the ; e SIS SRR et — e —— 4 J k4 o shakes hands with Rep. Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass.) as they met - Seaninly : Russians attacked “with numerous in the coatroom of a Washington hotel. The house mingrity leader | 410V¢ the German enemy from two Admiral W. Halsey, from his rifle divisions and masses of tanks| ' wame fo a dinner at which Willkic was guest of honor. mountains including Mount Roton- fis do, northwest of Mignano where the South Pacific headquarters reports, | and planes” in an attempt to break — " main inland road to Rome passes 0 “A large force of army troops landed | at Empress Augusta Bay Monday | without the loss of a man. Subse- auently, approximately 60 Japanese dive bombers and fighters swept over in a raid, damaging one ship, but Allied planes quickly rose in inter- ception and 13 Jap dive bombers and 13 fighters were shot down with | the loss of eight of our own. “After dark, again on Monday, Jap planes attacked again, hitting our combat and task force screen- ing our transports. Our task force and anti-aircraft guns accounted for several of the Jap raiding force.” (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) v | | ! LARGEST PLANE FLIES 4,600 MILES | AIRBLOWS STRUCK AT \Powerful Allied Forces Rain Explosives on Vul- nerable Rail Routes LONDON, Nov. 11.—Powerful Al- lied air forces from Britain and the Mediterranean struck with their combined weights at Germany's vul- nerable rail routes funneling into northern Italy though both the Brenner Pass from Austria and the Mtcenis Tunnel from France. The Royal Air Force heavy forma- tions of four-engined raiders last night struck a concentrated blow at northern the Sozh River, a tributary of the Dnieper. The Germans claim to have destroyed 217 tanks. | The first Russian gains presum- pbly- carried the- Ukrainian armies| T n 40 miles from the rail 1 “of “Zhitorhir as the Moscow | reports at midnight placed the Red Army 42 miles directly west of Kiev and lunging swiftly forward on the 70-mile front. A German communique acknow-! ledged the Russians made a “local| dent” in the fresh attack northeast of the Crimean port of Kerch, and told of attacks around Perekop on the narrow land bridges tying Cri- a narrow sector of the front along (I o S eaménshib_ For Hi School Students New P;oposaIMade Here mea to the mainland. | B | Juncau will be the second city in Alaska to have classes in sea- manship, sponsored by the local 'Coast Guard Auxiliary and taught by a Coast Guard instructor, if the plan now proposed is accepted. ‘The course, 36 hours long, will be modeled after one now being given in Ketchikan high school to boys, according to Lieutenant wle J. Watterworth jof the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve who was in Juneau this week, representing lCapt. F. Z. Zuesler, District Coast Officer, in favor of the ithrough a heavily fortified line of |Nazi soldiers who have been ordered {to hold the line until New Year's | Day. | The American mountain fighters (smashed against the German (counter-thrusts on the peak of | Mount ~ Relonde - “overtooking Lhe ibroad valley leading to Cassino, eight miles north of Mignana, Meanwhile, the Air Force discloses {the Germans are already blasting and wrecking ships and the port facilities at Leghorn and Pescara, either in preparation for evacua- tion of those places or in fear of seizure by Allied amphibious forces. ( Simultaneously, the Eighth Army 1L~; fighting through the snowstorms of the Appennines and have ad- vanced five miles, capturing Rion-~ ero, ten miles northeast of Isernia, and fivé miles south of Castel di Sangro on the important trans- peninsular highway. | The Germans burned and de- 'stroyed Rionero. The Eighth Army is meeting with only slight resist- ance. The Eighth Army has also o Guard Modane, France, at the end of the Mtcenis Alpine Tunnel swept up to the south bank of the Sangro River which empties into cla WASHINGTON —Grave doubt| has arisen in the minds of Senator- ial colleagues as to whether their vivacious friend, Robert Rice Rey- nolds of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee, plans to run for re-election. They base this partly on the strange fact that the Senator did not go back to his native state dur- ing the summer. recess. Also they figure' that perhaps the ebullient Robert, who, even his enemies ad- mit, has a generous helping of po- litical shrewdness, realizes that with new wealth and a new wife, the re- election battle would be too uphill even to try. “Our Bob,” whose first business enterprise was running a skating rink where Huey Long sold swamp root, now is seen in very select so- ciety. Also he is more dignified and paternal. All this indicates the influence of his new 20-year-old bride, Evalyn McLean, heiress to the McLean for- tune, whose father was one of Harding’s intimates and whose mother once intrigued Washington with her book “Father Struck It Rich,” telling how her Irish immi- grant parent struck gold in Col- orado. Evie and Bob now have a 1,100- acre farm in Maryland and a win- ter place at Palm Beach, where they purchased the former home of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. Undoubtedly the Senator recalls how he defeated Senator Cameron Morrison, also blessed with a wealthy wife. Reynolds told North Carolinians all about the swank dinner parties given by Senator Morrison, reciting items on the menu, with spec{sl emphasis on caviar, “And do you know what caviar is, my friends ” he would shout. “Caviar is fish eggs! Fish eggs! Are you going to send back to the Senate a man who eats fish eggs?” Today, it is Senator Reynolds who is eating fish eggs. And he knows that his primary opponent, ex-Gov- ernor Clyde Hoey, is sure to let the folks back home know about it. (Continued on Page Four) a test flight, has completed a 4,600 Fight By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— That {man is here again—I mean a man who wants to give the voteless Dis- trict of Columbia a chance to join the rest of the nation in that in- alienable right promised by the { Constitution, the right to govern itself. No democracy in the world has a more fantastic law than that which exists here—the law that the 1xesidem.ss of their national capital can't vote. For 65 years, which is }how long Washingtonians have been deprived of the right of suf- frage, there Ias hardly been one | that somebody hasn't brought up {the subject with a recommendation that the poor voteless capitalites be given back the privilege of govern- ing themselves as well as casting |a ballot for the No. 1 Washington | resident who lives at 1600 Pennsyl- vania. hasn't been worth mentioning. But this year, it's a lot different. I wouldn’t say that Washington is on the verge of getting its vote back, but not in recent years has it come closer to being off to the elec- tion races. Senator Pat MacCarran (D. Nev.) Chairman of the Senate District Committee, and ex-officio “mayor” Being Madé By | District of Columbia For Right fo Govern| Most of the years, this “drive”| ~ THE MARTIN MARS, the world’s largest flying boat, shown above during i -mile non-stop flight preparatory to acceptance by the Navy. It took off from Chesapeake Bay carrying a sarload of gasolirte, less than capacity, and 22 persons, (Internatio nal). of the District, has dropped into the hopper the first specific bill for | giving Washingtonians a right tui govern themselves that has been| introduced since the days of Grover Cleveland. Senator McCarran sputs the Dis- trict into seven wards, based on population; specifies that each ward shall elect its comniissioner (to be paid $8,000_a year); that such an’ elected board must hire a city man- ager (to be paid $20,000 a year) for a term of six years. Congress still would make the| appropriations and ordinances pass- ed by the city commissioners would be subject to ,Congressional veto. ‘This elective government would sup- plant the present three commission- | ers appointed by the President. For a generation or so0, this has been |known as the mis-management | form of city government. | What happens in the District of Columbia isn’t the fault of the Washingtonians—it's the fault of |the whole United States. If ‘you |should come to your war-packed capital and get hauled in by an un- | reasonable policeman; eat meals in |a dirty restaurant; get overcharged iby a racketeering taxi driver; have 'to spend days in a grimy, bug- |infested hdbpital; sleep on a cot I (Continued on Page Five) one of the world’s Tongest. Good weathed favored the operation. American Flying Fortresses of General Dwight Eisenhower’s com- mand, rained explosives yesterday on | the freight yards, locomotive sheds and numerous other installations at | Bolzano in the Alps on the route through Brnner Pass. All the RAF planes returned safe- ly to their bases. Modane is at the end of a seven-and-one-half- mile tunnel. — TULE LAKE DISORDERS BROKEN UP Army Takes Control of Jap Internee Camp-Loyal- ists Are Removed TULE LAKE, Calif., Nov. 11.—A total of 370 Japanese who have proved loyalty to the United States are leaving here by special train helping in the segregation program where more than 15,000 Japanese internees are creating general dis- turbances, even defied the Army to suppress disorders. ‘The remaining 15,000 have today | control and the ringleaders, pected of allegiance to Japan, will be ferreted out and disciplined. ———— ® 060 ¢ 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Wednesday, Nov. 10 Maximum 44; Minimum 40 Rain .62 ® 00 000 00 0 o been brought under strict Army! sus- | i Says Results of Confab Ex- ceeded Even His High Hopes LONDON, Nov. 11.—In the first public report on the Moscow Con-| ference, Foreign Minister Anthony Eden gave the House of Commons the most optimistic official outlook ever presented to Britain for full and frank post-war cooperation | among Britain, the United States| and Russia | Indicating the results at Moscow exceeded even his high hopes, Eden | asserted the major success of the | parley was not in its radically new | co-consultative machinery but in | “the basis of good will and con- fidence,” it established among the | three powers for dealing with future | problems. | While not pretending that agree- ment was reached on all the pmb-‘ lems discussed, Eden said a reason- | able hope could be held for “even | the most. stubborn among them.”| Some of his listeners presumed thig reference was made to the question of Russia's post-war boundaries. | Eden also disclosed economic ques- | tions were discussed and an agree- ment reached “on a program for handling these vast problems on | which the world has already begun.” LaGuardia Gives Ouf Polifical Prediction| NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Declaring that “if President Roosevelt ran to-| morrow, he would carry New York City by 750,000 votes,” Mayor La-| Guardia said that insofar as the| New York city vote was coneerned[ in the recent election it had no bearing on the Roosevelt following or support of the New Deal, I STAN DO UT —. Cheryl wal- ker (above), who signed a con- tract with a Hollywood fi studio, used to be a “stand-in. She is one of few to graduate from such work to featured parts, WILLBLAST JAPS FROM ISLE BASES |Strongholds fo Be Atfacked when Time Comes, Says Nimitz PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 11 De ls of the plan have yet to |be arranged between Dr. J. (Rude, and J. W, Burford, of the {local Coast Guard Auxiliary; A. B. Phillips, superintendent of Juneau schools and Dr. James Ryan, Com- missioner of Education for the Ter- ritory. | Until one class is wgll organized, | membership will be only for high |school boys, who will receive pre- {liminary training for service in the 1 5Armyx Navy, Coast Guard, Army "l'rm\sport or Merchant Marine. La- ter, possibly, other groups for aduits {may be formed. No boy is obligated to enlist in |any of the armed forces at the ter- !mination of his course, but if he {does, the class is designated to |make the transition from civilian —|to military life easier, as well as to |give him an education in ways to |conduct himself on a boat and on |the waters. | Not all of the course will be 'taught in the classroom, but part of it will be on small boats, owned | I | by members of the Juneau Coast Guard Auxiliary. The instructor, from time to time, will call upon specialists to assist him, Included in the seamanship | course will be lessons in fire fight- | ing, first aid, knot tying, and chem- ical warfare. Boys in the class will be treated as nearly as possible by the instruc- |tor, as though they actually were lin the Coast Guard. For example, | being absent without leave is a ser- fous crime in the armed forces an:di |likewise it will be for youths in the -“We | class, now have the means to take lhv‘ However, students will set up offensive and blast the Japs out of jtheir own form of government for |the island strongholds and we pro-| the to do this in a most direct Coast Guard ceremonies will be ob- The |served whenever possible, pose manner when the time comes. | Leathernecks will be in the thick| of the fray.” This statement was made foday | y Admiral Chester W. Nimitz cel- tension to the seamanship course— |ebrating the 168th anniversary of this time an 80 hour course in in- the Marine Corps, b; conduct of their classmates. ‘The only expense to the student | will be the cost of a textbook. Boys wishing, may take an ex- } doctrination, I ,the Adriatic and has captured most iof the territory on the south side of the stream along which the Ger- ,mans formed the eastern end of 'tlwlr “winter defense line.” -eo ium WEAPON 15 UNVEILED; CALLED M-9 | SUMMIT, N. J., Nov. 11.—Army Ordnance has unveiled the myster- ies of the M-9, new electrical anti- ‘aircraft gun director which spcts (planes by electrically controlied |range finders, trackers and electric {computers to measure position, and s also equipped with four syn- \chiunized guns which fire stmul- taneously on the target. 5 Major Gen. L. H. Campbell, Jr., |said: "It is one of the greatest ad- |vances ever made in the art of fite control.” He said it gives hits every 90 shots with 90 millimeter am- munition compared with once every 17,000 shots in World War I. The M-9 has been used in the Aleutians, New Caledonia, Siciy, New Gulnea and other theatsrs, ., FINNISH PEACE NOW DISCUSSED STOCKHOLM, Nov. 11.—Finland is prepared to make peace or sign an armistice with Russia if she has some voice in the negotiations but “never” will she capitulate uncon- ditionally so long as the army is undefeated, the Pinnish spokesman here said. it HReP SRR 2 UY WAR BOSDS |