The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9499. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PR[CE TEN CENTJ AMERICAN BOMBERS MAKE SOFIA BLAST Strafing, Bombing Raids Hit Last Eafing Place at Wrangell Closes Doors TWO AREAS WRANGELL, Alask#, Nov. 15.— Helen's Place, noted coastwise for conviviality if not for cuisine, has closed, leaving Wrangell without a restaurant for the first time in his- tory. DR. COUNCIL PASSES AWAY ON SATURDAY iDeath Comes Suddenly fo Dean of Alaska Surgeons, Commissioner of Health Liberator, P_th;hell Bomb- ers Follow Up Assault by Fighters ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 15.-~Liberator and Mitchell bombers, following up -a strafing raid of Fighter planes plastered Alexisshaf- en and Madang with 223 tons of| bombs last Saturday in the heaviest aerial assault yet thrown against|’ the Japanese in New Guinea. P-40s and P-38 Fighters swept‘ the airstrips at medium height,| followed by Mitchells at tree top' height to give the enemy a thor ough going over. With strong pro- tection on hand, there was no Jap~' anese ‘planes in the air. It is be-| Walter Wooten Council, M. D,| lieved that earlier attacks on We- {61, Dean of Alaska surgeons, Com- wak and Madang airstrips kept‘mlssloner of Health for the Terri- the Japanese from aerial inter-tory, died at 9:15 o'clock last Sat- ference. urday night as the result of a heart The Australians are progressing attack. up Markham Valley down the Kamu| The doctor collapsed in his Bar- Valleys. It is presumed that such anof Hotel apartment early in the glant” attacks as that on Saturday|evening upon return from a pro- is intended to hamper enemy aerial!fessional call and death came 45 e | minutes later. Drs. W. M. White- (Continued on Page Two) head and Paul Lindquist were sum- moned by Mrs! Council and were Ipresent at the time of his passing. The Washington|, 2, coucs perormes ivo ovr- Merry - Go-Round Ann’s Hospital. He enjoyed a hunt- |ing trip last Thursday and was| By DREW PEARSON (Mafor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) planning another outing yesterday. His death closed a successful medical career which began in Al-| laska when he became surgeon for the Ellamar Mining Co. in 1906, and from 1908-27, surgeon for the factor in the increasing P‘pe""Copper River Railway and Kenne- shortage has been lack of “boy-cott Copper Co. From 1916 to 1927 power” to collect scrap paper, plus {he was assistant surgeon in the lack of a War Production B"“"‘Publlc Health Service and has been sparkplug to get a paper collection| | Commissioner of Health for Alaska WASHINGTON—One contributing “|and with two children, Mrs. Snow campaign humming. ‘ What happened ‘was that short- ly after Pearl Harbor, lmuwwlvem and youngsters collected scrap paper with such zeal that scrap dealers were not able to take care of it, since 1933. In 1936 he formed the Juneau: Medical and Surgical ‘Clinic, with} Drs. W. M. Whitehead, C. C. Carter, W P. Blanton and R. H. Williams. He was secretary-treasurer of the Records show that in February, 1898, there were four restaurants here and in March there were 74, including small coffee shops. This was when Wrangell was the Klon- | dike C-m.eway ANNASNOW, OLDTIMER, DIES HERE Pioneer Woman of Terri-| fory Passes After Lingering ltiness Death came to one of Alaska’s {foremost and best-loved pioneers last Saturday evening' with the| passing of Mrs. Anna Snow, 82| who died at St. Ann’s Hospital after | a lingering illness. At her bedside | was her daughter, Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, with whom she had lived for several years. Anna Rablen Snow was born in| Cornwall, England,-on April 15, 1861, and came to the United States five | years later with her mothel;and, four brothers and sisters. From New York, they journeyed by stern-| wheeler through the Panama Canal, to California, where the father had | preceded them, the year being 1867, | in which Alaska was purchased from Russia. Twenty years later, now married | came to Alaska, arriving in Juneau | on April 18, 1887. Here the Snows put on a series of theatrical per- formances, to which the miners and | prospectors flocked, the first plays/ ever given in Alaska. In Klondike Rush In 1893 he family went to the states intending to stay but were| {back within three menths. The; next year they went over the fa-| mous trail of ‘98, the Chilkoot Pass, | during the Klondike rush, to Forty- | | sever one of the two remaining rail 'nonem edges of the vast Pripet ‘old Polish border. {|the 50-mile streetch of the Lenin- GERMANS EVACUATE THITOMIR Russian Advances on Edge of Pripet Marshes Di- vide Nazi Forces (By Associated Press) The German Command has an-| nounced that Russian Cossacks and | tanks have made a sweeping drive west of Gomel, and have driven to Rechitsa, about 30 miles southwest | of the railroad linking Gomel and Poland, but have been beaten back lin their attempts to capture the town itself. The seizure of Rechitsas Wom | lines over which the Nazi defenders | or the old fortress of Gomel might back to escape the encircling move- |ment. A Russian advance along the Marshes also threatened to split off the northern German armies from the forces on the central front. Another German broadcast ac< | knowledged the German evacuation of Zhitomir, rail junction, and the last artery of the north-south rail= road for the Nazis to the east of the The fall of Zhitomir threatens to cut the cen- tral Nezi forces off from.the sv.ufi‘ ern German armies. The Russians are 30 miles west of | Zhitomir, and the Red Army is ex- pandmg its salient west of Kiev, surging close to the vital rail junc- tion of Korosten, the capture of | which gives the Russians control of grad-Odessa railway system between Korosten and Zhitomir. This is ac- cording to a report from Moscow. A German broadcast says that a | big battle is raging in the Dnieper | bend, after the Russians had hurled | nearly 500,000 men against the Ger- | man defenses and broken through between Zaporozhe and the area | northwest of Krivoi Rog. According to the German-con- | Yanks Blast Jap Air Base af Rabaul Low flying U. S. Army Fifth Air during an October 12 raid in which 200 Jap aircraft were destroyed. engined planes in their revetments. struction of attack bombers operating at low altitudes. SITUATION INLEBANON NOW GRAVE Real Clash—Ei‘peded Be- tween Natives, French —Political Dispute CAIRO, Nov. 15—The situation New Guinea RAIL SYSTEM, IBALKAN: AREA IS SHATTERED Terrific Blofiesigned fo Dislocate Entire Traf- fic Center ATTACK IS OPENING WEDGE OF OFFENSIVE Sections.of France Are Hit- Also Northern Har- bor in Italy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALIERS, Nov. 15.—American Mit- chell bombers ranged over Sofia yes- terday making their first air attack on the capital city of Bulgaria. ‘This blow is designed to dislocate . traffic over the whole Balkan rail Force planes spread havoc at Vunakanau airfield, Rabaul, New Britain, Here parachute bombs fall on two- Note ship nosed into bank at left. 'Chute bombs prevent self-de- (AP w:repholn from U. 8. Army Air Forces) BADOGLIO 10 RESIGN 4 'ROY EATONHOME IS COMPLETELY . DESTROYED, FIRE A fire caused by the explosion of a gasoline lamp last night at 7:35 o'clock destroyed the two- | story frame dwelling owned by Roy Eaton, night patrolmen on the Juneau City Police force. The blaze was most spectacular as viewed from | the Juneau side of Gastineau Chan- nel. The house was on the new Fish Creek Highway on Douglas | Island. ! The alarm was turned in from !box 42, Twelfth and E Streets, and 'nu department rushed there as But PremiernS%ys on Unil Allies Reach Rome- King Won't Abdicate ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Nov. |15, — Premier Marshal Pletro Ba- HIS OFFICE trolled Paris radio, the Russians at- [in Lebanon is “potentially grave” tempted new crossings of the Dniep- [and a real clash between natives er on both sides of Cherkasy, about jand French “might come any time, 70 miles northwest of Kremenchug. no one knows when.” Masses of Red Army infantry,| Curtis Ryan, Comptroller of the cavalry, tanks, and self-propelling | British Ministry of Information in' reduced the price, sent word out|sjacka Board of Medical Examiners, that no more paper was needed.|an officer of the State Provincia}| American patriotism was too much|geqaith Authorities of North Amer-| for the unorganized scrap industryijca a member of the American| and Governmment, | Medical Association and served on| At that time scrap paper was not|yany professional groups includ- | so urgently needed. But now the ;g ‘the Surgeon General's Com- situation daily grows more acute.|punicable Disease Control Com- Most scrap paper is made into card-|ttee the Committee for the Pre- board or heavy pés Jpacking vention of Blindness, the American boxes, much df 1t send War|cpilq Health Association, and nu- good abroad. When enough SCrap| merous others. paper is not dvailable’for V-!)oxes, Walter Wooten Council was born then they are made of raw' wood |y, Gouncil, N. C. May 25, 1882, pulp, thus taking newsprint away| from the daily newspapers. Belatedly, therefore, the War Pro- duction Boad has begun to stir n self regarding paper salvage, inertia has been as bad as m mt- tial failure regarding scrap But that does not make the plpcr less needed. Actuslly Uncle Snml needs 8,000,000 tons of scrap paper.! There is a saying that nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspaper. But‘ now any old newspaper is alive for| scrap purposes. All sorts of paper is needed—cigarett¢ ‘packages, can-| dy boxes, paper cups, newspapers—- everything. Scrap paper actually is in such demand that one biscuit company | had to shut down because it was! unable to get paper boxes. It is so! short that a black market has sprung up. Imagine a year IKD,‘ bootlegging waste paper! | SENATORIAL COURTESY One of the oldest subterfuges, practiced in the name of ‘Senawr-l {al dignity” is the deletion of acri- monious debate from the Congres- sional Record. However, Florida's forthright young Claude Pepper is one Senator who believes in keep- ing the record straight, regardless of whom it hits. | Pepper recently had a fiery ex- 1 change with Texas' Chairman Tom Connally of the Poreign Relations e ~ (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Pnge Two) - GET 'READY FORALASKA | FISH PLAN {To Make Appomlments Soon to Concentra- tion Commitiee SEATTLE, Nov. 15.—According to | information received here by Ralph | } | | ts! son, Deputy Coordinator for the office of Coordinator of Fisheries | pointments of fishery industry con- | sultants to serve during 1944 on the | Alaska Salmon Conservation Com-; mittee in a few days. The chief function of the tom- mittee will be to prepare and to assist in executing and operating |the plan through which the largest possible production of Alaska canned salmon can be obtained. mile, where they prospected in the 8uns are pouring through the hole | the Middle west, made this state- | from the city the fire looked as/ though it was the Public Roads | Building on the highway beyond the Juneau Dairies that was ablaze. At that time flames had en- veloped the entire Eaton structure, ibut one truck was sent from the | doglio, | cessful fight to save the throne of King Victor Emanuele, has pledged “to present my resignation as head of the government and retire when the Allies reach Rome.” This declaration meant the King waging apparently unsuc-' |azed miners and Indians who came | FIGHTING'IS| FIERCE OVER LEROS ISLAND |and northern sectors of the Dode- tanese Island of Leros yesterday in- |the enemy has established numeri- summer and in the winter giving | theatrical performances to the am-; from a wide radius to see and hear| them. Later they lived at Circle! and from their cabin could see the| yearly break-up of the ice in the| (Continued on Page -—'f';x;ée) British Improve Positions | Although Germans Cut Forces CAIRO, Nov. 15—British troops improved positions in the central| flicting substantial easualties on| the Germans and capturing a num-| ber of prisoners, today’s commun-! ique says. Fierce fighting continues on the | Perrandini, field administrator for island which is an important stra-|1500 Americany citizzns aboard, | Alaska fisheries, Dr. Ira N. Gabriel- tegic point in the Aegean because|returning to their homes from Jap, it is a sub base. Accompanied by continyal aerial | Harold L. Ickes, will announce ap- blows, long range Pighters carried| City. out an intense pounding over Ger- man positions. However, official feports indicate cal superiority and straddled the island at its narrowest point, vir- tually dividing the British and Ital- ian defending forces. The Allies still hold the chief town In Leros, rmnz, is a guest at the Gastineau west of Kiev to Baranovka, and have reached a point only 35 miles | from the pre-war border between | Russia and Poland. The 42-mile advance took the| plunging Soviet columns to qu anovka since the capture of the‘ Irail junction of Zhitomir on Sat- urday. Thirty-eight miles to the | northwest of Baranovka is the town of Gorodnitsa, which is just inside the old Russian border, and 52 miles directly west of Baranovka is Ostrog, just inside the old Polish border. The old line of demarcation, slant- ing to the northeast from Ostrog, comes within 35 miles of the present Red Army lines. Gen. Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army, which rushed | linto the 135-mile long salient west ! of Kiev in a mighty breakthrough | |of the German defenses, had 150 miles to go, however, before reach- | ing the nearest point of the Ger- | man-Russian demarcation line i through Poland, which existed in | 1941 when the Germans began their | invasion ol Russia. GRIPSHOLM NEARS HOME RIO DE JANIERO, Nov. 15—The| repatriation ship Gripsholm with internment camps, docked here this afternoon enroute to New York FROM PELICAN CITY | Jane C. Pege and Jean Hanson,| both of Pelican City are guests at the Baranof Hotel. —ee——— FROM STRAWBERRY POINT Glenn H. Neitzert, of Strawberry Hotel, ment today on his return from | Belrut. He also said casualties as! |the result of the political contro- |versy already totals 140 including 10 or 12 dead. Future armed struggle might occur either in Lebanon or Syria, he also said. Richard Casey, British Minister |of State of the Middle West has also returned from Beirut and he explained Britain’s position in the! Franco-Lebanon dispute. He said Gen. Catroux has been empowered by the Committee of National Liber- ation to seek a settlement. Casey said he conferred yesterday at Bei- (rut with Sir Edward Spears, Bn tish Minister to Lebanon and Syri: and he urged that Catroux leach | Beirut quickly. Catroux in 1941, promised Lebanon full mdcpend- ence. DEER SEASON ENDS TONIGHT Hunters are reminded by the Al- |aska Game Commission office that the 1943 deer ends tonight. The season for waterfowl remains open in Southeast Alaska until No- vember 29, and open season for moose starts November 16. Despite the weather, many hunt- ing parties are taking advantage of these last few hours to get their | limit of game, and numerous local sportsmen are expected to return here within the next day or so from inearby hunting areas. i S I HERE FOR SHRINE WORK E. D. Steffen and T. O. Givan, {both of Ketchikan, have joined the committee in charge of the affair, |pllgrimage to Juneau where they which is for will participate in the special Shrine eceremonials. While in the Capital City they are guests at the Gastineau Hotel, } 4 { i’ and goat season [Jutieay Fire Department (o ""’xwm stand “alone against a united scene, too late to be of any service. | fong of the Italian political parties The blaze started when Mrs. Eaton | seeking his abdication. was lighting the gasoline lamp in |~ paqoglio says he is unable to form the downstairs section of the house. |, ., resentative government and Mr." Eaton, asleep in one of thely.o confirmed reports that Count bedrooms upstairs, was awakened | Carlo Sforza and other political and with their twelve-year-old | ,4ers have declined to join any |daughter, the three escaped un- \govemmnl under the King, who is were lost, including diving equib- |y, apgicate to the Crown Prince ment belonging to Mr. Eaton, one |, yenounce the throne to the ment was valued at several thousand | ¢ 1~ ppe King is said to have i refused the conditions on the | Germans. There are no disturbances in liberated zones, it is said. W. Woodford, Potentate of the | ‘tlon, and Gerald Reddick, Assistant| WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The ‘Dlrector of the Second Section, ar- | Senate Judiciary Committee has ap- They were joined at Ketchikan by | jndqustry practices, and Chairman the following Shriners: Ralph A.|prederick Van Nuys promises “some Elliott, W. A. Pries and Donald ! i 4 “I have made some preliminary in- | Armour. Mrs. Armour & made th our. Mrs. Armour also made the | g ye and I think I can promise a night for 31 candidates at 7 o'clock | 4048ing and liquor hoarding. I am in the lodge room of the Dugout. |from the market.” | ‘Tomorrow evening a banquet will | Hearings will start t early harmed, | considered tainted with Fascism of the only deep-sea divers in this ) o¢ the Crown Prince who would | grounds no drastic steps be taken e Nue Temple at Seattle; Kendall | jrived last night from the Queen|proved unanimously the resolution Bartholomew, Ed Abeggean, Ed |y, ing developments.” trip. | ,sorne real revelations® as to Rite Temple. A stag buffet-supper 940" in this country to last five or nex be held at 7 o'clock in the Gold |week. All personal effects of the family | "y 'oqiq Sforza wanted the King section of the country. The equip- |y, \nage King under a regent mar- | until more of Ttaly is freed from the FOR CEREMONIAL; PROBE ORDERED | Howe, Director of the Second Sec- | | City for the Shrine Ceremonial here. | guthorizing inquiry into the liquor (Stetfon, Thomas Givan, Edwin 1.} Senator Van Nuys told reporters: The Ceremonial will be held to- will follow at the American Legion $iX years and it is being withheld The | —— - Shriners and nu-u, BOEFNAN B0 AU ladies, wish to settle the matter David A. Hoffman representative of dress for their ladies by an-!Of the Lomen Company is a guest nouncing that the dinner will be|at the Baranof Hotel after a busi- ismcly informal, }nebs trip to Ketchikan, - Room of the Baranof Hotel. LIQUOR INDUSTRY Scottich {als0 convinced there is enough li-| system. | Ground Agtion in Italy On the ground in the battle In Italy, lines remained virtually un- changed. Only the Eighth Army carried out successful patrol actions wh\le on the Fifth Army front the encmy maintained a firm defense. France Is Swept During the day other bombers swept France but the chief raid was the one on Sofia. Bombers also [cruked the Antheor railway viadugt inear Cannes, and light bombers shot up the harbor at Civitavechia on the west coast of Italy. Strike at Sofia Escorted by Lightning fighters, the Mnchell bombers dropped over "Sofla’s rallway yards in two big formations, dropping tons of ex- | plosives on the target. Nine out of approximately 24 ! German intercepting fighter planes | were shot down. Bombing Accurate The official reports describe the bombing as ‘“extremely accurate,” the explosives ' smashing down square on locomotive repair shops, car assembly shops, main line depot and ripping up tracks in the yards, Balkan Offensive The announcement also said “this successful opening of the Balkan offensive is far-reaching and im- mensely important as Sofia is the center of the railroads which supply the German fronts as far down as the Grecian islands and also the islands in the Aegean, also western Balkans. “The Sofia rail yard links up, | with rail routes through Hungary, Ruménia and Bulgaria. “The bombing at Sofia will have | the effect of dislocating traffic over | the whole Balkan rail system.” ——— GOV. BRICKER TORUN FOR PRESIDENCY i ‘Name Will Go on Ohio Pri- { mary Ticket, Presented to GOP Convention COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 15.—Gov. {John W. Bricker will not run again |for Governor of Ohio, instead he will seek the Republican nomina- tion for President. “I shall be a candidate for Pres- ident of the United States at the !Ohio Primaries and before the Re- 'publican National Convention,” said Gov. Bricker today. Regarding primaries in other states, Gov. Bricker said this will ibe determined by events “as they come.” Gov. Bricker's term as Governor of this state expires January 2, 1945. M, AR AR A'I‘ GASTINEAU Mr. and Mrs. A. Burnham are guests at the Gastineau 'Hotel,