The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —a”’ VOL. XLIL, NO. 9500. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I(_), 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY BIG ATTACKS MADE ON HITLER'S FRON TS Liberators Raid Jap Base on Pacific Isle TWO SECTIONS ARE ATTACKED! BY U. S. UNITS Large Fires Are Started af | Tarawa-Mille Afoll = | Is Bombed PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 16.—Army Liberators started large fires at Ta- | rawa, strong Jap base in the Gilbert | Islands and also raided Mille Atoll | in the southern Marshalls on raids on November 13 and 14, the Navy | Department announced today. No Japanese planes were en- | countered and all Liberators re- | turned undamaged despite anti-air- | craft fire. The raids were directed by Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, Commander of | the Seventh Air Force. The attacks are thought to be diversionary or retaliatory for the Jap raids on Funafuti and Naumea, southwest Marshall-Gilbert sectors, on last Thursday and Friday. - FROM FIRST CITY ., In Juneau, a guest at the Baranof | Chorines Help Heartsick Servicmn NAZI FORCE, |Eighth Army Making GOMEL AREA Gains; Fifth Army Is IS CUT OFF Pushed Back in laly S i ekl ! Sou'hern An(hor of Ger_ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1N‘Liberflt0r< of the reorganized Yu- | i' | NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 16. — -,-w‘,“p,nsm Air Force, smashed at Elevsis 2 H { | Airfield at Athens yesterday, and zi ¢ ravacks drove the Am- 3 3 man I-Ine V"'ua”y N,““ Lm{"“"_‘"“‘ it ““v‘p_ & 1 | American medium bombers ham- [erican troops of Gen. Mark Clark's| HEVCT FRCHM il Isolated | Fifth Army from the high ground |Mered HKalamaki airdrome in the, | Athens area. \ |north of Venafro, Allied Headquar-| |ters announced today, but the| the length of the Fifth Army front. rth | Eighth Arm; on new hilltops in nm!h‘“:\ l?u.\".:l‘)l }.;u::nr in Italy 3 | Gen atonikamerys SIgHRL sy jalong the eastern edge of the Pri-| |won new high ground north of pet Marshes, ripping out another| The German onslaughts pushed Atesta, 14 miles inland from the| important section of the German the Uuitnd» States troops out of the| g0 Sea. Eighth Army patrols ! communications system covering the |areas previously occupied on Monte | ,.,4e new sorties s the Sangro| flank of the great Russian bulge Santa Croce above Venafro, Where pive. on the east flank, feeling out Resistance remained strong along (By Associated Press) The Red Army swung |west of Kiev. the Fifth Army wedge seriously | po German strength The general line of attack shift-|threatens the enemy’s powerful| yonq operations generally were| ed at least temporarily from lh(-‘“'ll"l'l line. | held near a standstill by m‘ud nndi former westward thrust to a new| In the air war, Liberators of the pad weather as the opposing forces| drive north, apparently designed to eliminate any possibility of a Ger- man counterattack in White Russia. 15th Air Force joined by lend-lease |girded for a showdown tle. BLOWS HIT ON NORWAY, ALSO ATHENS American Eo;bers Make Wide Range Atfacks, North and South LONDON, Nov. 16.—Bringing Hit- ler's ramparts under attack both in the north and south, American bombers struck at targets in Nor- way after another heavy blow at the Athens airfields. The Norwegian targets are not disclosed immediately but it is known the Nazis have been har- boring a number of big warships in Norway's deep fjords. Today's attack was the second by American heavy bombers on Norway, the other being on July The most immediate effect of the newest the turn of the campaign is catting of the railroad and running west from Gomel, the southern anchor of the Ger- man’s White Russian line to Kal- inkovich, where a strong German garrison has been holding out. Go- mel is thus virtually isolated, and DIRECTBOMB HULL WILL HIT SCORED, MAKE REPORT, MOSCOW PACT, a 24 when heavy forces hit the U- boat base and other installations at Trondheim while others wrécked the important metal plant at Her- oya. ;A”’—.w‘l‘» SOUTHWEST JAP CRUISER Hotel, is R. A. Bartholemew of .. ..q for the welfare of servicemen whose girls back home have jilted them, these film chorus girls ‘lll;luile l;’*’:\it%’l:u:sm‘n cu{ :;m of ::,9 Ketchikan. ave organize at Wa ers, “Sweethe Inlimited,” and they'll write (they say) at least fDuiepe er appeared on the i Vi : | have organized a club at Warner Brothers, “Sweethearts Unlimited,” and they y JDers, Sl sppegrod o, e AT once a week, send their pictures, and be the girl back home 10 the soldier or sailor ‘whose girl has stopped Rikdans writing. Betty Brown and Gene Foley. The Washingionf Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Left to right: Gloria Oliver, Bee Allen, Mary Landa, Judith Woodbury, (AP Wirephoto) War Prisoners May WASHINGTON — Shortly before | Ease presenl pulp the Vice President of the United! States visited Dallas last month,/ ane Starr, June Earl, . linkovichi communication lines was MRS, HELLENTHAL PASSES AWAY AT HOME LAST NIGHT Secrefary ofWSt'arte Will Ad- dress Congress on Con- 77777 ference Resulls | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—S | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov.|tary of State Cordell Hull broke a | 16.—Another Jap cruiser was hit |precedent by travelling 26,000 mile directly and badly damaged and a|to the Moscow conference, and he large merchantman hit, headquar- |Will break it again Thursday by a! ters announced. {Merchantman Damaged in Raid Off Rabaul-Buka | The snapping of the Gomel-Ka- | accomplished by Red Army forces, who broke through the enemy lines | south of Rechitsa and pushed on| southwest of that city. | Massed Russian attacks dented the German lines in eight sectors of the long Soviet front, the Berlin radio asserted in reports attempting to minimize Red Army successes. | Russian gains were acknowledged ENGLAND IS ATTACKED German Raiders Swarm' Over Section Along Coast ~First Time in Months his secretary, bulky, two-fisted, Texan Harold Young, wrote to !hc‘ swank Salesmanship Club in Dallas suggesting they invite the Vice President to lunch with them and deliver a talk on October 21 Young, who lives in Dallas, knew Salesmanship Club members as Jesse Jones sympathizers, but fig- ured his chief, “the VP should! beard the lion in his den. Also he, figured the invitation would cause Salesmanship Clubsters to throw| a, fit. | Apparently it did. Soon Young received a letter from the Club President Dick Brown which polite- ly declined to listen to the Vice, DRAFTINGOF - (risis, Unifed Stafes (First of Two Articles) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—When all is said and done, it may be the prison of war and particularly the German prisoners of war who vill save this country from a more rastic pulpwood shortage. On the surface, that may seem BE DElAYED‘a far-fetched prediction, but the ‘Foresl Service is saying here now {that if certain prejudices can be | broken down (and it appears that they can) the United States can | | avoid that margin for error which Senate, House Conferees P ¢ by Transocean Agency in the great ioneer Juneau Woman Wife of Federal Judge, |peisom, norin of wemvor Rog. e Dies A"er LOng "I“esS ‘norlh of Cherkassy. Other Russian gains were reported in the Zhito- /mir area and southwest of Kiev, near Rechitsa in the Gomel area, in Smolensk, and in the Orsha Mrs. Simon Hellenthal, wife of Judge Hellenthal of the Third Judi- cial Division of Alaska, with head--area in the frozen north. quarters at Anchorage, passed away at the family home on Calhoun Ave- nue and Gold Belt Avenue last night shortly before 11 o'clock, following a lingering illness. The remains are | at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary ! SR SR and funeral services will be held at | 9 o'clock Thursday morning at thv; Catholic Church of the Nativity, the | Rev. W. G. LeVasseur, saying the | mass. Prayers will also be said at The cruiser was hit in the stern| |by a 1,000 pounder and the mer-| |chantman by a 500 pounder amid- |ships. Both were bombed by Cat-| alinas off Rabaul, New Britain. | | Ground fighting continued at |Empress Augusta Bay, where Mar- |ines and soldiers clashed with en- emy patrols on both flanks. Jap planes attacked American po- | sitions with minor damage. | ! Allied planes dropped 51 tons of bombs on the Jap air base at Buka, at the northern tip of Bougainville Island and destroyed four Zeros. | | | The hit on the Jap | brought to ten the number damaged | since the big raid on Rabaul on| October 12, when two cruisers were | sunk, | i two-mile trip from the State Depart- | | ment to Capitol Hill, Secretary Hull will be the first | Cabinet member ever to speak be- fore a joint session of Congress,| which wants to hear a first hand account of the historic Moscow pact. Arrangements have been made by the principal networks for broad- asting the Secretary’s address, be- ginning at 9:30 a. m., Pacific War Time. (By Associated Press) For the first time in months, | German raiders last night attacked: (southwest England in the general areas referred to by Lt. Gen. De- {vers as the scene of the American irehearsal for the greatest military | undertaking of all time. The raiders hit the coastal towns with incendaries and high explo~ PAYS HULL TRIBUTE ¥ MOSCOW, Nov. 16.—As Secretary |Sives. of State Hull prepared to address a| The Berlin radio says Plymouth Joint session of Congress, the official Was attacked, the heaviest damage cruiser | Soviet government newspaper, Iz-!done in the residential section and vestia, paid him a front page edi- |fires were started in the industrial torial tribute for his contributions|area. to the conference. | Some persons are reported to have President of the United States on October 21. ! “Considerable opposition exists on| some of the speakers (Wallace's) recently expressed views,” wrote Brown. “And though he might not‘ Clear Way for Pass- ing of Legislation ship Club would be identified wimi having sponsored his trip to Dallas.|of legislation placing pre-Pearl “We would be most pleased,” parpor fathers from the draft list concluded Brown to his fellow Tex-|and stripping the War Manpower an, “to have you address the Club|commission, Chaitman Paul V. on some Thursday when your busi-|McNutt, authority over the Selec- ness or pleasure throws you :oine Service System. tary Young wrote: “I am acceptig | oonyitee agreed to a compromise your invitation tendered by the',uy .\ ger which the Gilday proce- Board of Directors of the Sales-|; .o y,quctions will apply. This manship Club and shall be in Dal_iwlll be a nationwide basis by cate- las on both l"g‘:;‘“‘:;‘m“‘_? gf"cs;“’.gmes by which fathers will be the October 21, 2 K " last taken. venient for me to bring a Euest?”‘lat ¢ e g Again the high-hat members ui; the Salesmanship Club writhed wim‘ worry. Flustered President Brown R | 7 wrote back: “Your appearance on October 21, in view of the discussion already raised and the divergence of opin- ion on Mr. Wallace’s views, would surely create embarrassment and might endanger the unity that has always been so characteristic of the Club . . . . So let's have a cooling off period and hold the meeting L at some time when it would not £ < 1 Se The conferees, representing ‘the | In reply, Vice Presidential Secre-{qo. ¢0 1d House Military Affairs| would deprive us of the minimum jof newsprint, magazine, pamphlet |and writing paper. | The background of the story must | directive: “Produce more timber or lelse.” 1t was decided that this | development program should be con- !lined to lumber producing states |east of the Great Plains. That in- | cludes 11 southern states: the Lake | States, including Ohio, Illinois, In- bordering .on the Lakes farther west; and the eastern states, which clude Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- nghide AP EOCLober 3, 1911, and they returned ! mont, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Within the Forest Service, the | program was divided into three | parts: logging, milling and labor. In charge of the last was placed a comparatively young forester, Don- ald M. Rochester, the Forest Serv- {ice’s chief training officer. Don | looks like he might have once play- | ed halfback for his native Michigan ! football team, but making holes in | yesteryear’s Minnesota line would have been child’s play to bucking the play they called for him this time. The lumber industry has been out of labor for months and still is diana and Missouri as well as Lhose[ be identified with Mr. Wallace.” Finally Jokester Young relieved worried Clubster Brown by telling him he was only “having fun” with the “solemn directors.” Intimating that Brown should go out to Caddo Lake and get back his sense of CALCUTTA, Nov. 16—Royal Air'|josing steadily. Surveying the whole | Force medium and heavy bombers | fiejd, Rochester could find only two | carried out the heaviest and most | possible sources of new labor—a ! concentrated attack on Burma since« negjigiple amount which could be | the war in the East began. ‘The jmported from the Caribbean and target was the railway. station and Mexico and that in the Army prison | the freight yards and barracks al| camps. Since the former was almost | Pegu, 46 miles northeast of Ran- | completely spoken for, Rochester de- | the mortuary at 8 o'clock Wednesday |evening. No flowers. Pallbearers at the last rites will | be J. F. Mullen, H. R. VanderLeest, WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. — The|be told first. On July 1, the War|p" 1y ‘siouare Robert Simpson, Lee express those views, the Salesman- senate and House conferees have | Production Board turned over ;;o t;:v e e Jos Mdbadedys' Tatar: | cleared the way for quick passage Forest Service $1,000000 with the | . ." 0o e in the Catholic plot ‘\in Evergreen Cemetery. | Mrs. Hellenthal was born in Wi- |nona, Minnesota, her parents being {Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham. | Mrs. Hellenthal came west then to Juneau and was a teacher of the fifth and sixth grades in the public school for four years, starting in 11906. She and Judge Hellenthal | were married in St. Paul, Minn., | to Juneau, residing here since then. 1 Survivors are Judge Hellenthal, a idmlghter, Mrs. Fred Ayer, living |in Juneau; son John, now at the front in the armed services; two | sisters, Mrs. Rose O’'Connor, who | has been here for several months, |and Mrs. Ellis Keiley, residing in | Chicago. Fred Ayer, now in the armed services, stationed at White- i horse, has been in Juneau for the { past ten days. Mrs. Hellenthal was a prominent {and active member of the Altar | Society, and although ill, was also | active in various war organizations. Roosevelf Asks for New Appropriations WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress to authorize appropriations for the i BY GERMANS Italian Partisans Executed’ as Well as Wounded Re- moved from Hospitals | 2 i BERN, Nov. 16.—German occupa- | tion troops this morning carried out a series of mass executions of pri- soners captured in an all-day battle with Italian partisans near Domo- dossola according to dispatches re-| ceived from Brigue by the news-| | played “‘a particularly big role in | the collaboration between the Union jof Socialist Soviet Republics and | the United States of America,” said the editerial, marking the 10th an- niversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. - eee NAVY SENDS SUPPLIES TQ =" (0 34 RONTS I, WITH ELKS’ RITES| Final rites for Dr. W. W. Council, | eminent physician and civic leader, { who died Saturday evening, will be | |held in the Elks Hall on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Elks’| greatest transportation and huxld~5{::a::‘:‘ ;;,l‘;[l‘:;nw:&,rl:;:lr;";‘;;fi ling problems ever presented in uny{hmny Cothodral.’ Wil "raad: the war, is now pouring supplies in the ! committal service at the graveside. Southwest Pacific on a scale large | Interment will be in the Elks plot | enough to support a major offen-|at Evergreen Cemetery. sive against tne Japanese, Rear Ad-! The casket will not be opened at ! Preparatiofl;fieing Made for Major Offensive Battle Against Japan | paper Lasuisse. The bulk of Italians escaped to Ithe northern Italian hills the report further states. Prisoners taken as well as wound- led removed from hospitals, were | marched into a neighboring village | and were shot down without any mercy being shown. .- - EXPLOSION, NAVAL | LONDON, Nov. 16.—The United States Navy, after overcoming the miral William Brent Young dis- the Elks Hall during the ceremonies, MI"E DEPOI Kllu closed today. {but friends may call to pay their ’ The chief of the Navy Bureau respects at the Charles W. Carter | of Supplies told newsmen at a con- ference that In the past six months|7 to 8:30 o'clock. SIX, MANY INJURED . ey virtually 100 percent of the supplies| Mr. and Mrs. Lester Elkins, sister YORKTOWN, Virginia, Nov. 16.—|sent, were getting through to Gen|and brother-in-law of Mrs. Council, Chapel on Wednesday evening lrom; An explosion early this morning in the warehouse of the Naval Mine Depot killed an estimated six civ- ilian employees and injured between 20 and 30 others, two of them ser- iously. The blast awakened thousands of MacArthur's headquarters. To illustrate the complexity of |the supply problem in this global war, he said, so far, as the supplies {are concerned, “We have 34 fronts” all over the world, to which literally millions of different items must be rrived Sunday by plane from Pet- | ersburg, All offices of the Territorial De- | partment, of Health throughout Al- aska will be closed Thursday after- noon in respect to the deceased Ter- ritorial Health Commissioner. i humor, Young added: “You forgot that T am a pixie at heart.” goon. | cided to go to work on the prisoners A large number of aircraft drop- | of war. ped a heavy tonnage of high ex-| (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Three) ‘ plosives, shattering the target. l [Unil,ed States participation and ac- | tivities in the United Nations re- _{lef and rehabilitation administra- ion, The American Secretary of State | been killed. Only yesterday, Devers paid tri- bute to 3,000 farmers who with their families are leaving their homes in southwest England next month to make room for American troops. The evacuation, said Devers, is necessary “for a master plan to |be set in motion.” $50,000 FIRE AT FAIRBANKS ON SATURDAY A fire in the heart of* Fairbanks early last- Saturday wrecked two frame business buildings and caused a loss of over $50,000, partly in- |sured, according to passengers from the interior metropolis and arriving in Juneau today. The buildings destroyed housed the Kays Pur Shop, Jess Landers pool hall, barber shop and gutted the living quarters above both and damaged the Wein Airline office and liquor store adjoining. The fire started in the Morrison Knudsen Company sleeping rooms above the fur shop. The fire was controlled after a two hour fight but blazed up again Ilater for two more hours. Hose at the scene was not re- residents in Norfolk, Portsmouth |delivered. moved until yesterday as a pre- and Newport News some 30 miles - eee | Platinum is a poor conductor|caution against further outbursts distant, BUY WAR BONDS [of heat and electricity. of flame, L e