The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9502. HITLER'S WAR INDUSTRIES Blows Are Struck at Jap Mercha LARGE SHIPS OF NIPPONS ARE DAMAGED Air Force Bo m bs Convoy Off Rabaul-Ten Enemy Barges Sent Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. 18—This Thursday morning, Lt. Gen. George Kenny’s airforce, ccn-‘ tering blows on the hard-pressed | Jap merchant marine, scored dam- aging blows on two more merchant- | men, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's! communique announces. ! A Catalina flying boat left a 6,000 tonner in a sinking condition | f after attacking a convoy near Ra-’ baul. \ | An Army Liberator left a 2,500 tonner sinking northeast of Hansa Bay, New Guinea. ! A new 40 ton bombardment at the Kara airdrome was carried out[ liéoxrxrt'l'nu'éd‘;:r{ Page Two) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——— JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1943 “MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY = ARE BOMBED WORKHORSES — These Navy' PBY Cataling flying boats land near Consolidated Vultee’s Fort Worth plant to avoid a Guif Coast storm. The PBY is known as the “workhorse” of the Navy air arm. More than 30 of the PBY's are visible in this photo. The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Mafor Robert 8. Alles on sctive duty.) | WASHINGTON — The coast-to- coast stop-Willkie tour of handsome, urbane John Hamilton seems to be getting nowhere fast. Reports from | £.8 the West Coast are that everyone is glad to see the popular ex-GOP National Committee Chairman, but that he offers nothing for some- thing. In Seattle last week, for instanc he told Republican friends that hei thought Tom Dewey would be nom- inated, but that Roosveelt would | beat him. Reaction of Hamilton's| listeners was negative. They l‘elti 5 he radiated, without intending to| da so, a defeati attitude. | In Seattle, Hamilton was the| { guest of live-wire young Republican | Fred Baker. Though Baker is for ! . Willkie, he took pains to see that! f( Hamilton talked to all groups of| ; Republicans—Deweyites, Brickerites, | AFL leaders, women’s organizations, | county leaders, and state legislators. | Hamilton proposed as proper GOP | timber one of the following four: Gen. MacArthur, Gov. Warren of | California, Gov. Saltonstall of Mass., Gov. Baldwin of Conn. He describ- ed Bricker as a great disappoint- ment. John described himself as repre- senting a group of people in big | states with heavy electoral votes who were dead set against Willkie and wanted to see what other can-, ‘ADMIRAL’ — Ava Gard- r, © Hollywood film starlet, really isn’t wearing a naval uni- form. It's just one designed to please Navy admirers stationed in the Mediterranean.’ didates sat well with the country.| He shied away from giving detaus} as to who were in the group of| prominent Republicans he repre- sented, though he did not deny being backed by Pennsylvania’s Oil Man Pew. This, of course, was DeMarginyls CHIEFS OF 3POWERS MAY MEET B | LONDON, Nov. 18.—Belief that | Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin' will meet soon on neutral ground |is widely rumored here but without ' any official confirmation. Newspapers today printed dis patches from the United States forecasting such a meeting. i The Daily Telegraph’s dispatch from Washington asserted a “joint |declaration. on Germany, demand-| ing her surrender, is considered here as a probabe move in addi- toin to a most important military | decision.” | - | LAST RITES FOR | DR. COUNCIL HELD | TODAY AT ELKS { Hundreds (:I';I;d Auditor- ium to Pay Tribute to Civic Leader An imp}essive ceremony, marked by 'its simplicity, was held this af-| ternoon in the Elks' Auditorium for | Dr. W. W. Council, eminent Ju-| neau physician, civic leader and‘ | Territorial Commissioner of Health. The Impressive Elks ritual service, was given and the committal service REDS FORCED TOGIVE UP ! 'SOME GAINS Withdrawal Fi}sl Reverse! for Soviets Since Stalingrad r (By Associated Press) | Confronted by stiff counter-at- tacks, adverse weather conditions’ and difficult terrain the Red Army has given up ground in the Ukraine for the first time since they began their successful offensive four months ago. | The withdrawal was executed yesterday in the Zhitomir-Koro= styshev ctor at the tip of the Red Army's salient west of Kiev, and came on the eve of the first anniversary of the launching of the great Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad on November 18, 1942. Nazi Counter-Attacks | The retreat followed' a series of heavy Nazi counter-attacks south-! east of Zhitomir and in the Fastov sector in which masses of tanks and infantry were used by the Germans in an attempt to slice off the bulge of the Soviet front, A Russian communigque said the drive cost the Germans 1500 cas- ualties and 80 tanks and troop carriers. Advices from London said the Germans reported they had thrown' at least 150,000 troops in the Zhit-| omir assault. The depth of the withdrawal was not given, but the Russian communique confirmed the setback by the laconic report that the Red Army, under pressure, was abandoning several settlements. Tactical Maneuver | e Military observers, however, be- G“‘I scou ieved the withdrawal was not on a » arge scale, but a tactical maneuver & designed to prevent the encircle- ment of the comparatively small advance guard. They explained that a light mobile column of tanks and motorized infantry led the Rus- sian drive through Korostyshev and Zhitomir, but the bulk of the Red Army forces were unable to main- tain the pace. | No mention was made of the de- velopments in the battle on the Crimean Peninsula, but dispatches from the front indicated that fog and rain were immobilizing both sides. gao, f1 t Head T - RECHITSA FALLS T0 REDARMY | | | | Important Rail Link fo Len- ingrad Is Captured Teia Maru after the Americans left it. , u. S. Air Punch, West And East Coming Up; | Blows for Knockouts MOSCOW CON. | MRS, ALAN H. MEANS, above, of ! Salt Lake City, Utah, has been INTERNED AMERICANS START LAST LEG OF JOURN IMPRISONED IN JAPAN after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, these Americans, par} ot lpe 1,100 exchanged for Jap nationals, relax for the first time in almost two years aboard the exc_hange ship Gripsholm at Mormu- Portuguese India. The Japs arrived from the U, S. on the Swedish liner and were transferred to the By JACK STINNETT [ WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—With- | in the next few months, maybe only | | weeks, the great air story of this | war is going to be written into the | record . In military, naval and aviation {circles here, they are positive of it. | Let's examine some reasons: (1) Military experts here say definitely that you will hear® of bombings of the Axis from western {Russia by American air forces al- most any avesk now. |say that this is a result of the | Moscow conference, there are in- dications this plan has been under- | way for quite a while. I this is true, the importance {can’t be overestimated. In spite of IR a's great ground offensive, it hasn't had the bomber strength to| disrupt communications duction in eastern and pro- Germany. If such a bomber force can be estab- | lished there in mid-winter, it may | be the bundle of straws that breaks the Nazis’ back on the eastern front, ; (2) The appointment of Lt. Gen, ! Carl A. Spaatz as chief of the new inll-Amerlcun air forces in the Med- ’iu’rraneun Even before this an- | houncement was made, Spaatz’s new {16th Air Force had started batter- {ing Weinerneustadt and the Mes- | serschmitt assembly plant there. It {was probably this raid that forced the Army high command to reves While seme | EY (International) HULL GIVES Tremendous Ovation Giv-| en Secrefary by As- sembed Houses | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—secte- {tary of State Cordell Hull, first| |Cabinet member ever to address; ‘,Congre.ss. declared today before a; joint session of both houses, “We “cnn and will remain masters of our jown fate.” b 1 Through cooperation with other nations likewise intent upon secur- ity, the decisions made at the Mos- |cow conference, from which he| \returned a national hero, point the! iway, he said, to a world free from |“spheres of influence, alliances for |balance of power, or any other of the special arrangemnts through which in the unhappy past the na-| |tions strove to safeguard the na-| leurity or promote their interests. “We of today shall be judged in |the future by the manner in which we meet the unprecdented respon-\' sibilities which rest upon us, not| alone in winping the war, but also in making certain that opportuni- REPORT ON! nt Marine AMERICANS INBOMBERS | SMASH OUT Centers in i(;r;/a‘y Raided as RAF Attacks Great Chemical City BERLIN IS HIT THIRD TIME IN PAST 7 DAYS War Workers in France Are Warned that Mass Assaul'; Scheduled LONDON, Nov. 18. — American Liberators ranged far over Norway again today, blasting Hitler's far northern war industry only a few hours after a heavy Royal Air Force assault on the German chemical center of Ludwigshafen. It was the second time in three days American bombers have blasted a section of the German war in- dustry hitherto relatively free from nerial poundings, The power station at Rjukan, about 80 miles west of Oslo, and the molybtierm mine at Kuiaben were blasted Tuesday. Today's targets were not identified immediately. Last night's RAF attack on the German Rhineland city was carried out with the raid on Berlin which was hit by Mosquitos for the third ime in seven days. Other targets are not announced but were in west- ern Germany. i The last time Ludwigshafen was. raided was on October 4. The city has the largest chemical works in the Reich, High explosives are manufactured there along with sub- marine parts, tanks, trucks and diesel engines. 3 At the very moment the RAF bombers were roaring through the | darkness on the raid to their tar- gets, Allied radio stations told the people of France to stay away from factories producing war materials as sudden attacks would be made day and night. The broadcast beamed 36 French cities and towns, includ- ing Paris, that would be targets of mass blows in the very near future, ATHENS NAZI AIRFIELDS BOMBED OUT Adverse Conditions Puf Stoppage fo Battling ties for futuré peace and security shall not be lost I Congress Giv i | “As an American I am proud of | the breadth, height and vision of| the statesmanship which moved on Italian Front ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 18-—American Alr- craft attacked two German air- fields at Athens yesterday while lat the grave side was said by the| |you ladies and gentlemen in each After Bitter Battle |Rev. William Forbes of Holy Trin-, St lity Cathedral, in the absence of| LONDON, Nov. 18. — Rechitsa, Dean C. E. Rice. Interment was in astride the Gomel-Warsaw Railway |the Elks' Plot of Evergreen Cem-|about 25 miles west of Nazi held letery. |Gomel, fell to the Red Army’ Hundreds of the late -doctor's Plunge into White Russia, the Mos- ™" SUBSIDES DEBATE | re-elected national president of the Girl Scout organization at its final session of the 27th national convention in Cleveland, O. She has been active in Girl Scout work for 13 years. (International) . 2 bombings from the South. Vapten: of (3) In spite of England’s winter gop | weather, there will be terrific raids curity.” from the British Isles in coming| Secretary Hull said he went to months. United Natlons air forces moscow at the direction of Presi. bave now, it is said, so combined dent Roosevelt to discuss basic in Over_fheavy rains, flooding rivers, re- taken for granted. ( [ “(onvided On DORIS DUKE'S DOGS | New (har e New Deal Glamour Girl Evie Robert, champion of underprivileg- ed dogs, was busy some time ago, | organizing a Tail-Wagger'st Club 10 NASSAU, The Bahamas, Nov. 18. friends, Alaskans from all walks of cow radio announced in a special DL Foscye MRp AR | _Just one week after he was ac- life—his associates in business, pub- Order of the day. Premier Stalin She conceived the idea of enlist- quitted of the murder of wealthy lic affairs and in friendship, pack-isaid the Nazi defense point an |just what was behind it This | House of Congress to adopt by | marked the beginning of whip-saw | whelming nonpartisan majorities duged: ground gperations in Lalyy {bombing. Implied is the fact that|the resolutions which favor our| OD® SWeep across to Greece was |the United Nations is now. ready to country's participation with other,™de By Flylng Fortresses and di- {match bombings from England with sovercign nations in an effective rect hits Soored e} Elevals Atrfialn, a third attack in as many days. At the same time Mitchells |bombed Kalamaki Airfield with good results. (Continued on Page Two) international cooperation maintenance of peace and se- ing blue blood dogs as charter mem- Sir Harry Oakes, his father-in-law, ed the auditorium to pay their Jast |communication’s center capitulated bers, and approached Doris Duke Ajfred de Marigny was convicted respects. Cromwell, richest woman in the j;, 5 magistrate’s court of illegal| world, now suing her husband f""‘possession\of gasoline. divorce. Doris had twelve dogs, and EVie .o "serious view” of the offense ings were sung By Mr. and Mrs. proposed that if they. were all en-|,,,; ordered de Marigny and his Ernest Ehler. rolled in the Tail-Wagger's Club it would make the pet club fashion- able, and lesser lights would follow | suit. Doris consented. “All right,” concluded Evie, makes your twelve dogs membersi and you owe me one dollar a piece| membership dues, a total of t\velv91 dollars.” iclose friend, Marquis de Visdelou! |placed under a one hundred pound ' Officers of the Benevolent and bond apiece to each until tomorTow | Protective Order of Elks, Juneau “that' When they will be sentenced. —————— MRS. WORTMAN HERE Elks’ Ritual Lodge 420, conducted the rites by ithe lodge ritual. ~ | John A. Walmer officiated as|son defending Gomel, now cut off | 'Exalted Ruler, and other officers Mrs. C. E. Wortman arrived in|taking part were Ralph Martin, “What!” exclaimed the richest}’“"““ yesterday to join her hus- |Leonard Holmquist, M. E. Monagle, woman in the world. (Continued on Page Four) d |last night after bitter street fight-| SIARIS IN HOUSE‘ ———— Floral tributes banked the front| i |of the auditorium and were on both [to the outskirts of the city yvsw-‘ WAHINGTON, Nov Magistrate Field said he took a sides of the casket. Musical offer- {ther west of the junction of the north-south rail link to Leningrad sk Hhe Keytiote talk on the Ad-|the real business of knocking m.,(mlnution on the part of all parti- ing, after Red Army units pushed day. lcratic leader a campaign against Kalinkovich, copt responsibility of inflation White Russian city 25 miles far- i ouilaws food subsidies. McCormack took the floor ‘The new Russian triumph also further threatened the Nazi gar on three side A et s AT GASTINEAU HOTEL prices, “You didn’t;Pand, Charles Wortman, well known]Howgrd Simmons, Victor Powers, 'Sitka businessman, They are guestsl at the Baranof. (Continued on Page Three) Hotel. i which prohibits subsidies, 18—Demo- McCormack told the Rechitsa’s fall opened the way L0 gouge this afternoon it must ac- The House has started the debate ‘planes: the da Martha Walker, here from Pelican o0 the bill to extend the life of the dustry City, is @ guest at the Gastineau Commodity Credit Assoclation pill ifvictories have been outstanding. | These victories, it is said here, are to Proof that once we settle down to {will stagger the Nips. | There are {the losses of German and Japanese mage to German in- ome reports are that one- (Continued on Page ’i‘wu) 4 months of lack of concentration, air |’ many other factors: their skills that they can take off . . - ! 1 ‘Brifain's’ fogs prepared to do ternational problems in the light either precision or pattern bombing. 4) 1In the Pacifie, in spite of |of those ! country | principles to which this has come to give wide-| read adherence, and said: * | Tt has never been my fortune to| ;m.u-nd an international conference | which displayed a greater deter-| ministration’s hard pressed efforts JaPs out of the air, our successes| Pants to move forward in a spirit| to ward off a direct attack on one of its methods of holding down | |of mutua} understanding and con- fidence. PCIRSR P G | CAA MAN HERE | R. T. Carter, with the CAA at | Anchorage, is registered at the Bar-| anof Hotel, Laz.sa, utilities 2080, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 82%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 55’:, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 65%:, Ken- necott 30%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 12%, United States Steel 507%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 130.75, rails