The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1943, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9503. BERLIN, LUDWIGSHAFEN GIVEN BL HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY — | ASTING Russian Forces Half Way to Hun Capital KOROSTEN | CAPTURED, | RED ARMY Anniversary of Stalingrad Battle Sees Soviefs Near Reich Border (By Associated Press) The Russian armies pushed to- ward the old Polish border from the newly captured bases of Kor-| osten and Rechitsa and brought the German counterattacks to a standstill on the lower flank of the great Kiev bulge in the west- ern Ukraine. H The capture of Gomel, White! Russian rail center, 25 miles east of Rechitsa appeared near, the Russian Army newspaper Red Star reported. Nazi forces which attacked three times in the Korostishev sector, 20 miles east of the Russian held Zhitomir, although equipped with superior numbers of troops and (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) (Drew Pearson today awards the brass ring and a free ride on the Washingten : Merry-Go- Round to “the mpst hated man in Washington”—Judge Fred M. Vinson.) WASHINGTON'~— When Fred M. Vinson stepped dawn from the U. 8.} Court of Appeals to become Director of Economic Stabilization, a lot of people heaved a big sigh of relief and figured that the tough, price- fixing days of bull-dozing Leon Henderson were gone forever. Judge Vinson, they thought, was an easy-going, soft-spdken < Ken- tucky ex-Congressman who liked to tell darky stories, relished a mint- julep and would rather watch 3 horse race than fix priges, But they were sadly mistaken. Judge Vinson does like mint-juleps. He also enjoys horse-races and good stories. But all this and more have been swept aside in his passionate campaign to stop inflation. In short, Judge Vinson has de- veloped into another Leon Hender- son—but with political savvy. He has rowed with the farmers, he has earned the undying enmity of railroad labor, he has fought the big oil companies, he has the cattle- men swearing vengeance against him, he has stamped on the toes of John L. Lewis, he has even taken on ©Old Curmudgeon Harold Ickes. VINSON V8 ICKES Once, after Vinson had stuck a large and unyielding fist in front of Ickes’ drive for higher oil prices, the Secretary of the' Interior wrote Judge Vinson a typical Ickes letter. Next day at the cabinet meeting the | two men met. “Harold,” said Judge Vinson,| beating him to the punch, “I cer- tainly want to thank you for that sweet letter you wrote me. Some people might have thought it sharp, but I know what you could have written if you had really set your| mind to it.” Even Ickes had to laugh. In this particular fight, Vinson was buck- ing the big oil companies and the entire oil industry. In angther fight, however, he was bucking the coal miners and took just as ada- mant a stand against John L. Lewis. While he was conferring with Coal Administrater Newton, President’ of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the latter remarked that there were some serious questions to be con- sidered on the side of the miners. “There's only one question for me,”- shot back Vinson, “whether we’'ve got one flag or two in this country.” (Continued on ?l? Four) AmericanLiberators MadeRaid on German Base in Norway Repair “Postal Packin 9 (4 LONDON, Nov. 19.—American Li- berators, unescorted and in the North Sea below zero weather, at- tacked and smashed the Germans biggest Norwegian airplane repair depot outside of Oslo today. Nine failed to complete the ar- duous 1,200 mile round trip. Three landed safely in neutral Sweden. Liberator gunners shot down eight German fighters RAID ALARM AT OSLO STOCKHOLM, Nov. 19.—A radio said Oslo was under a 90-minute | | | | [ | | 2 WAC PFC. SALLI HUTCHINSON. above, who works in the post of- fice at Blackland Army Air Field Waco, Tex., says. “Do your Christmas shopping,’ wrapping and mailing in November''—anc | she means YOU! (International) SERVICES HELD THIS AFTERNOON FOR ANNA SNOW Impressive Episcopal Rites at Trinity Cathedral for Pioneer Woman | Solemn Episcopal services were| held this afternoon at Holy Trin-! ity Cathedral for Mrs. Anna E.| Snow, beloved pioneer and long-: time resident of Juneau. The rites| were read by the Rev. William| Forbes in the absence of Dean C. E. Rice. Alaska pioneers, lifelong friends of Anna Snow, attended the ser- vices to pay final tribute. Floral offerings were beautiful and many. Ernest Ehler sang “Some Day We'll Understand” and “Let Me Go,” the latter hymn being an old Cornish folk-song which has been sung at the services of eacth mem- ber of Mrs. Snow's family for the past 150 years. Mrs. Carol Beery Davis provided the organ accom- paniment. Interment was in the Elks' Plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Active pallbearers were James McNaughton, Trevor Davis, Sam Feldon, Wellman Holbrook, Robert Rice, and Wallis George. Honorary pallbearers included Elmer A. Friend, Lockie MacKin- non, Henry Roden, John Reck, Dr.| E. H. Kaser, and J. L. Gray. ! New German Plane Has Six Engines MADRID, Nov. 19.—Informacione publishes a series of photographs | which are described as the first pic- | tures released abroad of the new German Messerschmitt 323 trans- port plane, said to be capable of carrying 130 fully equipped men. Photographs show a six-engined ' Aged Chieffain Had Pro- air raid alarm today although no | aircraft was seen there. This alarm was probably ,the re- sult of the American Liberator at- | tack on the German repair base | outside of Oslo. B Defails Are Given About | - SHELLED BY 'HEADQUARTERS FOR| ) Canadian Minister Leighton McCarthy signed the agreement establishing a United Nations Relief and Re- | habilitation Administration at the White House during the ceremony in which 44 countries joined. Presi- BUKA BASE w NAVY SHIPS Warships Venture Close to Target, Lef Loose from All Calibre Guns AT ADMIRAL HALSEY'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PA- CIFIC, Nov. l9.—American war- ships ventured within 200 miles of | the Japanese fortress at Rabaul for the second time this month to shell the enemy Buka air base at the mnorthern tip if Bougainville while warding off damaging blows from the continually harassing Jap planes. American troops and marines have extended the Empress Augusta Bay beachheads in all directions. It is estimated that 800 Japs have been killed since the November I invasion. JUNEAU NOW USPHS: NEW DISTRICT IIO.Ji Mar. Pefain | | claimed New Consfitu- | With the arrival in Juneau of Dr. Edgar W. Norris as Director, the long time planned Alaska district office of the United States Public Health Service, is now a fact. Temporarily, at least, headquart- | United Nafions Relief Patl_ Signed, White House i dent Boesevelt cupped his hand to his mouth as he talked across the table with Lord Halifax, British Am- bassador (leaning forward). Sergio Osemena, Philippine Vice-President (lower left), and Ralph W. Crose, Union of South Africa (lower right), watched the signing. Standing are an attendant (left) and George Summerlin, State Department protocol officer. (AP Wirpehoto) fion_was Squakhed lers of the 11th district are in the Japs Hi)ldifig Back GREATEST OF ARMADAS ON NIGHT RAID Royal Air Force Dumps Bombs on Germany- Fortresses Atfack LONDON, Nov. 19.—The great- est armada of Royal Air Force bombers ever dispatched to Ger- many, blasted Berlin and Ludwig=~ shafen last night and today when United States Flying Fortresses, with Fighter support, attacked west- ern Germany. The targets of the Forts are not specified in the first announce- ments, Two and four ton blockbusters were among the explosives hurled on Berlin and Ludwigshafen. Incendiary and high explosive bombs dumped on Berlin started large fires and the reflection it up the skies although cloud forma- tions prevented Iimmediate obser- vation of the results. It was the first heavy rulq there since Sep- tember 3. . The exact number of bombers participating in the night raid is not made known but between 770 and 800 heavy bombers participated in sonte ‘raids that' leveled Ham-~ burg. "rhe Air Ministry's announcement of last night's rald said it topped all previous assaults. Thirty two bombers were lost. ACTION IN PROTESTT0 craft with multiple gear, doors in the nose similar to those of landing barges, |Old First National Bank Building. ! {In addition to Dr. Norris, who will BY THOMAS HAWKINS |be aided by David A. Dodson, ad- ! Associated Press War Correspondent | BERN, Nov. 19.—Publication t,odayl of a speech by Marshal Petain| he never was permitted to deliver, | disclosed the aged French Chief of State had proclaimed a new consti- | tution designed to turn France| back to democracy. He also at-| tempted to decree the end of all acts ordered by his Axis collabor- ating government chiefs since June 10, 1940, the speech reveals. } ministrative assistant, there will also be on the staff two clerks, who are being transferred from their present posts in Washington, D. C. An Alaskan office will expedite details of work formerly managed through the district office in San Francisco In general, Dr. Norris will super- vise all United States Public Health | Service activities and personnel in' ! |THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. the Territory. Specifically, the director’s duties Big Fleet | Nex By YATES McDANIEL | Associated Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 19.—Japan probably will hold the The Journal de Geneve printed |y, ) de supervision of quaran- remaining bulk of her battered but the text of the address, and it gave 6 offjcers, relief for seaman in [still formidable navy in reserve further support to the reports lhw{ Alaskan ports, and’ public health until the Allied naval formations writer considers highly reliable that | otficers detailed to the Indian Serv- |venture in force within a 1500-mile Petain resigned, but the Chief of jce and the Territorial Department Wide stretch between her island the government, Pierre Laval and|of Health. He will serve as liaison |lifelines. the Nazis exerted every effort to' forestall the possibility of the resig- nation becoming effective. Marshal Petain had drafted a new French constitution along dem- | ocratic lines, but the Nazis prevent- | ed him from promulgating it and from renouncing Laval as his suc- cessor in the decree, which was also hushed up. The decree disclosed the Chief of | State’s abrupt turn from German | domination, which he previously de- clared that France was honor bound to follow because of the 1940 peace treaty. | The publication revealed that Petain was never permitted to de- liver his refusal in the broadcast| of his speech on the Vichy radio.! The failure of his decree to appear in the Official Gazette created a crisis, and the Marshal, according to reliable information, sent his; resignation to the Cabinet. Absentee Voling Supervisors Are | To Be Appoinfed WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. — The| Senate Elections Committee has ap- proved by a vote of 12 to 2, the measure authorizing the appoint- ment by the President of a four- member bipartisan commission to supervise absentee voting of merhbers of the armed forces. B —— WANT A “PIPE FLOAT?” According to the Kodiak Weekly Mirror, Beulah Dean, a waitress, tries to Sell her customers a “pipe float.” If they bite. they get a toothpick floating on a glass of water, officer to the Alaska department Federal government funds to var- ious health projects. He will review applications for funds for public health projects under the Lanham Act and make recommendations to the Federal ‘Works Agencies. Under Title 6 of the Federal Se- curity Act, funds are available in Statess and Terriories for Public Health work. Alaska receives an allotment each year. Dr. Norris, among his other duties will make recommendations to Congress on the proposed budgets. Through District 11, budgets from funds available from the LaFollette- Bulwinkle venereal disease control act, will be recommended. Alaska is the third Territory to be made a district of the United States Public Health Service. In addition to Puerto Rico and Hawaii there are eight districts in the United States proper. A graduate of the college of medi- cine of Creighton University in Ne- braska, Dr. Norris for the past 17 years has been associated with the U. 8. Public Health Service. His stations have included San Fran- cisco, Cleveland, Ohio, New York, Honolulu, Mobile, Alabama, and Hot Spring, Arkansas. For the past three years he has been liaison officer of the Third Service Command with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, where his family is still living. At the term- ination of 'the school term next spring, Mrs. Norris and their four children, Edgar, Jr., Creighton, and the twin girls, Marilyn and Marcia, will come to Juneau to join Dr. Norris. At present he is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Mr, and Mrs. Dodson, who have been living in Washington, D. C., are now making their home in the Gio- yanetti Apartments, One of the lifelines is through land recommend the allotment of |Honshu, Bonin, Marianas, Truk and | Rabaul. | 'Weatherman » Wailing f Move of Allies The other lifeline of the Japs is | through Kyushu, Ryuku, Formosa, Philippines and Dutch New Guinea. Inside shose lines, Allied sea- | eraft will be liable to almost a con- tinuous attack by Japanese sub- marines and land-based plan¥s, which could somewhat restore her fleet balance. The Allies list some 304 Jap ships sunk or damaged and this total is 200 more than Japan is known to have had at the time of Pearl Har- bor Off Weather; Entire World Now TakenIn FCCUNDER ATTACK BY ~ RADIO HEAD WASHINGTON, Nov. | progress is being retarded, Neville| | Miller, president of the National | Association of Broadcasters told the Senate Interstate Commerce |Committee, by the Federal Com- | munications Commission’s delay in ;deciding whether the newspapers |should be permitted to own their own radio stations. Miller said the FCC for more |than two years has held the matter open without a decision, letting nu- | merous newspaper applications for station permits or transfers lie idle. e FROM ELFIN COVE | Mrs. Ernest O. Swanson and Mrs. |Roy B. Elliott, both of Elfin Cove, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, | | | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—This is a book review, that doesn’t belong lin the literary supplements | No sooner had the military powers | said that we could resume talk about RELEASE OF SIR MOSLEY War Worke_rg—ilage Dem- onstartion in London —Police Called Out up a muttering crowd of war work- ers who marched at Charing Cross station in Whitehall in protest of the government’s decision to re- |lease from prison Sir Oswald Mos- , pre-war leader of British Fa- Reports indicated that a na- tionwide storm was mounting. Lon- don Bobbies also blocked the en- trance to Number 10 Downing | Street as some 200 delegates of a { suburban aircraft factory sought to |gain entrance to Churchill’s official | residence. | The crowd was refused permis- LONDON, Nov. 19— Police broke ITALY BOGS DOWN, RAIN Allied Planes Complefe Destruction of Air- drome in Greece ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 19.—Striking for the fourth succéssive day, German massed planes continued their at< ' tack in the Aegean while American ' heavy and medium bombers virtual-"" ly completed the destruction of Elevsis Alrfield at Athens. Yesterday Allied bombers struck at another eénemy air base at Lar- issa, on the Greek east coast. While slight improvement in the weather permitted a MNvely patrol activity and some artillery duelling on the Itallan land front, where Ision to see Herbert Morrison, Home | flooded rivers still prevented larg: |Minister and marched from that|geale action and :,,p mud su; |spot back to Trafalgar Square. | Here speakers said they repre- sented 40,000 war workers and drew cheers on the declaration that “If Mosley has got to die, let him die lon the gallows | /A mass meeting was called for tomorrow bogged down most of the heavy equipment of the Pifth and Eighth Armies, Eighth Army units, feeling their way through the rough country |toward the Sangro River an the, |Adriatic flank, managed to gain- some high ground north of the vil" the weather than out came Ivan' The government said Mosley Willljage of Archl, northwest of Atessa, Ray Tannehill’s 200-page “Weather Around the World.” Tannehill, in spite of his pon- tifical title (he'’s chief of the di- | vision of synopetic reports and fore- | casts in No. 1 Weatherman Francis opus, 19.—Radio| W. Reichelderfer's Weather Bureau here) is just a very pleasant fel- low that likes to talk about the | weather, even as you and I | And what a job he does when | he starts talking about it. He slows down in his stride to explain a nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, crepuscular rays and the difference | between a climatologist and a mon- soon, but 99 per cent of the time he just talks about the weather like a couple of bald Joe Doakes over the backyard fence on a sultry eve- ning. a | However, what Tannebill talks |about is the weather of the world 'and that may run his book into '(Enntrlnurd on Page Two) d on account of ill health. > 'SUBSIDY TO HOL BREAD PRICES T0 LEVELS OF PRESENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Stab- |ilization Director James Byrnes an- Inounces a new subsidy program, costing more than $9,000000 a month, to hold bread prices to pres- lent levels while permitting millers |to pay as high as parity prices for be re | | |wheat should the market reach that |level. There is no flat subsidy fig- jure per bushel of wheat mentioned because of cairying allocations .in jdifferent regions. | House coalition of Democrats and | Republicans is going ahead in the meantime to kill all subsidies after January 1, despite stout resistance. The gain {permitted better observation of the: jenemy’s strong defense lines across :lhe river, Movements were curtailed except |along the paved highways; however i‘lemporary bridges were flung by |engineers across the swollen stream of Trigno, which has risen. seven " S10CK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Now 19. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 821, Anaconda 25', Bethlehem | Steel 56%, Cnitids Wright 6%, In- iurnaumul Harvester 67, Kennecott | 31%, New York Central 16%, North- ern Pacific 13, United States Steel |51%, Pound 94.04. | Dow, Jones aeverages today are as follows: Industrials, 13230; rails, 3307; utilities, 2129,