The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9506. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTY BERLIN BLASTED IN HEAVY NIGHT RAID JUST 1 MORE JUMP MADE TOKYO WAY Abemama ficcupied by Two Units - Jap Ship- | ping Reported Sunk (By Associated Press) United States Marines have land- ed on Abemama Atoll, expnndlng{ the American wedge in the Japan- ese mid Pacific ‘outposts in the Gil- bert Islands, while in the south-| west the Australians drove to with- in a half mile of the enemy’s strongly defended plateau position on Huon Peninsula in New Guinea. The MacArthur communique also; reported the destruction of 19,000 tons of Jap shipping in the south and southwest Pacific, including eight and four thousand tonners. The Marines and Army troops ex- tended their beachheads at Tarawa, 80 miles northwest of Abemama and are making progress, but the Japs are still fighting back stub- 'Women Secretaries of Senators Going fo Pull 0ff March; Watch for If By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Hope Ridings Miller, society editor and commentator for the Washington Post, has got herself a cause and it's a honey. Hope is carrying the torch for those women secretaries of the Senators who are barred from the Senate floor. This is an ancient OIL PROJECT DRAWS FIRE ;. . . o L] Ea £ GERM ANS ARE‘ TWO ARE ELIGIBLE |® | FOR POSTMASTERSHIP . IN CITY OF JUNEAU | |o i o WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.— J | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond announces the Civil Counferatfacks—New Offensive Reported ALLTIED, HEADQUARTERS IN NAZI BLOWS AT HEARING Secrefary Ickes Says Entire custom, not a rule. The rule says nothing about sex. It merely states that clerks to committees and clerks to Senators, in discharge of their | duties, may walk the Senate floor. By custom, however—a custom dating back to the days when wo- |men’s suffrage was considered an Project ""Ought to Be Junked Now insufferable subject — women are T |barred from the Senate floor. Al- WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-—Secre-|though the custom has been broken tary of the Interior and Fuel Ad-|down to allow the petticoat Sen- ministrator Harold L. Ickes de- ators to take their seats, it has nounced as not “in the interest of never been relaxed for female sec- the Government” the $130,000,000 retaries. United States-financed Canol oil: The male secretaries patter in project in Canada, and said it was ' and out without a challenge. The undertaken by the War Department | ladies cool their heels at the cloak- without prior consultation with his‘mom entrances, while Senate staff | ALGIERS, Nov. 23.—A strong Ger- ) |man force launched a sharp coun-| pulSED BY ter-attack on the British Eighth i lines northwest of Agnone RED FORCES Army | byt were beaten back after two| |hours’ of fighting, official reports Soviet Advances Made in Widely Separated Sec- tors of Long Front {from the front discloses. | Agnone is in the inland sector| {on the Eighth Army front and was |the Sangro River against the Nazi s “extreme left wing” along the Adri-| MOSCOW, Nov. 23.—Probing in atic Coast but numerous violent yain for a soft spot in the Red {captured Sunday by Montgomery’s tack “with strong forces” north of attacks were “halted and one local Army lines west of Kiev, the Ger- o ‘ |® rvice Commission has noti- § |® fled him that Alice Coughlin e i . nd Crystal Snow Jenne o; St . %n been declared eligible e | . = the postmastership at Ju- {Eighth Army Repulses e nea. . . . . . . . LI ) | troops. A Berlin broadcast picked up here dent sealed off.” No Allied confirmation of this |said the British launched an at-| supposed Eighth Army offensive is | mans yesterday shifted their coun- terattacks further to the north. | Strong forces of enemy troovs, - Accused of Los sl ®/ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| After Gen. Patton left the tent ALGIERS, Nov. 23. — Allied head- | quarters today denied that Lt. Gen. | George “Blood and Guts” Patton |was ever reprimanded by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and said he is {still in command.of the American Seventh Army. Drew Pearson, radio commentator, Ibroadcast Sunday night from Washington, that Gen. Patton was “severely reprimanded” and that Eisenhower expressed’ the opinion Ithat Patton would “not be used in combat any more."” Pearson said Eisenhower's repri-| ymand followed an altercation in-| | volving Gen. Patton, a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital, and | the medical officer commanding tbe | hospital. | Pearson said the argument began | {when Patton ordered the soldier ) | from his bed and the medical officer | intervened. | Headquarters said: “Gen. Patton | |is commanding the Seventh Army; | has commanded it since it was ac- {tivated: is continuing to command it. Gen. Patton has never been "Blood and Guts” Pation ) | ing Temper, njured WS”o»_Idiqe'r hespital, the soldier demanded to return to the front. His request was refused at the time, but after a week of rest he was in good shape, and returned to his unit at the front. Drew Pearson, of the Washington | Merry-Go-Round is thus corrobor- ated in the broadcast made not- withstanding any Washington ae- | nial. ) SOLDIER WHO WAS SLAPPED, WRITES DAD SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Nov. 23 —Herman F. Kuhl, Mishawaka cas- ket miker, today brought to the South Bend Tribune a letter his son, Private Charles Herman Kuhl, 26, in which the young man wrote: “General Patton slapped my face yesterday, kicked me in the pants and cussed me.” | The letter indicated the soldier | was in a Sicilian hospital. The RAINED UPON NAZI CAPITAL Fire and Devastafing Ex- plosives Thunder Down ~Thousands Are Killed (By Associated Press In the heaviest aerial bombard- ment in history, the Royal Air Force engulfed Berlin last night as fire and devastating explosives thund- ‘ered down from 1,000 bombers. First hand reports from Berlin correspondents of Stockholm news- papers told graphically how de- struction ran through the very heart of the city, wrecking government buildings and foreign legations. “Berlin can never recover from this blow,” the Afton Tidningen sald this morning, quoting its source and saying further the Industrial areas were still burning from the heavy raid of last Thursday night. Berlin was smashed again this morning as strong daylight forma- letter was dated August 4. i tions of bombers roared acoss the Kuhl wrote: “This probably won't English Channel to add further go through but I don't know. Just weight to the growing Allied effort office. {messengers try to find their bosses s’ {neavily supported by tanks and Teprimanded at any time by Gen.|forget about it in your letters” | to wreck the Reich by aerial assault. bornly at Tarawa at least. A communique from Adm. Ches- ter W. Nimitz announced tersely: “We have landed on Apamama (Abemama) Atoll.” (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion Merry-go_-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robers §. Allen on sctive duty.) | Ickes asserted it “ought to bejand persuade them to leave the junked now,” and departing fromfloor. The ladies. Hope says, are pretty the prepared statement to the szn-‘l ate’s Truman Investigating commit—imdlgnnnt about the whole thing tee, he said: land are planning a march on the “It never would have been under- Senate floor if something isn’t done taken if we had had anything to |about it soon. They figure that if say about it. We might as well have (it ever comes to a shQwdown, saved the $130,000,000 it is estimated|Charles L. Hatkins, parliamentar- it will cost completed. It is notjian, and Vice President Wallace, or sound business judgment to buy;whoevcr else happens to be presid- something worth nothing, and that ing, will have to rule with them. will have no value after the war, in|As a matter of fact Watkins al- order to benmefit the Imperial Oil ready has tipped them off in pri- Company and the Canadian gov- vate that that would be the only ernment."” | possible ruling. Ickes' statements were concurred| A check of the Senate discloses 24—or exactly one-fourth of the {in by Rep. Gavin, Republican of | WASHINGTON—Republican Sen- ator William Langer of North Da-| kota and Democratic Representative John H. Tolan of California are still plugging for their proposal to; convert the spacious underground Senate garage into sleeping quar- ters for servicemen arriving at near- by Union Station. However, it looks as though many of the servicemen ‘will continue bunking on benches in the crowded railroad station. So far, Langer and Tolan have received negligible support for their ideg, especially from Senators, who do mnot relish giving up their steamh-heated park- ing places in the garage. The leg- islators are smart enough not to air their views publicly, but there has .been a lot' of undercover sniping at the Longer-Tolan scheme by the powers-that-be on Capitol Hill. Recently, Senator Francis Ma- loney of Connecticut requested the views of Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, chairman. of the potent Rules Committee. The multi-mil- lionaire Virginia apple grower re- plied that the Rules Comanitiee “has | nothing whatever to do” with theE garage. “My own personal judgmen continues’ Segator Byrd, “is that it would be costly to make this gar- age suitable for living quarters and that it should only be done as a last resort. I should think there are other buildings available which could be utilized at less expense.” NOTE — Actually, it would cost very little to convert the garage into sleeping quarters, chiefly the matter of providing cots, of which the Army has thousands. The hun- dreds of servicemen streaming| | Pennsylvania who said: “There are a billion barrels of oil waiting in the earth to be coaxed out.” His, home district called for the “im-! mediate scrapping” of the Canol! project. Leroy Whitney, technical consult-; ant and WPB Chairman Donald/ Nelson testified later in the day that the WPB facilities board was told the Canol construction involved “military strategy” not subject to Senators—have No. 1 secretaries on the distaff side. One of the better “red tape” stor- fes going the rounds these days is|B! on Chester Bowles, OPA chief, who really has cut a lot more than he| bhas unwound since he came to Washington. Fred Vinson's economic stabiliza- tion office called to ask Bowles just when he was going to issue a price its review, when they sought infor- mation on the development. The| board, Whitney said, abandoned its effort in January with a letter to| the War Department which went; on. record as believing that it would | be “an entirely inadequate return” for this Government’s expenditure. i I(nofi;pd}ls On Landings In G_ilberls WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Land-| ings by American marines on three islands of the Gilbert group was described by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox as “the beginning of a new campaign against Japan {rom‘ the Central Pacific on a much; more direct route toward Japan.” Knox said the two principal stra-| tegic objectives ahead in the cara- paign are, first to drive the Japan- ese out of the mandated islands, and second, to shorten by hundreds freeze order on a certain product. brisk Mr. Bowles. “You mean,” asked his questioner, “currently like a rabbit or currently like a geologist?” A lot of southwestern congres- sional delegations are sore as & boil on the subject of Fred M. Vinson, | Economic Stabilizer. { Tough, two-fisted, Hold-the-line |Mr. Vinson first placed the ceiling (price on cattle-on-the-hoof ‘below {what their cattlemen, constituents were asking and only a few days glnter denied the oil producers a | recommended 35-cents-a-barrel in- Icrea.sg in the price of crude. Some day soon, an analysis of Mr. Vinson’s rulings will be forth- coming. One thing can be said right now: he is one man who is NOT running for vice, president—or any other political office. A hand for Gentry Wales, in the | War Department’s Bureau of Ord- inance. Under the program which urges all employes to suggest ways made a suggestion that aholished his own job. To the credit of his bosses, Wales wasn’t fired, merely transferred, and he was given the $100 award for his valuable sug- “It'Il be up currently,” said the| and means of cutting corners, Wales| through Union Station every day|of miles the American supply linesi gestion. The British and Americans are planes are reported attacking in pushing slowly ahead in their sec-|strength in the Chernyakov sector, tors through mud and heavy rain.|15 miles northwest of Korostychev, |at | same time continuing to ¥ exert ‘pressure in- the Korostyshev New Naval . ;the Germans have only come up against a stone wall in the Russian !defense of Korostyshev. | Pield Marshal von Mannstein |launched a fierce drive against | Chernyakhov, but this too crumbled in the face of determined Red Army resistance. ! | The Soviets continued their own & ‘offensives in widely separated sec- PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 23.—Cre- tors north and south of the Kiev) ation of a new Naval Command in bulge and advances were registered the Pacific under Vice Admiral southwest of Dnepropetrovsk, south Raymond A. Spruance, hero of the ©f Kremenchug on the lower attle of Midway in June 1942, is reaches of the Pripet River, west announced by Admiral Chester W. 0f Rechitza, and north of be- Nimitz. |leaguered Gomel, anchor of the The new Command of the Central German line in the north. Pacific Forces base is now an- nounced. e PLANS ARE BEING " MADE FOR PEACE, (Charles Ray Passes Away UBAONDIPUTE 1y Hojlywioo looking toward a quick return of an orderly government for Lebanon, HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 23.—- sets up through action on the Charles Ray, 52, who gained nation- | French Committee on National Ub-lal fame for his portrayal of a eration includes reinstating Presi-'country bumpkin roles during silent dent Khoury and promising to ne- screen days, died this. morning after {gotiate the question on the coun-la long illness. etry's full independence. Ray, who made a fortune only to The committee announces its de- lose most of it through an. ill- cision after hearing Harold Mac- starred venture as film producer, Millian, British Minister to French was in the hospital for the past North Africa, stress the importance| five weeks suffering from a malig- gate General Jean Helleu from Beirut “and ordered the liberation of Premier Sohl and two other min- isters, arrested by Helleu, in a re- pressive measure following the Leb- anon parliament’s vote to sever ties | with France. . # : SIm wo“"m ‘ STOCKHOLM, Nov. 23. — The | German radio stations were shut | down late this afternoon and early NEW *YORK, Nov. 23. — Closing i { The elder Kuhl told the Tribune | another letter received from his son, | Eisenhower or by anybody else in !this theater and no report has ever The Afton’ Tidningen, in an extra edition this afternoon the pre- recapturing Zhitomir, ! of safeguarding the peace of the nant throat infection. His only | |strategic middle east area, by elim- y,own survivor is a sister, Beverly {inating any further disturbances. Ray. 1 The committee also recalled Dele- ¥ RADIO STATIONS, 'IN GERMANY ARE 'NOT BROADCASTING lreuched this headquarters of any Isoldle\' refusing to obey an order by | Gen. Patton.x. ki SOMETHING DID HAPPEN; PEARSON RIGHT; PATTON IS GIVEN CABTIGATION | i ‘ | ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN/ | ALGIERS, Nov. 23.—It is disclosed | officially that' Lt. Gen. George S. | Patton apologized to all officers {and men of the Seventh Army fot | striking a soldier during the Sicilian | campaign. At the same time Allied Head- | quarters said that correspondents | ! might reveal all the facts they' | knew of the incident which since last August has been one of the | main subjects of discussion among | the soldiers in this theatre. While Gen. Patton was not re- lieved of his command of the Sev- enth Army and not given a rormnl’ reprimand, he received a castigation from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower such as is 'Seldom administered to a |‘commander of an army. ] Strange Story . The story is a strange ene, the | story of a general whose excellence lis admitted by all who in the heat | ofbatsle lost his temper and later iadmmed he was wrong and mnr\eg | amends. | ‘The incident consisted of this, ac- | cording ‘to eye-witnesses: Gen. Pat- ! ton slapped a shell-shocked soldier !in. a hospital tent because he thought the soldier was shirking his ‘duty. In a fit of fury during which he expressed sympathy for the men really wounded, but made it plain | he didn’t believe the soldier before I’ him was in that class, the general | struck the youth in the rear of the | head with the back of his hand. | Doctor Intervenes ‘The soldier fell over slightly, and | | 'his helmet, which he was wearing, fell off and rolled over the floon. of the tent. The nurse, intent on | protecting the patient, made a dive | toward Patton, but was pulled back { by the doctor in command of the hospital, who then intervened. Gen. Patton then went before other patients, still in a high temper, | | expressing his views, and returned | o the shell-shocked soldier, berating him again. The soldier appeared dazed as the incident progressed, but offered to return to the front, and tried to rise from his cot. told of a soldier being taken te liminary estimate of dead or injured North Africa for a hearing on the as at least 10,000 persons. PRESLEPLP S S i FDR Requests | Postwar Aid | mitted a “very large number” of persons were killed or injured in the “terrific terror raid.” Two Attacks There were two attacks according to the Stockholm reports. : The first attack came early ahd when the all-clear signal was given people swarmed from their shelters. They had hard]y reached the streets when sirens howled a second time, thus many were trapped outside the | shelters, For V_elerans WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has sent Congress a | Casualty lists mounted, the cot- respondent stated. The force of the RAF consisted formal request that it do some- almost entirely of four-engined thing now about providing for mus- ! bombers taking off from Britain tering out pay, unemployment al- ‘lnbe in the afternoon for the 600- lowances, and social security credits mile flight. They delivered the first for men and women in uniform. | attack around 8 o'clock last night. In addition, the President urged | The blasting was the heaviest, the legislators to “enact without even greater than the terrific raid delay” a measure setting up an un- | launched against Hamburg when employment insurance system for | that city was demolished, the Merchant Marine. The steps he | specifically requested of Ccnzuw' were part @f the program of mini- mum assistance to those serving | the country he outlined in a radio ; address last July. 1 This time, however, he omitted the proposal that persons serving in the Merchant Marine be givei mustering out pay., ) g i Invasions on Large Scale Now»P!anned WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Indi- cating large scale plans for future invasions by American * armies, Chairman Vinson of the House Nav- al Affairs Committee, has intro- duced a bill cglling for the con- struetion or acquisition of five bil- lion dollars worth of landing craft and auxiliary vessels. Vinson said he is acting on the Navy Department's request. A companion legislation appeared in the Senate where Senator Walsh Twenty-six bombers are reported to have failed to return. Observers said that despite. the solid cloud overcast, a great.sea of | flames could be seen 70 miles dis- tant. i The tonnage dropped was greater than that dropped on Hamburg on the lagy, disastrous raid on that city. SEN.BARBOUR PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME Third Member of Congress to Die During Past - * ; Iwflays WASHINGTON, Noy. 23.—United States Senator Warren Barbour, 85, of New Jersey, died at his home late yesterday as-the result of cor- onary thrombosis after an illness of several days. He is the third’ mer- now must depend on the limited ac- commodations of the nearby United Nations' Service Center — formerly the Capitol Park Hotel—at rates ranging from $1 (dormitory) to $3 a night. MARSHALL'S MEMORY For a long time, Jim Farley and Mrs. Henty Wallace were supposed to have the best memories around Washingten. But they have a real rival in the Chief of Staff, General Marshall. Returning from a warfront town, Marshall held a press conference. " (Continued n Page Foun to the southwest Pacific. { When the marines gain conzroll after battling the Japs from Tar-! awa, Makin and Abemama, the| supply lines, Knox said, can be| drawn much shorter and in a more direct line. “No elements of the enemy fleet were seen, and the attack has ot yet pulled the Japs out of their| shelter,” the Secretary of the Nnvyi said, He added that the nearest’ enemy fleet in strength is pl‘esum-| ably at Truk, major Jap base in! that part of the Pacific. b i BUY WAR BONDS SNOW STORM HITS _STATES, NEW ENGLAND NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—A heavy snow storm threatens to shatter New England November weather as Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, recorded & record 23 inch fall which has been felt chiefly in upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 80%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 56, Curtiss Wright 6%, In- ternational Harvester 67, Kennecott 81%, New York Central 16, North- ern Pacific 13%, United States Steel 51%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 13245, rails 33.29, utilities 21.10. ———l e PAA MAN HERE Emerson Bassett, Sectional Oper- ations Superintendent for Pan Am- erican Airways arrived here yester- day from Whitehorse, evening. This is possibly an indica- tion the Allied forces are attacking ‘,ans to their knees through air- | power. Reliable reports this afternoon declare the German Foreign Office building was among the many gov- ernment buildings destroyed in last night's terrific raid. AR R, MRS. MORSE BACK Mrs. Sam Morse and daughter Suzanne arrived last night on the boat. from Seattle, where they have been visiting rélatives for the past three weeks, agaln in' a campaign to force the | | The general then left the hospital | | without making any further inves- tigation of the case. Facts Are Given ‘The facts concerning the soldier were later ascertained. He is a regu- lar army man who enlisted before | the war from his home town in the | south. He fought throughout the| Tunisian and Sicillan campaigns and his record Is excellent. He had been diagnosed as a medical case| a week previously, but refused to leave the front, and continued on| | through the strain of battle. He| ber of’ Congress to die in two days. the Navy to build or acquire one| Barbour was a Republican and million tons of landing and patrol |[oPPonent of Mayor Frank Hague of introduced a measure authorizing ————— time amateur heavyweight boxing Dwight,. Morrow. says Benito Mussolini committed| Gov. Edison of New Jersey will champion. IS SUICIDE, REPOR The death of Barbour leaves the suicide in an Italian villa, There is|name a Democrat as temporary was finally ordered to the hospital by his unit doctor, craft, and two and one-half million |Jersey City. He was a millionaire tons of auxiliary vessels. thread manufacturer and at one Barbour was appointed to the Senate in 1932 to succeed the late LONDON, Nov. 23.—A roundabout |Senate with 57 Democrats, 37 Re- Reuter dispatch from Stockholm,|publicans and one Progressive. no confirmation of the dispatch|successor to serve until the election which came via Switzerland, next November, . o e