The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7‘) I‘)43 D e— PRICE ThN CENi | m——— ] VOL. XLIL, NO. 9510. MLMB[;R ASSOClA"ll-D PRbSS GREAT WAR DEVELOPMENT INDICATED Nazis Hit Colossal Crack in Drive to Rome BIG MOVE STHARMY Tends Alaskan Victory Garden WESTERN As Invasion of Bougainville Island Began GERMANY T - SUGGESTED IN SMASH | ON FRONT HIT AGAIN ~ (OMINGUP ' !Rumors Circulafed About Sirikes Outflew Offens- | i | Roosevelf, Churchill, ive - Fifth Army Goes | Stalin to Meet On-Port Bombed i |LAST WARNING MAY | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN l BE GIVEN GERMANY ALGIERS, Nov. 29. — The Eighth P Secretary Hull Says Reports ; Royal-Air Ffi"Makes New; | Night Raids - No Al- i facks on Berlin | \ BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 29.—American heavy bombers, | supported by fighters, attacked | targets in northwest Germany | i i Army, called upon by Gen. Bernard Montgomery to hit the Germans a | today on the heels of an over- | night attack on Germany made { “colossal crack” and drive them by the Royal Air Force. N north to Rome, struck out in a new | "American Marauders also | Only 'mpa" Presenf offensive in the darkness of Sun-| streaked over the channel to | YA (4 o) day morning from its Sangro | blast Hitler's air power with a | f‘ Wal’ VIgO! bridgeheads, and are making good | raid on Nazi airfields at | il progress in the face of enemy flame | Chievres, Belgium. | | LONDON, Nov. 20, — Simultan- throwers. Other objectives of the two | eously stepped up- offensives on Allied Headquarters said the at- ST | raids are not anhounced im- [three sides of Hitler's European tarckhdelivered by night is typical| w# mediately. i fortress suggested the ')l;hfilh’”l‘v the of the Montgomery style, and is z | | stage is belng set for o proceeding, b‘;ckedyb;uv}srn?icd air By Avspciseadl Roess) '::?cd:?‘ ‘?lt,m.:’“.‘,",t i ke m:’,“h. onslaughts. The advance was car- The. Foyal | AlF. Hoeen SRS ](lnplnnvu.;u l:‘i -]d" 1;11‘01)0;:\ bf]‘ \“l rled. out by vetaran British, Indian| [from bases in Britain, blasted tar- o Dot |°‘ o Prggssons ! gets in Western Germany again ‘1r.:m|imnt London and abroad (o he | Nt and new Zealand divisions rushing forward in the night after an “ex- ceptionally heavy” artillery barrage.! last night in bold defiance to Ger- man threats of mysterious reprisals for attacks Berlin, which at-, Intensified Allied aerial assaults £ {on Germany from British bases, the Cv:\‘.‘eM?\rr‘l](crgl::;'smllra::e afs‘fih:ei:f; tacks are said to have left on2| ;‘i(|:‘:1|mt::‘| fs;n;vfct df'lmr 1:; .VVlInllx‘ ed more high ground, and in an| third of the capital in ruins. ] g “m“”""d ld‘“ _’; tal- important advance, broke up the| The raids were carvied out, the| 8t i e 043 3 RHSIOes. WITh . bas AR ARk Sarlier Soreabdtirhsts | Alr Ministry communique, says, by (BUSY landing craft swapm around transports standing off (top) Bougainville Istand, Jap stronghold in the tinue reports from abroad hinting Whst 81 Venatvy | a fleet of Mosquitoes, but the an-| Tomons, as Marines begin their invasion of the istand. Below a Marine Corps amphibious tank plows |at 2 meeting among Roosevelt: * 4 nouncement failed to disclose the| along the beach en I duty shortly after the first Marine went ashore on nnugmmu.- {Churchill and Stalin and perhaps representatives other of nations. . “Big Three” Move In connection with these reports, the London Daily Telegraph today declared that a dispatch from hmm-rmnd says there is a general h'ullug there that the “Big ‘Three” at least three Activity in the Fifth Army sector | was limited chiefly to patrol acuon‘ and heavy artillery fire, but lh"‘ (Conunued on Page “Three) The Washing ton‘ specific objectives No planes were lost in last night's | operations. | Mines were waters. Berlin sive raidless Maj. Gen. Eugene M. Landrum of Pensacola, Fla., commanding gen- eral of Adak (Alaska), did a bit of “spade work” in cultivating his Victory crop of radishes in a four-foot square box in the rear of his (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Army) BOMBERSIN 50. PACIFIC also laid in enemy | | ; , spent the second succes- night, while sirens quarters. | kept whining in Western Germany. may be planning some kind of Merr Go Round k I g g fosghaition i | ‘dl"muuc announcement, such as ?L Y ays as a l e(ome | the disclosure that approximately 1 ing Srms ‘ fh b 2S00 000 ¥ Thelfs - bokit e |last warning to Germany before launching the grand invasion of expand the already mighty British and American aerial offensive from | Britain, ! Of the total, the Air Ministry News Service said about $552,000,000 wil be spent on airfields and de- pots for the United States Eighth Air Force. By DREW PEARSON [ o o me e " ((possroads of the World™ When Present War Is Over WASHINGTON Behind the | Western Europe. | But an even more history-making event of world wide scope involving a |war and ,peace is viewed here as ;posslbl' in the light of rumors that A’eas Are Bombed_ | Chin Chiang Kai Shek might _]ap Cruiser Blasted meet with the three Alied ieaders. | Visits to Vatican Eight Wid;Ty— Scattered Army’s breath-taking cut of thirteen billions from its appropriation bill was some sledge-hammer tactics by | the Budget Bureau. And beMind i gl T i that in turn was a scathing off-the- | DENVER, Colo, Nov. The‘ | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| A Bern dispatch from Stockholm record session of the Ways and"sponsors DeStroyer ‘.nmmu‘d “Forty-Ninth State” will | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. | |said that a high personage believed Means Committee, at which Detroit’s | become the “Crossroads of - the lag. 1,000 pound bomb from a!to be Franz von Papen, Nazi Am- determined Rgpresemabive John | | World,” in ’l.!\'-‘u[?)z(uml o‘r' |Si\:d‘n:z ‘mt'ullmg Liberator pierced the ar- |bassador to Turkey, visited Ll{l D?ngell put the screws on Budget R. Montague, Canadian writer a | mor of a Japanese light cruiser and | Vatican on Friday. The dispatch Director Harold Smith. | | lecturer. },,,,ludm inside with a spectacular |$aid it is reported that von Papan's to become mg‘recen' trip from Ankara to Berlin vessel sunk or|had nothing to do with Turkish af- in an interview herc to the seven Alas- € | Montague, | called attention display war nocturnal 49th enemy Dingell, though a Democrat and 2 thorough Roosevelt supporter, sub- IHLOBIN, BIG Jected Smith to one of the most |Kan valleys, and said they “could | deinagen o the northerh Solomons | fairs. Vor Pgertis reported to hive piercing probes of the current Con- outproduce the great Ruhr indus- I Sirie This nioHib. |left the Vatican City by air Satur- gressional session. | trial devclopnwnt seven times. Be- l TY | ¥ 4 'day after conferring with First “How much money is the Army | |fore the war, Alaska had 170,000 { The Liberator was on night re—'Lu“'n Cardinal M ‘f] e spending each month?” he asked | {people living ‘there. There is room connaissance and sighted the crui- | (0 - aglione, papal Smith. ! | Sor 170,000,000 when the war is over. |ser_in St. George channel between‘l;“”l,‘;:i i gl L Great Britain and New Ireland. “About seven billions per month,” The bomb cored a direct hit and|, | Areas with the most resources will | According to the correspondent, Soviets Advancmg Along | replied the Budget Director. Ibe the leaders and these with Rus-| ! ihe oo 13 St 02 Congressman Dingell made a rapid Isia, Alaska and Canada, and Alaska ES(a e Route Afler - ? : |despite the heavy explosion fol-| g EOp8 7 ke """l““'j‘. Bt mental calculation. |in the middle, will be in a position p SOLOMONS SCEN E—_This native settlement near Kieta, lowing, Gen. Douglas MacArthur ©¢%i0n of lmportant. personalties. on Bougainville island, northern Solomons, is across the island ldoes not claim the destruction of | lrom the ‘place whue U. 8. forces have established a beach-head. {the cruiser although an observer | PErg |said there was a bright flash of |light then a terrific explosion that | 'must have torn the ship apart. ‘The action came as the Thi {teenth Air Force struck heavily at| {to be the center of industry, | crossroads of the world.” Fleeing Germans Montague said postwar travel wlll‘ 3 make the north additionally im-| MOSCOW, Nov. 29. — The Red portant because the main lines will| ! Army, advancing rapidly toward the follow the shortest routes over the'important rail junction of Zhlobin |in their drive along the escape gap “The Army,” he said, “now hssi 206 billions already appropriated | and awaiting expenditure. That means about 29 to 30 billions a month. In other words, you're ask- | ing us to appropriate at the l‘nte‘ of 39 billlions a month though thel the ‘ STATEMENT BY HULL WASHINGTON, Nov, 29--Secri= |tary of State Cordell Hull said the (current crgp of peace rumors has ke |apparently been put out to impair |the “vigor” of the Allied war effort Rellgmus Bolfle-neck Army is spending only 7 billions a month. “Now will you tell me,” continued | Dingell, “just how much money the | Army must have appropriated ahead 1 of time and lying idle for its loosf- system of expenditure?” ENSIGN Eloise English of the WAVES has been designated by | top of the world. Hitler Tells |northwest of Gomel, through which {the broken German forces are at- | tempting to flee to the west bank (of the Dnieper, are sweeping up 150 villages and seizing many prisoners. | The Russian troops yesterday ' pushed to within 20 miles of Zhlo-| Of Army Is Caused by $he i i ekt “dldaly scatuby creating overconfidence. tered areas in the South-Southwest| 10 response o a peace conference Padttis. war Sk |question, “Have you any informa- Ition which would suppert the ru- Planes Pacific mors that a German peace move H('M‘flufl'“‘l\ Sylemi either through the Vatican the of Admh.fl of South afoot other channels?” Hull L] ] s e! Iners o ‘bund.nv since the ()Hlllsl\l: bugdn”w“{d ” “I don't know that I'd call il‘ Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox | vin, a Soviet communique said. 7 ith, as sponsor of the destroyer U.S.S, o i lo?svl;}eu,mgl:x:c: b l\::u call the Tact | | Evprish, now undé construcHon st | Meanwhile other Russian forces| \““k:]’:",“ x;‘l‘l”:j“‘l'h“‘l’"‘,m’)“"\": 'l’;“_’:’ mh- “I think 1'd be safe in authoriz- that we appropriate $32,000,000 for | Kearny, N. J. The ship is named | surgcd forward to the west and| y JACK STINNETT ment quotas of the Army assigned al;uw' 200 m“‘“ “"‘ m‘»mm‘ v;m. ing you to quote me entirely in the Pentagon Building and the Army | after Eloise’s father, Rear Admiral | rl e l slmuthwest in White Russia and) wASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — The[to them. Four others are slightly o =0 =00, o0 00 oo ‘0[ s the negative about suéh rumors at What do you | Robert Henry English, who was killed 3800 Nazis in heavy fight-| Army is fretting over a new prob-|alead or just about even with the Pr every day's conference until I no- spends $78,000,000? call the fact that around the Pen- | just | plane through enemy interception | As ing extending from the Gomel ar The demand for religious Procurement schedules; three tify you to (hu contrary.” to below Dnepropetrovsk. A Lon- killed in a plane crash last January, U. S. Navy photo. (International) | lem: Vv o ministration by the boys and girls|barely behind for Bougainville, —Halsey's tagon the Army buildings 40 miles | BERN, Nov. 29.—Hitler’'s news- | 1 J 3 of road, 27 bridges, removes one | | paper, Voelkischer Beobachter, in|90n broadcast. said one Soviet|in the armed forces is outstripping| But there are seven de nrvnnnu—':{:‘:}Z‘:x’s‘:f"l‘I:,:‘ml;t_’:“"f:l‘h.;h:;‘ ullf:}:;(_‘ SIO(K 0 or " lake, digs out another lake in an- |the issue received here, Couml\"ed‘spearhe'xd was only 15 miles from|the supply of chaplains. tions which are lagging e v R u A o"s 1 d has altered the | our erm | A s S | ¢ |lery and infantry fire in battling other place, an altered the the people of Berlin how to write |Zhlobin. Brig. Gen. Willlam R. Amold, {atisioe ‘the’ past’ 10/ /daye’" Beinging entire northeast corner of Vlrginlay !their last will and testament. { 'The Germans persisted with their|chief of chaplains, says il’s recog-| " X < B o t e NEW YORK, Nov. 29, Closing Avenue around the Pentagon Build- | A dispatch received here also re- (heavy tank and infantry assaul's|nised that s the tempo of war The Asmy right now could useitn @ total of over:2,000 eneimy. JONSES | onoray iy b “Alnaka. Jdinesn’ Tmine ing? s e or n( Ofage, gl 9 e po. Y| almost a thousand additional chap- in ground action. American dead o: G e ng? L e | |ports the personnel seotion of Wil-|—— e g — | inereases, soldiers’ interest in spirit- | 1oinc General Arnold say woibided 1 “eveisd . 3000, thel tock today is 5!, American Can What was or?” stormed | helmstrasse, where the German (Continued on Page Two) ual matters also increases and that | b o e Ry . s i |80%, Anaconda 247, Bethlehem Dingell. “To hang a couple of | |gns easure Aryan records are Kept, has been o this was, taken into consideration | (o et r 1o e hray| Pokeman said ! Steel 54, Commonwealth and South 3 “ X : | their lives et the Army| Libe: . 2 3 alth and Si & extra stars onll!‘:enummn: (;;ene;al’ Sh il aatroried by fire e I Samit of the o TR . o0 olieiian b the Pianihi Merting ‘Illl‘lllll' ‘fifln,::.g;‘f t‘l‘:‘ u:“ l:;.,mim‘l‘f k leu.uu: bombers have momkd}un 11/16, Curtiss Wright 6%, In- B. B. Somerve! reward for do- | Th mcom Allied bombing raids WEATHER REPORT ®|program. What wasn't anticipated | . o 8 300 and 500 pound bombs on theternational Harvester 66':, Kenne- i hat he damn pleases—without | WASHINGTON, Nov. e . ¥ batants and carry no weapons, the Bl from Ci e ” White House mnnoumu Prmduu Wi e (U784 B was (1) that the soldiers' interest | instunces where chaplains accom- oy airstrlp at the northem Hplcott 20%. New York Central 15k, permission from Congress. ot A o ei Tn 1ag Phat| GO, soUTH in things spiritual would expand 85 pany their charges Bint inta tha|of Mougsinville laland ‘and Miteh- | Northern Pacifi¢ 12, United States — Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Knowles|® Temp. Saturday, Nov. 27 e |rapidly as it has and (2) that there e, e o ouy €Ul medium bombers followed the|Steel 49%, Pound $4.04 front line foxholes are so n s g i, 165 Are 50 WUMETOUS pombing with strafing on the air-| Dow, Jones averages today are as as be a 1 mplace. | drome. | follows: Industrials, 129.99; rails, of chaplains. k. | General Arnold says the shortage . | ACHOT T Only two denominations, the of chaplains is the Army's only re- More than 30 tons of bombs wen-‘:fl.‘n. ullln}xfei. 20.71 United Presbyterians and the Uni- | — ———- |also dropped on the Bonis airstrip| 7 » tarfans have exceeded the procure- | (Continued on Page Three) |at Buka, BUY WAR BONDS ARMY’S SAUERKRAUT | provides that a general term of the MONOPOLY District Court of the Third Judicial “Also,” continued the irate Con- Division of Alaska be held in An- gressman from Detroit, “what about | chorage. This means Anchorage is now court headquarters instead of (Continued on Page Four) Maximum 48; Minimum 33 would be a lag in the recruitment Temp. Sunday, Nov. 28 Maximum 50; Minimum 39 Rain .68 e o o o o o o sailed yesterday for a short busi- ness and pleasure trip to Seattle. Before returning to Juneau after| the first of the year, théy will jalso go to Los Angeles, Valdez,