The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1943 7 == S PRICE TEN CEN1 | — ——tungy " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLIL, NO. 951 1. 4 ALLIED FORCES SMASH AHEAD IN ITALY Aussies Advance on Strong Jap Jungle Base: mRecuNits Hull Addresses Membersof Congress JRUSS FORCES MAIN LINE MAKE DRIVE FOR BONGA Infantry, Tanks and Planes| Join in Action South " of Sattelberg ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Nov. | 30— Aussie infantry supported by tanks and waves of B-25s. have | advanced to within one mile of Bonga, the strong Jap jungle posi- tion, five miles south of ‘Sattelberg, which was captured four days ago. The capture of Bonga will straighten the bulge in the coastal trail. Meanwhile, Moisigetta, Marawaka and Mutipina airdromes, all on the southeast coast below Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, have been heavily hit by medium and | light bombers and fighters. Liberators have attacked Wewak and hit their target with 90 tons| of ‘hombs. ——————— TWO FINED TODAY IN POLICE COURT Charles Lesher was fined $12 in { | ' CONVERGEON City Police Court this morning on a | ing charge and Daisy Davis was fined $25 on a charge of being | Explaining the decisions made for future world peace at the Moscow conference, eretary of State Cordell Hull {on rostrum) becomes the first Cabinel member in history to address Con s as he speaks at a joint session. Prominent among Jisteners are Vice-President Henry A. Wallace (left, beside flag, and sorderly. fiynk s disgrderly Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex.), ( The Washington Merry - Go- Round oo reason - Woman Mayor (Mator Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | Diesin East the Supreme Court always follows | I es ' n a S the election returns, and it Llogkx-‘ 5 as if the British Government hasj . y taken a tip from Mr. Dof)ley.wll\t: BerthaK. landes, Chief Fx- ready they are maneuvering b 5 k U. S. Republicans in cast; Roose- | ecutive Ofcl'y One Term’ velt should not be’ re-elected. That is the interpretation placed Had Stormy Career SEATTLE, Nov. 30—Mrs. Bertha upon an unpublished episode whx_ch; took place in London while the Five | K, Landes, former Mayor of Se- attle, died yesterday at the home WASHINGTON—Mr. Dooley said | Flying Senators were there. of lhei five, three were Democrats, two Republicans. But Brendan Bracken, | British Minister of Information, es- pecially invited the two Republicans to dinner — Senator Brewster of | Maine and Senator Lodge of Mas- sachusetts. The three Democratic Senators were not invited. Since Bracken is not only a member of the Cabinet but one of Winston Churchill’s very close friends, this-in itself looked signi-| ficant. More significant was the conversation which followed. Only other guest was Bruce Lock- hart, author of “British Agent” and now British attache in Moscow. During the early part of the dinner, the two Englishmen talked chiefly of the importance of the war in the Far East and how the British were planning a vigorous campaign against Japan after Germany was | 4 | TED PRESS licked. Conclusion of the 5-hour- long evening was devoted to this| MRS.BERTHA K. LANDES highly significant thesis, exrmunded:of her son, Dr. Kenneth Landes, at by Bracken: |Ann Arbor, Michigan, members of “president Roosevelt has been a her family here announce. great leader and we have worked in| Activities in civic work and wo- splendid cooperation with him. Butzmen‘s organizations led Mrs. Bertha should the Republicans come into K. Landes into politics and to the power in 1944, we could do business | distinction of being the first wo- just as easily with you.” |man mayor of a metropolitan city After it was over, Maine’s Sena- in the United States. tor Brewster went back to the hotel| Stormy Acting Period room he shared with New York's| Her election as mayor of Seattle, Democratic Senator Jim Mead. lin 1926 was a sequel to a brief but “Youd better tip off your boss‘swrmy period as acting mayor while in the White House about his fickle |chairman of the city council. friends, the British,” advised Brew-| In 1922, Mrs. Landes was named ster. by the mayor of Seattle on an un- Senator Mead has not yet been|employment committee. She became able to see his boss in the White |fascinated with her work and her House, so has not yet reported.iactivities led to a suggestion by However, Brewster gave his own!(riends that she run for a place in frank opinion of the matter to Sir the city council. Gerald Campbell, high-ranking of-| The first woman in Seattle to ficial of the British Embassy in|seek that office, she was one of charge of public relations. |three candidates elected from a Meeting Sir Gerald in Portland, field of 21. Chosen for a second Maine, Brewster pulled no punches|term, she became chairman of the (Continued on Page Four) oo (Continued on Page Two) ¢ next to Wallace). (AP Wirephoto) F:i_rsl Seatfle Wants Government fo Salvage Canol Projed!, | ¥t WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Repre- sentative Norris P on, Republican of California, recommended the Government “salvage as much as possible” of the Army’s $100,000,000 Canol project and use the excess equipment there to explore and develop the Navy's huge oil re- serves in Alaska Poulson told the House in !speech the project was one of most ‘“questionable possibilities, had proved to be definitely very cost- {ly and was an unsatisfactory ven- ture.” The Californian said he believed a BY JACK STINNETT | | { \ { ( | | l | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—When (and observers here insist that is ]the word, for “if') Finland gets out of this war, none will be hap- !pier than the legion of Washing- ton friends of Finnish Minister !Hjalmar Procope (pronounced proe- coe-pay). | Few diplomats have had a more difficult situation to cope with here than Envoy Procope. None has car- "Tied it off -with greater skill. Three years and more ago, little bleeding Finland had the sympathy of the | United States and a lot of the rest of the world in her one-sided strug- gle against the Russian invasion. Millions of dollars were poured into Finnish relief funds and $20,000,000 of lend-lease was earmarked for Finnish aid. In those days Finland |was fighting an enemy allied with Germany. | Then came changes in this crazy global war, and Finland, again in the scrap, was discovered battling on the side of the hated Nazis,; against our great ally—Russia. It is-tribute to the rare diplom- the Navy is partly responsible for -| later, ThenDevelopin Alaska Ithe Canol project as it knew the Army was developing an oil field there that did not compare with the Naval Oil Reserves, which num- ibm' four, in Alaska. | Poulson said he asked the Navy {what was being done about the de- | velopment of the Alaskan field. and |was told it “had been considered | seriously for the past several years |by the Navy Department and was |being investigated by the Army {and Navy Petroleum board.” | Poulson said the colmate at the }Alaskan_n-srrves is the same as io Montana. Finns' Diblomacy Is Work of Art; Procope Master of Situafions acy of Procope that not only has |there been no outright severance of | diplomatic relations 'between this jcountry and Finland but that he |and his attractive wife, British born Margaret Shaw, have continued to | be two of the most socially popular members of the diplomatic set Procope is 54, but in spite of graying hair, looks as if he were in his early forties. He is tall, straight, slim and handsome. If he could be compared to any one on the international scene, it would |be Anthony Eden, for he was the “boy wonder” in Finland’s foreign affairs. He entered the Finnish parliament in 1918 and two years when he was only 31, was named Minister of Commerce and Industry. He served a stint at the League of Nations and by 1928 was convinced 'that the League as then constituted was a failure, He came to the United States as minister in 1938 and was imme- diately one of the most popular of the diplomatic set. In 1939, he (Cmmnu:d on_ Page Two) RAIL CENTER ¢ Forward on Six Sec- fors of Long Front IMOSCOW, Nov. 30.—The R\ls-‘ sifin armies rolled steadily westward six sectors of the long front, three in White Russia and three! in the Ukraine, and are doggedly battering their way through for-| ests, swamps and plains, and through the densely spotted and| heavily fortified German defense | works. | \The greatest pr(;gress is report- ed in the Zhlobin sector northwest, of captured Gomel, where General Rokossovsky’s troops are converg- | ing in a pincers movement on that rall hub fortress guarding the Gomel escape gap. Red Army spearheads have captured Stryeshin, 12 miles south of Zhlobin and zed 40 villages in a smashing drive from the west toward Zhlobin. Another column of Soviet troops has plunged further west to a point 12 miles south of Bobruish and 35 miles northwest of Zhlobin on Gomel-Minsk Railway. Other advances were recorded in the Ber- ezina and Pripet River valleys west e - 'of the Dnieper River. The Red Army has also pierced the German defense lines at Cher- kasy to establish a bridgehead on the Dnieper River and have re- duced to less than five miles the width of "the corridor Nazi garrison within the city and the German forces holding the area between Cherkasy and Kremchug. TARGETS IN "REICH GET HEAVY RAID Daylight Attack by U. S, | Heavies Supported by | Allied Fighters | LONDON, Nov. 30—The United | States Eighth Air Force heavy bomb- | ers attacked targets in western Ger | many by daylight today, setting a | record of eleven major raids in one month’s heavy operations from bases in Britain. Following on the heels of last inight's Royal Air Force Mosquito bomber raid in the same general area, American heavy bombers sup- ported by United States, Royal Air Force and Dominion Allied fighters performed the mission. | It was announced that the varied | bomber support was a rare com- | bination, as the big bombers are usually accompanied only by Am- erican fighters. 1‘ ——————— | | i | HITLER MAKES |10 2,000 MEN, | LONDON, Nov. 30—The Berlin‘ 'radio has broadcast a speech it 'said was made by Hitler nine days| ago in which he told 2,000 young |officers that if the +“nation loses| |this war it will cease to exist.” Hitler is quoted as saying: “In |this struggle ,only one ideology can | (win and the other will be destroyed | | mercilessly.” | The broadeast did not explain the | delay in releasing the address. ! > | WORTMANS RETURN HOME | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wortman, | who have been in Juneau for several | days, have returned to their Sitka |Rules of the road will be explained ' distilleries and the bourbon will be home, passengers on an Alaska |and discussed. All boating men. are resold by the states after the stock Coastal airliner. | linking the ~ Develops New Disease Foe “F SUBSTANCE,” similar to penicillin, is being produced by Dr. Philip Schonwald of Seattle, pictured here with Mrs. Schonwald, in the doctor’s laboratory. bacteria in the test tube. “F Sul one respect. in London. in Seattle, without the aid of any i stance” has been used successfully in about seventy-five cases thus far. Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai Shek Confer InCairo, Is Report Now WINS AGAIN 4 | PURCHASE IS STRAIGHT TALK | Actress Anne Gwynne (above) of Universal has for the second time been chosen “pin-up girl” of Yank magazine, distributed to service- men all over the world, according | to a neotification she was just re- ceived. (AP Wirephoto) COAST GUARD AUXILIARY T0 MEET HERE TONIGHT Tonight at 8 o'clock the Guard Auxiliary will meet in council chambers at the City Hall Coast invited to attend (he session. He is observing the effects of the extract on All penicillin is produced from the strain first developed Thus, penicillin preduction is restricted. is developed directly from the spore of fungi that abound in the air | i 0 | bstance” differs from penicillin in “F Substance” mported agent or catalytic, “F Sub- OF DEFENSE IS CRACKED* Eighth Army Drives 4 Miles Forward - Americans in Hea\lf_ighfing ‘ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1IN ALGIERS, Nov. 30. - The British Eighth Army has cracked the main winter defense line of the Germans at the Adriatic end of.-the Italian front by driving four miles forward from the Bangro. In 36 hours of continuous day and night fighting, Gen, Montgom- ery's forces have captured portions of the vital Sangro ridge northwest of the river and routed the Nazis from the town of Messagrogna. Simultaneously United Nations units of the Allled Fifth Army have fought forward one mile through blistering enemy shell fire to occupy the town of Castlenovo, northwest of Montaquila, while, clawing up the Sangro Ridge, which rises 750 to 1,000 feet above the river valley, British, New Zealand and Indian (troops also widened their bridge- head to 12 miles. The advancing British have cap- |tured numerous prisoners of the 65th 4 {dm transmissions. the NEW YORK, Nov. 30—Reuters has - received a dispatch with a | dateline of Lisbon that says: “It is| | known here definitely that Roose-| velt, Churchill and Chiang Kuil Shek have completed a long con- | | ference at Cairo and are now en-| route to Iran to meet Stalin.” | An Associated Press dispatch from | | London said this Reuters dispatch | | has not been distributed by Reuters | in Great Britain, however it was | transmitted through London and reached New York by normal ra- The Censorship authorities at | Washington have said ‘there is no objection to publication of the dates lined Lisbon Reuters dispatch in the | United States SOMETHING SCREWY LONDON, Nov. 30.—Prime Minis- ter Winston Churchill celebrated his 69th birthday today and the offi- cial spokesman said he is “work- ing as usual” No ceremonies were planned in London. | The Berlin radio this afternoon however announced that Churchill is attending a tripower Allied meet- ing in Cairo | Bi - — — o LIGUOR MADE PUBLIC ;Washington', _ | trol Boards Buy Million | Cases of Bourbon SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—Liqlor his- | y;mry was made in the Pacific North- west last night when members of the Oregon and Washington Liquor. Control Boards voted to go ahead and purchase 1,000,000 cases of Kentucky Bourbon whiskey, in the| first purchase from distilleries ever| made by the liqguor monopoly of (the two states. | The sgle price is $6,650,000 at the infantry division who are described as - “bomb. happy,” - tridic 3 were shocked and demoralized by the heavy bombing and shelling. Heavy fighting by Americans dur- ing the past 48 hours continued to- day around Falcpnara Mountain where Castelnuova was occupied. Enemy artillery bombardments in- creased there and in other sectors of the Fifth Army front. Allied aircraft joined in the blows on the Germans in their mountaji entrenchments and on other instal- lations, and also extended their operations to include an air attack on the Yugoslav city of Sarajevo, where the assassination of Arch- duke Ferdinand and his wife in 1914 touched off the first World War. American Mitchell bombers made the raid, hitting an explostves factory and an'enemy barracks. HUGE TAX LEVY AGAIN BROUGHT UP Administration Relnews Fight But Objects to Any Sales Tax WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The Administration has renewed its al- ' most hopeless campaign for ten billion and one half dollars in new taxes but fought off the sugges- tion of a Federal sales tax. Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau told the Senate Finance Committee the Nation's skyrocketed war in~ come could well bear that amount in additional taxes but this argu- ment was rejected by the House when it voted the tax bill out te two billion one hundred and forty million dollars, ) Morgenthau and his aides spurred arguments that less Government spending should be done but did say the sales tax will be entirely unfair to low income families and will be more trouble than its worth. l1s divided. : Shopping Days Till CHRISTMAS 21