The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9515. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT) = e e e NEW WEDGE SMASHED IN NAZI DEFENSE RAF, HEADED FOR BERLIN, HIT LEIPZIG | | | Block Busting Squadrons| Swarm Toward Nazi Capi- | tal, Then Turn Quickly (By Associated Press) The Royal Air Force Command, tricking the Germans with a well timed shift of targets, sent Mo: quitos roaring over lin as heavy bombers, feinting at the Nazi Capital City, then struck a devastating blow on the great German trading and railway center | of Liepzig where 1,500 long tons of explosives were unloaded. The deception drew off a great . \ (4 lnlll’?& YANKS RAID | AIRDROMES, 71 AN s 4 iy 1 3 P CAROUINE IS majority of the German night; Fighters which went into the air once more to give battle. © The block busting squadrons, headed for Berlin, then just before the main attack seemed about to break over Berlin, the major part of the armada streaked southward 90 miles to hit Liepzig from where the Nazis have been trying to suc- cor the Capital City with food sup- plies. “(Confinued ‘on Pake Two) ——— The Washington RED ARMY Germans Threalen fo Merry - Eg -Round | By DREW' PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—Plans are under way for America’s once most up- popular but most respected price- fixer to enter the U. S. Senate. He is turbulent, two-fisted, un- compromising Leon Henderson, for-' mer chief of OPA, who was fired when he refused to increase the| price of oil and when Speaker Sam | Rayburn plus Texas oil men made things too hot for the White House. Today Leon, though out of the Government, is probably New Jer-|. sey’s No. 1 citizen as far as the | American public is concerned. A vacancy has just occurred in the Senate as a result of the death of| New Jersey’s Senator Barbour, and | friends are urging Governor Charles Edison to appoint Henderson to| the interim vacancy. Born and reared in Millville, N. J., Henderson has always maintained his residence in New Jersey, and returned there on frequent visits even during his hectic years, as one of Roosevelt’s close advisers and trouble-shooters. Henderson first became promin- ent in Washington as aide to Gen-| eral “Iron Pants” Johnson when Johnson headed the NRA. Later, he was appointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission, then to the National Defense Council, then became OPA Administrator. DIAPER LEND-LEASE Senator Styles Bridges, New | | | | CLOSING IN ONZHLOBIN |Germans Counteratfack at Cherkassy-Rain Halts Action Near Kiev LONDON, Dec. 4. — The Red| Army, sloshing forward through | knee-deep snow and mud, is clos- ng in from two directions on Zhlo- bin, important German-held rail| and communications hub and june- | ture of the Gomel-Minsk-Lenin- grad-Odessa - 'Railways in White Russia. < Far to the south other Soviet forces plunged deeper into the Ger- man lines west of the Dnieper River | bridgehead and below Kremenchug, and hurled back fierce counterat- tacks aimed at the up-river Soviet positions in the Cherkassy area, a communique from Moscow reported. There was no mention in the Soviet bulletin regarding the de- velopments in the Kiev bulge, where the Germans sit astride newly recap- tured Zhitomir and Korosten on the Leningrad-Odessa line, but| Berlin broadcasts said no clash of major importance had occurred in| that rain-soaked area for the past| 30 hours. Hampshire Republican, is conduct-| ing a one-man investigation of the| most novel type of lend-lease aid FBI MAKES so far to come to light—diapers for| Arab babies. | Bridges wants to find out why,; at a time when American mothers| are having some difficulty getting diapers for their own infants, we have shipped the equivalent of| 690,000 diapers to the Free French| in North Africa for distribution among the Arabs. The textiles diyision of the Lend- Lease Administration sent one ship- | ment of 450000 yards of diaper cloth—equal to about 600,000 dia- pers—and another shimpent of 90,- 000 ready-made “didies” to North Africa early this year. through miners’ strikes. Lend-Lease officials contend that| Ickes made this statement in ask- we will be compensated in full for!ing for a three and one-half million | this and other materials sent to|dollar special supplemental appro-| the Free French. Also, that the|Priation to carry out a plan fnrl “didy” shipments were approved by allocating available coal suppliesl the War Production Board and|this winter. General Eisenhower on the ground| The Senate subcommittee approv- that this contributed to the “econ- ed the plan under which district | BIG ARREST INNEW YORK WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes,; and also Fuel Administrator, told Congress today that the country faces a fuel crisis unparalleled in| history as the result of the loss of | 40,000,000 tons of coal production —_—_ |allocation offices are to be set up in (Continued on Page Four) « 65 cities, - NEW BRITAIN ‘Jap Bases Most Vulnerable i fo Invasion Are Kept Inoperative ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. |4 Australian jungle troops, sup- 1pmh-d by artillery are closing in on Wareo, Japanese stronghold on the Huon Peninsula in Northeastern New Guinea ¥ | Gen, Douglas. MacArthur's Head- ' { | quarters, announcing the latest pro- | gress satd that Aussie Diggers are | mopping up enemy strong points lalong the track which leads from the Allied-held Bonga on the coast WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS that the India-Burma-Chinese campaigns against Japan are about to be combined into one of the major thrusts of the war and the Navy Department statement that Nippon was expected to abandon Rabaul, this map gives a complete picture of the scope of Pacific and Asiatic activities. At the upper | right, pincer point indicates how Admiral Nimitz may approach Japan from the Kurile Islands. Centered in the map are islands already the scenes of U. S. air atfacks, The Gilberts and Marshalls have been raided; New Guinea bristles with action; the last of the Solomons has beeri invaded; U. 8., Chinese and British troops and planes begin hammering a path out of India;Logd Persian Gulf, and on Burma, and blasts against Indo- Blow Up Half of This Globe; Drasfic Strike Mo a.i8.quoted as “ready” for attacks.in the . o Chifia will increase in force. jand most vulnerable for invasion, the second straight™ day. At nga Bay dumps and. supply arges were targets for 63 tons of xplosives dropped by = Mitchell ombers. ! In the northern Solomons bomb- i | | (International) ‘cr)mmmld hit at the enemy's Kara airdrome on the south coast of Bougainville Island, and at Ballale airdrome. These enemy bases were by-passed by the Americans hold- ing the beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay. The raids are a part of 200 sorties, Adm. Halsey's head- | quarters reported made by Navy Marine and Army planes on Beu- gainville December 1 for the tenth successive day. The raiders did not encounter a inorth of Finschafen westward to areoward. The release of the declaration will To the east MacArthur's bombers be made in all three capital cities, ntinued to hit targets in the Washington, London and Moscow, | i § . t the same time. ew Britain area, that important .4 8 . It is believed that the plggest s from Adm. Wiliam F. Halsey's Plans Made fo Knock Germany from War;Big Three (onleren;e IsHeld LONDON, Dec. 4.-*The historie Roosevelt, lin, Churchill confe! ence which has been held at T { heran, Iran, has planned military action to knock Germany from the | WA, | The Moscow radio announces the | conferces have also discussed re- | lated political questions The Moscow radio broadeast said full announcement of releasable de- Nice Bow, eh! concerning the great confer- ence are expected shortly. The declaration to be made as the result of the Teheran conference will surely precribe faltering Ger- many a choice of unconditional sur- render or certain bloody defeat by history’s greatest land and air of- fensive which awaits only comple- | tion of arrangements. 9 barrage yet aimed by the Allies will hit the apprehensive Axis. Late release of the declaration is due, the Moscow radio said, to the safety of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churehill who met “a few days ago” and are now homebound. A dispatch from Mascow said the British Embassy spokesman an- nounces that British and American ambassadors to the Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and W. Averill Harriman, left Moscow a fortnight ago to attend the Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill conference and they were accompanied by heads of the mili- tary missions. ! | WEARING a perky bow atop her | | pretty head (wenope you'venoticed | by this time), film starlet Ann Sav- | age looks as enticing as a well- ANNOUNCEMENT DELAYED WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — White | | wrapped Christmas package. Since the word “wrap” got into the cap- House Secretary Stephen Early told the reporters today he did not e-x-i LONDON, Dec. 4—Again threat- ening retaliation by air, the Berlin radio broadcasts a warning stating the German High Command intends “by one fell drastic stroke to end the unbridled mass murder.” The broadcast then added: “Man- Business Men in War Effort Now Flocking Back, Private Indust LANDON DERIDES "44 PLAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Former Republican Presidential Candidate Alf Landon, derided informal pro- posals of both major parties to adopt a similar foreign policy plan for 1944 platforms, declaring that “candidate Roosevelt doesn’t stand still long enough” for his Demo- cratic policy to be defined. The 1936 Republican ' nominee, speaking to the party’s “freshmen” members of the U. S. Senate, called for one vigorous expression of Re- publican aims for the -postwar world to combat what he called the “danger of a drift towards one party in our country.” R BROADCAST WASHINGTON, Dec. Mobilization Director 4. — War Byrnes is |scheduled for a radio address Tues- day at 5 pm. PWT over the CBS to deal with holding lines against |inflation. kind is not far from the point where it can and will blow up half of the | Blobe.” The broadcast fails to mention, however, the “unbridled mass mur- ders” committed by the Germans | during the past several years. \ | B0 i BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The re- icem. resignation of Charles E. Wil- son, the General Electric executive, |as deputy director of the War Pro- duction Board again has high-! lighted the fact that business men | in the war effort are flocking back | to private industry. i However, the fact that Wilson is going back to General Electric| isn’t really a part of the picture.| single Japanese plane. Enemy anti- aircraft fire downed one dive bomber, and another dive bomber and a Corsair fighter are reported missing. | More than 100 dive bombers and torpedo bombers raided Kara and Ballale, keeping the Bougainville fields inoperative for the 40th suc- cessive day. RECORD SET, i pRoDu(Tlo“ | ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Dec. OF PLANES Nearly 9,060 Aircraft Roll’ Off Assembly Lines —r— | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — More | than 1,000 four-engined bombers! rolled out of the United States ai craft factories in November, a rec- ord month in a record year in air- {4~The return to the States of thel “fighting” Fourth Infan which almost alone held the Alaskan out- | | Lieutenant General, the battalion | tion we're reminded to tell you Ann’s is white fox. (International) pect any announcement made soon | on the Roosevelt, Churchill and | Stalin conferences at Teheren, Iran. Commenting on reports abroad of | some official announcements were expected momentarily, Early said: | “Frankly, T do not see them coming | that quickly and if they were I think I would know about it." Velerans of BE CUSTOMER | | | posts against the threat of Jap in-| vasion in the early months of the war, has been announced Regiments of the First Battalion with later participated in the grim | fighting at Attu under Major. Gen. ! John O'Reilly, who was subsequently | given a battlefield promotion to William Ba_IrDedares So-| viets Will Buy Heav- ily Irglp U.Ss. DENVER, Colo, Dec. 4.—Chair- man of the War Production Board William Batt, addressing the Colo- rado Conference on Soviet Friend- | ship, suggested that Russia for years | after the war will be a top cus-| scaled the cliffs to dislodge the| enemy from the strategic ridges of the Chichagof Valley. About 65 were killed from the Second Battalion Flown to Nome shortly after the Jap occupation of Attu and Kiska, |plane output, Donald M. Nelson, Government officials who are wor-! ried about the thinning ranks of business -executives in the war ef-| |fort are in complete accord with! War Production Chairman, said. | Military planes rolled off the as- | sembly lines in American factories more often than every five minutes | the entire force of 2,000 troops and equipment formed the largest such air movement up till that time. Under the command of Lt. Col. W. tomer of the United States and high-geared production efforts is | the only problem. Batt asserted this will be worked 'Wilson's move. The simple fact is during November and set a record | that General Electric, one of the|gp 8,789 planes. October production | biggest contractors for vital war|was the previous record of 8362 | production, needs Wilson more than planes. W.P.B. does. —— e No business man who has come| to Washington has made a” biggerikussl ANS success of his job than Wilson. As| No. 2 man in WP.B, given a free| rein by Chairman Donald Nelson,!| he snipped through red tape and| brought order out of chaos in air-| ‘plnne and convoy escort production. | | The machinery in his department {is running so smoothly that it would be hard for anyone to mess |it up. | { OKEYTRIP OF STALIN MOSCOW, Dec. 4—The Russians, have been informed Stalin left the| country in the midst of war to hold| a momentous conference with the President of the United States and| | British Prime Minister at Teheran.| | ‘The news was received whole-| heartedly by the Russian people. | Wilson’s case is an exception.| | The back-to-private-industry move- ment generally is much more com- plicated and the reasons for it are several. (Continued on rfage Two) E. Dudley, since promoted to Colonel, | out on a satisfactory basis of inter- cked in New Raid on Berlin Germans Are Tri HOW THE PACIFIC-FAR EAST SI:TUATION TAKES SHAPE FIFTHARMY HITS ENEMY HARD BLOWS {Americans Driv e Ahead Two Miles Affer Duels by Air, Artillery ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 4. — Gen. Mark Clark’s Fifth Army smashed a wedge in the German defenses after the heaviest artillery and aerial bom- bardment of the Ttallan campaign. pulverized many of the enemy strongholds, and have driven ahead two miles along the Via Casilina toward Rome. The Algiers radio reported that the Fifth Army has taken the -im- portant town of Calabritto, about seven miles southwest of Mignano. On the Adriatic front the British Eighth Army knifed ahead toward the back door to Rome and ap- proached the outskirts of San Vitc, 16 miles below the port of Pescara. They also swept up the towns of Lanciano, Treglio, Orsogna, and Casoli, all inland about eight miles beyond Sangro. British and American troops of the Fifth Army launched a full scale of - fensive on mountains guarding both sides of the Vig Casilina om the main Rome road. The ‘n)uijfi night assault almed it the divection ™ of Cassing, drove the Germans from the important Camino Maggiore height west of Mignano. A ONEMORE BIG TALK 15 COMING (By Associated Press) President Inonu of Turkey, ac- companied by Foreign Minister * | Menemencioglu and Marshal Cak- mak, Commander of the Turkish army, left today for a conference with Roosevelt and Churchill either at Tabriz or Cairo. This is accord- ing to a late afternoon broadcast by the Berlin radio. OFFICERS WILL BERETURNED T0 CIVILIAN LIFE | Twenty-five Thousand Are Scheduled fo Go- Standing Army WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—An esti- mated 2,500 officers whose services the army no longer needs may soon be returned to civilian life and another 25000 will be shifted to administrative positions and opera- tions jobs. The figures came out at a meet~ ing behind closed .doors of the the forces wintered at Nome, the'change of goods and service needed Third Battalion was assigned to the ! s - defense of the Anchorage area \F u E l ( R IS|S | The bulk of the regiment was in | | Alaska for three y under the | | successive commands of Colonels | ‘\ UNPARALLELED Gregory Hoisington and P. E. Las- tourgeon. Ly 2 1} S A Y S I ( K E s STOCK QUOTATIONS |, e vors oec o - cunor the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a cousin of Duke Alba, has been arrested at his home on the charge | |of acting as an unregistered foreign agent. E. E. Conroy, Special FBI Agent NEW YORK, Dec. 4.--Closing; quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 55, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 68%, 3 Kehnecott 30, New York Central mr yoos .xg’:&’l’;’“‘;‘:‘zx;‘y A 15, Northern Pacific 127¢, United count Nava de Tajo, and was as- States Steel 50, Pound $4.04. |signed to this country by the Ger- Dow, Jones averages today are 85 man Intelligence System to sound House Military Committee. Brig. |Gen. Miller White, assistant chief |of Staff will be in charge of per- sonnel reduction of officer strength from an approximate 650,000, and is possible by a cutback planned for the enlisted strength of the army to 17,600,000, shifting the emphasis to operational activities. i Shopping Days foMows: industrials 131.87, rails out members of Congress on the 32,17, utilities 21.40. | United States foreign policy. ) Till CHRISTMAS