The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1943, Page 1

- - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9517. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1943 - : MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TURKEY JOINS ALLIES IN FIGHT ON AXI Fifth Army Captures New Positions in Italy South Pacific Islands Are BombSmashed | NAZI DEFENSE LINES GIVEN HARD SMASH American Infanfry Takes Possession of Domin- : ating Positions U. 5. Warships ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN i ALGIERS, Dec. 7—Fifth Army in-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN fantry crashed through Nazi de- THE SOUTHWET PACIFIC, Dec. fenses in bitter asaults to capture 7.—The 300-mile length of New the most dominating positions in an | Britain and all of Bougainville have | area 25 miles square overlooking |been blanketed by bombs dropped‘ the road to Rome, while on the by Allied planes in a new series of east cast of Italy, British tanks air blows. rammed across the Moro River. | wWith guns of the United States A headquarters officer describ- | warships adding to the destruction | ing the battle in the vital Monte on the west coast of Bougainville,| | \Blows Are Struck from Air ~Also by Guns from | HOPE FOR SAFETY OF 11 MISSING Lifeboat of Liberty Ship, Which Broke in Two Off Railroads Are Eyeing Posi-War Trade; Drop In Fares May Be Step } i (oNFEREN(E WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—While BY JACK STINNETT East Indies | Recaptureto HEAVYSNOW Defeat Japs Soviefs Confinue Offensive'MacArthur Staff Officer Aimed at Clearing Gives Views af Cairo Dnieper Bend Conference REDS DRIVE | ON THROUGH | | all eyes have been centered on the | | postwar future of aviation, with s Moy Be ound | |5 APPROVED | SEATTLE, Dec. 7. — Both | BY Russ NS | ocgasional distractions as to what the automobile of tomorrow will be hi Coast Guard and the Navy h‘l’)l;? out some hope for the safety of | Stalin Arrives Home After Hazardous 1,700-Mile like, railway men have been quietly 10 or 11 men in a lifeboat, miss- | Trip fo Teheran ! mapping postwar plans for the | battle of the century in a fight to ing since the Liberty ship, John P.| Gaines broke in ‘two off the Shu- | hold passenger traffic when peace comes. magin Islands, southwest of Ko- diak on November 24. Seventy sur-| vivors arrived here aboard two! Army transports. The Navy said there is a fair chance of recovering the lifeboat | | Railway Age, one of the maga- izlnes of the industry, has just com- |pleted a survey which will make | the overall plans of the rail men | public for the first time but many of us in the capital have known Camino and Monte Maggiore areas the Japs have fallen back on the that something was in the wind. i | LONDON, Dec. 7.—Driving across ek | the bleak central Ukraine south-| CATRO, Dec. 7.—-One of Gen.| west of Kremenchug in an offen-| pouglas MacArthur's staff officers | (sive apparently aimed at clearing |in a review of the Pacific war said: | |the great Dnieper bend, Red AMmy| ] think we can beat Japan with-| {troops under Gen. Malinovsky sev-| gyt landing an expeditionary force jered the German's vital railway line | on the Japanese mainland.” {between Smela and Anamenka 10| . orricer who was at |dpreaten the important stronghold | Gairo conference maintained thut 0F ST |the Japs could be throttled by con.- | Twenty-three miles farther west,| | | L bined American air and naval forc: | {the Russian communique said, a| the |es with the isolation or recapture| AGREEMENT IS REACHED, CONFERENCE Roosevelt, Churchill Have Three-Day Talk with Inonu in Cairo BULLETIN—CAIRO, Dec. 7.— Turkey, in effect, moved into the Allied Camp when = President Inonu, sitting with American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill, in the climax of a fateful series of conferences, agreed upon “the closest unity” and complete “identity of inter- ests” with the United States, Russia and Great Britain. of the western sector declared, American beachhead at Empres: s|and the Coast Guard and merchans| MOSCOW, Dec. 7.—The Soviet | Representatives of the industry|Powerful Soviet artillery and air| Whether this means outright of the Netherlands East -Indies uin ) participation in war or neutral- ity under which Turkey might cede bases as did neutral Por- tugal, is not revealed in the terse marine section issued a statement government, through its newspaper |p, | ere in Washington have been barrage crumbled the German d""whicn isayihg the missing boat “had gaso-|Izvi | stia indicated in most empha- | working behind the scenes for some|fenses in front of Smela, rail divi-| line tanks full, and Raymond J.|tic terms its complete satisfaction | time, because it is here, in rate S1on M miles northwest of Znamen- |y o | Havreck, oiler, who is very compe- with the results of the Teheran | hearings before the Interstate Com- | K& Pl “We now hold the most important | Augusta Bay. features of that sector, roughly five| American patrols are moving a- miles long by five miles wide.” | head on all sides without contacting the Japs lean heavily for| their supplies. He said the Amer-! are confident the Indies Drive Across Moro River i'h:e f;’fa'wzh" MacArthur CommMU-| ot “and familiar with gasoline|meeting of President Prankin D. | merce Commission, that the plctare| TWenty other towns including Al- |S'UP ¢an be taken. | ommm P Sy soe Adsiaie, e oL fue e | 0 TS oA . [engines, was in the hboat.” | Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston |ultimately will be given its public|xandria and Divovka east of An-| (The dispateh did not name the | tonight, man Tenth Army line, Gen. Mox.i- e Aussie force on the coas 2 Nevertheless, the joint state- The - missing lifeboat contained Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin.|unyeiling, lamenka were overrun, while goo|Officer. Barlier, Maj. Gen. REhAR | one Naval seamap, geven soldiers) This full official approval wis| Atready, there is a move on foot|Cermans were killed and 17 tanks|S: Suthetland was listed as repre.| and three Merchant Marine crew | expressed after Premier Stalin re- reduce passenger fares before|destroyed by the Red Army squeeze,| SNUng Gen. MacArthur at Cairo. (of New Guinea has moved three | [fourths of a mile beyond Kalueng River, north of Finschafen. ment saying Russia joined in gomery’'s tanks and infantry drove inviting Inonu and Foreign Min- across the Moro River 10 miles to ebove Sangro, and in the ensuing tank battle, fought in a fog, seveiul! German tanks were wrecked. | The new United_ States 15th A} Foree struck “heavily at the Ger- mans at Elevsis and Kalamaki air- fields near Athens, Fortresses and Liberators knocking down 10 Nazi planes in a violent air battle. Kesserling Defeated Field Marshal Kesserling, realiz-| ing the prime importance of the| 1,500 foot and 2,800 foot peaks dom- inating the road to Rome, which | runs through Cassino, threw the| full weight of his divisions in a| desperate counterattack, but despite | these heavy blows United States troops captured the mountain! point, six miles west of M}gmmn,‘ overlooking the swollen Garigliano | River. Farther inland, they plunged | a mile west to Filignana, taking 40 You Brown | Bellied—mp! LONDON, Dec. 7. — Saburo Kurusu, special Japanese envoy, who was in Washington con- ducting “peace negotiations” two years agoe when Pearl Har- bor was attacked, had this to say of the war, in a Tokyo in- terview broadcast over the Ber- lin radio: “I fully believe that the re- cent defeats have increased the war weariness of certain classes in the United States to such an | members. | | Walter G. Borst, boaswain of the John P. Gaines, was in command {of; the missing boat,. . The Coast Guard statément said: {“It appears the vessel broke partly las it passed either over or be- | |tween swells and the following | swells completely broke off the for-| jward end of the Liberty. It is also claimed the forward section was| rammed perhaps by the after sec- tion after the break and before the| engine could be shut down.” | MAJOR BATTLES ON PACIFIC ARE turned safely to Moscow after the the' war ends. Some would like t the Soviets said. hazardous round xip of 1,700 miles, | gee jt right now. And the rates The drive was staged at the height during which his plane braved they are talking are one to one |of a howling blizzard ‘and threugh snow and, zero. temperatures, famla-quarter “cents a - mile g nevily drifted snpt. . The editorial referred in a broad | coaghes and one cent more for first O it friendly fashion to the accomplish- | class fares. In many cases, that| ments of the British and American would be lower than excursion rates| armies in North Africa, the Medi- | which attracted trainloads in pre-| ap terranean and southern Italy, and| g, Aays. 1 gave to Russia’s Allies their duc| honors for their contribution to- ward winning the war. | The editorial stated: “For four | days over a round table the most|ers than to win them. The tremen-| imminent statesmen of our day|dous clientele they have built up, conferred and reached complete | during war time can be in part | agreement on questions of the war|continued if fares are attractive and on the most important prob- enough. | lems of postwar organization of th- peace.” | CALVIN POOL IS ips Sent Down by Subs, 10 Days Also, because both aviation and|. WASHINGTON: Dec. 7. — The| ; Ty o g Navy Department communique an-! |auto industry will have the edge Biices It THORES 10 on them in getting new equipment ’;.'\"‘G “::'gl:llx: L\ubulnriu 5 1, | into operation. Within a few months; <3 Unl e ATRN 0 | ank 11 more Japanese i [ | | son the rail men want| now is two-fold. It is| sier, they say, to hold custom-| | | | | | | | | !the Pacific ister Menemencioglu to Mena House, the site of the Roosevelt- Churchill meeting with Chiang Shek, asserted the three-day Saey.s, : Alaska Faces Development *December 6, bas been “most use- ful and fruitful for future rela- A tions between the countries rep- resented.” The communique uses such terms as “alliance and firm friendship.” Immediate reaction in Cairo is that a full scale Allied cam- paign in the Balkans is planned | now for the future with the WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Alaska | ' | assurance Turkey will cooperate Delegate Anthony J. Dimond in| y submitting his bill to grant state- hood to Alaska said:one “com- pelling reason why I think Alaska should seek statehood now is founa- ed upon my conviction that Alaska is on the threshold of a great far- | x | | | y | | | i “(Continued on Page Six) extent as to lead them to lay down their arms, As long as Roosevelt is holding the reins | ' of government the end of the | war is not in sight. The war against Japan seems to be con- | sidered a kind of experiment in the United States. They didn’t seem to realize that the war Frederick Brandes, Sr., proprietor against China, far from ex- of the Trail Store at Angoon, is| hausting Japan, actually in- registered at the Gastineau Hotel.| creased her war production.” prisoners in'a localized assault. Heavy rains swept the Eighth Army front, and both the German and Allied armies are having diff: culty in bringing up supplies all! along the front across Italy. | FROM ANGOON . PREDICTED, 1944 CALLED SOUTH BY FATHER'S DEATH Called south as the result of his father’s death, Calvin E. Pool took passage on a plane Sunday, en- route to Spokane. Mr. Pool’s father, Calvin S. Pool, a pioneer of Colville Valley Spokane, was 82 years of age. WASHINGTON, Dec. T7.—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox predicts that major sea battles will be fought in the Pacific next year. The Secretary said “many 'major elements of the Jap fleet have not yet seen action,” although it is known that one third of the total Jap fleet has already been de- stroyed. IT IS NOW TWO YEARS AFTER PEARL HARBOR AND UN| KISKA? Vdrnans e THE PACIFIC IN R Al ~‘l§“‘; S i o HEaRgy T AP Features From Australia, where he retreated from besieged Bataan, General Douglas MacArthur has developed a continving offensive that has driven the enemy from New Georgia, much of New Guinea and the Solomons, and now threatens the Japanese naval stronghold of Rabaul. The Japs have been chased from the Aleytians. U. S. naval forces have struck heavy blows at Wake, Marcus, the Gilbert and Marshall islands, and have penetrated deeper into waters invaded and controlled by the enemy affer Pearl Harbor, U Pt Allied forces under the command of Gen- eral Dwight D. hower have routed the Axis from Africa, taken Sicily and invaded ltely. They are pushing the Nazis closer home and have removed the Mediter- ranean barriers to a possible second-front invasion through the under-side of France. near ed transports to care for all theP0Und to the hard: pressed island| Dimond said that wmkl- the lat- | routes they can fly. Within a y jout posts. est census showed Alaska's pupur:a- !they estimate, the auto industry| it -> o tion at a lu:lc over 7210?113 it has will be turning out new cars by uu_-’"“‘ EBERHARDT TAKES a much greater popul ation now, | thousands. The only advantage the| PLANE TO KETCHIKAN and pointed out that five states { railroads will have until they com.| Dr. Jacob P. Eberhardt, Medical were admitted to the Union when | pletely replace all old vuuipmem"D"‘"“"" for the Bureau of Indian the census before admjssion had with new streamliners. will be in Affairs, flew to Ketchikan today on‘shown they had a m\lxch smaller - a short trip in connection with of-| population than Alaska's as shown : by the last census, is estimated | out, (Continued on Page Two) ficial business. TED ... AN SHIPPING LOSSES* JAPANESE U TOTAL, ALL TYPES ¥As of November 15, 194 prictegrsoiaghenty o3 ALLIED BOMBING DEC. 7, 194 with excoption of non- “arnic ond Pashe | The American Navy in the Advances an land Pacific has successively beaten the Jap fleet and effected such heavy losses that the enemy’ now is hesitant to fight. The German submarine threat has been overcome in the Atlantic. Russio has recaptured about 400,000 square miles of territory, blasted the falter- ing Nazis in the Caucasus, the Crimea and most of the Ukraine. In many places the Reds now stand less than 100 miles from the pre-war border and threaten to drive on to invade the lands of the invader. w NEW AREAS NOW 600-MI. BOMBING Shopping cY" Till CHRIST! NATIONS HAVE AXISON RUN; D F, IN THE AIR AREAS WITHIN 600-MI. RANGE ] WITHIN RANGE in Evrope have opened new’ targets for Allied bombers and all Hitler territory now falls within o 600-mile flying ronge. U. S. proved their superiority on all fronts, de- stroying more than four enemy planes for ‘avery American ship knocked out in action. Army warplanes have