The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1943, Page 1

VOL XLIL, NO. 9521. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1943 ME MBLR ASSOCIATEDPRESS PRICE TEN CENIS ‘D PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS SOFIA BOMBED; BALKANS GIVEN WARNING Fierce Battles Are Raging on Italian Front FIFTH ARMY SLUGGING ON 10 CASSINO Lunge Forward for One Mile in One Sector- Fall Back in Another | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 11.—Slugging for- ward through the mountains west of Filighano in a drive on Cassino from the “east, the Fifth Army troops plunged for a mile and gained an important point, headquarters an- nounces. Other troops have fought a fierce battle: at' the fortified village of San Pietro, seven miles southeast of | Cassino. Rallied Italian troops, fulfilling the promise o Premier Badoglio to join' the_ Allies and “drive the Nazis i e s Do Sy (Gontinued on Page Two) | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Oltater ‘Bobirt 8. Allen op ‘settve duty.) - - Bl 120 - ¥ WABRINGTON — One result of the. Big Four conferencés may be a grester participation ef small na- tions in the United Nations coun- cfls. -President Roosevelt is known to, adyocate this. Also, he would liké to shift the council meetings frotn London to Washington. The idea of greater recognition of little nations is based not only on fairness and equity, but also on the. fact that Latin American na- tions are getting ingreasingly hurt, 1f not provoked, over being left out of important United Nations par- leys. A large number of small nations are how belligerents, having de- clared war against Germany, whileq at ‘least two of them—Brazil and Mexico—are strategically vital to the war. Without Brazilian bases, for instance, it wonld be almast' impossible to ferry planes back and forth to Nosth Africa with ssuch rapid efficlency. R It was originally planned, in ad- vance conversations (prior to Mos- cow) - between ex-UnderrSecretary of State BW Welles and Rdose- velt, also betweén the President and Churchill, to include smaller mem- bers of the United Nations in an| over-all organization. A smaller council ‘of Great Britain, Russia, the’ United States and China was to guide the over-all organization, but: the smaller nations were to be & 'Very definite and important part| of the set-up. Also, “ it ~'was planned to have United Nations headquarters in the | fresher, more idealistic atmosphere | of - Washington, not in the Old World - atmosphere of London. Becretary Hull was not quite able to put these two ideas across at Moscow, but the President's per-| suabive influence on Stalin andj Churchill may do so, He considers| both items important to getting a permanent peace organization off with the right foot forward. ; TAX BILL HEARINGS What should be one of the most important tax bills in recent history | is ‘up for ‘hapbazard, desultory! Congressional discussion. It will devide what proportion of the war bill:1s. to be passed on to the boys now fighting overseas and to their children. Also, it will help decide whether there will be inflation. ll‘!‘fll" s it rhost solons on Capitol were comfpletely tax-uncon- scious: On the day after Secretary Mor- genthau presented his case at the e opening. of the tax hearings before the Senate Pimance Committee, only two members of the commit- uo—cmn-mn George of Georgia (Continued on Page Four) |black or white thread with needle -,limc picture frames, Hurry for Christmas Gifts For Juneau Boys, Also The deadline for getting Christ- mas gifts ready for air-mailing to Juneau boys and others formerly stationed in this area is set for next Monday night at the USO. The public generally is not thor- cughly informed just what gifts mean, but any 25 cent or 50 cent article, is all that is required. The gift is just to be a remembrance, that is all, ]‘st to show the “boys” they are not forgotten. The gift may be wrapped, with name of donor attached, if desired, or a gift may be taken to the USO and will be wrapped there with' gay Christmas paper and ribbon. Many are donating their small change and the USO officials are purchasing the gifts. Gifts are playing cards, pencils, | memorandum books, sewing kits. khaki hand- kerchiefs, dominoes, checkers, any small game, cribbage board, ete., are something the “boys”.need. Already over 200 packages have been wrapped as well as over 200 packs of cigarettes, the work of the ever energetic GSO girls. Today, in a show window of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, will be shown scores of the Christmas packages already to be sent to the westward to Juneau boys or former wellknown men sta- tioned here. These packages are going to Attu and elsewhere. Just think, won't it be a pleasure sometime in the coming months to receive a note thanking Juneauites for gifts, received by the “boys” on a bleak island, in a fox hole, etc? Hurry loosen up and -get busy. Monday is the deadline and for any other particulars just phone the USO headquarters. Twins Seek (onlracl Approval Lyn (left) and Lee Wilde, 20-year-old twins, went to conrt in Los Angeles seeking approval of an option in their new movie contract, and found that only one needed the judicial okay. Lyn is married and therefore is an “adult” under the law governing such matters. Lee is single and therefore still a juvenile, requiring court approval of her signature on the contract. (AP Wirephoto) Publicity Methodof - One Congressman Gefs Him 0ver in Home Area, leffect in the State of Washington |because the State has been follow- BY JACK STINNETT' ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—From time to time, I have reported here the ingenious methods Congress- mén employ to keep in touch with their districts and let the folks back home know what they are doing why. . It remained, though, for fresh- man’ Rep. Harold C. Hagen, Min- nesota’s only Farmer-Laborite, and former - congressman’s secretary and newspaperman, to introduce me, and |71 bet you, = | | | i l I { Where \place,” ACCIDENTS OFF ALASKA COAST For Former Men of Area TO BE PROBED Three Liberty Ships in | Trouble-Seattle Water- ' front Says Seven SEATTLE, Dec. 11. — Investiga- tions of the breaking in two of the 8. S. John P. Gaines in the North Pacific off the Shumigan on November 24, will delve into similiar cracking of at least two other Liberty ships in Alaskan |waters, the Seattle Post-Intelligen- cer said today. The newspaper said it has been that both of the other two ships are reported to have made port safely, one tboug learned authoritatively a year ago and the other six montl ago. One lifeboat, with ten men a- board, are still missing from the John P. Gaines. The Post-Intelligencer names only three Liberty ships split at sea ‘but the waterfront reports “place a toll of vesaels at seven, all { in Alaska watex s.” REDS LOSE GROUNDIN | KIEV AREA Soviet Army Contmues fo Hammer at Approaches to Krivoi Rog LONDON, Dec. 11, — Gen. Evan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army | has expanded the Cherkasy bridge- | head in the great Dnieper bend and driven into Cherkasy itself a DNB broadcast reported. To the southeast Soviet troops are making continuous attacks in . | heavy snowstorms in the area where Ithey are hammering ' at the ap- :pmnches to Krivoi Rog and Kirovo- grad. Moscow admits heavy revers- {miles northeast, where massed Ger- man armor has driven Gen. Vatu- tin’s forces back to an ‘area south {of Malin, and only 55 miles west of the great Ukrainian capital. rail junction of the German supply |system at the Dnieper bend to Gen. | Konev's veterans after three days of heavy fighting was announced ilast night. ,Washingfi_n State Dads To Be (alled to something brand new. Briefly, Congressman Hagen ro- tates his secretarial staff and each new secretary who 'serves for a week or more is a' pewspaper edi-|® tor, columnist or editorial writer in ® Hagen’s ninth Minnesota distriet. l' Wes Meyer, 33-year-old editor of |® the Detroit Lakes (Minn.) Weekly|® Tribune, was Hagen's first “secre-|® Maximum 47, Minimum 33 ® ' Rain 1.76 (Continued on Page Two) o o o o ® o o o TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 11— | Despite Presidential approval of ‘the Father Draft Bill, Col. DeLong, | State Director of Selective Service, says he expects to call from 1,500 to 2,000 fathers in -January. The bill will have virtually no ing a policy measure because the “oply single men we have left in the State are in deferable work and the bill provides these are the last to be called,” said DeLong. . £ . L] L) WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. for Priday, Dec. 10 es00 000 Islands | | “violent fighting is taking | The fall of Znamenka, central Marine FIameThroV(ersl(iII Japs,largwa Isl_ggd Little was left of the bodies of one of three Japanese soldiers when Marine flame throwers moved in on the enemy on Tarawa Island in the Gilberts group. Fighting, to take the island was one of the fiercest { mt;axemean in the Marine (‘nrps history. | F.D.R. VISITS CARTHAGEON ~ RETURN TRIP (Gen. Eisenhower Given | Defailed Reporf on New | Vidory Sirategy WASHINGTON, uec. 11.—Presl- | dent Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower a de- | | tailed first hand report of the Allfes’ | newly-completed victory strategy on his 48-hour stopover in ancient Carthage on his trip home, This was disclosed at the. White House in the latest series of dispatches from the Presidential party, belatedly telling of the places the President visited. At Cathage, President Roosevelt as Gen. Eisenhower’s guest, stayed at a villa descriptively called the “White House,” a sparsely furnished guest mansion overlooking the Medi- terranean, and inhabited by the Nazis until they were driven out of | Africa this year. Gen. Eisenhower previously met the President at Oran and accom- panied him to Cairo where he took part in some of the strategy dis- cussions at Cairo. was not given in the dispatch, which HAS ANYBODY SEEN SMITH° MADE UP ENTIRELY OF SMITHS, this five-man crew recently ferried a | four-motored bomber ‘overseas from the Sixth.Ferrying Group, Air i Transport Command, based at Long Beach, Calif. They are (l. to r.) Capt. Claude W. Smith, Kilgore, Tex.; Co-pilot Raymond S. Smith, Dallas, Tex.; Lt. Frank S. Smith, Glenburnie, Md.; Sgt. James F. Smith, Comstock, Tex., and Sgt. N. L. Smith, Birmingham, Ala. (International) es, however, in the Kiev bulge, 200 ~ former White House correspondent. There is no comment here, bu London speculation is that Presi- dent Roosevelt might visit the Brit- | ish capital. German radio broadcasts picked | up in this country report that the| President is “somewhere in southern Italy, and it is supposed he will pay a short visit to the front. Rumors that he will meet Marshal Pietro Badoglio are denied % BIGU-BOAT ATTACK IS BEATEN OFF Five German Undersea Craft Sent Down in Atlantic Action LONDON, Dec. ll —Five German U-boats were destroyed and three others damaged recently when a “strong concentration” of at least 20 underwatey marauders sought to attack two valuable Allied convoys in the Atlantic. This is the announcement made today by the Admiralty and Air min- Istries. The action prevented launching of “any concentration attack” and more | gaining strong support and un-| The date of the visit to Carthage | than 99 percent of the total number |doubtedly every state in the west of escorted ships reached port e came from Maj. George Durno, |safely, | AREAS GIVEN JSOUTH PACIFIC BIGPOUNDING Cape Gloutester Bombed | " for 11th Day-Insfalla- fions Are Strafed = | t T ! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec: 11— | Gloucester, New Britain Island, has | been pounded _from the air and | Mitchell medium bombers, hitting targets from a minimum elevation, | nave delivered the ldtest attack m a series on New Guinea. I" Tremendous explosions Have res | sulted from the-attacks on enemy | supply sections. ! | Coordinated naval action has re- !sulted in setting fire to a tanker,| _|and PT boats have sunk five loaded | | barges in the New Guinea and New | Britain sectors. The Australians captured the | jungle supply point of Warea on| Huon Peninsula and are progress- | ing northward. In the Jatest attack on Cape Gloucester, Thunderbolts escorted | Mitchells ‘and scattered 48 tons of bombs along the shore installations |and also strafed bivouac and barge Bad weather has virtually halted operations -of Admiral s:»lomnns Air Force, STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA BIG URGE States fo Have Planks in Their Platforms | For the eleventh straight day, Cape' Hu]aey's’ ‘RepublicanfiEWesIernf HEAVYBLOW SMASHED ON BULGARIANS Allies Pour Explosives on Capnalflly ~ Mabs Yell leoaw BULLETIN -«MNDON. Dec. 11—~A broadeast from the Cairo that Sofla is under attack again today by swarms of" Allled bombers. (By Associated Press) With a mighty air blow on Sofia, capital city of Bulgaria, the Allies vesterday drove home a warnin: ‘o Hitler's Balkan satellia*~ {of the war, Amid mounting signs : |the Bulgarian and Hung. ernments are faeing a show: o their own masses are dem: peace. The Sofia radio broadcast” se waves of Allied planes dumped ex- plosives on' the city and nearby sections for . 105 - minutes at. the height of what ‘gppeared 'to be a Bulgarion government crisis. A few hours later dt was ounced that Parliament members been sent home for one week in a move sug- gesling an attempt is bejhg made to stem the growing demands for peace. The Sofia broadcast also said the Allled bombing attack had caused great destruction to property and many persons were killed, result of the bombing was aropnd. railroad centers and troop barracks !in the Sofia areas. Members of Parliament rushed to raid shelters. For the past two days, Dobri Bojllov, pro-Germarn Bulgarian Pre- mier, has been tryhg to hold to- | gether. his sagging regime after a vote of “no eonfidence.” The Bulgarian Foreign Minister is also said to have resigned. 50. CALIF. RAIN, WIND SnoW in Mountains, Low- lands Sogged Down, | Highways Closed | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11—Many mountain areas of Southern Cali- fornia are today blanketed in heavy snow, and several highways are closed. On the lowlands, highways are |also closed in many places, and {the lowlands are sogged under the jwinter's first heavy downpour. A lashing rain and wind storm and Priday morning) sections doing great damage, es- peclally in the Santa Barbara and | Venthra areas - estimated «‘at - least to citrus and olive €rops. Ten ofl derricks have: been wp- |pled over at. Santa Barbara. Five fishing boats ‘have been driven ashore, and it -is “belleved with some Joss of life. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 11.—At a western states Republican conclave here, Fred Baker of Seat- tle, GOP Committeeman from Washington state, submitted a plat- form plank proposing unmedlnle statehood for Alaska. Smith said the suggestion ls will have an Alaska statehood plank ‘m their platforms. nl Days Till CHRISTMAS 11 | Balkan dispatchés reaching Swed- . ien said the greatest damage as the IS HIT BY - (just like Juneau Thursday night - hit several - 1$100,000, and damage is also. done