The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, DEFEAT GERMANY, JAPAN, SAYS EDEN Nazi Bastion Captured By BIG GEEMAN Shorfage of Goods | i | | | BASE TAKEN _BY SOVIETS Sirategic River Port Taken in Bloody Battle for Kiev Bulge LONDON, Dec. l4. — Cherkasy, the last remaining Nazi bastion in the middle of the Dnieper River between Kremenchug and Kiev, has been lost to the charging Red Army, the Berlin radio says, as Vatutin's Pirst Ukrainian Army furned the die ‘against von Mannstein in a bloody battle for the Kiev bulge. | Cherkasy is & strategic river port and main rail line, linking Minsk and Gomel with the Odessa sea and Black Sea. Capture of Cherkasy paves the way for a junction of the Russtan forces operating out of the Kremenchug bridgehead with those on ‘the southern edge of the Kiev salient. . Earlier reports said the Russian (Continued ol_: fage Two) The Wanhingtnnl BYDREWP!ARSON (Msjor Robers 8. Allen ea aciive duty.) | WASHINGTON — Diplomatic ap- nervous distraction. The proceed-| praisals of the Teheran Conference ' have gone much deeper than the brief communique issued by Stalin, IS DIVOR(ED screen star Deanna Dur- bin, (above), 21, scarcely raising her !voige: above o whisper, ‘today testi- 'fied in Los Angeles, according to |Assoctated Press dispatch to the Empire, that contant criticism of her film and radio work by her husband Lt. (j.g) Vaughn Paul, USNR, 28, kept her in a state of ings took less than 10 minutes and the little actress was granted a di- vorce. The Naval Lieutenant and For Civilians fo Be Feltin (ommg Year BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Don't be surprised if you really feel the ipinch of merchandise shortages in| the coming year. | This year's 80 billion dollar buys| ing spree of a war-prosperous popu- | 1ation, combined with reduced pro- duction of civilian goods, is cut-| ting so heavily into supplies that| stocks are nearing depletion in ni |number of important but unname- | Inble artitles. Many shortages hnvel been postponed only because in-| ventories were at record shortly after we entered the war. { The public is familiar with the| shortage of metal products, their imanufacture for civillan use having | |been stopped or sharply curtailed, | Buyers also know about the scar-| jcity of rayon, paper and paper nov-§ | elties, aleoholic beverages and cloth- | ing for a record crop of babies. Reduction In Supplies | WPB and OPA authorities aren’t | ;wllmg the public about comingj {shortages in many specific items because they fear such information | might touch off waves of panic-! buying. A general mdicator, how-' ever, of the reduction in supplie: is the Department of Commerce:es... timate that stocks-of dufable llnme‘ {furnishings in department smres |declined by $202,000,000 in the year| ending last June. WPB plans to have the produc-! ftion of certain civilian articles stepped up from time to time to! meet “minimum cssmun] require- | ments.” The use of mor: steel ‘was authorized for the manufacture this fall of kitchen utensils, bed levels | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1943 Russian Forces PRINCIPALS AT TEHERAN CONFERENCE M-MM (onter), am- Prime Ministor- Winston Churchill; (sight}, i ‘on“the porch of the Bus- sian Embassy at Teheran, Iran, during.their four-day conférence at which they drew plans to concentrate the total military might of Russia, United States and Brit: conference made by U. Air Force.) Women Fliers Malnng in on a “relentiessly increasing” basis guaranteeing victory over Germany. . Army 12th Air Foree photographers and released by the War Department in Washington, This is the WESTERN ( Roosevelt and Churchill. In the:Deanna were married almost two view of the Diplomatic Corps Who'years ago and thus tumbles what know. some of the inside things that!was considered Hollywood’s most| happened before Teheran, there Wlulsucc:ssml marriage. They met on be one all-important but llme_-no-‘a major film company lot in 1940. ticed result: R From now on wi (o) - ste e cut o porst, ne ved see. INDIJAN TROOPS CRACK CENTER, NAZI DEFENSES Number of Pnsoners Taken she wishes, a vital eventual influ- ence in freeing India. on lfalian Front-Bomb- ers Hit Yugoslav Port To get the full significance, re- member that, for more than a cen- | tury, Teheran has been a symbol of rivalry between Britain and Russia. It has been the meeting point of the spheres of influence of the two nations in Iran. The British for years have controlled Iran south of Teheran; the Russians have con- trolled Iran td the north. Jealously and vigorously, the Bri- tish have guarded the Gulf of Per-| sia to prevent Russian influence| from creeping down toward India. Likewise, they have supported the! buffer state of Afghanistan to keep the Russians from encroaching south. But now, stony, stolid Stalin has secured the most important Rus- sian political triumph in 100 years of battling with the suave, astute ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 14—Indian troops, |attacking in the center of the Bri- tish Eighth Army front in Italy, crashed through the German de- fenses and, captured a number of prisoners. Canadians 1 along the Adriatic ‘ma casualties. Coast hurled back Nazi armored! attacks, wrecking tanks and inflict- | British. He forced the Prime Min- istér of Great Britain ‘(who once vowed not to liquidate the British Empire) to come to Teheran to meet him. He also forced the Presi- dent of the United States to do likewise. : [ | RUSSIA CAN FREE INDIA l And sitting in the Russian Em- bassy (a building which the Bri: tish for years have watched so cnre-l fully) in the very center of ancient Russian-British rivalries, Staiin; and Churchill agreed on joint pol- idtes. Even if the Gulf of Persia and Russia’s long-coveted outlet to the sea were not even mentioned in their conversations, the mere selec- tion of Teheran for this meeung was far more t, 4 11 long-range viewpoin| ’e communique about* drive, against Hitler. For it meant thaf, nmr :& Russia will be sitting asf Indian Ocean, whers”She can’rfach out and touch India. 1 also meant that, no : maltey - Churchill feels about nbw, the question of its (uum lnlopond tinued on Page Four) strohgly ¢ Activity on the Fifth Army front is confined to artillery duels and patroling, particularly in the Liri Valley. Nazi prisoners taken by patrols sgjdiithe German Tenth Army suf- fered heayy losses in ‘the recent mountain fighting against the Bré- tish and American troops when they captured the he!ghths west of Mig- nano. In the war in the air, American; Mitchells attacked the German oil| depot in the Yugoslav port and also blasted warehouses at Subenik, far- ther up the coast — eese Chewing Tobacco Business Booming RICHMOND, Va—M. B. Bowles, secretary of a tobacco warehouse company, claims the chewing tobac- ©o business is on the up grade. “A lot of soldiers are learning to hew,” he said, “just as they did, n the last war, and thousands of * idefense plant workers are chewing Commands and on/ the job because can't smoke.” they springs, . cooking stoves, hot water heaters, pins and needles and simil- ar articles. Refrigerators, washing |machines and electric irons may be produced in limited amounts during 1944. More To Disappear Other articles, however, will dis- appear from the market as the war goes on. WPB's Office of Clvuhm Requirements says that, owin, the need of materials in 'war pro- duction, it probably will be impos=, sible to reopen substantial manufac- ture of many items formerly turn-| ed out for civilians. The manpower shortage is an- other reason for the reduction in output of civilian goods. Workers are being drawn away from less| vital industries into key war plants. Por‘example, the GOty textile i""'I-l Iton crashed at “Boundary, 220 dustry has had to curtail produc- mi}les east of Fairbanks, near the tion although cotton supplies are|gapggian line, was the information large. The shift of workers also s ragioed to Fairbanks late yesterday hurting the metal goods repair and py Prank Pollack, head of the Al- replacement business. | aska Airlines. Distribution of goods from fac-| Hautala and Hylton left on a res- | tory to consumer is becoming a. cue flight last Wednesday searching TWO KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT BOUNDARY PAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 14.— William A. Hautala and Roswell W, | (Continued on Page Two) R e | munication “closed in” and he was | unable to give his location. Good; Are in Toughest Combat Flymg Known for Johnny Lynn, Alaska Airlines’ ! pilot who had been grounded four | | days with a broken ski. Radio com-| GERMANY BOMBED 'RAF Makes Lightning A'- _fack at Night Following Daylight Assault * o | BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — Just |why the Army Air Force has kept | |its women flyers under, censorship wraps for so long is one of those | minor capital mysteries. - AR, More than a year ago, the Wo- LONDON, Dec. 14 Royal Alr | men’s Auxiliary Ferrying Service poree Mosquito ‘bombers stabbed (WAAFS) was active but very little gestern Germany last night on the was said about it. At Camp Davis, | fourth successive night, thé British | N. C, nearly 200 WASPS (Wo- | Air Ministry said, skipping through {men’s Airforce Service Pilots), an Nazi defenses and returning to bases outgrowth of the WAAFS) are do- without any loss. ing some of the toughest combat' The raid followed a daylight at- flying known—all women traihed tack on unspecified objectives in under the direction of well-known western Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran ° ;waves of United States Liberators b d Flying Fortresses. | | Before many weeks, there will be ®" . |at lesist 500 women fivers I the L The Americagimlrmen downed 1§ 2 ., Nazi fighters to bring to 187 the WASPS. About 600 more Will be N oy pymper gof Gegrmnn planes training at Sweetwater and HOU- g,0,04 by the Eighth Alr Force this ston, Texas, and 1000 additional . o |will be awaiting training assign-| ogficial figures show that U. S. ments. That accounts for more than | heavy bombers downed 257 enemy cne half of the estimated 4,000 ell-| planes on at least 15 missions since PATTONNOW ON MYSTERY May Be Given Command of! Consolidated Forces | -Speculation ‘ | CAIRO, Dec. 14.—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., Commander of the| Seventh Army, with staff members| appeared unexpectedly here in an| unexplained mission. Patton made no effort to conceal ihis driving around in a 3-star car, the only one of that rank in the! 1area. g i | His appearance comes at a time when there is talk of consolidating |the Middle East and Mediterranean s aris-| next assignment j | ing as to what his will be. TRIP, CAIRO: The two fliers were killed instantly |gible women flyers in the country} when their plane was caught in a and constitutes one of the most downdraft at an altitude of 200 feet | surprising service = records in the when circling the field.for a landing. | var. ‘Hautala's parents reside at Clats- | aAgter 5 ot of off-the-record | kanie, Oregon. His wife is in Fail-, gierjes 1ve come to the conclusion |banks, Hiyton is from Wenatchee, ypoe tpo yelyctance to give flying| h. His wife is in the ferry com=- | o0 S0 i due was: | Tid 1 (e 51 tes. | (1) Fear that they wouldn't make | igood and that the Army Air Force| would get the bird for eveninau-j gurating the program; i (2) An innate reluctance on the 'part of the men, both pilots and |ground crews, to concede that wo- ———————— BOMBED BY | men flyers were capable of handling itae Air Force's gruelling non-com- l'BERAIORS (i | In view of this, Jacqueline Coch- ran and Nancy Harkness Love, di-| PEARL HARBOR “Dec. 14.—Army |rector of the WASPS, said not a| Liberators continued their month word, However, it is now safe Lo long series of raids on the Marshall talk a little. The girls have proved Islands last Saturday by bombms“hemselves the men have accepted a Jap cargo ship and shore instal-!them. | lations at Emidji in Jaluit atoll. | A few days ago 1 talked to a Admiral Chester W. Nimitz fl"-‘vewun fighter pilot back from the nounces that Emidji is the south-|South Pacific. He had been down ermost air base of the Japs in the to Camp Davis on a lecture mission. Marshalls and is only 300 miles| .— north of the Gilberts. * (Continued on Page Two) [ last October 20. — e+ Mass Spoilage of ! Government Goods will Be Averted WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. -lAcHon_ will be taken soon by the War Food Administration, the spokesman sald, to relieve the tight cold storage and warehouse situation and prevent mass spoilage of government-held foods. The order will be issued soon, he said, adding that more items on the list of commodities that cannot be kept in refrigerated storage will be released for civilian consumption. ——— e o o o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. ' Monday, Dec. 13. Maximum 49; Minimum 35 Rain .02 first of a series of pictures on the (AP Wirephoto from 12th AUSSIES AR (LEARING OUT NIPPON UNITS . Make Gains on Huon Pen-| insula—Bombers Are Again'ih Action A LL1ED HEADQUARTERS IN/ THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 14—Aussie ground forcés' main- tained a steady pressure in clearing | the Japs from Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, gaining two miles and pushing across the Sowi river, sup- ported by tanks. . The Aussies today are nearing of Pinschafen. Other Aussie forces continued pressure on the Jap rean gunrds north of Wareo, the important en- emy base captured on December 8. Bombers, freed from inclement ! weather, again are heavily pasting Jap positions on Bougainville. e e "HARD BLOWS' TO BE AIMED AT JAPANESE ' WASHINGTON, Dec 14.—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox predicted ! “hard blows” against the Japanese in the Pacific in the near future, At a said: “We are getting ready to drive | home some hard blows.” > FRED PAUL I DEAD PFred Paul, resident of Co.dova for 16 years passed away there re- cently as the result of thrombosis. He is survived by his wife, the former Edith MePrewitt. conference this afternoon | with the newsmen, Secretary Knox | coronary | BRITAIN 1§ PLEDGED TO FIGHT JAPAN Foreign Mingt;r Discusses Recent Conferences in Commons LONDON, Dec. 14—British For~ |eign Secretary Anthony Eden, re- porting to the House of Commons today on the Teheran and Cairo | conferences, declared the “war will be shortened”. by decisions reached with Stalin. Eden again pledged Britain will battle to final destruc- tion of Japan., | Eden told the House of Commons | that Prime Minister Churchill “has |still more work to do in the sphere where he is now.” Churchill stayed on after the Cairo meeting Iast week to confer with leaders -of smaller nations. A quicker defeat of the Axis, Eden said, 15 insured by the “close cooperation of our” niilitary plans” At the.; Teheran ~mi bétween Roosevelt, Stalin and p!g.hlll Eden declared that ":Sryym sions in Calro at the B . fcan and Chinese n-ltn. ‘on future military op:rlnonn agalnst Japan.” Japan Is m f Eden termed Japan as much a. menace to Britain s she is to the ‘Umv,ed States and China and said Britain is still a “principal in the | Far Eastern war because to destroy Germany, then make a compromise pence with Japan is only to sow |seeds for a third World War.” Eden also sald that the confer- lence with Turkish President Inonu e “good hopes of a sound basis Iur luture coperation between our- selves, Soviet Russia, America and Turkey.” Postwar Coopcnum | Eden also:said be could not go: |further than that postwar cooper-: |ations between Britain, Russia,. and /the United States is assured -And |“we three can work together . so |that a recurrent threat of war ean only be met by an international order firmer in strength ‘and unity {‘thnn any eflemy can ch-l.lenn. | Eden said-there is a British. Mill= |tary Mission in the Balkans and has been theré for sometime with the forces of Marshal Tito and the Germany yesterday by Lakona on the coast, 12 miles north | British are doing everything pos- sible in supplying them with muni- {tions and other help and the Mis- sion is working to unite the dissi- vdem groups ugoslavia and have lpromuea that the war both 1Kln3 Peter'’s luvemmnt and Tito |have a to let the country choose their own fofm of Govern- ment. 18 MISSING NAVY PLANE - NORFOLK; Va., Naval officerséi and 14 enlisted men are mis$ing as a Naval patrol plane |falled to return y: y from a | routine training flightto sea. This is the annountement made by the Fifth Nayal District. Paul was Cordova agent for the| Alaska Distributors and also did a considerable, amount of auditing work. Dec. 14—Four V0l