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LAND ON GULF
Troops Storm Ashore Un-
der Cover OF Smoke
Screen Saturday
COMMUNICATIONS CUT
Macarthur Declares That
Investment OF Lac Has
Begun

AL E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC, Monday, Sept. g.
P)-A powerful Allied force,
comprised mainly of Austral-
ian troops, has landed on the
coast of Huon gulf east of
Lac, New Guinea, isolating
the Lae-Salamaua area from
supply bases up the coast.
"'The investment of Lac
has begun" said General
Douglas Macarthur who is in
New Guinea in personal COM
mand of operations.
Striking with paralyzing
force, the Allied troops storm
ed ashore under cover of a
smoke screen Saturday morn
ing after Naval forces had
prepared the way with a
heavy bombardment. The Jap
anese apparently were caught
unawares.
Coordinated Attack
"In a coordinated ground, air
and naval operation, our troops,
in heavy force, have successfully
landed on the coast northeast OF
Lac, cutting the enemy's line OF
communication to Finschhafen and
the north coast of New Guinea, "
communicate said.
1.-The movement was complete
surprise and the landing was made
with little opposition. The move
ment to invest and isolate the Lac
Salamaua area is now underway. y
Lac is one of the principal Japa-
nese bases in central New Guinea.
1t lies about IS miles northwest OF
Salamaua, where American and
Australian troops gradually have
been closing in on a strategic enc
nv airdrome.
Six hours after the successful
landing. the Allied protective air
cover intercepted and dispersed an
enemy formation of medium and
dive bombers, escorted by IS fight
ers, which struck at the invading
forces. -.
There were few Allied casualties
in the landing itself but the Japa-
nese air raid damaged two small
Allied boats ard caused some cas-
ualties.
The landing troops we're under
the direction of General Sir Thorn
as Blamey, an Australian. wee
Admiral Carpenter commanded the
Naval forces and Lieut.. Gen.
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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HEALTH OFFICIAL
SENT TO FONTANA
Miss Louisa Eskridge Will
Quit Duties Here This
Week

At the direction of the United
States Public Health service, Miss
Louisa Eskridge, public health con-
sultant attached to the city-county
Health department since December
l, will leave late this week to as
sumo her new duties with the Ten
nessee Valley Authority at Fon-
tanna Dam in the western part OF
the state, DR.. A. H. Elliot, health
officer, announced Sunday.
Her successor has not be named.
At the IVA project, Miss Esk-
ridge will be associated with the
health and safety division, and will
concentrate on the health educa-
ton program.
Miss Eskridge's work here has
been in line with the national pro-
gram to discriminate public health
information in war areas where
medical problems are heightened
and medical facilities reduced. Spe-
Officially, she has worked with rep
resentative women in the commun-
ity in organizing the Health De-
feise League which correlates
health education with defense &C
tivities. League work is directly
related to civilian defense.
During the spring and summer,
she has supervised the field train
ig of four students in public health
from the University OF North Caro-
lima who have worked in Whining
ton.
Miss Eskridge's duties have EN-
braced cooperation with civic and
professional organizations, school
groups. young peoples groups, al
so USO clubs.
An outstanding phase OF the pub
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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Walter Lippmann Says:
Earl Browder's Charge
Now Requires A Reply

tiers of the way through the sec
ond year of the coalition war. The
third year-which Mr.. BroWder
talks about-will not begin until
1914.
The real question is not whether
we should have crossed the Cham
mel this year but whether we
should have spent the year con-
centrating all our forces in Eng
land instead of making the cam
paign in the Mediterranean. That
was the actual choice: whether to
attack this year where we had the
required forces for attack. or to
spend the year without fighting
while we prepared for the cross
Channel invasion.
In other words, those who take
the view which Mr.. BroWder ex-
presses will have to argue that the
whole Mediterranean campaign
was a mistake. For they cannot
have their cake and eat it, too.
They must be prepared to say that
we have wasted our energy on the
conquest of North Africa and OF
Sicily, the collapse of Italy, the
naturalization of Spain, the open
ing of the Mediterranean, the
establishment Of a second air
front against Germany and the
unsettlement of the Axis position
in the Balkans. They must not
slyly or unconsciously assume that
we could have accomplished all
(Cont;ru.d an paoe Two: Col. 4
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SCHOOL PROGRAM
ENLARGED HERE
Hanover High Has New
Physical, Educational
Facilities

When some 1850 pupils Of New
Hanover High school return to
their studies Friday. they will en-
ter a large plant where both edu-
cational and physical facilities
have undergone considerable de-
velopment during the summer
months.
Through expansion of the High
school curriculum and supplement
tary activities for well-rounded stu
dent life, and through enlargement
Of the campus by absorbing most
of the space in the old Isaac Bear
school. the institution has made
plans for another outstanding year,
Principal T. T. Hamilton, Jr.,
said Sunday.
In the category of educational
and extra-curricula preparations
for the 1943-44 session come these
innovations: the securing of a Or
chestra conductor and teacher in
the person of Mrs. Eric Norden;
plans for a glee club o 1850 stu
dents. with four choirs, under Mrs.
Inez F"ench Chatham; acquire
ment of 600 new books for the IL
brary; doubling the number OF
physical education classes for girls
and the number of instructors; ad-
dition of a new industrial arts
course designed to give ninth and
tenth grade students boys and girls
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col g.
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WEATHER

FORECAST:
North Carolina: Moderately warm Mon
day. Scattered showers in extreme west
portion Monday afternoon.
eastern STANDARD TIME)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending at 1880 p. M, yesterday.
TEMPERATURE
80 a. M, 76; 1880 a. M, rs; / 80 p.
M, IS; 7 80 p. M, 80.
Maximum So; Minimum u Mean 3d.;
Normal IS.
HUMIDITY
80 a. M, SO; 1880 a. m. "a; 1880 p. M,
81; 1890 p. m. IS.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 80
D. m. 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month, 600
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U, S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Wilmington 7:47a $ s :oos
Masonboro Inlet ------ "a sara
12:20p 6:39p
Sunrise 5 :49a. M; Sunset 6: 80 p M;
Moonrise 1906 p. M; Moonset 10: "a p. m.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
willie on Sept. s, At 8 a. M, 1856 feet.
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Workingman Must Recognize
Axis Worker As His Enemy
Youth Plays Harmonica
For Eleanor Roosevelt

MELBOURNE, Sept. 5.-R|-
The Star Spangled Banner,
softly played by young boy,
unexpectedly gre ct ID Mrs.
Roosevelt today when she Wis
tied the orthepedic ward Of
Melbourne's child hospital.
AS she walked into a room
for tiny sufferers of infantile
paralysis, 10 year old Brian
Dean was holding a harmonica
in his one disable hand and
playing Americas national
anthem.
Mrs. Roosevelt walked direct
Iy to the boy and stood smil-
ing down at the youngster who
has been an invalid for six
years. When he hesitated she
asked him to play for her.
Four generals, one admiral
and numerous other goldbraid-
ed men stood at attention.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who arrived
today, was Immediately whisk-
ed away on a tour of American
Army camps.
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BACNARA SEIZED
AT Least 40 Italian Town.
And Villages Fall To
Allies
MELITO EVACUATED
Algiers Broadcast Says
Troops Now On Out
skirts OF Palmi
MELITO EVACUATED

A L L | E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Sept. 5.-P)-Allied forces
throwing Commando, claw
like pinces over the top of
the italian toe have seized
Bagnara, clamped a firm hold
on a 40-mile invasion arc from
Melto to Bagnara, and taken
more than 1000 prisoners.
At least 40 coastal and in
land towns and villages have
been taken by Allied troops.
Repeating the highly-suc-
cessful American landing
jumps along the Sicilian north
coast, a big Commando force
captured Bagnara 10 miles
northeast of San Giovanni,
and was Joined by infantry
men speeding up the shores
against still-feeble enemy re-
sistance, Allied headquarters
announced today.
Other Commands landed
at Melito rounding the south
ern edge of the toe Is miles
below Reggie Calabria, but
found that road junction al
ready evacuated by the Ital-
ians.
Troops Fan Out
Under personal leadership Of
dashing Eighth Army, Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery, British
and Canadian troops in the third
day of INVASION were tanning in
both directions along the coast and
plunging deeper inland on the toe,
where the Axis might elect to stand
in natural mountain GUS defenses.
Gan Algiers broadcast recorded
in London by the Associated Press
said Allied troops were on tie out
skirts of Palmi, five miles beyond
Bagnara.
Qtalian headquarters reported
Allied armored units were knitting
inland, and that "violent fighting
is in progress in the area east of
Bagnara and on the slopes OF the
Aspromonte (bitter) mountains"
inside the lower toe.
CBetWeen Palmi and Eagnara.
the defending forces after having
thrown the first British contingent
back into the sea, had to with
draw from Bagnara, the Italian
|conamunique said.
(Reuters quoted an Algiers broad
cast saying that the Italian fleet
had abandoned laramie, naval
base inside the Italian heel)
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
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ably the one converging on
Stalino to the south, killed o.
600 Germans during the day,
and the communique said a to-
tai of S,400 enemy troops were
slain, and scores of tanks,
planes and guns were Destroy
ed or captured on all fronts.
Advances of four to nine
miles were hammered out on
the Konotop, Bryansk, and
Smolensk fronts as the huge
Russian military m a c h ne
ground on westward through
more than $50 villages to boost
the Red army's total bag to L.
500 localities rewon in the last
week.
"a very important center Of
resistance" which may be
Baltutino, only IS miles south
east Of Smolensk, was captured
OH the central front, where the
Russians said the Germans
''tried at all costs to stem the
advance of our troops"
The communique also an
nOunced the seizure of KhutOr-
Mikhaylovsky, rail junction IS
miles south of Bryansk. The fall
Continued on Page Two; Col. ]
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Allied Commands Throw Pincers
Over Entire Top OF Italian Toe;
Mac Arthur / Launches l. ae Invasion
Rome Radio Continues
Indirect Peace Pleas

LON DON, Sept. 5.-R-
While Allied troops bit deeper
into the mainland of Italy, the
Italians continued their indi-
rect peace pleas today in a
gloomy Rome radio broadcast
which said the "sooner we
have an honorable peace the
better"
This English language broad
cast, heard by the Ministry Of
Information, came from a
closely controlled station in the
Italian capital and obviously
was a fully authorized attempt
to arouse British and Ameri-
can sympathies.
The Algiers radio broadcast
a report, unconfirmed from
any other source, that the Ital-
ian fleet had abandoned its
laramie base presumably to
withdraw into the Adriatic-a
move which would not surprise
British navy men since the
base lies only about us miles
from the present fighting
front.
The Italian communique was
less optimistic in tone than
that portion of the German
communique devoted to the
fighting on the Calabrian
front.
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civilians waved white flags from
the shore.
The approach Long the north
coast to Scilla, tabled habitat of If
resistable sirens, was defended at
last reports by little more than
one machine-gun which Eighth
Army veterans were capable of
dealing with in short order.
AS yet the Eighth Army has en-
countered no enemy deno1itions of
highway bridges and other vital
facilities, nor has the enemy laid
mines to cover his retreat.
The British movement across the
straits was carried out so swiftly
and untroubled by more than
flicker or two of enemy air action
that this correspondent, who was
left out of the assault party, was
able to get his motor transport into
Italy well ahead of schedule nev
ertheless.
Two German prisoners were cap
tured in all operations in Italy yes
terday.
Three German graves were found
in Reggie Calabria with crosses
dated Sept. l. 1913. They appar-
emily were killed by an artillery
barrage from across the strait or
by an air raid.
Officially it is stated that "serv-
ices are normal in this war
wrecked city. That will be good
news to the inhabitants, many of
whom are still out in the country
side. There is water at community
water fountains, but hardly one
store has opened A great MAORI
ty of the houses are badly dam
aged.
Even this early, censorship may
permit general observations on the
weaknesses of the enemy revealed
by the invasion of Italy.
The German air force is a fee
BILE shadow of itself, incapable of
defending the extremities of the
continent because of the need to
keep fighters for the defense of in
land centers.
The Germans are very short of
bombers for any form of counter
offensive in the air.
The Italians are fighting even
less well in Italy than in Sicily.
The vast majority are happy to
surrender without resistance.
Italian civilians are anxious to
ingratiate themselves with the Al
lies and the police put themselves
Immediately at the disposition of
Allied military commanders.
The tremendous artillery bar
rage, big naval support and heavy
assault force sent across the strait
yesterday by Gen. Sir Bernard l..
Montgomery was like an elephant
stepping on gnat.
One battalion might have done
the job of siezing the coast from
Reggie Ca1abria in italy,.
Hundreds of Italian soldiers who
surrendered without fight march
ed smilingly toward Sicily today
as the vanguard of Gen. Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery's British
Eighth Army rushed onward in
pursuit of demolition gangs of re-
treating Axis forces.
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col, y
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Invading Eighth Army
Met Little Resistance
BY DANIEL DE LUCE
Press War Correspondent

WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY,
Sept 4-Deayed)- QF9-Astoundiny weak defenses on
the foot of Italy permitted British Eighth Army scouts
thrust beyond the invasion brdgehead Messna strait
today without encounterng than stray machine
fire few badly aimed Shells
The British stopped Smelling the Yesterday when
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He killed 80 Japs in a single en-.
gagement at Guadalcanal, wal
largely responsible for the virtual
humiliation of an entire enemy
regiment, and won the Congress
sional Medal of Honor. Back in
the U. S.. however. Marine Sgt.
John Basilone is shown as he per.
spired and fidgeted under a bar
rage of questions from newspaper
interviewers in Washington. Basi-
lone, rs, is the son of an Italian
born, Raritan, N. j., tailor.
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CONTINUED on Page Three; {
Evening star., 1943-06-27

Roosevelt Hiqh
School graduated
this big Gloss Of
young Americans
who h ove their
work cut out for
them in these grim
doys OF the Notions S
history.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

ostern Hiqh
Schools June erod-
uotine Gloss. one Of
the largest in the
schools history, os
wos true of most Of
the District hiqh
schools.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

c Centrol High
Schools Gloss of
June graduates
who, with th cir
prize d diplomas.
have fored forth
into the serious
world Of today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-08

More than 100 heavy cyclonic
storms have struck northern Aus
tralia in the past 10 years.
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Evangelist Don Mallough, Of Sc
attic, and Mrs. Mallough, have ar
rived in Juneau and will conduct
evangelist services at the Bethe
Tabernacle, Assembly of Cod at
Fourth and Franklin Streets, every
evening at o'clock with the ex-
ception of Mondays and Saturdays
The evangelists will remain here
for several weeks.
The Rev. r. E. Baker pastor OF
Bethel Tabernacle, today said: eve
are very happy to have the oppor-
tunity to introduce to the Juneau
public Evangelist Don Mallough
He is a fluent and forceful speaker
as well as a talented soloist. Mrs
Mallough, who is also an accom-
plished musician, will assist in the
musical part of the services. We
feel we are greatly honored in
having the evangelist and his wife
here. They have travelled over many
states and held successful meet
rings everywhere The public Is in
vited to the evangelistic meetings
The meetings start tonight.
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aska. He reported that Canadian
officials proved to be very coopera-
tive in talking over plans for fur
ther development.
Headquarters for the Northwest
Service Command, in charge of
operations on the Alcan Highway,
are in Whitehorse, Y. T. Attend
ing the luncheon today with Lieut..
Neuberger was Maj. Howard c.
Walters, Postal Officer on Gen. o.
onnors staff.
Walter t. Neubert, regional rep
resentative of the Wage-Hour Di-
vision of the u. S. Department of
Labor, spoke briefly on the new
wage sterilization act, after which
the meeting was thrown open to
questions from Juneau businessmen
who attended. Also present for the
discussion was War Labor Board
representative for Alaska, Michael
j. Haas.
Other guests included Lieut.. Cleo
Sumner, Rep. Leo Rogge, and Mike
Deller, civilian official for an out
lying defense project in Alaska.
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RED 5KELT0NI5
MOST SERIOUS
MAN FOR COMIC
BY ROBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD.-Red Shelton, the
fellow who dood it, was lying on
the couch in his dressing room,
hiding behind some grotesque false
whiskers and scribbling in a five
cent composition book.
He looked glum-which is how
comics generally look when they're
laboring over a gag. This one may
turn into something" he said, lay
ing aside book and pencil and sit
ting up. Maybe"
So we got to talking about this
and that, including the secret, it
any, of his success.
He seems to be a success, all
right. II generally carry the clip
ping around with me-" he grinned
"but haven't got it today The
clipping tells how many, many
people listen to Skeletons air show
It don't mind showing it at all,
he said.
Il think they listen because
try to remember that all men arc
little boys at heart I'm a little
boy, you're little boy, all of us
are kids. So I play to the little
kid in everybody-and I keep il
clean. don't like dirt"
Little Boy Shelton is 30. And
don't believe in taking things toe
seriously. My mother used to tel
me this: Don't take life too seri-
ously-because you can't get oai
of it alive And I've never forgot.
ten it."
For all that, he is about as seri.
Gus a comic. as you'll find in town
! Serious about his pictures, abot
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-08
ARTHUR A. HEDGES IS
JOINED BY WIFE AND
SON FROM kETChIkAN

Arthur A. Hedges, Acting Direc-
tor of the U. S. Employment Serv-
ice is looking particularly happy
these days, not due to the arrival
of spring weather, but because Mrs
Hedges and their seven year old son
Gary, have arrived here from their
former home in Ketchikan.
The Hedges have taken a house
on Sixth Street for their residence
in Juneau and young Gary will
soon enter the second grade in the
Juneau Public Schools.
Mr. Hedges was formerly man.
ager of the u S. Employment Of
flee in Ketchikan and came to Jul
neau some months ago to relieve
r. E. Barnes as Acting Director OF
the Service with headquarters here
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-08
BUSINESSMEN HEAR
NEUbERGER SPEAK
AT MEETING HERE


Lieut.. Richard L. Neuberger, Pub
lie Relations Officer on the staff
of Brig. Gen. James O'Connor of
the Northwest Service Command,
was guest speaker at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting this noon in
the Gold Room of the Baranof Ho-
tel
Just returned from trip
through Canada and to Washing
ton, d. c., with Gen. O'Connor
Neuberger said that conferences
were held with Canadian ano
washington officials regarding
plans for extending transportation
lines both in Canada and in Al.
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TIDES TOMORROW

High tide-4:21 am, 1863 feet.
Low tide-10:53 am, OF feet.
High tide-5:07 pm, 1877 feet.
Low tide-10:56 pm, 40 feet.
The government old-age pension
system in Great Britain dates from
1908.
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NOTICE

Mrs. A. A. West wishes to an
nounce the re opening OF the
Clipper Barber Shop located next
to the Case Lot Grocery on lower
Franklin Street, where she welcomes
old and new patrons. adv.
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his air show, about his constant
visits to entertain soldiers at near
by camps. Nearly every evening
after work at the studio on Il
Dood It." he and his wife Edna
(who is suing him for divorce)
set out in his bantam car and hit
the trail for lonely army outposts.
Sometimes they make two camps
large or small-in single eve
ming
Mrs. Shelton was Is, and Red
was II, when they were married.
They've been working together
ever since, she as writer, he as
delivery man. Despite the i'm
pending divorce, the business rela-
tionship continues.
Red is serious about another
thing-his chance to put over war
messages via his program. I'VE
slip 'em in as fun and entertain
ment, but that way they're more
likely to stick" he said.
Last year Red had an offer OF
"a commission in the army-his job
to be running a theater at an east
ern camp. He turned it down.
II had an audience of 36,000,00O
them" he said, and it didn't make
sense to give it up to concentrate
on one camp. I told the general
who asked me that l thought it
better to reach all the camps, that
if the army wanted me I'd go in
as a private but I wouldn't want
to go as an entertainer. Or to sit
at a desk. If I go, I'd like to be in
the artillery
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-08
YOUR BROKEN LENSES

Replaced in our own shop. Eyes
Examined. DR.. Rae Lillian Carlson.
Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv.
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NOTICE

Water will be shut off in Scatter
Tract at l pm, Friday, for a
couple of hours. adv.
Milford chronicle., 1943-04-23
LOCAL AND STATE NEWS

F. L. Slaughter, of Houston, has
been transferred to Ridgely as
agent for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co.
The Volunteer Circle of Avenue
Methodist Church will meet with
Mrs. Leroy Short ON Wednesday,
April 2S, at seven-thirty.
%
A pre-Easter Communion service
was held at the Presbyterian
Church on Thursday, April %, at
500 P. NJ. Special music was pre-
sented by the Choir and ]. Herbert
Nichols, director. The sermon was
delivered by the minister, the Rev.
John Jackson Brown, Jr.
City Council has passed an ordi-
nance making it misdemeanor
punishable by a fine and imprison-
ment for persons convicted of tam
pering with electric current wires
and diverting current from city
lines for their own use,
without paying for same and with
out the knowledge of the proper