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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
RUSSIANS IN
NEW DRIVE
ON UKRAINE
Kharkov Is in Flames as
Nazis Retreat Railroad
Captured by Reds
(By Associated Press

The Red Army drove west and
south through the smoking ruins OF
Kharkov today pursuing Germans
who were thrown in full retreat
back of recaptured Kharkov. Front
line dispatches said Germans APP
piled torches to the Kharkov base.
Giving Germans no time to re-
cover, the Red Army is expanding
in a drive in reconquest of the
Ukraine. Poltaya, the historic bat
tlefield southwest of K h rk 0 V
where Charles the 18th of Sweden
met defeat, appeared the next Red
Army objective.
Farther south in the Donets Ba-
SIN another Russian push gained
momentum after taking The Donet-
sko- Ambrosievka railroad station so
miles north of German held Tag
ainrog.
A German communique asserted
that the Nazi troops have repulsed
the Russian advance in the Khar-
kov sector but admitted that the
Russians had made small dents in
the German lines" near Izyum in
the Donets Basin, which appeared
to become a most important scene
of fighting in the new phase of
the Red Army's summer offensive.
The Russian newspaper, Pravda,
said the German resistance had
been broken after a three day
battle along the strong line for
titled by the populated points
southwest of Voroshilovgrad.
The Izvestia, another Russian
paper, said that during the evacua-
ton of Kharkov the Gestapo exc
cuted $500 Soviet citizens.
Last night Red Army commun-
ique announced that the Red Army
had broken through the German
lines south of Ixyum and south
west of Voroshilovgrad in a smash
ing assault apparently aimed at
wrestling the entire Donets Basin
from the Nazis.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
BE Rim HIT
HARDER THAN
EVER BEFORE
More than 1000 Tons Of
Bombs Dropped-58
Planes Lost
(By Associated Press,

Royal Air Force squadrons
smashed at Berlin from England
last night IN a raid that was twice
as heavy as any the Nazi capital
has suffered, dropping about 2,090
long tons of explosives and incen-
diaries and opening a supreme Of
fensive to Hamburg Hitlers seat
Of power
The fact chat 50 bombers were
downed by German anti-aircraft
fire, the largest number lost by the
British in any one night. showed
plainly the huge scale of the at
tack
one returning airman said smoke
boiled up from the target three
miles in the air
Very Great Strength
The British Air Ministrys story
of the operation did not mention
the size Of the raiding force except
TO say that the assault was twice
as heavy as any made before on
any European capital and that it
was made in very great strength"
The previous heaviest raid on the
German capital was the March at
ack on Berlin in which 900 long
cons OF explosives were dropped.
In last nights attack, Royal Air
Force, Canadian and some Ameri-
can volunteers participated.
RCAF headquarters said the full
weight Of the Canadian bomber
group was thrown into the attack
and seven Of the missing planes
were Canadian craft.
Lowell Bennett, American cores
pendent at the Midlands bomber
base, said some 5000 veteran Raj
fliers and some American voltn-
teers" took part in the raid, drop
ping their loads in AZ minutes.
On the basis Of l0-man crews,
this indicated that more than 500
bombers hit the Nazi CITY,
A German communicate, report
ing strong formations Of bonlbers
over Berlin. said 'reorganized air
defenses prevented a concentrated
attack ON the city and shot down
90 multi-engined bombers.
According to reports received
thus far" the Nazi dispatch con-
tinued explosives and incendiary
bombs caused destruction to the
residential quarters, public buildings
and hospitals The civilian popula-
ton suffered losses
Two big formations Of heavy
bombers which appeared to be Fly
ing Fortresses winged their way
across the Strait Of Dover this ar
ternoon toward Northern France.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
Steps TAKEN
TO DECLARE
ROME OPEN
Two Breakfasts Indicate
Demi|ifdrizing Of City
Taking Place

LONDON, Aug. "a. Italy has
formally advised the British and
American governments that steps
are being taken to demilitarize
Rome with view of having the
italian capital city treated as an
open city. This is according to a
Stefani broadcast recorded here by
the Associated Press.
The broadcast is dated August IA
and said the italian government has
decided to declare Rome an open
city without further delay.
Today's broadcast declared that
steps have already been taken to
neutralize defensive installations
and orders have been given to anti
aircraft batteries not to fire on
planes over the city and italian
interceptor planes are directed not
to defend Rome.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
Spotlight Is Turned on
Federal JobhoIders
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Just
why the case of John Bovingdon,
$500 a year economic analyst with
the Office of Economic Warfare,
who once practiced and gave graph
ically illustrated lectures on phys
ical therapy," caused such nation
wide furore is quite mystery to
Rep. Robert Ramspeck's D.-Ga)
Civil Service Committee.
After all, Mr.. Bovingdon does have
degrees from Yale and Columbia
universities and in pedagogic circles
is entitled to be addressed as Doc
tor
The Ramspeck committee has in
its files a score of more sensa-
tional" cases than that and may
start releasing them publicly any
day now.
Last March when the committee
uncovered what they considered one
of the most fragrant cases OF un-
justified elevation of a federal
worker to high places, it got no
more than three paragraphs any,
where. Yet that was the case Of a
ST ,080-a-year messenger who in less
than two years was promoted to a
S4,60O-a-y year job as business am
alyst."
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
Keep Searching on
Kiska Tor Possible
Jap Suicide Squads
BY WILLIAM WORDEN


KISKA HARBOR, Aleutians, Aug
% Delayed There is remote
possibility few Jap suicide squads
or a few stragglers who missed the
last boats off Kiska may appear
somewhere on the island and try TO
win glory with the Emperor by kill
ing as many Of the landing force as
possible before they die or are trying
only to get some food.
No one is yet ready to discount
this possibility entirely although it
grows less daily as more and more
thorough investigations are made
of the islands rocks and numerous
dark caves in which the Japs spent
most of the time during the air raid
hours and in which they might be
covering while our occupying troops
tramp over their heads.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
CE5TAp0 TO
BE SUPREME
INGERMANy
HimmIer, S. S. Head, APP.
pointed Minister Of In
terror Vast Powers

LONDON, Aug. "a. German
home affairs fell wholly under Ges-
tapo rule by the announcement that
Hitler had appointed Heinrich
Himmler, head of the Nazi Secret
Service, as head of the German
police and also will serve as Min
lister of the Interior, and chief OF
Reich administration"
The Announcement came as DNB
dispatch broadcast from Berlin and
the dispatch did not enlarge on the
term Chief of the Reich Admins
tration,' but apparently vast new
powers have been laid in the hands
of the Nazi Gestapo chief.
The DNB dispatch said that
Himmler, Reichleader of the SIS
and chief of German police Sue
ceeded Reichminister DR.. Wilhelm
Prick, who is being relieved to take
over the post of Protector OF Bo-
hemia and Moravia, part OF old
Czechoslovakia.
The move throws out "at his own
request" Baron Won Neruath, long
time major party functionary who
was formerly Ambassador to Lon
don and was once German Minister
of Foerigli Affairs. He also has
been Chairman of Hitler's Secret
Cabinet Council
Also retired at his own request,
is Acting Secretary in the German
Ministry of the Interior, Hans
Pflundiner, who was appointed Min
lister Without Portfolio, the an
nouncement said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
10 zEROS D0WNED
BY RELATIVE OF
FRANK A. BOYLE

Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle
had a surprise this week when he
attended the Capitol Theatre and
saw the news reel in which his
granddaughter, Capt. T. J. Lynch,
was hailed as a hero in the air war
in the South Pacific. Young Cap
tain Lynch had accounted for 10
Japanese Zeros.
Prior to the American entry into
the war, Capt Lynch was an in
structor at an airplane school in
New York State. He was in Bel
bingham Washington, on December
16, 194l, and Immediately went to
the Philippines, and later to Darwin,
Australia, which has been his base
since.
The young flier halls from Catau-
sauqua, Pa.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
WORKERS ARE
NOW NEEDED
ON WAR JOBS
Two Million Six Hundred
thousand Must Soon
Shift Positions

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Chair-
man Paul " McNutt, of the War
Manpower Commission, today called
for 100000 workers to shift from
essential to war useful jobs be-
tween now and next July.
Two hundred thousand workers
are needed before New Years Day
in war industries now facing rising
schedules OF operations which need
more men, also women, McNutt
said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
The W ashington
Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON
tMajor Robert 8. Allen on active dutyD

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. govern
ment officials who deal with the
liquor industry strongly suspect that
q multi million dollar bootleg OPP
Grafton has developed in the United
States.
They began to smell something
when they got the latest figures
which show that the amount OF
liquor being withdrawn from ware
houses for sale 70 the public is only
IS per cent of last year. And there
is every evidence that actual con-
sumption of liquor not only has moi
dropped to SIS per cent, but is ever
greater than last year.
America learned the tricks OF
bootlegging some years ago, whel
bootlegging was really beset witt
difficulties. 1t was illegal, during
prohibition days, to distill liquor, tt
bottle it, and to sell it. Today, how.
ever. none of these processes is II
itself illegal.
Temptation to carry on bootief
operations is very strong because O
the vast quantities of alcohol avail
able, and the tremendous profit II
marketing this alcohol as a bever'
age. Industrial alcohol costs only
80 cents a gallon. Add five cent
for cleaning" the denatured alco
hol, another five cents for bottllng
ard you have l90-proof gallon o
beverage" which, after adding
water to reduce the proof" is mar
ketable at $38 gallon.
The difference between a cos
price of ST. gallon and the retail
price of $38 is apparently more thai
some producers can resist.
NOTE: Alcohol tax unit inspect
ors are assigned to distilleries, bu
not to plants using industrial alec
hol, as in the manufacture of paint
or anti-freeze mixtures.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
Damage Suit Is Filed
Agains Commander
OfWes!eYn Defense

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Aug. a.
A 100000 damage suit has been
filed against Lieut.. Gen. John L.
Dewitt, Commander OF the Western
Defense Command, in the Federal
Court by Max Alderman, cafeteria
operator.
Alderman charges DeWitt's order
excluding him from the coast de-
Tense area should never had been
made against him.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
JUNGLEITES
IN ADVANCE
ON JAP BASE
Mountain Positions Won
Naval Units AIDING
Ground Forces

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.
Pushing down from the hard
won mountain positions, Allied
jungle troops have crossed the
Francisco river and are within two
miles of the airdome at Salamaua,
New Guinea.
The Allied naval units have
moved in close and have poured
shells into Salamaua and also at
Lac, hammering dock and supply
dumps.
There are no indications that the
Japs opposed the river crossing. The
Japs seem in retreat before the
Allied troops now in a position to
advance on the airdrome.
There is some fighting in the
mountains at Komiatumm, where
the Allies are hopping up Jap
stragglers.
Liberators have attacked the Jap
airplane assembly repair base at
Kendari, Dutch Celebes, and a
freighter has been straffed off New
Ireland. s--t
Dutch flown Mitchell bombers
and Australian manned Beau fight
ers hit Tanimbar Island, 300 miles
north of Australia.
The Japs made a weak attempt
at an air raid on Nassau Bay with
two planes on the New Guinea
coast below Salamaua.
There is no other word of fight
ing in the Solomons.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

LONDON, Aug. Marshal Sta
lin, in a broadcast from Moscow
tonieht, officially announced the
capture of Kharkov and that the
Germans appeared in general re-
treat across south Russia Stain, in
an Order of the Day. told of the
seizure of the city by storm.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
British Isles
Most Feasible
Invasion Base
Enormous Sfrdie git Adj
vantage Is Ciied by
Moscow Paper

MOSCOW. Aug. 24.-The Moscow
newspaper Prayda today said in an
article that the British Isles should
be the main base for an invasion
Of the continent, A crushing blow
on Germany is almost impossible to
conceive without utilizing the enor-
nous strategic advantage OF the
British Isles
PraYda declared the Soviet Union
saved England from invasion.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
FINED sI0O FOR
RECKLESS DRIVING

N d. Rhinehart. cab driver, was
fined 500 by U. S. Commissioner
Felix Gray this morning. He was
charged with reckless driving on
the Glacier Highway, Territorial
Patrolman Emmett Botelho, who
made the arrest. said Rhinehart ran
into a parked car, also
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24

DIMOUT TIMES

. Dimout begins tonight .
. at sunset at 1921 o'clock. .
. Dim out ends tomorrow .
. at sunrise at 5:38 a. m. .
. Dimout begins Wednesday at .
. 8:l9 p. m. :
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
MORE MEAT

A Washington housewife walked
into a chain store market with 81
red points and hunger for ham
She said to the butcher. Gould
1 get half a ham? l have only 81
points"
The butcher produced six-pound
piece. The lady did little mental
arithmetic. Nine points a pound
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24

The cases coming up as a result
of the House Civil Service Commit
tees recent Investigations are almost
certain to go into the file which
will be used as the basis for Con-
gressional action in blocking the
free hand that many departments
and agencies now have in rapid pro-
motions or upper bracket appoint
ments.
For example, Investigations have
been completed in the cases Of a
former soda jerker who stepped
from that job into one of personnel
director; and of bell hop and an
elevator operator who now are job
placement officers.
In none of these three cases, I'm
told. has it been discovered that the
men Investigated have acquired de-
grees form Yale, Columbia or any
other university.
The question is not one of pre-
vious occupation, but of fitness by
education or experience for the jobs
they now hold In each of these
instances and several more, the
Ramspeck committee will be pre-
pared to charge that the education
or experience is nil.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24
DEMOS PICK
HASKELL FOR
LIEUT.. GOV.

NEW YORK, Aug. "a. - Lieut..
Gen. William Haskell, "a, of Gar
rison, N. Y, was picked unanimously
by the State Democratic Committee
as the party's candidate for lieu
tenant-governor in the November
election.
A special election was ordered
after the death of Lieut.. Gov.
Thomas Wallace.
Up to the time of the Civil War
each American soldier cooked for
himself.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-08-24

1t is the opinion of this and a
good many other observers here that
most of these sensational expos
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-01
President Urges
More Bond Buying
Payroll Savings Per Month
Of S600.000.000 Goal
Set BY Treasury

Washington.-The American people
were asked by President Roosevelt in a
letter 10 Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Mor2enthau, Jr., to invest con
siderable more" than 10 per cent of
their incomes in the Treasury's pay
roll savings plan.
Calling the plan ''the greatest single
factor we now have in protecting our
selves against infiationary spending, -
the President endorsed the Treasury :
campaign to Increase investments in
war bonds through the payroll savings
plan from $420,OOO,0 900 to $GOO,OOO,OO
per month
The text of the Presidents letter to
Secretary MOrgenthau follows:
Through you, as Secretary Of the
Treasury, / want to congratulate the
American people on the way in which
they have supported the voluntary pay
roll savings plan.
II am proud of the fact that q ;,
100000 patriotic Americans are regu
larly investing more than S42O, 5000
war. And since all of this money come.
from wages and salaries, nearly ~
percent from people earning less than
50 600. And the bulk of it from those
working in war plants, ] do not hesi
tate to say that the payroll savings
plan is the greatest single factor We
now have in protecting ourselves
against inf1ationary spending.
This is a great record. both from
| The standpoint of curbing imitation ant
from the standpoint of financing the
war. However, / heartily endorse youl
present drive to improve that recort
and | agree it must be improved if W.
are to keep pace with the increasing
demands of the war
Il therefore join you in calling upor
the American people, and upon labor
and management particularly, to d'
still more. Additional people should bt
convinced of the necessity of partici
pating Every one now on the payroll
savings plan should materially in
increase the amount of bonds he i:
buying We originally asked for 10 pei
cent. but now we need considerably
more.
Il hope every American ON a pay
roll will figure out for himself the OK
tent to which he can curtail his spend
ing. and will put every dollar of addi
tional savings thus made into the pay
roll savings plan
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-01
BY MARY MOORE

Answering the call for more and
more women i'm defense work and in
dustry, women of all ages are labor
iously studying subjects previously
selected only by men to fit themselves
for essential war jobs. Drafting, blue
print reading, shipbuilding, radio, price
control and plant management have
taken precedence of the choice of sub
jects of yesterday. Drawing boards,
T-Squares and compasses have re-
placed the customary travel booklets
and travel wardrObes of teachers.
business women, housewives and stu
dents, this year.
Since the Inauguration of the cen
gineering science and management war
training courses at many universities,
and the response to these preparatory
courses and the number of women now
holding good jobs in the industrial
world, the slogan, "It is Il woman's $
war, too," is apt indeed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-01
NUTRITION AND LABOR
OUTLINE FOR NUTRITION DISCUSSION GROUP

Each individual must be given a chance
to tell his or her story. In this way
definite attitude toward vitamin G.
rich foods is developed, and an i'm
print is left upon the minds of the
people that such food must be con-
sumed each day. Members are also
asked to state how they cook such
foods when they require cooking, and
the Importance of cooking is discussed
with regard to destruction or protec-
ton of yitamin G. The effect of can
ming and preservation on this vitamin
should be discussed as well and the
general role of this vitamin in health.
Lessons one and two of Nutrition
for You" should be read at the meet
ing and also assigned as homework
for the next session. The members
should be urged to ask questions on all
these assignments. Lessons one and
two in Nutrition for You" should be
read by everybody and it should be
requested that every person bring in
a few questions and problems which
help stimulate thinking in connection
with the reading of these two lessons
These questions or problems should be
related to personal experience or per-
sonal need, 50 as to make their mean
ing realistic and immediate.
Ito be contnued)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-01
WOMEN UNITED UNITE
THE UNION

Union women and wives Of union
men can be the decisive factor not
only in the battle of production in
World War il but also in the building
of the New World. We have lot at
stake-the lives of our men, the future
of our homes and the kind of world
that will be left our children to grow
up in.
Women represent huge force that
constantly give direction to the whole
nation through our husbands and
children, and directly in our own jobs.
ton? 1t is to make united fighting
family of every union. If we establish
a fighting faith plus a true family
spirit in every local in the country,
we will secure the labor movement for
all time.
A union is something like a family.
1t is one thing to start tit is some
thing else to keep il growing in mem
bership and solidarity and creative
action. 1t is imperative today that
women begin to take initiative and
pull their full weight in the union. To
do this they must play their time
honored part of inspiring the member
ship to pull together so We'll all pull
us and asks us to give all we have to
build this kind of unconquerable spirit.
| Where do we begin?
One thing we can be clear on-this
new world our young men are dying
for will reflect us. The world of to-
morrow will be what we make it
today.
There are three simple steps for
such Moral Re-Armament that every
woman can take to make this new
world reality:
1-CHANGE. If there are things in
us or in our homes which are not Il
pattern for the new world, we can
change on those pOints-if we want to.
None of us is quite perfect? Change in
us is the key to change in the family.
And family life is the cement of the
new world order.
2-UNITE. There are many sincere
and courageous women. Individually
and at odds with each other we can do
little. But united against those forces
which undermine and divide, we can
safeguard the moral principles of
uniOnism w h h are its greatest
strength.
3-FIGHT. Women need to learn to
| fight again, to fight. for what they be
lieve in, no matter what the cost to
their own comfort no matter what the
| odds. They say women win their way.
| Why not win Il new world?
| a union which has women with this
caring and courage will bulwark Il ma
ton against its enemies. Our sons will
gladly fight and die for it, Labor in
spired by such women can shape the
destiny of nations