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Headquarters reports said the trickle of escaping enemy forces had grown to tide. Every type of boat was pressed into service.
 Allied planes sank six small enemy craft off the coast while British motor torpedo boats. slip ping into Messina harbor Wednes- day night, torpedoed three mer- chanSmen.
 The Allied armies squeezing re- 1entless on the faltering Axis lines noN dominate all of the Mount Et- na area, 1t was announced, and may have cut off many enemy troops in the mountains holding rear guard positions.
 Heavy attacks by the American Seventh and British Eighth armies were driving desperately-resisting Axis rearguards back along both the northern and eastern coasts within 35 miles of Messina threatening to . trap thousands in, the mountainous interior.
 One American column, after con- solidating positions in neWly-cap- tured Randazzo on the northwestern
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Pleasure Driuing h East FBan Is Obserued { Month

gasoline rationS in the midwest would simultaneously bring higher allotments for the east and aban- donment of the pleasure driving ban. Most of them were based on the understanding that the trans portation problem to the east had been solved.
 The transportation problem has been solved, the latest announce ment revealed, but now 1t appears that military demands and a short age of crude oil not only prevent an increase now in eastern rations but are responsible for the cut in mid- western and southern rations.
 Cut In Coupons
 Acting Price Administrator Ches- ter Bowles ordered. "A", "B", and "C", coupons cut in the midwest and southwest from four to three gallons; promised to lift the pleas ure driving ban in the east Sep (Coutinued on Page D
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Ky JOHN A. REICHMANN Limited Press Stan COrrespOndent)

Quebec, Que, Aug. 14.-(UP)-1'he arrival here of the United States chiefs of staff was accepted today as indicating that President Roose- welt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill would soon follow for their sixth meeting.
 CReliable sources in London said Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was likely to come here to at ..n1 ..;e Roosevelt Churchill con- ferences. They though the Presi- dent and prime minister might take special measures" to increase An glo- American collaboration with Russia but were not certain whether Eden later would go to MoscowD
 The time of arrival of the princi- pals was a closely guarded secret.
 Admiral William D. Leahy, who has offices in the White House and is in constant communication with MT. Roosevelt on all military mat
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RED TROOPS POUR IN FROM
 THREE SIDES
BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent n {

Nohtcu AicoS SoS"AA CVTCoPo"ue"V
 Moscow, August 14.-UP) - Russian troops poured in- to the outskirts of Kharkov from three directions today and field reports indicated that the Germans were evacuating the city. Some $50 miles to the north, Red Army columns drove through crumbling Axis defenses half way between Smolensk and Bryansk on the central front in the third Soviet offensive in less than month.
 More than 100 towns and villages have been liberated in advances of up to 13 miles along a 30-mile front in the Spas Demensk area in the initial thrust of the new offensive, the Soviet high command said.
 The assault to break final resist ance in Kharkov, Russia's fourth largest city, was pressed from the north north, northeast and south east with victory flushed Soviet troops battering down rear guard resistance.
 Front dispatches quoted workers who escaped from Kharkov that the Germans have been pulling out from Kharkov in steady streams through narrowing corridor to the south west since August G.
 Heavy Traffic
 The military traffic through the streets of Kharkov was so heavy the workers said, that 1t was im- possible to cross them. The Axis troops were accused of carrying away every movable thing in private houses as they left.
 Russian columns yesterday over- ran more than 30 towns and vil- lages in advances of up to eight miles, including Bolshaya Dan- ilovka, only one mile northeast of Kharkov, and Losevo, eight miles
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Arrival or Staff Chiefs Indicates Farley Soon

ters as chief of staff to the com mander in chief, headed the Amer ican military personages arriving for the conference.
 The others were: General George c. Marshall, chief of staff. U. s. Army; Admiral Ernest J, King, com mander In chief of the fleet, Gen. eral II. H. Arnold, commanding the Army air force, and General Brehon E. Somervell. chief of supplies.
 Tie arCouncemcE. o. their ar rival said Brig. Gen. John F. Dean, secretary to the U. S. Army chiefs of staff and Capt. Forrest Royal, U, s. N. deputy secretary, are also here.
 Military Strategy
 It was assumed that the chiefs of staff would at once settle down to working out the master military strategy with the British expers who arrived wits Churchill which,
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Record Air Raids On SoIomons
BY BRYDON TAVES (United Press Staff COrrespOndenO


 Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 4-(UP)-Record air raids spreading ruin in the enemy Salamaua base and wrecking 43 enemy planes at Bougainvillc and a one mile advance hacked out through Japanese resistance around Bairoko Harbor on New Georgia Island were reported in a com munique today.
 Dropping nearly four tons of bombs a minute for 45 minutes, lib- orators, flying fortresses and Mitch els unloaded $354, 900 pounds of ex- plosives on Salamaua, Wiping out part of the much-bombed town.
 Ground troops were poised only a few miles from the northeast New Guinea Coastal base, waiting to plunge in on the garrison. The air attack. which caused big fires and explosions, was the largest ever staged in the Southwest Pacific. The bombers met light anti-air- craft fire and no interception. One explosion on the Salamaua Isth- mus appeared to have occurred in a munition or fuel dump while the whole area was covered with dust and smoke that rose 6000 feet. The communique said "the whole area is in ruins"
 At Bougainville, in the Northern solomons, Liberators. escorted by Corsairs and Warhawks, dropped 26 tons of bombs on Kihali airdrome Thursday and pictures showed 32 of AZ enemy bombers and fighters were caught on the field and were destroyed or badly damaged.
 Admit Damage
 GA Japanese communique broad cast by Tokyo radio admitted some
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$11.0O0 Boot Suit TrioI

Hartford. Conn, Aug. 14-(UP)- Hyman Fischbachs $l1,000 boat suit trial took on added interest to- day after the Forest Hills, L. l., attorney accused defense counsel J. Kenneth Bradley of implying he was a draft dodger.
 Fischbach, chief counsel in q Washington Congressional commit tee investigation, hurled the charge from the witness stand while tes- tifying concerning motor yacht he bought from George Thornley Of Cos Cob. Conn. on condition both he and the boat would be accep'+d for Coast Guard Service.
 Fischbach subsequently, was re- jectcd and now he seeks to recover the purchase price. The trial, in recess today. resumes Monday.
 He also accused Bradley Of pre- venting him from answering ques- tions by saying the questions alrea- dy had been answered.
 "On Tuesda ywhen I was on the
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Longest Flight
 The Liberators were drawn from the Ninth U. $. Air Force with headquarters in Cairo. o'e same | force Wisch sent a formation sweep. ing across southern Europe to blast the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania last month. The Vienna flight was l5O miles longer than that to Plo- eSti.
 l Crossing the Mediterranean and the heart of the Balkans, the Amer ican pilots were believed to have dealt a shattering blow to Ger many's already faltering aircraft industry.
 The Wiener Neustadt Works. situated about 30 miles south of Vienna, employs several thousand workers in four or five big assem- ply plants which, when member of the former United Press staff in Berlin visited them about two years ago were turning out about 30 planes week. Area "Safe"
 Wiener Neustadt also has one of the largest advanced air train ing school in Germany. Both plants and schools are situated on flat, open country easily identifiable from the air. The Germans always had considered the area safe" be- cause it was beyond the range of British-b based aircraft.
 The plant was opened in l940 as one of the first steps in Adolf Hitler's program of industrial dis persal.
 The Cairo communique said all planes participating in the raid had been accounted for" al. inc dication that casualties were com- paratively small. A Zurich dispatch reported that Liberator crash landed In northeastern Switzerland yesterday. Apparently 1t took part in the Austrian raid.
 one intercepting Messerschmitt l05 was shot down, the commurique said.
 Waves of Planes
 Hungarian radio broadcasts told of great waves of Allied planes cross ing Hungary in northwestern di- rection yesterday and the raid oo-
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AdIey Strike Is Ended

New Haven, Conn.,. Aug. l4.-tUPl Truck drivers employed by tle Adley Express Co.,. Of New Haver and four other trucking concerts were back at work today after 6 four-day work stoppage and moor freight shipments along the ess.. ern seaboard between Boston md Philadelphia were expected to is- turn to normal within a few days
 Meawhile. the war labor bo; c sought to settle n dispute betwee en the men and company officials, e d to have arisen over lack of col- tract.
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.15-Yeor-Old .Arroigned

Concord, Mass, Aug. 14 - tUP) A 15-year- old army deserter laced arraignment on a fugitive charge today after telling police he had planned to elopc with school- girl in an automobile stolen from & Maine man whom he murdered.
 Following the arraignment in dis- trict court, Charles Richard Far rand of Harvard, Mass, and East Haven, Conn, was to be turned over to Maine authorities. They arrived here with q warrant charging nm with the gun staying Of Barnard w. Jordan, 26, of Watervilie, Me, q flying instructor and bridegroom oi less than year.
 Farrand. q rugged six footer who enlisted in the army Dy ialsliyng his age, was captured here yeSter- day. Later he pcncilled conies- sion that he shot Jordan WedneS- day after hitch-hiking ride With him near Watervillc. Maine police found Jordan's body hidden behind a stonewall near Oakland. Me. as the boy told them they would.
 Drove 10 naTVdTu
 Following the shooting Farrand drove to Massachusetts in his vic- tins coupe and visited the Harvard home of red-haired Barbara The rien, 6-year-old nigh school soph- omore, but she was out. Last night Farrand revealed to police that he had intended to try to persuade her to elopt w...li n.m.
 Although the girl admitted hay ing discussed marriage "ith Far rand several months ago. she told police she was glad I was away" when he called for her Wednesday night.
 Miss Therien told police that Far rand, while in the army, returned to Harvard with orc hand bandaged and claimed he had been wounded .o-..tl..anA ..s. nana
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By EULALIE MCDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

\OHhSCu . ACSn oSs~sA
 Washington. Aug. IA - (U.P) - Disappointed customers today post poned their hope for more gasoline and the lifting of the pleasure drlv- ing ban until next month, while midwest and southwest motorists prepared to get along on 25 per cent less gasoline starting Monday. The reduction in value of "A. "B", and 70" gasoline coupons .c 2l new states and the promise or more |'gasoline to customers - If they obey the pleasure driving ban an- other few weeks was announced last night in a series of statements by three government agencies, the Office of Price Administration, the Ofiice of Defense Transportation and the Petroleum Administration for War.
 The announcement came after several days of reports and specula- ] ton that the proposed reduction ID
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-14
Try To Escape Death Trap
 As Towns Fall
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD Limited Press Staff C0rrespondenU

Allied Headquarters, North Africa August A. - (UP)
 Axis evacuation of Sicily is in full swing the Straits of Messna it announced today the beaten German army raced to the coast in effort to escape death trap closed tighter by capture of five towns in Allied advances of from two to seven miles, German troops pulling out of the crumbng Messna bridgehead fled the three to 10nie wide straits to the Italian mainland under batteng attack by Allied planes despite heavy anti-aircraft fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-14
MY .Toxicobbie Gets a Bit of
 a Surprise

New York, Aug. 14-(UP)- The cab driver slowed up and stared hard As . load of lamb on the hoof being shepherded into one of New York City's First avenue slaughter houses today.
 "Seems funny to see them In the middle of the city, doesn't It." his fare said. "Yeah," the driver said. Three blocks later he turned to his passenger with . baffled look and asked "Say wkzs vere those things, anywby?'
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half, the star shaped granite meeting place the Roosevelt
  Lawrence fin the 18th century Aecan military men 
 commander in chief of the U fleet; ROOsevelts chief of staff; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, mander of Army
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
RIBBENTR0p,
MUSS0LINI
(0NFERRING
Complete Agreement on
View" 10 Fight War
10 Successful Finish
tBy Associated Press

Joachim Won Ribbentrop and Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini are reported
in Rome dispatch broadcast from
the Berlin radio, to have reached,
in the familiar Axis phrase,
a complete agreement on views
on the prosecution of the war to
a final victory.
This agreement" was reached at
conversations in Rome at which the
Nazi Foreign Minister presented a
personal message from Hitler.
Both sides emphasized a deter
mination to wage the war with all
necessary energy until there is a
complete humiliation of enemy
forces and until the final threat
of the deadly danger of Bolshevism
is removed from Europe"
Political maneuvering is also not
ed in Count Ciano, former Italian
Foreign Minister, delaying his trip
to Vatican city scheduled for last
Saturday. He was to present his
credentials to the Pope as Italy's
new ambassador to the Vatican
The trip may take place today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
JAP THREAT
IS Seen TO
AUSTRALIA
Enemy Is Concentrating
Large Reinfor1ements
in North

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, March 1--Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's Command announc-
ed today that the japanese are con-
stantly reinforcing troops along a
2,O00-mile island perimeter which
is "enveloping the upper half OF
Australia" indicating the enemy is
taking up a position in readiness"
The readiness involving the
largest forces ever gathered in this
area north of Australia, could be
either offensive against Australia
or defensive fight, a spokesman
for the Allied command said.
He said the reinforcements in re-
cent weeks explain the. heavy
bombing of both japanese land po-
sitions and shipping at sea over a
wide area in the Southern Pacific,
including Rabaul, New Britain, and
the BUN and Faisi areas in the
Solomons.
The spokesman said also that
the continuing Jap threat TO Aus
tralia has been UNDERSIGNED in re-
peated official warnings by Austria
liam leaders. that the danger to
this continent is still real despite
japanese reverses in the Coral Sea
and on Guadalcanal and New
Guinea Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
WRECK
DECISION
REVERSED

WASHINGTON. March - The
Supreme Court today reversed the
conviction of George Sylvester Vier-
eek on charge of falling to give
the State Department full informa-
ton OF his alleged activities as a
Nazi agent in this country.
Chief Justice Stone delivered the
5 to 2 decision.
Justices Black and Douglas dis
scented.
Justices Jackson and Rutledge
did not participate.
Chief Justice Stone said the pros
ecutor in his closing remarks in
dulged in an appeal wholly irreyel-
ant to any facts or issues OF the
case for the purpose and effect
which. could only have been to
arouse passion and prejudice
The High Court o.dered the case
remanded to the District court foi
further proceedings on other
grounds.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
JApBA5E5
ON kISkA
HIT AGAIN
Bombers SIN ash Nippon
Cargo Ship, Causing
Explosion, Sinking

WASHINGTON, March l = The
Navy today reported that a force
of heavy medium bombers with
fighter escort, attacked Jap posi-
lions on Kiska Saturday but the
results were not observed. All
planes returned safely to their base.
The Navy communique also said
Jap cargo ship exploded and
sank when struck by bombs in the
course of heavy attack on enemy
held Shorthand Island area in the
northern Solomons.
A Navy Department communique
this afternoon reported that medium
bombers again attacked Kiska on
Sunday Afternoon and hits were OBJ
served in the camp area. The bomb
ing planes returned safely to bases.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
RATI0NING IS NOT
CONTEMPLATED IN
ALASKA, HAWAII
Directors Given Authority,
However 10 Act, When
and If Necessary

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Sec-
rotary of Agriculture Claude r.
Wickard, acting as Food Admins
traitor, has granted the Office of
Price Administration authority to
ration food in the territories of Al
aska and Hawaii, when and if nee
essary.
The authority is granted under a
directive and the OPA may ration
any and all foods it may deem
necessary.
The Agriculture Department an
nouncement said there is no ra-
tioning programs inaugurated in
Alaska or Hawaii yet and none is
contemplated in the immediate flu
ture and the directive merely gives
the OPA authority to do SO when
and if necessary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
YTI ASSERTS
FINLAND Will
KEEP up FIGHT

HELSINKI, March President
VII today declared at his inaugur-
alton for second term I'VE cam
not see any signs Of the end of
the war"
Continuing, he called on Finland
to continue every effort in the
fight she has waged for 20 months
as a partner Of Germany. The state
ment followed recurrent rumors
from United Nations neutral sourc-
es that Finland is ready to sue Tor
separate peace.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
APPROPRIATE
S4,062,057
FOR 7 YEARS
House Ways and Means
Committee Brings
Bill Out Today

A S4,062,057 appropriations bill,
setting up funds to run the Terri
tory for the next two years, was
tossed in the House hopper this
morning by the Ways and Means
Committee. Appropriations set up
for various departments are listed
as follows
Governors Office
For salary OF the assistant TO the
Secretary, $500; salary for two
stenographers, $4,000; additional
special service, $500; office expense,
$500, repairing, upkeep, furnish
ing Governors House and grounds,
$4,000; entertainment at Governor
House, $500; total, $4,000.
Auditors Office
For the Auditors salary, $4,000;
salary OF accountant and deputy
auditor, $1,000; salary of two as
sistant clerks. $4,000; additional
clerical assistance, $54O0. contingent
office expense, $4,000; payment to
u. S. Commissioners for recording
vital statistics, $i0,500; printing ses-
sion laws III sheet form, $3.50,
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
Appeal Made for Red
Gross Funds by FDR,
Eisenhower, Nimifz

WASHINGTON, March l-Presi-
dent Roosevelt asked the Nation
Sunday to contribute at least $125,-
100000 to the Red Cross for the
greatest crusade now that we are
engaged in a war to decide whether
all our concepts of mercy and hui
man decency are strong enough to
survive.N
Norman S. Davis, Chairman of
the American Red Cross, read the
Presidents message over four radio
networks for Roosevelt who is re-
ported much improved and almost
back to normal from an intestinal
disturbance.
Cen Eisenhower and Admiral
Nimitz also spoke briefly in an
appeal for Red Cross funds, the
campaign which opens today and
will continue all of this month.
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LONDON, March 1.-THE Ger
man High Command announces the
recapture of the important rail
centers of Lozavaya and Krama-
torsk below Kharkov.
The Red Army acknowledges
serious counter attacks" in this
area where the Soviets sought to
drive south to the Sea OF Azov and
trap the huge Nazi armies in the
Donets Basin area
Thus the powerful Russian vim
ter offensive appeared to have a
definite check after 100 days Of
brilliant advance, both because OF
firm resistance and quagmires re-
sulting from the thaws.
The Russians did not wholly adj
NIT the German claims but the
Moscow communique early this
morning used the word serious
for the first time telling how the
Germans are hastily bringing up
fresh troops and throwing them
into action"
Five consecutive Nazi attacks are
declared to have been smashed,
Moscow says, but Berlin claims IA
coo Russians soldiers have beer
captured in the sector and many
thousands killed
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
five BILLS
PASSED This
AFTERNOON


The Senate this afternoon passed
four bills, one House measure and
three originating in the Senate.
House Bill No 26, to place the
operation of the Kodiak Hospital
under the Kodiak Common Coun-
Gil. instead of under a board APP
pointed by the Governor, was
passed and must now go to the
Governor.
Senate Bill No. %, by the Fin
ance Committee, to raise the I'M
employment Compensation Direc-
tors salary to $1,000 a year, was
passed. Similar bills have bet II
passed for other Territorial Off
Gals.
The Senate also passed Senate
Bill No. IS, making a refund Of
5000 to Unalaska on licenses is
sued there for liquor dealers.
Senate Bill No. %, by the Fin
ance Committee, to cover into the
general fund the unexpended bal
ance of $4,000 appropriated for
improving the Pioneers Home be-
fore the war, also received the Sem
ate's okeh.
The House passed bill for Rep.
John j. O'Shea to make uniform
the system of bonding and surety
for Territorial Officers by a 1910
vote,
BY a l2-4 vote, the House took q
bill off the table that would pro-
vide for review by District Courts
OF judgments by Commissioners
Courts on pleas of guilty
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
SUB BASE
IN FRANCE
SET AFIRE
Royal Air Force Drops
More than | 900 Bombs
in Thirty Minutes

LONDON. March Royal Air
Force bombers smashed very heav-
ily' at the submarine base at st.
Nazaire, France, and also at tar
gets in western Germany last night.
u is announced that more than
1000 tons of explosives were loosen
ed on st. Nazaire in 80 minute
attack swapping the defense of the
much bombed sub-base and ship
building, yard. st. Nazaire was left
aflame.
The aerial offensive against AXIS
occupied continental countries was
the fourth night raid
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-01
Alaska Filler Shares
Honors in Big Attack
Made, Nazi Oil Tanker

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March l - Five
American Mitchell Bomber crews
shared in one of the most import
ant ship attacks of the Tunisian
Campaign when they scored hits on
an oil tanker, which was later sunk
by aircraft from Malta, the North
west African Air Forces disclosed.
The tanker was carrying oil to
Marshal Erwin Rommeps tank col