The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIIL, NO. 9524. | B Jap | AIR ATTACK STEPPED “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943 THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ases, Gasmata and Rabaul, Hammered. ROADS T0 TRUK ‘QUEENS’ FOR A DAY THIRD DIV. DEMOS HIT | - MARSHALL ISLANDS KNOCKOUT - BLOWS HIT LKANS HIT HEAVY BLOW BY U.S. FLEET ¥ v CAROUNE SLANDS . ; §.W. PACIFIC ATH TERM IN GREECE < A Resolution Favoring Ele- Thre Aidfieldsaf Athens, fions Raided | Adopted ed in Giant Attack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS N THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 16—The rising strength of Alll air power in the Soutawest Pacific struck again at New Britain with a new record weight of bombs, Gen- eral MacArthur's headquarters an- nounoed. The full fury of blows landed Sunday on both shores of Huges Is- land, and machine gun bullets were added to the tons of bombs dropped on the area. Gasmata - bore the ‘brunt of the assault when more than 100 Liber- ator “heavy and Mitchell medium bombers dropped 248 tons of bombs in the midday attack. Only Rabaul has recelved & greater pounding in « single rajd, when it was hammer- ediby 380 tons of bombs on Octo- ber 12, Lakunai Airdreme at Rabaul was. sl hit in Sunday's raid by the head that wears QHA ¢rown, but Army R 1§ SAID that uneasy lies L lien ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 15.-— The Third Division Democratic Con- vention killed a resolution instruct- ing delegates to the Territorial Con- favor a fourth term for President Roosevelt in one of the hottest de- bates of the convention. | The opposition contended the par- Ity shouldn’t support an administra- | tion which continually ignored them | cited the appointment of James Pat. | without party endorsement. ‘There was also opposition to the reappointment of Judge Simon Hel- |lenthal, although he was endorsed. ‘The opposition also eontended that |draft and ration boards, as well as 1Office of Price Administration of- fices were filled without reference |to the party. | The Third Division’delegates also |adopted resolutions urging the im- vention at Fairbanks next month to | | Eln making Federal appointments and terson as United States Marshal | | JULGARIA CUADALCANAL 1. . SOLOMON Q\. ISLANDS - N - . SANTA CRUZ IS AP Features When American troops invaded the Gilbert Islands, they took another step toward an ultimate Pacific goal, capture of the Japanese naval stronghold of Truk, key to the enemy’s entiré operations in the south. Capture of the Gilberts and completion by MacArthur’s forces of conquests in New Guinea and Bougain- 3 wille, will place the Allies in position to open a double-pronged offensive against' Truk.' Seattle Bars NAZIS MAKE CALDARI, IN TALY, 1 TAKEN BY CANADIANS German Commanding Of- ficer Taken Prisoner in Night Raid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | ALGIERS, Dec. 15.—More than 300 American bombers and fighters struck Nazi occupled Greece in the greatest Allied blow in the air war over the Balkans yesterday. Twelve CGerman bombérs were downed. The glant air attack was made against three airfields at Athens and on Piraeus .hlrhm-' A The great ‘fleet struck knockout ; m A which left large| - MecCufcheon 2pd Lt. Wilja Ward, both of Bit- | medjate removal of Noel Wennbiom | st o o o Ce . nests “ires. b mm" Sl f k2 WK T Bind it Comfortable. Here they WWM 4 Distriet ‘Attorriey. -and ‘tavoryig| - % whest - i X ‘ L ¢ v mw uwu 3 sy i — statehood for Alaska as well as f : The Flying Fortresses delivered the first blow on Pirasus Harbor, key port, which was almost destroy- ed in the days of the German inva- granting Alaska the right to elect | its own governor. | (Continued on Page Two) ————— .‘(ordell Hull Rounds o The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on setive Guty.) WASHINGTON — Here are two types of Congressional investiga- tions, conducted by two members of Congress from widely separated sections of the country and with exactly opposite effects on the tax- | payers. One, conducted by Representative D'Alesandro, Democrat, of Mary- land, cost the taxpayers nothing. The other coriducted by Senator McCarran of Nevada, another Dém- ocrat, cost the taxpayers 325,000,‘ to say nothing of the time of many government”employeés. But it wis a big help to McOprran’s political -fu- ture. The D’Alesandro-inyestigation was into liying anil health conditions in the“nation’s crowded; wartime capi- tal. Although @ Semate committee got $25,000 for a similar investiga- tion, the Baltimore Congressman never asked for & pemny, paid for incidental expenses out of his own pocket and insisted that his col- Jeagues do likewise. He engaged no array of legal or clerical talent, but used. the regular staff of the House Columbia Cominittee. Afterwards, U. 8. Surgeon Gen- efal “Parran sajd of D'Alesandro’s report: “It is the most comprehen- ' Out Great Diplomatic Career by Recent Trip j | BY JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — This | war has made a host of heroes— | military, diplomatic and industrial— |but I doubt if there is another on the war scene who has crowned Fourteenhour Strike Ended in City of 900,000 Population | his long public service with. such |an achievement as Secretary of State Cordell Hull. MONTREAL, Dec. 15.—This snow- bound city 8f 900,000 has returned to normal after the settlement of a 14- Although it isn’t generally-known, hour strike of the police, fire and | public w employees. The crisis passed wi it major disorder. The walkout of 5,000 employees ended early today when city officials agreed to jrecognize the Canadian Congress of Labor as the bargaining baby from the outset: Hardly had the thunder of bombs at Pearl Har- bor died away than the idea was born - with -Hull' that ‘the United States, Englahd, Rusiia and Yyel haps’ China, should gét together for an examination of aims and ob- jectives and finally to sign and de- liver a pact that woyld make those objectives known .‘to the warring world. He nursed that -idea -through: a dozen diplomatic mazes, through that black period. when the fall of all Western Russia seemed just jaround a Stalingrad corner. He !overcame the hurdles of indiffer- A ence, animosity, and fear of fail- agent for ipolicemen, firemen and lyre, which leaders of all the na- public workts personnel. {tions involved felt at one time or During the hours the police were | ..\ ihe {out’ a skelefon protection was given ' | the Moscow conference was Hull's| FIRST DIVISION FRIDAY Democrats of the First Division will assemble in Juneau this Friday (for the Democratic Party Divisional | Convention, and some lively discus- sions on current problems are ex- | pected. TWO ISLES IN PACIFIC ARETARGETS | Japanese Forffications on . Woltje and Jaluit Are l» Under Hialy Atfack 5 PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 15.—Am~ erican Army: and Navy bombers struck again at the Jap fortifica- tions on Wotje and Jaluit atolls in the Marshall Islands, the Pacific - Fleet headquarters announces. Wotje is the principal enemy base 'in the mid-Pacific group and was hit by the Seventh Army Air Force heavy bombers on Monday. One bomber was damaged by anti-air- |craft fire. N | Jaluit was the target of Navy | Liberator bombers Sunday. The planes were: damaged by machine | | "FEELERS” New York Times Quotes g Cairo as Saying Bulgar- | ian Offer Turned Down | NEW YORK, Dec, 15—The New | York Times today sald that a Cairo | dispatch from Bulgaria was official- ly sent as a “peace feeler” to Allied governments in an “effort to get out of a war that both the Bulgarian | government and the population now irealize is lost.” “These feelers were turned down. {Premier Bojflov said Bulgaria was {willing to negotiate peace on the |basis of the Atlantic Charter, in re- iturti for guarantees that Bulgaria might keep territories seized from Yugoslavia and Greece.” The dispatch said Bulgaria was {prepared to argue these places as ethicallly hers. i “The Germans are reported w| ' have-warned Sofia that any further attempts to desert the Axis war ma- chine would be met with strong . German action and cited the un- happy state of Italy,” the dispatch eoncluded. CHINESE N GAINS, | | [ i {emergencies and all unnecessary so- Public Now lation of All Unneces- sary Gatherings SEATTLE, Dec. 15.—All residents have been asked to refrain from visiting hospital patients except in | | cial meetings of clubs, schools and organizations have been requested to be cancelled by proclamation of Mayor Devin. Health Commissioner Dr. Ragnar ‘Westman said, “There is an increas- ‘ed prevalence of a mild form of influenza.” DR. KELLOGG PASSES AWAY, BATTLE CREEK Famous Health Authority, Food Manufacturer, . DiesatAge of 91 KIEV SECT Russians P;uring in More Troops fo Halt Re- infotced Germans MOSCOW, De¢. 15.—The Ger- mans hurled tanks and troops into the Smela sector 14 miles south~ west of captured Cherkasy, seeking to hold off strong attacks of Soviet parachute troops threatening m/e vital railway junction. (A Reuters dispatch said the So- viet “forces are driving up from! Kremenchug where they have estdb-" lished contact along the Dnieper River with the Cherkasy Red Army group,) Frontline dispatches indicated that Gen. Knoev's Second Ukrain- fan Army already has a substantial group of parachutigts especially well armed with mortars between Cherkasy and Smela, and are pour- ing in more Russian troops to the Kiev bulge. Here they are battling sion of Greece. % t 4 Canadian and Indian treops led tured Caldari, six miles (mfi:r"} tona, on the Adriatic Coast and 200 German prisoners were taken. Canadian troops, in a daring raid at night on the village of Berrati, captured the Commanding Officer of the Sicily Pirst Armored Grena- dier Division and 140 of his men. The Pifth Army is engaged in patrol clashes, One of the German prisoners said his Commanding Officer told him the fighting “was tough, with wild ' men from Texas."” : b KPS BIG SCALE OFFENSIVE OFSOVIETS desperately to halt Field Marshal) von Mannstein's reinforced Nazi armored divisions which are report- ed pushing on toward Kiev from the highway junction at Radomysl. WAR GOODS {by 76 Mouhted Police and Provin- | Yet, with all that, the bx'lnglngi sive,’ vigorous, inferesting report I| have gver seen from & Congressional | committee on health. conditions in| the Distret of Columbia.” McCARRAN GOES HOME In contrast, Senator McCarran’s probe group was a catch-all which wandered all over his home state i and nearby areas, holding desultory hearings on placer mining eln\ms.’ government land acquisition, a| bombing range in southeast Color- ado, forest grazing permits taken| ‘over by the War Department, land, released by railroads under trans- /portation act, crowding of ranges, conservation of wildlife, and the future of fishing. Almost anyone who had an axe to. grind came before Senator Mc- Carran, and his Jong-extended hear- ings at public expense have been a great aid politically. Among other things, they helped him get back to his own State of Nevada, foi almost every hearing was sched- that the Senator was not from home. . sQ too far cial officers, and. a small force of | s fire fighters remained on the job, |t0 fruition of his fixed- idea ‘wasn’t; One firg destroyed & two-story |nearly so remarkable to me as the house. - Préssure was maintained in fact that the aging, often ill Sec-| the city's Water mains.by a skeleton |retary attended the conference- in staff. | person and took a lead in the gruel- -, | ing sessions. . | Secretary Hull was 72 years old pRosi or lIOUOR ! last. October 2. His heaith has.not | » |been so gocd for sevefal years and ND SIRY IS Io |his spare frame has often needed l | periods of rest between:the more | . |arduous State Department tasks.| BEGIN JANUARY 6 ' ook st o an airplane. He had been warned WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The‘fl’;nz‘slfi::?m" AP, make any | Pederal Grand Jury will begin in-| : ; 2 | vestigation of the liquor industry “,:: !hefll:lze mmc?:;::z‘: {early next, month. This is disclosed his nation in & gonferénce which {with the issuance of subpoenas fOF pe pag peen mulling over. for a various regords and documents of year and a half, m climbed into the industry's “Big Four” and make o ‘10 that flew ‘him to Puerto returnable January 6 when the Te- piso: ook ship o Casablanca and Firms, for' whose records are sub-\ " Aciording to reperts from Mos- poened are Hiram Walker and Sons,' ooy it was the verbal bull'seyes IJo-epn Bg;::m and sons, National grom wtne last of our log-cabin Distillers ucts Corporation and ~ (Continued on Page Two) | gun fire and one pilot was wounded. . RICEBOWL | CHN| G, D#¢. 15.—Important gains By Chinete 4 the Rice Bow!| KISKA HERO AWARDED 7 & s AIR MEDAL =75 suburbs of threé ‘major Jap held WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 — The | towns on ‘the highway running .from Changteh to the Yangtze port Navy Department has announced the award of the Air Medal and' ! of Shasi including the towns of Ansiang and Nanhsien. B R { Gold Star to Lt. Jesse Jolly, Turlock, California, for meritorious achieve- ment in the air action in the Aleu- | tians. the warning given to a. bdttleship in time for the big vessel to evade & submarine attack, then aiding two destroyers in attacking the enemy sub which was probably destroyed. ‘The Gold Star was given for the rescue of the crew of an Army bomber shot down over Kiska. ——eeeo——— BUY WAR BONDS The Alr Medal was’awarded for| STOCK QUOTATIO i NEW YORK, Dec. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock Yoday is 6, American Can 82 Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem 8 56%, Curtiss Wright 5%, Interna- Itional Harvester 71'%, Kennecott 30%, New, York Central 15%, North- ern Pacific 14'4, United States Stee! 507, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 134.17; rails, 33.03; utilities, 21.70. i . | spiration” of the famous “testimon- s cnmme o 12| PRODUCTION ! —Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, | famed physician and health author- | ity, head of the Battle Creek Sani-| I N ( R EASING | tarium, died last night. Dr. Kellogg’s religion led him into WASHINGTON, Dec, 15. — Wu'! | ' his career. The Battle Creek Sanitorium, which he developed irito one of the Production Board Chairman most famous instittions of its M. Nelson, disclosed today that the kind in the world, was not founded 'American war industries set an- by him. It was first owned by the other record for output in Novem- Seventh Day Alventist Church and ber. | he took it over after financial d!l-: Advances are: aircraft communi- ficulties arose in its management. cation equipment, six percent; ship- ' by the church. |buudlng. four percent; guns, three In his early days as a practicing percent and combat motor vehicles, | 'phyllc'hn in Battle Creek, Dr. Kel-lone percent. logg was @ member of the Adven-| Among increases in individual tist Church. But after he took over items are aerfal bombs, eleven per-' |the sanitarium, he was virtually ex- ‘cent; small arms, eight; self pro- communicated from the church be- pelled artillery carriages, fourteen cause he questioned the “divine in-'percent. —————— ies” of Mrs. Ellen G. White, one GRAND JURY TRIAL of the church leaders. James Watson, arrested on a forg- H Printer’s “Devil” ery charge December 6, fppeared l Kellogg’s youth was one of hard today before U. §. Commissioner work. Born in Tyrone, New York, Felix Gray and waived his pre- |lminary hearing. His case was (Continued on sage Two) lbwndomwmem.lty. Red Army Spokesman - Broadcasts Stafement, Winter Operafions LONDON, Dec. 15—A broadeast from Moscow tonight, made by the Red Army spokesman, declared that “this winter will see the Soviet. offensive on a larger scale than ever before. The winter is the most con- . venient time for Red Army opera~ tions as the past two winters have . shown. Winter is the best time for. , ontflanking movements, surprise en- circlements and annihilation of the enemy.” —————— CHILD HEALTH com ) REGULAR MEET TOMORROW The regular Child Health Confer- ence will be held Thursday, fr'f to 4 o'clock in afternoon in the Health Center of the Terriforial Bullding. —y—u v/