The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9526. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS —————y 5. FORCES INVADE ARAWE PENINSULA French Units Fighting With A Abandonment of Canol Project Recommended; Truman Makes Report SUCCESSES | SCORED ON | WAR FRONT Aerial Assaults for Second Day Hit Supply Lines of Germans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN, ALGIERS, Dec. 17.—French troops entering the war on the Europem)f mainland for the first time since, 1940 scored outstanding successes against the Germans in the moun- tain fighting in Central Italy, Al- lied Headquarters said. The French have been in forward positions alongside British and Am- | erican soldiers for some time, but their presence was not disclosed until today. The same troops fought alongside the Allies in Tunisia but since have been completely reequip- | ped with American uniforms, guns and materials. | The communique revealed an| aerial assault for the second suc-! cessive day on German communica- tions and supply lines in the Alpine reglon of northern Italy where heavy bombers wrecked rail facil- Germans, One Russian Go On Trial Charged MOSCOW, Dec. 17.—The trial of a group of German soldiers and a accused as a traitor, on charges of slaying Soviet citizens during the Nazi occupation of Kharkov, has begun before a mili- tary tribunal, according to dis- patches received here. The Germans and the Russian all took part in the murder of several thousand civilians, of 30,000 Kkilled U. 5. SUBS Russian, <) sten, Zhitomir and Kiev highways, ]Undersea Cr_afi Roaming Pacific, Get More Enemy Boats With Mass Murders i by | but not all by those on trial, | forcing persons into trucks, sealing | the vehicles and filling the trucks | with carbon monoxide conveyed into | | the sealed compartments by tubes | from the motors. | Newspapers carry pictures of nu- | merous corpses taken from shallow ! graves and ‘“examination of 623 | bodies proved that 523 had been killed in the specially built trucks| | with gas chambers.” | URCHILL ~ SINKEIGHT = IMPROVING ‘Acting Léa&r May Be Named During Period of Recuperation RUSS ARMY ~ CONTROLS " KIEV AREA Hold Upper Hand West ofiFred Hanford of Wrangell Dnieper After Five Weeks' Battle MOSCOW, Dec. 17.—Gen. Vatu- tin's First Ukrainian Army appeared firmly established and are holding the upper hand west of Kiev after more than five weeks of desperate fighting against heavy German in- fantry and tank attacks. Russian counterattacks dislodged the enemy from several settlements in the Teterev River sector, 556 miles | west of Kiev, for the second suc- cessive day yesterday, the Russian | communique said, enabling Gen. Vatutin’s columns to resume their drive northwest to Radomysl Marshal von Mannstein’s hold on |is now seriously threatened by the Russian gains - — 1 TARGETS ON DEMOS OPEN CONVENTION HERE TODAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Chair-| llies in Italy SIXTH ARMY STORMS ON JAP SECTION Donald Nelson, Secretary of the! Named Temporary Chairman The First Division's Democratic | Convention got off to a start here shortly afternoon today as Acting Divisional Chairman Betty McCor- mick rapped the meeting to order in the Union Hall. Fred Hanford, of Wrangell, was man Harry S. Truman, of the War Navy Knox, Secretary of War Hen- Investigating Committee, has dis-|ry L. Stimson and Fuel Adminis- closed that the War Production |trator Ickes whether the project | Board and other Federal agenci was worth the transportation fa-! have recommended that the War|cilities, manpower and materials re-| department’s $130,000,000 Canol oil quired to complete it.” informed, development in Canada be aban-| The committee was doned. | Truman said, in a subsequent cun-“ Before making its report, Tru- sultation on December 9, that it! man said, the committee would give was the “unanimous opinion of all| General Somervell an opportunity |except representatives of the War| Gain Important Positions- Nippon Air Atfacks Beaten Off GEN. DOUGLAS MecARTHUR S HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Dec. 17.—American troops invaded Arawe Peninsula on New Britain Island Wednesday consolid- to explain his reasons for ordering | Department that despite the ex- ating positions while the American ’conventlon and Roy Peratrovich, of | elected temporary chairman for the the construction. | | Truman said the committee on| Juneau, was elected temporary Sec.ll)cvvmber 2 sought the advice of; retary. - Hanford appointed the following as members of the Credentials Com- | Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, Charlie Miller, | Mrs, Louis Lemieux, M. E. Monagle | “'The convention HARD AGA'N I business would be taken care of later | 41 ST AI I A(K in the day and that the convention | would close this evening because | —— { The convention then sdjournedl until later in the afternoon while | several delegates from out-of-town | plan to return to thein homes to-. the committee examined credentia It was believed that all of the penditure of about $100,000,000 al- ready made, the Canol project is|Alr Force successfully repelled sev- not worth completing.” |erel Jap atr attacks, in the an- ,,,,,,,,,, . |[nouncement made here today. This is the first announcement since the | | bulletins were issued yesterday tell-- |ing of the landing of Army £ {on the southwest of Japan's |island base in the southwest Paci- | fie, A R R I v E S I N‘ There are no further details of the action on Arawe but it is ?; nounced the Texas Army units iconmudlmn( positions with _little of any additional opposition after Ithe brief” skirmishes accompanying | the amphibious landings. ° 1 Patrols are probably ~branching {Indications Are that RAF‘President Back in Nation's oy in Capifal After Historic homincd S R i ities at Padua and Dogna. \ . Ground.. fighting. by. both the Fifth and Eighth Armies was con-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Unitéd {““LONDON, Dec. 17.—A general im- | Infends fo Level Re- !contact the Japs. fined largely to consolidating pre- vious gains from bitter local battles for strategic advantages. | States submarines, roaming the Pa-|provement in the condition of Bri- cific, have added eight more Japan-|tish Prime Minister Winston Chur- ese cargo ships, “sighted and sunk."‘cml] has been mdintained, a bulle- The list raises the toll of all Jap|tin announced this afternoon, fol- Ivessels sunk since the start of the|lowing receipt of a radiogram from war to 374. |the attending physicians at an un- - BOMBED % Wi, ol S Sl ik agiict ], MARSH Alls {"¥ie convenitlon Wit eleet 20°akle- | | ates to the Territorial Convention | which will be held in Fairbanks January 24 to 26. | There was no indication during the opening sion as to what form | the resolutions will take. However, | mains of Capital LONDON, Dec. 17.—Stricken Ber- Aussies Move Up At the same time, Australians on the western side of Vitiaz straits jare making “good progress" up WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Bronzed Huon Peninsula, New Guinea and Conferences Abroad a battle is expected on the question lin heaved up fields of flame and and smiling but in need of a hair- | | the ‘capture of Lakona “is immin- The Washington: Merry-G_o-Round, By DREW PEARSON i (Major Robert 8. Al4p om sctive duty.) | In the last sinkings the Navy|given destination. . g lists two large transports, two large! Churchill is now suffering the New Alrfleld Among BaseS tankers, three medium freighters second attack of pneumonia within . v g and one small freighter. i"el‘ months and undoubtedly will H" oo One Ra'dmg The subs in the Pacific have now 'require a long period of recupera- . sunk,. probably sunk or damaged‘uou. and consequently, it is ex‘:)ect-‘ llbem'or lOSf a grand total.of 524 Japanese ves-|ed that Britain's War Cabinet may sels, both fighting ships and mer-|name an acting leader to serve dur- | cut, President Franklin D. Roose-|en¢» velt is home after his long trek to| the ‘Middle East, and found a tu-| J8P bombers. sttempted .18 e multous reception awaiting him | tack the American positions soon here where members of the Cabinet | 2fter the initial landings at Arawe and top officials of the government 'but Allied fighters intercepted them had assembled, as well as a host of |and In all cases the attacks were Senators and Congressmen of both |repelled, | of statehood. | smoke again last night as hundreds 1 BB i ¥ SN lof giant black Royal Air Force| | bombers loosed thunderous explo- i |sives on the Nazi nerve center for |the 4lst time this year. | Stockholm dispatches said that| | Berlin is burning again after a two- | PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 17—A ‘WASHINGTON—Democratic lea- dérs are trying to keep it quiet, but there was a hot blow-up over the 1944 campaign at a private Admin- istration luncheon on the Senate side of the Capito! the other day. ; The principals were Democrnuci National Chairman Frank Wnl.ker,‘ Food Administrator Marvin Jones and Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, whom - the President attempted to purge in 1938. Gillette showed up late for the luncheon and was promptly chal- lenged by Walker and Jones. “What's this I hear about you not running for reelection to the Sen- HUMAN WEALTH, NOT EINANCIAL, IS FUTURE NEED Delegates to Labor Session in London Are Given | Inspiring Talk i | ! GOES TO BEDSIDE | LONDON, Dec. 17—Mrs. Chur- ichill has left here to be with the Prime Minister, ill with pneumonia lin the Middle East, No. 10 Downing street announced tonight. FOOD SUBSIDY ISSUE DELAYED BULLETIN—Washington, Dec. 17. {—The House late this afternoon| jnew 50-ton bombardment of the ! |Japanese Marshalls is announced | and for the first time in five weeks | of almost daily attacks, the loss of | one raiding Liberator is reported. The new airfield at Taroa on Ma-| loelap atoll and the main fortified, base at Wotje were targets. Thirty enemy planes battled over | Taroa and two were shot down | eight probably destroyed and eight more damaged. | Apparently there was no inter-| ception over Wotje. The raids occurred last Wednes- {day and resulted in damage to in- | stallations at both bases. Fires were started at Wotje. | BEAT BACK NAZIBLOWS “Annihliation” Taclics' Achieve Nothing But ! Defeat for Germans | LONDON, Dec. 17.—A spectacular defeat has been inflicted on the latest German ‘“annihilation” of- fensive against the Yugoslav guer- week respite, flames from her gut-| ted buildings ‘“reddening the sky,”| telephone communication irregular, and the capital's transportation is| paralyzed. 6th Raid In Month | It was the sixth raid on the cup-' ital in a month and was launched | from Britain just after American Liberators and Fortresses returned from twilight and daylight raids en northwest Germany. The Eighth Airforce did not specic fy the American target but a Gi man communique said that fleets| of bombers over Helgoland Bay “dropped a great number of high explosives and incendiary bombs on major parties, in the diplomatic re- Hold Established ception room of the White House, The American Sixth Army has to extend noisy greetings. | established a firm hold on the pen- The President arranged a series |insula 'and there were few casual- * of important conferences shortly |ties considering the scope of thie op- after his return, first with diplomats erations. representing Britain, China, Russia,| The troops moved shoreward un- Turkey, Iran, and Egypt, thénatlons | ger powerful Naval and' air-support he visited or whose chiefs.he con-! g4 " ceven hours after the first ferred with on the trip. ¢ The Dakar radio disclosed = the :;:‘:“';u;’;:':‘“:::;m;”gm President boarded a French sbip at| .. = ;)f Sha s ain, farce‘ Dakar Harbor for the homeward | .5 @0 0 FE i 1§ “t“”“‘m hu"‘ ' journey. The broatcast recorded in ' " 0w at:nlned e p States eign | ™ e the United States from a foreig o nt Positions Wori Wik broadcast by the Inteélligence Service | said he visited Dakar in French| In''the first concerted action of West Africa on December 9 with the Sixth Army commiarded: by ‘Lt = LONDON, Dec. 17.—Ei i : ,, < Je ate in 19447 asked Walker. Dec. 17.—Ernest Beain,|yoted to extend the life of the| residential quarters and on a num-|Admiral Leahy. They arrived in|Gen. Walter Krueger, stragetically PRI 5 from been “That's right,” replied Gillette.| “I've announced that I wouldn't/ run again for the Senate, and I in- tend to stick by Jt.” “But how about your party?” countered Walker. “We need men of your caliber to hold up the State! tickets in, '1944. Otherwise, we're! going to have a very tough time.” “I've been waiting a long time for someone to say that,” replied Gillette, “You gentlemen didn’t seem to think that I belonged to the Democratic party in 1938, when Tommy Corcoran and other mem- bers of the White House guard were trying to defeat me in the Jowa primary.” ! “How about in 1932?” countered| Walker. “Listen, Frank, don't try to kid me about that campaign,” respond- ed Gillette. “I admit I rode in on the President’s coattails like a It of others.” ' | “And you still don't agree that you owe something to the party?” shot back Walker. “Owe something to the party that tried to kick me out of of- fice?” replied Gillette angrily. “I guess not! Far from it, Frank, and you can tell the President, if you want to, that I will not run for re- election as Senator from Iowa on| the Democratic ticket under any circumstances.” With that, the Iowa anti-New Dealer turned on ‘his heel and walked out. However, one thing Gil- lette still has to make clear to,Cap- told the delegates at the Ninety= First session of the Governing Body of International Labor Office that “we are making much better pre- parations for peace in Great Bri- tain than we did in the last war.” Beain declared that in the past “prosperity has been measured by the accumulation of wealth in terms of money without regard to the real wealth of the Nation and well being of its people. We believe that it is an essential need for the fu- ture to regard human wealth more than a financial budget.” DUNCAN ROBERTSON IS FIRST LIEUTENANT IN MEDICAL SERVICE CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pa. Dec. of the Medical graduated from the Medical Field 17.—Another large class of officers Department has! Commodity Credit Corporation until | Pebruary 5, thus suspending until| then a showdown on the issue of | outlawing food subsidies. The vote ! {was 103 to 27 . . | The Senate also today speedily ‘approved a resolution extending the |life of the CCC 60 days beyond January 1 thus deferring full aM final food subsidy issue until then. (hines;_ Exclusion Laws Kayoed WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The Chinese Exclusion Laws have been taken off the U. 8. statute book as President Roosevelt signed the mea- Isuna repealing them and rectifying {what he termed a historical mis- take:. All Chinese are now eligible for naturalization and immigration barriers dre lowered, permitting 105 Service School, Carlisle Barracks, o enter the U. S. annually on that and are now qualified for duty! ford. lo The training course at this na- o tional Medical Department School| STARLING LEAVES taught the graduates the military| H W, Starling, Supervisor of Arts knowledge necessary for them to be|and Crafts for the Office of Indian Rain .58 . !quota basis. with the troops in the field after P ST 1 i six weeks of intensive training here.|s o o o o o o o o Among the graduates are First o WEATHER REPORT “ Lt. Duncan Robertson, son of Mr.'g (U. 8. B 2) - and Mrs. R. E. Robertson, of Ju- o ° neau, who received his M. D. De-‘. Temp. Thursday, Dec. 16 o gree from the University of Stan- e Maximum 44; Minimum 3¢ e . . itol Hill observers is whethier he will run for the Democratic Presi- (Continued on Page Four) ANy efficient officers, capable of carry-|Affairs, left last night by steamer ing out medical preventive measures for Haines and Klukwan ni connec- and caring for the sick and wound- |tion with the work of his depart- ed under war conditions. ment. THEODORE SMITH OF JUNEAU WILL TAKE | - FLYING COURSE NOW | PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 17.—Pri- vate Theodore J. Smith of Juneau, {Alaska, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. {Smith, has arrived here at the | Washington State College for a {course of instruction to last ap- proximately five months prior *o his appointment as an Aviation | Cadet in the Army Air Forces Fly-| ing Training Command. During this period he will study numerous aca- demic subjects and receive elemen- |tary flying training. Upon comple- tion of the course he will be clas- sified as a navigator, pilot or bom- bardier and go on to schools of the Flying Training Command for training in these specialties. FORMER ALASKA AIRMAN CITED | SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—Clayton A. Scott of Seattle has been commend- ted by the War Department for or- lanmzmg relief work after a Flying Il'onress crashed in an English vil- lage recently. Scott was the leading northwest airman ten years ago. He was the first to fly to Cordova, Alaska, and was a pioneer of Alaskan airways. Scott was the first to land a plane on Crater Lake in Oregon. illas, a special war bulletin the headquarters of Marshal Tito Dakar by plane and conferred with ber of localities in northwestern French officials, then boarded the important positions - have pained, giving them ,command of the southern entrance to the Vitiaz and Dampier Straits which separ- ate the New Britain northwest Germany.” Bremen acknowledged sald. ; i French ship which took them from The communique said that Nazi particularly heavy damage in that o2 g ¢ : satellite forcr*s(I everywhere have city. 3“2" ;slv;hhx:,s':.::;‘::;sd vt’.(‘)mcalr?; suffered defeats and the enemy | <+-11_Bombers Lost the President home. thrown into retreat in numerous The ‘Americans lost 11 bombers i sectors. and one fighter and downed 16 AWAY FIVE WEEKS, ONE DAY | The Nazi forces which achieved C€rman fighters. : one breakthrough in the liberated The degree of the Berlin assault territory then embarked on a mm_‘m which more than 1,500 long tons| paign of burning and looting, ex-“" bombs rained on the capital re- pending men and tanks recklessly vealed that despite the loss of 30 in an effort to break the rising tide | Pombers, there is no doubt that the | flghting RAF intends to finish the job of of Gen. Tito's fiercely e guerilla forces, the bulletin added, | leveling what remains of Berlin's H % acres of factories, government build- {ings, financial institutions and | warehouses. With last night's attacks moce than 15,000 tons of high explosives jand incendiaries have been show- ered on the blackened city. R i {May Postpone Any | 719 AreDead, Train Crash LUMBERTON, North Carolina, Dec. 17.—The toll of dead from the southwest’s worst railroad disaster, which occurred early yesterday morning, mounted to 70 today, in- cluding 47 soldiers homebound for the holidays. More bodies have been | reached from the four telescoped, steel passenger coaches that sml: blocked the Atlantic Coast Line's| double-tracked mainline, New York- Florida. The four steel cars are stacked on top of one another, and so jammed| they are little larger than one car. Wrecking trains were unable to move the pyramided coaches but six feet all night, 'l | | Senale Showdown, Subsidyiqr 60 Days WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The Senate Banking Committee has re- commended a 60-day postponement for a Senate showdown on the food | subsidy issue to permit attempts at’ a compromise. This action came after the com- mittee refused to accept either a flal subsidy repeal bill favored by Inight and are visiting with Mr. and | coast from New Guinea, now firm- 'ly held by the Australians, The United States Destroyer Force WASHINGTON, Dec. IT- 'Pr"s"-])ounded the tiny islands at the dent Roosevelt returned to the .noance of Arawe harbor before White House five weeks and one day ‘lhe first assault troops shoved off after departing for the historic mili- w,,' the shore tary and diplomtic conferences in | the Middle East. His safe arrival in the country was announced yesterday and to- S!oa wo"m day’s announcement said he reached | + P b the White House. NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Closing The President found Congress get- quotation of Alaska Juneau, mine ting ready for the Christmas vaca- . today is 6's, American ,Can tion and a joint session prior to the g4 " apoconda 24%, Bethlehem: Steel | holidays when they hoped to hear;s,l. Curtiss Wright 5%, Internations him report on the momentous meet- ings. Speaker of the House Sam Ray- urn, who was among the first to (al Harvester 72, Kennecott . 30%, ! New York Central 16, Northern Pa- 8 cific 14%, United States Steel 51%. talk to the President, said he would | DOW, Jones averages today are as not appear before Congress until he | follows: _industrials 135.44, . rails delivers his annual message early |3321, utilities 21.78. next year. SISTERS MEET HERE ¥ Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Keays of Am- | arillo, Texas, arrived in Juneau last| Mrs. Chris Ellingen, during the hol- iday season. The Keays plan to make Juneau their home in Juneau. | Mrs. Keays and Mrs. Ellingen lref sisters ¥ | S e FROM SEATTLE Mrs. Livenia Stevenson of Seattle the Farm Bloc, or the compromise| proposal made by Senator Robert| Taft. l is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. She | arrived here by steamer. ; ““ mm