The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9536. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1943 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S ALL-OUT WAR ON JAPAN MAPPED OUT GLOUCESTER RESISTANCE | STIFFEN-ING) Nippons Throw Entire New i Regiment Info Battle to Hold Airdrome ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Dec. 30. — Outnumbered, a Marine force holding positions on the East- ern flank, have overcome the sharp- | resistance | ly stiffefiing Japangse and have advanced a half a mile in the direction of the vital Cape Gloucester airdrome, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s communique reported today. The Marines drove ahead under artillery and aerial support and used flame throwers to eliminate pillboxes and strong pockets of re- sistance a mile from the airstrip. At least 200 Japanese were killed in the action along the bank of a river, Major General Willlam H.| Rupertus, Marine Corps Command- er, reported. The river is not numed Regiment Of Japs Attacks against the Marines on’ the eastern line running along the inland shores of Borgen Bay were (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen o sstive duty.) WASHINGTON—While handsome John D. M. Hamilton, ex-GOP| Chairman was_touring the West on, his stop- -Willkie trip, the indom table Mr. Willkie was on a tour c( his own, determined not to be| stopped. At Denver, Colorado, thexr paths almost crossed. Willkie missed Hamilton by just one day. But though he didn't see John, he heard all ‘about his #.les talk. John had addressed a group of business men and had suddenly shifted his argument against Willkie to this new line: “Russia will make such fierce de-' mands on Poland,” Hamilton said, in - effect, “that there will, be a strong rcamnn nwnst Russin Therefore, Wé ‘muspynot nominate;: anyone like Willkie who has been friendly to Russia.” What interested Willkie was the| fact that exactly this same argu-| ment has suddenly cropped up in other quarters, and his friends have traced it right to one spot—New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel and the apartment of Herbert Hoover.; Hoover, who bitterly opposed Rus- sia’s recognition’ while he was in| the White House, has been passing| out word that the reaction against Russia would come soon and that the Repubncnn Party must not get| encumbered with anyone like Will- kie who is pro-Russian. Meanwhile, Governor Tom Dewey is reported as having remarked to| friends that he had been seeing| quite a bit of Polish leaders re-| cently. Also, Alf Landon conferred with Hoover before making his draft- Dewey statement. Shortly thereaf-| ter, Hamilton, returning from his long trek, came out for Dewey, which means that Pennsylvania’s! Joe Pew is also for Dewey. | Those who have talked to Her- bert Hoover say they are convinced he does not want to run again him- | self, but that they have never secn him so determined to pick the can- didate and guide the destinies f the Republican Party. CLASH OVER SOLDIER'S VOTE Debonair, dashing Senator Bur-| net Maybank of South Carolina rushed to the telephone the other night, demanded that the Federal Communications Commission take; (Continued on Page Four) Sees Mother Slain | Standing before a gaily-decorated Christmas tree, Susy Lealy (above), | 2, in Los Angeles watched a stream of bullets kill her mother and seriously wound her father. Police booked the latter, Gregory Leahy, 36, on suspicion of murder after the death of his wife, Louise, 33, and said a housekeeper {old them the couple had been arguing for weeks over the management of a pie route they jointly owned. (AP Wire- | ¥ photn? ; g FIGHTH ARMY > TROOPS KEEP ADVANCING Press on Toward Pescara| from Ortona Over ‘ Mined Road ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Dec. 30. — The Eighth ;Klmy troops pressed one mile up the/' Adriatic coast from captured Ortona toward Pescara over a heav- | ilv mined road. Flying Fortresses, Marauders 'md other bombers concentrated yester- day on blocking seaports and rail- roads suppling the German forces ! across the Peninsula. Heavy blow: were struck especially at Rimini and Ferrara. ! Fifth Army troops stormed the! 13,000 foot Mount Cersauloa five| Imiles east of Biagio after a halt ! {mile advance. The Canadians who took Ortona |last Tuesday found the town luu ‘al booby traps and time bombs. — e, ‘More Chicken—of Feathered Kind— 1For Service Men WASHINGTON, DeC. 30.—Chick- en will soon appear less often in the home and on restaurant and hotel menus as a substitute for ra- |tioned meats. The War Food Administration last night ordered cold storage stocks of chickens in excess of 3,000 |pounds to be held by dealers, res- {taurant and hotel operators, pro- | cessors, wholesalers and retailers, to be set aside for the Armed Services | and military hospitals. | The War Shipping Administration (and other agencies buying on gov- | ernment account for the Army, for| | {Sunday chicken dinner for the men | Jin service, | months have been unable to obtain ! more than 20 percent of the re- | quirements for the twice mommy‘ 'ATTA BOY | SHEP, YOU ARE RIGHT U. S. Must Maintain Post- . war Navy Unsurpassed by Any Nation, Group "WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Repre- sentative Harry R. Sheppard, of California, Chairman of the House ;Appxopmlmnx Sub-Committee on Naval Expenditures, said today the | United tes must maintain a post- war Navy “unsurpassed by any other |nation or combination of natious. They will never get my vote to scrap one peice of equipment of naval |eraft or anything else vital to this country’s defense.” 1 Sheppard made the statement in | |an interview and his decided re- |marks indicated that he meant jus! what he said. Sheppard helped pilét | through Congress the ship expansion | bills totaling ninety-four billion dol- | lars duri mg the pasv. three years. NAZINAVY (OMMANDER - OUT, REPORT Step Interprefed as Indi- cating an All-out U- Boat Offensive LONDON, Dec. 30.—As details of the Scharnhorst battle were dis- closed the Moscow radio reported i | | |that Admiral Karl Dienitz, Gcrmanl Navy Commander, has either re- signed or is expected to resign. He is 52 and is a submarine expert. He was made commander last January. The step is interpreted here as jan all-out U-bhoat offensive. 'mnny as 60 words. TOWARDOLD - POLISH LINE ‘Coniinué Thrust After | Breaking Last Difch German Oflenswe General | MOSCOW, Dec. 30. Vatutin’s First Ukraine Army, spear- | heading the great Soviet three-front winter offensive, rolled toward Rus- | i sian’s 1939 frontier across the flat | frozen steppes containing few nat- | ural defense obstacles east of the Bug River, and toward Poland, 190 | miles away. | Red troops are less than 48 miles | from the rail and river town of | Gorodnitza, old Polish - Russian | frontier town. Following the spec- | tacular capture of the rail hub of Korosten yesterday, the Soviets pushed impetuously on the heels of the bitterly resisting and exhausted | Germans. | The northern arm of General | Vatutin's forces have rapidly ex- panded their 442-mile breach in the | Leningrad-Odressa railway from | Korosten south to Cherynakhov. l On the southern front, General Malinovsky's Third Ukraine Army | - Tax Headache Just2 | | | | has struck out in a new drive whn,h i§ second in impertance only fn BY JACK STINNETT Vatutin’s: offensive, and are pro- ceeding westward across the Dnieper WASHINGTON — Within a few | weeks some 37 million Americans River at Zaporshe. The nine-mile | will begin receiving two little no- | advance completely restored the great Dnieper Dam to Russian hands On the third front, far north in White Russia, Bagramian’s Baltic Army conunued the envelopment of Vitebsk, killing | 1,700 Germans and liberating sev-| eral more towns. to lh«" Genexal by Nazls Faun IS GERMAN ROUT tices. These notices will be un- LONDON, Dec. 30.—A German ors erlo o ! pleasant reminders, no doubt, of an upcoming headache but my advice rout on the whole front before | Zhitomir was announced by Stalin | tonight in a triumphant order DH the day, reporting a Russian advauce up to 60 miles in five days of hmel ss (a palgn fighting which widened the bleflch ‘ Early in the new year employers more than 180 miles to Kazatin. | will start distributing statements Fifteen miles southeast, Berdichev, to employes listing their wages and which dominates one of the main Wh0|e Ukralnlan Front IS | Victory tax withheld from those Caving-In Following escape routes of the‘ German forces | :vmgr; in 1943. About the same time flght_mg in the ' Dnieper bend, fell | : 4 | the collector of internal revenue before the rolling Russian advance Hitler's Blunders | will mail to income taxpayers state- By EDDY GILMORE |1s not to part with them, either in| msgn\t or carelessness. They'll be a tidy bit of help in alleviating said headache. | toward, this olfy Bppatier | | ments specifying their tax on 1942 b hrogdeast ul“‘p““‘.mn‘(.“( it income and the portion of the tax the defenses of, Zhitomir, greatest ey s 1043 prize of the Nazis' disastrous autumn | Associated Press War Correspondent | poioal income tax ohyarg offensive was broken, and eight Nazi | MOSCOW, Dec. 30. The German | Ll ‘ ; DA : i tank divisions and 14 infantry divi- | High Command appears to have lost | 1¢¥ 1OW Include the vast majority sions were routed. | control of its forces, at least tem- toLammge ”me.“"wm nsecl thike In his message, Marshal Stalin'porarily, on the Russian front. It notices for filling out 1943 income reports, due on or before March sent congratulations to General |is the blackest period for the Nazis ‘ ; Vatutin. [since the invasion of the Soviet 15 This looks like the toughest tax- i A S Unlan | reporting job in U. S, histor with new complications such as fi- guring whether you owe Uncle Sam more money or he owes you some after 1943 withholdings and other payments, and computing that un- forgiven part of the 1942 or 1943 tax whichever is larger). The collector's statement of your 11942 tax, and your payments on it,| will be in the same envelop as the my. The General Staff made one of vhe greatest blunders of the war, \and now Marshal von Mannstein's whole Ukrainian front is caving in | | {and his proud tank units are piling | IS R E po RTE Dtup in the snows, the garrisons are | Germans Say A'hed Am_ | ritory. |ment in making out your report for: , Hitler's big blunder was ‘the count- 11943, you will be expected to return| | ph|b|ous Forces Have |er-offensive west of Kiev which drew|it with the report to the collector: {large numbers of tanks and soldiers He needs it in checking your r ! By.passed fi'on' | from other sections of the front and | turn | deep from the rear and threw them The statement from your em-, have made a leapfrog landing on|two cities and lots of villages which | ; ’ Yia tEI Tk west ‘comst’ near "Hhe|ats 1§ote B otant hutlagcf:st vy Another new angle which will mouth of the Garigliano River. .sevexal thousand tanks and thous- cpmplicetesthe reiy Wit DO B0 The broadcast declared the Allied |ands of soldiers. computation: of yolib | Viesory “"‘, landing forces which were presum- ———.———— |due for 1943, together with figur- ably of the Fifth Army, were inter- | (ing the Victory tax credit. That (olD IN HEAD | credit varies with your marital MB~ is as apparent as the face on the Kremlin clock that Hitler or his igenerals or both guessed wrong ' again and have been outwitted by uul of communication with the com- |mand and are being surrounded, and' ‘ with great fur; y at General Vatutin’s | ployer on withholdings will help you! | LONDON, Dec. 30.—DNB said in | front, hoping to achieve a break-iget full credit for taxes already cepted on the beaches before reach- ing the Appian Way, leading to |tus and the number of dePndems‘ {you had during 1943. KEEPS FDROUT xompleuz 1943 return, thnp Ls also | due e Red Arr the Russians are retaking the ter- | Of 'em. After using the 1942 state- a Berlin broadcast that the A“lei‘[hrcugh The great effort gave mmlpmd | Rome, and as a result the action is And that isn't all. on March 15 angther one of | localized. There has been no Allied confirmation; however, such an am- |those pesky declarations introduced |last September much to the discom- 1 4phibious operation could be one of | !the ways Gen. Mark Clark might | OF HIS OFH( iture of affected taxpayers and the! 'seek to break the German front WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Presi-|internal revenue workers, who han- along the Gulf of Gaeta, where n‘ was stabilized several weeks ago, in| dent Roosevelt stayed away from dled their “guesses” on income. his office again today. He still has his effort to reach Rome, P S P L It has been estimated that the a cold in the head but no fever.| average pet dog understands as No appointments ‘lhe day, The dither were made for|—— 7 — % (Continued on rage Two) J over the declaration . jon 50 CLO3SEUP OF TURKEY—This is a closeup map of Turkey-in-Europe, showing the strategic Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits which control passage through the Sea of Marmara. For centuries Russia has been trying to obtain unrestricted, use of this route. BERLINIS HIT "HEAVYBLOW - BY BRITISH ! Estimate 7S—Irucenl of City Now Lays in Tofal Rum LONDON, Dec. 30.—More than 2,400 tons of high' explosives and incendiary bombs shook burned and shuddering Berlin last night and the blow may have finished the city as the working capital of Germany. The engines of the mighty RAF, aramda which dealt Berlin its eighth heavy blow since the cam- paign of destruction began were hardly cold when large formations of RNeavy daylight bombers and fighters streaked at all heights in !the direction of the bristling rocket by a 1,300-plane American fleet on Christmas Eve. An extraordinary heavy force of, British Lancasters and Halifaxes carried out the latest attack on| in the evening under cover ot clouds. The armada contained the largest force of heavy bombers the Canadian Royal ‘Air Force has sent cut. The Air Ministry said the “at Cn{ was very heavy,” that smoke spir- aled upward for 16,000 feet from large fires, The raid was not without cost, however. Twenty bombers were lost income tax form. Hold on to bothin all operations yesterday, includ- { 'ing Mosquito bomber attacks on western and central Germany. It is estimated officially that the ruins have spread to take in at least 75 percent of the Nazi capi- ital. Last night’s raid was the nine-| ty-ninth on Berlin of the war. A terse German communique acknowledged “heavy damage in | several districts of the Reich capi- tal, particularly in residential dis- tricts."” LS A TWO OFFICERS, 4 ' MEN, PLANE OF NAVY MISSING SEATTLE, Dec. 30.—~The Thir- teenth Naval District anounces two officers and four men on a large !Naval plane are missing after tak- ing off Irom the Naval Air Station Whidby Island last Sunday Search has been abandoned, Marines, Air Force Keep Pounding Japanese REDS DRIVE ALL FORCES " BE SHIFTED - TO PACIFIC Plans of Afii_ed Nations | “Annotinced by Fleet Commander King | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 —Admir- ’ul Ernest King, Commander-In- Chief of the United States Fleet, isaid plans are ready to shift the !full strength of the United Nation's into the war against Japan, prob- 'ably sometime during the next year. Preparation of the plans have been underway for several months and this concentration of the all- out war on Japan may not wait un- til the defeat of Germany, which 1s agreed with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. ,and maybe expected within the next few months or later. i Shift Of Power | “I am in hopeful expectancy Cer- many will be defeated in 1944, and 11 am expectant that the unremit- ting pressure on Japan will be con- ,tinued and increased. I do not 'know whether anyone else announc- ed it, but it is obvious that studies have been underway for several monflu looking to a shift of 'from the Buiopean” theatre to the (Pacific theatre of war net only |when Germany is defeatéd but as her defeat seems near at hand,” sald King. Attack Lines Asked when the shift in power lwill be made, Admiral: King sald: “The main lines of attack on Japan have already been determined and additional means will be used to melemem. the general strategy of | defeat.” | Referring to 1ecently reported at- tempts of the Carrier Saratoga and supporting vessels to lure the Jap fleet from Truk in a showdown fight, Adm. King said such a battle will be welcomed. “We have done several things to get them out and we are going to do several more,” said the Admiral, ‘To the Jap assertions they may launch offensive operations . nex: year, Adm. King said: “I do not see how they are going to go on an offensive in the Pacific. What they may do in China, Manchuria or even Burma, is somclhlnn else.” and gun coast of France, last l)ounfled' 2 AMERICAN what Berlin, swarming over the city eurly; FlIERS spo‘ NAZI FLEET Flashed "Come” Signals to British Ships Which Sank 3 Destroyers LONDON, Dec. 30—Two Amer- |ican Navy fliers were the first to spot the German flotilla of 11 de- |stroyers on the Bay of Biscay and shadowed it for six hours, flashing signals which brought the British warships and cruisers speeding to | the scene and which resulted in the |sinking of three enemy destroyers on Tuesday The spotting pilots were Lieut. ! Stuart Johnston, of Upper Darby, Pa., and Ensign Hugh Greeley, of Boston, Mass. They were flying the patrol Liberator “V for Victory.” The Nazi destroyers apparently were the escort for a loaded block- ade runner from Argentina which was sunk by a British plane. - e e o o o o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureauw) Temp Wednesday Dec. 29 Maximum 43; Minimum 38 Rain 151 ® L] LJ ik R SRR T BUY WAR BONDS e