The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1943, Page 1

-~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII.. NO. 9537. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1943 MEMBI:.R ASSOCIATE D PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENIS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI LINES REELING ON RUSSIAN FRONT Marines Capture Cape Goucestor Ai AIR STRIPS ARETAK:N; FIGHTOVER lealheme(ml Full Com- mand of Area-Is New | Year's Present ' ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, | Priday, Dec. 31.—The hard hitting | United States Marines have cracked the stubborn Jap defenses to cap- ture the vital Cape Gloucester air- drome on New Britain. } The Leatherneck’s final asault| gained full possession of two air- | strips at noon Thursday just four | days after last Sunday’s invasion | landing. Details of the final hours‘ of the battle are meager. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- | munique said: ‘“Following intense | aerial preparations, our ground forces took their positions by as-l sault.” 1 Headquarters spokesman said the | air assault on two successive days softened the Japanese pillboxes for | the Marines who used flame throw- | ers clearing strong points. ‘ “Hundreds oG Japanese are in the area,” the spokesman said. ] i (Continued on P-ce Two) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Masor Fobert 8. Allen on sctive auty.) WASHINGTON—Capuol Hill has | been highly intrigued by some of | the inside details of what is 1epon.ed | to have happened at Cairo and | Teheran, as brought back by U. S.| advisers. The Cairo conference got off to an | unfortunate start when General- | issimo Chiang Kai-Shek arrived at the airport with neither the Presi- dent nor Prime Minister Churchill | there to greet him. Just by luck, General Joseph Stilwell, American | Commander in China, was at the | airport and did the honors as best | he could. However, General Stilwell has had to say “No” to the Chinese 50 many times and his face has be- come so familiar to Chiang, that his presence at the airport was consid- ered nothing to cheer about. | b s MOTHER S GIRL.— Now making her screen debut, 20- year-old Ellen Hall; is thnehter o( ex-Screen Actress Ella Hall> Dopeslers Beffing On Peculiar Sweep, House Republicans UNIONSTURN DOWN FDR'S WAGE PLANS 'Railroad Groups Contend They, Are Entitled to Separate Overfime WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Fifteen railroad non-operating unions have rejected President Roosevelt's pro- posed basis for arbitrating the wage ALLIES MAKE NEWLANDING, North of Stalemated 1 Waterlogged Front ALGIERS, Dec. 31. — Fifth Army | troops carried out a large scale raid along the west coast of Italy north of the Garigliano River yesterday, and seized the initiative from the tor. The announcement was confirmed, iand established a bridgehead. |quarters gave no details of the 'gain, but it was apparently aimed at the junctions controlling the 1Conunu on Page Two) SAN VITTORE BY STHARMY ITALIAN COAST 'Bridgehead Is Established | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS m‘ Germans along the long stalemated land waterlogged front in that sec- | at least in part, by German broad- | casts that the Allies made nmpht-i bious leapfrog attacks in that area | Gen. Sir Arnold Alexander’s head- | 7 ISCAPTURED SUBURBS OF - ~ Soldiers Train in Colorado for Ardic Dufies Soldiers of the Army Air Forces, being trained at Echo Lake, Colorado, built snowhouses like this one in which to keep warm at 70 degrees below zero. The soldiers were being trained in Arctic rescue work. [; P Wirephoto) | ickes Predicis Beffer =~ PARISHITBY | FishPack During 1944, Italian Bano Radio Station Makes Broadcast | This Afternoon » | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—People. NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The Ital- | who keep track of such things are !ian Bari radio this afternoon broad- | ulating on the startling pos- casts a report the Allied me sibility that the Republicans could Army has captured the fmmud‘ take over majority control of the village of San Vittore near Cassino| House of Representatives even be- . on the road to Rome. fore the next general election. The Bari radio is controlled b You can get bets any time that,the Badoglio Government. the GOP will sweep into firmly es-. BRI L . DT tablished power in the election, but GI ' two factors may combine to give, the Republicans an umansrymg‘ New Year sort of piecemeal House victory be- BY JACK STINNETT | The Democrats battled their way out of last year's elections with 222 House seats—a slim majority but one regarded at that time as wide enough to carry them mrough’ this Congress. Fortress of Europe Given‘ ion the suburbs of Paris. | jectives of the daylight assault were | | quarters, as the year end aerial of- HEAVY RAID Says More Boals Coming Heavy 24-hour Pound- ing as Year Ends | LONDON, Dec. 31. — American heavy bombers supported by Am-‘l rican and Royal Air Force fighters | mashed targets in France, the| aris radio said, and bombs rained | |cast of Secretary of the This would exceed the yields of act nature of the ob- % i eanck b |1ast season, will probably be greater. | He based his prediction on the not announced by American head-' | fensive which sent more than 3,000 planes thundering against enemy targets during the previous 24 hours | expected and more vessels will be { available. New vessels have been re- ported since last July, and materials Iraged to a climatic finisk. Paris, administation center of the German | have been alloted for 528 new boats, occupation authorities, also Nazi while 261 are expected to be com- war production plants were the \ph'lv(l this year plus 143 in the center of today’s attack | first quarter of 1944, 72 in the sec- lond quarter, 41 in the third and {11 in the fourth. The objective of yesterday’s at- tacks was not annonced but may ! billion or more pounds is the fore- Interior along the south central front. | Harold Ickes, Fisheries Coordinator. the last two years, but would still be below normal production, which is estimated at 4,400,000,000 pounds. Ickes predicted that the' Alaska |catch will be at least as large as and salmon poundage {hope that improved production is As Churchill and Roosevelt had !dispute and insisted they are en- been trying for some time to get titled to a ruling on overtime in- together with Chiang, and as the dependent of every other consider- Chinese are considered about the | ation. Now there’s at least some likeli- | hood that it won't see mem through. i Latest Republican pickup was the forehand. ! Those two factors are death and {Nazi Spokesman, Premier Tojo Issue ‘Greefings’ . ; resignation. | {have been the cherical poison gas works of Ludwigshafen, deep in southwestern Germany, which was carried out by the greatest fleet of The demand for engines for the Navy's landing barge program may delay completion of fishing boats rdrome LEGIONS OF NAIZSNOW INBIGROUT Remnants of Hifler's Army Split as Russians Move on Bug River BULLETIN — LONDON, Dec. 31. — Zhitomir, the important raitway center in the Ukraine, which has been outflanked by Gen. Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army, now rushing toward the old Polish-Rumanian borders, has fallen, according to an of- ficial statement issued in Mos- cow. At the same time the cap- ture of more than 60 places is announced in the drive west of Nevel to the north. A breadcast, recorded by the Soviet monitor here, says a great battle was waged for Zhitomir as the result of its strategic position on the Leningrad-Odes- sa railroad connecting both north' and south Russia. Its capture seals the l“l hold on the line already cut by the Russian seizure of Korosten and Nevel and other points to the north. Forces of the Ger- | mans, more than ever, must naw 54 B their northern and southern armies, | MOSCOW, Dec. 31. — Russian ‘rm ‘ces, streaming through the great- ‘est hole yet torn in the Nazi de- !fenses, have broken into the outer Bug River defenses and in a driving ot!enslvc have split the routed rem- nants of von Mannstein's legions 'and have reached to within 30 miles WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. — Next of the river itself. May wed SOOH year's fish production for the Unit-| Frontline dispatches said a Rus- " | ed States and Alaska will reach four sian column is sweeping toward the Bug, Germany's next line of defense | West of the Dnieper River a thrust down the Kiev-Zhmerinka railway has opened a deep wedge in the reeling Nazi army. General Vatu- tin’s vanguards are reported within 43 miles of the old Polish border and within 90 miles of where the Dnie- ster River forms Rumania’s old eastern boundary. One Supply Line Left With the Warsaw-Smela railway severed at captured Kazatin only one supply line remained open to the retreating Nazis before the main Odessa-Lwow line itself was en- dangered. That only supply line from Poland winds southeastward , through the Ukraine. The Red Army * {advance carried to within 20 miles of the supply line, and the cutting of this line would mean that all supplies to Nazi forces in the (Continued on Puxe Two) most neglected of the United Na- | The refusal was contained in a tions, the President felt that ‘he:reply to one from the President least he and Churchill could have |yesterday and said, “We don't agree d;:rr:m w-_l-gmto lmeet :ehh;g;; mde [to arbitration on the basis you pro- al refore, when eard | pose.” They said a sliding scale of about the oversight, he rushed over |y, crea505 of four to ten cents which to the Generalissimo's headquarters iy gccepted was allowed to cor- t8 pay an officlal visit. irect the substantial conditions and wagc rate relationships and assert- DEADLOCK ON BURMA Just prior to this, the President had been listening to a detailed plan | for opening the Burma Road, given 'Certainly sub-standard wages do not depend on rates paid for over- him by General B. B. Somervell, ‘time To suggest now the possibili- head of the Army Service Forces. ty that non-operating unions should Somervell had sold the Pres@ent a |directly or indirectly purchase time bill of goods. So, in greeting the and on2 half after forty hours by‘ Generalissimo, the President waxed giving up part of the overtime or llies Confident | By Associated Press election of one of their number to; fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rep. Edward W. Creal in Ken- |in some cases, he said. United States bombers and fighters, | Ickes also reported that the fail-| tucky’s normally Democratic fourth district. Still vacant are the seats, belonging to Pennsylvania’s and| Oklahoma’s second districts, left! empty by the resignations of Demo- crats; and Colorado’s first district vacant because of the death of Democratic Rep. Lawrence Lewis.! Still another if Rep. Albert Gare, Tennessee Democrat, is inducted into armed forces. He has said he will waive the exemption to which he is| vacancy may occur| the| Prospects ot a new year of world conflict brought from Allied mm-. | tary leaders a declaration of confi-| dence in victories in mighty im- pending blows against the enemy. The Nazi spokesman offered the German pepple only gloomy predic- tions and more hardships in 1944. Dever’s Statement i “The Allies are closing in upon’ {the enemy and the coming year |gives every promise of being a year' |of deliverance,” declared Lt. Gen.| Jacob L. Devers, who is going to the | perhaps 1,500 strong, ever to be sent agninst the Reich. Twenty -two | | bombers and 12 fighters were lost. | Royal Air Force Mosquitoes last | nlghL hit targets in western Ger- many and northern France. Not a plane was lcst in the operation. | — | ROOSEVELT HAS ATTACK PRINCESS FElizabeth of England, heiress to the throne, who will be 18 in April, may have a husband chosen for her when she reaches her official majority within a few months, according to well-in- formed persons in London. It is rumored that the future king con= sort may be either Hugh Fitzroy, 24, Earl of Euston, or Charles Man- ners, also 24, the tenth Duke of Rutland. (lnternamml) | |Some have |ure of the industry to meet produc-~ vuon goals in the last two years is; |explained by the government requi- sitioning of more than 700 craft. been returned to their owners, however, D ‘Dean of American Women Authors s JOE KEHOE NOWGIVEN GOVT. JOB ‘Named Special Liaison Of- Now Crifically Il ficer, Justice Dept., All snthusiastic over the question of a Burma campaign and told Chiang | of the plans to reopen the Burmn; Road and get supplies to long-suf- | fering' China. { Naturally, the Generalissimo was delighted. But later, when they sat down in | the three-cornered conferences with | Churchill, the Prime Minister is re- | ported to have said “No.” He was most unenthusiastic and uncooper- ative about a Burma campaign. His reasons presumably were the same as those expressed and apparent in the past, namely that Indian troops will not fight for British reconquest of Burma, also that it would be unwise to let Chinese troops fight in Burma. Without native troops,| it would obviously be difficult to 5.8 e vy e T A et ~(Continued an Page Four) reducing the meager wage rate ad- justments granted by Stabilization irector Vinson would, in our opin- wn. be a gross injustice and do vio- {lence to the prevailing wage deter- mination policies.” The President had lumped to- gether the sliding seale increases | and overtime, but the unions con- tend the sliding scale increases are removed from the area of arbitra- tion by their acceptance of them. The President said in his letter that the four to ten cents raise would not be disturbed, but gave no| assurance that overtime compensa- tion should not thereby be reduced. —_———— MacKINNON HERE Donald ‘MacKinnon, here from| Skagway is visiting in Juneau. entitled because of being a member | Mediterranean theatre as Deputy | of Congress when his number comes; Commander of the Allied forces. up, which he expects to happen‘ Haley’s Declaration soon. | American Commander in the! ‘wlsh it to happen so—but if death|Halsey, declared that “never have| does claim enough Democrats, and We been so ready to strike klllmg if a Republican president is elected|Plows in so many places, simultan- | |next year, the situation will be ;',eou.sly We propose to strike these parallel in reverse of what hap-blows again and again.” pened a dozen years ago when| Gloomy Jap Outlook President Roosevelt came in on the| In Tokyo, Domel’s broadcast was great Democratic landslide. |gloomy. The New Year's message It was the GOP which came out'©f Premier Tojo. was a warning to lof the 1930 off-year congressional the people that the Japanese Na-| election with a scant majority. t/tion is now facing “a crucial test|C! held its majority, with Republicax |8nd it is the sublime duty of every- | Presicdent Hoover in. the White|One now to sacrifice body and soul Wouse, through that last “Lame|Without a single atom of self-in- terest with the Anglo-Americans at- l (Continued on Page Two) - tacking at the decisive point.” Not that any Republican would South Pacific, Admiral William F. )Remains in Bed Today, To-! HAROLDFOSSTO HEAD 4TH WAR LOAN DRIVE = "as™ """ morrow - Friday Con- : ‘(o:h;l;,:-d Foss was elected chairman E HOBARI BOSWORI“, ferences Cancelled ] ied WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Presi-| Fourth War Loan Drive, which is scheduled to begin January »fllM A('I'OR IS DEAD dent Roosevelt's cold has turned 10, 15 a4 4 meeting of the War Finance | v Sflpvhfl"‘ White House says and he | committee this noon in the Baranof | has half a feves. Gold Room. | Rear Admiral McIntyre, the Presi-| 11, Foss succeeds Mrs, John Me- | den’s physician, has ordered the|cormick, who is leaving shortly on a | ‘hief Executive to stay in today ‘tnp to the States. and tomorrow. Introduced as guest speaker for | The regular Friday afternoon the -occasion was Mrs. Katherine BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Ida Tarbell,.dean of American wom- | en authors, is reported critically ill with pneumonia and is in a hospital OF GRIPPE LOS ANGELES, Calif,, Dec. 31—~ Hobart Bosworth, 76, who played leading parts in the first motion pictures ever made in the Los An- | geles area and subsequently made ueflrly 600 other pictures, died yes- Cabinet meeting was cancelled thXS}NordaIe, newly appointed Deputy | terday. morning along with the usual Fri-|War Bond Administrator for the il - ll.'iay conference with the newsmen, | Territory. | BUY WAR BUNDS Dec. 31— | Alaska Federal Courts WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Attor- Iney General Biddle has appointed Joseph W. Kehoe of Seward as Special Assistant Attorney General to serve as & liaison between the Department of Justice and its re- presentatives in the four Alaskan Judicial divisions, | Kehoe will handle specially as- signed cases of coordinator of the Department’s policies and serve the Government interests when addi- tional legal counsel is required. | Kehoe is a former United States 'Attorney of Alaska’s Third Judicial | Division and served two terms in the Alaska Legislature. He form- erly practiced law at Juneau m‘ | Ketchikan, 3