The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ ‘__r’_ ey — ' RUSSIANS, ALLIED FORCES ON ADVANCE - Marines Beat Off All Japanese Attacks i HEAV?AIR |Bi Invasion Forces Are M«CARRON |See 6.0.P. Leaders Combining Against Willkie| GERMANS IN b |||m(o|g[pi BeingMassedinAlaska ~ COMINGTO " B . g RETREATON SOVIET FRONT Nazi Forcés Apparently ForHuggAjtkon Japan at Dutch Harbor and masses of planes, especially bombers, are be- THIS CITY Has Been A—;Eoinled Ter- NEW YORK, Jan. 1—The Nazi Australians Driving Ahead|ensoceen agencs auoting o on Jungle Coast - Gas- |uys newspapers are wamming tne says newspapers are warning the Japanese the United States is mas- sing a huge air and sea invasion ing assembled at Dutch Harbor, Kodisk, Nome, Kiska and Attu, an| estimated number of at least 1,000| aircraft, and also about six divisions | have been concentrated in Alaska ritorial Director-Attor- ney, Rental Areas Dazed-Operations Sat- . isfactory in Ifaly (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS mata Airdgnle Bombed ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- | bases. QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,| The broadcast quoted the Yomiuri Jan. 1.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur'sHochi Shimbun newspaper as re- New Year's day communique re-|porting the United States forces Earl McCarron, chief attorney for| force in Alaskan New Year highlights on the battlefronts of the world show the Russians are advancing in many sectors and the German' legions, apparently dazed and without leadership, owing to the and Aleutian | jtself comprising motorized units of |the OPA defense rental area in! |tank forces and parachute troops. A ' Milwaukee, Wis., has been appointed | fleet is also represented by WO territorial director-attorney for the! especially constructed aircraft car-| Alaska defense rental area with! riers, destroyers, reported in north-| . | ports thag all Japanese attacks On have completed two new air bases|ern bases.” :headquurtexs in Juneau, according o the newly won Marine holdings on(at Attu and that “long range air-| The broadcast picked up by the\towfcdc";i:nwfilvi:vi t;’:r E:,'p‘f" severance of rail and other com- W Cape Gloucester, New Britain have craft are already carrying out re-|Federal Communications Commis-|January 3, accompanied by msa:n:: e htmmmn b been beaten off and the Marines connaissance flights over the north- | sion also mentioned-a step-up in|Margaret " office p;lanag:l'- of th e e “n"-cln( & are 4lso holding the line against ern Kuriles and at the ‘same time|air attacks on Japan by American | Chicago ‘ordhikie diviaion A Ml‘lf bbb oo ."I.l:l':drm ! on Pescara and are witl the opposing enemy forces in the Americans are extensively using the |airmen in Japanese occupied terri- waukee B"A"u"ud' B;l’:n::“}-mve i he“y"\‘hflkfln Highway hauling supplies, | tory is considered and these tac-| McCarron Jjoined the ete. |tics will be a forerunner of attacks, r ivisi i blows against the Nipponese on both | “Armament material is piling upjon Japan proper. 160 < divisibrs P TINENER sides of Cape Gloucester. | 5 On Huon Peninsula, the Austra-| lians are driving along the jungle' [] coast and some 30 miles north of | we ve es 'orles Finschafen have achieved new| ground. Planes are softening enemy | resistance ahead of the Aussies. miles of that place on the Ital- jant front but the American units are retarded by rain and muddy "terrain with biting snew and sleet and against terrifie resistance by the Germans but have pushed the enemy from three places, The Royal Air Force and Al- lied bombers carried bomb greet- ings to the Germans in their pled "areas of the coastal scetion of France while other formations whirled out early to- day for unannounced destina- tions and targets. regional i in May to Mil- housing of rent into effect | August 1. For the last two months | McCarron has been district” atto ? iney for the Miiwaukee Madison and | Two Japanese planes have weak- LastYearToppedby - = , ly raided the area east of Arawe, | MecCarron has been attorney for: H 1tkc HOLC from 1933 to 1942 with making the raid in the darkness. | Vi dory BI" epri n'sfl1eadquan1ers in Madison, Wis. American planes have bombed the| airdrome at Gasmata. | ‘ McCarron, in an interview in a S ¢ % P g % i [Mflwaukee newspaper, said that L —— BY CHARLES HONCE General News Editor, The Associated Press {1942 and was transferred - |waukee in June to survey | conditions in anticipation | control which went b P - Wendell Willkie Frank E. Gannett United effort of four leading Republican figures to prevent the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie as Re- {mhlic:m candidate for president in 1944 is foreseen by some Washington political observers, The “big four” of the_possible combination against Willkie are lule‘ug__w be Ex-grulflenl Herbert Hoover, Ionu_r Gov. ' iy AR ook lash o AN ML Landon of Kandus, defented 40 1038; dabp D) N, el A : [cific—"With God's help, We are on’chorage Fairbanks, Sewara and| 1°7mef Republican national chairman and Landon's manager in 1936, and Frank E. Ganneft, news- e E four way back,” declared General!gijtka < ' | paper publisher, who vainly sought the Republican nomination in 1940, © ! MacArthur after the Allied victory, wmeccCarron is a graduate of Notre " i Pé‘STER Gié-l Herbert Hoover will Turkéy Dedlare {at Lae (Sept. 16). That victory was!pame University and the Univer- 1 An overall blueprint for winning|OPl¥ one in a long series from the|sjty of Wisconsin. “mm the war, and keeping the peace has CaPture of Guadalcanal (Feb. 10) | IR | u-’-ru-u. Allen 08 active GUtY.) |hoon drafted. That's the hig‘hews to the reconquest of the Gilberts | | ¢ : o |in ovember. They broke Japan's| ’ as a climactic war year closed. Tt i A ! The blueprint calls for the smash- 8P in the south Pacific and, WASHIN GTO_"”PTC:;:: ';ilng of German arms, for the disso- OPened the way for a grand offen- elt 'u B i Room of lution of the Japanese empire, and Sive. Admiral Nimita called the Gil- was 'escorted into. e return‘envm"“ “a world family of de- Dert invasion “another road to To- the ‘White House, upon mocratic nations” based on the At- X¥6,” and added, “in due time we'll | 1 his travels, and saw the large lantic Charter. Ihlve enough equipment to travel / i SACERS PRESIDENT SAYSWALLS War; Experfs Believe Italy Fight There'sLittle (hange g ‘ (By Associated Press) In Italy today the British Eighth Army continued to drive the Ger- mans north as the veterans of Sir «10'1 had kfiown there was o be'Sealin “at ‘Teheran in the greatest' following his “rescue,” show a| ishamefaced and apathetic old man Nations are gathering great strength ton observers have been wrong be- of defense and offense if they are activity to low level strafing af Pu Part of the picture came fromlnue ‘:: rm:ds‘ : RS ! AR the Cairo drafting board of Presi- . Mussolini Topples (July 25— ¢ ) o ! Bernard Law Montgomery’s Eighth, ‘s tary of Btate Cordell Hull, Senate dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister|It Was one down and two to go { BY JACK STINNETT it i g s 5 pushed to within eight miles of Majority Leader Alben Barkley, | Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang When the Balcony Caesar was tum- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—The cap- | ?:ngland when the Luftwaffe wa { Pescara, vital Adriatic stronghold. o Speaker House Ma-|Kai-shek in late November. {bled' from his high estate in one| e ital experts, military and diplo-|its heyday. In war machines to Meanwhile, American units'in furs : Jortty, John MoCormick,| The outline was completed (Nov,|0f the most startling and unexpect-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. — Presi- |patic, think there's litle chance | combat these attacks, they are even| fous assaults drove the defending $iouse Republicans Leader Joe MAr- 28-Dec. 1) when Roosevelt and ¢ single news events of the year.|dent Roosevell, in s Mew Year's (ot myurkey coming in to the war less prepared. Turkey needs planes,| Nazis from three major pesks on tin, and others. Chuschill met Russia’s Premier Latest photographs of Mussolini i Day message to the American peo- . o anti-aircratt guns and the thou-| the road to Rome. i : | ple, declared today that the United Washing- | sand-and- one other instruments, Bad weather, however, alr Even the best of the g~ | } ¥ | ‘a welcoming committee, I wo,uldn'ti 4 indieating ‘an Army shirt ; r strprise awaited him efl'lsgum 'of global power ‘ever assembled. This was the climax of traveling down Oblivion Street. | for the final blow against the Axis and that the walls are closing on 'fore, Pearl Harbor caught nearly we wearing this flarinel shirt,” he’ 8 sories of grand strategy confer- ences from Casablanca in January,' with its “unconditional surrender” ‘formula, through Washington, Que- bec and Moscow. 7. Pay-As-You-Go Taxes Voted (June 2)—Anything that hits the! | American pocketbook a resounding| whack is mMews. Starting July 1, Uncle Sam put his hand into vir- all of them flat-footed. Before that the totalitarian business. i ’ : Ithe striking power of Germany was He appealed to the American peo- | ple to continue the -cooperation | which has brought the United Na- |that, they were almost unanimously tions into a position where they may | haywire on the defensive strength their biggest wrong guess,; and after | | going into this war. | (3) On the other hand, Turkey can no longer be considered a} strictly neutral nation and if the | Nazis weren't so hard-pressed on| other fronts, they would surely, say| { military experts here, strike at the; Mos t photogenic WAC in the Army Air Force west of the Mis- of German positions, with. no major bombing raids belng reported from this area. 5 4 ; : ' ! he USSR. But ce those 3 Here ‘are other notable news!tuslly every wage-earner’s pay en-|strike with telling_blows and ex- 'of the USSR. 8 s Zie, po¥ In m ?"ld sod you storles 1n a notable news year, se-|velope for twenty percent of the Pressed a hope that the spirit of |days, the experts have m-comefh«;:tlof t:xe m;::“l’i n<l)lvel.w e sissippl Is the compliment be- ‘f ] e m % Mr.|lected by AP editors over whose|Kitty. This was one of many strin- | cooperation which will bring victory | pretty cautious and their virtually| b plomatic Ckfl‘-- rinade; o(; stowed on Mary Lou Ferguson, > » Elks card, s .igent home front moves in a see-Will continue for the establishment |unanimous prediction that Turkey what is most likely is that oul i d Martin, with a desks flow millions of words a year:| | | : ' the near-eastern conference came| 26, of Lowry Ficld, Col,, former ® (e Turns The Tide_Fu.|8a¥ “hold the line” battle against| Of an international organization iwon't come into the war now is the 5 ane | o} ; & M President didn’t know ture historians may sa; "the turning inflation. | which will maintain peace through- worth exploring. 'a declaration by Turkey that it! Pittsburgh, Pa., candy clerk. As Sl was fm%un was speaking the point of the war o Whet TUE| a Stgiler Madlier Casel Gramdal T e B0l {"The " session _between President|would do all in its power to uid the | - 5 esult, Miss Ferguson's picture mm 1 d = ! chill. & g Ji - in rel 3 ‘ truth. ‘He did get in on his Elks ler broke his back at Stalingrad.|War News—Once,in a generation ni :Reosevclt. Chuncml!. “md Pre»(x;ex:t un':‘:‘mfl;:";:,:‘ fl“‘u“ nt the| wi be displayed on posters from 3 {Ismet Incnu of Turkey in 0 d e s’ to: ho. Wihet bl s tion and was held up a long sian ! : | & Y " % ’ 4 m,.?f'm Service men M,“l.hmmfle’du::e';hi::wwm 1:'::&,,.“; ey ey Molhegnii m m‘l So Ho‘ on the march on the side of the launch the Turks into var, It b';:y,tf‘,'.w',“ recrulting campalgn. | AL D AT PACIFIC, Jan. White House policemen, *Who Te-'vealed the Red Army was master,the world got—and relished—an old- | . [Alls. Thas the Turks have beenjcovBist o ProvNMY JEEE B SRR L—Admiral Willlam P. Halsey de- fused to recogmize the Elks cardior the Wehrmacht as Soviet armies!fashioned crime sensation'crowded leaning more and more to m’«'.“““v a troop corridor ."’A the 9“ 7 clared on the first day of the New which he produced as: last resort.! s reeq close to Russia’s pre-war with mystery, money, romance, sex| FREE United Nations in recent months kans, if and when we start a thrust Year that 1944 will be a great year Finally, Democratic Senator|p . .i. .0 and the inevitable finger print. Th { iy needs no argument, in that direction. for the United Nations in the Pa- Franicls Maloney of Combectiout| "3 "CUTL 1\ ooy Through the acquitial of soncin-law Alfred de l E CITY, Utah 1 Bubinptther’ jmllitay nor - S s batas = e jdentified Martin as an Ek “nfo BATE. SNXC » Utah, Jan. 1150010 circles here is there any He said that the Japs will be hit ™ “Thank you,"” v {have no greater difficulty knock- : “I'm mighty happy to be back’ ‘ the Italian empire died. Tunisia| tions bettered until it could be an-| e ing out Turkish strategic centers { R 1 et For half an hour, the President| yas cleared in May, Sicily overrun|nounced that U-boats were being | TO LEAD VIRGINIA than they did plowing through the‘ ———— ;' ¢ B8, 0 ¢ 8 & B - shook hands. (July 9); then Italy invaded (Sept.|{knocked off at the rate of one a| — courageous but poorly equipped! MIAMI, Fiorida, Jan. 1—In a CHIEF & WEATHER REPORT . w of the TIeasuryls) surrender came five days later; |day and that no sinkings had oc-| CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Nu-|Greek forces. grudge gridiron battle between the | &RITE - Bricadier B K. Lay- |o (U. S Bureaw) . ® ! u, he said: *"b";y' and by mid-October Italy Was &|curred in the North Atlantic in a|thaniel W. Boyd, ITI, of Philadel-|' 2) Istanbul, Ankara and other|Aggies of Texas A & M and the m“"“ O R e been |, ot . o guess everybody is trying to bOIFOWlo, belligerent. againist its ancent |three-month perfod. ‘Beating the|Phis. Pa., has been elected captain{Turkish metropolitan centers are|Tigers of Louisiana State the latter| Commandos to succeed Admiral |® Tgmp. - Friday Dec. 31 @ money. Teutonic enemy. ._‘____“_.__!o( the 1944 track team at the Uni-|as vulnerable to air attack, in miles,|won today in the Orange Bow! by| Lord Louls Moeuntbatten, mow |® . Maximum 38; Minimum 1. e —'m_'—- Page Poun 5. America Strikes Back In Pa- (Concinued on Pdge Two) versity of Virginia. a5 the cities of western Nazi-held a score of 19 to 14, commander in southeast Asla;, (¢ o o o o o o o o AL i i ¢ " { oo i o> ¥ GOP leader never identifica- i good standing’ and he was ad- miitted. “Maybe it's just as well ‘1 didn’t flash any Repuhblican identifica~ ‘tion,” Martin kidded Maloney passed in. “They might have *@n me out.” ot FDR OUTDISTANCES ‘WIFE President was as chipper as er his gruelling five-week ‘it was apparent that he weight and his face was Wi, On your Success- k " President,” chorused »t members and Congress- ‘back to the White From its smoking ruins stemmed a !spectacular crime rivets global at-| jmomentous, almost year-long Rus- i tention. War times are no exception. | Roof—The Allies said Germany’s' Marigny of murder charges (Nov., vaunted European fortress had no'11) left the mystery as deep as roof, and set out to prove it in ever. ‘devastating air raids. Perhaps it: 9. Coal Strikes Imperil War Pro-| as/Was the 1000-plane assault On duction—A seven-months wage dis- diers there are better off than| |Cologne last year—the first of this pute which shut down the nation’s magnitude in history—that con-|seft’coal mines four times and sent vinced the British and Americans it yncle Sam into the pits twice, end- 'm l‘vmxztx s:hue to trzm'; m!ed in a formula giving an “increase | 'burg and other war. centers hME‘I: e;fi:sn mlr‘::x:l 51?’!66::{“;: Jou‘:z {been laid waste, the Allies pulver-|most serious internal conflict in a| ized half of Berlin. nation at war cost more than 40! 4. Italy Surrenders (Sept. 3)I‘milllon tons of coal, caused enact-| 1Wars On Germany (Oct. 13)—Some ment of anti-strike legislation, and| {ob-erverl were convinced long slnce%mud coal prices, \that Ttaly would end up on the side| 10, U-Boats Lose Battle of At- of the Allies. The turn-about came lantic—The early months of the after a series of sorry Italian de-!war brought a tragic toll of sub- grinned Roosevelt.|feats. When Tripoli fell (Jan. 24),! marine sinkings. Gradually condi- | for several weeks. |lhe “worst I have ever seen.” SAYS ALEUTIANS -Ihas, of course, given fresh impetus to the rumor that the Turks are —Jack Berry, former railroad pas- i ill lead to an senger agent, says the Aleutians arc thought that, this w {immediate declaration of war Even so, Berry believes the goi. [REAInst. e A5, those in the South Pacific. He said this is because the Aleutians ave; cold and barren, also disease free. - B President Roosevelt, in a state- ment, said the Allies are closing in on the Axis nations and ter- rific blows will be struck this " year. clusion isn't complicated: (1) The Turks aren’t any more iprepared for war than the British lwere prepared to resist invasion af- iwr Dunkirk or than we were pre- pared to launch an offensive against the Japanese after Pearl {They do have an army, hut it is ill-equipped and lacking particu- DR. RUDE RETURNS larly in.air power and mechaniza- Arriving sboard the northbound |Hon. The three armored Nazl divi- steamer yesterday was Dr. J. O.|Slons which are reported poised on Rude, who has been®in the Statcs |*he Turkish-Balkan borders might — e — The reasoning back of this con- | | Harbor. | peace table. This “all in its power” may | USOFORMAL | HOP TONIGHT | The formal dance of the USO will | be the event tonight in the Scot- tish Rite Temple. Dancing will be- | gin at 9 o'clock. | D e | TIGERS BEAT - AGGIES 19-14 { R connection with the national ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN from so many different directions that the eventual retreat of the 5 ‘Nlpponuse forces will prove ‘dis- | astrous. LONDON, Jan. 1.—Major Gen. Carl A. Spaatz arrived in London yesterday afternoon, indicating the heralded invasion of the continent is in the offing soon. He will com= mand the air units in the invasion.