The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE : “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9540. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1944 BIG PLANT OF GERMANS Two Jap Cruisers Set Afire —_— —— 4 PRICE TEN CENTS MhMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS KNOCKED OUT by U.S. Bombers FORTRESSES r L ENEMy sHips Eisenhower Predics 44 Vidory POLISH LINE © ATIACKEDIN || ™% (ROSSEDBY . N ATTACK | EARLYMORN RED FORCES ~ ONFACTORY { Wi rsops v | o M vl o o Sadorlap Intorept. | e from Warsaw | | land Tr%_Advance ors Are Shot Down | ADVANCED.- ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, » Tuesday, Jan. 4. — Bombers and fighters from a carrier force in the i/ South Pacific tommand hit two heavy Japanese cruisers and two } * Japanese destroyers at Kavieng, New Ireland, with New Year's Day | ® calling cards in the form of bombs, torpedoes and machine gun fire. The enemy warships were at- tacked early in the morning just as they attempted to enter the harbor to strengthen the depleted Japan- ese forces there. Both cruisers were set afire and « ... ikl one of the destroyers was hit by both bombs and torpedoes. Today's communique also an- [ BULLETIN — NEW YORK, | Jan. 4—The French radio to- | night says the “Allied Fifth Army in Italy has carried out & new raid beyond the Gariglisna River and penetrated one mile and a half into German pesi- tions.” United States govern- ment monitors Were heard the | broadcast.* BULLETIN—LONDON, Jan. 4. —The Russians have captured Belaya Tserkov, 40 miles south- west of Kiev on the Smela- Rastov rail line, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight. He further stated that the German garrison holding out in this town was only recently reported re- inforced in a desperate effort to save the Nazi bastion, whick has been by-passed, virtually cut off by the advance of the right flank of Gen. Vatutin's armies to the southwest toward Vin- nitsa. The announcement was made in Stalin’s Order of the Day and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who will command Allied forces in the broadcast by the Moscow radio. main invasion of Europe, told reporters at a press conference in o) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | ALGIERS, Jan. 4. — United States Flying Fortresses knocked out the bearing plant at Villa Perosa in northern Italy yesterday and then |battered the Turin ratlway yards while on the ground the Eighth Army Indian troops seized a hill and advanced inland from the Adriatic - — |soggy terrain stymied for large scale land fighting but American troops probed the defenses of San Vittorio \guardma the Rome road. Other patrols also stirred up the Allied | forces. Allied fliers wrecked or damaged |dozens out of" md'—ewn supply trucks found snowbou! n | the mountain passes and also bomb- | ed the Yugoslavia ports of Split and Sibenik. Flying Fortresses of the 15th Air Force, soaring out for the first time ’under the command of Maj. Gen. i Nathan Twining, wrecked the main SEABEES LEVEL AL E UTIAN ROAD-A heavy bulldozer operated by Seabees levels v the final section of a two-mile spur road joining a main highway in the Aleutians. _ —— e Algiers, “We will win the European war in 1941.” (AP Wirephoto via MOSCOW, Jan. 4. — Red Army — - i & (Continued on Page Five) I OWI radio from Algwr\\ forces under General Vatutin, lib- | g i 7 f ! The Washington OPERATES RAILROADS KNOX SAYS T e S| : Merry - Go- Round : turing the former frontier town of Olevsk and smashing their way s < across the prewar Russian- Poluih; By DREW PEARSON Nlppous ON nounced last night in a Russian \d (Major Robert &. Allen on sstive duty.) communique which declared that 170 villages were recaptured in the swift Soviet advance. Frontline dispatches disclosed the border. The fall of Olevsk and Novugrnd- Volynski, 42 miles south, was an- WASHINGTON — Young Nelson » =S Rockefeller is a son and heir of the wealthiest man in the U.8.A. His Department frowns on the new Bo- livian Government; also despite the There have been several (-ngage-- Russian vanguards, pushing on rap- idly from Olevsk along the Kiev- 'GEN. ARNOLD | building of the Villa Perso plant | producing eight percent of the Nazi #' father’s fortune is tied up in var- Warsaw railway, crossed the old ious Standard Oil companies. One . frontier a short time later. A spear- [ output of BESEHRgs. - Villa Perom 1s of these has had extremely rough finuing to Soften Up head of the Russian forces, advanc- 23 miles southwest of Turin. treatment at the hands of Bolivia, ing from Oleysk, former customs which cancelled outright its conces- Marsha" Islands station, 135 miles northwest of Kiev, | \ 5 ¢ Slon in that country. supported on the left by another ‘HEAW RAID Yet, in the present Bolivian rev- it column, encircled Emichino, 28 | . olution, young Rockefeller, as U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. -~ Navy pmjles to the southeast. } ¢ Coordinator of Latin American Re- Secretary Frank Knox reported that e point at which the Russians » lations, has taken a stand in favor American air forces are “continuing cyossed the old prewar Polish border } T . of the revolutionary government, to soften up” the Marshall Island_s, is approximately 150 miles east of + despite the fact that a member of and are encountering weak Opposi- the frontier from which the Ger- 8 the new Bolivian Cabinet, Carlos tion from the air. He referred t0 mans launched the invasion of Rus- | Monteénegro, is author of “Standard the continuing raids on enemy bases gja after the partition of Poland, and ¢ RE A Oil's Gold Against Bolivia's Jus- 2t Wotje, Kwajalein, Mille, Jaluit is apout 300 mlles from Warsaw. 1 tice.” and other bases. = e o3 y Rockefeller takes this position de- “We are l)u'-lill;Z the e:emy Oil‘ the | i E te defensive throughout that region,” 1 . 3 B AP st W Knox sald 4 & news conference RAF Mosquitoes in Forays { | |ments, he said, but the American Over Wesfern Germany B fact that the revolutionaries, ac-| | { cording to their statements, are re-| Major Gen. Charles P. Gross |forces suffered few losses. volting against the tin barons of (above), has been placed in In retaliation, the Japs made two unfavorable. position; the Rockefel- v Bolivia who ordinarily would have| charge of operating the rail- |raids on American positions at R E po RTS ON outside a clothing warehouse, -wamn. a welcome issue of more warm winter clomes. B Bolivian revolution is considered | { the bombs hit the target area, but |Pas de Calals area of France today reasons: —_— “most successful. mand Is fo Make In- |Allied fighters. As the day advanced, the Ger- a | | man-controlled Dlnuh radio left the —the Statey Department taking an { leroffiee. Rl ¥iwe ‘Ricwdmt. Wal: END OF WAR M VE |mary aim of his command is to | JACK STINNETT “make the coming fnvasion of Eur- By 3 A | partiotpaion in a postwar conaora- | RUN Info lmle A|r Opposi- | dication that British or American a lot in common with Standard on\ roads, possesion and operation of | Tarawe and one on Makin Island. ~—— LONDON, Jan. 4—United States one of the most significant in years | Gen. Gross is chief of the Army’s | yeather conditions were so bad it u in the wake of Royal Afr Force 1. The Bolividn revolt may be! $ sy R vasion ‘Economical e, lair, followed by the Norwegian long- lace taking a favorable one. This| ope as cconomical as possible” by WASHINGTON. Jan. 4—A MW |0, o ations to maintain world | aircraft are overhead. ' tion buf Flak Bad-18 | { | bout the raid by Al i | millions. , the lines being taken aver by the Asked about the raid by American A I R Fo R( ES (o"gress an (o es Marauder medium bombers heavily . and of deep-rooted interest to the transportation system. (AP Wire |was hard to observe the results. He ' Mosquito forays on western Ger- (many. All planes returned from |both operations. The Marauders s { 4 ST s N J ¥ the forerunner of others in other] | Latin American countries. ‘u S To TR | that t.he Mackinae Island: Chater | {range transmitters at Oslo and s the first time the State, Depart- the actor has made his appearance on | ! il ch- SN Bgok 1t movess |in his report of operations and his- date scene was far from a popular measure in \ Planes MiSSing . . ALEU TIAN CLOTHES LINE—Ats base in the Aleutian Islands these Seabees line up —Radios Off Air Inside the Diplomatic Corps, the; iy e eoRti e order ! bombers on Paramashiro, Knox said |attacked military objectives in the govern! Y ol American public. There are two hoto) | declared the at.t'ack. however, as Primary Aim oi Hls com_ Forlh as Republl(an { were escorted by RAF and Dominion o 2. The U. 8. Government is spllt WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The pri- | should open the door to Republican | | Tromsee. This Is sometimes an in- ® ment has found itself with another lan serial knocking out of I ceine. Government agency to coun'.er-i IS IN SlG HT REDS pol | s H | Réich, Gen. Henry H. Arnold said the Repub)lc}u{: lyr;:?gmx}l[;dx;fi: He supported Lend-Lease when it | p h'b , : rohibifion 13 . i S tory of the Air Forces Kinley Dirksen, of Pekin, il | Republican ranks, but he introduced ¥ v i Under ordinary circumstances, i . 1 UPRISING AGAINST Gen. Arnold said the United |and put over an amendment that % TIN BARONS Monigomery Bids Farewell WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Secre- | states has “the world's largest air | Would hardiy be worth while men- | byouided that it could be terminated | LONDON, Jan. 4.--United States s » The State Depagtment claims {tary of State Cordell Hull indicated | force” with 2,385,000 officers and 'ioning that a congressman hadigg ang time by a concurrent resolu- heavy bombers early today attacked s o‘n o '0 HIS FOI’(eS n "aly the United States may make an ef-|men. He said that 145,000 planes are | t085ed his hat in the ring. But these (jon of the House and Senate. His |objectives In northwest Germany. | that a gang of self-seeking anti- American opportuhists have seized power. in Bolivia. But the Rocke- {fort to bring Poland and Russia t0-"scheduled for production in the next 37éN't ordinary circumstances. | pre-Pearl Harbor “moratorium on |Eighteen bombers are missing. The “Ev” Dirksen is 110 catch-as-0atch- | pager speech was a sensation in his | heavies were supported by Royal Air can politician. He is going into his | gy party ranks and earned him |Force fighters, two qf which failed | twelfth year as a member of the | many friend on the Democratic side | to return \ i gether diplomatically, and thus pre-|15 months. WI‘ —Hls Predldlon |vent any flareup, now that the Red feller ¢e group claim that this| 5 now that the Red| Gen. Arnold cautioned that the troops have crossed the old Polish defeat of Germany will not spell the & S¥ooted } % r:si deepr:x h sx‘:‘:l fffif}:""ffifi WITH THE BRITISH EKGHTI,"JYO"UCI {blasting of Japan out of the war, House. He's a lawyer. He's a Veteran ' o¢ tne House. Generally he advo- | Few enemy fighters were encount- | . e nin Bolivian tin ARMY IN ITALY, Dec 30-(Delay-| " poeod at the news conference|for st who. think s ~do net e L World War I with a record o€ 12 | gated backing the President to the |ered but flak was intense i L miners have been ground down by gg:er(;w“msl“'m‘i‘;r“ei‘en A aMonl~ |about the forthcoming visit of Stan- | understand the nsed for vast Sup- iy sy Be's rankivg Re{hily on his foreign policy. | | 3 Wash-controled Deoih rafis} the big tin barons. the Eighth Army, told his "oops‘lslaw Mikolajczyk, President of the piy Jines, well-equipped bases and propriations Committee. Thse(: m‘:(hml:'l “,‘:ls;m wl':"“';‘h ‘;‘l:‘w ‘:’w?l(&,:"mm:(‘;lu:‘;o"o’t“o::; individual petitioners for immediate When Vice President Wallace! o "2 0 ol end of the war |Folish government in exile, Hull{planes built to fight under entirely That isn't all. Dirksen is one of |gnier v O P00 ol pic- |and four of them were downed by | l€gislative action, the House Judi- v was in charge of the Bureau of | oMUY Go ot say Said the purpose of the visit could| ditferent conditions from those over the most highty respecied members I e e e wassing | Gorman. anti-aireraft fire and. by |CIary Sub-committee will begin piib- Economic Warfare and the PUI-|i ic next week, next month, or next be inferred from the situation in/ Europe.” of Gongress. A tall, bulky fellow With | comment. Tt the first i ,,,,,f. ki sl el gl i lic hearings next week on national chase of strategic war materials| year.” | Europe. 2 SR AR S e o shoek of curly black hair, heligs. x;m s 1he ik i B0 | tig i R & prohibitiod Todtalatiom. such as tin, he argued that !he’! herife London reported that President| o nds both physical and polit- Game‘;vs!v‘pp«!d prig sl st S iy | Chairman Sam Hobhs, of Ala- UnitegSiatas had. s 1ight to mak ical respect whenever he takes the | g member of the House has sought | HE1 RETURNS FROM {bama, said the hearings will prob- | Mikolajezyk is coming to Washing- | BOB JERNBERG HERE ¢ :;:ehit.;:;r?wc:;:agl spe;oe?,:g;n:f don yesterday from Italy. He wmlton shortly to discuss Polish-Rus-! FOR TERM OF COURT House floor. He never does unless the presidency. It doesn’t take much TRIP TO KETCHIKAN |ably start next Wednesday. two days lead the British ground forces under ' Sian questions. - he has something to say—and his | inm of memories to recall what ing for tin was passed on to Bo- Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower in the Secretary Hull said, “The Umted} Robert Jernberg, Assistant U. S. colleagues invariably listen. 11?3,1 out o ‘llml the JRoosevelt- R \Garner ticket Fortress.” ‘m‘““e“ rising in connection With!grrived here to prepare for the open- | He has often biasted the New | L - — {the Allied situation when it is prac-|ing of the coming term of the Dis- | Deal, but he has never been idel nu-‘ Dirksen ,,.,,.,,\(, publicly and pri- At the Baranof Hotel, Otto Peters | |tical and feasible, and we do it in|trict Court. The January, 1944, term 'fled with the so-called islationists | - is here from Ketchikan, a friendly spirt,” he added. is scheduled to begin the 18th and is ong of a group who insisted | BeDiscussed WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-—Bowing to the demand of more than 100,000 Gen. Montgomery arrived in Lon- - after Congress convenes, and pro- Arthur Hedges, Director for Al- | hibition advocates will be the first aska, U. S. Employment Service, is | Witnesses. back after a two weeks' business bR B R trip to Ketchikan. Mr. Hedges also MRS. BEMIS HERE conducted business matters at Pet-| Mrs. E. Bemis is in Juneau and ersburg while his ship was in port. 'm a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. jo e y 1’;.,'"“&:7‘.’,?”' not pocketed by the ' ing invasion of the “European |States turns its attention to “"'Dismct Attorney at Ketchikan, has He was not very successful. - Last year, a Bolivian tin strike culmin-’ (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page PFive)