The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1944, Page 1

- PN e . A “ A PRETN VOL. XLIL, NO. 9541. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1944 MI— MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIED AIR RAIDERS HAMMERING ENEMY Big Battle of Dnieper Bend Is RED FORCES DRIVING ON NEW AREAS Germans Now Facing Same Fate of Nazi Army at Stalingrad LONDON, Jan. 5—German troops have evacuated the eastern section of Berdichev, railway town 25 miles south of Zhitomir, once the German Ukrainian headquarters, the Nazi Command said, and the loss of at least part of Berdichev was ack- nowledged. Red Army forces have smashed down through the middle of the Ukraine taking the fortress of Bel- aya-Tserkov 50 miles below HKiev in a drive seeking to trap more than a half million Gerjians in their retreat from the Dnieper River bend. The German defenders of Ber- dichev, the Nazis declared, and the Berlin radio spoke of the fighting as “unabated in ferocity.” (Continued on cage Two) LEG SUCCESSO PROHIBITION BILL LOOMS - INCONGRESS Drys Ac(used of Being | Drunk"-Action Is Slam. Against Servicemen | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Accus- (ing the “drys of being drunk with ‘povser" Representative Emanuel | Celler, New York Democrat, assert- jed that a Congressional movement { for national prohibition is “a sordid attempt” to take advantage of men |in uniform Celler is ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee which will begin hearings next week on a pru- hibition bill. He issued a statem declaring that prohibitior. must stay R TO DIETRICH | | , 'The Anti-Saloon League repre- senting the organized forces against liquor, kept on the sidelines, and Dr. George Crabbe, General Super- intendent, said he believed the ob- jects of the legislation introduced by Representative Bryson could be -(wmp'lshed b) Pn~sldcl1lh\1 nrder repealed and that “the curtain | must voeer agzin be raised on that | tragedy.” IARMIES IN - ITALYMAKE ~ TWOGAINS f(ommandmg Posmons | Attained Against Fierce Nazi Resistance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 5.—The Allied arm- |ies in Italy have seized two com- manding positions against fierce Nazi opposition. The Pifth Army advancing a little more than one mile west of Venafro, have stormea the 2300 foot height of Sanmucro Ridge, two 103 mile from.P Mai | | | objective of Fifth Arm, ~SACasoli R Sulmena’ mghway, {mile; northeast of San Vittore gaining deminance of that bastion on the German line to Rome. Indian Units of the Eighth Army have seized a spur on the 'mmmlum ridge Jjn pushing forward | several hundred yards against en- emy machine gun fire southwest of Tommaso near the Adriatic. i New Measure I | railways Now Raging Allies Aim Pincer Drive atRome HEAVY BLOWS BEING STRUCK BY AIR UNITS French Coast, Berlin, Kiel, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Italy Are Raided By Associated Press Allied planes today resumed their violent attacks on the French in- vasion coast after a day and night in which bombs were cast on the German cities of Berlin, Kiel and Muenster, and on Bulgaria, Yugo- slavia, Italy and France. Probably more than 3,000 tons of explosives were dropped yesterday on the Nazis by flights of 3,000 | planes from Britain alone. Fires Set At Kiel United States heavy bombers set great fires at Kiel, northwest Ger- man naval sub base and tangled the 200 miles southwest at Muenster, communications bottle- neck which is essential to Hitler's | defense against the coming inva- sion. The Germans admitted that ‘heavy damage was done at Kiel, |and told of a great shroud of smoke hanging over the ¢ity. | COLUMNIST WALTER WINCHELL, who covers the Brozdway clubs and theatra. has credited curvaceous Lisette Verea as dbeing the possessor of “the shapeliest legs since Dietrich.” She’s coe of the stars in the The Washmgion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—If Pres ident Roosevelt takes the unprecedented step of vefoing the tax bill now be- fore Congress, the nation can thank, more than any other man, Ellsworth C. Alvord, tax lobbyist of the U. S.' Chamber of Commerce. | Mr. Alvord has been using his in- fluence around Wr..hnngton for fourteen years now, and he really delivers. He has charm, ability, and, most important of all—friends in high places. It was my reporting of his friendship with Walter George, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which caused the distinguished Senator from Georgia to become so indignant. It is not often that the President considers vetoing a_ tax bill, sup- posed to raise revenue, the life blood of the nation. However, the current tax bill has been so emas culated by Senator George’s Fi- nance Committee that if, in the end, the bill bars penegotiation of war contracts, the President is more than likely to veto it. If passed in its present emaciated form, it will be a tribute in part to the tireless, efficient pounding of Elisworth Alvord, golfing partner of Senators, whose parties at Burning Tree Country Club are famous. Alvord came to Washington dur-; ing the Harding Administration, a lean Republican from a small town in Wisconsin. He had studied law at Columbia, which at that time had a virtual monopoly on the leg-‘ islative counsel of ‘CQ7svess. The' legislative counsel is'la group of young law graduates w\o draft the laws which Congress Iter passes.| Alvord spent three yean drafting laws for the Senate and tvo years for the House. He specialbied on tax legislation, Jater vaulting into the Treasury Department, as spec- ial assistant on taxes under Andrew Mellon. SETS UP LAW FIRM In the middle of the Hoover Ad- ministration, Alvord stepped out of the Treasury to set up a Washing- ton law firm with Henry Bond, an- other Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovan, who had been Coolidge’s Assistant -Attorney Gentral. The firm finally split in a quarrel over | counsel fees, and Alvord then brought his father on from Wiscon- sin, where he had a practice neti- ing around $3,000 a year, and form-' ed the law firm of Alvord & Alvord. | Though a Republican, Alvord has | been shrewd in hiring and offering Jush salaries to New Deal Demo- crats who know the ropes inside (Continued on Page Four) current White Way revival of “The Merry Widow.” lArmy Dlsuplme Is ' Wonderful: Civilians Shou A lynn Burn | i i i L | v brunet Alm star, and Test Pilot Sid Luft are | ! married, the ceremony taking | LYNN BARI, above, place in Hollyweod. Miss Bari's divorce from Walter Kane became’ final recenuy. ) (Interninonal) President Beffer; Now 'At Work on Message 'For Congress Tuesday | WASHINGTON, 'Jan. 5. — Presi- dent Roosevelt is recovering from| the grippe and is well enough to Istart work on his annual message ‘!0 Congress to be delivered next Tuesday. The President however made no appointments today. (Internatiogal) 200NIPPONS ARE KILLED COUNTERING Id Gei Some 0' “ Marines Have Now Shot! | By JACK STINNETT Down 1500 Japs at Cape Gloucesier WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—He was just a private first class, 23 years old l.nv'ahded llome I{'r).m 'I!\:ly, hu"l. ADVANCED A L L IED HEAD-| Zifi;l m«:gdn almost ready to ge QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan. 5—The United States Marines have repulsed sharp counter-attacks at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, killing 200 Jap# and raising to 1,500 Japs dead, the price the foes have already spent in defense since the landing of the Marines on Decem- ber 26. “The unfortunate thing,” he said, “about what people here at home call the ‘Patton slapping case’ is that it twists a lot of civilian ideas about Army discipline. I'm begin- ning to believe that the civilian conception of Army discipline is based entirely on published reports of this case and that famous Pre- | Pearl Harbor ‘yoo-hoo' case. I think it would be a good idea if some of you fellows really went into the whole business of Army discipline and told the folks about it. It seems to me that on the whole, like peace, it's wonderful.” I'm MacArthur also announces the Aus- sies are pushing north along Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, and have gained 15 miles in three days and are only 80 miles southwest of the| | Americans at Saidor. of Army discipline. It fills volumes. damaged a schooner and several |But I went far enough to .convince | barges off the New Britain Coast. /me that this young private first ! |class, who has earned his purple | Iheart, knows what he is talking| 'SOBER up". r | | about. OWI Issues Report About Present Conflict-Hard Struggle Ahead | There are a few fundamentals (that can be mentioned even in !this brief space. i | | 'The formation of a mechanized| Army, an almost independent air! force of gigantic proportions, para- {troopers, those floating air bases |called carriers, and all the radical {changes in ways of fighting are no more revolutionary than the |changes which have taken place in discipline. | As a matter of fact much of the revolution is a direct result of! |those other changes. With the| |single exception of the Australian Army, the American has become WASHXNGTON Ja“- 5. — The| lprobabls thes most democratic in|Office of War Information, in a ithe world. Yet the insistence on |sobering war report, cautioned that emphasis has merely shifted. "kyc" and no signs of either Ger- Initiative and individual ingenu- many or Japan cracking. jity are at a greater premium in| The OWI 'report asserted that| (mechanized warfare than ever be-|Germany, last year, lost only| 1 ; ’ ht:‘eeu:hr::ll';ily ::;';g:; Ymsdcant;one fifth of her conquered lands, pl squadrons,'and Japan lost only one-twentieth k:on:'r:);r:efiosr.fif r:fizfi:z&smy’rfi:pm of her conquered lands, that {Germans and, to a greater degree,! |the Japs are learning this the hard way and we hope, too late The lines of demarkation social - > BUY WAR BONDS llied Nations. (Continued on Page Two) The communique of Gen. Douglas| Fliers continuing active, dropped | not going to pretend that 32 tons of bombs on the Lkuni air-! ‘| I've gone into the whole business!drome at Rabaul and have also discipline hasn’t been relaxed. The|“we are still 3,000 miles from To-| |of war developments on both sides | Servue Vole WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Senator Scott W. Lueas, Illinois Democrat, |offered a new absentee vote bill for service personnel in place of the leave-it-to-the-states resolution the Senate substituted for his original measure, nnnouucmg he would for- mally introduce his revised propo- sal Monday, while the Senate sub- stitute still dangles in Elections Committee. “If & man can stop a op- the House Lucas said, bullet, he ought to have the portunity to cast a ballot. Ther: nothing the states can do to take away the necessity of the federal ‘balloL" | Lucas still wants the Federal Bal- lot Commission as provided in the original bill, but its powers will be |sharply pruned so it's duties will be almost entirely administrative. A four-man bipartisan commis- sion will prepare the war ballots, and turn them over to the army and navy, and after they are filled out, transmit them to the 48 Sl IIeurles of State. - - Germans Are ‘Gloomy Over | | | | i | | | STOCKHOLM, Jan. the Nazi winter defensive line on |the eastern front has been split by “very deep penetration.” Dispatches from Berlin said the | spokesman is represented as making |no effort to hide the fact the Rus- sian offensive has rolled up the | German defenses in the Kiev sec- | tor, splitting the lines into two fronts, one 300 miles and the other 180 miles long. The Swedish correspondent he was given only a black picture wl Germany as he met the spokes- man in the bomb damaged Foreign r)fflce as fires still blazed in Ber-} lin from the heavy Royal Air Force raids on Sunday and Monday. both Germany and Japan are still|did Rot expect that their army|garvester 73': | strong, especially Japan with short- \“U“W be able to counterattack suc-{york Central 16, Northern Pacific| er communication lines than those|cessfully and regain their positions, 13w, of the United States and other Al-|although they maintained that be-|Pound $4.04. |cause of the two long fronts still i(-xxsung, the Russians would be un- juhle to roll up the German flanks. Russ Gains 5—A Ger-| man military spokesman admitted Progress and objectives of the Allied armies in Italy are shown on the above map. Slowed down by mud on the main roads leading from objectives of their twin drives. Gift from Hubby. " FILM STARLET Eleanor Parker holds a photo of her husband, Lt. Fred , as she wears one of the grass skirts he sent her from the south~ west Pacific island where he is sta- tioned. He said she fills the skirt a lot more attractively than native drls on the island. (International) STOCK QUOTATIONS sadd | | NEW YORK, Jan. 5. |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |swck today is 6%, Great Daylight Operations and mountainous terrain, the Am- } Wave after wave of planes i spanned _ the chapnel yesterday in — Closing | that Wendell L. American Can i1— erican Fifth and British Fighth armies are'engaged in a pincer drive Cassino and Pescara, the present NAMES OF 2 LOST CRAFT ANNOUNCED Destroyer Turner Blows Up in N. Y. Harbor-Leary Goes Down, Atlantic ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Navy has identified the United States destroyer that was sunk by an explosion off Sandy Hook, lower New York harbor, as”the 1700-ton Turner, and the destroyer lost by torpedoing in the North AHHHHL as the 1090-ton Leary. The Turner was a new type five- inch gunner, and was launched last April. The Leary was 34 years old. No details of the torpedoing has been given. The skippers of both craft .ue missing. The commander of the Leary wa.~ Comdr. James E. Kyes of Seattle, and the commander of the Turner was Comdr. Henry S. Bygant, Jr., of Camp Hill, Pa. - eew Tobin Gives - HisCrackon W.LWillkie Says He Will Win 1944 | { GOP Presidential Nom- | inations-Then Has Ifs i NEW Y()RK, Jan. 5. Daniel { Tobin, International President of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, predicts Willkie will win the 1944 Republican Presidential | nomination and defeat the New Deal ~the war is ended by election, |84 Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem Steel but he considers the possibility of The Germans indicated that theylsgs curtiss Wright 6, International the wars ending by election day as , Kennecott 32, United States Steel 53 1 Dow, Jones averages today are jfollows: Industria 138.65; rails 34.23; utilities, 22. New unlikely, however, Tobin, who served three terms as | , ! Labor Campaign Committee Chair- ;man of the Democratic National as | Committee gives this opinion in a 5 vumng in the January issue of the ' International Teamsters' magazine. one of the greatest daylight opers- tions of all time. The Allies lost 25 planes includ- ing 18 heavy bombers and destroyed at least 17 German fighters. Third Raid On Berlin | Wooden Mosquito hombers gave Berlin its third raid of the year last night in lighter measure than {the successive 1,000 ton blows which ushered in 1944, No British planes {were lost in this operation. Fortresses of the Fifteenth Unit- ed States Alr Force struck at rail, bridge and yards at Dulnitsa, 30 miles south of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. - The German controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau said Sofia was also raided and |heavy damage and loss of life re- sulted. Raid On Yugoslavia — The Medium American bombers hit the rail yards at Doboj, 55 miles from Sarajevo Yugoslavia, and at- tacked barracks and troop concen- ||auuus at Travnik. Bad weather curtailed flying in {Italy although fighter bombers were 'able to strike at the gasoline dump near Chieti, and the rail bridge at | Balsorano, | In all operations in Bulgaria, Yu- !goslavia and Italy the Allies de- istroyed two German planes without |loss. ) NEW RAIDS MADETODAY BY HEAVIES (Strong Formations Again Sweep Over German, French Targefs. | LONDON, Jan. 5—8trong forma- tions of United States heavy bomb- lers again today attacked the air- |tields at Bordeaux and Tours in France and the shipyards at Kiel, besides other targets in western Germany. The raids by the heavies are part of widespread operations carried out both by the United States and Brit- ish air forces over i.he continent during the day. Royal Air Force fighter-bombers hit military objectives this after- noon in northern France without loss, Canadian fighters also swept over large areas and also without a loss of a plane. > —— BUY WAR BONDS onsrw=