The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1944, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XLII, NO. 9549. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1944 — MF MBER ASSOCIATFD PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS AIRFIELDS NEAR ROME IN FLAMING RUINS Jap Positions Blasted By Artillery Barrage PATROLS OF TwoNew Kinds AMERICANS IN ADVANCE Make Raid-orTNippons ini Area in Southwest New Britain ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan, 14.—Japanese inland positions on Arawe Peninsula, southwest New Britain, been successfully raided by American patrols and it is also announced the American Sixth Army has pushed into enemy territory, the paths being blasted by artillery fire for the advance of the troops. The main Jap force has not been encountered however. The American invasion force is still on the Peninsula and fighting, but action is confined mostly to patrol- ling. The spokesman denies the Tokyo broadcast the Japs have re- taken Arawe and said, “We are still right there on the job.” Allied heavy bombers struck again at the enemy supply base and troop Pal Wllh a Pen have ROSE PERICA, Phoenix, Ariz., ste- nographer, writes 400 letters a month to servicemen, all by long- hand and never on the boss' time! | She tries to send chewing gum in each letter, one time enclosing a stick for the censor which he did not refuse. 1 (Inlematianal) POSTWAR PROJECTS (Contmued on Page l"lve) D The Washington Merry - Go- Round - By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active dutr.) WASHINGTON—A. F. Whltne_\'.‘ railroad brotherhood leader who stuck out his neck and was the first | to accept Presidential arbitration of the railway wage dispute, has been getting it hot and heavy imm the three brothernoods which re- | fused to arbitrate. But he came back at them the other day with a poem which reads: Three blind mice — hear they talk! They all refuse to arbitrate— They're gambling with their country’s fate— Though the hour is getting late For the three blind mice. This rhyme was sent by Railroad Trainman Whitney to all the sec- retaries, vice presidents, and subor- dinate lodges of his union with a confidential letter blasting the three hold-out brotherhoods. In the letter Whitney revealed that 450,000 copies of “Labor,” the rail- road brotherhood magazine, had been sent to the post office just before the President offered arbl- tration. “Thousand of these copies were recalled and destroyed,” Whitney wrote to his fellow-trainmen. “On the following day they were re- printed without changing the cross on a ‘t’ or the dot of an ‘i. This| hasty action, of course, did not help the paper shortage, and in all prob- | ability will never be explained.” NOTE—Whitney didn’t mention it, but between 8,000 and 10,000 copies of *“Labor” were burned in, a furnace in the Labor Building just across from the Capitol Bu\ld—i ing. River and Harbor Im- i provements Proposed | in Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—A $420,000,000 postwar program for river and harbor improvements to "help abilize employment is pro- posed in legislation introduced in {the House. The following Alaska projects are tincluded in the program: Metlakatla Harbor, $120,000. Craig Harbor, $80,000. Meyers Chuck Harbor, $25,000. ‘Wrangell Harbor, $189,000. ‘Wrangell Narrows, $2,731,000. Skagway Harbor, $16,000. Petersburg Harbor, $80,000. Port Alexander Harbor, $31,000. Gastineau Channel, $155,000. Elfin Cove, $38,000. Seldovia Harbor, 350000 ORDER|N AP SUIT GIVENOUT how i |ed against IN ALASKA of Bombs Used by Germans in Air Battle with U. S. Forces STOCKHOLM, Jan. 14—A I\L‘W; |type of high-climbing Nazi fighter | plane equipped with a clldmgl bomb” was used against the United | States bombers for the first time| last Tuesday, the German military | ‘spokesmnn told the Swedish cor- respondents in Berlin, The spokesman said they | | forced to use the new weapon be-| fore intended because the Ameri-| | cans had “especially important tar- | were | DESIGN FOR NEW VICTORY SHIP—_Tnis artist’s sketch shows the new Victory type ship, designed by the Maritime commission as an improvement on the Liberty ship. More powerful engines will drive this vessel faster than the Liberty shlp. v 7 to 5 vote the modified form of the ‘Seuaw approved measure tossing said thre | gets” in .the 1200-plane attack on| | Central Europe. | The gliding bomb can be direct-| | mass formations, the| | spokesman said. | At the same time, military men| __ ,sald the Americans surprised v,he | Germans with a “new heavy gun” land large, long-range fighters vnth‘ |fuel tanks under the wings which | can be dropped in battle or if hit The German Transocean mdm also revealed new “trailing banoon | bombs” which. can be towed lhrcuu,h attacking squadrons and released | |at a most suitable moment and the ! | effect is “most devastating.” o“ voTING ——————— MOSQU"OES 'House Elections Commit- «fee, Like Senate, Turns M A K FR A I D Issue Over fo States WASHINGTON, Jan. R ANY House Elections Committee has re- hecwd all proposals for a uniform ‘deem] Ballot for men and wo- 'men of the Armed Forces. ‘American Loss in Tues-| day’s Raid Placed at 60 Bombers, 5 Fighters |states et ’ Committee sources LONEON, Jan. 14. — Royal Air {Democrats and four Force Mosquitoes bombed westerr, | COmbined to defeat the Federal Germany last night, the British Alrlsflum PrOpOsAIs it Thve - Damo- | Ministry announced, as the Amer- |Crats supported the Federal Ballot. ican intelligence officers worked to | compile final accounting of last |Dounced he plans to carry the fight | Tuesday's epic sky battle over the|for a uniform ballot to the floor | Reich. |of the House. The Texan said: | The Tuesday air struggle is now | “This action means that the most {known to have cost the Nazis 15250{ 11,000,000 of the Armed Forces fighters and serious damage to three | will not get a vote next election | enemy aircraft factories. land the action will destroy their The specific object of the Mos- |morale more effectively than all quitoes last night in the raid are|enemy bullets, bombs and propa- not immediately disclosed. |ganda have ever been able to do.* It is revealed that the American - loss in last Tuesday's raid is now | known to be 60 bombers and five “Ew I-ISI'"GS fighters, the heaviest loss in any jAmerican operation in the war to ANNOUNCED BY | RADIO STATIONS " MAY BE ACQUIRED Federal Communicafions| Board: 1-A—Carl J. Ohdahl, Robinson, Alan E. Wicks. 1-A(4)—Stanley W. Lathrop, Wil- liam R. Windsor. 1-A(H)—Sam Duker, Hugh R. Mc- 'Leod John E. Peterson, Roy H.| ,Whumore 1-C—Howard R. Gambling. 2-A—Kenneth H. Lone, Innokenty | Commission Ends Con- troversy for All Time WASHINGTON, Jan. Federal 14. — The | ert R. Wolney. Communications Commis-| 2-B—Ned Albright, Oscar M. Frank, t 14. — The | The Committee approved by a! | the soldiers vote problem up to the | Committee Chairman Worley an- | DRAFT BOARD Following are the new listings re- | leased today by the Juneau Draft| Merculieff, William C. Spain, Rob- | ‘Whitney then went on to excor-| “non-arbitrating ; iate the three sion has voted unanimously against | any prohibition against future ac- Arne A. Kronquist, Anthony E. Mor- ris, Bert A. Ruotsala, Roy E. Wenn- Republicatis | FI.OATI NG STRONGHOLD_one of Britain’s air- craft carriers, spearheads of at(ick in mid-ocean battles, steams along somewhere at sea. Carriers were credited with an impor- tant role in suppressln; the U-boat menace. Explorahon of Oills Yielding fo Science; Wildeat Day Is Over | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, — One spots. |segment of the population of Lhe‘ |great southwesi. doesn’t give a rap “scales” which about the outcome of the debale earth to a depth of sevi over whether to increase the price gang feet. These “scales’ ',n':vqumuy int locating likely drilling sitive weigh the ral thou- are elec- Lewis D,|Of 0fl. That is—as far as such angles yrica) instruments which determine | las inflation or anti-inflation g0. |the gravity of that little plece of These are the small boys of the tpe earth’s’ crust over which they | Texas-Oklahoma oil belt. They'Te are gpotted—and do it without | quite unconcerned with the econ- jeaying the truck in which they d,,, |omics of the matter, but they have mounted. The areas of greater a great and D"'S’U"“' Interest In gravity are more likely to be oil- the return of “wildcatting.” bearing. The old-time ‘“wildcatter,” Who This method is used mostly for sank a well and $20,000 m: more just) making preliminary surveys. For lon a hunch somebody’s pastureéimore precise results, the engineers (looked like oil country, has about|yse the *shooting” method. \disappeared. In his place are train- | jed engineers with mysterious truck- In a hole about 60| One method employs highly sen- | fIN RETREAT TOWARD WEST |Cossack Ca\;;l;y Slashing/ | Across White Russia Cuffing Off Escape | | LONDON, Jan. 14—The Moscow | radio said tonight that Cossack are slashing out across the snows of White Russia to cut off | the escape route of the beaten Nazi| | forces streaming westward from | Mozyr, and have left Mozyr far| | behind. | Mozyr is a rail center on the| !nnrmem edge gf the Pripet Marsh {es, reported earlier to be taking a | pmmmm, from siege guns rolled up | I)y the Russians in their drive to- | i ward Pinsk, Moscow-Warsaw rail- | | way junction, 140 miles west. DRIVING TOWARD PINSK MOSCOW, Jan. 14.—Soviet siege | guns pounded and outflanked the defenses of Mozyr and Klainkovichi, | important rail centers at the north- ern edge of the Pripet Marshes as General Rokossovsky's White Rus- sian Army gained momentum in its ‘drive toward Pinsk, 140 miles west 'of the Moscow-Warsaw rallway on | | the lower side of the frozen Pripet | Marshes. One hundred and sixty miles| | southwest General Vatutin's First| | Ukrainian Army stormed the rail | stanon at Tutovichi, 11 miles west | ot Sarny on the Kiev-Warsaw rail- way. His troops also captured Korets, {20 miles west of Novograd-Volynski, | and Brykov, nine miles further to | | the west. | General Vatutin’s center also peuetmtad another important area | of Nazi communications as the pres- sure increased on Rovno, 50 miles | south of Sarny, on Luck, 65 miles | | southwest, nnd Kovel, 80 miles west. ’ | TWOTRAINS IN CRASH IN DROPBOMBS - THREE BASES Fortresses, leerators and Medium Craft Make Terrific Attack |FRENCH FORCES IN BIG PUSH, APENNINES Americansin Encircling As- sault on Defenses at Cassino ALLIED HEADQARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 14. — Gen. Juin's rench Forces pushed through taly’s rugged Apennines for a two mile gain from the east and the | Americans advanced slightly from the south. in an encircling assault on the natural and artificial de- fénses of Cassino which the Ger- mans call the “Gustav Line.” Allied headquarters said, fanning out in great strength, American Fortresses, Liberators and medium bombers turned three German air- fields near Rome and to the north into flaming rulns with showe"s of bombs. Among airfields struck disastrous blows is the one at the Guidonia Experimental Airport, where Mus- solini's scientists developed the jet | propulsion plane. The Americans repulsed a heavy German counter-attack at Cervaro. about midnight, then consolidated gains that threaten the Nazi con- trol of the northern slopes of Mount | Trocchio, just south of the Rome |road and three miles from Cas- | sino. e Pot-Shooting Of Liberties FIap-‘DoodIe Capt. Brunmtk Command- er of One Steel-Weld- ed Crafwlks Out LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, Jan. 14— Capt. Walter Brunnick, 62, veteran nerchant seaman, said “this pot- shooting of Liberty ships by self- lappointed critics just because a ship or two breaks in two is just plain flap-doodle.” Capt. Brunnick is home after taking a Liberty ship on a trip of 20,000 miles including off Madagas- car “in the stormiest weather in my 40 years as a sailor.” The storm left the Liberty undamaged. Referring to the Truman Com- mitice hearing in Seattle, regarding |the cracking in two of 14 Liberty ships al sea, Capt. Brunnick said: “I heard the same harping about the 8800 tonners built during the | “shooting,” brotherhoods “whom Labor maga-| zine had called “The Three Mus- keteers.” “Were they afraid to trust the siued a restraining order forbidding ' President?” he asked. “Had they the Associated Press from perpetu-| overlooke: at the Com- ally observing by-laws which per- mandex," ii-::};:lefacgmfi:i settle the mit members of the association to @ long investigation to determine dispute without their consent? Or consider the competitive effect in What barriers, if any, could be is it possible that they were playing applications for membership, but placed In the way of newspapers organization politics in the hope the court declared the cooperative 32?1‘:’"“ fadio. bresGoasting g that they may strengthen their might restrict admission to the or-/ numerical and financial condition? |ganization on other grounds. “Our experience is that organi-! The judgment reduced to !ormal zations of labor must have some-|order the court’s opinion of Octo- thing to offer to attract men 10 per 6 in the Government’s anti-. their ranks, and it would appear trust suit against the Associated' rock formations slope into und(»r~L that these unions had utterly fail- {Pxes; and either side now has 60 BuRDEII DIES |last night. ground valleys that may hold pools' of oll. ed, since their memberships have gays in which to appeal to the Su-| — i ! | WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Harold ;| Before science took a hand, 95 FROM EXCURSION INLE ;:;er;cao:: the wane during the Ph“preme Court. 5 ‘.1 WE:LILINGTQN, New Zealand,|g, tckes today showed up in, omchjpfl. cent of the wildcat wells proved - : Lok | Ou_ly three of the dead have been ey il i s w];{m{";—co Uanlzéed gt‘;‘wmnm Burdette, 59 of the Interior Department with an |0ut & “dry holes"—no oil, no money, | Mrs. J. A. Ronninf, wife of the 1”%‘“;""" ‘.“*_”“""d' :;:fi'u and screen career of William gl nllele’ L Bt g I % i s Minister to New Zea- arm in a sling, [no soap. Now the risk has been superintendent of the cannery at | A four-car extra' train crashed r, Sr, playwright and actor. e % e most torthright %el-| 3. M. Hall, vith the Pratt & Whit- 1and, died there today. He had been | Secretary Ickes said he fell and | |cut by about 75 per cent. Excursion Inlet, and Mrs. R. W.|into a 12-car California bound train [He was 77 years old and died yes- ney Aircraft Co. of Hartford, Conn. |in the diplomatic service since 1919 broke his collar bone in his home | Petroleum engineers make use of | Churchman are guetss at the Bar- |that had stopped at a station near!terday as the result of complications (Continued on Page Four) is at the Baranof Hotel. and had been ill for some time. last Wednesday night. jone or both of two systems mast |ANOf. Bare to dlscharge & passshger, Ioliowing Phenmanis. last World War, yet many of these |ships are still steaming along in convoys today delivering munitions all over the world. Improper dis- tribution of cargo is one of the many things that can break a ship.” — 'CURTAIN IS RUNG DOWN ON ACTOR WM. COLLIER, SR. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 14. —Death has closed the 66-year |loads of equipment every bit as ex- |citing as the lion wagon in a circus| parade. Secretary of Interior Ickes (who |is_also Petroleum Administrator for |War) last April recommended that the price of crude be increased—an !average of 35 cénts a barrel. One |reason he gave was his concern |that new fields were not being dis- | covered fast enough to keep up with | the oil consumption it was estima- lted the war would require. He said Ithat with a higher price the oil men ywould be encouraged to go out and vlocaw new fields. strom, John H. Williams, Cortis L. Wingerson. 2-B(H)—Peter Beierly, Jensen. 4-C—Alexander Lamb, James M. Wilson. 4-F—George P. Rakosky. e - HAROLD ICKES U.S.MINISTER | BREAKSCOLLAR NEW YORK, Jan. 14—A Specia] Quisition of radio stations by news- | three-judge Federal court today is- Papers. Without a dissenting vote the! commission “closed the record and| dismissed proceedings” thus ending feet is drilled into the ground, and, a charge of dynamite is placed in| the bottom. Then seismographs—, little brothers of the machines u.\('(l‘ out in & e o tew munarea et 1WEIVE Persons Believed apart. The charge is set off, and '0 Have Been Ki"ed, 15 Others Injured the vibrations are traced on a mov-| ling film in each seismograph by a| wiggling beam of light. By com- paring the lines on the developed | film, an expert can tell how the NOVICE, Texas, Jan, 14—Twelve persons are reported to have been killed and 75 persons injured in a collision of two Santa Fe passenger | trains during a snarling snowstorm SNOWSTORM ‘carl cC. ————————