The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII, NO. 9550. JUNEAU, ALASKA; SATURDAY, — JANUARY l 5,1944 Ml MBI: R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI PLANE CITY SET AFIRE BY BOMBS Leathernecks Kill 500 More Japs in Battle OnTheir WayfoBomb Japa_nese in Solomons MARINES IN | ADVANCEON | ENEMY HILL, Nipponese Resistance s Bitter in New Britain Ground Fighting ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Jan. 15.—There was bitter fighting today for the control of strategic Hill 660 near Borgen Bay, New Britain.' Almost 500 dead Japs have been counted by the American Marine invaders.in the two-day period end- ing Thursday night, and enemy death toll for the entire battle now stands at approximately 3,000. The growing piles of enemy dead testiffed to the bitter resistance which the Japanese defenders are throwing against the Marines since the invasion of the Cape Gloucester area on December 26. Latest reports indicated that Hill 660 still has not fallen to the Leathernecks, but the fighting Marines are battling up the slope in the face of machine gun and (Continued on Page Two) e The Washmgton' Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Not since the days of Hugo Black, then a Sen-| ator, exposed the wolf pacKs of | Washington, have Capitol corridors| and cocktail lounges been so pack-| ed with the brazen, charming '’ gentlemen out to lobby for theu special interests. Lobbyists have even got to the point where they threaten to run, candidates against a Senator who' doesn't vote the way they direct. ‘r Most braven instance is the re-, cent backstage by-play to force Senator Claude Pepper of Florida' to vote for the insurance bill or else face a fight for re-election. Thew insurance lobby’s play is to run' Ambassador Joe (Mission to Mus- cow) Davies against him. What happened was that Puync Midyette, an ex-President of the National Association of Insurance Agents, called Pepper from Tnlln-l hassee and asked how he was going to vote on the bill exempting in-| surance companies from the Sher-i man Anti-Trust Act. panies and against the bill. Midyette then became threaten- ing. He is an old friend of Pep-! per’s and is especially close to Pepper’s law partner, now a Cir-| cuit Court judge. But he indicated, | in none too veiled language, that the insurance lobby was ready to raise $10,000 each from several dif- ferent groups and put a " strong candidate in the field .against Pep- per. Since then, it has developed that the proposed candidate is Joe! Davies, who would also have the| support of the Florida Du Pont in- terests. Meanwhile, Pepper is standing, pat on his vote. Florida insurance men thought for a time they had him converted and expectantly awaited his appearance before the! Senate Judiciary Committee. This was a closed-door session, with nothing supposed to leak out. Next morning, however, Florida insur- ance men phoned Pepper wanting to know why he hadn’t supported their position. They had a virtual transcript of his testimony against them. All of which illustrates who is dominating, at times actually run- ning, Capitol Hill today. NOTE — Joe Davies is reported not anxious to run against Pepper, and he probably won't. EXIT BOMBSIGHT There is every indication that the S. bombing to which the Japs (Continued on Page Four) | Dancer Wins Honor | The American Socicty for the Appreciation of Cheesecake, strictly a nubulous erganization of press age has picked Carmen Clifford (above), 21-year-old dancer and former s “Miss Cheesecake of 1944.” (AP Wnrcpholo\ ns of 1944.” War Casualfies Expededfo Be Heavy When Invaslon Breaks YUGOSLAVIA AIRFIELD IS RAID TARGET {Allied Bombers Fly 0ver‘ Adriatic to Make At- fack, Sibenik Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| Pepper said | ALGIERS; Jan. 15—Allied bombers| pitalization, in later years. he was against the insurance com- winged out over the Adriatic today| and attacked the Mostar air field in the Sibenik area, Yugoslavia, and also Scored hits on several merchant ships. Five Allied planes are missing,’ and four enemy planes were shot down. SOME JOBS, BUTITIS WAR WORK JERSEY CITY, N. J, Jan. 15— Doing their part in fighting the war, Army Offcers and men spend time tapping tin cans of meat with tiny wooden mallets in the Jersey City Quartermaster Depot. Explaining the work, it is said the men are members of a Veterinary Corps and their duties include checking up on the condition of | canned foods by the sound result- ing from the taps. Experts can tell whether the con- tents of a can is in the same con- dition as when packed. Another job is to turn over sup- plies of canned milk to prevent settling of butter fat, and also cans of salmon to prevent settling of oil.! This job is mechanized and a whole load can be handled at one tim TWO SOVIET ARMIES PUSH INTOPOLAND ‘Have Sm ash éd German| Defenses-Are Nearing Big Base of Kovel MOSCOW, Jan. 15. — Russian troops, pursuing a badly disorgan- ized German Army through a large | sector west of the Horyn River be- |yond Sarny, have driven to within \70 miles of the big communications baw at Kovel in old Poland, front- {line dispatches declared | To the north the White Russian| | Army offensive is battering into the | Pripet Marshes toward Pinsk 115 |miles away, and have smashed the | backbone of the Nazi defenses, the! | Red Star asserted. General Rokos-| | sovsky's troops are pouring through | | the broken enemy line, the Army‘ : ‘new’papv said Although the German high mm- mand vainly ordered the line held; | between the Sluch and Horyn | { Rivers, General Vatutin's forces} \hnv? battered through. The twin] . | Russian offensives are rolling west-{ ward approximately 60 miles apart| i [along the only two rail routes serv- ing east and west traffic Lhmugl. the Pripet Marshes. | The German high command has {arnounced by radio that the Rus- /| She makes her film debut in |sians have launched a new offen- } sive “north of Lake Ilmen" .nmul‘ 170 miles south of Leningrad mu |the long dormant northern rmm THREE BIG * RRUNIONS ~ MAKEDEAL By JACK STINNETT i | WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The Secretary of War and other mili- tau leaders have warned that our war casualties, heavy as they 41- xeady have been, will become heav- jer as land fighting in Europe and | Asia becomes more widespread. | e\ Perhaps the most tragic of all| WASHINGTO}‘I Jan. 15—Three casualties in many ways are the ,.i,.q operating brotherhoods are wounded and those whose phy"cal‘expeued to give the War Depart- or mental | wrecked. Even now the Veterans Admin-| | istration is taking steps to see that | ailing servicemen will receive ade- quate hospital care either immed- iately or, if their condition should |become, so bad as to°*require hos- | nts trying to publicize their clients, Are |One Bar Removed Toward| Refurning Systems Back | to Private Confrol | | health is permanemly ment formal notice of (d)!ll'“fitlonl\ of a strike, thus removing at least {one bar to restoration of the roads| to private control. The unions are said to }\u\‘ej |reached an agreement with class one railroads providing for an over-, |all wage increase of nine cents an| hour and one week vacation, but, 1aW, the dgreements with 43 short-line oS- | rajlroads remain to be signed by In addition, under present veterans are also entitled to | pitalization for sickness not con-iipe protherhood chiefs. nected with their service as long| 1y 5 expected there will be no| jas beds are not needed for service- | gifficulty in the wage dispute m-; connected disabilities. This applies | | volving 15 non-operating unions ofl {to veterans of the Spanish-Ameri- | more than 1,000,000 clerical and jcan War, Boxer Rebellion, Philip-|mechanical laboring employees. This | pine Insurrection, Wouwd War I|settlement remains unsettled, but| |and World War »'.he special Presidential Board con- | tinues hearings on the claims. | — eee PASSAGE OF WAR BALLOT PREDICTED Public Health Service co-ordi- | e |nated Army, Navy, other govern-, WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Advo-| \ment hospitals and some private cates of the Federal War Ballot for hospnuls to provide a total of 38-|the armer services confidently pre- 1489 beds by June of 1920. Largest|dicted passage despite the apparent &‘l’:bd (?‘f 591"’1109 -connected d‘Sflbm-‘swndy progress of the States' Right b he only kind cared for at|Bill intended to keep Washington at time) was 26,869 in 1922, Sflywnh a hands off on the soldier |there was a safe margin. | ve otes at th | New emergencies threatened Whe"‘elecnon k- Exicen el ‘f;nvs:;?a n?e:;g x:[l::s‘::a:ufi:’-‘ The House has advanced the Sen- i - , ‘culosis or neuropsy-chiatric disor- e peec il She dlodr, The Iders before Jan. 1, 1925, and when| Congress authorized hospitalization (m' veterans regardless of the origin ‘ox 1he|r disabilities. 1I. | An Act of Congress on Oct. 1917, was the first step taken in| this country to provide hospital care | for disabled war veterans. Pre-| iviously veterans had received med- 13 ical treatment only incidentally to! their care in ‘“soldiers’ homes.”! Provisions of the act were not very | definite, however, and hospitaliza- ition threatened to become a com- | plete mess until the problem was hxanded to the Public Health Ser-; vice. lem up to the states. Senator Lucas predicted the Senate is now ready to adopt a war ballot if it gets a| chance to undo the month old de-' cision. (Continued on Page Two) village | hidden in cargoes of oranges shipped iexplosion aboard one 10 days ago | ing 60 pounds of oranges. Army B-24s on their way to cameraman in a Navy PB4Y ciated Press photo from U. PUSH KEEPS - ONTOWARD NAZI BASE French Ad v ance Toward Cassino — Americans Hit Fortified Posts ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| ALGIERS, Jan. 15.—French troops, | staving off five German counter-| attacks in fierce fighting on the' Iright wing of the Fifth Army front| in Italy, pushed forward two mm\‘ miles toward Cassino, capturing the of Acquafondata, seven miles away from the three import- ant heights in the vicinity. | The pressure of French forces lunder Gen. Alphonse Juin has been apphrd for considerable length the mountain line ‘and has guedll_\' strengthened the American flank. (The yesterday been evacuated.) The Americans southwest of Cas- sino plowed into the strong enemy | fortificaticns of Mount Trocchio. | > > | TIME BOMBS IN ORANGES FROM SPAIN 15. bombs | announced | had | Berlin radio Acquafondata LONDON, Jan. ‘Time from Spain are delaying distribution | of the fruit in Engiand, the Food Ministry announces. i The Foreign Office has asked the Spanish government to determine the background of the plot ! Two of at least three orange ships | enroute to Britain were found to| have secret caches of explosives. An | destroyed 2,300 cases, each contain- An exam- | ination of the next ship revealed al time bomb the same size or an| orange carefully secreted among l.he | fruit. i ‘The third vessel has not vet dock- | led, but will be carefully searched.' |Senate bill leaves the voting prob-| Pruit hungry Britons were jolted marriage, Mrs harder with the news of the delay‘ of the vessel than word that the fruit was garnished with bombs. - BUY WAR BONDS } UNCOLLECTE WINNER — Mrs. L. W. Marks’ Fo-Hi (above) was “best dressed pet” at the Gordon Red Cross championship dog show held in Sydney, N. S. W. 3,000 STRIKE; RUBBISH GOES D Health of City of Philadel- phia Menaced-Calling of Troops Urged PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.—In the Iface of a warning by health offic-|farmer jals that uncollected rubbish may cause “anol epidemic of influ- enza,” three thousand Public Works employees gestion last night to repudiate union leaders and go back to work. The Philadelphia Record, front-page editorial today, | Mayor Samuel to call upon the Gov- ernment to send in troops The strikers get a basic pay of] $5.28 a day and ask 10 cents an hour wage increase. - in a DIES ON WEDDING DAY Three hours Mary O'Toole, 23, feel down stairs on the way to her wedding party. Ner husband who had returned from his work in Eng- land for the wedding, dead in her bridal clothes, DUBLIN after her ™ bomb Japanese installtions in the Solomons were snapped by a Navy reconnissance plane against a background of tropical thunderheads. Navy. Asso- ‘JAP FIELDS fIN PACIFIC Nine Important Bases Suf- fer in Widespread Destruction BY WILLIAM WORDEN HICKAM FIELD, Hawali, Jar 15.—Maj. Gen. Willis Hale, com- mander of the Seventh Army Air | Force, said in an nterview that mxdvsp ad damage has been done| 'to Jup airfields in the Central Pa- cifie in culminative raids on nine bases which were singled out for | attack. | Two fields suffered 80 per | destruction, he said, and a |suffered 60 per cent. | He said the bombers had flown 11,300,000 miles on the fifty missions, | had met 418 enemy planes, destroy-| ed 119 in the air and 74 probables. He said that on some islands, m)ml)l\ Mili, the Japs stopped try- ng to defend the field with planes uul resorted to anti-aircraft fire. R RACEHATRED FLARING UP cent third IN MISSOURI POPLAR BLUFFS, Mo., Jan. 15— At least a dozen of 55 Butler County who went to juil rather {than ask for releaseson their own | recognizance, following grand jury indictments over a racial flareup, The farmers are charged with in- ‘uung to riot or kidnaping in con-' nection with the alleged ejection | ber 8 from a rural district occu- I pied by whites, .o JEANETTE PIMEBA | PASSES AWAY TODAY, Pimeba, five-year-old of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Pimeba, passed away this forenoon at St. Ann's Hospital. The remains are at the Charles Jeanette daughter |al arrangements, ~ AREBOMBED 'NIGHT ATTACK 'MADE, CITY OF BRUNSWICK Two Thousand Long Tons of Explosives Dropped. by R. A. F. Raiders PRE-INVASION DRIVE KEEPS UP 24 HOURS Targels in Northern France Are Hit - Russians Bomb Convoy BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan, 15. — RAF bombers blasted Brunswick last night at the rate of 87 tons of bombs a minute, ,setting a new record for bomb * concentration in an attack of 23 concentrated minutes. | LONDON, Jan. 15. — The Royal Air Force threw the whole weight of the pre-invasion campaign to | exterminate the German Air Force by burying the central German plane-making city of Brunswick under a heavy load of explosives last night, an afterstroke of the | tremendous American - daylght at- tack of last Tuesday when one of the greatest air battles of the pres- {ent war was fought. The RAF dumped 2,000 long tons of bombs on Brunswick, the British Air Ministry announced this after- noon. He termed the mission u a “very heavy attack.” This and other operations, yes- terday and last night, cost 38 air- | eraft. Great fires were left burning ‘at Brunswick. Mosquito bombers returned again |to attack Berlin, and other planes bombed Magdeburg, southwest of | Berlin, and targets were also |smashed in northern France. The overnight blows swung the ffensive into a round-the-clock attack again following only a few !hours after th eday-long assault on | military targets in northern France ;by probably 1400 planes. | Nine enemy craft were destroyed |by bombers, and eighteen enemy |planes by escorts. | The Allied losses were 16 planes, three of them heavies. One hundred Russian bombers attacked a German Black Sea con- voy with good results. Far-ranging RAF planes torped- oed and sunk two vessels off the | coast of Nox wu\' ol NEW PLANE 'NOW USED BY GERMANS Secret Rocket Propelled Fighter Puf in Fight . Last Night STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15. The heavy Royal Air Force attack on Brunswick last night forced the carried the strike Into called their lawyers to get them & v Nazis to put their st rocket |the tenth day after booing the sug=- out on bail bond put up ecret roc | propelled fighter plane which were uncovered for the first time in Tues- | day’s historic American assault. ! The Berlin correspondent of the urged of four Negro families on Decem-| newspaper Aftonbladet said the ! rocket plane is similar to the newly | announced jet plane but is driven {(rom the rear by explosive fuel. It iis said this enables the fighter | plane to climb 4!: miles in two minutcs instead of the usual 15 minutes. e | CONTORTIONIST | MEMPHIS, Tenn—Here's another |use for a wooden leg. Mrs. C. E. Ingram reports she saw a man fast found her W. Carter Mortuary pending funer-|asleep—with his peg-leg for a pil- llow.