The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1944, Page 1

(’f ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 5951. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1944 L8 {4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = —— ROME DEFENSE LINE IS NOW BATIERED Strategic Hill 660 Captured by ‘Yawnk lam__ling (raft Bu_rnsAflerHiI by Japanese TOUGH SPOT IS CRACKED: | JAPS KILLED Aussies Cagm Big Base-| Rabaul Atfacked, Many Ships Arg Urider Fire ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan. 17—American Marines have captured Hill 660, the strategic height in the Borgen Bay area of Cape Gloucester, New Brit- ain, the invasion beachhead. The Australian jungle fighters have also chalked up another suc. cess in New Guinea by capturing SIO, enemy supply and barge base on Huon Peninsula and sweeping three miles toward the American invasion troops at Saidor. A heavy attack has been made on Japanese ships in th harbor of Ra- baul by Allied bombers of the South Pacific Command. One cruiser and one destroyer were damaged and seven cargo vessels were also heav- ily bombed and damaged. ‘Twenty-nine enemy planes were downed and 16 others were probably (Continued on Page Two) | ———— i The Washington! Merry- pfi - Round1 By DREW PEARSON g (Major Robert §. Allen on sctive duty.) (The President’s scathing at- tack on lobbyists in his mes- sage to Congress follows on the heels of Drew Pearson’s con- sistent hammering exposures of lobbying tactics. The President said: “There are pests who swarm through the lobbies of Congress and the cocktail bars of Washington re- presenting special groups.” Pearson began his attack on lobbyists long before Christmas. He says, “Not since the days l when Justice Hugo Black ex- posed the wolf packs of Wash- ington have Capital corridors and cocktail lounges been so packed with the brazen, charm- ing gentlemen out to lobby for their special interests.”) WASHINGTON—Those on the in- | side say that most ‘of the trouble | regarding rail wages and even me‘ seizure of the railroads might have | been avoided if the President had not been in the barber's chair when last summer, he discussed wages with George Harrison, head of the Railroad clerks, Genial “Pa” Watson, Guardian of all White House appointments, unfortunately let the railroad labor leader in to see the President at the end of a busy day when he was with lather all over his face. He & Smoke poured from an American (LST) landing ship tanks from a Jap hit in an attack at a South Pacific island in the combat zone where the boat was unloading supplies. A sister ship stood by with its crew playing water ori the burning vessel. (AP Wirephoto from Marine Corps) COMMANDER EISENHOWER ' ATNEW POST | oS ferring with Churchill and Roosevelt | | LONDON, Jan. 17.—Gen. Dwight | D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Com- | mander of the British and American | Expeditionary forces for the invasion | of Burope, has arrived here, taking over the Allies rein. He finds the | job already well advanced as the restlt of the great work of the air and naval supply forces. At the same time it is disclosed that Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley, who served under Eisenhower as Com- mander of the Second Army Corps in Tunisia, will become Senior Com- mander of the American ground |forces in the United Kingdom. The first public appearance of | Gen. Eisenhower focused attention }on invasion plans. He said the ob- | Ject of the Italian campaign is the capture of Rome but the front ex- ; [tends from the Bafkans to the Pyrenees and the attack might be | anywhere. ¥ | Gen, Eisenhower expressed the Germansio TyNew.. . BRITAINIS. "Liquid Air” Bombs On East War Front STOCKHOLM, Jan. 17.—Swedish newspapers report the Germans may put a new “liquid’ air” bomb to practical test on the East Front as a preliminary to using it against Great Britain: The “liquid air” bomb is a secret rocket type of bomb, different from publicity. It is Wbout ready for the| war -front use. The Swedish newspapers said | ceived information the bomb is pro- pelled to fantastic heights by rock-| et power then glides to its destin- ation spreading destruction over a radius of more than 400 yards. The bomb can travel 70 miles when released by a transport plane flying at an altitude of more than ‘another ‘model receiving widespread three miles, the newspapers said. Some neutral experts however are |a bit skeptical over reports lhe‘ rocket rises to an altitude of 30 neutral military experts have re- to 37 miles before it starts to glide.} 'Aaskan Sourdough s Homesick in South So Is Coming Back North 6,000 MEN 10 STRIKE greatest satisfaction at the liguten- ants assigned him. He said he had | been able to confer with British Priva#: Minister Winston Churchill at an “undesignated port” and also i | with President Roosevelt in Wash- H |ington last week. | sk Bk | AGREEMENT NEARS | DOUEEE DEAL “ox porano-Russo Moscow Newspaper Claims | BOUNDARY ISSUE | British Feeling Out Ger- — | mans on Peace Pad | P01 Neither Accept, Re- MOSCOW, Jan. 17.—The Russian | ject Proposal Made | saananar Bravdh diiies s Cutrol for Curzon Line | report that twe English officials | ! conferred secretly with German For-| LONDON, Jan. 17—The Polish eign Minister von Ribbentrop to Government in Exile, after four find terms for a separate peace with ! ive days of Cabinet study of Germany and added “it is under-|Russia’s Curzon line boundary pm—i stood the meeting did not remain | pogal, announced a conciliatory| wlthol\:Jtlx_"esu]tsv |statement and asked the United P bose o el g)‘::}:?ei’m:;:stms and Great Britain to bring Po- ;under the heading “Rumors fi'omwland gnd Russla. jogether ."0 e | Cairo,” said the meeting took place | SV the outstanding Russmn-Pu—r | “at one of the seacoast cities on Hsh pl‘Ol})l(fl]ls. AL | | the Pyrennes Peninsula,” apparently All official quarters and the Bn-‘ in 'Spain or Portugal. tish newspapers hailed the Polish| | According to the official Com- Government in Exile reply» to Rus-| { munist Party newspaper, the report |5ia’s boundary offer as brlghtenmg} !in the dispatch amounts to an ac- |Chances for .a settlement f?l this {cusation that Britain at least is|knottiest of United Nation’s pro-j | sounding out with Germany for the |blems. ! Maska Fourth War | SEATTLE, Jan. 17—Mrs. Mar-|possibility of a separate peace. | garet Young, of Fairbanks, sour-| The .newspaper openly accuses | |dough of 46 years, is enjoying her Britain, if the report is true, of | | first trip to the outside but she is|double-crossing the other United |not so much as cancelling her re- | Nations in view of the many times | servation on the first steamer north, stated declaration that only “un- so anxious is she to get back. conditional surrender” on the part | Her granddaughter, Margaret|of Germany will be considered. Hempel, all of her 18 years spent| The concluding sentence of the in Alaska, feels the same way and |dispatch carried for the Russians a said: “Yes, we like Seattle and San | Positive sense of a secret parley and | o, vesnondent says Britain and Rus- The Poles’ official statement nei- ther accepted nor rejected the So- viet offer of the “Curzon line” as a| possible Russian-Polish frontier settlement but the requesting of| a Russian-Polish meeting called by the U. 8. and Britain gave assur- ance of a move in the right direc-| tion. | The London Times diplomatic getting a shave. Tired and relaxed, Roosevelt was| ., stretched out in-the barber’s chair talked to Harrison bétween strokes| of the razor, which meant that he didn’t talk very much. Harrison did | most of the talking and said that! the railroad non-operating workers, should have a wage increase of 8 cents an hour, plus 6 cents an hour for overtime. He came away from the White House with the definite impression! that the President agreed to this.| As a result, all rail workers, both operating and non-operating, ex-| pected a proportionate raise andl‘ were boiling mad when Economic Stabilizer Vinson found that it vio- lated the Little Steel formula and| anti-inflation policies. Ever since then, Harrison and associates have stuck to the prom- | ise which Harrison believed the President gave while he was being/ shaved. HULL FOR PRESIDENT ‘White-thatched, conservative Sen- ator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa had a private chat with Secretary of /Oregon and—Washington | washington foundry workers voted Foundrymen to Tie Up 79 War Plants ‘ SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—Oregon and | Sunday to strike at 8 o'clock Tues- | day, thus threatening closure of 79 | plants engaged in vital war work. About 6,000 men are involved in | the action taken at special meetings | in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Everett to discuss the Regional War Labor Board's directive given Sat- urday which granted wage increases to the lower wage groups but denied demands that the journeymen and | moulders be given an increase of | eight cents an hour to $1.28. ——————— SAWYERS AT JUNEAU At the Hotel Juneau, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sawyer are here from Edna Bay and will leave shortly Francisco, but we want to go home. We are homesick.” Mrs. Young is 73. She came south by plane but will not return that way, and she and her granddaugh- ter wiil go north by steamer. FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE GETS BUSY ON JAP ISLANDS CHUNGKING. China, Jan. 17.— United States Mitchells of the Four- teenth Air Force showered explo- sives on the power plant Hongay, French Indo-China last Saturday, scoring near misses on the main buildings, Gen. Stillwell’s headquar- ters announces. % Other Mitchell bombers sank a collier off Swatow and destroyed many biuldings on Nanpeng Island —ee——— FROM MILWAUKEF From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Em- State Cordell Hull last week that . ", 0 " me gt Sawyer's Land- ma Schultz and Mildred Pruitt are i AT R N (Continued on Page Four) ing near Petersburg. at the Baranof. €:§;fi:nh;:;;: surprise among the g, pave gssured the Poles' boun- { 5 {dary will be extended westward to | " g ‘ HALIFAX MAKES DENIAL compensate, giving the Russians the territory east of the Curzon line | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. — Lord | | Halifax, British Ambassador to the |Which will leave Russia the bulk | United States, declared “there is no {9f the Ukrainian territory obtained {truth” in the report published by |four years ago. | Pravda and “people who believe it | o > ;will believe anything.” | | 'U. 5. SOLDIERS R.E.Robertsons | ARE KILLED IN | | BackfromStates| BRITISH WRECK R. E. Robertson, well known Ju-| LONDON, Jau. 17.—Nine are dead neau attorney, and Mrs. Robertson, | 3nd 30 were injured, including three | have returned from a visit to “,‘_,;Ameflcnn airmen, in a train acci- States, as grandparents. |dent here. Several U. S. soldiers Arriving in Seattle two months| Were killed and others injured. i ago, Mrs. Robertson was present| TWo London-bound trains crashed | . | when the stork visited the Fred 8t @ suburban station. Both trainsip oo,pe.; presidential race pattern is becoming more nearly complete every day. Estaugh family, leaving them a son | Were crowded with troopers on leave. “Robert Ladd.” Mrs. Estaugh is the | TWO of the coaches were wooden. former Carol Robertson, and Mr.| It was the worst train wreck in Estaugh is with Pan American Air- |England in two yea wavs at Seattle. | S A A Mr. Robertson joined the family | GUEST AT BARANOF 2 after the arrival of his grandson,| A guest at the Baranof, Thomas and while in the States enjoyed a!G. Dorsey of Winchester, Virginia, brief visit with relatives in Iowa. is a recent arrival here. (Dewey of New York as soon as the .S. Marines Delegate Dimond s ALLIES IN Nof Candidate for ADVANCEON Reelection, He Says GUSTAV LINE WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Al- | aska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond announces he does not intend to file as a candidate for renomination at the primary election in Alaska on April 25. The Delegate said he believed he should let prospective candi- grateful for the friendship and con- fidence of the citizens of Alaska | shown so often in the past, I do not | intend to be a candidate for re- | nomination.” Bartlett immediately announced he will resign February 1, as Sec- retary of Alaska, which position he dates know his intentions. Di- | has held for five years, and will | mond declined to say just what | pecome a candidate for Delegate on his plans for the future are. | the Democratic ticket. Bartlett was Dimond was elected to the | for two years secretary in Washing- 73rd Congress on November 8, |ton to Delegate Dimond, returned 1932, and was re-elected at each | north and engaged in gold mining subsequent biennial election. lin the Circle district and was also! - | Chairman of the Unemployment‘ BAKTLETT IS CANDIDATE Compensation Commission. He was | E. L. Barttlett, Secretary of Al-|also at one time on the reportorigl aska, this afternoon also’received a |staff of the News-Miner at Fair- | radiogram from Delegaté Dimond banks. He has been a resident ot | as follows: “While I am deeply . Alaska since 1905. Reach Steefifinks of Rap- ido River Which Runs Through Cassino |} MOUNT TROCCHIO IS STORMED, CAPTURED Messerschmitt Factory at Klangenfurt Destroy- ed by Forfresses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 17.—Attacking on.a | 30-mile front, American and French (troops of Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth | Army have reached the steep banks |of the Rapido River which runs "Lhrough Cassino and have begun battering assaults on the Gustav de- (fense line, the main barricade to Posters Are Flown e | | previously announced that United communique | States infant had stormed ' * HerebyPAAPlanes =cvic: e only two miles away. Jsmashéawthi'fl\‘l(h' ‘the preeipitous hills and mountains of the spiny |Appenines and reached the upper (Rapido River’s high banks which | have been covered into the Gustav |defense line studded with guns, | weapon pits, dugouts and traps. | Flying Fortresses hit the Messer-~ schmitt Jactory at Klangenfur, Aus- tria, 75 miles northeast of Trieste. | Lt. Gen, Ira Eaker's airmen shet their way through a dozen rockel | firing fighters to get to their obje and the attack left the factory she and railway sidings bomb shal tered inass. Eighteen enemy aircraft were de- stroyed in all of yesterday’s opera=- {tions and five Allied aircraft were lost. B2 S A Y REDS ARE55 | MILES INTO OLD POLAND (Powerful New Offensive Begun in North Near Latvian Border LONDON, Jan. 17—A powerful new Soviet offensive is sweeping toward the 70-mile distant Latvian border aud is hurling the Germans back on a nine-mile front. Far south in old Poland the Red Army spearheads are driving toward the big rail and highway junction of Rovno. Asserting that the new drive north of Nevel has already swept up 40 | localities and cut the imj t railway below Lake Ilmen, has announced at the same time that General Vatutin’s First Ukrain~ ian Army killed 100,000 Germans and captured 7,000 in the three weeks' massive offensive which car- ried them 55 miles inside Poland. DOUBLEHEADER BAKETBALL ON TUESDAY NIGHT ‘Tomorrow night there will be a doubleheader basketball game in the Juneau High School gym, beginning at the customary time of 7:30 o'clock. First on the floor will be the Juneau High School lined up Mrs. Lawrence Wiley of the U. 8. Treasury War Finance Com- mittee, at Seattle, Shows a copy of the Alaskan Fourth War Loan posters to Sydney Smith, Traffic Manager of Pan American Airways, Seattle. Five thousand posters were flown to Alaska by PAA, to arrive H in time for the opening campaign, January 18, tomorrow. Painted by an Alaskan artist, C. Heulin, the original oil painting was sent to the Seattle War Finance Committee by Gov. Gruening to be used in the campaign. The postérs depict an Eskimo, Indian and Alaskan soldier grimly carrying guns. Behind is the Territorial flag—the big dipper and the North Star. It was one of these posters that Ingrid Bergman, movie star, re- cently autographed and will be awarded to some fortunate buyer of Series E bonds. The autograph was secured by Sergeant James Ramsay, one of Juneau’s servicemen, who has donated the poster to help in the Fourth War Loan drive. Race for Iiepublitah | Presidential Choice Now on 3-Way Course BY JACK STINNETT bows have been made to the favor- 2%, lite son candidates. r:{ (2). Nominsgte Wendell L. Will- | kie“just as soon as it becomes ap- |parent that the “stop-Willkie” movement has failed. Observers here are practically « (3, pind itself in a Willkie- unanimous in ‘the opinion that the peywey deadlock and go into the|2gainst the Bankers in an exhibition nominating convention this suUM- gnope filled rooms to pick a com-|3ame. Second game will be match mer will take one of three courses: promise candidate, who could con-|between the Cheechakos. and the (1). Nominate Gov. Thomas E.) Signacs. Fans are warned to use the Sixth Street entrance. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. " (Continued on Page Two) Sow