The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 5953. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1944 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS =] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THREE BIG ADVANCES MADE IN ITALY Americans Gain 1,000 Yards in Jungle Fight 139 NIPPONS | AREKILLEDIN LONG DRIVE Former National Guards, Arizona, New Mexico, Now Forging Ahead ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, | Jan. 19. United States troops, driving into the jungle above the neck of Arawa Peninsula, New Brit- ain, have gained 1,000 yards and killed 139 Japs, the High Command announces. The drive was pointed by a con- centrated aerial blasting followed | by tanks and was made by a regi- ment known as the Bush Masters, former Arizona and New Mexico | National Guardsmen, the first troops of the nation specially train- | § ed in jungle fighting. Heavy aerial attacks continue on New Guinea and New Britain enemy | positions. | —l STARLING GOES SOUTH Harvey Starling, supervisor of arts and crafts of the Indian Bu- reau, sailed south on the Penguin for a brief visit in Spokane, Wash- ington. The Washington Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON (Masor Robert 8. Allen on sotive duty.) WASHINGTON—General Arnold | did not say so in his report to the Secretary of War, but the tremen- dous job of expanding air forces personnel is almost finished. Fe might have penned a little foot- note, saying, “We have pilots run- ning out of our ears.” No cadet training bases have been closed as yet, but the Army willi : close aproximately one dozen schools for training pilots between now and April. Air'Forces officials find that the elaborate program has now pro- | duced enough competent navigators | and pilots to finish the job in both theatres of war. The tip-off to this is found in re- cent changes in policy of the Trans- port Command. Army Transport Command, which does non-combat flying all over the world, has always preferred to take pilots from the open market, usual-i ly from the airlines. These pilots are specially trained in safe, effi- cient transport - flying, as distin- guished from the combat type of training in the Army Air Forces. Recently, however, Transport’ Command has been forbidden to take on civilian pilots, and has been forced to accept combat-trained pilots from the Air Forces. As one Transport Command of-| ficer expressed it, “They are stuf- fing 'em down our throats.” { { | 1 | | UNIFORMS OF RUSSIA'S DEAD Most. requests from the Russians for military or civilian equipment are okayed almost immediately be- cause of the heroic achievements of the Red Army. But the other day, one came along that wasn’t. It was a request for a consider- able quantity of dry-cleaning equip- ment. Though at the head of the Russian list, U. S. officials turned it down. They thought at first that the Russians were getting fancy, going back to civilian normalcy with aj rush. Dry-cleaning equipment, they | figured, would take up valuable! space on. a ship which could be used to better advantage. | Following the turn-down, the| Russians appealed. They still in- sisted that the dry-cleaning equip- ment was most important an should be at the head of the list. They also explained that, because' of the scarcity of textiles in Russia, they could not bury Russian dead in their uniforms, but must remove (Continued on Page Four) | | | & | | | LST's Emply From gapping bow doors of six landing craft, U. 8. Marines pour ashore at Cape Gloucester on December 26 for the second big invasion operation on New Britain Island in the Southwest Pacific as land forces push their campaign to rid the island of Jap forces and capture the big air base of Rabaul. (AP Wire- photo from U . Coast Guard) "~ SECRET'S OUT oot e Signalman George Glassick (above) is due to receive a med- ical discharge Jan. 25 for wounds received at Munda in the Solo- mons, so he’s letting the Navy in on a secret—he’s only 15 years old. Back home in Los Angeles after a stay in an Idaho con- valescent hospital, Glassick said he managed to enlist in the Navy over a year ago despite his tender years. (AP Wirephoto) REPUBLICANS GET 2 SEATS IN CONGRESS PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 19.— The Republicans have two Congressional seats at special elections, one of which has been held by the Democrats since 1934. The new Congressmen are Wil- liam A. Barrett and Samuel K. Mg- | Connell. NORMAN STINES WILL SPEAK AT CHAMBER MEET Norman Stines, WPB Director for mittee and he told reporters there o, courses of instruction in the InvasionF captured | orceat ( e - LENINGRAD FIGHTNOW DEVELOPING Two Armiesmve fo Break Siege by Nazis on Northern City MOSCOW, Jan. 19—Red Army forces on the Leningrad and Volk- |hov fronts in northern Russia 1 sprang forward in a new offensive calculated to end the German siege of Leningrad. The two neighboring army groups ! launched simultaneous assaults sev- | eral days ago, developing the drives | {on a large scale. Previous German broadcasts indicated the attacks | began Friday. No Specific objectives | have yet been announced or cap- | tured, but the fact that the launch- ing of the drive was announced is taken to mean that it is proceeding | satisfactorily. | 'The blockade was broken a year ! ago by a thrust through the fostress | town of Schlesselburg, opening a | corridor to the east, but the Ger- mans dug in close to the western and southern sides of the city. \"FOURTH TERM DRAFT” STARTS FOR ROOSEVELT | | U.5. Now Has Machine Tooled Headache that May Grow in Infensity BOND DRIVE GETS START IN JUNEAU {Campaign 0—;;:ned Last Night with $15,000 in Admissions, Capitol Well gang, we've started. We've started raising that $315 000 quota in the Fourth War Loan Drive of which $140,000 is in Series E bonds. We are off to a flying start, how- ever there is a bunch of those bonds to be purchased from now until February 2 when the drive, with| la punch, is supposed to be ended. With the ' slogan “A Bond for| Every Seat”, last night officially; saw the opening of the Gastineau Channel Fourth War Loan Drive| at the Capitol Theatre. 1 Admissions were a $25 bond for a/ general admission seat and a $50 bond for a loge seat. All general admission and loge seats were sold out totaling over $15000 in Series {E bonds. { The picture “Stand By for Action” was an excellent and appropriave one. A belligerent Donald Duck was| highly amusing to the premiere! spectators,.and of especial interest| to Alaskans was the travelogue on Mt. McKinley or Denali as it is called by the Indians. Admissions were received by Chamber of Commerce and Rotary | Club menmibers. 4 Much credit is due to Homer Gar- | vin, manager of the Capitol Thea-| tre, for his able and successful| (Jack Sunnett is ill. Until his re-/Managing of the affair as well as, turn this column will be written by|t0 the many who aided him in' Howard Flieger of the Washington making the bond premiere an outni Staff of the Associated Press) |standing success. Tonight the sale of war bonds BY HOWARD' FLIEGER Istarts at the two booths erected in| |the business section. One booth is; WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Did the : | United States build a thrabbing {3 front of the First Naviorsi Bav) peace-time headache into its vas!'“? Bsue 2 érl PR % i war plants? e e, e, Tonight these booths will be| Could be, says Senator James E. H Murray, a Montana Democrat, un-|Manned by The Independent Order| jof Odd Fellows and Perseverance 1o kegp 1t Lrom_ gerairping, Herfl‘ Tomorrow night the American| Gloucester 8 N less something is* done right mw‘nebeknh Todge! the situation: | . In its frenzied preparations tor|Re8lon and Catholic D'““smers Gf' war, the United States built 700, | ATerica biaihin 00 BRI 000 machine tools to put arms pru-mn, b oo puxcmau.? o duction on an assembly line basis. Lets ba'ck the Invasion by buy- That's three times the total produc-| N8 bonds tion in 10 years prior to Pearl Har- bor. They cost $3,000,000,000—more oo —— Fairbanks Goe 2 JAPANESE Helpforthe Home Folk BRITISH IN 3 CROSSINGS, ITALY RIVER ‘ Bridgeheafisfablished, All Converging on Home front sacrifices get a little return from Marine jungle fighters as commisssary steward, Donald V. Robinson, Inglewood, Calif,, posts “hotice on his jungle gafley somewhere in'the South Paéific that his amphibious outfit is doing its “bit for the home front.” (AP Wirephoto from Marines) Fourth War Loan Drive, For Series E, Fast Time FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 19.- On the opening of the Fourth War Loan drive in Fairbanks yesterday morning, Fairbanks exceeded the Series E quota of $165,000 by $5,000, Leslie Nerland, in charge of the drive announced. Fairbanks is believed to be the first community under the Ameri- can flag to exceed the quota so | soon. After buying more than $5,000 in excess of the Series E quota by 9 o'clock yesterday morning, citizens | BASES WILL BE SMASHED | | | | ;Rabaul, Kavieng Due for bought over $50,000 more during the than the price of making' all the machine tools for 20 years before the war. What's to become of them when peace comes? : The Senator gets a mental shiver every time he thinks of the possi- bility that this vast pile of produc- tion power might be dumped helter- skelter on an open post-war mar- ket. “To me,” he says, “it is unthink- able that these machines should be disposed of in the conventional manner by public sale to the high- est bidder. Such a course would he certain to retard postwar employ- ment and the technological develop- ment of the machine tool industry.” He has introduced a bill to cre- ate a policy commission to get the machines into orderly peacetime use—with veterans getting pfefer- ential consideration. The commis-| |sion would decide what tools the! government needs, then would ar- range an orderly disposal of the surplus. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Unof- |ficial “Fourth Term Draft” move-' ment has been started by Cuthbert | Olson, former Governor of Califor- nia, with the prediction that the California state National conven- tion delegate will vote colidly on the first bailot for the renomina-, tion of Roosevelt. | Olson is here to attend a meeting of the Democratic National Com- Alaska will be the speaker at the is no doubt California will unite Chamber of Commerce luncheon to- behind the slate to support Roose- 1 morrow at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. skills connected with the operation.| Lester C. Neal from Irene Neal, Stines will discuss War Production Board activities in the Territory. velt and Wallace. - — ' BUY WAR BONDS | ! i Veterans would get the first call. They'd have an opportunity to buy the machines and set themselves up in the metal working business. Gov- ernment loans and advances would be arranged to get them started. Others would go to establish small metal working concerns generally. “Provision is also made,” Murray says, “for permitting the schools and colleges of the country to avail themselves of these machines to ex- sciences and in the development of “The residue is to be available (Continued on Page Two) WAGES O RAILROADS SETTLED Systems Will Now Be Re- furned fo Owners-Stim- | son Issued Orders WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — The railroad wage dispute has been set- tled with a raise order all around} and the Government-scized unes‘} have been ordered by Secretary of | War Henry L. Stimson to be return- | |ed to their owners. The order was issued after Stim- | |son had been notified by President | | Roosevelt that a settlement of wage | issues had been made. I Final settlement with non-operat- | ing unions ended in a wage increase of nine to eleven cents an hour. CHILD HEALTH CONF. ! THURSDAY AFTERNOON! The regular weekly Child Health! | Conference will be held tomorrow {afternoon in the Health Center of| the Territorial Building between 1| and 4 o’clock. — e DIVORCES GRANTED ‘The following divorces were grant- | ,ed in the District Court yesterday: | | | | | | | Raymond Tucker from Gertrude r, and Carl A. BaKer from | | remainder of the day. Road to Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 19.—British troops of Gen. Mark Clark's Army, under intense mortar and machine gun fire, crossed the lower Garigliano River at three points, converging at the ancient Appian Way for cen- turies the main highway to Rome, 80 miles northeast. The attack was launched at 9 o'clock Monday morning and three bridgeheads were secured, despite violent enemy resistance. The first crossing of the river was at Suio village, seven miles inland from the coast where heavy fighting is continuing. The second crossing was along the railroad running from Capua to Rome, four miles from the coast. The third crossing was at Agento, almost on the coast itself, where the Germans countered with a tank attack in a desperate but futile at- tempt to drive the British back across the river. Naval action continues on the Adriatic. Destroyers have shelled Durazzo, Albania, and three points on the Dalmatian coast. Heavy bombers have blasted the key com- munication centers and other tar- gets in Tuscany Province, including the rallway yards at Pisa Pistoia. ACE FIGHTER PILOTDIES IN PLANE (RASH American Flier Killed in Accident - Destroyed 25 Enefl_ Planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 19.—Wing Com-~ mander Lance Wade, American ace 'with the Royal Air Force, who had !the highest score of any fighter pilot in the gMediterranean with 25 enemy planes destroyed, crashed to | his death on the twelfth in Italy. He was 27 and a veteran of three of Fairbanks is ART WOODLEYS FLY IN Flying in from Anchorage, Mr.; and Mrs. Art G. Woodley are at the Baranof. Mr. Woodley is owner| of the Woodley Airways. e — KLUKWAN TEACHER HERE Mrs. Ethel Perkins, Office of In- dian Affairs teacher at Klukwan,| is here on a short leave from her duties, and is staying at the Bar- years combat, a native of Tucson and a resident of Reklaw, Texas. Wade met his death in a small communications plane, which spun to the ground ‘many miles behind the front. The cause of the acci- dent is unknown. Wade was regarded by many as the war's greatest fighter pilot, and was decorated by the British with the Distinguished Fiying Cross with two bars. He fought all through the Middle East campaign. MOTHER OF SOLDIERIS FOUND DEAD SEATTLE, Jan .19.—The body of Mrs. Evelyn Pritchow, 39, mother of a soldier how overseas, was found in a clump of brush and ferns a short distance from her South Seattle home, strangled by her own kerchief, noosed about the head. Officers said she was the victim of a raper. Dr. Gale Wilson, autopsy -sur- geon expressed the belief the at- >-oe BACK FROM INTERIOR Surprise Attacks, Says . Fairbanks' quota for all classes of Admiral Halsey [the Fourth War Loan bonds is SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED E bonds will be sold during the' HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 19.—Rabaul campaign in order to make up the of Jap stronghclds to he smashed,. The population Admiral Robert Carney Halsey, only 4,000, view, but he added the smashes will not be done in the usual way. 0“ DR'VING ing will be something the cnemy" FoR plEASuRE |S least expects. It will not be in ac-! Both bases, Rabaul and Kavieng, have been daily targets by the SEATTLE, Jan. 19—C. B. La- flex]dsnimv;lbevdn available on BoU- yryeqge and Rationing Executive, | EnviNS nye. predicted a ban soon on all plea-| 000 Japs,” said 'ft' Admiral, ke The Seattle OPA has strongly re- | office because of vastly increased Army and Navy demands. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—David An- derson, NBC reporter in Stockholm, rying story to the effect that anof Hotel. Hitler has dispatched semi-official cuss separate peace terms with Amy Montgomery has returned Russia. The story is credited to the to Juneau after a trip to the In- Elsie Mildred Baker. L A A $400,000. Nerland said only Series and Kavieng are “next on our list” total of $400,000. Chief of Staff, asserted in an inter-| ———e—— “Just how we will do the smash- BA" cordance with any familiar pattern,” ~ NEAR, SEATTLE, South Pacific Air Forces since air- g e mt;;: OPA_ District' “We might trap as many as 100~ o0 oor qriving in the Puget Sound SAYS HITLER commended it to the San Francisco, said the newspapers there are car- represcutatives to Ankara to dis- Geneva newspaper La Suisse. )lerxor. tractive woman was killed “by a de- generate who criminally assaulted her.” The husband of the woman discovered the body after she failed to return after a visit with her sister at the latter's home.