The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . VOL. XLIL, NO. 5954. . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 0 1944 ME MBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DIVE BOMBERS RAID RABAUL HARBOR T hree Villages Captured on It Bnmfii IN ~ ADVANCEON GARIGLIANO an on Bndgeheads In-‘ creased-New Thrusts Being Made Today ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 20.—British troops of the Fifth Army have enlarged | : the brigdehead above the Garigliano | River to a depth of three miles in places and have captured three vil: lages. | According to the latest reports| : the British are storming the out- skirts of Minturno and are ad- vancing. The villages of Argento, Tufo and | Suio have been captured. In the capature of Tufo, the thrust has been carried across Appian Way and | within one mile and a half from | Minturno which the British are now storming. } The German opposition is report- | ed severe all along the front, which | is now at least seven miles wide. | Late this afternoon, according to | a German radio report picked up ! U S FLIER ’BOMBS’ OWN TROOPS i |Series E bonds, ’wmeun | SELLING ~ UNDERWAY | Fair Start I; Méde in Cam- | paign Here - Booths | | Opened at Night The Fourth War Bond Drive u\-: ‘Lered the third day of the camn-, paign with $37,812 subscribed a total of $104,312, |in bonds of all denominations, in- | cluding the Series E. } i Not so bad at that, in fact it's | dandy. ’ | | The total quota for Juneau is! $140,000 in Series E bonds and | $175,000 in bonds and stamps, a to- i |[tal of $315,000. Now just take your and figure out where we | stand towards getting that quota. | Then dig down in your jeans, or, socks and begin figuring the am- | oung you must pungle up. TH0 R J\{neau e Juek base, the still waters of an inlet mirror the patterns of woolly {the kind they are having on sever- | X {al, in fact perhaps all of the war | - FIVE ZEROS DOWN, MORE TO GO pencil {fronts, so put yourself in uniform {and just imagine how you would | feel if facing a big German or Jap ' with a loaded bayonetted gun, your MIRROR FOR, ALASKAN CLOUDS_Alongside an Aleutian headland, site of a U. S. SOVIET TRAP alian Front THREE SHIPS ARE SUNKIN BIG ATTACK 'Eighteen, Probably 36 Jap Interceptors Also Shot Down - DESTROYERS FOUND CIRCLING HARBOR | Anti-Aircraft Guns Mount- | ed on Barges Spotted- Fierce Air Battle ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- | QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, {Jan. 20—Through more than 100 | Japanese planes and a heavy cur- tain of anti-aircraft fire, torpedo dive bombers pounced on 12 Japanese | merchant ships in Rabaul Harbor “Monday. hitting eight, definitely sinking three and probably getting two others. This is the official announcement by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s head- quarters, At least 18 and probably 33 enemy clouds against the sky. at Allied headquarters, Berlin an- | nounced that Minturno has been evacuated. Minturno is 75 air line | (Continued on Page Two) - The Washington | Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—If you are! — thinking twice about how much money you should invest in Gov- BOMBS OF MERCY rather than destruction are loaded with food and medicine (top) by U. S. Air Corps crewmen in Italy preparatory to be- ing carried by planes to American troops fighting in the inaccessible Mt. Maggiore area. One of the containers hurtles earthward (bottom) to | supplement the sunplxe. broughl up the rocky trails. (International) ’Japs on Pacific Coast ~ Sent Out Signals fo WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Signals | k. SubsBeforeEvacuated istomach empty or nearly so, your, ;ammumuou gone, and you had no {grenades, just because the folks back home, on the home front had not financed the part you were tak-' ing in the big terrific world figm' There are things you could think, about too—suppose you were in o hospital, suffering, perhaps dying, and no aid was near—doctors and nurses looking helpless because sup- plies were not on hand because ths home front has fallen down. Then think Jjust think. Now-—tonight both beoths will be open again from 7:30 to 10 o'clock, | one in front of the First National | bank and the other in front of -Bailey's Cafe. The booths will be {handled by the American Legion CLOSING ON SIEGE ARMY Warships of Baltic Fleet | Shell German Positions Near Leningrad BULLETIN—London, Jan. 20. | Joseph Stalin announced in an | Order of the Day tonight, ac- interceptors were shot down. Twelve i raiders were lost, | Tt 1s acknowledged that the bomb- ers were flying from- bases in- the Solomons. These bombers went at Rabaul for the seventeenth raid there this month and found eight merchant ships there. Enemy destroyers were circling the bay to prevent an attack from the sea and barges were set at the | mouth with anti-aircraft guns, after the manner the Germans use flak |ships on the English Channel. The Japs sent more interceptors into the air during the attack than in any previous raids that have cording to a broadcast from Moscow, picked up here, that | Novgoerod has been captured. ‘ been made. A flerce battle ensued as the result of the interception. Enemy air losses in the Rabaul ALERT FINDS ernment bonds, consider the exper- from the shore aided the JRDBHESE and Catholic Daughters of America. | MOSCOW, Jan. 20. — General|greq, as the result of the Monday jence of Governor Ernest Gruen- in attacks on the west coast early; ing of ‘Alaska. Tomorrow night the booths will| in the war but after evacuation of ! see hustlers of {Govorov’s Leningrad offensive, roll- raid, has been raised to a definite } \d "t Some time ago, Governor Gruen- ing - visited St. Lawrence Island, a| ATTU YANKS long narrow strip of land in lhe: Bering Sea so near Siberia that! you can look across on a clear day | and see the coast of Asia. It is the| - WIDE AWAKE most northwesterly area of the; United States populated by hu- | mans—a series of Eskimo villages. | Gruening, the first Governor of Alaska ever to visit the island, want- | ed to help prepare them to resist| possible invasion. from Japan. A| group of Government officials had | been there before, and asked the Eckimos to help throw up earthen fortifications. They said they would/ be, glad to, except that it was the) hunting season and, if they did not | get their season’s catch, they would| be caught short for food later m, the season. i “But if you will help us now,” the| Eskimos were told, “we will send you a shipload of white man’s food | later.” So they had helped, to a man andi including some women, in building | up the island's fortifications. How-| ever, the shipload of food never| came. Straggler Rounded Up in Sepfember By NORMAN BELL Associated Press War Correspondent ATTU, Jan. 14. (Delayed)— Lights flashing out in the wintry | night on the slope above Massacre Valley caused an alert last night. It turned out to be false alarm but demonstrated that the soldiers and sailors garrisoned here take nothing for granted. Actually the last Jap seen, a ed up in September after hiding since May. Since then a strong recreational and health facilities. !Is False Alarm - Last Jap base has been developed with both | Governor Gruening, arriving later, distributed rifles not only for re- sisting the Japs but also for hunt- ing, and gave the natives a series of talks every evening about civilian| A new theatre and basketball court has been built by the Seabees at the Naval and Air Station. Health facilities include steam baths, solariums and artificial “ray” light treatments. The Army is still with- out nurses. Nine Navy nurses are on the staff of the naval dispensary. defense and what the war was all| about. Finally, he approached the| subject of war bonds. | “Those big planes you see in the | One has been added since the first | sky,” he explained, “cost money. Uncle Sam has to pay for them. Those rifles we have given you also cost money. Uncle Sam pays for them with war bonds. Every Am- erican citizen buys war bonds— usually each citizen gives about one-tenth of his salary.” % Then he suggested that the tribe’s community fund had some money on hand (a total of $15,000) the tribe might wish to buy war| bonds with part of it. The Eski-| mos held a whispered conference.’ Finally, a grizzled chief reported to| Governor Gmemng “We buy $15,000.” “That's very generous of you," re- plied the Governor, “but that is (Continued on Page Four) and | | eight arrived on Thanksgiving Day. | Last night the vaudeville and | movie were not interrupted by the alert. ———————— HOSPITALIZED | FULL OF FIGHT OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Patients | confined to the United States Naval | Hospital at Santa Marguerita ranch, Oceanside, struck a blow at the ‘enemy recently from their hospital wbed; Joining with other naval and ! civilian personnel at the hospital, they bought more than $12,000 in war bonds, the Japanese, the signalling was “virtually eliminated.” This statement is made in a re- port made by Lt. | DeWitt. Three specific cases are cited in the General’s report made direct to Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of | Army, Staff. | Lt Gen ‘detensss could be established fo iCRlch the attacks. Cessation of the signaling also {brought a reduction in the number of submarine attacks on ships saii- ing from ports on the West Coast, several weeks after Pearl Harbor. Subs Made Attacks Gen. DeWitt reports that every! ship leaving a west coast port was| attacked by enemy submarines as the result of signalling. The report further said signalling | hungry, ragged straggler, was round- | was observed from buildings m“‘B)lngton Norma Callow, Daisy V. | |could not be entered without |search warrant. Radio mesages were intercepted and “this seemed conclusively. to point to shore communications. Gen. DeWitt says it is “interest- | ling to note that after evacuation of the Japanese from coastal areas, interception of suspicious and un- identified radio signals from shores to ships, and also signal lights, |were virtually eliminated and at- tacks on outbound shipping was ap- preciably reduced.” The report asserts that by accident or design, jcommunications on the west coast |invariably were flanked by stra- tegic installations.” Attacks Are Cited Gen. DeWitt cited shelling by au near Santa Barbara, California; plane with incendiary bomBs in an effort to start fires at Brookings, Oregon; and shelling by a submar- | ine near Astoria, Oregon. These citations, the General said, are examples to show knowledge of (Continued on Pagr Three) Gen. John L.| Newsboys and Al-| aska Territorial Guards occupying | | them. | | — e, {ing across the fields wet with a January thaw, threatened the en- Lu(lvmpm, of the great Germ.ml ‘sm.o army of perhaps a quarter| !million- men, which has dug into the vast honeycomb of defenses 10‘ total of 152 with 42 more as prob- ables. Allied losses have been 32 planes. Sinkings have been raised to 11, the number of merchant ships sent down, so far in January. - e — DeWitt sayg all three| attacks by airplanes and submar-| ines were aimed at spots where 10| - NAME "A D FOREMAN anti-aircraft gun crew of the 37th (Buckeye) Division. These men have | | | 'ROY NOLAND IS | i SCANNING THE SKIES over Bougainville for Jap planes is this 20-mm. | accounted for five Nipponese planes as you can see by the flags on the OF GRA"D JURY gun shield. U. S. Signal Corps photo. (International) | amst g R S S Sllenl Spéaker Says Mouthful; Rayburn Makes Pointed Speech | | Roy Noland, of Juneau. was nam- | ed by the Federal District Cuuxtl vhere to act as foreman for an 18- lman grand jury; which reported this | morning at 10 o'clock and again | this afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Others on the jury are Nell,C. Biggs, of Kimsham Cove; Peder P.| {Lund, of Petersburg; Jean McLen- |nan, of Jaulpa; Webster R. Carter, | | of Sitka; Kathleen Andrews, Thom- | as N. Cashen, Thelma Engstrom and \Kathleen McCormick, all of Dm.lg-l {las: and Vida Bartlett, Augusta { “That is dangerous talk,” Rayburn By HOWARD FLIEGER told the quiet House. Anything | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Sam calculated to bring about disunity Rayburn is a Texas Democrat who and wrong thinking in our country doesn’t talk much. or disunity among us and those al- ‘anerson Alma Hendrickson, Dolly ;Larsson, Laura A. Taylor, Marie E. | Thomas, and Charles A. Woodward, all of Juneau. | | lied with us is dangerous talk . {approaches to the city. | years. | powerful He's a Speaker of the House who | ispends most of his time listening. He holds a daily news mnlcrcmo TULE LAKE JAPS i sders sesces mre i v | a dozen short senlemls You can “Some people are complaining who have improved their position during this ‘war. T hate to think of it, but as I do think it T must say it: T think some groups in this country, i hold the eastern tip of the Nazi| lines which once embraced the land The northern arm of the R""AIRF'E[DS '“ |Army has grabbed the bulk of the | _!specially designed long range guns| which hurled steel death and de-| |struction on the former Czarist| capital of Russia for more than two | Russian troops have joined | after striking out in twul prongs south of Lenin-/ grad and from Oranienbaum, So-| | viet bridgehead on the Gulf of l"lu-‘ land to the west of the city. At the same time a third thrus l;FIfieen'h Alr For(e Bomb ! Just north of Lake Ilmen, 100 miles | | southwest of Leningrad has virtualy ers Make Ex'eHSIve lisolated the German base city of Raid on Airdromes :«;m::::c;duttmt‘ Nazi forces hnwf FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE SO 1o oW |BOMBER BASE IN ITALY, Jan. Red Army units, which thus have ,5° " pombers, having temporarily forces | Novogorod. A German communigue | |carried through one of the best | ot off Rome from rail communica-~ .|maneuvers of the war, drove with- ‘uous with the north, yesterday ham- in 13 miles of the east-west rail-'mered the most important German way from Tallinin in the Baltic State of Estonia to Vologda. A com- | munique estimated that 20,000 Ger- | mans were killed, |airfields in the Rome area. Heavy attacks were made against the north and south Ciampino afr- count on one hand the speeches he'’s made in Congress since the war began. But on day Sam Ruv'u\nn tired of CLOSELY GUARDED at the expense of our unity in ihe war effort, are thinking more of | their position aftey the war than war now. | drome, just oustide the city limits The Moscow radio said last night|of Rome and also against the near- that warships of the Baltic ll»('t'b} Cmmcelle airfield. {sheiled German positions at the = “whether | Japanese | enemy submarine of oil installations | dropping by a submarine based | 'wm‘ked its way into a mm( ion. Tt SAN FRANCISCO‘ Jan. 20.—-The was shortly before Congress went internal security force of the police home for Christmas. He spoke only |at Tule Lake has been increased 10 a few minutes, but already some of times. There are now 224 “trouble his colleagues have ticketed it as one makers” in the isolation center |of the great speeches of the war. Iguarded by troops for security. For days he had listened to Con- { The Tule Lake Jap segregation |gress row about subsidies, price ceil- |site is “as adequately guarded as Ings and restraints on the home possible under the circumstances,” |front. His patience was frayed by | ithe War Relocation Authority said ‘bu kerings. |in a report made by Dillon Meyer,| “Tdesire to speak on some danger- National Director, in an interview. ous trends,” said the Speaker. B — | | i | | ! He spoke about distrust among | HAINESITES HERE allies. He talked about complaints, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tallman of want an edge on their neighbors or Haines are guests at the Hotel Ju- who complain that somebody else neau. has something they can't get, {about sacrifices, about those who| | they are of winning the It is a sad commentary upon some | | human beings. “It is going to take the might and ' brain of every patriot under the flag |to do this job. Our hands are to | the plow. We cannot look back. | ‘The very fate of civilization depends | not only on how our Army and Navy | | act, but how you and I act and | | how you and I respond to the neces- | Mty of this hour { When Rayburn finished \]N‘Iklhl,‘ Demorats and Republicans alik® ap- { plauded. But it was a big Washing- ton news day without the speech jand — with some exceptions the story gave way to more startling | things i most newspapers. (Continued on Page Two) | | Leningrad front to help in the of- lmmve MILIATOLLIS RAIDED, SECOND | any COUNCIL WILL MEET FRIDAY NIGHT The regular City Council® meet- ing will be held tomorow night at |8 o'clock in the Council Chambers lof the City Hall. | ECUTIVE DAY : (ON !and all councilmen are requested to NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—A Tuk)o|b" Dl(“en‘ radip broadcast today said American | B:25's raided Mili Atoll in the! Marshalls yesterday for the second | day in su sion. . | The broadcast, recorded by the | government monitor, reported one| plane downed and that damage "“l m-vln,lhl& Routine business will be discussed e THREE ABBIVE FROM PETERSBURG YESTERDAY An Alaska Coastal Airlines plane returned from Petersburg yesterday with Mrs. Dave Morgan and young daughter, and Russell R. Harris.