The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1944, Page 1

40,000 Nazis Killed in Yank Bombers Ge! Jap (orvellef H fl I . VOL.-XLIL, NO. 5955. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, ] — " PRICE TEN CENTS JARY 21, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAP CRUISER SUNK IN DARING ATTACK SIEGE AT LENINGRAD 1S LIFTED : Quarter of a Million Ger- mans Are Now Fac- ing Entrapment BULLETIN—Moscow, Jan. 21. —Stalin’s Order of the Day to- night announces the Red .Army has captured MGA (correct) 30 miles southeast of Leningrad. LONDON, Jan. 21.—Russia’s nor- thern armies, engaged in two tre- mendous drives which in six days has lifted the two-year siege of Leningrad, captured the ancient bastion of Novgorod and have slain 40,000 Germans, rolled on today in| an effort to complete the entrap- ! ment of upwards of a quarter of| a million other Germans in the; sector. Moscow dispatches indicated the Germans are facing one of the worst disasters since Stalingrad, and the Moscow radio declared ju- (Continued on Page Two) ————,— The Washingion| Merry -G_o- Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active dutr.) ot | WASHINGTON—At a safe dis- tance from Teheran, the full story can now be told of the measures taken to protect the President from the plot against his life. The message from Stalin, warn- | ing Roosevelt that Nazi para-troop- | ers had come down in Iran, reached | the American Embassy on the day | of the President’s arrival. Stalin| himself had arrived the night be- fore, and learned that 38 para-| troopers had landed in the coun-; tryside, that 26 of them had been | rounded up, but that 12 were still at large. | Since the Soviet and British Em- | bassies were adjacent in one part! of town, and the American Em- | bassy more than a mile distant, it/ would be safer for all three leaders if they could be brought together, and guarded by the same force.| But the problem was—how to get| the President safely to the Sovietj Embassy? | The problem was solved by a fi-! nesse of which the U. 8. Secret Ser- | vice may now be proud. The main route between the American and Soviet Embassies was guarded con- stantly by Persian police., Chur-! chill had covered this route when| he arrived, driving from the air-| port to the British Embassy. Secreti Service men looked at the crowd of | spectators lined up along the wuy.} and shook their heads. . There. were | between -thirty and forty thousand people—a motley mixture of races —in which a desperado might easily mingle without being noticed. i So Secret Service ordered out U.| S. troops to supplement the Persian | police—and then took another route entirely. When the Yank uniforms appeared, the whole town was sure | the President would come that way./ Thus, every other part of town was | | | | | deserted. PRESIDENT VIRTUAL i PRISONER i Secret Service bustled the Pre.sl-‘ dent into a car, and drove him] down the side streets of the town,| unobserved by anyone. They had! tried to get an armored car, but| there was no such equipment to be had in Iran. However, this jour-! ney, and the return journey four| days later, were safely executed. At the Soviet Embassy, during the four days of conferences, the President was a prisoner in his own quarters. He lived in the same building where the cenferences! were held, and did not venture out- doors at any time. Another Secret Service worry was about the water supply. Teheran' (Continued on Page Four) COAST AREA | sition. Bombs dropped by a formation of B-24 medium bombers of the Army Air Forces burst dead ahead of a fleeing Japanese corvette (top) in the Southwest Pacific, and then the American bombers scored a bullseye (below) and the corvette went up in a geyser of water and smoke. (AP Wirephoto from Army Air Forces). BERLIN IS HIT AGAIN LASTNIGHT ding Force Consiss of: Probably Over 700 RAF Planes LONDON, Jan. 21.—One of the Royal Air Force’s heaviest x'aldmg‘l o w ,ee expeditions, probably 700 bombers, | thundered out 600 miles at dusk last night and renewed the battle of | Berlin for the eleventh greaf hlow‘ on the Reich capital city. « | Three-fourths of the important facilities have already been Alaskan Sourdough ‘Buried with | Bearskin Coat SPOKAN! yash., Jan. 21. —George W. McDonald, 84, for- mer Alaskan sourdough, was buried with a dohble-breasted bearskin coat, the exetutor of the estate said. The executor said McDonald told him that the bearskin “saved my life in Alaska sey- eral times and 1 want it in my coffi Rai \ ‘ i de- | ‘strayed but heavy loads were drop- | pRISoNER | ped on other sections. AToday a great force of four-en-| gined bombers crossed the south- east coast toward the continent. LONDON, Jan. 21.—-Lowell Bex Inett, International bombed the mysterious Pas de Calais | area heavily and returned during| mid-afternoon. " The flight took more than half an hour to cross to the coast. with the RAF December 2 in war in Germany. The Berlin bombing set a new|h&s received a letter dated “Some- | Our conservation program and our record of concentration, and more Where in Germany.” bombs were dropped than fell upon ! Brunswick January 11. |that’s a Helluva dateline but .- !could have been worse.” END LOOMING, canor pipeune FOR STRIKE IN__T0BE OPERATING SEATTLE, Jan. 21.—Dr. bor Board chairman, expressed the Ge: belief that 6,000 Oregon and Wash- missioner of Defense ington striking foundrymen would Northwest said today. be going back to work immediately loting on the back to work propo- ruary. | Foster is just back here from Neil Pardo, secretary of the Se- 12-day tour results, o News Service | Flying Fortresses and Liberators| ., . ocondent who failed to return | iraid on Berlin, is safe, a prisoner Bennett said in part: “Dear Leqg— | three-mile EDMONTON, Jan. 21.—The Am-| {erican financed Canol pipeline and refinery at Whitehorse will “defin- | George itely be in operation within the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine L. Hopkins, White |Bernard Noble, Regional War La- time limit set for completion,” Maj.|stock today is 6%, American Can dante, who charged that . W. W. Foster, Canadian Com- |85%, It has been estimated the pipe- |3l as the AFL Unionists began bal- line will be completed early in Feb- thern Pacific 147, United States|pearance before the Grand Jucy of Northern Canada HEARING ON| ALASKA BILL IS UNDERWAY H)imond Opposes Wall- | gren’s Measure-Arnold " Gives It His Approval | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Oppo- |sition to the bill dealing with the |fish resources of Alaska was ex-| { d to the Senate Commerce | sub-committee by Delegate Anthony |J. Dimond of Alaska; who asserted it would set up a monopoly on | ownership of fish traps. W. C. Arnold, attorney of Ke¢~‘ chikan, told the committee he favor=| ! ed the bill and-felt it was fair to| |all fishermen, f The bill was introduced by Sen-| ator Wallgren, Democrat of Wash- | ington state, and would establish a food fish code for the Territory, a| |system of licensing fishermen gear| | under the authority of the Fish and | | Wildlife Service of the Interior De- | partment, and would give present| | holders of fish traps the right to| |continue to use them. | ‘Delegate Dimond testified this| {would give trap owners a vested| |right in that portion of the sea in which traps are located. He said he opposes the use of fish traps in| |Alaskan waters and “must oppose Ithe bill strongly as I can.. Every- {thing in’ the bill is adverse to the |interests of the people of Alaska.” Complete U. 8. Control | Witness aid the United States | should exertise control of all salmon ! fishing in the waters off the Alaska | | coast to assure fishermen that some |other nation did not stop the sal- ~ |mon runs miles out and ruin the | | industry. | | The bill provides that the juris- | diction of the U. S. extend to the international boundary of Russia All fishermen operating in these waters will be licensed under the {control of the Fish and Wildlife | Service. H Extend Jurisdiction | The State Department asked that ‘thv provisions extending the juris- \diction to the international bound- | |ar be eliminated to permit the prob- | !lem to be worked out in diplomatic discussions with Canada, Wallgren | said.- However, the bill would make |a provision for extending the juris- diction either by diplomatic agree- ment or by law. H | Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, Director |of the Fish and Wildlife Service, | urged the committee to approve said ;Jurisdlctiun of the U. S. offshore {waters as a vital necessity, as all |salmon coming into Alaska waters | |are spawned in the fresh water of | !the Territory. | ! Gabrielson Cites Facts | | Unless jurisdiction is extended! il‘if.hermen of other nations mxght., |intercept the runs far off shore. | | | | | | i 2 1] n- fishing grounds, -and were stopped | through an agreement effected by the State Department. “We should not conclude a peace |treaty with Japan until there has a Leo Dolan, London Bureau Chief, been clarifications of this problem, (°PiPS last Mond: control should extend outside the | limit,” the Director | it stated. i | Edward Allen, Seattle; Bjorn Hal- | |ling, CIO International Fishermen |and Cannery Workers Union; and | F. J. Gunderson, of Wrangell, rep- | | resenting the kndependent Fish Trap ;Opcralors of Alaska, also favored the bill. | Nick Bez, of Seattle, cannery op- | erator, said legislation was needed R S S EARLY FEBRUARY e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 21. — Closing Anaconda 25's, Bethlehem projects in the Steel 59, Curtiss Wright 6, Inter- Wendell Willkie's possible national Harvester 72%, Kennecott New York Central 17%, Nor { Steel 53%, North American Avlalmn‘ 9. | Dow, Jones averages today a (attle local, declined to forecast the'and Alaska and reports work Isas follows: industrials 138.07, rails Pital to appear, and told reporters ipmurrs.whm satisfactorily. 36.51, utilities 22.35, ianbrielson recalled that eight years | . !ago the Japs invaded Alaska waters 1 to fish after depleting the Slberian | ouq of 50 and 60 interceptors that |rose from Wewak. |y o ©ter contracts or some=’ Rohart Hannegan Expededi M ARSH All I Hitting again enemy planes and| Here's what happens to it: WPB! '0 Repla(e Frank Walk- | . Six-Day Red Drive "Alligators” Line Up at a South Pacific Base }WAR(RAH, 4 " 3 VESSELS, TORPEDOED ;Raids Are Made in Indian Ocean-Within " Sui- 1 ‘ cide Range” | LONDON, Jan. 21.—Lieut. Comdr. ,L. W. Bennington, 31, submarine skipper, famed for his exploits on the Mediterranean Sea, is credited with the daring sinking of a Jap cruiser of the 5,100-ton Kuma class, and also three large supply ships in the northern approaches of the nar- row Malacca Strait, near Sumatra. Comdr. Bennington approached to within “suicide range,” which is one mile, to score hits especially on the cruiser, This is the first cruiser sinking in the Indian Ocean. Comdr. Bennington was formerly commander of the Porpoise, which made naval history in carrying needed supplies to besieged Malta. Boulware, Bottleneck BRITISH INy. 5. SUBS Buster, Discloses How ~ SMASH ALONG seND DOWN To Do Job, Do It Well APPIAN WAY jAp SHIPS These “Alligators” lined up on a road leading to a bay at an advanced South Pacific base, later headed into the bay under their own power and were loaded aboard a ship that took them to the Aware area. (AP Wirephoto) 33 NIPPON PLANES, 3 SHIPS DOWN Allied Air Men Land Ter- rific Blows from We- By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 | way to break a bottleneck is to | widen ghe neck of the bottle. ] The formula—not the words— ! Dri plain-talking business - e has taken on thel ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| 1 bottleneck busting ALGIERS, Jan. 21.—British forces job without making any noise about o¢ (he Fifth Army, supported by it !fire from cru and destroyer: | Boulware is the War Production pave smashed forward along th | Board's new operations chief, .the apbi ™ \wuv capiuring Minturo, | man who has to ggt fighting f-quip»‘76 miles from Rome, ment out in the time and quanmy;aw prisone |it’s needed. Newspaper readers ‘ T,,(,. Minturo Is Captured Along S wilh Thioo Hindred - | "ohte 0EN It 6 | Boftoms, Is Navy's Announcement WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Sub- marines have sunk 12 more Jap merchant vessels, bringing to 558 the number sunk or probably sunk or damaged by submersibles. It is definitely known 408 Jap and taking ships have been sent down and 38 rs and are now assault- probables. ing the twin Nazi defense villages, The Navy Department gave no | | co | strapping, 4‘ 2 utive who | nation’s No. wardly v ame, but he’s Wak '0 Rabaul :).:vl-::]}\\w‘:l‘(?::‘i';ph:mn,‘:},f s ’:,.‘ D:,t”_ of Castelforte and Ventosa on the information as to where the ships Lo ot o ety Toan, Slopes of the mountains six miles were destroyed. ‘The vessels listed today are types 9 . e inland. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| When he came to Washington from the timadt it abbbs AN ctaTe- RN . sorp.! The weather, according to @QUARTER: EW G a top job with the Celotex Cor 5 b nA 2’1“‘ A’?h ;Nm:'[‘“ h_lf‘:uéfj‘fi?' ;3.,10,‘:‘ J“ml he bossed Carrier A?,. German prisoners, is described as and included seven medium freight- an. 21- ed airmen have - “worse than at Leningrad.” ers, two small freighters, a large o apanese planes and sunk | Conditioning Corp. et e iR % or rans; i:re“cf tay :um:l\' o ating| The thing in the bottleneck busi-| American patrols slashed across :?::k;;“met::::si:lrfo transport and B T blows ranging from D€sS s knowing who can make the. Bapido. Kiver below Guesug “E T i ¥ PR e L 10,000 tons, in blows ranging what, and seeing that he makes it. and the probing expeditions then he sinkings cul urther into e Wewak, New Guinea to Rabaul |1 Bnc setinf o 1 POKES retired, i badly depleted Jap cargo fleet which New Britain e 2 « P has been reduced so severely in some § 3 _ir_‘l.\.xll)))]l'. one big war production e arens that barges ase belng Fhe beavlest rald , was c:“,““ [job involves thousands of contract- kv itieatlio.: i med vy used. dromes, supply dumps and ant-j,. eqen making a vital part of | RENOMINATION OF ROOSEVELTFAVORED planes| A manufacturer aske more many parts. He says he FOUR HEAV ' RAIDS MADE, aireraft installations at Wewak :md:“w finished product. Boulware and nelfiboring Boram Ihis staff know the capacity and Fifty Liberators hit Boram with!'coneace obligations of every plant 133 tons of explosives Wednesday | inyol without interception The day before more than scort Fighters downed 12 or sure and probably two n't do it er at Natl. Chairman \[ WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. - shipping in the center of Rabaul|men visit the plant, help it get Allied planes sank eight|started on part of the job, spread ay, ‘Mitchell bomn- |the rest to other plants as far as strafed the Tobera!they can. When the worst comes— escorts downed |all production sewed up and still a WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Amer- ican planes, raiding Jap positions where ers bombed and — The in the Marshalls, damaged one en- airdrome. Fighter A 21 planes against a loss of tw‘,;lag in one item—WPB has its sel- Mldwf‘.flfl'n Democratic conference emy cargo transport near Maloelap, raiders, |dom-used authority to shunt less unanimously approved the resolu- the Navy reported. > e e |important contracts aside and start ' tion expressing the hope that Four raids were carried out on iproduction on the prime-needed item. There goes the bottleneck Rooseveit be renominated |enemy installations in the Islands Chairman James Quigley of Ne- which are northwest of the Amer- Harty Hopkins 3 Buulwaf@ uses the same system praska announced that the group ican held Gilberts. Two planes iIn Washington that he's followed was composed of state chairmen failed to return from the raids. ri;'fl i‘:flrh i Dl"\’"““ 11‘7“’ b*l*ll’ 80t and national committeemen from e | lea when he was baseball cap- states i A' Grand jury ttain a‘\ the University of Wisconsin ”'l‘l::“r:.wluuon also proposed "““(HI(AGO POl iguufi:_;’:_?“’"hu;'-“‘l“‘:‘ W::f:(;”"l‘:‘d”(;‘(; selection of Robert Hannegan, In-| l(E [/ ’ with his life. Boulware knew the|'“'ial Revenue Commissioner, os| e“er ro ef”"‘ e | national chairman to succeed Fraak Im[m" "u"l’ ! M0 wint to be.a gereral an- Walker. Hannegan is l-xpn-cu:d to be PRSI fuine l"]eclnd \lvhf"n the N,u’mnmt i,sm:mb MYS'I'ERY SlAYER | s i ee meels tomorrow to set the time WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 ““”,yfpmfélfii simple,” shrugged the .4 piace for the nomination con-| ause C,z’:’fiel He told Boufware to do this: (1)|yention. he etoup met for tWo| ooy gan 1 confronted was_forged to a. leiter relating tol L& all the bookwork of corpora- A s i by many puzzling aspects but lack- : |tions, (2) learn all there is to know e i . pactn. » YEROM- | ahout the production end, (3) learn {8 Adngibie gy $he 'palio BT ination for the presidency by “‘"\:el]mg avkebina skt L'm' adio: ¢ o e o o o o o ofintensified their hunt for the slayer ' Republicans, made a voluntary “p.“'m“m_'t Dist of Duilness . WEATHER REPORT e|of Mrs. Frank Star Williams, wife i i 0 . (U. 8. Bureau) e|of a diplomat of the State De- investigation | “Then someday,” said the pro- . : = . e |partment, who died Wednesday ‘Recently ill with influenza, Hod- | fessor, “some corporation will find/® 1eMP- Thursday. Jan. 20 e{night, 24 hours after a mysterious are kins left his bed at the Naval Hos-|jtself in distress. If the distress be-|® MAXimum 40; Minimum 35 e|middle aged woman entered her i e Rain 118 e apartment and fired a bullet into he felt “so-50." (Continued on Page Two) ®© © o o o o o o ¢ her head ' |