The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1944, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 5956. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS INVASION FORCES LANDED NEAR ROME Two Bombing Raids Made on Paramushiro BIG NAVAL JAP BASE ATTACKED Naval Plan;s—FIy Out from Aleutians — All Re- turn Undamaged WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — Two bombing raids on Paramushiro, major Japanese naval base in the north, is announced today.in an official communique. "Navy planes flew out from the Aleutians over approximately 720 miles of the North Pacific to bat- ter the base at the northern end of the Kurile chain. Enemy installations on the south- ern coast of the Island of Paramu- shiro were battered by the first group of bombers Friday night. 7 CAPE LOPATKA MT. PARAMUSHIRO NAGAIWA ANAMA . POINT K||||ra/,e . KAPARI WLB DENIES FISH UNIONS NEW HEARING | i . | National War Labor Board | Upholds Regional Directive TLE, Jan. 22—The Nation- Warl Labor Board denied the! petition of the Alaska Fishermen's | Union and other unions to review| the case in their dispute with the| Alaska Salmon Industries, Inc., and | | Board directive of October 1, 1043.| affirmed the Regional War Labor | The regional award provided for overtime for tender crews before| and after the fishing season, be paid at the rate of $13¢ for all | work performed between 6 pam. Saturdays and 6 am. Mondays, and | for any work over 12 hows a day.| ( I | | | | i | | JAP OR NAZI-THEY TAKE ‘EM ON | FIFTH ARMY FORCES MAKE ~ GREAT MOVE .Ameri(ans,A British in Sur- prise Action, Establish | New Beachheads 'UNITS ARE LANDED ON (OAST, CENTRAL ITALY 'Blistering Air and Naval Bombardment Gives Supportto Invaders BULLETIN—Berlin, Jan. 22— A mighty American-British in- vasion force, vaulting up the Htalian west coast, landed suc- A MARINE AND SAILOR proudly look at the record of enemy planes de- stroyed by straight-shooting gun crews on their ship in widely separated theatres of operation. The score to date is one Nazi fighter and four In the event of a layup exceed- ing three hours the time was not| to be considered as working time In the second raid, three hours | after the first raid, the northern part of the enemy’s naval strong- cessfully before dawn today deep behind the Nazi lines and less than 30 miles below Rome. 300 STATOT i hold was attacked. Anti-aircraft fire was encounter- ed only on the first raid, which| was made about midnight. One enemy fighter plane ineffectively | endeavored to drive off the attack of the first raid. On the second (Continued on Page Five) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | WASHINGTON—Seldom has the} Democratic National Committee, | meeting this week in Washington, summoned its heterogeneous mem- | bers under such politically gruesome | circumstances. 1 If you talk to Senator “Cotton| Ed” Smith of South Carolina, or| Virginia'’s Senator Harry Byrd, or labor leaders, farm leaders and| others who once helped elect Roose- | velt, the Democratic Party appears| to have gone to pieces. It no longer exists as a party. Pieces of it can be seen scattered about the land- scape, but they are not coordinat- ing with each other. Farm 'elements which once re- garded FDR as their savior have, forgotten the past. Now, not cun»‘ tent with merely voting Republican,| they want to work actively agin| him. Labor, which has received| greater benefits from Roosevelt| than in 150 years of American his- tory, now is beginning to turn sour. Meanwhile, some farm and busi- ness critics actually believe that the quarrel between Roosevelt and John L. Lewis is a front, that the two really are in cahoots. Some * even claim, in all seriousness, that the Administration plans to pro- long the war in order to keep itself in power. There is no basic criticism of the| conduct of the war. In fact, gen-| eral agreement is that it is going well. But there is a fervid, vitriolic undercurrent of determination to defeat Roosevelt—or any Democrat if the war, at least in Europe, is over by November. Fully realizing that the tide is running out, the Democratic Na- tional Committee meets to elect, as successor to placid Frank Walker, a new chairman who must have the courage to start a new and perhaps hopeless battle, plus the ability to pick up all the broken pieces and; weld them together. Not for eleven years Democratic National ~Committee picked its own officers. Always they were handed down from upj above. During the harmony days| between FDR and Jim Farley, there never was any quarrel about this.| But after the 3rd term renomina- tion at Chicago when Farley step«l ped out, it was a different story. | And at the last committee meet- ing in Chicago, when Ed Flynn re- signed in favor of Frank Walker,| leading Democrats arrived at the meeting with blood in their eyes. So much so that Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Guffey warned re- has the| ;Madgeburd in Saxony Is New York Newspaper Un- APANESE BASTION_Closeup map of Paramushiro Island, Jap naval base in the Kuriles, " which has been under 2erial attack by the U. 8, Insct sh vivs relation to Aleutizas and Japan.' RAF LOSES 'Corruption HANNEGAN 55 BOMBERS .Is Charged at CHOSEN BY LAST NIGHT CampShanks DEMOCRATS Elected Chairman of Na- covers ‘Shocking Story’ | tional Committee by of Graft, Army Base Acclamation WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — The| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — The House Military Committee will open | Democratic National Committee has s on Thursday delving into|elected, by acclamation, Robert E. and maintenance <f | Hannegan as Chairman to succeed r- | Postmaster Genheral Frank Walker, resigned, putting the accent on the youth committee in choosing the 40- year-old St. Louisian to head the campaign drive which most of the | Democratic faithful at the meeting ly News said|believe will find Roosevelt running | for a fourth term. 7| Hannegan, who resigned as In- Crushed - Berliln Also Raided LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Royal Air Force’s campaign to flatten the 0 German industrial targets crushed |Dearings o the city of Madgeburg in Saxony |the building last night and slightly under 2‘000108'“1’ Shanks Army Base at O tons of bombs were dropped as the |angeburg, New York. i major phase of the great aerial op- | Ralph Burion, counsel, told re-| eration which also included a small- | porters that investigators “had ths er attack on Berlin |situation under observation for New blows against Germany, fol- more than a year.” lowing up the heavy 2200-long ton| The New York Dail assault on Berlin the previous night,!in a copyrighted story today the, cost the RAF 55 bombers which is|had found a “shocking story of cor- : one of the heaviest losses suffered | rupti g 1di d o, | ternal Revenue Commissioner, Was {ruption in the building and main-| ted by James Aylward N this year. They came while the et ~|nominated by James Aylward, Na- " |tenance of the $30,000,000 installa- | 1 G tteeman from Missour! Germans themselves were stabbing | i Jih army " oitinars - workes | DDAl OOUIMIERENIE SR JE R ’ 3 ' ition. High army officers worked who said Hannegan is eminently at London and southeast England.!yith civilians in the graft.” ‘ D force which included 90 bombers, | “grand and glorious vigtory in the | | robably a thousand planes having e . . g | velt for a fourth term.” to a| Two sharp raids were made by the | 5 qualified to lead the party S'o 000 | election of Franklin Delano Roose- (] WORTH OF BONDS PURCHASED taken part in the widespread opera- | tions by the RAF during the night. | They were also striking at northern France and laying mines. This is the second thousand-plane Allied offensive within 14 hours as approximately that number of Am- — | erican and British aircraft attacked | Approximately another $10,000 ‘n/ the Pas de Calais area by daynght.‘bonds was added to the grand to- Yesterday's and last night's losses;tal last night with Series E pur-| were the heaviest since the 58 bomb- chases taking the lion’s share of | ers downed in the great assault on |the gain. Total Series E purchases| Berlin last August 23. |now stand at $57,469, compared to| i | | BUENOS AIRES, Jan. office of the President, the campaign if the quota is to be {reached and Chairman Harold Foss today urged all organizations to concentrate on selling this type. The Juneau Firemen will handle General |86t Off to a start with the City of | Pedro Ramiriz, today announced | Juneau’s purchase of $10,000 worth that British authorities in Trinidad ©f bonds. had arrested Osmar Alberto Helmut| YOU can buy bonds tomorrow, of the Argentine consul, charging t00. The Alaska Native Brother- from government employ. | killing and the Douglas Order of ——eo—— |Eastern Star and Douglas Masonic e o o o o . iLodge will be selling from the other WEATHER REPORT @ booth. v (U. S. Bureau) . - $46,294 before yesterday's sales. lone booth tonight and the other’ booth will be sponsored by the him with being of service to an|hood and Sisterhood, and the Am- enemy spy ring inside Argentina. erican Legion Auxiliary will be in . OPA MAN RETURNS .r 8. O. Casler, with the OPA, re- But Juneau and Douglas’ small| Women of the Moose. So get out The Argentine statement said that | *harge of booths tomorrow. ® | turned here today and is at the . . e A it Temp. Friday Jan. 21 eMaximum 43; Minimum 37 + (Continued on Page Four) purchasers must buy a total ofj AIDING SPIES tonight and back your organizations Helmut “whose conduct appears| And on Monday evening, the « | Hotel Juneau, $140,000 in Series E bonds during 22 —The with purchases. The fire eaters will compromising” has been dLsmlsedeuneau Elks will be out to make a e o o o o o o R SAYS ENEMY WATCHING BOND DRIVE WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Term- ing war bond buying as a form of phychological wasfare, War Infor- mation Director Elmer Davis said the enemy is watching to see how successfully the fourteen billion dollar Fourth War- Loan will be met, and “we of the OWI will see that enemy countries know about it too.” Davis added that Nazi leaders are apparently unwilling to face 1 test again by going to the German people for another German war loan. e WITH CONSTRUCTION CO. L. W. Winten, with the West Construction Co., is here from An- chorage and has registered at the Baranof. i BARRINGTONS HERE Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Barrington are at the Baranof and are regist- ered from Fairbanks, A A S U WITH RED CROSS Helen V. Shubert, with the Amer- ican Red Cross, arrived this morn- ing and is at the Hotel Juneau. unless the men are by. The Union's request for an in- |crease in board allowance was de-| nied, but the company was ordered | to make an arrangement for board and room for the men whose con- tracts call for them, company has no such facilities of iz, owme o % | The union’s request for an in- crease in southwestern Alaska board allowance and extensions of such llowance to southeastern Alaska were denied. Wage scales as pro- vided by the prevailing contract are to'be kept the same, but Alaska residents working at Bristol Bay canneries were granted a minimum guarantee of $300 plus the 7 per |cent increase awarded all workers /in the industry by WLB. | The union’s request for an in- crease in run money in southwest- ern Alaska, for the extension of run money provisions to Southeast | Alaska, and their request for con- tractural provision requiring the |employers to provide fuel and lu- bricating oil in southeastern Alaska, {were all denied. AIRFIELDS IN ROME AREA, DESTROYED JAP LANDING BARGES SUNK BY PT BOATS Attempt to Reinforce Ma- dang Garrison Frustrat- ed by Speedy Craft ADVANCED ALLIED QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, !Jan. 22.- One hundred and sixty Japan troops, apparently bent on reinforeing the besicged defenders at Madang, were killed when speed PT boats caught them on barges | i HEAD- night, Allied Headquarters an- told to stand| Jap two-engined bombers. Navy photo. L1. Col. FitzGerald, Who Won Spurs in Alaska, Is Presenied Greaf Award sneaking off the coast on Tuesday | (Internatioral) 1 i i WASHINGTON, Jan ~Lt. Col. | Gerald FitzGerald, who won his | 22 |spurs in aerial photography with J(h.- U. 8. Geological Survey in Al- | aska, today was presented the cov- jeted Fairchild Award for his out- standing achievements in the field. Col. FitzGerald was born at Burns, Ore., 45 years ago today. At 19 he joined the Survey as a tem- | porary assistant, and rose to senior | topographic engineer of the Alaskan | branch. All of his service with the | Survey was in Alaska. In 1942 he ;was taken over by the army as a major, lasy ' was made a Lieut. |Colonel, and is now chief of the |Army’s aeronautical chart service. The award was presented by Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air foree, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Photo- grammetry. Donor of the award is Sherman H. Fairchild of the Fair- child Aviation' Corp., who, through his experiments in designing an improved between-the-lens shutter, “Our resistance is slight and apparent progress is being made by our enemies who are push- ing inland toward the lifelines of our winter fortification: says the Berlin broadcast to- night. , By Associated Press The "American and British forc- es of the Fifth Army, striking by the sea toward Rome, landed on the coast of Central Italy before dawn today in a heavy attack to smash the German's flank and at- tack their winter fortifications on the Gustav and Hitler lines. The first landings were success- ful and a beachhead several miles long was won. “The situation is developing fa- vorably,” the Allied Headquarters announced at noon today. X Berlin Tells of Action The communique did not state the location of the invasion point, but a Berlin radio broadcast de- clared the landing of the invading forces was between the mouth of the Tiber, 16 miles southwest of Rome, and Nettuno about 30 miles southwest of the Tiber. The broad- cast inferred Nettuna has been occupied. Bold Thrust The bold thrust was commanded by Lt. Gen. Mark Clark under di- rection of the new Commander of the Mediterranean forces in Italy, Gen. Alexander, ending a slow pro- cess frontal attack alone. It was ‘supported by a blistering air and 1 ;Only One Base that Has nounced. The American craft surprised the enemy barges off Cape Croisilles, less than 25 miles north of Madang and new types of aerial cameras, opened a wide new field for aerial photographers, whose work has been one of the biggest single factors and sprayed them with rapid fire guns. All the barges were sunk and all the troops drowned or killed Repeated bombings of the last few days give indications that Australian forces will be starting a new drive | from their inland Ramu Valley posi- tions aimed at the Madang defense On Thursday 70 tons of explosives were dropped by Mitchells on the Ramu Valley Japanese being driven ! northward by the Aussies. The same The spokesman also said the day Mitchells struck at Japanese bombings have blocked all railroads | positions ncrth of Madang, drop- |in the Leghorn area except one and | ping bombs on supply and gun loca- in the Rome area no trains are tions and strafing Hansa Bay craft. | moving. | Twenty barges were sunk | I REDSSL S A | The Japanese relying Hop[ FllES ! exclusively on & 5 to evacuate |and reinforce troops in the South- Not Been Knocked Out —Railroads Blocked ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 22—The spokesman |for the Allied Mediterranean air| | force announced this afternoon the | Allied air campaign has “knocked |out” all airfields in the Rome area except one. almost west Pacific war theatre - NEW YORK, Jan. 22--Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Hope, of Sitka, one of stock ‘today is 6%, American Can known Democrats in 85%, Anaconda 25', Beach Air- Alaska, filed today for craft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 59, the House on the Democratic ticket.| Curtiss Wright 5%, International Hope has been a member of the Harvester 73, Kennecott |City Council of Sitka and is locat-|North American Aviation 87, New led there in business as a ship|York Central 17%, Northern Paci- | builder. |fic 15%, United States Steel 53. | He is a Past Dow, Jones averages today | | Andrew |the best | Southeast President of the are Alaska Native Brotherhood and now|as follows: industrials 13824, rails a member of the Executive Com- 36.57, utilities 22.35. mittee. He has always been most ———m active in ANB circles. AT BARANOF HOTEL - B BUY WAR BONDS the Baranof Hotel from Sitka, 31%, contributing to American sucs in this war Valuable Contribution ! Col. FitzGerald was selected for| the award the man who made the most valuable technical contri-| !bution to the now famous tri-met-| rogon mapping method. He was also| responsible for the organization, operation and supervision of -all units engaged in trimetrogon com- pilation for the aeronautical chart- ing program during 1943, Up to the time of Pearl Harbor,! General Arnold pointed out as he' |presented the Fairchild silver placque, only 750,000 square miles lof the United States, its territor- lies and possessions had been mapped. But as the result of the institution of the trimetrogon {method, 6,000,000 square miles have | now been mapped. Tri-metrogon mapping simply means the utilization of three wide- 'angle cameras so placed in an air- plane as to secure aerial photo- graphs of the landscape from one |horizon to the other. HEINTZLEMAN LEAVES ON BUSINESS TRIP | Frank Heintzleman, Regional Forester, left by plane yesterday naval bombardment and followed air attacks that severed the Rome area communications to the north that left the Germans there with only their immegiate resources on the spot. General Assault Air officials declared the inva- sion thrust is coupled with a gen- eral assault by Clark’s Pifth Army front south along a 15 mile line. The Americans have forced their way across the Rapido River near Cassino against a “withering ar- tillery fire.” French troops have seized two !mountains in the same area. The British forces have captured more villages on the north bank of the Garigliano River where the Nazis have launched several fierce counter-attacks in this front. The great amphibious flank at- tack has apparently taken the Germans by surprise. DANCE TONIGHT 10 HONOR VISITING SERVICEMEN HERE In honor of visiting servicemen, a public dance will be held tonight in the Elks Hall, beginning at 0 c'clock. Bob Tew’s Band will fur- nish music for the affair. - e — GEYERS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Geyer re- enroute to Washington, D. C, on away for at least a month, turned by steamer this mormng Robert H. Cahill is registered at'official business. He expects to be'after a visit of several months in the States.