The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 5957. ALLIED FORCES NOW NEA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1944 — < MI:MBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 —— - RING ROME Japs in Panic, Flee From So. Pacific Sector AUSSIES IN BIG ADVANCE, FARIA RIVER Nippons inNF‘I-i;ht -Dive Bombers, Arfillery Aid- ing Jungle Troopers ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan, 24.~—Jungle‘ wise Australian infantry, fighting through swamp lands and scaling steep cliffs, have sent the Japanese| fleeing in a panic from the strong| positions at the head of Faria River in the Raum Valley, in the| interior of Eastern New Guinea, the Allied High Command an- nounces. Three strong Aussie thrusts pre-: ceded by dive bombers and artillery | barrages, flanked the Japanese who left 100 dead in their hurried de-| parture. } As a result of the succces of the | Australians, they almost cut off a large segment of the enemy force on the Finisterre range at the northern end of the shaggy ridge and have progressed in a revived drive Madangward. Besides assisting the Aussies in the Faria River operation, dive bombers and fighters attacked the (Continued on Page Three) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) ~ MEET 1944’S FIRST PIN-UP GIRL i ‘wlmac term expired recently. | MARJOIIE TALLCHIEF, above, a screen utarl]. .18 _haled as the fluv. pin-up girl of the new year. She was pic! ed by the boys of the lulh Air Bue Stauldron at Santa Ana, Cal. {lnte}nlnonll) Paramushiro Island Is Bombed Again Sunday | WASHINGTON—One day, OCD had a lot of documents to deliver to the War Department’s Pentagon Building, across the river from | Washington. Previously, OCD had | found that delivery by “appropriate channels” took days, even weeks. So they decided to make this de-§ livery personal and direct. | An OCD official took a puvabe car, drove across the bridge, and drew up before the “south loading” entrance of the giant building. Af crew of workmen were loitering in- side the entrance, but they offered no assistance in taking the carful of packages' into’ Pentagon. And! when asked, they refused to help. It turned out that the men were| “loaders” not “unloaders,” and their| union rulés forbade them to lift) packages into the building; Lhey\ could only lift them out. CHINESE LADY LEADER d The residence of the Chinese Am-; passador to Washington, Dr. Wei| Tao-ming, and Madame Wei, is known as “Twin Oaks.” The name| is symbolic. This couple are almost | as strong in the councils of the| Chinese National People’s Party as the Generalissimo and Madame| Chiang. Madame Wei is no willow tree. She stands like an oak beside her hushand. Few people are aware of the part she played in reshaping | the Government of China. When only fifteen, she became a leader in the revolution against the Emperor. She weht to Japan, join-! ed the Chinese revolutionary party,| and was sent back to Peking as a| listening post. Her father's home, pecame a revolutionary headquar- ters. i She even volunteered to carry, bombs from Tienfsin to Peking. Back and forth she went, bringing; enough bombs to the capital to staru the revolution. ; After the crisis was over, the| party sent her to France as a re- ward. There, in a Paris law school,| she met Wei Tao-ming. They re-‘ turned to Shanghai together to practice law, and there they were| married. In 1922, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen| organized the revolt against the| Peking Government, they bath, threw themselves into the cause.| And when the new National Gov- (Continued on Page Four) | Leningrad front, still hold a nar-| | Crimea. | ! Planes Return Safel REDS BEGIN * OFFENSIVE, FINNFRONT \Berlin Also Reports Heavy Fighting in Progress, Crimean Peninsula BULLETIN—Moscow, Jan. 24. —An official statement tonight says the Russian froops have captured the twin junctions of Pushkin and Pavlosk, 14 and 18 miles south of Leningrad to win control of the most in- tricate rail network feeding into Russia’s second City. WASHINGTON, Jan ly stepped up aerial | against the enemy air 24.—Ve islands, is indicated in communique which says bombers again raided the island. enemy installations at the nort ‘Thursday. the Navy says early on Januar 23 (Sunday) on the southwest coasts of Par: mushiro Island. Antiaircraft was encountered but planes were planes returned without damage. ations latter also from Aleutian bases. MOSCOW, Jan. 24. — Sweeping along both banks of the Volkhov SAYS NAZI A'R River after wiping out the German bridgehead on the east bank, the| !Red Army is within 10 miles of Chudovo in a drive which threat-| ened to cut still ariother vital en-| emy rail line below Leningrad. i — The Germans, whose communi-| cations are being systematically chopped up on various parts of the| His First Inferview fo Newsmen, London row stretch of this main Moscow | to Leningrad line between Chudovo| and Tosno. Swedish dispatches said the '%d Army has launched another su prise offensive on the far northen | Finnish front. | Another unverified report 1!0m:Sp““' Berlin broadcast heavy fighting g ing on southeast of Kerch in the 1‘he lnvasion of Paoame. out 7 i R |assuming the new command. POLICE COURT FINES The following were fined in the | City Police Court: Nicolin Suciu, tion of Germany's air power. drunk, 10 days suspended; Asa F. — e —— Suiter, drunk and disorderly, $25, BUY WAR BONDS ” lof Lynn J. Gemmill to be United operations gycceeding William A. Holzheimer, and naval| who recently resigned . base on Paramushire at the north-| ern end of Japan’s chain of home United States Attorney and went E bond sales to date fo $71,769. This a Navy south, but Navy | Attorney for The Navy reported Saturday thaters in Juneau. two groups of Navy planes bombed | ‘iand south ends of the island last| The communique just issued by‘ two groups of Navv planes bombed enemy mstallatluns tire no enemy met and all U. S| The communique noted that Navy | bombers based in the Aleutian Is- lands and also Army bomber oper- against Paramushiro have! been conducted for some time, thc| Lt. Gen. Spaaiz Gives Out| 'DIMOND IS . ~ NOMINATED, JUDGESHIP | \Delegate Is Named fo Suc- ceed Hellenthal in Third Division WASHINGTON, Jan, 21-Presi- ‘ {dent Roosevelt has nominated An- lhon) J. Dimond, at present Alaska. Delegalk‘ to Congress, as ]:71!(!‘1(:tK | Judge of the Third Judicial Division, | with headquarters at Anchorage, ' 1sucucdiuz John Simon Hellenthal, ’ | For the past scvcral months, Dele- | £% {gate Dimond has sald he has been ' | supporting Judge Hellenthal for re- | nomination and only last week, when | [the Delegate announced he was not | |a candidate for renomination as | Delegate, and also said that in |a letter to President Roosevelt, he | ;uu,cd the reappointment of -Hel- {lenthal . 1 In the statement he also said he intended to return to Alaska and ’pmcnu.‘ law. soldiers, cannon, Lo A being utilized abo ‘iGEMMlll BOND SALES - NOMINATED ~ pASS HALF - U.S.ATTY. WAY POINT ‘Roosevelt Sends Name of Former Assistant fo Suc- ceed Holzheimer WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today sent to the Senate for confirmation, the name Coast Guard Glee Club to Entertain Here on February 3 The bond premiere at the Capitol Theatre on the opening night of States Attorney of the First Division the Gastoneau Channel Fourth War Loan Drive plus the five nights the booths have operated in the down- Gemmill was at one time Assistant 'town district brings the total Series was later named as passes the half-way mark of the the Office of Price quota of. $140,000 set for Series E | Administration with his headquart- bonds. Of the quota of $175,000 set for all other securities, $165,343 has beent sold. The Alaska Territorial Guard under the captaincy of Hank Har- mon is so far the leading organiza- tion in the sale of Series E bonds with the Catholic Daughters of Am- erica seconfl and the Juneau Fire- men third Saturday night BERAST R 2B R h 3 OPEN WITH FULL CREWS | American Legion nights succeedd in adding substan- 'AFL Workers Refurn Pend- Sty i, (e outs aiready| ing Appeal af Public | Hearing of WLB the hoths were operated by the Juneau Firemen and the Women of the Moose and Sunday night by the Alaska Native Bréetherhood and Sisterhood and the Auxiliary. Both e Tonight the Elks will operate the booth in front of Bailey's Cafe and the Douglas Masonic Lodge and Douglas Order of Eastern Star will sell from the booth in front.of the Foundries l"lrst National Bank. | here, strikebound since Tuesday, Ob- | he booths will be operated only | |ened today with full crews after the thre ough February 2, although the | Washington and Oregon AFL af-|gnye does not officlally end until lmawd Moulders and Foundry Work- February 15. \crsnd‘fxl\""{): ‘:x‘;dm“’are;‘:fi‘c ‘r‘l’e:;?;“i February 3 a special treat is h\ L PD! P E | store for the residents of Juneau ! on their wage demands before the ',,.q Douglas when the |War Labor Board. Six ) thousand | Goast Guard Glee Club will close | workers Slrua( in the two States. the bond booth drive with a concert | B S IR at the Gross 20th Century. The con- ]Amer|(an Tl'alned cert is public with a particular invi- | SEATTLE, Jan. 24, — Ketchikan | . PUBLISHED in a German-controlled French magazine, this photo of the new German transport plane, the ME-323, reached the U. S. through a neutral country. trucks or a tank to the weight of six tons. ve to transport German wounded from one of many battlefronts. It has six motors and can carry 130 fully armed Equipped with enormous bow doors, it is {International) 4TH WAR BOND DRIVE; WATCH FUND GOING UP 'PROMINENT RESIDENT OF - JUNEAU DIES Dr. Georgev FA.MFreeburger $315,000 ‘{ | ! Passes Away-Memorial | i i Services Tomorrow Dr. George Frank Freeburger, |one of Juneau's best known dentists and equally as well known and re- | spected aska, passed on at St. Ann’s Hos- | pital shortly after 10 o'clock Sun- | day morning ‘following a hemor- |rhage resulting from a serious | throat operation performed in the | States. Dr. Freeburger only returned |2 short time ago from the South and was advised to take a complete rest from professional duties for several weeks but feeling in excel- lent health and with a work, went to his office and took $165,343 $104,312 throughout Southeast Al-| zeal for | _GERMANY'S BIGGEST TRANSPORT PLANE IN ACTION | BEACHHEAD BROADENED BY ALLIES {Appian Wé;bired Road to Rome, Within Artil- lery Range Now 'NETTUNO REPORTED " TAKEN BY INVADERS ‘Desperate Fighting Raging Around Cassino, on Rapido River ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 24—American and British troops, driving four miles inland and less than 30 miles from Réme, have brought Appian Way under shellfire from a long bach- head above the Pontine marshes. | (A United Nations’ broadcast from Algiers sald the road to Rome is now within artillery range.) Pighting with fury, however, like & cornered tiger, the German Tenth Army went over for an offensive on the whole Cassino front, 60 miles southeast of Appian Way and after a series of violent day and night = counterattacks, threw the' Americans back across the Rapido River, | One commentator says “it 1s ap- parent the German Command hopes to disrupt the entire Fifth Army front to gain time and turn around to deal a threat to the rear.” Retreat from Bridgehead ! The Americans had seized the hridgehead three miles below Cas- sino for a junction with the Allied landings near Rome but immediately Iwere attacked in force by three divisicns of Germans who had been withdrawn from the Rome area only 'a few days before. The seaborne forces at Nettuno are still expanding the miles-long “(Continued on Page Three) ROOSEVELT SOLICITED, RUN AGAIN up professional duties. A week ago| today, he had a hemorrhage at his home and was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital. Resulting hemorrhages sapped his vitality and despite | blood trangfusion, the end came yes- terday morning. Came To Juneau In 1915 Dr. Freeburgr was born in Shel- ton, Wash., May 1, 1894 and wouid have been 50 years old next May 1. He graduated from a dental college and came to Juneau during the midsummer of 1915. During the latter part of December, 1915, he R e went to Ketchikan and met Edna Crary who came north from Port- DoG pOISONER Is ‘Iand Oregon, and the marriage ,l(mk place in the First City on Jan- AT WORK;OWNERS < » o Dr. Frnrburg«-r maintained There is a dog poisoner at work "dental 'office here for lin the vicinity of West Twelfth and then joined Dr. E. in January, 1918, and the dental Street and the Boat Harbor and until he is apprehended, Chief of firm of Kaser and Freeburger was formed .and has continued since Police John Monagle warns owners |of canines they had better keep then. - Was Active In Life Dr. Freeburger was one of the most active men in Juneau. Not- Demo Nahonal Committee Passes Resolution-Chi- cago Convention City WASHINGTON Jun 24. — The Democratic National Committee has picked Chicago as the city for the national convention, elected by ac- clamation, Robert Hannegan, Com- missioner of Internal Revenue as National Chairman to succeed Post- master General Walker, resigned. | Hannegan has been given au- !thority to set the date for the®na- tional convention, and the most ’l.avmed date is July 24. Hannegan resigned as Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue, and Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau named Harold Graves, Assistant Commissioner, as Acting Commis- sioner. The National Committee unani- {mously adopted a resolution “ear- ‘n»xtly soliciting President Roosevelt to continue as our great world hu- manitarian leader.” The Committee approved of the LONDON, Jan. 24.—The German | . i Toree kety o be knockea| J@P@N@Se Posifions “in the summer” if there is rea- | sonably good weather, said Lt. Gen.| newly named Commander of the U. S. Strategic Air Forces for conference with the newsmen since | |tween Britain and Italy might play| It an important part in the destruc- tation extended to all bond buyers of , - Chinese Capture Gastineau Channel and will start at | NEW DELHI, Jan. 24.—Stilwell's American trained Chinese forces |have captured Mingru in a drive in Spaatz said shuttle bombing be- |quarters. is also announced a attacks thrown back on the Bur- mese west coast, | | ment by Lieut. 8:15 o'clock, according to announce- | «j.g). Lance Hend- | rrickson. club. > oo CANNERY PEOPLE HERE Arriving from the States this| J. Andrae, enberg of Seattle. Hoonah. They S B R R, BUY WAR BONDS There are 27 men in the i their pets in the yard or tied up at least. Owners of the dogs who have died from poisoning are up in arms and vengeance is Hnm!umd 'FEDERAL EMPLOYEES Spaatz indicated this in his first |the HUkwang Valley, in north Bur- | yeek-end were Mrs. R. A. Welsh | luN(HEON WED"ESDAY |ma, according to a communique is-| o Bellingham, and P. |sued by the Southwest Asia Head-'C. E. Taylor and Henry Van Hoev- The group is as- | strong .socilled with the Icy Straits Pack- Jap position in the Taro area has|ing Company at also been taken and Jap counter-|have registered at the Baranof Members of the National Federa- tion of Federal Employees wiil hold “u noon meeting Wednesday, Janu- lary 26, in the Gold Room of the | Baranof Hotel. All federal ,pk:yee-.« are urged to attend. em-| withstanding his indoor profession,! |esolution submitted by’ a commit- he yearned for the great outdoors.|iee headed by Semator T. F. Green During the recent years, carly inlor Rhode Island, asserting the be- the spring months and until fall|lief “our Allies are praying With every Saturday afternoon he would | ys® that the President be reelected. go for a trip on his private yacht,| One resolution accused the Re- with a party of friends, hunting or| publicans of attempting to stiv up fishing, or just cruising. He was an|partisan controversy, asserting that exceptional host either aboard the a “few highly placed Americans, yacht or at his home in the city, arrogant in their wealth and lust- or at Barnacle Gables on the Fritz ing for pelitical power.” Cove road where he and Mrs. Free-| These Americans have renewed burger gave so many delightful [partisan attacks on the President affairs. and the Demoeratic Party after re- He maining silent in the earlier days of the war, the resolution further declares. was as active in public af- “(Continued ou Page Two)