The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 5958. e ——_4 —_—— JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLIES DRIVE INLAND FROM BEACHH Two Jap Areas Pounded by Allied RABAUL AND WEWAK BASES HEAVILY HIT Allied Planes Score Big- gest Triumph of Year | -Down 51 Nippons ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Jan, 25.—Hundreds of Allied planes scored their biggest triumph of this year on last Saturday and Sunday over the key Jap bases of Wewak and Rabaul, shooting down 51, and | probably 65 Nip planes. The aerial triumphs tied in with | destructive bombings of the two bases and raised to over 300 enemy plane losses this month in the south, south central and southwest Pacific. The Aussies, who on Friday| started a drive on New Guinea’s! Ramu Valley, have cut off part ox‘ the Jap forces from retreat, Head- quarters said, and have captured enemy field guns and considerable/ ammunition. Forty to 70 interceptors tried| vainly to block the Allied blow on | Rabaul's Lakunai airdrome Satur-| day when 27 Mitchells scored 54 e (Continued on Page Two) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ! (MaJor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Members of the| Diplomatic Corps who have lived beside Russia and dealt with her diplomats for years point to some significant things about the Pravda report which set the world on its ear about the British negotiating a separate peace with Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. In the first place, diplomats pomt out that, had the report been pub~ lished in Izvestia, it would have| been much more serious. Izvesnnl is the organ of the Soviet Govern-| ment, and anything appeariny therein can be considered the gos- pel views of the Kremlin itself. | However, Prayda, organ of t,he‘ Communist Party, is one step re- | moved, and anything published in| it can be interpreted as close to but | not necessarily representing the views of Stalin. Thus, it was Pravda which dump- ed a ton of editorial bricks on the unsuspecting, well-intentioned head of Wendell Willkie, hitherto con- sidered Russia’s best friend. That editorial rebuke came after Willkie | had discussed the Polish boundary question—in a manner quite sym- pathetic to Russid. , However, the Russians chose to} rebuke their best friend as a warn- ing to President Roosevelt and Sec- retary Hull that they did not want the Polish question discussed at all —not even by their friends. They could not very well come out and rebuke Hull and Roosevelt, so they chose a prominent American, one step removed, figuring Hull and Roosevelt would take the hint. Again, when Secretary Hull was enroute to Moscow, Pravda was singled out to publish the state- ment that the second front was the only question Russia was going to| discuss with him. This upset Mr.|askan cities released this morning| Hull so severely that his friends re- ported him in a mood to come| home. However, he proceeded to| Moscow and, despite the planted' newspaper reports, his trip was a genuine success. This shows that Pravda news items, even when in- spired, should not be considered too| carth-shaking. | Therefore, remembering that Rus- sian diplomatic moves are usually aimed obliquely at something on the other side of the billiard table, hcre: is the Diplomatic Corps’ explana-| tion of the latest Pravda thrust| against the British. For about two years, it has been} no secret that the British have hung 1$59,581; 1$28,293; Sitka, $24,206: Nome, $18,- |, German Officials | Reported Making : ExodusfromRome |4TH WAR BOND DRIVE; WATCH FUND GOING UP $315,000 $175,486 $165,343 $104,312 $ 15,000 MORE SALES MARKED UP LAST NIGHT Girl Scouts Come Up with Best Stunt of Cam- paign Here Another good lunge toward the Series E bond quota in the Fourth ‘War Loan Drive was made last night with sales by the members of Ju- neau Elks Lodge No. 420 and the | Douglas Order of Eastern Star and Masonic Lodge boosting the total in {Series E to $81,894—the total of all | OF BOI.IV|A‘ i bonds to $175,486. But the goal isn't | assured by any means, Chairman | Harold Foss emphasized today. Tonight booth sales will be handled | by the Loyal Order of Moose and the Business and Professional Wom- en’s Club. Tomerrow night will find the Cen- tral Labor Council and the Juneau Woman'’s Club handling booth sales, and a big night is expected Thurs- day evening when the Juneau Ro- tary Club and Douglas Woman's | Club take over booths. Meanwhile, reports from othre Al- by the War Finance Staff showed the following: Fairbanks, $393,162; Anchorage, $58,462; Seward, 102: Cordova, $11,868: Petersburg, $11,435; Wrangell, $4,518; Haines,! $3,731; Kodiak, $2,250; Valdez, $1,- 837; Yakutat, $1,762; College, $1.- 337; Bethel, $843; Nenana, $656 Craig, $618: Metlakatla, $337; Pal-| mer, $206. These figures represent only pre- liminary reports and none are com- plete. Juneau would stand about | second in the list Going hack to Juneau’s drive, the Girl Scouts of America who will (Continued on Page Four) " (Continued on Page Three) Ketchikan, | ADS DEMO CHIEF MADRID, Jan. 25.—German of- ficials are reported streaming north- | ward out of Rome in an exodus/ preparatory to military evacuation | of the city should it be neces iRDmo diplomatic advices said The Germans are already remov- ing the quartermaster corps head- quarters to Florence, 140 miles northwest, and the communication center of the German Army com- b mand has been moved back to Chi-| , 82 miles away | Thc main highway leading north | . both German and | authorities, only military| concerned actually Fascist functionaries with the defense of the city ing behind. e Robert E. Hannegan, former Collector of Internal Revenue, has resgned and has been chosen by acclamation as Chairman of the Democratic National Com- - e OKAY GIVEN FISHLAWBY Demo Parley SENATECOM. siarts Late Pl L 0v [ Fairbanks mittee. Bill Would Place All Op erations Under F_nsh, ‘ Wildlife Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. ‘The | Senate Commerce Subcommittee has approved the bill designed to con- | H ot ettt wiation ot/ Miftee Named | the fishing resources of Alaska, and | e I adopted several amendments recom- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan |mended by the Interior Depart- |Territorial Chairman Howard Lyng {ment. However, they retained the of Nome arrived for the Territorial | 1anguage of Senator Wallgren, spon- | Democratic Convention late yester- {sor of the legislation, who proposed |day evening. that the present holders of licenses The convention was called to or- |to fish in Alaskans waters be given der and then recessed until 10 | preference in granting licenses. o'clock this morning when tempor- | E. E. Clark, Secretary and Treas- |,y officers were. named to appoint |urer of the Association of Pacific a credentials committee and no | Fisheries, also representing "“‘omm business was expected until | Northwest Salmon Canning Associa- late today or tOMOTTOW, | tion, told the committee the asso- hets e ediotisns e ciations approved the measure if it | METH Were I S e retained the provision permitting {Jor issues to come up. appeal to the courts from any actmn jof the Fish and Wildlife Service. A l No Business Taken Up Yet —(redentials Com- 25. The subcommittee retained that| section of the measure which would | i place all fishing operations in Al-| skan waters under the Fish and| Wildife Service. Clark said he be-\ lieved it would result in adequate conservation and stop the choatic | conditions under the present law. | —————— TURNDOWN ~ ™H RECOGNITION *“'v o ment Expected by Diplomats MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 25.—Diplo- | |mats here said that a sensational flmmuncemen! is expected to be made shortly from Buenos Aires, possibly today. 'Great Britain JoinsU. S. in| Nations Also Reject iArgr‘nuna breaking off relations with the Axis countries. WASH!NG'ION Jan. 25 Gxeal WOTJEATOLL, i |Btates in refusing to recognize lhe‘ \new Government of Bolivia. Ac-; |cording to official advices received| here, Foreign Secretary Anthony! Eden told the House of Commons| {that he believed the recent coup in that country was aided by German agents, and the British Government in step” with the United States in | respect to both diplomatic recog- MARSHAll 'l nition and economic action, will not| A cHINGTON, Jan. 25 Shteavy recognize the Government of BO- yompers dro) pped 50 tons of bombs livia headed by Major Villarroil. Wotje Atoll in the Marshall i on American natiohs| ygjands in a twilight raid on January Seven other have added their voice to that of |23, the Navy announced today the United States In denying recog-| The raid was carried out by ;nition to the revolutionary Villarroll | hombers of the Seventh Air Force | Government in Bolivia. The nations with no fighter opposition. Results lare Braeil, Venezuela, Uruguay, of the mission were not announced {Cuba, Peru, Guatemadla and Domin-| ->o ) cian Republic. ! AT BARANOF HOTEL o At the Baranof Hotel, Floyd C nanuel is here from Yakataga > BUY WAR BONDS E | DELEGATE With Axis DIMONDTO - REMAINAS | Will Not Resngn Until Con-| | gress Recesses During l | Coming Summer | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 257»A135ka‘ ! Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, nom- | ’hmu-d for Judge of the Third Judi- 1 .4 ial Division of Alaska, said that if | {he is confirmed by the Senate he | | woud not resign as Delegate until | |after Congress recesses next sum-, | mer. | Dimond said he wants to clear up | pending Territorial problems before resigning. I still have the deepest regrets | that Judge Simon Hellenthal was | not reappointed. He richly deserved ]w.\mmm\m(n( ‘nld Dimond. ~REDSBREAK LAST NAZI ESCAPE R.R. Duarter Million Germans Face Trap of Two Red Armies at Leningrad LONDON, Jan. Goos. 25. — Russian |forces have severed the principal |German escape railway leading. west from the Leningrad sector, and a Nazi Army, estimated at a quar- ter of a million men, is facing pos- sible entrapment by two Soviet Ar- Territorial Highway Engineer Wil- mies south of the city. liam Hesse, whose office will be Tke Germans are being herded filled during the coming election, west and couth toward the Estonian announced today that he will not be a candidate for re-election. In a statement he said: “I am not a candidate for the office of Highway Engineer nor for border by General Govorov’s and General Meretskov’s Armies, which joined this week forming a semi- circle, which is constantly being |squeezed tighter. (| | | | i | | | QUEEN OF WINTER — Joan Alexander can expect a bright horizon in 1944 as she is crowned Queen of Winter at Lake Placid, N. Y., by skaters Hildegarde Balmain (left) and Dorothy “The King.” sailor E. L. Burns, looks on.’ P ‘W|II|am Hesse Nof | To Run Again for Highway Engineer any other public office. “To have been elected by the peo- ple of Alaska four times is an honor that is gratefully acknowledged and deeply appreciated, but an abiding sire on my part to withdraw from the politic: ene makes this de- cision at least constant.” liers FIFTH ARMY DOMINATES TWOROADS Patrols Reamppian Way ~Great Rail System Is Also Under Control BULLETIN—London, Jan. 25. —The Berlin radio declares that, Velletri, on Appian Way, 22 miles southeast of Rome, has been destroyed. This indicated the Allies have captured the town but the “Americans find- ing only debris and ashes there after their own bombs had |# transformed the little town into a heap of ruins.” ALLIES DRIVE INLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 25—Allied troops have driven 12 miles inland from Nettuno and Anzio beachheads and | patrols are pushing deeper and “no formidable” German opposition has | vet been encountered. It is not stat- ed whether the patrols have reach- ed the Appiar Way to Rome or | the main coastal rail line, but they are both at least under Allied dom- ination. The spearheads met and were | hastily organized into battle groups, The Germans have apparently mov- ed northward from the Fifth Army front. " Nazi Attacks Decrease ‘The Nazis are still launching fierce counter-attacks at Cassino 'but these have decreased somewhat in intensity during the last 24 hours, indicating the enemy is be- ing pulled back. Today's communique did not dis- close the area the beachheads cover, but said the town of Anzio, border- ing on Nettuno to the west, has been taken. (The United Nations radio at Algiers said troops are within a mile of the double track Rome- Naples electric rail line) Americans Under Fire There is fierce fighting in the American sector on the Rapido River near Cassino, heavy fire from all kinds of weapons. ‘The most telling blow at the communication and supply system forces, who stormed and cut the Krasnagoardeisk-Narva trunk line 140 miles southw of Leningrad,' 2 ! 110 tanks SEN. VA NNUYS PASSES AWAY; BY HOWARD FLIEGER ; BRIEF lllNESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—There's| | a bookstore shortage of Bibles ; these days, and the government is WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.—United retting tived of taking the rap for States Senator Frederick Van Nuys, it 69, Democrat of Indiana and Chair-, It seems everycne who can't buy man of the Senate Judiciary Com- a Bible takes pen in hand to write | mittee, died today after a briet the War Production Board or illness. % somebody. Typical excerpt: Benator Van Nuys had served in' “You shouldn’t stop the word of the Senate since 1933 and took an God, particularly in these times.” active part in legislative affairs. He! The shortage has WPB officials led the Democratic opposition to just as perplexed as anyone. some New Deal measures including|They've ben eful not to do any- he Supreme Court reorganization'thing that would “stop the word of jand also started the sweeping in- God.” ‘Vesugauon into the liquor industry Just to be sure the record is !last Fall. The -special committee aight, this department made two has been holding hearings on this calle to book stores for standard- issue. sized testaments (sure enough, [none in stock)—then talked to the |WPB long enough to lay a couple jof persistent rumors 1. There is nothing BRITISH TROOPS o" BURMA FRONI 2. There is no intention of sing- ling out religious publishing houses for an extra cut in paper supply. to recurrent about to be BRITISH 14th ARMY HEAD- e i QUARTERS ON THE BURMA/| Bible publishers—like all book FRONTIER, Jan British and Publishers—have been allotted for Indian troops operating at Arakan, 1944 a fixed percentage of the gross the most southern of the three Al-|{Weight of all paper they used in lied fronts in Burma, have pushed 1942. Few have found it necessary forward 12 miles in the last two 0 appeal for paper beyond their months. |regular quota The advance puts them approxi-| The emotional strain of war pro- mately a third of the way back (o Pably has done as much as any- |the positions they held before re- thing to cause the buying market treating last April in the monsoon N Bible rains. “A Bible is a npatural gift,” a Govt. Agency Gefs Rap | put |WPB official said. “Families buy the books for departing service men and, in the same mood, uften buy an extra Bible to keep at home. It’s a perfectly normal thing to do, but mayvbe some of the boys over- seas have been given three or four Bibles. “Although it is an ideal giving of it isn't Uncle Sam every soldier have a Millions lished Printing tion gift, tha' essential because has seen to it that who wants one can testament for the asking. of them have been pub-' through the Government Office for free distribu- to uniformed people.” Another shortage, element In the Bible | says the same WPB nfll- cial, may be increased family in- comes, which have stepped up the demand for large, illuminated fam- ily Bibles. He estimated that enough paper goes into the big books to make at least two standard size volumes. Then there is the normally are printed on thin pa- per, 50 publishers hdve been unable to spread their book production by cutting the paper weight in a single €0 a conservation device used by other publishers, And the act that Bibles same thing that makes your shoe stamp so valuable may be playing a part in the Bible out- the war’s demands on leather.| For years it has been a standard binding for many Bibles. The lea-| ther is hard to get now and pub- Continued on Page Three)s U. 8. Patrols have recrossed the stream to probe the enemy defenses. The Germans, who Sunday hurled the Americans back across the stream, made no attempts to cross. ‘The British troops have kept the bridgehead across the Garigliano river despite new Nazi counter blows. Vrattsa Bombed Heavy bombers have blasted the rail yards at Vrattsa, near the garian Capitol City of Sofia and also struck Skoplje, Yugoslavia. Fighters and Fighter bombers are maintaining a cover over gonvoys to the invasion beaches. v s FAST TRAINS RUN INTO FREIGHT; 5 SAILORS INJURED JORDAN, N. Y, Jan. 25.—Five sailors were hurt when an 1l-car New York Central mainline train left the tracks after plowing into a derailed freight which smck.onto the mainline. TO PAVE THE ROAD TO TOKYO You Can Affo}d To BUY LR BOID e’