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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 5959. ALLIED IN JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD/\\ JANUARY 26, 1944 Argentina DECREE 1S SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Last Nations of South Am- erica Now Joins Fight Against Nazis, Nips BUENOS AIRES, Jan. gentina today severed diplomatic relations with Germany and Japant to complete a belatedly solid stand | of the Western Hemisphere against the Axis. Argentina is the last of the 21| American Republics to take the step of severance with the AXis. The announcement was made after a long night session, confer- ences with Government leaders and President Gen. Tedro Ramirez. While the discussions were progress the police were rounding up many persons, ciety of an extensive espionage ring. President Ramirez announced the (Continued on Page Three) ———————— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Msjor Robert §. Allen oo sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — A knock-down drag-out fight has been raging be- hind the scenes of the War Pro- duction Board over the humble electric iron. Actually, the row is more basic than irons. It involves the prohlem of getting back to peacetime production, and who s going to get the gravy. Here is the story. Many a young lieutenant in the Army or Navy who gets married these days wants to purchase, among his first household require- ments, an electric iron. Laundries are short-handed, the bride has to do the washing, and an iron is essential. But there are no electric irons. 2 So, with raw materials now avail- able, WPB is quite willing to permit their manufacture again. That is the problem. The problem is: Who is to make the irons? And there has been a bitter battle over this. The, big companies which made electric irons before the war have clamored that this was their job. They point out that they have been tied up with airplane and other war orders which they don't particular- ly want and that they should not be penalized. The also argue that, if the small companies get in on thé ground floor with the manufacture of elec- tric irons now, they will take away the market after the war. Meanwhile, many small compan- ies have been near bankruptcy dur- ing the war, while between 80 to 90| percent of the war orders have gone to a relatively few hig com- panies. In the end, the electric-iron dis- pute was comprised in this manner. The small companies will manu- facture the irons. Then they wili stamp the irons with the trade- marks of the big companies and turn them over to the big com- panies. The big companies will then sell them and maintain a place in the sun for post-war production. BATTLE CONTINUES However, this settles only the question of electric irons. The much broader question of all other peace- time articles, from electric refriger- ators to frying pans, from moause; traps to spraying nozzles, awaits decision. Are they to be made only by the companies which made them before, or will the field be opened to everyone? Never before in American history has the U. S. Government had such a life-or-death say over (Continued on Page Four) 26.—Ar-| | busy | some | reported to be members of a so-| 5315, 191,161 $175,486 z $165,34 | $104,3 15,000 | BOND SALES CREEP NEAR ~ GOAL HERE Total Sales Now $191,161 —But Time Grow- ing Short | Series E war bonds sales ap- proached the $90,000 mark last night with sales bringing the total in this type to $87,069, and the total for lall bonds to $191,161. The Loyal Order of Moose and the Business and Professional Women's Club con- ducted booth sales last night. Tonight will find the Central |Labor Council bond sellers at one booth and the Juneau Woman's Club at the other. Tomorrow night, Juneau Rotary Club is expected to chalk up a big night in sales, along with the Doug- las Woman's Club at booths. Friday night the Girl Scouts of America and Beta Sigma Phi will | handle sales. A Girl Scout program | on the radio will feature stunts per- formed for war bond sales. Latest offer is $200 in bonds by two school ¢hildren if two Juneau teachers will push Superintendent A. B. Phillips | from the City Cafe to the Baranof Hotel in a wheelbarrow. Any other purchasers wishing phone 278, immediately. The stunts will be given publicity over KINY at 9 o'clock Friday night. A prominent Juneau banker is ex- pected to sweep South Franklin | Street Saturday morning to get a $500 bond checked h\ Ior the drive. 3HOSPITAL SHIPS ARE . UNDER FIRE \German Air Force Bomb | Mercy Craft-One Ves- | sel Is Sent Down NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—John Saly, correspondent of the Cclumbial Broadcasting System, in a broadcast | in Italy, declares that three hospi- tal ships “lighted up like Christmas trees” in Anzio Bay, have been bombed by the German Air Force “Land one of them, the St. David, was sunk. stunts should phone Mrs. Ray Nevin, | MLMBI:R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 VASION FORCES NEARING ROME Has Broken Relations With Axis | | S\nov,e began with expression of ap- from Advance Allied Headquarters| CHILD HEALTH TALK iLinck, Jesse Lander. !ain, which has also offered to seek ROGGE GETS |Massacre of CHAIR,DEMO = Poles Laid ToGermans CONVENTION First Divis-io.fi 7 Delegates| Russians B'Iame Atrocity Heading All Commit- | on Nazis-May Affect fees, However - Border Dispute FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 26 LONDON, Jan. 26. — A special Leo Rogge of Fairbanks was nanhd Soviet investigating commission has permanent chairman at the Te placed the blame squarely on the torial Democratic Convention y Germans for the Katyn Forest terday and delegates from the First massacre of 11,000 Polish war pris- Division captured chairmanships cf oners. every committee as the parley’s| The incident led to a break In | permanent organization was com- diplomatic relations between the pleted Soviets and the’ Polish government Thirty delegates are present with in London, when the latter asked a total of 78 out of a possible 80!the International Red Cross to in- votes, the First and Fourth Divi- vestigate after the Germans blamed sions each being one short of the the Russians for the atrocity. allowed 20. ‘The report may have an import- Walter P. Sharpe of Juneau heads ant bearing on the Russian-Polish the Credentials Committee, and!|border dispute issue which reecho- members are Charlie Miller, How- ed in the House of Commons when ard Lyng, Ed Coffey, Harry De- Foreign Secr Anthony Eden, land, Leo Rogge, John E. Pegues,sidestepping a showdown, reaffirm- and Harvey Smith. ‘ed Britain's policy of refusing to Charlie Miller of Juneau is chair- | recognize wartime changes in man of the Rules Committee, and map of Lurope members are Leonard Smith, Stan-| | ley McCutcheon and John Ronan. | Walter Sharpe heads the Plat- form and Resolutions Coxnmmee. and members are Curtis Shattuck Charlie Miller, Leonard Smith, | Howard Lyng, Ed Coffey, W. H. President Sharply Criti- | cizes Measure Passed by Senate m December Taylor, Karl Drager, Frank Gordon, | 26.—Presi- John Pegues, Dan Hightower. | Sharpe also heads the Nomina-| tions Committee, and members are Curtis Shattuck, Howard Lyng, Ed Coffee, McGin,v of the Third Di-| vision, Harvey Smith, Mrs. Alaska | The Constitution and By- l.aws‘ Committee is under Charlie Miller, | with membess Leonard Smith, E. L.| Huntley and Luther Hess. Appointed permanent secretary of the convention was Stanley! Nichols of the Fourth Division. WASHINGTON, Jan. Formal organization of the con- dent Roosevelt again stepped into ional wrangle over the vention took place yesterday morn-|the Congres ing, and the afternoon session was,soldier vote with a sharp criticism devoted to procedure discussion.| of the measure passed by the Sen- | The convention reopened at 10!ate last month, and a demand for | o'clock this morning and all busi-|adequate legislation. ness was expected to be finished| In a message to Congress, the today. President described the bill approv- Tomorrow night the Fourth Di-'ed by the Senate on December 3 vision delegates will be hosts at a and now pending in the House as banquet for all preaem ! “meaningless.” He said it would ‘tum the whole job of implement- mg the soldier balloting over to the % lstates He said, “I consider such pro- !posed legislation a fraud on the soldlers sailors and marines IS REJE(TED \uammg and fighting for us and |our sacred rights. It is a fraud mpun the American people.” Bv SOVIETS‘ Endorsing substitute measures proposed by Senators T. F. Green, {Eugene Worley, the President said, “What is needed is a complete Time Not Ripe for Resump- ‘te; voting which will give members | |of the armed forces and merchant marine all over the world an op- portunity to cast ballots without, tion of Russian—Pol- | time consuming correspondence and ish Relations without waiting for each separate, wi‘y’?,f'éfiffz‘iféedi:‘uu2:;3:322; Hatd-do Il & petpaiis )| Ruaéla has rejected: the offer of me‘lots and send them out for voting.” United States to employ its “good ! offices” to restore diplomatic rela- tions between Poland and Russia. | Secretary Hull told the newsmen | ong o at a conferenge the Russians took | the position they do not feel the situation between themselves and | Poland is ripe now for a successful S ap ure use of the offer from the United States. The Secretary said the Russhm‘ By Yugoslavs preciation of the offer. What further action, if any. the United States may take either slone | LONDON, Jan. | Partisans have stormed and reoc- or in cooperation with Great Brit- resumption of relations, remained unsnswered by Hull. e ——— hold of Mrkonjicgrad, near Jajce, 10! Marshal Broz announced. In the same official communica-, | SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY | |tion is the announcement the Par- JaD convoy off Fuchow, on the east|lett also has announced that he|for each adult. The drinker can The regular weekly Child Heauhiusans were forced to evacuate the China coast Monday and sank five will resign that office and be a manage to get two, however, by Conference will be held tomorrow lstnwgw town of Tuzla, in eastern afternoon in the Health Center of yBosnia. . BUY WAR BONDS the Territorial Building between 1 and 4 o'clock. the now Scott W. Lucas and Representative | |change in the machinery for absen-‘ 26. — Yugoslav | cupied the western Bosnian strong- | recently liberated, the Headquarters' LAST GERMAN 'ES(APE LINE NOW CUT OFF {Capture of Two Towns Puis i Railroad Within Range [ of Soviet Blg Guns Bl'LLETlN—WOb( OW, Jan. 26. — The capture of Krasnog- vardeisk is announced by Stalin in‘an Order of the Day. The large rail junction is one of the last strongholds that was left the Germans in that area. The special order s the town had been transformed by the Nazis into a fortress that developed a em of permanent fortifica- tions. MOSCOW, Jan. 26. The great Russian northern offensive has reached the two man railroads run- ning west and south of Leningrad, cutting off approximately a quarter of a million troops from direct com- munication with the rest of the German Army, a communique last night reported. General Govorov's army fought ku way into the strategic rail hub 'of Krasnogrardeisk, 30 miles south- {west of Russian’s second city, and | General Meretskov's troops captured | Ostrov, nine miles east of the Len- lingrad to Vitebsk railway, placing that escape valve within range of the Soviet big guns, RABAUL IS " UNDER FIRE SECOND DAY Forty-six Nip Planes Shot Down-3 Ships Ablaze ~Aussies Advance | ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, \Jan. 26.—Allied planes in a second day visit to Rabaul, New Britain, shot down 46 Jap planes at Lakunai airdrome, bringing to 64 the number {of Nips nipped there in two days, 'against a loss of 11 Allied plane: | Gen. Douglas MacArthur announce: | The latest visit was made last !Sunday when medium bombers ranged to the Admiralty Islands, northwest of New Britain, and set three enemy ships of 1,000 tons each on fire, The commuuique also reports the ' Aussies are finding complete suc- cess in the Ramu Valley campaign, knoeking Japs off the important |ridge on the northern side of the ‘valley The spokesman reports that the Unm:d States new secret weapon,, | the rapid fire rocket gun, which ' practically pulverizes everything within a range of 3 'hit, have been used wflh telling effect at Arawe, Cape Gloucester, and alsa at smdm FIVESHIPS IN AP (ONVOY, SENT DOWN Chinese-American Bomb- ' ers Make Successful Raid, China Coast CHUNGKING, Jan. (bombers of the Chinese American |Fourteenth Air Force attacked a 'vessels totalling 9,900 tons, Stilwell's lHe‘dqwurs announced. Another freighter was damaged the field as Delegate on the Re-| and a Jap seaplane was shot down. 26.—Mitchell | OVER THE SIDE—_u. s, bat transport, manned by coast guardsmen, to enter landing barges at Empreu Al‘lflu‘l Wet Goods Famine Is Laid fo Drys; Buyers Prove fo Be Hoarders Princess’ Fiance AN UNOFFICIAL IEPOR'I' from Eng= lish court circles states that Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland (above), may become the flance of Princess EMzabeth, King George's older daughter. 1t is expected that the official announcement will be made after the Princess reaches her 18th birthday next Aprnl (hltamalwvlal) GRIGSBY IS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Anchorage"AMbrney Files for Election as i Delegate ards of the * | | | | | George B. Anchorage |attorney, has filed for Delegate to Cungress on the Republican ticket, Terrltonal Auditor Frank A. Boyle i reported today This ‘makes two filings for the :o!licc so far since incumbent A. J | Dimond announced he would not be a candidate. A. H. Ziegler, well- known Ketchikan attorney, has filed |on the Democratic ticket. { Secretary of Aluska E L. Bart- Grigsby, candidate for Delegate. Maybe Al White may now enter publican ticket. PATROLS IN 'CASSINO IS - REPORT NOW Appian Wa—y—May Now Be Under Artillery Fire- Stiff Resistance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | ALGIERS, Jan. 26—United States Troops have stormed across the Rapido River and renewed the | battle for Cassino which field dis- patches said patrols have already ! entered, | The Fifth Army Invasion forces |below Rome have speared deeper linto “increasing resistance.” | The Germans are apparently pul- ling units back from the Cassino front to meet the great threat in the rear and it now seems certain the invasion thrust has at least cut into Appian Way and seriously threatens the remaining Cassino- Rome Highway, perhaps having it |under artillery fire now. The French troops north of Cas- Isino have been forced from Mount lCroce by bitter Nazi 'counter-at- | tacks. A Cairo Radio broadcast this af- |ternoon says the Allies are now 19 | miles from Rome and the troops are spurred by lmher vlm. of Lt. Gen. Mark Olark. The Germans threw increasing opposition against the invasion troops who landed in the Nettuno- !Anzio areas but resistance, an Al- |lied officer said tonight, s stul gcompnrnively light. | " & Heavy bombers today struck rail i BY HOWARD FLIEGER Jcommunications in Central Italy | WASHINGTON, 26. — The and medium bombers attacked | whiskey shortage has made hqunri'mad.s and bridges at Rieti, Amelia troops go over the side of a com- bly on Bougainville Bland. Jan. buyers of people who normally and Ceprano. wouldn't give two bits for all the m;‘d"““"! 1:;1 them Ger;l&l;m : | ver area on e southern an bolibon ) Kenuloky. |front, British troops have captured | In fact, this hoarding by non- geracoll, two miles west of Castel- drinkers is one reason why the man gorte who really wants a drink often Naval units have been support- can't find a drop to take home. {ing land operations south of Rome The situation came out a by- with gunfire, product disclosure of a Senate| The Navy announces a sea battle committee’s investigation into the pag taken place but results are not national liuor supply. One witness, gisclosed. The attack was made by a liquor administrator in an east-!German U-boats. ern state, said the stimulated buy- s S5 I SRS ing of whiskey by those who never| I.IBERIY BREAKS a scarce preduct. | Paradoxical it ‘certainly is, but Hoarders, they say, will be hoard- lers. It seems to be a psychological! SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—Representa- tive Warren G. Magnuson renewed touch the stuff is an established Itactor in the growing demand for| | committee members can offer an| explanation—in fact, several: ; IRIP AT SEAII[E | ‘thmg When something starts dis- {appearing from counters the hoard- 1S Plea today to halt the conver- sion of Liberty ships into troop ers start Maying it in. So when 0 whiskey started getting scarce, Carriers, disclosing that the John |hoarders started buying. It isn't|W. Weeks cracked in protected waters here after conversion, and said the ship is soon to leave the drydock equipped to carry 5,125 soldiers and officers and 71 crew- men. The ship cracked during a trip of a few miles from the Lake Washington shipyards to the dry- dock in the Seattle harbor. The vessel split both above and below the waterlinie, and some of the bot- tom plates’ were badly buckled. Previously listed were 15 Liberty ships which developed faults at sea. Magnuson said the Weeks was built a year ago. Ithat they want the whiskey so ;much. They just don't want to get caught without it That takes care of the out-and- {out hoarder. But there are syn- thetic hoarders among the non- |drinkers, some committee members think, who jumped into the retail liquor market because they saw a chance to turn a good thing for | themselves. The profit motive prob- !ably sent some abstainers off to the liquor store to lay in a pre-short- age supply They're the potential hip pock- et bootleggers of 1944, When whis- key supplies become short enough their liquor probably will go on sale lon a “Joe sent me"” basis at prices |that will make the Office of Price Administration’s bottled goods ceil- ings look like well worn carpets. | Another non-drinking liquor buy- er is the close friend-in-need of the citizen who likes to take a couple before dinner. He buys a| bottle for his neighbor. He prob-! ably is most prevalent in liquo: | monopoly states where the state government runs the retail whis- key business. In most such states the dwindling liquor supply is ra- tioned and a bottle is the ration TO BACK THE MARCH ¢ ON ROM Wit e s |buying the second through a non- drinking friend. tConnnued on P-;e “Two)