The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 5960. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NAZI ARMORED UNIT CRUSHED IN ITALY 5 Nip Ships Torpedoed from Air, Sent Down ALLIED AIR [™JaaBokD OFFENSIVE ; FUND GOING UP HITSEABAUL’ 24 of 60 Enemy Fighters Shot Down-Admiralty Island Is Attacked $268,267 | $191.161 | ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| $175,486 QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,! Jan. 27.—Torpedo planes, sustain-! $165,343 ing the Allied offensive against| Rabaul, sank five cargo ships there last Monday and so seriously dam- aged two others they had to be beached. | The raiders, following the air/ $104,312 strikes of last Sunday, shot down 24 of 60 enemy Fighters and prob-i ably bagged two others, while sut fering “extraordinary light losses. With the Monday bag, enemy $ 15,000 planes shot down over Rabaul in three days now number more than 90. i | [ (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington Merry-@-flound By DREW PEARSON ! (Mator Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) MORE SERIES WASHINGTON—One lobby you don't hear much about, but which is among the most effective in Washington, is the title companies’ lobby. With the help of the in-! surance and bank lobbies, it has held up millions of dollars sup- posed to be paid to people thrown out of their homes when the Gov-, NEEDED Now ernment took over land for ArmyJ and Navy camps. ! (CERAA e Government e wia. siow- All Urged fo Step Up Pur | chases for These This Week moving system of clearing titles to property. For more than a year, the Justice Department has tried‘ to change this system, but the mlEJ lawyers and title companies object.| et They receive nice, juicy fees for| War Loan Drive officials report clearing titles, and they don’t want this morning that sales of approx- ! new legislation which would take imately $27,000 more in Series ¥ away those fees—even in wartime. |bonds will give Gastineau Channel Result is that, in many cases, its quota in the Fourth War Loan people who were moved off their Drive. The Series E total to date land months ago to make way for stands at $89,375, and the .uota Army and Navy camps still arelin this series is $115,000. unpaid. It is one of the great and| Meanwhile, members of Juneau little known tragedies of the war. |Rotary Club, who sold more than In a total of 120,000 tracts of $85000 worth of bonds in the last land taken by the Army and Navy, pig drive, set their guns today for about one-hali or around 70,000 gnother record when they take over still are involved in pending €on-|pond sales at the booth on South demnation cases. These cannot be!pranklin Street tonight in con- unsnarled under the old-fashioned junction with the other booth system of clearing titles. which will be operated by the The Justice Department esttmabes’m“ghs Woman's Club. that approximately 300000 PeOple:| “momorroy night, Beta Sigma Phi, equal to a city about the size ofjo .. sorority, and the Girl Portland, Oregon, are completely g0, o america will operate the homeless yet still unpaid by the! : Government, as a result of the(tWO booths, and on Saturday nignt, lobby's tactics. Juneau's Masonic Lodge and Ordef of Eastern Star will have charge STEPS IN CUMBERSOME of sales. PROCEDURE A | e ks v targe 1ana| €N, MacArfhur Honored by U. 5. FORCES OVERSEAS T0 Secrefary Stimson Makes| Announcement-Several Army Camps Closed WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Under {present plans two-thirds of Am- erica’s steadily growing army will be at overseas stations at the end of the year. This word came from Secretary | of War Henry L. Stimson as he {announced plans for closing a num- Iber of domestic army camps in the next few months and transfer to| combat units a substantial propor- tion of the soldiers now assigned to administrative duties overseas. The !program will double the forces |abroad by the end of 1944. | In addition a number of officers lover 38, particularly those com- | missioned directly from civil life, |from the National Guard and from |the Reserve Corps, will be placed on the inactive list because “no suitable assignments are available | or in prospect either at domestic or | overseas installations or establish- ments. “The readjustment is dictated geh- erally by a progressive shift in| | army operations from the defensive to the offensive and by the growth | of air power,” said Stimson. i | 'The Army Air Forces already have relinquished 69 or more estab- | lishments, and the ground forces have begun to close some training camps and other facilities including Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Pine Camp, New York, and the induction | center at Fort Hayes, Ohio. | e ee—— First Velerans Given Jobs in New &ogram‘ (By Associated Press) | War veterans, some of them wounded and leaning on canes, made | their way into the offices of seven | | | | \ cities across the nation to take |advantage of the government’s new Jexpanded program to find them | work. Some in uniform, others in civ- ilian garb, many accompanied by | wives and sweethearts, the number of applicants ran into the scores in some cities as the program got under way yesterday. A large number ob- tained jobs before the day ended. The offices, which are in Denver, New Haven, St. Louis, Houston, Los | Angeles, Minneapolis and Philadel- phia, now have larger staffs for greater coordination between em- ployer and representative. WAGES BOOSTED, | SALMON CANNING INDUSTRY IN N.W. BE DOUBLED| CAPT. JUANITA REDMOND wears the wings just issued to U. S. Army flight nurses. At the bottom is a close-up. Under the wings she wears her National Defense and Pacific campaign ribbons, both bearing stars of combat areas. On the right she wears the Presidential Citation for Bataan and Corregidor, from which she was evacuated before they fell to the Japs. U. S. Army Air Forces photo. (International) REDS CLOSE PINCERS ON NAZI ARMY Ten Divisions fo German Army Routed in 12 Days’ Offensive MOSCOW, Jan. 27. — The Rus- sians reached the bank of thé Luga River west of Novgorod, a Pravda dispatch reported, as the Leningrad army under General Govorov and the Volkhov army under General Meretskov continued to smash from opposite directions into the German Baltic salient. Luga is ten miles east of Lenin- grad on the Vitebsk Railway, one of the two remaining lines south from Leningrad available to the Germans. A sudden freakish warm* thaw | turned the front into quagmires | and muddy roads as the two arm- | ies slowly tightened the pincers and threatened to trap a quarter of a | million men. 1 In the first 12 days of the mighty offensive which lifted the siege of | Leningrad, the Russians have killed | more than 40,000 Nazis, routed 10| divisions of 150,000 men, captured a | score of towns and tremendous | amounts of abandoned war ma-| terial. Revolf in Paraguay '\ DELEGATES FIRST DIV. MISS BOAT | 'Action of Miller Strange in Territorial Demo Parley | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 27.— Last night’s session at the Terri- torial Democratic Convention cen- tered around debate on the adop- tion of an amendment to the Dem- | ocratic organization plan which would provide that relative division- al representation at future conven- tions be based in proportion to the! Democrat polling the highest vote | {in ‘each division in the previous | general election. | Each division would have a mini- imum of 15 delegates and an addi- itional one for each 250 votes over 1,000, naturally favoring the more heavily populated First and Fourth Divisions. Those in favor of the amend-| ment argued that this representa- tion would be based on the popu-| lation—the basic American princi- DEBATE IN SENATE ON YOTEBILL Senator Chaaas Measure | Is “"Usurpation” of States’ Rights WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Senator | Republicans Resent | Criticism of FDR in Soldier Vote Message WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — The moment the Senate clerk had fin-| ished yesterday reading President| Roosevelt's message to Congress in | which the Chief’ Executive sharpiy| criticised the Senate for the, “meaningless” legislation passed, December 3 on the soldier vote,| Senator Robert Taft, Repubucan‘ of Ohio, jumped to his feet and| | said: “I resent, as ohe of those whc propose state voting for the armed services, .the designation of the proposal as a fraud.” Direct Insult Charged 1 Taft said the President delivered a “direct insult to the Senate and endorsement of the Green-Lucas| BIG ATTACK OF GERMANS IS STOPPED Herman Goering’s Division Loses Fight fo Allied Forces ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Jan, 27.—The first Ger- man counter-attack against the Americans and British, just south of Rome, the first of many prob- ably to be launched in a furious effort to wipe out the bridgehead, has been thrown back and the Ger- man armor crushed. Men and supplies continued to pile into the strategic wedge, Gen. |an insult to the House,” with the Alexander’s Central Mediterranean Headquarters announces. The element of Herman Goer- D. Millikin, Republican of Colorado, | Federal Vote Bill now pending in told the Senate if Congress over-|the Senate. “Some of the state- D8 Armored division was met rides states’ constitutional rights in|ments made by the President are SOUthwest of Littoria, chief town the prescribed method for electing not true and some are argumenta- | Mussolinl's famous Pontine presidential electors, it will be act- | tjye " ‘;mflrsh agricultural development. ing as “a revolutionary usurper.” Republicans guffawed loudly dur-| There was a “fierce local engage- The Senator challenged the con-|ing the reading of the message jn|ment” and the Germans left 120 tention of supporters of the Ad-|the House and again when the ¢8d on the field as the Division ple. Charlie Miller of the Pirst Divi- | sion, however, holding 10 votes by | proxy, voted against the amend- {ment and it was defeated 40 to 38. |Walter Sharpe and Curtis Shat- tuck in favor. | Howard Lyng of Nome, holding three proxies from the First Divi- sion, voted against the move, while the Fourth Division was unani- mously in favor of it. Harvey Smith of Anchorage led the fight against the move with most of the Third Division votes behind him. | Attorney General Henry Roden |notified the delegates by wire that \he is contemplating filing for Del- jegate to Congress. | Auditor Frank A. Boyle announc- ed intention of filing to succeed himself in that office. Karl Drager of Anchorage an- nounced intention of filing for At-| |torney General. | | Meanwhile, Luther Hess of the Fourth Division stated on the floor | \that his committeemen unanimously |favored the representation amend-[ /ment in committee and then voted against it on the floor. His an-| nouncement of this doublecron.s‘ | | ministration’s service vote bill that reading was finished. was tossed back. Congress has wartime powers to set | President’s Statements Other Americans of the Fifth 1side states' authority over elec-| Regarding = the measure passed ATMY are 48 miles east of Littoria tions and asserted if it were true, by the Senate, turning soldiers’ vot- Where they continue to uproot Ger- “Congress could depose the Presi- ing over to the states, the Presi- Man mines and meshed defenses, dent by legislative, action.” dent said: “I ; ro- 8nd struggled slowly forward Millikin took the “floor on chejpo'.,d mgmj{fig ,\.*"'!;' !""_ iMPme through. flooded streams and.steep fourth day of the debate on the measure Roosevelt endorses which would establish a Federal war bal- lot on which members of the armed forces at home and aboard could vote for the President, Vice-Presi- dent, Senators and Congressmen by | writing in the name of the can- didate by merely designating the party of his choice. The Senators tried to hurry the vote as at least 15 members are leaving after today's session to at- tend the late Senator Van Nuy's funeral or the launching of the battleship Missouri. ; - e —— | LENINGRAD HAS CELEBRATION T0 HONOR RED ARMY LONDON, Jan. 27.—Russian Gen- soldiers, salors and marines now Cra8s just north of Cassino, which training and fighting for us and Was entered yesterday by patrols. our sacred rights. It is a fraud up- on the American people.” Recommending endorsement of the Green-Lucas bill, the President said: “What is needed is a com- plete change in the machinery for absentee voting which will give members of the drmed forces and merchant marine all over the world an opportunity to cast ballots with- | out time consuming correspondence‘ and without waiting for each separ-' ate state to hold a primary, print ballots, and send them out for, voting.” | | | FLEET NOW FROZEN IN Four miles farther north, the French attacked the Germans on the slopes of Mt. Belevedere. Action of the Eighth Army is stalemated, due to weather and limitéd air activity. The bombing of Cisterna on Ap- pian Way, 16 miles northeast of Anzio, suggests the forces have not yet reached that point. - COME ON, YOU NAZI FIGHTERS; WE ARE READY AT UNITED STATES FIF TEENTH AIR FORCE FIGHTER BASE IN ITALY, Jan. 27—German Fighter pilots, a few months ago, were inclined to be playful with was not challenged. | |eral Govorov has announced that Leningrad is completely liberated |by the two-week Red offensive, the 3 WS A MUSTERING |Nazis driven from 40 to 60 miles OUT pAY IS \awny, and more than 700 nearby towns and villages freed. The exceptional honor of 24 sal- ivos from 324 guns, reserved for the 1greatest victories was ordercd fired |from the guns at Leningrad for the arriies, the people there, 2nd the| |Red fleet. _— | e S 5 | House, Senate Act Quickly . fo Pass Compromise Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — The FLYING BOAT f MARS RETURNS AR E I |American Fighters in this theatre of war but they will not play ang- |more since the Fifteenth Air Force, - |equipped with a veteran FPighter BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 27.—The'group and new P-47s Thunderbolts Argentine military government |“can do everything the Germaans froze the movements of the mer- can do, and more than that, can chant fleet, one of the first follow-'do it better.” up movements of their diplomatic' This is the statement issued toe break with the Axis. day by Lt. Ray B. Hogg. All vessels were ordered to remain SRS TN A in port “until new orders” but it | STOCK QUOTATIONS is expected this would not last long./ The government possibly feared Nazi submarines in the South At-| Iantie. NEW YORK, Jan. 27, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6'4, American Can 86, | Anaconda 24%, Beach Aircraft 9%, (A"ADIANS ARE | Curtiss Wright 7%, International | Harvester - 721, Kennecott 30%, House, by a vote of 277 to 103, passed the mustering out pay com- promise bill and sent it to the | Senate. The Senate took quick action on FROM HAWAI ALAMEDA, Calif, Jan. 27-—-The| |world’s largest operating aurplnne,wm the Navy's Flying Boat Mars, has| returned from Honolulu on the| 10 QUIT KISKA OTTAWA, Jan. 27.—The Canad- | n government announces with- drawal from Kiska of Canadian North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 52. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 136.58; rails, area. The first step is to appraise Third Medal a farmer’s or home-owners prop- erty. This is easy, and the Govern- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW_ GUINEA, Jan. 27— 35.63; ut , 22.19. ment has been more than generous utilities, 22.19, Gen. Douglas MacArthur has the compromise legislation and WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Ap- |passed it and imediately sent it to ~ Squelched proximately 7,000 workers in the |the White House for the signature salmon canning industry of the] ASUNCION, Jan. 27.—The Para-|of President Roosevelt. Pacific Northwest have been given guay Government announces it| rmhe piy provides a minimum of | unif 5 e oot Found. rip, | units which joined the United States | iIn occupation five months ago. The passenger-cargo plane of the | e o |Pacific theatre of war, the giant | icraft, made the flight, almost 2,400 | TO HELP THE INVASION FRONT in these appraisals, especially to small landowners. ' received his Third Distinguash- ed Service Medal — his 64th Second step is to clear title to, the land. This is the difficult part.| birthday—for Valuable services to his country. Under the present law, the Govern-| ment cannot pay until the title goes through the cumbersome routine| employed by the title companles.“ For one thing, the compariies do; The medal is awarded by not have sufficient men to do the ' President Roosevelt “for excep- job quickly. It is like asking the‘ tionally distinguished service as corner grocery stores to feed the| Supreme Commander of the Army. 5 Allied Ferces in the Southwest isl::c fllf G‘:'emmjn:& utnder ‘:“:; Pacific since March 1942.” pr w, is required to spe: S millions of dollars for getting mese‘l - e e T abstracts from title companies.| When the abstracts do finally come 3 1y S Barenn in, Justice Department officials say| e they are frequently imperfect or| full of exceptions. For instance,| one word may be missing in the ot b [ ® (Continued on Page Four) . . Temp. Wednesday, Jan. 26 Maximum 40; Minimum 32 Rain .92. ® o o o o 0 0 0 0 la 2% cents hourly pay increase by lthe War Labor Board. The raise is in addition to those granted by the Seattle Regional Board. { It is explained the additional in- |creases corrects the “intra plant| inequalities” which resulted from higher rates paid cold storage workers. A 7% cent hourly increase is al- iso granted 3,000 workers on thei Columbia River near Astoria by the Seattle Board but the WLB denied a general increase to 4,000 workers in the Anacortes (Washington' area but granted other adjustments. Both companies and unions ap- pealed the National Labor Board | rulings. ! miles from Hawaii, in 12 hours and frustrated an attempted revolution $100 and maximum of $300 to men at dawn, the communique of muimd women of the Armed Services {17 minutes. | YUGOSLAVS S Ministry of Interior says. to take possession of the police headquarters and barracks. THOUSAND JAPS DROWN AT SEA CHUNGKING, Jan. 27. — One thousand Japanese drowned when a medium sized Jap warship sank |3 charge of selling liquor without also attacked the Kentgtung bar- | g jupon their discharge. The maximum Units of the disbanded Liberaligoes to gji eligible persons who/ |Party and allied organizations tried served overseas or in Alaska. A sum of $100 goes to men and women in the Armed Services serv- ing less than 60 days in contin- ental United States and $200 for those serving more than 60 days in continental United States. Commander Gene Tunney, former! heavyweight boxing champion, was among the eight passengers aboard. | RLRES UG R BOMBERS SINK ROUT NAZIS LONDON, Jan. 27. — Yugoslav Partisans, skilled in the art of | mountain warfare, have cleared out | the last remnants of Germans from | the central Bosnian area with the | ————— EUGENE LaMOORE 1S IN FEDERAL JAIL Eugene LaMoore has been arrest- ed by the U. 8. Marshal’s office nn TWO NIP VESSELS | CHUNGKING, Jan. 27.—Mitchell | 'bombers of the Chinese-American | wing sank two 1,200-ton freighters off the east coast of China and | occupation of the town of Prnjavor and five high ranking German of- ficers were ambushed near Zagreb and killed and important documents seized. This is according to a free Yugo- near Kwe Ching when it struck a ® license. His bond was set at $2,000 racks and airdrome, doing extensive | slav broadcast from headquarters Chinese-laid mine, and he is in the Federal jail. damage. of Marshal Broz. et e - You Can Afford To BUY (AR BONDS