The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 5961. B ——— ___ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 = JAPS TORTURE, MURDER U.S. PRISONERS Nazis Suffer Great Defea ATH WAR BOND DRIVE; WATCH FUND GOING UP $315,000 $297,648 ' 1 | FIFTY NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN, FIGHTS Germans Make Furious Attack on Nettuno Beachhead ALLIED HEADQUART'ERS IN ALGIERS, Jan. 28.—The German | Tenth Army, backed by planes, struck with fury at the Nittuno beachhead but were repulsed by the British in | a battle near Corroceto, 21 miles south of Rome. f At the same time the Germans | suffered the greatest air defeat of the Italian campaign, losing at least | 50 planes in 24 hours in sky battles | over the beachhead and over ' southern France where Flying Fort- | resses and Liberators struck three airfields near Marseille, crippling | the bases from which the Germans | | § 15,000 (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington Merry - Go- Round — | By DREW PEARSON | CMator Robert 8. Allen on active Gutr.) | i $268,267 | ; $191.161 | $175,186 $165 $104,312 WASHINGTON — A good many people have inquired of this column- ist regarding the fact that he was offered the alleged “Hopkins letter” some weeks ago, but did not pub- lish it. Here are more details. The letter was offered by Joe ' Lieb, who says that he organized the first Roosevelt for President Club in 1932, and now claims that, he was the organizer of the first MacArthur for President Club. The reasons why this column decided against publication were: ! First, it seemed inconeeivable that Hopkins would write a letter of that kind, since all his conversation and efforts have been to promote FDR for a fowth term, not Willkie; second, the leiter was a copy and looked phony on the surface; third, it was offered by a man active in trying to smear Willkie by making it appear that he was secretly link- ed up with Hopkins and the White House. This is one of the chief tactics of old guard Republicans as far as this columnist has been able to de- termine. However, there is abso- lutely no secret deal between Roose- velt and Willkie. Their relation- ship is one of mytual respect, but no cordial admiration. The President appreciated Will- kie's public cooperation with him on foreign policy, but he has never been enthusiastic over Willkie's un- official ambassadorial trips to var- jous parts of the world, perhaps be- cause they tended to crowd him,! FDR, from the limélight. And when the President learned that Willkie had an invitation from the! Australian Government to vun thncw country, he is stepped in with a hint to che Aus- REPUB“( A“ "(KEI tralian Government that Mrs. Roosevelt take the trip instead. | Some: time before this, the Presi-| pgogarq b stabler, well known dent had offered Willkle the job o"Junfzau lawyer, has filed for the Civilian Defense Director, Which| gy veor term as Senator on the Willkie refused—partly because he | Republican ticket. didn't think he should accept any| gigpler was formerly United States | post in the Roosevelt Administra-' pigyrcy Attorney for the First Divi- tion, partly because he felt that me‘«ion and is prominent in civic af- Civilian Defense job was an almost' \fairs of the city. hopeless one, which could not be| “a¢ Ketchikan, Harry McCain, straightened out easily and Wwhich rormer Mayor, City Attorney, and would only hurt him politically.|noy Concilman, has filed for the Willkie's friends suspected the|gouse on the Republican ticket. Mc- President of having ulterior Polit-| cain was defeated when a candidate ical motives in offering him this!for the House in 1934 and he was Job. lalso a defeated candidate for At-| But while the President doesn't torney General in 1936. He was relish too much political strengthirecently elected Chairman of the on Willkie's part, it can be said that getchikan Republican Club. he is most anxious that Willkie| Chris Hennings, wellknown labor continue his bi-partisan support of| iman of Juneau, late this afternoon his foreign policies. Therefore, filed for: the House on the Demo- when Marquis Childs published a'cpatic Ticket. magazine article detailing various| " 5 gispatch to the Empire . from wisecracks which the ~President i), getchikan Chronicle says H. Rurportadly hed ande srgut will- W. Benolkin, pioneer seiner, has kie, the President took the trouble| s, 4 for the House on the Repub-| to write Willkie a long letter, tak- ticket, He ran in the pr-} { lican (Contihued on Page Four) BOND SALES "CREEP NEAR QUOTA MARK Series E bond sales went to $113,- 681 last night when booth sales| ended, narrowing the gap between, present sales and the quota of| $140,000 in Series E which must be met by next week. Total sales now stand at $297,648. Rotary Club members chalkétd up more than $11,000 at their booth last night. Tonight the Girl Scouts of Am- erica and Beta Sigma Phi will handle booth sales and stunts will be featured over KINY. Latest ad-| dition will be vocal selections by Henry Sully, sponsored by Roald Copstead, and requests for num- bers should be phoned in at once. Sully accepted Copstead's challenge |to sing for bonds and will be heard from 8:15 to 8:30 p.m. Tomorrow night the Juneau Ma- sonic Lodge and Order of Eastern Star will have charge of booth sales. HOWARD STABLER FILES FOR SENATE, ‘maries several years ago. |lines around | Chudovo, their AIRBATTLE NAZISFAIL ~ MARINES IN T0 STEM ADVANCEON SOVIET TIDE NEW BRITAIN Siege Army Beaten Back‘ from Leningrad To- | | wardEstonia Border Jan. 28.—M: in northwest Jap Planes Rise fo Challengte Invaders auled Ger-;{ ADVANCED ALLIED HFAD-‘ Russia QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,| hurled back toward a Jan. 28.—A mile and one-half ex- line extending through Narva in pansion of the vital American Estonia to Luga and Staraya in beachhead in northwestern New |Russia by the charging Red Arm- | Britain has been announced by ies which ripped to pieces the siege headquarters here. 1 Leningrad, and cap- | Allied air power, which supported | strategic Lyuban and the Marine advance, also dealt a | obiy- twh. remaining 100-ton bombing blow in the north | towns on-the dnubl‘e tracked Lenin- [Admiralty Islands, and failed to| draw so much as a challenge from | grad-Moscow trunk line. All but 30|, Japs. | miles of the railway is in Russian| ppe new raid on Rabaul is in| hands. ‘sharp contract to the previous sky | At the lower end of the north- | fights there which cost the Japanese | west front, the Nazis are battling 350 planes this month. | | frantically to keep the Russians Ground forces scored a success | west of Novgorod and Lake Ilmen. in the seizure of Natamo Point on The Germans reported heavy fight- New Britain’s Borgen Bay. This! ing near the eastern Crimea. !was achieved by the Marines on — e - | Wednesday and moved the Amer- | icans a mile and one-half beyond | YANKS DOWN the strategic hill 660 captured on MOSCOW, ! | man forces are being tured January 14. The bemb blows on Admiralty | started large fires and explosions ' in the bivouac areas on the airfield and runway, and on the jetty sev- eral buildings were destroyed. At Rabaul Allied planes roamed | the harbor for 35 minutes without inducing a single enemy plane to engage them A night raid by Liberators smash-, ed at Tobera Airdrome, one of sev- Mounting Plane Offensive e on Ravaurs network. Against Marshalls Force | DesperaIgJPPSlrategy BERI.IN IS IN FLAMES FROMRAID The big action came on Wednes- FONDON, Jan S rtiginds; of Royal Air Force heavy night bomb- day the 2Ist day of the attack, erg touched off fields of flames in when Army and Navy airmen in’perjin last night in a possible final nine Army Mitchells bombed Taroa geath blow to the Nazi nerve center airfield at Maloelap. Twenty Zeros previously described by Gen. H. H. intercepted and 11 and possibly 12 Arnold as three quarters destroyed. were shot down. The speedy Mitch-| The British announcement describ- ells retired and another group of ed the twelfth heavy assault in the Zeros pursued. United States fight- ' obliteration campaign as “very ers joined the bombers and five strong.” The statement is borne out more enemy planes were shot down, by the loss of 34 aireraft, all in and five more probables. the night's operations. The fight is significant as it is Today heavy United States bomb- PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 28.—A strategzy seemingly born of desper- ation drew topflight Jap fighter | pilots into the biggest battle of the mounting U. S. air offensive in the Marshalls and cost the enemy 16 to 22 planes. No Americans were lost, Admiral Nimitz announced last' night. Ithe first attempt of Jap airmen €rs attacked a military objective in to pursue retiring aircraft. It may Dortheran France and other RAF be a desperate measure, Admiral bombers hit Helgoland, the mighty ey g sea fortress, and unnamed targets in Nimits annourmwd. | western Germany. The RAF also The extension of the assault on the Marshalls to the most uorm-‘lmid mmej. western atoll, Eniwetok, was record- | ed by Navy fliers, who severely dam- ' aged and may have sunk an oil| tanker. They also sank one of her escort ships. . — EXCISE TAXES, | >oe —— BANK BALANCE FOR TERRITORY IN GOOD SHAPE Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. !Olson today reported that the Ter- TAKE BIG juMp ritory’s bank balance for December 1943, was the highest in 10 WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Senate YEars. standing at $1,171,871.04. and House tax bill conferees ap-' The record as follows, speaks for proved rises of more than $1,000,- itself: 000,000 in excise taxes and posm 1934 $ 516,398.26 rates yesterday. +... 8 7T43,255.16 Stiff wartime “luxury” |aws\1936 $ 536,876.13 which were approved included ad-|1937 $ 71719244 missions to theatres and ball parks, 1938 $ 990,009.89 from the present rate of one cent!1939 $ 816,108.24 {for each ten cent charge to oue|1940 $ 1790,224.96 cent for each five cents; cabaret 1941 $ 747,237.20 and night club checks, 30 percent 1942° $1,051,491.30 in place of the present five per-|1943 $1,171,871.04 cent; and airmail postage was Olson said that the balance for upped' from six to eight cents for December 31, 1944, however prob- each ounce. Inbl) would be lower due to the fact ! Locally delivered mail will carry that there are no collections to the full three cents postage. |speak of from the mining inter- D liagiges st ests as a result of curtailment of MRS. REYNOLDS HERE production due to the war. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds has registered ———— as a guest at the Hotel Juneau. BUY WAR BONDS Rebaul Bombed Again—No[ | Term and the Roosevelt Admini: was DemosKHl Endorsement 0f Gruening Challenge ..Mriler's Bart- ; lett Proxies as Violation FAIRBAI\KS Alaska, Jan. 28— Bitter debate on the question of a Fourth Term for Roosevelt, en- dorsement of Gov. Ernest Gruening, reapportionment of representation {at the Teritorial convention, and lon a challenge that the four prox- ies held by Charlie Miller of Ju- neau from Secretary of Alaska E. |L. Bartlett was a violation of the, |Hatch Act, marked a stormy ses- sion of the Democratic Convention at Fairbanks up to midnight last night. The delegates endorsed a Fourth tration by a vote of 60 to 10, de- Tuening by a vote of 41 to 98, d to send delegates to the N: tional Convention uninstructed. Debate Opens Curtis Shattuck of Juneau opened | Patriation the debate on the Fourth Term 880 have not been heard from. question, arguing along with Alaska Linck of Fairbanks and Karl Dra- of Missouri, first World War vet-| ger .of Anchorage -that Roosev:lt was not indispensable. Frank Gor- don of Fairbanks, H. H. McCutch- econ of Anchorage, Ed Coffey of Anchorage, John Pegues of Fair- banks argued for endorsement and presented in argument a letter from Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, which some delegates argued “pressure from Washington.” Coffey said ihat Italy, and Japan did their best to eleci Wendell L. Willkie in 1940. gainst Gruening In the (mlv move to include in change of endorsing | Early suggested that is one ques-|bent forward to ease the pressure the program a plank rerritorial officials, endorsement of Gruening. the Governor and Harvey Smith ot Anchorage challenged Gordon to tell | the convention specifically what, Gruening had done for Alaska. Gordon replied that the income tax bill introduced last session was one {fepted a miove to endorse Governor| ture. MOREINFO SOUGHTON | ATRO("lES Horror Senator Says Bomb Japan Out of Existance- Gallanl Defend WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A hor- ror story, scarcely paralleled in the annals of modern warfare, tells how the Japanese starved and tortured, Hang Mikado |and in some cases wantonly mur- |dered, the gallant defenders of Ba- S taan, is told by the Army and Navy WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Secre- in documented sworn statements of tary of State Cordell Hull said the officers who escaped from prison United States is gathering all pos- camps. sible information as to treatment| The joint announcement describes of American prisoners held by the g cold-blooded campaign of savagery Japanese so the war criminals may carried out after 36,000 Americans be punished at this war's end. land Filipinos of Bataan and Corre- At today's conference with the gidor were overwhelmed by superidr newsmen, Hull was asked whether numbers of Japs this Government is making a list The account begins by telling of |of Jap officers in the Philippines, thousands of deaths in Japanese directly responsible. camps, in which 2200 Americans ‘The Secretary said he could not died in two months in one camp. say specifically in respect to the' Then the sworn statement recites Philippines, but the Government the following: has been ascertaining all informa-| Prisoners Beheaded tion possible brought out to the| Americans and Filipinos wer United States and will persevere n first taken prisoners and those pursuit of what is called a righ-/found with Japanese money or |teous undertaking to continue ex- kens, were beheaded |changing of prisoners or civilian' Survivors were then beaten along /internees in Japan. No one, Hulllthe “March of Death.” ‘,said has any accurate data as 0 Twelve thousand men were kept ‘how much chance there is in ef- pen“(ld in a 100 yard square area fecting such exchanges in the lu-‘“m“,\u food for a week. They wers to- |then given a 12-hour wait to fill The Stale Secretary said relief canteens from one water spigot. supplies to Allled prisone which | Sun Torture were delivered to the Gripsholm| Prisoners were widely tortured by Germany ' reach Gordon urged | tion Karl Which has Drager made a long talk against|through lhe Swiss Government. of the Governor's best attempts to help Alaska Miller cast four of his proxy votes for endorsing Gruening and six others from the First Division against’ the endorsement. Warren T r of Kodiak chal- lenged Milier's voting four proxies which he said were from Bartiett as a violation of the Hatch Act, a law which forbids Federal offi- cials from participating in local pol- itics. Taylor also challenged Howa“d Lyng's right to hold proxies in ex- s of five. Lyng and Miller’s proxies but sldh‘d,(he House of Commons today that the decision was based on the the-[thousands of British troops have ory that to sustain the challenge|died as prisoners of the Js panese would illegalize previous convention after being compelled to live and Jap vessel during the last ré-'the exchange “sun treatment.” The captives two montl1s were made to sit in a boiling sun all day without covering and little Bennett Champ Clark, water, Six men, three Americans and eran, today voiced the demand the three Filipinos, ill from mistreat- United States “bomb Japan out of ment were buried still alive, existence” and hang the Mikado. | Men were “literally worked to ldealh." It was not unusual for 20 |percent of a work détail to die. In Ste- “one instance 75 percent of the Senator EARY'S STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. — phen Early, Presidential Secretary, prisoners were killed that way.” said the report of Jap atrocities Horribly Tortured | as released because further relief, Three officers who attempted to supplies could not be expected tolescape, had their hands tied behind the prisoners. Ithem and then with ropes tied to As to whether lifting the ban on/their hands were pulled upward reports means the Government has and the ropes were attached to an abandoned hope of further ex- overhead purchase so they had to repatriation prisoners, remain in fearful agony standing, for the State Depaltmcu‘ on their arms. They were left thus OF NIPPONS SHOWN UP NEW YORK J n. 28. — Pal lmer | | | Hoyt, former Director of the Do- Thousands of Troops Have &S formation. charsed that an Died while Prison_ irticle can be released to the Am- ers of Japs B g BRITISH TROOPS | erican Magazine, a story that “Jap- |anese brutally murdered most of the 50,000 prisoners taken at Bataan.” | Hoyt sald the Japs marched the American prisoners “through dead- without water, although they had thousands of available vehicles. They crushed thousands, who did not die on the march oy “un-|running the vehicles through the 28. The Rules Committee sustained \eign Secretary Anthony Eden told|ly heat, LONDON, Jan. British For- work - already voted on, and that der tropical jungle conditions with-1columns of the marchers. the ruling was not based on Vlmour adequate shelter el b 0 application or the Hatch Act. non-application The delegates then voted 75 to!forget and he charges that Jap au- at the next thorities 1 to limit delegates convention to holding five votes. The motion for proportional re-|giving the impression they are in| presentation was defeated by a vote|good health and well treated. of 45 to 36. The convention resumed business reached this Government no longe at 9 o'clock this morning. —— STAN GRUMMETT BACK Stanley Grummcu well local insurance representative, ar- rived home last night by steamer from a brief business trip Oustide.’ He expressed profound relief at get- ting back, and said the worst of traveling now in the States is 1he‘ eternal “standing in line.” - B Majory Collins, of New York City, and Jeannette Munger, of Fort St. Johns, are guests at .the Baranof | Hotel. ———— RAATIKAINEN IS IN C. Raatikainen is in Juneau from Pelican and s registered at the + Gastineau. |hands are concerned.” known | " STOCK QUOTATIONS clothing, food| "Hoyt says the article was writ- ten before the Army and Navy dis- closure and will be published next week: He declared a “full blooded have dictated postcards|story of this war, the most import- |and letters received from prisoneis|ant personal story in the history cf this Nation, is not being properly | presented to the people.” {""NOT GUILTY" PLEA ENTEDED BY WATSON; JACKSON ARRAIGNED One person was arrainged ani another plead “not guilty” when brought into the Federal District Court. James Clifton Jackson, indicted by the Grand Jury on three charg- medical attentior Eden warned that Britain will not “The information which has jus’ leaves any room for doubt of the true state of affairs in which a great majority of prisoners in Jap | NEW YORK, Jan .28.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 86, Anaconda 25, Beach Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 59, Curtiss|es, was arrainged. Jackson is charg- | Wright 5%, International Harvester ed with assault with intent to kill, 1731, Kennecott 31, North American |shooting with intent to kill and as- |Aviation 87, New York Central|sault with a dangerous weapon. 117'», Northern Pacific 147, United| James Watson, charged with for- \bv.ates Steel 52%. gery, entered his plea of not guilty Dow, Jones averages today are 'o the charge. las follows: industrials 137.19, rails 36.04, utilities 2246, R BUY WAR BONDS |away. ers ol Bataan Starved, Killed; Slorr Revealed for two day periodically beaten with a two by four timber. One of- ficer was then beheaded and the other two were shot. Flags Used As Rags American flags were habitually and designedly used as rags in | kitchens : The “March of Death,” s William E. Dyess, Killed crash after his escape, began when thousands of prisoners were herded together in Bataan the morning after their surrender. Groups of from 500 to 1,000 men were then started on the march soward San Fernando. Dyess said one Japanese soldier took a canteen, gave the water to a horse, then threw the canteen Run Over By Trucks Men recently killed were lying along the roadside, many run over and flattened by Japanese trucks. Patients were bombed out of their hospitals and dazed, wandered about in pajamas and slippers. They were herded into the marching col- "umn, ‘The prisoners marched the see- ond day without food but were per- _ mitted to drink dirty water a roadside stream. Many Go Crazy “Many went crazy. Several diea. The Japanese dragged out the sick and delirious. T made the march of about 85 miles on one mess kit of rice. Others made the March of Death for 12 days without food and from 'much of the time were given .the sun treatment along the way,” Dyess. saud ONE ESCAPEE I8 NOW NEAR SEATTLE SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—One of the |three officers who escaped and have reported on Japanese atrocities, is Commander . Melvyn McCoy, 37, who this week assumed command of the radlo activities on Bain- bridge Island. He has now regained 35 pounds lost while a prisoner of the Japs for 11 months. He is un- able to enlarge on the official re- port. OILY SPEECH COMES FROM TOKYORADIO NEW YORK, Jnn 28.—A Tokyo propaganda broadcast beamed to the United States at the same hour the Army and Navy report was re- leased on Japanese atrocities, called upon Americans to promote the “Peace for the World Club.” The Government monitors said the commentator discussed the “lonely men out here in internment camps,” ‘and sald the prisoners ol war were going to present the first act John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” at one camp entertain- ment. eee HERE FROM SAUK CENTRE Here from Sauk Centre, Minn., Lillian E. Moore is at the Baranof. - R - SMITH FROM INDIANA From Fort Wayne, Indiana, James M. smnth is at the Baranof. TO BOMB THE HEART OF GERMANY ll You Cun Afford To {0UY VAR BONDS | i |