The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1944 AMERICANS, BRITISH NEARING ROME Allied Fliers Hit Many Areas in Solomons CONTINUING m¥AROR |12 NEW FISH 4 MARSHALL | Yanks Embark for Hew lialianLanding BEACHHEAD PACIFIC AIR | FUND GOING UP CANNERIES | ATOLLS ARE 1 e o - TROOPS IN OFFENSIVES FOR ALASKA UNDER RAID . NEW MOVE $315,000 $302,667 & 3 s B3 | s207,618 Units Today Are 19 Miles Jap Bases Raided 24 Days | s26s,267 Southwest of Goal-Air This Month - Many Attacks Launched Planes Down ALLIED H‘;?A;‘QUARTN IN | $191.161 ALGIERS, Jan. 29—The American ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN, ok NEW GUINEA, Jan. 29—Japanese| $175,186 { beachhead troops, striking toward planes destroyed and damaged at; - PRICE TEN CENT3 VOL. XLIL, NO. 5962. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Move Is Recommended by Shore Installations, Gun ' | Salmon Industry Con- | Emplacements, Air- 5 stltant Group | - fields Atfacked SEATTLE, Jan. 29—Twelve ad-| PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29.—Army ditional salmon canneries will be|and Navy bombers and fighters | |operated in Alaska this year if a|struck four atolls of the Marshalls |plan recommended by a group of jon Monday and speeded up expand- |the salmon canning industry’s con- ing attacks on the Jap mid-Pacific | Appian Way and the main rail line to the Cassino front, have advanced Rabaul in the sustained air offen-| $165,343 |sultants is adopted. |bases, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz § 3 within light artillery range of Cis- sive this month were raised to 390“ | The recommendation, described |reports. X terna, astride of both arteries, 12 by the downing Wednesday of be-: las “the relaxed plan” compared, The raids were directed against miles northeast of Anzio. tween 22 and 30 of 60 enemy fight- shore installations and gun em- ! At the same time other Allied ers, as more than 100 Allied bombers and fighters raided the Jap base. Headquarters announced that at- tacks have been made 24 out of the last 26 days, Allied planes flying from the Solomons to smash Jap (Continued on Page Three) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Back-stage riv- alry between Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Wallace, both possibilities as Vice Presidential nominees on a Roosevelt fourth L 8104, $ 15,000 i | | MORE SERIES {with that of last year, provides a [10 percent increase in the overall| {labor supply for the industry, ac- cording to Ralph Ferrandini, Field | Administrator for the Alaska area.| The coordinator leaves tonight for Washington to submit the plans | to Secretary of Interior Ickes and | {Ira N. Gabrielson, Chief of the| Fish and Wildlife Service | The consultant group has been in |session here since December 1, dis- | |cussing every angle of the indus-| try. On his return the coordinator | is going to Juneau to meet repre- sentatives of the United States iEmploymenL Service and War Man- | power Commission to discuss plans |for the enforcement of the man- i power quotas in the canneries. | | Ferrandini is official chairman of ‘lhc eonsultant group; W. C. Arnold | fof the salmon industry, presiding chairman; and August Buschmann, | lindustry, subchairmay. Other mem- bers are H. B. Friele, Joe Jurich,! placements and airfields on Wotje, | & Mili, Maloelap and Ailinglapalap atolls. The bombardment involved a total | of seven strikes during the day,| bringing to 17 the number of raids in three days. 1 All attacking planes returned de- spite anti-aircraft fire and inter- ception by Zeros. { Thirty Jap fighters attacked the ' U. S. Seventh Air Force of Mitchell | i medium bombers over Taro airdrome | and Maloelap atoll but all Mitchells | escaped after carrying out the at-! tack. One Zero was shot down. | NAURU ISLAND BLASTER PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 20.—The Seventh Air Force bombers resumed | the air offensive in the, K mid-Pa- cific by blasting Nauru Island west of the Allied-held Gilberts in a daylight raid, hitting Wotje, Mili and Maleolap atolls in the enemy- American troops of the Allied Fifth Army board a sonth-of Rome behind the German lines in Italy. | photo via OWI radio, from Mediterrancan theatre.) Allies March fo Boals \WEST.COAST m - AROUSED AT | forces are pushing north from Anzio {up the Anziate road and captured a |bridge two miles beyond Carroceto, | where the British routed a German {unit on Thursday. | The Allied forces are now about |19 miles southeast of Rome and 12 {miles north of Anzio. | The Germans launched heavy air attacks against shipping on the beachhead yesterday and again suf- |fered badly at the hands of the iAmed Air Forces. Twenty-one ene- |my planes were downed over the |area. Fourteen more enemy planes were {downed during a heavy bomber raid |on Ferrara. s A EVACUATION "OF BERLIN icket, was i st before 0 sh o {i‘maé'ffsj;,‘}f;v"fif"fi ol Guy Graham, Eric Fribrock, Wil-|held Marshalls. / B A8 s oy e liam Reynolds, Leo Kreielsheimer,| The raid on the phosphate pro- Southern Dcmoua!su a i‘) u;ne | |E. M. Brennan, Frank Marshall /ducing Nauru is the first since De- 5 z i R I I e Ak A gl x| lArchie Shiels, Guy Helferty, John|ember 28. No American losses are Y | burn as .e Spe' s g | Wise, Laurence Freeburn, and anl"p““"d by Admiral Nimitz on ‘l)l.‘~‘ g % to the fore as FDR's next running fraid. The raid on the Marshalls' . i 1 e mate. So when Northern Demo- | ; Gunderson. ts insisted that Wall 6 be| | was the 22nd consecutive daily at-| crats insis hat Wallace al |tack this month. One American PRSP AR, invited to speak, the usually genial Sam was boiling mad. Even in the reception room, just outside the ballroom, where Mrs. Roosevelt, Postmaster General Frank Walker and other honored guests assemb- led, the Speaker of the House was still swearing quietly under his breath. Wallace’s friends, in turn, had NEEDED NOW | Series E. bond sales today stood at $118700, but reports on sales made last night were not complete. Total sales reached the $302,667 /mark, but there was still a long {way to go in Series E if the $140,000 DECLINE IN SALMON PACK 1 ISEXPECTED dive bomber was shot down by ground fire at Mili. No Japanese fighter opposition s encountered®on any of the ds. Medium bombers started fires on, ground facilities at Wotje, and dive bombers and fighters bombed and strafed the airdrome installations and gun positions on Mili. | r ./ Demands for Retribution- Military Warns No Violence | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 | Vows of vengeance and demancs for retribution swept the war ci scious Pacific Coast today as the [RAF Bafllehib‘Erase Nazi | Capital Successful- . Yanks Hit Frankfurt LONDON, Jan. 29—The -Eighth American Air Force sent the great- *st number of heavy bombers in its urged that he shouldn't risk of-'ducta fekhis byt of DDl RN Heavy bombers dropped 20 tons " |reaction to the horror stories of history—well over 800—in a thund- fending the President by coming out be reached. = Lodge and il of explosives on the impbrtant Jap atrocities mounted to new °rous assault against industrial for the New Deal, which the Presi-| Juneau’s Masonic L i it ¥ {Taroa atrdrome at’ Maléolap atall heights | Frankfurt, even as Berlin smoked dent himself had declared dead.|Order of Eastern Star fake °‘°’\Co|d Wm'er of 1942_43 $ R A 143 feeling in many | "bd bumed anew from last night's | causing extreme damage. booth sales tonight, and tomorrow | second heavy Royal Air Force blow ;?r(;?;:zd :’&fé,.yu:.iefv ifeec‘:,lets;df:: {night, the j‘owmend Cluil)' ngneir: Blamed fOI’ POOT PI'OS- ‘ RSB E .. localities on the West Coast, home |, = "~ ‘= general effect that the age-old o.f Alas ,:‘ f“,“.l the Dm:i! A.s‘ agles . | i than 100,000 pf-rsom‘ of Jap Fighter escorts probably number- struggle between human rights and|%ill have charge of booth saes. | pafs jn S.E Alaska | ’ + that Lieut. Gen. Emmons, g geveral hundred, accompanied property rights was still continuing| Monday mglxt‘l "‘MC Ass'""‘A uon} [ i Western Defense Commander, cau-|qng assisted the Liberators and and would continue until human|Federal Employecs ORIt | | b L T | tioned against individual retaliation piying Fortresses in the blow on rights came out on top. {handle the booths. G b Dl et i in this country, stating “it will do| Frankfurt, Losses were not ame Without exactly saying so, he | 000/ 6a et Wnder that 0’( Tagt yea‘r,\ ‘ more harm than good.” 'nounced immediately angry citizens gath-| Swedish reports said the complete 'evacuation of burning Berlin is con- templated by the Nazis, who clamp- Meanwhile, ered on the street corners at Tule Lake, California, six miles from conveyed the impression 4 e weware VAST PROGRAM IS man or President had a trade-mark | !Ira N. Gabrielson, Director of the | Fish and Wildlife Service estimated, | on the name for that struggle, and that the “New Deal” had been pro- moted under Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt Wallace also decided to memorize his speech—much against the ad- ' MAPPED BY ICKES . FORPOSTWARER |and attributed the decline princi- \pally to severe weather. | 1 In his report to Secretary of the| | Interior Ickes, Gabrielson said the| |sharpest decline is expected in the| TRAP NAZIS | MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—Red Army the segregation center housing 15,- 000 Japs proven to be potential or suspected disloyalists, muttering re- newed demands that the military again resume control over the cen- ed a tight censorship on details of the second successive devastating RAF blow. “We have gone through one of the most horrible nights since the |pink salmon runs in southeastern|units west of Novgorod and but 20| WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Secre-| 1 5 ter. 3 : | Alaska, where the exceedingly cold |miles from the Leningrad-Pskov | # . . R il L8 tary of the Interlor Harold L. Tok®s) ;0 or 194343 is believed to have railway are smashing forward| South of Rome and behins e S UL Htaly. (AP Wirephoto | ppe war Department recently re- told tp;esfdzyteflr?::e:& o p‘:;ah b killed a large percentage of the|across country white with a new| Yis OWI radio from Mediterranean theatre.) |linquished control of the relocation ment Has: hluep |snowfall toward the last supply ar- S | camp. English raids of annihilation began against Berlin,” said the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet’s Berlin cor- vice of his close friends. It turned out to be a fighting speech, only flaw being that the Vice President got a few lines twisted near the end. However, that was nothing com- city enroute to transports which will carry them to a new landing " are blazing in the shattered city. he wrote, adding |that the Nazi censorship prohibited !him giving a detailed picture of the damage and the number of vietims. All the Swedish correspondents made i clear that the attack was (Continued on Page Three) GREEN AND LEWIS SHAKE One of the longest and bitterest| NEW YORK, Jan feuds in American labor history Japanese reaction to the United came to an end when William'States disclosure of brutal Japanese Green, President of the AFL, and treatment of war prisoners 1s from John Lewis, dynamic boss of the Tokyo, a Domei agency says the United Mine Workers—who parted information is for American con-} company in 1935—met secretly the sumption and the charges are a other day and decided to bury the «mere recurrence of the enemy’s hatchet. !vicious propaganda.” Here is the way close friends Of pis has been recorded by the the two labor chiefs reconstruct l.he‘ Federal Communication Commis- mesking: sion and Tokyo counter charges Temie sho?k s b Bt with stating “bestial acts of Lerroluf and el RUL either of ‘s’ I8 ism and inhumanity have been re-| peatedly perpetrated by the enemy.” ARGENTINA BREAK MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 29. — Gen. Arturo Rawson has resigned as Ar- gentina's Ambassador to Brazil as part of the upheaval of the Ar- gentina Government which has al- ready resulted in the resignation of works program, much of which | species. And at Manzanar relocation cen- stumbled. Nobody knew why Ray-1""y " pi "l 1 senort” Tokes said|large as last year. Normal runs are|Peipus. Lake Peipus forms part of burn had such a hard time. Heflz‘:‘he had planned power and irriga-|expected in western Alaska. | the Estonian border. | | not even use up all his radio period. | ;0 " piects which would keep|® Gabrielson predicted a pack of| With the Leningrad-Moscow line| At the same time, in Arizona | centers, guards were tightened and dent gave the explanation. ears, 225,000 at construction sites, | R RS 3 Or {the Leningrad-Vitebsk railway sev-| the internees were forbidden (0 “You told me T should 30' ’:fd':‘d‘zssmo at plants and factories to| g, M |ered by General Meretskov’s forces, orize my speech,” he gently cl provide materials for the jobs and‘Edllor whl'e and General Govorovs units astride N t rizona, Jap internees I i . ow on ar ron S’rundamnc(l the atrocities and said, dlda:m' F:xerde ‘;’:‘; :‘t?e ]g:;'e °:‘ zhe“’““ open farm settlement oppor-| {line, Red Army skimen pushed the “we have 200 men out in the Pa- TO KILL THE RAYT'_'ERS “’-am"it"::s e A gy iR tles Tor 160,000 families. | |drive close to the last bottleneck leific. If they fall into Jap hanas [CISREIIENIWNLLLLE spotllg T S T ' asses waymelow Leningrad. the speech, T would have had the - This bttle guer @istioult country |was above 20 and itll be higher in same tI m Rayburn had.” 2. e S 2 | AT SR 0 R S & Lk it 8%, 300 7i1he LaningrciVilelek ralmay 1o o uuownfi:x“N.c,{?:.\ ’n\;:]\ m? its first| In December of 1941 the census | William Allen White, 75, famous repetition of the Soviet strategy of ¥y | bureau recorded 171,356 births, about SHAKEUP Follows 29.—The lu'st;Edfl.or of the Emporia Gazette, died the autumn and winter in the' The census bureau’s files show aiavvram: for normal times, but by! White had been in failing henlth‘wns to cut the German communi- g vho fivst time in 1943. It came new babies had gone to 199,789.) for nearly a year and friends andicauons. lin October, when 199.775 babies|You can count on your fingers and! associates have known for some| Already cut off are the Germans | were porn. That's 5000 fewer than |see that's the first month that the ous. lingrad to Moscow railway, while t0|so far recorded for the year ! direct etfect on the size of a fam- The Editor's only son, W. L.'the south at Lake Ilmen another| But it's ill several thousand |11y’ White, made the announcement of;lm'ge body of the enemy at Staraya | higher th: the number of new| Mrs. White, the Editor's close as- of being isolated. Likewise the Rus-|nation’s homes in the vears before brought the bumper crop of war ¢ : i sociate in the operation of the(sian drive down the western shore| Pearl Harbor. For example, in 1040 babies, 214497 By that December three Cabinet Ministers and three Gazette for nearly half a century.jof Lake Tlmen toward Shimsk is|—a typical pre-war year—births|the birth rate had leveled off to a other officials since severance of, pared with the way Speaker Sam| .5, 0" o4 within 30 days| The outlook is better in central tery for all the Germans pinched . . i Rayburn, who read his speech,| oo yipory. | Alaska, where the pack may be as between Lake Iimen and Lake om In ar a Ies ter in Southern California, R. P. { | Merritt, project director, sald the jevacuees are very much disturbed.” [ Afterward, however, the Vice Presi- gg0 005 yoterans employed for three|5200,000 cases. |almost completely in Russian hands H!'s Slump; Men Are leave the ground " { At Rivers, Ari: one adviser. “But it was lucky I projects, the completion of which| “the Leningrad-Tallinn east to west a thing. If T hadnt memorized| 5 = they will be treated worse than the % ; i ocs | Americans.” | A FLIEGER | plFFlE' | |west of captured Peredolskaya on By, HOWARD I The | 1943. { s | EMPORIA, Kunsas, Bt iquietly at his home here today. |Ukraine where their constant mm:declme in one month’s fotal births|the next September the number of time that his condition was danger- in the Chudovo sector on the Len-|ip September and the lowest rate | outbreak of war could have had any his father's death. |Russa faced the distinct possibility babies which was arviving in the|The next month—October, 1942— was constantly with him during his aimed to reach the Stayaya Russo|averaged about 17 a month per 1,000 _ |diplomatic relations with the Axis illness garrison, population, By 1942 the average| Nations on last Wetinesday. BUY LUAR BOMIDS (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Four)