The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 5964. JUNEAU, ALASKA, 'IUES%Y FEBRUARY 1, 1944 US.FORCESINVADE, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AND ONMARSHALLS Navy Lands More Tro';bps in Battle for Rome NEW GAINS REPORTED ON ITALY FRONT 'War Drive Goes Over In Series E TAX MEASURE IS PROVIDING GIGANTIC SUM New Legislation Given Ex- Glee Clubof I(ekhikanlo Give (omerl QEDS REACH OATEWAYTO BALTIC SEA Plan Siripping Japan - ToPreventNationEver Becoming Great Power \ | EXTRA TWO ISLES IN PACIFIC —_ . . - Glee Club of H | 3 : . ; $388,522 N X o vl s S0ViElS Launch New: Of- venmitangs, o 15 M Blg Ofieflswe Sfafls Tom ert Dram“ for Fin- |from the First City sometime to- fensive in Dnieper [ pose a just but merciless peace on . d 1 E p g morrow for their concert on Thurs- enS|ve In n' pe | Japan is strengthened and hard- ||'IVBSIOn Bea(thB % | l A roval day evening, given free in conjunc< B d P ‘nm‘d by the enemy’s ruthless treat- 1 . ge h d | $320,809 ! al App tion with the Fourth War Bond| . end— roqress { ment of prisoners. i Airfields Smashe i i Drive. : ¢ | Some of the rapking authorities $ WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—A MeW| he concert, which will be con-|{ = BULLETIN—Moscow, Feb, 1. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN $315,000 {two_billion, three hundred fifteen | | million, eight hundred thousand dol- | lar tax bill, counted on to swell the ducted by Willlam Salt, will take! plage at the 20th Century Theatre, ~—The Red Army has captured . Kingisepp, Stalin anounced to- | PLEA MADE | are advocating a three-point pro- gram to strip the Japs of economic ability to ever make war again. for First Time Occupied ALGIERS, Feb. 1.—Allied troops | i ' ight i jal Ord f th | \ 0 302,667 beginning at 8:15 o'clock. Homer| night in a speci ler of e | The main points of the program bursting forward in a big °f§:’:5“"fk $30! { government’s total income to more | Garvin, manager of the Capitol, Day, by a “skillful outflanking |'would be to deprive the Japs of all A b A B ol B0 {than forty-three and one-half bil- | rheatre, has announced that his| ‘mancuver” and ordered a vic- f — | Beavy industries which can be read- | Japanese Territory struck the outskirts of }_‘:"‘W e°“;'} $268,267 {lion dollars a year, went to Iegis-| theatre will be closed Thursday[ tory salue of 12 salvoes from | Jap Mrociti G { Spof- | iy converted into munitions pro- : 16 miles southeast of Rome, an | lative drafting by experts and final | evening, 50 that everyone may at-| 124 Moscow guns. | p rocities ve po duction and also permit them to also have reached the edge of Cis-, | polishing before ratification by the| teng the musical affair. & A | I h operate no merchant marine or BULLETIN — Pearl Harbor, ':ml“v c";‘:‘;]‘“}fflzfi:: ::J:”;I:ant":‘;[ ‘IHO:“;EM Thel S:nage}:ppr:;e:o;o?xfi‘ Ketchikan's Glee Club will be BUL | 'g t In Senflfe Wlfh commercial air fleets and possess | ::b' :'_:::“'e“ S:I“"mm PPan ) [JeENaNoR IR, IBHY W augmented by a group of women; © S0 < i |no ships larger th: 1,000 Ve - inn on the rshalls Anzio. Campoleone is 15 miles above | conference committee has been | mggers of thxg cny% ang Sk e O COW,: Heb. Jeingith Demands Made mmdur') E o o near Roi Kwajalein and estab- the invasion point. | American troops attacking on the main front north of Cassino, have | hammered out new gains, and n‘ field dispatch said German defenses ‘ $191,161 $175,486 $165,343 named to thresh out the difrerences | of the two houses. | The measure proposes to raise imore than one billion dollars in sharply increased excise taxes, half hearsal is planned for tomorrow night. The concert will be given to stimulate the sale of war bonds | and stamps in this community. Germans a terrible beating, the ¥all of Kinisepp, eight miles from Estonia and last eastern outpost | ®f German defenses on the Bal- tic, is expected hourly as the Red 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. I'Reppa(- ‘ed failure of diplomatic efforts of |the Government to curb Jap st)o-' | cities has appmenuy left thousands The only hope still held out by lished beachheads, Admiral W. Nimitz reports this after- noon in a communique, the Japs putting up strong oppesition but the initial information indi- The proposals would also llmll (hem to fishing on a small scale for | trading and allow them to engage fully in farming and the necessary | support of the population. Marines, lfi;fitry Invade " on the corridor above Cassino are | i a billion dollars in extra corporate Army fought from house to These are ecoriomic mea ) sure tes merican casualties { beginning to crumble. | excess profits taxes and approxi- house after crossing the Luga 10(. lA n-wr\cam still ‘in e-n.Pn'?y handsH“ addition the Allies hnve":ir::: :: far :: m‘(lerrlA u'l i Units have reached to within half | mately $664,000000 in individual in-| lE ADERS 'N B ver. "Thtts & maw o matarad, |Fith scant hope of better trestument |11 AGSNGS. e Atles Basecharent| e fae M MERERRL L ‘ a mile of Cisterna, key rail and road junction, and site of a large air base. They found the Germam' (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round $104,312 $ 15,000 | icomes of taxpayers. The balance ! will be in higher postal rates. Senator Walter F. George of Geor- ! gia predicted final approval to- morrow. 'FRANCE IS SOUTH HIT WASHINGTON, Feb. James O. Eastland, of Mississippi, 1.—Senator defense barrier between the Rus- | sians and the big town of Natva, 14 miles west, according to an official statement issued by Lieut. Col. Denisov. MOSCOW, Feb. 1. — Ruh%lan troops, pushing rapidly west from Teningrad along the shores of the| Gulf of Finland, have reached the approaches to Kinisepp, gateway to the "Baltic. {some military leaders and Govern- ment experts is that Jap psychology of Tokyo militarists may soon see the handwriting on the wall. ! Step Up War Senator Dennis Chavez of New |Mexico demandéd the war in the Pacific be stepped up immediately ‘lnllnwmg up a speech in the Sen- ‘ate criticizing the withholding of | (the recent atrocity report for more He announced mak- ! | pire of conquest built up for half a vasion has been attempted in any territory the Japs have held before Pearl Harbor, Our troops are fighting te take the islands which the Japs * have been preparing for a quar- ter of a century, Admiral - century by aggression and to pun- ish the war criminals such as those responsible for the known Philip- | pine atrocities. PROTESTS UNANSWERED | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — The State Department discloses that 89 separate major protests and repre- séntations have been sent to Tokyo jover treatment of captured Amer- headed by Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, landed in Rei island | area, and the Seventh Infantry, sebiig: i than one year. By DREW PEARSON | said the administration's absentee | CGeDETal Govorvs =army Ses | Lo, aposeolgapie SRS 1. 10 Maj. Gen S ; ipassed Veimarn, 17 miles from the ing formal representation to Presi- " ' commanded by J . (Masor Robert 8. Allen o’ aetive ballot plan for the armed services Secretary of War|SiCc0sS: following last week's Army | ¢yyijog Orlett, landed in the WASHINGTON—It is an axiom that politics make strange bedfel- | lows, but even so, it would be strange indeed if Senator “Puddler Jim" Davis of Pennsylvania, long- time Republican and a member of | ~ UNDER RAID i Invasion Pomts Bombed in Long Confinued is a threat to “white supremacy in | the South.” He told the Senate the “boys from lhe South are fighting to maintain whue supremacy.” The Southern Senator spoke in opposition to the Green-Lucas bill which would send the federal ballot |border of Estonia on the railway dent Roosevelt, from Leningrad to Revel. General Popov’s second pre-Baltic front has maintained pressure from Novosok- get action now and the only way to . Corregidor. ilniki, approaching to less than 60 miles of Latvia along the Moscow- tanks and guns for Gen. Douglas| summary almost week by week in | Riga Railroad, although they en- countered alternate blizzards and thaws which made the advance dif-| Henry L. Stimson and . Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, asking “we answer the Japs is more plnnrw ‘Machthux " Petty Graft—Torture l {and Navy disclosures of horrors in- | flicted on Americans and Filipinos | who surrendered at Bataan and Kwajalein Island area. The plan of operation pre- sumably calls for securing the lightly defended islands near Kwajalein and Roi, then blast- ing at those two strong points of Kwajalein atoll, pnpurnldry to capturing them. The State Department issued a’ |efforts since the war began to get | Japan to live up to promises con- | The the Coolidge and Hoover tabinets,; 5 “ to men and women in uniform The State *Department revealed | cerning prisoner treatment. ran on the Democratic ticket. The Fourth War Loan zoomed A"’ O"enslve iaround the globe, and asserted the ficult. 189 protests have been forwarded to | latest protest went forward only last | Kwajalein Islapd has excel- However, exactly that may hap-| o 0€ %5 o ight as the | measure would unconstitutionally | A German communique said_the Japan through Switzerland during Thursday, the day the Army and| lent harbor, seaplane and sub- pen as a result of the decision O“Senes E quota was biotted out and | [ ONDON. Feb. 1. — Maintaining | I2vade states' rights to fix their | Russians have launched a big scale|the past two years covering mis- Navy reports were released. marine bases. ‘el a/ '3 own voting qualifications. attack in the Dnieper bend and| geeqs ranging from petty graft m Congress in the meantime criti- Roi has probably the best air- the Pew-Grundy GOP machine in Pennsylvania to dump veteran Sen-| ator Jim Davis in this year's Re- publican primary. Fantastic as it sounds, Demo- cratic leaders are seriously think- ing of “adopting” Puddler Jim as their candidate for Senator on a fourth term ticket in Pennsylvania. This would mean that presentl plans to run brilliant ex- -Congress- | man James McGranery of Pennsyl- vania, now assistant to the Attor- ney General, as Senator would have to be abandoned. However, don't be surprised if anything happens— especially if Roosevelt runs for a fourth term. Democratic leaders figure that Davis, because of his lodge connec- | tions, would make an unbeatablex combination with Roosevelt in the! Keystone State. The President total sales for this series hit $143.437, | (o 1moct sustained air offensive in compared to the $140,000 QUOta,| pigtory American heavy bombers while total sales far surpassed the | mached the French invasion, coast $315,000 quota—stopping last night | yesterday for the thirtieth Allied as- at $388,822. There are still two days of the drive to be run during the con- centrafed booth sales prégram, and | all sales made through February 15 will count ‘as Fourth: War Loan | sales, Tonight the Sons of Norway and | the Serbian Flag Socfety will take over booth sales, and tomorrow night the Chamber of Commerce and | the Douglas Firemen will end the booth sales. Members of the Chamber will be out to beat the $11,000 in sales | chalked up by the Rotary Club. On Thursday night, a celebration will be in order with the Ketchikan U. S. Coast Guard Glee Club en- hasn't been sounded out yet, butitertaining at a free concert open there is no reason to believe he will | to the public, especially those buying | frown on the proposal. bonds during the drive. The concert Davis is fighting mad at being!will take place in the Gross Twen- pushed overboard and is preparing,’ to run as an independent anyway if he loses in the GOP primary against Attorney General James Duff, the Pew-Grundy candidate.| Meanwhile, close friends say he. would welcome a bid from the} Democrats. i NOTE — The two Pennsylvania Senators, Joe Guffey and Jim Davis, though Democrat and Re- publican, have become bosom friends. Davis has gone down the| line for most of Roosevelt’s farexgni and war policies. POWERLESS COMMISSION The Interstate Commerce Com- mission’s official report on the re- cent Tamiami train wreck in North Carolina has now been made. But the inside fact is that the commis- sion 15 able to do no more than lay the report on the press table and go on with its business. It is not authorized by Congress to take any action either against the Atlantic @oast Line or the members of the crew whom it charges with negli- gence. If any action is taken, it must be tieth Century Theatre, donated for the night, and the Capitol Theatre will be closed. Meanwhile, Drive officials report that St. Ann’s Parochial School chil- dren, shooting at a quota of $125 in stamps and bonds, have so far reported sales totaling $1,016.70. L g sault in the area in one month. Bomb-carrying Thunderbolts drop- | ped loads on a Nazi airfield in Hol- | land. Thirteen Gérman planes were | destroyed. No bombrs were lost in the raid | but nine Allied fighters failed to return. ———— ' DR. SALAZAR BACK k AFTER MONTH'S TRIP Dr. Louis C. Salazar, Physician in Charge of the Government Hos- pital, is back from a month’s trip to Southeast Alaska towns. Dr. Salazar made calls at Ketch- ikan, Klawack and Hydaburg, be- fore returning to duties here. ——— | JIMMY SPRAGUE, 13, FRACTURES LEG IN SKIING ACCIDENT Jimmy Sprague, 13 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Sprague, suffered a fracture of the left leg The Senate met an hour earlier yesterday than usual, opening the | second week of debate on the bill. NO ROLL CALL up and be: counted,” the House today refused to provide a roll call vote on the legislation to create a uniform federal ballot machinery for the armed services, representing a severe setback for the federal ballot forces. The vote whether to have a re- cord roll cali was rejected 233 to| 160. Thus advocates of the “states rights” bill held the upper hand as the House began their four hours of debate on the sizzling issue. The decisive vote will likely be tomor- row. The Senate already passed the measure, tossing the problem back to the states, and is now consider- WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.~Bl'ush-i ing aside President Roosevelt's sug- | gestion that the members “stand' | | achieved one penertation. RS LATE FILINGS FOR OFFICES A last minute rush of candidates filed declarations today with the Territorial Auditor and Clerk of the District Court. Up to press time, the following filings were made: For Attorney General—Ralph J. Rivers, Democrat of Fairbanks and |Harry G. McOain, Republican of Ketchikan. McCain, who had pr viously filed for the House, with- drew his declaration today by wire and entered in the race for Attor-| ney General instead. Filing for Highway Frank Metcalf of Sitka Engineer, | on the| orture and in general, accused the | cized the government in waiting | aps of failure to either abide by|™MOre than a year to tell the official | | International agreements in treat- | 51T Of ""p‘m""e atrocities. | field in the Marshalls. WAKE ISLAND RAIDED | Democratic ticket. Filing for the Senate today was| Crystal Snow Jenne on the Demo- cratic ticket for the long term and ing new legislation. Casualties | fice of War Information reports that in a skiing accident Saturday after- noon below the first cabin on the Douglas- ski trail, He was taken to his home and attended by Dr. J. O. Rude. of On Sunday Jimmy went to the hospital for X-Rays, and later re- Are Listed iturned to his home to convalesce WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The Of-| 40 1o care of his mother. | THREE TO SKAGWAY - TODAY VIA ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Passengers on a flight to Emur-: sion Inlet today by the Ahskei Coastal Airlines were Bill McCoy, Leonard C. Allen, and John Steel. Flying to Skagway the plane took H. J. Anderson, Harold Peterson, casualties of the armed forces is as follows: dead, 33,153; wounded, 49,- 518; missing, 33,167, and prisoners, 29,898, which does not include the victims of known Jap atrocities. EARTHQUAKE ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 1. — A powerful earthquake destroyed the Turkish town of Gerede, 180 miles by the courts of North Carolina. Commission officials are distress-) ed that their authority is so weak. (Continued on Page Four) and William Ross. A. J. Fawcett and Nancy Poole east of Istanbul, killing and injur- \EMPANELING OF PETIT JURY ON | THIS AFTERNOON Empaneling of the petit jury was| taking place today as jurors wer to report this afternoon at 2 o’clock. One secret indictment wu.»‘i brought in by the grand jury and| two true bills. | Aaron Bean was indicted on a charge of first degree murder and indictments were also brought in against William Heitman, charged with assault with a dangerous wea- pon and James A. Watson, charged with forgery. Eugene LaMoore, who was in- dicted for allegedly selling liquor without a license, was arrainged| in the District Court late yesterday afternoon. —_—— - CAVANAUGH HERE | ing many of the 25,000 inhabitants. Tremors were felt throughout Tur- key. were pasengers on a trip to Ketch- [man William Cavanaugh is registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Holly- wood, L. 8. “Steve” Ferris of Ketchikan, Republican. For the House, Dr. G. A. Doelker of Jun e - F , also of | . z 4 NS and A. B..Galn, alsc o |Army printed atrocity posters wllll Juneau; John Olafson, Anthony Zoric' and Ragnar A. Hansen, the latter three of Ketchikan and all on the Democratic ticket. Filings in both the Auditor’s of-| fice and the Clerk of the Court end this afternoon at 5 o'clock. — .- SMITH IN JUNEAU In Juneau and registered at the Baranof, John Smith is here from Ketchikan. —— e - DEPUTY SID THOMPSON LEAVES TODAY FOR SITKA Deputy U. §. Marshal Sid Thomp- son left for Sitka on official busi- ness and is expected to be away for about a week. - e MRS. KEAY HERE Here from Ketchikan, Mrs. Keay is at the Baranof. e DAHL FROM PETERSBURG I. M. Dahl, Petersburg business man, is at the Baranof Hotel. W. M. wment of captives or even observe nn 'Intemanona] common law of de-| Thc protests were based on the! Philippine atrocities and flxeLuuon‘ {of fliers who were captured after, me Tokyo raid and also reports uf repatnateb GRS L PR ATROCITY ~ POSTERS NOW OUT { Circulation ‘Started in Fac- - lories of Country- WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The first | PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 1.—While the Tokyo radio asserted in veiled reports “Army” action in an invasion of the menaced Marshalls and ex- pundlng American naval and &ir of- i{fensive, this produced only official account of a strong raid on Wake Island and Army and Navy based at- tacks on the Marshalls, coordinat- ing with huge Task Force opera- tions. ‘The latest report tells of the Iowmg Adlon Take" tenth raid of the war on Sunday by Ufl"ed Sia'es Inight when between 14 and 30 Cor- | onado seaplanes hit on Japanese held Wake, less than 700 miles north of the Marshalls. SPAINMAY SEVER | RELATIONS WITH | AXIS, PREDICTION Franco Is on Hot Seat Fol- By Associated Press The prediction can diplomat that Spain will sever relations with the Axis this wee: in response to growing Allied pres- | sure. This focused attention sharply| trolled Rome radio broadcast an| is made by a| prominent unnamed South Ameri-} Raid On Wake Island Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said {all bombs hit in or near the target xuea and no planes were lost among H.wo squadrons in the Wake raid, |made on the night following the {land based bomber pounding of |to Madrid when the German con-|the Marshalls. The. Wake raid was undoubtedly { Prinfed for Army | assertion the Allies are threaten- timed to knock out the Japanese g to cut off shipments of food girfield and prevent reinforcements and other supplies to Spain. Ifor the Nipponese in the Marshalls Confronting Franco is the issue| or retaliation against the United soon be displayed in factories of the 'of “submit or fight.” country as distribution started of The United States has already | the ones already printed months ago |cut off oil shipments to Spain for | but withheld from circulation. he month of February and is re- { One of the two ready for ci" |eongidering relations with Madrid culation recites the execution of ;. “light of the trends of the Span- | some of the captured Tokyo raiders. l1sh’ poliey” ‘an ed by Wi g The other poster recites the bay- policy” announc y Washing- | onetting of wounded in New Georgia | last summer. The latter is prim.ed“ | in black, red and yellow and shows a | drawing of Jap soldiers slashing at a ' | sagging form of a wounded Amer- | | ican soldier leaning against a palm | ! *“This’ isn't | ——— SlO(I( OUOIATIONS tree under a caption: NEW YORK, Feb. 1. — Closing | war; it is murder.” quatatmn of Alaska Juneau mine The poster is based on a news, !stock today is 6'«, American Can story written on July 27 by J. Nor- {86, Anaconda 247, International | man Lodge, Associated Press War Harvester 73, Kennecott 30z, North | Correspondent, |American Aviation 9, New York ——————— (Central 17, Northern Pacific 144\, MRS. SNODGRASS, SON, HERE | United States Steel 52%, Beach Stopping over in Jumeau before |AITCIaft 10, Bethlehem Steel 69, continuing to Wrangell, Mrs. W. B. | |Curtiss Wright 5%. Snodgrass and son are guests at! DOW, Jones averages today are the Baranof. They are registered |as follows: from Anchorage. |26.34, utilities 22.63, industrials 137.45, rails| States naval forces ip the central Pacific, Kwajalein was probably the most important enemy base in the man- dated islands hit the hardest. Li- berators dropped 45 tons of bombs Iht'le Fierce Fighting Fierce fighting is reported in the |mandnted islands according to the | Tokyo radio broadcast, in one of the enigmatic broadcasts which |might mean anything. Tokyo may have been giving a lefthanded hint the American ground forces have launched the long threatened in- vasion of the mandated islands or !may have referred only to opera- |tions of air raiders. | - eee (CLARENCE OLSON TO CHICAGO PFisheries Supervisor Clarence L. Olson is enroute to Chicago for conferences at the main office. He expects to return to Juneau before the end of the month.