The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —_— —_— ey ATTU VETERANS LAND IN MARSHALLS Dutch, Aussies Beat Off Sudden Jap Attack ALLIES GET CANDIDATES Booth Sales ALLIES TEAR fAlaska Goes Taxless, Says |LIGHTNING (L. S. FORCES CONTROLOF | THROWHATS | Drivelo End 'OPENGUSTAV"" Governor in GivingReporf | ASSAULTON = ADVANCE AT cOAST LINE INTO RING ThisEvening LINE IN ITALY! To Secrefary of Inferiorr MARSHALLS KEY POINTS o SR e o ol R TR R Invasion Forces Reach Piv- 3 Many Seeking Nomination |But Fourth War Loan Con- British Traops Fighting af| ‘ : Nippon Barge-borne Sol-|" 4o, Territorial, Divi- finues Through Campoleone, 16 Miles WAR PROFITS o ola} Areds A1 « diers Killed in Attack . : % ; rificBombardment sional Offices Feb. 15 Below City of Rome fiA RE H"' BY: ki VOL. XLIL, NO. 5965. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Lack of an adequate tax structure in Alas- ka is reported to Secretary of In- Harold L. Ickes by Ernest | Gruening, Governor of the Terri-| tory. Ten Islet Beachheads Are Quickly Taken — Navy Aids Invading Forces worthy of the name,” the Governor | By PHILLIP REED said. “It’s tax structure is a patch- Representing the Combined Amer- | ican Press Associations J With one big night of booth sales | left in the concentrated Fourth | War Loan Drive campaign for Ju- {neau and Douglas, the grand total in all bonds bought today stood at|miles of the strong Gustav Line, $413,653, of which $147,768 was in!and are advancing deeper in the | Series E sales. (grim struggle to the west of the Although complete reports from | Anzio bridgehead. other Alaskan cities have not yet| Allied invasion troops threw back been tabulated, it was fairly certain | a strong German counterattack west | that the Territory’s quota would be | of Littoria, and supported by tanks | reached. In the States, however, and artille: advanced in some ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Feb. 2—American and French troops, converging north of Cassino, have torn away several | the Dutch and Australian soldiers|year term of Senator; Curtis Shat- | on Monday smashed an attack of tuck who also arrived from Fair- of naval might, United States forces QUARTERS 1IN ] south coast extends 150 miles beyond |Capt, James V. Davis, who arrived | tive undeveloped wilderness.” | KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Feb. 1.—(De- | tion. el line and many corporations, part- CADtUring ten islet beachheads and | Pacific. barge-borne Japanese on the Allied panks where he attended the Demo- | 'n New Gu"lea 257 RAGIT PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 2.—Bul- Filing of candidates for Territor- warked by more than 2,000,000 tons ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-|ial and Divisional offices, subject| i J NEW GUINEA, to the April 25 primaries, closed at 4 S E (v l ( K E S< invading the Marshalls now hold Feb. 2.—Disclosure that Allied con- |5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ® |oped since the days when the Ter-| ON BOARD THE JOINT EX.- | the back door route to Japan as trol of the Dutch New Guinea’s| Just before the closing hour, |ritory was a district and a ptimi- ' PEDITIONARY PLAGSHIP AT |thev battle for Kwajalein, key posi= the Papuan border is contained inlby plane from the south just an| B'unfly ]'e”s FIShlng | - | The Governor also said there was layed)—The Army and Marine am- | uSci stl;ntf:;;‘ic :,immezocm;qu::: :::f the headquarters report, and that hour previously, filed' for the four| [no corporate or personal income Phibious troops yesterday completed oxr::::z n:;o sqfllre :nilegphi the mide dush-y '0 Up Produ(_ |tax, no sales tax, no tax on gaso-, @& series of lightning assault strukes,.p post at the mouth of the Eilanden | River, which is about 600 miles| northwest of Port Moresby. | About 60 troops of the barge-borne i Jap forces were killed in attemming! the deepest southward penetration | the Dutch New Guinea. The spokeman for Gen. Douglas | MacArthur said three barges, prob- | ably constituting a scouting party, | were sighted in the early morning hours. They were attacked by the ground forces and the three barges | were sunk and it is believed all| aboard were killed or wounded. Later, another barge appeared and was also sunk. Three other | barges, coming up later, were forced to retire. | (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ' (Mator Robert 8. Allen on setive duty.) cratic Territorial Convention, filed for the House, and E. L. Bartlett threw his hat into the ring as a candidate for Delegate. All three filed on the Democratic ticket. Two women filed late yesterday afternoon, both from Douglas, and both for the House, Mrs. Edith |Barrass as a Democrat, and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom as a Republican. ‘Territorial filings complete, are as follows: 4 DELEGATES Democrats — A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan; Henry Roden and E. L. Bartlett, both of Juneau. Republicans—George .. B. Grigshy i""d John E. Manders, both attorn- eys and both of Anchorage. AUDITOR Democrat—Frank A. Boyle, cumbent, of Juneau. Republican—Dr. Will H. Chase of Cordova. ATTORNEY GENERAL Democrat—Karl Drager of An- chorage, and Ralph J. Rivers of Fairbanks. Republican—Harry Ketchikan. HIGHWAY ENGINEER in- G. McCain of | sales were lagging amd there was | still a long way to go. Meanwhile, drive officials urged | continued purchase of bonds through | February 15 to really stack up a record in sales for .the Gastineau Channel area. i Tonight the Chamber of Com- 'merce and the Douglas Firemen will handle booth sales and the total is expected to take a big.jump. Large purchases in the Territory’s cific American Fisheries, $100,000 by the Standard Oil Company of Cali- fornia, $40,000 by the Alaska Pack- ers’ Association, $25,000 by the Al- aska Salmon- Company, and-$2,000 by the Kadiak Fisheries. Standard Oil purchases were :red- {ited to Alaskan communities as fol- | lows: “ Anchorage, $20,000; Juneau, Fair- { banks and Ketchikan, each $15,000; Seward, $7,000; Cordova, $5,000; Sel- | dovia, $2,500; Kodiak, $3,000; Sitka, |$5,000; Petersburg, $6,000; Wrangell, |$4,000; Craig, $2,500. ESTONIA IS | i | | WASHINGTON—It has now been| Democrat—W. Leonard Smith of | exactly one ¥ since the American people watched | a cat-and-dog fight between the, French followers of General De Gaulle and the followers of vichy.g in which the State Department! doggedly stuck by the Vichyites. It was a bitter battle, not only among the French, but with the American - press -taking sides, and | with caustic criticism hurled at the| State Department for cooperating | with appeasers and abandonifig the - four freedoms. Nevertheless, Sec- | Republican—E. F. Wann of Fair- banks. DIVISIONAL SENATE Democrat—Capt. James V. Dav's, Joe Green, Crystal Jenne, of Ju- | {neau; N. R. Walker and Andy| Gundersen of Ketchikan. Republican — Howard D. Stabler, of Juneau and L. S. (Steve) Ferris of Ketchikan. DIVISIONAL HOUSE Democrats ear and three months Nome, and Frank Metcalf of Sitka. | INVADED BY i | RUSS FORCES Red Army Now in Control Entire Southern Shore | | drive so far include $500,000 by Pa- | Curtis Shattuck, Dr. G. A. Doelk-; Of Finland Gu" areas. British troops are fighting hard near Campoleone, only 16 miles be- low Rome, and American units are | terna, 14 miles northeast of Anzio. the Germans are still building up a large force near the beachhead, but reinforcements are being poured in, and it is now 14 miles long and eight miles deep on the average. A Berlin broadcast estimated that 250,000 men are engaged on both | sides at the bridgehead. — e, (UNALASKA 1. - MERCY TRIP - DISCLOSED By NORMAN BELL Associated Press War Correspondent ALEUTIAN BASE, Feb. 2—On a night so wild Lt. A. B. Carson, Oak- i land, Navy medical officer and his assistants sometimes got down and | crawled against the wind in the |snow over Flattop Pass, Unalaska Island, last November 20 and 21, a trip was made across the island from Dutch Harbor to reach and treat Jess Breckenridge, dangerous- | ly ill with appendicitis, with a Sea- bee unit of a small Army garrison. The feat was disclosed in an an- i nouncement of letters of commen- | by Admiral Fletcher. It was so stormy that day the at grips with the enemy near Cis- | A headquarters officer declared | WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — “To a igreat many Americans this has been an exceedingly comfortable {wai” said Secretary of the Inter- ! to lambast war profits. “I can remember a few years /back when it was widely said that) (if we ever had another war, there! would be no profits. Look at us, now. All that is missing is the candy-striped silk shirt,” continurdl‘ | Ickes. | ! Raps Fish Industry I } The Secretary, addressing thej fihing industry representatives s, Coordinator of Fisheries, blumtly: told the fishing leaders gathered| ito discyss the year's program that| he fell industry had not done| its best last year. He recalled it was told it must produce more than ' six billion pounds of fish and shell| fish, and production was somewhat iess than four billion. Ickes said this year many handi- caps are removed, submarines driv- jen off, a good many vessels being | returned by the Navy, and nearly| 600 new fishing boats have been built; and if the industry doesn't| up production substantially, “it will lack adequate excuse.” Ickes Makes Threat It would be impossible to tell, he | continued, whether the full author- ity of the Coordinator which has| been unused to date, would be in- voked, but promised not to take |drastic steps without fully consult-! ing the industry. “ Ickes said the authority was used | | \ | California sardine industry,” which is now “subject to the coordinated enjoying a substantial income with- in the Territory who pay no taxes whatever. The Governor further said Amer- ican steamship companies, whose a single cent of tax to the Terri- tory The Governor also said some fifty million dollars worth of gold leaves the Territory every year without any tax whatever, Ber-lih’I‘s. 2 Dead City Is Reporl RAF Mosqui?t);s Raid Rui ed German Capital Again Last Night LONDON, Feb. 2. — Royal Air Force Mosquitoes bombed and stab- bed Berlin last night, and set the air raid sirens howling over the de- vastated German capital for the fourth time in six nights. The fleet of raiders also attacked other tar- gets in western Germany. ‘The British Air Ministry disclosed that the RAF loosed 7500 tons of explosives on Germany ni Janu- | dation awarded him and his men | cXtensively only in “the case of the ay to preak all monthly records | to date. assaults on the main enemy strong- holds of Kwapalein, Roi and Namur | islands, pivotal bases of the Jap held Marshalls. ' | Resistance was light or non-exist- ent on the opening day operations jor Harold L. Ickes, who pl'uueeded}enme business 1s _“’ ““d‘ from Al- gang casualties were extremely light. {aska, and one outside port, pay 1ot More than 40 Japs were slain and | a number were captured. The enemy is now defending the three islands with all available forces against the greatest war flees in history, with hundreds of planes of all types, plus a record concen- tation of land-based artillery. | Fighting continued all | churning e palm hooded coral islands. ] , clouds of dust and great wavering i pillars of smoke, thousands of feet rhigh resulted from the all-out of- fensive of blasting a hole in Japan's prewar stolen empire. More than 4495 tons of shells, enough to fill 288 freight cars, were ‘oousumed in a deadly three-day | bombardment by afr and sea. | The attack decimated the Japs' jacriil strength and not a single | iplane was sighted during the as- ]ault aimed at Kwajalean Island ! | proper. The northern assault forces at Roi and Namur, however, shot down 18 enemy planes and destroyed or damaged 50 enemy planes on the ground. PREPARE ~ JAPS FOR night, | Stockholm dispatches quoted trav- | Gen. Harry Schmidt went ashore to | the north and won the islet positions near the enemy's Roe air base at | the end of Kwajalean, the world's | largest atoll after terrific bombard- | ment. Nearly 60 miles south, infantry { veterans from Attu in the Aleutians, | under Maj. Gen. Charles Corlett, | landed close to, Kwajalean's heav- | 1ly defended shipping, seaplane and | submarine base,. struck the fortified | center and western Ralik line in the | Marshal atolls, bypassed the east- ern Rakad line as well. Those atolls inorth and south of Kwajalean are | now placed in such a position, | Rear Admiral - Richmond. Turner, téommanaing the amphiblous opera- | tion, said that “we can either take |them or let them wither on the | vine.” The Naval forces under Vice Ad- /miral R. A. Spruance, Commander tof the Central Pacific, have been assembled from Alaska, Hawail, |California, Ellice Islands, New He- brides, and Australia and the Na- val-Army personnel carried em- braces veterans in action in the Aleutians, Solomons, Gilberts, Af- rica and Sieily. Rear Admiral Turner, command- er of the amphibious forces said: “This is going to be tough. We will lose some ships. We will lose some |troops. We won’t come back until we've finished the job.” Then the men took off for shore, One pilot returning his plane to a carrier sald: “Wherever we have (Confim rage Two) — e retary Hull stuck with Vichy. | In view of all this, it is a matter of considerable importance that er, A, B. Cain and Chris Hennings | of Juneau. John Olafson, Anthony Zorich, BAD News BOLD HIT barometer at Dutch Harbor dropped Pilchard production plan. | ellers arriving from Berlin as saying | to the lowest record. Travel by “We expect to make a full sur- the German capital is a “dead city,” | air or boat was impossible. |vey of the effectiveness of this plan|and more attacks on the scale of | MOSCOW, Feb. 2. — The Red Army west of Leningrad is pressing General Eisenhower, supreme com-' mander for the invasion of Europe, has recently been back in the United States with a private con- fession that the pro-Vichy policy; was all wrong. General Eisenhower is now 100 percent behind General De Gaulle. Furthermore, U. S. Ambassador Ed Wilson, an able and shrewd ob-| server, who has represented the State Department in North Africa, is reported by friends to agree em- phatically with General Eisenhower. They feel that De Gaulle represents the overwhelming majority of the people of France. | Eisenhower, being a military man,| not a politician, did not understand | French politics when he invaded‘ North Africa. However, as he nears| the time when he will invade West- ern Europe, he has to figure on| getting the support of the French | people. He knows that De Gaulle| is the man who can deliver that| support. 1 | i | ITALIANS HATE KING ! Doubtless Eisenhower also has in} the back of his mind the disap-| pointing experience he had wnhi Italian troops. Allied leaders hafl‘ hoped that, once their working, Ragnar A. Hansen, Wilford Stump of Ketchikan. Carroll Claussen of Petersburg. | Andrew Hope and W. R. (Ted) |progr Carter of Sitka. Mrs. Edith'Barrass of Douglas. Fred Hanford of Wrangell. Frank Peratrovich of Klawack. J. H. Sawyer of Windham Bay. Republicans Samuel Feldon, Steve Vukovick, Anita Garnick and Edmund Krause of Juneau. & C. J. Sullivan of Skagway. Frapk Price of Sitka. Mrs. E. E. Engstrom of Douglas. Ralph Bartholomew and H. W. Benolken of Ketchikan. FOURTH DIVISION Senate Two# year Senator—Republican — Andrew Nerland and Harvey Gar- net. Democrat—Herbert S. Fink. Four Year Senator—Democrat— Leo Rogge, Stanley J. Nichols. Republican—John Butrovich, Jr.. John H. Jones, George E. King, Fred D. Crane. House Republican—Maurice T. Johnson,‘ a strong campaign at Libudte, Es- tonia, after seizing the border town of Keikino, and has made swift ess' down the broad highway and railroad which parallel each {cther between captured Kinisepp |and Narva. The Russians now control the entire southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, giving the Baltic fleet the ‘opportunity to participate in the land campaign as they did in lifting the seige of Leningrad. | Narva, on the west bank of the |Plissa River five miles inside Es- tonia, would be one of the greatest prizes of the offensive. WOMEN SINGERS WILL PRACTICE TONIGHT AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Members of the Coast Guard Glee Club, who were to arrive late this | afternoon, will practice tonight with {the local women singers who are | to appear with them in concert to- | morrow evening. The practice will begin at 7:45 lo'clock and ‘is being held in the BRIGGSSAYSHE | IS NOT GULTY, HOPKINS LETTER WASHINGTON, “Feb. 2—Georg: Briggs pleaded innocent to the| charges he forged the celebnted! “Hopkins’ letter,” in appearing to! ans the ' federal indictment which alleged the forgery was a | defraud. Briggs, who is 55 and a former | the charges. HULL HAS SECRET INFORMATION ON BOLIVIA REVOLT false pretense to use the mails to! newspaperman, and Ickes confiden- | | tial aide, entered a disclaimer of all son beginning in August,” the Sec- retary concluded RISSUES AUTONOMY T0 16 MEMBERS 'Soviet Union Set-up Now Equivalent o British Commonwealth | MOSCOW, Feb. 2.-The Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament) has adopted unanimously the proposal | (of Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav | Molotov giving the 16 individual Re- | publics within the Soviet Union their own Commissariats of National | Defense and Foreign Affairs with | the right to raise their own army | before continuing it the next sea-| those of the recent ones would fin- ish it completely. 5 S Mal Stephenson Is New Extension Man| For Southeast Alaska KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 2— Mal Stephenson, hew Extension leader for southeast Alaska, is go- ing to Petersburg for three days, then back to Ketchikan Monday 1S MADE IN ~ MARSHALLS 'Invaded Atolls Bombed for Weeks Before Troops Swarm Ashore PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 2. — The {Nippon Nevjsapersfioing“ | fo Let Readers Down Easily on Marshalls (By Associated Press) Japanese newspapers are prepar- ing the readers for bad news from the Marshalls, the Berlin broadcast indicated. } The German Transocean agency ‘said in a dispatch datelined Tokyo | }Lhat a “report from imperial head- ‘quarters published Monday, which referred to a large-scale Allied at- landing of the United States troops on Roi and Kwajalein atolls, in the for a week’s work before leaving/tack on the Marshall Islands on Deart of the Marshalls group, the for his in Ju- neau. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 2. — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, Anaconda 25, new headquarters | Beach Alrcraft 10, Bethlehem Steel 60;, Curtiss Wright 57, Interna- tional Harvester 73’2, Kennecott 30%, North American Aviation 9, New York Central 17'z, Northern Pacific 147, United States Steel January 30 caused special interest and arrested the attention of the |Japanese people. This would be a regrettable loss for the Japanese people if the Marshalls were taken by our enemies.” Tuesday's Nichi Nichi printed a story about the attack and said “the mere fact the enemy was able to attack the Marshall Islands must not be taken too lightly.” Transocean said Admiral Shim- ada, Naval Minister, told the Diet Tuesday the “fighting continues in the Marshalls.” first invasion every attempted in any territory the Japs have held I before Pearl Harbor, was covered by a continuous heavy aerial bom- bardment of the entire Marshall |group by carrier aircraft and sur- face forces, The Fourth Marine division head- ed by Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, landed in Roi Island area, and tne |Seventh Infantry division, com- ymanded by Maj. Gen. Charles Or- ilett, landed in the Kwajalein Island area. The Americans struck at the very WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Secre- The gravity of the action in the N€art of the archipelago, both from Marshalls is recognized today by|® 8¢0graphically and vulnerable ; R # |standpoint the Mainichi published at Osaka,' 5 one of the most influential news- | Rolos i Eprstion {papers, saying “the Japanese home- | 1Y 1S Possibly the boldest big op- 521%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 137.08; rails,| 36.80; utilities, 22.57 - - — i g R agreement with Marshal B“dwl“’jl" P., Colbarl, Ir\(mg MEE ' | Northern Light Presbyterian Church was arranged, they would get real|Albert F. Dorsh, Jr., Chester Moyer, | L |instead of the Lutheran Church. support from the Italian Army. It Henry P. Karstens, Patrick Savage/| i VR e P was hoped that Italian troops would ' Democrat — Mrs. Alaska Linck, | IN FROM INTERIOR turn round and fight the Nazis. Frank Agnerman, Victor Johnson, i tary of State Cordell Hull, replying | formations and to deal directly with to a press conference query, con- | other countries. firmed the existence of a secret| The Supreme Soviet also elected | United States document cunmmmg‘m’“’“‘" Secretary of the Trade charges respecting the revolution-| U1ionS, First Vice-Chairman of its |eration in the Paeific war, but'not However, this didn’t happen. One reason it didn't happen was the fact that the Italian Army had | no new leadership, nothing new to| fight for. Badoglio was the great| friend of the King and, for a long' time, he had taken orders from M. Badger, Robert Hoopes, H. F. Hoerler, Harry Jesse D. Lander, Thomas A. Jones. SECOND DIVISION House Democrat — George P. Madsen, (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Six) | In from Fairbanks, J. A. Single- ton registered at the Baranof. i b o susnasd FROM SAN FRANCISCO E. P. Marks is at the Baranof, having registereC. from San Frau- cisco, |ary government of Bolivia, presum- ably in its relation to Argentina Hull declined to reveal the con- tents, but said the United States and 18 other American nations be- gan -exchanging information after the Bolivian government was over- thrown last month, | Presidium, an office amounting to | Vice-President of the country, the | | name proposed by President Michael | | Kglinin, SIGNIFICANT MOVE LONDON, Feb. 2 The Soviet SADIE FENTON HERE Here {rom Sitka, Sadie Fenton is at the Gastineau. B HERE FROM PELICAN At the Gastineau, Martha Walker (Continued on Page Six) is in Juneau from Pelican. |land is directly linked up with these mandated islands which form the outer front line of the Japanese Empire. The enemy must be beaten back even at the greatest of sacri- tices." i — e BUY WAR BONDS |a suicidal strike as might appear. For weeks the Seventh Air Force !bombers struck daily, often at Imgm. at the Jap airfields, and done |50 consistently that Gen. Willis !Hflle recently reported all was neu- (Continued on Page Two)