The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 5972. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIES ON DEFENSIVE ON BEACHHEAD Trip Hammer Blows Agam Smash at Rabaul U.S. Destroyer Burns Sinks Four Jap Ships SUBMARINE ON SURFACE IS BOMBED Gun Position_sinmked Out -Airdromes, Airstrips Are Damaged 1 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. 10. — Aircraft from the Solomon Islands airfields have given more | trip hammer blows on the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain, and scored a direct hit on a surfaced submarine in the harbor, down- ed 12 planes and also spread 129i tons of bombs on the two airdromes, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces. The communique tells of a Mon- day raid in which torpedo dive bombers struck the Vunalanau and Tobera airdromes, destroying or damaging 26 gun positions and seven parked aircraft, and tearing the airstrips. Anti-aircraft fire was intense be— " (Continued on Pm “Two) The Washingten Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — The fathers’ draft has brought on a new series of complaints about “wasted man- power” in the armed services sta- tioned in the U. S. A. Pending a call to action, a feel- ing of idleness and waste becomes a demoralizing factor. The men on the home front generally suffer from the age-old service disease of “just waiting around.” The type of thing that happens in the waiting period is illustrated in a confidential survey made at the Naval dirigible station at Lake- hurst, N. J.,, which brought forth the following facts. « 1. The Navy uses 100 to 115 men to handle a blimp when it lands, whereas Goodyear handles the same blimp with 15 civilians. 2. As at any shore stations, duty usually consists of 24 hours on, 24 hours stand-by (which means wait- ing around to see if anything hap- pens), then 24 hours liberty. Then this is repeated. Many men com- plain that the 24 hours of loafing "at stand-by could be used for some constructive type of work. 3. More than 1,000 civilians are employed to reconditions ships at high rates of pay, while enlisted men who could do the job and need the training lie around idle. 4. A high wire fence, guarded by armed sailors, surrounds Lakehurst. Then, inside the fence, a Marine guards the outside of each hangar. Then,. inside the hangar, two civil- jans also stand guard. 5. The Lakehurst commissary,| which handles about 100 customers| per day, is staffed to handle about' 1,000. It has ten clerks, two com- missioned officers and one cashier. Any civilian groceryman plus an assistant could easily handle the whole business. Multiply Lakehurst’s wasted man- power by the Navy's many Olherw shore stations and it runs into thousands of men. Note:—The men themselves are not to blame. Most of them chafe at inactivity, want to see action. EFFECT ON THE MEN | One significant indication of how| glutted the Navy is with manpower is in the boot-training camps, de- signed to transform a civilian mwi a sailor. This training used to last! three weeks. Now it has been run-| ning four months or more. And at- ter finishing this boot-training,| thousands of men lie around for months in OGU’s (outgoing units) awaiting assignment to a school or other activity. (Continued on Page Four) | American 0f Convoy on Patilicj 10. — The wiped as the WASHINGTON, Feb. destroyer Burns out a four ship Jap convoy | American forces swarmed into the| | Marshalis the Navy 10 days ago, announces. The sinking of the Jap convoy occurred January 31 The Burns, 2,100 tons, launched in the fall of 1940 at Charleston, S. C., with Donald Eler of Petersburg, Va. as Commander, was accompany- ing a carrier task force and was assigned to the Central Pacific in- vasion fleet Lemporaul'» She was | tanker, separated from the task force to pick up navy fliers forced down at sea. Returning to her tion, she sighted four assigned sta- Jap ships, two smaller craft. Opening up with five inch guns the Burns sank them all. Commander Eller already wears ribbons for the second Nicaraguan | campaign, Yangtze Valley cam- paign and for actions at Casa blanca, Wake and the Gilberts. Hi wife and son, elgh( FOR SERVICEMEN ONlY LOOKING AT YOU through a St. Valentine’s wreath of roses is lovely Sara Ann McCabe, musical comedy singing star. She sent copies of this photo as a St. Valentine's Day greeting to 500 servxcemen. Sara urges everybody to mail their greeung cards early. Sly (aplam Slye Puls 10,000-fon At Whi BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — The | full story can’t be told yet, for rea- Ship Right fe House Doors| recent weeks or even days. Add to this that the U.S.S. Mar- |iner was about twice the size of medium cargo vessels and) live at Miami.| ~~ | maining hold BRUNSWICK HIT AGAIN, HEAVY RAID ‘Holland Air Base Pounded | —Also Military Points ! in France { LONDON, F‘PI) 10.—United States | heavy bombers today attacked tar- Igels at Brunswick in Central Ger-| |many. Fortresses flew the 450-mile Ipath to the German manufactur- |ing center, and the Berlin radio jdeclared that savage fighting ds- veloped. | At the same time formations of [lemalors smothered the big Nazi fighter base at Gilze Rijen, Hol~ lland, and strong forces of U S. Marauders flew against military |installations in northern France. | The Gilze Rijen attack probably knocked out many enemy fighters which would have been in the air |against the Brunswick attack if Inct otherwise engaged. | In the January 11 attack on Brunswick, Oscherleben and Hal- berstadt, the Yanks lost 60 heavy bombers, but shot down 152 Nazi | fighters. The heavies went back 1o | Brunswick and Hesunover on Jan- | uary 30 and shot down 91 enemy 'atreraft, losing 20 bombers. Several aircraft parts and as- |sembly -plants are situated - at Brun.,vsick a city of 200,000. R e NEW BLOWS “ ARELANDED, | | room.” Note entrenc | MARSHALLS .. [Navy Announces Atfack on Tuesday But Targefs Not Identified PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 10.—New and secret blows on Japan's re- on the Marshall Islands are being struck by United | States Air Forces but because of |Japans communications with iso- |lated garrisons in the Marshaus ‘probably disrupted, the Navy De | | partment has adopted a policy of no | identifying the targets. \ Bombs and shells were poured on |the targets Tuesday in the newest‘ air and ship attacks but only Jaluit | Atoll is named. Jaluit has already been attacked 16 times tth year. MADANG IS v ciated Press war correspondent, Wallace lashes HEALTH DEPT. WANTS REPORT ON CASES HERE The Health Department is at- tempting to discover the cause of an unusual number of cases of in- the past few days, Dr. George Hays, Director of the Territorial Depart- 'ment of Health, stated today. According to reports NAZIS SAY THESE ARE CAPTURED YANK AIRMEN THESE FOUR FLIERS, according to the Nazi propagandists, are Americans who were forced down and captured during Allied air raids on Germany. The caption accompanying the photo, which was received through a neutral source, described the men as “terror fliers” without stating why the term was employed. It dld not mention the names of the four men. This is an exclusive photo. EW GUINEA ‘PRESS ROOM'—_gill Boni, Asso- American landings at Saidor, New Guinea, in his al fresco “press Business;(ommenis on Two Needs for Alaska testinal disturbances evident during s there are| TASKFORCE, NO.PACIFIC, IS DARING Display of Dash Revealed ~Sea and Air Units’ in Teamwork By NORMAN BELL 4 ABOARD A DESTROYI|? IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, Feb. 4.— | (Delayed)—The first American nav- al bombardment of Japan which I witnessed on the top platform of this destroyer was a fine display of | a dash and daring task force of the Pacific Fleet. Hundreds of tons of shell were sent crashing into the Paramushiro Islands, especially at the southern | tip and this also demonstrated the Japanase navy is now unable to con- trol even the home waters. Not a single enemy fighting shlpl or fighting plane was sighted dur- ing the entire mission. Another noteworthy blow was struck while our fleet was busy sup- porting the amphibious invasion of | the Marshalls in the Central Pacific, by maintaining pressure against the | enemy in the south and southwest | Pacific. The mission, of which this de- stroyer was a part, carried the task | force within 600 miles of Kakadlo,. SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Lashing out one of two main Jap islands. at pressure groups without National Fine coordination between the viewpoint and what he termed Wall sea and air forces should be men- Street practice and scarcity of tioned concerning the attack on | econcmics, Vice-President Henry A, Paramushiro as well as other op- | Wallace last night wared that “so €rations and teamwork is remark- | called hard headed business men 3D b;""ee:“ the sea fleet and Alr will exist after this war but they, ‘\!18 Pour in the Alaska-North Pa- r:tuxs;yngrgn?s Jet to lead the world| 'y ooping back at the fading hills b ' 4 of Paramushiro just after the bom- ; Wallace asked for a postwar pol- bardment, Executive Officer Lt.| iy for the maximum use of re- Comdr, John Cotten, of Chapel Hill, | urces in a service of general wel- north Carolina, turned to me and | fare, remarked: Economic Theory “I was born in Japan and this is | The Vice-President defined scar- the first time I have been back in a | q long time, but I expect it won’t be] types out a first-hand account of hing tool kept hand;. Oul af sons of national safety, but bringing |any boat Captain Slye had brought| the 10,000-ten U.S.S. American| lup the river. And top it off with! Mariner up the Washington °h”'“'\the fact that the Mariner ordinar- nel and docking it virtually in the |ily would require two tugs to doci shadow of the White House was one | | her but this time she had none. {of the minor, but none-the-less | The Captain laid her alongside the amazing, navigating feats of this whayp a5 easily as an expert car | city of economics theory as “a dea hand of the past trying to make a ‘proflt on a few by blocking progress of business engaged in benefitting {all” and current practices in Russia probably 50 persons ill due to some food, Dr. Hays states, and an in-| vestlgauon so far hi failed to {clearly indicate any particular food | because of the fact that no large, number of the cases contacted have | |eaten the same things or at the| the last.” Cotten said he was born in a summer resort near Tokyo in 1913. | His father was Capt. Lyman Cotten, ! {for whom the destroyer was named. | were cited as favorable. | The captain was a naval attache at | Wallace declared that “nearly the tjme and was there for a year | wevelyune in Russia feels directly gnd a half and later on lived in| ABANDONED | BY NIPPONS war. It's the largest merchant ves- sel ever to tie up in the capital's too snug harbor and there were' half a dozen times on the voyage | driver would park on a deserted | street. The Captain doesn't make much |of his accomplishment:. Questioned |same places. In an effort to obtaih sufficient information and in the absence of sufficient personnel, the department Bomblng Crews Repor | the working welfare of the whole Japan two years. nation and has no fear of being “Japan then was a beautiful place | exploited for the sole profit of the but I did not like the people. management and stockholders.” how- | when her keel was only six to| eight inches off bottom and her imasts only a few feet from bridge {arches. The “skipper” who brought her up the channel was Captain i Harry E. Slye, who has been a Po-| mg::n:”;':mw::}fggfie“”‘;‘ i) tomac River pilot for 22 of his 47“‘lampists" in the Pentagon bullding, years. The American Mariner is They are 16 girls, in uniforms cf the Merchant Marine’s newest| g, pc ang blouses, whose sole duty| training ship and was brought i"ixn is to change burned-out light| here to help out in the Fourth|,uue They work day and night War Loan drive. i shifts, the majority naturally at Like most pilots, Captain Slye night, and average about 600 dead| |didn’t depend much on charts but|pulbs a day. almost entirely on his 30 years (f| gomething new in Civil Patrol! probing around the Potomac has activities is being hashed over here makes his expert skippering re-|__prospecting by air. In the Keene, markable is that the Potomac has N, H., area, the CAP unit unennhed‘ more than 15 miles of dredge chan- | ten likely new mica deposits | nels and the tides and flood waters gpite of the fact that the country are constantly filling these With naq been mapped and prospected silt. Reckoning in inches are hair- ¢4 what was thought the limit about breadth calculations that require a | knowledge of whai k place in! (Continued on Page Three) about it, he merely said: “Well, "it | was just like driving along a coun- try road you have known all your life.” |is requesting that all cases of such have enjoyed this return trip, ;lllness be reported by phone to the! Buildings Blown Up- No Slgn of Enemy |office in the Territorial Building and the name and address will be | BY OLEN CLEMENTS 1lfikEn and a form used in investi- Associated Press War Correspondent gation of such outbreaks will be de- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN livered to the home reporting the THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. case. The form is simple and can 10—There is evidence the Japs 'be filled out by any adult. When have abandoned Madang, the Jap completed it can be mailed or sent| coastal base and also about 60 miles to the Health Department or pick- | along the coast northwest of Saidor ed up by a Department employee. | where the Americans are in con-| There is some hope that if ac-| trol of that section. curate information can be gamed\ Bombing crews, sweeping low over from the completed forms the| Madang, saw evidences the enemy calise of the present outbreak nmy‘w.re made bef had blown up buildings not already be found, Dr. Hays stated. \dresa in which Wallace said there destroyed by repeated Allied bomb- e |is room for a coastal highway to |ings, and no signs of the enemy. {and through Alaska in addition to - ENROUTE TO WESTWARD the military highway and also a WILCOXENS AT HOTEL Enroute te the Westward, Mrs, railroad to the interior beyond. Registered at the Baranof, Mr. Frank Gibbons and two children| Wallace also said a traffic anLry and Mrs. Ralph Wilcoxen are here ¢ stopping at the Gastineau while| ——— o from Skagway. in Juneau. (Continued on cage Two) Wallace declared that “we are ever,” said the Lieutenant Com-‘ not going to use the whole Rus- mander of this destroyer. sian political and economic system —_——— | in the United States,” and added |the “system is made for Russia not The Vice-President declared the Russians can not understand how i uotatior of Alask: the United States gets along with- :bock tgda}? is sn;;eizrfin:}:a:u:; out giving the workers incentives Beech Aircraft 914, Bethlehem Steel and such large cash prices going gss,, Curtiss Wright 5%, Interna- | beyond quotas. [tional Harvester 71':, Kennecott | Coastal Highway 180%, North American Aviation 8%, The extelaporaneous remarks New York Central 17%, Northern STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 10. — Closing | 52'%, Pound $4.04. ‘ Dow, Jones averages today are as | 135.55; follows: Industrials, 3739: utilities, 22 66 .o rails, Registered from Tacoma, Dorothy Ann Simpson is at the Baranof. fore a prepared ad- Pacific 15%, United States Steel - ARRIVAL FROM TACOMA | GERMANS IN ATTACKS ON BEACHKEAD Nazis Strike at Six Poinfs Along Perimefer- Heavy Fighting ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ' IN ALGIERS, Feb. 10.—The Germans have launched a strong attempt ta break through the Allied lines at the Anzio beachhead, striking at six points along the American and Brit- ish defense perimeter. Violent fighting continues in the ruins of Cassino. The attacks on the beachhead came in the area northwest of Carroceto. Heavy fighting continued in this sector as the British troops sought to stem the enemy plunges. Three enemy thrusts were direct- ed against tha American positions west of Cisterna but these were beaten back and the doughboys re- captured some ground. Although the @,meflunl seized the initiative gained some ground west. of headquart- ers’ spokesman said the position on the beachhead, as a whole, is a de- fensive one at present. Allied air forces struck heavily at German positions on the Italian coastal front and to the interior. Fighting in Cassinc went into the seventh fiery day with no rest on either side. Allied bomber sweeps off the west coast of Italy yesterday hit three merchant vessels near Corsica and one ship in the harbor at Nice, ——————— BRITISH CAUGHT IN NAZI TRAP Are Reswegb_y Americans Who Batter Down Ger- man Tiger Tanks By HOMER BIGART Representing the Combined Amer- ican Press Associations WITH THE FIFTH ARMY ON | THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Feb. 8. —(Delayed)—It may now be re- vealed that the German counter- attack on the night of February 3, attained initial success and succeed- ed for several hours in trapping | thousands of British troops in the salient that then existed north of, Carrocet and below Rome. Fortunately the enemy was able to interpose fewer than 1,000 troops between the isolated British spear- |head and the main Allied force. These troops were, however, sup- ported by six or eight 60-ton Tiger |tanks that appeared at dawn on | February 4 on the ridge only a few hundred yards from the highway | which was the only possible route for escape. The remarkable work of American tank destroyers knocking out four® 1| 0f the Tigers aided in restoring the situation. Fierce but confused fight- ing of the British infantry not only broke up the trap, but 300 German prlaoners were taken and the bulk |of the British forces were extra- cated. | was lost. ——————— ZAVODSKY GOES SOUTH Jack Zavodsky, oldtimer of Ju- neau, has left for the South and intends to be absent several months. He will visit a brother m Chicago and then go to New Mexico for a short stay. —————— AT BARANOF HOTEL Some equipment, however, At the Baranof Hotel, George Cushing of Pelican is in the city. - llEllE FROM DENVER From Denver, Grudelle Leigh is at the Baranof Hotel.