The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1944, Page 1

~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———r VOL. XLL, NO. 5978. 17, 1944 PRICE TEN CENT§ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — | NAZIS LAUNCH FIERCE ATTACK AT ANZIO Another Thrust on Pacific Toward Tokyo PONAPE IS BOMBED BY | AIR FORCE Daring Rai?fai Noon on Important Jap Base in Carolines ’ PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 17.—Am- erican Seventh A. A, F. Liberators| attacked Ponape, important Japan- ese base in the Carolines on Mon- | day, February 14, the deepest thrust | yet made in enemy territory| launched by land based planes in| the Pacific war, Admiral Chester| W. Nimitz announces. | The daring raid was made on the base 573 air miles west of Kwaja-| lein. | The attack was made at noon by | a “considerable force.” | Liberators dropped more than 55 tons of bombs on installations and also sank a small cargo ship in the harbor. The United States planes {oundl no Fighter opposition and all re- turned from the attack. The attack on Ponape took the American planes only 410 miles from Truk, Japan’s big Naval base. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WICHITA FALLS, Texas—If you| scratch beneath the surface of this, HOW i 7~ PACIFIC CIRCLE DRAWS CLOSER TO JAPAN EXTRA TRUK IS PHILIPPINE 1S. BULLETIN — PEARL HAR- 3355 MILES TO MARSHALL 1S. { BOR, Feb. 17.—~A communique issued this afternoon by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz says that sev- eral hundred Navy carrier-based planes bombarded Truk, Japan's Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, early yesterday morning. bombing is still in progre: e [PAA TRANSPORT | PLANE MISSING, BOMBED | The communique infers the | ° GRADUALLY the great Pacific battle circle draws closer to Japan, swinging in an arc from the Aleutians to the North, through the Marshalls to New Guinea and Rabaul and toward the Philippines. When the Marshalls were invaded the arc of heavy action in the South Pacific was completed and, as the map shows, Truk and | Wake are on the rim of the next circle. Experts foresee a direct thrust at Truk from Kwajalein (1), in inset { (International) | with (2) Wotje and (3) Einwetok, two Jap bases that are taking a severe pounding. - ALASKA FLIGHT BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—~The 13th Naval District announces that a Pan American HELSINKI ISRAIDED BY SOVIETS Armada ofF—our Hundred transport plane is missing in Alaska. The plane was on a military flight and carried five { [ crew members and nine pas- | I sengers. Planes are searching. i | ) | Bars Are Let Down for Cerfain Workers Who Seek Alaska Employment SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—New rz:gulr\-;the United States Exhployment ser-| ———————— KAVIENGIS LEFT MASS | A FIGHTING FAMILY'S MOTHER v . - WITH NINE SONS in the various services, Mrs. Annie Jordan of Boston can rightly be called the nation’s number one war mother. Here son Bob helps the “general” of the “Jordan army"” as she finds a niche for a photo of Philip, the ninth to enter the armed forces. (International) Development of Giénl 2 Petroleum Reserve in “Alaska IS‘Bequrge'd WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Repre- sentative Norris Poulosn, Republican of California, asserted the Navy Department’s 21-year delay In de- veloping the giant Alaskan petrol- Lorain Beauty ALLIES ARE 'BEING HIT HARD BLOWS {Both Sides Usin g Tanks, Artillery-Aircraft Also Swing Info Action BULLETIN Washington, Feb. 17.—Secretary of War Stimson, at a conference with the newsmen, spoke confidently that the Allied position at | Anzio, where fresh and fierce Nazi attempts are beikg. made to break up the beachhead, will be held securely as the Ameri- can and British are holding su- periority in striking power with tanks, artillery and aireraft and are prepared to use the present positions as a springboard for further advances. | FIERCE BATTLE RAGES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Feb. 17.—A fierce battle has broken the lull on the' beach- head south of Rome, the Germans Jaunching heavy attacks in the northern sector but all evidence in- dicates the Allled forces are hold- ing the continuing enemy thrusts. ‘The official communique says the Germans struck yesterday morning after heavy--ariliery - preparation: Both sides threw tanks into the op- erations in the heavy fighting, but !the Americans and British are said to be grimly holding their positions in the face of tremendous pressure. It is the second all-out attempt of the Germans to smash the Allied beachhead. | of the liveliest little towns in . |tions governing workers going to|vice, but only classifications to be | 4 ARt - Arerica, you will find proof of two Russian Planes Bomb !alska are announced by State|considercd by draft boards are | St pdeme s Point,_Barrow, m'l'ht;uf;m;m: is u;ldh:? bc: thn:vink: tragic things which are happening| leand's ca “al Manpower Director Hardy. ;Iishermen, cannery workers, seamen | l;‘rms::' 1:5]1:“&‘1-11 x:ml(l)moof;%;)mg::%; -|:d artller;e :’“w :!:‘e ry.“r:‘x;m under the Roosevelt Administration. D xcep! or registrants over 38|or those of 3-D, 4-C and 4-F. | project. |which is hourly increasing in vio- One is something for which you can’t blame the Government —| namely, that the time is not too far off when present wartime ra-| tioning of gasoline may be a normal | peacetime necessity. In other words.‘ our oil reserves are running dis-| astrously low. The other is something which the Rcosevelt Administration could def- initely prevent—that is, the manner | in which little business is being; swallowed up by big business. i In the industrial East, it is the1 little manufacturer who is going out| of business while six big companies | have waxed fat on more than fifty| percent of all the war contracts. Out here, it is the little independent oil man who is gradually being put| out of business by the low price of | | STOCKHOLM, Feb. 17.—Waves of Russian planes attacked Helsinki last night for the second time mn( eleven days, spreading damage | through much of Finland’s Capital! City, as unconfirmed rumors per- sisted the Finns were dickering with | Moscow on peace terms. | The Russian air raiders also| struck Aabo, on Finland's south-| east coast, touching off three air| raid alarms. | While details are not immediately available, 400 Russian bombers at-| tacked Helsinki for nearly ninej hours and although the attacking| force was twice as large as on the| previous raid, February 6, less dam-| age is reported to have been done| crude oil and the strangling process jaccording to a brief news dispatch| Draftfo MissFiveof - years of age, all workers desiring to go to Alaska must first obtam‘ Prevlously...stale e “*"Terl’lflt Rald Made on Jap' draft board permission. | nied permission to go to a job out- anese Base on New | Having obtained approval, appli- side of the continental United Ireland Island cants must also be cleared through | States. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. 17—~A heavy reid on the Japanese base at Kavieng, New Ireland, left the town in a mass of flames but| {the raid cost the Allies eight planes.| Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- | munigue said medium bombers, with Fighter escorts, flew into in-| tense antiaircraft fire to hammer | Kavieng at low altitude. | Besides converting the town into| lan inferno, the attackers sank a| on cargo ship, three coastal Six Dads;No Need for e PanicAmongfather; 0'CONNOR BIDS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—A good | 3000 * | vessels, several smaller craft in the| “I ask what about the Point Bar- row reserve located in one of the most strategic spots right here in our home territory and not half way around the world region that we cannot possibly hold and defend,” said Poulson, in discussing the pro- posed United States pipe line in the Mediterranean. Poulson told the House that geo- logists have recognized the Alaskan | field as “one of the most promising of oil lands.” Despite this, said Poulson, the | Navy has not put down one ex- | quantities will be needed in Alaska |after the war to fill aviation and 'other needs of the fast expanding { frontier region, The California Congressman also 'said he believed the development of plortory drill, contending oil in ;u'eml lence. ‘The enemy aircraft also swung into the battle, an unusual force mak- ing some 130 sorties attacking ob- jectives in the battle zone. The Al- lied Air Force met the air attacks, blow for blow, shooting down nine enemy attackers blasting beach- head targets. 4 The fighting at the beachhead far eclipses that at strategic Cas- sino where however, the American !forces are still bitterly contesting the Nazi stranglehold, and battling from house to house. In a day of extensive air activity, Allied bombers and fighters flew in approximately 1,200 sorties. ! Bamream o oo s Liegler Hits of the major oil companies. to the Aftonbladet from the cor-| many months ago, T wrote a piece ' ~“0- ™ ¢ ekl K G s Every week or 5o in Wichita Falls, |respondent at Helsinki. The corres-| . urging pre-Pearl Harbor fathers to|harbor, destroyed or damaged five |the giant Alaskan reserve might . 7 e diait i ’ float planes and blasted the air-| prove an important factor in dis- | center of a once-thriving Texas oil pondent reports 12 persons are re- quit worrying about their draft H asions of e oo Jo phia i a field, an independent sells out tO|ported to have been killed but the To “Ew pos'l" status. There was nothing wrong | drome. | | cussions of the economic phases of ¥ . 1 | with the piece then or now, but the The enemy ack-ack caused the peace. ed'ona lsm the majors and.retires from thelfigure of casualties is likely to rise.| game. The same is true in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and every other oil field except such rich bonanzas as East Texas, where oil still gushes in- stead 'of being pumped. What most people don't realize is that about one-half the nation’s oil is produced, NOT by the big | companies which splurge out the| filling-station advertising, but by | the little independents. In fact, it I e independents who nave pio-| DIaff Boards of Country fo | neered most of the nation’s wells, after which the majors buy them up. BIG COMPANIES FOR LOW PRICE .o —— FARMWORKERSTO | PRODUCE NOW OR DEFERMENTS STOP | Immediately Get | } After Slackers ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — Draft | | boards have been ordered to review | military powers have won their fight |heaviest toll ever exacted on our| | to draw heavily on pre-war Ian]i]_\"('rafl in many thrusts on Kavieng.| men to bring military manpower up | Fifteen Allied airmen were saved to what they believe necessary goals. by the daring crew of a Navy | Seer(e commafld IS- I still believe, however, that there |Catalina, The crew put the craft | is no need for panic generally among | down In the harbor in the face of sues Fmal Message | those fathers who cannot help being hot fire from shore guns to rescue WHITEHORSE, Feb. 17. — Brig.|a bit worried over what is going to | their comrades. Gen. James A. O'Connor, who di-|happen to their families if they are | Sixty-five tons of bombs were rected the building of the Alaska |inducted as bucko privates or ap-idropped in the Kavieng raid and; Highway and was the first com-|prentice seamen. 1100,000 rounds of ammunition were | mander of the United States Army | After a canvass of War Man-!(:xpefnded in strafing the enemy.! Northwest Service Command, has | power and Selective Service records,| The communique also announée S| been assigned to anbther post. | it appears that about one of six pre- | positions have been consolidated on| Brig. Gen. O'Connor has headed | Pear] Harbor fathers between the Green Islands which were invaded | the Northwest Service Command ages of 18 and 37, inclusive, stands on Monday B;)d Tuesday with little | since it was established in Sep- | i i ; b t:ember. Toa: P- |a good chance of induction by mid- | yesistance. !summer. In round figures, this In a farewell message, he said: Commander of Northwest i e RUSSIANS 1N MOVE MISS ANN BARTOS, newspaper reporter in Lorain, O., 17-year-old | German Lines - Naval ON NARVA -Para(hutisfs Land Bevhind‘ In Talk Here !Demouatif &midate for { Delegate Urges Cooperation | | Striking out against efforts to |promote sectionalism in Alaska and attempts to create antagonism {among Alaska's cities, A. H. Zeigler, | means approximately 1,000,000. has been chosen “Miss A. F. L." | Since the majors have 0 bBUY |,y eqiately cases of 1,700,000 per- | | Ketchikan attorney and Democratic most of their crude oil, they are the last ones to want an increase in its price. They already have the price of gasoline fixed with a comfortable margin, and the lower the price of crude, the better for them. That is why, secretly, they have been rooting behind their hands for the OPA and Economic Stabilizer Vinson, who have opposed a price increase in crude oil. Howard Pew of Sun Oil, testifying at a hearing in Washington, frankly admitted: “? am very keen on getting the cost of crude oil down as low as pos- sible.” This price-depressing position of the majors, plus their advantage of owning the pipe-lines, has made the oil industry one of the least profit- (Continued on Page Four) a week ago. “We of the American Army are' 1If I remember correctly, this is | {sons deferred as farm workers and | peqyily indebted to the good people | almost twice the prediction made | last summer. But the manpower { ca;l;wl def'-cm:ke‘n_ts Olf] lf“’s:r“": o;noxl: {of Canada «and Alaska for real co- | tributing to their share P | operation, friendship and under- situation has changed considerabl_\‘: | since then and may again—in either | | tion. | standing.” | Selective Service officials said the o | direction. | ‘ldraft boards will not continue to" 5% defer farm workers unless it is posi- ( k I I ' S |uvely shown they produce by thelrl 00 n e u"ey’ {own personal efforts. SRR POPTERE TR 1 The military manpower goal has | ‘ been set at around 11,300,000 for July | P Anchorage Harbor |7 'Maude Bovle Is Now nhorage Hammor |o.... i’ &omoans.| | . availables among the 100, - i . y “ Fatlllfies So“ghryear-alds wh: gbeco;\e 0‘1)8000 rvrl-x?y! Fa"flbanks pos'masle’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-A reso- | month. About 30,000 are deferred _ : for physical reasons or for farm | | lution to authorize a survey of Cook | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — The pnje¢ alaska, and improve naviga- | work, and 20,000 more already are | Senate has confirmed the nomine-|tion and provide harbor facilities at b B Rgl tion of Maude Boyle to be Post-| Anchorage, also to develop hydro- | A few map Wil page from re-| master at Fairbanks, Alaska. Herlelectric power has been introduced | classification of .4F’s and from a name was only sent to the Senate in the House by Delegate A. | re-examination of occupational ) Dimond. L3 (Continued on Page Six) WAR TEACHING WOMEN T0 COOK| COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo— | The war is making better cooks of | American housewives, says Mrs. | Philip J. Crowlie of Huron, S. D.,| the OPA’s “typical housewife.” | Women have to be better cooks because, with rationing, They can't | waste or spoil fgod in the prep- . aration of it, said Mrs. Crowlie. ! B LIKE COW, LIKE CALF ; PORRLES | PRINCE GEORGE, Va-G. W.| Willlams owns a cow and her calf| each of which has a perfect figure' “7" on its forehead. \Governor Langlie |or Fuiund e bounain e ge- by shipbuilders in her city. Lorain | has one of the largest shipyards | on the Great Lakes and is the Force Is in Action home town of Admiral Ernest J. | STOCKHOLM, Feb. 17.—Russian Ef“- (International) 'parachutists have landed behind T T {the German lines at Narva, and | Russian naval vessels on the Gulf |fenses of the ancient Estonian City as Soviet forces press in from the east, Helsinkl dispatches state. . Calls Session of | The parachute landings Wash. Legislature - .5t Suver labout 15 miles west of Narva on OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb, 17- u(“.“mo road to Reval, Estonian capital. Arthur B. Langlie has called a spec- | Cerman troops are reported still ial session of the Washington State | [8hting from positions on the east Legislature for February 28 for the bank of the Narova river which flows purpose of passing legiflation to through Narva into the Gulf of enable persons in the armed forces Finland, but the Russians are said from the State to vote. to have encircled them. |candidate for Delegate to Congress {in the coming primary election, as- |serted today that no effort citizens jof Juneau .could have made would have caused the United States Coast Guard to establish its head- quarters in Juneau and not in Ketchikan. In a short talk to members of the Chamber of Commerce, Zeigler said he was “close to the matter,” when it came up for action m Ketchikan, that the prime reason for, the Coast Guard choosing Ketchikan was that the organiza- tion aiready had a huge investment in the Pirst City and that by add- ing to this investment the creation of a neadquarters could be accom- (Continued on Page Six)