The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1944, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 5980. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SA e — e —_— =} AY, FEBRUARY 19, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ANOTHER MARSHALL ATOLL ATTACKED Germans Hurled Back on Anzio Beachhead BATTLE IS RAGINGIN ALL FURY | | 36,500 TONS JAP SHIPPING IS SENT DOWN LIEGLER TO LEAVE FOR FIRST CITY Navy Plane, Bound North, Down, (rash | | | | | UKRAINIAN New Simplified Travel Control Regulafions in Effect in Alaska Today 'ARMIES IN . NEWTHRUST BEACHHEADS 'ESTABLISHED ONENIWETOK a-proceaure wint great- | Army and Marine Invasion e Candidate for Delegate- Fourteen Aboard Given Up 'All But Two of 17-Vessel!Battle in North Drawing meavquarters. araswan| e revs German Divisions SmaSh' hin i Stat { | Missing-W. : . DEPARTMENT, Feb. 19—Liberal-|ly reduce restrictions on the trav-| ing Against Allies on shipin Stafement | as Missing- reck- Convoy Formation Close fo Key Rail iea traver conteo “procsure” e feting pubtc wthout wnue s Forces Speed Up | of Views ; age Is Found ' Wrecked City of Pskov e o Mamar, rentdents, he-| Bresentation of the wanev-sad| - Jempo.on Pacific Italian Front came effective today, according to permit at any travel control station | —_ i A. H. Ziegler, Democratic candid-! WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—A Mil-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN MOSCOW, Feb, 19. Red Army an announcement by Lt. Genex al will be the only action required of BULLETIN — NEW YORK, By DANIEL DELUCE late for the position of Delegate |itary plane bearing 14 persons in-| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. forces struck vigorously into the Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, Com- travelers entering or departing from| Feb. 19.—A third United States Associated Press War Cosrespondent | from Alaska to Congress, said today cluding a crew of five, naval per-i19. — Allied bombers in a furious |shattered ranks of Field Marshal manding General® of the Alaskan zone “A." This zone includes all of | carrier task force attacked the BULLETIN—ANZIO BEACH- | pe pians to leave this weekend foc|sonnel of five and four civil em- three-day attack sank 36,500 tons of | Vi Mannstein’s troops in the Department. the mainland of Alaska and the Al-| eastern Marshall atolls of Taroa HEAD, Htaly, 12 o'clock Noon, |getchikan where he will remain|piovees, is presumed to have crash- enemy merchant shipping and three Dnieper bend, while on the northern The new procedure in no way aska Peninsala west to a point| and Maloelap on Wednesday today, Feb. 19.—Field Marshal |¢ goyeral weeks before beginningajed at sea enroute from Seattle to Warcraft—all but possibly two of a | front the battle drew hourly nearer weakens the safeguards established midway between Naknek and Port, while one task force was carry- | to the key rail city of Pskov, follow- 'to maintain Alaska’s military se- | Helden | ing out operations against Truk Kesselring’s offensive is being held. 1 have seen the American 17-ship formation bent on reinforc- | ing imperiled Japanese bases on the . Bismarck Archipelago. campaign tour which will take him | ajagka, the Navy Department an- throughout the Territory. He has younces. ing the capture of Staraya Rus below Lake Ilmen, 100 miles to the curity. A new zone “A" travel permit is and another attacking Eniwetok, | Notarization of the application | the Tokyo radio announces, the forms will not be required under ::::h:::!,;';?,"“i:kt:,";mr:; |been in Juneau for a week. | The airliner was operated under | Z7AITE BT lage f s 1 {he Toxre 18 anivg some of the ground taken by the The Kezchlkax.x attorney issued a'Nayy contract and has been miss- ]n :L .\auvt (?p( ned last Mc‘n ay‘ ANGIERaU S b S R tel the nrnwlpgl feature of the stn-am-“ll\e ne ])1'()(~vdux:c. Instead, tnc’ o cas ng recorded here by Germans who paid with a heavy |Statement on his candidacy WRich ing for 48 hours. night| and closed Wednesday _oft] % L B St AnChor lined plan just adopted These wal- | travel application and signa- . loss of life in the past 24 hours |5 8s follows: Search planes sighted wreckage i“_‘]f“‘l‘ ’-*’:;“l{(‘f'a,"?'llhz‘“fil‘ of New (;‘um‘: l_m:;g“::c :J‘:;fl:,’l‘m'\f"‘n‘t ‘::: let-sized cards, issued upon aprov- ture will be witnessed by designat- cERa of continuous fighting. The pre- “As a candidate for the high of- and a floating life raft, but no \;:.-‘:m & j"d“‘g ";: YJ vy losses B 166 SERLAE AT A easternimoat B Of M application, will be valid ed officials at each travel control, ENIWETOK ATOLL SEIZED paratory barrage was one of the | fice of Delegate to Congress, I gurvivors. \[;ll:]fl:ub’:‘:;l'fi lf\;c 1F E:m‘::'se s 2 salient of the Nazis' Baltic front, Permanently, unless cancelled or re- | station. | PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 19.—Army B o comcemtrations of shell. |feel it my duty to the people t0| ne crew members, all of Se-!*myercn Sy Consihin e next. objsctive before the VOked by the Commanding General| Dependents of military person- and Marine assault troops, under | The enemy ship losses include one of the Alaskan Department. The nel, persons of Japanese ancestry, “OVer of battleship gunfire and sup- ported by low-flying carrier-based ing to take place in the Medi- terranean war. ALLIES HOLDING LINES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Feb. 19.—The Allied forces are holding the lines intact in the churned Anzio beachhead after smashing back four full German di- visions of 40,000 to 50,000 men, the (Continued on Page Three) | make my position absolutely clear.|attle. were as follows: 4 4 § destroyer, two corvettes, an 8,000~ “The office is extremely import-' pjlot Henry H. Thomas, copilot 000 Ukrainian armies of Generals Konev, Vatutin, and Malinovsky, which ap- cards will be kept by the travelers enemy aliens and persons excluded | planes, have established beachheads ant particularly with the war draw-|Mijtchell Sumrell, radio officer El- ing to a close. The immediate fu-|wood W. Smith, radio officer Cecil ture and post-war period will re-|p Kester and steward Theodore ton tanker, 7,500-ton tanker, 6,000~ ton transport loaded, five 2000-ton cargo ships, three 1,500-ton and one 500-ton freighter. parently have now joined, are the cities of Krivoi Rog, great iron ore center in the southeastern Ukraine, and Kherson, 90 miles to the south. and presented at travel control sta- by other regulations, will still be tions for travei in and out of Al- aska. | denied permission to travel within Alaska. _ ! on Eniwetok in the Marshalls. Enilewtok is the westernmost of the Marshalls and 380 miles north- “It is General Buckner’s policy; All zones remain as outlined in west of Kwajalein, 750 miles north- . Enemy losses are confirmed by sult in the necessity for careful and j McGrath. ito make travel clearance for Alas- LR S Public Proclamation Number 8, is-! east of Truk. capable handling of the affairs of Others aboard were Lt. William aerial photographs. {more than ever a Delegate who will,cAA Communicator the Territory in order that v.he‘w_ McCain of Wheeling, West Vir- people will receive the most bene- ginja; Cecil B. York of Dallas, Tex- fit from the expansion and growth as:. Boatswain James J. Wilson of that is bound to occur in Alaska. san Diego, Calif.; Pay Clerk Hu- During this period we will need'pert ©. Beane of Oakland, Calif; Raymond S. Continuous daily attacks were | on Rabaul and also attacks on Ka- vieng, where runways were so blasted | by bombs that they are unservice- | able. Invitai ons in Mail For Shrine Dance The invitation committee of the kans as convenient as possible,” said Lt. Col. Roy W. Riegle, the Pro- vost Marshal of the Alaskan De- | partment. | sued November 15, 1943, Travelers‘ The fact that a large number of into zones “B” and “C" will con- troops and heavy concentration of tinue to register for each separate ghips and nianes were able to carry trip contemplated. jout the land assault and at the g I same time attack Truk, indicates the | immensity of the force Admiral | Chester W. Nimitz has assembled in /the Central Pacific. EMPRESS {look after whe interests of all the Grirfith of Biriingtop, Jowa; Air- Alaskans, one who can and will b€ jine employee Thomas E. Jetter of able to convince the administra-|anchorage, Alaska; Airline em- The Washington | Shrine dance, an event of Saturday {evening, February 26, announces that invitations for the affair are | There is still no further word I concerning the attack on Truk, ow- It REV. KNIGHT IS Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — The President listened sympathetically to those four Congressmen who called on him to urge that the ban on mem- pers of Congress serving in the armed forces be rescinded. But he didn’'t budge from his position the ban should remain in force. “What do you want me to do— violate the Constitution?” he blunt- 1y asked his callers, who were Rep- resentative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma, Joe Hendricks of Florida, Rogers, Jr., of California, and John Fogarty of Rhode Island. Roosevelt contended that the | Will have been denied. In such cases Ii tion of the merits of his demands. ployee Miss Jeanne B. Johnson of |the Fairbanks Convention this last “I believe that the drawn up by the representatives of | the Democratic Party of Alaska sti January, is a constructive statement of principles and, if elected, I will' exert every effort to convert them into actual being and effect. “One of the big handicaps m' progress in the Territory is red | tape, multiplicity of regulations and that | Bureaucratic rule. We have seen in| the past where the head of some Bureau in Washington has opposed | the will of the majority of the people, and because of this opposi-| tion the just rights of Alaskans believe that the Delegate should| |then bring very forcibly to the at-i [tention of the Congress the rights Constitution barred members Oof|ang feelings of the Alaskan people, | Congress from holding “any office under the United States” during their legislative terms. Attorney General Biddle has interpreted this| o0, i terests or pressure groups, he has been informed some Gov-|. to mean that Congressmen cannot} legally join the armed forces unless | they first resign from Congress.| The President added that there was| ‘even a legal question about the right of Congressmen to hold non-paying Reserve commissions. “But Mr. President,” spoke up, young Representative Hendrick.s," “that is one man’s interpretation.”| Members of Congress were ngen‘i leaves of absence to fight for their| country in the last war. They| weren't forced to resign, and all the other Allied countries have been following the same policy in this ‘War. Representative Boren pointed out that 85 members of the British House of Commons and 156 mem-| bers of the House of Lords were| granted leaves of absence to join up. Eleven of the former had been Kill- | ed in action, he said. Thirteen members of the Canadian Parlia- ment are in uniform, and the New Zealand and Australian Govern- ments likewise have no restrictions against legislators going to war, the Oklahoman added. Roosevelt replied that, in his | | ' notwithstanding the attitude of these department Bureaucrats, “I am not the candidate of any Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said gave lectures on Alaska. platform | Seattle, and CAA Engineer Davis' HERE; pREACHES R. Rolston, of Stanton, Virginia. ————- ——— ALASKAOIL FIELDS T0 BE DRILLED Agencies PTaTWork Next Summer fo Determine Extent of Areas WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Alaska now in the mail. | The annual Washington's birth- 0" TOMORROW day ball will be held at the Scottish |Rite Temple and music for dancing | | will begin at 10 o'clock. Refresh- The Rev. G. Edward Knight, for- ments will be arranged by Mrs. Imer pastor of the Methodist church ' George B. Rice. | | | {in Juneau, but for the past several s SROEn G, 2 i |vears pastor of the Seward Meth- Ru'h Johnson W d | | {be guest pastor at both services| S k M F b I sccupsing e v SPOK@NE Man ren. Missions and Church Extensions at|E. J. Allen, Jr., of Spokane, Wash- Buck Hills Falls, Pa, and where|ington, son of Mr. E. J. Allen of ]G,-,p_gh‘,lm. exchange ship. During | #0d was graduated from high school his trip south the Rev. Knight also At Spokane last May. The couple | arrived in Juneau| | \lomurrow. | Mrs. Tiami Johnson today an- he heird testimony of several mis-|that city. The wedding took place | will make their home there jodist church, {last night from the south. He will| with the Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr. | The Rev. Knight has been south | |where he attended the annua)‘nounced the marriage of her daugh- meeting of the Division of Home ter, Ruth Anabel Johnson, to Mr. {sionaries who were returned as re-i“‘f Spokane on February 1 Ipatriates on the last trip of the| The bride was born in Douglas, and being mindful of the sacred ernment agencies are preparing to| trust placed in the Delegate to!drill in the Alaska oil fields next, Congress will use all my ability and |summer to determine the extent of energy towards accomplishing such|the oil area. | legislation as will result in the most| The Delegate did not disclose | good for the greatest number, to theiwhm agencies would do the work,! end that all will receive a fair deal/but reiterated the statement drill- with discrimination against no on.e."ling was necessary to determine the Resident of Alaska since 1913,/extent of the fields. He said the Ziegler formerly was in the law, cost would be but a fraction of Helen Anderson DT e Is Honored Last |; zom ey e o o Nigli at Shower. Complimentary to Miss Helen business in Juneau before going to the $130,000,000 the Government has Anderson, bride-elect of Sgt. James | GRANT FROM WRANGELL | Neil Grant of Wrangell arrived yesterday and is at the Baranof. - SUBS DOWN JAP SHIPS Thirteen Mar; Nip Vessels Sent fo Bottom in Orient WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.— Two American submarines, operating deep in the Orient, sank 13 enemy merchant vessels before returning to their home port, and brought to 597 the number of Jap ships sunk, prob- ably sunk or damaged by submarine action. The Navy's mention of “deep in the Japanese Empire waters,” is the | first such specific information given, | and indicated a growing confidence in the strength and ability of the sub forces. | The ships had a total tonnage of | 68,200, an average of over 5,200 tons | on all craft of such size, which are of major importance to the Japanese in majntaining their supply lines. . Popular Couple ‘ ;lng probably to radio silence. (ANADA | said, however, no troops landed on | Truk, despite the Tokyo claims. TEMPO SPEEDED UP UNITED STATES PACIFIC |HARBOR, Feb. 19. — Army and Announ(eme“t on Sinkmg Marine invasion forces speeding up i f} |cific offensive, battled the Japs on Of l-mer '-ast Year bY |Eniwetok, while the Americans a sea and air triumph over the | mighty Japanese base at Truk. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. | Spilled into a sea of boiling sharks | Thursday at Eniwetok, the last life- lives off Freetown, West Africa, throughout the Marshalls. when the $8,000,000 liner Empress| The assault forces moved in by an Italian submarine nearly a defenses already battered by re- year ago. | peated plane attacks and battleship that British rescuers saved 800 of | The radio silence still shrouds the passengers but'most were lost ! Perhaps a prolonged action at Truk i ey FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL !a breath-catching tempo of the Pa- 2 H awaited confirmation that indicated Italian Submarine | 19— | Firm beachheads were won on and barracuda, 400 persons lost their |line of bases for Nippon garrisons of Canada was torpedoed and sunk |strength against the enemy pillbox Survivors were permitted to reveal | fire. as Italian war prisoners and some |but officially it is said “the attack whom attempted to gain the deck of the submarine but were pushed back into the water. The Ttalians announced last March 15 that a 21,500-ton liner had been sent to the bottom. The one-time Pacific liner, which was taken over by the British Ad-| miralty, was filled with troops and Navy personnel, Italian prisoners and Greek and Polish refugees. |was a victory.” | Eniwetok is a 21 by 17' miles atoll and has at least one and pos- sibly two or three airfields and |several seaplane bases scattered | among the 30 islets as well as a deep lagoon for anchorage. The attacking forces included the 122nd Marines and elements of the 106th Army infantry. Rear Admiral Richmond Turner, | | Forty-four of the British crew and |director of the Kwajalein campaigin, BESS WINN RETURNS Bess Winn returned to her Ju-| las probable fields for drilling as vor Davis home on Sixth Street. Néau home last night, aiter several| Iwell as the large Naval oil re-|Co-hostesses were Miss Connie| Weeks' absence in the states, which| serve on the Arctic Coast. Davis and Miss Pat Nelson. |included attendance at the Tuber- Thirty-five girl friends of , the culosis conference at Chicago. Ketchikan., He has served in the|spent on the Canol project, and |Rollison, a miscellaneous shower Territorial Legislature three times. mentioned Katalla and Yakataga|was given last evening at the Tre-| ——————— — ARCHIE SHIELS, WIFE { To Wed Here on ;iopir:‘)'(eln;:\el:y 300 others are known ;‘10 - Monday Night Wireless operators sent out an' SOS 17 hours before a plane ap- peared. A British destroyer arrived a day and a half later. | mmanded all forces. Rear Admiral H. W. Hill was in charge of the amphibious operations, Brig. Gen. T. E. Watson headed the Marine assault troops. In Washington today, Secretary of opinion, Congress had violated the Constitution in giving eleven mem- bers of the House and Senate leaves of absence to serve in the last war.| S(HOOL BOARD “Oh, well, you weren't Comman-| der-in-Chief then,” shot back Hen-| dricks jokingly. Upon the recommendation of R. Roosevelt, frequently accused of £ Robertson and Dr. J. O. Rude,| enlarging on the Constitution,| Glenn Oakes was appointed by the! smiled at this rib but retorted that|city Council last night to fill the| there was nothing to prevent COn-|ypexpired term of R. R. Hermann gressmen itching to serve in the|, . myegasurer for the School Board. begin at 7:30 o'clock sharp. RS S M COAST GUARD OFFICE HAS NEW TIDE TABLES All persons wishing to obtain tide tables will be interested in the an- was also the guest of honor at a kitchen shower with Miss Grace Berg as hostess. The affair was given at the family home on C Street. ALASKA COASTAL ON 2 TRIPS TO SITK nard. Mrs. Given is a former resi- | dent of Nome, and now makes her! Pvt. Cziok attended high school; {in his home town of Minneapolis,| and spent two years at the Unlver-l il {sity of Minnesota. He is now with | ithe Special Service Division of lhei | {home at Ketchikan, where her hus- |band is in the Coast Guard. — .- RED HENNING BACK FROM BUYING —m,p‘vnned States Army here. Fred Henling, owner of a popular| All friends of the couple are ex- |men’s clothing store here, returned tended a cordial invitation to at- !tend both the wedding and the re-| ‘RE ARRIVAU “ERE !bflde—w-be were asked for the oc-' e At an informal 8 o'clock cere-| — |Navy Frank Knox said the Truk SPE“A[ EVANGEUS"( casion and music and games were ENTERS HOSPITAL {mony at the Lutheran Church next| |assault was an “air strike by car- Mr. and Mrs. Archie W. Shiels enjoyed during the party hours.| John Murphy, a medical patient,|Monday evening, Miss Dorothy ® © e e e o e o e o o rier-based planes,” and suggested arrived last night from the states| SERVI(ES “Am‘ HERE izes were given Miss Audrey|WAS admitted to St. Ann's Hospital | Fors, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ® HOUSEWIVES ® 1o present plan was made to invade and are registered at the Baranof| : ude, Miss Dessa Schreider and'uns morning. P;; Ji; F:l‘s of this city, :xll b::come : - Altl-; V:ARNED i ® | the massive base. Hotel. ~ g 7 Miss Mary Margaret Femmer. ——— |the bride of Pvt. Leonard A. Cziok, any of Juneau's stores e ! Mr. Shiels is president of "h‘fibe(g:?nhu; c'm':”:,"zzflis"“e’y:;:“;fli A Valentine motif, combined with| MES. GIVEN ARRIVES [son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael J.|® and markets will be closed o : PAF, with his headquarters at| i ot the Ghurch of Christ!Ue Proverbial bridal decorations, FROM KETCHIKAN FOR GHlok of Mimneapolis. The Rev. Q. 2 FResd Ay, Wihington's 'llulse Nlelsen Bellingham. v o P o |provided a charming atmosphere for THREE WEEK'S vIsiT H. Hillerman will read the vows. Birthday anniversary, so | o NG AL (Onristlan) tomorraw. in. $he quBt=ly " oty 00 g Yenactal * attraction | i Miss Fors is a graduate of the ® they must order Monday for ¢ 4 ters in the Krafft Building onl =, = ranig wa;; the unannouns.| Mrs. Thomas Given arrived here Juneau High School, Class of 1941,(® over the holiday. Meat mar- e Is G'ven H.gh GlE"N OAKES {Franklin street opposite the TO.OF.| oo m B8 e persons, 148t night from Ketchikan for ajand later attended a secretarial|® kets will probably be closed o ’ {Hall. Sunday services will be at 11[7C BV B FHE ST D W0 or three week's visit in the 5chool in Seattle. For the past two|® on Wednesday, their usual ® H USO 1 APPOINIED 'o i B- Sicex- Buk bgglnnm_g Mm?. “Daisy Moresweet.” ‘Caplta] City. While here she is the Years, she has been on the statf of ® closure, s0 housewives are o onor a' ! day night, evangelistic services will| "y Uh GORERS L son | T0USE guest of Miss Mildred May- the local Office of Price Admin-|® also reminded of this to do ol R A 5 hstrauon. ® double ordering. ®! At the February Birthday Party @ o o o o o o o o o o 3t the USO last night, Miss Luise - | Nielsen was given one of the most T0 ANCHORAGE ON WOODLEY AIRWAY brants by USO Director Zach Gor- |don and presented with a USO | Service Bar for over 500 hours de- | voted to USO work at headquarters jand then to make the occasion | nouucement that a new supply has| Two trips to Sitka were made this [t Dight from a buying trip to { {been received by the Coast Guard|morning by the Alaska Coastal Air- the states. He is at the Gastineau|CePtion which will follow at the; {and may be had by calling at the|lines. Those making the fligh Hotel. church, Army from resigning their legisla-| oiper routine business was dis- v Jovk. |cussed at the meeting which was |held in the Council Chambers of A Woodley Airways plane arrived land departed again for Anchorage|costume pin. |yesterday. Those leaving here for! Miss Neilsen is the leader of the |doubly good, was presented with a iy e A P LOSS OF SENIORITY His four callers protested that (Continued on Page Four) office of the Captain of the Port,|were Steve Cutek, Am: 3 5 R. S Room 125 in the Federal Building. |George E. Murray, w.f’l Pe;ahxitl | e liam Dewitt, S. L. Rawlings, and| BUY WAR BONDS R. E. Watt, it City Hall. Ralph Beistline senior council member, presided in the ab- sence of Mayor Harry I. Lucas. L HERE FROM WRA! LL’ George Sumpton is here from Wrangell and is at the Baranof, WM. COMFERFORD HERE I William Comferford, here from Seattle, is at the Baranof. Cooper, and Mrs. Golden Walthman. the Westward city were Mr Lux, USO girls in investment of time at Mr. Hitchess, Mr. Gullings, J. E. the USO and this is the first time such an honor has been bestowed.