The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, F l:BRUARY 22, 1944 Ml MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS NAZIS FAIL TO PUSH ALLIES INTO SEA n By Bombs Fleeing Jap Ships Are Sent Dow BEACHHEAD JAP CONVOY Washingfon Fought WLB OKEHS IS SPOTTED ANDBOMBED Eight Enemy Ships Sunk in- - Two Days - Confinue to Blast Rabaul AP Features GEORGE WASHID see how his country’s fight tio) ed with toda, George I1I. Com ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. | 22. — Enemy shipping, seeking to! flee from bombed Rabaul, New Bri- | tain, was again tracked down hy| American Air Patrol and in two| days, Saturday and Sunday, eight ships were sunk and probably four others were so badly damaged mev later went down. The sinkings bring to a total thn enemy has lost in the Bismarck area during the last seven days to| 44 ships. | Craft sent down for certain on/ Saturday and Sunday included five merchantmen between 1,000 and | 4000 tons, one corvette and twoi gunboats. The Air Force continues to )mst(h Rabaul. | ON LAND: with 4,000 men, 2,898 of then biscuits were their oniy ratiens. The Washington% Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert @. Allen on sctive duts.) | { } | WASHINGTON — Unfortunately, the bombing of the ancient Bene- | dictine monastery at Cassino is considered only a foretaste of the | destruction which is almost certain | to come to Rome. i The Germans have found.what| the Russians discovered at Lenin-| grad and Stalingrad, and what the | Spaniards in their civil war dem- onstrated at Madrid—that a modern | city is a 'natural fortress which can | be defended for months. Rome may share the same fate. The U. S. Army didn't say any- thing about it for several weeks, but,[ they had trouble with the Cassino{ monastery long before.they bombed it. The Nazis had discovered it to | be a natural fortress. | That section of Italy is chopped\ up in steep chunks of mountains, staring down almost sheer walls to} 3,000 men. With Mighty Little ON would be a proud father today if he could g strength has grown since hi vy Army—about two medern divisions- a few picee of breach-loading artillery, challenged the might of King with mighty little. Washington (second from left) wintered at V. without shoes or other clothing. Washington’s fortunes later locked up, but he never had more than 26900 men under his command. (Today’s Army—7,700,000 men, best fed, best dressed in world.) ON SEA: John Paul Jones, whose flagship, the “Bonhomme Richard,” was sunk under him while capturing the “Serapis” (above), raided British waters with only five ships. Dutch fleets, Continental Navy never had more than 20 ships and (Today’s Navy—613 warships, 13,459 other vessels, 3,000,- 000 men.) " AJ.LABOR PAY BOOST Revolu- rmed with muskets and ENGINE ASSEMBLY 3-5 WEEKS | |National Agency Sustamsi ‘ 14 Cents an Hour | } \ | armed might, Washington fought FINAL ASSEMBLY 2 WEEKS Increase The National War Labor Board m | Washington, D. C., has sustained |the Regional War Labor Board m‘ |Seattle and ordered a pay increase | of 14 cents an hour for workers of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining | Company, according to*an Assoc- |lated Press dispatch received thlst |morning by the Empire. | The CIO miners’ union here, the | International Union of Mine, Mill! and Smelter Workers, Loeal 203, |had asked for an increase of 80: !cents an hour. ! | The local panel in Juneau had; | recommended an increase of 10 cents | lan hour, and the Regional Board' had later upped this figure to 14 | cents. | This order was appealed to the| ./ National Board by the company and; the order issued yesterday by the National Board still is subject to, the approval of the Economic Sm- zation Dir *oLor (HUR(Hill - CONFIDENT IN SPEECH | line strength after of An AP FEATURES PICTOGRAPH FDR's Farewell fo Fighters THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON ley Forge Often - AR : soldter of the United States Kray: © You Mn w for distant pnuu where' zho war is being fought. . pon the outoome depends the tresdos of your Avu. t)u ‘reedom Of the lives of those you love— r follow~citizens—your people. g © MNeve! onenies esdon Tells Commons Allied |Bigrasntons: sore atrosst morepeutity - o Bombing Will Increase Precedmg Invasion Yours is a God-fearing, proud, couragsous - peoplo, which, throughout its history, has put its frecdan under God before all other purposes. Although aided by French and LONDON, Feb. o elne 60| B lister Churchill told the world the | Allied bombing, far beyond any- | thing yet “employed or indeed im- . |agined” would strike Germany in every corner in a prelude to a final \smashing by American and British |invasion armies of “approximately equal” powe! | Churchill said ' the three great allies still stand “absolutely united, !and none of the ground made good lat Moscow or Teheran” is lost de- | spite disquieting articles in the Sonvt press. : Te who stay at home have our duties to . perfora—duties owad in many parts to you. You will . b scpported by the whole force and power of this Nation. The victory you win will be a vialory of all ‘the people—conmon to them all. f You bear with you the hope, the confidence, the gratitude and the prayers of your family, your fellow-citizens, and your President— RAW MATERIALS 10-25 ¥ WEEKS 0 SEMI-FINISHED PARTS /., When Allied fliers batter Nazi aircraft plants, rhay know just when the results will be shown in a weakening of German plane strength in the skies. This Pictograph shows the period that elapses before the Nazis feel the effect in front- bombs hit in various stages production. TAXBILLIS VETOED BY PRESIDENT ; Takes Swat ai L vgflhfiow— ' Incidentally Wallops | Congress and How WASHINGTON Feb 22.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt tossed the. $2315,~ 1 000,000 tax bill back to Congress |today with a veto message which | described it as a | tive” relief measure “not for needy but for the greedy.” | In a message in the House there is already rumbling talk of over-| 'riding the veto Roosevelt said that its legislation | would |to afford indefensible special priv- ileges to favored groups but it sets 'up dangerous precedents for j future.” | He said that this tendency in {itself is a sufficiently dangerous counter loss for a very | sum.” Additional revenue calculated the !bill would enrich the Treasury less ‘thmn a billion net a year. | The President, recmzmzfng wide- spread complaints over | took oceasion to lay the blame di- rect on Congress. He sald it is “wholly ineffec- | the, “replete precisions not only | the | the com-| ‘plexily of the income tax forms,| the valleys. The monastery sits! FIGHTING 1S FIERCE ONE |Germans, However, Re- pulsed in Savage Attacks on Amencans British ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Feb. 22—Heavy artillery barrages and small but fierce - fantry clashes marked fighting yes- terday on the Allied beachhead be- low Rome, Fifth Army Officers said, where savage American and British resistance and their counter-attacks have definitely beaten the Nazis in an all-out drive to push the Allies into the sea. American and frontline troops and the Germans fired everything 'Ihcy had at each other at two points yesterday but neither side gained any ground positions, all re- mained as they were. This is also 2qually true after the British troops ciashed with the Germans in sev- eral local fights near the key road junction at Carroceto. The artillery in a fierce exchange of fire throughout the day, shelled the German infantry and tank di- visions forming up around the Ap- rilia “fagtory” east of Carroceto, and apparently broke up preparations of a renewed enemy atf veloped egnndm nnnfigf‘d.:;mbluag-' 1 without decisive actighs on “either |the main front around Cassino or the beachhead. The Fifth Army spokesman in- terpreted the relaxation of the Ger- | man pressure against the beachhead 4s meaning the German offensive to erase it had failed for the second time since the Allies landed below Rome just a month ago. i B L5851 SR sl ENIWETOK ~ ISLAND 1S - CAPTURED “inadequate | ‘Casualtiés fii;hl ~ Forces | Now Are Attacking Parry Island | UNITED STATES PACIFIC IFLEET HEADQUARTERS AT astride the mountain passes, so that | the Nazis' big guns inside it could break up an Allied advance from at| least two directions. It was impos- sible to by-pass. | U. S. war chiefs have been deeply worried over the reaction of the; Catholic world not only to the| bombing of the Benedictine monas- tery but also to the prospect of a battleficld being made of the streets of Rome. Their worry is not so} much regarding the people of Italy,; but the outside world. i In this connection, Professor Gae- tano Salvemini, the famous Italian scholar and anti-Fascist who has lived in this country since 1932 and | is now a citizen, made some remarks in Washington the other day which are being studied. He said that the Italians themselves were not strong Vatican Catholics. He described| them as devoted to their local sanc-} tuaries and madonnas, said thal they invited the local priest into their homes to bless the new-born| calf, but that they did not like the Pope and felt no great interest in the Vatican. The professor, who himself is) noted for his anti-clerical views,! IEEN AGE (lUB said that the real interest in the ' Vatican came from the Irish, Poles and the French-Canadians. He also fl"’{,’;’,’,flfl‘fl‘s n‘;im;’:knomzhebufm:s Juneaws Miford John Bradford the White House.” t | Post No. 4 of the American Legion Regardless of whether Professol.l'”t night voted to give full coop- Salvemini is right, U. S. war chiefs| \eration to the Juneau Rotary Club are greatly worried about world re- {and high school student leaders in action to bombing Rome, but they‘formmg a Teen Agers Club in Ju- are afraid that no more can be done|"¢3'" ; Rotary already has decided to fur- sbout 1t S ahop e Bem’d‘cflm'ni:;h a juke box and records for (Continued on Page Four) regular dances, and ‘the Legion AND IN THE PUR! LEGION TO AID IN ORGANIZING : The infant government was so hard-put that unpaid ‘Army officers urged Washington to become dictator. dignantly refused, rupnflidl_v threw the petition on the floor (above). ‘War cost $450,000,000 in paper money. France and Spain lent $7,830,000 more, (Teday—344 billlion spent, 90 billlion spending i ‘n good place to hold the dances. | | Allies United i The Prime Minister asserted in a confident but cautious war re- view before the Commons that ‘he Allies stand united in war plans {that will make certain that victory “may not be so far away.” He said he could neither guarantee that the war would be finished in Eur- abroad receives this warm, personal Franklin D. Reosevelt. é‘mspund(nm with each and every Every soldier leaving for England and the American encampments stationery, and carrying the personally indited signaturc of President 1t is the soldicr’s last word from home. President said his only regret is that he cannet engage in steady | squarely the fault of the legislators| ppART, HARBOR, Feb. 22.—Ameri- | using language in drafting the legis- .a; troops have captured Eniwetok |lation that “not even the dkflmmly sland after stubborn opposition, can .make it clear.” and Naval and Air Forces are at- The President said he hopea Con-|tacking Parry Island in strength, gxexfl will act quickly as possible to|a communique from Admiral Nimitz | simplify the tax laws, which u;)am reported. | will make it possible for a mpll- Preliminary reports on American \flutmn of forms and computations, usuultle\ say that “in the capture ‘.us the taxpayers are engaged in'of Eniwetok atoll only approxi- letter of farewell, on White House The one of the American ngmm« men. |ope this year or that it would ex- itend to 1945, and declared that | Hitler still has “full control” of Germany and 300 divisions of his army of half a million Nazis fight- ing in Italy. ! “Evidently Hitler has decided 'o defend Rome with the same obstin- ancy as Stalingrad,” said Churchill, but added that Allied leaders are confident of success through rein- forcements pouring in from Africa Praises U. 8. Air Force Other main highlights of Church- |ill's first war review since the | Dugout was suggested last week ah,Tphemn and Cairo conferences was (that the air offensive of the United At last night's meeting, George|States Bomber Force in Britain |“now begins to surpass our own and C. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs.| George Martin of Juneau, became'v'm be substantially greater still in this air campaign against Ger- a member of the Juneau Post. | | many. Visitors included Andrew W. Tol-| . ,cnen of the Hancock, Michigan, Post: Ou;’ prresell:; ex;or;xl.s j9:hpach No. 186; Thomas V. Garry of the ® “:f 2] "°"l ineniians of { Wrangell Post, and Arthur R. Lundyla‘“” g’ yeb, emplayed: or. indeed grritorial Basfion InMid-PacificReady He in- | By JACK STINNETT | area and under constant threat WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Buried | shoald the Japs decide to correct in ‘the annual report of S elflfl'imeu- great strategic error of two Ickes to Congress on the activities | of the Interior Department is "‘the war., little section to which Hawailan| o0 b0 oecasional word of delegate Joseph R. Farrington has |, un pave the stories drifted back called my attention and it is well |} 0o rocidents of Hawaii have worth passing on. rallied {o the repair of damage done It is a dry but potentially dra-|on Pearl Harbor day; to strength-| matic. account of how Hawail hfié(gnu)g their defenses and to mak- weathered its second year of war.|ing the islands our great spring- Hawail is our only great territorial | poard for the offensive. bastion not in enemy hands but* 4 1944-45.) For Any, All Assaults - CONTINUES | years ago and try to knock it out m( lan effort to win the Nation’s great- | icsv. war and “no in a mood to study { higher mathematics.” B 'BOMBINGS OF REICH | | LONDON, Feb. 22.— ordinated air attack against Ger- many from bases in the United {Kingdom and Italy were carried out |today by planes from the south land west, hitting aircraft factor- \ies dhd other targets. The combined assault was made The first co-| mately 150 were killed and 50 ‘wounded," The report said that 11,000 Japs are said to have been jon Engebi and Eniwetok at the (start of the preinvasion bombard- 1m¢~nl. { —————t—— MRS. GANDHI TO GET PENCILLIN FLOWN TO HER BOMBAY, Feb. 22.—The British Government has arranged to fly pencillin to Poona where Mrs. Mohandas K. Gandhi is reported to 1be seriously ill. LONDON, Feb. 22—Mrs. Gandhi, 74, wife of the Indian leader is 1 TOO LATE—SHE'S DEAD | of the Sitka Post. limagined. Long range bombers are| An excellent feed of chili beans/Ditting Germany and Italy. The and potato salad was put on by Gus G€rmans are preparing on the Skinner. French shore new means of attack- AR SN 5 ing this country, either by pilotless| Dé&dquarters of Admiral Chester W. aircraft or possibly rockets or both Nimitz and a great channel for sup- | At the end of World War T,,, a considerable scale but the plies and men moving into the Pa- North America was confronted with|yigilant Allled Commands are strik- cmfl o | the problem of providing 60 per- In spite of the fact that it has not | cent of the world’s food supply. been attacked since Pearl Harbor,' very much in the war zone. Tt is| the chief base of operations for the northern and mid-Pacific. It is the (Continued on Page Three) iwlu years had war on their very l1ie e > # by U. 8. Eighth and Pifteenth Air!dead according to a New Delhi ra- \le'_ry'»* l:::?";::":u:ze'f; g:‘e‘_:)'"’;: Forces, and was aimed at the de- dio broadcast this afternoon. She ;~(»(-1tm1 “n'd beliind: that Tacitaton struction of Germany's capacity to suffered intermittently heart at- a0y bo earm b poli s en ey maintain their aerial defensive tacks at Poona where she was de- of & clilling, Boplitiohs it h‘n prck against further bombing. |tained with her husband. s A German dispatch said that Al-| The announcement of the death d bombers attacked targets in was made by the Governor of Bom- ARy ,~outhurn Germany, the Danube and|bay who said she died at 7:15 am. Alps areas at noon toda PWT today doorstep. l(‘mmnlml on "age Thrrm