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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI VOL. XLI., NO. 9583. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944 BARKLEY QUITS SENATE L = RE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EADERSHIP Nazis Attacks Thrown Back, Italian Front AMERICANS IN ACTION, CISTERNA Artillery Br;taht Into Play! by Both Sides-Lull | Prevails BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb. 23. — The German controlled Rome radio tonight said the «“German High Command deem- ed it advisable to halt opera- tions south of Rome for the time being.” Listening posts and Reuters report no indication of such plans and Allied Headquarters reported the latest from the Anzio beachhead indicated the Germans are regrouping for an- other attack. » ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Feb. 23.—American troops threw back two localized German Two) ‘ progi STALIN SAYS ALLIES WILL LICK HITLER (Continued on Page The Washington i | | Merry - Go - Round | By DREW PEARSON j (Major Robert 8. Allen oD sotive duty.) | WASHINGTON—A _little’ over year ago, Randolph Paul, Treuur?NaZi A"empts to DlVIde epartment counsel and tax expert, | q . s 10 ' United Nations No Good Victory Nears t with five bus\—] ness leaders described to him as| “controlling the tax policy of the| United States.” He was told that e these five men wanted to confer with him regarding impending fax legislation. !attempts to “introduce disharmony Curious as to who could controliy, the camp of the anti-Hitlerite a policy over which the nation 0N goqiion” s doomed to failure,| fought a revolutionary war and lpyemier josef Stalin told the Rus-| which is supposed to be the PYe-iqop heople in a special order of the rogative of Congress with the ad- 4oy, commemorating the 26th an- vice of the Treasury, Paul consented niversary of the Red Army. to meet with the five men. THEY, “prigng the Red Army's smash-| were: _'ing of Germany “to the edge of 1. Ellsworth Alvord, taxflgb?::‘: catastrophe,” Stalin again empha-| ist of the U. S. Chamber e . sized his contention that Russia ls| merce, former tax lawyer " bearing the brunt of the war effort,! drew W. Mellon, and mo_st success: fut dagibbed: i ful tax lawser in Washington 1" e more hopeless will be| ver Cowdin, head of ! nf' v,:;" s:,:fn:,ef f the National the situation of Hitlerite Germany A:suclaflon of Manufacturers, when the main forces of our Allies 2 versal Pictures Cor- 80 into action. That a powerful ;2::;?;:‘? oafngmdkecm of various growing offensive of the Al}ied other big corporations, many of States will be launched against them aviation companies. Hitlerite Germany should now be 3. John W. Hanes, former Under clear to all. | Secretary of the Treasury, invest-' “Hitlerite Gerany is advancing in- ment banker, heavy stockholder of evitably toward catastrophe, and Martin bombers, tobacco interests the gnour for the final reckoning and the largest orchid farm in the of all crimes committed by Hitler- world. ites on Soviet soil and in the oc- 4 Lewis Brown of the Johns- cupied countries of Europe is ap- Manville Company. proaching for the Germans,” he 5. Roswell Magill, former Under saiq, | Secretary of the Treasury, now Wall gtqlin declared the Germans are; Street tax attorney for various big geeking to save themselves by or- firms. dering the total mobilization in the This group told Paul that the ... 5,4 py making desperate ef- Ruml! plan.was in the cards, 81S0 gog 5 introduce disharmony in the sales tax, and that he would o camp of the Allies, hoping| have to go’ along for the 1943 SeS- ¢y oropy 1 “drag out the war” sion of Congress, They laid down e D LR various other tax plans as a vir-, tual ultimatum which the Treasury RE GEN S BURG SENATOR GEORGE'S PROGRAM B 0 M B E D B v LONDON, Feb. 23—All German could take or leave, but which they sald were assured of Congressional The tax lobby did not reveal who, were their key Congressional pals approval. whom they so confidently expected | ! to do their bidding. But the tax | battle which followed in the last; (apital Lends Ear fo session of Congress and in this ses- sion, regarding two different tax| bills, showed that the five men were not talking out of turn. They had some very potent Congressional fig- ures helping them and, as a result, the latest tax bill is a hodge-podge of compromise, with many of the powerful tax lobby's sticking out like a sore thumb. One key figure in writing the tax bill was Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee, great Continued on Page Four) proposals | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NAPLES, Feb. 23. — The greatest |force of Allied bombers ever sent against a single target by the Medi- |terranean Allied air force, bombed | the Messerschmitt factories at Reg- ensburg, Germany. | Regensburg, 50 miles south of Munich, was bombed by the first coordinated attack on German tar- | gets by bomber# based both in Italy and England. JUNGLE-WISE BURMESE SCOUTS AID YANKS < 3 JUST AS AMERICAN INDIANS aided the Colonials during the Revolution, Kachin jungle fighters lead Yanks through the Burmese jungles to the lairs of Japs. Here a patrol led by Sgt. of Atlanta, Ga.. and Pvt. John Davenport of Goldsville, S. C., fords a Wire Tappi AIRDROME ATRABAUL IS BLASTED U. S. Destroyers Venture Info Harbor - Attack One Ship, Left Low ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. 23— Amerftan bombers from the Solom- ons fields, blasted the newly re- paired Lakunai airdrome at Ra- baul with 52 tons of bombs and set- ting five large fires. Pilots reported the smallest num- ber of planes ever encountered from the Jap southern stronghold. |One bomber was downed by antl- aircraft when venturing at a low altitude to drop heavy bombs. One ship in the harbor was hit by ‘United States destroyers which centured into the “charmed area.” When last seen it was low in the water. It is reported that troops in the Saidor area, New Guinea, have cap- tured Gabumi village, eleven miles northeast of the landing: place in the coastal regions around Madang. KRIVOI ROG 1S CAPTURED LONDON, Feb. 23—Late yester- day, Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Krivoi Rog, iron center, in the Ukraine. The an- nouncement came shortly after a Berlin broadcast announced the | Nazis had evacuated the city. WILLIAM BURNS IS PRIVATE 15T (LASS William E. Burns, well known Juneau man, former mail clerk on The Empire staff, is now a Private First Class, according to word re- ceived here. Young Burns is assist- ant mail clerk with the Army Air Corps at Fresno, California. stream. o James Fletcher (left foreground) (International) e | | | ng; General 1-PRONGED ASSAULT BY YANK PLANES Aircraft from_Brilain and‘ Italy in First Coor- dinated Raid LONDON, Feb. 23. — American bombers and fighters, striking pow- erfully from Britain and Italy in| the first coordinated assault deep into Germany, crippled encmy air-! eraft production anew, and knocked 133 Nazi fighters out of the sky. United States Army headquarters announced that 61 big bombers were lost in yesterday’s joint as- sault, a new record of loss. Ihe assault included diversionary raids by planes based in Italy. The announcement listed 41 bombers lost from the force attacking from Britain and 20 missing of the Fif- teenth Airforce based in Italy. Allied headquarters in the Mediter- ranean said only 15 Italy-based planes were lost yesterday, includ- ing 12 bombers. This would make the day’s total bomber losses 53. “In three days of record break- ing operations aimed at destroying Germanys capacity to maintain aerial resistance, American Air| Force planes accounted for 310 en- _fighters,” headquarters said, 154 talling to fighters of the Eighth land Ninth Air Forces, from Bri- * Suspicions Prevailing tain, 117 destroyed by Eighth Air Force bombers, and 40 by the Fif- teenth Air Force bombers. The Germans threw up a savage ' resistance as the Britain-based By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—There is .one factor in wartime Washing-| ton which is very little touched upon — the suspicion with which every one regards every one else. It's a delicate matter but a very| real one which has affected our| war effort for good and bad. i A few few months ago, I wrote in | | |this column that there Wwas more wire-tapping in Washington today | bombers struck at the Junkers 88 assembly plant at Bernberg, the| airframe component factories at | Aschersleben and at' Halberstadt. | Fifteenth Air Force ,bombers from Ithly blasted two Messer- schmitt factories at Regensburg, and bombed freight yards at Peter- hausen, 20 miles north of Munich. SUPPLY PROBLEM ON BEACHHEAD L~ VIA FLAMINIA 17 AS THE FIFTH ARMY puts up a terrific fight to hold its precious Nettuno- AN VIA SALARI N VIA VALERIA \J £l Anzio beachhead gains against stiff Nazi counterattack, some idea of its supply problem and of the may be gained by a study must be beached and sent “the hard way, and highways leading into Rome and the Germans. A rail line through Tivol Allied fliers in an effort to knock it out. communications advantages of the Germans of this map Al supplies reaching the Fifth * whereas there are railroads southward which can be used by 1i has frequently been bombed by (International) STOCKHOLM IS HIT BY RUSS BOMBS Believed fo Be Damaged Craft Jettisoning Bombs AGAIN WITH FIREJOMBS German Raiders Strike| Again for 11th Time | This Month | KENTUCKIAN RESIGNS IN HOT SPEECH Denounces President’s Tax Bill Veto Message- Then Quits Position WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — United States Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky today offered his resignation as Dem- ocratic leader of the Senate in a vehement protest against President Roosevelt's tax veto message given Congress yester- day. Sen. Barkley denounced the message as “a deliberate and calculated assault upon the honesty and integrity” of Con- gressmen. Senator Barkley threw down the leadership after a bitter and sarcastic attack on the President and titular head of Barkley's own Party and he shouted his anger at the Presi- dent’s veto message and term- ed Roosevelt’s own tax goals as “fantastic.” Senator Barkley immediately call- ed a conference of the Democratic majority for 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning to select his successor, his resignation being effective at that Not Take It, Lying Down “Other members of this Senate may do as they please, but I do not propose to take this unjustifiahle assault lying down,” shouted Bark- ley as the Kentuckian gave up his leadership he has held since 1937 in the closest harmony with the President. Senator Barkley turned to his colleagues and shouted: “If the Congress of the United States has any self-respect left, it will over- Iride this veto and enact this tax |bill into law.” Heavy applause roared out through ' the historic old chamber ———.————— !than ever before in spite of the ; ! fact that there are laws governing | wire-tapping (which consists both {as Barkley concluded his speech. LONDON, Feb. 23—A substnnunl‘SflOl'eB of House members standing number of German raiders made a along the rear wall of the Senate, STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23. The Swedish Telegraph Agency said that Russian lettering was found on bomb | cf listening in on telephone conver-\ sations and making automatie re-| cordings of them.) Theére was no, denial and well there wasn't be- | cause it came from an agency of | our government best in a position | to know. i Since then, I have found that| stenographic records of telephone conversations, personal interviews, and even so-called “off-the-record” conferences are more the rule than the exception. I have even heard {of one instance (it may be true or| false but it isn't in the least far-| fetched) in which one government official has a secretary accompany him to all social functions, to note down every “howdy-do, how-are- you” and the answers there-to— just in case some one tries to trip him up on a slip of the tongue or an unintentional innuendo. It's a sad state of affairs—one that on first examination seems to be more naturally a fester on the cancer of fascism than on the healthy growth of a democracy— jbut on second glance I'm not so | sure. | In the first place, none of this suspicious doublechecking is done with any idea of catching spies. For the most part, that is left up to |the FBI, Secret Service, and a few now minor Congressional commit- tees and government agencies. Why then, you may well ask, is there any justification for all this ysuspicion in the nation's capital? | The answer is to keep the unscrup- |ulous, the overly-ambitious, the | “lust-for-power-and-money” boys RETREAT T0 BUG RIVER Remhanls of Krivoi Rog Forces Fleeing West- Reds I_’ysh On LONDON, Feb. 23. — German troops, routed from the great iron city of Krivol Rog by the Red Army yesterday, are retreatinz w stward toward the Bug River, a Soviet com- munique said, as Premier Stalin an- |nounced that in one year the Nazis have been driven from almost three quarters of the territory they occu- pled since invading Russia in the summer of 1941. ° 4 During the past 12 months, Stalin said, the Red Armies have “ad- vanced westward as much as 1,000 miles in some places. It should now be clear to all that Hitlerite Ger- many is advancing inevitably toward catastrophe.” The major military prize of Krivol Rog was captured by General Mali- novsky’s Third Ukrainian Army, after a bitter four months' sieze. The Russian communique said “The enemy suffered enormous losses in manpower and equipment. Thou- sands of enemy dead littered the approaches to the city, and in its streets, and remnants of the routed fragments at Straengnaes, 40 miles west of Stockholm,, after a small number of foreign planes dropped explosives there and on the capital last night. Signal lights indicating they were trying to land were also dropped by the planes. 't is believed they were damaged craft, and jettisoned the explosives before attempting emer- gency landings. Russian bombers raided Turku on the west coast of Finland, 150 miles from Stockholm, earlier last night. Several of the bombs which fell on Stockholm crashed directly into the summer open air theatre, the only extensive open area in the southern section of the city. No casualties are reported, but hundreds of win- dows were shattered. - TAROA ISLAND IS ATTACKED, SAYS DOMEI NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—A Domei broadeast in English from the Pa- cific areas reports Taroa Island, one of the remaining Jap footfolds in the Marshalls, was bombed from the air on Sunday and Monday and also shelled by “enemy surface craft” on Monday. two-directional assault on London last night, showering high explo-| sives and fire bombs over wide areas here and on other English, gections, causing casualties includ- ling at least 10 killed, and starting fires in several districts. | The raiders stirred up a barrage, | which miany agreed was the heav-| iest of the war, with 10 enemy planes destroyed, one by a Cana- dian Intruder over 'its base in irance. i Making the eleventh assault on London this month, and the fourth in five nights, the attacks came in two waves over the east and south coasts. They converged over Lon- ion and spread out to drop their cargo, mainly of incendiaries, per- haps many of them the new explo- sive type the Germans say . they are now using. A number of schools, including a famous one in London, are among the buildings wrecked. joined in the applause. Senator Kenneth McKeller of Tennessee grasped Senator Bark- ley's hand and other members of the Senate, including Republicans, rushed over to shake Barkley's hand too. Deliberate Attack Sen. Barkley said President Roos- evelt deliberately sought to belittle Congress through the tax bill. “I not only advised him not to veto it,” said Barkley. “I implored him doubly not to do so. I do not be- lieve the veto sent Congress is jus- tified. T make no apology.” Accusation Resented During his speech, Barkley shout- ed: “It is the first time during my long service, which I thought hon- orable, T have been accused of vot- ing n bill to extend relief to the greedy and impoverish the needy. For twelve years I have carried to the best of my ability, the flag of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For the - 30 - Day Extension Is Granted in Filing of 44 Estimated Income | WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The Treasury Department has formally announced a 30-day extension of time for filing declarations of the estimated income and victory tax | for 1944; although emphasizing no | | { | (Continued on Page Six PA STUNNED, HEARING OF QUADRUPLETS DECATUR, Ala., Feb. 23—Dr. T. from taking over the war effort. enemy are seeking saefly in flight. Some of them are a very real threat| They abandoned many guns, mor- and no figment of the fiction- tars, machine guns, and trucks, and writers' imaginations. | Soviet forces captured large dumps If WPB Chief Donald Nelson | of military equipmentt.” i hadn't beaten off the wolves that; MOscow dispatches said only a tried to wet hold of the War Pro- NaITOW escape gap along the lower | duction Board, our war effort might Dhieper River to the west remains | well have been another story. If oPen for the retreating Nazls to! bis deputy chief Charles E. wil-|Kherson and Nikolaev, the latter| son could have been run out of ity 95 miles southwest of Krivol town by some of the men who RS 8t the mouth of the Bug, and wanted to take over, there might| 2F¢ Probably the immediate ob- (Continued on Page Two) L dispatches indicated. | jectives of Red Army forces, these not yet complete, the Treasury De- partment said, delay is granted in filing 1943 taX M. Guyton announced today that 4th WarLoan Is Away 0ver; WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The | fifteen billion dollar Fourth War Loan was oversubscribed by almost two billion dollars. The figures are | returns due on March 15. one of the quadruplets born to Mrs, . Spencer Edmund Hutto of Hills- MIAMI DRY. AS died on Monday night. The boy ’ died, but the three sisters continued satisfactorily. - The father, Private in a para- MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 23—Because 8nnouncement of the news, which of lack of rain and with prevailing Was repeated to him several times, temperatures around 80, the Water and as he walked away, turned back Superintendent has ordered stag- to ask, Qoro, Alabama, on Monday morning, WATER SCARCE, troop company, was stunned by the gering hours for lawn sprinkling. “Did you say four?”