The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 9584. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN'S MARIANAS ISLANDS BOMBED House Overrides Tax Bill Veto Alies Approach Rabaul BARKLEYS IS HANDED HEAVY BLOW A | Strident Rebellion Against| Chief Executive’s Views Registered WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—In stri- dent rebellion against the views of | President Roosevelt, the House to-| day by a vote of 299 to 95 passed| the two billion, three hundred mil- | lion dollar new revenue bill over, his veto. The Senate is expected to dupli- | cate the action tomorrow, thus put-| ting the tax bill on the statute books over the President’s objec- | tions notwithstanding. { The galleries of the House were | filled an hour before the motion ! came to override the veto of the President. Crowds also gathered in the halls of the Capital to catch/ even a small glimpse of the doings. ! The vote was by roll call. | Doughton Breaks With FDR Chairman Robert L. Doughton, fighting member of the mighty| Ways and Means Committee, it is| PRESIDENT NEW BRITAIN " | | | Narrow Escape (Centinued on Page Six) - The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty) | | WASHINGTON—Word that grey, | gaunt, grizzled Barney Baruch had| decided to recommend equally grey, | gaunt, grizzled Assistant Secretary| of Commerce Will Clayton as head | of war-factory demobilization brought a burst of reaction from' various places. | Most interesting reaction came | from those around the White House | who recalled how economic royalist | Clayton, Texas cotton magnate, had | contributed several thousand dollars | to the Liberty League to campaign | against Roosevelt in 1936 and how | his wife had sent word to the White | House that she would match every penny her husband gave to defeat Roosevelt with an equal amount to | help him win. Mrs. Clayton, who' is wealthy in her own right—in fact, | heiped her husband to rise from the position of a struggling stenog- | rapher in Tennessee to become the | world’s greatest cotton broker —| carried out her promise. More than| $7.000 of her money went to FDR. Also, it was recalled how Mrs. Clayton telephoned Mrs. Milo Per- kins during the row between Jesse Jones and Clayton on one side and! MudSIoggers Vice President Wallace and Milo! Perkins of the BEW on the other.“ |Newest American Medal Is “Tell your husband,” Mrs. Clay- ton said, “to keep up the fight| Barred to Airmen- They Have Plenty LT. 'MARY HARRISON of Belpre, O., an Army nurse, pokes her finger through a hole in her helmet caused by a Nazi bomb dropped on an evacuation hospital in the Anzio sector. Fortunately, she was car- rying the helmet at the time. OWI Radiophoto. (International) Bronze Starto against my husband. I know your| husband is absolutely right.” Mrs. Clayton, incidentally, went| to a little Kentucky college, Marvin | at Clinton, Ky., with Senator Alben Barkley. The " two became great| friends. Mrs. Clayton, though mar- ried to one of the wealthiest men| in America, has been a New Dealer| for a long time. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The Bronze Star, newest American dec- oration for action against the en- emy, has been introduced, along with the specification that the only place it cannot be won is in an CZAR OF POST-WAR airplane, and is obviously aimed ag FACTORIES boosting the morale of the mud- As demobilization director, Clay-|sloggers, who have been wondering ton would decide whether the huge where the airmen got all their government-owned airplane, munit- medals. ions and other factories built at, The new decoration takes preced- the taxpayers' expense Wwith Jesse!ence over the Air Medal, also over Jones, RFC loans should be turned | the Purple Heart, Undersecretary of over to private industry, dismant-| War Patterson disclosed at a press led, or held by the government | conference, and can be awarded to ‘This is one of the most importnml‘anyone in the Army, Navy, Marine problems confronting post-war Am-| Corps, or Coast Guard, who dis- |stock today is 57, American Can! erica. | tinguishes himself by “a heroic or Those who have worked with for- |meritorious achievement or service mer Liberty Leaguer Clayton have:not involving participation in aerial no illusions as to where he would|flight.” stand. Southern Congressmen re-« % call that. when the AAA upped the MRS. COBLE ENROUTE price of U. S. cotton, Clayton’s giant‘ SOUTH ON VACATION cot#on firm shipped seed, farm ma-\ il S0 e up an Hh Gountry's Gressest] e sl Ooble managet of cotton competitor. As a result the Coble Hotel at Anchorage, is ’|stopping at the Gastineau enroute (Continued on Page Four) to Pensacola, Florida on a vacation. e S Black arrow at right indicates newly announced Allied occupation of the Green Islands, following report of American occupation of Rooke Island (arrow at left). Outline arrows pofnt to the Allied drives’ likely ultimate objective—ihe Jap bastion of Rabaul. (AP Wirephoto) Pacific Ocean RE-ELECTED l AS LEADER SOLOMON ISLANDS %m Roaring Vc;t'e‘—of Confid- ence Given by Fight- ing Mad Congress WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democrat of | Kentucky, has been returned to his post as Majority Leader of the Sen- ate. He accepted reelection after a | roaring vote of confidence from his | colleagues. Barkley emerged from his ‘office and was told by a com- mittee appointed to notify him, that | his reelection by a Democratic con- | ference was unanimous. | Sentors Clark and Tydings told | reporters: cept Earlier Barkley formally submit- ted his resignation in a speech to the caucus, denying any fourth term implications in his historic break with President Roosevelt yesterday over the tax bill veto. Barkley asserted to reporte “I've always had and still have the | deepest personal affection for the | President. He stands right along; personally and officially with Wood- | row Wilson, who has been my ideal | of the President of the last gen- ! eration.” 4 May Be Candidate - Senator Barkley emerged as prob- ably the most potent Presidential possibility outside of the White House as a fighting mad Congress rallied behind him in his sensational break with Roosevelt, and Allied | mate Damage | capitals around the world are look- 2 ing on. LONDON, Feb. 24—Smoke from| Last night the President himself, the fires set by German night raid- | moving swiftly to head off the re- | ers still rose as Nazi reconnaissance | Volt, expressed the hope that the planes flew boldly over the city and 1 Kentuckian’s resignation would not touched off the first bonafide day |be accepted, and urged Barkley in alert in many months, apparently |2 telegram addressed “Dear Alben” | checking the damage done on the not to resign. fourth sharp raid in six nights, and | Charles McGlue, former Mass: underscored the warning the Luft- | chusetts Democratic ~Committee waffe had shifted “strong mmbe,-lchalrman. predicted a ‘“favorite formations to hit England. ison” candidacy for the Presidential Thousands of incendiaries and |nomination will get under way in {many high explosive bombs were! Kentucky in Barkley's behalf and | dropped last night, and dozens of | called him the nation’s Citizen Num- | |deaths and widespread damage re- ber Two. At least four planes were shot Empress Augusto Bay =) | | | | | STATUTE MILES LONDON HAS DAY ALERT AFTER RAID jGerman Planes Fly Boldly Over Capital fo Esti- | down out of probably 100 which took part in the raid. D SHANGRILA ~ INTERNEES ' ISLAUNCHED RETURNING PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 24.—Bearing “Yes, he's agreed to ac-i of Roosevelt Jap Trenches, Supplies Hif at Enbebi ~ BLOW STRUCK SN S R B DEEP, JAPAN'S ' DEFENSE LINE s | American Planes from Fleet Carriers PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUART- o X ERS IN PEARL HARBOR, Feb. '& - 24.—The war's first blow against '?\almfl Marianas Group of Islands, % ‘dr‘ep in Japan's defense ring was . |dealt with powerfully on Tuesday, when hundreds of planes from air- craft carriers were sent out by Rear Admiral Marc Mirscher, who lashed Truk last week and made possible the 1942 raid on Tokyo /when he was captain of the carrier Hornet, The Marianas northwest of Truk. A radio silence to protect the . movements of the ships has pre- |cluded details as to whether the Marianas raiders sank any war- are 700 miles ships in Tanpag harbor on Saipan Island from which some of the ‘trenches, built by the Japanese-on Engebi Isalnd, the airfield for Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls, were 'L’;‘" &"e‘d:"‘e‘::a;““;"‘ "l‘h:““;‘;m dug in a geomefric pattern at the edge of the airstrip. Supplies piled on the ground and (win-engined bomb- | o\ ers, one of which can be sen in a wrecked condition, were sen on February 2 when Amcrtcxm planes flew over . The Tinian naval {0 wbserve results of previous bombings. This atoll has now been captured by U. §. mavines and In- 4, o target in the (AT Wirephoto). remrrhy o | 'The islands are sproximately e 13800 statute miles southwest of | Pearl Harbor and 120 miles north of the one time American base at | Guam Admiral Chester W. Nimitz also Ireports that Ponape and Kusai of (the Carolines were pounded by {Army Liberators on Monday, ap- N " E | parently to neutralize them so as ON pSKov not to interfere with the stroke on the Marianas. Simultaneously, Nimitz announced Berlin Acknowledges Ev- acuation of Rogachev air base was Tuesday raid. ' fantry. New Cures for Tax Pains; Profests Have Been Made on Forms By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The , rirst rumble of that snowball which | going to hit Congress March 15 already is being heard and Congress | is uncomfortable, if not (lnwnright; the invasion of Eniwetok has been '——‘—1 completed as well as the capture of | Parry and Engeki atolls. It is esti- ANZIO FRONT { mated that about 3,000 Japanese occupied the atolls, about 1,000 on . . . each. n Wh"e RUSSIE | The invasion of Eniwetok took FIG H Tl d. S0 is the Treasury T gt scared. S e sury. ' e - ’ The snowball is, of course, the; By Assosioton. Frem. ‘ | gathiering avalanche of protests) Fremier Stalin announced today | against the complicated income tax | that the Russian Army has cap- forms. A number of Congr .Smmwuu'vd’lmo. last important German | already have staggering files of let- [base east of ‘the Baltlc gateway £ | ters from constituents who have ex- | city of Pskov, and the Berlin radio 2 "amined the tax forms and can make | acknowledged the Germans have B ArfI"eI'Y B!’eflkS Up Ger‘ | neither head nor tails of them. levacuated Rogachev, Nazi base in’ g | Representative Dougthon, of Snu'.hJ White Russia above Gomel | man Attempis to Break | carolina, Ghairman of the House{ The Moscow communique pre- 5 Ways and Means Committee, that viously announced that German YAN H ND Inio Amen(an Ranks ,shapes ,all the tax bills, has come and Red Army troops were engaged | y lout with the declaration that he'in bitter hand to hand street fight-| 4 % ¥ considers his sole objective in office ing at Dno. Moscow remained silent | Sy ALLTED HEADQUARTERS IN now the business of simplifying the 'on the recent White Russian of- NAPLES, Feb. 24 Fighting again returns. {fensive which the Germans an- |a name symbolizing America’s de- termination to blast the enemy into | oblivion, the huge aircraft carrier ‘Shangrl La plunged into the Eliza- | beth River today on the first lap of its date with destiny. | The wife of Maj. Gen. James Doolittle christened the huge craft | before more than 75,000 spectators. | [LAST QUADRUPLET PASSES ON TODAY DECATUR, Ala., Feb, 24.—Dianne Hutto, the last of the quadruplets born to the sa-year-old wife of an Army paratrooper Tuesday, died this morning. Death as in the cases of her two sisters and one brother, was due to “weakness and prematurity.” | ST00K QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine {83, Anaconda 25%, Beech Aircraft 104, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Com- monwealth and Southern 11716, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvegter 70%, Kennecott 31%, North American Aviation 9, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 525, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 13658, rails 38.74, utilities 23.39. 5600 Enter —Sf)ain Ioday: from Germany Including iery 36 Wounded Aviators IRUN. Spain, Feb. 24. — Thrce trainloads bringing more than 600 American diplomats, newsmen, Red Cross Workers and other noncom- batants interned in Germany,cros: Ied the frontier today into Spain e jroute to Lisbon where they will tically swung over the be exchanged for German and Vichy Nationals arriving on the | Gripsholm. Among the interned to be ex-! changed are 36 wounded Americar aviators under surveillance of Span- {ish and Swiss International Red {Cross authorities and nurses who |transferred the wounded on stretch- ers from the German train at the frontier. | A5 S T British Suspeded ' Of Propaganda, ' Coming Election WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Senator | Harry Flood Byrd, Democrat of Vir- :to determine whether the - British distributed to the. American troops a tabloid nwspaper containing a | story that political opponents of | President Roosevelt are ready to spend $50,000,000 to defeat him for reelection. flared on the Anzio front as artil- gunners broke up German groups preparing to attack the front American troops west of Cisterna. Allied troops repulsed Nazi at- tempts to infiltrate the lines south- west of Carraceto. 1 Four engined bombers, ranging| into Austria, attacked the impm‘t-i ant German aircraft assembly plant | at St. Eyr, then the Air Force tac-; coast of Ttaly| to Yugoslavia, showering bombs on| enemy shipping which lm.sv been | feeding supplies. Bix Liberators were attack at St. Eyr, but fighters were shot down. .- BATTLESHIP RICHLIEU IN FRONTLINES LONDON, ‘Feb. 24. lost in the two enemy British - For- ginia, has asked for an investigation eign Secretary Anthony Eden told |alternative would be a simple year- the House of Commons that the 35,000-ton French battleship mch-[ lien, damaged by the British at Dakar in 1940 is at “this moment working with the Allied fleet.” e BUY WAR BONDS | | | At least three bills in prepara- inounced yesterday, which had brok- ;;‘;’p;‘;?fl:‘:fi:}? a“;’n?x‘\;::s :;:‘:;:::*m the Nazi lines northeast of of dishing out the dough on pay- 1&‘;”“}‘“' resulting in heavy fight- days. But nothing can be done to § cure the March 15 headache this| year—a. collective headache that is going to have to be endured by | nearly 40,000,000 persons. - floor to inform the public that sim- | plifications are on the way and to | ) . | The greatest headache will come | Fifth consecu'lve Dfly 0 |to those persons earning more than B . ombing Pastes Gotha | | promise it won't happen again. The.f $3,000 a year for they will have Lo; iclosely packed pages of questions, ) and S(hwe'nfur' | = [ S0 serious does the Treasury con- | | sider the situation that Secretary | Morgenthau already has taken the J’rreasury drew up the forms, but the | DEEP REI(H {fault lies in the muddle of tax laws | v‘passed by Congress. (fill out the long forms of four| {m\.sweru and figures. And there will | b be three forms of tax to compute—| LONDON, Feb. 24 - { the Victory tax, the normal tax and I heavy bombers battered surtax. factories at Gotha and ballbrearing | The ideal thing, and one some of |works at Schweinfurt for the fifth .the lawmakers are hoping to do, is|consecutive day, smashing at the! eliminate returns altogether at le@st \roots of German air power. | for wage earners. How much burden! The Allies - renewed the war's ;this would place on employers has!greatest aerial offensive not yet been determined and it may | of American Marauders and British not be possible for that reason. The | Typhoons struck across the Chan- American lend declaration of income earne and taxes paid. *1150 miles southwest of Berlin, and |at Schweinfurt, where the Ameri-, The Victory tax probably will be oo & ¥ Fortresses last October abolished altogether. It was planned | " 4 (Schweinfurt is 220 miles southwest Jof the German eapital (nel at Gotha in central Germany, Halsey's Planes Give Ra- baul Daily Pasting- No Interception ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb. 24—All of western New Britain is in American hands by the junc- ture of Marines on the north coast with the Sixth Army troops in the south, General Douglas MacArthur announced today. The meeting of the two forces culminated a campaign which be- gan on December 15 when Army troops landed at Arawe, and re- ceived impetus when Marines went ashore at Cape Gloucester on De- cember 26. All organized resistance has been cleaned from the area west of a iine running from Rottock Bay on the north coast southwest to Arawe alreraftion the south coast. MacArthur es- timated that 7,000 Japanese were killed in the fighting. The Jap base at Rabaul was given another daily pasting when Admiral William F. Halsey's planes AS SWArMS| qropped 130 tons of bombs on La- kunai and Rapapo airdromes. There was no enemy interception for the second straight day, a headquarters spokesman said, and the absence of interception could mean that en- icans suffered the grievous loss of‘emy planes lacked gasoline due to 14 Allied air and sea blockade which (Continued on Page Three) v