The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1944, Page 1

ITHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIBAY, FEBRUARY 25, ACHHEAD AT ANZIO South Pacific Japs 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLI., NO. 9585. GERMANS RINGING Draw Net Tighter o ADM. HALSEY SURROUNDS NIP BASES Sends Down Two Merchant Ships, Destroyer - Ka- vieng Bombarded ALLIED HEADQUARTERS lN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb 25.—Admiral William F. Hals | destroyers, drawmg the knot tight-| er around Japanese bases, and neu- tralized air attacks, sank two enemy merchant vessels and a destroyer in brief action around New Ireland‘ on Tuesday, it is announced i The American Sea Patrol, besidos| finishing off the three ships, heav- | ily bombarded Kavieng on the! northern tip of New Ireland and| shelled installations on Duke and| York Islands. | At no time during the attacks were | any Japanese planes sighted giving; strong support to Gen. Douglas| MacArthur's communique that “we are tightening the blockade of Lhe lCununued on Pa.ge Two) The Washington - Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Silver - crested | Senator Guy Gillette has a keenly | developed propensity for denying| stories published in this column,| and doubtless he will deny this one. | The fact is, however, that the other day a friend of his sounded out the White House regarding the‘ question of President Rumeveh running for a fourth term. ITowa Democrats have long been urging Gillette to run for re-elec-| tion, yet he has steadfastly hung | back. The Senator is by all odds the most popular Democrat in Iowa | and the only one who has a chance | of going back to the Senate. ' So when Iowa Democrats appear- ed recently in Washington for the | National Committee meeting, State | Committee Chairman Jake More urged, cajoled and demanded that Gillette run. Finally, Gillette con- sented. But he attached one big condition — if President Roosevelt | also ran for reelection. This brought smiles from some of | his friends, who remembered how | the President had opposed Gillette in the “purge” primaries of 1938. However, Gillette apparently meant it and Jake More carried the mes- sage to the White House. There the matter stopped. The President, as! usual, maintained his sphinx-] llke! silence. Jake More then went back ml Jowa and, the other day, telegraphed | the White House that Iowa Demo- | cratic leaders had voted unanimous- ly for a fourth term. When More’s | telegram was shown to the Presi- dent, his only comment was: “Qh yes, I remember meeting him here at the National Committee| meeting, charming fellow.” NOTE — The President’s close| friends do not expect him to say| anything one way or the-other about | a fourth term until after the Re- publican National Convention. | | ! NAVY WASTE REMEDIED : Recently, this column reported in | detail regarding waste at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N.| J. Since then, we are happy to! report, drastic steps have been ' taken to remedy some of the ex-| travagance. 'New Bureau | Wounded Marines Return from Marshalls b mm,unc(mm\t. it i Vitebsk: The first hespital ships to reach Pearl Harbor with Marines wounded in the Marshalls campaign is shown landing stretcher cases. Note line of stretcher cases being carried along the deck above. The ship landed ERMV PULLS "Leaves” forWarDuty OFFCOUPIN el Iurndown by FDR ARGENTINA Vi BREAK OFF : (o‘ngressmen Seekmg | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — Two | things have happened in Wa.shm;- lon recently which may have far-| reaching effects on the political | scene: | (1) The resignation of 4l-year- old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 10 becom: major on active duty with the Armj | actionary Army clique which oppos- (2) The appeal of four House ed Argentina' ak with the Axis mcmbers. headed by Rep. Lyle Boren has forced President Ramirez to MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 25.—The re- of Seminole, Okla, to the President delegate the Presidential powers to| to lift his ban against members of Vice-President Delmiro Farrell, in S'” Up ]‘rouble passing consideration.| Farrell is an intimate friend of g | publican conservative by breeding, and Welfare of the Ramirez govs Lhe Franco Government of Spain Senate. He didn't have to run for .,y ~GOU” or “Colonel’s” group| Y ashi " harged ' per chz b, e was a r 4 crat of Washington, who charged upper chamber. He was a member Foreign Minister Gilbert, after re- of every American nation and ar-;becumn a major on the firing line. ‘Mas Not Resigned supply them with oil, water and other freshman senator, subordin- Buenos Aires declaring that Ram- Fran(o Shlps De“ver Naus‘(/ongrcsg going into the armed sex- 'what is regarded as another Palace| '0 Ame”(an Pofls 10 | vices on leave of absence. leoup, and Benito Sueyro, Argentine | Senator Lodge’s move deserws‘Nav_,/ Minister has also resigned. | morg than | Although a Back Bay Boston Re- juan Peron, Secretary of Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—A de- he was considered one of the most ernment, and frequently mentioned mand the United States break with | up-and-coming members of thelss the mainspring of the reaction- | was sounded in the House by Rep- office again until 1948. He was in A = 5 i a5 P gind : which only last week was credited resentative John M. Coffee, Demo-'the 20th seniority bracket in the win forcing the resignation that “neutral Spanish ships deliver of five important committees. 1ok : B Shonsands of Nasl-agents o porte] LAD: this he ~tossed overboRrd.to Fouts thAt hie favored S qeaing tion of war against Germany. {range rendezvous with Nazi sub- If he ever comes back to the Sen-, mannm in Latin American waters, ate, he will have to start as just an- The official announcement from |food and give information regard-)ate perhaps, even to the man named 'irez has not resigned but delegates ing United Nations’' convoys.” | by Gov. Leverett Saltonstall to suc- his powers to Vice-President Far- | ceed him, Sinclair Weeks, treasurer rell because of ill health, is viewed lof the Republican National Cum-,by diplomats here to be in effect | mittee. |at present. Farrell's assumption of [presidential powers as a continua- I have talked to Senator Lodge, \tion of the Ramirez regime is re- labout his desire to get back into|cognized by the United States and| the Army and I know how strong-' Allied governments. ly he felt his military knowledge| Rigid Censorship might be of more value to the na- rigid censorship was clamped Established A Fward | Hines Heagldministra-' tion to Take Care of Vets Affer Released WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt has created a re- | taining and re-employment admin- |istration headed by Brig. Gen.: Frank T. Hines. This new administration is charged with the responsibility of ition than his votes and debate on the Senate floor. Whether he’s right or wrong hasn't anything to ido with it. The fact that he and la good many others feel that way| | has. The four Congressmen appealed to the Commander-in-Chief to be |allowed to go “on leave” into the! larmed services without sacrificing their seniority |that their salaries be maintained, (any assurance that they would be |reelected. They just wanted as- surance that they could take up They didn't ask| down immediately in Buenos Aires, ,and the only announcement was that Ramirez has not resigned, but news press reports filtered through Colonel Filomeno Velazco, named {new chief of the Buenos Aires po- lice, and the Federal Police De- {partment told newsmen that the | Undersecretariet of the Press would | be abolished. They said the press would permitted to publish the news free- | {ly “so long as it adhered to the !truth. Blnod‘less Coup = MAY RAISE AGE {their old jobs where they left off VITEBSK IS EVACUATED !Abandon Important Ciiy3 tong Under Siege by Russian Army By Associated Press Germany’s Transocean News wency broadcasts a report that rman {roops have evacuated the! reat White Russian stronghold of | Vitebsk, and have failen back to-| the old Pelish frontier 70 s west. | The (German communique broad- t later did not mention Vitebsk, confitmed the earlier Berlin also made from that Russian troops have 150 miles south of but w, 1 Rogachev Army authorities that| with the Fifth Army in Ttaly, ler's Rogachev- Vn.v\»k line, one fcf the strongest on the Russian| vont, was smashed by Red Army! men streaming across the ice of b nieper River, which forms a large part of the line. Moscow has not| znounced the capture of Vitebsk. BIG (HANGE On the Baltic front 20 miles north of the Vitebsk sector Red Army Gabn troops are converging on Pskov, and have not only captured Dno,| lof line last important Nazi base, but| fi\l\n occupied a village 20. miles| north, Moscow \ald Sixth Day of Concentrated: Attacks in Progress -Big Fires LONDON, Fcb. 25-—The Royal Air Force last night took up the scourge of the German aircraft in- dustry, flying 1,000 bombers from Britain to Schweinfurt and other formations frem Italy to Steyr,after !0 Chiel of the Division ‘of Public the UnitedMStates Air Force hit the Relations in the headquarters of-| same targets in simuliancous day-|fice in Chicago, was made by Dr. light blows from both the western Gabrielson in cor wtion with the and southern bases. {foregoing announcement. Mr. Du-| Toda; fleets of daylight fresne, Executive Officer of the bombers the channel to Game Commission, has been with carry the battle for the sixth con- the Commission since the passing secutive day. the Alaska Game Laws in 1925, { Flames Guide Raiders to that, for threc years, he ! The RAF's nicht riding bombers ated wildlife work in North- were guided to both targets by n Alaska by the old biolog- ‘flaming wreckaze left only a few I urvey. He has resided in Ju- Hours before by the American day- 1eau since 1920 and before coning light raiders. here spent 5 years at Nome and 4 The British bombs added stilj|years at Fairbanks. further damage to Schweinfurt’s! To Leave Juneau |sprawling ball bearing plants and| During the time that he has been | to the German aircraft factory at!here, Mr. Dufresne has published| | Steyr, Austria. N magazines over 92 articles con- Headquarters announced that the c(-mlng Alask:s Wildlife, He expects powerful American air fleet which| 0 leave for his new office early| flew from the west and south y,s_‘in July, relinquishing his title as| terday downed 165 Nazi planes, and Executive the Eighth Air Force bomber: !Rhode, who has been acting as his downed 82 Nazi planes during the assistant since coming here from attacks on Schweinfurt and the Fairbanks. fighter plane factories at Gotha, With Mr. Rhode, Frank Hynes while the .accompanying fighters Will have as his assistant, Capt. accounted for 37. J. Steele Culbertson, USA, who has The Britain based American| been on assignment from the Army forces lost 49 bombers and 10 fight-| %0 direct the regulation of the sal- ers in the raid. mon canning industry under the TR RN £ Concentration Plan. He will super vise the 1944 gperations and will |temporarily be attached to the Re-| gtonfll Office in this capacity. | Important Year This year the work of the Fish | in an advanced evacuati women of all the ed fighte, line. In this war, elson Here Gives New Lineup-Dufresne | fo leave Juneau | — [ With the arrival in Juneau today | Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, Service announcement was made establishment of a regional office in the Territory of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the De-| |partment of Interior. The new of-! fice, which will be maintained n |Juneau and headed by Frank anm will have equal rank with the five regional offices now func- tioning in the States. Dufresne Promoted The promotion of Frank Dufresne Director of the i Officer, to Clarence OF DRAFT LIMIT MUD’S COLD BUT COFFEE'S HOT LUCY D. BROOKE (left), Englewood, N. J., Red Cross hospital worker and Pfe. Irving Autz, Cuero, Tex through the mud to tote buckets and pitchers of hot coffee to wound- as valiant as their combat n-oops Llhe class in a stirring message in which he explained the rights and QUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, | “include | opening remarks said, |is a privilege unequaled by citizen- | over-run or scourged by the ravages 10DIVISIONS AREPECKING, ALLIED UNITS Two Attacks Are Repulsed by Americans, British Infaniry Forces ALLIED HF‘!DQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Feb. 25-—Germon forces ringing the Anzio beachhead, now swollen to 10 divisions, pecked at the American and British lines yes- [terday in two fruitless attacks southwest of Carroceto, as the Fifth Army steadily improved its posi- | tions, The enemy, likewise in light force, assaulted French positions on Mount Abate, a mile and a half east of Terelle on the Cassino front, but artillery fire broke up the thrust On the lower Garrigliano sector, German probing attempts were blocked despite a seven inch snowfall, Around Cassino, Allied troops im- proved their positions on Monte Castellone and in the mountains ~ |west of the village of Cairo, midway |between Cassino and Terelle. The two beacahead attacks were launched by only a company of in- fantry in each case, usually about 1200 men. They were repulsed with ‘heavy losses to the enemy it was , plow fon hospital tent behind the battle services are proving that they can Red Cross mmm 33PERSONS AREGRANTED == CITIZENSHIP TASK FORCES ’GovernorGruemng Judge IN A"A(KS Alexander Welcome | New Citizens Today MARSHALLS Carrier Based Planes Make Sixth Raid on Jap Held Islands UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- Thirty-three new citizens of the United States took their oath of allegiance this afternoon at a color- ful program held in the District Courtrooms in the Federal Build- ing. Gov. Ernest Gruening addressed privileges that come with the gift Feb. 25.—Navy carrier planes in the of American citizenship. sixth raid of the war on the Jap- “The rights,” said the Governor, anese held Marshall Islands, bomb- that of free speech, the arded, fired hangars, demolished right to worship as you please, the radio stations, damaged ammunition right to meet with your fellow Am- storage arcas and other ground in- jericans to discuss the problems stailations including barracks, but !which are of common concern, and because of radio silence no detatled the right to freedom of action. report is made by Admiral Chester “These rights—freedom of speech, W. Nimitz. worship and assembly—are guaran-| The wording of the communique teed you by our constitution and its sald a strong carrier task force was amendments.” {in action but phraseology indicated The Governor then explained how the strike was not made by nearly these rights were won by the United as strong a force as recently hit States and also reminded those pre-| Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk and the sent of the duties and u-spuxmmn- Mmdnaa Ities of citizenship. Judge Alexander's Remarks Judge George F. Alexander in his in part, “This day is, or should be, one of the most memorable days of your lives, for today you are to become American citizens, ovided, course, you are w:lllng to assume the responsibilities of citizenship in exchange for its privileges. | “To be a citizen of the United | States at any time, with the free- dom and security its citizens enjoy, ENTIREJAP GARRISONS WIPED OUT Tokyo Radio Admits 4,500 Men Lost on Kwajalein and Roi Atolls NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The Tokyo radio has acknowledged that the | Jap garrisons at Kwaljalein and Rol ‘L\lund‘\ in the Marshall group, to- “We are glad to have you become .taling about 4500 men, was annihil- |citizens, and join with us in our Ated when an American force seiz- rvsnlve to preserve these United ed the stronghold early this month. States as the greatest and freest and | _ Lhe broadcast . recorded by the ship in any other country: and to become a citizen of the United States now, particularly in thesg stirring times, with practically the entire world aflame with war and | almost every country except our own, of war, is a gift to be found no- where else in the troubled world. United States Poreign Broadcast Instead @f giving away dozens of!geumg war workers and veterans tins of canned milk and a hundredh“m peacetime employment as they| pounds of sugar each night after .re ycleased from war services. the return of blimps from cruise, the Navy now returns this food to the galley. Previously sugar and canned milk unused after each! blimp’s flight were given or thown\ away. While checking this, Naval of- ficials also found that the galley (Continued on Page Four) e WITH LUMBER MILL Thomas H. Maxwell, with the Ju- | neau Lumber Mills, has returned from the States and is at the Hotel Juneau. ——————— BUY WAR BONDS |—an assurance that they, as Con-| gressmen, had granted everybody else who's drafted or volunteers. Representative Boren said the ‘Pxemdenc was sympathetie, but held {out no hope that the order would| Ibe remanded. Perhaps there aren't many, but, |there are some Congressmen whose | less, but dispatches from Buenos Aires said new rumors continued to circulate about the city and in some parts of the capital trucl \loads of troops took up positions. One report said Ramirez repeat-, |edly sought support for his plan to istic Group opposing him, and even (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on P:;ue Six) The coup appeared to be blood-| land Wildlife Service in connection |best beloved country this world has ' | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The|%ith the fur seal islands will be of ever known: not gi\:t by conquest 4 but great because here every mah, Intelligence Service, quoted Imper« {ial Headquarters as saying the last throw overboard the ultra National- ! special importance, with arranges |ments to be made for the re-estab- lishing of the native population | which was moved from the islands sometime ago to Funter Bay. Also a large new addition to tne byv-nrod- ucts plant on St. Paul Island is expected to be constructed this year. (Continued on Pny@ “Three) military draft situation has become so tight that the Selective Ser- vice may soon have to raise the lage minimum on industrial defer- ments from 22 to 26 years. This statement was made this afternoon to the Senate Agricul- ture committee by Selective Draft Director Brig. Gen. Lewis Hershey.’ . woman and chfid within its con- |JAP defenders of the islands died on fines has in fact, the birthright of |F€PTUary 6 In the final counter- freedom; to equal opportunity; and attack against the invading Ameri- to the pursuit of happiness, with all | ¢ADS- that implies. | The communique said 2,000 civil- “We want to remind you, however, | |05 serving with the Japs “fought that American citizenship is not ror“fi‘ "‘i"'l“l“" w:i’P"’I““‘““l “l‘l”; "‘;:; son nits and shares 1 e fate” 1C(mumw<l on Page Six)