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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944 VOL. XLI, NO. 9589. 153 NAZIS USE ‘SECRET American Forces Invade BOLD STRIKE IS MADE IN 50. PACIFIC Gen. D. MaIrthur Directs Landing - Japanese Taken by Surprise B! SOPA SOPA % HEAD ¢ SABBEI&:{% o, B o Dy 3 Larsen Reef ® T ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 1.—In a surprise maneuver directed by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur from the bridge of an Am- erican warship, destroyer-borne troops on Tuesday struck boldly across the Bismarck Sea to land on the northeastern shores of the Admiralty Islands. The landing not only tightened the Allied envelopment of some 50,- 000 Jap troops at Rabaul, New Britain, but also severed the enemy | east and west supply chain across | the waters which a few months ago | was little more than a “Japanese | lake.” Brig. Gen. William C, Chase re- PURDY IS. ® oo HUEY LONG GANG LOSES INBALLOT Louisiana Doesn’t Want Return to “Liberal (Continued on rage Two) The Washingion Merry- @-‘Ruund By DREW PEARSON (Malor Robett §. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Inside fact is/ that, on the evening before Senator Barkley delivered his unprecedent- | ed attack on the President, el’;ls soinl;‘ -law, Max Truitt, argue witl e Yim'ail evening, trying to persuade Government him not to do it. | S e parkley, however, was determin-' Npw ORLEANS, March 1— ed. He was tired, half-sick, and poyisiana Democratic voters reject- not much interested in running for .q yesterday a group of candidates re-election. ‘ml W“:uhfls be:l?n :sl: for state offices who advocated a invalid and, for a while, was return to the “liberal government at death’s door. He has been travel-| ¢ the late Huey Long.” 4 ling back and forth to Kentucky, mevated to the governorship was. to see her, which has added to his jimmie Davis, author of the song, weariness and mental depression. |<yoy Are My Sunshine,” who cam- Boudeuse ay A\ S ori For .seven long years, the Ken- pajoneq with a Hill Billy band. tugkian has battled on the Senate| Tne voters also defeated a bid for floor, ‘trying *fo keep disgruntled state party power by the “Old Reg- Democratic cohorts in line behind ylar” organization of New Orleans. a President with whom he did noti1ts leader is Mayor Robert Maestri always agree but to whom he Was of New Orleans, who was unable to always faithful. Only once during his, thirty-one years in Congress has he had any| jdeliver the expected heavy vote for |the metropolitan district. The late Huey Long's onetime _ MANUS L’cp:cr}‘efa |{$ u Pl %A =3 ANDREW BALUAN Sea Eagle Harbor LOS NEGROS RAMBUTYO ST. IS. ADMIRALTY ISLANDS STATUTE MILES | it . Better ‘Ole L | STRATEGIC ISLANDS_these are the Admiralty Islands, north of Northeast New Guines and northwest of New Britain. They were part of an Australian mandate but were seized by Japanese following the outbreak of the present war. Lower California MayBe Purchased By Unilei States . By JACK STINNETT ‘WASHINGTON, March 1.—-Out of this war, it's just possible that the United States will acquire some more territory—not by conquest, but by purchase. Rep. Carl Hinshaw, Pasadena, Calif., Republican, has introduced in | the House a joint resolution for the | purchase of Lower California from Mexico. It isn’t the first time that this idea has cropped up, but it does seem the most propitious. In other words, Congressman Hin- shaw’s arguments are almost ir- refutable. He contends that it wouldn’t only be a good thing for the United States, but for Mexico as well. If enough, Mexican of- ficlals agree with him, it might be a deal. Baja California, as the Mexicans and Spanish language-minded Am- ericans call it, js mostly 800-by-50 serlous opposition at the polls. That|attorney, Lewis Morgan, opposed was in 1938, when the President;uavis for governor. An unofficial threw all his weight and no small|tabulation of the vote showed 1300 amount of money into Kentucky out of 1800 precincts reporting, with| against “Happy” Chandler to Te-|Davis getting 190,000 and Morgan miles of desert, rocks, and treeless, streamless plains. In spite of the fact that it has been there for sev- eral hundred years, it has only some 95,000 inhabitants. Tia Juana and elect Barkley. In 1926, when Barkley stepped up from Congressman to Senator, it was Judge Fred Vinson who man- aged his campaign. Today, Vinson, sitting at the right hand of the President as Economic Stabilizer, is the man largely responsible for per- suading him to veto the tax bill. The other man who helped persuade him was another old and intimate friend of Barkley's—Justice James Byrnes. For years they had work- ed together in the Senate almost as brothers. That is why some of Barkley's friends were shocked, not by his opposition to the tax-bill veto, but by the fact.that he would publicly | denounce the man who re-elected him in 1938 and two men with whom he had cooperated [7" two decades—denouncing them without a word of warning to them. TWO TALKS WITH PRESIDENT The White House, of course, had ample warning that Barkley was opposed to the veto of the tax bill, but no inkling that the Senate leader, for years Roocevelt’s most intimate confidant on Capito! Hill, would suddenly turn againct him. Ten days before the veto message, both Barkley and Speaker Rayburn visited the White House, where | Barkley pleaded: A - “I beg you, Mr. President, please sign this bill.” 158,000 votes. ———— RATIONING ' MEAT OFF ~ INCANADA ‘Some Cuts Will Also Be' . Made in United Stafes - Says Bowles 1 OTTAWA, March 1—Temporary | suspension of meat rationing ln' Canada is announced in the House | of Commons. Heavy marketing of livestock and shipping shortages, limiting possible exports to Allied nations, is given as the reason for the action. | Rationing will be returned when marketing drops and exports in- | crease. ; | ., SAME ACTION IN U. 8. ‘WASHINGTON, March 1. — The Office of Price Administration jumped in ahead of Canada Tues- ‘The President, however, polntéd day night after learning Canada out that the tax bill was full of Was preparing to withdraw meat ra- loopholes benefitting hig business, tioning and announced ration point | and maintained that he had to Suts In pork and in some beef, but kesp faith with the men at the Administrator Chester Bowles said _ there is no chance of entirely with- (Continued on Page Four) drawing rationing. | COME WHAT MAY, Pvt. Clarence Ehn of Bakersfield, Calif., is ready for it. The Yank fighter is solidly fox-holed in the bank of the Mus- solini Canal, which he and others are guarding, after th. Allied am- phibious landing near Nettuno, Italy, January 22. {International) JAP FORCES IN BURMA AREA ARE ROUTED Ov)er 4,500 of Original 8, - 000 Enemy Troops Either Killed or_Wounded NEW DELHI, March 1—Allied troops killed or wounded 4500 Japs 'since Pebruary 24 in routing the enemy force of 8,000 strong that attempted unsuccessfully to encircle the Fifth and Seventh Indian Di- visions in Western Burma. Ensenada are its best known towns. and both of them are resorts. It has few good harbors, almost no good roads and no railroafis at all. Yet immediately after Pearl Har- bor, it was considered one of the greatest threats to the North Am- erican continent. The Japanese had exploited and explored it as thor- oughly as they had the Aleutians. “Pishermen” who went back to Ja- pan to don navy uniforms had been exploring its coast for years, both on the ocean and Gulf of California sides. Their propagandists had been working hard on that scant popula- tion to build up antagonism against the octopus to the north. They had succeeded so well that a visitor there shortly before Pearl Harbor reported an almost general anti-American feeling (a- situation which has changed radically since then). Mexico itself was, fully aware of the threat to its outer bastion and rushed troops to the area as soon as possible after Pearl Harbor, ‘but the iproblern of keeping adequate troops to resist invasion supplied was al- |most insurmountable. There's one rail line to San Diego. According }m Hinshaw, the roads through the interior of Mexico to ferry harbors on the Gulf of California are merely mountain wagon tracks. Its best harbor is Magdalena Bay, 600 miles south of San Diego. Only a good rail line and extension of good highways from Ensenada could ;rv:c it a practicable defense out- | post. Mopping up remnants of the en- | emy is progressing as these rem- nants retreat southward toward | Akyd. J To take up Congressman Hin- shaw’s argument: What has Mexico (Continued on_Page Two) oy N, MEME PRICE TEN CENTS SER ASSOCIATED PRESS = —————— | EAPON’, BEACHHEAD |MAKE ATTACK, WAKE ISLAND { Jap Installations Bombed, Strafed - Planes De- stroyed on Ground BULLETIN—-WASHINGTON, March 1. — American bombers, flying in low altitude, bombed and strafed Japanese installa- tions on Wake Island, destroying six planes on the ground and dropping bombs on the air- drome. This is the official report re- leased here tonight with no other particulars given. e PSKOV FIGHT ISRAGING IN ~ BALTIC AREA Patie for Controkia North- west Russia Goes nfo Final Stage Now BULLETIN—IL.ONDON, March 1. — Tonight’s Russian com- munique says the Red Army troops have established . a bridgehead on the west bank of the Narova River. The Russian troops have broken through the “strongly fortified encmy de- fense line” on the Estonian front and established a bridge- head 21 miles long and nine miles déep. LONDON, March 1. — Russian troops are reported fighting in the very outskirts of Pskov as the bat- tle for the great German com- munication base and key to the control of the Baltic raged with unabated fury. “Qur troops are overcoming Ger- man resistance and advancing swiftly,” the Russian communique said. The Red Army has captured more than 250 additional towns and villages including Pogorelka, six miles north of Pskov and Kutuzova, 11 miles east. Helsinki dispatches routed through Stockholm, meanwhile, reported a Soviet drive across ice-bound Lake Peipus, and the establishing of bridgeehads on the eastern shore, and asserted the Russians are also attacking across the narrows be- tween Lakes Peipus and Pskov, 35 miles northeast of the Baltic gate- way city. . No immediate Russian confirma- tion has come from Moscow on the reported Soviet offensive in the Ukraine south of the iron ore city 10t Krivol Rog, where the Russlans |are declared<to have captured 70 towns in a 26-mile drive down the Ingulets River to Nikolaevka, liqui- dating a German regiment and other enemy®troops on the way. ————. (ongressman ~ Passes Away. WASHINGTON, March 1.--Con gressman Thomas H. Cullen, Demo- crat of New York, died shortly be- fore midnizht last night of uremia : after two weeks' illne: Cullen’s death leaves 216 Demo- s, 200 RepublicdTis, four minor party men and six vacancies in the House. . - P ESKESENS LEAVE Mrs. Eske Eskesen and daughter §Bodlle were passengers to the West- jward on the steamer yesterday, ‘and will foin Mr. Eckesen, who left’ bere several months azo. He was formerly emploved at the Alaska Juneau Mine steel shop. A studying | practie dmirali ON A BET that it was impossible to dig a foxhole 8 feet wide, 10 feet long and 4 feet deep in 4 hours, Pfc. 19 tons of sand in 3 hours, 56 minutes. His Herculean labor netted him $80. Interest was so great among troops on Bougainville, more than $200 was bet on the outcome. U. S. Army Signal Corps ph WORKER—Screen actress June Allyson will wear this uni- form for her part in the 1944 Red Cross fund-raising campaign. UNIFORMITY N WAGES IN NORTH, 'NORTHWEST ASKED Confractors, Union Repre- sentatives Make Re- quest at Meeting SEATTLE, March 1.—Contractors from Alagka and union representa- tiy king the wage and hiring € ablish uniformity between wages in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. & Jack McDonald, Hoisting En- inc Union agent, told the mem- conference that v “lower rate was ian in Seattle and s ALe J 1 a position of asking 40 1o go to Alaska to work for s than they get at home.” J. D. Stack, Personnel Manager f the Western Construction Com- pany, told the meeting that iron- clad contracts are now in effect on return fares for Alaska workers and if o man’s passage is less than the charge made him, the company re- funds the difference, meeting the split. & Two committees are studying the various phases and problems and are expected to make a report on Thursday. s joi n a ges t il bers at on cer jobs it paid in Alaska ti meeting | w Roy Webb, West Liberty, O., moved oto. (International) FIRE HITS 'MILLHERE Juneau Lumber Mills Main Building Is Guited by Flames Tuesday Flames swept through the main mill building of the Juneau Lumber Mills late yesterday afternoon, gut- ting the structure extensively be- fore fire-fighters got the blaze under control, and causing an esti- | mated $200,000 damages to material and equipment. The fire started as workmen were \engaged in thawing pipes at the {edger on the main floor of the mill. | They were using an electric thaw- ing device and it is believed that a cpark from this work may have tarted the fire. Flames Spread Rapidly The blaze quickly swept through the main floor of the building and | spread - throughout the structure. |By the time fire trucks from the | Juneau Volunteer Fire Department \arrived a few minutes after the| ; larm was sounded, smoke and | flomes were visible from all parts !of town. The second alarm sound- ed on the heels of the first, and a military auxiliary engine as well as {a Coast Guard fire boat and the Douglas Volunteer Fire Depart- ment went to work on. the con- | tlagration. Mill Just Overhauled ‘he disaster came only a week fore full-scale operations were to been resumed at the mill. than twe million feet of logs ie on hand for cutting, and dur- ing the last 60 days the company ud spent $30,000 making extensive repairs and improvements, Al cauipment was in top shape and the mill had been thoroughly cleaned ind blown out. Estimated Damage Roy Rutherford, owner and man- ger, said the loss could be estima- ted at about $200,000. However, accurate figures could not be given until a detaild survey of the dam- wge to machinery and other equip- ment has been made. Only minor damage touched a orner of the planing mill and box factory building and the kiln and ' power plant were not damaged. Partially Insured Rutherford safd the loss was par- fially covered by insurance. Estimates are that if the entire ad to he replaced now it (Continued on Page Two) ty Islands TANKS SLUG OUT ATTACKS UPON ALLIES Vehicles Loaded with Ex- - plosives, Radio-Con- frolled, Shot Up ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 1.—-German troops, armed with & new “secret weapon” tank, loaded with explosives, slug- ged out new assault against the Anzio beachhead, Allied' Headquart- ers said, and this may be the third great offensive aimed at driving the invasion troops into the sea. The Nazis opened the heavy at- tack midway between Carroceto and Cisterna on Tuesday morning, this growing stronger as artillery duels thundered, Front line dispatches last night said the enemy pounded the beach- head under "the heaviest bombard- ment since the initial landings. Headquarters disclosed the Ger- mans used new radio-controlled tanks, bearing 1,000-pound charges, designed to blow up within the Al- lied lines in the second major of- ‘ensive against the beachhead but Allled artillery exploded 14 of the tanks. > Allled. .ines and the blasts probably caused ;reat damage to Nazi posit e stead. The Germans struck the beach- head at two points Monday and Tuesday and continued to make pressure “without results.” On the main @assino front to the 'ast, British troops threw back Nazi ittacks near Mount Pernito, on the lower Garigliano River bend, and Allied guns successfully shelled Ger- 11an motor borne troops on the highway near Cassino. BRI AR DEMO WINS NEW YORK ELECTION Taken as Significant Fore- case of Presidenfial Race NEW YORK, March 1. — The Democrats retained a seat in the House of Representatives from New York’s twenty-first district yester- day after a.close special election and both Republican and Demo- {cratic leaders debated its .signit~ licance in the coming Presidential { campalgn. In the year's first test of political -ontiment and in the President’s home state, James Torrens, 69, | Tammany district leader who was ,a campaign supporter of the Presi- jdent, beat Willlam Bennett who i‘nas been elected to Congress four imes in the last 15 years. Torrens won by approximately 1570 votes and about: 22,000 were wcast. e re—— Afrocity Stories Cost Treasury Big Sum ol_(_ash,(hhn PORTLAND, Ore, March 1. — fesentment of the American peo- vle against the release of the Ba- taan-atrocities stories just prior to ‘e Fourth War Loan drive cost (he Treasury at least $500,000,000 i war bond sales, Ted Gamble, na- nal director of the Treasury War ance Divisioh, told the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The people blamed the Treasury Department for the release of the. tories, claiming they had been vithheld to increase bond sales. Gamble said the Treasury was not responsible for the poor timing.

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