The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1944, Page 1

AR FORCES BOMB THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9590. JAP CRUISER| ALSO SAID TO BETORPEDOED Action Takes Place in "Earl Eastern Waters,” De- clares Admiralty LONDON, March 2—British sub- | marines ranging in “Far Eastem waters” torpedoed and probably ! sank a Jap aircraft carrier of 7,000 | tons and scored a torpedo hit on a | Japanese cruiser. The Admiralty said the Royal | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘SMOKEY’ GETS THROLGH LOOK : ERMANS AT ANZIO o Jap Aircraft Carrier| THREEMAJOR A PROMOTION OT A PASS Red ArmyAFdr}es Closing in on Narva, Pskov and Vitebsk - LONDON, March 2. Red Army. forces are closing in relentlessly on® three great German strongholds ol,j Narva, Pskov, and Vitebpk, key dg‘-i fense bases on the 350-mile long: northern front, Moscow declared. . ! gt e ok deb i Navy sub first sighted the Jap | - carrier that was escorted by three subchasers in the northern approach- es to Macca Strait and fired a salvo | - of torpedoes. 'No hits were observed | and the subchésers drove the sub | off temporarily. The sub returned to the attack, | scoring a hit and stopping the flat- | top. E\ “furtMer torpedo struck the | enemy amidships and caused a vio- | lent explosion. The ship heeled over | and is believed to have sunk.” e AT BARANOF HOTEL e | Registered from Bakersfield, Calif., W. L. DeMoss and O. J.| Huddeston are at the Baranof Ho- tel: > The Washington Merry - Go- Round | WHEN TWO TANKERS collided off Florida some months ago, the only liv- ing creature found aboard one of “Smokey.” Now his Coast Guard rescuers have promoted him to “Bones’ and dssued him this official identification card. '+ (International) Mate” SHE'D ONE 00 " MANY HUBBIES By DREW PEARSON |3 (Major Robert 8. Allen an sctive duty.) WASHINGTON—The closed-door | Senate caucus at which “Dear Ax—‘ ben” Batkley was re-elected major- ity leader, was grimly serious i9r1 the most part, but had its comic overtones. i For the benefit of posterity, here'’s a running account of what happen- ed behind the closed doors: Barkley showed up amid a dazz-| ling display of photo flash bulbs.l After the doors were shut, the Ken-| tuckian called the caucus to ordcri and appointed as chairman nm.i-1 Roosevelt Senator Kenneth Mc-| Kéllar of Tennessee, with whom he’ has clashed hotly on several oc-| casions. Then, in dour tones, Barkley in-| formed his colleagues that his ves-| ignation speech excoriating the President was a ‘“deliberate” state- ment made after serious thought| and in’full knowledge of the “con-, sequences.” “] meant it when I said that I intended to relinquish my posmon} as majority leader, as much as I| ever meant anything in my life,”! said Alben. “Confirming my re-| marks of yesterday, I am hereby effering my resignation to this con«; féyence and I sincerely hope it will| be accepted.” i Barkley then left for his office, with the news hounds in full cry a his heels. MecKellar put the ques- tion of accepting or rejecting the resignation. This was the cue for Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri to de- liver a short tribute. He pointed out that he had opposed Barkley in 1937 when Barkley defeated the| late Senator Pat Harrison of Mis-; sissippi for the majority leadership by one vote. (This was the battle in which Roosevelt switched one; vote by giving Senator Dietrich of Illinois the appointment of a judgeship he coveted.) “But twice since t‘en I have nominated him for re-election,”| Clark recalled. “I think he has| been a great and considerate leader and it is against my own wishes| that I now move that his resigna-| tion be accepted. I offer the mo-| tion with the hope that he will! thereafter be re-elected unanimous- 1y The motion passed, and Senator “Long Tom” Connally of Texas promptly nominated Barkley for re- election with a speech emphasizing his “love and admiration, though { (Continued on Page ;our) ! (Lepke) {scheduled to be executed tonight in | Sing Sing as appeals in his behalf | Arraigned before the United S?us Commissioner at Seattle recently, Jean Olga Grandis (above) cused of having cashed a $50 service man’s dependency check from her second husband, whom she assertely married without divercing the first. She said her “gin marriage” Seattle . drinking of New York was ac- second was a following party. a \LEPKE IS T0 DIE TONIGHT IN SING SING NEW YORK, March 2. — Louis Buchalter, gangster, is have been denied. The last petition for a writ of habeas corpus was turned down. The appeal was made on the grounds that the ganster's tranfer from Federal to State custody was illegal. Lepke had been in Federal eustody for a narcotics conviction when he was surrendered, to the State authorities by Attorney Gen- eral Biddle and sent to the death {house in Sing Sing to await execu- ! ! tion after conviction of murder in| 1936 for the slaying of Joseph Ros- | en, Brooklyn candy store proprietor. -ee BUY WAR BONDS In Estonia units of General Goro- tov's Leningrad Army threw & bridgehead across the Narova River, south of Narva, and cut the only German escape railways lead ¥ to the westward, to seal the threats < g S0 ened city from all four sides, th e communique said wiih One hundred and ten miles, 86 another Russian army has 3 | closer to the Baltic gateway city of iy Reported Sent Jap (ruisgr_BIaslgd al [ruk H Blasted in the aerial attack on Truk 'by bombers from U. 8. Navy carriers, this cruiser burns and lists. Pskov, capturing several heaVily | The thin line in upper right is wake of torpedo bearing down on the ship. (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy) fortified strong points and covering the approaches to the town, Moscow said, and other Red Army forces | were previously reported less’ than | miles from Pskov on the gorth. | | Twe hundred miles southeast of Pskov, Genera? Bagramian's First Beltic Army is marching on the : White Russian base of Vitebsk. The Russians said they czaptured more than 30 towns and villages in theix, converging movement ‘which drew the noose tighter around the key German-held fortress city. Vitebsk has been under siege by Bagramian's army since late last year when all rail lines into the { city except one running to Orsha, @ 50 miles south, were cut. s ’ 'SEARCH ON WHEW! HOT Little HopeVH;alid for Safety AIR BI-ASI of Four-Year-Old BYJOKYO Jimmy Eaton KODIAK, Alaska, March 2.—Lit- Chi!‘ese Afe T°|d Amer-‘ S tor e e reoovry. ot icans Wiped Ouf on Admiralties little Jimmy Eaton, aged four, son | of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eaton, who | mysteriously disappeared early Sun- day afternoon Jimmy had been playing at a radio broadcast to China, and not I neighbors two blocks away in mid- for home consumption, claimed the | town, and they sent him home at entire American landing force was 1 P. M. His parents went after him “entirely wiped out, more than 78 jat 6:30, and this was the first ships were sunk, and 230 Americans | knowledge that he was missing. |Wwere killed in the attack on the «The search started that night, by Admiralty Islands.” the deputy U. S. Marshal and city! The broadcast said the landing ;pohco, and military authorities co- attempt was on Manus Island and operated by furnishing over 200 resulted in heavy “enemy losses.” { soldiers who scoured nearby islands, Monitors in the Unifed States! ' | woods, lake, heaches and homes for said they have not yet heard the | w.ciicron March 2. — The | two days. All school boys above the | Tokyo radio tell the Japs about the | ahita Ohauiliay |fourth grade were dismissed one | succcessful American invasion of the SRR, of me. %’4"“' o P | islands. have been excoriated : |times. Often newsmen, in the cen- |day to help in the search. | The, SUGHINSE ant MUAMIG. N trally located news gallery just over the Vice-President’s rostrum, have the lack of reports on Jimmy, who {to dash for the back stairs and the {is a familiar figure in a sailor suit.| Onie..ronott. Placedichim, slone one ¢ "floor to find out what a Senator jand a half miles out on a country |said. The high vaulted ceiling, now the vessels was a dog, nicknamed A DEPTH CHARGE breaks the water By JACK STINNETT AR R NAZI SUB TRAPPED IN ATLANTIC as it explodes near a German sub in the Atlantic. The U-boat made its final plunge 5% hours later after a stubborn battle with five U. S, planes which dropped 43 bombs. The splashes were made by bullets. U. S. Navy photo. ‘Acoustics of Senale Chamber Fearful; Suggestiens Made (International) ably determine the date of the Democratic convention. It's no particular secret that the powers that be and even the Presi- 1D4',mocrm.lc convention as late as !possible, The factors that will de- | termine a fourth term should be known before the nominations for STUTTGART STRUCK IN TWORAIDS 'RAF Night Attack Followed by Smashing Amer- ican Raid LONDON, March 2 United States Liberators and Fortresses in| strong force smashed at southwest Germany today, hard on the heels| of the 600 homber-assault by the! Royal Air Force last night on the |important war center of Stuttgart. . The American target was not an- iuuum'(-d immediately, but the di- recticn of the attack suggested a | United States and RAF double Inight ana day punch at the Stutt- |qait section like the ones highlight- |ing o last. week’s. powerful aecrial dilvey’ 7 TSN More than 600 RAF and' RCAF |bombers participated ini last night’s ‘cperations with ‘a record low pro- portional loss of only four planes. Mosquito bhombers staged a di- versionary raid on the shrine city of Munich, and other formations (struck targets in France and the Low Countries. German raiders, about 100 strong, >taliated against Britain by night, killing several persons and causing damage over widely separated | places. >oe TURKEY IS NUMEroUs | gent, himself, would like to see the | - OSTRACIZED iroad, another reported seeing him jon . a beach near his home about {4 o'clock. President and Vice-President are made. A reasonable guess can be | made about them if the Democratic | convention is timed as close as/ possible to the November elegtions. | However, if the soldiers' vote bill | | buttressed with steel girders, makes it virtually impossible to do any- (thing' about it. GIVEN FINNS The father is a civilian employeel of the Army, and the mother is | formerly of Olympia, Washington. ! I.Hmmy is their only child, although | | another is expected in April. | Both Senate and House chambers { were designed in days when political | vietory depended more on a lusty pair of vocal bellows than it does |in these days of loud speakers, raido, |and public address systems. In the | House, all speakers have to come to ithe front of the chamber and use I I Just "Cold Shower"'~Prac- {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | such procedure would, I suppose, be {9%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Curtiss!| STOCKHOLM, March 2. — The far was by a gallery hopper who {ican Aviation 8%, New York Cen- |first time this morning gnd fell like each other. He suggested traveling | United States Steel 51%. o | Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, re. |9€sk as soon as he arose to speak. 38.48; utilities, 23.37. The | terms “called for restoration |the Senate, that would necessitate | lof German ships, seven Nazi divi-| It hasn’t been mentioned publicly, | STOCK QUOTATIONS | k 2 e L H H | the public address microphone whicl NEW YORK, March 2. — Closing! 'I(G"Y ImDOSSIble '0 blows up a whisper. In the Senate, stock today is 5%, Anaconda 267, COflSIdeI' | congidered undignified and a nuis- | American Can 827, Beech Aircraft| —_ lance. The only solution offered so | Wright 5%, International Harvester | RUssian peace terms were published Complained that he couldn’t see {70, Kennecott 307, North Amer- lin thé Pinnish newspapers for the DOW the senators could even hear tral 17%, Northern Pacific ‘16%,|8 “cold shower” on the people of !“Mikes” which the page boys would | Helsinki, the correspondent of the 9ash up and attach to a senator’s | Dow, Jones averages today are as | b b follows: Industrials, 136.67: rails, POrts. {The way unlimited debate runs in | A Y jof the 1940 Poundary, immediate 3 Page to every senator. FROM WHITEHORSE jcessation of hostilities, internment.| " 2 Flolp Whitehorse, Miss Doris Ni-'sions, with or without Red Army but it’s very likely that the outcome chol is a guest at the Baranof. help, e of the soldiers’ yote bill will prob- is finally passed in some form that will assure most of the several mil- lion overseas men a vote, the Demo- crats won't dare risk not getting to reach the fighting fronts publican convention, is now men- tioned as the Democrats’ most likely date, but it is unlikely that any time will be announced until the soldiers” vote bill is either in the bag or out. If it's out, the date may be late August. 8o far as 1 know, Rep. Harofd Hagen, Miun, is ¢he only man in | Congress without benefit of party. | Hagen was elected by the Farmer- Labor Party, which has since started to liquidiate itself by merging with the Minnesota” Demograts. Minnesota once had two Farmer- Labor senators and five members of «Continued on Page Two) their nominees on the ballot in time July 17, three weeks after the Re- | Military, Civilian Supplies Are Stopped as Coer- cion Move (By Associated Press) | Reports are current in Ankara that Britain has balted delivery of both military and civilian supplies to { Turkey as the result of the recent collapse of British-Turkish talks. While there is no confirmation, Turkish officials are disturbed by the reports that are interpreted in some quarters as part of a cam- paign to high-pressure Turkey to enter the war on the side of the | Allies. In London, there is a report that lend-lease arms shipments to Tur- kep have also been stopped, and one responsible = source said the arms “sent to Turkey were to kill 1Germans, and, have not been used for that purpose.” Down AMERICANS HURL BACK NAZI FORCE Three Enenfi Divisions Are Smashed in Attempt fo Break Defense Lines BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 2.—American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, swinging inte the renewed battle at Antie beachhead, smashed heavily at Nazi troop concentrations, rain- ing thousands of fragmentary bombs on the enemy forces. They roared into bitter action as fighting continued aground with three German divisions pitted against the beachhead American line. The Americans were driven back, then rallied and regained 1,000 yards and are still making progress. FIERCE FIGHTING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 2. — Ameérican troops, fighting fiercely against three , divisions of Germans in an attack in the center of the Anzio beach- head defense lines, have thrown the enemy back 1,000 yards and are still making progress. _The,Germans, however, are said to Be resisting strongly near the {road junction, slightly south of the inidway point between Carroceto and Cisterna, after having lost two- |thirds ‘of the ground gained on Tuesday in the early stages of the assault, apparently the third all-out effort to wipe out the beachhead. German Gains Broken Today's German communique said | the Allies, at several points, broke | “our advanced positions gained dur- |ing the last several days,” and “de- | scribed as fluctuating fighting,” south and southwest of Cisterna. More than 500 Germans have been taken prisoners in the battling on |the beachhead in which the Ger- {mans threw “explosive tariks.” | Artillery fire on both sides con- { tinues heavy. Heavy Artillery Fire A dispatch sent from the beach- head last night by Associated Press Corrgspondent Edward Kennedy | quoted the doughboys as saying the | battle s the stiffest yet encountered nd enemy artillery fire is the heav- lest laid down on them since the beachhead was established. Kennedy said the situation, how- ever, was well in hand at the mo- ment the dispatch was sent. E = Morgenthau Will Report On War Loan Secrefary of TEéasury Goes on Air Tonight on Blue Network WASHINGTON, March 2. - The Home Front will be cited for valor by Secretary of the Treasury Mor- jenthau tonight.. Speaking over the Blue Network at 9:30 P. M. EWT. he Secretary will inform his coun- rymen that in the latest crucial ‘est of their wartime mettle—the Fourth 'War Loan Drive—they came Mt with colors flying high. ‘The Secretary's statement, termed 1 “report to the people” will give closing figures on the results of the drive. The final compilation neces- sarily was delayed until full data ,refiched the Treasury from all 75,- )00 of the Fourth Loan’s bond out- lets—all State Committees, banks, ‘actories, stores, theatres and other selling points, The Secretary's accounting will ‘eveal that quotas for both overall sales and sales of Series E War Bonds were gversubscribed. He will Jay tribute to the surging patriotism of people the country over which made these results possible