The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLL, NO. 9591. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1944 MhMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANSMAKEDAY ATTACKONBERLIN Bombers Drop Explosives, Ro Jap Ships Caughtin Truk Attack ATTACKIS | MADE ON R.R.YARDS Main ViIeboT&irdrome Is! Also Hit by Foriresses and Liberators | BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 3. — American heavy | bombers again attacked Rome’s railroad installations today. The Mediterranean Allied Air ! Force Headquarters says “Flying Fortresses attacked the Littorio | and Tiburtina freight yards while Liberators bombed the main Vitebo airdrome, 35 miles north of Rome. Early reports indicate the railway yards and airdromes were plastered by bombs dropped by the Fort- resses and Liberators which | were escorted by Fighters.” | It is believed the bombing today cuts communications and transportation from the neorth of Italy to the Anzio sector. - - NINNIS GOES SOUTH { E. E. Ninnis, of the Juneau Motors | Company and City Councilman, left \ yesterday on a short business mp to Seume i The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEA.RSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) | | i \ WASHINGTON —The Truman, Committee is about to issue a re- port which will be good news to manufacturers, to say.nothing of| the housewife who has been scrimp- | Taku district, was burned to death | said heavy losses have been inmcted; ing along with a worn-out refriger- ator, no washing machine and an electric iron that blows out fuses. The Truman Committee will re- commend that the War Production Board go much further than the Army has been willing in restoring production of civilian goods. committee will not urge anything near unlimited production, but it} will point out the following im-! portant facts: (1) War contracts are being can-' celled at an increasing rate. The| War Department cancelled ten and| a half billions in contracts as of Jan. 31, while the Navy cancelled two and a third billions up to Feb.| 5. This means more factories and| more men available for civilian pro- | duction. (2.) Tremendous stockpiles of steel and other materials have been accumulated—far more than can| be usecd for war. Already aluminum ! plants with a capacity of a half-; billion pounds a year have been closed because the supply of alum-' inum is so great. | (3. The military was slow in cur- tailing civilian production. Now it is slow in letting the country get; back to civilian production. | Therefore, the Truman Committee | recommends that while - we cannot “soon resume full-scale . civilian production, we can produce limited| quantitieg of a few score additional Wins Merit Medal WAAF 1. G. Leask of Aberdeen, Scotland, wears the Legion of Merit presented to her by the United States. She located and identified | aU.S. plane formation which had become lost at sea. Her report saved the group. Her husband is with the 8th Armv. (International) BURNEDTO DEATH IN BOAT FIRE ‘Native Woman of Taku| Disirict Loses Life in Petersburg Harbor PETERSBURG, Alaska, March 3.| —Mrs. Dave Johnson native of th'- this merning on the gasboat Honey Boy, as the result of the overturn- ing of a stove after a drunken brawl. Mrs. Johnson refused to leave the boat, lying down beside the engine frem where her body was recovered The by firemen after extinguishing the! | flames sufficiently to enter. According to reports of Mrs. Johnson had been engaged in hghnng all mghl NORTHLAND WAGE SCALE IS REACHED Seattle Pay y Will Be Base. for Construction Work in Alaska District people | on neighboring boats in the harbor, NATISTRIKE ATBEACHHEAD BIG FAILURE American Troops, Mostly | from Pacific Coast, Re- i pulse Germans | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| | NAPLES, March 3. — The strong German drive on the center of the Anzio beachhead this week is de- scribed officially as a “costly fail-| ure.” | Defense positions remained intact land al! lost ground has been re-| gained. | The enemy offensive was the third | |large scale attempt to drive the | American and British forces back linto the sea and this offensive has | now collapsed The two final German assaults by tanks and infantry late Wednesday | were repulsed and no new attacks |came yesterday. American troops, the Third In- |fantry Division, bore the brunt of (the attack and scored a “complete | defensive success,” the headquarters’ | spokesman said. 1 The Third Division, originally | composed chiefly of troops from | the Pacific Coast, officially com- | mended for previous exploits, has | received new praises for the beach- head defense. Whether the enemy is )egroupmg‘ for acontinuance of the offensive mn the beachhead, or some other | | sector, is not known. The enemy has probably suffered heavy losses as Flying Fortresses, | Liberators and lighter aircraft | bombed the German positions yes- | J"m(‘lfly The third attack of the Germans |was concentrated on a 1,000- yard |{front along the beachhead. Lt. Gen. Clark and other omcexs. on the three enemy divisions mak- | | ing the attack midway between Car- ‘mce'o and Cisterna. ! - DRAFTING SOLDIERS' BILL NOW {Alaska, HawauNoanlud | ed in Federal Measure 1 Says Senator WASHINGTON, March 3.—Sena- \tox Theodore F. Green, Democrat |of Rhode Island, said in the final *dmnmg of the Federal Soldier bill| of the Senate and House confexees‘ |contained no provisions to handle | |ballots for soldiers from Alaska or| {Hawaii. It is reported.the conferees {took no action because it “would (have caused too much confusion” | | ready Jap ships in Truk harbor frantically try to escape the surprise blow by U. S, hold February 16. Many of the ships now lie on the bottom of Truk harbo the fnrrgrnund Moen Island in backzround. (AP “lrcphow from U. S. Navy) Two or three were afire when FLEET OF ITALY ON WAR LINE ' American Doughboy Is | Father of Quadruplets Bern fo English Girl | i | i [ f HEANOR. England, March 3— Pittsburgh. He was.present at the Many ShlpS fo Be A"O'ed Nora Carpenter, frail, attractive birth of the babies, then rejoined| : 23-year old mother of quadruplets, his outfit. i fo Russia-ROOSEVElt 2ii"ihe hoped to marry the Ameri- | Mrs. Carpenter s the bables M k 51 ' A 1 can doughboy identified as the were taken to a nursing home,| a es a emen father of her babies and said she where they are reported to be gain-| b o “would like to go to America with ing. ‘ s him.” Miss Carpenter said the father O e et "o” | Nora’s mother said the father is was “married about two years ag ’ - v > Staff Sgt. Williem Thompson of in America and had no childr o cussions are about half completed . transferring roughly one-third of 4 the surrendered Italian fleet to Russia, The President also told a press conference that Edward Stettinius, Acting Secretary of State, would go lto London soon: to discuss with British officia a- dozen or more auestions awaiting sclution. The disclosure was made that the United States and Britain are al- sing some of the Italian tonnage surrendered at the capit- What Was Behind Delay In Making Public Sfories Of Japanese Afrocities ulation of Italy, and that efforts [are: now being made: o deterniine BY JACK STINNET cuse to practice fresh horrors | how many of these ships or their, WASHINGTON, March 3. — Be- npr Hoyt and his associates (and equivalent can be turned over to ld';:ldfl':l‘"n"“'l "l’f“';“l“‘l""f"‘&::*”’:_“' OWI Chief Elmer Davis back ithe Russian Navy. gnasion .4 he. Japanese W i, % Sl » s 1 This was the question, the Presi- SOner atrocities is one story that them) contended that just the re verse ‘would be true— that the in- ‘dlgxmlioxl of ghe civilized world and the closer cementing of the Allies| would be too much for the Japan- of the Office of War Information’s ese and they would be forced tr)‘ domestic news branch, had been|mend their ways. That is too much| hasn’'t been fully told: why we were s0 long in hearing about them. It has already been disclosed that Palmer, Hoyt, until January 1 head | dent told a previous news confer- ence, that Premier Stalin brought up through his Washitigton Am-| bassador, and described it as vather! an old question related to what ships or'the equivalent would go ‘o Navy carrier-based bombers in the daring attgcek on the Jap strong- REDS PUSH . |military operations, the Red Army !front said. of the x(nd impassable. i me Environs U. S. FORCES MAKE WIDE AIR SWEEP ‘Smash at Na_zi_CapitaI City Hit Targets in North- west Germany BULLETIN LONDON, March 3.—~American Air Force Fighter planes conducted an of - fensive sweep over Berlin today while the Eighth Air Force's heavy bombers attacked targets in Northwest Germany. This is the first time forma- tions of the American Air Force have ever flown to Berlin. GERMANY BEING POUNDED LONDON, March 3. — American heavy bombers pounded Germany for the second straight day, concen- trating on undisclosed objectives in the northwest sector while medium | Marauders slashed German air- fields in northern France. Royal Air Force formations, tak- ing the air last night for the second consecutive night, hammered air- ieraft factories near Paris and also in northern France. ‘Today's operations indicated they :ue nn a large scale and widespread this picture was made. Eten is in sectors. FRREREAI R ON DESPITE ISLAND OF FREAK THAW LOS NEGROS - ISOCCUPIED Reconnaissance Results in Penefration with - Reinforcements ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 3, — Heavy reinforcements have been landed on Los Negros Is- land of the Admiralty Islands, turn- ing the surprise American thrust ‘Temperatures are reported almost 1rom g reconmaissance force cam- as high as they are usually in late ‘paign to complete occupation, Gen. April and May, and melted ice and Douglas MacArthur's communique snow. are said to be making many states. The reconnaissance forces took The Rus 1 forces, nevertheless, the enemy forces completely * by have captured more territory be- surprise and then outmaneuvered gun Temperatures on Baltic Front Like May-Rus- sians Close In MOSCOW, March 3.—Despite a freakish springlike thaw hampering is continuing its smashing offensive to liberate the Soviet Baltic repub- lics, and have materially improved their positions, dispatches from th» tween Lake Peipus and the Finnish the defenders in dispersing into Gulf, and have tightened their hold strategic positions and the move on Narva's communications, while developed into a penetration and in the suburbs of Pskov, Russian complete occupation followed when Tommy-gunners inched forward in reinforcements arrived. fierce fighting, frontline advices Work has already commenced on said. restoration of the airfield which South of Pskov, meanwhile, other was pitted by bombs in the reland- Red Army forces are reported to ing bombardment. he driving down the 12-mile long oo 15 A highwny h‘om r:\p?lll'(‘(l Soshokint juRv D'sMISSED Jight - smashef .-believed ... tow it 4clude stabs- at the French rocket iwage contruction scales shall SEATTLE, March 3.—Seattle/in handling ballots required from! be|the territories for the absentee! base wage scales for the construc-|voting men and women. | tion industry throughout Alaska.| The Federal ballot is restricted to| This is the agreement reached by|overseas service members and mese‘ ‘both labor and industry represen- items classified as essential.” TRUMAN-GO-ROUND | The impending Truman Commit- tee report will reveal that 100 big| corporations hold 70 percent of all; the war crders; furthermore, these; 100 first companies of the nation had only 30 percent of the coun- try’s business before the war—and the Roosevelt Administration was! supposed to help the little fellow! tl . Norman Littell, hard-hitting Assxstflnt Attorney General, will get! a boost from the Truman Commit-| tee for hurrying up government| payments to the farmers and others whose land was seized by the Army and Navy. The committee will re-! commend that all government pur- chase of land be handled by Lit tell . . . . American labor doesn’t look so bad when contrasted with British labor. The Truman Com- (Continued on Page Four) b {tatives at the wage and hour con-|ber 1 and not October 1. ference held here. The scale for culinary workers is also the base for similar workers in the northern territory. Workers may have daily susten- |ance allowance in addition to the !basic wage scale”of room and board, now provided in the contract, the delegates agreed. OFFICERS NOMINATED AT FIRE DEPT. MEETING Nomination of officers was held | at last night’s' meeting of the Juneau | | Volunteer Fire Department and re- ports on the recent dance were, made by the committee in charge. A midnight supper followed the business session. Officers will be elected at the and baby are doing well. The father | companied by meeting in April. ballots must be received by Sepbem- A new provision stipulates that| {Lefore the Federal ballot can be] {used, State Governors - must cermv. they are “authorized” by the laws| }o( the state, BETTY GRABLE | IS MOTHER OF | . BABYDAUGHTER HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 3.--! |Actress Betty Grable became a| !mother today when her first child, la blue eyed, blond- girl was born.| | The baby has been named Vlcwrul Elizabeth, and weighed seven! pounds and 12 ounces. The ‘mother | |Russia. He emphasized that as long as the war lasts, the Allies should use everything afloat against the enemy, but after the war that will be “something else.” trying to get this story out for a !to hope for, but early mduutmn\ld? miles \num of Pskov Juncuon Berlin Rail- long time. |are that the Hoyt corps guessed|on the Pskov-Warsaw- Hoyt is the two-fisted, scrappy better than the Army. lway publisher and editor of the Port-{ While Tokyo has publicly :.umm. — e land Oregonian, and the fact Lhat ad that this is merely Occld?uml WL MW TRIAL FOR CADET LONERGAN he couldn’t batter down the brick|propaganda, there are hints Tokyo| wall of news inanities indulged in neither knew nor would have con-| by the War, Navy, State and other |doned such wholesale slaughte departmental brass hats, is nothing not for . humanitarian reason to his discredit. | merely because they would have| The Philippine atrocity story was|feared the results. There is reason| ready for publication for months.|to believe Tokyo has approved | It was documented, authenticated, | atrocities just as uncivilized, but| combed and culled over until there never when they were certain the| wasn’t a ehance in a million that it | reaction would mean eventual re- was fjust another of those propa-|taliation in blood and tears. panda yarns blown up fo raise a warring people to fever pitch On»i newspaper syndicate had the first-| person story of one survivor set in | uation, — .. GENERAL BOOST IN PAY IS DENIED LUMBER WORKERS PORTLAND, March 3.—The West Coast Lumber Commission denied all general pay increases in the long-awaited industry wide deci- To understand the Philippine sit one must realize the little sions in the Douglas fir and west- type for weeks. The first- :rsuu“”"’ -lords exercise complete power, ern pine wage cases. Istory of another was offered for lin their own particular theaters of The decisions affected some 60,000 sale at least that long. Yet ,h‘,\upflauon That doesn't absolve To- {kyo, for the system itself emanates' from there, but it does explain how In all fairness, let's examine tHeir |HOYt and those working with him argument. The Army contended argued that no amount of publicity that to exploit the story would pe!On the unspeakable crimes in the to place in jeopardy every war pfl_iPluhppmes could endanger those workers in 800 operations. |Army refused to let go. NOONAN, DAUGHTER HERE is regis- is ac- D. A. Noonan, salesman, tered at the Baranof. He is band leader Harry James. (Continued on Page Two) his daughter Con- soner the Japs hcld. The Nips| would, they said, use this as an ex- | stance, |lcans didn't get iprodigious thirst of alcoholics cost ,to $46 last year for every man, COST SIX BILLION TO QUENCH 1943 AMERICAN THIRS WASHINGTON, March 3.—-Amer- | gan’s counsel, Edward Broderick, at- so much hard 'i-|tempted to make “a farce and but quenching the mockery” of the trial, and evidenced “a lack of good faith” by doing a nore than six billion dollars, near- right-about-face on a motion to y seven cents of every dollar spent throw out the panel. |for geods and services of all kinds,| Broderick demarded on the open- the Commerce Department reported. NEW YORK, March 3.—The sen- ! sational fight to convict Wayne Lon- (rgun, 26, bludgeon slayer of his ess wife, ended dramatically when Judge John Preshei dismissed the special jury panel, forcing a new trial. quor last year, " pective jurors be discharged on the The 1943 drink bill was 17 per-|o,ounq of prejudice, byt he stormily cent higher than in 1942, and 80 raryced to join Assistant District percent above 1939, the Department' attorne: y Jacob Grumet yesterday reported, and added that more jobs asking' that the motion be recon- and higher pay are the principal sidered. factors. The per cdpita basis of the' Lonergan is a Royal Air Force ‘alcoholic beverages outlav amounted Cadet. An expected expose of New York's night life will be made at woman, and child in the country. the trial ing day of the trial that the pros- * | ] 1 |