The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1944, Page 1

. dustry didn’t need it, that it would B THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1944 VOL. XLI, NO. 9593. AMERICAN HEAYY MEMBI:.R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT! MBERS HIT BERLIN U.S. Planes Make Big Raids, Central Pacific CONQUERED JAP BASES NOW USED Attacks Reported on East- ern Caroline Island from Land Stations BY REMBER JAMES Associated Press War Correspondont; IN THE PACIFIC, March 6~| New attacks on the Eastern Caro- lina Islands by American planes,' evidently from land bases, is hint- ed by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and this indicates that newly con- quered airfields in the Marshall Islands have been put to use. The Navy reports 23 tons of bombs were dropped on Ponape, the JapaneSe base, 440 miles east| of the big enemy naval base at Truk. Other planes attacked Kusaie. The planes were four-engined Army and Navy Liberators and it seems probable they took off either from Kwajalein, 576 nautical miles from Ponape, or from Eniwetok, less than (Continued on Page Six) [ The Washingion Merry - Go-Round | " | By DREW PEARSON' (Major Robert 8. Allen on sctive duty.) WASHINGTON — Inside fact is that the President is not getting| much from his Cabinet on the uni- versal labor draft proposal. But his “old Dutch is up,” and he is deter- mined to go ahead with it, any- way. How great a surprise his labor draft message was to his close ad- visers is illustrated by War Man-| power chief Paul McNutt. On the night before FDR sent his message to Congress proposing the new leg- islation, McNutt was speaking be- fore a group of his manpower gd- ministrators, assuring them that there would: be no national service act. “I_would be the first to know about it,” he said. Next day, without a word to Mc- Nutt, the President urged Congress to pass a national service act. _.Only a few insiders knew it luw\t‘ much earlier in the war—in fact, just after Pearl Harbor—McNutt himself proposed a national ser- vice act. Later, after Judge Vinson became Economic Stabilizer, McNutt sold him on the idea and together they carefully wrote a draft bill which set up safeguards for labor and carried none of the Constitu- tional dangers of the Austin-Wads- worth bill. However, some of Berhie Bar- uch’s friends on Capitol Hill, ap- parently tipped off by him, sent word that they would not pass it. So the whole thing lapsed until the President sprang his surprise mnve; —_which he did without consulting| Byrnes, Judge Vinson or his Cab- inet. Note:—Instead of taking the na- tional service bill carefully prepared by Vinson and McNutt, Judge Sam Rosenman has now asked Oscar Cox, Leo Crowley’s legal expert, to do the job. AGENCY CHIEFS OPPOSE PLAN How sharply the Roosevelt Ad- ministration is split regarding the labor draft is indicated by a ser- ies of backstage meetings held by| different leaders. One was called by Dongld Nelson, at which he quizzed War Production Board mo- guls about the labor draft. Almost unanimously, they replied that in- cause trouble, perhaps hinder pro-; duction. | Simultaneously, Under Secretary! of War Patterson suggested that| T.;nder Secretary of the Navy For- restal call a meeting of different war (Continued on Page Four) Over Five Hundred Italian Civ ilians Are Asphyxialed, Tunnel R AILLINE THREATENED BY SOVIETS (Red Arnf.y Sw_eeps Close fo Main Artery Supply- ing Germans NAPLES, March 6 -Five hundred | and nine Italian civilians were as- pyhxiated early last Saturday morn- | they had hitche® rides, was stalled in a railway tunnel. The Railway Service described the tragedy as “one of the most unusualj accidents in the history of rail- roading.” The Allied railway officials con- | ducting the investigation said the civilians” apparently climbed aboard the 45-car train in the darkness while it halted at one of the last; stations through which it passed be- fore entering the tunnel. Only about 50 of those caught aboard the train when it stalled on a four percent grade in the tunnel, LONDON, March 6. — The Red|95“P€d with their lives. Army has slept close to the vital| Odesa-Llow |Railway, main artery supplying the Germans in the Dnieper bend in a powerful new western Ukraine drive, which Mos- cow said, hag liberated five more communities and routed 12 Nazi divisions in two days. The Soviet' communique said the Russians are| battling at the ap- proaches to the station of Volochisk on the important line 60 miles nerth of . the Rumanian. frontier. Severing the railroad would force the Nazis to rely on the poor roads, and on one-track railways over the Rumanian frontier or on the sea for supplies or for retreat. , Twenty salvos from 224 guns thundered in Moscow in celebra- tion of the new victories, which were announced Marshal Stalin in o special order of the day. Two Soviet communiques from Stalin disclosed that Marshal Gre- gory Zhukov is commanding the First Ukrainian Army in the drive, replacing Gen. Nikolai Vatutin, re- ported to be ill.’ The announcements said that at |least 6,000 Nazis have already been "{slain in the push which cracked the ' German defenses on a 112-mile front, ‘and surged forward up to 31 mijles, joining with previously won positions in old Poland. The new line gave the Russians a salient from Demobrovitsi in the north southwest to Lutsk, then southeast to Belozerka. The line is, about 165 miles long. /A German communigue yesterday admitted: the breakthroughs, a Berlin broadcast said the Rus- sians are attacking with at least 12 to 14 rifle divisions, corps, and more than 200,000 men. ‘LONDON, March 6.—The Russians tonight announced the capture of Voloctsk, thus cutting the Odessa- Lwow Railroad, the last important German line in southérn Russia. Voloctsk is about 60 miles north of the Rumanian frontier, and its cap- ture was announced in a communi- que broadcast from Moscow. ‘The powerful offensive of the First Ukrainian Army swept up more than 200 populated places, including six district centers, ‘Moscow said, and added that more than 15,000 Ger- mans were killed on “the First Ukrainian front on Saturday and Sunday. —————— Business Meet of JWCon Tomorrow The regular monthly . business meeting of the Jufieau Woman's Club will be held tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock in the penthouse of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company.sMrs. Betty Mc- Cormick, president of the club, who has just returned from a trip Out- side, will preside at the session. Rebekah Drill Team Is to Meet Tonight The Rebekah Drill team is called for a meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The session will be held in the Odd Fellows® Hall. and | three tank | .'and Mr. and Mrs. G. Frederickson. - VESSEL BRINGS 61 PASSENGERS FROM SOUTH A vessel arrived from the South yesterday morning, the following passengers disembarking from Se- | attle—Mrs, Bernice Tudor, Virginia Tudor, Capt. Richard Williams, Col. | Sidney C. Paige, Mrs. Elsie E. Cole, Thomas Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Robert | Seaman, Frank Seaman, John Sea- | man, Lyle Hebert, Harry I. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sully, Mrs. Betty McCormick, Nancy McVay. Mrs. Harry Burnoff, Claude M. Hirst, Maj. R. W. MacClamont, Wil- liam Hephi Olsen, Carol S. Huebner, Marvin L. Nelson, John M. Balcom, Mrs. Pearl F. Crosby, Mrs. E‘lorence‘ West, Gale B. Wyman, Ralph J.| Agelesco, Guy Russo, Cedric G. Guion, Mrs. Ella D. Smith, Mrs. Mary G. Tringali, Mrs. Mary .Ed- | wards, Marilyn Edwards, Daisy | Lahti. Mrs. Nadine Pettijohn, Mrs. L. S. Nachtweih, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Lundstrom, Mrs. Myrtle F. Steen, Bernt O. Alstead, Mrs. Ethel G. Lightel, Mrs. Selma Maki, E. R. Smith, Capt. Marcus Goodwin, Pnull Chidzk, Jesse Fallls, Earl W. Brigml Earl H. Adams, Terry Elliott, andi Francisco Ramos. From Ketchikan- James D. Tay- |lor, John Fee, and Mrs. Dale sww} art. From Wrangell -~ Willam Lipp- | man, G. Dybhaven, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Young, and S. N. Harvie. From Petersburg — Mrs. A, Ask, { The boat left for Sitka with the | following from here—Mr .and Mrs. Sid Thompson, L. M. Carrigan, Stan Grummett, L. F. H. Forbes, James | Royset, John Royset, S. E. Pettigrew, Miss E. Lightel, Mr .and Mrs. K,| Holm, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson, Juanetta Lopez, Eva Beirley, D. W. Such, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Holm, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnson, T. R. Curtis, John Rahm and Jennie Warne. | CANDIDATE MANDERS IS HERE; BRIEF TRIP John E. Manders, prominent at- torney of Anchorage and candidate for Delegate to Congress on the Republican ticket, subject to the primaries next month, paid a brief visit to Juneau over the weekend, arriving here with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Art at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. Manders had to return to Anchorage where trict court but expects to be back in Juneau campaigning within the next ten days or two weeks. Mr. Manders’ son, Capt. John M. (Jack) Manders, was killed in ac- tion in New Guinea on January 31 while leading an air attack. Mr Manders was recently one of the incorporators for for Alaska.” e SEAT’I‘LE COUPLE HERE « Arrivals in Juneau, Mr. and Mrs. They are guest} at the Baranof, ing when a freight train on which‘ ! Juneau Gold Mining Company em- | | ployees as the question related to| | there was a definite possibility that {Board with the idea in mind to| Woodley, aboard a Woodley Airways| plane, while here he was a guest! he has cases coming up in the dis-| “Statehood | 'MAYOR LUCAS BACK AFTER TRIP SOUTH | Reports on A. J. Wage Dis- cussion, Post-War Planning » Mayor Harry I. Lucas Is back inj | Juneau today after a trip of five weeks to Washington, D. C. and’ other points in the States on mat-| ters of both immediate and post| war interest to Juneau. | In Washington he took part in| discussions concerning the matter of the wage question of the Alaska | the welfare of Juneau. He reported | |that the matter is still not settled, “Before 1 left Juneau,” Mayor Lucas said, “I was advised that the Alaska Juneau mine might close down, and knowing what a severe blow this would be to the cities of habitants, and being advised that, every effort had been made to con- tinue operations and that the com~ pany would have paid an increase in wages as ordered if the earnihgs (had justified a raise, I felt it to be my duty %o protect the interests ofi{ Juneau and vicinity and those of | \the men working for the companv;' and in various occupations in the city. i In Washington ! “I attended in Washington, con- | ferences of the National War Labor Juneau and Douglas and to all in-| of “covering” them, as previously. Tiber R. protect our light and power system.! our water supply and fire protec-| tion, most of which is furnished in- | directly by the mining company. “I had maps, pictures and other data to back up my arguments which were directed toward keeping . the company in operation, and T en-| deavored to secure Government as-| sistance 'in the form of subsidy or some form of assistance for the| mining company by the Govern- ! ment for some of the:faeilities and | materials furnished by the com-| pany and which would make up at| least a part of the loss which would be sustgined by the company in paying higher wages. “This matter, I am informed, is = still in abeyance and 1t will be! some time yet before a -definite| answer will be given.” = Marine Ways Mayor Lucas, speaking of post-| war ideas for Juneau, said he be- | lieves that in the near future there’ {will be some engineers here to 1ock‘ into the possibility of installing a' marine ways and some machine; |shops. He said he also discussed matters with the Pan American, Airways company regarding the se- | curing of better service for Juneau| and that he is sure this can be| brought about through the coopera- tion of other towns in Southeast (Continued on Page Three) R WHITE PASS IS TIED UP BYBLIZZARD ] Y R { EDMONTON, March 6—One of| the worst blizzards in years recent—’ ly tied up the narrow gauge White| {Pass and Yukon Route, between Iskagway and Whitehorse, now op- lerated by the Government. Traffic was stalled for 15 days and there were more than 30 de- railments. The announcement of the tie-up is made public by the U, 8. Northwest | Service Command. ; At the peak, the storm stalled |eleven locomotives, scores of cars and two rotary ploughs. Other ro- narles eventually broke through the {years®ago and has built it into a [world renowned section of the i~ ' — STATUTE MILES armament centers and air fields that p: lost. A 2,000-plane attack on Hanover, centers was successfully executed with technique which operates, as the m: and challenge the enemy fighters. grcup—and l!nke out in various directions and at many targets, Where Troops Are Adlve, IIaIy AR R . & e 1 La) -‘, c».ssmo Braunschweig and Bremen plus a ap illustrates, as follows: Fighters go The bombers break into daringly si PESCARA| | “ Onom - . A Penne ('\ V24 Aquula fwfl: . Cus!e"gnl & \ S \ Ll Gorig I:ana Arrows indicate points on the Italian fronts where fighting is reported. Two German drives southwest of Carroceto and another at Mt. Abate . of Cassino. Ten German divisions are reported head. (AP Wirephoto) 'Most Remarkab Now Wanfed for Most ¢other office and will probably leave | | were frustrated. Allies improve positions cast of Carroceto and north E German concentrations were shelled in the Arielli area, | ringing the Anzio-Nettuno beach- leMan | Remarkable Position BY JACK STINNETT £ good administrator, prepared to deal HOW DOOLITTLE OUTSMARTS THE LUFTWAFFE [GREAT BRITAIN) DAIING NEW AIR RAID TACTICS of Maj. Gen. Doolittle continue to make records for destruction of key Nazi rotect them, with a marked decrease in the number of Allied planes half a dozen fields that guard these a loss of five fighters and fifteen bombers during a test of the Doolittle well ahead of the bombers instead These fighters clear the way for the heavy bombers, engage in dogfights imall formations—about sixty to a thus conlusmg the emmy. (lnlemauonul) Alaskans Purchase War Bonds 202 Percent Over Quota WASHINGTON, March 6.—/ Alaskan residents purchased 202 per cent of their quota of war bonds in the Fourth War Bond Drive, according to an official announcement made by the Treasury Department. Mississippi led the States with 154 percent. Washington State scored 122 percent and On‘on 130 percent. HIRST BEING TRANSFERRED i FROM ALASKA Successor Is Don C. Foster, of Carson City, Nevada Claude M, Hirst, General Buper-| intendent of the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs, announced today | jupon his return to Juneau after a mp to Chicago and Washington |that he is being transferred to an- here in April. Hirst, able administrator of the Indian Office here for the past eight years, is being replaced by lintendent of the Carson City, Ne- ivada, office for the past four or| h —Thy e WASHINGTON, March 6 € with the business of the division yc ‘ears Hirst has been assigned Library of Congress has a man-| power problem all its own, and all | it ‘wants is one man. That man, however, will have to| take the job of one of the world's great scholars, Dr. Israel Schapiro, | sion, As a matter of fact, kindly, ! scholarly Doctor Schapiro is the Semitic division, for he came here t0 thead it when it was started. 3l | brary. | “We are’ lookmg for a man who is not merely a technician,” he| says. “The position requires a lin- guist familiar with Hebrew, Yid-| dish, Arabic, Aramais, Syriac and| all other languages of the Near| East. An ideal applicant also would | be a skilled bibliographer and aj connoisseur of books. He would hcv well acquainted with the geography| and ethnography of the entire Med- | iterranean area.” ‘A practical knowledge of the his- toty of that regiori from the ear-, lest times Jikewise should be pos-| sessed. The candidate ought to be| a writer, trained and experienced in | the art of literature, and a meth- | WOrld in the plight of the Jews in| odical and exdcting student of re- |Europe and the necessity for solv- lhe 52 pproprlauoms and services of F. R. Perron are here from Seattle, snowdrifts which were packed in ligion. philosophy and the human | ! i some places to a depth of 20 feet.Sciences. Of course, he should be a | in a proper manner. |have the ability, too, to get along\ | with people easily. He should |y duty in Minneapolis where he| will be Superintendent of Educa- | uon for the Lake States Area of| GREATBLOW STRUCKUPON NAZICAPITAL Northern Fr_a_fi;e, Where Rocket, Robot Planes Based, Bombarded + By Associated Press United States Bombers of “very strong forces bombed Berlin today, the second American blow on the American German Capital,” the of-" ficial announcement said, adding that only “targets in the Berlin area” were hit, without identifying them further or giving other de- tails. The attack today was a surprise as a follow-up of Saturday's “ice- breaker” raid by one formation of bombers in a striking demonstra- tion of the Bighth Air Force's might, for the seventh operation of heavy bombers in eight days. Hammer Blows Heavy fighter escorts accompan- ied the formations on the round trip of more than 1,100 miles from British bases. Thus Berlin, already seared by massive RAF night as- saults, was brought under destruc- tive hammer blows falling day and night, v Presumably the American day- rugm attacks were aimed with pre- {cision at the destruction of select- ed thigets escaping from the RAF's !saturation raids. Beriin Says It's Tough The German broadcast declared that “one of the greatest air battles of the war is raging since 11:20 this morning over the northwest and central Germany,” extending from the. Zuider Zee as far as the {lakes near Berlin. The radio sald the -air raid alarm sounded in Ber- 1in flist betore one o'clock this af- I(‘moon. | avy bombers raced to Ber- lln as Alued medium fighters at- tacked northern France wheye Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1snld the Germans are preparing |rocket and mbot plnne installations. i S At LEPKE DIES AS GANGSTER; DIDN'TTALK | NEW YORK, March 6. — Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, onetime Brook- lyn gangster, chose a killer's death rather than turn informer which |Don C. Foster who has been super-|possibly could have spared him the |8ing Sing prison electric chair last Saturday night. This was indicated when Bertram |Wegman, counsel for the head | Murder, Inc., who said: “Buchalter had two keys in his hand. He chose “He ought to be older than I was| |the Office of Indian Affairs, a dis-|the one that opened the door to, when I started—about 30. Being trict taking in the states of Mich-vetemny, rather than the other one.”’ {head of the Semitic division.of the jgan, head of the library’s Semitic dw"‘laraes'- bibliographic _establishment, Towa. on earth is a lifetime job.” Well, that's all, folks. If there’s| any such young man hanging, you know where he can get a good‘ lifetime job. . Doctor Schapiro himself has been Pattment of FEducation in Califor-Lepke would. tell all, to cabinet of- Nia, and before that time he had them. | ficers, members of Congress, diplo-|been State Commissioner of Edu-| confidential adviser matic and consular personnel and to numerous government heads. ', He’s not asking anything of hhu when he came to the library in! 1914. Born in Sejny, Russia, 61 years ago, he was educated in Rus- €8l Superintendent. At that tima| sian and Hebrew schools and at the | was professor of Jewish history and Hebrew literature at the Lehrer| the, United States in 1910. With the present interest of the! (Continued on Pm ’rwm | After Wisconsin, - Minnesota Arrived In 1936 Hirst came to Juneau on March 14, 1936 and served for two years around your neighborhood, tell him as the Director of Education for The the department. His former posi- {tion had been with the State De: cation for Arkansas, his native state. In 1936 the entire Alaska Office | successor that he wasn't himself Of Indian Affairs was consolidated into one organization under one head and Hirst was named as Gen- the office consisted of the depart- |universities of Berlin and Strass- ,meutb of ‘education, medical and 1burg. While still in his twenties, he Ithe reindeer service, the latter for- merly under the Governor's Office. !hv Arts and Crafts Division, the |Welfare Division, the Organization and Credit departments. During Hirst’s able administration rContlnuvd on Page Three) and i the consolidation other de-: |seminar in Jerusalem. He came to,PArtments were forme mcluding‘ Wegman did not explain what he * |meant by “the other one” but the |remark of Mayor LaGuardia in commenting on the case, especially the narcotic phase, is significant. Mayor said: “Some people sweated a lot during the last few ;days,” meaning perhaps they feared implicatihg 'T COME HERE VIA . ALASKA AIRLINES; A ARE OUTBOUND | On Saturday an Alaska Airlines |plane ¢ame in from Anchorage, piloted by Bill Lavery and CIiff Everts. Passengers arrviving were Viclet Hoar, Mrs. Jane Hawkins and child, O. W. Tosch, James Ble- ;. . vine, Walter Hodge, and Mrs. M. W, Bulmer. Departing for the Westward, the _ plane took Ken Johnston, Dave Lesko, H. L. Ickes and Col. Farley.