The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLI., NO. 9596. MARINES ESTABLISH NE Fourth Gigantic Raid Made To A2nd Troop (arrier LIBERATORS, FORTRESSES HIT CAPITAL German Air Arm Has Had Most Exhausting | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944 Squadron For By REX THOMAS LAWSON FIELD, Ga., March 9. —"The worst weather in the world” couldn’t halt the Forty-Second Troop Carrier Squadron in ferry- Is Praised Work in Alaska for fighter planes, leading them| | through fog and snow to Attu and !Kiska and guiding them home. The |men of the 42nd rescued crews of | | | |Wh af's Smatter, OPA? Just See What You're Lefting Govi. Do Now! Content with putting a ceiling | price on spinach, liquors and several | hundred other items, the Office of | Price Administration has let the | Government slip one over on it, by coming Sunday, air mail postage is increased from 6 cents an ounce to 8 cents an ounce Fourth Class (parcel post) is in- creased 3 per centum. All money orders, insurance, reg- W BEACHHEAD day on Berlin U. S. FORCE INLANDING - 50. PACIFIC Invasion Made Near Tal- lasea-Jap Barge Thrust _ Is Also Beaten Off ing troops and supplies to the Am- | combat planes forced down in the | bounting the ceiling price overboard. |erican outposts in the Aleutians. Week i' War LONDON, March 9.—Berlin was | attacked again today for the fourth | time in six days by heavy bombers of the United States Eighth Air| Force for the second day in a row as Flying Fortresses and Liberators hit the capital first attacked by | American forces last Saturday. Today's attack demonstrated the amazing reserve strength, equip- | ment and endurance of the Eighth Air Force crews. Strong forces of | fighters of the Eighth and Ninth Air Force escorted the bombers. The first announcement gave no hint of how today’s bomber forma- | tions compared in strength with| yesterday’s raid of at least 850 four- ‘ engined bombers. The Berlin an-} nouncement failed to crow over “the | great aerial battles” as during the previous Amerlcan raids. Today's formations may have reached the city with comparatively | minor resistance from German fighters, as it is certain the German air arm has experienced one of the (Continued on Page, Six) | The Washington Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — It didn’t leak| out but Wendell Willkie had a re-| volt among his supporters over his! recent statement supporting Roose-i velt and going him one better on/ higher taxes. The issue was be-| .tween Willkie’s publicity right‘ bower, Russell Davenport, rormer‘ editor of Fortune Magazine, and| Willkie’s fiscal right bower, John! Hanes, former Undersecretary ot‘ the Treasury for FDR. Hanes, whose father helped found | the Reynolds tobacco empire, and] who is one of the most successful brokers in Wall Street, has been de- | voting his time and money helping! to nominate Willkie. But Hanes is a low-tax man. As Undersecretary of the Treasury, he fought hlgherl taxes and, in the end, resigned.! Last, yegr, he even had a session with: Treasury tax expert Randolph Paul in which he virtually laid down an ullimatum that the Ruml plan would have to be adopted. y | With this background, it is easy to understand how Willkie higher- tax statement was about as easy for Hanes to swallow as a rattlesnake, In making his decision, Willkie| had Hanes on one side and Russell Davenport on the other. Davenport had resigned from Fortune to de- vote all his time to Willkie's cam- paign. Also he had prepared a careful study on taxes showing how the cost of the war was being post- poned and would fall on the shoulders of the men now fighting the war. Hanes, on the other hand, argued that business couldn't stand higher taxes now. He virtually served warning on Willkie that he would withdraw his support if Willkie came out for higher taxes. Willkie’s reply was: “T'll bej damned if I'm going to let these kids pay for this war.” And he issued the statement. NOTE—Don't be surprised if you see Johnny Hanes bowing out of the Willkie picture soon. | JESSE JONES DENIES Exactly one year ago this month, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones sent a letter to all Washington Merry-Go-Round subscribers deny- | ing the Shipshaw aluminum deal| in Canada. By this deal, the Merry-Go- Round reported, Jones would en- able the Aluminum Corporation to build a giant power project in the wilds of Qucbec rivaling Boulder ! hospital Back in the United States proper after nearly two years in the north, officers and men told they battled Japankse and weather in the bitter Arctic war. The big C-47 transports of the 42nd Squadron, the first land-based aircraft to arrive, landed at nearly every base in the Aleutians includ- ing Attu and Kiska. Besides rushing men and equip- ment down the desolate chain of islands, the transports served as planes and evacuated wounded and ailing soldiers. During combat, the lumbering transports served as mother ships |icy wastes. Major Luther B. Mathews, com- | manding officer, said “no words| adequately express the loyalty and| devotion these men have shown in the service to their country.” | The major said marksmanship | {not only of guns but in lnndingsi were necessary in carrying troops to island bases and they even drop- }ped Commando paratroopers on| | Amchitka Island to test the equip-| | ment for the invasion of Kiska. So| | accurate was the markmanship in | landings, that one paratrooper landed 15 feet from the door of a | tent set up previously by special | service forces. KHERSON IS OBJECT OF RED THRUST Stalin Annafies Another Major Offensive in South Russia LONDON, March 9. — Marshal Josef Stalin, in a special order of the day broadcast from Moscow, an- nounces the Russians have opened still another offensive on the Uk- rainian front under General Rodion Malinovsky. Stalin said the offensive, which was launched across the Inhulets River, and which will be aid at the German defense bastions of Niko- laev and Kherson on the lower Bug and Dnieper rivers, gained from 19 to 37 miles along a 105-mile front in four days of fighting. Kazanka and Novi Bug, 25 and 40 miles, respectively, west of Krivoi Rog, have fallen before the Russian forces in the new advance, and the announcement said three German tank and six infantry divisions, prob- ably totaling more than 125,000 torops, were routed in the course of the advance. Stalin said the capture of Novi Bug placed the Russian forces across the main northern rail line into the Black Sea base of Nikolaev, and the north. R ds Lo LN WAKE [SLE IS RAIDED, SAYS TOKYO NEW YORK, March 9. Tokyo radio said a formation of four American bombers attacked Japa- nese positions on Wake Isiand and one of the raiders was downed. The | broadcast failed to give the date of the raid. el — FAIRBANKS FIRE CHIEF S. H. Huxley has been appointed fire chief at Fairbanks and he im- (Continued on Page Four) mediately presented to the City Council a list of needed eqmpment.z 2 Government Branches Nearing Showdown;Real Battle Is Now-Looming threatened to flank the base from | — The' By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 9Tt is becoming more apparent every day | here that the battle between the executive and legislative branches of government is nearing a show- down—a real one. | to see whether Congress or the President is going to run this war be, both harmoniously working to-l gether. the polls in November—but it could 5 be known before that if public opin- | ion gets any more aroused than it seems to be from this ivory tower. The tax bill mess is the latest | straw in the wind, and as a straw, | it’s- a sizeable California redwood. | I don’t know how long it has been | since a President has felt forced | to veto a general revenue bill and none of the old-timers I've talked to | has been able to belp me out on the information. It's just one of those things that isn't done. The anti-subsidy bill was another, although not anywhere nearly so important except as a psychological |factor in the overall price control | program. | The Administration did get over a | ‘partlal war contract renegotiation {law but that was tied to the tax bill and was small sop compared to what the White House had asked for. The soldiers’ vote bill is a third | major Administration request at which Congress balked and if it 'isn’t dead, it certainly appears mori- | bund at this writing. The President’s | :call for national service legislation seemed to me half-hearted, but Congress so far hasn't "even given it that much consideration. There are only two things in the ’major Administration program: ex- | !tension of price-wage stabilization | (which is threatened with amend- ments that will kick a lot of its teeth out); and the Baruch de- imobulmn!on program, which hasn't | ibeen the subject yet of specific| | White House recommendations, but ! which has caused comment “on the hill” that it's just another basis for | handing over more power to the chief executive. i The situation has caused a tense- ness in official Washington that is difficult to imagine. One doesn’t need to take sides to appreciate the seriousness of the situation. In the midst of a global war in which Am- | erican lives are being sacrificed ! every minute, the executive and leg- islative branches of our government are at odds as they never have been since the Congress of 1919 louxht“n the attack but failed to damage | with President Wilson. At that time (Continued on Page Two) |And, just as the public has passed (through the Fourth War Loan | Drive, and is now pungling up for | the Red Cross, if there is any cash ‘len, the public has got to pay more ‘Ior air mail, money orders and other | things passing through the Post | Office. | Acting Postmaster Lillian G. Mill |is passing out the information on |the Government barrage. that has | knocked out the postal ceiling price. |Of course, the Postmaster is only The outcome of the battle may | not really be known until we go to | | MASQUERADER —Tanis Jjob - masquerading* asia man, Lo w! stunt in another film she was discovered. contract as a female plaver. | acting on instructions in view of the |recent maneuverings of Congress 'and the OPA was perhaps power- less to do anything. Now get this— Effective March 26, that is on a istry and COD fees are also raised. There is one pleasant thing an- nounced by the Postmaster and that is ordinary mail remains at the old rate of 3 cents per ounce and local mail for Juneau remains at the same old 1-cent per ounce. Until the new 8-cent air mail stamps are reccived at the Juneau post office, patrons will use the regular 6-cent air mail stamp and add a 2-cent stamp for each ounce. Anyone desiring any addltional information may obtain this by go- ing to the Juneau post office, which you will have to do if your mailing comes under any of the new regula- tions mentioned. Now Join Changdler (above) landed a movie n she ‘tried to repeat the Now she has won a however. and looks like this. Champion Cook In other words, it's a scrap now ' § and this country, or, as it should ! § | stretch i A TOPNOTCHER has to keep in trim, so Mrs. Mary Sossong, Scranton, Pu,, reads a recipe book as she sits elose to the window-in her home. She had just won the second annual cooking contest to select the grand- ma with the best old fashioned molasses recipe. (lnler'nuh‘anal) ATTACK ON CONVOY IS REPULSED Five German Planes Are Knocked Down in Raid Off North Africa ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, March 9.—A strong force | iof German aircraft attacked an Allied convoy off the coast of North Africa but Allied airmen knocked | down five attackers and damaged two others. The Allied spokesman also said about 60 German planes took part any of the convoyed ships. ‘Two Allied pianes were lost in the engagement, Zero Kifler RAGING AT NAZIBASE Soviefs Rapidly Gaining Control of Strategic Rail Line LONDON, March 9.—Marshal Zhukov's Red Army troops drove | forward through deep, sticky mud | of the southwestern Ukraine toward the important junction of Prosku- {rov the capture of which, Moscow | dispatches spid. will give the Rus- |slans a firm grip on a 40-mile of the Odessa-Warsaw ‘trunk railway between Proskurov jand Volochiak. ! | The Soviet communique an-! j{nounced that the Russian forces | already have captured Cern Ostrov,! |only 11 miles northwest of Pros- {kurov, and said a furious battle |1s raging inside Staro Konstantinov, ' described as a vital German base The failure gf the Germans to hold Proskurov, it was pointed out, | DRAPED with bullets is turret-gun- ner Sgt. John A. Murphy, 24, of Columbus, Neb., who downed five Zeros in a single air mission off the coast of New Britain. His plane, despite a missing engine and 41 holes in its fuselage, returned safe- ly to its base. (International) {will force them to fall back to the Odessa-Warsaw line at Zhmerinya if they hoped to maintain -contact with the partly isolated German | |forces in the lower Dnieper River| | bend. ! | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, March 9.—Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 6, |84%, Anaconda 26 jcraft 9%, Bethlehem International Harvester Swedish Ee-por!s Say Chance Is Good for Sl Peace Terms ?;{:el 12: STOCKHOLM, March 9. — Fin- * # 2% land has sent a revised repl 0 12ecou: 307%, North American Avia- Ru‘:sian armmlze :jema,nds pvyhl:h on 8% 2 Y i b= thz » New York Central 18%, may be a satisfactory basis for fur- | At P;Z’:::dli;é:’"”“i States thering of negotiations, it is strong- g it i |ly indicated here. 4 o W, Jones averages today are as; ° Afgonbladet said the reply should = at;ws, mdm:trmls 139.33, rails e acceptable to the Russian view- (9836, utilities 23.80. |point, and declared it has the back- ——————— ing of Field Marshal Baron von American Can/| FOUR INITIATED | military officers. | ‘The reply was originally prepared Bv ElKS loDGE for delivery last Friday, but appar- Four candidates were initiated Y because of the sharp tone last night at a meeting of the Elks| %85 held back for revision and mod- Lodge. ification. Aftonbladet said the The new members include Fred Modification ls the result of ob- L. Salvus, John R. Winther, Gordon | 12€tions raised in certain Swedish Jo. Johnson and Kenneth L. Kinl-¢iFclés, who persuaded the Pinns man, to adopt a milder tone. Heroic Ranger Epic | FINNS, REDS Mannerheim and other high Finnish s Legends _ Of Lost Baltalions ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 9.—Into the legends of Lost Battalions must be written the heroic but hopeless fight of two battalions of the United States Fifth Army Rangers who Spearheaded the early“attack out of the Anzlo beach- head on Cisterna and Di Littoria early on the morning of last Janu- ary 30. The men were trapped when they | reached a village on the Appian Way, and none but a handful ever !came back from the attack on the Germans. | It was announced at the time that about 100 were killed, and the re- mainder, some 950 men, were taken ‘prisoner The Rangers gave up only after (they had fired their last round of grenade against a vastly superior |German forece which they encount- ered after they had infiltrated four miles through enemy lines in a stirring day and night of action. “There'll be a sequel to it,” vowed the few stragglers who came back |to tell the story. U. 5. LINES EXTENDED IN BURMA AREA NEW DTLHI, March 9.—United States troops under command of Brig. General Frank Merrill, have | killed 65 Jap soldiers since entering Ithe Burma campaign, against a loss of seven killed and 37 wounded. | Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced that the | total of Jap casualties in the Hu- | |kawng Valley fighting has reached | a total of 300 killed. The communiqué also said that ! American_positions in the Walaw~ {bum sector on ‘the north Burma |front had been further extended. | The communique added that while this was going on the American- trained Chinese 22nd Division cap- | tured the town of Minghku in south- | east Maingkwan, March 7. GEN. HOLCOMB | NOMINATED FOR MINISTER POST WASHINGTON, March 9. — Gen. Thomas Holcomb, retired, recently Commandant of the Marine Corps, has been nominated by the Presi- dent to be American Minister to the 'lUmon of South Africa, ‘when Senator Tom ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 9. — United States troops smashed a JapaneSe attempt to run a few barges of troops ashore on the northwest coast of Los Negros Island of the Admiralties on Tues- day night. Headquarters also reports another battlefront on the Bismarck Sea established by American Marines who landed virtually unopposed last Monday near Tallasea, on the north coast of Néw Britain and are now reported holding the beachhead against strong enemy counter- attacks. The Japanese barge thrust on Los Negros came after enefy planes made a small but ineffectual at- tack at night on the American po- sitions on the Momote airfields and airdrome now being used by the Allies. The barges met a devastat- ing fire and not a singlé one reach- ed shore, e CHAPLIN, S1X OTHERS LOSE OUT, COURT Judge Denies Motion fo Set Aside Indictments in Girl Case LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, March 9.— United States District Court Judge O’Connor today denied motions of Charlie Chaplin and six other de- fendants in their attempt to set . |ammunition and thrown their last | “side Federal indictments charging them with conspiracy to deprive Joan Berry, the actor’s former pro- tege, of her civil rights, SOLDIERVOTE (OMPROMISE WORKED OUT WASHINGTON, March 9.—Speak- er Sam Rayburn today announced his support of the compromise on the Soldier Service Vote Bill as worked out by the 8enate and House conferees. The Senate’s decision on the com- promise bill was delayed further Connally an- nounced he will not call up the bill until Monday because so many members interested are away. LET'S GIVE! | campaign is now on. Give generously so that YOUR Red Cross sticker will be a true symbol of an understanding of humanity’s needs in a war wérld. Don't wait for the solicitor! Send contributions to Allen Shattuck, Red Cross Chapter Treasurer, Juneau.