The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL.. XLL, NO. 9597. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" EMPIRE —— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT$ — — 24 NAII American NEW MOVE | IS MADE IN ADMIRALTIES Marines Cut Peninsula in! Two-New Footholds | Gained ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 10.—American warships have moved unopposed into the Dbig Seadler Harbor of the invaded Ad- miralty Islands and Marines have virtually cut Willaumez Peninsula in two. | On the north coast of New Brit- ain, the once mighty Rabaul - shows marked signs of deterioration, head- quarters announces. Warships and supply ships en- tered the waters of Seadler Harbor, between' the Japanese-held Manus| Island and American-controlled Los | Negros, to aid the cavalrymen. | The First Division is steadily ex- panding the foothold on the Ad- miralty group. The Marines on New Britain have Y overcome bitter Japanese resist-lMobile GunsI ‘UNSEASONAL' which they can’t pass off as “heav ance, inflicted heavy damage, and' pushed within two miles of Tala- sea, on the eastern side of Willau- | mez Peninsula. Solomon-based planes found Ra- baul's big harbor deserted of ser- viceable ships and six airdromes virtually stripped of aircraft. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | | { i | 1 | | REVAL AIR RAIDED BY RUSSIANS Fires in Cap—iia City of Es-| (Lt | WASHINGTON—Rural Electrifi- | cation Administration is actually| alarmed over the fact that its mem- | ber cooperatives are paying their debts too fast. | All over the country, farmers are using more electricity for their elec- THE LOS ANGELES Chamber of Commerce will Rave a lot of explaining to do in reference to the picture above, ooBig For Tojo; Big Power in Pacific Revealed |halls of the Navy building these ! —_ - - PLANES Warship WEATHER BLANKETS LOS ANGELES 4 Enter, AZIS GIVE UPBIGBASE | IN UKRAINE Uman, Vital Rail Head, Is i Abandoned by Refreat- ing German Forces By Associated Press BULLETIN—LONLON, March 10.—~Uman, strong German base in the Western Ukraine, fell to the Red Army, Stalin announc- ed tohight. The Capture of the base was broadcast by Stalin as an Order of the Day shortly after the Germans announced abandon- ment. Stalin’s announcement said the break-through swept up 300 occupied places. The broadcast also said more than 20,000 Germans have been killed and 2,500 taken prisoners in the offensive which started five days ago. AR » It is a scene in the heart of the southern California city after an y dew. (International Soundphoto) | The German radio today an- ‘nounced that Nazi tropps have iabandoned Uman, one of their [slmng bases in the western Ukrame.i Uman, a rail head, lies about| /midway between Vinnitsa and Kir- ‘ovograd, and about 25 miles east of Yine_Bug River. Tt is at the hinge between the Russian drive toward CHURCHILL'S SON LEADER “INLANDINGS Nikolaev and the other Soviet . southern Ukrainian drive into old By JACK STINNETT Poland. WASLINGTON. March 10__ic0mmandos Repofled to The entire southern Ukrainian Tk are broad grins on the faces front has been blasted with the e et s who step brisy | Have Made Descent on great Russian ottensive, * Moscow of the brass hats who step briskly along the ramped corridors of the Pentagon building and even broader grins on those who tramp the dingy | said, which resulted in the capture of Staro Konstantinov, the storming Isle, Dalmatian Coast of the inner defense of Stranapol, LONDON, March 10.—British and and the breaching of the German ESTROYED IN RAID Seadler Harbor FINLAND'S rrosLems RAF STRIKES HEAVY BLOWS IN SO. FRANCE | Round-the-Cl_ock Bombing | Continues on Continent i ~H. Goering Is Out LONDON, March 10.—Britain's four-engined Lancasters, striking again at Germany's ‘aircraft pro- duction, reached far into southern France last night and bombed a |large factory at Marignane near Marseille, the Air Ministry said. The RAF strike kept the Allied aerial blows going around the clock after yesterday’'s bombing of Ber- lin through dense clouds by the American Air Force and which was precipitated by a series of heavy as- saults on Berlin in which at least 324 Nazi planes were destroyed. Hannover Bombed The U. 8. Air Force Headquarters communique last night said that yesterday's blows against Berlin were coordinated by a raid on un- specified objectives in central Ger- many identified by the Berlin ra- ;dm as Hannover. The cost of the |assault was seven Neavy bombers land one fighter, the figures con- | trasting sharply with the 68 bomb- ‘ers fll:ld 11 fighters lost Monday. “Anttaireraft Fire Although the Fortresses and Lib- 'erators and their escorting Mus- | tangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings |plunged through, heavy antiaircraft fire to reach yesterday's targets, most of the German Air Forces ap- |parently were grounded. American |fliers reported only minor encoun- /ters with the cnemy and made no “|claims of any Nazi planes de- | stroyed. SWEDEN WILL BE FOOD SUPPLY CENTER FOR FINNS RUSSIA DEMANDS USE OF SEA PORTS, AIR BASES AND ALL COMMUNICATION LINES FINLAND‘S EXIT from the war, now expected at any time, involves a number of military, economic and political problems, a few of which are indicated by the map. On the north Russian front, the fall of Pskov will mean Red domination of communication lines to the Baltic and northward. Russia will want German divisions (there are said to be six or seven) cleared from the north of Finland. Their one means of exit would be through Norway. Russia is reported to be asking tempo- rary use of Finnish air bases and key sea ports. The food problem can be solved through Allied shipments via Sweden. (International) days as news arrives from the Pa- cific. It isn't over-optimism; it's just confidence that now we are rolling and going to keep rolling. It took neatly seven months of; bloody fighting to clean out Guad- tric brooders, pumps, milkers, feed grinders, and so on. They can't get | human labor but they CAN hire an | electric chore boy. Result is. a sharp| H inki increase in consumption of rurall Away m Helsmk' electricity, likewise an increase in PR the revenue of REA cooperatives. | STOCKHOLM, March \UARu.s-Ethere. Therefore, REA is salting away sian planes last night bombed Re-| i cash at a great rate. The various val, capital city and major port of the Navy, Army, and Marines have cooperatives have invested $5,000,- Estonia, dispatches from Helsinki to|smashed through the ¢Gilberts and 000 in war bonds, $6,000,000 in local 'the Swedish newspapers declared. |Marshalls and into the Carolines. bank investments, and are $15000,-| The dispatches said fires are to‘The Marianas, with Guam as their 000 ahead in repayments to REA.!be seen in Helsinki, the Finnish southern anchor, may be next. Ra- (They have repaid $61,000000 in capital city, across the 50-mile baul, on New Britain has virtually principal and interest, whereas only‘stretch of the Gulf of Finland. |been neutralized, an_d the great $46,000,000,000 has fallen due.) Heavy damage is believed to have supply base of Truk is well on its Reason this worries Washington been done by the Russian raiders. way. and REA headquarters in St. Louis’ — e —— tonia Seen 50 Miles troops still are reported starving in _the Solomons. It took even longer jthan that to wage the New Guinea |campaign and Jap troops are still | I have talked to a number of |smiling naval men here in the last \few days, always opening with the is that the seeming profits may en- courage state tax authorities to add new tax burdens to REA coopera- alcanal and more than 20,000 Jflp‘ | But in less than three months, American Commandos under Cap- lines guarding the Black Sea ports tain Randolph Churchill landed on ©f Nikolaev and Kherson. Lissa Island off the Dalmatian New Red Drive ? coast in Yugoslavia, the Berlin ra- Most spectacular of the day’s de- dio said today. velopments was the disclosure by Churchill, 32, son of the British Marshal Stalin of the new Rus-, Prime Minister, has taken com- Slan drive launched by General| mand of the Allied troops on the Malinovsky southwest of Krivol| island, but it remained to be seen ROE. Here in four days of intensive whether his forces will include the fiBhting the Third Ukrainian Army, | 2,000 followers of Marshal Tito who Ariving westward across the Ingul- |are there. lets River, routed nine German di- Young Churchill, the first mem- Visions and captured Novi Bug and ber of Parliament to become a par- Grozhany, respectively 53 and 40| atrooper, recently conferred wi‘h miles above Nikolaev; and Kazanka. |Tito, presumably after he ‘17 miles northeast of Novi Bug. ichuted into Yugoslavia. 1 8,000 Germans Killed The Berlin broadcast identified FEight thousand Germans were thim as “a British general with the kiled and 1,000 were captured in 'name of Churchill,” but no doubt this advance, the Russian commun- (here and in Berlin they are talk- idué asserted. The Nazis were ing about the Prime Minister's son. d¥iven back 19 to 37 miles, aban- para- | There was no immediate con-|doning huge stores of war mater- | firmation, however, of the landing ials, including 67 tanks, 175 guns, | reéport. |and more than 2,000 trucks. More | i i {than 200 localities were liberated ! by Malinovsky's troops | Married Couple sSought By CAAforRemofe Posis InVarious Alaska Areas JAP BOMBERS STAGE RAID alone should see the CAA about a job in Alaska. The CAA announces 30 couples, willing to live at remote outposts on Federal airways are wanted. 1 Fifty couples was the first an- nouncement, but 20 couples have N!wEIoK already been hired and are already . in training in Seattle. . W. P. Plevy, Supervisor of Air- ' lways in Alaska, is in charge of the recruiting of the personnel for the outposts. These outposts are used principally to supply weather in- formation for planes operating in Attack Is First Since Amer- icans Occupied Afoll WASHINGTON, March 10.—Mar-| ried couples who have a yen to be | Slump For Goering | A Bwedish dispatch published in ithe London Daily Mail, quoting neutral soutces, sald that under the reorganization of Hitler’s air com- mand now in progress, Goering will take & back seat, and younger {men with more specialized know- {ledge of fighter defense will come to power. Goering s described as “utterly bewildered by the strength of the IRVINCOBB PASSES ON NEW YORK, March 10.—Irvin 8. Cobb, 67, humorist and writer, died in his apartment here today after a long illness. For the past three months he had been suffering from tives. Instead, Federal officials| | question: What is hnppe?flng in the A IR feel this money should be saved as| | Pacitic? SoME IIAlIAN ’m;rnh: 1::11::11 x;l(ld.;d St‘}?at bf:,.lde;,; a post-war cushion of credit. | | “There's no- particular mystery | ‘Nu( 1:: g the n_c‘ Sea lpol S o’ ‘ After the war, kilowatt consump- ) labout it. We now have there the! olaev and Kherson, Malinovsky'’s | ! advance is a direct threat to sev-| tion will fall off, 'and revenues will | decline. At the same time, expenses | will shoot up because of construc- tion and maintenance which have been put off during wartime. Mean- IN IRELAND while, an ney ence criticized as Ll probably insolvent is rolling iniumted S'a'es Re q u eSfS wealth. 2 'WHITE HOUSE AIDES {[ Eire fo Close Axis e tock & 10v f Fibhing fpoun| Consulates friends because of his refusal to' answer questions at a Senate hear-| BELFAST, March 10.—The Unit- ing regarding the alleged attempt to ed States has asked neutral Eire oust Harry Slattery, Rural Electri-|to close the German Legation and fication Administrator. |the Jap Consulate as an antiespion- “I guess those newspaper stories age measure to protect Allied troop about your scrap with Senabor“movemems in northern Ireland. ‘Cotton Ed’ Smith was the most; Although the note presented in '}“"“f;‘y you ever got :n dymi:r life,'late February by David Gray, U. onathan,” commente ugene s, Minister to Eire, contained no Cflse_y. executive assistant to the yjtimatum, and no demand on President. |Southern Ireland, it was the basis b;;ff‘::ecks. you're justtjealous' Gene, | of rumors, and demands were made you never get on page One |, “stand to” to Eire's army, which Jourselt,” replied the impish Dan-iwas ordered along the Vlster bor-| 2, {der on February 25 to 28. meO!;;mlndont know. 1 e i ’"_‘"Fe; The British government approv- pages some day” sald|eq tne American note but it is the Casey, “but if I do, Jonathan, it/ i " -3 v United States which handling the wop't, be bemause I kept. my. mouth job of- trying to plug this infor- WARSHIPS 10 . 60 T0 RUSSIA Roosevelt Makes Issue Clear at Conference with Newsmen WASHINGTON, March 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted that what he and Churchill said about the disposition of the Italian fleet is| ‘correcb and no controversy could be {made of it and he would violate ant victories and that pattern is military security by discussing what greatest concentration of maneu- verable striking power ever assemb- led—and that word “maneuverable” is the key to the whole explanation. Pessimists and many brass hats, who couldn’t think in any terms but those of the old Army and Navy textbooks, viewed the Pacific as a virtually hopeless situation in those months after Pearl Harbor. The Japs, they said, had scores of “un-| sinkable carriers” in those islands. By the time we were prepared to attack, it was said, they would be firmly entrenched from Toyko all the way to Australia's doorstep. They were. But a new pattern of naval warfare has brought import- eral hundred thousand Nazi troops |still in the lower Ukraine and along | the. coast of the Black Sea and| toward Odessa. ACTIVITY IN ITALY AREAS IS LIMITED interesting. essels mighi, g0 to wariots pisces Severe Weather Permits of It consists of assembling the|l0 @ question at today's conference Pa'rols only—Bombe[s | greatest naval, carrier and amphib- | with the newsmen whether anything ious striking power possible. Cor- further might be said about the respondents in the Pacific h“e‘::;msxfif the Italian fleet since “con- been trying to 'tell- us about that Siderable comment and controversial | strikingry pgwer for weeks wuho::.‘d"cuss’o“" had arisen, 4 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN giving away any secrets. They have | The President a week ago said 8.NAI’I..E'B. March 10.—Activity on mentioned hufllon-ba-hoflzon-nnd-\“h"d of the Italian fleet or ltsvull fronts in Italy have dw_indled bevond flotillas, with carriers cap-,‘e‘l““’alem might be turned over to|'© Minor patrol operations in the| able of launching “hundreds of Russia. The President remarked |8c€ Of severe weather. i planes”—bombers as well as fight- | that uite a lot of people omitted| Allled aircraft managed to get| | some of his key words and he agreed into the air however on 900 sorties. | Make Aftacks 'nesday for the first time since the |and has been accepted into the Jargely for clarification of purposes. ! the Alaskan area. o PUBLIC OFFICE a series of complications including dropsy. His wife was at the bedside. sopentomen | EARTHQUAKE Only small damage was done, ac- ’ jvere earthquake shook this city at cording to a communique {from Ad- WASHINGTON, March 10. — The |4:28 o'clock this mornjng. miral Chester W. Nimitzs head- AYMY and Navy have agreed form- quarters. ally with the President, who an-| nounced that regular Army and | Navy men may accept nomination | MKKEY ROONEY for public office, provided such nom- | nomination.” ination is tendered without activity | on their part, and other members | of the® services may become can- | LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 10.! President Roosevelt told a press —Mickey Rooney film actor, passed and radio conference the agreen\ent! his physical examination yesterday Paralleled the existing law, and is| on February 22 PEARL HARBOR, March 10— Several formations of Japanecse bombers raided Eniwetok on Wed- American forces completed the cap- ture of the innermost atoll of the Marshalls on February 22. | | didates “without the tender of a| general service of the Army. He said it is not directed at any one Rooney commented: “Whatever PErSon and no controversy could be , made of it. The Red Cross War Fund campaign is now on. Give generously so that YOUR Red Cross sticker will be a true symbol of an understanding of humanjty's needs in a war the Armyisays is all right with me. . One provision of the agreement e i declares that no member of the land | (“u‘l“ lIST (“will use his official authority or| influence for - —_ the purpose of inter- | or naval forces while on active duty ' AWA, March 10— The Can. [ering with the election or affecting | shut.” _ 3 ers. L T t::»’;‘fént reach.| When these task foroes strike, the!With the reporters that the words| Medium bombers again attacked adian casualty list issued today in-|tP¢ COUIse of outcome theredf.” || world. Don't wait for the STIMSON'S VOTE ERROR 8 planes loose bombing attacks almost | Were “of the equivalent.” shipping and other targets at Santo|cludes the name of Pvt. Kenneth | R | solicitor! Send contributions | ed Belfast early this week, but the transmission was banned by Briish censorship until today. JESTA YOUNG IN In from Excursion, Jesta Young ‘ls at the Baranof Hotel. ————— Here from Seattle, Jerry D, Kel- berger is at the Baranof. Stefano and Montalto di Castro, Gordon Morgan as wounded. His northwest of Rome. Two Allidd mother is Mrs. Marie Morgan, of planes are missing. Fairbanks, Alaska. Congressional foes of the poll tax (Continued on Page Four) to Allen Shattuck, Red Cross Chapter Treasurer, Juneau. comparable to those of the London (Continued on' Page Two)