The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1944 VOL. XLI, NO. 9598. e, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIC E TEN CENT3 IRISH REJECT DEMANDS MADE BY USS. Allies Hammering New Blows on Germans RAIL YARDS AT FLORENCE ARE BOMBED; British DesiroyersAIso Make Attack on Korcula Island ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 1l.—Bombers attacking Florence for time, smashed rail targets in that| city after British warships, oper-| ating in support of Yugoslav guer- illas, bombarded towns on Korcula Island. ] | | Predids Alaska SEATTLE, March 11.—Kilsso K Haan, of Washington, D. C., leader wof the Korean underground move- | ment, predicts the Japanese will | make another attack on Alaska to | be followed by an attempt at in- { vasion of the Aleutian Islands. Haan forecast the first attack the first| These new blows were disclosed as Gen. Clark, back from an in- spection of the Fifth Army beach- head, asserted that ‘things are in good shape up there and we have declared an open season on the Boche and have killed thousands of (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) NANEXNOTON—Patr\ck J. Hur- ley’s long seance with the President on the problems of the Near East is continuing to have repercussions in the War Department and on Capitol Hill. Especially, it has thrown a monkey wrench into Sen- ator Ttaft's and Senator Wagner’s resolution in favor of lifting re- strictions on Jewish migration to Palestine and creating a common- wealth of Palestine. Major General Hurley, who has had conferences with Arab ruler| Ibn Saud regarding Saudi Arah\a's“ vast oil reserves, reported to the‘ President that the Arabs would re-| volt if further Jewish migration into| (wt Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel Nations Will Be Atfacked by Japs; Coast Still in Danger three months before bombs fell on Dutch Harbor. “The Pacific Coast is not out of danger until the Japanese fleet is decisively defeated and even defeat | of the fleet will not end the war,” said Haan Haan claims his underground ad- vices pmmpl his statemen Vulory Queen of 1944 Miss Anita Groves, 17 and red-haired, of Arlingten, Va. is crowned United ‘Nations Victory Queen of 1944 by Lt. Pat O'Daniel, son of (D.-Texas), at a Washington theatre. Groves was selected in a nation-wide contest sponsored by the United ory Girls, Inc., of Washington. (AP Wirephoto) Miss Palestine were permitted. Arab- Jewish riots, he indicated, would cause trouble for British troops and | might cause the British to be di- verted frem the second front. The President, already a bit ha-| rassed by Hurley's three-hour har- rangue on the banefulness of the | British, suggested that the ex-Sec- retary of War report on this situa-.! tion to the present Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, ‘ Hurley did. Apparently, there | was a prompt meeting of minds between the two Secretaries of War. Stimson already had sent a letter to Senator Tom Connally, Chafr- man of the Sehate Forelgn Rela- tions Committee, regarding Jewish migration and, after Hutley's call, he sent Chief of Staff Marshall himself to testify -secretly: before rCommander Rides wnh Bomber Crews fo See What It's Like” BY NORMAN BELL | RAIDS KEEP AIRDROME AI JAPS AWAKE TALASEA IS ON KURIlES(APTURED Marines Wheelmg North! on Peninsula - Steady Progress, S.W. Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN 3RED ARMY DRIVES ON {All Out Effort Begins fo | Force Enemy from Southern Russia LONDON, March 11.—Three great | forward; Soviet armies, rollipg thmu gh the mud and water of the | scuthern Ukraine, have shattered |the German lines along a 500-mile front in a mammoth effort to drive {the enemy from all of southern Russia, Moscow dispatches reported. i The drive brought into sharp fo- IN UKRAINE Naz| Raiders Slnke London | cus yesterday’s announcement that| !a third offensive has been launchai led in the area by Marshal Ivalm | Konev's Second Ukrainian Army, breaking through the 109-mile 1\:\0‘ southwest of Cherkasy, killing 20! 1000 Germans % Fourteen German divisions of ap=; | proximately 150,000 men were rout= {ed and “the true scale of the des! {feat can be judged by the huge; quantities of trophies caplured,"‘ the Soviet bulletin said. | ©On Konev's right, Marshal Zhu-| (kov's First Ukrainian Army is/| ismrmlng into southern Polandg iacross the severed Odessa-Moscow | {trunk railway, and yesterday cap-| tured Krasilov, further narrowing the German escape route toward, | Rumania, and some forces are less than 60 miles from the frontier, Southeast on the Koneva front, General Malinovsky’s Third Ukrain- fan Army pressed on toward the Elack Sea ports of Kherson and Nikolaev, and captured 150 more (towns and hamlets. JAPS ADMIT ENDNEARING ~ FOR RABAUL | Situation "Ghastly’~ Nip- pons Short of Planes for Defense NEW YORK, March 11. — The Jap pecple were told that Rabaul {cannot be defended from the air {because “there .are not enough” planes on the island, said an Army pheto via radio from London). Tyra, Louisville, Ky., gathers the bicyele wheels and other odds and A group of residents look at walls of demolished homes after the Nozi air assault on London. (AP Wire- OFF IN STYl.E FOR A SWIM PFC. HARLEY JANISCH, Montello, Wisc., squeezes in while Sgt. Taylor set out in their shay for a swimmin’-hole dip near an advanced Fifth AAF base somewhere in New Guinea. | GET RISE FROM FDR Roosevelt fl;rply An- | swers Criticism on Ber- lin Air Aftacks WASHINGTON, March 11.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt said he is sure Am- | |erican Air Forces in England have | ! good reason for continued bombing |of Berlin and they are apparently well satisMed with results. | The Chief Executive closed with | the last remark at a conference with {the newsmen in which jt was | brought out that the terrific afr | | assaults on the German capital {had brought protests from some | groups in this eduntty and England. | (CIVIL SERVICE reins on “Tarzan” the colt, as they The men built the shay from ends. (International) press correspowient report broad- ’cast over the Jap domestic radio iand recorded by U. 8. Government| | monitors. | The report described the life at Rabaul as “ghastly and terrible” under the almost never ending avalanche of American bombs. Political Observers ~ PAY CHANGES IN LIMELIGHT NOW Difierenliafilerrifcries,; Connally’s committee. General Marshall was most em-| phatic in opposing the Taft-Wag- ner resolution. its passage would be a calamity. basing this opinion on the reaction of the Arabs and the possibility that British troops would have to be used to quell riots. He failed to| tell the Senators that the British had so many troops in the Pales-| tine area that he personally had been peeved with them last sum- | mer for transferring so many troops out of England at a time when he wanted to concentrate on Western Europe. However, the net result of the Hurley - Marshall - Stimson maneu- vers will probably be to kill the resolution regarding Palestine. Sen- ator Taft is reported to be some- what irked, because he took great Pains to ascertain in advance that the resolution would meet no Ad- ministration objection, HULL NON-COMMITTAL Before it was introduced, Taft sent a letter to Secretary Hull usk- ing his views. Since the Secretary, of State has been appointed by FDR as chairman of a special com- | mittee to help get Jewish refugees out of Axis countries, Taft felt that Hull was the appropriate person to ask. However, he got no response. Meanwhile, Rabbi Abba Hillel Sil- (Continued on Page Four) He contended that| { Associated Press War Correspondent AT AN ALEUTIAN BASE, March {11. — Commodore Leslie Gehres, Wing Four rode the stormy North | Pacific skies with his bomber crews in the latest “Empire express” raids jon Japan’s Kuriles. “I wanted to see what it is like {to go over there and ‘also wanted' {to let my boys know their old man {is willing to go where they go,” said the big, genial 45-year-old 1Commodore. The Commodore said he is grat- ified at the success of the bombing campaign, lonly once since it started on De- cember 22. “We know we’ve done some dam- lage and we've worried the enemy |plenty. They're not sleeping very | well at Paramushiro,” he comment- ed. The latest raid is the 14th bomb- the Fleet Air Wing. n Passes Away at Home GREENWICH, Conn., March 11. 'Historian Van Loo | historian and author, }home here today. commanding the Navy's Fleet Air| interrupted by weather | ling mission against the Kuriles by‘ |SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 11. —United States Marines have cab- tured Talasea airdrome and wheel- ed north to occupy the township after cutting in two Willaumez Pen- insula. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces are now more than 100 miles east jof Cape Gloucester holdings an iwithin 170 miles of bomb ravm& 'Rabaul. Steady progress is also reported jon Los Negros island of the Admir- {alties. Americans moving west of Saidor itoward Madang have achieved steady progress. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March I1—Closing | | {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine I stock today is 6, American Can 86%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 591, Curtiss Wright 5%, Interna- | lnorml Harvester 73%, Kennecott {307, North American Aviation 9, |New York Central 18%. Northern | | Pacific 16%, United States Steel |0 Government agencies, which re- by his formal announcement 527%. | Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: Industrials, 140.44; rails, 38.99; utllities, 23.80. ———r i TULLOSS HERE ‘The situation has reached a point where the Japs there “no longer care what happens to them,” and describing operations in the Mar- planes followed up the Tuesday at- tack on Jaluit Island with raids on both Wednesday and Thursday. Two B-24s were shot down, ac- cording to the Jap claim. Imperial headquarters in a com- |munique acknowledged that “a powerful enemy unit” landed on | Los Negros Island in the Admiral- ties, and said Jap forces in New ‘iGumea were ‘‘undergoing regroup- ng.” Stoogie Gopers Named fo Agencies (Is Charge Made WASHINGTON, March 11.—Re- presentative Martin, Republican |House Floor Leader, today charged ‘he Administration with appointing stoogies, not genuine Republicans, |quire minority representation under the law. “We have today a bureaucratic system where practically every gard minority representation,” said Federation of Republican Clubs. shalls, the correspondent said that! agency has been stripped of safe- ' ally the other day that he had been/ Are in &greemem on "0ff Shote Areas, Are Also Considered IRELAND I§ THREATENED BY AMERICA De Valeré lgfll;es to Expel German, Jap Spies- Charges Made WASHINGTON, March 11. — The United States has publicly accused Ireland of affording a base for Axis spies and endangering the approach- ing Allled invasion of Europe and has asked the Irish Government to |take effective measures by closing the German Legation and Japanese Consulate. The Irish Government has posi- tively refused the appeal to expel the German and Japanese diplomats from the country. Drastic measures are now expected to follow Eamonn de Valera's refusal to keep enemy agents from further enlarging their knowledge on Allled planes for a second front assault. The American statement says the enemy must not be given any in- formation and “not only the success of the operations but the lives of thousands of United Nations soldiers are at stgke.” De Valera in his refusal to meet the American suggestions said that expulsion of the German and Japa- nese diplomats would be the first steps in going tb war with the Axis which the. Irish country is determ- ined not to do. The United States note éited two specific evidences of espionage by the German Legation at Dublin, the maintaining of a radio sending set and that two parachutists, equipped with radio sending sets were recently dropped in Ireland from German -{ planes. ISSUE IS NOT CLOSED LONDON, March 11.—It is re- ported here that Dublin has given ‘enthuuhsllc approval to De Valera's rejection of the request from the | United States. The British newspapers today say that there is every reason to be- lieve America does not intend to regard the matter as closed. Britain, although not taking part in the present negotiations, is ex- pected to act jointly in taking any steps considered necessary. Advices from Dublin state that the Irish people desire to continue neu- trality but recognized the United ° States can apply economic sanctions as a great part of the country’s food is imported from the United States as Ireland lacks ships. . ROME AREA IS BOMBED AGAIN TODAY LONDON, March 11.—The Rome Three Major Subjeclsi BY JACK STINNETT misinterpreted by WASHINGTON, March 11.—De- cision on Civil Service pay and dif-| political writers ferential in American territories WASHINGTON, March 11.—Capi- When they concluded from his and off shore areas may be made| tal political observers have a way statement fhat the convention soon by the President, Civil Ser-| of being wrong numerous times. Would only last three or four days vice authorities indicated after a Often they are too close to the that that meant it was all cut and meeting of representatives of some| woods and not close enough to the dried. It may well be that he didn't 20 Federal agencies affected by me hackwoods. |have any such conclusion in mind problem But three thmngs have happened When he said that the Democratic' Tsmia Baruch, Chairman of the' necently on which they are in prettv convention, opening on Wednesday, Civil Service Commission’s Field |complete agreement: probably would be cleancd-up by Service Committee, told the report- (1) That President Roosevelt has the week-end. {ers he anticipated one of the rol- made up his mind vo run for the| But one thing is certain. The lowing two solutions: | fourth term unless new factors are President was consulted before that! 1—Exceptive Order or directive mterposed between now and July date was set. If he selected or even letter by the President ehtflblhhmn 119, the recently set Democratic na- agreed to the midweek date, he felt & program, or tional convention date. | pretty certain the convention would ~ 2.—Presidential recommendation (2) That Wendell L. Willkie is be cleaned up before Sunday. To to Congress for legislation to gov-, gaining ground as the political run a Eonvention needlessly over ern Territorial and off shore wage GOP nominee. a week-end is to shoulder a fruit. iquesflons of civil service employees. ' (3) That Ohio Governor John W. less expense and risk through a da; { e e | Bricker didn’t hurt himself a bit or more of idleness. The only con- ’ of | clusion that could be drawn is that M". Wj" Roge“ candidacy for the nomination and| President Roosevelt himself felt ¥ the round of speeches he made here |there would be no important con-| Is Seriously “I in Washington. |vention fight. There's very little | i | reason to believe anything but that e | Taking these things in the order he has made up his mind to run.| WASHINGTON, March 11. — named, the new chairman of the| Wilikie’s gains, not being tangible, Mrs. Will Rogers, widow of the hu- —Hendrik Willimo Van Loon, 62, W. B. Tulloss, Jr, is a guest at Martin in a speech before the Na- Democratic national committee, Ro- are a little more difficult to ex- Morist is seriously 1ll in the Doctor's died at his|the Baranof and is registered from tional lwmtehors& ——— |Hospital here. This is disclosed by (Continued on Page Two) ! Congressman Will Rogers, Jr. bert E. Hannegan, told me person- arca was bombed ggain this morn-~ ing following yesterday's attacks by | Allied aircraft. Casualties and damage in the heavily populated districts is large, | the Rome broadeast said. LET'S GIVE! ¥ - 0 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 humanity’s needs in a war world. Don't wait for the solicitor! Send contributions to Allen Shattuck, Red Cross Chapter Treasurer, Juneau.