The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 9599 4 — MEMB| ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1944 = NAZIS SHIPS ARE BOMBED, Travel Suspended Between STERNMOVE TAKEN NOW FOR SAFETY To End Afi;g_ed Use of Neutral Ireland for Alaska Com Warknd WASHINGTON, March 13— jor Joseph M. Applegate of Los Angeles, Senior Chaplain of the | Alaskah Department, reports that | | i | a- Many Soldiers Now in [ | TIEGLER IN ingBackat COMMENTON ‘Like Northland STATEHOOD (Candidate WanisThorouqh;‘ Investigation to Be Made The Major said the soldiers have' learned to like the country and the people and he has so reported to| the War Department after 19 months in Alaska SENT DOWN 60,000 NAZIS SLAIN, GREAT UKRAINE WAR Russians B;flwlé to Within 12 Miles of Kherson Eire, and Britain | i | MAP READING-THE EASY WAY NAZISUPPLY SHIPS SUNK BYBOMBERS Vessels Atfacked Off Sapn- ish Coast-Other Craft Are Sent Down | . . i on Dnieper River BULLETIN—LONDON, March 13.—The Red Army has captured | the big German-held river and seaport base of Kherson in the Axis Spy Base {many soldiers sent to the .‘Ten'iwl‘.vvf Major Applegate said the enter-! |say they expect to return there w;lumment for the soldiers is large- |live after the war is over. |ly improvised, particularly in iso-| LONDON, March 13. — Outright| Major Applegate said the Army’s| lated posts manned by a few sol-| OCratic candidate for closing of northern Ireland’s bor-icontingent in Alaska has carried |diers and who on their off hours Congress, arrived A. H. Ziegler, of Ketchikan, Dem- Delegate to Juneau over By Associated Press "The Allied Headquarters Jn Naples anounces that British Beau Fighters on sweeps against German in der with Eire will give full effectiout a three fold assignment, de- to the suspension of travel between fending the territory, building camp the islands of Britain and Ireland sites, and constructing airfields. | i from guard, fish and hunt for sport and provide game food for their @ table. which is a near prospect. All reports from Belfast in North- ern Ireland said this step, which the British government could order| in regarded as inevitable as the Allies moved with hard realism to end the alleged use of neutral Eire as an Axis spy base. Certain other steps of a nature that cannot now be disclosed may be taken. All travel except in cases of the greatest urgency have been suspended between Britain and Ire- land, whether to Northern Ireland 15 MADE ON| WEWAK BASE Twenty - Six Planes Shof | Down in Assault The Washington| by Allies Merry b Go 5 Round | SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 13.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur re- By DREW PEARSON ports that 26 Japanese planes were {shot down in an air attack on We- Col. Rebert 8. Allen now on active wak which heightened efforts to i Beear) {turn the Bismarck Sea into an Al- lied lake. It was a punishing blow at Japan’s already benumbed and withered air arm. Ground forces continued without| to consolidate and ex- (Continued on Page Two) (Lt | WASHINGTON—On February 19, the public relations office at Camp, Mackall, N. C. announced that AIR ATTACK | eight paratroopers had drowned, “incident to a training and flight details were, opposition tend positions from the Talasea air- drome, northern New Britain, ani jump.” No further released. |Los Negros and Admiralty group. Reason for this sketchy story is| - - S the tragic fact that these men—| and many others like them—were (ONNE(IION dragged to a horrible death by drowning because they couldn't| get free from their parachutes. Be-; hind this is a story of protecting parachute interests which may be-| come a national scandal. | The parachute in use by the U. 8. Air Forces has three “release points.” This means that when a FRANCE IS RAIDEDBY & U.S.(RAFT Daylight For—rm;lion Strikes Out Following Night Attacks BULLETIN LONDON, March 13.~A small formation of American Fortresses bombed military targets in northern France and although there was | no opposition from enemy air- | craft, two bombers were lost A. H. ZIEGLER presumably from ack ack. The Democratic Candidate for Fortresses were escorted by Delegate to Congress Thunderbolts, the Eighth Air Force Headquarters announces. | the weekend and will be here for i about a week before continuing a NIGHT, DAY ATTACKS | campaign to the Westward and In- LONDON, March 13. — British| terior. He is accompanied by Mrs. Mosquito bombers attacked unspec-|Ziegler. ified objectives in western Gurmanvj A veteran in First Division poli- | last night without loss, the Brulsh"ms. Ziegler has served three ses- Air Ministry announces. |sions in the legislature, receiving| Shortly after the British bombers ' each time more votes than any| returned, Allied daylight formations|other candidate. Several years ago | were heard heading for northem;whe“ he ran against Anthony J. France. The identity of the daylighll Dimond for delegate he carried the planes were hidden by low clouds| mirst Division by a wide margin and rain squalls but coastal resi-! zjesler clarified his stand on dents said they sounded like bomb- statehood today in the following } { the | communities yesterd: lower Dnieper River, Stalin an- nounced tonight in a Special Order of the Day. The capture, just up the river from the Black Sea, represented a 22-mile gain after yesterday’s capture of Tyaginka and has opencd the way for an offensive from the east toward other prime German bases. MOSCOW, March 13.—The Red Army has pushed down both sides of the swollen In- guls River to within 30 miles of the Black Sea port of Nikolaev, one of the major objectives in southern Russia. Pravda reported that troops of General Malinovsky’s Third Ukrainian Army reached the Inguls River after a swift thrust southwest of Novi Bug, and crossing to the western bank of the stream, captured several " settlements, including (he town of Privolnoyer. NEAR BIG NAZI BA LONDON, March 13.—The Red Army has battled to within 22 miles of the big Nazi base of Kherson on lower Dnieper River, Moscow announced, after slaying 5,000 Ger- mans yesterday to bring to more than 60,000 the number declarea killed in the eight days of the mas- Slve southern offensive. ‘The Russians swept up 210 more slashing the Proskurov-Gusyatin Railway lead- ing into Rumaniz and Hungary, and storming Gaivoron on the mid- dle Bug Rivers 50 miles from Ru- mania in southern Russia, the com- munique said. The bulletin did not mention the fighting at Tarnapol at the upper end of the southern front, but Tass THE EYE-APPEALING FIGURE of Betty Grable has been drafted into the Army Air Force at Loewry. Figld, Ci a “pin-up girl map” as & visual al works isn't explained, but it’s a mi; subiect. U.S. Armv Air Force nhot leading issues Appear in Question tes uses ~How- it f learning a dry (International) olo. Here Sgt. hg;d P. Bal @ in teaching’ reating. ighty pleasant way o; to. ¢ shipping in the western Mediter- ranean, attacked and hit two enemy supply ships off the Spanish Coast. One of the supply ships was driven jon the beach and the other was left slowly sinking into thé sea. A Berlin broadcast by the Pro- paganda Agency of the Interna- | tional Information Bureau, asserts |the attack was a “violation of In- | ternational Law,” and further said |nine British Blenheims sank the 3,700 ton German refrigerator ship {Kirlssi in Spanish waters off the {mouth of the Erbo river, killed 10 of the crew and wounding 15. The Allied comunique said Naval forces in the Adriatic sank two other German vessels, one in Ner- {etva Channel on the Yugoslav coast | Priday night and the other below Ancona the next night and a num- \ber of Germans were captured when ithe first ship went down. ALLIES IN LIES IN ~ ADVANCES 0f Scldiers Voling COMPROMISE VOTE BILL By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 13. — It [ us to such strange spectacles as Re- publicans and southern Democrats did on the scldier vote issue, par- ticularly in the House of Represen- tatives. isn't very often that politics treals} N BURMA | NEW DELHI, March 13.—A series |otf Allled successes in the Arakan | sector of Burma, including occupa- | tion of Buthedaung, 55 miles north i of the Bay of Bengal port of Akyab, is announced today. The British have also forced the Japs from positions in the hills be- tween Htindaw and Buthedaung and | from positions in the Cazabil area | to the north. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Am- I Tn the first place, the Republicans | |in opposing the Federal ballot had to follow the lead of Rep. John Rankin of Mississippi. It isn't the | | first time that the minority party | has teamed up with the rebellious ' b rops round, or the than, drope. & #hp, fround. b ers, Later Deutschlander, Bremen. yords reperted earlier the Russians are and Cayais radios went off the air| “T say there is only one practi- dislodging the Germans house by indicating the raiders were over the 'cal way of approacaing any prob- house. The Nazis are clinging to gontinent. 4 every ditch and gutter of the city A formation of American Libera- where street fighting has been rag- erican foreés are continuing to smash southward along the main road in Huwang Vauc, wiad uuve advanced two miles in 24 hours and have reached a point five miles B.C. legislgitrré Approves | - $500,000 to Survey surface of the water, he has to re-| lease the parachute harness at three | points. And since all releases re- quire two-handed action, if one hand happens to be injured, or if INSENAT |lem. Go at it in a business way, get all of the facts connected with the flier fumbles a release, he can- not get free at all. This explains | why many U. S. airmen have been | dragged to death by drowning, and| VICTORIA, B. C,, March 13.—The many others have been killed or| Provincial Legislature has approved seriously injured when a high wind | of the act sponsored by Premier Hart carries the parachute along the and the Finance Minister appro- ground, dragging the aviator with priating $500,000 to survey the pro- it. | posed $6,000,000 road from Prince 1t also explains why every Ameri- | George to connect with the Alaska can aviator who goes to England Highway at Dawson Creek. immediately throws away his para-| The proposed highway will run chute, and begs, borrows, or steals some 270 miles and will be a link a parachute of the British type,| between the Pacific Northwest and which has a single-point release’ Alaska via the Cariboo Highway be- that can be operated with one hand.| tween Vancouver and Prince George. And it explains why Brigadier General Newton Longfellow, of the PROPOSED LINK SHORTER U. S. Eighth Air Force in Englnnd,‘ SEATTLE, March 13. — Ernest reported to Washington that “any- Patty, Chairman of the Alaska Com- thing but a quick release harness mittee of the Seattle Chamber of is murderous.” | Commerce, said the link would make To make this tragedy more ironic, a highway route north to Alaska the British type of harness was 580 miles shorter than the present. first developed not in England, but He said the War Department re- by the Irvin Air Chute Company, jected plans for the longer route of Buffalo, N. Y. It was tested in linking Prince George with Watson tions. the U. 8. Air Force. The Turks| But after many years of U. S. TA K ES lI FE England in 1930 and adopted by the Lake. By 1935, this type was in use by had it, the Germans had it, and manufacture, the company got dis- INSEATTLE i Suggested Link RAF in 1932 for all flying opera- e, every air force in the world, except the Japs had a meodification of it. couraged in trying to sell its pro- duct to the U. S. Army, and the plant was moved to Canada. Meantime, U. 8. airmen say, “With our equipment we haven't| gpaTTLE, March 13. — Fred a ;:n;;m;:fllg;mce over wa‘"'nychurch. 46, powerhouse engineer planation gets down to an g,y Kodiak, Alaska, home on insidious matter of patents and tors hit enemy military installa- tions in the Pas de Calais region of France yesterday. The Germans of-| fered no fighter opposition on the| 400 mile round trip. ! DOOLITLE PROMOTED |it, on both sides. “Both political parties in Alaska have always endorsed ‘home 1ule and self government. There’s no ar- gument there as far as statehood is concerned. I heartily agree with the statehood plank adopted by the Democratic Party. It's sound in principle and would cure many ills. “But no man in Alaska has suf- ficient information to say definitely whether Alaska can or cannot sup- port itself as a state. “It is admitted by most that we WASHINGTON, March 13.—Presi- igon't get statehood as long as the dent Roosevelt has nominated M“j',wnr continues, anyhow. I suggest Gen. James Doolittle, Commanding |14 we use this breathing spell to the Eighth Air Force in England, t0 5qeemple all of the facts which are| be a Lieutenant General. He hfld‘necessary %o detérmine ‘the pracu-‘ the temporary rank of Lieutenant cability of the plan Colonel when he led the raid on| 5 Tokyo April 18, 1942, and after this Unbiased Study “These would include more reli- how much money the Federal Gov- BAD WEATHER |ticipated and potential revenue.” “In a matter of this importance,” this investigation. It should be up NAPLES, March 13—On the Anzio atack was promoted to Brigadier |able figures on what the added cost | ernment is contributing, and would | IS pREVAIlING Ziegler pointed out that we | he said, “the Territogy should set to the Legislature to appoint beachhead, Allied artillery fire in- | ional Medal of Honor. Territorial government, a study of {the revenue now coming in and an- and competent manner. and the funds needed to carry out ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN |person who can devote sufficient| General and awarded the Congress- might be, a study of the cost of contribute afterwards, a study of should get this study in an unbiased | | up at its next session the machinery competent man for the job, some creased considerably in strength yes- time to gather the facts and make profits. Somebody has been able to persuade U. 8. procurement offic- jals, in some mysterious way, to (Continued on Page Four) {leave, committed suicide by shoot- ing himself through the heart with a .22, Deputy Sheriff Wendell Nor- ris said. No reason is given for the suicide. terday and on three land fronts, patrols clashed with small enemy groups at several points. Bad weather prevented any large scale action. a complete report to the people. The report should neither recom- mend or condemn. It should pre- (Continued on Page Two) ing since Thur: ANOTHER ATOLL IS CAPTURED Marines Ochpy Wotho, Consisting of 11 slets, One for Plane Base BY HERBERT JAMES Associated Press War Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC, | March 13—One more step in full| occupation of the Marshall Islands is disclosed by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz who said the United States Marines have taken possession of Wotho Atoll, whose 11 islets include one large enough for a Fighter plane base. The Wotjo Atoll is on the} western edge of the Marshall. American planes are reported at the same time to have pounded four unidentified enemy base in the eastern Marshall, dropping heavy bomb loads that outflanked the stranded Japanese garrison. No Japanese planes were seen in the air and all American planes re- turned safely. There are stidl 32 atolls in the HArlhalhl still in possession of the Japs. At least four of the Atolls are prominent ones and probably strongly fortified. They are Jaluit, Maloelap, Motje and Mili, WASHINGTON, March 13 ator Tom Connally urged the ate to aecept the compromise s [vice vote bill worked cut by House |and Senate confer declaring that |if the proposal is rejec !sce no hope for the passage of other voting legislation He said, “According to my views, the conference report presents the |best pessible bill that can be se- cured. It is my earnest belief that {'more soldiers and sailors will be |enabled to vote under the pending |bill than under any measure pre- |pared or pessible of adoption.” It is expected the debate will take two days. APPE - ALFOR PEACE MADE, ‘PAPAL TALK LONDON, March 13.—The Pope, | | speaking to a great throng massed :m St. Peter’s Square and to radio ilisleners around the world, appealed to Allied and German leaders yes- terday to spare Rome and strike for “peace of liberation.” The Catholic leader spoke on the fifth anniversary of his coronation and urged leaders of the belligerent nations to work for peace “which will free all mankind from all in- ternal and external violence, so that they will be remembered in benedic- | tion and not in malediction in the centuries that face the earth.” i south of Chanma or about seven d he could | active and dutspoken member of the Japs. were flirting with one of those| Don't think for a minute that their stock today is 6, American Can iout in conference that will actuallyy 731;, Kennecott 37'4, North Ameri- Opponents summoned three Power-| pow Jones averages today ' are (2) If it could, it would be an ballot to give the soldiers a chance third point. The only thing physical- stationed outside of their own State by a distribution of State ballots, | The Red Cross War Fund this, too, would be physically im- Sros NE i be. o t8 southerners, but on most issues, Rep- resentative Rankin, a vigorously milgs soi, of WAlAWHIOL a road block trapped about 2,000 minority, is a headache to the Re-‘ publicans. x In the second place both groups s‘l’m ouo"“m tricky torpedoes that might turn| in its tracks and blow their own NEW YORK, March 13.—Closing boats at the polls next November.|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine opponents will fail to make capital 86, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft of it in forthcoming campaigns— 9%, Bethlehem Steel 60, Curtiss UNLESS a compromise is worked Wright 5%, International Harvester give the soldiers a vote. ‘can Aviation 9, New York Central S, 119, Northern Pacific 16%, Both sides were well aware of this. 'gtates Steel 53%. s ful arguments: (1) An adéquate .o ¥ % soldiers vote bill couldn’t be written g9 3;(’[::;:':“:":3“:‘7“"‘ 18099, s by Congress under the Constitution; ~ " 4 invasion of State rights which the Constitution prohibits; and (3) There is no possible way under a Federal to vote for State, county and muni- cipal candidates. ‘There isn’t any doubt about the ly possible under a Federal ballot would be to give the soldiers out- side the country and many of those an opportunity to vote for President, Vice-President, Senators and Con- gressmen. If this could be remedied then there's no doubt the State campaign is now on. Give ballots would be best, but Army and generously so that YOUR Red Navy officials have testified that f i symbol of an understanding ossible il rtime, | o P o B ks | of humanity's needs in a war ‘The first two point: 4 S5 Aehetabie | world. - Don't wait for the and believe me they were long de- | solicitor! Send contributions bated. But the odd thing about all of to Allen Shattuck, Red Cross . Chapter Treasurer, Juneau. (Continued on Page Two)