The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9600. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TRN C-VA3 PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS EVACUATING SOUTH RUSSIA Hundreds of Jap: ALLIES RAZE WAR INDUSTRIES NEAR PARIS HURL SELVES TO DEATH ON BARBED WIRE Assault onT S. Beach-| head Resulfs in 1,000 Nippons Killed BY VERNE HAUGHLAND Associated Press War Correspondent GUADALCANAL, March 14—Five | hundred Japs hurled themselves to certain death on barriers of the| American beachhead on Bougain- ville Island last Saturday and the bodies formed a grewsome stinking human mat on the barbed wire en- tanglements. The Americans used rifles, ma- chine guns, booby traps, land mines, flame throwers, hand grenades and| bazookas to halt the repeated sui-| (Continued on Page Three) MISS LEIGH RETURNS i Back from a short business trip to Skagway, Miss Gradelle Leigh, | cosmetic representative, is at the Baranof. The Washington| Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service wiih the Army.) @ | WASHINGTON—Handsome John| Hamilton, ex-GOP National Com- mittee Chairman, now chief polit- ical adviser of Pennsylvania’s Joe Pew, had a talk recently with Con-“ gresswoman Clare Luce and Elliott; Janeway, of Time and Fmtune' Magazine, about the all-important question which absorbs all Repub-! licans—whom to select to defeat| FDR. “A day or two before the Re- publican convention,” said Hamil- ton, “my law partner (Georgej ‘Wharton Pepper, former U. S. Sen- ator from Pennsylvania) will call Justice Owen Roberts and ask him to say that his statement toethe effect. that we would have to sacri- fice some of our sovereignty after the war to an international police force was an inadvertence which he did not really mean. After this assurance, Justice Roberts will be the Republican nominee for Presi- dent.” Mrs. Luce, however, did not agree with John. She maintained: “The lonly man to run against the Com- mander-in-Chief is a man who can be classified in the public mind as a commander, namely Douglas MacArthur.” However, Elliott Janeway went over to the bookshelf, took down Sandburg’s “Life of Lincoln,” and turned to the page where a New York editor is informed of Lin- coln’s nomination. “‘Who is Lincoln?’ the é&ditor| asked. That's the kind of candi- date we've go to have,” said Jane- way. “Someone who isn't known —someone with no flaws or blem- ishes they can pick holes in.” All of which, according to the Ti>mocrais, is an illustration of how the Republicans are frantically | fumbling for a candidate. MRS. ROOSEVELT'S NOSE Nobody seems to know who wrote it, but here is the jingle which spread like wildfire after publica- tion of Mrs. Roosevelt's picture rub- bing noses with a native Maori wo- man in New Zealand. ALMOST COMPLETE DEVASTATION greeted the inhabitants of this suburb of Paris when they emerged from shelters after Allied bombers had done a thorough job of leveling German-operated war plants clustered around the French capital. This Nazi industries are suflenng at the hands of our ra Bail for All photo, sent here 'Woman Heldin $25,000 eged Theft (ommifted in Falrbanks DEMO SEERETARY Mrs. Dorothy McElroy Vreden- burgh of Vredenburg (cq), Ala., comely 27 - year - old National Vice-Presdent of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, is the new Secretary of the Demo- cratic National Committee, first woman ever to hold that post. (AP Wirephoto) NORTHWEST COMMAND T0 GET SARONG FILM OF DOROTHY LAMOUR HOOLWOOD—An isolated group {to SAN FRANCISCO, March Bail of $25,000 has been set by the United States Circuit Court in the | case of Louise Williams Allred of | Fairbanks, Alaska, convicted of| 10 years in prison. waS set on affidavit of the FBI, |stating Mrs. Allred, employe of the Fairbanks Agency, was being in-| vestigated for the theft of $78,000 from the safe deposit boxes rented by the agency. for the theft of more than 4,000 from the safety deposit boxes. and was also convicted of tie theft of a fur coat' worth uoo in Seattle.| SNOW TIES - UP TRAFFIC - NORTHUTAH | Heaviest FaII for March Since 1884 - Airlines Cafl(gl Schedules SALT LAKE, Utah, March 14— Northern Utah is buried under a heavy fall of snow, the heaviest Auto traffic is stalled in some |areas by the eight to 12 inches of | | snow. Airlines schedules. Many trains are’ ‘delayed and schedules are disrupted. The snow flurries started yester- | day before .dawn' and continued | mosfi of the day and practically| {all night. Intermittent this morning. have cancelled their flurries continued 14— | theft in Anchorage and sentenced The bail | Records show she was arrested, in Los Angeles in 1941 for forgery! |March storm on record since 1884.; {lots under from a neutral country, clearly shows the terrific damage pldly growing air umadi in Enzland. (lntematlwnal) (URTAILED VOTE BILL IS PASSED States nghis Wm Out i Senate-Measures Now Goes fo House | WASHINGTON, March states’ rights service vote bill per- mitting the use of a curtailed Fed- | 14.—The| MUDBOUND IN ITALY Ground Operations Limit-| ed to Successful Sharp Patrol Clashes NAPLES, March 14.—The weather has improved in Italy but the ground remains extremely soft, holding both Allied and German armies mud- bound except for patrol operations. There have been sharp clashes near Minturno and Cassino on the main Fifth Army front. Allied raiders probed the German lines around Cisterna and Littoria in the beachhead area below Rome. American troops seized 13 pris- oners and dispesed the remainder of | a German patrol | The British smashed a. machine gun position and repelled a German attempt to cross the Moletta River. | It is estimated it will take another | week at least for the ground to harden sufficiently to permit lz\rge; scale operatiuns JNEW BLOWS 'ARE STRUCK, - BURMA AREA § l {Drive Now Theatens fo| ' Qust Japs from North- ern Sectors | | i NEW DELHI, Basis of Terms fo Finns (o] 100 — STATUTE MILES Barent; Sea Russia has demanded as a preliminary to Russo-Finnish peace nego- tiations that Finland cease military operation, restore the 1940 Russo- Finnish border, break relations with Germany and intern German forces in Finland.. Map shows the 1939 Russe-Finnish bosder (selid line) and the frontier established in 1940 (broken line) after the 1939- 1940 war. In that settlement Finland ceded Russia a strip of land northeast of Petsamo (1), territory around Salla (2), territory north- west of Leningrad (3), islands west of Leningrad (4), and military rights at Hangoe ( March 14—Hard| | # |eral ballot only with the states' nitting British troops have crossed| & {of the Senate today after an em- bittered debate. The Senate voted 47 to 31 to ap- prove the final version of the mea- sure which was worked out by a joint conference committee of House \and Senate members after weeks 01 wrangling. The measure | Lhc Elections Committee predicted ! }a prompt acceptance. { Senators Green and Lucas, auth- lms of the original Federal ballot Ibill, disowned it after the House a-lpped away most of the handiwork | and replaced giving the states first say about the {form of the ballots and the full right to determine the qualifications of the absentee voters. Democratic leader Alben Barkley 'took the floor against the com- { promise, declaring it is so “bound up with adhesive tape” in a ‘legal sense, it will complicate the voting lof service men and women in the November election. | In a speech regarded in some quarters as presaging a veto by |the ,President, Barkley said Con- gress failed to set up as simple a \proceclure as possible, armed forces, the following will be authorized to use the Federal bai- the same restrictions: Members of the Merchant Marine, persons serving the American Red Cross and the Society of Friends. Women’s Auxiliary Service pilots, and the United Service Organiza- tions outside the United States at- tached to the armed forces. now goes to Lhc‘ }House where Chairman Worley of | it with machinery; In addition to members of the! Mrs. Allred is under indictment Permission, won the final approval|the upper reaches of the Chindwin | |River in Northern Burma, strlkmg‘1 |are now harrassed from assaults on half a dozen fronts along the jriver ‘in several places in North ‘Temamhl in Soltheast Asia, the 'commumque said. of Mogaung and Nyitkyina in the| Irrawaddy Valley, where Lleut,} General Stilwell's American and {Chinese forces are progressing in a drive to clean the ‘enemy out of} north Burma. | The new drive sefiously threatens {to oust the Japs in north Burma, which will permit opening of a land route to China. The Japs face the necessity of launching diversionary operations to meet the threat which was offi- cially announcéd when' Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Com-i mander in souihegst Asia, recently visited Stilwell’'s headquarters in Ledo and consulted with him on the progress achieved in the north- ern section front. (OASTAL TARGETS STRAFED America n Thunderbolfs Tamanthi is about 100 miles west | | a new blow at Jap forces which! ; Preity Vera Krizman, 19, looks like an -Army “top kick,” but, according to OWI, which re- leased this pheto in Washington, she is a leader of Yugoslav Women Partisans with a record of having killed 21 Germans in battle. Sgt. Krizman is now at Bari, Italy, training women vet- erans of guerrilla fighting. (AP Wirephoto from OWI) TWO MORE ADMIRALTY ISLES TAKEN SOVIETS IN RECOGNITION OFBAGDOLIO Italian Communists Resist Move to Keep Em- manuele on Throne NAPLES, March 14—Russia’s °s- tablishment of diplomatic relations with the Badoglio government ap-| pears to further have quenmhened his ' regime, already endorsed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. and has given King Vittorio Eman- uele a firmer hold on his throne. | TItalian Communist leaders said| |they will continue to oppose the! ing and Badoglio and one chief- |tain, Paoclo. Tedeschi, said that if | Russia’s action improved Badoglio’s position “we will have to strengthen our efforts to obtain a really dem- | ocratic government.” BRITAIN. TO STAND PAT LONDON, March 14.—It is ex- |pected that Britain will stand pat |at least until the military situation | improves, continuing her dealings with the Badoglio government through the Military Control Com- It is anticipated the United smt‘esw | will adopt a similar policy. It !s\ learned that the Badoglio govern-| ment kept the Allied authorities in- | formed of the negotiations with! Russia. Badoglio also asked Britain | and the United States to exchange dlplomav,s Tedeschi expressed the belief thnt mission and the Allied Advisory| 'Lommission s Suicide Making Attack '!Z ARMIES [NAZIS RUSH SOUTH FOR BIG RETREAT Collapse of Broken South- | ern Flank Is Called 1944 Dunkerque BULLETIN—March 14.—Rus- slan troops have crossed the middle of the Bug River in the western Ukraine and formed several bridgeheads n‘nhwnt of Uman the German radia an- nounces tonight. DASH TO SOUTH LONDON, March 14. — Every available ship in Rumania's Black 'Sea ports has been rushed appar- ently to Odessa, Istanbul dispatches said, and appeared to foreshadow the collapse of the German's broken southern flank in Russia on a vast scale of a 1044 Dunkerque and would pull the battleline back to an obviously frightened Rumania. | The Istanbul dispatch is based on information from Sofia, and suggested the Germans are prepar- ing to evacuate Odessa by sea, fol- lowing up Marshal Stalin’s an- nouncement last night of the cap- ture of Kherson, 90 miles east of Ode: | The German communique said the base was avacuated “in the course of planned disengagement movements after thé destruction of all military installations.” The com- munique also said both sides have thrown new reserves into the. bit- ter struggle in the southerm sector of the Eastern Front. Stalin said that 75,000 Nazis were killed or captured in the 10 days |broad ‘Soviet offensive in lower | Russta. | Kherson fell to General Malinov- sky's army, made up of Stalingrad (vewerans, after crossing the lower reaches of the Dnieper River. Resistance Explained If it is true the Nazis have given up all hope other than a seaborne retreat from their last stand in the iUkrnine. this would explain their terrific resistance on the outskirts of Tarnapol in prewar Poland |where a seesaw fight raged for the sixth day. There the Nazis are mak- ing a grim attempt to hold the in- !land anchor of the front shattered by combined Red Army operations. The Russians are pounding within 45 miles of the Dniester River from !the northeast and have already* cut ‘the Odessa-Lwow trunk rallway line which left the whole German |south flank of the army with only a threadwork of single track spur lines to cross the border west into Rumania. Mrs. Louise Atwill Weds Ca_p!. Heiberg WASHINGTON, March 14.—Mrs. Louis Atwill, daughter of Mrs. Ed- {ward Stotesbury, former wite of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, was mar- ried to Capt. Al Heiberg at a cer- emony at her mother’s home late last Saturday. LET'S GIVE! ¥ American Dive Bombers { “A poor benighted heathen, with a Stalin has no intention of endors- jungle for a home, ‘Who'd think my fame would spread afar, to lands across the foam? I wasn’'t very handsome, I was not very bright; But now they come to see my nose, the island’s greatest sight, My nose was once a simple nose, a little flat and bent. of soldiers in the Northwest Com-| mand are due for a small surprise. One of their officers, Lieut. Rich- ard H. Lewis, sent Dorothy Lamour 100 feet of 16 millimeter film and asked her please to have a movie' taken and send it to his men who |have few recreation facilities. Dor- VICTORY SHIP IS TO .BENAMED SKAGWAY PORTLAND, Oregon, March 14— Cities of 17 states and Alaska will ‘have Portland built Victory ships named for them, | Barkley said the law repealed s&tions of the existing statutes, | waiving of the poll tax and regw-y tration requirements. COAST GUARD AUX. Swoop Low in Atfacks on Northern France LONDON, March 14—American P-41 Thunderbolts roared unchal- lenged over Northern France in a low level offensive. Aid Ground Forces in Making New Moves ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 14. |—One hundred and fifty American ing the King or Badoglio, but is merely making, “a rapid, realistic whereby Russia recognizes diplo- gerent in the war with Germany, e step in the Soviet foreign policy,” matically as well as de facto the! Italian government as a co-belli-| | "o% The Red Cross War Fund campaign is now on. Give generously so that YOUR Red “ Cross sticker will be a true 1 Io ME' Io"lfl" Divided into two formations, the| 1 Thunderbolt squadrons strafed the coastal targets, dipping almost tof officials of the| dive bombers assisted the ground troops in a smashing attack of the First Cavalry on Los Negros Is- land as they moved out to capture symbol of an understanding of humanity’s needs in a war world. Don't wait for the But now my nose is not a nose, it| POLICE COURT FINES is a monument. So, tourists, take your place in line Henry J. Kaiser’s Oregon Ship- builaing Corporation announces. | One Alaskan City so honored will othy and two other girls from “Road to Utopia” have worked out| The Coast Gflfil'd Auxiliary will The following were fined in City Police Court and, for a modest fee, Rub the nose that rubbed the nose (Continued on Page Four) a little skit and will make the film wearing sarongs. They also are’ sending a lot more footage. be Skagway, wellknown Gateway City to the Klondike and other in- | |terior points. hold their regular meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the council cham- bers of the City Hall. All members | are requested to be present, roof-top heighths in the initial op- eration of this type. Thunderbolts were once used ex- clusively” as high altitude fighters. islets on Seadlar Harbor. two more of the Admiralty Islands, taking Hauwei and Butjo Luo, small yesterday: Marion Paqois, $25, drunk and disorderly; Nancy Wright, $25, disorderly; Eu- gene St. Claire, $25, drunk. solicitor! Send contributions to Allen Shattuck, Red Cross Chapter Treasurer, Juneau,