The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 9605. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 20 1944 1 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICAN BOMBERS POUND GERMANY Admiralties Captured Jap Headquarters in 1 | | LORENGAU TAKEN BY AMERICANS . S. Force Overcome Pill- box Defense-Entire Area Occupied SIX U-BOATS SENT DOWN, NO. ATLANTIC \Five British Naval Sloops Score Big Victory Dur- ing 20 Days Traifor Is Executed af | Former Minister .ai Vichy Gives Order to Fir- ing Squad i Dawn Today VINNITSA 1S EVACUATED | | BYGERMANS IPravda Says Tlme Is Ripe Now for Invasion from West 2 Outposts Of Truk Are Heavily Hit Steady Battering of Pon- ape, Kusaie Reported by Admiral Nimitz 1nms (ROSS 0LDBORDER - OFRUMANIA Germans Tighten Hold on Nearby Hungary-So- viets Over Dniester BIGBATTLEIS DEVELOPING, | \ | \ | | Japanese, Stung by Stil- - well's Viclories, Mass. | for New Attack BURMA AREA REICH AREAS UNDER ATTACK AGAINTODAY Targets in Southwest Ger- many Hit-lfalian Sec- fors Are Bombed LONDON, March 20.—American UNITED STATES PACIFIC | NEW DELHI, March 20. — The | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL biggest battle fought in Burma bombers carrying forward the non- HARBOR, March 20—Seventh Air gince the Allies were driven out two|Stop Allied aerial offensive against Force Liberatoors carried a steady years ago is apparently developing|Hitler's continental fortress, already aerial battering of Ponape and Ku- gjong the Chin Hills on the fron- battered with 20,000 tons of bombs saie, outposts of Truk in the cen-|iio; of India where the Japs have|in six days, struck targets in south- LONDON, March 20. — Marshal Josef Stalin announced tonight the Russian capture of Mogilev Podolski, broadening the Red Army’s base of operations in Bessarabia. To the northeast the Germans ad- LONDON, March 20.—Five Brit-| ALGIERS, March 20. — Pi(‘!'l'l‘: MOSCOW, Mfll'a} 20.—Red Armv] ish Naval sloops have scored the‘Pucheu former Minister of the zroops driving west through the war’s greatest single victory in the!Interior of the Vichy government, | Ukraine and south through Bessa- SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 21(1’1‘3““9 of the Atlantic, sinking six crumpled in death at dawn mday{,ama, liave: idvanoad’ -tor, wlbNTR —American troops overcame SHlli ooy Uopoats in 20 days, the | before a firing squad the condemned |sight of the Carpathian Mountains, more Japanese pillbox defenses and|p,jjigp Admiralty annountes. | man himself commanded to fire. [Lm great eastern European chain ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| captured Lorengau, enemy head-} This is acclaimed a triumph of quarters in the Admiralty Islands,|modern battle. last Saturday. Five underseas marauders were Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- He was convicted of treason was unable to alter the death sen-| sent to the bottom in the North|tence. Pucheu was allowed to COM- pave been driven to the verge of have already crossed the Dniester, | a | between |week ago, and deGaulle said he|prayda said. mitted the abandonment of the con- tested stronghold of Vinnitsa. The Russians along a 31-mile front Russia and the Balkans, The newspaper said the Germnns tral Pacific, according to a com-|engeed the Chidwin river in force munique issued by Admiral Chester at several points. ‘W. Nimitz, and explosions and fires | were observed. | Stung by the loss of Huwang Val- ley with 4,000 casualties as the re- west Germany today. The attacking fleet, described of- ficially as medium size, probably 250 to 500 bombers, dumped Amer- nounces: “This completes occupa- tion of all vital areas of the Ad-| miralties.” Gen. MacArthur says that in the First Cavalry’s latest triumph on Manus Island, 75 enemy bunkers were destroyed, much enemy mater- ial was taken and the enemy aban- doned several hundred dead in the| town. The remnants of the Japan- ese scattered to the hills. Allied bombers continued wide- spread attacks, 200 tons of bombs| were dropped on Wewak and other Allied raids were made on Rabaul and Kavieng, and the former Dutch i Atlantic with their entire crews. mand his own firing squad as a {chaos and the time is ripe for de- Whose high west banks formed the the sixth|last request. Fifty-one crewmen of undersea craft were captured before | the U-boat sank from gunfire after| driven to the surface by depth| charges. Only*one of the five British sloops | failed to return, foundering in heavy weather after hit, but every member of the crew | was saved. TWOU.S. sustaining a torpedo thanked the chaplain and his v.wo\ " £ 6 isive blows “from east, west, and Representatives of the court, tWO| i, » meaning an Allied invasion attorneys, a chaplain and the spec- | of Europe. | ::XIL: :::::u::: g‘e!r;gr;;n?:etn;il;v;:s After smashing the German fort- ! {ress of Kremenets in the west and | d shor! after racks parade Giound shordly the Dniester River in the |4 a. m. Witnesses said li'ucheuvc“’“’“‘g south, the Soviet forces are faced attorneys and cursed Weiss. (with the imediate objectives of | Another last request of the doom- | clearing the Germans out of the ed man was that his body be kept |Ukraine. lin Algiers until France is liberated, | The Russians’ three Ukrainian then sent to his family, a wife and armies wheeled in a southwesterly four children, reported as under |direction along a 500-mile front house arrest in Paris. from the high hills of the western One dive bomber was lost in the attacks on three enemy atolls in the Russian-Rumanian frontier between | castem Marshalls, bgmbed by Army, ican bombs on the Reich homeiand sult of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stil- for the fourth time in six days ‘n well’s victorious four,Kmonth's cam- | e two World Wars. A previous Moscow announcement | said the capture of Mogilev Podol- ski gave them a second main spring- board for their smash on the former domain abdicated by King Carol and its rich oil fields. The British radio, quoting an Ankara report, said German troops have “occupied Hungary, and all| strategic points are in German hands.” Hungary lies south of the ‘Carpathian Mountains and is within sight of Russian troops. th \ | were damaged in the central Pacific SUPPIY line that fe |paign in north Burma, the Japs q | are obviously aftempting to break through the jungle to reach the eds not only Stil- (well's forces but clso those of Maj. ;Gvn Claire Chenault in China. The Japs are advancing in two main directions northward along the west side of the Chidwin River |toward the British base at Imphal |and westward from a point farther north between Homalin and Timan- | thi. Navy and Marine air units. In the press release, Nimitz di not say how many American planes actions. KURILES ARE a two way aerial offensive. Heavies, escorted by strong forc- es of Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mustang fighters from both Ameri- can and British forces hit Italy, es- pecially the German held shipbuild- ing hase at Monfalcone, northwest Italian Adriatic and Trieste. ‘Objectives in central and western Germany were also hit in the round the clock attacks. Four hundred and seventy nine enemy aircraft have been downd in | UNDERATTACK The American and Chinese forces!“ wack beginning last l(ondny in | Pucheu had been a praminent Ukraine to the coast of the Black Mogilev Podolski is on the east| French industrialist. At the trial 'Sea, and are gradually folding. bngk bank of the Dniester, 35 miles non.h- General Giraud ‘tesfified that he the entire German force from/west of Yamool, where the Russians pre mopping up the Hukwang Val- med °P°“““" lley and outflanked a Jap umit east (Continued on Page Two) —— The Washington | | | | Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on ncuvel service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—The other day, the White House called WPB's pro- duction wizard, Charlie Wilson, tol come to see the President. Wilson| went, not knowing what it was about and not knowing he was to| stay to lunch. When he got there, he found himself lunching with FDR, all alone. The conversation ranged over| everything under the sun, from the problems of business management, to Far Eastern trade to Latin Am-, erican relations to war plant re- conversion. When the President| asked for Wilson's views on world | trade, the former General Electric| executive replied: | “Mr. President, I'm a manufac-| turer, not a merchandiser.” ! The luncheon lasted more than| two hours and, after it was over,| Wilson didn’t know quite what to| make of it, because no very import- | ant problems regarding war produc- | tion had been discussed. When he expressed bewilderment to close friends later, they replied: “Why Charlie, you're just a po- litical neophyte! Don't you know what he was doing? = Looking you over to see how you would do as second man on the ticket.” Embarrassed, Wilson replied: “People don’t seem to know that! I'm a Republican.” NOTE—Some politicoes figure that the President is now look- ing for a conservative running mate with a Republican background who would swing votes from busi- ness. Undersecretary of State Ed Stettinius is an active bidder for the job. Some conservative groups| also figure that, if they can pick| the Vice President, FDR will resign shortly after the war and they will| be in the saddle. PEARL HARBOR PHONE CALL Testimony of FCC Chairman| Larry Fly that the Japs had no secret short-wave radio stations on| Hawaii before Pearl Harbor but| that, under international law, !.hey could not be stopped from using| regular commercial cables and ra-! dio, recalls an important experience of J. Edgar Hoover's alert G-men in Hawaii. | They had been carefully watching the Jap Consulate's messages and, on the morning before Pearl Har- bor, listened in on an 18-minute telephone conversgtion with ‘Tokyo, !sions on Jap shipping, i Arkansas, | Sculpin. ,lence L. Lovgren, SUBS ARE WASHINGTON, March 20.—The loss of the sumbarines Capelin and Sculpin, presumably on war ed. The losses bring to 22 the num- ber of submarines lost since the war started. All but keen reported as overdue. The Capelin and Sculpin carried crews of about 75, ing the officers. Fred Connaway, euch of Forest City, was commander ‘They are listed as missing in ac- ‘tion. Capt. John Phillip Cromwell of Henry, Illinois, Division Comman- |der of the submarines was aboard one of the craft, and he is also list- ed as missing. NIGHT LETTER SERVICE AGAIN REESTABLISHED Effective today, March 20, the Alaska Communication System will re-establish the night letter service under the same conditions which they were accepted prior to the discontinuance at the outbreak of the present war, according to Clar- Major, Signal Corps area, Officer-in-Charge. The night letter rate will be 50 words minimum, costing the same :.s a 10-word fast day message, plus ax. ‘The night message service is not being reestablished at this time. — 3 TIMES MAYOR OF CHICAGO, DIES CHICAGO, Ill, March 20.—Wil- liam Hale Thompson, 75, whose spectacular and almost fantastic methods of political campaigning |and his attempts to make Chicago “the most talked-of city in the| world,” and one of the most color- ful mayors of the city, died yester- day under an oxygen tent, 24 hours MISSING mis- | is announc- three have | | includ- | of the! jinvited Pucheu to come to North Africa while the General was still - the civil as well as the military head. ALASKA COASTAL TRIPS ARE MADE - TO MANY POINTS‘ | | On Friday various trips were madc by the Alaska Coastal Airlines. Pas- sengers flown to Wrangell were Donald Lewis, Harry Usas, Carl Hol- | um, Charles Jenkins, Raymond Lewis, Lewis Paul, Harry Thomas, { James Rebinson, and Everett Peuti- crew. Bound for Petersburg were W. C. Johnson, Lt. D. W. Bevel, Bcnjamin‘ Berkeley, Preston Bean, Timothy | Wilson, Charlie Jackson, Joseph Johnson, and Jack Carr. Glenn Callim was a return passenger Irom Petersburg. Arriving from Ketchikan were Ned Albright, S. M. Allen, Harold Anderson, Sam Angiris, R. E. Shelly, and' Mrs. P. R. Conrade, Coming in from Sitka were Dor- | othy Hays, Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. | Pettersen, Everett Pettigrew, and A. L. Peirce Mikerf Kochutin and Ray Lauby ' flew to Hoonah and returning were Mr. Lauby, A. D. Tanner, and Tom | Andrews. Conrad Krukeff and the | Rev. F. Dulilozy came in from Fun- ter Bay. ©On a trip to Ketchikan this morn- ing the passengers were D. J. O'Con~ nor, R. E. Walker, C. D. O'Neal, and J. Elisoff. Everett Petticrew was a Wrangell passenger. ——l STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 20.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 85%, Anaconda 26%, Beech Air- craft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 71%, Kennecott 31%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 16'4, United States Steel 53'%, Nor- thern Pacific 16%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 139.95 rails 139,66, utilities 23.71. —————— Mrs. David Nichols was discharged from St. Ann's Hospital during the after a severe heart attack. Weekerd. His three terms as mayor of Chi- |southern Russia. Kremenets, where the Germans converted the ancient fort into a medern base, was taken yesterday |by a quick encircling maneuver, and the Russians are pressing on to- {ward Lwow 70 miles' to the west. At the eastern end the Soviets swept on toward Odessa, where lonly a single line of retreat to Ru- mania is left to the Germans. VINNITSA EVACUATED LONDON, March 20—The Ger- |man Tommand announced the eva- cuation of the outflanked defense bastion of Vinnitsa in the north. The German withdrawal widened ithe Red Army break-through on the middle Bug River sector, chop- |ping off a part of the Nazi line east of Proskurev. Friday Recephon To Honor Hirsts A reception will be held in the | Northern Light Presbyterian Church {parlors this coming Friday evening {from 8 until 10 o'clock in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Hirst. The couple soon will be leaving here in charge of the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs. Mr. Hirst is one of the active elders of the Northern Light Church, and both have been closely associated with the church work during their eight years in Juneau. Mrs. Hirst has been the outstanding leader in the World Service Circle, missionary organization of the church, and formerly was President of the Juneau group. All friends of the Hirsts who de- isire are invited to call. Stork Shower Is Given Saturday Teachers in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church Sunday School entertained Saturday afternoon with a stork shower in honor of two of the instructors, Mrs. Delbert Dixon and Mrs. George A. Baker. Twelve members of the staff and the guests of honor enjoyed a lunch- eon in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel. Later in the afternoon they ladjourned to the Northern Light for the States where Mr. Hirst has, ibeen transferred after eight years made their first entry into Bess- | arabia. STEAMER TAKES 31 PASSENGERS, WESTWARDTRIP Arriving by steamer from the south yesterday morning were the following passengers from Sedttle— Samuel Applebaum, Moritz A. An: dresen, Alfred K. Andresen, Anton| o w0 be were lnfld(‘ e Berg, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Decktc"\; Fsialt b e boeabsre whicl eng LT i Ga}l}'lvn, J;an.eon countered no fighter opposition and | g el e g:le',om) light antiaircraft fire. | & 5 Duxroughs, and. O, Lo Pl Army bombers also attacked an-| man. " for the Westward lother island in the Jap hnmeland‘ B e island chain on Friday. :;_"k;,em:];fi ‘E f“fi:{;‘:{,’;n{“;"hg, All planes returned to their basns.} {Curtis, Dan Noonan, Mr. and Mis., | J. S. Jeffrie, J. W. Lievers, Waiter PARAMUSHIRO BOMBE] | Heisel, H. D. Stabler, Jack Fargher, | THIRD SUCCESSIVE DAY Constance Noonan. | UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- | Darrell L. Lefton, Henry O. Mead,|QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR,| Peter S. Hanson, Emil Darell, Verne March 20.—The third bombing | C. Dick, Austin Brown, E. C. Alger, 'strike in three days on Paramu- Franz Goebel, Martin Walczak, Nick shiro, Japan’s northern Kurile Limpires, Ogust Colvey, Jack Eason, jand, is reported by Admiral Ches- | James T. McCommon, Jack O. Wil- (e W, Nimitz. son, Peter Harry, Ted S. Matlock,| Tne Island base was hit Satur- Gust Hellar, and Frank Pusiclr. day by Ventura search planes of FOR EMBLEM CLUB TUESDAY NIGHT turning airmen reported they en- Juneau Emblem Club No. 90 is countered light antiaircraft fire. None of the Venturas were damaged having its usual monthly social v.o- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the‘ and all returned safely. Elks Hall. The Committee for the evening has “discovered” some lat- Claude Hirsts Honored Sunday | ent talent among the Club mem- Ai Paul Home| bers and have prepared an enter- taining program. The William L. Paul residence on | Gold Belt Avenue Sunday afternoon Chairman for the evening is MIS. | gas the scene of an informal din- Marion Hedges who will be assisted | ,or ¢honsored by the officers of the by Mesdames ‘Edith Davis, Mary Ba-| 5,00y Camp of the Alaska Native vnrd Kenna Adams, and Daisy Fa-| protherhood, honoring Mr. and Mrs. :Clnude M. Hirst who will be leaving soon for the States. ‘The Hirsts were presented with a hand-carved coffee table. Mr. Wil- liam L. Paul was toastmaster and Mrs. Wiliam L. Paul was hostess. IN SIX RAIDS WASHINGTON, March 20.~Am-‘ erican planes struck the Kuriles| |last Thursday and Friday, dump-‘ |ing bombs on three positions in a series of six raids | In one raid, an Army bomber | flew as far south toward the main- | land of Japan and let loose bombs {on Maisuma Island, 150 miles south | of the big enemy base at Paramu- iro, which was hit twice by other bombing planes. Plrt of the evening will be de- voted to swelling the Club's so-call- ed “march of dimes” or “silver bri-| gade”; so the Committee is spec- ifically requesting that those in attendance be sure to bring along| Guests included Mr. and Mrs. some small change. Jake Cropley, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Today, March 20, is the first day|peratrovich, Mr. and Mrs, Henry of Spring, so the Committee is|Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hop- counting on Emblem Club members to acquire enough Spring fever to set an attendance record for -social kins, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Paul, the Rev. jand Mrs. Walter Soboleff, Mrs. Al- cago, from 1915 to 1923 and from 1927 to 1931, were turbulent, head- line producing years—years that saw extraordinary expansion and building activity but ended in fi- which, although full of code werds, sounded significant. (Continued on Page Four) nancial chaos as Thompson's re- publican machine was overthrown in 1931. Mrs. Wiliam Hixson and baby girl ' Presbyterian manse and were pres- left St. Ann’s for their home on ent for the arrival of baby gifts in Saturday. twin doll carriages. Walter Kleweno, a medical pa- ———— tient, was discharged from St. Ann’s ANDRESEN, SON HERE Hospital yesterday. A baby girl was born to Mrs. Alice| M. A. Andresen and son are reg- James of Angoon at the Government | istered at the Baranof Hotel from Hospital during the weekend. Anchorage, night. —elp CANNERY MAN HERE {ton Cropley, Mrs. Laura Holler, Mrs. Helen Bremner, Mrs. Nellie Willard and Mr. Robert Paul, This evening at 8:30 o'clock, the Hirsts will be honored at a reception \by the membership of the Juneau Alaska Native Brotherhood in the ANB Hall. Anton Berg, foreman for the Hood Bay cannery, has arrived here from Seattle and is at the Gas- tineau. of Jambu Bum oh the Magaung Valley border foreing the enemy [forces to resume their southward |retreat. Stilwell's headquar! estimated 4,000 Japs have died in the Hu- kwank Valley where Allied forces 1have occupied about 1,800 square {miles of territory in fcur and one nalf months, i it HARD FIGHT CONTINUING AT CASSINO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 20.—The Germans {have succeeded in reinforcing their remaining strong points in Cassino and regained a hill to the west from the Fifth Army troops. There is heavy fighting on the ¢sauthweswm fringes of the town. Allfed ‘infantry and ‘armor con- tinue to attack the enemy forces in ! the holed-up ruins around the Con- tinental Hotel. About 100 German prisoners have been taken in the | battle for the wreckage of the hotel. The Germans installed two tanks |in the wreckage and then the Allied armor moved in against the hotel ; | stronghold. The Fifth Army has a firm hold on the railway station one mile south of the town although the Germans shelled it with both mor- tars and artillery. Fortresses and Liberators blased several Austrian targets and two in Yugoslavia. Reaching across the Alps the .American bombers with fighter escorts knocked down 30 out of 80 enemy fighters. The British cruiser Orion shelled the Germans in the Littoria area of the Anzio beachhead in conjunc- tion with Allled artillery fire. The German guns there continued to la; down a harrassing fire over the beachhead but Allied artillery fire drove off a small group of enemy troops who thrust forward on the ! beachhead by a western flank. — e Killed While (elebrating His Leave, Alaska Post SEATTLE, March 20.—Chief Petty Officer Ray Erwin Coyle, 26, of Los Angeles, was killed by an automobile Sunday when crossing a strcet with his wife, with whom he was celebrating his first leave in several months after service at Duteh Harbor, Alaska. 1944 Fishing Regulations Are Released WASHINGTON, March 20—New regylations for Alaska's commercial fisheries for 1944 have been an- nounced by Secretary of the Inter- {ior Harold L. Ickes. The new regulations provide for the opening of the Egegik district in the Bristol Bay area to commer- cial salmon fishing, after being closed for two years, and the use of longer and deeper purse seines for the Southeast Alaska salmon fishing. The seines now may be 300 fathoms long and 400 meshes deep compared with the previous maxi- mums of 200 fathoms long and 350 meshes deep. Herring quotas have been increas- ed substantially to permit the tak- ing of about 80,000,000 more pounds than last year. The herring quotas have been set at 300,000 barrels, the cuota in the waters of the Kodiak area during the open season from July 1 to October 15, an increase of 100,000 barrels; Prince William Sound area, June 24 to October 15, an increase of 125,000 barrels; 200,- 000 barrels for Southeast Alaska, June 15 to October 15, which is double the 1943 quota; in addition to 2,000 barrels which may be tak- en as food in Southeast Alaska each calendar month from October 116 one year to June 14 the ldlln' ling year. 'DOUBLE ATTACK MADE ON MiLl, JAPANESE BASE WASHINGTON, March 20—U. S. battleships heavily shelled Mili Island, base to which the Japanese cling to in the southeast coast of the Marshalls, The bombardment synchronized with the attack by carrier-based aircraft of the Navy. No further details were given but the weight of the attack often means a step In softening up operations preceding a landing. L REBEKAH DRILL TEAM WILL MEET TONIGHT The Rebekah drill team will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall. All members are ur- gently requested to be present. I | |