The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 9607. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - __} WILD BATTLE CONTINUES AT CASSINO Bombardment Destroys Nippon Naval Base PAVIENG IS BATTEREDBY Ul 5. FORCES Emirau Island Is Seized- Big Encirclement in Solomons Made by | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| STOCKHOLM, March 22—A ter- SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 22. rific daylight attack was made on - INDAYLIGHT [Terrific Attack Is Reported | -by Passengers Leaving ‘ There by Plane AMERICANS 'Pompeii Area 'RAIDBERLIN Is Covered by Lava Ashes New Eruption of Vesuvius Hits Third Town—Crops Are Destroyed NAPLES, March 22.—A great new eruption of seething Mt. Vesuvius covered the area around Pompei RED ARMY IS NEARLWOW IN POLAND 'Claims Miller Should Bring Russian Flag Raised Above Out Facts-Not ‘Grab .| 300 More Recap- Headlines’ tured Towns WASHINGTON, March 22— FLY DEMANDS FAIR PLAY IN FCCHEARING | BULLETIN LONDON, (Germans Now ‘Demand Help i Of Bulgaria 'Balkan State Not at War with Russia-Cabinet Meets to Decide LONDON, March | | | | | 22, — German JAPTROOPS ARE ACROSS INDIA LINE Small Raiding Parties Penefrate Lnto Mani- pur State NEW DELHI, March 22, — Jap Chairman Fly of the Federal Com- | munications Commission described | March 22—The capture of Per- vomaisk the Bug River, northavest of Nikolaev, nounced by Stalin tonight in an Order of the Day. This capture —Marines from the Solomons have|Berlin today by American bombers . seized Emirau Island, overcoming|and passengers arriving here by light Japanese resistance, to com-|plane said the aitack was the “se- plete an American circle around | verest” since the U. S. Air Forces Bismarck Sea, Gen. Douglas Mac- began the assault on Berlin and with a two-inch layer of lava, hurl- as “irresponsible” the charge of| ed chunks into the air, and sent a|Rep. Louis E. Miller, Republican of gigantic finger of glowing coals in-|Missouri, that FCC “amateurs” were to a third town on the western assigned to radio monitoring work| slope. {caused a United States naval task| is an- {troops are already in control of troops, who launched a major of- {Hungary and are reported moving fensive in Northern Burma several |to extend full military occupation days ago, cressed the border into of Bulgaria and Rumania, (India and penetrated into Manipur The Turkish radio expressed the State in “one or two places” an view that Hitler will soon place all Allied communique said. ‘lhree countries under one command' The bulletin said the enemy forc- Arthur's communique announces. |surrounding industrial centers. has punched a segment out of United States battleships, in the! The raid alarm was sounded at first action in Bismarck Sea,'12:05 p.m. and lasted for an hour. pounded the Jap naval base at The passenger plane was delayed Pavieng, New Ireland. In a three |three hours and as it left the pas- and one half hour bombardment, sengers said they could see great the town was destroyed. The old fires in various parts of the city. one-two punch put additional bar-| Oranienburg appeared badly hit riers across the enemy north and and the industrial parts of the city south communication lines and add- | Tegel, northwest of Berlin, where ed to the bottling up of both Bis- the mammoth Rhein metal Borsig martk and Solomons bases, the plane works is located was also Headgquarters spokesman says. struck by bombs. ashinglon HULL GIVES The Washington Merry-Go-Bownd ~ 0y pORICY: 17 POINTS Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | Calls for International Co- operation in Post- war Sefup @t WASHINGTON— Much-loved oc- togenarian Senator Carter Glass received a visit recently from ms‘ old friend Jim Farley. The Vir-| ginia statesman, who has served | in the House, the Senate and as Secretary of the Treasury for al-| most half a century, is not in good health but, in pajamas and bath-i robe, received Farley. | In the Senator’s lap, as he talked i WASHINGTON, March 22.—Sec- was a letter on White House sta. etary of State Cordell Hull laid tionery. Jim Farley could not help/gown a 17-point program of Am- but notice the stationery, but nat-|erican foriegn policy, aimed at post- urally did not try to pry into the|way, world international cooperation, ! contents of the letter. __|and called on all liberty-loving peo- | It was from Jim’s one-time fncndw"k. to show themselves worthy of and chief, Franklin Roosevelt. A_nd freedom by fighting for it. it was on a subject regarding which| "Tne statement appeared designed Jim and Carter ‘Glass vigorously!as both as a call to the peoples of | disagree—the tax veto. | occupied lands to be ready to help | After the President had vetoed| with the invasion and likewise' to the tax bill, with consequent Bark-'answer criticism that the adminis- Pompei, at the foot of Mt. Vesu- force to be trapped by Jap warships vius on the south, was buried in the eruption in 79 AD. A hail of lava fell over the crops in the area, burning them, and Am-|sible for any incident that he hint- | * soldiers wore ed at, he should bring the case into' erican and British steel helmets against the shower, and the natives placed iron pots| on their heads. jarly this morning a molten riv- er, rolling down the northwest side of the mountain, swept away, the first house in Cercola, two miles from the peak. The region was al- | most as dark as night with great| black clouds of lava dust overhead. tained at all ammunition and gaso- line dumps in the Vesuvius area. e e NEW YORK, March 22.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau minc{‘ stock today is 6, American Can 85%, | Anaconda 267, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 60%;, Curtiss Wright | Kennecott 317%, North American,| Kenncott %, North American Aviation 87, New York Central 20%, Northern Pacific 167, United States Steel 53. | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 138.98; rails, 40.25; utilities, 23.57. — e — FIVEMISSING IN EXPLOSION IN BOMB STORAGE HERMISTON, Oregon, March 22. \—Five men are missing is an ex- in Alaskan waters. Fly said, “If Mr. Miller has any evidence that FCC men are respon- the open. This charge has been tos- sed at us at least five or six times |during these hearings, but neither' lAdmu'ul Hooper’s secret testimony rn nor that of any other official sets| forth facts to substantiate the ir- responsible charge. “Miller knows that we had 13 months of this sort of abuse from certain planting we ask sembiing attitude.” Hooper is a former Pearl Harbor communications officer. Miller said he was “silenced by executive order.” — .- STATE BALLOTS APPROVED FOR SERVICE VOTE a daily booby is something fairuess trap. All slightly re- and a respresentatives, yet Miller Special fire watches were main- continues to grab the headlines by! judiciak the German line directly north | of Odessa. LONDON, March 22.—The Rus- !sian armies, smashing through Bas- arabia in a mighty surge toward » Balkans, have knifed to within 30 miles of the Prut River, the bor- der of Rumania, Moscow said. Other forces are striking south- yward and are reported to be with- {in 48 miles of the major escape road for the thousands of Germans {in the Odessa bottleneck. Reinforced by masses of tanks and artillery pouring steadily across the Dniester River, the Russians have slashed the Cernauti-Baltsky trunk railway in their advance to- ward Prut, the starting line of the southern wave of the 1941 German | invasion. The Soviet communique declared that Russian units are sweeping soutnward toward the vital Odessa ;Tamapol raiiway, and also struck |to within 20 miles of another escape |line of the Germahs in the south.! hammer and sickle was rais- ed above 300 more liberated towns and villages yesterday as the Rus- isians continued to pound the Ger- | | WASHINGTON, March 22—For- mans back along the 500-mile front ley fireworks, Senator Glass phoned | tration has no_definite foreign plosion of a bomb storage igloo on | ty-two Governors has replied to the | President’s query about service vot- ng and the trend of opinion appears Lwow, big communications hub in| hat State ballots, distributed under Federal machinery, will give the vote | to most service men and women, | Virtually all Governors empha- | sized their States want the fighting | forces to vote and many expressed | belief State ballot provisions are adequate if the Government under- |takes to get those ballots overseas | Roosevelt asked if States would | accept the Federal ballot for the from old Poland to the Black Sea Soviet forces are striking toward |cld Poland. They have crashed in- to Lwow Province and are now within 56 miles of Lwow itself. B s o PATTON GIVEN 10 “intensify the German war effort in southeast Europe.” Advices from neutral capitals in- fdmuh-d the Nazi divisions are seiz- ing strategic military and civil ad- | ministration centers with all speed, and with the ruthlessness which |characterized the German troop movements at the start of the war. {Except in minor cases, there was {no resistance to the occupying forc- les, who apparently are having things their own way. | The Bulgarian Cabinet, the An- jkara radio said, met in prolonged | session yesterday to discuss the | German demands for active help in |the Nazi war against Russia. Bul- |garia is at war with Britain and the United States, but never inter- ruptéd hér relations with Russia, long her friend #nd champion. London newspapers published An- ;kara dispatches saying it is re- ported there that Premier Anton- {escu of Rumania is planning to seek jan armistice with Russia whose troops are already surging deeply |into Bessarabia. ! eee Many Ship Are Handed To Brifain 138 Escort Aircraft Carriers, | Builtin U. S., Are | i | 'es consisted merely of small raid- ing parties, Lord Louis Mountbatten's head- ouarters declared the Allied troops repulsed a comparatively heavy Jap attack in the Maungdaw Buthe- daung area at the southern end of ‘the Burmese front, where British 'and Indian forces ar¢ moving slow- ly down the coast toward enemy- held Akyah. - TOJOSAYS ~ SITUATION. IS GRAVE Warns Jap;r;é;e to Expect Greater Attacks by Americans LONDON, March 22 -- Premier | Tojo told the Jap Diet that Japan's |miiltary position in the past few !months has become grave and the Empire is now facing battles which {will decide their fate and that of Berlin. The broadcast, which was record- ed the Associated Press, said | Tojo appeared before the Diet to \report on the war situation when /it reconvened for the final three- iday session after a lengthy recess (He told the Diet: [ “Through the heroism of Japan- | the White House. { policy. {a 10-mile square of the Umatilla i ; i N " i armed forces and six Governors re- Tell the President,” he told Ammunition Depot near here, Col. - plied yes. The States were Cali- | { ALLIED HFADQUARTERS IN| NEW COMMAND Dehvered Iesc soldiers we have been able to mprivn |ward off the first onslaught of the WASHINGTON, March 22.—Sec-|Americans, but new attacks must Jimmy Byrnes, “that he not only/ had the Constitutional right to; veto the tax bill, but it was his constitutional duty to veto a bill as inadequate as this one.” In reply, the President wrote a; warm letter of thanks to the 84-| year-old Senator. This was the: letter which lay in Glass’s lap when | Jim Farley called. i PARACHUTE INVESTIGATION Last week the Washington Merry- Go-Round revealed that the para- chute now being used by American fliers was dangerous compared with the British single-release type and that Brigadier General Newton Longfellow of the U. S. Eighth Air Force in England had cabled Wash- ington that “anything but a quick release harness is murderous.” Today, this.column can further reveal that the Justice Department and Army Air Forces are moving in on this situation rapidly, and that one employee at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who was connected with the procurement of para- chutes, is under investigation. He has resigned from Wright Field under pressure. Also the Air Forces have recently ordered 2500 of the single-release British type of parachute. This (ommitiee ToRevamp Naval Code | | i WASHINGTON, March 22.—A| complete revamping of the person-! nel standards of the Navy with an eye toward the needs of the postwar fleet will be undertaken soon by Congress. The House Naval Affairs Com- mittee, probably after the congres- sional Easter vacation, will begin the study of legislation virtually setting up a new code on the status |of commissioned officers both in Ithe regular Navy and Naval Re- serve. | Representative Warren G. Mag- ;nuson of Washington said it is an! ioutgrowm of many instances of dis- | |crimination turned up because of | | wartime conditions. { e i { Buyers, commanding officer, said. Those missing were working in | the igloo when the bombs detonated from an undetermined cause at 9:30 | | o'clock Pacific War Time, last night, | o and were undoubtedly killed. There were no casualties outside _'the igloo and no other major prop- | erty damage, the commandant said. However, windows were shattered here in a six-mile reservation and! Pendeleton, 30 miles southwest, was jarred. | NeedWorkers In Synthetic | fornia, Maryland, North Carolina, NAPLES, March 22. — Lt. Gen.| |George S. Patton, Jr., known to troops as “Old Bloid and Guts,” ®/pas been replaced as Commander of the Seventh_ Army by Maj. Gcn.‘ Alexander M. Patch, Pacific fight-| ®ling veteran. 4 Florida, Alabama and Kansas. - - - . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Bureau) Temp. Tuesday, March 21 Maximum 37; Minimum 32 Rain 35 ® e o 0 0 ¢ B ARRIVALS HERE 5 In Washington, the War Depart- P g |ment said Patton had been given| il |command of “another army,” but| ‘;decllned to identify the unit or} Arriving here from Seattle, Sandy ‘whereabou(s“ » 22 M‘”“med, the new Nolan and Mary Espeland are guests |assignment is in connection Wlth at the Baranof Hotel. Ithe expected western front invasion. R Patton handled the final mopping NELSON FROM MONTEREY |UYP 8t Guadalcanal and led the Sev-| Froin Monterey, California, Rus- €Bth to the victory in Sicily. He got| sell O. Nelson is at the Baranof, |2 1ot of publicity by slapping a sol- | 3 PSP o, idier for which he apologized. | - e DIVORCE GBANTED A divorce was granted in the U. retary of Navy Frank Knox an- nounces that 38 escort aircraft car- riers built in the United States have been delivered to Britain under the lend-lease program and “this fleet will be part of the anti- submarine fleet of Allied Nations.” Knox said the escort carriers are approximately of 10,000 tons dis- placement each and have been one of the most potent weapons against German submerines in the Atlantic. Knox said 50 escort carriers re- main in operation with the United States Fleet, SAYS ATH TERM. SPELLS DEFEAT | District Court to Barbara K. Gar- | rett from Jack A. Garrett. e WASHINGTON, March 22—The' SALESMAN HERE production of synthetic rubber is H. B. Crewson, well known travel- | being held up by a shortage of ing man, is at the Gastineau. ! workers, Rubber Director Dewey re- | e ported in a plea for retentfon of, HERE FROM ANCHORAGE the industry’s young key technicians. Here from Anchomge,’ William C. Dewey voiced the first official | Burns is at the Gastineau. complaint of the industries likely to | — e Rubber Plant ! (WING OF AIR FIRST WACS REACH BASE, CEN. PACIFC HEADQUARTERS OF PACIFIC TRANSPORT permits the flier to free himself of| the ‘chute immediately after he| Fund Approved for lands, thus avoiding.the danger of | being dragged along the ground or| if he lands in water, of drowning.! ‘The parachute used in most Army planes has three release points, This means that, when a para-| trooper hits the ground, he has to: release the harness at three differ- | | | Alaska Agricultural Service and Station WASHINGTON, March 22.—The iw hit by the plan to take into the (armed forces practically all of the |quarter of a million men under 26 :Edmonds is here from Anchorage. deferred for occupation reasons. | “It would be impossible to oper- | ate some of the plans satisfactorily or carry forward the completion of | some of the vital researches,” Dewey said. About 22,000,000 synthetic rubber | AT GASTINEAU HOTEL At the Gastineau Hotel, E. H. | COMMAND, March 22—The arrival | tof’ the first group of WACS assign- | ed to active duty in the Central |Pacific area is announced by Brig.! |Gen. William Ord Ryan, Command- | ing General. | ¢ . The. detachment caused a furore | POLICE COURT FINES |t Headquarters where most of the The following were fined in C“y‘omcerl and enlisted men had never . R. C. COOK HERE R. C. Cook, salesman, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ent points and, if he fumbles on HOUSe Appropriations Committee |tires will be built for passenger cars | Police Court this morning: Edgar “c¢ & WAC before except in pic- one of them, he cannot get lree‘has. recommended $23,950 for the |this year instead of the 30,000,000 | Mahoney, $25 and five days sus- ! at all. | Agricultural Extension Service in |previously estimated as necessary to pended, charged with being drunk | |Alaska and $37,500 for an Agricul- [replace the worn (Continued on Page Four) ;tural Experiment Station in Alaska. automobiles. The WACS will take over the in jail on a drunkenness charge, |ATC stations. | E ed States Senator Edwin C. John- son, Democrat of Colorado, saying the President’s influence with Con- gress is “already beyond repair,” declared history would record a fourth term, if it materializes, as a |“term of defeat and frustration.” | Addressing the North Park Col- |lege, Senator Johnson, who opposed a third term, noted the fourth nom- ination is “accepled as a matter of course but the once powerful Dem- ocratic Part7, with a one man con- trol, will be reduced to helpless im- potency.” | WEEKLY CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE TOMORROW The regular weekly Child Health - FORDEMOCRATS CHICAGO, Ill, March 22.—Unit-| be expected. This stubborn, tough enemy bases has plans on material superiority, and these new attacks are likely to be launched with greater weight than anything ex- perienced so far in the war. The situation is truly grave.” b oo s ol Many A[resls . Made by FBI; . Fraud Cases BALTIMORE, March 22. — The [FBI has arrested 34 shipyard work- ers charged with defrauditig the ethelhem Steel Company, over a period of years of more than $1,- 000,000 through falsification of work |records, FBI agent John Vincent sald. All the workers arrested are in the welding department where checkers, for a fee, certified the in- dividuals turnd out more work than was actually done e it President Improves; Cold Has Broken Up WASHINGTON, March 22.-Pres- ident Roosevelt, who has had a severe cold in the head for several | Tubber on civilian and disorderly;Erick Eickel, five days [4Utes of enlisted men at Hawalian| |Conrercnce will be held tomorrow | afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock [9ays is reported improved although in the Health Center of the Terri- Neé coptinued to work in the White torial Building. House Presidential quarters today. 'BATILE IN CITY RUINS ~ NOWFIERCE iNazis Make Two Counfer- attacks - New Zealand- ers Slugging It Out BY LYNN H ZERLING Associated Press War Correspondent WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT | CASSINO, March 22~—~The fight in the ruins of Cassiho has developed into the wildest battle of the Ital- ian campaign. The Germans have made two counter-attacks against Castle Hill behind the town. The New Zealanders are slugging it out in the streets with the Ger- mans. Allied and German mortar and artillery shells are landing within a few hundred yards of each other. Allied guns brought up, fire at |direct range at the Continental Hotel in which the Germans have managed to install themselves after ance having been driven out of the hotel area. The entire south end of the town held by the enemy, has also been brought under this Allled gun fire. Sacsale? | | | SLUGGING IT OUT ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 22.—New Zealand roops of the Pifth Army are slug- sing it out with the enemy in sdv- ige hand to hand fighting, and are naking slow but steady progress in he southern section of Cassino, Al- ‘ied headquarters said, and fighting :qually bloody raged in the hilis to he west from which an estimated 30 pleces of German artillery and nany mortars continued to rain shells on the ruined town. “Our efforts to clear the town of Cassino and occupy the eastern slopes of dominating Monte Cassino, have been pushed energetically against bitter enemy opposition and .errain difficulties on Monday and Tuesday,” a headquarters commen- ator said. German Reinforcements The German defense forces at Zassino were reinforced on Monday by young Nazi parachute troops and mnits of the armored Grenadier Division. Official reports of the (ighting in the town's southern sec- ion indicated they may have re- 3ained some ground there after re- capturing the Continental Hotel vreckage. Allied troops are holding one doint on the Monte Cassino slopes nly four to seven hundred yards rom two strong German artillery oints just west of the town which we making it particularly difficult or the Allied gunners firing from he valley or the hills beyond to reutralize the enemy fire without endangering their own men. - e LONDON UNDER HEAVY ATTACK LONDON, March 22.—About 100 German war planes subjected Lon- don to a sharp attack last night, causing casualties and large damage in a number of sections. It was the neaviest assault since the raid of March 17. Nine raiders were shot down. ————— Oh, Baby! Some Bahy, And Much RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 22—A 25-pound baby girl has been orn to Mr. and Mrs. Smos Harrls. 1egro couple, parents of 11 other children. Dr. Thomas Cathcart, physician, said the baby is 32 inches long, and bas a full set-of teeth Mother and babe are in excellent condition.