The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9609. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ] HITLER PRESSING BALKANS INTO FIGHT Great Attack Continues in Wewak Sector BOMBERS HIT SUPPLY LINE NAZI FORCES FIFTH AIR FORCE IN NEW RAIDS Base of Enemy Shipping Is| : . | ence Blasted-Cassino Attac‘&(;dér;?“vg elareas ' Fight Deadlocked LML 5. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS o INAPLES, March 34— Two. new FOUTHWEST ?ACIFIC‘;’ Mgrcl.q. ‘bomber blows against enemy sup- s mgsci cobbualbgiosafhy s “ply lines in Northern Italy, at Flor- tent . on - miaking ?he Jepnsee in ence and Padua, are announced by northern New Guinea helpless on} Allied headquarters as heavy fight- 180" and sea, pressed atiacks ©ing continued at the town of Cas- gun positions, shipping, gmlmdea'sino with no material change in the planes and buildings in the Wewak\snuauon‘ R Wb d: American Marauders, out in force (ko RN i s :yesterday‘ blasted Campo di Marte around Muschu and other 1slan<:ls‘fi_eh;m vards, the largest in the off W§wnk_ where the bulk of ;he[Florence area, the only one not enemy’s shipping has been found. |pjp o far in the war. The first at- Rniob RGN freighbershack on Florence was on March 11. 1000 nd 1500 ' tons respecnv?li/:‘ Reconnaissance today showed airmen smashed seven small Vessels | g oqt gegtruction of warehouses and WarMay | Last Year | ~ OrlLonger | Freight Yards Near Flor- ' Gen. Monl&)?flery Makes Peoples I.oli)by:r,rlnc.,lssues | Address to British | Grouqi forces LONDON, March 24—The Euro- pean war may last a year or longer, | Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery declared in an address saluting the | British ground forces he will lead |in the forthcoming invasion. ‘) Calling for full cooperation the home front, he said: | “We are preparing to take part !in the biggest tug of war the world has ever seen. If anyone should let go of the rope, then we have lost | the match.’ Montgomery, who is the son of a bishop, suggested as a battle cry: ‘Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered.” | RS R sl on WALLGREN BILL GETS HARD SWAT ‘Surprise"M(VJ_vemenis of | Enemy in Northern Statement-Measure | Burma Countered | (alled Subsidy WASHINGTON, March 24—The| NEW DELHI, March 2i-—Allied Peoples Lobby, Inc., said in a state-g’l‘xumm attacked a Jap column ad- ment today that United States Sen-|vancing from the south on the im- ator Mon C. Wallgren, Democrat of | portant rcad junction at Imphal. ' the State of Washington, has “been| The Japs have been driven from the victim of a very fast one” in|three positions covering the Tid- Make Third Sfraight Day‘Now Within Sight of Ru- Attack on Objectives mania.Proper - New in Reichland Thrust in Crimea LONDON, March 24, — American By Associated Press heavy bombers drove over Germany Russian troops drew within sight for the third straight day bombing of the Prut River from the heights military targets in Western Ger-'15 miles away, and continued to many and following up last night's advance intp Bessarabia through Royal Air Force blows on objectives the first of the foothills of the Car- and 23 barges. | A powerful fleet of Liberators, tracks and some flames rose to 9,000 feet. | - F. J. VANDEWALL introducing his bill to revise the Alaska fishing code. The lobby denounced the bill as a “subsidy to the salmon big con- cerns” and further said the “so- called Wallgren bill would make a gift to a few large packing com- panies of the ocean bottom lands worth $200,000,000.” The bill, the lobby says, will grant perpetual and exclusive rights to valuable trapping areas in the Al- askan waters to half a dozen big canners who have not been rooters dim-Tmphal Japs were road. Last night within 30 miles of the Im- to India after crossing the border /in the Tiddim area, northern Bur- in a surprise thrust Another Jap column,which cross- ed the Indian frontier earlier, after pushing over the upper Chindwin River, near Thanungdur, was last 1eported some 30 miles east of Im- | phal heavy Mitchells and medium Boston type bombers, swept the coast at| Aitape, 90 miles eastward of Wewak | where 200 tons of bombs dmppcdl destroyed heavy gun positions and | a number of parked planes. Build-| ings were also destroyed. The en-| emy made no material aerial in-| terception but antiaircraft fire was| encountered. One Allied plane 's| missing. | Solomons base planes dropped 36, tons of bombs on Rabaul airport and anticraft defenses. oo PEACETIME SHIP WORK IS PLANNED » Kaiser Makes Announce- The Washingion mentRegarding Oper- Merry - Go -Round ations on Coast By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, March 24 — A major move to cushion the impact “”",Z‘:’.fiii'w‘?;h't’&:",\,"m":\““ .m“;between industry and labor con- WASHINGTON — NOTE FROM verting the war into peacetime pro- DREW PEARSON TO READERS: duction is announced by Henry J. Perhaps I should not let people Kaiser know that my sisters are making, Kaiser says he plans to build 30 me a patriarch, but sometimes coastwise cargo ships for the Dutch Things that weigh heavily on my East Indies Government for war mind spill out easier when talking and peacetime use in the South to my family. With apologies,| Pacific Islands. therefore, I write a letter to my)| (Lt - HAS RETIRED FROM - CUSTOMS SERVICE | | Collector of Customs James J. |Connors today announced the volun- |tary retirement from the Customs Service of Alaska, of one of its old- est and most ecsteemed employees, {Mr. Fred J. Vandewall of Skagway, who passed through Juneau on a recent boat for Bend, Oregon, where he will reside with his son’s family until permanently located. “In the retirement of Mr. Van- dewall,” Collector Connors stated, {“our Service has not only lost a 'most efficient employee, but Alas- ka has lost a real Sourdough and a loyal citizen who gave many years jof enthusiastic work and boosting for the Territory.” Mr. Vandewall entered the Alaska ! Customs Service, according to Col- \lector Connors, at Eagle, on the Yukon river, in 1901. In 1903 he .was |transferred to the border port of Forty Mile, on the isolated upper- !reaches of the Forty Mile river. Mr. or price control. The bill is now on the Senate cal- endar and provides that holders of fish trap licenses in Alaskan waters | will have priority on them when the law goes into effect. The lobby said the measure will give big salmon companies a “perm- | anent stranglehold on probably tie most valuable fishery in North Am- | erica.” FOREIGN POLICY “the United in France. While Fortresses were ranging were bombing enemy airfields in northeastern France. The industrial city of Lyons and southern French railyards, also sec- tions northeast of Paris have been hit in the last 24 hours, — e ——— CHURCHILL PAYS SURPRISE VISIT, U. . SKY TROOP. Tells Americans They Will Soon Be Landing op Nazi Occupied Land LONDON, March 24. — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid a surprise visit to the Ameri- can Airborne troops at an English countryside today and in a voice of deep feeling told the troopers they will “soon have an opportunity” of landing on the soil of Nazi oc- cupied Europe. In company with Gen. Eisenhowe: and other high military office Churchill witnessed the colorful spectacle of the many hundreds of American sky troopers leaping in swift rolling waves of planes onto the green English fields, a few hundred yards frem the reviewing stand. R r | pathian Mountains. | TFhe Prut River is the bounda phal, having advanced 60 miles in- over Western Germany, Liberators of Rumania proper, and the Dnie: |ter River, which was the prewar ibuundflry. has been breached on a wide front. Five miles beyond the JPlut River is the important north- south railroad, the key to north- eastern Rumania. | Marshal Konev's Second Ukral ian Army is reported increasing the| y possible THRUSTS OFU.S.Bombers ADVANCE OF NAZIS MASS NIPPONS ARE Again Roam RED ARMYIS BIG FORCES, UNDER ATTACK Over Germany SPEEDED UP BLACK SEA Germans R]uh Troops fo Rumania - Bulgaria to * Stave Off Russians LONDON, March 24—Turkish ad- vices report that Hitler, now facing the toughest point in his career, is rushing German reinforcements to all points on the Rumanian and Bulgarian coasts on the Blask Sea ,and indicates he intends this as a beginning of a full scale pccupation of Rumania and foreing of the Balkans into fight on his side and under co- ercion. ‘This is Hitler's preparations for a {last ditch stand on the Rumanian !and Bulgarian frontiers against tho advancing Russian armies. ‘Turkey herself is sald to be cast- |pace of its advance toward the |Prut and now has firmer and high- sive ing an anxious eye over the exten- German troop movements er ground underfoot. | Between Tarnapol and Proskurov where the Russians announced a 39-mile breakthrough, a German communigue said “grim defensive fighting against superior . Soviet comkat troops continues.” The Ger- |mans asserted they repulsed other [Russian units northwest of Kovel, 33 miles from the Cuyzon line in old Poland. ‘The Red Army is also reported as attacking southeast of Vitebsk White Russia with “strong forces” jand on two sides of isolated | Crimea. e British Subs - Get Nippon ~ NavyVessels LONDON, Merch 24.—Summariz- | ing submarine activities of the east- | |throughout eastern Europe. | An Istanbul report said Turkey |is reliably informed the Germans are in full control of every Ru- imanian and Bulgarian city on the Black Sea, and all local trogps are under command of Nazi officers. The Germans, it is said, are using levery available boat ‘and barge on |the Danube to move troops and materials, One unconfirmed estimate is the !Nazis have drawn up 25 divisions of |their Central Reserve forces in Ger- /many to occupy Hungary, Rumania land Bulgaria thus widening the |flood of Nazi forces in the Danu-~ hian Basin. | The Balkans, reawakened to Tur- Ikey’s 1941 anxieties fears produced | by Germany's move into Rumania ;and Bulgaria, preparatory to the |Greek and Yugoslavia campaigns now believe Turkey might be in- vaded - e — { 'HIRSTS" RECEPTION IS EVENT TONIGHT The contract is a cash deal with . i " i 9 Vandewall was accompanied by his youngest sister, Mrs. Lockwood The Netherlands Indies Govern- 2 4 Nations are fighting to make a tern fleet, the British Naval Af-| Fogg, Jr., upon the birth of her neW ment and does not son, at walhn_gtord. Pa—D.P. lend-lease approval VDvear little sxtshter; G Kaiser said he expects men and ‘e are on the tr 8 MO materials will be ready by the first and I have been sitting by the win-' 0\ year sl dow as the sun sets, looking out at w;._.‘___ the little cabins, the patches of) green fields, the faintly budding;pEA(E BE]’WEEN fruit trees, and all the other early RUSSIA-FINLAND signs of Spring. We had rain to- MOSCOW, March 24. — Further require any and I have been getting ideas from the train window on how to prevent ! erosion back in Maryland. { Despite the good weather in| Florida, I was a little sorry to be away because, back home, we were ithen recent bride and, together they ' 'made the long and dangerous trip ‘over the snow and ice by dog team. During his service as Deputy Col- ‘lector at Forty Mile of approxi- |mately five yeais, their son, Fran- cis was born. To give birth to her |son, Mrs. Vandewall made the win- |ter trek by dog team from Forty |Mile to Eagle, where the nearest |doctor was located. i | Mr. Vandewall served at Forty {Mile until October 1, 1908, when| he was transferred to Skagway and !made Deputy Collector in Charge |during the rush days of the Klon- WASHINGTON, March 24.—Pre: e |tention of America to aid the es- cape of refugees marked for death by the enemy, proposed in a state- ore arges ment that the free peoples of Eur- lope and Asia, to temporarily open . |their frontiers to the victims and He remarked to reporters that he . had quite a bit to offer today on (halrman FI |the foreign policy and spoke in a Yis:\l‘castic vein to those who he said - {cd such a policy WASHINGTON, March 24— Reading the initial paragraph of Chairman Fly of, the Federal Com- hjs statement on refugees, he said munications Commission, termed it 5 a very good answer to some fore a Congressional committee that | . Rakits g shathar g he delayed the Arfay's establishiment :;‘qux,ld f.i.?km, be l.]hf")h whether we of miniature broadcasting stations ‘aTh‘l mfa‘gl? Ppiey in Alaska, e paragraph said committee investigating the F‘CC.‘“’urld ba§ed Upon freadous, oRNMIGY “At no time did I have any doubt | and Justice; a world in which all that Alaska needed the service, I|Persons regardless of race, color or not only knew it needed the service, |creed, may live, in peace, honor and that it got it.” 7 S Ao - Fly said the Army planned -to| use the small stations to mamtaianouR WESIWARD morale in isolated garrisons. BOUND; WOODLEY d | ident Rooseveit, reaffirming the in- [to fulfill its pledge for independ- |had asserted that the country lack- “wholly false” the charges made be- | posp1e who have been wandering He testified before a special House but did everything I could to see dignity.” RS Fire Raiders f | | | i | A Woodley Airways plane came | in from the Westward today, leaving PENCIILLIN USED FOR FIRST TIME, ALASKA CIVILIAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 24. —The first known use of the drug icillin on an Alaskan civilian last night in the case of a fish- erman, George Hemnes, ill 11 days with a strep infegtion of the Iung The medicine was obtained as a doan from the military after Dr. G. Lee Stagg obtained a wired fairs said a Japanese cruiser of the Kuma Class, a 7,000 ton aircraft jcarrier, eight supply ships and sev- jeral small naval craft have been sunk since the first of the year. Kuma class cruisers have a di |placement of 1,500 tons and they carry about 489 officers and men. Confusion Prevails { A public reception in honor of |Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Hirst will be held in the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church tonight from 8 to 10 o'clock. The couple will soon be |leaving for the States after eight years as residents of Junenu.' - JOHNSON TO WRANGELL M. O. Johnson left today for Wrangell where he will take tem- porary charge of his laundry there as the former operator, E. R. S8harn- ‘broich, has been appointed Deputy Customs Collector to be stationed at Ketchikan. OverLondon day, the fields are fpll of water,! |peace conversations between Mos-|dike. Here he served continuously {this afterncon with W. Anderson, Dromise of a million units from beginning to plant some early les- pedeza and get the pastures in |cow and Helsinki appeared unlikely |today in the wake of an official shape. There is nothing like the feel of the soil in the Springtime, and the sight of growing things— except, of course, the joy of watch- ing children grow. And since ours are growing all too rapidly, I am beginning to get my fun out of the earth and animals and the children of my sisters and brother. It must be wonderful to have a new-born son. And after a brace of fine daughters, it is especially wonderful. I am sure he will not be too spoiled and will respond to the firm hand of his mother, who always knew what she wanted and went after it, since the day she came back from cleaning out the Hoadleys’ coal bin at the age of| three. i |Soviet announcement warning Fin- |land that she must bear the re- |sponsibilty of whatever may happen as the result of her failure to ac- cept the Russian Armistice propo- sals. The Finnish government’s deci- sion to reject the Soviet six point plan was announced to the Rus- sian people last night by Moscow radio, which said that a “negative |reply” had been received from Hel- {sinki on March 17. LINE UP JOBS, WAR VETERANS LIFE IN MIAMI WASHINGTON, March 24—Leg- Sometimes I wonder what kind of I‘Aslation giving war veterans, men a world this is into which to bring{and women, preference in filling a son. That, of course, is not the|/Government jobs, has unanimously kind of remark to make to a|been approved by the House Civil mother, but I know you will under-|Service Committee. stand it. I have just come from| The measure would give service Miami, where no one would ever men and women five to ten points :;;oz 8 war was on, and least of|additional grades they make in ol n‘:uzgehWWl? know that there cjyjl Service examinations, also re- ope for the world after|qyires the names of the veterans be the war. Iplaced at the top of the list of In Miami, you can get all you Wil taleate il vou Thve thie pnoe.‘mose eligible for certain positions (Continued on Page Four) | | | higher grade. Il even if non-veterans have made 4 vells before his departure for the until the date of his present re-| | tirement. | During his long tenure of office at Skagway, Mr. Vandewall and| |his staff, annually served approxi-| |mately 17,000 Alaskans, Yukoners‘i and the tourist trade. Of this ser-| vice Collector Connors said today, |“Mr. Vandewall always bore an en-| iviable reputation among travelers for his courtesy and fairness.' Known equally as well in the Yu-| kon as in Alaska, Mr. Vandewall's presence and assistance was annu- ;al!y sought by, thousands of per- tons passing through Skagway.” | Both Mr. and Mrs. Vandewall| contributed much to the social and| {fraternal life of Skagway. Mrs.! Vandewall, until her death last| | August, was a past President of |the Skagway Women’s Club. Mr.| | Vandewall was Secretary of the: ;Skagway Elks lodge for many years.f !He was also a Past Exalted Ruler| of his lodge. Until his son, Francis, !joined the armed forces of the; jUnir,ed States about a year ago, he' conducted a general merchandise! store in Skagway. Francis is now a| ‘Lxeuwnant in the Army and a training officer in a camp near| Bend, Oregon. Mr. Vandewall was the occasion for many social and fraternal fare-| | south, !dent of the United States Chamber ito inspect Russian production faci | W. B. Tallman and Mrs. H. Corey LONDON, March 24.—Nazi fire | fOr Anchorage, and Mike Hanner | raiders dropped incendiaries on!‘ur Yakutat. some sections ‘of London early this| ’ SRS | g é:.,a;"zz;y.“;fl;fi!"“fl"gi a%ls% - caused a third alarm in three; nights. | R | N { Eric Johnsfon Is Invited lo Russia; The regular business meeting of | the Moose Lodge will be held tonight |at 8 o'clock at the club headquart- ers in the Seward Building. The| | business session will be followed | | by refreshments. | On Saturday evening at 8 o'clock | | the members will meet for a game | ToLeave by Plane . | WASHINGTON, March 24.—Eric| s Johnston, of Spokane, Wash,, Presi- POLICE COURT FINES o AR VB e I The following were fined $25 each | this morning in City Police Court of Commerce, has accepted the m-[ v 2 |all charged with being drunk and vitation of e hing . n:of the Eoviet Guvemmmzf[dl&mderly: Frank L. Daniel, Landro " !L&mrin. Bophie Kitechto and Dan- | iel Perrin. ities. He will leave by plane. b - - |LOGGING COMPANY FILES | INCORPORATION PAPERS Articles of incorporation were fil- | M SR il ALASKA COASTAL ON S"M' I"I‘H IR'ps;ed today at the Territorial Auditor’s TCTLOR |office here by the Prince Wiiliam J. McAvoy and J. A. Harris were | Sound Logging Company, Inc. Main passengers to Sitka today with the offices for the company are at An- {Alaska Coastal Airlines. Gov. Ern-|chorage and the incorporators in-|COW¢il: est Gruening and Col. E. W. Norris | clude Robert W. Slater, of Fairbanks, went to Excursion Inlet and expect- and G. H. Saindon and Vernon ed to return to Juneau late today. Hilliker, both of Anchorage, Evans Memorial Hospital in Bos- ton to repay the military, who must submit the case history to Boston after the treatment. | It is too early yet to tell the re- sults of the treatment. In Europe S 12 LONDON, March {ing’ Berlin with great loads of ex- fploslvex and fire bombs has spread | “administrative confusion through- . New Airways Lin lout Germany and German Europe,” proposed 'o Alaska'm the authoritative British analysis v |of tie damage done to the Nazi S s L |Capital City. HINGTON, March 24—| gepyjy, i iy 4 “dickerts of a mess,” Christopher Abbott, President of (he'()ne RAF cothmentator. says. ' Mafly Prairie Airways Alliance of N“bm""iworkers have fled from the German ka, has applied to the Civil Aaem"'icapital without ' permission and autics Board for authority o oper- you wonnages have resulted in a ate an air service between Great|y,eioneck of fmportant phases of v 4 Falls to Nome, Alaska, via Leth-ly . Gorman war effort Whitehorse, and Fairbanks. T ridge, Edmonton, Fort St. John.’ S ) AR R i the National Broadcasting Company EDWARD RIELSEN FILES FOR COUNCIL AS AN INDEPE"DE" l(:h‘.nm in a nation-wide hookup at gz, 7 | 7:45 o'clock tonight in presentation Edward S. Nielson today filed at|of awards at the ninth annual com- the City Clerk’s Office as an in-}peuuon of the Press Photographers dependent candidate for the cny‘Ammann of New York. | - 1S ARRIVAL HERI Albert Carlson arrived from Sitka nd is at the Gastineau Hotel. NEW YORK, Mareh 24. — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will speak over wellknown here, is an of the Piggly Wiggly Nielsen, employee tore. | al 24.—Submerg- ‘ BULLETINS WASHINGTON—American planes bombed Ant Island, atoll near Pon- ape, last Tuesday. Positions in the :astern Marshalls were bombed ory Wednesday. WASHINGTON—President Roose- velt indicated he will act sometime next week on the soldier vote bill now awaiting signature or veto. WASHINGTON-—Eleven more Jap ships have been sunk by wide ranging American ships, the Navy Department announces. 4 LONDON — American Fortresses, on the raid today, blasted the Ger- man - cities of Schweinfurst and Frankfurt. LONDON--Liberators today struck >nemy airfieds at Nancy and Saint Dizeir in France. LONDON — The Red Army has ;aptured Chortkov, Stalin an- 1ounced tonight in an Order of he Day. All German counterattacks at Tarnapol and Proskurov have been beaten off.