The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 9610. JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1944 MEMBE.R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RED ARMY IS NOW ON ENEMY BORDER Spearheads Launched Agaznst Japs i WHEN CARRlER PLANES HIT TINIAN ISLAND 2 ACTIONS REPORTED BY ALLIES 1 Amer'icans,' Nippons En- deavoring fo Cut Supply Lines of Each Other NEW DELHI, March 27.—Japan- ese forces pressing forward in the invasion of India have made some progress in the general direction toward Kohima, 30 miles inside the border and some 60 miles north of | Imphal, the Southeast Asia com- munique says. Across the Naga Hills from Koh- ima lines the Bengal-Assam Rail- way, vital artery of the Allied for e in the north, but the Japanese pres- sure in the Ukhrule area, 32 mfles‘ north of Imphal is “being contain- | ed,” the communique says adding| that severe fighting has taken | | | | (Comlnued on Page Two) The Washmgion‘ Merry - Go-Bound By DREW W PEARSON ! €ol. Robert- 8. Allen now -on-aetive wt. service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Senators Wwho have learned the full facts have been flabbergasted at what happen-| ed just before Stalin recognized tl\e\‘ Badoglio government. Most people | didn't know it but, just a few days| before, the President had finally| sent a message to Prime Mmmer Churchill saying that deDgllU would have to go. The President long had received urgent advice from various men around him that Badoglio was a drain on the Allied effort and must be ditched. General Eisenhower, when he came back here in Janu- ary, was anything but enthusiastic | about Badoglio and felt that the. poor response of the Italian peuple. in aiding the Allied armies might | be due to their dislike of Badoglio. The President was loath to have a showdown with Churchill, for the British so far have been the de-| fenders of the House of Savoy and | have hoped that the throne of Italy might be preserved. About two| Capifal’s Big Storm ASSAULTON CASSINO IS NOW STALLED: Artillery Engagements Are Raging-Infantry Activ- ity on Beachhead | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | | NAPLES, March 27 —The Allied as~ | sault on Cassino is temporarily stalls | ed, short of its objective, and has ‘changvd into an artillery duel in | which a superior massing of Allied guns is seeking to knockout the | troublesome German positions re= i | in the town's southwest Ccoperative Kitly | w maining corner. { The communique says Allied ar=| tillery began a systematic campaign | to destroy both the Continental| | Hotel and Hotel Des Roses which | the Germans converted into iort- resses. | One large explosion occurred when | the artillery engaged on a cluster of German six-barreled mortars, pos= | |sibly indicating an ammunition | ydump had been hit. The only other ground activity in | Cassino firea has been by | JAP PLANES going up in smoke are group. In the foreground is one of Pounded | the § & { patrols. Encouraged by air blast, this cat pulled string through 500-foot wind- | The center ing Cculee Dam drain pipe :(Grand €oulee, Wash.) enabling workmen to string cable threugh pipe. String was tied to rope, and rope to cable. (AP \h'\renbulul of infantry activity | has shifted to the Anzio beaci hhead where Allied forces have driven back | ,fwo small raiding parties. In the air, American and Butnh heavy and medium bombers atttack- ed scattered port, railroad and air- field targets in northern Italy. Sev- en enemy planes have been shot down, Five Allied planeg are missing do ATTACK HEAVYBOMB BY JAPS i Bl.OWS H" Nips Hurl Themselves SUICIDE. Is Now Blowing Over Buf Rocky Road Ahead the havoc wrought by U. S. carrier-based pl: __ tation’ under culuvnhon somewhere on the \sland. Three Kurile Islands |HEADQUARTERS IN PEARL | aerial’ pounding of the North Pa-| |shiro and Onnegkotan Islands, n this firstradiophoto from Honolulu which pictures spectacularly anes when they rained bombs on Tinian Island in the Marianas ugar cane fields of-a big plan- (lmernalmml Soundphoto) HIGH COURT ‘HANDS DOWN shown in the U. S. bombers. The orderly squares are s! by Planes - At Dawn Safurday TWO RULINGS OPA Price Ceilith' and Portal to Portal Pa Are Upheld UNITED STATES FLEET' HARBOR, March 27.—The Eleventh Army Air Force Liberators renewed cific Kurile Islands last Saturday in a pre-dawn strike on Paramu-! Ad-| In the Central Pacific, the Car- stitutional the price fixing provi- oline Islands were under attack, sions of the Emergency Price Con- and a Coronado [lying boat sank trol Act and the Office of Price two small cargo vessels. | Administration’s rent control pro- The raid on Paramushiro was the gram, sixth this month, but the strike on Onnckotan was the first ever made gyound iron ore miners are entitled WASHINGTON, March 27.—Th», ! miral Chester W. Nimitz announces. Supreme Court today held as con- The court also ruled that under-| India SOVIETS IN POISE FOR BIG THRUST Russians Already Laying Down Barrage in Ru- manian Territory BULLETIN — LONDON, March 27.—The capture of Ka- ments Pololsk, encircled Ger- man stronghold near the Dnies- ter River northeast of Czern- owitz was announced by Mar- shal Stalin in his order of the day. The fall of the city, a rail and highway junction 40 miles from Czernowitz, further im- perils the withdrawal of the German troops who are falling back after the loss of Proskurov, which lies eight miles from the Dniester, A Soviet ring was already forged about the city, which was toppled by a “vigorous blow by tank formations and in- tantry,” LONDON, March 27.—The Red Army is poised for the $irst thrust onto cnemy soil after smashing tri- umphantly to the Prut River, the border-~of * Rtumufii from" ‘which JHmer launched the southern wing of his ill-starred invesion of Russia nearly three years ago. | 'The Russian big guns are already |laying down a barrage in Rumanian territory, Moscow dispatches said, &nd Soviet infantrymen are expect- - ed to surge soon across the narrow Prut which they breached on a 53- mile front yesterday, only a week jafter they spanned the broader Dnlaswr, now 60 miles-behind them. Guns Thundered News As 24 volleys from 324 guns thun- |dered in Moscow last night, greea, [ By JACK STINNETT (HuR(HIll | WASHINGTON, March 27.—1Its |too early to say with certainty, but| Against Americans on by American planes. to “portal to portal” pay. the tim:| white, yellow, re . An American search plane also i B i yellow, red, and purple rock: spent traveling between the mouth (ets burst above the city in cele- CITY OFESSEN ‘lL appears the breach between the | President and Congress is being Bougainville Island idmpped bombs on_ Shumshu, the {northernmost of the Kuriles. One | United States plane was lost in the of the mine and the place where bration of the drive to the enemy's the ore is actually mined. The case |Lorder. closed. The conciliatory Lhe President met the Senate inves- GIVES OUT vay ‘in whien German Rubber Center ls TH ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN E SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 27.—Two thousand Japanese | the ! | Kuriles, is similar !coal miner’ travel time question. Mitchells attacked Ponape, for Price - Fixing Case {the fourteenth time this month. All] in_some respects to the The army newspaper Red Star is confidently anticipating the con- jtinuation of the offensive, and as- weeks ago, however, the President finally acted. And about two days! later, the Russians, without con-| sulting either us or the British,| recognized the man we wanted to; bounce. { That was why Secretary Hull ask- ed Stalin for explanations and was; obvigusly boiling mad. FACTORS BEHIND MOVE There were several minor factors; behind Stalin's sudden move, plus two big factors. The minor factors were: 1. Badoglio already had permit- ted Comrade Ercoli, Italy’s No. 1 Communist, to return from Russia to Italy by way of Turkey. What Communist leader Ercoli has been doing in Italy is not known, but it is known that he arrived there after getting official permission to pass through Turkey and with the sanc- tion of the Badoglio Government. Therefore, he must be cooperating with Badoglio. Also, Badoglio had two Socialist labor men attached to his Camnet—Buozn and Pietro Ninni. 2. Mussolini was one of the first to réconize Soviet Russia and, de-| spite his tirades against Commun- ism, the Fascists carried on profit- able trade relations' with Russia| until the war. | 3. Many Russian warships have been built in Italy, so that Russiani crews are familiar wtih technical marine equipment hurled themselves against American perimeter at Torokina, Bougainville Island, last “Thursday | |in another suicide offensive but} Night Attack by RAF NG were hurled back after heavy fight- | LONDON, March 27. — British jng thag left 300 Nipponese dead ‘heavy bombers thundered over on the jungle battleficld. western Germany in very great| he Torokina fighting was bitter Senate Majority Leader Alben Strength last night and dropped a and bloody. Our losses were re- Barkley and the President and the crushing weight of high explosives markably low, four dead, 47 wound- {positive way Congress backed him and incendiaries, perhaps 2,000 long ed and one missing. TR _lup by over-riding the President’s tons. | On the northern 1,L£?d?3§1g I::):e};tuz;;_tg&rlmglel?:d1“_3“’ of the tax bill has cleared the! The bombers battered O:he city of ‘thur’s battle area, cavah_"y troops Victory over the Axis, British Prime air, it may be one of the most im- |Essen, site of the sprawling Krupo mopping up in the Admiralty Is-! Minister Winston Churchill in a portant things that has happened Works and smaller forces of RAF lands, have occupied the islet of! Also Showered During tigating committee’s threat to cite | his administrative assistant, Jona- | than Daniels, for contempt for re-| yfusal to testify in the Rural Elec-| trification Administration investiga- tion, is a most important straw in the wind. If the dramatic split between HIS VIEWS Praises Russians in Bat- tling Nazis — Declares Japan Weakening side of MacAr-| |planes returmed from the Central Pacific operations, but no mention ‘is\m made of opposition or damage. PRI - 5 R Halibut . Vessels To Sail In the price fixing case, Chief|serted: {Justice Stone announced the six to! three opinion on the appeals of two| “For the Red Army there aré no |Boston eat dealers, Benjamin Rut-|boundaries—her boundaries are vic- tenbert and Albert Yakus, on theiritory, with Berlin in a straight jack- conviction on charges of selling /et made by the German Valkyrie.” wholesale cuts of beef for prices in| Stalin, who announced the con- |excess of the OPA maximum, They | |auest of part of “our state frongfer” 'were senitenced to six months lmpri-,alw reported the capture of the sonment and fined $1,000 in Federal|Bassarablan rail city of Byeltsi. The 'District Court in Boston. |victory closed another German av- | Justice Roberts read the majority enue of retreat from lower Russia. jopinion in the absence of Chief| Other Soviet forces are dee¢lared Justice Stone. Roberts, Rutledge as within 20 miles of Iasi, thirough and Murphy dissented. iwhich_runs the major Nazi escape No Boundaries Italian |yachtsmen who played a heroic role and/at Dunkerque have been asked to broadcast. Sunday declared the recently to our home front war ef- raiders hammered the German rub- Amo wlthuuL oppomuon “guts of the et Army have;m” ber center of Hannover, 120 miles largely been torn out by Russian umrtheast pounded railway targets valor and generalship” and Britain, Students of government here tell, at Courtrai, Belgium, and other un-| and America may win sooner than me the Congressmen were as wrong !specified targets in western expected. im the Daniels case as they charged 'many. Mines were laid in enemY‘ “The Japanese are now showing the President with being wrong in waters during the overnight opera- | signs of great weakness,” he also vetoing the fax bill. In one in-tions. | said. |stance, it was claimed, the Presi- ] Nine planes were lost n the night | Among major points cited, he dent was trying to dictate tax leg-|operations. | said the Russian advance from islation, a constitutional prerogative| Clouds made full observation of | Stalingrad has constituted the Of Congress. In the second, Con-|ine results pf the Essen attack im-| |greatest cause of Hitler'’s undoing. |8ess Was. questioning the right of |possible but the Air Ministry said| Churchill said the American Air the President to remove an admin- jt js apparent however the RAF | Force in Britain and the enlarged Istrative appointee. % |dealt the city another heavy blow | Royal Air Force, almost as numer- What is important iSn't the i wipe out results of desperate re- charge involved in the REA case 1 ,construction work of the Germm\s {but that the President chose to ig- (i the vital industrial center. \nore the implications behind the| PIRRE U SR AN {attitude of the Sepators. He told‘ Dagiels not only to go ahead and| answer any questions asked him, De y ( IIi 'but himself offered to discuss fully | we r tiles with the committee the allegation | Ad | that Daniels, in conference wlth' mmiflfiflon on - Three Main Issues| ‘! S B | If it is true, as some authorities) NEW YORK, March 27. — Gov.| on government say, that it’s none|Thomas E. Dewey, in a national, of Congress’ business if Daniels did, | broadcast, criticized the present Ad- (Continued on Page Three) — e - YACHTSMEN TOLD TO GET READY T0 HELP IN INVASIO LONDON, March l 27. — British i - VESUVIUS SPOUTS FRESH CLOUDS OF SMOKE AND ASHES NAPLES, Mmch 27~Mount Ve- suvius spouted fresh' clouds smoke laden with volcanic ash but most of the cinders fell harmlessly in the Mediterranean. With the lava flow at a standstill, Allied authorities started rehabili- |tation ‘work after a 10-day eruption. | The loss of life has been small as deaths were caused mostly by the |collapse of roofs under the weigh' of ashes and rock. 'DIMOND’S SON IS WOUNDED IN SOUTH PACIFIC | of | can easily operate the Italian fleet.|stand for another call by the Gov- It may be that hastier and more|ernment during the next six willing division of the Italian fleet|months, presumably in connection |Harry Slattery, REA administrator, | had requested the latter’s resigna-| as long as he was acting on in-| |ministration and charged it with |structions from his chief, then the initiating a “deliberate and danger- WASHINGTON March 27.—Al- Rent Control Douglas delivered the eight to one decision in’ the rent control case, revolving about Mrs. Mate Willing- |ham, Macon, Georgia. Roberts wrote the dissenting opinion. Ches- iter Bowles, OPA Administrator (sought the Federal Court at Macon (to restrain from executing state | Vanguar_J of 45 Craft Leaves from Seattle for Alaska Early in April SEATTLE, March 27.—The van- guard of the halibut fleet of 45 the issuance order fixing the rent vessels manned by 360 fishermen!ceiling on her property. The Dis- | will leave for Alaska between April trict court held the legislation un- 5 and April 10 and go to Ketchikan. | constitutional as a delegation of The second group of 45 vessels legislative power. {will leave April 12 to fish off lhc‘ The OPA appealed directly to; |British Columbia coast. |the Supreme Court, The majority The third group leaves between opinion held that “there was ru April 13 and April 18 for Alaska, 'grant of unbridied administrative and the last group will leave April discretion” as Mrs. Willingham 120 to fish on nearby banks. | argues. . Portal to Portal Ruling GERMANS CLAIM - COMMANDO FORCE . IS WIPED OU LONDON, Mnrch 27—The Ger-! man Command says an “American | | i i i : | see "pfmy, the Sloss Sheffield Iron and Steel Company, and the Republic Steel Corporation operators of 13 mines in Jefferson County, Ala- | bama. The issue was whether miners are 'couft proceedings seeking to enjoin| The portal to portal ruling with a| seven to two decision applied spec- ' fllcally to empioyees of the 'l‘enncs—l Coal and Iron Railroad Com-| rallway from Odessa. The surge to the Prut is regarded in London as already dooming the German stand at Odessa and at besieged Nikolaev. Hitler's Movements - Turkish reports that Hitler is rushing masses of armored rein- {forcements through Hungary and /Rumania suggested that he prob- |ably will make a stand in Rumania (in an attempt at least to save the | Ploesti oil fields. The Russians are reported. to be |within 200 miles of the vital ofl re- gions and 2560 miles from Bucha- rest, the Rumanian capital. | ————— RED THRUST ON WARSAW IS EXPECTED STOCKHOLM, March 27.—Ger- | will follow as a result of Badoglio's! recognition. These were the minor factors. Main factors, however, probably were Stalin’s growing restlessness| regarding our failure to open the second front and the rumor that, i (Continued on Page Four) tion for purely political reasons. President was carrying mollification :ous policy” of suppressing news at aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond farther than he ever has before. ome. |huboen notified that his son, Lieut, Why? Many reasons are given| After making all due allowances'John H. Dimond, 26, Army en- but most logical seems to be (1 ) | for vlirnasrtlme conditions, there sttll gineer, has been wounded in the that the President considers mol-|Yema! that we know far too little South Pacific. smadl] boa;..s to p‘ul ztxegnlsel:’:;s m\““camn of Congress vital to the about our own foreign policies and| < The word came to the Delegate {readiness for service at the disPOS-| puyiic interest in prosecution of 'practically nothing about our diplo- in @ letter from his son who.said he al of the Royal Navy for a maxi- | matic commitments,” said Gov. Will be in the hospital for sometime mum of four weeks at that time. (Continued on Page Three) Dewey. but gave no other particulars, (with the coming invasion of west-| ern Europe. { The Admiralty has asked yachts- |men and others acquainted with | Commando force” landed northwest entitled under the Federal Wage|™Man Military circles in Berlin ex- and Hour Act to be paid for ull time$Pe¢t & big new Russian offensive spent underground except - their aimed duectly at Warsaw, the Naal lunch period. The Federdl Circuit!cOntrolled Scandinavian Telegraph {Rome, but was wiped out. {court of New Orleans ruled for the Bureau reports. The formation consisted of twd miners. j The German reports tell of large officers and 13 men, the Berlin Roperts and Stone dissented from ™8sses of Red Army troops assem- broadcast said. ! bled east of Kovel, 170 miles south- There is no Allied confirmation. east of Warsaw. of the Naval base of Laspezia on the Guif of Geroa, 200 miles above i (Continued from rage Une)