The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 9613. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944 MLMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S GLIDER BORNE Gateway to Balk CZERNOWITZ ABANDONED SAYS BERLIN Nazis Pull Out from Strong! Position-New Drive | Against Lwow BULLETIN — LONDON, March 3.—Czernowitz, gateway to the Balkans, has fallen to the Red Army's advance, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight in a broadcast from Moscow, just a few hours after the Ger- mans acknowledged evacuation. The Russians have broken into this third largest city in pre- war Rumania from the north and south. LONDON, March 30.—Evacuation | of Czernowitz, gateway to the B:\l-‘\ kans, has been anounced by hn German Command in a mnudu\\l from Berlin. The communique admitted that| (Continued on Page Two) —— -, — The Washington| Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. iwben 8, Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | { | WASHINGTON--Two secret and very significant meetings were held | recently which indicate how far Republican big business leaders are going to knife Wendell Willkie. ‘ One meeting was a gathering to; which J. A. Browh, President of| Socony-Vacuum Oil, invited about | 100 of his business friends. There| were two chief speakers, Upton| Close and Emil Hurja, both bitter- | ly anti-Roosevelt. Upton Close stuck more to the war, and had quite a bit to say about the foolishness of a big army. | A small one, he said, could do the; job just as well. Hurja, who was fired as Jim Far- | ley’s statistical man because he got| so far off in predicting a close| squeak for Roosevelt in 1936, gave | a talk about the rosy future of Re—‘ publicanism. He spread charts be- fore the brethern, opined that a, GOP victory was inevitable, that| they couldn’t lose, that they were! sure of a majority of a hundred| votes in Congress. concluded, the only possible chance the Republicans had ,of losing \\a.s[ to nominate Wendell Willkie. Most people present didn't realize\ that Hurja has sold his Pathflndel‘, Finally Hurju* : NEW GUN TALKS BACK TO MAZIS U. S. ARTILLERYMEN gather around the gaping breech of a 240-mm. howitzer, the newest and one of the heaviest guns used on the Italian front. They are (L to r.) Pfc. Desso Couch, Callman, Ala.; Pfc. Glen Hamilton, Martinsville, Ind.; Pvt. Herbert Lutz, Elizabeth, N. J., and Pvt. Jahn A. Rochm, Phlladelphxa Pa. (Imcmai.wnnl) (laim Willkie Hurt His (andidacy When He Urged Larger Tax By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 30.—Some ! political wiseacres here are saying that Wendell Willkie may have real- | ly hurt himself when he called foi that 16 billion dollar tax bill. Their | argument is interesting. There hasn’'t cen any doubt since 1940, they say, | that Willkie has had a great deal| of strength in the liberal, or left- | wing section, of the Repubhcan‘ Party. Neither has there been m]y\ doubt that this popular appeal would | draw him a smattering of delegates from his middle-of-the-roaders. His problem was to swing enough con- servative GOP delegates to win the | nomination again. These conservatives are, genernllv speaking, avowed low taxers. Many | of them were just being wooed over to the Willkie candidacy, observers say, when he came out with hlb startling tax statement—startling in | that he suggested six billion more than even the President had re- quested and nearly 14 billion more than Congress voted over the Presi- ‘dPnl s veto. I have seen confidential reports rom several States which purported | Smbad Promofed AFTER nine years of service aboard a U. S. Coast Guard cutter, ship’s mascot “Sinbad” is upped in rank Magazine to bitter anti-Willkieite hief Sea Dog in New York. Lt. Joe Pew, and now radiates Pew's re- | g’o?ndr Robert lfecky is pinning the flected political billiousness; also rating on the ccllar of the animal, that in 1940 Hurja was so far off! wo is famed in ports all over the base that he predicted a Willkie| world for his rollicking habits victory by a 350 majority. ashore. (International) . HUMORIST OF CANADA DIES | OIL MAGNATES ‘The other meeting was even more significant. It was a dinner given| by Winthrop Aldrich, head of the Chase National Bank—the bank re- cently indicted on a charge of as- sisting a refugee diamond merchant | to funds with which he traded wilh the enemy. Guests at the dinner included Harrison Spangler, Chair- man of the Republican National Committee; Ed Jaeckle, GOP New | York State Chairman; John Sprague, New York Republican Na-| tional Committeeman, and Ernest Weir, the steel magnate who has gleefully admiltted distributing | many copies of the book “One Man —Wendell Willkie.” It was another stop-Willkie-at- all-costs meeting. Chairman! Spangler, supposed to be neutral regarding all candidates, was even confident that Willkie couldn't get more than 200 votes. Interesting background is that| Winthrop Aldrich, cousin of the Rockefellers, recently has been | Stephen B. Leacock Passes | Away After lliness of Several Weeks TORONTO, Canada, March 30.— Stephen B. Leacock, Canadian econ- omist and humorist, | Toronto hospital after lof several weeks Stephen Leacock’s humor out- | welghed his scholarship so far as/ made treasurer of the Republican the public was concerned. Students | New York State Committee, and of McGill, University, Toronto, re-| also is on the New York committee membered him as the large man to draft Dewey. The Rockefellers, With unruly hair whose lectures who control the Chase bank, are Were punctuated with roars of also heavy owners of Socony- laughter. The English reading pub- an illness IN TORONTO is dead in a! o be efforts at an unbiased ap- | sal of the political situation at | this time. None of them failed to| ! mention the tax statement and every |one expressed, in varying degree, the opinion that it did Willkie more | damage than good in his chances for winning the nomination. Just as Red Skelton stole the show at the President’s birthday banquet here in January, so did Bob Hope | steal the show at the White House | correspondents’ annual dinner, which iwas attended hy the President, as well as most of the other govern-| ment and military officials. | Hope must have had reports on| | Skelton’s success. He outdid himself. | | His definition of the military strate- | gy discussed by Roosevelt and Chur- | ichill — “Where and when to strike the enemy and how to keep Eleanor out of the crossfire”—is already a Washington classic, Just about when the capital was convinced, too, that there couldn't possibly be another joke on Mrs. Roosevelt’s travels. | Reports have it that the Ramspeck House Civil Service Committee in- vestigators, working on the efficiency \ot government employees, are mak- | ing a survey of the mid-morning and mid-afternoon “snack grabbers”— | the workers who slip out for a little between-meal coffee or soft drink. Some agencies, scared stiff by the |reports, already have closed down [cflfeterias and soft drink stands in nnany government buildings during (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Three) J (Connnued on Page Two) COMMANDOS HIT JAPS REPELLED, 2 ATTACKS Stimson Acknowledges Germans Stopped Al- lies at Cassino ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March forces repelled two small enemy at- tacks on the Anzio beachhead yes- terday while Allied planes ranged far and wide over Italy, hitting tar- gets at Rome and in the Turin and Bolzano areas, and sweeping across the Adriatic to bomb Sofia. The communique made no refer- ence to the Cassino front. tack on Sofia, capital of was carried .out last night Bulgaria, by for- | mations of both heavy and medium bombers Stimson's Statement WASHINGTON, March 30.-—War | Secretary Henry L. Stimson, dis- cussing the situation at Cassino. !said “The simple fact is the Ger- | mans stopped us,” "as he told a conference that the Allied at- k on the Italian has “subsided for the time being without the achievement of the 14‘ ults for which we hoped.” The Germans, Stimson s«ml showed again “they are obstinate, effective soldiers who don’t quit| when they are ordered to hold a key post at all costs. Their occupa- tion of the steep hills where their guns covered the town gave the Nazis a continual advantage.” Stimson foilowed up the blunt p We have learned a great many things since the war and we have put our h-aming into practice.” 4-F'S MAY BE DRAFTED SAY SECY. STIMSON WASHINGTON, March retary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that it may be essential | to draw 4-F men into the war ef-' fort, but that he would accept their | induction into the Army as a labor corps only as a last resort. ference about the statement, Un- dersecretary of War Robert P. Pat-| terson said the Army would accept| induction of 4-Fs who refused to voluntarily enter into employment of essential activities. group of men, but he added, “I not qualified to serve the Army.” Board announced an official list of urgent manufacturing programs for and Maritime Commission have asked draft deferments for key men 22 years through 25 years of age. Condition of Harry Hopkins Safisfactory ROCHESTER, Minn,, March 30— iA bulletin issued by the Mayo Clin- ic said Harry L. Hopkins, who un- derwent an operation yesterday, spent a “fairly comfortable night and his condition continues to be satisfactory.” Physicians said Hopkins, who is 53, Presidential Aide, is suffering from a “nutritional disturbance.” ans Evacuated by 'NAZIS ARE 30.—Fifth Army ! ‘The at- | fortress town | acknowledgement that the Germans| {had stopped the Allies at Cassino ! Iwkth this statement: | “This is a severe setback only if {we didn't profit from our lessons. 30.—Sec-| When questioned at a press con-| Stimson replied that he agreed| {fully that the war effort was suf-| fering by a failure to utilize this| don’t think that this most vital step | should be taken by indirection and | by induction into the Army of men | Meanwhile the War Production | which the WPB, the Army, Navy | | | | | MAIL F O R MARINES_Dozens of sacks of mail are stacked up to be sorted just behind the front lines where Marines are battling on Southwest Pacific New Britain island. POLICEFIND MoscowNot | [HOUSANDS CHILD DEAD, | Safisfied, | OF NIPPONS ~ STARVATION lfaly Govl.| 'FACE DEATH Father Congfldion Work- | Editorial Says Russia Has|japs Enclosed in Traps wil Starvation Threaten- | erin Alaska-Mother Not Fully Recognized Is Missing Badoglio Regime ing Them Now March 30 — A tront| gy LEONAAI:DQ‘ MILLIMAN SAN FRANCISCO, MOSCOW, March 30. Crippled Dolores Flack, 6, was found page editorial in the government ' sgsociated Press War Correspondent dead in her crib behind the locked newspaper Izvestia explained thet| [N THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, doors of a basement apartment last'{he exchange of envoys with the'nruich 30— Violent death for thou- night after police were called by a ftalian regime of Pietro Badoglio gy ds of more Japanese within the tenant, who reported he had hes did not mean full recognition of ineyt few days in Burma and Bou- | {no movement in the flat for three his government, and in effect called |gajnyille from entrapment in sui- weeks. on Britain and the United States cigal quest for glory, is predicted Coroner Kingéton said a prelim- for a change in the government of |y American Commander inary investigation indicated the Italy. Stilwell. child died of sta and the ~Tpe Stilwell ation, Italian question is one or‘ reports Chinese forces ibody weighed about 15 pounds, the the important problems confrontinginaye trapped over 1,000 Nipponese | |coroner estimated Police inspectors the Allies and should be settled 8s'jy the sector of Mogaung Valley, ‘who cmnnu the door said there soon as possible to help hasten the|Nogthern Burma. s a well-stocked refrigerator in victory over Germany,” the editor-! <1 cannot conceive the Japanese! m*othcr room ial said. {lasting more than 10 days longer Officers immediately ‘ought_m Izvestia expressed irritation at the i Bougainville,” said Major Gen. contact Marvin Flack, construction American and British newspapers Robert S. Beightler. It is estimated wor.{m now in Al and the which, it said, interpreted the ex- that “already an important fighting | mother. change of envoys as meaning Soviet foree A real estate agent, who collects snpport of undemocratic the rent for the apartment, told in Ttaly, and added the Soviets are geeking attacks on Bougainville. police he called at the apartment willing to make immediate changes aAnother ranking officer estimates three weeks ago and was met at in the Badoglio government without that 20,000 Japs ave still left on |the door by a soldier who told him waiting for the occupation of Rome Bougainville. | the mother had gone to Tola, Kan- Prime Minister Churchill told the \sas. to visit her sick mother. Commons recently that Britain n-x- The Flacks had resided in the pecied to consider the Italian poli- R n F NlGHT |apartment about six Vi the ten- tical situation anew when the Al- Railway Targets Engine ‘ams told police. lies reached, anv Work, and Kiel Struck ""Pacific Current” by Heavy Bombers LONDON, March 30.—Royal Axr To Be Name for |Force Halifaxes attacked railway |Coast Warm Course ed at Seattle-Rup- targets at Varles, 15 miles east of ert s Hit |Paris, and Eancasters again raided at(‘xAid}gr%.loglalx:fih ::s fi::;‘tha engine works at Lyons in south- | fotinied by the Office. ot Pring; Ad-{ 0, rance last, tliht. while Mo ministration it probably will approve ‘Bqu_"'o" Difphed e % shortly of a two and one-half cent wis lost in ""_' operations. increase in the ceiling price for It was the first time since Sun- 5 halibut landed at Seattle. [day night the Royal Alr' Fogce's "ow (Iea"n u The former ceiling prices were 16 four-engined bombers were out, but g p cents a pound for large halibut and it Was their twelfth attack of the 17'4 cents a pound for mediums. month on French targets figuring -Pres- Senator Wallgren said during last importantly in Hitler's anti-invasion ident Roosevelt’s bronchitis de- 'season the fishermen were not con- program. seribed as “clearing up nicely,” but tent with the prices permitted by | the President’s physician still asked the OPA and landed fish at Prmce: that no appointments be made and Rupert. Dealers urged the ceilings the “Chief” ease up until he is en- be increased to get the catch landed | tirely well: at Seattle. CEILING ON HALIBUTTO BE RAISED \That Is, Price on Fish Land- WASHINGTON, March 30— It will be the “Pacific Current” instead of the “Japanese Cur- rent” in the Pacific Ocean so far as the United States is con- cerned if Congress approves of the measure introduced by Rep- resentative Homer D. Angell, Republican of Oregon. “Why not have a good Am- erican name for the current,” Angell asked. B s ffriomat 'FDR's Bronchitis | | | | i | | i | | | | i | i WASHINGTON, March "30. e MRS. GREENLEE HERE Mrs. D. Greenlee registered yes- terday at the Baranof, Lt. Gen.! i estimated conservatively at| elements 5000 Japs have died in futile glory | One homber | ermans NEW SMASH IS MADE ON INDIAFRONT Nippon Headquarters Now Under Attack - Fierce Engagements fought NEW DELHI, March 30.—Glider borne air commandos in another smashing attack on Jap communi- cations in northern Burma, damag- ed the enemy's headquarters at Mobnvin, 80 miles southwest of Myitkyina. monnyin is on the railway to Mandalay and the chief connecting ’Hno to Myitkyina, chief enemy base on the Burma road. Stilwell's Chinese are pushing southward toward Myitkyina on the main road 14 miles inside Magaung Valley and have established a road |block about mnorth of Laban, en- circling two makeshift battalions and have mauled the Japanese Eighteenth Division while other Chinese, to the north of Shaduzup, in the same valley, blasted the Japs out of honeycomb entrenchments and engaged the Nips by bayonet and grenade in a fierce close range lcumbnt This force s only about 128 miles from Kaiming and within smklnw distance of the Mandalay R ilros Heavy and continuous fighting in the past 24 hours has blazed along the India-Burma border ,where the Japs are driving toward Imphal plmculufly in the Somra Hills northeast of Imphal. There is little change in the situation. i Three hundred miles south in |Arakan, the British announce the |capture of the western tunnel on ithe Maungdaw-Buthedaug road fur- ther clearing the way for the offen- sive southward against Akyab. TRUK BASE 1S BLASTED LAST NIGHT Other Allied Planes Raid Jap Positions in East- ern. Marshalls WASHINGTON, March 30.—Am- erican fliers attacking the Jap base at Truk, despite heavy anti-aircraft fire. Lombed two islands in the. lagoon of the enemy stronghold, | starting large fires. The raid was carried out by Lib. erator bombers of the Seventh Army Air Force and was made last night, the Navy reported. The bombers hit the islands of | Eten and Moen within the protective | reefs surrounding Truk. The Pacific Fleet press announcement also told of another raid by Navy planes on Ponape Island, east of Truk, and | fires were started in the hangar area An attack was also made by dive bombers on Ujeland Island, where gun positions and Jap buildings were | strafed. Other planes raided Jap | bositions in the eastern Marshalls, | setting afire oil storage tanks and ‘damnglng enemy :h' fields. Reporl Is GivenOut, (asualfies WASHINGTON, March 30.—The |latest reports of American war cas- ‘unmefl set the total at 174,239 for ithe Army and Navy, an increase of 14,947 this week, and includes 40~ 657 killed, 64,098 wounded, 36,321 missing, and 32,163 prisoners. |