The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 9614. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1944 BIG ATTACK MADE ON JAPS IN PACIFIC —_— ————— ] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——= German Transport Center Is Struck Blow OVER 1,000 RAF PLANES RAID REICH U. S. Army Transport - IsDowned by British Fighters on Atlanfic ANZIO SECTOR NAZIS BOMB| HOSPITAL IN j Fla‘mirnmg End o{}g_p Bomber al Marianas e o ey e bi Nuernberg, Other Targets | WASHINGTON, March 31— |British fighter planes from an air- ]craxt carrier downed a United |States Army transport plane and ently mistook the 4-engined C-54| transport plane for a German| Fockewulf when identification was not established as the Germans Take Up New |it screw of six, by error, on the Atlantic this week, the War De- partment and British Admiralty announces jointly. The British fighters were protect- ing an Allied convoy. They appar- Are Hit in Smashing Night Attack 4 LONDON, March 31.—A great ar- plane approached the convoy. j There were no passengers on the transport plane which was being flown by a civilian contract crew, all of whom were lost. mada of Royal Air Force bombers, numbering probably more than 1000, smashed the southern trans- port center of Nuernberg and other points in the Reich last night. | Ninety-six planes were lost, the| heaviest toll ever taken of the Al-| lied air fleet in a single operation. | The aerial record loss was an-| nounced just as the entire German network with the exception of Vi-| enna, shut down this morning| shortly after warning that "vnemyi Arlington National Cemetery Is Now Too Small; Acreage Sought - s 5 v planes are approaching.” { - The first German warnings snld‘ daylight raiders were over the Pro-;voTE Blll Is vince of Prussia where l-‘ranklurti is situated. | The RAF's announced loss of| planes in last night's attack is in| contrast to the German claims. The | Germans say 132 {our-znuinod' bombers were shot down, the grean-i est defeat of the war suffered by| By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 31— There's a scrap going on here now between some residents of Arling- ton County and the War Depart- ment that is of far more than local importance. transport Positions at Cassino— | Thrusts Repulsed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS' ING |NAPLES, March 31.—The German |troops have moved into two po- |sitions on Monastery Hill evacuated | several days ago by the Indian and | New Zealand troops. Small enemy groups attacked in- side Cassino but the air operations | |ties. resulted when German bombed an Allied hospital ualties could be easily seen from the air. Headquarters also announced the Fifth Army is clinging to positions inside battered Cassino and have | repulsed new, German thrusts. | Italian and 'Nazi tanks have again appeared near the fortified Contin- ental Hotel, but Allied artillery im- mediately brought them under |again overshadowed ground activi-| On, the Anzio beachhead, 65 cas-| ¥ k { | { A Jap bomber attacking the U. Navy Pacific Fleet task force in the raid on the Marianas, is brought ! down in a huge puff of flame by anti-aircraft fire close to one of the U. 8. carriers. (AP Wirephoto from ' SURRENDERS Indicted for DIA BASE C10 Official Is {RED ARMIES CROSS PRUT Residents are seeking to block heavy fire, where the artillery alone the department’s purchase of 90 is acfive in the snowbound moun- the British Air Force. The German SIGNATURE ternoon communique. acres to add to Arlington National tains north of Cassino, says the af- ! TO NIPPONS Misstalement Cemetery to make room for 18,000 announcement further stated their | additional graves for service men| Americans In the air yesterday, INSTRENGTH Fighters rather than ground de-| 'and their wives. {attacked Sofia and took the spot- fenses demonstrated that Goering’s Air Force can still give a potent wallop on occasions when it cares to take the risk. JAPS GIVE UPLEASEOF President Allows Measure to Pass - Says Ad Is Wholly Inadequate WASHINGTON, Ma¥ch 31.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has notified Congress | that he is letting the Serviee Vote | Bill become law without his signa- !ture even though he considered it | “wholly inadequate” for providing There's no need to go deeply into jight while Fortresses and Libera- the local situation. Arlington tors in the greatest force ever to Cemetery already is so crowded pe sent out by the Fifteenth Air that priorities on plots are bitterly porce against a single target at- |contested by high ranking military tacked railway objectives in the |officials. According to one attor-|pgyjgarian capital. Other bombers |ney representing Arlington Coumyl‘sprend all over Italy and into Yu- |residents, the present rate of bur-i ,qayia. lal, which is nothing to what it|™ sperican bombers and their es- will be as the Ror Progrisecs; wu“cort encountered 40 German planes ufie Up_l‘-?::l w addmonafil a&:‘es. plus;m the Sofia area and downed 13, all available space now in the ceme- A g sy sbvah Seev |8 falling prey to the fighters. ;th Falsifying Marshal ZH v ko v's Van- guards Within 15 Miles of Hungarian Line Jap Forces Spread 0ver1(harged Front for 200 Miles— | Application for Fed- [ Sl Advqn(ing | eral Position NEW DELHI, March 31. — The | Npw yORK, March 31.—Thomas MOSCOW, March 31. — Surging | British forces have surrendered Tid- | go [orenzo, 35, President of Local across the northern Prut River | dim, forward base in the Chin Hills 365 nited Auto Workers, CIO, has through captured Czernowitz, Mar- |in Burma, 100 miles below Imphal, |y .., jpdicted by a Federal Grand shal Zhukov's Pirst Ukrainian Army Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, Brit-|y .0 o the charge of making false is moving up into the Carpathian ish Commander in India, told the ‘ i service men and women with "the| | opportunty to vote. The President sent the message 10| pomoorat who represents the dis-| Congress announcing his intention | trict *just acrcss the Potomac,” says| JoIES the ccmrove_l‘ted measure be- two-thirds of the area sought con-| {come Jaw at midnight tonight, and | aing 398 family dwellings, inclyding | Rep. Howard W. Smith, Virginia| SAKHALIN I. Move InierpTeled as Nip- pon Desire fo Avert Trouble with Soviets By Associated Press The Jap government received a State ballots by September 1 an staggering blow from the west whenlnot receive them by October 1. In the Soviet government in Moscow ! addition the Governors pf ine States | announced it has signed a protocol‘ have to certify the ballots as author- under which Tokyo agreed to sur-|ized by State law. | render her oil and coal leases on Poll of Governors i £ Northern Sakhalin Island. In a poll of the Governors, the|Dational cemeteries where proper i _ | President learned that at least 20|SPace and care can be given to the The Russians contracted to fur-! {rves of - Hoewsat o nish Japan with, 50,000 tons of oil | States planned to do nothing about | a yearpfor five years beginning |authorizing the use of supplement- | There are 53,000 graves in Arling- ary Federal ballots, 19 would permit [ton now. The land the War De- after the war. The Soviets will also t t wishes' their use or probably would, and |Partment wishes to purchase would pay Japan 5000000 rubles, about| o L. . o committal. bring the total to 71000. But ac- 40 1t e a;_)pealed SOy s“.‘msum:several apartment houses and one | cooperate in making the bill 854195000 school. fully effective as its defective pro- 5 s % visions allow.” i The measure will let service men and women overseas vote on Federal | ballots, but only if they applied for | d did | The real These are the basic facts in the local Arlington County ruckus, but there is much more to it than that. question is whether the ing Arlington into a vast national marble forest for men who have died in service, or whether we will take time out now to establish other batten that Jap jungle forces have | | spread over the front for nearly 200 ;Lorenzo, whose local represents em- |miles and are persistently probing|Ployees of the Brewster Aeronauti- ideeper into India's defenses and jcal Corporations plant, asserted in |have penetrated affidavit sworn on April 30, INTO EFFECT; [} No FOOl'N the main com-|his Ty munications of the vital Manipur 1943, in connection with his appli- WASHINGTON, March 31.—"The pyaq, cation for federal employment that- first day of April is a day on which | aychinleck declared, however, Im- he was never arrested or inducted playful tricks and impositions are pha) jtself is strongly defended. He 'except for traffic violations in New practiced.” That’s Webster’s defin- ajso declared such penetration as | York City. nation wants to go on mushroom-!jtion of the All Fools Day, but not |reported is not likely to be of major| Thomas Murphy, Assistant Chief iof the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office, said de Lorenzo was arrested on March 15, 1933 in New York for disorder- the Treasury’s. importance. Beginning tonight at midnight a| At the same time Auchinleck an- lot of new taxes will go into etl’ect‘inounced the British forces fighting and no fooling. | their way north from Tiddim through | New excise rates, ranging from a Jap road blocks have joined other ly conduet, on December 16, 1933 six fold jump on cabaret levies to British forces which fought the¥ 5 4 pomocide by —automobile yield an estimated billion dollars or | Way southward along the road from | cpapge. and on July 7, 1941 a $1 barrel increase on beer will Imphal. ¢ Hackenstick, N. J. on charges of in- yield an estimated billion dollars or| The commnique said one raiding uying o riot aud malicious mis- more a year. More than half the|Party broke through to the main yier yo wag indicted on the latter road running north from Imphal, i —evo———— » » g statements in an affidavit sub- Mountains toward Hungary and Ru- | Inglas L.‘ef"]‘”h’“f"‘ wd"y‘d‘ Imost | Mitted in connection with his ap- mania. | ment in a communique by Mount- | ¢ National War Labor Board o) Shat. Sudbmac Tnneds The indictment charged that de have rolled through Delatyn, 15 miles north of the Hungarian bor- der, where the Pass of the Tartars leads through the Carpathians into former Czechoslovakian territory given to *Hungary when Hitler dis- membered the Czechoslovak state. ADVANCE ON ODESSA LONDON, March 31. — The Red Army forces westward along the shore of the Black Sea have cap- fured Ochakov, 40 miles east of Odessa. The announcement was made tonight by Stalin. IR R Secrefary of $950,000 under the terms of the| cording to Rep. Smith, there will be increased tax on excises will come charge. protocol signed yesterday in Moscow and Japan promised to hand over to Russia all property including equipment, material, and food which belongs to Jap concessionares in Northern Sakhalin. Japan owns the southern half of Sakhalin, and Russia the northern half. Premature Surrender The President asked that the measure he is allowing to become law without his signature be amend- ed to permit all persons in uniform who have not received State ballots by an appropriate date, regardless of whether they applied formally for them, the use of the Federal ballot, without prior express author- ization by the State. from steeper liquor levies, with a $9 a gallon being imposed on hard liquors as compared with the pre- sent $6. A new $8 a barrel beer tax and wine increases from thirty- three and one-third to 100 percent. The rest comes from new rates that hike the costs of such luxuries as fur coats, jewelry and club mem- berships that make traveling more | 26,000,000 eligible for burial under existing regulations. That doesn't| {mean, of course, there are likely to be one-tenth that number of re- quests, but if there were only one one-hundredth, Arlington again would be forced to seek hundreds of new acres. {capital city of Manipur State, to iz | Kohimx, 60 miles north. 2 | The Japs have been able to lay |down mortar fire on the highway near Palel, 25 miles southeast otl | Valley has progressed to the south[ AlaskaGiven Salary Boost WASHINGTON, March 31. — A bill increasing the salary of the The oil and coal leases originally As in the last war, thousands of our boys will be buried overseas; thousands already have been. Many families will want their loved ones |expensive and send up bills on such (varied items as toilet goods, electric |light bulbs, telephone and tele- land Jap pressure remains heavy EI R 0 o p S | Imphal in the northern hill tracts. {bank of the Daru River, approxi- | | mately 50 miles north of Myitkyina, | the main Jap base. H |p' ‘ on the Tiddim road south of Imphal | ! | Stilwell’'s campaign in the Hertz $7,600 yearly, has passed the Senate and sent to the White House for Secretary of Alaska from $5600 to i ran until 1970 for the Russians to “ R I AKI“ supply Japan with oil from the Okhihnsky fields. After the war the Soviets promised the Japs free ex- port of oil and coal from the store- rooms in the concessioned territory in Northern Sakhalin. The view in London on Japan's surrender of the Sakhalin conces- sions so far ahead of schedule, con- stitutes strong evidence of Tokyo's desire to remain at peace with Rus- sia. The island’s coal and oil pre- sumably contributed heavily to the Jap war economy, and Loudon in- terpreted the premature surrender | as a-sacrifice to avert any dispute EASTER HOLIDAY WASHINGTON, March 31. — An Easter holiday from tomorrow until noon of April 12 has been voted by Congress. ————— — GUEST AT BARANOF A guest at the Baranof Hotel, A. C. Schlenker is here from Anchor- |age. o LGRS | AT GASTINEAU HOTEL buried iri home cemeteries, but Ar-|8raph services and on luggage. lington can't go on forever as our| g o0 8 only national cemetery ‘for service| e \FIVE TRUK ATOLLS Several suggestions have been made. One is that another ceme- tery be established on the Manas- isas, Va., battlefield, where the gov-| WASHINGTON, March 31.—Five islands in Truk atoll were pounded heavily by the Seventh Air Force |ernment already owns several thou- sand acres. The government .owns of Liberators last Wednesday night the Navy reported tonight. a dozen other memorials, where Heavy explosions and fires were area 'and beauty of the landscape would provide ideal burial sites for caused on Dublon, one of the larg- | inational heroes. | Another suggestion is that a num- ber of populous states join hands Fourtee n,—fh_ousand-lon Vessel of Convoy Hit by RAF Fighters LONDON, March 31.-—A 14,000 ton German troopship was torpedoed by the Royal Air Force in attacking Aviation 8%, New York Central ® German convoy off Norway, the 187%, Northern Pacific 16, UniN:d‘Brms? Admiralty announces. The |States Steel 52, Pound $4.04. ‘;:::"m;" L;:"};:;‘:" "5‘:)‘:" MX"“’ | Dow, Jones averages today are as 1054 © g B Al | averages today are as| .\ Jine, was hit twice by tor-| | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 31.—Closing 'quotatiop of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 6, American Can 86, | Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft 9, | Bethlehem Sieel 59, Curtissl | Wright 5%, International Harvester {71, Kennecott 30%, North American the sign@lum of President Roosevelt SMALL VESSELS REPORTED LOST MEDITERRANEAN ‘WASHINGTON, March 11. — The loss of 11 small naval craft in the Mediterranean was announced to- day by the Navy Department. The PALAU ISLE - BOMBED BY | U5 FORCES One Hundred Seventy-two .| Enemy PlanesDestroyed* in Extensive Raids UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, March 31.— Strong Pacific fleet forces started heavy attacks on the Japanese-held Palau Island, 1500 nautical miles west of Truk at dawn Wednesday, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an- ,nounces. Palau is 460 miles due east of the Philippines. The communique said the “at- tacks coutinue.” | Admiral Nimitz said the Japanese ships were observed fleeing from the Palau area before our fleet units reached the “attack po- sitions.” | The communique explained the task force had been sighted by the enemy. The fact the enemy ships fled is a definite indication the American task forces are probably the same overwhelming strength of aircraft carrier forces that attacked Truk on February 16 and 17 and the Marianas on February 22. 1 JAP PLANES DOWNED | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 31.—Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur’s heavy bombers smashed Jap- anese bases of Truk, Caroline (Islands, and Hollandie, New Guinea, on Wednesday and destroyed 172 enemy planes, Tt was the first bombing of Truk from the South Pacific. Liberator heavies in midday pierced the heavy Jap anti-aircraft fire and a score of more than 200 direct hits were scored on shops, hangar areas and parking areas and 49 planes on the ground were de- stroyed. Ninety Zeroes challenged the Lib- erators and from 5 to 20 enemy planes were shot down. The Ameri- can loss was one. Two hot waves of Liberators hit Hollandia, the first last Tuesday _night, and the second at midday {on Wednesday. The bombers from ‘Lhe Southwest Pacific bases smash- ed 108 planes on the ground. The Japanese put 40 interceptors in the air and lost 10 for certain, and seven other probably. The attack- ers losses are listed as “moderate.” Navy Catalinas struck Woleai in |the Carolines on Tuesday. This is |the Japanese seaplane base and air- field. Woleai is 380 miles south of Guam. CHAPLIN ON |STAND MAKES " ADMISSIONS LOS ANGELES, March 31.-Joan Berry spent the night “sporadically” at his Beverly Hills home after he signed a movie contract with her in ‘iJunv, 1941, Charlie Chaplin testi- tied under cross examination {his Mann Act trial today. He also took a yacht trip to Cat- {elina Island with his redhaired ac- jcuser and former protege, Chaplin admitted under questioning of Unit- ed States Attorney Charles Carr, Although the girl told him she was in love with him, the comedian declared he never confessed such feeling on his own part. TURKISH VESSEL at with Russia. atDtah‘: g::tfix; ‘x‘:e;:oglom Sitka, IS\ yith the federal government in es. ::t;e islands of the strong enemyfollows: industrials 13884, rails . fired by RAF Beaufighters, \Argest 10ss was a 700-ton mine e 5 tablishing national shrines within - 39.54, utilities 23.12. {pedpes_fired By AUIBRYETS, syeeper which carried a crew of AT BARANOF HOTEL ———————— Iihete et Towdack: ikt Fires were also started on Uman | e but pilots were unable to observe gp,.¢ 100, and the others SUNK Bv IORPEDO At the Baranof Hotel, Mr. and| McGRAW FROM SITKA Hie s dm't‘“f o [and Moen Islands. { ’ {the results beeause of intense flak. moto: mite"sweeper, a harbor r: % Mrs. M. Sarnberg are here from| Here from Sitka, R. F. McGraw i PR g BT, Only moderate antiaircraft fire(® ® o o o o o o -‘ Two escorting ships are believed ;.4 eight landmgpecr’an ;Y. et ' Skagway. is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. was encountered and all planes are|® WEATHER REPORT ®(to have been damaged, | No details were glw'“ although LONDON, March 31.-The sink- i L H ———————— AT HOTEL JUNEAU reported to have returned safely. |® (U. 8. Bureau) e| Two British planes were lost. !thg announcement said the losses ing of a 3,300 ton Turkish vessel RRIVES HERE SKAGWAY COUPLE HERE Here from Skagway, L. Sterling, ——ete—— ® Temp. Thursday, March 30 e| A Berlin broadcast picked up in'were due to a “variety of causes,” by an unidentified submarine in An arrival last night from Skag-| Mr. and Mrs. Victor Carufel, here|F. S. Duchemin and Lloyd N. War-| HERE FROM ANCHORAGE |® Maximum 43, Minimum 29 e |London, asserted seven out of 18 since January 29, and bring the total |the Aegean Sea yesterday is an- way, Evelyn Schwaiger is register-|from Skagway, are at the Baranof ner are registered as guests at the| From Anchorage, E. E. Richard-|® 'Rain 33 o attacking British planes were to 158 the number of naval yessels “ounced tonight by the Ankara ‘ed at the Baranof. lnoux, - 1Howl Juneau, son, is registered at the Baranof. '® ®© @ o e e © e e e e downed Jlost since the war started. radio.