The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1944, Page 1

e VOL. XLI., NO. 9616. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RED ARMY FORCES KEEP SMASHING ON Japanese Patrols Keep Filtering into India NAVYPLANES CHINESE IN NIPS AIMING AT LIFELINE OF STHWELL imphal Also Threatened by Encirclement - Com- mandos in Action NEW DELHI, April 3.--Japanesg patrols are filtering through the| jungles in eastern India into the| Manipur Plain to cut the roads around Imphal, Manipur capital, in an offensive obviously aimed at Dimapur on the Assam-Burma Rail- way, the lifeline of Stilwell’s forces. The question of whether airborne supplies might be dropped to the Imphal garrison is answered here by the statement that this will not be necessary as the crisis would be | overcome before such action is need- ed. Dimapur is 44 miles across Naga Hills where head hunters from Khima, 60 miles north of Imphal, ~ "Continued on Page Three) ——e———— The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt WASHINGTON — Inside the Al- lied High Command, a private “I- told-you-so” debate is now going on! as to who was responsible for get- ting the Allies boxed in Italy. U.S. Army chiefs privately point an ac-! cusing finger at Winston Churchill. The British} on the other hahd, point a finger at General Marshall. As nearly as an impartial observer can ascertain, there was some blame | on both sides, with the iaci reason- ably clear that neituer Unitd States nor England & ly wenied| to strike the peninsula of It 1t was pointed out one year avo han’ a campaign up the Ita 2 ain-i +here vos even | v circles, bat Huler coud want| wethi han o have us in-‘, vitle Central and Northern Italy. | Nevertheless, thet is exactly ‘where We are now. i As far as this observer can piece the story together, here is how it| happened. At each conference between Churchill and Roosevelt, the ques- tion of a second front in Western Europe has arisen, and each time Churchill has said no. sula would land us @ we i are now sald e and again during the Washington conference in the ‘following May and June. During the May-June conterenee,lln the Northern Solomons and also the Allies were cleaning the last|{shows the American infantry is remnants of the Nazis out of Tu- nisia, and the big question was whether to strike next into Western France or into the Balkans. Am- erican war chiefs favored the cross- Channel drive, which the Russians had so long demanded. The Brit-tion are exhausted or fleeing deeper ish favored the Balkans. Both sides agreed that Sicily and the extreme southern boot of Italy must be taken in order to clean out Nazi submarines and protect Allied ship- ping in the Mediterranean, ' ALL AGAINST ITALIAN CAMPAIGN But the plain, inescapable fact is that neither side wanted to invade Central or Northern Italy. There was talk of striking through the islands of Sardinia and Corsica to the French Riyiera, but no one|ways smashed. All planes returned| wanted to ge up the Italian penin- sula and risk being trapped in a harrow area, with no room to man- euver and with the Alps to cross even after Italy was taken. So, after some rather tough talk- ing on both sides, it was finally agreed that Germany would get ad- ditional months of pounding from the air and that the second front across the Chanpel would be post- poned until German airplane fac- tories and Channel fortifications _— (Continued ‘on Page Four) |enemy positions in This was|Daval blockade has paralyzed enemy true at Casablanca in January, 1943,| communications,” the official re-| i | i | | | | {into the jungles to await death by MORE HITS -German ARESCORED, Convoy TRUK ATOLL Is Sunk However, Killed-Ten | ~other Successin Reporfed Wounded | Adriatic UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, April 3-—The Seventh Air Force Liberators pounded Dublon, central island of the Truk atoll, last Friday for the fourth strike on the enemy’s big base in the Carolines for th2 fourth straight night, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announces. The Seventh Air Force attacks combined with strikes by Solomon based South Pacific Liberators make | a total of eight bombing blastings on the Japanese stronghold in four days. The Seventh's Liberators encoun- | tered only two Jap interceptors. | Army Mitchells have also hit| Ponape and Marine planes hit three the Marshalls. ‘raids returned | NAPLES, April 3.—French warships wiped out an enemy convoy and its escort in the Adriatic. The Allied headquarte; encmy freighters and wars sunk by light French forces which | withdrew without damage or casual- ties. No details were given as to the time and place of the attack, but presumably it is a continuation of the Allied plan to sever German communications forces in the Bal- kans. aid both > HIGH COURT "RULING ON NEGROVOTE Airplanes in the safely to bases. AIRMEN ARE LOST ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 3.~Details of the raid on Truk last Wednesday disclosed that 20 Amer- ican airmen were killed, and 10“ wounded. Thirty one Jap planes were de- isi i Sy Decision Is Eight to One- S e DEATH FACES 100,000 NIPS | turning its previous rulings so fast Majority Quotes 15th Amendment WASHINGTON, April 3. — The Supreme Court, reversing its posi- tion of nine years ago in the face of bitter dissent of Justice Roberts, ruled that Negroes have the right to vote in the Texas Democratic WASHINGTON, April $ hopeless future, death by guns,|S8Mme class as a restricted railroad starvation or disease, Taces approx- | Ucket “good this day and train Yonly.' He said that earlier in this imately 100,000 Japs on besieged islands in the South and Southwes! Pacific. |policy of the court freely to dis- This is the graphic survey by thpiregard and overrule its considered Pacific fighting Army and par“.ayed(decisions on rules of law announced The Nipponese in the grip of a re~| Y _them. lentless sea and air blockade coup- “This tendency, it seems to me, led with direct onslaughts against|indicated intolerance of what those them. |who composed this court in the “A continuous aerial and artil- |PAst conscientiously and deliberately lery bombardment of enemy insml.}c”““l“de"-" lations and seizure of strategic points by our ground forces, also IMPORTANT DECISION WASHINGTON, April 3. — The Supreme Court, decision that the Negroes have the right to vote in the Texas Democratic primary and nominate candidates to Congress was delivered by Justice Reed. The eight to one decision is of far- Ireachmg importance to those south- ern states where the choice of the primary is usually equivalent to ports say. This is the lot of the Japanese in§ the Marshalls and the Bismarcks| beating the Japs at their own game, Jjungle fighting, inflicting casualties at a ratio of 30 to 1. 3 The Japs now face the alterna-|election. tive of standing and giving combat| The majority opinion says, “The until their supplies and ammuni-{rlshl to vote in such a primary and nomination of candidates without discrimination by the state is like the right to vote in the general election, and is secured by the Con- stitution by the terms of the 15th Amendment, and that right may {not be abridged by any state on ac- count of race under our constitu- tion. “The great privilege of choosing our rulers may not be denied man {by the state because’ of color.” The case was brought by Lonnie Smith, Houston Negro, who was ex- icluded from voting in the 1940 pri- starvation or disease. TRUK ATOLL HIT AGAIN APRIL 1 WASHINGTON, April 3. — Wide ranging United States Air ,Forces struck again at Truk atoll on April 1, and fires were started and run- \mary by election judges in Texas. safely, Admiral Nimitz reports. S AV, AT BARANOF HOTEL R. W. Rockwell and M. W. Mc- SCORE HITS ONTIRPITZ ship Bombed in Nor- way's Alten Fjord 'planes scored several bomb hits on ! miralty announced. j wa, Royal Navy's submarines |last September. The Admiralty’s announcement of the multiple hits indicated a heavy attack on the biggest surviv- ing unit of Hitler’s all but vanished | battle fleet. { The attack presumably was car- iried out by carrier based planes of /the Fleet Air Arm. The last pre- | vious reports of the Tirpitz was that | the Germans were able to make only ilempormt\' repairs after the torpedd idmlmue inflicted by the British midget subs which stole into the hideaway. The brief Admirally communigue !did not give the date or other de- ltalls of the plane attac 'BEACHHEAD ON " BOUGAINVILLE NOW EXTENDED i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ‘[THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April i 3.—American forces have expanded | the beachhead permieter at Empress | Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island, ir | the Solomons, Gen. Douglas Mac- {Arthur announces and on New | Guinea, the main American forces |are moving on Madang, key Japa- (nese base and are within 13 miles midget 3 — al|the High Court decision fell in the| o Bogadjim, which is 20 miles south of Madang. American bombers, seeking to pul- verize Rabaul, also dropped 200 . |court term he protested “the present | bombs, hitting airdromes and dam- | aging shipping. Two small mer- chantmen were sunk. 'MOTHER T0 FACE MURDER CHARGE "IN GIRL'S DEATH | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.—Mrs. Louise Flack, 28, mother of crippled Dolores, 8, whose body was found in a crib in a locked basement apartment last week, will be brought |back from her native town of Iola, Kansas, to face a charge of murder. Coroner J. J. Kingston said a bottle containing a sleeping potion was found in the dead child’s room. First reports indicated the little girl had starved to death several | weeks ago. | The police. have been unable to {contact Marvin Flack, reported project. lchild are estranged. S e SUSPECTED FIRE BUG ARRESTED SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 3. | —A man identified by the police as Geerge Stoneham, 48, who escaped from the Veterans’' Base Hospital at Palo Alto, is held for questioning 1in connection with the New Am- | sterdam Hotel fire that claimed 22 lives last Tuesday. working on a Yukon construction| The parents of the dead | | VIOLATION, . REDBORDER | Twenty Kot Airmen, | French Warships Score An- | Germany's Largest Battle- Claim Madé that Planes i Bombed Towns in Mon- i golian Republic ' Mongolian Peoples’ Republic, and Ips Were where she was torpedoed by the fleeing from Sinkiang. The. dispatch said government (leaders of the Mongolian Peoples’ Republic are convinced if other vio- lations occurred, the Soviet govern- ment would be asked to render all aid needed to correct the situation. | Under a dateline of Ulan Bator, the capital of the Mongolian Re- public, the dispatch quoted “‘well informed sources” as saying the Sinkiang authorities began a forced evacuation of a great number of Kazakhs from the Altai Mountain district to the southern districts of Sinkiang at the end of last year. Many families did not want to movef and fled to the Mongolian Republe to hide, the dispatch said, adding that Chinese troops then began chasing them. Chinese planes vio- lated the border by bombing towns wnd villages. > R | 'The dispateh gave no explanation of why the Shinkiang authorities (were seeking to evacuate the Kaz- akhs foreibly from Sinkiang, China’s northwestern province, which par- allels the Soviet Union border from the high Pamirs of India on the |south to the Altai Mountains on the Mongolian frontier on the north. —_———- AMERICANS - KILLED BY | Destroyer Shells Landing Craft at Einewtok Atoll by Mistake WASHINGTON, April 3.—A Paci- fic Fleet announcement disclosed that three American landing craft were shelled accidentally by a United States destroyer at Eniwe- Itok Atoll on February 22, killing 13 men and wounding 46 The Navy said the mishap occcurr- ed because both destroyer and land- ing vessels were slightly ocut of their scheduled positions and the visi- bility restricted. ————— MANY KILLED BY AMERICANS, RAID ~ON SWISS €Ty BERN, April 3.—American bomb- ers destroyed a large part of the historical Swiss city of Schaffhaus- en, killing from 30 to 50 and wound- ing 100 or more in a shower of ibombs last Saturday morning, the Nese Zuercher Zeitung declared, tin northern Switzerland on the Rhine River just below the German border. Apparently the bombing was a mistake. » First reports said the industrial city of 20,000 population was a scene U.S.SHIP quoting an eyewitness from the city | Donald, from Seattle, are registered at the Baranof. R e HAMILTONS HERE Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hamilton, of Ketchikan, are registered at the Baranof Hotel. e o SR IN FROM ANGOON In from Angoon, Fred E. Brandes is staying at the Gastineau. FIFTH WAR LOAN 1O OPEN JUNE 12 WASHINGTON, April 3. — The | sixteen billion dollar Fifth War Loan |will open June 12. The quota for individual Americans is set at six billion dollars. The drive is the largest yet undertaken by the Treas- ury Department and will close July 8 Sgt. Otto Schrann, Highway Pa- |of destruction and horrer, the en- trolman, arrested Stoneham in a |tire populace working madly to dig parking lot. He said he had a gallon |{out victims from the ruins and container filled with gasoline and |fighting fires still blazing late Sat- several newspapers giving an ac- jurday afternoon. !count of the hotel fire. Stoneham | Rallroad traffic was halted and denied any connection with the !there was no telephone communica- tragic blaze tion. e HERE FROM HAINES B FROM WHITEHOR . Baranof, Is here from Haines. erick M. Tyvoil is at the Baranof. Halibuters FIRSTRAID 1ASI SECTOR | - Won'tSail' MADEBYU.S. NEXT OBJECT . ForAlaska {Seattle Fishermen,Profest- | ing OPA Selling Price, I to Remain in Port \ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN LONDON, April 3—British naval|! MOSCOW, April 3—The ofricial! SEATTLE, April 3—Harold Lok-, LONDON, April 3. oviet News Agency, Tass, declared | ken, manager of the Seattle Fish»‘;l,lou of American heavy bombers | scored another success in action |the Germans’ most powerful’ battle- yesterday that Chinese troops from ing Vessel Owners' Association, said | attacked Budapest, carrying out the | against the Germans when they gship, the 35,000 ton Tirpitz, the Ad- Binkiang violated the border of the |Seattle fishermen protesting the {new halibut ceiling prices, have | further negotiaticns. The first igroup of halibut boats was to leave |on Wednesday. 3 | Earlier Lokken said the ceiling prices as announced last Saturday by the OPA would mean a huge loss in the earnings of the fisher- !men. Fish dealers favored the dif- | ferential, but wanted it accompan- lied by increasing the ceiling prices Ithree cents a pound. CITY ELECTION IS TOMORROW, SAM.T07PM. Mayor, Councilmen, School Board Directors, Milk Issue to Be Decided Juneau voters will go to the polis tomorrow to elect a Mayor, three City Councilmen, two School Di- irectors and to vote on one ordi- nance, relative to milk, | There are two candidates for May- or, A. B. (Cot) Hayes, heading the Frogressive ticket, and Herb J. Waugh, Independent. | There are six candidates for the | City Council, three to be eclected. | The candidates are Ralph H. Beist- (line, Independent; John D. Ken- gressive ticket; Edward S. Neilsen, |Independent; Don W. Skuse, Pro- gressive ticket, and Dr. William M. Whitehead, Progressive ticket. For School Board Director, Dr. ‘Joseph O. Rude is the only candi- date for the three-year term. For !the two-year term, there are threg {candidates, one to be elected. The |candidates are Ralph W. Mize, |Glenn G. Oakes and Mrs, C. L. | Popejoy. . Milk Proposition | On a separate ballot is the milk | | proposition. This ballot puts the question plainly as follows: “Are you in favor of a city ordinance re- quiring that all milk sold within the limits of the City of Juneau be | pasteurized?” 1If you are in favor ! of the ordihance, you vote “yes"” and |if opposed to any such ordinance you vote ‘“no.” In explanation, three dairies, under one name, supply pasteurized milk while the fourth dairy supplies what is called raw milk. Passage of the ordiance would prohibit raw milk being sold in Jungau‘ It might also be added that all herds of milk cows are inspected by a government veterinarian. The polls open at 8 o'clock to- morrow morning and close at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. The poll- ing place for Precinct No. 1 is in the fire apparatus room in the City Hall Building, Precinct No. 2 is in the PAA office on Triangle Plate, and Precinct No. 3 is in the Juneau Dairfes Building. Incidentally, don't forget liquor establishments, including cocktail lounges, are closed during the elec- tion hours, . —— e, —— SKAGWAY THEATRE IS DESTROYED BY FLAMES The Broadway Theatre at Skag- way was recently totally detroyed by fire, according to the owner, James Tropea, now in Juneau and a guest at the Gastineau. No one was injured but a quantity of film was burned in the blaze. p R DAVIDSON HERE William Davidson, registered at Helen L. Lapham, a guest at the Arriving from Whitehorse, Fred|the Hotel Juneau, is here from An- Perrault are guests at the Baranof chorage, where he is with the CAA. nedy, Independent; Harry Lea, Pro- ! . ONHUNGARY Targets in Budapest Struck j by Italy-based Am- 4 erican Bombers A great forma- | tirst United States attack on the Hungarian capital. The bombers | The Tirpitz was skulking in Nor-‘!hm Chinese planes bombed towns agreed to remain in port pending | flew from bases in Italy. s Alten Fjord at the same spot and villages and strafed Kazakhs | clarification of the situation and The Berlin radio told of violent ! battles between the American and pest, a railway center and an im- ‘of the capital, which were the tar- {gets of the Fifteenth Air Force, the Naples announcement said. Budapest, one of Europe's most beautiful cities, lies on both sides |of the Danube. As a result of the bombing of Germany’s industrial centers, the Reich is reported mov- ing factories to Hungary, and also are relying on the production es- tablished in Hungarian factories. Details of the attack were not im- | mediately announced, bhut it is known to be a very big one. It followed Sunday’s heavy bomber rald on Steyr, Austria, in which more than 500 Italy-based bombers escorted by Thunderbolt and Light- {ning fighters took part. More than 300 German planes at- tacked the Steyr raiders, and more than 100 of the attacking aircraft were downed, the U. S. Air Force said. Budapest is 450 miles northeast of the Allied airbase at Foggia, Italy. Other Liberator and Fortress for- mations bombed several Yugoslav- ian railroad yards. Thirty-three Allied planes are missing in nearly 2,220 sorties yesterday, NAZI FLAME THROWERSIN NEW ATTACK Allied Forces Beaf Them Back-Third Peak Occu- pied by Fifth Army ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NAPLES, April 3.—Allied troops ‘have smashed an attack of German flame throwers on the left flank the Allies have occupied the third | ¥ifth Army front. ‘The flame throwers spearheaded | the attack of about 150 German infantrymen against the beachhead that began about an hour before dusk last Friday after a heavy mor- tar barrage was launched in the same vicmlt} as previous raids. ‘The Germans have forced a slight withdrawal of the Allies from posi- tions about one mile and a half southwest of Carroceto, 20 miles he- low Rome. CASSINO AGAIN IN NAZ! HANDS LONDON, April 3. — The Rome have regained all of Cassino and its suburbs with the exception of the railway station south of the town. There is no Allied sources. Pighting subsided in the wrecked Ttalian town since the failure of the Allied offensive, the broadeast further stated. e e WEEKEND ARRIVALS confirmation from Arriving this weekend from Whitehorse, Ruth Kinney and Doris Hotel. | German planes over Hungary, Buda- | | portant aircraft factory just south | of the beachhead below Rome and' peak in the center of the main| radio today declares German troops | - OFRUSSIANS |Soviets State Invasion Nof | Aimed af Seizing Ru- | manian Territory ; BULLETIN' :~LONDON. April 3.—~The capture of 50 places in Rumania and cutting 1 of the Isai-Dorohi railroad in | Rumania is announced tomight | | by Moscow. The railroad borders Prut and much of its route from Isai to Dorohi, 80 miles te the northwest. LONDON, April 3—Red Army troops, having smashed® across the | Prut River for the first invasion of | Axis soll, are reported driving across eastern Rumania toward the Danube River delta and the Carpathian Mountains, as Moscow announced ' that other Russian forces have struck to within 19 miles of Odessa, 150 miles to the southwest. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molo- tov, ‘announcing the invasion of Rumania, said it was dictated by military necessity, and is not aimed at selzing “any part of Rumanian territory.” The statement was warmly wel- comed in British circles. e Rusthen catALgHE T4 fo identify the exact location of the several announced crossing of the Prut, but Berlin said the main So- viet drive in Rumania is in the Iasi sector, less than 200 miles north- east of Bucharest and the Polesti oil fields. Berlin reports added that “all the Rumanian army is joined in battle with the Russians,” and martigl Jaw has been proclaimed at Bucharest, Iasi Objective | Moscow dispatches said Iasi is the apparent immediate objective of | General Konev's Second Ukrainian Army, 10 miles west of the Prut, and a key Rumanian rallway center, where the lines branch southwest- ward to Bucharest and northwest- ward to captured Czernowitz, 115 miles away, and Gertsa, 20 miles to the southeast. : Czerniwitz is on the north Ru- manian border, and was taken by | troops of Zhukov’s First Ukrainian Army yesterday. Moscow said it is believed likely that Soviet spear- heads also crossed into Rumania at | this' point. ALASKA COMPANY PROHIBITED FROM HIGH WAGE PAY SEATTLE, April 3.—An tion prohibiting the Arctic Exploration, Inc., payimg the | ent wages on its placer miine erty, 150 miles northeast of N which the U. S. Departs Labor contended is a vio the fair labor standards, |granted by U. S. District | Lloyd Black. | At the same time, |turned down the D |tition for a . similar in 'against the Alasks Pacific Conse dated Comj which operates ! {gold mine about 75 miles from ! chorage. _ ’ | Judge Black Arctic was the manner 1 ‘man, is ents good wages, but