The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1944, Page 1

“sixteen autonomous Soviet states, .interpreted by the Chicago Tribune “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI, NO. 9617. U.S. MAKES ATTACK NEAR PHILIPPINES JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1944 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS Rumanian Capital Bombed by U.S. Force BUCHAREST UNDER HEAVY RAID TODAY Second Raid in Two Days| Made on German De- | fenses in E. Europe ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| NAPLES, April 4—Big bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force subjected Bucharest to its first United States aerial bombardment today, while Russian troops pushed on by land 200 miles northeast of the Ruman- ian capital. R Liberators and Fortresses attsck-} ing in “considerable strength” struck at military objectives in Bucharest only 24 hours after they had given (Continued on Page Two) » The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON . 1. Robert S. Allen now ou active Pt service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — It hasn’t been officlally annotinged, but U. §. Am- bassador *W. Averell Harriman is coming back from the Soviet, per- haps for good. He has not been the success that was hoped. That {8 not necessarily a reflection on Harriman, because being a successful ambassador in Moscow is the toughest diplomatic assignment in the world. However, an ambassador is like a newspaper- mah. He is supposed to report on what Is going to happen in the country to which he is attached and he Is not supposed to getl scooped. Harriman, however, has been badly scooped on six different oc- casions. He has failed to notify the State Department in advance re-| garding six resounding Soviet slu_ps.! Slap No. 1 was against the British when Prayda, reported rumors _0( separate British peace talks with German Foreign Minister Ribbon- rop. No. 2 was the Izvestia slap at the Vatican. After this, the President couldn’t, help commenting sorrow- fully that there are several million Catholic voters in the U. S. A, and that the Russians couldn’t have thought of a better way to alienate them from FDR. No. 3 was Russia’s rebuff of Po- land’s government-in-exile, and the refusal of Allied intervention. Here again, there are some 3,000,000 Pol- ish voters in this country, most of whom went down the line for FDR from 1932 to 1840. . OTHER RUSSIAN SLAPS No. 4 was the Pravda slap at Wendell Willkie, who had. fought for more Russian lend-lease, raised the roof because the Red Army wasn't getting enough planes, and was one of Russia’s best friends in the U.S.A. i No. 5 was the announcement of and other isolationist - enemies of the President as being a move to outvote the Allies at the peace table. No. 6 was the recognition of the Badoglio government in Italy just two days after we had made up our minds to d¥tch Badoglio. - None of these incidents was re- ports in advancé by Harriman. However, the future of Mr. Harri- man is not considered nearly as im- portant-as the question of why Rus- sla slaps down her friends. Best ex- plahation in diplomatic circles is that the Russians wage a new type of aggressive diplomacy completely Junfamiliar to genteel U. S.-British diplomats. _The Russians know exactly what they want and keep after it. For two years theif chief aim has been the second fropt. And since Te-! heran, where a definite pledge was given, the Russigns have been dis- turbed over rumors that the sec- RUMANIANS WARNED T0 CAPITULATE Abandon Germans, Mos- cow Urges as Red Arm- ies Continue Advance \ BULLETIN — LONDON, April i 4—Tonight's Soviet commun- ique announces the capture of Khotin, one of the last centers of resistance in the Ukrainian trap where Moscow reported surrounding remnants of fif- teen German Divisions. LONDON, April 4—This morn- ing the Moscow radio made a |southward in Mogaung Valley lel ReportLull 'CASSINO IN In Fighting, | NAZIHANDS, ImphalArea 1S REPORT Allied Air Forces Have Ifalian Fascist Troops Join Taken Initiative on German Forces at Bay of Bengal Beachhead NEW DELHI, April 4—A lull in ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN the fighting on the Indian front | NAPLES, April 4.—Italian Fascist south of Imphal is reported today |troops have been sandwiched into and there is no fresh progress of |the German forces ringing the Al- Jap columns pressing on that coni- |lied beachhead below Rome as com- munication center from three direc- Partive tranquillity continued all tions in central Burma. Allied forces have been spear- f clashes and artillery fire are keeping headed elements of the Second 'he opposing armies on the alert. Chinese Division advancing steadily ' 1t 1s not known how many Italian in- troops are being employed at the the Peachhead or whether the move means some German units have ! been withdrawn. In many cases the | flicting heavy casualties on nemy. Allied forces have taken the in-| | along the Italian front. Minor patrol.| C.CHAPLIN'S Normal Flow ~ FATE NOW Of Halibutfo UPTOJURY Be Kept Up Convictions on Both Counts If Price Adjustment Not; Maximum Penalty $10,- . Enough 'Other Means’ | 000, 5 fo 10 Years fo Be Used ? £ e | LOS ANGELES, April 4. — The| WASHINGTON, April 4—As the| Federal Court jury of seven women Pacific halibut fleet made ready to| and five men retired at 11:02 A. M. istart the fishing season at midnight today to consider the verdict oflon April 15, Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson Charlie Chaplin’s Mann Act trial. JDeputy Coordinator of Fisheries, | Under instructions given by U. 8.|sajd the normal flow of halibut to| District Judge O'Connor, any oné market must be restored by some| !of four verdicts are possible: i | Guilty on two counts, guilty cm“ Seattle, normally the center of| the first and innocent on the sec-!i, = yhiteq States halibut trade,| jond, innocent on tl_m first and "““W‘mok a sharp decline last year be-| jon the second or innocent on both.| .. "0 o price schedules becom- | lmg effective in mid-season made ( The first count involves the trans- portation of Joan Berry, the comed- TWO ISLETS, | ADMIRALTIES | ARE SEIZED Thirteen Barges Bombed, Destroyed in Another Attack on Wewak ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 4—Furthef withdrawal of Bougain- ville Japs from the American Peri- meter at Empress Augusta Bay is noted. | The MacArthur communique also says estimates of Jap dead run up to 8,000. MacArthur also reports the seiz-| ure of islets Koruniat and Andrilo; off Manus Islands in the Admiral- KEY POINTIN JAP DEFENSE 15 SMASHED Palau, Yap, Woleai Under Showers of Bombs of U. §. Task Force MANY SHIPS ARE SENT DOWN WHILE AT ANCHOR Planes M.;y Have Gone Over Manila According fo Radio Alarm ties. WASHINGTON, April 4. — The broadcast in the name of the Sovlet'; § Government and called on the Ru-|jtiative on the Arakan front and manian people to abandon the Ge"]along the Bay of Bengal Allied Air mans and “capitulate at once.” |Squadrons have blasted numerous The broadcast was recorded bY jmportant Jap targets. the London Daily Mail and it also| i 5 said that unless you caplmme: “your whole country will become a battlefield and your towns and vil-, lages will be only a heap of ruins.” DESERTING BY THOUSANDS NEW YORK, April 4—Rumanian troops are deserting “by the thou- sands” and . skirmishes are occur-! rihg ‘ in mrany-regions between the| deserters and the Germans, a Bul- garian home radio said, quoting an Istanbul report that in the Danube' delta 30,000 soldiers are hidden with ! ITtalians are said to be placed be-iian’s former protege, from New York twoc_n German soldiers rather thancity in 1942, allegedly for immoral put in as units. purposes and the second is based The Rome radio asserted last{on her return journey to Los An- it more profitable for fishermen to iland their catches at Canadian and! Alaskan ports near the fishing| |grounds, said Gabrielson. i night that German troops have re- gained all of Cassino and its sub- urbs except the railroad station ' south of town. Louis Sloss Is Launched RICHMOND, Calif., April 4.—The rifles, machine guns, mines and| flame throwers, and are successfully | resisting punitive detachments scm’ against them.” This broadcast was, received here by the Federal Com- munication Commisston. MARCHING ON RUMANIA MOSCOW, April 4—Marching on | Rumania from the middle reaches| of the Prut River, the Red Army! miles beyond the Soviet frontier and | have reached a point eight miles north of Isai, important Rumanian | railway center and former head- quar_tcrs of the German southern| armies. | More than 50 populated points in- | side Rumania have been occupied| since the Russian troops entered the | country‘last week, the Russian com- munique declares and adding the! Soviet forces have cut the railroad| leading north from Iasi to Dorohoi,| 20 miles southwest of Czernowitz! while Konev's Second Ukrainian| Army waged a furious campaign! for subjugation of Rumania. | It is estimated that 208,000 Ger-| mans have been killed or cxptured| and war booty taken includes hun- | dreds of tanks, mortars, and thou-| sands of trucks. Military Mail by Air Remains al 6 | Cenl_s_llall Ounce HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, April 4.— Soldiers and civillans, whose mail is handled by Army postoffices in Seattle and Minneapolis, will continue to use a six-cent airmail rate for each half ounce of mail, according to 4 new pastomtze department ruling. The ruling removes Alaskan mili- tary mail from the domestic rate| zone and places it within the inter-| l)ational zone, on an equal basis with all other APO's outside the continental limits of the United| States. | Present domestic airmail rate is| eight cents per ounce or fraction| thereof. ! | | | i | | — HOPPIN AT BARANOF | Marshall C. Hoppin, CAA head for Alaska, and Paul G. Miller and Allan E. Hornin, all from Anchor- age, are at the Baranof Hotel. - WITH PUBLIC ROADS With the Public Roads Adminis- tration, H. P. Hart and Mrs. Hart ond front might not materialize| (Continued on Page Four) are arrivals here. They are at the Baranof Hotel. | Liberty ship Louis Sloss, named for | the pioneer and organizer of the| Alaska Commeycial Company, was| launched here last’ night by the| Republican Ballofing Wil Test Willkie's Strength It Is Caimed ke !” Last Friday, the OPA published | | convictions on both counts in-new price schedules designed to Im‘ve a maximum of $10,000 fine bring about an equitable distribu- and five to ten years imprisonment. |tion, whereby fishermen taking| ! Judge O'Connor instructed the their halibut to Seattle get two and| {jury that they should conviet Chap- |one-half cents more a pound than {lin if they decide that he caused |at Prince Rupert. ithe girl's interstate transportation| Gabrielson ‘said that if the new {for immoral purposes or aided in|prices don't sucgeed in establishing such transportation with that in-la normal flow through Seattle, hie et SF T et iee -mag use other ‘mesns such ! ’ S i las allocating a certain weight of | ; !fish to Seattle, forcing the vessels| wM GER'G to comply by withholding licenses. | | L The Fish and Wildlife Service said the regulations will allow »a catch of 51,000,000 pounds this year STOP PROBE Thirteen loaded barges were de- stroyed by airmen in attacking We- | wak and 120 tons of bombs were| dropped on Hansa Bay between We- | wak and Madang. ‘The round the clock raids on Ra-! baul continue. TRUMAN TOLD American Naval Task Force which smashed Japan's Palau Island stronghold near the Philippines, al- so struck Yap and Woleai in the Caroline chain, sinking or damag- ing every ship in those three enemy bases. Secretary of Navy PFrank Knox announced that one Jap in was sunk near Palau, two near Wo- leai, in addition to ships caught at anchor, ' 10 60 HOME; Heayy A1 S told the newsmen at the conf today, there has been a heavy strike in the Paclific but there is no way to estimate the exact number ‘of enemy ships hit in the lagoons lof the atolls, e | PASSES ON | | Knox ulfl Palau 1s a key point in the Jap defense system and lies about 500 miles east of Mindanao Jeffers Séy_sWest Coast Slogs was active for years in op- | tion | the |Smuts told the Senate today that MILWAUKEE, April 4.—The Na- ©rations in Alagka. today watched for possible The sponsor was Mrs. Hattie surprises as Wisconsin went to the SI0S8, wife of Judge M. C. Sloss, polls today to elact National Repub- former member of the California lican convention delegates from a Supreme Court and the son of thi {1s reported to have penetrated 11|field pledged variously for four Re- Alaska pioneer . - Lana Turner Quifs Hubby - HOLLYWOOD, April 4. — Lana Willkie is the only one of the Turner anounces she has separated four Republican presidential possi- from her husband, Stephen Crane, bilities that actually campaigned stock broker, but declined to say in the state, the others being Stas- when, if or what grounds, divorce sen, Dewey and MacArthur. will be sought. publican presidential prospects. Politicians eyed the Republican balloting chiefly to test Willkie's strength in view of his barnstorm- ing effort here. Interest in the Democratic side is limited to the fact there is no presidential contest, the name of Roosevelt being tihe only name list- 9,118 Planes Manpo\?ier}ho;lggels Are Produced During March WASHINGTON, April 4. — The| record-smashing ' warplane produc- | tion for March was 9,118 planes| delivered, eclipsing the previous rec- ord by nine percent, reported Charles Wilson, vice-chairman of the War Production Board. Although Wilson indicated the drafting fathers?” March rate is not contemplated as{ I can't. The very term “man- regular output, the month's|power shortage” is an anomaly. production rate would amount to; There isn't really any “manpower fsome industries and industrial cen- iters screaming. Seasonal industries Now, suddenly, for the first time since preparation for this war start- CAPETOWN, South Africa, April 4—Prime Minister Jan Christian Parfially E By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 4—A visit- g editor asked me the other day: “Can’t you clarify the manpower ishortage and all this talk about 109,461 planes a year. shortage” in this country. There is T ian unequal distribution of man- Sou'h A' ] | power (and womanpower) that has I4 fishing and agriculture during K A {harvest) have been the hardest hit. eeps Armed led, the military forces are running {behind schedule. The Army and Navy set their mid-1944 sights at approximately 11,500,000 men. Some months ago, the draft boards began to. drop be- hind until now they are around three-quarters of a million short. In addition, there will have to be at least a half-million service replace- ments by July 1. That means that without disrupting vital industries or agriculture, the armed forges are i South Africa will not disarm after' the present war for “although there will be great expense to the coun- try, we must be kept in a state of preparedness for years." ————.—o— AT BARANOF HOTEL At the Baranof, G. 8. Newhouse is here from Seattle, Permanent Metals Corporation. | Jil ‘, \Former Engineer in Charge NEw NAVA[ Draffing Fathers Talk " of Anchorage Division, | | "oAlans(k:rRa.%?lslsmn ~ DISTRICT IN NORTHLAND ARKADELPHIA, Ark., April 4.— William Gerig, 78, who was en- | gineer-in-charge of construction on| i Ithe Anchorage division of the' ‘;Allska Railroad about 25 years ago,’ WASHINGTON, Apri] 4. — The| !and.one of the best known civil en-'creation of a new naval district ‘ginuvrl of the south, died at his comprising Alaska and the Aleu-, tians was announced by Navy Sec- retary Frank Knox, who said it will! be called the Seventeenth District and will be commanded by Rear Admiral F. E. M. Whiting, of Wa-| tertown, New York, with temporary | headquarters at Adak, and an office will also be maintained in Alaska. Whiting has been commander of | a southeast Pacific force, was ‘in command of a destroyer division! from 1938 to 1940, and has served in various recruiting assignments. 'He was born in New York City 53 years ago, and was graduated from Anapolis in 1912 | home here on Monday. | @Gerig was head civilian engineer lin the Washington office of Chiet of Army Engineers and consult- ing engineer of the Barge Canal of New York. He also .had charge of the Gatum Dam on Panama |Canal. xplained; MEMBERS OF STAFF SEATTLE, April 4—Rear Admiral Whiting, First Commandant of the newly created Seventeenth Naval { District, has issued a statement ex-| Igoing to have to find 1,250,000 men |pressing the belief the “Navy De- | quickly. | partment i§ separating Alaska from From the military and war pm-‘the ‘Thirteenth Naval District recog- duction standpoint, the easiest out:n\ud the great importance Alaska would be a national service act tojwill play in the war in the future” permit the efficient shifting of man| Members of his staff include :and womanpower. Such proposed|Comdr. J. 8. MacKinnon, Chief of {regimentation has met with s0!Staff; ‘Capt. R. H. Meade, Public many objections that it's almost safe to say it won't happen here— at least until after the election, and probably not even then. The alternative 1s reclassification of deferments and a considerable draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. There’s no reason now to revise the| odds I set some months ago. A pre-Pearl Harbor father has about one chance in ten or twelve of! being inducted. Selective Service officials estimate there are around, Comdr. E. 7. Officer; Operation Officer; Friedlander, Intelligence |Lt. T. M. Felt, Personnel Officer. - SAN SALVADOR, April 4. — A i | " Knows War Is On But |are at war and a war is on, but Works Officer; Comdr. J. H. White, | |Lt. Jack G. McBride, legal aide and | 2,700,000 men in 3-A and that they will be lucky if they .can get a quarter-million out of that after oc- cupational and physical deferments have been made. The 1-A’s and those who reach their 18th birthdays will bring the military forces (with those mention- ed above) within a quarter-million = (Continued on‘l’lg«e‘ Two) revolutionary movement against the government of President Gen. Maz- |imiliano Martinez, broke out last Sunday but was put down immed- iately, it is anounced. Quiet prevails in the Capital City of this republic and the inhabitants are going about their usual occupa- |tions. From Anchorage, Norman N. Phil- lips is at the Hotel Juneau. Washington Doesn’t LOS ANGELES, Calif, April 4— William Jeffers, Railroad President and former Rubber administrator, told the members of the Senate Truman Committee and more than 1,000 dinner guests honoring the Senators, the West Coast indus- trialists would do a better job at| war work if investigators would| pack and go home. “We on the west coast know we evidently Washington does Jeffers asserted. Truman, redfaced, declined the invitation of his hosts to make a reply. not,"” | ———————— TRUK ATOLLS AREBOMBED WASHINGTON, April 4.—Ameri- can fliers are continuing almost daily bombings of Truk and hit two islands in the lagoon of that Jap base but returned safely despite attempted interception of three en- lemy planes. | The Navy said the islands of Dublon, largést in that Pacific atoll, and Eten were both attacked many times previously. lued to attack Ponape east of Trul | > SOLDIER BALLO! Meanwhile other bombers contin- led planes had reached the k.| Pine capital city or whether the big. southern island of the Phil- ippines. Yap and Woleai are east of Palau. Woleai has an unusually good anchorage. Yap is used principally as a com- munications center. Secretary Knox said the first re- {ports showed the strike began on March 30 and continued through April 1. It Is indicated our airplane |losses were eight fighters, 11 bomb- ers and eight torpedo bombers. There is no indication any damage was done to American warships. Knox sald only meagre details have been received so far because of the necessity of maintaining a radio silence until the Task Force has completed its mission. He described an “interesting slant” in the Palau raid by the fact the air raid alarm was sounded over Manila. “We don't know whether one uf cur planes went over Manila and threatened them or if they knew of the attack close to the Philip- pines,” Secretary Knox said. i AIR RAID ALARM NEW YORK, April 4 controlled Manila radio the program at 7 o'clock nounced “All clear signal throughout the city of @ Manila.” s The broadcast was U. 8. Government m It was not indicated a practice alert. 3 TOKYO ] NEW YORK, April 4- “Tokyo s COMMISSION 1S . NOW ORGANIZE machinery for the service vote. Governors and secretaries of dates. 5 Secretary of Navy Frank Knox is vice chairman, and the third member is Rear Admiral Land, the War Shipping head. | WASHINGTON, April 4—A|ships; an aireraft carrier and |three man United States War Bal-|vessels, also downed 80 An {lot Commission has been organized |Planes. with Secretary of War Henry L.| The Tokyo claims are wi Stimson as chairman to operate the|confirmed. . : states have been notified and ask-|® ed to provide information regarding|® both primary and general election|® radio quotes an Headss quarters communique d‘hhg Ji airmen intercepted Americs Task Force south of and heavily damaged two baf -