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XLL, NO. 9618. . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMB| ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CRIVI3 PRlCh TEN CENTS NAZI TROOPS TRAPPED IN ODESSA AREA Jap ALLIES ARE ATTEMPTING NORTHMOVE American, mese Forces| Make Deep Penefra- tion in One Sector NEW DELHI, April 5.—Jap invad- ers in India are reliably reported to be holding the 15-mile stretch of the road midway between Imphal| on the Manipur plain and Kohima, 60 miles north of there and they must establish in pre-monsoon weather, worthy lines of communica- | tion within six weeks or disastrously | lose a long gamble for the Assam | Railway, Allied lifeline in the south. | The East Asia communique an- nounced that Jap pressure had in- creased along the whole Assam front | and it told of successful rear guard | action by British and Indian troops in withdrawing from the south, up (Continued on Page Six) - - The Washingtion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (@Lt. Col. Rn!m-z 8! Allen now on’active serviee with the Army.) WASHINGTON—With more and| more fathers being drafted, the Senate Military Affairs Committee has dug into some amazing facts re- | garding loafing in war plants. !n‘v a secret quiz, behind closed doors.| they have heard witness after wn- ness testify how war plants were | hoarding labor, how men who loaf- ed more than they worked were being deferred, and how the surplus of labor in some plants only gum- | med things up and decreased elm— iency. The secret testimony is so as- tounding that some Senators, hitherto opposed to a national ser- vice act, are beginning to wonder whether that is the only solution. Here are samples of the testimony which has amazed them: H. R. Gibson, machinist, in the Mobile yard of the Alabama Dry- dmk and Shipbuilding Company, | sqd he quit his job because “I wasn't allowed to work.” On one ogtasion, Gibson said, he and three othér machinists sat for three days doing nothing because a welder wasn't assigned to help repair a motor foundation, though there were a number of unengaged welds ers in the yard. “That should have been a seven- hour job,” Gibson stated. “Loafing 1ike” that was going on all the time all over the yard. You would see two or three men standing here,| two or three standing over there, and two or three more carrying on a, conversation and not doing any work. The whole yard was on the verge of ‘I don't care.'” WORKERS TOLD TO “HIDE” “Does that run down from the foreman to everybody?” asked Sen-! ator Homer Ferguson of Michigan. | “It runs down to the lowest paid employee,” replied Gibson. “In other words, they can see that the management doesn't care, and of course the foreman says, ‘Go ofr somewhere and hide.’” “Is there any talk about the Gov- ernment paying the bills ‘so why worry?’” inquired Ferguson. “Oh, sure, everybody knows that the Government is footing the bill,” Gibson said that Maritime Com- mission inspectors, who were sup- posed to check on production, “stayed in the office” most of the time. When asked if the inspect- ors witnessed the loafing, the wit-| ness replied: “Sure—I have dis- cussed it with lots of them.” He told of overhearing a yard! superintendent telling a prospective employee, a man about 50 years old: “Now the gang I'm going to put you in, won't do any work at all. All you have to do is go out there and hide.” Gibson said that a plan he had ' Mlies Occupy Rambutyo |and the |St. Ann’s Hospital, will be held to- WRECKED IN | GIANT RAID Island-Truk Gets 46 | Tons of Bombs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Apr:l‘\ 5.—Lt. Gen. Kenney sent 300 planes against Hollandia on Sunday in the biggest raid ever attempted by |the Fifth Air Force. When the attack ceased after an hour and a half of steady bomb- | lardment, the big Jap base in north- | west New Guinea was a mass of | smoking wreckage. More than 400! tons of bombs were dropped in the rdid, and every one of the 288 Jap planes were destroyed, the MacAr~ thur communique asserted, and 26 intercepting Jap craft were shot jdown. I The communique also announced the occupation of Rambutyo Is- land southwest of Manus Island, cond largest fi the Ad-' miralty group. } Allied bombers again hit Truk, | dropping 46 tons of bombs on docks and warehouses. BOMBLOADS AGAIN RAIN ONGERMANY Varied Afla(ks Made After| | Three-Day Lull-Invas- | ion Coast Pounded | (By Assmmled Press) United States Liberators attacked military objectives in the Pas de' Calais area of France today, Air Force Headquarters said, as the | Liberators flying with a strong es- cort of Thunderbolts reopened the | Allied aerial pounding of Europe | from the west after a three-day lull. | The Berlin radio said that other bomber fleets were over central Ger- many in mid-afternoon, keeping up a running commentary on the prog- | ress of the bombers, and said the hostile planes were leaving Reich territory at 4 p. m. The daylight operations followed | heavy blows by United States and British Mediterranean - based air forces on Balkan capitals in a burst of daylight activity, and followed raids of Royal Air Force Mosquitoes {last night on Cologne and other targets in the industrial Ruhr Val- ley. All planes returned safely from these forays. The German - controlled Paris radio said that bombs had fallen again last night on Switzerland; where the city of Schaffhausen was accidentglly hit by U. S. bombers on Saturday. 'Naval Bases For Pacific WASHINGTON, April 5.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed into law a measure authorizing the Navy De- partment to spend one billion dol- lars on Pacitic advance ba: DERETICH SERVICES SET FOR TOMORROW Funeral services for Peter Dere- tich, native of Yugoslavia, who passed away yesterday morning at morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Russian Orthodox Church, with the Rev. M. A. Baranoff conducting the service. Interment will be in (Continued on Page Four) the Serbian plot at Evergreen Cem- etery. ' Convention delegates, GOP Primary Arthur, Stassen Tie with 3 Votes (By Associated Press) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey swept ahead toward a possible 18 of Wis- consin’s 24 Republican National accdrding to yesterday’s presidential returns in primary. Willkie ran last in a field of four, with indications he will not get a delegate. Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, for- mer Governor of Minnesota, is tied on a basis of incomplete but repre- sentative returns with Gen. Doug- las MacArthur, with 20306 of the State’s 30,076 precincts tabulated Here ‘is the way the Republican | presidential prospects stood in the number of victorious or apparently | | victorious delegates for the candi- dates: Dewey, 15 pledged outright, three claimed; MacArthur, three; | Stasssen, three; Willkie, none. “This indicates conclusively not only that Dewey will be drafted, but | (that he already is drafted,” said retary of State Zimmerman, leader of the delegate candidates, wlm ran for Dewy despite his d)savowal ¥ In New York Dewey withheld i comment, and Willkie likewise. The Roosevelt pledged delegates | ‘apparently won the Democratic {places in Wisconsin. though pledged, are not legally | bound to vote for their man at the convention even on the first ballot. | Willkie's poor showing is a big sur- | prise. He campaigned the State for 113 days, speaking in 25 cifies in a |drive to erase opposition. He made |the issue clear, declaring the result | Wasvick of a liberal Wisconsin might point the convention’s course. Senator Fellenz, Chairman of the Wisconsin = Willkie for | Committee, said that Willkie had prwer(ul “Stop Willkie” forces work- ing against him for a long time, and !this, he added. backed by a cam-| paign of “vicious misstatements and false charges” to overcome MISSOURI . FOR DEWEY ST. LOUIS, April 5.—Republicans of Missouri’s eleventh and thir- teenth (St. Louis) districts, have endorsed Dewey for President and called him “The Man of the Hour.” Other Republican districts are urged to instruct for Dewey. — PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN AFTERNOONS, NIGHTS The Mayor's office today an- nounced that Mrs. J. C. Ryan and Mrs. Elmer Benedict have arranged a schedule whereby they will open the public library during the after- noon hours. Miss Helen Johnson, Public Health The delegates, | President | Willkie was unable | Pressure Increasin HOLLANDIA [DeweyLeads R.C.PEDERSEN T0 BE MAYOR| - In Wisconsin AT KETCHIKAN| ‘Willkie Poor Fourth-Mac- 'Elected by Six Voes Mar- gin Over J. P. Valetine ~Other Returns | KETCHIKAN, Alaska |J. P. Valentine 1I)x J. O. Whalcy nm- two year council term, |Dr. | Board of Control. John Lokken, unopposed, elected to the School Board. A total of 1,095 ballots were cast. ELECTION AT WRANGELL WRANGELL, Alaska, April ]Fu‘d G. Hanford was {Mayor of Wrangell in |election. Mrs. Frank Barnes, Miller and Charles Moore elected to the Council |John Coulter One hundred were cast. Don and fifty four } SKAGWAY ELECTION SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 5 \the eity election held here yester- |d the results are’ as folows: For Mayor: J. C. Hoyt; Council- !men, G. L. Budd, Mavis Soldin, William / Wass Treasurer, E. A Rasmuson; School Board, C. J Roehr, NO CONTEST, PETERSBURG PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 5.— ‘One hundred and forty five votes |were cast for the one ticket filed {in yesterday’s city election. Arnold received 106 votes |Mayor; Charles Greenaa, running for the second time for. Council, | received 106 votes. Two new mem- bers for the council are -Kenneth {Welds who received 125 votes and |U. V. White 101 votes. Verda Grin- rod received 115 votes for the | School Board. GODDARD REELECTED | SITKA, Alaska, April 5—E. M. (Winn) Goddard was reelected |Mayor yesterday by a vote of 243 over Charles (Chuck) Pearl polled 190 votes. For fhe Council, three to be elect- €d, the vote was as follows: William J. Beach 288, Pete Hangen 266, |Wallace McDonald 254, William Rands 212, Mark Gropper 166, Thomas Tilson was elected to the (five year term on the Utilities | Board unopposed with a vote of 366. Jack Calvin, unopposed was elect- ed to the School Board for a three year term, polling 373 votes. | BIG VOTE AT KODIAK KODIAK, Alaska, April 5—The largest vote in the history of the city, 368, yesterday elected Emil Knudsen as Mayor, with 163 votes |against 115 for Charles Madsen and 83 for William Lewis. l For the City Council, Warren Taylor received 196, James Pierce, incumbent, 180, and James Martz {127 for one year position. There-is a tie between Jack De- |lane and Charles Hopp, each 123. Nurse, has volunteered to open thi*|o A Torgerson was unopposed for library Friday and Saturday eve- nings of this week and will act as librarian four nights a week, here- after. ! Miss Ann Coleman, who has been ill for the past few weeks, announces that her relief librarian is due from the South about the middle of the month and upon her arrival here, Miss Coleman will go to the States | for a three months’ vacation, — EASTER BUNNIES Competing with the election news | today is the announcement of a new industry which has come to Juneau with the purchase of several pafrs of rabbits by Monte Grisham, Hank Harmon, Dr. W. M. Whitehead and Hugh J. Wade. The bunnies were acquired to enhance the Easter sea- son for the youngsters, and, accord- ing to reports, have already made lCn,y Treasurer. The new school Board members are Catherine ! Blankenburg and Jan Beukers. DR. CHASE DEFEATED FOR MAYOR IN CORDOVA; MOST SPIRITED ELECTION HELD CORDOVA, Alaska, April 5—In {the most spirited Cordova election 1"‘ years, R. W. (Bob) Korn was |elected over Dr. W. H. Chase, com- | Ipleting his 16th term. The remaind- | er of Korn’s ticket, called the Pro- gressive Ticket, elected the follow- ing candidates for the City Coun- cil: W. L. Corliss, Standard Oil| Manager; Gordon I. Nelson, fisher- man; J. W. Date, incumbent, who beat Parry Davis, grocer; Robert Van Brocklin, cocktail bar owner, and Peter Tanard, fisherman. Korn wgn by ten votes in 254 extensive inroads on the lettuceand' ] carrot supply. (Continued on Page Two) April 5.— IR. C. Pedersen was elected Mayor yesterday by a six vote margin over Clyde McGillvray, O. M. Lien and were elected to Arthur |Bryant to the one year term and R. M. MacKenzie to the Utility was Eosd reelected yesterday's were and Mrs. to the School Board. votes -In for who g on A.B.HAYES IS CHOSEN AS MAYOR Three Progressive Ticket| | Councilmen Elected- Milk Ordinance Loses The entire Progressive Ticket, | headed by A. B “Cot’ Hayes for Mayor, with Don S. Skuse, Harry| Lea and Dr. William M. White-| ‘head, was elected 2 to 1 in yester- | ‘day's city eleciion when 1154 of || 1303 registered voters went to the| polls. ‘ The proposed city ordinance “": quiring that all milk sold within the city of Juneau be pasteurized lost by the overwhelming vote of 939 to 196, Dr. Joseph O. Rude had no op- position for the three-year term as School Board Director, and Mrs. C. | L. Popejoy easily won for the two- | year term over Ralph Mize and Glenn G. Oakes. | On the winning ticket, Don Skuse | headed it with Hayes, Lea and Dr.| Whitehead next in order. | Of those running independently, Edward 8. Neilsen, candidate for Council, polled high; John D. Ken- | nedy, candidate for council, was next, with Herb J. Waugh, candi- date for Mayor third, and Ralph H.| "Behmnr seeking re-eléction to “the council, FOR MAYOR: A. B. (Cot) Hayes) Herb J. Waugh FOR COUNCILMEN: Ralph H. Beistline John D. Kennedy Harry Lea Edward 8. Neilsen Don W. Skuse Dr. Wm. M. Whitehead FOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR: (Three Years) Dr. Joseph 0. Rude (Two Years) Ralph Mize Glenn G. Oakes Mrs. C. L. Popejoy MILK ORDINANCE: Yes ' No TOTAL VOTE CAST DEADLINE ONPLATES { Get Those 1944 Tags or Trouble for Owners MAYOR-ELECT HAYE w“I Fo"ow MAKES OFFICIAL STATEMENT 1 quto ownets do not have that The new mayor, a resident of Ju- 1944 license plate on their cars,| neau since April, 1930, received the both front and rear, arrests wlll news of his election by phone from follow. The deadline for this re- the Empire last night at the home quirement has been set for April 15, of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Holden, long- one week from .next Saturday, by time friends, where Mayor and Mrs. Chief of Police John Monagle ¢nd Hayes spent a quiet evening while Territorial Highway Patrolman Em- the votes were being counted. met Botelho. Mayor Hayes issued a statement If owners have lost their plates, expressing his gratitude to the peo- new sets may be obtained. {ple of Juneau for the splendid re- Many autoists have only one plate sponse in yesterday's election, at decorating the auto but two are re- the same time, renewing his pledge quired. low man. fto do his utmost in spite of war con- ditions, to make the capital city of hicles requiring no plates must have Alaska a bigger and better place large numbers, front and rear. {in which to live. | Remember the deadline for | “I am sure, said Hayes, that the Plates is April 15. |people who have expressed their ' s | desire to place me at the head of | RUMAN'A To 1944 ‘;thelr city government during this .lmporlnnt period will not be disap- pointed. I pledged myself before jelection to push what I considered was a truly constructive program— that will be done. “I can say right here and now that it is not going to be casy to Mayor—my good friend Harry Lu- IS RUMORED cas, But I assure him, and the other retiring city officers, that the e good things which they have de-, NEW YORK, April 5—The Blue veloped during their administra- Network broadeast a London dis- tion will not be lost or abandoned. 'patch from Turkey saying that “The people of Juneau have every Premier Antonescu of Rumania right to be proud of the splendid will seek an armistice with Wash- fulfillment of their civil duty in ington, London and Moscow. “I congratulate also those who the course were defeated in the election. u‘rfxm::,:l P :fid tesiingied ;‘ih: good fight and a fair fightwhe emissary he sent to Cairo to| & v:lrv-;g:w;‘r;el Aflrfiencan Way" negotiate With ghe United Nations. AR, ves s general| Grandin said, “The time is near Alihks Dic a;:es'f':“de"' of m"’when the_ Germans will no longer g T e °°’;“§l‘;"y |be able to hold the Balkans, and' s a June;m S born “’;‘; rui::fl"he" will be nothing less surpris-| | here. {ing than a cémplete collapse of | {Rumania.” a5 long as he hol | The Associated Press has no con- [chair he wil detoi?prl.:lceuc:lx?f:fi-"' mation of the report, Barller the |of his time toward fulfilling the re- Berlin radio said Antonescu issued | quirements of that office. a proclamation deploring the Unit- ed States attack on Bucharest, and |calling upon his people to stand FIRST REPUBLICAN *~ | | ' MA | Yok' 16 YEARS’ In Juneau from Strawberry Point, Gléenn Neitzert, with the CAA, is WI"S IN IulSAiat the Gastineau Hotel. i | —————————— NEITZERT AT HOTEL step into the shoes of the retiring casting a very good vote. 1 The Network's correspondent Hayes said that from now on and | ——————— RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION ON AUTOS Government trucks and other ve- | India Front FIGHT RAGES IN STREETS Prect. Prect. Prect. No.1 No.2 No.3 Totals | m 162 201 34 182 83 127 392 179 88 103 370 AL (L] 103 129 409 ’ rod o we o wmw |\Zhukov’s Army Siriving fo w e s aw ) Qust Nazis from Base 21 129 o oew | Guardmg Lwow & 0 MOSCOW, April 5~Russian b b b d b troops fought in the streets of Tar- nopol for the possession of the 148 5 Lot 304 Nazi stronghold as field dispatches 131 72 6 219 declared the Red Army has all but 256 108 142 506 wiped out the remnants of the 15 surrounded German divisions in the 14 50 32 196 |Skala pocket west of Kamenets 441 201 297 939 Podolsk, and launched new blows 564 254 336 1154 at Lwow and Odessa at opposite ends of the far-flung front. Struggle For Tarnapol General Zhukov's First Army is already in possession of most of Tarnapol, the Soviet communique said, and a dramatic struggle is being waged to oust the fiercely resisting German garrison. More than 3,000 Nazis have been killed $2,032,382 IS " BANK BALANCE FOR TERRITORY [ land 300 captured during the past [three days, the bulletin added, As |they fought literally for every foot Treasury Fun(:ls PaNsls Lwo oy HIH The ten day battle for the pos- M'"'Io“ FDO' .?.r ar | session of the city bastion guarding | 7 éthe approaches to Lwow, 70 miles 0’ l_';s lme farther west, is apparently reaching o a climax, For fhe_first time in the history | of the Territorial Treasurer’s office, ‘w]?::":" Z"“*?;" "‘lm af! wing, the Territory's bank balance hfl)lw‘l“ sur{““ded!d m;“p:;-ch : " | pssed the two million dollar-mark,! e ar P | {less than 50 miles from Lwow, the | Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Ol-| G Eied tody; |mmmunh]ue declared, and yesierday Figures released by his office re-| jcaptured ‘30 towns ‘snd - villages &t el Anatihnere 1n in the Trea- the eastern approaches including oty - bk, otms!wflfl 38222, An Buzhany, go miles x’:):‘meut. undimtlon of the growth in revenue Meanwhil ;‘; i ”k“‘ Thi |during the past 10 years is luuml'Alm“w s;ed L:w::;: e rd in the following figures, the balance | o n two miles 8 of Mo §1 16010 Fears: (of the last rail escape route for the L ‘mnss of German troops caged in the | In 1935—$1,078257; 1936—$1,077,- l683; 1097—$1,417,160; 1938—“4443-13::5“ SIS NON of Hos “BiNch [Bm; 193%”'7“'7“5 STt | Driving down from the northeast, 784; 1941—$1,541,180; 1942—8$1,556,- | 012, 1943—$1,752.253; and 1944 |the Red Armmy forces swept up 30 / ‘20'323“,, e e + |towns and villages, including Bak- Treasurer Olson said that the !olova, two miles east of Razdelnaya, |control junction for rail lines leaa- ‘xny to Rumania via Tiraspol and Kishinev, the communique said. e (. CHAPLIN 1§ ACQUITTED ON BOTH COUNTS LOS ANGELES, April 5.— PFilm comedian Charlie Chaplin has been | acquitted by a Pederal Court jury of jseven women and five men of both counts of the Mann Act indictment charging he transported Joan Berry, {24, former protege, to New York M |back, for immoral purposes. The jury came in after m ating five hours and one minute. A crowded court room applauded the “innocent” verdict. the sum of $500,000 was received from ithe regular tax on salmon during |1943, and the special tax of five |cents pey case of 48 cans imposed ' ‘by the last legislature brought in |an additional $225,000, making a to- .ml of $725,000 from the ‘fishing and | {canning industry. Next in impor- |tance in the tax revenue picture | was sale of liquor tax stamps, from {which was derived close to a half | million dollars. | “The healthy condition of the Territorial Treasury will be reas- suring to Alaskans,” Treasurer Ol-w .sun sald, “especially since the npm- 'ion was freely expressed during last {term sessions of the Legislature 'that Alaska was confronted with | !the serious problem of the possi-| Imllty that revenue would be inade- (quate to meet even necessary ex- pendltures BULLETINS MIAMI—Men turned up coat col- | (lars, bathing beauties became the | sweater girls as temperatures ‘“p’w:‘:;u.\ Ai"geev':'ml ::"d ped 47 degrees, coldest on record ., 3 o e el i e British comedian rose from chair and grasped his attorn hands as friends swarmed a Miss Berry was not in the room at the time the ve returned, but informed W ‘I was just a v Chaplin, emotionless during trial, sat with his head in his b WASHINGTON—Winter like wea- | ther returned large sections of the' U. 8. today with heavy snow storms in six eastern states, low tempera- - TULSA, Oklahoma, April 5. — win a mayoralty election in Tulsa in 16 years, yesterday defeated Democratic incumbent Mayor C. H. Veale, who sought reelection for a third term. The entire Republican ticket was swept in. Flynn, oil company executive, ran on a straight “anti new deal” plat- form. Olney Flynn, first Republican to! BOB JERNBERG HERE Bob Jernberg, Assistant District |Attorney at Ketchikan, is an ar- rival here. He is registered at the Gastineau. i e Bill Lawrence, here from Haines, is at the Gastineau Hotel. Registered at the Hotel Juneau, L. H. Reese is here from Greenfield, le ture records shattered. Heavy frost If the ju in peach growing states. melr pri)vflr:t::mm M"; p.# Gty 1 s LONDON-—Russian - troops have| »,,‘?‘ s cut the Germans last overland rail-! v way from Odessa by capturing the, SIm m junction at Razdelnaya, Moscow's —_ Order of the Day announces, NEW YORK, April P S quotation of Alaska MOSCOW — Heaviest snow h\‘smek today is 6%, |years falling three consecutive days 86%, Anaconda 26, B |and nights swept large areas of % Bethlehem Russia. Traffic is halted. Wright 5%, 0%, Kennecot North Ameri- LONDON — Berlin radio reports ¢an Aviation 8 ¥ York Central tonight American bombers are over|18%, Northem c 157, United Rumania, fierce air battles raging|States Steel 51 "bmm $4.04. over Albania and Bulgaria. Strong| Dow, Joi today are tighter formations accompany the| 4% follows: als 138.17, rails bombers, 39.38, utilities