The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1944, Page 1

4 4 Stilwell’s Lifeline in India Now Hollandies Base, Harbor JAPTROOPS DRIVE DEEP INTO FRONT Infiltrating—kfierriiory of U. S. Operated Railroad NEW DELHI, April 7. — Jap troops, with stablished road blocks along 11 miles of the Imphal-Ko- hima Road, have driven deeper into India and are now infiltrating into Territory slightly west of the highway in the direction of the American operated Bengal-Assam railroad. This is disclosed in a communique of the Southeast Asia Command. The Jap positions have apparent- ly placed them from 35 to 50 miles from the railway, lifeline to Stil- well's northern Burma offensive .and airborne supply operations. American bombers attacked the new Jap built Burma-Siam rail- way, going in levels from 300 to 600 | feet, and probably destroyed three bridges and probably five others. Direct hits were scattered over long sections. Allied tank supported troops on the Arakan front captured the eastern tunnel on the Maungdaw- Burtedaung Road and proceeded to the Central ridge of the Mayu| Mountain range. The Wasl;;;g ton| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Those close to, Secretary of State Hull say he is| not happy over the mission to Lon- don undertaken by energetic young Undersecretary Ed Stettinius. Ori-| ginally, the trip was planned part- 1y to please the British, who hinted that we had sent no important em- issaries to London since Harry Hop- kins’ call on Churchill two years ago. However, Stettinius is on the way: to_turning the mission into some- thing really important. He is sched- | uled to discuss five important sub- jects with the British. They are: 1. Stabilization of the dollar and pound after the war. 2. A world bank. 3. Stabilization of commodities. This would mean the application, of Wallacé’s ever-normal granary to all basic commodities such as tin, rubber, copper, sugar, with a system of buying and selling to keep prices stabilized. 4. Oil and the Near East. The United States wants to avoid a cut- throat battle for oil such as oc- curred with Britain after the last war and which is already threaten- ed as a result of the Arabian pipe- line wrangling. 5. The future boundaries of Ger-| many. German boundaries were tenta- HAMBURG IS BATTERED IN NIGHT RAID Other Targes in Ruhr and Rhineland Under Shower of Bombs man efforts much needed war industries. The stab on the industrial areas of the Reich was made by all-wood 4,000 pounds of explosives. The stab bombers now capable of carrying was made at the cost of one plane. AALLIES, REDS ARE WORKIN IN HARMONY Mnlllary Cooperation Has Taken Sudden Turn for Better operation between the western Al- left much to be desired in this war, has taken a sudden turn for the | better. American bombers are coordinat- ing closely with the Red Army | ground forces in the conquest of the Balkans. Allied raids on Rumania, Buchar- est and Ploesti oil field were carried out with the knowledge and consent of the Red Army, the best inform- ed military sources here said. it is ‘imperative that as the Rus® sians drive on the Balkans, Allied the Red Army ground forces to avoid conflict in bombing targets as well as the possibility in bomb- ing advance units of -the Soviet troops. CONDITION OF PRESIDENT 1S SATISFACTORY Chief Execu?ifi Undergoes Physical Examination by Dr. Mcintire WASHINGTON, April 7.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, recently bothered tively discussed at Tehergn, but now with bronchitis, has undergone a Dr. Isaiah Bowman, famed geog- rapher, has accompanied Stettinius to London to talk details. Bowman| was Woodrow Wilson’s geograpluc expert at Versailles, and some offi- cials are critical of his chopping- up of Europe. This imposing agenda has irked Secretary Hull. Apparently, it was pretty well arranged while he was in Florida, Also, Hull was always| jealous of the trips Sumner Welles| took to Rio, Rome, London and Ber- lin, and now it looks as if his new| Undersecretary might also be crowding him for the limelight. PAYING PAUL ‘The other day, one of the most| controversial figures in the vitriol- new and thorough physical exam- ination, his personal physician said and the “checkup is satisfactory.” Vice Admiral Mclntire said the examination was routine, an an- nual affair but was somewhat ham- pered by the fact the President had a head cold and a bronchial dis- turbance. McIntire added: “We decided that for a man 62 years \plus, we had very little to argue about except we had to combagt an influenza and respiratory condition |afterward.” MclIntire also disclosed he has cut down the President’s food and is givmg him a “good vitamin boost.” ———— Red Skelton, Muriel ic tax fight quietly wrote out ris} resignation as counsel of the Trea-! $ury Department and stepped back’ Chase Are fo Marry LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 7.— LONDON, April 7—Striking anew | at targets previously flattened, Bri- decision to refuse to fish for hali- tish heavy bombers and Royal Air but as long as.the American hali-| Force Mosquitos attacked the oft buters into private life. He is mild-lmn—:md Skelton, radio and film funny- nered Randolph Paul, one of the man and Muriel Chase, honey-hair- most unobtrusive but toughest taxleq film actress, have applied for a (Omtinucd (40 fame- Pour) his first wife on February 18. battered Hamburg and other ob- present price cuf, jectives in the Ruhr and Rhineland the British Columbia Fishing Ves- last night in 2 resumption of the sel Owners Association and the campaign designed to thwart Ger- United Fishermen's Union. to reconstruct the cpme e o R L ALASKA HALIBUTERS | LONDON, April 7.—Military co- petarghurg halibuters have also de- | lies and Russia which has often gogting the rollback on prices. Teamwork is now in vogue and|down on the suggestion of Con- air efforts must be coordinated with | Army airplanes and perosnnel be tof 7,700,000 but this fact has not! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED | PRESS B.C. Halibut Vessels fo Be Tied - -up Will Not Fish as Long as| American Vessels Refuse fo Go Out | VANCOUVER, B. C. April 7—A tied-up over the is announced by remain | WILL STAY IN PORT Southeast Alaska halibuters will not go to the halibut grounds a week from tomorrow when the sea- son opens, but will remain in port, supporting the vessel tie-up in Se- attle pending Office of Price Ad- ministration price restoration to; last year's levels. In Juneau, about 30 halibuters Mll remain in port. This afternoon, The Empire re- ceived a radiogram from Ketchikan “stating 30 halibut boat owners there "voted last night to remain in port pending a price settlement. The Ketchikan halibuters also opposed allocation and asked a differential | there and Prince Rupert of three quarters of a cent instead of one cent. It is also believed that Sitka and | cided to join in'the tie-up in pro- | ARMY PLANES NOT TO BE USED FOR HUNTING WOLVES| WASHINGTON, April 7. — The War Department has put thumbs gressman Warren G. Magnusson, Democrat of Washington State, that used to hunt wolves in Alaska and reduce the danger to reindeer herds. The Army said the fundamental principle is that men and supplies are useful in the military effort and will not be diverted for less vital activities. However, the Alaska Army Com- mand said it is fully aware of the |, danger to the reindeer herds from increased wolf packs and have been granting leaves to soldiers for the purpose of hunting wolves. ARMY NOW AT FULL STRENGTH; DRAFT KEEPS UP Navy Must Be Expanded fo Reach Peak of 3,- 600,000 Personnel WASHINGTON, April Army has reached the full strength changed the present rapid tempo to draft, the Office of War Infor- mation announces. Draft calls must continue to lev- els sufficient to expand the Navy| which must reach the peak of| strength of 3,600,000 including Mar- | ines and Coast Guard by Septem- ber 1. Men will also be needed for re-| placements in the Army and Navy. — e HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Anna Rogers, here from Anchor-! age, is at the Gastineau Hotel. - e — YURMAN RETURNS JAPS SCORE 2 HITS ON SAYS LIVING COSTS BEING HELD INLINE DESTROYER FOR Releases Report on |Vessel Braves Shore Bat- Stabilization Program feries fo Rescue | Given by Vinson Airman | Blasted by NS POUNDING BLACK SEA PORT Threatened 250 Planes, Striking for 50 Minutes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 7.—More than 250 Allied planes, striking continuously for 50 minutes on Wednesday, tore the town and harbor of Hollandia with 820 tons of | exlosives and 250,000 rounds of am- WASHINGTON, April port on the stabilization program, 7—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has released a re-| WASHINGTON, April 7. shore bateries on Wotje atoll scored two hits on an American destroyer — Jap/| which maintained that living costs|when the ship moved in to that are held tq be substantially un- eastern Marshall Island's base 0 changed, and “wages have been |rescue a fighter pilot who had been stabilized” the report said, tnklnmdov.npd the Navy said. note of the fact that tomorrow| The anouncement said that oniy |marks the first anniversary of iminor damage was caused by the | WILLKIE BA(I( { future, {Ebona were married yesterday by {two hits on the destroyer, which | turned its guns on the shore-based Roosevelt’s “hold the line” order on the cost of living. The report was submitted by Fred artillery. Vinson, Economic Stabilization Dl—,‘ The short exchange of fire came {munition on that New Guinea air | base of the Japanese. The Japs were unable to resist after the 400-ton assaut of last Sun- day as the bombs cratered to use- lessness three airfields and wiped out at least 288 planes, which left Hollandia ripe for the kill. No enemy planes were encount- ered in the midday a".ack and not rector; Chester Bowles, Price Ad-|in the course of bombing raids on ministrator; Marvin Jones, War four unidentified enemy-held atolls Food Administrator; and William 'in the Marshalls which had been' Davis, National War Labor Board bombed and strafed regularly bvw chairman. {American bomber and fighter' Roosevelt described it as import- planes. | ant because it showed how the| The downed pilot was l‘escued,[ government is trying to keep prices the Navy said. | from going up through the roof,| The Pacific Fleet bulletin told| ultimately bankrupting everybody in also of other American airmen hit- | the country. ting for the thirteenth time at| As a matter of fact, the report Truk, once strong naval base of is slightly below the level of a year the Japs in the Caroline Islands.| said, the cost of living as a whole! Army Air Force Liberators, fly-| ago. ing in the night Monday and Tuess . ay dropped loads ‘on-oil and stor=/ tanks, starting fires between | the seaplane base and the principal settlement on Dublon Island, onc| of the largex 1slands of Truk atoll.| NEW YORK, Aprfl '1—cheerful but noncommittal on his political Wendell L. Willkie came [ home from his campaign tour on which he staked and lost his bid for the Republican Presidentiall LONDON, April 7.—Edward Stet: nomination. tinius, Jr., United States Undersec- Willkie declined to add anything retary of State arrived here for a to his statement made in Omaha series of important foreign policy | in which he said he was withdraw- conferences with British officlals. ing his candidacy because “it is ob- | The meetings may prepare the, way vious I cannot be nominated.” {for another Roosevelt-Churchill- Willkie will close his campaign Stalin roundtable. offices and return to the practice, Stettinius’ arrival came at a ume, of law. of mounting criticism and uncer- =T |tainty in the Commons and Con-| \gress over British and American G v DEw Y foreign policy and the degree of - |cooperation between London, Wash- |ington and Moscow. | His talks with Foreign Minister, S T I l l N o T Anthany Eden are cxpected to cov- | er a wide range, including the pro- ts of a Finnish peace, negotia-| nons wnh Spain, and Allied ctronn' to wrest the Balkan satollites from | {Hitler's grasp. | | e, ALBANY, N. Y. April ‘7—~Gov.| Thomas E. Dewey stuck diligently m &n A d to his state duties today after Ln-1 n e"on dlcaunz strongly he 5 not to be st,ampeded into a declaration that‘ &Is mw (ommand |he wants or will accept the Re- publican nomination. LONDON, April 7. — Brig. Gen. In his first conference with the Samuel Anderson, who organized newsmen since Willkie’s withdrawal, the medium level bombing attacks Gov. Dewey stood upon his previous on Burope and the hammering statements he “is not a candidate” away of the invasion areas in re- for the nomination. cord proportions in recent months, gy HE has been appointed Commander of TEACHER RETURNS |the Ninth United States Air Force Bomber Command. At 38, he is one Miss Ruth Holbrooks, seventh'of the Army’s youngest Generals. grade teacher at the Public School, &l AR returned on the boat last night, after a quick visit to Portland| lem ;fi(im::n:;wm_ |where she was called by the illness 'kan and Juneau drug store owner, |of her father, who is now much im-|, o o/ 4veq here from the First (proved. Mrs .Norman Cook was sub-/ city. stitute teacher during Miss Hol- iy RESOkS MovERY. BACK FROM VACATION i Back from a vacation trip to the O D R by States, Clarabelle Messerschmidt, on Y the office staff of the Alaska Elec- * tric Light and Power Co, has re- U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. At i i, tendants were Mrs. E. J. Hamburg and E. A. Belarde. S e ———,———— CHIPPEII"IELD HERE FROM KETCHIKAN' W. A. Chipperfield, Division Su- H. L. Yurman, Juneau furrier, the Gastineau Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Johnston, Pervisor with the Forest Service at marriage license. Skelton divorced has returned to Juneau and is at here from Ketchikan, are at the 'Petersburg, is in Junegu for a few Gastineau Hotel, Idays on official business. |James 'H. Cox, [FAIRBANKS MAN IS CONVICTED OF FATAL STABBING Then Pleadfiilfy in Two ' Other Cases-Given 60 Years vunwxg,‘m _April T— 49, a farmer, was sentenced to 20 years after a jury ‘returned a verdict of guilty of man- |slaughter for the fatal stabbing of |Willard F. McCann, 47, on March ;13‘ after a drinking party in a ca- bin, The jury was out six and one- half hours after a day and a half of the trial on a second degree |murder indictment. Cox then pleaded guilty to man- shught,er of James C. Ivan, 46, |whose true name was Jewell I Ccleman, of Mayfield, Kentucky, and guilty of wilful stabbing of John P. Harth, 45, who has nearly recovered from the same kind of abdominal stab wounds as the two ho died within 36 hours after the fray. Sentences of 20 years each were given Cox on the two guilty pleas, sentences to run concurrently with the first sentence. Cox took the stand in his own de- |fense and told how he stabbed the three men when they came toward him as if to strike him. Government witnesses said the men interfered when Cox was mis- treating Bertha Campbell, native girl, and trying to force her to leave the cabin with him. Cox de- nied any roughness. .- BULLETINS WASHINGTON-—American ‘Army fliers, battering the heavily Jap held Wake Island with 44 tons of bombs caused large explosions n the storage area and sank a small cargo ship. WASHINGTON — A new attacl on Ponape Island, eastern Cnro- lines, started a large fire and shat-| tered a Jap airfield. U. 8. FIGHTER BASE IN ENG- LAND—Capt. Don 8. Gentile, 28, {Mustang Pilot, claims 27 enemy | planes downed in combat, one more than the American record estap- lished by Eddie Rickenbacker in the First World War. WITH THE AMERICAN INFAN- TRY DIVISION SOMEWHERE IM ENGLAND--Lt. Gen. Omar Brad- ley told American officers prepar- ing for the invasion said “this stuff about tremendous losses is all tom- one attacking plane was lost. There was moderate anti-aircraft fire at first but this dwindled quickly. Burning fuel and supply dumps sent up huge flames., Ships in the harbor were set afire. Supply luggers and barges were destroyed along the coast. On the same day more than 100 | American planes strafed the islands and small shipping southeast of Aitape and near Wewak. Reconnaissance planes, the day after Hollandia was raided, saw fires still burning and noted a heavy ex- plosion, probably an ammunition | | dump. | DRIVE OF RUSSIANS ~ IMPORTANT 'President Says Soviet, Can| “Steike m«Mu;%vs— Germany in Jackpot WASHINGTON, Aplll 7—At to-! day's conference with the newsmen, President Roosevelt sald the Rus- sian military drive has been going| extremely well and by reaching the| western end of the Black Sea, the Soviets have placed a great deal more German held territory in Jjeopardy. The President indicated he be- lieved Germany will find it increas- ingly difficult to decide where to make a stand and where to dispose of her manpower since the Russians | are in a position to expand the| campaign west, south or southwest. | The Red Army now has more| places to go and by a slight turn| south, the Soviet forces could launch the attack on the Balkans. Asked whether the time has ar- rived to disclose the secret armis- tice terms with ltaly, the Presiden: said he did not phink so because the terms are primarily of a mili-! tary nature. Asked about the status of the French National Committee and its role after the invasion of Europe, the President sald the question comes down to this—what is self-! determination? He was asked how do we know, how the people of France feel and| the President replied he did not know and he did not think anyone in the conference room knew be-| cause none have been in France recently, and even if we had they might not have been given access to any pertinent information. | — et —— NALZI BASE - ATIAGREB IS RAIDED | | | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ', NAPLES, April 7. — U. 8. heavy | bombers again attacked in the Bal- \nns, hammering the German air-| field in the Croation capital of | | Zagreb. | | Ground action on all Italian fronts remained at a virtual stand- still, t 1 Last night a strong German patrol attack on the Anzio beachhead was | | many lagoons and lakes protecting imost beleaguered base, Russian !lines and communications. i {northwest the Russians were en- |gaged in stiff battles against large |garrison at Tarnapol. ‘uleze yesterday were repulsed with |nounced, |Red Army cordons. myrot. Youll be surprised at ‘our Naval gunfire and air power in de- ’dnwn back. fense of our ground forces.” | > — Io ® e o o o o o ARRIVALS HERE o WEATHER REPORT |® (U. 8. Bureaw) PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS ARE ORDERED TO KEEP ODESSA New TroopsTushed in-At- tempts fo Lift Tarnapol Siege Repulsed MOSCOW, April 7.—The Ger- mans have rushed special units into the line with orders to defend Odessa “at any cost” as they battled on the close approaches to the city from favorable positions behind the the stronghold, the Red Star said. The dispatches reported that while the Germans struck out in strong counterattacks from the al- Stormovik planes and bombers pounded the city's defenses, escape Stiff Battles Three hundred miles to . the groups of enemy tanks, infantry, and self-propelled guns sent to the rescue of another besieged German The attack, launched from Ger- man held territory southwest of Tarnapol, the Russian bulletin said, came after Zhukov's army captured jmore_than hlll the ares, . e it %¥ Within the city, street fighting is reported to have been going on Isince Monday. Attempts to lft the heavy losses, the communique an- but added that fierce fighting is continuing. The Germans, it appeared, are attempting to rescue both the Tar- napol garrison and the remnants of the 15 divisions encircled in the Skala sector northeast of Czernow- itz, and have thrown formidable forces into a drive to crack the / Fight Encirclement General Zhukov's troops are re- | ported to have tightened their ring iof encirclement near Skala by cap- turing important defense strong- points including the fortified town of Skala itself. Three hundred miles southeast of Tarnapol Malinovsky's army struck toward Odessa in a 15 mile drive from captured Razdelnaya, which |brought 1t to a point 23 miles {northwest of Odessa. BIG CHANGE_ 70 NAVY IN NORTHBASES ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, April 7—The establishment of the new Seventeenth Naval District in “the Alaska area marks a'departure for R - Rear Admiral Whiting, first mandant said. ; The' creation of the w added, fixes in permanent |importance the northern just as its military value was nized when the Alaskan I ment was established last tions yen have | 1 don't knew but little about |this far north, We |clothing for it byt think anyone can say Temp. Thursday, April 6 Maximum 44; Minimum 36 ® 0 000 : 0 900 - Arrivals here, Doloras 'Darrow, ® Isabel Sereda gnd Chris Lang are © at the Qastineay, 10