The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1944, Page 1

I | | VOL. XLL, NO. 9623. YANKS, AXIS ENG ALLIES IN BIG (LASH WITHNIPS Attack on |n~1p_hal Base Re- ported Repulsed-Amer- icans Make Seizure NEW DELHI, April 11.—Jap pres- sure continues in the Kohima area in eastern India while farther south Allied troops have clashed with the Japanese in the foothills on the Imphal Plain and repulsed an attack southeast of the important base at Imphal, the Southeast Asia Command states. | Kohima is only 35 miles from the Bengal-Assam railway. Whitehorse Refinery to Be Dedicated Date Set fo?.(pril 30, Ac- cording fo Northwest Service Command EDMONTON, April 11.—The oil refinery at Whitehorse, built by the United States Army’'s Northwest Service Command, will be dedicated April 30, it is announced by Brig. Gen. Ludson Worsham, Command- ing the Northwest Service Com- mand, in operation of the refinery. The refinery will be the last link { ¥ ” in the Command’s mission to sup- MOSCOW, April 11. — Russia’s|)y (he Alaska Defense route with Fourth Ukrainian Army has storm-|aterials for defending the north- ' BIG DRIVE - IN (RIMEA Russians Move on Penin- sula from Two Direc- tions as Nazis Flee BULLETIN—London, April 11. —The Red Army has occupied | Kerch in the Crimea, Stalin an- founced tonight in a special Order of the Day. | Stalin also announced the capture of Dzhahkei, railway junction 15 miles into Crimea. |ed down into Crimea from two di- west coastal area, Canada and Al- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1944 TWO NIPPON 'BASES ARE. ABANDONED ’Japanése in ‘Full Refreaf’ for Final Stand at R_ab_aul ALLIED HEADQUARTERS I THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April| 11.—The Japanese have abandoned! Gasmata, the South Central New| Britain Air and Supply Base, and| Cape Hoskins base on the north central coast and are in “full re treat” for a final stand at badly| bombed Rabaul, Gen. Douglas Mac= Arthur announces. It is estimated that 40,000 Japs are left virtually trapped on the northeastern half of the island. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS POOL PLAN SUGGESTED FISH ISSUE B.C Orgafition Makes Proposal to American Halibut Interests SEATTLE, April 11.—H. F. Lok- {ken, Manager of the Fishing Ves- sel Owners Association today brand- ed as most “unworkable” the pro- posal offered by the British Colum- bia Fishermen in an attempt to |clear up price differentials that prompted the Canadian Northwest Fishermen to tie up their boats in {conjunction with the Seattle and | Alaska fleets. ‘The Canadian plan provides that the OPA move prices back to 17% The official bulletin says “pres- rections in a drive aimed at clear- sure is maintained against a de-"ing the South Russia Axis invaders aska, The oil from the Fort Normah fended locality in the Kohima area” (Continued on Page “Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt, Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Only & few on the inside know it, but part of our i political failure in Italy, now con- tributing to the Italian stalemate, goes back to this government’s fail- ure to work with Italo-Americans here at home. With several million patriotic Americans of Italian des- cent anxious to get their relatives in Italy to help the Allies, Wash- ington officials have completely fumbled the ball. Inside story of what happened goes back to last summer, when New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Felix Forte, Philadelphia’s Judge E. V. Alessan- droni, and several other Italo-Am- erican leaders, met with this col- umnist and with Sumner Welles,! jas Malinovsky's Third Army sm“h‘}wells is carried to Whitehorse ed within six miles of Ovidiopol, €s-|(h ough 595 miles of pipeline. cape bottle neck through which the! ppe refinery products can be remnants of the Nazis' Odessa gar-|gictributed by a network of pipe- rison is fleeing toward Rumania. |jjneq to airports along the Alaska The Fourth Army, under‘ mm'[}flghway, to the coast at Skagway mand of Gen. Tolbukhin, is at-|gor redistribution, or to Fairbanks. American pairols moving toward Cape Hoskins and Gasmata have encountered no resistance. The retreating enemy left over 200 prisoners and 4,679 dead, killed| __ PRETTY SWIMMER —Esther Willlams, movie actress and expert swimmer, posed for this pin-up at Calif., pool when she gave instruction to a group of j 2 e cents a pound, the level in 1943, with the boats landing halibut in northern Canadian and Alaskan ports and put one cent into a pool and from this pool fishermen land- a Beverly Hills, SPARS.” Britain drive. The spokesman estimated an- other 5,000 were lost through star- since the Allies launched the New IT\Al|A“S ing fish in Vancouver and Seattle will be paid the one cent a pound| bonus. The proposal is designed to offset| KNOX TELLS tacking Crimea along,a 75 mile| front from Perekop Isthmus at the northwestern corner of Crimea to Sivash Bay on the northeast field. Dispatches also said another Red Army simultaneously crossed the Siretul and Suceavo River in Ru- mania and a late war bulletin said | this army has reached a point less than five miles from the rail junc- ition of Iasi. | ALASKALAND AVAILABLE, SERVICEMEN WASHINGTON, April lL—Alxsknl beckons to men in uniform who are then Undersecretary of State, re-!'seriously interested in full time garding propaganda plans to helv|farming after the war or home site take Italy cut of the. war in .a hurry. settlements coupled Wwith other em- ployment, the General Land Office Swazeylsto Come North fo AnsweL (harge SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.—Mc- Neal Swazey, who described himself as Field Agent for Bechtel-Price- Callahan, contractors for the Canol Oil Pipeline Project, has posted a $5,000 bond with the United States Commissioner, and. consented to go to Alaska to answer an indictment returned at Fairbanks on March 24. The indictment alleged conspiracy to sell the government electrical and plumbing supplies over ceiling prices, and the removal complaint was filed | with the U. S. Commissioner here. James O'Connor, attorney for Swazey, said he and his client will fly to Fairbanks within a week. — e vation, disease and wounds. In bombardments of Hansa Bay, New Guinea, the Allies silenced 13 heavy guns also blew up a fuel dump. e BIGPOWWOW IS CALLED BY ADOLF HITLER LONDON, April 11.—Hitler sum- moned a conference of the Axis powers in which Japan will be ask- ed “what immediate and effective assistance she will be able to offer Germany,” a Bern newspaper Der Bund. said in an article reported to Reuters. Other topics on the agenda listed are: 1. Organization and total mobili- zation of human material reserves e CAPTURE ' OFBIGGAIN GERMANS - IN PACIFIC ol ber ‘Map Shows Steady Con- pression Ring Being Forged Around Nips New Army of Liberation in Action in Cassino Sector |ible the cost of the long haul to south- ern ports and would eliminate the recent 2% cent price reduction or- dered by the OPA on halibut land- ed at Prince Rupert and that touched off the present tie-up. The ‘pooling arrangement is of- fered by the British Columbia Unit- ed Fishermens Union and Fishing Vessel Owners Assoclation and it is sald that if the American fisher- men turn the proposal down, they declared. they would put their boats out to sea at once. | Lokken said the plan is not feas- “unless it is administered by WASHINGTON,. April 11.—Am- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| .0.n"air forces are steadily en- | NAPLES, April 11. — The Italian the Government” to force partici-| pation by the boat owners. troops holding Mount Marrone, the mile high peak 15 miles northeast larging their control of the Pacific = yjopor Samson, Coordinator of| theatre, Navy Secretary Frank KnoX | pyehories, Department of the Inter-| told a press conference, showing of Cassino, repulsed small German p.uemen the department maps il- thrusts at two points and captured jutrating the progressivé compres- several prisoners. This is the first gjon of the ring around Tokyo since | capture of Nazis by the New ArmY.Umt,ed States forces occupied Guad- | of Liberated Italy. |alcanal in the fall of 1942. The American ambush patrol at; the Anzio beachhead trapped a 6-' man patrol. A German platoon has been driv- The maps detalled ‘the dangerous ior, in this area, sald he considered it unlikely the Government will take on the administration of such| a “complicated” plan. | _— e — period of the swift Jap expansion | beginning December 7, 1941, devel- | (oping with the naval engagement, en off by British troops two miles near Midway, and the occupations southeast of Carroceto and Nazi of the Solomons, Gilberts and Mar- Lehman's Son | This was at about the time Sicily {said in its new information bulle- was invaded. These Italo-American leaders proposed: (1) to broadcast messages to Italy urging their friends and relatives to help the Allies; (2) to raise about $20,000,000 in the United States from Italo- Americans to help feed and clothe the Italian people, thus freeing the U. 8. Government of a considerable burden. It was hoped that this gift from Italo-Americans ‘direct to the. Ital- ian people would lift Italian morale and help unite Italy behind the Allies. Italo-Americans also hoped that the Italian people might avoid the bickering of the French, and they proposed taking into their American committee for Italian democracy persons from all walks of Italo-American life—from radi- cals to reactionaries. The committee included there- fore Luigi Antonini of the American Labor Party on one side and, on the other, wealthy Generoso Pope, publisher of Il Progre&’so BNAG IN STATE DEPARTMENT However, to raise money for a foreign country in wartime re- quires State Department sanction, and here the committee struck a snag. Charley Taft, brother of the Senator and in charge of such State Department matters, refused to ap- prove the drive to raise $20,000,000 until certain other Italians were brought into the picture. " He wanted to include Hollywood actor Don Ameche, child specialist’ Angelo Patri, and orchestra leader Arturo Toscanini. No one objected tin which “answers questions by servicemen about land settlement in Alaska.” | The bulletin says . that of - the total area of 365,000,000 acres, about 323,000,000 acres of vacant, unap- propriated and unreserved are sub- ject to the disposal under the Pub- lic Land laws. The bulletin emphasizes much hard work lies ahead for the settler and suggests that members| of the armed forces now on duty in Alaska take a look at the avail- able lands while in service. It says, “In general the lands which now offer the best prospects| for agricultural settlement will be| found in the Tanana River Valley,| in the Cook Inlet, Matanuska Val- ley area, and the Kenai Peninsula. “Agricultural lands will be found in many other parts of the Terri- tory, but because of the lack of roads and the distances to markets, less favorable climate and other factors, the chances for successful farming at this time are not as promising as in the above men- tioned areas.” More detailed information is available at the district land of- fices at Anchorage, Fairbanks, and | Nome. i WINCHELL FILES $250,000 LIBEL NEW YORK, April 11.—Walter NIMITZ SPRINGS NEW TERM ABOUT FITNESS OF NAYY PEARL HARBOR, April 11.—Ad- | that| miral Chester W. Nimitz, speaking at the dedication of the Navy Sports Arena, said- the of ships but on the quality and ability of the men who man them. We must have not only a large fleet but the mostest of the bestest.” / Admiral Nimitz emphasized the Navy stressed a physical fitness program with the accent on sport.sl for all hands. Are fo Work For_Slassen (By Associated Press) Supporters of Lt. Comdr. Stassen for the Republican Presidential nomination announce a new na- tional drive for delegates while party members in Nebraska passed on Stassen in a preferential primary test. The drive will be nationwide for Stassen. Simultaneously, Ilinois Repub- lican voters are choosing between in all the European countries. “future hinges not merely on the number Winchell, columnist, has filed 8! MacArthur and S P to their inclusion, though Patri|$250,000 libel suit against Represen- and Toscanini are rather old for a|tative Hoffman of Michigan in the strenuous money-raising campaign.|Federal Court. However, Taft also wanted to bar| Winchell charges Hoffman held Generoso Pope from serving on the [him up to “public scorn, hatred, ri- committee, because Pope was once|dicule, contempt, shame and dis- grace” in the March 16 article 1n (Continued on Page Four) the Mar Ellus, Michigan News. hS Eastern headquarters will soon be opened for Stassen. ————— MRS. HAGERUP, GAIL IN Mrs .Ray Hagerup and daughter Gail, are here from Sitka and are guests at the Baranof. troops from France, Norway, Italy, Croatia, Holland, Denmark, the Russidan and other fronts. ‘Those called to Berchtesgaden, the article said, included Mussolini, the Japanese. Ambassador at Ber- lin, and several of Hitler's puppet premiers, including \ Antonescu of Rumania, Laval of France, Quis- ling of Norway, Pavelic of Croatia, and Hacha of Bohemia and Mor- avia. NIPPONS SEEM T0 BE LOSING THEIR OFFENSIVE PUNCH Vern Haugl—a_nd, AP War Correspondent, Gives Views About Pacific LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 11.— “The general picture in the South- west Pacific is indeed bright and we are running well ahead of schedule,” said Vern Haugland, As- sociated Press War Correspondent, home for a rest after 27 months duty. Haugland asserted he viewed the western Caroline triumph “was evi- dence the Japs have lost the offen- sive punch,” but he cautioned the “Jap is a tough man on the ground though and the war in the Pacific is still a long way from being won, but things are moving along with almost unbelievable speed.” ———— — Arriving from Fairbanks, Grobinsky is staying at the Bar- tral 19, Northern Pacific 16%, United Joe| Dow, Jones averages are as rol-‘ the 2. Examination of whether the mfll:::?; ha‘:zw:; SS re::;;;d s German army can withdraw their AR L R ey U. 5. TROOPS 0CCUPY FOUR MORE ATOLLS WASHINGTON, April 11.—United States troops hoisted the American flag over four more atolls in the mid-Pacific Marshalls, raising to 18 the number of atolls occupied there. In addition the Navy Department reported that American sovereignty has been established over one large island, Mejit, in the northeastern section of the Marshalls. * American control of the four newly-occupied atolls, Ailuk, Ronoe- lap, Likiep, and Utirik, gives the | Americans control of all the north- | eastern area of the Marshalls. Such control effectively cuts off from their homeland the Jap garrisons | remaiging in the four atolls in the | eastern section of the Marshall | group. —————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 11. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 87%, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 0%, Kennecott 31%, North Am- erican Aviation 8%, New York Cen- States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. lows today: Industrials, 138.74; rails, anof, 40.17; utilities, 23.10. A | shalls, ousting the enemy from their | strategic holdings in New Guinea and the Aleutians. | Knox stated he is confident that the British in India will be able ane ras to halt the current Jap drive near Imphal, saying the Jap operation | » involved a m’nll number of men.j U. S. FIGHTER BASE IN ENG-| and he didn't regard it as par-\yAND, April 11—Lt. Peter Lehman, | odlarly Seryp: 26, adopted son of the former Gov- | e ernor of New York, was killed sev-| {eral days ago in acrobatic maneu- vers in a fighter plane over h:ul {home base. » His father returned to New "York| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS —eeeet Greaf Fight Raging Now Over G_ermany Swarms of American Bombers Meet Germans —Combat Is Fierce BULLETIN—London, April 11. —Nearly 2,000 American bomb- ers and fighters made assaults to day on plane factories at Oscherslesen and Bernburg. To- day’s attack is the heaviest at- tack of bombers in history. Tar- gets were also attacked near Paris. Last night's RAF attack was the largest night raid ever made against the Reich. LONDON, April 11.—A great air battle is reported raging over Nor- thern and Central Germany as American bombers swarmed across Europe for the fourth successive day in the wake of a 900 plane as- sault of the Royal Air Force. Targets in France and Belgium, especlally railroad, were smashed last night. A radio broadcast from the Ber- lin radfo, picked up here, says battles have broken out over the Brunswick and areas as United States formations thrusting deep into the Reich. ‘The Berlin broadcast sald the bomber formations are accompan- ied by Fighter escorts. The broadcast also said violent combats are also being fought over the Baltic area. TORNADOES, FLOODS IN BULLETIN — Chicago, April 11.~Viclent spring storms have left a trall of death and prop- erty damage in Arkansas, Okla- homa, Kansas, Texas and Col- orado and killed 14 in scattered communities during the night and early today. Injured run up into the hundreds. In the Rockies heavy rain caused snowslides. KANSAS CITY, April 11.—Torna- does and torrential rain struck through the Southwest yesterday killing two persons and flooding many unities. One wol was killed by a tor- nado that struck at Harrison, Ar- kansas and another woman met last night from the Middle East NTI N |where he went on Relief Adminis- tration business, and suffered a death in western Oklahoma. knee injury alighting from his plane at Cairo. 'BUTCH’ IS NAME GIVEN OLIVIA AT ~ OF EXPERT ABILENE, Kan., April 11.—George Brightbill reckoned without the om- niscient army records when thougHt upon entering the service| he was through with his occupation | " ALEUTIANS BASE Brightbill was sent to one of, AT AN ALEUTIAN BASE, April the Aleutian islands where therellL—OlMa De Haviland, motion pic- happened to be 200 sheep left by ture actress has acquired the nick- the natives when they fled (romgnamz of “Butch” and willingly the Jap invasion, and the sheep adopted it when a soldier so ad- hadn’t been sheared in two years. |dresed her, offering her a cigarette The Commanding Officer thought[on her recent tour of Aleutian out- this could be rectified when the posts. records showed Brightbill's occupa-| A Navy flier, tion. whose plane she The Arkansas storm demolished 14 buildings of a conscientious ob- |jector’s camp near Magnolia and |serfously injured 15 persons. ' Hundreds are homeless on ac- |count of rising waters. EISENHOWER: INTALKTO - U.S. AIRMEN U. 8. FIGHTER BASE IN ENG- occupied, reported that Miss De LAND, April 11-—General Dwight Guess who is shearing the sheep Haviland talked 10 to 15 minutes D. Eisenhower told a group of Am- with each man in the hospitais. Femininely attractive in' civillan jclothing, she was something for the| +boys to write home about. One sick | with old fashioned hand clippers. —————— — IN FROM SITKA In from 8itka, Donna Wagner® and Jean Grove are at the Baranof. | P AT HOTEL JUNEAU At the Hotel Juneau, William L. sallor was so overcome he wept. At Shagkak Bay on Adak Island, the actress found the soldiers had not seen a woman for 16 months to two years. erican fighter pilots that they will soon by flying dawn to dusk in & great land, sea, and air offensive over Western Europe to ecrush ‘Germans, ¢ He said he would demand of pilots everything they have, and will drive them so hard they food the Bizs Adamson and Julian W. McCormack are registered from Edmonton, Canada. } “She certainly made a hit there,” sald Capt. Prederick Huber, Army Special Service Officer, have to forego proper sleep for weeks, but he emphatically that they will dri the Nazis out. it SOUTHWEST AGED IN AIR BATTLE Japanese Pressure Continues in India IREDS START N * ] 3 | | ]