The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 13, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLI, NO. 9625. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ] NIP BASES IN KURILES ARE BOMBED | “NIP FORCES RED FORCES I | | i ARE EDGING| UPON IMPHAL Invader Formafions Mak- ing New Thrusts Along | Manipur Plain NEW DELHI, April 13—The Japs | have edged around northwest of | Imphal, supplementing their posi- ! tions southwest of that partly sur- rounded base on the Manipur plain, in Eastern India the communique of Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia Headquarters discloses. ‘The announcement said the Bri- tish and Indian forces have cap- tured the hill position in that area after hand to hand fighting. A Domei broadcast from Toky», picked up here, declared Jap for- | ARENEARING SIMFEROPOL Rapid Progress Made in Crimean Campaign— Planes in Action BULLETIN—LONDON, April 13.—The Red Army troops mov- ing swiftly in clearing Crimea of Germans and Rumanians, have captured Yevpatoria, on the west coast, 42 miles north of Sevas- topol and Feodosia on the south coast, 100 miles east of the naval base, Stalin announced tonight in two Orders of the Day. This tells the story so far of the re- markable progress of the six-day campaign which has swept the enemy from two-thirds of the 9,- 900-square-mile peninsula. mations are launching thrusts near the airfield only two or three miles | MOSCOW, April 13—Kuban Cos- AttuMayBe RelicRealm After War Navy ChapfiSays Arch-| aeologists May Make Great Finds SAN DIEGO, April l(L—AttIl.; bleak and barren island, outpost of the Aleutians, may become an arch- aeologist’s mecca after the war, said Lt. David Kingman, first Navy| Chaplain to serve on this island. Kingman said hundreds of ivory| relics, skeletons and other items' have been dug up by Seabees and! many believe entire villages are| buried beneath many feet of tun- dra on the tops of the island. ALASKA COASTAL | AIRLINES HAS | SIXBLOWS AT GERMANY BY BOMBERS Planes from Italy Make Double Attack - U. S. Planes Hit 4 Setcions LONDON, April 13. — American bombers landed a double blow at German aircraft production by striking from Italy at the works in Hungary and the Messerschmidt factory near Gyor, 70 miles north- east of Budapest as well as railroad car and machine works at Tokol and airdrome and assembly plant. The Eighth Air Force, Britain based, made a four bladed attack on aircraft plants at Augsburg and Oberpfoffenhiffen, aircraft installa- tions and ball bearing works at Schweinfurst. More than 500 bombers accom- panied by from 750 to 1,000 fighter planes went into the operation. north of Imphal and three miles sack cavalry, light tank columns and northwest of Imphal, other forces motorized artillery vanguards of are battling. The broadcast said Gen. Tolbukhins Fourth Ukrainian however, the British are making Army are racing down through the some progress in clearing up some Crimea within sight of the tall Jacp blocks on the Manipur road buildings of Simferopol, capital city with “squeezing tactics.” ,of the former Crimean Republic and A battle is also reported near Ko- only 35 miles north of the great hima on the route of the Bengal- Assam railway, life line. This action (Continued ‘on Page Three) The Washingto Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON . (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol. i “Tolbukhin’s army is striking to- ward Simfeyopol from the north and northwest in the drive down |central ‘Crimean’s railroad from | Karacha and his forces have crashed through with a record plunge of 43 miles from Szhankoi. | Panic is reported spreading among the retreating Axis troops, especially the Rumanians who are said to have denied motorship transport by the Germans. One big motor transport fled load- ed only with Germans. Soviet warplanes today entered WASHINGTON—To keep abreast o fyricus fighting and are today of the manpower shortage, it IS yaging objectives of the ground necessary to know that at least forces, thus making progress more three important closed-door con- simple. ferences have been held on the| one Red Star correspondent said, subject within the last two months. «“caravans of enemy ships,” appar- First meeting was on Capitol Hill ently heading for Rumanian ports, | Targets of all highly important Busv Two DAYS!German Air Force were hit pre- [vlously. | The blows on Hungary followed a Pilots and planes of the Alaska i 44 1a5t night on Budapest by RAF Coastal Airlines have been kept in Wellingtons flying from Italy. the air yesterday and today. | ot 400 Two trips were made today to| Sitka. The following were taken to mBs Av MuBlE Sitka: Ned Albright, Don Hunger- ford, W. E. Donaldson, Pete Nielson, | ’ E. L. Bartlett, Walter McLaughlin, | wnHIN 80 M'lB Mr. and Mrs. Kent Bruns, R. P.' 4 Perkins, Judson Brown and Paul | vl - OF CAPITAL CITY A | iy m:fin‘:'erzx&y : :hl’i;‘;‘,’“‘i’?l‘sfi?fl‘ Jobs within 80 miles of Juneau Johnson, ¥, Schonwold. Virgil Baker are available, to local ‘y-gmployed, and Dell Fett. |but the positions will 1> be held Returning to Juneau from Sitka Hane Floe, superintendent of the open much longer, acewding toj cannery at Hawk Inlet, was flown Jack Carvel, manager of the U. S. to the cannery. Frank Kelly and Employment Service office in Ju- James Sorreil were passengers to neau. Haines and Harold Bates, G. E. Gal- i The positions are especially de-| lant, J. M. Steear and Pomor Liscon- sirable for those persons who wish ski returned to Juneau from Skag- 'to maintain their homes in the| way today. 3 Capital+City, because the employees John Clements was a passenger would then be able to visit with| to Wrangell and Norris Shapiro and their familes occasionally. HANSA BAY IS POUNDED BY BOMBERS {Heavies Make Many As- saults on Southwest Pacific Sectors THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 18— Escorted heavy bombers fol- lowed Monday's heavy naval air as- spult on Hansa Bay by dropping 130 tons of bombs the next day and causing considerable damage to that {Japanese base on the northeast coast of New Guinea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces. In the latest attack, heavy bomb- ers also struck Nomoi Island, south- east of Truk on the Carolines. Other heavies have hit Wewak, New Guinea, ahd badly shattered Rabaul, New Britain. Nearby Boram took a 59 ton bombing, centered on fuel dumps and antiaircraft installations. Ten Japanese barges were de- |stroyed north of Dagua, in the We- {wak sector and Rabaul's Tobera 'girstrip and supply areas at Talila y were plastered with 30 tons of bombs. One lone Japanese plane bombed American positions at, Saidor and estroyed a few tents. One man was ‘wounded. oo M The new raid on Hansa Bay was |earried_out at midday and ruins |vious day’s pounding. 26,000JAPS - ARE KILLED INPACIFIC l JALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| {were still smoking from the pre-| (apt.Bong HasRecord, 21 Planes ‘Wismnsin Airman Is Now Highest Ranking Amer- ican Ace, Present War ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 13.—Capt. Richard Bong, popular Wisconsin man, has shot down 27 enemy planes in aerial combat to become the highest ranking Ameri- can ace in this or any other war, |Headquarters announced today. Bong's last two victories were achieved in raids over the Japanese base Hollandia, New Guinea. The Wisconsin ace holds 20 decorations. Bong’s total exceeds the 26 planes credited to Rickenbacker, World War I ace. HANGAR AT - ANCHORAGE DESTROYED |Blaze of Unknown Origin Causes Loss Esfimat- ed af ilf0,000 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 13— Officals of the Morrison-Knudsen Company are already discussing |plans for rebuilding the hangar de- stroyed Tuesday by fire of an un- known origin and which sent’ Milés Dainell to the hospital with bad burns. Five airplanes and 18 engines, |some of the finest automotive equipment in Alaska was lost in the fire. PPROBING OF OPA TO BE DEMANDED Fishermen's Coo peartive Association Prepares for Action SEATTLE, April Cooperative Association, said the association is preparing to demand a congressional investigation of the Office of Price Administration be- cause of delay in acting on requests for salmon price adjustments. Hoff said the association is on the verge of closing which he claimed will resuilt in the loss to Seattle of the major salmon market, — eee - HALIBUT FLEET TIE-UP IS PUT DIRECT TC ICKES Keichikafihamber of Commerce Sends Wire with Recommendation, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 13— The Chamber of Commerce offi- cials here have wired Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes to inter- vene in the present tieup of the halibut fishing fleet, since he is Petroleum Coordinator and presum- ably interested in saving of oil needed to deliver Alaska fish to Seatle to obtain the highest price. The wire to Ickes asks a differ- ential cut between Alaska and Se- attle. Speakers at the Chamber meeting Tuesday sald the OPA aim at giv- ing Seattle a 2% cent differential is apparently to restore a “normal” flow of fish to that port, whereas, actually, the normal flow was be- 13. — Cllflord, Hoff, attorney for the Fishermen's' ' Japs Launch New Attacks at British Base — NO.PACIFIC AIR FLEETS IN ACTION {Paramushiro, Shimushu, Other Jap-held Islands Are Under Attack PEARL HARBOR, April 13. — Paramushiro and Shimushu, Japan- ese bases in the North Pacific Ku- rile Islands, were bombed Tuesday by Ventura search planes of Fleet Airwing 4, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announces. On the same day a single Elev- enth Air Force Liberator unloaded bombs on Matsuwa, Kuriles base, less than 1,000 miles from Tokyo, which had been the target of a full sized Liberator strike the day be- fore. A Central Pacific Fleet Alrwing search plane has bombed Oroluk atoll, east of Truk in the Carolines, and another hit was made on Ulul island, northwest of Truk. A third plane dropped incendiaries on Pon- ape and Seventh AAF Mitchells later also bombed and strafed Pon~ ape, hitting bfilding,s small craft, airstrips and storage areas. Anti- aircraft fire was intense. Three enemy held Marshall atolls have also been bombed and strafed, All planes returned safely to bas- es after their opes PN Admiral Nimitz announced earl- fer that Army Liberators bombed Matsuwa and Onnekotan last Mon- day. Both Islands are slightly south from Paramushiro. MORE ATTACKS REPORTED UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, April 13.—Heavy Liberator bombers of the Eleventh Army Air Force raided Matsuma on’ Wednesday for the third attack in three days on the Jap base in the Kuriles north- east of Tokyo, Admiral Nimitz an- nounced late today. The Liberators also hit Shashik- otan, the first raid on this bleak central Kuriles Island, while Navy in the office of the House Military Affairs Committed. There, General | H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, admitted that the war against the Axis could npt be won entirely by air. Second was a meeting of Secre- | tary of War Henry Stimson, Repre- sentatives John Sparkman of Al- abama and John' Costello of Cali- fornia. At it, Stimson agreed that drastic action should be taken to keep deferred 4-F workers in es- sential war jobs, but said that the ‘War Department preferred to re- main out of the picture. At the third and most important meeting, held on Capitol Hill, Ma-' jor General Lewis Hershey flatly told the House Military Affairs Committee that we would have to clamp down on 4-F deferrees if we expected to make short work of the war in Europe. General Arnold was very frank in admitting, behind closed doors, that he and his advisers had been overly bullish about knocking the Axis out by aerigl bombardment. Already the Army Afr Corps has transferred 36,000 flying men to its ground forces and is preparing to place another 16,000 men, qualified for cadet air training, in mechanical and other branches of the Air Corps ground forces. Arnold told the Military Affairs Committee that all applications for Army Air Forces eadet training had are crossing the Black Sea. A noose has been drawn around the Germans in the Skala pocket on the north Dneister River section where remnants of 15 German di- | vision, with possible 10,000 men, face annihilation. INDIAN AFFAIRS HEAD ANNOUNCES PLANNING BOARD According to announcement today by Don C. Foster, recently appoint- ed General Superintendent for the Office of Indian Affairs, a Planning Board has been selected whose pur- pose will be to work with other Federal and Territorial agencies in connection with matters pertaining for the most part, to post war planning. Members of the committee in- clude Ralph Mize, Dr. Edgar W. Norris, V. R. Farrell, Harvey Star- lng, Ray Wolfe, Louis Peters, Leon- ard Allen and Dr. George Dale. Acting in an advisory capacity with the committee will be Gov. Ernest Gruening, representing the Territory; Roy Peratrovich, the In- dian population; Earl McGinty, the Federal agencies; Don C. Foster and Fred Geeslin, the Indian Ser- vice. F. Schoenwold were flown to Ket- | | Statistics compiled today show| ‘WASHINGTON, April 13. — More | {fore 1930 when from twelve mil-|Venture planes also bombed Para- chikan. {that 106 of the until recently em- Mr. and Mrs. Micikin and son and | ployed miners have reported and Logan Mandnegan were Passengers yegisioreq with the Employment :ol"un"ier Bay. Retuml] ngwm’;fi:h‘servlce. Of this number, 5¢ have s‘;‘;‘m P 3; e:n: 1 omy P:::er Bfl“‘been referred to jobs, some locally rapmd g y'gnd some outside the city. Eleven ;:i:ofr;‘ a::q{::l'n:kf;:;fi' t imen have been placed in local jobs A iand 5 have accepted employment Yesterday Alaska Coastal Airlines | planes took the following passengers: | elsewhere. to Excursion Inlet from Juneau: w.! “There are many opemngs DOV, Van: Til, J. E. Odom and H. E.|in various projects in various towns, Apéhdrck: . to Hoonah, O. F. Ben-|covering a large area in Alaska,” ecke, R. E. Pendley, and P. Miller; |Mr. Carvel stated today. from Hoonah to Juneau, A. F. Ben+| “We are trying,” he continued, ecke, Paul Miller, Hilda Schoonover, | “to ‘place as many. 8s possible in and from Funter Bay to Juneau,|local positions when the registrant C. Krukoff and I. Kushin. wishes that. We advise all who are The following were roundtrip pas- inow ynemployed to come to the of- sengers: from Juneau to Tenakee, fice and register as soon as pos- Dr. Berneta Block, Helen Johnson |sible.” and Dr. James Ryan, N. A. McEach- ran was a passenger to Haines. Jack Brown and Lope Abalilla were passengers to Ketchikan and returning to Juneau from Ketchikan was Norman Stines. Morris Shapier was a passenger to Petersburg and JUNEAU BANDS READY FOR PRESENTATION OF been stopped for the time being. He testified that the production of equipment for our Air Forces was not keeping pace with the pro- gram for the training of pilots and plane gun crews. We have reached a bottleneck where we have more crews.than we have equipment, Ar- old admitted. The Air Forces chief contended that this was chiefly due to the “lagging” of production. KEEPING 4-F's IN ESSENTIAL JoBs Representatives Sparkman and Costello then urged Secretary Stim- son to assume the responsibility for keeping draft-deferred 4-F’s in (Cuntinued on Page Four) It is hoped, stated Mr. Foster, that through this board, the Indian Service may work out plans for its participation with other agencies in the development of activities in the ‘Territory after the present war. e - TO VISIT MOTHER Mrs. Russell Maynard sailed today for Seattle, where she will be the house guest of her mother, Mrs. Grover Andree. Mrs. Maynard plans to visit in Seattle for several months. ——————.— NEALE FROM CHICAGO J. A. Neale, with the Underwriters Laboratory, is here from Chicago and has registered at- the Bar- anof. A. A. Olson was flown to Skagway yesterday. The following were passengers to Sitka yesterday: F. Schonwold, Vir- gil Baker, Dell Fett, Robert Dyer, Vernon Hawkins, Donald Lockwood, Karl Drager and B. F. Forbes. Ju- neau passengers from Sitka were Teodore Harhat, Eugene P. Brown, Bjran Hooper, Fred Godke, Andrew Johnnie, Dale Sorrels, Capt. Pred Wayne and David Zender. ———o——— NEW YORK, April 13.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, American Can 85%, Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 58, Curtiss ‘Wright 5%, International Harvester 69%, Kennecott 30%, North Ameri- can Aviation 8%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 15%, United States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 137.65, rails 39.68, utilities 22.90. —————— At the Baranof, Morris Shupin is here from Chicagg. * 1944 SPRING (ONCERT Last minute tune-up and polish- ing of the entire program are oc- cupying members of the Junior and Senior Juneau public school bands today and tomorrow, in preparation for the annual spring concert to be presented to the public tomorrow evening. As always the public is invited| to attend the concert which is slat-| ed to begin at 8 o‘clock in the grade school autditorium. Both bands are under the direction of Miss Phyl- lis Brooks, program, will climax it's selections with “Anchors Aweigh” as accom- ipaniment for a vocal chorus of 12. Bill Sperling will play a trumpet solo. | The Senior Band will combine classical, patriotic, and light mo- dern music in its selections. Spec- ial. features will be presented by Buddy Hunter and. Bill Harris. SO O HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Here from Anchorage, Frank Brown is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘The Junior Band, first on the; | than 26,000 Japanese were killed in fighting in the Southwest and Cen- tral Pacific in recent months, Sec- retary of War Henry L. Stimson said today at a press conference. | He gave this summary: Central’ | Pacific, 11,000 to 12,000 dead in the | past three months; Bougainville, 5,~ {370 from March 8 to April 8; New | Britain, 4,679 since the landings there early this year; Saidor sector and Admiralty Islands, 2,962. — e ENEMY FORCES IN ITALY ARE " REGROUPED ALIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, April 13—German forc- jes in the Garigliano sector in Southwest Cassino are beginning to assume a more aggressive spirit and are reacting sharply according to reconnaissance. Indications are that the Nazis are continuing to regroup forces which | were observed there last week. Ger- |man engineers seem to be mining |the Garigliano River. | Yesterday there were a number |of minor patrol clashes in the Adri~ atic sector. The Germans made attacks on |several houses in Southwest Crec- ichio, but the front generally re- mained quiet. — e Clara June Gabrielson and Law- irence.John Palmer arrived in Ju- neau today from Whitehorse via Pan American Airlines. Leaving Juneau today by PAA were Jack Zeigler, Marshall Monty and Al- 'tred Ranney for Whitehorse and Eula Kootuk and Freddy Amuk- tookik both for Fairbanks. Yesterday a late afternoon plane brought the following to the Capi- tal City from Whitehorse: Ray Wil- liams, Herman Eckstrom, Willlam J. Watson, Peter E. Hanson, John A. Neale, Leslie J. Myers, Dr. John | of New Guinea, 1,053 up to April 8; i The loss is estimated st $750,000 |but covered by insurance. The hangar was constructed one !year and a half ago. ————————— NEW DRAFT ' BOARD LIST IS RELEASED (released today by the local board: 1-A — Olaf W. Holte, Floyd G. Buss, Thomas A. Colter, Tony A. Tomatich, James N. Barrie, Bennie Mohs, George W. Bryson, Martin J. Peist, Martin J. Lynch, James D. Madsen, William P. Zirglis, James R. York, 1-C—Royal P. Holst. 1-C(H)—Matt Zelezny. 2-C — Theodove W. Hodwalker, Roy C. Cutler. 2-A—FEdwin P. Mahlum, Skov C. Borge, Lynes H. Seevers, Karl Al- stead, George E. Satko. 2-B — Paul H. Hansen, Jay B. Mallott. 4-F—Roald C. Copstead, Frank D. McKinley. 4-F(H)—Olaf Ness. Apply Lash Io!eulrals LONDON, April 13.—Britain and the United States have toughened their policy toward neutrals by tightening the Irish blockade with reduced steamship service, also pro- testing against increased Turkish shipments of chrome to Germany, and condemning Spanish seizure of Allied oil stocks in Spanish Moroc- co. ‘Telephone service has also been curtailed with Ireland and permits LH. Clements and George J. Nold. to travel must be secured. v The following new draft list was {lion to fifteen million pounds were landed in Alaska, and since then, with layovers, boats were given time to deliver to Seattle. The wire says it fails to see ‘where delivering to Seattle helps the war effort. 17 FROM WEST ARRIVE BY BOAT I CAPITAL CITY | A southbound boat docking in [Juneau this morning brought the following 17 people to the Capital |city from Seward: & Helen Booker, E. 8. Booth, Frank Brown Howard Dickson, Stanley R. Duke, Mr. and Mrs. A. J: Forrest, Laura Prazier, Mrs. Emily Hycken- bottom, Bessie M. ‘Kalley, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Laisure, Diana Larson, .| weather. mushiro and Shumushu, at the northern end of the chain, Shashikotan was the key target of the brisk renewal of air opera- tions on the enemy's far northern bases usually shrouded by dirty The island is about 13 miles long and five wide. Two ac- tive volcanoes are located on the island. All planes returned. « Ventura pilots who struck Para- mushiro and Shumushu before dawn ‘reported hits were made ca airflelds and fires were started. Fire from light antiaircraft was en- countered. e v FOUR ARMY TE MEET TONIGHT AT = - HIGH SCHOOL GYM ‘lof, Mrs. Charles F. Werner and in-| Four Army teams will meet to- fant son, Charles Werner, M. x_Inlzhc and Saturday night for a {Cushing, Steve Fortuna, Jackson B, |series of basketball games to be Rice, W. H. Ross, Pvt. J, D. True, Played at the Juneau High School Preston G. Wooley. gymnasium, Embarking for ports to the south| The first game this evening will were Jack Balentthe, Mrs. Juanita|Pegin at 7 o'clock when the 158th Singleterry, Joseph Grobinsky, Mrs, Port Bn from Skagway is scheduled Jack Balentine, Mrs. A. L. Hunt|/to meet the local Finance Team. and ipfant, Mrs. Phyllis Maynard,| The second match will be played Leonard Garrison, Mrs. Mary Gar-| DYy am Alr Corps five and the Mil- rison, Sgt. Simon K. Meacham, Mrs. Helen B, Meacham, William F. Morrison, James W. Ruble, Jack O. Goehing, Harry Race and Carl Misunstad. — e MEACHAM TRANSFERRED Sgt. Simon K. Meacham, for many years attached to the Juneau Signal Corps, U. 8. Arfhy, has been transferred to Seattle and left this morning. Mrs. Meacham accompan- ied her husband south. TR L N IS GUEST HERE Zedoe Z. dePavien, with the CAA at Anchorage, is staying at the Baranof. {itary Police. Playoff’s will be held Saturday night, according to announcement. | Alaska, Hawail Led Nation, Bond Quofas WASHINGTON, April 13.—Alaska |and Hawali led the nation in the fulfillment on bond quotas in the Fourth War Loan Drive, Delegate Dimond told the House. He said Alaska subscribed 202 percent and Hawall 175 percent of their quotas. e The first recorded almanac was written in 1380 in England.