The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1944, Page 1

re. 4 E §Fo & & 58 O</ SR r)cg' > {p S < VOL. XLL, NO. 9626. ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS gt e e e | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT§ FALL OF SEVASTOPOL EXPECTED TODAY NEW THREAT ON BRITISH’ IS REVEALED Imphal Unmtiack Many Directions — Newspap- ers Censor Militarists NEW DELHI, April 14—Japanese invasion parties have been encoun- tered in the vicinity of the Bishen- pore-Silchar jungle track south- west of Imphal further threatening the isolation of both Manipur plain and the advanced Allied base at Assam. A Domei broadcast from Tokyo says the last remaining escape gap out of the Imphal Basin for the British and Indian Fourth Army Corps has been cut by a flying Jap column that has taken a height on the Imphal-Whaochong highway, 20 miles northwest of Imphal. The official Mountbatten com- munique says elsewhere on the Assam front the Jap invasion forc- (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry- gg - Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen how on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—The other day, this columnist perpetrated on a long-suffering public some of his views regarding surcease from war. It took the form of a letter to his sister, Mrs. Lockwood Fogg, Jr., congratulating her on the birth of a son. Since then, many people have written to Mrs. Fogg express- ing a gamut of stimulating views which probably represent a cross- section of the American people on the question of birth and war. Here are three of the letters— from a soldier, a mother and a grandfa‘her—expressing the hopes and fears with which they view the world of tomorfow. FROM A SOLDIER A soldier at Turner Field, Geor- gia, writes: “I too am a little concerned about what the future holds. At times the shadows are deep and the pic- ture gloomy. Fortunately, there is always a bright light, dim some- times, but present. “The boys in the service do a Iittle thinking too. Presgntly when casualty lists mount, they will do a lot more. When they read and think, somber thought is put into| . militant words. The boys don’t like strikes in wartime—but they like the progressive things for which the strikes strive. They like the end, they don’t like the means. “Also they don’t like the way things go on in some communities —and Miami Beach is just a sample. Most of the youth of the world is in the military service of their country. I have always said— and still maintain that the future of the world will be safe in the hands of youth. Periodically, it seems, the ardor of youth is curb- ed by the anguish of war. But al- ways out of it has come progress and a better world. I still have confidence in youth. “Congratulations ,on your son.” fine FROM A MOTHER A mother in Wisconsin who has; given one son to the war expres- ses a more somber note: “Have read and reread the letter your brother wrote to you. Then I sit and stare into space, as no doubt he dia before writing it. He wondered if this is a good world to bring a son into. That took me back nineteen years, when we wel- comed five pound of babyhood into ‘our home. The angels must have smiled on him, he was so beautiful. And I thought it was a beautiful world to bring him . into, for did (Continued on Page Four) BERLIN IS AGAINHIT, NIGHTRAID Attacks on> Western Ger- many Follows Terrific Daylight Assault LONDON, April 14. — Royal Air| | Force Mosquito bombers struck Ber- | !lin and western Germany last night in a climax of the double headed| daylight assaults yesterday on air- | craft and rail targets by nearly 3,000 American bombers and Fight-| ers that bagged 138 German planes. | Forty-four planes, bombers were lost. This morning the Berlin radio |broadcast a report that Allied air- |eraft bombed the Rome -area last| |night but there is no Allied con- | firmation. HOW GERMANY T0 BE GOVERNED AT END PRESENT WAR LONDON, April 14. — Defeated | Germany may be governed by a jointed -American, British and JRus- sian “Allied military government” a reliable source in close touch with | Allied Armistice proposals declared today. { It is added that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, as Supreme Comman- der of the Allied Western front forces, would be given the greatest authority in history, even greater than that exercised by the old Ro- man generals. Besides commanding all the Al- lied land, sea and air forces he would direct control over civilian life for most of liberated Europe. The plan concerning Germany was disclosed in broad outline after it was learned last night that no Allied military government was in- tended for France. Instead the De-| Gaulle Committee of National Lib- eration would be given control of the civil administration of liberat-| {ed France receiving ‘“military re- cognition” as the official authority, but not being granted diplomatic recognition as the French “Gov- ernment.” MILITARY LAW IN HAWAII IS GIVEN KNOCKOUT HONOLULU, April 14.—Martial law in Hawaii, at the starting point of the Pacific war, was ruled in- valid by Federal Judge Metzger, but military leaders proclaimed it was still in force and said violations of the general orders will be subject to provost court trials. ‘The War Department prefinred to appeal the decision yesterday that the provost court was without authority to try a Navy yard work- er or sentence him to prison. He was convicted for assaulting two Marine sentries. —————— "Discoverer of Klondike" Dies In London LONDON, April 14.—Hugh Cecil Lowther, 87, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, prominent sportsman, died here to- day. He was fond of proclaiming himself as the discoverer of the Klondike and told of how in De- cember, 1888, he set out from Win- nipeg up the Athabasca, down the Mackenzie to its estuary and how he then sailed a whaler among the Arctic islands, visiting wther and discovered one of his anestors was connected with the Hidsen’s Bay Company . He told of /aow he then crossed the Yukon anf/ reach- ed the coast by dog sleigh §nd snow shoes and narrowly escayéd being frozen to death. | | | | 36 of them| | | | Southwest Commander |he did not anticipate in any | dictions” M'ARTHUR NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS NOW Makes Straight Cut Reply Regarding Presiden- fial Nomination WASHINGTON, April 14. — Gen. Douglas MacArthur replied to a Congressman’s request that he hold himself available for the Republi- can Presidential nomination, with the assertion the United States must not inadvertently slip into the same condition internally as the one we fight externally.” In the exchange of correspon- dence with Representative A. L. Miller, Nebraska Republican, the wrote that fulfillment of the “flattering the House member made that MacArthur could the nomination, and as Miller put it “carry every state in the Union.” Miller said he has met MacAr- thur only once but has been active in the “Draft MacArthur” cam- paign which has netted MacArthur three convention delegates and seen him win the preferential primary in Illinois, politically unknown. In a letter dated February 11, MacArthur wrote Miller he appre- ciated very much the “scholarly letter” the House member address- ed to him on January 27 fn which Miller said “there is more than a. political revolution against the cen- tralization of power of the Federal Government, under way,” and add- ed “if this system of Left Wingers and New Dealism continues another four years, I am certain this Mon- archy is being established in Amer- ica to destroy the rights of the common people.” Gen. MacArthur replied: “Out here we are doing what we can with what we have. I will be glad however when more substantial forces are placed at my disposi- tion.” MEDAL FOR MISSING ACE WASHINGTON, April 11—Major Gregory Boyington, 31, of Okanog- an, Washington, Marine ace, miss- ing in action after shooting down 26 Japanese fighter planes, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Navy an- nounces. The citation described Boyington as a “superb airman and a deter- mined fighter against overwhelming odds.” NEW NEWSPAPER April 14, — The /anownces it has A Willkle failed to get. a single dele- gate in Wisconsin ‘although sup- ported by a number of the state newspapers. STANLEY REKOSHS LEAVE FOR. SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Rekosh are leaving this week for an extended trip, going as far as California. Mr. Rekosh who has ‘been underground at the Alaska Juneau, is taking his first vacation trip in 16 years. ———————— Arriving from Sewart, Nevada, Miss Gayle Tomlinson has accepted the position of secretary to Don C. Foster, new General Superintendent for the Office of Indian Affairs. Miss Tomlinson replaces Miss Lena Bardi, formerly secretary for the General Superintendent who has MILLICN SOUGHT FOR EXPLOITATION ALASKA OIL AREA Vermont Co—rfiressm an Predicts North Pole to Be "Crossroads of World" WASHINGTON, April 14. — The regional North Pole may become the “crossroads of the world,” Repre- sentative Charles A. Plumley, Ver- mont Republican, told the House urging approval of a $1,000,000 ap- propriation for exploration of the petroleum reserves of Alaska. Plumley said international com= merce of the future promises to depend on direct transport between Canada, the United States, Russia and China, using the North Pole region. The Vermont congressman fur- ther said: “Evidence is convincing that indegenious oil sources of great value await only to be de- veloped.” The appropriation is included in the thirty two billion dollar Naval Supply Bill before the House. The area to be surveyed embraces about 35,000 square miles bordering the Arctic in the vicinity of Point Barrow and extending inland about 130 miles. FLIGHTS MADE T HAINES SKAGWAY AND SITKA TODAY Alaska Coastal Airlines planes were | kept busy flying to and from Sitka, Haines and Skagway and the Woodley Air Service made one flight to Anchorage today. Passengers to Sitka, flying with Clarence Rhodes were Helen Mc-| Clure, Lucille Burnett, Lucille Lane, Peggy Lynn and Eddie Burnett. Flying with C. E. Walters were Jack Lund, Carl Gafvert, William Spain, George Satko, A. Van Ma- vern, Stanley Erickson and John Milias. Shell Simmons piloted the Haines- | Skagway plane. His passengers to Haines frcm Juneau were Zedoc De Parvien, T. W. Shaw, and John P. !Coleman. Returning to Juneau were Mrs. Dave Fenton, Victor W. Por- lier, T. W. Shaw and Mr, and Mrs. Harry Willlams from Haines and Julian W. McClawrock from Skag- way. Art Woodley flew the following from Juneau to Anchorage: Nor- man Stines, Mrs. Allen, Frank Deg- nan, H. L. McConnell, H. E. Bjod- strup, Paul Miller an¢ Helen Mar- shall. LINN FORREST IS NEW PRESIDENT OF JUNEAU STUDENTS Linn Forrest was elected President 'of the Juneau High School Asso- ciated Student Body for the 1944-45 term when ballots were counted fol- lowing the annual election of of- ficers recently. Named to serve with Forrest are Dick Garvin, Vice-President; Joyce Smith, Secretary; Jim Klein, Asso- ciate Editor; Betty Lou Hared, As- sociate Editor; and Loise Standafer, Assistant Business Manager. Two hundred and ninety-two stu- dents cast votes. Assisting in con- ducting the election were Art Lowell, Erna Meier, Margaret Femmer, Mar- lin Feero, John Dapcevich and Dessa Schneider. Father - Daughter | RUMORS OF INVASION IN AIR AGAIN NEW YORK, April 14—A brief‘ flurry of invasion rumors were set off last night by Canadian reports of a German broadcast that an “invasion force headed by Cana-| dians” had landed in France south of Calais, but this was apparently simply a garbled version of a Nazi “ve dare you" warning. In London the broadcast was de- seribed as ‘“entirely untrue from beginning to end. The Canadian report, sent out| from Toronto, was as follows: | A purported German short wave| broadcast heard by at least three| Canadian stations, said “an inva-) sion force headed by Canadians”| are making a landing on the Nazi‘ | i | | I occupied French Coast south of Calals. Receivers at the Toronto Weather | Bureau Airfield, near Toronto, and| the London, Ontario, station, re-| ported picking up the broadcast. | Such transmissions have not been | heard regular from German sta-| tions. ! BULLETIN WASHINGTON — Gen. : MacArthur for Secretary of War if he does not secure the Republican | nomination for President ,is being urged by backers of Gov. Thomas | E. Dewey. | | I [ | % WASHINGTON—Unanimous vote of the House sends to the Senate the record thirty-two billion dollar Navy appropriation bill. Passage of one day. | WASHINGTON—Fifty billion du/l- ' lar supply bill for the Army is! scheduled to reach the House within a couple of days. NEW YORK-—Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the motion | picture industry. On the night of | April 14, 60 years ago, Edison's kinetoscope was shown to the pub- lic for the first time in a con- verted shoe store on Broadway. | ! ! STOCKHOLM—The Swedish gov- | ernment has been asked to stop ex- | porting ball bearings sto Germany. ! The British-American demand has | been handed the government by U. 8. Minister Herschel Johnson and British Minister Mallett. | TOKYO—The DNB reports Jap IN HUNGARY ARE HEAVILY ATTACKED o | Activity by Patrols, Artil- lery Reported from Italian Front ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, April 14—Thirty-six Nazi planes were downed yesterday by the Allied Mediterranean Air Forces at a cost of 19 ships including 16| heavy bombers. ‘Widespread = operations included attacks on airplane plants and fields in Hungary. On the land front, patrols and artillery are active in all sectors. — > BONUS CUT PROTESTED BY SEAMEN WASHINGTON, April 14—Mari- time Unions have protested to the Maritime War Emergency Board against its recent change in war seamen. Officers of the board announced today they are making no chang- {es in the rates, but would- donsider any information submitted concern- ing war hazards in various waters and the net effect of the rates. According to estimites by the Maritime Commission officials, there will be a reduction of about two percent of the total earnings for unlicensed seamen. Officers’ reduc- tions will be particularly heavy, however, for coastal operations ! came after roll call following debate” along the Pacific. The Alaska voyage bonus of $80 a month for unlicensed seamen on the West Coast was reduced to $30 a month, while a 100 percent voyage bonus paid monthly to masters and {licensed officers in those waters was | reduced to 25 percent. TOP FIGHTER ACE CRASHES OWN PLANE U. S. FIGHTER BASE IN BRIT- 'AIN, April 14—Capt. Don Gentile,| [top fighter ace in the European Se¢ no reason for a conflict be- IS POUNDED BY BOMBERS JapBase Hit Hard-Freight- er Sunk, Many Ves- sels Sef Afire ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN !THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 14.—More than 200 American bomb- ers and fighters hit Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Wednesday, with 322 tons of bombs and 89,000 rounds of machine-gun and cannon fire, sinking one 2,000-ton freighter land setting fire to nine smaller vessels. | Lightnings, which covered the for- midable force of Liberators, Mit- chells and Bostons, shot down eight |enemy planes and damaged ten out of 20 Japanese fighters that gave battle over the badly-battered base. The presence of the enemy planes and ships at Hollandia. indicated the Japanese have pushed replace- ments there after the 400-ton oblit- erating bombing of April 2 that completely destroyed the air fleet there. Explosives dropped recently on Hollandia are known to have de- stroyed 88 planes, made three air- flelds unserviceable and sections qf the town and harbor demolished. Today's communigque also reported a2 Libérator' on Monday bombed Tritk in the Carolines, and hitting the warehouse area on Dublon Islan on Tuesday. ! In raids on Wewak, three Allied fighters were lost but the raiders destroyed an equal number of the enemy. i NEW CONNECTIONS, ALASKA HIGHWAY, ARE NOW PLANNED | | i \Chairman Magnuson, of { Commission, Has Con- ference with War Dept. WASHINGTON, April 14—Repre- ,unuuve Warren Magnuson, Dem- ocrat of Washington, Chairman of the Alaska International Highway |Commission, sald after a confer- lence with the War Department of- exteng the life of the Commission |which expires next June 30. He sald the officers told him they :::'lm;“';’; pe“""""“'ln::‘:":::"t;: theatre with 30 planes destroyed in tween the commission and the ull A mflpu;lrol:d e .r oA /the air and on the ground, was Army in the construction of addi- Bengal-Assam ral : OPBIW Y 'badly shaken when he was forced tional highway outlets in Alaska. the Americans as a supply line. ANKARA—Foreign Minister Men- emensioglu told newsmen today that “Turkey will aid the Allies within the limits of her material pos- sibilities.” - LONDON — Swooping out of a cloud bank, the Ninth Air Force bombers and fighters, have destroy- ed a-score of planes on a German | airfield in northeast France and set fires to fuel dumps and hangars. MISTAKE CAUSES DEATH, 4 BABIES; SIX OTHERS ILL NEW LONDON, Conn., April 14— A boric acid powder mistakenly substituted in a dextrose feeding formula caused the death of four bables born to Naval mens’ wives Banquet Tomorrow ‘The annual Father-Daughter ban- quet of the Order of Rainbow for Girls will be held tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock in the banquet room of the Scottish Rite Temple. The affair will be in charge of the majority members and follow- been ill since January and is nowing the dinner there will be a meet- in the Tacoma General Hospital. ing in the lodge room. in recent days at the Lawrence Memorial Associated Hospitals, it is disclosed. All of the little victims were less than one week old. 8ix other infants are seriously ill. at least one extremely critical. The Hospital Administrator said the mistake was made by a woman to crash on the land with his fast to the base hospital for a few days of observation. A crash wagon crew found Capt. Gentile seated on the wing of his plane. He had been escorting bomb- ers' and tangled with several Ger- man fighters. He made no claims of any kills during the flight, how- ever. ———————— TWICE REPORTED LOST, BUT HE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE LOS ANGELES, April 14.—Twice reported lost overseas in combat, the 22-year-old son of a former President of Mexico went about his business as a test pilot here, jocular~ ly assuring friends there is no basis to the report that he is dead. It all is "a huge mistake” Abel- adro Luis Rodriquez, Jr., sald, with a grin when he was informed by an Associated Press dispatch that Lon- don proclaimed him missing in an air raid over Germany with the U. S. Eighth Air Force. Rodriguez, whose father, now Gov- ernor of Sonora. said his mother was notified about a month ago he was killed in action in Europe. The re- Magnuson said after Congress | fighter at his home base after a extends the life of the Commission, recent mission. He has been brought Delegate Anthony J. Dimond will| introduce a bill to authorize pay- ment of the United States’ share of the proposed $12,000,000 connect- ing link in the Alaska Military Highway. He said 'the link will run from Prince George, Canada, to the already has authorized payment of her $6,000,000 share. hp-[h;;lg;ire Pul Back, Govt. Fed Following Profests PHILADELPHIA, April 14.—Sad, but resigned, five Japanese-Amer- icans faced the prospets of becom- ing government charges, their New Jersey farm jobs gone because of neighbors’ protests. George Yamamoto, spokesman of the group said, “It looks as if we’ll have to go back to letting the gov- ernment feed us. We have no | | those people didn’t want us to earn our own living.” ‘They were brought here by George Kowalick, 23-year-old farmer, who employed them after protest signs’ pharmacy school graduate who is|port, he $aid, probably referred to|were posted and the shack on his now a patient in the hospital suf-|the same person mentioned yes-'farm was burned by neighbors who fering a nervous collapse. terday. held l'ndlntlon meetings, {ficials, he will introduce a bill toj Whitehorse area. British Columbia | money. We. have no income. Buf | Japanese Make Advances in India Invasion [PLANTSANDFIELDS |HOLLANDIA — TWO SOVIET ARMIES PUSH 10 SEAPORT Germans and Rumanians Throw Weapons Away- Surrender by Battalions MOSCOW, April 14.—The prospect of the fall of Sevastopol today, the- Russian Orthodox Good Friday, gripped the imagination of the Rus- sian people as the Red Army slashed through disorganized groups of Ger- mans and Rumanians, many of whom are surrendering by bat- talions. The Red Star’s correspondent says Maj. Vasily Ignatiev declares the “enemy is cracked at the seams” and fleeing Axis troops are out of control and in great confusion as ‘Tolbukhin’s Fourth Ukrainian Army and Yeremenko's Maritime Army bore down on the naval base that resisted the enemy for nine months in 1941 and 1942. Scores of German and Rumanian battalions, deserted by their com- manders, raced for the Baltic Sea port, but it appeared even if they reached the base before the Red Army tanks, their escape will be Impossible although a German, Lt. Wolfgang Rost, sald: “Your tanks made sheep of us and we are racing to muahmt we' get-thiere, we have no place to go and those of us who do not surrender will pe killed.” The plain-speaking officer was captured on the road between Sim- feropol and Sevastopol and he made the statement to Red Army officers in the present of ‘the Investia, Red Star correspondent. Yeremenko's Maritime Army is driving down the highway that skirts the southern coast of Crimea retreating in such a hurry they have no time to destroy food or supply dumps. e “The retreat is covered by dead Hitlerites, arms and other weapons of all kind being abandoned. Pris- oners are counted by the thousands,” the Red Star correspondent reports 0DD FELLOWS' HALL AT NOME DESTROYED IN FIERCE BLAZE NOME, Alaska, April 14—A fire of unknown origin early yesterday morning, completely destroyed the Odd Fellows Hall, one of Nome's oldest and largest buildings, origin- ally the Nome High School. Part of the secondefloor has been used by lodges and other fralernal organizations, but the balance of the building has been vacant. . The building was recently leased by the Sommers Construction Com- ipany and the foundation and inter- ior was being repaired for the hous- ing of the employees of the com- | pany. ¢ | FPiremen fought the blaze for six |hours but could not combat the heavy smoke, The fire started under the main floor and spread through- |out the building giving out terrific heat. Robert Ledgerwood, 28, caretaker, was led from the smoking hallway by George Madsen, who lives across the street and discovered the fire at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The loss is estimated at_$50,000 partially covered by insurance. B TOM CASEY DIES PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 14. —Tom Casey, one of the best known mixologists in Southeast Alaska, and (formerly of Juneau, died here this | morning at 8 o'clock from an attack of the heart. He had one attack last night followed by the one this morning. 1 A brother, Frank, is in Tacoma. He has one son, Robert, ‘rummmumm