The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1944, Page 1

> [t THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 9633. REDS TIGHTEN NET AROUND SEVASTOPOL AMERICANS JOIN RAID ON SUMATRA Strong Forces of U. C. Car-! riers, Speedy Planes in Surprise Move SOUTHEAST ASIA m- QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceyion, April 22.—A strong United States Navy carrier force joined the Brit~ ish, French and Dutch naval units in the Indian Ocean and partici-; pated in the blow which caught the | Japs napping at Sumatra and Sa- bang, *headquarters has announced. | Speedy Navy planes, 80 percent of | them American made, hopped off | American and British carriers at dawn Wednesday and smashed near- 1y every installation in slgh? on | Sabang, well off the northern tip of | Sumatra, also Lhong airfield at Sumatra. The air and sea attack was the| first strong assault delivered in the Japs' direction from Ceylon, British Naval Headquarters. There is no indication as to whether the Am- erican carrier force which came. from the Pacific has permanentlyl joined with the British to operate in the Southeast Asia theatre. Associated Press correspondent Eugene Burns, who witnessed the attack, wrote an acocunt of it. He sailed from Pear]l Harbor on January 9 and was told he would probably be gone for three weeks. Three an a half months later he walked into headquarters here and began writ- ing the story. ~ Bings. covered operations at Kwajalein, ‘Wotje, Einewtok and Majuro. The carriers were screened by British and French battleships, and by lighter units of the British, Dutch and United States navies. British tonnage predominated. 34 Nations Reach Stabilization Fund Agreement,Report WASHINGTON, April 22—Trea- sury technicians of 34 nations an- nounce agreement on a proposed eight billion dollar gold basis sta- bilization fund designed to restore order in International finance and promote world prosperity. Soviet Russia dramatically gave approval at the last minute. The fund will be used to prevent unhealthy gyrations in relations to currency and promote trade. The Washingion Merry -Eg- Round By DREW PEARSON . Col. Allen now on sctive the Army.) Robert 8. service with WASHINGTON—For months, the Justice Department has been pre- paring backstage a vigorous crack- down on the Swedish match mon- opoly, including its American af- filiate the Diamond Match Com- pany. g Y The Justice Department charge is that the Swedes, plus American affiliates, have conspired to mon- opolize the match market in viola- tion of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Amazing evidence has been un- covered. The Diamond Match Company, for instance, controls the produc- tion of wooden matches in the U. S. A. and has an arrangement with the Swedes whereby they prevent paper matches from being promoted abroad. This situation took a unique turn when American troops went over- seas and the Army prepared to buy small cardboard clips of matches of the kind used by many firms for advertisements. Those fit into sol- diers’ pockets nfore conveniently than bulkier wooden matches. To this the Swedish match monopoly was dead opposed. The American match people, how- ever, had followed the common U. 8. practice of placing one of their men inside the War Production Board. So when the Army pro- posed buying paper matches, the WPB tip-off man hurriedly wrote to the match industry advising (Continued on Page Four) -y |eration by the Naval Air Transport | Service Squadron Five, for almost \ficially as R-5-D but called affec- ‘tionat/ely irange NAVYPLANES ON REGULAR ALASKA RUN Service Installed While Japs Still Held Kiska ~One Cra_fl Lost SEATTLE, April 22. — Daily freight and passenger runs from Seattle to Alaska have been in op- two years, the Thirteenth Naval District has revealed. The service was installed in July 1942, and the Japs were still en- camped at Kiska when the first 6,000 mile round {rip to Attu was made. The Navy pilots simply flew their unarmed cargo planes around them. The skipper cf Squadron Five 1s 200-pound Comdr. Henry Hollen- beck, who had around 15,000 fly- ing hours for a commercial airline before being called into the Navy in January 1942. More than half the planes in use are two-engined ships but the workhorses of the flight are the big four-engined Douglasses, known of- from the Admiral down as “clunk.” . Light cargoes carried per month from 450,000 to 800,000 |pounds, with an average of 170,000 {pounds of mail, and 3,500 passen- gers, mostly military casualties, |which are rare. | In August, 1942, Lt. Comdr. Jer- 'ome Sparbo and his crew disap- ("betWesn “Vakdtat Al White- horse, and no trace of them has been found. The tragedy occasioned !the regulation requiring that two |alternate fields be open before a !plane leaves the ground on a flight in a land where fog blankets fields in a matter of minutes. MORE NAMES RELEASED BY DRAFT BOARD ‘The following names were releas- ed today by the local Draft Board: | 1-A—George Bourukofsky, Marion A. Johnson, Harold F. Roth, Velo- vous A. Poor, Roy E. Torwick, Jack | Bell, Normen DeRoux, Mamant Emanoff, Richard B. Bean, Maur- ice I. Smith, Arthur J. Davis, Da- ,vid B. Oeterson, Neal E. Elto, Dar-; |ell A. Naish, William E. Sparks, Eli J. Hanlon, Jerry W. McKinley, Ralph L. Potter, John D. Scott, Arlie L. Dahl, Oren Addleman, Ar- thur G. Dennis, John J. Bremner, Charlie James, Michael D. Lesten- kof, Valeir V. Trambitas, George E. Satko, Homer A. Williams, Sylvan J. Gremier, Arthur S .Weston, Max F. Lurz, Ernest L. Hayes, Peter O. Hawkins, Harry D. Sturrock, Jo- seph E. Trucano, Albert A. Green- wald, Peter Brown, H. J. Hansen, Joseph M. Guy, Maynard P. Peter- son, Jack G. Gould, Kenneth 8. ‘Williams, Richard Harris. 1-A(H)—William M. Whitehead, Oscar A. Pearson, Richard P. Reese, Oro P. Schoonover, John L. Dono- hue, Gordon K. Junge, Paul Schutt- pelz, Theodore A. Keaton. 4-F—Herbert C. Redman, George E. Parmenter, Ernest O. Rude, Xenofont Hansen, Richard G. Hell- baum, Frederick W. Orme. - e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 22, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 84, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 58, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 68%, Kennecott 30%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 15%, United States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 136.19; rails, 38.48; utilities, 22.52. —————— on | e o o o o o o o ° WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. Bureau) ® Temp. Friday, April 21 eMaximum 57; Minimum 41 ALL CITY | OFFICIALS RENAMED Council Approves Salary Ordinance-Mayor Hayes Names Committees At last night’s meeting of the City| Council all present city officials were reappointed and the salary ordinance, the same as last year with the exception of one official, was approved. Mayor A. B. Hayes is City Manager and Street Com- missioner with a salary of $300 a month. Other city officers and salaries| were approved as follows: City Clerk, Jack Kearney, $250; Assist- ant City Clerk, Helen V. Friend, $170. Chief of Police, John Monagle, $270; Assistant Chief of Police, Har- ry Murray, $240; Patrolmen Eaton, McDaniel, Homme, Gilligan, Perry, $225 (each); Police Woman, Miss Isobe}le Hartung, $385. Chief of Fire Department, V. W. Mulvihill, $65; Assistant Chief of Fire Department, Minard Mill, $40; Fire Alarm Caretaker, H. M. Porter, $30; Fire Truck Driters and City Hall Caretakers, Lars Sorenson and George O'Brien, $215 (each). Cemetery Caretaker, Hans Neil- sen, $185; City Magistrate, M. E. Monagle, $60; City Health Officer, Dr. C.«C. Carter, $30; Librarian, Ann B. Coleman, $190; Harbor Mas- ter, Bert Loomis, $125 (including living quarters) raised from $100; t - Foreman; $240°and: Buslding’ Inspector, $35 (not yet appointed; City Hydrantman, Sig Olsen, $225; Garbage Dump Caretaker, Chris Christensen, $125; Councilmen (for each meeting attended), $6; City Treasurer, John Reck. COMMITTEES NAMED The Mayot appointed the fol-| lowing committees: Finance, Taxa- tion, Appropriations and Elections— Ninnis, Lea and Harri. Schools and Library — Shaffer, Skuse and Whitehead. Streets, Sewers and Lights—Skuse, Lea and Shaffer,, " ' Police—Lea, Ninnis and Skuse. Boat Harbor, Floats and City Properties—Harrl, Whitehead and Shaffer. GRID REPAIR Cofincllmen voted in favor of re- pairing the lower grid at the small Boat Harbor, with an approximate cost of $500 for material being named. The work will be done Ly the city. A favorable vote was taken to continue to support the employment of a Public Health Nurse for next year and a boost of $25 was made in the salary of the Harbor Master because of the necessitation of ad- ditional duties. NEW INDUSTRY, MAYBE . Former Mayor Harry I Lucns‘ announced that he had ‘received| word to the effect that two repre- sentatives of a firm in the States will arrive here next Tuesday, com- ing in the interests of the possible establishment of a large Marine Ways and Machine Repairs Shop here. ———————— TWO PROPOSALS FOR PEACE TERMS OF UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, April 22. — The Ameriéan Society of Newspaper Edi- tors heard proposals of two members for peace aims of America. The United States, said Walter Lippman, “should seek to hold and retain after the war all real gains achieved at the expenditure of blood, treasure and labor.” This means, he explained, the United States should retain’the Pacific islands between Hawali and the Philippines, plus understandings the war forged with Russia, Ohina and England. Roy Roberts, Managing Editor of the Kanasas City Star, the soclety’s President, laid down & peace plank: equal treatment of world communi- cations of American agencies, free exchange of world news, as “mainte- nance of peace of the world depends e Rain 17 e o o o o o o o on free interchange of international JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1944 y MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Patriofic Link in an Old ChainLetter, Bui It Is Same Old Fraud SEATTLEIS WALLOPED BY JOHNSON (By Associated Press) Chet Johnson of the Sah Diego Padres turned out the neatest pitching chore of the week last night shutting the Seattle Rainiers out 2 to 0. The Padres bunched hits for the two tallies in the eighth inning. The Seals took a hard earned 8 to 5 victory over Oakland. Hollywood broke the Los Angeles’ spell of win by scoring a 10 to 7 victory. Sacramento and Portland split & doubleheader, the first game going 10 innings and the nightcap six innings as the time limit was up. In Major Leagues The biggest news in the Major Leagues is the continued surprising early season show of strength of the St. Louis Browns who remain the only undefeated team of the American League. They rapped the ‘White Sox yesterday 5 to 3. The New York Giants in the Na- tional League is also showing stuff and yesterday defeated the Brook- lyn Dodgers to remain undefeated S0/ %far. ‘The Gidnts however shart the lead with the Cardinals who yesterday shutout the Cubs, spoil- ing the Cub's home opener. Martin Marion slammed out a homer dur- ing the game. Cleveland raked four Detroit pitchers yesterday to win 7 to 4. Hits for the Indians were climaxed by outfielders Pat Serey’s three run homer to the upper stands. GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League Hollywood 10; Los Angeles 7. Sacramento 6, 0; Portland 5, 3. San Diego 2; Seattle 0. San Francisco 8; Oakland 5. National League Philadelphia-Boston postponed. New York 3; Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 4; Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 4; Chicago 0. American League Washington-New York postponed. Boston-Philadelphia ‘postponed. Chicago 3; St. Louis 9. Cleveland 7; Detroit 4. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League |Los Angeles 9 3 750 San Francisco ... 9 4 692 San Diego. ... .9 5 648 Hollywood = 7 500 Portland . .. 8 1 462 Seattle . -8 8 429 Sacramento .3 8 21 Oakland .3 10 231 National League Won Lost Pect. Cincinnati .4 0 1000 St. Louis . -3 0 1000 New York -3 0 1000 Brooklyn -2 2 500 Philadelphia i N | fi Pittsburgh .0 3 Boston .0 3 000 Chicago . S o 060 American League Won Lost Pct. St. Louis ... 4 0 1.000 Boston .. .2 1 867 Chicago -1 1 500 Philadelphia -1 1 500 ‘Washington & 1 500 Cleveland .1 1 500 New York 51 2 333 Detroit .. .0 4 000 DOUGLAS FIREMEN ARE GIVING DANCE The big social event on the chan- nel ‘tonight is the 46th Annual Dance of the Douglas Volunteer Fire Department to which the pub- lic is invited. This affair is one of the few means the Department has of raisfng funds for equipment and. maintenance. The dance will be giv- en in the Natatorium. — Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Glovey, reg- istered from Fairbanks, are at the ® | news as much as any other factor.” | Baranof. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 22. — The old chain letter racket is with us again, only this time draped in the American flag and going under the Buise of a “government approved” gcheme to promote the sale of war stamps. Within the last few days here, T have received two such letters. leither carried the old chain letter utions of dire consequenes and d luck forevermore if one should so foolish as To break the chain. th made appeals to patriotism. 'ashington workers have told me the letters. Postoffice officials it the thing is mushrooming all Bver the country. | The last letter I received carried Yhree paragraphs that are interest- ing: “Buy a 25-cent war stamp and mail it to the name at the top of the list. “This chain is approved by the postal authorities as it promotes the Sale of war bonds. | “Approximately $781.25 in war stamps will come to you if this (ehain is not broken.” There'’s also a sort of P.S., which “If you don’t wish to continue , please be patriotic and return in five days.” LIBERATOR | SENDS DOWN JAP VESSEL Solomon - based Planes Also Drop Bombs in Carolines ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 22—Bombs dropped by a Li- berator sank a 1,000 ton Jap cargo ship west of the enemy base of Hol- landia, Dutch New Guinea on Wed- nesday and medium bombers con-| itinued to pound nearby sections of the coast, Gen. Douglas MacArth- \ur's communique states. Fifth Army Air .Force Mitchells swept low to drop 45 tons of ex- plosives on buildings at Vanimo, 35 miles east of Hollandia. The Satawan airdrome in the Nomoi islands, Central Carolines, {was blasted with 49 tons of bombs |delivered by Solomon based Libera- | tors. Four planes were destroyed on . the ground at Woleai. Installations and supply areas were also hit at Hanso Bay and Ra- | baul GOAL FOR DRIVE, - SALVATION ARMY Part of the first paragraph is GOES ‘l‘o 2120 all right. “Buy a 25-cent war| stamp”—but stick it in your book| § d don’t send it to anybody. | At the meeting of the City Coun- The second paragraph 4s so far ci] last night Capt. T. J. Dyck of that postoffice offilals .mot the Salvation’ Avmy, and H. L. only don’t approve but they have|Faulkner, member of the board two statutes under which they can which sponsors the Red Shield prosecute the chain letter writers— Reading Room fi:peand and made it’s a violation of the postal fraud statements regarding the value of law and the postal lottery law. |the Reading Room and the facili- The third paragraph is a Ponzi ties connected with it. pipeé dream, Fill all the pages you| A financial report has been filed wish with arithmetical progressions with the Council from time to time, and you'll still have to come back the last one being in March. A to the old copybook maxim that no brief statement of some of the one ever gets a lot of something communify welfare work carried on for nothing much. Iby the Army through .the reading The fourth paragraph, the P.S./room and by the ladies who have| appeal to patriotism, is just a switch | for nearly two years used the rooms on the old pitchman's racket of | for mending clothes, was published playing a sucker for all he's worth. in the Empire Friday night. “Send the letter back and the| The funds for the support of the sucker will send it out again.” ;Red Shield Reading Room amount ito only $110 a month. Of that Who profits by the chain lett,er?:nmuunt. the city has heretofore, Practically nobody. A few people given $60, the Chamber of Com- may get a few dollars, for which a /merce $20, and the remainder is few more people are at loss. icontribut,ed by twe individual sub- The original chain letter was scribers. 3 dreamed up by some 10-cent Pqnzx,} The entire project is nonsectar- who couldn’t have gone very far in|ian and nondenominational. It is high school algebra. The present | a community welfare undertaking, scheme of getting $780 or so was, and it will be continued as such. dreamed up by some probably wen-} However, it has been decided to intentioned :patriot, who visualized include the entire amount former- stimulating the sale of war stamps|ly contributed by the City, in the and picking up a few dollars on the;l‘?zulal' budget of the Salvation side, {Army this year, and to add the Postoffice officials here aren’t 8mount of the contribution made getting any gray hairs over it yet,iby the City last year, $720, to the but they will if it reaches anything |total amount to b# requested from like the proportions it did in the|the public in the Salvation Army dime-chain letter days of a decade drive which will open next Wednes- or more back. day, April 26. Therefore, instead of If that should come to pass, there |Setting the goal at $2000, it will be will be no alternative but “to make Decessary to set it at $2720, 8 few examples” by prosecuting under existing laws. It's admitted that under the circumstances, a "Ew SlEEPl‘“G Jury probably wouldn't convict, but it wouldn't be a happy experience. An official at the Treasury De- partment I mentioned it to, said: “Just tell them for us to keep on buying war stamps but don’t give PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 22— Woolen sleeping bags will soon be- come . a .regular issue for American troops in the field replacing blank- ets, officials of the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot announce. them away in any chain letters.” The bags will be of equal warmth Equipment from U. §, Is Used Effectively by i : 1 tectior thy Soviel Union Forces ic.cioiccion, o, e resuistion than the one in the soldiers’ pack MOBCOW, April 22.— Returning from his first tour of the Soviet Unlon, U. 8. Ambassador W. Aver- ell Harriman said American built planes are playing a vital part in interrupting shipment of - nickel from Petsamo, North Finland, to| Germany. He sald Lt. Gen. And- Teev, of the Red Air Force, has the praise for the Bosto: nd Aia ns al Harriman watched British and ships unloading 24 hours dally at Murmansk and received direct evidence of the value of Am- erican_equipment and the effective use to which it is by P 4 placed by the now. -The soldler's head fits inside and specially designed top of the bags has a slider arranged for quick release for possible emergencies. 'Speed s Shown, : Haval{upply Bill WASHINGTON, April 22.—Acting with unusual speed, the Senate Ap- propriations Subcommittee has ap- proved of the thirty-two billion dol- lar naval supply bill and this within less than a week after the passage of the bill by the House, (leanup Week Is Set for Next Week Cleanup week in Juneau be- gins next Monday according to action taken last night by the City Council. This means that residents must begin raking up yards, cleaning out basements, etc.,, tomorrow and then pile the .rubbish at the curb so that the city street department trucks may gather it up. Of course, on such short notice, residents have all next week to cleanup, and the rakings will be carried away, but start tomorrow and have piles on the curb by Mon- day, if possible. LIFELINES OF JAPS SNAPPING, SAYS ADMIRAL SAN FRANCISCO, April 22. — “The lifelines of the Japanese Pa- cific Empire are stretching and snapping one by one.” That is the| way Admiral David Bagley, Com-| mander of the Western Sea fron- tier described the trend of the Pa- cific war. As to.the extent of the Jap con- quests, the Admiral said, “we are not fighting an overpopulated fan- tastically ambitious country about the size of California, but we are fighting an Asiatic Empire, land area almost a3 great as our own continental United States.” Bagley cautioned that “we must not match the enemy's folly in over-extending the communications to the breaking point,” and he said also “we must reach Ohina before we, can stage a final assault on Japan and must ‘reach the Asiatic mainland . without waiting for fix- ed bases to be completed at every way point.” - - JAP AIRFIELDS IN LONG ARC STRUCK DAILY BY BOMBERS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 22 ~—American Liberators and heavy bombers from the south and south- west Pacific bases, paying daily visits to Japanese airfields in the western and central Carolines, de- stroyed six enemy planes and prob-| ably three more in raids last Tues- day and Wednesday on Woleai Is- land. Three were destroyed in the air, three on the ground, and three probables on the ground. Liberators struck Satawan Island, 150 miles southeast of Truk, smash- ing the airfield. Truk and Ponape were struck on Wednesday and Thursday. Six American planes failed to re- turn from the aerial assaults on the arc from Dutch Timor, Dutch East Indies east to the Carolines. Three others were lost in sweeps north of Bougainville, Soe village on Dutch Timor was left in flames visible for 50 miles. > OPA ROLLS BACK FUR PRICES T0 LEVELS OF 1942 WASHINGTON, April 22. — The Office of Price Administration has rolled back the ceiling price of Al- aska seal skins and fox pelts to the April 1942 levels. The agency did not provide a dollar and cents estimate of how the cut will effect retail prices, but sald the top auction price for Ma- tara brown seal skin, for example, would be $45 compared with 53.50 for last November and $67 for March 1943. ¢ ‘The new order covers all sales of dressed dyed Alaska fur seal skins and dressed blue and white Alaska fox pelts. ———.—— BUMBLEBEES HERE Several residents on Sixth Street telephoned to The Empire this fore- noon that bumblsbees are here in large numbers, that Spring is really here. e ARRIVAL HERE PRICE TEN CENTY SIEGE LAID BYSEAAND FROMLAND Russian Armies Capture Hills Overlooking Port Under Terrific Fire MOSCOW, April 22—The Rus- sian Crimean armies and the Red Fleet are massed at Sevastopol ‘to fling the enemy into the sea,” Red Fleet correspondent Lieut. Nikoleav reports, The Soviet forces have tightened ‘the slege on the great naval base by capturing the hills dominating the city's approaches storming one pass after another despite German long range guns, strafing and bomb- ing attacks. % East of Stanislawow, Red Army artillerymen pouring a hurricane of fire into charging masses of Ger- man tank and artillery, have thrown |back the powerful thrusts as the battle continues to rage. Hand to hand encounters are also reported. GERMAN SUPPLIES HELD UP Allies Skike-a# Prime Rail Targets on* Yugoslav- Rumanian Border ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, April 22.—Liberators of the Mediterranean Air Force struck heavily ‘8t ‘prime rail targets ‘in Bucharest and Turnu and Severin on the Yugoslav-Rulmanian border yesterday. Fighter escorts shot down 35 Nazi planes and 17 Allled planes, llneludin' 8 heavy bombers, were ost. Other widespread operations were made against Nazi communications in Italy, including rail targets in the Rome area, Wellingtons' and Liberators took up the offensive last night and started fires which disrupted Ger- man shipping from Italian ports to Bucharest, Turnu and Severin, im- portunt junction points on railways supplylng German armies in Ruy- mania and southwestern Russia. NEW INCOME TAX 5 BILL COMPLETED, HOUSE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, April 22. — The House Ways and Means Committee put the finishing touches to the bill to free some 30,000,000 taxpayers of the annual chore of computing their annual returns, including & new sys- tem for withholding levies against wages and salaries, higher for most taxpayers. The new withholding levels, if fin- ally written into law, would collect a full tax liability for persons earn~ ing up to $5000 annually. Under committee plans, the new schedule will be effective on January 1, and there would be no change in the amount held out of pay envelopes and salary checks this year. HITLER BLUNT IN WARNING TO GERMAN PEOPLE STOCKHOLM, April 22.—Hitler’s newspaper, Voelkischer ' today bluntly warned the German home front that they would be con- fronted this summer or even this spring with the hardest and blgod- lest of battles in history. An arrival at the Baranof, Ruth H. Hagen is registered from Min- neapolis. i newspaper new territorial losses might be ex- pected. i i i