The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1944, Page 1

. [ * i« I [} N 3 b % 'THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944 VOL. XLI,, NO. 9635. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'NEW ATTACKS MADE ON PACIFIC JAP Alaska Salmon Season Threats Remove No Break in Tie-Up of | Halibut Fleet Seen; OPA Won'tBudge Over Prices dike, leaving the door open for in-| SIX UNIONS, INDUSTRY IN AGREEMENTS Working Pacis Signed for Disputes fo Be Sef- fled by NWLB SEATTLE, April, 25.—The dis- putes threatening to hamper. the season’s Alaska salmon output have been averted when the Twelfth Re- gional Labor Board announced sig- natures of six unions and the Alas- ka Salmon Industry, Inc., has been | obtained to a “working agreemenc" which allows the industry to appeal | disputed points of the 1943 con-| tracts to the National War Labor | Board. All agreed to sign the concmct the WLB, whether the seven per-, cent wage boost, war bonus or re- gular wage increase is right, or whether the Bristol Bay tender crews get overtime before and after the season and if contracts cover lhe Bristol Bny ‘resident workers. that the 1944 season will be wnhout interruption,” said Regional Chair- | man Dr. George Bernard Noble. The Washinglon Merry - Go-Round .. By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) ‘WASHINGTON — Neither Far- ley's friends nor Farley’s foes are advertising it, but the recent com- promise whereby he was allowed to remain Democratic State Chairman of New York means that, after Chi- cago, genial Jim, who has used more green ink, chewed more gum, remembered more names and slap- ped more backs than any politician in a dscade, probably will step down from his long and successful role in politics. The tacit agreement is that Jim will step down if the President runs for a fourth term. If he doesn’t run, obviously Jim won't step down. This was the deal by which party harmony was preserved and Farley continued as Democratic State Chairman.. Behind this quiet understandlng is the fact that Democratic leaders in New York had enough votes to roll Jim at the recent meeting of the state committee. Jim was ac- tually on the verge of being ousted. And they would have rolled him if the New Dealers hadn’t stepped in and saved their old critic. They! B felt that party harmony was im- portant. How it-all happened was partly fluke, partly resentment against Farley by old-line, leaders. Here is the inside story. It began, strangely enough, at a correspondents’ party in Albany, where John Mooney, a local news- paper man, went up to talk to Far-' ley. Jim, in a huddle with some- one else, ignored him. Mooney got sore. , Next morning, he decided Jim didn't mean al , and he would forget it. ut then came one of those famous green-ink let- ters from Jim, telling how sorry he was he hadn't had a chance to| talk to Mooney. 'That meant Jim really did mean it, said Mooney, and he got sore all over again. About that time, Mooney had a| talk with Dan O'Connell, AlGany Demoeratic leader, also sore at Far- ley; and together they hatched re- bellion. Their candidate for State, Chairman was Tom Cullen, editor of the Spectator at Goshen, N. Y. HOW PEACE WAS RESTORED Suddenly, almost before they knew it, a full-fledged swing against Farley had started among county leaders. Opposition newspapers at- tributed it to the White House pal- ace guard, but real fact is that the latter were just as mystified as Farley. Jim himself remarked to (Continued on Page Four) d | Way” at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. | gidn't arrive via this baggage truck! SCREEN ACTRESSES IN CHICAGO ARRIVING FROM HOLLYWOOD for 2 week’'s appearan¢e in the Windy City are, left to right, Phyllis Brooks, Jean Heather and for decision on disputed points to| Susan Hayward who will appear at the world premiere of “Navy The young ladies dInternational) - Government Bull Is - Being Goaded Now by Recmae 'Rea’l“"fexa‘ll “Maverick ‘ "V Mml Female b “%5 LOVELY ANN SAVAGE of Holly- | *‘ wood now sports the title, “V. | Mail Female,” because she has | | written more V-mail than any other Hollywood actress. |Associated Press Board Reeleded; Hoyt Is Member NEW YORK, April 25.—Reelec- tion of six members of the Asso- |ciated Press Board of Directors is ‘announced with one new member, Palmer Hoyt, of the Portland Ore- gon, Oregonian, elected to the full unexpired term of one year made necessary by the resignation of W. H. Cowles, of the Spokesman Re- view of Spokane, Wash. | Hoyt received 3971 votes against 2,633 received by Frank S. Baker of the Tacoma, Wash., Ledger. | : | il PREINVASION GIANT RAIDS CONTINUING Round - the - Clock Aerial Offensive Pounds Strate- gic Points in Europe 1,000 American bombers and fight- ers bombarded three German air- fields in France for |consecutive day n the war's great= |est aerial oftensive, the German |radio said, Other Allied raiders penetrated the southern sector of the Reich,| |while Liberators and Fortresses were returning from the attacks on the airfields of France, another forma- | tion of Eighth Air Force Libera- tors smashed military installations {in the Pas de Calais area under Mustang escort. Lightning fighters and bombers also made a forenoon attack on air- fields .in northerm France. The preliminary announcement of the daylight activity which ap- peared on a gigantic scale, said the Fortresses and Liberators from Bri- tain smashed German airdromes at Nancy, Metz and Dijon in an all out effort to humble Hitler's air !forces. anead of ‘the western inva- sion. The dayligh* attacks followed at- | tacks last night by probably 1,000 planes of the Royal Alr Force which LONDON, April 25. — Well over| ! the eleventh | ¢ PULP MILL S.E. ALASKA INDICATED Forest Serv}ce—Makes An- i nouncement of Postwar Development in North ! SEATTLE, April 25.—Prospective sale of one billion three hundred and fitty million feet of Alaska timber and the estabMshment of a pulp mill in Southeast Alaska, is announced by the United States Forest Service. The proposal- for the development of a pulp paper making industry and Alaska timber sale will be a post- war project. Establishment of a pulp manu- facturing plant in the Tongass Na- tional Forest and selection of op- erating interests is possible for a 1944 announcement. The proposal js made in a prospectus sent to Washington “as an aid to guaging the extent of current interest in the development of Alaska’s pulp re- sources and the Forest Service has decided 40 lay out a specific large timber tract, according to a ten- tative draft of terms and provisions Jor the sale.” The amount of timber proposed in the contract is roughly equivalent, to seven billion and one half board feet volume, based on requirements 10 a& 50-year supply of sulphate, the pulp mill to have a capacity of 150 tons daily for the first 10 years,' 525 tons daily for the remaining 40 years. The pulp mill must be' SEATTLE, April 25. — There is !little likelthood of a break in the | deadlock that has tied up the Pa- cific halibut fleet. This is the opin- ence yesterday between the fisher- men, boat owners and John Har-| man, National OPA representative from San Francisco. Harmon in effect told the fisher; men the OPA has no intention of meeting the demands for revised halibut ceilings. Harman asserted the price in- crease for Seattle as asked by the | fishermen would be a * crack in thc PATRIOTS OF DENMARK BE CLEANED OUT Nazis Move Against Under- ground—Couu!ry Iso- lated from Sweden STOCKHOLM, April 25.- Hmvr.m ion following the day-long confer-‘ By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 25.—Maury Maverick, the redoubtable San An- tonian who now is head of the Iblast,ed industrial Munich ~ and “Karlsmhv. Thirty = British planes |were lost last night. On Monday the armadas of Bri- installed by the purchaser either special deputy minister in Den-| in three years from date of sale or mark, Werner Best, declared the within three years after the end of Germans are moving swiftly against the war, whichever proves the longer Danish saboteurs and underground |off the gobbledygook language. Smaller War Plants Cerporation,, ii"s never happier. than when he's scissoring red tape. He snipped | through quite a snarl of it the other day and started something that’s already spreading through your |government and miné. He issued a memo to his staff, titled: “Lengthy Memoranda and| Gobbledyook Language.” He started off ratper mildly: |same’ told the whole story. Put the subjegt matter — the point — and! |éven the conclusion in the first| ? | paragraph and the whole story on one page. Period. |is necessary, use attachements.” Then Maury reverts to the Mav- |erick we know best, with: “Stay It | only fouls people up. For the Lord’s talking about. up’ programs, Let’s stop ‘pointing ‘finalizing’ contrncts {that ‘stem from’ district, reglonul or Washington ‘levels'—local gov- i |ernment is as high as Washington : | government. No more 'patoems, effectuating, dynamics’ Any one| using the words, ‘activation’ or ‘im- | plementation’ will be shot.” That was the end of the item and it took a lot less than one page to say it. And don’t think that any of Maverick's staff have doubts about the meaning of that last sen- tence. No sooner had Maverick’s memo made the rounds than Rear Adm. W. B. Young, chief of the Navy |bureau of supples and accounts, had it reprinted and circulated to his staff with the brief paraphrase: “Sighted memo—agree to same.” In case you think this is a minor matter in government operations take the word of Herman Wolf, editor of WPB’s Labor-Management News. Wolf recently memoed top WPB and OWI officials, with a little item, “reading time 45 sec- onds.” v He suggested that a “chief of memo writing” be set up to ration paper and carbons, He said that 23 per cent of all’ govgrnment paper is consumed in memos; that each government official * originates an average of six memos and 41 car- bons daily; that the average official spends one hour and 29 minutes daily just reading memos and 32 minutes writing his own. He suggested an immediate cut of 2 per cent in memo writing and (Continued on Page Three) “Memoranda should be as short as; | clearness will allow. The naval of-/ | ficer who wired ‘Sighted sub—sank | the Liberators If a lengthy ex-| | planation, statistical matter or such, | sake he short and say what you are | in air combat, and wrecked 49 on, the ground for a total of 1562 against | their own losses of 38 bombers and {17 tighters. The Mediterranean Air { bagged 29 Nazi planes yest,erday agamst a loss ot 14, but heAdquarl~ ers did not specify how many (ell‘ lin raids on Rumania and Yugo- { |slavia. United States Mustangs, Light- inings and ‘1'hunderbolts escorting and Fortresses to | Predrichshafen and Munich yester- | /day sent down 66 enemy planes and |the bomber gunners accounted for 137 more, i 1 | Force | - PLANE IN CRASHIN MONTREAL Comes Down in Commer- cial District-Many Kill- ed, Fires Starfed MONTREAL, April 25.—Crash of a twin-engined bomber in Mon- treal’s downtcwn commercial dis- |trict today killed nine persons, in. jured others and left a dozen dwel- lings wrecked ond flaming. Eye-witnesses said the bomber ex- ploded in the air and others said it blew up after striking the build- ing and sencing fragments 50 feet into the air. Dimond Wanfs Ads Applied fo Alaska WASHINGTON, April 25.—Alaska Delegate Dimond has introduced HR4648 extending the Federal Aid Highway Acts to Alaska™ B — HARDY HERO JR. SHREVEPORT, La. — Judge George Hardy had almost reached the climax of his speech at a church banquet recently when he was in- terrupted by his five-year-old son {Anzio beachnead 1849, TASKFORCE IN PACIFIC LARGE ON Unusual Phoiograph of Navy Shows Immense Fleet in One Area WASHINGTON, April 25. — The first numerical indication of the | overwhelming naval power the Unit- | ed States threw against the Japs in the seizure of the key islands in -uu Marshalls, appears in an un- usual photograph released by the Navy Department. The photograph was taken from the air covering a vast expanse and shows nine aircraft carriers, twelve battleships, in addition to a multi- tude of support ships, cruisers, de- stroyers, and supply vessels. Some 40 ships are discernible in one area covered by theé camera. The caption says this is “part” of the task force. Advance Made On Beachhead In Anzip Sedor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, = April 25. — American troops have occupied one enemy house one and one half miles west of Carano, the central sector of the after a brisk fight. Another small Allied force has also improved positions on the beachhead and occupied some woods two miles south of Cisterna, import- ant German communications hub. Artillery ‘and mortar duels con- tinue at Cassino, ! crying out: “Daddy, when do we go home?” ——ee Mrs. Vern Stephenson is at the Juneau Hotel, registering from Skagway. tain sent down 103 German planes|period but the latest by April 1, elements affecting German inter- ests and Deiunark has been vir- (tually isolated from Sweden. | Best’s statement before the Dan- {ish press chiefs is the first tang- 1ible evidence of the reason the lcountry was cut off late yesterday. |Best asserted that Denmark |is “swarming” with underground workers; therefore, Germany's task lb “to attack swiftly and sternly.” Best said the Nagzis will show no mercy to saboteurs, indicating they ,will be summarily shot when caught He ‘expressed the hope that “conditions will stahilize,” and that Danish public opinion will react against the recent increase in sa- botage. | The bellef 15 prevalent in Stock- holm that Denmark is isqlated so0 the underground could be cleaned up as a pre-invasion security mea- sure. Similar action is expected in|’ other occupled mumrles BLOCKADE IS TIGHTENED AT GERMAN BASE Russian Air Force Con- finues Blasting Enemy at Sevastopol MOSCOW, April 26.—The Rus- |sian Red Army has smashed the German attack west of Dubnoe, 85 ! miles northeast of Lwow. The Reds, in a counter blow, dis- | lodged the enemy from two places formerly held by the Russians. In the Carpathian foothills, more than 100 miles southwest of Stan- |islawow, the Germans have been routed and hundreds killed. Except for these two actions the stalemate continued along the land front as the Red Air Force tight- ened the blockage on Sevastopo), blasting ships attempting to carry Axis troops out of the encircled Black Sea base. TIDES TOMORROW High tide— 3:50 a. m,, 17.9 feet. Low tide—10:23 a. m., -1.6 feet. Low tide—10:30 p. m., 32 feet, High tide— 4:43 p. m., 15.1 feet. | creases on every other kind of fish, 1942 level and the OPA will not change this policy if satisfied it is right, and we are satisfied. The would be proof it is wrong or in- formation on which the prices are based is wrong and so far this has not been done.” Meanwhile, the House Merchant and Marine Subcommittee in Wash- |ington, D. C., ordered all Govern- ment agencies concerned to confer .nnd report not ‘Mundnv ALLIES MOVE ON NIPPONS, later than next Assaults Hurled Against Enemy Moving To- ward Kohima SOUTHEAST AE’IA HEADQUAR- |TERS IN KANDY, Ceylon, April 25—Long columns of men, tanks and guns of the Fourteenth Army are moving toward Kohima to hurl assaults against the Japs near that Jap objective on the Assam-Burma front, it is rep-rted here. The tanks are advancing as a protective screen for the British ing away the last threat to Kohima. Allied forces have slain more than since the enemy launched the of- fensive against that key town in northern India. TRUK GIVEN BIG ATTACK ATPREDAWN Airfields Are Bombed, In- stallations of Japs Set Afire FLEET HEADQUARTERS, April 25.—Airfields of Truk were bom- barded and Installations of the Jap Central Caroline .bastion were set afire in a predawn strike by the Seventh United States Army Alr Force Liberators, Admiral Chemr W. Nimitz says. The bombers also hit Moen, Eten | and Param Islands in the Truk no attempt to intercept. The Navy also discloses attacks were made on Ponape and Ulul Is- lands and Pulawat, never before mentioned as a target ip the Cen- tral Pacific, was hit twice by Sol- omon-based planes. Pulawat is 170, air miles west of Truk and was attacked by a single Army Liber- ator. All attacks were made at pre- dawn last Sunday. Pioneer Resident 0f Ketchikan Dies SEATTLE, April 25.—Mvs. Eliza- beth Ryus, 70, pioneer resident of Ketchikan, former school teacher and widow of the late Leroy Ryus, | Ketchikan druggist, died Monday in a Seattle hospital. Her son Em- mett resides in Ketchikan, Our policy is to set fish pices at the| only reason for changing the policy | INDIA AREA troops tagged for the task of clear-| 14900 Jap troops around Imphal| UNITED STATES PACIFIC| lagoon and while two enemy fight-| ers watched the attack, they made '131 NIPPON PLANES ARE PULVERIZED Task Force from Central Pacific Joins up with | MacArthur's Units | UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, April 25.—Planes from a Navy car- rier task force, supporting the New Guinea invasion, destroyed 131 Jap planes, sank two small cargo ships |and several barges, plus an assort- ;iment of small craft, Adm. Chester | W. Nimitz reports. This is the first-full scale collab- oration of the Navy with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ground forces {and found the mightiest Navy force ever operating in the Southwest Pacific doing the job. Cruisers and destroyers of the task force bombarded the airfields recently developed by the Japs at Wakde and Sawar, preceding the aerial attacks. None of the surface ships were damaged. SPEARHEAD " INADVANCE Japs Trapp;crin Hollandia Area-MacArthur Re- ports Good Gains MacARTHUR'S ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, April 25.—Pawerful American spear- | heads converging on the Japs trap- ped around the strategic Hollandia 1mrfleld.l. had covered 11 of the 34 ! miles toward objectives by Sunday | afternoon, today's communique an- nounces. The landing forces took the beaches on both sides of Hol- hndla etrly last Saturday. stern landing force, in the lrenust lnvnlun in the South Pa- cific war, was at the latest report, six miled from its beachhead and only five miles from the western- most of the three airfield objectives and the force at Humboldt Bay has captured the town of Hollandia. Meanwhile, in the Ritape area, 150 miles southeast, Australian | ground crews, protected by Aus- | tralian Air Forces, are rushing to near completion repairs to the Tadji airstrips seized a few hours after the beachhead was established. SPRING AUCTION OF FUR SEALS IS CALLED (OFF BY OPA ACTION l ST. LOUIS, April April 25—The spring 'auction of 23,000 Alaskan seal skins by the Fouke Fur Company, has |of the OPA order reducing the ceil- |ing price to $54 from $55, on order of the Department of Interior. ! The telegram to Phillip PFouke |'halting the sale said the OPA's new order necessitates furthd consul- tations with the Canadian Govern- |ment. Under the international treaty the Canadian Government is {given 20 percent share of the skins taken by .the Fouke Fur Company. A new date for the sale will be ‘lVldor Meyer Is (andidale, Senale OLYMPIA, Wash, Apirl 25— | Victor Meyer, dean of Lieutenant Governors of America, has filed his ! declaration Of candidacy for United States Senator from the state of ‘Washington, been cancelled unexpectedly because