The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1944, Page 1

Y VOL. XLI., NO. 9636. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT§ | GIANT AERIAL BLOWS SMASH GERMANY 1 i RED IHRUST AI.EU" AN UNOFFICIAL RETURNS, DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, FIRST DIVISION : BRU"SWI(K 3 i3 WS g M ssesnity X b bz il o < o Delegate Atty.-Gen. Aud. H. E. Senator —4 Years Sen. House of Representatives i 3 | | | n |l | | [ | &2 | & | | ol a | wl m| ploe 2w STARTED IN | ISLAND IS PR RE R R e DB D008 F| TARGETFOR | | 2| & g | | 2 | I3 4 | | 3 & REER M EREE R R | HERE L RAID TODAY e | | | | | | } " | [ { | l i Ty @] i O | | | : . 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LONDON, April 26 — The Red| HEADQTAR ‘April 24 (Delayed) | Douglas I 42| 21| 18/ 26{ 45| 70| | 6| 31| 48| aa| 30| 62 3| ar( 26| 27| 34| 3| 8 [l e attese b anl a0 | SRR « Army has launched o ‘m:: ""; —The occupation and fortification | Sitka {| 85 |162 | 56| 86| 113 | 182 ([ 162 (100 (| 113 | 65 | 81 167 || 202 || 34 | 134 | 88 | 53| 80| 83| 96 144 | 111 | 168 | 45 | 193 gg | :: neawy Ickhbire PEARA LGl b i o m:m oitxn”s“:oe;: B“Ls:ck of Shemya, a small but importang |Petersburg .....|| 112 | 83 | 43 || 51 | 92 | 152 | 95| 46 70| 87 95| 70 142 || 27| 55|22 | 20| 152 | 80| 81| Gg | 64 8_1’ | 33 | 52( b | s |the Brunswick area, German air- 7 from the Carpathi e A island in the far western Aleutians|Scow Bay |y S 16 2| 3| 6] 8 3 \ 5 il 4 5 5| 6 0| 0 4 16 1 \ 10 | 3 3| 3 | | [ \‘ 2 craft production center, carrying the Sea, German and Rumanian xeports|, © 010y “proops went ashore in | Wrangell || 78| 36| 28| 28| 80 0f 67| 35/ 48| B2 | 44] 73| O 20| 45| 67| 7|118| 30 34/ AL 1 30 1 0 3|, 81 il ) pre-invasion aerial offensive, the i b sald today. L4 |a howling storm during the battle |Stikine I[ 18 12/ 18| 11| 25 30| 17 18| 16| 18| 20 26 24| 10| 17] 22| 4| 30| 13 8 | of 28| 8| 18] 17| 52 iaisbb gy e o sl The German communique said| "y " Soo joq3 Metlakatla ... 36| 1| 75 36| 69| 87| 40| 50| 36| 80 21| 95| 7| 28| 52| 17| 16| 25| 41| 45 75| 60108 36| 49| 92| 52 | into the twelfth co Hve Gy, *' the Nazis scored “a complete and ™0 " T00 e tamed Fourth |*Six Precincts .|| 56 | 47 | 54 | 40| 86| 96| 60| 51| 44| 46 55| 112 || 18| 23| 75| 33| 12| 36| 58| 46 110 [ 100 | 97 | 34 | 89 | 3'11; | o8 | “The bomber nee';"‘:"mch thund- decisive victory after heavy battles” |, c.. v regiment, the same outfit|Ketchikan No. 1| 260 | 48 | 206 || 110 | 403 || 450 || 268 | 231 || 224 | 170 | 208 | 416 || 476 || 97 | 274 [ 138 | 177|217 | 207 | 235 | 208 | 406 | 360 333 1 142 | 308 | 3171 3 | ored over Germany for the third when the Red Army attacked Oy’ cotired Lion Mountain and | Ketchikan No.2/| 80 | 10| 83 || 41 |108 || 137 || 69| 77 || 69| 52 71 114 | 134 32| 76| 30| 33| 58] O1| 94 S0 19| 62| 95| 38| 74 91 | 19 |time in as many days, was decribed the lower Dniester yesterday With|oyiiaoor corridor at the close of|Douglas Bridge.| 9| 10| 6| 6| 16 22| 6| 17| 7| 1| 17| 12{ 21| 10| 16/ 6| 5| 10| 16| 18| 13| ;g 13 | ;7 } 1: ! 4: B | 13 lin an American announcement as i strong artillery- and air strength.|ipa Atty battle, ‘encountered no|Haines || 21| 28| 15| 14| 30 ([ 45| 14| 42| 26| 87| 15| 22 32| 13| 85| 18| 12| 19/ 14| 18 ;;I | 1 ;‘Z _'; U8 “an {181 8o lof “medium” strength, ahd was es- . German Claims Made resistance, although reconnaissance | Klawock || 6| 32| 9| 19| 50| 0| 30|51 i‘ 15| 14 61 ] i omil ef | 8| 5| 2 ‘ 16| 36 |1 ‘ ‘ i | 1] cobted Y. Wt VBl Flatitars, which . The Nazis asserted they havelpy Alaskan scouts proved the Ja | | e || {l { e ] e il I It { s ol oy indicated the total force was similar, sealéd off the Soviet breakthrough, |pug been thore A surveyed J: Totals 1295 | 806 (1022 || 786 |1791 || 2207 |[1264 (1362 ||1160 |1250 1267 |1572 || 2185 || 604 1480 11065 | 614 (1307 [1196 (1200 [1464 | 1509 [1269 |1734 | 683 [1577 [1083 | 1173 . FEURRC PACUDE OO i | and since Saturday the Russian|island for probable occupation and | “—Wacker, Gravina, Mountain View, Ward Cove, Saxman, Pennock. {5 __!Britain which hit three Nazi air- i B communiques have omitted the!the construction of military instal-| x o Ay Ry e e fields in Prance and industrial tar- mention of any large scale land| fighting. The Germans said their| (Continued on Page Two) | The Washington lations. Shemya Island, in size only five square miles, is now one of the most important military bastions in the western Aleutians. Engineers during the past 10 moiwwhs have almost rebuilt the island to make it impregnable to assauit. ‘]unéafiVbIe | " In Favor of y %UJflAVNGi IS WAI’IW-ouI Airpd\ver OCCUPIED BY | ToBeatEn emy Gels BARTLETT " LEADINGIN gets in Germany yesterday, but smaller than the 2,000-plane ar- {npdns sent out by daylight five i times since the gigantic offensive began. The German radio declared the American force invading the air over the Reich tangled with Nazi fighters in fierce battles as the air | Despite extremely rough living . Mer I’Y N GO -ROllIl conditions for the first few months, |the island is now as comfortable as 'any in the Aleutian chain. drive which scourged enemy targets in a 750-mile arc across Europe rolled forward. & Fighters Raid Coast While the heavy bombers con- S.E. ALASK With complete but unofficial re- turns from 26 f.recinicts in the e E.L. Barfleft YANISEOR(ES‘ E. L. Bartlett, former Secretary | of Alaska, carried the three Juneau Taongi Atoll and Ponape Powerl-ull_es! Now By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 26..—The! By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | 'y o service with the Army.) i i % 3 ‘ - WASHINGTON — The Army is pulling all sorts of wires backstage DEWEY GETS precincts yesterday in the race for the Democratic nomination for Given Pounding-Other JAWS CLOSE advocates of all-out airpower as & means of defeating the enemy Division in this ‘afternoon, E. L. Bartlett, was leading his nearcst op- Pirst tinued their unprecedented cam- pal ign to knock out the enemy’s air defenses, a flat 100 lighter planes blackened the skies over the English in the Senate to break the log-jam Delegate to Congress as the other F) i arcn't, making much noise tl ponent, A. H. Zelgler, by several e e e, HEAVY VOTE, & e e BlowsDiveded. . | 2 QN JAPS AT |5 it rsscin 7 o St s e 2 . ! 3 i o J |Juneau, and A. H. Ziegler \ AN Democratic nomination for Delegate oo " "o o ‘Bombers yester- Somervell and General Patton. | The Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee some time ago proposed a policy against rushing through per- manent promotions in wartime, ar- PRIMARIES guing that temporary promotions were sufficient and that permanent promotions could come after the war when the Senate and the pub- lic could survey all of an officer's Returns from Two States Show Majority for chikan split votes. A total of 1,080 votes were cast in Juneau, one of the largest in the primary election in years. In the Republican balloting, John Manders of Anchorage held a very, comfortable margin over George Grigsby. Other Democratic balloting took |the following course in Junean: | U. 8. FLEET HEADQUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, April 26— American airmen for the third time in the war have bombed Taongi atoll on the northern rim of the Marshall group, which was the likely springboard for operations against Wake Island after Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz has ap- nounced. HOLLANDIA American Planes Already Dominate Skies from Gen, Ira Taker's recent statement 10 Congress, Henry Roden, third day. Explosions from the assaults that the air armadas over Cassino and the Anzio beachhead had ac- complished all they were expected Democratic candidate, was running several hundred votes behind Zeig- ler. | to, put the final fillip on the dream| In the Democratic balloting for of knocking enemies out of the war nomination for the Attorney Gener- by bombing alone. al job, Ralph J. Rivers of Fair- Amid war secrecy, strategists banks had more than doubled his here have been working along these lead over Kail Drager of Anchorage. were heard all the way across the channel. v In the 11 days of the mightiest sky offensive which lambasted the Germans, over 50,000 tons of ex- plosives and thousands of incend- laries were dropped and the raids cost the Americans and British prob- record. | N Y Govemor For Highway Engincer, W. Leon-| The strike occurred Sunday, Am-| Cap‘fured AH"IG‘d lines for months, but -not without| mne race for Highway Engineer, ;:;y lmm than 2,300 airmen and Some Senators still remember the g ard Smith of Nome came up with erican time, and other blows at the | come argument from those who stfll'yeqnyhile, still appeared to be Mgu:‘;ef'.thn shhe ke D st manner in which General Pershing |a good lead over his opponent, central Marshalls and Ponape, 400 held that blockbusters would "m‘close in this division with Leonard OBcrbfliadhe oo w e i o | was jumped from the rank of cap- (By - Associated Press) (Frank Metcalz of Sitka, former miles to the east of Truk, were de-| MACARTHUR'S ADVANCEDthe war. Smith of Nome leading Frank Met- 53 Prisoners, & e fain to brigadier general after he Roosevelt fourth —termers were |livered at the same time, where gun HEADQUARTERS IN NEW {calf of Sitka with about 100 votes. iviim married the daughter of Senator Francis E. Warren, then chairman of the Military Affairs Committee; and they recall also the resentment this caused in the Army. However, the policy of blocking permanent wartime promotions is bowled over by their first tangible opposition in ‘the presidential primary yesterday, while Pennsylvania Republicans in-| dicated through their written votes tha Dewey is the overwhelming choice for th» GOP presidential Massachusetts | | Juneauite. Joe Green was running high for (the Senatorial’ nomination, with Crystal Snow Jenne, James V. |Davis and Norman R. Walker next |in that order. Curtis G. Shattuck held the Ju- neau lead for the Housé nomina- iJap resistance, have occupied Uje- positions, airstrips, and fuel supply GUINEA, April 26—Strong Ameri- depots were the targets. {can forces, opposed by only negli- | gible Jap strength, swung closer the UJELANG ISLE OCCUPIED |Jaws of the pincers around Hollan- WASHINGTON, April 26—Am- | dia’s three airfields, while from an- erican forces, beating down light other captured airstrip American planes already dominated the New | being opposed by the Army’s effic- nomination. ient lobby on Capitol Hill] and re-| The President himself received a cently, a new move was made 1O fair sized written endorsement in put through pramotions for Gen- erals Patton and Somervell. the Pennsylvania Republican Pri- tion on the Democratic ticket, fol-lang atoll, the westermost of the lowed by A. B. Cain, also Juneau; | mid-Pacific Marshall Islands. ! Frank Peratrovich, Klawock Alaska| The quick conquest of the atoll| Indian; Chris Hennings of Juneau, provides an American’ base immed- Guinea skies. A spokesman asserted that all types of bombers and fighters were using the Tadji airfield, 150 miles |southeast of Hollandia, penetrating As 1 wrote some weeks ago, Tat-i awa got the worst drubbing of any square mile of land subjected to air attack up to that time. Yet the Norman R Walker of Ketchikan held a comfortable lead in the Sen- atorial race with more than 1,500 JAP DRIVE Marines who landed there fought votes, and Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne . the greatest battle and suffered the Of Juneau and Joe Green of Haines | greatest percentage of casualties in almost tied for the second spot. Jim | {Davis of Juneau was still in the At Cassino, an 'evEn greater air race. § bombardment was faid down, yet| Democratic candidates for the the enemy clung to that stronghold House were running in the folow- their long history. Jmary, while picking up unchalleng- ved 72 more pledged - Democratic LINKED WITH WAINWRIGHT |delegates. Dewey apparently is as- Their names had been before aisured of Pennsylvania’s 70 unin- Subfwalmltm :mh P::: fld‘:mfim structed delegates. againss promotion, on Is NOW, rncomplele returns showed that only colonel though holding the tne gelegates in Massachusetts fa- ?Y:W;;emm“infi“‘;“:‘:‘;fl::"';voring the renomination of Roose- &" Chairman Bob Reynolds 'of‘velc ran well ahead of the partial slate pledged to former Governor the Military Affairs Committee p“""Ely, a fourth term opponent. their names before a subcommittee including 1f, Elbert The of! Democratic State Chairman Burke Utah, and Warren Austin of Ver-|issued a statement saying “the ma- mont. Significantly sandwiched jn,JOFity of sentiment” among Massa- between Patton’s and mweu.s;chusctts Demociats “favors the re- names is that of General Wain- Romination and re-election of the wright, now a prisoner in annn'\'Presldem" and predicted that Ely, whom every Senator is anxious to promote. 8o it will be difficult for the subcommittee to promote one without the other two. Meanwhile, some members of the committee are increasingly irked over the manner in which Col. David A. Watt, the Army's attache to the Military Affairs Committee, | buttonholes members and polls their vote for the promotion of this or that general. Some BSenators say privately that the Military Affairs Committee under Bob Reynolds has virtually abdicated in favor of the; Chan Gurney of South Dakota pro- one time follower of Al Smith, will endorse Rooseveit ‘for another term within 48 hours. The President’'s name was the only one entered by either party in the primary in Pennsylvania, but Dewey took an early lead in the GOP written voting and held it throughout. At one time the President was running second to Dewey in the Republican penciled choices as he did in 1940, put later returns drop- ped him down a bit, though still drive is seen in Connecticut Demo~ Andrew Hope, Sitka Alaska In- dian; J. F. Krause of Ketchikan, Ragnar A. Hansen of Ketchikan,' John Olofson of Ketchikan, An- thony Zorich of Ketchikan, G. A.! Doelker of Juneau, Catrol Clausen of Petersburg, J. H. Sawyer of Windham Bay, W. C. Stump of Ketchikan, and Edith B. Barras of Douglas, in that order. For Attorney General, Ralph J.| |Rivers ran far ahead of his oppon-| ent for the Democrat nomination, | Karl Drager of Anchorage. On the Republican side, the only contest was' for the Senate, with Juneau voting as follows: Howard Stabler, leading, Mrs. E.| E. Engstrom of Douglas, next, and L. 8. Ferris of Ketchikan running third. Steve Vukovich was leading the Republican candidates for the House, with Sam Feldon of Juneau close behind, although all House| Republican candidates .are automat- ically nominated. THREE ISLANDS IN KURILES ATTACKED ing throughout the Pacific, Amer- |ily fortified by the Japs. It is only Pe¥ond 'Monigomery,Ward iately north of the Carolines, heav- to hit Manokwari, 500 miles' further into Jap territory, 264 miles thy | northeast of Ponape, where two merchant vessels were trongest point in the Carolines, and 64 miles from Truk, the cen-|® o T e S e INFLUENCE OFPRESS CompanytoReverr ~ INDICATED mation placing . Ujelang under a military government. To U.5.Governmen} WASHINGTON, April 26. — The President has directed Secretary of War Stimson to take “any action H a2 that may be necessary” to enable | el' 0' Pllbh( op““on Secretary of Commerce Jones to; earry out the Presidential order of | NEW YORK, April 26.—General seizing and operating the plants of | pwighti D, Eisenhower declared that Montgomery, Ward Co.,, in Chicago |«pyblic ‘opinion wins wars” and in-| because the firm refused to comply |dicated that news of the European | with the directive of the President invasion will be speeded, in a pub- to ‘extend the expired contract with lic message read at the opening the CIO union. |session of the American Newspaper Recorded Messages from| Commanders Cite Pow- Commander of the Allied forces and, and the Allied forces were stalled. jng order: Frank Peratrovich of There never was any question of gjawock, J. F. Krause of Ketchi- | our air supremacy over the Anzio yan Curtis G. Shattuck of Juneau, teachhead, yet that effort to flank o g cain of Juneau, Andrew Hope | dustries. the enemy still is abortive. | In spite of overwhelming super- iority in the air on the entire Ital- (ian front, we never were able to prevent the Nazis from bringing up | sufficient supplies and reinforme- ments to stop the Allied advance. Not long ago, the War Depart- ment issued a statement on. the bombing of Germany. It was re- markable for two reasons. no claims whatever that we are knocking Germany out of the war by bomb funs over vital war in- It did emphasize that our own air force and the RAF are making great gains in destruction of Nazi fighter plane strength, both by planes shot down in the air and by the interruption of production of factories on the ground. That’s pretty mild, in view of opinions of afrpower advocates a year or so ago that merely blanket- ing cities with bombs would cause our enemies to yell uncle. The ai advocates over- played . their and At is wel} they did. If theyf hadn't we wouldn't World War'I wag fought. It made| 'of Sitka, Fred G. Hanford of Wran- igell, Chris Hennings of Juneau, John E. Olofson of Petersburg, Ragnar Hansen of Ketchikan, An- ,thony Zorich of Ketchikan, W. C. {Stump of Ketchikan, Carroll Clau- sen of Petersburg, J. H. Sawyer lof Windham Bay, G. A. Doelker of {Juneau, Edith B. Barras of Douglas. On the Republican ticket, John Manders of Anchorage was leading George Grigsby more than two to one. The race for Senator was led by Howard Stabler of Juneau and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom of Douglas and Steve Ferris of Ketchikan were separated only by a few votes for the second spot. PATTONSAYS 'HE WANTS T0 INTO INDIA IS CHECKED | British Iig_hT;n Gri.p on Imphal Aea - Japs ~ Dying in Droves SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- TERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, April 26.—Jap jungle troops in a desper- ‘ate attack on road and rail blocks established in central Burma by Allied “Chindits” and airborne troops are “coming into the attack like a boxer with his head down” land are dying in droves, an ‘Allied observer said. Britisn forces continued to tfght- en their grip on the Imphal Ko- hima area, which has been threat- ened by the Jap invasion of India, a move designed to cut the Bengal- |Assam Railroad, the Allied supply /line to .China and North Burma. A communigue from Lord Mount- batten said the British forces have captured Mapao Hill north of the Imphal plain, inflicting heavy cas-~ ualties on the enemy. tions 24 miles inside Burma, the Army. ‘:::: of pomg: of - the. G (toRs, i Publishers Assoclation. have the air f#u we have toduy,i | The Japs know they must dis~ ~ NOTE—In the Senate Republican| Am'wmer shotie:for the ToELA B ls was: ¥ | A vecorded message received from The mossbacksin the Army and lodge the obstruction the Chindits | s HINGTON, A ; 4 ;- . caucus some time 8ago, Senator pril 26.—Strik. S'e m,s Reply on {Lieus, Gen, Devers, Deputy Supreme Navy wanted to on fighting as have placed on their communica posed that the Republicans get in right with the Army by favoring| more promotions {r officers. Some cratic caucuses, in which many delegates for the state party con- vention next month were instructed to endorse the President. ican bombers blasted enemy posi- {tions from the northern Kuriles to the South Pacific Marshalls in a series of raids last weekend. 1 | Commander of the American forces| |in ‘the Mediterranean theatre de- clared the influence of the press is Ball - Bearings for retary of State Cordell Hull said| The danger J§ that failure of those claims to stand”up, may let both public and the strategists again force sufficient to defeat the enemy LONDON, April 26. — Lt. Gen. Patton told an American and Brit- |1sh audience at the opening of the the more wé see of each other the official observer declared, especially because of the aid such blocks will give to Gen. Stilwell's forces driv- of Gurney'’s GOP colleagues, how- !felt “on every battlefield i ing down upon -them. through i d Ty efield and in grop into the fault of underesti-|United Kingdom Service Club to + cver, point out that, when it comes 5 i e, o Blilnsn, Paiw Nall. unfi“fladory (every home, ~office, factory and mating airpower. Without It, no|welcome United States soldiers, tha|MO5*!"8 Valley in the north. tha;’: rik enlisted men count more ks L“he uwa ';:" 1 bed it |farm.” army can win, but it’s apparént now |1t is undoubtedly the destiny of our| A' Present the Ci e e oo d Busher. of fimes WASHINGTON, April 26— Sec- R i BN that the army must be there in a|two peoples “to rule the world and|?StFide more than 100 miles of Jap bombers have hit the chain. 8.0 ¢ 5 CANNERY MAN HERE communications serving the enemy L4 v i i | CAPITAL CHAFF | Walter Winchell has adopted a NOME, Alaska, April 26.—In"yes- Chinese baby * * * Admiral “Tip” terday’s primary election in Nome, Moro, new chief of Navy public tne following vote is tabulated: izt mfi‘_"h‘i'm;'."‘“ 8 Froup of Grigsoy 53, Manders 31, Roden Who teamed up together under a-|7S: Bartlett 69, Ziegler 21, Rivers b i se s i - /111, Drager 28, Smith 147, Metcalf (Continued on Page Four) 116, ———————————— ABE KAPLAN IN TOWN Abe Kaplan, prominent fur buyer, |is in Juneau. He has been travel- ing all ovér the Territory buying ‘lm'l. This is his second Alaska trip ||.nd he plans on being here :bouzl four months longer, Sweden’s reply to the Allies’ requen‘ Laurence Freeburn, cannery man that sending of ball-bearings to Germany be stopped, is not satis- factory, and naturally this Govern- ment is very much dissatistied. Hull told the newsmen great im- from B8itka, is in town and regist- ered at the Baranof. - e - PEZZANIOS ARRIVE From Havre de Grace, Maryland, portance is attached to the ques- have come Anita and Carolyn Pez- on the ground. If there is any doubt that the strategists have come to that con- clusfon, it may be dispelled by the fact that it’s no secret now that for months the War Production Board has given top priority in ma- tion of supplies for Nazi Germ‘ny,{ zanio and they are at the Baranof.terials and labor to landing craft, better.” “The soomer our soldiers: write home and say how lovely the Eng- lish ladies are, the sooner Ameri- can dames will get jealous and force [the war to a successful conclusion, and I shall have a chance to go |ana kil the Japanese,” he said. in northern Burma. Foi e ol A * WILLIAMSON ARRIVES 8. C. Williamson arrived at the Baranof Hotel late last night from Seattle. He is a representative for the Americani Red Cross, : 8