The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944 3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 3 ., VOL. XLL, NO. 9637. BIG JAP BASE AT MADANG CAPTURED 5 s - Major MacArthur also is a candidate for| President, it is difficult to approach |blasted in the Black Sea mtalllng \ns follows: industrials 136.10, rails for oil in Alaska as soon as weather jpermits. The Army will put up the The three, however, were cleared of charges of perjury and conspiracy For House—Diamond 94, Huntley | 87, McCutcheon 106, McGinty 81,| Battle Nears in Sectors in Burma CHICAGO, Ili, April 27—A de- 7 him now regarding a lesser poAb. ,;igosw;'o::‘;e:h;n::;:“;':z':: ds:: SGN OF JU"H“ MA" |S (3838, uulmes ax money, accordng to information|y; defraud the government by per- | Pollard 88, Taylor 99, Wadman 83, |tachment of soldiers have taken Furthermore, MacArthur and| given the House Appropriations! niiting company domination of 'he.Webb 72. possession of the Chicago units of . Furthermore MacAmhur aod)eged and o landing barge and two [NTERNED,SWITZERLAND STRICKEN AT TYEE: iiiilsen by Becretary Tokek! o' P Republican the Montgomery, Ward Company, to MacArthur's attempt to saddle|Patrol boats sunk. | ’ e The three men are Lt. Col. Frank | Grigsby leads Manders in Kodiak |after Sewell Avery, Chief Executive Hoover with the bonus army fiasco. However, if all goes as the Dewey | cohorts expect at Chicago, they hope | that, sometime during the subse-| quent campaign, MacArthur may be approached to fill the post of Sec- retary of War. NOTE —Dewey has recently adopted the same technique which was tried by Roosevelt so unsuc- cessfully and which FDR has since abandoned—puirging party enemies. Dewey has mobilized New York State Republican forces to oust Rolland Marvin, former Mayor of Syracuse, as a member of the Re- publican State Executive Commit-| tee. Marvin has been a strong ‘Willkie booster and so is getting the Dewey axe. In contrast, FDR (Continued on Page Four) ‘fwo thousand miles to the north, | the Red Air Force spotted a convoy {Sea, and bulletins said, sank four lof the transports, totaling 20,000 | tons, two patrol boats, a patrol launch, and damaged two trans- ports and a minelayer. Six Soviet | Lindbergh Reported To Be in Honolulu HONOLULU, April 27.—Charles A. Lindbergh, studying reports of air- craft and general equipment per- formance in the Pacific war theatre, has arrived here, civilian represen- tatives of an American aircraft j manufacturer, disclose, Word has been, received by Mr. O. J. Downs of Juneau to the effect |{of Nazi transports in the Barents,that his son, Lieut. Harvey Downs, |U. 8! Army Air Corps, has been interned at Camp Maloney, Einsie- deln, Switzerland. Lieut. Downs, 25-year-old bomber pilot, was making his 24th trip over occupied territory, with one more mission remaining until he would be eligible for leave in the | States. The pilot’s father, O. J. Downs, has been a resident of Juneau for the past four years. He is employed at the Alaskan Hotel. SSHIE 3¢ i et CHICAGO MAN HERE Trvin Krenzle has arrived mn Ju- ) neau from Chicago, Illinois, and is a guest at the Baranoi, g - BROUGHT TO JUNEAU An emergency call to the Alaska |Coastal Airlines this morning sent a plane to Tyee to pick up E. R. |Simpson, who was stricken with a {heart attack. He was accompanied to Juneau by Martin Howell. Both men are employees of the Sebastian ‘Btwt Pish Company. . ! MRS. MARTIN RETURNS Mrs. Ralph Martin returned yes- terday from the South after spend- ing two months visiting with rela- tives in the Eastern States and Cali- fornia. Mr. Martin preceded his wife to Juneau three weeks ago, Mrs. martin remaining in Seattle for a short visit, NAZISMAKE DIRECT HIT ONSHELTER LONDON, April 27.—A direct hit on the raid shelter of a South coast town during a German air raid| early in the morning, caused many casualties. The raid was brief and the “all ! Gruelich, of Detroit, former chief inspection officer of the Materiel Command; Maj. Walter Ryan, also of Detroit; and Maj. William Bruck- mann, of cmcum-u Recommends Arend | Be Confirmed as 4th Division Atiorney WASHINGTON, April 27. — The Senate Judiclary Committee has recommended confirmation of the President’s nomination of Harry Arend to be United States Attorney in the Fourth Judicial Division of clear” was sounded in London with- out any incidents being reported. Alaska, with headguarters at Fair- banks, with 16 votes compared with Mand- ers' 14, { AN e A NAVY SECRETARY KNOXILL, ATHOME WASHINGTON, April 27.—Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox is con- fined to his home today with “a gastro intestinal upset, compucnu:d‘ by dizziness,” Navy Department of- | ficials announced. Knox is 70 and was appointed to the Cabinet on July 11, 1940. He became ill while attending the fun- | eral of his business partner, J. A.| Muehling, in Manchester, New Hampshire, last week, Officer of the huge merchandising firm had rebuffed previous efforts to have enforced the Presidential order for selsure of facilities, and was carried away from his office bodily by troopers. Wayne C. Taylor, Under Secre- tary of Commerce, has been desig- |rated agent to assume control of the properties. Avery left the premises after be- ing assured business will go on as usual. The company had refused, as or- ered, to extent the expired contract with the CIO Union, Attorney General Biddle came here to carry out all orders re- |garding the transfer of the m plants to the Government, ¢ B @ 1 [l [] { NAZI BOYS ARE ouT OF WAR _\TW( SHIPS 16,000 TONS Fishermen Profesfing o HOLLANDIA . L] 3 SENTDOWN, | SLAMMEDON = BeingTransporfedNorth | AIRDROMES = | b | COLLISIONS! | ibertyShi | ‘ [ ard Any Liberty dnips | SEATTLE, April 27.—Fishermen | waters of the far north. | ) i . N A Walchina Reinforce- Tragedies Occur on Lake, RAF Raids on Essen and assnca o ateska for the annuai | Brotests by ihe rshermen ssinst Twenfy Nip Planes De- [, Japs Walching Rein Erie During Early Schweinfurt = Yanks | 2imen sason: nave refused (0 06|yt sent g severat sovernmental| - ctroved o Ground b men's Pouflng in for Mormng Fog (, wem Url — TaQNKS | cept. transportation aboard Liberty | agencies, including Secretary of In- siroye Y 3 % . ships, C. J. Simpson, Northwest | terior Ickes. H A'hed Garnson ! S HI'Noflhem Fl‘an(e Manager of the National Labor oot Ra'ds'rom New Bases . - CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 27.— Board, announces. THEORY OFFERED 5= . 2] 7 | Two ship collisions are reported, The crackup of Liberty ships in | SEATTLE, April 27.—Representa- 3 KANDY, Ceyion, April = one in a heavy fog that swept over BULLETIN—LONDON, April |recent months with subsequent loss | tive Warten G. Magnuson offers the| ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- ,‘ major battle appears imminent as Lake Erie at dawn today, resulting | 27, — Some 2,500 Allied heavy |©f life is cited by the bureau which | theory the John Straub might have| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, gt Allied reinforcements streamed into in the loss of at least 10 seamen. bomb hit Hitler's Germany represents the Alaska Fishermen’s | been wrecked by a Jap mine. April 27. — Powerful United States % Kohima, gateway hill town guard- | Two lake freight carriers, the ! ' Union, said Simpson. Magnuson said: “The Naval In- |Sixth Army forces seized two of the # » ing the valley entrance to the plains | James H. Reed, operated by the In- | in three great waves today. It is still undetermined whether | telligence officers have interviewed |Hollandia airdromes on Tuesday, of Assam. | terlake Steamship Company ux Heavy Royal Air Force blasts on the sinking of the Liberty ship John | survivors and the information Is be- land are closing in on the third key i . The garrison at Kohima could be Cleveland, sank about 45 miles north | Germany were followed by two | Straub on April 19, off Sanak Island | ing forwarded to Washington. The‘alrnnld. the prime objective in the q seen below by the Japs scattered in ? | of Erie, Pa., after colliging with the owerful American blows on. on the coast of Alaska, was the re- | Jap current flows in our c}lrecnon campaign which was launched less b 4 f Ve the nearby hills, and reinforcements | Asheroft, operated by the Canada i i v nag A’ Frarek sult of the explosion of an enemy |and our shipping will be under an|inan four days before. rolled forward from Manipur under Steamship Lines of Montreal, g7 PO -TIYNEN e * | torpedo or mine, or whether it was | increasing threat from Jap mines| ™ ' Tl T e ' the eyes of the enemy. | Twenty-six survivors of the Reed | T the fault of constructural faults.|breaking loose from mine fields in| - foist e :’oth:lr‘ Am“{m t:’oopa One of the enemy’s strongest | were taken aboard the Ashcroft. { LONDON, April 27.—Two thou- The secret is buried in the cf;ld Jap-domlnnud waters.” | pushed: northeard - trom - Tadfi wir= points is Kohima village, akout a _ The the same time the Columbia gand Allied planes slammed perhaps|™ " drome 0 oocupy’ Altape village after | mile west of the main town, and the Transit Company's steamer Frank 000 tons of bombs into Nazi tar- |(ke! wank 'o o thott ANIrRNS. J] British poured artillery fire into iViglt;rlls ;:portcd to Y::ve ib::w ;;"‘!k gets in the gigantic pre-invasion Tun RBANA Al olshiy i T A n Pelee Passage, western e Erie, gir offensive today, and United ol 5 ml’:ohlma is 60 miles north of Im- ’ after colliding with the steamer giates bombers are pounding heav- Iake ovef MGSka (nrlhe‘rd-o::n an Australian for(;‘e 5 i hal, military storehouse for Man-| TWO TEEN-AGE BOYS (middle and right) who might otherwise be play- | Philip Minch in a fog. The Vigor’s yjy at the German Atlantic wall, Crab Fishi by ‘m °"e'“,"'n;“"'”"h""' ), D ey and. 18 two-thirds the | Ing “cops and robbers” arrive in England as Nazi prisoners-of-war from | crew was transferred to the Minch aficr the Royal Aix Force asasults rab Fishing v TE | Madang, then pusned northward. ;:str bev‘.ween Imphal and Dima- the battlefront in Italy. The extreme youth of most of the prisoners and the injured 'were taken in an Essen, Schweinfurt, and railroad | sl A Rapid Maneuvering Y distance b n center for| shows that Hitler is digging dcep for his manpower. (Interuutionul) charge by the Coast Guard which yards near Paris. WASHINGTON, April 27— Just three and a half days of ra- A B “pe'mu“; e - FeRchid e | Well over 1000 British bombers| Secretary of Interior Harold L. pid and skillful maneuvering by W Bengven ssz::’n bepa: incredible | rained possibly 45500 tons of ex-| Ickes wants the United States - American troops in the Hollandia ¥ I P_'°‘“‘”d“h fabting botn | Plosives and incendaries on the Nazi | to take over crab fishing in Al- area, fought in the swamps, jungles, 5 i e L i R l I cities and rail target. by moonlight,| askan waters, where, he says, and muddy mountain tralls and | in the dense jungl | [opening the thirteenth couucuw t;;: the J-: clan:lu "u;' u;l:lon s, gl _|among the mosquitoes, has been in 4 % day of bomibing, then 500 pounds of Alaskan ore B Ska. April 2 progress, but few, very few .of the (Gontinued on Page Three Mnited States Liberators and Fort- | the war and sold them to the R::NCH?RAG'E&M:;:' e "‘" e bl 1 Rk g brm, <. e resses lashed out against niilitary | United States. pm“‘m“'m "n""d‘me other smaller ones |been in the area when the great objectives in northern France, sup- Asked by Chairman Johnson glve E. L. Bartlett an overwhelming |offensive drams opened at dawn on The wa shlng ion | ported by 250 to 500 fighters. of & House committee i any |00 0 b 80 < oo TN Henry | Saturday, are'still alive, % A Mustangs and Thunderbolts of theJ Jap fishing boats were in Al- Roden in th.e co‘nteut for nomination | General Arthur PSS R d FAIRBANKS, Alaske, April 27— ' fighter-bomber section of the Nm-zh1 askan waters now, Ickes replied, | 0 e OO o es oh the | Th, u; Mac . ““’m“ . en‘y £ 0 '3 Oun With seven precints in, Bartlett re- Air Force hit five targets in Bel-| “No, but we ought to get ready Detmpeiatis tickst | Thursday communique ““_{I" | ceived 481 votes for the Democratic gium, including the Haine and St.| to take over that big crab fishery by bt o Whlc:]pl:m:d;u n'tho Hu!:lobo:; Bay “in v ARS ¢ ’ | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 27— nomination for Delegate, Roden had Pierre railroad yards, without suf-| business.” d an a re ore oper- 4 (L. c«? RR):EF ‘g’ flEn nwonNn active Red Am\y Al‘h"ery Com- The first halibut to arrive here 211 and Ziegler 162. | fering the loss of a plane. FHBIGE 1 AR RE M ANY and Ziegler, 242. ation, crossed Lake Sentani to Ne- » service with the Army.) . . |since the season opened on April| For Attorney General — Drager Twenty-nine British bombers were: »- For Attorney General, Karl Drag- |farr and seized Cyclogl and San- U‘flnds CI'Y—-NaZIS 'O |16, remains abcard the boat Rain-| 191, Rivers 579. lost in the triple assault on the I"TIRIOR DEPI. er has 402 and Ralph J. Rivers 600.|tani airfields and aré moving on ‘WASHINGTON—Friends of Gov- . ier pending disposition. For Highway Engineer—Metcalf armaments cities of Essen and Frank Metcalf of Sitka has 469,|the third remaining drome. Junc- §: ernor Dewey are quietly passing out | Be Ex'ermmated Pish buyers aeseribed the’ catch of '219 and L. Smith 470. Schweinfurt, and the railways at/ DR AFI DEFERME"I leading his opponent for Highway|tion with the Tanahmeranh invasion : word that their candidate has part| about 20,000 pounds as hot cargo in Republican Villeneuve and St. Georges, 15 miles Engineer, Leonard Smith of Nome, column is imminent.” 5 of his Cabinet already picked pend-| MOSCOW, April 27.—Field dis- view of the tie- up over OPA prices. M;:nd?rs ha;i 3f5 vt:les S:; Re- ' southeast of Paris. | who has 320. Resistance Crushed *¢¥ ing his election—and they do""pau:hes from the Crimean front de-| Capt, Lars Larsen of the Rainier pubican. DowiRstin i egate | JE ot | On the Republican bailot, George | Advanced units reached Cyclops seem to think there will be much (cjared that Soviet artillery is com-|explained he had been told other N3 GTiBsby trailed with 130. ‘ | |Grisby has 127 votes and John|and neighboring Sentani airdromes ' question about that. ! manding every street in Sevastopol,|craft were out fishing. | I A STRALI A looKS WASHINGTON, April 27. — Thelm“d"s 312. early Tuesday afternoon, crushing First on the list is Herbert|,pq fijng poini blank into the city,| e S ) i Lo Py T the slight enemy resistance. Scat- » f State. This | T i Interior Department’s draft defer- CORDOVA VOTING Hoover as Secretary of State. |and asserted that German attempts ment policies of its white collar | tered fights cost the Japanese 100 g is the only posrtd whlcxlldlgw:f“p;l;‘ to hold out indefinitely have en- | BA"IA ASSIGNED s ds workers drew fire from the House |chRD3VA t“"“" A‘:—fl ;:; dead. ex-President and would be the pay- b st stabe; Blows REPUUED { " | Democratic returns in the - which Hoover has done behind the; 4 oA " | » |ing with 82 in cardova and Eyak i holds out in stieets and squares but | eliminated without undue delay. ifots. H Roden has 26 and | €085t from Hollandia to knock out 1 soanes o ‘zusv_l)et;'ey aAclxdors‘sch head |Soviet guns have reached the Ger-| | | The report said that on February 'g"elci“;‘:gle:;‘:y en has 26.and |29 Jap planes on the ground a Ka- rsfk"’:“ghm »‘;:morfigx R o a|mans and Rumanians in thels last| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 27— | WASHINGTON, ;‘Dfll g” = A“i; 115, out of 6,069 male employees be- | L BERICT M0 ey [ mirl airdrome at Geelvick Bay. The IR of tha Mocketaller. tamily,|SBEIE { Gerald Banta, recently promoted to| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | ;"“‘: :""“gm"f‘a:;;velt"m‘,‘ie?e ) | tween 18 and 38 years of age in the | oo By L MO UL o red | runway was badly bomb pocked, as Secretary of the Treasury. Al- | Enemy Be Wiped Out | Lieutenant Commander, has been | NAPLES, April 27.—Allied tx’oops{t;‘n : ’;“ i ’ww“ ebibia 1| { department, 2221 held occupational | CivFre Draders 40, supply dumps were ignited .and 9 tich also has been one of the po-| It appeared the Soviet command | relieved of his duties in the Ket- have repulsed two minor German lhe ;'n““ dpround foi il deferments, 2078 of whom were de- | W ol B L TR O Prank |three interceptors were shot down. tent backstage wire-pullers for | had decided to wipe out the enemy chikan District of the Coast Guard, | attacks in the Adriatic sector of the | ¥ o:m ;te”h*‘;;mony | ferred by specific request of the de- | \oooo =0 Rel ot and Leonard| The 30 b AR 1 Dewey and is credited with ralsing‘“ any cost, even though it mxghpand has been assigned as Command- | Ttallan front yesterday as bad P ptl 14 tradih - oaks i partment. | Smith has 47. enemy air, action of any welght hi i1l | ing Officer of the Coast Guard Re- her limited ai ¢ t urtin sais The committee said that it was | \« & §ood ‘ahare 0f'the money whick|mean the restruction of what still |'SE e &0 R SERE WOIHE limited alr operations to & g yniteq States in the future 85| «qisappointed” In the departments |, FOF the Third Division seats inagainst the Hollandia invading flooded Wisconsin during the l“tlremam"fi S batiored. Bevasiopuls Hed Banta, a former Juneauite, was e routhnedpatrge. id that only |1t Will to other great powers for | yoquects for deferment of its draft- the Senate Democrats voted as fol- | forces, The attack was made by 12 1 days of the primary campaign. |Star said. i ¥ d | Allied headquarters said that only d to work out | lows: Brownell 59, Coffey 67, Harvey ys P! ry pal Wildlife Agent in Ketchikan befo: . greater resources and to age rsonnel. | Japanese planes against a destroyer Third would be Governor Harold| The Germans still hold airdromes | berics “S; g n before | 80 sorties in all were flown by the internationally salvation for human | ge pel st I | Smith 49, Spears 32. offshore. Gen. MacArthur reported Stassen, now a lientenant-com-|in the suburbs,.but they have been | 3_9_5""“9- :Amed Mdedit/errunenn Air Force dur- beings, but Australia’s voice will be | | Republicans favored Manders with |, damage. mander in the Navy, as Secretary of | rendered unusable by the Russian| S R | ing the day. { heard 1n the Pacific and will accept | MlllIARv (oukl | 33 votes and Grigsby with 23, fort LS 3 ey the Navy. fleet and air force, which h“ei( Asu Al"ES OF i ¥is responaibiitios.” Republican votes for the Senate The Hoover and Aldrich appoint- | tightened the blockade. | SI‘o(K OUO'I'A'I'IONS gave Hodge 44 and Snodgrass 41. ' ments are considered definite. The 1,000 Nazis Killed | F’"DS 3 Gulllv' { Stassen appointment is understood| Moscow said that their coopera- ARMY REPORIED i v AT KODIAK | s to depend pretty much . imn tive blows had sunk five transports, 4 NZ\Z YO:“} l:kprud 27;0105‘1:113 “EGLE(‘I’ (H ARGE KODIAK, Alaska, April 27— v 5 a Juntau mine ¥ President. However, Dewey cohorts jand fighting 1,000 Germans were| 20 e _tcj"‘”“f“t‘: Litens hl‘“"“""am. Curtiss Wright 5%, Interna- CINCINNATI, April 27—A mili-| For Attorney General—Drager 41 consider him a natural if he would | killeq fn two small but localized AC-| it 1o Wer Seretnry coniro 6% tional Harvester 68%, Kennecot tary court has convicted three Army | and Rivers 93. [ < take the job. tions along the front, but the Rus-| ”:w R ar Secretary Stimson re- 307 North American Aviation 8%. Alr Force officers of neglect of duty| For Highway Engineer — Metcall E Another potentional Cabinet mem- | o1 made no mention of the Ger- | opeo. New York Central 17%, Northern in their inspection of the Lockland | 60 and Smith 53. ber, thoush still fn the nebulous|mer® MO T8 AR O B0 BN | Twentyfive thousand have been pgciic 1%, United States Steel Plant of the Wright Aeronautical| For Senate—Collins 94, Brownell 3 w stage, is General MacArthur as| 'l 3"E o"Arh drive on the low. |Kiied: 60000 wounded, 32000 miss- gy, b WAS’“"GTON,, ‘t"“l’ 1.~ "he | Gorporation, and sentenced them {0 | 78, Coffey 103, H. Smith 48, Spears Secretary of War. Obviously, slnce'er Dnester. Five transports were Ing, and 26,000 are prisoners ot war, ‘| Dow, Jones averages today are S . Department, plans be dismissed from the service. 19. a