The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1944, Page 1

- JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1944 PSRN Dttt M et e e et NAZIS CLAIM AR INV llies Riddle Southwest Enemy Positions BOMBS AR POUREDON WIDE AREA Army, Navy Fliers Fore- stalling Jap Attempts at Reinforcements ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 29.—Army and Navy fliers, seeking to forestall any Japanese attempts to bolster the crippled Nipponese air arm in New Guinea, poured more than 300 tons on bombs on enemy airdromes at the western tip of the huge island to Rabaul and Havieng east, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces. Mitchell bombers ripped the enemy’s Jefman airdrome at Sor- ong on the western end of New Guinea, and heavy bombers ham- mered Babo on the south shore of McCleur Gulf. (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Go-Round e e By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Politicos are still arguing as to whether Willkie's Wisconsin defeat was a real indi- cation of growing U. S. isolation. ‘Whether it was or not, another test is just around the corner which may be more significant. It will aecur in the Florida pri- maries in May, and will involve the renomination of the foremost cham- pion of intervention in the entire U. S. Senate—Claude Pepper. Pepper is running in a state normally not isolationist. And for that reason, politicos consider the test more significant than that in Wisconsjn, For if Florida turns against the man who was out even ahead of President. Roosevelt in advocating ‘aid: to Britain, then it will be considered a very definite sign of growing U. S. isolation. Furthertnore, it'will affect the Al-: lied attitudé foward “the United States. © ¢ ag b > Most people outside Florida do not rémember’ the way in which) Pepper_stood out alone .in the en- tire Senate to démand aid for the Allies—even before France had fal- len. However, it is indelibly stamp- ed on the minds of those who run GLAMOR —New York art VOL students judged this photo of “Cover Girl Rita Hayworth Hollywood's “most glamorous.” FAIRBANKS | REPUBLICANS GAIN VOTES Barflett Has Big Lead Over Opponents in tou Judicial Division FA!RBANKS,_A]aska, April 20— With 31 out of approximately 66 Feurth Division precincts in, more than 500 Republican votes had been | cast in the primary election, com- pared with more than a thousand Democratic votes. | On the Democratic side, E. L. Bartlett had 635 votes for Dele- Ziegler 243. For Attorney General—Ralph J.| Rivers 823, Karl Drager 246. | For Highway Engineer—Leonard | Smith 640, Frank Metcalf 315. | There was no Democratic candi-{ date for the short term Senator's! post, and Stanley Nichols of Galena | unopposed for the long-term Senate | seats. The five representatives leading are Jesse Landers, Mrs. Alaska S. Linck, Robert Hooper and Harry, Badger, all of Fairbanks, and Tom| Jones of Nenana. Republicans John Manders leads George Grigs-| by for the Republican nomination for Delegate with 384 votes ‘to Grigsby’s 201. For the short term Senator’s! and Leo Rogge of Fairbanks are|® the Foreign Offices in London and Moscow. At that time, May, 1940, before the world even dreamed France would fall, Pepper introduced a resolution authorizing the President to aid the Allies by supplying them with air equipment. Isolationist newspapers scoffed. He got abso- nomination, Andrew Nerland de- feated Harvey Garnet. G For the Senate long-term it will be John Butrovich, Jr., and prob- ably George E. King, who leads| John H. Jones by 35 votes. » ‘The five Republican representa- tives leading are L. D. Colbert, lutely no support from Senatorial colleagues. ‘ ‘When the resolution came up in the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, the vote was twelve opposed, one in_favor. The one lone vote was Pepper’s. Yet, only a few months later, the entire Congress approved the de- stroyer deal and, early the follow- Ang year, put its OK on lend-lease. Pepper at first, however, had got nowhere. After his first defeat on air equipment, he introduced a sec- ond resolution authorizing all aid to the Allies short of war. Al- though getting no support from the Administration, he proceeded to make five speeches for this earliest of all lend-lease proposals. LONE BATTLER Each day he delivered a new speech. Pinally, Senstor Pat Har- rison of Mississippl, an Administra-! tion friend and nq isolationist, took| Pepper aside. “Claude,” he said, “you've got to! stop all that. This country’s not going to get into this fight. We're Maurice Johnson, Albert Dorsh, Jr., Patrick Savage and Henry Karstens. Solons Favor Forrestal as Heaflgl Navy WASHINGTON, Aprili 29. — A strong Congressional backing has developed favoring the appointment of Acting Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal to the Cabinet succeed- ing the late Frank Knox, as Secre- tary of the Navy. None in Congress professed to know the President’s intentions, and the Chief Executive himself gave no hints as to whom he is considering. If he decides to name another Republican, following the policy be- gun by naming Knox and Secretary not going to help England. You're| Just wasting the Senate’s time; and breaking your own heart.’ Pepper was @ close friend and| (Continued on Page Four) of War Henry L. Stimson, the name most often mentioned in speculative circles is that of Lieut. Comdr. Har- old Stassen, Governor of Minnesota, now with the fleet in the Pacific. |memus revolutionagies, and that a JAPS BEIN DRIVENOUT OF KOHIMA AREA Mounibatien_Reports Jap Campaign Has Not Inter- fered with Allied Plans SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- TERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, April 29.—Allied roops are smas against the Japs in the Kohima |sector, and are liquidating the re- maining enemy strongpoints, head- quarters has announced. The communique yesterday said the Allied forces have captured a gate, Henry Roden 202, and A. M.\ mper of strong points west of single the mile high town. A bulletin today reported that British and Indian troops are con- tinuing their advance into the hills southeast of Kchima, and indicated that the Jap showdown attempt to the monsoon base is going adly. General Stiiwell’s Americans oc- cupied two more villages in their drive on Kamaing. Mountbatten’s headquarters, re- plying to a series of questions sub- mitted by the Associated Press, de- clared that the Jap drive into India has not dislocated the Allied stra- tegic schedule nor delayed the com- pletion of the Ledo road. The re- port added that there is no justifi- cation for uneasiness in America. CONSPIRACY ISBROKENUP IN BRAZIL LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 20.—The Bolivian Government announced; that a vast conspiracy has been broken with the detention of nu- state of siege has been declared throughout the country. . No public disturbances have bee: reported. CLAIMS LANDING FORCES ARENOW MOVING, EUROPE STOCKHOLM, April 29. — The| Helsinki newspaper Sanimat says, without disclosing the source of in-{ formation, the invasion of Eumpe' is already under way. This is according to a dispatch which also says “landings are prob- ably in progress at several places now. 4 There is no information from any Allled source substantiating the reports. . XLL, NO. 9639. GAINS MADE ‘BY CHINESE HONAN AREA Chinese Wrest Strategic Pass Guarding Loyang, Killing Many Japs CHUNGKING, April 29. — The |Chinese defenders have driven the Japanese troops from the strategic Hulao Pass, gateway to Loyang, and aré annihilating a large portion of them, the Chinese High Command said, in announcing their successes east and southeast of Loyang. “* | This eased the threats to the city, las the pass is again entirely in {Chinese hands. Earlier reports ad- | mitted the Japanese had fought |their way to the important pass \west of Chenghsien, which the High Command acknowledged on | Friday for the first time had been lost to the Japs in their drive m | northern Honan Province. ) Southeast of Loyang the Chinese claimed further advances and said |the enemy had suffered heavy flonsesA 3 PASSING OF KNOX " CALEED BLOWTO NAVY, NATION | | (By Associated Press) The death yesterday of Secretary of Navy Frank Knox brought com- ment from leading men and Navy men of the Nation. Former President Herbert Hoover | said: “Secretary Knox was devoted to his country with complete and‘ mindedness. All Americans are indebted to him for the multi- tude of services during the whole| generation.” Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, said: “In the passing of Frank Knox we lost a fine leader! in the greatest war we ever fought jand we lost a great newspaper pub- lisher in the times when his strength and wise counsel was need- | ed as never before. I grieve at the passing of an old and trusted friend.” * Admiral E. J. King commented: “The Nation hus lost a great pa- triot and the Navy a great leader. From the day Frank Knox became Secretary of the Navy, he contribut- ed without stint, his vision, enthu- slasm, judgment and fighting spir- it to prepare the Navy and the country for what few men saw more clearly than he, that he and the Nation would be put to a great Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said: “In the passing of Mr. Knox, the Navy has lost one of its truest champions and the Nation has lost one of its most able and loyal ser- vants.” Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son said: “I am deeply shocked and distressed in the death of Frank Knox. Our relations were not mere- ly official as they had grown close in affecticn and friendship.” 19 AREDEAD, PLANE CRASH t “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” § LARGEST HOSPITAL " Refuge s U. S. Navy's largest hospital ship. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS R S H | P—Recently commissioned at Baltimore, Md,, the U.S.S. It was built as luxury liner, President Madison. Jap Planes Make No Al- fempt fo Intercept- Ponape Airfields Hit WASHINGTON, April 29.—Guam the former United States possession overrun by ine Japanese in the Pa- cific, was bombed by the Navy, and despite the presence of Jap planes on the ground no attempt to off- set the American attack was made. The Navy also said that Ponapé was attacked by Army and Navy planes on April 26 and later on the isame day was reattacked by’ the Army. The following day the Army hit two Ponape airfields and fires were started. Fifty-four tons of bombs! were loosed on Moen, Etten, Dub- lon and Param in the Truk atoll by Army planes. Jap planes went aloft but made no effort to inter-| cept the attackers and there were! no casualties to United States’ forces. —————— TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN, M-W PLANT CHICAGO, April 29.—The Army withdrew from the plant of Mont- gomery Ward as the turbulent con- troversy settled for the day into a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board examiner on the question of the representation of the CIO union involved. Wayne Taylor, Undersecretary of Commerce now in charge under the government seizure said he had re- quested Brig. Gen. John Davis of | | i FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, April 29.| —Nineteen are reported dead, two/ serfously injured and two less ser-| fously hurt in the crash of a trans-| port plane about 15 miles east of here in Conconio county, the sher- iff’s office reports. — CROSSLEY IN JUNEAU John P. Croscley has arrived in Juneau and is registered at the Baranof. | ———————— JOHNSTON IN TOWN the Sixth Service Command to withdraw the troops because “there is now no reason for their presence.” Taylor said this referrcd to the Federal Court restraining order ob- tained by Attorney Gen. Biddle pro- hibiting the company officers from interfering with government., offi- cials in charge. The platoon of about 35 left while shoppers were trading. Taylor announced he had appointed John Goodloe, General Counsel for the RFC as grievance officer to deal Edward C. Johnston, & guest of the Baranof, is here from Seattle. with CIO United Maill Order, Warehouse and Retail Employees. Actress Dolores Moran, (above) has received word from China that & group of pilots in the famed “I Tigers” has ziven her the title “Tiger Girl.” AGREEMENTS REACHED AT CONFERENCE LONDON, April 20~The United States and Britain have reached “in a large measure common ground” on a wide field of subjects dealing with current and postwar problems as the result of confer- ences between Undersecretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., and high British pfficials, & joint com- munique has announced. During the three-week period “op- | portuni.ies have been taken to keep dministration political the Soviet and Chinese governments informed on the course of the dis- cussione,” the report added. GUAM, TRUK GOP Stralegists Ma |-RAIDEDBY- | Havelnspired Junkel NAVY (R’AFTj : Jour of Gov. Bricke By JACK STINNETT 4 WASHINGTON, April 29. — Al- though the speechmaking junket of Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio to Oklahcma, Texas, Arkansas, Ala- bama and Florida, on his quest for the Republican presidential nomin- ation may seem, at first glance, pretty much of a waste of time, political observers here think dif- ferently. All those States have a total of only 100 out of 1,059 delegates to the GOP convention and observers feel certain that Governor Bricker and his advisers are certainly astute enough as politicians to realize that they won't count for much when ballots start flyihg at Chicago. And four of the Southern States in which Bricker made his latest campaign bid are solidly Democratic and the other, Oklahoma, is pre- dominantly so. The question has been raised here: why then has Bricker chosen to waste valuable time and campaign funds making the rounds there? The answer, observers belleve, is that the governor is just doing what ' may be a little valuable missionary work for the Republican Party—a lick that must be gotten in before | the primaries since In all but a few | congressional districts in those five States, nomination in the primaries is tantamount to election. In other words, the Republicans see a possibility of giving the New | (and some others), not with Re- publicans, but with anti-New Deal Democrats. Reports are that Sen. Lister Hill, | Democratic whip in the Senate, the man who nominated the President for the third term, and for the most part an arden New Deal supporter, is expected tough opposition from anti-administration opponents in | Alabama. | _ There's also talk that Sen. Claude | Pepper, who has never swerved from the New Deal line, has a powerful opponent in Florida on an anti- Roosevelt platform. W. Lee “Pappy” | O'Daniel of Texas won his ticket to ;the Senate by lambasting the New | Deal. The same is true of Sen. E. | H. Moore of Oklahoma, Democrat- | turned~Republican. What is true for the Senators must be true for a good many of the | House members. It’s hard to tell from here just {how fair an appraisal of the situa- | tion this is, but I do know that some leaders 1 I aren't very happy about it. (Continued on Page Two) Deal a good flogging in these States | ASION STARTED et ACTUALFIGHT | IS BEGUN ON WEST EUROPE Captured Allied Fliers Make Statement Accord- ing o Berlin Dispatch 'declared the invasion of Western | Europe, practically speaking, began \a week ago when the Americans |and British threw in great numbers of reserve air crews and aircraft /In the continuing continental air ' assault. | 'The Berlin coresrpondent of the Stockholm Tidnigen quotes cap- tured Allled fllers as saying they regarded themselves as “invasion troops and the invasion began for them when they went into action. German military circles interpret the statement of the fllers as mean~ ing the invasion by the air forces means the actual fight, especially by air has ud The Germans announce ! 1s ready command regarding the Buropean invasion. The Russian news agency Tass, ' sald rumors persisted in the Ger- man capith] city that Marshal Rommel replaced Pleld Marshal Rundsted! as commander of the so-called west wall. Gen. Dwight W. Eisenhower, mak- ing a quick tour of the afrfields in England told the fliers that “as much ag you have done in the pasi, more is going to be required of you.” Danes reaching Sweden after the Nazis isolated Denmark, reported 40,000 armed Danes are ready to help the Allied invasion forces. BIG ATTACK ON BERLIN MADETODAY ‘Force of About Two Thou- | sand Planes Make Sweep on Nazi _C_al)iial City LONDON, April 29. — A force approaching 1,000 American bom- bers dealt Berlin the seventh day- light blow today as the climax of the fifteenth straight day of the all-but air offensive of building up the invasion. A powertul escorting fleet of Mus- tangs, Thunderbolts and Light- nings brought the total strength to around 2,000 planes. The United States headquarters announcement sald industrial and military targets were_singled out for the attack today. | ‘The Berlin radlo acknowledged “serious damage” was done in to- day's great raid. ‘Well over 70,000 tons of explosives have been dumped on Hitler’s plane nests and anti-invasion installa- tions in 15 days from Britain and Italy based Allled planes. —_———o—— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 29. — Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 6, American Can 85, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 5%, International Harvester 69%, Kennecott 30%, North Amer- lcan Aviation 8%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 51, Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 136.23; rails, 38.81; utilities, 22.45.