The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9642. ___MEMBER ASSQCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — ] EUROPEAN INVASION POINTS BLASTED Loaded Jap Supply Barges Smashed, Sunk ' Soldiers Wives B_elor_e}eaving Io‘r” ANTI-BARGE CAMPAIGNIS BEING WAGED Escape Avenues Strafed- 60,000 Nippons Trapped ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, May 3.—Allied planes and P-T boats smashed 20 supply barges with Japanese fleeing from the iso- lated base at Wewak and fromr other marooned points. The strike was made near Aitape. Planes have also strafed inland escape routes in areas where some 60,000 Japs are estimated caught between captured Madang and re- cently seized Hollandia. A new raid on Schouten Islands stirred Japangse air opposition and six enemy planes were downed. The Allied raiders damaged an enemy freighter off New Guinea. The Liberators raiding Schouten Islands were heavily outnumbered by 18 Japanese planes but returned to base with only two damaged. (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8 Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Both Democrats and Republicans are studying a little-noticed incident which occurr- ed in the key state of Maryland last week, when Senator Millard Tydings, long-time bitter enemy of the President and vice versa, went into great detail hefore a Baltimore audience to prove that he and Roosevelt loved = each other like long-lost brothers. Democrats point to this as a sure sign that FDR can beat all comers if he runs for a fourth term. They further point fo the fact that Maryland, sitting astride the Ma- son-Dixon Line. has never gone wrong in any Presidential election. Republicans sgratch. their heads. and are wondering. Anyway, here is what happened. Tydings, up for re-election this year, was considered ‘a sure-shot winner in the Democratic primar- ies, when suddenly he got worried, and invaded a political meeting of his ‘opponent, Willis Jones. There, for two hours, Tydings harangued the crowd, answeripg Jones' charg- es agalnst him, one of which was that Tydings had consistently op- posed_the President. In reply, Tydings made the amaz- ing ‘statement that the ‘“President calls me daily.” He also waved be- fore the audience a letter from the President thanking him for putting through the resolution continuing the present form of the Philippine Commonwealth whén President Quezon was supposed to step down, last ‘November. Triumphantly, Tyd- ings pointed to the President’s sign-off line which read: “With kindest regards.” Tydings further stated: “The President calls me often. I go down to the White House to see him. We talk like two human beings. He's interested in keeping this country in good shape, and so am I He's trusted me with the most delicate things, called me daily from the White House, So don't get up, willis, and give the people that baloney.” Naturally, most Maryland voters, remembering the bitter purge cam- paign of 1938 when FDR invaded Maryland to try to defeat Tydings,|’ take this with tongue-in-cheek. Tydings’ votes against practically all Roosevelt legislation, including many of his war policies before Pearl Harbor, are a matter of re- cord. But what interests the politicos is not Tydings’ record, with which everyone is familiar, but the fact (Continued on Page Four) Wirephoto) CANNERY WORKERS Object fo Transportation to Plants Aboard Lib- erfy Ships SEATTLE, May 3. — Cannery workers have joined fishermen in protesting the use of Liberty ships for transporting workers North for the Alaska salmon run. An official resolution which was forwarded to the War Shipping Ad- ministration by the United Cannery, Agriculture and Processing Workers Union declared that members will sail on Liberty ships only if they art strengthened. The membership flat. ly refused to go North unless at least two ships are provided and insisted that crowded conditions which prevailed last year will not be tolerated. Meanwhile, ‘the Alaska Fisher- men’s Union has received a com- said “that the vessel assigned to transport the fishermen is a new type conversion which has been strengthened and is more elaborate and comfortable than the Flavel and will accomodate almost half again as many troops as there are fish- ermen involved in the movement isfactory for troops it should be for the fishermen and aside from this it is the only vessel available.” Andrew Vigen, Secretary-Treasur- er of the union, declared that the iwho were assigned to the vessel when overhauled reported that the increased accommodations were 350 bunks which had been built into | the hold that “last year packed a thousand in so tightly that many got sick and that this year they are going to put more men in and call it better accommodations.” They also put little stock in the strength- ening. ————————— IMMIGRATION NATURALIZATION AGENT NOW HERE Edwin C. Stevens, of the Ketchi- kan office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, arrived in Juneau last evening and will be here for about one week. Anyone wishing to see Mr. Stev- ens regarding immigration, natur- alization, or citizenship problems, can contact him at the Baranof Hotel. PROTEST pletly unappeased wire from Ad-i miral E. 8. Land, WSA head, who and that they feel that if it is sat- | | | | thoughtful look “Puddles” guards | U.S. e These women are Australian wives of American soldiers fighting down under. This picture was taken as they prepared to leave from an Australian port for the United States. They arrived in San Francisco on the same ship with Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia, going to Washington for conferences. (AP UDDLES’ AND PUP_wearing a GI cap and a her offspring “Tiny Tim” as he | pops his head out of a field shoe at Parris Island Marine bass. Policy BY JACK STINNETT g WASHINGTON, May 3. — Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull may have made greater speeches in his long political life than his recent one on U. S. foreign, policy, but nome significant. | The aging white-haired secre- |tary sat in the regular newsecasting room in the Columbia broadcasting studios. He was suffering from a cold and | 'showed he didn't feel well. His only | |audience in the studio was a hand- | {ful of state department assistants| including Michael J. McDermott, his director of information, and several radio technicigns. B At his elbow eat alert Assistant Secretary Breckinridge Long, fol-| lowing line for line with his finger microphone hefore him, too, dead! for the time being but ready to be Isnapped on in a flash, should ur.‘ {Hull's voice leave him or he be- {come too ill to continue. Few persons can realize the! |radio speech. There aren’t many young, experienced actors whoJ could handle it without coming to Hull Wrifes One Plank For Demecrals; Foreign Given in Talk the end exhausted. ~Secretary Hull at his best, is not a good radio speaker. He has trouble with his esses. He cannot convey’ over the air the fire and | |toree he displays in talking to small fishermen working at the drydock|. ... dramatic 6r more politically |groups. But if theré is any one in- terested in our foreign policy or our politics who, through the absence of that force, failed to grasp the full significance of it, he better get a copy and start. studying. I'm going o discuss the political ‘mportance of it here on the home- | |front and on the coming elections.! Within 24 hours, many obsery- ers were saying that he had writ- ten the foreign policy plank for the Democratic convention in Chi- cago in July. In part they can’t be wrong. Coming events may change some details, but if President Roos- evelt is nominated for a fourth |a copy of the speech. There Was | term then it certainly is the Dem-| ocratic foreign policy plank. ’ In view of that, the specific 15-‘| sues he clarified are vitally import- ant. Some of them were: His positive declaration that we could not (Continued on Page Two) recognize DeGaulle's, strain of a d42-minute, unbroken committee for National Liberation | | Y as the government of France, unless;m has been caused by Allied same as last year. The payment to \laska with his headquarters at Alaska is alloted at $8,000. CHALLENGE PRESIDENT, M-W CASE Argument$ Completed on| cision Next Monday CHICAGO, Msay 3.—Montgomery Ward has challenged President Roosevelt’s right to place the Chi- ago plants under Federal control. ! Attorney Harold Smith told Fed- éral Judge Willam Holly that “it is unreasonable seizure, contrary to the Fourth Article of the Bill of Rights, to deprive owners liberty of property without due process of law and constitui»s taking private pro- perty for public use without just compensation, and it is also a di- rect violation of Article Five, of the Bill of Rights.” Arguments have been concluded ‘on Attormey General Biddle's peti- {tion for an mjunction to restrain the Montgomery-Ward officials from interfering with Federal oper- ation of the plants. Judge Holly said he will make a decision next Monday. ""Dirfy Deal” Say Workers of MW (lmpany . Employees of Government | Controlled Plant Pro- - . fest Hasly Election | OHICAGO, May 3.—A spokesman for the CIO United Mail Order Warehouse Retail, Employees de- nounced the decision of the Na- ‘ tional Labor Relations Board yes- terday to conduct the election by the employees of the government- controlled Montgomery Ward plant within seven days as “a dirty deal” Miss Myrna Siegendorf, Publicity Directory for Local 20, said, “This /18 the dirtiest deal the board ever dished out to labor, and of course, we’ll protest. There's a reign of terror in the plant right now, and to hold the election on such short notice is ridiculous.” The company at the expiration |of the contract with the union on December 8 refused to renew the pact, contending the union did not | represent the majority. The strike | followed and the government seized | the plant. RAIDS MADE DAY, NIGHT, NORTHITALY Swiss Broadcast (laims ! Great Damage Done by Allied Planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 3.—American Libera- tors attacked Laspezia harbor yes-| terday and spread bombs in rail| yards across Northern Italy. | j Royal Air Force heavies followed iup last night by raiding Milan, As-| | pexta, Genoa, Lavorno and Placenza. | Six Allied plenes are missing from ’flu 1,800 sorties made during yes-' |terday and last night. | | | | | |time in five nights. | Marauders for the second straight greater Florence area. raids in Northern Italy. JapBase at Paramushiro Seizure, Injunction-De- | § | | A red air ltr)lp and revetments can be scen in this night view of the Japanese base at Paramushiro Island in the Kuriles, taken by n Mavy search planc the night of February 20. Warehouses and the camp .S Truk Smashed by Both are liuddled close to the docks. Associated Press photo from Planes, Baftleships in Attacks During 2 Day EASY ON EYES P Good news for those gals who find it difficult to buy bathing suits that fit perfectly is the model i worn by singer Diane Pendelton. The secret is in the trunks, which tie up both sides, and the bra. ALASKA FARMERS T0 GET BENEFITS 3, — The War Food Administration announc- Genoa was bcmbed for the fifth es approval of the 1944 agriculturnl‘ |conservation program for insular . with one million dollars in WASHINGTON, May 3. — The and the low countries including /day bombed the rail yards of the benefit payments offered farmers Senate has confirmed the nomina- several Panzier Divisions. Five Divi- lin Puerto Rico, Hawail and Alaska, tion of Harry Arend to be U. 8. sions are in Denmark with little if A Swiss broadcast reports grenz‘ The program is substantially the attorney of the Fourth Division of 20y armor and there are about 12 WASHINGTON, May i PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR- | TERS IN PEAR HARBOR, May 3.— | The ' powerful Pacific Fleet Task | Forces smashed Truk with heavy carrier plane attacks last Saturday and Sunday, taen bombed and shelled the supporting bases on Ponape and Satawan Islands, Ad- miral Chester W. Nimitz announces. A total of 126 Jap plapes were destroyed in the two day attack oa RAIL LINES, PLANTS ARE KNOCKED OUT - Action of SkTFIeet Make Germans Jiftery- New Offensive BULLETIN — LONDON, May 3.—American Liberators Sombed the Pas de Calais area today for the fourth consecutive day, hammering Nazi installations blocking the shortest invasion route to the continent. LONDON, May 3. — Targets in western Europe have been bombed so effectively for the past two months that lines in northern France and Belgium are no longer capable of bearing the peak load necessary for the' Germans to re- vel invasion, a Ministry of Econo- mic Warfare spokesman said. He spoke as the air invasion is in a comparative lull, although italy based bombers struck heavily and Britain ' based Mosquitoes dumped two ton bombs on the German chemical center of Lever- kusen yard between Cologne. The Ministry spokesman said that no freight yn; between Col- vgne.and the Bay. of Biscay, in « |20rie” 100" nitles” deep, Jo Gapable of forming trains, and only military 2nd coal traffic is handled. Boys of 14 and one-armed forme: oldiers are running the trains, of- ficial announcements said. Amevican and British sky ficets bosed in Britain and Italy estab- lished a record in April, scattering ta total of 80460 tons of bombs on Itarzets n Germany and' occupied | e rritory. | Germans Jittery *[ New Allied offensive operations i }the Mediterranean, in conjunctio: | with the anticipated invasion of western Europe are forecast by the Germans, who reported the rein- |forcing of the defenses of the Dal- !matian coast to meet a possible thrust from the Balkans. In a Berlin bioadcast a German military commentator sald a large movement of Allied troops and sup- plies was observed in Southern iItaly, “indicating the Fifth and |Eighth' Armjes intend to launch a fresh attack.” The Germans inti- 'mated they expected it to coincide !with General Eisenhower's invasion and ‘the renewal of the Russian ‘Truk and 800 tons of bombs were 9rive dropped on the islands and shore installations. Carrier bombers blasted bomb- torn Ponape. The battlesnips were commanded by Vice Admiral W. A. Lee. They pounded Ponape’s installations with heavy guns on Monday. Satawan, 180 miles southeast of Truk was also shelled. Cruisers were in command of Rear Admiral J. B. Oldendorf. No American ships were damaged in the operations. The Task forces were in the over- all command of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher. Alrcraft losses were light. “Ap- proximately 30 aircraft personnel are missing,” says the report. Mitscher’s forces carried out a crushing sirike in quick follow up operations. Sixty Jap planes were shot down in air combat in the first day ot the attack on Truk and 64 were destroyed on the ground. Five enemy planes were down by antaircraft guns. Only one Jap plane was encoun- tered on the second day of the Truk attacks. B e Arends Confirmed As U1. 5. Atiorney shot Fairbanks, RESISTANCE - TOINVASION RES Believe Germany and Sat- ellites Have About | 319 Divisions i LONDON, May 3.—Germany and 'her satellites, on the eve of the western invasion, have approximate- ly 319 Divisions with some 1956 Di- visions still on the eastern front, military obseryers estimate but there is no way of telling how many men are in the Divisions. At the outset of the war, Ger- man fighters were given as from 115,000 to 16,000 men in each Divi- |sion but some of the Divisions “are mere shadows of their former selves,” an informant says. It is believsd there are only about 1,375,000 men on the Russian front and this figure is believed large | There are many Divisions in Prance | ‘Dlvlslons in Norway with little armor. ESTIMATED -