The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9644. ICE BREAKS, MOVES MEMBEI PRICE TEN CENTS — ————| R ASSOCIATED PRESS OUT TANANA RIVER RAF Bombers Aid Russian Ground Troops BUDAPEST GETS BLOW LASTNIGHT Blockbusters Are Poured on Capital City of Ru- mania-Fires Seen PORESE, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 5—Royal Air Force 4-engined Halifaxes ‘and twin en- gined Wellingtons, based in Italy, struck a sharp blow last night to support the Russian ground forces by attacking Budapest, capital city of Hungary. The RAF force fought their way through a screen of German night Fighters. The British bembers poured block busters and incendiaries on Buda- pest and raked the rail yards, the main east and west line from Ger- many to Vienna and the Rumanian front. Two violen explosions were heard and many fires were observed by ) (Continued on Page Two) BOOK COLLECTOR—Having entertained many service- men, screen actress Grace McDonald knows their need for read- ing material. She is pictured here with some of the books she has collected for distribution through the USO centers, The Washingion Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) i WASHINGTON — Underground/ murmurings indicate that cautious, good-natured AFL leader Bill Green| is headed for trouble within his own American Invasionists . Will Have Best of Arms For Allack Says Sayler LONDON, May 5. troops storming Europe will have newly-developed. ordnance, “the fin- est artillery and small arms for per- formances better than anything the enemy has used and ammunition of higher explosive charges,” Brig. Gen. Henry Sayler, Chief Ordnance Of- ficer of the United States Army in the European Theatre, said. Sayler’s report is published in the Stars and Stripes, phasized that this is “no pep talk to boost the morale.” Sayler declared~ the soldiers are raedy for action right now and know how their, ordnance stacks against the enemy. “Every American soldier taking part (in the invasion) will be as- sured the weapons, ammunition, tanks and other vehicles will be superior or at least equal to those of the enemy,” said Sayler. ———————— Oozing: Trunk Reveals Body, Slain Woman Gruesome Discovery Made by Clerk in Railway Ex- press af Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, May 5. — The — American | and he em-| iTRADE Blows body of a woman, police said, has | been found in a trunk shipped from | | Chicago to the Railway Express of-! fice here. | The body. has been taken to the | morgue to be examined and in-| | vestigators said they had not yet ! determined whom the trunk was Ilshlpped by. | They said the trunk was sent from Chicago, April 30, by a man giving | the name cof John Lopez. Action Flares—af Both Ends of lfalian Battle Front | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 5—The renewal of ranks. Ironically, the issue will be/ = spuAE! e 2 his political activity. Bill, long opposed to active labor woM AN To participation in politics—particular- ly CIO partfcipation—has been | delving a little himself, and some! of his union members are objecting. | Chiefly, Bill has endorsed some of | the most reactionary Congressmen he could find. Here is the roll call: Martin Dies. After Green en- dorsed Dies, AFL unions in Dies’ Texas district immediately repudia- ted their national leader. They will Pl fight' Dies. i gSenator Gerald P. Nye, arch-'Dea'h May Be Pena"y for jsolationist from North Dakota & opposed by progressive Republican | Shop operaior Sefl”n Congressman Usher Burdick. H 1 e e o wena or ne| _formation fo Argentina powerful International Teamsters’ union, announced for Burdick, while] NEW YORK, May 5—Mrs. Vel- the AFL central council,in North | valee Dickenson, 50, Dollar Shop Dakota, meeting in Fargo, voted 4-1!operator, has been indicted by a to reject Green's instructions Federal Grand Jury on a charge of against cooperation with the CIO's | acting as a spy for Japan, and bail political action committee, which is|has been fixed at $25,000. fighting Nye. These lnstructlons; Judge Williams Bondy set June were sent to all AFL unions and 5 as the date for the trial, and the councils, and have already been! maximum penalty is death, United rejected by AFL organizations in| States Attorney McNally said. i Connecticut, Rhode Island 4nd a| The government charges she sent dozen other areas. a number of letters to Argentina Chicago Tribune Congressmen' containing information about the Fred Busbey and Stephen A. Day | movement and repair to battleships of Tllinois. Green's endorsement of | after Pearl Harbor, and sent in- them has been repudiated by the information in code to a mail drop Chicago AFL organization. |in South America. Letters sent to various labor, S e leaders by Green, endorsing Con- gressmen, are made public frovall |E D AN D time to time, but under pressure/ | from ALF union members. Thei latest was in Oakland, California,| ! where Green favors the re-election N A ZI FOR(ESI of conservative Republican Albert| E. Carter. AFL unions in the area| | had already agreed to cooperate | with the railroad brotherhoods and the CIO to elect George P. Miller, and they're not going to change their plans for Green. WRITES TO HIMSELF How compligated Government is getting is illustrated by Colonel Robert Cutler, who writes letters to himself. Cutler is executive officer for the U. 8. War Ballot Commission in the Munitions Building. He is also the Secretary of War's coordinator fighting at the Adriatic end of the for soldier voting, in the Pentagon Italian battle line is announced by Building. In his latter job, he headquarters. The statement says writes letters to Colonel Cutler at'® German raiding party penetrated the Munitions Building, then drives into Eighth Army positions at Or- to the Munitions Building and, as 'ona and was driven off after a executive officer of the U. S. War sharp skirmish. Ballot Commission, answers his mail Allied and German artillery trad- — e ed punches in the Cassino area and (Continued on Page Four) on the Fifth Army's main front. | The discovery was made by Eu-| gene Biledeau, repair clerk, when finding some liquid, apparently not blood, oozing from the luggage. He opened the trunk and upon raising the lid saw a leg, which had been cut, protruding from a heap | HUGE JAP BASE HIT, 27THRAID Fire and Exfi&ions Result from Bombers Plaster- ing of Paramushiro WASHINGTON, May 5. — Navy bombers, plastering Paramushiro, have set large fires which caused explosions from bomb hits Wednes- day night the Navy said. Other planes struck at Nauru Is- land, far to the south, hitting bar- |racks and runways on that island, 500 miles southwest of American |held Gilberts in the mid-Pacific. Carrying out Lhe 46th raid on the Kuriles, the Navy’s Ventura search planes met only meager resistance from antiaircraft fire. All returned to their bases. It is the 27th time that Para- mushiro, the strongest Jap base in {the north Pacific, has been attack- ed by American bombers. - e FRENCH AREA American Liberators Soar Over Channel Before Breakfast_ Today * | LONDON, May 5.—American Li- berators bombed German military installations in the Pas de Calais jarea in France before breakfast |{time today, setting the twenty-first | consecutive day raid of the Allies preinvasion aerial offensive off to \an early start after Allied planes !based in Italy bombed Budapest last night, | Four-engined sky giants roared ;across the English Channel in force officially described as small, indi- !catmg fewer than 200 " Liberators |maklng the short hop before break- fast. Thunderbolts and Bombers of the Ninth United States airforce attack- ed the rail yards of Valenciennes and Somain in Northern France and once again the Germans failed to put up even a token of resistance and flak was only moderate. Returning pilots say not a single fighter was seen in the moderate overcast skies. The Middle East Communique re- ported recent attacks on German shipping and airdromes in Crete and the Greek harbor at Monem- vasia and two supply ships were |set atire, — e Romance Ends In Jail for Young Coupl DENVER, May 5-—The honey- moon of a 14-year-old husband and a 21-year-old bride ended in the Den- ver jail, when the couple were tak- en into custody when they inquired for telegraphed money at a hotel worth Wisecarver and Elaine Mon fredi told detectives they were mar ried at Yuma on April 29. The wo- was not married to James Mon- fredi, but lived with him, and that he had another wife. The couple were held in Los An- geles for child stealing on a com- plaint filed by Mildred Wisecarver, mother of the youthful bridegroom. pf women's, men’s, boy’s’ and girl's clothing. The body was encased in some substance, apparently salt. Radium costs nearly $30,000 a gram. EARLY MORN [§ HJJS%S(ORED,% f Declaring “We're in love,” Elis-/ man ' insisted. officers said, that she ' ) 100 STATUTE MILES Teads + Liverp, ki 0 Bk 3 i Cherbourg INVASION COAST—This map Holland, includes the points along the English channel where the long Hitler's “Fortress Europe” is most likely to be Hull o Amsterdam RoNevdamé{ Le 2 Havrefs. COMMAND PERFORMANCE—A refugee war or- phan from France is an enthusiastic listener as John J. Latwas, Wilmerding, Pa., tuba player with the U. S, Army band now in the Mediterranean theater. obligingly makes the music go round, Wil Rogers, Jr., Going To Quit Congress; Will | Refurn By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, May 5—There's | a lot more than is openly admitted | to the decision of Will Rogers, Jr., |to resign as Representative from | California’s 16th district, and return to the Army where he was a lieu- tenant when he was elected. | 'The truth is that Rogers, a vital | | youngster who likes to get things | done, is fed up with Congressional | meanderings, its obsolete mecha- | nism and red tape. When he quit | |the Army to accept his seat in the House, he did so because he thought he could do more good in Congress |than on the fighting front. Now | he's convinced that he can serve best !in uniform with or without a single bar on his shoulder. | When he has had time to get over his disappoitment, I'd like to see Rogers write his observations on | his term in Congress. If he had his pa’s sense of humor, he could turn out a best seller with two fingers. Not,content with playing the tra- | ditional game of the House that new members should be seen and not heard, Rogers found he was a lone wolf who could howl but couldn’t {bite. The rules of the House and jSenate both are designed to protect !the members from youngsters who come here with fangs bared. If Rogers ever does get around to | writing about his experiences, I hipe he will use as a tag-line (for ber.e- fit of the chambers of commerce showing paris of England, France, Germany, Belgium, and | Death Comes Less. than |Jap Combined Fleet, has been killed '1937—May 12 .. |in active duty, less than a year 1938—May 6 ! mamoto mei a sgimilar death. by Admiral | Commander of the Yokosuka Naval 1943—April 28 . ICE MOVED AT 2:08 . M. ONMAY FOUR | Nearly Every Resident of Nenana on Banks of River at Time The Nenana ice went out at 2:08 o'clock yesterday afternoon, May 4, according to advices received by the Empire. ‘The movement of the ice was easy and without a jam. Nearly every resident of Nenana was on the banks of the Tanana River when the tripod on the ice began to tighten the wire attached to the clock on the shore. -predicted Allied invasion of It was estimated the river would launched. | be free of ice within 24 hours and - —— |launching of craft for the summer traffic would begin. HELGOLAND* JAP FLEET ADMIRAL 1S KILLED Now paste up these “goings out” of the ice for reference next year 1917—April 30 ..o 1918—May 11 .. 1919—May 3 1920—May 11 1921—May 11 1922—May 12 . 1923—May 9 1924—May 11 1925—May 17 | 1926—April 26 . 11927—Ma; 1 1920—May 5 1930—May 8 . 1931—May 10 . | 1932—May 1 11933—May 8 NEW YORK, May 5—The Tokyo|1934—April 30 Radio announced that Admiral 1935—May 15 ... Mineichi Koga, Commander of the 1936—April 30 . LR RS Y ERERREERE} 5 W 00a8 b6 N8 2 . 0 885888588 - = WY> TN TYIS DY Year After Yamomoto Cut Down in Action RRRERRRRRERRERRE SrweSogw cggsssing after his predecessor, Admiral Ya- 1939—April 29 | 1940—April 20 ... Koga has already been succeeded 1941—May 3 ... Scemu Toyada, 58, 1942—April 30 . DammPeon gu8ESR fo Armed Forces | tion made by his wife: “I'll be sorry to leave Washington; I like the climate here.” | There was quite a flurry the other | day at the Smithsonian Institution. | Scientists there classified a new type of scorpion fish. The discovery los\ a little glory, however, when it was found that the specimen (preserved) Smithsonian since 1834. Civil Service has been advertising some time for new White House nolicemen. They got an applicant the other day. He listed his age as 96. in southern California) the observa- ! had been gathering dust in the: Sen. Hattie Caraway of Arkanus\ turned out the other day with a new hat—a straw, sort of angled on the brow. When some one complimented her new Easter bonnet, she said it wasn't an Easter bonnet, it was her campaign hat. ! She explained that the late, astute Hiey Long had once advised her: “Never change hats in the middle of a campaign.” That may be good advice; I don't know. But political sages here will tell you that so far as the re- election of the lady from Arkansas is concerned, it wouldn't make much difference if she changed her hat every day, wore a sunbonnet or let | her locks just pound the breeze. Station. Admiral Zengo Yoshida, !944—May 4 .. heretofore in command of the Jap A e s > fleet in Chinese waters has taken |over the Yokosuka command. YuGomv Fu“ns i The broadcast, recorded by United States monitors, quoted the Imper-I A " ial Headquarters communique, say- E"' ing, “Koga died at his post in| {March of this year while directing S(ORE Fon mo igeneral operations at the front.”| |The wording of the communique' LONDON, May 5—The National |bore a striking similarity to the Bank of Brazil has rejected de- Tokyo communique of May 21, 1943,/ mands of the Yugoslav Government announcing Yamamoto's death in a :{' i’:_‘::n;‘:r‘d'lfl by ll{l‘lir P;‘::-:'l“ warplane the previous April “while mine miilion un- |directing general strategy on the 32:’:;;3“;::‘(’,“’"“‘“ on depostt as (front line.” : A later Jap broadcast said Maj.| (T ' belleved fo be the flrst Kumao Oohashi and Maj. Gen. Joseph Tito to f > Yoshitads Shimokawa died in April g q0 on deposit in Al ll or"‘mm_ of ilinesses contracted “while on yra1 couritries. active duty” and were posthumously PR £ CE Nt i, promoted td the rank of Lieutenant| % GARDENING' PROGRAM | T0 BE ESTABLISHED BY . Jap Invasion | OFFICE INDIAN AFFARRS | According to Donald C. Foster, General Superintendent of the Of- ¢ fice of Indian Affairs, arrangements a(. oas have been made with Ted Carter, Assistant in Food Production for y y the Department of Agriculture, to ' |begin an intensified program of s ow ero education on gardening at Wran- gell. AL 0% Mr. Carter will go to Wrangell | " in the fall for the purpose of pre- Commanding General of paring the sol and giving intruc- tions. In the spring he will return | West Defense Makes |0 continue his cooperaive estort /in the production of more food, | ood, Statement [which will cdntribute toward the 5 “mprovenwnz of living conditions of FORT LEWIS, Wash, May 5—|'he Alaska Indians. Prospects of a Japanese invasion: Mr. Foster stated that future force on the Pacific Coast at this f:,:n;r:;:-:l&‘ m::;’: ::eexmm time is “zero,” sald Lt. Gen. Delos| o school C. Emmons, Commanding General|** Eklutoa and at White Pass. of the Western Defense Command. by 3 S ety GEMS AT SEA The Commander was talking of | he “situation at this moment but| AKRON, Oblo—Members of U. 8. | naval forces are walking on carpets t! the situation mdy change. They may raid from a carrier or con- |verted carrier, hoping to create con- fusion and some damage but would do this at a®time with the only practical certainty of losing both carrier and planes.” e —— — India has tihe largest single steel plant in tlie British Empire. k of garnets, semi-precious stones. The Goodyear company here grinds them. {into a plastic mixture to make a | non-skid deck covering for battle- | ships, subs and other war craft. | - ' HERE FROM HAINES Mike Howard, recent arrival from Haines, is registered at the Juneau Hotel.