The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII., NO. 9645. UNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 6, |944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE IEN CENZ2 PRICE TEN CENTS S.BOMBERS CRASH RUMANIAN TARGETS Clear Japs From Kohima Area Key Points Acdaimed’ (lueen of Pmups OFFENSIVE CONTINUES, INDIA AREA Brifish, Indians Keep Ad- vancing - Stilwell’s Chinese in Action - SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- QUARTERS IN KANDY, Ceylon, May 6.—British and Indian forces striking a general offensive in the Kohima area, have cleared the Japs from a number of important posi- tions and are continuing to advance. Stilwell’s Chinese troops are forg- ing ahead south of Inkangahtwang, the highly contested Mogaung Val- ley village in northern Burma and have also overcome Jap defenses near the Lahkraw River in the Mo- gaung Valley. A Reuters correspondent has cabled that the Kohima battle “may prove the biggest so far on this front and may decide the fate of the present Jap offensive in Assam.” —— ANCHORAGE MEN HERE Charles E. Planck and Paul G. Miller, of the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration, are registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHING TON—Jesse Jones didn't say so outside the Cabinet, but inside he balked like a Texas steer at taking over Montgomery ‘Ward. At first he proposed that Donald Nelson, WPB boss, formerly head of another mail order house, Sears Roebuck, take over the recalcitrant Chicago firm. “Nelson knows something about the business,” urged Jesse. This was the last thing either Nelson or the White House wanted, because it would have looked as if one mail order house was trying to put its competjtor out of buslness{ So Jones suggested that Secretary Ickes take pver Montgomery Ward. “He's from Chicago,” Jones urged. Finally, however, Jones himself consented, but balked at a further step—namely, that he go out to Chicago himself. “I'm not going out there and stick my head in a noose,” grunted the Secretary of Commerce. So he sent Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor, who was born in Chicago and lived all his life in Chicago. The day after troops moved into Montgomery Ward and while At- torney General Biddle was busy with judicial injunctians regarding seiz- ure of the plant, Jones called Biddle on the phone. “I hear you've been wrapping packages all day,” he said. “Only one,” replied the Attorney General, referring to the forcible ousting of Montgomery Ward Presi- | dent Sewell Avery, “and that pack- age was full of goods we couldn’t sell.” OFFENDING CONGRESSMAN It doesn't pay these days to of- fend a Congressman, or even his ex-law partner, or to drop one of his pals from the pay roll. At least it doesn't if you are running an executive department of the govern- ment and the Congressman in ques- tion happens to be sitting on the Appropriations Committee. That is what Secretary of the In- terior Ickes found out the other day when his appropriation bill came before Representative Jed Johnson of Oklahoma, chairman of the sub-committee which decides how much money the Interior De- partment shall spend. Congressman Johnson happens to have a former law partner, Sam Wilhite, who has a certain amount NAZIS ARE READY SAYS GEN. ROMMEL Promises M;;y Surprises | for Allied Invaders- Tension Growing | LONDON, May 6.—General Rom- | mel added his voice to the invasion guessing din by declaring the attack “must be regarded as imminent” and asserting the German soldier is “armed with new weapons and ready to do his utmost.” l Rommel declared in a German | broadcast, “The Allies will come up against many great surprises and this is particularly true of those enemy formations which may try to land by parachute or gliders behind | the coastal front.” Capt. H. H. Balfour, Undersecre- tary of Air Defenses, said that for all practical purposes some 138,000 Allied airmen have already opened the main battle of invasion, and| asserted that the destruction in April “throughout the length and | breadth, of occupied Europe” would make the invasion path from the' coast to Berlin more direct.” Reports received here: through | Stockholm said the Nazis sent 20,- | 000 reinforcement to restive Den- mark and 30,000 to Norway. 'MANY FLIGHTS MADE | BY ALASKA COASTAL| Clearing weather made possible many flights yesterday afternoon; and today by Alaska Coastal Air- lines. A plane leaving Juneau for Sitka, minus passengers, returned with the following: Norman Rinehart and J. E. Wilcox from Pelican, and Richard Moses, Goldie Moses, C. B. Williams, Emily Williams and Mrs. Johnie Williard from Hoonah. A trip was made to Tenakee carrying Herman Ecstrom and Sam Maloff and bringing back Mrs. | Dorothy O'Toole from Tenakee and| William and Susie James from| Hoonah. A flight to Ketchikan carried Harvey Leask, Joy Willlams, M Hagan, W. Holbrook and Charles Burdick to that city and, returning brought E. H. Goodfellow back! from Wrangell. A plane chartered by the Sebas-; tin Company flew E. R. Simpson to Tyee and brought Martin Howell back to Juneau. | A flight was made to Sitka with| Ole Twedt, Ann Joseph and Sam/| Morris as passengers. Hazel Loger returned with the plane to Juneau.| M. Isturis was flown to Hoonah and on the return trip Esther How- ard from that point, and Charles Howard from Excursion, came back to this city. A flight .was made to Ketchikan with Dan McCoullough listed for Wrangell, Walter Williams, Jr. for Petersburg, Martin Howell and Henry Navaro for Tyee, and Albert Davis for Kake. A. A. Olson was flown to Hirst, and H. M. Parks to Hoonah on a plane bound for Sitka. 10,000 AMERICAN AIRMEN, PRISONERS OF GERMANY, CLAIM| STOCKHOLM, May 6—At least 10,000 American airmen are prison- ers of war in Germany, the Scan- dinavian Telagraph Bureau reports in a dispatch from Berlin. 1 LONNIE McINTOSH IS SERIOUSLY ILL; WIFE FLIES TO HIM Lonnie Mclntosh, special repre- of legal practice among Oklahoma Indians and some time ago rep-|; resented a Pawhuskea Indian wo- P (Continued on Page Four) sentative of the Treasury Depart- ment, narcotics division, is seriously ill with an attack of pneumonia at Fairbanks. Mrs. McIntosh has left, Juneau for there by plane, | gentler |tions. He is Assistant Secretary of Post-War Airlanesat . Post Now; Battles for (onlrol Routes Start BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 6~Behmd the scenes, the first big guns of‘ one of the greatest international | | post-war battles are opening up| | Strong Resoluhon Adopted Repudiating Action of |the fight for control—perhaps al word would be "dlstribu— tion”—of the woild airlines. A week or so ago, a conference between British and United smws representatives was held in Lon- don. Soon a similar conference wiil| |be held here between U. S. and| Russian representatives. This is just | |spade work. After that the three powers, possibly with delegates from | other friendly nations, will hold a | |joint conference. Out of that may chur(h in '940 |come the pattern for distribution of the world airlanes which could! easily determine the balance of power in tomorrow’s world trade. Out of the London conference has come nothing yet except that the, talks were “nighly satisfactory.” Since this is the American report, observers here say it means the = 3 British have “made some conces-' We repulliate : the theohys 4By 2 - L State, even though imperfect 'it- :?1:2' isn?l“(??t‘::hclegg.ncemom onisel!. nrjst not fight intolerable lwrongs. v : The action repudiates the stahd of the Methodists in 1940 Wi took the action “the Church does not officially endorse support —@r participation in the war." ot SN B5 G House Will Investigate M-W Seizure Joins Senate in Probing KANSAS ‘Mcthodists have voted to support the present war because “God him- self is at stake in the struggle.” The resolution was adopted &fter a lengthy debate at the General Conference and said in part: It's pretty generally agreed that it may be the opening wedge in post-war negotiations that, in the long run, may be more important than boundaries,~forms of govern- ment and a good many other world | problems now belaboring the inber- national thinkeis. The important thing at the mo- ment is the man who is going to front for us in these vital negotia- State Adolph T. Berle Jr. Just turned 49, Berle is the| youngest assistant secretary in the/ department but not in point of ini- ternational experience. As a cap- tain in World War I, he devoted his time to inte.igence and his spec- ial field was Pcland. He was in the delegation that attended the peace :conference at Versailles, As a NEW! Govel’nmem'S nghf York attorney, he gave much time| (to international law, most of lt[ dealing with Latin America. Secre-| tary Hull had nim along at the two | big pre-war hemispheric in Chicago Case WASHINGTON, May 6. The confer- House, brushine aside only token .iences which gave the Americas al- opposition, authorized the investi- most a solid front against the Axis gation of the government’s right to {when war caine. seize the Montgomery Ward Chica- go properties, and a seven-man He was one of the first of the commitfee was created to make an| New Deal “brain trusters” and it ig inquiry . independently of the Sen- believed that many of the early ate, which aiready has one under- New Deal policies were shaped way. around his thoughts and mnclu-; The “resolution carried by a vote of 300 to 60 ‘after little more than (Comlnuad on Page Two) U. . Post-war Ship Supremacy Will Be 2 1o 1 Over Brifain LONDON, May 6.—Laborite Em- anuel Shinwell told the House of | Commons the United States will have nearly a 2 to 1 margin over Britain in postwar shipping and urged a program to provide for the best kind of ships for the British Mercantile Marine and to not ac- cept a “lot of old junk the United States nands over to you.” HUSKY BITES CHILD ON WAY.T0 FESTIVAL 1 Vincent Isturis, Jr., a grade school | student, was severely bitten by a husky dog last evening while en- | IS CANDIDATE Eishiese) R GOVERNE xar r:!: :c;w:ln entrance and as the | SEATTLE, May 6.—United States mz' e e vn"o pat his head senator Mon C. Wallgren, demo- imal sapk its teeth in his crat of Wasnington, announces he forearm. Dr. Wm. M. Whitehead will file for the Democratic nomin- Wwas called and after treatment Vin-\54ion of Governor of Washington. cent was able to i { participate in the Wallgren served eight years as night's activities. congressman from the Second Dis- . ———— JOSEPH G. trict before his election to the Sen- PEARCE HERE ate in 1940, Joseph G. Pearce, traveling aud- itor for the Moose Lodge, arrived T in Juneau recently. Mr. Pearce, in MISS SANDERS HERE his work, covers various cities in| Miss Phylis Sanders arrived yes- Southeast Alaska and it is his first |terday from Whitehorse and is & Visit to Juneau in several years, |[guest at the Baranof, lon exactly what wartime authority Congress intended the President to have. Unrest Spreads SPRINGFIELL, Ill, May 6—A group of employees of the Mont- gomery War Springfield subsidiary, the Humber Manufacturing Com- pany, stayed away from their jobs and declared they will remain idle “until’ the company signs a con- tract or the government takes over the plant.” A company spokesman estimated the number at 450, the idle workers |being members of the International Association of Machinists affiliated with the American Federation of 1 Labor. SEN. WALLGREN CITY, May 6. — The| Hjeh hombed three an hour’s sharp debate, centering, SCHOUTEN ISLANDS * ATTACKED | 'Allied Planes Intensify “Campaign in Area Where Japs Massing ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST | IPACIFXC, May 6. — Allied planes have made an intensified campaign at neutralizing Schouten Islands in the Dutch New Guinea area where the Japanese are reported | massing naval and air strength. | Several enemy planes were smashed on the ground and inter- ceptors were driven off. The Schouten Islands lie more | than 200 miles northwest of invad- | ed Hollandia. | The Wakde Island airbase, near- | est and west of Hollandia, was also | |raided. | It has been noticed the Japs have | been concentrating in the area| raided. | It is estimated 60,000 Japs are| isolated between the Madang area | and Hollandia. The enemy has been | trying to flee and torpedo boats have damaged 20 loaded barges and shore batteries at Italian Civilians tireless worker. Ho, hum! SIMPLY TIRELESS—Elaine Shepard poses for the first of 500 “Pin- Ups,” orders for which asecumulated from Army, Navy and Marines while she was on a bond-selling tour. Elaine is a film star specializing in pictures depicting the life of sailors shoreside. She is rated as a Evacuated G AnpHI 15 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN RElEASED NAPLES, May 6. — The Germans are reported to have evacuated all Italian civilians beyond the Fifth Prison Doors Open for In- dian National Leader -Health Failing {Army’s main front to a depth of 25 miles. This evacuation included 'LONDON, May 6—The British government in India announces it several sizeable towns in the lower | Garigliano sector where there is an has decided on the immediate re- lease of Mohandas K. Gandhi, frail, increase in infantry action. AT ascetic Tndian Nationalist leader who has besn imprisoned for 21 | « DUSA IS Given Hon months. Gandhi's failing health is 6. — Col. piven as the grounds for release. | WASHINGTON, May Mesviasia. of Bethesda, " ne British: gction in aryland, former Chief of Staff of ne jeader of miilions, and who has J’Kenneth B. Bush, of ;:9 EeorthweTL Service Command,' g yggled for freedom from British ‘Mesrit re" :»\axdedithe Legion of gomination, is believed to have been Fra hfrh is part in planning the (oyen .o avert a conflict at the e ghway installations of the (.. (he Ailes are fighting Alaska Highway. Japaness bitterly on the India- T Burma front. SI The official statement says that N in “view of medical reports on Gandhi’s health, the Government, 01 India has decided on his release romXVILE, P, i Mothers of Seniors uncondmonmly and the action wmken solely on medical grounds.” Joyce and Sandra Stierly, unv Siamese twin blond girls, six days | W|" Mee] Monday, Plan Enfertainment . old, have died. Joyce, the larger| and apparently the stronger, ceased | her labored breathing shortly after| i The committee in charge of gen- leral arrangements fer the for midnight and Sandra a few minu later. |graduating class wishes to remind all mothers and sponsors of its next | PAA BRINGS MANY | '“ FROM SEAnl | meeting. This meeting is to be in [the Juneau High School—room 1 at The Pan American Airways had a'g o'clock on the evening of May m ?;::::ec::;m?:t"m{”? “,‘e‘:; is reserved for this occasion. Schmitt, B. F. Minor, Hn:rol d Morganl The group 1s planning the usual Parks, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Lind- > C" -gradugtion entertainment and quist, Henry Orr nnd Phylis Sand- the help of all mothers and spon-| ers, ’sors is needed. No one is expected Passengers leaving Juneau (nrlw bring anyining to work with but Seattle were Edith P. Sappinton, M.,all sub-commutiees are making their D. Rose, D. Ryan, Paul A, Monroe ;eporlb and ibere will be plenty to, 0. “|and Charles Waynor. R d Blood—lettms or cupping was used as early as 413 B. C. to treat dis- case Florence McIntosh was flown to Fairbanks. ———-——— BUY WAR BONDS releasing the| |coming entertainment of the 1944‘ large number of passengers in today. g which means that Monday nmht} JAPTROOPS NEAR CITY OF LOYANG Chinese Hald, on North- South Railway Line Narrows to 40 Miles CHUNGKING, May 6.—Jap fore- es pushing up the Peiping Hankow Railway have narrowed the Chinese| “hold on the vital north-south artery to about 40 miles, field dispatches said, and other Jap troops,striking from the south have reached a point within 10 miles of the east | west Lunghai Railway junction of Loyang, 65 miles west of the Peip- ing Hankow road. A Tokyo broadcast said that Jap| forces operaiing southeast of Loy- 1ang caprured Yuhsien on Thursday. The Chinese communique also announced a ihird enemy column is pushing toward the southeastern }wrner of Honan Province. Jap op- lerations in Honan are described as |the most extcnsive in six years. | > — \ 'AGENT ARRIVES " 10 START 4-H . CLUBS, JUNEAU Miss Mae Stephenson, home demonstration agent for the Uni- versity of Alaska extension servioe. has arrived in Juneau for the pur- pose of organizing 4-H clubs nm(mg the youngsters of the Gastineau Channel area. Next week she will visit the| {schools in Juneau and Douglas,| starting the clubs. Her office tele-| phone number is 60. Miss Stephenson already has clubs going in Ketchikan, Met- lakatla, Wrangell, Petersburg and Sitka. From Juneau she will go to Halnes and Skagway. ' RS NG Ga, GREATRAID IS MADE BY AMERICANS Five Impofit Positions Attacked — Pescara Dam Breached BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 6.—American bombers atlacked five points in Rumania. Targets were rail yards and aireraft plants at Brasov, 75 miles north of Bucharest; Pitesti, 60 miles northeast of Cariova and 95 miles east of Campania, and Turnu and Severin. Fortresses and Liberators fought their way through enemy fighters in bombarding targets at Brasov. BALKANS UNDER ATTACK ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 6.—Bombers struck again last night in the Balkans, following their spectacular breach- ing of the Pegcara dam and daylight attacks by American heavies on two Rumanian rail centers. The overnight blow by British Halifaxes and Wellingtons bombed the rail yards and oil storage tanks at Campina, 10 miles north of Ploesti, the first Royal Air Force raid on the fleld. }In all operations in the Mediter~ ranean theatre yuu.-&.y including 1,960 sorties, 16 heavy bombers and eight Allied planes were lost and 11 German planes were destroyed. £ The Pescara announcement is the first disclosure that American-built Mustangs are now being used in Italy and an indication of the re- sults is given by the disastrous ex- perience of the Italians ten years ago when they attempted to release water through the sluices and in- | undated the town of Pescara to an average of three feet. It took a week for the water to subside. 7 BILLION ASKED FOR LEND LEASE WASHINGTON, May 6. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate $3,450,570,000 to car- ry forward the Lend Lease program | for the fiscal year ending June 30, 11945, He also requested that the ‘unexpended balances from previous Lend Lease appropriations be made avallable, which would make an aggregaté for the new year of $7,- 188,893,000 | The recommendations were for- | warded a few hours after Senator Ellender urged that the United | States fix now the policy for the final d Lease settl “Unles we do we may our- | selves owing our Allies at the end of the war instéad of their owing us,” sald the Senator. He added that he fs concerned about the Sen~ ate Appropriations Committee re- port showing that the United States | has extended more than $21,794,- 000,000 in goods and services and has received in return $2,129,151,000 up to March 15 e — LIBERATQRS MAKE 2IND ATTACK ON AREA IN FRANCE LONDON, May 6.—American Lib- erators dumped loads of bombs on German installations in the Pas de Calais area in France as the pre- invasion air offensive continued for the 22nd day, despite miserable fly- ing weather. Probably less than 250 bombers with an equal number of escorting Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mus- tangs hopped the channel. | ARRIVAL FROM TENAKEE Mrs. Dorothy O'Toole, a guest at lthe Baranof, has arrived from Ten- ! akee. Operations were curtailed yester- day by a 60-mile gale that swept Dover Straits and sent great waves crashing on the invasion beaches.