The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1944, Page 1

g ¢ —’_——___—__——_-—————— - INazti Supply Lines to Last ront Are it . ' ] L] o Avenge Corregidor ’ VY any Anacxs ’ uinea Areas a ' . ’ . N » " et 2 . . { . ' Rumanian Oil Production| Raiders Met Intensive Fire| o - Jop. Eokiy of gk Officials Estimate Jap Bas- |Waste and Exiravagance Brunswick Also Under At- . 2 e { . e . N N Cut fo One-fourth from Heavy Caliber Ships Spofted-Enemy tion's Efficiency Is || Charged-Administra- tack as Rumanian Capi- .. ™ . . ’ Normal Oufput Anfiaircraft Bargés Bbed Now Zero fion Backs Down fal Again Smashed N D A A eary and |, PEARL HARBOR, May 8—Amer- BY WILLIAM L. WORDEN WASHINGTON, May 8—In the BULLETIN — LONDOY, May Thelth l‘womb!;rsA_ ;ed B::X“est jcan airmen visited Japan's Kurile| ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-|Associated Press War Correspondent face of vigorois Republican opposi- 8—Thirty-six American heavy tor the tier um"""“m‘ 24 hours last|151ands last Fiiday and unloaded QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,| ABOARD CARRIER LEAVING |fion to the $50,000,000,000 increase bombers and 15 fighters were night, guided to the Rumanian capi- explosives, flying through_ intense|May 8—Navy Catalinas in a rou-| TRUK, April 30 Delayed)—Steam-|in the public debt limit, the admin- lost in today's bombing of Ber- tal c"ty by fires still burning#from fire from heavy caliber antiaircraft|tine patrol of dotted Dutch East|ing within sight of Truk, this long|istration agreed to cut back the re- lin and :unuhkml 119 Ger- yesterday’s American daylight at- |EUnS the Navy reports. Indies damaged a 5,000 ton Japan-|range high speed carrier task force|guest for a new debt ceiling from man fighters were destroyed. M tack, which ripped tracks apart and | The announcements also say ir|ese freighter in intercepting an today completed a two day assault{260 biliion to 240 billion dollars. PR R splix;t.cred locomotives and shops in operations on Ponape Island in the|eight ship convoy off the Celebes which left the Jap stronghold a| Undersecretary of the Treasury, United Sw.-fi Bm’;:ber—s— a h'-M.' ’% the city’s rail yards. Sentral Pacific continued, 65 tons|on Friday. ' mass of wrecked radio towers, ruin- |Daniel Bell told the House Ways g Bem:: i Bmm I:kl' Royal Air Force Halifaxes and being unloaded on the position still| Iiberators again struck the Schou-|ed reservoirs and burning buildings./and M:ans Committee: “It would Soday bk l‘CI'lflufi ::'Po areas ) United States Liberators are carry- |retained by the Japanese il thelten Islands and one attacking plane| For two days almost continuous be all right with us” to make the unyrilng t:e Bk it "w"‘“w ing into the fourth straight day the | Marshalls. |was shot down when 15 enemy in-|streams of planes were over Truk|cut back with the understanding poi od siiaht Ak P v > terrific air offensive aimed at wiping | terceptors rose to meet the assauit. | from dawn to dark and wrecked all|that the administration make the a“d‘“ s y A""o“'“u::_ Heavy medium bombers struck|Visible Jap planes on the ground,|request for the still higher ceiling wrs’ S e tirely e (Continued on Page Six) pARAMUSHIRo Timor, southeast Celebes, with 30|downed or drove off all aerial de- early next year. weat. thme'm(u‘m nmlmmoaul‘m' w"‘”. tons of bombs and concentrated at- fenders, and so reduced gun posi-| Rep. Harold Knutson said: “On " equal that R AIDED I“ D AY |tacks on Koepang and Penfoei. tions that surface vessels were able every side we see waste and extrav- Two years ago last Saturday, May 6, Corregidor fell to the Japanese E‘;“;::::‘ Berlin on Sunday during . . Th w h 1 n ton | Two parked enemy aircraft were|to steam close to the atoll's beach- agance which runs into hundreds of| And the last organized resistance of the Americans was ended in the %"h " 5 % e ashl g s destroyed at Wewak. es in safety. millions if not billions. -If we set| Philippines. U. 8. forces now are fighting their way back in two | ke ; ;Wlmou::;d nl'i t as- . PAGIFIC FLEET HEADQUART-| Four enemy barges were sunk or| The aircrait made their final runs the limit at 50C billion, the Roose-| directions to avenge that earlicr defeat. This map shows the distances ;';mu L K ko 'u:“n “Nfl MerrY - GO -Boun ERS IN PEARL HARBOR, May 8.— | damaged off Bougainville island and |at low altitudes ignoring both gun- velt administration would reach it,| they still have to travel. lan Capital City of Bucharest > CRAEHEE Paramushiro was raided in daylight (attack planes sprayed 50 tons .f| fire and the lowering weather. Am- if given a little time.” R - - Perhape 800 i b. .hl' By DREW PEARSON last Saturday by Navy Ventura |hombs and mackine gunned a sup- erican losses were comparatively Knutson said the debt is still . Berlin wa;' = . Cor. Rovert, 8. Alilb ‘aow_on settve | BeATCh planes and antiafrcraft fire |ply bivoua¢ in Rabaul area. light, and at least one carrier con- some 19 billion dollars under the w a e (onlracl Dls ule Buchm.:~m W Yot et service with the Army.) encountered was light. cluded the assault without the loss Present limit of 210 billion. [] s Ll T a0 e from VOL. XLIL, NO. 9646. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN BLASTED BY AMERICAN AIR FLEEI WASHINGTON—Only a few KiléW it, ‘but one thing Secretary| Knox was working on when he died was a personnel plan which the admirals didn't like—as they didn’t like a lot of things. This plan was to train a lot of younger, promising Reserve officers to be- come permanent, regular Navy of- ficers on a par with the Annapolis elite. To understand the revolutionary significance of this, you have to realize’ the exaited position held by Annapolis graduates. In his recent report, Admirul King, Commander FIRST REGATIA OF SEASON ENDS IN TWO (REWS TAKING BATH NEW YORK, May 8—What was to have been the first regatta of the eastern collegiate season ended last Saturday afternoon ih a double bath when both the Columbia and Navy shells, competing in a trian- gular meet with Cornell, foundered and sank, in the junior varsity race. The varsity race was then called off LAST STAGE ' SEVASTOPOL FIGHT BEGUN LONDON, May 8—Moscow an- nounced tonight in its communique that the storming of Sevastopol’s defenses has begun. Recorded broad- of a man. During the final hours of the at- known to be down in the water and istill alive, and the rescues were made both offshore and inside the lagoon. Navy officials estimated tonight that Truk's efficiency as an offen- sive base has been reduced to a “complete zero.” VOTES FOR ther—reseire vessets and plafes sucki Y N R\ ( ceeded in picking up every airman | e, RETURNS T0 WASHINGTON Roosevelt Tanned, in Fine| . Physical Condition . SEATTLE, May 8—The year old dispute between the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., and the Alaska Fish- ermens’ Union over wage contracts will be heard by the National War Labor Board in Washington, D. O, next Wednesday, Andrew Vigen, Secretary of the union said. 'much better" Indusiry, Is Coming Up Meanwhile, the possibility of end-‘ ing the Pacific halibut fleet tieup which has kept 600- vessels idle gince April 15, appeared possible,| Representative Jackson, Democrat of Washington wires. Jackson said the “situation’ looks although no agree- Dispatches recelved here ockholm -at least 1,00 m’wm‘%é“m Bw::lt*fxg.’su (day and targets are “geiting scarcer fand scarcer | The Berlin correspoudent of ons Stockholm newspaper sald Berlin 15 |"condemned to death.” Duri the past 2¢ hows, 6,000 planes, based in Britaln and ITtaly have rained 10,000 tons of explosive energy cn enemy targets. | Attacks Sunday cost eight bomb- | 1 {ers and five fighters, * e e BULLETINS of the Fleet, said that ninety per- :':u;;“’ water was getling more| .o saiq that the assault on the et Wil ksl imiet tas fien sescrind. 833K Bt ;e;;;f r::.:xe:‘ d:k};n: mlvlsc;'lns:;ts ;f ;‘t?r:xg ;:r‘s‘:xig:ay?ne‘?;r}; tl:)md‘:;: E l & Aflef Va(aflon hearing results in new contracts, a ference of members of the Seattle o U EAI Bl v | —_— large proportion of the fishermen Fishing Vessel Owners Association Niwal Reserve Juig.than the U By o Der St eBenme ST e | WASHINGTON, May &_Presi- |will ot g0 morth “for the salmon and Government officials in Wash-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS 1 ’ ! NAPLES — Strong German patrois S. Navy). But he did not go on to say that tne remaining ten per- cent of USN officers—in other words, Annapolis—holds the Navy completely in its bhand, has a powerful, unbreakable grip on the entire machine. Today, every important command in the fleet is held by an Annap- olis ‘graduate. Only the command of over-age destroyers or escort vessels or otner unimportant jobs go to non-Aanapolis Reserve of- ficers. - Yet ihese Reserve officers are the ones who want to get the war over in a hurry, are the most energetic cutters of red tape, the most daring fighters in the Navy. ANNAPOLIS CLIQUE Earl W. Bright, Fleet Engineer with the Fish and Wildlife Service, has left for Seattle on a business trip. He expects to be away for the next few weeks. ——————— RESIGNS FROM SERVICE Resigning from the Fish and Wildlife Service, Merlin J. Halter- man is enroutc south to join 'the armed forces. Eapowene. o oo -MRS.” WYLLER LEAVES Enroute south on a brief visit, Mrs. Chris Wyller is being accom- panied by her two children. — e SOUTH ON VISIT Mrs. Dan Ross, accompanied by her young son, has left for the broken enemy resistance,” says the night bulletin. — BUTHEDAUNG ABANDONED BY ALLIES SOUTHEAST aSIA HEAD- QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, May 8.—Jap forces have gone over strongly to the offensive in all sec- LINING UP Democrafs of Six States Se- lecting Delegates Dur- ing This Week (—y Associated Press) With Democrats of six States se- lecting delegates, Roosevelt may re- ceive enough publicly-pledged con- vention votes before the week is out to clinch the fourth term nomina- tion, if he wants ft. Today there are 415 of 510 dele- dent Roosevelt is back in Wash- season. I ington, D. C. ington after a vacation of one ‘menth at a langurous plantation on the coast of South Carolina. He is tanned and rested and is de- scribed by his physician as being| in “excellent shape” and he himself told the newsmen, before leaving | Bernard Baruch's estate, that he is feeling a great deal better. | 'The doctors are convinced the President is once more in fine | physical trim. | Secretary of State Cordell Hull met the special train and then rode | to the White House with the Presi- | dent. ? The President plans early confer- ences with Congressional leaders. | i | | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, ‘May 8—If you are betting on the coming elections, whether with cash or wishful think- ing, one thing to remember is that Population Shifts Big If of 1944; Changes in \_Igling‘SIrengIh Complex nearly so high in the number of voters. The same applies to Penn- sylvania, which has 850,000 men in the armed forces, but has only lost 625,000 in population. California, stabbed through Allied advance po- sitions in the upper Garigliano Vai- |ley on the main Pifth Army froni Saturday but were later driven off. ATLANTA, — A persistent wintc thangover pushed temperatures to a new record low today in many cities ' in this southern section following a light snowfail cn Saturday' night. * NEW YORK—A Tokyo ' radio picked up here said the Jap govern- ment has declared readiness to dis- ° "patch a vessel to Viadivostok to pick \up U. 8. supplies for relief of Am- (erican war prisoners and ' civilian internees in Jap hands. g | BERNE—A dispatch received gates already lined up. Missouri tors of the Manipur Hill front in Democrats meet today south on a visit. never before in recent years, has with around 600,000 men gone to Few people outside the Navy know how the Annapolis clique looks out for itself, and the strangle hold it has on personnel. When a group of young flying officers land on a Pacific island, for instance, and call on the U. S. naval base comman- - e KETCHIKAN PEOPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. John Church ar- rived over the weekend from Ketch- ikan and are guests at the Juneau Juneau Hotel. northeastern India seeking to regain their recently lost forward positions but suffering disproportionately heavy losses, a communique said. Allied patrols, pushing forward on the Kohima road, have advanced 28 miles north of Imphal. Early in and are expected to name 32 dele- gates favoring Roosevelt, Wyoming 8 tomorrow, Ohio 52 and West Vir- ginia 18 on Wednesday and North Dakota 8 on Saturday. Washington will give 18. Bricker will receive Ohio’s 52 MAN DROWNS IN "HISHING MISHAP AT HAWK INLET there been such a population shift the wars, has gained more than a in the United States and conse-'million in net population, the Cen- quently a shift in voters. This sus Bureau estimates. applies to states, Congressional du-’ ‘l"low consider that legal restric- tricts, counties and municipalities. |tions (residence, poll taxes, fallures According to estimates of the to register, educational barriers, Census Bureal (over the years, they etc.) arc going to disqualify a great !dny says Allled Commandoes have landed on the Ligurain coast, northwestern Italy. OAKLAND — An Italian Service Unit battalion, about 2,000 officers and men of the Italian Army has der, he says: R Ve i ST their invasion the Japs blocked this “Welcome, gentlemen. We are NEW ARRIVALS iy go' "°‘;‘ve“' the Republican Na- 4 here of |8Ye proved more sceurate than any number of voters. If the result in'arrived at Camp John Knight for glad to have you sboard.” Then,! Selma Lindquist and Gertrude| Allied troops have withdrawn from lonal Convetnion. mw“'dm““ been receive e"}f': {polls we have ever seen) the little many states and local districts isn't|volunteer work, mostly maintenance accidental drowning of Peter|giotes of Delaware. and Rhode Is- going to be utter confusion in the operations. looking them over, he adds, “Are any of you from Annapolis?” If so, that officer is taken off to get a special bunk, is set apart, ook~ ed up to as one of the inside ring. “Annapolis men stick together| LYLE HEBERT BACK Lyle Hebert, local broker, return- ed Saturday night after calling on the trade in various southeast Al- aska cities. ——————— Buthedaung on the upper Malay Peninsula. Sixty-five miles north- west of Akyab, the port of Buthe- daung was reoccupied last ‘March after a previous withdrawal a year ago. SITUATION CRITICAL Iverson at Hawk Inlet yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock.. The victim | | was an employee at a cannery at! | the inlet and was on a fishing trip | at the time of the accident. The| | | | body was recovered at 7:30 a. m. land huve been least affected by Bopum,\on changes. But wall. npow, Delaware, with more than 22000 1 some states, as for example men in the armed forces, has gained the golid South (although even over 8,000 in population, fof a net (here there are exceptions), it may change of at least 30,000. not make much difference. In states| net votes, I'll start chewing ballots LONDON — Light coastal forces manned by French crews battled with a strongly escorted German convoy in the channel early today and probably sank one supply ship A :)‘;‘l‘:ce: ;:::’e ;:‘:ky‘, cnm!xtz::;wd ON€|yrcIntosh arrived in town over the e e e g today angd is being brought here. | This Annapolis fr.ternjty.xystem weekend and are registered at the A brother, Didrick Iverson, living | | where the margin for Democrats or|and damaged others in a close was one thing which Secretary |Juneau Hotel at Alexander, Seuth Dakota, has Rnode Island, with more than 60.- Republicans is usually not great, it|range battle. i PRt b s SRED | been motified of the death, and the 000 men in the armed forcés, has may make all the difference in the ———————— added about 14,250 to its population yorid. ERNEST EHLER LEAVING Knox, shortly before he died, want- ed to tackle. He pointed out that, RONALD WHITE HERE Ronald E. White, of the Sexton, FOR CHINA disposition of the remains will await | | word from him. for a net change of nearly 75000—| 1, gqdition, some | fairly astute’ about one-fourth the lavgest vote 1t ,;i4ica1 observers here are esti- Ernest Ehler is leaving for the south tomorrow and will be absent - in another year or so, the U. S. AR GO, fleet would be much larger and|Chabot and Molitor Company, has i ¢ would lack enough m:' officers |arrived here from Seattle and is a CHUNGKING, May 8.—Misgiv- |m. ‘""Rs |ever cast in a senatorlal OF presi- mapng that the total November|for about two months, He will join of the type qualified to command |guest at the Gastineau. ings on the military situation mi |tial race. L i Pt “m‘vote can't possibly be more than Mrs. Ehler who recently left for & big ships. So he proposed taking i R northwestern Honan Province grew m (ourm HERE‘ Of course ,,tm PW(““ for|37.000,000. 1 haven't talked to any|the states. the best Reserve officers off of| BEVERLY McNEIL ARRIVES more proniounced ,according to fleld [changes” dont e, ber of O Vet Who thinks it can be more e ? ¢ i) o xt o AN | R L i ks 45 over The dispatches, which declared that Jap| Here to confer on the reindeer | figure, g}}angexs ;" e nu:n ;’ than 45,000,000. Elections have been . a years intensive training, and|weekend from Ketchikan and is re-| EDMONTON, Alberts, May 8.— troops have advanced another three | program with Donald C. N,u,'}vowts. vhe situation is a';:l M3 :’ w:t;"on and lost on far less than half Hosp“al Day 'o Be treating them like Annapolis grads gistered at the Gastineau. Lieut. Col. Harry Keling, Chief of | snd are wow oy toward Loysns, | Genteel Superintendent of the Of. ‘:’1'1‘3':“’{ e e it o the differences in those estimates.| —all on condition that they con- Sl B GRS askan Wi b o ' Indian Affairs, L. D. Arnold | 1| Some observ 4 tinued in the Navy after th:y WAL. le o ® o o o o o o tsJ:l‘t:dMS::':sAMr m:vspm:nMCo:e bt ?J’:fi'”:fif’uif f;'f;‘b'fe"y ey R LN Taumls SN o u:e-r:zm ’;rlh:":rf; :1:1:1: 'ffig :el:} shifts ifl Vowr: r:n;rzét?n};mfa:::f Serv On (] ay But the B § |8 poss very , week-end from the States, samped. e ? B e DiMR g s WEATHER REPORT ®|mand, second in command to Gen | heart of China. |~ Arnold, here from Chicago, is ,,,|agm on is that there are bound to tons may determine more races| In observance of National Hospl- ‘Mh! ° eared wm‘“““"’m AL (U. 8. Bureau) ® Dale Gaffney has been promoted_t)| FPierce fighting is reported from | the Forestry Division and Lensie is "¢ a lot of changes made. than whether a candidate is the tal Day, Friday, May 12, the Alaska ]wi'r th pfld"". .M“*‘CM" 0'0“11 the|® Temp. for Saturday, May 6 full Colonel. His home is in Flag |all sectors of the Honan front. Reglonal Forester with the Indian New,York state has more than a old-line voters' choice or not. Ind].nmm‘" W’ tal will hold ® Maximum 46; Minimum 38 ® staff, Arizona. ——————— Affairs at Spokane. million men in service. Its total i s SRR jopen rom 3 o'clock to 5:30 ¢ :zv’a Ah?demy.ms:; 5::! n:':;‘m @ ‘Temip. for Sunday, May 7 ®| Keling went to Ladd Field, Fair ROBERT DAVIS IN TOWN & b G szaa in population is only slightly TACOMA MAN-WERE {o'clock in the afternoon. later if he had lived. s Maximum 47; Minimum 39 © banks, in December 1940 to help| Robert Davis has arrived here| Mrs, Dewey Baker and son have l¢sS than that. Its men in the arm- Stanley Dobberthien, a guest at The hospital is operated by the 'Y ¢ Rain 96 olorganise 5 coln Weather test de-'from Haines and is registered at!lef for the South on s vacstion o forces sre predominantly of vot- (the Castmeat s a recent arrival Oifite of Tnlan Affairg for the In- ©« % @ o e o o o etachment of the Alr Force. the Juneau Hotel. trip. ing age. Its “gain” probably isn't from Tacoms, Washington. dians of southesst Alaska. (Coutinued on Page Four)