The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1944, Page 1

& . Mrs. Cady was the Pirst Lady's bed- | VOL. XLIL, NO. 9647. " THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 9. 1944 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE 1 EN CENTS BOMBER BLOWS ARE 2,000 Planes Raid Europe for 25th Day SMASHING RAILROADS, AIRDROMES Ten Separate Targefs Are Struck-Airfields and Freight Yards ; LONDON, May 9.—The American | Air Force hurled nearly 2,000 planes on Europe again today for the 25tl# day nonstop preinvasion offensive, smashing railroads and airdromes in France, Belgium and Luxem- bourg. The great fleet of Flying Fort- resses, Liberators and escorting Fighters struck ten separate tar- gets, including seven airfields and | three railroad yards handling Ger- man war freight. Judging from the activity over the channel, today may be the| heaviest yet of the huge air cam- paign, the fifteenth straight day in which heavy bombers have been in operation and the third straight day‘ (Continued on Page TWo) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ! (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON -— The war time| ban on sight-seeing in the White House was lifted the other day for one lucky visitor from Madison,| Wis., who still can’t believe that it/ wasn't all a dream. Here are the| details which Mrs. Hayden Cady, whose husband recently came to Washington to work for the Gov- ernment, is breathlessly telling friends. P Mrs. Cady happened to be in the | U. S. Information Center, a block from the Executive Mansion, when‘ Mrs. Roosevelt popped in on an in-i spection visit. “I must have looked kind of lone- some,” relates Mrs. Cady, “for the| First Lady came over and said hello. | She was very nice and democratic, | just like a neighbor back home. She asked me about my family and then, out of a clear sky, invited me to the White House.” What followed was the biggest thrill the Wisconsin lady ever ex- perienced. Mrs. Roosevelt not only personally escorted her through the White House, but delivered a run- ning travel talk that couldn't have been improved on by a professional | guide. Mrs. Cady, after being invited to play the new $17,000 Steinway piano recently presented to the White| ] House, which she politely declined| to do, was shown all the sights, from a bed in which Abraham Lincoln slept to a tea set that once belonged to Napoleon. Passing the suite which was occupied by the King and Queen of Great Britain during their Amgrican visit, Mrs, Roosevelt related: | “Before the King and Queen ar-| rived, we received suggestions drom Scotland Yard = regarding their| safety. Among other things, a guard | was stationed outside 'their suite twenty-four hours a day. That is a rule enforced in Buckingham Palace, which is spread out over a greater area than the White House and is less easily guarded. I found| this out on my London visit. Why, they even h*~ “messengers in the Pald V" CHARACTERISTICS OF OCCUPANTS The most interesting sight to room. Mrs. Roosevelt remarked that she frequently stays up late,| reading a book or working on her voluminous mail. Ernest Heming-! way's best-seller, “For Whom the| Bell Tolls,” was on a stand beside the bed. “Many books are presented to the White House,” said Mrs. Roosevelt. “They are kept downstairs in a li- brary until we call for them. After - New Nazi Weapons AP Features Since the beginning of war, Adolf Hitler has done much boasting about spectacular Nazi “secret weapons.” Mostly it has been mere talk. But in Italy the Nazis have uncovered four surprise weapons which, while probably not impertant encugh to affect the course of battles, have proved disturbing to the Allies. Here is an artist’s con- ception of how they work. RAIL LINE WRECKER—A monstrous claw of steel, mounted on four railway wheels, it is attached to the rear of German trains‘retreating and uproots rail ties as the train flees. It proved highly efficient in wrecking lines which the Allied pursuers hoped to use. The Allies cap- tured one at Termoli. steel, it holds a two-man machinegun Hauled to pesition on its own demountable wheels, the pill box is buried with enly a concrete dome showing. The Allies outflank it and destroy it with Molotov cocktails, but must contend with others covering the flanks. crew. WOODEN' MINES — Smiall but destructive, .they defy Allied mine detectors which register metal under ground. A mine looks like an innocent bar of soap but it holds enough TNT to blow a foot off the one who steps on it. Officers directing the Anzio operations call it “the worst curse of all.” j PETTLE TANK—Loaded with explosives, it is designed to be detonated when it reaches our lines. Two feet high, six feet long, it runs on caterpillar treads and is steered by an electric cable which it trails. Gunners destroy it before it does damage but they believe it has possibilities. i, kT Before High Court WASHINGTON, May 9. — Major Clyde ' R. Ellis, former Assistant United States Attorney of the Third Division in Alaska, has been ad- mitted to practice before the Su- preme Court of the United States. He was introduced by Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond. —— e BULLETIN—London, May 9. —Sevastopol the “Jewel of Cri- mea,” has been captured. Stalin made the announcement tonight in a special order of the day in a broadcast from Moscow. Stalin said the important we read them, the books are sent (Ceatinued on Page Four) Black Sea yport fell on the third day of the furious assault of in- fantry, artillery and bombers. Blaine McCutcheon, of Minneap- olic, Minn., has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof, WAKDE ISLE POUNDED BY LIBERATORS Schouten Island Again At- tacked — Ten Enemy Interceptors Hit ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- NAZIS' GRIP ' LOOSENS ON SEVASTOPOL Soviet Storm Troops Driv- ing Remnants of Axis Army from Crimea | "MOSCOW, May 9.—Russian storm KAMCHATKA KAMCHATKA SAKHALIN (USSR) RUSSIA (SIBERIAY < ol SHUMUSHU, KARAFUTO ¥ MANCHURIA g ARAITOD A8 PARAMUSHIRO o Pacifc MAKANRU 5 Ocean . ONNEKOTAN .0 » SHASHIKOTAN MATSUWA o A8 7, /s RASHOWA g K Strait 2 Sea of SN|MUSHIR$ KETO! Okhotsk PO ATTACKS IN NO. PACIFIC INCREASING Enemy’s: Home Territofi Being Blasted-Planes .on New Mission BY NORMAN BELL Associated Press War Correspondent | | troops fought the remnants of two Axis armies within full view of smoking, flaming Sevastopol today, and artillery, rolled up wheel to wheel, poured salvo after salvo into the enemy suicide squads clinging to the last German stronghold in the Crimea. The fortified heights overlooking the city were stormed yesterday and more than 4,000 were killed in one sector of the Axis garrison of per- haps 25,000 men. Soviet planes sank 12 Axis ves- |QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, May 9.—Solomon-based Liberators heavily pounded Wake Island, Jap sprongpoint 120 miles northwest of Hollandia, dumping 295 tons of bombs. Liberators also attacked Schouten Island group, and 10 enemy inter- ceptors were shot down. Three small enemy cargo boats |were sunk by Liberators near Truk | which was hit again on the forty- eighth consecutive day of attack on the Caroling Shana KUNASP{IRI ETOROFU §PSHIKOTAN ¥ Nemuro cHirIPOI2 %, So, Toko'ay’ 2 C‘mn,,(‘, URUPPU ALEUTIAN BASE May 9. — An increase in the tempo of the air war in the North Pacific is seen as the result of the May 5 and May 6 |mission against the Kuriles, the heaviest bomber blow this year against the enemy's home territory. Navy Venturas made the night raid on installations at Paramu- shiro, dropping 1,000 pounds of de- molition and incendiary bombs in low and overcast skies, hitting Kas- iwabara and Suribachi in the cen- Pacifi Oceor KURILE ISLANDS 1S CAPTURED are guests at the Baranof, | ®olitical Action Committee have| Lloyd Warner is here from Win- sels Saturday, four of them trans- ports. DEMO CHIEF CONFIDENT T AR R S e GERMANSFALL BACK IN ONE . OF VICTORY { { ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN /| NAPLES, May 9.—Allied forces are following up a surprise German withdrawal in the mountainous sec- tor in central Italy, near Palena, ; ber Siamp a' Je“erson 25 miles inland from the Adriatic's | H Eighth Army’s left flank. ‘ Day Dlnner The official statement did not ' make clear how far the Germans NEW YORK, May 9—Robert E. hgye pulled back, but said the Nazis Hannegan, Chairman of the Demo- demolished bridges, houses and a cratic National Committee, address- tunnel as they moved ing the $50-a-plate Jefferson din- ner, said he is firmly convinced that President Roosevelt will run |again and be elected and ‘“despite malicious whispers to the contrary, - i JI can assure you the President is| {fit and ready for the fight.” | | Hannegan spent much of the time | |eriticizing the utterances of Gov.‘AlllES pUSH Thomas E. Dewey, who he bermedi 3 |one “who copies answers on his| little slate after the examination is| |over,” then quoted Dewey as saying ’ | ] i !in 1940 that “It is most unfortun- let of Letto Palena, directly south of the Maiella Mountain pass on the Fifth Army’s main front. | iate” that the New Deal recognized | | Russia. { Dewey was likewise criticized by | | Senator Alben Barkley for his re-| i bungiea tne pence " Heavy Losses Suffered by Japs on Plain of Eastern India GOP REACTION WASHINGTON, May 9.—Harrison Spangler, Republican National |Chairman, asserted that the Han- {negan speech in New York brought SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- into the open the “fourth term am- QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, bition which, under the direction of | May 9.—Allied troops have advanced | candidate Roosevelt, has been in all sectors around the Imphal| underway for a year,” and added: |plain in eastern India, Admiral| “Maybe the Democrats will admit Mountbatten’s headquarters an- the party has been literally and fi- | nounced, but Jap forces are attack- nally taken over and will hold their | ing Fort Hertz in a valley of north- convention by mail.” ern Burma where the Allies are | driving - for the major enemy base | —— o | of Myitkyina. Roo 1 ‘The communique said the Japs | left more than 750 dead in the| ' |Kohima area north of Imphal be-| twéen May 4 and 6, and there have | EN D o R SED | been heavy casualties since. u RAY‘ Allied troops also advanced both |nm1heu¢ and south of Palel, cap- | CLEVELAND, May 9.—CIO Presi- | turing hills and villages. The Japs dent Philip Murray called un- | suffered heavy losses in their un- equivocally for a fourth term for Successful attacks on the Palel | President Roosevelt, addressing a | Road. convention of the United Steel| The Tokyo radio asserted that| Workers of America, of which he Jap dive bombers on May 4 and 5| also is President. | inficted heavy blows on Allied ar- Murray said the overwhelming | tillery and tank formations in the majority of the people of the na- | Kohima area. | tion, regardles sof political affilia- | RIS e g SR i tion, should demand it. HERE FROM WINONA | Neither Murray nor the CIO| e | ‘Tank-supported Allied infantry, | following up the heavy bombing/ by Allied aircraft, drove the Japs out of a' village near Bishenpur, southeast of Imphal. hitherto publicly endorsed the Presi- ona, Minnesota, and a guest at the dent, Juneau Hotel — .V.-.._.__.— BANTA IN TOWN —————— BEATTLE MEN HERE K. K. Kent and John Sorenson ' ROY H. Banta has arrived from ITALY SECTOR ime During War; The withdrawal is near the ham- '* [] 100 200 STATUTE MILES HOKKAIDO KURILE ISLANDS_Map shows the Kurile Islands, cone sidered as possible stepping stones for invasion of Japan proper, |tral part of the island. One plane returned slightly dam- aged. Light but inaccurate antiair- |craft fire was encountered. 5 The formation was the largest yet taking part and one Ailr officer said: “This Is a real bombing strik- Gufim_BombeiI for Second Half of T Inferceplors Shot Down nd ttree probat PEARL HARBOR, May 9— wer hot down and-based American bombers last )< t tacked Gudm, former land, in the Marianas o - the second fime in the day, ir, Admiral Chester WXNimitz an- the mmneed and he also asserted that slartin yproximately half of the enemy in- | bombs day and Liberators by erceptors which rose to meet the nizht, smashed airfields and other raiders were shot down, installations at Ponape in the Mar- Seventh Air Force pilots reported shalls where 33 tons of bombs were definitely that seven interceptors cropped on various targets. day daylight raig wshiro announced yester- itz discloses that Seventh AAFP planes hit Truk, fives, and (hat medium 3 g What's Under Wl—llfies Hat! Speculatioh Based At leasl_pq Two Fgglors ' (By JACK STINNETT)' |total votes cast for president may WASHINGTON, May 9.—The run only 40 to 45 Jmillion (about 10 favorite topic for political specula- to 15 million under normal) three tion around Washington these days or four million votes could swing | is: What is Wendell L. Willkie up the balance of power. to? { This speculation is based on sev-| If Willkie can swing only that eral factors: {many votes, it is certain he or his (1) Willkie is no quitter. His representatives can go into the Re- political and business activities from publican national convention in college days are proof of it. Even June with assurance of a big hand if he were given to sudden and im-|in picking the candidate and writ- petuous changes, it's impossible to ing the platform. If the GOP con- conceive of his embarrassing ;hm’venuon strategists ignore him, they who have stuck with him for four/may be dashing all hope of putting years by taking himself out of the a Republican in the White House natfonal political picture. “|or even of gaining control of the (2) Close observers here say House. that there was never any possibility ~Some politicians here think he of Willkie's capturing a majority of may be angling for a cabinet post, the Wisconsin delegates and that Perhaps secretary of state, where he was well aware of it. /his international ideology could be |given free rein. Others think he merely wants to be a behind-the- scenes power. In any event, Willkie's with- drawal boomed Gov. Dewey's stock !to an all-time high, which Mr. Dewey well may not like. If Dewey The conclusion can only be that Willkie has something up his sléeve and had it there before the Wis- consin primary took place. Willkie hasn't even breathed what that something might be to his most (ing attack and not just a recon- | naissance mission. We are out to |destroy and wreck.” Nearly 40 missions have made against been iof the year —_——- e LIBERATOR IS MISSING IN KURILES 'Second Bomber Fails to ‘| Return Since Start of 1944 _Afla(ks : Capt. Edward P. McDermott, of the Eleventh Afr Force, weather officer from Dayton, is one of 15 officers and men listed as missing 'after a Liberator in which they went to check weather on a Kurile Island mission failad to return. This is the second bomber miss- ing since the Eleventh AAF start- ed the 1944 series of attacks on the Kuriles in mid-March. The Liberator carried an extra large crew for training which ac- 'counts for the Jarge number miss- ing. SENATE PUTS “CURB ON USE, ~ LEND - LEASE | WASHINGTON, May 9. — Pros- pects that Congress may few limitations on the use of Lend Lease funds appeared in the wake of Senate approval to legislation ex- tending the war aid program anoth- er year beyond July 1, and is still awalting action on the administra- the Kuriles by the ALEUTIAN BASE (Delayed) — loyal supporters. Observers believe that he won't say anything to tip his hand before the Republican convention. In recent months, Willkie must have concluded his strategy was wrong; that pursuing his mapped political path would get him no- | where; that he could do more good for himself and his political beliefs by doing a complete about-face. If that is true, what then is this new strate;y? Obsorvers here In both Republican Toledo, Ohio and Democratic ranks estimate that Willkie might possibly swing from five to ten miliion votes by vigorous Dan de Roo, came in from Skag- should be nominated in June and UON'S Tequesi for an additional defeated in November, it would be 'hree¢ and a balf million dollars for a setback to the most meteoric po- Lend Lease appropriations. : litical career this country has seen Senator Wiliam Langer, who cast in years. Willkie's withdrawal also the only vote yesterday against the dashed the hopes of backers of continuance, sald: “I am unalter- Giov. Bricker, who were praying for ably opposed to the reckless, non- convention deadlock to bounce “ensical and almost criminal squan- dering of raw materials.” The Senate wrote into the Hopse- HERE FROM OHIO approved extension bill an even Isabel Sherwin, a guest at the tighter ban against the negotiation Juneau Hotel, has arrived here from by the President of Lend Lease sei- tlements without the treaty approv- Iiim into the picture. -~ e e al of the Senate. IN FROM SKAGWAY P Paul G. Miller, of the CAA is here arrived recently from Seattle. They Gustavus and is registered at the campaigning for one presidential Way. He is a guest at the Juneuu irom Anchorage and a guest at tae |Juneau Hotel. candidat®. In a year when the Hotel. Juneau Hotel STRUCK ON KURILES