The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1944, Page 1

THE DAIL PARIS, BERLIN VOL. XLIL, NO. 9648. PIERCE 2ND DEFENSES OF TOKYO NOW Strong Nippon Reinforce- menfs Repulsed-New . Trusts Predicted (By Associated Press) The encirclement of 80,000 Chi-| nese troops in North China’s Honan Province is claimed by the Tokyo radio, but Allied reports of the fighting fronts listed nothing but MEETING OF ADMIRALSIN CALIFORNIA (By Asscciated Press) Tremendous Reserves Of Vifal Fuels Being Built Up by Military Japanese reverses. GOVERNMENT TURNS BACK ' WARD PLANT Yesterday's Election Won by Union Company Re- fused to Recognize By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 10. — A],- though the source must rémain anonymous, I can assure you there is none better in Washington for this: There isn’t the remotest pos- sibility of general relief soon from ! the gasoline and fuel oil rationing | program. | CHICAGO, May 10—The imme- It isn't any secret that the Army 'diate extension of the enforcement and Navy are buiding up tremend- 'of the IO Union contract to the ous reserves of vital fuel for the 'Montgomery Ward Company, re- engines of war. If you know your ‘Ieased from government control last Army and Navy in wartime, it's a night, was asked by the Union in a natural conclusion that these re- telegram to the War Labor Board. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMERED FRO Allies Are Gaining on All Pacific Fronts Sneak Thieves Stealing Bottles of Pennies for ~ Children's Ortho. Hosp. EIGHTH ARMY INPURSUIT OF GERMANS Have Captured Palena and Driving Along Back- bone of Italy {ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 10, — Still pursuing the withdrawing Germans, the Eighth Army troops have thrust a wedge deep into enemy territory along Italy’s mountainous back- bone, and at last reports were driv- BIG DRIVE OF ALLIES IN BURMA Y ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944 PRICE TEN CENIS The meanest sneak thieves are operating in Juneau right now and if caught — well, no pity will be shown, whether they are kids or adults. Mrs. George F. Alexander, who 1s chairman of the Juneau Committee soliciting pennies in the drive for the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, where many Alaskan children have been or .are being treated, announces that the third bottle of pennies for the Orthopedic children, has been stolen—think of ing directly toward the German Dispatches from Loyang said that a counterattack hurled the Japan- ese back across the Yi River from| | | The meeting in San Francisco of the Navy's triple threat to Japan, Admirals W. Halsey, Chester W. Nimitz and E. J. King, is looked their strongest push toward that' gateway to Chungking. This left the | enemy spéarhead seven miles soutn of Loyang, and another invading force was annihilated 45 miles upon by military observers as a hint that when the European invasion begins, Tokyo will be too busy to |listen to the radio. serves will continue to be greater | than ever will be needed. Military forces can't operate on & narrow margin of reserves. They must have enough for any emergency, whether |it's food, arms and ammunition, gasoline or men. | The appeal to extend the expired base at Sulmona. contract pending negotiation of the Dispatches from the frony indi- Americans,fitish, Chin- ese Battling fo Reopen that—a bottle of pennies for charity | —stolen. o 1 The bottles, most of them pint M AR et DAY, NIGHT RAIDS ARE KEEPING UP Thunderous Pre-invasion Air Offensive Con- tinues on Europe BULLETIN—London, May 10. —Flying Fortresses and Libera- tors based in Italy arched over the Alps today and bombed the Messerschmitt factory at Weiner Neustadt, Austria, in the wake . of what was probably the hard- est night pounding yet on Hit- ler's channel defenses {rom Bri- tish bases. A broadcast from Ankara said new agreement followed yesterday's collective bargaining election which was won by the Union whose con- troversy with the company led to the federal seizure of the plant on cated little or no opposition, al- milk bottles, have been placed in 2 Bucharest, Rumania was also though the Germans used exten- sive demolitions. The communique announced that Allied troops have entered Palena, |stores and other public places, to| Land Route fo China i 2 receive pennies or other larger coin SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- |denominations for the Orthopedic QUARTERS IN KANDY, Ceylon, Hospital. bombed. LONDON, May 10. — Royal Air Forcég bombers hammered both The only way to reach those goals April 26. 11 miles southeast of Sulmona, May.10.—Allied forces are operating | The authorities, police and Fed-| northeast of the city. Chinese newsmen said that most of the 80,000 Chinese soldiers whom Tokyo claimed to have trapped are presumably Hankow Railway. Chungking re- ported the Nipponese brought up strong reinforcements in an effort to crack the stubborn resistance and to close the 14-mile gap in the road, the only escape for the defending (Continued en Page Two) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Rabert S. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) east of the Peiping| The Navy said little about the meeting except that it was held last week. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz of the Pacific received a new decoraticn, second Distinguished Service is to over-buy and over-draft. To fail to meet minimum requirements on any front could be and probably 'would be fatal. | That's why you hear stories that The action came as Sewell Avery resumed control 13 days after two soldiers carried him out of the building when he refused to comply with the WLB directive and presi- dential order to extend the contract. which carried them nine miles for- ward. ———.e on three sides of Mogaung Valley 'eral have been notified of the meas- in northern Burma it is disclosed ly thieving and caution éveryone for the first time and indicating the with bottles to watch and if cul-l determined Chinese-British-Amer- prits are apprehended—well it is jcan drive is in full swing to reopen going to go tough. The authorities e land route to China. | Paris. and Berlin last night and to- day the German radio said daylight raiders are bearing down on the European fortress for the 26ih day of the thunderous preinvasion air vifensive, Medal “for his sound judgment and { masterful conduct” of operations in 1941 and 1942. It is a signal honor and the only others thus decorated aye Admiral Halsey, South Pacific Holeomb, of the Marine Corps, now retired: NOMINATED, ;the military forces are dumping certain articles on the civilian mar- _ Secretary of Commerce Jesse ket. In most instances, these are Jones issued the ruling last night, semi-perishables which can no long- ending Federal possession of the er be held in the reserve stocks. Dropel‘fles.s“d i Thet's why you hear the s b o AV .in _an interview wmumgflrmm%%mfihmmmmom to overflowing with gasoline and under his own power and expects to {oil. That may very well ‘be true. find business declined probably from 1t is true, though barely mention- “30 to 40 percent” during the two ]ed, that we haven't yet been able weeks the Government has been in | to build our oil tanker strength to full operation of the plants. i the point where fuel can be moved “The Government representatives as fast as we would like. Merely have not done a thing while they | because reserves pile up at the were in charge except a couple of ports or in nearby storage tanks them sat at my desk,” said Avery. doesn’t mean that the day of plenty “We will not submit to the closed in gasoline and oil is approaching. shop or countenance a checkoff sys- The greatest chance for relief now tem for maintenance of union mem- | ORIGINATOR OF POPPY DAY DI the | Mountbatten’s communique said on the Japs south of Mogaung. he | ATHENS, Ga, May 10. —«Miss in the vicinity of Mawla where the fiblm Michael, originator of Poppy airborne Ohinese have been:operat- Day in 1918 as a memorial to war ing since last March against the dead, & custom which has since Mandalay-Myitkyina railway. brought millions of dollars, chletly‘ o o T for the aid of disabled war veter- : ans, has died. ‘ : - Miss Michael, who had been ill| I Io ns for several months, was a n\ember{ of the University of Georgia facul-| I R ' d ty for 25 years. are puzzled because if children had taken the bottles, surely a jingling heavy casualties have been inflicted . 4 would be heard when the {bottle was snaiched away. If an | Sharp blows have also been dealt ., ;¢ taking the penny - bottles, vhey would: be: litted: carefully ‘antl thercby detection would be more difficult City Magistzate Monagle and United states Commissioner Felix Gray both state that if the penny, botile snaichers are arrested and !taken before them the heaviest pen- |alty under the law will be passed. But, Mrs,, Alexander says that does not replace the bottles nor the | contents, for according to bottles WASHINGTON—Word leaking out from some of the Dewey ad-| visers is that, after a careful survey of the entire country, they figure their candidate can win against FDR himself with 17 electoral votes | to spare, if Dewey can carry Cali- fornia. ‘This estimate gives to Roosevelt all of the border states,| including also the South, plus Wash- | ington and Utah. On the other hand, Dewey forces expect to carry all of New England, most of the; middle west, plus - Pennsylvania. New York is doubtful. However, both Democrats and Republicans frankly admit that California is going to be one of the keyest States in the Union. They remember how it was California, plus the trace-jumping of Hiram Johnson, which re-elected Wood- row Wilson in 1816 after ‘Charles Evans Hughes went to bed think- NAVY HEAD dent Roosevelt has Navy, succeeding the late Frank dersecretary since 1940, and form- erly was a New York investment banker and is a Demoecrat. Forrestal’s advancement was urg- ed by many leading members of Congress, both Democrats and Re- publicans. RUSSIANS lies in wiping out the black market. | Experts here estimated that 2,500,- 000 gallons of gasoline daily are being moved through black markets. | ognized the fact that many B-card do their essential driving. If any | “extra” gas.can be found, it will go |to them first. ) | Some progress have been made in curtailing the black marketeers, but | not much . Steps are being taken to eliminate the counterfeiting of ra-' tion coupons. Enforcement author- | ities are working on black market ' rings all over the country. All this helps, but just as in Prohibition, no great strides can be made without the cooperation of the public. I am assured that fhere is no plan bership.” | CASE DISMISSED CHICAGO, May 10—Federal WASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi- '1f this could be stopped or mater- judge Holly announced this fore- nominated | jally reduced, it would mean relief ;50n he will not rule on the legal- James Forrestal as Secretary of the |for essential drivers. OPA has rec- ity of the Government's seizure of the Montgomery, Ward plants be- Knox. He is 54 and has been Un- |holders don't get ehough gasoline to i O “avenita sehlan-Bava: tren- spired have apparently taken the case out of my hands and dropped the injunction proceedings and I consider the case dismissed.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 10. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Anaconda 25%, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Curtiss Wright 5%, Interna- RENO DIVORCE OF DORIS DUKE DECLARED YOI ELIZABETH, New Jersey, May 10 —Chancery Court Advisory Master Dougal Herr has found null and void the Reno divorce decree of Doris ‘Duke Cromwell and husband James, former United States Min- ister to Canada, and ordered it set aside. He challenged the 3lyear-old ried woman. To select a residence outside thé State so long as her husband stayed in New Jersey was said to be an element of fraud and it was “con- spicuous” of her to claim to be a Reno resident. heiress of her competence as a mars | For Military ..~ o o e GOVERNMENT OF DEVALERA IS DEFEATED | | | | | | | | | | ,WASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has asked Congress { for new appropriations for the Army | | totaling $15,676,852,000, to bring the total of contemplated expendituxes for military purposes up to 49 bil- | lion dollars for the next fiscal year. | | ‘The White House statement said, | “estimates contemplate maintenance | and operation of an Army of 7,700, 000 officers and men and women on the offensive in a global war.” DUBLIN, May 10.—1It is officially The statement explained that announced that a general election there would be also available for the will be held in Eire probably on fiscal year starting July 1, a sum May 30 as the result of the defeat of $33.607,000,000 in unobligated bal- of Prime Minister Eamon deValera’s, iances in current appropriations. Government on the transport bill - by a vote' of 64 to 63 in the Dail; | Eireann, | Heavy bombers concentrated on military and industrial objectives lncluding the aircraft and foundry Jplunt in the suburbs of Paris. Swift. two-ton which s still smouldering trem tive American atiacks on Sunday aad | Monday. rhe RAF lost seven planes dur- ing the attack. Lancasters bombed the ballbear- |ing factory at Annecy near the French-Italian border. | American Marauders and Thun- |derbolts dive bombed and strafed |the railyards and airfields in France and Belgium today. The German radio said flerc battles are raging over the eastcin Alps, possibly heralding another blow by Mediterranean planes oo |Austrian targets. ROOSEVELT KEEPS MUM ATH TERM WASHINGTON, May 10-~Presi- deilt. Reosevelt's renewed refusal to talk about @ fourthterm and thus ing he was President-elect. They remember too how Hiram Johnson, a Republican, again help- ed to throw the election ta a Demo- crat—Roosevelt—in 1932. They also know that it was a heavy Democrat- ic vote for Republican Warren that made him Governor in 1942. 1In fact, California is the one State in the Union that is nearest to being without a two-party system. Can- didates run on both tickets and get votes from both parties. The Dewey forces know that t“DR.| is still a powerful figure in Califor- nia. But they also figure that Warren, if on the Republican ticket, could carry the State for Dewey. Democratic leaders, on the other hand, say that Governor Warren has lost his popularity, could not deliver for Dewey. At any rate, the Far West is being rediscovered by the political East for the first time since Marshall struck gold in 1849. NOTE—This is the inside reason why California’s Democratic Attor- ney General, Bob Kenny, has sped Eastward. Ostensibly, he wants to be heard on the new U. S.-Mexican treaty. Actually, friends are pro- posing him as the keynoter at the REPAIRING SEVASTOPOL MOSCOW, May 10.—While the smoke of battle still lay over Se- vastopol, captured yesterday, squads of Russian engineers entered the city and tackled the job of repairing the wrecked port. The Red Star correspondent said it was’“unbelievable the difficult job of advancing a single step in | the face of fire from 16-inch guns which the Germans and Rumanians used in defense of the city.” FearFloodsin Dawgn Area DAWSON, Y. T., May 10—Fears 101 flood conditions in this district |were generally expressed when U. |S. Army planes failed to break the |ice jam extending 18 miles into the mouth of the Klondike river. Chicago Democratic convention.| jyams are moving relentlessly Some even 8o o o 2 10 DIOBOse doun Coffee and Stewart Creeks h FDR—if the ;‘:': mndld"‘!wwnrd the Klondike and may In- he T T crease the depth of flood waters FRANKFURTER DISSENTS which have covered sections here , since Saturda; You won't get any one on the y. Supreme Court to talk about it, but' ,» Feéconnaissance plane flew over Justice Felix Frankfurter is in the “onday, followed by a large plane doghouse with Chief Justice Stone "1Ose bombs were ineffective. The —————— bomber returned again Tuesday and (Continued on Page Four) again failed to break the jam. whatever now for giving relief to thnal Harvester 72%, Kennecott LT B S S S ok BT :80‘/-. New York Central 17%, Nor- (Continued on Page Six) {thern Pacific 15%, United States Tt Steel 52%. ALASKA AIRLINES 1o i it s, e HAS 2 BUSY DAYS 19, utilities 22.68. The Alaska Airlines had a large| MANY PERSONS IN; list o passengers bt it e o OUT JUNEAU TODAY neau from Fairbanks were Ernest | | Board, Walter E. Collier, Paul Ploass’| Passengers coming into Juneau Weston Jacob, Max 8. Rhodz, Arthur this morning from the Westward, Ozman, Walt Wath, J. P. Crossley 2T as follows: Dr. Evelyn Butler, | and J. H. Dowling. | V. C. Bingham, L. M. Carrigan, T. Outgoing passengers to Anchorage R. Curtis, Peter Kesovia, Martha were Mr. and Mrs. K. Nelson, S. p. Lawrence, D. A. Noonan, Arthur E. Whitely, Emily Kay, P. E. Smith, Vienola, Constance Noonan, Lucians P. G. Miller, M. L. Miles, Mrs. H. L. | Cabegas, T. W. Peterson, A. D. West, Wood, Mrs. V. G. Anderson, Alma H. A. Wertz, Mrs. G. W. Alexander, Jackson and Wildey Kimball. K. K. Mrs. Sig Krogstad, Jerome Krog- Kent and Alene Demming were pas- 5tad, Axsel Hill and Dr. George sengers for Yakutat. | Dale. A plane came in this morning from Those leaving here were Mrs. W.| | Anchorage bringing Belford Minor, J. Walker, Olaus L. Larsson, Rose | R. Gishier and George Larson. | Schneider, Mrs. Alma L. Clark,| A flight was made this afternoon Philip Clark, Charles Gamble, An-| to Anchorage with A. K. Lyle, B.|drew Jackson, Max 8. Rhodz, Paul Goodfield, Alex Dunham, Ray Baker, | A Plass, Mrs. J. Plass and infant, | B. M. Stewart, Lillian Gardiner, c. Weston B. Jacob, Sam Asp, Lozav C. Clark, S. Faulkner, Jim Sadler Perisich, Lucille Stevens, George and Norma Kimball listed for that Wilson, Harvery 8. Welcome, Walter city, while Perry Elllis, Leona . Ellis, | E. Lollier and Ernest R. Boord. Franklin Ellis and Helen Brenner S vy NN were passengers for Yakutat. Hazel MRS. MORRIS HERE Sager was to disembark at Cordova, | TO VISIT DAUGHTER ———— Mrs. Nellie Morris, paymaster for’ ARRIVALS FROM WEST |the Washington Athletic Club in V. C. Bingham, of the Graybar Seattle, arrived recently for a visit Electric Company, and T. R, Curtis, with her daughter and son-in-law,| a merchandise broker, have arrived Capt. and Mrs. John Hulberg at from the Westward and are regist- their residence in the Russel Apart- ered at the Gastineau Hotel. ments. Peter Gruening TRUNK MURDERER i CONFESSES AFTER Yoyl ARRESTINTEYAS 1 CRYSTAL CITY, Texas, May 10. |—Deputy Sheriff Barnes said today |that Soyla Villegos, 26, has signed |a confession that he killed his wife, |Louise, in Chicago, by hitting her !in the back of the head in a fight }z;nd that he had a friend ship the trunk containing the bedy to Los Angeles. He did not tell his friend what was in the trunk. Villegos, a war worker, claimed that he went home from work about two weeks ago to find his bride had been drinking. He joined her and JIM KEELEY IN TOWN m'u in the evening she dedare]d Jim Keeley, Personnel Manager that she wanted to go dancing. Vil- . leges said that he refused and went for the Bates and Rogers Company, 5% 1€ & 5 is in town and registered at the '’ bec m.'s’tadv Several hours after, Baranof. He is here for the purpose \wakenied by his wife, who of securing men for construction aid that she wanted a divorce so could marry someone else. work in Whitehorse and other areas. '1at she When he refused, she attacked him with a pair of scissors and he hit r the death blow. GLENDALE, Calif.,, May 10— In answering a routine question- aire, Peter B. Gruening, 21, AAF Aviation Cadet, gave his home address as “Governor’s Mansion, Juneau, Alaska.” Until this time, officials at the Mira Loma Flight Academy, where the youth had been train- ing for three weeks, did not know he was the son of Alaska’s Governor, said Hugh G. Nichol- son, Training Director. e STINES GOES SOUTH Norman C. Stines, area repre- sentative for Alaska of the War | The party took a minority spot convinged meost of the Capital's Re- last June after the wartime elec- tion ended with the Fianne Dail holding 67 seats to the opposition’s 71. This portents rough going on issues such as that resulting from a one-vote defeat. \ Irish observers hastened to say deValera’s neutrality policy had nothing to do with the rebuff, since leaders of the opposition endorsed the Prime Minister's stand on that | question. The transport bill provided for the amalgamation of Eire's two largest transport companies. The |vote was equivalent to a no confi- dence vote and the reversal means not only deValera but all other members of the Dail will resign and stand for: re-elestion. e ALASKA COASTAL ON THREE TRIPS TODAY Alaska Caastal planes made three flights today, the first to Sitka with Jack Garrett, Howard Stabler, John Walton and Max Swiz as pas- sengers. | A flight was made this forenoon publicans and some Democrats he vlans to anotfer nomination L 15 only & more than two montlis remg ,before the Chi cago conven! ¥ | The Bugs echiped al a newy conterencg,/J pmment on the statement "ol nel Democratic Committee . Ohaiimoh, Robert ¥ Hannegan fn New York Monday uight, that ‘it m(hm ‘firnt gon~ viction” he will again be o candid- ate And will be reelected. The President told the reporters was just back ‘from a month’s vacation in South Carolina, and has not read Honnegan® speech and would pot talk about it if he had Harlun J. Bushfield, Re- public South, Dakota, com- wnted tartly: “The President may be fooling himself on what he ‘s going to do but he isn’t fooling any- ne else,” and later said: “He's uite a kidder, isn't he?” OLAUS LARSSON IS SOUTHBOUND TODAY Olaus Larsson, for years a machin- Villegos was arrested at the home to Skagway carrying ‘A. G. Webb, ist with the Alaska Juneau Gold Production Board, left today for °f his mother here in Crystal City. Mae Stephenson, Mavis Solden and Kknown Seattle on business by PAA plane, He Wwill be returned to Chicago to Webster R. Carter to that city and g::;s f:fi"’:o“,{du';:‘, of n{:& - answer to a slaying charge. |Bill Lawrence and Arnold Amund- derbies, is enroute South for medical HERE FROM GUSTAVUS > |sen to Haines. Joe Green was pick= i;caiment. He has been in St. Ann's Mrs. L. C, Nevius, a guest at the 'NDIAN AFFAIRS NU fed up K the return jjospial for several weeks and his Baranof, arrived in town yesterday IRANSFERRED TO JUNEAU flight and brous ¢ L0 Junean. condition Iimproved to permit of from Gustavus. Transferring _Irom Point .Barrow.‘ A trip to Ketchikan this after- traveling > Miss Myrtle Salisbury, nurse with noon took A A. Olsen to Wrangell, - o The automobile industry is turn- the Office of Indian Affairs, has ar- Stanley Reid to Petersburg, and HERE FROM ANCHORAGE ing out more than a million dol- rived here for duty at the Govern- Charles Tuckett and Ben Benecke| A.R. Lyle is here from Anchorage lars worth of arms an hour, ment Hospital. to Ketchikan. and registered at the Baranof. .