The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1944, Page 1

4 ta Yy il * would be a mistake to appoint me. 1 »” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9650. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY MAY 12, 1944 MLMBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIED OFFENSIVE STARTS FROM ITALY ontinue Smash on Europe U. S. Bombers COAST OF FRANCE 1§ BATTERED Heart of Reich, Rail Yards‘i in Belgium Attacked for 28th Day LONDON, May 12. — American heavy bombers today thundered back to the heart of the Reich, | carrying out the gigantic pre- invasion assault of Europe for the 28th straight day and following up a heavy hammering of the French invasion coast last night by a fleet of up to 700 Royal Air Force bomb- ers, First reports today did not name | the targets on which the heavy| American daylight blows were to strike but Berlin broadcasts said bomber formations were over west- | ern Germany, streaming toward the (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. noben 8. Allen now on active : rvice with the Army.) WASHINGTON —A friend of Wendell Willkie's who is close to the ‘Roosevelt Administration told him the other day that a group of high-up officials had been dis- cussing him as the best man for Secretary of the Navy. While they could not speak for the President, it was the consensus of this group, willkie was told, that he would be the ideal choice for this important war job. Willkie gave nis friend the Inl-i lowing reply: “Naturally I should be honored| to serve my country in such anj important capacity. But it would | be a mistake for the President to| make me Secretary of the Navy for this reason. We are on.the verge of a tremendous invasion. The plans for that invasion were made long ago. I could add noth- ing to them. Nor could I add any- thing to their execution. I know nothing about the Navy, and it “Furthermore, at a time like this, | my appointment would be consider- ed political, and politics should play no part in wartime, especially on the eve of a great invasion. At these times, our eountry comes first.” MORGENTHAU INSPECTION Hard-working Henry Morgenthau recently caused a furore in the Treasury Department which might| well be emulated by other Cabinet members. ' The' Secretary of the Treasury decided to make a surprise inspec- tion of his own shop. So, at about 3 p. m. one warm day last week, he walked into one of the Treas- ury divisions. It was enjoying not exactly al sit-down strike, but at least a sit-; down. One young lady was reading a book, another was perusing a magazine, one was eating an ice- cream cone, another had her shape- ly legs on a radiator, dreaming | about spring, as the dignified Sec- retary of the Treasury stepped in. In fairness, it should be said that their chiefs had been out of town several days on necessary war busi- ness. However, the dismayed Secretary of the Treasury did find one lady who was working diligently. He inquired what it was about. “The Byrd report,” she replied, referring to the inquiry on Gov- ernment efficlency undertaken by Senator Byrd of Virginia. “Thank God Byrd isn't now,” exploded Morgenthau. Afterward, Morgenthau called in some of his high executives anc raised Cain. He ordered a tight- ening up of the woman-power sit- uation and also expects to make (Continyed on Page Four) here LIBERATORS ' START FIRES, | NIPPON BASE Truk Under Atfack af Mid- day - Woleai Raided Twme in Same Day INDIA BATILING CENTERS AROUND KOHIMA SE(TION American Planes Sweep Over Three Jap Fields Destroying Planes KANDY, Ceylon, '\(m 12 —-A.lhed ADVANCE D ALLKED HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, May 12.—Liberator bomb- | |ers from the Solomons set fires at | Japan’s naval base at Truk on Wed- nesday and other bombers cratered the runway at Wolsai, western REDS THROW BACK NAZIS AT TIRASPOL ;German Attempt fo Rees- | fablish Dniester River WASHINGTON, May 12,— Price Halibut Price Issue fo Be Placed Before Vinson !dnln'ul:w« that have been facing the west coast h:libut fleet for|" |several weeks will be laid before| Economic Stabilization Director Vinson tomorrow. BIG SPRING PUSH BEGINS NEW FRONT Allied Troops Start As- saulting Gustav Line CURTAINHAS GONE UP, IS NAZI CLAIM Rommel May Defend Eur- ope by Attack on Eng- of the price regulations on the | fishing industry, would appeal to} isee what to do to break the pres-| ent impasse. Representatives of the fishermen detailed complaints growing out of | ltho new ceiling differentials and re- aged. The Americans sustained no| Joss. ‘da\ with heavy losses to the enemy. | were shot down. lot | were dropped in the mid-day at! Carolines, on Tuesday. | South of Kohima, artillery broke | The Liberators were over at noon Wednesday, pressing the are said to be in contact with Jap| {attack against the defense. Twenty jungle fighters northeast of Ko-| Japanese fighters and one Liberator hima | Fighting is also reported at the| At Woleai, 525 statute miles west Village of Potsangcham, south of) of Truk, two attacks were made on Bishenpur, but added nothing to Tuesday, one at midday and the the report of Stilwell’s operations a'[ night. Twenty-eight tons in northern Burma or of action on| : tack the Centml Burma front. fires | JAP MECHANIZED OFFENSIVE IS NOW | UNDERWAY, (HINA and smoke from resultant |reached 2,000 feet into the air. Bombing and strafing attacks by |all types of planes were made Wed- nesday on Wewak and Hansa Bay, New Guinea, and those sections where Japanese garrisons trapped between Alexishafen and Aitape are! Truk up Jap concentrations and patrols| | BRI PSR reported concentrating. CSRRENDES R INJUNCTION DISMISSED INMW (ASE CHICAGO, May 12.—Judge Holly today formally dismissed “without prejudice,” the government petition for an injunction to restrain opera- tion of the firms. ) The Chicago plants, now returned to company possession as a formal- ity, followed the courts statement Wednesday when he “considered the case dismissed,” because action by the government on Tuesday in' turning the properties back to the| iNipbo’ns‘ Slash Across Yel- FfiR (ONGRES low River fo Force | | Chinese fo Hills CHUN JKING, May Chinese Command said that Jap| forces are slashing acress the Yel- | announced 12, — The | candidate for reelection to Congress, |that during a 23-day working period | The announcement was made by |of The Red Army communique as- erted the Germans had thrown large infantry and tank forces into | the assault apparently aimed at re- | storing the Dniester River line. The communique declared that I “about a regiment of German in-| ‘(anuy was wiped out.” The Germans claimed, however, that their forces had succeeded in \umn[' out the Ru:.sian bridgehead. MARTIN DIES NOTTO RUN BEAUMONT, Texas, May 12— Representative Martin Dies today his withdrawal as a | telegraph. The Beaumont Journal said that WAGE BOOST 10 FISHERMEM Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., Atforney Presents (ase toW L. B. WASHIN(erN Mfly 12.—Attor-| LONDON, May 12.—The British ney H. A. O'Neill of Sea attle, repre- frigate Spey destroyed two Nazi fenting the Alaska Salmon Indus-'submarines recently in a dramatic fry, Inc, insisted before the War|running fight while escorting a Labor Board that a seven puu‘m.‘ SENT DOWN QUICK TIME Small British anate Has, Dramatic Fight on At- lantic Escort Trip convoy on the North Atlantic, the| {a counterinvasion of Britain might | be Marshal Erwin Rommel's defense. | “The gong has already sounded | | for the curtain to rise if, in fact, it has not already risen,” Jean Paquis| |said over the Paris radio, as France waited tensely and her conquerors| of four years braced themselves for; |blows from an onslaught from ouh‘ ‘smc and an uprising from within. | Axis reports reaching Brimlnl where the jar of explosions on the| ‘Frvnch invasion coast last night |were felt as far inland as London, |said that a picked German attack | | force, spearheaded by paratroops, |would strike at England the mo- ment the Allied invasion began. These accounts insisted that Rommel could be counted on to de- fend by attacking. Most London ob- servers took this with a grain e .increase previously: -grapf ermen was in the form of bonus and was not to be included in the wage scale. | The industry has a master wage agreement for fishermen in the |waters of Bering Sea. O'Neill said the fishing season in Bering \Sea they “take home checks” that |ran into three figures, deck hands| aithe Spey sustained no casualties Nazi press is putting out dispatches dmiralty announces, adding thatigalt, believing it more likely the and was not damaged. | The smal fighting ship up 48 German survivors. The first German plans engagement the Spey had with 2 the continent. | U-boat lasted only a few minutes| Another report said that» Rommel' after depth charges forced the demanded the appointment of a undersea craft to the surface. Six- German Gauleiter with extraordin- teen survivors were taken aboard. ary police powers to take charge in The frigate’s 4-ifich guns sent France on the ground that Vichy (of feigned confidence rather than on the defmso of picked risking the disclosure of any veal) low River in a southward o 1OVe 10|y will not ask for a renomination cut the Lunghai Railway, about 49| }e0,u6e of il health and a desire $3,560. $589, engineers $1,787, and captains |the second sub to the bottom a may be short ume later. unable to control the F'rench when me Allies invade. | troops have made “initial progress” | Representative Henry M. Jackson quested adjustments before the dS P R d i M M D i 'of clearing the Japs from the hill-| said he and Representative J. H.| | subcommittee, which Jackson said m I flve side strong points on the southem’ I'me Frus'ra,ed Peterson, of Florida, Chairman of | [will be relayed to Vinson. These | Ian ays a”s a |0 g y utskirts of Kohima, Northeast| the House Merchant Marine sub-|changes do not involve any in- ;m,” = | MOSCOW, May 12—The Russians |committee investigating the effect c,.;,d Py priions sl ’ LONDON, May 12.—Nazi controll-| ALLIED EADQUARTERS IN American planes, sweeping mree\annaum.vd that a strong German — led radios, apparently surprised by NAPLES, May 12. — Allied troops, lenemy airfields, destroyed 13 chal-| assault against the Red Army 'the Allied Italian offensive, declared [smashing out the first big spring lenging fighters, two other planes |Pridgehead northwest of Tiraspol on “the day” for the Allied invasion push against Hitler's European wall, X Sty i .|the western bank of the lower has come and hinted strongly that|are assaulting the Gustav Line in probably destroyed and six dam ‘ Dniester River was repulsed yester- Italy along a 25-mile front from Cassino to the sea. Some objectives have already been taken greatest offensive in the Mediter- ranean warfare. ‘The mighty drive jumped off at 11 o'clock last night under a record breaking, earth shaking artillery barrage, front dispatches said, and the Germans were driven from some front line positions in flerce fighting. Full Allied Stroke It was & full Allied stroke by Am- erican, British, Dominion, Polish, French and Italian troops. British and Indian forces of the Eighth Army crossed the Rapido and Gari Rivers early today, and are press- ing on toward the first objective, |the Gustav Line. in the Press war correspondent Douglas Amaron declared that Gari is a small stream four to five miles |south of Cassino, running between the Rapido and the Liri Rivers. Secretly regrouped, General Mark Clark’s Fifth Army struck westward along a flank running in from the | Tyrrhenian Sea, and the British Eighth Army, transfered from the Adriatic, plunged forward in the |bloody Cassino sector 25 miles in- A front dispatch- from Canedian - miles west of Loyang in Honan Province, barring the line of al Chinese retreat. Two Jap columns of 5,000 men are taking part in the invasion| force and they are using 600 light ! tanks and armored cars, it is said. | Forced across the Yellow River to return to private business. Dies has been a member of Con- gress for the past fourteen years and is chairman of the House Com- mittee on UnAmerican Activities. POSTAL EMPLOYEES 'FIREMEN CALLING - FORBASEBALLERS ~ T0 OPEN SEASON jland on a curving battlefront, and are attempting to drive up the Liri Valley. Cassino Action Flares ‘The Fifth Army men fought into the rugged mountain mass rising ASSlSt In Home |from the Garigliano Valley south- STATE HEADS Garden Clubto | from Shansi Province, the Japs are attempting to push the Chinese| into the hills from the Great Honan | Plains as a means of safe-guarding' (their newly won hold on the Peip-n ing Hankow Railway. The Japs are using a thousand | Juneau Firemen were out in force last evening to give the baseball diamond a manicuring. Now all IN ALASKA TO GET 25 PERCENT RA!S 12, — The under land the season will get soon. ay WASHINGTON, May SPEAK, EVE | OFINVASION |that's needed are a couple of teams | | -4 these heights. Latest reports indi- Plammg D"ve‘weat of Cassino in an effort to clear The Garden Club met yesterday at the home of Mrs. A. E. Glover,| |with Ted Carter, representing the Extension Service of the Unxvflslly‘ cated there iIs no big offensive ac- tion as yet launched at the Anzio beachhead below Rome. Some 50 miles west of Cassino hundreds of Allied warplanes blast- ed the Germans in mammoth sky control of the big mail order firm, trycks as well as tanks and armor- I panied here by a nurse from Peters- had taken the case out of hiS eq cars in making the drive ‘he‘Post Office Department honds. |heaviest mechanized offensive “Without prejudice,” the government could initiate simi- lar action later CAPT. ELDRIDGE DIES, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 12.— William N. J. (Jeff) Eldridge, Cap- tain of the Fish and Wildlife vessel Heron, died here at midnight short- ly after arrival from Petersburg. Capt. Eldridge became ill a week ago in Juneau where he declined medical attention. He was accom- burg as the hospital there was filled. Capt. Eldridge was 43 years of | age. He received a medical dis-| charge from the Navy after a' | shrapnel wound in the South Paci-! fic early in the world war. The survivors include a dnugh!.er.‘that they must decide now whether!through 29 are promised plans to| in|#ive all postal employees in Alaska out for either hard or soft basel means that China since the battle of Hankow in| |a 25 percent differential in pay lOwhould call 88 and register with the All persons interested in uunmh y INE of Alaska, as speaker for the oc-|support of the ground troops. The Grs ((1“{, A;:uu.\cl:;:d .:’rl:s‘s) L !casion. |Navy supported the attack by turn- rand Duchess Ghatlole of LW | Mr. Carter spoke of the part the|Ing its big guns on the Nazis, who bourg broadeast to her peoble .. qenGiup could play in the cam-|are reported fighting desperately, 1938. The spokesman said that he|help meet the higher living costs City Clerk. Just leave your name |attributed the swift Jap advances|there, but, Alaska Delegate Dimond Managers of prospective —service to the enemy’s use of tanks and Said, the Department is unable to|teams also should get in touch with that “preparations for the invasion ' are in full swing and you should be doubly cautious, as an attempt will paign to interest the public in Vic- tory Gardens, and the club was given the opportunity to lead in! throwing up a curtain of mortar, artillery and machine gun fire, and using flame throwers in at least one [ Three Allled Nations Issue and heavy armaments. SATELLITES ARE GIVEN WARNING, | QUIT NAZIS NOW Final, Direct Ulti- mafum Today WASHINGTON, May 12. — The United States, Britain, and Russia have issued a virtual ultimatum to the four Axis satellites, declaring| |Congress enacts the deficiency ap- for the purpose. All other government employees in the territory are allowed a 25 percent differential in pay, Dimond said. BLANKET DRAFT "DEFERMENT FOR NEEDED WORKERS WASHINGTON, May 12—A blan- ket draft deferment for an “indef- inite period” has been ordered for lall men 30 and over, in essential men 26 civilian industry “necessary” Mona Lea, in Seattle, who cnllsbed‘they intend to go down in utter de- status “for the time being.” in the Waves recently, and several sisters in Seattle. R Nofed Brifish Author, Recently Hit by Jeep, | Dies at English Home FOWEY, Cornwall, May 12—Sir feat with Germany. The ultimatum is addressed to Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland. The three power declaration stat- ed that “there is yet time for the people of these four satellites to con- tribute” to an inevitable Allied vic-| tory. While they are extended no| promises of easy treatmnt if they jump off the German wagon now, the declatation made &ear that every day they remain on Ger-| many's side brings “more disastrous Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told a news conference he hoped “for the time being” will mean six months, and that “indefinitely” ap- plied to registrants 30 and over might mean six months or longer, he said. LEND-LEASE BILL GOES, PRESIDENT |the Chinese lack of antitank guns‘\m"ke the increase effective untilthe committee consisting of Roy Thomas, Rod Darnell and Henry lproprlatlon bill containing funds Behxends — e THREE FLIGHTS MADE BY ALASKA COASTAL An Alaska Coastal piane left this morning for Sitka with the follow-| ing passengers; Emmet Botelho, Julia Groutzeff, G. O. Boisclair, L. M. Christensen and Christ Chris ensen. Stephen O'Hearne was flown to Ketchikan this morning and Henry Bowman to Wrangell. A flight made to Hoonah today carried Esther Howard, Frank See,| Tom See and Seth Glover to that point and Mrs. O'Toole and Ruth Martin to Tenakee. SULLIVAN, DELAND 10 MAKE OFFICIAL TRIP 0. S. Sullivan, Chief of Field Op- | erations for the Unemployment | Compensation Commission, will| leave shortly on an official trip to| Ketchikan, Edna Bay and several other southeast points, according to |Robert Sheldon, Executive Direc- tor. Sullivan will be accompanied by his assistant, Mr. Harry DeLand. Arthur Quiller Couch, British au-'consequences to them and more ri- thor known to readers as “Q” died gorous terms will be imposed upon at the age of 80 at his home here. them.” He had been in declining health' since last March when he was knocked down by a jeep as he was' taking his daily walk, e HERE FROM SKAGWAY Mrs. Malcolm Moe of Skagway is in town and a guest at the Baranof, — - — WASHINGTON, May 12.— The ¢ © © ©® o o ¢ o o House has agreed to the Senate’s ® WEATHER REPORT . version of the Lend Lease extension| ® (U. 8. Burcau) L] bill by a voice vote which sent the‘- ‘Tem. Thursday, May 11, e measure to the White House for the ® Maximum 62, minimum 38. e President’s signature, ® % 0 00 00 0 0 0 0 be made Bt the Germans to UN- equcqting the community on the Fifth Army sector. mask patriots. !subject. For this purpose, the club! Artillery Barrage Moscow radioed: “The hour for is dividing the city into sections and} The thundering Allied artillery liberation of the occupied countries appointing a neighborhood leader, parrage is described as the heaViest is near and the terrified German not necessarily a club member, Who|yet jaid down in this theater, sur- High Command knows well that will advise and assist his nelghboralpmmg even the great artillery dis- blows from the east and west will with gardening problems. All the|navc which heralded General strike with the precision with which leaders have not as yet been named, | nronoomery's offensives in Africa Sevastopol was taken.” but will be within a day or qu| Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Med- Mr. Carter will visit each district, Queen Wilhelmina of the Neth-| ’{iterranean Commander-in-Chief, i3 meeting with the leader and others directing the - assault. In & pres erlands broadcast a promise of de-| |who wish to avail themselves of the battle stitement, Lt. Gen, Sir Olf~ iverance to her people and said| Avics “th ¢ | { n obtain in she is anticipating a return by tak- jeapert Aqvige Y |ver Leese, successor to Montgomery as Eighth Army Commander, said, lanti ng a rest “in order to be fresh and\rtgard b g “This battle differs from previous ‘The city has been divided into| stro:ug the moment you will m‘r‘d Ithe following sections: | me. Section 1, Capitol Street, west; "“"M‘“ by the Eighth Army. Our |section 2, Capitol Street east “’i““k Is to assault and break through {Main Street, Inclusive; spetion 3,/In turn’a serles of natural defen- Main Street to Basin Road and East |Sive Positions strongly held and |Street to and including north side |long prepared, each of which the |of Fourth Street; section 4, south|CGermans will cling to until forced |side of Fourth to and including | out. Front Street; section 5, south of Objective Front Street, section 6, Starr Hill| “Our immediate objective is the and Gastineau Avenue; and section!Gustav Line, which has been forti- | 117, Teleplione Hill. ified for many months past, and in- ! LONDON, May 12.—Marshal Tito PRI [slied. ol eoiiirate. delEn | works in ma: laces. triumphantly proclaims that Yugo- S]’O(K ouounous |lies the Adfilfi)hp }flllernel?h‘:: l::f slav partisans have smashed the; |other strong natural defensive posi- | German general offensive in Yugo- R % ‘uun. which the German military |slavia but declared fierce tighting| NEW YORK, May 12. — Closing | engineers prepared during the lis continuing in Mecedonia where quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|monthe past and strengthened to the Axis forces are trying desper-|stock today is 5%, American Can|ine ytmost, and which Hitler's |ately to drive a wedge between his '87%, Anaconda 25, Beech Aircraft troops will be ordered to hold to the troops and Bulgarian partisans on 8, Bethlehem Steel 57'4, Curtiss)aot man. The deferises we now are the Yugoslav border. Wright 5%, International Harvest-| The bulletin says large areas in er 72, Kennecott 30%, North Amer- attacklg are the. glapogoss She Brls Serbia have been restored to 'nws ican Aviation 8, New York Ce“"”‘"presenl war.” control and the “people are every-, '171%%, Northern Pacific 14%, Unibed\ 'GERMAN GRIP ON YUGOSLAVIA NOW - HAS BEEN BROKEN tish Army has enn’nurod in the \where enthusiastically welcommgvsmtes Steel 50%, Pound $4.04. | |our Serb brigades which after two‘ Dow, Jones averages today are J. Paul W a guest at |and one half years of uninterrupt- as follows: industrials 13851, rails|the Baranof aryived here. He led fighting are returning home.” '38.51, utilities 2264, is connected ¥ the PAA,