The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLIIL, NO. 9653. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1944 ¥ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— PRICE TEN CENTS —— SMASHING ENEMY RESISTANCE IN ITALY SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND IS BOMBED Mlied Mosquitoes Carry Out Atfack on German Industrial City LONDON, May 16—The German Air Force, striking with possibly | 300 planes on their own counter invasion aerial offensive, attacked the southern coast of England last, night for the second straight night. | The Berlin radio said the assault was concentrated at Portsmouth, where the defensive forces shot down six planes. Four other towns | felt the weight of bombs and a hospital was hit. | Allied operations last night were confined to attacks by Mosquitoes on the industrial city of Ludwig- shafen, objectives in northwest Ger- many and an enemy airfield in France. Four planes failed to return. LEAVES FOR BARROW Cassie E. Vinson, nurse for the! Office of Indian Affairs, left today ! on the first lap of her journey to‘ Point Barrow. She is needed for an emergency in that isolated village and will be there for an indefinite time. The Washington | i | Merry - Go- Round| f By DREW PEARSON | ., Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active it service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—The man at the Supreme Court who keeps in closesti touch with former Chief Justice Evans Hughes, strangely enough, is| | not the present Chief Justice Har- lan Stone nor Hughes’ old Republi- | “ can colleague, Justice Owen Rob- erts, but the Supreme Court barber, Gates. | 3 Every Saturday, at 9:30 a. m, Gates goes to the home of the 82 - year-old ex-Chief ‘Justice to trim, “ his beard. From the barber, Hughes | ¥ he seems rather glad to have got/| gets the latest gossip of the court, ! and Gates in furn reports back to the court that Hughes is in excel- lent shape. 5 | Actually, Hughes does not have, many close friends on the court any more. He, piever, was close to Stone or Roberts, though they were his contemporaries and shared the same general political views. He| was much more intimate with the younger justices, such as Bill Doug- Jas, even though they were New Dealers. This was in line with Hughes’ long-time interest in youth. Hulhesulcdmbrlflnbitwhls court colleagues that, in the old days on the Supreme Court, before he ‘resigned to run for President agidnst Woodrow Wilson, he could write court opinions from 11 p. m. to 3 a. m. He and his wife were quite social, and he used to tell how he would come home from a dinner party at 11 p. m, light a cigar, and work on an opinion until early in the morning. During his second term on the| court, following his appointment as Chief Justice by Herbert Hoover, he cut out the late hours and cur—\ tailed the dinner parties. However,! he never curtalled his work. He) continued to turn out more than his share of court opinions, to the very day he resigned. It was when he found he was. no longer able to turn out his share, at the age of 79, that he resigned. Today, Hughes’ friends say that away from the drudgery of court opinions, because—whether the out- ALMOST LOSES ONE OF HER LIVES THERE'S GOOD CAUSE for the worried expression worn by “Tillie,” mas- cot of the Somerville, Mass,, fire department. Being a kitten, and un- versed in the method of sliding down a metal pole, she found her claws uselers and slid to the floor in a one-point landine. (International) HELLO, SUCKER! | \ \ | | I The familiar greeting of the late Texas Guinan will be heard again in “Incendiary Blonde,” with Betty Hutton in the role of the night club queen. Here’s Betty in a gaudy Tex’ costume of the booming 1920’s. JURY COMPLETED IN MASS TRIAL FOR CONSPIRACY WASHINGTON, May 16—A jury of 10 men and two women was sworn in today tc try the 29 per- sons accused of conspiring to set up a Nazi form of government in tmsi | May |NEWGUINEA it sy JAP BASES ARE RAIDED Drive onto ImmobilizeJap§ IS ASSURED Airpower on Path to Philippines ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, 16. — Today Allied airmen pressing their drive to immobilize Japanese air power along the path to the Philippines, lashed at Wadke off the northwest coast of Dutch| New Guinea with another 220 tons lof bombs, headquarters announced. | Liberators*attacked the Schouten; Islands 260 miles northwest of: Hol-| landia and Wadke 120 miles north-| west_of that base. Six Japanese plénes weakly raided Hollandia on| their first appearance over the Am- | erean “held breachhead since the; occupation’ - was completed. They dropped seven bombs, causing no damage or casualties. i Extermination raids on Japanese| troops on by-passed New Guinea below Hollandia continued. Aussies edged up the British Guinea coast closer to Hollandia and the Aitape area which wdk invaded on April 22, and neared Bumnabun, 16 miles north of Cape Croisilles, which was reached last week in the unopposed drive. Solomon-based bombers and fighters continued their daily poundings of isolated Japanese bases in the -South Pacific. Rabaul, New Britain, and Bougainville were hit again and many of the enemy’s dwindling supply dumps were de- stroyed. Dive bombers and fighters sank 40 barges in the region of beleag- uered Rabaul, and seven br eight barges which may have been at- tempting to relieve the hatured| base were accounted for hy bomb- ers using rocket guns attached under the wings. FAIRBANKS BOUND «{Demos in TWSIaies Cinch | FDR Votes - GOP Split HALIBUTERS WILL MEET IN SEATTLE Vessel Owners, Fishermen to Vote on Seftle- ment Proposal SEATTLE, May 16. — Harold E. Lokken, Manager of the Seattle| Fishing Vessel Owners' Association, said owners and fishermen of the . Seattle fleet will meet tonight to & MARIANAS vote on the settlement plan pro- Y 1 » posed by officials in Washingtop, v a D.C. to end the month-old Meup.P GUAM Lokken made the announcemeft e {shortly after his return from Wash- ! LA |ington where he discussed the hali- | but situation at length with Gov-| |ernment officials. Lokken expressed opposition %0 the reported proposal of the Can- | adian Government to end the sea- | son which opened April 15 and de-' { clare a closed season, then open | July 15. He said that “changing of |the season would be a cumbersome matter” and he further explained “that it takes a long time to agree, on such a proposal and ramifiga-- tions would be complicated. We; want to keep aloof from any fur-| ther disputes as we have enough | problems with the commission and! Black and shaded areas are now held by the Japanese. +BONIN A Black area on map embraces territory where Washington observers think Japan may make her last stand, leaving her home islands to Allied occupation and basing her strength on the Asiatic continent. (AP Wirephoto) JAPAN'S OUTERL [ DEFENSE RING a4 *MARCUS WAKE - CAROLINE IS, NAURY EEEEh T ROOSEVELT NOMINATION . on Dewey, Warren (By Associated Press) California and New Jersey Demo- crats are producing the votes today to assure the fourth term nomina- tion for President Roosevelt, as Re- publicans in the two states divided their allegiance between Dewey and Governor Warren of California. Dewey apparently is assured of all of New Jersey’s 356 convention dele- gates and in primary action the| Californians are pledging the sup- port of their 50 delegates to Warren, | who says he is not seeking any fed- | eral office. This made it seem unlikely that any candidate can amass an un- challenged majority ‘of the GOP convention’s 1,059 delegates without | some political trading with unin-| structed votes thus far numbering | 401 votes. | Montana also picks eight today, bringing the goal of the total pick- | ed to date to 886. | Dewey started the day with a publicly undisputed list of 268 amh’ will need 530 at the convention. | Roosevelt is expected today to'get| 104 additional pledged, with ouim-‘ ed delegates in California 52, New| Jersey 34, Delaware 8, and Montana 10. He got 22 in Oklahoma yester- day, bringing the total to 677, far abgve the 589 needed. DETROIT STRIKE IS BIG THREAT T0 7 4 HIGCH WATER_Two jeeps crawl over a temporary bridge constructed over a low spot on Guadalcanal to keep U. S. military traffic moving. Swirling waters of the rainy season undermined this bridge before it was finished. i Soldiers Going Back | * To Civil Life Given Straight Information which will revamp a lot of the laws {that now apply to men and women soon to be returning by the thou- sands weekly to civilian life is just| one example. By JACK STINNETT i WASHINGTON, May 16—If the ;number of questions hurled at me iin the last few months by dis- |charged soldiers and sailors is any criterion, the Army finally has| |answered a long-felt, growing needuh:““‘t’{]f:" is z‘:“;f ""“”d:mwh‘:::‘; | e pam| |in the GORIRHIEL e Sitte . To0e 19 lof all service men and women as five booklet, entitled “In!ormuuon;mn an et shseive dladiiacss For Sol il- 2 o oton. Beck fo Civl lorders. Those who don't receive side world realizes it or not—the country. The defense exercised their life of a Supreme Court justice, if tenth and final peremptory chal- he keeps up his quota of work, isllenge to remove Ralph Egan, 60, drudgery. Commerce Department clerk, and NOTE — Hughes' only real con-ithe jury was completed on the fifth tempoorary in official Washington'yeek of the mass trial. :nszil:tarzv:n: :‘; :”, Y(;rk', Tz Earlier in the day Ernest Elm- the time Hughes was active in New hurst of New York, one of the de- York politics. ,temiant.s, sued his attorney and the (two federal prosecutors for $100,000 TANGLED DRAFT SITUATION No two men in the Government. (Continued on Page Four) 'alllance” between them by an ex- _;change of information during the trial. ‘alleging the existence of an “unholy | PAA PLANE LEAVES | A PAA {flight to Fairbanks was made this afternoon with the fol- | lowing passengers: Donald MacKin- ;non, Alan G. Webb, who is an In- | spector for the U. 8. Department of | Agriculture; Gassie E. Vinson, Rob- | bert Wilkins Ferguson “and Albert Heinrich. | Charles M. Hood and William lKlnx Wright were passengers for Whitehorse. WASHINGTON, May 16.—Assert- ing that the current strike of 3,300 workers in thirteen Detroit area war plants threatens to stop pro- duction of model 51 Mustang long- range fighter planes and otherwise impede war aircraft output, Under- secertary of War Patterson said that the matter may go~ before Mobilization Director Byrnes short- 1y. “We bombed German aircraft factories,” Patterson stated, “but they don’t need to bomb ours.” MUSTANG OUTPUT ian Life.” With only 31 pages, it is neces- sarlly a primer that goes no further |3, or subjects for such a little| {than two-times-two in covering the! Ithousands of problems discharged iveterans ‘will have to face. The| Adjutant General’s office, under whose direction it was prepared, explains it would take volumes to answer all the questions in specific cases. Besides, those volumes would’soon pe out of date because new laws are being passed con- stantly. The “GI Bill of Rights” one should ask for it. The pamphlet covers a multi- book. It explains what part of your |GI equipment you may keep; how long you may wear your uniform after discharge, and how to wear lapel buttons and decorations on civilian attire. Your “report of separation” and “discharge certifi- cate” should be carefully guarded, for these are now as vital as pass- (Continued on Page Six) | OF CHINESE SWEEPS ON Successful Drive fo Open Road fo India - U. S. Air Force Helps BULLETIN, London, May 16. —Reuters said in a dispatch re- ceived here from the Kohima front that the whole of the Ko- hima Ridge is mow In Allied hands and the capture ends the biggest battle yet fought on the , Indo-Burma front. 5 CHUNGKING, May 16-—Chinese troops have captured several stra- tegic points further in an advance west of the Salween River in the new offensive to open the path to India, the High Command an- nounces. The Chinese forces are receiving continuous support from the Am- erican Air Forces sweeping forward in China’s first big offensive in the seven years of fhe war for a “100 percent victory,” according to Marshal Li Huang. The Chinése have advanced through Mamien Pass, 40 miles east of the Jap base at Tengchung, on the north Burma Road. CHINESE T0 JOINFORCES OF STILWELL BY CLYDE FARNSWORTH Associated Press War Correspondent WITH THE CHINESE EXPEDI- TIONARY FORCE ON THE SAL- WEEN, FRONT, May 16—The big object of the current Chinese of- fensive is to secure a land route to bring in heavy war equipment to permit a military showdown with Japan, General Hsiao I-Hsu, Chin- ese military leader said, Seeking to obtain as quickly as possible the heavy artillery, mech- anized equipment and motor trans- port, the Chinese launched an of- fensive of 20,000 troops at a dozen points in the hope of joining Gen- eral Joseph Stilwell's forces 150 miles away in north Burma. Nazis Striking Back With Aerial Offensive Japan’s Potential ""Forfress of East Asia” ENTIRE FRONT GERMAN LINE 1S WIPED OUT Advances Scored by Allies of from Three fo Eight Miles ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 16. — Allied troops have smashed the last organized enemy resistance south of the Liri River and wiped out the German's entire front line of the defense zone, scoring advances of from three to eight miles. The Americans have overrun Spigno in the lower Garigliano Val- ley. The Prench, after a violent attack, captured Monte Fammera, two and one-half miles west of captured Ausonia, ‘The bag of prisoners taken since the offensive started is now over, 3,000 Germans, The British and Indian troops of the Eighth Army yesterday re- pulsed a series of Nazi counter-at- | tacks, supported by tanks, and re- covered ground southwest of Cas- sino. % French warriors, thirsty for re- venge on the Germans, pursued battered disorganized remnants of town ‘of En Giorgio, immediately south of the Liri River. Artillery s shelling around Formia Itri. Medium bombers are attacking Piomhino and Ancona harbors and bombing rail bridges at Orvieto and Potedera. U5.TROOPS WELCOMED IN SPIGNO | Americans Arrive fo Find No Germans—Civilians Kiss _Sgldiers BY SID FEDER Associated Press War Correspondent WITH THE FIPTH ARMY AT SPIGNO, May 16.—American troops arrived at this mountain strong- hold today te find no Germans. In- ‘dmmona here and other places are that enemy infantry has been with- drawn. Many forward positions and many prisoners have been taken, especially during the battle near |towering Mount Cavita where Ma- jor Victor Hobson Birmingham re-. ported the capture of an entire ar- tillery battery of eight guns. Spigno s a mass of rubble caus- ed by both American bombers and German demolition. Civilians rush- ed to kiss the Americans upon their entry into the town. FOUND INNOCENT CHARGES OF JAP COLLABORATION NEW YORK, May 16.—Frederick Wright, 41 year old New York Daily News Copy editor, was found inno- cent by a Pederal Court jury last night on charges of conspiring with Jap officlals and acting as a Jap agent before Pearl Harbor without notifying the State Department. He denied claims of the prosecution that he received $200 monthly from a Jap consulate to write favorable articles, . ALLEN TO KAKE the hills | Leonard Allen, Supervisor of So- cial Welfare for the Office of Indian Affairs, made a flight today to Kake g;l business in connection with his fice. — 8