The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1944, Page 1

N HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9654. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1944 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — - PRICE TEN CENIS ——————— GERMANS ARE FALLING BACK IN ITALY Japanese Fishing Boats NIPS FIGHT JAP BOMBER'S LAST MOMENTS 'HALIBUTERS, - HITLER-ROMMEL N ire on U.S. Planes /ALLIES MOVE "ONWARD TO - FISHERMEN | HITLER LINE BACK WHEN | WILL FISH ATTACKED New Peril Arises Off North| Kuriles-Seafood Sup- ply Is Threatened AN ALASKAN BASE, May 17- A new threat on the vital seafood supply for the Japanese has been disclosed here with attacks on Am- erican planes by Japanese vessels be- lieved to be part of the fishing fleet in the north Kuriles, Army and Navy planes exchanged | gunfire with Japanese vessels thought to be fishermen off the north Kuriles on May 13 and May | 14 in low level attacks. It is known that the Japanese have some of the largest cannerics located in the Kuriles and recent American raids have imperiled them and also prevented the Japanese from fishing in the waters, thus the boats are now armed. (Continued on Page Three) The Washington| | 1 | Py { \That Is If Cerfain Agree< ments Are Reached According fo Lokken SEATTLE, May 17—The chfi Owners Asscciation and fishermen ‘cI the Seattle and Vancouver hali- but fleets last night voted to start {fishing if they can be guaranteed an OPA ceiling price on all fish |canght, Harold E. Lokken, manage: lof the SFVOA said. Lokken said a meeting has been arranged with the buyers to deter- mine the buyers' guarantee that not. less than ceiling will be paid for fish. * Lokket id he believed the hali buters wili put to sea within three da after the final agreement. Famed Author Passes Away, Rommel's coastal fortress ELEVENTH HOUR inspection tours of the vast Axis coastal defenses known as Germany's “Atlantic Wall” are being made by Marshal Rommel, according to news dispatches which say that Hitler has made personal “pre-invasion visits.” Rommel is reported making day-by-day tours of areas shown on this map which provides a general picture of the “coastal fortress.” The broken line indicates the territory referred to as “Rommel’s defense zone” which is being heavily pounded by Allied airmen. Swastikas indicate points mentioned as “Rommel’s command forts” and reported to, be specially fortified. (International) NATL.BOARD MAY TAKE Up A. J. CASE Mackrthur and Nimitze Confer| Nazis Are Thrown Out from..,. Mouth of Gun-Studded Liri Valley BULLETIN—LONDON, May 17.—Front line dispatches to- night state British units have driven northward into the Liri Valley toward highway number six behind Cassino and the fall of the stronghold at last ap- ears imminent. Crack German parachute troops, which have long defended the bloody bas- tion appear now in danger of winding up their careers there. | l ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 17. — The Germans have been thrown out of most of the positions across the mouth eof the gun studded Liri Valley by great tank battles as the entire 'Gustav line south of that Corri- dor to Rome is overrun. The Fifth and Eighth Armies are plunging on close to Adolph Hitler's line of main defenses barring the way to the Anzio beachhead and the Allied Commanders appeared to have won a chance at which they Twelfth WLB Chairman of the German forces in Italy. Merry - Go-Round ? PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 5. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—There has been a lot of discussion inside Repub- lican ranks about the closeness of Herbert Hoover to Tom Dewey.| Some are dead against the Hoover influence, claim that the hand of Hooverism will blight both Dewey. and GOP chances this year. Others| are equally strong for Hoover, re- calling that, even though defeated by Roosevelt, Hoover rolled up a| substantial popular vote in 1932 and remains today one of the elder‘I statesmen of the party. { But whether for or against| Hoover, there is no real argument,| among those who have watched the wheels go round, about the fact| that Hoover has been the main- | spring of the Dewey campaign. Representative Clare Luce of Con- necticut got a sample of this just before GOP leaders met recently in Chicago to organize for the Re- publican convention. On the day before the organiza- tion meeting (at Which Governor| Warren of California was selected | as the convention's keynote speaker) Mrs. Luce called Hoover on the phone. She told him that several people had suggested that she might be the keynote speaker, and she asked Hoover’s advice as to whether she had a chance and what | she should do about it. “No use even bothering about it,” Hoover replied. “Warrei will be selected tomorrow.” He was. NOTE — Another convention speaker selected at Chicago was Hoover himself, not without thej blessing of Dewey. Hoover was put across largely through J. Russel Sprague, National Committeeman from New York, who acted as Dewey’s factotum at Chicago. PROTECTION FOR PARATROOPERS | Thanks largely to hard-hitting! Senator Kilgore of West Virginia, i the War Department is now doing} ‘its best to put self-sealing gasoline “fanks in paratroop-carrying trans-| port planes, also will supply the planes with a certain amount of armor to protect pilots. After this column revealed that not one, but two groups of U. S. paratroopers over Sicily had been| shot down by Allied gunners last July, Senator Kilgore wrote a letter to Secretary of War Stimson, point- out that many of the paratroopers in the planes never had a ‘chance to bail out, for some of the planes burst into flames while still in mid- air, due to the fact that the gaso- line tanks ignited from anti-aircraft fire. Senator Kilgore pointed out| that these paratroop transport planes did not bave self-sealing (Continued on Page Four) IN SPLIT SECOND TIMING these pictures show the destruction of a Jap bomber by U. S. naval guns in the Pacific off Saipan in the Marianas. The kill is already at hand as the sequence begins with the incoming bomber afire (A) at water-level in a storm of shellbursts. Next, the Heart Atfack | George Ade DiesLast Nighl | in Indiana Affer Re- markable Career BROOK, Indiana, May George Ade, 78, famed author and| humorist, died last night as the re- | sult of an attack of the heart which began last Saturday. | Ade was usually called a huror-| ist, but disclaimed any intent to he funny. Rather, he considered him- celf a realist. He once said that if {lLere was anvthing humorous in his !writing, it was because human be- Gen. Douglas MacArthur (left), doomed aircraft hits the water (B), breaking white spray that drags ings are funny. Pacific area, uses his pipestem as a pointer as he pores over a war ; The Lirl Valley spreads out west and south of Cassino and reaches ‘Says Wage Dispufe Not WI""“ Juflsdldlon northwestward 20 miles before the passes in the bottleneck mountains SEATTLE, May 17.—Dr. Bernard at Ceprano 55 miles from Rome. Noble, Twelfth Regional War Labor The German communique declar- | Board Chairman, disclosed today eg a great “battle of attrition” is that the National Board 15 being yaging and admitted troops are fall- asked to take appropriate action on ;0 pack after “offering for six days the Alaska Juneau wage case, fol- .. .0 yocictance to a great enemy’s lowing a resolution passed yester- superiority.” s day at an executive session. i 2 The Regional Board informed the British forces tgok Pignataro, m- portant strong point four miles National Board that the previous action In the case, according to pro- SOUthwest of Cassino, by a smashing per procedure, decided the issue of flank attack. retroactive pay, which the company The American forces have fough: | insisted this week was not properly their way .into heavily fortitled | before the board, and was not a Castellonorato, less than four miles | wage dispute with the board’s jur- from Formia finding ruined pillbox- FEG e V.5 «/ud <ommander-in-Chief, Southwest isdiction. it down (C) into the depths, Only foam remains (D) as the camera, swinging around the spot, reveals an aireraft carrier crossing the back- ground. Navy photos from News of the Day Newsreel. (International) “I never considered myself a hu-| morist,” he said. “I never was one: just ‘a realist I told plain, uwavar-| {rished stocies of . uman life i com- (pact form: te)k l'berties with iman speeca. It ‘!¢ stuff had euter- f~inment va it was because of | t¢ characters #n¢ what they ¢ 11 vever atteriptec to be wisecrack- | ing and funny. I never mace a| |'gag’ in my iffe. | i Indizra Product ‘ | Ade was a product of an Inla a %em when it seemed that every other | | Ffuosier Fau an itch to write. his |contemporaries of note included {Meredith Nicholson, George Ba: McCutcheon and Booth Tarkington His own urge took form first in| map with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, U. 8. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean areas, at a recent conference, an- nounced by the Navy at which they “integrated their war planning.” (AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy) Records of the case were sent to | Washington and parties agreed on | all issues except wages, A spokesman for the board said ! that “this may turn out to be a test ;cusc if it goes through the courts and it could result in liens being | placed against the company. The i mine has shut down and reopened | several times in history, as it is not juncommon in mining operations, *and may reopen again.” 1 5@ Inlb’uleepv Issue OnManufaciure;ToBe Different After War ® S e R. SECTION IN CONTROL (By JACK STINNETT) | | Lieutenant Governor, in the general [should be undertaken jointly by the election in November. | War and Interior Departments, the myue Democrats pledged 52 votes former doing the drilling in the tor the fourth term for Rooscsevelt. | Vicinity of Wide Bay and the lat- Fifty Republican delegates to the ;':zatzlolldfrtaklxlg surveys in other National Convention will vote for| e, Gov. Warren for President. — - President Urges Drilling T [] For Oil in Alaska; Gives 7 9 Reasons; Asks for Funds [ WASHINGTON, May 17.—Presi- SENATOR DOWNEY | dent Roosevelt has asked Congress |to provide $10§7,000 to start ofl newspaper weik in which he en- I R AIED |driliing work in Alaska, and em-|gaged upon being graduaved from S ENOMIN | phasized the increasing need of ol purdue University in 1887. Bu’ 'n |in the Pacific war. | 4 . BY (Al'r DEMOS The request followed statements| SIDESRNGTLY Bt e, he pro- ] t essed from columnist to writing L] | of Naval officials before the House|msica] comedies, comedy dramas, |Naval Affairs Committee that pro- fiction and movie scenarios wth an SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. May 17.|duction in the Elk Hills in Califor-| .o b P 00 B B0 O —Senator Sheridan Downey was Dia reserve should be quadrupled| . w‘l’; ey b 7oy ¢\ )e8 renominated yesterday by the Cali-|because of increased petroleum | T fornia Democrats. Downey failed to;fleeds-v With the i th’: 3 ¢ try for the Republican nominatxon;.P Wl_'g-“ltz to Speaker Rayburn the his writings ::nlgughv. a"la::l 1‘1?:1, i o 3 | President sa and will face Frederick Houser, 49, id work -in Am"xenmnd, Tt ety of Bis” birth, ‘a.nd retired there to do stili more \writing. The farm, managed by a |brother but always under Ade's close attentien, proved p:ofitable. {But a remark made in 1919 at a 4 B {banquet in Kentland was typical | “In New York,” he said, “they 1DR- BEA"E (o"FERS |call 1ae a farmer but herz at home . . | I!they call me a playwright I am in ve'efan “meplece ! WITH INDIAN OFFICE . peculiar situation for this is about 2 | the only place in the worid I can | A' k { Dr. Willard Beatte, Director of call myself a farmer and fail to get (omes o as a 1 Education, is here from the Chicago away with it.” | headquarters to confer with the| JFamed For ‘Fables’ SALT LAKE CITY. — Old Seth | Office of Indian Affairs. Ade'’s writings began to attrac’ has gone North in its old age. The| Dr. Beatte expects to spend the!national attention shortly after the old clock which ticked away the next two weeks in southeast Alaska Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, He minutes for more than 50 years at discussing educational matters. had conducted a column, “All Roads the weather bureau here has been| — ., |Lead To The World's Pair,” during shipped to the weather bureau of-| WEEKLY CHILD HEALTH the summer of the exposifion for fice at Point Barrow, Alaska, far-| CONFERENCE TOMORRGW |the Chicago Record, the paper thest north inhabited place in| The regular weekly Child Health |which gave him a reportorizl job North America. | Conference will be held tomorrow |at $15 a week when he arr'ved in BERLIN IS BLASTEDIN NIGHTRAID Bad Weaf—he—r Probably Prevents Action Today | Over Confinent | | LONDON, May 17. — Royal Air Force Mosquitoes blasted Berlin last 1 night as British-based heavy bomber fleets rested up to renew the smash- ing offensive on the European fort- |ress. No losses are reported in the | raid last night, the first attack on | Berlin since May 9. Britain was raid-free last night, | no sections of the coast being at- | tacked by the Germans. | There are no indications of ac- | tivity over the continent today ow- | ing to extremely bad weather. e BACK FROM VISIT i Miss Minnie Goldstein has re- | might give a “misleading” adver- Old ‘Seth made the trip by rail,| afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock {the city n June, 1890, from Lafay- turned from a visit to the States|tiser all the advantage he seeks. steamer, plane and dog sled and|in the Health Center of the Ter- Tagined Hats on. the tick: vitorial Building. (Continued on Page Two) after being absenst from Juneau for the pase several weeks, | | OF CHINESE Defenders Kg;in Hold 22 Miles of Strategic Line in Honan WASHINGTON, May 17. — This| story could be headlined “‘jeepers- | creepers,” except that when you! really get down to it, it isn’t a funny | story at all. Millions of dollars are | involved, and when millions are in-| volved it's no laughing matter. | The Federal Trade Commission | is resuming hearings here in Wash- | QU ington to determine what, if any,| CHUNGKING, May 17.—Counter- manufacturing company has the | 4acking Chinese forces in southern right to convey the impression that | yonan Province of central China they are the producers of “jeeps” widened the nap between enemy and will turn out these study llmc“mrce, along the Peiping-Hankow vehicles after the war for numer- pajlway to 22 miles between Kio- ous civilian purposes. | shan and Mingkiang, and captured Editorial writers, some members| g, third station, the Chinese Cen- of Congress and some industrialists | tra] News Agency reported. have taken the FTIC apart for| on the Salween front in southwest spending money and the time of China the High Command an- scores of witnesses, many of them | nounced a series of successes, which, in war work, to delve into this nowever, did not appreciably change matter in the midst of global war.|the previously reported positions of I think the FTC ha$ been done a|the 20,000 troops. grave injustice on this score, | A village inside strategic Mamien o | Pass leading to the Jap base of So far as.this case is concerned,! Myitkyina in Burma has been cap- and many others for that matter,/ tured. the sole responsibility of the FTC)| is to halt “false or misleading ad- | vertising.” When complaints nre‘ laid before the commission which, on the surface, appear to have merit, it is the duty of that agency to act as soon as possible. To de- lay simply because we are at war OWNER OF JUNEAU WATER (0. IS HERE R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water System, has arrived in Ju- neau from his home in Piedmont, Calif. While here he is a guest at the Baranof, (Continued on Page Two) |es and streets littered with enemy dead. The Americans have also cap- tured the village of Scaur. - e SAYS HITLER'S LEGIONS MAY BE DEFEATED Berlin Commentafor Gives Gloomy Outlook-Rad- ios Blare Warnings LONDON, May 17.—European ra- dios rumbled steadily today in talk of the mighty United Nations of- fensives in the offing from both west and eost. Berlin announced that Marshal Erwin Rommel has completed what may be the final theckup of the {Atlantic Wali. The Berlin radio commentaior acklowledged that Hitler's Legions may be thruwn back on both sides ias “there is no such thing as com- plete preparedness.” Stockholm dispatches said it i reported Field Marshal Gen. Karl |van Rundstedt has been named Su- preme Commander of the invasion |defenses with Rommel heading one army greap. N B o ] WILLIAM DARDEN ARRIVES IN CITY To work in cooperation with the Indian Service, Willlam L. Darden, well known lecturer and authority on Alaska, has arrived in Juneau and expects to remain here for the next few days before continuing to other sections of the Territory. Mr. Darden will spend the sum- mer in Alaska, visiting the Eskimd country and the lower Yukon ares.