The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1944, Page 1

Q X = L i ) O & =8 &L VOL. XLIL, NO. 9656. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, IDAY, MAY 19, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALLIES ATTACK HITLER LINE | - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS N ITALY Wadke Island Seized by American Forces TROOPS ALSO LAND, DUTCH | NEW GUINEA Multipronged Offensive Effected with “'Trif- ling Opposition” ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, May 19—The bulk of Wakde Is- land's Japanese air bases and a beachhead on nearby Dutch New Guinea were seized Wednesday and Thursday ' by Americans, leapfrog- ging 120 miles beyond Hollandia, in a twin amphibious operation by warships and planes. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in an-| nouncing the one-two strike, fore- cast the early fall of the remaining Dutch Guinea territory between him and his avowed return to the; Philippines. Japs Pushed Back Headquarters said the (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry i T By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | | | 1 drive | WASHINGTON —There hasn't been so much published about it,} but an efficient high-geared pub-| licity machine is mow functioning at Republican headquarters. Some of the news experts have been on| the payroll for quite a while and| are all set to go for the Republican nominee the minute the final gong sounds at Chicago. Here is the roll call of GOP pub- lic relations sharks and their sti- pends: James P. Selvage, overall GOP publicity boss, salary $1,211 per month (taxes deducted); Robert Pritchard, publicity expert, $459.44! to prepare radio script; W. J. Don-| ald, a perennial fixture at Repub-| lican ~headquarters, draws $30.90| (taxes deducted.) Donald is a self-| appointed defender of the U. 8. Constitution and is kept on the payrolls despite the long series of Republican defeats. His principal| duties consist of a'daily reading of the Congressional Record and di- gesting same. Carlisle Bargeron, erstwhile critic of Herbert Hoover, now gets $705.46 (taxes deducted) to praise the party he once criticized. Percy L. Graves, “publicity expert,” (taxes deducted.) Floyd E. McCaffree, chief GOP researcher, gets $497.88 (taxes de- ducted) per month to collect| speeches made by Roosevelt and show how the President has failed to keep his promises. Walter F. Brittan, political ex- pert, gets $1,238.72 (taxes deducted) from the Republican party. G. Glen Saxon, an Alf Landon| brain-truster, is back again and re- cently charged the GOP $1,104.67 for “services and expenses.” another $497.88 Jr., draws GOOD LUCK IN COLOR Congressional cloakrooms are chuckling over the latest war plant tour of chunky, indefatigable Con- gressman Albert Engel of Michigan, Capitol Hill's one-man detective agency. While inspeeting an Alabama bag-loading plant, Engle was told of the extreme care taken to pre- vent staining of the white linen bags which are filled with powder for howitzer shells. Any bags that are stained while being filled are emptied and thrown away, plant oficials reported, because of the possibility of a chemical reaction which might explode the powder. “We had a big mystewy around here several months ago,” a plant foreman related by way of illus- tration. “A number of red stains were found on bags and we couldn’t figure out what caused them. Fi- naily, after a chemical analysis of a discarded bag, we discovered to our amazement that it had been (Continued on Page Four) Republican NAZIS MASS GLIDERS ON COAST AREA May Aflem};fi(nockout‘ Blow on Vital War Ma- | chine in England LONDON, May 19. — Heavy new German bombings of communica- tions and concentrations behind the Russian front indicated the Nazis expect an immediate renewal of the Red Army's offensive in a mighty thrust coordinated with the invasion from the west. Hitler’'s command reported heavy bombing blows at rail stations, sug- new drive to explode on the Polish front. German propaganda kept up the ‘|seattergur’ guesswork; ‘locating the potential invasion on virtually every beachhead from Norway to the Bay of Biscay. The Luftwaffe has shifted its moonless night reconnaissance from the south of England to Scotland.| British motorists were warned that on D-day and afterwards they must expect all civilian traffic to be diverted from the many mam | roads and highways generally, and | during the invasion speathead, the latter will be closed to all but mili- tary traffic. The Germans massed gliders and transport planes in concealed hang-! ers along the European coast in| numbers sufficient to drop at least one airborne division on Britain, the London Daily Mail said, asserting the information came from “excel- lent sources.” The British do not rule out the possibility that such a German counterinvasion by en-| emy troops might be assigned to. knock out the nerve centers of the vital Allied war machine. AIR ATTACKS ON CONTINENT ARE RESUMED Strong Force of American Planes, Probably 1500, in Daylight Raid LONDON, May 19. — American Fortresses and Liberators, with Fighter escorts, described officially as a strong force of probably 1,500 | planes, today resumed the Allied of- |fensive after a lapse' of five days. The formation struck targets in ithe Berlin and Brunswick areas. The attack came less than 24 hours after it was officially declar- led Germany has not vet seen the full weight of the Allied air power.| A running air battle was preci- pitated across Germany to the sky |over Berlin, German broadcasts in- dicating ensuing bombardment of the United States strategic air |forces, the tenth attack on the Nazi hub and the third on Berlin this month. The broadcasts were dis- rupted presumably by the bombing attacks. Channel observers said the par- ade of aircraft setting out for the continent was the biggest yet seen duflnz the war. i | ARRIVAL FROM' SKAGWAY Ella Axelson has arrived here from Skagway and is a guest at the Baranof. Alaska Delegates to | were as follows: Howard D. Stabler, BURMA BASE Convention | OUTSKIRTS Instrucied for Dewey ~PENETRATED PRISONERS | | Republican delegates from Alaska Hi . to the Republican National Conven- 3 Me"ll S II’OOpS A"a(kl“g tion in Chicago on June 26 were in- : . : structed by the Republican Territor- MYI"(VIIIB s ll‘l d | a n i ial Convention at Skagway Thursday 1 to” vote for. Gov. Thomes E. Dewey FOf(eS Cu' 0" JBDS H as the nominee: for President. The convention also adopted a strong ' SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- statehood plank in the platform. QUARTERS AT KANDY, Cey! Delegates Elected |May 19.—Brig. Gen. Merril's j Delegates elected to the Chicago |fighting American and Chinese convention are Albert White of |fantry and airborne reinforcements Juneau, G. A. O. Bondy of Fair- |penetrated the outskirts of t- banks and Moritz Andresen of An- |kyina. 0 chorage. Alternates elected are Nels | The town's airdrome, seized two Strand of Nome, E. E. Robertson of | days ago in a surprise attack, lies | Juneau and Mrs. E. A. Rasmuson of | two miles south of the town. While | Skagway. | troops were rushed in to the field | Divisional Committeemen chosen |by air from other elements, Stil- well's forces and another Merril| First Division; Nels Strand, Second |column occupied the village of Naw- | Division; J. C. Morris, Third Divi- | raw Sakan, which threw a bl across the Mogaung to Myitkyina | road. |sion, and G. A. D. Bondy, Fourth Division. NAZIS KILL RCAFPILOT | Eden Demands Explana- tion of Deaths of 47 Who Attempted fo Escape LONDON, May 19.—Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden disclosed that 47 RCAF officers were shot by the Germans after a mass escape from a war prison camp near Dresden on Mar-a 25. Seventy-six officers participated in the break, Eden told the Com- mons, and 15 were reported captur- ed alive, 14 are still at large, and some were shot resisting arrest and others in the course of a new es- cape attempt after they were cap- tured. Eden said it is the first such epi- sode of the war so far as is known, JAVA BASE BOMBEDIN TWORAIDS Soerbaya Struck on Suc-| cessive Days by Bomb- ers from Indian Ocean NEW YORK, May 19.—The Tokyo radio says that Soerabaja, one of Japan's key bases in the Nether- Southern Democratic Revolt Is Silenced by Bigfingper-.!i_i_ll Vole (By JACK STINNETT) WASHINGTON, May 19. — Ob- big vote Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida and Sen. Lister Hill of Ala- bama piled up against their anti- Administration opponents has just about silenced for good, so far as the November elections are con- cerned, any threat of a southern Democratic revolt. From all reports, the issue in both states was pretty clearcut. It was servers here are confident that the| BIG DRIVE . NOW MADE, LONG FRONT Americans Drivé on ltri- French Dent Defenses in Mounfain Sector ALLTED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 19—Allled troops today assaulted the Hitler Line jalong a 25-mile front, American 'forces striking toward the key Ap< plan Way junction of Itri and New Deal against anti-New Deal. French troops carving deeper into No two members of the upper cham- the German mountain defenses in ber are more loyal to the Adminis-|the middle. tration than Pepper and Hill. Time| The German Command reports after time, they have carried the the heaviest fighting is in the cen- ball for Administration policies, on ter of the Hitler Line at Ponte Car- occasion when it was damaging to vo and to the southwest acknow- their own interests. ledged a “local dent” in the line at The bulk of the argument against Santa Olivia, but claimed this was them in the primary campaign was sealed off. Anchorage was chosen as the city | The announcement said that other for the Territorial confention in troops are thrusting toward Myit- 1946. kyina from the north. Harmonious Session Meanwhile, on the India side of | The convention at Skagway was the Indo-Burma warfare, an Ih- | |most harmonious. E. E. Engstrom, dian Army brigade in a su dd n 5 Sl "mlso reelected as Chairman of the slashing attack by a circuif gesting the Germans expected the|mqijtorial Central Committee, was | march through jungle, threw a bl Permanent Chairman and Robert across the Tiddim road sout! { Atwood, of Anchorage, was Perma- | Imphal and to the south of nent Secretary. Every division in enemy’s/ {Alaska was well reptesernted by delé- quarters | gates. ’ | 'This march through some of The platform adopted contains roughest country around the the following planks: | emy’s eastern flank, cut off We believe that Alaska is on the 'Japanese 33rd division which threshold of an era of great de- been attacking Imphal from velopment and that the best inter- south, ests of Alaska require that govern- | mental controls of this development the en- the has | the —~——— h 3 a full and immediate report of the| ool h circumstances in which the men be vested in Alaskans themselves rather than in any bureau or bur- eaus in Washington, D. C. In order | to accomplish this end at the earliest | possible moment, we advocate the | immediate passage by Congress of a | practicable Enabling Act which will | permit the people of Alaska to form | a constitution and state government | C. G. AUXILIARY OUTING WILL BE EVENT SUNDAY Leaving the small boat harbor l;a.«a. utilities 22.90, and to be admitted to the Union sunday morning at 9 o'clock, boats| on a firm and equal footi With from the Coast Guard Auxiliary,| the original States. We advocate members of Flotilla No. 2,100, will| that the established procedural g1;ye) in formation down the Chan- methods of admitting territories to ho) enroute to Admiralty Cove in| statehood be followed by COngress v, ng:s Bay to officially open the in such enabling act with such ad- season’s sport fishing activities. ditional and special grants and priv- | o5 rqing to Commander J. B. floges a8 may fe Hecessary A0S M- ‘Burlord, it will not be necessary to| :1i?m€:l::éogo:ex$t.nngop{::; call at the Control Tower for pa-| end, and to the end that a consti- /Pers: but each member must report tutional convention of Alaskans be 2board his boat for final instruc- called for the purpose of forming a ;uons between 8 and 8:45 o'clock practjcable constitution for submis- |~ In port for the occasion, Lt. Earle | —_— | Watterworth, District Director of (Continued on Page Two) ithe Coast Guard Auxiliary will be P et 2 s aboard the Coast: Guard vessel MANY LEAVE JUNEAU e, o o, e e VIA PAN AMERICAN trip. | igh | A Pan American plane left m‘&m?ndnzeam;&“:& SI:;_‘ morning for Seattle carrying E. R’"sored this year by the Coast Guard Simpson, L. L. Shaw and four year| Auxiliary, will be on the various old Howard Michael Shaw. . |vessels and are to be given an op- A flight made to Fairbanks thisportunity to put into practical ap- morning took Helen Webster, W. L.\ plication some of the theories which Darden, Harold E. Heide of thelthey have been studying. Bureau of Mines and Norman Eb-| wembers making the trip will in- bley, Jr., to that city. Everett Bum- |clude Doug Gregg, Dick Garvin, side was a passenger for Whitehorse Merritt Monagle, Bill| and Mr. Darden and Mr. Heide will| pormts. sou s, op Vernon, Bl continue to Nome, G STOCK QUOTATIONS | ALASKA AIRLINER ON NEW YORK, May 19. — Closing fl.lfl" -Ivo WBMARD quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 87%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem| An Alaska Airlines plane, piloted | Steel 58%, Curtiss Wright 5, Inter-'py Larry Flahart with - Edward | national Harvester 73%, Kennecott!Courtemanche as co-pilot, came into| 31%, North American Aviation 8,|juneau this morning from Anchor- New York Central 18%, Northern age with the following persons Pacific 16%, United States Steel|aboard; H. A. Binchers, June Graff- o1k, miller, Harden Davis, Bill Loftham Dow, ones averages today are|and Al Hunt. as follows: industrials 139.34, rails| Returning to Anchorage a short| |time later, the plane carried the ‘(ollomng passengers: J. B. Murphy, Byrd Berry, J. B. Schalk, Carl Hed- i LEGION OF MOOSE MEETING TONIGHT A meeting of the Legion of the Moose will be held tonight at Moose | Headquarters in the Seward Build- ing. Regular business will be discussed and the session is scheduled to be: gin at 8 o'clock. burg, C. C. Lindseth, W. E. High, JH. B. Swain, W. Cartwright, K. F. O’Connor, M. C. Peterson, M. J. Scanlon, George Knezevick, Jack Williams and Arnold Gutstad. —— TACOMAN HERE C. E. Ogden, of the Puget Sound National Bank of Tacoma, is in Ju- Hotel. lands East Indies, was raided twice by Allied bombers on the mornings of May 17 and 18. The Jap account suggested that Allied naval and air task forces from India are carrying out another of their bold sweeps, this time in conjunction with United States Pa-| cific forces. The broadcast, recorded by U. S. tion of its failure to report the bombers 5 m facts ‘at once to the protecting pow-|the direction of the Indian Ocean” | er,” Eden said. |carried out the first attack and ad- FEREL TR ded that “it appears as though the and no Americans were involved. “The government is profoundly shecked at this news. I have urg- ently requested the protecting pow- er of Switzerland, through which' notification of the deaths came to| relatives and the Air Ministry to, demand of the German government| enemy came as a portion of a task unit basgd on aircraft carriers.” The Tokyo radio said that cn the following morning a string of bombers shot over Soerabaja “one by one” and appeared to be Consol- idated bombers such as operate from the powerful Pacific task force| including an American aircraft car- rier, which is under the command of Admiral Sir James Somerville, commander of the British Eastern fleet at Ceylon, last reported in ac- tion on April 19, when it attacked Hotb iy OFLOYANG that they were “rubber stamps” for This indicated the French have the New Deal. |driven a wedge toward the moun- Had they been upset by any size- tain only some four miles from Fico able majority, that threat of a third on the inland road from threatened party in the south if President y.q Roosevelt is remoninated would, Eighth have been something for the Presi-' Ar:‘r;,e :::l m::ey:'n;h;e fallen dent and the rest of the Demo- stronghold of Cassino on the north- Sreis DIFOL Y m0n W |ern flank and have fought within half a mile of Piedimonte, four It is true that Sen. Harry F. Byrd west of near = (D-Va.) did plak ap tiva, conventianay N & on e Soals 6 HOME delegates in Florida, without cam-} o, the central sector, south of paigning personally, but this wasn't yy. 14y Valley, the Fifth Army greeted with any surprise here, es- 4,00 haye reached a point 17 miles pecially in view of the fact ‘h“.amme from their jumping off Florida's voling population has pre- ', g week old Allied offensive by sumably changed greatly during the taking the 4,120 foot Monte Fag- war years. Neither was it consid- - Pi i ered significant as a trend nway\““o' Svrinoking SRt ¥ from the .President. More important, in fact, is that not even the candidates opposing Hill and Pepper made any direct ttack on the President in person. That’s a good old southern cus- tom—attacking the Administration but not the chief executive and head of the Democratic party. the enemy’s only communication line between the ends of the new dented Hitler Line. 'Santa Olivia Few contests in the south will be American Airmen Support; Drive in Yunnan Province CHUNGKING, May 19.—A Chin-| ese Army spokesman conceded that: the defenders of the ancient city! of Loyang in Honan Province are| surrounded and cut off, but said/ the Chinese still retained 80 to 90 percent of the city and “are deter- mined to hold it.” The spokesman announced that| the Japs who cut the east to west Lunghal Railway west of l..oyang‘l have joined forces with the mvad-i ers of Shansi Province in a further push which reached the railway town of Shanhsien, which is 49 miles from Tungkwan, gateway to| the northwest, lying at the Yellow | River elbow. Meanwhile Jap troops thrusting westward south of the Lunghai rail line, are declared to have advanced to a point 58 miles east and south- east of Tungkwan. The Chinese offensive in Yunnan| Province, aimed at junction with Gen. Stilwell’s forces in north Bur-|{ ma and reopening of the Burma | road, is making further advances west of the Salween River, a spokesman said. Supporting that Chinese drive are| American airmen, who attacked Tengchung and Lungling, princi- pal Jap bases in Yunnan. ‘The Chinese troops are reported to have reached at two points the western slopes of the formidable Kaoli Range, running north and south between the Salween and Shweli Rivers. REGISTRATION OPEN FOR MOTHERS' CLASSES Classes will begin Monday after- noon at 2 o'clock at the Health Sabang, end of the Dutch East Indies, A new serles of eight Mothers |distribution of report cards, after Sumatra at the western| ———.e — HOT FIGHT IN OREGON PRIMARIES PORTLAND, Oregon, May 19.— { Oregon nominated candidates to two United States Senate seats and re- in a primary commanding national | attention _chiefly because of the fighting involving Senator Holmau. The contest, in which Holman faced Wayne Morse, former public member of the War Labor Board and an Oregon Law School dean,, wound up in new charges by Hol- man that Morse is an inexperienced professor backed by big money, and by Morse that Holman is a danger- ous isolationist and incompetent. The presidential preference ballot- ing offered one, another test of strength between Dewey and i5tas: sen, Oregon’s 15 Republican Na- tional Convention delegates be pledged to the one receiving the most votes, and two, the opportunity for . Oregon Democrats to write in the name of Vice-President Wallace or another as the choice for Roose- velt's running mate. Roosevelt was unchallenged on the Democratic presidential preference ballot. SCHOOLS CLOSED UNTIL SEPTEMBER The Juneau Public Schools offi- cially closed for vachtion this morn- ing after opening briefly for the which teachers and students scat- tered in all directions to enjoy the summer holiday. Many took passage Center of the Territorial Building. “Good Maternity Care,” is the first topic to be discussed and re- gistration for the classes are being son at the Health Center. on the steamer leaving today. Tonight commencement exercises corded their presidential preference | — more bitterly fought than thgse against the two senators. Obser- vers here who had studied the sit- uation were frankly dubious that Hill or Pepper could win without a run-off election and many pre- dicted that they couldn't even then, Unauthenticated reports reached heré that large sums of money were thrown into the campaigns against them and in each case they had formidable foes: Senator Hill in vames A. Simpson, Birmingham at- torney; and Senator Pepper princi- pally in Ollie Edmunds, of Jackson- Defenses Are Brokg Today French Troops, American Tanks Break Hitler Fortifications ville, who ran far ahead of Pepper's field of thrée. other opponents. Both were experienced eampaigners and popular with the voters. (Continued on Page Two) HALIBUT FLEET TIE-UP ENDED; FISHING STARTS Announcement Is Made by H. E. Lokken Following Vancouver Action SEATTLE, May 19—H. E. Lok- ken, Manager of the Fishing Vessel Owners Association, says the month long tie-up of the Pacific Northwest halibut fleet is at an end. He said he has been advised that Vancouv- er, B. C, fishermen have agreed to go fishing at midnight Priday (to- night) and Seattle vessel owners and fishermen will meet tonight to set a time for the Seattle fleet to 80 to the banks. “This means the end of the tie- up,” said Lokken, “for as long &s Vancouver fishermen decided to go fishing it would manifestly be fool- ls_h for' any other fleet to stay in port.” S rrm— DOUBLE LOSS PORTLAND, Ore. — It was bad enough losing his safe, Gus G. will be held in the High School Haraldsen, owner of a Portland neau and a guest at the Gastineau made now with Miss Helen John-lgymnasium at 8 o'clock, and the dairy, told police, but the thieves By SID FEDER FORE SANTA OLIVA, Italy, May 19.—French troops and American tanks have broken the Hitler line fortifications here. The first troops entered this northern' anchor of the Hitler line on the edge of Liri Valley late yes- terday and by today a number of the troopers have fought their way to the top of the hill where the town is located. a The Germans counterattacked this morning but after severalehours the PFifth Army is still holding. REPATRIATES HOME BOUND BARCELONA, May 19. — With more than 1000 repatriated Amer- ican and Allied prisoners of war and civilians aboard, the Swedish ex- change liner Gripsholm sailed for Algiers today on the first lap of the homeward journey to the Unit- ed States. STREETS ARE 10 BE WASHED SUNDAY; AUTOISTS WARNED Downtown streets are to receive a washing down Sunday morning, starting at 5 o'clock, and Chief of Police John Monagle warns auto~ = ists not to have their cars parked public is cordially invited to attend.'also took his truck to carry it off. where there will be any interference.