The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1944, Page 1

AERIAL WAR VOL. XLIL, NO. 9662. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | /'THE DAILY_ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS eeema————————————— | NAZIS ROLLED BACK BY ALLIED FORCES Many ldle In Nation Byfi- Strikes General Tieup of Lumbe Industry Heads List of Walkouts (By Associated Press) LULL DUE TO BAD WEATHER 8,000 Tons Sprayed Over Large Section of Nazi | Europe Yesterday | LONDON, May 26. — The Allied ITALY BASED CRAFT MAKE WIDE SWEEPS Targefs in Southern France and in Yugoslavia Are Pounded LONDON, May 26.— American preinvasion air offensive dwindled | as bad weather over the continent grounded most of the air force. The The general lumber tieup, which | War Production Board officials are |estimating is causing a daily pro- bombers from Italy attacked the Lyon railyards, bottleneck for Ger- man supplies through the Rhone Wife of Alaska Army Man Makes Complaini Against Gef Out Order KODIAK, Alaska, May 26. — Aleave Alaska when she is able and enjoin Lt. Gen.|her children have sufficient health to travel Simon Buckner, Commanding the | M:':h[" Alaskan Department, and Brig. April 22 Gen. John N. Robinson, Command- The complaint asks for an order ing Fort Greeley, nearby Army restraining the Army enforcement |post, from enforcing an evacua- |tion order concerning an Army IwM’e. was postponed today and a I ‘hearing set by Judge Simon Hel- case seeking to gave birth to twins on notice, Mrs. Fry claiming there is {no military necessity and that the complainant has no other to go to. It is also claimed there are hundreds VICTORYIN ITALY MAY BE SIGNAL No More Germans fo Be Sent South in View of Coming Invasion | | STOCKHOLM, May 26.—Both the eastern and Italian fronts of the Republicans Worried Over "Check _Dewey’ Concerted Action Report- ed on Way in Behalf of Other Candidates . (By Associated Press) With the convention only one home | |Germans must manage with troops land equipment already there in view of the coming western inva- month away, opposing Republican factions replowed the fields of 442 publicly uncommitted delegates in ADVANCES ON ITALY FRONT CONTINUING Fifth Army, Eighth Army Make Seizures~12,000 German Prisoners BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 26~The Fifth Army has cap- tured the town of Cori, seven miles outside the former Anzio Vichy radio said Lyon and the St. duction loss of nine million and & Etienne region of France was at- half board feet today, headed the tacked this morning followed by an list of at least eight walkouts alert over much of central France. throughout the nation. The lull came after more than| Estimates of the total number of 6,000 Allied planes hammered air- idle varied from 20,000 to as x_mny dromes and transportation centers as 51,000, due to the widely differ- of the continent with over 8000 ent opinions of the number of idle tons of bombs yesterday by planes in the Pacific Northwest. Most of | from both British and Italian bnses.‘lhe walkouts are due to wage de- These attacks were directed at at mands least 21 rail centers and 15 airfields! Detroit is virtually without bread which ranged from Toulon in or bakery goods in a drivers’ tieup southern France to Berlin itself. {in one of four Michigan walkouts ARRESTED ON BURGLARY !walkout in the East St. Louis, Il-| o is is, Missouri 3 CITY POLICE linois, and the St, Louis, , CHARGE BY |oil refineries of the Socony Va- T mann was arrested by o uwaacen gifiie today and sturned idle. With the company producing Q::,. my the U. S. Marshal on a 100 octane aviation gasoline, W. F. 2 N ing | Burt, the company’s manufacturing af gty o fl‘zzi::;:‘\dlrkcmr, telegraphed the President puild- for help, terming the walkout “un- today thinkable” on the eve of our inva- sion of Europe.” The union officials| ,did not comment. | Meanwhile about 4,700 workers in | charge house. Neumann, allegedly a of going into two different ings, was be arraigned late by U. S: Commissioner Felix Gray. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON |at least six other plants are either |returning to work or have voted to |lreturn pending settlements. The \Warehouse Division.of the CIO In- ’;cernflflbnul Longshorémeén’s and Warehousemen's Union of San w on sctive | Francisco pledged the abandonment et .’lf;".i?-?m‘;‘é:‘;.i'm |of the strike as an economic wea- 'pon for the duration of the war Valey in southern France, and kept |lenthal for May 31 at Anchorage. of wives of army {which has kept about 7,000 idle. A stroying a | bor the Allied air offensive rolling. Between 500 and 750 Fortresses and Liberators also attacked the railroad yards at St. Etienne, 40 miles southwest of Lyon, and other targets in southern France. Few en- emy fighters were encountered. Fertresses also spanned the Adri- |atic and bombed German troop con- centrations at Bikac, 70 miles south of Zagreb in Yugoslavia, and Lightnings strafed the Zemunik airfield on the Dalmatian coast, de- number of grounded planes. lcuum Oil Company left 608 mon; ADVI(E 6i‘H0w ' TOHAVE WINDOW i ' BOXES IS GWEN,Chennault’s Airmen Make Now that the back-breaking la- of cleaning up the garden, | spading beds, preparing the soil }and getting the plants under way !is over, Juneau gardeners should now, be getting dividends in the flowering of ‘thelr bulb:plants and |other early perenniels. In this, second of a series of gar- | dening articles sponsored by the Ju- |neau Garden Club each week, ac- WASHINGTON—Lone-wolf Sen- ang “indefinitely thereafter.” ator Langer of North Dakota 1s‘ planning to ask some potent ques-; tions regarding reports that the United States has turned over part QS+ 4§ Ski Club Weine of its light cryisers of the Omaha; class to .Russia as a substitute for! Russia’s receiving one-third of '.he; Italian fleet. - | 1t wlil be recalled that, last win- ter, the President stated in a press Roast Tomorrow Plans are completed for the Ski Club wiener roast and beer par!.yi which comes off tomorrow evening conference that the Russian AW- .. syy pay at 6:30 oclock. All Ski bassadon had heen to see Mlm T o, embers and their friends garding plans for turning over one- | 14 any round if they don't third of the Italian fleet to Russia 1y i 24 ! under the Italian armistiee terms,!wan" to miss a good time. | This conversation, in turn, dated| Those who do not have a ride back to last summer when Premier | Should meet in front of the Assem- Stalin was complaining privately | bly Apartments at 6 sharp! No one that he had not been consulted in'Will have to walk to the picnic, and | advance regarding the first pro-|rides will be provided back again as| visional armistice terms with Italy|well (at which time, incidentally, this| Don't worry about the weather.| correspondent got himsglf in the This party can adapt itself to all| middle of some hot words regsrding;climuws. If it is raining, the party the State Department’s attitude to-|will be held in the Auk Bay shel- ward Russia.) | ter, which is roomy enough to hold | Later, at Teheran, the subject of {the entire crowd, Whatever the the Italian fleet came up between weather, the dinner will be equally Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, at|good, the awarding of prizes equal- which time Churchill demurredily exciting and the entertainment against giving Russia one-third of |equally hilarious. the Italian fleet and, instead, PIo-\ ‘The social committee would ap- posed that the United States and | preciate advance notice, where pos- Great Britain give Russia some of | sible, from those who are coming. Suele yealip, |The charge for the party is $1 per| Churchill's idea was that the'no... .- peyly per! Italian fleet, for some time oper- ating under the British, in the Mediterranean, should be kept as sm j APS K'llE ( a unit, since he felt it was pef-l forming an important mission in policing the Mediterranean against I“ MA"lpuR ARE A Axis submarines. Presumably also, the British Admiralty was not un-| aware of the fact that the Italian| SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- Navy, recently built, contains some}QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, of the fastest and most modern May 26.—Allied headquarters esti- | mate a total of 8,500 Jap troops have Yomels I Birme. | been killed in the Manipur area, ~ However, the whole question was‘ s il o8 tponed for future discussions; e ; d ¥ fffe, Teheran, and this was how | fighting is said to be continuing in the Russian Ambassador happened | the Bishenpur sector. o take up the matter at the White| The communique also says the| ;lou.se. H !Japs have failed to penetrate the | Allied positions at the southeast QUESTION OF U. 8. CRUISERS edge of the Imphal Plain and have Recently, reports have cropped}b”“ thrown back in disorder on out that some of the U. S. cruisers| the Tamu-Palel road, of the Omaha class already have| - T e A gone to Russia. Omaha-class cruis- MRS, ENGE VISITS HERE where heavy | by Mrs. Alfred Zenger, so that the |amateur flower fancier will be |prodded into getting those things |done which he dreamed of when gazing at the catalogues this spring. By now the gardener should have planted his annuals which will fill in his bulb beds and borders when they have finished blooming. Lilacs and peonies should be giv- en a good top dressing of bone meal or a good commercial fertil- Many Juneauites are now getting their window and porch boxes start- ed. Boxes should be washed in a salt bath or formaldehyde for a thorough cleansing before prepara- tion of the soil. Some house plants may be moved to them and com- bined with the window-box favor- ites of baby blue eyes, alyssum varieties, candytuft, lobelia, dwarf marigolds, and others. Red, white and blue combinations of petunias will make an attractive and patrio- tic window box. All gardeners should be watching now to isee that the faded pods from daffodils and narcissus are re- moved immediately in order to al- low the bulbs to mature and pre- vent seeding. The leaves should not be cut from bulb plants as they furnish food to the bulb. All bulb tilization now of bone meal, if pos- sible, or a commercial fertilizer. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 26. — Glosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Curtiss-Wright 5, Internation- al Harvester 74%, Kennecott 31!, | North American Aviation 7%, New York Central 177%, Northern Pacific 1612, United States Steel 51%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 140.03; rails, 39.88; utilities, 22.92. - ,—— — TO SKAGWAY ON VISIT Mrs. Edna Polley left last night for Skagway on a vacation trip to visit the family of her son, Dr. | tivities for the week are suggested! The complaint is entitled Helen {Fry versus Buckner and Robinson. Helen Fry alleges she has been |a resident of Alaska since January |30, 1942, and that she married Wil- {lard Fry, soldier at Kodiak on June 25, 1943. She claims she had now |been served a notice that she must men now living in Alaska, many residing with their husbands near Army posts or installations. The Adjutant General in Wash- ington, D. C., has named Noel ‘Wennblom, District Attorney of the Third Division, to defend the Army WHITE STAR 15 INSIGNIA OF INVASION Use of American Symbol Follows Precedent Set in N. Africa, Italy SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR- IN ENGLAND, May 26.— LOYANGIS BELIEVED ~ (APTURED | Sweeping Atfacks Over | ? Wide Areas | CHUNGKING, May 26, — Com~ munication with’ Loyang has been 'ggf {cut -off since yosterday, leading to [ ral Dwight D. Elsenhower ré- the belief that the Honan Province|turned from his inspection of the | stronghold has fallen to the Japs. British ground forces under his su- | Tokyo claimed the capture in a preme invasion command and an- |broadcast yesterday. |nounced he is highly pleased with | Maj. Gen. Tseng, army spokes- the thoroughness of their training. man said that Loyang has probably Soon afterwards he had an aud- |fallen, but that he had no confir- ience with thet King at Bucking- | mation. ham Palace. sion, a German High Command |Search of support to offset, if pos-, spokesman told correspondents. | sible, 395 votes pledged and claimed In view of the manpower pinch, by Dewey. 2 $ Ithe spokesman said, the German| A public disavowal by Herbert lcommnnd was forced to make the Hoover of any pnrtl!cipatlon ln‘ “;;'- “sarious fon” ¢ {selection of a nominee, gave indi- »t;euous “decls;onlm:o ii:::‘:semivn:‘cnuon of the warmth of the pre-| } g orininahl a Y. t convention campaign which now ap- [didn’t want to draw reserves from |, ... to have taken on an aspect other threatened fronts.’ | . |in some quarters of a concerted | The spokesman said he regarded . ..k Dewey” drive by the other | the Allied Italian success as the | potential candidates. |“signal” for invasion by coordinat- | 1p a formal statement Hoover said |ed Allied offensives from the east,|that “some ill-informed persons” | west and south. | have attempted to link his name Admitting the German wlthdraw~:wxgh various possible nominees, in- !al is without doubt a great tacncnl[cludlng Dewey, Bricker and Mac- beachhead as the Allied forces rolled the Germans back in a swift advance toward Rome, direction of Calmomtone for any German troops remaining in the vicinity of the Pontine marshes. A LLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 26. — The Allied Forces have rolled back the Ger- victory for the Allies, the spokes-|Arthur. Hoover said: “I am not {man said “the Germans were obllg-}tnkmz nor expect to take part 1n1 led to avoid encirclement because the selection of a Republican nom- ]‘Lhe German troops were inferior|inee. The people and their duly| |in number and material.” elected delegates take care of that| { themselves.” | Most politicians thought that! Hoover's statement was direc | traceable to a recent suggestion by | Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia, that the Republican and Democratic con- ' ventions be abandoned because, as | Arnall said, it is apparent that, SEIZURE OF WARD PLANT DENOUNCED BY SUBCOMMITTEE WASHINGTON, May 26. — The ! Senate Judiclary Subcommittee | headed by Senator McCarran de- . clared the President had “no con- stitutional authority” to issue the | executive order under which Mont- | Republican nominee. e 'YANKS ADVANCE i mans By swift new advances toward Rome atiboth ends of the Italian battle line, Fanning out swiftly from the for- mer Anzio beachhead area, the now linked main front of the Fifth Army troops have captured Cister- na and plunged forward more than Ithree miles, cutting two important roads leading to the northward and northeastward on the north. The Eighth Army has captured Roosevelt and Dewey are the nom- |Aquino and Pledimonte the last re- |inees. The Governor eoncluded by ndaining strong points of the en- | saying that Hoover would pick. the: ‘emy’s- once vatnted ‘Hitler Line. - | Canadian troops have won the bridgehead across the Melfa river in Lirt Valley, 13 miles west of Cas- sino. Southwest of Cisterna the Fifth On the Salween front in Yunnan| | It is disclosed the Allied vehicles! {gomery Ward and Company’s Chi- cago mail order house was seized | by armed troops last month. The sharply worded report criti- !Army has occupied Littoria, Mus- Isolini’s model town on the ancient marshes without opposition as the Germans pulled back to a new de- T0 JAP DROME AT MAFFIN' BAY plants should be given a good fer- | stock today is 5%, American Can 89, | \lPrcvlnce, the Chinese have reached and tanks marked for the invagion ia point %5 miles from the Burma will have a white star, which has Road town of Lungling. |been the symbol of the American Chennault’s airmen made further fighting forces on land and in the widespread attacks ranging from 'air. ‘It is- understood this is not Hainan Island, Thailand and Indo/to be extended to the air units of IChina to the Yangtze and Yellow the RAF which will be using the River areas of China. red, white and blue targets insig- General Stilwell's headquarters hia. said the missions resulted in the| The use of the American white sinking of two cargo vessels at the star for all forces followed a prece- southern tip of Hainan, dropping of dent set in North Africa and Italy. isupplies to the besieged defenders| ,,e |of Loyang, and an attack on Yun-} cheng, an important Jap base in,R"SSIA |Shansi Province. WASHINGTON, May 26. — State - e MEMORIAL DAY ‘PROGRAM WiLI. | {Department officials have revealed | BE HElD HERE |that the Soviet Union is making re- £ | presentations to Japan on behalf of {war prisoners. |, The American Legion and Aux-| Acting for the United States as iliary will be in charge of the well as Great Britain, British For- Memorial Day observance to be held ! |in Juneau next Tuesday, May 30 eign Minister Anthony Eden told | At 10:30 a. m. a pl‘ogrm"n will e the House of Commons he request- Iheld at the Elks Hall, with an ad- |0 that Russia approach Japan on dress by Gov. Ernest Gruening. lthe alleviation of conditions govern- Immediately following the cere.!lnz war prisoners and that:the So- monies at the Elks Hall, the group |Viet Union had agreed to act on the will march to the Alaska Steamship Eden suggestion. Dock, where & floral wreath will be | Sy | i | consigned to the deep in honor of | America’s defenders lost at sea.| Proceeding to Evergreen Cemetery, | !a second wreath will be placed at| MOHETARY o" the base of the flagpole as al . memorial to the fallen soldiers. | F . The public is asked to participate. | CAllED BY FDR MORE MEN NEEDED IN ~ wassvaron, ey dent Roosevelt has called an inter- E (0"““("0" WORK, national monetary conference to |meet at Bretton Woods, New Hamp- -'A(K (ARVE[ SAY |shire, beginning July 1 to discuss | postwar financial problems, and in- Jack Carvel, of the United States vitations have been issued to 42 Employment Service, has the fol- gountries and the French Commit- lowing report to make: |tee of National Liberation. 26.—Presi- | cized Attorney General Biddle, who | had assured the President he had| ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- :the authority to issue the order:iQUARl‘ERB IN NEW GUINEA, | Secretary Jones, who called 'hB:May 26.—Sixth Army units battled | soldiers to take over the plant and 'through stiff Jap resistance to |elect Sewell Avery, Ward Board yeach Maffin Bay airfield, Dutch ‘Ch""m“"; and the “O“C‘g:“‘m | New Guinea. The advance was sup- t:‘;”k:v:s "’L“;Z D;par;men;n:h zo"‘port,ed by Kittyhawk planes, tanks luot:ml Blfab:r l;el:t?;n's ";m rde @-land artillery, and the destruction of Senator Revercomb jolned in the,u i plafles PhEed :n No:mflomr McCarran report, but the mud:m"“d was announced, anc our member, Senator McFarland, de-|°ther grounded planes were dam-| lined t i |aged. C I¥fm s‘;:fi: Sl;bcommltwe did not| The Americans encountered their hold public. hearings, but sent an |toughest fight in the crossing of| investigator to Chicago shortly after | the Tirfoam River on the east side | the seizure. McFarland said he did of the airfield, where the Japs at- not sign the report because “I be- |tempted to hold up the advance | lieve the subcommittee has not made | With the concentrated fire of small! the kind of investigation calculated |arms and artillery, but the Ameri-| | | to get all the facts required for a|can artillery opened up and the full report.” Yanks pushed ahead. | Chairman Ramspeck of the House | - eee — | committee investigating the Ward | ! plant seizure, declared his posxuon!‘ Tnlps I" z DAYS { is unchanged. i “I don’t approve of Ward's con- ! duct in defying the government in| time of war,” he said. 4 P e | President Gets Quick Checkup in Hospital - FOR PAN AMERICAN A Pan American plane leaving for | | Seattle today carried Alan G. Webb, | | Inspector for the Department of | | Agriculture and Maurice 8. Whit- | tier, Assistant Collector of Customs | was a passenger on a flight to ‘Whitehorse this forenoon. An incoming plane from Fair- banks this morning brought Reuel M. Grifin, Business Specialist for dent Roosevelt visited a nearby|the OPA, and Mrs. Margaret Mc- naval hospital for a physical check- | Carron, also with the OPA. | up. He remained there only a short | - A flight to Whitehorse yesterday | time and results will probably not | afterncon carried James Dusenberry | be known for a week. | WASHINGTON, May 26.—Presi- : pilots on an incomi i | spection trip for the Hudson Bay Company. ! | ANCHORAGE FLIGHT ‘ terday and Henry Knight, Andrew C. Whallon, George Flynn, Wll-; Alaska Alr- | | liner today from Anchorage, bring- | ing Maynard Taylor, A, Webb, Fred Stark, F. T. Kelly and Helen | FOR ALASKA LINE | liam H. Aker, Ray Grant and P, A.! | / 1 |Hill and J. Stanley. E‘; U. S. SIIbS Sefld DOVIII‘ | and John Miine, who is on an in-i Kaplan were flown to Seattle yes- Roy Dugan and Max Silver were | Anderaoet to Mittbanks. Enroute back to the Westward | i city the plane carried Susanne Tay- | Mrs, Augusta Enge, of Petersburg, There are now a considerable | A proposal to establish an eight lor, Emma Nicolet, Charles Nicolet, | 15 More Jap Vessels| fense line in the Alban Hills. The Allled Air Forces continued to smash fleeing vehicles, more than 1,750 enemy vehicles being destroyed or damaged during the past 48 hours. Long columns of German convoys attempting to es- cape encirclement are jamming the roads and make good targets as Allled planes sweep low and drop bombs, The destruction of the ve- I hicles is raising havoc with the en- emy transport system. German prisoners taken since the offensive began two weeks ago, mounted today to over 12,000 as - columns continued to fall to the rear as the Allied forces continued to mop up captured areas. In the 4-day old offensive in the !beachhead section, the Fifth Army captured 2,600 prisoners up to noon yesterday. Among the prisoners is the Commander of the 954th Ger- man Infantry Regiment and his | staff, Emblem Club Plans Big Ti@g_ Saturday the Emblem Tomorrow night !Club will celebrate its first really big night since the Club was jnstis tuted in the Elks Baliroom and Club. In the Club room will be cards for those who do not care to dance. In the Ballroom, the All-Girl Or- chestra will put out the music for the dancers. There will also be en- tertainment numbers during inter- mission and refreshments for all. The dancing is to begin at 10 o'clock and the members of the Emblem Club have invited for their guests:—all members of the Elks Lodge and. their ladies, and Em- blemites’ escorts. General Chairman for this affair have been Mrs. Louise Blanton and v ers, built around 1920, are 7,000-! ton vessels carrying 6-inch guns./is in Juneau for @ short visit and Clayton Polley. number of openings in the White- billion dollar gold based stabiliza- | {the Tbles Club Shay - wiied | §p Since they are all over twenty years'l old, they are out of date according| to strict naval standards, though in excellent shape for convoy or patrol duty. One of these cruisers, the Mem- phis, brought Lindbergh back to the United States after his historic flight across the Atlantic in 1927 They were the mainstay of the U. (Continued on Page Four) 4 during her stay here is the guest of | S e horse area for shovel operators,; Guy Hemminway, F. Finch, Wnrren: WASHINGTON, May u.—Amzrl-} Mrs, Hy O. Adams. - ., HERE FROM SEATTLE Walter J. Touhey has arrived from Seattle and is a guest at the Gas- tineau. e — NEITZERT IN TOWN Glen Nietzert, of Strawberry Point is in Juneau and is registered at | the Gastineau. [ JENNY LARSON HOME Jenny Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Olaf Larson, has returned | from the south where she has been attending the Seventh-day Adven- ]nst School. She was formerly em- ployed at Ordway’s Photo Shop. —ee——— WILLIAM SALT IN TOWN Willlam C. Salt has registered at the Baranof from Ketchikan, | scarper and carryall operators, light tion fund to be financed by the participating nations, will be pre- C. Dewing, LaVerne Hoaglund, Dor- | othy Lyman, Olga Laviano, John can subs, ripping Jap supply lines land heavy duty truck drivers, motor | grader operators, heavy equtpmem!unw “_‘i‘f_ ARperenge. mechanics and mechanic's helpers. | Bl 50 AEKACWAY At Skagway there are a few open- W. J. Walk WAY ings left for diesel generator op-| W J: Walker, of the West Coast erators and commissary helpers and | GF0C€ry; Horace Adams of the a few at Haines for laborers. Steamship Company, and Anyone interested is urged to call| PéT®¥ Reynolds left last night at the U. S. Employment Office(3b0ard the Patricia for brief visits without delay. to Lynn Canal towns, |throughout the Pacific, have sunk' another 15 vessels including a de-| Ixtroyer and transport and bringing | the bag to 724 the number of Jap, ships sunk, probably sunk or dam- aged by the U. 8. subs. The latest bag also included '.hrnl cargo ships and seven cargo carry- ing vessels, Sztuk, M. Tlaacs and V. Hilliker. —— TEACHER EMPLOYED AT BARANOF HOTEL | Patricia Godell, first grade teach- er, is employed during the summer }on the switchboard at the. Baranof Hotel. call upon. The Club and its Chair- 'men have planned for a “big night” they be prepared |bership cards for admission.