The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1944, Page 1

" é"- 5 4 VOL. XLH.. NO. 9663. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944 __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE o PR[CE TEN CENTS NE THOUSAND PLANES SMASH EUROPE Allies Crash Nazi Defense Line Near Rome Saved nghl Under Ihg Jap s Nose LAST ESCAPE ROUTE BEING CLOSED TODAY| Germans Caught in Net as Forces Being Defeated in All Sections ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 27.—Thrusting close, via Casilina, to the last German escape route from the main front, Fifth Army reconnaissance elements are reported in the vicinity of Ar- tena ,about two and one-half miles from Valmontone, strong point in the center of the Nazi defense line below Rome, just about 21 miles southeast of the Eternal City. Thirty-six miles southeast, the spearpoint flung out from the beach- head, caught the Germans and they fell back in confusion, after heavy tank fighting, leaving masses of equipment, including tanks behind them, Surging up the Liri Valley, the Eighth Army defeated the Germans —— e TR S e (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry-Go-Round, By DREW PEARSON t. Col. Roben 8. Allen now on active b service with the Army.) WASHING TON-—Inside fact about Father Orlemanski’s now fa- mous trip to Moscow is u:::tnl l;x:s asgport was expedited by e ;ouse The State Department had little to say about it. A good many military and diplo- matic matters are discussed directly between the White House and Stalin, and this apparently was one of them. Anyway, the State De- partment got word that the Russian Government was interested in hav- ing Fatber Orlemanski come to Moscow, and so, as in the case of most such Allied requests, this one was promptly granted. The church hierarchy, hearing about the matter, immediately made inquiries aimed to stop the issuance of a passport but, State Department listens sympath- etically to church requests, in this case the passport was considered out of State Department hands. The White House had taken the view that, if Stalin thought he could reconcile Polish and Russian views, plus relations between Rus- sia and the Cathollc Church; vthrough FPather Orlemanski, = no: stone should be placed in his path. Meanwhile, a Soviet plane was sent to Detroit, and the priest got aboard before church officials could make any other efforts to stop him. The route the plane took, via Alaska and Siheria, is one of the most secrét of the war, and has been accorded only to a few people, such as Wendell Willkie, on special re- quest. U. S. Ambassadors ordinar- ily have to go the longer way via Europe. GOP RUNNING MATE FOR FDR?| Around the White House, it is whispered that it wash’t entirely diplomatic business that brought U. S. Ambassador John Winant back| from London. In fact, some of FDR's friends hint that the Presi- dent has Winant in mind as his running mate on a Republican- Democratic coalition ticket. The President first got to know! Winant when the former was Gov- ernor of New York and the latter was Governor of New Hampshire. FDR was close to several Repub- lican Governors at that time, an- other being Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. Atter he entered the White House, the President appointed Winant as U. 8. representative to the Interna- tional Labor Office in Geneva, then brought him back to head the So- cial Security Board, later made him U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. Those around the President find him turning over in his mind the although the |’ | { and the Federal government. AS WE HEADED FOR HOLLANDIA TROOPERS TAKE THEIR EASE aboard wake of two other LSTs toward th a landing ship as, its deck packed with trucks, the Coast Guard-manned vessel moved smoothly in the e successful MacArthur landing at Jap-held Hollandia, New Guinea. The smoke or steam pouring from the side of the ship ust ahead is not explained. o o 65 Aircraft Carriers Now With Fleet Thousand %e Raids on| Japanese Will Soon | Be Made WASHINGTON, May 27—Arte-| mus L. Gates, Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air discloses that 65| aircraft carriers are now in the| active service with the fleet. Gates said the combined flight; deck area is equal to 120 root.balli fields and airstrip seven miles long. | Gates also disclosed that the Navy airplanes of all types will “soon total some 37,700," and de-| clared that 1,000-plane raids on! the Japanese from carrier-based' planes will be “only the beginning.”| WAREHOUSEMEN | JOIN NOSTRIKE | PLEDGE OF (IO SAN FRANCISCO, May 27—Sev- | en thousand warehousemen of Harry | Bridges’ CIO Union went on record as offering an indefinite extension of their no-strike pledge “beyond” | the war in order “to help bring! closer and secure a constructive peace and jobs for all.” The San Francisco unit of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s unit framed the declaration, calling for ‘“national unity and cooperative partnership” | between capital, labor, the farmers | ——————— British Commandos Land on Miyet,Report BULLETIN — LONDON, May 27. — The German DNB said British Commandos landed on the Island of Mijet ,off the Yugoslav coast, on the night of May 23, then withdrew, leaving four dead. B TEACHERS LEAVE Marian’ Lang and Esther Abell, | idea of a prominent, liberal Repub- (Continued on Page Four) Juneau school teachers, left today on a vacation trip in the States. l ACTRESS —Screen actress Marguerite Chapman dons bath- ing suit and sandals and gets alk ready for the beach. PRESIDENT GIVES LAUGHING REPLY ON FOURTH TERM WASHINGTON, May 27.—Presi- {dent Roosevelt told tHe reporters at the news conference yesterday that lonly time will tell of his decision on the fourth term -question. This was the laughing reply giv- en to one reporter who said he was lnol asking what decision had been reached on the fourth term but if he had decided. NO BREAD, BAKERY 600DS IN_ DETROT DETROIT, Mich.,, May 27.—This city Tremained virtually without bread or hakery goods today as |striking truck drivers voted to con- tinue their walkout until they meet next Wednesday, ) To3 S ROMETOBE |, ABANDONED BY GERMANS Vichy Radio Says Military} Spokesman Says City Not Be Defended LONDON, May 27—The Vichy' radio quoted the German military spokesman as saying Rome will not |be defended by the Nazis and the |next stand will be & line north of the city prepared months ago. The assertion came when the| |Germans opened & propaganda |campaign designed to ease the |shock at home and what apparent- |ly is regarded as the impending fi {of the city. ‘n1 The Vichy broadcast, quoting the German military spokesman, said the capture of Rome will,“bring no |new element in the general conduet! of the war except prestige to be |gained by this success.” Neutral reports from Rome plc~ ture the city as one of confusion, and hunger prevailing. | Wholly unconfirmed reports are |there are no Germans in the city,| not even wounded. The announcement of nbandon-\ hng Rome sets the stage for placlng: TRUMAN |N " DEFENSE OF Nine Navy airmen crowd on the submarine Tang which moved in of the Kingfishe responsibility on the Allies for dam-| age r,o the city. %_m North Burma Town Taken By Chinese " " SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- lngra'es QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, May 27.—The Chinese have cap- NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 27— tured the north Burma town of Senator Harry S. Truman, ferming Policies Termed asserted th political | aing, and seized a supply dump in ministration “ingrates,” the Mogaung Valley, inflicting heavy Republicans are making casualties on the enemy. Allied troops from Zigyun in the closed by the Democrats themselves | Irrawaddy bend area have advanced through the special Senate War In- KURILE ISlANDS ARE POUNDED BY ALEUTIAN CRAFT PEARL HARBOR, May 27— Nayy search planes of Fleet Air- wing Four based in the Aleutians raided Shumushu Island in the |northern Kuriles on . Wednesday, | {Admiral Nimitz said, and several fires were started jn the Lz«rgu. |area, Gfound fire was meager and all planes returned aarely CLAIMS RUSSIANS START OFFENSIVE, EASTERN FRONT| BULLE’I'IN — NEW YORK. May 27.—David Anderson, NBC reported in London sends a dis- ] patch quoting the Vichy radio i as saying the Russians have | a mile and a half toward the Jap vestigation Committee. north Burma base at Myitkyina. “Our one thought has been to win of the committee. “The administra- tion has ot taken the position of hiding its ymamke&s; rather its policy has beefl to bring them out ifito the in the Republican party to seek WABHINGTON May 27—Presi- Special advantage (o themselves, dent Roosevelt laughingly said he harping on the mistakes that we |expected to see Winston Churchill curselves have bmught to light.” news conference during discussion of postwar plans. Because of the President’s mnn- ner, the reporters couldn’t tell how| a reporter noted that the Presi- dent ‘omitted to mention later in the winter, Roosevelt said he didn't like stormy weather. " the war ‘as quickly as possible,” FDR EXPE(IS To said Truman, in deseribing the work oper 1804 y can be corrected. This has Ted some of the guiding figu this summer, winter or late spring. The question came: up during a serious he was about the presiden- tial elections in November. When Keichikan Given WASHINGTON May 27. — Federal Works Agency unnouncm allocation of more .than $2,000,000 for 14 public works projects includ- ing extension of the hydroelectric power facilitles at - Ketchikan Alaska, for $125,000. Hoosewives Are ~ Warned fo Order For Over Holiday Grocery uwres will be closed next| Tuesday, Memorial Day, and the meat markets will also be closed Tuesday and again meatless Wed-| nesday. | IN FROM FAIRBANKS Housewives are warned to get| Mrs. J. H. Keeney, of Fairbanks, their orders in Monday for the'ls in town and is registered at the closed days. Baranof Hotel, started an offensive on the Eastern Front, There are no details and no confirmation from any source. ————— 1Amriated Press photo from U. S. huvy) . ROOSEVELT Criticsof Admlmslrahon: Wrong, 12 miles northeast of Kam- critics of President Roosevelt's ad-| use of administration mistakes dis-| wings and fuselage of this Navy Kingfisher after the two-man plane had picked them up from Truk lagoon where they had been shot down during the Navy air strike against the Japanese strongpoint April 20-30. The plane was damaged and was later sunk by gunfire from the under Jap shore batteries to rescue 22 downed fliers, including the men Two Political Feudsfo End 1t Roosevelt Wins Nommahon 4|h Term ,BY JAGK, STINNETT BIAK |SlAND WASHINGTON, May 27—If you, | “ keep your - POUNDEDBY LIBERATORS Prelnvasnon Pattern of } Heavy Bombing on Schouten Islands s wil end it ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| The Smith-Roosevelt feud is al- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, most the oldest in the President’s| May 27. = Gen. Douglas MacAT- npational political career. In 1932, thur’s long range Liberators are py spiking the big guns wheeled up continuing their incessant pound- for the convention by John J. Ras-| ing of Biak Island on the route 0 koh and Jouett Shouse, Roosevelt| the Philippines, headquarters 8n- erfectively killed the drive to give' nounced today. 'Smith another shot at the presi- i The twenty-second successive raid dency. That was a year, if you re-| ;:(‘.‘O‘h;,';‘::j“;:rm:‘::‘:“ E;""(’:‘;“:"‘“; call, when almost any Democrat phur might have beaten the Republican Hollandia, was made by the LIber- o .00 por smith, that must have| ators Thursday, when they dropped o, 0 pitterest pill of all. | heavy loads to bring the total ton- " I"‘_f_;;rz "20;2 'ererogn e A Ih According to observers here now, d troops in Dutch New‘Guinea owever, the years have taken som’e i the mainiand battle for the par- of the 1bad,, faste. fyom “Suilitn tially completed Japanese air bas mouth, and the New York state| [at Matfin Bay, 10 miles from Wadko Poltical situation — especially it |1sland, taken on May 19. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is the Re- | The continuation of the heavy Publican nominee—will wipe it out| raids on the Schoutens is following altogether. the preinvasion pattern of near sat-| The Farley-for-Roogevelt-for-a- |uration bombing which resulted in fourth term rumor also is tied up three large fires. {in New York state politics, with the| The communique reported that story going around that Parley| other bombers kept up the exter- might be offered the Democratic ‘minatlon attacks on by-passed Jap- nomination for governor of that!| |anese garrisons at Wewak, British state if he comes back into the ear to the pomlcali ground swell you will hear, sooner or later, almost every rumor under the sun. It is only when those ru- mors are so logical or so persistent that they can’s be ignored that they are worth examining at all. Two that belong in this second! group are (1) that the President's| renomination for a fourth term will| see the old dean of New York poli- |ticians, Alfred E. Smith, back in| the fold, and (2) that James A, Farley’s days of “non-cooperation” also will end if President Roose- | | | | (e t RENEWAL OF AERIAL WAR ON EUROPE Rail Targets,Aircraft Plants Are Being Struck by Americans LONDON, May 27—An armada of up to 1,000 American Liberators and Flying Fortresses smashed rail targets in four German towns and aircraft plants in two French cit- jes In a powerful renewal of the aerial battering. The German centers of Karlsr- hue, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Saarbruken were pounded, said the announcement, and the aircraft plants at Metz and Strasbourg. The communique said that heavy tombers were out in ‘“very strong force” and about as many fighters accompanied the second assault a little more than 12 hours afier the chemical center of Ludwigshafen was hit last night by RAFP Mos- quitos, which also pounded rail yards at Anchen. The Berlin radio said that Karlsr~ hue and Mannhelm were hit with “substantial quantities” of explo- sives and incendiaries, and added . that weather conditions kept all but a few German fighters from mak- ing contact with m. attackers. REDSPOUND GERMANSIN AIR, ON SEA LONDON, May 27.—The Russians today reported an air attack on the German troopship in Barents Sea, north of Norway. This is the first time in more than a month that large scale German troop move- ments have been noticed in the North Arctic waters. A midnight | war bulletin said that two trans- ports and a destroyer were sunk and three other ships damaged, Earlier, Germans claimed they {had shot down 68 of 80 attacking | Red planes, but the Russians said ‘thaz only seven bombers were lost. Ten German planes were-reported downed in skirmishes, southeast of Stanislawow, in Old Poland, which was the only activity reported ‘on the Eastern front, 1 - e RAF FLIERS LAY MINES IN DANUBE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 27—A new series of mining operations covering hun- | dreds of miles of the Danube, vital water highway to the Balkans has been completed, the Royal Air Force has announced. The operations, carried out at low altitude and at night, have ef- fectively reduced German waterway traffic to me eastern lront New Guinea, and at Rabaul, New Roosevelt forces. Britain. The Wewak area got 75| Persons who should know think tens on Thursday and Rabaul 66. ‘thh; is especially true since P‘lrlcy| Meager reports of the Maffin Bay has never deserted the Democratic| fighting, a headquarters spokesman |ranks as Smith did when he * mok! |said, indicated the stuBborn Jap-|a walk” in 1936 Even after the anese defenders have WIthdrawn preak between the President and under the heavy American infantry|p;q former political lieutenant and artillery. gre. reached its climax in the conven- :::m of llm Farley announced thxm would vote the Democratic tick- | Alaska Midshipmen Graduate on June 7 et, although it was clear to everyfl lone that he was doing so with greater reluctance than ever before | in his long political life. i WASHINGTON, Mny 27. — Two Alaska midshipmen are members of the class to graduate from An- hook, “The Ghost Talks” states| napolis on June 7. They are Bev- that it is his opinion that the re- erly Staser of Anchorage and Keith| Kimball of Ketchikan, J (con!lnued on Page sw Charles Michelson, former party| publicist, in his often revealing BODY OF WOMAN FOUND WEIGHTED DOWN IN LAKE DURHAM, N. C, May 27.—Police | Chief H. E. King announced that & woman’s body has been found welghted down in an Eastwood Lake during a search which was under- way for Mrs, Edward Jewett, 67, wealthy Bonneville, Mo., woman, missing since May 10. The body was found by divers. The woman’s grandson, Edward Martin, 24, remained in jail, having —— |been indicted on a murder charge last Thursday.