The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9664. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” UNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS EUROPE HIT TWO WAYS BY U.S. PLANES Allies Push Within 17 Miles of Rome PLANES AID |No Protection fo Be Given Allied Airmen Who Bail Oul in Reich‘ FIFTH ARMY MOVES ON 4 STRONGHOLDS Eighth Army_Advances Steadily in Liri and Sacco Valleys ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, May 29.—American tanks late today struck the | slopes of the Alban Hills less than 16 miles from Rome’s out- | skirts and are attacking the German Mobila strongpoints. The Headquarters communi- que says three German Divi- sions, totalling possibly 24,000 men or more, have been virtu- ally destroyed all along the front and the bag of prisoners is now above 15,000. i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| NAPLES, May 29. — Fifth Army troops stormed toward four Rome line strongholds against fierce re- (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen mow on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — General Eisen- hower has just issued an order| which will mean all the difference| in the world to harmony between | U. S. and British troops during the invasion. He has ordered that all American Red Cross entértainment centers and other recreational hostels shall be open to all Allied troops, and that, prices shall be lowered to meet the pay of the lowest-paid sc-ldter,} This may not seem so on the surface, but to those familiar with the British and American troops in England, it is all-important. It goes back to the fact that American! troops are the highest paid in the world, and have been able to put British troops in the shade socially through superior buying power. When British Tommies see their girls go off with strangers who ean afford to buy them .a better time, it doesn’t help morale. In addition to this, the American Red Cross has take nover various big: mansions in England and transformed them into comfortable, = sometimes * luxurious| recreation centers for American| troops. This has been an excellent thing —except in one respect. British troops, seeing American soldiers living off the fat of the land, with mansions at their disposal, have resented it. NO “KEEP OUT” SIGNS Some American Red Cross work- ers have taken the initiative into their own hands and invited Brit- ish troops into American centers. Their theory has been thaf, when soldiers of the Allfed armies got to know each other, bickering and Jealousy would disappear. The idea has worked when tried out, but it has not been tried out very much. Finally, the whole problem came before General Eisenhower. He has now ruled that, when the Brit- ish, American, Canadian, New Zea- land and ‘other Allied troops land in Western Europe, American -cen- ters shall be thrown open to all Allied troops, and that prices shall be reduced to meet the meager sal- ary of the British Tommy. Am- erican soldiers, naturally, will get the benefit of this price reduction too. General Eisenhower felt that it would not be good for Allied co- operation if British troops, when near an American recreation cen- ter, should be met with a “Keep Out” sign. Naturally, British hos- tels will be open to American troops also. NOTE—American Red Cross cen- ters in England are managed by well-trained Americans, but a big part of their staff, aside from the (Continued on Page Four) unfortunate feeling between; | who suggested bringing Forrestal to 2 Officers, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 29.— |Two Coast Guard officers and five enlisted men, who went to the res- cue of two stranded fishing boats, the Ioangen and Alaskan, have been missing since last week, the Dis- trict Coast Guard office announces. The announcement made no fur- ther mention of the fisherinen, pre- |sumably rescued later. The missing Coast Guard officers are Lt. (jg) Jack E. Shaw and En- sign Aven Anderson of the Ketchi- kan Coast Guard. 'Coast Guard Boat with Men, Reported Missing‘ 5 Enlisted The announcement said the fish- ing ‘boats had been grounded and the coast guardsmen, after going (o the rescue, signaled they were also in danger. A second coast guard boat then| went to their assistance, arrived at| the spot designated but was unable to find trace of either boat or crew. Later, 10 extra life jackets, car-| ALLIES AT MYITKYINA Counterthrust Beaten Off- Chindits Withdraw Near Mogaung SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD- QUARTERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, May 29.—American and Chinese troops have penetrated deeper into the main Jap North Burma base ried by the missing coast guard, were found along the shere. at, Myltkyins, HUtisome 35 - DHles e to the west near the town of Mog- Search continues by land, sea and|, o0 British Chindits have with- Wis A SRR, oY the TillgR 18 drawn from their positions astride s i the enemy's communications line Forrestal Proniolion Has Approval of All 5 Sidesin Washingfon By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt hasn’t made an ap- peintment -that- has met with"such unanimous approval on Capitol Hnl‘ as that of James Vincent Forrestal | to Secretary of the Navy. There are two very good reasons for it. First, even the President’s bitterest enemies couldn’t accuse him of making a political appoint- | ment in this instance. Second, few | men in the govenment who come in close contact with the House and Senate have so favorably impressed the members as the new secretary. Forrestal is a Democrat but he has never worked at it. Friends here say that he never even wet his fiiger in the political puddle. He first attracted the attention of presidential advisers when the New Deal was pumping for regulation of Wall Street. Forrestal was then the comparatively youthful president of Dillon, Read and Company, one of the oldest firms on the Street. Like several other “young bloods,” he adopted a policy of cooperation rather than antagonism and in hearings on the Hill, tried to give helpful advice rather than hind- rance. in the shaping legislation. It was reportedly Harry Hopkins ‘Washington and urged,his appoint- ment as Under Secretary of the Navy. But the foes of Hopkins have never made any complaint about Forrestal. from the south. The Chindits have held their po- sition southwest of Mogaung since last March, blocking the Mandalay Ito Myitkyina railway. The commun- ique said they retired after five days of heavy fighting by reinforc- ed Jap units. These airborne troops have been operating behind the Japanese turn faces the Chinese in the Mo- gaung Valley. Penetrating the southern end of Myitkyina, the American and Chi- In his years as Under Secretary.lnese troops are said to have cut the he has appeared before various Jap exit in that direction after two committees of Congress scores of 'days of fighting. times and it was there'he earned| Aided by clear weather Allied the respect of the members. |atreraft supported the fighting Brief and brilliant, he never grop- |around Myitkyina, where an enemy ed for an answer and questions that | wesiward thrust by a force appar-|tion if tendered is a “hypothetical | would have antagonized some BOV- ently attempting to reinforce .the ernment officials always got a straightforward answer. In one hearing recently, when the Navy was seeking one and a half | billion dollars solely for new and improved bases, one House member said: “It seems to some of us, Mr, Forrestal, that the public has some reason for feeling the Navy is trying to take advantage of the emer- gency and get while the getting is geod, to establish itself for post-war during the war.” Forrestal was then ! asked if that could be the Navy's policy. |Myitkyina garrison met with heavy |losses. BIAK ISLAND OPERATIONS PROGRESSING 18th Division which in| He replied: “Well, I think that is a very sensible question, human nature’ being what it is.” And he went on to reveal what precautions he and the late Secretary Knox had | taken to safeguard the taxpayers | against this very thing. | Answers like that have made For- restal popular with Republicans and Democrats alike.. A few days before, an admiral before the commiittee had become indignant and frozen up at virtually. phe same question. In a city where so many persons seek the spotlight, the new secre- (Continued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 29. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 25%, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester ! 74, Kennecott 31%, North American Aviation 7%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 51'2, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 14152, rails 140.14, utilities 23.05. PRICES SATURDAY -Alaska Juneau mine stock closed last Saturday at 5%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 75, Kennecott 31%, North American i Aviation 7%, New York Central 17%, | Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 51%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Saturday | were ‘as follows: Industrials, 141.24; rails, 40; utilities, 22.04. ———ee BOY IS NEEDED FOR WORK IN EVERGREEN An appeal has been made by Richard Byrnes, supervisor of the Evergreen Bowl, for a boy to assist with the various jobs in connection with the care of the playground. daily, five days a week, and the pay is 75 cents an hour. Anyone interested is requested to lightCasuaWes inOriginal Landings—Resistance Now Increasing May 28/ — Tough American Sixth Army- invasion ‘veterans solidified their positions on Biak Island inthe newest ‘Successful leapfrdg operation undertaken by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur’s forces/on Saturday. Biak-is less than 900 miles from the Philippines. The invasion army ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, | RADIO TALK " TONIGHT BY - GOV.DEWEY 1Says He Is Willing fo Ex- { press His Views on [ Platform Matters (By Associated Press) To the long standing fact that i(lov. Thomas E. Dewey has not !come out for the Republican presi- |dential nomination is added the news that he is willing to “express |my views” on platform matters and |18 doing exactly “nothing” to dis- colirage talk on his long preconven- tion lead. The new development came at a press conference on the eve of the conference of governors at Hershey, Pennsylvania, where the New Yorker told questioners that whether he will accept the nomina- ‘question.” | i The delegate listing to date shows |that Dewey has 386 pledged and! | of Ohio, his nearest rival. % Special political significance is |given the governors’ meeting by the speechmaking appearances of the | potential nominees. | Gov. Bricker told a press confer- lence yesterday that in times like |these he thought the candidate “should discuss all the issues vital to his country pertaining to the of- fice he seeks.” Bricker did not re- “;ly directly to the question of whe- ther he was talking about Dewey, |but if Dewey wants to take up the matter he has another opportunity |tonight when he goes on the Her-' |shey program with a speech entitled | |“Organizing the State for the Fu-| | ture.” D & NIPS WHO ESCAPED TRAP BEING CHASED 'BY CHINESE FORCES NO INVASION TODAY;NALZIS WERE ALERT Hitler Guessed Wrong-D- Day General Strike Ex- pected in France (By Associated Press) German broadcasts reflected the increased tension. on Marshal von Rundstedt’s entire invasion front STOCKHOLM, May 29.—German Propaganda Minister Goebbels, writ- ing to the Volkishcer Begbracht, declared the Nazi Government will no longer give Allied airmen bail- ing out over Germany any police protection against wrathful civil- ians as “it would be asking too much if we are expected to employ Ger- man soldiers to protect murderers of children against parents seized | with panic and rage.” claimed votes with- 64 for Bricker The newspaper printed the article and then said that Goebbels and others apparently have forgotten their strafing of women and chil- dren by the Nazi air forces and the murderous attacks of their ground forces on the inhabitants of na-| tions they have conquered. HITLER, NIP ' DIPLOMATIN i - CONFERENCE ' Acufe Quesfion Regarding Collaboration Under r Discussion | LONDON, May 29.—Adolph Hit- ler, has conferred with Japan's Am- |bassador to Berlin on “acute ques- Itions regarding German and Japan- | ese collaboration,” the Berlin radio| says. i Just 1Japanese diplomat Lt. Gen. Hiroshi Oshima is too hard a question for Allied observers to fathom. | The Berlin radio said the meet-| |ing took place at Hitler's Head- quarters and Foreign Minister Joa- what Hitler expects from| | vorable facing troop packed England as temperatures over the glassy Strait of Dover reached an unofficial 100 degrees shortly before noon, and it was 81 in the shade. Nazi commentators asserted that General Eisenhower missed one fa- invasion date, when the tides and weather were perfect, and cried out, “Germany would prefer the invasion to come today rather than tomorrow.” That suggested that the enemy defenses for at least once were brought to a nerve racking peak of alertness, only to find that Hitler's command guessed wrong. “It is no longer a secret that the British have already missed one in- vasion date,” the German Transo- cean. Agency said. Quoting a For- eign Qffice spokesman, .DNB, said, “There can be no doubt that the original date fixed for the invasion has passed, but there are so many symptoms and speculations in con- nection with the next date, Ger- many cannot possibly be taken by surprise.” The Swiss newspaper Gazette de Lausanne gave a new clue to the defense problem for von Rundstedt, already complicated by the railroads being tangled and snarled by the [profualons of Allied bombers. The paper said there is increasing fear of a general D-Day strike of the French railroad workers, and the Nazis are sending more key trans- portation officials and workers to key posts. Nazi broadcasts asserted the Al- lies passed up the most favorable invasion opportunity because they found out its legions of men and stupendous array of equipment is not ready for the great event as they thought. SRR T chim von Ribbentrop was present. watching the invasion on the| coast, Berlin pulleg the guess that| Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is “waiting for fresh troops of Amer- icams” before striking. Extend Time for Courtmartial of ' MIDPACIFIC Pearl Harbor Men JAP BASES WASHINGTON, May 29.—Legis- | lation extending for one year the| time in which the Pear] Harbor | PAN AMERICAN BUSY from Mokmer airfield. Headquarters reported today that Japanese resist- ance on the largest island of the |is only two and a half miles away | CHUNGKING, May 29—The Chi- | Commanders eventually could be | | nese are in pursuit of the retreating tried on charges of dereliction of | | Japs who escaped with severe losses duty has been approved by the| House Rules Committee. | HIT FRIDAY He will be needed for eight hours, OVER LAST WEEKEND A Pan American plane flying to WhiteQorse yesterday, carried Wil- liam Casper, Gary Thomas, Doug- las P. Babcock and Esther B. Nai- mark. Frank Nezio, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Graves, M. P. Munter, Hans Froes and Merle O. Beggs made the flight to Whitehorse, and from that point were flown to Seattle. A trip to Fairbanks Sunday, car- ried Mrs, J. H. Goding, Barbara Lynn Goding, Patti Ohmer and Mrs. Earl Ohmer to that city. Incoming passengers from Seattle over the weekend were Marvin Peckham, Donald Milnes, Mary Alishouse, C. B. Darnell and E. J. Schoenwald. A {light was made to Fairbanks this morning with Marie Goetsch and Robert L. Thorne as passen- gers. Mrs. Thorne, who is an engin- | eer for the Federal Buresu of Mines, is enroute to Nome. Selma Lindquist was a passenger on the trip to Seattle today. ——e o —— OBERG TAKES VAGATION J. G. Oberg, well known shoe re- pairman, will leave the latter part of the week for Petersburg where his son, Ernest, resides. He has been Schouten group at the mouth of Geelvink Bay is increasing as the Yanks fanned through -captured Bosnek on the southeast coast and pressed toward the airdrome, one of three on the island. Casualties Light Sniper fire is taking a heavier toll, but the invaders had extremely light"losses in the landing on Sat- urday. Despite tougher Japanese resistance than had been faced in previous amphiblous operations on the New Guinea Coast, only a few Americans were wounded and none killed in the original landings one nek, mile east and a mile west of Bos-| | from the trap at Tatangtzu, “high- | est battlefield in the world,” on the | Salween front. | The town is 29 miles northeast of Tenchung and a big battle is be- lieved in pospect for that strategic | pivot of Jap communications on the north Burma road. 'FIRST HALIBUT OF | SEASON NOW HERE The first halibut of the season has arrived in Juneau with the re- turn to pert of four of the fleet. Capt. Dan Twiet, of the Valiant,| brought in 22,000 pounds which was| While the invaders fought a two- purchased by E. Engstrom while| pronged offensive, one eutwardutmmy Marks, of the Tennessee, from Bosnek and the other west- had a load of 7,000 pounds bought ward, 12 enemy planes attacked the by the New England Fish Company.’ Allied invasion fleet, and the ships'| The Alaska Coast Fisheries were| Under the statute of limitations,| WASHINGTON ,May, 29. — Jap prosecution is normally barred after positions in the Caroline and Mar- June 7, this year. |shall Islands were bombed and The extension was proposed by |strafed by American planes on Pri- Representative Dewey Short, of |day, the Navy reported, and “anti- Missouri, and “directs” a court- | aircraft fire was meager. Storage martial be instituted sometime dur- |areu. runways and antiaireraft bat- ing next year. teries were hit.” JNEALBALLSEASON ¢ ap1£Y BELIEVES me el sevon, i wers DEWEY WILL WIN officially opens Memorial Day with two games scheduled, weather per- mitting. At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon there will be a game between the Juneau Fire Department and the Port GI's and at 6:30 o'clock the Duck Creek Wildcats and the Dod- ON FIRST BALLOT BATAVIA, N. Y, May 20.—James A. Farley believes Dewey will win the Republican nomination on the STUNNING DAY BLOW 1S STRUCK American Bombers Strike . from Britain and lfaly from Oawn fo Dusk BULLETIN—LONDON, May 29.—One thousand heavy Am- erican bombers and 1200 fight. ers spanned the length of Ger- many teday, bombing two air- craft factories in Poland and four in central and eastern Ger- many while other fleets struck up from the south to hit Vienna and the Neustadt area as the stunning day bombardment drew to a close at dusk with indications the Allies might send out another fleet with a record number of planes. During the day and last night predominantly American fleet warplanes scourged the face of Europe, the invasion coasts of France anl Belgium, strafed front lines in Italy and tore wp hideaway plants of the German aireraft industry. Seven heavy bombers were forced to land in Sweden, Stock- holm dispatches said. LONDON; May”Bh.-Alled bomt< LOI , May 30.—Allied b ers, presumably another American armada from Britain, drove deep across Germany today in its farth- est reaches, hitting lower Saxony at Pomerania, the Berlin radio de- clares, while another fleet, up from Italy, struck the Danube area. ‘The Berlin radio declared heavy air battles have been fought, Nazl fighters striking through the Allled escort screens into bomber forma- tions. the night attacks by the Royal Air Force that kept the aerial offensive rolling unchecked. - Night attacks were made on northwestern French railroad center at Angers, the Ger- man chemical city of Ludwigshafen and other targets on the French coast, Targets Hit Sunday The largest American aerial ar- mada yet dispatched delivered fiery explosives and bombs on a dozen German targets Sunday, including five synthetic plants around Leipzig, Dresden and Magdeburg in the very heart of the Reich. The American communique said extensive fires and explosions were recorded on fuel factories whose products are now badly needed by the Germans. The fuel factories are located at Ruhland, Lutzkenodrf, Merseburg and Magdenburg. Vehicle Plants Bombed The German army tank and ar- mored vehicle plants at Konigsborn suffered heavy damage and the American communique says prin- cipal buildings in the city and sub- urbs were hit. In the first big reported tactical operation today, a big force of Am- erican Martin Marauders, medium bombers, and Havoc light bombers attacked four bridges in northern France and in Belgium and the Achiet airfield north of Paris. The Berlin radio did not report the Reich free of planes until 4 o'clock this afterncon. Mass Desemo;l;, ' Bulgarian Troops " Is Now Reporfed | BARI, Italy, May 29.—Mass deser- ‘The daylight assault today capped . antiaircraft fire accounted for four Japanese bombers, One enemy plane made a suicide crash on an Amer- ican subchaser, causing nine casual- ties and some damage to the craft. Fighter Gets Four Zeros four Zeros and one bomber of the enemy air group. The attacking American ground troops were aided by big American Liberators who doused Biak with 288 tons of bombs. airfield made contact with the en- in poor health for some time and plans a vacation until the middle of call Mr. Byrns at his residence in|June when he will return to Ju-. lme Day Amnu. neau and reopen his shop. emy at Parai, four and a haif miles from the original beachhead on the (Continued ‘on Page Two) A Thunderbolt fighter shot down ' The invaders driving on Mokmer | |purchasers of the 15,000 pounds ‘umught in by Pete Oswald, of the Tundra, and Peter E. Johnson, own- er of the Merrimac, sold his 6,500 pounds | e — CAA MAN HERE Cameron A. Rich, of the CAA, is in town from Anchorage and is staying at the Baranof Hotel. e GRAVES GO EAST | H. 8. Graves left yesterday by PAA for New York City on a buying trip. Mrs. Graves accompanied him on the trip and may remain in the East for sometime, to the New England buyers, | |gers meet for a friendly little tus- |sle in Firemen’s Park. The public is invited to come, see, |cheer and boo if necessary. Posln;aslqe*r;lo_fiel ' ' Increase in Salary WASHINGTON, May 29.—Over- riding protests of Senator Clyde M. Reed of Kansas, the Senate approv- ed by a vote of 40 to 12 salary in- creases frora five to 20 percent for postmasters now receiving up to first ballot with Gov. Warren as his| tions of Bulgarian troops in south- running mate. eastern Yugoslavia is reported, as- Farley also sald President Roose- Serting the morale is weakening velt “has the votes if he wants|Noticeably as the tension mounts in them” for the Democratic nomina-|the Balkans. tion and added: “I don't believe ¢ Bishop Eirineos, 55, there is a stromg feeling in the Democratic Party for Henry A.| Wallace as Vice President.” ————— — WASHINGTON, May 29. — The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 10 to 7 to refer to a sub- committee the proposed constitu- tional amendment to abolish the state poll taxes requirement in vot- $8,000 -a year. | ing. " Dies, Sln_ Frandsco SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 29. ~The Rev. Bishop Eirineos, 55, head of the Western Diocese of the | Greek Orthodox Church, is dead here after a long illness. His diocese included Alaska.