The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9668. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBE! R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JUNE 2, 1944 = e GERMAM WEST WALL HIT HARD BLOWS ' Allies Are Slashing Escape Route for Nazis " MAIN ARTERY - IS CUT OFF BY FIFTH ARMY Yank Spea?h:ad Battling on Heights Bypasses Encircled Vellefri BULLETIN—ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NAPLES, June 2. — The German wall before Rome began to crumble late to- day as the Fifth Army captured both Vellentria and Valmontone, two of the biggest fortress cities guarding the Eternal City. The Fifth Army is firmly astride Via Castilinia after cutting it near Valmontone and cutting off whatever German troops of nine divisions that have been unable to withdarw. Valmontone was defended by Herman Goering’s crack armored division. | | | | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AT‘ NAPLES, June 2. — Fifth Army troops have cut the Via Cssmna,i sealing off the main German es-| cape route, and have broken into| Velletri, already left two miles be- “The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on ac service with the Army.) tive | @. | WASHINGTON — While dynamic, | popular Eric Johnston, President of | the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,; has been wowing them in the East, the folks back in his home state| of Washington aren’t too happy.| Republicans in Washington state | call Eric “ballot-shy.” Reason Is that he won't come back and run for the Senate seat| of retiring Senator Homer Bone,| soon to become a circuit judge.| Republicans think that the live- wire President of the U. S. Cham- ber might help to lift up the en- tire GOP ticket and give them a chance to win. But he won't come. They attribute this to the almost- forgotten fact that Johnston did run for the Senate in the Republi- can primaries in 1940 and was snow- ed under. He was beaten by Re- publican Steve Chadwick, former American Legion Commander, who got 137,000 votes against Eric's 40,- 000. Then, in the final election, Chadwick was beaten by Democrat Mon Wallgren, now in the Senate.| Democratic candidate for Bone's| place will be go-getting young Rep- resentative Warren Magnuson of Seattle, who will be hard to beat. 1f Johnston should run against him and lose, his national prestige might go down the drain. Also, friends urge that he is doing an A-1 job for the U. S. Chamber. Senator Mon Wallgren, who now will run for Governor, wants to leave the Senate fer the same rea-| son many others have—namely, the difficulty of living on a Senator's $10,000 when you have to keep a home in two places, and when everything else® has gone up. Wallgren, one of the best-liked men in the Senate, runs a jewelry store in Everett, Wash. but sel- dom gets home to take care of it. He first jumped into prominence when he won the three-cushion billiard championship in Washing- ton, HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE American. doughboys were com- ing up to the front in Italy. It' was tough going. An artillery bar-| rage was hitting all around them' and no one was too happy. Suddenly, according to Sergeant A. A. Edgecombe of New Orleans, the company came to a bridge con- structed a few hours before, by U. 8. engineers. On it was a fresh- ly painted sign. It read: “Huey P. Long Bridge.” There were a lot of Louisiana | boys in the company who knew of | bridges Huey built all over Louis- | |action NALZIS FAIL INPUSHON RUSS LINES Reds Sm asT Counterat- tacks at lasi with Great Cost to Germans LONDON, June 2. — Red Army troops have smashed all German attempts to crack the Russian lines north of Iasi, Rumania, and even counterattacked in some sectors, in- flicting heavy casualties on the en- emy, Moscow said in a broadcast | | | | communique. Telling about the fourth succes- |sive day of ‘battle, the bulletin said | that 800 Nazi soldiers were killed {and 17 tanks knocked out. A Finnish communique reported {strong Russian attacks on the two fronts facing Finland, on the Kar- elian Isthmus northwest of Lenin- |grad, and between Lakes Ladoga and Onega. Moscow made no mention of these actions, but told of a two-hour skirmish southeast of Stanislawow in old Poland at a cost to the Ger- mans of 100 dead, also a scouting northwest of Vitebsk in White Russia. FOUR 1SLANDS HELD BY JAPS GET BOMBING WASHINGTON, June 2—Guam, Wake, Truk and Ponape islands, now in Japanese hands, have been bombed by United States planes. The Navy Department reports the attack on Guam was made by Army planes on May 28, the assault on Truk atoll on May 30 which caused fires visible 150 miles away. The Army planes also made an attack on Wake Island May 30 and enemy positions in the Marshalls were also given a severe strafing the same day by Navy and Marine planes. FAIRBANKS FLIER GETS TWO MEDALS SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, June 2.—A double reward for hero- ism and meritorious flying achieve- ments in this theatre of war have been conferred on First Lt. Richard H. Osborne, Box 595, Fairbanks, Al- aska. The awards, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, were announced by Lt. Gen. George Kenney, Commander of the Allied Air Forces in the South Pacific. ‘The Flying Cross was awarded for participating in the rescue of a fighter pilot near Arawe, New Brit- ain, last December, and the Air Medal for meritorious achievement while participating in sustained op- erational flight missions.in the fall of 1943. Aleuts Safely Back On Pribilof Islands WASHINGTON, June 2.--Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes an- nounces the successful return to the Pribilofs of 400 Aleuts evacuated to the Juneau, Alaska, area nearly two years ago because of Japanese ac- tivities. British Aircraft Hit German Convoy LONDON, June 2.—Carrier borne attacked and damaged a strongly escorted German convoy of /es are NEW GAINS MADE IN BATTLE FOR N. BURMA BASE SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- TERS AT KANDY, Ceylon, June 2. —Chinese and American troops, at- tacking Myitkyina simultaneously from three sides, scored fresh gains in their drive to reduce the Jap base in north Burma, an Allied communique said. The bulletin said the Allied fore- still meeting opposition, but are inflicting heavy casualties -on the enemy. i ONE GOP PLATFORM PLANK IS ASSURED WASHINGTON, June 2. — Agree- ing with Secretary of State Cordell Hull that foreign policy discussions with other nations be nonpartisan, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Re- publican of Michigan, predicted the Republican platform will parallel the -party’s Mackinac Island de- claration for “responsible participa- tion” of this country in postwar cooperation to preserve peace. Senator Vandenberg said the GOP Advisory Council Committee, of which he was chairman, recom- | mended unanimously to the con- vention's committee that a plank similar to the Mackinac declaration be adopted, but brought down to date. e —— Chief Execuive Gives Warning fo Take Life Easier WASHINGTON, June 2. — Mrs. Roosevelt said the President’s doc- tors want him to keep the gains in his health he made recently. One of the recommendations, she told a conference with newsmen, is the President should not work “till all hours of the night and he must not make every meal a working time.” LT. COL. LAY, JR. JAPS AMASS HUGEARMY, SNIPERS ON ' BIAKISLAND | Way by Invaders for New Thrusts CHUNGKING, June 2—The Japs at Maffin Bay in Patrol Action ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-‘ 1 QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, have amassed 280,000 troops in the June 2—Reinforcements are being Hankow and Canton areas in a poured into Biak Island to support smashing drive aimed not only at the hardpressed Yanks striving to the conquest of the entire Canton take the airdrome which is within Hankow Railway, but to prepare for bombing range of the Philippines, new blows elsewhere in China, Maj. headquarters announced today. ,Gen. Tseng, Army spokesman de- Meanwhile advance units are still clared being held up by enemy snipers' The forces comprise 210,000 in the atop the ridges on the main Schou- Hankow area and 70,000 in the Can- ten Island off the coast of Dutch ton area, compared with a force of New Guinea. ,only 40,000 hitherto employed, he The report said that sniper fire said, and added that the Japs are and mortar exchanges are the only massing troops on the Indo-China activity. I¥Yunnan border, building a new mo- Two hundred miles down the tor highway between Hanoi and the Dutch New Guinea coast to the frontier town of Laokay, 160 air- southeast American invacers at line miles northwest of Hanoi; and l Maffin Bay killed 75 more Nippon- are constructing a big air base near ese in patrol actions to raise the the border. Balanc total of enemy casualties to 1,453. Bougainville in the north Solom- ons section sprang into offensive action for the first time in months when American amphibious forces moved seven miles southe: (By Associated Press) smwmu(s; CHINA AREA 15 More Jahp; Wiped Out Other Prepfiions Under| A writer in the Red Star, Soviet Army journal, predicting a “century , of polar aviation” with communica- tions across the top of the world, SHOT DOWN IN SOLDIERS FROM ALEUTIANS NOW IN MISSISSIPPI Majority of Troopers Have | Not Had Furlough for Almost 3 Years CAMP SHELBY, Miss.,, June 2.— Rugged soldiers of the 138th In- i fantry Regiment, veterans of almost | two and one-half years in the Aleu- tians, builders of at least three air | bases, have arrived here. At the time they were cdlled into the service the men were members of the Missouri National Guard and | | | | | Louis. | The majority of the troops huvci J | not had furloughs for almost three years and are now being processed ' for 20-day furloughs due them, then they will return to foreign service. s ——— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 2. — Closing iquotauml of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 5%, American Can| |89%, Anaconda 25%, Beech Air-' craft 8', Bethlehem Steel 58%, Curtiss Wright 5, International |Harvester 74%, Kennecott 30%, North American Aviation 7%, New | York Central 18, Northern Pacific| 16%, United States Steel 52%. i Dow, Jones averages today are, as “Yollows: * MAUSLRLIS 14207, rans 40.19, utilities 23.12.. ‘Shumushu Raided: Fires Are Starfed WASHINGTON, June 2. — Navy |Search planes, raiding Shumushu in the Kuriles, started several large |fires near the airfield and despite “modenfl.e antiaircraft fire returned to base after the pre-dawn raid oa |Wednesday, the third in as many |days. 25 REPAIRMEN ON SHIP OVERCOME IN | | | | | | CHLORINE GAS RAISES HAVOC IN BROOKLYN Over One Thousand Per- sons Are Felled by Escaping Fumes NEW YORK, June 2.413‘.scapmg‘ ;cmorlue gas yesterday felled more than 1,000 persons at a busy Brook- lyn intersection and most of those overcome were removed to hospitals, most of the strength came from St. !several in a serious condition. About | 300 were taken to hospitals. The gas spread two blocks in ev- ery direction and men, women and high school students began to cough and vomit, then stagger and fall flat. The scene resembled war pictures. gas, heavier than air, de- scended into the ventilators of the subway, forcing scores of persons to flee to the streets and they too toppled over. D PEACE PLAN DISCUSSED, CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, June 2, — Secre- | tary of State Cordell Hull extended to the House his campaign for Con- | gressicnal support of the postwar peace agency by conferring with | four Democratic and three Repub-| lican leaders on American participa- tion. The group, headed by Speaker | Sam Rayburn of Texas, included | Chairman Bloom, Foreign Affairs| Committee; Majority Leader John McCormack; Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck; and the Republicunsl were Minority Leader Martin and | Representatives Eaton and Arends. | - e - Pope Hopes Peace In Rome's Hills aircraft of the British fleet last| | night RAID ONEUROPE LIBERATOR BASE IN BRITAIN, June 2—Lt. Col. Bernie E. Lay Jr., who wrote the movie “I Wanted Wings,” was downed while leading a Liberator group in a recent raid on Europe, it is revealed. Fellow fliers said they saw his parachute open when his plane was flak riddled but believed he had a good chance of escaping. Lay came to England among the first American fliers, PRODUCTION OF PLANES IN U. S. EXCEEDS ENEMY | WASHINGTON, June 2. — War- plane production in the United States is estimated' by the Govern- ment to now be 4 to 1 ahead of Germany and 7 to 1 ahead of Ja- pan. The War Production Board shows this country has turned out 171,257 planes since Pearl Harbor and will make 100,000 this year alone. The British Empire and the Unit- ed States together have built about 300,000 planes since England’s en- try into the war. Germany and Japan together are believed to have produced about 150,000 planes. { WAR DEPT. FILM WILL BE |SHOWN TUESDAY NIGH? A special War Department film, submit.ed by the War Manpower Commission. to the Federal Em- ployees organization, will be shown at the Elks Hall Tuesday evening. The film, entitled “War Depart- iana during his reign as Kingfish. (Continued on Page Four) west coast of Norway. three supply ships off Stadtlandet, ment Reports,” will be shown to the of Batista, conceded his defeat and public without charge. Augusta Bay area. On the British New Guinea main- land, the Australians are slowly | L] moving northwest beyond Madang ov rl( er and have reached Guru, 40 miles A southeast of Hansa Bay. ( S o | .« . . Ohio’s Chief Executive BIG FUTURE\ Makes Demands | in Speech FOR poSTwAR HARRISBURG, Pa., June Gov. John W. Bricker, of Ohio, call- ed for balanced Federal budget “at the earliest possible date.” In a prepared address before the | Council of Governers meeting here | he asserted, “The nation that builds |its house on the shifting sands of deficlent financing cannot be a powerful influence in world affairs.” | Bricker added that the United | States must be strong to help solve‘ left the impression that collabora- | ¢ Problems of currency, credits, tion between the United Nations % YiEhts, markets, and interna-| would lead to postwar cooperation tn?.nal trade in the postwar ‘perk)d. | in international aerial transporta- | A0 ficas the warld ls inflioted | tot: ‘wlth';.disv:rh:xlxmt,oryt 1trade x;gree-‘ The writer said: “Great progress IS I, - catteds, - eXo flf'gel is going to be made in the el;plina- wars, Rarter systems and the hke'i tion of the northern routes. In this theresgen be po shayrance of.en- connection Canada, Norway, and dhsifg REaRe " Do ameried. | Iceland will be of great importance, T T 1 not to mention the significance of WI.B oRDERS NOI | our northern districts where a great | role will be played by the Siberian | line which connects Europe with the "o BE REVIEWED | Far East and the Pacific Coast.” ) | ———e— | —_— WASHINGTON, June 2—The U. v . S. Court of Appeals of the District aelfa wnls ou' of Columbia today ruled that orders y A |of the War Labor Board are not 'n Eire s Eledlon reviewable by the courts. Ruling on |an appeal brought by an employers | lgroup of the Motor Freight Car- DUBLIN, June 2. — Eamon de riers, Incorporated, an association| Valera won a clear-cut victory in comprised of carriers and individ-| Eire’s general election last Tuesday uals who represent about 300 truck- | and an incomplete count of returns ing companies engaged in trans- shows his Fianna Dail Party has 68 porting freight in New England, the of a majorlgy. {heard the case, Miller, Edgerton, u?dv:rl;ms cabinet members re- and Arnold, held unanimously that e eir seats in the Dail. i“it is clearly undisputed no statute The question of Eire’s neutrality | uthorizes did not figure in the campaign. b PR of War Tel BATISTA REGIME S1. Louls Street Car LOSES IN CUBAN NATL. ELECTION Strike Suddenly Ends HAVANA, June 2. — Dr. Ramon ST. LOUIS, June 2. — Striking street car and bus operators of St. Louis Public Service Company voted | by secret ballot, 633 to 99, to return Grau San Martin, University of Ha- t0 Work and end the transportation vana professor, won the Presidency tieup affecting an estimated 600, of Cuba at yesterday’s election, | 000 persons, despite the opposition of four news- Employees hope to have bu-cs and papers supporting the government |trolleys running in time fur the of President Batista. |late ‘afternoon” rush. Cor. roversy Dr. Carlos Saladigas, former Wa$ focused on the basic ~vertime Prime Minister and personal friend P8y clauses in the new rach which had been approved I the War Labor Board last week. congratulated San Martin. UNVENTILATED HOLD | lia market town lifting roofs of ad-‘ INS'RU("IO" oF 'jacent buildings and turning thet seats in the Dail, only three short three Appeal Court Judges who| 4 1 NEW YORK, June 2—A gang of | 25 men repairing a United Nation’s . Will Soon Appear freighter at a Brooklyn pier were ey overcome today In an unventilated! LONDON, June 2.—The Pope, in hold. Those found unconscious were & speech to the College of Cardin- taken up hatchways by rescuers Rnd‘“lsv expressed hope that peace 10 were taken to hospitals. |would soon appear in Rome’s hills BCLNE R, ) ‘and over the whole world, and add- A d that demand for total vlctoryz Ammunition Train Expl ‘:nlght prolong the war. In an Italian language broadcast odes Causing Liffing of Roof !the Pope called on the victors to| give them hope, that their faith| LONDON, June 2.—An ammuni-| tion train exploded at an East Ang- | might not be vanquished. He de- clared that “whoever dare lift a| thand against Rome will be guilty| of matricide.” I railroad station into a shambles. A station nearby caught fire. The blast was felt 20 miles away. SATRL B 2 DELEGATES FOR DEWEY REJECTED INDIANAPOLIS, June 2—Homer — AMERICANS " STAGE BIG ~ SINGLE HIT Armadas fr;m_Britain and Italy Sweep Out Bomb- ing Wide Sections LONDON, June 2. — The United States Air Force has made the heaviest single blow yet against the German West Wall installations on the French coast, hurling upwards of 750 Fortresses and Liberators and several hundred fighters over the Pas de Calais Department before dawn today. Allied fighters also struck over many areas, airways in Scandinavia, France, Hungary and Crete. Royal Air Force bombers con- centrated on southwest French rail yards especially at Saumur, 150 miles from Paris and along the French coast. Mediterranean forces attacked the Hungarian rail yards 30 miles east of Budapest and at Szolnok. Mosquitos bombed targets in Den- mark. The Berlin radio said an Allfed air attack damaged a convoy off the west coast of Norway and Mid- dle East bombers attacked ports on |the big Greex island of Crete. in g bombed five railway yards in Hun- gary and Transylvania today. Good results are reported from bombirigs on Miskele, Czolnok and Sazeged in eastern Hungary, ahd upon Cluj Simerian in the Transylvania mountainous Rumanian Province Germany ceded partially to Hun- gary in 1940. The Mediterranean strike is in direct tactical support to the Rus- slan armies massing on the Car- pathian slopes. Owing to the short trip bombers were able to carry heavy loads on the attack on the French coast. B Channeling ~ Male Labor Is PE‘nned WASHINGTON, June 2—Sweep- ing new controls over the nation's dwindling supply of male workers has been ordered by the War Man- power Commission, effective by July 1, to provide virtually every Job seeking man in America and who are required to apply to the U. 8. Employment Service for as- signment to a war plant where he 1s most needed regardless of where the war plant is located. Employers, on the other haad, will be permitted to hire only those men referred to them by the U. S. Em- ployment Service. “Successful conduct of the war now requires the channeling of all available male labor to those jobs,” Paul V. McNutt declared in an- nouncing the new program. OIL PIPELINE IN NEAR EAST STILL IN "IFFY" STAGE WASHINGTON, June 2. — Presi- dent Roosevelt said the question of the American-built oil pipeline in the Mediterranean area is in the| “ifty” stage, and added that no one knows whether there will be a pipe- line. | Capehart, Indianapolis industrialist, | has been named as United States | Senator- from Indiana at the Re- ‘publlcan State Convention which had previously rejected the preposal | that the State’s 29 delegates to the innuonnl convention be instructed | for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Australia Refuses * Chicago Publication A reporter asked the President| MELBOURNE, Australia, June 2. if his remark meant that the ofl | _Customs Minister Keane announc- | pipeline situation has gone back-'ed that the Australian government ward, and he replied only by saying | that conferences between the United | States and Great Britain on the Near Eastern oil situation are still | | going on. 1 | | Col. Robert McCormick, owner of | the Chicago Tribune, permission to | publish an edition of the Tribune | in Australia for the U. S. troops. | HERE FROM PELICAN In Chicago, McCormick declared | Peter Canges of Pelican is in that this shows “Australia is under im and a guest at the Gastineau as extreme a dictatorship as Russia Hotel. and Germany.” | has refused the Australian agent of | It extends on a nation wide basis as the War Manpower Commissions !volunhry program is already in ef- |fect in about half a dozen areas |where there is a critical labor short- |age. | ———————— BALL GAME ON TONIGHT This is “Major Hoffman Day” in. sport circles and tonight's baseball game is in his honor. The game is scheduled to start at 6:30 o'clock and will be between the Dodgers and Wildeats. N — - — Mrs. Plorence Lynagh left last night for the south on a vacation trip of several weeks. i