The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLII, NO. 9669. TURDAY, JUNE 3, 1944 = e MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. BOMBERS NOW BASED IN RUSMIA ithin 14 Miles of Rome . Yankee Forces Now Halibut Price Boosted | ~ ToFishermenbyAdion 0f OPA; Effective Now ALLIES GIVE PROMISETO SPARE CITY i NAZIS FEAR BALKANSTO BE INVADED Yugoslavia. Holland. —t SHUTTL BOMBING 10 START 'Flying Forfresses, Other Craft Reach Airfields | | WASHINGTON, June 3. — The | | ¥ |OPA announces an increase in fish- | ermens’ prices on drawn halibut of See Dang;rto Hi“er's Airborne landings behind Atlantic wall. Italian CapHio Be Safe ¥ * fangled sort of imperialism—will| Unless Used Milifar- | ily by _Girmans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NAPLES, June 3. — United States | troops, slugging through the Alban; Hills toward Rome, have captured Monte Castellaicio, a bare 14 miles from the Eternal City, and another American column drove up the Via Casilina toward the capital. Other Allied troops pushed down the highway from Valmontone, one jaw of a potential trap of the Nazi rearguard, falling back before the | steady advances of the Allied armies in the southwest. As the campaign entered the final lap, the Allied command declared | that Rome will be spared being a | battleground, unless the enemy (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round » 2 N (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active servico with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Some of the/ smart boys inside the Republican Party are quietly urging that their| strategy during the coming cam- paign take the line so powerfully laid down by Senator Bridges of| New Hampshire, the other day, when he emphasized various defi- | clencies in FDR’s leadership for permanent peace. Bridges is one of the Senate Re-| publicans who has a spotless record | when it comes to cooperation with| the President on the war and on| his entire foreign policy. Long be- | fore Pearl Harbor, when other Re- publicans were trying to hamstring the Administration, Bridges was out | in front fighting for Roosevelt's| main war ideas. For that reason, what he had to say the other day was much more | effective. Bridges’ main thesis was: | “The American people are not go-| ing to rest content with any issue| out of this present struggle which results merely in a re-shuffled game of balance of power politics. We are | not going to welcome any new never acclaim any outcome of this| present cataclysm which merelyi sows the seeds of another and more horribly devastating war.” WEAK POINT IN FDR’s ARMOR/| Senator Bridges then put his fin-| ger on what some Republican stra- tegists believe may be the weak point in Roosevelt’s war policies, his apparent lack of conviction that this war is not just another war, to be followed by more wars and more/ power polities. “Why is it, Mr. President,” asked| Bridges, “that you no longer talk| about a peace that shall endure? Is| this why the New York Times of December 18, 1943, quoted you in| your press conference as saying: “‘The Allied conferences were| motivated by the general thought! that they did not want another war in the lifetime of the present gen- eration.’ “Does this mean,” asked Bridges, “that already you haye been forced to compromise the ideal of an en- during peace?” p Bridges also quoted the Saturday Evening Post's recent articles by Forrest Davis on the Teheran con- ference—articles supposed to have| been initiated by FDR in advance and which represent the President as believing “that hereafter only countries with an abundance of manpower and resources plus huge industrial plants can engage in the business of war.” Not only GOP strategists, but some of the President’s own friends ‘belleve this may be a weak point in the President’s armor and, even (Continued on Page Four) | State's 29 votes to Dewey. AWVS Will Have MOVEMENT IS NOW GAINING Hoosier GOP Convention Shouts Down Proposal to Pledge for N. Y Gov. (By Associated Press) The last ditch “Stop Dewey” movement apparently has taken on | new life in the Republican Party as | the result of the Indiana GOP con- | vention, which shouted down yes-| terday a proposal to pledge the Opponents acclaimed the setback as beginning a shift which they ! believe may prevent the first ballot nomination with 64 votes previously pledged for their candidates, and backers of Gov. Bricker hailed the | result as a sweeping victory. Dewey.supporters came“out of the convention with a minimgm of two delegates to boost their pledged and claimed total o 390, and claimed the support of six others. The Bricker faction and other Dewey opponents contend that there are enough opposition votes among the 488 delegates thus far chosen are unpledged and unclaimed to tie| up the nomination beyond the first ballot. The Indiana convention nomin- | ated Homer Capehart, of Indian- apolis, for the long term seat in the United States Senate. ! The Maryland State Democratic | Convention yesterday named an un- instructed delegation of 18 votes and the Kanass Demos are meeting to- day, where party leaders said the eight votes were certain to endorse Roosevelt for a fourth term. Class, Remaking Back Door by Troops - in Middle East LONDON, June 3.—The Germans have ‘expressed the fear that Gen. | Dwight W. Eisenhower’s cross chan- |nel blow will be preceded by an iinvaslon of the Balkans from the P Middle East . {ican troop concentrations in the one fourth cent. This is made to ad- | nriqqie East countries have been res one and one guarter cents, and the new schedule is effective immed- iately. | The new prices of drawn number 1 halibut to 60 pounds dressweight | will be as follows: Seattle increased from 14': cents to 15% cents and Prince Rupert from 12 to 13'% cents. 1 Invasion of France from Bay of Biscay. Landings from Mediterra- nean and Ligurian seas. Balkan thrust from Medi- terranean. Main blow across English channel, another at southern France; possible diversionary thrusts at Denmark and Norway. just the transportation dxrferex?tinl ‘ ported from Syria and Lebanon duys between Alaskan ports and Prince |, the past few weeks,” the Berlin | 1 in Soviet Union |SECRET PREPARATIONS ARE BEING REVEALED New Plans for Aftack on t Enemy, Especially Easi- ern Europe, Made Girl Vidim \Five-Year-OId Kidnapedg Rupert. | The OPA said the price of hali-| but heads and cheeks will be after| giers said the Germans have @ {the first catches are landed at Se-| attle. | RS R | Of Fiend in | Seaftle Area and Found Huddled on Neighbor’s Doorstep SEATTLE, June 3.—Police Capt. William Feek said that Florence Marks, five-year-old daughter of a Navy doctor was kidnaped, possib- ly raped and left huddled in a blanket on a doorstep 14 blocks | from home. | Dr. R. F. Ballard, King County Hospital interne, telephoned Police Headquarters: “The girl is a vic- tim of a possible criminal attack.” The child has been released from the hospital and taken home, the police captain said. The parents, Lt. Comdr, and Mrs. Jacob Marks, reported at 2:45 am. that she was missing from her bed- | room, and a ladder was found lead- | ing to the second story window. Forty-five minutes later, Mrs. Ethel | Wearing Apparel! The American Women's V'oluntary Services, in line with t clothes conservation program, cacried on nationally, will set aside Tuesday evening of each week for the pur- pose of remaking wearing apparel, An attractive booklet, illustrating| patterns that may be used in re-| modeling clothes, has been prepar- ed by the national organization and copies have been sent to the local group. The first gathering of the sewin,z‘ class will be Tuesday evening at 8; oclock at the Governor's House, with Mrs. Arthur Glover and Mrs.| B. D. Stewart instructing in the cutting and fitting. Anyore inter- ested is invited to attend. RS TR i CAA MAN HERE Fred Beisemeyer, of the CAA, and:‘ Mrs. Beisemeyer are in town and guests at the Juneau Hotel. ‘! — e { !the District Attorney’s office. Smart, telephoned police that a girl | clinging to a blanket had rung her doorbell. Commander Marks is assigned to the Naval Hospital, and his home is in Chicago. There are two other, children. The FBI has been called in on the case. Jane Blomgren South OnExtended Vacation To visit with her sister-in-law and brother, Pfc. and Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, Miss Jane Blomgren sailed for the south this morning| enroute to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where Pfc. Blomgren is at- tending Signal Corps Training School. Miss Blomgren is a secretary in WIN STREAK OF b PATRICIA MAKES ROU radio reported. al The United Nations radio at Als ed strict martial law on Peolpgl at the scuthern tip of Gres the Vichy radio told of ing sea clashes between Corsica a sonthern French coast. United Nations radio reports froi Algiers said that in Pomerania angi1 Easl Prussia, the Nazis have ors| ganized “guerrilla detachments fo | deal with a possible Russian break- | through.” TALK GIVEN - IN RUSSIAN | BY WALLACE Vice-President's Speech in Siberia Greeted Warm- ly by Soviets LONDON, June 3.—Vice-President Henry A. Wallace of the United States, who is enroute to China, told a Russian audience that full col- laboration, among the United States, the Soviet Union and their allies is necessary to insure world peace, the Moscow radio said. Wallace’s speech was given in Russian at Irkutsk, Siberia, and was greeted warmly. “Men who are born free will not brook injustice and tyranny, and they will not even temporarily live in slavery. Now the early dawn of a future postwar world is slowly rising on the horizon, and it is be- coming clear that only thg full col- laboration of our two great countries and their allies will insure the world a stable peace and true develop- ment,” Wallace asserted. Wallace told his audience the de- velopment of the American North- west, Canada, Alaska, and Sovier Siberia will play an important part in postwar construction. “These huge, thinly populated areas have been conquered in our time by aviation: but both their agriculture and industry stands in need of development. “It is* the duty of the United States and Canada to make a de- cisive effort in the task of devel- oping the northern regions as dem- onstrated by the Soviet Union in its task of developing Siberia and the Far East.” e IND TRIP. LYNN CANAL PORT Leaving here Thursday for Skag ’PrObing (ommittees | 1 he | Ceylon, June 3.—Reinforced Ameri- Here is where and how Nazi press and radio spokesmen, since the first of the year, have | oredicted the “second front” assault on Europe would begin AMERICANS Have Mushroomed in " WIN RIDGE Both House and Senate FROM JAPS (By JACK. STINNETT) | Therc are few men on either sld(iYamrmfimml fiom " WASHINGTON; June ' 2—1f - you | of the Capitdl: who Kriow more abodt | /ant to embarrass your Congress- | committees than Mr. Cochran. | i ok - et o il oy S| T el o e TOIONS DURHTNG MOK mer Airdrome on Biak paigning, ask him about how the been @ member of Congress for 18| overlapping commit- | vears. Before that he was secre-| | tees of the Ho ave tary to two Missouri Congressmen mushroomed {and the late Gen. William J. Stone. bbby W TR Réph John J. Gochran, Missourt| He is now Chairman of the House|RUARTE "N NE . GUINE; Y e 3 ‘.L 4 ., e 3 e Committee on Aceounts; is a mem_[.]unv 3.~Ameriean. jungle troopers 2mograt has already pointed the', “oe g0, other standing commit-|fought to the top of the heavily way. With elections popping Hlmn“’rl(‘('fl. one of which is that on ex-|Wooded ridge overlooking the Bos- every week and many to come b= onGipres in the executive depart-(nek to Moker road to increase the fore the big day, Nov. 7, Cochran| oo™ whion has to keep an eye pressure Thursday on the desper- has been compiling data and de-| . "ype ouerexpansion and over- ate Japanese defenders of Biak, nouncipg the-growth of committees.| bo,qing of executive bureaucracies,'General MacArthur announced to- Some of his findings make those fes also a member of a special day. | Congressmen who blast at the mul-|committee. Enemy resistance atop the vital tiplying bureaucracies sound a littie |height was shattered by tough| like kettles calling the pot black. | pony tning, nowever, that any-|Sixth Army Yanks who invaded the How can we justify our crilcism |y, is going to be done about it./largest Schouten Island a week ago. of duplication, wnsge and cxtmvd'\Alryady several bills designed Lu] “We are now mopping up,” a ganoe, i the executive d"p‘"f"“'f“:,; streamline Congress are gdthering headquarters spokesman reported. WHeR) WE gisghice what we profest? |dust in the hoppers. | The struggle by the Americans to asks the Representative | Committees mean patronage inlthrow out the Japanese who had _{clerk hire, sometimes a pretty juicy been holding up the advance to the Cochran says the record will, morsel. limportant Moker airport has been show that the Senate has passed Committees also mean prestige in progress since Monday. The en- 38 and the House 30 resolutions and publicity. Martin Dies m‘Sh“emy had dug prepared positions on granting special powers to standing e just another Representative from|¢he ridge, and streamed sniper tire | committees or establishing special Texas (I'll bet you can’t name three into the .Ynnks. moving west along Lummm,ees.L What worries the Con- ' cthers) if it hadn't been for h‘”‘the ok 3 gressman is that many of these ¢pecial committee on un-. ot committees duplicate the work of St s it hkply’nt:m:: 408 Saming of e Hile wak| others. That's what wearies the Truman would be talked of as & achieved .ucm Ibdi and Mandon; host of busy executives, military possible Vice-Presidential candi- Hiieh pre Willagos ™ ofh 0 i leaders and war officials who have date; or Sen. Byrd as Presldentlal‘rw"e from, Jokosk. to. the. Bokese to testify before them. timber if {6 hadn't been for their “irdrome, sifuated only 850 miles| Gen. George C. Marshall, Secre- activities as chairmen of thelr re- fom the southern Phtlippings, T taries ~Stimson, Morgenthau and spective committees lnvesugaung‘mom airdromes are just beyond the Ickes are only a few of those called| war contracts and government Mokmer strip. away from their desks for hours to waste? The possession of the ridge pois- vestify hefors some committee— | Mr. Coghran has got himself a ©5 the Americans for the main only to have to climb the Hill the crusade. But any one on the Hill thrust on the three airfields. The next day or the next week to tell will tell you hell need a sizeable J&Panese positions enabled them' to the same story all over again to army before he can knock out the threaten the Yanks on the flanks. another committee. expanding army of committees. I The commanders ordered the ad- —_— — |vance slowed for the enemy to be | Icleared from the heights, AluED FOR(ES | | Ground troops received air sup-| | |port from big Liberators which FoRGE AHEAD lN | |skimmed the trees over the ridge| H 3 jand tore the enemy strong points d |with 80 tons of bombs, BurMaA secrion CLUTCHES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND | MRS, KIRMSE HEADQUARTERS IN KANDY, NAZI RAIDERS HARRY CLEVELAND, VISIT | | ENROUTE TO SKAGWAY an and Chinese columns, fighting | | With her brother, Harry Cleve- heir way into Myitkyina from both | investigating e and Senate h: | ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- AND BROTHER | pleted yesterday. BULLETIN—MOSCOW, June 3.—American bombers with Am- erican crews and escorted by American and Russian fighter planes have landed at United States bases in the Soviet Unlon. The American bombers are on the first leg of shuttie bomb- ing of Eastern Europe between Britain and Italy and North Africa and Russia. The brief announgement in- ‘dicates Americans will be based in various areas and bombing attacks will be from the Britain, Italy or North Africa from Russia. Presumably, Brit- ain and Italy based American planes will also be used in shut- tle bombing to the United States bases in Russia. % FORMATIONS IN RUSSIA EASTERN COMMAND, UNITED STATES STRATEGIC AIR FORCE, SOMEWHERE IN RUSSIA, June 3. —8Strong formations of Flying Fort- resses with Mustang fighter escorts have landed secretly at prepared American bases in Russia, accom- plishing a west-east bombing of Hit- ler's fortress and for. the first time establishing joint offensive opera- tions with the Red Air Force. The historic operation was com- (All indications are that shuttle bombing was launched from Italian bases, the Mediterranean Air Command an- nounced, but without detalls as to its planes participating in attacks on Rumanian targets but the detailed story of the attack, written by As- sociated Press correspondent Joseph Morton at Bari, is held up by cen- SOrS.) The dramatic arrival of the Am- erican formation evoked the first communique which also sald “a large force of hombers and fighters attacked Rumanian targets selected by our Russian Allies and then con- tinued to Russian bases. Enemy op- position was slight. One bomber was lost. Red fighters cooperated in attacks on enemy airdromes on the route.” Last night the Budapest radio’ went off the air, possibly a second phase of the shuttle operations be- ing under way. The American fleirs arriving at the new Russian base were greeted by beaming Russian and American ground crews as well as an official welcoming group including United States Ambassador Harriman and his daughter Kathleen, and Maj. Gen. John Deane, head of the Am- erican Military Mission in Russia. The American Legion of Merit medal which the fliers brought was presented to Soviet Lt. Gen. Alex- ander Perinov, in charge of Russian facilities. | CHIPPERFIELD IN TOWN i — i W. A. Chipperfield is here from Petersburg and a guest at the Ju- neau Hotel. He is connected with the Forest Service. ——.e——— ARMSTRONG GETS | NIPPED BY JOYCE CHICAGO, June 3.—~Willie Joyce, Gary, Indiana, Negro, checked the | CORRECTION comeback winning streak of ham- An error in the article in the Em- | mering Henry Armstrong in a blist- o | ering 10-round battle in the stifling pire Friday headed “Liquor Short heat here last night. Armstron CABI Executive Tells Dealers” quot-| 28 00 80 B B ih straight ing figures supplied by Bernhard Li.eo.” put the decision went to Badrian, Washington chairman of Joyce. { the Conference of Alcoholic Bever- QNEREEC L R age Industries gave the increase! oRTAHOMA CITY, June 3.—Lou in the Federal Tax on spirits from Ngya, California heavyweight, 1933-1944 as 71 percent. The figure pupched his twelfth straight victory should have been 718 percent. The on a comeack trail, decisioning tax has increased from $1.10 a gal- Buddy Scott in a ten-round slug- lon in 1933 to $9 a gallon, effective fest last night. Nova held the April 1, 1944, advantage all the way. way the motorship Patricia carried the following persons to that city W. Thomas, Vance Phillips, Alice, Williams, Catherine Jacobs, Lorene Hamil, Pauline Roose, Mrs. Ander- son and two children, June Bene. dick, James Daniel and P. E. Rey-| nolds. Arriving here last night on the return trip were Knult Solback,| Mrs. Dora Jons, Mrs. T. Davis, Jackson Rice, Curtis Shattuck, P. E. Reynolds, A. F. James, and T. E. Jones. ' — e . o . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Burean) Temp. for Friday, June 2 e Maximum 66; Minimum 39 o ® 0 0 00009000 0 | ‘ | { q !land, who is back in Southeast the north and south, have captured | LT Alaska for the first time in fifteen | large quantities of supplies of am- Bosnlan Headquaners IS{ : o "he Amerioan-onnese coun| LOPIITEd But Leader Makes Getaway from the north gained 1500 yard -e i k7 yesterday, HERE FROM CHICAGO I BARI, Ttaly, May 29— (Delayed)— Charles Hansen and Walter | Marshall Tito escaped to the moun- Sogge, of Chicago, are registered at, | 18ins along with Maj. Randolph the Gastineau Hotel. |Churchill when German paratroop- e |ers, glider borne infantry, captured L. 8. CASS IN TOWN the Bosnian Headquarters of the/ L. S. Cass is in Juneau and has! Yugoslav Partisan leader on May registered at the Baranof from An- 25, it is disclosed today. chorage. | Partisans said Marshal Rommel e | personally directed the attack. | HERE FROM NEW JERS{Y | A AR N Giddings Howd, of Euglewcod,| Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Millar, of Ta- New Jersey, is in town and a guest COma, are in town and are regist-| at the Baranof, | i | |ered at the Juneau Hotel. years, Mrs. Hazel Kirmse is in Ju- | N g RN neau on her way to Skagway where | she will spend the summer. ¢ ‘Fowm M‘R"" Am Mr. Cleveland will be associated with his sister who operates the w' F' M“mi ‘Rm! Kirmse Cufio Shops in Sitka and | the Lynn Canal city. Since leaving “ERE o" BA" To“n here, Mr. Cleveland has been min- Y ing in the Chestochina district. Fowler W. Martin, Vice-President Before her return north, Mrs. of the Pacific National Bank of Se- Kirmse was visited in Seattle by her |attle, and W. F. Muehe, Cashier, son, Lt. John Kirmse, on leave from |are in Juneau for a short visit with his station at Camp Lee !the various banking concerns. They Mrs. Kirmse and Mr. Cleveland have recently been in Anchorage have already spent several days in|and Fairbanks and after visiting Sitka in connection with the Kirmse | here will continue south to Wran- store there. |geu. Petersburg and Ketchikan. —_—e —— | Mr. Martin has visited Alaska Ray Peterman is in from the many times in the past on previous westward and is registered at the“Good Will Tours,” but this is his Gastineau Hotel, first visit since the war began,