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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28

OF NIpp0N5
SHOWN UP

NEW YORK, Jan. 90. - Palmer
Hoyt, former Director of the Do
nestle Branch of the Office of
War Information, charged that an
article can be released to the Am
erican Magazine, story that Jap
anese brutally murdered most OF the
$4,000 prisoners taken at Bataan.'
Hoyt said the Japs marched the
American prisoners through dead
ly heat, without water, although
they had thousands of available
vehicles. They crushed thousands,
who did not die on the march by
running the vehicles through the
columns of the marchers.
Hoyt says the article was writ
ten before the Army and Navy dis
closure and will be published next
week. He declared full blooded
story of this war, the most import
ant personal story in the history CT
this Nation, is not being properly
presented to the people
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HOWARD STABLER
FILES FOR SENATE,
REPUBLICAN TICKET

Howard D. Stabler, well known
Juneau lawyer, has filed for the
four-year term as Senator on the
Republican ticket.
Stabler was formerly United States
District Attorney for the First Divi-
sion and is prominent in civic af-
fairs Of the city.
At Ketchikan, Harry Mccain,
former Mayor, City Attorney, and
now Councilman, has filed for the
House on the Republican ticket. Nc
Cain was defeated when candidate
for the House in 1884 and he was
also a defeated candidate for At
torney General in 1886. He was
recently elected Chairman OF the
Ketchikan Republican Club.
Chris Hennings, wellknown labor
man of Juneau, late this afternoon
filed for the House on the Demo-
cratic Ticket.
A dispatch to the Empire from
the Ketchikan Chronicle says H
|W. Benolkin, pioneer seiner, has
filed for the House on the Repub-
lican ticket. He ran in the pri-
lmaries several years ago.
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BRITISH
TROOPS
VICTIMS
thousands Of Troops Have
Died While Prison
ers Of Japs

LONDON, Jan. %. British For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden told
the House of Commons today that
thousands of British troops have
died as prisoners of the japanese
after being compelled to live "un-
der tropical jungle conditions with
out adequate shelter, clothing, food
OF medical attention"
Eden warned that Britain will not
forget and he charges that Jap au-
thorities have dictated postcards
and letters received from prisoners
giving the impression they are in
good health and well treated.
The information which has just
reached this Government no longer
leaves any room for doubt of the
true state OF affairs in which a
great majority of prisoners in Jap
hands are concerned"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
YANk5 DOWN
Is zER05 in
AIR BAT Tie
Mounting Plane Offensive
Against MarshaIIs Force
Desperate Jap Strategy

PEARL HARBOR, Jan. ga
strategy seemingly born of desper-
alton drew topflight Jap fighter
pilots into the biggest battle of the
mounting U. S. air offensive in
the Marshalls and cost the enemy
Is to % planes. No Americans were
lost, Admiral Nimitz announced last
night.
The big action came on Wednes-
day the 21st day of the attack,
when Army and Navy airmen in
nine Army Mitchells bombed Taroa
airfield at Maloelap. Twenty zeros
intercepted and II and possibly y
were shot down. The speedy Mitch
ellis retired and another group OF
Zeros pursued. United States fight
ers joined the bombers and five
more enemy planes were shot down
and five more probables.
The fight is significant as it is
the first attempt of Jap airmen
to pursue retiring aircraft. 1t may
be desperate measure, Admiral
Nimitz announced.
The extension of the assault on
/ the Marshalls to the most north
western atoll EniwetOk, was record
ed by Navy filters, who severely dam
aged and may have sunk an oil
tanker. They also sank one of hel
escort ships.
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BOND SALES
CREEP NEAR
QUOTA MARK

Series E bond sales went To $ll3,-
681 last night when booth sales
ended, narrowing the gap between
present sales and the quota OF
$4,000 in Series E which must be
met by next week. Total sales now
stand at S297 ,648. Rotary CluE
members chalked up more thar
$1,000 at their booth last night.
Tonight the Girl Scouts OF Am
erica and Beta Sigma Phi viii
handle booth sales and stunts will
be featured over KINY. Latest adj
dition will be vocal selections by
Henry Sully, sponsored by Roalo
Copstead, and requests for num-
beers should be phoned in at once
Sully accepted Copstead's challenge
to sing for bonds and will be heard
from 8:15 to $50 pm.
Tomorrow night the Juneau Ma
sonic Lodge and Order of Eastern
Star will have charge of booth
sales.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28

Gallant Defenders OF
Bataan Starved, Killed;
Horror Story Revealed

for two days, periodically beaten
with two by four timber One Of
ficer was then beheaded and the
other two were shot.
Flags Used As Rags
American flags were habitually
and designedly used as rags in
kitchens
The March of Death" said Col.
William E. Dyess, killed in an air
crash after his escape, began when
thousands of prisoners were herded
together in Bataan the morning
after their surrender
Groups of from 500 to 1000 men
were then started on the march
seward San Fernando.
Dyess said one Japanese soldier
took canteen, gave the water to
a horse, then threw the canteen
away.
Run Over BY Trucks
Men recently killed were lying
along the roadside, many run over
and flattened by Japanese trucks.
Patients we're bombed out OF their
hospitals and dazed. wandered
about in pajamas and slippers. They
were herded into the marching col
umn.
The prisoners marched the Sec
ond day without food but were per-
mitted to drink dirty water from
a roadside stream.
Many Go Crazy
Many went crazy. Several dieo.
The japanese dragged out the sick
and delirious. ! made the march
of about IS miles on one mess kit
of rice Others made the March Of
Death for IL days without food and
much of the time were given the
sun treatment along the way" said
Dyess.
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NAILS
I 0 : TIE N
SOVIET TIDE
Siege Army Beaten Back
from Leningrdd To-
ward EstOnia Border

MOSCOW, Jan 28.-Mauled Ger
man forces in northwest Russia
are being hurled back toward a
line extending through Narva in
Estonia to Luga and Staraya IL
Russia by the charging Red Arm
les which ripped to pieces the siege
lines around Leningrad, and cap
tured str tegic Lyuban and
Chudovo, their only two remaining
towns on the double Lenin-
grad Moscow trunk line All but 80
miles of the railway is in Russian
hands.
At the lower end of the north
west front, the Nazis are battling
frantically to keep the Russians
west of Novgorod and Lake linen
The Germans reported heavy fight
ing near the eastern Crimea.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
BERLIN IS
IN FLAMES
FROM RAID

LONDON, Jan. 28.-Hundreds of
Royal Air Force heavy night bomb
ers touched off fields of flames in
Berlin last night in possible final
death blow to the Nazi nerve center
previously described by Gen. H. H.
Arnold as three quarters destroyed.
The British announcement describ-
ed the twelfth heavy assault in the
obliteration campaign as very
strong" The statement is borne out
by the loss of "a aircraft, all in
the nights operations.
Today heavy United States bomb
ers attacked a military objective in
northeran France and other Raj
bombers hit Helgoland, the mighty
sea fortress, and unnamed targets in
western Germany. The Raj also
laid mines.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
MARINES IN
ADVANCE ON
new BRITAIN
RebduI Bombed Again-No
Jap Planes Rise TO
Challenge Invaders

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
JAM ga mile and one-half ex-
pansion of the vi al American
beachhead in northwestern New
Britain has been announced by
headquarters here.
Allied air power, which supported
the Marine advance, also dealt a
100-ton bombing blow in the north
Admiralty Islands, and failed to
draw so much as a challenge from
the Japs.
The new raid on Rabaul is in
sharp contract to the previous sky
fights there which cost the. Japanese
$50 planes this month.
Ground forces scored a success
in the seizure of Natamo Point on
New Britain's Bergen Bay. This
was achieved by the Marines on
Wednesday and moved the Amer
leans a mile and one-half beyond
the strategic hill $50 captured on
January IA.
The bomb blows on Admiralty
started large fires and explosions
in the bivouac areas on the airfield
and runway. and on the jetty sew
eral buildings were destroyed
At Rabaul Allied planes roamed
the harbor for IS minutes without
inducing a single enemy plane to
engage them.
A night raid by Liberators smash.
eral on Rabaul'S network
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28

WASHINGTON. Jan. pa hor-
ror story, scarcely paralleled in the
annals of modern warfare, tells how
the Japanese starved and tortured
and in some cases wantonly muir
dered, the gallant defenders of Ba-
taan, is told by the Army and Navy
in documented sworn statements OF
officers who escaped from prison
camps.
The joint announcement describes
cold blooded campaign of savagery
carried out after $4,000 Americans
and Filipinos of Bataan and Core
gidor were overwhelmed by superior
numbers of Japs.
The account begins by telling OF
thousands of deaths in japanese
camps, in which 1900 Americans
died in two months in one camp
Then the sworn statement recites
the following.
Prisoners Bcheaded
Americans and Filipinos were
first taken prisoners and those
found with japanese money or to-
kens, were beheaded.
Survivors were then beaten along
the March of Death
Twelve thousand men were kept
penned in 100 yard square area
without food for a week. They were
then given a 12-hour wait to fill
canteens from one water spigot.
Sun Torture
Prisoners were widely tortured by
the sun treatment" The captives
were made to sit in boiling sun
all day without covering and little
water.
Six men, three Americans and
three Filipinos, i'll from mistreat-
ment were buried still alive.
Men were literally worked to
death 1t was not unusual for 20
percent of a work detail to die. In
"one instance rs percent of the
prisoners were killed that way"
Horribly Tortured
Three officers who attempted to
escape, had their hands tied behind
them and then with ropes tied to
their hands were pulled upward
and the ropes were attached to an
overhead purchase SO they had to
remain in fearful agony standing,
bent forward to ease the pressure
ON their arms. They were left thus
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MORE info
50UGHT0N
ATROCITIES
Senator Says Bomb Japan
Out Of ExistdnCe-
Hang Mikddo

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull said the
United States is gathering all pos
sible information as to treatment
of American prisoners held by the
Japanese so the war criminals may
be punished at this wars end
At todays conference with the
newsmen, Hull was asked whether
this Government is making list
of Jap officers in the Philippines
directly responsible.
The Secretary said he could not
say specifically in respect to the
Philippines, but the Government
has been ascertaining all informa-
ton possible brought out to the
United States and will persevere IN
pursuit of what is called righ-
teous undertaking to continue ex-
changing of prisoners or civilian
internees in Japan. No one, Hull
said has any accurate data as 10
how much chance there is in ef-
fecting such exchanges in the fu-
ture.
The State Secretary said relief
supplies to Allied prisoners, which
were delivered to the Gripsholm
and Jap vessel during the last re-
patriation exchange two months
ago have not been heard from.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark,
of Missouri, first World War vet
eran, today voiced the demand the
United States bomb Japan out Of
existence" and hang the Mikado.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
The W ashington
Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON
Major Robert g. Allen ON active duty.l

WASHINGTON - A good many
people have inquired of this column
list regarding the fact that he was
offered the alleged Hopkins letter
some weeks ago, but did not pub
lish it. Here are more details.
The letter was offered by Joe
Lieb. who says that he organized
the first Roosevelt for President
Club in 1882, and now claims that
he was the organizer Of the first
Macarthur for President Club. The
reasons why this column decided
against publication were:
First, it seemed uncomfortable that
Hopkins would write letter OF that
kind, since all his conversation and
efforts have been to promote FDR
for a fourth term, not Willkle;
second, the letter was copy and
looked phony on the surface; third,
it was offered by man active IN
trying to smear Willkie by making
it appear that he was secretly link
ed up with Hopkins and the White
House
This is one of the chief tactics OF
old guard Republicans as far as
this columnist has been able to de-
termine. However, there is abso-
lutely no secret deal between Roose-
welt and Willkie. Their relation
ship is one of mutual respect, but
no cordial admiration.
The President appreciated Will
kie's public cooperation with him
on foreign policy, but he has never
been enthusiastic over WILKES un-
official ambassadorial trips to var
ious parts of the world, perhaps be-
cause they tended to crowd him
FDR, from the limelight. And
when the President learned that
Willkie had an invitation from the
Australian Government to visit that
country, he is reported to have
stepped in with a hint to the Aus
tralian GOVERN ent that Mrs
Roosevelt take the trip instead.
Some time before this, the Presi-
dent had offered Willkie the job OF
Civilian Defense Director, which
Willkie refused--partly because he
didn't think he should accept any
post in the Roosevelt Administra-
ton, partly because he felt that the
Civilian Defense job was an almost
hopeless one, which could not be
Strengthened out easily and whlcf
would only hurt him politically
WILKES friends suspected tnt
President of having Interior polit'
ical motives in offering him Thu
job
But while the President doesn'
relish too much political strength
on WILKES part. it can be said thai
he is most anxious that Willki'
continue his bipartisan support o
his foreign policies. Therefore
when Marquis Childs published /;
magazine article detailing variou
wisecracks which the Presiden
purportedly had made about Will
kie, the President took the troubl
to write Willkie long letter. tax
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan .28.-Closin9
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 81, American Can
Sc, Anaconda Is, Beach Aircraft
81, Bethlehem Steel 59i4, Curtiss
Wright 5a4, International Harvester
73k, Kennecott 81, North American
Aviation as, New York Central
l7h, Northern Pacific l41s, United
States Steel 52ss.
Dow. Jones averages today are
as follows: industrials 1919, rails
1904, utilities 2246.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
ONE ESCAPE is
NOW NEAR SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Jan. 28.---One of the
three officers who escaped and have
reported on Japanese atrocities. is
Commander Melvyn Mccoy, 81.
who this week assumed command
Of the radio activities on Balm
bridge Island. He has now regained
IS pounds lost while prisoner q
the Japs for IL months. He is UNI
able to enlarge on the official re-
port.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
mot GUILTY" PLEA
ENTEDED BY WATSON;
JACKSON ARRAIGNED

One person was arranged and
another plead mot guilty" when
brought into the Federal District
Court.
James Clifton Jackson. indicted
by the Grand Jury on three charg-
es, was arranged Jackson is charg-
ed with assault with intent to kill,
shooting with intent to kill and as
sault with a dangerous weapon.
James Watson, charged with for
gerry, entered his plea OF not guilty
70 the charge.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
OILY SPEECH
COMES FROM
TOKYO RADIO

NEW YORK, Jan pa Tokyo
propaganda broadcast beamed to
the United States at the same hour
the Army and Navy report was re-
leased ON japanese atrocities, called
upon Americans to promote the
Peace for the World Club"
The Government monitors said
the commentator discussed the
lonely men out here in internmeni
camps" and said the prisoners OF
war we're going to present the first
act Il John Steinbeck's "Of Mice
and Men at one camp entertain
ment
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
STAN GRUMMETT BACK

Stanley Grummett, well known
local insurance representative, ar
rived home last night by steamer
from a brief business trip Outside
He expressed profound relief at get
ting back, and said the worst OF
travelling now in the States is the
eternal standing in line"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
EARY's STATEMENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - Ste
phen Early, Presidential Secretary
said the report of Jap atrocities
was released because further relief
supplies could not be expected to
reach the prisoners.
AS to whether lifting the ban on
reports means the Government has
abandoned hope of further ex-
change of repatriation prisoners,
Early suggested that is one ques-
ton for the State Department
which has handled the problem
through the Swiss Government.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
Dem oS Kill
Endorsement
Of Gruening
Challenge MiIler's Bart
LETT Proxies as
Violation

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. %
Bitter debate on the question of a
Fourth Term for Roosevelt, en-
dorsement of Gov. Ernest Gruening,
reapportionment of representation
at the Territorial convention, and
ON a challenge that the four prox-
les held by Charlie Miller of Jul
neau from Secretary of Alaska e.
L. Bartlett was a violation of the
Hatch Act, marked a stormy ses-
sion of the Democratic Convention
at Fairbanks up to midnight last
night.
The delegates endorsed a Fourth
Term and the Roosevelt Admins
tration by vote of 60 to 10, de-
feated a move to endorse Governor
Gruening by a vote of Al to 80,
voted to send delegates to the Ma
tional Convention uninstructed
Debate Opens
Curtis Shattuck of Juneau opened
the debate OH the Fourth Term
question, arguing along with Alaska
Linck Of Fairbanks and Karl ORA
ger of Anchorage that Roosevelt
was not indispensable. Frank Cor
don of Fairbanks, H. H. McCutch-
con of Anchorage, Ed Coffey Of
Anchorage, John Pegues of Fair
banks argued for endorsement and
presented in argument letter from
Alaska Delegate Anthony j. Di-
mond, which some delegates argued
was pressure from Washington ;"
Coffey said that Italy, Germany
and Japan did their best to elect
Wendell l.. Willkie in 1910.
Against Gruening
In the only move to include in
the program a plank endorsing
territorial officials, Gordon urged
endorsement of Gruening. Karl
Drager made a long talk against
the Governor and Harvey Smith OF
Anchorage challenged Gordon to tell
the convention specifically what
Gruening had done for Alaska.
Gordon replied that the income tax
bill introduced last session was one
of the Governors best attempts to
help Alaska.
Miller cast four of his proxy
votes for endorsing Gruening and
six others from the First Division
against the endorsement
Warren Taylor of Kodiak chal-
lenged Miller's voting four proxies
which he said we're from Bartlett
as violation of the Hatch Act,
law which forbids Federal Off
Gals from participating i'll local pol
itics Taylor also challenged Howard
Lyng's right to hold proxies in ex-
cess of five
The Rules Committee sustained
Lying and Miller's proxies but stated
the decision was based on the the
DRY that to sustain the challenge
would illegalize previous convention
work already voted on, and that
the ruling was not based on the
application or application q
the Hatch Act.
The delegates then voted rs to
l to limit delegates at the next
convention to holding five votes.
The motion for proportional re-
presentation was defeated by vote
of As to SO.
The convention resumed business
at 8 O'Clock this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
FIFTY NAH
PLANES SHOT
DOWN, FIGHTS
Germ ans Make Furious
Attack on Nettuno
Beaehhedd
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 28.-The German
Tenth Army, backed by planes, struck
with fury at the Nittuno beachhead
but were repulsed by the British in
a battle near Corroceto, 81 miles
south of Rome.
At the same time the Germans
suffered the greatest air defeat of
the Italian campaign, losing at least
so planes in "a hours in sky battles
over the beachhead and over
southern France where Flying Fort
resses and Liberators struck three
airfields near Marseille, Gripping
the bases from which the Germans
Continued on Page Two)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
EXCISE TAXES,
POSTAL RATES,
TAKE BIG JUMP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Senate
and House tax bill conferees APP
proved rises of more than $1,000
100000 in excise taxes and postal
rates yesterday.
Stiff wartime luxury" rates
which were approved included ad
missions to theatres and ball parks
from the present rate of one cent
for each ten cent charge to one
cent for each five cents; cabaret
and night club checks, 80 percent
in place of the present five per-
cent; and airmail postage was
upped' from six to eight cents fol-
each ounce.
Locally delivered mail will carry
the full three cents postage.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
BANK BALANCE
FOR TERRITORY
IN GOOD SHAPE

Territorial Treasurer Oscar c.
Olson today reported that the Ter
ritory's bank balance for December
81, l943, was the highest in 10
years, standing at $1,171,871.04
The record as follows, speaks for
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28

Mallory Collins, of New York City
and Jeanette Munger, OF Fort st
Johns, are guests at the Baranoi
Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28

Olson said that the balance for
December 81, 1914, however prob
ably would be lower due to the fact
that there are no collections to
speak of from the mining inter
ests as result Of curtailment Of
production due to the war.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-28
RAATIKAINEN is IN

c. Raatikainen is in Juneau from
Pelican and is registered at the
Gastineau.
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HERE FROM SAUK CENTRE
Here from Sank Centre, Mimi,
Lillian E. Moore is at the Baranof.
SMITH FROM INDIANA
From Fort Wayne. Indiana, James
M Smith is at the Baranof.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-10
NOrmand y Invasion
ReunifeS 2, Brothers

In a recent letter 70 his mother
Nicholas wrote:
AT last I have good news for
you, NOM. Vince has been sta
toned at an underground hospi-
tai here and. when he discov-
cred / was In France, he just
set out 20 find me. Aug. 2 was
the lucky day and II sure was a
happy half hour for both OF us.
We hope Ia see each other often
now. because we aren't sta
toned far apart"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-10

After repeated attempts 10 find
each other in England Pvt. Nlcho-
las CoSentino Jr. of the anti-tank
corps and his brother. Pfc. Vincent
c. COSentino of the medical corps.
had 10 wait until they landed IN
France for their first reunion
since they said goodby, more than
a year ago, In the United States.
They are the sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas CoSentino. 4729
Seminole. who informed the
Times of their meeting today.