The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9672. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s e e FLAMIMG BATTLES RAGING IN FRANCE @ Stiff Res istance @ @ NAVY WINS MANY NAIZI 1ST ROUND = PRISONERS INVASION ARETAKEN }Alexander's_lfoops Forge | Ahead from Conquered Italian Capital Admiral Ramsay Does Not See Enemy Beating inSecondRound | ADVANCED COMMAND POST NAPLES, June 7—Fifth Army in- SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, June fantrymen, chasing Nazi Field Mar- 7.—Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, hal Kesselring’s fleeing army, have Allied Naval Commander-m-chief‘wPu"med their way 10 miles north ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN‘ and are! WoundedTell Experiences - OnBeachhead One Was " Scared as Hell But Ready to Fight When Landed By HOWARD WHITMAN |New York Daily News Reporter| | Representing Combined American Press Distributed by Associated | Press. AN INVASION PORT, June 7.— | Assault troops of the first invasion |wave hit the beach near Cherbourg land didn’t see a single German. During the first hour demolition work destroyed the concrete tank | barricade, according to the prear-- | ranged plan, with dynamite charges.! |They blasted the barricade so the |Allied tank column could charge | through. The only evidence they saw of | the enemy was a lone Messer-| schmidt which appeared overhead land promptly fled when American oBéing 4 Met by Allie YANKSNEAR VITAL BASE, UT.COL.| BIAKISLAND Well Known U. S. Air Force Allies ReplE Jap Count- Comdr. Demoted for | erattack at Maffin Bay Indicating D-Day | -107 Nips Killed | 1 ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-‘ {QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, {June 7.—The hard-fighting Yanks, | :whn have been advancing steadily |since May 27, have fought to with- in a mile of the Mokmer airfield on Biak Island, headquarters an- nounced. . l The capture of the field will put‘ {the Allies within good bombing : Irange of the Philippines. l?ch;u}Li? % Eg::g:gg‘;’:::: Two hundred miles to the south, best kl;_(vwn Major Generals hm}](fl Japs were killed at Maffin Bay boen -demoted . to’ & Livutonam;"’h"“ the invaders repulsed an‘ Colonel and sent home for indicat~{®Nemy counter-attack. The Jap air| ing in advande the time of D-Day. force attempted without success to The Supreme Command allowed % raid the American Shoutens po- this information to be cabled abroad i*‘"‘“‘" today after holding it up several weeks for security reasons. The Major General is one of the Commanders of an American Air Force, the announcement said and MAJOR GEN. REDUCED TO LIEUT. COL. BULLIJTIN—WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The Major General re- duced in rank and sent home for indicating the time of D- Day has been identified by the War Department as Henry J. F. Miller, of Salem, New Jersey, Commander of the Ninth Air Force. e eee VICTORY SCORED Nazis Were Napping af qugg Time Minesweepers and P-T Boats Clear Path fo French Shore By BOB MILLER Representing Combined American Press ABOARD U. 8. PT BOAT OFF FRANCE, June 7. — The invasion caught the Nazis completely by surprise. It was not until 3:30 a. m. that a German reconnais- sance plane sighted the invading forces and then it was too late to be effective. | Dawn revealed an amazing sight, with ships everywhere and planes everywhere above. So completely were the Nazis| fooled that the British minesweep- | ers escorted by this PT squadron! which ran interference for the in- vasion, cleared a broad path right up to the beaches without being once challenged or fired on and’ without the loss of a single PT. ' 3 @ @ d Forces AIRFORCES |BEACHHEADS OF ALLIES | NOW BEING INCONTROL LINKED UP Take Absolute Command | Airhorne Reinforcements Over Invaded France- | Ryshed to Front by Al- Explosives Pour Down lies and Germans BULLETIN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS LONDSI;LIE::!: 7. — The ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY 4 . : ‘ Transocean broadcast in Berlin FORCE, June T—Between 250 | b ittt man coastal and 500 Fortress and Liber- | . .. ey have beaten off an ator bombers dropped bombs on | \yiog janding attempt off Le- the road intersections south of Baves. . Phon- i an Aok sl Caen this I“crnoo‘n in an ef- firmation, fort to block off German rein- Haslier & NND Teosdonss: snlil forcements, The armada en- an entire Allied airborne di- countered neither German vision had landed on the west- fighters nor ground fire. ern coast of the Normandy LONDON, June 7. — Allied air| Feninsula. forces, taking supreme command of the air over invaded France, {lew well over 13,000 sorties from dawn vesterday to dawn today in sup- port of the assault forces which surged out again this morning in| SUPREME ADVANCE COM- MAND POST, ALLIED EXPEDI- TIONARY FORCES, June 7.Allied troops have struck inland in France after heavy fighting, repulsing Nazi counter blows near Caen, nine miles new attacks beyond the beaghhegd. Last night more than a thousand heavy British bombers poured a stream of explosives on German from the coast, and after clearing and linking up some beachheads. | the enemy from all landing beaches . Reports from the Cherbour in- vasion front showed a “decided im- provement” at midday, the Allies an Army man of long standing. He swiftly felt the Supreme Command- Here's One Story er's axe after talking indiscreetly at a London cocktail party. The announctement addcd«flmt!“"‘ the conversation was said to have | taken place almost two months ago when the invasion was expected al- most daily. The General was re- ported to have said in the presence ! of several persons, “on my honor the invasion will take place before June 15." Because of the slowness of the|yeinforcements moving toward the minesweepers, operations started at fighting front. As they returned, ‘cl:ge“rum;c;;‘t M:’::“yé‘t’;‘r: ’:"'”';"l'; ‘:"EU. S. ralders headed over the Dover | making “considerable progress” on » an planes | g gy 54 it s | Strait,_toward _a. small . portion. of | the whole. frout. despite. had weath- .. . ¥ |France which had Been recaptured.|er and stiffening resistance. (By Associated Press) T I i | the rain| One headquarters officer said both : : G 5 (The sun broke through Republicans hatled as & feather in |clouds as the formations swung|landing and airborne troops have their campaign hat the 14,000 to (ANAD'ANS ot the Sheay-Hlthe Marihg Date ' BY REPUBLICANS, NEW YORK CITY | - " ‘out, led under coveys of American ' 10,000, victoey.Th the SNRw i ark. Olty | Thunderbolts. | tlefront” with heavy fighting in Congressional District which has | 9.000 Sorties | progress ”‘”;;E":Ti’;:;“;:fr;zrmmgv il American’ warplanes alone yester-| Allied parachutists and glider | woréls Sick ower Thantss Cantwell |day flew more than 9,000 soruics |troops were pouring down early to- > \as the Allied armada of some 11,000 day on a 50-mile-long front, re- His action was reported to the | pemocrat with American Labor Security Police by a woman guest ¥ R sial: elecs |planes held an undisputed sway in|inforcing sky train landings at ecurity Polic y g Party support, in the special elec the Caen base to Cherbourg Pen- and Gen. Eisenhower immediately | tion yesterday. b el clhalbssier ' anil of Rome to a point only five miles said the Allied Naval forces were‘shorz af . Ti¥e: Bricohtano. one hundred percent successful in| “The Allies have succeeded in “Everything has gone according|achieving a major break” in the lan. We have won the first 2 Ra (west of Rome and “have again the enemy being in a position m‘launched a big attack” with super- in the second round,” said c i Another column has driven at |least 10 miles northwest of Rome 3 [still forging steadily ahead behind The washlngton;cnomy rearguards. Patrols push- | R d points three to five miles from|fighters dived on it. errY = 0 & oun |the sea and nearly a dozen miles| A few shells were lobbed over Ly | Gen. Sir Harold Alexander broad- | landing, but casualties are described (wLt. C,}?YRP'B,F\:J EEQR,,.,S.OE: active |Cast to the Italian patriots and as light. N |the strength of the German armies| That is the story of one beach- WA TN N T s0e 0onmabt i e e comme {10806 L0 -by. WOUNGEA CVALUEES o Irise against the Nazis and do all!Among them was Cpl. Johnny La- a red hot GOP controversy is rag-|, 2 @ oo e A I ing round the large and not easxly"" their power to sabotage (nemy’ lognata, 22, of Brooklyn, who suf- im | Selring’s efforts to disengage his|wrist. Johnny hit the beach with s-of-war is st him | 5¢ ) Tha Ru-ol-RiE 840 @ th‘,‘,lroop.\ and retire northward. Ithe first wave as part of a de- ici J — and there| 3 chuk‘:llcfm‘ wxi:fljiatgoubt that the the Allied Italian offensive is still|gineers carrying explosives to de- dbesnl Soed rising steadily, the Fifth Army/stroy the concréte tank barricade. leadois widis their Eaya: to the|alove clatming move than 16,000, ground figure that Willkie has a‘ RN it ) will follow him to the bitter end,l DIVINE AID and that these followers could tip They figure that a million votes from the Republicans to Roosevel:.i should Willkie choose to support| h That is why men close to Willkie, BY lEADER such as Harry Luce, publisher of| urging him to get on the Dewe_vl band-wagon. | | | | A German communique said: the convoying task. German lines on the coastal road round and I can see no sign of |lor infantry and tank forces. the Admiral. |after crossing the Tiber ing west from Rome have reached o |north of the Tiber's mouth. |German gun batteries after the service with the Army.) declared: “In less than a month| playing it down i the news, put| - Alexander urged the patriots to|who reached this port at 6 a. m. moved frame of Wendell Willkie. (communications and hinder Kes-/fered a slight fracture of the left 0 2 ) e. | o g with « commitied (fo ga Blong | The total of prisoners taken by|molition team of 22 combat en- i Dewey. GOP Shndidete. il be 4 They were carefully briefed in big bloc of do-or-die followers who the scale between victory or defeat. {2 at a minimum could be swung away | pETIIIoNED the President | Time, Life and Fortune, have been| On the other hand, a few die- hards such as Clarence Budingwni Kelland, Arizona mnovelist who was . . deposed as publicity chief of the| United Nations Republican National ~Committee, | Sy have been passing out word tha&l WASHINGTON, June 7.—Speak- they don’t want Willkie’s support|ing in a solemn strong voice from for Dewey. Kelland is a close the White House, President Roose- friend of Herbert Hoover's, was one |velt on Tuesday night led the na- of Hoover's guests at the famousition in prayer for divine aid for Bohemian Grove celebration near;the Allied liberation assault on San Francisco. However, it is not Europe. known whether he voices Hoover's| Before beginning the prayer ideas when he wants Willkie to be which he wrote during the morn- spurned. ling hours of D-Day, the President Simuitaneously, certain othersaid: GOP leaders, apparently worfledi “Last night when I spoke with about Kelland's sour-grapes atti- you about the fall of Rome, I knew tude, have been making advances:at that moment that troops of the to Willkkie. The last thing they United States and her allies were want is to lose the Willkie bloc/crossing the Channel in another of votes. 5and greater operation, which has |come to pass with success thus far.” Prayer for Success of CAPITAL CHAFF - At one time, Madame Chiang Kai-shek was almost persuaded by | 'MISCELLANEQUS vivacious Boh Smith, general man-l ager of the Los Angeles News, m‘ SHOWER HONORS write a daily column rivaling Mrs.| Roosevelt’s. But Madame Chlang'sl advisers vetoed the idea * * * Am- MISS BE”Y M"- bassador Laurence Steinhardt is| coming back from Turkey for con-| * ! ferences. Despite all the Amed‘Ml“- brlde-elgcn. a mxscellgneous pressure, plus Allied 1,,,d_lefl5e,Jshowox~ was given last evening at Nazi Ambassador Von Papen has|the Ludwig Nelson home on Gla- been able to keep the Turks in line, (cled Highway. Hostesses were Mrs. Von Papen was German milila,ry,‘Be"y Cm?tlllun. Miss 5uz¥ Winn, attache in Washington before me;Mtss_ Merion Cass and Miss Jane U.S.A. entered the last war and|English. was later shown to have plotted m} Twelve of Miss Mill's friends blow up the Welland Canal and to|Were asked for the occasion nnd‘ have been involved in other large|the evening was spent playing scale sabotage * * * the rump con-|8ames. Prizes were given to the vention of South Carolina NegroesyéMisscb Cr_xariene Arnold, Suzy Winn who will seek seats at the Demo—‘and Merion Cass. cratic National Convention in Chi-| A late lunch was served and cago, will not be seated on the gable decorations included a charm- ground that they did not hold|in8 centerpiece arrangement of county conventions. Actually, their| ¥hite snapdragons and white tapers, with individual boyquet place cards, (Continued on Page Four) President le_aas Nation in| advance as to the precise location !cr the wall and just how to reach |it so the tanks could get through. | Johnny said: “We crossed the |Channel in an assault transport,| and were put over the side in n! Higgins boat for the 10-mile run |to the beach. I was scared as hell {on the transport, but once we got our little landing craft started for the beach I forgot all fear, but we were soaking wet and almost sea- sick. Fight Like Hell “As I saw the beach loom up| ahead, I was so damned mad I| |Just wanted to get in there and | |fight like hell.” | Johnny and his buddies said the | bombardment which preceded the | landing was “magnificent.” | | “We planted our charge, blasted |hell out of the wall without los-| ing a single one of our men, then | zing, a shell came over and ex-| ploded nearby. A hunk of shrap-| nel smacked my hand. “Well, T guess my part in the ishow is over,” Johnny added. | |ALASKA ARRLNER IN | WITH 14 PASSENGERS An Alaska Airliner, in from An-| ichorage yesterday, brought the fol-| lowing persons to Juneau: Mr. and | Mrs. F. Smola and child, O. T.| Mansfield, H. J. Anderson, and H.| C. Bettinger and child from that| city, and Marion. Hatfleld, Caroline Callup, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Hockey, ! Deogracias Volante, Mike Colak, | jand Mrs. H. C. Bettinger from| | Fairbanks. | Returning to Anchorage were1 As a compliment to Miss Betty Larry Hagen, of the Standard Oil{Manpower Commission in Alaska, ® | |Company, J. P. Anderson, Mrs. G. O. Roberts, F. M. Weir, Don |Foster, and M. Fulgencia. 'WOODLEY AIWAYS T | FLY TWO NEW PLANES The Woodley Airways is sched- |uled to resume operations on Friday with the addition to their trans- portation facilities of two Boeing |147s, which are fast transport planes with seating ecapacity for |eleven persons. | Headquarters of the airways are |in Anchorage, but there is a branch ‘o(fice in Juneau, in conjunction with the Alaska Coastal Tines, |had Jack Gucker, M. Manuel, and |Roberts and Bess L. Paden, ordered him reduced to the perma- | The Democratic tradition con- nent rank of Lieut. Col. and sent tjnyed in New York’s Fourth Dis- home after an investigation. | trict, Brooklyn, where John Rooney, The name of the officer is not pemocrat, backed by the American ! given, Labor Party, won over Republican | e William Nolan, 4,800 to 1,800. ALASKA COASTAL HA BALL PLAYER THREE BALL PLAYERS MANY FLIGHTS TODAY ™ o6 ecre FoR SERVICE An Alaska Coastal plane leavinu; BOSTON, Mass., June 7.—Second for Sitka this morning carried Chris | haseman Bobby Doerr, catcher Roy Bailey, Norman Rinehart, and Wal- | partee and fielder Leon Culbertson, ter Jackson to that city and Louis |naye all been rejected temporarily | Karsten, Jr., to Hawk Inlet. Re- | for military service but will be re- turning from Sitka were William oxamined later. Frombholtz, John Backman, Earl Mc- T NS Ginty, Earl Forthye and S. Einstoss. VICTOR HILL ARRIVES A trip to Haines this forenoon| vyijctor E. Hill has arrived in Juneau and registered at the Bar- Joe Green as passengers while a anof from Paimut, Alaska. trip to Hoonah carried J. C. John- g - L, son, Dr. Salazar, and Kathryn ! HERE FROM NOME koung, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smola and W. R. Carter was flown to Kel- cnjq of Nome, are registered at| chikan this forenoon. Wililam ¢he Baranof, | Muehe and Fowler Martin were pas- rbstl = i sengers on the same flight, enroute to Ketchikan, and Mrs. Curtis, Mrs M;“g"éu'&i:“:]):fx 'l(:"::’:,',(% 2t Sarset, and Mike Lyner were pas- | ine Baranof, registered from Ko- | sengesr for Wrangell. | diak. | MRS. HERMANN BACK VIA PAN AMERICA | Mrs. Mildred Hermann, OPA Di-| CASLER HERE rector, returned from Fairbanks| §. O, Casler is in town and is yesterday afternoon on a Pan Anm- staying at the Juneau Hotel. erican plane. P — e James E. Parks, Superintendent| IN FROM HOONAH for the H. M. Parks Canning Com- James E. Parks is in town from | pany, was a passenger on the flight| Hoonah and is a guest at the Bar- to Seattle today, as were George O.|anof. and the | ® —_———— SCRIBNER IN TOWN W. L. Scribner came in last eve- | ning from Haines and is a guest at | the Gastineau. | —— - —_——. e - e o o o o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Burean) was flown to Fairbanks. Temp. for Tuesday, June 6, Maximum 59, minimum 48. F.I;UFRESIEWILI PEAKTOMORROW, = yuooc o= - CHAMBER MEETING TIDES TOMORROW Frank Dufresne, formerly Execu- tive Officer of the Alaska Gamn‘ Commission, who will leave v.hxs’ | Arthur Hedges, Director of L4 ® m., 184 feet. m., -3.1 feet. High tide—2:26 a. Low tide —9:04 a. High tide—3:28 p. m., 158 feet. week-end enroute to head offices| Low tide —9:09 p. m., 27 feet. of the Fish and Wildlife Service| ————————— in Chicago, will be guest speakeri HERBERT ARLOWE LEAVES at tomorrow's noon meeting of the| Herbert Arlowe, of the Federal By ROSS MUNRO | Canadian Press War Correspondent WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES LANDING IN FRANCE, June 7.—' In two hours and 45 minutes of | fighting yesterday the Canadian in- vasion forces won its beachhead and shoved on inland. The Canadian beach area was narrow, but pro- | vided a base for further penetra- tion. | There was stiff street fighting in the little coast towns and consid- erable enemy fire on the beaches as the assault troops worked their way through the defenses and forced clear of the numerous steel and wooden obstacles from the beaches which are covered by water at high tide, and were intended to wreck the landing craft. By 10 a. m. the troops were 1,000 vards inland and going strong,' meeting but small pockets of Ger- borne Canadian and British troops in this sector captured and held several important bridges. Cruisers gave excellent support, ! knocking out a troublesome artillery | battery a mile and a half inland with six direct hits. | Allied air cover was very com- plete with Spitfires and nghtnlngs‘ over the beachhead every few min- | utes. ! STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jun 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, American Can 90%, | Anaconda 25'%, Beech Aircraft 8, Bethlehem Steel 577%, Curtiss Wright, | 4%, International Harvester 74%, ' Kenhcott 30%, North American Av- | lation 7%, New York Cgntral 17%, | Northern Pacific 15’2, United States Steel 52, Pound $4.04. | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: ‘Industrials, 142.12; rails, 39.33; utilities, 22.97. — e — MISS KING HERE ON ‘ WAY TO ANCHORAGE o dc | Miss Betty King, formerly secre- | I tary at the PAA office here, is in| Juneau for a few days before con- | Chamber of Commerce. Communications Commission, has Routine business and reports will|left for an extended trip to the in the Gold Room of the Baranof, time in July. tinuing to Anchorage, where she is | been vacationing in the States, | BE (HHEAD;Lhe skies over the ground 1nvnslon! 3 A | |at 25 bombers and a similar num- R.R. Be Permitted: employed at Fort Richardson. l’or) also be discussed at the the session.’'Interior. He plans to return some- | the past few weeks, Miss King has | political activities conceming the troops. U. 8. losses were estimated | Link Up Beachheads y Front line reports showed im- ber of fighters. More than a thousand Lroop-!f‘;;:‘;e;z?:":;" ‘:::‘l’;yth:s":nr:r: carrying aircraft delivered Amt-dj thm beschheads; ‘which the’ parachute troops to France, “"q{Germam declare extend over & 50- never before has the world seen| .. stretch, have been cleared such a mighty demonstration of and some linked with those nearby, power. The Allles maintained a| although a few may be under Ger- constant fighter patrol over a sixty- | pyan artillery fire. mile square of France near Le- The Air Headquarters declared the Havre, approximately at the north-| Allled Air Forces in a mammoth east corner, At least 200 fighters|support of the invasion thrust, has are protecting it every minute, and:flown more than 71,000 sorties be- enemy planes which attempted to tween June 1 and last night. penetrate it are virtually condemn- | Key Positions Seized ed to death. Huge numbers of airborne Allied troops have seized key positions and !have helped throw back the Nazis in tangled counter blows. | The Germans likewise rushed in | parachutists. For four months the Germans ! have been building up an airborne army just for this purpose. The ! Allies for the past several months have been aggravating the Germans | by making various feint affacks on | beaches to keep the Nazis forces | worried as to where the big strike would be made. The Germans claim they knew where the landings would S T R I K E o u T be made but their coastal guns made | no reply except to fire on navy craft | Steady Stream Franceward A steady stream of men, equip- e | ment and supplies flow Franceward. UNITED STATES BOMBER | The United States Ninth Air Force BASE IN,SOVIET UNION, June 7, |has landed thousands of men in --Striking from bases in Russia for | 8lider carriers and these men are the first®time in history, the Pif- | already fighting inland. teenth Air Force heavy bombers The headquarters communigue blasted the German airport at the | 52VS the airborne troops have selzed Rumanfan city of Galati at the |Pridges and roads and joined the mouth of the Danube River. sea-landed troops at some points on The attack was in direct support | the front. Several towns have been of the Red Army and the P'lymx}'-'"P"“"“d and the peninsula is Forts were supported by both Am- |#flame with fighting. erican and Soviet fighter planes, | The Germans admitted this after- Six ecnemy fighters were 5,,0l]n\uo||, in broadcasts, that “superior down and two American plnlxenlmr""s" have established beachheads falled to return. more than 40 miles apart. At the | mouth of the Orne River and north of Carenthan, the DNB said the BRIDGE CAPTURED NEW YORK, June 7.-The Brit- ish information service said that the British Sixth Airborne Division has captured and is holding the bridge north of Caen. FORTRESS| American troops are steadily being reinforced but are being engaged near St, Mereglise. Heaving Fighting Inland | The German broadcast says the | Allied bridgehead at the mouth of |the Orne River is about 20 miles WASHINGTON, June 7. Tm!wldg and six miles deep and heavy House Judiciary Committee has ap- | fighting is reported inland from the proved of the bill by Aliska Dele- peachhead. gate Dimond allowing Aliska Rail The Allled Headquarters issued a road employees to participaie in i statement that strong Nazi counter- (Continued on Page Two) To Dabble in Polifics municipalities in which taey live.