The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1944, Page 1

i i VOL. XLIL, NO. 9674. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE =4 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = | AMERICANS MOVE TOWARD New Pincers Att MUNICH IS BLASTED BY BIG ARMADA -Railway Bridge on Seine River Destroyed- Bombing on Italy SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIFYD) EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 9. — United States heavy bombers, striking from the | south, 500 to 750 strong, battered | prime targets in the Munich area, | southern Germany, making a new | pincers attack on the Nazi war ma- | & chine, coordinated with disruptive blows on German positiops in | France from the west. Bombers flying to the Munich | area for the first time from lla]y: fought through clouds of German | fighters to reach their target. | Swiss dispatches report terrific ; explosions in the Munich and Augs- | burg areas. } Railroad Bridges Destroyed The BBC broadcast said the Allied (Continued on Page Two) —————— The Washington| ~ i e Merry -Eg -Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Just before Vice| - CAA Predids 1 Plane President Wallace left for China, he had a talk with the President which may have important bearing on his political future. Wallace laid it right in the lap of the Presi- | dent as to whether he, Wallace, should be on the Democratic ticket. | He told FDR that he realized! the question of who would run for Vice President on a Roosevelt ticket | was the hottest political issue in the nation today, and added that Beachhead Landing in Franc ] £ . % e Men, harges, landing craft and assault vehigles reach the beachhead in France on D-Day of the Allied landings on the continent of Europe. This is the first pieture showing the Allies on French soil. (AP Wire- photo from Signal Corps). To Every 300 Persons; ks gosI-War Planning he personally was relatively un-| important. “The main thing,” he said in, prief, “is that you be re-elected.| “Therefore, before I leave the coun- | try, I want you to know that I am perfectly prepared to step aside.; Furthermore, I want you to feel| that you are perfectly free to make your decision without further con-| sulting me.” | This struck a responsive chord | with the President. But he did not commit himself. To do so might have indicated definitely. that he planned to run and, so far, as anyone knows, he has not done that even to members of his own| family. | The President has always apprec- | jated Wallace’s loyalty, especially| after the beating Wallace took at W KANDY, SWIFT DRIVE IN ITALY IS PROGRESSING Refreating German Forces Show No Signs of De- termined Stand { BULLETIN ROME, June 9~—The Fifth | Army troops racing after the retreating Germans have cap- tured Vitebo, the prize road | and rail junction 40 miles | northwest of Rome by a swift 7-mile dash, and also seized Tarquina, near the coast 55 miles from Rome, and still ne signs of the Germans. The Allied advance has also envelop- ed Vetralla on the lateral road to Tarquina. | ROME, June 9. — German forces guarding the Adriatic sector have | started to retreat to avoid encircle- | ment. For the first time since the launching of the offensive nearly a month ago, Allied troops rolled for- ‘ward along the entire Italian front, striving to maintain close contact with the fleeing enemy, who have shown no disposition yet to make a determined stand. The - Allied Fifth Army raced steadily north and northwest of Rome, and Gen. Mark Clark’s col- umns which are driving north oc- cupied the entire Lake Bracciano area, Later they moved on to cap- ture Caprarolo, 34 miles north of Rome on the east side of Lake Di Vivo and about 10 miles southeast | of the highway junction town of | Viterbo. | In the nerthwest Allied units are | racing on from Civitavecchia, and | frontline dispatches told of the | | shelling of Tarquina, 55 miles from | Rome, and about three miles inland from the Tyrrhenian coast. | —— e — photo). REDS TAKE _ POSITIONS NEAR IASI Big Offensive But No Confirmation | nounced that Soviet troops are seek- |ing to improve their positions on a D-Day morning as the Allies thrust against fortress Europe. two showing invading forces on the French side of the channel. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps radio- Germans Claim Soviefs in| LONDON, June 9.—Moscow an- | Pinpointed in wakes of spray, landing craft approach a beachhead on the northern shore of France on This reconnaissance photo is one of the first CarriersDo |JAP CRUISER Great Job of DAMAGED BY ~ LandingMen YANKPLANES Americans Nearing Second Airfield on Biak-Mop Up Enemy Pockels Parafroops and Supplies' Flown fo France Under | ‘ Withering Fire | By HOWARD COAN ! AT A NINTH AIR FORCE TROOP CARRIER BASE, June 9.— The troop carrier ‘command did its QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- | AIRFIELD IN indi H __ | predicts the 0 will se half- Chindits Capture Village-|proccts twat 150 il s & okt By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 9. — Post- | |war planning is a popular Capitol | | |pastime and many industries, states | BURMA FAlls and communities are indulging in {it, but it’s rare indeed that any, | lone will come forth with specific, | To B R I T I s H |figures on which you can do some | | local crystal gazing of your own. | | The Civil Aeronautics Adminis-| i, {tration has provided such flgures.‘Airborne UnifS Comp|eva | Peering into the future, the CAA | Missions Without Con- { fusion in First Hours W | By JUDSON 0. QUINN | UNITED STATES NINTH AIR | FORCE TROOP CARRIER BASE | |CcAA admits this is a rather ar-| bitrary estimate, based in part on| hunches (as well as a careful sur- lvey of trends and polls.) How-| ever, Administrator Charles I. Stan- ton describes the conclusion as Chinese Close Gap in Mogaung Valley Ceylon, June 9.—Gen.| i i e the | the hands of Jesse Jones during Stilwell's troops captured “highly conservative compared with | [N ENGLAND, Juné 9.—Col. Ralph | the row over the Board of Econ- horthern end of the north Myitky-| & estimates.” | Bagby of Evanston, Illinois, first linai airfield in Burma. British| parachute invader to return to Eng- | omic Warfare, Jones has been re- ported determined to keep Wallace off the Democratic ticket and, judging by the part played by Jesse’s nephew in the anti-Roose- velt revolt in Texas, he has a lot| of bargaining power. However, the President can be awfully stul and he may get *he “old Dutch up regarding having Wallace on the ticket. NAVY UNDERSECRETARY New Secretary of the Navy] Jimmy Forrestal hasn’t endeared himself either to the White House 2 or the admirals in his maneuver- ing to pick an Undersecretary of the Navy. | Jimmy's first personal choice for Undersecretary was Struve Hensel, |™i the Wall Street lawyer now head- ing the Navy's procurement legal‘ division. However, this would have meant too many Wall Streeters running the Navy. self was head of Dillon, Read; As- sistant Secretary Gates was head| of New York Trust; Assistant Sec-| retary Bard is a Chicago invest-| ment banker.) | So Forrestal then turned Charles Thomas of California, who, however, turned out to be & banker gilded over. (Continued on Page Four) ‘troops, trying to chase the Japs; ‘out of India, have drjven fourteen miles southward down the Kohima |road toward Imphal. 1Maj. bborn Chindits also captured the village |y "o “pan account generally | » of Hola, | | Myitkyina, { captured new positions inside the | |town itself and drove off a Jap| | |night attack. | the Chinese closed a gap between mean one plane tq every 300 per-| of Lachinga and six miles north-|conservative. to dent Roosevelt this afternoon told| 1, 1943, when civilian flying was the reporters at the conference that yirtually grounded, applications for fighting in France is making slow cjyjlian He had been with the Progress, but said the sea is a bit rougher, other- | wise he had no news. | When Stanton drew up his final land from France, told official in- | terrogators that his group carried | out their mission successfully and “raised hell in general.” | |figures, one of the determining fac- Itors was pre-wa: motorboats. It's’ a smaller hop from speedboats and | ‘i:fi:n“;: L;;::s ::: t:e :r;p;::': Dropped from troop carrying {down jalopy. - The'sfiriVs the same,| planes four hours before the landing i . ®,| barges touched the French coast on invasion day, Bagby and his men moved immediately to their assigned | tasks, blowing up bridges, putting enemy gun positions out of action said that air-borne Allied Headquarters Gen. Lentaigne's two miles northeass of“s " while Chinese troops| ™" The estimated population of the country in 1950 will be somewhere 3“_?,'1.;’;“':::‘ ;he ";‘:dj- : 3 around 150,000,000. That would | ssemblpd jn combat | teams and moved out to take their objectives, which they did with very little opposition,” Bagby said. “Cas- ualties among the boys were so light To the west in Mogaung Valley,| roadblock they established weét sons. CAA considers this ultra- who are building model aircraft and' LOIS VINCENT HERE | |will be of flying age when the' Lois Vincent is a guest at the [20th century turns the half-way|Juneau Hotel, having registercd yesterday from Seattle. B e ‘ HERE FROM PETERSBURG | rolled into| Aril Mathison and wife arrived yesterday from Petersburg BRIEF WAR NEWS WASHINGTON, June 9.—Presi-\mark, pilot licenses but it is still progress. He caA at the rate of 3,000-a-month,|here {" (Continued on Page TWO) ' Hotel, PARATROOPS | “captured height of great import- north of Iasi, Rumania, where, a German radio com- mentator said yesterday, Russian armored forces have launched an offensive on a wide front. The broadcast Soviet communique, however, made no mention of a large scale offensive, but said that about 200 Germans were killed ang several enemy tanks destroyed as Nazi counterattacks to restore the captured positions were frustrated. WIDESPREAD RAIDS MADE INPACIFIC Jap Bases ;n Half Dozen Islands Feel Weight of U. S. Bombs WASHINGTON, June 9.—Ameri- | can bombers, hitting hard at Jap positions in the Central Pacific, blasted airfields, runways and gun positions on a half dozen islands o Wednesday and Thursday, the Navy reported. Truk, once a strong enemy base | west of Kamaing. The agency points out that there | 4 in the Carolines, Ponape, and ad- i In Kohima the fighting British 'are 3,000,000 men now getting air%:h‘;ifi: T,.T:;t :::el:ov::lev‘,fi?‘d ]"l:' joining Paking guarding the east- {captured positions five and seven|training in the armed forces; 2,-|less confusion than the "a‘m:,v. ern approaches to Truk, Nauru far les southeast of the Kohima wells 500,000 workers in aircraft produc-!exercises.” “|to the south, and unidentified ene- |and fourteen miles south of lhc.‘n(,n plan 300,000 high school| He said the parachute and glider ™Y positions in the Marshalls all Allied communications hub. |students each year (that alone|borne units were linked with the ¢t the blast of Amcrican bombs. 1 e A | means nearly 2,000,000 more by|ground troops, which made their At Truk big Army Liberators | 1950) who are taking pre-flight! landings from the sea several hours roared on Wednesday night and (Forrestal mm.|RO0SEvElI GIVES courses; and nobody knows how?later. Thursday morning, concentrating {many lower teen-age youngsters| ————— |their attack on the airfields. —————— IN FROM HAINES Guests at the Juneau Hotel are Haines. - OREGONIAN HERE |Job and its men went to France at a little better than 100 miles an | June 9.—In a sharp sea and air duel | off northwestern New Guinea, Am- hour, unarmed, unarmored and |erican Liberators damaged a Japa- within bow and arrow range of |nese cruiser, sending two 500-pound | bombs crashing off her bow. German machinegun flak emplace- | Iments. They delivered the army | Headquarters announced the pa- with weapons and supplies behind | trolling bombers attacked the war- Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. |ship on Tuesday at Aaigeo Island, Take the case of Lts. Theron An- | Off the northern New Guinea coast. 'glemyer of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, | The Liberators then repulsed 12 en- and Jeffery Harrison of Centerville, emy fighters, probably destroying Mississippl. Clouds obscured the | One. g area where they were supposed to | Ground Troop Action let their troops drop and they miss- | Ground troops on Bnak Island in ed it. They circled and headed the schouten group concentrated back under a withering fire, and this | o, cleaning the enemy pockets in time placed their paratroops right the caves and on the cliffs east of on the button. | American-held Makmer airdrome, The Joes they flew are amazing, ynpder the triple barrage from ar- hard-bitten, unfearing men whose | tjjlery, tanks and destoyers. These trench is the sky. One paratrooper, | japanese resistance groups were left riding in a C-47, shouted: “Let me when the American encircled them at them!”, tore loose from the crew 5 take the airfield from the north. who ‘tried to restrain him, and Tpese Americans are approximately jumped with his machine gun. They | (yq miles from Boroke airstrip, sec- i’*“:dt a ‘11“!‘39: h:::;' b‘:"“’ ‘x':t_" | ond main objective on Biak. ucket where he en sitting. Nobody knows his name. i Widespread Raids The tow rope broke while one| The widespread American raids | group was forming up over the base, | included attacks on Faleu and Ton- {and ont glider had to land in a elik islands in the Truk group on | pasgure several miles away, whily |Tuesday night, on Wewak off the |the rest of the outfit went on to ) 0ast of British New Guinea, and | France. elvink Bay. When they went out to pick them The attack on the cruiser marked up by jeep, the profanity was some=- another strike at Japan warships thing terrible, The paratrooper filed | the recently upsurged southwest out, stomping around and giving Pacific air war. A few days ago everybody hell, headquarters reported the sinking “The blankety blank blanks of :ul a destroyer, the first destruction blanks, they can't even get us where ©f & Nipponese vessel since March Ewc are going,” one said, according 2l | to Frank Coffey, of Lincoln, Ne- braska, the tow ship pilot. B - WAR PRISONERS | Noemfoor Island in Geé > oo JOHN EISENHOWER GETS COMMISSION WEST POINT, N. Y, June 9.— ‘The solemn graduation exercises at | TOI-D, INVASION | the United States Military Academy —_ | were interrupted by a tremendous | LOS ANGELES, June 9. ~Italian | burst of applause as Cadet John prisoners of war, operating as work | Eisenhower, son of the invasion |Mr. and Muys. E. B. Lowman from companies at the port of embarka- | chief, received his diploma and com- tion, were jubilant at the invasion | mission as a Second Lieutenant in | news. 1 the infantry. ' “Maybe the war will be over in| Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who Charles Raymond, of Warrenton, three months and we can return was présent, gave her son a sealed and are staying at the Juneau Oregon, is in town and is register- ed at the Juneau Hotel, home and go to work,” asserted an | message from his father at the end officer from Rome, ‘\ol the ceremonies, CHERBOURG ack Made on Nazi Machine Landing Craft Approach F_rench Inyays‘io‘n (oasl ——et IMPORTANT ENEMY AREA ~ ISCAPTURED {Germans Concede Loss of Ste. Marie Eglise on ‘ Main Artery BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, June 9.—Progress is being made on the beachhead front of 60 miles tonight, both sides throw- ing more and more armor into the battle. Canadian and Brit- ish forces in a coordinated as- sault on Caen, pivot eity at the eastern end of the combat zone and German counterattacks have been hurled back. Allied warships roam up and down the coast spotting German pockets and shelling them out. Bad weather again fell upon the channel but headquarters said the wind is in a more favor- able direction for unloading of supplies and reinforcements. | STE. MARIE EGLISE CAPTURED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLI'D EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 9.—American (roops, hammering toward Cherbourg, have captured Ste. Marie Eglise and are advancing within 18 miles of the ceded. Supreme headquarters made no mention of the town, but declared the Allied forces are making prog- | ress in all sectors despite fierce Nazi armored counterattacks over the | green wheatfields and orchards of | Normandy. A German communique conceded the loss of Ste. Marie Eglise, which is astride one of the main German arteries leading to Cherboourg, say- ing the Americans are pushing |“north and south from the landing | head.” Later, a Berlin broadcast said the United States troops advanced a | mile beyond the toward toward Va- lognes, 12 miles southeast of Cher- bourg, which would form a great funnel for Allied reinforcements and supplies for the battle of France. Operations Going Well American Rear Admiral John Les- lie Hall, Jr., on a tour of the beach- ;hend, told correspondents that op- | erations are going well, but stressed “mvs necessity of quickly building up the forces. At least 1,600 Nazi-prisoners were taken, a field dispatch said, and the | Americans captured 600, including | some Russians and Poles, when they | occupied Formigny on the-road from | Caen to Carentan. Formigny is one {of the few towns identifiéd of the | many reported as taken, and is nine | miles northwest of Bayeux and three { miles inland. ! Beachhead Strength Headquarters announced the Al- lied beachhead strength includes | the Canadian Third Division. The | others are Sixth British Division, | Pirst American Airborne Division i many others not positively re- | and ;vealed but included tank corps and | flame-throwing regiments. | Canadian Tank Corps are reported | to have engaged a German forma- | tion at 200 yards and firing point | blank destroyed the entire detach- ‘:ment of the enemy. - 'BERLIN CLAIMS . TOM CHURCHILL . TAKEN PRISONER (By Associated Press) | A German Command communi- |que broadeast sald that British Lt. |Col. Tom Churchill, described as |Commandant of the Island of Lus- |sino in the Adriatic, has been taken prisoner, | Berlin identified him as the nephew of British Prime Minister |Winston. Churchill. | Major Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister, has been in Yugoslavia, but he was last re- |ported on the mainland. London dispatches saild nothing is known about a Tom Churchill.