The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1944, Page 1

v - ' & < versity 2 O = O > o VOL. XLII, NO. 9676. e JUNEA U, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1944, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" itk MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — " ] Hail of Bombs Pump What War Bonds Mean! Prisoners of Japan Lockfo U. S. Civilians WAITING: Life for Americans taken prisoner at Bataan is bearable only because they hope the home front will provide the weapons to By RUSSELL BRIN (He spent most of 1942 in in- ternment at Santo Tomas Uni- in Manila, was later re- patriated to the United States. This is the first of six stories by Associated Press correspond- ents who have secen war at first hand and who tell the vital part the equipment bought by war bonds has played in AHied vic- tories and defeats.) Several thousand American boys, living under the prolonged agony of Japanese prison camps in As are sustained by only one thought— the certainty of Allied victory. 'I:he Washi Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active wt, service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—President Roose- velt followed -his long-planned in- vasion from a big map in the Lin- coln stndy on the second floor of the White House. On the map he charted with pins the location of ships, troops and landing barges, together with the destination Allies must capture across Channel, which remained the strict- est of mintary secrets until D-Day. The President has used a map of this kind ever since the star of the war, and every day has kept track of each ship in the Pa- cific and Atlantic, a naval aide moving them around for him. Ever siuce Mrs. Roosevelt, Sr., found her son at the age of four- teen reading Admiral Mahan, one the tcughest of U. S. naval Roosevelt . himself has been a naval expert. Naval offi- cers who have sailed with him, first as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, later as President, pay trib- ute to his shrewdness in naval strategy. cf strategists. ROOSEVELT AND DE GAULLE U. 5. and British military lead- the the Anese have made it doubly expen- set them free. | arc weak, thin, ragged. | They work long hours in the hot | Philippine sun for little pay and only enough food to keep them alive. They work in the sweltering war plants in Mhanchuria and Japan, forced to turn out products that in sume way bolster the Jap- militerists, war machine laboi on the docks of Ma- ., Kobe and Yokohama, degrac | They anese in work. The summers are stif- ling, the winters vicious. They have few clcthes, ancse sentries are everywhere Their precaut.ons against communi- cation with the prisoners a thorough. Nevertheless, the news of American successes has slipped through to the prisonel At night, n on when the sentrics' shuffling fleet | oo _ ¥ b4 B - o |officially opened: today.and will con= FOFIFE Trto unpleasant ‘echoes, tHEsE L o ratiph July 8. ‘Iru;;mm't.\ of news can be brought lout, examined, discussed, like the rich jewels they are in a prisoner’s life. Some 6,000 American civilian men, | women and children live under similar circumétances, without the work, in a number of other camps. They, too. hear the news, and it makes the black days tolerable. All of them know how difficult the job ahead is; how long the road; how much the cost yet to be computed. They know the Jap- sive by their first quick blows which placed geography and distance on the congueror's side But the 4 prisoners are convinced that Am- | lericans will spend all the’ mon land make all the sacrifices neces- !sary for victory. That is their i faith. | You see, the civilians and the {soldiers were out in front when |economy was sO disastrous. They l'ried to fight* a well-prepared at- !tacker with ancient or non-exis! lent equirment, because money:. was Ipeing saved before the big blow came. The *hose things. plenty of mistakes before the war,’ they say, “put Americans don’t make the same mistake twice.” ‘. Economy was one of the mis- takes. Feeling that it will not be vrisoners have , discussed “We may have made AIR FORCES: SMASH OVER ON GERMANS Greatest AEI Blows Date Supporting Invasion Forces SUPREME HEADQUARTERS |ALLIED EXPEDITIONAR | FORCES, June 12.—American heaty bombers and streams of lighter craft pumped a steady hail of bombs and {lead on German defenses in the A | Flying in fine weather, the Allied air forces by noon today had run | up more sorties than all day yester- day when 7,000 planes slammed the | Germans from dawn to long after | nightfall, then Royal Air Force bombers, heavies and mediums, and {light fighters gaced over the battle |lines far into Fran bombing and strafing specific targets in rapid-fire | order on calls of the ground units | This action indicates planes are : HRp Rt | iying from newly-established bases ‘GITIS S(OU'S, MISS llberfy‘f,lfi }:'ornrh soil li.m (:?x‘:-klnu:l r:igm Confestants Will Oper- | “the strateay of the air forces is FIFTHW porting the French invasion. beside the ground forces. e | i to disrupt the transport. lines within | ate Booths TOfllghI 1100 miles of the battle line over | i) | which Marshal Rommel is trying | e . 4 o bring up tactical reserves. The Juneaw's Fifth- Wor Toan Drive 10 PI0E W WEHCE FECATE Tcefiteté beyond the 100-miile raduis The quota has been set at $438- | through which the Germans might DS Of: this, smblint, 4310,000 ate| AT&W SiratoRly yoseries from south- ern France. Series E Bonds-and $225,000 includes K iy SR | those in all other series. b The German nn‘(mcc is respond In the booths this evening will be ling with heightening strength and members of the Girl Scouts of Am. | about 100 Nazi planes were over the erica and the Miss Liberty contest- | P/iie &rea 133 s i R late il commifiloes operatihg Yhe 1 crergionn. ENUBSGIUS pliots, re- various booths each night are re- | LAriing parly. this mioriifg. from quested to report for their bond forays, reported the opposition was matertal at Homer Garvin's Capitol | 1€, “FOUNest 3t ;)"e ounder. Phientve oftite i fhe. Pirit Naanal t o0 Lordstion was JWIpee of by Bank Building. about 50 German fighters. The pilots It has been announced that be- | said German flak is still the biggest cause of the outstanding sale of hB’lz‘;x;d.Germans i eioeralg to stamps by the Girl Scouts during |, pey; proadeast, they sank one the past drives, their orgamzauon‘smau transport in Seine Bay last will be credited with the sale O!inight and application to the Capitol The- | atre office before the show and col- | | The payroll deduction ballot box Freedom,” starring Rosalind Rus- BeEncircled |lect their bond. Tickets will be mail- War Savings Stamps as it apphesi Pl e has been placed at the Baranof | |Cigar Counter for the convenience | /sell and Fred MacMurray will be | Thursday evening at the Capitol | \Japs Assaulting Hunan ed to bond purchasers with the ex- . . oot Base waining untn ne| Province Capital Inces- to their candidate in the Miss le-‘ of those purchasing bonds through | Theatre. All planning to attend | |last day, when the ticket must be | . . santly, All Directions |erty Contest. their employer. | | The Bond Prémiere, “Flight for o !are requested to take their money | | collected at the same time as the | bond is purchased. | greatst aerial blows to date, sup-| MORE INVASION FORCES LAND IN FRANCE ed into Nazi Defe nses { g B pture Nazi Flag B { Yankee paratroopers. The are shown Note one paratrooper holds a Among the first to effect landings in Normandy on D~Day were these lag they captured during an ault on an unnamed village. NAZIARMY ) F. MULLEN 15 \REDSBEGIN . OFFENSIVE, | - BACKFOLLOWING CIN ITALY | usiess TRIP. | DlSpERSED Finds Banking Institutions? HNN FRO"T Gigantic Drive Designed fo , ! Devoting All Resources to Wartime Needs v Eliminate Finland Under Way F. Mullen, President of the| B. M. Behrends Bank, has returned | MOSCOW, June from a two months’ business trip | a major offensive designed to knock with a huge knife. Allied Drivé Continues North of Rome-Many Towns Captured 12. — Fifth J Outside, where he conferred with | ROME, June Army banking officials on the east and| 12.—Launching troops have occupied Montefiascone, west «uasts. smportant road junction near the vhe first and most important Finland out of the war and fsolate shores of Lake Bolsena, and other business of the nation’s financial|approximately 100,000 Nazi troops columns are pushing along the mstitutions at this time is the in the ‘northern gart of the coun- Italian west coast and are ap- devotion of their resources in aid-|try, the Red Army rolled forward proaching Orbetello, 71 miles ing the Government in the prose- |along the Karelian Isthmus above northwest of Rome, Allied head- cution of the war; and gecondly‘ilel‘llngtfld after cracking the Fin- nuarters said. [to use their influence to educate nish defenses along a 25-mile front. | Eighth Army columns, advanc- the pecple in thrift and encourage| The communique last night, an- them to save for postwar oppor- nouncing the new drive, said that tunities, Mr. Mullen found. ' Bank- Soviet troops have already ad- ers generally are optimistic about vanced 12 to 25 miles and indi- Jeconversion, he said, to peacetime cated they are moving forward with production, and expect a perfod of everything in high gear. prosperity foliowing the war. This offensive is evidently coor- Mr. Mullen was in Seattle at dinated closely with Allied opera- {he time of the invasion, and re-|uons ir. France and represented u ports that while some excitement step of the grand Allied strategy prevailod, mest people took the!worked out at the great n quite calmly. A con- ference. <iderable tension vas noticeable! Troops under Col. Gen. Govorov, before the event, who lifted the siege of Leningrad, Travel Difficulties launched rhe push on Friday, just difficuties still one month after the fall of Sevas- r in the £ 08, topol—a month devoid of len said, and the hotels are filled activity along the long front. ing up both sides of the Tiber,! |neared Bango and Reggio, west of the river, and Rieti to the east of it. ' In_the mountains of the central sector, Avezzano and its neighboring willage have been oc- cupied, wille in the Adriatic sec- tor all Germans have been cleared from the area south of the Pes- cara River, and Allied troops have |pushed ahead to maintain contact \with the Withdrawing Germans. | A gain of 15 miles is announced |by Fifth Army units along the west coast. Near Munziatello the Ger- mans counterattacked with two companies, but the Americans beat ithe vi hamper Mr. Mul- Teheran con- | major | ers have had some differences ofrepeated, the prisoners are waiting| opinion in the past—as all Strong-;anyjoucly ior Allied forces to drive | minded men must—but there Was jeeper ana dceper into Asia. That | unanimous agreement before the jq 1) that keeps them alive; those| invasion started, except On ON€ who gre stili alive. point. That was General de Gaulle.| That was why the world wn-i nessed the strange spectacle of Even in regard to de Gaulle,| 1 there was agreement between the U.| os nge es S1 S. and British military. It was| | only President Roosevelt who did| { not agree. The British were strong hind the invasion army. General| 105 ANGELES, Calif., June 12.— Eisenhower also favored the plan.| o distinct quake swayed Los An- Bo.did the Wer Department. geles at 4:17 oclock this morning | At one point, Secretary of War | followed half an hour later by a| Stimson and Acting Secretary of sharp shock felt at Laguna Beach State Stettinius called on thejand Pasadena and other numerous President and urged that de Gaulle| parts of Los Angeles County. Later, when Churchill and Eden | Long Beach, but according to Santa wanted de Gaulle to come to Barbara officials, was not felt there. Washington, the President put his R T ¥ist v ARRRDES foot down hard. He also opposed EVERETTS RETURNS de Gaulle's going to London. | Allied trcops landing to liberate| be recognized as the provisional] FDR was so adamant that it be-| Master Sergeant Cecil L. Everetts, France with not a single French soldier in the vanguard. ‘ provisional leader of France to set| { up a government immediately be- | s B { 1 leader of France. Roosevelt, how-|have been received. ever, put them off. of some emburrassfioi the Juneau Signal Corps, U, S. | Army, who has been South on fur- came & scurce ment” He has yielded to Chur- | War Finance Committee luncheon !tions that the city of Changsha i No immediate reports of damage | The second shock was also felt at | 1 was. annguithel: foday At the | CHLNGKING, June 12—Indica- (he;m hack and continucd their drive. Among the areas to fall into! Allied hands was Lake Ficino, near Avezzano, of which some 45,000 acres were drained some years ago acre tracts and farmland. Headquairters said: “It is now quite clear that the original Four- in the Baranof Gold Room, that oncircled 1s contained in tonight's the crowning of the winner of the communique as the Chinese High Miss Liberty Contest will be held Gommand annrounced the Japs are ":?] r:'ig; 4 u]f J“lz; 3“ Bl ':ere_m(:ny |assaulting the Hunan Province Cap- wi ake place during intermission 3 . e at the dance, sponsored by the com- :',::‘s inkensantly from - el digeo- mittee, in the Elks' Ballroom that | The Shvidare satbshiha frats . the evening. The, Miss Liberty (:onwsc[(_w el oy 8 "L ; ends July 1, but 1thc drive will con- i Sy rrzfn th: [&l;:nl,::“lsll ti) hro ul 3 | eagure T:etflol:igrégotgsawill be occupied | Canton-Hankow railway city, but tonight by the Girl Scouts and the |2empts. to cross the Liuyang Miss Liberty contestants and to- River directly to the east have morrow night by the Beta sigma‘becn repulsed. the Chinese High Phi Sorority and the Juneau Fire Command announces. Department. e — e e, — for winds. All scattered dispersed to the four that remaing are a few remnarts mainly engaged in steal- ing one another’s transport to get sway as fast as possible. Prison- ers deseribe the situation as wholly chaotic > d | STOCK QUOTAHONS ‘, NEW YORK, June 12 Closing quotation of Alaska Juncau mine MALCOLM MORRISON IS HOUSE AGAI“S‘I ‘ STATIONED IN SEATTLE | Master Sergeant Malcolm Morri- HIGHEST PRICE it o et e e | tioned here for years, then joined ithe pack that tackled and chased . i 61 som | | the Japs out of the Aleutlans, s sx Aveeoda. a0 ot now stationed in Seattle at thel . Al e Signal Corps. Mrs. Morrison and‘('”’” 8%, Bethlehem Steel 60%,/ WASHINGTON, June 12. — The | daughter Gail have joined him now. }curuss Wright 5, International) House has voted 157 to 31 to Write | They have been in the Middle West|F2TVester 5%, Kennccott 30%, into the Price Control Extension |States for nearly two years. ‘N'er American Aviation 77., New| | Bill a ban against the OPA’s “high- RS T O KL |York Central 17'%, Northern Pa- !est price line” regulations. | | Many House members contend the provisions which require retailers to | limit stocks of goods to the highest DUFRESNES LEAVE jcific 18, | priced line offered during a given Mr. and Mrs, Frank Dufresne left| DO%: Jones averages todav arc Juneau over the weekend to attend |°5 follows: industrials 14’04, vails| the graduation of their son in Los|49.62, utilities 23.48. | Angeles. After the exercises, Mr.| S s TR | present. tcenth Army of Von Mackensen 15 with servicemen and their famil-| The communique said the Rus- ies. Rescrvations must be made sian forces have captured 32 gowns far in advance for train pulimans.|mnd villages, including the rall There are no restrictions on travel, junction of Terijoki, 27 airline miles aside from these natural difficul- | nortbwest of Lenin and 160 ties, which are increased at the miles cast of the Finnish capital wme by the shifting of Helsinki, They also captured, population occasioned by the com-| tin said, Yappilya, describ- pletion of war contracts in some trongpoint” petior and the consequent move- | “€ven miles northeast of ‘Terijoki. ment of workers to other parts of} - “ STAND OVER RULE OF FRENCH NATION m New York, and with his wifel LONDON, June 12, and daugnters, Beatrice and Vir-| inta, in San Francisco. Virginia | {Gaulle said Commander Eisen- 'hower'’s proclamations to the 15 the wife of John B. Burney, now in the Army stationed in Eng- Mrs, Mulign expects to re- turn to her Juheau home some- time this fail French pecple on D-Day and other sions seem to foreshadow a sort of takirg over of power in {Prance by the Allied military com- | mand People in peneral are more in- terested in Alaska than ever before, Mr. Mullen stated, and some have | extraordinary ideas about the Ter: “This situation is obviously not aceeptable to us and could pro- |voke Prance itself, incidents which seem to us that could be avoided,” ritory. Many expressed their de- sire to migrate north after the war. - e said de Gaulle. Regional Porester Frank Heintzle- | ——— man flew to Ketchikan today for the | A Well Baby Clinic will be held at purpose of conducting a pulp timber , the Government Hospital tomorrow d, o important as “an and Gen. de HEINTZLEMAN MAKES TRIP TO KETCHIKAN CARENTAN CAPTURED - IN THRUST Seaborne Troops Poul Ashore Near Cherbourg in Fresh Drive | BUULLETIN — LONDON, June 12.—~The Allies are tonight hammering out gains on all three main sectors, hitting the faltering Nazi linc on the Pen- insula, supported by 1400 Am- erican heavy bombers that have | blasted 10 airfields and six bridges. Seven thousand prison- | ers have been taken, including some Japs—regular soldiers and not merely observers who are fighting alongside their Axis partners, SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, June 12 -American troops | have captured Carentan, main stronghold guarding the narrowest | | | | | | | . neck of the Cherbourg Peninsula, | the German command has conceded. British forces have battered nine ! miles east of Caen, and are threat- ening the encirclement of that east- {ern hinge of the Normandy battle- | front. 9 The doughboy troops are not only 1<-rv,klng the - Cherbourg Peninsula !line abt the center and pounding halfway across the cape, but one spearhead has hammered to within 14 miles southeast of the great funnel port itself. The Germans reported that sea- borne forces have poured ashore at St. Vaast la Hague, 15 miles east of Cherbourg. Berlin said that at Carentan, whose floodgates control the main peninsular water defense system, was evacuated In order to continue a stand on ground less ex- posed to Allled naval guns. Caen Threatened As for Caen, the German broad- cast said the British drive has reach- ed nearly to Troarn, nine miles due east of that bastion, and Allied parachutists have landed south of Caen. British troops are driving down east of Caen, threatening the other flank. Marshal Irwin Rommel has mounted flerce armored counter- attacks in thls Caen sector, Berlin said, where major British forces are concentrating a full fledged as- sault on the town. In the center of the 50-mile long front, American troops are advanc- ing toward St. Lo, prize communica- tions hub 20 miles inland. As the American frontal attack | across the Merderet River on the Cherbourg Peninsula reached to within 12 miles of the west coast roads whose capture will seal off Cherbourg, the Vichy radio reported that doughboys have pushed into | Quineville on the east coast. This put Colonel Bradley's flank within 14 miles of Cherbourg on a four- mile front between Quineville and | Monetburg where street fighting is ! reported. i - ' MONTGOMERY HAS ~ HEADQUARTERS IN FRENCH WAR ZONE LONDON, June 12 Gen, Sir |B. Montgomery has established ad- {vanced headguarters in France, ac- lcording to an announcement made by the Supreme Headquarters of {the Allied Expeditionary Force. e NAVAL CLASHES EXPECTED NOW, FRENCH COAST LONDON, June 12.—Naval clashes have taken place off the French coast, and aecording to a corres- | pondent aboatd Admiral Alan Kirk's lagship Al , U. S. naval lead- ers are prepared for a crucial Wallece Westfall, of Si':a, is in investigation . He expects to return | afternoon from 1 to 3 o'clock. All, | lough, has returned and is again period is driving small ready-to- Dufresne will continue to Chicago lon duty today. | wear retailers out of business. where he will be located, ¥ (Continued on Page Four) town and a guest at the G stineau, {in about a week, mother$ are invited to attend. struggle within the next few days.