The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944. VOL. XLII, NO. 9678. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SAVAGE FIGHTING RAGING IN NORMANDY Terrific Air Blows Struck by U.S. Forces DOUBLE HITS }Ameritan Carrier Task ARE SCORED IN ATTACKS France, Germany, Hun- gary, Yugoslavia Bomb- ed from 2 Directions FORCES, June 14. — Fifteen hun-} dred American heavy bombers, the | biggest single striking force in ’\|r; history, attacked France and Ger-| fmany with up to 750 American| heavies striking Hungary und Yugoslavia from Italy. Oil lifelines of Hitler's Lhirstyl war machine were hit hard by the| big task force from ‘Britain hitting| Forces Sink Ships,Da ROOSEVELT PEACE AIMS DISCLOSED ‘Hatch Says Pre5|dem Is| Ready fo Step Down if Postwar Plans Assured | | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS| ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY the oil refinery at Emtherich, Ger-| REDFORCES ROLLING ON T0 VIIPURI Russian Tanks, Loaded with Tommy Gunners, Make Advance 13 Enemy mage 16 Others | WASHINGTON, June 14.—Power- | | ful American Carrier Task For raiding Jap bases in the Marianas, | only 1500 miles from Tokyo, sank | 13 enemy ships, damaged 16 others and destroyed 141 Jap planes in three d: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz wpon S. | Four of the Jap ships sunk wcw‘ MOSCOW, June' 14. — Russian | combatant vessels and five damaged | yaks loaded outside with tommy were also_war craft. | gunners, rolled up the Viipuri High- Strong efforts apparently Were |yway today to within 30 miles of made by the Jap air force to halt that important port and the Red the attack on Saturday, the first day | ormy is striking the main body of {\f the assault when 124 enemy air- ‘“““ were destroyed, a large ma- The newspaper Pravda reports a | jority in the air. In that battle 11 | eat battle is looming near Musta- | Navy Hellcat fighters were downed miaki, northwest of Leningrad. land eight pilots were lost | The terrain of Karelian Isthmus _Again on Sunday, Jap intercep- s strewn liberally with swamps, tion attempts were beaten off. SiX | yqoke cliffs, ravines and forests and Russian reserves. many, while the Mediterranean| WASHINGTON, June 14—Sen- force attacked half a dozen oil re- | ator Carl A. Hatch told the Senate fineries in Huhgary and Jugoslavia | dquring a bitter political debate that including the shelling of Koolaz, | while the President might be willing five miles. south of Budapest, the | to retire if he could get unanimous | largest in Hungary. | agreement on his postwar peace Headsjuarters announces that in aims, the Democratic Party would | _the first seven days of the invas-|not permit him to “make that sac- ion, 56,000 individual flights were rifice.” teen enemy fighters were destroyed and two small cargo ships were |sunk. On Sunday American planes also attacked Saipan and there also a small oiler was attacked and sunk. Later Sunday a convoy of Jap ships attempting to escape from Saipan was attacked by American planes and ten enemy vessels, in- swift movements of the Russian tanks and heavy artillery is difficult, but Russian groups trained in forest warfare are reported sweeping out Finnish ambushes and have cap- tured Siranmiakil, giving the Red forces a good grasp on communica- tion lines in the wooded area. The German radio reports attacks w9Ae by the Allied Air Forces with % loss of 554 planes, less than one ‘percent of the attack force. Forty-two thousand tons of bombs were . dropped by the Eighth Air| Force in formation flights. ———————— American Subchaser Lost, Mediterranean’ WASHINGTON, June 14. — The| loss of subchaser PC-59 in the| Mediterranean on May 9 is an- nounced by the Navy Department. Details and personnel losses are not | tions ought to be settled in ac-| disclosed. — e was of a British cross-channel in-| vasion. “Do you realize what it takes to land an army in France?” he re- plied. “It takes not merely ships and men—and naval vessels to pro- tect those ships. It also means tocks, warehouses, railroad ter- minals, and freight cars by the| thousand. But especially it means docks—some place to land. In the last war, we didn't have to worry about any of these things. The French supplied them. But in this war"—he shook his hand ruefully— “it is different.” Geaeral George C. Mar-| How- | Replying to a demand by Senator Bridges to say stands and where the Democratic \Palty stands” on foreign policy, | Hatch said he is certain these views | are held by the President: | “President Franklin D. Roosevelt | believce: this werld ‘Is too-small for | any nation to isolate itself from the l!‘est of the world, and he believes the same bravery and courage mani- fested by our sons on the battle- ield by this war should be mani- fes(ed by this nation in time of peace. He believes in a court of | | justice. He believes that issues and | | disputes which arise between na- 4‘cordnnce with right and justice and | not by power alone. Miss Elise Dubuque, of the USO, is in from Skagway and a guest at the Baranof. The Washlngton Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (wLt. Col. Robefl. 8, Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Across the Po- tomac, in the sprawling Pentagon Building, shall, U. S. Chief of Staff, gives all credit for U. S, invasion success to the boys over there, their officers and to General Eisenhower. ever, those who have watched lean, greying General Marshall close-up during the tense months of the war, know how he too has worked, plan- ned, dreamed almost|every detail of the invasion. Three years ago, hefore we en- the war but when everyone it was a certainty that we id, this columnist asked Gen- Marshall what chance there vide the machinery for peaceful | settlement of future international | H:hsputes | sacrifice if necessary his political | ‘hie, Hatch declared. JUNEAU LUMBER " MILL RESUMING " CUTTING FRIDAY The Juneau Lumber Mills will resume operations Friday morning, Atcording to arnouncement made | today. There are plenty of logs on | hand for cutting. About 40 more men are needed in the operations and those seeking jobs are re- quested to apply at the mill office. GIRL SCOUTS TO LEAVE FOR (AMP ON NEXT SUNDAY Girl Scouts and Brownles of Gas- | tineau Channel will go to camp at Eagle River next Sunday, June 18, it was announced today. A bus from the Channel Bus Line will leave | the Federal Building on Fifth Street at 2 o'clock in the afternoon .Equip- |ment and supplies will go out by | boat Friday. | The parents of Scouts and Brown» jes who are to go to camp in the first group have been notified by | ment must be taken to the Small; June “where the President | “To achieve these ends and firo- | I beieve he is ready to | from the parking lot in the rear of | telephone and their camp equip.. cluding a destroyer and three cor- vettes were sunk and another dam- aged. One large cargo ship, a med- ium cargo ship and three small | cargo vessels were sunk and five medium cargo ships were damaged, also five escort vessels not identified by type. | In another assault on a Jap con- | voy, Admiral Nimitz reports, three | destroyers and two cargo ships were | | damaged. This convoy, the com- )munlnue states, was ‘hmercepted‘ | several hundred miles away.” - e — ELKS FLAG DAY " PROGRAMTO BE above the Arctic Circle between Petsamo and Murmansk and around Nerva, Esmniu (HUR(HILL ASKS POSTPONEMENT, RELATION DEBATE Discussion of Controversy| Over DeGaulle’s Com- miflee Slalled - HELD THIS EVE .onoon s 1o mon |Prime Minister Winston Churchill | The third wnmmc Flag Day cere- |has obtained a postponement on| | monies will be held at, the Elks Hall |the full dress debate by the House this evening at 8 o'clock, and the | of Commons on the controversial | public is invited to participate in lissue of British and American the observance. Lt. Col. Roy W. lauon: with the French Committes Riegel, former Commander at Duck !of Liberation, Parrying a demand | Creek, has arrived here, and will be (for a showdown, Churchill made the speaker. |the assertion that “it will do more The program will begin with the |harm than good now.” | audience 'joining in the singing of | In his first appearance before |the National Anthem, followed by the House since his trip to the | the introductory exerci led Ruler A. B. Hayes and officers, ‘(,hurchlll made scant referenc |A prayer will be offered by the |the progress of the war, declaring chaplain, and the history of the Flag | ithat any anxiety over the deGaulle | will be given by Past'Exalted Ruler | Committee questions “should prop- R. E. Roberison. The Pledge of A]."vrly be directed toward our gallant legiance to the Flag is next on the |soldiers who have great operations program, then Altar Services will br in progress which give hope as well performed by the Esquire and of- |as anxiety.” ficers. Churchill contended that a full The Flag Day address by Lt. Col. |discussion of the subject should be Roy W. Riegel will be followed by |held off until negotiations among i\ community singing of "Amcrlca."llhc French, United States Musi¢ will be furnished by the All|Britain can be completed. Girls Orchestra. | The Commons turned to The Flag Day Committee is com- | subjects after Churchill said he posed of Henry Messerschmidt, M. would not be seeking a delay “if E. Monagle, John Walmer, A, M.|I had no hopes of a better solu- Mill and R. H. Beistline. (tion than I can announce at the | present time.” | | 'DAN AMERICAN PLANE x IN FROM FAIRBANKS COURTMARTIAL » #un amercan pane werves | EGISLATION 1§ {late yestreday with Harold M. Graning, of the Public Health Serv- | ice,;as the only passenger for this | | city. An incoming plane from Fairbanks | this morning brought* Miss Anne| WASHINGTON, June 14~Agah|&l | Dubinsky, Mrs. Jerry Cashen, Oscar | the recommendation of the Secre- e to other | ses by Exalt- | Normandy beachhead on Monday,| and | APPROVED, FOR | As he talked, Marshall thougm‘Boat Harbor by noon, Friday, back to 1917-18, when he was onlyHG 36 and a captain. At that time, he| All Scouts and Brownies who are performed a modern miracle of | scheduled to go to camp Sunday | maneuvering—second only to um‘ are requested to turn in their med- of the present second front. He|ical certificates at the Baranof | worked out for Pershing the plan Hotel tomorrow afternoon between whereby one million men were transferred from the St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne front. Nineteen railroads, 34 hospitals, 40,000 tons of ammunition, 93,000 horses, 164 miles of railway, 87 supply depots and 4,000 cannon all were moved up just beyond the Ger- man lines—and the enemy didn't even know it. (Continued on Page Four) 2 and 4 oclock. Camp money is also to be turned in at this time. | | If any girl has not yet received the | application form—medical blank or| list of ehu sment—she should cnll\ at room 3 above the First National National Bank tomorrow morning between 10 and 11 o'clock. They should fill them out 1mmediacely‘ and return them to Mrs. Josephine Boyd in the afternoon between 2 and 4 o'clock at the Baranof Hotel. G. Olson, Arthur Hedges, and Miss | taries of War and Navy, the Presi- | Edna Lampert to Juneau. Two outgoing flights were made today, the first carrying Edwin C. ;Do;le and George Ringstad to Se- attle and the second carrying John ‘Warner and Thomas R, Smythe to Fairbanks. i MRS. McDONALD RETURNS Mrs. H. L. McDonald ‘has returned | to her Juneau home after visiting | for several weeks with her daugh- | ters, one in California and the other in Spokane, Wash, D — Mr. and Mrs. Dave Fenton are in town enroute to Sitka and are stay- ing at the Gastineau, dent has approved the legislation |providing for the starting of the { Pearl Harbor courtmartials before {December 7, 1944. Secretary Early announced that the President ap- proved the legislation last night, several days after the June 7 dead- line expired. | In a statement, the President ex- doesn’t intend to let an investiga- tion of the Pearl Harbor raid inter- fere with the war effort in any way It was fear of such interference that | proaipted War Secretary Henry L. Sti wwm arwl Navy Secretary James | v, forresia. to suggest that the President withhold hls approval, WAR BOND SALES HIT $65,281.25 Series E. Bond Tofal Now $21,581.25-Joyce Smith Leads e total in the Fifth War Loan Drive has reached $65,281.25, ac- cording to official reports today. Of thig $27,581.25 is in Series E Bonds. l:\l night the Juneau Fire De- pattment and the Beta Sigma Phi tomight bonds will be sold by the tive Brotherhood and Sisterhood. There were big doings last night especially at the Firemen’s booth.| where there was music, n’every- thing pulled off. Miss Liberty Contest The following is the Miss Liberty contest: Joyce Smith Betty Mills Lois Allen Betty Nordling Kathleen McAlister Ruth Kunnas Mary McCormack Betty Bonnett Irene Rasmussen Lila vala'u "MEET AT REGULAR - NOON LUNCHEON 4,225 3,875 2,442 1,698 1,503 1,254 250 75 100 100 ‘Foderauon of | Federal Employees ocal No. met in regular 'monv.hly session this noon at the rBEmnof Hotel, with Alva Blacker- | A | by, newly elected President, pre- | siding. It was voted to adopt the exeru- |tive board’s recommendation to | meet each month on the second | Wednesday, with the board meeting ‘lo precede it by one day. wes made on the Fifth War Loan Drive and through the payroll deduction plan, will be eligible to attend the B'md Premiere tomorrow night A’ committee was named to con- fer in regard to the survey which | to be made shortly concerning Those |is the cost of living in Alaska len the committee include | Linecoln, Dr. Evelyn Butler, Bess O'Nefll end L. E. Tverson. The following contact offic |serve this term were announced by |the President, and include M. H. Sides, Herbert A. Arlowe, Bess E. O'Neill, L. E. Iverson, Olive Trower, N. Floyd Fagerson, C. F Whyller, Daniel Ross, Henry Larsen, {John Newmarker, James W. Hus- ton, Michael J. Haas, | manoff, Donnell Gould, Earl McGinty. Reports were made and the remain- der of the luncheon hour was taken over by the program committee for | the purpose of carrying on a quiz| | program. | The following new members were ;mtroduced during the meeting: | D. munications Commission; | Wolfe, Indian Affairs Schurre, Walter E. Walsh and Evelyn R. Graham, OPA. Guests introduced were: Mrs. F‘rancm Paul, Indian Afrnirs her; Leonard Evans, U. 8. Dep! | i Labor Jean Ewen, Public Roads, |Lillian O’Brien, Alfreda Fleek, Beyrl Murphy, War Manpower; Evn Richmond, Unemployment |Compensation Commission; Pat| Murphy, Lois Allen, Thelma Mec- | Corkle, Forest Service; Earl P. Me- |Carron, Helvi Barragar and Mary Allhouse, OPA. ———— WEEKLY CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE TOMORROW The regular weekly Child Health Ray | pressed confidence that Congress| Confefence will be held tomorrow | afternoon bélween 1 and 4 o'clock | | in the Health Center of the Terri- | torial Building. .- MILNES, PEGG IN TOWN | Den Milnes and William Pegg are in Juneau from Pelican and h: e registered at the Gastineau Ho'« Sarority presided at the booths and | Federal Employees and Alaska Na- | A report | it was announced that | 188 employees receiving bonds | s to! Freida Ro- | |Howard F. Barkley, Federal Com-| Jacques{ 7 BERNICE U.S.PLANES - NOW BASED ONMOKMER Recently (aptured Airstrip | Only 880 Miles from Philippines ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN | NEW GUINEA, June 14.—Mokmer | airdrome on Biak Island has been lput into operation, General Mac- ,Arthur announced, as the infantry | lon Biak pushed westward toward Borokoe airstrip. | Mokmer drome is roughly 880 | miles from the Philippines and is | the closest Allied point to the enemy Iatronghuld From Mokmer the Al- lies can dominate all of west.em‘ lnuwn New Guinea. 1 The communique lnno\mced “that | three of six Jap planes raiding Biak Sunday were shot down and two others probably destroyed by Allied ' fighters. American Mitchells strunk at enemy shipping in Geelvink Bay, 135 miles west of Mokmer, sinking | OQver 60 m(»mlx,rs of the National g, 1000-ton cargo ships, three | coastal vessels, and damaging a 2,- 000-ton cargo shlp ALLIES TAKE VITAL POINT Steadlly Advan(mg Fifth Army Captures Junction of Two nghways ROME, June M Finh Army ele- ments have swung around the heav- ily defended strong point of Or- betello, 71 miles northwest of Rome, and captured the important junction of Highways Number One and 74, some four and a half miles beyond the town, Allied headquarters sald. Reconnaissance elements have pushed still farther north, and this imovement has presumably blocked the retseat route of the Germans defending Orbetello. To the east the Eighth Army has advanced 60 miles north of Rome, and gains were also made both east | (and west of Lake Bolsena. troops are closing in on Narni, seven | and a half miles below Terni, whlch is 42 miles due north of Rome. The town of Latera, four mllu northeast of Valentano, was gath- |ered in by Fifth Army units who | | moved on toward Gradiolo, less than two miles farther to the northeast —— e — RAKOWSKI IS ! | RETU Bernice Trakowski, portorial staff of The Empire for some time early last year, visited in Juneau last night enroute to An- | chorage. After leaving Juneau she went to Anchorage and was on the staff of the Times for several months before going South. Mr. Trakowski is again In Anchorage operating an airplane repair shop and she is joining him after spend- | ing some months in Seattle. —————— DORIS HANEBURY BETURNS this ‘morning from the South, where she has been vacationing for the post several months, ABOVEROME Allieds G TO ANCHORAGE i [ on the re- Mrs. Deris Hanebury, who is emJ, ployed at Devlin's Store, returned | Tragedy of Pearl Harbor Blamed on Yacht Parfies Given by German Alien Who Had Govi. Coniracls WASHINGTON, June 14 Congressional Committee’s inquiry into the delayed defense prepara- | tions at Pearl Harbor has produced a report highlighted by descriptions | Army Colonel in charge of con- struction at Hawaii by a German born contractor who held War De- partment contracts for the work. mittee called on “further explanation” termed “mismanagement” of what is on the man alien although a resident of the United States since 1913. He | was naturalized, the committee said, | {only three months before the sneak Jap attack on Pearl Harbor. Another Contract The committee said that when Wyman was placed in charge of thc‘ Canol oil project in May, 1942, he {awarded another contract to Rohl's Connolly Company. delays in the Pearl Harbor con- of an_gir report mat had the system ' Ibeen completed on schedule, the have been robbed' of much of its surprise. Serious Background The committee, saying its could not understand “why a man known as a German alien” should be put in charge of the work, devoted a portion of the report to Rohl's per- sonal background, noting he “brag- ged of his close acquaintance with all visiting Gefman diplomats and persons of high rank.” !x.:vles in 1935, the committee stated, lations” which led, the report add- ed, to parties aboard Rohl's yacht, the Ramona ment, Robl provided the colonel, were “wild drinking parties in which al cheap looking type of young girls| paraded in and out ‘a1l évening.” Up to War Department * The long report contained no conclusions, only the brief commit- |tee comment, and whether addit- {lonal reports on the case will. be made, said Chairman May, depends on future developments, adding: |’ Department.” Ralph Burton, committee inves- tigator who prepared the report, said his last information on Rohl| |15 that he is still in business in Los | Angeles. Rohl, a major stockholder in the Hawaiian contructors joint | contracting venture, held $125,000,- 000 in contracts for work in Ha- wali, Alaska and the South Psu.“lc islands. Wyman, 56, a veteran of the last war, was engineer officer in charge| jof defense construction in the Ha- {wailan and South Pacific areas. {He is now stationed overseas. \DEGAULLE TRYING ~ FOR RECOGNITION | LONDON, June 14.—Gen. De- Gaulle has won recognition of his ‘as the “Provisional Government of the French Republic” by four gov- erments-in-exile, Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg. It is announced the French leader |is also seeking recognition of all \th-- United Nations. Gen, De Gaulle is expected to pay an early visit to France, where the Allied invasion has spurred resist- ance of the underground forces, in the hope of winning pulstic support for his committee and strengthen his hand before leaving for Wash- ington to seek recognition of the United States, | | The | of yachting parties given for the| The House Military Affairs Com-| the Army for a/ part of Col. Theodore Wyman, Jr., | and why the contracts were award-| ed Hans Wilhelm Rohl, then a Ger- | | company, known then as the Rohl-' struction, pnrtlcularly the building | warning system, the attack on the Pacific bastion might | Wyman and Rohl met in Los An- | and “developed very close social re- ' Among the entertain- | the committee said, which /| 1“The next move is up to the War| OF COMMITTEE| | Committee of National Liberation ! NAZIS THROW NEW FORCES INTO BATTLE Four Armored Divisions Smash Against Ameri- ans m Two Areas SUPREME HEADQIYAR‘I'ICRS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, June 14—The Ger- mans have flung four armored divisions into fierce fighting to hold the eastern battleline bastion of Caen, the Allied Com- mand announced tonight. Heavy fighting is raging at | Montebourg and Troarn, the op- posite ends of the 100-mile front, | both towns changing hands sev- eral times during the past 24 hours. SAVAGE COUNTER ACTIONS The savage German counter ac- tion on the eastern flank of Nor- mandy followed a British drive of 23 miles inland, flanking Caen from the west. The armored stru'lla is rising in intensity as the four Nazl arm- ored divisions were hurled into the area between Caen and Caumont, 120 miles southwest, seized in the | ! | Asserting there were unexpla\ned‘mm punch of the British. | Fierce Fighting The American Fourth Division fought wm fiercely . Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg, as the great guns of the British battleships Rodney and Ramilies thundered in support of | the British In the fight to. hold Troarn, seven miles from Caen, tak- e’ in the outflanking drive. | ‘Give; Take Battle Both the Germans and Allies fought a give and take, thén move out and move in for possession of | Montebourg during the past 24 hours, the official communique states. The fighting there sees the largest force ever thrown into fight- ing so far in Normandy. The Americans have chopped deep gashes in the Nazi defenses on Cherbourg Peninsula and even the Berlin radio announces Gejman withdrawal of several miles. The official communication to- night says in “some areas we have | continued our advance and in others | the Germans have scored several I ocal successes.” Caen itself, is in flames, being | attacked from all sides. | 'BOMBARDING OF LEHAVRE 1S CLAIMED LONDON, June 14—The Berlin | radio said today that “heavy super- | heavy Allied naval guns shelled LeHavre today.” There is no Allied confirmation. German broadcasts have fre- quently asserted the Allies are plan- ning to land in a drive to take the strategic port at the mouth of the Seine. LeHavre is about 20 miles north- east of the eastern edge of the pres- ent benchhead in Nomndy TRIBUIE PAID BY MARSHAL STALIN TO INVASION ACT MOSCOW, June 14.—Stalin paid tribute last night to the Western | Pront, declaring, “The history of war does not know any such under- taking so broad in conception, so grandiose in scale, or so masterly in execution,” and the Marshal added, “History will take note of this achievement.” Stalin's statement was given for- eign correspondents by the Soviet Press Depattment.