The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944. VOL. XLII., NO 9680. __ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN TARGETS WRECKED BY BOMBERY @ @ ' Terrific Blow Struck at Nip’s War Industry CHERBOURG ISOLATION NOWLOOMS Campaign o Cut Off Ger-| mans on Peninsula Nearing Success BULLETIN PREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 16.—Commander Bradley's American troops, ramming home another blow to cut off Cher- bourg, have advanced to within two and one-half miles east of the St. Sauveur junction, con- trolling two of the three roads leading to the nearly beleaguer- ed port. The Americans have marked up a gain of two and one-half to three miles west of Carentan, after previously reaching Reigne- ville, three miles northeast of St. Sauveur, and are plugging away on the 10-mile front, rap- ping out repeated gains despite stubborn resistance. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY| (Continued on Page Three) The Washingion NAZIS MAKE | NO DEFENSE YETINITALY Many Towfls—taptured by Allied Advance All Along Italy Front ROME, June 16. — The Allies smashed forward from the Adriatic [to the Tyrshenian Sea, some troops la(hanun(, as much as 25 miles in |24 hours, capturing such important | |ln§:hwav towns as Acquapendente, Narni, and Terni along the way. The farthest advance came ny |the Eighth Army in the capture of | Todi, approximately 60 airline miles northeast of Rome, and only 85 miles south of the Pisa-Rimini line, {where the fleeing Germans may imake a stand. There has been no sign of an |organized enemy defense in front lof the line running from Pisa on the west coast through the city of Florence to Rimini on the Ad- riatic. | The Fifth Army pushed above Lake Bolsena and captured Ac- quadepdente about seven miles to the north. L PR PILOTLESS. Mannerheim Line Is Cuf By Soviels Last Barrier fo Finnish Porf of Viipuri Breached by Red Army MOSCOW, June 16. - Army ha Finland' new one of the last barriers on the way to the important seaport of Viipuri, A Red Star dispatch said the new line is a tremendous fortifica- tion of four lines with walls made of cone shaped stone, with anti-tank blocks almost two yards high, be- fore which lay an anti-tank mine field 20 yards wide, strewn with German: mines The A great gap was cut in this line some places by Soviet tanks and artillery, as well as infantry, which| is consicerably beyond it, the dis- patch saic. ——. FDR GIVES GUT CONCEPTIONS OF GREAT COUNCI Red | mashed its way through | Mannerheim line,” | LAND BASED PLANES HIT TRUK ATOLL Liberafors from Admiralty Blast Jap Bastion in Heaviest Raid s ‘ | ADVANLLD ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS June 16—The two-day 186-ton bombing raid on Truk, the heavd iest assault by land-based plan on that naval base, and the war" |first Liberator attack on Yap are reported by headquarters. Large formations of Admiralty-based Lib- erators blasted Truk by daylight! on Monday and Tuesday in a con-| |certed attack exceeded in the mid-| IN NEW GUINEAjjof bond sales WARBOND TOTAL IS 87,453 Almost One-fifih of Quofa| Reached on Fourth Day of Drive Results from the first four in the Fifth | Loan Drive show 4 total of $87.453, with $47,; bonds days series, with $210,000 of it to be in| Series E purchases. boys will be out in full| force to take charge of one booth, while the Catholic merce | Pacific only by carrier planes. In the first assault the raiders lon Island, destroying buildings;| ausing fires, repelling 15 to 20 in-|{ |terceptors, and downing six. } The second flight unloaded 96} tons on Dublon and Eten Islets, downing three Japanese planes.! Other planes bombed Nomoi atoll 150 miles to the southeast of Truk. iThere is no report of American' losses. Truk was attacked 20 times in Lhe1 \mo- ay intensified bombing be<| | tween the central and muthweag fic 1 a little more thail two! Last | !dropped 90 tons of bombs on Dub-iovcr by the Elks and Emblem Club | America will operate the other night the booths were taken the Central Labor Council. Miss Liberty Standings Standings in the Miss Liberty contest to noon are as follows: Betty Mill 12,850 Joyce Smith 7,675 Kathleen McAlister 6,328 Betty Nordling 4,206 Mary McCormack 3,920 Lois Allen 3,696 Ruth Kunnas 3,100 Betty Bonnett 2,650 Lila- Sinclair . 1,725 Betty Mill is still number one and Hoonah Fire Victims Are At Ex. Inlet Col. Norris Provides Tem- porary Facilities—Red Cross Cooperating The emergenecy situation arising' War | from the disastrous fire at Hoonah |of accidents, but none through en- | Wednesday night. which left 350 |itely solved by Col. George B. Nor- | Juneau’s quota is $453,000 in nll\m‘ Commander at Excursion Inlet.| of who apprised of the conditions ex- listing by Fred Geeslin, Acting Indian Affairs, in readiness quickly for fice of placed barracks Daughters of |temporary shelter and sent power | barges to Hoonah to carry fire suf- ferers to the Inlet. | It is estimated that at least 200 {persons have bee ntaken from |Hoonah to Excursion Inlet, where | temporary feeding and housing {conditions are available. | The Medical Dispensary is also |opened for any relief required and |the Public Health Service has sent la nurse to Excursion Inlet. | Tents are not available and this lis given as the reason for remov- |ing fire victims to Excursion Inlet linstead of attempting. to take cere {of them at the destroyed town. """At any time the refugees desire SUPERFORTS MAKE HITS, -By Accidents, Not Enemy Action 1 WASHINGTON, June 16, — Two mighty B-249s were lost on account emy action yesterday as Amerioa's 3 of this in Series E.|persons homeless, has been immed- |new superbombers turned Jap in- dustrial targets into “glowing masses wreckage.” The crew of one lost superbomber, however, is safe, the War Depart- Tonight the Chamber of Com- General Superintendent of the Of-| ment reports in an early morning | communique today. | The number of participating air- craft in the raid on Japan Is not made known in the early communi- |ques as the first details emerged from the historic attack which marked the beginning of an entirely new chapter in aerial warfare by the greatest bomber ever built. Official Communique Today’s communique was issued from the headquarters of the new Twentieth Air Force, controlling op- erations of the Super Fortresses |around the world. The communique described as a “sizeable task force” operating from the recently completed bases in China as making the attack, on Japan that gave the Nipponese Em- plp\nvmusnf.neyevmneu"m answer to December 7, 1941 at Pearl ' NEW ATTACK | Two Mighty B-29s Are Lost,| GREAT STEEL - WORKS CHIEF OBJECT HIT Raid Believ:i fo Have Knocked Qut One-Fifth Empire’s Producfion | By CLYDE A, FARNSWORTH Associated Press War Correspondent + UNITED STATES SUPER FORT- RESS BASE IN WESTERN CHINA, June 16.—American B-29s, new Sup- er Fortresses, struck a terrific body blow at Japan's war industry and may have knocked out one-fifth of the Nippon Empire’s steel produc- #lon In yesterday's rald on Yawata, the Pittsburgh of Japan, | The world’s most powerful war- planes made the longest bombing | flight in history and left trains of demolition bombs bursting on the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at | Yawata, northern Kyushu. “This s but the beginning of our organized destruction of the Japa- nese industrial empire,” comment- ed Brig. Gen. Kenneth Wolfe, who is chiefly .responsible for the pro- duction of the B-20. The Imperial Steel Works, the largest in the Jap empire, is credited with 20 percent of Jap steel produc- tion. Yesterday's mission combined a | psychological and strategical stroke at maximum power “ cret 20th Bomber 5«:!11‘u !& B-20's failed to return. Outlines International o in the Miss Liberty contest, adding to return to Hoonah from Excur- 1,175 votes bringing her total up to'sion Inlet for business purposes, Harbor.” Yap Base Hit Interrupts Swing Merry - Go- Round By DRE\A—IP_EARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Adlai Stevenson, civilian assistant to the late Secre- tary of the Navy Knox, is leaving the Navy to try to buy Knox's newspaper, the Chicago Daily News. Stevenson, most up-and-coming young executive in the Navy, went to Italy last fall, recommended im-| mediate ousting of the King and Badoglio, putting in regime. Now, six months late, his| ideas are carried out. Grandson uf| Vice President Adlai Stevenson of the second Grover Cleveland Ad- ministration, Adlai was FDR's choice to be the new Undersecre-| tary of the Navy, but Forrestal said no. UNION JACK--British limies de- | share of the credit| serve a good for the blasting of Hitler'’s Atlan- tic Wall before the Allies waded ashore. The British Navy has the chief command in Channel waters, steamed in close and demolished | a democratic | - CRAFT RAID 50.ENGLAND Nazi Secret Weapon Drops| i No Bombs - Explodes on or Near Ground LONDON, June 16.—Flame-spit-| |ting pilotless planes drove over southern England today and last| ight in the Germans’ first “secret | weapon” reaction to the invasion of France. These craft, exploding on the |ground or close to it, caused deaths! |and eonsiderable damage at scat- tered points, and sent the anti- aircraft guns barking extensively in daylight for the first time since the carly blitz days of 1940. Descriptions of the weapon var- ied considerably, but all agreed |these self-destroying aircraft flew at terrific speed in a straight line [ | Nazi pillboxes, forts and everything else within twelve miles of shore.| It was the job which Navy guns should have done on the bloody island of Tarawa. We learned our lesson there — namely, , that nlrl bombing can't do everything. U. S.| warships also did a good job along the Channel, except that Admiral Alan Kirk, either because he got| his signals mixed or because the weather was bad, failed to blnstL one Nazi beach. That was where; U. S. troops got caught in a mur- | Office of Price Administration has’ derous cross-fire and were slaugh-|ordered a ‘“substantial reduction” | tared | in the ceiling prices on domestic and | i imported fur and were marked by bright lights and shot flames from their ex- hausts, suggesting they might be rocket-] prope]led 'CEILINGS ON FUR REDUCED BY OPA WASHINGTON, June 16. — The skins, and said the HOLLYWOOD AMBASSADOR — Eris Johnston, who has been tell-| ing it to the Soviets as U. S. Chamber of Commerce, has a new| job virtually comes home: Hollywood's ambas- sador to Washington. The movie industry long has wanted an out- standing figure to represent it in| cinched when he! savings will be passed on to the | publie. | The regulation, effective June 19,} fikes prices on sales of skins through | auction houses and brokers. The OPA said the specific savings at re- | tail will not be determined until a | revision of the fur garment price | regulation is completed. Prices announced are on some 30 u the capital, and the moguls ha\e types of skins and are based on the- decided on Johnston, except for|pjghest prices in effect October 1,‘ Warner Brothers. They don’t seem | 1941 through April 30, 1942. The base | so sure that forthright Eric is thelper-md heretofore was March, 1942. i, 5 | sales on ranch mink and ranch | silver fox are exempt from the regu- GOOD NEWS—The Pacific fight-| ing is ahead of schedule. That Ls why lights have been burning late | in FEA’s Office of Economic War-| fare recently. The war chiefs sud- denly decided they needed certain information regarding the location of buildings inside Japan and call- ed on Economic Warfare to pro-| duce it in a hurry. This means| (Continued on Page Four) lations as are breeder, trapper, farmer, rancher and hunter sales| | not exceeding $75 a month. Dyed and dressed Alaska sealskins ! and raw or dressed blue or white | Alaska fox pelts continue to be cov- | ered by a separate regulation. - .o | IN FROM HAINES Virginia Kingsbury and Josephine Paulson are in from Haines and are guests at the Baranof Hotel, jtown and is registered at the Gas- Peace Organization Following War WASHINGTON, June 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has made |the Administration’s conceptions of a postwar international peace or- ganization, providing for a council representing all the nations which jwill concern itself with the settle-| international disputes to ment of prevent war. The President said the organization should include an international Court of Justice. He issued the statement after a conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Undersecretary Stet- tinius, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, and Leo Pasvotsky, officials of the State Department, who are working on post war planning. The President sald: thought that the organization should be a fully representative body with broad responsibilities for promoting facilities fo. ternational cooperation. “The organization will provide for a council elected annually by a fully fepresentative body of all the nations and will include the four major nations and a suitable number of other nations. The Council wil concern itself with the peaceful settlement of internation- al disputes for the prevention of threats to- peace or breaches of “1t is our ‘statement also emphasized that we “are not thinking of a super state with its own police force or other paraphernalia of co- ercive power,” and added that con- sideration of the postwar organi-| zation has been in the formative| stage for 18 months. He praised {what he called the “entirely non- partisan nature of these consulta- tions.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 16. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 812, Bethlehem Steel 61, Curtiss- Wright 5'%, International Harvester 75'2, Kennecott 31%, North Amer- ican Aviation 84, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 16%, United | States Steel 56. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials 146.96; rails, 40.82; utilities, 23.53. —— DOYLE. IN TOWN i James Doyle of Seattle is in tineau. ———— BUY WAR BONDS Land-based bombers opened the assault on Yap in a day and night |attack Tuesday in an apparent pre- lude to the Marianas Yap, a former cable station, about ‘Guam, is a heavily fortified sea- plane and landplane base. Large |fires were started during the at- tack aimed at the airdrome. No further progress is reported {on the stalemated land fighting on |Biak Island in the Schouten group. |Americans hold Mokmer, but have |been halted in their advance to- ward the two other airfields. e — INDIAN BUREAU WILL OPERATE ARMY HOSPITAL Skagway Itfiution Turn- ed Over to Care for 1. B. Patients WASHINGTON, June 16. Tu- berculosis among the natives of |Alaska has become so serious the Army is turning over its tempor- ary hospital at Skagway to help meet the problem, officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs testify- Committee, said. The Skagway hospital, with 150 beds, is no longer needed by Lh»" {Army, the officials said, and abouv {2,000 Alaska natives are suffering with tuberculosis, due chiefly to poor housing. At present the In- dian Service is only able to care for 70. Plans for a new hospital {for Alaska were deferred when war/ broke out. The Committee recommended = $200,000 appropriation for the op- eration of the Skagway hospital for the next fiscal year, the money to be spent in two years if the ! project does not get under way |promptly this year. Willard Beatty, Director of Edu- lcation of the Indian Bureau, testi- fied that the Interior Department is also negotiating with the Army for its entire hospital setup at Excursion Inlet, consisting of a 1200-bed hospital with faciilties for caring for a 400-pupil school. Betty said the Bureau is oper- ating six hospitals in Alaska; the seventh was bombed at Unalaska.| — e — BUY W4AR BONDS ing before a House Appropriation d 12,850. Joyce Smith and Kath- leen McAlister are unchanged in their totals. Betty Bonnett, al- doubled her total since yesterday, in the same position. Bond sales are steadily increas- ing, and each participant in what is frequently referred to as the “queen” contest is urging her sup- porters to purchaw more bonds. BONIN ISLES, 'NEARJAPAN, AREBOMBED NEW YORK, Junl' 16.—The Japs have announced that a naval task ( force yesterday afternoon attacked | the Bonin Island group, between 600 and 700 miles southeast of Japan proper. The Imperial communique broad- cast by Domei, said the plane force struck the two islands of Chichi and Jima in the northern section of the group. Allied sources made no mention of such a raid. Jap broadcasts said that damage to the Bonins was “extremely slight” | and claimed that 17 raiders were owned. .. D:redor for’G }rl |transportation will be furnished either by power barges or by the many fishing craft that are avail- landings. | though still in eighth place, almost able. Seventy-eight natives houses were public 250 miles northwest of Palau, and and Lols Allen and Lila Sinclair destroyed in the Wednesday night |less than 600 miles southwest i made substantial gains but remain fire and these housed from two to |four families under the tribal rela- [tions plans. The Red Cross headquarters at San Francisco has radioed that all assistance necessary will be given. Don Foster, General Superintend- mlL of the Office of Indian Af- airs, will arrive here tomorrow Imm Anchorage, postponing his | projected trip to the interior and Nome | This in a nutshell is the Hoonah flirv situation up to noon today: | According to John Newmarker, President of the Juneau Red Cross {Chapter, 4,000 pounds of food sup- plies and blankets were taken Hoonah by Ted Kettleson, Chair- man of the Sitka Red Cross Chap- ter The Juneau Chapter is pro- viding blankets and the Red Cross at Ketchikan has wired its offer to help. More delails regarding at Hoonah were given by U, |Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan, ye: terday afternoon following his re- turn from the scene of the dis- aster. Hellan stated that the fire re- portedly started from a bonfire b neath one of the stilt-supported houses, which had been “une of the Indian women of the village for the purpose of drying ' fish. The fire flared up when she ‘\hrew a can of gasoline over the |slow-burning embers instead of ikerosene, which she had asked one of her children to bring. the fire | JAPANESE STATEMENT NEW YORK, June 16.—The Japa- nese Imperial Headquarters ac- ' knowledged in a broadcast com- munique that about 20 B-29s and B-24s from the “China area” raided northern Kyushu. The Federal Communications Commission picked up the broadcast here and the communique further said: “Our western air defenses immed- iately intercepted and repulsed them, shooting down several and our losses were negligible.” An earller broadcast, the first from Tokyo, confirmed the bomb- ings and claimed six American planes were dnwm-d THREE CITIES OF JAPANIN RAIDATTACK to| The raid came on the heels of Jap Premier Tojo’s declaration that ithe Japs themselves are preparing a surprise. Jap stations were broad- | casting English versions of the Pre- mier’s declaration and playing pirat- ed American swing music when Wolfe’s raider pack came in on their silvery 151-foot wings. The first target attacked in Japan with the new weapon was one of the most strongly defended on the Jap |home islands. Wolfe, aground by War Department order, was sweat- ing oul the mission in his ward room with Maj. Gen. George Stratemeyer, second in command of all Allled air forces in southeast Asia. Congratulations When the first Super Fortress flashed the code word “Betty”— meaning bambs away at 10:58 p, m. |local time, 8:68 a. m. ‘Thursday, P. W. T, or 12:50 a. m. PFriday, Jap time, said Stratemeyer to Wolfe, “Congratulations, this is the start of the finish.”* The Super Fortress, which can carry more explosives faster, higher and farther than any other plane, flew from a network of bases labor- fously carved out of the western China plains by 450,000 conseript s built by Scout Camp Arrives|” " e 22 To take over the duties as Di- SAIPA“ MND'"GS rector for the Girl Scout Camp for the second consecutive year, Miss| Pauline Roach has arrived in Ju-| “ow (o"FIRMED neau and is already completing! plans for the Eagle River encamp-| BY ADM NIMIIZ ment. Miss Roach is a teacher in the and contract Chinese laborers, men, women and children. Is Second Raid Actually this is the second Super Fortress raid. These planes bombed Makasan railway shops at Bangkok on June 5 in a great shakedown operation. Premier I'oitTGivesv Out| New Information- Korea Bombed The communique, June 8, called NEW YORK, June 16.—The Am- |, (%, SRECEAN CICE L erican Super Fortresses that mlded‘,rhe Bangkok communique said the Jap mainland yesterday are ! | “Black lm'okc rose to great heights “presumed to have taken off from | through the clouds as the bombers, Sian,” Shensi Province, in northern‘d”mu bad weather, pressed home China, the Tokyo radio said. Another Tokyo broadcast acknow-:| ;:g;:p::: n::"u] nm:’; ;!::d::flny ledged the raiders hit the Yawnu‘ company, but declared that hits | were made by “only a few bomb | F kBI oh I Hragmcnm and caused “no dam- ‘ ran n m s Apparently broadcasts from the Japanese capi- tal attempted to minimize effects of | 0' htond Di'ism luu of the Japanese Cabinet, hur- | WASHINGTON, June 16.—Presi- | riedly called this morning, Premier dent Roosevelt has nominated | plant, Japan's great manu(acturlng age.” ’ e mecoion o NOMINaled as Atfy. the attack yesterday, but at a meet- | Junior High School at Minot, Norv.h} PEARL HARBOR June 16.—Ad- "ro)n said there were 20 planes in Frank Bing| to be United States Dakota. She has had considerable experiencé at directing camps, hav-| miral Chester Nimitz, Commander- in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, has | the raiding group and eight were,Aworney for the Second Division | shot down, but he also stated tar- of Alaska, suceeding Charles Clas- ing been director of Girl Scout‘mnflrmed the American 1audlngs | gets were also hit in the cities of by, resigned. camps at Havre, Montana; Billings,|on Saipan, Jap air and naval base | Moji, Yawama, and Kurura, l Montana, and Spokane, Washing- ton. She also took special courses in camp direction at both Spokane and St. Paul, Minnesota. After the close of the Scout Camp kan to direct camp activities ther ————— IN FROM SITKA Mrs. W. K. Grassley, of Sitka, 'registered last evening at the Ju- neau Hotel, in the Marianas, following an in- tensive four-day naval and air |bombardment. i The communique said that initial |reports indicate that our casualties boardit’é pere, Miss Roach will go to Ketchi- [are moderate, ————- - | SITKA PEOPLE HERE | Josephine Dawson, Irene Rey- nolds, and Mrs. Jack Conway are all registered at the Baranof from Sitka, Bingham was a former Montana Moji is an important communica- |eqyucator and has been United | tions center. ‘sv.av,es cammluloner at Nome. Korea Is Raided * BRSPS S Another Japanese broadcast pick-' MRS. s’uao RETURNS HOME ed Up here reports that enemy AFTER VISIT IN JUNEAU | planes have raided points on Korea Mrs. G. Lee Stagg, wife of Dr on the Asiatic mainland immed- | hil ‘ jately opposite the Kyushu scctlon.‘s““ of Kef lett for - par |home on the last boat. She, with The broadcasts failed to give any definite time regarding the Korean her little son Jimmie, have been raid but this may have been part of Spending a week with her mother, the attack on greater Japan, Mrs. H. L. Wood of Juneau.