The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1944, Page 1

& THE DAIL VOL. XLIL, NO. 9681. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE T? 1944, Y ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS NOW FLEEING FROM CHERBOURG Jap Airfields in Kuriles Heavily OneSceneaslnvasion Army M WHAT WAR BONDS MEAN TAGAN POINT ON MATSUWA | | GETS SHELLED United States Task Force in Remarkable Action, Foggy Weather By NORMAN BELL ABOARD UNITED STATES: TASK FORCE FLAGSHIP, June| 17.—Japan’s North Pacific has been | hurt in a new spot, Marsuwa Island in the Kuriles, from shells poured out during a foggy night. | This task force, in a 30-minute bombardment on the Tagan Point | airfield, bombarded it in a remark- able exhibition of navigation and | gunnery. The small base was com- pletely concealed by fog but offi-| cers declared that modern devices assured accurate shelling, which was concentrated on the target area ed on Page Five) (Continul The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | ser ‘the iy o They're a Magic Carpet BOND BOMB—War loans buy the block-busters that rain on Nazi |with the Americans endeavoring to Eurcpe and h’clxn speed the war’s end. B s e A e R JAP ATTACKS 'HURLED BACK BY YANKEES ‘Three Cofifiraflacks by Japs on Biak Island Re- pulsed-Heavy Losses | | | By MURLIN SPENCER { ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- |QUARTERS IN NEW - GUINEA; |June 17— Three Japanese counter- lattacks by screaming infantrymen |supported by light tanks, were| |hurled back north of the Mokmer airdrome on Biak Island in the |Schouten group. Headquarters an- nounced that attacks on Thursday | cost the Japan 160 dead, and [two tanks destroyed. Americans, | holding a position between the Jap= |anese and overlooking hills to the stopped the Japanese ! bazookas and 50 calibre | machineguns. | The Nipponese made three at- tempts to break through the Am- lerican defense perimeter around llhc airdrome which Allied planes “am now using. A headquarters |spokesman said that the Japanese {concentrated most of their forces {in the hills north of the airstrip, {eliminate them. Japanese assaults o e AlloWed, the s American. o movement of their ridge positions. | WASHINGTON--While American | doughboys are fighting the toughest | battle in history, another decisive pattle is going on in Washington | without benefit of headlines. It is| the battle for control of the tre-| mendous surplus war property | owned by the Government. One group, headed by the Bernie Baruch-Lehman Brothers-General Electric faction, .has the skids all| greased to pass, ag quickly as pos- | sible, legislation putting surplus | property mainly in the hands of | the big firms which have profited | most from the war. By WILLIAM F. BONI (This is the second of six stor- ies by Associated Press. corres- pondents who have seen war at first hand and who tell the vital part the equipment bought by war bonds has played in Allied victories and defeats. Boni, cov- ering the Pacific, was awarded the Purple Heart after filing dispatches from New Guinea when he was struck by nine shell splinters from raiding Jap- anese planes). WITH STILWELL'S FORCES IN The other group, headed by aTHE MOGAUNG VALLEY — An coalition of Democratic and Re- order comes from headquarters for publican Congressmen, is detérm- ined that the disposal of war goods | shall not head the country into| another economic tailsspin. | At the end of World War I, the U. S. Government sold about seven pillion dollars worth of surplus! goods ‘with no orderly plan. Some| of the goods were dumped on the market, with speculators making| fortunes overnight. Some of it was| sold in France without any stip-| ulation that the French people were to benefit, so that French spec- ulators bought them up and reaped juicy profits by shipping them back to the U.S.A. Part of the blame went to Ber- nard M. Baruch, criticized for turn- ing the key on his War Industries Board immediately after the war, and going home. Now, instead of seven billions there are about 75 billion dollars worth of surplus war goods—in- cluding 1,500 new war plants built except into the war effort. you to pick up stakes, head for a new assignment and in cleaning house among the months’ accumula- +tion of jungle-molded papers you come across one as yet unfilled re- | quest. It is for a' brief story to be used in connection with the new war bond drive. At first like any other corre- spondent, you wonder why anybody need be urged to buy bonds—wonder whether, perhaps, we as a profession have ‘not painted war's picture in enough of its horrible clarity. You wonder that and then you wonder whether the man who buys a bond realizes what share that gives him in the war effort. i ‘When he puts down rflon(-y for a bond, he doesn't know where it goes Thus it gives him a share in the war as a whole. His bond may pay for gasoline that powers a tiny liaison plane which rescues a badly wounded Mer- i bound for Rangoon cr in a Tommy | gun that drops a Jap sniper out of | | a tree in north Burma. That bond gives you all the priv- | ileges without any of the hazards' The first attack started at sun-| rise, with the Japanese running| from hills to low ground, about two hundred yards from the edge! of the hills, where they were stop-| g . \ . | i 7 tanks on the road to St. Mere Eglise pass a farm cart carr pal Corps Radiophote, International. Beachhead - Is Secured ___On Saipan o AR b - g | Stiff Resistance Encounter- | ed Despite Prelimin- | Am prisoners walk behind. NIP BASES ON BONIN GROUP New StrikeuM_a“de Deep in Enemy Conirolled Wat- ying wounded Nazi EVACUATION Bombarded i o PORT MAY BE ANOTHER SEVASTOPOL | Evidences of Panic as Last Escape Road Under Afillery Fire SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 17.-Americans driv- ling to pinch off the top of the | Cherbourg Peninsula, have brought |the - Germans' last escape road under hammering artillery fire, and a United States fighter pilot re- |ported signs of flight from the cape and its great port. One column, beating west from Carentan, fought to within four !miles of La Haye du Puits, the |Nazis' last main road junction at Ithe shortest neck of the Peninsula. | Forces farther north cut off the western railway, selzing St. Sau- veur and Le Vicomte, and other Americans recaptured Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg. Capt. James Barnhardt of Rutherford College, N. C., said he |saw enemy trucks and staff ears |moving south, and declared he be- lleved the Germans “want to get {out of there, but our troops are |moving in fast as hell.” | Casualty List i =l 5 S R Bradley, *divisions oves | I | { o other i i AR L “: Refugees Also Reporfed ind ism were woundea i the Sireaming from Kare- | inciudea seors up 1o midnight He told a press -conference ia | of the hardships of a fighting War. peq by bazookas which destroyed ers Neal' Japan | You needn't slog along through mud | gn6 tank and fired another. | Man % | tha makes each step an effort nOf| Allied destroyers off Biak coast| WASHINGTON, June 17.—Amer- | e'n‘m;‘;';'"d;f;"” 3y ne‘e:nf‘t’e;“f;‘s“;{ meanwhile- silenced Japanese artil- ican task forces, reaching within | for days on canned rations nor sleep lery mortars which had been har- 600 miles of Tokyo, pounded three | nights on end in a slimy (oxholefl“smg_ supply nngs to Mokmer. Jap bases on the Bonin volcano Aerial reconnaisance was re- island group, southeast of Japan, on is ary Bombardment | By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON | Representing Combined Allied Press, | Distributed by Associated Press | ABOARD JOINT EXPEDITION- 'ARY FLAGSHIP, SAIPAN IS- LAND, June 17.—United States as- gault troops have fought inland :u\fl' the green, rolling hills of !southern Saipan after a street by |street conquest of the town of Charan-Kanao. | They landed near the sugar mii! town on Wednesday under the fiercest Japanese fire since Tarawa. From the bridge of this flagship I saw the assault waves, loaded in alligators, claw their way over the Ibarrier rcef and move to the | beaches, supported by ‘thundering lsalvos from the naval guns, flam- |Ing rockeis, and automatic landing | eraft, weapons. Despite the powerful support, the ps’ long range mortars and ar- I tille: showercd the the left flank. Softened Up Beach | The assault heach of the Japs (was under naval and gerial bom- ardment, for several days pre |ing the attack. They evacuated jthe civilians but left a strong rear- |guard which the Americans cle wmed | alligators on up first. This Pacific encounter is com- parable to Europe's house to house fighting. Saipan, in the heart of | TOOL PLANT made with the Baranof Hotel 0| Ilan‘ |S"Imus France that American losses are | —_— Jexpected to be higher than those | STOCKHOLM, June 17.-~Compiil-'of the British and Canadians, !sory evacuation of the Finnish city whose figures have not been dis- |of Viituri, toward which the Rus- closed. |sians are driving in great weight! 'The U. 8. First and Twenty- of men and armor, is now in pro- ninth divisions met the heaviest gress, according to Helsinki dis- fighting on landing, going ashore patches which also report refugees in the center, where they met a are streaming from other Karelian Nazi division holding maneuvers |Isthmus towns. on a difficult, heach. |in the vicinity of Siiranmake. For the first time in the Pinnish- off east of Caen, and two unsuc- i DEERGI ISP ioostly to the enemy.” H Praise for Doughboys STR'KE NDS [the invasion when he predicted as | improbable the bleod bath the ene- !a huge beech tree were in praise fol the doughboys and parachute | |treme bravery on rt CHICAGO, June 17-A strike of {0 and tlfeir l:.h:crl: we:: fi engine works ended less than 24 | hours after its start. Officers of the Hiave boen two arifioal periods 4 D-Day. The first was when the | the terms of settlement. | The sprawling plant, one unit of encountered a reinforced Nazi di- vision; and the second when the I""A large scale battle is reported At the eastern end of the battle- {Russian war the Red Army 15 .said cessful counterattacks in the Troam | The casualty report confirmed i | \my insisted would result for many i |persons in the invasion. | | His first words to the corres- {troops and their leaders. all 107 grinders in the tool grinding able to make the landing & suc- Chrysler Corporation announced the doughboys, fighting thelr way Il front, strong attacks were beaten to be emploging a rocket cannon, area beyond Caen were “extremely Gen. Bradley's confidence before |pondents gathered in the shade of “Only by guts, valor, and ex- plant of the huge B-20 Superfortress cess,” he said, adding that there | return to work, but deelined to state ashore on the central beachhead which covers 83 acres, is the world’s with 25 billions of Government|rill marauder from the Burma funds. Months ago, R,cpuhhcan‘jungle just in time to save his life. Representative Charles Halleck of |It may be in a bomb released from Indiana and Democrat Wright Pat-|a P-40's wing rack which smashes a man of Texas started work on a|Japanese battery and thus weakens bill to provide the equitable mlr‘l&:e_ ’rr-]trml;)m; cn(‘ng{'s acrllvl_llm‘y of post- T _|which has been pounding Chinese lual,.r:;sw;:“afiu::r&'::;i ponsy {infantryman in the Hukawng-Mo- | gaung Valley for almost six months | without a break. Then, suddenly, John Hancock of | That bond may g0 into .a ‘triek |which an American Negro boy Lehman Brothers, whom Bermct A |handles over a road hub-deep in Baruch brought down from Wallly, g o posibly the load of sorely AUTHORITY TO ONE MAN Street to write his post-war re-|,..joq medical supplies which that | conversion report, swung into ac-| rail and road communications. |take names and addresses of per-) A special communique said bridges 5005 having clothing that they de- were destroyed, trains derailed, and sire to have picked up. The at least 70 locomotives sabotaged. clothes will be called for by Army All road and rail traffic is stopped truck tomorrow and may be left in the Rhone Valley. A jon the porches or doorsteps of the Direct fighting by patriots has houses if families are not at hom-, resulted in the capture of 300 Ger- Anyone having contributions man prisiners, and the French have requested to call 800 as soon & attacked the German garrisons in possible and leave their name and some places and occupied the vil- | address. lages. The Rev. W. A. Soboleff has 1o- 53 |turned from Hoonah and has also! are -os You needn't take cover from straf-| . . i Borokoe airdrome, two Wednesday, shooting down 47 enemy | fong artillery barrages. |miles beyond Mokmer. & T " 3 Lo second American objective, but is damaging ten others, and blasting THA8 SIRAE UG AR WRR o] barracks, airlelds and fuel supplies, vital war job at home and also join never finished. 1 i i The new strike was made deep in E vers - — { Acvely: i fbe SGUENLIVREE. the enemy controlled waters by car- | The Bonin volcano island groups " lie on a direct line hetween the - MADEFOR HOONAH “imem.seisar i’ ! vl Strong aerial opposition was beat- SUPPORI (IIMS OF FIRE In raiding Chichi Jima in the y i R Bonins 35 enemy planes sought to | Indian Service, by Fred R. Geeslin, | were shot out of the air | has issued an appeal for clothing| At Iwo Jima, 140 miles south in ! | sufferers of the Hoonah blaze of were destroyed, failing to get off the | last Wednesday night. ground, before bombed and strafed. . | they were wearing and other cloth- ped in Rhone Va"ey— |ing is needed, especially for the SUPERS Towns Are Taken Arrangements have been made (o | receive contributions of clothing at | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | the office should be closed at the ARE loST IN FORCE, June 17.—Full scale activity | time contributions are made, just complete support to the invasion, Arrangements have also been| with planned sabotage of German One of Sky Battleships May Now Be in Hands WASHINGTON, June 17. — Four of America’s mighty sky battleships tack that left “glowing ma wreckage” at Japan's Pittshurgh at |ing by Zeroes nor sweat out hour- | This is the planes, sinking two enemy ships, | —it enables you to fulfill your own unserviceable and apparently was reports Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. | (lo' ried based task forces. PATRIOTS HING APPEAL western Pacific Marianas and the en down by the carrier-based planes. The Red Cross and the Alaska intercept the attacking fliers and all | for men, women and children, fire the volcano group, 14 enemy planes A” Rail, Road Iraffi( S'Op- The victims have only the clothes 8 - children. | FouR SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | foom 109, Federal Building, and if of the French patriot forces is giving | Place the articles outside the door. | GREAT RAID of Enemy were lost in Thursday’s surpri Yawata. ¢ |started a the Marianas, 1§ the portal to the| [Japfln. inner empire defense I perimet The capture of Saipan |will cut off Guam, open the road i"’ the Philippines, and sever |Japan’s supply routes to the Caro- ilines. | Powerful Attack ] ‘The Americans ianded on a two {mile front on either side of Char- {an-Kanoa, which lies on the south- |west, coast ‘The southern units powerful attack which carried them close to the Aslito airdrome. Meanwhile the northern largest, producing about 90 per cent | of the engines for the Superforts. | The workers quit yesterday in pro- [ test to the discharge of one worker. D | | ‘GERMAN COLLAPSE ~ NEARING; CANNON MAKES STATEMENT | WASHINGTON, June 17.—Repre- Americans were trying to make the junction of the beachheads secure north of Carentan. Bradley said emphatically that he thought the enemy had now lost its chance to drive the Allies back into the sea. CHINESE TROOPS CONTACT FORCES tion. With him swung Will Clay-| truck is carrying. | 1t may be represented by the uni- QUOTATIONS ielse that may be used by the refu- each- This announcement was made late | units | yesterday afternoon. |consolidated the beachhead area | OF GEN. STILWELL sentative Clarence Canon, of Mis- souri, told the House today that we ton, largest cotton broker in the form of g gentle, efficient nurse at world, whom Baruch has already |y forward field hospital or by a placed in the key job of disposing|carpine which “Uncle Joe” Stilwell of U. S. war property. They ask-|gings over his shoulder when this ed Congressmen Patman and Hal-|soldier's general takes off on one of leck to hold up their bill. The his frequent inspection tours of the latter two obliged. front lines. Meanwhile, the Baruch-Hancock| That bond puts you as a buyer group prepared a new bill, called|aboard an aircraft carrier whose “the Clayton bill,” which has the |planes bomb Palau or in the bomb effect of giving one man—in this|bay of a Flying Fortress on a mis- case, cotton broker Clayton—blanket } sion over Berlin; in a landing barge authority to dispose of war pmp_;scrnping the beach on a north New lexpressed his willingness to assist {in receiving clothing or any‘hing NEW YORK, June 17. — Closing £€eS. Rev. Soboleff may be r quotation of Alaska Juneau mine €d by phoning 781 or 782. i stock at today’s short session is 6%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 26%, operation, employing most of the Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethlehem Swel:mwnspeople. only a small percent- 61%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna-|age have gone to Excursion Inlet. tional Harvester 77, Kennecott 31,/ An appeal has been wired for food North American Aviation 8'%, New supplies, clothing for 150 children, York Central 18%, Northern Pacific baby bottles and nipples, utensils, 17, United States Steel 56%, Pound |dishes, camp stoves, 300 blank $4.04. are needed and 150 mattresses. Dow, Jones averages today are as PO Y | follows: Industrials, 147.28; mfls.l H. E. MEAD HERE The communique als Because of the cannery being in OD€ of the Super Fortresses may now | be in enemy hands. The Twentieth Bomber Command, giving more detalls of the raid, said one of the giant planes was “lost due to antiaircraft action over the target” at Yawata. ‘Two of the Supers failed to return of them is safe. ————— - SEATTLE MAN ARRIVES of one erty in any way he sees fit. " (Continued on Page Four) Guinea coast, in a P-51 strafing a Nazi column in Italy, in a torpedo that sinks a Japanese supply ship 41.24; utilities, 23.22. | J is s0 said ,_hml‘)x-luw the principal city of Gara-|.,.q expect the collapse of the pan on Saipan harbor, five miles {north of Charan-Kanoa. Casualties at Saipan are not ex- |pected to equal the Tarawa fig- jures, but the assault battalions suffered material losses. The Americans secured the nar- row Charan-Kanoa airstrip bor- |attack. As yet, however, they are not out of mortar range b SR A | German armies by September and the surrender of the Nazis by Chris- | tians, “perhaps much sooner.” | The chairman of the Appropria- tions Committee made the state- {ments during a discussion of the | Deficiency Supply Bill. “There is general belief that the ot ¢35 pecause of accidents but the crew|dering the beach during the mmal;German collapse will occure not later than the first or second week |in September,” and he added to his | view, “the unconditional surrender CHINESE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE HEADQUARTERS ON THE SALWEEN FRONT, June 17, — A juncture has been made by the Chinese force with General Joseph Stilwell’s forces, effected by the cap- ture of Lauhkuan, well west of Hpwaw Pass, 60 airline miles north- east of Myitkyina. The capture was made by Chinese guerrillas. ‘This is the first China-Burma link since the Jap occupation of Burma. Meanwhile, the situation ' around ———evo——— BUY WAR BONDS Here from Ketchikan and staying at the Juneau Hotel is H E. Mead W. C. Wallstead, of Seattle, registered at the Juneau Hotel BUY WAR RONDS 'of Germany will be before the end | Lungling has been stabilized and of December.” improved.