The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1944, Page 1

[ »” - ‘ VOL. XLIL, NO. 9685. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1944 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 80 - MINUTE BARRAGE IS LAID DOWN Tremendous—Assaults De-; signed fo Crack Last De- fenses of Great Port SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXl”!JDITIONARY‘l FORCES, June 22.—General Dwight | D. Eisenhower's forces unlimbered | this afternoon the greatest assault | since the storming of the beaches of | Normandy with a combined land and sea attack intended to crack the last of the defenses of Cherbourg. 80-Minute Barrage The attack began when waves of | British and American planes swept | in with a terrific barrage lasting | 80 minutes. A field dispatch from Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead reported he was rocked back on his heels by the weight of | this assault, in which light and | medium bombers dropped down to | almost cannon mouth level to drop their explosive charges. The Germans were immediately beset by a thunderous artillery | o STRONG AIR The Washington ¥y Vi YANK TROOPS New Hospital Re-outfitted as a hospital ship, the her commissioning as the U. S. Arm; Completely re-outfitted and with a high service. (Continued on Page Two) By DREW PEARSON | Col. “Robert 8. Allen now on active (wt. service with the Army.) during the Jap aerial assault on that Aleutian base, is pictured in Puget Sound waters off Seattle follow| | fairs, although the Provisional Gov- through flak barrages, attacked the | Pas de Calais rocket bomb instal-| lations. Marauders, Havocs, and Thunder- | Ship Commissioned at Seaftle S. 8. President Fillmore, which saw action at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, y Hospital Ship Marigold. The commissioning oceurred at Tacoma. new coat of paint, the stately ship steamed ‘'up Puget Sound trim for NEW DRIVES LAUMCHEDBY DeGaulle - Forces-in-— Normandy Coup d' Etat Places Pro-| visional Government in Liberated Areas Russian Thrust - Aims to Eliminate Finland-Hel- sinki Cabinet Totters By DON WHITEHEAD { : WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES | LONDON, June 22. IN FRANCE, June 19.—(Delayed)— | Army hurled masses of men and Representatives of General Charles |€quipment into two new drives on DeGaulle’s Provisional Government | the broad front at Lake Ladoga in have already moved into the lib- | an effort to make a quick end to the erated sections of Normandy and |War in Finland, already reported in set up political control of civil af- |the throes of a government up- heaval which may be a prelude to a bid for peace. The launching of the drives was ernment has not yet been recognized | by the United States. | RED FORCES — The Rt‘(,li Francois Coulet, who was Secre- tary General of Corsica and Under- prefect in that area, has arrived in Bayeux to take over the dutfes of announced last night in a Moscow communique which also disclosed the Soviet forces are advancing from | captured Viipuri' on the Karelian TRUK ATOLL HAMMERED IN RECORD RAID Attack Coordinated with ' Marianas Invasion fo Immobilize Big Base By R()BEB—‘I'-EUNSON { ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-{ QUARTE'RS IN NEW. GUINEA, | New e cord Guinea sector made a breaking attack on Truk Nonday, coordinated with the Am- erican invasion of Saipan in the Maria Headguarters announced that the | B-245 from the Admiralty’s dropped 108 tons of explosives on' Dublon and Eten Islands in the heaviesti single day's attack by the Thir- teenth Air Force Liberators. For $he second day in a row the Jap- @nese made no attempt at inter- ception. This contrasts with the four raids of last week, each of which stirred up 15 to 25 fighters. . Jt is possible the Japanese are epnserving their fighters for use in the Marianas. Seventh Air Force bombers from ‘the Central | cific have been pounding the rolines, preventing - Fruk from uring in the Navy air fighting tween the Marianas and the tippinies. e o The Americans on Biak advanced |steadily along the coast of the lisland . where three alrdromes were | |captured, and cleaned out pockets | {of resistance in the hills north of | Mokmer airfield. | - e — | | ALLIES PUSH ON IN ITALY, NEAR ANCONA |Troops Nearing Prize Ifal- ian Port in Spite of Bad Weather ROME, June 22.—Allied and Ital- Jyne 22 —Liberator bombers fromi{. Bely Nordling Jumps fo WHAT WAR BONDS MEAN ""Who Can Describe the Sadrifice Paid in lfaly!” . SACRIFICES: Lives in Salerno; Only war bond loans at home. JANIEL DE LUCE (This is the fifth of six stories by Associated Press correspond- ents who have seen war at first hand and tell the vital part the equipment bought by war bonds has played in Allied victorses and defeats. De Luce has cov- ered four years of war in Poland, Grecce, Burma and ‘Africa. Me / went to Poland at the start of patgn e ucupr:l.&m n % fishing boat. He won a Pulitzer prize this year for international reporting.) BONDS SOLD AMOUNT T0 $110,572 Top of Confest for | Miss Liberty | ALGIERS—They forded the lcy With still a long way to go be-|ward in fore Juneauw’s quota is reached in mud of the uncharted minefields. the Fifth War Loan drive, the total today shows a fairly good gain | over yesterday's figures. Series E|came desperate, and intense orange bond sales are now at $66,922.75, tracers licked out like serpents’ and the all series total (which in- | tongues. Mortars blew the mud into cludes the E sales) is tabulated at BEYSErs. i $110,572.75. | When daylight came, The Rotary Club and Business and Professional Women's Club, along with the A:W.V.S. will pre-| side at the bond booths tonight. Last evening bonds were sold byi Py the Juneau Masons and the Ox'der;mm'c i of Eastern Star. nearly half a mile. |ing battalion could walk. stream in darkness, and slogged for- | the treacherous sucking | As their own supporting nrmlcry] fire died, the enemy's resistance be- | |every half-mile seemed potentially ial damage.” | decisive in opening up the mountain | spokesman sald “superficial dam- 4 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN PACIFIC BATTLE - Giant Air, Land Attack Made on Cherbourg BIG SURPRISE ATTACK MADE ON NIPPONESE Many EnenTShips Dam- | aged in Aerial Fight- 49 U. §. Planes Lost PEARL HARBOR, June 22. — United States carrier based planes sank one Japanese aircraft carrier and three tankers Monday in the third smashing blow on the Jap- anese fleet as a follow up of last Sunday's battle off the Marianas in which 353 enemy planes were destroyed. The combined Sunday and Monday blows were the hard- est on the Japanese Navy since Pearl Harbor, the communique of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said. The communique also said that ;pnsslbly a fifth enemy vessel—a |destroyer—-was sunk Monday in the battle between the Marianas and |the Philippines, and nine or ten {enemy vessels in addition were damaged. Enemy Flees Stunned by the surprise attack, the enemy fleet offered no counter- |attack and fled. |/ These is no sign whatever that fthe two big fleets foined in. a sur- {face battle. g Fif| United States Fleet ?‘m’ #bip. Josses and. only- 149 of its planes were lost in the |Sunday alr battle. This represented the attempt of |Japanese carrier-based planes to break up the Saipan invasion, prin- The cipal enemy stronghold in the |Marianas which les 1500 miles from Japan. Some of the American Dpilots downed may have been rescued, said Admiral Nimitz. Monday's Action The action last Monday ended at nightfall, the Japs fleeing and the United 'there is na indication the battle | States Fourth Division had driven Was resumed. Two United States carriers and Do you remember how last winter one battleship suffered “superfic- The combat fleet age” means the ship’s capacity for Some of the wounded of the lead- |battle has not been impaired, in- Others dicating ' the three ships named Tonight's big event — Juneau's same on stretchers, blood soaking |probably participated in Monday's action. {first Little World Series baseball | through the canvas and dripping game-—will be played at 7 o'clock |ike a leaky faucet. i Mud-smeareq | Attack Is Surprise between picked teams representing | medics set them down gently on th¢ © The attack of the Fifth 3 the Chamber of Commerce and the?smne floor of the stable With 8|under command of Admiral '::?_ Isthmus south of Lake Ladoga, and are within 20 miles of the border fixed at the end of the 1939-40 Rus- the commission of a republic for the | Rouen region. Obviously, this is a coup d' etat for DeGaulle, who simply brought | sian-Finnish war. men into the beachhead when he | Crisis in Finland came ashore last week and set them | The political situation at Helsinki to work as the rightful directors of | Fémained obscure but strong indica- French political affairs. tions are that the Finnish govern- Under present plans, DeGaullists | ment is facing a crisis. A Reutel will occupy the key political post in | dispatch from Stockholm said the Finnish peace cabinet has already each region as it is liberated. “We'll probably keep the districts been selected. The wew Russian offensive was as they have been set up by Vichy,” | said Coulet, “They are economic for | launched on the third aaniversary our administrative purposes.” of the German invasion of the So- In addition to directing civil af- | viet Union, and is apparently aimed WASHINGTON—With the touglh; est battle of the war now raging; H s e o o e | AMETiC2NS Hammering| question of uniforms. 'nio Cherbourg Covered | It may seem fantastic, but what| . a young Naval officer should wear Wl'h Umbre"a Of PlafleS i Washington, for instance, the g 3 standard summer uniform is gray,| SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF especially selected by Admiral Er- | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY of the late Secretary of the Navy and fnedium bombers carried outz Knox to the White House to get|a crushing offensive in support of the summer grays adopted. American troops hammering into West Coast, he finds that tan sum-!erican heavy bombers, plowing | mer khakis are standard. Then if| he moves on to Pearl Harbor, he| bowed to Admiral King and grays, | Thu not Kkhakis, are what the well-‘balts swooped down to within 100 | dressed Naval officer should wear.|feet of the German cannon to mea, New Caledonia, headquarters given Gen. Omar Bradley’s dough- | of the Southwest Pacific, khakis, boys, and Fortresses and Liberators | not grays, are in vogue again. What gave the rocket launching ground ! Naval éommander of each area. \l24 hours. $h Meanwhile, the laundry bills, the| The dayiight blow followed night baggage space and the extra shirts, farflung aerial attacks extending | ferent buttons and’ insignia are|trial Ruhr and Berlin, dwarfing | enough to keep a young ensign in{the Germans' cross Channel bar-e poverty, or drive his wife to dis-|rage of rocket bombs, which they | must be carried for each different type of uniform: Tan shirts for| the khakis, gray shirts for the| | 2 the Potomac continues—over the has become a real problem. In| B RS 1 nie King, who went over the head | FORCES, June 22.—Fleets of llzht; But if an officer is flying to theCherbourg, while big forces of Am- finds that Admiral Nimitz has' But when he goes on to Nou- drive home the closest support yet | is to be worn all depends on thelits fourth pounding in less thani cap covers and, in some cases, dif- (from France to Germany's indus-) traction. Different colored shirts asserted today now come over with grays, white shirts for the blues. incendiary loads. | The Germans also said, witi.out | Allied confirmation, that American | planes bombed Berlin yesterday and flew on to Russia, and used the| fairs, Coulet’s organization intends to enlist a territorial army as a small token to help the Allied mili- tary keep order. at clearing the Murmansk-Lenin- .grad Railway of Finnish forces. | One of the thrusts was launched along the Svir River between Lakes Ladoga and Onega, approximately |airbase at Poltava in the Ukraine, PARTIAL GOLD BRAID The Al- But the most irksome ruling per- 1,500 miles from London. tains to the winter blues. | been ordered that the dark Navy| blue uniform, used as the work uni-| form during winter months, shall It has lies announced that some of (heI fighter planes escorting the Berlin bombers also flew to Russia. | A Moscow communique from the U. S. Air Force said that three have gold braid extending only two- thirds of the distance around the sleeve at the cuff. But blue uni- forms worn in the evening must ! have stripes running completely | around the cuff. Result: Officers| must carry at least two sets of lABOR u“lo"s Io blues—one for evening and one for work, very difficult when nirplane“ BE pRoBED AB CAMPAIGN FUNDS| 1 bombers and two escorting fighters {were lost on the flight to Russia. | e baggage must be light. Here are some other dos and| don'ts which the well-dressed Naval 150 to 200 miles north and east of Viipuri. The other started about 100 (’ys‘al Jenne ls {miles farther north above Lake 4 | Onega and cracked the Finnish lines Confirmed fo Be east of Medvezherorsk at the north- western tip of the lake. > Juneau Postmaster 'INFORMATION FOR WASHINGTON, June 22. — The All "AIIO,NS lS URGED BY BERLE Senate has confirmed the nomina- tion of Crystal Jenne to be Post- | master at Juneau, Alaska. NEW YORK, June 22.—A free e SILVER STAR TO ian troops are within 32 miles of| Ancona, the prize Italian port on the Adriatic coast, while Eightli| Army troops are approaching Cam- erino, approximately 39 miles east '’ |and a little north of Perugia i | Allied Headquarters said that Am- | | erican forces to the west pushed on 15 airline miles northwest of Gros-| seta in all land operations. Although ! the weather improved, misty con- | ditions «re preventing cross country movements on a large e, | The communique said that an ad- | vance toward Ancona, ranking next to the Venice port in facilities for that coastal sector, was made by troops which reached Fermo, only 65 airline miles below Rimini, the east- ern anchor on the so-called Pisa-| Florence-Rimini Line, where fleeing | Germans may offer stiff resistance | against the Allied drive. Rotary Club. | sagging roof. Given in co-operation with the( The chest cases made dry gasping Fifth War.Loan drive, the game|noises. The others were silent—eyes promises to be the only one of closed, or staring frantically at the kind ever to be witnessed in busy surgeon. the Territory, and admission to the A boy with his khaki blanket pull- ball park is by purchase of a bond. ed up to his chin spoke without a Children will be admitted through |tremor when the surgeon drew it purchase of war savings stamps in aside. “How s it, Doc?” lieu of a bond. The face of Captain Leon Fill of Miss Liberty Contest | Detroit was as impassive as marble. The following is the Mis: “OK,” he said, as his surgical scis- tabulation: sors &nipped off two tattered strings Liber! mond Spruance, was such a com- plete surprise the Japs apparently |made no counter-attacks against any of our surface units. Admiral Nimitz, who stayed at ‘hla headquarters here long after 1 midnight receiving battle reports, still appeared bright eyed despite ’hls 60 years. Size of Jap Force Admiral Nimitz said the Japan- ese force consisted of four or more |of flesh which had been the boy's battleships, five or six carriers, five fleet tankers and unspecified num- mine had ripped both legs to the;bcrs of cruisers and destroyers. Lists Casualties Admiral Nimitz lists the follow- casualties inflicted on the One carrier, belleved to be the Betty Nordling . 18,507 . | Hetty Mill 17,525 !lvn foot. Fragments of a German | Kathleen McAlister . 16,777 o ) N o Tk ol Betty Bonnett 12,600 }Iup. The groin was a mass ol orn: Ruth Kunnas 12,313 flesh crusted with blood. | Mary McGormaok i..... 915 |, 1 1ad 18 mineiwounded In 1ouf ing Joyce Smith 8708 wours,” the surgeon said later. ,lenemy: Lois Allen 8.631 ‘thvy were men destroyed--all but Lila Sinclair 7166 { their spirit. 1 can’t stand to see In today’s count Betty Nordling, | any more just now. Why is it that | Zuikan, 17,000 tons; received three 1,000-pound bomb hits. One Hayataka class carrier was Eighth Army troops proached Nocero Umbra, miles west of Camerino. — e — also ap- fourteen {who is in the coveted position of | No. 1, increases her lead over Betty | Mill, now in second place. Lois | Allen emerged from the cellar and | sast? How can you describe their sacrifice?” those who suffer most complain the | 1 CANOL PROJECT 15 RIDICULOUS - SAYS FERGUSON WASHINGTON, June 22. The |Senate has passed unanimously the officer must obey: : 1—In Washington you can't wear aviation green uniforms except in| WASHINGTON, June 22. — The House has set up machinery for in- change of information among na-|s49 000,000 War Department appro- is now eighth. Kathleen McAlister | has a stronger grip on number three SoleT AND NAZI post, and has 4,177 more votes than | Betty Bonnett who climbed Irnms loSSES DUR|N63 . seventh to fourth. Ruth Kunnas | dropped from fourth to fifth, Mary LONDON, June 22.-The Soviet Information Bureau, in review of McCormack is still sixth. Jnycei Smith went down from fifth to sev- enth. Lila Sniclair dropped one and | is now at the bottoom. Betty Bon-; nett with 4,175 more Votes made the | largest gain Kathleen McAlister with an addi- German attack on Russia, reported arriving at the airport or in de- | vestigation of any suspected elec- | parting from the airport. Admiral| tion frauds and for the first time | ANCHORAGE MAN FOR GALLANTRY successful operation of a World Se- Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Assistant Secre- tar of State, declared before a meet- curity Organizaton after the war, tions is “a major necessity” in the | ragion biil after Senator Fergu- had abandoned his effort to King has thrown his weight with | the battleship sehool and ruled that | Naval aviation officers should not| be too conspicuous. | 2—Except for a few favored of-) (Continued on Page Four) wrote labor unions into the scope for investigation. The House rewrote the resolution to make susceptible to investigation all contributions from individuals, partnerships, corporations, commit- tees or lahor unions, WASHINGTON, June 22. — The | War Department announces the ing of the Foreign Press Association | “With freedom of information| delete funds for the United States, |financed Canol Oil development. | The measure now goes to the! House for action on minor amend- ments, Ferguson, although tional 2275 is crowding Betty Mill that more than 7,800,000 Germans for number two position. have been killed or captured in three eyt e | years of fighting. During the same ENROUTE TO ANCHORAGE period Russian losses totalled 5,300,- since yesterday, and today's third anniversary of the| fsunk. One Hayataka class carried was severely damaged and left burning furiously. One light carrier, probhably around 10,000 tons, of the Zuiho Tatho class, received at least one bomb hit. One Kongo class battleship, 29,- 000 tons, was damaged. One other cruiser was damaged, and three destroyers were damag- led, one of which s believed to have sunk. Three tankers were sunk and :two tankers were severely damaged jand left burning. ; Fifteen or 20 defending aircraft | were shot down. Summary of Actions Leaving today for Anchorage on | an-|an Alaska Airliner are A. DeParvien | lost 70,000 tanks, 60,000 airplanes, | 000 killed, missing, or captured. The bureau said that the Germans, The battle summary of Sunday’s land Monday’s action shows why award of a silver star to Maj. Clar- | there is a possibility of understand- | ence C. Reid, Quartermaster Corps, | resident of Anchorage, Alaska, for | gallantry at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, April 22 to April 24, : ing between peoples. Without it the | way is always open to build up mis- understanding, suspicion, fear, and finally hatred,” said Berle, nouncing he had given up the | and wife, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woods, | and more than 90,000 pieces of ar- tight, termed the oil project as|F.Holt, V. G. Rowe, A. C. Schienker, tillery, compared with Russian loss- “utterly fantastic and ridiculous on' Mabel Willis, James Dowling, and es of 49,000 tanks, 30,000 planes, and its face,” S. Faulkner 48,000 guns, Admiral Nimitz, at Monday's con- feernce with newsmen, stated he (Continued on Page Two)