The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1944, Page 1

> * IS - - » e ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, |944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9686. —_— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS ROCK CHERBOURG DEFENSES Nazis Say Red D CALAIS IS German Pnsoners (aplured on French Beach OFFENSIVE STARTS ON EAST FRONT Anniversar;o_iNazi Invas-| ion Chosen for Launch- ing of Red Thrust BULLETIN — LONDON, June 23.—German radio commentator Ernest von Hammer said tonight | the Rusianas are attacking all | along the front of more than 100 miles in White Russia and have | made breach in the German | lines south of Vitebsk. The Rus- | sians are driving to break | through along the Divina River | into the Baltic States, he de- clared. LONDON, June 23.—The Germans | announced that the Red Army,| striking on the third anniversary of | Hitler’s surprise invasion of Russia, launched a long awaited summer | offensive on the eastern front. | While Moscow has not as vet con- i firmed the opening of the drive, the German Command and official Ber- lin broadcasts declared the Soviets moved forward yesterday on a broad | front north of the Pripet Marshes‘ on the most direct road from Mos- | cow to Berlin and Warsaw in an| (Continued on Page Five) 1 - The Washington' o —— WHAT WAR BONDS MEAN BLITZED BY BONDS—Enough equipment, in time, was one reason - Weapons Make Nazis Run these Nazis were beaten in Africa. BOND SALES MAKE SMALL GAIN HERE Total Now af $112,241.50 -Report Made on Miss Liberty Contest According to reports today, $112,- 24150 in war bonds have now been M Go_Round‘purchased by Juneauites. Of this errY' |total, $68,591.50 are in series B bonds. By DREW PEARSON i Bond booths will be taken over By WES GALLAGHER (This the the last of six stor- ies by Associated Press corres- first hand and tell the vital part the equipment bought by war bonds has played in Allied vic- tories and defeats. Gallagher was in Copenhagen when Denmark was overrun by the Nazis, and followed the war through 16 countries. He flashed the first news of the fall of Athens, and dispatched the first story from North Africa as Chief of the As- sociated Press Staff landing there.) LONDON = For lack of guns, planes and tanks Norway, Yugo- slavia, Greece and Crete fell. I watched them all crumble like pins in a bowling alley, not because | lof any lack of courage by their defenders, but because they did not pondents who have seen war at | POUNDED IN HEAVY RAID i ! i A 'Round - the - Clock Attacks | Carried Out Against | Rocket Bomb Coast SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF |THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, June 23.—A force of up |to 250 American Liberators and | Fortresses stabbed through clouds | for the eighth. straight day in the |round - the - clock attacks on the | rocket bomb coast in the Pas de | Calais area, giving it the fourth heavy pouriding in 24 hours. Occasional rocket bombs cbn- tinued to zoom over England, but | British Home Secretary Morricon asaured Parliament they have done ttle damage of national im- | portance.” Today’s attack came after a night in which Royal Air Force heavies struck at the Nazi reinforcement {crammed rail yards at Reims and Laon, bringing to a climax one of !he greatest day's aerial operations | since the launching of the Nor- | mandy invasion. Seven bombers are | missing from the assaults on these key rail points, both about 80 miles northeast of Paris. British light bombers hit rail tar- gets at Lisieux, Dreux and Evreux {last pight,” while fighters and In- truders destroyed seven German planes over northern France. The night blows came after at least 6,000 Allied planes dumped prob- on targets from Cherbourg to Paris from dawn to dusk yesterday. Brit- | @t. col. mbm 8. Allen now on active tonight by the Territorial Guard have the materials with which to|ish Mosquitoes also attacked Ham- service with the Army.) |made by the Rotary Club and the WASHINGTON—Few business leaders know it, but many inside the War Production Board were| flabbergasted at the rulings that | no company getting less than a and the CIO. Sales last night were fight. Men and women who had sweat- Business and Professional Women’'s ed and slaved for years to accum- |Club, assisted by the A.W.V.S. | ulate savings for old age would ! { burg last night. \ In yesterday’s daylight operations 23 Allied planes, including 11 heavy bombers and two mediums were lost, The result of the Miss Liberty have given it all for a gun or even ! and six German planes were downed. contest follows: . a rifle—but it was too late. | When you try to shrink your way | through the bottom of a shell hole as high explosives rain around until | your flesh feels like it is crawling laway from your bones you get a !first hand picture of what the “ma- | |terials of war” mean. | The difference between a victor- ————— YANKS SINK JAPBARGES ably mbre than 8,000 tons of bombs | i 2 % e i B A AN official plww. FIFTH ARMY NEAR PORT - OFANCONA Strong Resnstance Encount-| ered by Eighth Army | North of Perugia ROME, June 23.—Allied forces in Italy made progress along both |coastal sectors, but the Germans ‘ are apparently planning a determ- Mned stand along positions between |Lake Trasimeno and Lake Chiusi |and north of Perugia in the cen- 1ml sector. Allied headquarters indicated the| |Eighth Army is encounLer:ng‘ strong resistance” north of Perugia | und southwest of Lake Trasimeno, and equipment after their capture. German scidiers from beach fortifications taken by Canadian mlult troupl march through Allied troops Note stilled en emy blockhouse in background, one of large numbers knocked out by invading Allies along a 100-mile front on the French Normandy coast. This is a Canadian (AP W|rephol.o from s:znul (‘orps Radlophnun Williams Nominated Sec. Alaska Well Known Newspaper- man, Now Wrangell Postmaster,Named President Roosevelt has sent to the Senate the nomination of Llew- ellyn (Lew) M. Williams, of Wran- gell, to be Secretary of Alaska suc- ceeding E. L. Bartlett, who resigned to seek the nomination of Delegate | to Congress on the Democratic tick- et, according to an Associated Press dispatch received by The Empire today. Williams is one of the best known newspapermen in Alaska and at one $12,000000 cutback should receive gfitg ;’d‘i’l‘l"“"% fggig Government aid or consideration.| 2 9 v Ruth Kunnas 17,151 This was the 'recent decision .or; Kathleen McAlister ...16,852 S;m::y po‘:t“if;s c::x::;oncomm"'i Betty Bonnett 15,425 What 1t means iz that the big| JM;)‘;’CZE ’g;ci:’;m“k :;gg‘; companies which got most of the| Tols Afiss 9'056 war orders will now get Govern-| T 5% o le com- A a Sinclair - 7,816 ment Rlp, bl A8 S Betty Nordling is still in the panies won’t. For instance, if a plant is notified by the Army or| Navy to cutback a war order of! $11,000,000 worth of jeeps, it gets| no consideration from the Govern-| |driver’s seat, but Betty Mill with {a gain of 2,025, has improved her | position considerably. Ruth Kun- nas, with 4,838 more votes, record- |ed the largest increase of any of :)nog'::ko :a‘;tc;{lgti::t‘sitfi:)!ie’: ::fp {the contestants, and went up from A 1ot of “small col}lpmfles doing alflf!h to third. Kathleen McAlister 0% .8 lis now in fourth place. Betty Bon- million dollars worth of busmesslne" 100 ImAPAnS . Avoss: Dongien, f,;,f:; e i B B M i meiadded 2825, but is still number It still remains & fadt that seven |Li¥e: Mary: McCormack picked: up ‘ /12,675 more, but remains sixth. 5. Bodppangs ,;_‘t’“ 4 perg:::e;i;.]oyce Smith, Lois Allen and Lila :;lot:’:; g:e;int Bi{hl‘e;eem sm1|’sinclnir are seventh, eighth and Newport News Ship, New York ninth respectively. Ship, Curtiss-Wright and Standard Y i b Clam Season Closes JESSE JONES SEES HIS BOSS ! When Jesse Jones went in to see AI( d -p kp ' his boss in the White House last or 0'a’ a( “ week, ostensibly it was not over| the Texas political revolt. Instead Up Is “,m (ase FDR wanted to see him about the subsidy for stripper oil wells, whnch1 CORDOVA, Alaska, June 23—The the rest of the Administration| amy geason closed here yesterday ?Sresdwun l::: fflgj‘éh‘::e c-’k“ssfle:; with a pack of 46,000 cases and all use write a X smilingly reversed himself on the oil subsidy following the White House talk. But his position regarding the Texas anti-Roosevelt revolt re-| mains the same: “I never knew, anything about it until I read it| in the papers” This, in effect,| was what he took occasion to tell| the President during their oil con-| ference. Friends gathered after- wards that FDR didn’t exactly be-| lieve him. I “Dear Alben” Barkley would give his eye-teeth to know whether or not the President has completely | forgiven him for his sudden revol on the tax veto message last win. ter. ‘The answer, according to White House insiders, President has almost forgiven him,| but not quite. If and when there| is a fourth term, Jesse Jones, they (Continued on Page Four) but 1,500 cases were packed by the C. P. Halferty Company. 'FUNDS ALLOWED FOR ALASKA OIL SEARCH ARE CUT WASHINGTON, June 23. — The House accepted the conference re- port on the $103,000,000 Interior | Department appropriation bill, in- cluding the cuts in the amounts allowed by the Senate for the de- velopment of secondary oil supplies and steel investigations. The Sen- is that the:“e must now approve. Delegate Anthony Dimond pro- tested the reduction from $1,252,000 investigation of mineral re- that of having an abundance of war materials. The army that can fire two shells where one might do wins the battles. And victdrious, armies have the lowest casualties.| I have seen scores of lives wast-| ed because there were not enough shells or planes available to knock out enemy defense positions. ious army and a defeated one is NEAR BIAK | | in the plains and mountains of Af- rica and Italy because the Allies could afford to send out two planes to the enemy’s one and fire five shells to the enemy’s two. | Money as expressed in guns, jtanks and planes can mean the difference between victory and de- feat. It can mean the difference between losing a son or loved one in battle ‘and getting him back again. To the men at the fighting front money spent in war bonds means a flow of guns and munitions to where they are most needed. Am- erica’s. fighting men need only the tools with which to fight and the only tangible way they know that the “folks batk home” ‘are behind And | 1 have seen hundreds of lives saved | [Nearby Bases Bombed- | Lone Liberators Sinks Nip Merchantman ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- /QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, |June 23. — Intensified bombing of |sition flanking the American |vasion scene on Biak off the Dutch New Guinea coast, and a one-plane assault on a 15-ship convoy near Palau were announced today by headquarters. .- Liberators pounded Noemfoor, |approximately 30 west of Biak on |Wednesday and stepped up the as- {sault against stores and personnel areas near Kamiri and Kornasoren airfields, bases for possible counter- blows on Biak, where the Ameri- cans hold three airdromes. Six hundred miles to the north- Noemfoor Island, the Japanese po-| in- | | time was chief editorial writer on where a number of German coun- ‘The Enipire, :Afid resigning to §0 terattacks were repulsed. | An Algiers radio news mundup‘wckly newspaper at Wrangell, ‘be- |said Allied forces on the Adnanc‘wmmg Editor and Publisher, Sev- |are 25 -miles from the important|ara) months ago he became Post seaport of Ancona. On the west{yagter at Wrangell and Mrs. Win |coast, the Fifth Army, despile pnifred Williams, his wife, also a lxlrong resistance, pressed (orward‘cluver writer, became Editor of the |astride highway 1, leading through'sSentinel, chief of the reportorial |Livorno to Pisa, and is approach-|staff as well as boss of the mechan- ling Folonica, some 55 miles below ical department. Pisa, Believed to be the afichor of | line. | | newspapers in Tacoma, Wash., and |is well known in the Pacific North- | west. CHINA WANTS T0 | B Ao s JAPS AIMTO. No Territorial Ambmons} Spl" (HINA Says Chiang Kai-Shek F IN 2 pAR-'-S “on his own"” purchased the Sentinel, | Williams is a former newspaper- the next major German resistance man of Oregon and previous to join- | ing The Empire staff held a re- | ,pon.«:xble position on Sam Perkins’ | at Wallace Banquet them is by the steady uninterrupt-|ward a lone Liberator sank one of ed stream of munitions which give!fifteen merchantmen in the Palau them a fighting chance to live. |group. The direction of the econ- Twice I have been overrun by’voy and its components were un- the German Army. Once in Den-|determined. Palau is at the south- mark and once in Greece. -I have ern end of the great naval battle- seen dispirited Allied prisoners ground surrounding the Marianas trudging back to prison camps in Islands. Germany because they did not| On Biak the American forces have the essentials of war, while mopped up against stubborn Jap- cocky Nazi youths sneeringlylanese resistance. P-T boats in the watched. |waters off the bloody island halted Twice T have seen Allied nrmles!an evident Nipponese infiltration overrun the Germans, once in Af- awzmpt sinking three ‘barges heav- rica and once in Italy. And me’uy laden with personnel and sup- same cocky youths who two years!plies. before overran Europe started treks toward prison camps, their arro- gance beaten from them by the overwhelming Allied fire power. Mrs. Robert Henning and two In all four causes the differ-|children, Eric and Rondi, has re- peche oL R MRS. HENNING BACK 1to $170,000 the amount allowed for ence between victory and defeat|turned from a trip to the south, the sources in Alaska. was furnished by the home front'where Mrs. Henning visited her —in savings and in work. mother. * CHUNGKING, June 23.—A gen- ‘ CHUNGKING, June 23. — Jap eral system of collective security |forces, only 25 miles north and| backed, if necessary, by an adequate |northeast of the rail junction or international force, was urged by Hengyang in south central Hunan Chiang Kai-Shek at a state banquet | Provinee, are closing in on the town given in honor of Henry A. Wallace, |of Hengshan in their swift drive Vice-President of the United States, down the Siang River from captured now in China as personal represen- Changsha, a Chinese army spokes- tative of President Roosevelt. |man said tonight. Assuring the visiting American He said that six Jap divisions, to- that China wishes to live in good | taling from 100,000 to 120,000 !roupe neighborliness with all nations, the are engaged in an all-out drive mm' Chinese General said: “We respect | led at splitting China in two and | integrity and independence of every | wresting control of the entire Cnn- nation. We are dreaming no dreams | ton-Hankow railway route. of domination and we have no ter- | ritorial ambitions.” | emy is preparing to throw even more In reply, Wallace said he has good | troops into the battle, including two reasons to hope the eighth year of divisions transferred from southern China's resistance to the ananeu.‘l‘ltman Province, where a drive is which begins July 7, will be the also in progress to seal the Japs final year of Ju'panese aggression | from the Peiping-Hankow line re- | on China and Asia. jc.aptured by the Chinese. The Chinese added that the en-| rive on Berlin Has Begun Peaks Around French Porl “Are Stormed One Formldable Fortifica- fion Taken-Vicious Battle Raging BULLETIN — SUPHEME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, June 23.—The American forces have captured one of the three AIR FORCE BATTERING - CHERBOURG Region Is Reported Paral- Phase of War to Begin | By W. W. HERCHER | ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS! |OF THE AMERICAN NINTH AIR 'FORCE, SOMEWHERE IN| FRANCE, June 23.—Air supremacy | has been attained over Normandy,| the battleground is effectively iso- lated, and the Ninth Fighter Com- (mand is now ready to plunge into| the third phase of the invasion| plan—a direct assault on the enemy in support of ground troops. Maj. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada made the disclosure in a terse re-| view of the part the Ninth Air| Force has played in helping the Allies gain the first firm foothold n French soil. The General told the corespondents the Allied Air| Forces are making it difficult and at times impossible for the- Ger- mans to move troops and equipment “imo the battle area, and said Ninth | losses were mostly from flak, and were slightly less than anticipated. Greatest Attack Col. R. W. McClenehan of the Fighter Command, said the Cher- bourg region is paralyzed from what wns probably the greatest tactical air attack in the history of warfare. McClenehan said the enemy is| now forced to move his strength at nlght, which is a demoralizing fac- wr in a battle plan. Four major rail lines in this broad battle zone! were cut by bombing, the Colonel sald since the Allied Air Force| bégan softening the area behind the beaches four months ago. He said that 55,000 tons of bombs were droppéd in the campaign, and dl.s('](m-d that from D-Day to June ils the Ninth Air Force destroyed |thousand of locomotives and other irolling stock in the area. The Ninth flew about 22,000 sor- ties during this time, shooting down |80 enemy aircraft, with nine prob- (ables, and 16 were damaged on the ground. ,eo NAVAL, AR RAID - MADE, PORT BLAIR KANDY, Ceylon, June 23. — A naval and air raid on Port Blair, !Andaman Islands on Wednesday is announcéd today. Considerable damage was done to military in- yzed, Isolated - Third | defense peaks dominating Cher- bourg. The peak is four miles from the sea, southeast of Cher- bourg at Tourkavill. The Am- ericans are now storming the re- maining peaks: The official statement says: “Cherbourg’s defenses are fair- ly formidable but a prolonged siege is unlikely.” GERMAN DEFENDERS ROCKED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, June 23-—American in- fantrymen rocked the German de- fenders in Cherbourg today with continued powerful attacks. ‘There are “strong indications” the enemy has withdrawn from the eastern tip of the peninsula to the city for a house - to - house stand agalnst General Bradley’s all-out of- fensive now in the second day and | that has struck fierce German re- sistance at every point. - There is a particularly vicious battle raging for control of the big | airfield at Maupertus, five miles | east of Cherbourg. Inside the besieged port, the Ger- man garrison stood up stubbornly | under yesterday's 1,000-plane assault of the port'’s pillboxes comprising the city’s defenses. The American ground forces had to fight every inch of the advance. Small gains were registered around the port itself but progress has been made on both the eastern and west~ |ern sides of the peninsula. CIVIL ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, June 23.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt today told the news- men that military operations around Cherbourg are progressing according to schedule but suggested more of France should be liberated before efforts are made to set up a civil ! administration. The latter remark was made in reply to a question about the action of Gen. Charles DeGaulle in set- ting up Prefectures in some French areas, ‘The President said liberation has to come before he can take up dis- cussions of civil ninistration and added that milftary operations | should come first. RULING REVERSED BY HIGHER COURT IN ALASKA CASE SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.—The Circult Court of Appeals has re- iversed the Alaska District Court anmblinz case in which. Pete Jones on a charge gambling place in Anchorage. of maintaining a He (Jail under the Alaska law passed by the Territorial Legislature in" 1919. Jones was released on a writ of habeas corpus by the District Judge who upheld Jones' contention that, the 1919 law conflicted with the said the Legislature must “not at- tempt to limit the Act of Congress to prevent or punish gambling.” The decision reversed the District Judge, holding his ruling in error, and stating the 1919 law does not B HERE TO VISIT FATHER evening from Petersburg for a visit with his father, John Oberg, Ju- neau shoe repairman. Sl RABIN IN TOWN {stallations, says the official com- munique, A. H. Rabin, of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baganof Hotel. was convicted on October 19, 1943, ' was sentenced to six months in 1912 Organic Act of Alaska, which . {conflict with the 1912 Organic Act. - Ernest Oberg arrived here last