The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9690. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — i ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WED{{ESDAY, JUNE 28, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS Tank Battles Raging on Norm Henriot Is ' Victim of Assassins BREACH IS MADE, ODON RIVER LINE DEWEY NOMINATED 15T BALLOT BY andy Fields MINSK NEXT OBJECT OF RUSS DRIVE FINLAND N NAZIHANDS COMPLETELY {Four Armies Converging [ French Colmralionist Is‘Governmerfi Hands Litfle LOIS ALLEN IS SECOND ~ INCONTEST Miss Liberty Coronation | By DON WHITEHEAD | Associated Press War Correspondent Elaborate German Fort, Stocked with Supplies, In Hands of Americans ber were intricate an damazing in- stallations. MontgomeryT Forces Cut Road Near Caen fo Cut Off Nazi Troops SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, June 28—British tank| columns burst two miles through | the Germans' Odon River line and engaged the enemy in the greatest armored battle in the liberation campaign, four miles southwest of Caen. The clash, blazing now in the open country, may decide the fate of a large part of the German 15th and 17th armies. The enemy has group- ed four armored divisions around Caen, his eastern Normandy strong- hold, 120 miles from Paris. Curving down southwest of Caeni (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion} Merry - Go- Round\ By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active _service with the Army.) WASHINGTON: -~ The @W over the quick-release parachute| harness was revived by Life M’nga-;’ zine, which contended that the U. S. Army preferred the slower triple- | release harness which has to be! unfastened over the shoulder and| at each thigh. This argument, however, was settled once and for all by Major| Gen. O. P. Echols of the Army Air| Forces when he appeared before the House Appropriations Committee. He was asked by Representative| Case, South Dakota Republican, “What is the current policy with| regard to the procurement of para-| chute equipment? Gen. Echols replied: “The cur- rent policy is to procure the single- point quick release.” Rep. Case: “Is the quick-release| parachute regarded as having spec- ial value for flying over water?”| Gen. Echols: “Yes." { Rep. Case: “In other respécts, ls; the other type of parachute regard-: ed as useful?” Gen. Echols: “The quick-release single point, as I am now inform- ed, has some advantages for para- troopers. They can release it with one hand and carry equipment with the other hand. It took them quite some time to arrive at the con- clusion.” Most significant part of Gen.| Echols’ testimony, however, was re- | garding the Navy. | “The Navy still has the policy of continuing procurement of the! present conventional parachute,” Echols explained. “They do not| like the quick-release 'chute.” “It would be assumed that more; of the Navy flying is done over water than the Army,” Rep. Case’ remarked. | “Yes, sir,” replied Echols, and; then explained that the Army had | to break away from the Navy's policy of buying the old-fashioned three-point-release ’'chutes. = “The Navy did not agree,” he said. “That had something to do with the slowness with which we arrived at a decision.” Questioned by Rep. Case regard- ing comparative costs, Gen. Echols replied: “The single-release parg- chute is more costly. But I am quite sure that the cost of the item itself, as compared with the im- portance of it, is very little and should not be given consideration.” MIX-UP IN SENATORS Popular Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois received a phone call the other day from the secretary of Senator Kenneth Wherry of . Ne- braska, informing him that Wherry had a $1,000 contribution for Lucas’{ campaign. Senator Lucas is up for re-elec- on Gateway City- Air Offensive MOSCOW, June 28.—Supported by one of the greatest air attacks ever hurled against the Germans on the Russian front, the Red Army closed in from three direc- tions on Minsk, capital of White Russia. Dispatches from the front said that probably never before have the Stormiviks been thrown with such strength against the Nazi armored forces, as hour after hour they reported searching out Ger- man tanks and plastering them. ing the way, four armies are con- verging in a great semicircle on the city which is the gateway to Warsaw. The northernmost of the three spearheads aimed at Minsk is composed of Gen. Bagramian’s First Baltic Army, and 36-year-old Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's Third White Russian Army. In the van of this group are Stormoviks, fast Yak fighter planes, and medium bombers. Field dispatches said that Cher- Iniakhovsky’s advance units are less han 50 miles¥drom Minsk, and about 26 mile§ east of Borisov. reported moving rapidly through the sparsely settled lake country and the forest area fafther north, where they are threatening to out- flank Borisov from the northwest in conjunction with Bagramian’s troops. - e — NEW SECY. OF ALASKA HERE; T0 TAKE OATH Llewellyn (Lew) M. Williams, who was nominated by President Roosevelt on June 23 to be Sec- retary of Alaska, and was then confirmed by the Senate several hours later, arrived in Juneau to- day and will take his oath of office probably tomorrow. Williams has resigned as Post- master at Wrangell, ‘but will not assume his new duties as Secre- tary of Alaska until his successor has been appointed and installed, which. will probably be about the middle of July. Williams was today meeting his old friends in Juneau, made dur- ing the several years he was editor- ial writer on The Empire, and previous to going to Wrangell, where he purchased and became Editor and Publisher of the Wran- gell Sentinel. Tomorrow, at the Chamber of Commerce méeting and luncheon, Williams will be the principal speaker. - — — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 28.—Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 6%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 27, Beech Aircraft 8', Bethlehem Steel 62'%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 78, Kennecott 32%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 57%. Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows:, industrials 147.93, rails 41.56, utilities 23.87. - eee STITCH AND CHATTER CLUB MEETS THURSDAY A meeting of the Stitch and Chatter Club, a branch of 4-H Club activities, will be held at the home tion this year, naturally is recept- (Continued on Page Four) of Audrey Hill on Thursday eve- ning at 7 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. ’ With their flying artillery blast-| Other units under his command are | | Killed by Group of Patriofs | LONDON, June 28.—Philippe |Henriot, Vichy Minister of Infor- imation and Propaganda, was as- sassinated last night in Paris by 15 or 20 uniformed men who forced their way into his bedroom. The Axis radios said that he a8 |apparently the victim of French | patriots. | Henriot is the most important collaborationist yet to fall. The |Berlin agencies first broadcast re- |ports of the assassination, and a short time later Pierre Laval, Vichy Chief of State, took the air and Will Be July 3 - Bond Sales $251,240.25 With the Miss Liberty contest| |scheduled to close Friday night, {June 30, competition is close these ary approval, and is swarming With jast few days with Miss Lois Allen| German troops. taking today's honors, jumping All pretentions of that countryifrom sixth place to second. Miss| fighting a separate war with Rus=|Betty Nordling is still in the lead sia ended as the capital resounded‘by 7,951 votes. with songs of German regulars and, [y the sale of bonds, another S.S. guards. Some Germans have good increase is noted in official] reported already at the front 10 tabulations, with the all series total bolster Finnish defenses which are now at $251,24 Series E sales| crumbling before the Russian on=|stand at $91,571 | i Nation Over to Germans After Pressure STOCKHOLM, June 28-—Finland| has been handed over to Germany by its leaders wtihout parliament- |of stores worth millions of dollars. | CHERBOURG, Jun 28.—Inspec-| The main tunnel is 200 yards deep tion of Fort Duroule, now in Am-|and 30 feet high, and off this main erican hands, disclosed stocks of | tunnel are other rooms of the same | ammunition and a huge inventory i height and depth. All of the mysteries of this fort.!powered. for moving heavy’ weapons the Germans' strongest bastion | and ammunition. guarding the southern approaches of An electic light system was found Cherbourg, are not yet disclosed. along with telephones, ventilators American forces are now swarm- ‘ and water mains. ing through the underground cham-| The tunnels entered so far are bers, driven into the cliffside, re- | littered with clothing and equipment inforced with steel and concrete. | for the fortress defenders. The tunnels hold enough food and | Doubledecked bunks are along the ammunition, guns and supplies that | sides of most of the tunnels. would have kept a large force in| Personal belongings of the men | supplies for months. | are strewn in disarray. Some of There have been found thousands | the belongings were wrapped and |of cases of cognac, fine French |addressed to friends in Germany slaught | At a meeting this noon'of the Eyewitnesses who left Helsinkil war Finance Committee, plans were | wines, champagnes and liquers. but the men were caught before the There are 'vast stores of every- | packages could be sent. |declared that Henriot was ‘ani- yesterday, said that President Ryt discussed for the Miss Liberty cor-| v P a3 i stikng . 2 |mated only by patriotism. He fell Premier Linkomies, and Financeionation ceremony which has buen\"hg::\_“"m shaving cream to tor- | ':‘ill:r :?in(k:;,oau c.ont;:m{(;lm sial:;l Shsy ety & bEtox Minister Tanner submitted to Naziiset for the evening of July 3 ""‘w’rh:omcen have not yet located | ::;nk:".s R | The German agency Transocean pressure after a series of meetings g o'clock. The place will be an-j,; pnssages‘lendlng to. all levnls‘ The n"m“ cortidon Walls ave siseks {declared it is not possible to as- with von Ribbentrop, Field Mar-|nounced within the next few days.|and there is a possibility German are | ed high with boxes containing radios, certain whether the killers were shal Keitel, and Gen. Alfred Jodl| Members of the coronation com- /gl inside this [ortre.sé but they did | lotions, soaps, matches, cigarettes, |“dressed in the uniform of the| Finland’s government announced jitee in charge of arrangements not move to destroy it before our|chewing gum, playing cards, tooth jmilitia_or of the police,” DNB officially last night that von Rib#ijcr the ceremony include E. L.|troops broke in. 3 paste, shaving creams, and razor ldeclared flatly that the assassins bentrop had answered an appeal|Keithahn, Lt. Warren Caro, Lt.| Corporal James Bresnhan, of Wat- | blades. |were masquerading as members of |the Vichy militia. Berlin failed to mention whether any of the as ins were ecaptured, but there i ‘s'ruug indication that they away. a 8ot B YAP ISLAND HAMMERED BY BOMBERS ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- | QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,;| June 28. — Heavy bombers fram{ Yap Island in the northern Caro- lines with 35 tons of bombs. | This bombing is the newest sweep | in support of the Marianas cam- paign and the third raid on Yap| within a week. Thirty enemy planes rose to the| island’s defense, the strongest in-| terception encountered, and a 30-‘ minute furious air battle took place. | Eight enemy craft were shot down and three probably destroyed. One Liberator was lost. ‘The bombs dropped damaged run- wyas, Tevetments and installations. | Liberators on a night patrol also bombed Palau and Woleai, both in| the Carolines. One Liberator destroyed a 3,500~ ton Jap freighter off Boerce Island, west of New Guinea, and three other | merchantmen were damaged. Japanese planes dropped ten tons | of bombs on Mokmer airdrome on| Biak Island but caused only minor | damage and no casualties. | 'U. 5. AMBASSADOR ARMOUR RECALLED FROM ARGENTINA WASHINGTON, June 28. — The State Department announces Am-| erican Ambassador Norman Armour has been recalled from Buenos Aires “for consultation,” this move hit- ting sharply at the militarist gov- ernment in Argentina. The United States and all but three American republics have re-| fused to recognize the regime of| Gen. Edelmrio Farrell since he es- tablished a revolution four months ago. Ambassador Armour remained in Buenos Aires presumably in hopes Farrell might take moves of bring-| ing his country in line with the (general policy of hemispheric de- fense. —— e HERE FROM INLET Robert Kuhn has arrived here from Excursjon Inlet and is staying at the Juneau Hotel, to help with troops, and proclaims|jg, Lance Hendrickson, C. H.| ed a “perfect understanding” had!Rector, Wellman Holbrook, Mrs. C.| Much of these stores will be a blessing to the Amerigan troops, now short of items available inside erbury, Connecticut, led us through | one of the great chambers, 300 feet | below the cliff. Thick doors were been reached between. the Lwolp_ Jenne, Mrs. Scott Murphy and countries, dispatches said. The Mrs, Walter Hellan. aligoment 15, 50 ,comvlew.&stafi..'m‘e comtesb. Wil gMug.. Al mid- henceforth” the Finnish communi dght on Friday, June 30, and for ! i 4 { | que is to be part of the German|the convenience of those who wish |to make last minute purchases of| ’u)mmuniqup. B s - i RNREERd {bonds to be counted towards the| | | Miss Liberty contest, the First Na-| | | !tional Bank bond booth will be open Friday afternoon and night. | HENGYANG IS SURROUNDED blasted open and inside of the cham- FIGHTNOW Overhead is a crane, electrically | PLATFORM 0FGOP IS GIVEN OKEH CHICAGO, June 28. — Gov. Wendell Willkie and others will go along on the Republican platform of cooperation to prevent future wars by use of “peace forces,” in ruling out the entry for a “world state.” The presi- party’s prospective dential nominee is expected to amp- | Betty Nordling ha, lify in his acceptance speech the her ‘xrip on top postwar and foreign planks, which Allen made the largest gain, | | southwest bases, ranging almost 1,- Thomas E. Dewey, apparently holds, 000 miles over the water, hammered |the key to the question of whether| l | I Credit will be given contestants iwhose names appear on. bond ap-j | plications that night, even though' |the bond has not been made out, if the money accompanies the pur- chaser’s application. Miss Liberty Contest The following is the contest ' o standings today: Betty Nordling 29,582 Lois Allen ... 21,631 Betty Mill ... 21,275 Ruth Kunnas 20,487 Betty Bonnett 19,916 Kathleen McAlister ....18,077 Mary McCormack .....17,734 Joyce Smith 11,648 Lila Sinclair 10,041 With an increase of 6,100 votes, s strengthened position. - Lois add- ON SAIPAN PEARL HARBOR, June 28.—A bitter struggle rages on Saipan, key [ the Marianas Islands, at its |capital city of Garapan, heightened {by Japanese resistance, and indi- lcnnng an all-out infantry battle imay be at hand. Front line dispatches picture des- ipernte street fighting at Garapan, | where Marines and infantry bold the southern outskirts of the town. Patrols, cautiously probing the city, met fire from Japanese snipers and machine gunners from every house, cellar and hideout. Every street and alley is littered with dead and the town is piled were shoutingly approved by the'ing 6325 votes, which advanced high with wreckage, delegates last night, but sharply her from sixth to second place. criticized by Willkie and a group Betty Mill |Kunnas dropped from number three , ... ... press, said ii appears the | of 15 Republican Governors. On domestic issues, the platform|to fourth. is third, and Ruth Betty Bonnett went A dispatch from Howard Handle- man, representing the combined American invaders have reached promised the party would devote from fourth to fifth, and Kathleen y itst “ " 4 5 the sector where the enemy select- itself to “reestablishing of liberty McAlister is now sixth. Mary Mc- . o0 100t ditch of defense. at home,” providing stable emp]oy-erormack picked up 2,900 votes since | ment by encouraging private en- yesterday, terprise freed of government com-“puwe' petition and “detailed regulations.”|in votes or position, and Lila Sin-| “FOUr (clajr is number nine. The platform continued, more years of the New Deal policy would centralize all power in the President, and would daily S“blemyprevlm list of contributors W"“deeputy Marshal John Cashen, an di but remains in sixth Joyce Smith is unchanged Contributions Following is an addition to the B g FISHERMAN ARRESTED BY DEPUTY MARSHAL Horace Ibach, fisherman, was ar- Irested at Pelican City by U. 8. every act of every citizen to reg-|the outfitting of Miss Liberty and was brought to Juneau today. ulation by his henchmen. “No problems exist which cannot be solved by American methods, and we do not need either a Commun- istic or Fascist technique.” STATEHOOD PLANKS, == ALASKA, HAWAII, IN PLATFORM OF G.0. CHICAGO, June 28.—The plat- form of the Republican Party con- |tains the following plank on Alaska “Alaska is entitled to the fullest measure of home rule looking to- ward statehood.” The Hawaiian plank reads follows: “Hawaii shares National obligations equally with several states and is entitled to the full- est measure of home rule looking toward statehood, and the rights of citizens to application of all of our National law: —— ., Kenneth Jordan, of the CAA, is in town from Yakutat, and has reg- istered at the Juneau Hotel, as| | |Snow. White Laundry $2, Parson’s| * | Electric $3, Columbia Lumber $5, the four freedooms: | B. M. Behrends Bank $10, Cali- fornia Grocery $5, George Brothers $5, Piggly Wiggly $3, Hutchings Market $3, 20th Century Market $3, nitary - Meat $3, Case Lot Grocery $2, Triangle Bar $2, Bailey's Commercial Liquor Store $5, H. 8. Graves $5. Henning’s $5, Sabin’s Clothing Store $3, Duncan's Cleaners $3, Peerless Bakery $5, Juneau Young $5, Alaska Federal $5. First National Bank $5, Juneau Dairies, Inc. %5, Guy Smith Drug Store $3, Ludwig Nelson $3, Nance's 1$3, Sugar Bowl Lunch $3, Ideal |Gitt shop $3. —————— 11 OUT TODAY VI SOUTHBOUND VESSEL ‘The following persons left Juneau Brandt, Glenn Webb, Viola M. Webb, Mrs. S. Kibbe, Jerry Hill, Grace Dooley, Alice Dalton; Mary Hoffman, Harry Speriing, F. B. Anderson, and Frank G, Homan, today, via a southbound ship: Frank | Ibach is charged with destroying |a trolling boat June 22, the prop- jerty of Cecil W. Hubbard, at Dun- das Bay. FISH, WILDLIFE HEADS RETURN FROM SEATTLE | Frank Hynes, Regional Director of |the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska and M. J. Furness, Admin- istration Officer, have returged to their headquarters in Juneau aboard the Fisheries vessel Brant. The two men have spent the past !three weeks in Seattle conferring ! on administrative matters with Roy “Dlllon. Chief of the Division of Ad- ministration for the service out of the Chicago office. S FOSTER MAKES TRIP | Don Foster, General Superintend- lent of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, has returned from Excursion |Inlet, .where he conferred with Col. George B. Norris in regard |Indians at Hoonah who were burn- )ed out in the recent fire at the gon, is in town and registered at village. to obtaining material to assist the ' BY JAP ARMY } CHUNGKING, June 28, — The High Command indicated tonight that Jap forces have surrounded Hengyang, the vital railway junc- @lon of the Hunan Province. The loss of the city will be the | greatest blow to China since the fal) of Canton and Hankow in October, 1938. s | “Severe fighting for the posses- sion of Hengyang is now in progress on all sides of the city,” said the communique. With the fall of Hengyang the way will be open for a Jap advance on Kuwong, provisional capital of Kwangtun, or on Kewi, the pro- visional capital of Kwangse, from ! which most foreign agencies have left for Weilyang or Kunmiang. | e e i OLD GLORY TO BE RAISED IN REICH AGAIN } LONDON, June 28. — Maj. Gen. | Raymond I. Barton, Commander of | the Fourth Infantry Division, which | helped to take Cherbourg, is going | back to Germany in this war to re- | hoist the Stars and Stripes he haul- ted down as Commander of the last :Unlwd States troops to leave the Reich in World War I. The Colorado botn professional | soldier grew up in Indian Territory, !and had under his command the | same two infantry companies which he led out of Germany January 23, 1 1923. Barton, a major back In 1923, re- called the flag lowering ceremony as he prepared to jump the channel {on the eve of D-Day. | “I hope to parade the same two | companies and plant the same flag over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, across the Moselle from Coblenz,” Barton said, “that flag has rested in the Secretary of War's office since the last war and I hope I can | borrow it for the occasion.” ———— OREGONIAN HERE | 'W. Dement, of Myrtle Point, Ore- the Gastineau Hotel. GOP 42-YEAR-OLD N.Y.GOV. IS NOMINATED Former Gang Buster Swamps Opposition- Bricker for V. P. BULLETIN — CHICAGO, June 28.—~Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio has been nominated for Vice-President by the Repub- lican National Convention. 4 CHICAGO, June 28.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York was nom- inated for President on the first ballot today by the wartime Re- publican National Convention. The nomination was his from the start. The 42-year-old mustached gang- | buster swamped all opposition as State after State roared out votes amid the traditional accompani- ments of bands, Klieg lights and bake-oven heat. - Another Governor, tall handsome Gov. John W, Bricker of Ohio, 15 slated for the Vice-Presidential nomination after forsaking his own drive for the Number One spot. It was Dewey all the way and the rell call was just a formality. The nomination speech was made by Gov. Dwight Griswold of Ne- braska and then led by a band, the delegates formed a riotous snake dance {loor. “Dewey 1s the People’s Choice,” read a large banner carried by the New York Governor’s supporters and shouting “What'll We Do, What'll We Do on a Dew Dew Dewey Day.” This theme was taken up by the delegates. One Dissenting Vote Dewey was nominated by a vote of 1,006 to 1. A lone delegate from Wisconsin, Grant Ritter, 55, a Be- loit farmer, put in a vote for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, explaining: “He's still my candidate, although we didn't get an opportunity to present him.” A committee hurried to telephone Gov. Dewey at Albany where he awaited formal notification before going ahead with plans to rush here for his speech of acceptance tonight, if the weather does not interfere with the trip by plane, Representative -Martin, Conven- tion Chairman, sent the following telegram to Dewey: v Dewey Notified “May I, on behalf of this greaf Republican convention, advise you of your nomination as President. Heartlest congratulations. We know you will make a winning President.” Gov. John W. Bricker announced his own withdrawal as soon as Dewey's name was placed in nom- ination in a dramatic convention appearance at the termination of the rousing demonstration which greeted the nomination speech for Dewey. The tall Ohiocan strode to the speakers’ stand looking steadily over the vast reaches of the teeming convention hall, and said: Bricker Withdraws “I am deeply grateful to the many friends which have expressed their loyalty to me, and this comes from the depths of my heart. Personally 1 am more interested in defeating the New Deal philosophy of absolutism which is threatening Americans to- day. I am more interested in de- feating that than I am of ever being President of the United States. “I understood as you do that the overwhelming desire of this conven- tion was to nominate a great vigor- ous fighting young American, the noble, dramatic, appealing Governor of the great State of New York, Thomas E. Dewey.” Gallant Leader ; Cries of “No" from some of the Bricker boosters came as the Gov+ ernor continued, “Tom Dewey has become the gallant leader of the Republican hosts which will free Americans and return America to Republican democracy next Janu- ary.” Then Martin introduced Senator Ball of Minnesota who led the cam- paign on behalf of Lieut. Comdr, Harold E. Stassen. He said: “As long as there was the slight- est chance for a Stassen nomina- tion we were determined to present (Continued on Page 8ix) i