The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9691. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e — JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSIr)/\Y. JUNE 29, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — GERMANS FIGHTING BRITISH AT CAEN Thousands of Planes Smash N GOV. DEWEY (French Boy Patriot Finds Mother Slain After Aiding Invaders DAY, NIGHT ATTACKS ON REICHLAND Military, Industrial Sec- tions Are Bombed- Supply Lines Hit Hansa Bay Is Overrun By_Aussies‘ Japs Falling Back Steadily Toward Wewak-Much Booty Captured RAIL ROUTE IS WRESTED FROM NAZIS 1 | | | ly on Same Road Na- poleon Used | | | Germans Refreating Swi-/ MOSCOW, June 29.—Soviet ar-| ACCEPTS GOP NOMINATION i By DON WHITEHEAD Promises an End fo Ofle'}' WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES A 'HERBOURG, Juni Confident of Victory Louie, eight-year-old {French youngster as he walked fthe streets of Cherbourg while his sharp-eyed | as others cheer and wave flags. Louis is a patrfot and joined an American unit several days ago. He led them across fields and hedgerows where he knew no Ger-| mans lurked, and guided them across the country he knew. His) |doughboy friends were among the a BOND SALES ARENOW AT $263,134 ISitka Reported as First Al- aska Town fo Go Over Top Sales during the Fifth War Loan it made zi Targets NAZIS THROW NEW FORCES INTO BATTLE Monfgomery Keeps Wid- ening Breach, However -Mop U_p Cherbourg SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXP£DITIONARY LONDON, June 29.—Upwards of | 1,000 Fortresses and Liberators at-| tacked Germany, hitting four air- | craft producing centers, a synthetic | oil refinery and a number of other | military and industrial targets in the center of the Reich. An equal number of fighters and | heavies attacked the aircraft plants at Leipiz, Oscherlesben, Aschersle- ben and Fallersleben and the re- finery at Bohslen, capping a 12-hour Allied air offensive. More than 3,000 war planes scourged important Nazi installa- tions across the face of northwest- ern Europe. Leipiz, Oscherlesben and Aschers- leben are within 90 to 100 miles southwest of Berlin while Fallersle- ben is 40 miles east of Hannover. Bohslen, also Hannover areas are rail centers, feeding reinforcements to the Germans already taxed on all battle lines. An attack in the darkness, made by some 500 Royal Air Force Hali- faxes, carried the campaign against the Nazis' supply lines on the Ger- “rallroad yerds: in the region of Metz. Night raid- ing Mosquitoes also hit Saarbruck- en, railroad center. 'The British | heavy bomber attack on the Metz | area cost 20 planes. — AIRDROMES, RAIL YARDS | AREBLASTED Americans, RAF Bombers| Flattening Targets of Nazis in France |in 28 days to within 70 miles of s one cwiftly back over the INA[;‘;,?CSEH:{;ADJQUAR”T E_?hs mies converging on Minsk drove to it “‘“’d oo € within 37 miles of the White Rus- ! i B aiies Do €S | sian capital, and are pushing the| CHICAGO, June 29. — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accepted the publican Presidential nomfnaf in a dramatic appearance eountry men and the doughboysV‘m-st in Cherbourg, and were celebrating the fall of the city.|Louis very happy. The story of Louis is one of the| Louis hurried home to tell his Mttle tragedies smothered in the | mother what he had done and xfi]‘:’)fii'cefm‘mnli‘g:” !‘\:“”5::“' same road to Warsaw and Berlin| S o irsidh o hagi Napoleon followed on his disastrous jaw of a trap on thousands of Japanese. The advance overran strategic Hansa Bay, where much booty Was yyje grtjllery and bombers blast-| seized, and was virtually unopposed. The Japanese have been falling back on Wewak since it was by- passed by the Aitape and Hollan- |dia landings in April >~ e —— NO. KURILES ARE SHELLED BY WARSHIPS {Carrier Planes Rake Guam in Support of Saipan Invasion |retreat from Moscow. | Like a huge, grasping hand, the Red Army has reached for Minsk, ed the way for the ground forces. The handlike Soviet offensive is |formed, by units fanning out north- |west of Minsk like fingers, while Istrong groups are southeast of the city, and the Leningrad-Odessa |Railway is now in Russian hands. | A Russian military commentator, |Col. Nikolai Akimov, said that the ‘mopenin;'z of this rail route “is a |factor that shouldn't be underes- {timated, for the advantages it af- fords in transferring our forces on a parellel line with the front, one lof the major conditions in achiev: ling supremacy in any direction.” i The chosen new blows are three: !a main thrust through Minsk down {the old Smolensk-Warsaw road; over the Bykhov-Minsk Highway and across the middle of the Bere- |zina River; and up through the | valley of the Ptic River and over Ithe Gomel-Minsk Railway and | highway. | — e —— jubilation of thousands who saw the invaders driven from their city. He has a heart with a great ache night, pledging an ‘“end to om; man government in America,” d crush the Germans’ and Japs' found that his mother had died a few hours before after being struck \by a shell fragment. for war and to devote himiself tof ™ YN R ewinning of freedom” at home. Dewey told the cheering, perspir- ing delegates that the Rooseveit . 1 Administration ~ has grown ‘“old, |tired and quarrelsome in office™ land is unequal to the pressing 16. 0. P. Vice-Presidential ‘Candidate Has Given Good Administration |problems of war and peace. He |declared that military policies must, iremain completely out of politics, and wanted to make it crystal cl |that any change in administration :would not involve changes in the |High Command. 4 “General Marshall and Admiral King are doing a superb job—thank| God for both of them,” he said. The cheering thousands inter< Irupted him répeatedly. H | No Commitments : | “I come to this great task a-fredt: man. I have made no pledges, promises or commitments, express- ed or implied, to any man or wo- man, and I shall make none l‘xch,‘ {to the American people,” stated the"V‘“’ Presidential | nominee, |running mate of Gov He reaffirmed his support of the Dewey, is Ohio’s three- 1|1nr s Mackinac declaration for |ernor. | (By Associated Press) by the Republican National Con- candidate, and Thomas . term Gov- Gov. John W, Bricker, nominated/ vention yesterday at Chicago as day for President on the first bal- PEARL HARBOR, June 20.—Ad-| miral Chester W. Nimitz nnnounvcdi DEwEY wlll that warships shelled the Japanese northern Kuriles and Tinian in the !responsible United States parti |pation in an international security |organization on which |have been awaited eagerly. his views| Gov. Bricker was a contender for the GOP nomination of Presi- 'dent, and his steady administra- tion of a state government, which Marianas, 1,000 miles apart, over the weekend, while carrier planes again raked Guam in support of CONFER WITH that With few exceptions, has been de- NOMINEE OF REPUBLICANS HAS RECORD Dewey Comes from Yirtual Obscurity fo National Prominence, 10 Years " (By Assoclated Press) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who was nominated yester- | lot by the wartime Republican Na- tional Convention at Chicago, open- ly and ardently sought the nom- lination in 1940, losing his battle to Wendell L. Willkie, Then, to many Republican leaders, he was considered young and inexperien- ed, despite his near defeat of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman in 1938 when | | Drive in Juneau are now at $263,734, with the series E total climbing to $104,065.50. According to reports received here, | Sitka has. gone over the top, ex-| ceeding both series E and all series totals. This is the first town in the Territory to reach its quota, which was $45,000. Following are the standings in the Miss Liberty contest to date: Betty Nordling 30,182 Ruth Kunnas 22,662 Betty Mill ...21,925 Lois Allert 21,831 Betty Bonnett 20,391 Mary McCormack 18,884 Kathleen McAlister ..18452 Joyce Smith 11,648 Lila Sinclair 10,041 Betty Nordling added 600 votes since yesterday. Ruth Kunnas made the largest gain, gathering 2,175 new votes, which moved her from fourth to second place, exchanging with Lois Allen, who after a sensational climb the past two days, was back in fourth position, and just 94 votes | behind Betty Mill_who is number three. Betty Bonnett gained 475 votes, Mary McCormack picked up 1,150 more votes and stepped up from seventh to sixth. Kathleen McAlister is seventh, Joyce Smith eighth and Lila Sinclair ninth. An addition to the two previous lists of contributors toward the out- fitting of Miss Liberty and the Four Freedoms is as follows: Irvings, $3; H. L. Faulkner, $10; Charles W, Carter Morutary, $ Baranof Hotel, $9; Hotel Juneau, $3; Family Shpe Store, $3; Triangle | FORCES, June 20.—The Germans are reported to have thrown the bulk of the Fifteenth and Seven- teenth armies In the defense of Caen in an attempt to halt the British flanking thrust from the south but Montgomery's men have smashed nine counter-attacks In 24 hours and widened the breach in the enemy lines. The British infantry and armor forces arc streaming across the Odon River southwest of Caen and the ever widening bridgehead. 1t is officially reported 202 Ger- man tanks have been disabled or de- " stroyed since D-Day and incomplete | reports show that at least 44 Ger- ! man aircraft were shot down today over France. Fleld dispatches said fighting is raging on three sides of Caen, the British attacking on a 17-mile front. Roger Greene, Associated Press correspondent, sald hundreds of British guns have laid down a “mur- derous barrage” against German armored forces moving up to attack “@Germans are being slaughtered by our planes” strafing along the roads over which they are marching. Americans on Cherbourg Penin- _sula are mopping up isolated re- sistance at Cape de la Hague, where it is unofficially estimated, about 3,000 Germans are still flma out. U. S. AIRFIEL | (A | soverign he sought to become chief execu-| “We are agreed, all of us, !void of controversy, gave his friends i tive of the Empire State merica will participate with other, nations in a cooperative and supporters their reason to de- Cleaners, $3; Alaska Coastal Air- | lines, $5; Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Her- | |was shelled on Sunday night for| the American advance on vital Sai- pan Island. Also reported was a futile attack by'Jap torpedo planes | on American ships off Saipan. Kurabuzaki, , principal town the southern tip of Paramushiro, GOP LEADERS CHICAGO, June 29.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told what he called “the world’s biggest press conference” that he hopes to confer with all the nation’s Republican leaders includ- ing Wendell Willkie on his Presi- on} | the third ' time, after. Army and! Navy planes hit Paramushiro and| Shumushu Islands at predawn,i starting several fires: \effort to prevent future wars. We |shall not make a secure peace by mere words. We cannot do it |simply by drawing a fine-sounding Itreaty. It cannot be worked by lone man or a little group of rulers | meeting together in private confer- “ences. It must be the work of {many, many men,” Dewey asserted. Is Corifident Gov. Dewey voiced the highest confidence in a November victory head a great government. Firm Determination Among the qualities of his per- sonality which have met favorable comment, his determination to set a course and follow it has been the most discussed. His friends !watched him take hold of Ohio’s igovernmenc. organize it along busi- ness-like principles, which included {among other things the lopping off lclare that he was well qualified to Four Years Older | Today, Dewey is four years older, In 1942, he broke a 20-y Demo- cratic hold on the administration of President Roosevelt’s home state, and behind him now is 14 months of leadership during which the Democrats have not yet picked any serious flaw. Born in Oswosso, Mich, March 24, 1902, he has come from' virtual obscurity to national prominence ‘n ron, $3; John Ahlers Co,, $3; Thrift Coop Grocery, $3; Percy’s, $10; Ju- neau Drug Company, $5; Sabins, $ Alaska Meat Company, $3. e FIFTH ARMY | ABANDONED AT HENGYANG CHUNGKING, June 20.—The U. |8. Air Force, has abandoned Ifs 'airfield at Hengyang, strategic city surrounded by Jap forces. The communique said that Am- | LURCHES ON, LONDON, June 20. — Royal ‘Air| A followup attack eame at ‘pre-| v ‘ dential campaign plans. lof thousands of state employes, |ten years. That' swift rise left| lerican P-51s dropped a thousand Force heavy bombers early last Intense anti-| night- attacked Calais, robot bomb| dawn on Monday. ajrcraft fire was encountered both | Declining to discuss cabinet pos- |and made it clear he stands firmly| lon the Republican piatform with| This determination is sometimes Appraisers sharply divided on his | pounds of bombs on the field, for- merly one of thé Fourteenth’s prin- times, ibflitles. 1t hie wins o the e tfona |considered. arbitrary, often as bull- qualifications for the nomination. spawning grounds, and rail centers east and south of Paris, while Am- | erican bombers during yesterday | roared widely over FPrance andj western Germany bombing three | airdromes near Laon, targets near| Paris, and rail yards at Saar- brucken. | 3 —_—t o —— LONDON—Stalin announced to- BULLETINS gave speedy endorsement to many lof the planks in the party’s plat- form, including those on foreign policy, the President’s fair employ- ment practices, the Committee on Foreign Trade and others. Gov. Dewey appeared fresh and rested despite the physical strain of | | House,, the smiling GOP nominee | |its advocacy of an internal organization employing .-pe“e’hcudedness by his friends, but |forces” to prevent aggression. | Bricker smiles and denies this. His Regarding his running mate, mind is open, he says, until it's Dewey said: “Never before have 1/made up and then it stays made. seen such good statesmanship and One close associate says that until sportsmanship as displayed|® decision is reached by Bricker | 1/he seems to possess a most judicial | zood by John Bricker this morning. {am proud to be associated with The avowed purpose of the 2t-injght the capture of Petrozadovsk, | tacks is to flatten every Nazi air-ion the far northern front in the drome in France and tangle eVAl¥ grive that has completely cleared rail junction. |the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway. —————— | shaking thousands of hands at a}h.m;v {mind; when it is, there might Le reason to call him obstinate. Bricker rose according to a sct “Inexperience” Cited His age, 42, and what some still term his “inexperience” weighed heaviest with the governor's critics. Fricnds of Dewey recall that! Democrats raised the “inexper- jence” cry against him as a candi- date for the governorship. Then! ITALY COAS ROME, Juné 29.—Along @ high way littered with enemy dead and abandoned equipment, American |troops of the Pifth Army lurched forward another five miles along |cipal forward bases in China. | ‘Fhe attack on Monday was alm- «ed at making the airfield useless to the enemy and left one runway destroyed, Stilwell's headquarters said The communique added that Hengyang is reported to be in flarhes. The loss of the Hunan they cite his 14-months record as Italy’s west coast and captured the a state administrator. |town of Castagneto, only 25 miles Province center will' be the great- est military blow to China since FIELD DAY AT BOWL FRIDAY The second flefd day at the/ Evergreen Bowl is scheduled for| tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’'clock. There will be swimming contests in the pool as well as races and other activities outside the pool. 1 Representafives 0fU.S. Abroad Are Now Enroute Home BUENOS AIRES, June 29.— United States Ambassador Norman Armour and Chilean Ambassador Gallardo have left their respective capitals bound for the United States. Armour was accumpanied to the| airport by British Ambassador Sir David Kelly. ment announced earlier this week and Thomas George. William my:an artillery that he would be called to Wash-'and Dean R. Miller were flown to which he ington for consultations, LONDON—The Allied armies have liberated approximately 1100 square miles of France and now hold 120 miles of the French coast- line of 1950 miles. FARGO, N. D—With an even 300 precincts to still be heard from, incumbent Senator Gerald Nye has 35,620 votes as against Lynn Stam- baugh's 35557, as the result of Tuesday's’ primaries for nomination of a Republican Senator. CHICAGO—The newly elected GOP committee has named six to confer with Dewey regarding his choice of a new National Chair- man. Dewey will confer with Bricker before making a decision. | public reception lasting past mid- | night last night. Asked specifically if he “welcomes i the editorial support of the Chicago { Tribune” which once criticized him, | Dewey replied: | “I don’t know that I have the | editorial support of the Tribune, | but Il welcome the support of every good American in the whole of the United States.” TWO OFFICERS DIE IN ACTION; ONE INBOMBER CRASH WASHINGTON, June 29.— Deaths in. action of two officers, one an operations division colonel, He pledged that the “government will again have a cabinet of the ablest men and women to be found |pattern from a Madison ‘The son of a newspaper puhlisher.% Dewey was graduated from the| University of Michigan in 1923, He| | County !farm. He was born in a log house | from Livorno, while the second American column, farther inland, plerced through the German lines |with & twin sister, Ella, on Sept. in America. The present admin- 1893, to the Lemuel Spencer istration has been in office more > went to New York City and re- within a dozen miles of Siena, key 1938. Chennault's airforce is going in an allout attempt to arrest the Japs' drive down the Canton-Han- iwhne acting as observers on Sai- |pan for the Chief of Staff, have 6 PASSENGERS OUT VIA PAN AMERICAN Emil Blandau was a passenger on a flight to Fairbanks today, via Pan American. Seattle passengers today were Whitehorse, been announced by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Col. Carl Silverthrone, chief of the Pacific theatre section opera- tions division, was killed by a |Jap sniper. ‘; Lt. Col. Frederick Terry, a mem- |ber of the strategy section, was The State Depart- Mr. Robert Kuhn, Charles Butcher, killed when a bomber collided with liason plane from was directing artillery 'fire, than 11 years, and today is at war with Congress and with itself.” “Republicans are agreed that fuil employment will be the first ob- jective of national policy. By full employment T mean a real chance for every man and woman to earn a decent living at a decent wage,” he said. Gov. Dewey left Albany early yesterday afternoon for Chicago. He was accompanied by Mrs The flight was made in a charter ed airliner to Chicago. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau today is 6%, American Can 90, Anaconda 267%, Beech Aircraft 8%, Bethle- hem Steel 63%, Curtiss-Wright 5':, International Harvester 77%, Ken- necott 32%, North American Avia- tion 8%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 59. Dow, Jones averages today are Jas follows: industrials 148.07, rails 41.30, utilities 23.80, Dewey, advisers and newspapermen. | |Brickers. In Mount Sterling, he ceived his law degree at Columbia attended township schools and then 1aw school in 1925. went on to Ohio State University. | While practicing law in 1928, he Bricker was an outstanding stu- Mmarried Frances Eileen Hutt, of| dent. He received his bachelor of Sherman, Texas. They have two! larts degree in 1916 and entered law sons, Thomas E. Dewey, Jr, and| college. Before he won his law de- John M. Dewey. |gree, a year after he entered law| He was appointed Chief Assist- ischool, he passed his state bar ex-|ant United States Attorney for the |amination and was permitted to southern district of New York in | practice. 1931 and in ‘1933 briefly filled a i Army Chaplain |vacancy as Uhited States Attorney. War interrupted his study and “Racket Buster” he entered the Army as a chap-| Gov. Lehnman appointed Dewey lain, but the war was over before,d special prosecutor In 1935 to in- he was shipped across ;vcstvlgaw New York City rackets. He marrled Harriet Day of Ur- And Dewey, who as Assistant U. s, |bana, O, and after the war fin- Attorney had convicted “Waxey" ished law school and became city Gordon, New York beer baron, of | | | attorney of Grandview Heights, a income tax evasion, made a smash-| |Columbus suburb. He was named Ing success of his new assignment communication center, 31 miles Kow Raflway, an offensive design- south of Florence. |ed to bisect China and make dif- The official spokesman said the|ficult supply problems for both the enemy “is showing signs of con- Chinese Army and the American fusion” in the coastal sector where|alrforce. The communique report- incessant battering by American|cd attacks on a dozen different guns have caused heavy casualties.|Points along the railway and in It is announced the Fifth Army the vicinity of Hengyang. alone has taken over 25000 prison- | o v o T s oo “the ot bk ot FOUR FLIGHTS TODAY FOR Al_A}!A (OASTAL prisoners in the offensive exceeds| 32,000 Germans. 1 >~ An Alaska Coastal plane was FRE chartered today by A. V. Graham for a round trip to Taku Cannery. D EASTAUGHS VISITING HERE Here to visit the R. E. Robert- |today with A. A. Olson and Synova |Peterson as passengers. Charles Wight returned with the plane He broke the poultry, vegetabl:,| from Skagway and Bill Laurence State Assistant Attorney General in] f“’”' but resigned to resume pfl.‘l.ruckmg and other rackets, con-| vate practice four years later. In!victed various labor union leade:s, 1929, he was named a member of and sent Cherles “Lucky” Luciano, |the State Utilities Commission, vice overlord, to prison for 30 to! Three years later, he was elected 50 years. Later he was to charge |Attorney ' General, won a second| | Tammany District Leader James .J. term in 1934¢. He lost a bid for Hines with involvement in a 20- the Governorship in 1936, but won 'million-dollar policy racket and put that office in 1938 and has been|him behind the bars of Sing Sing. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four) sons, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Estaugh and young son, Robert Ladd, have arrived by plane from Seattle. Mrs. Eastaugh, the former Carol Robertson, and Robert plan to re- main in Juneau for a few weeks before returning to their home in| Seattle. Mr. Eastaugh, Senior Ac-|cty. countant with the PAA at the| Miss Gromtzell was sole passen- Seattle office, will fly back to the ger on a flight to Hoonah this States next week. afternoon. land Joe Green from Haines. Passengers for Sitka were George | Dedrickson, L. D. Lauderback, Mrs. |Barth, and Raymond Wiseman. |Ruth Jones, Kenneth Jordan, and |A. F. Sheean returned from that