The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1944, Page 1

't THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — VOL. XLIL, NO. 9693. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 7 SERIAL 61219 PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY I, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BRITISH ARE HOLDING IN CAEN SECTOR Americans Suffer Heavy Losses at Saip MEET THE SUPER-FORTRES CASUALTIES TOP FIGURES FORTARAWA New Gainsgo—red Despite Terrain and Strong Resistance By LEIF ERICKSON UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 1.—Americans bat- tling on Saipan have paid the high- est price so far in the Pacific— 9,752 killed, wounded and missing in two weeks—for half of the small but highly important island in the Marianas. The grim figures announced by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz were: Dead, 1474; wounded, 7400; and missing, 878. This total is far more than double the losses on Guadal- | canal in six months of warfare— 3,767. Enemy losses in the bitter fight- ing which wrested half of rugged Saipan from the Japanese were also heavy, Nimitz said. No accurate es- (Continued on: Page Four) The Washington Merry - Go- Roun By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON--The CIO, bitter- ly assailed in Congress, invaded the House restaurant last week, and staged an off-the-record luncheon with about 75 Congressmen present. The luncheon was in honor of R. J. Thomas, President of the United Auto Workers. It was arranged by Rep. George Sadowski, Detroit Democrat, and Congressmen had to | pay for their own lunch. Thomas spoke generally about unions in politics, declaring that it is a proper function of responsible labor leadership to help show work- ers who are their real friends in government. Discounting talk of Communism among labor, he de- clared: “Labor is for the profit sys- tem because we know that we, as union members, cannot function under any other system.” Apparently the CIO Political Ac- tion Committee has won respect from some Congressmen, for some of them quite frankly asked Thomas for CIO support. Among these was Connecticut’s glamorous Republican Congresswoman, Clare Boothe Luce. Chatting with Thomas and C. B. Baldwin of the Political Action Com- mittee, Mrs. Luce asked why she should not receive strong help in her campaign for re-election, since her voting record on labor matters was good. Thomas admitted that her labor record was okay, but remarked: “There are other things equally important, so far as we're concerned. There's the general guestion of war- time unity. We don’t expect Re- publicans to follow the White House on all matters, but neither do we think much of those who go around attacking the nation’s war leader on the slightest provecation—or on no provocation.” Mrs. Luce told Thomas that, if the Political Action Committee supports only Democrats, it will lose its bar- gaining strength in case the next Congress is Republican. Thomas re- | plied that CIO groups are support- ing Republi¢ans in several districts. NOTE: Actually Clare Luce has one of the best labor-voting records in Congress, having been one of only two members of the House Military Affairs Committee to urge caution in passing the Smith-Connally Act. She also voted against the Ruml plan and against removing the $25,- | 000 ceiling on salaries. REVAMPED CIO PARTY Asked whether he thought labor ‘and management could get together to work out post-war reconversion, Thomas replied: “It's awfully hard to get man- agement to work with labor when management won't even work to- gether themselves. Ford hates Gen- eral Motors, General Motors hates Chrysler, and so on. When they i e M o N (Continued on Page Four) MISS BETTY | NORDLING IS - MISS LIBERTY | ! A | Official Tabulation of Votes Announced- Race Is Close Charming, blonde, Betty Nordling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nordling of Juneau, will reign over festivities on July Fourth as Miss Liberty. Those elected as the Four Free- |doms include the Misses Betty Mill, | Lois Allen, Ruth Kunnas and Mary | McCormack. Following is a list of the stand- Daughter of Ky. Solon Weds lings in the order of their total |votes: Betty Nordling 38,584 Betty Mill 38,325 | | Lois Allen Ruth Kunnas Mary McCormack Kathleen McAlister 1 Betty Bonnett Joyce Smith 13,106 Lila Sinclair 11,420 Abond booth was operated in the Baranof Hotel lobby until mid- A , night last night to take care of Mimi Chandler is now Mrs. John Kennedy Cabell following her wed- 1ot minute bond purchasers. Ace ding in Beverly Hills, Cal, the double-ring ceremony having been |cording to announcement, $11,000 held in All Saints Episcopal Church. The bride is a daughter of Senator and Mrs. A. B, Chandler of Kentucky! Major Cabell is at- tached to Air Ferry Command at Palm Springs, where he is com- mander of 72nd Squadron, 21st Ferrying Group, Air Transport Com- mand. ¥ JAP TEROES [PATRIOTS IN BATILEROAR SHOTDOWN, | COPENHAGEN ECHOES NOW YAPATIACK FIGHT NAZIS NEAR MINSK TR 1 e | ‘ Stiff Enemy Resistance| Danes Baffle from Behind Thousands | Continues Over West Barricades in Streels | Nazis Pouring Info Carolines Base -Machiflg;gunned i Besieged City ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| STOCKHOLM, July 1. — Danish| QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July |patriots in Copenhagen are fight-|dispatches said that remnants of | 1.—Eight Jap Zeroes were shot down /ing German troops in the st | the demoralized German army pour- | and 63 tons of explosives were drop- ' from behind barricades, and flying|ing into Minsk are now outflanked | ped Wednesday in the sixth raid |American, British, Russian and |from the northwest, and the roar of | since June 22 on Yap Island in the Dapish flags, battle is echoing in the city’s out- | worth of series E bonds were sold at’ this time. For particulars regarding the cor- on ceremories read the story - of Demoralized MOSCOW, July 1. — Front line | Four of 2,200 horse- i power, each with two supe © WINGSPAN 141.2 f1. SPEED '"compares favorabl BOMB LOAD, RANGE AND of any other EIGHTH ARMY Clark's Forces Beal Off Ger- man Tank Attack and Confinue Drive fantry beat off German tank counterattacks on the outskirts of Cecina yesterday, and continued drive along the Italian west coast in the direction of Livorno and Pisa, and the French gained another mile on the road to Siena, 31 miles below Florence Headquarters said that in the Adriatic sector, the engmy has with- drawn from the Chienti River, and the Eighth Army crossed the stream in several places. The Germans are falling back to the Musone River, western Carolines, | Reports reaching here from Mal- | skirts. The Japanese continue to put up imo said street fighting broke out| Storm troopers and the Gestapo stitf aerial resistance over the base j,-,‘,t.,, Nazi troors tried to break up|are reported trying to create some | {from which they are in a position ' two.day general strike. kind of order among the battered | to support their beleaguered Saipan| (ne report suld German planes | and frightened Nazi legions defend- | | garrison, 700 miles northeast. | machine-gunned demonstrators. | ing the capital of White Russia, now In this latest reported raid, made The strike is declared to be 1,)‘«,‘!»lmer's most important bastion oh | Wednesday, 29 Zeros battled the}percem, otfartite | the eastern front. | New Guinea Liberators. Bombs drop- ¥ Three Soviet armies converged | ped fell among at least one dozen fen dooelec:‘:?c) :j:j:;:::dl;}i ::\‘fxl: | rapidly from the northeast, east and | parked planes. | | southeast, and correspondents re- | | ported that hundreds of demoral- chantman afire near Palau. : Headquarters also reports that| Of the fighting in Borisov, main | enemy casualties on the Schouten railway center northeast of the| | { Nazis’ biggest defense point, corre- | To D AY ARE Nearly 50 places are reported cap- | jo“u (ASHE" "ow tured on the two fronts in Finland. | WITH FISHERIES o 34, M8 ynucesar John Cashen today entered the | | |in the Fifth War Loan drive are for the West Coast of Prince of | ¥ | Wales Island, with headquarters t |D°W at $341218.25, and are climb-| Craig \ing steadily higher. % SUPERFORTRE{SS BASE IN ———eeo—— 1049.75. WESTERN CHINA, June 30.—(De- Juneau’s quota is $435,000 ( ll]l ed Ameri Vice-President ' ST FRIEND Ji 5 5,/ all (layed) — American Vice-President | SOLDIER'S BEST series) with the E bond quota set whose job is to smash Jap industry i ith B-29s. Minn., says the mule, not the dog,| - i is a man’s best friend. The mule:Mo'oRSl"p pMRI('A Rl Wi e mep: (hey had walked between him and a German | B A(KFROM Sufiw AY to China as President Roosevelt's personal representative, is the guest HERE FROM ANCHORAGE of (wl. C. E. Duncan and he made A. B. Carroll of the CAA is C. M. Klinefelter as passengers. ball with the soldiers, one of them | here from Anchorage and _smyingl Returning from Skagway were G. Capt. Hank Greenberg, former De- at the Gastineau Hotel. Jomatik and Mr. and Mrs, Card. troit Tiger baseball star, land transportation servicgs stopped. | 7 Liberators ranging over the west- |ized Germans are surrendering bl'-: Islands is estimated at over 2800 | spondent Miletzky said one street service of the Fish and Wildlife as | SUPERFORTRESS | | Cashen was formerly a Deputy U. Official tabulations show that of Henry A. Wallace got acquainted WASHINGTON — Infantry Sgt. 8t 210.000. “greatly shortened the war.” machine gun bullet in Italy, just in| The motorship Patricia left Ju- | himself at home, stripping to shorts ern Carolines set oné Japanese mer- | | fore they reach the city. | with only 15 Japs taken prisoners. after another is being captured. Deputy Fisheries Management Agent | With one week to go, bond sales | 5. Marshal here. |this total, series E sales are $12,-| last night with the officers and men Evan J. Thompson, of Stillwater,| The Vice-President, on a mission |time to save his life, lnetm on Thursday evening, bound and tennis shoes and playing volley — o | for Skagway with O. H. Holmes and only 10 miles south of the big port city of Ancona. — e Brifish Gu Tank Affacks: Nazis Fail to Find British Napping on Odon River Corridor FRONT IN sed British laming all- ON THE BRITISH FRANCE, July 1.--Ma guns laid down a § night bombardment. ag man troops and tanks attacking the west, flank of the Odon River cor- ridor. TInstead of finding the Brit- ish napping, they ran into a deadly barrage of British seventeen-pound- into rapid ers, and were thrown retreat. A staff officer said, “The Hun found we were bristling with guns, vanks and troops On the east flank of dor, the Germans staged a hit-and- run attack this morning near Mar- celet, and again bumped into stone wall. Four of their tanks were knocked out. - Florentine craftsmen are renowii- ed for their works of wrought iron, the corri- DESIGN is cylindrical, mid-wing, single tail, tricycle landing gear. ROME, July 1—Fifth Army in- nst Ger-| ENGINES .2 rchargers FUSELAGE All metal, i streamlined S ARMAMENT .50 cal. guns; 0 mm. cannon o PROPELLERS 4 Blade, 16!: ft. diameter THE B-17 FLYING FORT = HOW IT COMPARES w Le ingspan—104 f1. ngth—75 ft. Height—19 #t. y with latest fighters.” En, Ar Sp CEILING exceed those plane. Ce - 16 Americans { Four Tank Crews on Saipan | Crush Attempt to Re- | force Hell's Pocket By MORRIS LANDSBERG | AT A FORWARD POST ON SAIPAN, July 1-—An lentire company of 150 Japanese |were mowed down by 16 Ameri- cans in four tanks, crushing an enemy attempt io reinforce the be- |sicged forces in “Hell's pocket” on the southeastern slope of Mount | Tapotchau. The tar:ks made the daring foray into enemy country as American troops moved irto position for the final assault on the heavily - de- fended pocket, The tank crews had just pushed to the peak of one Ihill when they saw the enemy ipany marcliing in close column reinforce the pocket. ‘hey opened up immediately on the surprised Nipponese with ma- !¢hine gnns and wiped out the en- tire gronp. Theve was no report of any American casualties. | It was like Shooting pigeons on |a roost,” one of the Americans said to after the fight. | LT AL RN | 'Brif. Ambassador | To Argentina Is . Recalled fo Home | i ViR LONDON, July 1 Government, ha | sador to Argentine, Sir David Kelly, for consultations. This action par- alleled the United States recall of Ambassador Norman Armour. - - REDS SURROUND MINSK; CAPTURE RAILWAY ROUTES | « MOSCOW, July 1.--The Russians have announced that 183930 Ger- | mans have been killed and cap- | tured on the eastern front during ( the first week of the new offensive. The British radio said that the surrounded Minsk Ihe British alled Ambsz | | | | ' Russians have Weight—60,000 Ibs gines—four of 1,200 hp. mament—13 .50 cal. guns eed—-300 mph. Normal bomb load—-3 tons Tactical Radius—700 mi. iling—Over 30,000 ft. NAZIS FALL150 Japs Are DEWEYBACK BACK BEFORE Wiped Outby AT HOME IN Y. CAPITAL His Prediction ] by Citizens-Makes { ALBANY, N. Y., July 1—Gov. Chicago where he was nominated for President on the Republican | ticket, came home to a rousing welcome. | Gov. Dewey declared the Novem ber election will prove “America is the most united nation in the world . “We will prove it because we are the nation that dares risk an election al the most critical phase only an FIRM STAND ~ ISTAKEN ON ~ ODONRIVER Second Army Withsfands . Fierce Nazi Counteral- g fack, Strategic Area BULLETIN—SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 1.~The Americans have | captured Cape de 1a Hague. The | doughboys took Greville on the | cape and other units reached Omonville, Larogue and Lapetite. ‘ 1t is also announced that Ger- man counterattacks have be g thrown back in the Caen sector. | | ; .SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLTED EXPEDITIONARY 'FORCE, July 1—-The British Sec- ond Army stood firm at the Odon River salient in the seething battle for Caen as the Nazi Command |threw elements of seven tank di- |visions iato the fight. Massed ar- iullery fire broke up the latest (assault. | The toll of tanks taken by the British forces alone since D-Day |are 146, and on all the Normandy isectors 326 were destroyed or dis- |abled. 1f the armored units Gen. |Erwin _Bommel . used are up fo strength, it would represent about 2,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, |some brought from Russia. | American forces in local attacks lin the central sector of the bridge- head drove to within two and a (half miles of St. Lo, reaching the |village of La Forge. { Rommel in Command | After the death of Col. Gen. Dollman, Commander of the Ger- ‘.umn Seventh Army, which Berlin (announced yesterday, it is appar- |ent that Rommel himself has taken personal command of the front. ;l(l)ln"ll‘l is trying now to use pan- (zers as he did in the Libyan des- COMMAND Thomas E. Dewey, returning from ert to force quick and violent de- |cisions. . The Royal Air Force sent big |Lancasters and Halifaxes, usually |reserved for night bombing, in one “lof the few daylight tactical mis- |sions yesterday, bombing Gen. Rom- |mel's reserves or armor, and a {thousand tons of bombs were drop- {pvr on Villers Bocage. prac i 5 SR | of the war.” | Gov. Dewey made the statement NAZIS RUSH to a crowd estimated at 2500 gath-| ered on the Capital steps, and| added “We will prove to our} are going to be stronger than ever before,” Thousands lined the streets as Gov. Dewey, in an automobile, headed a parade from the railroad station to the Capitol. - eee - ALLIED ATTACK IS REPULSED, SAYS (By Associated Press) A Tokyo radio broadcasts a Domei dispatch ing the garrison at Guam bhas repulsed “three enemy cruisers or large sized destroyers which attempted to shell the air- ‘l‘lq'ld" on Friday, and also turned back 80 enemy planes. | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, July 1. Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 6%, ‘Amcrlcxm Can 90%, Anaconda 26%, | Beech Aircraft 8¢, Bethlehem Steel ;fifl‘;, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- { tional Harvester 78, Kennecott 32%, North American Aviation York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 59% , Pound $4.04, Dow, Jones averages today are as gold and silver and embossed lea- and taken possession of, the main | follows: Industrials, 148.46; rails, ther, 7} railroad routes leading to Warsaw. | 41.49; utilities, 24.05, JAP BROADCAST| 9, New| NORMANDY Prisoners Capfured By British Admit They Are from Russ Front By ROGER GREENE ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN NORMANDY, July 1. — Lieutenant General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, Commander of the Brit- Ish Second Army In Normandy, said that German prisoners captured said they were newly arrived from Rus- slan fighting. “The Huns are responding vigor- ously to our attacks and the enemy is now rushing reinforcements for- ward into battle from other fighting sections, We are fully ready and our forces will receive them. We know our task—you have got to kill the Hun.” coe —— JOHN YOUNG IS NO MERIT SYSTEM HEAD —_— John Young has been appointed head of the Aluska Merit System and the headquarters will be at 123 Third Street, where he has his insurance office,