The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG 1 H A VOL. XLIL, NO. 9694. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1944 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS IN Russ Forces Keep Pounding GERMANS IN ROUT FROM RED ARMIES Soviets Witfin_ 10 Miles of Minsk-Columns Sweep Around City BULLETIN — LONDON, July 3—Minsk has been taken by storm, according to an Order of the Day issued tonight by Stalin. The city has been cap- tured by a flanking movement. | MOSCOW, July 3.—Soviet tanks | and cavalry struck to within 10 miles of Minsk, and another column, carving deep beyond Minsk, ham- mered to within 65 miles of Wilno, which is only 100 miles east of Prussia. Pounding at the front gates of Minsk, Red Army men captured Slo- | boda, 12 and one-half miles north- east, then pushed to within 10 miles of the White Russian capital, but | by-passing columns are alreadyi sweeping around the city in the.quc announced the capture of more |21 officers and enlisted men northwest and southwest, cutting the | (101, 909 prisoners, presumably mili- | Well Germans’ escape railways to Wilno (Continued on Page Five) The Washington| Merry -Eg -Round | By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on ac service with the Army.) . tive | WASHINGTON—Although Dewey: forces guarded the secret closely, they were so confident ‘of victory| in Chicago that they completed a detailed blueprint of the New York| Governor's entire political program for the summer and fall well be- fore the convention convened. Here's the strategy drawn up for| the go-getting mustachioed gentle- man from Albany: Spend the buik| of the summer in Albany prepar-; ing a series of six major addresses in which he will state his position | on all questions. In these Dewey | will assume the role he likes best, that of the people’s district attor- | ney, and will put the Roosevelt Ad-| closed, in fact many were closed to- | ministration on trial. Dewey and Herbert Brownell, his personal campaign manager, have ruled out the traditional campa‘gn| stumping of the train with its country from end to end, visiting small towns and greeting the fo'ks on their doorsteps. They point out that the country is so large, the candidatc wears himself out v- ing to see and greet everyone, end ends up as Wendell Willkie did, niceting only a fraction of tae folks. Important Republican politicos will have a conance to see Dewey this summer, but many will trex to Albany for the opportunity This does not mean Dewey will do no traveling. He plans to deliver his six speeches in carefully spotted cities around the country. One major speech will take place in Michigan, another in California, a third in Minnescta, a fourth either 1. pivotal Kentucky or Ten- ressee. The last major speech will piobably be dolivered in New York City. On all these trips, Dewey will make a few back-platform appearances but, unlike Willkie's patient, plodding tours through the country, he will make no greai circle swings of four or five weeks’ duration. UNHAPPY LABOR A. F. of L’s bulky Bill Green was a mighty disappointed na: when he got a look at the Republi- can convention’s committee on labor. Gieen, who has been a hit cool on the Roosevelt family, had looked forward to a liberal GOP conventiun where he and his lakor buddies could throw their weight around. However, Green got the surprise of his life when he walked info the committee room and found (Continued on Page Four) % s ( GARAPAN IS SURROUNDED, THREE SIDES Gains Mad;Fy Americans All Along Front on Saipan Island UNITED STATES PACIFIC| FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 3—American troops have surrounded Garapan, peace- time capital of the Marianas Islands, | on three sides, and have captured the heights overlooking Tanapag | | on the northwest coast of Saipan. On the east coast other units| miles of the island’s northern tip, where Marpi, the. point’s airdrome, mortars were silent when two am- cated a possible preinvasion sotlen- | bulances and a jeep rolled on the ing of Noemfoor, which is 50 miles United States forces have cap-|jgely road between the line a few Wwest of the American invaded Biak | tured the mountain village of Char- |, ndred yards beyond Caumont. is still in Japanese hands. an Tabute, and advances range from 500 yards to a mile along the | entire American front, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced in a midafternoon communique. The Admiral’s morning communi- tary personnel, the destruction or| of 6,015 enemy dead. Admiral Nimitz reported the Japa- | nese made a futile aerial counter- attack, the tenth in the Saipan ports and screening vessels before dawn on Saturday, but “these at- munique said, and two of the at- tacking planes were shot down. Lo e JUNEAU ALL SET FOR 4TH HOLIDAY shine and Juneau is all set for the| Fourth, starting tonight with the | coronation of Miss Liberty and hon- | oring of the four Miss Freedoms at the ball park, and dance starting at 10 o'clock in the Elks' Ballroom. Tomorrow there will be the parade and other events for which see the The Empire. City and Territorial offices will be day and others enjoyed a half holi- day this afternoon. The majority of the Federal of- fices will be open tomorrow. Of course, all stores are closed | tomorrow. | The Empire will not publish, be- ! ing one of the few holidays observed | but any important news will be bul- letined on the office windows. HIDDEN INLET CANNERY HELD UP BY INDIAN Wwilliam C. Stevens, Canadian Indian, has been taken in custody by the Canadian Coast Guard fol- lowing his escape last Saturday |up the Naket Packing Corporation. In addition to the robbery he will | probably be charged with the at- |tempted killing of the bookkeeper, whom he shot through the ear !while making his escape. Stevens, whose residence is at |Kincolitn, Canada, boarded the boat Ulloa av Hidden Inlet and was sighted yesterday by George |Pader, U. S. Deputy Marshal at Ketchikan, and Ray Renshaw, | pilot, as they flew over the vicinity |of Pierce Isiand, Canada. |canadian Coast Guard was notified and they immediately took the In- dian in custody. According to word received here | honey, Stevens is said to have had no accomplice in the robbery. ——.————— MCcALLISTER IN TOWN | | 0il Company, is a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel, registering from Se- attle. Turn off the faucet, let the sun/ |from Hidden Inlet, where he held| The| |by U. 8. Marshal William T. Ma-| NURSES ARE RETURNED TO NAZILINES Strange Scene Takes Place in No Man’s Land as Firing Stops By DON WHITEHEAD | i i | | WITH THE AMERICAN|3 pfore than 150 planes cascaded |FORCES AT BALLEROY, France, 3 tons of bombs on Noemfoor July 3—One of the strangest| battlefield scenes of.the invasion of France occurred Sunday in no, land when | Harbor, three miles beyond Garapan | man’s eight German | nurses, captured at Cherbourg were returned to the enemy lines and | pushed to within five and a half [for 30 minutes guns stopped roar-| Japanese shore installations. ing, snipers held their fire: and Officers Meet The procession was stopped. Capt. Quentin Roosevelt and Capt. Fred Ghercke stepped out! and they were met by two Ger-| officers saluted The German | capture of 80 tanks, and the burial Stiffiy and one, in English said: “I; is a very hot day.” “Yes, it is,” said Capt. Roosevelt. Then the German nurses climb- led out of the ambulancés and campaign, this time against trans-|walked down the road toward the 000-ton cargo vessel, headquarters |German lines. The German offi- cers saluted, wheeled, then walked tacks caused no damage,” the com- |away, and a few minutes later the more Japs have been killed in re- ;gun.s began firing again. First Such Incident So far known this is the first |time in a world war German wo- returned to the |enemy. No effort was made for an |exchange as ‘he Germans have |never captured any American nurses. The act was not one of chivalry jon the part of the Americans, and as a matter of fact they are glad to be rid of the eight German wo- men, as they would only be a minor |nuisance if held. |reason wl led, since t) | They were most tearfully happy |men have been official program in this issue of when informgd they would not be! theld prisoners but would be re- |turned to their own lines, I talked with one nurse who |could speak English. | “You want to go back to Ger- many,” I said. “Oh yes, yes, I want to go bac |after all T am a German.” “When do you think the war will be over,” I asked. “When do you think the war will be over,” came back. I said: “I hope the war will be over very soon.” S “I hope it too,” said the nurse. “Wouldn't you feel safer in Eng- land than Germany?” I asked. The nurse shrugged her should- ers and said: “Everybody would rather be at home. Everybody in "Germanv talked of war and bomb- /ing. We are tired of fighting. They hope the war will be finished soon in Germany and France.” I asked: “You think Germany (will win?” | She shrugged her shoulders and ;said: “I don’t know.” —— e —— - BULLETINS | LONDON—From 500 to 750 Fort- iresses and Liberators flew from ‘England in a shuttle flight today land bombed Nazi oil storages and refineries and transportation fa- cilities in Rumania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. The Budapest |was also bombed. K, | ROME—Secretary of War Stim- son has arrived in Italy after fly- ing from the United States via Africa to inspect hospitals and front line installations. WASHINGTON—Gen.. H. H. Ar- William McAllister, of the Union hold reports that Allied bombers| have cut German gasoline produc- tion so it is not one-third of the normal output. area | EW ATTACKS AIRDROME ON NOEMFOOR IS GIVEN BLOWS Intensity of Affack Indi- cates Pre-invasion Softening Up ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July Island, off northern Dutch New Guinea, in the heaviest air assault on the already battered islet, head= quarters announced today. The day- light raid on Saturday was followed by a night P-T boat shelling of The intensity of this attack indi- Island The smashing raid left the air- drome’s bicouav and supply areas blanketed with smoke. The oval-shaped island has three large airfields, two of which could be lengthened to accommodate heavy American bombers. Other assaults were made Satur- day with a heavy force of Liberators ranging westward to Boerce Island in the Banda Sea, where 58 tons of bembs were dropped on the air- drome shops and barracks. A reconnaissance unit sank a 1,- announced . Five hundred and twenty-four cent fighting in the Maffin Bay area THE FOUR MIS LOIS ALLEN - | 8 | | RUTH KUNNAS |on Biak Island. 'BALLEROY FRENCH ~ GIVE CONCERT FOR ~ ALLIED SOLDIERS i By HAL BOYLE | BALLEROY, France, July 3.—A None saw any | month ago only German movies were | hy they should be detain-|shown at the little theatre here, and | hey are noncombatants. | no Frenchman worthy of the name | would be seen there. | Yesterday a strange assemblage of soldiers and villagers, dressed in their Sabbath best, crowded the tiny room to attend the benefit concert | for war victims. { Cannonading, a few miles away, | shook the old grey stone building, | but no lines of fear showed on the | faces of those in the audience. | Grandmothers and little girls vied | for the honor of sitting on the laps |of the gum and candy wealthy Am- | erican soldiers. “Though we are still within the reach of German artillery we are glad to show our appreciation for your coming to this concert,” said Mayor Gauthier. “We waited four years for you to arrive and are very happy that you are here.” French workmen and their wives who passed the ticket window paid forty francs (80 cents) for the bene- |fit tickets, and that is a sizable | chunk of their income. Dr. Pierre Couedic said that the } town escaped being caught in a bat- tle such as leveled many of the Normandy towns in recent weeks. The stage wasiflanked with flags of France, United States, and Eng- land. The hush was broken only by the rumble of guns and the cracks of shellbursts. Girls and children of Balleroy sang to honor their friends and Allies, the soldiers of Britain and America. They sang light songs, | French concert numbers, and re- ligious pieces, and no group of en- | tertainers ever had a more enthus- iastic audience than that of the American troops in the front rows. “Last month the Germans couldn’t get a Frenchman here for a free show, and look at this turnout,” said Capt. Ralph W. Bell. —————— RYAN INSPECTS NEW | SCHOOL AT PELICAN Dr. J. C. Ryan, Commissioner of Education, has returned from Peli- can City, where he went on Friday to inspect the new school building and teacher’s quarters. While there he also conferred with members of the school board. Siena Taken | By Unifs of Fifth Army | | | | | | Rapid Progress Made by \ Eighth Army Now Near- ! ing City of Ancona ROME, July 3.—French troops and an American artillery tank force occupied the medieval metropolis | of Siena, 31 miles below Florence, | after more than a week of heavy | fighting through tough German de- fenses. The occupation touched off | a wild demonstration by the popu- | lation of 50,000 ‘The Eighth Army made rapid prog- | ress west of Lake Teasimeno in the | center of the line and gained on | the Adriatic coast where they cap- tured Osimo, only nine miles frum: Ancona. | Only a few hours earlier, Amer- | icans on Italy’s west coast crushed | German resistance at Cecina, after | some of the most vicious fighting since the fall of Rome. —————— 'NORMAN DAVIS, "~ CHAIRMAN RED (ROSS, IS DEAD HOT SPRINGS, Virginia, July 3. —Norman H. Davis, 66, Chairman | |of the American Red Cr and | | former diplomat, died ¢ yester- | |day as the result of cerebral hem- | orrhage. He had been in ill-health | |for sometime and had been resting | ! at his home here from the duties as | supervisor of the expanded wartime |Red Cross program. | | Before he became Red Cross | Chairman in 1938, he had served “n various diplomatic posts under | Presidents Wilson, H oover and| | Roosevelt. | | He was born in Tennessee. He entered the banking business early in life and at the age of 35 had| amassed nearly a million and then withdrew from active busi- ness to enter public service. | | i S FREEDOMS BETTY MILL MARY McCORMACK RAILWAY AT LEIYANG CUT BY JAP ARMY Japs Succeeitfin’ Slicing Sys- tem in Drive to Split China CHUNGKING, July 3—A com- | munique from General Joseph' Stil- well's headquarters indicated :that Jap troops Have cut the Canton- Hankow railway at Leiyang, 34 air- line miles southeast of Hengyang, in their drive to split China. The announcement said that two missions of Warhawks struck at Lesyang, destroying a pontoon bridge and strafing supply compounds and troops. 1t the Japs have by-passed Heng- 1g, strategic Hunan Province rail- way junction, 95 miles south of Changsha, and reached Leiyang, they are only 15 miles from Ku- wong, the provisional capital of China’s southern province of Kwang- tung. Other Jap forces are attacking northward from Canton, in Kwang- tung, in an effort to join southward moving forces in Hunan. — e CAPTURE OF UKHRUL NEXT FOR ALLIES KANDY, July 3.—An Allied raid- ing party, driving ahead of the main force, has penetrated the Jap strongheld of Ukhrul, 24 miles northeast of Imphal, in an offen- sive to clear the enemy out of In- dia and southeast Asia. Command Headquarters said the main body was last reported to be within about four miles of Ukhrul. In North Burma, a Jap force of Myitk- American-held airfield |yina and were wiped out. Against MISS LIBERTY BETTY.NORDLING CORONATION ON TONIGHT — ‘Tonight the coronation of Miss Liberty, represented by Miss Betty Nordling, will take place at a cere- mony at Firemen'’s Park, and tribute will also be paid fhe Misses Betty Mill, Lois Allen, Ruth Kunnas and Mary McCormack in the role of the | Four Freedoms. Lieut. Warren Caro will be the master of ceremonies, and Miss Liberty will be crowned by FOURTH OF JULY PARADE STARTS, 10:15 TOMORROW Led by a color guard from the | United States Coast Guard, Juneau's | tradittonal Fourth of July parade { will get under way promptly at 10:15 o'clock tomorrow morning | Marching units representing var- | lous service branches loned here | will follow the color guard, and next in line will be the floats, led by the | one bearing M Liberty and- the Four Freedoms, Other floats spon- sored by local grganizations will also be in the parade, as well as the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department. The foregoing entries in the parade | will assemble and form on the street | leading from the Alaska Dock to | lower Franklin Street, and are to be | in position not later than 10 o'clock. The parade will proceed up lower Franklin to Front Street to'Main | Street, and then along Willoughby | to Firemen's Recreation Park, The children’s novelty entries will assemble south of Winter and Pond’s on lower Franklin Street. In the reviewing stand located in front of the First National Bank will be Major Carl Scheibner, Mili- tary Aide to Gov. Ernest Gruening; Maj. William T. Fisher, representing the Subport; Capt. A. A. Boaz, Com- | manding Officer at Duck Creek; Col. J. P. Williams, Territorial | Guard; Lt. Warren Caro, Coast Guard; E. L. Keithahn, Commander of the American Legion, and A. B. Hayes, Mayor of Juneau. ! - - 'ROBOT BLITZ MADE ON SOUTH ENGLAND 3. Sir | j | | | | { | | LONDON, July Flying bombs killed Maj. Gen Arthur Scott, 82, retired, his wife Aimee Byng, |novelist, and Sir Percy Alden, for many years prominent in a cam- paign agaiust slums, it is disclosed, as the Germans resumed rocket bomb attacks on southern England One flying bomb hit a house, killing mother and five of her nine children The Paris controlled radio iden- tifies Plymouth and Portsmouth as the principal targets of the robot blitz a MEN HERE James E. Short, of the Custom | Fire Company, and Wayne F. Cowan dollars /made a suicidal attack against the'are guests at the Baranof, register- ing over the weekend from Billings, Montana. Nazis — Big Surprise Assaulf Made OnNormandy Hea vy Ar?ifi;ry Barrage Laid Down, then Sec- ond Offensive Starts | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF |THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 3.—American dough- boys, turning from the mop-up of Cherbourg, burst southward on Nor- mandy Peninsula in a dawn attack after a heavy artillery barrage, and are fighting in the mud - bogged French battlefields reminiscent of World War 1. The assault jumped off near the point on the west coast of the pen- insula from which a line flung across it just two weeks ago sealed off the upper half of the land neck. A front line dispatch said “the drive pushed from the area below Barneville Sur Mer on the coast east to St. Sauveur le Vicomte. The doughboy line dips below and be- tween these towns to St. Lo and Dourville, The assault opened after local ad- vances which headquarters said, won favorable “jumpoff” positions south of St. Lo and Dourville. The dough- boys also had pressed toward La Haye de Puits, six miles southeast of 8t. Lo and Dourville, The ‘American infantrymen were supported by heavy artillery, includ- ing some of the most powerful guns yet used in the French campaign, but rain and cloudy skies hampered Allied aerial aid. British Hold Firm Even as this assault thrust for- ward, other Americans maintained pressure against the big road town of St. Lo toward the center of the Normandy front, and the British held firm southwest of Caen. On the eastern flank there are indications that General Erwin Rommel is regrouping his forces there, after being beaten back from 25 thrusts against the British wedge across the Odon River, The new offensive came after General Omar Bradley hailed the Cherbourg victory as an “indica- tion to the enemy as to what he can expect from now on to the end.” More Prisoners Taken In the Cherbourg area the Amer- ican First Army units are in the process of reorganization for “of- fensive action” after mopping up the last German resistance on Cape de la Hegue over the weekend. Between 2,000 and 3,000 more prisoners were taken in the process. An-Associated Press dispatch from Cherbourg said the American bag of prisoners has reached 40,000, which indicates that the total since D-Day has reached more than 55,000 men. Last night -the London radio broadcast declared “gigantic Allied landing operations” took place Sun- day on the coast behind British forces, while armored vehicles, tanks, troops, and ammunition were also landed on the southeastern side of the Cherbourg Peninsula. Head- quarters disclosed that Gen. Brad- ley’s command, the United States First Army, and the British Second Army, under the command of Gen- eral Miles Dempsey, form the 21st Army group which Gen. Montgom- ery commands under Eisenhower. S e —— BOND SALES NOW OVER 80 PER CENT Bond purchases in Juneau have reached 81.1 per cent of the total all series quota which is $435,000. Sales tabulated today are $353,118.25. The series E quota for Juneau is $210,000 and sales are tabulated at $124,349.75, which is 59.2 per cent )f the prescribed total. A huge boost is expected when the payroll savings sales have been counted, as well as other purchases which have been pledged, but for which bonds have not yet been made out,