The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1944, Page 1

THE L1gp, ARY CONGR ol RIAL htflu,— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. ‘)(:95. g_]UNIC/\U. ALASKA, WEH\]’SI).\Y ]l LY 5, l‘)-H —— 4 Ml MB R /\SS()( l/\ll I) l’Rl SS “PRICE TEN CENTS — | YANKS FIGHT NAZIS ON CITY STREETS Red Armies Now Approaching Baltic Areas 2 POWERFUL FORCES ARE MOVING ON Latvia, lithuama May Be‘: Reached Soon at PresentSpeed MOSCOW, Ju]v 5. —TWO pOWPIfuI‘ Russian armies pounded on toward | Latvia and Lithuania at a pace which may reach one or both of the | Baltic republics in three or four | days, menacing Dvinsk, Latvia; and | Wilno and Kuanas in the Soviet | Lithuanian Republic. Some 200 miles to the south the | German command said the Nazi | forces evacuated Kowel, in old Po- land. Moscow made no reference to Kowel or of this central front. Berlin also declared the R have landed on five islands in Narva Bay, between Estonia and Finland. The Russians corssed the Estonian frontier in their offensive | last winter, pounding close to Narva on the bay. The DNB broadcast said the counterattacking Finns had re- gained two of the islands. Russian field dispatches declare the Germans appeared wholly un- (Continued on Page Two) fans | The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON--It hasn’t out yet, but hard-working Chester| Bowles, the man who made OPA| as popular as 1t could be, has writ- | ten a letter to the White House | asking the President to relieve him of his job. | He has told FDR that Connecti-| cut political leaders have offered him the Democratic nomination for Governor and that he has to give| them a decision within the next 30 days. Bowles, in his usual tactful man- ner, also laid down some tough| conditior:s for the President to tnke if he remains on at the head of| OPA. He specified that he would‘ continue on the job only if he was put in charge of all demobilization | after the war, including the moms‘ post of disposing of surplus ma-| terials. The President, who likes the job| Bowles bhas done, probably would be delighted to pass demobiliza- tion on to him. However, Justice Jimmy Byrnes has put his close friend Will Clayton in this key post | and wants to keep him. Not long ago when Clayton ten-‘ dered his resignation over the| Texas politicai rebellion and the | part his Texas business associates played 1n it, Justice Byrnes flatly | refused to accept it. With more tact that Leon Hen- derson and almost as much cour-| age, Bowles has held the price linm pretty well and made people under- | stand—if not like—rationing. (Lt. leaked | BLUE (-RABS PROTECTORESS ‘ The part wnich the vivacious| First Lady of Kentucky is playing| in the affairs of the state is caus- ing more and more political gossip in the Blue Grass country. The other day distinguished Con- gresman John Robsion, long the| one leading Republican from Ken- tucky, visited new Republican Gov- ernor Simeon Willic with a group of other Republicans. Graciously,! Mrs, Willis invited them for din-| ner, sat with them during a de- licious repast. But after dinner, when the men | usually zre left to their cigars and bourbon, Mrs. Willis lingered on. Glances were cast in her direc- tion. FPeet shitted. The visiting GOP leaders had intimate political matters to discuss, and were ac-| customed to talking without ladies present. Finally Governor Willis' secre- tary, Relph Homan, decided to be (Continued on Page Four) | two-thirds of the way to Kornasoren | | GOP Candidate Is Family Man CIR CUITOF ~ EUROPE MADE BY BOMBERS 17,000 - Mile Shuttle Tour Proves Hitlers" Fort- ress Vulnerable LONDON, July ‘|Fortresses have completed their | shuttle bombing tour of l-m.len!l Europe by bombing French rmli, yards on the last leg of the Brit- l | ain-Russia-Italy-Britain circuit, while other United States heavies | | assaulted the naval base at Toulon, where the French fleet lies scuttled. Still other flights of Fortresses {and Liberators struck from Britain | at the robot bomb sites in northern France, airdromes in Holland and | Belgium, and before dawn fleets of | RAF heavy and light bombers made ! devastating attacks from the Chans to the Ruhr shuttlers on the last historic 7,000-mile | which proved that every German-held Europe is {to American bombs, struck the | |south of France at the rail yards at Beziers near Montpelier | | The Toulon raid is the fifth from Tfaly. Instaliations were at- tacked and fighter opposition | was reported. | Other formation: of = Fortresses and Liberalors attacked rail facili- {ties in southern France, and Brit- ish heavy and light bombers struck before dawn at railroads, troop |bivouacs, rocket bomb launching platforms, and a synthetic oil plant |in the Rubr. | ALLIES NEAR AREZIO0, ALSO PORT LIVERNO 5. Amvrluan leg of mission, part of vulnerable | no Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Republican nominee for Presi- dent of the United States, is pictured with his wife and two sons, Tommy, 11, and John, 8. YANKS NEAR 17 More Jap AIRFIELD ON Vessels Are NOEMFOORI. SunkbySubs One Drome Aiready Taken Undersea crafi Crpdned -Base Is' Within 800 ' with Knocking Out Jap Miles of Philippines Dream of Conquest ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- r P | WASHINGTON, July 5.--Secre-| QUARTE“S IN NEW GUINEA, | 3y of the Navy James V. Forrestal : Jul, —f an para s e § y A“‘”‘f N paratroop: have today reported the sinking of 17! dmpp(d on Noemfoor Island off ve J¢ g s { { more Jap vessels, including a light Dutch New Guinea to reinforce the | . . il prleid cruiser and a destroyer. The enemy | | ground troops landed there last | ships were sent to the bottom by day by water. | erican submarines. i Aided by tanks and paratroops, | sy s cratay. AR | Troops Close in on Import- ant Center, Port in lfaly ROME, July 5, Eighth Army troops, converging from the south- T e R e L ry disclosed the latest | west and south, have driven within tack on Monday morning and by |15, 2% & news conference, and said | five miles of the important com- noon had captured Biefoeri village, that the submarine crews deserve|munications center of Arezzo, on the “lion’s share of the credit for |the road to Florence, while Am- knocking the props out from under |eucan units on Italy’s west coast Japan’s dreams of naval conquest.” | moved up to the outskirts of Ros- Forrestal said the rate of ‘m"mg(;gmno less than thirteen miles from the Jap hant fleet is going | Liverno, Allied Headquarters said {to be accelerated and driven home| Both advances were gcorded myl! the Japs retreat. | against stiff German resistance TArice aatiails. Japan is losing merchant ships| The Nazis have every indication Liberators dropped 33 tons of‘ “, er than she can afford,” he stat- | they intended to .battle to retain bombs on Yap Island on Monday, ;:““.]‘f:“‘fitifzfit :::fi CO"““”“:]‘(‘?“ l‘;’f the valu;hlc port of Liverno as lon e - | as possible. als(‘)""f"‘l‘;i;e‘: “"r“c“fl's‘:l"m:j“fii‘\“l | the end of 1944 with a sizeable and | Hp;,vy itk Albisted @ the dom+ b i ama e | growing deficit.” inant hills, opened fire on the ap- |~ The Navy chief predicted that|proaching American infantry ang | the main battles are still to come ' tanks around Rosi ignano. Movement? tha the Mesise Vflth the chief ones | westward, seen behind German line NTRO[ on land and infantry o indicated replacements are bein Huncersea. raers, witn o0 ot oo (OF RESISTANCE bcun the Jap army in a k""Ck',movcd into position. | WASHINGTON, Jul\' 5. — The |enemy boats definitely sunk Sun- airdrome from Kamiri field, already | occupied. | Ground forces in the Maffin Bay area, 250 miles to the east, enlarged their perimeter on Biak, where the Yanks set up road blocks across the | m newest announced to 791 the number of Jap| (CHINA'S SPIRIT (.mH. of all types sunk, probably sinkings important West Coast pilchard fish-| In the latest bag, in addition to | ery will again be under Federal con- | the two combatant vessels sent | hml during the 1944-45 season, be- | down, two medium-sized tankers | August 1, with the added | were blasted out of the water along | et ratka vessels wint ne | wint five medium carco transporte | AMerican Vice-President licensed as well as those in ope | three small cargo vew»l\, a lary {tion"in " California, Oregon, and | careo transport, thres medium cni.| Wallace . Complefes Tour - Refurning | Washington waters. sels, one small cargo trans- Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes |said the coordinated pilchard pro- | LT | duction plan includes government LANCHOW, China, July 5 a 12-day tour of China and a 'here to the shrine containing 'hcmvnw of purse seiners, assign- ment of vessels to fish in certain suppoand remains of Ggnghis K | American Vice- President Henry A 'SIX PERSONS LEAVE are and the allocation of the vIA pAN AMER'(A Tmu among various ports and pro- | | Johz\WallaLe is enroute to the United cessing’ plan [ Pan American passengers States. and | T for Fairbanks were Mrs IN FROM TENAKEE Orgss, , M Py Cross, Wallace said he has learned that despite economic difficulties and the | : |Charles Workman. Mrs. R. Williamson has arrived Evelyn Magee and Paul Magee | current military reverses, “the spirit here from Tenakee and is staying'at Were flown to Whitehorse, and of resistance remains strong with the Chinese,” the Gastineau Hotel Marvin Smith to Seattle, B 20 port. e After America Now War respondent for The Empire has just rom border returned from a onc-month, to-coast In a series of four artic who emerges wartime to get acquainted with the the impressed Dewey Acknowledes Convention Ovation Republican nominee for President, acknowledges the ovation of the Gor (AP Gaov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, nvention sta Jo Martin crowd jamming the ntion chairman, stands in back of Dewey. NAZISHIP - BLOWS UP standard-bearer, Kep. eph (R.-Mass.), cor Wirephoto) GOP Standard-Bearers Meei $25,000,000, Kills 80 Persons, Denmark | STOCKHOLM, July 5—The Free | Danish Press Service ted today | that a German munitions ship blew up in Aarbus Harbor yesterday, causing damage estimated at close to $25,000,000. | Pirst reports | sources indicated that at least 80 | persons were killed in the blast and from underground three hundred injured and maimed The explosion damaged possibly a thousand build- ings. Aarhus, second city of Denmark, | was set afire when several other . | vessels burned in the harbor earlier, the news agency saidd. ' Meanwhile, order is being restored to the troubled city of Copenhagen |after five days of general strike and disturbances to force conces- | sions from the Qermhan occupation Al] horities. - FASTTRAIN - Gov. Thomas E. neminee, greets his running Vice-Presidential nominee, as Dew to address the GOP convention at ( Dewey of New York (left), Republican Presidential | John W. Bricker of Ohio, | reached the speakers’ platform | (AP Wirephoto) ! mate, Gov. | g0, AGSTAFF Ganta Fe Chiel, {speeding le. west ja strajght-awa tretch Monday extra 158 to left on night a spectacular wre fireman, three 30, locomotive the four Army with passengers the rails on a mountain nd piled up which killed passengers and coast Conscious; Lef Us GoRightonfo Wm The lu injured The tride toppled was over track and !nu(|h'(l mail cars. N by that ocean the in the and vy doctors Ah«’mld trair. cared for light of bonfires started by | who quickly gathered at principal one, 1 think, is o border United conscious” (Jack Stinnett, Washington cor- and States 1s a as any Indian the the “war to ocean thoroughly coast- the country. . of which country could be When the invasion finally I was in middiewest elsewhere, it d than a ripple much of it. From a score of citi " \here were reports of churches fill- ers of | o4 for fervent prayers. Newspapers, enoush wih reports of the invasion, dis- Of | yppeared from the stands within trip around -oa : cam s LIPPMAN IN TOWN There hardly alk, yes, | , he gives his ob- a nation at war.) | 11 the fir tions of oy e Willlam Lippman, of the Morris Fisheries Company, has registered at the Baranof from Chicago. - -, PRESTONS ARRIVE and Mrs. Tom Preston are more By JACK WASHINGTON, July 5 from the clol Washington long TENNETT rest Mr. but being |, of things l “(Continued on Page Four) can't 12 AR heip number country by Baranof Hotel a the INHARBOR \ Blast Causes Damage of was sald to have | IS WRECKED iz, July 5~—The ll‘:ll)l‘ as- | the casualties AMERI(ANS IN STIFF BATTLING : British Make Advance Around Caen-Rommel Forces in Action BULLETIN—SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 5.—Doughboys are fighting hand-te-hand with the Germans through the streets of. La Haye du Puits tonight, the Gefman anchor of their western flank in France. They have seized the railway station in the heart of the town. Giant German Tiger tanks, for the first time, are re- ported moving up in the sector. The Americans have closed in on the town from three sides. SUPREME, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 5-—American troops late today are fiercely fighting the Germans on the streets of La Haye du Puits after an advance along the entire La Haye de Puits front of more than two miles. | On the British front around Caen heavy fighting is reported between Baron and Esquay as Marshal Erwin Rommel sends more reinforcecents | south to break the British lines. | Canadian troops have consolidated their positions around Carpiquet but the Germans stilk hold the air- field nearby. | During the present invasion the Allies have so far liberated more than 58 towns, villages and cities in Normandy. EISENHOWER I'LII, OVER BATTLE AREA IN FRANCE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY July 5.-—General Dwight D. Eisen- hower returned to his headquarters after celebrating the Fourth by fly- ing with Maj. Gen. Elwood Ques- ada on an observation trip over the Normandy battle area. General Eisenhower flew in a Mustang over the combat area with Maj. Gen. Quesada, Chief of the U. S. Ninth Air Force Fighter Com-~ mand. General Eisenhower also made a trip by road which took him past an enemy pocket of resistance in the American sector on the western part of the Cherbourg Peninsula. » During his visit in France Gen. Eisenhower conferred with Gen, B L. Montgomery and Gen. Omar Bradley. It is belleved that it is ‘Lllr Supreme Commander’s first ;rllgllt over the area, and the first in which two generals flew in a | plane built for one person 'TONGASS FOREST T0 BE SURVEYED FOR WOODPULP Chief of U.S. Forest Service Watts fo Check Estimates ~Inferest Is Aroused WASHINGTON, h\!y b. The Department of Agriculture is look- ing to Alaska forests as a possible source of wood for permanent post- war pulp and paper industry to | supplement, the diminishing supplies in the United States proper Lyle F. Watts., Chief of the For- st Service, will make a survey of | lu| 4 National Forest and check estimates the forest there has for sufficient wood pulp to produce an- nualiy 800,000 tons of sulfate or sulfite pulp. The est Service announced in- |terest on the part of American manufacturers has resulted in the service drawing up tentative sales contracts for the sale of timber irights in one section of Tongass | National Forest to private concerns and if the demand of economic con- ditions warrant, sealed bids may be here from Skagway and staying at asked for the timber after De- cember 1,