The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1944, Page 1

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JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS =Sl PRICE TEN CENTA SUPERS IN NEW ATTACKS JAP HOMELAND Defenses of Caen Are Crushed By Planes Are (aptured Infad YANKS TAKE KEY CITY IN SLOWER THAN STIFF FIGHT ANTICIPATED Six Towns Fall fo British e LS and Canadians in \Fanatical Resistance and Eastern Normandy Unexpected Weather : Main Reasons Given SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ! iaitt E A EX | X THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY By WES GALLAGHER FORCE, July 8 British tanks % i ritish tanks and | o, o p e HEADQUARTERS OF bayonets, spearheading the powerful new offensive against Caen, smash- THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July ed to within a little more than a Kalf mile of the heart of the German vasion of France has not lived up to b b et Sl | the expectations made by its plan- Six towns fell to the British and | Ders, Who estimated the assault T e ‘which broke|Would progress more rapidly than “through the crust of Caen’s major | it has. o e Officers made no secret of this Simultaneously American offens- today, but at the same time hast- tves eaptiired St. Jean de Daye in|€ned to say that the western front, the center of the Normandy front after one month of fighting, uoulfinL and won nine square miles of hard be described as “unsatisfactory ToubhE groini. | One officer said, “After all, we Near the western hinge of the landed and established a front, and Nazi defensive line at La Haye du | ® Month ago we were none too sure Puits, Gen. Montgomery sent an whether we could do that, offensive forward before dawn under |, That progress is slow is attributed a canopy of blasting artillery and to a number of reasons by various planes, and cracked through \hr‘c'”‘(‘m"(' The chief reason which s ion are. tormed by heads | CETEes is that the Germans have quarters as more heavily held than reacted violently and fought fan- any attacked in this war. atically for each foot of ground, Six stubbornly held towns in the | Russian style. arc north of the Caen bastion, bar- The worst June weather in 25 ring the road to Paris, were en- years has h‘alked the Allies from guifed in the first few hours of the ['using their air superiority, and gales offensive which hit on a front near- | the channel have caused consid- ly five miles wide. erable damage in unloading opera- Associated Press correspondent | UODS: Don Whitehead reported the cap- T ture of St. Jean in @ dispatch from the scene. He said the doughboys a sh. through th hland t kot ook 1 o8 s - Rl Mother Return Home o e Vi i o Mrs. J. O. Rude and daughter, The Washington . 0. e Merry -Go-Round ™" Mrs. Rude left Juneau in March to visit her sci, Donald, seaman By DREW PEARSON |first class, durinz his last leave be- ot T Ravert 5. Allen mow on active |fore being transferrcd to New Gui- service with the Army.) nea, where he is now stationed. | She then traveled to Minnesota WASHINGTOU—It %5 no longer for a visit witn her parents and a secret that the United States now to attend the gracuation of Miss has two bases v Russia for shuttle- Rude from St. Olaf's College at (Lt. bombing. One base is located in Northf.cid. Northern Russia for the use of Miss Rude will remain here dur- U. S. planes a‘tacking Germany ing the summer months, and then from England. The other base is will journey to Petersburg, where in Southern Russia for use of U. S.'she has obtained a teaching po- planes coming from Italy. | sition. Not known, however, is the fact that the northern base recently | sufferea a serious Nazi bombing‘AlASKA (OAS‘IAL ON raid which knocked out a consid-| erable number of Flying Fortresses.| '[wo S“’KA H.IGI'"S What happened was that the U.j S. bombers had completed a suc-| P cessful raid over Germany, during A trip to Sitka was made today which they encountered little | PY Alaska Coas:! lines with George fighter opposition, and had arrived Marju and James O'Connor as pas- safely at the Russian shuttle-bomb- (Sengers for that point, and Fred ing base. Tired the crews hncd‘@meru:l for Te.!mke& Marion Tas- up their planes for the night andSil disembarked at Hawk Inlet. wenit 46 Bléep in adacent barracks.| A second ARitha txfp catried M. But because the base is some- | Davis to Chicagef, Louis Zarate to what cramped, the planes were Excursion Inlet, and A. A. Hansen, lined up closer to each other than M. Baker, and Evelyn MacDonald they should have been. to Sitka. At 2 a. m, the Nazs, who ap-| M. _’]opkm» was e passenger for parently had trailed the U. S.‘Ke"kaan this: morning. planes but had not attacked, sud-| B 75 denly staged a night raid. Catch-| ing the hase rclatively unguarded.‘GIRl S(oul (AMP they made mince-meat of the neat- ly lined-up Flying Fortresses. | VIsm"G DAY ‘o Few of the bomber crews were killed, due to the fact that they| BE SUNDAY EVE'" were asleep in their barracks. | s g NOTE—Senator Langer of North| Tomorrow is visitors' day at the Dakota has inquired of Secretary|Girl Scout Camip at Eagle River, Stimson as ‘o what radar andjand according to advices received fighting plane protection we have here this mornng, the girls are worked out witn the Russians for expecting their parents and friends the safety of ‘hese new shuttle-|to pay them a call. The girls are bombing bases. He wants to know having a fine time during the pres- whether this disaster was the faultjent fine weatner. of U. S. officers or due to poor| cooperation. seem to be serious in Texas, where JESSE JONFS AND FDR E;I‘::bhe‘e‘:d::d.‘]%w Jones Joreny White House intimates relate an| wwhy gont you put the squeeze interesting phase of the recent con-‘On that fallow Jones. Mr. Proal- versatii n between the President and|ge.¢0 ; i dynamic Governor Ellis Arnall o(‘ Georgia regarding the Southern re- the President replied. “He's im- volt against Roosevelt. pervious. Do you know what he Governor Arnall was telling the a4 tho nerve to come in and tell President about certain angles of o That he didn’t know any- the Southern revolt, which he said S didn't cxist in Georgia, but did (Continued on Page Four) INVASION IS|Liling Falls BOMB BLITZ | 8—The Allied in- | “You can't squeeze Jesse Jones,” ToNew China ' CONTINUING Counferblow ON LONDON CHUNGKING, July 8. — Chinese o o i mperans e Capital’s Millions Going, Y s o ront i maien veng.| - Underground-General | Exodus of Children | yang, occupying the town of Lxlmg,} 80 miles northeast of the rail junc- | tion, the High Command announced. | In the Hengyang area, rumors | reaching here said that Jap forces | which laid siege for twelve days are | withdrawing, but confirmation is lacking. The. fall of Liling was disclosed LONDON, Julv were winging cver land at an fied rate early today and more ot London’s mil-| lions moved underground, where it sufficient | 8—Flying bombs southern Eng- inten: : ! sed |is announced there is in a Stilwell communique, which|¢hejter to accommodate everyone said that ground troops occupied |, g pbunks for 4,000.000 people. { the town Thursday after Warhawks | .y c.pital is fast becoming ol and medium bombers struck savagely : i o W ' city without cnildren, with 15,000¢ {at Jap shipping. g it g% A being evacuated on Friday. Thej exodus Is reminiscent of the blitz] as ‘(A p l[ U R E S 2 Unot:ically the cesualties are re-| | ‘|mxll'(| fewer than usual, prob- | ing for cover more quickly when i |the sirens sound. ! | The battle againct the robots is r | unabated. 1t is disclosed that Royal | great law courts in the Strand. ably becayse th» citizens are duck- : Air Force heavics dropped “earth- ROME, July 8~-Viciously defend- [auake” bombs on the = enemy's ed towns of Rosignano and Castel- |coastal installatlons. From it 1 Ilina, on the west coast highway to believed the Germ are planning | Livorno and Pist, have been cap-{t0 launch Jopz range . rockets tured by Am 2 infantrymen |Coastal defenders said a number of | after three days of bitter street|the robots aimed at southern Eng- fighting, Allied headquarters an- land we e shot down ——————— — nounced toda (Ita¥an resistance, in a communi- | que quoted by London radio, is said [to be taking the form of street fighting, which is raging at Livorno Polish Cify Is | All Fascist chicfs have left town.) | | The doughboys drove the enem V‘G i v e n U p By | out of two towns yesterday, a head- { quarters’ spokesman said, though | the enemy fought to the last house. | ! — e s sorpy O€rman Army GAME IS ON SUNDAY LONDON, July 8-—The German High Command has announced the e | abandonment of Baranowicze in The All-Star softball game can-| Poland, nearly midway between Ber- celled on July 1 because of rain,|lin and Moscow, and declared the will be played alf tomorrow after- | Soviets farther: north are fighting ‘ ; | Baranowicze is a stronghold on MOOSE LODGE IS 10 arives o i p | breached the secondary Nazi defense The Red Armies have hammered {noon. The game will start |in the outskirts of Wilno, 100 miles | the main rail and highway route, HolD So(IAl IONIGHT; The Russians are 530 miles from line running from Wilno, 110 miles | forward 217 miles in 17 days. The Moose Lndge hold a social tonight in the clul headquarters starting at 8 o'clock.| There will be music, games, dancing | and refreshments of cookies and| coffee. Women of the Moose are| at 4| 3 o'clock, according to announcemnnt.‘w“ of ctlies Raumsline Dorder. .- — }nnd its fall opened the way for drives to Bialystok and Warsaw, 229 | Berlin and 490 from once besieged members wiil| Moscow. The fall of Baranowicze to the northwest to Pinsk, 70 miles to the south. }m\'ited to attend the affair. | s | T 5% | TO VISIP GILLESPIES TWO IN VIA PAA | Westey R. Miller, grandson of A Pan American plane, in today M. and Mrs. Roy Gillespie, has from Whitehorse, brought to Ju-|arrived from the south to spend neau Josephin Lynn and Francois|the summer months in Juneau | Horberk. [This is his firsy visit to Alaska. i BIRE. | — e ; POLICE COURT FINES ! HALIBUT LISTIN Harold D. Hempleman was fined E. E. Engstrcm today wi thewzs in Municipa! Police Court this purchaser of 4,000 pounds brought morning on a drunk and disorderly in by the Fan, 5000 pounds by |charge. the Nuisance, and 9,000 pounds by | et e o the Vivian. Alaska Coast Fisheries SIDNEY THOMPSON TO were purchascrs of the 15,000 CRAIG THIS MORNING pounds brought in by the Viking. | Deputy Marsbal Sid Thompson o o b |left this morning for Craig on of- |ficial business for the United State |Marshal's office - e e VAL DO, Quebac, July 8.-—Fifteen hundred residents of three mining MRS. BRANDES HERE Mrs. Fred Brandes and Miss .Manon Brandes have arrived here from Seattle and are staying at the Gastineau Hotel. s g communities found refuge in the N FROM TYI :;I:zn'b) 't(:)‘:ms of Senneterre ',n.r.: Mr. and Mrs. HiKr stenbanus| 0RO, Al (taglog fores (fires destroyed the town of P: s, with a pooulation of 300, and i S :aa d pcr.iluus'_" close to other . ow! | COL. RIEGLE HERE | Residents were evacuated, but one Col. Roy W. Riegle, former|¥oman is feared to hhve lost her jare in town from Tyee and have regisiered at the Baranof. Lt. Commander at Duck Creek, recently [1f¢: at Fort Richardson, passed through et e o o e | Juneau this forenoon enroute to the |®* ©® © © © o o o o States on his way for two months’|® WEATHER REPORT . attendance at the Military Govern-|® (U. 8. Bureaun) . ment School at the University of | ® Temp. for Friday, July 7. ® Virginia following which he will be |® Maximum 74, minimum 51. @ assigned to the Far East, ® 0 0 0 0 05 9 0 00 | of 1940 when 1t wes in full swing.} T Mor= of the capital's functions} | moved underground, including thed Enemy This line of Japanecse “Zere” fighters shown in the above picture, stands on Aslito The capluré of these planes intact is evidence of the strong and swift advance of U. S, troops as they s in the background.—International. ands of the Mari invade i nas gre oup. Note the scrap pile of Jap pli "Doubtiul” States Is Big Issue as November Flections Come Nearer (Last of a series of four arti- cles by Jack Stinnett after a tour of the United States givi his observations nation at war and also political view- points.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 8. With the November electi practically on our doorsteps, one national conven- tion over and the other at the front door, the amazing thing is the num- her of “doubtful” States which seem really to be doubtful This conclusion comes from scores of political leade Even in normally Republican States like Nebraska, the GOP lead- } ers aren’t so positive tl events to conse won't have more effect on the November national vote than any! recent polls would lead one to be- lieve, Ilinois is listzd by some in the Republican columns now that Gov Dewey is the Republican candidate and the prospect is that President Roosevelf will be the Democratic nominee for a fourth term. But in Illinois, you won't find anything like the confidence 3 licans outside the State California, and for that matter the entire Pacific Coast, is a question mark. Political observers there say local issues could prove important than national ones. Party lines in California are as indefinite as an uncharted coast. The failure of his own Democratic Party to re- nominate Rep. John Costello when, in the same primary, the Republi- cans made him their nominee, is typical. California could end in a photo finish, but it could just as well prove a landslide State for either presidential nominee. Colorado is being listed by some people in the GOP certainty column, but not among unbiased political observers there. Similarly, Penn- sylvania is being given an edge for the Democrats, but not by the doubtfuls in either party. Missouri is another interesting ‘plyotal” State. Local issues there are much more likely to have a bearing on the nationally than in the amount of steam that can be got up for any presidential nominee named In Missouri there was a pre-primary split in the State Democratic ma- chine, but observers in both parties were convinced that troubles within the party would be all ironed out before November. In Kentucky, majority leader Sen Alben Barkley is running for re- clection and don't mistake the Sen- | ator’s prestige in the State he has find in Repub- | way the State will go | represented for 18 years. In addi- | tion, the new Republican State re- gime, headed by Gov. Simeon S Willis, has had some rough going. | 1f you are betting on outcome of | the elections, consider these things. | State issue car be ignored, re | gardless of who the presidential candidates are. - ee~ YANKS TAKE THIRD FIELD ONNOEMFOOR | |Occupation of Island Com- | pleted - Yap Airbase Damaged in Raid | ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July 8.—Gen, Douglas MacArthur's forces | captured Noemfoor's Namber air- much more | drome without opposition on Thurs- | |day to conclude the occupation of { the island’s three airstrips, all with- | in bombing range of the Philippine; |in a whirlwind five-day campaign The last airfield was taken by | infantry which landed at noon cov |ered by destroyers and made the occupation complete, Kamiri airdrome was captured a | few hours after the first landing on July 2, and has already been used by Allied planes ‘here are indi- tions the Japanese pulled out of Namber prior to the attack, some apparently fleeing from the island in boats and others hiding in the hills To support the invasion of Saipan in the Marianas, Liberators of the Far Eastern Air Force attacked Yap in the western Carolines on July |5 and 6, and caused heavy damage to the airbase despite interception form 60 Jap planes. A total of 55 tons of bombs were dropped. | One Liberator was lost and .two encmy planes were downed in a raid ed Rabaul, New Britain, whose five airfields were blasted with 105 tons of bombs. In the past five days 504 tons have been ex- pened on Rabaul's airfields. A headquarters spokesman offered no explanation for the heavy pounding of that now inactive base, on by-pa: llies PIUEEE—— (ENTERS STRUCK IN NIGHT RAID | Industrial, Mary Targets Hit in Both Japan and China | WASHINGTON, July 8. — B-29s struck five Jap naval, industrial and military centers in Japan and China last wight,«#ad returned to their bases without loss. A Twentieth Air Force communi- | que reported that in addition to hitting Sasebo and war plants at Yawata and Omura, the planes at- | tacked supply bases at Laoyao and Hankow, China. The Jap targets are in the highly industrialized northern end of Kyushu, the south- ernmost of the principal home islands. The targets in China were the important enemy bases of Laoyao, a port on the China coast north of Hangehow, and Hankow, 400 miles inland on the Yangtze River. The raiding Superforts encount- ered only very weak fighter op- position and light antlaircraft fire. An earlier report that Tobata, across the river from Yawata, was hit, was an error. 5 4 ’ irfield on Saipan. JUNEAU 1§ SR BEHIND ON 1100 Bombers BOND DRIVE Make Attack oo o o o OVET GETMANY |tensive campaign to raise $435,000 /in the Fifth ¥ Loan drive In| A R |the Channel orea, the total sales |stand at $39363850. In o5 r;‘one Hu“dred Fou"een I sales. for which the quota is $210,- | 000, the sum of $148.690.00 has been | reached, still considerably short of| Nazi Planes Are Shot Down in Battles the mark. | Al ‘ : ll‘u.wvvm, (u“-”mflilll W"b" “":‘:‘ LONDON, July 8.—More than 1,- {drive 15 not officially over unuli gy ynjted States heavy bombers i-lll]y 31, and all cales of war bonds, with fighter escort downed 114 Ger- lincluding series E, F and G, sold| yap planes yesterday in great aerial between now zrd that time, ““"‘batues over Germany. ‘cnunt woward the drive quota. | The raiding forces lost 36 bombers | - 48 lapd six fighters, the communique | says. S'o(K QUOIATIONS | The German air forces offered | the most desperate resistance that . A sing | 135 been known for weeks, sending NEW YORK, July 8 Closing |17 100 planes near Leipzig in an | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | attack there, | Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft |6 | necott 33'¢, North American Avia- | | of California 38%. stock today s 67, American Can 3 S e e |92, American Tel. 'and Tel. 168%, | Ll Bethlehem Steel 66, Curtiss-Wright | wAllA(E IN International Harvester 78, Ken- | tion 9%, New York Central 20, | Northern Pacific 18%, Standard Oil | Dow, Jones averages today are as | ! follows: Industrials, 150.03; rails, |4247; utilities, 2443, A AL MRS Vice - Presi_d;;n Discusses REPORT OF Agricultural Problems ‘ MEE"NG Bv with Professor 1 EDMONTON, July 8 —Vice Presi- | NAZI HEADS‘(M” Henry A. Wallace enroute home after a visit of six weeks in |Siberia, China and Russia on a |fact-finding mi~sior for President AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Roosevelt, stoppoa here last night July 8.—Germany's military leaders 'for two and one-half hours. are holding serious discussions with| Wallace lunched with Dr. Robert Hitler on the Reich’s critical mili- Newton, President of the Alberta tary stuation. | University, who later ' told the The conferences, which were re- ported by a trustworthy informant, began early this week, and are com- parable to the Kalser's famous Grand Council on August 19, 1918, when he decided the war could not | be won, but all might not yet be lost, and bitter fighting might still | bring an acceptable peace. Such reports, however, even|D¢ held as soon as possible b though sifted for trustworthiness, tween Russia, Canada and the are often inspired by German United States and “focus attention sources. on these regions and take steps for development.” ysmen of the visit. Walace chat- ed mainly on agricultural problems in Russia and {hina, but did not touch on any political questions. Dr. Newton said Wallace made particular reference to Alaska on agricultural matters and also said inter-Arctic conference should an ~ - - MRS. SWEENLY, NIECE BACK | 5 e IR | Mrs. Dora Sweeney and niece, CARRINGTON IN TOWN Margaret Clark, have returned from L. W. Carrington is in Juneau the south, where they attended the|and has register:d at the Gastineau ssion of Rainbow Girls Hotel,