The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" THE CONGR SERIAL R D AUG 12 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9699. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e PRICE Thg CENTA ALLIES SEIZE NORMANDY STRONGHOLDS Red Vanguard 60 Miles from East Prussia PEOPLE FLEF BLAZING CIRCUS TENT beiicved development | area, es anada fe: [ Pacific route of (Continued on Page Twm e, The Washington' Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt. 4 | WASHINGTON—Two of the most importent diplomatic reports of the war have been received at the receipt reports | areas forcibly wrested away from | Craft were probably destroyed on the ground at Guam. them after the last war. i vt i STALIN DISCUSSES POLISH BOUNDARIES In their separate interviews wnhl Stalin, the two Polish-Americans, Father Orlemanski and Professor Lange, heard the reassuring words from _the stronz man of Russia| WASHINGTO:! that his government wants a ator Alben W. “strong, independent Poland after and temporarily the war—a Poland which will belate majority Ic strong both internally and exter-!tacular row wi nally, but which will be favorably velt last Februs disposea to the Saviet Union.” 'nominate the Chief Stalin went even further and a fourth term Runmm Canadian officer from said that he was ready to help cre- | This is believed to indicate com- ‘Montreal, and Alan Wood, of the| ate a new Polish Aimy. plete personal reconciliation be- London Daily Express. “I am ready to build an Army|tween the Chicf Executive and We were astonished to find our- for Poland, equp it fully and arm Barkley. selves treated as a sort of Allied it with the bect guns the Soviet| idelugn(mn and, looking at their| Union can make,” he told Pro- |faces, none could doubt the spon-| fessor Lange. “I will do this for at| taneous exultation of these people, least 1,000,000 men.” We sat in a low jeep as firing & sti Mr. and Mrs. Walter French are so discussed the question broke out intermittently. The fir: Stalin also disc i) |here from Cordova and have reg- ¥ s"j listered at the Gastineau. 3 DEATH HOLD i 'Wallace Predicls New | | SEATTLE, July 10—A postwar v\mlrl dominate cconomically by |of the northwest meaning he vast resour and great de-|Alaska, western C: and the ‘\rlapnvvm of or bounding | western United 5t should be a Imponam Ral‘ Lme Be |the North Pacific Ocean is en-|matter of permanent national pol- | |visioned by Vir: President Henry jicy and also dofinite approval of | 'ween DVmSk Kua"as early construction of the Pacific| |from Cnina, Siberia and Russia cut bY Red Army | The postwar prriod, Wallace pre- | Prince George fo Whitehorse, as dicted m his breadcast here Sun-|advocated by Donald A. McDonald, | . day, will come to be known as the |former Fairb: Alasks neer, LONDON, J“l‘ 10— British PICES | wopa of the Pacific,” an era marked land advocate the reports have placed the Russian|p, tronendous international air[to Alaska Magnuson said Wallace express- | st Prussian frontier tonight, |;ot oe great sirports and [ while the Red Army clamped|, o thinly popu.ated the poscibility the development tighter their death hold on Wilno,\ " pyipe “the ceven weeks' tour of the Canadian northwest terri- where the German garrison hasiy. vj Ppresident visited western | tories been forced behind their barricades | coiada, Alaska, Siberia, Russia, £ in the center of the city, which i5|,1 4 china, and he said: S ETURNS AR AN Russian columns, racing westward | o deveiopment after this war will| puocqo e o Rk with startling speed, stormed'y. .. R T Rrpaident Henng A Wl pyrned be new interpris:, new investment,| ¢ the national capital city this through the last of the WInO,,.y (rude, new accomplishments|yoming by plane and announcel flanks nearest to East Prussia " W ¢ ng PRGNS, BUL AOIRGED e % Iwill be in the new world of the he will make his report to Presi u;?{:i::m‘:&- (?-l.-ui?.” L\.;vnx::}m‘ni North Pacific and castern Asia. dent Roosevelt regarding his trip. AN Before Wallacc made his speech | He went to the Orient as the per- more than 20 miles into Prewar recontarive Warien G. Magmuson Executive, Lithuania. A Soviet plunge across " the Lithuanian plains toward < mel on . the Baltic could cut un more than 60,000 square miles—an area larger than Georgia—and gar- | AT SAIPAN MOPPING UP, ENDED NOW S. W. PACIFIC | Enemy Has Lost 58 Ships, Americans Savagely Go of Soldiers in 25 Days ~Planes in Atfacks White House recently, not from any By (HMUL Mc(LRTY | ADVANCED I\LLIFD HEAD- | trained diplomats but from two| yNrTED STATES FLEET HEAD- QUARTER IN NEW QUINEA, private American citizens—Father | oApTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, |July 10.—Savage, no-quarter battles, Orlemanski of Soringfield, Mass.| juiv 19 <Our forces have com- in which the American troops s and Professor Oscar Lange, Polish- psleteq the hquest of Saipan,” hunting the remaining enemy rem- the University of Chicago, both of jj is the announcement made to- | ing. | whom had inte: with Stalin. | day by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Stragglers o the Schouten Is. Although less widely publicized | Organized resistance collapsed last |lands in, Northen Dutch Guinea than Father Oriemanski’s interview, Saturday afternoon, ending a cam- ‘m-,y beirg shot down. | Professor Lang2 had a long separ-' paign of four weeks in the southern | The (wo mopping up campaigns| ate talk with Marshal Stalin and,| Marianas Islands. 'have brought enemy casualties cumscribed by church ‘superiors, his' ships, 900 planes and thousands of |, 0, on May report, on the waole, has been the Hves in the longest, bitterest and|™ gy 0" ohony pase in New| more penetrating and helpful. most costly campaign in the Central | | Britath, by-pasasd tor wmfl“m: Net conclusion drawn from the|and Western Pacific again heavily raided Sunday Lange-Orlemanski teports is that| “Elimination of scattered and dis-| Ut St LU U dropped. Polish-Russian’ relations, one of the organized remnants of the enemy | Other - Botlthstsst - HehHi e 5 s gerous | war, are on Lh\“c\'c of a whulruu:nu‘ :\:“l;?'::; mfl‘;ss g;(:;‘em:"‘:h::;) hr::,‘:_ Bougainville enemv b reapprochemand, - probably begin- | 44 possibly a few thousand of | ning about now: | enemy troops in caves and crevices, It was shortly siter the is facing the Marines. PEoplE OF (AEN of the Lange-Orlemanski The actual ground campaign is| Polish Premier Mikolajezky in’ 5 many ds were encountered on any | Washington, the results of which| atoll in the Gilbert or Marshall AI AllIED ENIRY exceedud expectations. islands. | If Polish-Russian relations can| The conquest of Saipan lasted 25! gAY, be settled amicably, one of the| daysand carrier-based planes bomb- ,Newsmen Find Fren(h C"i_ will be removed. Poland, for aduring the engagement. |’ | hundred years partially guvernnd‘ Guam and Rota islands, flanking | | by Russia, has a deep-rooted sus-| Saipan, have also been bombed A“ef c"y's ca mre | picion of the Soviet, while the Ru:-‘dunng the past two days. p ‘ sians, having borne the matn brunt| Nine enemy fighter planes, at- | of the European war on land, nat- tempting to fly to Guam have been| By WILLIAM SMITH WHIT ‘ CAEN, France, July 10.—The peo- | ple of Caen, those left, shouted| ;and sometimes cried with joy in| ‘ ithe littered streets Sunday night, | ; BARKLEY WIll |greatest victory since the capture of | | Cherbourg. | MINATE FDR I entered the city in the after-| No noon to find a moving welcome 'eunnded me because I was an Am- | July 10, — Sen- | erican. I i nfn | ON WILNO |S ra for Nerth Pacific asserted he |A. Wahace, who bas just returned {link of ‘he Alaska Highway from vanguards within 60 miles of thely; oo 4ng communications, develop- ed to mm considerable interest. in VRIS sockelied. “I am convinced the main area| . wacr NGTON, July 10. — Vice- Dvinsk. line, penetrating to Utena, gicoyseing the Pacific area, Rep- ' sonal representative of the Chief Americen leader and a teacher at crossroads of Japan's Pacific supply nants on Biak Islond are proceed- perhaps because he was not cir-! The Japs have lost at least 58| o the start of the Biak cam- | Duost troublascds” problaths of Tha|Torce 1s progipesing apldly,’ thays TS (OO SRR L AR that President Roosevelt began "’-(‘stlmn\(l}d against a garrison of m worst obstacles to post-war peace | ed, strafed and used rocket bombs | urally Yeel they are entitled to | Shot down and six twin-engined air- y 2y @ after the Allied troops nailed the ¥ley, who angrily | Fighting was still going on just ned the Sen-!Southeast of the center of town, hip in a spec- #nd the city was heavily damaged. President Roose- French civilians were already clear- | will probably ing away the wreckage as I came Executive for'In with two others—Capt. Colin - e ARRIVALS FROM CORDOVA (Continued on Page Four) ACnnunued un Page Two) | knifed forward another four miles Men, women and children run for their 27 to over 3,000, |8 With a burst of flame, brought death to at least VOLTERRA IS CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY Germans PutUp Strong Re- sistance at Gothic Line on Italian Front ROME, July 10.—Overcoming dog ged enemy resistance, American ir fantrymen, who yesterday capture the German stronghold of Volterra 52 pvm.w y INNETT | WASHINGTON, July 10 One | ttle injustice came out the | wasion landings that can be cor- ected here, thanks to U. S. Weat} erman F. W. Reichelderfer and his taff, 1 It came out of numerous reports of rough seas and had weather that rolled * back from the invasion seaches. Many of correspondents remarked | that a number of barges capsized | ind dumped their human and materiel cargoes into the channel Nearly all of them said seasickness left many of our soldiers w and have driven a significant we in the Germans' defenses fronting the so-called “Gothic Line,” Allied Headquarters said. The action of the doughb in (Continued on :'au;e Two) | Other reports told of clouds and | the main tent of the Ringling lhut’ur and Barnum many of them children, and injury to many others. | h and Bailey Cireus at Hartf Slralghl Dope Now Given AbouiWeather On French Invasion low visibility that made it necessary | umbrella to operate for dar our air erously low altitudes In view of the been made vasion weather and th move would be made until the weathermen gave the all-clear, 1 reaction was that the weatherman was wrong as usual Such, T am assured here, wai the case. A long r: great for years about ord, (AP Wirephoto) to-do that in- | fact that no | Army the | old sn't forecast was worked out, and Gen. Dwight Eisen- hower and his staff knew to within | a few days when the invasion would be launched. As those days (Continued on Page Two) ap- and | proached, final preparations were weary when they hit the beaches | ~ at| Conn,, collapses in a fire which MOPPING UP OF LA HAYE Five Young Infantryme Whiz Around Town Dodging Bullets n By HAL BOYLE LA July 10 with caprured bicycles and German | {tary pelice a traffic problem in this | blitzed village |and deughboys took after six days |of relcntless aud bloody battling. It sounds like a Fourth of July DESCRIBED HJAYE DU PUITS, Franc&l — Skylarking infantrymen| shells are giving the combat mili-| which the tankmen| 'AMERICANS, BRITISH IN FASTMOVES Capture Cafieni,gla Haye du Puits-Making Further Advances Today REME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 10.—Montgomery's Second British Army is starting to swing shut the door on the Germans still standing across the Orne River from the south- ern suburbs of captured Caen, and have seized a chain of Normandy towns and strong points that guard the enemy's imperiled forces. The British have plunged east- ward from the Odon bridge and captured Bretteville Sur, one mile south of Caen; Eterville, | mext in the chain, three miles | southwest of Caen, and the city | of Maltot, four miles southwest of Hill 112, all in quick plunges. CAEN IS CAPTURED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCE, July 10.—The Germans are attempting to make a stand at Fau- I borg Vaucelles following the capture of Caen. The British are pressing 'in all directions against the Ger- | mans with artillery and infantry. Caen was captured after a thund- erous artillery assault. This city is /120 miles from Paris and opens a | favorable flat battle ground. | On the south end of the western |line, the American force matched | the British offensive in a terrific drive following the capture of La | Haye du Puits, bitterly defended by the Germans. | The stronghold town of Caen was | s0 badly battered the British had to tbring up bulldozers fto push the rubble aside because vehicles could ! not get within 500 yards of the | river, The Germans suffered a serious reverse in the last 24 hours, the Berlin communique says, but added, “they have not yet suffered a major defeat in.the flcld 4 .. AIR ASSAULT ISSTEPPED UP - OVER FRANCE | Weather Ivl—nfipvro ves as Planes Carry Sup- port fo Troops | LONDON, July 10.—Large forces of Allied fighters and bombers | streamed across the English Chan- {nel in improving weather today in »support of the British and American troops advancing along the Nor- imandy battlefront, " During the night RAF Mosquito | bombers and Boston bombers ranged | deep within Prance to attack 18 | trains and rallroad installations which lead to the German front. The planes also strafed highway convoys and blasted at the Seine River bridges. | The Mosquito bombers also bomb- | ed a synthetic oil plant in the Rhur | industrial district and Lancasters | attacked an unidentified military ‘obje(‘llve in northern France. Other RAF planes laid mines in enemy waters. Not an aircraft was lost in the night operations. Eleven | Allied planes were reported lost in | yesterday's raids and at least the same number of German aircraft downed. ——————— | TO SEATTLE VIA PAA James Girard and Dorothy Wad- dington were flown to Seattle on Pan American plane yesterday. Incoming passengers from White- horse were Robinson Lockwood, Mamie Brawner and Merle O. | ; 1 (Continued on Page Two) Beggs.