The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1944, Page 1

RARY OF RESS SERIAL RECORD AUG 12 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9700. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ROOSEVELT T0 ACCEPT RENOMINATION PRICE CENTA anks Pound Forward Under Heavy Barrage ST ‘"*E mavmosess | GUJAM UNDER i AMERICANS ADVAN(ING, Furious Figihtiinig Reported for Possession of Ger- man Key Base i ‘Ninety Planes, Cruisers, SORONG 1S BIG ATTACK, RAIDED BY SAYS TOKYO Guinea Pounded-No Intercephon Destroyers Crash Island { U.S. CRAFT | Last Jap Base on New SUPREME HL/\DQ\YAIHP RS ()F‘ NEW YORK, July 11.—A Japan- ADVANCE l) Al.I.”‘,D HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA 11.—Liberators struck Sorong broadeast today flee! lese radio aid aj ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY| FORCES, July 11-—United States troops and tanks today pounded to a point within two miles of St. Lo, key road to the hub forming the Germans' central fortress in Nor- mandy, gaining from two to three miles in a furious new offensive. Leading the American attack on a forty-mile front was Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley’s First Army. Jump- ing off under a screen of pulver- izing artillery barrage, the Yankees reached the outskirts of Luzerne, Meesil and Roxelin, just north of the road junction in the heart of Normandy St. Lo is by 15,000 Germans. In other sections the Nazi lines «Continued on Page Four) e The Washingion Merry - Go-Round — By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) @, EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the second of two columns describ- ing Premier Stalin’s views on Polish-Russian problems and on other phases of Soviet coopera- tion, as expressed in his inter- view with Father Orlemanski and Professor Lange. WASHINGTON — Stalin’s inter- view with Professor Oscar Lange of the University of Chicago’ Polish- American leader, lasted two hours and twenty minutes, during which the strong man of Russia sipped tea and smoked an endles cigarettes. were Foreign Commissar Molotov and Secretary Pavlov of the For- eign ffice. It is considered significant that Polish Premier Mikolajezyk, during recent visit in this country, spent considerable time fessor Lange, who had recently re- turned from his his kolajeyk conferences in Chic together with those the Polish Pre- | President Roosevelt | mier had with in Washington, have do with the reported trend of Polish-Russian recently. However, about /Poland. At one asked about the -Soviet- American breaking up. His reply was he was not worried. “This alliance is not built merely on an agreement between three men,” Stalin said. “It is the result| of a deep and compelling funda-| mental community of historical in- terests. that we all need each other one of your American statesman once said, ‘If we do not all hang together, had much to favorable relations he of point, danger that THE WAY to a Harold Myers, Lancaster, Pa., holds his gl ters he met on the outskirts of Cherbourg as th(‘v watch the “fireworks" in the dmance made by a Yank artillery barrage. (lmcrnatwnal) Forelgn Policies of believed to be defended chain of | Present at the interview | with Pro-| talk with Stalin. | It is believed that the Lange- Mi- | Stalin did not talk only | harmony| DEWEY IS GIVEN It is assured by the fact As we will hang sepn)’attl}x“ |“very woman'’s heart in this instance is a pair of binoculars. Corp. s for three little triplet sis- Administrafion May Be (ampalgn Issues ™ Ousfed Envoy By JACK STIN WASHINGTON, July 11. With | politicians beginning to think of almost everything in terms of the | N¢ mber elections, they now are starting to wonder openly if the ad- ministration isn’t supplying the op- | position with a few political block- | busters in the handling of foreign policy. | Actually, only history and the | opening of a few files that wartime secrecy now keeps closed will make it possible to evaluate the adminis- | tration’s moves. But, unfortunately, | history can be weighed only in pe: ve. and those files aren’t ¢ | likely 1 1 November., This is a rather surprising swing of the political pendulum. A few months ago opponents of the Presi dent were so uncritical of this coun- try's foreign policies that their political advisers were cautioning them not to br h the subject at all. Their idea was to make the fight for the Presidency on purely domestic issues Then these things happened: More than a handful of the Irish were stirred up by our demands that Axis diplomats, accused of having an eye on the invasion and both rs to the ground, be tossed out of Erie. | ) Sweden, Turkey, Spain and several other countries were threat- | ened with economic warfare if they HIALMAR PROCOPE, Finnish minis- | Continued selling war supplies to the 4 # g | Axis. ter to the U. 8. who was requested 3 p to leave this country, is shown in (3) A Polish-American Roman Washington about to leave for New | Catholic priest was permitted to Orleans on the first lap ®f his trip Visit Russia where he was lionized to Finland, He holds a photo of his | #lmost as much as if he had heen a two children. Mrs, Procope, an ex- | Dersonal representative of the gov- pectant mother, will remain until | crnment, and anti-Communist Poles | her child is born. (International) |and Catholics reacted immediately | | and vigorausly. | (4) There was some outspoken | criticism on handling of recognition | lof the new government in Bolivia | and some major grumbling that all {wasn't as well as it might be with our “good neighbor” policy. i (5) Troubles with Gen. Charles | BRIGHT PICTURE, more ers, are plying the waters northwest |far of Tinian Island in the Marianas.” Domei by monitors, the Guam on July and destroyers also shelled the Jap| positions other Rota to air and ther to be opened between now and | (1) | policy of {in its capacity of “de facto author- city, committee, - committee’s role pending the time portunity to choose a government powerful con- (July of two enemy airceraft carriers and 1d destroy jon the tip of Dutch New Guinea unday at the same time striking north at the important Jap island bases of Palau and Yap, radio report made by the |headquarters announced and recorded here| Forty-three tons of bombs hit the States Government!Jap airdrome at Sorong, pilots re- 90 planes attacked' porting neither interception nor stolen island of antiaircraft fire from the last Jap 10 and that cruisers New Guinea base The bombers dropped 33 tons on !Yap airdrome, and damaged and Domei broadcast also stated|probably shot down three of the 13 aircraft bombed Tinian and|interceptors that went up at the in the same island u;xxu;)_lPuulu drome. The Jap planes took st had this|to the air but did not attack. Six ates pos- enemy in | Noemfoor sting than 30 cruiser Anoher agency, United aid American the on Guam The all A Berlin radio broadc say: “The United S es considerable supremacy raft in the the United States ties for a battle | Island, setting a fuel is pre red decisive and it will not shun any bultle FDR A((EPTS IHREATENED DEGAULLE AS YANK FORCES FREN(H HEAD Encircling Tadlcs Agalnst Commitiee fo Rule Pend- Stubborn German Re- ing Opportunity of Peo- sistance in ltaly ple fo Make Choice xom= Juy 11— Employing against WASHINGTON, July 11—Presi- /500 O ’J"_"j"""“t_ dent Roosevelt has announced that |S/TONSNOICS, American roops | he is accepting the French National | WOrking their way steadily north- Committee headed by General|Ward in a broad enveloping Charles DeGaulle as the authority ment aimed at the key Italian port for the civil administration of lib- erated France. Roosevelt’s ROME, July move- | The Fifth Army forces byps toward |the town of Lajatico, 21 miles southeast of Livorno in one phase clear, r Its from his talks on!of this movement, and stabbed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with ahead against fierce opposition General DeGaulle There is no A similar operation resutled change, the President said, in the the bypassing of Pomaja, this government in not recognizing the French Commitlee as the provisional government, but new aftitude the committee, the President made in midway | coast | approximately and the west, coast, between Lajatico, town of Castilglioncelio. The One Hundredth Ba lion, composed of American troops of Japanese origin, is engaged in vio- lent fighting on relatively flat ground three miles west of Jomaja and are reported making som progress, The German garrison at thus threatened on two sides, and the Nazi force at Lajatico is in much the same position - No Speechmakmg, Says Willkie; Sel iy The committee will be under the general supervision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he will have the decision as to when a town or department can be released from the military admin- istration and turned over to the “de |18, the d the term degeribing The President ust facto authority” in the French people have an op- for themselves. AMERICA CAN 11 planes dropped 55 tons on| Marianas,” dump afire but causing no casual- s Japan's Blg Industires | Hlller s Plan Io Invade United States Revealed NEW SOVIET of Livorno, Allied headquarters said.| d| about | eight miles inland from the Italian | | | Wilno, Red Army groups beat Ponaja | | begun The Beer Up Again| |Germans suffered “tremendous Wendell | beer party | PUSH BEGINS . IN RUMANIA stubbornly | German | are | {Thrust Threatens Ploesti, 0il Fields-Wedge Driv- en in Lithuania LONDON, July 11 Russian troops, streaming deep.into Lithu- ania, have thrust to within strik- ing distance of the East Prussian frontier, and moved swiftly toward the Baltic coast in wide enveloping advances which threatened ta trap |two «German armies in the north A German communigue said the | | Russian forces have driven farther| west but the to to the and ‘southwest beyond | rrison in the city | continued pel attacks from I sides.” Southward in old Poland, other center of Bailystok and menaced Pinsk. Germans reported new Soviet offensive in Rumania north of rail center of Iasi, in a threatening the Galati Gap the Ploesti oil fields, already tensively ruined by American bombs. rail rectly The massive that a has drive and ex- Tremendous Losses A Moscow communique said the losses” in the general Russian for- ward surge all the way from the | the WASHINGTON, July 11.—Con- gress has been told by one of the nation’s leading aircraft manufact- urers, President Carlton Ward, Jr., of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane | Corporation, that he saw in 1940 a detailed plan drawn by Adolf Hitler for an invasion of the United States. Testifying before the Senate Mili- tary Affairs Subcommittee, Ward | sald He was permitted to see the | plan while in France as head of a| ! mission advising on aircraft con- | struction. | Chairman Murry described the Juxnmony as startling when Ward wsm(l “After he brought England to ‘hr-r knees, Hitler planned to attack |us through Mexico with tanks and ‘mlu r armored equipment which we | ‘dmnt have. He planned to make | a feint through Newfoundland, then | invade us through Mexico. Not only | did Hitler plan a military invasion, {but he had a complete plan for the economic domination of the world.” England, by the use of approxi- mately 700 well-designed planes and | aided by special devices, he testified, | “saved "Europe and probably the { world from Hitler domination.” ‘ The manufacturer said he got Hit- ler's plan through diplomatic | sources. | ———e STOCK QUOTATIONS 11 Juneau 1, American Can ¢, Beech Alrcraft toward the | di- | NEW YORK, quotation of |stock today s 92'%, Anaconda 27 110%, Bethlehem Steel 66, Curtis; | Wright 6, Dupont common 158%, |International Harvester 8%, Inecott 33%, tion 9%, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 18, Standard oil| lof California 39, United States| Steel 62%, American Tel and Tel Pound $4.04 July Closing mine | K(‘“',‘aru-r a two-hour conference North American AV"‘”“’H" President, that their conversa- PRESIDENT CLEARS UP SITUATION \Will Serve Fourth Term If People of Nation Elect Him —Presi- said he renom- term if WASHINGTON, July 11.- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt will accept the Democratic ination and serve a fourth elected. He made known his intentions in a public letter to Democratic Na- tional Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, who had informed the Chief Executive sufficient delegates are pledged for his renomination at the Democratic National Convention which opens in Chicago next week. President Roosevelt said he pre- fers to retire byt “I will accept to serve in this office if I am so ordered by the Commander-in-Chief of us all, the sovereign people of the United States.” News Is Sprung The President sprang the news of his intentions at a conference with the newsmen, One reporter asked if the Presi- | dent had anything to say about the Democratic National Convention, Grinning, the President replied to the reporter he was only guessing this time but he was right, and | getting quickly to the correspond- ence before him, the President read Hannegan’s letter saying his re- nomination was assured and then replied: “If the Democratic National Con- vention should. carry this out, then nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect ime, T will serve.” Won't Run L The President said, however, he | will not “run” for reelection in the accepted political sense, “but if the | people command me to continue in this office, and in this war, T have as little right to withdraw as a soldier to leave his post in the line of duty.” With that statement, the Presi- dent, in referring to his wartime role as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, also sald: “For myself, T do not want to run. By next spring I shall have been President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for twelve years and three times elected by the people of this country under the American constitutional system. Economic System “From a personal point of view I believe our economic system is on a sounder and more human basis than at the time of my first inaugura- tion. After many years in the public service, therefore my personal thoughts turn to the day when I can return to civil life and all that within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River and avoid public responsibiities and also avold publicity by which our de- mocracy follows every step of the Nation's Chief Executive. No Second-Place Talk The President made no mention of the second-place ticket status re- garding Vice-President Henry A. Wallace and this remains unclari- fied Wallace told reporters last night, with | tion dealt solely with China from | where the Vice-President has just returned. The President today was asked by MASSACHUSETTS de Gaulle and the French Commit- | tee of Liberation neared their climax on D-Day and become so muddled | that, few of our better foreign policy | observers could reach an unanlmit_\“’ | a reporter what he had to say about Jones averages today are|yesterday’s conference with Wallace industrials 150.18, rails|and the President replied: “Oh, we just talked about China.” So I am confident that, despite "“"3?1 dlstul-bax;c.g ;x:‘d oc‘casxunal ALBANY, N. Y., July 11—Re- ““”“"""Z' "“1‘; Fentpiip Wil con- |publican leaders of Massachusetts i Bl Gov. Thomas E. Dewey a <()('nu~;1—'rc‘cm\luy picture of Republican pros- R 4 g | Bay State UNLIKELY i was also asked about the e of Germany becoming so- paruny 9 cialistic after the war. He replied that he did not believe that likely. Foreign Commissar Molotov, how- ever, expressed disagreement, point- ing that 5,000,000 anti-Nazi first time. power. 4§ But Stalin argued back: “The cadres (meaning cells) of the rank Latvian border to the middle of 162.78 the Pripet marshes, some 400 miles| Dow- southward. (a5 follows: A powerful wedge has been driven 4228, utilities 2425 into Lithuania about midway along the 100 mile battlefront between Dvinsk in southeastern Latvia and | PRICES MONDAY SAYS AUSSIE for merchant seamen at the United | Seamens’ Service Club last night, said he would not make a speech as “this is the most inappropriate | on the subject other than that it| BRISBANE, Australia, July 11 g " should pot have been permitted to Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Aus- R Itralia’s leading newspaper publish- time I ever saw in which to make happen. ich ‘House Finnish Minister |ers, characterizeti the United States a speech. Good luck and let's have | sl a5 e, (6) Popular New | ‘the world's strongest naval and In New York, the fourth term announcement by Roosevelt brought from Wendell L. Willkie the follow- ing comment: “It that news?” In New York also, Mayor La- Guardia said: “I am very happy to inm‘ bright pects in the party last night, minority leader York, said: “We all believe Massachu the first time since 1924, wil Republican.” Martin further said thousands Democrats are going to v Stalin chances another beer.” | sl LB the bypassed and doomed German| Alaska Juneau mine stock closed ocope and his staff were asked to|as {leave the United States only a mw]m,- poweP, and is strong enough to TRAGRER FROM WHL stronghold of Wilno, the scene now | Monday at 7', American Can 92, ERABOM WHITE - o |of lptdr airaeh Abitiog | American Tel. and Tel. 163%, An after Finland announced it was |pring Japan to her knees without| William J. Robertson, teacher for| Advancing not less than 28 miles |sdsidal 41K, Boach Alieratt 1%, marking funds it has in this| | waiting for the British Navy and country for another payment on ifs|ajr strength, and for a big army | “ B sl S . R . Bethlehem Steel 66%, Curt the Indian Bureau at White Moun- yesterday, Gen. Bagramian’s Baltic' o o "s " pynont Common 159%, | hear about it, but frankly I can't A 34 tain, was in Juneau today enroute troops cut the highway between u(~d yar qebl. |to advance up the coast of China 5 | The managing director of i . iy of International Harvester 78%, Ken- retend to be surprised.” to the States on leave Z‘“"k d“du“;:'mt‘ 2:“:":“!‘“’““;!;" necott 33%, North American Avm—‘f In Albany, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey ’ the S e aunas, an ven - tion 9%, New York Central 197%, | made no comment. the . As lullhv H"-il;altwt W!lxmug m(;m:)“\delbaurm- Herald made the state- @ © © o o o o elin 120 miles of the Baltic port of v | moves, leave 0 me and the - s i perts. It still remains that mnst“nem on his return from a tour of WE(A[’)I‘H:RB“I::..I;?BT 1 " Northern Pacific 18'%, Standard Oil ————— o |Riga, capital of Latvia of California 38%, United States BERGNER IN TOWN - - " om 8 Steel 63%, Pound $4.04. vR. W. Kelsch, ?“U;_h;(:::mf:“ d:gz"?g::;)s :‘:df;f;: Temp. Monday, July 10. | Ray Grant and Harold R Beun.f Dow, Jones averages Monday were Washington, has : Maximum 65, minimum 50. e of Anchorage, are in town | and | as follows: Industrials, 150.50; rails, Gastineau ®© o 0 090 © ¢ o o o guests at the Baranof Hotel, 4252; utilities, 24.38, for go out the United States, England and In- dia, which, he said' gave him dominant impression of the mili- tary might of the Allies. E. Bergner is a guest at the Baranof, registering from San Francisco, from Port Angeles, registered at the (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four)