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THE DAILY ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LisRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG L2 1944 COPY e GIFT = VOL. XLIL, NO. 9704. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY PRICE TEN CENTA JULY 15, 1944 DOUGHBOYS M Russians Start [ REDARMY ONFRONT, 500 MILES Germans Admit Soviet Forces Now Threaten Homeland Forts LONDON, July 15—Thé Germans today announced the Russians have launched the long-awaited offen- sive in Southern Poland, extend- ing to a 500-mile front, which in the north challenges the last ditch of the string of forts guarding the Junker homeland in East Prussia. The Germans, in a Berlin radio broadcast, says the German High Command announced the Russians have struck from the northwest of Ternopol, where last reperts were that the Red Army was within 30 miles of strategic Lwow and near ing Lublin, which guards the south- east approaches of the town scar- red by two wars. Moscow is silent on new opera- tions an dprobably will not men- tion them, especially the new drive south of the Pripyat Marshes. The Washingi'on3 Merry - gg -Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Out of the bick- ering, scrambling, wire-pulling over who should be Roosevelt’s running mate has emerged a backstage whisper, at first almost inaudible, but now growing to a point where party councils take it seriously. 1t is the idea of nominating Wen- dell Willkie for Vice President on the Democratic ticket. | Behind the idea are several fac- tors. Most important is the White House feeling that any wartime Administration must be non-parti- KE ADVANCE OF 4 ILES REUNITED BY FALL OF ROME , M/Sgt. John Pittorri, New York, is pictured here in with his daughter Joan whom he located h the-Fifth Army. He had left her there ay. (International) A SOLDIER-FATH| a stranger-than-fiction reunion in Rome after he marched in wit} 8 years ago. What's more, it happened on her birthd: NOW NEARER - TO LIVORNO Are Within Artillery Range of Seaport - Capture Town of Chianni ROME, July 15.—American troops | have driven to within three and HEAVY BLOWS BY SEA, AIR Important Developments Impending as Guam Hit on 10th Straight Day | UNITED STATES PACIFICi |FLEET HEADQUARTERS AT| | PEARL HARBOR, July 15.—For the| [tenth straight day Guam has been| |ripped by bombs and rockets and Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s task force on Thursday was still con-| |tinuing the action, which suggest-| led impending developments against the former United States outpost, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an-| nounced today. | | The firing of ammunition dumps,g gun positions, and other installa- tions at Guam on July 13, and an a 'k by carrier planes on Thurs- day, was told by the Tokyo radio, adding that a battleship also twice pombarded Guam on that day. | The raiding force also hit Rota, an enemy-held island between Guam and the newly conquered Saipan. All planes returned from the Guam and pan attacks, demonstrating mastery of the Mar- ianas’ waters. ! An American destroyer, whic moved near Guam on the night of} July 10, sank a Japanese coastal transport Neutralizing the attack, the Marshalls-based Army Liberators |bypassed Truk on Thursday. Six- |teen to nineteen Japanese fighters were sent aaginst the bombers and four were definitely shot down, [four probably, and five damaged |Four Liberators sustained “minor damage.” o g 2 Killed by Accidental U.S.Gunfire san. Henry Wallace, son of a Re- publican member of the Harding Cabinet, now is classified as a full-| fledged Demoerat — despite wry faces made at him in the South. This non-partisan idea is one reason for the President’s leaning toward Ambassador John ~Winant, former GOP Governor of New. Hampshire, as his running mate. Advisers say he has in mind the last wartime election, when Abra-| ham Lincoln chose Andrew John-| son, a Democrat. Born in North' Carolina and a former Governor of Tennessee, Johnson had opposed ANN FARLEY, youngest daughter of secession and sympathized with' James J. Farley, former Demo= Northern Republicans, though| cratic National Committee chair- maintaining his official position as| man, is shown after she christened a Democrat. He was nominated for | the new cargo vessel Herkimer in Vice President by a Republican @ Superior, Wisc, shipyard. The convention which called Lincoln | Ship is named in honor of Herki- and Johnson a “Union” ticket. mer County, N. Y. (International) one-half miles of the seaport city| —_— . | ot Livorno, in the wake of a sudden| ROME, July 15—The U. S. Navy | melting of German resistance, and |disclosed today that the accidental | captured the ‘town of Chianni, 13fire of U. S. minesweepers killed miles inland on the west coast. |one officer, one man, and wound- | These most significant gains of |eq three others on a PT boat carry- | the past two weeks of heavy fight- |ing Gen, Mark Clark ‘and other |ing has put the Fifth Army within |avmy officers to the Anzo beach- | artillery range of Livorno. head on January 28 last \Bl:‘:‘hfil,FS;’;“““_“““’"'L“&:' ‘C;'r;:;’:“‘(‘)‘; The official announcement said | Bas e e cd re 1 % | Poffibonsi, today moved in a direct ;" “ff*"“fg 5 "“‘Bf’l‘;’*l‘fd et ahe |assault against the enemy now at- ‘."“'(;»bwll 5 *Qtr_xe the area while | tempting to escape to the north-|? € sdert was fonit.in. anticipa- |tion of a Nazi raid. ward. There is a possibility the Germans| The craft had not been identified who was exoner: ] | captain, | ! plan to fall back to Arno, an aerial reconnaisance indicated. iany blame. RS ’ EYE WITNESS TALKS | SEATTLE, July 15—Capt. Jack ‘Bcardwwd, Gen. Clark’s personal incident and said that the officer Some of the Democrats about to gather in Chicago seem to think G|VEN S‘"FF HNE that, with Roosevelt nominated,| they will have a walkaway. How-| =» FOR FISHING IN the | ever, Democratic Chairman Hannegan and those nearest e | President expect a very tough fight,| feel that the candidate for Vice President must be selected with| great care on the basis of winning| pjck Thompson, votes. | RESTRICTED AREA ‘aidc, here on leave, discussed the pHOTOGRApHED | was standing beside Clark when he JAP MAINLAND " . | “I was lying flat on deck,” said | | l Beardwood, “muttering this is fin- i ito. I don't see yet how we got | HEADQUARTERS OF THE out, but I'l say that that American | FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE IN gunner was a good shot.” |CHINA, July 15. — After several = peardwood said that the PT | months secrecy it has been disclosed |poat was coming out of a morning fisherman and |that Captain Winfree Sordellette, g, anq “the minesweeper was un- {owner of the fishing vessel Norma, | 24-year-old Virginian, flying an un-| 1. 0 mfl;my i é“’hn“uil 2 And when it comes to vote-get- y charge: armed P-38 reconnaissance : {plead guilty to charges made by P-38 naiss: p‘a"o';gave her a signal” He said that ting, there is a unanimous feeling wildlife Agent Dan Ralston at Ket- Photographed areas in Japan, in- & Each | cluding the Sasebo Naval Base, 2 voters away from the Republican of the crew of five were fined $100, | Which was bombed by Superfort- ; land 662 fish were seized from th Another development which has poat and sold by the Government,! surprised party chieftains has been according to advices received by the| that Willkie could powerfully pull chikan and was fined $250. ticket the reaction of Southerners to Will- pish and Wildlife office here. kie. In the last few days, some| The boat quiet soundings of Southern lead-|12 for fishing in the area of Boca | ers have been made, and they have De Quadra, a canal indenting the their mainland coast, east of Revillagi-| been almost unanimous in approval of Willkie for Vice Presi-|gedo Channel. dent. stricted to commercial fishing. e CAA MEN HER! Tykward and CWEYITES' W IE BONER DEWEYITES’ WILLK | wallace One fatal, boner the Deweyites pulled which other Republicans (Continued on Page Four) Anchorage was apprehended July | This district is Ye-| tinguished Flying Cross for his 2, Owen antiaircraft fire. Gearhart of the CAA, have regis-| tered at the Juneau Hotel from | minesweeper “threw fifteen |rounds at us.” sses on July 7. Beardwood a former After his Nagasaki flight on Octo- |0f the Associated Press ber 21, 1943, he returned to China Salt Lake City, at Seattle, and in with his precious film and weather | Washington. | data, probably the first American | \EBOND PURCHASES | STILL BELOW QUOTA With -only a slight change yesterday’s tabulations, today’s bo sales total $456,725.75, for all serie R Series E tabulations are at $176.- The University of Rome occu-'577.25. The quota in this serles is pies 40 acres. $210,000, member staff e re | at | photo reconnaissance of the Jap mainland. The former Hopewell, Virginia, post office clerk, won the Dis-| | 200-mile round trip across the East ‘China Sea. On his return trip he | attracted fighter enemy planes and in Demeonstrators in a Copenhagen, Denmark worke: s’ strict, according to a caption accompany + - SR S A A WP o B ng this photo distributed by Pressens Bild, Swedish picture agency, crowd this barricaded street during a general strike called to protest German domination of the country. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Stockholm) ‘QUEEN BEE .—ilm actress Esther Wiiliams has been named “Queen Bee” by Seabees g4 Port Hueneme, Calif, "0id-Timers” Making Fxtra Good By JACK STIN WASHINGTON, the “old folk: have been neglected I They're doing a magnificent war effort | \ don't know. | job. | Men and women between the 60’s and 70's—most of them retired on | pensions — are making a big con- tribution to industrial Ibaor a trip across the country and talking to scores of these oldtimers, I checked with the Department of Labor on statistics. Youth in war- time labor has been given plenty fo | attention; the oldsters little. Actual- ly, the Labro Department says, there normally are around 2,000,000 per- sons over 65 in the labor force. Now there are half a million more than that. These half-million can be divided into two classes—those who want jobs and now find they can get them —and those who are just willing to help out. The second category is by far the larger. Labor officials | here estimate that around 350,000 | persons over 65 have returned to work solely for patriotic reason The contribution they are making deserves more than passing notice 1 have talked to many Pullman and | train conductors who have returned | from retirement just to help out. What they suffer in 20-hour days | | toock in Preseni oing Their Bit that war- to is and the body-shakings time roadbeds subject them nothing short of brutal. This is one industry. There hundreds of them. There are grand- mothers and grandfathers who are riveters, truck drivers, mechanics \d other heavy-duty laborers. Th also are inspectors, welders, seam- sters and seamstresses. They are are ey employed in detailed work that takes the patience of Job and the eye of an eagle. Among these oldtimers I have a favorite His name is Daniel T, Shaw. He’s from New England. His record is on file with the merchant marine and a little further down the street than that, with the Navy. When World War I came rolling along, Dan Shaw tried to enlist Nothing doing, said the Army and Navy recruiting officers. Dan didn’t give up. He finally worked his way into the merchant narine. A few months later, despite his age, he was inducted into the regular Navy. He to salt water like a whale the first World War was over, he had a stripe and a half on his sleeve. Today, Dan Shaw, who was turn- ed down for being over age in World When "‘c}.ui‘hd;c"};x Page Four) JAPS T0 EXECUTE 'AIRMEN Captured Allied Fliers Fall- ing in Japan fo Meet Instant Death NEW YORK, July 15.—A Japanese | broadcast directed to the American | forces in the Southwest Pacific and | | recorded by the Federal Communca- | tions Commission, says several Am- | erican airmen captured in the first | Superfortress raid on northern Kyu- shu, have been executed and warned Southern Poland Offensive GUAM STRU(K% Demonstrators (rowd (@penhagen Streel PUS——— AMERICANS DRIVING ON 3 BASTIONS Sixteen Tow_ns, Villages . Seized in Normandy Campaign at $t. Lo BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 15, — American troops smashed to the outskirts of Les- say soon after noon today and are battling in the suburbs of the western German anchor in Normandy and at the opposite end of the flaming front edged to within a little more than one mile of the key road junction to Lo. British troops at the eastern end of the front recaptured Hill 112, scene of bloody see-saw fighting last week, and struck into Malto, four miles south- west of Caen. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 15,—American dough- boys, striking forward four miles and straightening out their loop center, hammered at the Germans today in the triple bastion road |line in western Normandy and are fighting within one mile from Les- say and two miles from Perirs and t. Lo. Three towns fell into the hands of the doughboys in the four-mile southward drive from the marshes of Plessia toward Perirs. The closing-in of the American line menacing Perirs, the middle stronghold, was the largest single !day advence since Cherbourg. During the past 24 hours 16 towns and villages on the Ameri- can front have been seized. The enemy, according to front line dispatches, poured the toughest artillery fire yet encountered against the American column north of St. Lo. After a 600-yard advance, the British captured more than 7,000 Germans, and the full bag of the British and Canadians is now 54,- 000. ———e westward in growing that “any Allied airman who falls of bails out over Japan will be| executed and this is an ‘Order of | the Day.” | The Americans captured in the raid onl Tokyo over two years ago were | executed and a similar fate awaits | [} all others who fall in Japan. | The announcement was a special | talk and reception was poor, only | 1 few excerpts in English being in- | clligible. Apparently the broadcast | was from Singapore, now controlled | by the Japs. | The Office of War Information, | which issued the original story, later | announced the broadcast suggested the “airmen might have been ex- ecuted or at least were being held for execution.” - broadcast further said all | Vidimslnclfi;MajorGen- eral, Two Colonels, Two Other Persons CHATTANOOGA, July 15.—Maj. Gen. Paul Newgarden, Commander | of the Tenth Armored Division, two colonels, and at least two other per- | sons were killed last night when an | Army plane crashed during a heavy | storms. One of the other colonels | 1s believed to be Col. Renn Lawr- NAZIS NOW ONOWN SO“_jl HERE FROM NORTH o VIA SHIP PATRICIA Army is 1 g the prospect of im-| Passengers to Skagway, via the minent fighting their own soil |Patricia, on Thusday evening were in East Prussia and are preparing Glen Wise and Walter Andrews. a street by street defense in at least Mrs. Harry Ellingen was a passen- three of the five key cities lying ger for Haines. in the eastern battle line | Returning to Juneau Front dispatches indicated that with the ship were they are throwing up baricades and | Walter Andrews, and defenses at Grodno, Beilystock, drews. Hubert Holden and Brest Litovsk. vessel at Haines. The Nazi line is reported wide Bt A 02, A, cpen in numerous sectors from the CALIFORNIANS HERY Velikeya River, last barrier to the| Mr. and Mrs. Jack White of San middle Baltics. To the south injLeandro, California, are guests at the Pripyat Marsh region, Germans |the Juneau Hotel. He is with the appeared unable to hold anywhere, FCC. as five Russian Armies spilled| momentum, on last evening Glen Wise, Robert An- boarded the e BUY WAR BONDS