The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMP \ VOL. XLIIL, NO. 9705. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” IRE THE LisRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG 12 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1944 YANKEES FORCE WAYINTOBASTIONST.LO German Fort RUSSIANS | ADVANCING BIG FRONT Nazis Now Have No Nat-| ural Boundary Between | Them and Homeland First Contingent of | WA(SArelandedat Battlefrontin France REPUBLICANS | e 5757 e CRITICIZED By BARBARA WACE | WITH THE WACS IN NOR-| MANDY, SOME MILES FROM THE | FRONT LINES, July 17.—The first | WAC contingent reached the beach- | head and walked quietly from the | MOSCOW, July 17. — The Red Army today pushed forward on a broad front stretching from the Baltic to the Pripyat Marshes after | capturing the German-held fortress | city of Grodno, which Stalin de- | scribed as “covering the approach | to East Prussia.” The Germans claim | Grodno was evacuated. ‘ Grodno is only 46 miles from the boundary and with its fall the Ger- | mans have no natural boundary be- | tween them and their homeland. | The Germans fell back from | Grodno to the west bank of the Niemen River. Today a most spectacular review took place. A column of 57,000 Ger- mans captured during the present offensive were shepherded through | Moscow on their way east to prison camps. | POLICE COURT FINES Pleading guilty ‘o a charge of being drunk and disorderly, Eugene Dugaque and Nick Galaktionoff were each fined $25 and costs when arraigned in Police Court this mor- ning. Kendall Williams was fined $25 on a charge of being drunk. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | charged with the burglary late Sat- | that he had gone to France behind | urday night of the Auk Bay Liquor the WACS. CHICAGO — Probably no delegate attending this quadrennial meeting of Democrats will take time to read them, but if they would brush the dust off the 1936 hearings of Hugo Black's Senate lobby investi- gating committee, their eyes might bulge a bit regarding the origin of the current Texas-Southern revolt against Roosevelt. These Senate hearings show pretty clearly that the recent con-| vention led by Jesse Jones' nephew had its origin, not in Austin in% 1944, but in the offices of Pierre du Pont, John Raskob, Alfred P.} Sloan, Joe Pew and Will Clayton in 1936. Actually, the Southern revolt be- | gan with the famous “grass roots” | convention in Macon, Georgia, in| 1936, called by the “Southern Com- | mittee to Uphold the Consntuuon"l and supposed to represent bu.siness-E men and farmers of the South. Secretly, however, it was financed ! by millionaire Republicans in New| York and Wilmington, Del., plus a few wealthy lumbermen and cotton brokers in Texas. Lamar Fleming, head of the giant | Texas cotton firm of Anderson,E Clayton & Co., was one 1936 con-| tributor. So, also, was his son. In, 1944, Fleming was on the steering committee of the Texas conven- tion which rebelled against Roose-| velt. Another contributor to the Macon grass roots convention was Will Clayton himself. (He also gave $7,500 to the Liberty League or-| ganized by the du Ponts.) After all these Texas contribu-| tions were in the bag, however, there still was not enough money to stage the grass roots convention on an impressive scale. So Vance Muse of Houston, sparkplug of the Southern Committee to Uphold the | Constitution, went to Wilmington and collected $10,000 from Pierre du Pont and John Raskob. With this, and various other other amounts received from Gen- eral Motors directors, they staged a Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting rally at Macon, featuring rabble-rousing speeches by Gerald L. K. Smith and Governor Gene Talmadge of Geor- gia, together with pictures. placed on the chair of every delegate landing craft two days ago and| settled under canvas on the grounds | of an old chateau. The girls ar-| rived less than six weeks after their | GI brothers had fought their way into France . | The WACS have undergone months of training in the United ! States and the dangerous Atlantic crossing was then made. London robot bombs gave the girls | a taste of what it was like at the | I front. | The various squad tents in the sleeping quarters bear such gay signs as “Chateau De La Wac,” “Dew | Drop Inn” and “Waldorf Astoria.” Laundry flutters on the tent ropes. A rickety army chair that had been salvaged was used as a barber chair. A sign on the chair stated: | “Cuts all shapes; soup bow! special.” Sunday morning a Protestant Chaplain held services for all de- ho also says that “exactly the same nominations !xl his tent. The voices | N umont was presented by the Re. | Of the WACS and the soldiers, who publicans in the election campaign ' %'¢ sllowed ‘to sttend, rose above | 5 the distant sound of guns. In a as far back as 1920 and has not been changed since.” small chapel a Catholic Chaplain i 'held the first mass that had been | held there in four years. WACS who were cleaning the chapel found 3 ANGOON INDIANS grenades and bullets by the altar. | A Frenchman, his eyes brimming | ARRESTED. ROBBERY | with tears, attended the service. His ] i BY RUSSIANS Foreign Plank in Platform Same Old Argument, Declares Pravda MOSCOW, July 17.—The news- paper Pravda, Communist Party o gan, pubishes an article today cri cizing the results of the Republican National Convention and calling the | party leaders reactionarie: | The article asserts the “rumblings of the ancient past can be heard,” especially in the foreign policy | plank. The article is by the foreign editor | “Why the boys still whistle at us| | we can’t imagine.” { | The boys do whistle; they are glad REPULSED IN JUNGLE Reinforced American Troops Resist Attacks of Trapped Forces ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July 17.~Plugging holes in the jungle- choked front, reinforced American troops have cut off the advanced Japanese force that cracked the Al- lied lines on the Drinimuor River, 20 miles east of Alitape. The Yankees repulsed two Japa- nese counterattacks on the river Friday night and again Saturday morning. Elements of the Japanese Eigh- teenth Imperial Army renewed at- tempts to break the enciclement of the Allies but all attempts of the | 45,000 trapped Japs were futile. The first heavy attack of the Japs took place last Wednesday morning when they crossed the Drinimuor River five miles inland from the mouth and pushed against one Yankee outpost. The Americans quickly rallied and with reinforce- ments hurled them back, killing an estimated 344 Nippons. 3 MORE VESSELS APPREHENDED FOR ILLEGAL FISHING Seizure of three more fishing boats, loaded with fish alleged to have been illegally taken, have been daughter later joined the English- speaking girls, singing in French. } Three Angoon Indians, members of the crew aboard the fishing vessel ' Guide, are in the Fedéral Jail today Store room. | The robbery was discovered Sun- | day morning about 8:30 o'clock by Roscoe Laughlin, owner of the Auk Bay Grocery, who noticed the broken | window at the front of the storeroom facing the road. Upon investigation | Laughlin found that several cases, the girls are with them, although 4 ¢ g : one New Guinea veteran said th“\rDeipm:ec? l‘; Tlr‘:l)‘;‘i::]ync:;j Rv?’%llg;:;‘(] he didn’t fancy writing home to say | Dirccler of the ar Service here | ‘Patrol boat 6 has apprehended |the seine boat Dundas for fishing |in the restricted area at Port Fred- | for | |erick. The trial has been set tomorrow. A second vessel has been report- jed by Wildlife Agent Dan’ Ralston jfrom the Ketchikan District, who HYNES REPORTS BRISTOL BAY PACK ' IMMUNIZATION |c. C. Carter. of beer and some hard liquor had been taken. | Highway Patrolman Emmett| | Botelho and Deputy Marshal Walter | Back from a general patrol of| Hellan were ‘summoned and found I¢y Strdits and) portions of thej evidence aboard the fishing boat istrict, Regional Director | which is alleged to have been taken of the Fish and Wildlife Service, from the store room. The seiner was Frank Hynes, reports that the run| anchored in Auk Bay during the in that section is still small, which weekend.. is to be expected this time of year.| Three of the crew aboard the He stated that the chum run seems vessel, Robert Johnson, Joseph to be heavier than any other. ‘g James and Johnnie Jack, were taken ;| Hynes was accompanied on the| fishing vessel Brant by Samuel! into custody and their bond has been set at $1,000 each. A pre- Hutchinson, Allocation Supervisor liminary hearing is pending. for Alaska. A, According to a report received at| \the office today, Mr. Hynes an- inounced that the Bristol Bay run| is going well in spite of the strike tin that district at the beginning of | the season, which is estimated will CLINIC TO BE HELD NEXT WEDNESDAY}cosn about 150,000 cases of salmon for the Bay. The monthly immunization clinic! The pack, Hynes said, has reach- for the innoculation of children ed the half-million mark and the against diptheria and smallpox, will run is reported to be good in all| be held Wednesday at 10 a. m., at parts of the bay with the except\on! the Health Center in the Tergitorial of Egegik Building, it was announced today.| The clinic will be in charge of Dr.; ,l Aps pRESSI"G VITAL CHINESE | RAIL JUNCTION .| CHUNKING, China, July 17. — |The Japs, pressing in a determined H !drive to win complete control of | OH EAH' the Canton-Hankow railway, have maintained heavy pressure on be- ’ L leaguered Henyang, although the | Chinese High Command asserted ithat the defenders of the vital rail ROME, July 17—Diplomatic re-i/ \ ports said Ken Harada, Japanese junction have killed more than 14,- Ambassador to the Holy See, ex-| |pressed Japan's ‘“readiness for| : peace” on certain conditions, during | an audience with the Pope last Sat- ‘outside the ancient walled city of urday. | Tengchung, the main Jap base Confirmation, of course, is lack- above the Burma Road, where the Parents of kindergarten and |grade children are advised to check their immunization records care- fully. If the child has not been |vaccinated within the past three ;years, a reinforcing or booster dose lis recommended before school ent-| rance. .- In the western Hunan Provincei there is house-to-house fighting | |slow thus far but that |seized the purse seiner Norma at ;Boca de Quandra and confiscated 662 fish, amounting to a total value of over 315. Fines aboard the seiner Norma were $250, Capt. Dick Thompson and a $100 fine each to the fol- lewing crew members: Warren Johnson, Dan Dalhart, Lyres Seev- ers, Joe Geist and Bill Lynch. From Wrangell, agent Howard Baltzo reports that he apprehended the fishing vessel Vivian-June for fishing illegally at Olive Cove near Wrangell Island. The fish was confiscated and the owner of the MINARD LOOKS FOR GOOD FISH SEASON, TAKU Albert Minard, Superintendent of the Libby McNeill & Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, who arrived in Juneau Saturday night, said that the run of fish has been rather a fairly decent catch was anticipated before the close of the season. Declaring that the company not suffered from any acute labor shortage, Mr. Minard said that have a fairly good sized crew op- erating at the present time.” -, —— FOREST SERVICE CHIEF DUE HERE NEXT WEEK To meet Lyle Watts, Chief of the Forest Service from Washington, D. C., and C. N. Granger, Assistant has Forester, flew to Ketchikan yester- day. The men are making the trip for the purpose of looking into the pos- showing Mrs. Roosevelt entering (Continued on Page Four) ing as all such conversations are Japs are declared to be resisting to confidential, the Jast man. sibilities of developing the pulp in- dustry in Southeast Alaska. They are expected in Juneau next week ress of Grodno Capt NIPS ARE BYRNES SEEN AS POSSIBLE VICE PREXY But Letter from President, Is Said fo Favor Henry A. Wallace CHICAGO, July 17.—In a rapidly | tightening race for the Democratic | Vice-Presidential nomination, Jim- | my Byrnes, head of the Office of War Mobilization, pulled up in a challenging position to Henry Wal- | lace and Senator Alben Barkley as | a dark horse in the contest, and he | might win. Byrnes, as Roosevelt’s personal agent, helped to bludgeon the 1940 convention into nominating Wallace and apparently this year he’s work- ing behind the scenes in his own| inte! Whether he has the “go ahead” signal from Roosevelt isn't known, but his camp made it clear that his name will go before the convention only if the strategists| are convinced that he can obtain a | majority of the votes. | It is believed a letter written by | Roosevelt to Senator Jackson of In- | diana, permanent chairman, will crystalize the delegates’ sentiment | on one person. Those who have seen the letter said it has “very strong pcrsgn:\l appeal” in behalf of Wal-}l Tace! They said the President ex- ! pressed the view that if he were a delegate he would pick Waliace. Friends of Wallace are talking about urging the President to tele- phone strategic delegations and rell | them he wants no change in the | present lineup. | - eee 'MANY ARRIVALS FROM SOUTH OVER WEEKEND | Incoming passengers from Seattle | and Vancouver, on Saturday evening were as follows: Albert J. Adans, Mrs. Hazel An- | drews, Carl Bergd, Mrs. Berge, John | Dapcevich, Edwate Don, Mrs. Don, | Richard Don, Daniel Don, Clarence Geddes, Rolla Grove, William Jack- son, Roy Jackson, Ernest Knoll, Mrs. | Knoll, Robert Matrin, Mrs. Martin, Zorn, David Zorn, Mrs. Isabel Booth, Edward Brennan, Mrs. Lina Bren- | nan, and Mrs. Mayme Cassell ‘Nv Ketweiler, J. F. Fiscus, V. G. Kirk, and J. G A. Barlow, Miss Jessie Barlow, Mrs. William Tamaree, and P. H. Walker |arrived here from Wrangell | Leaving here for Skagway were: Mrs. C. A. Carroll, Patricia Carroll, H. C. Church, K. D. Killmar, Elsie | Fabian, Kathieen Shane, Dor! Hardy, H. A. Mills, Ruth Smith, H. A. Hoffman, Lt. W. M. Caro, and | W. H. Plummer. | ———— SENATE BUILDING ON 50. FRANKLIN BEING REMODELED | | | | Work on the remodeling of the | Senate Building on South Franklin Street began today under the super- vision of L. F. Morris of the Morris Construction Company, which has | been awarded the contract Accord- {ing to Mr. Morris, the work is ex- | pected to be completed by Novem- ber 1. | The remodeling job will be similar |to that done on the adjoining Cen- | tral Building. The work will involve the construction of concrete floors, Lconcerte sidings, construction of a | retaining wall in the near, new side- |walks, fronts and a complete re- | plastering of the interior of the |building. A central heating plant | will be installed to heat both build- | ings. ‘The ground floor is to be occupied 000 between June 23 and July 14.|opier Prank Heintzleman, Regional by three stores. The second flook, which is now utiltized as a rooming ;house. will be completely recondi- |tioned. According to plans, the |frontage of the Central Building | will be made to flush with the Sen- !ate Buildine. The property is owned by W, D, Gross, jat 2 p. m. Fantastic Sfory Nazis ~ Have Robot Capable of Being Shotfo New York /GOOD GAIN IS REPORTED IN A substantial gain over Satur- day’s total in E bond purchases is reported today and the sales. are now at $184,11475. Juneau’s quota is $210,000. The total all series purchases are now at $464,263.25. According to reports from Fair- banks, the town is $20,000 over their E bond quota, the purchases to date being $284,605,25. At Anchorage a recent bond rally sponsored by the Lions Club, ac- counted for over $100,000 worth of bonds for one night's sales. .- GEORGE JONES DIES SUDDENLY, TAKU CANNERY George Jones, 69, one of the Alaska “oldtimers,” died - Saturday night |from a heart attack while picking radishes at the Taku Harbor can- nery. the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, were brought to Juneau by Al Min- ard, Superintendent of the Taku cannery. Funeral services will be held from ahe mortuary Thursday, The deceased came The remains, which are at to Alaska II STOCKHOLM, July 17. — Stock- ! holm’s Tidningen publishes a story, | without giving the source of the 1mformc\t\ml, saying robot bombs weighing as much as 10 tons and | capable of being shot through the | stratosphere as far as New York, have been concentrated in large | numbers in western Jutland and 1 Denmark. The newspaper says it is unable | to confirm the report but “this in- | formation is riot grasped from the air. Stockholm newspapers are fre- quently the outlet for propaganda | stories of secret weapons the Ger- . mans have planned and it must be remembered they printed stories of robot rockets in the making and which are now being used on Eng- land. | The Tidningen'’s article says it has been informed the Nazis have as- ;SI‘H\I)I(‘(J 10,000 robots in western | Jutland and the “bombs are reported | to weigh about 10 tons with a speed up to 700 miles an hour and move | in the stratosphere at an altitude of |‘over 65,000 feet The speed of the | new robot is beyond reach of anti- | aircraft fire and fighter planes.” One informant, with close connec- tions in Denmark, describes the re- port of the new robot bombs as “fantastic.” 1 A competent military observer on the other hand said it is a well estab- lished fact that the Germans are ?perimenung with new robots cap- | £ole of traversing much greater.dis- | tances than those currently in use | against England. | il !pany, the Todd cannery, and the | USO ROBBED LARGE SUM, EARLYTODAY about 40 years ago and resided in) Fairbanks. He worked in and around | for the Morrison - Knudsen Com- | Taku cannery, where he was em- ployed at the time of his death. He | was a former U, S, Deputy Marshal at Hoonah and Tenakee and for many years worked under former U. S. Marshal Albert White as a deputy. Mr. White paid high tribute to his former deputy. For the past several From Ketchikan came J. Boyle, | Shepard, while Mrs.| | | | years the deceased has resided at | Herman Porter, Mrs, Ella Roop, San- | Tenakee, ford Snyder, Edwin Zorn, Mrs. Alice | NEW DRAFT BOARD LIST IS RELEASED The following new draft board list was released today: 1-A—Glen F. Hinderer, Robert W. Cowling, Paulo M. Fausto, Burr A. Hagarty, Charlie P. Brown, Gasper Advincula, Frank G. Shotter. 2-A-George W. Bryson, Norman D. Rinehart, Walter A. Savikko. 2-A(H)--Charles W. Shrewsbury. 4-A—Eben W, Page. 2-B--Richard H. Kirschner, Ernst K. Johansen, Elmer R. Gregerson, William S. McCurry, Wesley A. Sul- livan. PVT. HERMAN PORTER HERE ON FURLOUGH Pvt. Herman Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Porter of Juneau, | home on furlough, having arrived | is Saturday from the States. Porter, a graduate of the Juneau High School in 1940, is stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas, with the 13th Armored Division. This is his first visit home in two years. 'STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 17. — Closing' quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7', American Can 92, American Tel and Tel 162%, Anaconda 267%, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 64, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Dupon common 159, Interna- tional Harvester 78%, Kennecoit 32%, North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 20%, Northern |Pacific 17%, Standard Oil of Cali-| 38'%, United States Steel Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 14927, rails 42.10, utilities 23.92, fornia 60%. {Receipts of Canteen Over Weekend Are Taken from Steel Cabinet Prying open a filing cabinet in | the lounge room of the Juneau USO, a thief or thieves forced open the steel cabinet and made away with | approximately $175 which represtned | the receipts of the canteen over the weekend, according to a report made to Police Chief John Monagle this |morning by Miss Alida Matheson, Assistant Director of the organiza- tion. The burglary took place some- time between midnight and the early | hours of the morning. According to | Miss Matheson, Miss Mary McCor- mack, a hostess at the club, closed up the office at midnight and locked the receipts in the filing cabinet. At 9 o'clock this morning when Mi | Matheson arrived at her office she found that the cabinet had been ransacked. The door of the building is left open all night, said Miss Matheson, to accommodate soldiers and sailors Two MP’s who slept in the dorm- itory on the escond floor of the building last night, and who made an inspection of the building at 4 a. m, said that they did not hear any suspicious noises during the night. - AND HOW! | CANBERRA, July 17.—Australian | Prime Minister Curtain told Par- liament today though transfer of British forces must await Germany’s defeat, large and powerful forces will | become available this year in the | war against Japan. | Curtin told the new session of | Parliament that when the full iwe!gh! of the British and American land forces are brought to bear on | Japan, the Japanese will be defeated | as decisively as the Germans. ured by Reds AMERICANS DRIVE INTO NAZI FORT British Advance, Hold Noy- ers-Big Offensive Threatened BUL LETIN — SUPREME HEAD QUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 17.—American warriors of Lt. Gen, Omar Bradley’s forces have driven into St. Lo, heav- ily defended bulwark of the Nazi Normandy line. Southwest of Caen the Brit- ish won snd hold the eastern half of the village of Noyers and have captured Vendes, one mile and a half to the north. To the south the British par- tially bypassed Evrecy and pushed southeast of the town for half a mile.* The British hold some houses on the east- er nedge of Evrecy, however. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 17—British tanks and infantry have stormed into the village of Noyers and are engaged in hand-to-hand fgihting with the German defenders. ' Lt. Gen. Dempsey's British Sec- ond Army has attacked on a nine- mile front southwest of Caen, and Marshal Erwin Rommel has thrown five divisions into the battle, and one of the biggest contests since the invasion is promised to de- velop as Dempsey sought to broaden the springboard salient and start a major offensive, Americans Hit St. Lo To the west, the American forces attacked St. Lo, groping in the early morning mists to the siege operations. ‘The Americans are wearing down the diminishing German resistance and pushed forward 400 yards, and early this forenoon stood within one mile and a quarter of Lessay, the Germans' western anchor across the Peninsula. The front line dispatches indi- cated the Americans are not taking ;any time to give the Germans a chance for reinforcements on any of the fronts on which they are engaged. MISSING 14 YEARS, NOW IDENTIFIED Former Uni;é?sily of Wis- consin Professor Lo- cated in Hartford HARTFORD, Conn., July 17.—De- puty Police Chief Thomas Hickey said a man driving a laundry truck here for the past year has been identified as John Commons, 53, former University of Wisconsin economics professor. Commons has been listed as miss- ing for 14 years. He told inter- viewers he remembers being at a university but his mind has been a blank. He said he also remembered a mental institution in the West somewhere. His wife divorced him, thinking he was dead. D RELIEF MANAGER FOR CAPITOL THEATRE HERE Ted Snyder, Relief Manager and Engineer for the B. F. Shearer Com- pany, has arrived in Juneau to as- sume the managership of the Capitol Theatre during the absence of Homer Garvin. Mr. Garvin is leaving today for a month’s trip to Seattle and Portland.