The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1944, Page 1

. RED ARMY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE -.- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD . 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9711. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 24,1 1944 Ml MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN IS YANKS SMASH ASHORE ON TINIAN lSLE Russians Now Within 365 Miles of Berlin Japs Go Over Side of Sinking Oiler ADVANCING HIGH SPEED Now Within 50 Miles of Warsaw-Nazis Refreat on 150-Mile Front LONDON, July 24.—The German radio today acknowledges the Rus- sian troops have plunged to within 50 miles of Warsaw. The Nazis have abandoned Siedlce Jaraslaw, the German com- munique officially announces, also that fighting is taking place in-| side the great Polish rail centers of | Lwow and Lublin. Siedlce Jaraslaw is 50 miles due east of the old Polish capital, and | only 365 miles from Berlin, and | the advance is by far the c)osest‘ Allied approach to the Capital Clty‘ of Nazidom. The advance to Siedlce Jaraslaw | marked a 20-mile movement since | midnight Sunday. The city is about | midway between Warsaw and Brest-| (Continued on Page Six) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S..Allen now on active | service with the Army.) @t CHICAGO — The smoke-filled | room at the Democratic Convention | turned out to be Ed Flynn's suite| in the Blackstone Hotel. (Leo Crow- ley’s might have been also, except| that he doesn’t permit smoking.) It was from Ed Flynn’s room that the big-city bosses put in the telephone call to “the boss in the‘ White House” which got the dele-| gates up in arms against city-] boss | dictation. The boss in the White House| wasn't in the White House at the| time, but at another point, not easily accessible by telephone. How- ever, FDR was finally reached by phone, and several of the big-city bosses took turns talking to him. Those present with Flynn were| Boss Hague of Jersey City, Boss Ed Kelly of Chicago and Boss Bob Hannegan of ‘the Democratic Na- | tional Committee. Kelly and Hannegan did most of the talking. They wanted the President’s’ O.K. on Senator Tru- man of Missouri for Vice President —and they got it. In fact, the President, according to what they said after they hung up, wanted Truman to the exclusion of Wal- lace, Senator Barkley or any other Vice Presidential candidate. It was after word of this dic- tum percolated out that Senator Barkley of Kentucky threatened to withdraw his speech nominating Roosevelt for a fourth term. Bark- ley indicated that, if the President didn't want him-as Vice President, then he didn’t want F. D. Roose-| velt as President. | Barkley’s nominating speech hadi already been mimeographed and sent to the press, so the idea of his recalling the speech sent shiv- ers up and down the spinal columns | of the bosses. | Barkley didn’t resent the letter | Roogevelt wrote for Wallace. But| he did resent the fact that the! President, after telling the conven- tion to debate “the pros and cons,” then turned around and instructed the bosses that he definitely wanted Senator Truman. Barkley was | spurred on by his son-in-law, Max Truitt, and by Max’s law associate Bill Stanley, former assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings. Nevertheless, he was pretty sore on his own. However, “Dear Alben” was not| What BlastDid e |to the | NIPPONSIN |QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,! PHLIPPINES WATCHED Operations Around Islands | Revealed-Coastal Vessel Sunk By MURLIN SPENCER ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- July 24—Allied communiques re-| garding the Pacific war swung back | Philippines today for the first time in two years, when Gen.| Douglas MacArthur announced “our | air patrols sank a coastal vessel 70 miles off Mindanao.” | This is the first mention of the Philippines in any MacArthur com- munique since the fall of Corregidor | on May 6, 1942, There has been an official silence screening all activities around the Philippines, but now it has been | lifted and discloses American planes have been keeping close watch for | some time on Japanese operations| around the islands. ; There are no details given re-| gardmg reconnaissances by a Navy | | Liberator that sank a Jap vessel in extension of land-based bombers in the Mindanao sector, but it means MacArthur's planes are now patrol- | ing at least 800 miles northwest of !the most advanced Allied bases at' Interior of main street drug store in explesion-shattered Port Chi- cago, showing bottles of medicines threwn from shelves behind pre- seription countes i 4 | """ |spected Cherbourg, and looked over | Hollywood’s agile-minded press agents, who hear there is a shortage of pins, have proposed Film Actress Joyce (above) as the “Paste- Reynolds Up Girl,” and are now sending her pic- tures to Army camps ilage 'on the back. ( photo) with mus- AP Wire- ‘ lyou is the enemy whose power is| g W“‘“ tion captured by the Americans. ! |“They missed the old bounder” but | CANADIAN HERE John Bruce |CHURCHILL ONVISITTO NORMANDY Declares?isis Grips Reichland-Grave Signs of Weakness Now | | , LONDON, July 24—The first of- £ 1 Allied word concerning the jerisis in Germany was given by 'Prime Minister Winston Churchill ’fmer a visit to Normandy, who said ‘lhue were “grave signs of weak- ‘lu:a in the Reich. He predicted |that the war “might come to an end earlier than we have a right |to say.” | Speaking before 500 men on an * |RAF flying field, the Prime Minis- |ter summed up Germany’s internal lerisis in these words: “Opposite :crumblmg i | While in Normandy, Churchill in- one German flying bomb installa- | Referring to the recent attemm |on Hitler’s life, Mr. Churchill said: |disturbance in the German ma- \chine. “Think how you would feel if| |there was a revolution in England | ‘aud they were shooting cabinet members,” he concluded. 'HUNDREDS OF NALZI OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED t | ladded there is time yet for a great | | | | | i | | BERN, July 24—The Journal de| Geneva prints a German dispatch 'stating “there has been mass exe- Biak, Owi and Noemfoor islands. Liberators in the New Guinea area again gave support to the American landings at Guam by bombing Yap, Palau and Woleai, bypassing the Carolines. — eee - HOMELAND OF NIPPONS THREATENED i Tokyo Disp—aal Broadcast Infimates Fleet Go- ing on Offensive LONDON, July 24—A Tokyo dis- patch broadcast from Berlin said the loss of Saipan “had more ser- ious repercussions on the nunm front than the loss of any other island, and danger of an immediate threat to the homeland has become acute.” The DNB agency added: “It is) 'presumed Japan is now determined | to go over to the offensive in which the Japanese fleet will play an im- portant part o GROWTH OF NAVY NOW GIVEN OUT lNearly 1,150 Vessels in Service with More | Under Construction | i | WASHINGTON, July 24. — The |Navy discloses officially that when the destroyer Grady is launched on |August 18, the number of United States fighting ships in service will be 1149, or more than three times the total available when the fleet began to grow in the middle of 1940. Many other fighting ships torpedo bomber scored a hit on it 15 miles north of Saipan three days prior to American landings there. White spots in upper left are members of the ship’s crew already in the water, from the tilted deck. (AP pholl) from Navy) ‘London Children Evacualed Labeled with large tags and carcying their posessions in hand bags, these London children, part of a group of 150,000 moved from the range of German robot rocket bombs, stand on a railroad platform ready for evacuation. (AP Wirephoto) - Fight for Burma Is Fight for Road for Supplies for China ROVER ge in the By PRESTON Chief of AP Co | China-Burma-India War Theatre In the thick jungle mud of north | central Burma a battle is being fought ‘between two rain-soused | armies—with a supply road into despeml.e China as the prize. The | whole battle is being fought around a town whose pronunciation has tormented newspaper readers for months. It is the town of Myit- yina, pronounced mitchenaw. On the outcome of the struggle may hinge important battles in China. Presently no supplies get to | China except those flown across the Hump at great cost. The new Burma road, called the Ledo road, is routed | through Myitkyina. If the Allies capture Myitkyina and surrounding | territory, they can shove the road through into China and open a land supply line at a Chinese are perhaps the hardest time when the | Much at Stake all the been wasted and the costly Ledo | road quickly will be reclaimed by the jungle. | By a series of astute maneuvers, | Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell has piloted | his army of Americans and Amer- | ican-trained Chinese more than 200 | miles through northern Burma, through some of the denest jungles in the world, right into Myitkyina. But the Japanese were there | with first line troops, and ¢onsidered |it so important that they were | willing. to risk thousands of men in a desperate drive into India in an | effort to break the Allied line. Forces Involved Stilwell’s troops were not the only | cnes involved. British and Indian “Chindits,” flown into central Bur- ma in a daring glider operation, If the Japanese hold Myitkyina, | daring American engineering | of the past 18 months will have | Oil drums are spewing |PURGE OF BLOOD ON IN REICH Strong Arm of Gestapo | Squads Redch Out-Kes- selring Reporled Seized LONDON, July 24. — Himmler’s prowling strong-arm Gestapo squads are reported to be carrying out one of their biggest purges of Germany’s blood-stained history. German Army morale appeared badly shaken but there is no con- crete evidence of any dissatisfac- tion at the front lines. French reports pictured the purge; of rebillicus Army officers as spreading to the fighting fronts of Germany, France Ttaly. They said that eight Eastern front commanders have been ar- rested or ousted. Agents have seized and possibly | executed German divisional lead- ers in France and seized Field Marshal Kesselring, commander in I":ly > Funny Inudenl 'Happens Right 'On War Fronl ORNE RIVER FRONT, July 24.—A British-manned Sherman tank tore around the corner of a shell-wrecked village and crashed head-on with a Ger- man tiger tank. Both crews got out of the turrets, according to Maj. H. P. Bell, British armored squadron leader, who said “in the confu- sion both our men and the Germans had forgotten their small arms and stood there a few feet apart just staring at each other.” The British tank commander spoke first and said: “Beat it before I change my mind.” With a gutteral “danke scheen” (thank you) the Ger- mans took to their heels. e e HERE FROM CANYON ISLAND Mrs, E. A. Sterns, Island, the Gastineau Hotel. and possibly | of Canyon; is in town and a guest at| JAPS LOSE GROUND IN GUAMFIGHT | Americans in Lightning Conquest of Mari- anas Group PEARL HARBOR, July 24—The day-old invasion of Tinian Island, just south of Saipan, is moving smoothly, and firm beachheads have been established as American forces rush the conquest of the strategic Marianas Islands. Other fighting Yank forces have isolated the key objectives on Guam Island and have advanced south- ward for 130 miles. Yanks Rush Ashore Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an- nounced the latest landings on Ti- nian in a special communique, which said the U. S. forces rushed ashore at dawn yesterday and as- sault units of the Second and Fourth Marines “continued against light opposition,” Tinlan Island is only three miles south of conquered Saipan, and the Yanks making the latest landing are fighting under the protection of land-based planes and artillery, as well as carried planes and warship fire, i Defenses Neutralized The majority of the Japanese de- fenses on the beaches have been |neutralized already, and the airfield put out of commission, Nimitz re- | ports, Meanwhile, Marine landings in west and central Guam Island fol- lowed up last week’s initial assault north and south of the port of Apra, best anchorage in the Mar- ianas. The Marines have isolated the harbor and also the airfield on Orote Peninsula. Coastline Falls | The Third Marine Division has quickly taken five miles of coast- line north of the harbor of Apra and occupied Cabras Island, a sand spit at the harbor's northern arm. | Third Division units have taken \and razed the villages of Piti and |Asan and’ have pushed to within two miles of Againa, shell-leveled peacetime capital of Guam. - eee —— ADVANCEIS REPORTED ON GUAM ISLAND Marines, Ifi;fltry Secure Beachheads and Make Substantial Gains UNITED STATES PACIFIC il"'l..E:E'I‘ HEADQUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, July 24.—Ameri- (can amphibious forces have secured ibeachheads and made ‘“substantial |gains” on Guam with only 1985 casualties in the first three days of land fighting, Admiral Chester W, | Nimitz announces. | The Marines and infantry are continuing to advance, is the re- | port. Admiral Nimitz estimates that casualties through July 22 are 348 Americans killed, 1500 wounded and {110 missing. TURKEY STOPS SHIPPING NOW ON BLACK SEA is a guest at the Baranof, having registered from Richmond Hill, Ontario. the only one who was sore. When | word leaked out that the big-city bosses had talked to the White House boss and were swinging the convention to Truman, plenty of other delegates were sore, t0o. have steadily fought their way | | northward to the outskirts of G R Myitkyina, not far from a little CASHENS ARRIVE mi,“ called Mogaung. | William Cashen and his bride, the In additioh, 8 strong force of Chi- former Ellen Barr, are in Juneau, _ and guests at the Baranof Hotel en- route to Fairbanks. are under construction, but they, started are of a less glamorous type of ships, such as landing craft, etc.| Myitkyina also would be tremend- The Navy's tremendous growth s | ously important as an air base, per- | but the figures are not mitting air transport to take a low lesser type of level and far less dangerous route | from Indid to China. pressed since their war seven years ago. cutions of officers of all grades” to| |quell the rebellion. Firing squads PR are working overtime in the inter-| HAMMONDS IN TOWN lior of Germany, also on the front, Mrs. Don Hammond and two and hundreds have been put to'shown, children, ‘of Fairbanks, are guests death in the three days ending available for the at the Baranof Hotel. July 21. vessels. LONDON, July 24—The Ankara |radio says Turkey: has suspended e;‘lll Black Seat shipping because of recent torpedoing of Turkish ship- ping by submarines whose nation- ality is now being investigated. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Pd;,c Thn )