The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1944, Page 6

NEW PLANES FOR A'.MKA AIRLINES ANNO MEI)E ERE ARMY JANCING GUARDSMEN FOUND When Mercy Ship Capsized Ala lded ued from page One) July 24. the lost A\A.\H'l\\ ka The ses i Guard: up man when mercy the s re- kan coast This Guard head- for a : Figen- arrives - o> 10 E L FUEHRER REA(HENG FRONT No Apparent Reaction in s grom @ Ensigr And Normandy Reporfed- Disastrous Huddle in Prince 300 miles from the Arance Eigen- baby survive, found d ; in Chicagc wife re- was found earlier, scene on, of Ketchi- also reveals who enlist- 0, has ing since Tue: \d.\\. disappeared from his be were held sm. or Jack Lauren suardsman resul He lived Cc Robert Guard Martir 0 E years last ed been mi Y when he Funeral Se ervices urday D: die by up pp! who of was in a July 1 and injuri porn in I Englewood. v Planes eles arefully allir for Fuehrer RAFMAKES ckheed loya FAR GUT AT SEA é’i §p£“f.fi Were Victims of Trageuy‘ body | trip cap- | THE DAILY ALASKA EM 'BODIES OF COAST JUGGERNAUT |JOHX W. DUDLEY OF STALIN ROLLING ON Momenium ' of Red Army| 1d1pd Saturday Increasing in Second |, Month of Offensive MOSCOW, July 24.—The German Army has fled in disorder in Cen- tral Poland and the Russians have advanced to within 50 miles of | Warsaw and are fighting in the streets of Lublin, only' 25 miles of the Vistula Line, which Hitler must hold to stave off the direct assault {on the Reich as Stalin’s juggernaut | offensive is entering the second |month and the momentum of the | Red Army is increasing. The Red Army has already cap- tured 23 German generals and that of | knocked out possibly 50 of the Ger- |ly left Juneau for Nome, and a man’s 250 divisions. The battle of Poland is already assuming catastrophic consequences on the eastern front. FORMER OPERATOR IS BACK WITH BARANOF ~ BEAUTY SALON NOW Jane Wells, who left Juneau last December to return to her home in Texas, has returned to Juneau and is connected again with the Bar- anof Beauty Salons where she was employed last year. In Texas, Miss Wells, an ex- | perienced beauty operator, was em- Front Line Hudd the aTTACKS, WIDE AREA Kiel Bombéd—bil Storage Depotfs Smashed- Bomb Sites Hit July A great fleet Force bombers un- f high explosives and also pound- from the Baltic British sec- n Ameri- line unit flight r. These pla accomunodate the Ryssian upper- said, man Gener would about 50 per- |is lost the or have been for Routes of the German. announced To Apply Marshall al Alaska Air Mr the w plication before Septe r 1 e deathly a e jans, if suc- O > ight CAB (Civil Aercnautics Board) S routes from Chicago to China (via |¢ e g Fairbanks, and Nc and Siberia), tics ol d attle East Indies other objectives ssful ir will member Germ but s continued today. ve geparate homber forces rain- destructien ,on Kiel last night, la oil storage depots at Nazaira, in an er reduce the enemy's fuel supplies, and hit robot bomb sites in northern France Berlin also hit with two-ton blockbusters for the thirteenth time since D-Day. to the e Coup d'Etat German offic P! officer ed struck Donges, effort to leutia d by the ex- now béing communication | Alaska routes which “T new ground radio sta- ped with the latest de- 1t the airliners are nev with the compa itive that @ ol : the itler, may n coup detat Germany from a fight and end dic- plea ible for H ttempt on mpt or ave beer tions, vices, 5o t out of stations. Mr. Marshall was accompanied to Juneau by his wife. They flew from 't New York to Seattle and arrived here by steamer Saturday af noon. They are expected to \ in hi about two weeks at Anchorage. equ g for surrender. aid the plot- already - ACTIONS QUIET IN NORMANDY AREA; ever Army officers I ted 1ave and be to as war crimina oldiers may will to conti e P l".)l.l('l', ‘|banks of the 20 airline miles of Florence. ployed in one of the leading salons. 1e invites her former patrons to call on her at the Baranof Beauty Salon. R YANKS HOLD FIRM GRIP, ARNO RIVER Fifth Army Now Establish- ed Along Nazi Wat- er Barrier ROME, July "‘4'— Amelicas Flf!n Army held the southern district of Pisa and wiped out virtually all enemy positions on the southern Arno River from the| Empoli. Additional north to Poggi- twelve miles of | sea to columns pushed bonsi, within Florénce. These week-end opera-| tions establistod the Fifth Arfy firmly along the Nazi Gothic line water barrier to a point less than near 1 Advance elements crossed the Arno Canpl and occupied Cascina, ' ten mi east of Pisa on the PIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DIES SATURDAY, ‘ PIONEERS' HOME John Wakefield Dudley, 78, long- |time resident of Juneau, and a nember of the Pioneers of Alaska, morning at the Pioneers' Home at Sitka, according |to advices received here. Born in Indiana, July 9, 1865, Dudley came to Alaska 43 years ago. He was Registrar of the S. Land Office at Sitka and Ju- neau until 1910 and after that was engaged in civil and mining en-| gineering in Southeast Alaska and| in the Westward. He spent his childhood and youth in ¥Indiana and in Washington, D.| C. He attended preparatory school | in New Haven, Conn, and attend- ed Purdue University. Before com- ing to the Terirtory he was en- gaged in civil engineering in the| States. The only known survivors are his son, George T. Dudley, who recent- | other, the Rev. George F. Dud-| ley of Sea Bright, New Jersey. Mrs. George Dudley, daughter-in- law, went to Sitka late Saturday | and interment will probably be at| that place. | | Coddling of WarPrisoners Now Resented Strong ResJuTion Sent by Veterans fo War De- partment BOSTON, July 24. — A hundred First Infantry veterans, in associa- tion with the American Expedition- ary Forces, sent home a resolution to the War Department, criticizing Army authorities and private citi- zens for what they term as “pam- | pering and coddling” Ttalian war prisoners. “Some of them killed and maim- ed our soldiers, and their Axis part- ners murdered and fortured their prisoners of war, yet they have re- ceived courtesies almost equal to those rendered dignitaries of friend- ly nations.” BENNETT ASKWITH LIKES JUNEAU AND SPEAKS RIGHT OUT After a tour of the entire Aleu- tian area, Bennett Askwith, Coast Guard Cembat Correspondent, ar- rived in Juneau yesterday. “Of all | the cities and towns in the Terri- tory I have visited,” said Askwith, “I believe I'd rather live In Juneau. Your town is nearest to our homes in the States.” | The REPORTS DEATH OF AIR CHIEF Two Others Die from In- juries in Explosion at Hitler Headquarters LONDON, July 24. — Berlin an- nounced today that Col. Gen. Guenther Korten, chief of the Ger- man Air Force General Staff, has died of injuries as the result of | the explosion at Hitler's headquar- | | ters. The broadcast said Maj. Gen.| Heinz Brandt, first officer in the general staff’s operative section,| also succumbed, which brought the announced degth toll to three. The German radio exhorted that |the home front must “mobilize to its last strength and that no one has the right to live who does not carry arms or forge them.” The Berlin correspondent from Tidningen; Stockholm, cabled that the Germans acknowledged that| recruiting to supply the warfronts had bogged down because of the| “bureaucracy staff of the German home army,” the command of which was assumed by Heinrich/ Himmler shortly after the bomb attack on the German Associated -Press learned through reliable secret channels that the Himmler purge barely touched the real ‘leaders and or- sae | frontier. | |ganizers of the resistance against Hitler. | FORMATION “ALASKA HOTEL ASSOCIATION | IS PERFECTED HERE Formation of an Alaska Hotel | Association to promote a more gen- | eral coordination of credit informa- | tion throughout the Territory and | which will take care of group ad- vertising and other phases of hotel management was announced today by Jack Fletcher, Manager of the ! Baranof Hotel. The association was formed Sat- urday night at a dinner attended by prominent Alaska hotel men. Those who were elected as tem- porary officers pending the first regular meeting of the association at which time officers will be perm- anently elected were: Wilbur Wester of the Westward HOWI, as Presi- | dent; Robert Brink of Ketchikan, Clarence Wise of Juneau, Hjalmar | Nordale of Fairbanks as directors, | and Jack Fletcher as Executive Secretary. TRUMAN S BACK HOME Will Resign Chairmanshipé | sitka on Sunday morning with the |ley, Don McGraw, Mrs. | and Paul Jordan back to Juneau. | | ernment Agencies as well as whole- /NINE IN FROM NORTH |following persons from Anchorage: | Daniel Lappole, Mrs. H. W. Cuffel, {J. D. Bedr, ALASKA COASTAL HAS MANY WEEKEND TRIPS An Alaska Coastal plane left for following passengers: Leonard Ol- sen, Mrs. George Dudley, Clay Bow- |mar, C. J. Minning, Bruce Bower, and Miss Gleason. Jeanne Miller | returned with the plane from Sitka | and Antonio Tuivy and J. G. Ellson from Hawk Inlet. Ed Auer and G. Sowers were pas- sengers on a trip to Taku Harbor yesterday. Mr. Sowers returned with the plane to Juneau. A trip to Skagway carried Herb Verhulk to that city and returned with Albert Wesley, Allen Young, Albert Ross, and Wilbur Irving. Miss Murphy was a passenger yes- terday from Terakee and Mabel Knbbivik, Daniel Campbell, and Mrs. Meyada from Hoonah. E. C. Berg returned with the plane from Chatham, A trip to Sitka today carried Pearl Johnson, Francis Smith, G. W. Cal- lahan, and Harold Schneider to that city and returned Mrs. George Dud- Dermott O'Toole, and Patricia Muir. The | latter two boarded the plane at Tenakee. A ship, going out empty to Todd, brought M. Castleton, M. Maverick, | Arthur Rosein was a passenger today for Haines and Albert Ross and wife for Skagway. TREBLE DAMAGE CLAIM OF 0. P. A. OF $1,936 IS PAID A payment of $1936.66 to the U. S. Treasury has been accepted by | Walter Walsh, ‘Enforcement Attor- ney for the Alaska Office of Price Administration, from George Nehr- bas of Fairbanks, it is announced | today. | “The payment was made in set- | {ment of treble damage claim cov- | ering overcharges to government agencies at Fairbanks on a sale of | trucks above ceiling prices,” Mr. Walsh stated. It was settled without | filing suit. Sales of materials and property to the War Department or other Gov- | sale and retail sales are being in- vestigated by OPA. As a result of | these investigations it was found | that George Nehrbras, doing busi- ness as the Fairbanks U-Drive, had | charged the U. S. E. D. in excess of | ceiling prices for trucks VIA ALASKA AIRLINES incoming Alaska airliner on| to Juneau the An Saturday brought Adrian Roff, Harold| J. Schneider, George M, Cahalan, | A, F. Shcean, E. G. Whalen, and | Mrs. C. Strong. | Returning to Anchorage on Sun-| day the plane carried Fred: Frobese, Gerald Grein, George Martin, and | Oren Addleman to Yakutat; Mrs.| Amelia Rock to Cordova; Master Johnson, Roy E. Jackson, J. {liam Scott, of Winnetka, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1944 TWO ATTACK BOMBERS IN ‘Crash af War Show in Spo- kane as 100,000 Spec- tatoss Look On SPOKANE, Wash.,, July 24—A crowd of at least 100,000 was too stunned to make an outery as they watched yesterday when two attack bhombers collided and fell in flames during a war show, killing four. ‘The ships, the Army’s counterpart of the Navy's Helldivers, were part of a parade of various types of planes flown in the air service. It was just announced that “these planes stay on the job,” and are capable of making up to 400 miles an hour when the midair crash occurred and they fell 2,000 feet away from where the créwd was stationed. The victims of the collision were Capt. Ford Sayre, of Hanover, New Hampshire; Lieut. George Chreep, of Hibbing, Minnesota; Lieut” Wil- Tllinois, and the name of the Sergeant, also killed, is withheld. — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 24. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6%, American Can 91%, American Tel. and Tel. 1624, Anaconda 257, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, Dupont common 155, International Harvester 74%, Ken- necott 32, North American Avia- tion 8%, New York Central 20, Northern Pacific 16%, Standard Oil of California 37%, United States Steel 58. Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 145.76, rails 42,03, utilities 23.40. \PAN AMERICAN PLANES ON 3 FLIGHTS TODAY A flight to Seattle was made today by a PAA plane, carrying A. B. Hayes, Corrine Jenne, V. |O. Vick, Mrs. Juanita Rutherford, Lloyd Guerin, and Michael Haas to the southern city. A trip to Fairbanks carried Charles = Miller, Maury Maverick, Jane Jordan, and William A. Castle- ton to that city and Ralph A. | Treffers to Whitehorse. Lorraine Damon was a passenger for Whitehorse on a third flight today. “SOM” STRAWBRRIES FROM MORRIS’ RANCH DISPLAYED ‘What are reputed to be the lar- gest strawberries ever to ‘be grown in the Juneau area have been cull- ed from the strawberry patch on the ranch of L. F. Morris. The - | strawberries, some of which meas- ured four inches in circumference, are on display in the windows of * 25 ' DEFENSES HOLD upper Arno, and the Eighth Army| Stating that he could not discuss COURT FINES CAPT. TED DARIELSCN SUPREME HEADQUARTERS made new gains north of the river: his work, this young man who has teen days in jail was the meted out to Tommy Weaver arraigned this morning in ls NGW IN ENGH.AND OF ALLIED FORCES, July 24— RAF Halifaxes and Liberators seen more of Alaska in a year than of h' ing New drives to break out of Nor- pombed military objectives at Bu-|most residents have in a lifetime, mandy beachheads are the only two/charest last night, and American | calls it “a Territory with an enorm- engagements reported on the 100- Liberators left the Berat, Albania,!ous future” He spoke of servicemen mile front. oil refinery in flames yesterday. |in Southeast Alaska who had taken Eight miles east of Caen the| |up mining courses in - their spare British pushed into the western . M) time, intending to go further into of Troarn and met stiff re- Nall Mllliary Head this field and come here to live 1 . Attacked in France Seves River toward the Ger- M Jep- nce, then fell back to the rail- after:the war. man stronghold at Ferier but were| LONDON, July 24—The German Battalion, . " tion. | “Since I can't talk of my trip, the robot bombs I can say one thing which has made | “We are going to win' overwhelm- 1 back to the north bank by radio in Paris said terrorists ser-| Germ attack jously injured Gen. Otto, von| ) n reached their nlmmk.( ate uneau famous throughout the Ter- | ingly in November,” Trumah said. locality, but occasionally they are ritory. * There is little doubt that| The Senator also said he has bounced out of bed as the result of your town has the most beautlful‘denmf.ely decided to resign as one exploding in the vicinity. girls in the entire Territory.” Chairman of the Senate Commit- Defensi on front Stuelpmagel, head of the military! however, administration in Occupied France.| It is officially estimated that the The attack, it is said, occurred on| fighting in Normandy has cost the July 21, when the General was on tar RES T tee Investigating’ War Productiori PECTING IN Germans 156,000 soldie 'a tour in eastern France. The town of Mogilev, Russia, was | “just- as soon as we have our next OTTER-TRAWLING s i BEING PLANKED JUST ARRIVED LARGE SHIPMENT OF DEL MAIZ NIBLETS CORN GREEN GIANT PEAS DEL MAIZ MEXICORN NIBLETS ASPARAGUS in the waters adjacent to Pelic nd® Sitka but some probably Without a doubt the finest quality packed. Liberal discount on case lots Boyle, Capt. H. M. Graning, Capt. R. S. Green, and 'Mrs. W. J. Osier to Anchorage; and J. Stampalia ml Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Marshall were also passengers for Anchorage. Mr. and Mrs. Beirhous, of Gus- Duggan and cuurtemanche were | tavius, registered at the Gastineau pilots for 'the flights. ! Hotel over the week-end. R ® o o e o o WEATHER REPORT (L. 8. Bureanm) Temp. Saturday, July 22. Maximum 60, minimum 53. Rain .68. Temp. Sunday, July 23. Maximum 59, mmimum 51. of Committee Probing War Production KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 24— “I am quitting a tremendously im- ! portant job to do another even more important,” said Senator' Harry S. Truman, Democratic Vice-Presi- dential candidate, returning to his office here where he was greeted by a long line of friends and well- wishers. the George Brothers Payn' Takit | Store. — e GUSTAVIUS PEOPLE HERE Friends of Capt. Ted Danielson ame charee, | will be interested to learn that he given a ten- | is in England, having been uspended jail sentence on con- | (ransferred over two months ag of his good behavior in the ' from Camp Ellis, III a d with being drunk,| Capt and Emma Mayda A of uil and 25 and ¢ to a c orderly fined now | day S dition with future Danif both FROM STRAWBERRY POINT Charlie Parker, of Strawberry Point, 4s in° town “and; a guest at the Gastiheau Hotel. * cn.mmm /IN BOWN J. D. Beér has registered at the Gastinean Hotel ‘ll‘q_m “Calffornia. T R AT ‘GEORGE BROTHERS Super Market PHONES 92-95—2 DELIVERIES Orders for Delivery Accepted Up to 2:30 P. M. LOTS OF FRESH FRUITS HORMEL’S CHILI CON CARNE alld VEGHABLES VAN CAMP’S CHILI CON CARNE 2 LYNDEN RAVIOLAS - - including WATERMELONS LYNDEN EGG NOODLES and CHICKEN and LYNDEN EGG NOODLES and TURKEY STRAWBERRIES LYNDEN CHICKEN A La KING PHONE—WRITE—WIRE US YOUR ORDER EORGE BROTHER n tered @ each fined guilty and was § adley’s forces drove ac: the were lead harge of irunk urchie DEWEY, BRICKER GO INTO HUDDLE ABOUT CAMPAIGN 24 —Gov. dis Norman and costs the are, The is pl ALBANY Thomas E. Dewey running mate on the Republicar Gov John W. Bricker, will blueprint to extent campaig i each Wednesd and hi; ticket work will be done elsewhere The work is contingent upon the met» of a certain man to the studies. The man is , Fishery Engineer of and Wildlife Service, who has had wide experience in halibut on ining, otter- crab tangle net fish- seinir and other itie confe DENNISON’S LIMA BEANS DENNISON’S MEAT BALLS and GRAVY DENNNSON’S PORK and BEANS DENNISON’S CHILI CON CARNE GEBHARDT’S CHILI CON CARNE cor Bricker, Carl ing his accompanied by 3 the first h is towAlbany for uddle since wention 3 p'nlm\i\ ind con- - SISTER SEEXS WORD CF BROTHER, MISS abouts Landi He i inche - oo - GORDON RETU Dir who h: in Westerr who has b Penns officially of USO City, night OF OTHERS Plrocly #ycely PHONE 16 or 24 $2.00 Minimum Orders to be in before 1 P. M. In order to conserve manpower, gasoline, rubber and equipment, we have only one delivery each day. headquarter W York y in Juneau Whitehorse - GRANTED ted Saturday urt by Judge Rosalia Jo rne LaRue, nization: Ne urned to unda ne from B DIVORCE 5 grd S. District C lexander He m- f-moon scar or mining ¢ A the U George F. from Joseph LaV works mer months winter. He is not marr Angone who k of ¥ abouts should write to Mrs D. Hammock, 214 Magnolia Macon, Georgia—his sister ree v LaRu Boat Orders Delivered Anyfimei Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A, M. ]_) TF and Te; sistered - XANS HERE Mrs. W. D are i the Field, town ) Mr of lso Houston 1S, ve re at 3aranof