The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1944, Page 1

THE LIBKARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG 12 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA FM]?IRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. XLIL, NO. 9712. » = o JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUFSD\\ JU[\ 25, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS TWIN ATTACKS LAUNCHED IN NORMANDY German Armies Split by Russian Forces REDS MOVING FORWARD AT RAPID PACE Soviets Now Less than 20| Miles from Strategic Vitsula River MOSCOW, July 25.—Swift Rus- sian columns, paced by churning tanks and swarm of planes, are today less than 50 miles from War- saw, after splitting the German armies in the heart of Poland and | capturing Lublin and Likow. Lublin is the rail center in southeastern Poland and one of the important German strongholds guarding the route to Warsaw. \ | \ The Russian drive, over uncb- structed plains, has carried the Red Army 40 miles forward in 2: hours. The Soviets are less than 20 niles from the Vistula River which flows by Warsaw and forms the last natural barrier to German itself. Crossing of the Vistula River would outflank the Warsaw region and expose the garrison city of 250,- 000 to attack from the south. Red Army pilots report scenes of | (Continued on Page Two) The Washington|) Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEAHSON (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—The uncensored diplomatic pouch from London re- ports that the proportion of Am- ericans being killed by Hitler’s ro- bot bombs is greater than the pro- portion of British. This is because Americans in London haven't learned to adjust themselves to living in a city where death lurks at every corner. Since the number of Americans in London is less than the number of British, the total number of Americans killed is naturally less than the number of British killed, but proportionately American lives| lost are greater. What happens is that a British- er walking down a London street instinctively looks for the nearest lamp-post, pillar, pile of bricks or anything that will serve as protec- tion. He does this before there is any explosion or even any noise of an approaching robot. He has been trained .to do it for four long and perilous years during which death was constantly dropping out of the sky, 4 the same way that a single-engine airplane pilot fly- ing from Washington to New York is constaptly on the lookout for emergency landing places such as cow pastures, even when his motor is whirring perfectly. Because Americans aren’t' trained in” watching for means of protec- tion in the street, they lose that split second’s time necessary to get | out of the way of flying glass and: bricks. In addition, American troops suf- fered one unhappy accident when a robot landed in the middle of a detail of men who were getting| ready to leave in trucks. Lined| up in a London street, they were wiped out. DESTRUCTION OF THE ROBOT| Authentic London reports are| not too encouraging regarding de- |PEARL HARBOR, July 25. Vice-Presidential Candidate souri Senator Harry S. Truman, pictured here with his wife and nominated for Viece-President on the Mi daughter, Margaret, 20, w: Democratic ticket at the Chicago convention, running mate with President Roosevelt. Xas Reguasal Out Members of the Texas regular delegation (center, racing camera) walks past a sign marking scats of the Pro-Roosevelt Texas faction as they abruptly left a caucus in the rear of the Democratic conven- tion stadium in Chicago. (AP Wirephoto) INVADERS GOP CHIEF AT GUAM | HITS DEMOS MOVE ON AS RADICAL Increased R—e;stance Re-lSays Control ol with Bosses' porfed-Rofa Island Is of Corrupt City Hit by Air Force Gangs, Reds FLEET HEADQUARTERS, pert Brownell, Jr, GOP chairman, — Thej in his first visit to the |asserted Republican Party’s headquarters Marines have advanced 1,500 yards inland on Tinian Island to cap-igince being elected that the Demo- ture the western third of an air-ferats proved the Republican con- |strip since landing from Saipan|tention that “time changes horses” Island three miles to the north of when they passed over Roosevelt’s struetion of the robot bomb. Great- est success has been in knocking| it out in the air with fighter| planes. However, it takes a robot| from that in which the British| are preparing to receive it. | | ! NEW CABINET FOR 4th TERM If the President makes the grade|: next November, those who have talked to him say you can expect some sweeping Cabinet changes be-| fore he is inaugurated for the| fourth time. | American ‘has been reported. |Rota Island, between Guam and Tinian early Sunday, Admiral Ches-|first choice for running mate and ter Nimitz announces. picked Senator Truman in place Earlier it was reported that the of Wallace. invaders of Guam Is Brownell said also he expected {land had completely cut off the | |“considerable talk” in the 2oming |Japanese forces on Orote Peninsula, months about the control of the site of Guam’'s main airfield. Democratic Party with final con- The penetration on Guam has tro] resting between “bosses of cor- reached a maximum of inland on the northern front where increased battle ca] left-wingers who are closer to resistance communism than any other politi- |cal philosophy.” Aerial support for the attack on| Brownell gave no names. | —————— Tinian, also is supported by Ad-| TEXANS HERE is that the Dewey “old men” running| Inside fact taunts about (Continued on Page Four) miral Nimitz who said an airfield, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Wise, Jr., 'and other installations have been of Fort Worth, Texas, are guests at hit. the Baranof Hotel. WASHINGTON, July 25. — Hor-| 2,900 yards yupt big city machines and radi-| ALGOODWIN IS KILLED BY HANS HESS Fatal Shooii@ Occurs on Ester Creek Between Two Oldtimers FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 25— Hans Hess, 75, in this district since 1909, this morning on Ester Creek, 11 miles from Fairbanks instantly Killed Al Goodwin, 60, by shooting him in the neck. The two men had been {for more than 30 years. Hess had been informed last night that his mining claim on Ester Creek had been jumped by Goodwin who had been a pros- |pector here for some time. Hess went to his claim this morning and found Goodwin in the shaft. He ordered him off at the point of |a shotgun and followed him to the limit of his claim. Then Goodwin asked Hess to (walk in front. Hess did so but |when he looked back he said he saw Goodwin with a pick held lnl |a perpendicular position as if to |strike him. Hess turned |and shot. Hess then phoned the marshal's &cmce and officers rushed to the| | scene, arrested Hess and brought| back the body of Goodwin. | A coroner’s jury said Goodwin | ame to his death from a gunshot | |wound from a gun fired by Hess. friends completely around ——,,——— OFU.S.IN perial Navy Is Still Avoiding Battle (By Associated Press) Several United States task forces and “powerful groups of aircraft carriers” are maneuvering in waters of the Marianas Islands 1,500 miles enemy” the Tokyo radio asserted in a broadcast yesterday. The broadcast was attributed to naval commentator Wwho said, “Strategically” speaking, the time to deliver the coup de grace has, not yet arrived.” He later addud that the combined fleet is un- doubtedly far inferior as far as aircraft strength is concerned. Gives Explanation for two purposes; to explain why ‘the Navy made only one move ‘o efend the Marianas, and that a icostly one, or to fish for an in- dication as to where the Um!vd States fleet will strike next. In the Marianas sea battles the Japs lost 747 planes and more than 30 ships. The radio also told the home folks the Marianas situation is “growing more serious every day.” BRISTOL BAY PACK LARGEST SINCE 1938 WASHINTON, July 25. The salmon season in the Bristol Bay region, closing today, is expected to produce more than a million cases of canned salmon, the Office of Coordinator of Fisheries said. This year’s pack is 1,018,000 cases, the largest since the record pack of 1,839,000 cases in 1938. — e — Manhatta nexported apples Holland in 1639. to The Jap broadcast is conceivably \vg\ Enthusi | form iwho made the renominati President Roosevelt's TASK FORCES NIP WATERS Jap Broadca?t Hints Im-; from Tokyo, but the “time is not| yet ripe for our fleet to attack the Barkley Sels Tempo oi Bemonsirah % e tic delegates to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago jam around the speakers’ plat- name is placed before it for the renomination. 1 speech, sets the tempo of the demonstration as Permanent Convention Chair- man Samuel Jackson (next to flag) grasps Barkley's upr.limul arm in twin salute. (AP Wirephoto) Senator Alben W. Barkley, Roosevell Accepls Nommanon Speaking via radio from a railroad car at a Pacific Coast Naval Station, President Rooscvelt acceptes the Democratic nomination for a fourth term in the White Heo! James Roosevelt. in-law, Col. and Mrs. Mrocities of Japs InThe Netherlands East Indies Revealed, | CHUNGKING, July 25.—Accord- ing to information from high Dutch authorities, Japs in the Netherlands East Indies are duplicating what they have done in China. Every step reveals the approach of Japan’s doomsday. Japan can no longer | hide from the world her serious shortage ©of manpower and re- sources. Since their occupation of the Netherlands' East Indies, the Japs have succeeded in isolating these |islands not only from the outside world but also from one another in order to keep the population in complete darkness with regard to happenings elsewhere. With a view to nipping in the bud all activities of resistance, Jap authorities, besides instituting com- pulsory labor, forced all village Ichiefs to hand over all edumled‘u,,, 200 The latter were either be- \m(,m. youths. headed or tortured. Whenever any- one doing foreed labor is found not se. Secated at right are his son and daughter- (AP Wirephoto) ]TINIAN I8 INVADEDIN QUICK TIME puos i v s e o r o e dous Bombard- or bayoneted, | ment Precedes Landing on Jap Stionghold All women in the Netherlands East Indies, irrespective of age, and | By CLINTON GREENE (Representing the Combined girls were raped, some of them were | American Press) ravaged until they died. Today all one sees in these territories are old | men and women and children who | are of no use to the Japs or can do them no harm. { To meet a part of their food shortage back home, everywhere in the Netherlands East Indies the Japs are plundering and looting the food. The local people are forced FLAGSHIP OFF July 23— (De- last major ABOARD A | TINIAN ISLAND, layed)—Tinian, the Japanese stronghold in the Mari- anas Islands, was invaded this to exchange their grain for worth- |morning by U. S. Marines who less Jap military note, and grain |Wibed out the garrison on Saipan so collected is mostly shipped to @ little more than two weeks ago. Japan. | By nightfall the Marines held a Being isolated and in lack of cot- beachhead nearly a mile deep at , the people in these ter- the farthest penetration and were are now in rags. To make in a position to attack Ushi Point (Cantuu’xe&"z’m“?aue Five) (Continued on Page Five) for FOR AMERICANS BRITISH IN NEW DRIVE | Offensive Isfipporied by Heavy Bombers, Fight- ers, Two Forces 'FOUR-DAY STALEMATE IS'AT LAST BROKEN Montgomery Advances on 4-Mile Front-U. S. East Flank Jumps Off SUPREME HEADQUARTERS |ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 25.—The American and British armies today sprang forward in powerful twin assaults in Normandy, supported by heavy lair and artillery bombardment. The British and Canadian tanks and infaptry gained up to one mile (in the early hours of the dawn |today to push on, striking south of Caen. N The east flank of the Americans |jumped off shortly before noon under a strong canopy of planes “advancing against heavy resist- ance,” the field announcement said. The American First Army has been strung along a winding front from fallen St. Lo and Lessay on the west coast. In a broadcast from Berlin, the officlal communique said the Am- erican forces hit from the area northwest of St, Lo and admitted a “small penetration” had been made, but declared that later this had been “sealed off.” The double attack of the Ameri- can and British armies today on the new offensive broke a four-day stalemate. Montgomery, sidestepping a for- midable German anti-tank screen southwest of Caen, sent his forces piling southward on the road to Falaise along a four-mile front and nearing firm, open ground that is excellent for a tank battle. Falaise is 20 miles south of Caen. TERRIFIC AIR SUPPORT SUPREME HEADQUARTERS' OF THE ALLIED FORCES, July 25.—The United States Eighth and (Continued on Page Five) NAZIS LOSE MANY TANKS IN FRANCE 593 Armored R Rigs Knock- ed Qut by British Forces By ROBERT GREEN (Associated Press Correspondent) ON THE ORNE RIVER, NOR- MANDY, July 25.—Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has had 593 tanks knocked out of action since D-Day and 250 are known to have been destroyed, a British staff officer reports. No figure has been given con- cerning British tank losses, al- though aerial supremacy has al- lowed the Allies to recover virtu- ally all of the tanks knocked out and to repair most of them. According to my own observation I would estimate that German tank losses are considerably heavier than claimed by the British. ‘The British report, plus British conservatism at Army headquar- ters is prone to “pare down” fig- ures submitted to headquarters by combat commands. I have often seen brigade reports cut in half when made public.