The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9713. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE UIBRARY OF CUNGRESS SERIAL RECORD HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - 2 1944 GIFT e JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNE I)AY JULY 26, 1944 MLMBP R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT& AMERICAN TANKS SMASH NAZI LINEM U.S. RED ARMIES (ONVERGING ON WARSAW Cossacks Reach East Bank of Vistula - Berlin 358 Miles Away MOSCOW, July 26.—Hard-riding Cossacks have reached the east bank of the Vistula. River and other Russians, supported for the first time by United States planes in direct tactical operations, rounded and mauled the German garrison at Lwow and stormed into the great rail city, reached Pulawy, and are 66 miles southeast of threatened Warsaw and within 358 miles of Berlin. Lightnings and Mustangs of the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force flew from| U. S. bases in Russia, destroying | 38 German planes in the Lwow area without the loss of a plane, and strafed an airdrome 100 miles northwest of the surrounded ctiy. Hungary and Czechoslovakia are in the path of yet another Rus- sian Army group, which has vir- tually surrounded Stanlislawow, and has reached to within 28 miles of the Hungarian Tatar Pass in the| Carpathian Mountains, The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—As the war moves faster in Asia, Administra- tion advisers are convinced that the ticklish problem of India, which Roosevelt repeatedly has postponed, must be tackled soon. Each time the President has dis- cussed India with Winston Church- ill, he has received a blunt cold shoulder. Once, last year, when U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, after his return to this country from India, talked to the Prime Minister at FDR’s request, Chur- chill banged the table and said: “I have always been right about| —_ Hitler and everyone else in Eur- ope. I'm also right about Indian policy. Any change in Indian pol- icy now will mean a blood bath.” At about the time Phillips talked to Churchill, he also submitted a report to President Roosevelt, which will be the basis for any new U. S. proposals to Britain. In this re- port Ambassador Phillips, gener- ally considered pro-British, made some critical, forthright statements about British policy. “It is time for the British to act,” he wrote President Roosevelt. “This they can do by a solemn declaration from the King-Emperor that India will achieve her inde- pendence at a specific date after the war * * ¢ “I feel strongly, Mr. President, that in view of our military po- sition in India, we should have a voice in these matters. It is not| sur- | Planes o figw&’“ a.g\ | QEBRIS lITTERS THE TRACKS running through the railroad station of Arezzo, tured the strategic town, located about twenty-five miles from Tlorenc the Nazis from Arezzo crossed the upper Arno River and are steadily expa is an official British Army photo through OWI Radmphom ? AS CAEN L FIRES SET BY SHELLS were sweeping through Caen when this photo was PRIVATE IS HERO OF 4- DAY BATTLE Portland Boy Leads Divi- sion fo Victory when Commander Falls By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 26. — The Civil Aeronautics Board has made | two announcements recently, the re- | sults of which may sooner Lhan, | anticipated determine the pattun% | for ours participation in post-war | By EDWARD R. BALL world aviation. WITH THE NINTIETH DIVIS- The first was an outline, subject {ION IN NORMANDY, July 26. *‘lo revision, of course, of what the Buck private John Heffernan, of | international air routes of tomorrow right for the British to say this is none of your business when we| alone presumably: will have the major part to play in the struggle with Japan.” Ambassador Phillips’ report is| considered so important inside the State Department and the whole Indian picture is so vital to Allied| success in Asia, that a large part of his report follows: AMBASSADOR PHILLIPS, REPORT “Dear Mr. President: “May I add a few words to what I said to you on Tuesday afternoon when I had the pleasure of giving you an oral report on my impres-: sions of the Indian situation. “Assuming that India is known to be an important base for our| future operations against Burma and Japan, it would seem to be of | highest importance that we should (Continued on Page Four) 3 | will be. The second was the an- Portland, Maine, has won high/| |praise from Allied commanders Ior‘;‘lzz:]‘?gelgn H:;]; CrfioB,ehz\;::,nr;;dol ‘:‘r:lchio\?':;\da: ]O?g:rm;gmu;‘:mxifi‘apphcarions for international air | 4 routes now on file. the Germans, during which he led| y, outlining the world plan cAB | a Nintieth Division platoon after | told of the nation’s interest in in- | {the commanding officer was knock- | | ternational airlines and landing | led out in the action. fields. The Private’s action was just one| The proposed routes cover 140,000 lof the movie thriller type of -ex- | airline miles, touching more than 50 | periences of the division, which was | countries.. Of these, 60,000 miles | recruited from all of the 48 states. 8ré Over new routes. It would be It was assigned the job of cross- 1x<:1p_csslhle to describe these world ing the Meredet River on the drive airlines here, but certain points are {to Cherbourg. | significant. If CAB's routes are fol- 3 lowed, the jumping off eities for | Lt Ralph Miller, of San Antonio,| o4 rayel will be New York, San Texas, and Cpl. Raymond LuStie,| n.).icco 1os Angeles, Seattle, Detmil‘i" sllppedd beh‘"dF‘h"lGe"' Miami, New Orleans, Brownsville, man lines and met. a French ce-| opapjeston, Chicago and the Twin ment maker, who gave them de-|gijiies with one other point in the ;talled information on the German| .,,iheastern United States. fortifications around the important i | agreements. ‘eslablish these lines purely AREZZO RAILWAY STATION AFTER TOWN WAS TAKEN 'NAVY MOVES Italy, after British troops had cap- Eighth Army forces after driving nding their gains in this area. This (International Soundphoto) AY BLR\!E"*JG BEFQRE BPiTiSH TOOK iT made from an RAF reconnaissance plane shortly before British forces captured the city. Desperately defended by the Nazis since D-Day as the eastern anchor of their Normandy line, Caen was wrested from the enemy by a crushing attack that carried to the banks of the Orne, 120 miles from Paris. Signal Corps Radio- tclepholo. (International Soundphoto) (AB Sfarls Hearmgs On Infernafional Air Roufes; Alaska in Plan New York, Newfoundland would be the point of departure for London, Berlin, Rome and Cairo; as well as for Stockholm, Leningrad, Moscow and Teheran. The southern cities would be the feeders for Mexico and South America, as well as for the southern. route to the Mediterran- ean. State Department officials say clearing the routes will entail an enormous amount of work, no means is it an insurmountable task. Many of the lanes countries where we already have Since our policy is to on a competitive basis, and in nearly | every instance to swap reciprocal landing rights in this country, few nations who have any hopes of building future international airlines jof their own would hesitate to | participate. The first hearings on foreign serv- ice franchises will be on those which operate through the Caribbean to South America and Africa. Both continents now are ready for com- mercial aviation as soon as planes are available and wartime r tions on commercial aviation relaxed. | be Aviation experts here are predict- town. The pair slipped back and| Alaska would become a great gave the information to the artil-| crossroads between Chicago and Se- {lery, which blasted the vital point| attle here, and Tokyo, Viadivostok, fortifications to. pieces, {Shnnfihai and Hong Kong, Out of ing that not more than a dozen | franchises will be granted out of jthe many now on fi CAB will (Continued on Page Two) id Soviet Drive into Lwow ~ INTOAREAOF PALAU ISLE {Sabang Hara)?in Sumatra | | Bombarded Again by Surface Craft (By Associated Press) The Tokyo radio said a United| !States task force, chiefly carriers,| |has penetrated to the vicinity ot‘ Palau Island, about 500 miles east| of Mindanao in the Philippines, and | {that 30 carrier-based planes at-| acked the islland. Tokyo said two | of the attacking craft were shot| |down by antiaircraft fire. Another broadcast of a Jap Im-! Iperial Headquarters communique |said ‘a large Allied task force of | |cruisers, destroyers, and submarines |yest day bombarded Sabang har- {bor at the western end of Sumatra, |and asserted that two destroyers and one submarine were sunk, as| well as a number of carrier-based | |aircraft downed. ‘ | It was the second such strike ab |Sabang in a little less than four | months, Another under Admiral| | Somerville hit the port on April 119, The nationality of the vLssvh | | | | | \ | | | | | | | | i ks RETURN CAPTUR&:D NAZI NURSE ONE OF EIGHT German nurses captured by American forces at a hospital in Cherbourg, France, waits to enter a U. S. ambulance which will take her back to the Nazi lines under a truce agrcemcn!. This is the second time that a group of eight Nazi nurses taken in a Cherbourg hospital were returned to their counv.rymen. (lmernutlonal) was not disclosed. Tokyo also reported that Ameri- can planes raided Yap Island m‘ the C\mlines east of Palau. GERMANY IS | SHAKEN BUT NOT BEATEN Warning Is Given:by War | Secretary Stimson After Tour of War Zones WASHINGTON, July 26. — Ger-| many has been shaken and “shot ‘through with doubts,” Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said in his {brodcast report of his trip to the {war zones, but there is no collapse |in sight and no excuse for relax- |ing on the home front in America. | “There is only one sure strategy to finish the war with finality and speed, and that is for the United States and her allies to gear every resource of men and equipment in a final unremitting assault on land, sea, and in the air. The deter- mination to do this is unmistak- ably present in our men in uniform, and it must be the guiding thought of everyone behind the lines,” said isclmson. | | Despite much talk of a quick | victory over Germany, the War Sec- | | i retary asserted, “Such a collapse is not yet apparent. Our men are locked in combat with a brutal resourceful and stubborn enemy.” | Stimson asserted that military |power is one thing which Germany | PIN-UP PAIR Plan to Hire Many Thousands for Work On Alaska Defenses SEATTLE, July 26.—In a major move to obtain thousands of work- Civil Service Commission seeks 40 personnel officers to cover the en- tire nation in a labor recruiting drive. Headquarters for the campaign will be in Seattle and personnel s for all field work with salaries set at $3,162 a year. They must be sufficiently experienced to | test qualifications of workers in five separate fields as follows: construc- | tion engineers, utility engineers, Signal Corps workers, railway men | and Army Transport Service. R GAINSMADE ONIHVADED | PACIFICISLES Americans A d vance on| Both Guam, Tinian-Vital | Points Yet to Be Taken ers for Alaska defense projects the | officers will be paid travel per diem | FIRST TANK ACTIONIS SUCCESSFUL U. . Unit Smashes Breach Four Miles Deep in Nazi Defense Line 'FLAMING BATTLE IS " NOW ON IN MARGINY 'Dozens of Vflflges Taken | -British, Canadians in Fierce Action BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 26—The Americans have won two key highway towns, Marigny and St. Gilles, by their penetration and alse menaced thousands of Germans still hold- ing the line to the northwest of the steel - plated American drive. The 353th Germany in- fantry has been badly mauled by the Americans in their ad- vance, | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, July 26.-—United States (tanks, in the first major operation in France, have smashed a breach four miles deep in the first German defense line west of St. Lo and | hammered into a flaming battle with the enemy armor forces in the | streets of Marigny. The heavy thrust carried in- | fantrymen who rode the steel tank I bombers and the operation has en- | dangered thousands of the badly battered German forces along the enemy's southern defenses. Quick Thrust The American tanks penetrated the outer crust of the Nazi defenses within a couple of hours and carried |on four miles south of the St. Lo- Pertier road, then smashed the |heavy defenses of the enemy at | Marigny to break a front two and | one-half miles wide. | In the northwest, other American infantrymen, hitting on a five-mile i lront advanced one mile and a half and captured the town of Lach- apelle, German troops on the east ‘flank are fighting with suicidal fury try- |ing to halt the British and Can- adians in the advance below Caen. Heavy casualties are reported on | both sides, | Great Break Through | The American tank break through | swept through more than one dozen vmagex and hamlets and the drive | reached the road junction at St. lGules between Marigny and St. Lo. i German prisoners are being herd- ed back. One batch of parachutists complained bitterly of the massive | Arerican air assault and declared ‘u was “inhuman.” Giant 52-ton tanks as well as | Tiger tanks were thrown into the | battle by the Germans in nl.tempu to stem the drive. Tonight, heavy fighting continues in the area of Maysurorna, Tilly La- | campagna and Verrieres, south of but by| cross | land Japan are able to recognize |to be completely overpowered, when the fact is carried physically and unmistakably to their doorsteps, then and only then will they col- {lapse.” ENDNEARING INFIFTHWAR | | Wwith five more days to go to {meet the assigned quota for Juneau Fifth War Loan Drive now stand at $190,11475 out of a quota of date, and “when they see they are about | BOND DRIVE and Douglas, E bond sales in the| $210,000. The total sales in ail ser-’ _ les bonds has reached $470,263.25 to | ; 3 PEARL HARBOR, July 26.—Sub- the American for invading both Guam and Tinian islands. The American forces are forming a junction on the eastern shores of| Guam’s strategic Apra Harbor area, announces Admiral Chester Nimitz. This move gives the A ericans control of all of the Sora the exception of al portion of Orote Peninsula, where? of Japs are, | shoreline with an unknown number bottled up. :; iy 7 £ | | Advances point to an early cap- - ture of Ushi Point airfield on Ti- nian Island. This airfield is sal | Twin additions to the pin-up paradise are Lee and Lyn Wilde of the in Hawaii, and the Orote Penin- sula in Guam, both of vital im- portance in the future A operations on Japan and the Phil- ELLA VERNETTI IN TOWN | lPpines. | | e e | 45 | KENNETH SMITH HERE in military versions | sarong—called a tierong. Ella Vernetti, of Kuyukuk, Alaska,| arrived here by steamer yesterday | and is registered at the Baranof, Baranof Hotel, registered at the stantial gains have been made by| q Edward Hess, to be comparable to Hickman Field ¢4 o0 bombing Kenneth Smith, of Anchorage, is | Caen. Marigny is seven miles east of St. Lo. Sharp-shooting doughboys rode on the top of the tanks and picked off the Germans. > " HESS ARRAIGNED FOR SLAYING OF ESTER CREEK MAN FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 26.— 74, has been arraign- a second degree murder |charge for the shotgun slaying of Al Goodwin, 56, on Monday, on Ester Creek, near Fairbanks. The defendant’s first name was errone- ously given by the Marshal's office |as Hans Hess. | —— | KODIAK MAN HERE L. F. Friend, of Kodiak is in town and a guest at the Baranof.