The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1944, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG 12 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9715. ———#zf JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRII)AY JULY 28, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 75,000 NAZIS TRAPPED IN NORMANDY Russians Now on Splurge Toward Warsaw Naval Might i in Ihe Pacmc 2 CAPTURES REPORTED BY RED ARMIES Moscow Rafig Broadcasts to Troops “We Will Be in Berlin Soon” BULLETIN — LONDON, July 28.—~Premier Josef Stalin an- nounces the capture of Prze- mysl, and also that Jaroslaw, rail center the Germans said they evacuated almost a week ago, has fallen, g, “We will soon be in Berlin,” the Moscow radio broadcast to- night to the Red Army. “We have already covered a great deal of the way to Berlin and will soon reach the last enemy bastion. Our tanks are un- challenged and we are masters of the highways in the open country and will soon roll along the roads in Germany, on to Berlin.” MAKE 17-MILE ADVANCE LONDON, July 28.—With Brest- Litovsk, the last great German fort- ress before Warsaw, abandoned by the Nazi forces, the onrushing Rus- sian armies have charged to within 30 miles of the Polish capital city, making a 17-mile advance beyond (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON—How much some hyphenated Americans are disrupt- ing our relations abroad by poison- ing U. S. opinion is now being in-| vestigated by the White House, the| State connection with the Polish Infor-; mation Service in this country. The White House has found that, very mysteriously, U. 8. funds given to the Poles to aid the Russians hy anti-Nazi work in the Polish under- ground, have turned up instead in the U.S.A. and apparently are being used for propaganda against the Russians. The story dates back to the last ‘Washington visit of the late Gen- eral Sikorski, Polish Premier killed in a Mediterranean plane crash. Sikorski told President Roosevelt that the Polish underground need- ed aid. Roosevelt asked if money would help. Sikorski replied that $20,000,000 would go a long way to- ward buying off Gestapo guards and bribing German officials in Poland. FDR then agreed to give the Poles $12,000,000, provided 1t was all spent in Poland. . Arrangements were made fo send the money in denominations of $50 and $100 to London through the diplomatic pouch, and from there| into Poland. However, a short time after the transactions began, the, Treasury Department reported large | quantities of the bills turning up | in American banks. The State Department immed- iately asked the Polish Embassy for an explanation of how this hap- pened. Polish Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski informed Secretary! Hull that, after Sikorski left, the‘ conguerors—once path been a vortex of military for centuries but always has risen ed with a 27-day siege when the and from the rubble. little and Justice Departments in|| WARSAW-- WARSAW-—Ancient crossroads of again is in the armies. It has conflict of invading Now there is but left of the ecity 3 t JITALIAN 50,136 GERMAN 133,135 An AP FEATURES PICTOGRAPH FRENCH ARE HARASSING NAZITROOPS Undergroumairiot Units| Ambush German Panzer Units LONDON,, July 28. French “Maquis” units are keeping up wide- spread successful warfare against German occupation troops, Supreme Allied Headquarters report. The announcement said the French patriots even are defeating Nazi panzer attacks in ambushes. Efforts by the Germans to liquidate | the Maquis have been repulsed and French resistance in the interior has increased. Authoritative French spokesmen in London charge the Nazis are perpetra!mg atrocities in attempts to destroy. | ANCIENT DOORMAT IN EUROPE'S WARS| U.S. PLANES STRIKE OUT IN PACIFIC | Five-Ship Ier}énese Con- voy Smashed-Enemy Bases Are Hit 4 iy | ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| {QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, July 28.—Smashing a five-ship Jap ‘cou\'oy south of Truk, and com-; | prehensive bombing of objectives |in the strategic Manokwari area, |Dutch New Guinea, are among the The Nazis saw to that. Yet War- wjdespread aerial strikes reported saw is the new focal point of the today by headquarters. | war in eastern Europe. | One small freighter and three The last battle of Warsaw start- jugger type vessels were set afire probably sunk by Ventura Nazi legions crossed the frontier pombers intercepting the Jap con- on Sept. 1, 1939. Ohe of the first| |voy on Wednesday south of Truk. things the Luftwaffe did was to'one ship is believed to have es- bomb the capital and by Sept. 6 caped. the Polish Government evacuated| Three important airdromes on the city. | Manokwari were blasted by a total The The War- of 59 tons of bombs and large iual |saw radio appealed to citizens to dump fires were started. dig in. By Sept. 9 heavy artillery| Liberators dropped 30 tons of was shelling and German planos‘bombs on Woleai in the Carolines. continued to bomb the city. On| The Jap forces in the Aitape area Sept. 13, it was virtually encircled.|of *British New Guinea continue On Sept. 16 the Germans sent an attempts to envelope the right flank {ultimatum, but the city refused to cf the American lines but have ' surrender. . On Sept. 27 it finally been repulsed with the loss of ' | capitulated. |hundreds of men in the fruitless garrison stood. P — Powerful ships of a U. 8. Navy task force stand at ancior in a harbor somewnere in the Pacific ready for further attacks on Japan's elusive fleet. Carriers, more than nine of which this force. (AP Wirephoto from Navy) (hmese' Work on Superlorlress Base During the siege the German Air efforts to escape thus far from the# Force and heavy artillery killed an trap. |estimated 60,000 civilians and |wounded 100,000. Of 20,650 build- lings in Warsaw half were wholly| or partly destroyed. ,TURKEY IS The first to invdde the city, after| it became the Polish capital in 1550, was King Charles Gustavus of | DlpIomahc Relations wuih Germany May Be Sweden who captured it in 1665 | land kept it for a year, when the Severed Poles recaptured it. The city suffered damage wheni WASHINGTON, July 28. liable sources said Turkey may be King Charles XII of Sweden took | on the verge of breaking dnplo-‘ it in 1702; the following year, peace | made it a matic relations with Germany. Fritz von Papen, German Am-| free city again. The| Russians first seized it in 1764; lo.st {bassador to Turkey, is now in Ber-| |lin and it is reported here and in/ it in the first partition of Foland‘ foreign circles, Turkey has also re- in 173; retook it in 1794 after a| 'bloody assault. In another par- called the Turkish Ambassador to Germany. tition in 1795 Warsaw was given! |to Prussia. | Napeloen occupied it in 1806; the Americans 16, Lras following year it was made an in- |dependent duchy. Then the Aus- |trians took possession of Warsaw LONDON, July 28—Twenty-four persons, including 17 wounded Am- erican soldiers, were killed last| /in 1809, from April to June, and |again it became independent. The |night when a United States troop| transport plane hit a cliff |Russians again possessed the city| lin 1913, and held it through in- ; |surrections and other disturbances| {until 1915 when the Germans cap- tured it. With the break-up of the Ger-| {man Army in 1918, the Poles set {up their own government and for the third time Warsaw became the | |capital of an independent Poland. | Then the destruction of 1939. |With the aid of large scale maps, lon which were marked Warsaw’s |fine buildings, its historic monu- |ments, churches, public gardens, | museums, castles—reflecting the old Polish nobility—the Nazis prodeed- |ed with their methodical bombard- | ment. | Whether the roads leads to Mos- cow or to Berlin, war's path cuts | |through the city. This veteran of| {total war is about to receive an- other shock treatment. | - GOEBBELS i | land. Six members of the crew one nurse were among the victims, \Concerted Drive fo ‘Congress near | &€aIn, Mull of Galloway, southwest Scot-|9Pen for a con \the | and “states.” and unimportant S i «»’w—-m«‘n g 4 appear in the group, dominate i | divisions Chinesc workers create a panorama of activity as they labor at the construction of a United States 20th Bomber Command forward base somewhere in Western China. The 20th Superfortresses which have struck twice at Jipan proper. (AP Wirephoto) Starf Soon fo End War Befween Stafes will force simplification of inter- state trade. | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, 28. — When | down to work eyes and ears ed drive to end | between the July Oregon’s Gov. Earl Snell, Republi- was well aware of this r cently when he said: |ernments can make a vital con- tribution to our postwar economy nebulous | |by eliminating state barriers that ects almost prevent a free flow of commerce settles keep your | can, “State gov-| modern “war This isn't something It affi LONDON, July 28.—Tokyo, broadcast, that Bomber Command mans the 'Iokyo Denies “Execution of U. 5. Airmen {Japs Claim Pilots Downed on Mainland Will Not Be Kllled in a made an official denial “American pilots who crashed 'YANKTANKS SPEAR GAP INTO LINES Germans in Wesfern Half Normandy Outflank- ed by Move BULLETIN — FROM NOR- MANDY FRONT, July 28.—Am- erican armored columns cap- tured Tessysurvire and reached the outskirts of Countances late today. German prisoners bag- ged in this offensive in four days passed the 4,000 mark. | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 28. — Lieut. Gen. | Omar Bradley's forces advanced to | within two miles of Coutances, lat- est dispatches from the Normandy front report, predicting that city will fall soon. Coutances is the key point through | which the Nazis are attempting to | escape. In the Lessay and Periers areas a tank breakthrough plunged spear- heads more than 11 miles deep into the heart of enemy defenses and mushroomed into a front 17 miles wide behind the enemy's flanks, threatening the entrapment of most of the German forces in the western half of Normandy. American fliers. supporting the breakthrough said the Germans are falling back in greater disorder than during the Rommel debacle in North Africa. In London, observers speculated | that Gen. George S. Patton of Sicily ericans already have crossed the men and armor pouring through the gap. The newspapers declared 50,- 000 to 70,000 Germans are threat- | ened at being caught. Earlier reports said the Americans are now within three miles of Countances from the northeast. Columns from the north have push- ed two miles below Lessay, reaching Marguer in “further useful advances made along almost the entire Am- erican front.” No change is reported in the Brit- ish sector. Six armored German are opposing Lt. Gen. Dempsey’s Second Army below Caen. A German broadcast says the Am- ericans alraedy have crossed the Soulles River, which runs through Coutances, potential . defense line for the German home front. The radio spoke casually of the event, saying it was the Americans’ intention to drive to a city 30 miles (Continued on Page Six) FIRST ARMY IN PURSUIT OF GERMANS Cherbourg Peninsula Clog- ged with Doughboys, Nazi Prisoners | By WES GALLAGHER (Associated Press Correspondent) OUTSIDE COUTANCHES WITH Poles decided that $50 and $100 was too much to pay Gestapo men, so had changed the bills into| smaller denominations. on Japanees soil have been executed | THE AMERICAN ARMY, July 28 | or will be executed.” |~—-Tanks and doughboys in columns The broadcast said it so notified |miles long, romped down the Cher- the United State s Government hourg Peninsula in pursult of flee- through neutral Switzerland, re- ing Germans today. Every road on pudiating the Singapore broadcast this fluid 20-mjle front was choked every pocketbook in the land.|.ny " geny people the benefit of ‘:z“g?xp:ag?m:t(:ul: ';:"vte "‘k;“;:?memmc production advances. waging lncreasnvll' an ecbnomial A APy WIRL CFRQ; TRrTiArs | g stand out on the national scene S Apsinal bilior atates pnd omer““‘e tariff walls in international sections until the trade barriers'yoqe Oregon's chief executive cau- BULGARIA WANTS 10 GET OUT OF | ilians in one village, pillaging and | using the weapon of famine agamst‘ the French underground. to halt the patriots, killing 250 civ- | EXPANSION OF PROPAGANDA This explanation satisfied offic- ials until the Poles in this country followed up with a tremendous ex- pansion of their propaganda ser- vice, obviously: costing them thou- sands of dollars. About a dozen new publications began nowxng‘ from Polish propaganda offices, all| bitterly anti-Russian. These in- clude “Poland Fights,” “Facts About Poland,” “The Polish Review,” “The | Polish Weekly,” “Polish Facts and ——————— ‘ { STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 28. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 67, American Tel. | and Tel. 163, Anaconda 26, Beech | STOCKHOLM, July 28. — Reich- Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem ‘Steel 61%, minister Joseph Goebbells has is- Curtiss-Wright 5%, DuPont Com-,sued orders calling for “total war” mon 157, International Harvester in Germany and forbidding all va- 76, Kennecott 32%, North American cations for women. He is directing Aviation 8%, New York Central 19%, |frontline troops to do the manual Northern Pacific 16%, Standard Oil work of repairing roads, formerly of California 37!z, United States done by the Todt Labor Organiza- TOTALWAR' WAR, IS REPORT ANKARA, July 28.—Bulgaria is reported negotiating with the Al- lies in an effort to get out of the war. This is significant, with simul-} taneous Turkish developments, in- cluding the reported stopping soon ot the movement of all Turkish shipping in the Mediterranean. ti tl reared within becoming a the free flow of interstate trade. {Journed, Brooklyn bill to create an investigating com- imittee on federal and state regula- chance of passage. our own land 8re|yoneq the state governments that serious wall mm"“t'lhey must put their own economic Not long before Congress ad-|is to take its place as the world Rep. Emanuel Celler, center of production and distribu- Democrat, introduced a | tion. | “If the states dont act now,” Gov. Snell said, “the federal gov- ions. Some members of Congress ernment will” Which is exactly hink Celler's resolution has a good what a strong block in Congress If it does, the is planning. thouses in order if the United States of two weeks ago which referred to a “single journey ticket” for Super-‘ fortress alrmen landing in Japan. The denial is apparently intended | to cover only the Superfortress fliers, since the United States Gov- ernment announced officially| Tokyo's acknowledgement of the| execution of some of those who| bontbed Tokyo in the Doolittle at- tack in 1942, ———e — !with the Pirst Army on the march, With advance units two miles outside this bottleneck town, an- other column 20 miles to the south- east, was reported to be only a |mile and a half outside Tessy Sur Soulles. Prisoners from six different Nazi divisions were counted at one ad- |vance command post. Last-minute |wdications, however, are that many |Nazis of the Eighty-Fourth Army lcommittee will go into the whole| One of the most serious phuses Coal is necessary to produce com- business of trade barriers raised by lof the trade barrier situation is| mercial iron, zine, nickel, copper and the states. Out of it is almost! aluminum, certain to come legislation which Steel 584, Pound $4.04. 'tion. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.15; rails, | 41.24; utiities, 23.75, ——————— Figures.” All are very expensive, use valuable supplies of newsprint. (Continued on Page Four) Glassmaking was introduced into Corps had slipped out of the trap ! America at the beginning of mxs"last night during the wild night ‘ century, tighting. —————— BUY WAR BONDS Conunued on Puge Two)