The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1944, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD AUG L2 1944 VOL. XLIL, NO. 9716. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT] - = JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1944 COUTANCES Russians Are RED FORCES SMASH NAZI HOMEWALLS Baltics Bissecled by So- viet Troops-Germans Are Now Trapped HOUSE (OM. WILL VISIT NORTHLAND Congression_aI—ParIy Is to Study Postwar Avia- tion Field Hibiscus Queen CAPTURED BY AMERICANS Today Within Sigh ALLIED AR FLEET HITS IN PACIFIC Wide Activity Reported| | from New Guinea | U. 5. FORCES PILING UP ONGERMANS | Dramatic Wartime Situa- tion Told of Fighing t Lumber Now Going fo : Compeles With @a ofiIA_MgI’als" Firing Line By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 29.—If you are wondering why the War Pro- duction Board now is rationing jumber and you can't get boards for | of Warsaw NAZIESCAPE KEY SECTOR IS SEIZED Part of Rommel’s Forces Make Getaway-Terri- fic Counteratfacks ciety recently pointed out, it would have seemed impossible a few years ago that an “age of wood” could compete with an “age of metals"— but that is happening. A thousand board feet of lumber in Normandy Head}Eners By HAL BOYLE ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- |a new front porch or shingles for | the leaky chicken house, take a | look at the record wood is making saves a ton of steel. Army en- gineers are using wood in trusses, | BULLETIN — LONDON, July 29, — Prisoners taken by the LONDON, July 29.—Russian Arm; ) s V| SEATTLE, July 20—Nine Con- | spearheads are reported within sight of Warsaw and a German com- munique reports other Soviet forces | have penetrated the Latvian rail- | head of Jelgava, virtually bissecting ! the Baltics about 20 miles south of | Riga. The Germans declared they still hold Siedlice, 50 miles east of War- saw, but the Russians said Marshal Rokossovsky’s right wing is joining forces and battling with the Ger- mans after capturing Brest-Litovsk. Russian field dispatches said it (Continued on Page Two) The Wa;;l;i_rl_g ton Merry -Go- Round |neau to study post-war aviation gressmen of the House Interstate Commerce and Aviation Sub-com- mittee expect to visit Alaska early in August. They plan to make-stops in Fair- banks, Nome, Anchorage and Ju- facilities. They are Representatives Alfred L. Bulwinkle, Democrat, North Carolina; Virgil Chapman, Democrat, Kentucky; Joseph P. O'Hara, Republican, Minnesota; Carl Hinsaw, Republican, Cali- fornia; Evan Howell, Republican, Illinois; Percy J. Priest, Democrat, Tennessee; Richard F. Harless, | Democrat, Arizona; Lyne H. Boren, | Democrat, Oklahoma; Lindley Beck- with, Democrat, Texas. ————— FRANCES McCOY, Florida’s newest- blooming lovely in the armed ser= vices' gallery of beauties, is pro- claimed as Hibiscus Queen, having been enthroned by the crews of B-17 bombers at Cypress Gardens, WITH THE AMERICAN ARMED | QUARTERS, New Guinea, July 29. FORCES ENROUTE TO COU- |—Allied aircraft, riding hard over TANCES, July 29—American artil- | the vast domain in its control, sank | lery men, firing a field piece at|two Jap ships and set fire to a third | point blank range, pitched in with |a§ well as destroying a number of tommy guns aud helped the hard- |smaller craft in a day of unusual pressed infantry to wipe out trapped | activity. | Germans who were blocking the| Warplanes of all sizes flew strat-l |Toad to Coutances, converting con- |ing and harassing missions against noners into doughboys. 17 major objectives on Thursday, Major William A. Castille of |across the western hump of Dutch Houston, Texas, tells the following | New Guinea and adjacent islands. story: American and Australian fighters he engagement made every ar~ [and medium bombers raked Vogel- tillery man in the fornt tingle with |kop Peninsula on the western tip | pride. The enemy was retreating |of New Guinea, and Mitchell bomb- | to the south and one of their tanks | ers carried out raids on the pen- opened fire. Our boys were trying |insula coast, sinking one fishing to cut the road and two of the |vessel and firing another, enemy’s tanks were giving our in-| A Catalina .search plane sank a | | fantry hell until the artillery pitched | medium-sized merchantman north | (in. Our rear lines were now past | 0f Cerem Island, 310 miles south- in this war. As the National Geographic So- ROBOTBOMB | BASES HIT BY BRITISH Flying Explosives Cause Heavy Damage in South England plywood airplanes, hangars, bridges, trestles. It goes into life rafts, mine | floats, life preservers. Experts figure that the use of wood in this war releases about five million tons of metal a year for war service. Americans at Coutances assert Rommel was severely wounded by a strafing attack near Lisieux and a French woman coming from behind the lines said he died in a Bernay hospital. She belongs to an organization equivalent to the American Red Cross. That's only a portion of the wood story. Fifteen years ago, less than half of a felled tree served any useful purpose commercially. Now almost everything right down to the sawdust is processed into a material that is almost as tough as steel. Out of it also comes sawdust plaster and several war important acids The bark of trees is being com- bined with wool to make fine cloth and among other things mattress fillings. Through hydrolysis, wood turns into industrial alcohol; and waste liquor from the sulphite pulp BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 29.—~The DNB, German news agency, broadcast a re- port this afternoon the Ger- mans are about to withdraw from the entire western wing on the invasion front in Nor- mandy to shorten lines, and also declared the Americans GEOLOGICAL |the German front. Our artillery | west of Asparioashield Noamiot: | mills is converted into high-test| were bringing up reinforce- By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive | service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — Now that' the, smoke of battle has cleared away | from the hardest-fought Democrat- is convention in years, several: editors have suggested that this X column give a detailed answer to the question whether the “Mis-! John Reed and George Dorsey, of souri compromise” at Chicago Was the U, S. Geologicai Survey, have dictated by Mr, Rooseyelt Of bBY ;o4 nere from Washington, D. the big-city bosses. In other Words, o 4o yigit, ofl investigation parties did the Hagues, the Hannegans and y"ajaqca They plan to leave Mon- | the Flynns insist on Senator T““']day on a six weeks' trip to the In- man, or were they obeying Orders terior, Alaska Peninsula, and the from their chief. Prince William Sound country. Perhaps the most succinct answer | W, S. Twenhofel, Supervisor of is to state that, when the Penn-|the Geological Survey in Southeast sylvania delegation first balloted as’ Alaska, is also in Juneau on busi- between Truman and Wallace, ness in connection with his depart- Postmaster General Frank Walker ment. of Scranton leaned over to Attor-| H. R. Gault and G. M. Flint, of ney General Francis Biddle of ‘Washington, are in Juneau at the| Philadelphia an dasked him how present time. They are in charge he, Walker, should vote. Biddle Of the party’s work on zinc deposits DEPT. MEN was for Wallace. But afterwards, Walker telephoned the President, and from then on he not only| voted for Truman, but telephoned almost every chairman of State delegations urging, pleading that they vote for Truman, tgo. There were five members of the Roosevelt Cabinet in Chicago, some of whom had served with him for twelve long, arduous yeapi But he did not communicate with one of them except Frank Walker. On the other hand, Mayor Kélly of Chicago dropped word that he had talked to the President about ten times. Hannegan and Flynn talk-) ed to him almost daily. Here is the detailed, inside story of what happened: When FDR conferred at a White House dinner with Ed Flynn, Bob Hannegan, Mayor Kelly and other party bosses on Tuesday of the week before the convention, they all agreed that they did not want Henry Wallace. The President thared this view, even though he had already promised Wallace an “if I were a delegate” letter of en- dorsement. It was also decided at the White House dinner that the two best Vice Presidential candidates were Senator Truman .of Missouri and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Nothing was then decid- ed as to which was preferable. HOW’ HANNEGAN GOT TRUMAN LETTER Later, Chairman Hannegan, charged with running the first con- vention of his life while the Presi- dent would go on a train speeding across the continent, decided he wanted a letter to reinforce his hand. So he wrote the President a note, asking if Truman or Doug- lass would be satisfactory.. This was on Thursday, July 13. Leo Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator, heard about the note and told Hannegan it was a mistake. This got back to the (Continued on Page Four) |at Tracy Arm. Geological 'work is being done at many places in Alaska and will mean much to postwar development . if proved successful. In this part of the Territory work is being car- | ried on at Copper Mountain on| Prince of Wales Island, Tolstoe Mountain, and Mt. Andrew. ————.———— Girl Baby Is Born ' To Brooks Hanfords| Brooks Hanford was out early this morning handing out cigars to cele- brate the birth of a baby girl to Mrs. Hanford at St. Ann’s Hospital at 11 P. M, Friday. The baby weighed six pounds, eleven ounces and has been named Vickie Lou. Both mother and baby are reported as “doing fine” this morning by the attending physician. “I was sure it was going to be a boy,” said Mr. Hanford, “but we have a cute little daughter.” The Company is now promised a good stenographer in years to come for Hanford is Assistant Agent of the company in Juneau. STOCK QUOTATIONS ' NEW YORK, July 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, Anaconda 25%, Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Curtis Wright 5%, Du- pont common 156%, International Harvester 76, Kennecott 32%, North American Aviation 8%, New York; Central 187%, Northern Pacific 167 Standard Oil of California 37%, United States Steel 58%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 146.14, rails| 4132, utilities 23.73. e ————— FISHERIES MAN HERE E. E. Murray, of the Pacific Am- | Northland Transportation Fla., back from service in Hawaii. That's a hibiscus she’s wearing in her hair. (International) SUPERFORTS HIT ENEMY CHINA BASE Liberators Sink Jap Ships Off Hong Kong- Damage Some L] SUPERFORTRESS BASE IN WESTERN CHINA, July 29.—B-29s today bombed Anshan in eastern Manchuria in favorable weather for high altitude action. At the same time, Gen. Joseph Stilwell’s headquarters announced Liberator bombers made a sweep to the sea, sinking a 4,000-ton Jap naval vessel, two freighters, and damaging another freighter Hong Kong. o The Chinese reported the Japs are evacuating nonessential residents from Formosa centers. Tokyo acknowledged this report. The Superfortresses also hit Pen- shihu in the Mukden area. FLYING ACE IS MISSING IN ACTION OIL CITY, Pa., July 29.—The War Department has notified the parents of Lt. Col. Francis 8. Gabreski of the U. S. Army Air Forces, top scor- ing ace, that he is missing in action since July 20. Gabreski is credited with destroy- ing 31 enemy planes, three on the ground, the others in the air. Bettyle McGlochlin And Charles Steber United in Marriage Betty J. McGlochlin, of Juneau, end Sgt. Charles G. Steber, of An- morning by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray at his office in the Federal Building. Mrs. F. Greenwood and Leslie D. Swanson were witnesses for the erican Fisheries, has registered at the Baranof Hotel from Belling- ham. ¢ ceremony, following which the young couple left for Sitka by plane on a short honeymoon trip. | men, using four guns, began firing, | killing many of the enemy. “Meanwhile, crews began lobbing | bazooka shots and blazing away | with tommyguns tearing away at the Germans. | “One sergeant, working a trigger finger overtime, kept announcing claims like the Air Corps—two sure, two probables—he would yell. “The affray was bloody and only | 110 Germans were captured, the others being killed.” | WASHINGTONMEN ARRIVE IN JUNEAU ON FORESTRY TRIP supply-laden Jap barge was sunk | LONDON, July 29, — Royal Air alcohol that costs only 20 cents a off Sorong and several small ves- $els weer destroyed off Manokwari. Liberators raided Woleai in the céiitral Carolines at noon today, dropping 30 tons of bombs. s il MURDER OF CIVILIANS BY GERMANS Workers from Occupied Lyle F. Watts, Chief of the U. S.| | Forest Service, and C. M, Granger, | Assistant Chief, arrived here last| evening on the Forest Service launch | Forester, accompanied by Frank| BERN, Switzerland, July 29.—The Countries Killed by Thousands Force heavy bombers blasted at the massive German rocket in- ctallations in France today as ci- 'vilian workers in southern England /dug in the debris for flying bomb tims as more robots winged| across the channel, Fighter-bombers and ground cuts cut loose after the latest robot, |salvo.with a vengeance. One robot fell in a river in southern England | |without killing anyone, but work- ers were still digging at a spot: to- !day where gnother bomb blew a !crowded restaurant up during the busy noon hour, killing and trap- ping a number of persons, causing widespread damage. Halifax bombers, probably carry-| ing® six-ton bombs, attacked a supply depot in the Pas de Calais area. ‘The structure is believed | connected with the Nazi threat to, launch 10-ton rockets against Eng- land. |at ments for a large-scale offen- sive on lines blocking the way to the heart of France. gallon. Wood goes into explosives, sur- gical dressings, rayon, wrapping; materials, imitation leather, glyc- erine, substitutes for blankets, and yeast. Experts say there are more SUPREME HEADQUARTERS |ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, July 20.—American tank- than 15,000 uses for lumber and its by-products, and thousands of these |Men clashed with counter-attack- uses are vital to the war effort, |\N8 Germans today in flerce battles on a A0-mile sector to the east of captured Courtances between Can- isy, Notre Dame le Centilly and The lumber industry has done a Paul Bunyan job of production in this war, but it hasn't been able to, Tessy Sur Vire, keep pace with consumption. In| The tank column is driving on the matter of wood pulp alone, the!Brehal near the sea, where all the industry last year produced more main coastwise highways meet. than nine million tons? but that was| Indications this morning were almost a 12 per cent decrease from‘:hat. Rommel is shifting part of the 1942 production, in a twelve- his armor from the south of Caen month period when consumption facing Montgomery's forces toward was soaring. This was because|the American” sector to the west. Canada was earmarking all its Rommel has apparently got some pulp-wood for the British markets,|of his forces out of the American :23 ;‘2?‘3;‘5 h"g"(‘i Sweden, Finland encircling movement that threaten- y had dropped to nothing |oq 75000 Nazi troopers. all. More important has been Countances, captured by the Am< the labor shortage, which has play- ericans, is the key point through off | Heintzleman, Regional Forester. |Nazis are engaged in mass killings The three offjcials have been on of their “enemies among the 12,- & field inspection trip of a large 000,000 foreign workers” in Ger-| pulp timber unit being blocked out fmany from the occupied countries,| by the Forest Service in the vicinity |and the Basle newspaper claimed of Ketchikan. |hundreds of thousands already have In connection withethe inspection | peen slain. tour the Washington officials also | mha newspaper “sources | had an’opportunity to view some of |,ygortunately too rejiable,” and said | the reclreatmnsldlentures of South-|ih e mass Killings are belvng vat et east Alaska and expressed them-| ¢ ' selves s being greatly impresse d}ol.lt in advance of the German re-{ with the scenery and hunting nnd‘“e“ 8 fhe oast. i ! fishing possibilities. One place vis- | Another explanation is that many ited was the outstanding fjord of |Were killed in “trying to escape” in the confusion inside Germany. Petersburg. uMMfifififiG i FROM GOVT. DUTY | | quotes ‘The party plans to be in Juneau until Tuesday when the three men| will leave by plane for a short trip to Anchorage after which the two U. 5. TROOPS KILL 2,000 GUAMENEMY Tinian Island Invasion Is Turned Into Rout for Japs UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- | ed hob with the industry from the Resets to the gl - |which the Germans attempted to |escape. The rationing of lumber follows | the same pattern as the rationing of | ) A metals and other vital materials. D E F E N S ES oF | WPB balances production against consumption and allots the amounts which the Army, Navy, war plants, and various civillan distribution ROME, July 29.—New Zealand- ers have cracked the Nazi defenses five miles south of Florence, al- agencies may have, If the war goes through another though a savage counter thrust was year, officials here are predicting there will bei & nation-wide scrap lumber drive. MINESWEEPER SWERVE LOST Washington men will return to the States by air, via Fairbanks, and QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, July 29.~-The Yank invaders of SEATTLE, July 29. — Jacob R.|Guam Island, after nearly doubling tigo, Wisconsin, were married this; Mr. Heinzleman will return to Ju-| neau. |Ummel, Department of the Inter-| ‘This is the first visit of Mr. Watts |for purchasing agent, and office| to Alaska. He was appointed Chief manager since 1926 and widely | of the Forest Service about two‘known in Alaska, has anmounced years ago after serving for many|that he is retiring from Gevern- years in various capacities of the ment service next Tuesday. service. At .the time of this ap-| He will be succeeded by John J. pointment he was Regional Forester | 1 jchtenwalner, who has been his for the Pacific Northwest with head- | 5ssigtant. Th’e new assistant will| quarters at Portland, Oregon. Ibe i 4 George A. Stratman, Alaska Mr. Granger, the Assistant Chief.|pajiroad ~purchasing agent. The is also a former Regional Forester latter, an ex-Copper River Railroad at Portland. He made an extended : trip over Alaska in 1936, |employee, has been here since 1916. LA S REX SUNDERLAND GOING DON ABEL IS MAKING TO HOTEL AT KETCHIKAN MANY IMPROVEMENTS| Rex sunderiand, former clerk at | the Gastineau Hotel will leave next | | week for Ketchikan where he will | accept a position with the Ingersoll Hotel. Mr. Sunderland has been | identified with the Gastineau for | some time and is well known among hotel men throughout Alaska. — - — POST-WAR HIGHWAYS The following building perm’ts have been awarded to Don Abel, contractor: Preliminary reapirs to the foun- dation and floor of the Juneau Drug Company, $500; repairs to the resi- dence of Mrs. Elizabeth Biggs, 142 Gastineau Avenue, involving a cost of $1500; repairs to the business and apartment building owned by Mrs. Charles Goldstein at 117 Main Street at a cost of $2600, and the remodeling of the front entrance to the Elks’ Lodge at a cost of $750. TOPEKA, Kas—The state high- way commission is making a house- to-house canvas about automobile, |bus and tram travel for use as a guide in planning post-war arterial highways within cities. Jap losses by slaughtering 2,000 of the counterattacking enemy, ad- vanced 800 yards to two miles along the entire beachhéad, The Marines on Tinian Island have turned the invasion into a rout, capturing eight more square miles. The victories on Guam and Tin- ian were announced in two ocm- | muniques from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Frontline dispatches from Tinian | said the Jap garrison on the island | nearest to conquered Saipan is flee- | ing in.disorder. Tinian is likely to | prove the biggest American prize of | the entire Marianas. On Guam, Third Division Marines | drove Thursdays to within one-third | mile of Agana, Guam’s capital. The | greatest gains were made in the | central sector opposite Oroto Pen- insula where the 77th Army Division | and troops of the Pirst Provincial Marine Brigade pushed gs much as | two miles inland, captured Mt. Chacho, Alutam and Tenjo. In the southern sector the same units pushed east .nore than a mile. BB ot LT B, WILLIAMS, Ariz. — Five women cowpunchers have been employed at the Ben Perkins Bar Cross ranch to help with the roundup. WASHINGTON, July 29. — The Navy Department announces the loss of the minesweeper Swerve in | made by German infantry and | Tiger tanks, that swept the New |Zealanders back 600 yards. the Mediterranean by enemy action,| Meanwhile, South African troops casualties unannounced, |crossed the Greve River, two miles This brings to 172 the number of |50uth of Impruenta, and five miles United States war vessels lost so far south of Florence, forming a sal- in this war. |lent with the New Zealanders. Mrs. E. Blake Leaving For South_Tomorrow Mrs. E. J. Blake, stenographer attached to the Public Survey Of- 4 e i i fice, will leave Juneau tomorrow ALASKA COASTAL TRIPS llor Seaside, Oregon, where she will | Join her husband for an indefinite. A trip to Kake was made today stay. Her position at the Public by Alaska Coastal lines carrying E. | Survey Office will be temporaryy M. Brennan and P, E. Harris. filled by Mrs. Virginia Early w.) Sgt. and Mrs. Charles Steber, | recently came here from Washing® Agnes Hiltz, Judson Cranston, and | ton, D. C. Raymond Casas were flown to Sitka R | BUILDING CODE MAY [ BE ADOPTED BY CITY R S O S THREE FLIGHTS FOR PAA Ludwig Kann, Charles Southwick, | and Joanna Kolstad were flown to | Seattle today on a Pan American | plane. Warren Smith and Mr, and | Mrs. Norman Dalton were pas-| sengers today for Whitehorse and Ed Baldwin for Fairbanks. SOFTBALL GAME SUNDAY Phe Subjorts defeated the Signacs City Engineer Hugh B. Antrim last night 2 to 1 for the second half | was today in receipt of a telegram championship and tomorrow at 6 from the Pacific Coast Building Of- p. m,, following the hardball game, |ficial Conference at Los Angeles, the Subports will play the Coast|that Juneau has been given per- Guard to determine the champion- mission to adopt “a uniformed ship of the Juneau Softball League. building code.”