The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9718. — JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = | FIERCE BATTLE NOW RAGING AT WARDAW EELY YANK ARMOR FORCES ARE CRASHING ON British Troop_s Smash For- ward Four Miles in Caumont Area BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 1. — The American forces have carried the invasion of France and Brittany to east of the Vire River and approached the key city of Vire tonight. The Americans are driving the Germans back without a pause in the advance. All of the Eveque Forest and village of La Ferriers are in Allied hands and the British have made further gains in the Caumont sector. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 1.—Unchecked Am- | erican’armor forces are spreading out from a firmly held Avranches | and enveloped Pontaubault, four | miles south of the key city, to Brit- | tany, and overran Duckey, five miles southeast, as the British troops| smashed forward four miles in the | Caumont sector. The Allies are on the move* along‘ the whole 80-mile Normandy front. | Some Yankee units turned enst‘, ward from the coast and approach- ed close to the north and south of (Continued on Page Five) -———— POLISH OFFICIALS NOW INMOSCOW FOR CONFERENCE. | MOSCOW, Aug. 1.—Premier Stan- | islaw Mikkolajck and Foreign Min—‘ ister Taduesz Romer, of the Polish | Government-in-Exile, have arrived | here for talks with Soviet officials | on Polish-Russian relations. The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Rah:n 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) 1 I WASHINGTON — Inside story on the main reason why Nazi sabotage has failed in the U.S.A. can now; be told. kind of row as that now raging between German old-line generals and Nazi politicos inside Germany —only this one was inside the Ger- man Embassy in Washington. Sabotage cannot be committed unless an underground system has| been laid long in advance. And| one group of old-line diplomats in- side the German Embassy vigor- ously opposed building up this net- work of agents before the war started. They also opposed the| Bund and George Sylvester Vie- reck’s propaganda; contended that affairs, the big American indus- trialists, plus the Bennet Clarks, Nyes and Wheelers, would keep the United States out of the war. The two rival groups inside the German Embassy were: 1. The anti-Nazi faction — In- cluding military attache General PHILIPPINES, Fight for PASSES AWAY { i It dates back to the same!| heart. ENCI.ISH CHANNEL FERRY — mandy. Coast Guard landinz barges EXILED HEAD, Two Having Nominafion | | | | | | Manuel Quezon Dies at! Summer Home as Ré-" 1™ Missoufi Are in Baf- sult of Tuberculosis fle Today SARNAC LAKE, N. Y., Aug. 1.— (By Associated Press) Manuel Quezon, 65, exiled dapper| Two of the most colorful figures Prendem of the Philippine Gov- of Congress come up for renomina- | ment he has headed since 1985, tion against tough opposition to- dncd today at his summer home‘day Representative Hamilton Fish, | |Jr., of New York’s 20th district, and | Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri. | Chances of Fish are affected not only by the strength of his op- ponent, Attorney Augustis Bennett| of Newburgh, but also by the fact that both Dewey and Willkie call-| ed for his deefat. Senator Clark’s opponent for the | Democrati¢ nomination is Roy Mc- ‘Kllfiflck Missouri’s Attorney Gen- jeral. Clark’s record has been at- ‘tacked in the campaign, especially |his dissension of the Administra- | tion’s action, during his 11 years in the Senate. | \ | OFFICERS IN | SAIPANROUT WEAPONLESS MANUEL QUEZON here as the result of tuberculosis. “My loyalty to my party ends| where my loyalty to my country begins.” Manuel Quezon said that and no one ever doubted that he meant it. it. Brilliant sunshine flooded parts of his native Luzon on the morn-| ing of Feb. 20, 1942, but not in his | The Japanese invader had come and he must leave. Give Guns 1o Enlisted Men ~Come Through Fighfili). K. WITH THE U. 8. 21TH IN- FANTRY DIVISION, SaipanTsland, |of Sansapor, o Clrryln: re|nforeements for Allled filhters in Nore ferry wldlzrl across the English Chsnnd. M ARTHUR'S JUGGERNAUT ROLLING ON Fish of New York, Clatk of Landmgs Made by Yanks * on New Guinea's Vo- gelkop Peninsula ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- ‘QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Aug. 1—Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | Philippines-bound juggernaut xu.l ed onto the beaches of New Guinea's Vogelkop Peninsula, 60 miles north of Sorong and more |than halfway back to Davao in the | Philippines, early Sunday. The landing was made in bleak morning hours and cau;.hv. the Japs completely by surprise, | nd by mid-morning two islands of!mnxe were secured. The landing was made after 200-mile hop up the New Guinea coast to the the Americans by- passing Manokwair and isolating the Jap garrison of 15,000. This is the last operation in the| control | and it| New Guinea campaign for of the entire north coast, is not p-geessary to go ahead and take “="rong, as there is no need for it, the spokesman said. Sansapor is 60 miles northeast of Sorong, once a major Jap bas ADMIRAL CECIL KILLED, CRASH, WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — Rear| Admiral Charles P. Cecil, 50, died in a plane crash in the Pacific on Monday, the Navy announces. He| is the eleventh man of rank to die| in action in this war. 21 ARRIVE HERE little Dutch village | He boarded a United States sub- if Germany kept hands off of U. s, (marine that day, and with a heavy /heart began a voyage that event- July 17.—(Delayed)—Meet two Am- erican officers who during the heat of battle gave their weapons to en- listed men who lost their guns— 7 Maj. Edward McCarthy of Schen-J First the Spaniards, then theectads, N. Y. and Lieut. Chester : Sillman of Seattle. ! Americans and now the Japs. At all times during his life he was| Mcoarthy gave his pistol to one < i | man and his carbine to another. fighting against, or protesting their| " oo weaponless in the battle | occupation of his beloved islands.| ..o one of his men handed him {ually took him to an America he once detested. FROM SITKA ON OUTGOING BOAT An incoming ship last evening| brought the following persons [rnm Sitka: Mrs. Sophie White, Mrs. Leona Goodsell, Mrs. C. C. Mundy, . Allies Move on Elghty Mile Nor 10,000 U. 5. PLANES SENT | TO RUSSIANS | Over Half of American-| built Aircraft Blown Over Alaska Route EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 1, (Passed by censor of Canadien| |[Press) Approximately 10,000 fUnited States built planes have| een- sent to Russia from the| United States since the start of #the Soviet aid policy in Ocr.obm\ 1941, it was learned from United jtates military sources here. About half the number has been flown via Edmonton, Alaska, and Siberia. It was learned, also, that| more than 2,200 have gone to me‘, Russian fighting fronts over this route in the first four months of 4m~ year. Planes were flown from Great Falls, Montana, to Fairbanks by United States ferry pilots and| there taken over by Russian pilots and flown to Nome and over the {water to Siberia. The remaining part of the route s still shrouded in secrecy. The youte is termed the main aerial {path from North America to the‘ ar East and “the back door” to e Russian fighting front, The Great Falls-Fairbanks leg‘ alone covers 1600 miles. The route {was opened shortly after the ans‘ {hit Pearl Harbor and has renched\ |the point where the movement of | fighters, bombers and freight craft | are like a parade of aircraft tied| Itogether in a miles long cord. Although hone have been seen | here, Russian women pilots have | played a prominent part in taking | front-line planes over the wastes| of North America and Siberia. — - Hegstad Home Is Destroyed by | 'Fire Last Night A raging fire, caused by the ex- plosion of an vil stove, completely gutted the home of Oscar Hegstad last evening. Firemen, who were called to the Gastineau and Rawn- |way residence just before 6 o'clock {by the 3-3 alarm, battled the blaze |for more than an hour before it |could be extinguished. Lois Hegstad was the only per- son in the house at the time, the |other children being outdoors, and Mr. Hegstad at the Peerless Bakery, where he is employed as driver. |She was, fortunately, in another ’room when the range, which was |turned on low, suddenly exploded, ..endmg a shower of fire through- lout the building. Miss Hegstad | was able to get out, but a mother | lcat and baby kitten perished m‘ |the flames. ¢ The house, which was owned by }M.rs D: Rosenberg, was covered by | msu.rance, but the Hegstads carried | Alaska, |approval of the Commanding Gen- ‘Worker Vote May ‘Swift Surge of Last Sunday | communigque. ‘Alaska Travel Control Permits Not Necessary; Proclamation Is Issued s T | HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN ywill remain in effect for that por-| DEPARTMENT, Aug. 1-—The COM- |40y of Alaska that lies west of 156 manding Geaneral of the Alaskan | Department announced in Public | degrees, west longitude, and south Proclamation No. 10 today the im»}nl 58 degrees, north latitude. ediate modification of all Alaska| All civillans who enter, travel Travel CD“""; Res““’:’m‘s in|within, or depart this restricted with the exception of a| new zone Baker—the Aleution Is-|™ deifuated, A e, SRS lands and- that portion of me‘m“""' possess travel control permit. Alaska Peninsula which lies south Applications for permits to enter |and west of Becharaf Lake, located |the prohibited area of zone Baker south of Naknek. can be made by mail to Headquar- No travel permits will be neces-| ters, Alaskan Department, or to sary for the travel of civillans who | Alaska Travel Control, 1331 Third enter, travel within, or depart the Avenue Building, Seattle (1) Wash- present zones—Kodiak Island, the|ington, or in person at Alaska Alaska mainland and southeast | Travel Control stations at Anchor- Alaska. |age, Kodiak, Seward or Fort Rich- However, persons in the follow- ardson. ing categories may not enter any | Issuance of permits to enter zone portion of Alaska without the prior |Baker will be limited to civilians 'who are considered essential to op- eration of military activities, civil-| Alien enemies, persons of Jap- ians who are essential to war ef- onese ancestry, individuals who fort as a whole, civilians who are| have been excluded from-or denied |considered essential to welfare of entry to Alaska or who may be de-|civilian population, and civilians nied entry to Alaska in the inter- ‘and their agents and cmployees| ests of military security, and dv-‘who had business in zone Baker pendents of the Army armed forces on November 1, 1943, and whose personnel. \presenee is essential to operation The Army's travel control sysum or protection of properby eral, Alaskan Department: an . | Play Greaf Parl in vote. Yesterday’s article was on November Eledion YA N KS HolD (Second of two articles on two of the women’s vote—today the worker | | vote.) ONEHALF OF GUAM ISLAND By JACT STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—One of the greatest November unknowns is the worker vote. Let me make it clear that I am talking about the “worker” vote; not the organized labor vote. If the latter follows the advice and urging of its leaders, the Demo- lcrats are right in antieipating the |bulkk of it for President Roosevelt. The CIO Political Action Com- UNITE} STATES PACIFIC mittee has an all-out endorsement FLEET HEQDQUARTER.B PEARL lu( the President’s fourth term writ~ HARBOR, Aug. 1.—Yankee troops ten all over the record. It is said have seized the entire south half | here that 75 per cent of the AF of of Guam Island in a surprise sweep, |1, unions have endorsed the Presi- cutting the island in two and con- |gent, and William Green, AF of L trol has been extended through the | | President, is reported to .have esti- principal town of Agiana, Admiral .. .4 privately that 80 to 85 per Chester W. Nimitz announces i &| ...« ¢ his union's vote will 2o to| |Roosevelt. The only major out- Outlining the swift surge of Sun- ¢,y en independent union opposit- day afternoon, the communique | X B ion comes from John L. Lewis of said: “Patrols were sent out to re- |, . yyied My Work bat 2o connoiter the southern half of theywhac W Unh;w ormers, uu fol island and met only sporadic resist- b yotes: witl: fols s luw Lewis’ lead is problematical. «The present sweep added nearly 100 square miles to the conquered | territory, Admiral Nimitz said. Reported-Only Spor- adic Resistance | However, organized labor nccuun'.s; for only 13,000,000 and there arc‘ mandy Front PRAGANOW ATTACKED BY SOVIETS Indusfrial Suburb of Great Goal Being Battered by Arfillery HITLER ISSUES ORDER 10 HIS COMMANDERS Germans—(gnnol Give Ground Without Endang- ering Reich’s Defenses BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 1.—Warsaw is reported in flames tonight as Russian masses pressed upon the north- east suburbs behind a deluge of shells and bombs. Billows of black smoke are reported rolling up from the Polish Cap- ital City, indicating the Ger- mans are putting the city to the torch in preparation for evacuation. Polish underground reports assert already 25,000 civilians have been avacuated, leaving only the Army and Ges- tapo, ¥ e MOBCOW Aug, 1.—Driving in from three directions under hun- dreds of Red-starred planes, Russian and Polish troops attacked™ Praga, industrial suburb of Warsaw across the Vistula River, east of Warsaw. Marshal Rokossovsky, himself of Polish descent, is personally direct- ing the Red Army’s mammoth as- sault on the metropolitan area of the capital city, and one of the greatest artillery preparations of the entire eastern front has started to rip the German entrenchments at the edge of Praga. Dispatches indicate the battle of Wersaw will be fiercely prolonged as the German Command is under Hitler’s orders to stand without re- treat, The assault on Warsaw virtually matched importance by the three pronged Red Army drive against the East Prussia sector which is now 143 imiles wide. Gen. Cherniakhovsky's Command has approtched within 11 1/8 miles of East Prussia proper. In neither direction beyond War- saw or toward East Prussia can the German Army give any further ground without Imperilling the whole structuye of the Reich’s east- ern defense, but on both these fronts the numerically superior Red Army is foreing Hitler to scrape up all reserves, The latest communique announc- ed by the Russians is that the Red Army overran 2142 localities yes- terday, a record in the Soviet sum- SR P { mer offensive. JAPS (LAIM YANKS FAIL The American attack against the last enemy defenses on Tinian |Island that began early Sunday around 30,000,000 additional non- agricultural workers in the country. \ | The great migrations have affected | INLANDING ‘none on their personal possessions. | The lu]l loss has as yet not been |estimate | morning has forced the Japs into a | small pocket on Lalo Point, near the | | southern tip of the island, Nimitz ———-— | reports. STOCK QUOTATIONS | | |them just as much as orgnnlzcd‘ labor. Hundreds of thousands are |working in Texas and California| and other new industrial areas, to !which they were complete strangers! a few years ago. ! To what extent these have reg- (By Associated Press) The Tokyo radio quoted an im- perial communique as saying that Jap troops on Rota Island, between Tinian and Guam in the Marianas, AMERICA FIRST {Mrs. Ludvig Berg, Charles Steele, An Unwilling Refugee “I took it for granted | & # 9 | istered in their new home states| 1. — Closing Friedrich von Boetticher; naval attache Vice Admiral Robert Wit- thoeft-Emden; commercial attache| Theodor von Knoop: and first sec- retary Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg. 2. The pro-Nazis—Including sec- ond secretary Ulrich Freiherr von Gienanth; first secretary Karl Res- enberg; and Dr. Manfred Zapp, head of the Trans-Ocean News| Service. Kurt Sell, Washington represen- tative of the German news agency DNB, steered a middle course be-| tween them. The feuding between these two groups became so bitter that, at one time, Hitler sent his World a Jap pistol. | And so the once dapper, Mag- i was loaded and in working order,” | |netic President of the Philippines,| he said, “and not until after the |his luxurious yacht no longer riding | pattle did I learn it was frozen in Manila Bay, was an unwilling harder than ice. It was just pla!nl refugee. A new chapter in his life | {luck I didn't have to use it,” was about to unfold. What the Sillman likewise armed himself future held for him none could say.| with a Jap pistol which wouldn’t | When he arrived at Washington,| work and discarded it for a big some weeks later, he said: )hunk of coral in his right first | “I want you-to understand that| which he explained would have “at, ‘my present sojourn in the United least distracted” the Japs and given |States was not planned or con-|him time to duck if he got in a| templated by me.” tight spot.” The unhappy exile explained that | iin December, 1941, shortly after| the Japs struck, to plunge America in the second world war, General | RETURNS TO ANCHORAGE Mrs. R. G. Southworth, who has ‘been visiting her daughter, Mrs. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Two) hn Anchorage, {Mrs, Charles Steel. Mrs. E. McLean, Miss Bonny Mc- Lean, Miss Linda McLean, Dr. Wil- liam Whitehead, Mrs. Whitehead, Virginia Whitehead, | Palge Whitehead, Stewart White- head, M. O. Johnson, Mrs. M. O. Johnson, Miss Alida Mathisofi, Miss Pat Fleek, Mrs. Laura Ordway, Miss Lulu Weisdorfer, and Frank | | Wright. were A. Boarding the ship here Robgrt Arnold, William Derlin, F. McKinnon, L. Bosmes, Sanders, H. Berg, Inez Echelberry, and Robert Thibodeau. Mrs. |Reid, Mrs. O. Olson, P. E. Singer, 'for Petersburg. william| Helen | R.| NEW YORK, Aug. guotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 92, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 10, | Bethlehem Steel 62%, Common- | wealth and Southern 1'%, Curtiss- ‘\Wflghl 5%, International Harvester 767%, Kennecott 32%, North Am-| erican Aviation 8%, New York Cen- | tral 20%, Northern Pacific 16%, | United States Steel 59. Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: Industrials, 14639; rails, | 1 41.52; utilities, 24.10. e | HERE FROM SITKA | Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Steele have ,Tom Dyer, has left for her home and Mrs. A. Ask were passengers arrived here from Sitka and are guests at the Baranof, PARTY PUTS UP DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1.—The | America First Party has nominated | Gerald L. K. Smith as candidate for | | President and Gov. John W. Bricker, | ‘thP GOP Vice-Presidential candi- date for Smith's running mate. Bricker denied any connection with the America First Party. PR S MINARD IN TOWN A. Minard, of Libby, McNeill and Libby, has registered at the Bar- anof from Taku, NATIONAL SLATE - ! : ‘for successive days prevented ene- jand how their votes will change the political complexion of those|"", [*7dings by vallanily fighting e |under fierce artillery fire. states 1s largely guess-work now| {and notiing else. | The wording of the communigue, |recorded by the Federal Communi- CIO's PAC is credited with suc- missi icess in a number of states and| jastiant O lon. ppa - We A |sociated Press in London, didn’t congressional «districts—in Oregon,| California, Massachusetts, Alabama| e, Ci8F Whether the landing land Toses. ' Thits. Davh " Bad 2ot |operations against the island ac- y ad set-|iually were launched. Ibacks in others. - public no claims whatever, con- CHESTEE. . BENGER. REELREN he: has bee tending that its sole objective s to|, Oy Zonbet, WhO 5 |employed by the Alaska Road Com- lget out the worker vote. In this, | mission to the Westward, returned in some sections, they have made lgreat strides, 1n Duluth, Mmp., 1t|'0, Juneew Sunday by plane and is 4 “ "I now employed at the Cowling-Dav~ " (Continued on Page Five) !'n Motor Company. The committee itself has made|