The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1944, Page 1

‘ ) ) L} O & &% VOL. XLII, NO. 9720. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1944 ————————————a e MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RED ARMY ADVANCING ON BORDER Russian Cannon Shelling Germain Soil-Dydvizhe Now in Soviet Hands MOSCOW, Aug. 3—Fighting to- day raged within three miles of the East Prussian border as General Cherniakhovsky's Third White Rus- sian Army surged forward in a de- termined drive from captured Dydvizhe, which promises moment- arily to carry the war to German soil. Russian armor charged savagely upon the defenses before the East Prussian border cities of Schirwindt, Eytkuhnen and Wehkirchen. Russian cannon shelled the Ger- man soil as Cherniakhovsky’s forces swirled within 28 miles of Tils, 24 miles from Insterburg, important rail cities, and Konigsberg. Fighting is raging near Virbalis and Wizainy, both three miles from | the frontier. ‘While the campaign in East Prus- sia intensified, the battle for War- saw entered the fouth day on a| slow, slugging 20-mile front, in-| volving the eastern suburbs to which the Germans cling on a line of fixed | fortifications ringing the burning city and also the industrial suburb of Praga.on.the.east. bank. of the Vistula River against a massed bom- | bardment from ground and sky. | It is estimated 25,000 underground Polish fighters are hitting the Ger- mans in a “hard and grim” battle on the Warsaw streets. Four Russian groups gnawed at the trapped thousands of Germans in Latvia and Estonia. The Rus- sians are closing in on all sides. The Red Army forces are within 70 miles of Krakow, fifth largest city in Old Poland. —— . AUGUST BUSCHMANN HERE August Buschmann, well known oldtime Alaska cannery man from| ‘Seattle, now is in Juneau on a trip throughout the Territory. At present he holds an interest in the Hood | Bay cannery. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—One of the most potent and effective lobbies in Washingéon is now operating quiet- ly backstage to put the GI Bill, hest legislation ever passed by Con- gress for the benefit of war vet- erans. The lobby is a combination of mortgage banks, and building and loan associations, now pressuring to| increase the interest rate on loans to veterans for building homes, also to make the Government guaran- tee all these loans so there will be no risk to the bankers. Here are the details of what they| Section 500 of the! are driving at. GI Bill has an excellent provision whereby the Veterans’ Administra- tion can lend money to help vet- erans build or acquire homes at an interest rate of 4 per cent, with the Government guaranteeing 50 per cent, or up to $2,000. Section- 505 then provides that veterans may get second loans from private institutions with the Gov- ernment guaranteeing only 20 per cent. The interest rate¢ on this BEC an i ‘2 prov TRAPPED NIPS SENT REELING IN ESCAPE TRY Shouting "Banzai’ as They Charge, Artillery Fire Cuts Them Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. DIRECT HITS ON JAP MILLS, MANCHURIA Superfortresses Make At- tacks According fo Sec- refary War Stimson 3.—Japan’s banzai shouting troops, WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — B-29 Superfortresses struck the Jap steel | mills at Anshan, in Manchuria, and scored direct hits on the coke ovens and other factory buildings in im- | locked for weeks in the Wewak sec- | tor, British New Guinea, tried an- other desperate attempt to charge | their enemy lines and lost heavily. ‘The Japs tried a series of waves and were repulsed by American ar- tillery. The shouting attackers were | | portant blows to the enemy’s war { “substantial” force of the Army’s | sent reeling back, leaving their dead making capacity, Secretary of War | where they fell. Henry L. Stimson, reported. | The area for a mile east of the He said at a news conference that | prinjumor River has been cleared the attack was carried out by & | of the enemy with slight resistance. @ tolad Howe Administ 3 an Administration are being p essu by the mortgage lobby to read u section 505 Government insuran of the entire second loan. Also | liright to Ketchikan, and Thurston | Everson, Mrs. Julia Steele and Tony “iecle to Petersburg. ¥. M. Olson, Roy Jenson, Mrs. and Mrs. Ronning were pas- ' * to Wrangell today. Shor pressure boys want to raise ieaving for Sitka were Eugene interest rate to 6 per cent. 3 J. T. Durden and James Hitherto, the building and loan' €21 ans Floe was a passenger companies did not go in for in-| of Hi sk Tulet. Returning were W. sured loans, but now a bloc of '@%iit. lola La Point and Ralph leaders in the industry advocate 1rs Sitka, W. Pekovich f Izwk Ialet, and Olaf Olson otz from Tenalee. (Continued on Fage Four) ————————— new super-bombers which hit An- | shan, also Tangku Port and Tient- "ATIO“AL BOND sin in occupied China on July 29. | Stimson observed the rapid ad- | vance in Normandy within the past IoIAl IS ovER nine days by saying that it was the | “most satisfying accomplishment IwENIY BIll‘o“ since the successful Allied landings on the French beaches which over- shadows even the swift envelopment | According to a wire received by in the liberation of Cherbourg.” the office of the War Finance T P e Commission, the national total dur- ling the Fifth War Loan drive has PHllADElPHlA |been tabulated at $20,639,000,000. |The national quota was set at $16,- ENTERS. THIRD _ - NRREENE . . i wen . Of _this. .total,. $6,320000. were.. in. |individual sales and $3,036,000,000 DAY oF IIEUP ,were E bond sales. | ——————— mae, . $20,000 REWARD Transportation tieups that have‘ [l plagued two major cities amid con- | tinental labor disputes now have a FOR RE(OVERY oF number of idle workers which has Eiudcioin WEALTHY BOLIVIAN Philadelphia has entered its third | day of a public transport paralysis and . is looking to the President LAPAZ, Bolvia, Aug. 3.—A reward for some action to end the stop- of a million bolivianos (about $20,- page. 000) has been offered by the Hoch- In Montreal, most of the trams schild Company for the recovery of have disappeared from the streets Mauricio Hochschild, wealthy Bol- as the result of a walkout which ivian tin mines owner, who disap- developed after a ‘dispute over Peared Sunday with Adolf Blum, his whether a union shop provision business manager. applying to new employees should| The Lapaz Sunday newspapers be put on a contract between the Susgested that he kidnapped Hoch- traction company and the Canadian Schild because ‘he was opposed to Brotherhood of Railway Employee&‘me revolutionary government of ‘The employment of eight nemol?resident Villarel, ——ee—— employees as operators was the| spark that ignited not only the‘ES(ApE ROUIE stoppage of the transportation sys- tem but a racial disorder in Phila- | delphia which began on Tuesday. | BEI“G BOHI.ED — .- — CANADIAN FisHING =~ UP BY SOVIETS | STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3. — Russian VBSEU MAY lA“D Itrucks loaded with speedboats, tor- | pedoes and mines, are reported here IN Al ASK A PORIS | as speeding up the Soviet’s corridor to the Baltic Sea, west of Riga, in ek | an effort to bottle up any waterway According to instructions received | escape for 20,000 or 30,000 trapped by Collector of Customs J. J. Con- | Germans. nors, in a wire from Wuhington.} By sowing mines between the the Acting Secretary of Treasury 'island of Osel and the mainland has issued an order waiving com- |and by operating speedboats, Ger- pliance with the provision of section | man shipping would be hampered 4311 R. 8. to the extent necessary |in any evacuation plan, for the duration of the calendar year 1944. ! This is to permit Canadian fish- F lE'(“ERv Bunmn {ing vessels engaging in the North Pacific halibut fishery only to land Go'"fi 0" (R“'SE their catch of halibut in ports of entry in Alaska upon compliance | Two of Juneau’s most prominent with the applicable customs laws. | business men, Jack Fletcher, popular | The action was deemed necessary | manager of the Baranof Hotel, and in the conduct of the war. J. B. Burford of the company bear- ing his name, will leave Juneau Sat- '"REE Iklps "‘oDAY jurday on the latter's 40-foot boat Donjac for a two weeks’ cruise in Fon Amn (o AS' AI. the waters of Southeast Alaska. According to Fletcher, the boys are going to indulge in “a little fishing” A trip to Ketchikan today by an | —enough for eating purposes. Alaska Coastal plane took Mrs. Welch, Howard Hennetta, and Earl STO(K 0“0]‘"0"; NEW YORK, Aug. 3. — Closing ! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 91%, Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 527%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 5%, International Harvester 7%, Kennecott 31%, North Am- erican Aviation 8%, New York Cen- tral 19%. Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 58%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.29, rails, 41.25; utilities, 24.09. 'YANKS PRESS INTO HEART OF BRITTANY SOUTH HALF GUAM ISLE (ONQUERED Tinian Airsfii'pd Also Occu- pied - One Officer Congratulated | UNITED STATES PACIFIC | | | | | | PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 3.—Killing |seven Japs to every Yank slain, the | American now have complete con- trol of the south half ot Guam Island and are slowly and cautious- |lv advancing toward the north half. | The airstrip on Tinian Island has |been taken by the Marines and | soldiers. j Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, Com~ mander of the Marine forces in the Pacific, congratulated Maj. Gen. |A. D. Brucz for the conduct of | the 77th Division in the Guam op- |crations for “marked tactical abil- |ity in moving the forces into po- sitions over unfavorable terrain in the face of great difficulties.” - e DRAFT BOARD ISSUES NEW LISTTODAY The following reclassification list | was issued by the logal Draft Board: | 1-A—Louis A. Delebecque, Howard | E. Mosher, Lawrence Carlson, Ste-| phen Hoag, Richard W. Barrett, | John H. Williams, Joseph A. Hell- | man, Anthony E. Morris. Solomon | + H. Karki, Stanley A. Eneberg, Rich- ard C. Shaw, John Borbridge, Jr. | 1-C—Norman E. Bleuler, Henning | N. Johnson, Kenneth H. Loken, Wil- |liam C. Spain, John T. Cass. 2-A — Williaom L. Bills, Chester Willis, Vernon E. Hodges, Wallace A. Doe. 2-A(F)—Arthur B. McBride, Wal- lace C. Tykeward. 2-A(L)—Peter C. Warner. 2-B—Robert W. Cowling, William | J. Sheppard, Harold Stephenson, ; John Leontowich. 2-B(H)—Lawrence J. Walker. 2-B(F)—Richard L. Schultz, Ver- nal H. Siler, John DeSimone. 4-D—Andrew Gamble. 4-F—Thomas W. Hall, Bert Jen- sen, Jr., Frank G. SHotter. DENTISTS' EXAM NOW BEING HELD A dental examination is being held this week in Juneau to enable those so desiring to procure licenses for practicing in the Territory. Al- askan dentists on the examining board are Dr. H. G. Hughes, Mayor of Fairbanks; Dr. Dorsey, of An- chorage; Dr. McKenzie ,of Ketchi- kan, and Dr. A. W. Stewart, of this city. Arriving here recently for the ex- | amination were Dr. V. N. Lee, of | Portland, Oregon; Dr. William Har- stad, of Milton, Oregon; H. C. Kim- ball, of Portland; Dr. John H. Davis, of Sioux City, Iowa; Dr. E. L. Bly, and Dr. J. L. Wilson, of Seattle. [EVACUATION OF RIGA REPORTED STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3-—Refugees reaching Sweden by sail, motor and rowboats said German women and children are being evacuated from | Riga which is said to be like a | besieged fortress as the thunder of rapproacmng Russian fields guns is i growing louder. They also said the food situation in Riga is a serious one. ——eo—— LOIS MOREY HERE Lois Morey. of Libby, McNeill and Libby, has registered at the Bar- anof Hotel from Anchorage. b ROBOTS HIT LONDON FOR LONG PERIOD Attack Made-At Least 78 Persons Killed Fourteen Hours Continuous | ' Battle For Warsaw Surges on 20 Mile Front | |FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN’ BULLETIN -- LONDON, Aug. 3.—Flying bombs crashed London and southern England in salvos for 14 hours, the long- est sustained attack since the Germans fired the first across the channel seven weeks ago. By midafternoon today the bombardment slackened. At least 28 were killed here. Ten men repairing bomb damage were hit when a robot hit their billet next door to a mertuary containing victims of an earlier explosion. BOMIB RAID ONTINUES LONDON, Aug. 3.—Flying bombs droned over Southern England and broken 12-hour assault. craft gunners in Southern England maintained almost a continuous barrage and some robpts are re- ported destroyed over the channel. Several hospitals were hit and ten patients were killed in one hospital. e London shopping area. was 0 hit, and a numbér o1 casual ties are reported. One robot punctured a water tank and rescue workers were drenched to the skin as they dug among debris in search of victims. R REPORT ON ROBOT BOMBING IS MADE; 4335 ARE KILLED British Prime Minister W.; Churchill Does Not Look | for Much Relief LONDON, Aug. 3.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill has disclosed | that robot bombs killed 4,335 persons | in Britain during a seven-week period. He said that at the present { time Britain could advance no guar- antee that the robot problem could be solved speedily as the result oi( the Nazi attacks. | Citing the destruction caused by | {the bombs during a constant bom- London in continuation of an un- | Antiair- Maj. Gen. J. C. Regan in the Marshall Islands invasion. Sorenson was in Juneau over a during his brief stop, Soldiers fischérgéd For Offenses Cannot GefRecords Changed ARMY RACING SPANISH OFFICIAL 1S DEAD of Tide' that Allies Will Win Out SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Aug. 3. (left), presents the Congressiopal Medal of Honor at Seattle to Marine Pfc. Richard Sorenson of Anoka, Minn., who saved five cemrades by throwing himself on a Japanese grenade Lake City, Utah, received the Silver Star Medal for other feats. I charged under a shadow from their Foreign Minister Saw ‘Turn | —— PSR AR Marme Gels Highesl Award 'RENNES | CAPTURED ~ INDRIVE | Bradley's Armored Col- umns Pressing on with Burning Speed ~ | ST. NAZAIRE IS NEXT | GOAL OF U. 5. FORCES Bewildered Germans Be- | ing Stabbed Along 120-Mile Front SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 3—Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley's armored columns, press- |ing at burning speed into the heart |of Brittany, captured Rennes after |a two-day advance that -carried |them 45 miles from Avranches. The Americans are pushing swift- ;ly toward the Wold War I base of |8t. Nazaire, 80 miles beyond Ren- | nes, almost in the center of Breton Peninsula. {3 On Dinan Outskirts Other west-bound columns are reported on the outskirts of Dinan Pfc. Robert ¥oss (right), of Salt year ago and made many friends Avranches. Bradley’s forces have thus open- led a wedge 30 miles deep and 35 miles broad near Brittany in a ser- les of apen field dashes. Everywhere along the 120-mile (Continued on Page Six) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Some of the saddest of men must be those | who years ago in some youthful | | folly caused themselves to be dis- | ! nation’s armed forces. | Service files bulge with some of | on ™ ot e wiers b S0me Infantry Units Un- |allowed somehow to clear their‘ able 'o Keep P“e wi'h Fastest Advance | names, and perhaps once again | serve their country. Here are some iextracts from letters sent to the| By WES GALLAGHER SOMEWHERE IN BRITTANY, Aug. 3—This has ceased to be a | Marine Corps: | The first is from a man who drew | la bad conduct discharge in 1929 | :afior being convicted of theft. “Since that day I have felt like a ::rd::edntuf:;md;gue l;r';:sul};,::é‘ —Gen. Francisco Gomez Jardana y seriously injured’ and many more Sousa, 68, Spain’s Minister of For- received slighter injuries. He pointed | eign Affairs, is dead here as the out that 17,000 homes were totally | result of an attack of the heart. | convict,” he wrote, “and when I see | the Marines on parade it makes me: feel like there is something gohe, | especially when a man was proud |to wear the uniform of the Marines | las I once was and am still proud battle and is a race, with the Am- erican Army moving forward per- haps faster than any army in this war. It is almost impossible to keep up with the front. - Daylight can follow the trail of | including 225,000 mothers with their \BERLIN CLAIMS destroyed and 800,000 partially dam- aged. Many, however, had only the windows shattered in their homes. | The report further said that per- | sons not employed in essential work, children were evacuated in the sev- en weeks and that 5340 robots were launched against England. He said there was a slightly decliné in the | death and injury rate, bearing out his statement that defenses against bombing was gaining power by ter- | rific poundings given launching areas by Allied fliers. BIG RAIDS BY | U. 5. BOMBERS| LONDON, Aug. 3.—More than 750 | American heavy bombers from Italy | attacked German industrial targets near the Swiss border and another | strong American armada from Eng- land is in the skies over Bavaria, according to a German radio broad- cast picked up here. e el et RUTH LOFGREN HERE He was appointed to his office in September, 1942, when the Ger- mans seemed on the offensive against the Russian at Stalingrad. When the Americans landed in North Africa, Gen. Sousa saw the “turn of the tide” before others began to realize the Allles were on the offensive and urged real neu- trality of Spain and unofficially asserted the Allies will win the present war. SEVEN ARRIVE HERE . VIA ALASKA AIRLINE An outgoing flight to Yakutat yesterday of the Alaska Airlines carried Frank Tucker, Thomas Dennison, Peter Bond, Walter An- drews, Eli Yovatich, Jack Jackson, William Ryan, and Forrest Fermesy. | McDonald and Silver were pilots for the -trip. In from Anchorage yesterday were Mrs. C. W. Hufusen, Dolores Kerner, Neal McDonald, D. J. Ty- ler, Roy C. Anderson, Roy Jensen, and Mrs. W. C. Short, Returning to Anchorage the plane caried M. D. Williams, D. W. Zan- der, Melvin Culbertson, and Helen |Hycz to that city, and Margaret Hill, Mr. and Mrs, A, L. Hall, Helen Banruf, and W. E. Duckering to Fairbanks. Ruth Lofgren, of Salt Lake City,| is @ guest at the Baranof Hotel.| —————— RAATICANS HERE ——————— Mr. and Mrs. Charles Raatican| Starr Calvert, of the San Juan are here from Pelican and suéste Packing Company, is a visitor in at the Gasiu'nesu kotel, Jungat that T wore it. battle along roads across Brittany, “Sir, isn’'t there some way I can g trajl of burning wreckage, tanks, show you that I am wonhyvo( 8N g3 guns, and horse-drawn vehicles, ‘,ncnomble discharge? Don’t YOu |y, never seems quite able to | think that I have paid enoug_;h for | atch up with the front line. something that I swear I did not A large force is on the move, | know I was doing wrong? Can’t you % see how I feel? Won't you consider nok "“f: tank columns and dough- |my case and see if you can help boys, but maintenance units with | me?" !munnlom, fuel, food supplies, and | This is from a man who walked |Other services, Everything is rush- lout the gate of the Washington M8 into Brittany, though moments | Marine barracks in 1924 in civilian 108t can never be replaced. clothes, leaving his uniform behind: | There is no pause ever. for greet- | “I want to clear my conscience, |ing the local populace, which stands 1 at every village front and every (Continued on Page Two) |farm, hurling flowers. The inhab- Y o et Bt e ot i itants of Brittany are much more lmlo" DuGouI "ow demonstrative than those of Nor- ! | mandy. " e/ French Are Guides BE'"G DRBS[D “P The advance has been speeded |by the fight of the French in the Members of the American Legion |interior, who rush lead columns here have been going at it “with lgng report where the Germans are hammer and tongs” during the past | gtationed. They offer themselves | four days “dressing up” the interior |, guides. and exterior of the American Legion .rye yesistance movement is most Dugout together with various ']"coopflrnuve," i Capt Royce terations and a new paint job in i lprepamtion for the coming Legion :fi::;belxer. Civil Affairs Admin- Convention to be held here Sep- | Feeble Luft i tember 2, 3, and 4. | Announcement was made today An armored division is spear- |that on Monday night, August 7, Neading an unprecedented drive on the Legionnaires will be host to all many roads, in black moving col- the service men of the Gastineau|umns, despite the sporadic pres- Channel area. A short business|ence of the Luftwalfe, which for meeting will be held at 8 p. m.,, to the first time since the invasion be followed by a buffet luncheon.|opened has been putting up a All service men are requested to come early. (Continued on Page Two)