The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1944, Page 1

- ~ 0}. A & VOL. XLIL, NO. 9724, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— | JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1944 Ml— MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PR[CE TEN CENTS NAZI THRUST N YANKS BEATEN OFF Soviet Forces Start Pincher Move on Germans RED ARMIES SEIZE 2,000 OIL WELLS Vistula Rivet Defenses Broken—Krakow May Be By-Passed MOSOW, Aug. 8.—A new eruption of the Red Army atfacks has re- sulted in the capture of more than 60 communities beyond the enemy’s broken Vistula River defenses and threaten to strangle the German communications between Krakow and Warsaw. Striking out afresh from the Vis- tula bridgehead, Kovey's First Ukraine Army reached points 30 miles west of the river. Soviet field dispatches said the Ukraine Army has thrust beyond newly-occupied Szydlow and the Russians now directly —menace Kielce, astride the highway and rail arteries, 25 miles northwest. May Outflank Krakow The drive raised the possibility the Red Army troops might outflank Krakow, the last big Nazi bastion before German Silesia, now from 75 to 90 miles away. Moscow’s guns sounded last night with the twin victories, the fall of the ojl center of Boryslaw in the Carpathians and the capture of Sambor, communications hub, whose fall gave the Russians a grip on five routes leading to nearby Czecho- slovakia. Regain Oil Wells In the capture of Boryslaw, the Russians have regained some 2,000 Galician oil wells and the Germans are thus left only the Ploesti fields in Rumania, which have beep re- peatedly bombed by Allied airmen. Far to the north, three powerful Soviet Armies began a pincers move- ment on the Germans in East Prus- sia along a 200-mile front. One of (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Real fact ls‘ that Dewey’s denounciation of Ger- ald L. K. Smith was exactly what the rootin’-tootin' ex-evangelist was angling for. Last fall, Smith fore- saw the nominatio mof Dewey and remarked at the tume: “One of these days, I'm going to say: ‘Tom, better be nice to me or I'm going to endorse you'. That would be the last thing in the world Dewey would want. My en- dorsement in the '44 election would be the kiss of death to a Repub- lican candidate. My time will come in the post-war period — in the election of '48. The candidate will not be me—it will be a young vet- eran of this war, but I'll be behind him. “If business conditions are bad— inflation, widespread unemploy- ment, farm foreclosures—then my candidate will be elected * * * A strong nationalist can come to power only under such circum-| I am gambling that these be- stances. conditions will then obtain, cause any professional elected President in '44 will lack the courage to face the big prob- lems ot readjustment. Professional politicians are too cautions—that; is why they will fail. “In ’44, I will have no influence,! but my voice will be heard because I will provoke them to attack me. dlive; that’s all I can possibly do now. But when the regular poli- ticians can't or won't meet the big problems of readjustment, then the| flame will spread. and the extreme nationalist wi!l come to power—in | '4g1” All this is why Smith is attempt- ing to tie in wih war mothers’ groups, veterans groups, old-age pension groups and, at the same time, cater to big business by howl- ing about the “Red menace” and (Continued on Page Four) politician | I'm now only keeping the flame Chairman of the - taken by the Japs after the Pearl Harbor disaster. big advantage over the hps n Pacific island warfare. nibians pictured above were just a port icn of the huge assult force which stormed and won beaches on the western shore of Guam on July 20. These craft, flights of fancy, spearheaded the Amercan thrust designed to win back the first United States territory, Carrying troops and amament, they give Americans a Yank Armor Blaslflhrouqh Nan Lines Amphlblans Streak Toward Guam Beach strange as anything imagined in wildest United States infantrymen, using tnnk as cover, are shown during an attack at Periers on the Normandy front. Spearheading twin drives through the German lines ,the tank-paced doughboys have pushed out beyond captured Marigny and Sasy, west of St. Lo. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — The Democrats have taken the lead over the Republicans when it comes to slogan making. The trouble is, from the Democratic point of view, ithat Democratic phrase-makers slap the men in their own party about as hard as they soak the opposition. Interior Secretary Harold L. |tion and esnecially of the nomina- tion of Sen. Harry S. Truman to be Vice President, is already a cla: Robert Hannegan, Democratic Na- {tional Committeg, bet |vour bottom dollar that this crack | will pop up in Republican cam- paign literature in spite of the fact it was authorized by a Democrat. { You and can almost Democrats Take Lead Over Republicansin | Hatching Up Slogans Ickes' reply of “Hannegan's She-| |nanigans,” when he was asked what he thought of the conven-| 1 campaign cartoon lines. | | If there’s any ‘wonder why the Democrats almost invariably get mad at each other at their con-| ventions and the Republican boys seem to ‘toss theirs off with a| measure of harmony (they didn't |of course, in 1912 when “Teddy"”| | Roosevelt bolted) it should be ‘re- called that the Democratic Party is a heterogeneous mass. Its nucleus is the solid south| but much of its strength lies also! in the big city Democratic ma- |chines like Jersey City, much of ‘New York . City’s five boroughs, ‘and Chicago. Add to that the or- ganized labor strength and the/ -party's left wing, and it’s not $0 gan juan, Puerto Rico-Miami route, | hard to understand why it 1S 50| crashed in Nipe Bay in an attempted | ! difficult for the boys to get to- gether, pick their men and their| platform and come up smiling. |death in Guam of Col. FATHER, SON ARE KILLED IN BATTLES — The Douglas son of the' late WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. McNair, 37, on; Lt. Gen. Lesley |St. Lo, Normandy, is announced by the War Department. The cir- |cumstances are not reported. (CLIPPER CRASHES HAVANA, Aug, 8.—A four-engined Pan American Clipper, carrying 28 passengers and cfew of five on the/| | takeoff from Antolla on the nunh- east coast of Cuba. At least one person was killed but { Start of Island War » McNair, who was | |killed last month by a bomb near YANKS BRING GUAM ISLAND INCONTROL | Troops Now Hold Nine- teenth Pacific Isle Since PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR~}’ TERS AT PFARL HARBOR, Aug. 8-—Yanks nushed forward three miles in the center of the Guam fighting lines on Sunday, to bring the nineteenth island under Am- erican control, Admiral Chester | Nimitz said. The advance swept over a large new Jap cemetery where Nimitz reported, “there is evidence of a mass burial of enemy dead.” He |said also that bombers in the Pa- cific command hit Truk on August 4 and 5, and Ponape and Nauru on the same dates. HITLER PLOT REVEALED AT ~ COURT TRIAL Conspiracyfg;inst Feuhr- | er Unveiled-Officers Are Executed BULLETIN—LONDON, Aug. 8.—Field Marshal 7Vitzleben and | seven other German officers were hanged, Berlin says, after | the trial in which they confessed plotting to kill Hitler and the surrender of Germany to the ! Allies. This brought to 16 the number of announced deaths in | connection with the plot. LONDON, Aug. 8.—A Berlin radio broadeast said that the People's Court has meted out a “just pun- ishment” to Field Marshal Erwin Von Witzleben and seven other ex- | pelled army officers who were tried July 20 plot against Hitler’s life in | Nazi Germany. A “just punishment” | usually means death. | The official account of yesterday's trial was broadcast by DNB and disclosed that the alleged plot against Hitler had been hatching | slnce last summer. Col. Count Clause von Stauffen- berg was named by Berlin as the actual assassin and was declared to have brought explosives into Hitler’s presence twice before July 20, but | refrained from letting them go be- | cause Heinrich Himmler, Gesmpov Chief, was not with Hitler so he | could “be finished at the same time.” Three former Generals and four lesser officials were tried with Von Witzleben, who was quoted as tes- tifying that he and Col. Gen. Lud- wig Beck were to have headed a military coup under Beck, former Chief of the German Staff, who | committed suicide in Berlin, it was | | said, over frustration at the con-| spiracy failure. Berlin announced earlier the death | of seven other accused officers, four | by execution on July 23 and three | more by suicide. Count York von Wartenburg, cousin of Count Claus von Stauf- fenberg, who was named as the !Berlin assassin. was announced as| one of the witnesses. He testified, |Berlin said that the conspirators| planned to establish relations with the Allies in both the East and {West. He said they had no doubt |that the enemy would insist on an junconditional surrender or “the an- on a charge of complicity in the' | tentjon to “strike at our homeland” | has but one course to pursue: | forts | Supreme Council for direction of | stock today is 6%, American Can' Alaska Steamship Co. Is Sold; Purchase Is Made By Skmner Eddy Corp. SEATTLE, AuP HV'Purcm\fle of | the Alaska fleet by Skinner, Eddy Corporation of Seattle for an unannounced (sum is announced here by Presi- |dent G. W. Skinner. The firm had ‘;u]r(-wdy acquired control of the steamship company’s capital stock |from the Kennecott Copper, Skin- per further stated. The Kennecott interests disposed of the ships because mining activi- ‘lle\ in Alaska had largely ceased | before the war. The Alaska Steam- | ‘shlp Company's fleet of seventeen essels included freight and pas- senger ships, and for insurance ! purposes, ‘the fleet was valued at | about $10,000,000. ‘ The sale was annoupnced simul- tancously in New York, where E. cott, withdrew as President of the steamship company. ! Official Lineup | G. W. Skinner becomes President, and Vice Presiderts are Lawrence Bogle, Seattle attorney, and L. W. Baker, General Manager of the steamship company for five years; Raymond Anderson is Treasurer, “and C. N. Mitchell is Secretary. Skinner paid there will be no ,changes in the company's operating n a |transaction also involves purchase WINNE| of Lowell, ' ,» won. a “Miss Stardust” title as prettiest sweete heart of a service man, 5 5 M T0KYO RADIO WARNS JAPS OF TROUBLE New Premler Tells People fo Consolidate ; the Alaska Steamship Company or |its subsidiaries. Planning New Ships Skinner said the Alaska Steam- ship Company owns at present four passenger-freighters and four treighv.ers and “we are planning on new ships. More than that I can- not say at this time.” ‘The Company is operating many "other vessels as agent for the War Shipping Administration. Skinner said he hoped the com- pany will serve Alaska so well that ‘compeuuon to the Territory will be discouraged. . He disclosed that Hdenmied with the Skinner, Eddy ! Corporation interests already have S'ren 'h |a substantial interest in the North- g !land Transportation Company, chief (competitor of the Alaska Steam- (By Amcla(fll Press) ship Company. but no merger of Premier Kolso is quoted In a interests.is in contemplation. Tokyo radio as warning the Japa- nese people that American a.dvances‘ ADAMS RECEIVES WORD on the Marianas and the New fgrace O, Adams, local agent for Guinea area plus an apparent In- (he Alaska Steamship Company, has also recelved word of the ac- quisition of the company by the confronted the Empire with “na- tional difficulties of unprecedented serlousness.” ‘fsrkojl:.ni:sllfd% g;rkx::rauon. direct The Testepthigiein by the Mr. Baker also said: “Our com- Federal Communicatiéns Commis- slon, sald that Koiso told the nation PNV has passed from New York in a special radio address that it C\ty 10 local Seattle people who «p have bteen interested in Alaska for resolution to consolidate our total °ver 30 years and who will devote strength to overcome all difficulties their energy and resources to keep- and thus win the war.” ing the Alaska Steamship Company He added that the time has now In stcp with the future growth of come when Japanese military oper- Alagka.” ations “on a grand, bold scale are, Baker said President Skinner | expectantly awaited.” !planned to keep the present or- The new Premier pledged his gov- | ganization intact. ernment would concentrate its ef-| B “with the recently established | le w'lu‘"s jR NOW PARATROOPER ok Lew Williams, Jr, son of the, |Secretary of Alaska, is now a para- trooper and ready to go overseas STOCK ouomibus NEW YORK, Aug 8. — ClosiNg 1ag been in extensive training at) quotation of Alaska Juneau m‘“e‘Fon Benning, Georgla, and passed all examinations and made his fitth successful drop from warplanes, the war on leading the Japanese to victory.” 90%, Anaconda 257, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtiss- Wright 5'%, International Harvester AR i i <7~ Wiz ored 77%, Kennecott 31%, North Amer- | pro'e“or &'s 18%, Northern Pacific 16, Unuem Rude Awakening ican Aviation 8%, New York Central States Steel 57%. Dow, Jones averages today are as Steamship Company'’s | T. Stannard, President of Kenne- | P to the fleet, Afiu"flx%‘fll in |of all properties owned either by “individuals” | | That's why newsmen and °°“Ve“'\salvage opeartions have begun to tion observers generally B"’Qnd‘determlne wheéther the are bodies Democratic cunventions happxly\ in the hull of the plane. anticipating “a good show.” IR A If things hadu't been popping| ANTONE STRAND MISSING jsugestion that Democrats adoPt yige all get-out in Germany, the| Antone Strand, oldtimer, has been the slogan: “‘Elect the big mah gastern front and in Tokyo, there| missing from his Sixth Street home with the little deg,” (referring w' probably would have been a better for 48 hours and any information President Roosevelt's little scottie,! one this year. World events may!as to his whereabouts will be gladly Fala, and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's received by his sister, Mrs. T. J. great dane) have the quality of Jacobsen, On the other hand, Gov. J. Mel- |ville Broughton's slogan: “Only one |mustache at the peace conference, and that one Joe Stalin’s”; and the (Continued on Page Two) named were Von Witzleben, Major General Erick Hoeppner, Major General Helmut Stieff, Lt. Gen, Paul von Hase, Lt. Albrecht yon Hagen, Lt. Col. Robert Bernardis,|their son, Eugene, to Betty Sharpe. by the bomb blast, but landed right and Captain Friedrich Karl Klaus- While here Prof. Kirsten npoke at ' side up. The professor, who was ing. 0 Chamber of Commerce luncheon, still in bed, was unhurt, 4 nomist, had a rude awakening when | Professor and Mrs. F. K. Klrstenfl German flying bomb struck a are enroute south after a trip to’ coast hotel. Laski’s bed fell five | nihilation cf the German reich and| follows: Industrials, 144.99; rafls.; people.” 4070; utilities, 2401, [ Bv FIYIM BOlIIb Von Wartenburg was among DR o G e a0 LONDON, Aug. 8—Prof. Harold those hanged, Berlin said. Others| KIRSTENS ENROUTE HOME Vmsk, Widely known British eco- Juneau to sttend the wedding of stories through a gaping hole torn | TWOSURGES - UNDER WAY FOR PARIS Canadian, fiish Forces Hammer Into Germans Below Caen Front BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 8.—American troops are tonight fighting in the outskirts of the port of Brest, and also have thrown a concerted attack on Lorient. The German radio acknowledged the Americans have entered the port of St. Malo at one point. The Germans are rushing reinforcements against the ris- ing Allied drive on Paris. It is the 26th anniversary of the Germans' “blackest day” in | World War I, when the Ger- man High Command decided the war was about lost. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 8. — Allied troops have advanced in two powerful surges on a 180-mile front and have driven a little more than 100 miles from Paris. desperately rushed hern France. Yesterday's tremendous drive of | the Germans on the Americans has been repulsed definitely as Allied warplanes, thrown into' the combat, | swept over the German lines, knock- | Ing out 163 enemy tanks and spread- ing confusion fnto the Nazi ranks. Canadian troops have hammered four miles into the main enemy line below Caen. The Americans’ southern flank struck toward Lemans, only 110 miles from Paris, and advance | elements are this afternoon reported | nearing Lemans, the rail hub, | The position of the doughboys left behind to the northwest in the wreckage of the German abortive drive is not given. Canadian and British troops have stormed over the Orne River in a four-mile advance and have punc- tured through one of the most im- pregnable anti-tank screens, seizing ! strong point villages. American troops are now battling strong resistance near the northen Breton Peninsula port of St. Malo. — - NAZI LINES STRUCKBIG AIRBLOWS 'Bombers Blast German Front, Airfields, Installations | LONDON, Aug. 8.—One thousand 1Amer£can heavy bombers struck a |second tremendous blow at the |hinge in the German lines below ‘Cam and ranged widely over France, attacking airfields and fly- ling bomb installations. | An estimate 1800 tons of bombs were cast ai the German lines be- |fore the advancing Canadian Pirst Army. The same area was pulver- |ized last night by 1,000 British heavy bomoers, which dropped About 600 Fort- around 6700 tons. ‘resaes and Liberators participated 1ln this action, and some 400 others blnsled airfields at Romilly and Sur Seine, 55 miles northwest of Pari« and Le Perthe, northwest of Aanluy They also bombed plat- |forms from which robot bombs are 'hurled at England. — | ARTICLES FILED HERE - | Articles of Incorporation have Ibeen filed at the Auditor's office here by the Homer Cooperative ' Association, with the principal place "of business to be at Homer, Alaska.