The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9727. —_—— e et JUNEAU, ALASKA, F‘RID\\. /\L(JL‘SF 11, 1944 ME MBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'AMERICANS ARE 37 MILES FROM PARIS ' Pincer Movement A * PLUNGE IS - MADE OVER BIGRIVER Nazi Forces at Warsaw May| Be Outflanked in East Prussia Thrust MOSCOW, Aug. 11—Russian arm- ies, applying great pincers in the East Prussia thrust, are within 50 | miles of Tilsit and Memel and have | threatened the southern boundary, | the home of the Junkers, with a | plunge across the Narew river. Marshal Rokossovsky is besieging | Warsaw for the twelfth day zmdr has begun a thrust threatening the[ German army group toward East | Prussia from positions northeast of | the Polish capital. This is an in- creasing menace to Warsaw, too, be- | cause the drive could curve toward | the Vistula and outflank the Polish | city from the north. The Russians are already seven miles inside Suwalki, the triangle\ which Germany annexed from Po- | land in 1939. Japs Destroy Homes As Air ‘Raid Measure | NEW YORK, Aug. 11. — A Tokyo radio broadcast to Ger- many, recorded by United States monitors, said the Japanese school children have torn down “tens of thousands of houses and . entire street sections in resi- dential blocks” of the capital as an air raid protection measure, bringing about “one of the BRAZIL!AN TROOPS REACH ITALY CARRYING FULL PACKS, part of the contingent of Brazilian troops that will join the Allies in fighting the Nazis march down the gangplank at Naples, Italy. The soldiers, first of their group to set foot on Italian soil, cheered as the ship sailed in. OWI Radiophoto. (International) irdromes on Philippine Island Smashed in Raid 3 SUPERS ARE LOST BIG RAID Craft Fail fo Return Affer Attacks on Sumatra, Also Nagasaki WASHINGTON, Aug. planes of the two forces of Supers fortresses, in Sumatra and the Jap homeland 11.—Three which struck at targets| at Nagasaki, have “not been ae- |counted for.” v One was forced down in friendly {territory, the 20th bomber com- |mand reported. | Bombing results were |both targets. At Nag: ki, the mission | countered “weak” opposition. __|Jap plane was destroyed. There was no fighter opposition |at Pelembang. Anti-aircraft fire |was moderate or weak at both tar- |gets. en- One | e | DEVASTATING BLOWS SECRET NEW SUPERFORT- RESS BASE NEAR EQUATOR, Aug. 11.—First reports radioed from B-29s returning from widespread By U. 5. Liberator Planes | (‘ENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN i’th SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.| | 11—American Liberator bombers, ! raiding the Philippines for the first| smashed Jap Mindanao night |time in 27 months, | airdromes at Davao on |Island in three successive attacks, Headquarters ‘today The last three assaults were dur- ‘mg Tuesday night and Wednesday | morning, but results are not an- nounced. announced | twin raids on Nagasaki, in the Jap hr.melnnd, and Palembang, in Su-l | matra, indicated that the sky giants’ |struck devastating blows at two vital war industries ping. They flew from this southeast Asia Command Secret Base on the longest bombing mission of the war, a 3600-mile round trip, to drop high explosives - ‘on -the finest !petroleum target of the Jap Em- {pire at Palembang. | At the same time China-based ships rained incendiaries on Naga- Isaki in the first fire bomb raid on “good” at| oil and ship-| STALKING THE U- BOAT—ln a heavy North Atlantic sea a U. S. Coast Guard combat cutter hunts for enemy undersea marauders and guards eastbound Allied supplies. 'YANK LIBERATORS COLLECT REWARD AIRFIELDS NEAR PARIS Many OIher—I;n—porlant Sec- tons Are Smashed To- day, Last Night AREBOMBED }ch sweep is threatening all Ger- pplied by Soviet Forces SUBURB OF VERSAILLES IS KNIFED U. 5. Unifs Turn Northward Threatening German Forces in South BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 11. — Field Marshal von Kluge, German Commander in the west is reported tonight to have ordered a general retreat as the “great bulk of the Ger- man forces in northwest Eur- ope are in a bad way.” Gen. Montgomery, commander of the Allied ground forees in France made this announcement in a special message to the Allied soldiers tonight. Associated Press war corres- pondent Roger Greene, from the Orne River Front, sent a dispatch tonight stating Mar- shal von Kluge's forces are fighting for their lives tonight in the great bulge on the Wist River in the @rne field and the plight of the Germans is hour- ly growing more acute. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, Aug. 11.—American armor and infantry formations are un- | officially reported knifing into Charters, only 37 miles southwest of Paris, a suburb of Versailles, and turning northward in a scythe- man forces south of t.ha Seine River. The German communlque also says the American thrust has turned northward from Lemans under strong air support. ) greatest levelings since the earthquake of 1923.” CHURCHILL ON LONDON, Aug. 11. — American | The Paris radio reported the Am- heavies smashed oil dumps and air-' ericans have burst past Alencon, 30 fields near Paris, rail yards of the miles north of Lemans, but have | German border city of Saarbruc-|run into heavy fighting in that di- ken, and the Alsace-Lorraine cities rection. Alencon is 97 miles west of Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Bel-' ©Of Versailles and just 42 miles south- |for, apparently part of a campaign, cast of the Canadian tipped wedge Davao is the principal city on | | 1 _ " \the Jap homeland. | ‘ Mindanao, main southern island P | of the archipelago occupied by Lhe: JAPS PREPARE DEFENSE |Japs late in December, 1941. | NEW YORK, Aug. 11. — After The last American raid on the\studymg detailed reports of the Philippines previous to " the three‘mm by the superfortresses on recent raids, was the attack on/ ITALIAN FRONT! ROME, Aug. 11—British Prime | Minister Winston Churchill has ar- | rived in Italy on his first visit to| the Italian front. The Washi;gtonj Merry - Go- Round By DREW W PEARSON @Lt. Col. Robuc 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON— While Governor | Dewey has been so effectively harping on delays on reconversion plans, his Republican colleagues, in the secrecy of the Senate Military | Affairs Committee, were conduct- ing a behind-the-scenes filibuster against certain phases of reconver- sion. They were gunning for the Kilgore-Murray bill, which provides high unemployment compensation for labor. Leader of the opposition was Ver- mont's astute, capable Senator Warren Austin, who, with support from GOP colleagues Chan Gurney of South Dakota and Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia, went| over the bill with a fine-tooth comb. Austin’s chief strategy was to try to separate the reconversion bill into two parts, labor compensation, the other with disposal of surplus property. Most of his coileagues, thought he meant merely to divide the bill for pur- poses of discussion inside the com- mittee. However, Senator Harley Kilgore of West Virginia saw the move as a means of splitting the bill, so that the part dealing with surplus property, wants, could be passed with Re- publican support, leaving labor com- pensation, which business doesn’t want, to be stalled without Repub- lican support. Kilgore, accordingly, spiked the move. Austin also opposed plans for the production - employment - public (Continued on Page Four) one dealing with| which business | Clark Field, 70 miles north of Man- 'ila, on April 15, 1942, a formation | from Australia, led by Brig. Gen. Ralph Boyce. Bataan had capit- ulated six days earlier, but Correg- |idor was still holding. { Mindanao is within bomblng | - |range of the newly acquired Am- 3 \erican airfields on the Schouten | ! Islands, Dutch New Guinea, | miles southwest of the newest Am . erican beachhead at SanSapor, ti] | |of New Guinea, about 600 miles i southeast of Mindanao. | ALL BOMBERS BACK SAFELY ; NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—A BBC !ator bombers participating in the raids en Mindanao for three nights, ireturned safely, although they flew {to the Philippines without fighter lescort. The broadcast was record- ed by NBC. . The broadcast also said return- TIPTOE —. Noel Neill, film |ing pilots related they started fires, player, stands tiptoe on a divVing |several very big, and caused ex- board to show off her new flow- ]plosions on the ground. . \ WILL INVESTIGATE SCARCITY, SUPPLY OF WAR MATERIALS WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Chair- The number of workers, idle‘ma" Mead of the Senate War In- through labor disputes dropped:vestigating committee, has dis- abruptly in the ending of one of l,joeeq plans for an inquiry to de-| the nation's major controversies,|tormine “whether or not there is but still totals upwards from 55,000. | a scarcity in the supply of war| i Employees Ofl four l;atifoe&r?elx‘material for the armed forces.” jicrEey; sron . plans Ok BhY| He told the Senate committee | Aeronautical Corporation voted last that he had obtained a copy of an | ; “ 0} it- | . " IRt Lo Tefurd. (0 Motk A ooma junpublished section of the War tee of CIO Auto Workers and com- hy | pany representatives agreed to arbi- Production Board’s monthly report trate grievances. The company said 7,000 were off ing Kaplan, who later sought to| the job, anfl the union said 20,000, Tesign when the summary was |withheld. ~WPB chairman Don- {ald Nelson, closed the hearings on | Wednesday. Hazel Bird, of Crawley, Colorado, | i has arrived here and is staying at! Paraguay achieved independence the Baranof. in 1811, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS STHL IDLE, DISPUTES! (By Associated Press) o HAZEL BIRD HERE 900 | |broadcast said all American Liber- | |prepared by Lewis Badsie and !rv-‘ Nagasaki, the Japanese Cabinet has decided to prepare by August 15 |a plan for “strengthening home de- fenses, the Tokyo radio announces ln a broadcast: to the Nippon Lm- wpire The broadcast was heard by the | Federal© Communications Commis- sion and contrasted strongly with |Jap attempts to minimize the ef- fect of the raid. Damage was “negligible” said the \first broadcast but a belated an- nouncement said in the raid on Palembang six planes participated but did not identify them as super- foriresses. The attack was “extremely fierce, one oil tank was set afire and at lease two raiders were shot down,” said the Tokyo broadcast. ST. MALO IS CAPTUREDBY U.S. FORCES One GraniléToriress (ita- del Holds Out-German Colonel Obdurate By HAL BOYLE | Associated Press War Correspondent I ST. MALO, France, Aug. 11.—The |beleagured Germans in the citadel of St. Malo argued by telephone with the besieging Americans over {surrendering or continuing to fight but the trapped garrison has not surrendered yet. The Americans moved into the |Streets of St. Malo and the Ger- mans began to surrender, some of them shooting their own officers in order to give themselves up. The conversation over the tele- phone asked other Germans what | i (Continued on Page Two) SURROUNDED by smiling buddies, two of the victorious Yanks who helped take the port of Cherbourg from the Nazis are pictured as they were kissed by a couple of grateful French girls. This was but one of the many celebrations held after the city was coptured, (Interaational) Benefits for Kin of Missing Men Confinue Unfil Accounted for BENEFITS OF KIN OF . By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—-On the basis of the last published report, | nearly 50,000 of our 274,000 World | War II casualties are men “missing in action.” Officials here are the families of these “missing men” | Europe; | finding that have little conception of what con- | tinuing benefits they have under existing laws. The “missing in action” list is composed of men (or women) who can't be accounted for. In a large percentage of the cases, this doesn't mean that the men are dead. Tom | Harmon, the football star turned air ace, was twice reported missing in action for long periods but today is slugging it out with our enemies. Men who are captured, but have i ot yet been reported. by the enemy through the International Red Cross are the most frequent cases of mis ing in action; especially in the Pa- cific. Others missing in action are those interned in neutral countries (mostly after forced plane land- ings); those separated from their units who may wander for days even bn _ behind enemy lines before they can | goows: report; plane crews who may be ! hvmg with natives in the jungles | or hiding in the undergrounds of and the unlocated de: After a man has been m g a year, military officials go over 'hc reports, reclassify them as best um can. But there’s no real reason for a family to despair because they re- | ceive a telegram from the Army or Navy that their man in service is missing. = Thousands of them do turn up. -ymoving westward. trol of news, pictures, and speeches |to isolate Paris. Clear weather prevailed and “re-| sults were good.” The rail yards bombed comprised facilities for German troops | rail i | Antwerp, Metz, Lille and Sedan, |were also bombed last night and | betore dawn today, up to 1,000 Brit- ish heavies attacked other centers. B | STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Aug. 11. — Alaska |Juneau mine stock closed today at |67, American Can 90%, Anaconda | | Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem | Steel 62, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- |ternational Harvester 78%, Kenne- ‘(,utl. 31%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 19%, Nor- ’lhfln Pacific 16%, United States eel 58%. Pound $4.04. Dow, mes averages today are as industrials 146.27, 4146, utilities 24.75. B ‘SOLDIER VOTING LAW AMENDMENT IS IN PROSPECT ralls| | which has been driven to within five ! miles of Falaise, There is no official confirmation from the Supreme Headquarters on various positions of the forces strik- lmg past Lemans, 110 miles south- ! west of Paris. Lemans was captured two days ago. { The swing northward would | threaten the rear of the Germans in the subbornly held positions be- low Caen and approximately 20 Ger- | man divisions or remnants of divi- | sions. Rapid progress is being made on Brittany Peninsula, combat fordes | completing the capture of the Loire | River cities of Nantss and Angers. ‘GUAM FIGHT (OST 2,014 U. . KILLED UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN {PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 11. — The reconquest of Guam cost 7,247 Am- erican casualties, of whom 2014 were killed in action, Admiral Ches- WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—A re-| laxation in the tight official con- ter W. Nimitz announces in a com- munique. Nimitz also said 10,971 Japs have In the interim, it isn't the inten- 'that the Armed Forces may read, been counted dead in Guam which tion of the government that any family should suffer. A man’s pay continues as long as the official status of “missing” is maintained on the service records. Benefits to wives or dependents inst as if the man still were with his unit. If family or dependent auotments aren't in effect when the | see, or hear, appears to be in pros-| peet. Interested Senators and Rep- resentatives of the Service have Ibrings to 37,551 the total Nipponese killed in ground fighting in the Marianas campaign. agreed on an amendment to the Soldier Voting Law, as applied to sional action will be pressed. The latest application to the law The Pacific Commander reports that 5,704 Americans were wounded are continued | oyi00) propaganda, and Congres-|and 320 missing in the Guam cam- |paign, less than half the losses at Saipan, although the newly con- quered area is three times as large man is reported missing, they may was the banning for sale at post as the first capt Mar o be ectablished by applications to the | exchanges, “The Official Guide. to/lana. Aired langs Secretary of the War or Navy. Such payments also are‘made by the gov- ernment . for maintaining insurance on the missing man. These paymt'm\ are deducted ((,nntmued on Page Three) [the Army Air Force” because it carried a pen portrait of Roos velt, captioned “The Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy." g BUY WAR BONDS — .o — CREWSON IN TOWN H. B. Crewson, salesman, is in Juneau for a short time and has registered at the Gastineau Hotel,