The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9729. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ———————t’ PRICE TEN CENTS =3 TRAP CLOSES AROUNDNAZI INNORMANDY All-Out Attack on East Prussia Approaches SOVIET ARC IS FORMING IN ALL-OUT Russians Sfing fo Rip| Wide Open Defenses | of German Area | BULLETIN—LONDON, Aug. 14.—The capture of the fortress town of Osowiec, Polish com- munication center, 15 miles south of the Masurian Lake re- gion in East Prussia, is an- nounced tonight by Stalin in an Order of the Day. MOSCOW, Aug. 14. — Tue zero hour of the all-out Soviet assault; on East Prussia appeared approach- ing rapidly as the Russian armies | massed a great threatening arc be- ! fore the borders. The Russian units to the sout h are 15 to 18 miles from the East Prussia frontier, while to the east other Soviet forces are from seven to 10 miles away, and to the north 30 to 35 miles. The Red Army forces are appar- ently striving to rip the Nazi de- fense of East Prussia wide ope: n| THEY’RE IN THE FI1GHT_Members of the first Brazilian Expeditionary forces to arrive in Italy stand on a Naples dock. In background is U. 8. transport in which they sailed. TTHGERMAN Admiral Nimitz Does Nof ROOSEVELT DID VISIT THIS AREA President Was Fishing Off! . Aaron Island last | . Wednesday i came [ If next November’s votes prove as after a 15-day inspection of the Yelusive to President Franklin D.|pacific War Zone {Roosevelt as the salmon he tried the United Nations must prepare o catch off Aaron Island l1ast|for permaneht defenses against any “Wednesday, he's going to have a Iurtl\er aggressions of the Japanese ftough time. |as the “word and honor of Japan Yes, now it can be told.” Thej ..ot pe trusted.” President paid a surprise visit to| L the Juneau area last week on his| ng Near Juneau |way south from an inspection of his absence from country, he visited Pearl { Aleutian bases. The news of the } where he conferred with the War | visit could not be released until the ! Commander-in-Chief reached the Chiefs of the Pacific, inspected military bases in the Aleutians and States and official approval was brought a laugh when he said he given. ©Capt. Simpson MacKinnon, Ju- played hookey near Juneau, Alaska, leng enough to sneak three hou \ neau Booster and Chief of Staff for | Alaska’s 17th Naval District, made of fishing with the result of one | the arrangements for the President’s | halibut and one flounder. |try at hooking Juneau's famed sal- | W | mon and Minard Mill took the! pemanent Pacific bases must be| President fishing with his vessel, \ obtained, President Roosevelt said,' |Ourluck. However, the President’s {to protect this hemisphere from | His Tour of BREMERTON, Wash,, Aug. 14 |President Franklin D. Roosevelt home Saturday afternoon | During Permanent Defenses He hooked | and declared| the | Harbor | {luck wasn't so good. Alaska to Chile. iPresidenITeIIsol Pacific; Makes Direct Address To People of Alaska the Aleutians Islands. From point of view for National Defense therefore, our control of this route Imust be undisturbed. This is a simple statement of a military and naval point of view but when the end is a Japanese threat, is an excellent outlook of a per- manent peace for the whole Pa- |cific area, therefore it is natural and proper for us to think of the economic and commercial future. Alaska Stepping Stene logical that we forsee a |5 great interchange of commerce be- shores and those of Ti- beria and China. In this commer- |cial development, "Alaska and the Aleutians become automatic step- is tween our 'ping stones for trade both by water | and cargo planes, It means an |automatic development of transpor- tation to Alaska via British Colum- bla as far north as the Yukon. ; Railroad to Alaska al there | from the south and menaced the | enemy stronghold at Lomza, com- | munication center linked with em- battled Warsaw with the Junker Province. “The German radiv said the Rus- sian forces, ARMY WILL - Believe thal Invasion o " BE CRUSHED | s Japan May Be Necessary izt i e ‘two salmon but failed to land them. | “It is a long ten years again T He did pull in a flounder, 2 halibut| Concerning Japan, the President talked with Mackenzie King, Prime !and several tom cod. Others in the said: “It is an unfortunate fact, 'Mmh(m of Canada in regard to party caught several salmon. [t years of proof must pass be-!the development of highways and The President and his pm‘t{ pull- | fore we can trust Japan, before we |gix routes, even a railroad to Alaska with [oan elassify Japan -as a member | yia ' Bitish Columbia'and the Yu- Ar-jin the security of nations which kon. Great interest was aroused escort, Wednesday morning. tanks and planes “succeeded m gaining some ground,” northwest «f Bailystok in the drive threatening East Prussia from the south u‘ Warsaw and from the north. | Great tank battles continued west | (Comlnued on Page Six) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW W PEARSON wt. Col. mherl S, Allen now on active | service with the Army.) WASHINGTON— Fnends of | gaunt, grey- Bernie Baruch are | supported by many | | Comlng Week fo Be Most Momenfous in History of | Present European War By NERRILL MUELLER mprescnting‘ Combined American | Networks EISENHOWER'S ADVANC E D COMMAND POST, Aug. 14. The destrucllcn of the German Seventh | Army is about to take place in the | battle for France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pre- | dicts this coming week will be one of the most momentous in the history | of this war—a fruitful week for us and a fateful week for the enemy. | ferred with Navy, Army and Marine Mmmrc which followed quickly the | significant war plans at the Roose- ! velt and MacArthur conferenece. The Admiral expressed his views | Believe that Invasion of | ! ‘lapan May Be Ne(essary | of the war at a conference with | newsmen. After announcing air By CHARLES McMURTRY | 54tacks on the Bonin Islands, 600 UNITED STATES PACIFIC | miles south of Japan and at Par FLEET HEADQUARTERS AT mushiro in the Kuriles, north ap PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 14-—Ad- | proaches, and at Pagan, Rota, Truk, miral Chester W. Nimitz is back | Ponape, Marianas and the Carolines, from the Marianas where he is| he said: “I am not sure or convinced considering moving his headquart- | an invasion of Japan will be neces- | ers to keep in closer touch with the | sary but I do believe occupation of | westward push. Japan will be necessary to insure | Admiral Nimitz said he does notl winning of peace. However, I:fi{l:::m;n:;s:fiz ::ac:!enpan b | should keep in n?lnd .the possible The Admiral disclosed he has been | invasion and be Admiral Nimifz Does Not we necessity of an chuckling over how he always has, peace cannot come with the major | at Guain and Saipan where he cont | prepared for it.” a political anchor out to windward. They describe him as the cat with; nine lives—always landing right side up politically. Now it looks as | if he were warming up to Dewey. | When Franklin Roosevelt was up | for nomination in Chicago back in | the almost forgotten days of 1932, Baruch fought to the last ditch for the late Governor Albert Rit-| chie of Maryland. Bernie was Rit- chie’s financial godfather. After the convention, he switched to FDR, plunked $71000 into the| Roosevelt campaign chest. More recently, despite the fact that he was one month’s host w0 Roosevelt at his South Carolina plantation, straws in the wind havei indicated that elder statesman| Baruch is veering toward Dewey. One straw was the recent rev- elation that Baruch's long-time economic adviser, Fred Searls, Jr., had contributed $2,000 to Dewey’s campaign fund. Searls had been| placed in the White House by Bar- uch as adviser to War Mobilizer Byrnes. Last week, further persuasive| evidence reached the White House| | but the fact remains these | victory we are about to nccumplish | because there are still three Ger- man armies remaining in France which have not been engaged. It |is true some divisions from these emaining armies have been shifted | into the present battle and are lost | Some of the | in the Allied pocket. enemy divisions east of the Seine are lower units and of poor quality | three armies have plenty of drive. Only a political collapse within | Germany and’ another attempt on | Hitler to succed could possibly de-| | liver this war armistice within next | week and there is only a slight chance a political collapse may | show first manifestations. There are eight Russian or Allied | battlefronts facing the armies of Germapy and the only way they | can win will be to rid themselves | by revolt against the new Nazi Com- manders but even so our ferms will be unconditional surrender and clear roads to Berlin. . Eisenhower has been in almost constant conference with all of the | battle commanders during the past three (l‘\}S .}Dlsabled Vels Fight Red Tape; Can't Gef | Necessary Benefils By JACK STINNETT jicy waters of the Atlantic. The WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, — Some |Yesult: pneumonia—and after weeks weeks ago, I wrote a series about |in a hospital was given a medical the benefits due disabled Vetelans‘dl%hdflle of this war. Returning from the‘ Having worked for himself be- party conventions, I found a num-‘fo e enlistment, he has no job to ber of letters from disabled wet-‘gn back to. His health still is pre- erans of World War II, the sub- |carious. hasn’t been able to |stance of which was: Why .don’t |find another job. you tell the truth, T'm a disabled| Here is an example of misun- eteran and upder such and such|derstanding and, perhaps, some in- |circumstances, T can't get even one jjustice. But the vital point is that benefit. there are laws which specifically Some of these letters are pitiful. |p,m,d(, 166 Thls el aas Some are apparently crank Ieuorx; Having a !Some strike at the very root of of those laws, I would advise this e superficial knowledge | ! rangements had been made in ad- {seek a peace and whose word we|py hoth nations but it took a war vance with Mill to have his boat can take.” there and the President and Fala, His Priy te Albaki the chief executive's well-known | g...uing of his trip to Alaska, Scottie, boarded their own crulser . .op . e+ caid. “This trip has about 3 o'clotk that afternoon, fol- | " S s O it Gl lowing Mill's boat to the fishing|6i¥eR me & chance to:talk of grounds where the Ourluck anchored |$0¢ial and economic future of che and the President’s vessel tied PeoPle of Alaska with Gov. Gruen- alongside. |ing and he asked me to assure you Mill said the President looked just |that tne tan I acquired in the last as natural as anything sitting there ‘fl‘W days is ‘“om Alaska sun. fishing and eveyone wanted him to catch a salmon. Mill provided the West on a realized line for sea and tackle for everyone, including a air navigation, following the Great special new outfit for the Presi- Clruc from Puget Sound to Siberia, dent. He sald that when the Presi- and northern China, which passes dent got his first salmon on they very close to the Alaskan Coast, cut two of the fishing lines on his thence westward along the line uf boat so that the Commander-in- |- Chief would have a clear field to| play the fish. | The party didn't get back to the {cruiser until about 9 o'clock that Inight. The President then invited' Mill aboard and thanked him per- | sonally for a very nice time, even if i he didn’t get any fish. The President didn't come ashore | during his stay here but most Ju- | neau residents knew he was here a few hours after he arrived. Many \drove out the Glacier Highway to see if they could catch a glimpse | of the famous profile. Special agents vand Army, Coast Guard and Navy personnel kept a.close watch on the beaches. Some of the Presidential party came into Juneau Wednesday evening. & SHIP OFF MINDANAO SENT DOWN -2 ‘We were called alongside the war-| Tries fo Sho . By WILLIAM L. BAKER KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 14.— Joe Samuel, native of Hawail and 20 years as a Ketchikan fisherman, showed President Roosevelt where |the big fish bite in the waters of Tolstoi Bay, northern end of Prince |o( Wales Island, America's largest lmlam:l last Thursday afternoon, he told a reporter here, showing his ‘en'.ry in the log of his 46-foot !seiner Harold, owned by the Nakat Packing Corporation. The entry said: “August 10th T went alongside a warship and aaw, |to get quick action. Today we have the Alcan Highway practically com- pleted and an air route to Fair- banks enables us to deliver thou-| sands of planes to our Ally, Rus- sia by way of Alaska and Bering Strait to Siberia.” To Study Alaska | ‘The Presid2nt said on his return to Washington he intends to set up, the Aleutian Islands as a “place’ which many veterans of this war, especially those who do not have strong roots on their own homes,' ' |c0nunund on Paze Twm Fisherman of Kelchlkan w President Where fo (atch Big Fish on the s [pound rod, iv looked to me. He said, 'Hello skipper, how do, you do.” I was so nervous I just nodded back at him then Dr. Mc-| Intyre said: ‘We would like to get some fish’ I offered him a 48 pound king salmon but he would not take it, saying the President \wmmd to catch his own fish. | Members of the crew were alsol fishing but they were getting noth- ing. I asked them what they were using for bait, |stewards held up a chunk of bacon, so I offered them a humpie sal- mon which was better bait, but| he said they would get on bacun‘ if anything. Dr. McIntyre said stern holding about an elght’ and one of the; lone condition which several veter- man first to go to his local Vet- ‘shlp to show them where the fish he wanted to catch a halibut so I regarding Bernie Baruch’s next’ po- litical jump. Gathering for th opening of Darryl Zanuck's new film “Wilson,” ‘ came ex-Governor’ SAYS MANY plANES James Cox of Ohio, Democratic| candidate for President in 1920 OF u S DESTROVED who was defeated by Harding; also{ |The burden of proof is on the| . Albert Lasker, who managed Har-| NEW YORK, Aug. 14— The Japa- |disabled and the discharged.” ding’s campaign but who has been|nese Domei Agency claims 22 Allied a close friend of Governor CoX's|planes were destroyed in a dawn| papaps since. |raid at the air base at Liuchow, ‘to expla;n Comparing notes on their way|Kwangsi Province yesterday. to the “Wilson” opening, Governor{ The news agency claims Cox remarked: i large enemy planes” were set afire. “Bernie Baruch has been trying —e e to tell me what a great man Dewey NEILLS ARRIVE is and what a fine President he would be. I used all the arguments| on him, asking him to tell me how Dewey would be able to negotiate with Stalin and Churchill. But I couldn’t convince Dernie. He had |ans’ organizations claim is Wrong erans’ Administration office. The| with most benefit laws passed by | |chances are that he only will be’ Conguss Nothing is automatic. ‘flsk(‘d to fill out forms there for, A\ldr from a few things like dis-|mind you, the burden of proof of arge pay, most benefits provided |disability is on the veteran. \by Congress have to be fought for.| If that was all VA had to offer, |I wouldn't wait for results. VA 1s| (doing a great job, but it, too, is |circumscribed by legal technicalities |and sometimes red tape. That’s in- Tio o vataral DE-Eoth wars: :evltable in any vast government set-up. Next I would move in on one of the veterans’ organizations: the Disabled American Veterar the there’'s no better way| the situation than to| weio lcite a single case. This is a let- five | ter In the Navy in World War I, he ‘}L(‘?I\(-‘d an honorable discharge. ‘Shoxll'y after Pearl Harbor, he read | Mr..and Mrs, K. N. Neill have ar- that the Navy badly needed elec-, ;. ioan pegion, the Veterans cf| rived here from Fairbanks and are tricians. He enlisted and in spite |Foreign Wars, etc. A veteran! registered at the Baranof Hotel Of being over age was accepted. gy pave to be a member 10! Neill is an auditor for the CPA, and With only a minimum refresher| ... i proplem before any of Mrs. Neill is the former Mary Keith course, he was shipped to sea. In i, . gr;ups and the chances are Cauthorne, Territorial Health Nurse five months after his enlistment, | ¢ E: in this city, 1‘l|r\ was battling an oil slick in the (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Two) Liberators Are Reported in were.” |sud it that is what you'e after | Samuel and his crew of five men ! Four Raids on Islands /had made a small catch in Tolstol (7o SR R m‘:":wf;"::; f:; ilinni hen Samuel, Junior, said: 0' Phlh nes Pay hed P |place you put your line down you . _Rp § Hey T, ook gub-sheoe, i |will find halibut. I didn't see them | OENERAL HEADQUARTERE N, ~4u1el Senlor say /8 wa“’b Pcatch anythiog and pretty soon I THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Au :t.learing down., a6 h:‘gh speed BUb|pearg g giren roar and they took » 8. slowing up. Soon the waters were| .o g¢.. e aaniiieant five days and nights by Liberators fish as the President's "*‘“’l 0|10 minutes they were out of sight.” is announced today. 4”“"9" A speed boat came along-| gumyuel reaffirmed he believed side and an officer said: “Say,| |the Presid A 3000 ton Japanese freighter e President was on a destroyer | P |Captain, will you come alongside, | |though he heard his broadcast re- was sent down by a Liberator off " v and that's official? |ferring to the cruiser. The Presi- Mindeznao Island in Davao Gulf| i . I could see them dent’s flotilla went near Kitchikan early on Saturday. | Said Samuel: | The attack Saturday was also taking pictures of our boat. I think | at the dinner hour Thursday night| |giving no sign who was aboard. directed at the airfields at Davao.'I see somebody on the stern hold-| |The attack was made at predawn.|ing a rod and I think that is| Alaskans here recalled the Presi- Several coastal vessels were also funny but pretty soon, I see a little damaged. |black dog walking around the deck the summer of 1940 but cancelled —_—————— 10( the ship, then Dr. McIntyre his plans when France was over- BUY WAR BONDS appoan-d Mr. Roosevelt was sitting Tun. I chased '14.—The fourth Philippines raid incovered with speed boats looking for|yper at 10 knots an hour but in| dent’s wish to visit Alaska during| PINCERS OF ALLIES NOW BEING SHUT Eisenhower Says Greatest Victory in West Be- lieved Nearing BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQU ARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. l4.—American and Can- adian armor and infantry are tightening the death vise of the huge trap hoelding the cream of German forces in Northwestern Europe and nar- rowed the enemy escape exit to 15 miles between Falais and Argentan. It is officially said it will be a military miracle if the Germans should get out anywhere near whole and this will be the end of the German army in Normandy. PINCERS TIGHTENED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 14.—American, Brit- ish and Canadian forces, spurred by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's declaration they can score the greatest ‘victory in the west, drove furiously toward destruction of the cream of the German forces in Imost a complete trap in Normandy, Approximately 100,000 Germans, |a fourth of the entire force with which the Allles have come ‘n 1contact since D-Day, fought con- fused in a gruelling battle under a sky filled with Allies planes. The Nazis are trying to escape from the jaws of a pincers which is within 18 miles of closing. Eisenhower, in one of his rare |Orders of the Day, sent to all men You live in the Pacific Norta- a committee and study Alaska and of the armies and air naval forces, called it a “definite opportunity for a major Allied victory. “It may be grasped,” he said, “only through the utmost in zeal and de- |termination and speedy action.” The trap it sprung, it is disclosed, after five days of secrecy shrouded the operations west of Paris when powerful American armored and infantry spearheads sweeping in a 250-mile arc through Lemans con- |verged upon the German flank in the rear. A sudden twist north in !u swing took the Americans through Alcencon that sees Argentan- only |18 miles south of the Canadian |Pirst Army, five miles above Fal- aise and now sees the American armored hammer beating the Ger- mans against the Canadian-British “anvil” below Caen. NEW CABLESHIP FOR ALASKA IS NOW DELIVERED Joins Sister Vessel Laying Submarine Cables in Alaskan Waters SEATTLE, Aug. 14, — The new cableship Basil O. Lenoir has been |delivered to the Alaska Communi- cations system. | The ship was designed and builf |here and is a sister ship of the |Col. Willlam A. Glassford already \in successful operation in laying submarine cables in Alaska waters. PR R e s, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 14. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 6%, American Can 90%, Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft 10, Bethlehem' Steel 62, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester 78%, Kennecott 81%, North Amer- ican Aviation 8%, New York Central | 19%, Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 587%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.72; rails, 41.27; utilities, 24.82. northwest -Europe, caught “in ‘ale