The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1944, Page 1

RY CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD SEP22 1944 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9734. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1944 M} MBl:,R ASSOCIATED PRESS PR[CE TEN CENT“ FALL OF PARIS ONLY MATTER OF TIME Russians Smashing on to German Homeland WIDE FRONT U.S. Flag WavesAgain, Guam $0. FRANCE Rubble Chokes Sireets of War-forn Coufances YANKS PUT OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED Red Army Makes New Moves Preparatory to Entering Nazi Soil MOSCOW, Aug. 19—Two Soviet Armies surged forward in coordinat- | ed attacks against a 100-mile sector | stretching from Warsaw’s eastern | suburbs to the Lyso Mountams guarding German Silesia. Stalin’s Command timed the Pol- | | | 1 | | | 1 I LCont.mued on Page Six) Bjornsson Coming To U. S. for Talks WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Presi- dent Sveinn Bjornsson of Iceland | will come to Washington on Aug- ust 24 for meetings with President Roosevelt and State Department of- ficials. The Washington Merry - Go-Round | «s~By DREW PEARSON | @Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — Don't be sur-| prised if there is a blow-up brew-| ing in Japan not unlike that which nearly bumped off Mr. Hitler re- cently. This columnist has reason to believe that things are seething inside Japan right now and that the die is cast against the Fascist military clique at the top. | This young military clique repre-| sents something similar to the Nazis and Fascists of Germany and Italy—in fact, emulated them. De- manding a tough, cut-throat policy against China and the rest of the world, they came into power through assassination, will go out the same way—or through hari- Kkari. . It was groups of young Fascist officers who shot Tokyo's leading| moderates back in the days when| it was not yet definitely decided that Japan should conquer Asia. Now the moderates are able to say “I told you so,” and are begin-| ning to get the upper hand. | The Emperor probably will not be a victim of the revolutionary turmoil, for two reasons: (1) He is a moderate himself, never did 80| as far as the cut-throat young Fascists, was kept more or less a; palace prisoner by them; (2) he 15' better guarded than any other man | i | | | e —— 5 G4 Two Marines paused in the grim battle to gain a foothold on the beaches of Guam and raised “Old Glory” on a boat ho#k eight minutes after landing. For the first time Japs-seized the American base, the flag waved on this embatiled island. Marines pictured above as they posed for this historic shot (left), Brighton, Mass, and Captain |high ground west of La anu(,S‘ are: Captain Paul S. O’Neal Milton F. Thompsen, Upper Montclair, N. J., members of an amphi- Marine Corps Combat Photographer Milton bious tractor battalion. A. Ford recorded the scene. " SPEARHEAD EXTENDED | Paich’s Seventh Army in; & 1,000-Square-Mile Arga ~Smashing Toulon | ROME, Aug. 19.—Patch’s Se! Army, extending the Soul France spearhead to 1,000 A miles, has speared westward" to within 31 miles of Marseille and a drive flanking Toulon, also plunx- ed 32 miles inland. A broad drive is 20 miles legg north and behind Toulon, the | \ | i h | French | | | ! since December 10, 1942, when the SealinesNow Want To Take the Air; Big Headache of Postwar BRIMSTONE IS SMELLED BY MINISTER Fiery 0bje(fi3§ieved toBe! Meteor Hurtles Across Midwest Skies — A in the world. High walls, moats,| INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 19. trained, trusted body guards sur-|fiery object, believed to have been round him. Not even his personal a meteor, hurtled across Midwest tailor is permitted to touch him. |skies early Friday and a report that Unrest inside Japan has not had it is being sighted in a hundred time to be communicated to Jap troops at the front, nor is it nke-’ 1y to affect outside war areas much. The Jap soldier away from home‘ can be counted on to fight to the very end, because he:gannot come | home unless he is victorious. The‘ code of Bushido does not permit it. The big thing to watch, when and if things inside Japan reach| the boiling point, is the Jap fleeci Its officers will be faced with thé| alternative, under the code, of all committing suicide or sailing into the enemy, no matter what the odds against them, and fighting it out. Chances are it will be the latter| alternative. POST-WAR WOMEN The official record doesn't show| it, but South Dakota's Republican| Senator Chan Gurney made a memorable speech extolling wo- men’s part in the war during a meeting recently of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The committee was in secret session to consider the Kilgore bill on post- war economy, and Chan was ac- tually aiming at getting women out of industry after the war, but he opened up with this bit of chivalry:' (Continued on Page Four) places has plagued newspapers, po- lice, radio stations and military of- ficials. Startled witnesses from western | Ohio and Indiana, eastern Illinois |and northern Kentucky, are vari- | ously describing the phenomenon as a big explosion of silvery flags in a sky of plume black smoke, were agreed generally that its objected direction was westward. Its occurrence about 8:15 o’'clock | yesterday morning, a Hoosier house- | wife said, drove her chickens in a | frenzy. Ohioans phoned airports that a; plane was crashing and the Illinois police thought that a nitroglycerine | plane had exploded. A southern Indiana minister said that a meteor landed a quarter of a mile from his automobile and wrote the description for a newspaper, en- titled “Preacher Smells Brimstone.” ———e——— HERE FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Webster ar- rived here yesterday from Sitka and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. . ELSIE SMITH BACK Elsie May Smith has arrived in Juneau from a supervisory tour of Child Care Centers at Yakutat and Cordova. She will be a guest at fhe Baranof for a few days, before pro- ceeding to Metlakatla, By POPE HALEY (During Jack Stinnett’s vaca- tion, this column is being writ- ten by members of the Washing- | ton staff of The Associated Press.) } WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—One of the bigger headaches in the huge | problem of post-war reconversion will be the job of refereeing the mad | scramble of overseas carriers, sur-| face and air, for favorable positions in peace-time commerce. Preliminary jockeying is already | under way, and friends of the mer- chant marine in the industry, in the executive departments and in Con- gress are sparing no pains to see that surface shipping is not left at | the post. ‘What they fear most is that the {overseas air carriers will win the “rir.zht to operate, get the equipment {and entrench themselves firmly with | the cream of the business before the | government ever returns surface shipping to private hands. | Even with an equal start, air cnr—l {riers would have the advantage be- | cause of the enormous delay involved in reconverting ships now in war | service to peace-time uses. | Scme of the slower, bulk cargo carriers could be put into service | comparatively quickly, but vessels |in the luxury cargo and passenger ,servxce would require months, to say | nothing of thousands of dollars, to | get ready. As one way of meeting that prob- lem, many of the established do- mestic shipping companies are seek- |ing to come in on an equal footing with all other applicants before the Civil Aeronautics Board, when it begins hearings in September, for certificates to operate airlines over- seas. It is their hope thus not only to protect their established trade rela- tionships abroad, but to use the air in the future as an auxiliary arm of their shipping service. Lined up in strong support of the | naval base which was, bombed yesterday by American | planes. The latest announcement from |the front places the American and | Canadian forces only six miles | northeast of Toulon and other ad- |vance units are reported speeding over a network of inland roads pointed directly toward the Rhone | Valley. The farthest inland town eap- tured is Salernes, 32 miles from the coast and 35 miles northwest of Toulon. The farthest western town | seized is Ia Roques Brussane, 3! miles from Marseille. Bormes has been met, but lnl b - SWORN IN AS NEW opposition is less. American for= ward elements are pressing Every member of the Council, including Mayor | Hayes, is now a special emergency | police officer with power to make | arrests. M. E. Monagle, City At~ | torney, administered the oath and { speclal badges are to be ordered for this new law enforcement organiza- tion. This action was taken un- —eee - p E p p E R E D | animously at the regular City Coun- | cil meeting last night. | It was explained that there are Bv BOMBERS many occasions arising where im- | mediate arrests are necessary and |several instances were brought up at the meeting, showing where a councilman with authority could have acted in the absence of a ' regular police officer. It was announced that contractors \in the city will be notified of the Made by Air Fleet at - Pa(lh( PO"“S completion of the new uniform building code books, which are at UNITED STATES PACIFIC|the office of the City Engineer and FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN may be viewed at any time. into Brussane. Allied bombers are again bomb- ing Toulon in an attempt to re- duce gunfire. Other Extensive Raids Are |PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 19- —lebu-'onntracLurfi will be asked to Jltend ators hit Iwo Jima in the Volcano | the September. 15 Council meeting | Islands Wednesday and other planes’ for the purpoese of offering pros and peppered Nippon positions in me,com in regard to the new cods and Marianas and Caroline groups. | also to discuss the possibility of their American fighters strafed and being required to post an assurity bombed gun positions and air’strips|Pond and to take out a licens at Rota. The Council granted permi: A number of grounded aircraft the Royal Blue Cab Company to were destroyed and fires started amoperate a onev-cm‘ stand between the Ceram, about 300 miles soumwnstlhoms of 8 o'colck in the morning : and 6 o'clock in the evening in oL Amprican hel Bemitoor. front of the Occidental Bar on South Franklin Street and to main- | . annihilation fast ¥ R This street in Coutances, France, is choked with rubble from shell-shattered billdings, reveged Ghfing the swift advance of American forces on the western flank of the Allies’ Normandy Jine. sociated Press photographer in the War Picture Poo |, made this Picture. (AP Wirephoto) French in Ch APPROACHING NAZI ARMY ‘Germans Stampede in i Wild Panic as Nor- | mandy Trap Closes . Al | { By Rl)(;l‘lt (-llEE\lF ON THE BRITISH FRONT, Aug. 19.—~The doomed German Seventh Army is squeezed ‘into two thinly| connected peninsulas in the Nor- mandy trap, with the hour of final approaching Masses of Nazi troops, tanks, horse drawn guns, and transport stam- peded eastward, still hoping to find the escape gap open after running the gauntlet of murderous fire on both flanks. “We are beating up on the Ge Go Mad with Joy; Beal Up (ollaborallomsls DEATHHOURIS SPEARHEADS SEINE RIVER Western France BatfleNow Assumes Proportion of Real Rout LONDON, Aug. 19. — American spearheads have reached Seine Riv- | er points, 27 and 42 miles northwest of Paris, in a slashing offensive. The Berlin radio says these spear- heads threaten to close off the re- | treat of the fleeing Germans below the river and cut off Paris. The western France battle has assumed proportions of a rout. The Berlin radio savs the fall of Paris is only a matter of time and asserted American tanks are clash- ing south of Paris with the German | “Security Forces,” and other Am- erican units are roaming within 12 miles of Paris. Thirty-eight hundred vehicles of | the Germans fleeing northward and | westward have been destroyed by Allied planes and the Nazis are | making the getaway on foot. There is no confirmation to Ger- | man reports that American spear- heads have reached Nantes and Vernon but if true it means Patton’s tank columns are building a series of pockets south of the almost bridgeless Seine. | The Germans are wlthdnwlnz from the Normandy coast. The Allies are beaun§ down the coast in pursuit. L The Canadians have thrown three bridgeheads across the Lavie River at points 14 miles east and 20 miles | southeast of Caen. PAA EXECUTIVE CAN'T GET SEAT ON OWN AIRLINE Pan American Airways Juneau [traffic manager Ray Harrington is Isum battles. Snipers were ferreted Making the company's new policy out. One hundred and fifty resist- (Of first-come-first-served stick, ance leaders seized arms and began |Since, August 1 the company has attacking the Germans early in the |been back on commercial opera- evcmm, as the Americans assaulted | tion. | the town's defense perimeter with| Sydney Smith, Traffic Manager anti-tank guns, |for the Alaska Division from Seat- Five resistance patriots were kill- tlc arrived here Thursday evening !ed in running street fights with the expecting to go south by plane the ‘l.m 100 Germans in Chartres. Gen- \next morning. However other | darmes were busy restraining men, \nameg were on the list and Har- \wmurn and ChUdren in this city fif‘r{ngzon refused to give the com- {25,000 They surged around the pany executive space. Smith left ates of the iron barred Prefecture. ‘by boat yesterday. Another PAA | Each new German prisoner was man, Robert Jordan, section main- | marched into the enclosure and | [tenance superintendent, got as far greeted by jeers, catcalls and derisive | s yuneau on his way south and looking ks punch-drunh bamees |00 WL jho pikea Gl | private passenger whose name was showed their fear of the crowd and | walked silently through a storm cf‘::u:r?sb;"’;;t:" Jondan; Al ey | outeries, periodically broken by th . [Ta . Mavsoiliaise suymz with irifii Smith has a priority card issued from Washington but didn’t show |fervor by the French men and women. |it to Harrington until the boat was | Peter J. Carroll, As- arlres By HAL BOYLE CHARTRES, Aug, 16.—(Delayed) Frencii mobs, celebrating the end of four years of Nazi rule, ran mad | with freedom today. The townspeople beat up Collab- | crationists and shaved the heads of 30 women who consorted with the | German troops. | There were clashes and bloody | Mrs. Ail Sails South To Meet Captain Mate A surprise telephone call from San Francisco this week caused Mrs. Irving Ail to pack her clothes and leave immediately for the South, where she will have a chance to be with her husband, Capt. Ail, for| the first time in three years. Capt. Ail, of the U. S. Army infantry, has been in the* Southc‘ Pacific for nearly three years, tak-| ing part in most *of the big battles there, including Tarawa, Munda, and Guadalcanal. He has been re- turned to the continent for hos- pitalization, although it is under- stood he has not been wounded. Captain and Mrs. Ail plan to meet in Portalnd, Oregon., their former home. She has been making | her home in Juneau during his ab- sence, helping her father, H. J. Yurman, in the fur store. —————— ‘The motorship Patricia is back from its regular run to Skagway. Mae industry in that plan are Adm. E. 8. Land, Maritime Commission Chair- (Continued on Page Six) Stephenson was a passenger to' Haines and Bessie Couture to Skag- way. There were no incoming pas- sengers, |tain a two-car stand at that place | | between 6 o'clock at night and 8 o’clock in the morning. The request for this was made by the company | |mans, and it’s a terrible beating,”| One courtyard was full of hair- pumng out. British headquarters officer de- | sheared collaborationists, who had| No priorities are needed now to clar(‘d { consorted with the Germans. Each ifly south by PAA because of increased business in that | section of the city and to relieve| ran riot against the fleeing enemy,|placed in a chair and their heads the congestion at their main office. isouth of Falaise, shooting up 150 shaved by a barber who said, “hc Director of the Territorial Denan_‘lldn\port vehicles. Al along the makes no charge.” ment of Public Welfare, Ru“pulinmt carnage is reported tremend- , Most of the women went lhrough Maynard, was present at the meet- |OUS. Hundreds of enemy corpses the ordeal silently and stolid, their ing and expressed the appxeuauonmn- littering the roads, fields and | heads like newborn pelicans. One | of his department for the city's hills. | 18-year-old girl ran behind a door | contribution in the past in providing! One British staff officer “T no mother, no father. space in the City Hall for the Ju- |dicted a German retreat to a nar- I fllnn(‘ neau Welfare Office. The office has rower front, declaring, “I don't | mans.” now been moved to its new location | |think the Boche can stop at the| “She lies,” said one woman, in the Krafft Building at Second | |Seine.” | The “shave-heads” were later led | DAL, s T | through the streets. BIGEXPLOSION, cxcere snoc ‘STREETS 10 BE AT TEE HARBOR FIRE INJURE 30§ WASHED SUNDAY The cohoes are in at Tee Har- PH!LADELP}TXA Aug. 19, :gr' 3"“’“{‘3 l“:d this dae;;on Jbu‘z‘senes of terrific explosions of drums | The paved slrret sm.uon of the| ats out from Mr. and Mrs. JACK: ;e magnesium toucned off a five- | | | city will be given a washing dowr Donahue's place this week had g00d | 10 fire at the Guaker City Iron v i U Spwm | luck. bunday morning starting at 4: 30/ | Works, rocked buiizings and shat- Mike Wade, six-year-old son of|t.ped windows in a two-block area | o'clock. Chief of Police John Mon- | Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wade, caught| pre- | and sobbed: .- — COHOES RUNNING I not been with the Ger-‘ Tanks of a single British brigade! new suspect was dragged in and ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 19—~In a | Labor Day Proclamation, Gov. | Thomas E. Dewey asserted that if the wartime restrictions on’labor | are left in the hands of the Gov- i ernment after hostilities cease they | could “totally end the right of col- | lective bargaining.” \ Dewey, who was criticized recently by Phillp Pearl, AFL publicist, for \decnmng to furnish the AFL a pecial Labor Day message, issued whis proclamation 16 days lheld of \the holiday. o e DIVORCES GRANTED Divorces have been granted by Judge George F. Alexander of the today. The blasts were heard b(‘v<‘agle issues a warning to aulolats four on Thursday, out fishing with his dad who also caught several. One boat yesterday caught five in tlhe afternoon and several boats have bmuzht in eight, eral miles away. there will be no parking permitted ! Fuitly orens war taken {g hos- from 4:30 ouockpunnl the job of bl Dh‘trlct 3,0‘::: o 0‘:‘ My | pitals, suffering from burns. All| Campen from Willlam F. Campen, but one were discharged after ,e_,wnshmg the streets has been wm-land Geraldine M. Torgerson from | ceiving treatment, ! pleted, Ernest A. Torgerson,