The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. XLIL, NO. 9736. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESD AY, AUGUST 22, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS . PRICE TEN CENTS U, COLUMNS STRIKE DOWN SEINE RIVER “Toulon Naval Base Is Shelled From Land, Sea Establishing So. Francg Beachhead FRENCH IN PORT, HOUSE, HOUSE FIGHT| Isolation of Marseille Is Nearly Completed-Am- ericans Move Inland ROME, Aug. 22—French troops | of the Seventh Army have fully en- circled Toulon by land, cutting the last escape route of the German garrison forces still resisting inside the fixed fortifications of the big Mediterranean nival base. The Allied naval armada offshore | and land batteries on the north are hurling shells against the enemy | strong points. The French through the outskirts of the south- tC:mtimu,;d on Page Si;\ The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREW W PEARSON @, Col. Roben 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) ‘WASHINGTON— The four-power conference that opened at Dum- barton Oaks yesterday holds more | i promise for making this “the war to_end wars” thsn any_event sinze Versallles. -Bub it starts with two strikes against it; tough sleeding. Strike No. 1 is Dewey’s blast against the conference. ! Cordell Hull, it is true, has not sufficiently consulted smaller na-| tions. But conscientiously, sincqre- ly, though belatedly, he is trying to carve out an international ma- chine to keep the peace after this war. He began late, was pushed into it by men like Sumner Welles, Rep. Fulbright and the B2 and H2 Sen- ators. Nevertheless, Mr. Hull is now in deadly earnest, should be given a chdnce to do his best with-| out too much political boat-rocking. Strike No. 2 is old-fashioned su- perficial diplomacy, which puts more emphasis on picayune for- malities than on heading off the possibility that the youth of the world may go to war again. Already the old-fashioned diplo- mats have begun jockeying. Rus- sia had felt that a conference of this kind was so important, it should be handled by the top men of the world—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin. . Secretary Hull, however, wanted it to be a conference of Foreign Ministers, somewhat: like that which he attended in Moscow last fall. In the end, since Stalin, Roosevelt, et al., are not doing the job, the Russians are represented by a virtual diplomatic messenger, Soviet Ambassador Gromyko, al- ready stationed in Washington. Prior to this, the Chinese were to be represented by one of their leading diplomats, Victor Hu, long- time Chinese delegate to the Lea- gue of Nations. But when they heard the Russians would only be represented by Gromyko, the Chi- nese decided also to be represented by their Ambassador in Washing- ton. In other words, they didn’t want to play the conference up one diplomatic notch higher than the Russians. As a result of this jockeying, the State Department feels that Secre- tary Hull, being a Foreign Minister, |. should not deal with lesser lights across the same table, that this should be done by Undersecretary of State Ed Stettinius. Hull, there- fore, will make speeches at the opening and closing of the con- ference but will not be active in| the day-to-day sessiones, where the real peace plan will be born. NOTE—On the desk which the | Undersecretary of State will ““’un Sunday but American artillery the barracks on Willoughby Ave. at Dumbarton Oaks, home of Am- bassador Robert Woods Bliss, young . Stettinius found this card: “Trust| dred and Robert W. Bliss. | RUSSIAN PEACE PLAN { Actually, the Russians are report- infantry advanced | will have very; | | the largest bridge of its type A clipping from the Sicilian editi Hellywood actress Dolores Moran (AP erevhntn] Dolores Wins New Honor have named her their “Rocket Launcher, Mmmmm-1" M-1 1) is the classification given to most government army equipment. RED TROOPS STORMOVER BUG RIVER Russians Ca_ph_lre 50 Vil- lages in Furious Bat- fle for Warsaw MOSCOW, Aug. 22, — Russian | troops stormed across the Bug River, northeast of Warsaw, in a grave new flanking threat to the prolonged siege of the Polish capital and bat- tled the hastily mustered German | reserves on the west bank of the | river. The forcing of the Bug which . | flows into the Vistula, 28 miles above Warsaw, posed as a threat to cross | the larger river. | Rokossovsky's regrouped and re- | inforced armies pushed two Russian columns toward the confluence of the streams. He pushed against | furious German counterattacks and recaptured 50 villages in what ap- peared to be the most serious threat to Warsaw in nearly two weeks. Another retreat around Warsaw was in the Sandomierz region across the Vistula, 100 to 110 miles south- | east. There was a survival of only 1500 prisoners in the final killing | of 12,000 in the Sandomierz trap where three divisions were encircled. This was considered a confirmation of the great shrinkage of Hitler's diyisions. The Germans won back the land conneetion where two battered Bal- tic armies have been isolated for i three weeks between Estonia and Latvia, but from advices it is indi- cated that the enemy may use the corridor for an escape attempt to | East Prussia, rather than for rein- forcement. The enemy’s Baltic breakthrough was announced by the Russian mid- night communique and said that under a hail of German tank and infantry attacks, Bagramian's troops on of Stars and Stripes informed (above) this week that soldiers (Model DOUGHBOYS CATCH NALIS BY SURPRISE Americansfi;e— Commando Tactics=Death Blows Before Breakfast By HAL BOYLE WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SEINE RIVER, Aug. 21.—(Delayed) —American doughboys, in an opera- tion which caught the Nazis com- pletely by surprise, have established a solidified bridgehead ‘across the vital Seine River, 25 miles northwest of Paris. The first troops crossed by ferry assault boats Saturday night in the vicinity of Nantes and Glassincourt, | and are now so firmly entrenched | that there is no fear of a Nazi counterattack. “We are all set and waiting for | the dash with plenty of the same | artillery that they met before,” as-| serted Lt. Col. A. C. Dorhman of | Seward, Nebraska, who related thaf | eight German 88's, overlooking the, landings, were outflanked and cap- | tured in the first hours of the at- tack. Capture of the German guns was accomplished quickly by the‘ doughboys, who slipped through the night and surprised the Germans at breakfast, killing all but a few. who fled on bicycles and in stolen | civilian autos, readzing that the | spearhead had threatened their re- | treat at all except by hodgepodge elements by which the Nazis have| ibeen ecaping across the Seine. The Nazis began to move in troops | | | took them under fire and the | counterattack did not develop. One | German who surrendered said that | 75 per cent of his company had' been slain. The Seine crossing was made on —a (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Thiee) 1 Japs Appar;fiiy Abandon, | | without the withdrew to “more favorable posi- tions,” after abandoning Tukums, where they plunged to the sea, 33| miles west of Riga, on August 1. WIDE AREA & &0 S.W.PACIFIC FLORENCE IS BOMBED. IN HANDS Molucas - Path Being | (learedtoPhilippines GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN| THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.| 22—It is announced the heaviest| bombing attacks yet on Moluccas| pletely Occupied by Eighth Army Forces ROME, Aug. 22. — Florence has land the nearby Boeroe Island have been completely occupied by Allied | |been made. Shortly after, Gen.|troops and Eighth Army pav.ruls Douglas MacArthur asserted that |are now pushing out beyond the the disappearance of the Jap air'famous art center'’s northern out- | |strength from Moluccas will facili-|skirts, Alexander's headquarters an- |tate the advance to the Philippines nounced. “necessity of costly’ Explaining the delay in ousting| frontal attacks to clear the way.” xthe enemy opposition in the north- | Eight Jap planes were caught onlern edges of Florence, the Allied the ground and destroyed on the Command said that “troops of the| Boeroe Island. |Eighth Army forced their way into| Other attacks were made on the|the city before the enemy was LDm- dwindling shipping supply lanes of pelled to withdraw from the town the Japs and -nine Jap freighters,/by our continuous pressure on his| Street fighting inevitably | transports and coastal vessels were flanks. !sunk or badly damaged. had broken out, but by skill and Ten barges were also probably‘pnnence the city has fallen into |destroyed in raids that ranged over‘our hands and extensive damagc an area from' the Dutch East 1n-‘avolded, apart from demolitions ef- dies to the Philippines. |fected by the enemy.” The Japs offered no aerial re-| The German communique said sistance at any point. Liberators|that the Allies in a mounting new |dropped 110 tons of bombs on Hal-|offensive in the Adriatic sector of !mahera and 95 tons on Boeroe. Italy captured several heights. ———o————— The Alliest are near eastern out- SALVATION ARMY IN posts of the Gothic line south of NEED, OLD CLOTHING | Rimini. ‘The Salvation Army is making an | appeal for old clothing and anyone RUMANIAN (l" having articles may leave them at GABRIELSON ON TRIP LONDON, Aug. 22. — Iasi, the Dr. Ira Gabr‘lelson Director of the |fourth largest city in Rumania, has |been evacuated before the fresh Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska, | flew to Ketchikan yesterday on an|Russian offensive in the south. official trip. He is expected to re-| The Russians are plunging north-| turn here before the end of the ward making large areas of the week Balkans untenable, OF ALLIES Sirategic Clly Now Com-| NOW EVACUATED | | and dlspluvlng a hurrie ALLIES MAKE GAINS; PUSH - ON 10 MILES Belgian and Duch Units Are 'Now Reporfed in Fighting in France Late afternoon LODON, Aug. 22.- Amcrican infantrymen debark from head east of Toulon in the southern France invasion. 'iKamerad.’Yell Comered ‘e'é!'ma"s | | | | { advices from the French front state | that American, British and Can- adian armies have enveloped a de- | | cided push and gained up to 10 miles and are reported in the Paris : The Americans met heavy then the area. resistance at Etampes, Berlin radio announced has been evacuated. Etampes | The Allies have also established a | bridgehead across the Seine at Fon- | | tainebleau. Belgian units, for the first time | announced as on' the French front | engaged- with the Allies, have taken Cabourg. Dutchmen are afso in the fighting and are reported fighting on the outskirts of Houlgate. ——————— WISCONSIN MAN HERE M. O. Ewald, of Milwaukee, Wis- consin, has registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel, Tijs group o Aazs, in a French town cast of dly made white flag of mrrender to the Americans. AWVS Meehng W||I Be Held Tomorrow The regular momhl" meeting of lhv American Women's Voluntary bervices will he held tomorrow after- noon beginning at 2 o'clock at the Governor’s House. All contributions of home-made cookles which are to be sent to| | servicemen in the remote Aleutian bases will be accepted at this Imw | it was nnnoumed NAZIS SURRENDER BORDEAUX SECTION . American Motorized Col- umns Indicated South of Loire River IRUN, Spain, Aug. 22—One thou- sand German troops are surrender- ing to the expanding French Vol- lunteer Army surrounding the Bor- deaux area as American motorized columns are closing in from the north, according to advices received here this afternoon at this bor- der town. This is the first word reaching neutral Spain tbat the Americans have penetrated south of the Loire River. French Volunteer Forces are also |of ‘w-ymrtwl to have liberated Bayonne. | an LCI nnd plod through chest-high water to an Ilnopposrd bench- | | i | i ! ! | PETAIN 18 ARRESTED | BY GESTAPO Hero of Verdun, Head of | | Vichy Government, Is Seized, Spirited Away GENEVA, Aug. 22. — German secret police have arrested Marshal Petain, 88-year-old “Chief of State,” at his residence headquar- | ters in the Hotel du Parc, Vichy Marshal Petain, hero of Verdun| in the first World War, and head | the German dominated Vichy Government in France since 1940, is reported to have been seized Monday morning along with number of associates, Gen. Bridoux, Vichy War Secretary; Admiral Ble- haut, General Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Bernard Minetrel, Sec- retary to Petain. Reports from the French under- ground said the Mauis were attack- ing Vichy about the time the| arrests of Petain and others were made. The action of the Gestapo seem- A(‘unlmm‘(l «m Page T!:ieev a 'AMERICANS IN SWEEPS IN FRANCE Gigantic PE?ers Trap Is Nearly Completed-En- emy Tanks Destroyed BULLETIN —LONDON, Aug. 22.—French forces in the inter- ior have rolled up light artillery into a battle inside Paris and attacked the Germans on de la Republique boulevard, according to a report from the Algiers radio and Marquis and Germans are locked in fierce fighting in- side the old Maginot Line at Belfort where Laval scurried from Vichy with unarrested Ministers to establish a seat for the Nazi-controlled French Gov- ernment. Algiers radio also reports the Germans are moving 20,000 to 30,000 troops from interior France to Belfort to defend that gateway to the Rhineland, now threatened by the Americans from southern France. More than half of all France, 212,000 square miles, is now under control of the Allies or Pariots. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. B‘J—Amerium col- umns. struck powerfully d | Seine River and three other mr ed | armies wheeled iniand from the west {in a gigantic new pincers trap on | the battered and disorganized Ger- mans fleeing over the bridgeless river. This new cutoff is revealed by headquarters, Twelve hundred enemy tanks have | been destroyed or.damaged sinece | D-Day. Field dispatches indicate that more than 300,000 Germans have been put out of -action in western France since June 6, the | Argentan-Falaise pocket yielding at | least 100,000 Germans killed, cap- tured or wounded. According to the best available | information, the American Third | Army in 21 days of the vast speedy | flanking operations have accounted for more than 100,000 more. The American Third Army has nounded northwestward along the looping Seine from the bridgehead at Nantes, 25 miles from Pari§, bringing in the eastern arm of the | pincers upon the German Seventh {sArmy remnants stumbling back to the Seine and seeking to escape by | ferries, small boats or even swim- | ming. —————————— —FILIPINO CANNERY WORKER ATTEMPTS ' DOUBLE SUICIDE In a double attempt to end his life, Adriano Cabarloc, 40-year-old Filipino cannery worker at Taku, this morning slashed his abdomen |and a few hours later made an ef- (on to drown himself by attempting to jump from the Libby, McNeill and |leby tender when it docked in { Juneau. | The victim was taken to St. Ann's | Hospital, where he underwent an | operation, and his condition this afternoon is not satisfactory. Apparently in ill health, Cabarloc left Seattle for the Taku cannery about May 23, and is reported to | have been suffering from a cold and | insomnia since his arrival there. About 3 o'clock this morning he slashed his abdomen in an attempt ! to take his life and was immediately | brought to Juneau on the cannery | tender Maira. Upon arriving here, | he again attempted suicide but fail- | ed when he was stopped by the boat crew as he tried to jump from the | vessel into the channel. | ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE AVAILABLE NOW People lenvlns Juneau and who me not return before September 12 are reminded that ehrentee hallnts |for the General Eletcion now arg | available in the office of U. 8. Com~ * missioner Felix Gray.