The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1944, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - —— VOL. XLIL, NO. 9737. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FRENCH CAPTURE CITY OF PARI YANKS IN INDUSTRIAL CITY OF GRENOBLE SPEARHEAD '—flnishmenl for French Collaborationist ~ |ATTACKS ARE LENGTHENED BY ADVANCE : Joining of Allied Fronts Ex- pected Soon as Result of 7th Army Thrust BULLETIN—ROME, Aug. 23. —Allied troops have entered Marseille, the great port, the second city in France to have fallen withou! much resistance, Allied Headquarters announced tonight. The Germans are con- tinuing to hold out at Toulon. ROME, Aug. 23—American troops | of the Seventh Army in a spec- tacular surprise thrust deep into Southern France through the Ger- man defenses, have entered the | large industrial city of Grenoble, 140 airline miles north of the Medi- terranean coast. Allied headquarters said that a swift American armored motorized infantry column plunged into the city, long a hotbed of the French | patriot movement, with “French Forces in the Interior playing an (Continued on- Page: Siz>- A Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans sh felds his face with his hands to ward off the biow from the fist of an aroused citizen of Rennes. The ¢ ollaborater was forced to kneel in the street and shout STEPPED UP, 5.W. PACIFIC Fight Large Jap Vessels, | Five Small Craft, 26 | Barges Sent Down GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN| | MTHE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. |123—A record 135 ton raid against ©!|Halmahera and the wrecking of {'eight large Jap vessels, five small I icoastal ships and 28 barges, mark- §“;(»d the new strikes on enemy tar-| gots south and egst of the Philip- pines. |!' One Liberator, patroling over €| Davao on the Gulf of Mindano, ' barely missed an 8,000 ton freighter while over the area Monday. The Liberator dropped two bombs, one .at the side of the big vessel and | the other astern. fi. Aerial attacks have been stepped up on Molucca Islands and Liber- ;ators and Mitchells smashed key defenses with a record bomb on- ught on enemy installations. The | | | 1 | | v omb record is now 225 tons. —— - G Rumania Is Out of War; Peace Terms of Russia Accepted; With Allies from the Axis camp and this was later confirmed by the broadcasting of a proclamation by the King who said all citizens | must rally around the throne | and fight against the enemy. The King announced the res- ignation of Premier Antonescu and a new national government will be formed headed by Gen. Konstantin Sanatescu. BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 23.—Rumania, declared a Buch- arest broadcast tonight, has ac- . cepted the Russian peace terms and has swung over to the Allied camp and the new Red Army now drives into the richest and most turbulent of Balkan States. The important decision an- nounced by the Bucharest radio said Rumania has withdrawn LIBERATED; FREETOWN French Forces of Interior | Descend on German | Garrisioned Village OFFENSIVEIS NOW AIMED ATRUMANIA Red Army Only 180 Miles from Bucharest-Popu- |ajion in Panic NAZIS ARE SWEPT OUT OF PARIS Shackles of Four Years Shaken Loose-German Bonds Are Smashed LONDON, Aug. 23.—Paris today shook loose the shackles of four years of enemy bondage and stood free once more, liberated by armed and unarmed tens of thousands of Frenchmen who swept the Nazis from the city's streets while the American armored might drew up around the capital city. A special communication from De- Gaulle's headquarters in London an- nounced liberation of Paris after four days of street fighting that recalled the scenes of Bastille Day when mobs in Paris once before struck the historic blow for liberty. This time, the special communique said, the fight was led by 50,000 organized French forces of the in- terior bolstered by thousands of more Frenchinen who joined in the big cleanup with whatever weapons they could find. Dramatic Announcement t was The dramatic anpouncement | touched off by broadcasts to French- 'men everywhere as the triumphant | strains of “La Marseillaise” sounded again with the news of the French victory. the praises of the Allied leaders after American {roops captured the capital ‘of Brifany and started the | Vi b drive to seal off the Breton Peninsula. (AP Wirepho to via Signal Corps Radio,) ‘ 3RD 'Nv ASION i | MOSCOW, Aug. 23—A new Red | By KENNETH L. DIXON Army offensive, probably designed| WITH THE FRENCH MAQUIS | to knock Rumania out of the war OVER 100 MILES INLAND FROM }nnd break Hitler’s grip on the Bal-| THE RIVIERA BEACHHEAD, Aug. - FOSTER, MIZE SOUTH in the lower TO CONFER WITH FHA To confer with Federal Housing Agency officials in connection with the rehabilitation of the town of Hoonah, recently destroyed by fire, Don Foster, General Superintend- ent of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, flew to Seattle via PAA. Foster was accompanied by Ralph Mize, Construction Engineer for the Indian Service. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — General Lucius Clay made a startling admission at last week's secret session of the Truman (now Mead) Committee. He admitted that, aside from about 100 types of articles, the War De- partment did not have a record of the quantity of supplies it had sent to the front. In other words, huge quantities of supplies may be piling up at the front without the Army know- ing how much is in various the- atres. General Clay said that the Army’s policy was to keep forward- ing regular quantities of supplies at regular intervals, regardless of what' was already there. Senators point- ed out that this was in contrast to General Pershing’s policy in the last war of keeping check on all materiel. Clay’s admission came out dur- ing a Senatorial inquiry into whether the Army had enough supplies to permit some civilian production. One controversial point was whether the Army now has suf- ficient small arms on hand to last five years, as contended by WPB| experts V. Lewis Bassie and Irving Kaplan, who resigned when their report on war supplies was sup- pressed. General Clay contended that the estimate of five years' supply of small arms was erroneous. “We have small arms on hand to last between 19 months and two years,” he countered. “General,” asked alert Senator Kilgore of West Virginia, “does that take into consideration the small arms at the front?” “We also have enough for about 100 days at the front,” General Clay replied. “And how much do you have in (Continued on Page Four) Horrible Massacres byi " (ollaborationisis and Germans AreRevealed WITHOUT JAP OPPOSITION bined American Press LA ROGUE BRUSSANNE, France, Aug. 21.—(Delayed) — Any question as to how Vichyites will/ be treated in postwar France has| {been disclosed by stories told bv’f Ivan Koleff, Chief of the Military | Section under the French Forces of the Interior—stories of brutal il. | massacres hich Vicl Central Approach fo Phil- e v ¥, 0 ) ippines IS B|asfed politicians helped organize last | | month. Koleff said the Germans and Without Fight i TRAP BEING TIGHTENED s cLAIMED 0 NJA Z l S‘ Landings Reflrled Made in Area of Bordeaux, Southwestern Area [ LONDON, Aug. 23. — A third Rout Along Steel-Swept lower Sei"e River French invasion and landing, strik- e ling in southwestern France near SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF | Bordeaux, is reported according to THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | advices from the Spanish frontier. FORCES, Aug. 23.—Allied columns | The landings began last night hammered in today to fighten the under cover of a naval and aerial trap on the Germans falling back in | bombardment. “rout” along the steel-swept lower | Seine River, spearing deep within enemy area below Paris in menac- ing new swift drives. Germans Are Said fo Be in! Dispatches by cable from Charles | Foltz, Chief of the Associated Press | Bureau in Madrid, who crossed the | border into southern France after Some advance units are only 160 the Germans evacuated frontier miles from the German border. One | posts, claims authentic the news of American armored column plunged the third invasion of France. FRENCH LAND, 1capital and the largest Baltic States | ‘ Advancing over the bodies of 25,- the men of Maquis stormed the vil- U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 23 —Army heavy bombers, bas- ed in the Marianas, raided Yap, guarding the central approach to the Philippines, for the second time emy opposition. However, the Liberators that struck at Truk ran into Jap fighter opposition which overcame them as they returned to base after accom- plishing their mission, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announces. Actions are also reported of an- on Sunday without encountering en- | Vichy, Militia attacked three smalljbeyond Sens, 58 miles Southeast of | French Forces of the Interior out-! paris about 160 miles from the posts with a brigade. ['frontier between Sens and Paris. The French fought back as long| Lieut, Gen. Patton’s Third Army |as possible, then retreated to the|is operating in the woods in this {forests where the Germans feared |section near Fontainebleay. |to follow and instead the altackers} The Americans have thrown a |seized hostages in the villages, at | bridgehead across the upper Secine the advice of the collaborators. | River. Bodies of the hostages were found later, eyes gouged out, hands cut| ¢ o K off then stuck in the pockets of | Canadian and British troops have g | scored recent advances of from 10 | rlothing, ALK {to 15 miles in chase of the battered Henry Bertolicei, Chief of the|German Seventh Army which is run- |FFI political section, verified the|ning toward the lower Seine from Advances Scored | Half an hour after Foltz sent his | last dispatch, Berlin reported “small | forces” put ashore near St. Jean | de Luz, six miles from the frontier, | lying between Hendaye and Biarritz. A Stockholm dispatch said Allies | have landed at Bordeaux, and op- | erations with the French forces | are being coordinated. | i CANNONADING HEARD | | IRUN, Aug. 23. — The sound of | distant bombing and cannonading {in southwestern France can be plainly heard in this Spanish front- other raid on Nauru and an attack story which is only one of scores the disastrous Falaise trap. + ier town but a heavy fog masks all kans, smashed forward on a 150-';21 Delayed) —High mile front beyond Iasi to within 180!Alps the French Forces of the In- miles of jittery Bucharest and 155 terfor came out of the brush and miles of the Ploesti oil center. Iwoods, from which they get the | The official German broadcast’ name “Maquis,” and descended on said that the Russians had reached the German garrjsoned village of ithe beaches of Riga, the Latvian'gpite. Today the town is liber- |ated ofter four years. | Nearly a thousand prisoners were | taken in and around the town when city, indicating a new trap for the German 16th and 18th armies. 000 Germans slain in three violent |lage at sundown and obviously sur- days while 12,000 others trudged | rounded most of the Germans, who wearily back to prison cages, Red |surrendered following conferences Army groups under Generals Malin- | with Americans working with the ovsky and Tolbukhin drove within|prench Forces of the Interior. 51 miles of the mouth of the Dan-| However, one group of Army Ges- ube. tapo personnel decided to fight it The Russians are gradually out- out behind barriers in the village flanking Warsaw and splitting the|square. Led by a 20-year-old pat- German forces between Warsaw and |iot, who had been liberated only East Prussia. The Russians moved |#* minute before from the Gestapo 15 miles southeast of Lomza, a com- |prison where he had been scheduled munications hub. ilo hang the following morning, the Desperate German attempts to Maquis charged the barriers, storm- salvage her Baltic positions brought |ed over them beneath the covering new tank attacks in the direction fire of their comrades, and rushed of Jelgava which controls road and into the building to which the Ger- rail routes to Latvia. |mans withdrew. Bucharest is reported in panic,| During the whole attack I saw and many of Premier Antonescu put two casualties. One German supporters are openly discussing|was shot a few yards to my left chances of suing for peace. as he was being marched back a P | prisoner, and another was shot as iclose on my right; both apparently . | | {hit by their comrades, who had as |yet not surrendered. After the celebration and eclipse of the garrison we found only eight wounded or killed from the whole attack. — e No word has been feceived of- ficially whether American troops | have entered the city but the French communique says the French have | seized all public buildings, won com- plete control of the city and cap- tured all Vichy representatives who had not fled. In French Hands Again Anyway, Paris is again back in French hands just four years and |74 days from the 'time Hitler's troops marched in. The German troops were then at the flood tide of the conquest and entered Paris June 14, 1940. The capture of Paris is the first continental capital of a full-fledged ally to be freed fron German dom- ination. Rome was taken but Italy started the war as an enemy and is now a co-belligerent. The Patriot flare-up began with the strike of the Paris police as they seized the Prefecture and turn- ed the famous Ile de la Cite into a fortress against which German at- tacks broke. DeGaulle conferred with Eisen- hower in . France two days ago, pre- sumably on details for a civil affairs control of Paris. ———— MILITARY TRAINING ENDORSED on Jap shipping at Marcus Island, in which a medium cargo vessel was | destroyed and a smaller one left burning. Nimitz said that raids reported on Monday and Tuesday covered 90,000 square miles with but slight opposition, showing how Americans | can fan out from advance bases. | ———————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7, American Can 92, ! Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 9%, | Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Hnrvesteri |Free Frenchmen of brutal and horrible treatment of not only at the hands of the Germans but also col- laborationists. ——,——— WILLKIE, DULLES HAVE CONFERENCE NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — Wendell L. Willkie and John Foster Dulles, Foreign Affair§ Deputy for Gov. Thomas E. Deéwey' “conferred ex- tensively on various international problems bearing on world organi- zation during lasting peace, in a 80%, Kennecott 32%, North Amer- full exchange of views not ani- On the coast the Canadians bat- signs of military or naval activity. | tered some seven more miles across | prench military officials decline to | the beaches and United States units | give any information on Allied land- hit_down the river toward the sea, {ings in the area southwest of bringing the eastern jaws of a pincers | Bordeaux. i German Rout |ber boats at about 30 different | L. Goddard, Ben Tortorle, Frank linto line to menace Evreaux and | | Allied airmen, meanwhile, declare | the Allied retreat has all of the| | points and suffered losses under a|Jones, M. Manelers, and Mrs. R. [hail of bullets and cannon shells | Black to that city. Vernon, about 50 miles from the | | mouth of the Seine River. ! ! | appearances of a rout. The enemy attempted to escape| A flight to Sitka today, by an !across the Seine by ferry and rub- | Alaska Coastal plane, took Mrs. A. | from low-swooping Allied planes. | Today’s Ketchikan - flight carried Supreme Headquarters declared | Fred Lorz, Robert Achenhausen, Keith Chapman, Jim Young, M. 40,000 to 50,000 Germans were cap- Marshall and Jenny Garands to ROBOT BOMBS capr. whime i LONDON, Aug. 23.—South Eng- lanid suffered the heaviest dawn barrage of flying. bombs yet as the Allied Armies beat toward the launching platforms at Pas de Calais and beyond the Seine. The robots came so fast that gunners had no respite in throwing up a terrific curtain of ground fire. Clouds of smoke indicated a num- ber of hombs were brought down in the Channel and others were heard exploding aloft. Antiaircraft fire kept up a con- tinuous roar along the coast.’ A number of casualties, with a number of deaths, is reported. e~ | ON OVERSEAS Durv%Setreiary of War Stimson Says Universal Law |in Juneau today, another Juneau . |S wanted 1man. Capt. Maurice J. Whittier, is on overseas duty with the Army., NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Endorse- Capt. Whittier after leaving his ment by Secretary of War Henry command in Alaska was sent to [, Stimson of compulsory military Officers’ Training School at Fort’[mmmg is made public by Archi- Benning, Georgla, and later detailed pald Teacher, Chairman of the to the training camp at Camp Rob- |gecond Service Command, a branch erts, California. From there he was |or the Citizens’ Committee for Uni- ordered to a similar school at Fort | |versal Service. Butner, North Carolina, and from| 1. o letter, Stimson said: “It there ordered overseas. is my idea that the most import- Capt. Whittier is the son of As-| 3 sistant Collector of Customs and |20 provision. Which. can be by Congress for the future defense Mrs, M. S. Whittier of Juneau. m"‘ot the Nation is a system of uni- | According to information received | wife and daughter are at present | | ican Aviation 8%, New York Central | {19%, Northern Pacific 15%, United | States Steel 58% . | Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: Industrials, 147.87; rails, 41.02; utilities, 25.35. | — e - | BUY WAR BONDS {tured in the Falaise pocket. The | Nazi dead are still uncounted. One Berlin broadcast said the Ara- | erican bridgehead across the lower | Seine, apparently referring to the Mantes area, 25 miles northwest of Paris, has been liquidated in a Ger- mated by partisan consideration or having to do with any can- didacy.” Nothing further was added to the statement of the conference which followed a telegram from Dewey to Willkie saying, “I would like to have the benefit of your yiews” Page Siz) (Continue that point, while a charter flight transported J. G. Ellson to Hawk Inlet. _ Bill Burdette and Fannie Burdette were flown to Excursion Inlet today on the flight that carried Nels Pearson and Paul Bell to Tenakee gnd Peter Hawkins to Hoonah, with Mrs. Whittier's family in North | Hollywood, California. | —_———-ee——— WELL BABY CONFERENCE The Well Baby Conference will be LEONARD ALLEN BACK Leonard Allen with his wife and child has returned to Juneau after a vacation trip to the States. Hel is the former Supervisor of Social Welfare with the Office of Indian Affairs, at the Juneau Health Center, versal military training.” ARG O FLORENCE HOLTON HERE Florence Holton, Supervisor of Education with the Office of Indian [ | Affairs, arrived in Juneau last eve- held tomorrow from 1 to 4 o'clock | ning to assume her dutes in her new headquarters here,