The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1944, Page 1

THE DAIL VOL. XLIL, NO. 9738. N A ’ ) LL THE TIME” DAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 Y ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS A RiAL RELURE 2.2 1944 GIFT _— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE IEN CENTS = ——— AMERICAN ARMY REACHES SWISSBORDER Russians Sweeping Forward on All Fronts RED ARMIES EIN MANY AREAS Groups Are?essing Info: * Rumania in South, Old ! Poland in North MOSCOW, Aug. 24. — Captives have reported that hostilities are spreading between troops of Ger- many and Rumania while two great | Russian Army groups swept toward | the heart of the oil and wheat| kingdom in drives apparently aimed at trapping any Nazis still in their path. The companion offensives in south | and north Poland continued apace of troops which seized Debica, de- | clared overrunning with hundreds; Doughboys, Tankmen Facing East in France With Goal Set at Berlin By HAL BOYLE ymore important task of killing the WITH THE UNITED STATES 1 Nazis and breaking the back of the TROOPS SOUTHEAST OF PARIS, | German resistance. Aug. 24—American armor and in-| fantry, smashing through light could have been seized at any time. enemy ground resistance and fight-‘ Americans’ Mission ing off swarms of Nazi nircraft,} The Americans’' mission of break- have driven beyond Sens to within ing the German resistance has been approximately 50 miles of the Ger- |accomplished and the bulk of the man border. German Army in France has been I drove more than 50 miles to | destroyed by two lightning ad- Sens and beyond in an effort to|vances, first, by Lt. Gen. Omar| overtake the troops pushing east. “Brudloy's isolation and capture of! I never saw a corpse or flaming |the German forces on Cherbourg | vehicle but truckloads of prisoners ‘Peninsula and second, the great ar- were streaming back from the ad- mored drive led by Maj. Gen. vance elements. Nothing remained George Patton, Jr., which cut off in the wake of our forces but a | Brest Peninsula and pocketed the few German guerilla outfits trying |cream of the German Army west Paris, now retaken by the French, | TWO CARGO SHIPS SUNK, 3RD ABLAZE | Navy Search Liberafors Find Jap Convoy Near Chichi Jima UNITED STATES PACIFIC | [ in search Liberators, is announced to- day by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. A convoy, made up of three cargo Iships and two destroyers, was lo- cated in the area a little over 600 ymiles south of Tokyo, and the RUMANIA ATTACKS HUNGARY Marchon Trains_ylvania Be- gun Last Night Claims Bucharest Report LONDON, Aug. 24. — Dispatches FLEET HEADQUARTER S AT |from Bucharest report Rumanian | PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 24.—Slnk-;troops are marching against Hun-| ing of two cargo ships and setting |gary in a swift succession of Ru- | a third afire near Chichi Jima, Mania’s sudden change of sides in | the Bonin Islands, by Nayy | the war in an about face that di- | irectly threatens Germany through- |out the Balkans. | Germany, stunned, called the new ! Rumanian Government a “Com- | munist Regime,” and in reporting | rioting in the rich oil and wheat | kingdom, appealed to the Ruman- of German war factories, 150 of them in Debica alone. | The Red Star said the advance | moved within 17 miles of Krakow, 75 miles from German Silesia itself. | our lines to rejoin the German units east of the Seine River. Main Battle Over |France no German strength desperately to sift north lhroughior the Falaise-Argentan Line. in cap- able long of retaining the Nazi Apparently there remains {pombifg st Oue atwckingkian troops to “not take orders from |Liberator was lost in the action [y rairor King but remain faithful |which took place Tuesday, the day | {, the German Ally who sheds her Of Paris|s SAFEHAVEN FOR LAVAL IS SOUGHT Germany Wanfs Swiss Government to Put Arms AroundPierre | | | | NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The Ger- man Ambassador in Switzerland is Complete Liberafion Expededin Early Announcement LONDON, Aug. 24.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Headquarters dis- closed that Allied troops gre fight- ing their way into- Paris, large sec- tions of which are held by French Forces of the Interior, and the fall of the city is expected momentarily, but so far as the Allied Headquart- ers is concerned, Paris has not yet been liberated. Gen. DeGaulle and the Command- er of the French Forces of the In- terior, Lt. Gen. Koening, announced yesterday that the capital had been liberated. Their statements were hailed by governmental leaders the world over. French Underground leaders, after four days of street fighting, in Paris, negotiated an “Armistice” with the PATCHAND PATTONIN GREAT PUSH Hitler's Gr—ip— on France Slips as U. S. Forces Speedily Advance BORDEAUX CAPTURED BY COMBINED UNITS ‘Marseille Falls - Allied Units Ride Roughshod Over Nazis on Seine LONDON, Aug. 24—Hitler's grip | German garrison, presumably on the on France has slipped with almost terms that the Nazis would leave unbelievable rapidity in almost ev- the city. |ery direction and Maj. Gen. Alex- before the Seventh Army Air Force blood in defense of Rumania.” Armistice Repudiated | reported by the secret German lan- | Supreme Headquarters of the Al- guage radio station Atlantik to have | lander Patch’'s Seventh American Army has reached the Swiss frontier Northeast of Warsaw, the Red Army drive within five miles of the important communications hub of The main battle for France is already over, Paris, the heart of grip on this country. | The goal of every front line [Liberators attacked Yap in the| At 7:15 o'clock this morning, how- Carolines, when meager antiair-|eyer, the Bucharest dispatch, relayed craft fire was encountered. Yap py Swiss radio, said Rumanian France is already a military side |doughboy and tankman facing east| is the air base which guards the Lomza, 20 miles betow the East Prussian frontier. issue as the American Army earl- |now is the German border, then jer chose to first carry out theiBerlin and victory. Splitting Armies The offensive is gradually split- ting the German armies that are de- fending that Reich province and ‘Warsaw. Captured Rumanians said that the Germans trained thelr guns on them, seeking to block retreat. In some places many Rumanian units were reported to be raked with gunfire. The Russian advance continued uninterrupted toward the Danube |of Paris has been liberated. Basin and Galati Gap. At midnight | the Soviet troops galloped within 167 | miles of Bucharest, 140 miles of | > the Ploesti oil center, and less than entered Paris through the Alesia | 50 miles from the mouth of the |gate this afternoon, a Vichy (for- Danube. eign) broadcast states. LATE WAR | - BULLETINS New Regime This morning the newspapers told of a new government formed in| LONDON — The Russlans have {captured Chisinau, Rumania, and | Soviet forces are said to be within 120 miles of the Ploesti oil fields. (Continued on Page Siz) FOUR LEAVE TODAY FOR SITKA BY AIR A trip to Sitka today, by an Al- aska Coast plane, carried Mrs. | Hotch, Sara Fernald, Elaine Har- | rington, and M. Harrington to that NEW YORK—The French radio!city, and returned John Manders, | |says the LeBourget Airfield outside | Annie Davis, Robert Peters, Elsie | Werner, Isabelle Carmichael, and Stephen Carmichael to Juneau. The | Carmichaels boarded the pl: LONDON—First American tanks | menagee. Py S Dr. Hays was a passenger today for Skagway, while G. W. Schuster, V. D. Norden, John R. Stone, R. | W. Goodpaster, and C. N. Workman were flown to Ketchikan. A flight late yesterday took John Fee, Carl Gafert and Joe McNallen to Warm Springs, and returned Beatrice Murphy to Juneau. Jimmy Martin, Annie Jackson, and | MADRID—A radio broadcast says | Loren A. Conner were brought into central approaches to the Philip-| | pines. | | A single Army Liberator bombed sor Ulithi without opposition. e Paramushiro IsPounded By ng ber ?Cargo Vessel Sunk, Stor- age Areas Blasted by Yanks WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Amer- ican bombers, pounding again at | Paramushiro, in the Kuriles, sank one small cargo vessel offshore there | | A 1 troops ‘“started Transylvania last night.” | Transylvania is the mountainous Povince, half of which Hitler took !fom Rumania and handed Hun- | igdry in the Vienna treaty in 1940.| ! Rumania and Hungary have been at | | swords points ever since and clashes | bmve been frequent along the (boundm'y. - | Dictator Flees | | Deposed Rumanian Dictator Mar- ! | shal Antonescu is reported to have fled to a German sanctuary. There are rumors that Hungary, now threatened by Rumania and the Raussians, will suddenly change tac- tics. Already, according to advices received late this afternoon, Hun- | gary has abolished all political par- ties, apparently in fear of intrigue | that might take her from the war. Rumanian King Mihais in a pro- ;’clamauun has summoned all Ru- i manians to the armed sides of the | Allies and new Premier Konstantin | has pledged a “democratic regime.” | Anti-Nazi Peasant leader Juliu Manui, is Minister without a port- folio in the new Rumanian Gov- the march on asked the Swiss Government for an asylum for Pierre Laval. NBC re- corded the broadcast. The location of the radio station Atlantik has never been officially announced. ‘The broadcast said the Swiss Gov- ernment has not yet made any de- cision as to the step to be taken but his request seems to indicate an effort is being made to secure a haven for Fascist leaders even from Germany. The last reports concerning Laval were that he had left Vichy, where he was head of the Vichy-German Government, and fled to Belfort on the German-Swiss border. —— e (. E. WILSON, 'WPB OFFICIAL, HAS RESIGNED lied Expeditionary Forces said that after a drive of 200 miles in ten the Germans apparently repudiated days through the French Alps from the agreement and kept on fight- the Mediterranean. The Washington the Germans have set fire to one wing of a building in Versailles {where the 1918 treaty was signed. Merry - Eq -Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) ROME—A strong force of hea bombers, probably numbering 750, | have attacked the Czechoslovakia oil refineries at Kolin, 40 miles| east of Prague, and Paradubice, 5| miles east of Pragnue. WITH THE Ca-/ADIAN FIRST | ARMY IN FRANCE—The Canadiaa First Army forces have broken ' through the German rearguards all | along the Toques River. Peace Plans Discussed by Hull, Dulles State Secrefary, Dewey's| | WASHINGTON — Only insiders| know it, but after the President held his press conference denying he had sent a letter to Wendell Willkie, Judge Sam Rosenman and Steve Early rushed up to his desk and remonstrated that he had made a bad mistake. They were afraid FDR had rebuffed the man who had gone down the line for him 100 percent on taxes, foreign poliey and the war. “They caught me a little unpre- pared on that one” the President adrgitted ruefully. “However, I tried to tell them it was a personal ques- tion. I didn't want to embarrass Willkie by letting people think he and I had a political deal.” Later, the President repeated to some of his Cabinet that he hadn’t expected the question at his news conference. Explaining that he wanted to talk to Willkie about | MacDonald received flying instruc- ,Jy!v.lons late yestesday in an Alaska | | Coastal plane. | rooms of the Methodist Church: Cleaning and polishing of shoes, by | this city from Hoonah yesterday | afternoon. | David James, W. Weaver and L. 4-H Demonstrations | Given Last Evening The following 4-H demonstru-= tions were given during the pro- gram last evening in the social Dorothy Robards and Jean Boddy; laying of a blouse pattern, by Anita Brown and Josephine Hared; putting a hem in a straight and curved edge, by Juanita Diaz and Harriet Maurstad; transplanting lettuce, by Dick Keithahn and Mar- ! vin Rhodes; baking muffins, by Beth Daigler and Doris Ann Bart- lett; making waffles, by Joan Lesher and Bonita Clark; baking of cookies, by Betty Steele and Mary Nordale; and baking of pop-' overs, by Jimmy Nordale and Mil-| ton Furness. ernment. ———.—— GERMANY IS BLASTED BY 2300PLANES American Air Force in One of Greatest Assaults and scored a number of direct hits on storage areas at the enemy'’s | most powerful North Pacific base. | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re- | ported the attack was carried out | Sunday. i One of seven Jap fighters was downed. Antiaircraft fire was meag- | er. All American planes returned to their base. COMMANDER OF GERMAN SEVENTH | ARMY, WOUNDED | | Executive Vice - Chairman Maj. Gen. George S, Patton's American Third Army has pushed Allies for help. /15 miles to Milex, beyond Sens, “Liberation,” of Paris, Koenig said, §2 miles southwest of liberated Paris “witnessed 50,000 men supported by and toward the German frontier, several hundred thousand unarmed 150 miles away. patriots, going into action.” The two forces are apparently less The Germans were reported to than 200 miles from a junection, 1 have threatened widespread destruc- ysolating all southern France, Al- tion of public buildings and installa- ready much of southern France is tions. \ free, The French Underground leader,' A dispatch from Geneva said who came to London from Paris & American forces have reached St. month ago, said that the Germans Julien on the Swiss frontier, five then had at least 10,000 regulars miles south of Geneva. in the capital and strong forces o(‘ A reliable report said other ad- Gestapo secret police. | vanced units have arrived at Evian, The Headquarter’s announcement 12 miles above St. Ginoglph, on the came as a surprise to French sources Swiss frontier. in London, who acknowledged that | Bordeaux Is Captured there might be fighting around | Ap Alglers broadcast says Bor- Paris as Allied troops sought t0 gdeaux, big French port on the south break in. The French said that to Atlantic coast, has been captured their best information, French py 4 combined force of Americans, Forces of the Interior are still in griving south from Lotre, and control of the center of the city prench Maquis who marched north and its main buildings. © {from the Spanish border. EIGHTHARMY mh e Underground called to the | i | | | Patch’s Army continues the light- ning pace to the northwest past captured Marseille and drove into the Rhone Valley, capturing Salon, * Charges Unfair Attacks by Aides, Nelson | WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—The top [structure of the War Production | |Board has been blown wide open| with the unexpected resignation of Charles E. Wilson, Executive Vicz Chairman, who charged that unfair | attacks have been inspired against| 'him by his aides and his boss, Donald Nelson. | wilson’s letter of resignation to |the President came only a few days |after Nelson himself reported that | | MAKES GAIN UPPER ARNO Important Points Captured in Face of Lessening Resistance post-war peace plans and foreign Representaive, Confer policy, not politics, he indicat,edi that he would go ahead with his plans for the talk regardless of what had happened. The President was quite irked that news about his letter to the former Presidential candidate had leaked out. Only a few people knew the letter existed. The car- bon copy was not filed with his regular correspondence, and the first draft of the letter had been written in his own handwriting for Grace Tully, his secretary, to|for bi-partisan cooperation. Two, One-half Hours WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — John Foster Dulles, Foreign Affairs ad-' viser of Republican Presidential| nominee Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, talked peace plans for two and one- ! \ half hours yesterday with Secre-| |tary of State Cordell Hull. | Dulles later told the newsmen that very considerable progress was made in exploring the possibilities | | Robards, copy. Only two people inside the .- — ‘White House were supposed to know; ELEVEN PASSENGERS ARRIVE f about it. Despite this, Willkie began to get i Arriving here yesterday, via an Movies of Alaska were shown by‘ Albert W. Blackerby, "and Fred |Barkley, Garden Club Leader, led those attending in community sing- ing, accompanied by Florence Sar- geant at the piano. Others assisting with the program were 4-H local leaders Mrs. C. L. Phyllis Grant, Mrs. B. Smith, and District Extension Agent Mae Stephenson. | — e, CALIFORNIAN HERE J. P. Wintz, of Los Angeles,lis registered at the Gastineau Hotel. . EVELYN OHLSON BACK | LONDON, Aug. 24. — Col. Gen. Paul Hausser, Commander of the wounded in Normandy, the Berlin 'radio said. Hausser, under the overall com- .mand of Field Marshal von Kluge, led the army that was battered heavily in the Falaise pocket and which is now falling back upon the lower Seine, menaced by a new en- velopment. Berlin said that Hausser, was River area which flows east Falaise and southeast of Caen. e G FUNERAL SERVICES T0 BE HELD FRIDAY MORN FORMRS. MAEMORGAN Funeral services for Mrs. Sharp Morgan will be held tomor- row morning at 9 o'clock in the Catholic Church of the Nativity with the Rev. W. G. La Vasseur officiating. Interment will be in the Elks' plot of the Evergreen Cemetery. Pall bearers will be James Mc- | | German Seventh Army has been i wounded while fighting in the Dives of | Mae | i i Ever Made | LONDON, Aug. 24—A vast ar-| mada of 2,300 American planes to-| day smashed at a dozen targets in Germany and the Crzech border | while the Royal Air Force bombed | {and strafed the Nhzi “Dunkerque” | | attempt from LeHavre on the mouth | jof the Seine, to within only a few | ! miles beyond the advancing Allied | | lines. | Attacks in Germany by 1,300 heavy | bombers and 1,000 fighters con- stituted one of the greatest assaults ever mounted, by the U. 8. Air Forces. 'UNITY OF ACTION IN PEACE PLAN IS . PRESIDENT'S WISH WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Presi-| ldent Franklin D. Roosevelt told| \delegates at the Dumbarton Oaks ’swurlty Conference that he hopes |“in planning for peace to come, we larrive. at the same good cooperation and unity of action that we have carried on the war,” asserting that, | 'he was ready to walk out after a wholesale reorganization of the upper level of the WPB appeared to be in prospect. Differences between Nelson and Wilson and their respective adher- ents had long been smouldering and in accepting Wilson’s resigna- tion after conferring with Nelson, the President took no‘c of this fact by saying, “I was aware of some dissension within the WPB,” as recently, disagreements had ap- ROME, Aug. 24.—British and In- dian troops of the Eighth Army have made a considerable advance on both sides of the upper Arno River in Italy in the face of les-! sening enemy resistance and have | captured a number of important | points, including Mt. Foresto, head- | quarters announced. | Minor gains are reported in the Adriatic sector where Polish and Italian troops established them- selves firmly along the banks of the Metauro, about 12 miles from only 20 miles from Arles, at the mouth of the river. French patriots are reported in control of the entire Lyon area. Lyon is the great metropolis on the Rhone. i | Two Cities Fall Paris and Marseille are the first two cities in France to have been captured in a single 24-hour period. The Second French Armored Di- vision and some American units are reported to have entered Paris. American, British and Canadian Allied units rode roughshod over parts of two Nazi armies cornered below the Seine with a swiftness indicating completeness of the Ger- man rout. Third Army Thrust The American Third Army thrust, 25 miles northwestward along the south bank of the Seine toward the sea, has captured Elbeuf, one of the chief ferry points where von Kluge is trying to rescue his broken forces, This thrust to within 30 miles south of the Seine is only nine miles from Rouen and has narrowed to a dis- astrous size the pocket which splint- ered divisions of the German Sev- enth and Fifteenth armies. peared, centered on the industrial | reconversion problems. the coast. queries about the letter two weeks after he received it. The news men making' the inquiries cited White House sources, said they had the incoming Alaska Airliner, were J. P.] Evelyn Ohlson, Commercial Lan- Wintz, Mrs. M. W. Odom, W. D.|guage teacher in the Juneau High | Roberts, Mrs. Carl Durand, Charles | School, has returned to Juneau from Durand, George Combest, Gertrude | the South and is staying at the Gas- Burman, L. H. Hancock, Missy Cor- | tineau Hotel. stip from Presidential secretaries. (Continued on Page Four) dette, Agnes Milton, and David| ———— Abraham, I BUY WAR BONDS Naughton, Ear! Hunter, Major Lov- gren, Dave Ramsey, Kenyon Mac- Lean, and James Orme. Prayers will be said at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. ‘we learn from experience.” The President greeted 42 dele- gates on a visit to the White House, expressing his hope for the Nelson said that he stil! planned to leave soon for China on a spec- ial mission for the President. Both Nelson and Wilson address- ed the staff at a meeting behiid closed doors only a few minutes after the White House resignation announcement. Just before it broke up, loud cheering could be heard. Questioned afterward, Wilson jok- ingly said, “maybe they are glad to get rid of me.” Wilson’s letter in reply to stos- ies that he opposed reconversion said: “In my opinion this was in- spried by subordinate officials of ithe board who are connected with the personal staff of Mr., Nelson.” IN FROM GUSTAVUS Walter Norwalk has come to Ju- success of their work plan for post- ‘w-r security. neau from Gustavus and is staying at the Baranof Hotel. Allied forces are in contact with| strong enemy positions on the north bank, the bulletin says. | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Aug. 24. — Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6%, American Can 92%, Anaconda 26'%, Beech Aircraft 19’/ , Bethlehem Steel 607%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester | 80, Kennecott 32%, New York Cen- ral 19%, Northern Pacific 15%, United States Steel 58%. Dow, Jones averages are as fol-| lows today: industrials 147.11, rails MANDERS T0 SPEAK ON RADIO TONIGHT John E. Manders, Republican can- didate for Delegate to Congress, will go on the air over KINY at 8:30 o'clock this evening in a discussion of the question of the “aboriginal rights” of natives as they affect the future of Alaska. He returned today from a flying trip to Sitka and plans to leave for the Westward tomorrow. ———————— FEMMMER AND FAMILY NOW JUNEAU BQUND 40.70, utilities 25.19. — L e o In a postcard received from D. B. SHUSTER AND STONE HERE |Femmer, postmarked Los Angeles, G. W. Shuster and J. R. Stone, of ' he announces he is having a fine the Seward Air Service, are in town time but he and his family will be and guests at the Baranof, back in Juneau in September,