The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1944, Page 1

Y_Q_L XLIL, NO. 9739. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT é ey AMERICAN FORCES FORGING UP RHONE Paris Is Officially Announced Liberation of AMERICANS FRENCH IN CITY NOW Compleimnory An- nounced-Jubiliant Par- isians Fill Streets BULLETIN — NEW YORK, Aug. 25—The Paris radio to- night announces that the Ger- man Commander in Paris has surrendered to French Gen. Le- Clerc and stipulations included collecting of arms intact and then men without weapons in a designated place until new ord- ers given. An earlier broadcast stated fighting was still going on with the Germans barricaded in sev- erals places but the Patriots had accupied all main official build- ings and most of the highways. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Headquar- ters has broadcast that liberation of Paris “is a fact.” The NBC reports American and French troops entered Paris today and found the final stages of the French Forces of Liberation in a complete victory and the streets full of jubiliant Parisians. Brig. Gen. Jacques LeClerc en- tered Paris by the Orleans gite at 9:43 o'clock this forenoon, ac- cording to Paris broadcasts, and his 30,000 armored force started march- ing through the streets. Gen. DeGaulle is reported to be | at Batneux awaiting for a formal | escort. As LeClerc entered Paris the Cathedral Church carillons pealed forth and throngs shouted the rev- olutionary battlecry “To the Bar- ricades.” War Declared by Rumania on Nazis NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The Cairo| radio says Rumania has officially| declared war on Germany and| German planes have bombed Bu- charest. The Washington Merry - @ -Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Drew Pearson today awards the Brass Ring, good for one turbulent ride on the Wash- ington Merry-Go-Round, to Donald Nelson before he goes to China.) WASHINGTON—The battle over the proposed banishment of Donald Nelson is a long story but an im- portant one, with parts of it almost unbelievable. Woven through the story is the struggle between Am- erican little business and monopoly, a struggle which has torn this country for half a century—and| which Roosevelt at one time vowed | to settle. Principal actor in the story is a Missouri boy, born in the Mark| Twain country on the banks of the Mississippi, who weiit to Chi- cago, became a salesman of men's| clothing, and gradually worked his way up to be head of the giant Sears Roebuck mail-order house. Though wealth and power came to him, Nelson never quite lost touch with the humble background from which he came. Nor did he lose touch when the White House, after fumbling with various per- sonages, finally put Nelson in charge of the greatest production program ever envisaged by any (\}\/ entertainment. Dame. < Bagra »ris Paris, capital of France, is fifth largest city in the world and its traditional capital of art culture and Situated on the River Siene, 110 miles from its mouth, it is a hub of railroads, canals and highways. The Seine is crisscrossed by 32 bridges in Paris, the oldest being the Pont Notre-Dame, built in 1500. Some of Paris’ famed treasures, depicted on the close-up map above, include the Louvre, Eiffel tower, Tuileries gadens, Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe, Palais du Trocadero and the Cathedral of Notre MANDERS SAYS ALASKA *"LOST FRONTIER” NOW Republican Delegate Can- didate Against Res- ervation Scheme of “abor- Labeling the question iginal rights” of natives as the “most important that Alaskans have to face today,” John E. Man- ders, Republican candidate Delegate to Congress, went on rec- ord in a talk here last night as opposing any further reservation of land in Alaska. “Alaska is hailed today as the Last Frontier,” he said, “but under the present bureaucratic rule of the present administration it will soon be known as the Lost Fron- tier.” Pointing out that already approx- tory of Alaska is being held in re- serve,” Manders predicted that a few months from now “this figure may be 95 percent. “What will Alaska then have to offer new investors, new residents,” (he asked. In opposing the proposed estab- lishment of further Indian fishing reservations in Southeastern Alaska, Manders said that he has been “cautioned” that such a stand may “cost me a good many votes,” re- ferring apparently to the Indian vote in the General Election. “Perhaps I am making a polit- ical mistake,” he stated, “however, I firmly believe that if a Delegate to Congress is to serve the people of Alaska he must many times place the welfare of the Territory over and, above what is supposed to be smart politics * * *” The Republican candidate de- scribed the establishing of the Kar- luk Reservation near Kodiak, and those contemplated as “what can well develop into the biggest land grab in the history of the United States.” He said the Department of the Interior is proceeding under the White Act and that this very -Act is violated by the proceduré be- cause it provides “that no exclu- sive or several rights of fishery shall be granted to one group of citizens to the depriviation of the rights of other citizens.” The natives of Alaska are classed for | imately “90 percent of the Terri-| Liberated HEYDANEIS Paris Goes Wildly Mad | | | Frenchmen Let Go of Pent-| up Emotions as Last Ger- man Resistance Crushed | By DON WHITEHEAD | PARIS, Aug. 25—Street fighting | ;-ragcs as French and American troops drove into the heart of the city from the south to a tumultuous wel- come from Parisians. ; The first French column reached | the Luxembourg district at 10:20 o'clock this morning, meeting ma- chine gun, rifle and pistol fire of the German collaborationist militia | and the French Gestapo. American infantrymen drove to | | Notre Dame at 11 o'clock in a spec- | |tacular ground attack against | strongpoints defended by the Ger- | mans' Vichy Militia while the streets | were choked with laughing and cry- | ing humanity. | The Germans early tonight were | still holding both sides of the Seine and half way along the Champs Elysees including the Chamber of | Deputies and Senate, the Hotel | Crillon, Madelaine, Louvre, Tuileries, | Quaidorsat Place and Delaconcorde, | while the Patriots hold the Ile Dela- citie, Palais de Justice and the Po- |lice Prefecture on the Seine. The Prefecture holds most of the fac- | tory district where Frenchmen were jflghflng Frenchmen as well as Ger- { mans. When the last German resistance | was crushed at the southern gates, | Parisians let loose of their emo- tions, pentup for four years, until | the streets looked like a Mardi Gras, Year’s Eve crowds packed into one |as the heart of France went hap- pily, wildly, violently mad. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 25. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau 1aine | stock today is 67, American Can 92, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester | 802, Kennecott 32%, North Amer- | ican Aviation 8%, New York Central 19, Northern Pacific 15%, United | States Steel 58%, Pound $4.04. the Fourth of July and all the New | LIBERATED; PEACEFUL No Fren(hi;itors Killed Yei-FFl Recognized as Most Capable By CHARLES FOLTZ Chief of Madrid Associated Press Bureau HEYDANE, France, Aug. 25.—T am the first correspondent to visit the French territory across the Spanish border that has been clear- ed of Germans by the French Forces of the Interior. I just visited the region where the Tricolor floats and although I arrived at sundown, and the curfew keeps citizens indoors from 8 at night to 8 in the morning, I was| wAR IN O(T' able to borrow a bicycle and visit a number of friends here and also | in the outskirts of St. Jean Deluz. | They said I was the only out-of-| | towner seen in years and they pour- ed their hearts out to me. All knew | reports that Paris had been retaken | or was about to be liberated but | neither did they rush out to kill| collaborationists nor spend the night carousing in cafes. I found them happily obeying the curfew they violated so frequently under "hei German rule. I watched them obey | orders given by soldiers without uniforms, Frenchmen like them- selves but whom they trusted. These soldier Frenchmen are no | Coxey's Army. They are composed | of Frenchmen who obtained or al- ready had arms, a carefully-chosen | army that had been tried and found capable after four years of the | toughest kind of fighting, under-| ground warfare against the occupy- | ing German army. They have an/| armband “FFI” but all Hendaye recognizes them as the men who| have fought for liberty. { I talked with Paul Pico, member | of the FFI committee, and he told | me that until now'there had been | no troop landing at St. Jean Deluz | although Thursday morning an Al- !Hed warship and freighter entered | | the harbor. | Pico said that although plenty of hate had been stored up agains¢ collaborationists, Frenchmen con- sidered traitors, no hot-headed de- sire to kill them has broken out yet and not a single traitor had been CHURCHILL MAJORPART | OF PACIFICIS (ONTROLLED |Allied Forces Bottling Up Japs-Severing Their | Supply Routes SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 25. The major part of the Pacific | Ocean is now under Allied control, | | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said in | | a broadcast from Pearl Harbor. | | Navy patrol planes are daily mak- | ihg it necessary for the Japanese to | | enter the portion left him “at his 'own peril.” | He said the Pacific offensive 155 attaining the essential objective of winning control of the sea approach- | es to the Japanese Empire in order to sever the ocean routes over which the enemy must move men and supplies. HALMAHERA 'BOMBEDIN. | | GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug.’ 125.—The heaviest single raid on Hamlahera Island, southern guard- ians of the Philippines, is reported | teday. A total of 315 tons of bombs WAVES ‘ABANDON SHIP’—Although they aren't likely to “abandon ship” by climbing down the cargo net, these . WAVES at Miami, Fla,, find the exercise helps develop endurance. HEAVY R MD;Speculalion Is Made On Who Will Be Nex! Secy.. of Agréi_tullure‘ were hurled down on the Japanese defenses by an undisclosed number of raiders. Attacks also ranged over Nogel- kop Peninsula, Dutch New Guinea, and left runways and airdromes at Babo, Nabire and Otawiro unservice- able. | Liberators smashed and set fire {to the bivouac and supply areas of the important Galela section in northern Halmahera. e eee ARMYLOOKS FOR END OF Collapse of Germany Ex- ¢ pected Within Weeks- ’ PacificFight Continues WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Chair- | & | man C. A. Woodrum of Virginia, of | the House Military Affairs Commit- tee, said that the Army tentatively | looks for the war’s end with Ger- | many this October 1, after Admiral James Irish, inventory control of- ficer, told the committee that the Navy expects to still be fighting in | the Pacific in 1945. | | At the White House the Presi-| dent said “My, No,” when a reporter asked if he could give any idea of when Germany might collapse. e GROWN UP Ann Gillis Universal above), best known for her por- trayal of Becky Thatcher in the Tom Sawyer film, is now a pin- Actress up giri. (AP Wirephoto) I [ | | { { I HAS VISIT WITH POPE ROME, Aug. 25. — British Prime | Minister Winston Churchill left Wednesday after a 48-minute priv- ate audience with the Pope. The Vatican announcement said: JAP VESSEL DESTROYED IN KURILES By NORMAN BELL ALEUTIAN BASE, Aug. 25. — A 50-foot Japanese patrol vessel has been sunk and a 75-footer was By OVID A. MARTIN (During Jack Stinnett's vaca- tion, this column is being written by members of the Washington staff of The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-—Farm leaders in and out of the govern- ment are engaging in a lot of specu- lative guessing these early campaign 2| days on who will be Secretary of | Agriculture when the new presi- dential term begins next January. Two lists of possibilities have been drawn up—one Democratic and the other Republican. Generally, the belief prevails that there will be a change regardless of whether President Roosevelt or Thomas, E. Dewey is victorious. Few farm leaders think that the present Secretary of Agriculture—Claude R. Wickard—will be retained by Mr. Roosevelt. Stock of the incumbent fell when his duties as War Food Administra- tor were taken from him last year and placed in the hands of an in- dependent administrator. ‘The name of President Roosevelt’s ) | first Secretary of Agriculture—Hen- | ry A. Wallace—is near the top of the Democratic list. Many farm leaders believe that Mr, Roosevelt, “11if reelected, would call Wallace to| || take over the difficult task of direct- | ing conversion to pea agriculture’ cetime needs. Heading the Republican list of VAP ISLAND RAIDED FOR FOURTH DAY UNITED STATED3 PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 25—Yap Island at the eastern approaches to the Phil- ippines was bombed for the fourth straight day, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reports. Pagan and Rota islands and the phosphate island of Nauru were also damaged badly by Naval Venturas ,.iqeq in the northern Kuriles strike on CANNES AND GRASSE ARE TAKEN OVER Smashing Attack Launched on Remaining Mar- seille Strongholds ROME, Aug. 25. — The Allied Headquarters reports the occupa- tion of Cannes and Grasse as troops launching a smashing attack at the | four remaining enemy strongholds |at Marseille. Two German Generals and 5,000 prisoners have been taken, during the past 70 hours, making a total |of 20,000 since the invasion in the | Marseille front. | Meanwhile the American forces |are less than 10 miles east of Arles on the Rhone and aircraft is ham- | mering enemy communications. The Southern France Patriots | report occupation of Lyons. Headquarters is reticient on ac- tivities of columns operating beyond | Grenoble and toward Avignon ap- |parently keeping the Germans |guessing on available escape routes |to the northwest. VON KLUGE MAKING HIS lAS]__STAND Germans Are Beaten Back Along Seine Retreat fo | Somme-Marne Line |VON KLUGE 18 et - w SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 25.—The disorgan- ized and battered German forces | are making their last ditch attempt |to flee across the few remaining miles of the Seine adjoining the |sea in Northern France but front- |line dispatches said the fighting is | virtually over. One observer of the Royal Air | Force said indications are Marshal | von Kluge will make a stand along the old Somme-Marne line. A sharp Canadian 20-mile ad- vance last night drove the Ger- mans into an area 25 miles long |and 15 miles wide from Elbeuf {where there is heavy fighting to- day to Bernay, then to the coast, four miles from Honfleur, indi- cating the Nazis may be wiped out | within the next 24 hours. Royal Air Force pilots report the Germans are fleeing towards Amiens with light vehicles. | A front line dispatch said there “seoms to be a fair assumption that very soon there will be an end 'to the buzz-bomb terror” and rocket |launching platforms on the coast ‘}are being put out of commission. | Headquarters is reticient on Pat- Iton's forces southeast of Parls, ex- cept to state he has occupied Mon- tereau. HUNGARIAN REGIMEIS RESHUFFLED LONDON, Aug. 25.—Germany ans |nounces the Hungarian Government has been reshuffled, “because events iin Rumania caused certain political Itensions” in the Nazi occupied | | | | | try in all history. as full ci S o »| Dow, Jones averages today are as | assassinated or executed and not|“Many essential questions were Adm. Nimitz also disclosed that| country in al Ty. s full citizens, and not as “wards’ ¥ 9 last Saturday and Sunday. country. Details are not disclosed. 2 . . | s " injons differ regarding Nelson,|he said, “but the Secretary of the|follows: Industrials, 147.02; rails,|even have regular members of Jac- | touched upon relating to important ~_|tiny Agiguan, supposedly uninhab- | " Hg:,:,’,, it is uh-g to say that, Interior wants to make reservation | 40.65; utilities, 25.20. | ques Doriot’s collaborationists been | problems of the present hour.” | One of seven enemy planes Was jtated Marianas Island, five miles| SWiss reports yesterday said ca- H b ———— | arrested, as yet. The visit of Churchill was ob-|destroyed in the air and another south of captured Tinian, has been |Pitulated Rumania had started after considerable heartaches, a lot/ of criticism, and some delays, his over-all production program has Indians out of them. He doesn’t class them as citizens, rather he looks upon them as his wards, so (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on finge Two) | WENATCHEE MAN HERE | | Here from Wenatchee, Washing- iton, and a guest at the Gastineau, is L, H, Morgan, ———e———— GRAY IN TOWN G. R. Gray is here from Haines und a guest at the Juneau Hotel, Papal Court. — BUY WAR BONDS served with all the splendor of the on the ground during a sortie be- pombed and the attack indicated |tween Kakumbetsu, Masugawa and some Japanese escaped from Tinian attacking Transylvania. /Kurabu Zaki, Paramushiro installa- | in small boats and are hiding out tions, and Myoshino on Shumushu,’on Agiguan, ‘movmg against Hungary and was i T BUY WAR BONDS