The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1944, Page 1

~ & O 'THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1944 &, EMPIRE _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — PRICE TEN CENTS = VOL. XLIL, NO. 9740. RUSSIAN FORCES DRIVING ON BUCHAREST Fighting Continues Today on Paris Boulevards CITY STILL W INTURMOIL IS REPORT Cheering Crowds, How- ever, Are Everywhere- Proclamation Issued LONDON, Aug. 26. — French| broadcasts from Paris declared | fighting is still going on' in the‘ French Capital City but cheering| crowds are everywhere followir Gen. DeGaulle’s proclamation de- claring the city has been liberated. | Last night the Paris radio de-| clared the German Commander has surrendered but the Allied Headquarters said only “more Al-| lied armor and infantry arrived inl Paris following the entrance of the French armored Division on Friday morning, and all resistance WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The British took the secrecy wraps off a fire breathing 41-ton Churchill “cro- codile” tank mounted flame thrower capable of hurling a lethal blaze‘ 450 feet ahead, and even around corners. | This flame thrower was used on | the Germans on the Normandy | beachhead in a small way but has | since been used with “deadly effect,” | _ FIND in the southern and southwestern | § outskirts had been overcome.” | Radio station France in Algiers| & asserted this afternoon all Nazi| resistance in Paris has ceased obut| Berlin broadcasts denied Gen. Wer- ner, Commanding the Paris garri- son, has capitulated. The German account said fighting continued on several boulevards and on various| places, especially around the Arc de Triomphe. r——l s VONKLUGE REPORTED | AS KILLED Stockholm fiwspa per| Claims Field Marshal, Western Front, Dead STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26. — Field Marshal Gen. Guenther von Kluge has been killed, the newspaper Dag- ens Nyheter says in its Saturday edition, basing the information re- ceived from Germany. Circumstances of the reported death are not known. Von Kluge has held command of the German armies on the western front since July 6 when he suc- ceeded Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolph von Rundstedt. | The Washington Merry-G_o_-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Congressmen who have heard the inside story of Gen- eral Benny Giles kow-towing to the British in Egypt are all burnt up, some talk of probing the whole Near Eastern picture. One thing which especially burns them up is General Giles' instruc- tion to Americans in Cairo last month that there should be noj celebration of the 4th of July. The General sent out word that celebra- | tion of American independence from Great Britain might offend our British allies and there should be no dinners or parties among those under his command. As a result, Cairo was so quiet on July 4 that one Britisher ap- proached an American friend next day and said: “Very inhospitable of you fellows, not to invite us to; any of your 4th of July parties.| We've always been invited before.” NOTE — Many Britishers do not| agree with Churchill's Empire pol- | icy of throtting the Greek liber- ation movement; also have no great respect for General Giles’ subser- vient attitude toward Churchill policy. WASHINGTON COLD AIR New Flame Thrower Is Revealed;(an Hurl Blaze ‘450Feet, Around Corners , British and Canadian forces. | and also go around corners in the according to the British Information | the tank and thereafter operated as | nese light cruiser and destroyed five Services, in burning a path for the | srthodox with no cut in fire power. GRIM FIELDS BLOOMING FOUR AMERICAN NURSES discover that Normandy’s fields, like those of the Flanders poem, are alive with poppies in the midst of battle death. Veterans of 23 months’ combat service, they are (l. to r.): Marie Paik, Kansas City; Frances Holt, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Frances Lalee, Kansas City; Irene Rohr, Hutchinson, Kan. NIP SHIPS SENT DOWN ATMANADO { Light Crui;t;, Freighter Transports Bomb- ed at Celebes The new weapon is called the most GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN powerful flame thrower in the world. | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. In cases of emergency the flame |26 —Mitchell bombers, attacking at apparatus can be jettisoned from | mast height, probably sank a Japa- flames can be nearby surface The “crocodile” richocheted off a manner of a billiard shot. The flames have been used to burn out pillboxes and trenches 100 feet away. | medium freighter transports near | Manado, northern Celebes. ’ The attack was made Thursday but only reported this Saturday. | The bombers made the attack dur- ling a ceaseless hunt for Japanese i shipping withdrawing from the Phil- | ippine-Halmahera line. | When last seen the cruiser had exploded at the stern and was blaz- | ing with a 20 degree list and was be-~ | lieved sinking. | The freighter transports averaged between 2,000 and 3,000 tons. Two other vessels of this class were damaged and it is estimated that 40 luggers and barges were rid- | dled with machine gun bullets. All vessels were at anchor near | Manado, some 250 miles west of | Halmahera. No interception was en- | countered and all Allied planes re- | | turned. | This is the heaviest assault In | weeks . against shipping in thej | Celebes. | Another assault on Thursday was made by Liberators that hit Halma- | hera with 59 tons of bombs. A big | ammunition dump was blown up in the attack which centered on the Lolobata airdrome area in the north- ern part of the island. The Japanese again failed to of- | | fer any interception in this fourth | of a series of raids on the southern stepping stone to the Philippines. | BRI A i . (International) By TEX EASLEY (During Jack Stinnett’s vaca- tion, this column is being written by members of the Washington staff of The Associated Press.) ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The Dies UnAmerican Activities Investi- gating Committee, built up around the personality of an individual, may go out of the picture unless the Re- publicans get control of the House in the November election. Started in 1938, it has been con- tinued from year to year largely through the last-minute appeals of Rep. Martin Dies (D.-Tex.), who is retiring voluntarily from Congress. Dies Commitiee fo Pass Away Unless GOP Gefs Control of House WIDE OCEAN FRONT UNDER BOMBER RAID American E;niral Pacific| Command Planes Make | Long Range Attacks across, in the event of a Democratic House, is a question. | Should the House refuse to cen- tinue the committee, you can expect |that Japanese peace envoys in the; Lieut. Monet-Raisin embraces his wife at the door of their home in C Armored Division, He left home in 1943 to train in North Africa. from Signal Corps) n Highway Abandoned, Although Serviceable g | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — ’I‘hei STAIE DEPT- basis of an investigation by Col.; . Austin Pratt, large amounts of sup- plies and equipment have been ] The salvage egreement with Can- | | ada does not provide for a practical | ! method of selling locally so the g | left in Canada for final disposition. | X | The investigation also reveals that | DemeS JapS A"anged '0 no buildings containing supplies . | have been burned and there is no Have Our Navy-in | condemmed goods of no economic & Officials also said Col. Pratt did| WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The not find any evidence that medical & | supplies have been destroyed. Supplies and Equipment ‘War Department reports that on the abandoned along the Alaska High- | way because not worth the cost of | | shipping home, although serviceable. | | supplies and equipment have been | | evidence of burning anything except Pearl Harbor | value. 1 | State Department declared today | immediate prz-Pearl Harbor per- | french Soldier Has Real Homecoming the town with a Free French combat unit fighting again in the homeland as part of the Second French Buddy at left smiles. (AP Wirephoto ! lu. |most of them battering oil targets {in Germany. a good fight over what disposition is to be made of the 175 file cabinets full of highly confidential informa- tion. Various Federal agencies would UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | HARBOR, Aug. 26.—Striking a wide The next ranking Democratic mem- ber, Joe Starnes of Alabama, lost out in his bid for renomination. A sore spot with the administra- tion, the committee has won five new leases on life. The, last in 1943, continues it until January 3, 11945, Republicans and anti-administra- tion Democrats have rallied behind Dies’ leadership to see that the issue came to the House floor for a roll call vote. The top ranking Republican of the committee, J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, and the Democrat next in order to Starnes, Wirt Courtney of Tennessee, both have expressed their intentions of pressing for con- tinuation of the investigating group if they are reelected. There’s little doubt Thomas could succeed if his party holds the ma- jority in the House, for the Repub- licans unanimously have backed the committee in the past because of its not infrequent disclosures embar- rassing to the Roosevelt administra- tion. Whether Courtney, a new member of the committee, could overcome the opposition of the labor An engineer at the Navy Depart- (Continued on Page Four) element and line up enough Demo- crats to join Republicans to put it ocean front, bombers of the Am- erican Central Pacific Command are reported by Admiral Chester W. Nimftz to have blasted Japanese-| held islands ranging from the vol-| cano group, 700 miles south of Tokyo, to Nauru, west of the Gil- berts. | Land-based Army Liberators were | free of interception as they bombed Iwo and Jima in the volcano group. | American fliers also attacked Pa-| gan and rained bombs on gun posi- tions and storage facilities and fires were started. Navy planes hit Wake on Thurs- | day. | like to acquire a portion of all of these records, which include the names of 1,00,000 individuals. The committee started its work with a single $25,000 appropriation and a single employee, Robert E. Stripling, as its secretary and chief investigator. Appropriations to date have totaled $652,000. Employees have run as high as 40, now number 20, including Stripling, Latest scheduled work of the com- | mittee, and perhaps its last, will be the investigation shortly of the in- fluence and role the labor unions are playing in the current political campaigns. It's looked on by some as a “grudge fight,” inasmuch as the CIO is given credit or blame, as you view it, for the defeat of Starnes and another committee member,| ——————— John M. Costello, Democrat, of Cali- | ERvI E férnia, and for having possibly help- | ed influence Dies in deciding not to | |iod\never raised any question about | | the disposition of American naval forces. | The State Department issued this | statement as a comment upon as-| B U llETI NS sertions made by Rep. Warren G,' Magnusen who told the Seattle | | Post Intelligencer that reports from | frippe= { | both Washington and the Pacific! EDMONTON--WPB Chief Donald Coast indicate the “Japs made a Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick Hur- ‘patsy’ out of our State Depart-‘l"y- enroute to China to discuss ment by contriving to have uurjm)lltary problems, arrived last nls;ht1 fleet bottled up in Pearl land left today on the second lap| Harbor | wherd it could easlly b dealt. a|Of thelr journey. death blow” in 1941. | The State Department’s an-| ROME—French troops at Toulon | nouncement said that “at no time have captured two forts leaving only | did Kurusu during the course of | organized Nazi resistance within his visits here in 1941, or did any |the naval base city centered in the other Japanese representative raise |so-called * -Fours District.” the question to this government u(; the disposition of our naval forces| LONDON-Bulgaria has ordered in the Pacific, likely to p,-ejumce“withdmwal of all German troops | the success of conversations then|on Bulgarian soll. The Germans taking place between the two gov- | may be disarmed if they care to ernments. | remain. “Purthermore, the State Depart- | ment didn’t at any time raise the! g:es::z:wrxl&h We. Neyy. 0¥ war,und the only Germans remaining B ; lare two liaison officers. LATE WAR | LONDON—The Ankara radio says | the German Army has left Sofia seek re-election. ( o M IN G ——————— | ELYSE KNOX AND | crenr macss, stonana. sue | TOM HARMON WED 26—The Western Airlines plan to| inaugurate a passenger and man‘ service from Alaska and Canada to| ANN ARBOR, Aug. 26. — Before 500 guests who crowded St. Mary’s Student Chapel, Elyse Knox, film actress, and Lt. Tom Harmon, Army flier and former University of Michi- gan football player, were married this morning by the Rev. Frank J. McPhillips, Chaplain, and an old friend of Harmon's. September 1, District Traffic Man- ager R. E. McKenna announces. McKenna said the merger of the Inland Airlines and Western Air- lines made possible a revision of the schedules to provide direct connec- tions at Lethbridge, Alberta, with the Trans-Canada Airlines reaching Canadian and Alaskan points. Saburo Kurusu, special Japanese | envoy, came to the United States | WITH THE BRITISH FORCES| for “peace talks” and according|yy pRANCE — A strong force of | to Magnuson, protested to Hull that! gritish troops have established a American naval operations in the new pridgehead across the Seine at | Pacific were giving the militarisis'verrion after a brilliant mapeuver usu’s peace efforts. | six hours. e ——— GENEVA--Edward Kennedy, As-[ PARIS—Edward D Ball, late to-; sociated Press Correspondent with |day says Paris is free but the old | Patch’s Seventh Army in southern } town has a fierce hangover but the | France, has arrived here in an Am- final unconditional surrender was| erican jeep, with one American }signed at 6 p. m. today in a dingy soldier as a guard, traveling well in | baggage master’s office in the Mont ' advance of the American Army. Parahasse railroad station. |Germany enabled the American air I RED ARM ADVANCES, FAST CLIP :ESoviet S@heads Mary Reach Rumanian Capi- tal by Sunday Night MOSCOW, Aug. 26. — Rumanian |troops are reported turning on the | Germans, taking them as prisoners, as the Red Army sped through hGnmml Gap toward Bucharest at | a pace, if maintained, will carrv { the Soviet spearheads into the Ru- , (manian Capital City by Sunday ‘mghl. | The charging Russian troops | |were last officlally reported a littls more than 100 miles from Buch- | |arest, and barely 75 miles from the Ploesti oilfields. The Siret River was crossed 20 miles south of captured Tecuct. | A Red Star dispatch said a pitch- ed battle between Rumanians and |Germans had been witnessed by |Soviet Army observers, indicating the Rumanians have announced intention to fight on the side of |the United Nations. The fight cc- curred beyond Tirguniamiu where the Germans were gathered on n | line of pillboxes. Several hundred .|@ermans were captured by the Ru- - | manians. 4 5" East and northwest of Wursew the Russian position has been bet- tered although the Germans are using tanks and infantry. On the East Prussian front Russian pres- sure is increased. ALLIES PUT SPEARHEADS MANY AREAS Forces Are Wing Toward Both German and Bel- gian Frontiers SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Aug. 26—Allied columns today struck powerfully « toward Germany and Belgium. bridgeheads outinville, France, as he arrives in PLANTS INBIGRAID Thousand l]? Planes in! Smashing New Aerial | Offensive LONDON, Aug. 26—Nearly 1,000] S. Flying Fortresses and Lib- erators today carried a smashing| new aerial offensive against Eur-| ope tarough the third straight day, Others dealt the be- sieged Brittany port of Brest its third pounding in 36 hours. Seven hundred and fifty heavy| bombers and as many escorting fighters ranged over northwest and | southwest Germany for the third secutive blow at Hitler's oil| Daylight blows followed overnight operations in France and Germany. Fourteen hundred RAF bombers made hundreds of flights Friday from British and French bases. Clear weather Four southeast of Paris have been strengthened for eastward assault on Germany. West of Paris the Allied armies whittled on perhaps 40,000 Ger- mans trapped near the Seine's mouth, slashing the dwindling ranks. The German Seventh Army has now been eliminated as a fighting over France and force to drop bombs visually, and| the RAF, before dawn, dumped nearly 1700 tons of bombs on the| Opel Motor Works at Russelsheim between Mainz and Frankfort. entity. The RAF lost 27 planes during| An official report states that late the night while the Allied Axr‘!oday Paris has become fairly quiet Forces lost a total of 78 planes but mopping up operations con- yesterday and last night. How- tinue. ever, the Allies totalled 144 Ger-| American units are spearheaded man aircraft destroyed on the|in many directions but all moving ground and in the air, |toward the German border, while e e others are nearing the Belgium | borders. 'Anl n ( | Remnants of Germans are pock- |eted near the mouth of the Seine . and being racked by artillery. . El sVidimol TWO KETCHIKAN TRIPS Assa ss' nl Two Ketchikan trips were made BERN, Aug. 26.—A dispatch (rom{ this morning by Alaska Coastal the Swiss-Ttalian border said that|planes, the first carrying Maxwell Marshal Antonescu, deposed Ru-|Ewald, Miss N. Nelson, M. Hannah, manian Premier, had been assassin- | and A. D. Lawrence to that city, ated during a coup d'tat at the and the second carrying Jess Tate, palace in Rumania. ic, H. Goodwin, and Mr. and Mrs. the United States via Great Falls on |0f Japan reason for blocking Kur-|in which 40 miles were covered in""ny ' \)ieq camp dispatch, which|Joe Wykoff. Fred Geeslin and E. B. Fisher were passengers to Hoonah on an- other flight early today. — e-——— from the Swiss telegraph| agency, quoted the Italian News Agency, Stefani. There is no con- firmation from Berlin broadcasts, which said that Antonescu had| COVIIRS. HEBR fled from Germany after King | E. F. Coulter, of the Ellis Air Mihai of Rumania had acceptedi Transport in Ketchikan, is a guest the allied surrender terms. at the Baranof Hotel. came