The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AL aEluRD 22 1944 ST g —— amcnnncn. ST s VOL. XLIL, NO. 9742. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —————) AMERICANS NEAR THE BELGIAN BORDER Kuriles Island Under Attack For Two Days ONNEKOTAN HIT TWICE OMBERS FiresStarieMlsleGfiard- ing Backdoor Ap- proach fo Tokyo UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | HARBOR, Aug. 29.—A'two-day raid | by American ‘planes against On- nekotan Island, northern Kuriles, and strikes against Japanese bases in the Marianas south of Tokyo in the Central Pacific, is the announce- | ment made by Admiral Chester W, | Nimitz. Onnekotan is near the far end of | the island chain guarding the back- | door of the approach to Tokyo. | The island was hit first by Navy Venturas. The planes dropped bombs on buildings and small craft off-| shore. 1 Enemy planes failed to appear. { Big Liberators based in the Aleu- | tians made a second attack, pound- ing warehouse facilities and piers, | starting fires. | All pianes returned safely to bases | from the two attacks. | Previously, two of the Eleventh 1 Army Air Force medium bombers | sank an enemy patrol w ssel near | Paramushiro, north of Onnekotan. ‘Former Senator 6. Norris Is Seriously lll, Nebraska Home McCOOK, Nebraska, Aug. 29.— George Norris, 83, former veteran Independent United States Senator from Nebraska, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, physicians said, and he is unconscious but resting easily. | The Washington|. Merry - _(_ig -Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON —U. 8. and for-| eign diplomats have been in a| packstage ferment over the ousting|| of Ambassador William Phillips from London as political adviser to General Eisenhower. Officially, Phillips came home fcr; “personal reasons.” Actually, how- ever, he was asked to leave London| because, last year, he wrote a let- ter to President Roosevelt criticiz- ing British policy in India and| recommending Indian independence. The Phillips letter, published in this column on July 25, has caused the cables to burn up between Washington and London ever since. The British first demanded an of- ficial explanation from -the State Department. Later, Foreign Min- ister Eden personally demanded Phillips’ recail. In addition, the British demand- ed the recall of George Merrell from New Delhi. Merrell, a car- eer man of long standing, has been acting chief of the U. S. mission in India during Phillips’ absence, and was sympathetic toward Indian| independence. He has resigned and will return home shortly. Phillips technically is® still the President’s special Ambassador to India, though for the last few months he has been atlached to Eisenhower’s personal staff in Lon- don to advise on French, Belgian and other European problems. Since | Phillips was on Eisenhower’s staff, not accredited to the British Gov-| ernment, his recall is considered highly unusual, &lmost withott| precedent. | In effect, the British objected to the fact that Phillips made a re- port to his chief, the President of the United States, regarding India. Members of the diplomatic corps| point out that, in 1888, the United States asked British Ambassador (Continued on Page Four) |elected as congressional |January 3, ol TRIPLE HEADACH Here are the three making it hot f Patton, Jr., (left) commander of { Omar 8. Bradley (center), commar E FOR NAZIS or the Germans: Lt. Gen. George S. he armed U. 8, 3rd Army; Lt. Gen. nder of U. 8. ground forces in north- ern France, and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander under Gen. Eisenhower of all Allied forces in that northyesiern theatre of war. l]ngesl Shullie In Any Wa Roufe r Theatre Is Disclosed; 3500 Mile "CINDERELLA!” ] Tacoma stenographer Janis Page only a short time ago sat at her typewriter and dreamed of be- coming an opera star. A vacation . vitit to Los Angeles gave her a chance to sing in public. Her audience was a crowded house of servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen, It led fo a long term contract. NEW DELEGATE MAY BESEATED BEFORE JAN. 3 WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.— Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond has intro- duced a bill to provide that persons delegate from Alaska for the term beginning 1945, shall fill any vacancy in the office between Sep- Dimond has been appointed and confirmed as United States District Judge for the Third Division, and Alaska’s new delegate will be elect- ed September 12, [bases ‘ SEVENTH ARMY AIR FORCE | HEADQUARTERS IN THE CEN- | TRAL PACIFIC, Aug. 24— (Delay- ' ed)—The longest shuttle bombing |route in any war 'mile triangle, reaching from ithe Central to Southwest Pacific bases |—has been pioneered successfully | by the American Army and Navy | |1and ‘based heavy bombers and re- |connaissance planes, Brig. Gen. | Robert M. Douglas, Jr, Comman- !der of the Seventh AAF, discloses. This shuttle over the ocean run {made possible the first aerial at- (tacks on reconnaissance flights over the Japanese-held Marianas Islands region, 1075 miles southeast of Tokyo. The shuttle route operated this way: Yank planes took off from in the Marshalls, bombed Saipan, Guam and other Japanese Marianas strongholds, flew to bases in ‘the Admiralties'and again blast- {ed the enemy, Carolines on the re- i,tum trip. Two days were required in the single mission. ' GOVERNOR GRUENING FLIES T0 ANCHORAGE | Gov. Erne$t Gruening was sched- |uled to fly to Anchorage today on |the first leg of an official trip to Westward and Interior points. He |is expected to be away for at least [two weeks. . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Istock today is 6%, American Can |91%, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 161%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- |tional Harvester 80, Kennecott 32%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 19, Northern Pacific 157%, United States Steel 58%. Pound $4.04. | Dow, Jones averages today are iLembex‘ 12, 1944, and January 3, as follows: industrials 147.12, rails 1945, 40.72, utilities 25.22. . ik . DARDEN HERE W. L. Darden, of Anchorage, ar- rived here recently and is registered | at the Gastineau Hotel, theatte — 3500 | ALL DANUBE - DELTA IS IN RED HANDS Germans Admit that Soviet Troops Are Rushing in on Every Side BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 29. — The German radio said tonight “very bitter fight- ing is taking place between the Rumanian and German troops in Bucharest and Plo- esti. One division of Elite anti-aircraft troops are believed to be in the Ploesti oil district, 35 miles north of Bucharest, driven there by King Mihai's rededicated Army. The Ru- manians are bitterly fighting and appear well equipped.” MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—Swift Rus- sian drives through Rumania ap- proached the great oil center of Ploesti and Bucharest as one army d across a 75 mile stretch on ithc Danube and another knifed 15 miles inside Hungarian held Trans- |ylvania. Hungarian and German |troops are reported to be massing |in Transylvania. A sudden Russian push through | passes in the Carpathians gave the |Red Army a good base in the town lof Bretscu on- the railroad and | highway. | The German communique said {that the Russians are “rushing in |on all sides” and |Buzau, 40 miles northeast of Plo- 60 miles from Bucharest. Bu- |zau is a rail junction, 60 miles west |of Braila, the large Danube pgrt |wlm-h the Russians captured last |night. | +poure ! The entire Danube delta is in| ‘\Ru:,sl:«n hands. Troops which cross- led the Danube on a wide front |are racing toward the Black Sea |port of Constanta, and are on roads |leading to Bucharest from east and |northéast. Moscow speculated that |Russian forces will reach Buchar- est tomorrow. In the north, the Red Army cap- |tured fifty towns and villages, south |of the East Prussian border, ap- parently & significant break in Ger- ;man positions before the Masuarian Lakes. { The Second White Russian Army |toppled the communications center lof Ostrow and Mazowiecka, 50 miles inortheast of Warsaw as part of the advances along the 21 mile sector in that front. Russians approached |within nine miles of the Narew |River for a crossing which will out~ flank Warsaw. NAZI STEEL WALL THREE - MILESAWAY [Eighth Army Close fo Ger- man Forfifications in ltaly ROME, Aug. 29.—Forward ele- ments of the Eighth Army, advanc- ing along the eastern half of the Italian Front, pushed to one point within three miles of the formidable concrete and steel fortifications of |the Nazis on the Gothic Line, Al- \lied Headquarters announced. The (communique disclosed that infantry and tanks surged forward through- out the sector. Polish forces on the coast, occu- pying the town of Fano, are estab- lishing a line on the southern bank of the Arzilla River. Fusther inland Iother units . punched across the Arzilla. It appeared, however, that the enemy’s voluntary withdrawal has ended as the Nazis settled them- selves and prepared their defenses on which thousands of men have toiled in recent months, Democra | i, | President, and Harry S. Truman President, sit down for lunch bene | House la: Objedi ons Are By CHARL C. HASLET (During Jack S nett’s vacation this column is g written by members of the Washington Staff of The Associated Press.) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — In- to any exten- reclamation creasing opposition irrigation and part sive program as of a post-war public works- plan is apparent in | Congress. | Objections to use of government Imoney in reclalming arid or semi- |arid lands through irrigation come iprimarily from eastern and mid- western congressmen Who express the belief that submarginal lands should not be put into cultivation normally has a ‘when the nation \crop surplus. | Rep. Clifford R. Hope (R-Kas), iranking minority member of the | House Agriculture committee, |maintains that arid land should be | Democratic candidates Franklin D. Roosvelt, for his fourth term as 2 to discuss their campaign plans, (AP Wirephoto) Mad Spending Government | Money on Arid Lands have captured! fic Ticket SECOND RAID REPORTED ON (CELEBES AREA | \Four Japanese Freighters Are Bombed-Parked Planes Destroyed | GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 29 —Four Japanese freighters were destroyed or damaged in another Allied raid on the Celebes, Head- quarters announced this Tuesday | morning. | The merchantmen were hit by {Navy patrol bombers off Manado, \Celebes, last Sunday. They averaged 11,000 tons each. In another aerial assault four parked planes of the Japanese were destroyed at the Liang Airdrome, Ambonia. The raid Sunday followed the at- tack of last Saturday when heavy masthead high assaults on shipping |off Manado resulted in seven | freighter transports and a light | cruiser being destroyed or severely | damaged. ( Aerial poundings in many sections |15 tie result of operations from the new airfield on Middleburg Island off Sansapor, northwest tip of | Dutch Guinea, just disclosed by Gen. | Douglas MacArthur, | | | (left), for his first term as Vice- ath a magnolia tree on the White efo | 3 Fourteen - year - old Gus Cazac, former Empire newsie, and who has been employed at a cannery during his vacation, has lost his wallet containing $120, his season's velvet. Anycne finding the wallet will do a real humane act by returning it. st s DONALD NELSON T0 GET NEW JOB SAYS FERGUSON WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Senator Homer Ferguson, Republican of Michigan, said he understood from irrigation and needed and developed through reclamation ‘“only as not in order to make work for some one or with a view fo using | the land sometime in the future.” For many years, Hope recalls,| there was traditional opposition to irrigation projects in Congress from mentbers representing the east and middle west. However, several large | xrrigfihnu public power projects, authorized by Congress before Pearl | Harbor hdd support of easterners.' Hope says this support was grant- | ed because of the public power | feature and not irrigation. . | From another middle western House meniber comes the question: “If America finds herself with a crop surplus again after the war ends, what would be the object of spending money to create new pro- duction which would lower prices son had been picked to succeed James Brynes as War Mobilization China. Ferguson said he understood that the President’s plan is to turn over to the War Production Board Chair- man the direction of the gigantic (’Cunttnue‘d on Page Siz) INAZIS ARE N FLIGHT By EDWARD D. BALL CHATEAU THIERRY, Aug. 29.— American troops, fighting over the rolling green battlefields where doughboys and marines immortal- | ized themselves in 1918, occupied | Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood |in a smash that swept across the valley of the Marne to the ap- proaches of Rheims today. Gen. Patton’s forces®encountered only minor resistance from the Ger- | mans, whose main body is in head- long flight toward the homeland and Belgium. The enemy traffic clogged | | routes are under heavy, assault by | | Allied armored spearheads and from ; the air. Farther east of Chateau Thierry, | another American force crossed the | Marne and is driving forward rnp-" idly. 1 | The Aisne-Marne memorial over- | | looking Chateau Thierry and the| | American cemetery at Belleau Wood have not been molested by the Ger- mans and the grounds have been kept up throughout the war by French caretakers. - - MISS MATHESON SOUTH Miss Alida Matheson, Assistant USO Director, left for the south| today by plane on a vacation lrlp] of four weeks which will take her to her home in New York City. 1 iMilitary jand a guest at the Baranof, task of demobilization. Byrnes indicated a desire to be re- | lieved of his present duties when convenient and he emphatically ex- pressed his desire to turn over the demobilization task to some other man. HEARINGS BEGIN THIS MORNING ON LAND SETTLEMENTS TOULON IS ~ DESTROYED ROME, Aug. 29, — Headquarters | says the great naval base at Toulon was practically destroyed by Allied bombs and German demolitions pe- fore the garrison surrendered. | ‘Wreckage of scores ‘ul ships dots 4 : . | the harbor. | Hearings on land cases were | started today in the court rooms BIDD[E SAVS To of the Federal building and are |being presented before appointed | Commissioners Charles Naghel, BREAK pOWER oF John HY Walmer and Minard Mill. NAZI MONOPOUES The dispute is over the amount tendered by the government to owners of property in this vicinity !which property was taken for use WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—AULOr-|after the outbreak of the war. ney General Francis Biddle has| Agtorney R. E. Robertson is rep- proposed that the Allied POWerS pesenting property owners “break the power of German mon- Mullen, Joseph Kendler and Mrs. opolistic firms, because they con- plorine Housel. Howard Stabler stitute a definite menace to the jg the attorney for Mr. and Mrs. future peace of the world.” | Floyd Fagerson. Testifying before the Senate, Assistant District Attorney R. Subcommittee inquiring 1, Tollefson and Land Agent Har- into cartel arrangements, Biddle g)d Bean are Tepresenting the gov- said that the purpose of breaking ernment. up the power of the German mon-, Following the heamngs, reports opolies “wouldn’t ‘be to destroy Ger- will be made to the Federal Court man economic life, but to put its for continuation of the suits and industries in a form where they settlements will be made. no longer constitute a menace to, the civilized world.” BALWINS LEAVE — - Mr. and Mrs. Donald Baldwin left E. T. Gross, of Todd, is in town today for Whitehorse, via Pan Am- erican World Airways, “reliable sources” that Donald Nel- | Director upon Nelson's return from | Ferguson added that he heard | J. P AMERICANS FIGHTING. ON 0LD GROUNDS Carvifig Wamross North- ern France to First World War Areas LONDON, Aug. 29. — American lcolumns, veulting the historic Marne river, punched to the out- skirts of Chateau Thierry and are within 86 miles of Rheim, swift | strikes carving through Northern | France and these carried the Am- | ericans to within 76 miles of the | Belgian border, elso bégan to flank | the Germans' rocket bomb location on the coast, already menaced by |the drives across the Seine between | Paris and the sea. !, In Southern France the nazi de- !fenders are being cHopped up by the same strategy and envelopment moves of the American and French troops that have tightened the trap lon the Germans in the Rhone | | \ _\C()nN’lIled on Page :Sia;; 70 MILES T0 REACH GERMANY Yanks Take Chateau Thier- 1y and Soissons, Near- ' ing Nazi Border | ‘[ STAFF HEADQUARTERS OF IAMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, Aug. 20.—American troops | have occupled the historic Chateau | Thierry and Soissons on the Aisne. | Soissons was the scene of the Am- {erican First and Second Division | battles in the First World War, 55 | miles northeast of Paris and 70 | miles from the German border. Parallel columns sweeping north reached areas around Fismes, 16 miles east of Soissons and came over the upper Marne in two places be- | tween Chalons and Vitry, less than 50 miles from Verdun, a scant 100 miles from the German border. The last Nazi resistance has been | crushed in the Paris area and the | United States Pifth Army Corps has captured Labourget airfield, where | Lindbergh landed, and the suburb | of - Montmorency, where the Ger- { mans made their last stand down the river on the Seine, American and British bridgeheads {at Nantes and Vernon linked a | solid front 25 to 30 miles wide. The | attack speared eleven miles north of the stream, almost to the Paris- | Rouen highway, | A npew British bridgehead near | Louviers deepened eight miles north of the river and Canadians, from their crossing at Pont De Larche, fought their way to within a sight of historic Rouen, only four and a half miles away. THREE MEMBERS - ARE INITIATED BY ROTARIANS Howard D. Stabler, first president jof Juneau Rotary Club when it was organized in 1935, was the main speaker at the noon meeting today, initiating three new mem- bers into the aims and purposes lof the service club. New Rotarians are G. A. Belford, |Bruce Kendall and Robert Martin. | Regional Forester B. Frank |Heintzleman spoke briefly on his |recent trips concerning post-war | and + agricultural develop- timber |ment of Alaska. Guests included Sgt. Paul S. 'Swensson, U. 8. Signal Corps, and Clifford Davis of Seattle, foods rep- | resentative.