The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9743. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = | GERMANS ARE RETREATING FROM ALLIES Russians Within 29 Miles of Bulgarian Fr CONSTANTA TAKEN BY RED ARMY BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 30.—Russian troops have captured Ploesti, Stalin an- nounced tonight, and the whole Ploesti oil region is in the hands of the Red Army. The capture of the fields and re- fineries means an estimated loss to the Germans of 2.000,000 tons annual producing sapacity. ARMY DEPOT INKURILES IS SET ABLALE By NORMAN BELL ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, Aug. 26. — (Delayed) — Liberator bomber pilots of the Eleventh AAF report| seeing 25 to 50 buildings in flames after raiding the Kashiwabara Army Depot on Paramushiro, n the Kuriles, today, one of the most active days in the North Pacific air war against the island chain. After this early morning strike, other Liberators and Venturas of Fleet Air Wing Four struck Kurile Czech Army s OEraling Underground Forces Are at Work - Report Capture Important Junction LONDON, Aug. 30.—The Czecho- slavak Underground Army has come into the open as a fighting unit, the first communique deliver- ed to London by the Underground radio said. It reported the capture of the town of Cadea and fierce fighting against the Germans in three areas. Cadca is an important railway AMBON IN MOLUCCAS ATTACKED iBarracks AEo_Harbor Left| in Mass of Flames Following Raid | GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN| | THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug{ 30—A record heavy raid in the Moluccas in which 188 tons of boml were dropped on Ambon is repo: | today by Gen. Douglas MacArthury Ambon is just west of Dutch New Dewey Plans Big Campaign 0l619_0 Miles Seven Major Speeches to Be Delivered by Re- publican Nominee CHICAGO, Aug. 30. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will make a 6,700 mile cross-country campaign in September, delivering seven major speeches, GOP National Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr. announced. | BALTIC PORTS, NAZICITIES ARE BLASTED Robot Bommes Also Hit in Huge Overnight Air Attacks LONDON, Aug. 30. — Supporting Russian armies in the north, one of the greatest masses of British| heavy bombers ever dispatched bombed the Baltic ports of Konigs- berg and Stettin last night while Mosquitos stabbed Berlin and Ham- LATE WAR | BULLETINS ROME—United States troops, forging up the Rhone Valley, have reached to within six miles of Valence, 27 miles upriver from Montelimar and about 115 miles from Marseille. LONDON—The German radio said the Russians have resumed the offensive north of Warsaw, * breached the German lin threaten to outflank the Polis) Capital City and menace East Prussia defenses also, LONDON — The Berlin radio tonight says American troops have driven almost to St. Did- dier, about 80 miles from the ont NAZI FORCES ROLLING BACK, 'NORTH FRANCE | American @l, Infantry Approaching Laon, 38 Miles from Belgium PORT CITY OF ROUEN REPORTED EVACUATED In Southern France, Amer- icans Meet Germans | MOSCOW, Aug. 30—Beaten Ger-jnstallations and shipping in a day- mans have fled from their last|jgnt triple threat offensive. Docks, burg today. Five hundred escorted U. 8. | Guinea. The nominee’s tour will begin September 7 when he will go to German border. Such a thrust means the closest approach yet | junction south of Jablonica Pass Liberators and Lightning escorts stronghold on the Black Sea as the Russians, with troops within 29 miles -of Bulgaria, appealed to the| Bulgars to support the quick lib- eration of the Balkans. i The capture of Constanta, Ru- mania’s largest port on the Baltic,| appears likely to be followed within a few hours of a complete mop-up | of the scattered German forces. | The Soviet armored columns were last reported 37 miles north-|strafed one patrol boat, sinking it.! east of the Wallachia Province from | which the Germans have been| routed. The Germans left in dis-| order and so hurriedly that roads, | rails and bridges ‘escaped demolit- jon and little sabotage is reported. The Russian forces are moving quickly on Bucharest and the Plo- esti oil field zone. i Rumanian and Soviet troops have | invaded Transylvania, part of Hun-!| gary since 1940, but the Berlin| broadcast says they have been| thrown back in the Buzua area. | Hungary is reported to have a| new Government of German Gen-| erals and garrisons are being has- | tily increased. German units were reported | withdrawing from Greece and the | Nazis are reported marching north | along the Bulgar outposts. | The Washington| Merry - gg -Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON—It has been ex- actly one year this week since Cor- dell Hull demanded the ousting of his, Undersecretary of State Sum-| ner Welles. It is a long way be- tween Washington, D. C., and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but events in Rio now make it possible to reveal the first break in the nasty row| between Hull and Welles. These events go to the root of our entire Good Neighbor policy and shed penetrating light on our present row with Argentina. Last week in Rio, Foreign Min- ister Aranha, greatest Latin Am- erican friend of the U.S.A., re- signed. He had been Ambassador in Washington, studied American politics, toured the U.S.A. from coast to coast, emphatically be- lieved that Brazil's destiny must go hand in hand with that of the United States. He was virtually forced out by the fascist clique in the Brazilian Army which wants to get together with the pro-Nazi clique in the Ar- gentine Army. President Vargas, supposed friend of the U.S.A., was not strong enough to override the Army. He let them get away with closing up the Society of Friends of the United States just as For- eign Minister Aranha, vice chair-| man of the organization, was about to make a speech before it. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery was honorary chairman. Closing the pro-American society| was a cold-blooded, calculated slap| at Aranha’s pro-American policy, and the State Department is now| minus its best supporter in ail| South America. Two and a half years before, Sumner Welles faced almost the same problem with the Brazilian Army, and it led to his downfall, too. Welles was in Rio de Janeiro as Dr. Berneta . Block, supply dumps and barges on On- nekotan Island, south of Para- mushiro, were smashed and burning. Navy Venturas made a follow up of the Liberator attack on the same targets, strafing shipping. All planes returned safely from the three missions. One Ventura roared down to within 50 feet over the sea and ——————— HULLFEARS HITLERMAY - TRY ESCAPE WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Secre- | tary of State Cordell Hull said that Germany is evidently desirous of a negotiated peace, but the Allied position for unconditional surrender is too well known to require reitera- | | tion. Hull also declared that the Am- lerican Government is constantly in mind of the fact that Hitler and some of his henchmen may try to escape Germany and go to neutral countries. The Government, he said, is working on that problem, Since military men expressed their apprehension that Hitler might find sanctuary in Argentina or Spain. FOUR FLIGHTS TODAY FOR ALASKA COASTAL Two trips were made to Sitka today by Alaska Coastal planes; the first carrying Verna Crone, Ole Tang, Jr., and Mrs. Ole Tang to that city and Herloff Tang to ‘Tenakee. The second flight carried M. Far- rell, Joe Metherin, A. Van Mavern, and M. Admonsen to Sitka, and returned Charles Beach, Pete James, Daniel Klanoth, Bill For- sythe, and Jack Gucker to Juneau. Carl Vanson, Mrs. Jack Westfall, Major Lovgren, Eleanor Terry, and Mary Buell were passengers for Ketchikan. A second flight to the same city took Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Holland, G. Forshang, W. F. Syn- der, Mrs. Mabel Reed, and Tom Henderson. ——— . — OSTERBECK HERE George Osterbeck has registered at the Juneau Hotel from Cordova. — e — MULLEN GOES SOUTH J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank, flew south to- day by PAA plane. ———.———— ART MARTIN TO CHICAGO Art Martin, of the PAA, left to- day for Chicago to attend the Na- tional Airline Dispatchers’ Conven- tion. e DR. BLOCK’S NEW SECRETARY Mrs. Margaret McCarron, of Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, recently took over her new duties as secretary to Director of Maternal Ghild Health and Crip- pled Children Service. Mrs. Mc- Carren's husband is Rent Director- (Continued on Page Four) Attorney for the Office of Price! Administration in Juneau. left| {and the lines lead from the Slovak ' jo¢¢ the Ambon barracks and harbor |capital of Bratislava to Berlin and ', pacs of flames and offshore a Krakow. | 3,000-ton ship was set ablaze. The raiders encountered no op- position. | Palau harbor was hit, Peleliu air- |strip and seaplane base at Koror were also targets bombed. | Patrol planes hit oil installations |at Boela and attacked the village |of Kaoce on Halmahera. ISLE OFF ~ SO.FRANCE ~ GIVESUP Porquerolles Surrenders fo Cruiser Omahi After Bombardment | U. 5. Now Has | Greatest Naval - | Power on High Seas | g WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — | Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal today reported the United States has “the great- est naval power on earth.” Sixty-five thousand vessels of all types have been built in the past five years and the giant “ armada of ‘hew Gralt Fepresents nine million tons of naval ship- ping of a total tonnage. Approximately 36 percent of the new craft is made up of wasships, 22 percent landing craft and the remainder aux- iliaries of other types. 'RUSSIANS HAVE | | | | | i WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. — The | Philadelphia to give his first prin- cipal address. In other cities Dewey will give speeches, each scheduled for a 30- minute broadcast, nationally. The cities include Louisville, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City. In Seattle, his speech is set for September 18. SENATOR NORRIS IS RESTING WELL McCOOK, Neb., Aug. 30.—Former Senator George Norris, who suf- fered a cerebral hemorrhage yes- terday spent a ‘“pretty geod night” and is resting easily, daéctors said. .- FDR GIVES DATE OF FIRST SPEECH 1944 CAMPAIGN | heavies attacked robot bomb sites in northern France. The U. S. ar- mada flew through rain and low clouds to make the attack just in front of Allied armies, flanking the Pas de Calais area near the English Channel. More than 1,000 heavy bombers participated irr the overnight at- tacks, unloading approximately 1500 tons of high explosives and incendiaries on Stettin and another great cargo of destruction on Konigsberg. ALLIES FIGHT PARATROOPS, ITALY FRONT Eighth AmT Dislodging Nazis in Fierce Battle OF 5,000 PLANES IAKE“ DEHVERY | surrender of the island of Porquer- olles to the United States cruiser | Omaha in connection with the in- | vasion of Southern France, is re- | ported officially today by Secretary, WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.— Presi- dent Roosevelt said he will make in Adiaiic End | CINCINNATIA Aug. 30.—Russian | | " of Navy James V. Forrestal. s e e aes ar, e, | Forrestal said the island, off the ilivery of nearly 5,000 Amencan‘ coast of Soucherl?.l?rance, was sgub- | : « bornly defended” but the garrison planes sinte Sept_/em.ber 1942, ¢ | ran up the white flag of surrender The Ferrying Division of the Air|fo)owing several days bombardment Transport Command in making the by the Omaha. disclosure also reported the opera-| —eeo——— tion of two new overseas ferrying | routes which have virtual streeL‘MoS(ow I—N car schedules. { 3 Brig. Gen. Bob Nowland, Com-| mander of the Division, announced | the existence of the “Snowball”| APPEAL Io and “Crescent” routes. The first is over the North Atlantic to Eng-| S land and the other is a companion of the “Fireball” line which reaches | NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—The Fed- eral Communications Commission from Miami to India. The ferrying service from the Arctic to Russia began September 3, 1942, when Capt., then Lieut., has reported a Moscow broadcast & appealing to the Spaniards to oust it e o3 the Franco regime and break with ‘!the Germans “to gain a place for has returned from a trip to the westward. H 'Louise Adams South . . On Vacation Trip Edmund Averman, Jr. of Pitts- burgh, led the flight of A-20s to BACK FB'?M WESTWARD Spain among the democratic, free- Attorney General Henry Roden|dom loving nations.” — MRS. HAAS RETURNS Mrs. Mary Haas, who has been visiting to the interior and west- ward, has returned to her Juneau home. ——.——— DOROTHY RUSSELL BACK Dorothy Russ:ll,—s-ecretary to Dr. |George Hayes, is back at her desk \after a short vacation spent in the jcountry. — -, WELL BABY CONFERENCE The regular weekly Well Baby Conference will be held Thursday from one to four o'clock in the i’alwrnoon at the Juneau Public Health Center in the Territorial | Building. CULVER HERE Walter Culver, of Anchorage, is in Juneau as a delegate t6 the American Legion, Department of Alaska, convention which opens on Saturday amnd continues for three Ldnys. Miss Louise Adams, daughter of !Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Adams, sails ifor the south today on a three | weeks’ vacation from her duties at ithe First national Bank. | Miss Adams plans to spend the {greater part of her time visiting |friends in Seattle and Everett. .- MULVANEY HERE | Byron Mulvaney, of Park City, |Utah, is a guest at the Baranof| Hotel. —— TWO OUT VIA PAA Mary Taugh and Mary E. More left today for Fairbanks, via Pan American World Airways. Mrs. More will continue to Nome. .- FLIES TO KETCHIKAN Mrs. Mabel Reed flew to Ket- chikan today on a business trip and his first political speech of the campaign in Washington on the evening of September 23 before a group to be organized by Daniel Tobin, President of the Internation-| al Brotherhood of Teamsters. e SAYS TURKS HARBORING NAZISPIES Russian Newspaper Ac- cuses Turkey of Double- crossing Allies MOSCOW, Aug. 30.—The semi- official newspaper Pravda, has ac- cused Turkey of harboring German spies and turning her diplomatic break with the Nazis into a “friend- ly rupture.” With Russian troops closer to the Dardanelles than at any time since the First World War, Pravda | asserted that German diplomatic, military and commercial attaches are still in Ankara, 20 days after | ROME, Aug. 30. — Smashing through veteran German parachute troops in the first full blown attack on the Italian front in recent weeks, British and Polish trogps |are driving the enemy off the last hill positions before the Adriatic end of the Gothic line, and are now within 18 miles of the Po Valley rim. to the Reich’s frontier. LONDON—Formations of Am- erican bombers battered the continent today, bombing the . German ports of Kiel and Brem- | en through clouds. Robot bomb platforms were also hit. LONDON — American troops have attacked the fleeing Ger- mans attempting to cross the Drome River in their escape into Germany. COMMAND CIN FRANCE IS CHANGED | Bradley Is to Have Equal | Status with Montgomery fo Be Announcement ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—A new command of organization in France giving * Bradley equal status with Montgomery as Army group com- mander is reported to be nearly ready for formal announcement. Such a change in command has previously been reported by corre- spondents at Eisenhower's Head- | quarters. | The report is received critically Crossing from lfaly BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 30.—The United Nations radio at Algiers broadcasts an an- nouncement saying American troops have occupied Laon, 36 miles from Belgium. LONDON, Aug. 30. — American steel and infantry have thrust to | within 38 miles of the Belgian bor- ‘dpr, and are battling on the ap- ’pronches to Laon, and in a quick | rollback, the Germans are retreat- {ing from the Alsne River to the west. The German Command declares ! the port city of Rauen on the Seine has been evacuated. British spearheads bit as deep as /20 miles above the Seine between +Paris and the sea and are heading toward the great “buzz bomb" base on the coast. Slicing France Two great Allied wings are swiftly slicing up northern France. The United States Third Army is* rolling forward northeast of Paris | from two bridgeheads over the Aisne |at Soissons and Pontarch and 14 | miles farther east struck within two miles of Laon, 19 miles beyond | Soissons and put the Belgian border but 38 miles ahead. Mile An Hour These columns are picking up more than one mile an hour, Other units of Pulton's Ay penetrated into Montaign. 10 mibles 4 southeast of Laom, 50 miles from Sedan Gate. In South ¥ramce | The battle in southern France is ! nearing completion and the two ‘Heavy fighting is reported as the py some in Britaim, Bowever, who great Allled invasion forces liberat- Eighth Army dislodged the crack interpreted the equal status of Brad- | ing France now stand only 190 miles Nazi First Parachute Division, re- ley as a “demotion” for, Montgom- apart and the distance is narrowed formed since the defeat of Caccino, from the three mile long ridge overlooking the Foglio River after crossing the Arzilla River, Foglio flows into the Adriatic at the heavily fortified town of Pes- aro which would be threatened with being outflanked if the advance further inland continued. On the coast, the British forces operating with the Poles advanced more than two miles beyond Fano to capture the ridge and put the Eighth Army elements in Monte Cigcardo, eight miles southwest of Pessaro. Mrs. Norton Flies Soulh _Aiter Visit After a two weeks' visit in Ju- their scheduled departure. The ar- |neau, Mrs. Louise Norton flew south ticle carried the dateline of Batum,lwday via PAA, returning to her ery. | 1In the original invasion organi- zation, Montgomery was not only ' troops, but also Senior Commander of all Allied ground forces. Persons closely in touch with the | situation today, said, however, the British criticisms are unwarranted and that a change was inevitable _since Eisenhower took his head- quarters to France and assumed personal command of operations. Al JUNEAU HUNTERS ARE READY FOR SEASON OPENING Deer season opens on Friday and ities which will take them out of ing. Many are planning to leave |local sportsmen are arranging par- {the city for a week-end of hunt-| |by the Americans, 15 miles beyond | Troyes, southeast of Paris in Piney. | Patch’s Seventh Army is fighting The Field Commander of the British up the Rhone Valley and engaged | the Germans more than 100 miles | above Marsellle, hitting as the en- emy tried to escape. across the Drome River which flows into the Rhone. | Most of the German Nineteenth | Army has been wiped out, as a fight- | ing force, in the fortnight old battle. | 800 Vehicles Abandoned The retreating Germans have abandoned more than 800 vehicles and the bag of prisoners topped 45,000. » The Americans are near the Ital- jan frontie® at a point 90 miles | above Nice but some units have been [forced back by the Germans re- | portedly crossing into Prance from Italy. French troops, advancing 13 miles farther west of the Rhode, reached Bagnols. The battle at Brest, tip of Brit- tanny Peninsula, continues against | the nearest Russian Black Sea port to Turkey. two columns and the significance can hardly be overemphasized. .- MAXINE MULVIHILL HERE Maxine Mulvihill, of Anchorage, visited in Juneau today with her father, V. W. Mulvihill. She is en- route to Seattle to resume her studies at the Holy Names Acad- emy. ® o o o 0 o o o WEATHER REPORT U. 8. Weather Bureau Temp. Wednesday, Aug. 29. In City: Maximum 56, minimum 52; rainfall .13. At Airport: Maximum 57, [4 is expected to return within two or three days. minimum 50. ® 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 It was spread over| home in Seattle. While in this city, the former well known Juneau woman was the guest of her brother and sister- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skuse land of her son and daughter-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. William Norton. During her visit Mrs. Norton was entertained informally by her friends and prior to her departure was honored at the home of Mrs. Sam Guyot at a re-union of the old Altar Society, of wmch. she was formerly an active member. - CABARLOC REMAINS SOUTH The remains of Adriano Cabarloc, 40-year-old Filipino, who died Aug- ust 25, in St. Ann’s Hospital, are en- route South for burial at Mountain e View, California, by small pleasure craft, others are stubborn resistance. to be taken to the hunting areas iby plane while still others will do it the hard way and go on foot. | STO(K o“o“llo"s September 1 also marks the —_— opening of the Moose season, as| NEW YORK, Aug. 30. — Closing well as that of mountain goat and'quotation of Alaska Juneau mine bear. Duck shooting is scheduled stock today is 6%, American Can to open September 21. |92, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel wildlife agents remind - hunters 61%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- that the bag limit for deer is two tional Harvester 80%, Kennecott and for moose, only one. A bag/32%, North American Aviation 8%, limit of two is allowed for both New York Central 19%, Northern goat and bear. Pacific 15%, United States Steel B 58%. Pound $4.04. . MICKEN HERE Dow, Jones averages today are |as_ follows: industrials 147.28, ralls 40.95, utilities 25.31. Walter Micken, Past Commander of the American Legion, has ar- ———— — rived in Juneau from Anchorage| Fifty-four business blocks in for attendance at the Department Little Rock, Ark, have been rat- Convention opering Saturday. proofed.