The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1944, Page 1

3 pecial 1944 American Legion Convention Ed THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ¢ VOL. XLIL, NO. 9744. FIRST SECTION—PAGES | TO 6 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1944 ME MBLR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIES ADVANCING TOWARD GERMANY CHAMBER IN PROTEST OF RESERVATION Lefter fo Ickes Attacks Ab-| BUCHAREST 1S BELIEVED TAKEN NOW Russians C;f)!—ure Ploesti| 0il Fields Then Make original Rights Advance North Theory | BULLETIN — LONDON, | The Juneau Chamber of Com- Shipping at Paramushiro Under Atfack PESARONOW IN HANDS OF ALLIED ARMY August 31. — The triumphant | Red Army troops marched into the Rumanian Capital City of | Bucharest tonight as a ciimax | to the 12 days of ferocious | fighting in the Balan country and as the dusty soldiers strode down Calea Victorei, Buchar- | est’s main street, another Rus- sian Army 600 miles north, | merce voted unanimously today to| protest to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes against the estab- lishment of fishing reservations bas- ed on aboriginal claims of natives. The seven-page protest will be | | presented at hearings scheduled for next month on three petitions claim- |ing lands and waters in Southeast Alaska. The Chamber argues that the na- | tives never have had such rights as Revolt Is Reported, - Slovakia | also attacked there. ‘Ewml* Army forces are (urthex‘ One of &he Navy Ventura planes linland and are approaching Ch" that carried out the assault was Foglia after occupying Urbina and| damaged in an engagement with pushing on in a five mile advance | SEATTLE IS fought in Warsaw, Poland’s -now asserted for them by the In- Capital City. -terior Department; that if such | rights are recognized the department MOSCOW, Aug. 31, — The Red |has no right to enforce conserva- Army is believed to have entered |tion regulations in such areas and Bucharest after capturing the ‘ the natives would be able to destroy | Ploesti oil fields and preempting, the fish supply by barricading perhaps, over one-third of the Ger- | streams as their ancestors did; that man petroleum supply. | patented lands would not be safe At midnight the Russians were | from reservation ,and neither are 17 miles from the city of 648,000, \mlning sites, townsites, lumber sites after an advance of nearly 40 miles | or the national forests or any lands | during: the day through the capitu- | in Alaska safe; lated Balkan kingdom. 4 Hits Revenue The newspaper Izvestia reported | That if the Indians are given such from Ploesti that the abrupt Red 'reservations and operate canneries Army drive prevented the destruc- ' the ‘Territory would receive no taxes, tion of the Ploesti fields, but added as is the case of the Metiakatla | that serious damage had been done. cannery, and the Territory's reve- | Rumanian oil workers helped the snues would be curtailed for many Russians put out tremendous fires, years; and civilians directed Soviet troops That it was not the intent of, to a large group of Germans dress- | | Congress in. extending the mineral | ed in civilian clothes who were laws, homestead laws, fishing laws, | applying the torch to the right and game laws and creating vast na- left. { tional forests in Alaska that these One army of Gen. Malinovsky's would now be held void because of | big command turned directly north | the theory of aboriginal rights. through the pass leading to Brasov| H. L. Faulkner drew up the pro-| on the trunk railroad line from |test at the request of the Chamber Bucharest to Budapest and Vienna. and a votesof thanks was given him Large groups of Germans and Hun- | for the work. Faulkner spoke, ex- WASHINGTON—It has now been €xactly one year since Prime Min- ister Cburchill and President Roose- | velt met in Quebec and announced | what was considered one of the major campaigns of the entire war, —the drive to retake Burma and| penetrate through China to Japan. During that year absolutely no progress has been made. This fact, coupled with the fact that other\ drives against Japan (under U. s.| command) are far ahead of sched- ule, has caused high officials to review Far Eastern strategy. | It was expected that the cam- paign under Lord Louis Mount-| batten based on India would be synchronized sp that it would gain| certain objectives while the Ameri-| can drive in the Pacific made equal progress. They were to go hand in| hand, converging on Japan at about the same time. However, one Allied blow is now going to hit Japan early and the| other blow is late—so late it may never hit at all. U. S. experts who have studied! the Far Eastern situation make no secret of the fact that conditions in India are one of the big factors holding up the Burma campaign. In this connection, they have had occasion to study a hitherto-un- published letter which Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek wrote to President Roosevelt regarding India. The letter was handed to Sum- garians are known to be massed in plamlng the situation as he saw it.| Hungary-held Transylvania in the J. A. Hellenthal, well-known attor- | RS 5 50 M AT | said that the Interior Department VIOLATES PAROLE | will set up the reservati regard- Inez Johnson Vosotros is under Chamber should pass a resolution arrest by the U, S, Marshal's office asking Secretary Ickes to establish ed sentence by being drunk and' where a white man could make a for disorderly conduct. She is in!living without government interfer- wpose of the scheme is to keep Al- Th w h t 'askan products from the field of e as lng on ‘pmper that in this case it was to Merry Go Round | spike any development of timber \ pointed out how the coal lands of 4% &E m mofi ve | 8100 With the oil lands. First Bureaucrat the 'first bureaucrat came to Al- aska” and they are not to blame but ministration which makes the bu- reaus necessary. Ketchikan attorney; E. B. Kluck- hohn, Vice-President, Seattle First | Miles of Fairbanks, and Harry ! Townsend, mining engineer with Interior have captured Bordeaux, the last great port in Southern path of this force. i ney, also spoke on the subject. He 'less of protest and that perhaps the for violating a parole on a suspend- | a white man’s reservation in Alaska the Federal jail awaiting a hearing. ence. Hellenthal said that the pur-\ | competition in the United States tracts in Southeast Alaska. He also § Anlsn have been placed in reserve g 5 Hellenthal said, “I was here when rather the policy of the Federal ad- Guests included W. C. Arnold, National Bank; the Rev. M. L. headquarters in Seattle. | GRS , DONDON—Prench Forces of the France held by the Germans. MOSCOW — WPB Chief Donald Nelson and Brig. Gen. Patrick Hurley have arrived here by plane portant China mission. LONDON Czechoslovakian underground forces have seized al- 'most all Slovak territory, according to advices received here tonight. WASHINGTON — Reflecting the period of heaviest fighting in lenroute to Chungking on an im-| three enemy Fighter planes. ALASKA AIR NEEDS TOLD, BULWINKLE turned from a 24 day, 11,000 mue aviation investigation trip, Repre- seutative Alfred L. Bulwinkle, North Carolina, said that Alaska needs transportation facilities for future development that has “great possibilities,” and that this posses- sion “is one of the great gateways of international aviation commerce of the future with Siberia and the | Orient.” Bulwinkle is the Chairman of the House Aviation Committee who, with seven other congressmen, made | four Alaska stops, eight in the con- Canada. He told reporters that ‘f the United States is to maintain kept up. “If we have a good strong com- mercial air force we will have the backlog of national air defense,” he said. Martha Society Meets Tomorrow Following a vacation during the summer months, the Martha Society will resume its meetings tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the par- lors of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mrs. Delbert Dixon and Mrs. George Andy Baker. WORD RECEIVED, DEATH OF MRS. HALM'S FATHER| News of the sudden death this week in Seattle of Josia Goodwin, father of Mrs. John B. Halm, for- merly of Juneau, has been received here. Mr. Goodwin is well acquainted ir this city, having made many friends during a visit with his ieral years ago. chikan. ———.—.—— CDA RUMMAGE SALE WILL BE SATURDAY All persons having donations for the CDA rummage sale, scheduled for Saturday morning at 10 o’clock in the vacant building on Franklin Street between Third and Fourth, {are requested to take them to the designated place anytime after 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. If the donations are too large they will be picked up if the individual will call Blue 520. —— e —— ner Welles, the Under Secretary of Northern France, the total army (Continued on Page Four) ust 13. Mrs. Harry Pike has registered age. WASHINGTON, _Aug, %31, - - Re | of | |tinental United States end one in| her share of world air commerce| after the war, production must be| daughter and son-in-law here sev- Mr. and Mrs. Halm left Juneau| last spring for the states and re-| cently established a home at Ket- | thxough difficult mountain terrain |in the Appennines. | The situation of the Fifth Army /front in the west remained un- {(-hangcd. | | ——————— AMERICANS PUSHING UP RHONERIVER Fleeing Germans Only Give Battle When Hard Pressed—Nice Taken - i pl S : BULLETIN — ROME, Aug. 31.—American troops, pursuing | the fleeing Germans up the Rhene Valley, occupied Val- ence tonight while the French pushed on and entered Moni- pellier, six miles inland. The French are also reported to have punched through Beziers and Narbonne, the latter only | 60 miles from the Spanish bor- der. the German Nineteenth Army to- ‘day raced desperately north toward Lyon, fighting costly rearguard ac- tion to the pursuing Americans only when necessary. Other American Seventy Army units moved through the French Riviera metropolis of Nice toward {the Italian frontier some 12 miles ahead. Nice with a population of 200,- 000, the largest of Riveria’s play- grounds, was taken without op- position and damage was confined chiefly to the harbor area. The Seventh Army, since 1t swarmed ashore, has captured over 50,000 Germans and additional |thousands will be rounded up in the cutting to pieces of pockets of the enemy along the Rhone. Late yesterday the Germans lock- led in a sharp battle with the Am- ericans south of Valence but later |broke away and fled when their avenue of escape was threatened. e | GAME LICENSE OFFICE TO REMAIN OPEN, 6 P.M. For the convenience of those who plan to hunt this season and who have arranged a trip for this week- end but have been unable to get to the Fish and Wildlife Service office before closing time to obtain a hunt- ing license, the office will remain open until 6 o'clock beginning to- cording to an announcement. | The license, which will permit the purchaser to hunt deer, moose, grouse and ptarmigan during the open season, may be obtained at the game license office on the fourth floor of the Federal Building. Spe- cial elevator service has also been assured so that individuals will not but can conserve their energy for casualties jumped to 284,383 to Aug- at the Juneau Hotel from Anchor- treking up the mountains after the game. ROME, Aug. 31. — Remnants of | night and through Saturday, ac-| be required to climb the four flights, WINNER IN (By Associated Press) Hollywood and San Francisco di- | vided a doubleheader last night the Stars taking the opener, aided by two errors by the Seals, but the Seals took the nightcap for ‘Harrell’s 19th win. Little Ad Liska, Portland’s sub- {morine ball specialist, set San Diego down 3 to 1 last night in a |5-hit game. | Mel €teiner’s single into the right ficld scored Reimondi in the ninth inning last night and broke the tie, giving Oakland a 3 to 2 victory over Los Angeles, After spotting Sacramento a 2-0 lead, Seattle came from behind last night for a 3-2 win in a 13-inning battle. Christopher drove in the winning run with a single after two men were out. GAMES WEDNESDAY | Pacific Coast League San Francisco 2, 3; Hollywuud 8.1 San Diego 1, Portland 3. Sacramento 2, Seattle 3. Los Angeles 2, Oakland 3. National League Mew York 2, Boston 4. Pittsburgh 5, 3; Chicago 12, 6. Philadelphia 2, Brooklyn 10. Cincinnati-St. Louis postponed. American League Boston 7, New York 9. Chicago 8, Detroit 3. St. Louis 8, Cleveland 12. Wasnington 9, Philadelphia 4. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pct. !Los Angeles 85 61 582 Portland 5 70 5117 San Francisco 4 72 507 }Hohywood 4 3 503 ° Seattle 3 4 497 Ogklana ... mn 75 486 Sacramento 68 8 466 San Diego ... 65 82 442 Natignal League ! Won Lost Pct St. Louis ... 91 30 152 Pittsburgh 5 50 587 Cincinnati .. 67 51 568 |New York 57 67 460 Chicago 54 1 432 Boston 50 4 403 | PhiladPlphla 47 72 395 Brooklyn 48 7 384 American League i Won Lost Pect. St. Louis ....... 1 55 563 New York 67 58 536 Detroit 66 58 532 | Boston .68 60 .53 Philadelphia 62 68 A4T7 iCleveland . 61 67 ATT Chicago ... .58 67 464 | Washington 53 3 421 JACK FLETCHER HEADS - WAR FINANCE (OM. According to announcement to- day by the Territorial War Fi- nance Committee, Jack Fletcher has accepted the position of chairman for the Volunteer War Finance Committee of Gastineau Channel. Mr. Fletcher replaces Mrs. John evening at 7 o'clock in McCormick who recently resigned. 13 INNINGS | 25th Annual Convention, ' American Legion, Opening Saturday, 3-Day Session WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Ameri- H | (By Associated Press) The twenty fifth annual con- |can bombers sank one Jap vessel | |mp0l18fl' An(hor n GET- Berlin today acknowledged a revo- vention of the Alaska Department, and damaged three others in raids| ks lutionary movement has broken out 'American Legion and American Le- on the Kuriles last Sunday, the| man GOthIC Lll'le Fa"S in the puppet state of Slovakia and 'gion Auxiliary, will be held in Ju- Navy reports. | some garrisons have deserted. Ineau heginning Saturday, continu- Eleventh Army Air Force Liber-) as TTOOPS Advan(e The DNB says riots have occurred o gunday and Monday and end- ators, raiding Paramushiro, sank an —_— at several places in Slovakia and g with o grand ball next Monday lenemy patrol vessel and badly dam-| ROME, Aug. 30. — The Adriatic| quoted the German Forelgn Office ', qing in the Elks Ballroom. aged another and a direct hit was|port of Pesaro, one of the eastern| spokesman as saying these could be " ,py o will pe the annual election also scored on a medium seized|anchors of the German Gothic traced to the activity of Partisans o; ,eficers of both Legion and tanker by Navy search planes at-|lne, has fallen to Polish '-“WPS":l'i‘:“ig“"“"fm“”‘h“l Tito of YUgO- |\ iliary and transacting of im- tacking shipping near Paramushiro, and Allied forces are now in con- g : et iportant business by both organiza- Another large cargo ship was/tact with strong enemy positions ’Tk}\‘e PT’B nltz sa;dso\llflmez‘\listn@ tions. bombed by Navy planes at Suri-|further inland after storming woss\fm.‘..estg,gf;‘ ,;‘frderza“,(r“;,.hfs't;‘ An elaborate program of enter- bachi causing heavy explosions and the Foglia River in a broad front.| . g violation of women. _ S ition " [talnment hes been arranged, in- another enemy patrol vessel was|, The communique said that other | |cluding not only the grand ball,! but also a mixer Saturday evening.| The 40 and 8 will also hold a| Grand Promenade and wreck, elect officers and a banquet. Delegates will be pr P(nsts and Units Alasku ent from all in LEGION HEAD Russell Clithero of Sitka, Alaska Department Commander, Amer- ican Legion. DELEGATE HERE Walter Mickens of Anchorage, Past Alaska Department Com- mander, American Legion, who is now in Juneau for convention. HEINTZLEMAN FLIES T0 KETCHIKAN ON BUSINESS Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman flew to Ketchikan to- day to meet another group of rep- resentatives from the Crown-Zel- lerbach Paper Corporation who are there to view the large pulp timber unit the Forest Service is blocking out for the inspecticn of any par- ties interested in its purchase. Mr. Heintzleman is expected to return to his office here within a week. >, SEWING CLUB TO MEET A meeting of the “Stitch and| Chatter” 4-H Club will be heid this | the home of Juanita Diag, fash |daily sessions start. * time long to be remembered. Southeast | including Ketchikan, Wran- | | American Legion and Auxiliary in | | | | | | | i | | TANK FORCES OF BRITISH TAKE AMIENS 1L, Petersburg, Sitka and skag- | ON€@ American Force Press- way, and from Kodiak, Palmer, . . Anchorage, Valdez, Cordova, Un- Ing Upon Maglnof alaska, Seward and Fairbanks. The : A westward and interior posts for lllle '0 Re"h the most part, have delegates here already or are represented by prox- ies. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY Southeast Alaska delegates to the couvention are due today or at the latest Saturday when the 3-day The Juneau Post and Auxiliary will upnold the reputation of Ju- neau for giving the visitors a good The program for the convention follows: September 1 (Friday) Registration of Delegates and FORCES, Aug. 31.—British tanks have captured Amiens and smash- ed across the Somme River in a lightning 60-mile drive in 48 hours and found the Germans in Tull flight back to the Reich before four onrushing Allied armies, The British raced the American columns, which overran Laon, and stabbed on north more than two miles and are within 33 miles of the Belgium border. The with such bewildering speed over- | Ballroom. (vived by two sons, Royal, now in visitors at Legion Dugout. September 2 (Saturday) 9:00 a. m~Joint meeting of the whelmed three trainloads of Ger- man soldiers trying to escape. “The British advance was prac~ tically uncontested along the 150~ Elks Hall. mile arc at Somme and approaching Call to order by Department|the Meuse River, indicating the Commander Russell Clithero. Germans have given up the last pre- Invocation. tense of a rearguard stand in the Advancing of Colors, open in the flight through Belgium Song: “America.” and back to their imperiled home- land, 5 The Somme has been considered as a natural barrier along which the enemy might try some sort of the American Legion by Past De-|® Stand but the capture of Amiens, partment Commander J. C. Morris,| Which straddles the river, blasted Address of welcome: | this possibility, By Ernest Gruening, Governor| With the Canadians mopping up the big river port of Rouen, 25 Silent prayer. Solo by Mathilda French, accom- panied by Mrs. Trevor Davis. Preamble to the Constitution of e o fles inland from Di nd the By A. B. Hayes, Mayor of Ju-|™Miles inland from Dieppe, a ey . yor of JU| British 35 miles inland from Abbe- Responses : ville, garrisons of the German robot Waino, E. Hendrickson, Pirss| 2% Sorcon bottled, the remainder of the German forces are deemed to a “no rest” period anywhere. One American force heading for the German frontier captured St. Dizier, 18 miles of fallen Vitry and pressed on to within 40 miles of the reversed Maginot Line in the Saar Valley, border of Germany. In 1940 the Germans won the battle for France by skirting the Maginot Line. LARGE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS OUT FOR SOUTH Leaving Juneau yesterday for Seattle on 8 southbound steamer were the following persons: Joseph Ketelson, Ray Peacock, Ernest Baudrup, Frank Rice, Mrs. Dorothy Webster, Mrs, May Jacks, Harry L. Vice Commander. Lillian L. King, President De- partment Auxiliary. Altred L. Zenger, Forty & Eight. Greetings: E. L. Keithahn, Commander, Alford John Bradford Post No. 4. Mabel Lybeck, President, Alford John Bradford Auxiliary. Reading of messages of greet- ing. Recess: To permit Ladies of the Augxiliary to retire to Legion Dug- out for session. Call to order: Appointment of committees. Retiring of Colors. Adjournment, “12:00 noon—Legion and Auxiliary lincheon at Lutheran Church. 1:30 p. m—Business session. 8:30 p. m—Legion and Auxiliary mixer in Elks Hall. September 3 (Sunday) i 9:00 a. m.—Joint -Child Welfare breakfast (Baranof Hotel) (no{Myers, E. L Thornhill, Mrs. Ivy host.) M. DeLance, Mrs. Lily Durand, 1:00 p. m-—Past Presidents’|Charles Durand, Mrs. William Luncheon (Iris Room.) Lewls. 1:00 p. m—Forty & Eight Grand Mrs. M. E. Burreson, Ruth Bur- Promenade and Wreck (Leglon|,eson, Barbara Burreson, Thomas | PogoI). |Hill, Mrs. J. O. Willoughby, Louise 2:00 p. m-Sightseeing trips agams, Virginia Shattuck, Archie (leaving from Baranof Hotel) Stewart, R. J. Sommers, Bobbie 5 to 7 p. m—Open house at USO.|sommers, O. H. Stai, Jack Hynes, 6:30 p. m—Forty & Eight Ban- 10 N. Knapper, William Ba quet. (Mike’s Place, Douglas). R Bunnrlc:p. $ m B Fresno, and J. G. Shepard, of Ju-|*® neau, now in Nome. L The brief announcement of the LA s:l’::"l";:s:n;m;:g | Clyde J. Triplette, H. J. Beoker, 15-00¥Nox;n rwm” . L. D. Whittingham, Paul Pierre, 4 i Eva Schwartz, Gene Erwin, Westey 1:30 p. m—Business session. |"Purner, Mrs. T. A. Pugh, Michael 3"30"” ';1—"“““ Assembly, In-|pugh Mrs. Paul Meyers, Earl E. {stallation of Newly Elected Officers pephyr, James Burton, Pvt. Daniel {in Elks Hall. Walker. ;’a‘}“m?- m.—Convention Banquet. | Robert E. Paris, J. O. Willoughby, 00 p. m—Grand Ball In EIkS gygh L. McKenzie, W. A. Arm- (Open to the public). [strong, Mrs, Lucine Senescu, Bar- tbara Joy Senescu, D. W. Crow, Kenneth Neyens, Terry Lennon, olD“MER SHEPARD Lester M. Jones, Steve W. Emer- son, Gus Skematakes, Charles Ray- D'B ll ulm““uwmond. Lewis Brown, L. A. Orvalla, Peler Lutchkl, George Wood, A, J. H. R. Shepard. 80, pioneer of |McCloskey, and Dave Abraham. Juneau, died this morning in| Passengers for Ketchikan were Presno, Calif, where he had been|Capt. Charles Hartman, Helen for the past year. Shepard left/Cummings, Mae M. Smith, Elsie Juneau about three years ago for Stauffer and E. L. Bartlett. the south where he resided with| T his daughter, Mrs. B. B. Neidtnr' MBI 0 R oy until going to California. WELTHER REPORT Besides his daughter he is sur- ® e U. S. Weather Bureau ' Temperatures August 30 At Ajrport: Maximum 62, minimum 53, rainfall .19. * |death was received by the Elks ® I Juneau: Maximum 60, Lodge in Juneau of which Sheparda ® minimum 53; raipfall 35. was a charter member. LB o T LE R RN ENERENE ]