The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 1, 1944, Page 1

'VERDUN FALLS; YANKS HIKE ' Flying Columns of Russians Keep " —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "~ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. XLIL, NO. 9745. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID AY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RED ARMY MOVINGTO | HELP TITO Scouts App—r;—ach Near to Yugoslav-Rumanian Frontier Now MOSCOW, Sept. 1. — The Red Army’s flying columns are today‘ skirting the southern shoulders of | the Transylvanian Alps after marching triumphantly through Bu- charest and are headed in the di- rection of Serbia’s northeastern, mountains where Marshal | Tito’s | Partisans are battling the common | enemy. A junction of the Soviet and Yugoslav Partisan forces is in pros- ! pect in the very near future. Gen. Malinovsky's armored scouts have approached to within 120 | miles of the Yugoslav-Rumanian | frontier. | The German Command is Lryh\gi to organize a new defense line| along the Olt River which runs to| within 75 miles of the Serbian ter- ritory. ————————— ‘ELIZABETH CLARK HERE Elizabeth Acn Clark, of Shena-| doah, Iowa, has registered at the Gastineau Hotel. The Washington| Merry- 92 -Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Most important college of amateur physicians any-| where in the world, npproximat,e]y: 200 strong, now meets Tuesdays and | Fridays at the White House * * *| These are newsmen assigned to cover the President. They assemble, make careful scrutiny, write lengthy analyses of the President’s com-! plexion, nervousness, every facial | expression; try to interpret these in relation to his health * ¢ * Ac- tually the President looks thinner,| not too well tanned, but calm and} fit, though he shows obvious signs| of wearying at the scores of ques-‘ tions thrown at him during press| tussles * * * FDR still knows how| to turn charm on and off, calls | newsmen by their first names, teases them about “dope stories” #* * Since his return from the‘ Alaska trip, Roosevelt is seeing more people than in the last six| months, is growing more aware of domestic issues, though he would like to keep aloof from politics. Henry Wallace — still the Vice President—has just returned from a very unusual trip through the South, almost unpublicized, but with a definite political aim * * * Wallace is already laying ground- work for 1948, has mended fences with bankers, businessmen, edu- cators and editors in Georgia, Ken- tucky, He colled on delegates who voted for him, was the house guest of Mayor Wilson Wyatt in Louisville, Mayor Tom Miller in Austin, spent a week-end at the home of Geor- gia’s Governor Arnall * * * Wallace told one and all that the big job| of liberals and Democrats was re- election of Roosevelt. LEGION AND - AUXILIARY WILL MEET Convention_of—AIaska De-/ Heroic Deed of Alaskan Army Flier in Thrilling Rescue Work Revealed i | Word of his disappearance was | flashed to Ladd Field, Lt. Blakesmith left immediately | HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN DI- VISION OF AIR. TRANSPORT GPRMMAND, * UNITED ¢, BTATES for the scene of the reported dis- | ARMY . AIR FORCES, Sept. 1.—|gppearance and sighted the yellow Tt. Bassell Blakesmith of Clariton, | parachute, but landing was im- Towa, wears a ‘United States Air | possible with his wheeled plane. | Medal for the rescue of a Russian| The next morning, accompanied | flier who wandered two days in the | by Major R. C. Ragle, Officer in | snow after he was pitched from a |Charge of the ATC Search Rescue | Havoc bomber being ferried to the [ Sqaudron, Lt. Blakesmith returned | Russian-German battlefields. with a float plane. They spied the The freak accident occurred July ; Russian vigorously waving and “set 2, 1943, in the barren wasteland |down” on the nearest lake. about 70 miles northeast of Galena,| Lt. Blakesmith set off through the Alaska, but military secrecy forbade | bog land in the direction of the Alaska. telling of the story until now. Russian, a mile or so away, and en- | The morning session tomorrow The parachute of Soviet Airman |route sank up to his armpits in will be a joint meeting of the Le- Lt. Constanta P. Demianenko open- | quagmire. By the time he got back | glon and Auxiliary. Department ed when he was flung out of the|to the float plane, the Russian was | Commander Russell Clithero will Havoc plane enroute to Russia. already there. * call the delegates to order, then i s RPN will follow the invocation, advancing | colors, song “America,” silent \BUlGAklA prayer, solo by Mathilda French, addresses of welcome and responses, recess for the Auxiliary to retire to the Dugout for session, then ad- Government Falls When Pleading Neutrality- aged or Destroyed Seeking Armistice journment for joint luncheon at the Lutheran Church. Afternoon sessions will begin af GENERAL HEADQUARTERS' LONDON, Sept. 1—The Bulgar- IN THE SQUTHWEST PACIFIC, jan Government of Ivan Bagria- Sept. 1. — Catalina flying boats nov fell today shortly after failure 1:30 o'clock and in the evening there will be a mixer for Legion and Aux- damaged and sank a Japanese de- i to win an easy way out of the stroyer Day Session Tomorrow The Twenty-fifth Annual Conven- tion of the American Legion, andi Twenty-second Annual Convention of the Legion Auxiliary, Department i |of Alaska, open tomorrow morning {at 9 o'clock in the Elks Hall. Scores | of delegates are already here from | | posts and units from all parts of CELEBES IS AGAIN HIT, HEAVY RAID Enemy Shipping, Including’ Nip Destroyer, Dam- lowing : From Ketchikan—Mr. and Mrs, Harry Levy, Mrs. Walter King, Mrs. (€. P. Williams, Mrs. David Crocker. From Sitka—Russell L, Clithero, | E. W. VanHorn, Benjamin Miller, Mrs. Hattie Peterman. From Skagway—William H. Met- calfe. From Haines—George Jollie. b From Wrangell — James Boyle, by pleading neutrality amid pong Hynes, Lew Williams. FOR REICH 19TH NAZI ARMYTOLD TO'SCRAM’ g | Command Says "Get Back | | l | | | partment Starfs Three- | o Germany'" as Allies = Chase ‘Em Hard |, ROME, Sept. 1.—Sharp attacks by | Americt tanks and infantry | crumbled the Nazi resistance in the | upper Rhone Valley of southern | France as the Germans fled north- | west at top speed from the pursuing | llies, less than 50 miles from the great city of Lyon. Valence, 55 miles below Lyon, fell at noon yesterday, General Patch’s | headquarters said. LeBourgdupease, | 11 miles northwest, capitulated earl- | fer to Americans closing in (l’om‘ the east. Apparently despairing of ever get- | ting the Nineteenth German Army | out of southern France as an intact | fighting unit, the Nazi Command | ordered the units to “return to Ger- many by their own resources. An | official report said that such an order was given to artillery ‘per- | sonnel in the Nimes area. Prisoners related from Narbonne | that a French flying column is‘ sweeping around the southern Medi- | Lterranean coast and is reported to | be thrusting down the Spanish bor- | dée after sheving througb voints 60 ' miles away with no enemy resist- | ance. PRI 27 A A HOPELESS | SITU AIION' r | President’s recent trip to the Pacific | | 1100 American Airmen, Prisoners of War, Are Sef Free by King Mihai By JOSEPH NORTON BUCHAREST, Sept. 1.—As an troops arrived in this Ru- the ian Capital city yesterday, they mgt 1100 American airmen here, prisoners of war, who were liber- ated the day King Mihai proclaim- ed an armistice Since their liberation the airmen have been given the run of the city. Speeding O PUGEEN———- SWIFT STAB PUTS YANKS OVER MEUSE "Third, Fifth Armies Speed- | ing af Terrific Space- I stood with a group of these| i plucky Yankees and watched lho] Cross |fl'0 Be'glum Soviet motorized columns move | BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. through the streets. Russian Army Enfers Bucharest in American o Built Ar PRESIDENT, CLARELUCE CRITICIZED FDR'sTrip,afigresswom- an’s Columns Subject of Confrovery WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. — The with his Scottie dog Fala, and Rep- resentative iiliary in the Elks Hall Among the delegates already here. and four merchantmen in war another raid Friday on the heav- ily hit Cglebes. with more to arrive during th! afternoon or evening; are the Two tankers and two freighters are ipcluded in the new shipping ‘mdicatiuns of far reaching internal |developments in the Kalkan King- dom. | simultaneously it was disclosed damage in the Celebes where at'the European Advisory Commission Boose, Mrs. Nema Ellis, the latter From Petersburg—Fred Nelson, Ed | Locken, Claire Wilder, Bee Hentze. From Anchorage — J. C. Morris, | Walter Culver, Harvey Smith, Fred | | guest columns for Walter Winchell, | came in for some spirited comment | least 17 other enemy vessels have has drafted armistice terms dem- Department Secretary of the Aux- jMi|i1ary Spokesma been sunk or damaged in recent onstrating British, American and iliary; Walter Mickens, from An- raids |Russian solidarity, on terms which chorage representing Cordova, and !the Balkan satellite must meet to J. W. Kehoe, representing Seward, get out of the conflict as the Rus- Kodiak and Unalaska. sians are pushing along the coun-| i —— .- i t1y’s northern frontier ready to; BODY OF SHoR" HoBSo“ send tank colmun coursing across ;Mllllm‘y e it spreacing across 1S FOUND AT CHATHAM Ewrope that Hungary is trying to | Speaks Out Concerning Rout in No. France Palau Struck Again Liberators struck again at Palau,| eastern approach to the Philippines, causing heavy damage to installa- tions. The bombing and mein city on Mindanao. spokesman today, in communique also reports strafing of Davao, This was situatton “hopeless for the time being.” 1,000 Plane Attack Looms Lt. Gen. Millard Harmon, assum- ing command of all the Army Air EXTENSION OF FISHING viccsTeceved by toe 0. 5. arunars AT PRINCE OF WALES “‘r.w. There was no indication of foul of.« four . wealks the situation Force units in the Pacific areas, 5 R i told interviewers the day is com- | play noted and the matter will be :;f:‘ ;‘;fl:‘e‘z he situstion ing when 1,000 plane formations| According to announcement rromf handled by U. S. Commissioner W. 3 LR o W. Knight at Sitka. S ) can give Japan “a kind of unre-|the office of the Fish and Wildlife AGENT MacSPADDEN mitting bombing that to a large Service, a twelve-hour extension in CONTRIBUTIONS TO in the House during a set-to of | Democrats and Republicans. | Representative Michael Bradley, N Democrat from Pennsylvania, lashed ; at the columns that the Connecticut | Republican has been writing as a | pinch-hitter for Winchell, and said that they contained the “flippant | wisecracking of an irresponsible, un- LONDON, Sept. 1.—The German|reliable gentlewoman who, through an innunendo of insinuations is at- 2| tempting to convince the American broadcast, described the German|people that the President of the in Norttern France .25 United States has callous regard for ! the welfare of the men fighting in areas, he compared the plight of his party who leaped to their feet the Germans as “hopeless” now to| to defend the Congresswoman in her onen and all utilities have been agn | absence,. H had | Luc He said he had read Mrs. columns and found them | “very temperate.” He said she omit- ted some things about the Presi- dent’s trip. ON GAME PATROL | “She did not inform the country extent has been responsible 1orisouth Prince of Wales Sound has 4 Following his return from patrol = N the German i been granted and began this morn- | REPUBLICAN CAMPAIG! ok Ina’ Blika disa Khonrd. the Pikh that the President was accompanied by a flotilla of battleships, cruisers mered Vehides By JOSE! BUCHAREST, Aug. 31.—(Delay- ed,—The Russian Army today en- |tered this Rumanian Capital City |anc moved through in the direction of the Bulgarian frontier. noon, I watched the motorized | " Standing in the heart of the cuy‘ 1.—The German radio tonight says two groups of American | divisions, each pushing en from ’ Verdun, are already overruning | | the Lorraine Basin, annexed by Germany in 1940 and considered as part of the Reich itself. Metz is within artillery range of the advancing Americans. A Headquarters bulletin says |- the British advances have closed | off 80 miles of the rocket bomb coast and the Canadians have captured Dieppe with hardly a shot being fired. | The Berlin broadcast also says American spearheads have | crossed the Belgium, border | Sedan, . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY at | 0w ¥ e |FORCES, Sept. 1.~The mighty isé:mtt column speed through the Amertoah ult P i i laicivang il down the final few miles toward The dusty perspiring crewmen ;\va.«ted little time in waving to the sidewalk throngs, appearing more WET8sea i’ gettind totWelr des< | tination. i I was struck to see that every |single vehicle was American made including the jeeps, amphibious ducks, Command cars, trucks, even the palc blue Ford Sedan covered with a camouflage net. A Rumanian Captain, standing nearby, told, me the first Russian ' morning. The watching the spectacle of the speeding Russians, had little to offer in the way of greeting. A great majority of them stared silently and with anxiety over tne proximity of the Russian troops. Many Rumapians, of Bucharest’s wealthier residents were anxious as to de- velopments. One American resident told me that members of the no- bility had approached one of his friends with an otfer for him to take the jewels out of the country. Although badly torn by a four cay indiscriminate German bomb- the eighth direct attack on the contact the Allies on armistice, The body of Shorty Hobson, na-| g 'ma B ifil { b ] i A g peaking over the German ralio the Pacific.” ing, Bucharest seemed to be getting i lstm;e“'he C‘\‘l"emt 29“31 attack | terms. tive, was “?U“‘{h’“ the waters near|concerning the two big Allixl Rep. Knutson, Republican {rom pack to normal affer the excite- engulfe on August 6. a cannery in Chatham Straits ¥es- |pjoes in the Amiens and Meuse | Minnesota, was one of the many of ment over the change in the po- sition in the war., All stores are restored, Apparently there is an abundance of food. In the German air raids I learn- led that seven hospitals were hit. The damage throughout the city| is far greater than from all Allied the German frontier today after |overwhelming the historic fortress Lcity. of Verdun, less than 560 miles |from the Reich and moving so 'swiftly that official information lagged [ar behind the developments. | The mighty arc formed by the American Third and First Armies also swept to or across the Bel- gium border in the vicinity of Sedan. | Verdun fell yesterday to Patton's Third Army which advanced 65 Clare Boothe Luce’s patrols reached the city Wednesday miles from Rbeims in’ lass & 2 ! hours. g i Swift Stab The swift stab wasimade directly through the "Ary Forest where the Americans fought and died in 1918, and was carried across the |Meuse River at the rear of the old ' Maginot line. Assoclated Press correspondent Edward Ball, wiring from Verdun, says the Americans have plunged beyond Meuse in close pursuit of the Germans who put up only a brief fight for the city. | “Battle for Germany” | “‘The Battle of France' is all but over,” wires Associated Press cor- respondent Willlam White, “What |is now developing is the battle for | Germany.” | To the west, along the coast of France, newly promoted Fleld Marshal Montgomery’s 21st Army \group is in high gear and has roll- |ed up to the buzz bomb coast at ja mile an hour rate and it is announced that Gen. Eberbach, of the German Seventh Army, was captured at breakfast. Louisiana and Texas * * *| breaking military power.” s JAPAN HAS SOMETHING NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—A broad- cast from Tokyo says the enemy will soon experience something never before experienced. The broadcast indicates Japan has something in warfare heretofore un- known. TRUMAN ACCEPTS LAMAR, Mo., Sept. 1. — Demo- cratic Vice-Presidential candidate Ao Austin, Texas, Wallace learn-| garry S, Truman last night ac- ed that Governor Coke Stevenson cepted the nomination, completing gets up at 5:30 every morning, brews his own coffee in the kitchen. Next morning, Wallace and portly political adviser Harold Young showed up at the Governor’s Man- sion at 5:30 a. m., found the Gov- ernor was sleeping late. At 6 a. m. Stevenson came down * * * Wallace | and Young traveled all night by| plane from Austin to Louisville, nr—l‘ rived haggard. and weary at 6 a. m., went to Mayor Wyatt’s home Wallace ducked upstairs, dozed for three hours, leaving Young to handle newsmen -and callers while Mrs. Wyatt kep:‘ young awake with large cups of the political formality. ing at 6 o’clock. | All districts aré now closed in| Southeast Alaska with the exception of the Stikine, which closes Sep- tember 23, and a small section at | Taku Inlet, e MAGAZINES FOR HOSPITAL Anyone having books or maga- zines suitable for children are re- quested to leave them at Room 3 lin the Shattuck Building. The Government Hospital is in need of |reading material for convalescent children and will appreciate any isuch donations. | ——————— | SERVICE MEN HOME § Arriving here last evening by |steamer, were Cleo Commers and CAN BE RECEIVED HERE Mrs. Margaret W. White, Repub- lican National Committeewoman for Alaska, will receive contributions to be used in behalf of the election of Thomas E. Dewey and his run- fighting in the Balkan country was announced today. mation are asked to call at room 2 First National Bank Building, where Mrs. Mernice Murphy is as- sisting in a secretarial capacity. ———— GLOVER BACK FROM SOUTHEAST DISTRICT A. E. Glover, Regional Engineer; for the Forest Service, returned to Jumeau after spending the past two weeks doing admlnistrative and Wildlife Service vessel Grizzly Bear, Agent M./L. MacSpadden left today for a patrol of the Taku district. e, MILDRED HODGES LEAVES After visiting her sister, Mrs. T. J Jacobsen, for several weeks, M iMildred Hodges .- ROBERT DITTMAN 2 A % & A has returned by Persons wishing additional 1n!m-4mm"e to her home in Whitehorse. | Mrs. Jacobsen accompanied her for an indefinite stay. BACK and destroyers that should have been | out far in the Pacific fighting the | Japs. Nither did she comment on | the rumor that Fala, the little Scot- | tie dog, had been inadvertently left | behind in the Aleutians on the re- turn trip and that they did not discover the absence of the little dog until the party reached Seattle, and that it is rumored a destroyer was sent a thousand miles to fetch | him.” —e— WOMEN OF MOOSE | Robert Dittman, son of Mr. and | | Mrs. Michael Haas, has returned to | Juneau to resume his senior year | AT FIRST MEETING studies. Highway. ———————— During the summer he { was employed on the Richardson The Women of the Moose will hold their first fall meeting after a vaca- | tion of three months, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Moose TWO OUT BY PLANE Cora Horton was flown to Anchor- | age today, via Woodley Airways, while Maxine Reynolds was a pas- 1 work at Edna Bay, Ketchikan, ‘Wrangell and Petersburg. MRS. HELGE ARRIVES Ervin Hagerup, both on furlough. Commers will visit his wife, -and | Hagerup, who is with the medical| jcorps, will spend hic furlough with BRICKER TO MAKE TOUR TO PACIFIC EW |his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs.| Mrs. Ida C. Helge and Sophie}senger for Yakutat. | ot A, Seps, 1-mUd% ‘h’hnfli Hagerup. Helge have arrived here and are e e e ! W. Bricker will make an intensive | 3 | v | campaign . speech making Sour | . registered at the Juneau Hotel. HERE FROM HOONAH e r o0 0o 0 0 0 0 0 ——e——— Mrs. Robert Greenewald is here} starting at Bangor Maine, on Sep- | tember 22, going to other places in the East and will also make & wur]: from Hoonah and a guest at the Juneau Hotel. ——ee - SCHUTTPELZ FAMILY RETURNS Mrs. Paul Schuttpelz and three chiidren have returned here from WEALTHER REPORT U. 8. Weather Bureaun coffee * * * Later, press stories (Continyed on Page Four) B i to the West in October. | 0 e Temp. Thursday, Aug. 31. the south where they have been POLICE COURT FINES | HERE FROM SKAGWAY (O In City: Maximum 61, for the past several months. The following were fined in City i L ® minimum 47. e Police Court this morning: Charlie Harry Ask and Charles Ask are e At Airport: Maximum 60, 1. A. Hickey, Jr. has registered Joseph, $25, drunk; Frank James, here from Skagway and are stay- ¢ minimum 42, at the Baranof Hotel from San|$25, drunk; and William Wilson, ing at the Baranof Hotel, $25, drunk and disorderly, ¢ ® ¢ 0o 0 0 9 0 o o o o Apfonio, Texas, - / headquarters in the Seward Build- ing and all members are requésted to attend. The refreshment committee for the month is Emily Smith, Tieza Reischl, Wilma Rhddes, and the entertainment committee is Cora Costello, A. Shannon and Elizabeth Westby. | e eee | MRS. MONAGLE HERE { e | Mrs. John Monagle, wife of Po-| lice Chief John Monagle, has re- turned to Juneau after a short va-| cation in the States. companied by John, Jr, overations in this area combined. 1 - e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 1. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7, Anaconda 27, Beech Aifcraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 614, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International 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 as follows: Industrials, 147.16; rails, 40.87; utilities, 25.24. THURSDAY'S PRICES Closing quotation of American Can Thursday was 91, Anaconda 27'%, Beech Aircralt 9%z, Bethlehem | Steel 61';, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In-i ternational Harvester 807, Kenne- | cott 32'%, North American Aviation | 8'4, New York Central 19%, North- ern Pacific 15%, United States Steel | 58%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Thursday ! were as follows: Industrials, 146.99; rails, 40.89; utilities, 25.28. | e ————— | , MISS BUNTIN HERE | Miss Marjorie Buntin arrived here | today from Seattle, She was re- | cently appointed Public Health Germans Sealed Off | Two British columns, one from Amiens and the other southeast, drove to Longpre, ten miles inland, jand Abbeville, virtually sealing off the Germans along the coast. South through Dieppe and Le 'Havre another British armored 'spearhead raced 22 miles north"to Amiens and Hebuterme, twelve miles south of Arras and 39 miles from the Belglan frontier. The Canadians closed within three miles of Dieppe. The Berlin radio said that three ' American armored divisions and {three motorized divisions reached !Vervins and areas in a 30 mile thrust from Rethel, norjh of Laon. | Vervins is 15 miles from the /Bel- gian border. i i TEACHERS RETURNING Several Juneau teachers have returned with their families; among them are Mrs. Merle Pitts and |baby son and A. N. Eide and wife. Marjorie Tillotson and Ruth Hol- brook aiso arrived. & TURNER OUT TO SCHOOL Wesley 'mm;rTon of Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, is enroute south to attend the Yakima Valley Acad- She was ac- Nurse for the Territorial Depart- emy at Granger, Washington. .. ! ment of Health, father is a teacher at Tee '