The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” st VOL. XLII., NO. 9746. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS POUND TOWARD GERMANY ‘Russians Rushing Along New Balkan Front + BULGARIANS WANTBATTLE WITH HITLER Riofs Break_EUi in Sofia When New Govern- meniBeing Formed MOSCOW, Sept. 2—Bulgaria reached a turning point as rioters in Sofia clamored for war against| Germany and the Red Army raced | along her northern border at a rate | which, in a few days, should bring | it to the spot where Yugoslavia, | Rumania and Bulgaria join. The ! country waited for the formation of a new government after the resignation of Premier Bagrianov who stepped out even while Peace | Delegates were meeting American | and British representatives at Cairo. Russian armor under Malinovsky probably less than 150 miles north- | east of Yugoslavia, is driving acx‘oss; the plains between the Transyl- | vanian Alps and the Danube, ap-i parently seeking to make some con- (Continued on Page Sir) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. -Allen now on -mve service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — Texas’ ebullient | Martin Dies, chairman of the House | committee to probe un-American’ activities, has just put into effect | some new wrinkles of his own in| American nepotism. | He has put his ll-year-old son | on the Congressional payroll as an | office clerk at a salary of $2400, | plus 15 percent for overtime. Ac- tually, son Robert is in school in Missouri, but he draws this lush salary just the same. In addition, Mrs. Dies is on her | husband’s Congressional payroll to the tune of $3,900, plus 15 percent for overtime. ! However, neither Mrs. Dies nor | son have much opportunity to col- | lect overtime, nor does Dies him- i self. He and his famliy have been absent from Washington ever since | he debated with Walter Winchell | last March. In fact, Dies has one | of the worst absentee records in | the entire Congress. Apparently, Dies took a to-hell- | with-public-opinion attitude after | he announced that he would not | run again. Up until that time, he had his secretary, Mrs. Hazel Boise Cooper, on the Congressional pay- roll at $3,900. She was paid out | of the secretarial allotment given to each Congressman. But after Dies decided not to run again, he transferred Mrs. Cooper to the pay- | roll of the un-American activities committee and put his 11-year-old son on in her place. Thus, the total take for the Dies family from the taxpayer is $16,- 300, not counting the fact that | Dies’ personal secretary is paid out | of funds for the committee sup- posed to be investigating un-Am-‘ erican activities. PARALLELS TO LAST WAR | Sometimes history repeats, some- times it doesn’t. Anyway, here are some interesting parallels to the last war. ! On September 26, 1918, Bulgm‘ia; swrendered. In this war, on Aug- ust 26, 1944, Bulgaria sued for| peace. On October 6, 1918, Turkey, them a belligerent, proposed peace. | this war, Turkey, a neutral, broker with the Axis on August 1, 1944. | On September 29, 1918, the Ger- | man Supreme Command asked the | Kaiser to propose peace—though | the Allies didn't know it at that| time to the move by German army of- ficers in July to force Hitler to| surrender, resulting in their purge. i In the last war, when the Kaiser delayed answering the September (Continued on Page Four) | fensive | Line, THUNDERBOLT ESCAPES ITS OWN LIGHTNING RIDING SPECTACULARLY, but safely, out of the chaos of destruction it has just achieved, a P-47 is seen framed in this remarkable action picture. Pilot Capt. Raymond Walsh, Long I risked his neck flying low to blast a Nazi ammunition truck in Brittany ar flame while the plana comes bravely through. U. S. AAF photo. Thunderbolt YANKS BET WAR OVER, TWO WEEKS Rush Ih;agh France Causes Wave of Optim- ism Among Soldiers By WES GALLAGHER WITH THE UNITED STATES THIRD ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 2—Verdun and St. Mihiel, blood- stained battlegrounds which cost hundreds of thousands of lives a generation ago, fell before Lt. Gen. George Patton's racing armored and infantry columns with fewer casual- ties than a good size patrol actien cost in the last war. Tanned, hard-eyed, young Amer- icans, driving forward in the very salient where their fathers launch- ed the first great American of- under Gen. Pershing 26 years ago, found little more than memories to oppose them as the once mighty Wehrmacht fled in con- fusion. Tank columns went through the Argonne Forest at 40 miles an | hour, with only scattered rifle shots to oppose them, as the Third Army | rushed towards Germany, less than 49 miles away and reached, ap- proaches to the rear of the Maginot It appeared that Hitler’s last hope was to make a stand before the rusty Siegfried Line, but it is doubtful if he can make it before Patton reaches it. Thus far, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- armies going at top speed without pausing for a regroup or refit since July 25, when the first great break- | | out blow struck. As Allied forces dash toward Ger- many, a wave of optimism is sweep- ing the soldiers and officers. Bets are common that the war will be | ov.ur in two ot three weeks, but older | heads caution that Hitler is still in the saddle and may be really able to make a last ditch stand in Ger- | many. - MARTHA SOCIETY MEETS The Martha Society held its first is This probably was analagous | fall meeting yesterday afternoon in Baranof Hotel. Lthe church parlor: with Mrs. Del- bert Dixon and Mrs. George Baker eon. 'SIGNAL CORPSMAN | hower has accomplished a modern | { miracle in France by keeping the | | as cohostesses for the dessert lunch- | e o o . L o 4 R : 'POSTWAR e NO EMPIRE MONDAY B le e . C As is the usual custom, the e e Empire will not publish e| e Monday, Labor Day, but any e e important war or other world o events will be bulletined in e D l S( U SS E D e the windows. . . . | @ © o o o ©o o o o o . AT TEMPLE TONIGHTi Army Planners A formal U;duncc will be| held this evening from 9:30 to 12 WASHINGTON, Sept. Gen. ? George C. Marshall has told Army o'clock at the Scottish Rite Tem- ple and all servicemen and GSO planners that the postwar Ameri- girls are invited to be present for lcan Army must consist of the smallest possible professional or- the affair. Music will be provided by the Servicemen’s Orchestra. ganization with citizen reserves, be- _ : 1so CaUSe @ large standing army “has A special invitation oS 8180155 place in the institutions of been cxtlcnzlied !;)(;:nbcls :Ju xln)n Al- modern democratic state.” gion and their ladies and although & 2 it : the -dance. is formal, any, of the| 8 Girective, 1t ‘s learned, has Legion ladies will welcome in|Just been issued as the basic policy informal dress. (of all officers planning a+perman- —,———— ® be Tt lent postwar army organization. |contains, however, the warning that SEV.ERAI. DEER la wartime army may be needed {long after the defeat of the Axis | powers in order to ablish peace ALREADY SHOT time :ondmms agreed on by the | Allies, The first deer of the season were| 1t contains, also, the statement that the policy of the directive brought in to Juneau yesterday afternoon from points on Douglas | Island. The deer are reported’ to be high up, and those killed are in fine condition. | Today many hunters have left or are leaving the city for hunting during the weekend and Labor Day. is based upon the assumption that !Congress will approve the system | {of un 1 military training under which “every able-bodied |American shall be trained for the rdefense of his count ' remaining a member of the reserve compon- |ents of the army for “a reasonable |period” after his training is com- plewd BRINGS IN FIRST DEER OF SEASON NEXI MONDAY | went huntmg the first day of 'he\ season on Douglas Island with Sgt Aaron Abts, also of the Sig Corps, was the first Signal Coms J man again this year to bring in a ! deer. Leadbetter shot a 10ur~puim buck weighing 150 pounds and dis- played it in front of the Federal 5 Building at 2 p. m. on the opening | Next Monday, Labor Day, is a day, yesterday. | holiday in Juneau—for some offices Tl | —as stores are closed. MRS. PETERMAN HERE | Territorial offices will be closed | but the majority of the Federal of- Mrs. R. D. Peterman, of Sitka, |fices will be opened the required in town and staying at the number of hours. L The banks and city offices are Sorerbragiiur i ‘obsening the holiday as usual. IN FROM GUSTAVUS ! - - Lonnie MacIntosh, Treasury De- Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Roberts and | partment Enforcement Officer, has It was decided at the session to daughter have arrived here from returned to his headquarters in Ju- hold a rummage sale on Septem- Gustavus and are guests at the Gas- | neau after spending the past two ber. 22 ! tiiy \ 3 Hotel, ! months in Seaftle, # now time to plan a constructive pro- | { young | AMER. LEGION 'CONVENTION INSESSION Huxiliary Unit Also Meel- ing - First Gatherings German Troops Slayers as From0 SMITH By | War Correspondent for the | Associated Press | [ WILLIAM WHITE PLOMIGON, France, H |Near the Belgian Borde ept. 2. lage, 14 French male civilians were | | The Twenty-fifth annual conven- murdered by the Germans in cold | ion of the American Legion, Alaskan | plood | | b | afternoon /in the garrison fled from this town Turn They Flee nrushing Allies ’BATTLE OF FRANCE 1§ NEAR END Invasion Spreads fo Low Countries - Germans Release Water 1 been severe Each head has axe wounds, Relatives of those murdered said| the tragedy occurred Thursday| before the 200 Germans Department, and the Twenty-second | The bodies of the 14 lie in annuval convention of the L(-gmn‘\,,m,) terrible line. jAuxiliary was called to order at 9| 1 nave just seen those bodies. 4. m, this morning by Department They have been grotesquely mu-| { Commander Russell Clithero. [ i i Clithero stated that the Leglon| py eqgh, the arms and legs { was holding a convention at this i time because the war would end | sooner than expected and it was POVALLEY GATES ARE NOW OPEN German Gothic Line i in Italy Is Broken on | 20-Mile Front | ROME, Sept. 2. — The British gram for the days of peace. Clithero’s Talk In his opening remarks, Ruswll C]llh(*x 0, of Sitka, Department Com- | | mander, said in part that “Victory| in Europe is now certain and may | | come sooner than we dared hope, | the experts say. The same, except | for the time element, may be said of the war on the Asiatic Front. | The BIG DAY is coming—we know i that for sure. Like our Ice Pool it can’t last forever, and the ‘break- jup’ may come any time now. | i “But after Hitler and Hirohito | have been sent to JoWi their an-| cestors (if any) our biggest and most | ! important battles will still be ahead of us. The day hostilities cease will| Eighth Army troops have broken be the day the American Legion|the Nazis' vaunted Gothic Line in, must redouble its efforts to win the rtaly along a 20 mile front, opening war. The fact is that the United the gates to the Po Valley, Allied States can lose this war through greadquarters said. pressure-group activities after it has| 5 spokesman declared that it is won it through the valor of om"mm. & matber of G before oome armed forces overseas. | plete destruction of all German “When hostilitis cease, enemy forces in Italy is accomplished. agents working through stooge or-| The Gothic Line operation is the ganizations hiding behind a religious v to the last phase of the Ital- or humanitarian front, will spare no |, campaign. Fortifications there err‘;n”m e ?“} rz:acfir':’m represent next to the last prepared and other concessions for our pres-| ;e non nositions of any depth of . £ They will even as! ent enem hey, will - even ask |, o tonce in Italy. | clemency those responsible for | bt | While British troops broke through defenses near the Adriatic! to a depth of four miles, the Am-| erican Fitth Army crossed the Arno, River from Florence west to the| sea. | Part of the |advances were { for t( ontinued on I’agc Two) MESSAGETO CONVENTION BY GOVERNOR In his message to the Legion con- vention, Gov. Gruening covered un- “limited ground and made many per- tinent suggestions. Excerpts from | the message, at the morning session today, follow “Fellow Lcgionnaire: of the Auxiliary, while it is a great pleasure to send this message to the Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of | M E E‘l‘ lAS'l‘ NIGH]’ the Alaska Department of the Am-| erican Legion that pleasure is temp- ! ered by the sincere regret at not being | At a meeting of the City Council| |able, on account of official matters jast night a regulation was adopt- elsewhere in the Territory, to beled and passed which prohibits pri-| present personally, to have met and |yate cars from traveling du“m,‘ }“““d with the delegates of the Le- | ine plowing of the fire alarm. Cars| i‘)‘:}‘:;‘t’:’ ;fif;“:lfiu’;:‘x:’gs ‘"“‘"L’i’“m are now required to pull to the AIGROR, 9 lcurb when the alarm sounds and| ”v‘l‘:“(’)‘nl";cgf“,‘; ‘;f)‘:“g’a’;‘“l‘:w"‘;'u’;d”}z:‘ |remain there until the last blast of | tune hitherto to know.So T have asked (1h¢ fire horn. e a0 Sur friend, Liewellyn M. Williams| AR smendment wasslse passed | Lew to you—a fellow-Legionnaire, in |17 Fegard to regulating gas storage private life a fellow-newspaper man, |2t the Small Boat Harbor. and now also fellow-servant of the| TaX assessment protests were read | people, to convey my message to you.|and are to be taken up at a later | T trust that your stay in Juneau will date and an application for the ‘be pleasant in every way and that| transfer of the liquor license for the visitors to the Capital will enjoy the Juneau Inn from the firm of | the hospitality of their Legionnaire F. M. Kardanoff and Jack D. Jadoff | hosts as much as I know the latter to Jack D. Jadoff as sole owner,! will enjoy extending it. |was granted \ | “A Legion convention h always| Councilmen made plans to in- ‘ | been an occasion of good cheer and |vestigate the possibility of fire boat‘ | good fellowship. Whatever the skies service for waterfront properties | |over the Gastineau Channel may|and reports in regard to this are | |have to offer, ‘it'’s alwa spectacular American accomplished by Negro troops. The 92nd Infantry) Division smashed across the Arno |in the face of heavy resistance and struck southeast to the slopes dom- inating Pisa and the hills of Massa, behind Pisa, whi afforded the enemy excellent obsefvation of the {entire west coast sect; American oops of Jap ancestry occupied the | southwest »mm (1 Pm and Massa. | COUNCILMEN PASS NEW REGULATIONS, and friends 5 800d 1o be made at a later session. weathfr when good fellows get to-| A request from the city of Wran- 'gether I am sure it will be 50 for|ge) (o horrow the services of Hugh this Twenty-fifth convention Ev(-nlA““lm City Engineer, was read| | in wartime recreation and diversion |, 4 permission was granted. Mr. ! .::Ph::nedfdl a?nm:xl":-ll]‘::ri‘l?:]e';\;s: Antrim will do survey work for the | g exception to the xulc"’""’”“'cl SONSP M. thaxe. | (Continued on Page Sit) ’L BUY WAR BONDS I 'of Grenoble from which astward into Belgium as Allied, _ troops stormed northward. | SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | As the Germans, maddened hy}FORCES. Sept. 2—At high speed, [their oncoming defeat, fled from| American columns today pounded "the town, they set it afire. toward Germany from Verdun The school house was only one| While their First Army comrades of several buildings not flame Struck to within five and eight \MI,L miles of Belgium on a 30-mile front |west of Sedan. | The Berlin radio declares the Verdun push has neared Thion- ville, only 11 miles from the Ger- man border. This means a dash has been made through the old |Maginot Line within some 20 miles |of the Saar river outposts on the Siegfried line where Hitler may thope to establish his homeland de- FOR ALLIES - Thionvilie 15 on the west bank |of the Moselle River, 17 miles above [ Metz. Amen(an Fren(h Columns| e Battie of France 15 ending rn a blazing victory that promises Closmg |n—Ge[mans Af ww.m liberation of the low coun- tries where the Germans have un- femptto Escape Trap.. easned teoa waters. The advance is continuing at such ROME, Sept. 2. — Despite rain'a pace that official word is lagging which has hampered progress m[behmd but correspondents in dis- some areas, the Americans and patches suggest the doughboys by French columns of the Seventh now are likely in Belgium and per- Army is clesing in steadily on the haps in Luxembourg and will prob- French city of Lyon where the re-‘ubly be on the Rich’s border by treating Germans are reported this weekend. feverishly digging rearguard po-| patton’s Third Army is thunder- sitions in an attempt to slow the jng eastward from the Verdun area pursu Patch’s Headquarters an-|and Lt, Gen. Hodges has reached nounced this Saturday morning. |Charlesville and Hirson and is Heavy motor movements contin- swinging within five to eight miles ued on the roads north and north-| |of Belgium, virtually parallelling west of Lyons the Nazi Com-‘“»le American northward push. mand seeks to escape the jaws of| The British armored columns the Allied trap closing in “""'J)ave jabbed to 15 miles northeast north and south, |of Arras to Douai and raced over The Allied announcement says vimy Ridge of World War No. 1 the count of prisoners taken since fame, the landing in southern France eX- The Germans are fleeing from ceeds 55000 of which the Frenchlcoastal sections, especially around troops captured 35,000 including the yobdt bomb platforms, with- 15,000 at Marseille and 10,000 at grawing probably into Belgium and Toulon. |The Netherlands. On the eastern edge of the in- A Berlin broadcast this afternoon vasion front, Allied troops entered says the Americans are within two Contes, 8 miles northwest of the mm« of Luxembomg captured Riviera ré of Nice, Official sources are vague de- |scribing movements of Patch's| striking forces in the area north could be made to bypass Lyon on the east and get astride the routes thrusts | | along which the Nazis are trying m‘ REPORIED |escape with what is left of the b.ulm(-d Ninteenth Army. ARRESTED Forty three miles southeast of Ly(m on the west side of the {Rhone, French forces are advan-| jeing rapidly against virtually no| enemy opposition and have occu-| pied Ch'\rmN BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 2—The Tribune has reported a German radio announcement that Hitler has e — | stripped Herman Goering of his air defense command and has entrusted | the task to the Nazi party chiefs. The informant from Germany, the i paper said, has confirmed reparts | that Goering is under house arrest U l l ETI "S at his Karing Hall estate. The informant also said that there is no direct evidence that Goering LONDON—Hitler will broadcast a | participated in the July 20 attempt “sensational speech” sometime to- | on Hitler's life but he is suspected morrow, German diplomats said this because so many of his co-workers afternnon. | were involved and some of them have been executed. VATICAN CITY—The Pope in a| worldwide broadcast defended the right of private property as the o sl _ . MANY LEAVE HERE ON condemmned the e of capnao | OUTGOING STEAMER | that “arrogates melr for unlimited | “Passengers leaving Juneau yester- right over property.” In his broad- | day on an outbound steamer were cast he underlined the end of the |as follows: Paul Sherba, J. S. Mac- war in Europe as near., | Kinnon, Charles Linehan, Earl G. - | Mck, M. B. Martin, J. S. Jeffries, ROME—The 15th Air Force Lib- Rosa Moore, Pastor and Mrs. M. L. erators hammered rail communica- | Miles and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. tions and fighters stafed the Nazi ' Frank Heller, Henry Dubsky, M. D. | transports jamming the highwa Williams, D. F. Shadek, the Rev. in Yugoslavia. P. C. O'Connor, James Ezi, Robert | Marshall, Wilbur Wester, Mrs. Wes- NEW YORK--The Algiers radAo ter, Joy Wester, John Wester, Mrs. broadcasts a report that Allied tanks | M. Sorensen, E. B. Kluckhohn, Mrs. crossed the border of Germany this | Kluckhohn, Nelson Paige, David afternoon and tank units have cross- | Harris, Albert Johnson, and Pvt. ed the Belgium border, John Szegepanski,