The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1944, Page 1

5 BATTLE F THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9749. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 194 4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS _— SPEARHEADS OF RUSSIANS IN 3 AREAS RED FORCES JOIN 1O PARTISANS ~ IN YUGOSLAVIA {Long Hoped for Junction Reds Now Qn—YTIgoslav Soil as Furious Battle Rages for City of Warsaw BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 7.—Russian troops have driven across Bulgaria into Greece and have also reached the Turkish frontier in the Demotica area and another Russian tank col- umn is reported advancing to- ward Sofia. All northern Bul- garia is now in control of the Russians following capture yes- terday of the Iron Gate on the Danube. REDS NEAR BELGRADE MOSCOW, Sept. 7.—Swift Russian | troops, reported to be fighting with- in 90 miles of Belgrade, are believed to have already ferried the Danube and reached Yugoslav soil south of the Iron mighty river cuts through the Tran- sylvanian Alps. The Red Army might be using parachute troops in an effort to es- tablish a junction with Tito’s Partir san army which is sqattered through the rugged mountains inside Yugo- slavia’s northeast frontier. Turnu Severin, on the frontier, was captured yesterday by the Rus- sians who pursued the Germans *| The official report from Gen. Sir Gate gorge where the | | Now Completed-New | Offensive Starfed | ROME, Sept. 7—Allied land, sea‘ and air forces and Tito's Partisans {have started a combined all out offensive in Yugoslavia in conjunc- | tion with the Russian offensive to seal off all German escape routes in the Balkans, Allied Headquar- ters said The Russians reached Yugoslavia’s border last night and are now within 90 miles of Bel- | grade. |H. M. Wilson's Headquarters said | the offensive had been in progress} | for the past week with “land forces |of the Adriatic” and Slovene pa-| | triots. The announcement didn’t make |clear whether any American troops in African or Italian areas are in- volved. American airmen, however, were |in the van attack of the successful drive across Yugoslavia for a junc- tion with the Russians to trap all| Germans garrisoning in Greece, the | ‘Mgean Islands, Albania, Bulgaria, land southern Yugoslavia. | — e SITUATIONACUTE, " EXPLAINSRUBBER |airmen and 450 planes had beerr ‘ing shows, and fairs are aboushed.‘FASCISIS MovE BATTLE OVER LONDONOVER, SAYS SANDYS Wartime Blgc_l(:)ut Isto Endi September 17 — Robot | Bases Knocked Out LONDON, Sept. 7—In disclosing new details of the robot bombing, the government today declared the | battle over London is “over except | for the possibility of a last few| shots.” The wartime blackout is due to| end September 17. | Londoners received more chez-rl when it was announced by Lt. Col. Edwin Sandys that perfected de-| fenses and Allied encirclement of | the robot bomb coast virtually ended | the menace of the German “ven- | geance weapon.” | Sandys disclosed that 2,900 Allled; lost in the many months’ campaign against the robots. In addition, | more than 5,000 deaths in England" resulted from bombs landed. Only 2,300 deaths from 8,000 bombs launched since June 12 and which |reached their goal is reported, where- | |average. as earlier bombs took one life on the}' Lately the campaign against them i had made so much progress that| three robots had to be expended by | " ON TRIP T0 INTERIOR| EIGHTH GRADE Jap Emperor, P NAZI PUPILS PUT TO WORK Thousands of Red Cross, mmr e e o Men, Women Ordered |siuation was “becoming more in- to Armament Plants {tense.” | Premier Koiso said that the Em- ki Ipire must concentrate its total in combatting mounting 1" attacks. He said there (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 7.—Germany has Power ordered eighth grade pupils to warjAmer work and sent thousands of Red Was a possibility of invasion. Cross men and women to armament| The Domei news agency broad- plants in far reaching extensions|tasts from Tokyo reported these to total mobilization. io(hm' developments: At the eighty- Decrees have been issued by|fifth extraordinary session of joebbels, the Reich's plenipoten- Japan’s lawmakers the Emperor, tiary, for total mobilization. He 8ppearing in a military uniform, also announced dissolution of the[said that Japanese soldiers were Prussian Finance Ministry and|fighting bravely; that relations be- wholesale curtailment of a “major-|tWeen Japan and the occupied ity of the 1500 periodicals stil)|countries were being strengthened; published in Germany”; closing ot | “that construction of Greater East remier Assert Life or Dead Jap Race Is af Stake Asia was progressing step by step, however, the counter offensive of AMERICANS, *FRENCH IN ~ BIG DRIVE OR GERMANY GETS UNDERWAY THIRD ARMY IS ENGAGED HARD BATTLE lMore Towris Féll as Allies Gen. Paltomor(es Gain the enemy was becoming increas-| lingly fierce and the war situation had finally become more intense. Truly today was the time for Im- | massing her total strength.” | Premier Koiso, making his first speech in the Diet since he took over the government in July, said: “In the face of the present grave | situation now existing a single idle |person or a single bystander, re- | gardless of age or sex, cannot be tolerated.” He demanded the max- imum effort under Japan’'s total | mobilization plan. He declared that ithe rise or fall of the empire and | “the life and death of the Japan- jese race” is at stake. a number of universities, all travel-| —————— FISH, WILDLIFE HEADS | HEADQUARTERS INARGENTINA Hull Insinuates Disbelief in Recent Diplomatic Dr. Ira Gabrielson, Supervisor of/ the Fish and Wildlife Service in| Alaska, left by plane enroute to| Anchorage and Fairbanks, where he will confer before flying to his| offices in Chicago. Dr. Gabrielson | has been in this section of the Ter- | 'DEWEY SPEAKS " THIS EVENING, ~ PHILADELPHIA Republican Nominee | perial Japan to decide victory by | Hot-foot After Flee- | ‘ ing Germans ’ ROME, Sept. 7. — American and | Bloody Foothold on East Bank, Moselle River By EDWARD D, HALL French troops are attempting to UNITED STATES THIRD frustrate the German withdrawal| ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN from southern France and have! FRA! Sept. 7. — Gen. Pat- swept up a number of additional| te armored and infantry towns. forces have forced the Moselle The Americans are approaching the strategically important Doubs Valley, adjoining the western border of Switzerland, Allied Headquarters said. The Allied communique indicated | that the main German force is still outdistancing its pursuers, The | Headquarters statement contained | no word of the major fighting after | the occupation of Chalon Sur Saone. | French troops reached Givey and advanced up the west bank of the Saone to Allery, while Americans | operating farther east drove north- | ward to Doubs and the upper Saone ! Valley, occupying Poligny, Arbois and Bletterans and passing Chau- | !mergy, about five miles from the Doubs River, The Rhone River canal flows through the Doubs; Valley. Arbois is 26 miles south- iwest of Bezanco, which lies 47 River below Metz, gaining a bloody foothold on the river's east bank and winning the in- itial edge in the Battle for Ger- many. Fighting is rising in fury. American forces farther down the Moselle, in the Pontamous- son area, have been thrown back, however, across the river after they put a force on the east bank. Fighting there is heavy and losses considerable as the Germans hold the dominating hills. SHOWDOWN BATTLE LONDON, Sept. 7—Gen. Patton’s Third Army pounded forward on a broad front today toward a show- down battle on the Siegfried Line. Reaching Nancy and diving a wedge into the outskirts of Metz, the two French fortress cities, fore- the Germans to kill one Briton. \m Segans G e 2 Sandys has been in charge of |TOrY for the past several weexs g Assurances .’ States Views on Mili- 1 fary Training miles from Belfort and is a pos- fields of the Nazi West Well, a solid sible exit toward southwest Ger- 70-mile assault line has been estab- (Continued on Page Three) CASUALTIESAT NORMANDYLESS THAN EXPECTED REPRESENTATIVE “The situation in regard to the | manufacture of all rubber clothing and footwear is acute everywhere | with little, if any, relief in sight for 1945,” Bill Diers, United States Rub- ber Company representative told his | WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Ameri- | Juneau customers during a brief | stopover in this city. | can Army casualties through the‘ A g i first thr :, weeks of the Nofmand {i- Digte, makingcily aunual thp (o} o 'Y | the Territory, is calling on trade in | invasion were about one-half the fall sections of Alaska in an attempt | expected figure, Secretary of War |to make a survey of the needs in | Henry L. Stimson said today. _[this part of the country with the For July and August they “were | hope that his company will be able g | to secure permission to manufacture | slightly less than were estimated in | some of the items so essential to | advance” Stimson added at a news | Alaskans. conference. | The representiagive said tt}:"t thfi ini ings June |company was doing everything it/ 6 B:or: g ;:::;t::n?heg would | could to get Alaska all the services e e ey [Nhet it Bia had l heypes, and ) tl' id, wh total | stated, that on a percentage basis, i‘o‘;‘s‘:z- WSP:‘:S;’:D::“ o or)lo oreas {0lal | the Terrtiory at present is getting gl | more rubber than the States. Army and Navy casualties since the | Br(:o:s :xid leBLheretop shoe pacs | start of the war are now at 365,759. |, pi1qren's sizes have all been re- | Army casualties are 305,795. stricted from manufacturing and | S consequently this p‘vu'.s a strain o:‘ The washlngtonthe few items which are allowed, Merry -Go-Round Diers explained. It is not humanly By DREW PEARSON possible, he said, to put out the| quantity of goods needed. (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) The rubber manufacturers are faced with a very serious situation, not only by the restrictions but by the fact that there is a serious | labor ‘shortage, which is exception- { Important m of Profa counter measures. Some newsmen at Sandy's pre: S | conference brought away the im-| pression that the Allied advance had knoced out the German's V-2, re- putedly a much heavier rocket bomb | than the V-1, launched against Lon- don, before it could be used. Sandys said, “I have done but little talking about the V-2 as we do not know quite a lot about it.” Sandys said fighter planes downed 1,900 robot bombs. NAZI GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY SHAKEN BY ALLIED FORCES Falls as Troops Enter Coastal Cities ROME, Sept. 7.—Patrols of the| American Fifth Army entered the | road center of Prato in northern Italy and won new positions on| the north highway between Prota and captured Lucca, before the German’s Gothic line, Allied Head- quarters said today. On the eastern sector of the front, only slight gains were re- jconnection with changes in Iishing‘ |interior | three flights today to Hoonah, Ket- WASHINGTON — Don't be sur- prised if gnarled, wise old ex-Gov- ernor Herbert Lehman soon stens out as head of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- tration. His resignation is expected soon. Officially, Lehman will probably resign in order to campaign in New York State for President Roosevelt's re-election. But actually, there are personal reasons. He has been very !ally acute in this industry because ported. Allied forces entered Ric- of the fact that all employees must |cione and Marian on the coast, five WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull declared |that a Fascist movement on this Regmmlihemlsphere has its headquarters in IArgentina, and asserted that Ar- gentina or Argentine officials will have to supply more clarification of their attitude toward receiving 2 g refugee Nazis before he could make { ¢+ any comment on the recent assur- | ON (HI“A FRON]’ |ances ‘from Argentine diplomatic 10!(‘81“18 here that no refuge would —_— {be given escaped German leaders. CHUNGKING, Sept. 7.—Japanese | At the same time, Hull told the forces thrusting southward from news conference that the United | newly-captured Kiyang, were only |States Government is hopeful that 12 miles from the American air base |portugal and Switzerland will take of Lingling, the Chinese announced guch action as to prevent war tonight. | astimi ; criminals from going through their | Lingling, 28 miles southwest of countries. B Kiyang, is 68 miles from the enemy- | RO held center of Yengyang. * | ' ABSENTEE BALLOTING - WILL END SATURDAY PRt | ; Absentee balloting for the Ter- FLIGHTS MADETO SITKA, | HOONAH, KETCHIKAN made | ritorial elections next Tuesday will | end Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Airlines according to U. S. Commissioner ason regulations. He was accompanied to the west- ward by Frank Hynes, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and Jack O’'Connor, Game Management Supervisor, who will! make a field trip throughout the for the next three weeks.| Alaska Coastal chikan and Sitka. . Those going to Hoonah were Mr. | Felix Gray. and Mrs. Stockdale, Don Under-| 1© date, 88 qualified voters have wood, Mrs. Albert Greenwald, and | €ast their ballots at the Commis- Miss Greenwald. | sioner’s offices in the Federal Build- Ketchikan: Jack Fletcher, the Rev. | 108 H. G. Hillerman, Howard D. Stab- ler, George Layton, and Earl Bright. Sitka: Lita K. Olsen, Mrs. Lawr- ence, John W. Waverstitch. R ATTA BOY! WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—A reso- lution to put Congress on record | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today told a news- men’s conference that any decision of universal military training must be postponed until after the war, but added that he opposed establishing a new CCC, Here for a major speech to be given tonight in which he said he will discuss “fundamental issues” of the campaign, Dewey told newsmen that he “wouldn’t put anybody in the army unless they were needed for defense of the United States.” | In an exchange of letters made public last night by the State De- partment, Dewey said he believed “in the new attitude toward the | problem of peace” found in the re- {sult of recent discussions between | his Foreign Affairs Deputy John | Foster Dulles and Secretary Cordell Hull. Hull said these conversations and Dewey’s letter constituted a “heartening manifestation of na- | tional unity on the problem of es- tablishing an international peace security organization. ' P e ‘Willkie, Chairman 0f GOP in Talkfest | NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — Herbert Brownell, Jr, GOP Chairman, dis- closed that he had conferred with Wendell L. Willkie, but declined to y whether he had solicited Will- kie's support for Dewey. first be trained to handle synthetic rubber, which, of necessity, is now ' | used entirely in the manufacture of | rubber goods. Because of the use of synthetic material, no color or | white footwear will appear on the market, with black being the only | color available. The armed forces, Mr. Diers said, | | naturally receives first consideration | in the manufacture of all articles | miles southeast of Rimini, and cap- tured Besanigo, two and one-half miles inland. British troops crossed the Ventena River and were within five miles of the eastern border of the tiny principality of San Marion. British and Indian units captured 2,000 foot Monte Sangiovanni and American troops are advancing to- much upset by the death of his son in a plane crash in England. Also, he is still handicapped by the broken leg he suffered when he fell down the marble steps of the Brit- ish Embassy in Algiers last winter. In addition, disappointed over the limited scope given to UNRRA. So far, one im- portant area where relief is badly needed, namely Italy, has been de- nied to his organization. This is because Italy is an ex-enemy coun- try, and it was previously agreed by the forty-four nations which es- tablished UNRRA that no relief should be distributed to an ex- enemy country without the consent of the forty-four members of the United Nations Council. And on that'council are such enemies of Italy as Yugoslavia and Greece, whose territory has been occupied by Italian troops and who do not relish spending any part of their money or even Allied money to aid Italy. If and when Lehman steps down, it may not be easy to find a suc- (Continued on Page Four) Lehman has been| ‘and if the war with Germany ends | within the next few months, there | will be a slight increase in the rub- ber circulation for civilians, and this | won't be until 1945. i STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — Closing | |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 6%, American Can |87, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft| 9%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Curtiss-| Wright 5%, International Harvester 78%, Kennecott 31, North American | Aviation 8%, New York Central 18, | Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 56'%. Pound $4.04. Dow Jones averages today are as| |follows: industrials 14358, ralls 39.34, utilities 24.40. .- — IN FROM GUSTAVUS | | Mrs. J. M. Chase has come into! /town from Gustavus and is stay- ing at the Juneau Hotel. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Littlefield have arrived here from Sitka and |ment Commander of the American |where it awaits action, ward the western end of the Gothic line on a broad front. —— ., —— LEGION HEAD IN TALKTO CHAMBER ‘Waino Hendrickson, new Depart- Legion for Alaska, spoke today at| the Chamber of Commerce meeting,‘ outlining the Legion's program for the coming year and detailing reso- lutions passed at’ the fecent De- partment Convention in Juneau. A letter was read from the Charles | Rodgers Enterprises in New York, announcing that a musical comedy | on Alaska is to be produced shortly,! entitled, “Some Like It Cold.” The Chamber was informed that |plans for improving Gastineau route to their new post @t Tana- Channel are included in a rivers and | harbors bill which has been passed by the House and favorably repor'.ed} lout of committee in the Senate|ppy. Boyd is a special assistant with SUB MISSING WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — Sub- marine Roablo, commanded by Lt. Comdr. Manning Kimmel, 30, son of Rear Admiral Kimmel, now with the Jap attack on Pearl Har- bor, is overdue and presumed lost. The sub has sunk a “significant amount of Jap shipping,” the Navy awaiting courtmartial in connection | |as favoring a world wide free news | exchange “to promote better under- standing among nations thus help- ing to prevent future wars” was AIRDROMES NEAR ‘: v‘:'t,r;r‘:xdbr;nhtm:rk!::‘sli:. by Rep. J,!( DAVAO.ARE GIVEN $ Coreee= | HEAVY POUNDING FIREMEN 10 HAVE | YATES McDANIEL GENER AL HEADQUARTERS many. lished. FILIPINOS WILL " HAVE DRIVEFOR WAR RELIEF FUND The Filipino Community of Ju- neau at a meeting held this week adopted a resolution to sponsor drive to collect in Juneau for the Philippine War Relief. The drive will begin this week. All persons interested may send con- tributions to Eddie Velarde, Presi- dent, Filipino Community of Ju- neau, P. O. Box 729, Juneau. The Philippine War Relief, Inc., was organized in Washington for the purpese of aiding in the relief of human suffering in the Occu- pied Philippines and to also aid refugees from the Islands. The {money will be used to buy clothes, | medicine and other needed items. National President is Frank Mur- |phy, and Millard Tydings is Vice President. Mrs. Paul V. McNutt serves on the executive committee |along with Senator Robert A. Taft. The Filipino Community will meet again Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Northern Hotel, and 'the women are urged to attend for ! sewing. Must Re-Eled | Roosevelt, Says | . Senalor Pepper ‘ SEATTLE, Sept. 7.—The future |peace, and prosperity of America /depends upon the reelection of a funds (town after being employed by the ' CRAB FEED TONIGHT The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- ‘partment will hold its regular | monthly business meeting in the | Fire Hall tonight ‘at 8 o'clock and after the meeting the members will have a crab feed. - - IN FROM EXCURSION INLET | Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ronning are |in town from Excursion Inlet and have registered at the Baranof Hotel. | says. ———e JOHNSONS ON VACATION Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Johnson have left for Wrangell for a week's Vvisit with friends in that city. e .- — . HOLDENS SOUTH Mr: and Mrs. Alex Holden and Alex Holden, Jr., left yesterday for the States on a month’s vacation trip. - — RITTER RETURNS Lloyd M. Ritter has . returned to - -ee - MRS. HENDRICKSON SOUTH Mrs. Lance Hendrickson, clerk of |the Gastineau Hotel, is enroute isouth on a vacation trip. She ex- pects to return about December 10. ! - - ROTARIANS TO KETCHIKAN | Jack Fletcher and the Rev. H. G. cross, having been transfered tropi{ HNCRAN Hlew (0 Bosohias e » morning where they, will partici- Sitka. Mrs. Boyd is a teacher for & A b |pate in the welcome being extend- the Office of Indian Affairs and .4 ¢, william D. Shannon, Gov- fernor of the 101st district of Rotary USED in Skagway for the past nine months. mynfpr—— ENROUTE TO TANACROSS Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boyd and family passed through Juneau en-| It was announced that school teachers of this area will be guests are now guests at the Juneau Hotel. of the Chamber next week. the Jodlan Servies. | International, which includes the G. E. Bassett, of the PAA, is reg- |clubs in Alaska, Oregon, Washing- istered at the Baranof Hotel. ton, Idaho and British Columbia. | SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 7.— President Roosevelt in November | Navy Ca‘alina planes sank three which will “be one of the crucial iamall Japanese freighters off Min- points in our history,” Senator | danao, Southern Philippines, Mon- Claude Pepper asserted, “the re- |day night and Tuesday morning sults of the election will determine Headquarters announced. | whether we shall have peace and | In the meanwhile Liberators con-!prosperfly or depression and war.” |tinued their relentless neutraliza-| Pepper told the people, at a |tion of airdromes around Davao public meeting last night, e can |toward which the MacArthur forces |have enduring peace if we will, we |are aiming simultaneously. |can have prosperity if we will, but Strong forces of Australian and | we must have an administration American fighter bombers swent of experienced leadership, in short, Vogelkop Peninsula, Dutch Guinea, we must have Roosevelt.” | hitting Japanese positions without .- - encountering opposition. Bad LEE IN TOWN weather hampered operations in Chris Lee, of Seattle is in town other Southwest Pacific sectors. and has registeerd at the Gastineau. In one of the shortest recent| R A communiques MacArthur also an-{ HERE FROM WHITEHORSE nounced that Allied attack plunesi C. Hart and W. R. McLauchlan bombed Bolela airdrome on Cream are here from Whitehorse and have Island, west of New Guinea while |registered at the Juneau Hotel. fighters strafed small coast shipping = el and gun positions in the Marianas, | SIX TO FAIRBANKS south of Iwo. These were formerly Out to Fairbanks Tuesday via strafed and subjected to rocket fire Pan American World Airways, were in attacks on September 2, 3 and 9,‘F‘l'flnces Sheppard, Joan Sheppard, Rota airstrip on South Pagan Is- Carol Sheppard, Paul Sheppard, land was bombed Sunday. Charles Hyde, and Robert Johnson. | The Third Army drove forward from Meuse, the wave directed | against the last defenses protecting |the homeland, | From the south of the Belgian city of Louvain to just south of ! Sedan, France, the First Army is probing the Adrennes Forest along the route taken by the invading’ | Germans in 1940, toward one of the weaker links in the Siegfried Line. British in Netherlands The British Second Army, under Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey, operating under a cloak of silence since seiz- ing Antwerp, has been penetrating the Netherlands and is reported to be moving up the Albert Canal just south of the Belgian border. There, it is said, is where it has run into ,the first organized resistance since | jumping off th Seine northwest of Paris. The Germans declared that they have eliminated the bridgehead across the Albert Canal just north of Antwerp and they are evidently attempting to make a stand along the man-made barrier and its steep. | Meet Strong Resistance Patton’s forces, too, in a push along the 50-mile front toward the German border from Luxembourg to Nancy, are meeting desperate resist- ance from the Germans, who have had time to get their breath while Patton reorganized his supply serv- ice. | Hodge's troops on the left flank have reached Jodoigne, 18 miles north of Namur and only 12 miles |southeast of Louvain, where they | apparently are about to link up with |the British Second Army which is | pushing out of that city to the west. Belgium Invaded The Canadian First Army has in- |vaded Belgium for the first time, sending an amored division to the |famous Canadian battleground of Ypres, 10 miles inside Belgium. The Canadians, with forces already on both sides of Calais, have advanced to within seven miles south of the southwest Dunkerque graveyard of 1940 and have prepared to besiege the Germans in the Belgian coastal strongholds of Ostend and Zebrugge. 'MOTHERS' CLASSES ? T0 BEGIN MONDAY The first class of a series of eight | “Mother’s Classes” will begin Mon- |day, September 11, at 2 p. m. in ;lhe Juneau Health Center, Room 108, Territorial Building. All wo- ‘men ylho plan to attend are asked |to register this week not later than ‘Salurday 9a m tobp m \ Subjects to be discussed during |the series include: “Good Maternity Care”, “Hygiene of Pregnancy”, "”‘[‘he Balanced Diet”, “Labor”, “The | Baby's Layette”, “The Babys Bath”, |“After Care of the Mother’, “After | Care of the Baby". - eee | SEATTLE PEOPLE HERE | Gladys Isler and family, of Seat- tle, are registered at the Juneau Hotel.