The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1944, Page 1

. areas also. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — ] VOL. XLIL, NO. 9751. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — YANKS MASSED IN BATTLE FOR GERMANY BARTLETT IS CONFIDENT OF DEMOVICTORY His Platform Is One Adopt- | ed af Fairbanks—Gives Broadcast Monday E. L. “Bob” Bartlett, Democratic | candidate for delegate to Congress, | stated today that he is “confident that the Democrats will win in Tuesday's election by a wide mar- gin” He said that probably the (Continued on Page Sir) | The Washington| Merry - Eg -Round | WASHINGTON—The inside story | can now be told regarding one of the greatest worries of the Allied High Command in connection with | the Normandy invasion — namely, casualties. It was feared they would | be terrifically high. In fact, Prime Minister Church- ill, who had hung back from a cross-channel front for two years,| feared the Allies might suffer losses comparable to the early days of | the last war, when the, cream of British manhood, then relatively | untrained, was mowed down in Flanders fields. He frequently told | FDR that he was worried about losing the “seed” of Britain. This worry gives an insight into the sudden change between the | type of slow fighting during the first few weeks in Normandy and the headlong onrush of today. Allied orders during the early weeks in Normandy were to ad-| vance under a “curtain of steel”| As a result, the greatest artillery | barrage ever laid down in history | Won Lost Pct.| was thrown at the Germans in | Los Angeles 90 67 513 advance of Allied infantry. It was|Portland 81 T 516 an artillery barrage so heavy that |San Francisco 9 M 507 | it wiped out almost everything in’Seame 9 8 503 | its path. Hollywood 8 80 494 However, it was slow. It took}OBkland 2 78 80 494 time to unload big guns on shallow | Sacramento 73 86 .459‘ beaches. It also took time to bat-|San Diego ... 70 87 446 ter down German positions. But National League cnce these positions were battered % Won Lost Pet down, and the rim of German de- St Louis 94 3 129 fense was broken, the Allies found Fittsburgh 76 52 «594{ what General Eisenhower knew Cincinnati 70 56 .556| was the case—a complete military Chicago 58 68 460 vacuum inside. New York 60 T 458 In other words, the Nazis had |Boston 54 .78 409 staked everything on holding the | Brooklyn .54 79 406 rim, hag no defenses in the interior, | Philadelphia 51 18 .assl That is the explanation for the American League | headlong rush of Allied forces in | Won Lost Pct.. recent weeks. The Nazis were g:mrk o Zi :g ggg gambling on their Atlantic Wall, a | 5 S 8, Lo o) wall which could not stand up Beoston % 5 '526' under Bradley’s “curtain of steel.” Cleveland B4 R NOTE — General Montgomery’s | Philadelphia Loos & . ~4 e cautious advances in Normandy Chisagn &1 fie -455 probably reflected in part Ch“mh_‘Washingmn 56 7 %o il's worry over casualties. How- | ever, he has been cautious in other Before the Battle of El Alamein, when the British Army had been pushed back and back across the desert toward Cairo, Montgomery queried his chief, Gen-| eral Alexander: “What casualties can I take?” Alexander, with the| fate of the Suez Canal at stake,| replied: “One hundred percent.” Caution, of course, is no reflection on ceurage. ! CHIANG AND SON The way the story of Generalis-| simo Chiang Kai-Shek’s 16-year- old concubine got started, according to high Chinese spurces, was in- directly through his son. The Generalissimo (“Jissimo” to| his friends) has been living in the summer palace with his second son, | who is young, attractive, and has his quota of girl friends. One young lady in particular has been in the summer palace longer than the others, all of which gave rise to the unfortunate rumor that this was why Madame Chiang Kai-Shek left home. The young lady may marry the Jissimo’s son. - This son, who happens to be Chiang’s favorite, was born of a Japanese mother. Chiang went to the Japanese West Point as a young man. His eldest son went to Moscow By DREW PEARSON Allen now on active ith the Army.) (Continued on Page Four) | last night 12 to 7 in a passing bat- |terday’s B-29 attack on HITS IN FOG | AREHOMERS; BALL IS LOST (By Associated Press) Cecil Garriott clouted out a fifth | inning homer last night with two| |men on for a 3 to 1 win for Los New England Fish Company Angeles over Hollywood | Two hits went for homers last | night when the ball was lost in the fog and Seattle won over San Diego. The second game was postponed on account of the fog. San Fraricisco and Oakland split a doubleheader the same as the split in a twin game between Portland and Sacramento. | The Brooklyn Dodgers remained | out of the cellar by squeezing across | a tie-breaking run in the ninth in- | ning yesterday for a win over Phila- delphia in the only game played in the National League. | New York staved off a Boston ral- ly in the eleventh inning yesterday | to win in the twelfth from Boston | when Frenchy Bordgary's long fly | scored Howie Schultz from third. Washington defeated Philadelphia | yesterday 4-0 behind the five-hit pitching of Mickey Heafner. | St. Louis dropped out of a tie for first spot when Dietrich pitched seven-hit ball for Chicago. GAMES FRIDAY | Pacific Coast League | Seattle 5; San Diego 3. Second game postponed on account of fog.| Los Angeles 3; Hollywood 1. Oakland 3, San Francisco 4, 0. | Portland 0, 5; Sacramento 2, 4. | National League Brooklyn 4; Philadephia 3. American League New York 7; Boston 6, twelve in- nings. Philadelphia 0; Washington 4. St. Louis 5; Chicago 9. | STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League FOOTBALL The pro-football Los Angeles Mus- tangs defeated the Seattle Bombers tle in which Izzy Cantor, former UCLA star, bested Dean McAdams, formerly Washington and Eastern pro-player. ONE SUPERFORT IS LOST IN RAID; | UNSHAN TARGET WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — One! superfortress is missing and is pre- | sumed to be lost as a result of yes- Anshan, Manchuria. The Twentieth Air Force report- ed that all the other planes of the large task force that made the attack are accounted for. The communique said American gunners downed seven enemy fighter planes and probably de- stroyed 10 others and damaged 11. “Early appraisal of the damage to the target indicates numerous hits within the target area. Crews of the last planes to reach the target area report the objectives Cannery Is : HURCHILL, CAROLINE Fire Swept ~ FDR MEET ISLANDS At Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept. 9.—Fire | starting about 6 o'clock yesterday | morning leveled the big 2 lum; s can- | nery on Ocean Dock, including the | cannery building, store, offices,| warehouse, machine shop, net lofts | [in which were stored the Red sal-| {mon gear and purse seines of me| season just ended. The loss is es-| timated at $500,000. | The Filipino bunkhouse, fisher- mens’ bunkhouse were also destroy- | ed as well as the big mess hall and | kitchen. | The wind quickly spread the blaze | to all parts of the cannery. The| fire presumably started from an oil burning stove in the store or office. Bursting drums of oil lent al spectacular feature, sending up; great billows of flames hundreds | of feet into the air. i The bunkhouses were cleared be- | fore the fire was too far advanced and no injuries are reported. Workers lost practically all of their| personal possessions. i The loss of canned salmon was {small as most of the pack had been shipped. AT QUEBEC d: Extensive R;Ei; Reported- Yap Cable Station Is Bombed Qut By WILLIAM L. WORDEN UNITED STATES PACIFIC | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL |HARBOR, Sept. 9.—American car- rier-based planes bombed and |strafed Yap and Alithi islands in the western Carolines on September HalifaX|5 6 and 7, destroying the Yap Conferente—Sc hedule Again Between Lead- ers of Two Nations WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—In an| apparent preparation for another war meeting with Churchill in Que- bec, President Roosevelt conferred today with kep diplomatic and economic advisers and also saw the British Ambassador Earl for the third time this week. cable station, once a subject of | The President received three| ,,iyoversy between the United members of the Cabinet Commit- giites and Japan. tee, named for a study of war ¢re-| mppece attacks and the aerial ated economic problems. The mem- bers are Hull, Stimson and MOr-|ous and Marshalls are announced genthau. |by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Another White House conference rhe three-day assault on Yap of potential importance was With anq Alithi coincided on the first Robert Murphy, newly named ad-lqay with the carrier-fighter sweep viser of German affairs in Eisen-\o, pglau, 315 miles southwest of hower’s Command. Murphy just|ygp retyrned from Italy where he saw| Churchill strikes on the Marianas and Mar- Tokyo Admits Bombing The Berlin radio, quoting Tokyo Another callar was Eimer Davis,|advices said that Palau and Yap Director of the OWL |had been attacked three days with Yesterday, the President met from 400 to 500 carrier bombers | There was no mention, however, of STRAFED The big blaze threatened to set| Marshall, Arnold, Leahy and King. off the timbered hill against which |Marshall remained after the others today’s announcement of the ad- |ditional attacks on Palau. | without waiting for the war’s end. | the cannery buildings stood but|for a long personal talk. flames were extinguished. There are no accommodations in town for the 100 or more workers, who were burned out of the bunk- houses and attempts will be made to take them outside as soon as possible. ) Eric Bulmer, formerly of Ketchi- | kan, was superintendent of the cannery for his first year here. - DEWEY WANTS WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATION Nominee, in Louisville Speech, Urges Forma- tionBeforeWar'sknd | ENROUTE WITH DEWEY, Sept. 9.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey has turn- ed northward toward his native| State of Michigan to start ten days | of grass root campaigning after de- claring in Louisville last night that | he is for formation of a force-wield- ing world security organization The nominee traveled toward | Lansing, without any scheduled | stops, for a conference with Gov. Harry F. Kelley and leaders of political, farm, labor, negro, and other organizations. His aides in- sisted that this is part of his de- termination to avoid any appear- ance of a typical “peacetime barn- storming” tour. Until September 18 when he speaks in Seattle, he will make only brief train-end appear- ances and will spend most of his time in conferences. Dewey came out flatly last night before a cheering, stamping, whist- ling crowd in the Louisville armory | in support of a principle using force | whére necessary to prevent future wars. He endorsed the American plan of a postwar security organiza- tion as submitted in the Dumbarton Oaks conference. He said, “This world organization should tevelop an effective coopera- tive means to prevent or repel mili- tary aggression. Such means should include a United States force as well as mobilization of international opinion and moral pressure on economic sanctions.” 1 'New Alaska Delegate 'May Get 1o_b Quickly WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The | House Territories Committee has approved a bill by Anthony J. Dl-‘ | mond, Alaska Delegate, to provide | { for the filling of his office between | September 12 and January 3, 1945. The measures specifices that the man chosen in the September elec- tion, for a full term starting in January, may also fill the office were obscured by clouds of smoke,” says the communique. } ———— BUY WAR BONDS between the two dates. Dimond is resigning to become ——evo——— | The Navy said that 10 tons of |bombs were dropped on Yap and Alithi, also several rockets fired. {There was no enemy interception and meager ground fire from Pagan |and Agiguan islands. 4 The Marianas were bombed and V|(IIM OF strafed Wednesday and rockets were % ‘flred at Pagan island gun emplace- ments. There was moderate anti- NAZ' FIRE}nircrau fire. | Fires Are Started | Marcus island was hit the same |day by Army heavy bombers who ROME, Sept. 9.—The 51,000 ton yaided that island in the third liner Rex, one time Queen of the jgnq-pased raid. Explosions ana Italian Merchant Fleet and a rec-%“res were reported. ord holder, lay burning in the| mne aetivity of the Pacific air northern Adriatic Sea off Trieste, front extended also to Manchuria after a blistering attack by rockel with a superfortress raid on that firing Beaufighters. | Jap-dominated country. Radio More than 120 rockets hit themokyo, first to announce the raid, liner, some below the waterline, gaidq the planes came from China. reconnaissance disclosed. She Wwas Tokyo claimed three planes were lying motonless with a 60 degree downed and admitted, “some dam- list to port, an airforce report said age was caused on the ground.” The German Naval experts are/rThey jdentified the target area as believed to be preparing to sink|ihe jndustrial center of Anshan. the Rex and block Trieste Harbor.| .- TOKETCHIKANWITH 48 PASSENGERS ARE PULP, PAPER MEN | Yesterday Alaska Coastal Air- Frank Heintzleman, Regional For- |jines, carried 48 passengers in ester, is returning to Ketchikan fights to Ketchikan, Wrangell, again today, accompanying four pulp and paper representatives from the | Pacific Northwest who arrived here via PAA yesterday. The men will look over the pulp | timber area which is being blocked out in that vicinity by the Forest Service. 2 Representafives To Atiend Hearings Alaska Indian Case SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—Representa- tive Jackson (D) of Washington said Petersburg, Excursion Inlet, Killis- noo, Haines, Sitka and Skagway. To Haines—W. J. McCalister. To Skagway—Ernest Hill, Wilbert Walker, Joseph D. Peppets, P. T. Layacans and Harry Krugh. To Ketchikan—J. W. Horn, R. E. Robertson, Wm. L. Paul, Jr, Fred |Paul, R. G. Maynard, Andy Lorent- zen, D. Lorentzen, Robert Lyman, Fred Williams and H. N. Nelson. Ketchikan to Juneau — Chester Finn, George Gorun. Killisnoo to Juneau—Mr. and Mrs. George Nezoeff. Ketchikan to Petersburg — Jim Ohmer, Sam Thomas. Ketchikan to Wrangell—G. Newhouse, Walter Marins. that he and Representative Joseph| wrangell to Petersburg—dJoe Ro- O'Brien of New York, will attend|mar, :ge Alaska- hearings scheduled by | wrangell to Juneau—Mrs. W. C. e Interior Department next week | waters. to determine whether or mot ex-| "poio o 40 Juneau—Mrs, Sty- clusive rights to the fishing grounds | Kdaan B B around the Ketchikan area would | be granted to the Indian inhabi- tants. | To Excursion Inlet—William F. Kellotat, Shayer O. L. Robinson. Juneau to Sitka, Mary Matson, Emma Nicolet, John Lawrence, Capt. McNichol, E. M. Morrow, Mrs. C. Littlefield. Warm Springs to Sitka—Mr. and Mrs. R. Winchell. e, - BREMERTON MAN HERE Clyde Wirhig has registered at| the Gastineau Hotel from Bremer- | ton, Wash. —— . MRS. BLOOD LEAVES Sitka to Juneau—Glen Malline, Mrs. Amy Lou Blood of Ordway’s Mrs. Malline, George Hobson, Mrs. Photo Shop, left yesterday for the G. B. Hughes, G. B. Hughes, How- States by plane enroute East. ard Gallagher, Hugh ,Wade, C. S 4 oot g Swarzlose, Donald C. Fransen, Jim District Court Judge in the Third Judicial Division in Alaska, @ ¢ o o o o o o o o ¢ Hobson John Haverstitch. L WEATHER REPORT La — eee e U. S. Weather Bureau . EUGENE CLARK IN TOWN . ®| Eugene Clark is in town and has e Temp. for Friday, Sept. 8. @ |registered at the Baranof from Cor- . In Juneau: Maximum 57, @ |dova. ® minimum 52; rainfall .11. @ ———————— . At Airport: Maximum 58, @ G. Shuster, of Seward, has ar- e minimum 47; rainfall .13. e !rived in Juneau and is staying at ® o ¢ o o o o o o o eothe Baranof Hotel. CARRIED BY COASTAL *14-H Club fair which will ‘| been (ommand " Upheaval Revealed Change, Opefaiion Heads, ! During Saipan Battle ‘ Is Made Known ‘ | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.- -Lt. |Gen. Holland Smith of the U. S. Marines, commanding General of |the American forces that drove the [Japs from Saipan, said that he lwas “forced” to relieve the Army Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith, who cam- |manded the Army forces during the operation. | The Marine general, now com- manding the fleet Marine force in| the Pacific, gave no details at the news conference in regard to the circumstances that led to his action {while the battle for Saipan in the Western Pacific in the Marianas | lwns still in progress. | He said, “I'm not given to pass- | /ing the buck, but as you seek de- |tails concerning this incident, I {remind you that General Smith is | lan Army officer and I must refer | you to the War Department.” | The War Department stated there would be no comment on Smith’s | remarks. s ORI A.H.MOONALD IS MARRIED; IS ALSO GIVENPROMOTION SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—The marriage of A. H. McDonald, longtime Gen- | eral Manager of the Alaska Steam- ‘ship Company in Alaska, to Mrs, ‘Selma Payne of Shanghai, former | | Valdez court official, was disclosed- here simultaneously with the an- | nouncement of his appointment as | assistant to Vice-President and Gen- !eral Manager Leslie Baker, The | General Manager of the line an- | nounced his appointment and said McDonald’s headquarters would be | | in Anchorage. The increase in rank | of the Alaska manager is “one step |in the Alaska Steamship Company’s preparations to meet the needs of | the Territory’s transportation in the |coming era.” McDonald and Mrs, Payne were | | married at 8 p. m. yesterday after a friendship that began in Valdez in 1915 when he first went to Alaska |for the company. She was then ’Selma Scott, Valdez court reporter and attorney. | Later she married H. F. Payne, {bank official and spent 20 years in | | Shanghai, where her husband died | shortly before the Japanese interned | {her, Mrs, Payne was repatriated, | reaching New York in December. | In the meantime, Mrs. McDonald had also died and McDonald, mak- | ing a trip to the States learned that | | his old friend, Mrs. Payne was visit- | ing friends in Chelan, Washington. | He went to see her and they de- | cided to get married. | Mr. and Mrs. McDonald will re- | turn to Anchorage within a few days | to make their home. | R L O | CHAMBER, ROTARY ASSIST 4-H CLUB Contributions from the Chamber; |ef Commerce and Rotary Clubs are making possible the first annual | be held {at the Scottish Rite Temple next isaturday, September 16 in the infternoon and evening beginning |at 2 o'clock and closing at 8 o'clock,I |advises Mrs. C. L. Robards. The| |monetary gifts from these orgam-i | zations will be used for the rental of the Temple and for the cash | prize awards. l The 4-H Clubs are sponsored byi the agricultural extension service | through the home demonstration BLOW OF GERMANS SMASHED Counterattacks Beaten Off —Coastal Enfrapment Now Sealed forces, poised for a killing blow at the Siegfried Line, smashed the heaviest counterattack the Germans have mustered since the battle of Normandy, while the British Second Army beat to pieces the last hope of the German army to attempt break- ing out of the coastal entrapment between Lille and Ghent, Belgium. Patton’s Third Army, along the Moselle River, is becoming engaged in the first full-scale battle since the original American breakout in Normandy, July 25. In the north, the British drove another bridgehead across the Albert Canal some 25 mile seast of Ant- werp. The Canadians pushed 80 miles up along the Calais coast and the British drove 110 miles from Vimy Ridge to the Dutch border. The American First Army thrust 80 miles from the Belgian border at Liege to within 15 miles of the outer defenses of the Siegfried Line. The American Third Army drove up 35 miles from Meuse to across LONDON, Sept. 9. — American | BIG THRUST " ON LINE OF " SIEGFRIED |Greatest AM Force Ever Concentrated on Con- tinent in Action LONDON, Sept. 9.—The biggest | American fighting force ever massed jon the continent has closed in . the battle for Germany and punched to within heavy artillery range of the Siegfried Line in the key sector around the German border city of Aachen on the approaches to the Ruhr. Three American armies and one British Army are being employed in | the gigantic operations in these posi- tions: Four Armies Involved The First American Army in Bel- gium drive beyond the captured Bel- gian fortress city of Liege to less than 18 miles from the German frontier in the vicinity of Aachen. The Third American Army has crossed the Moselle River in five places around Metz and Nancy in eastern France and has crushed a large scale German counter-attack. The Seventh American Army, which came up from the Mediter- ranean, is driving down the last 25 miles to Belfort Gap, north of Switzerland, Fierce Resistance To the north, the British Second Army holds its five - mile deep bridgehead over the Albert Canal against increasing fierce resistance as the Germans battle to stem the flanking sweep toward the northern anchor - of the Siegfried Line at Cleve, the German border town, 65 miles southeast of Amsterdam. New Crossing A frontline dispatch says the Brit- ish Second Army advance units have forced a mnew crossing of Albert Canal in the area of Cheel, 25 miles east of Antwerp. This crossing is three or four miles northwest of the previous bridgehead which is carried to Bourg, Leopold and Aachen to- ward Lt. Gen, Hodges' First Army. Patton Needs Gas Patton’s gasoline Third Army to the south is being supplietl by a sky- train of C-47 transport planes that | | GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.{ land on the forward airstrips. This SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 9.— is the first slow-up of the Third Allied air forces “now dominate the | ATMY- Southern Philippines,” Gen. Douglas| _The Supreme Headquarters mask MacArthur announces, in reporting | the exact elements of the four unchallenged new daylight raids Allied armies, concealing from ‘the against the Japanese in the Davao | Germans which columns are . ens and Mindanao air centers. | gaged in feints and those whieh will Strong units of heavy and medium | deliver a smashing blow desigried to bombers, escorted by fighters, on breach the Nazi line and fan-eut Wednesday wrecked the Japanese!into the interior of Hitler's final Santa Anna seaplane base in Davao | fortress in Germany. L Bay, and bombed Buayan, one of the g . key airdromes in Southern Min- | l ATE w AR danao. Thirteen tons of explosives the Moselle River. - eee JAP BASES WRECKEDIN NEW RAIDS Allied Air-i)r(es Now Dominate Southern Philippines Areas By YATES McDANIEL were dropped in the second-largest raid over Mindanao. The only enemy plane in the air was downed by v.hc‘ raiders.- | Patrol planes roamed uncontested | over island bases between New Guinea and westward from Min- danao destroying or heavily damag-| MOSCOW — The Red Army is ing seven freighters, totaling 6,500 SWeeping through Bulgaria and it tons, and hitting installations. | appears the drive will likely free the Three separate attacks were made | Balkan Peninsula from the Mediter- on Halmahera and on the nearby | Yanean to Ukrainian ports. Morotai islands south of Mindanao. | Fighter planes apparently flew a ROME—Roads from Greece are TOKYO — A new air attack on | Anshan is reported today by the Japanese Headquarters. Ten Am- | erican aircraft have dropped bombs, ! ——————— jagents and country farm agents with specialists doing all club work | |being employed in a majority of | |states. The leadership of the var-! |lous groups is done by volunteers, who in a majority of cases here| club members themselves | while in the grades or high school. The emblem of the club is the lIOul'-lEflI clover with an H in each |leaf. The four Hs are used because |club members pledge their heads | to clearer thinking, their hearts to greater loyalty, their hands to lar- ger service and their health to bet- ter living for their club, community and country. 1,700-mile record round trip pro- |jammed with German transports testing Wednesday's Mindanao A MOVing northward trying to escape bomber flight. {any Allied entrapment. MacArthur reported that the Jap- | anese Western New Guinea Air | Force are virtually annihilated. e, B A A r LADIES’ AID HAS , On Thursday afternoon the fir fall meeting of the Lutheran Ladies’ | BE ERADI(ATED Aid was held at the home of Mrs. | John Sunderland. After a dessert SAYS ROOSEVH.'I' luncheon served by the hostess and | Mrs. Martin Rian, the regular busi- ness meeting took place. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Presi- The date of the annual bazaar has | dent Roosevelt today declared that been set for Friday, December 1. |the defeat of the Nazi armies must Mrs. J. O. Rude, Mrs. Bert Mc- be followed by the eradication of the Dowell and Mrs, Chris Wyller were | cartels as “these are weapons of appointed to serve on the Ways and | economic warfare.” He released a Means Committee. {letter to Secretary of State Cordell - o> | Hull, in which he said this can be JEAN SHAW TO WHITEHORSE | done only by the collaborative action . lof the United Nations. Hull will Jean Shaw left yesterday after- keep an eye on the entire subject noon for Whitchorse, via Pan Am-|and said that the Justice Depart erican World Airways. ,ment is digging up a lot of facts. -e e OREGONIAN HERE HERE FROM WRANGELL Dr. Robert Ellis, of Portland, Ore- ‘ Mrs. W. C. Waters, of Wrangell, gon, is In town and has registered has arrived in Juneau and is now at the Baranof Hotel. a guest at the Baranof Hotel.