The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1944, Page 1

— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9756. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 % % MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YANKS BATTER DOWN TWO LARGE CITIES PALAUISLE IS INVADED, U.S. FORCES New Movements Support- ed by Heavy Bombard- | ments from Fleets UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 15—Marine and Navy assault forces from Admiral| Chester Nimitz’'s Central Pacific | Command landed on- islands of the| Palau group, 600 miles east of, Mindanao in the Philippinies. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s troops made a surprise landing on Morotai, thc‘ communique says. Early announcements indicate an | initial success and confidence in | the outcome. | The Palau landing was supported by Halsey’s Third Fleet which in- cluded rockets, big guns and the new heavily-armored battleships. Tokyo said the landing was made Peleliu Island, most southerly of the group, and added: “The | enemy was repulsed” after 2,500 | Americans were killed in the first | two and a half hours. of fighting. Both commanders are now op- erating their forces as a coordi- | nated team, squeezing Japan’s| prize conguest -in -the - Pagific. war, | The invasions were announnced a | few hours after they were s,ccom-‘ plished. MacArthur, heading back to Manila, landed with forces vi tually unopposed, on tiny Morotai; there to build air bases quickly for (contmued on Pugc Su) The Washinglon' Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON @t. Col. Roberl S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — The | on President | really let loose some fireworks at a recent cabinet meeting shortly| after Charles E. Wilson resigned as| WPB executive vice chairman aft.er! publicly blasting WPB Chief Don-| ald Nelson. The cabinet members, | who usually meet with a smiling, | wisecracking President, pricked up | | Norway and Denmurk and “any Ordnnnce their ciation of businessmen. ears at his vigorous dmunq “Here we are at the m%" im- | tages, the screws will be put on by | Exploslo“ portant phase of the war,” said | Roosevelt icily, nessmen act like a bunch of chil dren. They pick up their baseball | bats and go home.” The President went on to sayl that those who are schooled m| government may have their mfler- ences, but know how to iron them' out and get along together in the| end. After delivering quite a lec- | ture on name-calling and the in- | ability of businessmen to get along together, he turned to Secretary of | State Hull and said: “It takes Democrats like you and me to run this country,*doesn’t it, Cordell?” “and these busi- | MRS. LUCE'S NARROW SQUEAK Democratic and Republican Con- gressmen who hotly debated how much money FDR spent for war- ships on his trip to Pearl Harbor, and how much Mrs. Roosevelt spent going to New Zealand, did not know that one of their own | | | | | number had a narrow squeak from | Workers convention here adopted a Smith 1,485, and Wann 1,073, being in the same category. She is beautiful Mrs. Clare Luce, GOP Congresswoman from Con- necticut, who contemplated an air- plane trip to the South Pact(ic,; Australia and China. It was fath- erly Andrew Jackson May of Ken- tucky who saved her. | What happened was that, after| Alabama's Joe Starnes had ridden| all over the U, S. A. planes as a member of the Appro-‘ priations Military subcommittee, | it was finally arranged that such junkets be approved first by a sub-i committee. Congressman May, as| chairman of the Military Affairs| Committee, appointed this subcom- | mittee, keeps a tight rein over it. (Continued on Page Four) | were described WARSAW IS New Invasion ~ Spot in Jap Supply Line Made by Gen. MacArthur ALLIED HEADQUAR T:.RS. NEW GUINEA, Sept. 15—American forces, completely fooling the Japa- nese, landed in strength today against light opposition on the | southwest coast of Little Morotai | Island within 300 miles of fighter plane range of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's long- mugh( objective, the | Philippines. After decoying the Japanese for weeks by making heavy air at- tacks on ground defenses further south in the Halmahera group, MacArthur sent the invasion forces to the northernmost part of the Moluccas and put them ashore under heavy air and naval bom- bardment. The ground losses in the landing as light and no of Vital '(ONGRESSMEN: WILL ATTEND BIG HEARING | planes or warships were lost “The Halmahera-Philippines line | has now been penetrated and en-| emy conquests to the south are imperiled by the threat of envel-| opment,” says the communigue ! “The rolling up of the remain- der of this line would cut off and isolate the garrisons in the East Indies, estimated at 200,000 men, the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Ar- mies, and sever the vital supply line to the Japanese home islands. Oil and other essential war ma- Three Members Says Fish- ing Industry Must Not Be Destroyed KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 15.— Department of Interior hearings on Indian claims in Southeast Alaska, told the Chamber of Commerce yes- terday the fishing industry in i b i stroyed as result of the claims. # % 2 Representative Jackson, head of MacArthur's Morotai invasion ; - vaulted MacArthur's Gt vottad the House Merchant Marine and vaulted MacArthur's polnt of ad-/pyheries Subcommittee, said: “We vance more than 300 miles (o the northwest. The previous lccation was Sansapor in Dutch New Guinea. * are interested in seeing the Indians compensated for any damages suf- fered but settlement must not be made by turning over the fishing NOW BEING STORMED MOSCOW, Sept. 15.—Russian and | Polish troops are believed storming Warsnw proper today from captured Praga moving acress four bridges | over the Vistula River. Previously the Germans said the bndges had been destroyed. GERMANS TRYING TO MUSTER NEW FORCES AT FRONT 15—Secre- | WASHINGTON, Sept. |tary of War Henry L. Stimson said the “Germans are doing their best to muster larger forces” for a desperate stand on the Siegfried Line before which the Allies have deployed on a broad front. Stimson told the newsmen the Nazis are shifting troops from other possible source” to the west| |wall but no matter how long it the Allies until the enemy cracks.” - e (ONE IS KILLED IN ALABAMA HOTEL CONFLAGRATIO ANNISTON, Alabama, Sept. 15.— One person is dead of injuries, sev- en missing, and two others injured in a fire that destroyed the 90- room Alabama Hotel, occupled by 200 persons last night. The dnm age is estimated at over $100,000. CONDEMN FOR, PRAISE DEWE CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 15.— The delegates to the United Mine resolution condemning President ‘Ronsevelt and praising Gov. Thomas nold Collinis (D) 1,373, Fred Stil- | E. Dewey after scarcely half an well (R) 1,124. hour’s debate. The delegates did | not endorse Dewey, however. - MICKENS RETURNS HOME Walter Micken of Anchorage has returned to his home. He was a delegate to the American Legion in military | Convention, held in Juneau the first seph Diamond part of September. ‘COMMIT’I‘EE OF USO MANAGEMENT MEETS The Committee of Management of | the USO will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the USO headquarters and all members are requested to attend for a short business session, sentative Holmes said: “We'll see that that does not go through.” T | have a musical organization | {to be proud of. | Persons having instruments they are willing to sell to the students| are requested to contact Art Uggen, I of the Alaska Supply Company, or| Supt. A. B. Phillips, at the High| School. CHINESE FORCES JOIN IN YUNAN CHUNGKING, Sept. 15.—Chinese forces, in north Burma and in China’s Yunan Province, have es- tablished contact somewhere in Yun- | an and control the trail between Myitkyina and Tengchung. SULLIVAN 1S BACK FROM FIELD TRIP 1 Representative O'Brien concurred REA ( H ES 29 IN |in the statements made by his col- | The hearings open today in Hyda- | TRAIN COLLISION - TERRE HAUTE lnd Sept. 15. (lmcn of two trains has reached 29, ‘ DE('DE wAR lME th_h the deaths of two sergemts, - ‘The death of Staff Sergeant Rob- | W AGE OUES'HON ‘ ert Stoddard of Jackson, Mich., and | geant Richard, broke up the Army| WASHINGTON, Sept. 15'4"’1?%—1 Air Force team that participated in ' dent Roosevelt may be called upon | Europe since April, jor not to abandon the administra- | e e | tion’s wartime wages and open the | | . gI k Eq p ' | nation’s workers. | rut u' men | Whatever he decides, even if he | R h I AI k puts of the decision, the question " Rushed fo Alaska | issue. | The CIO Steel Workers _vem'-lnm:; |up through the Little Steel wx\L’n-} BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 15—Great | ceiling was laid before the War | ment rushed to Alaska when the |finding report. Another was filed | Jap invasion appeared imminent simultaneously by a three-man | to Army Ordnance centers for re- | Steel modmcauon | shipment to other war centers, Col. AP, District, said. & i NEEDED; SCHOOLS Band instruments of all types| ' |in the Juneau Public Schools. A| } HAS’I‘INGS, Nebraska, Sept. 15.|band leader is available and, if the Guardsmen were killed when an|former band members and cooper- amount of ammunition exploded at|ative townspeeple, the City may| Daily Tribune said it has learned reliably that 21 persons were | The blast dug a crater 550 feet long and at least 25 feet deep. damaged. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 15-- Twenty-five of the Third Division’s their returns giving Bartlett 1,624, Manders 1,099, McCain 1,047, Rivers DEATHTOLLNOW leagues. e T L The toll of dead in the head-on col- | pRESIDENI MAY 126 of them being servicemen. Inary, twin brother of Staff Ser- | more than 50 combat missions in before the election to decide whether | way to a general pay hike for thc‘ | seems certain to be a campaign | ' | Now Shlpped Ba(k drive to force a 17-cent hourly raise stocks of truck automotive equip- |Labor Board last night with a fact- two years ago is now flowing back [panel to demand the AFL Little | Sheets, Commanding the Boston BA“D I“SIRUMENIS | are desperately needed by stmk-nl\; “-Three negro soldiers and one Coast | instruments can be procured from the Naval Ordnance Depot here. |well injured. ‘Twenty-three business houses were " RETURNS GIVEN 57 precincts have been heard from, 1,487, Boyle 1529, Chase 1,106, For the Senate short term—Gre- For the Senate long term—Cof- (fey (D) 1,498, Brownell (D) 1,370, i Hodge (R) 1022, Snodgrass (R)| O. S. Sullivan, chief of Field Op- | 1,163. erations with the Unemployment | In the House race three Repub-|Compensation Commission, has re- licans are among the top seven.|turned from an extensive three| Almer J. Peterson (R) 1,506, Jo-|months trip to Cordova, Valdez, | (D) 1,400, Warren|Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks.| Taylor (D) 1371, Stanley McCut-| Returning, via Fairbanks (o cheon (D) 1314, Oscar Gill (R)|Whitehorse over the Alaska High-| 1309, C. A. Pollard (D) 1,289,|way, Sullivan reports that the new | Monlz Andprsen (R) 1,252, road is in fine condition and that| OLDTTMER B TRoME ;2;::1‘:]: over it was a real| Emil Lassen, a resident of Nome 3 for the past 40 years, passed| Betty King, of Seward has ar- through Juneau this week, enroute to the Pioneer's Home in Sitka. rived here and is a “astineau Hotel guest at i the| | Three Congressmen enroute to the| Southeast Alaska must not be de-| [KILOHS, AFTER33 | | ward, California, | gion. |then joined the Al TOKYO IS TAKING TO, QUEBEC MEET 15 T0 CLOSE SATURDAY Roosevelfand Churchill| May Meet Again Is | Unconfirmed Rumor Sept. 15—The second' Quebec conference closes tomorrow although the quick pace of the' European war may hold President Roosevelt and Prime Minister | Churchill in personal contact for conversations. Stephen Early, Presidential sec- | retary, made Known that the dis- cussions were in the “closing{ phases” He said he could not answer when asked if the two [leaders might talk elsewhere. How- the military staffs continued meetings at Chateau Fron- QUEB! {further ever, the tenac Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived last night. The fact that Allied troops are now fighting on German soil was the governing reascn why he hurried on the 3,300 mile air mn it | DEWEY CAMPAIGN WON'T INTERFERE | WITH WAR EFFORT BILLINGS, Montana, Sept. 15.—A fighting campaign, which he declar- ed would not interfere with the war effort in the slightest degree, was outlined by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey when he conferred here with Gov- ernor Sam Ford and other po]lncal leaders. Old fashioned torch lights burned for the first time in his cross country campaign tour when a crowd, esti- mated at 7,000, greeted him upon his arrival at Sheridan, Wyoming. Speaking for 15 minutes, he said: “I am confident that there is no indispensable man out of our 130,-i 000,000.” ; | YEARS RESIDENCE - HERE,GOING SOUTH Mr. and Mrs Alm' Kiloh, veteran residents of the Gastineau Channel area—for 33 years—are to leave soon to make their home in Hay- in the Bay Re- | Mr. Kiloh has been in ill health for the past several months and hopes that a change of climate will be of benefit to him. Mr. end |Mrs. Kiloh will stay on the chicken farm of Mr. Kiloh's brother for a | time when they reach the south. ‘ in First coming to Alaska 1911, Kiloh was employed at Treadwell until the cave-in, then moved to Thane, which was his home until | 1929. He worked at the Alaska-| Gastineau until it ceased operation, Juneau. | Kiloh has sold his house to Mrs Lillie Darlin, formerly of Sitka. i COUNTRY TO GET, AWAY FROM BOMBS NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The Jap- anese Domei News Agency said the equipment of several thousand business concerns is to be moved from Tkyo and other areas in the | $1,000. near future as a part of a con- by > tinuing program to decentralize the| HARVEYS TO OWRANGELL Japanese capital as a precaution — Saeaure sgainat airirald Mr, and Mrs. James P. Harvey Another dispatch he left on the Princ Louise’ for| Government monitors says “our |Wrangell. Mr. Harvey, lumber in- wooden aircraft are surpassing the |spector for the USED, has been famed Mosquito bombers of the|stationed here for the past several Administration, and the father is| British.” They will be placed in!months and will have the same with mass production soon. - BUY WAR BONDS | poisoning, Knockout Blow Given Japanese Aircraft in Atfack on Philippines UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 15-The Navy communique reports two more days of carrier aircraft strikes against the Philippines. Admiral William Halsey's Fleet planes had knocked the Third Jap- of the sky, ac- enemy planes, ace vessels defenses. anese aircraft out counting for 501 sank or damaged 173 sur and devastated ground The results of the victory cest the Americans relatively light air losses and not a single warship as Japan’s fleet remained in hiding. WOMAN FOUND DEAD INPARKED CAR; FAIRBANKS FATRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 15. An unconscious man and the body of a woman were found yesterday afternoon in a car in a clearing near the Steese Highway, four miles from Fairbanks The woman has been identified as Mrs, Antoinette McCauley, about 30, who came here from Anchorage two months ago and had recently been working in a local laundry. The man, at the hospital, in a serious condition from monoxide is Clarence Knapp, 35, who recently had been working for the Sommers Construction Company at Nome. The woman had been reported missing yesterday and the car, which was rented Tuesday night, when nd had an empty gas tank and th(‘ ighition on. dead. The United States Marshal's office said it was evidently an accident as there was no evidence of suicide or foul play. The accident occurred Tuesday mgh( AACHEN NOW SURROUNDED By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE IN GERMANY, 6:30 TONIGHT, Sept. 15—The communication center of Aachen lerican grasp tonight. The Yanks are fighting on the outskirts with the Germans in des perate defense. e Germans have thrown in a| collection of troops ranging from deaf men to others normally non- combatants. Aachen is known pe haps better under the Belgiain name of Aixlechappell. GUY BANVARD DIES LAST NIGHT AT SITKA. fil’I'KA Alaska, Sept. 15.—Guy Edward BanVard, 45-year-old fish- erman, ,died at his home last night where he was stricken with a heart |attack. He was a chief electrician | in the Navy during the First World | War, and moved to Sitka shortly afterwards. His wife, Kathryn, is the daughter ! of John H. Peterson, prominent Sit- ka business men who also succumbed | @ short time ago. - I(LE KNIGHT HERE Earle W. Knight, managing edi- tor of the Alaska Weekly, pas through Juneau last night on the! { Aleutian bound for the Westward. - - LEMENT CHARGE Dan White, arrested on an alleged embezzlement charge was arraigned yesterday before U, 8. Commissioner Felix Gray and his bond was set at| job in Wrangell, where he was previously stationed before the Olson mill shut down last spring. ‘The battery was | O'CLOCK | great | 5 surrounded and within the Am-| 16 DEATHS RESULT OF Rages AIona_A—tlanIic Coast Toward Canada, Leaving Widespread Damage (By Associated Press) The great Atlantic hurricane that blew out to sea, off Maine, headed for St. John, in New Brunswick, leaving in its wake widespread dam- age and death. In the Northeastern States, 16 deaths and damage run- ning into millions of dollars were | caused by the storm. Long Branch, New Jersey, alone, reported more than $2,000,000 in destruction. | The gales, at 80 and 100 miles per hour, whipped the heavy rains, ripped buildings, snapped power and telephone lines, uprooted trees, and disrupted transportation. |" The American Telephone and | Telegraph Company reported that 1300,000 telephones were out of order from Pennsylvania to Maine. Atlantic City and neighboring | coastal resorts appear to have suf- fered the greatest damage. Moun- tainous waves hit the boardwalks and a 90-mile wind tore off roofs. —— - — 2 MORE TOWNS TAKEN IN ITALY ROME, [ traops Sept. 15 — Fifth Army are battering against the |main fortifications of the German Gothic line and have seized the towns of Montecatino and Pon- | tedimoriano, both four miles north of Lucca and an area 15 miles |square on the west coast. Headquarters announced that |the advance was the deepest north- ward penetration in the west coast sector and the advance carried Gen Mark Clark’s troops some 16 miles |beyond the Arno River, the jump- |ing off point of the drive. - e WILL IT BE OUR - IKE AS CHIEF IN COMING JAP WAR! LONDON, Sept. 15—The Daily Mall said the appointment of Gen | Tke chief for the combined Allied as- sault on Japan is one of the de- - FAIRBANKS PEOPL Seeds, | Mr. and Mrs. Cyril of | Fairbanks, have arrived here from |the north and are now registered at the Baranof Hotel et ! DAUGHTER FOR JUDSONS | The stork arrived last eveninng| at St. Ann's Hospital with a seven pound, eleven ounce daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Art Judson. The |mother was formerly on the switchboard of the Office of Price at old ! Road Commission An eight year the Whitehorse sister, new addition, HURRICANE BY FIFTH ARMY Eisenhower as commander-in- | cisions likely to be made at Qurhec.‘ Barbara, also welcomes the | Surprise Landings are Made in Pacific Areas MAASTRICHT, NANCY FALL TOU.S. ARMY | Two Strategic Cities Now in | American Hands After Big Offensive 1 LONDON, Sept. 15—The cities of ;Mmmtrlcm and Nancy, at opposite ends of an 18-mile front, fell to the batteringoffensive by Ameri- can Armies, Nancy is the fourteenth city in France to fall to Patton's’ Third Army. It is 68 miles from Stras- bourg at the crossing of the Rhine. | Maastricht, the Netherlands city guarding the Meuse Canal, fell |during penetrations of the German defenses at the north half of the encircled Aachen, according to the German High Command and Al- lied announcements. Three penetrations of the Sieg- fried Line, from two to eight miles deep and six to nine wide—one completely through the first belt of fortifications—were made to- ward the Rhine cities of Cologne and Coblenz. A force of Gen. Hodge's First Army, which crossed the frontier of the Dutch Province of Limburg yesterday, was said by Germans to bhave advanced to a point near Valkenburg, 12 miles northeast of Aachen, which is under artillery fire of Ameriicans who advanced to points within a mile south and southeast. Germans said that fierce fighting is taking place at the Belfort Gap, but there are no Allled reports from Seventh Army Gen. Patch, who was last reported to be 16 miles south of Belfort. These three great zones of pene- tration; the fiirst, nine mile wide | breach of the German border, from a mile south of Aachen to south of captured Rotgen; the second, a six mile wide pathway, eight miles deep into the outer “dragon’s teeth” of concrete pillboxes of the Sieg- fried Line at the outskirts of Prum; the third, a two mile deep wedge of the defense zone just northwest of Trier. At the Brittany port of Brest, Americans fought their way through the city, street by street, as the besieged Nazi garrison re- jected another ultimatum to sur- | render. NANCY (ITIZENS WILDLY HAPPY AS YANKS MARCH IN By WES GALLAGHER AT NANCY, Sept. 15—This key defense city in northern France fell to American infantry at 11 a. m, with scarcely a shot fired. The population went wild as an American General rode the first jeep into the center of town. ‘The Germans fled duriing the night, except for a few snipers. S 'Finnish Island Is Atfacked by Nazis STOCKHOLM, Sept. 15. — The the Germans at- | tacked Hogland Island but assaults were repelled except at “one point where mopping up a weak bridge- head is continuing.” " STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Sept. 15—Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 88%, Anaconda 25%, Beech Air- jeraft 10, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 80, Kennecott 30%, North American Aviation 9, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific \n %, United States Steel 56. | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials 144.08, rails 139.09, utilities 24.40, | Finns announ