The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XLIL, NO. 9758. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — RIGAISNOW |CONGRESSMEN GOAL OF THE QUIZ INDIANS SOVIET ARMY AT HYDABURG Natives Ask;i_Point Blank Questions-More Hear- ings Scheduled KETCHIKAN, Sept. 18.—Holding an informal hearing of thelr own |in a school room adjacent to the | Indian Affairs hearing at Hydaburg |1ast Saturday, Congressmen Jack- populated places, including Us- | on O'Brien and Holmes heard a trzyki and Dolne, southeast of | gozen West Coast Indians. Sanok, a Moscow, communique | jackson conducted the discussion said tonight. Em\d asked the assembly: “Whose |idea was it to get your people ex- MOSCOW, Sept. 18.—The mount- | ¢ysive use and occupancy of these ing Russian offensive in the region |jahds—Are you sure it is what you of Jelgava, 25 miles southwest of really want?” the Latvian capital of Riga, smoth- | powell Charles and Sam Davis, ered violent German counterattacks Hydaburg petitioners, and Frank that were marked by reckless use of | 4,4 Roy Peratrovich of Klawock re- large number of Nazi tanks and pled the Indians sought this re- self-propelled guns. | dress because “fishing is all we Dispatches said Berlin broadcasts | know and we're finding it harder to declared that the Russians advanced | make a living.” to within 14 miles of Riga in the| Indians Questioned three-day offensive. The drive is| In questioning the natives, the aimed at crushing the two German | Congressmen reiterated a sincere armies in Latvia and Estonia, esti- | interest in seeing the Indians’ right- mated at 200,000 men. |ful claims, with Jackson suggesting Moscow reports said the Red Army | the present legislation is sufficient is scouting out, consolidating and for this purpose, adding that the r the | Congressmen are “disturbed at im- EliminationfioT Latvian-Es- tonian German Armies Is Move Now - BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 18.—Russian troops have fought their way southeast of Sonak in southern Poland near the Czech- oslovakia border, seizing 30 ALLIED AIR ARMY LANDED IN HOLLAND ALLIED ARMIES SLOWLY ADVANCE IN NORTH ITALY Bloody Bafilz Is Being Fought for Village of San Martino: ROME, Sept. 18.—Powerful as- saults by both the Fifth and Eighth armies against the heavily fortified German lines in Northern Italy! made scant progress yesterday. along the broad front, Allied head- quarters said, on the Adriatic coast. Canadian and Greek troops fought their way forward a few hundred yards to reach the northwestern corner of Rimini airfield, scarcely more than two miles from the| southern limits of Rimini itself. On their left a bloody battle i being waged for the village of San| Martino. On Monte Labate, German para- chutists, strongly supported by Tiger tanks, contested every British attempt to gain ground. The Eighth Army bridgehead over the Marano River was widened from six and a half miles to eight miles. Allied headquarters gave warm praise to the Brazilian Expedition- ary Force that had gone into action with the Fifth Army and had ad- vanced more than a mile to take the town. Fierce fighting contipued to rage |E. Dewey declared today the time! WITH AMERICAN TROOPS BE- - Eastern Offensive is Started by Russian A NATIONAL DEMO VICTORY LOOMS, SAYS GRUENING \Declares Ele;cli)n in Alaska | Barometer of Trend Due in November ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 18.— “As goes Alaska so goes the Na- tion,” Gov. Ernest Gruening said in a statement, asserting the Territory ‘Ims taken over the place formerly | held by the State of Maine as the Ger- | Nation’s most reliable political bar- )—This | ometer. Returns from last Tuesday’s Ter- ritorial election showed a Democrat DEWEYISTO |DEATH FIGHT, GIVESPEECH | GERMAN SOIL IN SEATTLE' IS DESCRIBED RepublicaniPresidenfialFirst Hand'AcIount Given Nominee tfo Outline of Terrific Battle for | Viewson Labor Laws Nazi Town SEATTLE, Sept. 18—Gov. Thomas | WHITE By WILLIAM S. |had come for the estabiishment of FORE SCHNEIDMUNLE, a national labor policy so that in MANY, Sept. 17 the future, the needs of labor meed town, a northwes (Delaye ern suburb of | not “depend on a single political 'Stolberg, east of Aachen, is being party or the caprice of some in- torn apart by our big wuns and was ‘el{:cted as ’l“f‘rnlorlal X‘EPI'BS|.:.1‘\. dividual. [fighter bombers. It5 people ure.z‘;;;;:" Congress and all Territorial Arriving here to make a major feeling what few Germans have | o campaign speech to labor tonight, felt since the time of Napoleon— | 34 of the 40 members of the Terri- thh Liktines told 45 crowt ot REERE: burning welght 6f) Henty oIS s s e torial Legislature will be Democrats, Gruening predicted that at least | eral hundred persons gathered in the railroad station that he fa- vored equality of the East, Mid- west and West in reconversion from fighting on German soil. It is not known how many civilians remain, but those who are left are getting a taste of what happens to a Ger- | man city when Nazi troops elect to | hole up in it and fight it out.| U. S. troops have elected to pound | them into the ground and this they | are doing.* | This correspondent is watching | the bombardment from an observa- tion post formed by a clump of chestnut trees, just south of the center of the town which stands | out only as a blur in the great/ columns of black smoke from the | war manufacturing to peace-time pursuits. Later ,at a news conference at his hotel, Dewey said it seemed apparent to him that “if the New Deal was reelected the East would reconvert first. In a new adminis- tration the East, Midwest and West will receive equal treatment. Con- version will be a difficult problem |and require a degree of compe- showing that Maine is a false pro- phet. He also said that Alaska in | 1936 and 1940 accurately foretold the National vote, keeping the Ter- ritory’s record as a forecaster clear. Gruening asserted this year's sweeping September victory of the Democratic ticket is an “augury for the National election in Novem- ber.” —_— e — STOCK (!EIQTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 18. — Closing quotatipn of Alaska Juneau mine rm ALL-OUTON |AIRMENWIN - JAPANNEXT | FIRSTROUND ~ BIG MOVE OFINVASION \Roosevelt, Churchill Plan Battle fo OFe—n Way Info | Devastating Attack when North Germany Off [ Hitler Conquered | to Good Start | VIR BULLETIN—PARIS, Sept. 18. ~—The Paris radio asserted to- night that the Allied Airborne troops have occupied Tilburg, Nijmegen and Eindhoven in Hol- land and all peints where the Germans said the troops landed. | QUEBEC, Sept. 18. — President | Roosevelt and British Prime Mln-; | ister Churchill pledged a devastating | assault on Japan by all resources {of the two mighty nations as soon | |as Europe is out from under the corroding heel of Naziism.” | The American President and his | | British partner closed out the sec-| LONDON, Sept. 18—A continuous ond Quebec war conference at a | stream of sky-horne reinforcements Inews conference last Saturday at|and supplies are reported flowing which they said they had reached a|into Holland and Supreme Head- |quick and complete unanimity on|quarters has announced that the plans for bending Japan into sub- | First Allied Air Army has won | round number one of the battle to - ICKES, PERKINS " 10 BE FIRED IF ~ DEWEYELECTED | COUER D'ALENE, Idaho, Sept. 18—At a conference with newsmen here last Saturday, Gov. Thomas E. | mission. {lay open the flatlands for a nor- !thern Germany invasion around |the Siegfried Line. Lt. Gen. Dempsey's British Sec- lond Army has plunged forward from its bridgehead across the Schelde-Meuse Canal. Its coordi- nated offensive is aimed at linking up yith the bridgeheads establish- ed by the Air-Army of the Seventh ! Allied Army which has been thrown |into sthe battle on the western front. |tence never shown in this admin- building up in preparation fo coming assault against eyvery Nazi- | held position on the Eastern front., The Soviet-sponsored Free Ger- | plications of the tremendous con- troversy” which might arise if Alas- ka is returned to all those making many Committee in a broadcast |aboriginal claims. recorded by Federal monitors, called | Jackson pointed out the differ- upon German troops in Estonia and ence between the theory of com- Latvia to lay, down their arms or | pensation and actual forbidding the turn them against any Nazi units |Whites use and occupancy of land | petitioned for. forcing them to continue the battle. i The Russian war bulletin didn’t| mention the Battle of Warsaw where | Polish and Red Army troops were | last reported probing for bridge- | heads across the Vistula River from | the eastern suburb of Praga. Gen- | eral Bors' communique said his| patriot units in Warsaw had been receiving supplies from Soviet planes | since September 13. | A drive on Targu Mures, Ger-| man - Hungarian stronghold in| Transylvania was also disclosed by | the Soviet communique. CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The | Senate has approved the nomination | of Marie Harwood to be Postmaster | at Platinum, Alaska. | —————— WETCHE IN TOWN | Fred Wetche has come into town | from Pelican City and is now stay- ; ing at the Gastineau. The fifig ton| Merry - Go -Round| By DREW PEARSON “We don't want to drive the whites out,” said Charles Demmert.of Kla- wock. “We want to lease or rent lands and waters.” Reservation Preferred Other Indian spokesmen, how- ever, said they preferred a reserva- tion status and suggested the whites’ gear be left in the area, then the Indians could provide sufficient fish for operating canneries. Attorneys William L. Paul, Jr,, and Federick Paul, speaking for the In- dians before the Congressmen, said if fishing regulations were changed to favor the seiners, the Indians |could provide a living for them- selves. Additional Hearings Judge Richard M. Hanna and the representatives of the Canned Sal- mon, trolling and logging interests discussed additional hearings and one at Ketchikan was tentatively scheduled for September 27 to 29, inclusive, following the conclusion of the hearing at Kake. Judge Hanna said a Seattle hear- ing is requested for ®ctober 4 but final announcement will be made through Washington, D. C. Hear- ings continued Sunday, today and possibly tomorrow, then move to Klawock. Frank Nix, aged Haida Indian, testified Saturday on ancient rights (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) through an interpreter, George Haldane. WASHINGTON—Washington tea — e cups are rattling over the new mo- tion picture “Wilson” and Geral- dine Fitzgerald’s rendition of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson II. Mrs. Wilson, the former Widow ’ Galt, is still quite 2 personage in Washington, with plenty of/ friends and plenty of enemies. She | EIGHT ENEMY VESSELS SUNK WORLD WAR 1 VETS BEGIN ANNUAL MEET Both Truman and Bricker Address Legion Conven- tion on Opening Day CHICAGO, Sept. 18 — Senator Harry S. Truman, vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket, and Gov. John W. Bricker, vice-presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, stood on the same platform and outlined xdcas{ assisting men now fighting World War II. They appeared on the ros- trum two hours apart at the first session of the Legion’s annual con- vention. | Both speakers were applauded by | the Legionnaires from the begin- ning to the finish of their re- marks. # Bricker provoked cheers when he declared “had the voice of the Legion been heard and heeded, America would have been prepared and Pearl Harbor could not have happened. By now, surely, the war would have been completely won” Truman declared that the GI |tition of the tragic mistakes under which World War I veterans suf- fered. It guarantees just treatment of veterans.” Gen. H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces, received the Le-: gion’s highest award, its tinguished Service Medal. He told| the audience that United States fliers would soon drop the one millionth ton of bombs on the Japanese and Germans. istration.” burning factories, Dewey says he intends to outline a definite labor policy in tonight’s white smoke to our right which has red smoke from |Stock today is 6%, Anaconda the burning chemical plant -and | speech at 7:30 p. m. (PWT). He told reporters “it’s time the labor policies of our country were ex- amined with great care so that as we approach peacetime operations the labor people of the country can been vancing infantry. Terrific Bembardment Overhead, shells from our 150 millimeter guns are whistling every | minute or so with a high piercing laid down to cover our ad-| bill of rights would “prevent repe-|hostages over to the Germans. wail and hard flat blast. Our mortars endlessly fill the air and fighter bombers sweep through the haze so fast that although we are just under them we cannot see them. The solid crump of their be brought closer together and the rights of labor more clearly and permanently established so they don’t depend on a single political party or the caprice of an in- dividual.” The nominee disclosed that he will discuss island bases in a later speech and added he expected to obtain first hand information dur- ing his West Coast visit on the problem of returning the relocated Japs to this section of the country.| —_————— | ernistic noise. The bombshells are ern end of the town across it to the east. little concrete “(Continued “on Page Six) e, 'MOB LYNCHES | FORMER JAIL 27 GERMAN HEAD IN ROME ROME, Sept. 18 — An angered, Italian mob dragged the former | Roman jail director, Dr. Donato Caretta into the courtroom, beat him to death and then threw him | into the waters of the Tiber. P The mobsters strung the body LONDON, Sept. 18—A great s feet first from the window of the mada of bombers and ‘rensport prison from which the prosecution | planes fed supplies to the Allied declared that he had turned so}Mrhorne Army, which invaded Hol- land vertically, and destroyed 27 of FIGHTERS SHOTDOWN 'COAST GUARD AUXILIAR 'WILL HOLD MEET TONIGHT bombs breaks through every other | falling | in single orderly patterns; first| Cuard Auxiliary members will be on the fringe of woods at the wcsl-"held tonight at 8 o'clock in the and then’ Council Chambers of City Hall. 26%, Bethlehem - Steel 60%, . Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester | 79%, Kennecott 31, North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 15, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 144.75; rails, 39.12; utilities, 24.42 An important meeting for Coast Plans for winter activities will be Before us there is a line of mod- | discussed and nomination of offIcers cottages. | to be elected at the convention next candidate,” said the nominee. — |month in Ketchikan, will be the main order of business. 'NAZIS BURNING ~ FINNISH TOWNS - AS THEY LEAVE Furious Finns Are Now on Verge of Declaring War on NaziHordes STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18.—A formal Finnish declaration of war against Dewey said Secretary of Interior |Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of| A BBO front report said that the ! Labor Prances Perkins will be “high |Second Army has “broken clean !on the list” of Government officials | through the tough crust” in a /o be ousted if the Republicans win 'seven-mile advance inside Holland, {in November. !reaching a point only five miles | The Republican nominee said that from Eindhoven where some of the he is impressed so far on his West- Air Army 1is reported to have lern tour by the fact that the New landed. | Deal has been deserted in the West | and added trade agreements and not | GERMANS HURLED BACK dis- [pone Caruso's trial, and the lync: Caretta was to have testified for |60 German fighters that tried to| Germany appeared imminent today the state in the tral of Pictro|interfere. Two Mustang fighters| “mi gy fury mounted against Caruso, former Police Chief of |were lost as enemy planes fell. | German troops who wantonly burn- Rome, but the growing mob was| Around 250 Liberators and bun- | o4 yillages and farms as they with- prompted by Allied military gov- dreds of transports and gliders par- |drew from Northern Finland. ernment officers’ decision to posi- ticipated in the supplying of Brere- | The Pinnish Cabinet met last |ton’s Pirst Allied Airborne Army. ‘mgm at Helsinki where the press ing followed. The Germans intercepted in the|flatly stated that a war already Caretta, mauied and beaten, was Maastricht area, but Fortresses and | exists with Germany. There is a thrown into the river and finaliy |escorting Mustangs flew on all the|strong indication that action could killed by men who pursued him in|way across Germany and dropped |be expected momentarily. a rowboat and beat him with oars. needed supplies to patriots fighting | A declaration of war against Ger- Spearheads of the First U. 8. Army, which pierced the Siegfried Line below encircled Aachen, held tariffs may be the answer to future | | international economic interchanges. | | Noting that the United Mine | e | Workers' convention had adopted a [OF 8rimly to their positions 20 to | resolution condemning the New Deal |25 miles ~from Cologne, turning | Administration and praising Dewey, Pack waves of hoarsely screaming Tom Reynolds of the Chicago Sun, | Germans making shoulder to shoul- asked the nominee: “Do you wel- | dier “psychological” attacks. come support of John L. Lewis?” | Twenty thousand more Germans “I didn't know T had it,” shot back |surrendered en masse in the mid Dewey. “The dispatch said Lewis France pocket below Loire. had not endorsed any Presidential| Patton’s Third Army, along the Moselle in easte:) France, ham- mered eastward into Vosges and fortress city of Metz after throw- |ing back repeated counterattacks, e ! L] L] | Seventh Army Advances | ! The Seventh Army from the 1Medl|,errflnefln threw the Germans | out of Lure, 17 miles due west of | Belfort, in the gap leading to the | | BY JAPA“ESE‘uppeA Rhine frontier of Germany, land are slugging their way north |of Pont De Roide toward Mont- | ——— !belard down the last 15 miles to in. Belfort from the south. The Paris Hundreds Of Enemy th !radio said, without confirmation, do'hesmen Are Shot jn [that Patch's Seventh Army entered Key City of Kweilin Below Switzerland, Patch’s Sev- Rttt enth Army drove northeast eleven KUNMING, Sept. 18—Hundreds | miles and captured Modane, at the io{ Jap plain clothes men and sabo- entrance of the Mt. Cenis tunnel [tered into the key city of Kweilin,|Bourg, less than five miles from |are being rounded up and shot, the Italian border. according to the latest credible in- Landings “Going Well” |formation from the eastern China Announcing that the air-borne |front, which places the Jap regu- landings in Holland are “going |lars abeut 50 miles east of porth-|Wwell"” Eisenhower kept the security west-Kweilin, where the U. S. lqm"o( blackout on this latest blow |Alr Force virtually abandoned its| Which might break the back of | strategically important bomber and |German resistance, strained by the fighter bases. | piling up demands on many fronts. Belfort, 30 miles fro mthe Rhine. Italy, and reached Lansle teurs, reliably reported to have fil-|into Nancy and northward behind the. it To reach that point the Jap fronts. didn’t go to the Washington open- The Germans said that unbroken Caruso, Police Chief for the first{in Warsaw. The Fortr then |many is one of the demands that ing of the picture (having already gone to the New York opening), both her friends and her but enemies did. And they have plenty to say. General reaction is that the picture is one of Hollywood's mas- terpieces and should be seen by everyone at a time when winning the peace is so important. But Washington society is tearing it to pieces when it comes to Mrs. Wilson II. Lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald as Mrs. Wilson II is too generous, too beautiful for the ladies of Wash-| ington, who cannot forget the way in which the Widow Galt became the “Mrs. President” of the Wilson | Administration, insisted on handl- ing matters of state, and generally domineered the White House. (Continued on Page Four) ROME, Sept. 18. — The Allied Naval Task Force, including aircraft carriers, have sunk eight enemy 1 ships in the Aegean Sea off Greece, it is announced. Three other enemy vessels were beached after being attacked and another was damaged and left in a sinking condition. - e———— SERVICES FOR G. W. PERRY HERE MEMORIAL | Memorial services for George Wil- liam Perry, who died at Tacoraa, | Wash., on August 22, and whose re- | mains were cremated, will be held at the Memorial Presbyterian Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Walter A. Soboleff conducting the last rites. The ashes will be placed in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery. — e DIVORCE FILED in the office of the Clerk of the District Court this morning. e NEW TELETYPE OPERATOR NIMITZ T0 BE ON AIR Dorothy McCulley, formerly of |Walla Walla, has joined the wo- man’s department of the Alaska {Communication System as teletype operator. ———.—————— i NEW NOPH REPRESENTATIVE Miss Margaret Higgins, Public Health Nurse in Juneau for the Ter- ritorial Department of Health, has been appointed membership repre- isentative for Alaska for the Na- tional Organization for Public Health Nursing. The appointment ) is effective for a two-year period. four months of the Gefman occupa- tion of Rome, is on tnal for life. | Clettis Henry Groves filed for a|ge js the first accused Italian col- divorce from Charlotte May Groves |japorationist to come before the tribunal for of Fas- cist crimes. punishmeit Chester W. Nimitz is scheduled to make an “important broadcast” at {7:15 o'clock tonight, Pacific War Time, the Mutual Networks an- nounces. He will speak from “some- where in the Pacific.” NEW. YORK, Sept. 18—Admiral | !flew on past Warsaw, |fighters wheeled over the city an came all the way back to Eng- land; trip fighter flights in history aviation. ———————— OIL STOVE TOO HOT Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart- ment answered a call at 12:45 o'clock today to the home of G. L. damage resulting. ———-————— SCORES OVER RABAUL WASHINGTON —Marine Lt linois back, was over Rabaul with a balky engine but that didn't stop him from accounting for a Jap Zero, * but the the Russians are said to have made dl/on Finland as the price of peace|Taohsien, the enemy making three stre: with the Soviet Union. one of the longest round- | Two Finnnish brigades and Rus- of | sian troops are fighting the Germans | | regulars advanced 30 miles from ams of Allied sky trains are {main drives on Kweilin along and carrying reinforcements and sup- lon both siles of the Hunan- Plies to the original landings made Kwangsi railway and on the rail- by Lt. Gen. Brereton's wing strik- |in Northern Finland where Nazi-set |way itself. The Japs are still about |Ing force—"one of the greatest air- Trafton on Gastineau Avenue, near Rawn Way, where an overheated | oil stove was put out With NO|yp. Northern half of Finland. fires blazed. Finnish advices said the villages and farms were reported left aflame by the withdrawing Ger- mans in the Soumisaalmi district and at Kuusamo, south of the Arctic |Circle near the Russian frontier. Megnwhile, the Russians are said to Gunnar Mullern, the first Swedish correspondent to return to Stock- holm since the Russian terms were carried to Helsinki said the Rus- |Wayne C. Gher, former U. of Il-lgians wanted air bases in Northern and Central Finland and along the western coast for the duration. They are asking mostly for the islands in the Finnish Guif. be demanding the right to occupy ! 165 miles from Kweiling, north- |borne operations in history.” These {west of Lingling, where another |landings will open the way for a {American air base is located. |erushing offensive to northern in- The enemy is reported to be dustrial Germany. {occupying the town of Sinning and | The Nazis said other landings Ithat area, moving in a southwest-|Were made to the west of Til- y direction and another Jap burg and Eindhoven. There the |force is thrusting westward from sky dropped troops which will be Hengyang, once the site of stilljonly ten to fifteen miles beyond another U. S. air base, and are the British troops stabbing across reported less than four miles from|the Duteh border just south of |both towns. PRATT IN TOWN R. F. Pratt, of Akron, Ohio, is in its immediate goal of Taoching. The Ninth Chinese War Zone troops are reported to be striking |at the Japs in an eastern flank on both sides of the Lingling areajtown and a guest at the Juneau around Taohsie. Hotel.