The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XLIL, NO. 9759. . JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'YANKS HIT GERMANY IN Stalin Tightens Grip on His NEW CROSSING erman En |: lVE < D AY UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - 1944 ALASKA TERRITORIAL ELECTION - FIRST DIVISION Delegate Atty.Gen. 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Thomas E. Dew Riga and 60 miles from the Gull |5 5 ying 8l o P 8| 2 2| 10 10 s| alisgh 21 2| 1] 1| 9 RIS O 858 0| special train ploughed into the of Riga, | Wacker 19| 4| 12| 10| 13| 6| 17 3 5 54 15 18 8| 8| M} 5| 7| 12| 18| 16 4| 18| 12| 15 13| 3| 12| rear of a regular Great'Northern Gen. Bagramian’s great new | gji, 176 | 88 || 131 | 127 | 162 | 71 |( 167 | 78 || 89 126 | 141 176 75| 91| 148 | 79 | 106 | 112 | 140 | 204 | 78 | 120 | 90 | 142 139 | 73| 134 passenger train one mile north Baltic offensive below Riga gain- | g,imon Creek/| 23| 18 || 17| 21| 23| 17| 25 14 [ 14 27| 18 23 14| 10| 218 28| 13| 21| 17| 16| 12| 18| 13| 15 [ 24| 14| 28] of Castle Rock at 11:50 o'clock ed 25 miles in four days and | pyjpeq 35| of 17| 23| 84| 9| 80| 12 6 19| 22 30 1| of @f 1|18 19| 28| 25| 11| 2¢| 16| 20 29 9| 13| this forenoon, injuring several widened its breakthrough in the | o oiacpriqge | 12| 9 4| WL ) sl 10} ¢ 9| 14 16 3| 2/ 46| 9| 7| 14| 14| 13 3| 10] 11| 13 10| 50 8| personsand severely shaking up corridor to 75 miles, Stalin said. | poock Isle .|| 21| 1 11| 9| 14 6| 11| 9 9 3 14 19 12| of @4 el 7( | a) 8| 5f18) 10} 7 12| 7| 8| Gov. Dewey and Mrs. Dewey. . |Kiawock 97| 9| 48| 50| 84| 11| 84| 9| 12 1| 87 82 9| 12| 62] 9| 9| of 56100 9| 79| 69102 51 5| 20 The thirteen-car special train, MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—Grinding gyqapurg 21| 5 26| 9| 25| 8| 18| 4 3| 30| 21 5| 7| nf s} 4| 9| 18] 38 2| 24| 24| 40 19 lg 8| traveling nearly four hours late down German armored reserves at|ygopjakatia 82| 4 21| 68| 7| 8| W T 2 {200 e 74 | 11l e} 5| 9| 61| 59| 83| 10| 70| 58| 84 | 63| 8| 11 out of Seattle, ran into the back the rate of nearly one panzer di-|gj pgan 23 1 o| 3 1 2 318 2 1 3 1 1 ol 11 1 0 1( 24| 10 0| 22 2 | 22 2 1| end of the regular passenger vision a day, the Red Army tight- | yapytat 35| af av|. 9] 14 19| 27| 4 9| 25 20 22/ s0f 1| 1] o] 1] 24 o| 25| 9| 30| 10| 4 19 train that stopped at the scene ened its strangling grip on the| opipag R b T R R AR R 5( 1 11 AR TR T R N e T . 13:{0 0 4| of the collision between two cnemy’s mid-Baltic communications| yamestown 17| 3 T T e e T e 1| 14 17 5 3| ¥ 3| uj 0|l u 3| 14| 0| 12| 10| 16| 3 7| freight trains last night. at Latvia in a gigantic flve day geoy Bay 9| 13/ 15 5| 10| 12 5| 14 1 38 6 SRR BV STR R ST R BE T R AL S R LR 13| No immediate indication as to battle which may be anothef ful- g petersburg|| 12 | 1 3 Az agdaio gl 1 ) 10 Sbodt il 94l &lial o ) &0 0g0Ed el 10| 2| 3| how sericus the nominee and fillment of Stalin's classic strategy | ge) Island ... ofl-18f 7]|.18] -3l 18| 1 2| 18 20 ol 0 off 3] of Wil s djcasl 8l B.dl 2 | 1| 9| Mrs Dewey is has been issued. te surround and destroy. | Hoonah gl 98l 14} 17| ol 19 51 Lo a0l 22 .2l gl Bk Bl 8 10| I8 1 2T 4'_15114‘24]1611’” 4| 8| The two were in their bedroom Front reports indicate” there i renakee T se | e 4 127 26°(| 3¢ s et s U 8 8 26 | 18| WI[T10°F 28T 4 [5/17) < abORFd (he spES trati ¢ he still no pause in the ferocious en-|aAngoon 7 10| 28] 207 7 %} 1 oln 22 7( 17| 24| 10] 11| 12| 20| 48 3 20| 24| 40| 37| 13{ 2| 7| time of the collision. gagement which began Friday west| pelican 5| 7} 21| 24| e -20] 6] 10| 15 22 7| 8| 15| 7| 5| 14] 22| 2 9 12| 15| 15| 11| 22| 6| 5| Paul Lockwood, secretary to of Jelgava, where main Baltic roads, ginisnoo D 5 T R B 0 i 11 Sl e v S AR asi s 4| 13] 18{ e | Bf W01 0 5| the Governor, said Dewey was and railways meet. The Russians gyger 6 91 16| 19| 5 16| 9 7] 18 20 L 9( 5| 17| 10| 6| 16| 14|.13 6| 16| 18| 15| 6| 19| 1| 9 shaken severely. flfl';fl lvd 13‘2;'9 ]knccked Lg“i 4‘:9 Funter Bay 1 06| 8] 0 6f 0 2| 4 6 P I R B O R P T G M R P R 3 'rnet Jolt of kt:-e folllsim‘-”threwl anks an planes on the east- | BT BN p 3 S Py S P SR | SRS TR M P G g S8 — e o f— = T reporters working in an adjacen ern front during the past four days Ttoals 12404 11288 | 1719 |1800 (2408 1083 | 2225 (1134 ||1253 (1771 (1684 |2061 || 2620 |{1364 | 990 [1775 11164 1310 |1813 [1779 [1886 | 1131 (1856 |1534 [1031 1578 |2178 (1056 | 1750 | press car to the floor, injuring s & : - e — - | several of them slightly. Obviously most of this punishment was inflicted in the Baltic sector. The fate of the German north- ern army group, still estimated at more than 20 divisions, may be de- cided in the next few hours or days il the Nazis fail to keep open the lifeline from East Prussia through the Jelgava area to forces in east- ern Latvia and the Estonia coastal corridor, little more than 20 miles wide now, which connects the Ger- mans above Riga with those hold-| mg western Latvia and western | | Lithuania. The Russians once snapped this| lifeline by plunging to the s but the Germans reestablished it by heavy fighting. ! Official silence screened the de-\ tails of the Soviet-Polish opera- tions in the Warsaw area, but the| German strong points at the Capi-| tal continued under heavy Russian| artillery fire. The _Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON fLt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Officials have been trying to keep it quiet, but plans have been completed for using the gigantic Ford Willow Run bomber plant for constructive post-war peace. It can now be revealed that Ford plans to use Willow Run as the largest agricultural implement production center in the world. Principal product will be a new self-propelling plow, complete with harrow and other attachments, to sell at about $400. This and similar farm equipment which Ford plans to produce at low prices may well | revolutionize small farming, give the little farmer a chance to en- joy more leisure and the benefits of civilization. Inside fact is that Ford for years has tried to work out a way{ to produce the cheap Ferguson tractor at a low enough price to capture a market of millions. Ford first met Scotch tractor inventor Harry Ferguson about 18 years ago. Ferguson told Ford about | his low-price tractor, showed him | | | | | | | | Legio FINNS SIGN ARMISTICE; HARD TERMS Russia Demands 50-Year Lease on Big Naval Base, Report LONDON, Sept. 19—The Moscow | radie announced today that Fin- land has signed an armistice with Russia and Britain. The announce- ment was broadcast by a Soviet information officer who didn’t give the terms, but the Swedish press, on the basis of fragmentary re- ports, said that the terms were “hard.” The stipulation which is said to {be causing the Finns the most |anxiety is the Russian demand for | a 50 year lease on the Porkhalla naval base on the Finnish Gulf. Stockholm said one well informed Finnish source stated that this demand embraced the use of the territory stretching inland from Porkhalla to a point only eight miles from Helsinki. CRAFT HOME IS SOLD TO HARVEY STARLING The John E. Craft residence in | West Juneau has been purchased | trol. nnairés Told By Nimitz of Plan ToKnock Jggan Out TASK FORCE Five Millio Annually _A_vi N BIG GERMA END TO END Nazi Cities Get Terrific Pounding-Berlin Hit | for 179th Time - | LONDON, Sept. 19.—Around 700 Fortresses attacked the German raflyards at Hamm and Soest, while other hundreds of Allied planes re- inforced supplies of the airborne; army invading Holland. Hamm is on the main German Cologne trunk, just behind the pierced Siegfried Line, and Soest is in the same general Rhenish-Prussian area, 28} miles east of Dortmund. During the night heavy British bombers rained 420,000 fire bombs Dollars PORTBURNS, | private aviation. | ports and navigation aids in A]Bhkfl) HITS NORTH | | | ~ TOLUZONIS. | L] | e CHICAGO, Sept. 19.— American! CHioaco, et o m e Artemus Gates, Navy Of- ond session of the annual conven-| 2y g tion today are pondering over the| hua'r IS F"S' io An’ tigings from high ranking war | |leaders that blows will be delivered nounce Aftack against the Nation’s enemies. ‘] Admiral Cuester W. Nimitz told| By VERN HAUGLAND them, by radio,” that the Uunquesti UNITED STATES PACIFIC of the Philippines will be the job FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL of MacArthur's southwest Pacilic‘HARBOR, Sept. 19. — Southern! forces, with the Navy supporting'Luzon was bombed during Septem- and protecting the campaign. | ber 8 to 13. A United States carrier | Gen. Hap Arnold said that an task force strike at the Philippines aerial arm will be built up to carry Was made and warships roamed for the air war “into the heart of|three days in constant sight of the Germany and Japan.” |islands without interference. The Army has long been plan-| Artemus Gates, Assistant Secre- ning “an all out” punch on the Japs |tary of the Navy for Air, said at a| in the Marshalls. | press conference today that he was | 1t was disclosed that 60 American |aboard a carrier during the strike. | divisions have reached the fighting |His was the first announcement that | | fronts and eight morg will sail this| the attack had spread to Luzon, the | month, main northernmost island in the | Nimitz, in discussing the general|archipelago. The island was last| |arive in the westward Pacific, said | bombed by planes during April 15] |that completion of the seizure of|[to 19, 1942, during a brief raid |the island of Palau will isolate the Dorthward from Manila. Japs in the Carolines and render Gates noted “a total lack of ag-| the Truk base “next to useless.” It|8ression in the air” by the Japanese vill also put the Yanks in posltions'Wh‘Ch he said supported the con-| for strong communications between clusion that “these people are def- | | Japan proper and Japan’s conquer- initely on the run.” ed territories of New Guinca &nd| the Dutch East Indies. -END OF CIVILIAN | | CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—The Ameri- can Legion today urged that contro: | of the Japanese in this country be | | shitted from civilian to Army con- | A total of 501 Japanees planes on the German port of Bremer-| were destroyed on the ground and |kaven, lighting it end to end, and| in the air, 173 surface craft de- | Mosquitos attacked Berlin for thej stroyed ‘or damaged, and Panay, 179th time, using two ton bombs. Cebu, Negros and Layte island in-| Some 700 fighters escorted the stallations were damaged. | bumbers to Hamm and Soest, mak- |ing an armada of 1400 or more Couple Club Will | strong. STOCK QUOTATIONS Elect Officers| sy e(' I(ersl NEW YORK, Sept. 19. — Closing Election of officers will be held quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | tomorrow night at a meeting of the | stock today is 6'4, American Can BD,’ Couple Club in the parlors of the Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethlehem Steeli Northern Light Presbyterian Church 61%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- which is scheduled to follow the 6:30 tional Harvester 79, Kennecott 31, North American Aviation 9%, New The Dewey special train was traveling at approximately 55 miles an hour said E. A. Wells, engineer, and when he saw the other passenger train ahead ap- plied the emergency aid brakes but not in time to aveoid a crash. Le nominee open- Interstate struction of new additional navi- taken from them during the early football and declared that his first of this estimable lady who has been can subs, operating deep in Jap ! Labor Program Urgedfor afion in Alaska gress is urged by the i end Foreign Commerce Sub-Com-| mittee to “continue its promotion the maximum development of civil aviation.” The sub-committee recommended an appropriation of 20 millions an- | nually in the continent, five mil- RN . GOP Nominee getion aids for commercial and | ' - Would Clean House, The committee said fliers should | . allowed the use of Army axr-j Il'ldudlng Se(l’e'a[y a« soon as possible in order to pro-| SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Holding mote future development and president Roosevelt directly respon- growth of that territory. |sible for “most of the serious war- The Army was urged to turn back time strikes” Gov. Thomas commercial yairlines as rapidly as Dewey last night assailed the New stages of the war. Legislation was act as President would be to appoint also suggested to aid the develop- “an active and able” Secretary of ment of feeder lines. | Labor ————————— The Republican ing an intensive four-speech Pacific !Cna.&t campaign renewed criticism lof Labor Secretary Frances Perkins i((nd said “for 12 straight years of New Deal bungling, the Department 29 VESSELS iSecremry of Labor in name only. For all practical purposes we have |neither a Secretary of Labor nor a | Department of Labor. We need a |Secretary of Labor! We need a {Department of Labor! Twelve years |is too long to go without them; 16 waters, have destroyed 29 more enemy vessels, including three war-| Dewey outlined his labor program ships® the Navy announced today. |@fter assailing the present admin- This is the biggest bag of Am-|istration policy as one of “bungling, erican submersibles ever reporl,ed““'“"’mp"""""e and delay.” He said in a single communique. It included | the policy was “the caprice of one two destroyers and an escort vessel maDcn:wvv probably assigned to convoying| Y- ApalaY Tai She " BRes WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.— Con-| NEw DEAL ’s lion annually for Alaska for con- f Elected possible with the planes and pilots Deal labor policy as a political of Labor has been left in the hands WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—Ameri- |years would be intolerable.” ra ora | would SOINE, LIEARPGL. AEAS |retary of Labor “from the ranks of | | | said that if elected he | by Harvey Starling, of the Indian the plans. | » | Office. Mr. Starling with his wife “You're ten years ahead of time,’ Ford told him. “Come back and see me ten years from now.” As Ferguson left, Ford ordered new home the latter part of this month, and the Crafts will leave by steamer for California, where they plan to locate, (Continued on Page Four) The convention delegates also de- !manded that aliens with records of | o'clock dinner. The menu will be in charge of Mr. | their homelands after the war. The organization’s convention adopted the resolutions submitted by | its Americanism committee, |and Mrs. Henry Ibanez. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Butts will arrange the lprnzram‘ ! i York Central 18%, Northern Pacific and baby son will move to their |subversive activities Be returned to 'and Mrs. Edwin Johnston and Mr.| 15, United States Steel 57%, Pound | $4.04, Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 145.62; rails, 39.64; utilities, 24.70, These su ses brought to 913”“[’("_, the number of shops sunk or dam- 2 laged by American subs since the| war started. | The bag also included three tank- | ers and 23 cargo transport vessels, L unnecessary for working men and women of America to knock on door | i DA v (Continued on Page Siz) | (2)—restore the function of | |the Labor Department to make it emies —eeed. AMERICANS - MAKE NEW ~ LANDINGS Parachute mops Come Down in Two More Prov- inces, Says Berlin BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 19.~United States First Army troops made another crossing into Germany, hitting just below Sittard in the southern corner of Holland, a dispatch from the front said. BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 19.—The German radio declared i Allied parachute troops made new landings in the Dutch prov- | inces of Utrecht and Gelderland and said “fighting is now taking place north of the great rivers:” The broadcast apparently re- ferred to the Rhine and Lek rivers, Utrecht and Gelderland provinces lie north of the lower Rhine which crosses the Nether- lands. EINDHOVEN CAPTURED LONDON, Sept. 19.—British troops joining hands with the great sky- borne army dropped in Holland and | | ‘1 fnorthem Germany have captured | Eindoven, the seventh largest | Duteh city. 22 Frontline tches sald the Brit- ish charged forward 16 miles in 24 hours and immediately linked up |with some parachute and glider | forces who by German account have | already crossed the Rhine and are | threatening to roll up on the Nazi |flank just as in the breakthrough | in the battle of France. Three American armies have rip- | ped deeper into the enemy defenses | shielding Cologne, Strasbourg and Mulhouse. | The German are rushing in heavy |artillery in an effort to check the | forward shove of the airborne army. | Berlin, late this afternoon, de- clared more troops have landed from gliders for the third successive day 1and have descended north of the | Rhine Delta area where Rotter- dam, Amsterdam and The Hague lie. United States Army columns hit= ng thorugh Lorraine gap have made new gains beyond Nancy and are closing steadily upon Belfort, " farther below the gateway to south- {wssbel'n Germany. >oo——— fu | 40 PRECINCTS IN " FIRST DIVISION ARE REPORTED With votes of 40 of the First Division’s 54 precincts of the Ter- |ritorial election tabulated by the Empire, E. L. Bartlett is almost 2 to I ahead of John E. Manders for Delegate to Congress, Ralph Rivers {has a lead of 1800 to 1719 over Harry G. McCain for Attorney | General, Frank Boyle continues to |run away from Dr. W. H. Chase {for Auditor, and W. Leonard Smith |has a 2225 to 1134 lead over E. F. Wann for Highway Engineer. In other words, the First Division has |elected Democrats for Territorial offices. The remaining precincts, |plus the absentee votes, are ex- pected to make no changes. In the Legislative field, Norman (Doc) Walker has a big lead Senator for the 4-year (erm, with Joe Green second with 1117 votes against Howard D. Stabler, who is in third spot with 1684 votes, and Steve Ferris trailing |with 1253 votes. For Representative, Curtis G. Shattuck is easily number one, Frank Peratrovich second, Andrew Hope third, Joe Krause fourth, F. |G. Hanford fifth, Chris Hennings |sixth, A. B. Cain seventh and Steve Vukovich eighth. Cain is only 25 votes in the lead over Vukovich. FROM SITKA R. for HERE | Mr. and Mrs. Tony Christiansen are here from Sitka and have reg- istered at the Baranof,