The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1944, Page 1

I e OO e * E - - “Baltic drive, the first phase of the VOL. XLIL, NO. 9760. AILLY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LLIES OUTFLANKING SIEGFRIED LINE Germans Being Rolled Back 'Army Plane Is Missing, Anchorage foFairbanks, With 19 Persons Aboard FALL OF RIGA EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT First Phaseafiussian Aut- | umn Offensive Prom- ises Big Resulfs | 20—A massive | MOSCOW, Sept. DEWEY TALKS IN PORTLAND LAST NIGHT GOP Nomin;e_Says Roose- velt Administration Unfitfo Make Peace PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 20— Greeted with the most thunderous ‘Ambassadors FINNS PAY 'Named for 3 BIG PRICE | FOR PEACE ~ Free Nations 'Roosevelt Names Envoys‘f Stripped of Rich Indusrial o Luxembourg, Bel- | Area-Heavy Repara- | gium, Netherlands ‘ tions Demanded WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Presi LONDON, Sept. 20—Stripped of |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today her richest industrial territory and Supreme Russian offensives, rolled |ovation in his campaign after two|nominated ambassadors to serve in|purdened by heavy cash reparations the Germans back steadily over the Latvian front, imminently menac‘-l narrow escapes from possible seri- ous injury, Governor Thomas | three countries, newly-liberated from | as the price of peace, Finland is L. | the Nazi invaders and others on the | dedicated, by Acting Prime Minister MORE JAP AIRCRAFT | DESTROYED Kurile Islands Are Aftack- ed Again by Liber- GOTHI( I.lNETS HARBOR, Sept. 20—The conquest | 6-MILE FRONT | ators' Ven'uras \‘BREA(HED oNipassvngc-rs and three crew mem- | bers aboard has been reported By VERN HAUGLAND |missing on a flight between An- UNITED STATES PACIFIC| |chorage and Fairbanks. FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | The transport plane left An- threshold of freedom. the “indispen- Ernest Von Born, to building up a ing Riga and threatening to brn\g‘l_jmwy challenged its fall at any moment, front line|saple man” argument that was be- dispatches said. ling used by President Roosevelt Advance tank and motorized in-|g pnorters fantry units pushed deep into the| Arriving here on schedule after city’'s defenses. The communique the train wreck and near car col- announced an approach of W‘“‘i“;usmn with a- truck, he delivered six miles as the Red Army edged |his speech as though nothing had in on three sides and brought ‘“’"ham)med. tillery to bear. Dewey said the making of the In four days the Russian Baltic|peace was too important “to be Armies captured nearly 3,000 com-|gependent upon the life span and munities in their smashing attack|continued friendship of two or which promises to clear all Ger-| mans shortly from Estonia, Latvia| and Lithuania, and pave the way for the remaining steps of the‘ Autumn offensive wihch is expected to be bigger than anything to da(,e.i Developments may be expected from |eyen in war can never unite the| tration, is nominated as Ambassador |nation for: the tremendous peace|to the Norwegian Government-in- the Gulf of Finland to Yugoslavia in the south. In Rumania, combined Rumanian and Russian forces captured Tim- | isoara, 20 miles from the Yugo-| slav’ border and 73 miles northeast from Belgrade. i There is no official Russian word of action on other fronts, but Red Army artillery kept firing at War- saw across the formidable barrier of the Vistula River. A German broadcast said that the Russians have bridged the Vistula north of | Warsaw. ———-————- H | | | TIRPITZ IS HIT INNORGEFJORD BY RAF PLANES LONDON, Sept. 20—RAF Lan- casters blasted the German baulc-; ship Tirpitz with 12,000 pounds of bombs while it lay in a Norwegian fjord, the air ministry said tonight. | A smoke screen prevented observa- | tion of the results. The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON | Col.” Robert ®. Allen now on active @t. three individuals. History is littered with treaties proclaiming perman- ent peace made privately by rulers of nations and as quickly and pub- | licly broken. An administration which cannot unite its own house tasks that lie ahead.” e —— SUB FLIER IS LOST:MYSTERY WHERE CREW IS Commander John D. Crow- ley Is Listed as Sur- vivor by Navy WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The need for withholding information from the enemy clouds the mystery- loss of the submarine Flier. Two possibiities are seen: She went down in action while other American vessels were close enough to pick up her crew, or, when she was destroyed her crew was cap- | tured by the Japs. The Navy withholds any details of the sinking. The communique says | the Flier was lost in “recent action and the next of kin have been noti- | fied.” This wording is contrary to the customary language of communiques reporting the loss of subs. Ordinar- ily they are listed as “overdue and presumed lost” when they fail to return from a war patrol. The department did say, in re- sponse to questions, that the craft’s | service with the Army.) | skipper, Commander John Daniel WASHINGTON — Sleuths from; the British Embassy and the State Department have spent several | weeks trying to track down the | mystery of how Ambassador Wil- liam Phillips' forthright letter to President Roosevelt advocating In-| dian freedom leaked to this column.| At first, Secretary of State Hull| blamed the leak on former Under-| secretary Sumner Welles, wh)chi actually nobody, not even Hull himself, believed. Especially nobody | believed it when other information, | written long after Welles left the| State Department, was leaked. 1 And after the telegram to London from Sir Olaf Caroe in India, de-| claring Ambassador Phillips per- | sona non grata, was published, the British nearly went frantic. Next a. -m., six British secret service men and two burglar alarm ex- perts arrived at the British Indian | Office in Washington. They combed | every file, took fingerprints from | important documents, * examined | locks and windows. Finally, afteri everyone left that evening, they put tape over each file, making it| impossible to open without break- ing the tape. | Next morning, however, one file| had been broken open. Meanwhile, British Intelligence, after first blaming Vice President wallace for leaking the Phillips (Continued on Page Four) | membership campaign Crowley, is a survivor. The loss of the 1,525-ton Flier brings to 30 the number of American subs lost since the war started. .- — LESLIE STURM COMMANDER OF A. L. POST NO. 4 Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Legion, elected new |officers Tuesday night. New com- mander for the year is Leslie A. Sturm. First Vice-commander A. Thibodeau, mander, H. Lester Rink; Adjutant iand Finance Officer, Paul Monroe; Chaplain, Leo Jewett; Sergeant at Arms, George Martim; Service Of- ficer, Claude Carnegie; Executive Committeemen (1945-'46), Al Zenger and Bert Lybeck. At last night’s meeting a 194/ was agreed upon wherein membership credit will be on a point basis with first and second prizes to be awarded at the end of the year. IN FROM GUSTAVUS Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Schlange have come in from Gustavus and are guests at the Baranof, is Joseph | Second Vice-com- | The President named Charles yey national existence with “op- Sawyer, former Democratic Nalmnal”)Unum“w left to us.” Committeeman of Ohio, as Ambas- | ¢ = A | i immediate concern is the sador to Belgium and Minister to| . s probably bloody task of removing Tmstebars. {the German tr r ing i | stanley Hornbeck, Spesial Assist- | 11 ,"“"; “’"“‘.“‘;‘,g u ant to the Secretary of State, i PUNRELY., oIl ,,(,’ ke (m_) x{i.a»ns | nominsted Ambassador to the Neth- |inpased in - the Z3-polnt = armisis | agreement with Russia and Britain | erlands ‘ | " arthur Bliss Lane, New York, is |that reached Moscow yesterday named Ambassador to the Polish Deadline Tomorrow Government-in-Exile, now in Lon-| An appendix of the agreement don. | published today said the withdrawal Richard Patterson, New York, is ioi Finnish troops behind the new | named Ambassador to Yugoslavia’s |state frontier and the advance of | Government-in-Exile. |the Russians up to it will begin Lithgow Osborne, New York, now}uL 9 a. m. tomorrow. | connected with the United Nations| The London Times, declaring the | Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- |Finns “obtained conditions much less onerous than those offered in 1Mmch of this year,” said that | Exile. Russian sway.” The “plot” was Ishown to be lacking in foundation. ver as a i Karelia Ceded | The armistice ceded Karelia to Russia which includes the city of I \New Rou'e |“dark plot designed to bring the : |whole of Eastern Europe under i i | | | | viipuri, the most industrially de- s anne I’velopcd region in Finland The agreement also provides out- | right ceding to Russia of the Pet- ! samo area in the far porth with PAWA F”eS App”(afion‘lts port and rich nickel mines, and . | leasing f 50 ars of the Kol for Flying System from | pevineui: sts naval base on ine Finnish Gulf d use of the li- Seaffle fo Canfon [tary segion. 10 cash, Fintand mus pay reparations totaling $300,000,- 000 within six years. : R | NEW YORK, Sept. 20—Pan Am- |erican World Airways announces | filing of applications with the Civil | Aeronautics Board for a new route| | 6€31 miles long that would connect HlTlER ow Seattle to Canton with stops at| | Nome, points in the Kuriles, Tokyo | and Shanghai. ! This route would connect ati ~ NAZI ARMY 'HOUSEWANTSAN | ' INVESTIGATION Gen. Monfgomery Says OF DECEMBER 7 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The House Naval Affairs Subcommittee urged immediate Congressional in- | vestigation of the Pearl Harbor at- | tack, declaring any inquiry by the armed forces themselves might be “biased and we should learn for our- Orflt: es:;gm.i.%em“mss w::&e S ot selves what happened.” ‘m be th L r / ankful for in Hifler taking The subcommittee, consisting of | cngrge of operations, as it means Canton with another opm-uung‘ through Hano, China, to Calcutta.| .- German War Machine Is Under Lunatic | LONDON, Sept. 20. — Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery indicated in a speech to his troops in Belgium that Hitler might be taking closer control | of Louisiana, Cole, Republican from | ;"o “Junatic, In that respect I'm New York, and Hess, Republican|gjoq the German generals failed in from Ohio, made the recommenda- | {10 pomb attempt against the tions in letters to Naval Affairs| g oprer Y | Chairman Vinson and Military Af- 4§ | fairs Committee Chairman May, who | | the subcommittee assigned some | e — | time ago to inspect naval installa- ,' MI"EwEEpER IS tions in the Caribbean and South | lOST I“ A(TION America. | ——————— AGENT FLIES TO SITKA Miss Mae Stephenson, district; |extension agent for Southeastern !Alaska, left for Sitka yesterday, in| | connection with her work with the {4-1-1 Club movement. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — Th loss of the minesweeper Perry, in |action against the Japanese at — i e |Palau, was announced by the Navy. PAA MAN TO ANNETTE Casualties were reported light. The Don Graham left Juneau this Navy also reported the loss of the grnurning for Ketchikan enroute w;auxmary transport Noa, in a col- |Annette Island where he will be lision in the Pacific with a United stationed for the next ten days.|States destroyer. All crew mem- Graham is a mechanic for Pan|bers of the Noa were rescued. American Air SLES SO T Y e ) IN FROM, PELICAN The energy utilized by green| Jack Koby has come in from Pelican and is registered at the Gastineau, leaves in building up carbohydrates is obtained from sunlight, by American Marines, of the most | eastern coastal area of Peleliu is announced by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz The Japanese Anguar forces con- tinue to occupy only two isolated | pockets in the face of the advan {ing Eighty-First Army Division troops. The Americans now hold ap- proximately the southern half of Peleliu, where the Palau Islands linvasion was launched last Thurs- day (United States time) and the !northern three-fourths of Angaur. The communique announces the occupation of the town of Ngar- dololok in the northeast part of ! Peleliu. Japanese were re- |ported resisting stubbornly from ! pillboxes and trenches with mortar and artillery support. The | Moscow’s successive arrangements| The 117 badly damaged planes |with Rumania, Bulgaria ‘and@’ Fin=|{found' on the Pelelit “airstrip in-ie"“ - |land removed any suspicion of alcluded 77 single-engine fighters, 28| | medium bombers, 8 light bombers, |and four transports. A Navy spokes- man said these were in addition to those previously announced de- stroyed and they had not been in- cluded in any other compilation. Headquarters also announced ad- ditional bombings of the Japanese from the Kuriles in the north to the Marshalls and Nauru. Liberators bombed Shumushu in the Kuriles, Saturday and Ven- turas strafed a personnel-loaded boat, attacked a warship, possibly a destroyer, east of Paramushiro. Several planes were downed by in- tercepting fighters. All planes re- turned safely. >-es FIRES ARE - STARTED BY U.S.BOMBS Jap Positions in Southern | Philippines Under TAmericansS—ufler Heavy| | Losses While Making | Big Gains in lfaly | ROME Sept. 20—American troops of the Fifth Army breached the| |German’s Gothic Line on a six| mile front above Florence after a| week of intensive fighting and struck within three miles of the| important road center of Firen-| zuola, Headquarters announced to- day. Storming steep mountain slopes, | American troops won |Castel, Guerrino and Lacroce and | penetrated well into the heart of | !the Gothic defenses, 22 miles north- Front line dispatches of the U. S. {Army paper Stars and Stripes {said that gains through the rugged ! mountains st us an uncomfort- able number of losses.” On the coast, units of the British | Eighth Army battered within rifle lrange of Rimini, gateway to the Po Valley. —————— 'AGNES CARRILLO - STABS HUSBAND; IS UNDER ARREST/ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20— The United States Army authori- ties of the Alaska Department Headquarters here announce that an Army transport plane with 16 chorage early Monday and was last reported over Talkeetna. The last radio report said the plane was up at 9,000 feet and| flying by instruments through tur- bulent air icing conditions. The names Of the passengers are withheld TRAPPER HEARS PLANE | EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 20— Officials of the Alaskan Division of the United States Army Transport Command said the transport plane | reported missing between Anchor-| age and Fairbanks has been identi- |merged solidly By Russians PUCE—— PATHOPENING FOR BIG PUSH IN GERMANY Allies Prep—a;for Wheel- ing Offensive Across German Flatlands LONDON, Sept. 20 — Massive forces of British Army airborne troops straddled the lower Rhine in Holland, five miles from Ger- |many, in position for a great new invasion into the Reich around the upper end of the Siegfried Line. The British Second Army threw a 50 mile long cutoff wall across eastern Holland in 48 hours. It with parachute glider soldiers who dropped near Nigmegen on the wall of the Rhine. The British are apparently battling on to link with still other sky troops ten miles farther north on the upper branch of the river near Arnhem. H The Siegfried Line is being out- heights of | gipey fied as belonging to that command flanked and a path is opening for and added that a trapper reported |a Wwheeling offensive across the hearing a plane near Lake Cheek,|flatlands of northern Germany. 40 miles southeast of Mount Mc-|The Nazls in southwestern Holland are menaced with entrapment. By | Doughboys Thrust On The Americans struck fierce |German resistence in the invasion of Germany and their offensives from the Nancy-Metz line and toward the Belfort Gap farther |south, but Doughboy columns | thrust 20 miles or more beyond i iNnncy toward Strasbourg. | Brest Captured iSERvI(E lAw; With the big supply port of X |Brest on the Brittany Peninsula |in United States hands, the Can- adians battled into the channel 'Want Milifary Instruction ert o Bouiosne. | | An unconfirmed Alglers broad- Integrated with Acad- |cast saia that Boulognes gamison A 3 had already surrendered and with emic Education |the British push underway and | Montgomery in Overall Command }uf the ground armies on the nor- 3 iz 2 " |thern front, it declared that “there can Legion urges immediate enact ‘Xs no doubt that the war against | CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The Ameri- Agnes Carrillo is in the Federal jail today and her husband, Sam, | is a patient at St. Ann’s Hospital as a result of a stabbing Monday night at their residence in West Juneau. ! The defendant was arrested by | U. S. Deputy Marshals on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, having alleged knifed her husband | in the right shoulder, the scene having occurred in the presence of two witnesses, Helen Filipe and Venancio Mazon, The stabbing, ac- cording to Assistant District Attors | ' ney Robert Tollefson, was said to; have taken place about 10:30 o'clock | on the night of September 18. | | The victim was taken to the hos- | pital in a serious condition, but is much improved today according w! ment of a universal military train- ing law in a resolution ad:pled at [Hitler will end this year." | the annual convention here and sug- | The British drive enveloped Eind- |gested Congress approve legislation |hoven and stabbed on 45 miles | providing “every qualified young arther .north, joining the ' First American” to receive 12 months Allied airborne army at or mnear Army or Navy training “at the age | Negmegen. least apt to disrupt his normal edu- Himmler On Front cational and business life.” | In western France, German re- The convention recommended that | sistence tightened considerably, and lsuch a statute become effective |Himmler is reported to have visited | when the Selective Service Act ex- iGemmn units in Holland, urging | pires and the military instruction |“stiffest resistance.” However, two | be ‘integrated with academic educa- | Allied Armies are steadily enlarg- |ing their stand and are blocking |most of the roads to Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The Paris radio said that even |the Utrecht Line retreat was cutb ihy Allied landings from planes, and | Berlin broadcasts acknowledged the tion” of the young men. PR 0 ks 20 38 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN BY COASTAL Representatives Herbert, Democrat | ot the enemy is being commanded | Heavy Aftack | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 20—Mitchell| U: 8- Commissioner Felix Gray and medium bombers started many | her bond has been set at $2,500. ern Philippines, Headquarters an- thur's Air Arm resumed attacks| on Sraangani Bay, near the south- rounded planes were destroyed By MERLI} SPENCER | and one Japanese plane Was| ;oo Halmahera airdromes in | i e P M | against the Philippines. |ern extremity of Mindanao. ‘ | The Langdon airdrome in the| i P " | The third Japanese attempt to LLIED HEADQUARTERS AT |downed. The first two raids are|s, . ojes on Friday, Headquarters his physician, Dr. J. O. Rude, | Mus. Carrillo was arraigned before | fires in a raid on Japanese posi- tions on Mindanao Island, South- | nounces, as Gen. Douglas MacAr-‘jAps FLEE To Blows were struck at the Bua)nn‘ airdrome Sunday and the airdrome Dutch Celebes was also battered with 145 tons of bombs and (hreei : . A ‘rald the newly invaded Morotail ypw GUINEA, Sept. 20—Carrier- lin the Moluccas has been repelled ;o0 american planes smashed at | ———————— | THREE BOATS SELL , : (AI(HB l“ JuNEAu‘llmA]l]hiiilmi;'oups pushed the Morotai perimiter lines outward as strong sold fish to Alaska|patrols sought Japanese defenders back feebly with two light air |raids against the Allies, who are |cleaning the newly invaded Moro- | | Three boats AIRLINES TUESDAY| 38 passengers yesterday. Those !ly-‘ ing to Sitka were: Lewis Hamilton, | Mae Stephenson, N. A. McEachran, E. Whalen, Virgil Baker, Ted Kett-! leson, Pat Sweeny. | Sitka to Juneau—I. C. Cordero,! Dunn, Legia Olsen, Mel Blanch-| ard, C. H. Fellows, Mildred John-| son. Petersburg to Ketchikan and Mrs. Ralph Rogers. Wrangell to Ketchikan—Carl B Carlson. | Wrangell to Petersburg—James P. Harvey. Ketchikan to Juneau—Frank Pet- tigrew, John W. Haverstitch | Petersburg to Juneau—Jim Boyle Juneau to Haines—Ray Lauby, ! described as feeble and ineffective. | nnounced, as the Japanese struck |Robert Hardy, Al Kessler, Dale Stern. Juneau to Skagway—Phyllis Ne- berfuer, Micky Swann. Haines to Juneau—E. C. Harris.| Skagway to Juneau—F. L. Phelps, | Dorothy Lawrence. Juneau to Excursion Inlet—B. C Coast Fisheries yesterday. The who fled to hill hideouts. Canoles. | | Mayflower sold 1000 pounds of hali-‘ For the first time it was dis-| Juneau to Hoonah — Wallace | 'but and 13,000 pounds of sable closed the Morotai invasion troops Jones. i ‘flsh: the Oceanic, 1000 pounds of [were under the command of Major | Jhnlibut, 20,000 pounds of sable;(Gen. John C. Persons, one of the and the Valiant, 2000 pounds of |Army's two generals drawn from [ halibut, 21,000 pounds of sable, |civilian life, Hoonah to Juneau—Vernon War-| rich, Mary Davis, Charley Davis. Sightseeing trip—W, G. Balle, J. |w. Gonedeck retreat across the western Schelde. Polish troops burst more than | Alaska Coastal Airlines carried three miles across the Hulst Canal and were within three miles of the Schelde estuary, west of Antwerp. Yanks Into Germany Americans in the southeastern corner of Holland crossed int? Germany, east of Sittard and Am- ‘Dcrothy Kessler, Leo Jones, Capt. |stenrade, 20 miles above Aachen and east of Simpelveld, seven miles above that ruined city. Perhaps the greatest steeling of Nazi resistance along the west wall defenses is from well north of Aachen to Trier. The U. 8. First Army is on or across the Reich’s frontier almost everywhere on the 80 mile front. ————— HA, HA—NUTS! Yes, Genevieve, answering your letter of inquiry if censorship of mail still continues, yes. For instance, (this is good) in the last airmail from New York City, the envelope, officially stamp- ed September 8, and marked “horoscope” for Empire, Juneau, the envelope had been “examined” by 6034. >, Bob Fickner, of Pelican, is in town and staying at the Juneau Hotel,