The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XLIL, NO. 9761. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 ALL THE TIME” — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — THOUSANDS OF GERMANS NOW TRAPPED Soviet Forces Smashing German Resistance FIVE GREAT OFFENSIVES BY STALIN { Reorganization of House Spiked Now; Big Threal Removed GOP NOMINEE CALLS FOR CLEAN HOUSE By JAFK b’l‘lNNl‘T’l‘ {INT. DEPT. | MAY LOSE TERRITORY 'ALASKA COURT RULING UPHELD BY CIRCUIT COURT SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21—The | of Appeals has af-| Circuit Court |firmed the Alaska District Court's |ruling that declared void a con- tract of sale of a ranch near An- URGESUSEOF TERRIFIC ~ ARMYBASES ~ BATTLEIN IN ALASKA HOLLAND Special Orde?# Day Dis-| closes Movements of Red Army LONDON, Sept. 21—In a special LEGION WILL BATTLE FOR WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — The | Dewey Is to Speak in San e ot eemaniatn ot | Francisco Tonight, Los might have made Republicans the\ Angelesl'omon.ow over '0 Navy leaders of the congressional lnague ENROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—A bill isdiction Be Turned from now until January at least, ' has been definitely spiked. The | | New Yorker | Proposes Jur-| |chorage in June, 1941. The Al- House Subcommittee ;Qf.f;l,-fi““}';;lge"‘“filfiq(,I?“HL‘HL‘?S,.XK' Makes Recommendation Information before the court dhf-i for Developmem closed that A. T. Martin sold his ranch and dairy herds to John H. |Sheely. It was later discovered | \ WASHINGTON, Sept. The use of Army airbases in Alaska as 21 i Nigmegen mge Captur- ed-Aid Rushed Entrap- ped Sky Troopers LONDON, Sept. 21-—British tank | troops and Allled sky soldiers have order of the day, issued last night Republicans are much relieved. | WITH DEWEY, Sept. 21.—A Federal to transfer control of Territories and some of the herd was infected with by Stalin and then broadcast from GOP Rep. Ed Rowe, first termer, ygovemment housecleaning that Possessions from the Department of | gapos disease. captured intact the mile and a half 2 contribution towards the develop- Moscow, it was announced the Russian troops had broken through the German defenses in the of- fensive north of Tartu, Estonia,| capturing more than 1500 com- munities. The Soviet order also announced | the Red Army moved forward fli miles on the 75-mile front in four days. The order was addressed to Mar- shal Govorov and also his Lenin- grad Front Army. The order revealed five great offensives are underway, two of | them being Govorov's army, lv«o others driving upon Riga from the |a post-victory peace “with teeth m\ south and east and another pound- | ing on from Volga on the Es-| tonian-Latvian, border. | Marshal Govorov's Red Army1 veterans of Leningrad, having de- | stroyed the northern anchorage of the main German Baltic Line in a massive sweep across Estonia, raced forward today in a double- barreled drive on the army escape | port of Tallinn, Gains are reported from 35 to| 44 miles in which formidable Ger- man defenses have been wiped | out. The Red Army communique is silent on Warsaw, simply saying| Russian groups have crossed the Vistula. CARDS CINCH N.L. PENNANT BOSTON, Sept. 21.—The St. Louis Cardinals have clinched the National League pennant by defeating the‘ Boston Braves 5 to 4 in the first game this afternoon of a double- | header. The Braves drove Mort Cooper from the mound in four in- nings but Harry Brecheen held them to three hits for the remaining frames. ————————— HERE FROM WRANGELL Neil Grant, of Wrangell, is in Juneau and a guest at the Baranof. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON @Lt. Col. Rabert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Editor'’s Note—Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of a letter to Prime Minister Win- | won SERVICELAW New National Commander Is Husky New York At- forney-'18 Veteran CHICAGO, Sept. 21—The Ameri- can Legion began a new activity with a program topped by the demand for Army or Navy training for the nation’s young, men and a determination to seek it.” The new National Commander, Edward Scheiberling of Albany, New York, asserted at the clos of the convention that a major legislative objective is immediate enactment of a law providing for peace-time universal military train- ing. Scheiberling, a husky attorney, | captain’s rank while serving |overseas in 1918 ., FRANK KEAYS IN PERFORMANCE FOR CHAMBER THIS NOON Frank M. Keays of the W. D. Gross theatres entertained members | of the Juneau Chamber of Com- | | merce this noon with a sleight of hand performance. A report on recreational facilities for Juneau school children was given | | by Arthur Hedges, the consensus being that school officials are fully aware of the problems and are do- ing everything possible to improve | conditions. A guest was Harry Townsend of Seattle, mining engineer. - GOV. BRICKER TAKING SWAT PRESENT ADM. WILKES BARRE, Pa, Sept. 21 —The Democratic National Admin- istration was accused last night by Gov. John W. Bricker, Republican Vice -Presidential candidate, of spending millions of the taxpayer’s money to confuse voters and pro- mote a fourth term for Roosevelt. “Furthermore}” said Bricker in his speech here, “the New Dealers” | the Interior to the Navy Depart-‘ year’s | and former Akron, O., city coun- | would put “‘people who Iived close cilman, apparently had no idea of © the people” in administrative what a political bombshell he was |POSS 15 il Thoosy | tossing into the laps of his breth- | L: DEWeY as M8 R i | headed towards San Francisco for |ren, when he threatened to intro- iduce a resolution for reorganiza- | |tion of ‘the House. A The Governor announced he would [ 35 Py se?m paradoxical o |«gjscuss a whole new approach to those who don’t knaw the ins und |¢he relationship between the govern- jouts of congressional politics, but | ment and its people.” He supple- the Republicans weren’t afruid,‘me"ged this during a stop at Eu- |they would fail to win the contest.|gene, Oregon, by calling for “the They were afraid they might suc- |biggest and finest and most com- ceed. | plete housecleaning in the history” | Had they succeeded, they would {of Washington. |have elected a speaker of the\ A crowd of about 2,000 applauded House to replace Democratic him with cries of “we can do it” ISpeakex Sam Rayburn. They would | when Dewey said his party’s aim was {have taken over a majority on all [“to get a new administration, a Re- the standing committees and Re- Publican Congress, and a Republi- | publicans would have become the |can Senate.” powerful chairmen of those com-| At Klamatn Falls, Dewey told a (mllf.eea On the surface it sounds crowd of about 1,000 at the rail- lmce | road station that all the West needs | is “a national government that sees | The threat of what would ac- to it there is jobs for all” He [tuslly happen was considered so called for a cabinet that “wholly |serious, however, that Minority fepresents the people of the United |Leader Joe Martin came scamper- States and doesn’t forget large sec- wmg back to the capital from Mas- | tions of the Udited States.” |sachusetts. He and other GOP| Dewey speaks in Los Angeles at /8 p. m. tomorrow then leaves Sat- leaders took Freshman Rowe into | urday for Oklahoma City where the !a huddle, and although the latter is keeping his little blockbuster final maibr Sheech InsHik EAtBALED | | swing is scheduled for September 25. | (Continued on Page Six) | Dewey's special train did not get 1 away from Portland for San Fran- SRS TP Ny I jcisco until just before noon yester- day after rousing crowds delayed |departure beyond the scheduled GEIS AXE starting time. ; HE Immediately after the train got underway for the south, Dewey revlewed his speech to be delivered ‘Chmese General Failed fo Carry Out. Orders to Defend Strongpoint m San Francisco tonight, outlining CHUNGKING, Sept. 21. — Gen.| Lhe Republican program for “free- {dom and security for all.” > NEW YORK, Sept. 21—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can Chen Me Ning, commander of the|88'%, Anaconda 267%, Beech Air- Ninety-third Chinese Army, was ex- |craft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, ecuted for failure “to carry out his | Curtiss-Wright = 5%, International instructions to defend Chuanhsien,” Harvester 79%, Kennecott 327%, a stronghold on the way to Kweilin. | North American Aviation 87%, New The Chinese Central News Agency said Chen “fled at the approach of | the enemy.” A dispatch said the execution was carried out at the front September 20 at the order of the Chinese High Command. York Central 17%, Northern Pa- cific 15%, United States Steel 567%. \GERMANS MOVE at 8 o'clock tonight. i 1 Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials 145.43; rails 39.53; utilities 74.69. PRICES WEDNESDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Wednesday was . American Can 88%, Beach Air- crnlt 10%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 79%, Kenne- cott 32%, North American Aviation his third major West Coast speech | ment is being drafted at the request | of Rep. W. Sterling Cole, Repub- lican of New York, for introductmn[ after the election. Cole said the measure would cre- ate an Assistant Secretary of the Navy whose sole responsibility would be the administration of territorial matters. Cole told a reporter the‘ proposal is made because “from an | economic and political smndpomt’ the United States has not followed a coherent territorial policy because we never had an agency of govem-l ment whose primary responsibilities | was territorial problems. | “In my view, since our Territories and Possessions were acquired out of | military consideration, their admin- | istration should be under a military | department. The Navy is the proper | department.” | Cole also disclosed he would like to be Chairman of the House In- sular Affairs Committee for which he is eligible if the Republicans gain control of the House of Representa- | tives. Representative Welch of Cali- fornia is the ranking Republican on the committee but he indicated that he would prefer chairmanship of the | Merchant Marine Committee. PHILIPPINES BLASTED BY | llBERAToRS‘ther in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.|dissent, a resolution expressing in Davao Miacked with 150, Tons of Bombs Despite Terrific Monsoon By SPENCER DAVIS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AT NEW GUINEA, Sept. 21 — More than 50 Liberators battled through | heavy weather, hitting Japanese at | Davao, in the southern Philippines, on Monday with 150 tons of bombs. They didn't encounter a slngle‘ ‘enemy fighter, Headquarters an-| {nounced. The Davao airdrome, bar- | racks and supply depots took the| bulk of the punishment, and re- turning fliers reported numerous fires and heavy explosions. A monsoon was so extensive that some of the big bombers couldn’t |get through, instead dumping their explosives to the south on the Japanese garrisons on Malaud Is- |land. | | land Mrs. Joseph Eggert, while her | |husband is overseas. Lieut. Robert- son is now in the Seine-sector in! |France with the medical corps. | torney General. 9, New York Central 18%, Northern| At Morotai, invaded September ston Churchill.) jare resorting to “threats and in- EAST SECTION United States Steel 15, advance patrols ran into stub- WASHINGTON — To the Right| Honorable Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. My Dear Mr. Prime Minister: This letter is not an easy one to write. It is written by one who has long admired you as the man but for whom England might not exist. | It is also written by one who, long before Dunkirk when England was battling for her very life, urged airplanes for Britain, destroyers for Britain, and American inter- vention to save the country lrtzm which we sprang. This was at a time when many Americans pooh-poohed the menace of Hitler, urged that the U. S. A. pull its skirts away from the menace of Europe, and when some papers published editorials glee- | fully speculating on what kind of reward “Sir Drew” expected to re-| ceive from His Majesty. The only reward we who helped fight that early battle want is that our two timidation” and are using “hun- dreds of thousands” of political employes to put Roosevelt's elec- tion over. ., REV. MATTHEW HOCH HERE FROM WRANGELL The Rev. Matthew E. Hoch, for the past two and one-half years at Wrangell with the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church. has arrived Juneau on a brief business trip. e ARRIVALS FROM ANCHORAGE Mrs. Grace Wylier and Hazel Webber have arrived here from Anchorage and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. —_— e BODY OF BORIS MAGIDS IS FLOWN TO JUNEAU ‘The rgmnlm of Boris Magids, one of the best known traders of Seward Peninsula, has been flown here by a plane of*the Alaska Airlines chartered by Mrs. John Cross. nations live happily together and (Continued on Page Four) Magids died recently at Kotzebue. The remains will be taken South for burial, 3 in| Pacific 15%, 57%. ' Dow, Jones averages Wednesday were as follows: Industrials 145.85, rails 39.68, utilities 24.81. e RETURNS TO WORK Jessie Leask, Office of Tiidian Af- fairs employee, has returned from a | short leave to Ketchikan. — - BACK FROM HYDABURG Miss Mildred Maynard, court re- By DON WHITEHEAD IN GERMANY, Sept. 21—Ger- mans have begun dismantling fac- tories on the west Rhine and ship- ping machinery to eastern Ger- many to prevent its falling into |the hands of the American troops. The Yanks, meanwhile, held firmly on to breaches in the Sieg-| |fried Line, against which are con- tinued counterattacks. Forward observers in the Aachen area saw Germans dismantling a|,,iter flew in from Ketchikan factory and loading machinery on|yesterday via Alaska Coastal, after trains and trucks and they imme-|phaying attended the Indian hearings diately called the air artillery mis-|a¢ Hydaburg. sions to blast the transport in Stol- berg. The Doughboys still fought house to house, cleaning out stubborn re- sistance as the Germans made every house a strongpoint. - B — DEGANAHLS RETURN Mrs, Josephine DeGanahl has re- turned to Juneau from the South where she has been vacationing for some time. She was accompanied by her daughter, Virginia, and son, Charles. JAMES {born enemy resistance on a small| scale. The actual invasion was vir- tually unoppused, with defenders |fleeing to the hills. Headquarters also announced an- lother of the almost daily attacks on the Dutch Celebes, south of the | Philippines. ————.—— — SARRI TO BE INDUCTED Yalmar Sarri, charged with dra(tl evasion, was arraigned before U. S.| Commissioner Felix Gray and re-| | leased to reporl for induction. - T() ANCHORAGE Howard H. Burkher, formerly | principal-teacher at Ketchikan for | the Office of Indian Affairs, is here |enroute to Anchorage to take over |his new duties as Supervisor of | ENROUTE TO HOONAH HAMILTON HERE b SRR James Hamiiton, of the Ander-| MRS. MOORE ARRIVES |of Indian Affairs teacher at Un- son Brothers Supply Company, has| Mrs. Lorrain Seeley 'Moore has alaska, is here enroute to Hoonah, registered at the Baranof from Los arrived here from Anchorage and where she will teach during the Angeles. 1s registered at the Baranof Hotel. winter months. P Mabel L. Fisher, formerly Office The Alaska courd voided the | contract and ordered Martin to return $11,619 to Sheely, this having | been paid on the purchase price of $28,000. JOE KEHOE PROPOSED FOR JUDGE WASHINGTON, Sept. seph W. Kehoe has been nomi- | nated by President Roosevelt to| be Federal Judge of the Second Judicial Division in Alaska with| headquarters at Nome, nucoeedlng Judge J. H. S. Morison, whose term has expired. Kehoe is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Oregon, former member of the Alaska Legislature and now | Special Assistant United States At- He is a former resident of Juneau. Mrs. Robertson Here With Young Daughter| To visit w1:h her mother and Robertson, Mrs. Duncan Robertson | and six months old daughter, Carol Jeannette, arrived from the south last evening. Mrs. Robertson expects to remain | here until De :mber, when she and | 'her daughter will return to Seattle | to reside with her parents, Mr. - e 'DANES PROTEST DISSOLUTION OF POLICE FORCE STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21—A gen- | eral strike in Denmark has been called in protest of the German dis- solution of the Danish police force |and ended order from the Daanh Freedom Council. The Free Danish Press Service reported that the Nazis are con- | ducting widespread searches for Danish policemen who escaped the | initial roundup Monday, from which 1,700 men were deported to Ger- many. The Gestapo manned the Copenhagen stations last night. NEIL GRANT IS JUNEAU ON BUSIN Here from Wrangell on business, Neil Grant flew in yesterday and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. Grant is owner of the Wrangell | Hotel and has an interest in fhe Reliance Shrimp Company of that | city. STEWART IN TOWN Peter Stewart, of Nome, is in town and staying at the Baranof. e GOODLAND IN TOWN Henry Goodland has come into town from Idaho Inlet and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. — IN FROM POINT RETREAT Mrs. E. C. Hope is in Jueau from the Point Retreat Light Sta- tion and has registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel, ment of the Territory is urged by long Nijmegen bridge in a raging 21 — Jo-| 24-hour battle in Holland. They ‘ll\e House Interstate and Foreign | thus broke open a path of relief | Commerce Sub-Committee. Addi- |tional transport service, essential|of a pocket of airborne troops |to the growth of Alaska, was also|locked in a grim fight for life lurged by the committee, headed by |near Arnheim, eight miles north. | Rep. Bulwinkle, Democrat of North The Germans counterattacked by | Carolina. land and bombing from the air in | Commercial and private aviation, | desperate attempt to save the |it recommended, should be allowed |historic river defense line, but on |to use airports and aids to navi-'some western fronts the hottest |gation owned by the Army in Al-|fighting virtually set the seal of ann‘ The committee described as/doom on perhaps a hundred thous- | “entirely practicable” the air route|and enemy troops caught in west- |to the Orient by way of Alaska or| ern Holland, the Aleutians. It asserted this route! The whole fate of the Rubr \w.xs shorter than the one from| Valley and the safety of their en- Scuulc and may be operated with- | tire northern flank is turning on lout the consent of the Canadian | the outcome of this first victory Government, |and the unfolding of the second battle, which is about to take place ‘(ONGRESS lfur control of the crossings at the \ | | inorthern branch of the Dutch lnmne at Armheim, as Lt. Gen. psey’s “armor raced across Wm\l the largest branch of the Dulch Rhine, toward the north, where units of Brereton’s First Al- Hled Airborne Army are apparently ‘hnngmg on grimly to positions WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — o0t A - ! astride the doorstep of the Ruhr. ‘gress voted today to recess until | | Tuesday, November 14, a week after German Claims the national election, Many mem-| The Germans declared that the | bers began leaving the dapital, |entire First British Airborne divi- homeward bound to put on whirl- sion is “largely wiped out” in the wind finishes to their political cam- Arnheim area, but it is believed paigns. |that the Americans are holding Congress unanimously urged upunlm-mly to positions on both sides | the world a free exchange of news|of the northern branch, and pos- | as the cornerstone of the approach- | giply hold at least one crossing. |ing peace. First, the Senate and| The Nijmegen bridge was taken |then the House adopted, Without | |ast night, and a BBC correspond- ent reported that “early this morn- ing our armor was north of the |river and across it, and our troops are now in a position to speed up the drive to Arnheim.” The Germans reported attacking |the airborne island of troops, but Bonds for Expansion . i srces e re- 0f Power Facilities ported rushing reserves to the re- cesses of the Reich’s walled forest |just south of the Siegfried an- | (chor of Cleve in & desperate effort WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—Legls-|y, plock the Emmerich gap route lation authorizing the City of Ket-|, o chikad, Alaskai. to tiehd. 100,000 | 0, CIETmAnES nareuan plale. (S | is 1 il > bonds for expansion of the muni- P B i N | merich megen and 19 mil itheast of cipal power facilities has won ap-| " o ey proval of the Senate and | Arnheim, It guards the eight mile measure now goes to the White the passage between the Rhine and lHouse for the signature of the Ijssel, the large Dutch waterway, | President. | turning northward at Arnheim. Piercing the gateway will open a (HOWARD BURKHERS | HERE ENROUTE TO path to Essen, 55 miles southeast | \‘ One more port—Boulogne—was NEW ASSIGNMENTS capturea by the Alies. The last of ‘ |the port’s garrison, holding out on {high ground south of the city, is gradually being reduced after de- the American lawmakers’ principle of news freedom. Kefchikan May Issue ofNijmegen and the industrial Ruhr. Another Port Taken Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burkher, of the Office of Indian Affairs, are feat of a German evacuation at- in Juneau, enroute to Anchorage) where Mr. Burkher will take over| his new position as Superintendent of Communications. | The Burkhers have been in the! Indian Service for many years, teaching at Barrow, the ster‘lhmw\ng in one counterattack after | Peninsula and various other places, |another. The attacks have cost For the past two years, Mr. Burk- | them at least 106 tanks in 23 hours her has been the Principal of the|and nowhere have they gained | Government School at sKetchikan, |#round against Hodge's First Army . jor Puwns Third. B e . ROOSEVELT BACK FROM QUEBEC; T0 SPEAKS SAT. NIGHT : - WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—Presi- i RAY WOLFE RETURNS dent Roosevelt, back from his Ray Wolfe, with the Organiza-|Quebec conference, began work on |tion and Extension Division of the|his campaign speech which he will Office of Indian Affairs, has re-|deliver Saturday night before the tempt the night of September 1, when 11 ships were sunk by Brit- ish coastal guns. From north of Aachen to the Belfort gap, the Germans are Mrs. Mabel Fisher, of the Office| |of Indian Affairs, is in Juneau for| |a few days before joining her hus- Iband at Hoonah, where they will| (both teach in the (;ovemmen“ :Sumol Mrs. Fisher was formerly | |stationed at Unakaleet. turned after a two week's trip to Ketchikan and Hydaburg. While in the latter town, Mr. Wolfe at- tended the hearings on the abori- ginal rights of the Alaska Indians. International Teamsters Union. This will be his first avowed campaign talk in his drive for a fourth term and will be broadcast over all radio networks. i P