The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME® JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1944 VOL. XLII., NO. 9764 PRICE TEN CE! ALLIES KEEP PUSHING INTO GERMANY - Soviet Army Closes In On La - OFFENSIVE NEW ANGLES |H.L.WOOD atvian Capital ALL ARMIES Aifu Hero Decorated INBALKANS SUCCESSFUL Russian Navy in Action-| Nazi Garrison May | Yet Escape Net ‘ MOSCOW, Sept. 25—The Red Army closed in on the Latvian| capital of Riga today as the Bal-| kan offensive reached a successful | climax; while front dispatches, tell- | ing of a local battle on the Lithu- | anian frontier and in East Prussia | heralded a possible large-scale in- | vasion drive on the Junker pro- The narrow land corridor still offered a chance for the escape of the German garrison at Riga but| Red Army columns, approaching | from the north and east made large gains. The mop-up of E: tonia is nearly ‘completed as a large | part of Govorov's Leningrad Army moved southward along the Gulf of Riga. | Soviet Naval forces yesterday | captured the Baltic seaport of Pal-| diski on the Estonian west coast. Gen. Cherniakhovsky's Army, the, only Soviet commander as yet to reach Prussian scil, has been held to static trench warfare for over| a month by prolongation of enemy resistance in the Baltic at the flank and rear. A Moscow broadcast said Rus- (Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON H Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt WASHINGTON—White House in- } timates are still puzzled over the| President’s first greeting on Win- ston Churchill when he arrived in Quebec. They don't know whether he was half kidding the Prime Minister, or what, when he called | out: “Eleanor’s here.” Undoubtedly the President must know that his wife and Churchill don't get along particularly well. | Certainly Mrs. Roosevelt knews it | —in fact, jokes about it a little| ruefully. “Poor Winston,” 'she once told | friends. “Whenever lie is here for| dinner, he has to sit by me.” She referred, of course, to the fact that the ranking guest of honor at a White Housé dinner must always sit at the right of tie First Lady. And she implied, of course, that she and Churchill didn't agree on many things which is true. Mrs. Roosevelt pubicly differed with Churchill when he praised Dictator Franco in Spain. She is known to frown most decidedly on | has ironclad views that India can- not be given independence. And being a friend of Madame Chiang Kai-shek ‘and the Chinese people, | that the Finns have captured Hau- | she also doesn't enthuse over Churchill's refusal so far to :give Hong Kong back to China. In view of all this, many White House intimates think the Presi- dent was good-naturedly twitting the Prime Minister when he called out in Quebec, “Eleanor’s here.” RECONVERSION SABOTAGE NIPPED Decisive new War Production boss “Cap” Krug has just | through a quiet order overs one of the neatest pieces of civilian sabotage perpetrated during the turbulent Donald Nelson regime. | It illustrated the manner in| which Nelson was undercut by the} banker dollar-a-year-men around | him. ! Nelson had fought for weeks to| permit companies not busy war work to start peacetime manu- facture. But the bigger companies, | still tied up with war orders, to-| gether with their $1-a-year men | inside the WPB, opposed. Finally, (Continued on Page Four) Congressmen Prove fo Be Joiners; Done for | IN HEARING Purposes of Politic ON AT KAKE ALASKA MPS 10 OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Sept. 25 — The third Anniversary of the Milita Police will be observed tomorrow, September 26. Civilians know little about this branch of the Army, but the school at Fort Richardson teaches stu- dents a surprising variety of sub- jects. Foliowing is a partial list of the ses included in the course: Fingerprinting, Apprehension of Military Law Violators, Investiga- tion of Evidence, Military Law, Military Jurisdiction, Map Reading, Riot Duty, Defense Against Chemi- cal Attack, Investigation of Booby Traps, Protection of Vital Instal- lations. Firefighting and Demoli- tion, Unarmed Defense (incliding judo), and Rules of Courtesy to be Practiced When Dealing With the Publid This is by no means a complete list but it gives an idea of the scope of the course e e Authority 0f0.P.A.Is (ha_llenged Federal Judge Takes Seat- fle Liquor Case Under Advisement SEATTLE, Sept. 25—The case in which two liquor distributing com- panies challenged the authority of the OPA's attorneys to bring suits, injunctions and treble damages to- talling $38,000 has been taken under advisement by United States District Judge Bowen after he heard arguments by both sides. The defendant companies are the Alaska Distributors Company and K and L Distributors of Seattle, whom the OPA accused of over- charging in liquor sales. FINNISH TROOPS TAKETWOTOWN WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 Thi*‘.‘ | being a national election year, it | might not be out of place to give Lesson No. 1 to would-be-politicians If you want to succeed, be a joiner. | | There's a story about President | Roosevelt’s 1940 campaign . that, | whether it’s true or not, illustrates | the point. It happened in Buffalo. | The President, making a triumphal auto tour of the city, passed an ultra - exclusive, ultra - conservative club section. There were no cheers. A local political leader whispered to the chief: “You won’t get many votes out of this section.” Roosevelt smiled and said: “Just wait until we pass the (umphty- umph) lodge. If you want to 8o places in politics, you have to know your lodges.” A few minutes later, the proces- sion passed the President’s lodge. The ovation was staggering. According to the lost published Congressional directory, about four out of five of the members of the House and Senate are joiners de luxe. and most of them don’t tell half the story From the “Blue Montain Eagle Climbing Club” (Rep. Daniel K. Hoch, Reading, Pa.) to 33rd degree Masons and life mem- bers of the International Chamber of Commerce, the successful poli- ticians list their civic, fraternal and social affiliations. Skipping home-town social and civic clubs, labor organizations, local or limited veterans and patriotic societies, and all college fraternities social, scholastic and honorary, I find members of Congress actually listing 37 national organizations to which they belong. By far the greater number list the American Legion, the Veterans | of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. Some belong to all three; nearly all belong to one or more. The Masonic orders, the Shrine, the Knights of Pythias, the | Odd Fellows, the Moose, the Eagles, the Knights of Columbus and the | Elks all have a preponderance nt‘ membership. Rotary, Kiwanis, and | Lions clubs, with the Chamber of | Commerce, ranging from junior to international, also are very much in the Congress picture. | According to my check (and I'll| be glad to bo Congrt an prove otherwise) top- | notch joiner on the Hill is Sen. James J. (Puddler Jim) Davis, of Pennsylvania, who is a members of | 16 such national organizations, and an officer in half a dozen. Tied for | second are Reps. Pete Jarman, of | Livingston, Ala.; and James H. Pet- | erson, of Lakeland, Fla., with 13 jeach. These don’t include church | affiliations or purely local clubs. | The President of the United State: i lists nine organizations; the present | | Vice-President and the present run- ining mate on the Roosevelt ticket, don’t list any. Gov. Thomes | Dewey is not without his affiliations, | | but he doesn't make a practice of | | sl 1 By JACK STINNETT |21 | Japanese air force in the islands Indians W&FMore than Aboriginal Rights, Says Witness KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 25.— Despite the fact that the hearings into the Indian tribes' aboriginal rights have been based thus far on the uses put to the fishery and forest resources by the ancestors of the present members of the Haida, Thlinget and Kake Indians, the third of the series of hearings which opened at Kake on Saturday indi- cated the Indians want the waters and land not for the purposes used by their ancestors, but to make mmercial use of ‘all of the fish~ eries, timber, mineral and other rescources. So said Frank G. Johnson, fisherman ‘and grandson of wealthy Indian trader. Johnson admitted to Attorney W. C. Aronld of the canned salmon in- dustry that some Kake villagers made up to $2,500 during the past season, and village women and chil- s a few 50, a dren, fishing with rowhos miles from home, daily. Johnson was the first witness in the three hearings to date to admit ! that his tribe warred with the whites in the early days and that Kake Village was shelled by a U. S. Army (Continued on Page Sir) > NIPPON NAVY | DRIVEN I: R 0 M president PHILIPPINES Japanes Island Air Force | Reported Broken, Says Admiral Nimitz 5 By CHARLES H. McMURTY UNITED STATHS PACIFIC w if any member of FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | HARBOR, Sept. 25.—Carrier-based planes of the Halsey-Mitscher naval team forced the Japanese fleet to leave its “former anchorages in the Philippines and seek new refuges in the same general area.” Admiral Chester L. Nimitz made this statement today in announcing the second consecutive devastating raid on the Manila area September (United States Time) and the has been “broken.” The Admiral |said it was later reported that Am- erican warships on Saturday had frustrated a Japanese attempt to reinforce their garrison at Peleliu Island, where United States Marines STOCKHOLM, Sept. 25. — The ;o™ o 0 500 Bricker of Ohio, the |Made small gains on both flanks. Finnish communique has announced kipudas and Poulanks from German occupants, and troops are still ad- vancing against Nazis in Lapland. Haukipudas is on the Bothnain Gulf, six miles north of Oula, on the way to the German stronghold of Kemi. Puloanka is about 45 miles west of Suomuusalmi in the heart of Finland. e HERE FROM SITKA W. B. Allen, of Sitka, has ar rived in town and is registered at the Baranof. S e CALIFORNIANS HERE Mrs. Viola Taylor and child, of Hollywood, are guests at the Bara- noff Hotel. - e EIGHT LEAVE FOR Al Leaving Juneau yesterday for An- Romig, M. J. Spencer, George Deigh, the Rev. Edgar Gallant, Benedicto Viloria, John Duggan and Currie piloted the plane, NCHORAGE | GOP second man, is a joiner from way back. ‘ | - e | | FLORENCE IN TOWN i | A. F. Florence, hardware sales-i man, has registered at the Gas-| tineau from Ketchikan. } — .- MARJORIE MAJOR HERE | Marjorie B. Major, field nurse lof the Office of Indian Affairs, is |in Juneau from Sifka. | | .- MRS. LUCAS, JR., o < | HERE 1‘ E Mrs: Harry Lucas, Jr, and ch\ld} larrived from Anchorage Saturday | lon the Aleutian to visit Mr. and} | Mrs* Harry I. Lucas. | B — | MRS. SIMPKINS RETURNS Mrs. George Simpkins returned tol Juncau Saturday on the Princess | w“h‘rhorage. \(ia Alaska Airlines, were Louise after spending the past sev-| |the following persons: Mrs. Mickey eral months visiting her daughters | in the States. She visited Mrs. Ed | Metzgar in Kellogg, Idaho, and| 1 Steinberg, Barbara Simpkins in Seattle. Until|peart of the |F. C. Watterson and Nick Sinsaris.|Mr. and Mrs. Simpkins find an|gjrect hit was scored on these ships |apartment they will be at home at the Simpkins Rooms, G Hitting the same targets they blasted the previous day, American fliers in a Thursday raid on Manila sank 29 more ships in the bay area, damaged 20, sank or damaged 16 small craft, and destroyed or dam- aged 200 airplanes. (This is the first confirmation of the second day’s assault on the Philippine capital. It was previously reported in Japanese broadcasts. The Nipponese also said a third raid was staged on the Manila area Fri- day (U. S. Time) and the fourth consecutive assault hit Southern Luzon and the Central Philippines Saturday). The total Japanese losses for the September 20 and 21 strikes against Manila were 86 ships out of action 17 smaller craft, two drydocks, and between 400 and 500 planes. Both assualts were dircted at the Manila Bay areg, Cavite Naval Base, and Nichols and Clark airfields A United States cruiser made an- other bold gesture; bombarding two camouflaged Japanese ships in Ma- lakal harbor, Saturday, in the very Palaus. At least one which had bagn previously damaged by aircraft. earned $25 to $30 IS KILLED ~ IN (RASH Supt. of Maska Missions, | Tth-Day Adventists, Vic- tim of Plane Accident Pastor H. L, Wood, 54, Superin- tendent of the Alaska Missions, Seventh Day Adven and pastor of the local church, known as “Ale Flying Parson,” was 'killed in a crash of his 3-place | Fairchild 24 seaplane Sunday after- | ,hoon in a landing at Kasaan Bay, | | Prince of Wales Island, where on Saturday he had organized the' 23rd member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church at the L. M. | Owen logging camp. | Pastor Wocd had taken his son- | {in-law, Dr. C. Lee Stagg, of Ket- | chikan, to the logging camp with | a patierlt and was returning to| Ketchikan via the John Griffin | logging camp. Griffin saw the plane | weave, then spin, then dive to the water, turning over. There is a pos- | sibility the Pastor suffered a heart | attack. He received concussion a (Continued on Pgge Six) ROOSEVELT (HARGES 6OP WITHLYING Says GOP Even| | - Tells Unfruths About ‘ His Little Fala 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt opened his fourth-term campaign Saturday |night with a hard-hitting speech, ‘ur:cmin'.: the Republican opposition |of attempting to claim credit for |the New Deal. He said the GOP |operators were guilty “of the most |obvious, garden variety of fraud Speaking before the AFL Team- |sters’ Union, the President “the whole purpose of Republican oratory these days is to persuad the American people that the | Democratic party was responsible |for the 1929 crash and the follow- |ing depression and that the Re- | publican party is responsible fc lall social progress under the New Deal. .There is one thing T am tco old for—I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth the same time.” Point Replies Rcosevelt made a point by point reply to almost every criticism lev- elled against bis administration by his Republican opponent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, although he didn’t mention him by name. comes “all sincere supporters to the cause of effective world collabor: [tion,” adding that, “millions of Re- {publicans are with us. T am actual- | ly four years older—which seems to annoy some people. In fact, millions of us are 11 years older then when we started to clear up the mess dumped in our laps in| 1933.” | Attacks Fala Roosevelt said the Republican leaders carried attacks against the administration, even down to “my little dog, Fala. Unlike members of my family, he resents this.” The President said soon Fala's heart| would break because “Republican fiction writers” made public thg story of the dog left behind in the | Aleutians during the President’s Pacific tour, who had to be res- cued by a destroyer at a cost of $20,000,000. “His Scotch soul was furious! He| has not been the same dog since.| to libelous dog.” about statements my quotation “FOR EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM” 7 at Carmen J. Calabrese, 37, of Mountain View, Calif., belatedly ge! receives the warm congratulations ner, Chief of Staff, Army ces inst the Japs at Attu, Ser- adier General Clark L. Ruff- Area, behalf of of Bri in Pacific on Licuteuant General R. C. Richardson, Jr, and presented Calabrese with the Distinguished Service Cross, hero of the assault on Eniwetok In the background is another in the Gilberts. He is First Lieu- tenant Wilbert L. Conrad, Jr., 24, of Morrisville, Vi, who also re- ceived the D. 8. C. CABINET IS SPLITOVER NAZI FATE Three Members Split on How fo Treat Germany After Her Defeat WASHINGTON, ¢ 25, tary of State Cordell Hull said today he hoped high Allied officials as pt. aid, well as officials of the United States slingir government, would be able to come to an agreement scon on the peace terms to be offered a defeated Ger- many. He made the comment in resp to a request in a statement by sociated Press of a report that Pre dent Roosevelt’s Cabinet committee ona G 1 peace policy were spli over oposal by Secr: Treasury Henry Morgenthau that Germany be converted to an agri- cultural nation. Hull is understood to be cool to- wards the Morgenthau plan, Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson, the hird member of the commit strongly opposed to it. The Morgenthau plan would strip Germany of much of its industrial nse He declared the government wel- | territory and destroy or give away | the rest of its industries It is notable that Hufl, studiously avoid- ed, in his statement, any denial of the fact the cabinet split had de- veloped and was still wide open. >oo STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, S of u mine today American Can 8912, Anaconda 27'%, Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 62* Wright 5%, International Harvester 80, Kennecott 33%, North American Aviation 9'4, New York Central 18 Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 57%. Dow, Jones averages follows: Industrials, 40.40; utilities, 24.99. - > stock are as ARRIVALS FROM CHENEGA J. M. Poling and family arrived I think I have ‘the right to object |here yesterday from Chenega, !\l-‘ aska, and the Ju neau Hotel, are staying at Secre- of the | 1sing , Curtiss- | .| tracto LCour GOPHOMINEE. SAYS FOR 1§ MUDSLINGER :Dewey Thinks Opponent - Does Not Present Is- sues on Fair Basis OKLAHOMA CITY, J 25— Gov. Thomas Dew: d President Roo: It with and announced in tonight’: campaign speech here he would undert the uj ant duty of as aining where the truth lie | In a news conference the nominee, | asked to comment on the President’s | speech which charged the Repub- licans with baiting a large propor- ticn of the attack on the New Deal | with “fraud and falsehood.” “What do you think of Mr; velt’s speech?”, a reporter “I think it is tragedy,” the {nominee said, “that the P sident {of the United States should find it | necessary to bolster a waning cause {by the importation of the language of our enemy and by sinking to the level of mud slinging by the use of { such words as fraud and falsehood.” | Dewey makes the seventh cam- h in his current Western paign spei swing at m. in a broadcast sked. 1 D. % | over the NBC Blue Network. | e HERE FROM PETERSBURG from the | Myrtle Cornelius is here IPetersburg and is staying | Baranof Hotel. - -t MAN HERE Irving Ulmer, of Anchorage, Is |in town and a guest at the Baranof | - - | YELLOW CAB IMPROVES A new floor and pit being installed in the Yellow Cab |Co Lynn Fraze is the con- This Fraze's first in Juneau. Before u he was employed on a gov- truction pre - MARRIED BY | COMMISSIONER SAT. | Delores Marie and Edgar | Louis Holloway, U. S. Coast Guard, ‘\\ sre married Saturday afternoon in the offices of U. S. Commissioner Gr were Pearl and Phillips at | | ANCHOR grea is con- tract coming to June ernment cor Witnesses Carl wner “mud | Roose- | PUSHING INTO REICH British Arrfifiorces Have | NowBroken Ring Around Besieged Parachufists i LONDON, Sept. 25 — American | troops today punched into Reichs- |wald in Germany, adjacent to the . egfried anchor of Kleve, while | British Army forces have broken |the ring around the besieged “Red | Devil” parachutists, north of the |Rhine at Arnheim and began con- | solidation of their bridgehead for |the main push into the northern Reich. Headquarters announced that llmnp,s were engaging the Germans {in the Reichswald troop concentra- |tion, five miles east of the Waal |River and crossing the Nijmegen. | Fifty miles to the northwest is the Krupp armament center of Essen. | The Americans, who broke acros |the German frontier at a new peint |near Beek, a Dutch border village |three miles southeast of Nijmegen, {are plunging head-on against Kleve, eight miles to the southeast. | Supreme Commander Eisen- | hower communique said Polish | reinforcements from the British |Second Army slipped across the |upper branch of the Rhine.at Arn- |hefm at night and bolstered the | hard - pressed but stout hearted | British airborne division that had fought alone for a week in the |middle of counterattacking Ger- mans, | On down the line, Gen. Hodge’s |United States First Army ripped | German counterattacks to pieces in 1‘»"1 area east of Aachen and turned |huge 240 millimeter guns on tar- |gets only 18 miles from the Rhine. Gen. Patton’s Third Army slashed close to ‘Baccarat, southeast of Nancy and only about 45 miles |southeast of Strassbourg on the “Rmne. | The Germans announced the loss |of Epinal on the Moselle River, i‘fl) miles below Nancy and about |the same distance above the Bel- |fort Gap. The Americans are al- !ready fighting well east of Epinal. |In these two sectors, Germany is at bay and making a desperate and. Allied gains are being meas- iwred in hard-won yards, The Ger- man Army, throwing in counter- attack after counterattack, left the | battlefields strewn with reckless |losses of tanks and troops. Behind the battlefield, German civilian army shovels are digging frantical- ly to create new lines and trenches. ,ee - CHARLES WAYNOR LEAVES Charles Waynor left today for Se- | attle on a business trip. He expects to return here shortly. A el L e N | BACK IN LONDON { LONDON, Sept. 25.—British Prime | Minister Winston Churchill and Mrs. | Churchill have arrived in England | from the Quebec conference. | - e | CURWOOD IN TOWN Robert L, Curwood, of Spokane, has arrived here and is registered |at the Juneau Hotel. - S GOIN Russell SOUTH of CAA, also of the Hillerest Apart- leaves tomorrow for the expecting a new assignment he reaches the States. He be accompanied by his wife manager ments south, when will and son. e ee— MRS. WHITE VISITS HERE Mrs. Hugh White of Wasco, Ore- gon, visited briefly Saturday in Juneau with Mrs. Myrtle Turner while the steamer was in port. Mrs. White is enroute to Anchorage to visit her daughter and son-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. Robert J. Turner. L A P NON-PROFIT GROUP IS INCORPORATED of Incorporation have in the Auditor's office here by the Own and Operator's Association of Anchorage (non=- | profit). Incorporators include Harry | N, Baker, Lloyd L. Hall and O, E. Haney. Articles been filed <