The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. XLIL, NO. 9765 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'SUPERFORTS RAID AREAS IN MANCHURIA | J - DETAILS OF GREAT FIGHT German Edio Claims Trapped Airborne Troops Surrender — Denial LONDON, Sept. 26+-The Allied Command today put the mantle of secrecy on the fierce battle for Dutch Arnheim, but a few hours later the German propaganda agency declared the entire British airborne division there had been | wiped out. The latest news from Headquarters before the security ban was imposed said that the “Red Devil” Division on the north | bank of the upper Rhine, near| Arnheim, was being thinly sup-| plied and had high morale. A broadcast by the International Information Bureau, a Nazi agency, declared that 1,400 British wounded had surrendered, and said: “this morning the last 600 British para»i troopers west of Arnheim put down | their arms.” | Other German broadcasts de- | clared the band of sky troops were still grimly holding out in the| nine day struggle for that gate-‘ way to the Rhineland. | Doubleheader Invasion | Ten miles to the southeast,| British and American forces fought | through the forest approaches l,oI Kleve, the northern bastion of the | Siegfried Line, in a double header | invasion of the Reich from Hol- land. A wholly unconfirmed French | broadcast said that Kleve, eight| miles inside Germany, had fallen.| The Berlin radio also asserted | that U. S. troops far to the south | had launched a big push on Epinal, ‘ Allied (Continued on Page Sizt) The Washingioni Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON @t. Col.' Robert 8. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — As Presidcml Roosevelt officially opens his cam- | paign for re-election, he is less confident of winning than he was at the same moment in 1940. He | has admitted privately that Dewey | has been hitting pay dirt during his travels through the West. Evidence that the President knows he has a battle on his hands | came the other day when a close White House adviser visited him and had a talk about politics. “How does the election look?” the President asked. “Well, Mr. President, I think the Democrats are suffering from over- confidence. However, some people | are confident that re-election is in the bag,” replied the Presidential caller. “Oh no,” said the President, “it's not in the bag. I'll tell you when it'’s in the bag. Youll know we are winning when the right time| comes.” “How will we know?” asked his friend. “We'll know,” the President ans- wered, “when the Wall Street boys start coming to Democratic head- quarters just before. Election Day and offer to contribute to my cam- paign. Whenever the Wall Street) boys come around with those con-| tributions, it means that they're licked and we're sure to win.” The three themes struck by the Dewey crowd which disturb the| Roosevelt camp are his assaults on the Roosevelt labor record; on the! alleged plan to delay discharging | servicemen; and the Republican | assault on Sidney Hillman and the | CIO-PAC. | Actually, Roosevelt considers his | labor record better than ever be-| fore in U. S. history. However, Dewey's attacks have confused lot of workers. White House aides also point to the recent alarm in Army camps over Dewey's charge (Continued on Page Four) "MISS V-DAY” . BIG ARMADA | BOMBS THREE - NAZICITIES {American, ériiish Heavies { Operate in Support of Land Troops LONDON, Sept. 26.—Armadas of {1,700 American and British heavyt | bombers operating in support of {land troops, attacked Osnabruck, Hamm and Bremen in | and the besieged port of Calais. | Forces of 1,110 Fortresses and Lib- land the Royal Air Force sent 600 Lancasters the French channel port. The Canadians are attacking Os- |nabruck, which lies 93 miles north- east of the Dutch battleground of | Arnhem. Bremen is 150 miles north- east of Arnhem and Hamm is 82 | miles southeast of Arnheim. | Allied planes again supported the airborne troops in the Arnheinr area | with rocket and machinegun attacks on German troop concentrations, {gun emplacement and other targets. British Mosquitoes bombed Mann- heim on the Rhine before dawn. Germany | Sponsoring a “Keel Cool on V- Day” plan, Ann Rutherford has issued invitation to enjoy the pool Unescorted Liberators flew overi | Italian fields and -attacked Greek | | barbors for a second straight day | | vesterday, bombing Salmis, Skara- - Fierce Battle Is Raging ' SECRECY ON Bagged 160 Nazis |erators bombed the German cities | and Halifaxes against | THERE IS a good reason for that | smile of Cpl. Earl McAllister’s as he | was pictured behind the battlefront | close to Abbeville, France. Single= | handedly, he captured 160 of Hit= ler's men in one group at St. Lama~ bert Sur Dives. (International) |- BIG GAINS ARE MADE in her Beverly Hills home. Ad- |MAanga and Piraeus. mittance is to be by bathing suit only and Hollywood's gayest array of pulchritudinous pin-up girls will celebrate the day of victory by drowning “Mr. Schickelgruber” in effigy. “If we keep cool mentally, and keep cool physically,” as- severated Ann, “it will make Tojo hot mentally, which will make him hot physically, and that's what we want—to burn up Tojo.” | Gree'ed i" !downed and six Allied craft were | lost in the fighting over Arnheim | yesterday. Mrs.Dewey | DEWEYSAYS HomeTown | Wi . RE(ORD OF | Wife of Governor Again i Visits City of High FDR IS BAD School Days ¥ . |This city turned out 15,000 strong GOP Nomlnee Says P[es[-‘m welcome home Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey, and the Governor told the deni cannot I_augh 0“ {crowd around the band stand that DemO(I'ah( Re(OI’d | trip and was enjoying the experi- jence immensely with his wife.” OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 26.—As- | ‘The Governor and his wife rode as “desperately bad”, Governor another care were Mrs. Dewey's Thomas E. Dewey hit back sharply |parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Hutt. at his opponent’s opening campaign | Mrs. ‘Dewey and the Governor speech with this statement: “He |led a parade through the crowded seven straight years of unemploy- |Framces Hutt, graduated from the ment, or his administration, but he |Sapulpa High School in 1921. cannot laugh away the record.” The Republican nominee was pat- [] | urday night assertion that the GOP | wo rkers l n campaign had been marked by ' “fraud and falsehood.” He quoted from Senate records in an attempt G A sponsible for “the shocking state of ermany re our defense program four months . before Pearl Harbor,” but said, “I shall not join my opponent in his | o o c Shouting, “He asked for it—here | it is,” Dewey requoted Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey as | STAFF HEADQUARTERS OF the Army about as cheaply as you |ARY FORCES, Sept. 26—A spokes- could create an agency for them |man said Eisenhower today told 12,- when they were out.” 000,000 foreign workers in Germany Dewey continued: “But says Mr, | that the “hour for action has come,” thereafter issued a plan for speedy | tivities in the last round of the bat- tle for Germany. Workers were ex- |horted to beware of the Gestapo and not underrate its powers. ; SAPULPA, Oklahoma, Sept. 26— he was “just extra baggage on this sailing President Roosevelt’s record |in one car and behind them in jokes about depressions—about the |streets where Mrs. Dewey, as ently aroused by Rdosevelt’s Sat- | to show the White House was re- descent to mudslinging.” saying “you could keep people in|THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION- Roosevelt, the War Departmenti“"d gave them instructions for ac- ——— (Continued on Page Sir) - Dr. Michael Hoke Dies at Age of 70 BEAUFORT, N. C., Sept. 26—Dr. Michael Hoke, 70, former Chief Sur- geon at Warm Springs, Ga., Infan- tile Paralysis Foundation, is dead here, LOUISE BEANE LEAVES . Frances Louise Beane, Clerk- Stenographer -with the Public Health Service, has resigned from her posinoz and is enroute to San Francisco, California. She has been replaced by Senior Clerk Viola Klassen ,who arrived here several days ago from Chicago. | Twenty-four German planes were Historic Rubicon River Is Crossed by Eighth Army in Drive ROME, Sept. 26. — The Eighth Army hammered across the historic Rubicon today, and the Allied com- !mander of the Mediterranean ex- pressed the hope that the crossing “will lead, as with the famous com- mander in the past, to decisive vic- tory.” The Allied crossing of the little |stream that Caesar made famous came after German counterattacks slowed advances of both the Fifth and Eighth armies. The Rubicon {flows to the Adriatic just north of | Remini. | The Eighth Army captured Bor- | donchia, six miles north of Rimini, |in a night infantry attack, and the | Rubicon was crossed. Further in- land several bridgeheads were be- |ing won below Bologna. The Fifth {Army is driving down several val- leys, running in a northeasterly di- |rection, after breaking the Gothic Line. Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, | Allied Mediterranean Commander, | congratulated Gen. Sir Harold Alex- ‘nnder, Ground Troops Commander | in Italy, upon the destruction of the | Gothic Line and expressed hope that | the Rubicon crossing will lead the | Allied army to victory. ABSENTEE BALLOTS | [ One hundred and thirty-eight ab- sentee ballots for the general elec- tion which was held September 12, are being counted this afternoon, according to the Clerk of the U. S. District Court. On the board which is counting the ballots are Mrs. Florine Housel, ;John Morrison, Sr., William Bosch, all of Juneau, and Mrs. Katherine McCormick of Douglas. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Closing quotation ‘of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 89, Anaconda 27'%, Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harves- ter 80, Kennecott 33%, North Am- erican Aviation 9%, New York Cen- itral 18%, Northern Pacific 15%, |United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.32; rails, 40.34; utilities, 24.87. ARE COUNTED TODAY TOKYO SAYS AIR RAIDS pine Raids Are But 11 Planes, 15 Men UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 26—Japan’s naval and air forces, defending the Philippines, {were mauled by |borne American plane raids. They backed away from the air blitz that Tokyo reports as continuing in full force against the archipelago. ! In three gigantic strikes over a ‘period of three weeks the Ameri- can Naval air arm forced Japanese warships from their anchorage in Ithe Philippines and have broken the defending air force. American losses September 20 and 21 were given as 11 planes, 10 pilots and five crewmen. The communique said there was no loss or damage to any of our surface ships. ONE CATALINA IN ITALYPLANE SINKS 3 JAP SHIPS {jDavao Base Is Now Under | Constant Surveillance by U. S. Bombers By MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Sept. 26 A Cat- |alina flying boat sank three Japa- nese war craft off Davao. Head- quarters reported a Nipponese sea- plane tender and two destroyer es- corts were destroyed in a single bombing run. This is one of the most singular feats reported during the bombing of Davao harbor the Southern Philippines. ‘The Catalina was on patrol over the important Japanese base which had been under almost constant surveillance for weeks. The attack was made Saturday night and Sunday morning. In other Allied raids, a 10,000-ton Japanese tanker was sunk and 3000-ton freighter damaged in the |Dutch Celebes. A total of 122 tons of bombs were unleashed on the Celebes and Ceram airdromes. Neu- tralization raids are continuing. Marines Work Up NewMove Bypass Strong Enemy Hill Garrison on Peleliu, then Advance UNITED STATES PACIFIC | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 26—United States Marines, failing to crack the strongly entrenched defenders in | Umurbrogol Hills on Peleliu Island, southern Palaus, by-passed that strong point and now have pro- |gressed to within less than a mile |of the northern tip of the island. Later the Marines will go back and |give the hill garrison a touch of modernism in warfare. The Navy said the by-passing of the advance was a maneuver that | represented at least one mile in |going ahead on the long western |side of the island. Mopping-up continues guar, six miles southward. a on An- CONTINUING | American Losses in Philip- in For Dutch Arnheim | 3 | { | i | devastating sea- DISTAFF BROADCAST FROM QUEBEC FIRST LADY of the United States, Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt is shown with the wife of Prime Minister Churchill, as they br oadcast on a subject of importance to the women of the world. They spoke from the Chateau Causing RUSSIANS HAMMER ~ ATNALIS Powerful Nfiem Armies Strike Last Resistance of Germans MOSCOW, Sept. 26 Russia’s powerful northern armies today hammered at the final small pocket of German resistance in and began organizing their on the two key islands guarding the Baltic Sea approaches to Riga, the islands of Ristna and Osel dominating the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, southeast of the Gulf of Finland. Lying some six miles cff Estonia’s west coast, they could be by-passed indefinitely by the juu,\.smns. but as long as the enemy garrisons remain there, they are |of certain nuisance value. On the west coast of the Es- |tonian mainland, Govorov’s Lenin- |grad Army [ports except Virtsu. A communique |last night announced the fall of |Haapsula, Estonia’s third port, 63 miles southwest of Tallinn. Soviet forces also held Tarnu, on the southwest coast. In the battle for 56th day brought no fresh news from official Russion sources, but Polish sources, just back from the |Vistula frontline, declared the Ger- mans are being shoved steadily German and Hungarian rein- forcements appeared and parried temporarily the Red Army's inva- sion thrust in southeastern Hun- gary. No Russian advance has been mentioned in the past 48 hours. The Moscow communigue - {nounced the capture of Berehy Burne, three miles from the Cze- choslovakian frontier. Troops are massed along this frontier for a distance of 50 miles. Combined Russian and Slovak forces con- Warsaw, the vakia. > BUY WAR BONDS Frontenac in Quebec, where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are meeting for the tenth time. (171!{,‘Tnnliovml Soundphato) 3TARGETS ~ ATTACKED BY SUPERS 'Seventy American Planes Reported Assaulting Anshan, Darien Port | WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Ameri- jcan Superfortresses attacked Man- jchuria again today, the War De- | partment announced. The Tokyo radio said Anshan, ‘\biu industrial city, and two other towns were targets. The Federal Communications Commission monitors report at- mospheric interference garbled the | Tokyo broadcast and identification jof raided towns, aside from An- | shan, which sounded like Andan, |south of Anshan, and Darien, port | city. | The War Department said fur- ‘:v.her details will be' made public as |soon as information is available. i The Tokyo broadcast (domestic) sald some 70 American planes |raided Anshan for about one hour |and @ small humber struck Darien ion Kwangtung Peninsula. This ibruudca.st, which conceded only ine;.;llgtble damage, said two raiding |planes were downed and four dam- |aged. A short time later, the Jap- Estonia | assault captured all important | back Over-Opfimism About Ending of War Is Now Genuine Alarm | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept., 26.—That | alarm in official circles about over- | optimism on prospeéts for an im- mediate end of the wa s genuine. | There’s nothing worse for national morale than to have high |dashed. The Office of War recognized this when they joined hands recently to issue a statement { which pointed out that “it is quite | possible there will be no single day which can be called the end of the jar with Germany.” (They might well have added that it is just as possible there will be {no single day that will mark the | end of the war with Japan.) Military and naval experts here will give you good reasons for be- lieving that these possibilities are probabilities. ent from many in which whole na- tions were overrun, subjugated, and then sued for peace or made con- ditional surrenders. In many re- spects, according to military experts, it has points of similarity (much speeded up) to the wars against the Indians, which started when the colonists were wiped out at James- town and didn't end until almost the turn of this century when old Geronimo was tucked away at Fort Sill and his braves dead or scat- tered. The Nazis over-ran Poland, Yugo- slavia, France and Greece and those nations figuratively “surrend- ered,” but the war between the Nazis and the peoples of those coun- tries has never ended. The sur- rendering was done and Quisling government established but that wasn't the end of the war. The same can be said for many other nations, including the Philippines, Thail; , the Dutch East Indies and {large portions of China Now, say the military experts, let's | reve the situation. There will come a day and maybe soon (if we breach the Siegfried Line or crash through the Netherlands) when the | German armies will give up, but who is going to surrender them? The Junker generals? Perhaps, but could they deliver the atical Nazis, who have nothing to lose and everything to gain if they can just stay alive and form a cohesive underground fol How about the Junker gen- | erals themselves? Scores of them 02 e on the Allies’ war criminals lists. | tinued to send patrols into Slo- | What have they to lose by fighting | indefinitely? Can we negotiate peace | with the is? Hardly, any more | (Continued on Page Siz) hopes | In-| formation and the Army and Navy | English language broadcast, heard {by U. 8. monitors, said 13 planes {w:-rv destroyed in the Penhsihu area, Manchuria, also identified as |a target, { R A B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BASE | IN WEST CHINA, Sept. 26. — A heavy force of American super- bombers raided the industrial in- | stallations at Anshan, Manchuria, by daylight today, the object being in cleaning up “anything overlook- ed” on two previous raids on that key city. . The raiding squadron was the sec- ond in size only to that making the attack on September 8. The primary targets were the steel and chemical plants in the vast manufacturing center of Japan's Manchuria, basis of the steel and coke production, Previous attacks greatly reduced production, it is believed. D BRITISH T0 DECIDENALI - FATETHURS. | This war has been notably differ- | |Spain Has Nms Ye, Said Anything on Offering Criminals Haven LONDON, Sept. 26—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reiter- ated that the British Government that German war criminals will find no neutral territories. Some neutrals have already made |some satisfactory statements on the | matter, Churchill told the House of Commons, but he had not “no- |ticed any particular pronounce- ment” from Spain in this connec- tion. His statement about Spain was In reply to a direct question. He was cheered from quarters of the Commons as he resumed his seat after the Quebec Conference. |dress statement Thursday. A two- Churchill planned to make a full- |day debate starting then may dis- |close Britain's attitude on what to {do with Germany after the war. | The question has already brought labout a divided opinion in Presi- | dent Roosevelt's cabinet. - -> | MISS SULLIVAN HERE | Miss Josephine Sullivan, sister of Mrs. Sam Guyot, arrived in Ju- neau on the Princess Louise, to make her - home here with her sister. She formerly resided in Portland, Oregon.