The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9766 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY =l NEW SQUEEZE PUT ON azis Stampede At Riga A GERMANS RETREAT IN NORTH Russians &me Hun- dreds of Communities in Big Baltic Drive MOSCOW, Sept. 27.—The German retreat from Riga has turned into a desperate stampede by the swiftly pursuing Red Army armor and in- fantry which has cleared northern Latvia within 30 miles of the Baltic seaport. North and east of Riga the enemy is making no attempt to hold the| organized line but the overland es- | cape corridor westward from the city, also in the coast direction of East Prussia, is being kept open regardless of losses. Front line dispatches said the | Red Air Force has wrecked 100 trucks and dozens of railroad cars being used by the Germans to flee from the northern Baltic in three directions. In the drive on Riga yesterday. the Russians overran more than 300 communities. In the south the combined Rus- tering at the borders of Hungary and may have already crossed them. Nothing officially is given out but the Paris radio quotes Istanbul | | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 27— Patent holders of Alaskan lands are pondering the disclosure at the In- |dian rights hearings at Kake, that | patented land within the Indian claimed areas will be unse |use or occupancy by nat Interior Department grants | pending tribal petitions. | This was the interpretation placed |on the Margold opinion by W. C | Arnold, representing the Canned | salmon Industry, and in which pre- |siding Judge Richard Hanna con- | curred The Margold opinion states patent |land owners continue to hold title but aboriginal use and occupancy ! entitles the Irdians to use the land, | simultaneously, if they so choose. | Indians Divided The closing session at Kake also disclosed a divided feeling among the natives themselves, when two came to blows. the Lowdown Is Given On | HighCommand;Adual Patented Lands May Be " Knocked Out If Indians Granted Their Pefitions | ROME, Sept. 27.—A strong Ger- | man counterattack, in which an of- ficial report said the Nazi Com- mand had “expended *liberally his | personnel,” was driven at the Am- diplomatic circles as saying it is be- lieved it will be “only a question of Allies through Turkey for an armis- ‘ o tice. i Along the Polish-Czechoslovakian ! FIFTH ARMY progress, the Russians have battered their way through deep fortifications and seized Turka, 12 miles from the | frontier. ‘Hard Won Monte La Fine CHICAGO, Sept. 27—If the St.| Louis Browns and the Detroit | lOSt by DOUgthYS When i i League : Tigers end the American ag! [ NaZIS Coumera"a(k title will be decided by a play-off T game in Detroit on October 2. If the race should end in a three- way tie, New York sharing, play- troit and St. Louis. By DREW PEARSON service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Sometime ago when Donald Nelson suggested to WPE vice chairman William Batt time” before Hungary appeals to the | border, where heavy fighting is in| BIG "IF" NOW - T0 GERMANS season tied for the pennant the | off games will be conducted in D (Lt. Col. Robert . Allen now on active that things would be less embar- rassing for him if he severed his | connection with the SKF ball- pearing company, Batt replied that he could not afford to give up a connection he had kad for 25 years ané could not afford to live on a Government salary. Batt has been under fire because the parent SKF company in Sweden has been shipping ball- peaiings to Germany, without which the Nazis could not build pirplanes. While Batt’s SKF com- pany in Philadelphia is in no way responsible for letting the Nazis have ball-bearings, many have felt thef he might at least resign in protest against the policy of the Swedish affiliate However, he hasn't. | erican’s Fifth Army portion of Monte {La Fite, a hill mass 20 miles south {of Bologna ,the Allied Command announced. | Meanwhile, the Eighth Army ex- | tended bridgeheads across the Rub- {dcon, one time boundary of the an- cient Roman empire in the south- | western edge of the Po Valley, and frough' its way into the outskirts of | Bellaria, nearly eight miles north- west of Rimini on Ravenna Road. | The Fifth Army Command said that General Kesselring moved ele- | ments of three more infantry divi- | sions into position against American spearheads, now aimed down the northern slopes of the Apennines, |after cracking the middle of the Gothic Line. The German counter- attack dislodged doughboys from the hard-won western spur of Monte La | Fine, the hill mass which was made | the night of September 25. Head- | quarters declared that “efforts ate | being made to regain the sector.” | ——————— CANADIANS i . LANDED IN When Johnny Jackson, 52, gov-| ernment witness, left the stand, he was seized by William Dugaqua, an-t other Thlinget, and blows were ex- changed. Later, while Peter K. Grant was testifying the whites encroached on | his trapping claim, a native woman | in the audience called out, “Oh,| Why don’t you tell the truth?” Shows Up Aggression Bearded Ernest Gomoff, white fox farmer, branishing a large stock of | | celery, testified he operated an island | las a fox farm for 23, years and no | Indians were there. Gomoff said he | | has never been asked to leave and | [he has spent $12000 in improve- ments and paid over $2,000 to the | Government in lease money, had created an island paradise and now | the Indians were claiming it The hearing is resumed in Ket- chikan today. | Fads Now Revealed By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — T've been talking to the British and the War Department. It's about one of those little things that seem in- consequential in the war's larger affairs; but one which sometimes sandpapers the raw tempers of Allies lat war against a common enemy. It’s about the mixup in commands in the European theatre. Actually there never was and probably won't be any such mixup. On the surface there appeared to be. The actual facts are these: Gen. Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower was Iplaced in supreme command of the westeern invasion forces. It was agreed then that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery should be command- | |er of the Aliied ground forces (that | over all field commanders) “until | h time as the numerical strength of the American forces should be- | come greater than those of the Brit- {ish commonwealth.” Through some error, the con- |tingent stipulation just quoted wasn’t made public at the time the order of command was announced. Consequently, when it was an- Inounced that Lt. Gen, Omar N. Bradley had been elevated to co equal command with Gen. Mont- gomery, the British felt that their beloved “Monty” had been kicked | |in the teeth, especially since the |English and Canadian troops had | |been tied down for weeks in the brutal corner at Caen, while the | Yanks were making hay and head- |lines by roaming all over France |and even into Germany. { Further confusion resulted when | Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., was | given praltically all the credit for| |the break-through at Avranche, a (Conlinued on Page Siz) THIRD ARMY HAS ENTRANCE, FORT BIG HOLLAND OPENED IN | DRIVE NEARS KETCHIKAN| NAZIBORDER Kasaan Indgh_s-Petiiion for|Moving WarlilA ;)f Men and Armor Only Three Miles Exclusive Use of East - Side, PrinceofWales | from GermanBoundary KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 27—! LONDON, Sept. 27—British and Hydaburg, Klawock and Kake In-| Belgian divisions, a moving wall of dian Rights hearings reopened in|men and armor toward the east- Ketchikan this morning with Ka-|ward to build up the invasion from HEARINGS saan Indians submitting a petition Holland, have reached the Maas asking exclusive use to occupy LheiRn:r at points along a 40 mile east side of Prince of Wales Is-|front and have battled to within land beginning from the narrow |three miles of Germany in the point south to Cape Chacon, in-|eastward. Westward drives were cluding all of the islands, lakes,/carried 10 miles or deeper and bays, inlets, channels, streams and 'both si of the corridor’ carved submerged lands for a distance of jup to N egen. From there on 3,000 feet offshore. |the thinner line to Arnheim was widened in an Allied push to split The petition won't be considered | Holland, and another supply road at the present sessions but will be| forwarded direct to the Interior|to the northward was won. Department Official silence still hid the fate Sawmill and logging operators of the British airborne division in testified that their operations were [the Arnheim area across the Neder never protested by the Indians and |River and the Rhine, but it indi- also that as high as 50 per cent of |cated that the news blackout there their crews have been Indians. The | might be lifted soon. estimony showed that the Ketchi-| The German command an Spruce Mills, the biggest saw-|that the pocket of crack s GERMA s the Rhine N ARMY s Reds Move Up Brifish Lost Division Is ' Withdrawn from Pocket; | Wounded Left Behind How few or how many of the bat- tered and bloody British First Aij borne Division got out is not dis closed. Its wounded had to be left | behind to become prisoners. TIts living have written a new epic of | herolsm records of British armies. The cross to the tenuous north bank foothold might have opened | the way for a flanking sweep around STAFF HEADQ\;'ARTPJ[S OF all that remained to cross the Rhine for a foothold at Arnheim, was withdrawn Mon- Correspondent with Lost | British Tells of Miracul- ES(A pE or | THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION- | | ARY FORCES, Sept. 27—Britain’s | Lost Division or DIVISION IS of it, after nine days of battling | day night from the south bank . DESCRIBED ".-.-". | | | ous Refurn fo Lines By ALAN WOOD (Associated Press Correspondent) |the mnorth end of the Siegfried WITH THE ARNHEIM AIR- |Line. BORNE FORCE, Sept. 26 (Delayed) | A i This is one of the first times | —This is the end of the most tragic and glorious battle of the war. Survivors of this British Airborne Force can sleep soundly for the first time in eight days. Night orders came to us yester- day to break out of the forest citadel west of Arnheim and cross to join up with the| since the invasion that the Allies Tt was yielded this time, not through any lack of battle tenacity nor sac- | rifice of hard fighting by the Brit- ish First Airborne Division, but be- cause the Red Devils were forced to hold out without reinforcements or more than a trickle of supplies {bave had to yield a key position. | mill in Alaska, obtained half of its logs from Indian claimed west coast areas, The City of Ketchikan has filed had been wiped out. Berlin said that 1,500 Britons were Kkilled and 6450 captured, 1,700 of them | wounded. Second Army on the south bank. Concerted Assault Abandoned | Our commander decided against concerted assault on the Germans longer than the division was equip- ped to fight. Montgomery's land drive north through Eindhoven was delayed too long in the winning of the Nijmegen brldge to reach Arn- la protest against granting the In-| Bitter Battlefield dian claims, with Judge Richard gouth of the bitter battlefield, H. Hanna, declaring that Ketchi-|ihe wedge into Holland was broad- kan was founded as a free enter- epneq deeply by the British Second prise and the economic welfare of apmy British forces struck east- |the city would be seriously damaged ward through mediocre resistance if the petitions were granted. to Boxmeer, 13 miles southeast of o) e < 0 |Nijmegen and 13 miles southwest |of Kleve, They are along the Maas b 'River for five miles, from Box- meer south to Groningen, and three | miles from the Reich itself. This |thrust is south of the double pointed British -and American push which carried within eight miles or less from Kleve at the upper end of the Siegfried Line. Heavy action still marked the long American front from Aachen |to Belfort. Doughboys forged slow- ly ahead southeast of Nancy and | laround us. It was insteadhis plan| to split up into little groups of 10| heim. to 20 strong, setting out along dif-| While par ¢ W | ferent routes at two minute inter- hile parachute troops still hold UNITS LAND ON ALBANIA ISLESNOW ‘Operalions—A?e Made fo Block Germans Flee- ing from Balkans ROME, Sept. 27.—Allied sea and airborne troops have landed on the Albania islands off Yugoslavia, the | Allied Command announces, in op- erations to block German detach- ments fleeing from the Balkans to the Reich. “The landing forces of the Adri- atic” are already operating on a wide front in the Adriatic area the communique states. There is no indication given as to the size of the units involved | evidently for the purpose to provide still another many-sided squeeze on the Nazis in southeastern Europe. | The Naval Command said the |landing craft were supported by de- | stroyer and light coastal vessels loperaklng since September 15 along | the Southern Dalmation Islands off Yugoslavia and carried Allied troops and Partisans who are already strik- ing the German withdawal routes. | e Big Armada Hits German vals, in which we would simply ”‘f’ :"‘g"f‘é“e""j Cf""‘“‘f’l”(’i“f’“’ ‘"r, vall through the Gesenan Ties: ta XD the GeFpac Bried sone of | fhe derk Checks hteals wipsans{ il 10UStING Siin SHRET. SRRDS | SRR 2 ¢ "pual\ed parachute troops back into t;“‘u’l“e"l;&““fim":‘)’; of white DATa-|ihe woods west of town. Miserable | A tf\c Sanatis Iwe_amvr prevented normal strength- "V i ' ening of the pocket by airborne re- | who arc waking up to what is|inforcements of heavier arms. At| happening, the Second Army guns Netolis, a reinforcement drop was| laid down a battering box barrage gttempted, but Poles landed on the | all afternoon. wrong side of the Rhine. 1 First Party Leaves | There is no immediate explana- | The first party set off at 10 p. tion when the withdrawal was made m. Our group was to leave at 10:04.| Monday night. The news ban, on They went around distributing little 'gounds of security, is necessary un-| packets of sulfanilamide and mor- | til tonight. Presumably it is to allow | phia. We tore up blankets to wrap time for the last few survivors to| around our boots and muffle the get clear. How they crossed the| sound of our feet. We were told river at all was not disclosed. It War Plans More than 1100 Heavy Bombers Attack West- fern Germany LONDON, Sept. 27.—More than 1100 American heavy bombers at- tacked the railroad yards and in- dustrial plants at Kassel, Ludwig- shafen, Colonge and Mainz, all in Western Germany. The bombers struck out for the Navy Givesfl| More In- formation on Daylight Raid on Manchuria east of Epinal where the Germans |said a new American offensive is underway. The battle of heavy guns continued around Metz, the strong- est fortress in western France. that the password was “John Bull.” If we became separated each man would make his way by compass due south until he reached the seemed clear they could hardly es-|third straight day with heavy at- cape in any great numbers over the | tacks on German communications river barrier which their own troops |and war plants behind the Western on the south bank couldn't cross to | Front. They were escorted by ap- |targets in Manchuria and occupied WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — “A large force” of Superfortresses struck - e ~ said the planes also hit military DEAD IN (AI'IF' targets in Loyang and Kaifeng dis. tricts in occupied China. The re- sults of the Manchurian blows were “not conclusively known since the | China yesterday and returned to their Chinese bases without the loss of a single plane, the War Depart- ment reported. This raid was in ad- dition to the previously reported blow against Anshan in Manchuria and the dock area in Dairen. The Twentieth Bomber Command BULLETIN—OAKLAND, Sept. 27.—Aimee Semple McPherson, 53, founder of the Angelus Tem- bombing was accomplished chiefly ple at Los Angeles, widely through a heavy cloud cover.” HOW- | known evangelist, died here sud- ever, crews returning from Loyang | denly. and Kaifeng reporttd good results. Enemy anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition were weak. | A war bulletin said that Japanese broadcasts claimed that 13 planes were downed. Berlin reportec that the Superforts swept out over the Pacific in the first attacks on Bonin Island, 650 miles from Tokyo. Ber- lin also added that 30 Superforts had attacked the island and 28 of iz GappK ATRIONS INSTITUTE BOAT 10 " ARE BUT THREE The Oakland Police Depart- ment reported that the evange- list was found uncenscious in her suite at the Leamington Hotel by a maid. Mrs. McPherson had opened a series of revival meetings here last night. Two doctors called her death as attributed to a heart attack. reinforce them. ‘ river ! S ee e | Infiltration Commences | . Our Majoy, who is an old hundpREDI(ISzYEARS led the way, and linked our party togeth by getting everyone to| hold the tail of the parachutist’s| MORE wAR AFIER smock in front of him, so our in-!. ‘ filtrating column had the absurd GERMA“S’ DEFEAI resemblance to some children’s game. | It was half light with the glow, WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — The of fires from burning houses job of crushing Japan is expected around when we set out. We were to require the “absolute minimum” lucky; we went through the re- of one and one-half to two years ported enemy pocket without hear- after the defeat of Germany, the ling & shot fired except for a stray Office of War Information said in sniper’s bullet, |a summary to war agencles today. | Wait For Boats | The worst part was waiting two |hours at the riverside until our a psychological effect to end the European war, will mean a half- turn came for the assault boats Way point has been reached in the to ferry us across. global war and will bring extensive The Germans, if not yet defi- changes in war economy which nitely suspicious, were inquisitive. might produce a let-down effect in |They kept sending up flares. It morale {was vital that we lie flat and mo- tionless. We were lucky again war in Germany will mean Japan's r with the United Nations Our actual crossing was quiet, so this epic|Jjust beginning.” stand of the British Airborne sol-i The OWT said that its findings |diers ended as it was fought—with Wwere based on information from |honor and high courage. the State, War and Navy depart- What of the spirit of the men ments and the Foreign Economic las they trudged back through the Administration Data, which indeed will produce | “To the Japanese, the end of the| is | proximately 700 American fighters. Among the targets attacked were | the tank factory at Kassel, the rail- {ruud yards at Oppau, synthetic oil iand chemical plants at Ludwig- | shafen, the railroad yards at Col- | ogne, the rail junction and ordnance | depot at Mainz, situated at the |bend of the Rhine southwest of | Frankfurt. Initial reports made no mention of any aerial oppesition but said a heavy overcast forced all bombing ?Lo be done by instruments, A strong force of British Lancasters set fires | in the inland German port of Karls- | ruhe and at Prankfurt. Last night's | attacks cost two bombers. B e e ALLIES FACED, WINTER FIGHT ON NAZ! SOI | By DON WHITEHEAD WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY | IN GERMANY, Sept. 27.—With the | Germans battling desperately along flh» Reich’s borders and the weather | steadily becoming worse, the Allied mies are faced with the prospect | of having to fight a winter campaign . GUARDING METZ| before Hitler's forces are finally crushed. Hitler has called on all troops to fight to the last man and the last cartridge and they are making a fanatical stand on their own soil as fall rains turn fields into quagmires and leave troops cold and wet. In the Aachen area, German com- manders are passing out cards to sign, pledging that they will resist to the last. ——————— TEXAN IN TOWN Mrs. Gertrude A. Fleak, of Dallas, Texas, has registered at the Ju- neau Hotel, wet night to billets where they are BRI oy s Inow sunk in sodden sleep? You) SIO(K ouo'IA"oNS can best judge by the name they | LEAVE EARLY FRIDAY MILES OF ATHENS The Institute I, Alaska Indian Service vessel, is in Juneau to pro- vids nsport: for dents to. NEW YORK, Sept. 27—An Am-| 55 A e T e B tion i1t was the same objective they al-| NEW YORK, Sept. 21. — Closing The boat is. scheduled to leave Europe today reported Greek forces |Mays had called it—“Operation lotquu!;tui;\l of Alg.skaAJ\uu;au ngne B & W | L | stocl today is s merican an Juneau for the school Friday morn- [of the Interior were only lhrecise”m' {8815, Anaconda 271, Beech Afrcraft |ing at 6 o'clock. !miles from Athens. The broadcast, | 10%, Bethlehem Steel 617%, Curtiss- | { R e R beamed to Germany, was reported | CHOIR REHEARSAL TONIGHT | Wright 5%, International Harvester REBEKAHS TO ENTERTAIN by the OWI and said the Greek| AT MEMORIAL CRAURCH |80, Kennecott 33%, North American The Rebekah Lodge will enter- Army of Liberation consisted of | —_— | Aviation 914, New York Central 18'4, tain the Odd Fellows after their 100,000 men. | At 8:30 o'clock tonight choir re- Northern Pacific 15%, United States regular meeting tonight, in cele- | Sy | hearsal will be held at the Mem- Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. bration of Rebekah Day. All Odd| Roy Anderson is in town and orial Presbyterian Church, All wish- | Dow, Jones averages today are as Fellows are cordially invited to at- has registered at the Juneau Hotel ing to join this group are requested ! follows tend. from Anchorage, to come, 140.42; utilities, 24.92, In contrast B. W Taylor, who’ had been with SKF more than 20\ years, resigned because he could‘k AUSIRAllA not stand having ball-bearings| By EDWARD BALL snippe# to the Nazis from an ;\I-; BEFORE METZ, Sept. 27—Third filiate company. He is now a lieu- |Army troops have seized a bridge tenant commander in the Navy. | MELBOURNE, Sept. 27 — The leading to the moated front of 2lso Major John F. Tawresey, pirst Canadian troops to land in Friant, key bastion in a chain of now with the Air Corps at Wright| auctralia have arrived and they fortress on the west bank of the Field, resigned from SKF after 22 wero welcomed by Canadian High Moselle guarding Metz. s < i yemis of service because he could commissioner David, who hinted| A charge captured only the en- not stand the “foul odor.” He had|ip.. were only the vanguard of trance of the formidable fort which | been assistant chief engineer of e canadian Pacific Army. |is a mile long and a mile and a| SER for 18 years. David predicted the Canadian half wide. igaet R'.w',mruh’ s Othavy will soon see action in the Five batteries of hea‘y artillery the Detrolt district for SKF, Te- poiific, iand scores of pillbox assaults fol- cigned after 27 yeats of service, and| " o, 4. air force has already lowed the morning air attack and turned in blows on Japan, |day-long artillery barrage, Industrials 146,28; rails, (Continued on Page Four)