The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII, NO. 9767 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1944 — ] MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s ALLIES INCREASING SMASH ON GERMANY CHURCHILL SAYS WAR NOT OVER Prime Minister Warns| Against Optimism in Quebec Report LONDON, Sept. 28—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill warned the House of Commons today that the war against Hitler might well con- tinue into 1945. “I depreciate very much that the| people are being carried away by | premature expectations of ! early | cessation of the fighting,” he de- clared in his full dress report of the Quebec conference on the war| in general. “I shall certainly not hazard a guess as to when the end may come. Many persons with the high-| est technical attainment of knowl- edge and responsibility have good hopes that it will be over by the end of 1944. On the other hand,| no one, certainly not I, can guar- antee that several months of 1945 may not be required.” | PolishARussian View ; Of Polish and Russian differ- | ences, Churchill said that Britain will do her utmost to obtain for| Russia “the security she is en- titled to have on her West Front.” He expected Poland to have her national sovereignty and independ- ence restored, he said, although there will have to be some changes in her frontier. “Russia has the right to our (Conlinued on Page Sit) | Whole Town of Juneau 1 | BOMBERS AR Including GoldMine,ls ACTIVE IN Now Claimed by Indians PACIFIC ARC KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 28.— Juneau, Douglas, Wrangell and Sitka Indians have already filed petitions with the Interior Department sim- ilar to those heard from at Klawock, Kake and Hydaburg. This was disclosed at the hearings here by Al Anderson, Executive Sec- retary of the Alaska Miners Asso- ciation. Anderson told Judge Richard Han- na, in the association’s protest, that the Juneau Thlinget tribe claims the whole town of Juneau, including the famed Alaska Juneau gold mine and this is “typical of already created | reservation such as the Chandalar Reservation of one million and one- half acres set aside for the exclusive use of 35 Indians, thus preventing further mining in the area, rich in | minereals, and as yet not fully de- | veloped.” Anderson also filed a protest by the Fairbanks Chamber of Com- merce. L. B. Chisholm, City Clerk OI( Wrangell, has also filed a similar | protest to the claims of the ab-| original rights. } Alaska Territorial Senator Norman | Walker said nearly 60 percent of Alaska’s revenues during the past seven years came from the fishing industry and if the reservations were | created the Territory would lose the | revenues from such areas. Ralph Bartholomew said the Ket- chikan Chamber of Commerce has | been advised that the present plans | to establish a pulp and paper in- dustry in Alaska will be abandoned if the petitions are granted. | Arthur W. Hodgman, Acting Di- visional Supervisor of the Forest | Service, testified that eight hundred | milion board feet of timber cut since | 1909 are in the areas mostly claimed | by the Indians who have never ob- | jected to logging. | DEWEY ISTO SPEAK NEXT IN WEST VA. | » BULLETIN—ALBANY, N. Y,, | Sept. 28.—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is back in Albany today after a three - week transcontinental campaign tour of 8,500 miles and faced a busy day in the Capital City, including a conference with Chairman Brownell of the Re- NEUTRALS ARE WARNED AGAIN; NO AID TO AXIS WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull disclosed | that the neutral nations had been warned again they will lose Am- | erican friendship in “years to come” | if they should give sanctuary to| Hitler or other Axis leaders after| | the war, Several governments of heutral or former neutral states, notably Sweden, Turkey, Switzerland and Spain have either given an assur- Peleliu Inva—ti;fs HaveKill- ed 12 Japs fo One American Dead By VERN HUAGLAND (A. P. War Correspondent) UNITED STATES PACIF‘IC; FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 28—The American invaders of the Palaus, after killing 853 Japanese, have overwhelmed all but two pockets™ of resistance on| Peleliu and have bloodily crushed {the last ditch infiltration effort on conquered Angaur, Headquarters reported new fig- ures on the Japanese dead, follow- | ing a report yesterday that the American dead totalled 686, mean- ing that the Yanks killed better than 12 of the enemy for every one of the invaders. The enemy’s Angaur infiltration | effort was timed with the weak air attack of the Nipponese on that island Monday night. | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said| the Marines and Soldiers on Pe- leliu still have to take Umorbrogol| Mountain and also wipe out a small | pocket of the enemy on the north- | eastern tip of the island. Two enemy planes attempted to bomb American positions on nearby Angaur Island the previous night but the missiles fell harmlessly into the water, east of the island.! The communique listed, in wide~ spread air attacks, Corsairs strafed | | | | | l Eisenhower | Gives Talk To Germans i 1 Commander Tells Citizens| What to Expect When Allies Take Over STAFF HEADQUARTERS, Al LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, Sept. 28—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his first proe- Jamation to the people of Ger- many said: “We come as con- querors, but not as oppressors.” He told them “In the area of Germany occupied by forces under my command, we shall ob- literate Nazism and German militarism. We shall overthrow azi rule and dissolve the Nazi party; abolish cruel, op- pressive, discriminatory laws and institutions which so often have disrupted the peace of the world. miiltary and party leaders, the Gestapo and others suspected of crimes and atrocities shall be tried and, if guilty, punished as they deserve.” JAVA CAPITAL | 1S STRAFED BY U.5. BOMBERS northwestern ~ Babelthuap Island, the largest in the Palau group,| Tuesday. Liberators and Venturas, | By MURLIN SPENCER (A. P. War Correspondent) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS lN1 Vifal Ninth Round of War Now in Pacific; Jap; fo Fighfll Hard 1t's the battle of the Philippines. | The opening punches are being [thrown by the Army and Navy Air | “ [forces now. It's considered as cer- tain as tomorrow’s dawn that land- ings of ground forces will follow. But there’s no use to try to guess D-day for the Philippines any more than there was to try to guess the time of the second front in Europe. With one exception (if Russia By JACK ‘ { A | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 The | Allies in Europe are fighting the | ltenth round and a knockout may | ‘lcnme any day now. That theatre has the spotlight. But talk to any Navy officials here and they will tell you that some of the Kleigs| should be on the vital ninth round lin the Pacific dustry Suffer Heavy Blows in Atfack | | LONDON, Sept. 28—More than a | thousand American heavy bombers | attacked German war factories ateniers the war against Japan) the | Madgeburg, Kassel and Merseburg | ocanture of the Philippines will vesterday, and the railroad yards e 4 more overwhelming blow at Madgeburg were also hit. against the Japanese than anything Americans ‘swept over the else the Allies can deliver. for the fourth straight day, close|" rpe Japanese know this and are on the heels of RAF heavies, and |oynooted to fight harder against carried the non-stop air offensive jangings fn the Philippines than against German “""‘Spm'“‘“""'uxmnsc any of the landings made through the night with a heavy|y, far in the entire Pacific area. attack on I.xll»svl'lfl.ut,ern, an lm-’ Their stakes are all the vital re- poru?n_L industrial city in v.h(: S“r’;suux-m»s in their captured islands British heavies attacked German |y, yeen the Philippines and the | positions in beseiged Calais on "heyl)utch East Indies, as well as those | French coast during the murning.‘“_om French Indo-China to Burma This is the sixth day in eight d“ys‘un the continent. of concentrated attack. | s i The announcement said that| more o look at your map and| ::g);fl::“:n:l"; ";:3: “l:::i ;‘:f]you'll understand why. Only & su-| a%es, oo perior naval force could maintain tacked in the daylight. supplies. feom Japan. south of Fors PRI RRRVIEE °°“5“‘;‘°" mosa If the Allies hold the Philip- about half of the estimated 2500 ,ineq The South China Sea, which Reich |Allied planes over Germany yester- ALLIES GAIN - DESPITE BIG REVERSALS Nijmegen Lifeline Widens as 200,000 Germans Face Encirclement LONDON, Sept. 28.—The Nijmegen lifeline has widened into an offensive wedge within 25 miles of the walling off in Holland of perhaps 200,000 Germans who may be added to the nearly a million already written out of the battle in western Europe. But the loss of the Allies’ only bridge- head across the Rhine to Arnheim, Holland, by British First Airborne Division troops, whose 2,000 rem- nants trickled back through the cor- ridor, apparently dispelled hopes of a quick victory over Germany. Germans Fight Hard Fighting everywhere with skill, de- termiation and fierceness, the Ger- mans threw the Third Army Ameri~ cans out of their hard-won toehold at the entrance to the moat ringed fort of Priant, which guards the west bank approaches to Metz on the Moselle. The Nazis declared they also smashed the brigehead across the Antwerp Turnhout Canal, west of the Nijmegen corridor. Yanks Make Burst Against these three reverses, First Army Americans burst through pill- box studded six-mile wide Hurtgen Forest, 14 miles southeast of be- sleged Aachen, in a powerful effort to tear open the blocked way to Cologne. Canadian soldiers, wearing Mae West life jackets, attacked through canal lines aorund Calais and the channel eoast:- They-worked -aeross- the western flats into the factory area converted into a stronghold, toward the port district. now is Japan's open door to sup- | plies of rubber, rice, iron, hemp, tin, | {cotton, tungsten, and other vital war materials, can be blockaded al- | imost as effectively as the English | | Channel % Belfort Gap. They admitted the REI-EASED IODAY | Not only would these materials loss of positions in' the “heavy fluc- be cut off, but also supplies to the |tuating battle against far superior ) BY DRAFT BOARD Nipponese armies to the south. |forces” east of Lure, 15 miles west & TRy of Belfort. They said strong Allied Released today by the local Draft | Board is the following reclassifica- | The strategic value of the Phi-|attacks started from the Nancy area llippines, according to nearly all|in @ northerly direction, and de- naval experts here, is the big key clared that new airborne forces were tion list {to the war in the Pacific—far more | {lUng against Shertogenbosch, a 1-A—Tony A. Tomatich, Winfield |important than the bombing of |S¢ant ten miles ahead of the British E. Day, Ivan Darnell, Robert M.| Eakin, Al Anderson, Elmer R. Adams. Japen proper or any progress that push west from the Nijmegen cor- 1-A (H)—John D. Kennedy, Roy/ Best information available here | can be made against the enemy on Fidor, C. Cutler, Fritz S. Johnson, John |is that the Japanese have about Sunday, hit Paramushiro, downing ypw GUINEA, Sept. 286—Batavia, one of 12 enemy interceptors andne gapital of Java, fell under the damaging seven. On the same day, range of Gen. MacArthur's long- Liberators bombed Java, in | range bombers, when two Australi- volcano group, shooting down four gy ya5eq planes strafed buildings | interceptors. Three Liberators were g .. the first time in southeast| damaged. A search plane strafed!l,“mc history. } Coastal. cratt. The planes flew approximately N P AR 3200 miles roundtrip, making the |astack one of the léngest combat RED TROOPS |flights in any war theatre. The | Celebes on Monday, sinking a 1000 YUGOSLAVIA !ton freighter. Catalinas staged an- |day and last night. s VR publican National Committee. He appeared refreshed as he motered to the Executive Man- sion, having retired early last night after several train stops enroute from Tulsa in which the candidate emphasized that if the Republicans win in November he will sweep New Dealers out of the government from top to bottom. The mfiington' Merry - Go- Round By DREW. PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert ®. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Attacks Increasing Almost everywhere, the Germans said, the Allied attack is increasing in force, from western Holland to ance they will not permit Axis nationals to flee within their bor- ders or that they are fully aware of the problems such action might provoke. “Np indications have as yet beef received on the views of certain of their governments,”. Hull said in a news conference. Secretary Hull said the “State {Department is continuing to im- press upon those governments whose policy has not yet been clearly stated the importance it attaches to taking adequate meas- | ures to insure Axis war criminals do not find asylum in those coun- tries.” Hull disclosed this Government is supported in the demands by WASHINGTON — This columnist | recently quoted from a 1939 speech | of Dewey’s presumed Secretary of | State, Joun Foster Dulles, to the effect that he had defended and 2 IDEWEY, Sept. 28 Homeward apologized for the dictators Just &y, 0y from his western wars few days after Hitler had taken all' _ . against the New Deal, Gov. Thomas gfizggilg‘:::vz;:: va/ter: ::;:)gw:z?%& Dewey gave renewed indications 3 that he is ready with a swift coun- ;vas l(x;eo\lii’tacb:;m:};fi Bd:::neflp z:‘:iterattuck against expected new oied {blasts on the Republicans by Presi- others, who claimed that the Dulles ENROUTE TO ALBANY WITH | were fragmentary. However, Liberators escorted by Lightnings again hit the Dutch Big Gun Duel ‘The big gun duel around Metz, the German added, is deepening in pre- {lude to a full American attack |assault caught the Japanese by! | surprise. First reports of the raid the mainland of China. ! | other heavy raid on this important |Japanese base, sinking two other Guotations were misleading and did not really represent his views. Since then, a deluge of letters has poured in, some defending, some condemning, but nearly all wanting more information about Mr. Dulles, with the result that this columnist has spent recent weeks in an exhaustive and, he hopes, - objective research into the life and background of John Foster Dulles. Some editors may not be en- thusiastic about printing the re- sult, But since winning the peace after this war is the most import- ant object of the war, it is not a bad idea to scrutinize thoroughly any man who is asked to cooperate with Secretary Hull for future peace as the representative of sev- eral million Republicans, and who well may be the next Secretary of State. Certainly few men in America are better qualified, as far as family background is concerped, to be Secretary. of State. John Dulles’ uncle was the late Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under Wilson, a Democrat. His grandfather was John W. Foster, Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, a Re- publican. John W. Foster was a truly great statesman. He handled many delicate diplomatic negotiations both before and after leaving the Harrison Cabinet—helped settle the war between ~Japan and China, straightened out the Alaskan boun- dary, arbitrated problems with Russia in the Bering Sea. Originally, he was an Indiana politician, who served as post- master of his community, was Re- publican State Chairman and, somewhat like Cordell Hull, came up the political ladder the hard way. His grandson, John Dulles, after studying at Princeton and in Paris, jumped immediately into the most | | | |being seriously wounded dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey announced he plans to speak in West Virginia on October 6, just one day after Roosevelt takes to the air to talk to Demo- cratic party rallies. The Governor smilingly told his news conference yesterday that he had been appraised of the Presi- dent’s radio date when a reporter remarked that a lapse of time so short between the two dates might ‘not be sufficient opportunity to prepare an answer to anything the President might say. Dewey ob- served he had written the Okla- homa City speech delivered Mon- day night just 12 hours before. GERMANS PRAISE COURAGE OF BRIT. PARATROOPERS LONDON, Sept. 28—The German Transocean News Agency paid high tribute to the British “lost division” of Arnheim, saying its members “fought like lions,’ and as the end neared they “resisted with knives and pistols.” Transocean’s correspondent, Gun- ther Weber, said in the broadcast, recorded by Associated Press, “I spoke to German officers and men who had been fighting 250 hours. ‘They said the British airborne sol- diers were the highest qualified men we have met during the en- tire campaign. They fought like lions against an ever nghtemngl ring.” Weber said the British division commander surrendered “only after in close quarters combat.” LR S RTINS o OREGONIANS ARRIVE Mr. and Mrs. Leo Fulghan and son, of Dayton, Oregon, have ar- rived in Juneau and are guests at (Continued on Page Four) the Gastineau Hotel. both the British and Soviet Gov- ernments. ! A few hours before Hull spoke, | the Soviet Embassy here sponsored a statement for publication that “Russia’s participation in this set- tlement of this war provides the| best guarantee that Hitler not es- cape punishment after the war as the Kaiser did after the last war.” ————— LEO J. COLLINS HERE WITH FISHERIES VESSEL Making his first trip to Alaska this season, Leo J. Collins, skipper aboard the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice vessel Brant, arrived here this morning. Collins, who has been receiving medical care in Seattle, took the Fisheries vessel Penguin to Ket- chikan, where he joined the Brant and took over command. . STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 28—Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 6%, American Can 887%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Air- craft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 797%, Kennecott 34%, North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pa- cific 15%, United States steel 57%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.11; rails, 40.32; utilities, 24.79. - e FOUR OUT VIA PAA Pauline Carlson, Ernest Oberg, and Mrs. Bud Foster were flown | merchantmen, one of them 3,000 iment of Bor's undergrownd army lin town and is staying at the LONDON, Sept. 28 — Russizm’ troops have invaded Yugoslavia after crossing the Danube just west of the Iron Gate from the Rumanian frontier town of Or- sova, the . German communique made known in' the war bulletin. It said, “In the Danube bend there is lively reconnoitering ac- tivity on both sides of the Iron Gate .Soviet forces who advanced south from Orsova in the southern direction were repulsed and enemy formations who crossed the Danube were smashed.” Orsova is on the river frontier of Yugoslavia. Moscow has not yet confirmed the incursion of the territory where Tito's Partisan Army operates, but weeks ago told officially of reach- ing the Iron Gate, wild mountain canyons through‘(which the Danube crosses the Trd¥vivania Alps. The Germans .sserted that sev- eral thousand prisoners were taken at Warsaw and that another seg- has surrendered. e — SILLOWAY IN TOWN W. D. Silloway, of Seattle, has arrived in town and is a guest at! the Hotel Juneau. - e MRS. BANTA HERE Mirs. Roy Banta has arrived here from Gustavus to join her hus- bannd at the Juneau Hotel. — - — MRS. ESPESETH ARRIVES Mrs. Erling Espeseth, of Peters- burg, is registered at the Hotel Juneau. —— e — FAIRHURST IN TOWN Hal Fairhurst, of Ketchikan, is Baranof Hotel. ——ee— to Fairbanks today on a Pan Am- erican plane. Edmar Cain was a passenger for Whitehorse on thefrom Petersburg and a guest at!continuing the rest of his journey same flight. HERE FROM PETERSBURG Mrs. Helen Chipperfield is here the Baranof. | tons. | ———————— | CAUSE OF DEATH, AIMEE McPHERSON IS UNDETERMINE OAKLAND, Calif, Sept. 28— Three autopsy surgeons, after a prolonged examination, said they were unable to determine the cause | of death of Evangelist Aimee Sem- ple McPherson. The inquest ordered an autopsy which extended over two and one- half hours. In most cases not more than 30 minutes is required. The State Board of Pharmacy, during the progress of the examination, demanded the right to analyze and check the source of a bottle of sleeping tablets which was found at the bedside of the evangelist. The autopsy physician said that her heart wa snormal The evangelist was found uncon- scious in her hotel suite yesterday by a maid, and two doctors at the time attributed her death to a heart atvack. FRANK COLE HERE Frank Cole is in Juneau and has registered at the Gastineau from Ketchikan. .- — GOING IS TOUKH Transporfation difficulties in Al- aska are well-illustrated in the case of J. R. Kinney, building contractor, who is trying to get “outside.” Kinney came down from Skagway yesterday by plane and today will fly to Ketchikan to wait for the Canadian National steamer. From the First City he plans to go to either Prince Rupert or Vancouver, to the states by train. ALLIES REG G. Warner, Santiago M. Cesar,|200,000 ground troops in the Phil- Leslie E. Teagle, Alf K. Olson, Ma- |lippines, may add more in days to | mant Emanoff, George A. Dale. |come, and might be willing to risk | 1-C—Carl C. Mack. their entire imperial navy in a 2-A (F)—George F. Kenney. Pacific slugfest to defend the is- against the fortress. ‘The cost of these operations were indicated by Churchill who told the House of Commons that Allied loss- es in the invasion so far were 235,000 2-A (L)—Raymond Abrahamsen. 'lands. MAKESTWOTRIPS | ON WEDNESDAY rett, Harry A. Jensen, Lawrence W. | Alaska Coastal Airlines made two Mallach, Leroy F. West. 2-B |flights yesterday, carrying the fol- (H)—Erwin W. Rhoades, George J. Lavall. 4-F (H)—Albert Stich. 4-F—Peter Howard. Jack, Louie | i | |lowing passengers from Juneau to| %skagway: " Johnson Sumdum,| “Johmly Golly, Daniel Moreno, Ar- D g |thur Andrews. Skagway to Jungau — Capt. L. ITALY MOUNTS; | | Schlangie, Sam Kelsey, Frank Aus- | ROME, Sept. 28.—American troops mus, W. Wilson. | of the Fifth Army have captured! Stika to Juneau—Norma Nelson, | Castel Del Rio, about 15 miles below | Charles Wortman, Wallace West- | Imola, an important town on the fall, Clarence Rands, O. B. Hodgins, | Rimini-Bologna highway, Allied David Leachs. | - Headquarters said. | 2 Regaining the heights lost in the 'FISHERIES MEN BAC FROM STREAM SURVEY i | fierce Nazi counterattack of two days ago, Americans also seized Mount Carnevale, southeast of Castel Del Rio. British and Dominion troops in | | | | | the Adriatic sector enlarged the bridgehead over the Rubicon to two miles in depth over a ten-mile front | and closed in on the town of Sav- ignano. Canadian troops of the Eighth Army captured Bellaria, a small sea- side town eight miles beyond Rimini. Bellaria was found in the possession of Ttalian Patriot forces. PRI £ 43 CHARLES WORTMAN HERE Charles Wortman, prominent businessman of Sitka, flew to Ju- neau yesterday on a business trip days. Back from a stream survey, killed, wounded or captured. Of these 145,000 were Americans and 000 British. MOSCOW SAYS RIGA NAZIS ARE TRAPPED MOSCOW, Sept. 28-—Soviet mili- tary analysts today described as “strategically hopeless” the posi- tion of German troops attempting to withdraw from the Latvian port of Riga. Along a hotly-strafed coastal es- cape road the Russian drive en- veloped an additional 200 Latvian settlements yesterday and ap- proached close to Riga on the northeast. The German command apparently decided to move the bulk of its troops out of the Riga pocket rather than risk entrapment by a possible Russian breakthrough west of Riga. Meanwhile other Red Army Fisheries Supervisor J. Steele Cul-|forces, outflanking the key Uzok rtson, and Deputy Fisheries | pass through the Carpathians, Agent Clay Scudder, returned here |reached the soil of eastern Slo= Ilast night on the Fish and Wild- |yakia, life patrol vessel Scoter. A decisive moment seemed near According to reports, the streams for the Pourth Ukranian Army, led on the west coast are heavily py Col. Gen. Ivan Petrov, to crack populated with spawners, ’whllelme tough German-Hungarian de- |others in the Tebenkof Bay area fense zone along the crest of the and bays along the north shore of | carpathians in that sector. Frederick Sound are reported only fair. | Wwith only one-fourth of the survey complete, Scudder will leave R ‘ ARRIVAL FROM PETERSBURG ! Frederick Magill has arrived here |that will be extended for several again next week to complete the from Petersburg and is staying at work. the Baranof Hotel,