The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE, TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9768 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS P_RICE TEN CENT$ BIG BATTLE DEVELOPING ON REICH FRONT 10,000-TON Trollers ers Oppose Indian - (laims;Assert One Grea LAST NAIZI SATELLITE DESERTING Red Offensive Against, Hungary Brings Rumors | of Peace Feelers | MOSCOW, Sept. 20—The Red Army’s three-way offensive against Hungary from Rumania and Yugo- slavia has developed swiftly and‘ rumors of peace feelers by the | Budapest Government indicated that Hitler's last important satel- lite is deserting. [ Soviet troops have taken Vydran, a Czechoslovak rail station three| miles inside the frontier, and Lup-i kow, on the Polish side of Lupkow | pass, was also taken. The German communique sald‘ that the two regiments of Rus-| sians, who burst across the Danube west of the Iron Gate at Osova| to invade Yugoslavia, have been smashed, but that more than al hundred Soviet infantry divisions, plus numerous tank formations | which total perhaps a million and a half men, are ' attacking the Baltic States east of Riga, attempt- ing to frustrate the German “de- taching movemen FWA Gives Fairbanks Sum for Recreation WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — The Federal Works Agency has allotted $31,000 to Fairbanks, Alaska, for recreation facilities. Ketchikan Bond Bill Signed by Roosevelt | | | | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill to permit Ketchikan to issue bonds up to $150,000 to improve the elec- | tric light and power system. | SR S Sk Fast Freight Hits Passenger Train;9 | Killed, 100 Injured useful and Public Going fo Get Chance fo Go on Big Spending Spree, Claim CHINA BASE SECURITY TALKS AMONG BIG THREE PROVE SUCCESS| {Russian Phge_ of Confer- ence s fo End Today -Lasted Six Weeks WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — The Dumbarton Oaks Security confer- |, lees announced they had reached a !“large measure of agreement” in their plans for a world organiza- tion during the Russian phase of the conference. The Russian talks,! which lasted six weeks, failed to settle all issues, concluded yester- day with a series of speeches by British, American and Soviet dele- gation chairmen. American and British delegates are scheduled to meet with the Chinese group this afternoon con- cluding the security talks which |are expected to last about 10 days. A joint statement by Undersec- retary of State Stettinius, Chair- man of the Conference; Sir Alex- ander Cadogan, British Chairman, and Soviet Ambassador Gromyko, said the “conversations had been had led, in a large measure, to the agreement, recom- mendations and general framework of the organization and in particu- lar to the machinery required to maintain peace and security.” The reports now go to the re- spective governments. ————— 'LONGSHOREMEN IN ALASKA ASK FOR MORE PAY 'Labor Boaragys Action at Seattle Pending More Information SEATTLE, Sept. 29 — Awaiting By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 20— Dux-mg‘ lthe lapse between the end of the | VITALU. S. ENEMY NEARS Japs Say They Have Cap- tured Base at Tanchuk, | war in Europe and the time when | manufacturers can get civilian goods on the market, the public is | going to get a chance to go on a| buying spree. | The purchflsflble items will be | surplus “war” materials, but they will be usable by civilians. A check | {of various government agencies, in- cluding the War Food Administr: tion, the Surplus Materials Disposal division, and several others dis-| closes that there are some pleasant | surprises ahead as soon as the “holy soil” of Nazi Germany is in {the hands of the Aliies. Some items already are on the market. The fact that surplus air- |planes are being sold to the public ,was written about in this column |some days ago. The first small {stream of GI shoes, high quality | ‘wnlce footgear that may well be- come a standard work shoe, al- |ready has started on its way back | |to civilians too. Some Army trucks| are being sold to farmers who can cbtain priorities from their ration| boards. Some tires are being dis- posed of the same way But these things are only a drop' in ‘the 10-gallon keg that will be| turned upside down as soon as the curtain falls in the European theatre. i Almost immediately after that, ] there will be for the housewife, igreat quantities of household ap- pliances, even including such scar-| cities as washing machines, ironers, | |sewing machines and refrigerators. There will be kitchenware of al- imost all kinds and tableware from |knives, forks and spoons to un-| breakable china and glassware. | | Office equipment, which has been short ever since Pearl Harbor, will | be offered in great quantities. Type- | | writers, adding machines, filing cabinets and office furniture will| | be plentiful | Before global war’s end, it is esti- mated, there will be nearly a bmlon, dollars’ worth of clothing and clo- | |thing materials turned back into the civilian market. } | The surplus food situation is a| story in itself. The surplus mcludesK nearly ail of the imperishables:| canned goods, cured meats, cheese. | | that Near Kweilin —_— | (By Associated Press) | Imperial Headquarters announced | that Japanese forces, advancing on | Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi Prov-| ince, occupied Paoching and Tan- chuk, site of the advanced Ameri- | can air base. There was no immediate con- firmation of the Japanese claim | was contained in the com- munique broadcast from Tokyo. The Chinese High Command an- nounced the Japanese column had reached to within 35 miles of | Kweilin, greatly heightening the menace to that important city, and said also that Japanese columns converging on Tanchuk were only 20 miles apa)L - 'MONSTER ROBOMB FOUND IN REICH | BY U.S. FORCES By ALBTIN’ BEALWAR (A. P. War Correspondent) SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Sept. 20—A fourteen-ton projectile with an explosive radius of almost two miles is scheduled to be the third of Hitler's “Vengeance Weapons.” | first lto JAP VESSEL SENT DOWN {American Patrol Plane Spots Convoy-Does Some Bombing ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 29—Attacking | a seven-ship convoy, an American | patrol plane sank a 10,000 ton Jap-| anese transport and badly damaged | another smaller troopship in Allied strike over Sulu chipelago, Southern Philippinnes. This brought to 15 the number of Jap ships sunk or damaged during the last six days in the Southwest Pacific, D PORTLAND PAPER SAYS DEMOCRATS STOP F.D.R. TALK However, National Com- mittee Says Charge Is WlihoutFoundahon PORTLAND, eplv 29—The Ore- {genian, a Republican newspaper, chmged in an editorial the Demo-| cratic National Committee refused re-broadcast President Roose- velt's speech of last Saturday for| feor of losing the soldier vote. The editorial asserted the “irony Information on the “V-3", be-| fieved unused as yet, was obtained | by American Third Army troops during the drive into Germany. The projectile is just short of 65 feet in length, five feet, five inches lin diameter and is propelled by a mixture of liquid air and n.umnl‘ 1t is shot in the air vertically and | is rudlu—cumrulled | .- | | Porter, It's New Daughter | For Whiteheads' A new member of the Dr. William M. Whitehead family arrived in Ju- | peau at 4:17 o'clock this morning. She is Miss Suellen Baldwin, and | she tipped the scales in St. Ann MISSOURI VALLEY, Towa, Sept. submission of additional informa-|A large portion of this already is|Hospital at seven pounds and six | fast freight train plowed | 29—A into a passenger train last night, |Regional War Labor Board has de- posed of to the hungry nations scattered ferred action in the dispute in- which have been long underfed, but |and a brother, Stuart, welcome the | | new arrival, knocked five cars over, wreckage for half a mile, killedi nine persons and injured 100, two |Company with Juneau, Ketchikan from Army warehouses and storage of whom are in a critical condi- tion. Three victims are soldiers names are withheld. but | The Washington Merry -Go-Round | By DREW W PEARSON @t. Col. Y obert 8, shllen. now on sctive service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Army observers report that there is all the differ- ence in the world between the way the civilian population of France is being handled and the system | employed in North Africa and Italy. They give credit for the efficient | operation to General De Gaulle. | General Eisenhower arranged to turn things. over to De Gaulle's| provisional government immediately after the Allies captured a town or| city. So in the wake of the Allied | Armies, posters are tacked up' which are brief and to the point. They read: “All laws and decrees of the Vichy Government are here- py rescinded. The laws of theJ French Republic are hereby re-| stored. The Provisional Frencm Government will be in control until elections can be held.” | General Eisenhower is also turn-| ing over all French collaboration- ists to De*Gaulle’s provisional gov- | ernment. He is not attempting to|tina has informed the British Gov- G Hansen. punish them himself, is even giving the Free French all Allied records on the pro-Nazi activities of Frenchmen. ! This is in contrast to the occu-| pation of North Africa, where State Department Diplomat Robert Murphy meddled incessently, tried to protect certain Frenchmen, de- (Continued on Page Four) tion from both sides, the Twelfth volving the Alaska Steamship and Seward locals of the CIO In- ternational Longshoremens and ‘Warehousemens Union. The unions are seeking a higher, |wage scale in the Alaska ports, also retroactive pay to January, 1944. — e GERMAN JABS BEATEN BACK By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH SECOND ARMY, Sept. 29.—Renewed German | attempts to chop off the spearhead of Gen. Dempsey’s corridor to the Rhine, have been beaten off and a | series of vicious jabs by the enemy | armor in the Nijmegen sector have been thrown back. WAR CRIMINALS WILL BE BARRED FROM ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 29—The Foreign Office announces Argen- ernment that war criminals will be barred from this country and they {will be prohibited from depositing funds or acquiring property here. e ————— BRUST RETURNS Reinholt Brust, Chief Clerk for the Alaska Indian Service, returned by plane from a brief business trip Lombard, Illinois, and are s;aying York Central because of illness, pass to Seattle, overseas and probably will be dis- huge amounts also will be released depots in this country. Some esti-| mates on surplus stocks run as 'high as two billion dollars. The list could go on endlessly. Iz‘ would include medical supplies, |hand tools, blankets, farm lands,| |hardware, alarm clocks, miles of| \mosquno netting, obsolete life \raits bicycles and war plants. However, the dumping of all this ‘surplus material isn't going to bel \a bonanza for consumers only. The| government policy now is and will (be to turn all of these things back t.o the manufacturers, for redis- ‘tribunon or reprocessing. From !those sources they will flow out through the normal trade channels. o — 15 PERSONS ARRIVE YESTERDAY BY PLANE Incoming passengers from Anchor- | age yesterday, via Alaska Airlines, were as follows: Florence Anderson, | Al Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles | Viland, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Harrison, W H. Stiver, H. S. Graves, Mrs. \l\orman Heimdahl and infant, Irene | Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Maziek, Ray Martin, and Ida Shields. Outgoing passengers on the return flight to Anchorage were: Harold | Anderson, John Burke, Leo La| Pierre, Jack Weber, Lt. H. &. Romig, Geraldine Thomas, S. Memuth, and | " To Yakutat—Capt. Smith. Ta Cordova—Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Poling and two infants. To Fairbanks—Pete Mizel. ' o DS | SCHNOCKERS ARRIVE | | Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Schnocker and son have arrived here from at the Juneau Hotel, |Allen, aged three years ounces. Two sisters, Virginia and Page, as well as her proud grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Johnson. Her pop is Dr. William (Bill) Whitehead, widely known Ju- neau physlcian | e Shattuck Famlly 1 Has New Addition A new life and fire insurancu] agent, incidentally a Democratic| | prospect for the Alaska Legislature, | 'arrived in Juneau last night whvnl a boy baby was born to Mr. and‘ Mrs. Curtis G. Shattuck at St. Ann’s Hospital. The grrival tipped | the scales at 9 pownds and ni ounces. He joins a little brother, ‘ lIOUIDMION OF SPRUCE L0G PROGRAM NEAR END Back from Edna Bay, Chm-lcs1 Burdick, General Manager of the Alaska Spruce Log Program, an- nounces that liquidation of the proj- | ect is progressing satisfactorily and | that a great amount of the equip- \and levity that permeated the ad- |dress would have the same unseem- liness to those suffering the tor- tures of war as it had to those lat home who are apprehensively | awaiting the possible arrival of |dread news about their loved ones on the battlefronts.” NEW YORK Sepl 29 — publicity director for the | Democratic National Committee to- day denied the Oregonian charge saying it was “utterly without foundation and untrue.” He said the President had already used up |the short-wave time allotted by the Army for September and the first week in October would be given to| |the World b(rics broudrdhts [Esfonia Is Lilierated LONDON, Sept. 29.—All of Estonia has been liberated with the excep- tion of two small islands and 45745 Germans have been killed or cap- tured in 10 days, the Moscow radio declared tonight. - ARMISTICE WITH THE CA'\ADI‘\N FIRST ARMY AT TALAIS, Sept. 29.—Can- adians surrounding this channel port have agreed to a 24-hour armistice required by the Germans | permit evacuation of civilians. The armistice lasts from noon to- | day to noon Saturday. ————————— Pioneers fo Eat Tonight Members of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, and the Auxiliary will| the | Ar- | Paul | MA.IOR POLICIES - FOR CONTROL OF ~ GERMANS STATED President Announces Eight. Leading Points for Post- Warring of Reich WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Presi- |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt an- nounced today an outline of eight basic points for controlling post- war Germany so that the German nation “does not become a menace again in succeeding generations.” The President wrote a letter to ‘L(‘O Crowley of the Foreign Eco- nmmr Administration, outlining |what he termed “major which will be put in effect after German military resistance col- ‘hpses " He said they had the ap- prmn] down the line of the State, ‘mmy and Treasury Departments. | Among other things, he directed {lend-lease to continue after the German collapse to whatever gree it is necessary to wind up the war. tion should work for reconstru ‘uon and reconversion of indust: {“on ‘a basis of mutual understand- |ing.” policies | de-! He also said the administra-! KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 20— Trollers who have fished in South- | east Alaska since the inception of the industry jn 1912, testified yes- terday at the Indian Claims hear- iing opposing the claims, they sald, that would abolish a two and one half million dollar industr; which 1500 trollers are eng with boats valued at $6,000,000. Harold Gilmore, Secretary of the Uml(‘d Trollers of Alaska, testified nu\t 80 per cent of the troll-caught |calmon are taken in the Indian claimed waters. John Kayser, troller and buyer since 1911, introduced aged fish a record letter written to him in 1939 | of the| by Assistant Commissioner Indian Bureau reassuring him res- ervations would not be created that | year but that the Bureau was con- sidering the establishment of re- serves to ‘“protect the Indian righ “Frenchy” Allain, 1906, described early trolling and related how the Indians and whites | both learned to. bait hooks from Norwegian fishermen. Previouly they had been using Indian kelp lines and wooden hooks which were | effective in halibuting but ineffect- ive in catching and holding king salmen, the chief trell caught fish. The hearing is adjourning here today to reconvene in Seattle October 4 to hear further evidence and consider a possible November | hearing. | Dewitt Gilbert, Editor of the| in Alaska since | on‘ YANKS PUSH ASSAULT T0 InduslryWouId Bel(llled§ NAZI LINES German Frontier Town of | Remic Is Captured by | U. S. First Army LONDON, Sept. 29 — American Third and Seventh Armies surged |forward 35 miles today through fierce German resistance at Alsace | Lorraine, it was announced. The |'Third Army knocked out 82 Ger- |man tanks. Two armies prying at | Belfort Gap, only 11 miles away, lare knocking four main passes |through the Vosges to the Rhine and have shredded half a dozen | German counterattacks and cap- | tured eight to 10 villages. The German Commander at Calais has asked for surrender terms. Lt. Gen. Sir Dempsey’s combined British Second Army Parachute forces have closed on the Meuse River on a 20 mile front from the Nijmegen corridor to Holland. The | United States First Army in the | middle pushed the assault to the | German frontier, capturing Remic. | At Luxumbourg, the Nineteenth |'Tactical Airforce, in direct support io( Patton, destroyed 58 locomotives, 147 railway cars, seven barges, and made 72 cuts in rail lines. 21st Army Pushes On | Montgomery’s Twenty First Army group is pushing out to the west- |ward from the salient in Holland, where they threatened to cut off - Th’e A“‘e; ‘“;'“:degc * ’dm’c"a?“ Pacific Fisherman, who has at-|200,000 Germans, and moved within - ‘“"”l“ TR ;"’d . - tended all hearings, told the Cham- five miles of Shertogenbosch, clos- |many collapses “on a full and free pe, of Commerce yesterday that|ing in from the south, and have \ basis as possible.” cabinet being split over the Mol genthau plan to de-industrialize Germany, as stated in newspaper stories, were essentially untrue in [the basic fac | No Speaking Plans WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Presi- dent Roosevelt said today he has no political speaking plans |beyond the radio broadcast Democratic Party workers on Oc- tober 5. Bob Hannegan said re- cently the President might make two speeches in New York. e ROOSEVELT DENOUNCES ARGENTINA Declares Nazi, Fascist In-| fluences Developing Are Most Serious WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today denounced the | Argentine Government for what he |termed the growth of the Nazi and |Fascist influences developing in that country at the very time the | INazi forces are meeting defeat in | Germany. ‘ The statement was read at the | news conference today in which the | President viewed the Argentina sn ‘unuon with “increasing concern.” e 'NAZI BRUTE IS REPORTED DEAD (By Ast uawd Press) Joseph Buercke, Minister in Hi | | | t- ment and supplies are being ‘“'d‘nold MHieiy. fitst seasions of the 181l|1ave” Giovernment &nd* e of. the in Alaska. The material which is unable to be disposed of in the Territory will‘ |be returned to Seattle for dxsposalv by the Treasury Procurement De- | partment, Mr. Burdick stated. | Frederick Williamson - Is Dead in New York\ | NEW YORK Sept. 29.—Frederick | Williamson, 68, who recently re-‘ |signed the Presidency of the New | | | ed away this afternoon, |season tonight in the Odd Fe! ellows | Hall. The get-together will start at] 6:30 o'clock with a joint dinner and following the feed, both or- ganizations will go -into business sessions and at the con- clusion will enjoy a joint social | session. The President of the Pioneers is W. O. Carlson, and Mrs. ary, a good team to draw to. .- Mrs. R. H. Whitmore has come |into town from Gustavus and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. separate | Sylvm[ Zenger is President of the Auxili-| highest ranking Nazi, is dead as| Ithe result of inflammation of the lungs, the German radio an- nounces. | Buercke was Commissioner of the |Saar from 1935 to 1938, member of |the Reichstag in 1940 and 1941 land head of various Administra-| the Jews. > FROM SELDOVIA HERE | Mr. and Mrs. "R. T. Garrison have arrived in Juneau and have regis tered at the Baranof from Seldovia, Alaska, |tions which particularly oppressed | |three reservations will be estab- of Wales Island. He said the De-| (partment of Interior will probably down-scale the claims and then ex- plained that it is taking consider- ably less than the tribes claimed | [to headoff protests and counter ac- tion and further said he suspects the order for three reservations has already been drawn. RAY OF HOPE, BUT IT IS FOR ICKES TO SAY KETCHIKAN Alaska, Sept. 20.— If he is convinced the Claims Act will pbe effective in settling the controversy, Judge Richard Hanna, Indian Rights Hearing Examiner, | said he might recommend such ac- tion in his findings on the Indian | hearings but final decision, how- ever, is up to Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, who has declflrr-d himself empowered to create reser- vations for the exclusive use of the Indians. The Claims Act allows the thivvs to sue the government for alleged damages on their rights. Indians Against Claims Fred Hanford, Mayor of Wran- gell, member of the Territorial Leg- islature, said most of the prominent Wrangell Indians are opposed to the | present claims of the Indians, | A. H. Ziegler opposed, on behalf of the Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union and Vessels Owners Association, the present claims of the Indians. The Petersburg Chamber of Com- | merce has also filed objecuons i FIFTH ARMY - MAKES BIG ~ GAIN, ITALY ROME, Sept. 29.—The Amerlcan | Fifth Army battered northeast | through mud and rain today and | captured Battaglia, eleven miles | from Imola, Allied Headquarters an- nounced. They also seized three key | heights commanding a direct route | north to Bologna. In the Adriatic sector, the British | Eighth Army gained the southeast- fern edges of tt of the Po v.mey 'BUSINESS MEETING FOR . MOOSE LODGE TONIGHT | Members of the Moose Lodge will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the| Moose headquarters in the Seward Building, for a routine business meeting. Refreshments will be served fol- Jowing the lodge work. now | to | ‘oxtended the bridgehead over the Roosevelt said that reports of the jisheq for the Indians on Prince Antwerp Turnhout Canal. | There fs no word of the First | Army’s salient through Hurtgen |Forest, 14 miles southeast of be- ‘slegcd Aachen, in a push toward the Rhine and Cologne. | One of the biggest battles is de- veloping for the important road |center of Rambervillers, 30 miles | southeast of Nancy and midway be- tween Luneville and Epinal. Fifty miles southeast of Nancy, strongly dug in German forces am- | bushed an American advance force, but farther south another attack- Ang force cleaned up the last Ger- |man resistance in Severance and nearby vulnges | 1FI|er Kllled At Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20— | Roger Smith, 21, of Bristol Bay, | was killed Wednesday night when ja small pontoon equipped plane he ‘wus attempting to sit down on El- \mendorf Field, struck a runway shoulder and then nosed over. | Alrport attendants report the ship was burned. Smith took off from Lake Creek nd had been 25 minutes in the air for Anchorage. Apparently he was unaware a sudden fog had settled down here | Belgrade Caplured NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The An- kara radio reported this afternoon the “capture of Belgrade is an- | nounced by the Yugoslav Patriot The CBS recorded the broadcast. SMAll BLAZES PUT OUT BY DEPARTMENT | The Juneau Fire Department | flametamers answered a call yes- | terday evening to box 4-3, to the |apartment of Homer Garvin in the Fosbee Apartments. A short in the electric range had caught the wall on fire and the fire laddies had to chop a hole in the wall to squelch the blaze. Slight damage |was reported. On Wednesday, the Department answered a call to the Upper City Float where a blaze in the galley of the Carlin was quickly put out. Little damage resulted. 1