The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 30, 1944, Page 1

4 . VOL. XLII, NO. 9769 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1944 = —— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = AMERICANS PUSH THROUGH NAZI FIRE Furious Battle Is Raging For Port of Riga IWomen War Workers Present Problems in " RESISTANCE OF GERMANS STIFFENING Nazis Are Knacked Ouf of| Thirty Additional Settlements RUSSIANS CALLING ON HUNGARY TO GIVE UP Soviets For?_;? Ahead Many Sectors-Import- ant Gains Made MOSCOW, Sept. 30—Russia has opened a strong propaganda cam- | paign urging Hungary to surrender as the Red Army troops nghwnedi the pincers offensive against Hit-| ler's last big Balkan vassal state.| Leaflets declared the Rumanians were well received when they threw | down their arms. Broadcasts informed the Hun- garian people it is not too late to desert Hitler and save themselves. The Russian offensive today | smashed Hungary on a 90-mile stretch and fortifications on the border were cracked. Gen. Petrov's combined Russian and Czechoslovakian forces are; driving a wedge in every import-| ant pass. | Marshal Malinovosky has scoredl a major success in the western | Carpathians by capturing the| Transylvanian city of Targu. Berlin radio reports implied the Red Army troops have temporarily smashed into Szeged, Hungary’s second eity, 90 miles southeast of Blasted by UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 30—Planes of an American Task Force sank or damaged upwards of 90 Japa- nese surface craft, including six war vessels, and wiped out 36 planes in the Central Philippines on the Iseventh day of such powerhouse at- tacks and the scourge of invasion menaced the Archipelago, it is an- nounced. The results raised the devastation lon the enemy in the Philippines to 894 planes destroyed, at least 160 surface craft sunk and more than 90 Jap Surface Craft Task Force In Raid on Philippines 200 probably sunk or damaged in prowling over the Philippine waters. The attacks went unchallenged by the Japanese Navy and were not opposed by the waning enemy air strength. ringing the Visayan Sea, losing 10 raiders. Three destroyer escorts were among the ships definitely sunk and others were a troop tran: port, three large cargo ships, three large oil tankers and six medium LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 30— The remains of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton have arrived here from Oakland where she died Wednesday as the result of heart trouble and funeral services will |be held next week, October 9, or what would have been her 54th birthday. The remains will lie in state in Angeles Temple on October 8. Few names conjured in the public mind a more startling series of epi- sodes than those evoked by men- Hutton, woman preacher of “the tion of Aimee Semple McPherson] Last Rifes for Famous EvangelistfoBe Held in Angelus Temple Oc. 9 JAPS CANNOT and tragedy. Before thousands upon thousands she stood as a white-gowned spirit- val leader and miraculous healer. To others she was the woman in the green bathing suit who walked |into the surf at Ocean Park, near |Los Angeles, one summer’s day in 1926, to reappear disheveled and worn, on the Ari zona-Mexican border, with an as- tonishing tale of kidnaping. Impeachment Case Judge Carlos Hardy of the Superior Court in Los Angeles when im- Adm. William F. Halsey’s Third| Fleet sent planes over the islands| cargo ships and five smaller ones. | 36 days later,’ Later she figured in defense of | BLITZ ON ' GERMANY ONTODAY iArfieri(an Bombers Affack in Daylight - RAF in Night Assaults | LONDON, Sept. 30.—Between '150‘ 'and 1000 Fortresses and Liberators today attacked Munister, Hamm, Bielsfeld and Wayern in Germany, and last night RAF Mosquitos 'bombed Karlsrihe. | The concentrated attack was a most successful one, the Headquar- ters announces. Today many sorties were made by the American Air Forces in di- |rect support to the ground forces. Yesterday poor weather cut down _sorties. xPRAVDA \ SAYS | WIN WAR Russians Say Reference fo, { Thirteenth Miracle Will Not Help MOSCOW, Sept 30—Three days \ after Berlin and Tokyo observed | the fourth anniversary of the Tri- partite Compact, Pravda said “The ‘deenz of our theory of blitzkrieg {war had a destructive influence” four-square gospel,” founder of An- geles Temple, Los Angeles, and maker of newspaper headlines. Dramatic Life From the sacred to the |tional, her life flowed 'starred with romance, Budapest. In the north, the battle for the Latvian port of Riga grew into| fury today as the Germans were knocked out of 30 additional settle- | ments but the enemy resmance‘ has definitely stiffened. — sensa- swiftly, adventure peachment proceedings were started " because he accepted from her a| ?ve: Japan? o S g check for $2,500. She testified the |'ICAl Strategy. Making Postwar Plans BOMBERS HIT JAP VESSELS INPACIFIC WidespreadTir Activity in Southwest Pacific Reported HEADQUARTERS IN NEW | GUINEA, Sept. 30—Today’s com- muniques reported widespread air activity in the Southwest Pacific with 17 small Japanese ships and barges either sunk or damaged. The communique listed six ships hit off the southern Philippines, séven off the Dutch Celebes, one off Borneo, one off Halmahera and two off Boere in the Banda Sea. The Japanese sent six bombers on a night raid against the Philip- | pines invasion base of Morotai, 300 iiies south of “Minganao, but the communique said the raiders dropped bombs hmmlessly KRUG TAKES CHARGE WPB; NELSON OUT By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—If fig- ures don't lie, there's a great deal of hokum being talked and written about women workers in the post-| war world. On one hand are those alarmed at the prospect of millions of wo- men being thrown out of work. On the other are those equally con- cerned with the possibility that millions of women will refuse to relinquish their new-found pay- checks and freedom from men and will completely upset the peactime labor market. As a matter of fact, neither is {likely unless unemployment be- comes general—a state which our industrialists, more than a score of |government agencies, and Congress lare planning right now to avoid. There are now, according to the women’s bureau of the Labor De- partment, about 18 million employ- ed women. About five million of | ‘Lhew never held or sought jobs be- |fore. They represent the women who have replaced men and on the surface would appear to be those who will have to go when Johnny comes marching home and wants his old job back. The Census Bureau estimates that if the peacetime trend of the| last 50 years had been maintained in the decade of 1940-50, there would have been 2,500,000 more wo- { men workers anyway. The war stimulus, there will be less than {a million more women seeking work | by 1950 than there would have been | normally. {million are those whose postwar plans don't involve tending wheels of industry. This, of cours a five-year view Census | | surveys indicate that even with the| The other one-and-a-half to two| the | money was a “love offering” in lappreciation of his services at the temple and not a fee for legal I (Continued on Page Thiree) - SHRINERS HOLD DEWEY FOR S UNSHACKLED FREE PRESS / Headed by Ray Eckman, Poten- tate of Nile Temple of Seattle, and accompanied by Hal McDowell as Chief Rabban, Joe D. Cook as High Priest and Prophet, and L. F. Sut- CITY LAST NIGHT GOP Candim Has Con- fidence Newspapers Will Resist Gov. Control ter in charge of the Second Sec- tion, who arrived in Juneau yester- day via PAA from Fairbanks and Anchorage where like ceremonials had been conducted on large classes, a ceremonial was held in the Masonic Temple last evening EVERYBODY WILL HAVE WORKTO0 DO { Vice- Premdent Says Ad- | ministration Has Excel- lent Labor Record ) 30. — Vice | The official Communist paper |indicated the Japanese were in al- | most a hopeless position, with| | United States production outstrip- {ping theirs and the war coming |ever closer to the home islands |The British and Americans are lalso superior in the air and at |sea. ' This is the most pessimistic pm |tu1e the Soviet press has ever {painted of Japan's chances of win- ning the war. The long review mado no mention of Japanese-| Ruasiun relations. Iucle said, the Japs “seduced them- |selves” into believing that the early ‘capturc of large territories would so demoralize the opposition they would win the victory. “Japanese propagandists clutched | at history to raise the faith of the population in the invulnerability o |their country. They related how a wmble storm in the thirteenth that | Having started the war, the ar-| |post of major importance.” | jand won't hold if tfie war sudden-| However, Former Head Is|iy cotapses and ten mittion men | |return in a matter of months to| fo Remain in Govern- |seck empioyment. There is, how-| ment in New Post |ever, no such indication. Even if | { WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—Presi- | |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, in ac- | cepting the resignation of Donald | Nelson, chairman of the WPB, sami he was counting on Nelson zemnln» {ing in the government “in a hxuw AHEAD INBIG / Germany falls before winter, post- ACUH.IHIMd on Paqe Trlree) The President named Julius)| Krug as Nelson’s successor but| didn’t immediately disclose the post he had in mind for Nelson. Krug has been serving as acting chair- man. White House Secretary Ste])h(*n‘ Early said the President would be ¢ ready in the near future to an-| nounce Nelson’s assignment. He| |told reporters Nelson sent his letter ALBANY, New York, Sept. 30— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, citing what he called “tendencies of the gov- ernment in power,” declared Fri- day night he had ‘“every confi- dence that our free press would continue to resist government domi- nation.” He didn’t specifically name President Roosevelt, his opponent in the November Presidential Elec- tion. “The dictators have given the world a bitter, bloody demonstra- tion that government tyranny is still the great enemy of a free press and free speech. Measures to suppress completely the freedom of the press have been carried out by everyone of the dictators in natural, essential steps to their success,” said Dewey. INOCULATION DATES SET FOR NEXT WEEK | October 4, 11 and 18 have been| set aside as the dates for the whooping cough inoculations for infants and pre-school children. at which time ten candidates were given the impressivq First Section and afterwards Crossed the Hot Sands of the Desert to Mecca. Those taking the degree are J. A. Nyman, Charles E. Wortman, Ludwig C. Berg, Norman F. Fager- son, Carl ‘A. Bloomquist, E. F. Cle- ments, Hans Berg, Clarence B. Hodgins, Clarance R. Rands and George E. Leighton. After the ceremonies at the Temple, all retired to the American Legion Dugout where a sideboard luncheon was served and colored movies and slides of the Shrine pic- nic at Auk Bay of last July were shown. This evening, in the Baranof Gold Room at 8 o'clock, a dinner-dance will be conducted at which all Shriners and their ladies will be| the guests of Nile Temple. { are to return to Seattle tomorrow via Pan American, and in the n.eantime are guests at the Bar- anof Hotel. —— ROBERT RISLEY HERE, Robert Risley, Governor of the Moose Lodge at Anchorage, arrived | These inoculations will be given'heré recently by steamer from the at 10 a.m. on the above dates in|south, enroute to his home. While | the Juneau Public Health Center, here he has attended meetings of room 108, Territorial Building, with|the Juneau unit of the association. Dr. C. C. Carter, Juneau Health|He is at present a guest of the Officer, in charge. Juneau Hotel. Tre Potentate and his assistants PITTSBURGH, Sept. | | {MISS PAT OLSON T0 | ATTEND UNIVERSITY Miss Pat olsun, dnughler of Mr. !and Mrs. John Olson, sailed for the south this morning on the Motor- ship Northland enroute to Seattle, where she will enter the University of Washington. Since her graduation from the |Juneau High School in 1943, Miss| {Olson has been employed in the President Henry A. Wallace de- century saved Japan from a Mon- iclared full employment in the 'golian invasion when the armada | United States during the post- war‘or enemy ships, 500 strong, was period could be attained “by mak- |scattered and dispersed. This ref-| ing dollars servants rather than'erence to the miracle can hardly men.” be expected to reassure anyone,” Opening a series of speeches ‘"‘says Pravda. Western Pennsylvania Wallace re-| called “with pride” what he de- scribed as the “excellent record” ot‘ STo(K ouo"“o“s the administration toward labor.; . |“Labor can produce 50 percent| NEw YORK, Sept. 30—Closing| more of the things we want than qugtation of Alaska Juneau Mine |we ever used in time of peace,” e gyoop g today’s short session is declared. He explained that “full (6%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Air- ST I 'h;r‘;'li;hmo:;'.crm 11, Bethlehem Steel 62%, outpit o V8 g Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 79%, Kennecott North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 187%, Northern Pa- jcific 16, United States Steel 58%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.69; rails, 40.93; utilities, 24.88. PRICES FRIDAY American Can closed at 89%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 80, Kennecott 34%, North American Office of Price Administration here,|Aviation 9%, New York Central ————— 18%, Northern Pacific 15%, Pound, HERE FROM PETERSBURG $4.04. Mr. and Mrs. C. Erickson, of| Dow, Jones averages Friday were Petersburg, are in town and have as follows: Industrials, 146.31; rails, registered at the Baranof Hotel. 40.72; utilities, 24.80. 34%, | lof resignation in yesterday, to be| ‘eflecnve immediately. Nelson said 'he and Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley |have carried out the first phase of the work assigned to them by |the President in China. He re- turned to make certain essential arrangements for completing his |part of the mission. The main pur- pose of his letter, Nelson said, was |to tender his resignation and added |he contemplated action since war |production successfully met - its crucial task for the invasion of | Europe. He delayed resigning, Nelson said, lonly until he could chart the course of the WPB reconversion program. Nelson said the policies, plans and methods of war produc- tion were well established during |his absence. Krug “administered the board very successfully,” is quite capable of completing the |development - of the . reconversion plans, Nelson said. P T PPN LR CAA MAN HERE Albert J. Bourgeais, of the CAA, Hotel Juneau. — e — SWICKS IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Swick are in town and have registered at the Juneau Hotel from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. and | (18 in town and is registered at the| CHUNGKING, Sept. 30.—Fight- | ing near Hingan, a railway town ronly 31 miles northeast of Kweilin, | I'was reported by the Chinese Com- |mand today. Street fighting in Paoching, 145 miles northeast of | | Kwellin, was elso announced. admitted the Japs had reached Tanchuk on the West River. The Japs have already claimed | occupation of both Paoching, 65| chuk. that Jap regulars east of the Hu- nan-Kwangsi railway advanced southward yesterday. The U.S. Fourteenth Airforce heavy bombers have sunk a 1500/ ton whaler in Formosa Strait, and Stilwell's Headquarters also an- nounced that American Liberators bombed Samshui, Canton, starting fires and second- ary explosions in the eastern part of the city. B LEGION INSTALLATION | |iliary will hold a joint installation on Monday evening, October 2, at 8 o'clock. The ceremony will take | place in the Legipn Duguot. - .. SEATTLE BOUND HOLT | Bill Holt, proprietor Men Store in Sitka, visited with Juneau friends while the North- land was in port last night. Holt |is on his way to Seattle on a buy- ing trip for his store. 1t miles west of Hengyang, and Tan-! The Chir{se dommunique said | 30 miles west of | The American Legion and Aux-| of Holt's| YANKS CRASH TWO PASSES, RHINE LINE Counterblows of Germans Knocked Out — Many Tanks Destroyed 'FIGHTING OF CALAIS RESUMED TODAY NOON Cap Gris Nez Falls fo Can- adians—Holland Battle Rages in Rain, Mud LONDON, Sept. 30—The Seventh Army troops today pushed through the rocket and mortar fire for the first two passes of the Vosges, barrier to the Rhine. The wrecking American Third Army, beating back German coun- terblows, knocked out at least 113 enemy tanks in two days. In the coordinated attack far- thet north, the American First Army cut through eight Siegfried Line fortifications southwest of Prum, below Aachen. Battle For Holland The battle. for. Holland swept toward a climax, the British hold- ing Nijmegen Bridge and fighting for Arnhem, crossing nine miles nort hin a series of toe to toe battles. The whole front from the mist- shrouded Belfort Gap, menaced by the Seventh Army, to the sodden lowlands of Holland, is rain splat- tered and slippery mud. Calais Fighting Resumed The battle for Calais was re- sumed shortly after noon today after frontline reports said that after a 24-hour truce during which time 20,000 civilians were evacuated, |the battle is on again. The Ger- man Colonel commanding the ringed fort, declared that “I have received orders from my Fuehrer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do.” [] PolishGeneral .. =52 | On the coast, Cap Gris' Nez has {fallen to the Canadian assault - ISNO | | land its cross-channel batteries that ({have made life tough for General Bors, Fame, Will Head All THREE MORE ISLANDS IN PALAUS FALL Are Invaded fo Stop Artil- lery Fire on Peleliu Airdrome UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 30 — The virtual conquest of three more islands in the Palaus by the invading Am- ericans, who killed close to 10,000 | |Japanese since they first landed September 15, was announced by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz last night. More than 150 of the enemy were | taken prisoner on the newly-con- quered island or islets that were invaded , Wednesday, partly as a means to erase enemy artillery po- sitions close to the airbase on the (island of Peleliu where bitter Nip- ponese resistance still persists in isolated pockets, although most of the island is in Yank hands. The first communique from Nimitz on Friday reported the landings. Warships and carrier pfanes furnished a cover over Nge- sebus and Kongauru Islands, north lof Peleliu. The report said Nge- sebus was quickly and completely Secured, © including a . 4,000 foot ‘flghter strip. The Friday night communique |said that Kongauru was secured Thursday plus an unnamed islet nearby. Through September 28 the Japa- |nese dead on conquered Anguar and nearly-conquered Peleliu to- taled 9,072, Friday night’s com- munique told of the September 28 raid by Marine Corsair planes on | the enemy airfield at Babelthuap, largest island in the Pezlau group, | which form a stepping stone to the | Philippines, 515 miles to the west. - | | | w leader‘(ur many hard years, have been silenced. The southeast English fw coast towns celebrated when the |fall was announced, buf, the warier 0 arsaw,oms waited to learn if other lnn( |range guns were still at Calais, |they might make up for the pound- ing after the noon ended the 24- Poland’s Troops i atter LONDON, , Sept. 30—Gen. Kaui- | Germans Pushed Back nd |mierz Sosnkowski has been ousted| The German troops who pus |as Commander-In-Chief of Poland's (0 the south bank of the Dutch larmed forces, the move being made‘n“m"E opposite Arnhem, were to placate Russia and pave the wny‘ |shoved back across the river last for resumption of friendly Polish-|Right. They destroyed the bridge ISoviet relations by yielding finally desperation to prevent the [to the persuasion of peasnnbboru‘Brm”h crossing. Polish Premier Mikolajezyk. ) British planes moved up on the Under pressure of the British|scene vesterday and strafed the Government, President Rackiewicz| Gérmans. The Nazi air fleet also gned a decree dismissing his long- |APPeared but was beaten back. time friend and Poland’s num.ary. leader, thus transferring the coun- | try’s military leadership to the Red |hero of the Warsaw uprising, me (commander of Poland’s ground army, Gen. Tadeusz Dom ‘ orowski, who until a few days ago| was known only as “General Bor.”| | Bor is regarded in London quar- DEER SKINS ARE WANTED |ters as acceptable to Moscow. His e |communiques from Moscow in r Each season, the Office of In- cent days have reported his forces dian Affairs sends out an appeal las working in close cooperation to deer hunters to save their skins with the Red Army. and turn them in. This year the same appeal is |made, and skins may be turned in |to Marshall Erwin at the Case Lot (;ro«.ery or to Pete Hammer. skins turned in are turned |over “free of charge,” to the In- dians, who make them into mocas=- sins and other useful articles. ——————— Confractors Areto Meel | Al contractors in Juneau are re- ;quhwd to attend a meeting next‘ | Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the Sheridan L. Gregory was fined council chambers in the City Hall.[$25 in City Police Court this The purpose is to discuss revision morning on a charge of being of the building code. drunk and disorderly. POLICE COURT FINE