The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 4, 1944, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9772 A= JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = BROWNS WIN FIRST GAME WORLD SERIES Yankees Shove Through Defenses of Rhin U. 5. TROOPS INSIDE METZ ARMED RING Fort Driant,fimgest Bas- ion, Falls When Spray- ed with Flaming Oil LONDON, Oct. 4. American Third Army troops captured by as- | the stronges!; sault Fort Driant, bastion in the fortress ring guard- ing Metz. Their First Army comrades, 125 milés to the north, shoved deeper through guarding the Rhine River and Col- ogne. The First Army, battling the hastily gathered German reserves, severed the main escape road north of Aachen, cutting off that ruined stronghold. In developing a beach torn in the West Wall, the defenses of For Driant on the Moselle River on the west bank, fell after a two-day bat- tle. Tht doughboys in the final hours, burned out the last of the | Germans by setting fire, with u crude oil spray, tunnels and forti- fications. Seven miles north of Metz, other | units seized Mazieres, on the way to Metz and high ground on the Moselle’s west bank. Along the Duxembourg - German frontier, Lieut. Gen . Courtney Hodges' First Army struck on, east | of Ubach, taken in breaching the Siegfried Line. along and across the main north- east road from Aachen to Gladbach. Ahchen is already flanked on the south by the first major breach in the West Wall Line. The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active . service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Only those quite close to the Prime Minister knew it, but last spring he was not at all enthusiastic about having Franklin Roosevelt re-elected Presi- dent of the United States. In fact, some of Churchill's friends did some quiet snuggling up to the Dewey camp, with the idea of being on the right side after election. That was at the time when Churchill and Roosevelt were not getting along at all well. They had differed at Teheran on various sub- jects, especially the Balkans and the Second Front. Roosevelt sided with Stalin that the Allies should support Russian puppet Tito in Jugoslavia and that Russia should be permitted a sphere of influence in all the Balkans except Greece. The President also agreed with Stalin that the British and Ameri- can armies must start a second front in Western France by spring, thereby overruling Churchill. Irritated over Teheran, Churchill made overtures last spring that he and Roosevelt get together for an- other talk, but Roosevelt, also irri- tated, side-stepped. It was at- this time Churchill was most unenthusi- astic about FDR's re-election. At Quebec, however, the two men seemed to get along much better. There were some slight differences regarding Italy, but nothing too important. Simultaneously, Chur- chill got a confidential report from his intelligence people, who had been making a very careful check of U. S. political opinion, that the President was a sure winner in November. Whether because of this report or because things went better at Quebec, Churchill came away with a different viewpoint Roosevelt's re-election, nitely hoping FDR would be on deck to sit with him and Stalin in writing the peace. RADIO AIDS RAILWAYS It didn’t make headlines, but at the recent Federal Communications Commission hearing on radiotele- —_— e (Continued on Page Four) the backstop defenses | Its units fought | regarding | and defi- | Big Oil Slorage By MURLIN SPENCE_R Associated Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Oct. 4. — Japan's three million barrel oil storage center at Balikpapn, Borneo—*most lucrative strategic target in the Pa- cific,” as Gen. MacArthur called it— ‘was pounded powerfully last Satur- | day by more than 60 Liberators that flew from advance bases from which they can repeatedly pound the center ion which Japan leans heavily for Center of Japanese onBorneo Given Pounding by 60 Liberators. ability to wage war and move es- sential cargo. Towering fires were started by the bombers, three of which were lost. Parachuting Yank airmen from one crippled plane were strafed by machine guns from some 30 Zeros which bitterly opposed the raiders. Seven Zeros were downed and others damaged. The bombers, finding the targets through the clouds, accurately drop- ped 74 tons of bombs GENERAL MUD . SLOWS DRIVE, NORTH ITALY {Brazilian Division Report- ed Mainfaining Pres- | sure Against Enemy ROME, Oct. 4—The Fifth Army | infantry made slight galns yester- day along a 20-mile front through | | the stiffest kind of German resist- ance. The Allied Command announced deep mud determined the opposition and slowed the Americans, fighting lalong the valley roads on the north side of the Apennines. Toward the Po River Valley, clearing skies help- ed the Fifth Army artillery observa- | tion, however, and the guns held German road movements to a mini- mum near the coast. The official report said the Braz- ilian Division with the Fifth Army “continued to maintain the pressure against the enemy along its entire front” in the Adriatic sector of the Fiumicino River, by which the Ger- | mans are strongly entrenched. In/| full flood only a few Eighth Army patrols managed to cross it to probe enemy positions. COMMISSIONER GRAY BACK FROM YAKUTAT ILLEGAL FISHING CASES U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray has returned by plane from Yakutat, where he held hearings on seven illegal fishing cases. Fines and forfeitures meted out by the Commissioner included: Mike Hammer, $192; Chris Ness, $137.48; Louis Ness, $119; Jake Mollan, $156; Bill Ellefson, $156; Charley Johnson, $92; Charles Henry, $131. e———— ED LEVIN ENTERTAINS CATHOLIC STUDENTS| Pupils and teachers of St. Ann’s School were entertained recently by Mr. Ed Levine, co-worker of the Rev. Bernard Hubbard. He pre- sented cinematic pictures which were greatly enjoyed by the Staff| and entire Student Body. The school’s workshop also bene- fitted by Mr. Levin's generosity; a large supply of new and varied tools have been added to the de- partment, for which the institution extends a vote of thanks. | AR & L STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 4 — Closing |quotations of Alaska Juneau Mine |stock today is 6%, American Can| 90, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft |11, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester 79%, Kennecott 34%, North Ameri- | can Aviation 9%, New York Cen- tral 18%, Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 59%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are| 41.10; utilities, 25. DEWEY ASKS TAX POLICY FOR COUNTRY GOP Candtdaie Would Completely Revise Revenue laws ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 4—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today proposed a reduction in the individual and cor- poration income levies as part of a complete overhaul of the Federal tax system. He said it must be accomplished after the war in order to remove “a road block in the way of progress.” In the address, delivered over a | nation-wide radio hook-up the Re- publican Presidential nominee as serted that while the nation cheer- ' fully pays high taxes to meet the cost of war the peacetime objectives of expansion and recovery could not | be obtanied “by taxes which eat into | the income of those already below the decent American standard of living.” He proposed the following pro- ! gram if the Republicans win: (1) Revision of personal income tax ex- emptions “so that the man who makes as little as $11 in a week no longer has an income tax taken out of his pay envelope.” (2) Reduc- tion of personal income tax rates. (3) Reyision and lowering of cor- poration taxes. (4) Elimination, as soon as possible, of all excise taxes, heavy timbers stored at the Inlet|ine Nagis are prepared to Wage' ajfcqd Emmanuel Smith became except those on alcoholic beverages, | tobacco and gasoline. (5) A com- plete overhaul of “existing, confused at this time, no- definite plans f‘"‘bmadcast from Berlin, and complicated tax laws. (6) Estab- | lishment of “a consistent national CAPITAL OF YUGOSLAVIA ‘Soviet Forces Are Flooding Over Foothills of Alps Toward Belgrade MOSCOW, Oct. 4.--Russian ma- chine gunners in American jeeps and Yugoslav Partisans, acting as guides, spearheaded westward today along the Danube, less than 20 miles t from Belgrade. Nearly all the Yugo- slav territory east of the big elbow formed by the confluence of the Danube and Tisza rivers was re- ported swept clean of German re-| sistance by Red Army forces ad- vancing like a flood over the foot- hills of the Transylvanian Alps, more than 50 miles beyond the Danube at the Iron Gate. | Scouts of Tito's Partisan Army ferried across the Danube to meet the Russians on the northern bank | and lead them westward through Belgrade. Field dispatches said that east of Belgrade Yugoslav help speeded another Russian spearhead thrusting toward the Transbalkan railway, over which some 50,000 Ger- | mans in the lower Balkans may still try to escape. 4 A correspondnt said he was '°Id%nther factories left their jobs and “by.an officer of the German. First faditional closings affecting another Alpine Division that he was cnp-' tured 13 miles behind the lines by | Red Army 'routs MAY GET LUMBER, REBUILD HOONAH, FROM EXCURSION Herzog, FPHA Advisor to| Send Report to Wash- | \ mgton on Supply ‘ l E. R. Herzog. Federal Public‘ Housing Authority housing ad-| visor, returned yesterday afternoon | from Excursion Inlet where he in-| vestigated possibilities of obtain- | ing salvage lumber for use in the| rebuilding of Hoonah Indian vil- |lage, destroyed in a fire this| | summer. 1 | Herzog said there were enough| to build “several villages’ after| Ahey were cut into boards. Although | and other from Ex-| the lumber materials | obtaining construction | The strike grew out of a dispute | | over the procedure in handling wage REDS NEAR "HappyWamor, Gov. Al Smith, Who Derby Fam STRIKE MAY PARALYZE PRODUCTION Huge War Fflgram in De-| froit Area Impaired by Malmenance Men | DETROIT, Oct. 4—The huge warl production program in the Detroit | area has been impaired as muime-, nance workers in more than a scorcr\ of factories have begun a strike, | which union officers said earlier was to be deferred, pending a meeting of the War Labor Board. Before noon, 3,000 maintenance | employees had left their jobs, 11| plants had closed down and more | than 50,000 workers had been sent | home. Maintenance workers in ten 50,000 or more workers, it was said by company spokesmen as being probable. between the Maintenance Construc- | tion Powerhouse Workers Council and the United Auto Workers, CIO, | | demands. The council representg 138,000 maintenance men in more than 300 palnts in the Detroit area, | {including virtually every large and | small automotive plant. i Union officials said the strike of all maintenance workers either di- rectly or indirectly affected several | | hundred thousands workers in the | | Detroit area and would paralyze the | war production effort. NAZIS TO OPEN | GUERRILLA WAR LONDON, OLt 4— (:mm.m Propa- | |ganda Minister Goebbels declared today, as the Allied all-out offen- sive opened against Germany, that guerrilla warfare to the death. | In a speech reported DN. by Geebbels | unleashed | fron- said, “Our enemies have jan all-out offensive on our tax policy — one directed toward cursion Inlet have been made, a | [tlers of gigantic impact in order to achieving full employment and ris- | ing national income.” LIBERTY SHIP STRIKES MINE; 11 MEN KILLED UNITED STATES PACIFIC ‘repoxt will be sent in to Wash- !ington on the matter, he said. | Herzog stated his office was re- quired to send in the report on the |availability of the nearest materials. The FPHA advisor plans to re«‘ turn to Seattle Friday where fur-| ther details on the reconstruction project will be formulated. OREGONIAN HERE L E. Cluford registering from | States. wm a speedy war and, hrsL of all, a not too costly victory.” Goebbels said that the Allies wanted to end the war in Emu{w‘ before winter and before the No- vember election in the United| SEALS WINNERS GOVERNOR'S CUP STARTING Made Brown : LINEUPS e HOME RUN, 1 MAN ON, T d The world series of 1944 got off ls WINNER ous, Dies Today ..o i jof lhe Lm(h opposing Vvtvn\n 'Demm Galehouse, the sumrm-‘ e NEW YORK, Oct. 4—Alfred E.|Browns' nominnee. Ve!eran Galehouse Pitch- Smith, 70, native of New York| The starting lineups today, also| City's East Side, four times Gov- patting averages, follow: Democratic Presidential candidate,| Gutteridge, second base, .245. '0 2 I V|('0fy died today. | Kreevich, center field, .301. Death came to the: man Wwho| Laabs, left field, .236. made the brown derby famous at —Stephens, shortstop, .293. SHORI S(oRE 6:20 o’clock this morning in Rocke-‘ Moore, rightfielder, .236. feller Institute McQuinn, first base, .250. E Dr. Raymond Sullivan, physician, | Christman, third base, .267. Browns z z [] said lung congestion and acute| Hayworth, catcher, 222, Cardinals 1 7 0 heart trouble were the causes of | Galehouse, pitcher, has won and | - death. Smith was transferred to|lost 10 games during the 1944 SCORE BY INNINGS the Rockefeller Institute September |season BROWNS 1234567897 |23 from St. Vincent's Hospital, | CARDINALS Runs 00020000 0—2 where he had been treated for in-| Hopp, center field, .335. | Hits 0002000002 | testinal and liver disturbances| sanders, first base, .297. | Errors 0000000000 | since August 10. Musial, right field, .347. g “Happy Warrior” | W. Cooper, catcher, .317. C‘t"l‘l'::N“s ; fi : ; 50 : ;" : z;"l Only last night, one dozen red| Kurowski, third base, .270. Hite o - e roses arrived at the Institute for| Litwhiler, left field, .264. Eovies 00000000 0—0 him from President and Mrs.| Marion, shortstop, .269. Roosevelt. It was Roosevelt who| Verban, second base, .257. | ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4—George Mc- nicknamed Smith the “Happy War- M. Cooper, pitcher, has won 22 Quinn’s fourth-inning home run rior” when he nominated Smith games and lost seven during the | with Gene Moore on base, gave the for the presidency in 1928. season. St. Louis Browns a 2 to 1 vietory The close political friendship be- ‘The first six games, if all are | over the St. Louis Cardinals in tween the President and Smith necessary, will be played on suc-|the opening game of the 1944 World cooled in 1936, however, when cessive days with a break of one | Series before 33,242 fans. Smith took what was called “a day between the sixth and seventh Denny Galehouse, veteran curve walk” from Roosevelt and the |contests. ball artist, who did not join the Democratic party and supported! The Cards will be the home team | Browns on a full-time basis until Alf Landon for the presidency. for the first and second games|July 20, blanked. the Red Birds for Smith again opposed the New and sixth and seventh games, re- |eight frames but lost his shutout Deal in 1940, stumping for Willkie.|versing the system used before | in the ninth when Martin Marion | Tributes Paid limited traveling to one jump |doubled, moved to third on an in- In Washington, President Roose- | | between citles of the L()mprtmg““"ld out ”"d scored on pinch hitter velt issued a statement that said: |leams ’Kg:“OTS)eM - S g “This country loses a true pa- e 7 Seygmoas aos, MCTLOON: i Y b er, allowed only two hits to the triot.” The statement also said, in | plAY BY plAY | Brownies for his grand total this part, that “Al Smith’s qualities of ) | afternoon in the seven innings he heart, mind and soul, not only en- | worked before he was lifted for a deared him to those who came FIRST lNNlNG pinch hitter. under the spell of his dynamic| BROWNS-—Gutteridge flied out presence and personal association,'to Marion. Kreevich fanned. Laabs | {but also made him the idol of a fanned. H | multitude.” | No runs, no hits, no errors, none | Former President Herbert Hoover left on base. } paid this tribute: “Gov. Alfred| CARDINALS—Sanders struck out. Smith contributed a real part to Musial singled. Walker Cooper flied | the building of America. Great as out. |""No' runs, one hit, no errors, one that was, it was his qualities and character that will leave a mark left on base. on American life. He was gallant ! SECOND INNING BROWNS- Stephens thrown out in political campaigns but he was| so intrepid in his honesty of mind, |2 “i";‘ bYM“g”: C“;’K“;- Mt"":"“ {in his fairness and his sportsman- ety MR e SOME PO gy SPOXISIAN- |4y whiler. Christman fanned. | shu: that he won the esteem and' pvr\on.nl friendship of every op- ponent.” Rising from humble sunoundmgs' Manhattan’s lower East Side,! | No rums, no hits, no errors, one | left on base. CARDINALS—Kurowski flied out to Moore. Lithwhiler fanned. Mar- | {ion doubled. Verban singled, and Marion went to third. Mort Cooper on one of the most popular and color- |fanned, ! ful figures in American public life | pNo runs, two hits, no er , two of his time. !left on base. He was elected governor of New THIRD INNING York four times, the first man to| BROWNS — Kurowski threw out | achieve that distinction, and in|Hayworth. Galhouse walked. Gut- terrideg flied out to Hopp. Kreevich | gounded out to Cooper. | No runs, no hits, no errors, one |left on base. | CARDINALS —, Hopp singled. | |Sanders singled. Musial sacrificed, 1928 he was the Democratic party’s |candidate for President of the United States. With a personality that appealed |to the masses, Smith, while he was | in the New York state legislature ;qjehouse to McQuinn, Walker ! and after he became gOVernor,| cooper was passed, loading the often was likened to Theodore | pases, Kurowski fanned. Lith- Roosevelt because of the aggres- | whiler forced Sanders at third, | sive manner in which he fought cmmman unassisted. his political foes. Another fl“flllly‘ No runs, two hits, no errors, three | that helped him was his ability to 'left on base. | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL Portland, HARBOR, Oct. 4—Eleven Army| porel ey CARRCIC SOEIIG AL the men were killed and 22 others are| b answer all questions put to him | (By Associated Press and to coin epigrams which caught | ' The San Francisco Seals last FOURTH INNING BROWNS — Laabs flied out to The Browniles fielded and played brilliantly behind Galehouse who never was more effective with his low sinking twister than this after- noon, The lean Virginian, who was | used by the Yankees as a farm hand, also contributed a brilliant stab of a line drive off the bat of Ray Sanders in the seventh inning when danger was threatened. The Browns entered the series on the short end of 8 to 5 betting. e, — 2 IMPORTANT BILLS SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT Reconversiflachinery Is Set Up for Nation Following War WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed “with considerable reluctance” the legis- lation setting up reconversion ma- chinery designed by Congress to help guide the Nation's business and manpower after the war and when peace comes. Two measures were signed, One listed as missing after the Navy-| chartered Liberty Ship Elihu Thompson struck a mine while en-| tering a South Pacific port on 'States was Myrtle Salisbury, staff| Cup playoff series among the four| September 25, the Navy announces. nurse at the Government Hospital. high teams of the Pacific Coast| There were no casualties among!She is now a guest at the Juneau yeagye, the Naval Merchant Marine per- sonnel. Patrol craft removed the sur- vivors and the Navy Salvage unit beached the ship, which is in a repairable condition. The accident was disclosed in a communique which reported con- tinuation of mopping up operations, {against the Japanese who are holding tenaciously to “Bloody Nose Ridge” on Peleliu Island one one pocket on Angaur Island. Liberators dropped 31 tons of bombs on by-passed Truk, encoun- tering anti-aircraft fire which dam- aged two of the bombers. ——woe —— U. S. MARSHAL RETURNS United States Marshal Mahoney ‘MYRTLE SALISBURY RETURNS |night defeated the Los Angeles Angels 4 to 2 and stepped off the Returning last night from the | Hotel. e H. L. Wood who was killed in a recent plane crash, returned to Juneau last night accompanied by her son-in-law and daughter, Dr.| and Mrs. Lee Stagg of Ketchikan Stagg is a prominent doctor in the (First City. — .- OLD RESIDENTS BACK Mr. and Mrs. Howard Day and two children, Sharon, 7, and John 4, returned to Juneau on the Prin- cess Louise. The Days have re- sided in Portland for the past two years. They will make their home at Auk Bay, in the Channel Bus as follows: Industrials, 147.89; rails has returned to Juneau after a'Line property, next to the Auk Jshort business trip to Ketchikan, Bay Grocery. STAGGS TO VISIT | Mrs. H. L. Wood, widow of Pastor | diamond winners of the Governor's | The Seals won the series four} games to three. — e, IN FROM ELFIN COVE i Walter Larsen has come info Ju-| { neau from Elfin Cove and is staying at the Gastineau. — | MRS. NYE TO SKAGWAY Mrs. Catherine Nye has left for skagway on a business and pleas-| ure trip. — . — } THIBODAEU BACK HOME Bob Thibodeau, son of Mr. and |Mrs. Joseph Thibodeau, returned to! |Juneau last night after a stay of several months in the States. Just Iprior to his return, Thibodeau made a tr Middle Wi |was his peculiar instinct of talking the public fancy. |Musial. Stephens flied out to Ver- Even after his retirement from |ban. Moore singled. McQuinn hom- public life in 1928, when he turned | ered into the right field stands, scor- | the experiences of a lifetime of ing Moore ahead of him. Marion politics to business, Smith was in |threw out Christman. the public eye. The principal reason Two runs, two hits, none left on base. no errors, the language of the people. To| thousands, he was never anything but “AlL” His retirement from active poli- tics followed his defeat by Herbert Hoover in the presidential election of 1928. It was only the second| time in his life that he suffered a reverse at the polls. He carried only eight states but received more than 15,000,000 votes, 41.2 per cent|) .. "y, co of the total ballot, an unusual| | CARDINALS — Hopp flied out to fighre (05,8 losting GRRAIING |Gutteridge. Sanders walked. Mus- Up From The Streets {ial hit into a double play, Gut- Smith rose to the high place he | terrigge to Stephens to McQuinn. attained in his native state and in| No runs, no hits, no errors, none the nation by his own initiative |left on base. and through opportunities that SIXTH INNING .were largely of his own making.| BROWNS — Kreevich grounded Kreevich. Verban out, Galehouse to McQuinn. Mort Cooper fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors, none |left on base. FIFTH INNING BROWNS—Hayworth out, Kurow- ski to Sanders. Galehouse out, Mar- 'ion to Sanders. Gutterridge out, | Mort Cooper to Sanders. No runs, no hits, no errors, none e I'Iwae) (Conlinued on Page Siz) CARDINALS-—Marion flied out t!): sets up a Surplus Property Admin- istation to dispose of an estimated hundred billion dollars worth of }smplus war goods and the other {bill creates a mobilization recon- version agency to replace the Office of War Mobilization and to be head- ed by James Byrnes. The President told the reporters |that Byrnes has agreed to continue head of the new agency until a successor can be nominated when Congress returns from the recess on November 14. Byrnes said he ldxd not want the job permanently. The President said the surplus property bill creates “dangerous and confused methods of disposition and the elaborate restrictions imposed by the bill, in many instances, will delay rather than expedite recon- version and reemployment.” S e CHURCH WORKER BACK Madge Muchmore, Secretary to the Seventh-Day Adventist Alaska Mission’s Juneau Headquarters, re- turned last night from Ketchikan,