The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 9, 1944, Page 1

~ ] i “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ——? VOL. XLII, NO. 9776 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 = o JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1944 CARDS WINNERS OF 1944 WORLD SERIE ALLIES USE HEAVY FORCE 10 PUSH ON Wendell L. Will | ; | NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Wendell L.} Willkie, Republican Presidential] First Army Now Threatens| Towafds COlogne | death brought expressions of re- gret from persons of prominence from many parts of the world. Indiana born, a lawyer of utili- {ties and also an executive, was little known in politics until his successful bid for the Presidential nomination. BULLETIN—LONDON, Oct. 9 —The United States First Army clamped a death grip on Aachen in a twin drive that left the escape corridor only a mile and a half wide northeast of Aachen. Despite desperate German | counterattacks, three of them up | Crucifix Hill, overlooking the city from the northeast, Lieut. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' war- Dies In Sleep Willkie was sleeping when the end came at 2:20 o'clock Sunday morning in the Lenox Hospital.l Death was due to coronary throm-! y: bosis. Doctors sald a streptococci riors cut the last major road out infection affected the heart muscles of Aachen, the Adolf Hitler | 2 . = highway running from Julich to | and Willkie died in his sleep after EEAaY e | suffering three attacks, the last oc- Cologne, and severed most of the 4 at 2 secondary roads on the southern fmting at @ hu.m, Tt | The colorful 200 pound tousle The Seventh Army moved up | cnded Hoosier, to within elght miles of Belfort |national recognition of Commonwealth as President and Southern i the, mosntaty Foisied "'n‘m,g Corperation, entered the hospital Switzerland, shelling Belfort’s ‘L P il outakirts. on September 6 for a pl yslpa checkup and rest. The throat in- The Third Army scored a further two-mile advance in an offensive between Metz and Nancy, entering Letricourt, 16 | miles southeast of Metz. | fection developed last Wednesday and his condition became critical Saturday midnight and he was placed in an oxygen tent. Mrs. seas 4 MULTIPLIED BLOWS LONDON, Oct. 9. — - Multiplied | blows by Lieut. Gen. Courtney“ Hodges' First Army threatened a| 20-mile breakthrough toward Col-| ogne and Dusseldorf as American | fighting men pinched the Aachen , escape gap to four miles or less. Unexpededlyin Hospifal InNew York Early Sunday who first gained| kie Dies | " BALTIC AREA New Offensive Surges 62 Miles Through Wav- ering Baltic Front MOSCOW, Oct. 9—A powerful new Russian offensive surging 62 miles through the wavering Baltic front appeared to virtually cut off at least 15 German divisions in the Soviet columns invading Hungary |north port city of Memel, while iirum Rumania were reported with=- in 72 miles of Budapest. The Baltic breakthrough- is on a 175 mile front west of Siauiai, | Lithuania. The communique said it enveloped over 2,000 populated places in four days and carried to , |within 25 miles of Memel, pre- b shipitia |saging a quick capitulation of the WENDELL L. WILLKIE |port and a thrust southward to . — German soil in East Prussia. Willkie, also suffering a throat in-| The Russians destroyed the back- fection, was notified at the family |pone of a force of more than 800 residence and arrived at the hflS'jGerman tanks, 200 self-propelled pital a few minutes before her hus- ouns and captured large numbers band passed away _|of prisoners. The German dead and The Willkies have one child,|wounded mounted to several thou- | Philip, a lieutenant (j.g.) on Navy|sands, Pravda reported. |duty “somewhere in midocean.”| 1 sppeared that the Nazis, with ;Wlllku: will be buried in the fam- ¢ significant loss, may have con- [‘fh’;gfi’; al;n:‘fikl‘lvge-d:;“::“- :sf‘sidemble difficulty holding the line |ing v;or: from the son. W ';‘:m?g t‘_}ler N‘lemlgn EiverE,: 1 ‘ Skyrocketed Up | hern defense line in East Prus- S, : @ where a great major battle | Willkle skyrocketed from a PO-|g.onq o he shaping up. Meanwhile, {litical unknown to Republican nominee for President of the United | o' "1“ “S‘"“m"“: Rre ZpeeGil, - States in about six months. |ward n Southern Hungaryg i two | «Dark Horse” |days reaching the Tisza River the ) NEAR MIEMEI.l They reported fighting within Aachen itself after sending patrols and small amored task forces to feel ! His nomination, at the party's | convention in Philadelphia in June, ITALY AREA !last big natural defense barrier to be hurdled before reaching Buda- out the garrison, possibly reduced | 11940, as a “dark horse” candidate, [PeSt: 3 was a political phenomenon; it| Capturing 4,000 Nazi prisoners violated all the rules in the hard in Yugoslavia, a combined Russian- (Continued on Page Siz) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Here is the in- side story behind the Rosevelt- Churchill announcement for more relief to Italy and more latitude for the new Bonomi government: When President Roosevelt «sat down to confer with Winston Churchill in Quebec, he had before him a very important plan for re- vamping the Italian economic and political system worked out by Brigadier General William O'Dwyer, former district attorney in Brooklyn and former candidate for mayor of New York. The plan, briefly sum- marized, provided for: Removal of Allied military con- trol in Rome. | Germans Are Bringing Up (game of practical politics. § A former D § Strong Reinforcements |3 i, 2o ativeee & o e |nduding Arh”ery |ocratic national convention — he | was not an active candidate for the nomination in the popular sense of ROME, Oct. 9.—American troopS the term. He had never held pub- have advanced nearly two miles jic office; he had no orthodox po- along the main road north of Jitjcal organization back of him; no Bologna, bringing them within 10 campaign manager. In addition, miles of that major communications the “Old Guard” of the party center of Po Valley, the Allied frowned upon him. Headquarters announces. 4 He was little known outside of a The newest advance was made in'small coterie of friends and busi- bad weather along highway No. 5"111‘;9 acquaintances until he be- getwweelin g thendtw;;-ntbn‘;l;lll:lfl;:im‘:{;came President of the vast Com- astellazi a arba sl monwealth in 1933. He was brought su::}x:gly Gr:inforced ;nemyhfizsitifllfl-'ixx the public eye when his c%)r- e Tmans meanw tinued to mass reinforcements i'f'dcprcssion years, which caused con- e s e governmen t;l;y, ;:;;fr_‘!cr g::gins the action in:the Tpfnessee Vfllil!ey Authority T. case. The Eighth Army troops, ad-| vancing across the Fiumicino River,| cleaned up German resistance at Monte Gallo, the communication states. Boom Gets Under Way His friends came to admire him for his frank philosophy on gov- (Continued on Page Thiree) | Yugoslav Partisan group cleared |the southern approaches to Bel- | grade, less than 50 miles from the ;capm\l, already outflanked on its northern outskirts. | e —— 'WORLD FORCE FOR ORDERLY WORLD SEEN |Plans Wellm_der Way fo | Continue United Nations [ as Security League : WASH!NGT(;N—OCI. 9.—Detailed, ;but incomplete plans for maintaining peace, is presented by the work of con-|poration cut its electrical rates, in| Establishment of a definite food program for the Italian people in the major cities. Increase of transportation, both RECEPTION GIVEN | SId(K ouo""o"s | Roosevelt asserted. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. — Closini | The task of designing the future the United States, Britain, China land Russia, President Franklin D. | rail and automobile. Increase of electric power facili- ties. Return of all prisoners to Italy who are non-Fascist and willing to cooperate with the present Bonomi government. Especially it was pro- posed that Italian prisoners be re- turned from France, where they are more harshly treated than in the United States or England. Before going to Quebec, President Roosevelt also had a very import- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 90, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 107%, ALASKA AND WIFE roconce 25, et pirrss 107 | Wright 5%, International Harvester Hundreds of Juneau citizens|79, Kennecott 35, North American greeted Lew M. Williams, Secretary | Aviation 9%, New York Central 1814, of Alaska, and his charming wife,' Northern Pacific 161, United States at a reception Sunday between the Steel 58%. hours of 5 to 7 p.m, at the Gov-' Dow, Jones averages today are as ernor’s House. ilollows: Industrials, 148.06; rails, Major C. F. Scheibner official- 41.45; utilities, 25.52. YRR e Bl ly met the guests of the afternoon, Ernest' ant session with General O'Dwyer,iig‘t-f:::‘xrclgeda ;gefirs,mc.ri::flng, s F 0[]‘ A w“l SPEAK AT at which O'Dwyer told FDR that it required 1400 tons of food daily to feed Rome, instead of which people of Rome were getting only in turn made them acquaintcdl with Secretary Williams and Mrs. Williams. There was a continuous flow of citizens at the reception FED. EMPLOYEES LUNCE | security of the world ' “has been |well begun.” An organization has |been worked out to preserve peace |and security. Roosevelt said in his |statement that this represents the | “major objective for which this war is being fought. At such it inspirzs (the highest hopes of miilions of |fathers and mothers whose sons and daughters are engaged in the terrible struggle and sufferings of | war.” ‘The security organization calls for converting the war-born United Na- tions into a permanent peace or- ganization backed by powerful arm- ed forces including special air de- tachments capable of lightning blows against any future aggressors. 1,100 tons a day. General O'Dwyer illustrated Italian starvation by citing the number of children who|after: : : died in Rome in July namely 435 Asked to assist at the reception out Of évery 1,000 Ty ndfmal pedics| VETe M3, Daxt O, Foster, Mts. E. L. Bartlett, Mrs. Katharine Nor- times the infant death .rate is A nearer 100 in 1,000. Merely by 4y, |dale, Mrs. Earl McGinty, Mrs. Fred creasing the amount of milk avail- able in Rome during the month of August, O'Dwyer said, the death rate had dropped to nearer 300 out of every 1,000. O'Dwyer also told how the villas - (Continued on Page Four) for the entire two hours and even Art Glover, Mrs. Wellman Hol- brook and Miss Alice Brandebury. dence at the Housel home on Fourth Street between Gold and Franklin. —————— BUY WAR BONDS Geeslin, Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mrs.' The Williams have taken resi-| Four-Power Meeting The announcement, in its tentative details, came as United Nations ;diplomacs foresaw the possibility of an early four-power meeting ‘“of the highest level” to tighten war- end relations and complete the se- curity organization’s blueprint. ‘The blueprint, as it is now drawn, calls for a general assembly of all “peace-loving states.” A" security council of 11 nations will have final authority on all uses of forces. An economic and social council will George Folta, Special Counsel for the Interior Department, will be the | guest speaker at Wednesday’s noon luncheon-meeting of the Federa- tion of Federal Employees, to be held at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. Folta will discuss aboringinal ‘rights, with special reference to the hearings which are taking place. i i kL CUSTOMS MEN HERE Customs men J. J. Hillard of |Eagle and Ray G. Day of Skagway .are here for a few days. (Continued on Page Siz) " Yanks Clamp Death Grip on Hit RUSSIANS IN 'lNalls May : Evacuate ' Athens Now (British For(_e?Racing Un- | hampered Across Peloponnesus | ROME, Oct. 9—German forces are reported preparing to evacuate Athens as British troops, racing virtually unhampered across Pelo- ponnesus, neared the southern en- trance to the Isthmus of Corinth, gateway to Northern Greece. | Dispatches from the front yes- \terday said British troops are ap- proaching the outskirts of Corinth at the base of the narrow isthmus after seizing Port Navplion. It ap- peared that they may have already entered the city. The fall of Cor- inth would seal off the only over- land escape route for any German troops remaining in Pelopnnesus. | This latest move places the Al- lies only 45 miles from Athens. -eo AIR ARMADA MAKES SWEEP ON SHIPPING Allied Planes Sink or Dam- age 25 Nippon Ships in Strikes Around Ceram By MURLIN SPENCER | (A. P. War Correspondent) | NEW GUINEA, Oct. 9 — Ship hunting Allied planes sank or de- stroyed 25 Japanese coastal vessels and small craft in strikes around “Ceram and Halmahera, headquar- ters reported. | Airfields were also bombed dur- ing the widespread raids. On Fri- 'day, four Japanese float planes were destroyed at Zamboanga in |the Southern Philippines by patrol |planes. The assault was aimed at | Wolfe Field and the seaplane base {ramp and installations. A hangar 'and bomber were damaged. Twenty- three coastal vessels were hit off |Ceram by medium bombers, fighter- {bombers and patrol planes. Thirty- four tons of explosives were drop- |ped on airdromes and barracks. MAN LEAPS TO " DEATH SUNDAY " AT HOSPITAL Apparently demented, Fred E. Getso, 70, jumped from the third floor bathroom window on the Sixth | Street side of St. Ann’s Hospltal | about 7:20 o’clock yesterday morning !and died an hour later as the result | of a compound head fracture. | Getso, a native of Germany, came to Juneau about 10 days ago from | Wasilla, Alaska, where he had re- Isided for the past 25 or 30 years. Last Tuesday, he was found wander- |ing aimlessly about 16 miles out on {the Glacier Highway, by Highway Patrolman Emmett Botelho, who { took him to St. Ann’s Hospital where he was found to have several broken ribs. Botelho stated that at that time the old man pleaded with him to let him remain where he was and that he planned to go to the end of the road and then commit suicide. The remains were taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary and funeral arrangements are pending. — - TWEDTS IN TOWN In from Chichagof and guests at ithe Gastineau Hotel are Mr. and {Mrs, O. B. Twedt. e - BAKER IN TOWN | M. Baker, of the Naitonal Cash Register Company, has registered at the Baranof from Seattle TASKFORCE 5 . o5 | ‘1 The St. Louis Browns and St. I‘Louis Cardinals started today’s| |World Series game, the sixth, with | | _ [the following lineups: i in.! BROWNS Fourth Attack Since Begin-| cueriage, “second vase H | Kreevich, center field. ning of War Made on | Jeeein it | Stephens, shortstop. Imporian' Jap Base | Laabs, left field. | | McQuinn, first base. | PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 9 — Big| cpristman, third base. | guns of American warships bom-| gayworth, catcher. | barded tiny Marcus Island, one Of| pogter pitcher. Japan’s most important Eastern CARDINALS | outposts, all day yesterday, Ad-| pitwhiler, left field. | |miral Chester W. Nimitz announced | gopp, center field. ! in a surprise communique at 2 a.| Musial, right field. |m. today. £ W. Cooper, catcher. | Heavy units of Halsey's Third| ganders, first base. | | Fleet silenced “a greater part of | gyurowski, third base. | the coast defense batteries” and in- flicted “considerable damage” on shore defenses and installations. | It was the fourth attack by fleet! forces on the island, which lies 1135 miles southeast of Tokyo. The | gunfire was “deliberate and de- | structive.” Buildings were hit and | FIRST INNING fires started. Surprisingly, there| ppOWNS—Gutteridge fouled out was no mention of participation by |, ganders. Kreevich fanned. Moore carrier planes, either by Nimitz or|ganned, by, Radio Tokyo. Tt had been hinted | No runs, no hits, no errors; none | earller that battleships with 16-|jeft on base, | inch guns joined the bombard-| CARDINALS — Litwhiler fanned. | ment. Marion, shortstop. | Verban, second base. | Lanier, pitcher. PLAY-BY-PLAY | | Hopp flled out to Gutteridge. Gut- | More surprising still, the Nimitz|teridge tossed out Musial. communique didn’t mention any | No runs, no hits, no errors; none‘ aerial opposition nor did the radio |left on base. | ler Highway 3 - HITTE IS HURLED BY LANIER Champsof National League Take Series by Four Games to Two SHORT SCORE E BROWNS S | 3 2 CARDS 3 10 (] COMPOSITE SCORE (Six Games) R H E BROWNS 12 36 10 CARDS 16 49 1 SCORE BY INNINGS BROWNS 123456789 TL Runs 0100000001 Hits 0210000003 Errors 00010001 x—2 CARDS 123456789 TL Runs 00030000 x—3 Hits 00231121 x—~10 Errors .000000000—0 Winning pitcher—Lanier, los- ing pitcher—Potter. Batteries: — Browns—Potter, Muncrief, Kramer and Hay- lat Tokyo, but Mareus, which should | SECOND INNING be the Japs' most important ob- ~BROWNS — Stephens fanned. | servation post in that area of the Laabs tripled to center field. Mec- | Pacific, is undoubtedly feeling deep- ‘Quinn singled, scoring Laabs. Christ- ly her severe plane losses under man flied out to Hopp. Hayworth the repeated and crushing aerial|flied out to Hopp. | defeats in the Central and Western! One run, two hits, no errors; one | Pacific., |left on base, | worth. Cards — Lanier, Wilks and W. Cooper. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9—The St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the Na- tional League, won their second world series in three years this Admiral Mitscher’s carrier force, operating with Admiral Spruance’s CARDINALS—Cooper lined out to | afternoon by defeating the St. Stephens. Sanders flied out to Gut- ! Louis Browns, pennant winners of teridge. Kurowski singled. Kurow- Fifth Fleet destroyed more than ski was trapped between first and | 1,200 enemy airplanes in the Mari- anas operations. In the Philippines sea battle, the Halsey-Mitscher carrier force de- stroyed more than 1,100 planes in repeated thrusts in the Philippines, the Bonins and in the Palaus. - CHURCHILL, ' EDEN FLY TOMOSCOW (By Associated Press) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign °Secretary {Anthony Eden flew to Moscow to- |day for a ,conference with Stalin and Molotov, It is Churchill’s first meeting with Stalin since the Te- heran conference. i | second and went out Potter to Mc- Quinn to Gutteridge to Potter. | No runs, one hit, no errors; none left on base. | THIRD INNING | | BROWNS-—Potter fanned. It was the 44th strikeoht of the series by | Cardinal hurlers, tying the six-game | series record set by the Athletics against the Giants in 1911. Gut- | teridge fouled out to Musial. Kree- : vich doubled to center. Moore walk- ed. Stephens forced Moore out, Marion to Verban. | | No runs, one hit, no errors; two| (left on base. | CARDINALS--Marion out, Christ- | man to McQuinn. Verban singled. | Lanier singled, Verban stopping at| 'second, Litwhiler fanned. Hopp | | fanned. | No runs, two hits, no errors; two left on bases. | FOURTH INNING | BROWNS — Laabs walked. Mc- | Quinn sacrificed, Lanier to Sanders. Verban threw out Christman, Laabs | |going to third. Hayworth was in- ;wnuonally passed. Potter ground- d out to Verban. | Churchill was also accompanied |© i _ hit o I to Moscow by Sir Alan Brooke,;h_“" “;;;;"O s e | Chief of the British Imperial Staff, | '*( 00 W% o o) flted out to and Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings ISmay.|g oyich, Cooper walked. Sanders Military Secretary of the British | o10q " sending Cooper to third. War Cabinet. i It is officially announced that Churchill and Eden- will confer with Stalin and Molotov probably late today. This announcement raised speculation in London over the possibility that Stalin and Churchill, joined later by President Roosevelt, will settle problems on the post-war control of Germany. | Differences in plans for main- Dumbarton Oaks discussions. There are no indications, however, that this speculation will be borne out. It is stated in London that Averill Harriman, United States Ambassa- taining peace cropped up at the| | Kurowski hit to Stephens who made |a bad throw to Gutteridge for an |error, Cooper scoring and Sanders | being held at second. Marion fouled out to Laabs. Verban singled, scor- |ing Sanders. Lanier singled, scor- ing Kurowski and sending Verban to second. Muncrief came in to pitch |for the Browns. Litwhiler forced Lanier out, Stephens to Gutteridge. | Three runs, three hits, one error; | two left on bases. FIFTH INNING BROWNS—Official scorer ruled | \the last two ‘runs of the Cards in| (the fourth inning were unearned. | Kurowski is credited with driving | in the first tally. Gutteridge flied dor, will represent the United |out to Litwhiler. Kreevich fanned.| States at the conference. | Moore out, Sanders to Lanier. | A London dispatch said the| No runs, no hits, no errors; none: left on base. CARDINALS—Hopp flied out to Stephens. Musial flied out to Ste- | phens. Cooper singled. Sanders | walked. Kurowski flied out to Kree- | vich. No runs, one hit, no errors; two left on base. SIXTH INNING BROWNS--Stephens out, Marion |to Sanders, Laabs walked. Me- Polish problem is expected to be in the forefront of the Churchill- Stalin discussions. Churchill's party, inumbering just under 50, arrived iin two groups yesterday morning. |There is nothing official from the United States Embassy on the part the United States is to play in the conference. Harriman said he had nothing to say. D - BUY WAR BOND! (Conlinued on Page Six) the American League, 3 to 1 on the 3-hit pitching of Max Lanier and Teddy Wilks. The attendance at today’s game was 31,680. The Cardinals picked up all runs in the fourth inning as they drove Potter from the mound, and Lanier was also taken out after yielding a run in the second, and then dis- playing a streak of wildness in the sixth., Wilks shutout the Browns without a hit for the remaining innings. There was a wild demonstration as Wilkes tossed his cap in the air and was mobbed by his mates | when he fanned pinch hitter Mike | Chartak to end the series. It was the 92nd strikeout of the classic, the most in history of post-season games. The Browns took the lead in the second when Laabs trippled to deep center and scored on |McQuinn’s' single. The National Leaguers picked up their three runs on three singles, an error and a walk in the fourth. Both the Cards and Browns will go on record as putting up the best world series in history of later days. VIRGIL FARRELL IS BACK FROM VACATION V. R. Farrell, Director of Educa- tion, with the Office of Indian Af- fairs, has returned from a three months’ vacation trip in the States, Accompanied by Mrs. Farrell, he visited with relatives in Oregon and South Dakota and took an eight weeks' post-graduate course at the University of Washington. This was followed by a short trip to Chicago, where the Director con- ferred with department heads in that city. “The weather throughout the whole middle west was extremely cold for the summer months,” Mr. Farrell reports, “and we experi- enced only a few days that were teally warm." it LI AR ) MONTANANS HERE Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Sullivan have registered at the Gasineau Hotel from Kalispell, Montana. ——.———— DR. PYLE RETURNS Dr. T. J. Pyle, of the U. S. In- dian Office, has returned to Ju- neau after a several months’ trip to the westward.