The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1944 — CENTS = PRICE TEN VOL. XLIL, NO. 9778 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BIG GUNS, DIVE BOMBERS BLAST AACHEN ' NEW NAZ| (OVIESPRASE GARAKAYQ!S ALLIES APPROACH ~FLORAKRKHAM Nafional War Fundis - AMERICANS DEATHTRAPS ™0 uepsew CONTROLLED nigmacvnta ~ oouciashow ToStariHere;$10,500 UNLEASHING _ ARE FORMED Is Quofa Setfor Juncau BIG ASSAULT ‘j Stalin Declares Need for, IN 24 HOURS;RB'" and Deep Mud Slow-| Well Known Gashneau‘ ]’housands Of GermanS: | Hey Juneau, the National War quickly. Any amount may be con- Face Encirclement in Post-war Collabora- ing Down Advance of | ChannelResidentTakes 1 [ihun, drtve Issaettive e gt e “|German Commander Re- New Russian Drives or large, ac { | | | started 1 person donation tion Among Nations British, Americans Own Life Last Night Eges 2 o Ishould go over like a regular blitz! cording to the firm or cor- fuses io Su[render- ROME, Oct. 11—American troops,| Mrs. Glen A. (Flora) Kirkham, |just think, Juneaws quota is only poration maknig the Al Will Die in Defense 50 cents MOSCOW, Oct. «11—Talks be- | Work in |nvad|ng, tween British Prime Minister Win-, c t £ ' l still slowed by rain and deep mud, |49, prominent club and lodge Wo-|g10500 of the $72,000 which is Al- contribution of 50 cents may be as |Stalin and their aides moved for- - ' |ston Churchill and Premier Joseph | donation | Livergnano, 11 miles due south of |22 bullet through her head at the |ghould be raised almost in a jiffy, from a company, but the some BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. 11.—The East Prussian port of Memel is surrounded by Russian trecops north and south of the city the Berlin radio says, and the Russians have launched two heavy attacks north of Warsaw. The German Army has aband- oned its frontier bastion Taurage just across the border in Lith- uania from East Prussia. The new Russian drives just north of Warsaw gained six miles. MOSCOW, Oct. 11 — Russian troops have fought to within seven | miles to Memel and 15 of the East Prussian rail center of Tilsit after | slashing to the Baltic Sea above Memel, cutting land routes for up to 150,000 Germans still in Latvia and Lithuania. Yet another death | trap is being fashioned in the Soviet drive southeast of Memel. Hittler annexed East Prussia early 1939 from Lithuania. Advancing along’ the last 50 miles separating thém from the sea south of Memel, the Russians swept along the Niemen River in a lightning move which appeared likely to cut off from three to five enemy divi- sions between Taurage and Kiri- sches Haff. At Riga, advance armored units were reported to- be probing the city’s outer defenses with repeated strikes. Meanwhile, on the Yugoslavian- Hungarian front, one Soviet column is reported to be fighting on “the in ward on a new note of harmony| UNITED STATES PACIFIC the Bologna highway |sounded at a state banquet in|FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL advance elements here are meeting which Soviet leaders warmly HARBOR, Oct: 11-—The islet of fierce German counterattacks. praised British and American con-|Garakayo, the tenth to be invaded| The pace of the fighting along|being rushed to St. Ann’s Hospital tributions to victory. in Palaus by the Americans, has the entire Italian front is gen={in Juneau Despondency over ill They toasted the Allied postwm'ibccu completely secured within 24 |erally reported retarded by adverse! health was given as cause for her |collaboration plans twice during the hours, the Navy announces. |weather. After days of bloody|suicide. lelaborate three and a half hour| Elements of the Eighty First|fighting, British troops and thel Mus luncheon at the Spirodonovka Pal-|Army Division landed Sunday on|Fifth Army shot the Germans off jon a 17-day furlough from the iace. Stalin rose to’emphasize the |the islet, which is just north of the !Mont Cece and took possession Of |Army, heard the shot from the |ties binding Russia and her West-|larger island of Peleliu {the little knob of ground. { road, where he was awaiting the lern Allies. For the first time he| Marines are cleaning up isolated| The Eighth Army appeared to be|7 o'clock bus to Juneau, and rushed solemnly emphasized the need for |Japanese on Peleliu and other making some progress in the hills|back into the house to find his post-war cooperation in the in-|forces are mopping up Anguar, of the Adriatic front despite almost | mother unconscious on the' living Sixty fivefamily home in Douglas about 6 thour later in an ambulance while Kirkham's son, Glenward, { | |era | at went |spending a mother of Dewey's speech be- York-Herald Tribune terest of national security, declar- south of Peleliu. constant rain. British and Indian|room floor with a .22 revolver at Later, after the other speakers west to San Marino, where they!summoned immediately and reached triumphs, lin himself asserted 1 months ago to do defense work BEING EXPLORED and San Paolo her Allies. | of five men. ALBANY, Oct. 11—Gov. | found and the prsent crew is col- Lockwood, “the: nominee’s secrelarygiafes as'a bride shortly after the ande, isolating the German arrl-{,,..iory work will be started this Forum will be “This Must Be the pjverpool, the day after the sign- 5 | once Lo'clock last night and died a half | |Last Year.” The speech is to be |broadcast over the Blue Network starting at 6:30 p .m. (PWT). outskirts of the Hungarian city of jthere is no indication whether land |oy¢ tne Bureau of Mines office Debrecen, communications hub con- |forces in the Adriatic have moved announces. trolling international routes to beyond captured Corinth toward| The exploratory work is being Czechoslovakia, Poland and Ru-|Athens. |done under the bureau's Strategic TSR R iR mania. There are no new reports of the offensive aimed at Budapest. e i GARDEN (1UB WILL MEET ON THURSDA' An Juneau Garden Club will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in SR S S MINISTERS PROTEST NEW LIQUOR HOUR The Ministerial Association Metals Program, nickel being one of the metals almost entirely absent from the continental United States. At present Canada produces most of the nickel in the world. The Funter Bay deposits were of | found in the early '20s on the prop- Juneau has sent to the City Coun- erty owned by the Alaska Admiralty cil the following |the sale of liquor: the Governor's House. All members |jgea] is always difficult, the Min- | are requested to be present. isterial ~ Association of Pekovich, while work was being “In recognizing the fact that the done on the gold claims. Nickel deposits have also been Juneau | found on Yakobi Island farther to Hostess for the affair will be Mrs. | ocqgnizes that the City Council is|the west, but, according to the Ernest Gruening, assisted by Alice Thorne. The Wash ington Merry -Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — South Dakota’s Representative Karl Mundt and South Carolina’s James Richards, returned last week from a five- week stay in England and France, praising the “horizontal” organiza- tion of the American Army. The Supreme Commander, Gen- eral Eisenhower, they repérted, is “Ike” to everyone, is available to hear the problems of his subor-| dinates, is at all times considerate | of his staff and the men under him. 3 Although every member of the Army has a feeling of personal participation and responsibility, the Congressmen say, there is no ques- tion about authority. Eisenhower runs the show, but he runs it in such a way that everyone likes him for it. Characteristic of Eisenhower is the address he made at a recent dinner party in London. “My hat is off to the boys fol- lowing through on the beaches and at Cherbourg,” he said. “I mean the ordinary GI who’s working 10 hours a day on the most sweaty, unromantic job in the war—no glamor, no adventure, just long, hard days of long, hard labor at soldier’s pay.” He referred to the service battalions which have re- fitted the harbors and piers along the Channel Coast in order to facilitate shipment of supplies. “Without those lads sweating it out over there, General Patton and the others who have been in the (Continued on Page Four) an all bad decision. i “Yet, in the case of the recent extension of the business hours of |the liquor stores and taverns, the Association does hereby protest that action as being a decision fos- tering more harm than good. “The Ministerial Association does not attempt to legislate goodness, but it does strive to lead the way. | This protest is both'a voice of our the concerted feeling of our various churches.” of the Ministerial Association. AWVS DANCE WILL BE GIVEN FOR ARMY MEN Officers and servicemen of the Finance Department, as well as the Port, have been asked to attend the AWVS dance in the Governor’s House, October 21, at 9 p. m. All are invited to take their own es- corts. AWVS members and their hus- and any itinerant servicemen urged to attend. TRANSYLVANIA CAPITAL FALLS NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Cluj, the capital of Transylvania and the sixth largest city in Rumania, has been |captured, the Rumanian Command said in a special broadcast com- munique reported by the Federal Communication Commission here. Cluj is 22 miles southeast of Buda- pest, center of the mountainous salient where Germans and Hun- garians are stubbornly maintained against the Russian lines in the Bal- kans. bands are expected to be present,| - OI[Bnll of Rights” is given in a 17- any branch of the service are also|Page pamphlet just mimeographed| She said she had not heard re- SUPREME COURT 3 letter protesting Gold Mining Company, a company | important meeting of the the extension of business hours for | headed by Henry Roden and W. S. seldom faced with an all good or|Bureau of Mines, the Funter Bay SAYS INSURANCE IS INTERSTATE WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 The Supreme Court has refused to ve- consider a _decision that insurance, is a business in interstate com- merce and as such, is subject to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. | The Southeastern Underwriter’s| | claims, if they prove out, will be a | Association, in asking for a rehea 1 \ | | better place for a mine as it is more |ing of a case involving its activities,| Light Pre: centrally located and there is a mill |told the court the decision of last| built there already, that could take |June brought about a situation Chairman, will lead a group discus- care of thé nickel ore and the gold |where “hazards were imposed upon|sion on Alaska, the topic for Oc- |the negotiations of every insurance|tober, and Mrs. Burras Smith will at the same time. S e CHARGE REDUCED, PLEADS GUILTY TO PETTY LARCENY conscience, and an expression of | Joseph James, arrested for the ale | leged burglary of the Auk Bay Li- quor Store last Juiy 15, has plead The letter is signed by Bob Treat |guilty to a reduced charge of petty larceny. He was given one year sus- pended sentence, according to the U. 8. Marshal’s office. . Robert Johnson, also arrested on the same burglary charge, is being held and will be taken to Ketchikan to be indicted. NEW PAMPHLET IS RELEASED; TELLS OF VETERANS' RIGHTS A full explanation of the “GI and released by Territorial Head- quarters, Selective Service System.“service. The booklet is to be distributed to all Local Boards in the Terri- ftory where they will be available to all returning veterns. The book has been written from a standpoint of needs of the Alaska veteran, and | supplements other government pub- lications on the same subject. Among other things, the booklet | ‘Lells veterans who are aliens but | !who have a right to citizenship,| how they may obtain it and under what conditions. e ———— THOMAS WEBSTER HERE Thomas Webster is in town and has registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Seattle. | contract and upon the very conduct |give the devotional. Hostesses | | | | | birthday today, but made no special | |plans to' celebrate the occasion save |how she kept so physically fit, she | of the insurance business had been| renderad perilous.” - FIRSTLADY HAS | BIRTHDAY TODAY WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Anna | Eleanor Roosevelt marked her 60t h! “probably a birthday cake” on the White House dinner table tonight. The anniversary fell on one of the First Lady’s regular press confer- ences. When one woman reporter asked replied: “It’s just a gift of God. I} guess I do the usual setting-up exer- cises that most people do in the morning. I eat breakfast; I do things that need to be done during the day, and T go to bed at night.” cently from her four sons in the STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 11. — Closing | |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 90, | Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 107, 1 | Bethlehem Steel 63, Curtiss-W: ight. 6, International Harvester 80, Ken- necott 35%, North American Avia- tion 9%, New York Central 18':, Northern Pacific 16%, United States | Steel 59%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 148.79; rails; 41.59; utilities, 25.73. ing “peace-loving nations never | B e troops reached the summit of alher side. prepared but aggr nations new ridge, extending from Monti-| Dr. W. M. Whitehead and U. NICKEL DEPOSITS found three Germans in the few | the house shortly after 7 o'clock Stalin houses. They were attempting to sev- Russia could not have done what Adak, and a daughter, Vera, —_——— to Ketchikan recently after N To do exploratory work on nickel Dewey 'o Talk : |claims near the gcld mine of the A resident of Doyglas since 1921, rBureau of Mines has sent out a crew Joel H. Moss is en- Douglas Eastern Star and Past | Thomas | presigent of the Douglas Island E. Dewey will devote his campaigh | women's Club. speech in New York City on Wed=| pg at Liverpool, England, Feb. ROME, Oct. 11—British troops in | lecting assay samples. If the samples | 3 4 | continue to be as rich as those al- said iclose of the first World War, s e Is Cort - The. Hde aving married Glen Kirkham, a K::)n Im;lv.]h; Is}flnd ::f (i‘OlrL".i(?"" ;):_ winter. The present crew will stay having married Glen clal announcement also sald “Pa- |, 1) winter if tunnel work is begun ing of the Armistice. They came to |Alaska in 1919 and lived at Per- have always been ready.” gallo to Mount Farneto and north-| Commissioner Felix Gray were had acclaimed the Red Army’s| AT FUNIER BAY Mr. Kirkham left Douglas hold the villages of Roncofreddo she has done without the aid of short visit with her { |Company at Funter Bay, the U. 5. No More Wars |lodee woman and civic leader. She | | gineer in charge. i | A large deposit of nickel has been nesday to foreign affairs, Paull,y 1895 she came to the United ! ania T capture P Sar- Slosnin NV PEOIE ROy, Sar ready assayed, underground ex- fore the New soldier in the American Army, at |trolling is active” in Greece but,ng miners will be hired and sent |severance for two years, where Mr. |Kirkham was employed by the gold | mine, and in 1921, moved to Doug- las to make their permanent home. The body was taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary and funeral services are pending word from her husband and daughter. D WORLD SERVICE MEET WILL BE HELD FRIDAY The regular monthly meeting of |the World Service Circle will be Congress to fort ternoon at 2 o'clock ors of the Northern yterian Church. Rabert Sanford, Program held Friday in the p: Mrs, for the afternoon will be Mesdames Chris Bailey and Walter Kleweno. S - ARVO WAHTO IS NO TEACHER AT OCOSTA Arvo M. Wahto, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Wahto of Dou N now in Ocosta, Washington, where he has accepted a position as eighth grade instructor. Mr. Wahto was formerly a teacher in the Peli- can City school. Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Karen, Mr. Wahto will return to Alaskagnext spring, after the termination of the school year. | "SQUID” WIRT, FORMER JUNEAU NEWSMAN, 1S IN CHAPLAIN'S SCHOOL “Squid” Wirt, former newsman of Juneau, who later went to a the- ister, assigned to a church in Col- linsville, Conn., was ordered to re- port on October 7 at Fort Devens,/ {Mass., and then enroil in"the Har- vard Chaplains’ School In a letter received here, Wirt says he became eligible on August 21 and the appointment later came through. He resigned the pastor- ate of the First Congregational Church and with Mrs, Wirt has gone to Boston to report at the fort. Wirt says he had a very interest- ing visit with Mary Van Toner and The earli have been water birds. —— t birds are believed t0jon daughter Cathleen, and caught up Alaskan developments, ially those of Juneau. espec- the various local | their representatives of organizations respective drive and the residential section combed by special solicitors In fact that is the plan of the {chairman of the local drive to get it started, roll it along and end it 'BLAMES LOSS OF " GUAM IN 1941 ON PRES. ROOSEVELT Bricker Says It Was Up to Chief Executive to Have Island Fortified BREMERTON, Wash,, |Gov. John W. Bricker advocated that America maintain a system of outlying milita after the war. He blamed Presi- dent Roosevelt for the failure to fortify Guam, Bricker set forth what he des- cribed as his party's position in an address prepared for delivery to the great shipyards in the vicinity of Bremerton, where on August 12 he said, the President said “We were not allowed to fortify Guam nor did we fortify Wake or Mid- way or Samoa. Bricker, referring to the valiant five-month stand of American sol- diers on Corregidor, said “if ever there was an argument for reten- tion, after this war, of a strong tem of outlying milita: bases within the sphere of American re- sponsibility for world security, Cor- regidor is that argument.” | As for Guam, Bricker s evidence warranted but it was not in the program. “He was afraid offending Japan. It is Yor the same reason that he kept providing Japan with cil and scrap iron. He didn't ask y Guam. The re- squarely on the is Oct. 11— id, avail- fortifica- Presi- able tion dent’s of sponsibility - rests President! e SGT. JOE LOUIS . TODEFEND TITLE ATEND OF WAR NEW YORK, Oct. 11—Sgt. Joe Louis, returning home from a six- menths' boxing exhibition tour of European and African war theatres, disclosed he took a couple of punches at the Germans as well as at chins of sparring partners, The champ, weighing 215 pounds, seven more than when he met Abe Simon in the last defense of his title in 1942, said he visited the Ninety-Second Division on the Ttalian front and pulled the lan- yards of several field guns firing on the Gothic Line. The champ said: “I expect to defend my title if the war ends soon enough. That will be soon enough. Next week would be soon enough. No kidding, I think- I will be a good long time jn the army. This tour is giving me break by keeping me close to the game. Lots of fellows have been the |ological college and became a min-,good heavyweights when they were 35 and 36 years old.” Joe was 30 last May. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Weather Bureau) Temp. Tuesday, Oct. 10 In Juneau: Maximum, 60; minimum, 50. Rainfall, 1.52 inches. At Airport: Maximum, 61; minimum, 50. Rainfall, 157 inches. * o o o BUY WAR BONDS the given is in map heart campaigns | port , lar showing place to a spirit of right ™ WHITE FLAGS HUNG UP _ _ IN SURROUNDING AREA praticuiar one ot the =2 Ring Around City Is Tight- night when 32 representatives “f: Undefg‘ound various organizations and Govern ment departments met in lhv: CoNBHT AR T e (g council chambers and got. the low- [t HE N Bk o e et down on what the. fund is for.|ctE00, OH SUT B F Bprac oo Mayor A. B, Hayes, Chairman of | PeRe¢ AR agagly o destroy Aschien, the Subsei ke thit iy G N.“deu,\' after its commander rejected . Ithe surrender or die ultimatum. tion nearby Juneau, but not in- Heavy elght-inch guns, 155 milli- cluding Juneau, called the meeting |y pqp Long Toms and 105 millimeter to order and Mrs. John L. McCor- | powitzers thundered in an obliter: mick, Chairman of the Territorial |tjq, barrage, while bombers hurt] Committee, explained all issues in~|down on the surrounded city. volved, just who is benefitted and | City's Doom Sealed the absolute need for the fund, | By refusing to accept the 24-hour Jack Fletcher, Chairman for the| ultimatum of unconditional sur- Juneau drive, gave the pep talk.|render or complete destruction, the He urged that everybody get in German commander sealed the and push the campaign with rezu- doom of the city and its 1500 Elite doughboy vim. Subscription | Guard troops. sheets were handed out with ex-| Gunners loosed the first salvos ory literature. Fletcher will|at noon, one hour and ten minutes name special committees for|after the expiration of the ulti- the $10,500 drive. Tf commiktees Mmatum. fail to contact all Juneauites, a| AS & lest case, Aachen indicated check may be mailed to Fiet her | that Nazi leadership will see its cities by those missed }(h'struyr‘gv:‘i:hvl;‘l !hul}‘yirld. " 1 e r o, Those At Meeting ! White flags np‘p‘f\’n\rel;p:er many attending the campalgh |or the ancient buildings of Aachen night, in addition L0 pefore the ultimatum expired, but included Trving G.lthey were appmrently hung by civ- Gruening, Mary |lians, Hundrds of civilians and & J. Haas, Gayle|handful of troops moved under the . Tomlinson, Sally Barnhill,|truce flags to the American lines, Rod Darnell, Capt. J. T. Bradsley, but these came from outlying por- Char W. Carter, B. Frank tions of the city away from the immediate control of the enemy gar- rison, is in the a worthy Furthermore, cause contributions may | be some agencies also Those meeting last the chairmen, Ulmer, Dorothy S. E. Haas, Michael Hein O’Connor, leman, H. L. Faulkner, D. J. Harold B. Foss, A. B.| Phillips, B. D.> Stewart, Roberts S. Treat, A Blackerby, © Chris F.| Wyller, Capt. Gwen Carruthers, Hide in Cellars It is estimated that 15,000 civilians 3mi e trevicg, | A€ hiding in cellars in the alread Aileen Smith, Elizal eth l""'“v‘“’" N padly damaged city, the r nmmd(‘{ Don W. Skuse, Elmer A. Friend,|or pnchen’s 165,000 population. H. Sides, Dorothy Manthey, J.| Ag plows to level Aachen began, A. Martin, R. E. Robertson, Alice | pjrgt Army men closed the ring Brandebury and Frank Hermann. |tighter about the city and to the Agencies To Be Benefitted {north seized Scharfenbergfardenburg Here are the 22 member agencies |and advanced to Wurselen, and mop-~ to be benefitted by the National ped up Germans in the southern War Fund: War Prisoners Aid,|part of Haaren, northeast of Aachen. United Seaman’s Service, Belgian| Battle Underground War Relief Society, British War| South ofsthe siege city, Third Relief Society, French Relief Fund,|Army men and Germans battled USO, American Relief for Italy, underground in the winding tunnels Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War |°f Fort Driant, before Metz, rico- Relief Association, National Den- |chetting hu'lld!v off the walls. Dough~ Polish War Relief, Russian War :“,“,‘),")}". ““fll.‘ others: orders In je Relief, Queen Wilhemina Fund, I:uu B n.uy..p, e. Surface positions in LB 4 he fortress continued unchanged. China Relief, United Czechoslovak Enemy Chased Ont Relief, Refugee Relief Trustees, The ' poyiher south, Americans have United Yugoslav Relief, United | yirpuqlly cleared the enemy out of States Committee for the Care of Parroy Forest and scored gains east European Children, United Lithu- {f Luneville and Epinal. A house- anian Relief, Philippine War Re- | to-house fight is on for Maiziere, six lief and American Field Services. miles above Metz, Even a dime may give a starving | Canadians sliced the main high- child or - adult s of milk, a|way connecting the Schelde estuary piece of bread and something to island of South Beveland with the cover their almost naked body; or!Dutch mainland, lopping ofi the provide comfort for those who have |escape route for thousands of Ger- been without for years in the mans there who have prevented the battle torn areas; or aid an Allied | Allied use of Antwerp port. war prisoner. | Beachhead Widened 2 W SRS s | To the southwest, other Canadian | infantry widened their Scheide River PARATROOPER WILLIAMS vcachncad to tour mites and drove { three miles inland in a backdoor as- IS HERE ON FURLOUGH .:uic on tne Germans below the s S elde’s mouth Lew Williams, Jr., son of Sec-| The Allies heavily bombarded the retary of Alaska Lew M. Williams | Poldout port of Dunkerque. and Mrs. Williams, arrived yester- D day by plane from the states to| Young Williams, a private in the U. S. Army, has just completed SK as a paratrooper and is now await- migliha T0 CONFERENCE D g - . 3 CLOTHING CLASS TO | LONDON, Cct. 11-The Exile MEE-I- IoMORRow EVE“Pnhsh v(imrrmnum Ministry of In- | formation said Premier Mikolajcyzk |had been invited to the joint con- The AWVS Clothing Conservation |ferences between British Prime Class will meet tomorrow evening!Minister Winston Churchill and in the Governor's House at 7:30|Premier Joseph Stalin in Moscow. o'clock. Members are requested byi The invitation has been extended Mrs. Gruening to use the side en-‘nkso to Foreign Minister Romer trance. Anyone wishing further |and this tended to confirm the be- information is requested to contact|lief that the long-standing Soviet- Mrs. Woodal, instructor, at Black |Polish dispute. is the prime cause of Churchill's trip to Moscow. 255.