The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_—— VOL. XLIL, NO. 9779 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, —_—— = — 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTJ —- - 'YANKS CLOSING IN ON BURNING AACHEN - REDSFIGHT FURIOUSLY, ALLFRONTS Battle of East Prussia American Liberators Bomb. Grows Violent — New | Advances, Hungary | | LONDON, Oct. 12 — Russian| troops have battled to within rivc‘ miles of the Prussian port of, Memel and the siege is growing| in ferocity, after the invasion of | what Hitler considers German soil, | by occupying the town of Plikisi, inside the Memel metropolitan area, acquired by Germany in the| spring of 1939. In the south, the Moscow radio, said, other Russians broke into| Debrecen, the third largest Hun-| garian city of a population of| 122,000, on the Orient railroad, 116/ miles east of menaced Budapest.| The Germans said their tanks had | thrown a 20-mile-wide ring around the strong Soviet armored forces in this area and had beaten back relief columns moving from Oradea, in Rumania, and Karcag, in Hun-| gary. The German communique ac- knowledged the loss of Cluj, the| capital of Transylvania. \ All along the frontiers of East | Prussia, the Germans reported a violent battle. A “concerted attack” was launched against Memel by more than 200 Russian tanks, Berlin said, emphasizing that| Memel is encircled. Of these, 98 were reported destroyed, 15 by guns from German warships Supporting | the beleagured garrison. | Soviet attacks north of Warsaw | and south of Rozan on the Narew | River were checked, the enemy! asserted, as another thrust was made from the Lithuanian fron- | tier town of Vikaviskis toward the eastern frontier of East Prussia. | The Germans said the Red Army has renewed its assault on Riga, with fresh divisions and material. | The Germans have been on the edge of the port for weeks. The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on sctive | service with the Army.) { i WASHINGTON — The details as to how Germany is to be divided into three parts after the armis- tice hitherto have been a carefully guarded secret among Roosevelt, | Churchill and Stalin, The plan w: broadly agreed to at Teheran, but‘ since then has been signed in more detail. Here is the general outline: | The Russian Army will take over eastern Germany to a point 200} miles east of Berlin. Its occupa- tion area will extend from the Baltic along a rough line stretch- ing from Rostock on the sea down through Hanover, Madgeburg, Leip- zig to the Czech border. In the west the British Army will occupy Germany from the border of The Netherlands to. the| Russian line and from Denmark to | the Rhineland. The American Army will occupy ( southern Germany, including por- | tions of the Rhineland, all of Ba- varia, Munich, and all of Austria.| The occupation of Berlin itself | will be a joint affair, with the| United States, Britain and Russia sending an equal number of troops to make their headquarters in the German capital. All this explains the current| grouping of Allied forces on the German front. That is why the, British are fighting in Holland | while U. S. troops batter the cen- tral part of the southern end of the Siegfried Line. It is felt that the occupation will not be easy, that all groups must carefully work together from ! the very start. That's why two sep- arate political and military Allied | missions are prepared to move into | Berlin immediately after the ar- mistice and make the German' capital headquarters for the occu- ' pation of the conquered Reich. 'WALLACE LOOKS TO 1948 t Vice President Henry Wallace has Kkept it secret thus far, but he plans to go into Senator Truman'’s suu‘ (Continued on Page Four) FIFTH RAID IS MADE ON BALIKAPAGAN 0il Refineries for Four Hours Sunday Night - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Oct. 12—Balikapapan, source of 15 per cent of Japan’s aviation gasoline and lubricating oil, was bombed for four hours last Sunday by night raiding American Liberators attacking the refineries and airdromes. 3 The raid was the fifth strike in recent weeks on the Borneo base and is announced by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The Liberators; advanced bases, have already crippled Japan’s 3,000,000 barrel capacity refineries and also the oil stores at Poela, which have been targets. Six barges, trying to sneak into Morotai, 300 miles south of the Philippines, were spotted by the American raiding force ,andf sent down, the official communique said. - e Bombers Hit Near Bologna Fifteenth Afiorce Sends Biggest Armada Ever | on Single Target ROME, Oct. 12—A great force of American heavy bombers delivered one of the most concentrated at- tacks of the war on German bar- racks, bivouacs, stores and dumps in a rough circle around besieged Bologna, while Allied ground forces deployed 10 miles from the city. The force of Fortresses and Lib-| crators was larger than that which left Cassino, below Rome, in ruins last spring, and the largest of the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force ever to be dispatched over a single target.| Brazilian expeditionary forces smashed through to the w~icinity of Gallicano, 29 miles inland from the Italian wes{ coast naval base as 8t La Spezia and another column, 'advancmg up the opposite side of has | reached Barga, four miles east of, the Serchio River valley, Gallicano, the apparent objective being to outflank La Spezia.® LATE WAR BULLETINS. BULLETIN—LONDON, Oct. 12 —The capture of the west Tran« sylvania strongpoint, Oradea, is announced by Stalin tonight. Oradea is 80 miles northwest of newly captured Cluj and 130 miles southeast of Budapest at the approaches to Hungary. BULLETIN—LONDON, Oct. 12 —The Algiers radio this after- noon says Russian troops have broken into Memel and there is street fighting. PRINCESS JOAN RAMS DYNAMITE LADEN FREIGHTER VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 12—A dynamite-laden ship sunk off Point Grey early today after it was ram- med by the Canadian Pacific steam- er Princess Joan. The freighter Squid, carrying 400 cases of dynamite, with a bad hole punched in by the impact in a light fog, went down in ten minutes. The five-man crew escaped to the Prin- cess Joan. The explo-ives remained | inactive, | Bt B 8 operating from. 'CHAMBER T0 LOOK CINTO CITY LAWS - FOR INFORMATION 'Prince Ruvpert Goodwill | Delegation Will Be Here Sunday | The Juneau Chamber of Com- | merce this noon voted in favor | of a motion to appoint an at- | torney and two members of the. Chamber for the “purpose of de- termining the legality of the abolishment of executive offices by the city, the passing of ordi- nances at one meeting, holding unpublicized meetings, and sum- marily discharging executives of city departments without a hear- | ing, and to find out the length | of the term of office of an ap- pointee to the city council.” The executive board of the Chamber had already approved such a motion, but calling for the fact-finding to be carried out by an attorney, alone. Curtis Shat- tuck submitted the amendment jadding two members to work with !the attorney. A letter was received from the Prince Rupert Chamber of Com- merce announcing that a commit-| tee of 14 members from that body would be in Juneau Sunday even- ing on a goodwill tour of various | Southeast Alaska cities. The com- mittee will visit Ketchikan, Wran- gell, Juneau and Skagway, both going and coming. Charles W. | Carter, as chairman of the recep- |tion committee of the Chamber, will make plans for entertaining i the visitors, aided by Jack Fletcher ! and other members of the Chamber. A letter from the Juneau Wo- man’s Club was read, expressing | disapproval of the renewed 4 a. m. [clnsing hours for liquor dispen-| in Juneau, urging that mid- be the closing hour. chairman of a authorized saries night R. E. Robertson, committee which was to discuss this matter with the lcity Council, reported that his {committee will-call on the council but that it is believed a solution to the problem will be worked out. |He said that he believes most Ju- neauites are not in favor of the late closing hours for the bars and that the councilmen as individuals probably do not favor the late | hours. Guests today included Ralph | Smith, Federal Housing Authority |official from Seattle, and Tony Belford, Juneau salesman. LITTLE STEEL FORMULA IS TO WAIT VICTORY | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 An official in the first circle of ad- { ministration advisers said today |that the Little Steel Formula will |be held where it is until victory lin Europe or at least until mili- tary experts can safely name that day. This is not considered, as of |today, to be a preelection possi- bility, ; The disclosure of what amounts kto a settled policy came as a result lof a request comment on yester- |day’s War Labor Board decision to omit recommendations on the forthcoming WLB report on wages and living costs. The official, declining to be iden- i tified, expressed no surprise at the WLB action and said it had been |expected as the most sensible po-' |sition to take. -—————— [FIVE PERSONS ARRIVE VIA PAN AMERICAN Arriving here this morning, via Pan American Airways, were the fol- | lowing persons: J. B. Vickers and Paul Taylor, CAA inspectors; Charles Goodwyn, Manager of the PAA Operations Department; Gun- nar Johnson and W. Chelse Boyn- ton. banks this afternoon, and Vito Grec- co and Charles Finley to Whitehorse. ——.————— POLICE COURT FINES The following were fined this morning in City Police Court: Lil- lian Thomas, $25, drunk and dis- |orderly; Severt Birknes, $25, drunk and disorderly; Peter Williams, $25, drunk; George Barba Sacramonta, $25, drunk and disorderly. BAIRAKASERU ISLENOW IN U.S5. HANDS :Planes Also Make Raids from Near Formosa to 200 Miles of Japan PACIFIC | UNITED STATES | |FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 12-—Troops of the! Eighty-first Infantry landed un=| |opposed Tuesday on Barakaseru |Islet, seven miles northeast of re- cently - occupied Garakayo, thus |strengthening the American gripl jon the Southern Palaus. | | The Navy announced it was the| |eleventh island invaded by Am- |erican forces during the Pnlauz |campaign. Garakayo, two and a half miles north of Peleliu, was in- | |vaded Sunday and secured, within | 124 hours. 3 | Dump Exploded | Meanwhile, Marines fighting on| | Peleliu Island, exploded a sizeable {Japanese ammunition dump and |one of the cave positions still held {by enemy remnants. i | Marine Corsairs also bombed ‘Ba!)(*llhaup, the largest island in| |the chain; and to the north they, rlrafi:d small shipping. | Other planes raided Iwo Jima in! the Volcano group, downing two | enemy interceptors, a probable {third and damaging a fourth one, | i Neutralization Raids | In other neutralization raids, Enl |American plane was downed by| |anti-aircraft fire over Pagan Is-| /land in the Marianas. The pilot! |was rescued. Wake Island was also | {bombed. i Fisenhower Says War May Last All Winter; Furiou HEADQUARTERS OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION- ARY FORCES, Oct. 12—General Dwight D. Eisenhower declared to- day that “we have a hard job ahead, but victory is certain.” The Supreme Commander said he will permit no fraternizing with the Germans as his invasion ar- mies moved deeper into the Reich. The General has resolved one thing: “The fight may continue unabated through the winte if necessary or as much longer as it may take crush the enemy. There may be pauses in the Allied advance due to the ferocity of German resistance and our own supply problems, but there will be no letup in aggressive action on STALIN PRAISES AMERICAN AID AT BRITISH DINNER MOSCOW, Oct. 12 Premier Josef Stalin, in praising the indus- trial might of the United State told a gathering at the Embassy last night that without American aid the course of European conflict might have been different. STAFF Speaking at the dinner given in| his honor by British Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill, Stalin said | Britain | Russia and in the that both played big parts war, but er:vh‘ the | AACHEN NOW 'BEING TORN s Drive Planned. the part of the Allies.” In the present destruction ¢ Aachen by the American First Army, field tactics ratker than the| general American policy toward German cities being used by the field commanders. Eisenhower | &Fn < made clear that they can use their| By DON WHITEHEAD gnd own methods as long as they ob-| “‘,""!/““ SMITH serve the rules of war | OUTI;\I-D'F; ‘;;\rg;&df-flg:_' While the general " 4 iy i regard of aj . ; sudden German collapse is always| oelayed oo R o a possibility he sees no reason to|Army has opened an all-out rely on its coming at any l!m_";suult to destroy 1\‘nulu-n. after the time. In snhower’s opinion, Lhc'G"m“”‘ u‘urnmn ignored the Am- threat from the Red Army in ”‘(_bcrman ultimatum for unconditional cast and the Allied Army on Ger- |Surrender of the oity. man soll In the west can hava ng|, ‘10 & surpriss maneives, the Nesi effect onthe leaders who face the|command rushed at leasy 8 divi- loss of everything, once they admi¢|8ion of reinforcements into the defeat. City Is Under Fire from U. S. Planes, Guns is 1 First as- swiftly developing battle to the death. Now, Aachen Iis learning what the American command meant when the ultimatum was yesterday. Before our is falling apart, slowly but falling apart never- THOUSAND-PLANE RAID ON FORMOSA ' REPORTED BY JAPS (By Associated Press) A thousand-plane raid on For- mesa has been reported by the Tokyo radio, which said that Allied planes attacked the fort- T like island off the China coast from early morning until midafternoon, Jap time. The broadcast, heard by the Federal Communication Com- mission, said that attacks were directed against the “entire area” of Takao, Tainan, and sent Aachen is true, theless. | Massed Assault | The first massed assault began |at the western edge of the city and marched across the city toward the |eastern end. The battle developed as enemy columns moved onto the roads into Aachen. In broad day- light they started toward the mile- wide escape corridor, northeast of the city “The enemy has been feeding his reserves, a nickel at a time, as though he were running a juke box,” one army spokesman said, “but now he is semding in a man |to do a man's job. There is no INTO PIECES .Large German Industrial’ Taichu, three of the most im- portant towns on the island. All three are on the railway which runs the length of the island. Tainan and Takao are ports on |the stupendous production and or- ganizing ability of the United | | States helped to turn the tide. It is the most generous public |doubt that his aim is to purge the |sacred soil of Germany of these ‘Yankee terrorists’ that we hear so much about.” | Hurling a challenge at the Japa- |nese Grand Fleet, American car |vier planes hit the Ryukyu Islands, [lying only 200 miles south of the Earl McGinty was flown to Fair-| | p {Japanese main islands, sowing seeds tof destruction along the 570-mile- llong chain. Japanese Statement (Fears of the ships and planes of the Third Fleet, which made the raid still nearer to the home is- lands was expressed by Radio Tokyo tonight, Japanese time, which broadcast “it appears that the enemy task force is still lurking in the waters off the Ryukyu Is-| lands. We must not be caught off | guard!” | (Earlier, the Japanese broadcast | said 400 planes made the attack| Monday (U. 8. time) striking in| |four waves from - Amami and IOshima. 200 miles south of Japan to Miyako, nearly 500 miles farther south, near Formosa.) | “More than 26 American planes were shot down. Only slight dam- | age” was done, the Japanese | claimed. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz |ported the American raiders sank |or damaged 58 Japanese ships of | all sizes and destroyed 89 planes,| 75 on the ground and 14 in the| air. American plane losses wcre! light and no surface craft were| damaged. | | [ 'DEPUTY THOMPSON IS | BACK WITH PRISONERS | Deputy U. S. Marshal Thompson returned last night iaboard the stedmer North Sea from }Ponland, where he took several in- |sane charges for placement in | Morningside. Enroute to Juneau, Thompson | stopped at Wrangell and Petersburg | to take custody of two prison Adolph Cramer and Elizabeth Rush. | Cramer is charged with issuing ichecks without funds and Elizabeth Rush was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. {RALPH SHORES PURCHASES McNUTT CHICKEN RANCH Ralph Shores, Watkins Products Dealer, has bought the C. F. Mc- Nutt chicken ranch at the seven- mile post. The property consists of acres of patented land with a four-| iroom house, a chicken house and| a brooder house. Shores will move out the road! in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. McNutt plan move into town, to| five, utterance by any Russian in this war. British and Russian called it a “great tribute.” Stalin talked long and earnestly on the part played by the United States in his longest talk. The formal dinner lasted until almost midnight. Stalin broke a precedent by attending the dinner at the British Embassy. Tt was the first time he ever visited any embassy in Moscow. When the meal had progressed for some time without toasts, Stalin inquired if it was against the law to make a toast. Churchill responded with one to the leaders of both countries, the King of Britain and President Kalinin of Russia. Stalin’s first toast was to Presi- dent Roosevelt, and his second to SPOKANE MAN IS APPOINTED HEAD CHINESE RELIE WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. — The United Nations Relief and Rehab- ilitation Administration has an- nounced the appointment of Ben- | jamin Kizer of Spokane, as the head H sia | of its office in the China area with | headquarters at Chungking. A DR HUNGARIANS NO SEEK ARMISTICE NEW YORK, Oct. 12—The Lon- don radio said a broadcast recorded by CBS from its Stockholm corre- spondent, reported that the “Hun- |garians have gotten in touch with| the Allies, asking for an armistice and if results are satisfactory it is likely that a Hungarian de tion will go to Moscow shortly.” RECEPTION TONIGHT 10 4 NEW OFFICERS OF SALVATION ARMY A public reception honoring Brig. and Mrs. C. O. Taylor and Adjut- anf ‘and Mrs. H. Lorenzen will be held tonight ‘at 8 o'clock in the Salvation Army Hall on Wilioughby Avenue. The Lorenzens arrived i from Wrangell on the North Sea.|Thomas, guests | | the southwestern shore. | Reinforeements Strafed The broadcast, beamed to | Immediately after they had spot- Italy, indicated that other towns |[ted the artillery, the enemy turned along the railway had also been |out his reinforcement columns and hit by “fighter and bomber |the di bombers which. had just planes which were downed.” | unloosed their bombs on Aachen, | | - Iturned to strafe them. This was ! cne of the enemy’s most unusual BIG RAID 0 movements in this campaign—to i move troops against the American |lines in daylight when American ‘plunm and artillery were able to AUSIRIA AND strike quickly under direct observa- | ‘llion. “Whoever sent those turkeys |into a situation like this was doing | RE'(H TODAY them no favor,” ome officer de- | | clared 1 | Hitlers' Orders | | Obviously, the enemy is trying to |make a Cassino out of Aachen; | LONDON, Oct. 12.—Approximate- |staving off the Americans as long |1y 750 Fortresses and Liberators at- |as possible, thus carrying out Hit- tacked an aircraft components fac-|ler’s orders to fight to the death |bringing victory to the United Na- oy at Bremen today, while Royal |in protecting the Reich’s soil. | Alr lf‘m‘!‘n heavies pounded s,vn_tht'-‘ A high ranking officer said: tic oil plants at Wanne and Eickel |“Yesterday, we told the Germans in in the Ruhr. Aachen to surrender or we would Bombers also hit other specified | destroy their city. This morning | targets in northwestern Germany, Mllhey decided to let us do it. Of- !n(x;' Gcrminln xradm -'l«rm;r't;d S!U.“ fl:-nicr s have refused to surrender. |other raid In central; Justria BY|we got & lot of prisoners here, | United States Fifteenth Air Force|gpout 100 in one group, came out | bombers from Italy. lof their pi 2 s 2 Mosauitoes made their 173th raid |p PR St I e | g > ot of men when they are inside | on Berlin last nigh e loss on Berlin last night without the los: | pillboxes. It saves us trouble® dig- | of a single plane. i Filk |ging them out.” LAND, AIR " BLASTING ~ (ONTINUES Gray Smoke Pall Hangs Over German "Jewel of Culture” 'BREAKUP IN HOLLAND IS BEING DISCLOSED }Demoliiion. Squads Blow- | ing Up Quays, Docks r at Rofterdam ! LONDON, Oct. 12.—~The American First Army has closed in on burning Aachen in an action which the German radio calls the “greatest battle ever fought on the western front,” while to the north and west there appeared signs of a possible Nazi breakup in Holland. | It is disclosed that a crew of 6,000 'German demolition experts have blown up more than 10 miles of quays and docks during the past ten days at Rotterdam and roads around Rotterdam are clogged with Nazi transports moving generally south and east. The Germans have suddenly abandoned & stretch between Arn- hem and Rotterdam Threats of Vengeance While the German radio admitted American gains around Aachen, it mouthed threats of vengeance if the “American hordes should carry out their threat to destroy Aachen, this Jewel of Culture.” Associated Press War Corre- spondent Don Whitehead gave a de- tailed account of what is happening to the city -and said the American infantry began to close in from the north and northeast and after dive bombers and more than 200 big guns, including the heaviest American field pieces got in action, the city began to burn. Slight Sniper Resistance Another dispatch from the front said the factory section in Aachen’s northeastern outskirts, has been cleared by the doughboys and little sniped resistance is reported. The American patrols entered the city proper yesterday and two enemy col- umns, totalling about one division, which attempted to reinforce thg German garrison, was shattered and turned back. The big guns swung into action again today and a gray pall is hang- ing over the city as smoke and flames ascended. Infantrymen are .advancing and . although Aachen is battered and beaten, the city is not yet destroyed. Wreckage is piled everywhere in the city. Meanwhile, the Canadians in Bel- gium and Holland are clearing up the coastal sections to open the way to Antwerp. e ROOSEVELT URGES " SPEEDY BUILD OF PEACE STRUCTURE AREATHREEOF POLISH PROBLEM HALBUTBANKS ~ MAY BE SETTLED CLOSES NOV. 30 AT CONFERENCE SEATTLE, Oct. 12.—Regardless of | MOSCOW, Oct. 12—Premier Mik- the catch, halibut fishing in area |lajaczyk of the Polish-Government- number three is to close on No- |in-Exile reached Moscow today to { vember 30, the International Fish-|pegin negotiations with the Soviet- eries Commission said. The catch sponsored Committee of National to date is 5,320,000 pounds short of | [ iperation. the 27,500,000 pounds allowed to be | caught in that area. e, —— Accompanying the Premier from |London was Foreign Minister Prof. |Grabsky and Gen. Jobor, Chief of ‘Stul( of the 'Polish Army. The |delegation flew in a converted four- '(OASTAL AIRLINES MAKES| THREE TRIPS WEDNESDAY .25 “Gvecii”bs “erime. simiser 'Winston Churchill, who is con- Three flights were made by Al-(ferring with Stalin. |aska Coastal Airlines yesterday.| The Marseille radio reported | The following flew to Tenakee: Mr.|Marshal Tito, Commander of Yugo- and Mrs. C. Wallis and Mr. and|slavi fighting forces, left his }Mrs, Neil F. Moore. |country for Moscow to participate | Hoonah to Juneau: R./in the conferences there. | Gillis, Lawrence Olson, and| The general belief is that the Mrs. J. E. Isom. |Polish question will be settled one | Juneau to Hawk Inlet: Mrs. J.|way or the other before Churchill | Ardeth Mr. G. Thomas. leaves Moscow. Hawk Inlet to Juneau: Members of the Liberation Com- mittee arrived earlier from Lublip. J. G. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — The | President said teday that it is this nation's “objective to establish solid foundations of a peace or- ganization without delay and with- lout waiting for the end of hos- tilities.” Substantial progress has already been made and “it must be continued as rapidly as pos- sible.” 4 Roosevelt, in a radio address at the White House before the Chiefs of a Diplomatic mission from other American Republics, said that there must be time for thorough discus sion of the peace organization by “all peace loving nations, large and small.” A charter of the United Nations, like the United States Constitution, 'must be adaptable to changing world conditions, he added, The President, speaking on the occasion of Columbbus Day, as- serted “We shall do well to remem- |ber we are inheritors of the tradi- tion of Christopher Columbus. We shall require the same deformina- tion and the same courage as we steer our course through the great 'age of exploration and discovery ,that lies before us."