The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIL, NO. 9787 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ] 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— YANKS ADVANCE INLAND IN PHILIPPINES Scores Die, Hundreds Missing, Cleveland Fire Yanks Batter Jap Planes on Formosa EXPLOSION STARTS BIG BLAZETODAY One-half Mile § Square Dé- vastated-Thousands Are Homeless CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 21 The death toll climbed hourly to-' day in the worst conflagration in Cleveland’s history. The explosion- punctuated blaze dévastated an East Side area, one half a mile square. . The list of known dead mounted to 70 as scores of emergency crews searched the gaunt remnants of hundreds of homes for victims, trapped after a series of blasts destroyed the East Ohio Gas Com- pany’s $6,000,000 liquid gas storage plant at the foot of East Sixty- Second Street. The latest official missing persons is 168. Chairman Orr of the Cleveland Red Cross unit, in a message to Washington Red Cross headquar- ters, expressed the fear that fa- figure for | (Conlinued on Page Six) The Washington pmeeting in the Council Chambers {last night, Councilman Ed Neilson ANTRIM OUSTED, EFFECTIVETODAY, BY CITY COUNCIL Warrant Presenled for Ar- rest of AELAPC-Wildes | New Councilman Near the close of the City Council | moved that the resignation of, Hugh Antrim, City Engineer, who was asked to resign at the Council | meeting by the first of November, | be accepted as of today, Saturday, October 21 Antrim then presented City At- torney M. E. Monagle with a war- rant for the arrest of the Alaska| Electric Light and Power Co., through Ralph Martin, manager, for alleged violation of the city| building code on one count. Mon- agle signed the warrant, after be- ing sworn to by Antrim. Next, he presented the Council with a release he wanted signed absolving him of all blame in case any of the electrical jobs he in-, spected and approved should cateh | fire, because, as he said, the now underground secondary system might cause a fire. The City Engineer then read the Council a statement of business office in June. Antrim Ousted | ‘ Un(ondirionrér ALLIED PUSH MADE AFTER AACHEN FALL Surrender of Fortress Precedes New Offensive LONDON, Oct. 21-inght hundred | German troops, last defenders of wasted Aachen, surrendered uncon- diticnally at noon today and all resistance ended inside the city and in the suburbs. Aachen is the first big city to fall to the American Army. Two thousand prisoners have already been taken by First Army men who captured the medieval city, 40 miles from Cologne. Despite Hit- ler's orders to resist to the death, 800 enemy troops surrendered when Gen. Hodge’s Doughboys pressed | them into hopeless traps on the | fringe of the city, after taking the center of it. Canadians Push On Seventy miles northwest, Canadian First Army pushed a three-pronged offensive four miles nearer the German strongholds of | Rosendahl andl Breda, in a battle above Antwerp. and Canadian British mfam.ry tanks entered the of Wuestwezel, INATIONAL WAR - FUND CAMPAIGN " SPREADING OUT With increasing activity on the part of the solicitors, and a very gcnvla] interest rapidly spreading rhroughout the community in the | National War Fund, it is expected |that. the Campaign Committee will |be able on Monday to announce |an excellent total of contributions {to that date. This was the state- 'ment made today by Jack Fletcher, | |Campaign Chairman, who lepolbed | Thursday that the total raised up Ito that morning amounted to ap- |proximately one - quarter of Ju- neau’s quota of a minimum of $10,~ 500. | val Poor, of Douglas, has just been named chairman of the campaign in that community. It is requested that all residents of that town leave their to the fund at his drug store, which will be the campaign headquarters. Although the drive is not sched- juled to close until November 11, {two of Juneau's residential dis- trict solicitors have already com- ipleted their work. Mrs. Helen Foss |and Mrs. Ed Sutton are the P iladies whose enthusiasm, according | e to Fletcher, has set a very high standard of excellence for all the{ |rest of those enlisted in this com- |munity effort. | It should be a matter of pride ldone by his office since taking|carrying over the rain-soaked fields|i, everyone in Juneau that the | solicitation of the High School and ‘(he Grade School students has also contributions’ ] | | Japanese warplanes were caught on the ground and blasted by U. on Kagi, Formosa. hit .(AP Wirephoto from Navy) DEWEY SAYS 1 | FOUR NEW MEMBERS UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN | 8. carrier-based planes during the attack Hangars show effect of bombing and smoke billows from industrial sheds that were TITO'S MEN INVADERS GO AHEAD ON LEYTE Bewildered_fiemy Offers Slight Resistance- Casualties Low 'LANDING FORCES ARE OF MAMMOTH PROPORTIONS Great Support Given from Air-Also from Guns of Shlps GEN DOUG LAS Mm‘:‘\RTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL- IPPINES, Oct. 21 The Yank ground forces have consolidated all beachheads on Leyte Island, Cen- tral Philippines, and are moving in- land, it is officially announced today in the second communique issued since the invasion, Ground casualties are reported comparatively light. Food and other supplies are pour- | ing ashore as the invaders come to | grips with the self-same Japs who | tortured the Americans and Filipinos | following the surrender of Bataan in 1942, Counter Air Blows road junction 13| peen brought to a successful closé After some objections from the| . . Imiles north of Antwerp on the|ygith the drive scarcely a week old.| 10 (OM OF LOCAL USO The Japanese Air Force dealt Merry -Go-Round audience, Neilson, Ed Schafer, VHarry Lee and Elrgy Ninnis voted Skuse not | By DREW W PEARSON @t. Col. Rnben 8. Allen now on sctive | t0 oust Antrim; Don service with the Army.) | voting. The Council, on motion of Harry] Lee, unanimously voted to accept the resignation of Dr. William H. WASHINGTON — Although the average Britisher will be amazed if FDR is not elected to a fourth term, recent weeks have seen the Whitehead from the Council. British press and public far more|Whitehead tendered his resigna- aware of the possibilities of Re-| tion at the last Council meeting in publican victory. ]ob)ecuon to the motion made by When Governor Dewey began his | Harry Lee, at that session, to oust 1ecent speaking tour, he rated, | Antrim. about one paragraph per speech in| Following this move, Ed Schafer most London papers, with an edi- moved the appointment of Keith torial tending to deprecate the Wildes for the balance of Dr. GP standard bearer. Enthusiastic Whitehead's term. The motion was Republican ~ Representative Karl carried. Mundt of South Dakota remarked_ that when he arrived in Londgp,| Referred back from the police early in September, he needed a .,y p;itee, the recommendation to magnifying ’g:ass b lflnd an); wof~ ‘try the late closing hours of liquor | erenge 1o wey—always referred | |dispensaries for another 60 days to by the British as “Governor ’l“om,wag adopted. At the meeting, let- Dewey.” However, the challenger’s space Closing Hours ters were received from the Juneau Woman’s Club, Juneau Ministerial Antwerp-Breda highway, and sent The report of large total subscrip- patrols probing out a mile or tWo|tions from both the faculties and| northwest of the town. | students is expected to be made This offensive is the second phase t the Campaign Committee on of the battle to win the use of | Monday. Antwerp’s port for a supply base.| Concurrently with the local ef-| The first phase is drawing to a“w!oxt funds are being raised now | end and west of Antwerp where|in almost every city and town! Canadians are steadily closing injtnroughout the United States for on the German pocket around|the maintenance in 1945 of Breskens, below the Schelde Estu-|than 20 great humanitarian agen- ary in eastern Holland. cies. Each of them—USO (together | Yanks Near Maas River with the USO Camp Shows), War U. 8. forces pushed to within| prisoners Aid, Um'fied Seaman’s 4,000 yards of the German com- Service, Allied War' Relief, and munications stronghold near the the others—is absolutely dependent | Maas River. British troops, mean-|on the National War Fund for its| while, consolidated their positions | support. AmEl‘{Cfll} and Frer;ch troops are (HlEF B—BATSWAIN MAIE McMAHON TRANSFERRED | pushing across the Vosges River into the foothills protecting south- western Germany and have ham- mered out gains east and north of captured Bruveres. They have re-| J. W. McMahon, Chief Boat- pulsed counterattacks there and in|swain’s Mate, Coast Guard, has more ! in the London press gradually in- creased during September, culmi- nating in double-colume headlines on the front pages the night after his Oklahoma City speech. Chatting one day with a member of the British House of Commons, Congressman Mundt was asked about Dewey’s chances. He replied that he thought they were excel- lent and that Dewey might very well go into the White House next year. The member of Parliament, off guard, answered: “What a pity.” Mundt mentioned the incident later to Churchill's Minister of Information, Brenden Bracken, who apologized : “I thought we had them better trained than that.” PARLIAMENT NOTICES CONGRESS An important result of the U. S. political uncertainty is the deter- mination on the part of the British government to work with this country on the legislative as well as the executive level. The British. are becoming more and more aware of the importance of the American Congress, admit they should never have overlooked it after they saw the trouncing Wilson got after the last armis- tice. While observing the British Par- liament, Mundt heard a speech by Lord Braithwaite, author of a re- cent bill inviting American Con- gressmen to England as official guests, call for much closer rela- tions between Parliament and Con- gress. “Our international friendship,” said Lord Braithwaite, “cannot be permitted to depend on the slender reed of affection between two in- lin Ketchikan and asked if the was referred to the police commit- Association, ‘Seventh-Day Advent- ists, Dorcas Society, and the Wo- man’s Christian Temperance Union protesting the new late hours. A letter was read from the Clerk of the Court asking the Council to take immediate action on five liquor license applications. The Council voted not to issue any more licenses for the balance of the year. Two cab stand applications were read to the Council. D. B. Femmer asked permission to put in a stand in front of Jack’s Smoke Shop on South Franklin Street, and Carl Bergstrom asked permission to op- erate a taxi stand in front of the New York Tavern. These applica- tions were referred to the police! committee. Lee said that he had investigated the reports that automobiles were being driven on the streets in a defective condition. After confer- ence with a local garage man he decided that owners of cars with bad fenders were having them fixed as quickly as possible. | The Council then voted favorably on a motion to have the Chief of Police conduct the annual brake and light test within the next 15 days. i Mayor A. B. (Cot) Hayes an- nounced the FBI was to conduct a police school in the near future Councilmen wanted to send any police from Juneau. The matter tee and a special meeting is to be called sometime before the first of | the month to name the man to be sent. Post War Planning The Councilmen took action on post war planning, as recommended (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Sixt) the Moselone River bend area. CHARLES MILLER LEASES CAPITOL CAFEFOR 2 YEARS Charles Miller .announced today he had leased the Capitol Cafe, popular Juneau cocktail and dance spot, to Bill Sweeny and T. W. Such. Miller has been in business in Juneau for 35 years, opening the Capitol in 1933. At present he is operating the Dreamland Cocktail Bar in Fairbanks. Such is owner of the Northern Bar in Juneau. Miller will return to the interior after completing the transaction. He said that he will return some day to Juneau, as he still considers it his home. Miller stated he had not sold his home nor his business,jximmel‘s lawyer, who said the pro- so he would be able to come back here some day. The new operatrs will conduct the Capitol on the same basis as heretofore. WOODLEY FLIES 10 PASSENGERS HERE Woodley Airways brought 10 pas- sengers to Juneau from Westward points yesterday afternoon. Those, arriving from Anchorage are: Mr, and Mrs. J. Snyder, C. J. Cripes, A. J. Adams, Mrs. A, J. Adams, M. B. Braley. From Cordova — Marie Duvall, Vivian Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Hal- ferty. Outgoing passengers to Anchor- age were: George Morgan, Ger- aldine Ringstead, Dorothy Tyner. been transferred and is now await- ing his orders and destination of | new station. Chief Boatswain’s | |Mace H. A. Shearer has arrived | |as successor to McMahon. Chief McMahon, since on shore duty in Juneau, has been in charge of the Coast Guard Barracks. He has also been a valuable service man member of the Committee of Management of the USO. KIMMEL OBJECTS T0 PEARL HARBOR REPORT SECRECY WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—An gn- nouncement that a ‘“secret” report on the Navy's investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack is being re- viewed prior to any publication, brought protez* from' Rear Admiral |cedure is a “specious pretext” to | withhold the findings until after the presidential election. Charles Rugg, counsel for Kim- mel, who commanded the Navy forces in Hawail when the Japs struck there, stated, “he is en- titled to hear the verdict of the court promptly.” port over to Admiral King for a determination of its effect on the !military security of the subject. Much of the political debate, in- tative Maas, Minnesota ‘Republican, is that it is being withheld for political reasons. The report was delivered to For- restal yesterday and labeled in part as a “top secret” in the highest Naval security classification. Secretary of the Navy James V.| Forrestal yesterday turned the re- cluding the assertion by Represen- | NEW DEALIS - - 100 STATIC Four new mvmb of tae (,om- mittee of Management of the USO were unanimously elected last |in the USO headquartel The new S \m“mbfln are Joe Werner, Thomas ! PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21—Lo0sING p, po Adfjt, H. Lorenzen and Jo- 8 new barrage at what he calls o5 ‘o jonnston, and they will “one man government,” GOVEINOr|o y; the hamburger sandwiches Thomes E. Dewey declared Presi-|g,q corfee at the next meeting. dent Roosevelt was trying to make, "goyo) entertaining and appe- political capital out of the 50Llal gains which he said, were initiated |by the Republicans in the Admin-' istration. The New York Governor promi ed to expand and broaden these gains if elected, declaring the Democrats resent the “kidnaping | of their party by Communists and | |the Political Action Committee.” ‘ The Republican Presidential !nominee said “it is time ROOSEVE[I a| to face lthe fact that the for the USO, and announcement of the dates will be made when all | preparations are completed. U greetings COM. eee SO, was given the glad hand from the members Dol the |and cf the New- Deal is | bankrupt organization, living only | to extend its powers over the |lives of our people.” He conceded | \Lhe New Deal “did some | things in its youth,” but declare “‘now it secks to live on its past.| {In this great national campaign |my opponent has not offered the people of this cow even a pre- | |tense of a program for the future.” “He tells the working men and {women of America to trust him j‘” candi for office, brought| and do as they are told and to “M e dor op . - is fourth term campaign to New ask no guestions. at end is the 1palg! Yok City, whe result of rule under man. In! "¢ ¥ W Lt f 3 tary the inevitable end .pllnlx;uphy appearances are scheduled arises that sees no real uLurew A major address to the F‘meign for America. It results in a V"W'\Poncy Association will be given at| ipoint of seeing nothing ahead but\s 30 this evening, Pacific War Time, a repetition of its_own peactime|gver the Blue and NBC networks. failures and a return after the Roosevelt visited and spoke to a to unemployment with leaf-raking|rally at Ebbets Field, declaring his doles. “old friend, Bob Wagner” “I am sure America will never well. He the kind of man who submit to that dreary prospect,”|shculd be reelected to the Dewey concluded. mr another term. e e, DAM TRAINS HiT % BY THUNDERBO[TS against Clarence H. La \d“l, Amd LONDO N‘ Oct. 21. Jonathan L. Cutrell against Mar- garet B. Cutrell. e | Thunderbolts tore a breach in the ench dam east of the Third Army llom ,esurday STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 21 — Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau Mine| stock today is 6%, American Can| 80%, Anaconda 2%, Beech Alr-| ;" o it panks in a widening flood that extended as far as May- \enic, nine miles from the tapped The dam is 25 miles east of daily TO SPEAK TORIGHT NEW YORK, Oct. Franklin D. Roosevelt, twin role as Commander-in-Chief | good t one a craft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Commonwealth and Southern 15/16, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 79%, Kennecott North American Aviation 11%, New} Enghuen German planes were, York Central 18%, United States downed in two dogfights over Col- Steel 58%, Pound $4.04. |ogne and Coblenz yesterday. United Dow, Jones averages at today's'States Ninth Airforce fighter-bomb- short session are as follows: Indus- ers and dive-bombers claimed 228 trials, 148.35; rails, 42; utilities, railroad cars destroyed or damaged | 25.94. Jand 15 locomotives disabled, 'RUSSIANS IN | counter blows and succeded in dam- night at the monthly meeting held | " | grade, tizing features are being planned | McEachran, new hostess of | aglnx only one vessel of the 600-ship .convoy, the communique says, and ZA REB puSH | another vessel was hit by shore fire. ‘The communique makes no refer- | ence to the report from the invasion scene that the 6,800-foot airfield at MOSCOW. Oct. 21. — Marshal | Tacloban, Leyte Island, has been Tito's Yugoslav Partisans freed for | seized. {new action by the capture of Bel- Enemy Opposition Light joined the Red Army in a Enemy opposition to the continued !drive toward the Croatian puppet !landings are reported to be light. government seat of Zagreb, 225 miles, Gen. MacArthur, who is backed northwest of Belgrade in the Sava by the greatest naval, air and troop River Valley. Budapest is on the | masses ever assembled for the am- | Danube, 180 miles north of Belgrade. | phibious operation in the Pacific, East and southeast of Budapest, | issued & Dew communique after he |other Russian forces, supplemented | had stood in the rain, drenched, in by Rumanian “units, rumbled upl!a broken down signal truck, and |three main highways leading to { broadeast an appeal to the Filipinos | Budapest but encountered stiff re- | to strike the foe as the liberators sistance from large numbers of Ger- | advanced. |man tanks and anti-tank forces. | Claim Airfield Fallen Beyond the Tisza River, the num-| Mutual's reporter Gordon Walker, ber of German captives seized slnce!szud in a broadcast, that Tacloban the libeartion of Belgrade, swelled |airfield has fallen to the Yanks but toward the 10,000 mark. The_Yugo- other frontline reporters heard to- slavs mopped up every cerner of the duy reported the invaders are near deserves | Senate | — American | bxokun cl remier Jcsx-;)h Stalin announced | | nn» capture of Hungary’s third larg- |est city, Debrecen. This conquest broke the jance in Eastern Hungary after | prolonged and furious armored bat- tanks. Official Russian silence still en- Vl‘lop(*d the East Prussian front, Ber- | inside Prussia on an 80-mile front. ‘The Germans also said the Rus- ans in Hungary rolled 30 miles be- |yond Debrecen, reaching town of Tiszacsege on the Tisza River, 85 mailes east of Budapest. - COASTAL AIRLINES | FLIES 25 PASSENGERS | ‘ Alaska Cor Airlines carried 25 passengers yesterday Ifollowing to Sitka: |R. Kronen, Paul E. Alex |Garnick, Stanley McN Lang, Lynn Crosby, Dgle Sitka to Juneau—Robert Dalton, Cliff Tisdale, George Morgan. Round trip to Excursion Inlet— Leonard Schaffer, James Huston Juneau to Ketchikan — Morris| | Shapiro, K. Almira Norton, Frances McGregor, B. Martinson, Sutherland. Ketehikan to Wrangell - Livingston, Charles Stafford. Ketchikan to Juneau—James E.| Garns, Roscoe C. Kenny, D. R.| Cowan, | Wrangell to Juneau — Dorothy Nyman, Leo L. Lazetti. | - | Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ohlsen have registered at the Baranof Hotel from Fairbanks. East sial r, Ed Jean ander llen, I R. M. back of German resist- | a| the rail| flying the| William James, | Jack | | the outskirts of that field in a bid for the airfield, also for Tacloban, | capital city, and other chief points on Leyte's east coast. Forces Move Inland Frontline reports said the Yanks (have moved well inland at Dulag 21.—President | tle, estimated to have cost the Ger- |and made adequate preparations traveling in mans and a Russians a total of 1,000 | against possible enemy counterat- | tacks. | The Jap Air Force has made fran- | tic efforts to interfere with the op- e a round of mili-|lin announced last night that Red erations but are handicapped by inspections and pulleLdl Army troops had penetrated 12 miles | preparatory attacks of the invasion- ists who have knocked them out on lmimy Philippine airfields. The | enemy, however, managed to send | some bombers over Leyte Gulf for night attacks on shipping. Pinpoint Support Associated Press correspondents | report planes from the escort car- | riers gave pinpoint support by blow- |ing up pillboxes and attacking Jap | motor convoys seeking to take rein- forcements to various points on the island. Advance Swiftly Al Hopkins, AP correspondent, went ashore at Dulang and said the soldiers advanced so rapidly and Blyberg. | nco;tmed on Page Six) 'HARRIMAN HOME T0 GIVE REPORT ~ ON CONFERENCE | | b, | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Ambas=- | sador Averill Harriman arrived here 'todny from Moscow to give a first- “hnnd report on the Stalin-Churchill | conference to the President. ‘The State Department announced he made the triv in 57 hours, com~ pleting it when the plane put down at the airport at 9 a. m,