The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1944 VOL. XLII, NO. 7988 — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = SIXALLIED ARMIES POUND NAZI DEFENSES Positions On Leyete Island Fronts Expanded YANKS KEEP - UP ADVANCE, PHILIPPINES Airfields B%'Prepared for Future Campaigns ~Enemy Retreats By DEAN SCHEDLER Associated Press War Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, LEYTE, Philippines,l via Army Radio, Oct. 23.—A steady | expansion of the American ground | forces in positions on all of the| Leyte Island fronts has been at- tained, making a great base for all arms for future operations. | Simultaneously, Gen. MacArthur, | in a proclamation, declared the Am- | ericans have come as “liberators of | the entire Philippine Archipelago” | ‘bontmued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go - Round| By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) ‘WASHINGTON—President Roose- velt made an important revela-| tion to Italo-American . publisher Generoso Pope, the other day, when he disclosed that in 1933 he| had written a letter to Mussolini urging him not to engage in a heavy armament race which might plunge the world into war. “Some day I'll show you letter,” Roosevelt told Pope. “It| was the first year I was in the| White House and just as Mussolini | the | One Man Gang from Nome Kills Over 60 Japsin 1 Day In Fighting, Palau Islands By T/SGT. J. A. O'LEARY (Marine Corps Combat Corre- spondent, formerly of the Wash- ington Evening Star.) PELILEU, Palau Islands, (De- layed)—Marine Pfc. Arthur J. Jackson, 200 pounds of one-man gang from Nome, Alaska, Killed more than 60 Japs here in a single day of fighting. He rolled up the impressive total while his platoon was attacking Jap defense positions on the south- ern end of the island. In eight hours, the platoon destroved or neutralized 40 Jap strongpoints, Jackson singlehandedly accounting for 15 of them. His technique was simple: With or without covering fire, he charged the Jap bunkers, place the muzzle of his Browning automatic rifle in the fire slits or observation | apertures and sprayed the interior. If the desperate enemy tried a dash for safety, Jackson was ready. “He mowed 'em down in windrows,” one Marine described it. In all, the big Alaskan expended more than 2,000 rounds of Brown- |ing automatic ammunition during the day. So fast did he work that ammunition for machine guns were set to bringing up ammunition for his B. A. R. Jackson, known as “Bull’ to fel- low Marines because of his size and tremendous strength, climaxed his one-man gang performance a few days later when, armed only Iwith a splintered rifle stock, he clubbed to death a Japanese sol- dier who attacked him with gre- nades and bayonet. The Nome Manine was in his foxhole when the Jap and a com- panion charged him. He killed the from his Browning, but the second threw a grenade which shattered the rifle. net, grabbed his opponent by the neck and battered him to the | ground with the stock of the broken: rifle. | A native of Nome, Jackson now | makes his home at 4429 80th | Street, Portland, Oregon, He also | saw action at Cape Gloucester, | New Britain. Chinese Crisis Gives Worry fo Washingfon, | men ordinarily assigned to carrying NATIONAL WAR FUND CAMPAIGN GETTING BOOST \Over $5,0()Ffontribufed,s | Is Noon Report by Chairman Fletcher | Hard work—and a lot of it—over ;the weekend on the part of the| many solicitors for the National) ‘War Fund was reflected today in the receipt at headquarters of hard cash |—and a lot of it. So much so, in | fact, that the ever-cheerful Jack | Fletcher, Chairman of the local | Campaign Committee, announced |with even more than his usual , cheerfulness that at noon the total | contributions were just over the |$5,000 mark. The exzact figure is 1$5,028.80. | One of the most heartening fea- tures of the drive thus far, declared Fletcher, is the speed with which a| first enemy soldier with a burst|number of the solicitors have been |erate isolationists” who are not “re- | completing their work. This morn- | ing, for example, he was advised by | A. Blackerby, who is responsible for Jackson dodged the Jap's bayo- | the solicitation of the Federal Build- | preserve peace. ing, that already four of his workers | have finished their assignments— | George Folta, Mrs. Gladys Overby, | | Merv. Sides and Chris Wyller. He | lalso spoke enthusiastically of the excellent report coming in from the | Army Signal Corpsmen who appear | determined that no civilian group is | going to make any better report than | theirs. Conspicuous among the busiriess | | concerns that are making fine show- | ings is the Alaska Laundry, which | its solicitor, Charles Naghel, states | | has successfully completed its efforts | |in the drive. It is believed, accord- | ling to Fletcher, that by the end of the week many additional organiza- | | tions in the business area will have | turned in their final reports, being further evidence of the remarkably PRESIDENT GIVES OUT BIG APPEAL Declares Fo_r;i_gn Policy Is Issue in Coming No- vember Election NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—President | Roosevelt calls for a World Coun- cil, with American representatives, preendowed by Congress, given a place in the American forces on the“ pathway of future aggressors. | The demand was made by the President in an address prepared for the Foreign Policy Association at a dinner in the Waldorf Asteria. The Chief Executive also said that a Republican victory would toss the | Congressional leadership to “invet- liable custodidns” of the American foreign policy in a world which re- quires international cooperation to The Preident said the projected Council of the United Nations pro- posed by the Dumbarton Oaks agree- | ment must have power to act quickly and decisively to keep peace, by force, if need be. “It is clear,” the President said, “that if a world organization is to have any reality at all, our repre- sentatives must be endowed in ad- vance by the people themselves, by constitutional means, through their representatives in Congress and with authority to act.” The President further said, “the | question of men who will formulate and carry out the foreign policy of this country is an issue in the com- ing November election—very much an issue—it is an issue, not in terms of sober, solemn facts—facts that CHURCHILL 1§ BACK FROM HIS STALIN TALKS Stopped Off in Cairo, Also Italy, Returning to London Home LONDON, Oct. 23—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent a night in Italy enroute home from conferences in Moscow with Stalin, it is announced Churchill conferred with Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied Commander in the Mediterranean region, The Prime Minister, spent 24 hours in Cairo, returned to London yesterday. It is ex- pected he will make a report to the House of Commons this week as the result of his conferences with Stalin who also - CLEVELAND DEATHTOLL GROWING Possibly 0\;1—200 Victims of Liquid Gas Explo- sions, Flames CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct, 23.—Cor- oner Gerber today estimated that “possibly 200" persons met death as the liquid gas cvplosions and flames laid waste to the East Side STATEMENT BLOWSARE [ISSUED BY | STRUCK ON COUNCILMEN LONG FRONT | | | Four Who Vofed fo Oust | Preparations Made for | | | | | Grand Offensive, Smash Direct on to Berlin Four city councilmen who voted; LONDON, Oct. 23—Six Allied for the recent dismissal of former |armies pounded the tightly drawn {City Engineer Hugh Antrim, today | Nzl defense band from Holland to |issued the following statement; |the Switzerland border today with ; “When the City Council wted';um'enshm pressure, aimed at open- on October 6, to remove City En-'lng eventual cracks to permit the | Y smash at Berlin. gineer Hugh Antrim, it did so|” Tha Hiree Gre nok t d under authority of Territorial law | oo ote, AT B8 FOE YO, § €TAR |permitting the Council to remove | .. the'enemy Hne wvar didnsnes f‘“y city employee at pl‘_’“"’"‘:"qand mask the timing and place for There seemed to be no point in|ne main attack assault. listing reasons for the removal, and | On and against the it was felt that to do so would be lsouth Schelde pocket, west of Ant- to his further detriment ‘ werp and Breda (north of Antwerp) “Since Mr. Antrim has insisted and the hard held doorway from that reasons be given, and since a| Aachen to the Saar Valley and sharp |handful of Juneau citizens have|cloven Vosges passes, the British (taken it upon themselves to niake Second Army is striking in three |an issue of the dismissal, even | columns on a 12-mile front. |going so far as to question the| From the western side of its |legality of the Council’s action u]h! Holland salient, it drove within three parently because of ignorance of |0 five miles from the prize com- the law, the following statement Munications hub of Shertogenbosch, is presented for the records and|@nd the Canadian Army swept from for the information of the public| Esschen, on the Dutch-Belglan bor- undersigned | der, to within 16 miles north of who. iSote for Mr. Antwerp after an 11-mile advance in misshd; | two days and hammed methodically | “When Mr. Antrim was hired he | OWard Roosendsal our miles shead. | was given no eontract. It was un-? derstood that the appointment was ' not permanent, and that he would | ‘bc employed as long as he was serving a useful purpose. The bulk of his salary is as Streét Foreman, while a smaller gmount is paid | for his services as' City Engineer, | | Anirim Explain Rea- f sons in Letter shrinking | { by the Councilmen, | Antrim’s dis- | RED ARMY IS PENETRATING World Peace Planners was beginning to prepare for war efficient job that has been done ever | o¢ coper solemn facts—facts that | area, one-half a mile square. with Ethiopia two years later. If! Mussolini had taken my advice and kept away from his war machine and Hitler, Italy would not be in the tragic situation she is today.” The President also asked Pope | many detailed questions about vari- ous sections behind the lines in! Italy, especially in regard to how the Italian population in these| areas would receive American troops, and what cooperation they‘ would give in rising up against the Nazis. - | “I don't think I can tell you much about it,” Pope finally re- plied, after several of these ques- tions. “You see, I left Italy when| I was only eight years old. But how do you know all about these Italian towns and villages?” The President replied that when he was a boy his father had taken | him to Italy to live for a while and he had learned to read Italian and even speak it a bit. The Presi- | dent approved a proposal to permit| Americans of Italian descent to| send Christmas packages to their | friends and relatives in Italy, and also told Pope about the progress of other relief measures, including, the dispatch of several shiploads of food and supplies for Italy. WAGNER FIGHTS FOR HIS POST Side-tracked by the heat and name-calling of the Presidential campaign, one of the most import- ant Senatorial races in the nation has been lost sight of, It is the valiant up-hill battle of Senator Robert Wagner, father of more social legislation than any other! man in American history, to keep| his seat. Most significant of all is the failure of the liberal New York City American Federation of Labor to give any hearty support to the man who authored and pushed through the Senate the Magna Charta of American Labor. | Inside reason for this is the fact' that the CIO was first in going to bat for Wagner with a strong en- dorsement. Following this, the local New York City AFL played cagey, indicated that Wagner was the CIO candidate. This was not true of AFL President Bill Green, who gave Wagner a hearty endorse- ment. But in New York, where votes BALLISTO SUPPORTFDR IN ELECTION Says DeweyTfiII Too Much of an Isolationist in His Speeches WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Senator Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota Repub- lican, announced “I shall vote for support of President Roosevelt.” The Senator said Roosevelt met the foreign policy issues more squarely than Dewey in his Sat- urday night speech on foreign re- lations. Ball said the President kept his record of action by meeting “squarely and unequivocally the two vital and controversial issues on which the isolationists kept us out of the League of Nations and on which they will fight our entry into the United Nations Security organization.” The Senator added to the state- ment: he insisted “that the United Nations Organization be formed without delay and before the hos- tilities ceasé it be granted power |to use military force against future agressors without requiring indivi- dual approval by each member na- tion. “Gov. Dewey opposed the delay but he did not meet squarely the second vital issue. He has spoken for a strong international security organization but in each speech he iso worded his commitment that both isolationists and international- ists could find comfort and support in what he said. A part of his support talking to the country was straight isolationist doctrine.” The Senator is scheduled to make a 15-minute radio address Thurs- day at 7:15 p .m. (Pacific War time) over the Blue Network to discuss reasons for his action in the campaign issue. Ball told reporters he conferred (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Siz) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—Strate- gists in both the War and Navy Departments and among planners for world peace are plenty worried about the dreadful drubbing we have been taking in China. It's rather surprising that the critical defeats in China haven't made bigger headlines. Both Chi- nese and U. S. Army censorship (not entirely unwarranted for military reasons); and the deli- cate political situation in China are partly responsible, according to officials here. But the fact re- mains that the catastrophic possi- bilities of the Japanese successes in China have hardly been publicly explored at all. At their best, they could mean some months’ prolongation of the war with Japan and a conseguent additional loss of ‘Allied lives and Allied billions. They might also mean a change in war strategy which was to see us driving inland from the east China coast to form a junction with the great Chinese armies that, with American sup- plies, could sever Japan’s overland lifeline to French Indo-China, Thailand, Burma and the Malay peninsula. It is considered possible {here that that strategy already has {been abandoned and will only be resumed if China can put its po- litical and military house in order. isince the campaign was opened by are on the record.” per month) as Building Inspector. The known dead in Friday's dis- Not Doing Work ,and an even smaller sum <535‘UD‘ | Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the entire business section of the city. Each solicitor throughout the com- | | munity is requested to make a report | by Tuesday evening, at the latest. It |is realized by the Campaign Com- | mittee that, of course, it will be some days before many of the work- | ers will be able to complete their| efforts. Especially is this true where | | exceptionally large areas of cover- | | age are involved in several of the o AR RS | SAYS JAPAN IS NOW ON | | | aster has reached 99 and more than 100 are listed as missing, 49 of them East Ohio Gas Company employees. - LATE WAR BULLETINS “Mr. Antrim has been spending most of his time fulfilling the | duties of Building Inspector, which | is supposed to be a minor part of | his work, while at the same time| spending very little time as Stract} | Foreman, which is his main job.| |We feel that Mr. Antrim in this| jrespect has not been doing the | |work for which he was hired, | “One of the immediate reasons EASTPRUSSIA Russians Are Now 18 Miles Inside Reich with Cap- ture of_(}oldap LONDON, Oct. 23 — Russian troops captured the East Prussian Highway center of Goldap, 18 miles | residential districts. One such dis- | DEFENSIVE for hfring Mr. Antrim as City En- Jmstdc Germany, and broadened | trict is that being handled by Mrs. | Jake Cropley, who it is understood, | | has been making first-rate progress | | to date. i | 1In this one combined drive the | | entire nation is raising the iundsi necessary for a year’s support of the National War Prisoners’ Aid, the; Allied War Relief, the United Sea- { men’s Service and the USO, together | with more than a dozen ofher| ‘humannm‘mn agencies. LANDINGS IN PHILIPPINES ~ ONLY 'BLUFF (By Associated Press) The landings in the Philippines Naval Com?n;nlaior Gefs Whole Lot Off of His Yellow Chest (By Associated Press) “Jap is now on the defensive,” | Japanese naval commentator Nas- anori Ito said in a dispatch trans-.| mitted today by Domei, Japanese news agency. | Ito’s statement came in the course | of remarks in which he claimed Japan ‘“welcomed” the American invasion of the Philippines because it offers “another opportunity to deal crushing blows to the main- ‘myl of the enemy’s Pacific forces.” The speaker compared Formosa with Pear] Harbar, then said: “How- ever, there is considerable differ- ence existing under the ‘present cir- | cumstances compared with those of BULLETIN — GEN. Mac- ARTHUR’'S HEADQUARTERS, Oct. 23.—~American soldiers push ing westward on Leyte Island, southern front, overran a strong Jap defense position while try- ing to trap the enemy troops re- treating up the wide Leye Val- ley. Associated Press Correspond- ent Al Dodkins, of the southern front, reports the Yank Seventh Infantry Division troops, led by tanks, are moving up the valley inland from Dulag where one of the first American beachheads were established. The troops, under command of Lt. Col, Herbert Edmunson, is heading northwestward from Dulag in a flat country ideal for tank warfare. LONDON—The capture of the border town Salmujarvi, Finnish | frontier, and all of Finland’s north- are termed nothing more than a three years ago. The difference now ern nickel mines is announced by gineer was that need existed—and|their offensive along the entire | still exists, for additional cemetery|eastern boundary of the province. space. Mr. Antrim was advised of| A German communique said this, was taken to one of the pro- "'dv(-p penetrations’™ into the Nazi | posed sites of the new Uemel.ery,!line:s between Goldap and Suwalki |s0 that he could make a survey have been acknowledged. The |and advise the Council as to the | Germans said the front is- now 10 | possibilities at this location. As far airline miles long, from beseiged as the Council has ever been ad- Memel in the northernmost part, }vlsed, Mr. Antrim has completely which city the Germans claim, to |lgnored this matter. In this re- Augustow, in the Suwalke sector, | spect, too, he failed to perform the in the southeast corner of East duties for which he was hired. |Prussia at the extreme tip of the | “Upon the recommendation of eastern front. |Mr. Antrim the City purchased an | Near Norwegian Border |asphalt repairing machine to palch; The Russians on the Arctic Sea jup the many cracks, holes und‘pulled up to the border of Norway | other irregularities in Juneau’s con-|on a wide front, placing them | crete streets. This machine arrived |within striking distance of the ;lnsv. summer, and since its nrrivsl[Norwegtnn iron export harbor of |the weather has been much better |Kirknes, a German submarine base 1‘th3n normal for doing such work.:posmg a constant threat to the Jlu spite of this, Mr. Antrim, Street | Murmansk-Archangel convoy routes | Foreman, has never had the ma- to Russia. chine in operation. This is another| Far to the south, where the, case where Mr. Antrim did not do|Russians are less than 130 miles {from Austria and 80 milyes from Already these defeats have wiped out five great American air bases in eastern China, built with the back-breaking work of hundreds of thousands of Chinese hand laborers, taking months for a job that our engineers could do in a couple of (Continued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 23 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine {stock today is 6%, American Can 89%, Anacenda -27, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem 62%, Common- wealth and Southern 1 1/16, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 9%, Kennecott 35%, North Ameri- can Aviation 10%, New York Cen- tral 18%, Northern Pacific 16, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows; Industrials, 146.58; rails, 4843; utilities, 25.54. | “pluff’ by Sadao Iguchi, spokesman of the Japanese Information Board in a propaganda, broadcast to the Filipino people, and another propa- ganda broadcast from Tokyo, also recorded by the FCC, said the in- {vasion of Leyte Island is of “no - |strategic consequence from a stand- | point of general operations.” Jap headquarters, in a broad- cast rescript by the Emperor, says |is that Japan is on the defensive while three years ago we were on the offensive.” | The broadcast was recorded by the Federal Communications Com- mission. ———.———— PART OF BRITISH FLEET ON PACIFIC; | his job. Stalin tonight. ‘ Other Reasons “These are a few of the reasons NEW YORK—Domei tonight an- ? . why we feel that Mr. Antrim was | nounces British troops have landed | . on Nicobar Islands in the Indian POV doing the work for which he | |was hired. Perhaps one of the Oocean. RIS A lreasons why he failed to perform LONDON — For the first time, |1 work was that he had spent Stalin announced tonight the Ru‘_‘,u)o much of his time, particularly | sian armies have invaded East Prus- |in recent weeks, in what appears {sia to a depth of 10 miles on an 88- |0 us to have been attempts to im“e front, the third White Russian undermine, discredit and cast as- the “war situation is daily becom- ing more pressing” and he com-| mended three high officers for their part in “defeating the enemy fleet off Formosa.” Iguchi is also quoted in a broad- cast as saying the “American claim that the landings on Leyte were from an armada of 600 ships with 250,000 men, is another more than propaganda and fantasy report, to- tally out of proportion to reality” and he added the actual scale of the invasion forces is “well known to us and we have the situation well in hand.” ASSERTION MADE BROMLY, England, Oct. 23 Britain hopes to have a “place in| the Pacific fleet, capable in itself of fighting in a general action against the Jap Navy.” First Lord of the Admiralty Alex- ander said, “a movement of a part of the British fleet is already underway,” indicating a large num- ber of vessels of the British Navy are on the way to join the Ameri- can Pacific fleets. ront. SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICIALS RETURN FROM TRIP TODAY John McCormick, Territorial Di- rector of Selective Service, accom- |panied by Col. F. J. Killilea, Terri- torial Procurement Officer for Sel- lective Service, returned to Juneau today from an official trip to Ket- chikan, Wrangell and Petersburg. persions at the City Council. These Vienna, Moscow announced vie- tories 1. both Hungary and Yugo- slavia. Two Cities Capiured Sombor, Yugoslavia, a place of 32,000 inhabitants and a communi- cations center, 95 miles northw st of liberated Belgrade, toppled, as has Nyiregyhaza, a Hungarian city of 56,000 and lying close to the | Czechoslovak border. The Russians are near to Aus- imclude his talk before the Chamber tria and Vienna at captured Baja |of Commerce, in Which he enlarged jon the Danube River. |on some of the most needed im-i — > — provements in Juneau, with its ob- vious implication that the CoullclliM“on GREE" mv“ |was negligent; his communication | o" Busl“fls mw appearing in a local newspaper ob- | 5 viously designed to promote pas-| Major R. S. Green, Director of sage of the proposed new Um(orm‘.n.‘e Pivision of Pubjio Health By Building Code, and which npp"‘med‘gmeermg with the Territorial De- Buring - the. time | Aba.. Clode w“!partment of Health, left for An- |under consideration by the Coun-!cm’m”' And . poasitly F?h'wm' icilmen,, who are elected for mn‘yesterduy by air on official busi- 2 3 ____Iness. He plans to be gone between two and three weeks. (Continued on Page Six)