The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944 PRlCE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLIL, NO. 7990 JAP CARRIER SENT DOWN IN SEA FIGHT & Many sz War Vessels Reported Damaged (4 4 NAZIS FALL BACK ALONG HOLLAND LINE Allies Maki;a’rogress All Along Western Front as Enemy Refreats LONDON, Oct. 25.—British troops, | turning flame throwers against Ger- | man ‘bazooka nests, struck through | the big Dutch road junction city of Shertogenbosch in mop-up opera- | tions today, The Germans fell back | on a 15-mile front below and above | ‘the key city. | The British pressed in on the eastern end of the German box salient in southwestern Holland, | -and the Canadians bit deeper into the western edge and made progress in two drives to clear the water approaches to Antwerp. One Canadian prong hit on toward Roosendall and Bergen Op Zoom, 20 and 22 miles north of Antwerp, against strong resistance. The enemy is reported to be mak- | ing local withdrawals below Breda and Tilburg, the middle strongholds | of their line across soumwesnern‘ Holland from the coast to Sherto- genbosch. | The Allied communique reported | slight but steady Allied progress at | the opposite end of the vlest,em! front, with the forces in the Vosges I ‘Mountains improving their positions. Troops northeast of Epinal are | making further gains, including the | capture of Mortagen and Blfon-‘ taine, after house-to-house fighting | from north of Aachen down to the area east of Luneville. | There are 1o important cnanges‘ in the iront said the cummuhlque } The Washlngion[ Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | Lt. Col. Robert 8. Alll-mnufin service the Army.) (all Made For Civil War, Spain Guerrilla Clashes Spread to Southern Spain as Re- publicans Cry for Battle LONDON, Oct. 25.—Clashes be- tween Spanish Republican guerrillas and forces under General Franco hnve spread even to southern Spain, | beside guerrilla raids in northern Spain from France, an officer of the anti-Franco National Spanish Union in Paris said. Madrid, meanwhile, said that all{ but a handful of Republicans, strik- ing Spain’s Navarra section from France, have been wiped out. An open call for a new civil war came from the underground paper “Conquest of Paris, quarters at Madrid. It urged Span- ish army officers to take up arms against Franco. British quarters were silent on the report.s or unrest. ROOSEVELT WILL MAKE 2-DAYTOUR Political Road Show fo Be Staged, Winding Up Saturday Night WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's fourth term bid to- day took on the trappings of a full production political road show, with the President scheduled for train | platform appearance, speeches and WASHINGTON — Gov. Dewey’s efficient campaign team shows the effect of something which they won't admit—namely, that he has been running for President since 1937. | He has put his team together | player by player, like a good foot- ball coach. There are writers, re- | searchers, economists, publicists, | scholars and journalists.! Each man has his specialty, each‘ knows he must stay in his place, | not move over the line into an- | other man’s field. When Dewey and suave, tough-; tempered Herbert Brownell decide | that the GOP candidate is to make a speech, the team starts clicking. There is little waste motion. First, the Brain Trust huddles.| The Brain Trust includes: indus-| trious, quiet, studious John Burton, | chief researcher and also New York State budget ‘director; keen-eyed Elliot Bell, principal ghost-writer, | who is to Dewey what Colonel | House was to Woodrow Wilson; Personal Secretary Paul Lockwood, | the man with the best political sense in the entourage; tense, hawk-like, bespectacled young Jim Hagerty, ex-New York Times man; | Hickman Powell, who describes himself as Dewey’s “friend,” was once chief ghost writer and now occupies & somewhat minor role. AIDES GO INTO HUDDLE Huddles are held in Albany's| rather stuffy gubernatorial man- sion study or, in good weather, at the swimming pool behind the mansion, built originally for Frank- lin Roosevelt. Each man hears Dewey’s ideas on the theme of the talk, discusses his own ideas briefly. | None presses too hard, all know Dewey cracks down on persistent| people. After the huddle, the team gets to work. Lockwood arranges the travel details, gets in touch with state. chairmen, orders the train, bounces around like a mother hen over the rest of the brood. Elliot Bell meets with Dewey alone, dis- e e (Continued on Page Four) ) | Dufresne ~of | Commission, died Sunday evening automobile tours in a two-day swing to the Middle West, the trip to wind | up Saturday night in a speech.in Chicago’s Soldiers Pield, 24 hours after the President speaks at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. Both addresses will be broadcast | nationally in connection with the President’s activity. ‘The President told the news con- | ference yesterday that reputable | papers misquoted his statement, said | |that he would have no time for | politics in the usual sense this year. They left out an important “except,” he asid, in his promise to go to the people to “correct any misrepresen- tations.” HOMER JEWELL S DEAD INNEVADA; ILL LONG TIME Homer Jewell, 58, former assist- ant to Executive Officer Frank the Alaska Game at his home in Elkton, Nevada, after a long illness. Jewell left Juneau four years ago to become superintendent of the Charles Sheldon Antelope Re- serve near Elkton. He had been in_the Territory since the . early twenties, employed until 1926, the year he entered the service of the |game commission, as engineer on cannery tenders in the Bristol Bay district. In 1926 he took the position of \diesel engineer on the motorship Seal, and in later years advanced to warden and Assistant Execu- tive. W He was transferred to his late position, where he has been since. Jewell is survived by his wife, Vie- toria, Funeral services are to be conducted in his former home town of Cattaregus, New York. Pl A e s HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Mrs. Jennie O'Malley from An- chorage, is in Juneau and has registered at the Baranof. " an organ of | Republican Junta with secret head- | ONE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT KETCHIKAN Passenger B;;d, Pilot In-i jured when Craft | Strikes Dolphin } One passenger, Louis B. Riley, is| dead, and the pilot, E. F. Coulter, was seriously injured when a Bel- {lanca Skyrocket seaplane of the |Ellis Air Transport, returning from | a “mercy flight” to Hydaburg, crash- |ed into a dolphin in Ketchikan har- | bor Monday evening at 6:30 p. m. | Mrs. Olive Lauth, a maternity {case being taken to Ketchikan, was injured as were her two children, |and James Edenshaw. The pilot| pulled the passengers from the fast- | sinking plane and put them on top of the wreckage. He failed to extri- cate Riley in time and he died four | hours later, failing to recover from | immersion in the water for over ten minutes. After saving the passengers, Coul— ter became unconscious. Winging in low in the fast- ap— proaching dusk in preparation to, making a landing, Coulter failed to| |see a row of dolphins infront of | the Northern Machine Works and hit one of them, shearing it off. The | plane then bounced into four more | dolphh'ls, falling into the water ‘gensolished. \ Some Coast Guardsmen who were | in the Northern Machine Works | shop, saw the crash and immediately | !launched skiffs and aided in the -recue work. Riley was taken to the hospital but failed to respond to artificial respiration and died four hours later. This is the first accident involving loss of life or injury to a pas- | senger that the Ellis Air Transport !has had since the company was | 1staned by Commander R. E. Ellis 1936. | {in | 'Norway Is Invaded by Red Army ‘Russians Cross Border and Capture Imporfant Seaport Town LONDON, Oct. 25.—The Russian Army has crossed the frontier into Norway, Premier Stalin announced in his Order of the Day. Moscow said that Gen. Meptes- kov's Arctic army has already cap- tured the Norweglan seaport of Kirkenese. Berlin, three hours earl- ier, broadcast the announcement of the evacuation of Kirkenese. The capture indicated the Red Army’s intention of marching through Norway in pursuit of per- haps 25,000 German troops, driven out of what was formerly northern Finiand in the battle for Petsamo, 30 miles from Kirkenese. Stalin also announced the capture of Satu Mare, the last Rumanian | city held by the Germans, and near- by 1, both in Transylvania, hard by prewar Hungarian frontier. | The Norwegian port town of Kirk- enese in the Arctic was evacuated “after the destruction of all military installations” at the submarine and air base athwart the Murmansk con- voy route, Berlin said. —to WLB ATTORNEY WILL SPEAK AT CHAMBER Roy E, Jackson, Chief Enforce- ment Attorney for the War Labor Board, will be the guest speaker at tomorrow’s noon luncheon-meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the Baronof Gold Room. Mr. Jackson is in Juneau to take |tion “must not be subject to the| i representative to return to Con- charge of proceedings against local firms which have been violating wage stabilization regulations. Many Whipping-Boys Are Aiding Roosevelf in Present Campaign By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — Until now President -Roosevelt has been politically fortunate in having had probably more whipping-boys than any other candidate for public of- fice Even now, he has Sidney Hill- man, head of the CIO Political !Action Committee, with Secretary of Labor Frances “Ma"” Perkins, Interior Secretary Harold “Cur- mudgeon” Ickes and several state and city Democratic “bosses” com- ing in for their share. But for the first time in 12 years his opponent for the presi- dency has chosen the direct per- sonal attack. Starting with his Oklahoma City speech, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey abandoned for the time being at least the cam- paign policies of his predecessors. Instead of centering his fire on policies and appointees, he started 5wm;,lng at “the Chnmp" himself. The political wisdom of this can only be written in returns from the ballot boxes in November There doesn't seem to be any dictionary definition of a political whipping-boy, but any successful politician could hold forth for hours on the importance of having several | around when the sledding gets rough. Actually, it is someone who can bear the brunt of opposition lash- ings for mistakes, someone Wwho may be tossed out into the street by his chief if necessary. Some of the President’'s whipping-boys have been sacrificed; others still eat at the Presidential family table. Almost forgotten now, as whip- ping-boys, are Raymond E. Moley, one of the original brain-trusters and a first-term campaign speech writer and adviser on anti-depres- (Continued on Paye Tr{ree) ‘Warlime Govémmenl Demobilization; Great Problem Facing Smith DEWEY SEEMS TO AGREE ON ONEBIG ISSUE GOP Candidate Wants, Strong Security League Same as Roosevelt MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Oct. 25— Gov. ' Thomas E. Dewey declared last night that American partici- | pation in a World Peace Organiza- reservation that would require uur; gress for authority every time he had to make a decision.” The New York Governor, in hi¢ first address since President Roose- velt made his foreign policy speech in New York last Saturday night, said: “Obviously Congress, and only Congress, has the constitu- tional power to determine what force it will make available and what discretion it will give to our representative to use that force. “I have not the slightest doubt that a Congress which was work- ing in partnership with the Presi- dent will achieve the result that we all consider essential and grant adequate power for swift action to the American representative.” Makes Accusation The GOP Presidential Nominee accused President Roosevelt of hav- ing permitted shipment to Japan of “as much as 3,000,000 barrels a month of oil, which is the heart and blood of war, for use against China and for storage for future| use against America,” up until four months before Pearl Harbor. “Let those who claim to have ex- ercised great foresight remember these lessons in history and let us, as a nation, never forget them.” Dewey disregarded his scheduled farm speech to “fill in gaps” that he said, Mr. Roosevelt “forget” in his speech. DEWEY IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Oct. 25—Governor Thomas E. Dewey, paying his first visit in the campaign to Wisconsin, declared today that the nation’s foreign pplicy was “too meortant WASHINGTON, Oct. 25-—-Without any fanfare, Director Harold D. Smith’s Budget Bureau has gone to work on one of the most im- portant of our postwar problems— demobilization of our wartime gov- ernment, The enormous size of wartime government (nearly three million full-time employees in the United States working in foreign lands) has been a political football for a long time. Economy-minded Sen. Harry F. Byrd thinks we could lop off some- thing short of half a million em- ployees right now without impair-| ‘mg the efficlency of our govern- {ment. Numerous anti-administra- tion members of Congress, up for reelection, are predicting or promis- ing there will be a cutback of up to two million employees as soon as the war is over on both fronts. So far as the coming elections are concerned, there can't be very | about the Budget Bureau survey and its blueprints for demobilization. It isn't likely that the report can possibly made public before the cuuuuy goes to the polls in November. The general feeling here is that there will be only minor cutbacks in civilian government personnel when the war in Europe is over and that even after the end of global war, the reduction won't equal any- thing like two million. In other words, big government is here to stay. Arthur S. Flemming, who is the Republican member of the Civil Service Commission, virtually as- sured government workers of this the other day when he told a group that although there would be some reductions after V-E-day and greater ones after V-P-day, that government probably would be much political |larger than it ever was in pre-war times. Although Tlemming emphasized that neither he nor any one else| could foretell the size of postwar government, the problems of de- mobilization, almost world wide re- habilitation, and our virtually cer- tain greater participation in world affairs will necessitate far more iemployees than before World War 1I. More than two million workers have joined the government rolls since national defense started. Congress just handed them an awful jolt when they refused to Jinclude them in the postwar un- (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on Pagc Tlx.ru) and approximately 400,000 | War Fund | Now Soars To $7,000 Two-third_skof Goél for| Gastineau Channel Has Now Been Passed Moving forward with the precision and the power of our invading forces in Germany, the army of solicitors in the National War Fund campaign | | adtvanced through Juneau yesterday. | This morning the capture of one key objective was announced, with the taking of mhers expected soon to follow. “There just seems to be no stop- ping our workers,” said Jack Fletch- er, Chairman of the local drive. during the past few days have been really wonderful. On Monday when we were able to announce the grati- fying total of slightly over $5,000 in contributions, we fully intended not to make any further announcements until Friday when we though it likely there would be enough addi- tional to justify such publicity. But the very substantial gifts made since Monday have negessitated a change in our plans. I am delighted to report this morning that Juneau’s total has just passed the $7,000] mark. “This means,” he pointed out, “that - we 'are slightly more than two-thirds of the way toward the | goal of $10,500.” Another of the ladies undertaking the major task of covering the resi- dential districts of the entire city completed her assignment yesterday when Mrs. Ike P. Taylor turned in her final report. dents of the Glacier Highway and the surrounding area is assured now that the services of an additional full-time solicitor has been enlisted | today. Mendenhall Valley., Chairman Fletcher asks that, inasmuch as the territory he will cover is extensive, | everyone there give Mr. Ulmer the fullest cooperation. Local campaign for the Territory of Alaska. She! has been in the Interior for severaf | weeks helping with the orgnnlzaucn of the drives in Anchorage, Fair- | banks and elsewhere. It is under- “The results they've been obtaining | The thorough canvass of the resi- | PINES, Oct. He is Irving G. Ulmer, of | MAIN JAP ISLE IS HIT BY SUPERS Daylight Rald Is Staged on Kyushu by Foriresses from 20th Air Force WASHINGTON Oct. 25—Super- forts from the 20th Air Force staged a daylight assault on stra- tegic targets at Kyushu, the south- ernmost main Jap home island, the Tokyo radio said. About 100 B-29's | | | | | | | | l ported. The Island of Saishu, situated between Kyushu and the China Coast was also raided, but the War Department’s first communi- que made no mention of this. The War Department said that there would PHILIPPINE AIRFIELDS, es On-Mire and Heat Encountered GEN, MncARTHURH QUARTERS 24 (Delayed)—Over- coming Japanese' resistance in the mire and heat, American libera- in the central of Leyte Island merous towns of the enemy yoke. (At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz announced tersely that Japanese ‘bfl"le‘!hlps and cruisers had been headquartrs | sighted ' moving eastward toward eagerly awaits word from Mrs, John | the central Philippines, indicating McCormick, Chairman of the Fund |, potential meeting with American | Naval units. Strict radio silence precluded further details.) A field dispatch to the Mubaurne |Herald reported that American participated, the Jap broadcast 1e-J be details announced later. | TOWNS FALL Reconqueslo?eyle Press- HEAD- | IN THE PHILIP- tion forces pressed the reconquest | Philippines today by seizing an-| other airfield and also freed nu-| | ti ide cam] n. be | tion-wi DfliK tanks have been ferried across | San Juaniso Strait from Leyte and have established a bridgehead on Samur Island, The dispatch has not been officially confirmed, and no action has been reported by any other source. While ground forces at the northern end of the Leyte battle- front repulsed a bitter all-night enemy counterattack near Palo, the southern army battled ahead from Dulag through the mire and heat, seizing the San Pablo airfield. The action apparently occurred after the issuance of MacArthur’s Tues- jday communique, which stated that the San Pablo outskirts had been reached. Three airfields are now in Am- erican hands. The others are at Tacloban, on the northern end of stood that she has met- with great | success in both places, as well as the other communities, so it looks as| |though Alaska as a whole would again come through with its full | measure of support of another na- ABSENTEE BAllOIS | 2ND DIVISION, HOLD UP COMPLETE COUNT According to announcement to- day, the Canvassing Board has completed its count of returns for all divisions in the Territorial Election, and while there are a few changes in the total, the elec- tion results remain the same. In the Second Division, Bess Leyte, Cross, and B. G. Baker are running field is already in limited opera- within one point of each other|tion. in a race for the House of Repre-| 5 | ke a1 oot s s exensve| STOCK QUOTATIONS of absentee ballots, which have not | vet arrived from that division.| NEW YORK, Oct. 25 — Closing ably will not be complete until the middle of November. e USES MANAGER ILL Jack Carvel, Manager of the local United States Employment Service office. has been confined to his home for the past week, suffering from a serious cold. 87%, Anaconda 267%, Beech Air- craft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 62%, lCnmmonwenllh and Southern 15/16, Curtiss - Wright 6, International Harvester 78':, Kennecott 347, North American Aviation 11, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 16, United States Steel 57'z, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 146.37; rails, 4150, utilities, 25.65. BRI T R O APPLIES FOR LICENSE Bernard F. Thompson and Col- leen Pearl McKee have applied for a marriage license at the office of the U. S. Commissioner. .o BURDICK, FORREST RETURN BY PLANE Assistant Regional Forester Charles G. Burdick and Linn For- rest, architect, have returned to {Juneau by plane from Anchorage. They have spent the past two weeks on Forest Service business in the Kenai Peninsula. and Dulag. The Tacloban| Final returns in that section prob-|quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine/ stock today is 6%, American Can| P ONE VESSEL, U. §. FLEET, ALSO LOST [Engagemei Takes Place Near Philippines- Battle Confinues BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — President Roosevelt announces the Jap Navy has been ‘“defeated, seriously dam- aged and routed” in the Philip- pine area. The President called the re- porters to his office at 5:18 o’clock this afternoon and read them this announcement: “The President has received today a report from Admiral Halsey that the Japanese Navy in the Philippine area has been defeated, seriously damaged and routed by the United States Navy in that area.” The President released the news in a rarely used manner by calling the reporters to his office for an unscheduled news con- ference because he said the news of the Jap defeat had just reached him through the Navy Department and his Naval Chief of Staff Admiral Leahy. BULLETIN—LONDON. Oct. 25 —Gen, MacArthur said tonight the ,lsa fleet _hns. sulfered the most defea. of the war” according to a Reuters dispateh, quoting a special statement at the Leyte headquarters, saying the Jap southern force, compriss ‘ng two baitleships, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser and four destroyers, have been “com- pletely routed” and ‘“our ground forces continue to advance on all fronts” BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—Admiral King tonight said: “Practically all of the Japa- | nese fleet” is included in the battle now raging in ithe Phil'p- pine area. He said he has only the news dispatches to give him information on the battle, but at least one of three divisions. of the Japanese fleet has been turned back as it moved east- | ward through the Central Philip- pnes, but this does not mean it | will stay turged back U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARI‘ERS Oct. 25 Carrier 'planes of the United States Third Fleet have sunk a large Jap car- rier, damaged two other large car- |riers, five or six battleships, one cruiser, and several other uniden- tified vessels. The great three-pronged battle is still continuing near the Philip« 'pines. The U. 8. 8. Princeton, light carrier of Admiral Halsey’s force, |was lost when, already badly crip- pled, her magazines exploded and she had to be sunk by American ships. No Great Sea Battle No mention was made in the 1:30 {8, m. commimnique issued by Ad- ;mlrnl Chester W. Nimitz of any |great sea battle between American |fleet units and the Jap fleet, {claimed by the Jap radio since late yesterday. The Tokyo radio admitted the loss of two cruisers destroyed in action, while claiming to have sunk 11 U. 8. ships and damaged five others. The Princeton’s captain and 1,360 of her officers and men were res- |cued ffrom the ship, which carried a complement of about 1,500. 150 Jap Planes Downed In addition to the fleet units sunk or damaged, the Japs lost 150 planes In the action, which began Monday afternoon, United States time, and extended throughout Tuesday. General “action is con- tinuing,” Nimitz said. A strong force of land-based Jap planes attacked one of the task group on Monday and succeeded in seriously damaging the Princeton, lhe first American carrier lost (Continued on Page Siz) |