The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIIL, NO. 9795 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN €ENTS = = YANKS LIBERATE MILLION HALF FILIPINOS Allies Making Great Drive In Holland Area LOWLANDS CAMPAIGN NEARS END German Forces Below Maas Disinfegrate as Al- lied Drive Increases LONDON, Oct. 30—The German | stand in the southwestern lowlands | has been cut into four dwindling | pockets, and German forces below | the Maas River are disintegrating under concentrated air attacks. | The drive of the Allied Armies; is racing to Moerdijk, the escape | bridge only six miles away from | the four pockets below the Maas, where the chief resistance center of Breda has been taken. | On Beveland Island and on flooded Walcheren Island, enemy troops have been virtually cut oft by the Canadian drive, which is| within 3,000 yards of the causeway | | | | AIR BLOWS Breakdown ONGERMANY ' In China ls DOUBLED UP Twin Port Cities Bombed in Daylight - RAF Hits During Night LONDON, Oct. 30—More than 800 heavy bombers today attacked has plunged headlong into a new Hamm and Munster, and the twin | military and political crisis by the port cities of Hamburg and Har- recall of Stilwell to Washington. burg. Germany’s largest freight ' Information reaching here indicates rail yards are at Hamm, the | decisions must be made in Chung- third largest serving the western King in the next three to four weeks front. In the Munster and Ham- which may well determine the fate burg areas are targets of oil re- 'of the Chines war. fineries and processing plants. Efforts are now on among the Am- RAF Mosquitos roared far and erican officials there who hope that little real confidence in Chiang wide over Germany last night, ] shooting up trains and road tar- Kai Shek may be able to """‘l the gets and sweeping areas from military and political a(((u_ls in B ienunde 5, Dresden: At Btk |Ier . Mour (IS delay in the gart and Frankfurt they knocked high strategy of the war against out at least 14 trains and left | i |Recall of Stilwell Plunges | Country Info Military and Political Crisis Japan, which depends on the out- come. Imminen{ WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— Chinaj connecting with Belgium, a tiny, geveral others burning. six-mile-long, four-mile-wide corner | American and British planes over | the making and the virtual break- This crisis has been months inj SEABEES T0 EXPLORE OIL | ;Poinl Barrow Permanent Base for Future Operations SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—Work on the | first oil well in the Navy's 35,000 |square miles of oil reserves in | Alaska, about 75 miles east of Point Barrow, is to start in April, Real Admiral Trexel announced at a press conference. He said Point Barrow was a per- manent base camp, occupied by 200 Seabees and naval engineering of- ficers, a virtually complete explora- tory party, and it expects to leave | for the oil area in January | He advised caution in accepting reports that the entire reserve was potential oil land. The biggest problems, he added, will follow the determination of the field's poten- tialities. A survey is being made on the FIELD SOON CANDIDATES | PREPAREFOR FINAL WEEK [Roosevelt foEnd Campaign with Speech at Boston on Saturday (By Associated Press) | State officials now estimate more | | than 44,000,000 persons will vote | {in the election week from to- i morrow. | The remainder of the campaign lis to be packed into the Eastern | and Northeastern States. President | | Roosevelt and Gov Dewey both | {head for Boston to battle for | Massachusetts. | The total vote is estimated at 144,000,000 plus and includes 3 892,000 servicemen. This figure wa compiled by the Associated Pr from state officials, who did the figuring on the basis of incom- | I a AMERICANS FORGE AHEAD, TWO ISLANDS ALLIES AD.VAN(E JAP FLEET "t 5 NEARLY - DESTROYED RO! Oct. 30.—American and British troops of the Fifth Army 158 Enemy Ships Lost in Philippine Battle Com- 'leyie, Samar Now Prac- fically in Hands of Invaders have made new gains in the moun- tains southeast of Bolgona, the com- munique today noting an improve- ment in weather conditions which impeded progress of the Briti: and Swift running streams and wide 2 S running sueams and wiee | nrised Most of Navy have kept the opposing armies still o bogged deep in mud. | UNITED STATES PACIFIC| MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR- American infantry, supported by FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | TERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, VIA tanks, have attacked the Germans|HARBOR, Oct 30—The Third and|ARMY RADIO, Oct. 30.—Hard driv- |ing American forces, who made new have pushed up highway No. 67,|aged 58 Japanese war ships in the|gains of nearly four miles, have leading to Forli, where the Germans | second battle of the Philippine | “virtually accomplished” the libera- are withdrawing in order to avold | gea scoring one of the most crush- | tion of a million and a half Filipinos being isolated. ing naval victories of the war and|on Leyte and Samar Islands, the i TR RE perhaps the most decisive in naval MacArthur communique announced. ] Ap pRlSO"ERS | history, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz| The Yanks control roughly two- MUTINY; SHOT BY r Americans in northern Italy. north of Marno and British lroops;spv(\]‘|]‘ U. S. Fleets sank or dam- | reported thirds of Leyte with an area of approximately 1800 square miles, while on the nearby island of Samar, Japanese garrisons ‘“are ihelpless and can be destroyed at will.” All organized resistance on Leyte |Island has ceased and Americans | The three related actions, which | were fought in the early days of |last week, cost only six American ! Vessels. This overwhelming one- | sided victory was more devastating |to the Nipponese Navy than the plete registration estimates orl DENVER, Colo., Oct. 30. — Three hammering given it in the . first|. ..o this vital area after taking | otherwise qualified voters. | Jap Naval prisoners, who more than | Philippines Sea battle last June The actual vote cast in 1940 was two months ago failed in a hdri!ig, during the early stages of the| Dagami, 2 key communications cen- ter on the main highway. of Belgium, south of the Schelde|ihe weekend began to double the g | ibili & v dow! I as s beel - | feasibility of a pipeline more than PSR g 2 7 1 down of Ching has alyiys been pos 4 L rve to|49:815,000. keri attempt, were shot and killed | American Sa;p;:nl xylr\v::sxm\. | The 24th Division made gains of ‘otal Tol River. The drive across the flooded low-| lands, laced by canals and dikes, | in the campaign to clear the Schelde approaches to the Allxedi harbor of Antwerp, is gaining in| momentum and approaching a con- | clusion after some of the most difficult fighting of the war. | On Walcheren, remnants of German forces are fighting from islands within the island, bits of | land raised above water. Dikes| around the principal cities of Vil-| issingen and Middleburg, which | stood above flood waters, were! Joosed by the Allied bombing of the seawalls, and the Germans ad- attack on Berlin. Fewer than 15 gjple bombers and fighters are missing.| Acting Secretary of State Stettin- P e |ius, asked whether the United States {might call Ambassador Gauss from ju“EAu BANKER | Chungking, said no consideration is | being given to such a move. RHUR“S FROM | Other diplomatic efficials recall |that Gauss has been restless on his assignment, and his relations with S'x.wEEK TRIP the Chinese Government has not |been too warm or cordial for a long e | time. J. F. Mullen Says Buying Is g g WAR FUND Heavy But People Saving Money IS GOING UP; itted y s k | mitteld et many B e B | Back in Juneau after spending the | last six weeks in the States in which | (Continued on Page Sir) The Washington, Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—This week in | Chicago one of the most important international conferences in recent history takes place. It will decide the air routes of the postwar world and will be an early test of our ability to iron things out with the other United Nations. The job will not be easy. Five hundred air delegates and air experts from all the United Nations will convene on the Stevens Hotel in Chicago for the air con- ference. It will almost rival one of the political conventions. Chi- cago was picked for the conference because neither crowded Washing- ton nor New York had a hotel which could conveniently house so many delegates. Already the issues are rigidly drawn—and some of the delegates are not too happy about them. The showdown is between Great Britain and the United States. Briefly put, here are their re- spective positions: UNITED STATES—We favor full and free competition across all the oceans to all countries. We want any U. S. aviation company to have the right to fly to London, Paris, Berlin, Cairo, Australia, New Zealand. In re- turn, we would give other na- tions the same right to land here. The British and Dutch, et al., could put as many companies in the field as they wish and let them all land here. GREAT BRITAIN Favors regulated air traffic by a few selected companies. In flying be- tween New York and London, for instance, the British would measure the traffic. If 80 per cent of the passengers were Am- erican, U. S. pianes would carry 80 per cent of the load. The Dutch would get 5 per cent, if they produced that many passen- gers, and each country propor- tionately. The same rule would he visited New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, | J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank, remarked there is | more ;buying going on now than when he was out six months ago. Throughout the whole Territory He stated there was enough buy-!p. people of Alaska are squarely ing to make a boom but people s i seemed to take it as a matter Oljbehuld the National War Fund and couse. There is no excitement over |they are backing it enthusiastically the big moriey as there was in the jand generously. This is the word last war. |brought to local However, people are not spending campaign head- 1500 miles long, from the res | Fairbanks, where it might be ship- i ped to the coast by tank car or from whence the pipeline might be ex- | tended to an ice-free port. | vision is supervising the job for the 'civil Engineer Division Director for, the Bureau of Yards and Docks. The exploring party, equipped with a small core drill and Stand- ard Oil drilling rig, arrived off Bar: row in a Liberty ship and Naval auxiliary craft, early in August. Ice reefs prevented landing at Cape Simson where seepages are Ob- served. The big base was establish- ed at Point Barrow. ! Weather will not permit the push; until January because the tundra| must freeze so tractors can be used.| - e KIDS, WATCH YOUR ANTICS, | | | | | i The Admiral said the Alaska Di-( in the Fitzsimmons General Hospital last night when they rushed guards in a mutiny. Iships in the second battle was 24 Brig. Gen. Omar Quade, com- ships sunk, including four car- |manding officer at Fitzsimmons, riers and two battleships, 13 so | who announced “he outbreak, said | geverely damaged they may have | that the Board-of Officers Wil in|yo’ e sunk, -and .2t dathaged: | vestigate the guard who is being| «Amplifying reports, —although | held in technical detention. |5t subject to revision as more in- | The three Japs who were captured foymation s received, indicate |in the South Pacific, tried to commit | suerwhelming victory,” the Ad- | hari kari last August 11, but the| iai ctated ES(APE GAP attempt failed when guards found| gic 1100-word communique, the | northwest coast, to Panaoan Island, |them in time and they were “”“ed‘nrst since he received 1)1‘clhmnury‘°“ the southeast coast, with land IN HUNGARY by physicians. All three were t““flgures Wednesday night, said .Am‘,;furces falling back before armored | | berculosis ; proniosls PRRISEN }ananeso Fleet has been defeated | AMmerican might. | Mankino, |up to four miles in a three pronged drive toward the island’s northwest coast, and cut off the major enemy escape route, Guerilla forces and the 21st In- fantry Regiment have conquered the couthern third of Leyte, and patrols are cutting westward across the |narrow land neck from Abuyog.to cut island segments. | Americans hold unbroken the 212 mile coastline from Caraga, on the Big Sa‘urday Night Roosevelt is expected in Boston | Saturday night, and his Republi- Nimitz said the toll of enemy " (Continued on 7Puge’ siz) | T 3 * ate | | he dead are Chief Gunner’s Mate and routed in the second battle of | Japanese aircraft continued day Warrant Offi -1 “ 4 arrant Officer Naka=|y o pyiioine Sea which ranks all| 209, Disht ralds “of harassing na ture” against shipping and store in- SAY POLICE Rail Jundi(;n— faken—IOO,- | 000 Nazis in Baltic Sea Area Liquidated | LONDON, Oct. 30.—The last mil: | escape route of the Germans in| | northeastern Hungary was blocked | by the Russians today with the cap- | | ture of Csap, on the upper Tisza | River, while to the north Berlin | reported further Russian gains and i | | | [ | |gawa and Pfc. Okada. major sea battles in World War > II in the Pacific.” stallations. Overwhelming Victory | Not more than possibly two Japa- nese warships escaped destruction lor damage in the battles of Ll\ree\‘ phases, the Admiral said. His re- | ports indicate an overwhelming de- HALLOWE'EN PIE AT A' L Io“|GH |feat, unquestionably the most e lcrushing in the history of naval Tomight is Navy Night at the warfare. t gsfiout‘ w"’:_"_m Amt?ricaxx Legion | Never before, as far as it could ;eo‘;’_‘gif“c:“:‘t’:e’;““‘ 4 his other | learned, has any nation's fleet| and his other|pee, g nearly destroyed. Naval| GOB NIGHT WITH | | | | WISCONSIN ACEDOWNS 33 PLANES | the liquidation of an estimated hun-| Gobs and Marines, if they don't mix |observers stated that Tokyo threw | all their money, Mullen said. Sav- ings banks throughout the country ings. show a’substantial increase in sav-| “quarters by Mrs. John McCormick, ! Territorial chairman for the Fund,| | Chief of Police John Monagle f)n hf.q- return from her trip f.o Lhe,wday issued & warning to the kids interior and westward made in r,he‘;or Juneau that he expects their interests of the drive. Mullen said people are not talk- Juneau's own response to this ing much about the coming presi- dential election although the papers | humanitarian appeal continues to are full of the subject. be enthusiastic and generous. Over On the West Coast there is still |the week-end the tolal contributions a labor shortage, Mullen said as mounted to $8324, an increase of there has been quite a shift in popu- |approximately. a thousand dollars lation from the Coast back to their |above the figures announced on homes in the Middle West. Friday. West Coast residents are con- cerned over the coming reconversion said Jack Fletcher, chairman of the to peace-time goods, fearing the East Jocal Campaign Committee this will change over first and beat them ! morning, “an example to all the rest to the markets. of us is being furnished by the Fili- People think some of their troubles | pino Community Association. Its with food rationing would end when | president, Eddie Blardi, tells me the European war is over, Whichthat the gifts to the Fund from its they think would end in a few weeks | members will exceed $400. This sum if the weather would break. is to be designated for Filipino Re- The Army is still taking entire |jjef. This exceedingly fine total is food packs as they have been doing an indication of the loyalty of the since the beginning of the war. |Association’s members to this all- In San Francisco, Mullen ylsi'fldmmerimn effort, as well as a prac- his wife and two daughters, Virginia | tjca] demonstration of how inspiring N. Durney and Beatrice Mullen. Vir- has been the recent war news from ginia is employed by an insurance ]lheir native land.” firm and Beatrice by a firm of | The nation-wide drive for the Na- attorneys. tional War Fund is scheduled to close on November 11th. TIf is | hoped, however, that Juneau's quota may be over-subscribed ccnsiderably in advance of that date. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 30. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine i +istock today is 6%, American Can ENGINEERS AT GASTINEAU lgg., anaconda 27, Beech Aircraft Glenn Nezerit and T. W. Brian,| gy Bethlehem Steel 63%, Com- Engineers with the CAA, are in monwealth and Southern %, Cur- town and are guests at the Gas-|tiss-Wright 6, International Harvest- tineau Hotel. er 77%, Kennecott 34%, North Am- e erican Aviation 114, New York Cen- tral 18, Northern Pacific 15%, Unit- H. L. McConell, George Voaraed States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. and Joe Henshaw are here from| Dow, Jones averages today are as - BUTCHER HERE James Butcher is registered at the Baranof Hotel from Seattle. — - — PETERSBURG MAN HERE Olof Amess is in town from Petersburg and registered at the Gastineau Hotel — e, e HERE FROM ANCHORAGE (Continued on Page Four) Anchorage and are registered at follows: Industrials, 146.28; rails, the Baranof Hotel. 41.30; utilities, 25.37. “On the subject of enthusiasm,”| same “honor” tonight and tomor- row night, during the celebration |of Hallowe'en. ] | For the past two yeaxs, becaulie rof the war, the kids have been on their “honor” mnot to be destructive to property, including autos, and he expects the same this year. The little kids are well behflvedi also, and enjoy their “treat or| trick.” The chief reminds all curfew will ring as usual at 10 | o'clock. - e - MAJOR FISHER ENROUTE '\SOUTH; CAPT. McNICHOL IS | NEW PORT (OMMANDER | 1 Major W. T. Fisher, for the past 15 months Port Commander at the | Juneau Sub-Port of Embarkation, is | enroute on a new assingment and Capt. B. A. McNichol today assumed the duties as commanding officer of the local port. Major Fisher came to Juneau over { H. Bannick as Port Commander. Prior to his departure, he was bid farewell at several informal | parties and last week was honored | at a dinner given by officers and | employees at the sub-port. | e DIVORCES FILED In the office of the Clerk of| Ithe U. S. District Court, the fol-| {lowing have today filed for di- vorces: Atlanta E. King, from Clyde E. i King, incompatibility. Ida B. Frank from Oscar B. Frank, abuse. James F. Lantry, from Loretta E. Lantry, incompatibility. | ’ | dred thousand Nazis pinned against | | the Baltic Sea. | Csa[\, the junction of four rail | lines“at the southwestern edge of titerated Ruthenia, was occupied | yesterday by troops of General Pet- | rov’s Fourth Ukraine Army, who fought their way 50 miles across the | mountains into eastern Czechoslo-| vakia, Moscow said. The Berlin announcement said | | that Soviet troops, attacking in ed at the Hotel Juneau. western Latvia, penetrated the Prie- kule area, 20 miles southeast of the Baltic port of Leipaja, and captured | that the AUcCe, a communications center, 70 from Whitehorse and is registered | gperling announced that most of | |at the Baranof Hotel. i { miles east of Leipaja. The Moscow communique, one of | the briefest in weeks, didn’'t con-| firm Berlin reports on the Latvla‘; offensive nor did it mention the East Prussian front, where heavy ... Skagway. fighting is raging along the Kaunas- | Konigsberg highway. | Berlin said attacks against thick | German defenses southwest of Eben- rode and south of Gumbinnen, im- | port highway points, are growing wedker. | ——————— SECRETARY OF ALASKA ON PETERSBURG TRIP | | Lew M, Williams, Secretary of Al- | aska and now Acting Governor, on B ‘ year ago to relieve Major John| "ot huginess trip to Petersburg, B. Ward, Jr,, with Lytle and Green | is expected to return to Juneau today. { ————— MOLLER IN JUNI Dan Moller,_at;r_l; Sitka, is in| Juneau and is registered at the Baranof. iRl S S TO KETCHIKAN L. (Doc) Burkette of thi v | EAU 1 Cpl. e |1ocal ACS office left for Ketchikan | P on the Princess Louise. - e — FROM HOOD BAY Joren McIntosh is registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Hood Bay. | it, are in charge of the doings. Hal- ,‘virtually rything she had into the desperate attempt to surprise jand trap the Third and Seventh | Fleets and wipe out MacArthur's lowe’en pie will be hashed out. - e, EMMA SMITH HERE | LEYTE AIRFIELD IN THE | PHILIPPINES, Oct, 30. — A Jap plane destroyed itself today while trying to escape from the deadly guns of Richard Bong which were Emma Smith is registered at the |mighty Leyte Island invasion force. Gastineau Hotel from Skagway. L AAREL w4 AR wom rorriaxp | HARRY SPERLING BACK FROM lOGGING pRo'E( | The Poplar, Wisconsin, ace shot down his 31st less than three hours s prie Harry Sperling, Assistant General ,¢or he landed, got his 32nd this 2 328 L Manager for the Alaska Spruce Log | p oo u it Tiri = argaret Lernon is here piane from Edna Bay. | Bong roflred s the ale j\;st e three Jap fighter pombers swept to- 5 ik SLY | the equipment and supplies from the | gorq lhz airl Pofle put mspp-:u e | logging project have been disposed Lightning in a steep climb and went. AT THE BARANOF of in Southeast Alaska and the re- | ;¢cor'the Jap plane which hadn’t yet Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wallace are mainder was shipped to Seattle. A!dropped its bombs. Jogkeying to get registered at the Baranof Hotel scow load of the equipment for| . .. 'of the way o!lBong’s guns, the | delivery and disposal was towed to | jab biot pulled into a i St | Juneau by the Ranger X and arrived | o (o same time, jettisoned his U MANGAER BACK | here yesterday, he also stated. bombs to'kain more speed. A botab Jack Carvel, Manager of the| ] T | struck the tail of ‘the Nipponese local USES office, returned to his| CONFIRMATION CLASS | plane and tore it off wm,zm ex- desk today aiter being confined | WILL MEET TO! ploding. The tailless plane crashed T to his home with a severe cold PR ‘mm the water. for almost two weeks. The confirmation class of the SR TS - {l-:px.s(-opul Church will meet tonight | FAIRBANKS MEN HERE at 7 oclock in Trinity Hall for (ARRIER plANES R. Cranshaw, M. V. Gard, instruction, according to announce- ~ DESTROY CRUISER william S. Brown, P. F. Barnet, | ment. David Barnes, A. F. Price and W.| PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 30.—Third |held at 8 o'clock this evening in|Fleet carrier planes probably sank 'the Grade School auditorium, Alllone heavy ecruiser, damaged two parents, teachers and friends srei}umers and an oil tanker, and de- According to advlcvcs recelved byi"m"(d "_07 “F“:d' £l ‘r;?g:d,e:zwl'u:ak;’: ufi‘;_‘u:;r:r::f the U. 8. Marshal’s office here NEW SECRETARY TO |land, Saturddy and Sunday. They from Deputy Marshal Louls Ra-| MEDICAL DIRECTOR falso destroyed three coastal cargo puzzi of Skagw’a,\:. anvmqucst has| Gorene V. Sangef has arrived in vessels near Cebue, Admiral Nimitz en held at Haines in regard 0! juneau to accept the position as reported in his communique. the death of Malcolm Miller and | gecretary to Dr. Edgar W. Norris,| Although Nimitz didn’t say so, it the jury’s decision was “death by Medical Director for the Alaska In- | is considered probable that the three suicide.” | dian Service. Miss Sanger, formerly |cruisers might have been refugees Miller took his own life last employed at the District Engineers’ from last week’s naval battle in the week by shooting himself throughoffice in Fairbanks, has just re- Sibuyan Sea and San Bernadino the head with a rifle. ' turned from a vacation in the States. Strait. | helping America’s top ranking fight- er ace run his string of victoiies | to 33. The last trio was bagged during his first 72 hours in the Philippines. & | HERE F | i i | Mr. and Mrs, Harry A. Ward are here from Portland and are register- | | s P-TA - MEETING Construction Company, are here P 9 from Fairbanks and are "eg“wredJP;:EL-";S:J; :;50:‘;‘:;: ‘::HH:: at the Gastineau Hotel. 7 | o e INQUEST AT HAINES ON MALCOLM MILLER DEATH