The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1944, Page 1

s < THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIIL, NO. 9797 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = SUPERFORTS OVER TOKY( IS JAP CLAIM British Commandos Land on Walcheren Isle BIG DRIVE IS STARTED ON ANTWERP Canadians TI?O Establish | Beachhead After Nazi Resistance Weakens BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 1 British Commandos stormed ashore on the southern coast of Walcheren Island, and tonight are making good progress in a pincers drive to smash the last Germans barring the sea lanes to Antwerp. The sea-borne forces landed as the Canadians burst across the steel-torn causeway onto the eastern edge of the is- land and established a small beachhead there despite Nazi re- sisiance. BLOCK ANTWER? SEA LANES LONDON, Nov. 1.—Allied amphib-; ious forces have landed on the south | shore of Walcheren Island, assault- ing the last Nazi gun positions blocking the sea lanes to Antwerp,| according to a Berlin radio picked up here. The broadcast also said the sea- borne strike is aimed at Vlissinger, Jf Walcheren.| ad’s largest city. « was made.at the ns, to the east, arrow causeway ‘eveland . Island through a wall of enemy fire. The German radio also declared that on the front in France, a strong American attack, supported by more than 100 tanks, captured Montigny, 15 miles east of Lineville. The Ger- man communique also said French elements have entered Bccarat, 14 miles east of Lineville. b . o . ~graprpu O’BRIEN ARRESJED Arrested on a cnarge of issuing checks without funds, William O’'Brien was arraigned yesterday afternoon by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray and his bond was set at $1,000. He is in the Federal jail. The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—One thing Capi- tal observers will especially watch, should Gov. Dewey enter the White House, i§ whether he will prosecute certain political cases now before the Justice Department. Dewey has been hammering home the promise that he would clean up Washington and ‘it so happens that some new political cases have just come up. ‘They involved alleged violations of the Corrupt Practices Act, which 1equires that all political parties file a list of their contributions at regular intervals, and that no con- tributions be received from cor- porations. Just a few days ago, the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee unearthed the fact that Roosevelt- hating American Democratic Na- tional Committee, whose high- sounding name is not to be con- fused with the regular Democratic National Committee, had received contributions from three corpora- tions—Advance Aluminum Casting Company, of Chicago: R. B. Walker Co., of Mobile, Alabama, and the Potash Company of America, Carlsbad, New Mexico. NQ REPORT ON CONTRIBUTORS It was also revealed that the American Democratic Committee had kept secret the names of some contributors and had filed no re- port on contributors for the public to scrutinize. Among others, a $1,432 contribution from General Robert E. Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck and organizer of the America First Committee, was kept secret. What the Justice Department W AR i S C S AR, (Continued on Page Four) RUSSIAN TROOPS ONLY 43 MILES FROM BUDAPEST New Soviet Ofienswe Now! | Sweeping Swiftly To- | ward Capital City MOSCOW, Nov. 1—Russian mo- |torized infantry is clearing scat- |tered enemy detachments on three |sides of Kesckemet, while other Red |Army troops are battling fiercely \ln the streets of the city, 44 miles| southeast of Budapest, late fmm.l | dispatches said. Soviet tanks, artillery and mhm-I try are pouring into the 60-mile PLATFORM OUTLINED BYDEWEY \ GOP Nomin;e_Says Roose- velt Is Making False Campaign Promises BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 1—Charg- |ing President Roosevelt with mak- |ing “bogus” campaign promises,| Gov. Thomas E. Dewey last night outlined a Republican program and said he would bring “an end to {government by abuse and smear.”|wide break in the enemy’s de- The GOP nominee declared in|fenses between the Danube and ithe Memorial Auditorium that lf Tisza Rivers, dispatches added, at| he wins the Presidency in next‘captuled Iszak, 17 miles southwest | Tuesday’s election he will take of-|of Kesckemet. | !Iice January 20 “without a promise| Russians are only 43 miles below |expressed or implied to @ living|Budapest, Red Star, official Soviet soul” except public campnign‘Army organ, disclosed. The new | pledges he had made. |offensive is aimed at Budapest No 1000 Club jand got under way three days agow “There is no 1000 Club in my |when it overran the defense zone | party and I have not offered the where the enemy had concentrated jgovernment of the United States |las many as 20 anti-tank guns to {for sale at $1000 to any man and a mile. | {never will to anyone at any price.| Thus far, the offensive has swept | Your new administration will take up 200 Hungarian cities, towns and office honestly, without secret villages and more than 4,000 pris- | promise of special privileges to any |oners have been taken. The Rus- Dewey'sinns now control several hundred square miles of the ‘new territory. |class or group or section,” said. Party Platform Her'e,"th " Urlef, I¥“what he sard| ;Lhe Republicans will do if they are | | victorious: LONDON, Nov. 1.—The Berlin | “Direct all government policies radio said tonight that the German toward the goal of full employ- and Hungarian troops have aband- ment through full production at a|oned Kesckemet, the fourth largest high wage level. Hungarian city, 44 miles from Buda- “Adopt an entirely new tax struc- pest. ture designed primarily to create, The Moscow dispatch said that Jobs. Russian tanks were clanking over “Make our Social Security Sys-|the flat Hungarian plain within 40, tem available to every American. | miles of the Capital City. “Establish a definite and secure| stalin issued an order today an- floor under farm prices. |nouncing the liberation of the en- “Restore free collective bargain-|tire Petsamo region, Finland, ceded ing in America. to Russia under the armistice terms. “Abolish the greater part of gov-| The region is one of the world’s ernment reports required from both |richest nickel regions, and contains big and little businesses. Port Petsamo, which was taken last “Bring an end to business mon- |month. opoly through acquisition of a| MR . i i competent saff of prosecutors in| the Department of Justice.” NAZI (ITI ES e | NALZIS EVACUATE BALKAN SEAPORT 800 PLANES ;American and British Air OF SALONIKA| Forces Wind Up Record Month-60,000 Flights ! Command announced that its LONDON, Nov. .—American forces have evacuated Salonika, | the principal Balkan seaport and the second city in Greece, The Al- lied Headquarters disclosed this earlier. When British patrols reached the | city, a pall salynnikapmr osfev:x::k:.;%o:;:rhenvma from the west and south Germans carried out demolitions. m:;: :,n‘de ';{::‘mc M‘ fiei ;'k‘;:ohe:i e e M “‘:;‘t‘::g‘eda:g the biggest British aircraft rekind- 4 4 iled fires among the ruins of Cologne against enemy rearguards north of |p.sore dawn today. Kozane, Headquarters said. About 300 Liberators, Fortresses Dy TR 1A and escorting fighters attacked syn- | thetic oil plants at Gelsenkirchen, a | hundred miles north of Cologne, and |railways feeding the western front at Hamm and Coblenz. ‘The RAF raids wound up the rec- ord month for the American and plANE oumu‘l"mmsp ajr forces, in which more {than 60,000 flights were made by bombers and fighters. Approxi- mately 400 planes were lost. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 1 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine |stock today is 64, American Can '87%, Anaconda 27%, ‘Beech Air- craft 10%, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Commonwealth and Southern 7%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 77%, Kennecott 347%, < N S AR = e S ABANDON KESCKEBIET | [ WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The| United States built 145,480 combat | planes, 74,953 of which were bomb-| ers and 70,627 fighters, between July | 1, 1940, and September 30, 1944. This was disclosed gy WPB and for | | the first time detailed figures on air. craft producfion by, types were re« leased. Other planes and transports came to 17,592, naval reconnaissance, 2345; trainers, 54,642, communications, 10,785; planes for five special pur- poses, 1459; making a total of 232, 403. North American Aviation 11%, New ———————— York Central 18, Northern Pacific FLYING TO FAIRBANKS ~ [15%, United States Steel 58%, Three persons leaving for Faire Pound $4.04. banks today via PAA, were Everett E. Smith. H. Foss and Joseph A.ifollows: Industrials, Luthro. 41.66; utilities, 25.67. 146, | through DECISIVE FIGHT DUE ON LEYTE Suicidal Counterattacks of Japanese Expected at Anyfime BEVA Ml:mLI:.IN SPEdNCfiR é}EN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD - QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- | PINES, Nov. 1—American 24th Dis vision troops, aided by powerful mechanical units, rolled northwest the Leyte Valley above Jaro today, within eight miles of {the Carigara Bay positions which the Japanese have been reinforc- ing for a week. A final enemy suicidal counter-attack in that area at any time within the next few days is expected by Maj. Gen. Franklin C. Sibert, Commander of the Tenth Corps. The Japanese are persistently sneaking barges into Ormoc Bay and islands on the west coast, de- spite destruction wreaked by prowling night air patrols. They are said by a headquarters spokes- man to be either planning to make a stand at Ormac and more than 20 miles to the north around | Carigara, or are setting up & peri- ¢ er defense witly fresh ffdops in an attempt to evacuate remnants of the Japanes 16th Division, the same Nipponese force which or-| ganized the Bataan “March of | Death.” Headquarters announced this 2,594 JAP AIRCRAFT Down-Losses Huge in Philippine Fight By CHARLES H. McMURTRY (A. P, Correspondent) UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | HARBOR, Nov. |wiped out 2,594 enemy aircraft, and iperhaps 252 more, in the months dating from the time the task forces opened up on August 30 with the Philippine pre-invasion raids and extending through the itrio of naval battles in the Philip- pines area. During the same from the Bonins assault on through Palau, Ryukuyus, Formosa, and the Philippines to October 31—attack- ing planes of the Seventh and Third Fleets lost approximately 300 planes, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced. Many American pilots and crews of the downed planes were rescued. Sea Craft Losses The assessment of the enemy’s staggering air losses followed the mumque reporting mnc Japlrr uffeied 4t Teast 60 worships |week ._and probably the 35,000 of its naval personnel, lcluding a few admirals. in- {duction is estimated to be from WIPED OUT Enemy Caugh—t with Planes| 1—Carrier planes | two | period—dating | i 4 sunk'or damaged within the past | loss of Inasmuch as Japanese plane pro- gathering fight in the communique, {1200 to 1,500 planes a month, the | also reporting the annihilation' of action just about rubbed out all a trapped Japanese force rurtherq);at the Nippon aircraft factories south in Leyte Valley near Dagami. ‘tould turn out in the same period. American flame-throwers killed be-| Admiral Nimitz suggested that tween 1,500 and 2,000 Japanese in'the 2594 total is subject to an the trap and wrecked a score D(u'xpected revision upwards, saying pillboxes. “IL was a ‘“‘conservative recapitula- The First Cavalry Division bat-!tion.” tled west toward Carigara posi-| tions, less than five miles away| from captured Burigo on the coast. >, Ground Bags |peatedly with his “planes down” |that the grounded bag was 1,132, ROCKED BY BLAST | AS DEGAULLE TALKS | |Japanese vessels, including a de- stroyer, the Navy announcéd, in the .wake of the U. S. Naval of- ficial's statement that the Nippon- ese fleet has been hammered and BULLETIN — PARIS, Nov. 1 broken: in the Philippines Sea ac- Part of a trainload of explosives parked on a suburban siding ex- ploded a few m'nutes after De- Gaulle made an All Saints’ Day speech in a nearby cemetery. tions and is a “deud bird.” 'AMERICANS HURl * BACK GERMANS; PARIS, Nov. 1—An explosion to- day rocked a Paris suburb, believed to possibly be Vincennes, 15 min- utes after Gen. Charles DeGaulle made one n a series of All Saints’| Day speeches there. While it might have been an heaq across the Ronco River, south attempt against DeGaulle’s life, of the Po Valley stronghold of Forli French officials expressed the view and cleared the Germans from Mel- that it was sabotage and only co- dola. incidental with tke speech. Allied Headquarters said the Ger- The War Ministry said that con- man troops facing the Fifth Army siderable damage and some cas-(in the Central Sector south of Bol- ualties resplted. |ogna had thrown in heavy counter- |attacks yesterday in an effort to wipe out several Allied salients. Ameris % f Churdhill Promofes ;h::d o P B oo i vk Only patrolling and artillery duels occurmd elsewhere. His Representative | To China fo L1. Gen. ‘DeIealed Democrat LONDON, Nov. 1.—Maj. Gen. de! Wiart, personal representative of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Chiang Kai Shek, has| been promoted temporarily t6 Lieu-| tenant General, it is announced. CONTRACTORS MEET Exercises His Peeve WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Repre- |sentative Richard Kleberg, Texas iDemocmt. today said he had cast |his absentee ballot for Gov. Thomas | E. Dewey. TOMORROW EVENING .roa”Tor’ Roscners "ot s ety © | tyrants,” who he said serve Govern-| With All conmcum interested in the ment agencies and bureaus. new building code, are requested to! Council Chambers of the City Hall. since the Illbl of 1931, The enemy was caught so re-| F » | “B” or “Rocky Mountain Trench” route. FIERCE FIGHTING ROME, Nov. 1. — Eighth Army| ‘rarees today improved the beach-| 'Has Voled for Dewey; |eppointment of Harry E. Honius |as Deputy Collector of Customs at 'New Alaska Highway Proposal Put Forth | | | | | | 1 e - gl A R D ALBERTA LEGEND ~ EXISTING ROADS il PROPOSED ROAD e POSSIBLE TRUNK ROADS e FUTURE EXTENSION === The above highway route to Alaska is offered by Dewey Bullock, prominent engineer, and accompanies a forceful story in the Mining ! World, a Miller Freeman publication of Seattle. The route proposed | has the fellowing specific points of advantage: It is the most direct route, being approximately 700 miles from | Prince George, B. C, to Whitehorse, Yukon Terrtiory. It is 90 miles shorter than the original “A” route. Il is 110 miles shorter than the 1t is 190 miles shorter than the “Hazelton” route. This is the only route that lends itself to laterals in both directions, in British Columbia, to the Coast, and into the Alaska panhandle. It will tap territory containing natural resources that will produce the neces- | sary revenue to justify construction and maintenance costs. It is the least difficult to construct and maintain, encountering less rock work, with milder weather conditions and much less snow fall.; No grade more than two percent. No elevation more than 3450 feet.! ;Only one major bridge to be constructed over Stikine River and a con- | siderably less number of streams to cross than other routes. Estimated cost of the highway, $14,000,000. (The cost of constructing the “Alcan” highway was approximately 311‘4,00,000.) COAST GUARDSMAN !Ouadruplels Born {Through Caesarian | quadruplete, thres st anan | That was the startled cry that jcame from four frightened hikers last Sunday morning as they round- ed a bend of the narrow Mount Roberts trail and came face to face with a 200-pound black bear. The hikers, Chief C. L. Hessey ahd Mrs. Hessey, Raymond Kline, and Joseph Cirminello, wife of Joseph Cirm'nello, Securities Exchange Commission Financial Analyst. She gave birth to the children in {wo minutes. | It was a caesarian operation, the first ever performed with a quadruplet birth. | The X-ray showed that the quads were expected, but the news was kept from the mother. NEW DEPUTY COLLECTOR APPOINTED, SKAGWAY Collector of Customs James J. Connors, Sr., today announced the ptarmigans without success all mor- ning and had started back down the trail toward the basin when Mr. Bruin made his appearance. { For a few panic-filled moments the three Coast Guardsmen and Mrs. Hessey stood paralyzed with fright. Then Hessey did the only| thing that could be done—aimed| his .22 rifle and fired! ‘The beast gave a mighty roar and charged. Three more shots in rapid | succession went into his body, the fourth striking the Dear's heart. With a groan the bear fell dead| |lector Ray G. Day, who has been | | transferred to Ladd Field, o Kleberg was defeated for renom-|His appointment. is for the dura- W, Jones averages today -re A5 jattend a meeting which is to be held| |ination in the Texas Democratic|tion of the war. , | tomerrow evening at 8 o'clock in the'primary after serving in the Housej Skagway. He succeeds Deputy Col- at their feet, leaving the hlkeh weak and shaken. Chief Hessey, however, rallied to |the occasion, skinned his victim (and brought the hide triumphantly to town; having completed his sec- ond requirement for the rating of¢ | & sourdough. § | e eee— FROM SEATTLE J. B. Hendershot from Seattle, (Fair- banks.) Mr. Honius was recently given lan honorable discharge from the S. Army after having served’ the armed forces to the westward for the past two years. LeRoy Watkins had been hunting|ernment and Army Commanc | reconcile INIPS EXCITED AS FORTS GO OVER CAPITAL ,Four-engin;IPlanes Re- ported fo Have Raided Factory District (By Associated Press) The Tokyo radio today sputtered for hours about a Superfort raid on the Japanese Capital City, but || the War Department in Washington sald it has “no information about ;| any aerial operations over Japan.” Tokyo has not been hit by Ameri- /| ¢an bombs in more than two years. In a series of confused reports, ‘| the Tokyo radio said one Superfort appeared from a newly developed base in the Marianas Islands and appeared over the Capital City but left “without attempting attacks.” Another report said several four engined planes were over the City, and that at least ten planes raided the factory district, throwing the ;| workers into confusion. The reports all agreed that an enemy plane or planes were over the Tokyo area about 1 p.m. Wed- nesday (Tokyo time,) At the ume of the Marianas in- vasion there was much speculation on whether engineers ecould build ing ‘ot Toltyo 1y B-28s." %ahuuhueon&mtormrm‘ PARTIALLY EXPLAINED | Roosevelt r% About Stil- well-Gauss Resigns- Trouble Not Over BULLETIN—NEW YORK, Nov. 1—A Jap broadcast, -beamed at China last night, urged Chiang to join his “kith and kin of 1,000,000,000 peoples in Asia” in Japan’s war aga'nst the United States and Britain, The broadcast, recorded by CBS, followed the announcement of Stilwell's recall from China, and declared that “it might be easy to deal with Communists with Japanese aid.” WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — Presi~ dent Reosevelt is making a clean sweep of top-ranking American personnel in China including Am- bassador Gauss in a supreme ef- fort to reinvigorate the Cihnese war effort under the leadership of Chiang Kai Shek. Doubt that the move will ceed is already apparent in tary quarters here where strat speak with less confidence 'China’s future war role. Dip tists are still hopeful Chiang be induced to shake up his himself to the munists in North China in |to strengthen the governmen) The whole issue within ( should come to a head in Kuomintang Party's Central cutive Committee meeting in middle of this month. Apparently to save what he in line with the American | of building up China as a . vo.t power now and making it a & post-war nation, the Pres made these moves: President’s Aetion (1) Recall Gen. Joseph St ' i from his triple China-India-Burma command at the request of Chiang and replace him with Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer. 2) Announced at yesterday’s news - conference the resignation of Am- " bassador Gauss. Close official associates of Gauss —————————— BUY WAR BONDS is in Juneau at present, registered at the Gastineau Hotel. said virtually up to the time of | o (Continued on Page Six)