The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1944, Page 1

> 9 "THE DAILY VOL. LXIV., NO. 9800 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1944 ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS APS LAND REINFORCEMENTS ON LEYTE Nazis Are Warned of Huge Allied Offensive AMERICANS JAB CLOSE T0 RHINE First Army Forces Reach Roer River, Only 28 Miles from Nazi Water Barrier LONDON, Nov. 4—Allied Armies, jabbing all along the 500-mile western front, today racked up con- sistent local gains as the Berlin radio dinned warnings that Eisen- hower’s forces are massed for a huge offensive. | The American thrust at Ger-| many, 15 miles southeast of Aachen, lost speed as it collided with stif- fening resistance after capturing| the town of Schmidt, but forged| ahead for small gains with the aid| of fighters and bombers, which| are blasting German infantry and| tanks in its path. | In this area, U. S. First Army/ I vgterans are shoving down the last; 1,000 yards toward the Roer River, the next hardest enemy barrier on the way to the Rhine, 28 miles east. ! Gen. Hodge's infantry is appar- ently shouldering its way up to the jumpoff line on the Roer out of the forest belt onto the edge of Cologne plains, where every hour will be one grim menace to the German Army's uneasy line. i The U. S. Third Army front is| quiet, but American Seventh and| French First Armies hit forward steadily in the Vosges foothills on the fog-ridden front where day- light is only between 8 a. m. and 4 p. m the maritime Alps, Allied forces captured Sospel and several nearby villages overlooking the: Italian frontier above Mentone. In the Maas River bulge, in east- ern Holland, American troops | swarmed over the south Willems Canal above Nedersweert, and drove the enemy back 4,000 yards, cap- turing Ospel and reaching the vi- cinity of Groenwood in thrusts to- ward the German border at Venlo. In western Holland, Polish and British troops drove two miles deeper into the dwindling German bridgehead below the Maas, with its seaward arm toward Hollandsch and Diep. WOMAN'S (LUB WiILL HAVE NOON LUNCHEON All women of Gastineau Chan- nel are invited to the Woman’s Club hot dish luncheon which will be held at noon, Tuesday, in the Presby- terian Church. Reservations may be made by phoning Mrs. Fred Paul at Red 180. The program will be under the direction of Mrs. Robert Sanford, and guest speakers are A, B. Phil- lips, Superintendent of Schools, and D. B. Stewart, Commissioner of Mines. ALEUTIAN ARRIVES IN PORT LATE LAST NIGHT The Aleutian arrived here last night at midnight with the follow- ing passengers: R. V. Vaughn, Van Lee Vaughn, David Vaughn, Berta Vaughn, Charles Tuengel, Mrs. Murl M. Bunnell, Hans Arnevik, F. J. Hart, A. B. Cain, V. R. Farrell, Alfred Wellweber, Walter Gamble, Verne Lewis, Miles Lewis, Nelson Fellows. Oscar Martin, Emil Foxhiil, Salo Werner, Edward Anderson, Charles Doucette, Thomas Martinez, Ru- dolph Nooas, Lynn Vernon, Wilbur Irwin, George Maddin, Fred Hash, Joe Pinkston, C. J. Todd, Robert Hayes and Arthur Kenneway. Outgoing passengers are; E. C. Dewhirst, R. M. Nicoz, Mrs. J. H. Geyer, Ed Rosine, George Haber- korn, Vera Haberkorn, Mrs. H. L. Ogden, Otto Cavelcorn, Max Behr- man, Rod Mitrovich, E. J. Craw- ford, Mable Crawford, P. L. Killeen, Frances Lenay and Joe Wiggins, |shop and the Juneau City Mission| | COURT OF AWARDS 1S McNAMARA NAMED CITY ENGINEER AT COUNCIL MEETING At the regular meeting of the City Council last night, the office of building inspector and city en- gineer was restored and James L. McNamara was elected to the office. He was PWA engineer in Juneau at the time most of the streets were paved. The Council is also sending Chief of Police John Monagle to jhe FBI schodl to be conducted this month at Ketchikan, and his transporta- tion and expenses will be paid by the city. The Council also decided to send councilmen Elroy Ninnis and Keith Wildes to Ketchikan this month to obtain from that city its figures and line-up on the tax survey now being made by Howard S. Henretta. Such information as they obtain is to be submitted to the City Council here for study. Henretta has offered to make a similar survey here. The application of D. B. Femmer for a taxicab stand in front of Jack’s Smoke Shop was reduced to| a one-car stand, in front of the after a letter of protest from W. P.| Johnson was read to the Council. The application of Carl Bergstrom for a taxicab stand in front of the New York Tavern was granted after he changed the stand location to the old Broadway Cab Stand at the corner of Admiral Way and South Franklin Street. He was granted permission after he promised to keep his cars on the lot, off the street whenever possible. . Other matters to cime before the Council were the following: A. B, Hayes revealel that a special meet- ing had been held nn November 1 and Keith Wildes had been sworn in as Councilman, and at the same time both Wildes and Don Skuse were sworn in as special policemen. The Mayor told the Council that Bishop J. R. Crimont and the Epis-| copal Church, property owners on either side of the Blomgren property on Gold Street, had agreed to have their portion of the sidewalk re- paired at the same time the other work was done, the city to pay one- third. A letter of protest was read from Arthur H. Walther protesting a light pole biocking the alleyway be- tween A and B Streets on W. Ninth Street. The letter was referred to| the street committee for study. It was announced that bids for driving piling in the small boat harbor would close on November 10. at 1 p. m. The administrator of the Roberts Row property presented a letter from a Montreal lawyer saying he had, as yet, been unable to locate all of the estate heirs. Repairs were ordered to certain streets and sidewalks and near the close of the meeting a discussion arose on the best methods of keep- ing the city tax rolls up to date, and when to appoint the assessor. Mayor Hayes said the assessor should be appointed the same time as other appointive officials and not two months later. All councilmen were present at the meeting last night. T0 BE HELD IN ELKS HALL SUNDAY AT TWO Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Elk’s Hall the Juneau- Douglas Girl Scout council is to hold its fall court of awards. This will conclude local observance of National Girl Scout Week. The public is cordially invited and persons unable to attend are invited to tune into KINY, which will broadcast the program. The Juneau-Douglas Scouts now have a membership of 150 girls in the Brownie and Girl Scout troops. USO FORMAL DANCE IS GIVEN TONIGHT The formal dance of the USO will be given tonight in the Scot- tish Rite Temple. Music will start at 9:30 o'clock, it is announced. CASUALTIES ARE HEAVY IN ITALY| ROME, Nov. 4. — The battle of Ttaly, it was announced today, has taken a total of 116,150 Allied cas- ualties since the opening offensive for Cassino. on May 11, until it stalled in the’ muddy Po Valley approaches, An Allied communique said that activity was confined to patrolling. Gen. Alexander announces that German casualties, dating from May 11, were 194,000. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON @t. Col.” Robert . Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Editor’'s Note—Drew Pearson’s column today takes the form of | a letter to his sister Mrs. Gordon | Lang at Swanihmore, Pennsyl- ‘ vania, after he had spent some | time on his farm in Maryland.) i | WASHINGTON—My dear sister: I have been out on the farm, where you can think about a lot of things' more important than politics, and where we have finally finishede bringing in the Lespedeza. You know, Lespedeza is one of the good things the Japs brought to this| country—an excellent type of hay. Tl bet this was the latest hay crop ever harvested in this part of Maryland, and it was all Mr, Roosevelt’s fault. We' got delayed - first -of, -all- by- the new silo. The only place I could get a silo was in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They promised to send it in a hurry, but it didn’t come, and didn't ‘come. ‘Meanwhile, the corn was getting ripe, and I was cussing out the railroads and the way Mr. Roosevelt was handling | things. Finally, the silo tiles arrived, but| not the silo hoops. Somehow or other, the bureaucrats held the hoops out on me for three more’ weeks, so we didn't get the silo/ built until late August, by which| time the corn was almost bone; dry. Despite that, we started cut- ting it. That is, we tried to start. But by that time, the labor which had promised to help had gone off | to other jobs. I then arranged to get some German prisoners from Camp Meade, but every time they were due to come, it would rain. It hadn’t rained much all summer, but just when we were ready to bring in the corn, it rained and rained. I guess that was about the only thing I can’t blame on President Roosevelt. However, we finally got the German prisoners. The first bunch was pretty good, but the second already had become indoc- trinated with Roosevelt ideas. They wouldn't work. So I brought part of the office force out and put them to work in the cornfield. Mrs. P. drove a truck. Hal Horan of Time Magazine, who thought he had come down for a vacation, found himself working two inches off his waistline. Even his wife cut two acres of corn. Well, we finally got the corn in the silo, by which time it was al- ready late for the hay. Then it rained some more—and kept on raining. Every time we’'d get some hay cut and all raked, it would rain again. At long last, however, the hay is in the barn, but now Henry is going to quit and I have to find a new dairyman. FARMER VERSUS COLUMNIST All of which makes you realize how tough it is to be a farmer— especially during the Roosevelt Ad- ministration. Tough as it is, how- ever, I sure would a lot rather be a farmer than a newspaper col- umnist at election time. Sometimes I almost think the British are right, and that it's cheaper to have a king. Actually, of course, it's a great tribute to our democracy that it can pull through all this name- calling, and it will—even if readers do call a columnist all the names in the phone book before it's over, (Continued on Page Foyr) | JACKIE COOPER FLUNKS OUT OF TRAINEE SCHOOL GREAT LAKES, Ill, Nov. 4— Jackie Cooper, film star, was ‘washed out” as a V-12 Naval trainee because of a scholastic de- ficiency at the station here. He was an apprentice seaman. The Great Lakes Naval Training Station Public Relations office said Cooper had been acquitted, along with two others, on October 3 ‘of contributing to the delinquency of two minor girls. USES SAYS THERE IS UNEMPLOYMENT INJUNEAU NOW The local Employment Service announced today there is a “slight surplus” of labor in Juneau and Sitka. The reason given by the manager of the USES office is that the fishing season is almost over. However, the office has openings in Juneau for carpenters, loggers and women office workers, the few unemployed being unable to handle these job categories. The USES office also announced it has jobs with the Alaska Rail- road at Anchorage, and with the White Pass and Yukon Route at Skagway. These jobs, they said, are more or ‘dess permanent and are not| subject to closing down for the winter, as is the case with con- struction jobs, a good many of which are nearing completion, and it has been the policy of others to close down for the winter. JUNEAU EMBLEM (LUB . WILL MEET TUESDAY Next Tuesday will be a busy night | for members of Juneau Emblem | Club. Final nomination of officers | and election are the main plans for the evening. This year's President, Mrs. Daisy Fagerson, urges all club members‘ to be present. The past season has been a dif- ficult one, as the Juneau Clyb has| not been in existence for a com-| plete year. The present corps of |officers found all members willing |to help them perform their duties but the first year is always a try- ing one. The club was organized primarily | as a social club, but there has to! be some business transacted in| order that the social activities can| be properly carried through. There ! is no detailed ritualistic work for | the new officers to take over and| the planning of social and charit- | able work will be their principal duties. Seventeen officers comprise the | official family of Juneau’s Emblem | Club. Members should all be on| hand Tuesday, November 7, in the | Elks Hall, at 8 p. m,, to select the group who will officiate in 1945. FILIPINO GROUP SETNOVEMBER 15 | FOR BANQUET DAY The Filipino Community of Ju- | neau will celebrate the return of American troops and thp])inei Scouts to the Philippines when they | hold their annual Commonwealth Day banquet, November 15, in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel,| Eddie Belarde, President, announc- | ed today. ‘The affair will be invitational and semi-formal. The program will be announced later. TEN PASSENGERS VIA PAN AMERICAN TODAY Ten passengers left via PAA today as follows: James M. Shaw, Roy E. Jackson, John Camp, Mike Seiler, Nellie Jones and Robert Snook. Coming in yesterday were Robert Henning, Ike Taylor, and Flsie Peterson, | Gastineau Hotel, GERMANS NOW OUT OF GREECE; FLEE FROM SERBIA, T00 ROME, Nov. 4. — The Germans bhave been completely cleared from Greece. Allied Headquarters said RAF pilots on reconnaissance flights reported they were unable to find eny traces of the Nazis who occu- pied the country early in 1940. The Germans, seeking to escape the closing Allied trap, are fleeing| Serbia and Albania. In the past 24 hours small enemy columns have been seen in the vicinity of Lake Prespa, just across the Greek bor- der, in Albania. In their retreat up the Vardar | Valley toward the Serbian city of | Bkolpje, the Germans blew up many Toad and rail bridges in an effort to delay the pursuing British. A German broadcast said Nazi forces evacuated the port of Valona| {on the Albanian coast and moved to| “a strong barriér position in North- ern Albania to protect the road to| Scutari, which is under constant| threat from Bolshevist forces.” Scu- tari is in extreme Northern Albania. - COASTAL AIRLINES ON 3 TRIPS FRIDAY Alaska Coastal Airlines made three flights yesterday, carrying the following passengers to Ketchikan: R. H. Whittemore,” Almira Duggins, | John Dahl, William Maurie. Ketchikan to Petersburg — Henry Katora. " Petershurg to Wrangell—H. Mdt- son. Petersburg to Juneau — William Anderson. Petersburg to Wrangell D. Snyder, Adeline Beaugard, L. Leteherberry, Spencer Israelson, J. Johnson. Hoonah to Juneau — John D, Fawcett, Mary Lindhoff, Ben Wat- son, R. J. Watson. SUNRISES-SETS The following sunrises and sun- sets for the next couple of days is for the benefit of the duck hunter: TODAY Sunset—5:04 p. m SUNDAY Sunrise—8:21 a. m., sets, 5:01 p. m, MONDAY Sunrise—8:23 a. m., sets 4:59 p. — e — MRS. BERG IN TOWN Mrs. Marge Berg has arrived from Seattle and is a guest at the while awaiting transportation to her home in Fair- banks where she is owner of the Northern Hotel. She is accompanied | by her daughter, Hazel Tacquward, | i Ll SHAW HERE James M. Shaw is registered al‘ the Gastineau Hotel from Nome. | —————— | AT HOTEL JUNEAT Robert Hayes is here from An- chorage and is registered at the Hotel Juneau. ————— WOLFE BACK Ray L. Wolfe, Credit Agent with the Indian Affairs Office, returned to Juneau on the Northland, after an official business trip to Sitka. ————— FRED GEESLIN RETURNS Fred Geeslin, Administrative As- sistant of the U. S. Indian Service, has returned to Juneau after a short trip to Hoonah and Excursion | Inlet. ————— FROM WHITEHORSE Lewis Dodge and Mark DeSte- fano are registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel from Whitehorse. ————— POLICEMAN QUITS Lt. A. R. White has resigned from the Police Force # Ketchi- kan and will open a retail and wholesale fish market in the PFirst | City. ———— ARE INDICTED | The Grand Jury at Ketchikan |has indicted Dick Ronald Henry, jand Mrs. Calvin Hartmen is the Ned Frank and Johnny Reece in connection with breaking into the liquor store of Jim Allen in Juneau, BUDAPEST IS UNDER SIEGE BY RUSSIANS Soviets Battefig atUjpest, Suburb of Capital, Near City MOSCOW, Nov. 4—Russian troops today laid siege to Budapest, dis- patches from the front said. The) German-Hungarian defenders have | fallen back into the Hungarian capital itself. Red Army tanks are sald to be battering at the out- skirts of Ujpest, part of the capi- tal on the east bank of the Danube. The fighting is raging well within Budapest’s outer defenses. A Reuter's dispatch said the Russians hurled an armored column around to north of the city in an| encircling move. This column is said | to be storming the approaches to| Ujpest on the east bank of the Danube, two miles north of the capital, which is said to be en- veloped. There is wild disorder as Nazi elements pour through the streets. Hundreds of fugitives are sald to be jamming the railways and high- ways toward Vienna, 140 miles to the north. The capture of Budapest appear- ed imminent but the fall of Buda, on the west side of the Danube, Was anothér matter, The Daube River is broad there and there| has been no word as to whether the Russians have been able to seize any bridges. The capture of Budapest could | raise the curtain on a Russian in- vasion of Hitler’s homeland from the south over Austrian soil. Soviet | troops, at the nearest point, are barely 90 miles from the Reich frontier On the East Prussian frontier, a | Russian communique said, Cherni-| akhovsky's Third White Russian Army repulsed attacks by large enemy tank and infantry forces north and south of Goldap. 1,900 PLANES BLAST NAZI INDUSTRIES LONDON, Nov. 4 —The U, 8. Eighth Airforce staged a mass at- tack ong, German synthetic oil in-| dustries and railways with more than 1100 hombers and 800 fighters fanning out over targets from Ham- burg to Saarbrucken, One force attacked oil plants and refineries in the twin cities of Ham- burg and Harburg, and another hit the oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr. A third force blasted military objectives in the Hanover 1egion and the fourth flew southeast to Luxembourg against railroad yards at Saarbrucken. The daylight operation followed the sixth Mosquito raid on Berlmi in nine nights. GOSPEL CRUSADE T0 BE STARTED IN CITY A full month’s Gospel Crusade | will start at the Juneau Church of | Christ, Tenth and E Streets, on | November 17, continuing through | December 2, with services each week-night except Monday, start- ing at 7:30 o'clock. Willlam R. Ricketts is the sing- ing and preaching evangelist, Ray Adams is program and song leader pianist. et WESLEY CORBIN ARRIVES Wesley E. Corbin, Chief of Ser- vice and Training Section of the Fish and Wildlife Service, has ar- rived here from the Chicago cen- tral office. He will return to the States later in the week. - e George Madden and C. F. Todd are in Juneau from Valdez and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. 'Hifler May Escape |tion 11, U. 8. Steel 58%. CAMPAIGN IS TO END WITH TALKS ON AIR TONIGHT (By Associated Press) The Presidential campaign has hit | the home stretch with both Presi-| dent Roosévelt and Governor Dewey | ready to turn on the oratoricall steam tonight in final major appeals to the nation before settling back to await the voters’ verdict Tuesday as to who the next White House tenant is to be. Roosevelt winds up the day by campaigning in New England. He| is to make a speech from Boston's; Fenway Park at 6 p.m. (Pacific, War Time) over CBS, NBC and the Blue networks. Dewey follows the | President on the air in an address| carried by NBC and CBS at 7:30 p| m. (PWT) before a Madison Square | Garden rally. l Though these addresses officlally | end the campaign, each candidate plans an election eve message, After| his Boston appearance, Roosevelt will go to his home at Hyde Park end Monday will make the custo-| mary tour among his Hudson Valley | homefolks. Vice-Presidential candidates Tru- man and Bricker also close their campaigns tonight, each in his home state. Truman addresses an Inde- pendence, Mo, rally, and Bricker is scheduled to make four speeches in Ohio. Vice-Presicent Wallace forecast the President’s re-election by a pop- ular majority of more than 3,000,000, and an electoral majority of more than 100 votes. —" Debade in U-Boat | Says Nazi Officer LONDON, Nov. 4. — German U- Boat Commander Bender told Nazi naval cadets in Denmark that “the German navy will arrange for Adolph Hitler to escape by sub- marine when final defeat comes,” according to Stockholm dispatches reaching London.. “If it should one day really hap- pen that our fuehrer must leave Germany, it would be with the Ger- man navy which knows the world’s oceans and has U-boat bases and hiding places in the remotest seas,” Bender was quoted as saying. The Nazi naval commander de- clared that the German navy would “fight for ten years more, gathered round our fuehrer,” if the land arm- ies should be defeated. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 4 — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau Mine stock at today's short session is 6%, American Can 87'%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 10%, Bethle- hem Steel 62%, Commonwealth and Southern Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester: 77%, Ken~ necott 35%, North American Avia- Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials. 147.37; rails, 42.04; utilities, 25.85. R Bl AP M JOHN McCORMICK OF] ON TRIP TO WASHINGTON John McCormick, Territorial Di- rector of Selective Service, left Thursday for Washington, D. C., to attend a conference of all state and territorial Selective Service Di- rectors. He is to he gone about a month. During his absence, Lt. Col. F. J. Killilea, Procurement Officer, is to| be in charge of the Selective Ser-| vice headquarters here. e e ROCKEFELLER 70 TALK Juneauites are urged to have their radios turned in to KINY| Monday evening at 8 o'clock for a rebroadcast of an interesting talk | on the National War Relief Fund, to be delivered by John D. Rocke-| feller, Jr. -, BOB HENNING RETURNS Bob Heaming,*who has been south and east to Chicago on a |flareup battle for Leyte. STRONG NIP FORCES TRY NEW ATTACK Counter Mov:nenl Under Fierce Strafing Charge from U. S. Air Units GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- PINES, Nov. 4—Under a slashing American aerial attack, the Japa- nese Imperial Army landed strong mechanized reinforcements and be- gan their first potentially formid- ably attempt Friday to avert dis- aster on Leyte Island. ’ The Japanese counterattack be- gan with an attempt to break out of the Ormoc trap and presages a Over- whelming American superiority of men and guns leaves little doubt of the final issue. Yank infantrymen moved flve miles westward along Carigara Bay and tightened encirclement of Ormoc, 25 miles south, as the Japanese suddenly halted their os- tensible withdrawal from Leyte and shot large new forces into the battle, Reinforcements landed at Ormoc Wednesday night and Thursday morning with four large transports, escorted by destroyers. American Warhawks fought way through a strong Japanese fighter screen of heavy flak to attack the convoy in Ormoc Bay. The bitter battle cost the Japanese two trans- ports and 25 of an estimated 50 first line planes which they threw into the battle. , Japs Also Land Enemy reinforcements landed in the darkness, however, and were immedlately dispatched northward on the winding highway leading north to Carigara Bay. Lightnings BRGEE AT ol P AR A (Continued on Page Sir) i B e JAPANESEPLANES HIT THIRD FLEET CARRIER GROUP UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Noy. 4—Japanese planes attacked one of the carrier groups of the United States Third Fleet on November 1, damaging several ships and jnflicting light personell casualties, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced. The attack was reported also in |a communique and told of the first enemy aerial offensive in the Mari- anas Islands since the occupation of Saipan by American ground forces last spring. The Japanese planes raided Sal- pan and nearby Tinian Islands on the night of November 1, Nimitz said, killing four men. Three enemy planes were shot down. The enemy flight which attacked the carrier group was made up of fightegs and dive-bombers. Anti- aircraft fire knocked down six of them and American fighter planes accounted for four more. Admiral Nimitz would not give the location, but the Third Fleet has been operating in the Philip- pine waters on reconnaissance. A seaplane was shot down by a Navy Helleat fighter, bringing to 14 the enenmy losses in the Saipan carrier raids. GOP SECRETARY DIES, NEW YORK NEW YORK, Nov. 4.— Harold Whitney Mason, 49, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, died of a heart attack last night in his apartment in the Savoy Plaza. Mason was vice-pyesident and treasurer of Dunham Brothers Co., business trip, has returned to his; hometown by PAA plane. ] shoe manufacturers of Brattleboro, Vt., and had served as GOP Sec- retary since 1937, ying |