The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1944, Page 1

s, £ £y “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9801 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS THROWN BACK ACROSS MAAS BATTLEFOR LEYTENOW IMMINENT Japs Expec@o Stage Cli- matic Battle in Last At- . tempt to Save Island By C. YATES McDANIEL (Associated Press Correspondent) GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- PINES, Nov. 6—Battle veterans of the American 24th Division today captured Pinamopoan, a strategic town on Leyte Islaiid on the north- west coast, and immediately turned southward toward the besieged Ormoc sector which Yank long- range artillery began shelling. | directed Advance units are reported in; contact with patrols of mechanized; Japanese reinforcements, which two | days ago moved northward along the highway under ceaseless aerial| assault. No iarge-scale fighting has de-| veloped, but a headquarters spokes- | man said this Japanese force is of insufficient strength to require determined American effort to rout it. Meanwhile, the communique re- ported that elements of the Seventh Division of the 24th Corps punched | 14 miles northward along the Bay- | Ormoc Highway, reaching a point 12 miles south of the last major Japanese escape porf. A climactic battle for Leyte ap- peared imminent although the spokesman said it would be neces- sary to await further developments .to. determine -what the -Japanese will do. - e — ® & & ° o 0 0 o0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature, November 4 In Juneau: Maximum, 41; minimum, 38. At Airport: Maximum, 42; minimum, 30. Temperature, November 5 In Juneau: Maximum, 42; minimum, 31. At Airport: Maximum, 39; minimum, 26. e o o o The Washington Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt. WASHINGTON—Most Americans have been so engrossed in the World War that if you told them war was brewing right here in the Western Hemisphere, they never would believe it. Yet buzzing backstage in the Washington diplomatic corps has been a growing, worrying rever- beration over the ultimate danger; of war between Argentina and Chile—not this year, perhaps not next year, but before very leng. Additional attention was focused on the unhappy situation with Ar- gentina’s bid for a conference of Pan-American foreign ministers— on an obvious move to put the| United States on the spot and force recognition of the Fascist Farrell militarist government in| Argentina. The whole tangled diplomatic controversy between Argentina, the United States and other neighbors is so involved that it takes an ex- pert to understand it. But out of the mess emerges these basic and alarming facts: 1—Argentina is rushing arma- ment. Hedy Lamarr's former hus- band, Fritz Mandel, the Austrian munitions king, about whom “Idiot’s Delight” was written, busy building airplanes for Ar- gentina night and day. 2—Argentina could bomb San- tiago, capital of Chile, from Men- doza, just across the Andes, in 40 minutes. It would take five hours for Chile to bomb Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. 3—The people of Chile today are worried sick over Argentina. The Socialist, Communist and Conserva- tive parties, usually vigorously di- vergent, are now united on this. (Continued on Page Four) SINGAPORE BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS light Strike of Any Military Craft WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Sledge- hammer blows by Superfortresses |struck another vital spot in Japan's | war-acquired territory, the great naval base at Singapore. The giant bombers of the 20th Air Force, which since early summer have ranged from Man- jchuria in the north to Sumatra in |the south, hit directly at the Japa- nese home islands yestérday and their might against the tip of the Malay Peninsula, which Japan wrested from Britain early in 1942, It was the longest daylight strike ever flown by military planes. The |communique described the results as “good to excellent.” India-based Superforts also struck heavily the Pangkalan Brandon oil fields on the north |coast of Sumatra as long-distance |raids against the enemy were step- |ped up to what may grow to almost clocklike regularity. No Superforts were reported lost on either strike. A Tokyo broad- cast, recorded by FCC, asserted one B-29 was downed and another damaged in the raid on Pangkalan and said, “no damage was incurred on our side.” 6TH WARLOAN DRIVE QUOTA IS ANNOUNCED Juneau - Douglas Sum Is $335,000-Figures of Other Cities Alaska’s quota of two and one half million dollars for the Sixth War Loan Drive, starting November 20, has been divided between the Territory’s cities as follows: Juneau and Douglas—$129,000 in series E; $50,000 in series other than E; $160,000 in corporations; total, $335,000. Anchorage and Whittier—$295,000 in series E; $225,000 in other in- dividual series; $180,000 in corpora- tions; total, $700,000. Fairbanks—$220,000 in series E; $100,000 in other individual series; $155,000 in corporations; total, | $475,000. Ketchikan—$110,000 in series E; $50,000 in other individual series; $100,000 in corporations; total, $260,000. Petersburg—$25,000 in series E; $5,000 in other individual series; $15,000 in corporations; total, $45,000. Sitka-—$25,000 in series E; $5,000 in other individual series; $15,000 in corporations; total, $45,000. Wrangell—$12,000 in series E; $2,000 in individual other than series E; $10,000 in corporatiors; total, $24,000. Skagway—$7,000 in series E; $1,000 in series other than E; $2,- 000 in corporations; total, $10,000. Total quota for Seward is $85,- 000; Nome, $40,000; Cordova, $27,- 000; Kodiak, $24,000; Metlakatla, $5,000; Yakutat, $3,500, and Haines, $3,000. TRAPPED ARMY IS RESCUED BY JAPS WITH THE SIXTH ARMY GROUP IN FRANCE, Nov. 6.—The | “lost battalion” of the Seventh Army, cut off by the Germans for a week in the St. Die area, were | relieved today by Japanese-Ameri- can troops who fought brilliantly in Italy. It was disclosed that this battalion is of the 141st Regiment, 36th Di- vision. “It really is ironical that we were so glad to see the Japa- nese,” said Private Walter Yattaw of Providence, R. I, “but boy they Saturday after an official trip to Gray. are real Americans!” Planes Make Longest Day- | Juneau Qver TopinBig Fund Drive Juneau has done it again! With five days still remaining be- { fore the closing date of the Na- tional War Fund drive, a smashing / success for the local campaign is | assured. “Once .more Juneau has demon- strated its loyalty to a great cause,” said Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the | Campaign Committee, this morning. | “We all have reason to feel very | | proud and happy. The total aready | donated to the National War Fund is $11,66341. This means that by the end of this week we will have | exceeded our quota by a consideraple | margin. “Many persons even now remain | unsolicited, despite the efforts of the workers to call on everyone. When all of our people have responded to | this humanitarian appeal and word | as to the final total has been sent to New York, practically every man, | woman and child here will have had | a hand in proving to the nation what Juneau can do when it is chal- | lenged.” | Saturday, November 11 (Armistice | Day) marks the official close of | the drive. The 50 local citizens who | have comprised the Campaign Com- | mittee during the past month will | meet at luncheon that day. Further | details will be announced shortly. As is apparently well known by now, the purpose of the National War Fund is to help our American boys in various ways wherever they are serving, and also to bring relief to millions of suffering people among our Allies throughout the world. War Prisoners’ Aid, Allied | War Relief, USO and United Sea- | men’s. Service are among the| agencies that are rendering this service. Territory Fund Grows | Betty McCormick, Territorial| Chairman for the fund, announced today that a check from the 'erri- torial campaign has been sent to National Headquarters for $30,000 and that $33,371.16 has already been | received. She has received word that Alaska is the first to make any re- port and sizeable contribution to the fund. The Fourth Division, with a | quota of $15,000, has gone over the top, a radiogram states, but no reports have been received from the Second or Third divisions. e FURIOUS BATTLE 1S BEING FOUGHT FOR BUDAPEST LONDON, Nov. 6—Furious fight- ing raged in the suburbs of shell- torn Budapest as heavy Russian infantry forces joined armored van-| guards in penetrating the defenses of the Hungarian capital from the north, south and east side of the Danube. The Germans said they vecap- tured the East Prussian rail town of Goldap, 19 miles inside the Reich, after’ surrounding the place and the Russians at midmgh;. It was reported violent enemy counterattacks were staved off there. The enemy said also that a counterattack was beaten back south of Budapest, which is not yet under a major Russiah assault. The Red Army declared they were re-grouping and reinforcing for a final attempt. { The situation inside Budapest | was reported to be chaotic. The! Ankara radio said Hungarians were fleeing the city. — e HAS CHANGED POSITIONS | | ‘ | i 1 | Mrs. -Mildred Steen is a new employee at the Indian Affairs| Office. She will work as Secretary in the Acting Director of Native Resources office. ———ee——— BIG RAINBOW TURNOUT | One of the largest groups ol\ Rainbow Girls ever to turn out, attended services yesterday morn- ing in the Methodist Church. The Rainbow choir sang several se- lections in honor of the occasion. e GREEN RETURNS Richard S. Green, Sanitary En- gineer (R), Director of the Division | | | IELECTION IS TOBE CLOSE, SAYEXPERTS Both Deweyfid Roosevelt Are fo Make Talks Again Tonight By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK (Associated Press Political Writer) President Roosevelt and Gov. Dewey, after a hard-punching cam- paign finish, settle back to await the verdict in what may prove the closest election since 1916, when the Wilson-Hughes contest, as a slam-bang campaign, came as a close rival. Rival party chairmen today put forward the usual pre-election | claims of sweeping victory. Republican Herbert Brownell, Jr., said he wouldn't concede a single state outside of the Solid South. Robert Hannegan, Democratie Chairman, said Dewey would carry fewer states than Wendell Willkie did in 1940, but the poll-takers are frankly throwing up their hands as it is too close, most of them agree, to make any flat predic- tions. Most of them agreed too, that the Republicans had good reason for higher hopes at this stage than any other election year since 1928. Final Facts President Roosevelt went to Hyde Park, his New York home, after winding up his campaign before a roaring crowd in Boston's Fenway Park Saturday night. Cheering party members heard him accuse. - the - Republicans . .of . working “both sides of the street” and declared, “never before in my | lifetime has a campaign been filled | with such misrepresentation, distor- tion and falsehood.” | Today, the President visited his Hudson Valley neighbors and will address supporters by radio tonight. He will remain in Hyde Park to| cast his vote tomorrow. Gov. Dewey is back in Albany| and will also make a radio speecn' tonight. He formally ended his campaign Saturday night in New York’s Madison Square Garden, where he declared President Roose- velt’s “incompetence” was prolong- ing the war. The Governor votes in New York City and will go there tomorrow. GOVERNMENT DOCTOR RECEIVES TRANSFER Dr. Lewis Salazar, Government Physician with the Bureau of In- dian Affairs, has been transferred to Ketchikan, where he will serve in the territory from Ketchikan to Sitka, in those towns and villages that do not have a doctor. Dr, Salazar has been in Juneau for almost two years and while here he served as doctor in charge of the Gdvernment hospital, and has been with the Bureau of Indian Affairs approximately 10 years. He and his family will reside in Ket- chikan. — e e — FARRELL BACK V. R. Farrell, Acting Director ot on an Official buisness trip to Seward, Fairbanks and Anchorage since October 17, returned by steamer Saturday. e MIZE HAS RETURNED R. W. Mize, Construction En- gineer with the Office of Indian Affairs, returned from Eklutna yes- terday, where he has Been super- vising repairs on the Indian board- ing School. He has been gone about | two weeks. it I ELECTORAL VOTES | B il IO i lynn Gemmill Is Arrested on Bribe Charge SEATTLE, Nov. 6—Lynn James Gemmill, United States Attorney for the First Division at Juneau, who was arrested Saturday on a CHIANG WIRES AP "HE IS SATISFIED STILWELL RECALL (By Associated Press) Prospects are “now excellent” for close and effective Chinese-Ameri- can political and economic coopera- tion, Chiang Kai Shek.said in a message in response to an Associated Press request for his views on the situation spotlighted by General | Joseph Stilwell's recall by Wash- ington. ¥ Making his first statement for publication on the Stilwell incident charge of soliciting and accepting a bribe, was released on $5,000 bail by U. S. Commissioner Harry West- fall. Native Resources with the Office | of Indian Affairs, who has been | Chiang said he believed Roosevelt's | explanation on that matter was | Gemumill, 40, is accused of asking #adequate” and he had nothing $3,000 from a Sitka woman, under further to add, He referred to the indictment in Alaska as a parti- President’s statement made at a cipant in the theft of a trunk con- White House press conference say- taining $10,000, and with receiving it had no connection with matters of strategy or the policy of China. Chiang’s message from Chungking “Kent Cooper, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, ! SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 6.—Fire New York, Telegram dated Novem- | Jast evening damaged Moes Liquor ber 1 received November 3. Thank | store and a vacant building owned | T have nothing to add. Prospects ef-| The United States Army Fire De- fective for close Chinese-American | partment did fine work in prevent- military political economic coopera- | ing the fire from spreading. was addressed to Kent Cooper, Ex- ecutive Director of the Associated you for expression of interest in this | py Mrs. Tony Dotero on Broadway. situation. According press reports — The estimated damage to the Moes tion which new is excellent.” e S e Stilwell's recall was due to a [$1,500 here Saturday. clash of personalities between the ST, e D ko ess, and was received in the New York office of the AP yesterday. received here President Roosevelt| Building is $2,500 and to the stock, already given adequate explanation | $5,000. Damage to the Dotero Build- The five Juneau boys who signcdi up for the Naval Reserve several F il NEW YORK—A Domei broadcast general and the Generalissimo and | The text follows: ! General Stilwell’s transfer to which | jng is estimated at $2,500. weeks ago .eft over the weekend for Kodiak to report for training| eports 13 Aleutian-based Liberators and dpty. Tho new members of | ¢yice raided the Kuriles Sunday and Uncle Sam’s Navy are Rudolph gsserted two raiders were downed. Krusl, R. W. Vernon, John Dapce- | {vich, Merritt G. Monagle and Chester Zenger. - | SAN FRANCISCO—Departure of w‘ll BE 'RlED As | the Hakusuan Maru from the Rus- sian port of Nakhidko with relief RESUI.II' oF RAID\goods for American prisoners and | war internees held by the Japs is f | announced by the Tokyo radio. SEATTLE, Nov. 6. — Forty-three negro soldiers are to be tried in a| SAN FRANCISCO—A Tokyo radio ial 5 " .: picked up by the FCC here says Jap gf;ge;a;:;‘:::?‘:;ih“ Poriiamen subs operating off the Pacific Coast The trial is the outgrowth of & 31 the United States have sunk raid on the quarters of the Italian | several oil tankers and transport | prisoners unit on August 14, which Sips.” Domel says the dispatch ROME—The Germans have begun an aggressive patroling of Allied | positions in Italy and séveral Nazi | planes attacked the Fifth Army in the sector below Bologna. resulted in the death of an Italian came from a Central Pacific base but gave no time of the reported private. sinkings. Three are charged with murder ———— EARLY MORNING FIRE | The alarm from box 2-3 at 5:35 | o'clock this morning called the Ju- | neau Volunteer Fire Department to/ the Government Dock where a blaze | had started in the galley of a Gov- | ernment craft. One line of hose | was laid ready for emergency but the blaze was extinguished with chemicals. HOONAH COUPLE MARRIED Victor Sheakley and Martha Howard, both of Hoonah, were| of Public Health Engineering, re- turned to his Juneau headquarters Fairbanks and Anchorage, | married Saturday afternoon in the office of U. S. Commissioner Felix Witnesses were Richard Sheakley and Ben Jackson, [78%, Kennecott 35%, North Am-|Mrs. Booth’s mother to its final and rioting; and the other 40 with TR ¢ bl rioting. The trial date is not yet set | CAIRO' — Lord Moyhe, g{_‘;::’lh but the Army said it was to be soon. | Resident Mun_stex of e iddle | East, was seriously wounded and I his chauffeur killed, when fired on |by two civilians. The assailants S'OCK 0“0““0“5 | were arrested after being wounded | by Egyptian police. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. — Closing | vy quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | BOOTHS RETURNING stock today is 6%, American Can| The. Rev. and Mrs. Willis R. 87%, Anaconda 27, Beech Aircraft Booth are returning to Juneau 10%, Bethlehem Steel 62%, Com- |today on the Princess Norah after monwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss- ja short trip to the middle west, ‘Wright 6%, International Harvester made to accompany the remains of erican Aviation 11, New York Central |resting place. 18%, Northern Pacific 16, Umted" AR RO A States Steel 59, Pound $4.04. HERE FROM ANCHORAGE IN MEAT PRICES; STORES MAY CLOSE Effective tomorrow, November 7, all beef cuts sold at retail, in all the | larger communities of Alaska, will be placed under speeific prices. This was announced today by Mrs. Mil- dred R. Hermann, Alaska Director of the OPA. These prices replace the former ceilings which were established by | each individual meat market on the | basis of mark-ups during the month | preceding Pearl Harbor. This is the first schedule of prices to be set on fresh meats, Specific prices have been set on over 2,000 food and houselold-supply items sold in gro- cery stores. Mrs. Hermann said the prices are based -on. _supplied by both the retail and wholesole trade. In the Juneau and Douglas area the new prices will cut sharply below the previously established prices, Mrs. Hermann says, but elsewhere in Alaska the prices are only slight- ly lower than the average as prev-| iously established. Copies of the new flat prices on beef cuts are available at the OPA | office in the Valentine Building. . Of four local butcher shop owners or managers interviewed today three were of the opinion that if the new drastic price-reducing OPA order is put into effect they would have to shut their doors as it would mean operating at a loss. The other butcher shop man in- terviewed said he did not have enough facts yet to be able to say but probably, from what he knew already, he would have to shut his doors, - ————— HITLER IN SECLUSION LONDON, Nov. 6—The mystery of the whereabouts and condition of the long-silent Hitler has gained new piquancy with the rumor that a brain specialist has been called to his current hideout near Ber- chtesgaden. Hitler is supposedly staying in a huge castle by Klessheim, about seven miles from jis usual moun- tain retreat, while new fortifica- tions are completed in the Salz- burg and Berchtesgaden area. It is there that the brain specialist, identified only as Professor, was called. London’s European grapevine, which is “hot,” at least had a re- liable background with Hitler's al- most complete retirement from the public eye since the bombing at- tempt on his life last July 20. MORE HUNTERS THAN DEER IN HILLS SUNDAY AT HORSE ISLAN Otto Anderson, Norman Rustad and Arne Shudshift left early Sun- day morning on the “Starlight” for a week’s hunting trip up Seymour Canal. Of perhaps 20 hunters from five boats ranging the hills in the vicinity of Horse and Colt islands, near Bear Crgek on Admiralty Island Dow, Jones averages today are as| Ben A, McManul is here from An- follows: Industrials, 147.92; rails, | chorage, and is registered at the 41.95; utilities, 25.19, Baranof Hotel, Sunday only one deer was brought down. Larry Bond of the 31-A-57 was the lucky hunter, ( NAZI 15TH ARMY HALF DESTROYED Holland Offensive Takes Terrific Toll of Germans as Allies Make Gain LONDON, Nov. 6.~Allied assaults |threw the Nazis back across the Maas River today along a 50-mile front to the sea, marred only by two small enemy pockets. British field officers declared that the German 15th Army has been half destroyed in the fierce west Holland offensive which began two weeks ago as the British and Can- adian armies drew up to the water barrier, 16 miles south of Rotterdam on a potential new assault line. The British estimated that 65,000 Germans have been killed, captured or wounded while being driven northward from 25 to 35 miles, and that Field Marshal Von Model's 15th Army has suffered a “serious set- back.” 25,000 Prisoners Taken A Pritish Army spokesman said that the British and Canadian army troops have bagged 25,000 prisoners in the drive which opened north of Antwerp on October 22, and have freed 1,200 square miles of Dutch territory and 75,000 Netherlanders. Already Allied dredges and mine- sweepers are clearing the west Schelde approaches to Antwerp. The Allies hold all of the south bank of the Maas from north of Shertogenbosch to the sea, except for two small pockets, each four miles long and two miles deep, at the Mte) bridge and the Wi 'stad‘%er‘r;u 6 miles south of Rotte: dam, West of these pockets, the Ger- man rout became more complete as Allied troops swarmed over Tholen Island and St. Philips Island. The peninsula to the north. forms. the southern bank of the mouth of: the Maas where Allied troops seized all of Walcheren Island, except for the small port of Veere on the north coast and the town of Middelburg Venter. There is no Allied confirmation of German radio announcements that the Allies have landed airborne units again in the Arnheim area. Third Army Front On the Third Army front, a re- newal of the offensive action carried American infantry into Berg, a small town on the Moselle River, eight miles north of Thionville near the point where the borders of France, Germany and Luxembourg meet. The American First Army kept up hard pressure from Hurtgen to Schmidt, although gains in the past 36 hours have been measured in mere yords, The potential menace | bas tied down hastily mustered Ger- | many reserves and has dipped deeply |into the dwindling German supply | of tanks, P S P G e 1800 PLANES - BAHTER NAZI - INDUSTRIES LONDON, Nov, 6-More than 1,800 American bombers and fight- ers attacked industrial targets in | western Germany today as Allies carried the mightiest bombing siege |of the war for the third successive |day. The main force from the armada lof over 1,100 Bighth Airforce Lib- |erators and Fortresses went for oil |refineries in the Hamburg-Harburg |region. Others attacked industrial |rail objectives in the Rubhr Valley. | British Mosquito bombers sailed |deep into southwestern Germany |and attacked the rail city of Stutt- |gary twice last night to keep the around-the-clock offensive going. ‘The Reich was battered over the | weekend from the west to the |south by approximately 9,000 Am- erican and British planes, virtually unopposed by the German air force. There is every indication that the jall-out air offensive is continuing | unchecked. Portresses and Liberators ranged “thmuéh intense flak over Frank- "Iu.rt and Ludwigshafen yesterday. | Twenty-four bombers and thir- teen fighters fatled to return. i e |