The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1944, Page 1

& “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9804 NAZI LINE BEING JABBED AT 4 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS POINTS Roosevelt’s Popular Vote Is Cut By Dewey ELECTORAL VOTE HIGH; ISNOW 418 | | { Sirengihened_D emo Ma- jority in House - Main- fain Lead in Senate ELECTION BRIEFS 44,353,855 votes cast. 23,610,587 for Roosevelt. 20,743,268 for Dewey. ! 413 electoral votes for Roosevelt, indicated. | 118 electoral votes for Dewey, in- dicated. NEW YORK, Nov. 9—President Roosevelt’s fourth term victory, sweeping in the electral vote, was| won by the smallest popular vote margin since 1916. Nearly complete returns indi- | cated that with 44,353,855 votes reported, the President's edge over Dewey is only about 3,000,000 votes. Roosevelt has received 23,610,587 votes and Dewey 20,743,268. | The President, however, is lead- ing in electoral votes with 413, and the Dewey states only gave him 118, but where Michigan’s 19 votes eventually will wind up, is still in! doubt, although Dewey holds a RESOLUTION OF | | CHURCHILL SEATTLE CHAMBER | The Juneau Chamber of Com- Imeree this noon, at their regular weekly luncheon in the Baranof i & 2 dorsed a resolution introduced by New Mee"ng Mlgh' Bfl"Q:Auen Shattuck to back up the . . 1 in Efld '0 warr P”me Ml“' their resolution protesting |condemning the proposed reserva- |tions for Alaska Indians. LONDON, Nov. 9—British Prime|gent, read a clipping from a Minister Winston Churchill de- |geattie newspaper under an Olym- clared today, “it is high time we!pjs dateline, saying the state of himself, Roosevelt and Stalin, and |tempt to get back and increase such a meeting, he said at the|their $50,000,000 tourist industry Lord Mayor’s luncheon “might after the war. mankind and stop the fearful pro-|might do likewise cess of destruction now ravaging| Lt Robert Simpson, a Navy the earth.” | Doctor recently returned on leave pects of such a meeting have been Ppacific, was introduced. " vastly improved by the results of| simpson told the members all the Presidential election in the|the honor and glory of the war while the audience applauded, had a Jap stuck on the end of his then continued, “for which Wwe payonet. waited sa@ breathlessly Tuesday; He said he was glad to be back Churchill's auditors also ap- out into the hills to try to bag a plauded when he declared that five-point buck. Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery| “T knew T was home,” he added, iI--Iov.cl Gold Room, unanimously en- |Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Homer Garvin, Chamber Presi- have another triple conference,”|washington would make an at- easily bridge the sufferings of | Garvin pointed out that Alaska Churchill then said the “pros- after 21 months in the South United States,” and he paused ghould go to the Doughboy who last.” and within a few days was going had opened the Schelde estuary to “when I stepped out of a plane |the great Belgian port of Antwem‘;mw a mud puddle.” YANKSHAVE HARD FIGHT FOR LEYTE Fresh Jap Forces, Raging Hurricane Restrict Op- eration, Philippines GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- |QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- | PINES, Nov. 9—Lashed by a raging tropical hurricane, the United States 24th Infantry Diyision fought in mud and slimie yesterday :along the winding road to Ormoc, jagainst fresh veteran Japanese !troops guarding the enemy ap- proaches to the port, the last hope for western Leyte. | Perhaps for the first time since |Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forees {landed on eastern Leyte, October 20, today's communique claimed no advance in the 24-hour period ending at noon on Wednesday. In- stead, it told of “heavy fighting” extending into the densely wooded ridges overlooking the road where it makes a sharp horseshoe curve at Limon, four miles south of Cari- gara Bay. The communigue said, “a tropi- {cal hurricane is restricting opera- tions.” | | i | REDS CROSS DANUBE IN YUGOSLAYIA Nazis Warnéd of Big Of- fensive Brewing on Airfield . " Inltaly Is Goal Now British Eightflrmy Moves -Makes Progress in Eastern Front . LONDON, Nov. 9—The German command today said that the Rus- slans have crossed the Danube at Apatin, in northern Yugoslavia, 16 miles south of the Hungarian border and 25 miles south of Buda- pest. | The battle is still raging there,” | the broadcast communique said. The Russians have penetrated that part of Apatin on the west bank and are reported to be mass- ing. men and materials alohg the eastern front for “decisive action against the vital centers of Ger- many,” promised by Stalin. Today's brief Soviet communique dismissed developments, however, | by noting that “there are no os-’ sential changes at the front,” but the German radio, in a portentious tene, described the comparative quiet as the “calm before the storm.” | Besieged, strife-torn Budapest is Po Valley ROME, Nov. 9.—British troops of the Eighth Army have advanced to within 500 yards of Bussecchio, tbout one mile from the bitterly| contested Po Valley communications center at Forll, Allied Headquarters announces. The Britich have crossed the “King of Ditches” canal forming| the eastern boundary of the Forli| w.rfleld and captured shattered buildings on the north side of the ileld. Eighty prisoners have been taken, it is officlally announced. SARMERR <l 8 BIG DRAFT BOARD LIST IS RELEASED Latest classifications released by the local draft board today are as follows: 1-A—Cortes Wingerson, Benja- min See, William Norton, Robert John ENEMY T0 GET FORCE SAYS CHIEF Address fo Cheering Belgian Parliament BRUSSELS, Nov. 9—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the Belgian Parliament today the Allies are fighting the ‘“enemy who under- stands only one thing—force. We intend to apply force to the ut- most.” The Allied Supreme Command@r received a tumultous ovation as he entered the packed Chamber of Deputies to address both houses. Gen. Eisenhower was accompani- ed by top Allled Army, Navy and Air Force Commanders. U.S.BASES, MARIANAS FORCES OF PATION IN BIGTHRUST lThird Armyfra—shing Along Snowy 50-Mile Front- Bombers Support LONDON, Nov. 9, — Maj. Gen, George S. Patton’s Third Army in- fentry today jabbed at the yielding Nazi line in four places along the snowy 50-mile front. They were |supported by 1300 United States |heavy bombers which laid a carpet 'of explosives on front-line enemy positions. In the Metz area Patton threw in three more American divisions in a 'move toward the Rhine, doubling he force employed in the jump-off attack yesterday. He has extended nis operations to the north of the ‘ortress city, as well as to the south. ! | 1 Big Offensive Berlin’s radio commentators de- clared Patton is striking from just below the Luxembourg border to |the Rhine-Marne Canal, east of {Nancy, thus signalling a prelude to a “big offensive” almed at bursting open the “historic gate of the Pala- tinate, which was chosen by Napol- ¢on as a marching route for his {This, he said, put Antwerp “at the | considered to be the most likely Cowling, Ludwig Baggen, slight lead. Ed Lewis, new manager of the * g i Four years ago, the President | 4isposal of the northern flank of;zom Century Theater, was intro~ won the popular vote of over 5.- 000,000 over Willkie ~and beat | Landon by more than 10,000,000 | and Hoover by more than 7,000,000. | Demo House Majority A strengthened Democratic ma- jority for the House was swept, into office along with the Presi-! dent. On the basis of late re-| turns, the Democrats held a plu-} rality of at least 49 seats. Thir- teen contests were still undecided. With five Senate contests un- decided, the Democrats seem as-| sured, at least, of their present| strength and meanwhile, the nation bound up its election wounds and settled down to a “Let’s get on| with the war” attitude. The Democrats elected 19 Sen- ators, which gives them 55 seats| in a 96-man Senate which must| (Continued on Page Siz) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | The withdrawal is apparently a|Wires that he was missing. Several | (LL. WASHINGTON—Uncensored dip- | lomatic advices reaching Washing- ton from Moscow reveal that a lot| more happened behind the scenes of the Stalin-Churchill conferences | to mend United Nations®harmony than was generally reported. No. 1 on the list from the purely Russian viewpoint was the frank agreement with the British that the Soviet Union has every right to guarantee its borders, make cer- tain that it is never again sub- jected to surprise attack. Stalin was very blunt on this peint. He emphasized to Churchill that the best guarantee of a peace- ful Russia was a group of friendly end strong Soviet neighbors on all Russian borders. Stalin also said that while he was willing to make many concessions for the sake of peace, he was also prepared to be tough if the British attempted any finagling. ever, best evidence of the success of the conferences was the warm spirit in which Stalin and Churchill concluded their talks. Stalin was glowing in his tributes to the United States and Great Britain, pointed out there were some areas of disagreement, ex- pressed confidence they would be smoothed out. Churchill was equally enthusi- astic. “We want you to know that all the world realizes it was the Red Army that clawed the guts out of the filthy Nazi war machine,” said (Continued on Page Four) | I | | the, Allied Armies, which will pres- 'duced to the Chamber members. ently” move on Germany for the! —— i final struggle.” He added that the operation had cost heavy British‘pE'ER BURG MAN | | NATIEADCEC | 1S ONWAY HOME NAZI FORCES | ", SPEND LEAVE F |was reported lost when his ship {was torpedoed off the French coast |several weeks ago, wishes to state |that he is very much alive. Enge, who came up from Seattle via PAA yesterday, and who is to LONDON, Nov. 9—The German|leave Juneau for Petérsburg today, High Command, in a broadcast,|said it was the “darndest experi- says the German forces have eva-|ence of my life to meet friends cuated the St. Rumica Valley in|after my return to the states who southern Yugoslavia, “according to|thought me a ghost.” plan.” | The story was flashed over press | | | retreat through the mountains be-|hours later a bulletin came through tween Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. |that he was safe. Enge said some |Gross, E. J. Lavigne, Mrs. W. Rob- iBromley, Elmer Byrne, Ed. Harland, Despite these blunt remarks, how- |O- H. Winchester, John Sonduland, | CPR LINER SAILS FOR SOUTHTODAY Passengers arriving in Juneau| from Skagway on the Princess| Norah this morning were: A. An- drews, P. Asis, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bellamy, D. Cabigon, D. Cassidy, Miss Curie, C. Crewe, C. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Horner, Mrs. M. Jackson, R. Lapham, Miss Morton, D. Mormo.l Miss E. McNair, L. C. Peters, Mrs. B. Rock, K. Smhra, Miss Schafers- man, A. C. Smith, J. Thompson, A. Van Mavern. Leaving for Wrangell were: E.| Kirberger, R. Churchill, R. M. Liv- ingston, Raymond Marks, H. M.| Olsen. For Ketchikan—Jack Nodine, Z. ertson, Mrs. W. Robertson, Jr., Mrs. H. L. Wood, Pastor Emery, R. Wardell, J. H. Stone, Mrs. Goding, | N. A. McEachran, Mrs. A. W. Erickson, T. S. Sandborn. Ports south of Ketchikan—Joe| Mrs. J. Sonduland, Herman J. Eickhoff, Laura L. Eickhoff. John Bavard, Virginia Ashcraft, Emilie D. Klump, Frank M. Keays, Floriene M. Keays, Lulu E. Wein- derfer, Dessa E. Schneider, Ros- anna Schneider. Henry Roden, George H. Ander- son, Allen F. Young, Helen L. Young, Charles Goldstein, MelvlnI Race. Florence Sowers, John Dunn, Lt.| Dalton, Svere H. P. Vovelstad, Su- sanne Taylor and Beatrice Murphy. — -, — If cornered, a badger digs itself, underground with lightning-like rLpidity. of the newspapers failed to print the two dispatches together, thus giving his friends the impression that he was dead. This morning he was impatiently awaiting a plane for his home town where he will spend a 30-day sur- vivors' leave before returning to the states to take another ship. This time he expects to sail the Pacific. Enge, when asked what he in- tended to do with his month off from fighting the enemy, said he would go deer hunting. COASTAL AIRLINES MAKE THREE FLIGHTS Alaska Coastal Airlines made three flights yesterday, carrying the following passengers to Ketchikan: Robert Davenport, Robert Hopfield, Dale Steen, Dr. E. H. Graves. Wrangell to Ketchikan—Mr. and Mrs. Layman. Ketchikan to Juneau—Ruby A. Smith, Robert W. Schlenker, Rich- ard Young. : Ketchikan to Petersburg—William Maurie. > Petersburg Barrett. Juneau to Sitka—Margaret Bax- ter, Chester Todd, H. B. Foss, O. T, Mansfield, Andy Johnson. Sitka to Juneau—Connie Whitte- more, Lee Burk. Juneau to Hoonah—Robert Car- teeli, James Boyle, Harold Jones. - e - —— to Juneau—William TRAVELING MEN RETURN A. Van Mavern and Ben Bellamy, brokers, returned from Skagway on the Princess Norah after calling on the trade. R o o oo Empire Classifieds Pay! SKI (LUB MEMBERS 70 HIKE TO CABIN SUNDAY; CUT WOOD That first good snowfall in the hills brought out Juneau skiers, not to ski, as yet, but to reactivate the Juneau Ski Club. At a meeting held last night at 8 oclock in the City Councill Chambers, colored movies taken on the Douglas Ski Run were shown| by Trevor Davis. | Following the picture officers | for the coming year were elected: | Bill Hixson, President; Ernie Par- sons, Vice-president, and Joe Wer-| ner, Secretary-treasurer. Plans were then formulated for a woodchoppers brigade to go to the upper cabin Sunday to stock it with wood for the coming season.| The women in the party are to] clean the cabin. The brigade is to assemble in the Baranof Hotel at 8 o'clock Sunday morning for a |no-host breakfast before hitting the | trail, Curtis Shattuck, energetic retir- ing president, explained it was necessary for the club to cut its own fire wood this year, as the Forest Service did not have suffi- cient manpower to do it, as they have in previous years. | | from other ski clubs were intro- duced to the group: Capt. W. G. Carr, Tacoma Ski Club; M. L. Perry, Renton Ski Club, and Ott Smithberg, Bellingham, Washing- ton. Carr said Juneauites could con- sider themselves extremely fortun- this winter sport, as thousands of skiers in the Northwest would be unable to obtain transportation to {the mountain playgrounds. Those signing the register last Irma Bonnie Bucy, Eileen Hellan, Mrs. Johnson, Bob Thibodeau, Klein, Mary V. Morris, Bailey, Estelle Casler, Edith Dan- ielson, [Eric Sunderstrom, Art Kassner, Linore Smithberg, Stan Singer, Vi Klassen, Elizabeth Thompson, Don Burns, Betty Jones, Tony Christenson, Oliver H. Win- chester, Leon Alezander, iLncoln Turner, Carr, Perry and Smith- berg. It was announced the member- ship drive was still open and any- one interested in skiing could con- !tact the officers or any of the members to join. -, POLICE COURT FINE In the City Magistrate’s Court this morning, Samuel Martin was fined $25 on a charge of drdnk and disorderly conduct, according to police records, target of a fresh and heavier as- wagner, Martin Fiest, Rudolph {sault, and new blows are also eX- yaBrash, Jusn Zapata, Paul Wol- | German Pected againsy the 30 batéered divisions trapped in western Latvia, beyond the Baltic, port of Liepaja, S e MESSAGETO NATION BY | PRESIDENT HYDE PARK, Y., Nov. 9— “We have again demonstrated to the world that -Democracy is a living vital force. We have again demonstrated (hat our faith in American institutions is un- shaken, Conscience, not force, is the source of power in the Gov- ney, Ernest Hayes, Stephen Bella and James Nielsen. 1-C—Judson (ranston, Charles Johnnie, Woodrow Bradley, Joseph Kendler, Jr, and James Ohmer, 2-A—Glendon Wald, Robert For- rest, Emil Starks, Arthur Charles, Herbert Redman, Albert Jones, Frederic Lorz, and Olav Heller. 2-B—Oscar Bogynska, Orville Gulhaugen, Eugene Eakin, Roder- lick Sutherland, Alex Tassell, Stan- ley Lathrop, Raymond Donlan, John Miller, Stanley Eneberg and| Edwin Nelson. 4-A—Aggey Galaktionoff, James O'Neil, John Hermle, Roy Sebern, Patrick Tierney, Anton Gallinatti, Harold Hargrave, Herman Hanson, Dave Kasko, Ralph Mize, John Wartner, Santiago Cesar, Linn For- rest, Gideon Mationg, Albert Frank, Paul Tetoff, Charles Joseph, New- | ton Young, Donald Skuse, Willlam Johnson, Benjamin Merculief, Sam The following visiting memtx:rsJ ate this year to be able to enjoy, night were: Sgt. and Mrs. Norman | Margot ‘ | Duker, Harry Jackson, Walter Kle- iweno, Jim McKinley, Daniel Brown, Peter Ludwig, Warren Geddes, Roy Whitmore, Stanley Grummett, Wil- President Roosevelt following his liam Horsman, Willie Marks, Roy election to a fourth term. Bean, Tores Ness, George Rivard, Presidential Secretary Stephen T.|Allen McMurchie, Otto Wood, Wil- Early said bundles of cox\gratuln-‘uam Blanton, Harvey Case, Eugene tory telegrams have poured into Perchich, Walter Obert, Sidney Hyde Park and many of them con-|Thompson, Leo Weiss, Joseph Stev- tained the phrase “isolationism is ens, Ole Westby, Harold Chambers, dead.” Boris Chernikoff, Otto Holden, Early also said that after last Silas Glockle, Harold Hostetter, inight the President has received Jack Kane, Arthur Nelson, Alexan- Ino word from Dewey regarding the|der Prokopiof, George Edwards, election. Arthur Van Humbeck, Paul Talk- T S e ington, James McNamara, David E" Bux:nel.t. *John mggs', Harold Shmr: ju%‘l’"““n“v gleBlEMl ::;«g:a, g:}:}‘:rczcr;flgne,“l:;‘::; :lb::- AT ALEUTIAN BASE ling, Sidney Steves, LeRoy Carri- gan, Charles Crozier, Harold Swan- | AN ALEUTIAN BASE—Nine Al- |askans were among 94 civilian em- son and Edward Radde. ployees of the War Department Listed as discharged are Moroni Metcalf and Rowland McCrary. {awarded “Primary Emblems,” for| faithful service in time of war, at, a recent ceremony at this Aleu- LILLIAN BROWN DIES e ™ 1 WEDNESDAY EVENING, |Post Commander, made the Presel- | pinian Brown, 24 years of age, | |tation of the awards, which arej,. .. away last evening in the granted upon completion of s\X,oovommem Hospital. She is sur- months of satisfactory scrviccl f0r {yived by her husband, Dan Brown, |the War Department with at east \nd a son, Peter, both of Juneau. |30 days of service in the Alaskan| e temains, now at the Charles b W. Carter Mortuary, will be shipped ernment of man and to that faith let us wunite to win the war and achieve lasting peace.” This is the statement made by | | "Sumley C. Martin of Nome, and Clifford Kudd, Edwin J., Leavitt, ¥ STORES ARE T0 BE | Walter A. Swanson, all of Anch- (I.OSED SA'“RDAY orage, and Jack Lokra of Ketchi- - BEA MURPHY GOES SOUTH |ctores will be closed all day so Beatrice Murphy, prominent in|{housewives must get their orders in YNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 9-—Eleven Japanese planes raided American-held Sai- pan and Tinian Islands in the Marianas, = shortly . after midnight Monday, without inflicting damage or casualties, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported today. Anti-aircraft downed three, probably four of the attackers. It was the second enemy raid within a week in the Marianas, where Tokyo claims, without con- firmation, that there 1s a base from which American B-29's have been reportedly reconnoitering over Japan. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE T0 BE TAUGHT; FIRST MEETING ANNOUNCED Classes in learning to battalions and regiments.” Front-line- di sald Patton sent_ two'afvisions f1ito action north of Metz this morning. Fresh pro- sress was made in the area near Berg, just below the Luxembourg border. The Third Division joined the othet three divisions and attack- ed south of the city yesterday on a #5-mile front. They galned up to tnree miles, and at least 16 villages were captured in the combined ad- jvance of the Third and Seventh Ar- mies with two-thirds of the Army Corps of the Twelfth and Twentieth Armies in action. | Attack Spreads | South of Metz the attack spread {11l the way from Cheminot, 10 miles jfouth of Metz and four miles east of the Moselle River, to thé Chateau Salins area, where the doughboys hammered a mile-deep wedge nortb the Rhine-Marne canal at a& point 20 miles east of Nancy and an cqual distance west of Saarebourg. ) In Holland In Holland, where the first snow cf the season fell last night, Mont~- speak omery's army seized all of Wal- Russian will become a certainty if .oren Island in the mouth of the enough people, are interested, the'gchelde except for a tiny pocket Rev. John Wasil, of the Russlan around the villages of Buttinge and Orthodox Church announces. | €t. Laumcolviles. Northwest of All those interested in forming Middleburg the pocket is isolated a Russian class are invited to at- tend a meeting at the High School Tuesday evening, November 14, at 7:30 o'clock in Room 21. “As a result of inquiries about my teaching Russian,” he declared, “I would be glad to help out, if there is sufficient interest.” Both members of last year's class, under The Rev. Baranof, and new- comers interested, are asked to go to the meeting. Tentative plans for the classes would include two evenings a week, to be arranged by the group. JL TR S 2 ELECTORAL VOTE OF MICHIGAN IS NOT YET DECIDED DETROIT, Nov. 9—A re-check of 81 Wayne County precincis by a board of canvassers indicated that Dewey's lead over Roosevelt for Michigan's 19 electoral votes was slashed to 1,657 votes. The board, checking what they sald were previously uncounted Presidential votes in 81 precincts announced the tally showed 31,432 for Roosevelt anc 17,998 for Dewey. Thirteen other Wayne County precincts remained to be checked. Democratic National Committeeman Bevan forecast they will tip the state into the Roosevelt column, possibly by less than 5,000 votes. S et —— Mrs. H. L. Wood left on the Princess Norah for Ketchikan, Alaskans receiving the emblem .. Angoon, birthplace of the de- were Nick R. Jukich of Ju"""“"ceased, for burial, EClfllol’d A. McAdams, Earl F. El- |lingsoh, Bernard D. Jackson ands kan. Next Saturday is Armistice Day| R AP and will be observed as a holiday. union circles in Juneau, left on the {omorrow, in fact during the fare- Princess Norah for the states, noon hours to be sure of delivery. where she will locate temporarily. Irom the coast. | The United States First Army, this week, is slowly regaining some |lost ground southeast of Aachen. They are fighting strong German counterattacks. The Germans said | ‘‘he Americans are making fever- “x.sh preparations for a new offensive iin the Aachen region.” | e —— WOULD MAKE AP TAKE IN ALL PAPERS | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — The Justice Department has recom- mended to the Supreme Court that the Associated Press be required to adopt an “explicit” by-law which would admit new members without regard for local competitive situa- tions. The Department filed its brief in its cross-appeal from a decision of the Federal Expediting Court in the Government's anti-trust suit against the non-profit news co- operative. The Associated Press likewise has appealed to the high tribunal which will hear oral arguments next week. — e Mrs. Glen Smith is registered at the Baranof Hotel from Craig, Al- |aska.