The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME VOL. LXIV., NO. 9817 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 194 4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ————— YANK PLANES SINK 4 ENEMY TRANSPORTS Trap Swung Shut On Nazis In Vosges Area l . FORCES OF FRENCH IN NEW MOVE Advance Against German Savage Resistance- Close Fighting BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 25 ~—The U. S. Ninth Army Troops today squeezed in tighter on Julich, Roer River bastion, 25 miles from Cologne, and boosted the eight day toll of German tanks. A radio report from Berlin declared the defensive battle in this area east of Aachen is “nearing a climax.” One Berlin broadcast called it the ‘“greatest battle of the present war.” i LONDON, Nov, 25. — The Paris radio said today French forces were moving -toward a junction between virtually liberated Strasbourg and Colmar to the south, swinging shut a trap on German troops in the Vosges Mountains, while the Ger- mans were using every means to pull back across the Rhine to their homeland. In the South, savage resistance by 10 or 12 Nazi diyisions in the Aachen sector held the advance of three Allied armies to a slow crawl. French armored forces are battling at close quarters to smash the Ger- mans in Strasbourg, from the last dock-font stand to the big Rhine bridge leading into Germany. | The Paris radio said other French armored units were ranging along} the west bank of the Rhine from Strasbourg to within eight miles of meeting with advance units of the French First Army that are surging | down the. Rhine from Colmar, 38 miles south of Strasbourg. A front dispatch yesterday said| Allied patrols are reported to have thrust across the Rhine from strns-“l bourg. There is no confirmation of this or no further report. - ee— WILLIAMS ON TRIP Ralph B. Williams, Director of the Division of Public Health Lab- oratories, Territorial Departrhent of Health, left today by plane for| Anchorage on business in connec- | tion with the laboratory work in the Department’s Anchorage branch | office. Mr. Williams expects to re- turn to his Juneau headquarters in about a month. The Washington Merry - Go-Round’ By DREW PEARSON \ (Lt. Col. Robert 5. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — For at least three months, during the campaign, all Roosevelt factions—liberals, con- servatives, New Dealers—stuck to- gether. None criticized another publicly. Hatchets were buried to promote the common cause. But last week, sparks flew again when liberal Attorney General Francis Biddle called in even more liberal Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell and asked for his resignation. The session culminated a bitter long-smouldering personal feud between them. | “You realize,” said Biddle, “that you and I cannot part as friends.” “We certainly can never part as friends,” snapped back Littell. | Redl fact is that Littell has been the Justice Department’s most hard-hitting crusader for New Deal policies, has crusaded so hard that Jhe was frequently far ahead of his more cautious Cabinet chief. It was Littell who-threw an unceremonious monkey-wrench into the Navy’s plan to lease its precious Elk Hills oil reserve to Standard Oil of Cali- fornia. He stopped the deal. | It was Littell who tangled with the Army over its plan to return' Palm Beach'’s swank Breakers| Hotel back to the Florida East Coast Railway at great cost to thel (Continued on Page Four) M One of the first duties of Mickey Rogney's 17-year-old arrival at his Hillside mansion in Hollywood, was to meet the “Gang.” She is shown looking at a picture of her husband while sittiug with Duchess and Orson, springer spaniels, and Beanie, a dachshund; Von, a boxer. (AP Wirephoto) ickey's Bride Meefs the Gang SPECIAL ELECTION ~ MANDATORY Assistant AtTo;ley General | Paul Writes Opinion The Attorney General's Office ad- vised Acting Governor Lew Williams | [today that the calling of a special election for the purpose of electing ‘g‘a senator from this division to fill | the vacancy created by the death of | | Arthur P. Walker is mandatory. The | opinion was delivered by Fred Paul, Assistant to the Attorney General. Acting Governor Williams said to- day that he expects word over the week-end from Gov. Ernest Gruen- | *= |ing setting the date for the election. | | Announcement will probably be g\made early next week. 1 s L i | YANKPLANES HIT MANILA, JAPS REPORT (By Associated Press) American carrier-borne plane: Mer COMMAN bride after her .l | | 'y DEATH CAMP OF GERMANS IS LOCATED Two Thousm Lithuanian Men,Women, Children Are Killed by Nazis MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—The Red troops today broke — returned today for an attack on Manila, the Jap-controlled Mnnila{ |radio reported, saying that about | |60 planes were reported over Ma-| Inila and nearby Clark Field. The “report was without American con- | firmation, but the Manila or Tokyo radios are usually first with such |announcements, Carrier planes are said to have | | lN SQUEEZEislruck first at the shipping in ! ‘annila Bay, which American | | pilots said had been turned into a | | | | Als_o Served"” | Showifing; NAZIOIL PLANTIS BLASTED Sea Escape Cut Off from “snieving eravevara Balfc-Sovief Forces | & T Er aE;c'eroe/;firlar?éces So I_ D | ERS RIOTOVER |ernment Hospital in Tanana, fol- Fleet, official Russian Navy news-'transport center, 28 miles northeast; paper, reports a death camp has of Budapest, but were thrown back been found on the East Prussian again by a German counterattack, border where 2,000 Lithuanian men, a Berlin broadcast said today. | women and children had been killed| Berlin also declared eight Russian| and buried in common graves by the divisions made penetrations, in a| Germans before their retreat }wave of assaults, into the Courland| The newspaper said 400 bodies,region of Latvia. Soviet amphibious b g aE o gt s cmd | cape for 30 German divisions,| |squeezed against the Baltic by the p 0 l I S H |capture of the fortified Estonian |after a two-month struggle. ! | Red airmen sank four Nazi war-| |ships offshore and damaged four| | others, including a heavy cruiser,| Moscow announced. —————— LONDON, Nov. 25—Stanislaw Mikolajezyk has resigned as Premie: BOIIOM RE(E"T[Y of the Polish Government in exile| after failing to win support of hisi cabinet on proposals covering terms, WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — Sub-| by which the Russian and Polish .o ihe0 operating in Pacific and| Governments in London could solVe @\ mast waters sunk 27 additional the long standing dispute. enemy vessels including a destroyer | Jan Kwapinski, Socialist, who has ;4 3 convérted gunboat, the Navy| has been charged with formation of | a new cabinet. " These additional sinkings brought \the total of submarine-inflicted Jap-| DR' R probably sunk and 119 damaged. HERE ON ASSIG"ME"T The 27 included a large transport, |a large tanker, a large cargo trans- were found in one grave. | forces virtually blocked any séa es- {island of Saare which fell yesterday ... JAP VESSELS TO held the rank of Deputy Premier, reported today. OBERT YOUNGLOVE |5coe,senic” anc. 116 damagea.” | |port, two medium tankers, two ! medium cargo transports, 11 medium | cargo vessels, a small tanker, six small cargo vessels. | It was also disclosed that a Neth-| lands’ submarine, built in England and operated under United States control in East Indian waters, sunk Dr. Rpbert Younglove, Assistant Surgeon (R), with the United States Public Health Service, arrived in Jnueau yesterday by plane from Seattle. He has been assigned to duty with the Alaska Indian Service. Previous to this assignment, he was with the War Shipping Adminis- 4500 tons of shipping. tration in San Francisco. All vessels sunk so far include 80 1t is expected that Dr. Younglove ccmbat ships and 774 non-combatant will be placed in charge of the Gov- vessels. —— .- i Taxidermy was first practiced in the 17th century. lowing a brief period at the Gov- ernment Hospital here in Juneau * veritable quagmires, | LONDON, Nov. 25. — R:L::x:l:,! {Over Thousand American DRAI: T A(Il vl-?;avyo;;;nbers Makle Smash atA Leuna | | Nine Hundred (Canadian Men Parade for Hour 1 5 —More than a | thousand American heavy bombers, accomanied by an equal numbe }ai fighter escorts, bombed Leund | and a synthetic oil refinery at Mer- in B. C. Town | seburg today, with more than 3,000/ VERNON, B. C., Nov. 25.—Soldiers tons of explosives. The from Vernon Military Camp parad-| . je0 4 50000 tons of ol a month ed, four abreast, for an hour la night, in the first anti-conscription| 4 demonsization in Canada of unl“ - welve hundred and fifty Flying| formed men since the government| g, trecses ang Liberators, 1100 fight- authorized, Thursday, to send draft- o5 ang geveral squadrons of Mos- ed home defense troops overseas. | g.itos attacked Berlin last night LONDON, Nov |and was the target of Tuesday" Nine hundred men shouting| with two ton blockbusters. | “Down with conscription! Conscribl| * smerjean pombers also struck oil| :safij,}‘““‘,‘e:gdfi“’ghe“ ;’::;;: man- | storage facilities and railroad yards| The demonstrators threatened to at FiGRe0, ust _0‘ ,M,‘“i,_ | tear down the new Canadian Legion Hall, but the only incident of vio-| | Ience occurred when an ““‘de"““e"‘SE(uR"Y TAX IN captain and a lieutenant stepped in the middle of the street, confronted DEB A'I'E CONGRESS the leaders and urded them to ., 'l “preak it up.” The captain was! S struck down and the lieutenant was, WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — brushed aside. The parade was fi- Whether the historic 78th Congre nally broken up by military police will end in harmony or bitter strife and city patrolmen. | figures on the slim one-half of one At the end of the protest meeting percent that is proposed as a com- no arrests were made. | promise and passed along the cor- b e o onetaand ridors of brewing controversy over the efforts to freeze the social se- ITA[Y moops curity tax at one percent, instead of |letting it rise automatically on Janu- MAKE "Ew GAI“ lary 1 to two percer s the law pro- 1vides, an the Administration wishes. ROME, Nov. 25.—Armored paLrolsi Those seeking to avoid another reached the suburbs of Faenza today showdown fight with the White and forced the Germans to withdraw | House, Administrationists indicate their positions along the Cosina their willingness to split the differ- River, four miles southeast of the ence, -and the Ways and Means Bologna-Rimini highway town, a\Commmae has called for an open military spokesman said. hearing next Monday. ‘This autumn is the wettest on rec-| ord in Italy, with most of the fronts The swordfish is related to the mackerel fanily. tof D OS—Starting a bond selling tour as “War Bond Commandos” are (left to right) fom MEAmainnd N V. Ohistaw Pase Raltimore: Willett Smith, D;llufl ; Dorothy Willizms, lyn, ~ HALIBUT IS One of Many | STED UP Real Heroism BOO By JACK NN WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — The WASHINGTON, Nov. This OPA has increased by about two little story deserves the title’ “They cents a pound the proc s ceil- also serve.” ing prices on frozen Alaska halibut It was told by a lieutenant justisold to the armed forces in Seattle back from the Pacific and wearing| The action i5 necessary to as- a purple heart in his rainbow ef rib- i"“”’ an adequate supply. bons. I'm going to try to tell it| Tne increase is intended to cover just as he told it. |the cost of packing frozen fish ac- “His name was Jimmy. He Was|corqing to Army specifications. a tall well-built kid of 19. But he| ;" oiecor sales of halibub to goe ¢ ‘l',“’"““:“'_““_“"; Shjector. A% &lthe Government in Seittle will now esult, he was wapd boy in & fleld |y, .oy 5 one-price bails, as fal- hospital. And I want to say "uw:low\' there are few tougher Jol)a_ Halibut “He was from Indiand. His dad,| goqite he told me proudly, was a member | 4 | mey the Veterans of Foreign Wars per and he was spending his free time selling the boys on the idea of _]l)lll-: ing this organization when they got T 25. - landed and frozen at 21% cents a pound for diums; other halibut, 20’ cents pound e back home. His personal ambition was to go back and enroll in some gocd music school. He bout music. On duty, which sometimes ran plant ca- around the clock, he never lost his| grin or his yes-sir eagerness. to do everything he could for the wound- ‘ed. “I got acquainted with Jimmy when the bugs got a little too much for me and malaria really took over. “It was evening. Jimmy was writing a letter to his mother as he did, almost every day. I had been running a high fever and hadn't been able to stand the sight of solid food, but I suddenly got a yearning for some hot tea. I called Jimmy, explained that I hadn't eaten in two days and asked him to run over to the kitchen and get me some tea. “He said, ‘Gosh, lieutenant, I don’t think they have any but T'll sure make a try.’ “I asked for sugar too. He said, ‘Gosh, lieutenant, there isn’t any sugar. I know I can't get that, but I'll try” “I got sore. The only excuse I have is that I was sick. I bawled him out. He didn't say anything but, ‘I'll do my best, sir.’ “He got the tea, all right. He got it through a sergeant who knew an Australian who knew a New Zealander who had some tea. He brought back enough to serve the whole ward, but when he came back from the kitchen, he was crestfallen. The cook wouldn't stoke up to give him boiling water, | “I guess (Cnntm;e‘d-'on Page Thiee) I really turned loose on I was nuts| MEAT CUTTING TEST IS MADE meat cutting test was held at \ Twentieth Century Meat Mar- | ket yesterday afternoon in an ef- |fort (o settle the deadlock between |the OPA and Juneau butchers over new OPA beef ceiling prices, as a |result of which the meat markets closed shop Wednesday evening. Director of the Alaska OPA Mild- red Hermann witnessed the cutting, along with other officials from the office as Ed Shaffer of the Sanitary Meat Company cut up the hind quarter of a side of beef, and Shavey Koski of the American Meat Com- pany sliced up the front quarter. As each type of cut was made the pieces of ‘meat were officially weigh- ed and recorded. Both the OPA and the butchers will now figure out the results of the test under the new OPA schedule and it is believed that if the results show that the are unfair to the Juneau but- action will be taken to secure relief from Washington Meanwhile, the butcher shops will remain closed. | | A the - A. B. GUERRERO DIES Alphonso B. Guerrero, 18, died yesterday in the Government Hos- pital. Deceased is survived by five brothers and three sisters. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9 . m. in the Catholic Church of the Nativity, the Rev, Edward |Budde officiating, and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, I JAPCONVOY IS SPOTTED, SENT DOWN 'Troop-laden Craft Bound | for Leyte Strafed-Thou- | sands of_NiE Drown GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL- IPPINES, Nov. 25 Low-flying American fighter planes destroyed four troop-laden ships of a Japa- nese convoy bound for Leyte Is- land yesterday, bringing to ap- proximately 15,000 the toll of Nip- ponese reinforcements killed before they - could reach the embattled island. Headquarters announced approxi- mately 3,500 of an estimated 6,000 troops aboard three transports and a destroyer-escort were killed or drowned during the assault. The convoy was sighted off the coast of Masbate Island, 20 miles north of Leyte, and was attacked shortly before noon by Thunder- bolts and Warhawks at mast height in bombing and strafing attacks. Two transports and a destroyer- escort were sunk and a third 6,000 ton transport set afire and beached. The destroyer-escort sank with all hands. “Ihe ‘enemy has-now lost on the high seas at least 15,000 men des~ tined to reinforce Leyte.” In a communique issued several days ago, headquarters announced Japanese casualties exceeded 45,000 ashore. The American Thirty-Second Di~ vision crossed the Leyte River, be- low Limon, and continued today driving southward. The Division’s veteran infantrymen occupied bit- terly defended Limon. They reached the river Wednesday. AMMUNITION FOR SMALL ARMS 10 BEDOUBLED NOW WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — The |urgent appeal from General “Ike” Eisenhower for more supplies brought an order for a 100 per cent increase in small arms ammunition, which was cut back about a year ago. Eisenhower reported to the War | Production Board that his forces | were using about four times as many small calibre bullets as “anyone ever imagined they would.” | WPB Chairman J. A. Krug, re- | porting this at a news conference, said production would be “roughly idoubled" at 13 plants as quickly as possible. — .- YIP! NIP! YiP! (By Associated Press) Kenichi Kumagai, Japan’'s Assist- |ant Air Raid Defense Chief, the | Tokyo radio said, has assured the Jap people they have nothing to fear from air raids yet to come. | He said the B-29 attack was less |a real raid than. a “bombing raid for the purpose of reconnaissance.” Another broadcast by Domei called it “a propaganda attack.” Kumagali said it will mean in- creased war production because of the “heightened anger of the indus- trial soldier.” { —————— " STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 25. — Closing !quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, American Can 89, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 13%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 77, Kennecott 35%, North American Aviation 8%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 16%, U. S. Steel 56%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 146,63; rails, 4251; utilities, 25.25. | |