The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9818 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS — ] TOKYO HIT SECOND TIME IN FOUR DAYS - AMERICANS PUSH DEEPER INTO REICH + German Resistance Strong in Hurtgen Forest Sector BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. 27. — The First ‘Army today stormed into Langerwhe, the last major German road center west of the Roer, as the Third Army reached a joint within 17 miles of Saarbrucken, onme 'of Germany’s great coal, steel and rail centers. The Third Army has widened its front inside the Saar Basin to 19 miles. The First Army burst finally into the forest battefield town of ‘Hurtgen today and captured most of it. The Hurtgen Forest is 22 miles distant. LONDON, Nov. 27—The Ameri- can First Army advanced a mile today and captured Frenz, 14 miles inside Germany, 25 miles short of Cologne, while men of the Third Army extended their front inside the Reich to 19 miles at the west- ern French industrial area of Saar- land. Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ troops also drove into Hurtgen, at the edge of the forest by that name. German resistance was strong, the enemy's cannon and anti-tank fire bding especially heavy. The weather was relatively clear, ' allowing for overwhelming Allied air power support of the infantry wrnid «ehraing -tanks. Hurtgen ' 'ls 27 and one-half miles southwest of Cologne. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army fought through the Magionet Line fortresses in a sector south- east of the new penetration into Germany, moving within four miles of the Saar border. Seventh Army Troops brondened' the Strasbourg corridor to almost 15 miles and spilled through Saales | % | 1dano; Pfc. (ombat E ngineers We g Combat engineers wade through mud in th recently to provide protection as they operate machines to clear the way for advancing troops behind the firing lines. Left to right: T/5 Lloyd Westergren, Holdrege, Neb.; T/5 Richard A. Kachelmier, Nezperce, Bernard A. Biley, Oceania, Va., and Sgt. Victor Vanne, Virginia, Minn. (AP Wirephoto) ar Armor 16 MORE JAP { SHIPS SUNK, Y /| LUION RAID | Carrier Planes Take Heavy | Toll of Enemy Vessels in Fifth Raid in Month UNITED STATES PACIF‘IC‘ FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL/ HARBOR, Nov. 27 — Twenty-six | carrier planes of the United States Third Fleet sank 16 Japanese ships, including a heavy cruiser, destroyer and two luggers, damaged five other surface craft and destroyed L b CERMAN PERSUAD Decorah, Iowa (left), and S. Sgt. Lou Milewski, Waukegan, flL, examine thong found near Ubach, Germany, believed to have been used by the Germans to mak Nip Capifal City Is Struck . AgainSunday | Other S'upe}fofis Simultan- eously Make Smash on Bangkok, Thailand WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—Super- fortresses ,the B-29's, went on the warpath again Sunday, hitting Tokyo again for the second time in four days and also striking at | enemy installations in Thailand. Like a boxer, crossing up the ER —s. sgt. Edwin R. Stoddard, people talk, 72 planes last Friday. This is the fifth raid this month on Luzon, the Philippines’ main island. These results, reported in a com- !munique by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, increased to more than 250 the number of Japanese ships im- | mobilized around Luzon alone by | Third Fleet planes in 11 raids, be- ginning September 20, the total not | to include 59 warships sunk or| E l E ( T I 0 N damaged in the second battle of | ANNOUNCE 'The Wééliingfoh Merry - Go-Round | | By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) [Roosevelt Might 'Spring Surprise ithe Philippine Sea. Many others SAap December 27 Is Date Set may have been hit elsewhere in Philippine waters, Nimitz said. by Acting Govern- ik or's Writ Twenty -nine Japanese planes | were downed by raiders Friday and eight by surface ship gunners.| | Thirty-five were destroyed on the GERMANOIL SECRETARY OF STATE HULLQUITS Resignafio;lmlis Handed fo Rooseveli-State- foe with rights and lefts to vul- nerable spots, the big bombers "slruck the enemy Capital City from Saipan in one blow, and then in another, came across simul- taneously from India bases, hitting Thailand. TOKYO'S REPORT NEW YORK, Nov. 27—The Tokyo radio reports two formations of about 40 Superforts struck simul- taneously at the Tokyo area and at Bangkok in Thailand. The “Super- forts conducted blind bombing over both targets,” according to the Nip broadcast, recorded by FCC here. As usual, ‘the Japanese claimed was inflicted On Everybody WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The President disclosed today he ;gmund by mnaval airmen, who REFINERIES |cars near Nichols Field on the outskirts of Manila and strafed a |strafed and left flaming 11 tank | A special election will be held in the First Division December 27 to elect a Senator to fill the vacancy ments Made BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — President Roesevelt nominated Undersecretary of |little damage on Tokyo and asserted one plane was downed over Bangkok, but the Im- | perial communique made no refer- ence to even damaging Superforts | | WASHINGTON—One thing puzz- ling the American public is the Iacz‘ that despite the widely announced | gréat naval Vietory of the Philip- |pines, the Japs still are able to !lnnd troops on Leyte — in fact landed them even while the great \naval battle was in progress. Inside explanation of the mys- |tery goes to the dcorsteps of three |gentlemen so high-up that nobody | can do much about them—Franklin | Roosevelt, Gen. MacArthur and Ad-| {miral Halsey. In the opinion of a good nmny1 might go away on a vacation and asserted he might surprise everybody. In answering a aews confer- ence question, he said he might go to most any point — North, South, East or West. His plans are somewhat in a state of flux, he said, without amplification, and he added he might surprise everybody. Key Town s Japanese convoy of 150 trucks south of the city. RS AR o {left by the death of A. P. Walker. Acting Governor Lew Williams is- ;sued the writ calling for the special ,eleetkm this morning, | The precincts will be the same as those during the general election in i September, according to the law, and ! | no official ballot is required. Voters | 0“ ORMo( 'S will simply vote for their choice by |using their own ballots. However, | the baliot must be secret, | Apparently, candidates will not be DE(REAS'NG The special election writ follow: | WHEREAS a vacancy has occurred AREBOMBED ;Over 120 German Aircraft Destroyed in Air Bat- fle Over Miseburg BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 27 | —Five hundred American fighters | downed at least 94 Nazi planes | today in wide-ranging strafing required to file for the election. sweeps that took them within 70 | !in the Office of the hold-over Sen- | | over Tokyo. 4 The B-29's were over Tokyo and other industrial sections of central Monshu for- more - thatr Wir"Houi- " nd a half Monday afternoon kyo time), the Tokyo broadeast | said. Dcmel, Japanese news ajenc reperted Nipponese planes counte: ttacked the Superfort base at & an, setting fire to several” $#i4 vmbers on the ground State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, Secretary of State two and one- | half hours after accepting the resignation ' of Cofdell Hull be- cause of ill-hcalth. The President the name of Stettinius to the Senate as Hull's successor. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—Presi- dent Roosevelt tcday announced | the resignation of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, which will be-| come effective upon the appoint- \ment of his Successor. | Pass to open a new route to the| | naval rts, the Battle of the French city at the Rhine, They are |l €xPe oo i . : p Philippines, although a very defi- within eight miles of still another | x £ bl i | |nite victory, wa: 10t as big and clear break through the Vosges i Mountains, in Ste. Marie Pass, mst:overwhelmmg as the three above- y i Ly |named gentlemen made it out to ator from the First Division in the | Legislature of Alaska by the death eee . On the question of a sucun"ur,»‘? ‘“ President Roosevelt said he has| § !1 ncthing to say. The President told an informal DIS&FPOINTS conference of newsmen that it was with a great and deep regret that he announced Hull was quitting his Cabinet, but said Hull will re- main in close touch with him, THE 21ST U. S. BOMBER COM- MAND AT SAIPAN, Nov. 27 first Superfortress raid on Tokyg ob- viously hurt Japan, but even so miles of Berlin. | 5 ¢ 7 ! Blas"ng Of Jap Relflfor(e' | of Senator Arthur P. Walker on the | | ments FOI'(Iflg Enemy | 19th day of November, 1944; and | LONDON, Nov. 27—RAF Lan- of St. Die | WHEREAS the term of said office Capfuredby | | casters blasted Munich in a con- | be. centiiiiaoK hetore diw, Hun of Senator does not expire until the | In fact, when Admiral Halsey e or(es | convening of the 1947 Legislature; China City inaLity, Hatvan, Rail - Road Hub, Falls fo Soviets After acting as adviser on foreign af- fairs. Poor Health Is Reason Hull's health is the reason for his giving up the post at this critical time when, machinery is being assembled to perpetuate i | afher SRNR WIh e, ROt M OEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD'ian‘:IHEREAS said vacancy occurred telling how he had decimated the | bombs, probably intended for Nazi|QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP-|gubsequent to the General Election Jap fleet, the Department cabled oll seriiemte |PINES, Nov. 27—American fighter|and more than 41 days preceding back that they didn't believe his Enemy oil production facilities planes sank three more Japanese|the convening of the Legislature of victory was as great as he claimed | have been hit by nearly 7,000 Lans!veasels carrying reinforcements to0|Alaska on January 22, 1945, and they advised him to put the of bombs in the past 48 hours. ;l.eybe Island’s Ormoc corridor,| NOwW, THEREFORE, by virtue of 1id on news releases. | One hundred and twenty-two| where Nipponese resistance IS the authority to me delegated by dreds of the heavy bombers rose‘; Defeflse’o lend'e sent his first dramatic communi- H |from their British bases shortly| 5 cation to the Navy Department CHUNGKING, Nov. 27.—The Chi- mnese Command today announced the | fall of Hochih, 95 miles west of | ALiuchow in the Kwangsi Province of southern-China, in the Jap sweep toward Kweichow Province. Hochih is but 20 miles from the Kweichow border and 120 miles southwest of Kweiyang, a Burma Road town in Kweichow where the invaders will be in a position to strike ‘Chungking. 1t is also disclosed that the last forward American airbase in south China, the fighter field at Nanning, has been abandoned and destroyed by the Fourteenth United States Air Force. It is the seventh American airbase lost in the twin Jap north- ward and southward thrust for all practical purposes to split China in two. PATRICK HURLEY IS NEW AMBASSADOR ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 2'7./—Ma]0r Gen. Patrick Hurley has been nom- inated by the President as Ambas- sador to China, succeeding Clarence Gauss, who resigned. Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert, Hoover, served the present administration in diplomatic ca- pacities during the war. At one time he was Minister to New Zea- land. Hurley is in China now with Don- ald Nelson, the President’s personal ~resentative, attempting to build Chinese war production. ————————— 4 Mrs. Wilson and daugh- sent as a matter of routine to the White House, where first of all to Rcosevelt’s Chief of Staff, Admiral Leahy. Ever-cau- tious Leahy also was troubled about it, advised that the news be played down rather than up. But even while he held the dis- patch in his hand and was discuss- ing it with others in House, news came over the ticker that Gen. MacArthur had an- nounced a great navyal victory. As the top commander in the Philip- pine theatre, MacArthur has the right to issue any communique— even regarding naval victories, though the Navy doesn’t and, in this case, certainly didn’t like it. Following the MacArthur an- | nouncement, the President went out |whole hog. Calling a special press conference, he announced greatest naval victory of the war. Although a real victory, the chief of Navy press relations probably was more accurate when, last week, he expressed the ccld opinion that the Battle of the Philippines had inot materially shortened the war [in the Pacific. EASY TO OVERESTIMATE The first enthusiastic announce- ments from the Philippines are un- derstandable. It is easy to over- lestimate damage to the enemy. However, the Halsey dispatch was 10-Day Siege Nazi fighters were shot out of the|“steadily decreasing” under Yank | chapter XVII, Article ITI, Sections air in a big battle yesterday when |pressure, Headquarters announced | 1521-1527, Compiled Laws of Alaska didn't world peace. n't come up to expectations, it went | the White | the | |the German Air Force sought totoday. MOSCOW, Nov. 27—Russian ar- mored units today lashed out from captured Hatvan toward the Danube, north of Budapest, while directly downstream from the Hun- |garian capital another Red for- mation, it is reported, seized a foothold on narrow Csepel Island. Hatvan, 25 miles northeast of | Budapest, fell yesterday after a 10- !day struggle. With its capture, {Marshal Malinovsky is able to /maneuver his Second Ukranian |Army for double-sided attacks and| | outflank Budapest. 1 | Meanwhile, troops of Petrov's Fourth Ukranian Army shattered the main 60-mile defense line across Eastern Slovakia by cap- turing the key railroad hubs of ! Michalovec and Humenne, in a 12-mile advance north of Ungvar. This thrust brought the Russians to within 28 miles of the two Slovakian strongholds, Kosice and BILL SPAIN, JR., ON P SHORT FURLOUGH HERE T rn o e i = ot - i 1 | Miseburg against |planes and more than 6,000 Anglo- |stroyed three small transport and American fighter-bombens which | cargo vessels early Saturday even- roved over the Reich during the|ing off the north tip of Cebu weekend. |which appeared to be preparing Two thousand fighters were for a night run to Ormoc with working exclusively on front linu;supplles and an undetermined targets yesterday. |number of troops aboard. This is a 1 | separate convoy from the four | | transports which were smashed ‘"GGS DI"NER BIG :earlier Saturday in the same area. EM’ EVEHT -lomom'\ In an effort to stave off disas- ‘Ler along the heavily hammered ‘Yamuhit.a Line, the Japanese lost Tonight at 6:30 o'clock, the corned |at least 17,000 troops, 19 convoy | beef an’ dinner, sponsored by the|vessels and | American Legion, will be Sprefld'outlpou‘r ships and some 3500 men on the tables at the Odd Fellows' were lost Friday off Masbate Is- Hall and it will be “fill up.” There |jang. will be music, etc, for entertain- —wmacArthur noted the decreased fapk: Japanese resistance in Ormoc cor- |ridor, while reporting that the 32nd | Division continued to press south- —————— Units of the Seventh Division ing a seven-day furlough at the meapwhile repulsed the second i home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. €nemy night attack near Palanas, William Spain. Spain recently com- |11 miles south of Ormoc. pleted 17 weeks basic training at e Camp Roberts, Calif., and upon com- | STOCK QUOTATIONS pletion of his furlough is to report NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — Closing A silver thaw, (thaw is good), ‘hu Juneau early Sunday night and soon. streets and sidewalks were |covered with slick ice that made |walking hazardous and autoing |the same. Then, early this morning, | to Ford Ord for placement. | - e | defend the natural oil refinery at! Warhawks and Thunderbolts inf 1,800 American |strafing and bombing attacks de- ial Election be held in the First| 14 escorting vessels. | |ward beyond shell-battered Limon.| During the first stage of thelsnow fell, and walking and driving - |were just a slip and a slide that (Continued on Page Four) |culminated in many cases with a [PASTOR JENSEN TO | ARRIVE HERE SOON| The office of the Alaska Mission quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, American Can 89%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 14, Miss Lorene Krause, now fully recovered from a recent appendec- | tomy, today returned to her studies at Juneau High School. ————— G. C. Sanders and Robert F. MacNeill are here from Whitehorse, Fairbanks, are staying at and are staying at the Baranof Ho au Hotel. tel. dull thud, followed b ya sharp painjof Seventh-Day Adventists has re- ; Bethlehem Steel 61%, Curtiss- *| Wright 6%, International Harvester in portions of the body that wereceived word from Pastor E. not intended by Nature to come Jensen, recently selected to 5"”"761/., Kennecott 35%, North Ameri- |suddenly and unexpectedly intolceed the late Pastor H. L. Wood can Aviation 8%, New York Central 'contact with icy streets and walks. as Supgrintendent of the Mission. 183, Northern Pacific 8%, United The street gang was out early| Pastor Jensen states that he is| States Steel 57%. with sand to facilitate the move- looking forward with pleasure to| Dow, Jones averages today are as ment of traffic, both vehicular and his work in Alaska and expects to follows: industrials, 146.92; rails, | pedestrian. Jarrive soon. 142.61; utilities, 25.44. 11933, it is HEREBY ORDERED that a Spec- Judicial Division, Territory of Al- aska, on the 27th day of December, | 1944, to fill the vacancy in the | office of the hold-over Senator from |the First Judicial Division in the | Legislature of Alaska. i IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have | hereunto subscribed my name as | Acting Governor of Alaska and have |affixed the Great Seal of the Ter-| | ritory of Alaska this 27th day of November, 1944, at Juneau, Alaska. GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, (Signed) By LEW M. WILLIAMS, Acting Governor. 'BONOMI CABINET " RESIGNATION 1S NOT YET FINAL | ROME, Nov. 27. — Premier Bon- | tion today as a result of a two weeks’ ]crisis over a program for war-torn, hungry Italy but his Cabinet was reported still conducting normal business last night, A brief communique yesterday said Bonomi desided to resign when rep- resentatives of six parties, forming | his coalition government, failed to agree on a program for governing | the country but it was said that later | Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant- decision on the resignation. .. DAY LEAVES JUNEAU | Deputy Collector Ray G. Day, of the Skagway Customs Office, re- days on official business. {omi’s government offered its resigna- ' The information that Hull had handed in ‘his resignation was given the Associated Press |clusively last night by a high Gov- ernment official who asked that Ihis name not be used. The Presi- |dent saw Hull yesterday at Beth- ecutive that he felt, under the | resignation. Hull's Statement The President said Hull's doc- |tors said complete recovery from his long illness would be retarded if he continued to bear the re- sponsibilities of his cabinet port- folio. Hull also said it would not be right for the country for him to remain on the job. The President noted Hull was coming along all right physically, but recovery would be a long pro- cess. Last night it was stated Hull, now 175, resigned and gave his reason as bad health. | Three Considered Backers of James Byrnes, Wallace and Stettinius lined lonce to have their favorite the next Secretary of State. Hull has been in the Naval Hos- pital at Bethseda, Maryland, for ithe past five weeks suffering from |a throat illn not described as serious but requiring a long rest from his cabinet duties Henry up at made ex-| {seda and Hull told the Chief Ex- | eircumstances, he should accept his‘ Brig. Gen. Hansell, Base Command- er, said. 3 The first formations over the en- emy capital in clear weather did a good job, he told the press confer- ence, but later ones ran into a thick cover. Despite the handicap, only four of “dozens” of B-29s which participated ¢Tokyo said 70) failed | to hit worthwhile targets. He disclosed that only one of the two Superforts which were lost went down by enemy action. The other failed to return for a reason un- !known. ‘The plane lost over Tokyo | was attacked by a Jap lone fighter which either went out of control or the Jap pilot knew he was doomed, because he crashed into the tail of !the B-29 which crashed into the water east of Japan. Apparently none of the crew got out. Reports, | however, said that a couple of life |rafts were sighted, and a destroyer is investigating. | Hans 1l declined to estimate the number of enemy planes brought }down because crew reports were | necessary confused and hard to as- |ses, but at least four were known |to have been bagged and ten or more others shot down or damaged. | One Super came back with only two | motors operating. | e o — C(OASTAL MAKES TWO | FLIGHTS ON SUNDAY Several sources are speculating| Alaska Coastal Airlines made two whether the President will hold off | flights Saturday, carrying the fol- | Governor of the realm, reserved his @PPoINting a new Secretary in the lowing passengers (hope Hull will recuperate within a |few months. | - FROM FAIRBANKS R. 8. Trauer, Roy Douglas, Lydia turned to that city today. He has Fohn-Hansen and Leona Simpson | been in Juneau for the past several are here from Fairbanks and are T staying at the Baranof Hotel. to Hoonah: |James Young, John Hinchman, {Mrs. Harry Dcuglas, Harry Douglas. | Juneau to Sitka—Harold Bates, Lynn Gemmill, Mrs. O. Sunde, Leo Hammersley. Sitka to Juneau—Frank Ausmus Ferman, Helen Herman, J Smith, Howard Stabler.