The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1944, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 4 VOL. LXIV., NO. 9819 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALLIED PUSH ON COLOGNE Ly UNDERWAY RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY ATPREDAWN Supply, Rail Centers Blas!-| ed - Great Fighter Battle Fought LONDON, Nov. 28—At least 1,000 Royal Air Force heavy bombers, in pre-dawn raids today, hurled some 4,000 tons of explosives on Neuse and Freiburg, German supply cen- ters just back of the western front as the sustained 72-hour assault con the Nazi front line rail supply centers continued. Freiburg lies behind Mulhouse in the Klomar sector where French First Army and American Seventh Army are pressing up to the western bank of the Rhine. American heavy bombers at- tacked the German rail movements at Offenburg, north of Freiburg, and Mosquitoes raided Berlin last night and also Neuss, then as far north as the Dusseldorf area where the railroad junction is located, and where also the British Second Army and American First and Ninth are engaged. American fighter pilots downed 98 German planes yesterday in the greatest all-fighter battle of the war. Another four destroyed on the ground, bringing the kills in 24 hours to 212. Thir- teen American fighters and one bomber are missing from yester- day’s operations. The fighter plane battle involved Sodte 506 MUSANES AgATist Mo’ than 400 German Focke Wulfs and Messerschmits and occurred while | the Americans were strafing air-| the | planes were | JAP DROMES 'BLASTED BY YANKPLANES {Enemy Alrbases Pounded as Weather Curtails Ground Operations GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Nov. 28. — Americal planes dropped 235 tor. of bombs on Japanese airdromes at Jepu, Negros and Davao, Friday, rose to intercept the flight, but eight were downed. | Terrific rains brought ground | corridor, and no American advances were reported. The weather also curtailed aerial activity over Leyte | Sunday. Four attacking Japanese planes were downed, in addition to the eight bagged, on American assaults agalnst other Philippine targets. ning fighters, pounded Japanese !| Cebu, Negros and Minandao air-' dromes, aircraft facilities, bivouacs | and supply areas. They also hit six enemy barges and destroyed an- and Halmahera. Japanese planes Morotai Island at night. tackers were downed by fighters and antiaircraft. | FERRER. I ERNGR \HIGHER TOLL. ENEMY SHIPS again raided ports and military transport cen-| ters in northwest Germany. ———————— SNOW SLOWS DOWN ACTION AT BUDAPEST MOSCOW, Nov. 28.—The heaviest snowfall of the year, following a severe sleet storm, has slowed down action in the battle at Budapest. The German and Hungarian troops are occupying the defense positions along a 20-mile curve from the southern limits of Budapest to the rail junction at Aszod. No report is made on the northern front but the Soviet war bulletin, however, reported the capture of fifty additional hamlets in the pup- pet State of Slovakia. The Soviet forces have crossed the 2,700-foot Carpathian Moun- tains along the Polish frontier and other units in the south advanced to within 11 miles of the big Hun- garian rail center of Satoraljaujhely. The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt WASHINGTON—Bitter Brothers- in-law. The ousting of Dr. H. H. Kung as Chinese Minister of Fin- ance was a victory for Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. Both gre brothers-in-law of Chiang Kai- shek, both for a time were sta- tioned in the United States, scarcely spoke to each other. Even Madame Chiang, when she came here last year, saw her brother, T. V. Soong, only briefly. But smart T. V. Soong returned to China, got back in the good graces of brother- in-law Chiang, while his sister, the Generalissimo’s wife,” now not in her husband’s good graces, departed . . Such is Chinese politics. Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s daughter Ann sent a letter to her papa in Italy the other day addressed in| a unique way. She merely drew her father’s profile on the " envelope under the word “To”. Under the picture of her Dad, she wrote the word “At” and then drew the Fifth Army shield. There was no name or address, but the letter reached Gen. Clark pronto. . . . Bete noir Sidney Hillman, who sent shivers (Continued on Page Four) but | - IS REPORTED By LEIF ERICKSON (A. P. War Correspondent) UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 28 — An upward 1evision of the destruction inflicted on Japanese shipping in the Ma- nila area, Friday, showed that U S. Third Fleet carrier planes sank a heavy cruiser, three destroyers, a destroyer escort, 13 other ships, two | craft were downed from air combat and anti-aircraft fire, the Nimitz communique added. Two old destroyers on the list of enemy ships sunk were unidenti- fied. One ship was previously re- ported wiped out as a destroyer escort. The score of ships damaged was raised to 28, a sharp incréase of 23 over the original count. These included “two destroyers or small transports” bombed, and nine lug- gers. This made a total of 48 ships sunk or damaged in the dev- astating attack. The total number |of Japanese ships sunk or damaged during November's steady pounding of the enemy’s supply center for the Philippines thus was increased to 151. Hellcat fighters and anti-aircraft fire from American surface ships downed 58 Japanese planes and 29 more were destroyed on the ground. In addition, 32 were probably dam- aged on the ground. Avengers and Helldivers ranged over most of Luzon and adjacent |attrition bombing in weeks on the Nipponese supply lane to Ameri- can invaded Leyte Island. VAUDEVILLE T0 BE PRESENTED FOR TWO SHOWS The Annual All-School Vaudeville | of the Juneau Public Schools will be presented this week. The 12 acts. 11 from the high school and one from the second grade, will be presented Thursday afternoon at a student matinee and Friday night in the high school gym- nasium at 8 o'clock for the public. — George Folta, counsellor* for the Interior Department, has returned to Juneau after attending the In- dian hearing in Seattle. Leyte-based " MacArthur's | communique said. Thirty Jap planes | American | fighting to a standstill on the Ormoc | B-24 Liberators, escorted by Light- i | other in strikes at Palawan, Celebes | Four at- | |luggers +included. At least 87 air-| islands, carrying out the heaviest| Shattuck Is (andidafe For Senafe | | | Allen Shattuck, above, Juneau insurance and real estate broker, veteran of 15 yvears in the Terri- torial Legisl *'re, announced his |candidacy Senate in the be held December 27. A resident of Alaska for !years, Shattuck has served in four prevl’)us sessions of the Legisla- {ture—two times in the House of| | Representatives and twice in the| special election to |Senate. In previous sessions, Shattuck be- came known for his service in |matters pertaining to the Terri- tory’s finances, serving either as a member of the House Ways and ,Manm. Committae..ar,; |Finance Committee. He was president of the Sumu' jin the 1933 session. — g ARMY TRANSPORT ' PLANE IS FOUND; WRECKED ON PEAK| Searching Pariy Reaches Scene in Mount Mc- Kinley Section HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Nov. 23—Hardened Army and civilian mountain climb- ers who reached the point where ithe C-47 Air Transport plane |crashed on @n unnamed 12,160-foo: McKinley section, found no trace ,of the 19 passengers and crew-men aboard the big ship. The transport had broken apart, rolled and tumbled approximately 1,500 feet down the precipitious, icy slopes. point of impact, a wing and part of the broken fuselage far below under 10 feet of snow. The searchers reported that with- |out doubt all aboard the transport —most of them servicemen on their | way to the states—were instantly killed. LOCAL FILIPINO GROUP RE-ELECT - BELARDE AS HEAD At a meeting held in the Nor- thern Hotel Sunday night, the Fili- pino Community of Juneau held their annual election of officers and made first plans for the an- nual Rizal Day celebration. Eddie Belarde was reelected president; S. Constantino, vice- president; Fred Fulgencio, secre- tary; B. (Sammy) Samaniego, treasurer; Mac Curpos and Sammy Buejada, sergeants at arms: Dan Hucson, Pete Terencio and Fur- tunato (Bata) Fulgencio, auditors. The Community will celebrate Rizal Day on December 30. B. Samaniego was named general chairman for the affair, and D. M. Sarabia, vice-chairman, ——————— MRS. HENDRICKSON Mrs. Evelyn Hendrickson, who has been south for several weeks, has returned to her Juneau home. RETURNS wy tor the Territorial | 47, the .Senats | B peak some time ago in the Mount | One motor was’ found at the| LAKINA HITS ROCKENROUTE FROM ALASKA Hundred P;s_s;ngers Sav- | ed by Quick Action of Two Aboard Launch VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 28— |Quick action of Mr .and Mrs. |Milton Adams of Granite Bay, in their small launch, probably saved the more than 100 passengers laboard the Seattle-bound steamer |Lakina when the vessel collided |with a rock at the north entrance of Plumper Bay, northern end of lSeymcur Narrows. The propellors were sheared off, the rudder crumpled and the La- kina threatened to pile up on {the rocks in Seymour Narrows. | The Adams arrived in their {launch 30 minutes after the acci- |dent occurred, shoved the 240-foot Ivessel away from the menacing {rocks and helped her to a position where anchors could be dropped. Forty-nine U. S. Army and Navy | personnel, homeward bound from |Alaska, have arrived in Vancouver abeard the Union Steamship Com- lpanys vessel Chelphsin, after being \taken off the Lakina. Other pas- |sengers were transferred at sea to |{the Northland, bound for Seattle. L The Lakina remains anchored in ‘Plumper Bay | LB T R BETA SIGMA PHI T0 . OPERATE BOND BOOTH Members of Lhc Beta Sigma Phi | sorority will be in charge of the |bond booth in the Baranof lobby | from 7 to 10 o'clock every evening | throughout the drive, it has been announced. This is the same booth | used by the Girls Scouts during the afterncons. Sorority members are also helping to staff the bond booth which has been mecwd in the Capntol Theatre. 'PENGUIN ARRIVES FROM PRIBILOFS | 'The Penguin, Bureau of Fisheries (rboat. has arrived in Juneau from the Pribilof Islands and is to leave | tonight for Seattle for the usual winter overhaul, not returning to these waters before next February. The ship left Seattle October 27 and by the time it reaches Seattle ! it will have been on the trip for five i weeks, the usual time it takes for a | | round-trip between the Puget Sound port and the Seal Islands. Crew members said the natives seem, for the most part, to be happy at being home once again although | there are some who want to come back to Southeast Alaska. Passengers disembarking at Ju- neau were Captain Morris, formerly skipper of the Blue Wing, and Herb Wolff. —— e SEATTLEITE HERE { John H. Gilbert of Seattle 13 |registered at the Baranof Hotel. -, BISHOPS HERE Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Bishop and {daughter are here from Whitehorse and are registered at the Baranof Hotel. - et ‘GUEST FROM STEWART, B. C. Mrs. Charles Knipple, from Stew- art, British Columbia, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel while in Juneau. e e — SIX LEAVE VIA PAA Six passengers left for Seattle today via PAA, as follows: Patricia |Muir, Joseph H. Sadlier, Russell Swank, Emelyne, La Roche, Julius La Melle, and Jess Blankenship. e DIVORCE ACTTIONS Actions for divorce have been| filed in the Federal Court by| Jessie W. Blankenship, charging) Anola J. Blankenship with deser-| |tion, and Kenneth D. Greenlee vs. |Merola Greenlee, incompatibility. | — e — - TONGASS IN PORT The Tongass arrived in port last night with freight for Juneau and the following passengers booked for discharge at Haines:: Mrs. |erusader would admit the adequacy by the butchers, the realization was | to the cuts which the Juneau butch- | and made the regulations and forced |severe chest cold. MEAT SHOPS | STAY CLOSED FOR PRESENT Will Open Doors When‘ OPA Allows Dealers fo | Operate WithoutLoss | Juneau butchers announced this morning that they will continue to remain closed until “such time as the Office of Price Administration | will allow us to charge prices under which we may operate at a profit.” A meeting held yesterday after- noon in the Office of Price Admin- istration in the Valentine Building between OPA officials and the meat dealers apparently served only to widen the breach which resulted in the dealers closing their shops Thanksgiving Eve. Territorial Price Executive D. J. ©'Connor delivered to the butchers at the meeting a memorandum on the beef complaint in which he stated that “the prices must be tried. E;tll this trial is made I shall con- er making no recommendation for adjustment.” i The meat dealers claim that the gutting test made last Friday proved OPA officials they could not op- &rate under the new OPA price schedule. { i Memorandum " ‘O'Connor’'s memorandum showed | that from the 384-pound side of beef | used for the cutting test the total realization amounted to $104.48 under the OPA prices while the cost | of the beef to the butcher amounted to $96. O'Connor admitted that “not <hen the moed aekior. anti-buriness of such a return.” However, he| charged that under a cutting test made in February, 1943, by the; butchers, themselves, and accepted not enough to enable the butchers | to stay in business. The meat dealers, however, reply that the test which was made in February, 1943, was made according ers have been using all along, while the test made Friday was made ac- cording to cuts prescribed by the | OPA in the new regulations, and | that the comparison is not fair. Intimations O'Connor also intimated that the butchers used in the test Friday front and hind quarters out of pro- portion to the usual run. He said that because Grade AA meat was| used in the test the result could| not be of any account because 90 percent of the beef used in Juneau | is Grade A. He said there is more | waste to Grade AA beef than| Grade A. | The butchers claimed that this is | not so, that the waste depends upon the size of the beef and that Grade A beefs and cheaper beefs come | just as large as Grade AA, depending | upon what they can get from the | Canadians Don 't Want fo B G THRUST Fight; MakeDemandThey = QVER PLAIN Be Sent Back fo Homes PREMIER OF CANADA ASKS FOR SUPPORT Says He WWResign If Coming Confidence Vote Rejected OTTAWA, Nov. 28.—The House of Commons today was called in a secret session on the Dominion- splitting conscription issue after Prime Minister Mackenzie King de- clared lack of “reasonable” unity on conscription might lead to anarchy in Canada. “The Premier told Parliament he would resign if he didn't get strong support. A vote of confidence is to be taken later this week. He in- sisted this support must include members of his own badly-split Lib- eral Party. He appealed especially to the wavering French - speaking members from Quebec, who reflect that nationalistic province's opposi- tion to conscription for overseas service. He also called for an end to the racial divergencies that have been a bar to complete Canadian unity slnne _the Dommwns earuest history. Even as King spoke of these dif- ferences, anti-conscription demon- strations broke out as far away as in British Columbia and, as near as, Lansdowne Park, just a mile and a half from Parliament Hill here in Ottawa. About 100,000 home defense troops conscripted for service in this hemi- sphere, under the new government policy, are liable to be sent over- seas. An organized anti-conscription pa- rade began a march on Parliament but was dispersed, almost at the | cutset, by active service troops, sail- ors and civilians. The demonstrators fled as police arrived. DOITNOW! CHRISTMAS MAILING Do you plan to mail Christmas packages for delivery in the States?‘ wholesalers, that even in smaller beefs the percentage of waste under | the OPA cutting regulations would | pepartment would like to have all Derby Inn at be the same. f 0’Connor’s Criticism O'Connor also criticized the cut- ting test because it was “somewhat | public.” ~Said O’Connor, “The oc-| casion was somewhat public, much to my disappointment, and for that reason only I did not leave the dem- onstration.” One spokesman for the butchers said the deadlock could have been aveided three months ago if O'Con- nor would have submitted to a cut- ting test then, but “he went ahead us to shut down.” He also said that after the test last Friday, O'Connor | asked them not to make public the results of the test and also admitted that he realized some changes would have to be made. The meat dealers also claim that | the lay-in cost allowed Juneau deal- ers is not fair because the OPA will not allow them to add the cost of drayage and cold storage to the cost of beef brought to Juneau. They| | said that in order to assure an ade- | quate supply they must have some | beef on hand in cold storage at all times. e PHILLIPS ILL TODAY A. B Phillips, Superintendent of Juneau Public Schools, is con- fined to his home today with a CALIFORNIA PEOPLE Louise J. Hamilton, Bonny Hamil- ton, Louan Hamilton, Mrs. D. A. Hamilton, Lorraine Hamilton and Darrold A, Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs, D. J. Shoemaker are in Juneau from Alameda, Cali- |where they Better do it now—just as soon' |as possible—in fact the Post Office but this can hardly be done now, but anyway not later than the first week in December. Gastineal Channel residents are familiar with the uncertainty that last-minute Christmas pack- ages, even though they reach the States before the holidays, may not reach their destination on time because of the volume of Christmas mail in the states, slowed this year because of war-time shipping em- ergencies. Be sure to wrap packages well, address plainly and correctly, be sure to put on your return address and MAIL EARLY! Incidentally, Christmas cards should be sent by first-class mail. ——— - — DOCTORS BACK Dr. George A. Dale, Acting Di- rector of Education, and Dr. Evelyn I. Butler, have returned from a | month’s trip to Seattle and vicinity, have been on official business. SRR R NEW NURSE ARRIVES Kathryn Acker, newly-appointed Public Health Nurse of the Terri- torial Health Department, has ar- rived in Juneau. Previous to her appointment, she was a Field Nurse for the State Crippled Childrens’ Service in Columbia, Missouri. She will be in Juneau for a short fornja, and are staying at the Baranof Hotel, period of orientation before being placed. B. VANCOUVER, C., Nov. A dispatch reaching Vancouver from Prince Rupert, on the Northern Brit- ish Columbia coast, said soldiers carrying rifles were demonstrating south of Terrace, where draftees are staging a “sitdown” strike while awaiting a reply from Army Head- quarters at Ottawa to the demand they be returned to their Quebec homes. It is known that at least three regiments are stationed at Terrace, two English speaking units from Prince Edward Island and Saskat- chewan and the other a French- Cangdian unit from Quebec. There is no definite report on| general demonstrations but the Que- | bec outfit has demonstrated, the correspondent said, but no damage has been done. ARE “MUTINEERS” VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 28.— French-Canadian draftee troops sta- | tioned at Terrace, B. C., who have demonstrated for three days against conscription for foreign service are termed “mutineers” by the Army spokesman and their pay allowances have been stopped and will continue s0 unless they take orders from of- ficers. The demonstrations at Terrace, the largest of half a dozen in British Columbia over the weekend, was participated in by an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 men. They paraded, then went on a “sitdown.” The grievances of the men, boiled down, is the fact they “just dom't want to go overseas,” said an Army rultfcde RS = S Tadand PAA MAN SPEAKS AT ROTARY CLUB Ray Har erican Airways manager, was guest speaker at the Juneau Rotary Club meeting this noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel, talking on the problems of air transporta- tion, one of a series of vocational discussions given by members. Homer Garvin, manager Capitol Theatre, spoke briefly on the Bond Premiere which will be held December 7 for the purpose of selling war bonds in rent Sixth War Loan, and Bob Martin, chairman of the Rotary Bond Committee, reported on ac- tivities planned by. Rotarians in conjunction with other clubs. Waino Hendrickson asked the club’s support in the program to supply glasses for children in Al- aska, and Hank Harmon reported |on the All-School Vaudeville which | will be held Friday night in the| High School gym. - e, MARIN TO SKAGWAY John Marin, proprietor of the Skagway, left last |Christmas mail in the office by night on the Princess Norah after | | December 1, a brief business trip here, SRS R ENGSTROM TO VISIT Elton E. Engstrom plans to leave this afternoon for Wrangell, where | of steamer schedules. They realize he will visit for a few days with | Adolph Engstrom and | his father, his brother, Linnie. YARKON RITES Funeral services for Jacob Yarkou will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Russian Orthodox | Church instead of at the family residence, as previously announced. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Han- son, Johnny Jackson, John James, Tom Bowman, Jack Gamble and Edward Kunz. e REAR ADMIRAL HERE Rear Admiral Ralph Wood, Com- mandent of the 17th Naval Dis- trict, has been visiting Juneau for the past several days. He artived here via Naval bomber Saturday afternoon, registering at the Bar- (anof Hotel, and left the city to- iday. | el LOUISE KEMPER ARRIVES Louise Kemper, formerly of the Forest Service at Juneau, has ar- rived from Seattle where she has been employed for the past two years by the Alaska Spruce Log Program. She plans to remain in Juneau for the next month on a temporary assignment before re- turning to Seattle. 28— | rington, Juneau Pan Am- of the| the cur-: IS STARTED {Armies Re;c_h Banks of . Muddy Flooded Roer Riv- er-Move on Arsenal BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. 28.—The Third Army of dough- boys have thrust to within eight and one-half miles or Saar- brucken while their comrades in the north reached the Roer Riv- er and punched deeper into the defenses guarding Cologne. Other Third Army units cut into | Germany at a new point along the seven-mile front, thrusting to within three and one-half miles of Saarlautern. This fresh invasion gave Pat- ton’s men a 26-mile front inside the Reich and control of more than 46 square miles of Ger- many. The German radio an- nounced wholesale retreats both ! north and south of Strasbourg. LONDON, Nov. 28.—The Ameri- cans, on the drenched Cologne plain today reached the Roer River and drove up to within one mile of the intricate German defenses along the ilcoded stream while infantry of the Third Army advanced to within 10 miles of Saarbrucken, the arsenal capital of the Saar. : Surging forward in the pre-dawn hlackness, First Army infantry of Lieut, Gen. Courtney Hodges fought i, the streets of Inden Jugersdorf und, ¢lose to Lamersdorf, the United | Gtatos. - Ninth . Army . reachod the .. | ‘nuer at Kirchberg, 23 miles from !Cologne, Less than one mile away, across the muddy Roer, lies Julich. | A French broadcast asserted French units of the Seventh Army ossed the Rhine north of Stras- bourg. There was no confirmation. Approach Saarbrucken The nearest Third Army approach to Saarbrucken, the sprawling steel and coal center, was at captured belngboume To the Southwest, | First Army troops “won two-thirds |of Langerwehe, the last important ‘cnemy communication point west of |the Roer River German defenses. wThat village is five miles from Du- \ren, which appeared to be breaking up as planes attacked the eastern exits while infantry fought through |the town. Other men of the First Army fought in the streets of Grosshau and for the last third of the forest battlefield town of Hurtgen. Attack By Planes Fairly clear skies allowed planes |to attack tanks and artillery po- sitions all along the critical 18=mile front before Cologne. Between Lin- |nich and Duren they struck farther back on the Cologne plain, shooting up trains and fortified houses., The town pier was set on fire. | The battle aim of Gen. Ike Eisen- hower is the destruction of the Ger- man Army. His counterpart, Gen. |von Rundstedt, is forced to commit new reserves in the past 24 hours., Probably eight or nine tank divisions are bracing the enemy lines in this sector below Strasbourg. The Seventh and the French Pirst armies are consolidating for clean- ing out the Vosges Mountains and the Alsace plain. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army advanced from two to four »+ miles more, broadening its battle po- sitions to close to the German fron« tier. e ALASKA (OASTM CARRIES TWELVE FARES MOKDAY Alaska L(;asta] Airlines carried 12 passengers yesterday, flying the following to Sitka: W. Tierney, Earl Forsythe. Sitka to Juneau—Mr. and Mrs. Nick Pelago, Mrs. Rex Manehart, Rex Manehart, Harold Bates, Lynn Gemmiil, Juneau to Hawk Tnlet Fred Jacobsen. Juneau to Petersburg—Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Calp. Petersburg to Juneau—Kenneth Bell. B e FROM FAIRBANKS Steve Inimel of Fairbanks is reg- istered at the Gastineau Hotel.