The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1944, Page 1

“TOKYO INDUSTRIAL SECTION IN FLAMES THE DAILY A ASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME VOL. LXIV., NO. 9824 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS " Allies Make New Attacks On Siegfried Line CONQUESTOF SAAR OBJECT OF BATTLE Patton’s Army in Violent Battle for Control of Industrial Area PARIS, Dec. 4.—Siegfried Line guns threw salvos at the captured Saar River bridge inside Saarlautern while United States Third Army troops were storming across the in- tact span and fought the last of the spotty German defenses in that sec- ond city of the industrial Saar. At the top of the Western Front the British Second Army advanced 1,000 yards to the demolished Maas River bridge outside the Dutch road center of Venlo. Mopping up the last of the Ger- mans west of that water barrier the Tommies took part of the Venlo suburbs west of the river. Other men of Montgomery’s Twenty-first Army group encountered foot-deep floods in the Arnhem-Nijmegan area opposite which the Canadian First Army entered Germany within gunshot of the other end of the Siegfried Line at Kleve. The American First and Ninth armies fought inside Julich and Lin- nich on the Roer River before Col- ogne and crept, slowly and pain- fully, toward a third bastion on that flovded stream. Duren and four other towns went down before those armies yesterday in one of history’s | most violent battles of attrition. These and Inden were battlegrounds for a week although there was but 100 ruined houses at Lucherburg, Luchem and Brandenberg. ‘The armies stood on the Roer Riv- er for 20 miles, but, at no place were they nearer than 20 miles from Cologne, at Duren. General George S. Patton's Third Army infantry fought deeper into vulnerable Saarlautern. Some Ger- mans were encountered beyond the Saar River and in the eastern part of that city members of a hastily mustered home guard were cap- tured. The fortifications of the Siegfried Line are just beyond Saarlautern. The Saar River is like a moat pro- tecting pillboxes, tank traps and artillery emplacements. The Ger- mans have blown up four other ‘bridges spanning the Saar between Saarlautern and Merzig to the northwest. Patton’s army in the Saar is fight- ing a violent battle on a 16-mile front and the prize is the immense Saar area which produces eight per cent of the Germany’s coal and a good percentage of her iron. It is the third major center of heavy in- dustries in the Reich, following the Ruhr and Silesia. BIG RIOT REPORTED INATHENS Greek PoIi(e?re on Dem- onstrafors — Strike De- clared-Martial Law By STEPHEN BARBER (Associated Press Correspondent) ATHENS, Dec. 3 — (Delayed)— Greek capital city, killing at least | Wing EAM demcnstrators in the | Greep capital city, killing at least 15 and wounding 145 persons, by a count of the EAM. A pitched battle broke out in the Athens suburb between Royal- | ists and EAM Army members. ‘ (Prime Minister George Papa-| dreou, in a broadcast to the Greek | nation, charged “leaders of the! Extreme Left were preparing v.he‘ way for a civil war.") | A crowd of EAM sympathizers | turned back by police guns included | women and children in the suburb and in the shadow of the Acropolis i Royalist headquarters. e This battle is a new flareup in‘SKY FREEDOM the long drawn out hostiltiies and | DIS(USSED A.l. Victim of Japs S i | B FIRST MATE Clement Carlin of the American freighter Jean, Nicolet was one of the 77 members of the crew to be drowned when the Jap sub, on which they were forced to stand on deck with their hands tied, submerged and left them to sink. The shocking fate that befell Car- lin and his men was revealed in Los Angeles by seaman Charles E, Pyle, one of the ill-fated craft's 23 survi- vors. (International Soundphoto) the reason of the attacks may be; found in the fact (several words censored here) who are responslble| | | | AR SESSIONS CHICAGO, Dec. 4—The World Police were furnished them by the pjr Conference has unanimously British. |accepted, subject to re-drafting, the Ea |language of sky freedoms which GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED |has been under discussion for sev- ATHENS, Dec. 4 — A general leral weeks. strike has been ordered by the| This calls for universal grant for Leftist EAM as the result of the|the right to fly peacefully over any violent Sunday clash with the territory and make commercial police in which 21 persons were stops anywhere. killed and over 145 injured. The | strike has tied Athens in a tense | grip. | The British support Premier Pap-| A PAA plane brought the follow- adreou and charged the EAM rac—:ing passengers to Juneau from tion with deliberately fomenting a Seattle yesterday: Miss Lola Regan, civil war. |Miss Delice Bergren, W. Forrest Martial law has been declared and Howard Haus. { for turning over to, the British the | | government of the nation. It is| |said the guns used by the Civil| — PAN AM FROM SEATTLE in the city and British tanks are ———————— patrolling the streets. British and Greek planes are to communicate with the people. I FOR ALASKA e, | circling over the city. pREMIER OF WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Repre- Athens is without electricity and gas and communications by radio are out. The Government is unable sentative Gordon Canfield, New }Jersey Republican, predicted today !that Alaska will soon be admitted | ' | e 1 However, Budapest Is Still| Americans Battle with E“'| Bitterly Defended emy on Ground, Sea | by Nazis and in Air | LONDON, Dec. 4.—Russian troopsi (,\By‘.M;vl::‘I::mthi?‘;m ‘\ today smashed ahead in southwest- (i 1 BAT COTTRRRERL ern Hungary to within 72 miles of HE >U I i | the Austrian frontier and cracked PADQ‘ARTERS N THE PH"“"‘ strong Nazi defenses along the Slo- JPPINES, Dec. 4—In action remi- | vakian border with the capture o{‘mscout of the slow moving Buna | Miskole and Satoraljaujhely. {campaign on New Guinea, Japanese | | Moskoly, vital military supply cen= and American patrols sparred for | ter for the German-Hungarian arm- | Positions on the north end of the | ies, fell yesterday to Malinovsky's | Ormoe corridor on Leyte Island | | Second Ukrainian Army, elements |today, while U. S. Naval aircraft of which joined Petrov's Fourth Uk- |slugged it out with the Nipponese rainian Army, taking by storm the |in the air and sea ! communications junction of Sator-| Gen. MacArthur's communiquc‘ ;;J:‘lg‘l‘sly‘-”hazh":‘51915“‘::’:]‘:‘;“:1_0"2 reported no ground advances where o ] 8 o the Doughboys are battling both Dudapest, DY Jofended by U1€ |Japanese in strength and the worst | P " |Leyte tweather ever recorded. But | In a drive west of the Danbue jon the sea hardhitting PT boats ‘Loward.the Austrian frontier, Tol- l4amaged a 4,00 Oton vessel off | | It:nukk(\iin; Third Uk:alréllan ?lrmyb?p‘ [southern Masbate early Friday, and | | L:l;(ee Bfl;’:fl’:"fl:{‘; 1};‘ - 'l"l-!r::ile a?‘l“—’ {American fighter planes attacked | vance seized Kaposmero, in the clos- jenemy Valenclajsupply bases, about | at appmavx:h vet 'm Au’smn {the middle of the Ormoc corridor./ | e he i IA tod: | Japanese and Americans traded | bt ne;:’a(;:' Ix:s;;:flfo::; };ea(::haes; {air blows, with U. 8. heavy bombers the area around Lake Balaton whi | | is 60 miles southwest of Budapest | lawan, an island in the western-| | and, at some points on the far shore, | 05t central Philippines. Nipponese made light nuisance at- | First of Five New PAA Alaska Clipper Fleet Here Sunday First flight stewardess to be initiated into the Alaska service aboard Pan American World Airways' newly converted Douglas Clipper, smil- ATH ATTACK ' ON CAPITAL BY SUPERS Result of Sunday Raid ~Interception Strong SAIPAN, Dec. 4—Industrial Tekyo {lay today in fresh ruins and flames in the wake of the fourth thund ous bombing raid and the most suc- | cessful one of the American Super- forts based here. i | A sizeable force of B-20s, striking in midafternoon yesterday, found the Tokyo area clearly outlined in the sunlight and for an hour and |a half unloaded bombs with pin- | point accuracy despite intense ack- ack and swarms of interceptors The results were good, says the Twentieth Air Force communigue. One squadron reported 75 percent of its bombs fell within the target area. Main Target | The prime objective was the Mus- hashima engine factory and ex- tensive Nakajima Aircraft plant, top | producer of military planes. The | plant was bullt compactly, one-story, | of concrete. This was the target of Ithe B-28s in the raid on November |20 when considerable damage was inflicted. R oxiM ing Marcia Black is shown stepping off -the first of the new, Clipper.._ | Beturhing pilots 01,?“9 1% fleet as the big Douglas DC-3 arrvived in Juncau yesterday on its | days, desc inaugural flight. raid on Tokyo in ten it as the toughest but most success~ lonly 45 miles from the Austrian border. 0. 5. SUBS SINK 20-JAP SHIPS WASHINGTON, Dec. ican subs have bagged 20 more Jap | ships, including a light cruiser and |destroyer. | The announcement by the Navy Ibrought the overall total of Jap Iships sunk by U. S. underseas hunters to 874, 82 of which were war vessels. In addition, 37, in- |cluding 11 combat ships, were listed as probably sunk. | PLANS FOR HOONAH . PROJECT UNDERWAY Don C. Foster, General Superin- tendent of the Office of Indian Affairs, and Harold Foss, Juneau architect, have returned from Seattle, after conferring with the | Federal tration in that city on plans for the Hoonah housing project. Preliminary plans and specifi- 4—Ameri- | Public Housing Adminis- | ! planes tacks on American Leyte installa- tions but there was no damage.| Nippon airmen raided American | Carigara Bay positions and Morotai |Island was also hit. -, 'UNION_ OPERATE | BOND SALES BOOTH | | The Hotel and Restaurant Em- | | ployees’ Union operated the bond I booth in the lobby of the Baranof | Hotel today from 11 to 2 o'clock and | also tomorrow during the samej hours. R | | —— e Rap American ‘Affitude on Air Freedom | @ aboard them. One of the Clippe LONDON, Dec. 4. — The British| press today sharply criticized the | American attitude on the Interna- tional Air Conference at Chicago. | Mi“ion Do“ar S“il was 3 The general view t the The first of Pan American Airways' fleet of Douglas Clippers to be | reconverted from military to commercial use for its Alaska service passes the critical eye of Stewardess Barbara Fowler, who will fly | Marcia Black as stewardess. | ful. Antiaircraft fire was more severe |and fighter interceptions stronger 1 and more persistent. | The last squadrons to reach the ‘target found fires raging, whipped | by an unusually high wind. i One Super Lost | One Superfort is acknowledged to have been lost. The Japanese communigue claim- | ed 14 Supers were definitely downed | and seven:more probably. The com- | munique admitted six interceptors were lost including several asserted- ly made in suicide .crashes on the big raiders. The Tokyo broadcast made the customary claim the damage was | slight but authoritatively ordered 12 more miles of fire-break in the capital city. COL. ROOSEVELT | WEDS ACTRESS, ° GLASS SETTING GRAND CANYON, Arizona, Dec. 4.—Col. Elliott"Roosevelt and movie | actress Faye Emersorf were married first of | yesterday in a glass enclosed ob- , ay's Al- | Servation station at the rim of _'Grand Canyon in what the bride s arrived in Juneau Sunday with | A 21-passengér Clipper, Pan American World Air askan fleet of Douglas DC-3 he was, but landed on the best flat stretch he could find. As the crew of the plane piled out, a column of tanks appeared over a nearby hill. climbed back into their plane and prepared to fight it out, but finally saw the Soviet red star on the leading tank and got out of the plane again. The pilot walked forward to talk with the Soviet major who jumped out of the leading tank. Using (Continued on Page Four) The airmen) (former Mayor of Shanghai. | | turned to the Capital because of bad weather. He is still here. Kung was previously succeeded | as Finance Minister by O. M. Yui, Federal Building. ——te FROM INTERIOR | Rene M. Griffin of Fairbanks and Mrs. Ethel Day of Flat are regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel. —>o—— ———————— POLICE COURT FINES In City Magistrate’s Court this { M ANCHORAGE mornlng Margaret Brown was f‘ntd: Mr. :K?floMl'S, EU:RL Crawford $25 on a charge of drunkenness,| gre registered at the Baranof Hotel David Howard, drunk and dis-|from Anchorage. orderly, $25; Roy Williams, drunk-| e enness, $25; Ann Talley, drunk and Registered at the Baranof Hotel disorderly, $25, ifrom Anchorage is H. A. Howa, Msanpower Commission offices in the | Federal Trade Commission is going to investigate the cigarette short- |age. Chairman Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Commerce Com- mittee, who asked that such an Henry Moses of Hoonah is regist- ered at the Hotel Juneau. — e — SEATTLE MAN HERE Joe Keller of Seattle is staying at told Wheeler in a letter that it will seek to learn if the current lack of smokes involves any law violation. |where she has been conducting a tour of Public Schools since Sep- tember 7. | possibility of assisting in a defi- !nite manner our Girl and Boy ;Scoutmg program in placing addi- |tional camping accommodations. the Baranof Hotel. ‘mqu.h-y take place, disclosed ‘h“‘aT.‘c club voted to accept their ————— a preliminary investigation will [share of the project MISS HOAR RETURNS also be undertaken by the Senate| Guests were, Bill Lewls of Ko- Miss Violet Hoar, Territorial War Investigating Committee, hut{dxak a member of the Denver Health Educator and Supervisor, no hearings have been set. | Lion’s Club, and Walter Woodal has returned from the Interior,| The Federal Trade Commission of the OPA. Dr. George A. Dale showed sound pictures of the Army and Navy in action, first of the year, ant Manager J. V. Roscoe reports. The fifth Clipper is under charter to the Navy Department. | The new Clippers bring Maska! only four hours. from Seattle by | air. They are equipped with up-| holstered chairs, quilted cabin lin- ing, and a hot-air heating system designed especially for sub-zero| flying by PAA engineers. The main (Continued on Page Theee) » s to Statehood. 5 jons hav TOV: nd | a 5 £ (HlNA lAND Canfield, speaking at a farewell ff:,zmon amee :xex::l T:ll):ng ei: :ow conference was a fuilure In so far) Fi'ed (i are"e (ase‘nwd in Juneau yesterday on its °lled “probably the most beautiful The Washlngton |gathering to retiring Alaska Dele-|underway. These ‘will be ready for | At some of the papers saw & race " g |inaugural flight to the Territory. Wedding ever.” gate Anthony J. Dimond, sald: |pidders sometime after the first of| 'Ok &IF supremacy after the war al- e |The ship carried a ful load of| The Presidents 34-year-old son ¥ R d “Dimond is far ahead of the|the yoar | ready under way. | NEW YORK, Dec. 4—The Re- | passengers, freight and mail, and a|4nd the 27;”";"'1“’!‘* coppery blonde, errY' 0' Oun CHUNGKING, Dec. 4 — Foreigh parade. He crusaded for the con- RN After the announcement of the gional OPA has filed suit for al- | surprise pe e for Alaskan airig_f'fidunlwxo the "‘”"_ Thestres, re- Minister T. V. Soong has assumed |struction of the Alaska Highway | United States air agreement With | ynosy 51000000 against the Ameri- | travelers — Miss Marcia Black — | 1ot maon averionbing the oo By DREW PEARSON the premiership of China to enable |and he is ahead now in campaign- Forme’ Grea' (akhers‘p‘m' the London r’m'f; rs’“d :::e can Tobacco Company, charging the first stewardess to be initia- nl{?ccnt r;hiv:":)vm OOKIDE Vs onae (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active |President Chiang Kai-shek, 85 ing for the cause of Statehood as | first lesson to be learned from the | e oompany sold cigarettes at over [ted into the New Pan American| woyp : > service with the Army.) commander of China’s Armies, t0|Alaskans have earned the right to o' B b III D d'C‘:ucng;y me::lmg s i:‘;& zngt:;)zf ceiling prices wholesale to jobbers |Alaska service. bothu;( ’L‘:r‘:ifcwz"f:“;tzz 'l':’“;:g":: WASHINGTON—Now that Stalin | concentrate fully on military tasks. |full and complete citizenship and| asepailisbea i;:m; “inm:;“f,‘l’]’;‘l"pmbm’m can [and _ distributors for resale for| o s 115" as. laniitolly. 65 ooshaY Hhe X has put the Japanese on notice for| So0ng stepped into the nev; p‘(’“ partnership in the Union.” i | be settied by the simple application | AF™Y. 8nd Navy use. \h_:‘y";m" kil "';;:"\z:}o‘:,__l‘.e bride told reporters. war, calling them an aggressor yid- e nppolnt;xem t_as ;L:g | TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 4 — Roger of some broad general principle like | 2 ' M"‘“W“‘ 'v'l‘ Pirat ”().t’rluver '“ani From the Yavapai Observation nation, another chapter regarding|Vice President Execu !VGl “}’;- KAR"ES ARRWB TO Bicalianan, 6f, Gice Sone. ot the| horeliatmtnation or {réodois ot e iy Johnson, | Station the wedding party proceeded | Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo|Succeeding his brother-in-law, ¥.| {greatest catchers of baseball, died| the air.” LIONS CLUB TO GET e e e oy, of Tty | to the EI Tovar Hotel. The honey- can be told. H. Kung. He was then designate IAKE ovER NEw joBmi an attack of the heart today. | The laborite Daily Herald said| o e o s {"’;“_‘ X I'O' TV moon will be spent at a reireat one After dropping its bomb load on |85 Acting President Tuan. | At onhe time, Breshanan was “the air conference is ending as it BUSY, BOND (AMPA'GN ‘“‘““’n 1‘;:" ik : ’_"";,S\‘_‘ “'j\’;’ k’_"_mlh' away. Tokyo, one of the planes developed| There is an uncasttirmed and; catcher with the New York Giants|began. America is using the big, il J e ; o O AAS, SN | voira e a leak in the gas line. Aware that possibly inspired report of an _chhony E. _Kames. former 'I_‘er-;Bmi was subsequently owner of the | stick.” z ; : ITun, brings to the xvx‘rmu‘ry the (‘t“ r,) 1 D FATHER he could not make friendly Chinese agreement in principle between the nw_nnl Commissioner of Educauon.;,roledo Mudhens of the Amcmcan: i N A | With President I-‘nm‘}'. Hermann | best service available. The Clippers | .lyl ’u numm‘ Jack Perry 15 a territory, the pilot set his course|Central Government and Com- | airived here yesterday from Seattle, |, iation. : 2 | presiding, the Lion’s Club met at|will carry only 18 passengers ;.1~‘$Swfl( ’ft:l_h(jr once again. A baby s AT e o e toniats, | accompanied by Mrs. Karnes and b (lgare"e Mysle” {the Baranof for its weekly meeting |though authorized for 21, in order | 20Y, their sixth, was born to M. : > The Communist leader left|their three children. S, e i R i this noon. Lion Lynn Forrest, |to handle more fast cargo for Al-| Jack Perry Saturday at 9 a. m, might barely be able to reach dry| oy " heember 1, with an| Karnes today took over his new | _ SITKA MAN VISITS { chairman of the Lion’s 6th War askans. The second Clipper of the| WelBD six pounds, three and a half s iy i he figured, ws| ) ed dratt of an agreement for | duties as representative of the Vet- Orlin Johnson of Sitka is staying | 'Ilo Be p’°bed, Flc‘man Drive committee reported fleet will be on the run within a| o4nc 1 :’:::'9;“; :"“ fz‘:cl"{:‘;o:;) ide:r;/her: final approval by North China|€rans’ Bureau in Alaska, and has 8t the Baranof Hotel. }‘ | progress and cooperation with other week, with two more, which are| I Communists, but his plane re- | temporary headquarters in the War, L 2 ANI 3 | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — The 8roups in sponsorship of the drive. |being converted in California, being ' ! MAN HERE A Lion J. O. Rude, reported the put into operation shortly after the | i i \ 6 Shopping Days fill Christmas