The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9825 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = 'FIGHTING WITHIN SIEGFRIED LINE BEGIN Naval Forces Clash In the Philippine Section YANKS LOSE | SEE IF SHE'S GOT A SISTfR, BUD! DESTROYER, ORMOC GULF Crew Members Rescued in | Daring Action - Japs Also Lose Ship By JAMES HUTCHESON (Associated Press War Correspondent) | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | ERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Dec. 5. | —American and Japanese naval| forces each lost a destroyer in the sea and air clash in Ormoc Gulf off | Leyte, Saturday night, Headquarters | reports. Another enemy destroyer is believed to have been damaged | The majority of the American crew members were rescued in a daring action by far roaming Cata- | lina patrol planes with fighter pro- | tection. The engagement marked a | major action in the expanding bat- i Beckett (left), Buffalo, N. Y., and Va. The girls are Carol Landis and DURING THE COURSE of a six-hour bond rally at Madison Square Gar- den, New York City, the two servicemen in the photo won dates with two 4 of filmdom’s glamor queens. Pictured enjoying their luck are Pfc. David | just one of the hustling, go-get-'em Boatswain Victor Minor, Imboden, Phyllis Brooks. (International) tle for the Ormoc corridor. MacArthur’s communique said an | American destroyer was probably sunk by a floating mine, but seamen ‘ voiced the opinion that the vessel was hit amidships by an aerial | torpedo. | The American naval force steamed into the gulf in the face of air at- tacks and shore fire. Daring Feat American destroyers daringly | penetrated Ormoc Bay for the first | MADE Now time last week, shelling the enemy | supply and reinforcement port of ‘ Joseph Grew Name d Un der s oo ! Secrefary-Three Resig- The Washington nafions Acepled Merry b Go e Round | WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.—Joseph | Grew, 64, with 40 years as a career By DREW PEARSON diplomat, has been nominated by | President Roosevelt as Under Sec-| (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) SHAKEUP IN | 1 | | | | | | (Continued on Page Three) | | | iretary of State, in a general reor-| ganization of the State Department's |top strata, following the appoint-| WASHINGTON — The plan of ] iment of Edward R. Stettinius as continuously bombing Japan from | i Salpan promises to be one of the Secretary of State. i b Roocsevelt announced the resigna-| most important strategies of the| 3 i : | war. But like all difficult innova- | tions of three Assistant Secretaries tions, it already has evolved some|2Nd appointments of their three suc- AR - cessors. (s,(:;IOUb kinks which must be ironed The new men will be Will Clay- S fati iton of Texas, millionaire cotton They include: crew fatigue, main- |, 5per who has been Assistant Sec- tenance problems, weather condi- ¥ |retary of Commerce and Surplus tions and home-front production of | property Administrator; Archibald planes to - replace those lost inipnfepeish, Librarian of Congress; and action. Upon these factors depend,Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of| the frequency with which we can|rter-American Affairs. Rockefeller keep up the rain of bombs oniis son of one of the richest men Japan. in America. The bombing of Japan from, In a statement, the President said Saipan represents a gruelling ex-‘he has accepted “with regret,” the perience for the crews involved, resignations of Secretaries Adolf A.| and allowances must be made to}Berle, Jr., Breckinridge Long, and! provide necessary rest periods. If |G. Howland. | any éf the crews participating in| Berle will | remain head of the| the Thanksgiving Day raid tried | American delegation of the current it again three days later, it would, Civil aviation conference, but Clay- be only natural to expect that | ton is to report to the President on their operational ability would be“:i"{l aviation on completion of the proved reduced because of the | Chicago conference. ~ Clayton will S f the earlier 3, _\alsq be in charge of foreign econ- wearing effect of the earlier 3.000-} ;0 ' srairs Rockefelier will be in mile flight. | X . 2 LA AR RIBG Rssersitotnas ARG in"charga of the relations with other RED ARMY MASSED ON LAKE SHORE Other Russian ‘Force Still Advancing on Buda- pest from Rear LONDON. Dec. 5. — Red Army s forces, surging through Western Hungary in a drive that is outflank- ing besieged Budapest, today mass- ed along the south shores of Lake | Balaton, only 60 miles from (he‘ Austrian frontier. | Led by Marshal Tolbukhin the Aus- | tria-bound Russjans piled up one gain yesterday of 17 miles. Overall | advanced carried them 12 miles| closer to the border than previously reported. They aré 60 miles fromJ Nagybajom at the southwestern end | of the 42-mile lake front. A Moscow bulletin issued at mid- | night, said the column north along | the west bank of the Danube, 37 miles south of Budapest, is still ad- vancing towards the capital's back door. East of the river, which divides | the city, other Russian troops have been hammering at the southeastern and eastern suburbs for days.. On the northeast enemy communica- tions have been cut. Red Army troops, operating in northern Yugoslavia with Yugoslav forces, captured Mitrovica on the Sava River, 41 miles northwest of Belgrade. B g BERLIN BLASTED FOR FIRST TIME |Alaska BOND AUCTION 15 GOING BIG SAYS MARTIN One Go-Get-'Em Commi-| tee Turns in First List of Donations-Read lt If anyone in Juneau has any idea | that the big bond auction sale next Sunday afternoon in the Elks Hall |isn't going over—guess again, then | twice. ! { Furthermore, the auction is go-| ing to be the biggest thing of its kind ever pulled off in Juneau 'and |if anyone don't believe it, just ukc! 4 5 a glance, then read carefully the! SET FOR THE FIRST LEG OF A (list of some of the articles already; idmmtcd for the auction by local| |merchants. This list is the work of Jr., a War Department representat; | committees and Algiers, returning to the Units | Bob Martin, chairman of the; auction gag, is stepping high, xmd‘ ‘be!ore all committees have reported he will be flying. | “The following list, turned in by | Bob today, comprises donations se- |cured yesterday in Juneau by one |hustling committee: Rod Darnell Jand Lisle Hebert, and in Douglas by Roald Copstead and Tony Bel- | ford. Darnell and Hebert turned wing report: Behrends Company — 1 !chhael Sterns man’s suit, $55; 1 !Knox hat, $10; 2 pair ladies’ chif- fon hose, $1.95 per pair. Bert's Cash Grocery—1 case oranges, $10; 1 case Borden's milk, $5; 1 five-pound cake Borden's| cheese, $2.50 1 25-pound sack sugar, 2. The Curtis The Pennsylvania; Brooks, of Louisian; in ithc follo B. M. UNCLE SAM permanent wave, $25. H Hayes Shop—1 hand-made | serving tray, $7.50. | Alaska Electric Light & Power Co.—2 floor lamps, $32.50 each. Thrift Co-Op.—1 case, 12 2-lb.| WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. cans Schilling’s coffee, $12. ,Unned States today informed both Alaska Federal Savings & Loan— | Britain and TItaly it expects the Italian people to develop a govern- | ment “without influence from the outside.” The State Department’s unusual | disclosure of policy in such a case apparently placed the United States ol side” in Present Italian Trouble they prepared to leave A.T.C. National airport, Wash ington, D. C Representative Merritt ,of New York, heads the group, which will be accompanied by Colonel C. J. Hauck, Florence Shop — 1 Hclcne?”No lfl"llefl(e ffom Out" The Mililar_y Afairs Committee Start for Front . LONG JAUNT, members of the House of Representatives, are pictur They will tour European battlefronts. ive. The milita affairsmen will go first to London, thence Paris, Rome ed States about December 20. (Front row, left to right) : Representatives Davis, of Tennessee; Costello, of California; Colonel Hauck; Representatives Rooney, of New York; Win- stead, of Mississippi; Kilday, of Texas; Elston, of Ohio; Colonel Collins, Commanding Officer of A.T.C. Na- tional Airport; Commissioner Pagan, of Puerto Rico; Representatives Harness, of Indiana; Sheridan, of a; Shafer, of Michigan; Lieutenant Colonel F. T. Newsome; Representa- tives Thomas, of New Jersey; Merritt, of New York; S parkman, of Alabama, and Major E. B. Crosland. (On steps) Representatives Clair Booth Luce, of Connecticut, and Fenton of Pennsylvania, and Delegate Far- HEAD, GREEK ' GOVERNMENT | | - MAY RESIGN Some RiotfiE—Still Seen- Fire on Soviet Union Official (By Associated Press) Premier George Papandreou of {Greece has offered his resignation in an attempt to avert a crisis in the Athens demonstrations. He sug- |gests the formation of a coalition |cabinet including center and right wing groups and indicates that such ia cabinet might be led by Themis- | tocles Sophoulis, 82, liberal leader. Reports from Athens say a gen- eral strike still persists there, but the disorders are diminishing. Mean- !while, troops of the ELAS militia of the EAM National Liberation | Front are reported to be peaceably {leaving some of the police head- | quarters they seized in Piraeus, port of Athens. ELAS troops were re- | ported last night to have taken con- | | SANT A _vocalist lene Woods, former New Hampshire girl golf- ing star, goes over her list of Christmas gifts for her sponsors, ——— - | Britain which officially opposed in- BlASTED BY | clusion of Count Sforza in the TItal- | ment has not in any way, intimated | to the Italian government that there Count Sforza.” The State Department reported UNITED STATES PACIFIC |evidently, “to reassure the people | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL |of the liberated countries, who may | | bomber strikes on Iwo Jima (mak- | Ttaly indications that the great pow- | ing eight in seven days on that ers intend to meddle in their in-| volcano island base for enemy raids 1 ternal affairs.” i on Saipan’s Superfortress airfields) | | (Continued on Page Two) n the opposite position taken by |ian Administration. “This govern- lIBERAIoRS | will be any opposition on its part to | Ione purpose of the assertion was, | HARBOR, Dec. 5.—Three new heavy 'read into recent developments in | Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden | have been reported by Admiral!recently told Parliament the British | | Chester W. Nimitz. |oppose inclusion of Sforza in the Big Liberators of the Seventh|Italian government, because, he said, airstrips Friday and twice the fol- Army Air Force smacked the island’s | Sforza worked against the Bonomi | | formation on weather over Japan 1 American Republics, and McLeish }wil] direct public cultural relations. } lowing day. | government. the men of the 22nd coast artile lery regiment. © Papandreao's government has de- 8TH ARMY DRIVES | !manded that the ELAS members| | Wednesday. | GERMA“ DEFENSES One more person was killed and| j{trol of 20 to 25 police precincts ml‘ the Athens area. Ultimatum Issued | outbreak mnear the Athens raflway |étation when police tried to disperse is still not entirely accurate. Be- tween the time when a flight is started and the time the plane! All nominations are subject to confirmation by the Senate. IN TWO MONTHS LONDON, Dec¢. 5. — American arrives over Tokyo, the weather can! change considerably. Result on re-| cent raids was that bomb sights! had to be used, with questionable | effect. | But reconnaissance photos taken | ! heavy bombers today blasted Berlin |for the first time in two months. Headquarters of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe said more than 550 Fortress and Liber- GERMAN PEOPLE T0 BE DENIED Navy search bombers joined Army | aircraft in the strike on Iwo and| | another on Haha Jima, farther) (north in the Bonins. A few enemy | interceptors took to the air frumi Iwo’s hard-hit airfields, but none of | the Yanks' bombers were lost. | Marine aircraft blew up the Dab- | elthaup ammuntion dump, Saturday, TIRE SHORTAGE FACING ARMIES ON WEST FRONT K:Lhrrw injured last evening in a new Ravenna-Bologna Rail Line Cut-2 More lfal- { sympathizers returning from a mass U. S. FORCES ADVANCE IN SHELL FIRE | One Division of Third Army Gets Stride-Patton Beating On PARIS, Dec. 5—The Ninety-Fifth Infantry Division of the United States Third Army has driven clear through Saarlautern and is now fighting well into the. Sieg~ fried Line defenses beyond the fortress city. Supreme Headquarters said the satellite towns of Roden and Frau- latern, each half a mile beyond the captured Saar River bridge, were by-passed by the American troops advancing through shell-fire from German artillery emplacements. Other troops of Gen. Patton's Third Army threatened Saar- brucken, capital and arsenal of this region of steel and coal. They bom- barded its blackened buildings with elght-inch artillery from the near- by French rail town of Forbach. | The French border town of Saare- guemines is also being shelled from positions two and four and a half miles away. Some fighting is still going on in the east bank section of Saar- lautern where the Americans are meeting the Volksstumn, recently- mustered civilians ~ wearing arm- |bands. | { | | | | | Patton’s Army Moving Five divisions of Patton's Army, to the southeast, are beating for- |ward and are now either in the Saar or through the last bit of Lorraine. - The first sand Ninth Armies, on ithe muddy Cologne Plain, are 22 imiles from the city and are dead- |locked with the German Seventh land Fifteenth Armies along the 'Roer River, as yet uncrossed. | 'The United States Seventh Army, on Patton’s right, is clearing the |Karlsruhe corner of France and moving to within eight miles of Colmar in Alsace, below Strasbourg. The French traffic centers of Haguenau and Selestat are be- sleged. Germans Cleared Out The British cleared the last of the Germans from west of the |Maas River in Holland and the |Canadians, to the extreme north, |contended with deep floods loosed by German breaches in the Rhine dikes from south of Arnhem for 1200 or more winding miles from (opposite Cleve to west of Saar- | brucken, | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Armles are now inside or at the fringe of Germany and up against | |defenses of great strength and depth. The maximum penetration of Germany is now about 15 miles in the Hurtgen Forest area, east of Aachen. 'SOCIAL SECURITY funeral of the 21 persons killed in | Sunday’s disorder. - FREEZE BILL NOW. ator bombers made up the battle and returned Sunday to set the ALLIED RELIEF after the first two raids did show severe damage to a major aircraft fleet that attacked industrial targets| puildings on fire. One Marine Cor- PARIS, Dec. 5.—American Armies, fighting along the German border, are faced with a tire shortage, so The latest outbreak was prpcnpi-f ed by the government decree that, ELAS disband and disarm. er in the day 400 ELAS mem-! ian Towns Captured ROME, Dec. through crushed | northeast of besieged Faenza, Eighth | gyng attacked the Greek naval col- Army forces today cut the Ravenna- jege ut Piraeus. They were dis- | Bologna Railway and captured the|porced by British tanks only after it | thy — Knifing swiftly | gay1ie |towns of Russi and Godo. enemy defenses|pers armed with rifles and machine| SENT TO SENATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 | House today passed by a vote of 263 — The |to 12, and sent to the Senate, leg- | islation pegging the Social Security | payroll-employee taxes at one per at the German capital and railroad | sair was downed, but the pilot was | yards at Munsteg. | rescued. | Eight hundred Mustang and| Thunderbolt fighters flew the 1000 mile round trip to Berlin and back | to keep Nazi fighters away while the bombers unloaded 2,000 tons of bombs on German munition and tank plants. ! ’ Yesterday, 12,000 tons of bombs| earth policy of the retreating Nazi|were dropped on eight railroad cen- Army will only serve to multiply |the suffering and hardships of the German people.” This proclamation was read over |Allied transmitters in Europe as o r Wi a! cent for 1945, series 1t threatens to tie up 10 Per| = ayjeq peadquarters said the ad—‘:::;;,,g];:?dwffizwdnil‘:;:n “},r}-;\km[l,?u.‘f | ;O SO cent of all army vehicles by €arly|yances also put the Allied troopS|nour skirmish three Britishers were| Everett Joines and Norman De- | February. astride the main highway between wounded and an interpreter for the|Wit are registered at the Gastineau General ke Eisenbower declarcd| pavanng and the Adriatic port of |British senior officer was killed as| Hotel from Portland, Oregon. “I'm not exagerating when I $a¥|yuensa Russi and Godo are road- B ant 1 et e toi | Madtite hisl - the war will be needlessly extended|y.v towns about midway between stlperior 3 | unless we can extract every possible| the tywo citjes. | % S e | mile from our tires and use them| Near Fuenza Eighth Army tro0ps| The head of the Soviet mission only as we find it necessary to d“} occupied commanding positions east'in Athens was also fired upon yes- s0.” of the highway and for some days . i chile Eisenhower advised officers and paye peen rolling forward. After (t,c;;sf:g lf,);_f:,fiififlldzalr T;l;?:n;k:::‘ men, in a letter, of the reason ft_mu.‘,,,rm days of hard fighting be-|req flag. Police said they ook | the impending shortage. He said|iween the Montone and Lamone iho yed flag for the EAM Insignia tire wear in that theater exceeded|Rivers, the Eighth Army forged a| prom London, meanwhile, comes| all pre-combat estimates | bridgehead over the canal, south of |word that Britain will resist any| plant outside of Tokyo, also ef-] fective shattering of several water-| (By Associated Press) front areas which are jampackedf Gen. Ike Eisenhower, supreme with Tokyo traffic. |Allied Commander, bluntly in- |formed the German people they {“cannot count upon food, fuel or clothing from the Allied Military Officials have also learned that the B-29 still has certain defects| GOvernment. They must rely upon |their own resources. The scorched which may require modification in | future production. These primarily concern the safety of air crews and should be remedied before bombing of Japan can be carried out on a day-to-day basis. Air Corps officials still reiterate AR A ROOSEVELT WINS IN HOME STATE ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 5.—President | Roosevelt carried his home State by ters of supreme importance to Field|a plurality of 316,591 over Gov.| {Marshal von Rundstedt’s armies in| Dewey, the final tabulation showed. | |the West. | The State Board of Canvassers| i N i 2 T |announced the votes for Roosvelt | WHITEHORSE VISITOR | were 3,304,238, and Dewey with 2,- OTHER OBSTACLES TO RAIDS that the air phase of the war| reported by OWI. 1987,647. R | Russi, against heavy opposition. |attempt to “impose by violence a| - LOVEGROVE HERE | John Lovegrove is here fromi Seattle and is staying at the Bar- anof Hotel. against Japan is nearing its cli- max, but admit that several more | months will pass before the air| (Continued on Page Four) Manford Throndson, of White-| horse, is registered at the Gasti- neau Hotel. e FROM ANCHORAGE Leonard B. Johnston, from An- chorage, is registered at the Bar- anof Hotel., - BUY WAR BONDS FLORIDA COUPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hayes are in town from West Palm Beach, lorida, ‘and are staying at the aranof Hotel, | The fall of Russi and Godo and|communist dictatorship” in strife- {the subsequent Nazi withdrawal torn Greece. leaves the Eighty Army holding @' Britain is ready to use her army deep wedge and threatening flank . O S A eniemy defenses around Ravenna, (Continued on Page Siz) | & opping Bays 1 sht?l]l)@ln-ishgmv; 1