The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1944, Page 1

‘ ] ] r i P Q‘y > %l & 2 &a, VOL. LXIV., NO. 9827 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1944 ey 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MANCHURIA BOMBED BY SUPERS TODAY YANK FORCES LINED ALONG SAAR RIVER Nazis Witle;awing Info Holland as Americans Pound Basin Cities PARIS, Dec. .—U. §. Third Army tanks plunged into the outskirts of Forbach, a Prench fail town and Siegfried line outpost, three and one-half miles from battered Saar- brucken, as the artillery pounded the capital of the industrial Saar for the eighth straight day. Action flared on the static north- ern flank of the American line, as Hodge's First Army troops struck out from captured Inden, midway between the Roer River citadels of Julich and Duren. Patrols reached the outskirts of Pier, a mile and a half away. The Germans are believed to be feverishly preparing defenses on the Erft River, a narrow stream beyond | the Roer. Third Army forces are lined up in strength along 22 miles of the Saar River's west bank. The French border city of Sarre- gumines has been all but cleared of | Nazis, Patton’s artillery at Sarre- gumines shelled the east side of the river where Germans are withdraw- ing into the homeland. Front dis- patches indicated the imminence of American penetration into the Reich in that area, nine miles southeast of Saarbrucken. In the northwest, the Americans still firmly held Saarlautern, the Saar_ Basin’s second city, despite German claims that it had been re- captured. Troops continued to pour across the expanded bridgehead there. . In the south, the U. S. Seventh Army, driving toward a juncture with the French in the Vosges, ad- vanged within five miles of Colmar, the last major Alsatian city in Ger- man hands, against moderate re- sistance and amid signs of a Nazi withdrawal across the Rhine. There is little change at the northern American flank in Ger- many, where the Ninth Army is massed against the rain-swollen Roer River. The First Army continued a dog- ged assault against Duren, a Roer bastion. UPRISING IN GREECE IS FOUGHT ATHENS, Dec, 7—British para- chute troops with infantry support, planes, tanks, armored cars, and ar- tillery blasted away at point house to house against the principal centers of the Elas resistance around Acropolis, although Maj. Gen. Scobie announced progress was being made in clearing Elas, armed Auxiliary-Leftist-of the EMA political organization, in the Athens area, Fighting spread to Thrace, where Elas Greek Nationalists clashed with the British. Beau fighters crushed the Elas mortar positions in the public park east. of Acro- polis, and across the main Athens- Piraeus road, where it enters the Capital City. Field artillery was used to blast out other positions, but snipers’ bullets still_zipped back and forth down the side streets of the Capital on the second day of the pitchec battle. Premier Papandreou, whose Gov- ernment is supported by the Brit- ish, told correspondents that the EAM “is plunging Greece into a civil war.” In London the Greek Government spokesman said that the outbreaks had delayed the election for several months and Papandreou denied the Leftist charge that he was attempt- ing to impose dictatorship. He de- scribed the British role “not only a friendly service, but one of duty, be- cause the present situation results from war.” » ——ee-— — HICKS IN TOWN A. B. Hicks, from Sitka, is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. SEATTLE. Dec. 7. — Privation and unemployment face Alaska- bound job seekers, State Manpower | Director A. F. Hardy said today, | following warning against travel to the Territory at this time. I | Hardy said his statement followed | ah appeal from A. A. Hedges Alaska Manpower Director with headquar- ters at Juneau, who reported from 50 to 300 persons have been arriving | Job Seekers Are Warned ToStay Away from Alaska BIGGAINSON ( weekly in Alaska since last August 1 when ‘travel restrictions were| eased 1 Hedges said the Alaska housing situation 1s “desperate,” and sea-| sonal occupations are mostly at a, standstill and “in addition to this there are no jobs, no housing, also temperatures in many parts of | Alaska are now down to 20 degrccs‘ below zerp.” The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert §. Allen riow on active sérvice with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Along Philadel- phia’s swank Main Line, they tell how the former Prince of Wales, while dining among Quaker City bluebloods, was asked: “Would you {like to meet Biddle?” To which the Prince “What's a biddle?” Ever since the Biddle-Littell row broke the Justice Department wide| :open, a lot of people are asking the same question: “What, who and how is Francis Biddle? If you talk to his old friends lon the Philadelphia Main Line,| (they will tell you he is a traitor to {his class. If you talk to Norman Littell, his former Assistant At- torney General, he will tell you Biddle is merely the stooge and | puppet of Tommy Coreoran. If you talk to some of the newspaper \publishers against whom Biddle is bringing suit. in the Assoclated ! Press case, thelr remarks .are al-| Most unprintable. But if you talk to the men who work with him day in and day out in the' Justice Department, 90 per |cent will tell you he is a shy, hesi- tant person, who sometimes waits before making up his mind but, once he is sure he is in the right, will fight harder for the right and for the underdog than any other Attorney General in recent years. FDR tells how, when Biddle was proposed as head of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, he feared Biddle was too reactionary.; In Philadelphia, Biddle had been attorney for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, biggest railway property in the world. His last law case be- fore he entered the Government' was to defend the Pennsylvania against Wendell Berge of the Jus- tice Department in a rebate case. Biddle and the railroad won. To- day Berge is Assistant Attorney General under Biddle, and today they are both prosecuting one of the biggest anti-trust cases in his- tory against the railroads. replied: | ALMOST TOO LIBERAL Shortly after Biddle came to Washington in 1934, FDR had oc- casion to wish his new man wasn't so liberal. The San Francisco Call- Bulletin had fired a newspaperman, Dean 8. Jehnings, in violation of the NRA labor code. The President wasn't looking for a scrap with the newspapers at that early date in his Administration, but Biddle, as chairman of the National Labor (Relations Board, one of the most thdnkless jobs in the country, ordered Jennings reinstated. dle probably gets his instinct of battling for the underdog partly ‘from the late Justice Oliver Wen- dell Holmes, whose secretary he was; partly from Mrs Biddle. Biddle has written a book on Holmes, soon to be filmed in Hollywood. Mrs. Biddle, a well-| known poetess, writes under the! name of Katherine Garrison ot + ‘of her poems having music for the Phila- Iharmonic - Orchestra. 'y General, Biddle has *d on Page Four) ——————— | + S RETURNS Hays, Senior Surgeon « % a Officer of the Ter- r ) tment of Health, re~ t i ‘au yesterday by air- pl ttle, after a month's tr ates on Health De- pa v ol Lo aess, chiefly in Wash- ing , San Prancisco and Ser S ,————— L +T HERE A ) n town from Seat- tle .. 3 8 at the Baranof Hote {up the west bank of the Danube. i shooting a bookkeeper and stealing Nix! Let 1 Navy Do It WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — Plans of the Interior Department to pros- pect for oil on public lands in Alaska have been turned down by the house Appropriations Commit- tee. The Interior Department has asked for $1,075,000 for the purpose of oil drilling, but the cl)mn’lil(,fl.‘I said the Navy is now prospecting in| the area which is understood to LEYTEISLAND Japs Losing On All Fronts- Line of Reinforcements by Water Is Cut By MURLIN SPENCER (A. P. War Correspondeat) GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL- TPPINES, Dec. 7 Leyte Island is increasing, wth the Americans making substantial gains on all fronts, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. A Japanese tank attack, launched in the Ormoc corridor sector, where the Tenth U. S. Army Corps i§ applying pressure, failed to break the American’s grip south of Ormoce, on the Nipponese supply |port on the Island’'s west coast. The Americans breached the en emy's Palanas River line and pierced it to a point south of Bal~ | | offer the greatest promise. RED ARMY IS CLOSING IN ON BUDAPEST LONDON, Dec. 7.—The Red Army vanguards are sweeping sround low- er Lake Balaton, within 35 miles of |the Austrian frontier, as Berlin re- | ported that the power of the Russian offensive is closing in on Budapest | on three sides. The greatest threat on Budapest came in spearheads of Tolbukhin’s Third Ukraine Army units, driving Germans said they hdve aband- | oned Ercsi, only 13 miles south of Budapest, in the face of the tide that the Russian armor, which the Soviet war bulletin said yesterday, made gains up to 16 miles. The Russian communique made | no mention of the German claims of | the offensive from the north of | Budapest, where the Red troops "ei reported plunging down from cap- tured Hatvan, or from the eastern Budapest suburbs, where the Soviet Army was checked some time ago. 8 PERSONS SENTENCED BY KETCHIKAN TOURT During the recent term of court received at the U. S. Marshal’s of-| fice: Adolph Ctamer, arrested at Ju-‘. neau, received five years for rurgery.l Charles ' ‘Stevens, convicted of| a boat at Hidden Inlet last summer, was given a ten-year sentence. Archie White, arrested at Juneau, received three years for grand lar- ceny. Willie Hynes, arrested in Juneau and convicted of forgery, was given a sentence of 13 months. Edward Kimball, Ketchikan" tav- ern operator, received a sentence of 18 months on a hit and run convic- tion. Rex Wilbur, convitted on a morals charge, was sentenced to five years i jail. | George Tomasik of Milwaukee, ar- rested in Juneau, received a sus- pended sentence of five years for robbery. Those of the foregoing persons receiving jail sentences will be taken to McNeil Island Penitentiary. Dick Henry, juvenile, convicted of burglarizing the Jim Ellen Grocery, will spend the next three years in the Englewood Correctional Insti- tutional at Englewood, Colorado. — - jair Isix of the attackers, and anti-air- ‘ .| the G E it - I'at Ketchikan the following persons| he Greek people should have com | were sentenced, according to advices | oga, on the coast, and Kangdagit| Village, inland. i “The 'enemy’s line of reinforce- ments by water through Ormoc Fighting on} 'YANKS MAKE (TERRIFIC QUAKE IS REPORTED Hours—Center May Have Been in Japan WEST BROMWICH, England, Dec. 7.—A violent quake shook the whole earth for six hours according to one leading British seismologist. It is reported the quake centered in the vicinty of Japan on this third anniversary of the “sneak’ ‘on Pearl Harbor J. J. Shaw, veteran seismologist, said wind tremors made it difficult to trace the direction but he ex- pressed the belief the quake was possibly in Japan, the Aleutians or the Kuriles. A short time later the Swiss radio said both the Zurich and Nurnberg observatories recorded an “extremely violent quake Japan.” The Swiss announcement added: “In case the quake occurred in populated places, the consequences are bound to be catastrophic.” The first shocks were recorded at 10:48 o'clock, Pacific War Time, Bay has been cut by our naval and forces,” Gen on the third anniversary of the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack. ground troops, the enemy’s situa~ tion must be regarded as serious,” the General said in the communi- que, which told of Allied thrusts against Nipponese installations, air« fields and shpping, from the Ma= nila aréa on the north to the north. coast of New Guinea. Scores of tons of bombs were| dumped on airfields, destroying parked planes. Three 1,000-ton en- emy freighters were sunk. Ten Japanese planes attacked | American shipping in Leyte Gulf, but Yank fighter planes downed| craft two more. NO COMMENT ON BRITISH USING ARMY IN GREECE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Secre- | tary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. today put the United States on record as favoring complete freedom | of political action by the people of Greece. He formally endorsed a declara- tion of British Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill, made Tuesday, that plete freedom in their form of; left. Stettinius deliberately refrained | from endorsing another statement | by Churchill, dealing with the use of British troops to prevent forma- | tion of what Churchill called “a Communist dictatorship in Greece.” Stettinius was bombarded by ques- tions ahout expanding his state- ment and make it more specific in respect to use of British troops in Greece. He declined further com- ment, however, he is expected to indicate today’s declaration is not being conveyed officially to the Brit- ish government. .- FBPW CLUB BOARD INVITED T0 JUNEAU SEATTLE, Dec. 7—An invitation to the National Federation of Busi- | ness and Professional Womens'| Clubs "to have the July board meeting in Juneau, Alaska, has been extended by Mrs. Crystal| Jenne, President of the Juneau| Federation. | Miss Louise Franklin Bache, Na- tional Executive Secretary, ex- pressed hope the board will be| able to accept the invitation. R S A STUDENTS AT JUNEAU SCHOOLS SEE MOVIES This morning, in the Grade School auditorium, three showings MacArthur saidylast night Shaw said six hours after the first tremors “the whole earth was still “With increasing pressure by our{ vibrating.” MAJOR EARTHQUAKE SEATTLE, Dec. 7—What he de- scribed as a “major earthquake, be- tween 5,000 and 5,200 miles from fienme.” was recorded by the Uni- exsity of Washinton seismograph last hight, Prof. Howard Goombs, seismologist, reported. Coombs said the . disturbances stated at 9:45 p. m, PWT, and | continued for at least three and one- half hours. Coombs said the center of the quake was uncertain but “might well have been in Japan.” Germansin Ialy Still Rgl_realing All Enemy Resistance East of Lamone River Wiped Out ROME, Dec."l‘—:x_llwd troops to- day deepened their bridgehead over the Lamone River, government, either to the Tight or|southeast of Faenza. All enemy lduct repair job is coming along at resistance east of the river was wiped out, Allied Headquarters said. Polish troops at the bridgehead captured Brisighella, 10 miles southwest of Faenza. The import- ant height of Monte San Rindaldo Mezzano, on the Rimini-Ferrara Railway, six miles northwest of Ravenna, was also captured as the victorious British and Cgpadian units chased the scattered German forces back o!‘the Lamone River, GIRL SCOUT BOND DRIVE CONTINUING The Girl Scout Sixth War Loan Drive is continuing in Juneau and all girls are right up on their toes with their solicitation activities. Girl Scout Troop No. 4 will meet Saturday at 12:30 o'clock at the Baranof Hotel to take charge of bond sales for that afternoon. This troop is sponsored by the Rebekdh Mrs. Earl Cleveland as leaders. Troop No. 2 will meet at the |same time and place on Saturday, December 16, This newest Girl Scout troop is sponsored by St. Margaret’s Guild and has as its leaders Mrs. Burr Johnson and Mrs. Earl D. McGinty. - BIRTHDAY BALL B. D. Stewart, Territorial Mine were made of a group of bond sale mpvies. Both High and Grade School students attended the show- ings, the first of which was pre- GOING T2 *~THORAGE Miss 1 recently ap- pointed riologist with the Ter artment of | Health, p. 1 Juneau last | night enr \orage where | she will b * the depart- ment bran . Miss Walsh is from Avuco o FR( ¢ Miss R. \ Ketchikan Baranof Ho sented at 9 o'clock. Commissioner, has been appointed by Mayor A. B. Hayes to make all arrangements for the President’s Birthday Ball on January 30. Com- mittees will be appointed soon. Whole World Shook for Six. in the direction of | newly-won | Lodge, with Mrs. Alice Thorne and | With all but one of the soliciting | teams reporting, the list of articles |donated for the big Bond Auction Sunday in the Elks Hall begins to look like a cross between the in- |ventory of a department store and the index section of a Sears, Roe- buck catalogue, says Bob Martin, chairman of the big drive. Everything from a glass eye to a trip to Seattle via PAA (deluxe stateroom with adjoining bottle of | bourbon) and scores of other use- ful and desirable articles including |sun lamps, overcoats, suits of clothes, cases of liquor, credit slips at laundries and dry cleaners, taxi rides—even a ride in an Army jeep. Speaking of the military, don't forget the pre-war girdle, (full coverage, two-way stretch. will never let you down. Size mili- tary secret). Some of the cash donated has |been used to purchase uppropriutcl { JAP BOMBER SHOT DOWN " OVERSAIPAN \Plane of Reconnaissance L Flight.Is-Spotted and .| | Broughtfo Earth UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL |HARBOR, Dec. 7.—Shooting down | of & Japanese reconnaissance bomb- ler over Sapain Island, where the | Tokyo-raiding American Superfort- resses are based, is reported by Ad- miral Chester W. Nimitz. Alert American airmen against | Japanese snooper raids baggad an enemy bomber Monday before it had any chance to unload its explosives. | The communique also said fighter | planes of the Seventh AAF con- tinued strikes against the Japanese- held areas in the Mariana Islands and gun positions on Rota were bombed Sunday. The same day Lib- | erators hit Iwo Jima while the Sev- | enth AAF attacked Japanese island installations. VIADUCT REPAIRS ‘ NOW UNDERWAY | Work on the Calhoun Avenue via- | good rate, according to W. B. Man- | they, contractor. By tonight one (pillar will have been fixed and a (three and a half-foot continuation | of the footing will have been poured. | After the three pillars are restor- | ed to a solid foundation a retaining |wall, 33 feet long, 10 inches thick and a four-foot base will be build along the pillars to hold the earth. This repair work was authorized at the regular meeting of the City Council last Friday when it was | pointed out the three pillars were resting on nothing more substantial than mud. Motor!sts have been asked to slow down while crossing this section of the viaduct, near the Knight Apart-| ments, as the roadway is supported | only by jacks and wooden posts T0 BE GIVEN AT | . JUNEAU SCHOOLS Open house will be held at the Juneau Public Schools next Wed- nesday . night, December 13, from 7:30 to 9 o'clock, A. B. Phillips, Superintendent, announced today. He said the parents, and the parents only, are invited to visit both the Grade and High Schools during these hours to see the class- irooms and their children's work and to meet the teachers. Phillips further stated no at- Stacks of Contributions . Made to Bond Auction For Nexf Sunday P. M. | bonds! items of wearing apparel, haber- dashery, etc, for service men of the Coast Guard, Army and Navy.. Christmas items, too. | Ths auction will have sumrlhnm; that will interest everyone may be hand with the purchase of More Contributions The team of Lynn Forrest and Alva Blackerby, who made a report on solicitation yesterday, turned in a further list today as follows: Reliable Transfer—1 Free oil de- livery, 420 gallons. Frank’s Quick Lunch-—1 $5 credit for meals Juneau Cold Storage Co.—1 case Coca Cola. Swanson = Bros. Marine Suppli sacks of sugar. City Cafe—1 meal ticket, §5. | New Victory Coffee Shop — l} meal ticket, $5. Chas. G. Wamner Co. -— 1-qt.! Buffalo Fire Extinguisher and 1| quart refill fluid. i Juneau Lumber Co.—2 loads 24 16-inch millwood, delivered in Groceries and — 20 Five-pound | or city. H. 8. Graves—1 pair Florsheim | shoes, $1050; 1 pair Nettleton shoes, $12.50; 1 sheepskin coat, $25; 2 neckties, $2 each. | Pioneer Jewelry—-2 Souvenir pil- | low cases; 2 leather tobacco pouches; 2 pair native-made beaded | moccasins, value $16.50. | Bon Marche—Merchandise, $16.50, . Everett. Smith—1 Electric clock, |arate. strikes, | The two attacks constituted | fifth and sixth visits to Toky $5. Thirsty?—Read This! The team of CIliff Nordenson and Carl Huer today turned in the following contributions to the bond | auction: i Capitol Bar—1 Case gin, $65. New York Bar—1 Case Bourbon, | $60. | Arctic Bar—1 Case Bourbon, $60. Bailey’s Bar—1 Case gin, $65. | Baranof Liquor Store—4 Bomcsl rum, $20. Cut-Rate Liquor Store—4 bottles rum, $20 i Alaska Hotel Liquor Store — 4 bottles rum, $20. | Midget Bar—1 Case imported | brandy, $150. | Baranof Bar—1 Case Scotch, $75. Blackie's Bar—1 Case cordials, $72. Triangle Bar—1 Case Bourbon, $60. Corbett's—1 Case rum, $65. | Gastineau Liquor Store—1' Case | rum, $72. ‘Dreamland—1 Case gin, $75. Victory Bar—1 Case Schenley's Black Label, $70. Oceidental Bar—-1 Case Bourbon, | $65. 3 | Juneau Inn—1 Case imported| brandy, (25 years old), $150. { Still They Are Made! } The team of Tony Belford and Les Sturm made the following re- port of contributions obtained. Columbia Lumber Co.—1 Mirror, $18, and one $25 bond, to be auc- tioned together. 1 Venetian medi- cine cabinet, $10, and one $25 bond, to be auctioned together. Jack W. Gucker—1 Case Schenley Reserve whiskey, $60. Alaska Dock & Storage—Cash, $20. Alaska Steamship by Horace Adams. West Coast Grocery — 1 crab meat, $25. Roy Gillespie—Cash, $5 Jorgensen Motors—20 Gallons ef gasoline, * Co~1 Stunt | Case Alaska Coastal Afrways—1 Rcund | trip to Sitka. | Juneau Motors—Gasoline and oil, $20. Jim Ellen Grocery—2 Cases can- ned goods, $12.25. Home Grocery—1 Case liquor, | $60. Spruce Delicatessen — 2 Cases’ canned goods, $12. | Harbor Market—2 Cases canned | goods, $15. | Joe Thibodeau — 2 Cases fruit| Jjuices, $15. Carl Ashenbrenner—I1 Brief case (second-hand), $6. think | of all the Christmas presents that| DAYLIGHT RAID MADE ON ENEMY (Many Nip Planes Downed or Destroyed-Tokyo WASHINGTON, Dec, 7 A large force of Superforts, smash- {ing today at Jap-dominated Man- churia, destroyed 26 enemy fighters, probably brought down 13 others and damaged 24. The Air Force communique said one B-29 was lost in enemy action. Today's attack was on the air- lcraft plant at Mukden and other strategic military objectives. The attack was made during daylight and excellent results from the bombing are reported The Twentieth Bomber Com- mand, based on the Asiatic main- land, encountered from “weak to strong” alr opposition and anti- alrcraft fire was meager to mod- erate but inaccurate. The Tokyo radio acknowledges Mukden and Port Dairen. were attacked by 15 Superforts, but claims five Forts were downed in the encounter with Nipponese air- craft. TOKYO AGAIN BOMBEL TWENTY-FIRST U. 8. BOM! COMMAND HEADQUARTERS SAIPAN, Dec, 7—Two Super ress bombers, on weather re naissance flights, bombed T« last night and early today in v seven. heurs wpad Salpan-based Superforts since initial one on November 24. The Tokyo radio said “thre « four” Superforts dropped incen: | bombs :au the city Thursday n ing, Jap time, and small started by the bombs were prc ly extinguished, e S R TWO BUILDING PERMITS OBTAINED THIS WEEK Two bullding permits were issucd this past week by the City Engineer’s Office, records showed, Margaret Burnaby obtained a per- mit to shingle a house at 143 Gas- tineau Avenue at an estimated cost of $300. ¥. G. Fulton and Campany was named contractor, gs and Messerschmidt t60K"out a paFmit to repair the foundation of a house al 432 So. Franklin Street, at'an estimated cost of $700. James Larsep was named contractor. B CHUNGKING, Dec. 7. Chiang Kai Shek has rejected the proposal of the Chinese Communists for the establishment of a “Democratic Coalition Government” and offered counter proposals which must be taken up with the Communists con- ciliation committee. e MEN UNDER 19 T0 60 INTO BATILE, WAR DEPT. SAYS WASHINGTON, Dec. T Men under 19 are now ng overseas as {infantry and armored replacements, - e opE" HOUSE IS |, 1 G. Fulton—Work order for $20 ; Under-Secretary of War Patterson disclosed. This represents a chauge in pol- icy necessitated by urgent military requirements, Patterson told a news conference. Harri Machine Shop—1 Liguor serving set, $12.95. tempt would be made to dress up the rooms especially for this occa- sion, that the parents will merely see ordinary school routine. Alaska Credit Bureau—! Tray with decanter and glasses, $7.50. Reports of other teams will be published tomorrow.