The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1944, Page 1

~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” %, 4'46 y VOL. LXIV., NO. 9829 TWELVE PAGES JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE 15 CENTS 'NAZIS ON WEST ROER BANK SURRENDER - ORMOC JAPS " FirstU. 5. Nurses "Pifch In’ on Leyle Island NOW CAUGHT INPINCERS Americans Observe De cember 7 by General | TOKYO SAYS JAP QUAKE WAS SEVERE i il Damage fo Factories and i War Industry Sec- Afternoon |withyou, here’s call-it—what am I offered, what- | amiofferedy Cum on, loosen up your !_yawflfih. one $25 bond, whatami- War Bond Auction Sunday “L-a-d-i-e-s, and those whocome- a what-you-may- 'YANKS READY Is Big Event FOR PUSH ON ~ Of Present Juneau Drive RIVER STAND You'll go home mighty well satis- Allies to Smash Nazi Hopes fied in the knowledge that you| . have put your ;nonoy into the best | Of wafel' Ba”ler—Alsa‘ investment in America today . . .| . . Ved » Diticoiotn tion Hold Cracking and received a handsome prize for Advance on Leyte L ir MR e i i mematl v Blermonbly'c | e | going, going—gone—sold. Sold! One |hoarse, but happy, long before 5| PARIS, Dec. 9.—U. S. Third Army By MURLIN SPENCER By ciated Press) lcase of ——, to the patriotic gen- |o'clock. troops fought from house to house (A. P. War Correspondent) =| Tokyo tonight acknowledged .\ .\ with the pink eyebrows and| Of course, many of the articles|in the eastern part of Sarreguemines MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- | earthquake damage to factories in |a thirst! will go for one bond, face value|today, after a new forcing of the 2 ERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Dec. 9. Osaka and other war industry sec~|“ .o oo puce takenlook, |$25; but you only pay $18.75. If you |Saar by the Third Army beating —Three years from [hc_dnylhe Jap- tions as well as “dwellings,” pre- takealook at this! Whatamibid——. |bid two bonds, maturity value $50, against eight Saar Valley steel anese first struck at the Philippine viously unreported. “Come on, ladies, a gen-u-ine,|you pay only $37.50, etc. The|towns, smouldering from fighter- United States Seventy-seventh Di- The Jap quake, the Domei broad- pre-war, two-way stretch girdle. |bidding is to be in bonds only! bomber attacks. . vision troops slashed through the Nip defenders of Ormoc to reach the outskirts of that enemy stronghold. cast said, was ‘“severe, but losses were limited to buildings damaged in one area, and on the whole not | You'll get thousands of miles out {of this article. Guaranteed not to rip, ravel or run down at the heel. Field guns ripped the provincial city of Saarbrucken. Americans are within a couple of miles of Saar- brucken, but Supreme Headquarters Bob Martin, chairman of the auction stunt, wants, and looks fox a big crowd at the affair. | General MacArthur announced ch damage was " g g this last advance by the veterans of m)}(m» ((1;‘,:; “.;dfinif "ot casuaities| AN+ Just like Uncle Sam's bonds, A% iiee, 1oo Isaid they had no confirmation on Guam in the first 24 hours after a | ae in the anfounceiient Giat:'a |15 AETSPIEY by down! .|, Women are expected to be AIONE |,oits thay the city's outskirts had surprise landing at the rear of the | nun‘nb(-r - )‘191“\01]5 Were suffeming “Sold! To the plump lady with|the bidders, and they will bel, o o ey Yamashita line, which advance ex- | {light or Wharsont Diiirios i the the run in her mukluk!! You cer-|shrewd at it too. And vgoshfiarn Above Bearlautern their comridés ceeded two miles. { Hmm"mm‘} 08 Db S th("mmly were all-m.x't for that one, |the man w}?o butts in. It’s a cinch repulsed strong German counter- At the same time, the Seventh Di sections hardest hit” They form|*CreRt vou, ladgl i that the first bidder for a per-|aitacks and then seizéd twelve miore e g i ¢ | There’s going to be noise and|manent wave will really get it—|pijhoxes in the Siegfried line. vision to the south, pushed up the coast to reduce the gap between it an arc 80 to 160 miles generally ;numhwvfl of the capital. ‘;plemy of it when the auctioneers {take the block at the Elks Hall perhaps for one bond. And this S| purther south, the Nazis’ last Al- going to make the auctioneer keep |satian stand is cracking up., Bomb- and the Seventy-seventh to five T ald that | il | { The broadeast sald thal Pre-iyomorgy afternoon at 2 o'clock.|his eyes peeled while he listens in ers gouged at the Neuf Brisach es- “sulstantial en- cautions already taken against three different languages for the |cape bridge over the Rhine near MacArthur said emy forces” are caught in sgueeze | play and are facing annihiiation. l Americans, along the wide front,| observed the anniversary of the Jap- anese attack with a general advance. Besides the land advances six small enemy vessels were sunk on the! —-—— - Two United States Army Nurses, Lieutenant Jean Harder of Salmon, Ida., and Lieutenant Nora Homelvig cf Amidon, N. D., bandage a casualty on Leyte Island. to arrive in the Philippines only ten days after General Douglas MacArthur's troops landed on Leyte. set up a temporary hespital in a Cathedral. \ l They are members of the First Army Nurse unit American air raids served in good stead. “The people were well prepared ‘and remained calm and collected, |sticking to their homes and fac- |tories, so damage was kept at a minimum. Reconstruction work will the broadcast ALLIES IN SLOW PUSH first bidder—as there may be a | Colmar. chorus of “I bid one bond.” | And, just pipe what is going to| be auctioned off! Suits of clothes,| cases of canned milk, boxes of apples, cases of all kinds of gro- cery goods, dressed turkeys, milk Allied line, both sides maintained thunderous artillery fire, but the relative lull in ground activity sug- gested that American First and Ninth Armies are gathering strength credits, barber shop credits, theatre | The German High Command in- ¥ seventh. They were set afire on| T e G T T begin at once,” tickets, bakery goods, taxi script|for a smash at the last German December 5. All were loaded WIU: | added | books, sweaters, shoes—for bom!ht)pes of holding along the flooded personnel, presumably heading for HAI.IBUIER BREAKS MANY SOUTH‘WOMAN HElD AT - e - AHEAD Now men and women: billfolds, drug ROer River before Cologne and Ormoc. { articles, smoking sets, laundry |PAren. RUSSIANS TAKE "DOWN IN STORM OFF FAIRWEATHER FROM JUNEAU \PACKER DIES ON KETCHIKAN TRAIL KETCHIKAN AFTER MATE IS KILLED |Germans. Refreat Toward dicated that the whole western bank of the Roer River at Julich surren- dered, ' declaring-" that bridgehead passes, gasoline, oil, meat orders, meal tickets, dinners, serva-bar, suit cleaning credits, skis, and— On the northern flank of the long * | - garrisons “battled their way gaek to 8 STR AIEGIC 'I'owN : | | Imola, Only 19 Miles Permanent waves, floor 18mD |ihe castern bank of the Roer after 5 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 9.—| The Princess Norap left this, KETCHIKAN, Dec. 9—Mrs. Bu-| KETCHIKAN, Dec. 9—The body | sun lamps, bathrobes, ‘skirts, fUr|ie,uiging grim enemy attacks.” have lost the town of Vac, 15 miles ,of the fish. | Seattle halibuter Sanda L is believed LONDON, Dec. 9. — The Berlin |y, ngye prought the last halibut here | radio said today that the Germans|gpen she arrived with 30,000 pounds northeast of Budapest on the Dan-| ube, after hard fighting, asserting ' encountered the most trouble in 40! that the Russians have thrown in years following the seas. A con- | fresh reinforcements in the battle|necting rod in the engine broke and | morning with tHe “following pas-| | Glenn R. Green. | For Ketchikan — Mildred Bauter, Gregory, C. R. Burley, Capt. R, J. rifle bullet as the couple prepared with Bert Libe to the latter's mine.|captured San Prospero on the west Stanley Johnson, Glen P. preakfast on a trolling boat. The woman was arraigned and ‘(‘-rcgur,v, Masters, Harold B. Silene. { nice Vivian Frank, 41, has been of Clark Reagan, 40, has been | sengers for Wrangell—Alice Witt,/charged with first degree murder brought to Ketchikan and an in-| in connection with the slaying of /quest will be held today. her nusband, Marvip _Nickolas | Reagan died on the trail, seven Capt. Elias Linvog reported he A J. Fawcett, Letha Bell, Mrs. R. J.|Prank, 41, who was killed by a .22!miles inland, while packing supplies | { - —— ; from Bologna - ROME, Dec. 9. — Eighth Army troops today are rapidly completing encirclement of Faenza and have :bank of the Lamone River, half a !mile west of the Bologna-Rimini caps, pens, pencils, framed pictures, The Allied communi que reported potted plants, coffee makers, in- two small pockets west of the river fant garments, coffee tables, and— |neay Julich. Airplane Trips it 71 o, GRS Trip by plane to Anchorage, trip | by plane Anchorage to Junenu,‘;NENANA HAS round trip to Sitka, plane trip to| Seattle, and— for Budapest. !the boat drifted for 75 hours off | poris south—dJean Ewen, Helena| 4 aid | 1 { ° o » |ordered held without bond. | highway stronghold. = The Transocean broadcast said|Cape Fairweather in weather from |pwen, Alex. Tavasieff, Eliz. Tava-‘ Pollowing the shooting, the wo_‘slx]l" WAR loAN ‘ The capture yepresented an ad- More than $1,000 worth o-f llqugrs»1 that the German lines “had to be|bad to extremely bad. Finally the |geff, Wm. Youngs, Helen VOURgS, | man notitled ‘the Harbor Master| P prmx‘mflf:fy prvage of various kinds, by 'the case, and— taken back several miles east of the craft was blown near shore where mgjth Youngs, Catherine O'Connor, | 8 3 ; | fre Pid d which Allied And, ladies!—don’t forget that, [} dtal f anchor a od a t " - lof the tragedy. She told neighb | from eura, around whicl lod | v lenlE. i WLl e Capital” The broadcast said the|the anchor was dropped and tem- |y . Mulvihill, Eva Mulvihill. I on Bosgand i vidds the: dablonc: | Headquarters described the fighting |P¥e~Var & 3 Russians are not attempting to Cross | porary repairs were made. i David A. Hoff Noel A. M g A H {as “particularly bitter.” allowed to bid, but there’ll be R e i e ol Lrsinat i L avid A. Hoffman, Noel A. Mc-|tion he would not work any more. | KEEPS RIGH'I‘ o" Gpa s y 5 Dlenty of feminine competition,| FAIRBANKS, Dec. 9—Volunteers ] Eachran, Lilly McEachran, Helen C.!ghe also told acquaintances that | erman troops are already re- AN battled vainly in 40 below zero south previously at Oerlin. It was announced that the Rus-| sians, slashing westward from cap- tured Hatvan, captured the railroad |into Petersburg yesterday after los- town of Aszod, 15 miles northeast|ing her rudder on the fishing of Budapest. | grounds and was forced to abandon | land Capt. Linvog plans to sell his cargo here, then proceed to Seattle. The halibuter Middleton limped | Holt, Rice, Helen B. Rice, Maurice S, Whittier, Ruth Whittier, Mary J.| | Cowling. | Passengers from Skagway for Ju-| neau were Cpl. Ausmus, Helen! She is John H. Gilbert, Charles E.|her husband planned to sell her| i(’or immoral purposes. under observation. - R - | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—America passed its fourteen billion-dollar |Sixth War Loan quota Friday but |kept right on going because indi- vidual' sales kept the drive from | ported pulling back west of Faenza, {toward the next large highway cen- |ter of Imola, eight miles away, and lonly 19 miles from the Po Valley| prize city of Hologna. | Elsewhere activity was confined to Lots of other things, all worth|Weather, but the Northern Com- at least one bond. |mereial Company’s store at Nenana Nope, no steamer trips. You see | 8nd the adjoining post office were the U. S. Army is operating the]b“med to the ground last Wednes- Alaska Steamship Company vessels |98y morning, according to advices reaching here. | being considered a complete suooessipal""‘ operations, Hesdq\mrtersiand Northland Transportation Co. craft and the agents in Juneau as individual Americans purchased |S41d. can’t do a thing about it. Horace I_AND HSH I“ lonly 60 per cent of the quota and ] |only 46 per cent of the Series E goal. | Adams isn't going to let his com- ! pany miss out in the contributions, The capture of Vac would seal off | her gear. " FRANCE, RUSSIA | Barry, T. W. Bryan, W. Fitzgerald,| | Lydia Hansen, O. Kaska, Major Lov- | | gren, R. W. Mize, Mrs. Mageau and | {son, R, W. Norris, E. G. Peyton,| The blaze, caused by an over- heated stovepipe in an unoccupied apartment above the post office, caused a loss that has been esti- GRS % A Vel e B ""ER“A"O“AI. ‘ o Rieroe, Masog s gman W, v | e fhe ""”‘"""“‘SO(IM. SE(UR"Y { | ward, M. Walters, Mrs. Walters and | (A“ADA GlVE" totaled fourteen billion, fifty-two| however. “Alaska Steamship Co., mated at $50,000, according to BOD FOR HSH | {child, Mrs. C. Walters, Agnes Wie-| million dollars. ]- Ax ME AS one stunt by Horace Adams,” and|Elwyn Pym, Northern Commercial I | |gard ia | i a ed were! UREIS i thing. Horace is|Company manager, who said the - gard and R. L. Williams. | OTTAWA, Dec. 9.— (Canadian Individual sales announced were this means something. orace s | pany nag liquor stock and 50 cases of canned goods, together with all the mail and records, were saved. The flames for a time threatened the nearby Coghill General Store, but water was kept flowing despite the sub-zero temperature. going to pass up a couple of penny- | ante games and a few invites of “what'll you have,” and the “stunt” | will perhaps be worth one bund.J perhaps several. Now be at the auction! Bid— |buy your,share of America and get, | in addition to the best investment{ The company expects to reopen ever offered, a useful prize which as soon as temporary quarters can has been made available to you by be secured. j i : hre = i i {Press) — An_order-in-council pro-!t ee billion, twenty-one million st hermen, e eecr=e o UPTO PRESIDENT IS can s e cacnes on| US0 HOSTESSES MEET nde {the Pacific Coast of Canada and CLEARED OF ELAS | MONDAY AFTERNOON |looked hopefully to the White trans-ship them across the border or | oo, < sell in bond for export without pay- | ment of t; 1] anadi | DEIA(HMENISW;HI)YOPS‘;‘;“; gztz“ for; Can ‘dlani The USO patronesses will meet House for speedy action on a bill (A |Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock infreezing the social security payroll They can also enter ports to buy| e UgO Jounge to discuss Christ-|tax at one per cent, PARIS, Dec. 9.—France and Sov- pROBlEMS ASKEDH»L Russia will sign an alliance be- —— |fore Gen. DeGaulle returns from | & | Moscow, it has been reported. Of- ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 9.—ES-|ficials predicted that the pact will| tablmhmgnc of an Internauonal‘bc along the lines of the British- Commission to handle all of theig,yiet 20.year military assistance ) fishing industry’s problems is pro- agreement. posed in a convention of the Inter- national Fishermen and Allied| PART OF ATHENS WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—Fingers were crossed today as Congress B WHITEHORSE VISITOR | Heavy, new concentrations of Leftist ATHENS, Dec. 9.—Twenty percent | SuPPlies for the ship’s crew and land | Workers' convention, CIO, repre-| irri ite- mas plans. All en of Gastinea j ¢ senting unions from California to hol:;:,n kis Ls'ca‘;vt::c:'z (tl;::n B‘:::l!:zf ;‘L:éhsnzs hr?s crite ?en o gl i S ‘C"“‘fl:lv imeres\:ggui: the flpro]ec:ymnth:h‘;a;mgdi:: :fiufi;n::es::-l ;’x::;n‘am:;; 3‘.15.’3:5’ = pl‘”ou’mo?““ iR e s, letachments the British said. are invited to attend the meeting. |ate and House majorities, Legisla-| Talk out, sass the auctioneer if "Ew FIRE pOWER George B. Miller, Vancouver, B. C., boosted the plan, saying aid in the problems between the countries delegates would, in no way, affect the no-strike pledge. — .- RITES FOR SHOEMAKER | Funeral services for George A. | Shoemaker, who died in St. Ann’s | Hospital December 3, will be held |Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in HOFFMAN TO SEATTLE |the Chapel of the Charles Carter Militia were weported north of the capital after a march from the| provinces. | The ELAS within the city are re- ported to consist of 250 “death or | | glory” members formed into inner | Communist cells of about 25 mem- | INDIAN SCHOOLS ALASKA, ARE ATE — v 10 PASSENGERS OUT VIA PAN AMERICAN David A. Hoffman, Juneau rep- resentative of Lomen Commercial Company, left on the Princess Norah for Seattle to spend Christ- mas with his family. - e | Mortuary. Enterment will be |Cemetery. e 6060 o0 0 00 00 e WEATHER REPORT in the Pioneer Plot of the Evergreen { bers, each in their own headquarters | which are scattered over the capital and suburbs. Thay are still sniping in uncleared sections. e | A one-hour truce permitted the o Red Cross to distribute food to| . rmedical centers as there is a serious; "or A The following passengers went to T & PAA yesterday: Mrs. | Seat vij WASHINGTON, Dee. 9.—Congress Mnymwy, Gunnar Blom- has been providing $100,000 yearly Bren, .» Miss Katherine Pinson, {for Alaskan schools, while the need | O1af Winther and Osmund Stople. is $1,000000 a year, W. B. Beatty, WO Planes are scheduled to leave Indian Bureau Direbtor of Educu-im' Fairbanks this afternoon with tors hope he does it without delay !so they can vote on overriding it and get home for Christmas. The |Senate approved it yesterday, 47 to 119. After the bill reaches the Presi- dent he has 10 days to sign or vetoe it, not counting Sundays, If he fails to act, the bill becomes law, }provided Congress hasn't adjourned |in the meantime. In that case, he {could kill it if he chose by not doing anything. he gets fresh. Rough-house it if he don’t get your first bid—but bid. Nobody is going to think you are a piker if you bid only one bond. There's lots of them in the| same class. This great country of ours is made up of little people like you and I. | FOR B-29 SHIPS SEATTLE, Dec. 9—The deadly fire-power of the B-29 has been increased through installation of a central fire control system, per- mitting gun turrets to be handled from any place in the ship, the Boeing Company announced today. It permits all guns to be trained Bob Martin will have a large staff of assistants on hand to keep | things moving at a fast tempo.| Every bond purchase will be re-| corded and every article delivered.|on the enemy from any direction McEACHRAN SOUTH . (U. 8. Weather Bureau) tion, told the House Indian Affairs| Peter Getz James Manning, Mar-| The Senate has also voted toj | it St : N. A. McEachran, Alaska repre-|® oo o |food shortage. | Committee, in painting a dark pic-|Jorie ¥oung and Mr. and Mrs. John |extend the President’s extraordi-| Everybody be {hexs~tomorrow— | With ihe excefin ol fajl e sentative for the Schwabacher|® Temperature, December 8 . ® P {ture of Indian education in Alaska.| B Bentley. nary powers over rationing and al- |Elks Hall, 2 to 5 o'clock! e Company, accompanied by Mrs.|® In Juneau—Maximum, 43; e/ FROM SKAGWAY' He said some of the schools were e location of vital materials for an-| Mortgage the homestead, hock % McEachran, left on the Princess|® minimum, 38. Rainfall, 64 of | Ward Pierce is here from Skag-|oyercrowded with 200 being squeezed IN FROM PETERSBURG other year. It has already passed|the family jewels, crack the piggy- Norah for Seattle. |e an inch. o | Way and is staying at the Gastineau |jn 5 place for 100, Some buildings| _Mf. and Mrs. J. W. Dawson are in\ oo ‘gro g0 bank and come on down! Make| e |® At Airport—Maximum, 41; e :Hotel. {are 5o bad they should be ahnndon-l;‘:‘:;‘ gfie]ar‘erregi;w:eds::r;he Bar- - that investment now in a better| P ON BUSINESS TRIP |® minimum, 37. Rainfall, 68 of e T e {ed, he said. | om ' Peter: . i America! VW, (Penig) Murvibit st i o' A Ve, ol WOREAND TN RN e I G, | G | STREETS ARE TO BE Oh, yes! The auctioneers are to! Mulvihill left on the PrincessNorah|e © o o o o o o o o of 0V L Wiims 18 vegisered at) = P i BEeLTES IN TOWIS & D . |ve all amateurs—but good. They enroute to Sandy, Oregon, on a|® TOMORROW'S FORECAST | sl i S petae, ) E PASSENGERS OUT | o SRS, Holmen, it Cags WASH SIIHDAY, are Thompson, Adams, Kendall and | ; business trip. They expect to return|e ee e e | FOR SITKA ON NORTH SEA | tle, are registered at the Baranof Harmon. i i ! JUST ARRIVED Hotel. pARKMG BAN“ED within six weeks. |® Rain tonight ““nd showers Miss Agnes Wicgard and Marie M.| The North Sea left for Sitka hst‘ i Again—many articles have been = {o Sunday. Strong winds to- ® Ryar arrived in town and are reg- |evening with the following pas- | RICES TO ALBANY ‘ " cqutribiited too et S5 pRGRNOD. FOWLERS |® night, decreasing slowly ® jstered at the Gastineau Hotel from | sengers: Harold Smith, Mrs. H. | Betly’ ‘Bunday: “moming; . fhe(B0, numerus Arbelds and. osslers) B Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fowler and|e Sunday. Very little change o\smgway, Smith, W. Burns, Mrs. E, Shennett,| Dean Charles E. Rice and Mrs, |Street Department will get out|for various services will be put on| two children, Pat and Carolyn, e in temperature. Minimum o | — e J. W. Gueker, A, Amundsen, H. L | Rice left on the Princess Norah for|the hose and the streets will be|the block. ), former Juneauites, are now resid-|e {onight, 38; maximum Sun- ®| Jim Alves is in town from Fair- |Crews, Mrs. Crews, L. B, Johnston, Seattle enroute to Albany, Oregon,|Washed down. No parking of cars| And, there will be numerous ar- K ing in Seattle, where Jack is an'e day, 41. ) banks and is registered at the Hotel | Kathlyn Acker, P, Williams, Joseph Where he will relieve the regular'Will be permitted during the wash- ticles of especial Attraction to ser- engineer for Boeing's. o Juneau, L ruitt, pastor of the Epicopal Church there, down hours, which start at 4 a. m. vicemen. e s——