The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "l Y “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM VOL. LXIV., NO. 9831 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— | "TOKYO IS EVACUATED AS BOMBS DROP oo " Nips Being Wiped Out By American Forces THOUSANDS | OFTRAPPED JAPS DEAD Pocketed E;;my Iroop53 Annihilated-Entire Or- | moc Garrison Destroyed | MacARTHUR'S HEAD- | IN THE PHILIP- GEN. QUARTERS ) GOOD e o0 Snowplows wanted by the Army in Alaska have been located under thatched roofs in the tropical heat of one of the Mariana Islands. Read today’s Washington Merry- Go-Reund. . ™ JUNEAU BOY 1S KILLED IN FRANCE: &5 J 'RED ARMY IS r., Meets Death ioenbr2l [N SUBURBS R Sqt. Georgef.fi Alexander, | OFFENSIVE * INCREASES, - WEST FRONT Seventh ArEITScores New i Advance in Major Drive Against Siegfried Line ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Dec. 12. — The United States Seventh Army advanced swiftly toward Ba- 1,000 YARDS RIVER BANK | First Armyfa_piures Huge Portion Roer Line- Closes in on Duren BULLETIN—PARIS, Dee. 12. ~—The American First Army in- fantry and tanks tonight moved SEIZED NOW PINES, Dec. 12—The annihilation | gt George Forrest Alexander, Jr. | of the entire defending garrison|g3 word of whose death was received | at Ormoc, a Yank captured Leyte | thjs morning by Judge Alexander in | Island port, and the destruction of a message from the Alaska Depart- thousands of Japanese trapped in ment, War Department, Washing- a pocket to the south, were an- ton, D.C. nounced today by Gen. Douglas | MacArthur. | of War sends his regrets and wishes He reported that the veteran 77th |to inform you that your son, Staff Division, which landed last week |Sergeant George F' Alexander, was four miles below Ormoc, has been |Killed in France November 21. joined by the Seventh Division and | ter follows, word of the death of in closing the southern jaw of the |the Juneau boy was learned. nut-cracker vise, “enemy forces| S8t. Alexander was born in Port- which were trapped between the |land, Ore. March 21, 1621. With two have been destroyed.” | Judge and lrlrs A)oxande; and h}s Great quantities of equipment |UWO sisters he came fo Juneau "n and aupp(llws were seizedq in the! 1933 at the time his rat_he.l: was ap- fierce fighting which preseded [hc;pfloeilltfi‘:\lij:igeg:;:::a?h;:;ofo:;g final destruction of the Ormoc gar- | high school In Juneau and attended pize i : | the University of Washington where The fall of Ormoc, Japan's last!'pe was a pre-law student for two big port of reinforcement for|yeays The day war was declared troops north of the Ormoc corridor, Ihe left the university, came to i | | Juneau's first war casualty in| OF BUD pESI France, as far as is known, is Staff | within half a mile of Duren, capturing six fortified villages in the advance. {varian Palatinate after capturing the | supply base of Haguenau and reach- ing within two and one-half miles With the message: “The Secretary | Let- | | Other Columns Are Racing Down Danube in Full View of City MOSCOW, Det. 12 — Russian tanks battled into the suburbs of | Budapest ; today while another powerful/ Soviet |westward past the great bend of |the Danube above the city toward | Bratislava and Vienna. ‘ Russian dispatches said the main |body of motorized Russian infantry was driving down the Danube upon {Budapest and declared they were |in full view of the capital. Tank units ranged on ahead. Hastily reinforced German | | gar- column drove | 12—First Army fantry fought out of the dark Hurtgen Forest and seized 1,000 yards of the west bank of the Roer River today, while other units ad- {vanced to within a mile gnd a half lof the fortress city of Duren {thrust reached Kozendorf. Shock troops «of Gen of the boundary at one unspecified point The Germans asserted that the army has opened a major offensive against the Siegfried Line on a 40- mile front between Haguenua and captured Sarreguemines, using 15 infantry and several tank divisions of perhaps 250,000 men. The enemy said that “at no place was the Palatinate frontier reach- ed,” although great tank batties were reported around Woerth Patton’s Third Army fought slow- lyand deeper into the Siegfried Line |the Roer. and industrial Saarland at Dillinger, Just north of the city and beyond Saarlautern, which were {1700ps captured Merode and fought virtually cleared of the enemy after PARIS, Dec. in- Hodge's {to Duren along the Autobahn, Hit- Jer's Super-highway, which leads to other nine days of violent combat. Pat- |cellar, through the string of for- tified German villages about two ton’s heavy artillery moved up just {miles west of Duren. The | Army applied the greatest pressure | their way, yard-by-yard, cellar-by- | NIP CAPITAL IS SMASHED FOUR TIMES Twénly Th&E&nd Moving Out as Continual Raids - by Supers Occur LONDON, Dec. 12—The Hu radio says Toky0 is being evacu: The broadcast said the eva tion of the city of 7,000,000 per which has been bombed repea by American Superforts will L at once. The braJdcut then stated “measures - for evacuation ar progress according to plan and 000 persons will leave the capital today, especially the old and in well as children and expec mothers. No workers in the industries or transport service leave. Workers in essential in .. tries such as gas, water and elec- tricity will remain, also doctors, chemists. nurses and civil efense forces must also stay.” The broadcast, quoting a Trans- ocean dispatch, said American bombers appeared over Tokyo again today, apparently from the Mariana bases, but dropped no borabs. A sec- ond group of bombers is reported over Tokyo tonight dropping ir Steftinius Fills Hull's Post | was a sharp blow to the enémy,| juneau and enlisted in the infantry risons suffered high casualties in behind the infantry to shell the | Saarland cities of Zweibrucken and | Supreme Headquarters estimated | cendiary bombs. and “fighting in Ormoc itself be- | fore its fell was «f ~the mest. des- perate character,” MacArthur said. The General reported yesterday that “many thousands of Japanese” are in the narrow pocket between the divisions coming together be- low Ormoc. i The Third Yank Division and the 32nd are pressing against Japa- nese to the north despite almost | impassable terrain. | Air activity continued on a de- structive scale and airdromes in the central Philippines were bomb- ed anew. Enemy shipping was| bombed over a wide area and pe- troleum installations at Borneo took direct bomb hits, flooding | the Tarakan and Balikpapan fields with flaming oil. One freighter was sunk offshore. ! PLANS AREAFOOT FOR MEETING OF BI6 3 LEADERS LONDON, ec. 12.—Without elab- | orating, Foreign Office commen-| tator said arrangements are being, made for a new Roosevelt-Church-| ill-Stalin conference. There are now plans for meeting of the three countries’ foreign ministers, he said. "i'he Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Inside fact about the troubles in Greece is that they date back to an under- standing between Roosevelt and | Churchill that the American Army would play second fiddle to the British ,Army in all matters af- fecting not» only Greece but Jugo-| slavia. Churchill sold Roosevelt on the idea that this was a British sphere of influence, that all deci-| sions, all military and diplomatic | operations should be under the British. This has been carried out to the last T—in fact, so much so thar it was a cause of considerable em- barrassment to U. S. military lead- ers in the Near East. When, for| instance, U. S. Army officers wanted to send instructions to U.} S. ,Army men inside Greece, they; had to send them through the British in British code. They never | could tell whether the messages| were delivered. \ And when U. 8. officers wanted | to send men by plame to certain‘: | (Continued on Page Four) J Pearl Harbor, Killed at Haines. 3 {short range fighting. There were He was, stationed_ip, Haines-80d |inereasing - bayonet - clashes “in the Juneau and left here in 1942 10 |gyter anti-tank zone attend officers’ training school at | A soviet communique anounced EVee Bpaniug iipte 26 finished Dis | o101 gains of three miles and cap- coupse it was rejected on gocount jture of the towns of Veresegyhaz o(gi:y;in Benning, Sgt. Alex- and Szara, both eight and one-half ander was'transferred to Camp Shel- L il s o ,O‘ 8 gapiia, by by, Miss., and then to Fort Meade |Gen. Malinovsk’c Second Ukraine L3 pa ' | Army. N. J., preparatory to going overseas. gE i 3 J Sgt. Alexander was marricd Aug- | Other Red Army troops cdged in ust 26 to Miss Phyllys Moller, | toward the capital from the east, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. J. P.[south and southwest. Moller, at the home of his uncle, | 3 > - Preston C. Alexander in Bozhcsda.‘,ROIARIANS HEAR Md. Judge and Mrs. Alexander went South by plane to attend their son’s wedding. After a short honeymoon, the | young infantryman was sent over- seas September 10. His bride returned West with|by International President Richard Judge and Mrs. Alexander and |H. Wells from a phonograph record makes her home in Seattle with | this noon at their ‘meeting in the her miother. Capt. Moller is in the | Good Room of the Baranof Hotel. army in France. Ellis Reynolds reported that ev- Sgt. Alexander had received med- | erything is ready for the Christmas als as an expert rifleman and an |party for children of Rotarians expert infantryman. :wmch will be held next Tuesday He was a member of Zeta Psi fra- ; noon. ternity, DeMolay Lodge and the| Announcements also were made Episcopal Church. [ concerning the Christmas party for Sgt. Alexander is survived by his | members which will be December 22 wife, his parents, and two sisters, | and the annual New Year’s Eve par- Jane Alexander and Mrs. Dean |ty which will be held this year as Sherman. ms;ii'sidem Jack Fletcher thanked Nip Admiral Who Led Sneak Atfack On | the Rotarians for their help in the | Sixth War Loan campaign of which | he is chairman. Visiting Rotarians were Logan | Geary of Beverly Hills, Cal, and | Charlie Madsen of Kodiak. Martin Geary of PAA was a guest. NAZI AIR FORCE BACKAGAINON (By Associated Press) Domei has confirmed the an- nouncement made by Admiral Ches- ter W. Nimitz five months ago, that the Nippon Admiral who led the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, was killed on Saipan. Domei said the officer was Vice' 1 Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who had| | been the “commander of the chief| ROME, Dec. 12—The German Air task force which led the attack on Force today returned to the Italian Pear] Harbor.” battle areas, swooping down over The Domei story was broadcast by |the Fifth Army front, bombing and Tokyo and recorded by the FCC. strafing troops Domei announced Nagumo's death|tions. last July in the final suicide attack| Allied Headquarters said the La- on Saipan, but didn’t identify him mone River rose seven or eight then as the Pearl Harbor attack feet after a week’s heavy rain, thus leader. ;slowing down Eighth Army opera- (pL ticns in Eastern Italy. HARVEY SIMS IS HOME ON LEAV Cpl. Harvey E. Sims, son of Mrs. Lillian Uggen, is home on 30-day leave from Fort Richardson. ‘ Patrols are operating north of Ravenna, above Faenza. The Nazis | patrol thrusts south and southeast of Bologna and made several small {scale counter-attacks. | —_————— e HELLAN GOES SOUTH SUITS FOR DIVORCE Walter Hellan, Deputy Filing action for divorce n. the [Marshal, left aboard the North Federal District Court today on|Sea for Washington, Colorado, and charges of incompatibility were Jas- | Utah. He will take a group of per Frambaugh vs. Nellie Fram-jpnsoners from Ketchikan and in- baugh, and Arthur Ramberg vs, sane persons from Wrangell and Luella May Ramberg. Petersburg, Juneau Rotarians heard a talk | and communica- | |reacted strongly to Fifth Army| U. 8.| St. Ingbert at the northern end of jthat the bulk of enemy forces has a the First front. iof the river, but delaying forces General Hodges' advance was held | were left behind. These are putting up by fire of all types, blocking the |y, 5 stiff, determined defense. less than two miles northwest of Duren are along an on | Duren and Mariaweiler and a mile | . vest side he flooded stream. west of Harbored. An especially | @ ¢ & Se SFoCon Hireem cannon and antitank guns’ intense fire held back the American ad- | vance. PRESIDENT'S PAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. In- crease of the President’s salary from | LR (By Associated Press) by Representative Vinson, who also proposed a bill to pay $20,000 year- pattled the season’s first heavy ly to the Vice-President, > snowfall as a thick carpet of snow brought a preview af “White $15,000 to Congressmen. Vinson said the President actually from olorado to the Atlantic Sea- {received only about $27,000 a ¥ear poarg and into the south today. ‘The center of the sterm is in R pERKIN WA 'l' with snow stil falling. In is as | much as 18 inches deep in some pOWERFUl NEw sections of western Pennsylvania. } |New England arca, and storm lABoR DIVISION!wnrniugs were hoisted along the |Atlantic Coast from the Virginia WASHINGTON, Dec. Damage to traffic, both land and {tary of Labor Frances Perkins to-|air, was widespread. Utilitics were !day called for a powerful post-war |impaired and schools in some areas | Labor Department to include work |closed. The death toll was largely approaches to Shophove and Hoven, | mye jmmediate approaches heavy nest of self-propelled German | woutb INcRease OF NATION $75,000 to $100,000 a year is urged A wide section of the nation speaker and cabinet members Christmas” to the 1 extending | now. the eastern part of the country, The storm was headed for |Capes to Eastport, Maine ! 12—Secre- | now being done by the War Labor caused by hazardous driving con-| |Board and the National War Man- ditions which arose due to the power Relations Board. [storm. |" “The fixing of wages and prices| e !should be abandoned as soon as| SNOW TIES UP STORM possible and the various activitiecs] TORONTO, Dec. 12-The stock |of the Government for the preven- |exchange closed today because of tion of industrial disputes or their @ traffic tie-up due to heavy snow settlement should permanently be in southern Oontario, which is attached to the Department of gripped by the worst pre-Christmas |Labor,” said Mis§ Perkins in a blizzard in years. The storm |speech at the National Conference claimed at least six lives, and {of Labor Relations. schools were closed \ready to quit if the President can {find a suitable successor. — | | NEW YORK, Dec. 12 — Closing is |quotation on Alaska-Juneau mine MADSEN TOWN Charles Madsen, from Kodiak, |stock today is 6, American Can 90, |Anaconda 28, Beech Aircraft 13%, registered at the Baranof Hotel. |Bethlehem Steel - 637, Curtiss- ———e CHRISTMAS TREE UP One of the first outdoor Christ- Wright 5%, International Harvester mas trees to be displayed this |81%, Kennecott 36%, North Am- season was erected yesterday over erican Aviation 87, New York the doorway to the Columbia Lum-fcemral 21%, Northern Pacific 20, ber Company, on Admiral Way. lU. S. Steel 59%. e STARLING ON TRIP | H. W. Starling, Acting Super-|45.u; utilities, 25.71 visor of Education, Bureau of In-| ——— — dian Affairs, left last night on a JURKSTON HERE supervisory trip to Southeast Al-| Louis D. Burkston is in town laska. He plans to be gone about|from Hoonah and is staying at the ‘two weeks, \Baranof Hotel, Army’s 15-mile curving irerdy withdrawn 4o the east. side | the | | Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 151.21; ra'll.s,‘ | | to| the | | | | | Roosevell accepts Hull’s resignation with regrets, a resignation sub- mitted by the septuagenarian statesman and former Tennessee salon | because of ill health. Within 24 hours the President then nominated | Edward R. Stettinius Jr. to succeed the venerable and revered Cordell | Hull as Secretary of State. Photo shows Stettinius being congratulated by members of the press. Nazi Oil BIG RAIDS pl | NEW YORK, Dec. 12—The Tokyo an S { radio reports American Superforts ! [ dropped incendiary bombs “on two | or three places” tonight. The broad- cast was recorded by the Federal Blasled | AlRSTRIpS Communications Commission. | ‘The broadcast said the raid was i | R the fourth incursion over Tokyo by .o : iR . |Superforts today but this is not con- ‘Blg Rald by 2’200 Amer_ lEnemy Bases Blas'ed {n | firmed by American sources. | 4 [ The broadcast also said one or two ican Planes Smashes | Three-day Neutral- raiders from the Marianas flew in R f' R 'lY d | 3 " BI m; 'X':lokyu over tlhc Izut sf"f"“"’ island group and penetrate ‘ e InerY' al ar S | |Za 'onA__ ows Tokyo skies about 7 o'clock | LONDON, Dec. 12—Almost 2200| U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- ifififéefs'lfi?;' ;2: S:‘:f“,x | American planes, including 1,250 QUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR,|gronning incendiary bombs. | Fortresses and Liberators, bombed | Dec, 12—Nayy, Army and Marine|poadeast also says that b {the Nazi's principal synthetic oil |planes teamed up for serious neu- midnight and 5 a. m., Sup: | refine 1t Merseburg and railyards | tralization raids from December 8| made three visits to Japan. lat Hanau, Aschaffensburg andthrough December 10, aimed pri- ., Darmstadt in an attack which fol-/marily at bases from which the lowed up the record assault by|Japanese have been trying to smkc‘AllEN SHA"“(K 4,000 bombers and fighters yester-|Saipan’s B-20 bases, from which | " |day attacks on’ Japan have beenl‘ 5 It was the nineteenth attack of |mounted. | (ANDIDAIE FO, the war on Merseburg’s leading oil| Iwo Jima in the Volvanoes, is Fe¥ plant and Leuna refinery. Eighteen [said in a Navy announcement to| SE“A'OR 'I'RAV 4s 8 of them ha been made in d;‘y_’hnvv been attacked by Seventh Air '] o ; |light by American heavies bombing |Force Liberators Friday and Satur- | |Merseburg by instrument, due to|day in an assault directed at air-| Alien Shattuck, candidate fo heavy clouds. |strip instaliations. |ritorial Senator in the special All rail tergets in the open w“"ci Navy 'planes struck Hahajima tion December 27, left early (hit. Virtually all bombers and most | targets, within 650 miles of Tokyo, | morning by steamer on a cam fighter éscorts were from the U, s,xund the Second Marine Aircraft|trip to Petersburg, Wrangell Eighth Airforce. | Wing Corsairs and Avengers strafed | Ketchikap, | - - |the Babelthaup Pagan airstrip. A veteran of four ‘terms in the ‘ - D s Legislature, Shattuck announced his GREEK I.EADERS candidacy soon after the date for | iMORE FA(]’S AR {the election was set. The election | SEEKI“G pEA(E { is being held to fill the vacancy | | lcreated by the death of Senator INBLOODY FIGHT s i O0DYFGAT ~ cyucHILL FIGHT Two TREMORS ARE | ATHENS, Dec. 12—Sharp gunfigf| ROME, Dec. 12 — Count Sforza| 3§ {still echoes through this battle- |today declared British Prime Min- RE(ORDED Mo iground Capital today, sending ister Winston Churchill brought salss |homeless, terrified civilians scurry- | “strong pressure” on him to accept ling out of the path of fighting, King Emmanual as the reigning I" AlEu'lAN RE‘ while rebel leaders are reported 1o sovereign of Italy. | NIRT f : hout Portfolio was left out of [p,m University seismograph recorfls the leaders of bath the Leftist|the newly-reorganized Cabinet of leq two distinet earth tremors, Rew. i political party and its military arm |Premier Bonomi after the British Joseph Lynch, Seismologist, said. the ELAS, as “realizing now they|voiced objections to bim. He said| They apparently originated in the {will eventually lose” the bloody |Churchill's influence on behalf of |Aleutians, They were recorded at "L'unfhcl to the British and regular:uw King was brought to bear in a|9:26 p.m. and 9:36 p.m. last night. Greek troops. |two-hour conference in London on|The distance was approximately The London Daily Mail said that|October 11, 1943. (4500 miles. Field Marshal Alexander had sent| In a 500-word statement replying | Greece instructions from Churchill ity Churchill's charge that Sforza | to “end the fighting as quickly as|intrigued against the Government | possible, provided that this can be of Badoglio and couldn't be trusted, | jdone with full assurances of fu-|Sforza said he “left no doubts” on ture peace and cooperation among|his attitude toward monarchy. political parties.” ] > | ey, Lois M. Morey is in town and'is; REPAIR WORK STARTS | registered at the Baranof Hotel from | —— | Anchorage. Workmen are busy these days put- | e - | ting on new braces on the big hoist MRS. MAHONEY LEAVES at the Alaska Coastal Airlines. This! Mrs. Dan Mahoney left this morn- | 1ift is used to hoist the planes onto ing for Seattle where she will spend | the dock where the hangar is lo- the next,few months attending busi- cated, 1 3 ness college. 0 *H Christts