The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1944, Page 1

~ INSTRIKE ;OF BUDAPEST “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LXIV., NO. 9832 JUNEAU, _ALASKA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 7 JAP SHIPS SUNK IN BATTLE OFF LEYTE Yank Troops Spring Into New Reich Action I AMERICANS ENCIRCLEMENT AT SUN UP IS COMPLETE Make Advance Info Ger-| Tan | man Lines-Bridges | Blown Up | BULLETIN PAR!S, Dec. 13. | — American First Army troops | have cleared the Germans from a five-mile strip on the west bank of the Roer River in a new drive southwest of Duren, ad- vanced up to two miles and cap- tured three villages. The U. S. Seventh Army, slow- ed down by blown-up bridges, boggy roads and difficult terrain, have advanced to within three miles of the French fortress and gateway town of Wissembourg, opposite Seltz, 15 miles south- west of Karlsruhe. The Germans have blown up bridges in a wide sector. Besieged on Three | Sides by Russians | i MOSCOW, Dec. 13—Russian as- | |sault forces today pointed toward | | Budapest from newly-captured Go- | | dollo, 10 miles to the nmtheasl | while artillery was drawn in close |formation on the northern and | | southern outskirts of the capital. | Despite the approach of the Red | Army and the siege being drawn in | a semi-circle about the city, none of | |the dispatches from the front men- | | tioned anything about the fall of mr { ’c’xp(ml being “imminent.” The ci | inhabitants have fled westwnrd by | the thousands and the German gar- {rison is said to have dug in and ‘they are apparently determined to hold out until the metropolis is fully Y | destroyed. SPRINGS INTO ACTION ‘ From Russian positions many fires | PARIS, Dec. 13.—The southern | geve ghcerved inside Budapest. The | wing of the United States First | | Army paper, Red Star, reported the Army sprang into action before dawn | German authorities made a hurried | and sloshing eastward toward the {evacuation of military depots and Rhine city of Bonn, attacked beyond | war plants from the frontier dis- | the Hurtgen Forest, southwest of |4 ..o of Austria besieged Duren. | PUTENSEN T In Jess than three hours Lt. Gen. | | | Courtney Hodges' muddy riflemen | JUNEAU SE(OND ! | was between the Hurtgen and Mo- | A little further north, other units |Finance Office show that the Ter- of Cologne. total of all sales is now $2,516,670.50 the United States Seventh Army ... gand as follows: $130,380 in| advanced more than a mile and en- tered the village of Rollesbroich, 13 | miles southwest of Duren and 35 | FROM Iop SIXIH v | schau forests, four and a half miles wAR loAN DRIVE east of Rotgen, the first German town conquered by the Allied | of the First Army are now opposed |ritory has gone over the top in by the new German Fifth Panzer |the Sixth War Loan drive. E bond Army and are within 28 miles of sales have passed their quota and | The First Army is drawn up t0|jeaving only $250,000 to be sold in the swift, high Roer River on both |jndividuals other than E before sidey of Duren. |quotas in all series are reached. 'i“““edf “}‘;‘“g"y fiee ot ‘”8‘} Sec|E bonds; $37610 in individuals g e;:;:?m:':n:‘;:“:sme'utyher than E, and $260,000 in cor- |porations; a grand total of $427,- miles west of Bonn. The advance ) Armies. | Latest releases from the war | Bonn which lies 15 miles southwest {now total $1,073,868. The grand In the center of the Western Front | " gajos for Juneau and Douglas Third Army fought slowly into the 90. i iegfried Li inside industrial | e o e i Totals for other Alaska cities | e SR are: Fairbanks, $608,760.50; An- chorage, $381,519; Ketchikan, $291,- | 388; Seward, $103,489; Petersburg, | WPB SAYS LESS L $72,768.75; Nome, $53,187.50; Sitka, | $52,060.75; Wrangell, $47,286.25; | “EWSPR'""‘ 'I'o Cordova, $31,71250; Kodiak, $27- 387.50. BE AVAILABLE| WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — The War Production Board indicated | today a further cut in newsprint | allocations may be necessary “by the second quarter in 1945 if not before.” CHANGE EXPECTED (By Associated Press) | A new coating of snow on the ice-covered highways brought in-| INBIG COLD WAVE - It said the shortage in the first half of 1945 will be caused by in- creased military demands for paper requirements in the liberated areas! of Europe. - Ed Smither, from Fairbanks, is | registered at the Gastineau Hotel. The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (L. Col. Raherz 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—When Secretary of State Stettinius issued his state- ment divorcing the United States from British meddling in European Governments, he had just received a summary of Prime Minister’ Churchill’s orders to British Gen.| Ronald M. Scobie in Athens “to| act as if he were in a conquered' city.” Churchill's orders have been seen“ by only a few high-ranking U. S. officials, but those whe have read them consider them harsh, almost brutal in tone. The British Prime Minister ordered Gen. Scobie to creased travel hazards in the broad expanse of the nation, while the| Weather Bureau forecast a measure | of relief from the frigid tempera-| tures. Sixty-three deaths are attributed to the cold wave which followed | the weekend snow storm, extend- ‘\ ing from Colorado through the| Eastern Seaboard. It is beginning to subside in the midwest states| tonight and the change will be| felt gradually thereafter, the weather reports indicate. i .- \CHARLES CHAPLIN REQUEST DENIED, PATERNITY SUI LOS ANGELE_S, Dec. 13—Judge Ruben Schmidt denied the request tof attorneys for Joan Berry's suit to establish him as the father of her 14-months'-| old daughter, Carol Ann. His at-/ timate with another man. “keep a.nd dunlmu Athens,” told ik ¥ enen 1 -S4 . W [oge A s Foury ' i Charles Chaplin | for a two months’ continuance of‘me northern flank attack pushed | |along the Ravenna-. Bologna nul-f Allied |from Anchorage and is staying at are staying at the Baranof Hotel. river, PASSENGER TRAIN IS LOST IN DRIFTS OF DEEP SNOW CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Dec. 13.—A second rescue train was |sent from here today in an effort |to reach a snowbound two-coach passenger train, lost since early yes- terday m snow banks, 45 miles (-zm { | of herel” In the 1 A previous train, dispatched when the location of the lost Grafton- bound train near Elkhurst was es- tablished early | camp are today today, was also ann's Hospital from serious muiti- | ickgr our 2 SERGEANTS ARE INJURED AS (AR LEAVES HIGHWAY Truck Hits Power Line-Two Wires Knocked To- gether-Lights Out Sgts. Frederick Ritterbusch and Henry Zaleski of the Duck Creek | recovering in St BUDAPEST — This pre-war view Sof Budapest, Hungary. shows two suspension bridges over the D the Royal pllace is visible, 4 FIRE BOMBERS PUT TORCH TO GERMAN BASE | LONDON, Dec. 13-—Royal Air Force fire bombers put the tor o Essen, home of the Krupp Works, ast night. The raid on Essen increased op- | e eriod of 24 hours of miajor attacks |on eight major German cities by 4,000 American and British planes loaded with 10,000 tons of bombs. Thirteen British bombers and 11| |stranded in deep drifts ten miles pjo cuts and bruises and other in- | American bombers as well as nine short of the passenger train, officials juries, suffered when an Army| | American fighters were lost in the | jof the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad {vehicle in which they were ndmg“flm smd locomotive ed that the passenger Ileft the Douglas Highway, near the | Information reaching here reveal |'Ski Trail, had died from lack of water after| being unable to push through drift: Chief Dispatcher Fultz expressed | | rolled ov belief that the passengers are not|to rest ag suffering because he said there were | impact shortly after 11 o'clock last night. The truck, a weapons carrier, er several times coming ainst a power pole.” The knocked two wires IOv houses in the village of Elkhurst | gether, shorting the line so it kick- where they might find temporary led out. haven. ALLIES PLOT As a result lights in Jun- ieau had to be turned off until an- 'other line could be switched in. The power for lights was off between 122 and 25 minutes. FOR POWER, SAYS BROOKS WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Senator W. Brooks, of Illinois, today | ||rnles|aed that while American 'soldiers are fighting desperately, | “both England and Russia are en-| gaging in a race' for a future bal- nce of power.” He told colleagues, "nlready it is clear Russia intends to expand her empire and plot her philosophy {throughout the Baltic and Balkan States, while Britain moves daily to expand her influences and es- tablish puppet governments in | Haly, Greece, Belgium and France.” e LAMONE RIVER IN ITALY 1S SPANNED BY CANADIANS ROME, Dec. 13—Canadian troops have spanned the Lamone River northeast of the highway town of Faenza, shoving the Germans back |two miles in the direction of Lugo, Allied Headquarters said today. | Bridgeheads, thrust across the| !river some nine miles from Faenza, joined in a continuous front of 6,000 yards. After 24 hours of stiff fighting, !way northwest of Russi. troops are reported astride this torneys submitted an affidavit con- route for some distance. |tending that Miss Berry was in- > — FROM HAINES Mrs. Dave Fenton has arrived “lin town and is registered at the Baranof Hotel from Haines, land established two bridgeheads | | | 1 fered multiple The men were heading north on the highway in a driving wind- storm and apparently drove too close to the soft shoulder. Capt. L. D. Allard, Army doctor, was called at approximately 11:40 o'clock and he sent an ambulance | to the scene, following immediately in an Army car. After giving the injured men |first aid, the doctor ordered them | Hospital, | removed to St. Ann’s where it was found that Ritter- |busch had sustained severe cuts and concussion. Zaleski, driver of the truck, the least injured, suf- cuts and bruises. | Today, Ritterbusch is undergoing | penilcilin treatments to ward off | any chance of infection. The weapons carrier, the same | | | ) Itype of vehicle in which George Louden met his death two months ago, is badly smashed. — e TERRITORIAL GUARD TO MEET THURSDAY An impor Lant meeting of the Ju- neau Unit of the Alaska Territorial Guard will be held Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock in the A. B. Hall Guardsmen are to be dressed in coveralls and leggings, This is a roll call meeting and every member is expected to report promptly at 7:30, as this is to be a busy session with many important things to accomplish, sdys Capt. | Henry Harmon. —————— FROM WASHINGTON Paul H. Meyer, from Walla Walla, Washington, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. —,,———— ANCHORAGE VISITOR Mrs. O. H Nettleton is in town the Gastineau Hotel. — ee-—— FROM ANCHORAGE C. A. Randrup and D. W. Abbott are in town from Anchorage and are registered at “the Gastineau Hotel, THREE BURMESE - TOWNS TAKEN BY ALLIED ARMY NEW DELHI, Dec. 13. — Buflsh and Chindse infantry, directed by an American officer, and supported by artillery, today engulfed Katha and | Indaw, important upper Burma towns, about 155 miles north of Mandalay in what the Uniter States | Command called a “truly amazing example of Allietl cooperation.” This action was disclosed with the award of the Distinguished Service Order to Lt. Col. Trevor Dupuy, the British Thirty-sixth Division. Dupuy directed the Chinese artil- lery, the only big gun support the British Thirty-sixth had had in | some time. The Chinese Fiftieth Division, its movements up to now cloaked in secrecy due to security reasons, pro- tected the Thirty-sixth’s flanks and rear, enabling the British - Indian | troops tc plunge down the Myit- 'kyma Mandalay rail corridor. On this narrow front Naba, h | tions against the Reich for a| | Chief Artillery Officer, serving with ' 12| IRIVERS, HARBORS BILL IS AWAITING | FINAL ACTION {Many Alask;Frojeds Are - | Authorized in Flood Control Program | i i WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — Con- |gress has sent a billion dollar post | war flood control program to the | President. | A conference report, adjusting {the differences between the Sen- |ate and the House, was approved | vesterday. i The companion bill, authorizing rivers and harbors works, to cost half a billion, awaits final action. | The Senate approved it after re- jecting an amendment to author- ize the St. Lawrence Seaway but it goes to the conference | committee for action on changes made since the House passed it 1 Alaska projects authorized in the Rivers and Harbors Bill are Met- . |lakatla Harbor, $129,000; Craig, SB0,0UO; Meyer Chuck, $25,000; ‘Wmngcll $189,000; Skagway, $16,-| | 000; Petersburg, $80,000; Port Alex- ander, $31,000; Seldovia, $58,000; Sitka, $385,000; Gastineau Channel, $155,000, and Elfin Cove, $38,000. 'ELAS TROOPS IN BULLETIN, ATHENS—Dec. 13 —The EAM and ELAS has re- jected the British terms of settle- of the i BIGNEW ATTACK | | i |toward Tokyo, 3 DESTROYERS, ATRANSPORTS OF NIPS SUNK Fifty Enemrl;Ianes Also Destroyed in 36-Hour Running Battle By C. YATES McDANIEL (A. P. War Correspondent) SUPERS HIT NEWTARGET OF NIPPONS Make Feint Toward Tokyo; then Swing Off to Smash Nagoya TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER | COMMAND ON SAIPAN, Dec. 13 —Nagoya, one of Japan’s most in-, GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- flammable targets, was bombed at' QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- mid-afternoon teday by a force of |PINES, Dec. 13—Three Japgnese B-29's, equalling or exceeding the | largest group yet to hit Japan and upsetting Nipponese defen Superforts made the fir feint then suddenly cut northwest to Nagoya, withdrawing over Nagoya Bay after making bombing runs on Tokyo. |destroyers and four transports of an 1l-ship convoy, attempting to run reinforcements to the be- leaguered Nipponese troops on Leyte Island, were sunk by Am- erican planes and PT boats Mon- day and Tuesday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. The flight was made at great| One other enemy destroyer and speed over the target area. two freighter transports were so Today's Superforts went into ac- |severely damaged in the 36-hour tion in the face of westerly winds slowing speed but probably incres ing accuracy in bombing. ‘The Supers also flew from 3,000 | to 4,000 feet lower than in Tokyo raids, flying under a cirrus cloud | layer ta avoid vapor. running fight that they may have sunk. They were left dead in the water, burning, the communique said. Fifty Japanese planes were de- stroyed in the battle, while the Americans lost eight. One Ship Escapes Fury Only one Japaneses vessel, a de- The FCC picked up a radio from Tokyo this_aftarnoon atating - Shs | Cos. . Cecapert BuRcs et CERL S fury of .Army. . about 80 Superforts participated "‘4Ma¥lnc Curs:;vrs x:x‘x:t::d;mhl:‘r:‘ |strikes against Tokyo, Yokohama, | Ihitting PT boats. The battle oc~ Nagovu and on Honshu Island and | cured off - the northwest Leyte |also Shikoku Island, south of the ot T | | ment of the Greek crisis and this | is arfnounced by town criers who traverse the streets shouting “We shall fight on if it means smashing down all Athens.” Early tonight, the heart of Athens was | shaken by heavy explosions and | dynamite-laden street cars were sent against British tanks in Omonia Square, ATHENS, Dec. 13—ELAS troops | staged strong but unsuccessful at- tacks against the center of Athens | tonight even while their leaders aré | debating over British orders to cease fighting. The strongest assault was aimed at the British barracks north- east of the heart of the capital on Kifiusia Road. A British communique broadcast from Athens said that further Brit- ish reinforcements had gone into action and some progress had been made against the ELAS in Piraeus. | Royal Air Force planes silenced one ELAS 75 millimeter gun firing at the center of Athens. | Major Gen. Scobie, British Com- mander in Greece, still awaited a | reply on his cease to fire terms made | to the ELAS there. Indications are the Leftist leaders are wavering in the fight to force the resignation of Premier Papandreou. e POLICE COURT FINES In City Magistrate’s Court this miles above Katha, was also En-lmoming Anthony R. Ingeinto and gulfed. Indaw is 10 miles west of Joseph Murphy were fined $50 apiece the Irrawaddy River town of Katha |on drunk and disorderly conduct which is 52 miles west of Bhamo. charges. Weston Leonard Anderson | AT e TR was sentenced to 12'. days in jail m BASKE"‘ All. a drunk and disorderly conduct GAMES SCHEDULE NEW YORK Dec. 13—Four un- | beaten basketball teams play Madison Square Garden tOMOITOW | with going 30 miles an hour on night. Willoughby Avenue. What might easily be the feature RS A0 <ol SRS of the twin bill game in the young| FROM KODIAK cage season is Utah's national champions tangling with St. John's| { dy and Wallace J. Fitzgerald were ‘hned $25 apiece on drunkenness harges. Dan Ulery was fined $10 on a Ray DuBost and wife are regis- quintet. tered at the Gastineau Hotel from Oklahoma A & M bump into‘Kodiak, |New York's towering five. | P ! . | FROM VERMONT { ANCHORAGE PEOPLE | - — | Charlene Wakeficld and Helen | Vernon Hilliker, Arthur Ricka McKelvey are in Juneau, and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel from St. Johnshury, Vermont. CALIFORNIA PEOPLE Donna Reever and sister are in town from Los Angeles, California, and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. and Ellen and Alex Jourdain are all in' town from Anchorage and 5 o SHERNIPTSOR: 5 NEW EMPLOYEE HERE Miss Martha McKenzie, from Oakland, California, is a new em- ployee in the Education Division of the Office of Indian Affairs. e BUY WAR BONDS charge Emmon Hines and Loran | | Connors were fined $25 apiece on a | | similar charge and Michael A. Led- | ‘“,sueedmg charge. He was charged | |said results of today’s raids were | | i | | {losses on the enemy.” 100 BAD Inland Sea. Bomel; - Japansas The convoy will be sadly missed by Japanese ground troops who are being pushed into the northwest corner of the islands. U. 8, Conveoy Attacked Some 30 Japanese planes attacked lan American convoy on a supply run to Ormoc Sunday, but were met by ‘Marine fighters which downed 11 of the enemy. The Am- erican supply ships suffered some damage, the communique said. Late reports from western and northern Leyte showed little change Arnold said preliminary reports|in the ground war situation. The of the raid on the Japanese home- |Seventh and 77th Divisions are land revealed the bombings have mopping up and consolidating po- been most successful, sitions around Ormoc, and the The returning pilots, according to|32nd Division at the northem ap- Arnold, said heavy flak was en- Proaches to Ormoc Valley, is main- countered. |taining a steady, heavy pressure 'against tough artillery in backvof the Japanese positions. IWO JIMA 100 LATE smasepBy Notwithstanding many warnings | lIBERAToRS to shop early and mail packages UNITED STATES PACIFIC news agency, slight but Jap interceptors are “believed to have caused heavy LARGE FIRES REPORTED WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Heavy | explosions and large fires are re- ported by B-20 fliers who raided Nagoya, Gen. H. H. Arnold, Com- manding the Army Air Forces, said | this afternoon. early, if going to the States, it is dollars to doughnuts many Ju- neauites’ packages have missed the boats. Barring interruption in steamer | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL schedules, next Monday or Tues-| HARBOR, Dec. 13.—Liberator bomb- day—at the latest—will be the final time for sending Christmas mail or packages to the States if it is to arrive before Christmas. After this date, none are assured of| holiday delivery. | Two steamers scheduled southf next week should arrive in Seattle possibly Friday, December 22. The| next day is Saturday, then Sunday, then Christmas . . . what chance/ is there for Christmas delivery| what with the Christmas rush from | other quarters? ' Too bad . . . too late! SRS PR © o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Weather Bureau) LR J Temperature, December 12 In Juneau—Maximum, 55; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 50; minimum, 39. ® e o o o 0 0 o 0 TOMORROW'S FORECAST ee e Partly cloudy tonight. Cloudy tomorrow with rain. Minimum temperature to- night, 40; maximum temp- erature tomorrow, 46. . o iers of the newly organized strategic air force struck Iwo Jima, in"the volcano group, last Saturday and Sunday, maintaining heavy aerial | pressure on that enemy base, 725 miles north of Saipan. The Liberators, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reports, ran into moder- ately to intense antiaircraft fire Sunday and eight of the craft were damaged but all returned, however, {to Saipan which is the base in the Marianas for the Superfortresses. Navy search planes also struck | harbor installations on Chichi Jima |in the Bonins, north offIwo Jima, last Salu.rda oo Empire Want-ads bring results! ——el sho?pmu Baz : fhee