The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1944, Page 1

L b4 . > & o $ » hi] S &L O SEL “ALL THE NEW. S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9833 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = anks Are Now On Bo [ ALLIES ARE 2,500 YARDS FROMDUREN Aleufian, Alask 2,500 yards northwest of bcsiogcdZ Disclosure of the Duren, Supreme Headquarters an- | homes of the parti meetings and pants directed Front Commanders in | Conference with Nimiiz a War Fletcher, Commander of the North Pacific, and Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar } President’s Son Weds ~ Of Inte by Ickes to take testimony in an | |effort to determine who are right- rior Says Ickes do any of these things. These are all red herrings, designed to divert SUPERS HIT WIDE SECTIONS IN ORIENT th Sides of Roer River Indian Rights Cases Up | To Congress Not fo Dept. BIG RAIDS ' REPORTED, ~ TWOAREAS ) ! ) g v I} WASHINGTON, Dec. l4—Inter- 1945 and I shall review them and| pj 2 = o o ! S e 5, @ E a | . 8 |FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL |in strikes against the Kuriles Is-| he has received no reports con- dence of bow sides impartially on Bad|y Damaged_kan_ S"aiegl(Town—MOmeg |HARBOR, Dec. 14—American Army |land chain linking Hokkaido, prin- cerning the Indian fishing and lhe issue presented—whether any Under Attack . 4 land Navy commanders of the|cipal northern island of Japan, i PREL lands of private ownership in Al-| Up Nazis West of River |centrar sacitic and. Aleutian war|with Kamchatka on the Russian land rights hearings in Alaska and geq ghould be tiirned over to the goon Under Ritac G |areas have just concluded secret | Peninsula. 4 ;‘no action will be taken until late Indians or whether any Indian | (B Aq. sl Prod) PARIS, Dec. 14—The American |conferences with Admiral Chester| From the northern war front in January should be deprived of his rights| y l_;,::‘ Tl First and Ninth armies won a 14- |W. Nimitz, Commander of the Pa-|came Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons Hearings were held recently in Of citizenship or whether Alaska bmc ¥ % ec - ‘e“y e , mile stretch along the flooded ROET [¢ific Ocean areas, dealing with |Commander of the Alaskan De- | |Alaska and Seattle before Judge Will be ‘given back to the Indians. m‘;’;‘y""d“_:;‘"’:“:s :ipp:der“es ?flx River today from Linnich to a point | r jons agains an. X . i iral Frank J. | | Hanna, special referee i This Department has no wer to y {future operations against Japan. |partment; Vice Admiral Fran ] special referee appointed v o Mitsubishi Hatsudokl aircraft face- tory at Nagoya, and probably caused terrific damage, according to nounced. This placed the Americans | ,yo,ijon toward the Aleutian and | Buckner, Jr., former Commander of || fully entitled to Alaskan fishing the public from the real issue in oe l‘:"““:{]e?r“dn‘;‘;f_;}s‘:“a';‘;}?;c‘g!‘Alnska theatres from which planes|the Alaskan Department. [ | |and land rights. the case which is whether certain ,‘;.‘;";:"“n:fdk“;;y ;‘::;k:;zg ;:M:;: olozne, B Bt i “Testimony has been taken and areas of land and water of Al- iy ek l““dhf"’:'l‘)‘:'j?v':r’r'lg":‘;?;‘rf,’:i | {briefs are now being filed with aska belong to the Indian villages|o i ‘XV“‘;"'"“,;O" ,“?""t“"“d through whicl S | Judge Hanna,” said Ickes, and a under existing statutes. The de- T ok ol toward the sea. | ! prepared statement of “his recom- ¢ i bg de, T Kot Twenty miles farther south, other | | % p cision will be made, not by this| " qpe jonanese radio reported a units of the First Army, moving | along both sides of the river near its | i source, overran the hamlet of Kest- | | ernich in an advance of a mile or | more. | The First and Ninth, between { them, are swiftly wiping out the last } B u D stubborn German remnants west of | | the river in the campaign seeking to | | envelop the Cologne plain with its | | 21 muddy miles to the Rhine. | Kesternich lies east of previously | taken Rollesbroich, Bickerath and | Simmerath and about 3,000 yards | from the Roer River, in the territory | over which the armies have forced ! Siege Guns—L—aying Down Heavy Fire on City's Closest Suburbs L BY YANKEES, LEYTE ISLE Japs Coniin;;in Efforts to Get Supplies to Trap- ped-Forces . Col. Elliott Reosevelt, on of the Pre ident, poses with his bride, film jmendations will be received some- time the latter part of January, | »‘(oasl Guardsman from Aleutians Is Hero in (ordova Rescue (ase, department, but at the proper time by Congress.” Super-fort strike against Rangoon, Burma, adjolning Japanese-con- trolled Thailand. Tokyo also broad- cast an unconfirmed claim that a lone Super-fort flew over the Japa- nese capital today. In one broadcast, the Japanese claimed the destruction of two B-29's during the big raid against the Nipponese homeland yesterday and five more in the Rangoon raid. American quarters said premili- nary reports showed no American planes were lost over the target. % +7'24 Hits Secored Pictures taken over Japan, show- “’3;1}" angoslx}x‘l:x;“gc::tns of Ger-? MOSCOW—Dec. 14 — p.ussian‘; GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- | ,.tress Faye Emerson, after they were married at Grand Canyon, Ariz., CORDOVA, Dec. 14—Blown off{ing 24 hits on the rambling air- mans remain: one in the castle east siege guns today laid down a heavy [QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- |, 4 ceremony witnessed by just a few friends. (AP Wirephoto) | the city dock in a strong gale,lcraft factory at Nagoya, were of the pier and the other in the fac- [barrage on Budapest's closest su-|PINES, Dec. 14—American troops Mrs. O. J. Dahl and her brother, prought back by the big plane of tory southeast of Duren in the sub- 'burbs as Soviet armored columns |2re making gains against the Japa- u - | | Leon Larson, were rescued by a|Capt. Thomas Kunning, New urb of Mariaweiler. fought forward, yard-by-yard, seven |Dese north of Ormoc, Leyte Is- "ew OPA Rulmg SENATE oulllES | quick-thinking Coast Guardsman, |Bremen, Ohio. His plane was one The German line on the Roer is miles north and 10 miles east. [1and, inflicting “extraordinarily | | Herrell Hammette, radioman 3/c, |of the first over the target. Other heavy” losses on the enemy. The Japanese continued efforts to get supplies ashore for troops 'Made on Alaska now in Cordova after a long tour lof duty in the Aleutians, Mrs. Dahl and Larson, worried | pictures disclosed at least 47 direct the first major obstacle beyond the Shells plastered Ujpest and Rak- hits, particularly in plants, machine broken Siegfried Line in the Aachen |ospalota, north of the city, and the | " MENWHOWOULD area. The river still must be crossed |big suburbs of Kispet, east of in its middle course. Beyond are |Budapest, frem positions gained in three improvised defense lines in the |the capture of two strongholds on | 12 miles before the Erft River, the |the heavily fortified approaches to | last German stream before the the Ppest sector, on the east side Rhine. of the Danube. | Americans are pressing hard on| ¢ nignight, a Soviet communi- | the area directly across the riVer ... .n,ounced the capture of these pressed into the northwestern part of the island by the American 77th, b e DIVISIons. ks were Ment to the OPA regulations, per- ! :("ee bbbt g were mitting the cost of transportation sunk by Yank gunfire yesterday ., y, aqdea here to the price of oo b e jand near OMNOC |fresh fish brought south from the which fell to the Americans On |, 4pern panks, is announced by Caught Fish SEATTLE, Dec. 14—An amend- | JOIN STATE DEPT. BULLETIN — WASHINGTON Dec. 14—The Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee has approved five of the six State Department | Have Not Yet Accept- - SLOWINGUP | However, fiKS Leaders about their boat which was docked | at an ice covered float, went to jcheck on the moorings. | Larson, in the high wind, slipped jand dislocated his shoulder, but | went ahead with Mrs. Dahl. At the | end of the pier, a gust of wind shops and assembly departments. Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell, Jr., who is Inclined to be cautious con- cerning results of Wednesday's at- tack on Japan’s third largest city until he studied the photographs, has, as yet, made no further com- ment, but fliers brought back jubi- i from Duren, the main town between | (o0 V0 P ceven miles |SUNdaY: Catalinas, Mitchell bomb-|piiey OpA Administrator A. J,| Tominations, but held up final | ed British Terms caught the pair and they were|lant reports of the devastation the front and Cologne. Sbrtheast of Budinest: and. Taasee jers and medium bombers aided in g . action on Archibald MacLeish on literally lifted off the dock into|wrought by the Tokyo raids, say- Army troops 20 miles to the nm-thsw b S o tpien .a o S o ) |the sinking. These three losses are| g, . 'am?ndmcnt applies to fresh account of a 10 to 10 tie vote. | g the water. ling the damage Is "becloming sprang into action and seized the | I\ ebsy e Sxiaannov;ky??e Swp{added to vessels sent down pre- |yt MU T ablefish and | Senators Wagner, Nye and Glass | fA"f]HE";IS-MDeClv I‘fb—EL;\S forces| " pommette heard the splash, |serious.” Inde River town of Vichhofen, two 4 Pt " {viously. | 2 4y | will be asked to record their ©f the National Liberation Front ¥ . i i y. troll-caught salmon brought here | ’ 15 = ok " whipped off his dungarees and, dis- e miles south of Julich. jond Ukranian Army. | Coastal vessels were Kamaged | votes, as they were absent when |IN the center of Athens appeared p | As the Red Army pressed the| from Alaska. 4 Ay {halted today, British leaders said,| cEor0ing the loy water and heavy ONE SUPER LOST ————————— | Arthur A. Hedges, War Man-|attack clpser to Budapest, other | power Commission Director for | Soviet forces struggled to better | Alaska, has returned to his Ju-|their foothold in the campaign‘ neau headquarters after a week’s now moving westward toward Brn—i trip to Anchorage and Fairbanks. |tislava, Austria. and shipyards and docks at Sand- akan, North Borneo, were smashed by Allied fighter planes, and oil tanks and refineries were set afire. Krauss said this insures compar- able margins for fish shipped west through Prince Rupert, B. C. or brought into Seattle. \ | Retail prices are unchanged. the committee meeting was held. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — Secre- tary of State Edward Stettinius and his team of six prospective assist- ants today told Congress the re- i |The most dangerous phase of the L12~day turmoil has apparently passed. Heavy fire that shook the city earlier this week gave way to sporadic machine-gun ,bursts“in attempted to support his sister, but she was out of sight when {Hammette reached him. Hammette towed Larson to the boat landing, and heeding his wild cries of “my wind, dove into the water. Larson | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — One Super-fort is missing in yesterday’s smashing attack on the Japanese {industrial center of Nagoya, a War | Department aide said, and it “must be presumed to be lost.” ¢ | —_— e . - —— Izvestia reported “after Budapest (ANADIA"S MAKE ate eps & vas the past’ 24 hours, It was the E / e A i "/’;’mna ik decihed_i \ :::::Igmgt flf’;fx,(:; n::‘l(rin‘:x(:lbm\: Jf quictest of any like period since|*ISter, She's over there” went back | No official figures on the number h' to The war i5 on Austria’s thresh-| Wokiae forelgh pbil fighting broke out . between . the |21d» Seeing a dark object still |of bombers taking part in the raid e as lng n " | INS I Alv Leftists, on hand d struggling in the water, he made |were released, but authorized state- hold, | (] | Testfying before the Senate For- » one hand, and Greek | .. "o e | | It is still not clear whether an| ! ! g e new|forces and British troops, on fhelo < cicamieue of Mes Dehl and iments indiogied: upwatds, of i Mer IY'GO 'Round S0 Henital abeantt on BaaL., ToTE, TAC A iaiedinn toops | AR Commitles, the new| % ; towed her to the landing. She was |big planes swarmed over the en- of the Eighth Army today enlarged Secretary of State, his unde; ec)e-‘ Rumdis anelis tad ibar ahan rushed to the Cordova Community |emy’s home island. pest would be undertaken. At the their bridgehead over the Lamone FOUND DEAD tary designate, and five a ants, leaders would attempt to reach an Hospital where first aid was ad- A Twentieth Air Force communi- By DREW PEARSON rate the Russians are going it|piver yoreh of Faenza after beat- | told how they intend to carry out ; sl de omm (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive lappears Pest itself might -soon be i oer o : thelr {offe if the Senate confirms|8greement with Maf, Gen. Scobls, | o bered by Dr R. L. Stricker. que said ‘many .bomb’ hits," e service with the Army.) Tihidat" e ing off powerful German counter- i aations British commander, and send rep- Both are recoverng. cluding direct hits on the Mit- WASHINGTON — Administra- —————— atiades, Allied HEsfuaters | sald. e e two hours® tes. Tesentatives with counter-proposals, |, MI%. Dahl lost her purse, con- |subishi aircraft plant, started large Fanning out from their orlglnal‘. elr more than two hours’ 5= P A s i the meh’ytalnlng a large sum of money and|fires that were left burning. The tion leaders aren’t shouting about it, but they are not at all happy over Congressional rumblings of an investigation of Lend-Lease. There has been under-cover talk of such| an investigation for some time, but now it seems likely to come to| a definite head sometime during the next Congress. One thing which has renewed talk of a probe is the British pro- NAZISTHROW | NEW DEVICE INTO WAR 6,000-yard front, which they estab- lished west of the stream Tuesday,: Canadian tanks cut the Ravenna- Ferrara highway, northwest of Mezzano. Other troops made still another crossing at Mezzano, five miles| north of the original spot and' cleared the road center of the enemy. Southwest of Imola on the Bo- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. — The Coroner’s Office today said that Lupe Velez, 34-year-old Mexican mo- tion picture actress, was found dead in her home at Beverly Hills. Coroner Nanne quoted police as saying the actress aparently took an | overdose of sleeping powder. Officers said a note was found beside the posal to use some Lend -lease goods for re-export in order to }lngna-Rimini highway, Fifth Army |units entered Tossignano against body, but wouldn't immediately dis- close the content. timony was keynoted by Secretary Stettinius who outlined five major departmental objectives. e HEROIC COAST GUARD ACTION NOW REVEALED terms remained unchanged. | These British demands included evacuation of Attcai by the ELAS, surrender of their arms and dis- bandment of private armies. 'COMMUNITY TREE SINGING SUNDAY \her citizenship papers. - e 600D WEATHER - NOW, MDWEST (By Associated Press) | Agreeable winter weather re-| turned to the Middle West today !ns a warm front pushed across the communique also announced India- based B-29's struck important mili- tary targets in Japanese-dominated Thailand. On this daylight mission they sent bombs down on the transportation center of Bangkok, and also Rangoon, Burma. Bang- kok has been attacked twice be= fore. GEESLIN BACK Fred Geeslin, Administrative As- sistant of the U. S. Indian Service, build up British trade. This Was| papts Dec. 14—As Allied Armies [strong German opposiiton. | Miss Velez was known for her| WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — Four| j gejighifyl tradition observed an- |COninent, routing the discomforts,, /% ot i trom Hoonah where he discussed by Lord Keynes when he | "ot ow gains on the West- | | tempestuousness -on and off the |COAst Guard cutters, operating in|nyuayy in Juneau and sponsored by |Of Phe season’s first heavy snow-|, . oiine past few days on of- was in Washington to renew the e pyont, the Germans disclosed | . | screen. Her latest romance was with |ice-packed Arctic waters, smashed|the juneau Woman's Club, is the |2l riu;uip;iusiness y Lend-Lease agreement. they have thiown . “Hew devic Snowbound Iraln Harold Ramond, a French actor, and |2 “determined i effort” to es-|singing of Christmas carols around | Accompanied by high winds dur-| pilutns AR AR e 14 Another factor disturbing Con- | was broken off last week. She was |tablish fortified bases in Green-|the community tree at the intersec- |08 the four-day seige, the snow | FROM PENNSYLVANIA into the air. | formerly married to Johnny Weiss- land, the Navy said today. storm retarded traffic and slowed | gress is the reported misuse of | oo i F' “ R I d tion of Front and 4 are 1ls that float . it and Seward streets. | Lend-Lease goods in various areas.|;, t::e g stiesty. bells soy bl 'na y e ease y muller. One German armed trawler was| The time is 4 o'clock next Sunday |d0wn industrial and agricultural | James A. Wagoner 15 registared A is air. Pilots reported seeing 2 3 3 z . & St the Gastineau Hotel from Barnes- Authentic reports have come back these objects both individuall and | | The corgner ordered an autopsy. |sunk, another captured, and a third | afternoon. activity from Colorado to the East boro, Ba regarding Italian work battalions|, . y { 2‘ pers°ns Home T eee - found abandoned; sixty prisoners| The Woman’s Club, the Girl Scout | Coast. > employed by the British to remOVE;:fi::,us‘;hrse d:.::?xg,g: m;: yfml:v?,rm:,}:i i were taken and a radio station |carolers and every pe’rson who wish- | ———to——— American trademarks from goods | e S GRAFTON, West Virginia, Dec.| captured and destroved, in addi-|es to join in this happy tribute to| FRED AYERS SPENDING | and apply British trademarks be-{ oy evident, possibly they are|14_Two dozen persons, marooned| tion to a German bomber attack,|the Christ child is invited to attend TEF ' ¢ JUNEAU | |a new anil-aircratt. defense Insiru-on . stalled railzad train for 24| IS BROUGHT IN vienwas i o™i e , PR TN I 10N fore they are distributed in Imly'imem or weapon. thours during West Virginia’s worst| the Still another report reaching the| State Department involves a re-| quest from the Iraq Government | for 100 trucks and tractors. Be-| cause of American military short- | SAILOR ON LEAVE This dispatch was heavily cen- sored by Supreme Headquarters. ———.——— | their experience on the Baltimore blizzard in years, are safe at their firesides, and none the worse for & Ohio train, which was forced to The Community Christmas Tree | was cut down and brought into town today by the City Street crew. The tree will be placed in {of actions from last of July until late in October. Three of the Coast Guard cut- ters were damaged by crushing ice packs and one, the Northland, had VIA PAN AMERICAN NINEPASSENGERS OUT | W. O. (jg.) Fred Ayers, attached | to the Northwest Service Command | with headquarters at Edmonton, is | in Juneau on a brief official visit, tarriving yesterday from Whitehorse. | | | ( ages, the request was refused. ¢ LA stop by snow and fallen trees onlthe vacant lot next door to theto be towed 3,000 miles for repairs,| Ve'a Donahue, Myrtle Converse,|He expects to return to Edmonton Whereupon U. S. officials were| Radio Technician 1/c Ralph Pey- th.e tracks Tuesday morning, 45 Juneau Transfer Company office, ik NI Harold M. Thompson, Geraldine |tomorrow and soon after will leave amazed to find that Irag got me*ton, son of E. A. Peyton of Ju-|miles out of Charleston, and the Electric Light and Power COUNCIL TO MEET Monroe, Mrs. Minnie Edson, Paul on a furlough, accompanied by his g trucks and tractors from the neau is visiting relatives in the; They remained there until a|Co. crew will deck it with lights.| A regular meeting of the City Meyer, Mrs. Alice Marchbanks and | wife. Together they will visit many 0 . British. The British had Lend-|States. the parent was advised to-|relief train arrived yesterday morn-| The tree was donated to the|Council will be held tomorrow night daughter, Patricia, and Capt. Ro- |sections of the country. sh ma aus day. Peyton just returned from 20|ing, and their train finally crawled|city by Roy Cox of the Northern|at 8 o'clock in the City Hall Cham-|land Lemke left for Seattle this! T rerseen l .t “ @h 5"“115 (Continued on Page Four) months’ duty in the South Pacific.|into Grafton early last night. {Vegetable Farm. bers, morning via a PAA plane. BUY WAR BONDS 2 _r'_ 4