The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1944, Page 1

P o o e » e »* = e 4 / “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” “ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9840 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1944 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS German Winter 'PRESIDENT TELLS WORKERS NOT T0 QUIT JOBS NOW WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — Presi- NEW YANK AIRFIELD, BIG FACTORY ' BOMBED FOR MINDORO g I Important New Base Con- structed Only 150 Miles | from City of Manila dent Roosevelt said today the best way the home front could assist the fighting men was by workers sticking to their jobs so as to maintain a steady output of sup- plies. Roosevelt began his news con- |ference by declaring several per-| sons had asked him how Ameri- cans at home this Christmas sea- GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD-{gn can best help the fighting QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP-|forces in the field PINES, Dec. 22—Deadly American| rhe President said his financial fighter planes are flying against|pugget for the 1946 fiscal year the Japanese from a newly-con-|yas coming along toward comple- structed airdrome on Mindoro Is-|¢jon, and that the new Nazi of- land, less than 150 miles from/fengive jn Belgium had not caused Manila, Gen. Douglas MacArthuri,ny changes to be made in it. 1 reported today. fa238 ., The announcement that the new| field has been hacked out of Min- GANDH' REPORIED land last week. Today, its import- lations Wednesday. Eleven raiders| 1|Gandhi, who has been sufféring doro’s southwest coast is due to the marked attainment of the primary IMPROVED IODAY ance to both Americans and Japa- BUT IS SIIll wEAK nese was demonstrated as the en-| | were downed in the fierce aerial| » {from influenza, is better today, but| {the factory THIRD TIME Raid May Have Been De-! signed fo Finish Off | Hatsudoki Piant TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMMAND, SAIPAN, Dec. 22—A' sizeable force of Superforts bombed Nagoya today, the third time in 10 days, returning to the huge air- craft manufacturing center. The first Superforts over the city bombed through an overcast early in the afternoon and other formations kept going over the target area for two and a half hours. Since the December 13 attacks on the Hatsudoki factory of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Works, more than 67,000 square feet of its roof- age is off. Today’s raid may have been designed to finish off the target. Brig. Gen. Hansell earlier called “fhe Patterson, N. J., and Hartford, Conn, works com- bined,” thus comparing the single Japanese aircraft factory to the two big U. S. plants. RAF BOMBS RAILROADS INGERMANY LONDON, Dec. 22—RAF heavy bombers struck Germany last night in a twin blow against the freight yards of Cologne, and Bonn on the Rhine, 20 miles south, after other | British Lancasters made a daylight attack on the German railroad ¢, voyueat, and is now in Fed- ties including the jmportant com- town of Trier. The weather continued bad and even the daylight raiders, which |dropped an estimated 1,800 tons of bombs, were forced to use night bombing instruments to reach the targets through the heavy fog. —————— ——————————— means that First American Cavalry | PROBLEMS ARE | the Ormoc road. The Japanese, slip through to the west in the| {son said. He added that the power- EASTERN STATES “>- | Present urgent demands for more| Numbin, d gripped the Eastern, | . v i as the ones we have now,” Anderson 2 T N perienced some relief from the gen- ,AlASKA p , ILOTS 25 below at Kylertown, in the cen- | to 17 below was recorded in Maine, | pilots D. Kline and R. M. Knott on | objective of the landing on the is- emy sent 29 planes against instal- b E P | LONDON, Dec. 22—Mohandas K. combat with American Lightnings| The closing of the so-called pin-| v from the north, and the 77th In-| MULTIPLIED NOW| particularly those on the east side] direction’ of Palompon, |the United States between the eyes” Lderian douniersoffensive makes | |shells, guns, trucks and other vital New England States and portions of > POFLOns 0% 1514 a news conference. eral cold wave. KILL 10 WOLVES tral Appalachian Mountain region of | New Hampshire and Vermont. |the Seward Peninsula during the | zero, a drop of 19 degrees from yes- | Rood, Reindeer Supervisor, rcports.f the northern portions of Illinois, |five feet in length. All were killed | tered the central border States from |slaughtered thousands of reindeer. the hunters failed to kill only one (0'.“ BIA UMBE ( 2 One family of wolves can kiil thou- | shot for airplane wolf hunting, and} from 2 to 6 o'clock, will hold their iijlled. Reindeer Service Unit Man- | The company extends to their| Kline and Knott are using a light, hours. javailable for others, wolves can be| The great fliers of the Seward| | Whaley, plan to hunt wolves during The annual Christmas edition of | ——t—— | up of seven sections, containing 42| B u l l ET | “ S | | wide news, up to press time; gen- 1250,000 more men for the army| merchants. fighter plane was lost. ithe All-India Radio reported. Leyte Island’s northwest coast| | have joined advance units along| ta lheh H B8P opes o, Uy, CAn | lied set-back in Europe “will hit s PG | WPB Vice-Chairman Samuel Ander- NUMBI“G (olb IN ithe present civilian production By’ SIS Drem) |by armament problems “as difficult ernmost tier of Central States ex-| by the Chicago Weather Bureau was | | Ten big wolves were killed by New York shivered with a 13 above | The entire Great Lakes region and 'grey, averaged 100 pounds and were | weather as a cold wave which en- and Teller, where wolves have| and southward. i bad light, and poor snow covering, have been recovered by the fliers. Reindeér Service supplies free buck | Saturday afternoon, December 23,|reindeer carcasses for each beast pany offices. are cooperating fully with the pilots. | dial invitation to call during these|hunting; and when these are made most of the open reindeer ranges. OF EMPIRE SATURDAY | ins Bilt Munz, Sig Wien and Frank | Christ cial flights. issued tomorrow, and will be made This edition contains the world- LONDON—The British will draft greetings from Juneau's wide-awake and Thunderbolts. One American| e is still in a weakened condition, | cers on the Ormoc corridor on ! WAR PRODUCTION | fantry Division from the south, of the road, are striving desperately | WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — The/ remaining escape port. S mly'vnth new war production problems, |it impossible to predict the end of |materiel will “certainly be followed the Midwest today while the north- | The lowest temperature reported Pennsylvania. As low as from three | | | month ending December 6, J. S.| terday’'s minimum there. | The wolves, nine blacks and one Indiana and Ohio also had subzero | on the great open tundra near Igloo Canada yesterday spread eastward‘l In spite of short mid-winter days, | | wolf of the eleven sighted. All pelts 'lo HolD opE" HOUSE Esands of reindeer per annum. The The Columbia Lumber Co., ON|pgtive reindeer owners offer two customary open house in the com-!agers and Indian Service teachers! many friends and patrons a cor- | slow-flying plane suitable for wolf | systematically killed or driven off (HRIS'MAS En"lo“ | Peninsula and Arctic Coast, includ- | | March and April between commer- | the Daily Alaska Empire will be pages. eral Christmas stories, and holiday he Bri 1“in coming months” than previously FORMER SENATOR CONCORD, N, H, Dec. 22 — George Higgins Moses, 75, former U. S. and widely-known Republican |leader, died last night at his home of coronary thrombosis. He was once described as “the most exciting man in Americdan pub- lic life.” He served three terms in the Senate and lost his seat in the Democratic landslide in 1932. ————————— DR. BLOCK RETURNS Dr. N. Berneta Block, Director dren’s Services of the Territorial southern district. Dr. Block visited in Ketchikan, Wrangell and Peters- burg on health matters connected with her division. - HOLY TRINITY CHOIR Mrs. Crystal Jciue announces that the special rehearsal of Christ- mas music for the choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity will be held Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock. — e — HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Mrs. Ralph Westover, Jr., and Penny Ann are in town from An- chorage and are staying at the Baranof Hotel. ————— HORNINGS HERE t ARREST IN JUNEAU DIES AT CONCORD of the Division of Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Chil-! Offensive Is Slowed Down NEW ATTACK IS " BEGUN ON LONG " DORMANT FRONT LONDON, Dec. 22—The Berlin radio said today the Russians, in a new attack on the long-dormant northern sector, hurled 27 divisions against the Germans on a 22-mile front south of the Latvian town of Saldus, about 60 miles south- west of Riga and approximately |the same distance from the Baltic| coast. Assault divisions, supported by tank formations and preceded by a terrific artillery bombardment of approximately 170,000 shells in 90 minutes, opened the attack, Nazi |Military Commentator Ernst von| {Hammer said. e BIOFF, BROWNE " ORDERED FREED '~ BY JUDGE KNOX | NEW YORK, Dec. 22. — Federal Judge John Knox today ordered the release of William Bioff and George | 'Browne, serving 10 and eight year sentences, respectively, on convic-| tions of extortion in connection with a $1,000,000 shakedown of the motmn" picture industry. | The application for release was unopposed by the Government. The judge said the men “really aided the |government by their testimony” in( | the trial of six men allaged to have ! participated in labor racketeering | |and added “there might not have | {been convictions without that tes- | timony.” i Bioff and Browne, who paid indi- | vidual fines of $10,000 will be re- leased as soon as Knox's order is served on Warden Sandstone of the'{ Minnesota Prison. 'RED ARMY IS COMING Russians SJ They Have| Given Starting Date fo Allies Already (By Associated Press) Russia has assured her Allies that a powerful Red Army winter| offensive is coming up, and when| it comes, informed sources said, it will disclose a new alignment of the Red Army forces’ spearhead toward the heart of Germany. While it probably will not have any immediate effect on the distant Western Front, where the U. 8.| First Army is now the target of the| Wehrmacht counter-offensive, the Red Army drive on the Eastern - OFFENSIVE l" "Destroy the Enemy"” Is Special Order of Day DEEP DRIVE - INBELGIUM (his Order of the Day, and added PARIS, Dec. 22—The Germans are taking the last great gamble, Jen. Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, said in “Destroy the enemy while he is ‘ rushing out from his fixed posi- | tions.” | Issued by Gen. Eisenhower into his worst defeat. The enemy y | . s Cmakine s supreme ettort to| NazZi Forces Penefrafe break out of the desperate plight . . into which you forced him by your | MlleS—HeaVy Flgh' and fall. He will completely fail.| Ing in Progress We will, with God's help, go for- | S350 brilliant victories this past summer | ward to our greatest vietory." | PARIS, Dec. 22—~The Gen NAZ'BLOWS DUETO YANK NAZI BLOW WON'T CHANGE WAR, SAYS RUSSIAN NEW SMAN Frong is calculated to hasten the| eventual collapse of Hitler's forces.| Soviet sources said the Red Army | high command had gone as far as| to communicate to the Americans| and British the date it will start| its offensive, but this is not con-| firmed by American military quar-| ters. There is, however, strong evi- dence that the Allies are now counting on a new Russian ]and‘i push. ! One such indication was Secre- | tary of War Henry L. Stimson's| remark at a news conference \hat! “the German high command must be prepared to meet the Russian| winter offensive wherever it may | strike.” | | SHOCK TROOPS ADVANCE MOSCOW, Dec. 22 — Russian shock troops today wedged deeper | { > - 'YAKUTAT YOUTH UNDER | | ll | Billie Peter Brown, 18 years n(: age, was arrested at the airport yesterday following his arrival here | 'eral Jail, charged with the careless use of firearms. | | Brown, who allegedly fired into| the window of a home in Yakutat| while under the influence of liquor, | has been arraigned before Commis- | Isioner Felix Gray and bond of $500 }hus been set. |MRS. ALEXANDER, JR., T0 VISIT IN JUNEAU/ | | | Mrs. George F. Alexander, Jr‘,‘l whose husband, S/Sgt. Alexander, | Senator from New Hampshire jost his life in action in France|up greater striking power last month, left Seattle today for| Juneau, for a visit here with Judgc‘ land Mrs. George F. Alexander nnd} Jane Alexander. | ‘ Mrs. Alexander is accompanied north by her mother, Mrs. J. P.| Moller, whose husband, Capt. Mol-| ler, is in the United States Army,| inow in France. | i | At the Juneau Ski Club luncheon | meeting, held at noon today in lhe: Department of Health, has returned Baranof Hotel Gold Room, a finan-| . 3 \ 2 sif assig s 28 to Juneau from a field trip to the cial report on last Saturday's party saix;u;:co:e:i;tlotl;f ‘l,;';:;in;;{;e;:e} was read, and the outdoor committee {gave a report on the ski tow. It is !still under repairs but ought to be in shape for the season. | Due to the business of the holiday | it was decided not to hold a mect-‘ |ing next Friday. [ e | | MEANEST BUNCH IN | | TOWN REVEALED; GEO. | SHAW’S LIGHTS STOLEN | The meanest thief or thieves in| Juneau has been revealed. Ten blue light globes used in a Christmas cross outdoor decoration on the resi- | dence of George Shaw on Twelfth Street, were stolen sometime be- tween 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday | afternoon. - e - The edition will be distributed|planned, Churchill's office an-| Mr. and Mrs. Allen E. Horning e o ¢ o o o o o o o o by carriers to all regular subscribers | nounced tonight. and daughter, Sue, are in town|e WEATHER REPORT . and will also be on sale at news from Anchorage, and are registered|e (U. S. Weather Bureau) . stands at the regular price of 10| LOS ANGELES—Harry Langdon,|at the Baranof Hotel. 3 ee e . cents. ;60, veteran comedian of the stage i ® Temperature, December 21 o B i — jand screen, died today after suf-| CHUNGKING, Dec. 22 — Bomb-|e In Juneau—Maximum, 41; MRS. WISE CALLED FOME |fering cerebral hemorrhage, carrying fighters of the U. S. Four-|e minimum, 27. o Mrs. Clarence Wise it : teenth Air Force sank an enemy|e At Alrport—Maximum, 28; e/ Bremerton, Wash., yester ¢ *.-| BERLIN—Joseph Goebbels, Reich|destroyer in Hongkong harbor on|e minimum, 19. o ing by plane, after reee Plenipotentiary for Mobilization,| December 8, - Army Headquarters ®© ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o of the death of her ' ) 1) |speaks to the German people at|announced today. ¢ TOMORROW'S FORECAST e Frederic Ball, physicis drem- 11 p. m. (PWT), Sunday. In a review of air operations e o0 e . erton. ' from December 7 to December 13,|e Juneau and vicinity, cold | — e i LONDON — A Reuters dispatch|they said the Americans destmyedlo and sunny. Minimum tem- ol Emidie Sankin s ‘In <%0 ape tonight says the fiercest of battles|42 enemy aircraft in all categories,!e perature Friday night, 16; o registered at the Gas ac. @ ' is now raging along the line of the|and probably destroyed or dam-lo maximum, 25. . from Whitehorse, 4 German offensive in Belgium, aged 10, e SRR S 7 lof Losong, seizing 30 more locali- | Soviet pressure on | Lake Balaton, where Marshal Tol- | Salvation Army headquarters, and a into Southern Slovakia while new operations of two powerful Rus-! sian Army groups thréatened ' to | seal off beleaguered Budapest from the west. { Gen. Malinovsky's Second Ukra- ine Army drove to within 14 miles east of the big Slovak rail city| munications center of Rimas-Zom- bat on the Kassa-Losong Highway. | The fall of Rimas-Zombat opened | the important gateway to the Matra Mountains and brought re-| lief in sight to an isolated force of Slovak Patriots, estimated at 25,000. The Germans admitted they were | alarmed over the resumption of the west side | of the Danube, and the vitally stra- tegic zone between Budapest and bukhin’s Third Ukraine Armyi paused early this month to build| | HOONAH LOT ASSIGNMENTS ARE SECURED Fred Geeslin, Administrative As- sistant with the Indian Service, who ras just returned from Hoonah, re- ports having secured a 100 percent | ample space to the 80 housing units‘ which will be erected by the Federal Public Housing Administration. Mayor Harry Douglas and the Hoonah Town Council cooperated to the fullest extent, Mr. Geeslin states, in working out lot assign- ments and land titles and in clear- ing the way for the FPHA to begin the building of a new and modern city. The Council will assume all responsibility for the assignment to ! dwelling units and lots and is ap- pointing special committees for this | purpose. b The new site includes a specific | location for a community hall and | restricted business section. Harold Foss, Juneau architect, is now en- | gaged in designing the new village | site' and units. Since the Hoonah fire, townspeo ple have been living in 40 temporary buildings constructed from former Yakutat huts and salvage material | received from the Army, which also assisted in transportation —————— — | PARKER IN TOWN Charles Parker is in town from Gustavus, registered at the Gasti-| neau Hotel. e - APELL IN TOWN | \ ! | |Cornwell, and two daughters; all} |Richard, with the U. 8. Navy In the MOSCOW, Dec. 22—Col. Piotr | Kilomeitzev, writing in Red Slnr,! Soviet Army newspaper, told the public that the German break- through on the western front can- not radically alter the situation.” The commentator attributed the | enemy’s initial gains to the sud- | denness of the offensive in a sector in which, he said, the Al-| lies “obviously didn't pay much | attention and which was protected by limited forces.” Kilomeitzev said the Allies have | adopted measures for localization | of the break-through, and added that the next few days will show | whether the Allies intend to under- | take an immediate counter-blow or | - wait untll such a blow could be|feirs Committee, said. coordinated with attacks in the| “If supplies had kept up, then direction of Cologne and the Ruhr|troops might have reached Berlin SUPPLY LACK Touring Congressman Blames Americans on Home Front WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Plenti- ful fast-flowing supplies from the home-front to the Americans fight- ing in Europe might have pre- vented the powerful German coun- teroffensive, Rep. Brooks, Demo- crat, from Louisiana, and a mem- ber of the touring Military Af- Valley, in the first crucial thrust into W £ S e SO | Germany,” declared the Louisi- anan. |hands at the front allowed the Germans respite with which to build up for their current counter- blow.” No Lives Lost on Grounding of Ship AtCold Bay, Alaska DEPARTMENT, Dec. 22 — Army| DEPARTMENT, Dec. 21. — Army| authorities said today no lives were; -oe ELAS Army Moving Info New Sedlions lost when a storm forced abandon-! ment of an Army supply ship of ATHENS, Dec. 22 — The ELAS 3700 tons off Cold Bay on Dc""m';l\rmy. 15,000 to 20,000 strong, is B hia et b e FORSERE. oviih Lok et DK e 9 |by the Rightist forces of Gen. Na- IR AR I poleon Zervas. | Zervas has informed the Brifish authorities the ELAS have entered his territory in Greece. The British are gaining control of southern Athens against light resistance, it is officially announced. AR i Canadians Move On; Take Another Town ROME, Dec. 22—Canadian troops, smashing forward on the Senio River against fierce enemy resist- ance, have captured the town of Bagnacavallo on the road to Bo- logna, The town is eight miles porth and slightly east of the cap- tured Bologna-Rimini stronghold {of Faenza, nine miles west of Ra- |yenna, on the main highway from Bologna. Fifth Army operations south of Bologna and the Bologna-Rimini Highway are confined to patrol ac- tivity. Alaska Railroad JONCORRWELL DIES AT NOME NOME, Dec. 22—John Cornell, 39,] died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock of heart failure in his apartment at the rear of the Dream Theatre, of which he had been manager for several years. The theatre is owned by Charles | Code. | Cornell is survived by his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Code, and his wife, Ada | in Seattle, and a son, residing Alaska SFe;fiiihii: Co. Accepts $100,000 for Lost VesselBering WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — The Alaska Steamship Company has received $100,000 for the htcam.smpl Bering, wooden cargo vessel, lost after striking a reef The company agreed to accept 2 R 7 P'| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 22.— “Phe lack “of - munitions in-Aliled Train Is Derailed The Allied Commander further| The Order of the Day was ad-|winter offensive slowed down declared “the enemy may give us a !dressed to “every member of the|a 40-mile penetration in Bel chance to turn his great gamble | AEF.” field dispatches reported toda The German Command said several spearheads crossed Ourthe River, which at one pol its meandering course, is seven 1 . * west of Werbment. The de.pes! previously announced point of the enemy’s dagger-like wedge at this point of the river is about 30 miles from the Meuse at Namur, about 16 miles south of Liege, also on the Meuse, The Ourthe is 40 miles | inside Belgium. | The Germans also told of heavy | fighting on both flanks and named the localities of Butgenback and Laglieze, four miles southwest of Stavelot, focal points on the north. Consdorf, southwest of Echternach, and Waldbilllig, three miles north- | west, are listed as tenters of the |attack on the south, i News 48 Hours Old | Supreme Headquarters still im- | posed a 48-hour delay on announce- ments of actual positioris . The next |announcement from headquarters is not to come until late today. It is | seheduled to cover developments only |to Wednesday night, but dispate™ | from the British and Cana( | army group reported a 40-mile pr Itration and said that Von Ru.c stedt's smash has lost much of momentum in the past 48 hours Another AP reported “with | American . W front” m m\% breakthrough appeared to be bl ed, at least temporarily. His mored spearheads are being for to turn aside and slow down. NEWLY-ACTIVE FRONT PARIS, Dec. 22.—The main force of Germans have thrust deeper into Belgium, blunted fleld dispatches sald, and Gen. Ike Eisenhower has called upon the Allled armies to swing into action and destroy the enemy although the main enemy |drive has been turned aside and slowed. The counterattack broke out in a | new sector, 30 miles south of the city of Luxembourg last night. The bat- tle, involving 10 tanks and two com- panies of infantry, fought at dusk last night. The newly-active front {18 some 20 miles south of the city. Field reports said the Germans | were repulsed in this at Benin, France, which is in the direction of {the Third Army sector at Thion- ville, after a six-day slashing assault in which German forces drove a wedge 32 miles deep into the Allied lines. | By Tuesday moon General von | Rundstedt’s columns in Belgium |were turned aside In some sectors and forced to a slower pace in |others, said a field report timed at 13:55 a. m. today. Along the 32-mile German north flank veteran Allied forces had | swung into action after speedy | marches across snow-topped moun= | tains. Fierce tank battles were | fought in head-on collisions with German armor. Cool veterans of river crossings, all the way from the Vulturno in Ttaly to the Moselle in France, mow- ed down waves of Germans attempt- ing to force the turbulent Abbleve. This flank stands firm along the I southern’ flank of Bupge. | 'The Allied position is also im- i proved but still confused. However, the initiative is still in the hands of von Rundstedt. Twenty to 30 German tanks are |13%, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Curtiss- | Steel 59%, Pound $4.04. this payment in full settlement of | all claims, the War Shipping Board announces. The Bering had been requisi- tioned by the WSA. The craft was formerly known as the Arthur J.| Baldwin. ! e - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 5%, American Can 91, Anaconda 28%, Beech Aircraft Wright 5%, International Harvester 81. Kennecott 36%, North American Aviation 10%, New York Central 23%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. 8.| G. A. Apell is in town and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Palmer. | Dow, Jones averages today were |as follows: Industrials, 150.43; rails, 48.01; utilities, 25.90. Spreading rails caused a bad mixup | still slashing penetrations here and on the Alaska Railroad yesterday |there and roving behind the Allied when seven coaches of the coast-|lines. bound train were derailed, three | coaches going into the ditch. | Many home bound students were aboard the train but only three passengers were seriously injured and they were rushed to the Fair- banks hospital by a speedy ambul- | ance. . A The derailment was on the Ne- nana-Curry divisiop. et sl v SN TEEN-AGERS PARTY TONIGHT The Teen-age Club will have a party in the Elks Hall tonight at 10 o'clock, following the basketball game between Juneau and Douglas High Sciools at Douglas. There will be dancing and refreshments and an exchange of inexpensive gifts, the girls taking gifts for the boys, and vice-versa., j ¢ ey SRR FROM PETERSBURG Sarah H. Magill is registeréd at the Gastineau Hotel from Peters-