The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1944, Page 1

DONSRESSIONAL LIBRARY HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM nd VOL. LXIV., NO. 9841 SEVEN SECTIONS—42 PAGES JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURD/\VY. DECEMBER 23, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = Big Smash Made Against German Offensive G NEEDS OF VETS IN ALASKA AR TO ESCAPE " g suo lEYTE N0w10r the Veterans' Administration in {Alaska at this time is primarily for Ithe puprose of studying the needs lof the veterans in Alaska, Anthony E. Karnes, in charge of the office, |said here today. While this study lis being made, help will be given '0 Palompon veterans, so far as is possible, in ot {securing benefits due them. | A veteran is defined, Karnes GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD-|gqtes, as anyone who has served QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP-ljy the armed forces of the United PINES, Dec. 23—The U. S. Seventy- |gtates, in any war, or in peace Seventh Infantry Division has ad-itime For most benefits available vanced three miles west of the'ty yeterans, 90 days service and Ormoc corridor mountain road t0- an honorable discharge are pre- ward Palompon, the escape DPOrt requisites, and most benefits are of the embattled Japanese remmn-[fm. wartime veterans. ing on Leyte Island | Benefits Listed Gen. MacArthur announced today| Following are some of the bene- that Palompon, which is located fits available to veterans through on the west coast of the northwest the Veterans' Administration: Com- shoulder of the island, is under|pensation, pensions to dependen: Yank artillery fire. Japanese rem-ivocntional rehabilitation to dis- nants fleeing the corridor are lry-\nbled veterans of World War II ing to cut their w through to under the G. I. Bill; Government Palompon. Mopping up’ continues |insurance, death benefits, adjusted in other areas near the corridor compensation for veterans of World where the door has been slammed War I, medical care, hospital care, on_the Nipponese after destruction soldiers’ homes, unemployment and of their defense lines. |readjustment pay, and G. I. loans Another 1,546 enemy dead were for veterans of World War II. counted Thursday and headquarters | Questionnaires Sent also said the enemy air force con-| As a part of the study of the tinued their raids on American needs of veterans in Alaska, ques- ground positions on Mindoro, far | tionnaires have been sent to all to the northwest of Leyte. They | known veterans of World War II lost nine planes and two American |NOW living in Alaska. As fast as fighters were lost intercepting the!the names of others are learned, attack, | questionnaires are being mmlcdbto + i | them. Owing to the large number Enemy ground opposition still| /% opic available to these vet- failed to develop on Mindoro, but ~= ~° . © T Nipponese aerfal activity increusedlfl“"h‘ the questionnaire is used: i for the present, the number sharply since completion of the e o 1 p airfields on Mindoro, which are |Other nter'a.l. regang in within 30 minutes flight of Ma-|'S 8ll that is desired. gt | In order to n?ake th_ls study as Libeisitor Dosibers; - poasthly based\complele ag possible, it is requested on Mindoro, splattered Panay, Ne-| gros, Cebu andd Masbate Island X.I wh(‘z.kfas not recelyed the que.s- & " tionnaire; each veteran of World airdromes with 1,000 tons of Y War I, except those who belonged missiles. {to an American Legion Post in Gen. MacArthur has reported 3 i that 12,678 enemy dead were found |A138ka for the year 1944 (names abandoned on Leyte in the last seven days. ' JAPS TRYIN | [ \ Nip EIemenTs-fndeavoring to Push Way Through in Juneau), and geach veteran of 'the Spanish-American War, the - A 2 gPhlllppme Insurrection, the Boxer of | Alaska | that each veteran of World War of these Legionnaires are available | 'NAZIS BURNING ALL BUILDINGS | INNO.NORWAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — The | Germans are carrying off, destroying NEw FRONT or burning all 'buildings as they | 11’(111-;\(. from northern Norway, the —_— | Norwegian Ambassador said ‘Slxm“e “ne |S Estab“shed on East Bank of In the sub-polar climate' ‘inde- Senio | scribable suffering” resulted for the | population, Ambassador Morgen- ROME, Dec. 23—Canadian troops today established a six-mile wide | stierne said. R front along the Senio River north- 'CANADIANS 'MORGENTHAU IS " HAPPY OVER BI6 BOND SALES HERE Mrs. Katherine Nordale, Deputy Administrator of the War Finance Committee, reports that the follow- figures on E bonds so far received | by the War Finance Committee from | the issuing agents in the Territory ; do not show 170 percent of quotu,l‘ the difference is undoubtedly due | to the fact that bond sales to mili- | RUSSIA“ pAp E R| i tary personnel and civilians in Al- aska have been received in Wash- | ington, but have not yet been re-| MOSCOW, Dec. 23 — ceived here. |official Soviet Army }‘ |charges that “reactionary circles” in lthe United States are furthering German plans to block the organ- Red Star newspaper, | CHILDREN USED BIGSOVIET [cHLDRENUSED DRIVEGETS ~ UNDERWAY :Huge Gains Alréady Made | by Red Armies as Win- ter Offensive Begins ! MOSCOW, Dec. 23—An official |Soviet announcement of the de- {struction of 101 German tanks in east of Faenza, while the Fifth Army, to the west, made local gains south of Bologna, Allied headquarters announced This communique made the first Jdcrmm- mention of the week's ad- | vance, from directly south of Bo- ing telegrams have been received by |l08ha, announcing that American her office: troops had improved their posi- From Henry Morgenthau, Segre- |tions in the area of Monte Bel- tary of Treasurer: “I am delighted monte, a peak towering 2,000 feet. | to learn that Alaska has exceeded | East of the highway, 65 Dough- its overall quota for the Sixth War boys, uhder the guns of the Ge | Loan. Congratulations to you and mans on the mountain for week: all your coworkers for making this advanced 500 yards in some place: splendid record possible. I am con- | Canadian units took rapid ad- fident that when the final figures vantage of the breakthrough en are tabulated -at tht close of the (he Wavigiie- briGgencad, northwe. }mnn\h that. your Territory gi!l of newly-captured Bagancavallo, ‘havv attained nnfy(hcr outstaudm‘u | strategic highway center nine miles success in the history of war n-J‘wew of ' Reyes Backed up by “arf,‘f(:n oW, Corh AR D |armor. which pushed across *Fosso War Finance Divislon, Washing- | Juin under cover of a ke for: “EthkE Ereab Meabure 1 ex_z.smokv screen, the Canadians spread tending the appreciation of the War |210ng the east bank of the Seino Finance Division to the people Of:lur six miles, coming into the area | Alaska on having reached 170% of Of Alfonsine Mezzano, three miles their E bond quota as of December {nor(heast of Faenza, captured Whllc‘ 14. Success in this’essential cate- [the push north was clearing the, gory is most gratifying to the Treas- | German rear-guards east of Navig-| ury. Best wishes for continued suc- {lio and south of Bagnacavallo. OF HITLERISM BY LONDON, Dec. 23—The Moscow radio said today that the Extra- ordinary Soviet Commission sons, including an undetermined number of Americans and British from German prison camps, were tortured and slain at the Nazi ex- termination camp at Lwow. The broadcast said an additional 200,000 were killed at another camp at Janow, and children were slaughtered in target practice. TFhe commission said it had es- tablished Heinrich Himmler's direct participation in the Lwow atroci- ties. French prisoners liberated by the < o advancing Red Army said “children The Germans reported that ajwere gelected and g{v&-n to detach- mighty force of 270,000 winter-|ments of Hitler Youth as targets hardened Russian troops are on the ‘Ior shooting practice.” move in snow-swept Latvia, where B S R S ions ‘e pocketea agaimet tne |MUSEUM PURCHASES BIG NEW COLLECTION sions Baltic. Berlin broadcasts described the Soviet surge in Latvia as aj “big push of extreme operational Edward Keithahn, Curator of the Territorial Museum, today displayed |an interesting collection of native | objects, recently procured from Dr. importance.” | Red Army units on the southern |B. K. Wilbur, of La Jolla, Cali- fornia, 'who purchased them in end of the front drove to within Sitka more than 50 years ago. iine nilles of fie important Slo- vakian rail center of Losonc Included in the collection are the | following items: One dance rattle, |inlaid with abalone; one Tlingit (Lucenec), an d a r e threatening to engulf a sizeable force of Ger- wood and sinew breastplate (an- cient armor); one Tlingit copper {mans pushed from the Hungarian {Matra Mountains by another Rus- (double-end fighting dagger, en- graved; one Tlingit Shaman's Icta sian drive from the south. - 'box of carved red cedar; one Tlin- git Shaman's mask of human hair, copper eyes and opercula’teeth; one Tlingit potlach spoon, with sheep- horn bowl and goathorn, carved handle; one Haida argeltite “Hard- together with her husband, have lte” stone totem pole; three Sha- | been arrested by the Nazi authorities Man's bone charms; one Shaman'’s for defeatist utterances, travellers Whalcbone charm, and two Sha- | from Germany reported. |man’s hair ornaments s o3 s | IDOUGELAS NEW YORK, Dec. 23 — Charles! NE a 24-hour period ending Thursday night gave realistic support to German reports that the Red Army’s great winter offensive is getting underw Krupps Arresfed in German! for Talking ZURICH, Dec. 23.—Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, head of the Krupp arma- ment firm, one of his two daughters ON DIES Dana Gibson, 76, creator of the| “Gibson G ideal American BY NAZI BOYS, has | established that nearly 700,000 per- | NAZI SPIES EXECUTED BY YANKS ALLIED AIR ARMBACKIN ~ ACTION NOW Surging German Break- through Now But 29 Miles from Sedan PARIS, Dec. 23—Allied air might lashed fiercely at Nazi armored columns during a break in the ate Americans and admitted they | weather, dealing repeated bomb were assigned to reconnoiter the lymashed against the German of- ‘1‘1‘(’"“‘;“1‘::‘ ]‘\’;@u‘;rcl.““"" and rallways | fensive tide that by Thursday noon | They were caught by military po: ‘::;To:;“s:‘:;r:fl Within 5, 1. o lice at Aywaille, eleven miles south- | il P e, east of Liege, Belgium, wearing Am- | Preliminary reports indicated ef- erican uniforms, armed with Am. feolve Midws. wate dSivelyd by |hundreds of heavy fighter-bombers |at Field Marshal von Rundstedt's erican weapons, and driving Amer- lican trucks. They were killed after | la courtmartial. surging drive. Bad weather for a | > iweek has tied down the Allied air arm but today its weight was thrown into the crucial balance. : [Eleven Persons in oy, e, i crucnl vatanee, 2 r' rts dis ) rmans Fairbanks Hospifal "5 mite trom Secn aer " From Train Accide la 40-mile drive through Luxem- ‘bourg into Belgium, entering the by-passed road hub of Bastogne. FAIRBANKS, Dec. 23 — Eleven! . persons have been hospitalized and | e more than a dozen treated for; bruises following derailment of an! Alaska Railroad train and thv‘L Aw cverturning of two coaches 45 miles | SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—Jack Dalton, | | | | PARIS, Dec ‘The first Ger- man spies captured in American uniforms during the Nazi counter- offensive have been executed, Su- preme Headquarters announced to- day. One officer candidate and two noncommissioned officers were put to death by a firing squad. The Germans were described as ' part of a group trained to imperson- | from here in the firs serious acci- dent in the history of the railroad.'gne of the most colorful figures of Miss Bessie Blackwell, elderly re- Alaskan saga, the man who took tired Alaska nurse, suffered a dis-|the first horses to the Territory and located and possibly fractured ueckicnt the Dalton trail from Haines, vertebra. Several others were X-|will be buried here. He died last rayed for possible rib or limb frac- ;‘Snturduy at San Francisco at the tures and are reported as doing age of 89, well. Doctors and nurses were sent| Dalton’s pioneering trail crossed to the scene of the accident. | Arizona, Oregon and Washington The more than 1,000 feet of track before he headed north in the 1880s torn up in the wreck is being to Alaska. rapidly repaired and it is expecwdl Dalton also took out the first coal |that traffic will be resumed today. in the Chickaloen mines. He help- ‘ S i i jed survey the routes of the Alaska | {Rallroad and Copper River and ,Two DESIROYERS | Northwestern Railrcad. He had a i | partnership with the late Bill Han- ley and John Maloney. JACK NEWMARKER T0 BE HOME CHRISTMAS| Jack Newmarker, son of Lt.i Comdr. and Mrs. John Newmarker | of Juneau, will arrive home for| Christmas by plane, according to word received here this morning by | his happy parents. Newmarker, a cadet midshipman, has been based on New Guinea for the past 10 months. He re- ceived his basic training at the San Mateo, California, Merchant | | | | {how many veterans there are in| Rebellion, the Indian Wars, peace- time veterans, and Civil War vet-| erans, if any, write the Veterans'| Administration, P. O. Box 2629,| Juneau, Alaska, giving names in| full, address, approximate dates of | service, and any other information they care to submit. The more information and names the new office in Juneau receives, the better the chance for securing additional help in administering to the needs of veterans in Alaska. | The object of the study is to know Alaska, and what their needs are.| ———,,———— MINISTER, RABB! REPORT ON ARMY ON ALASKA TRIP NEW YORK, Dec. 23—A Presby- terian minister and a rabbi, who ‘recently returned from a 12,000-| mile tour of Alaskan military in- stallations, said there is “decidedly less” racial or religious bias among fighting men than at home. Clergyman Rev. Theodore Speers, Moderator of the New York Pres- bytery, and Rabbi William Rosen- ization of an international security |program for the prevention of a {third world war. l The Red army publication said: “In the past few days Hitlerites lhave pointed with unconcealed Ipleasure to the activity of isola-| tionist elements in the United States who have already started agitation against participation of the U. 8. in a world organization {for international security. Hitlerites Iresort to their favorite method to |frighten public opinion with the Bolshevist danger and European |chaos in case the Allies post-war !plans are realized. This is the ar-! {woman of the gay 90's, died of an jattack of the heart at his home {here today e \BARS, LIQUOR STORES T0 CLOSE WEDNESDA ! Inquiries have been received by {the Clerk of the Court by wire, telephone and direct questions as Ito whether or not liquor stores and |cocktail bars should observe closing hours on December 27, day of the forthcoming special election. The answer is “yes,” they are to be closed. Chapter 60, Sessions COMMUNITY SING SUNDAY | A Community Sing is being spon- | sored by Douglas citizens for tomor- ! row, Sunday, afternoon at 4 o'clock. | All residents are asked to turn out ! and help make the Christmas carols 'ring throughout the channel. All | will meet at the lighted Community | Christmas - Tree opposite the City Hall, Pastor Nickels of the Alsaka Evan- gelistic Society, and Mrs. James Par- sons has consented to play. Charles Koelsche has formed his school band and will be present to | give several of their best numbers. Mrs. L. 8. Grant, assisted by Mr. Keelsche, will lead in the singing. An crgan is being loaned by, Marine training school, and uUpon| gKEpTCHIKAN MEN ARRESTED the expiration of his 30-day leave,| Charles Wilcox and Martin Kru- will be sent to the Kingspoint, New | koff are in the Ketchian jail today, York, Merchant Marine Academy charged with contributing to the for further training. delinquency of a mihor, according B, 1 R to advices received at the U. S. COASTAL AIRLINES s~ MAKES SITKA TRIP MOOSE PARTY TONIGHT On a flight to Sitka yesterday, i | The Moose Christmas party for |children will be held tonight in the Alaska Coastal Airlines carried the | following passengers to that port:| Moose headquarters, starting at 18:30 o'clock. Santa Claus will dis- tribute gifts. Robert De Armand, Beta L.eslic,i Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ticknor, Jack| Littlepage. ‘i ———————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 23 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock -at today's short session is 57%, Anaconda 28, Beech Aircraft 13%, Bethlehem Steel 64%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 80%, Kenrecott 36 North Am- erican Aviation 10%, New York Central 23, Northern Pacific 217%, | - STEAMER THIS AFTERNOON A steamer from the south is scheduled to arrive in port this |blum, President of the Association | of Reform of Rabbis in New York,| made the sfAtement in an inter-| view at headquarters of the Na- |tional Conference of Christians and Jews. Speers added, “no one could be; long among these men without | ing aware of the growing restive- | ness and indignation at the news| of strikes and reports of high| | wages, luxury and spending that{ NEW DELHI, Dec. 23—Investiga- get thrcugh to them.” tion by United States Army au- Rosenblum asserted “they cannot thorities resulted in the court mar- |understand the strikes and thetial of scores of American service |slowness with which bond drives men and civilians in the past year are put over, nor the sudden op- on charges of smuggling contra- gument of the Hearst press.” b Big anfiggling Ring Operating in China Reporfed Smashed ¢ "’ IAs an added attraction for the Raws for Alaska, 1939, provides that children who are present there will it shall be unlawful to give, barter, | o "opc o candy bars-given provid- sell, or in any way dispose of ANy ;o they sing,loud enough, immed- intoxicating liquor, including beer|javery arter the affair. The candy and wine, upon any day on which |5 being donated as a Christmas gift any General, Special or Primary|from Mr. and Mrs. Val Poor of the Election is held in the Territory.‘Dcuglas Drug Store. It is hoped or in any Municipality or other|that everyone in Douglas will turn Political Subdivision thereof, and!out and make it-a real community shall remain closed until the polls | songfest. have heen closed on such day. |GIRL SCOUT CAROLERS ALFRED BONNETT HOME Alfred Bonnett arrived home this | | week to spend the holidays with | timism that makes people believe band into China by the “hump” afternoon’ which, in all probability, |the war in Germany will be over airline. will bring a large consignment of Christmas mail. SECLPLE IS g JUSTICE MACAULEY DIES Justice C. D. Macauley, tenure of office in the court at Dawson dates back to the gold rush, died recently in eastern Can- ada. e RIVER CLOSES AT DAWSON The Yukon River was closed by | | whose | {COLUMBIA next week or next month.” e, — FROM WRANGELL Joyce Ruseling is in town and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel from Wrangell. B st 00 S e A LUMBER CO. HOLDING OPEN A HOU The Columbia Lumber Company the ‘syndica'e which dealt in stolen Lend - Lease supplies, government ip\'operty and other goods flown into isolated and inflation-ridden China. The names have been withheld. | Profits of these Americans was es- timated at a total of $4,156,000. g OUT HIGHWAY The Sunday School of the Chapel- Now smashed is the international | WILL APPEAR TONIGHT Girl Scout carolers will begin singing tonight at the Government |Hospital at 7 o'clock. After singing |for the patients there, the girls |will sing for residents of Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, and the Seater Tract. All families wishing to enjoy the carols are asked to place lighted jcandles in their windows so the {girls will know where to g0. The Scouts, who are singing to- |night have been practicing dili- gently under the direction of Miss his family. He has been traveling in all parts of the Territory for the past several months in his ‘capacity as electrician with the |caA MISS McNEILL LEAVES Miss Ruby MecNeill, Douglas |teacher, left via plane yesterday for | Wrangell, where she will spend the (Christmas holidays with her sister, |Miss Birdie McNeill, who is acting |superintendent of the Wrangell In- stitute. MRS. LEE WHALEN | Mrs. Lee Whalen is leaving today U. S. Steel 59, Pound $4.04. ice at Dawson on December 9 this Dow, Jones averages today are as|year. In 1943, the river closed on follows: Industrials, 150.63; rails,' November 30, and in 1942, on De- 48.16; utilities, 25.98. cember 18. I PARTY /s holding customary open |- -the-Lake will have a party to- |house ' this’ afternoon from 2 to 6,!night starting at 7:30 o'clock. There and patrons and friends are in- will be a program of songs and reci- vited, tetions. / Mary Allshouse and participated in by plane for Fairbanks to spend the singing at the community tree the holidays in that Interior me- last Sunday. tropolis, |in Alaska and the Yukon Territory 4 |and was associated with the original WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 — TWO | Alaska Exploration Company. American war craft, lost off Leyte, ———————— have been identified by the Navy @ o ® o © o o o o o as the destroyer Mahan and the e NO EMPIRE MONDAY destroyer transport Ward. The loss e e o o of the two raises to 236 the Naval'e There will be no edition losses since the start of the war of the Empire published on Loss of the two warcraft was Monday, Christmas Day, the announced by Gen. Douglas Mac- staff as usual observing the Arthur on December 6, but at that holiday. time they were mnot definitely | Important news events will identified. |® be bulletined in the windows. The craft were heavily damaged' 2 by aerial torpedoes. The crews were | % removed and then the two vesselsk were sunk by our own forces with no loss of life. The transport Ward had an out- standing war record, including the ;hlnkmg of a Jap sub early on De- {cember 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day.| B g PAA PLANE NEWS Two PAA planes left for Seattle {this morning with the following passengers: Reuben Johnson, Louis |S. Orton, Jack Sherman on one,’and Louise Kemper, Ignas Cordero, Roy Anderson, Arnold Akundsen, and Arthur Ruika on the other. The plane arriving from Fairbanks brought Miss Windna Monroe, Jack Darnell, John B. Sledge, Walter | Fisher, William Buck, and Richard C. Johnson. Ross Morrison left for | Whitehorse, and Lee Whalen left for Fairbanks. A plane came in from Seattle yes- terday afternoon with Shirley Mor-, ton and Leota May Oliver passen- gers for Juneau, | — e | lTERRlTORlAL SCHOOLS CLOSE All Territorial Schools will close | for the holidays, Commissioner uli Education James Ryan announces. Many will reopen Wednesday morn- ing, while others, including those in Juneau, will resume classes January ' | 2. | ARELOST ATLEYTE ot it cuans o | HOLIDAY Federal, Territorial and City of- fices will observe a holiday Monday, which is Christmas Day All business, with the exception of the cocktail bars, restaurants and drug stores, will also be sus- pended for the holiday. Drug steres will be open from noon to 6 p. m., only. Scores of house and dinner par- ties are scheduled for Monday, and many Juneauites are holding pri- vate open houses. Servicemen are invited to attend many dinner af- fairs | Fast Shopping Bay till Christmas ‘