The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS — | ALLIEDHEAVY BOMBERS HIT AT GERMANY | VOL. LXIV., NO. 9844 . MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRE Early Returns Indicate Shattuck Is Elected RETURNS [N | vormaaL Retess of s st (NATIS MAKE JAPS ATTACK FROM LARGE B LAST STAND YANKTROOPS PRECINCTS INBUDAPEST ON MINDORO 389 Veteran Alaskan Has Wid Reds Aflafiking Doomed Enemy Flees from Scene of‘ Lead Ovet Both German Garrison from Baffle After Loss of | Price 84 23 34 0 0 16 20 34 Davis 9 80 104 11 | Precincts | Juneau No. Juneau No. Juneau No. ‘Thm\e | Salmon Creek | Douglas | Skagway @ | Ketchikan | Mountain Point | Wacker | Ward Cove Gravina 1 2 3 Opponents All Sides of Capital 3 Destroyer_s 22 40 56 By C. YATES McDANIEL (A. P. War Correspondent) | GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD-| {QUARTERS 1IN THE PHILIP«i PINES, Dec. 28--The battle for the | |central Philippines flared into ac- | tion on the night of December 26 when a Japanese battle task force | steamed from the China Sea nnll? subjected eleven-day-old American | positions on Mindoro Island to what MacArthur in his communi- | que described as “fruitless, inac- curate shelling.” | American planes, Mitchells and | | Thunderbolts, and Navy PT boats drove off the enemy ships, the | communique said. Three of six en- | {emy destroyers in the shelling force | were sunk and a battleship and a| cruiser fled with the remaining three destroyers after being dam- aged. | This belated enemy reaction to | the virtually unopposed American | occupation was discovered at dusk! Oh Decemiber 26. 1 Unofficial reports indicated that | Japanese planes attacked American ! ground positions at the height of | the fight off the coast and air| raids followed with a light attack | ion the nights of December 25 and 26, which the communique said |caused little damage. Gove'rli‘m;;flli'll Seize Stores of Montgomery-Ward Revilla | Petersburg With returns in from 19 of the |Haines First Division's 52 precincts, un- | Sitka official returns from s | Stikine MOSCOW, Dec. 28—The doomed Nazi garrison reeled backward in the smoke-filled streets of western yesterday’s i sy mdmwd’ it ?u_}wmngell | Budapest today, but clung with "?CL. #llen Shattuck Was leclediDougla\s Bridge i suicidal resistance to positions in m“"; Te."n -‘,a, S :a' Ree'.urns" s the eastern sector of the capital, A R e ] TOTALS and have taken up positions on the :,:n:x:}i 4 ;,dc'h,nd posey pg‘ F inner defense ring of the capital Tavis of 3 it DAL Prics After several Russian penetra- et e i tions of German-Hungarian. lines A ) the “Russians are now attacking S““"g"k_ v‘“‘:w“ ‘g“‘lpl_”’) st from the southeast, northeast and yabee, jPavis g, Eripe 180, west,” the broadcast said i R 4 oL 'fi“r":](r"r;‘o:iiw‘:ml B German and Hungarian defend- Prentngit. i ; . lers are reported to have already The'-Wés;ilingion: 'Merry - Go-Round| By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen ‘now on active service with the Army.) | turned in. The remaining precincts | Bk Gihis the'1hs: ok or I BIOIE Wl e s p BY SN I p E R two remaining airports for the Here is the way other cities in |€d Assistant Secretary of State e 326, Of this number Davis re- \It will be one of his first steps to; % than at any time ‘in years. c S " U | d Precinct near Ketchikan gave Davis plans a face-saving deal whereby | Ketchikan gave Shattuck 5. Gra-!of her more Fascist-minded poli-| ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 28—Prime By Assau|' Shattuck 7 and Davis 4 Rockefeller wants to get ‘a fresh strife which has rent this country, 58, Price 32 and Shattuck 18. Sti- and first of all proposes Wiping yesterday morning as he stood out- Sitka cast 176 for Price in his not too happy about the diplo- |young woman three hundred yards | . ley in Ifaly Haines gave Shattuck 15 and |that we are in no position to C‘"’““jv.ense. dramatic day on which op- the Serchio Valley sector on the thrown out for failing to meet legal | Senator Claude Pepper of Florida| cpyychill told a press c‘m{ermw‘thhdrawaxls in the area. dates, accounting for the discrep-|ton’s No. 1 social lobbyist owner of | oeting to be held in the near|ago. The Fifth Army, enveloped by ed the War Department to seize | " | With the agreement of the all- 5 | Serchio and Barga, onejin a showdown of the company’s | g | B l G v T E I S" |King George, now in London. He About 15 miles north of the city Board directives from Washington. | posed. valley flatlands flanking the moun- where simiiar controversies exist. “We feel our course has been : artillecy. ! STORES ARE SEIZED |things settled down. Premier S‘Blm'mv“ and slashed fortified German 'ypder an executive order of the i i - drawing ‘“according to plan” be- N » Juneau"es Cas' 1’108 Bai jon this course. - ’m\y interference in war production | ATHESE Hee, 28 o Wanting AlIER JOH"SON' e war establishments at Detroit, | { | Chicago, Kansas City as protests |German offensive to relieve the Allen Shattuck, Juneau insurance ' Bastogne garrison and have ad- military authorities reported with-] jdrawal of some of the ELAS forces the company and its board chair- ‘man, Sewell Avery, to comply wmx’ lim thal"?,:zz ;;:Z;c&l;;?;iw " | WASHINGTON—Freshly appoint- | evacuation of troops as Soviet sy g forces pounded toward the heart n |Nelson Rockefeller has a new move the First Division voted: 1 v . ! — v jup his sleeve regarding Argentina. % » > - Ketchikan cast a light vote of i s sens 10| Bullet Whistled Close to F.‘ h A ioe |ITY to smooth out the Good Neigh-| . . m ceivy 3 and Price | ~ Y | ceived 159, Shattuck 132 an ee | o Pollcy, now tangled: up worse P”me M"”s'er_Athens l l r Mountain Peint near Ketchikan| Reckefeller hasn't obtained White ; gave Davis 6, Shattuck 8. Wacker House-approval.for it yot, hut be:- orte a( By STEPHEN BARBER 9, Shattuck 2. Ward Cove nem“Argent'ma would shake out . some (A. P. War Correspondent) vina gave Davis 2 and Shattuck 6.|ticoes and then would receive U. S.| Minister Winston Churchill, who Revilla Precinct gave Price 27, recognition {came here to help solve the armed 7 s Wrangell cast 111 votes—Davis start with Pan American relations;was fired upon by an ELAS sniper | A Nazi Counteraffacks Con- kine Precinct near Wrangell gave the slate clean with Argentina.|side the British Embassy. The bul- & 5 ' Davis 8 and Shattuck 6. Other Latin American nations are|let whistled by him and struck a tinue in Serchio Val- home town, gave Shattuck 79 and |matic boycott we have given Ar-jaway. Davis 29. gentina. Rockefeller also arguesi myj js put one incident in the D g ROME, Dec. 28—German forces Price 20. 'do""“_‘)“ Argentina, so let's 5‘°p;xxosixlg Greek factions agreed un- are continuing counter-attacks. in Petersburg gave Davis 24, Price|growling and be friends |animously upon a regency as the! 23, Shattuck 22. {principal step toward ending civil western flank of the Italian front. In all precincts a few votes were HOPE DIAMOND GLITTERS warfare here. Fifth Army troops made further | requirements and a few scattered |found himself on a hot social ?‘m"‘he, Stalin and Roosevelt would| Allied headquarters said the town| CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 28—Major votes were cast for other candi-|during a dinner given by Washing-|,ve yp the Greek question at the of Barga was captured a month Gen. Joseph Byron today designat- | ancy in the totals. the Hope Diamond, Evalyn Walsh g e the German counter-assault, struck Chicago properties of Montgomery | B P {McLean. Tt was during the height | out on a six-mile front on each Ward under a presidential order | (Continued on Page Four) party conference upon a regency Side of 3 Ithe next step appeared to be up to half mile east of the river. refusal to comply with War Lflhur‘* { was reported cool to the regency Of Lucca, capital of Lucca pro-| Reports indicated that a seizure | proposal when it was first pro-|vince, the Nazi drive went through will be effected in six other cities SHOWN HERE‘ {tains. Tt was supported with light % ! Iabsolutely right,” Churchill assert-| i L | | LONDON — The German radioleq +In August, in consultation with| Meanwhile, Eighth Atmy WoOPS| CHICAGO, Dec. 28. — The Army !said tonight von Rundstedt’s spear- | pregident Roosevelt, we agreed to( | the Adviatic sector fanned OUl| ook possession of Montgomery Ward | |heads both to the west of theluring in food and relief help until|2IoR8 the cast bank of the Senlo|Company properties in seven cities | breakthrough area in Belgium and er 0 n |on the southern flank are with- {was consulted and gave his cOnsemlposmons at Alfonsine, nine mllcs‘Presxdent who dm:_llm»d the govern- 'northweat of Ravenna. iment “cannot and will not tolerate 4 iy |fore heavy American counter-at-| | e \ & | tacks. in this critical hour |°1S m Spe“al He( AGBEEMENT - H¥AOHED ! The seizure caem amid strikes in fion wedfleSdaY SONDONC eatians Third ArDY | Greek political factions agreed m—l ANGOO" N AIIVE is striking northward against We|qay that formation of a regency| y |arose by the CIO United Retail and | was a step toward peace as British | | Wholesale Department Store Em-,| i | against. failure oi | man and veteran of four previous|vanced 16 miles. g ARRESTED ToDAY 3nkzyees Union against the fal 1 from Athens and from positions on sessions in the Legislature, recelved“ ;;(x)xgox{:s'hizrxniilntl;éortllty Ot‘;::e:‘;l PARIS—-A_men:an forces are cut-|ine pighways leading into the city. | _Wa]tcr A. John'son, 21, was ax:fi[he War Labor Board directives ! reditiots i yesthrides ;;e:cm elec_lnng deepv.mto both sigfs o{ x:an; The majority of the conferees raigned in U.' . Commissioner's | The sefzure came amid strikes in tian Zor Tarsitorial Semator. |R“"d5“d‘;“ b“lg_e ““"{’ "gce‘;me;7expx'essed themselves in favor of an{Court this afternoon on WO | ward would not be allowed to set| Shattuck carried all three pre- ports tonight. The entire a0 | immediate regency, while a minor- |charges — burglary, and attempted |aside government war time policies cincts, receiving more votes in e,ach}xme kb |ity favored postponement, it was|rape of a Juneau woman, assistant|“just because Mr. Sewell Avery| than the votes for F. F. Davis of | __|announced by Archbishop Damas- | United States .Attorney R. L. TOl-:doesn't approve of the government's | Juneau and Frank Price of Sitka,| LONDON — Seventeen hundred yinog chairman. ; |lefsen announced today. He is being procedure for handling labor dis- | put together. jheavy bombers late today ham-| " s sniperis bullet narrowly missed!he‘d under $3,000 bond. putes.” | In Precinct One where 557 voteslme‘?‘* 11 rail targets in Western |pyime Minister Winston Churchill| It is alleged, Tollefsen said, that| A staff of Justice Department ex- | were cast, Shattuck received vaVGermnny despite heavy weather. yesterday morning as he stood in |the accused entered a home around | perts meq a petition in FederaI‘ votes, Price 84 and Davis 79. In; front of the British embassy, Ern-‘s a. m. December 27. City Police, |Court asking an injunction to re-: Precinct Two Shattuck received 129| LONDON — German bombs and jo, peadquarters commented this |8t the time, were called to the strain Avery and other company | of the 241 votes, Davis got 80 and|V-bombs killed 8,908 civilians and p,,ming Sniping is fairly continu-|Scene but the intruder had made | officials from interfering with, gov- | Price 23. In the Third Precinct seriously injured 21,000 in the first! o across the front entrance of [Dis get-away. He was arrested laml(’"‘mem operation of the company’s | Shattuck’s vote out of a total of |eleven months of this year. {the embassy and there is no indi- |vesterday and identified this morn- | facilitles in Chicago Detroit, St.| : - in, | Paul, Denver, Jamai catioh that the sniper Wwho was|ng- 310 cast was 170, Davis getting 104 > % 5 Nr YI. gox]"r Ay cErios ¥ 1 BANRY. YN | manning the machinegun aimed es-| Johnson came to Juneau from | i Oregt?n fiad Gan Feaiadl, i | pecially at Churchill. e Angoon about November 18 of this i e SHATTUCK STATEMENT Driving On ELAS YoBE. ‘PIOIIEERS Gomfi Io The Prime Minister and British MEET FRIDAY NIGHT CHI | An alarm at 3 o'clock this after- noon from Box 1-4 took the Juneau a s ;i 35,3 the Gastineau Channel area for the ol Senate Rooms bullding, opposite large vot the Coliseum Theatre, where a “I am very appreciative and over- |chimney under construction cnushf whelmed by the confidence shown fie. No damage was reported by in me by the many who chose to Fire Department members. MENDE) D Commander Lt Gen. Scobie HALL ICE watched British parachute troops, T b A infantry, tanks and armored cars| The ice on Mendenhall Lake has oy jaut regular mont {begin driving the ELAS from cen-(r¢ached a depth of approximately o the Pioneers of Alaska for 1944 | |tral ~ Athens today. Standing on 10 inches, according to Edward i) pe held tomorrow night start- Filopagpes Hill, they saw stiff,Keithahn, Curator of the Terri-'ing gt 8 o'clock in the IOOF Hall.| cast their votes for me in the elec- | —"’"—; fighting waged in the narrow torial Museum, who has visited the Following the business session, there | tion,” he said. | BAKER IN TOW) |wnding streets of the Iroon dis- lake. Many Juneauites are taking|will be a social gathering also at- At that time, results from other Robert A. Baker is in town from |, . advantage of the ice while it lasts S 0 A 3 {trict, northwest of Acropolis andj cities in the First Division had not Ketchikan and is registered at the | been received by The Empire, ¢ g jBaranof Hotel. THICK | which organization will hold a busi- | jand large crowds are reported to| ] ness meeting, be skating there, (Continued on Page Thiree) ly meeting | e Army fliers in t The "Black Widow"' Girl b e South Pacific who fly the deadly P-61 Black Widows, have chosen actress Janis Page (above) of the screen as the “Black Widow Girl,” so she dressed up in this costume to send to the boys as an appropriate picture. (AP Wirephoto) 19 Congress Will Be More Colorful than 78th; sUp BOMB TOKYO PLANE WORKS Surprise Rald Continues! for 90 Minutes Over TargeisWednesday TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMMAND, SAIPAN, Dec. 28 Superfortress bombs, breaking from a clear sky, pummelled surprised Tokyo for an hour and a half Wednesday. One returning pilot sald his in- formation alone laid a pattern of explosives two blocks wide and seven blocks Jong across the im- portant industrial area where no! missile “could fail to hit the target.” The Musashina factory of the Makajima Aircraft company was the primary target, but the first formation, led by Capt. Vance Black, pushed by terrific tailwinds, overshot the plant, Nevertheless, | they said, they apparently hit the factory somewhere in its 50 acres, of one-story workshops Early photographs showed = at least a dozen new bomb hits on the plant. Pictures of budding bomb bursts gave rise to the hope that later photographs will show heavy damage to the works, one of the keys to Jdapan's aircraft produc- ion { One of the giant planes was lost over Tokyo, but the Superforts downed perhaps the largest num- | ber of enemy planes yet destroyed over the island of Honshu on ERFORTS| {tended by the Pioncers’ Auxiliary, Which the capital is situated. The '\ iop: “Awe’ who made a brilliant total bag has not yet been officially announced, | disy | President’s Many Issues Are Involved By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. -~ Make the 79th Congress on many matters is going to be quite different from that of the 78th, shades of it will take a whole series of articles and some of those shades can't be determined until the first battles of next January and Fel ruary make the alignments clear. more However, one thing Is certain: on | the | the matter of foreign policy, administration He ade its greatest gains since well before Pearl Har- bor. This is a vital point now the resignation of aging Secretary of State Hull Probably more than any member of the cabinet, Cordell Hull had the respect and admiration of Congress. His poliey of coopera- tion with representatives of both sides of the Capitol did much to 1 the antagonism between the legislative and executive branches: ince But if the State Department re- turns to its old couservative aloof- ness from the mundane matters of legislation, the President will need every gain that has been made in the Senate, where two-thirds of that body must consent to any treaties or agreements with the other world powers, Numerically, the change in the Senate alignment isn’t worth men- tioning. The temper of the new Senate will be something else again. The voters turned out six of the most pe ents in the upper chamber. These are Republican Senators Gerald P. Nye N. D.; John A. Danaher, Conn.; Rufus C. Holman, Ore, and Demo. crats D. Worth Clark, Idaho, Ben- nett C. Clark, Mo, and the late D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, S. C. Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, N. C., another thorn in the administrative side, didn’t choose to run, Among the new Senators who have views, which to say the least, are far less antagonistic will be Democrgts Clyde Hoey, N. C.; Willlam Ful- E. (Con t}n(Ar& on ‘l;age Theee) To explore all | sistent oppon- | AIRCRAFT - OF ALLIES IN ACTION *Iwenty-five_fifln‘dred Tons of Bombs Dropped on Nazis Day and Night BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — Becretary of War Henry L. Stimson said the latest news from France is favorable but the overall situation on the western front continues critical “up to now.” Stimson told the newsmen at the late afternoon conferénce the Germans are unable to ex- pand their base and a maneuver is necessary for deeper pene- tration because “time is now working our enemy.” | LONDON, Dec. 28.-—Both British and American heavy bombers struck | Germany today despite a sleet storm | which iced the ground and restricted {vlslhulty on the western front. | A strong force of Royal Air Force Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped i2,500 tons of explosives and in- cendiaries just before dawn on rail- roads and workshops at Opladen, 12 miles south of Cologne, where the Germans are seeking to repair dam- faged military volling stock. ‘ | For the sixth consecutive day air- craft of the United States Eighth Air Force sped over Germany short- ly after noon, it was announced by | United States Strategic Air Force | Headquarters. ! The German radio said that day | raiders are also striking at the Reich ' from the south, suggesting that op- lerations are from Itallan bases of | the United States Fifteenth Air Force, | Official accounts said that almost 1 2,000 pieces of German railroad | transport were demolished yester- |day and 90 German fighters shot |down. Some 4,000 Allied bombers ;and fighters took to the air. NAZI FLANK | no mistake about it, the color ot! SAGGING AS YANKS HIT - Big American Affack Push- ing Germans Back fo | Rhm_e[iand ! PARIS Dec. 28.—Field reports to- | day indicated that von Rundstedt's | whole southern flank for 35 miles ‘Iback to the German border is sag- iglng under the doughboy and ar- | mored attack on the Belgian bulge. | American tanks and infantry, re- ! suming their advance under the belly jof the enemy salient, crossed the Sure River in four places by Wednes- day dawn, holding a narrow but firm relief corridor. | It is too early to foresee the out- | come for the Americans in the | counterattack now under way which | faces formidable obstacles, but here |1t is clear that the bold Nazi bid for a great December victory has | butted into serious trouble. ‘The German Army held for more than 48 hours up to Wednesday |dawn without a significant -gain. ! German pockets are surroundeéd on (Continued on Page Ske) e A Pl da NEW YORK, Dec. 28 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine Istock today is 6%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 28%, Beeeh' Air- lcraft 14%, Bethlehem Steel 647, {Cum& Wright International Harvester 79%, Kennecott 35%, North American Aviation 10, New York Central 22%, Northern Pa- cific 20%, U. S. Steel 59%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 150.47; rails, 47.62; utilities, 3598,