The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1944, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” E DAY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1944 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ND SUPERS OVER NO NIPPONS JAPAN AGAIN, ARE LANDED SAYSTOKYO ONMINDORO Raid Alertfinded, then| Japs Di¢ _the Naval At- Radio Says “Planes ' tack fo Screen New Change Course” (By Associated Press) | GEN. My The Tokyo radio, at 5 a. m. (PWT) | QUARTERS said “enemy planes have been sight- PINES, Dec. 29— libera- ed approaching the Tokyo and Yoko- tion forces on ' Mindere Island to- PE SAID "NUTS" 10 | SURRENDER ORDER | . BASTOGNE NAZIS ANOTHER BIG SEA BATTLE EXPECTED » SOONBY MITSCHER ! UNITED STATES PACIFIC | (A. P. War Correspondent) |\FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL BASTOGNE, Dec. 29—Brig. Gefl.[HARBOR, Dec. 29—Vice Admiral {McAuliffe disclosed today he was Marc A. Mitscher, who directed the |the leader of the gallant Bastogne Navy's air arm in the two battles |garrison of almost 10,000 men who [of the Philippines Sea, said today |said “nuts” to the German demand |that he anticipated another action that he surrender. {by remnants of the enemy's sur- McAuliffe was serving as acting |face force. commander of the One Hundred| The commander of the U. S. task that |carrier forces said they will prob- days in|ably return in a month and throw was encircled for seven " |this Belgian road hub along with |everything into a fight. ’elements of the Ninth and Tenth| “I think another year should have | Armored Divisions. |the navy pretty well cleaned up,” REDS CRACK INNER RING {Soviets in All-out Bid to { Win Capital Within Few Days ¥ MOSCcoOw, l;t-(', 29 — Russian forces today cracked the first of three inner defense rings of the encircled Nazi garrison at Buda- - OFBUDAPEST Gef Raises Territorial 'BIG BOMBER WorkersMay FLEETS HIT | | | New Budget Asks 25 Per Cent Increases for | Long-range Assaulf by Everyone | Air from Britain The report of the Territorial Boarcdd of Budget released today |recommends to the Legislature that the salaries of all officers and em- dred U. 8. bombers heavy bombers and limited LONDON, Dec. 29—Fifteen hun- | and fighters {from Britain, a great fleet of RAF num- RHEADS ARE BEATEN BACK YANKS THROW NAZI DRIVE NAZI FRONTIN REVERSE r Seventh Straight Day of December Offensive of von . Rundstedt Turned Into Defensive Action PARIS, Dec. 29—American ar- {mored blows on the nose of ven ) Rundstedt’s offensive have beaten his most advanced spearheads back more than 10 miles and chased them across the narrow Lesse and hama metropolitan districts.” |day ascertained M the Japanese | $ The One Hundred and First's|Mitscher said. “If the Japanese|Pest, While the Austrian-bound Red |ployees of the Territory be increased bers of continent-based planes The Jap broadcast, picked up by|did not use the "Tuesday night Y g regular commander, Maj. Gon.|refuse to commit their 1'exnalnlng('“"‘y to the north stepped up its 25 percent above the appropriations | rajned thousands of tons of bombs fipy Yodaral m;nu:lca;luns .g‘m"r““"'ul atteck on Yenk Positions o | nroywe) Taylor, was in Washing- fleet units to battle we ‘Wil Bagcrive jelang both (sides of ‘the|made by th(; s i lyeu;: between ‘the Western Front and Homme Rivers into Rochefort. mission I New York, also sald air screen the landingEEioops O l¢on when his division was hurled|in a position to clean them out,Darube. 8go0. e salary increases would the Rhine today. | "#eia aupatonss, reportiig this raid warnings have been issued by|other portions of §he d. The A 8 " | The Red forces made an all-out |effective for the duration of the war| ¢ .o the seventh straight d s 1 s i 9 i 5 % F i s made an a ay | the Japanese Eastern District Army | Nipoonese task mz i :f:r‘l“s‘:ul;:‘nfi"’_::;‘;_g:;}) ‘;za:‘i: st strategic control of |and for six months after hostilities $ Y |development up to Thursday morn- . of the U. 8. Eighth Air Force and | . by - SRR, [erratically on the U i of the long-range attack by heavies L& 544 von Rundstedt’s escape | | bid to win of 197 - —— 8. beachhead 1% o™ and jeeped Budapest in a matter of days, if | After sounding the alert warning|. .. gisa; eared into the China {Papier S By vanes Joop }nol hours, as fanatical Ni s| At the same time, the Board sub- | : 4 i i , as fa azi troops | RAF 11 f 4 by sirens and radio, the Tokyo|g,, p“rsugg by Ameriean planies. |into Bastogne with the spearhead‘ : P81 T 4 budget for the 1945-47|the from Britain broadcast then announced “Ameri-| can planes have again changed their i in course and are now circling over| northern sections of the Wkanto * districts.” This section includes the |- . large industrial cities of Kobe and| It was thought at first that Japa- Oska Inese naval units had taken a great The broadcast further said a single!rjsk to draw American attention Superfort carried out three raids| while putting troops ashore at over south and central Honshu be-|other points. After the attacking tween 5:30 and 8:30 o'clock last|force was driven off with the loss night, Japanese time, and dropped of three destroyers sunk and bomb incendiaries and “enemy planes are hits scored on a battleship and | raiding the same section tonight.” |cruiser, cub planes flew reconnais- 5sance missions extensively over JA pS R A ' D | Mindoro’s west coast and found no on Leyte Island went on along the SA'pA“ AIR | Valencia-Polompon highway. An- lother 912 enemy dead were counted. !evidence of an enemy beachhead. | Yauks Who landed on Leyle be- Mopping up of isolated Japanese )hind Japanese troops at Palompon, iDeccmber 25, continued to meet jonly slight resistance. The main Enemy ground and air aectivity the island was lacking Wednes- day, Gen. MacArthur reported to- |force of the Fourth Armored Di- | vision, one of the units of Gen. George S. Patton’s army that broke | Patton used veteran Fourth Ar- mored Division units and Eightieth and Twenty-Sixth With light voting holding sway fantry Divisions to smash the circlement of Bastogne. | w‘lIER joH"So" in practically all communities out- |side of Juneau, the election of IS SE'I';Allen Shattuck to the Senate today HEARI"G |was a foregone conclusion. With { o |six more small precincts reporting, ! Preliminary hearing for Walter A.“Shfl““Ck'S total stood at 1,162 at | Johnson, held under $3,000 bond on press time today. F. F. Davis was two charges, burglary and attempted |still in second place with 677, and rape, has been set for 10 a. m. to- Frank Price creeping up on imorrow, Saturday. % Davis with 525 votes. The accused is alleged to have' 1t the votes of the 25 precincts entered a home in Juneau about 5lnow in are any indication, the December 27. Police were call- 0,00 of 400 votes still outstand- the intruder had left thelyno wouq be a liberal estimate. the In- en- | Lat in the hilly district of Buda and lthe populous flatlands of Pest gave |s'mun(l under a score of Russian | assaults. Combat teams, tommy gunners, tanks, and self-propelled guns of |the enemy were hurled out of 12 |eastern suburbs of the eity yester- ‘day by the hard-driving Soviets. | A battle of even greater military {importance raged at the approaches |to the Danubian communications |center of Komarom, less than 85 miles southeast of Vienna |within 53 miles of Bratislava, | Two columns of Marshal Tobul- |khin's Third Ukrainian Army group |converged on the city from the east and southeast, while across the Danube to the northeast Mali- |novsky mounted a powerful smash the Nezi Hron River . defense line. There is evidence that Rus- |sian vanguards may be fighting on /the west bank of the Hron, whose |confluence with the Danube west gap at the same time was cut less and | These as- to $5,161 ssavsau"s supplemented Whe strikes Disafti - atmounting |from Italy carried out by the U, S. and: the report states that revenues | anticipated during this period will| ¥ ifteenth. amount to $3,506,111, leaving a dif-| HAlf & dozen road and rail junc- ference of $1,655,576 which the Leg-|!ons and bridges in the BEuskir- lislature must ‘wipe out either byrchen Trier sector weére hammered, 'whmling the budget requests or with Part of the U. S. bomber fleet and |added taxation for Alaskans. others aimed explosives and in- L The proposed budget is not quite cendiaries on rail traffic on the |@ million dollars higher than the Bingen, Frankfurt, Aachaffenburg |appropriation for the biennium now |triangle. ending. Battlefield bombing was through As a result of the recommended | clouds and other targets were hit ary increases, practically all es-|visually. |timates submitted by the various - ,e- | Territorial departments to the Board | |were upped by the Board. E;sth mates for the Department of Public | Welfare and for Health and Sani- |tation were whittled down by the Board. H Following are the new estimates |1or the various major offices com- pared with the | riated for the biennium now ending: than 17 rhiles north of Bastogne. Slam Into Bulge | Von Rundstedt’s December of- fensive has been kicked into re- verse by American forces which slammed into all three sides of his extended bulge with Patton's Third |Army sensationally changing its front and advancing 20 miles into |the German flank in six days. The situation was not of un- mixed success, however. Patton's Bhift of the front brought his own offensive along the Saar to a stop and obliged the Americans to give up their hard-won bridgehoad jacross the Saar at Dillingen v ! they have broken into the i defenses of the Siegfried Lir This is the big turning poi:. the seven-day stand of the 1015t Airborne. Division as yet unidemtified units at togne, one of the gateways ¢ Governor's Office—$24,400, raised 7 I {Trecth. Sean. Moy the Ama American force pushing from the : . : . are hitting back = throughou . west coast throu)z]; moufnnin cow ;tf,:&;zsfiiufi:a;v e,‘;e;E"e" {f one of Shattuck’s 0ppon-lof the great Danube bend has al-|'® :32::3‘ Ganiral 831000, raised] i northwestern area of German itry ran into tough localized fig! aneau from Angoon about | 0tS recelved every vote, Shatiuck |ready been outflanked by Tobul- |, 34,180 e |tration from Celles to Rochefort. : UNITED STATES PACIFIClm" 5 18 ) (would still come out ahead. | khin, | to $24,] i 3 | ROME, Dec. 20—Allied head-| Havoe Produced FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL /18- S j S, | Since many of. the unreported A N |, Audior's Offloe-—$82,850, Taised 10|, tery” amugiiod today thiat Doughboys, tanks and Greyhound HARBOR, Dec. 26—Japanese bomb- | o g precincts are outlying Indian vil- | gL 85 seq|fiEDting has “died down” in the|armored cars slashed acrss the ers raided the American Superfon‘RED WR"'ER SAY" {RY GALB HIT !lages, it also seemed apparent that | ' i ;::ig;‘”’ Ditice—$0M0, raiied e oo vallby hrks White & strong| frozen fields today, overrunning base on Saipan and Tinan Islands . | Price, endorsed by the Alaska Na- | )Com‘mis.s' r of Education—g49,- G€rman counter offensive has|German trucks and armored cars in the Marianas, December 26, for | SOUTHHST Ausuluve Brotherhood, would pass Davis. | 600, raised to s7e080 - om ¥ dkiven the American Piftn. Army |and Naat infanteymen are wander- Five planes made up the first| The ¢ five reduced the temperature® at Skag- |happy Christmas to many, who werelseeklng to establish legality in lhe“ed 1o $100,000. | toward Dh("mll:l‘ aid raiding group, the communique !column: ¢ the way and Haines to zero but the|helped by them on Christmas. | Presidential order undgr which | Health: snd - Sanitation = :9554056000 SK"NG IS ritical ttles § said, and onl. most = erance r - Y | Twenty-five families were provid-| Montgomery-Ward facilities were! 2 gl 4. | Here a critical battle was for said, y two the second. Two | temperature at Whitehorse is 31 Tenty: P raised to $104,520. for the hamlet of Hi ot ths’ ‘taldets “were diswhad B3 |BOOG # /0% No- below zero and at Fairbanks, 47|°d With ample food for a Christnias seized in seven cities yesterday by "\ 10 S0 Budget REPORTED 'I'ODAY A b i - 4 ¥ American fighter planes. | vember 8pan as | pelow, dinner; twenty-four elddrly people|the Army, Over 12000 employees . . represented by the following| [miles mouthwest' of Marci L E i i 5 3 ives v 5 Vi ay | | four miles north of Rochefort. ¥ B 1an agg The ice-cap wind is hitting El-|Were given warm clothing; gifts|continued work today |Who drew up the report: Acting | , The Zhukov, Pravda | gred Rock. betw J were taken to the Goveynment Hos- i | Governor Fe 1 v AI uppm (AB," Germans were driven out of .« | staff ¢ , said, “The de- | 3 cen Juneau and| il a cooked turkey dinner was| LONDON—William Boni with the COVeror Eew Williams, chairman; |village by planes, artillery, infar ur I a | I sal | Skagway, and Five-finger light, | Pl y r Territerial Treasurer Oscar Olson | 3 | velopn events becomes Diéwesir© Juriewn - and Petérsbir served to 70 children; one hundred | American armies in Belgium wmgm’a“d Auditor Prank Boyle, |tank destroyers and finally, fk |ever 1 able to_Japan.| it0® h Mot & gt"and fifty dozen home made cookies| radioes von Rundstedt is regrouping A " The skiing season is open at last|throwers. From (on'e’en(e‘flcr e ‘eat in the war peonous. B 98% | were taken to the men of the Arm-|his forces preparatory to digging in, lin the Juneau area, report members| Americans now have firm ¢ [ with the U. 5. nes(300 alplane transportation, 8releq morces, lon the western portion of his north | of the Juneau Ski Club and High |trol of the town, including the e s Min-{‘ihfiim sconomic, espec:"?:l‘i'c:h?“‘i’e:l;e: t:‘“:g":;“‘ Walling| The inmates of the Federal jail|flank. ‘szso BOND IS SET School ki Club. High School skiers | chateau where the enemy offen ister Winston Churchill and Foreign| BE hies dapan. 4 | were also remembered with gifts. e on & holiday vacation have reported |was stopped in one of the gh o4 h e | | At the Christmas program 125| WASHINGTON—Ickes urges eli- ON DlSORDERlY good skling in the bowl above thelliest carnage scenes of the v . SiE Al vy e Dave e §TICH PD) gifts were given to the children. |gible Japanese-Americans who evac- | upper cabin during the past week.|Here a German pocket was wi. et 8 Briain, afier stinnding a;BR Bl E" u S (ASUA["B | The total amount contributed in|uated their west coast homes in 1942 Jim Rude, Buddy Hunter andlout and 1200 prisoners el oonferesice in, Greece. | A% hd g |the Christmas kettle was $268, and|t0 leave evacuation centers as soon | (oNDu(I (HARGE others have made several trirs into|Sixty-three enemy tanks, 49 g } IN FROM WHITEHORSE | (LY § fIVE ON 1% ARE A"“OUN(ED $90 sent to the Salvation Army nx.}fis possitTz anid relurn to their | ¥ {the area and state that the cabin|and 177 military vehicles litte: ) y ‘ visional Office by mail. { homes. 5 Alec Johnson, alleged to havc‘h” been used by overnight parties|the terrain. The Germans said Madeline Tetinck and Mary J.; S FoR(ESI TR 5ol stabbed his wife, Mary, has been |’ ichcally e1ver.y Tg:;:' "‘; ks we;:‘. British Second Army Divisign . Sauber of Whitehorse, Y. T. are| LS | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 — War pelersbu, Bo Is w‘l(“ "IGH"‘ (;QVI(E | committed to the Federal jail under| ., l¢ activities of the Juneau Highlanders took part in . this SAdikibiod aE £50 Baserior Hotal:. | b casualties of the armed services | fl Y 14 $250 bond on a charge of disorderly| CUP» @nnounces Bill Hixson, have battle. o A 20—The British Teached 628441 on December 14, " N~;;. N (HUR( condugt! \been slowed down because of the 1,000 Prisoners - oper e-pronged drive |two days prior to the German of- wo"nM a' an‘ iy “ Johnson was arrested Thursday shortage of snow on the lower trail| Enemy armored columns which The washlng’ton aga ‘ces in the eastern |fensive in western Europe, Secre-| - i morning by city police on a charge|2nd slalom course. fled Jambline, five miles west of | sub as today, jumping|tary of War Henry L. Stimson| yw,crryon o Doo. 20 —nel B X! hip of the|of assault with a dangerous weapon,| OP New Year's Day the more ex"m"‘e“’"- were chased by Ameri- M G B d off nged artillery bar- |said today. War Department announces the | Methodis sponsoring a | His wife is suffering from minor cuts|Perienced skiers are to carry theirican formations which claimed err Y -0 - houn rag ond phase of op-| The latest Army total is 540828. 0 o CPEEEENE 40 “3 eé J New Yer °h Night ser-|following an affray at their home 5kis to the upper bowl. The trail more than a thousand prisoners. lera 1 to clear the city.|This reports through December Him the Busanaas Zo Y Jerde | vice on, st ; evening, Fol-|on Capitol Avenue early Thursday.|s reported to be in excellent con-| Other spearheads of the southe By DREW PEARSON Y, >position, the Brit-(and represents a 6,000 increase . aun"e g e;' . ¢ {lowing 41 sunday evening — e {dition for hiking. western tip of the salient, isolated 50 O, SR S N o5 | from the south|since the latest report two weeks A.ndrewy Gir:;fln 2 tpeteso.:uro |service . (he (i h, there will be FROM GUSTAVUS | The Juneau Ski Patrol warns all |near St. Hubert, are fighting o B th 1 Park on Ardittos [ag0. | Alaska - ebersbure, | refrestin.nt P games and |skiers not to ski on the trail below |death struggle. WASHINGTON — Some of the Hi anged hands in a| The Navy reports total casualties i | singiy ) 1e. | William W. Winebrenner of the|the upper cabin because of in-| The long thin corridor by which White House inner circle now ad-|m veek ago. jof 80618, an increase of 207. PAA PL A'N.l-: AP Usi e of “A Covenant|CAA 15 registered at the Hotel|sufficient snow. “lmrd driving Third Army forces ¥ mits that the President made one P | —————— | T sl ‘01 L e gorvice, beginning at|Juncau from Gustavus. | ;‘;‘;m"&; |reached Bastogne was broadened of the great psychological mistakes | y | H . 13:15 oleley include covenant B - . AT | ¥ " to six miles wide and six kK of the gwa.« when he told a press LY ‘Al NOTES IPRODU(IION o idaA 1;;‘; zgmer 1]51“1.,,3 Ju,,.ef,u to-| o 5 P e of the w47 Mim s n e A A L o umdu.r: conference that the Atlantic Char-| R | loywhlwhor:e'DG(:eZ:ng }E"::;nfi;s‘l’" & ‘ by five other youth,|® WEATHER REPORT | Carl D. Huer has left for An- a5 Patton poured men fn. ter did not exist as a formal docu- | ormick was admitted | | William Buck, Leo Welsh and i /3 ‘eiises by the congre-|® (U.S.Weather Bureaw) e (chorage vit Alaska Airlines on a| Skt t {ospital yesterday as u S SHIPS HUGE ke ] s 5 ge short covenant mes-'® | e o o « |business trip. ;H '. When you read carefully the| ent, bk W pubrts. Hoses i {81 by tho prstor | Temperature, December 28 o {nousewives Must stenographic record of that press| Kent was admitted iy @ { each persons parti-|® In Juneau—Maximum, 28; . { 4 conlcrenge, as this writer has, it is ! Hospital today as a mw"‘smNGTON'hD“:' 12: 1._'hahe; TIONRARS 'T0. MUEY. | +4 ‘he covenant, a candle|® minimum, 13. ol SIO(K o“o""o"s o'de{ Tflllfllfl' o & easy to see that the President was|! t. ghes navy 8. the world e gt iRy e | vice will offer to each|® At Alrport—Maximum, 21; e/ R ‘c e me interesting | RSB ST most extended war in history eers an u. ry members 3 8t the opportunity of|® (Wingwwn, 1% o NEW YORK, Dec. 29 — Clnslmll & § ;))lllsltyort;yh;g Ataognl:):o A ¢ has now 1167 men-of-war to carry|will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the et B !l;l)on brlg);ner PR G 1 e e s R g s T A FM Hol'd" Charter was scribbled on bits of | o 'omnnow ;‘:“g:?le 5,1 &by and 16, SNIL l!glodpb?x::;e: Lr:e::fi?l:mt;t:s‘bwi‘ ! quiet moments of con-{® TOMORROW'S FORECAST e |stock today is 6%, American Can paper by him and Churchill and This was reported.by the Navy in|a jolnt soctal sescton - just Before the bell rings|® PR « |89, Anaconda 287, Beeeh Aircraft ——— i radioed back and forth between| 0 o.m., 161 feet. 1, review of ship production which i dhoee e, i'the New Year. ® Juneau and vieinity—Part- e |14%, Bethlehem Steel 65%, Curtiss-| Housewives are cam ships. 110 a. m. 28 feet. goweq that in the past year 39971 PY B a1 volie is cordially invited to|® ly eloudy with very light e Wright 57, International Harvester|cheek their supply He did not mean to throw the Fide 2:13 p. m,, 184 feet. |[nou vessels, 420 of them tight’Lng . e e snow flurries tonight. Clear e |30, Kennecott 36%, North American early tomorrow for Atlantic Charter overboard. He was % '~ 47 p. m, -26 feet. ships, joined the fleet, boosting the| TINIAN, Marianas Islands—! ——-——— |® Saturday. Continued cold, o |Aviation 10, New Yorkm’Ceutml‘!htu will be closed trying to steer his press conference, s St overall total to 61,045 navy ships of | rines here gather in their bivi USSOURI VISITOR e with gusty surface winds. e|23%, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S./Year’s Day. as he so frequently does, away from W4KA MEN HERE all types. Much emphasis has been' area nightly to hear music from o Minimum temperature fo- |Btecl 60, Pound $4.04. Merchants ask _that the dynamite-laden question of Po-' ' ' sard and Bob Ticknor | placed on landing eraft and attack tured Japanese recordings on “wrje D. Perry is visiting here|® night, 5; maximum Satur- e' Dow, Jones averages today are placed early tomorrow S “tvad at the Gastineau | vessels with the construction of 37,- vaged Japanese phonographs, 11 | Iiansas City, Mo. He is stay-| ® day, 8. ens follows: Industrials, 152; rails, |delivery on scheduled trips of their “J(Continued on Page Four) ol itka. 024 little ships, {15« the Baranof Hotel, 18.30; utilities, 26.28. trucks. the second time in three days, a Navy communique announced. | JAP SU E " These attacks by a small force | ENORMOUS' KL were made from the enemy’s Iwo | ot old ;an W‘imj,‘ after scveral:SAlVA‘"O" ARMY 'S | LONDON—A British correspond- | ent on the Belgian front says von Highway Engineer—$13,000, raised |{rom the important road town, of to $15,500. Barga. Commissioner of Mines — $44,000,] The four day old German drive ing blindly. Americans groped for the dis- ordered enemy in fog which lUmited alse starts and stops has hit | Rundstedt’s withdrawal in the Ar-! south toward Lucca also pushed ! yigj) g Jima base in the Volcanos, 750 | Southeast Alaska at last if the I"A"Kfl"- To IHOSE dennes salient has “developed ‘nll’{m;ae:,.;fm‘;,‘&m}m raised to $16,500. Allied forces from the area of VTI;\?EL& iomy;:r:;me River = miles north of Saipan, despit;v MOSC ‘tflmperfllul'e and wind ‘_velocity wuo AIDED ou XMAS!E rout at some points tonight | Depariment of Labor — $33,800, Gallicano, two and one half miles|Rochefort wind spprosinglily heavy bombardment of Iwo this|describit » figures at several points in the| f raised to $37,650. from Barga on the west bank of miles east of the Meuse and month by American warships and |said ch¢ almost daily raids by Yank planes,‘!-illuollb a including Superfortresses. }in the ) |country mean anything. | Whistling down out of the North | |[the wind in the past two days has|thank those who made possible the The Salvation Aymy wishes to platters give forth with hot 4w CHICAGO—Federal Judge Sulli-| \van has set January 8 for the hear- | ing in the Government’s lawsuit ) = oo ve Department—$71,000, rais- the Serchio before it slowed down. Territorial Guard—$69,400, raised to $100,400. - | miles southeast of Celles, the d* |est point of German penetra '