The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9846 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATLHPAY, DECEMBER 30, 1944 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YANKS HIT GERMANS T RED ADVANCE HARD FOUGHT IN BUDAPEST Yard Gains Won by Night SUB SEA WOLFIS LISTED MISSING; | - TOTAL NOW IS 34 | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — The| United States submarine Sea Wolf | is overdue on patrol and is pre- {sumed to be lost. | The Navy announcement said the |vessel was under command of. Lt.| [Comdr. Albert Bontier of White| of Bayonet Fighting and Grenade Throwing MOSCOW Dec. 30 — Red Army troops fighting their way yard- by-yard into the heart of Buda- |Plains, N. Y., now listed as missing. | The 1500-tonner class sub nor-| |mally carries a complement of 62 |men. No announcement was made | lof the number lost. | The Sea Wolf brought to 34 the |total of United States subs lost in! . U. §. PROTESTS T0 GERMANY ON KILLINGS Shooting Down of Unarm- ed Soldiers in Belgium Brings Action WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — United States is for rding the rongest possible protest” to Ger- pest cleared the defenders from|ih. war. Four were sunk and 28 many over the shocl}ing of cap- several main streets after all-night|are gverdue and presumed lost nnd}tured. disarmed American soldiers. bayonet battles and grenade-throw- ing at close range. Numerous build- ings fell into Russian hands dur- ing the night. . It is believed that the - ~ajor {two destroyed to prevent capture. | | > | RED STAR GIVES The State Department issued this announcement: “The Department of State is forwarding the strongest possible protest to the German government through the Swiss au- (EISENHOWER HAS - TOOHEAVYLOAD, - BROWNRIGG SAYS | LONDON, Dec. 30—sir Douglas { Brownrigg, British licutenant gen- |eral, said that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is trying to carry too 'heavy a load by personally direct- ling the land fighting, and he sug- gested that Eisenhower delegate | some of his duties. | Brownrigg, adjutant general of the British expeditionary force in France at the time of his retire- The ment in 1940, wrote the London| GE Evening News, “I have met no one |who had any doubt whatever that Eisenhower is the ideal man as the supreme commander, but he cannot carry the load he imposed upon himself.” 'WARNING ISSUED ON part of the Buda section of Buda- | pest standing high on the western | bank of the Danube is now held by | Soviet forces. In Pest across the PRAISE TO YANK {thorities in regard to the Killing, | by German forces, near Malmedy, JBelgmm, of all but 15 of a group CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF MEN IN SERVICE Danube from Buda Red Army troops made steady progress es- pecially in the southern sector where most of the Hungarian capi tal's docks and wharves are situat- |«gisenhower's successes against the|clear ed. MOSCOW, Dec. 30—The Russian | Army paper Red Star declared,| |German® offensive have compelled | 1o( about 130 American soldiers and D FE |officers that Lad been taken pris- oners by a German tank corps and stripped of their equipment.” The official announcement made the American government has accepted as beyond any ques- German resistance stiffened in|the enemy to lower their voices. tion the accuracy of reports from both Buda and Pest but Soviet ad- | Allied troops are creating conditions Army headquarters front line cor- vances along the Danube given Marshal Rodion Malinovsky’s forces the possibility of denying virtually all future river traffic to the Germans. Hungarians are striking out from the docks of Pest as the Russians advance toward the heart of the town. None of Budapest's airfields are in German hands and every enemy soldier is encircled in the enenp scldier encircled in the capi- | tal apparently faces death or cap- ture. Light tanks and armored cars found going especially tough due to numerous mines and light anti- tank weapons fired down the streets and intersections. Dozens of enemy Tommy-gunners and ma- chine gunners were hidden in hun- dreds of city buildings. - their main base. | | “It is surprising that there are some press observers who compared | the German breakthrough on a| relatively narrow front with the| |German offensive in the west 1940. | | “Reperts indicate a slackening in| German operations.” ! in| ‘The Washington Merry-Go-Round! ! By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active | ! service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON—No matter what| K‘happens from now on regarding| the German counter-offensive, we | have to face the cold fact that the| have |for isolating the German group from respondents that the Germans have ruthlessly killed American prisoners. e e some 'FOUR ADMITTED T0 MEMBERSHIP IN ALASKA BAR Four men, including a soldier sta- tioned with the ACS in the Aleu- tians, were admitted to the Alaskan bar Friday. The soldier, William Olsen, took his written examination in Ketchi- kan prior to going to the Aleutians. A special order of the court waived the necessity of his taking the oral examination, and he was admitted with the others. News concerning men overseas, of vital importance to their families, is often delayed unnecessarily due to failure of dependents to notify the War Department of changes in address, the Ninth Service Com- mand Adjutant General's Office, Fort Douglas, Utah, declares. In one month as many as 4,000 |telegrams were returned to Wash- ington, D. C., because the addres- see could not be fount, official re- ports reveal. Practically every case |of non-delivery was due to failure of the addressee to report the cor- rect and complete address. In keeping records of America's millions in _service, the Adjutant. General’s Office accepts the respon- cibility of notifying families as soon as possible after a serviceman has become a casualty. Receiving this news late, or from other than official sources, is a great hardship to a soldier’s family. Telegraph offices receiving mes- sages for in attempting to locate addressees and exhaust ev prior to returning them to the War delivery cooperate rullyl ry possible means | YANKPLANES | RAISE HAVOC - WITH ENEMY | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—During \Seven Jap Freighters Are iou te vuitea States Government Bombed-Nip Airdrome [sorewed more money tham i any on Panay Is Hit ‘ iprevious year in history. | Uncle Sam established a |world's record that may stand for MacARTHUR'S HEAD-|a long time. However the deficit, |QUART IN THE PHILIP-|the amount the spending exceeded |PINES, Dec. 30—Mitchell bombers the income, did not set a record |hit Japanese shipping in Lingayen |that is considered good news. The {Gulf off the western coast of Luzon |deficit was still a huge $52 billion, /Iland in the Philippines and |but in 1943 it was $53% billion. |heavily damaged a 7,000 ton| An unofficial analysis of the daily freighter, Gen. Douglas MacAr- |treasury statements through De- thur announced today. |ceémber 26 shows: {i Nipponese planes attacked Am-‘ Net receipts, mostly taxes, will be | new | RRIFIC BLOWS $52,000,000,000 Deficif Seen Following Biggest Income in U. §. Hisfory ESCAPE GAP (LOSING ON NAZI FORCE Von Rundstedt Faces An- i:]’::;]l;mnl 1039 they were about $5 nihila"on in Belgium as Corridor Narrows inearly $45 billions. Last year they the pre-war Total expenditures, not counting several billions spent by the gov- i ernment corporations, will hit $97| PARIS, Dec. 30. — The German billion. Last year they were $88 winter lunge into Belgium recoiled today bit by bit under trip-hammer American blows which fortnight hours ago had sliced the width of the Nazi bulge to 13 miles and flung its deepest spearheads back twelve miles, The Allied security cloak conceal- |ed later developments except for the billion. In 1939 they were less than $10 billion. If one subtracts the net receipts from the total expenditures, he will arrive at the aforementioned $62 I billion deficit. ferican positions on Mindoro um‘ |night of December 27. Eight .of (h(“ |23 attacking aircraft were broughtiHolIDAY BEGINS |down. | | Another 268 Japanese dead were | s |counted December 27 during lhe‘ IONIGHI' MANY {mopping up of isolated enemy units (o Leye Taand EVENTS ON TAP { American heavy bombers drop- ped 72 tons of explosives on San Jose airdrome on Panay Island | | Well, tomorrow night is New |between Leyte and Mindoro and|Year's Eve and Monday is New Iknocked out six grounded planes, |Year's Day Gen. MacArthur acknowledged | Observance of the holiday begins | i {that the December 27 night raid |tonight with the dance at the Bar- lon Yank airfields and shipping at {3nof Hotel and the Hi-Jinks at the | Capitol Theatre, {Mindoro caused “some damage.” k 4 [The ack-ack was good and some| W Vears Ive Wil be observed attacking night fighters were | C.Siously and also tilariously. Sev- | g (eral churches will hold watch night {downed. |services to usher the old year out | The remainder of six small en jand the new year in, Earlier in iemy freighters were bombed, strafed the evening, the Rotary will have ‘:md left sinking off Borneo. their party at the Baranof Hotel i B @R o - 50 und the annual Hi-Jinks of the Elks IUSES AN“OU" E will take place in the Elks Club and i baliroom. Tkis last event is for . MANY OPENINGS Elks only, with paid up membership, |and their ladies. There will be several private “open (&t restaurants and dining rooms, Workers are being sought for a, City ana Territorial offices will be |caretaking crew for a location near c¢losed but Federal offices wiii be |Juneau the local office of the | “business as usual” additional strengthening and widen- WARNING ing of the American Third Army's corridor to Bastogne. By Friday morning the Third had fought four { 'houses” Monday and many ramlly‘ dinners are scheduled at homes or 'miles above Bastogne and by Thurs- mist gave him a ‘The First Army has been hitting for no gain but still had enough The haze and Admiral Nimifz Tells Nips e indieations tost ven s |eral Eisenhower. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — Adm.|smashing back the flanking attacks Japanese people that the United is pinched shut. Inevitably defeating h Front dispatches today indicated Fleet, carried by the first Ameri- *iter days of fog. day within 13 miles. the German north flank for close to {three days. The Germans were held armored power poised for another blow. chance to bring up supplies and re- . |stedt is prepared to risk his ammies | Of fl.l'ul'e Ra'dS"‘Ap' |against the force assembled by Glen- | peal |S Made The Nazi Commander must either AR continue his offensive threat by Chester W. Nimitz notified the}oz' get his armor out before the gap The gap is nar- 'States navy will‘“carry the fight- oW enough o bhe reked by American ing to the very vitals of Japan,” 8rtillery. L Whe - reapided. ik ’m, of the that the skies are clearing which Commander-in-chief of the Pacific Will give aix power new opportunity can medium wave broadcast aimed BP0 i DAL {at the telephone radio sets of the Japanese citizens, was uccumpanlcdl by an appeal also recorded by| Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew that the Japanese |Germans at least have achieved | NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION com s . Lt OF SCOTTISH RITE TO BE [proionged the war by about six MONDAY FROM 2 Io sml”lq:;: objective undoubtedly wus. to get time to form 100 new divi-| The Scottish Rite Bodies will sions to be ready for next spring. have their customary New Year's | They have been scraping up man-l reception Monday, January 1, New power from every conceivable Year’s Day afternoon, between the source, and already have organized | hours of 2 and 5 o'clock. This will several new divisions, i be their thirty-third annual ob-| Our winter drive was for the | servance of the event. All Masons purpose of taking the west bank | and their families are invited, as‘o! the Rhine, including the Sieg- well as Eastern Stars and Rainbow |fried Line well before spring. Now | Girls. There will be the customary |that is definitely out. Those who refreshments, and an informal |are close to the war planners figure | musical program will be presented.|that the time gained by the Nazis It is announced by the officers|cannot help but prolong the war| of the bodies that out-of-town by at least six months—possibly and visiting Masons are most wel- |longer. | come to aitend and get scqummed' Another possible result may be| with members of the Masonic ira-,the slowing down of the Philippine ternity of Juneau. [oilens&va MacArthur’'s men are in —————— \no danger and can hold out in-} S lY |definitely. They dlso have plenty | | |of reserves in New Guinea and| |Hollandia. But the big offensive | they had planned against Luzon | The present cold snap and windy weather has not affected the PAA end daily flights have been made in| and out of Juneau. The Alaska Coastal Airlines is fly- ing today, although local trips were postponed yesterday because of the weather. At the Fire Hall this morning the thermometer registered 5 degrees above zero, the same as at 1:30 o'clock this morning, but the mer- cury at noon was edging upward. The weather bureau officially re- ports 6 degrees above zero for Ju- neau yesterday, and forecasts a minimum of 3 degrees above tonight. — . ® o 0o 0 6 0 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. Weather Bureau) . o o o . Temperature, December 29 o In Juneau—Maximum, 15; e minimum, 6. L4 At Airport—Maximum, 14; e minimum, 6. L4 ® o 0 00 0 0 0 0 o TOMORROW’'S FORECAST e . . . . . . . . . e o o Juneau and vicinity—Part- ly cloudy tonight, increasing to cloudy with occasional light snow flurries late to- night or Sunday. Minimum temperature tonight, 3; maximum Sunday, 10 ® s e0ecccscvvvcsccrne imay be held up. NOTES | The Nazis have now done what the Dutch did not do in 1940— !opened the dikes and flooded large {sections in front of the British |Army. This means it will take| |Dutch farmers 50 years to get the salt out of their soil in order to raise crops again . . . Military ob- servers are puzzled by the fact that the Japs have been so slow in op-| posing MacArthur on Mindoro Is- iland. Dense jungles and mountains |haven't stopped the Japs from at-| tacking in other cases . . . Mean-g {while, MacArthur is fitting Mindoro out as an excellent air base which eventually can accommodate B-29's for attacking the mainland of China . . . The Nazi breakthrough put a terrific crimp in the U. 8. supply of artillery shells. Not only {have the Nazis captured a lot of U. S. stores, but the First Army |on the defensive has been using up ishells at a rate equivalent to a major offensive. | ‘The supply problem can't all be blamed on American workers, how- | WAR (Continued on Page Four) FROM TELLER Midge Ward is in town from | nounce the revision soon. Harold J. Butcher, with the OPA at Anchorage, and John A. Nyman and Charles Waynor, both of Juneau tock the oral sxamination in court' Friday before Judge George F. Alex-| ander. Henry Roden, Attorney Gen-/ eral, gave the examination, and upon Department. However, it is necessary to return thousands stamped “address incor- rect.” Emergency addressees who have moved after departure of a soldier 4 for overseas duty, or for other| early afternoon, the same as on, his motion all were admitted: ey ; i Jobs. Saturdays $EORORS, < D luged. o m‘form the Openings for the caretaking crew | » deuuma G(;x\;era] 1:1 omzce, DWS‘ jobs are; one electrician with re-| SHOE RATIONING “Exicih™in * * sty e GERMANS MOVING Bex:':]onv Asuudy ];fl"c:"d fitter with heating experience, one | h old beneviv ax; gam “ trcs':s‘mechanic with diesel and gas ex-| To BE 'IGHIER shoul given in as on to ‘v e!perlence, one carpenter, one laborer, ME" AND MAIERIEL soldiers full name, rank, serial 1o 2 e g one cook, two cock’s helpers, three | number, organization, and his APO i | IN COMING YEAR - e UP, ITALIAN FRONT FumReL |" With the opening of the U. 8.! [ e e | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. — That| tightening of the shoe rationing pro- gram is imminent was learned today. Reliable sources said the current | pelicy of two pairs of shoes per year| cannot ke continued during 1945. It { is predicted that the next shoe cou- | pon will not be validated until mid- N summer at the earliest, instead of | ATHENS, Dec. 30-Prime Min- May 1. ister Churchill’s efforts to solve the It was understood that the Office|G7e€K crisis bore fruit with an of Price Administration will an- 2uthoritative statement by Arch- 1t is ex-|Pishop Damaskinos, who will prob- | |United States Employment Service| Stores are also closed Monday but lannounced today. | many will begin taking inventory. | They also have a good many| 7There is ce skating on Menden- openings for experienced |hall and there will be skiing at the railroad |6 4 4 {workers for the White Pass :md‘uppxru ik | The Empire will publish as usual, |Yukon Railroad at Skagway. These . Dl 48 4 {Jobs, it was stated, are permanent but the edition will be issued in the {Army Hospital in Skagway as a tuberculosis sanitarium for both| ROME, Dec. 30 — The Allied whites and natives scheduled for|Command reported today there was sometime next spring recruiting of |increased movement of enemy employees for a permanent staff is troops and materials on the Tyr- istarted. | rhenian coastal sector of the Itali- Wanted immediately are three an front. They said also that the situation 1 the Serchio Va 15 miles firemen. An- thigh pressure boiler | ung man |cther opening is for a {to act as a deckhand-clerk on the inland, “remains fluid.” Five days ;'m.(\mg boat to be equipped as a @80 the Germans launched a modern medical laboratory. counter-offensive on a six-mile This boat is to visit ports in ' front in the Serchio Valley which‘ |a “government of free men.” | Admiral Nimitz also warned that| Japanese industrial targets in |Japan end Manchuria would be| razed by Superfortresses “just as| |Allied warfare reduced the pro- iduc!iw- capacity of Germany.” }HOMER GARVIN IS ' NAMED CHAIRMAN, | - BIG ALASKA DRIVE Homer Garvin, manager of the| Capitol theatre in Juneau, has| been appointed Chairman for Al- ‘nska of the War Activities Com- | ‘mittee of the Motion Picture In- {dustry by N. Peter Rathvon, Presi-| dent of RKO Radio Pictures, who |has been named National Chairman ‘,ot the Motion Picture Industry's |Red Cross and War Fund week March 15 throughi | | | | |scheduled for March 21. | In his radiogram to Garvin, | | ! peuplei joverthrow military rule and create | | HEADED WEST (By Associated Press) The Tokyo radio reported that several American convoys are “at- tempting to force their way west- ward” through the Mindanao Sea to the Sulu Sea. The Blue Network recorded the broadcast which declared that Jap units have been striking “hammer- ing blows” on the convoy since the night of December 27. Imperial Jap headquarters elaim- ed its planes sank six “large trans- ports” and damaged two others yesterday while attacking 30 of the craft “heading westward in the Mindanao Sea through Suriago Straits."” - e, - MEDIUM LANDING SHIP IS SUNK OFF pected that the validity of the three| stamps now usable will be retained. | Principal reason for the prospec- tive reduction in ecivilian supplies is the increased military require- ments for leather. These demands are higher than ever as the result of tough going in Europe, REMOVAL OF OIL EQUIPMENT BY RUSSIA QUIZZED ASHINGTON, Dec. 30 The United States and Britain are ask- ing Russia to explain in detail the removal of equipment from the oil flelds of Romania to. the Soviet Union. Officials here said there was no criticism of Russia’s action. Wash ington and London are merely trying | to get at the facts of a very con- fused situation, it was explained. Inquiries were made in Moscow by British Ambassador Kerr and Am- erican Ambassador Harriman. The Soviet Union’s initial answer, regarded here as incomplete in that it supplies no details, said it has ably be sworn in as Regent to- morrow with the assent of King |George II. The Archbishop’s secretary said |Damaskinos “in all probability” | would immediately assume his new 'duties. An earlier report said King |George had consented to the for- imuuon of a regency after a long !talk with Churchill. | Forces of Gen .Napoleon Zervas !meanwhile were reported to be |evacuating the island of Corfu, |beld by British troops and forces friendly to the Zervas faction. | Athens sources estimated ‘Zervns 'power had dwindled from 3,000 to 2,000, due to casualties and |desertions. The British said large numbers of prisoners captured by the ELAS were stripped and forced |to endure the bitter weather. '~ STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 30. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today, the last session of 1044, | was 6%, American Can 90, Anaconda 29%, Beech Aircraft 14', Bethlehem | Steel 654, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- | ternational Harvester 80%, Kenne- cott 3 North American Aviation 110, New York Central 23%, Northern Pacific 20%, U. 8. Steel 60%. Pound that |Southeast Alaska but will be in|they claimed carried as far as {port most of the time. It is an Fornaci, a mile and a half south excellent opportunity for the right of Barga, representing a gain of |man to learn laboratory work. The about three and a half miles. applicant must be draft exempt., American Fifth Army troops The duration of the job is five |Were forced out of Barga and Gal- years. |licano before the Nazi drive ap- Persons who are interested in|Peared to have died down. The {filling any of these jobs are asked exact situation of the coastal drive {to contact the employment service |remains obscure. joffice at 124 Marine Way, Jack| X - Carvel, manager, announced. }pLUMBERS KEEP | WPBEXPANDSITS BUSY THAWING | FA(TORIES “ow| Plumbing and heating men in | |Juneau are keeping extra busy PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 30— |these days because of the cold snap. The War Production Board is now|This morning again they are ‘operating on the theory that the|making the rounds with blow- {war in Europe will go on 1nuc11nne-“!nrches and electric thawer. They ly, Chairman Krug told a press Were out before breakfast and |conference today. probably won't be back again be: As an example, he said new fac- fore late this evening, it is re tories have been built to supply poried demands for trench mortars. The| One plumber advised people to factories, which cannot get into leave a little neat running through production before next August, cost radiators in unused rooms to pre- some $200,000,000. He said if the war ends before |age of the pipes. August, a good deal of money ““"i He sald, too, that cold weather OUT PIPES NOW, |vent freezing and subsequent break- | Rathvon says: “I start on this! assignment with a full sense of the |unprecedented and urgent require- | ments, but feeling certain that I} can count upon leaders such as yourself to work actively with me to attain our goal which can and|Leyte of a medium landing ship, an |should be the greatest total of |LSM 20, the result of enemy |audience collections since the Mo- | action LEYTE ISLAND WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 — The Navy announced today the loss off as |tion Picture Industry pledged its| At the same time the Navy identi- lall to the war effort. fied the 2200-ton destroyer Cooper, “It is a large order to exceed|as the vessel recently lost in the the $6,800,000 mark obtained this same Philippine waters as a result |year by our industry for the Red Of night action against the enemy. Cross but we can do it as our The destroyer was not identified by boys have no quota for killing Name at the time it was announced Nazis and Japs and there is no sfr(f,fl(‘;:f:um::::lhur in a Decem- no Red Cross quota either because ships survived. No estimate was | can deliver is hot enough to in- the War Activities and Red Cross| To 60 OVERSEM Erling Husvik, navy gunner, is greater scale than that demanded given assurances to American and British interests that the oil fields $4.04. will be protected. It claimed Lhat' Dow, Jones averages today are as Teller and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. the equipment removed was Ger-|follows: industrials 152.32, rails man. | 48.40, utilities 26.37. be lost, but if the war isn't over by| then, “as it probably won't,” the| ‘new plants will save many Amen-J can lives, was hard on oil burners so they should be in good runving order and not to let the tank get too low. » }mc mounting fwry of ‘the wm_‘ynrn of }l\c number of casualties. makes today's necessities seem SAYS ADDIIIONAL territory to try to the utmost of his leffort in this campaign. serving as Chairman for Alaska'" |Defense Minister Gen. A. G. L. - McNaughton sald Canadian over- 'His ship was sunk by Japs in a battle, with only about one-third of l |small tomorrow, and the most we REINFORCEMENTS “I sincerely reques’, you to give| | HOME FROM FRONT seas reinforcements “to an even ‘mc crew surviving. spire every theatre manager in your the benefit of your leadership by] OWEN SOUND, Ont., Dee. 30— home in Petersburg on !urluugh.' and promised are assured.” He did not elaborate on the statement, made in a New Year's radio address. -