The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1945, Page 1

4 S B “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” KA EMPIRE YHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1949 GOPY o e . e emrmmems GIFT P VOL. LXIV., NO. 9847 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANU/\R\ b ‘)45 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =S| RAGING WEST FRONT FIGHT DEADLOCKED JAPS MAXE ATTACK ON MINDORO Shipping, Installations Are Hit — Lose 14 of 32 Raiding Planes GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD-| QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES \. 1.—The Japanese pressed their ir attacks on shipping and installa- tions cn Mindoro Island Saturday but lost 14 of 32 raiding planes. Fight Japanese planes were downed the previous night in an attack on an Anerican convoy in the same area bringing the two- te to 2 planes 1 no to communique made mention of American casualties shipping or other iosses (The Japanese Domei Agency claimed in a br s have been inging a two-days’ total ships sunk or dam- diticnal damaged, b to 33 American aged ) MacArthur's eowmunique today says oir attacks from the newly won Mindoro and Leyte zirfields against Japanese-held Luzon Island con- tinued. -—— The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt WASHINGTON—Members of the House Military Affairs Committee returned from Europe with no overconfidence about the war—no feeling that government warnings f “plenty of war yet to come” are merely the mouthings of bureau- | cracy. One thing the was that although the the British Tommies are Allies, there is little brotherly feeling among them. This is particularly true in France—less so in Italy where the two groups have ‘been fighting side by side for many months. In France, Yank troops are quite frank that they feel the British are letting America fight the war Not only are there twice as man American soldiers there as British, but nearly all the action in the last six weeks has involved Ameri- cans and not British. (The Con-; gressmen left France before the present German offensive got unde» way.) On the other hand, the Yanks who know the activities of the French First Army in the southern- most sector of the front have great respect for the fighting qualities of the Poilu. There is no gripe, about the French lying down on their job. This French Army was equipped | from Lend-Lease goods, but few! Solons observed Fro.chmen realize that their army | is using American equipment. The story has not been put across by our propaganda service, and most Frenchmen believe the British equipped the French Army. Britis publications and the British radio have made no attempt to coun- teract that impression. Representative Paul Shafer Michigan was critical of OWI and the propaganda job done for Am-| The he ! erica France and Italy. British are deing far better, said, especially by radio. So far as the troops are concerned, cans are getting their news about six weeks behind the times. The day he left, reported Michigan Republican, pre-election copies of Time and Newsweek had arived. “Radio news broad- ts for cur troops are so inade- quate that they rely mainly upon BBC B Broadcasting Com- pany),” Shefer. “BBC puts in said " (Continued on Page Four) News || at | Yanks and | h | of Ameri- | just | the | Britain Going fo Race United Sates Hard for mPostar Auto Markel TROOPS HURL GERMANS OUT OF BUDA NOW | | By CHARLI | LONDON, Jan. CHAMBERLAIN 1—Three months rolling British but their off production lines of factories by the thousands, prices will be almost | double the prewar cost, |to the best estimate of | big manufacturers. Prewar models only will be pro- duced for two or three years before designs can drawn and retooled turning out postwar Meanwhile, customers will ay an $1,200 for virty the be for cars. new plants genuine LONDON. 1.—Hard fighting Russian sh troops hurled the Germans out of two-thirds of Buda, England's the western half of Budapest, and'estimated today ncared the Danube embank-/same average type machine that m the center of the burning paq a price tag of $600 in 1939 Hungarian capital, battling amid| Twenty per cent of the total scenss of slaughter unrivaled SiNCe yrewar production of British cars s exported and the government Jan | Stalingrad L4 Red Army units overran 300 blocks e vo keep its world market s and buildings in Buda yes-', "oy novking a fixed percentay , the eastern half he;xd"d preduction for outside trade inner With this plan, England expects ¢ to offer immediate competition to the-U. S. industry, which British car builders foresec as blddh’lg for demination of the world's private In the Danube knee they swept @uto market the Germans out of Northeastern| One Hungary into Slovakia on a 200-mile ‘aware Ameri apable of quickly front from the mouth of the Ipoly swinging over to production in a River to the frontier town of Sator- jarger scale than Britain can hope ‘aljujhely. 'for, can get the jump on postw Meanwhile, Nazi commentators of oytput of newly-designed cars and |the Berlin radio told of Russian yee it effectively to bid for eparations far & big winter offen- ¢ grage—and still meet demands sive, saying the Red Army is mass- ooy o oun public.” ing men and materiels on the way 4 to Krakow, Southern Polish strong-| ~Britain must get 140 million hold on the thréshhold of German dollars worth of exports to redress Silesia. They are probing the Nazi the adverse overseas trade balance {lines in East Prussia. larising by the ppearance of in- ‘NORIH SEA"FEOMA “lu:n;:-“,\h;:;;w Thomas, chairman : SITKA; GOES SOUTH ‘I\l(l‘n while in Pes {cf the capital, the Soviet spear drove three miles into the defenses. Simultaneously, north o the (ity, Russian troops smashed the last enemy remnants trapped in the s Hill industrialist said, "We are over- (of the Public Relations Committee of the British Society of Motor | Manufacturers and Traders. “The | Government desires to devote a Steamer North Sea arrived from fixed percentage of auto production Sitka early Sunday morning with to export trade for a peried of two the following passengers to three years after the war.” | Stephanie’ Bogden, Henry Kitka.! 1f England limits home les to {Tom Sauders, Mrs, Tom Sanders, pogst exports and if American in- Nora sandex's:. Mrs. M. Wanamaker, terests can undersell British models = fif;f“)gflfmfli'&f ;'ufr';jfil‘y by at least $400, the country's Sgt. Philip En T4 Burton home market would be open for Lutz, Pvt. Alexander Wilde, Mrs, | Robt. Bartlett, Susie Bartlett, R. C. | Avrit, Wallace Westfall. | Leaving southbound late yester- \day afternoon were the following: For Seattle—James Ruston, Jr., !Charlie Brown, Willie Brown, Peter | Fushnick, Alice Saxon, Mildred Steen, Cpl. Dale F. Steen, A. A. |Drymude, Harry Milne, F. T. Ven-| Itilli, F. W. Antos, J. B. Monroe, |Mrs. Clara Shearer, Leo Erickson, |Eleanor Erickson, Mrs. Frances Gail Williamson, Le- Williamson, |Roy Williamson, LaReece illiam-|Berry’s paternity suit against him, Ison, Jeo J. LaPierce. which resumes mmmm\\. he will " J. Rockne, S. R. Brown, Helen |&ttend in a wheelchair Emvm F. Williamson, Frances Wil- ‘The comedian kicked a glass panel | liamson, Carl Williamson {in his Beverly Hills' home Saturday beth Botak, R. Akabouski, J,|BiSht. while attempting to get into ‘akacs, R. Guiseppini, Marjorie the house without keys. A physician |Spolor; Georgla Eing, Darlene Nal|¥PPSEkel 18 suffered o deep gash |ders, Ruth Peterson {on his M", ankle. The comedian John ‘O'Neil, Matt Vartabedian, will be confined to a wheelchair for | & A almest two week }E Croft, Geo. Barsl ¥, Lois B‘ _,‘ R i | JuliusBa: r, C. L thhanl CAUTIOUS OVER EUROPEANWAR Tubbs, D. Paul'mu. LONDON, Jan. 1. (Continued on Page Five) s ' CHARLES CHAPLIN CUTS ANKLE WHEN HE KICKS PANE LOS AI\(:ELES Jdll 1.—If Charles lchapllfl attends any of the remain- ing sessions of the uml of Joan K. For Petersburg— Miss H. Burk !John Silva, Miss E. Horton, Eric Ness, Mrs. Ness, and Lorraine Rude | For Wrangell — W. Theiymeyer | Marion Nielson, and Patty Devenny For Ketchikan—J. W. Rhedes, C [ Meyers, — British Min- .- MISS COULTER RETURNS | cautious hope that Germany will be finally Leaten in 1945, the Con:ervative Primrose League. Miss Etolin Couiter, of the Gov- ernor's office staff, returned to |Juneau on the Princess Norah from | lOWever upan the' year Wrangell, where she spent the Pring us victory in Burope” Christmas holiday. x = FROM POINT RETREAT — KETCHIKAN VISITOR Sig Rafsol is in town from Ket- |chikan and is staying at the Gas- is registered at the Gastineau Hotel ! {ineau Hotel, |from Point Retreat, ;-(tm V-Day automobiles will be! according | England’s’ accidents 1 other held before the war,”| ister Winston Churchill expressed a| speaking to covers many, Churchill said the Allies entered| “that shuuld‘ Mis. Ed Hope is in Juneau and!will .resume her duties at the Su 50 DEAD IN UTAHTRAIN CRACK UP Slxty Also Injured in Worst| Train Accident in Western History Jan. 1—Some 50 the 1 persons died and 60 others were | spanked jured Sunday in a crash of a|“Happy speeding Southern Pacific mail ex- It was quiet two minutes before press and a slowly-moving passen- dnight, then as the hands of the ger train clock stood straight up, the old fire Both were bell vealed forth to the salute of fog-shrouded causeway over the'[lir ackers and shots, the bell of shallow waters of the Great Saltithe Methodist Church rang, lights Lake. Rai>,ad officials believed all| were blinked in the Elks ballroom| bodies had been taken from thejand noist was let loose and it was tangled wreckage of nearly a dozen| “Happy New Year” from the throug and the locomotive, but work-| Pistol shots were also heard in ; | men still toiled to clear away the]Various sections of the city. | debris In the Baranof Gold Room, where otarians were celebrating, greetings It was one Rotarians were cel | ia%e at » exchanged - history of the Ml (RN, groctings filled the West. A woman pagsenger Sald:if,, ..y auto horns honked | “The terrible collision was muowm“‘ ng; By ) the various cocktail bars, health by screaming, :nbmn' and shrieks' itn the New Year was downed of the imjured. In the Northern Light Presbyter-| A sailor said the telescoping of i, ehurch and the Methodist the coach “virtually pulverized thecpurch, songs were given as old| seats and bodies were crushed 1944 slippad out and 1945 arrived.| geser: cre was a large attendance An 18-car passenger train, the|poth churches | first section of the Pacific Limited,! At many homes, where there were! 21, was running slowly along the small parties and family gatherings, causeway that leads to the trestle!paby 1945 received cordial wel-| crossing of Great Salt Lake when come ( it was struck from behind by the| But with the greetings, there m-n- second section, made up of 20 mail also expressions of sadnes and express cars. The locomotive, One party of soldiers halted on of the second section bored into, the sct. One of the boys said the rear Pullman passenger unit. “Yes, a new year, and I hope it is The force of the impact sent an- going to be a happy one. But our sleeping car smashing|boys, over there and down yonder through the dining car and farther|a celebrating in grim fights. I ahead slammed one coach into the ' hs a brother, I guess he’s on the wooden coach ahead. In this coach western front, and another brother at least 28 are dead he's somewhere with MacArthur.| Railroad officials refused to haz- |But I wish them a happy year, just| ard a guess as to the cause of the the sam and there was something accident but ordered an investiga- |that came out of his eyes and tri tion led down his cheek The other boy looked at him—and they had mem- ories—and one or two ey bhecame dewy. t0o. then opped and i soldier, sal wherever they ir, on the sick v BABY 1945 SLIPS RIGHT INIOJUNEAU | I { | i i pery streets Juneau exactly at {midnight, last night, {baby's didies were wet from the im- {pact in connecting with the ice on { the sidewalk of padestrians did during previous fo midnight e snow and yelled Year. OGDEN, Utah, o a New west-bound on the of the the worst i railroad ‘[ I to- - JUNEAU BACK AGAIN IN REAL BANANA BELT ..." . |seas, in quarters, o la happier and a better New Year Then the group Joi in with a coastguardsman, who ened to the last stepped up. bad remarks of the and with a salute, “Here's to them, Well, Juneau is back in the banana t belt again, the little ccld wave that “Happy New Year,” and the hand struck here last Thursday has slip- of the clocks cing righ ped away—and slipping is right.'around for and During the cold pericd, the ther- New Year mometer the fire hall registered! 12 above zero last Thursday after-| S(HOOI_S IAKE up noon at 5:30 o'clock, d'up},LJ u» 10[ it Juneau mgn and Grade' above at 9:30 p.m., hi '9 a.m. Friday, dropped one degrvc take up again tomorrow the Christmas holidays, reg- to 5 t 9 p.m. and remained lherc es being held at the usual better for 12 hours, then went up to |degrees at 8 p.m. Saturday. I'hh The !is according to the Fire Hall ther-|School mometer. During this time old after Taku blew in gusts, then more gusts'ular clas and fuel oil went right up the chim-|hours. I neys, needing no pipe in which to| be runduclcd vesterday and the wind died do\n with snow flurries. It was 19 a lr)w‘ |zero at the Fire Hall av 11 a. m. Sun- fday and the sidewalks were slippery —by gosh y nd there were many! LONDON, slip and a bump and a rub. At|George, 81, Britain'’s foremost elder |8 o'clock last night it was 21 degrees! sman, who held a seat in the wlmv': zero and still, no wind. At 2 of Commons for 54 years :30 o'clock this morning it was 24| to earldom receiving the \dvmrc‘ above zero and the same distinction “of its kind on {registration at 8 a.m. today. Snow|the New Year's honor list. | flurries started shortly after 9'clock - but, keep your fingers crossed MRS. GRAY RE might turn snappy again Jetta H. Gray And, be cautious--this snow flurr Norah after several many icy spots in the states. also streets Yo Gk > ANCHORAGE RETURNS FROM ‘i Helen Holt has returned to J neau from Seattle, where she h ‘ {been on a month’s vacation. S| Jan. l David LlU;d a RNS Mrs. returned on the Princess 1| weeks visting FROM Don McCulley |in town from Anchorage and are | registered at the Gastineau Hotel. | sidewalks and SOUTH PETERSON 1IN ’I‘()\\'V J. E. Peterson is in town and is | registered at the Gustineau Hotei ' from Wrangell, Port here, where she has been en ployed for the past two years. MADE EARL TODAY| e and Alex Wilde are| Center of Paiernity Suit Baby 1845 slipped down the mp»‘ and although | baby got right up, like | Carol Ann Berry, 14 months old, ¢asts an uncensored eye at the camera on the eve' of trial of a paternity suit at Los Angeles, in which her mother, Jean Berry, seeks to have actor Charles Chaplin named as the father of the child. (AP Wi lrl-pholm Madame Perkms Has Great Postwar Plans; Changes Are Proposed SPEECH BY HITLER OM NEW YEAR Fuehrer Says End of War, Not to Come Before 1946 ~Threals Are Made [« K | , LONDON, Jan Adolf Hitler wm the German people in a radio nddu:- early today the “end of the war will not come before 1946, un- ‘less by German victory, because Germany will never capitulate | B ng a silence of five mon the German Puehrer declared Ipeople are resolved to fight a {to victol under any and all | cumstan Hitler, in 30-min speec |threatened dissenters v ithin besie ed and invaded coun' rting “we are g o destroy body who does n take part the lcommon effort for country who | 'makes himself « tool of en- lemy. 1—-In spite will be a ASHINGTON, of rumors that therr change in the head of; the Labor | Department and that it's common- \ly ucupbwi as truth that Secretary ces Perkins has had her un- on the Pre Madame Per most ambi- and Jan, (l,nml gnation dent’s desk for years, kins has probably the {tious plan for reorganization strengthening of her of any of the cabinet According to reports, kins wants folded into the Labor department all of the government ities that have anything to do labor. members. Mrs. Per- This would include {power Commission; |\ll yment is WMC secur 1 the U. 8. Em- which virtually branches of Bo- functions of Service which spections and i most of Labor Board predicted that will be mad departme everal those Public Health with fac cor deal itions Wa working the work of It being tually ¢ !that, come 15 our | the war is and will of Mad- ardless of offer o the Labor ute ‘ame wheth resign pla o Yua reitera 10 is accepted in WMC mainly T Mrs. Perkins wa because it would return her department. That mos +ful national employment often referred to Mrs baby” It w born during the fearly days of the New Deal and ithe Labor secretary protested when, in 1938, shifted to Security. When it wa \sferred to WMC, Mrs, Perkins again felt that it should have come back to the Labor department USES ha been through which WMC has been able to carry out most of its directives and provides WMC with almost |instantaneous picture of the man- or the ager Perkins' 1944 Hitler admittec {1944 has been tions in this gig: Hitler, who la in the radio after the unsucce {tempt on his lif |“a people has to c« with its last drop lenly the char |prmnpted me to s Ih has been a time {more from me {Months after Ju Iribulations however, that vear of tribula- tic struggle.” spoke publicly iress immediately ful July 20 at- declared that fend its dignity of blood, and of the year at this time. hat demanded than speeches. 20 it is de 1S it was € the channel an (Continued l(,‘WllmuPd on Page on Page Five) department | the War Mun-f even- | Social | BATTLEIS FLUID AND INDECISIVE Both Armies Seek fo Pinch 0ff Segments of En- emy Troops BULLETIN—PARIS, Jan, 1— The Germans smashed at the U, S. Army line on a 10-mile front on hoth sides of the Bitche late yesterday and early today in five successive attacks, two of them of battalion strength, for what may be another major blow by von Rundstedt. It is too early yet to essay the weight of the onslaught but the German commander’s now stale- mated offensive across Luxem- bourg into Belgium started in much the same fashion. Bitche is the strong point of the old Maginot Line. The best flying weather in over a week touched off blazing air battles as the Luftwaffe came up by the hundreds to answer the challenge of the Allied air forces. Fifty-three of the German craft are claimed to be definitely de- stroyed in preliminary reports. Of these, 33 were downed in the swirling battle above the Ameri- can airfield in Belgium. Some 50 Messerschmitts and Focke Waulfs attacked the field and were met by American fighter defense, which knocked down all but 17 of the attacking group. ! COUNTER-ATTACK SHATTERED | PARIS, Jan. 1 — Third Army troops today shuttered a strong |German counter-attack seeking to !pinch off Bastogne, while other forces of Patton are reported toe be striking heavily northeast to narrcw the 13 mile waist of the | Belgian bulge. The counter-attack jcost Nazi Marshal von Rundstedt 118 tanks. The Germans hit with tanks, a tillery and infantry at Chenogne, southwest of Bastogne and north of Letrebois to the southeast. At these points enemy columns are five and a half miles apart, Su- preme Headquarters said. The northern flank of the Ar- dennes salient is quiet, northwest of the corridor of Bastogne. Paton’s men are attacking to the northeast, immediately south of Wiltz. The Third Army made some progress northward and farther east captured Relsdorf, south of the Sure River and four and one half miles east of Diekirch Indecisive Battle The battle remained fluid and indecisive. Both armies have the same aim—to pinch off large seg- ments of opposing troops. The Ger- mans have once again appeared to be striving for the road center of Bastogne, where the 10lst Air- (Continued on Paye Thiee) e 1,600 AMERICAN PLANES HIT NAZI OIL, RAIL WORKS Is Tenth Day of One of War's Greatest sus- tained Offensives LONDON, Jan. 1.—More than 1,600 American warplanes hit the German oil refinery at Dollbargen northwest of Brunswick and the railroad network in the Coblenz area At least 800 Fortresses, headed by 800 Mustangs and ‘Thunderbolts took part in the attack. This was the tenth successive day in one of the | war's greatest sustained offensives.