The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1945, Page 1

| i | | I Fl -y THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ECORD 1945 o OL. LXIV., NO. 9848 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1945 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — [ PLANES IN SWEEP OF 150 MILES EW YORK, Jan. 2—A desperate Three Enemy Warships, jmiva o siempt to send - |teurs ashore on the east CO"A\( has Five Cargo Ships Re- v Nazis Put Ashore on East Coast Indicate Espionage OIIensive zniy | Hoover identified the alleged e pionage agents as William Curtis Colepaugh, 26, United States citizen e | | i BIGAIR | BATTLES, GERMANY German Raiders Pushed% Back in Po Valley- | !been thwarted. of Niantic, Conn., and Erich Gimpel The FBI announced that it had |35, German radio engincer from! H | poned Sent Down arrested two men, one an American, | 'amuh America. PflSOnelS Taken | landed by a U-boat November 29,| The landing was made at Han- ot { By JIM HUTCHESON near a.lonely Maine fishing vil- |cock Point in Frenchman's Bay,| LONDON, Jan. 2—Escorted Am-j ociated Press War lage. | Maine, Hoover said, adding thaterican heavy bombers invaded west- | Correspondent) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover the men supplied the full story of lern Germany before noon tods | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- 's5iq the men, arrested several days their activities since coming Primed to meet any repetition of | ERS IN THE PHILIPPINES; Jan. 2. [a05 in the New York area, came ashore. {the Nazi's sudden New Year’s Day | —Planes based in the central Phil- | chore in a rubber boat at night| Commenting an the a and !show of aerial strength. | ippines are making the deepest‘anm‘ a German sub had lain ofl"ho recent discoveries of two Jap! It is the eleventh consecutive day penetration of the invasion on met_\»‘“m Maine coast for a week. balloons in Oregon and Montana,| |of heavy bomber activity. Revised | aced Luzon Island. They swept 150 | oy ™ 1o Hoover said, carried |which he said might have carried | tallies showed that at least s . miles beyond Manila Saturday, sink- | ¢e 550 1, American money, auto- |spies instead of explosives, Hoover German planes were wrecked in | £ in> o+ nrobably sinking three enemy | oo™ piceols compass, camera, |declared that these are evidence of | Monday's widespread = combats. [ o warships and five cargo vessels in ot offen-| Behind the western front, some ’ secret inks and a variety of draft|an sabotage { ionage Lingayen Gulf, General MacArthur anfibuned taday and Navy discharge papers sive against the entire American The attack was aimed at points hemisphere. ; where the Japanese originally in- = Colepaugh served in the U,“ S. vaded the Philippines, the Togical The washlngion Navy until discharged in 1942 “for reinforcement convenience to the government.” point of Nipponese and supply. Low flying B-25 bombers, A-20 at- tack planes and P-40 fighter-bomb- | ers made the attack in a "suhstan- tial force,” a spokesman said. Flying from new Mindoro bases the returning fliers said they $aW| \waSHINGTON — The controver- some ships go down and feel certain | ., question of ceiling prices on that others also sank. This is the | . n. on the hoof was postponed third straight communique Teporting ,o¢pe election, but is now due for the sinking at Lingayen and Others|; ™o} cpowdown. Behind this are 1ccomphshe(l by patlol pl'mes |strikes by small meat packers in L [New York and New Jersey, plus increasing strikes by meat dealers. If the question is not settled, the |entire meat price structure is faced |He went aboard the Swedish ex- | change ship Gripsholm as a mess ‘Merry - Go-Roun : boy, leaving the ship at Lisbon, By DREW W PEARSON | where he offered his services to Col. Robert S. Allen now on active |the Nazis, Hoover said. service with the Army.) | i | e Force All 4-Fs |with_complete breakdown. Bringing the question to a head,| OPA Administrator Chester Bowles !sent Economic Stabilizer Vinson | and War Food Administrator Jones emphf\lic demands for setting of | L(‘lllng prices on live cattle. He told them bluntly that if this is turned| Fight" Act down the price control of meat - - Bame During 1944 PaVGSiwm no longer be possible. WASHINGTO_I‘\I._’Jan 2—Drastic Difficulty is that there is strict manpower proposals edging closer Way f0|' ASSEII" on |price control on slaughtered meat,|to the “work or fight” act that Enemy Homeland from the slaughterer through the lawmakers have long avoided, were | retailer. But there is no ceiling on |thrown intc the battle of the home |live cattle. Meat packers claim that |front. they have to pay so much for live) Advanced by Byrnes, the program (A Biv. l;s:f g::f:;sm(‘)z““ cattle that there is no margin of |will force 4-F men into war roles UNITED STATES PACIFIC p::;cfzt if they sell within the ceiling FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL‘p Ji 2—Pacific Fleet| s ver. § HASROR, B i Farmers, = however, clalm . that},, o, output to needed levels. Headquarte announcing new air,there is something wrong some | o suggestiatl Sae £7 i strikes against Japanese bases, de- place, because they are not gemu;,,] 8 p . 2 = hat the ast night in his first report as clared in a 1944 review t enough for live cattle to pay for/ ‘ o ] Director of the Office of War enemy’s homeland is now open to |feed. The meat packer claims he bilizs b4 fleet attack. has to pay 18% cents a pound for Mobilization and Reconversion, are |still merely threats. They moreover The new raids included the 24th| {live cattle, but receives only 21 to * t the mercy of a congress/ ttack Saturda: Zlare a consecutive daily attac) Y23 cents a pound from the Army {which has shown a reluctance to| Close “"To Work or power rules if present labor con- Itrols fail to spur the nation’s ar- land British after daylight yesterday, but some | 0 B, ECTIVE: CERMANY_u. § Byrnes Would ByDA fAu ~ To War Roles Manpower Proposal Edge Doomed Nazi Garrison Is? |and put statutory teeth into man- | 300 German planes darted in (rvel top level over scattered American | bases a few minutes | b a massive strike at Ge Allied fighters were already in the air. Swirling dogfights developed, | ~—————— — and at least 188 of the raiders were knocked down; 105 by RAF fighters, | AWARD ME 35 by American Mustangs and 48 by British and American ground | gunners, | .- ONLY FEW HOURS OFF Grumbling Before Big Onslaught by Soviets | LONDON, Jan. 2—The fall of | Buda, the western section of the Danube straddling Budapest, ap- | peared to be only a matter of hours | as the doomed Nazi garrison crum- | bled before attacking Russian forces | utilizing virtually every weapon | known to modern warfare. A communique, broadcast from| Moscow, said the greatly outnum- | bered German and Hungarian de- | 208 NAZIPLANES, 110 TANKS DESTROYED Luzon Is Target of Blg Raid Made By Yanks . bombers of the rman oil refineries ighth Air Force slide inio farmation for railroads, and other mlmar.v thectlves. DAL TO ETO WAC CHIEF | WAC COMMANDER in the European Theatre of Operations, Lt. Col. Anna ‘W. Wilson, 34, Studio City, Calif., is shown regeiving the Legion of Merit medal from Lt. Gen. John C. Lee, somewhere in France. Official U. S, Army Signal Conps Radio Tclephuto. (International Soundphoto) !fenders lost more than 1,000 men killed yesterday in savage street | fighting, which has been com-l pressed into an area less than four ! miles wide and a mile deep. A Cairo broadcast last night mldI all Germans have been driven from | .on ‘the Iwo Jima base, the Vol- which leaves no profit for him.| Buda but there is no confirmation i s interfer S cano Island approach to Tokyo |However, farmers claim that in- cl;:o:: ehlsmw:rkmans aigadom 10 by Russian and German sources.! All of Japan’s defensive arc fromstead of receiving 182 cents a| The communique also said that| the Kuriles to Manila, the review pound on the hoof, the net price; asserted, is now within effective | pa\d them by the slaughterers runs| range of fleet and shore-based air-|several cents less. craft. B-29 Superfortress bombersl thome front' effort merely by dis- nave already penetrated this arc| Most meat packers claim they are |closing the sternness of enforce- | numerous times to strike Tokyo and |selling at a loss. What they dont\mem measures the administration other Japanese industrial centers. admit, however, is that some of|is willing to support. The review cautioned, however, them sell the meat which they| Flatly predicting that larger that “the decisive battle, the g,-eat.ldon’z sell to the Army to civilians|draft calls in the next few months est battles, the hardest battles of |in the black market. About 60 per would aggravagate the manpower | cent of their choice cuts go to the shortage, Byrnes proposed stern Army and about 40 per cent of measures for 4-F's not doing es- the Pacifc war are still to come. The enemy, like ourselves, has just pegun to fight.” |their choice cuts are left over for!sential work and proposed that! Saturday’s Iwo Jima raid by Lib- |civilians. |Congress make it possible to induct | erator bombers was a continua-, Meanwhile, the small butchers, |them all, then assign them "thmgs tion of the effort to neutralize the |forced to stick to ceiling prices,| |they can do” despite physical im-| base from which the Japanese ra,mcunnoz afford to buy black market 'pairment. This might mean limited Saipan Superfortress base. meat and are up against it. Lsexvnce in the Army or the steering R of inductees into jobs in critical This is the knotty problem which | OPA Boss Chester Bowles has war plants. llSTERS Io BE |dropped in the lap of Food Ad-, s {ministrator Jones and Price Sta- i bilizer Vinson. To be reunited with her husband after a separation of almost two| vears while he was employed as an clectrician on an Aleutian Island; project, Mrs. Ronald Lister, ac- companied by their children, Helen, Sylvia, and Norman, left on the Princess Norah for Vancouver, B.| C., her home town. Before returning to their home here in Juneau the Listers will visit relatives and friends in Vancouver and Seattle. They expect to return in a month. > 'GET AUTO lI(EIISES CTY CLERK'S OFFICE HAM FISH'S SWAN SONG Ham Fish's swan song to his| Congressional colleagues was well| advertised in advance. For several| hours the Republican cloakroom | Auto licenses should be on all cars| had buzzed with talk about how now but as many may be unable {the famous New York lame-duck to secure them at certain hours, the {from FDR's own district would ex- | City Clerk’s office will be open until plode a bombshell. Republican ex- 5:30 o'clock on the afternoons of pectations soared. Their side of the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of aisle was packed, breathless to hear | this week. Beginning Saturday, the Fish charge the White House with 'round-up begins of those owners high treason, vote stealing or some- | found with auto plates of other thing equally heinous. years. Then Fish dropped his bombshell —an attack on the titular head or' BERSG T UL i SEATTLEITE HERE William D. Jessmer, from Seattle, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. (Continued on Page Four) OPEN LONGER HOURS | But war agency officials prophe- | goyiet forces occupied 200 addi- | sied that the whip cracking docu- tional |ment would add momentum to lhe‘bnngmg to 600 the number nuw | {tioned for | emergency leave. blocks of Buda yesterday,! {under Russian domination. Moscow reports said a new o(-‘ fensive against Austria is expected| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—There's {to get underway as soon as the gne division of the War Depart- |y conquest of Budapest is completed. ment that will boom when the war |is over. It's the Adjutant General’s ON 15-DAY FURLOUGH | 2. "2 i i’ oy, l AGO started this war with about | Mrs. Dick Dalziel, owner of the! |900 employees. Tt now has’ more |Needlecraft Shoppe, was made! than nine times that happy yesterday with the return of \yoment could use nearly 1,200 more her husband, Pfc. Dick Danziel, yorers But once the war is over from Nome where he has been sel-ype filing department alone will the past 16 months. ,ave t5 pe tripled. Dalziel will return to that station| upon the expiration of his ln-dn)'[ By JACK STINNETT |records and its number of papers ‘on iile will run into billions as In AGO's files are the complete records of every man and woman ——————— (in the Army, of all civilians who SIO(K ouorAlnous {do work or have worked for |war Department. Eventually, it will | |have the records of all war con- | NEW YORK, Jan. 2—.Closm€ quo-|iraets; the files of disbanded war | tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock agencies, commissions, the hospital | at the first session of the New York records of all patients injured in Stock Exchange this year is 6'i. .ervice. The records alone, unless American Can 90%, Anaconda 30, microfilmed, would Bethlehem Steel 657, Curtiss-Wright o the gargantuan Pentagon build- 6%, International Harvester 80, Ken- About a third of AGO's em- necott 38%, North American AVia-',oueeq have been decentralized, but |tion 10%, New York Central 23. 4 niay s to bring them back here United Sta Northern Pacific 20%, T 5 fter b | Steel 60%, Boech Alrcraft 1e%. MPace can be found after the | Alaska, seem to have claim on the - Pound $4.04. | 3 | first New Year's baby born in Ju- The American Legion Auxiliary/ Dow, Jones averages today are T | neau. The baby boy was born in me‘wm meet &. 8 o'clock tonight in as follows: industrials 15258, rails The parents of the quintuplets | Government Hospital at 2:30 a. m, \the Dugout. All members are re- 48.43, utilities 26.41, on't have much in the way of the on January 1, quested to a‘tend. and at this| the | take up most | W! One Division of War Depariment Will Boom After Hostilities Cease unusual on the Walton Onslows. 1 Back in 1932, “Walt” Onslow was just a young fellow working hard for President Roosevelt's election [nnd hoping for a job in the govern- ment. During the campaign of 1932, ! They didn't know what they were ‘gemn;, into. Onslow got his job g | government all right, but that was |Just the beginning { 1936 the child; During the campaign ¢ |Onslows had their second | their third during the 1940 cam- | paign and their fourth just before F.DR. racked up his fourth term | victory. They named the baby, a | girl, Victoria in commemoration of |that fourth term vote. | Onslow is no longer with the government., He's now public rela- | tions director for a national asso- |ciation, but he hasn't broken with the President. | How about 19487 “Well,” says Wfl]l “if he can it, so can oo - NEW YEAR'S BABY | Mr. and Mrs. E. Hotch of Haines, | UTAH WRECK DEAD SLOWLY ADENTIFIE Autopsy to _Ba)one onEn- | gineer of Fatal South- ern Pacific Limited OGDEN, Utflh. Jan 2—Slowly the | task of identifying the dead or “944& worst railroad accident drag- ged through New Ye: day. | Six unknown civilians, four |and two women, are lying in | mortuaries here, They are part |the 19 civilians and 28 military i‘kllled when the |ern Pacific limited mail express [train drilled at high speed early | ‘bunday into the rear of its first |section passenger unit on a rock ossing a shallow arm { the Great Salt Ldke. Eighty-one were injured. men the fauseway jo Meanwhile, plans were made to autopsy the body of Engineer James McDonald, 64, Ogden, found in the cab of his locomotive. His fireman, M. E. Hardman, es- caped with minor injuries. One re- port said Hardman had observed the warning signal and shouted a ! \mmnu, to the engineer. R JUNEAU LUMBER MILL (EASES OPERATIONS Due to he(zlnp. up of pipes dur- ing the recent Taku wind the| Juneau Lumber Mills have ceased operations until March, George |Schmidt announced today. | With the advent of warmer |Office. AGO has charge of all Army | ¢po oraowe had” their first baby, (Weather and after the repairs have been completed it to re- open the mill. - eee /HEALTH NURSE WiLL LEAVE FOR NEW PO Miss Stephanie Bogdon, public th nurse with the Territorial Department of Health arrived Juneau Sunday from Sitka and will leave this week for her new post at Fairbanks. = Miss Bogdon has served as public health nurse at Sitka the past two years and be- fore that was stationed in Juneau - ON BUYING nf the B M. Beh- Store, left on Seattle on is hoped TRIP | John Bishop, rend’s Department the Princess Norah for his annual buying trip - > Y | AUXILIARY MEETING TONIGHT of | westbound South- | ST/ AIR ATTACKS HURT NAZIS ATBASTOGNE ‘Two of Von Rundstedt's Heavy Counterattacks Repulsed by Allies BULLETIN—PARIS, Jan. 2.— American airmen tonight report Von Rundstedt is pulling two armered columns eastward away from his Belgian bulge as Pat- I ton’s tankmen slugged further, narrowing the neck of the sal- ient. United States Ninth Army ‘ Air Force fighters and bombers | | | | lashed at eastbound columns, | wrecking tanks and other ve- | hicles. PARIS, Jan. 2—The Third Army | broadened to a mile and a half its | arrowhead pointed across the nar- | row waist of the Belgian bulge north A ‘ of Bastogne. In the great continuing battle to split the German salient, American ¢ infantry, tanks and planes exacted a great and growing toll in Von Rundstedt's material. The Germans |lost fully 110 tanks and armored vehicles, 208 planes and hundreds of \ other implements of war. l Below Bastogne, Patton widened to six miles the corridor feeding his | main-offensive threat by Capturing | the villages of Houmont, five and a ! half miles southwest, and Chenonge, four miles southwest of the road \ center. At the last report, the Third Army was 13 miles from the United States ! Pirst Army, flanking the north side { 0{ the bulge. Counterattacks Repulsed Supreme Headquarters said two German counterattacks had been | repulsed in the area of Camps, three miles northwest of Bastogne and | near the Viller La Bonne Eua, five { miles southwest, The communique reported progress northeast of Moircy, a much-exchanged hamlet. Von Rundstedt’s attacks against the U. S. Seventh Army around Bitche and eastward to and along | the Rhine appeared at a preliminary appraisal to have netted little gain. | The thrust was probably the first |of several strong diversionary “ef- | forts as the German leader is §ffi1 throwing most of his strength into the Belgian bulge. He is bracing | the hard defensive lines at Hubert and Wiltz and is persisting” in | counterttacks around Bastogne. Gigantic Test Next moves in the gigantic test | of men, strategy and machines is not yet apparent. It is plain, however, that Von Rundstedt has been hurt ' by the sustained heavy Allied-air | attacks. VON RUNSTEDT ILL ONDON, Jan. 2. Unofficial | sources here claim that contact with | the German underground had re- | ported Von Rundstedt is temporar- ‘lly out of action because of a re- | currence of a serious stomach ail- ment. There was no official con- firmation. BOMBERS HIT NAZIS' WEST FRONT HARD 1,000 He;v'fes Pound Heavy Concentrations East of Third Army LONDON, Jan. 2—One thousand United States heavy bombers hit fully at German troops and uunmumuuom just east of the Am- crican Third Army lines. Ficld reports estimated that the | Germans lost 363 planes yesterday in the heavy air blows at the west- (ern front. Big bombers striking out today rained more than 3,000 tons of ex- | plosives at Nazi tank and troop cen- | centrations, bridges, road intersec- tiens and rail yards.