The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE ’IIMF" VOL. LXIV., NO. 9851 : ___JUNEAU, ALASKA, mmm JANUARY 5, 1945 : MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT. = = - - = s > ——— | BLOODIEST BATTLE OF WEST FRONT NEAR " New Crushing Blows Fall On Nippon Islands USSRBREAKS Roosevell, Bride, While House U. 5. THIRD Hol Dog' -A Woman--and Wearmg Shoes Too ‘FOURARMIES WITH POLISH s -/ /¢~ .~ FLEETHITS T T e FA(ENAZIS EXILE GROUP LBegli // /4" <% TWO0 PLACES | IN ARDENNES SovietStan&prosesAn-f i ES: _ R S : | : g - TR W S | : nouncement of U. 5. i b panh Radio Blackout Suggests B A1 NGRE - VAR R\ |l frontRemainsSubstantial- b Joint Atfack Following | H# A i s : | ly Unchanged as Fight- and ?T','a'" Previous Assaults | & F o N T el o | ing Mounts in Infensity announced recognition of the Polish | & . : . ol EARL HARBOR, Jan. 5. - The | - : : £ N (o : PARIS, Jan. 5.—Armor and in- Provisional Government in Lublin, | o ; SR 8 crushing might of the United States % 2 3 & fantry forces of the British Second miking. a’ rcleay. Hiteax with - ths 4 . ‘ AR | Third Fleet aircraft carriers, whose . 5 4 g . S Army were flung into the battle of Polish - Government - in - Exile in r S ¥ " Ldeep pmwtr:mun into enemy waters | A . the Ardennes salient at its north- Tonton, Whiah' 48 4N recopntmd Ay : 2 = T , 'has given Japan warning of major | A % y S | western tip today along with two By ‘the Oited Sratie ah Britab war developments, may have 1;.1‘1».n‘ ) o i S 4 | and possibly three American armies. Ob b Mottt SuNGREGne Sadiog An ominous radio blackout by the 3 { bloodest of the western front. Forces the impending Big-Three parley fleet strongly suggests the possibility i f Mont, Vi ffensive Broadcast of the announcement p r | ¥ s byiiried) ‘-e"t o0 1 GEgp g of hitting the two strongholds at : k. yesterday, attacking the Marche area came within four days after the once, indicating even greater strik- | " k # where they made a 1,500-yard ad- joint announcement by the United ) . ing power than was loosed on sepa E % R i {vance which is continuing, a field States and Britain that they stood | ; ate days against the same targets 7 b ‘ P ; 5 g report said. Other British forces at- by the London Polish Government S % 2 ? % last October . 4 % e 7 tacked south of Rochfort on the leaders of the Polish Peasant i 3 it “ & ey ! A carrier plane force struck Tues- 3 & 3 s ¢ . (western end of the Belgian bulge. Party. ? % : T day and Wednesday (U. S. date) for : . . s " | The Germans, who also expected London sensed the possibility : S . sure. That much, but little more, | % ' " S e i ¥ ;s the forthcoming battle to be the that Moscow might announce i 2 . i was confirmed yesterday by Admiral i 5 ” = 3 5 2 ¢ o | greatest conflict of the war, said the recognition of the Lublin Govern- o i 5 { Chester Nimitz in his communique 4 S I | United States Ninth Army has join- ment before Roosevelt, Churchill ; 3 G v B | which said that details are “not yet | i Caie G16 Pelelin who arrived at San Francisco, |¢4 the First, Third and tie British and Stalin meet, and they charged e 4 i available.” Battle weary lexnur veterans of Guadalcanal ape Gloud er, an elelin w arrived al > |in the assault. American field Te- Sint if Bousla Bobit beture Ui , Iy B | The Tokyo radio reported that 500 | take a good look at film actress Marie MacDonald, the first white woman many of them had seen in months. | 1,0 said Ninth elements have been meeting it would be an attempt| & 4 & > Hellcats, Helldivers and Avenge: ; Jua.,uw by their expressions, the First Marine Division veterans cll_mwd the view. (AP plmlu) fighting bulge engagements on the to present the other two powers| ' 4 g s ¢ 8 hit Formosa and Okinawa for near- | = |southern side of the salient. with “fait accompli.” St % o . i 1y seven lm\|r§ the first day and, | The Third Army flung back 17 Moscow’s announcement con- o e the enemy said, 400 returned for§ | German counterattacks but the cerning the Lublin group made no 3 v B another seven hours the second (L\y ‘ arm oans or e s hunt remained substantially un- - e nged:- An Alled counterattack reference to the rival London s sty Col. Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, and “his bride, movie o ”w Ahes Horthern TGRS BEE o e actress Faye Emerson, walk up the drive of the White House upon | 17-mile front made slow but steady U. S. STANDS PAT their return from a shopping tour, foilowing their arrival from the or ar re | guins despite snow, ice and fog. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — The. West Coast. (AP Wirephoto) ‘RB“SIY‘::‘: th:t, ‘l? thflm“";\ the » y e - — | | und:;te as broken hrous he United States reiterated its recog | Maginot Line at Snrrcguemlngs ona nition of the Polish Exile Gove oon 0 e val a e { 25-mile front and has cleared the ment despite Russian 1er‘ogml,mn REDS RIM[Y 0 erman area between the Saar River and of the new Polish regime in Lub- | {aNs e | the upper Rhine of U. S. Seventh lin as a “provisional government.” . | - Army troops. The State Department 'mno\mcu | H ' Bv BOMBERS SHORTAGE OF By JACK STIN P[eSIdem lS '0 Make LOI’IQ R o Russian Government oI the Soviet |few days. now, the ‘Velerans ” n | i B H 60 Nip Shi ministration will be ready to go Saturda nght action. 1p 3nips Ufl orbam- aihar Suritey Although Russia's action was not NAZI ATTA(K | In Blg R a l d p p \m town (rather to xl\f‘ lfumtu» pie O i unexpected here, it was obvious with farm loans for veterans of | purppawn” WASHINGTON, from diplomatic reaction that “the ( b aged " F"S' Ihree W"”“ War 11 | Jan, 5. President Roosevelt will - | e I [)ays of 1945 WEST STATE | The home loans came first and . I worst has happened.” No immedi- | v v, Jan. 5.—A score of top Lroadcast tomorrow night from i LAIVDON, N ! to some extent already are being| 7 g 7:30 o'clock, Pacific War ate way to break the deadiock G€rman Panzer Thrust En- | .oy icers” vebina o 150-me Al some exent aseady are being appeared . stretch of German lines between' GENERAL MacARTHUR'S | 5 / {made. The loans ‘u]v p prive me. - | fers Third Day-Many o arrune were 44K HEADGUARTERS 18 THE Hoslehes v il cine Iat . Sy - Many veterans are going to be WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 . ed by more than a thousand U. S.| PHILIPPINES, Jan. 5. — Japanes . r i The waShlngton Nazis Trapped Fighth Air Force heavy bombers 0- | shipping in the Luzon area, main| Reglflflal WMC Head Says ;hsulutshu;ed if n;:;\'ll!tnn(.:“ul(l[Llll;;{;Pmud«nt wlll‘l llukem:o '11; uln: :ge Ll e day, one phase of a full scale as- |philippine island, took & body blow| ave to do is walk into one o morrow night to summarize to MerrY-GO-ROUIld MOSCOW, Ja Russian forces sault. Five hundred P-51 fighters from American bombers and attack | 1000 Workers Month- ll'mlimxu agencies (banks, building |nation his ist;.m lni mulutmug General George Mal’Sha" are reported to be grimly holding escorted the American hombers after planes during the first three days of | » and oan associations, etc.), exX-|message will be delivered to Con-| By DREW PEARCON r:;; (‘;‘f,.mt:li .,;.'m(),;.p:l']‘:?"‘“.}- mw]]‘h 8 v of inactivity yesterday. , 1945, Gener‘:l MacArthur disclosed | Iy n A'aska lain that they want a loan to buy |gress earlier in the day by Mr Makes S'a'emem n Y :n befofe these forces returned. | today i quafter section out yonder, and | Roosevelt (Lt. Col. Robert S. Rllen now on acttve ported by hundreds of planes in the | w service with the Army.) Soviet-held corridor, once 30, miles lieavy bombers of the RAF streaked | A headguarters communique an-| SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5—There is|a cotiple of days later walk off With | meyjing his news conference that | aShlng'Ofl the battle area and Holland-based nounced the sinking or damaging of | an immediate manpower shortage of the money. * the message will deal with foreign ——— WASHINGIGN -The - 3ih. Ofbc 4 p i ntast Mitchells and Bostons from Mont- |35 ships in Subic'Bay and Lingyan not less than 67500 men in five| There will be much red ape. poiev and manpower, among other| WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Gen gress, now in session, has more in- | "y Tl panger thrust down | s Air Force, the RAF Second Gulf January 2 and 3. Yesterday, Western statcs and Al Way!Some will be because the Veterans ypince pe said it will be about Gieorge Marshall said today the Al- teresting new faces than any inj, ., T be of the big ctical, ralded a concentration of MacArthur reported 25 ships had|Hunter, regicnal direct he WarfAdministration now is experiencing g 060" words long, His foreign policy |lied counter-offensive agafhst the six years, will be more cooperative | U8 ¢ IO Doy S iirg | German material near St. Vith be-|been sunk or damaged in the same | Manpower Commission sai its worst growing puins since birth | giscugion, he indicated, may touch |BOFthern flanik of the German bulge with the President than any in = i | fore noon. general area on January 1 | He declined to say whether he VA always has been a burcaucr "“I :,‘,,.g(.]gmm was “just getting start- day and appeared to be ddnn'l) on the subject of more materials four years ... . Personally, Roose- [y g 15 liberate. remnar latest raid on enemy trans-|thought a draft of 4-F agency: With the demands of A velt will get the biggest kick out of |\t ERC FL S w'r‘l ”h | portation, 9,000 to 12,000 tons ships|for’essential war w g fied sure groups what they have been| mne hroadcast hour was not| ¢ made the statement as he lelt his on: A6, CONEPMIIAN XM UD |,y oty ! {were among those hit. A headquar-|at the present time. ince World War I, it couldn't very |poen set, but the White House sec- | ¢ White House accompanicd by the Hudson," augusitiss B, foue” |PUOOPSRE o0 B D ters spokesman said 15 transports| Hunter listed Alaska’s Manpower well have been otherwise g o ometime. hetween §.90|Gencral Hap Arnold, Chief of the Bennett, who replaces FDR's pet Inside Budape u sia or freighters were definitely destroy-|shortage as 1,000 a month to mair | | o 'm (PWT) will be pre- Army Air Forces. A peeve, Ham Fish . . . Technically, | (7% €I ¥ ,,l.‘::”;40312;Itduurfl Now FIGH'I‘ | ed, another 10 damaged. Transports tain personnel to 3ut mugh o the red tape Willloaeed . P TS|, e Afy Chiatik s ;mdir;z 5 ic i have now occupie C and freighters alone aggregate 57,000 ! o ¢ 1 g5 e !porters that on the second nigh Sangresmmac Beanelt 1s: nelther| ;.. the nitial attack: on Friday, | \uu Among the remaining 10| When asked to mmnu-m today o1 be the VA's and government's ef-| e President said in a reply 10 o the Nazi offensive General Mont- fish nor fowl, was elected on both |” | e the Republican and Democratic the communique said. a seaplane carrier of un-|the above dispaich saying 1,000 questions on the new program 0 |pomery took command of the armies ! | himself and against inflated land|fending I been i o g ‘snumcd size was damaged or sunk |work onth were needed in {feeding Italy that it has beenion the northern flank. He organ- tickets. E e r, orkers a month : ickets. ‘He 18 expected, however, to IN AUSTR'A in the San Fernando area which|Alaska to maintain personnel totals, 215 that might in the end makelygroed upon that more f0od is to|ized a counter-offensive on that side }S:Lwl:; :?:fi;el;v;:s'nin(’t‘:; kll‘x?e(;pRESIDENI S NEXT | | fringes the Lingayen Gulr. |Arthur A. Hedges, War Manpower him a failure in spite of his OWh g there. He sald shipping is still|while, on the south, another was here Whentiras i aat gw Bl ; | ‘The Japanese struck back with|Director for Alaska, said Alaska Peréonal industry, ability, and 5=y very great problem in the feed- |begun largely by Gen. George Pat- | five air raids on the night of Janu- s under Region 12 of the wMc cere desire to get ahead ‘wx.:' of the [talians. iton’s forces, under the group com- gresspMERERY to; SqLoal Wit g | MEE"NG wu.l BE '[”0 FOT( S Bamm 26 ary 2 against the airfield and me-‘:\ol"'}“.. l]‘)‘"rim . oy Arltz(:u.rwb % nce no farm loans have been, ‘----. {mand of General F. J. Bradley sistant Secretary of War McCloy, S e g \ping installaticns on Mindoro Is-|vada, Washington, Oregon and Cali- made or denied yet, there are no| “The salient was sticking out and Secretary of Navy Forrestal, and | AF]’ER JAN 20 MlIeS IflSlde COUmfy [land, inflicting damage which the Yarnin examples on hand, but in the few DIS(USSION OF we were split in the middle and Lend-Lease Cou_nsel Oscar Cox., | communique did not report in de-| He added, “While there are a home loan applications that have' there was a normal division there . . . Bennett's wife is a dress de- —(:Ui Ra” |_me tail. Yank ack-ack accounted lor number of unemployed in Alaska, been scrutinized, there's a key to| GREEK FA("ONS |One man took one side and the signer, and still works at her trade.| WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Presi- [three enemy planes lat the same time there are openings|what's Lo come. ! |other the opposite. After we'd done ’ He represents three banks,'dent Roosevelt said that his next b | Reduction of Japan's air center{for 1,00 men if such men are will- = Onec cxample here Washing- it we didn't want to convey it to the has three young children and|meeting with Churchill and Stalin| LONDON, Jan. 5 Yugoslav|ai Glark Pield, 75 miles nonh'wst.rm;, to aceept wages less than boom- | ton was (hat of a veteran who un- | BARRED BY lAW'oflmm Marshall said. fys himself ‘as a very liberal | would take place after his inaugura- [Partisan forces today crossed thel,, Manila, continued with Yanklfime construction rates i vague for|doubtedly could Maxs kept up his| e o Republican tion January 20. He made the state- | Austrian border, menacing the| bombcrs destroying. 20 enemy fight-|the past three war years. In ad- | and was ready with a sub- —_— ment smilingly at the news confer- German arc between Klagenfurt|erg (aughl on the ground dition, some of the people who are'stantial down payment from his| ATHENS, Jan. 5—Furcher discus- | (ANADIANS pUSH PETTICOAT POLITICOS ence, and added in response to the land Graz, Marshal Tito ‘annu\mced; unemployed do not have the quali-'own poc But investigation dis- 57"5 between the Left w““: and Competition awaits Clare Luce | questions about the meeting, that in a broadcast communique hvard-MORE ROOM Bfl" | fications for these jobs.” closed that he was seeking to pur- AS leaders concerning their polit- from three different brand-new | it will differ as to agenda from the |in London G R i iSeses L o 8000 e, wns ical grievances have been batred | AHEAD IN ITAI.Y Ladies of Congress: Two of them | Previous meetings in Casablanca,| Tito said the Partisans cut the| MADE RE‘DY R | g kb Tar e5.500 ang DY thenew Greck Government pend- are Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, | Teheran, Quebee and Washington. | maribor-Graz Iway line in| Fo ‘ SIOCK OUOIA"oNS e rtired nsna 108 KEAS coimmibbo WitH SUNIRL o1 gis had been offered” ok the matrkel porpm, ROME, Jan. 5—Canadian troops clected from California, and Mrs. RSN {“many places,” apparently in the | e : 5 8 3 ? ME, A elosted from . ¢ WASHINGTON, Jan. _ The ¢ WiAG Nt 2o d A H U AND SENATE S several years back for less than| prigish Commander In Greece, have advanced against strong en- of g::‘\lliw:::?:’gliac, u‘tif:n:)‘l-(lj“‘pl(f]?lffiog: House Military Committee today (f:mmw: | NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Closing quo- ~‘7'0?‘U‘ b o e ol u”.'(i('m ral S(tlbu‘, }vltm:;»‘ ;:;X;;”:xln‘ emy counter-attacks along the road elected from Illinois . . . Both areannounced that it will expedi | Graz lies 26 miles inside Austria, Work appears to be well under-|tation of A.lmkzn Juneau mine :,:‘ock . L-‘L )“‘:»’ 4wm e ‘vk, s A mnf'!u'.hu;m f“ Zn;m :1 Lt Ok 1:-;1 cast of Alfonsine to within 2 mile D rat; Mrs. Helen Douglas, | ¢onsideration of either national|pnocite the junction of the Yugo-|Way in the Federal Building on the(teday is 6'%, American ‘Can 92, determined 1o o PRNS | Afons, - demBUCE. YWEY: . jand a half of San Alberto, elght emocats . . S e e by (service legislation or some stricter |gy Hungarian and Austrian|remodeling of the Senate and House|Anaconda 30%, Beech Aircraft 14,|from getting saddied with that sort: Wingers lay down their arms and s porth of Ravenna in the wife of Major Melvyn Douglas, Whe |, oper controls over 4-F's. - |porders Chambers for the coming sessior. of|Bethichem Steel 68%, Curtiss-|of bad investment. In the case of loave the capital. British troobs sqriavic coastal sector of the movie star, was born in B.ruokl..\l'l.v e ik W ks, a G By | £ the Territorial Legislature. Wright 6:%, International Harves- farm loans, that determination is cleared a big section of ELAS held p oo "oone maqe Lier stage debut on Broadway. |y oan= gy o) fen infory IN FEDERAL JAIL House membership increases 'is|ter 81, Kennecott 37w North Am-|going to be even greater, | territory yeste.day west of Omomal premasocer ORI, (), migrated to Hollywood, became| . o0 i hion the Selective| Refo Pabillar, recent arrival from|year from 16 to 24, and the Se:. te|erican Aviation 10%, New York Cen-| ; Square, taking 894 prisoners. | ermank: thaki e seberars o Democratic National = Committee- | oo™ ovesman recommended Skagway, was. arrested Thursday |membership is doubled from # to|tral 24, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S.| The routine of applying for a The new government's stand Wasl '\ oope'un miger and Panther woman from California, has beCome |\, 050 "t fully utilize the ser-|and placed in the Federal Jail on|16. The increases have mad. it|Steel, 61%. Pound $4.04 |{farm loan consists of going to one 'stated by Forelgn Minlster Soflano- |, "o "o eories of fierce counter- a seasoned, astute, hard-hitting| no ot LT e and foura charge of disorderly conduct, ac- | necessary to remodel the chamicrs| Dow, Jones averages today arelof the lending-agencies. filling ouy Poulos who made it plain that the |l Tl Sl lsed political leader . . . Mrs. Paull o " how holding physicaljcording to an announcement by the in order to seat the larger mem: -)88 follows: industrinls 154, rails 40.83, | : oy jthrst k,uul1 of Pl:;mlr';”P{h“mb Ll gt et bl L (Continued om Page Four) jdeferments, U. S. Marshai's office this morning. Ships. utilitics 26 (Continued on Page Two) | “impose law and order. deep, northwest of beleaguered forts to protect the veteran against |