The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1945, Page 1

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE" “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” BRARY OF GONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR I- . GIFY VOL. LXIV., NO. 9852 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — TWO 1945 CONFIDENT or'The Washlngton'YANKs MAKET Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on acti: u service with the Army.) say, how- | at a Mmtury experts say somewhat (the same thing happened at Kas- erine Pass and Salerno. At Kas- erine Pass, green field commanders |ignored the first rudiments of de- | Maj. Gen. Lloyd Fredendall was made the goat at Kasserine Pass and transferred back to the United States, just as Maj. Gen. Ernest| Da,uley was made the goat at| 'Sfllemu However, high-up officers, | ,who have studied these battles, say |the real fault was not theirs, but‘ Ithat all colonels of the 34th Divi-| Ision which lost so heavily at Kas- According to a statement made‘“““" were replaced by green | carly today by Joe Werner, Secre. |field commanders just before the tary of the Juneau Ski Club, it will !dmsmn saw action. To get the; be fine skiing tomorrow on the €ntire picture, it is necessary to slalom course where Juneau skiers |recall that after Pearl Harbor the | | (Lt woRlD pEA(E\“ASII MERRY GO—MOORE rni | } WASHINGTON — Those in the Building say- that if there is ever % a thorough army probe it will show | fling of Peace orgamza. {that U. S. Intelligence fell down tion-Annual Message |of staff, Gen. Peyton C. March ndicated regarding advance pre- \\w-HmoToN Jah. 6. — Presi- parations for the German break- 5 2 vice legislation during the | |patches told of German activity | \d universal military training |behind the lines and lights burning | afterward in his message to CU"-“‘L night. He spoke of his confident hope of il an enduring peace. The Chief Ex- |éVer. that other factors contributed ecutive declared that while great; !to the serious setback, one of thém 1945 can be the greatest year of colonels and lieutenant-colonels as achievement in human history field commanders. They trace this Making the nearest thing to ajback to a ruling by the late Gen. which he has thus far essayed, he|forces, that no colonel over 48 said that this year “can the could serve in combat overseas. final ending of the Nazi-Fascist| This meant that many of the the “closing of the forces of retri-land Reserve Officers who had been bution about the center of the malig- under fire in the last war, trained nant power of imperialistic Japan.” \{heir men in the United States, the vear 1945 can and must see a|emparkation, then were left be- substantial beginning of organiza- hind dogt 8% in the Tnited tion for world peace. | States. Youngsters, who were only {lieutenants f the Union, looking back on the| 2“‘_% e ]”:; £oaer »%'n_ Do thofiia took their places. These youngsters = i ad all the courage and vigor in ed the whole substantion progress o Gowa iotory, aha it looked for. |thing so all-important in - battle— ward to and rang with a note of €Xperience under fire. The message, which he plans to| T E DYEO. GAvES R summarize over the radio tonight for the nation and the world was| Military experts point out that counting of the electoral votes which fin first when the Germans counter- gave him his fourth term in the;auacked was the 106th. It had White House. just gone into the line and not one o 'zoltalgld ““;S‘m:;“)'n:sb"u‘"“rz‘llio\en its head. This division gave e way like straws before a tornado. the victory for which the war is committee of Congress overnment, L F | o h;pg”as‘”pfi:"c‘:e‘g;:&d ihellook up the officers of the 106th President * | Division it will find that just be- A |fore it sailed all its older field conditional surrender” but applied lt‘ A only to “armies of our enemies,” ‘hul very green officers put in their which he said was the first, but\p]aces Had the 106th Division held we long for. He gave recognition | |made all the difference in the to the difficulties which arise to|World to the rest of the Army and plague the Allied forces. He pleaded |to the length of the war. nearer we come to vanquishing the encmies, the more we inevitably be- come conscious of the difference: fense, namely that a halted regi- JUNEAU SKIERS 'lo {ment should dig in and prepare MEET o SUNDAY ON | SLALOM COURSE door committee says there is no wind, crust is hard and fine snow conditions exist for skiing at the 'I'h Y M tS B . |know inside of the Pentagon is Year Must See Begin- even mord badly than former Chief | elt called anew for m_‘(hmugh Even American news dis- ' gress this morning problems lie ahead, “This year u,‘bmng failure to have experienced prediction of the end of the wal -MCN(I]] commander of the ground reign of terror in Europe as well as Regular Army, National Guard Most important of all, he added,|went, with them to the port of It was his message on the State| and captains in 1941, 1y the past year which he said mark-v”w world, but they lacked one confidence. read before Congress afier thethe division reported to have caved “In the field of foreign policy, we hostile shot had ever been fired | fought. Our asscciation is not of | X A % should ever takKe the trouble to He renewed the demand for “un- |officers were removed, and younger only the first step toward the peace | for only a few hours it would have for understanding and said that the ameng the victors. Imld fortifications in enemy terri- Today’s report from the out- Second Meadow and vicinity. Can End Europ NEW LANDING NEAR LUZON 'American Troops Now Es- tablished on Marin- duque Island GEN MacARTHUR'S HEAD- | QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- | PINES, Jan. 6.—An unopposed Am- | erican landing on Marinduque Island ! | Wednesda (Philippine time) in a new liberation step toward Luzon, principal Philippine island, was an- | Douglas | | MacArthur. Matinduque is approxi- |jis gpplication to fishing and can- | nounged today by Gen. mately 20 by 25 miles in s an only 12 miles from the Ta insula on Luzon. The communique said’ the seizure gave the Americans “control of the Sibuyan Sea and established direct conmct with the southern Luzon coas' The landing was made at Buena- vista on the southwest coast, ap- proximately 20 miles east of Min- doro Island and a hundred miles southeast of Manila A headquarters spokesman the interior of the island is vir- tually impassable, but a highway runs 15 miles north and south alor the beach shelf on the west coast ' of Marinduque, the seventh island in the Philippines on which Amer- | ican forces landed two and a half months ago in a campaign to lib- erate the archipelago. It is the third island within long-range gun distance of Luzon. The nearest | points are on Mindoro and Samar, less than 15 miles from southern Luzon The day of the landing saw Am- erican planes hitting hard on Jap- anese airdromes throughout the Philippines and other Southwest Pacific islands. - — WHEELER SLAMS "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" AIM Would Slop-ls:eseni "Dis~ graceful Unilateral” Peace Moves WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, Mon- tanz, called on the American peo- ple last night to demand that the Allies abandon “the brutal and cost- 1y slogan ‘unconditional surrender. The Montanan broadcast his ad- dress and also asked for the cre-| lation of a United Nations Political Council “to see that the present | series of disgraceful unilateral peace | settlements now taking place in Eur- ope stops.” He urged that steps should be |taken to create a United States' of Europe as “the only basic cure for her ancient ills.” FICTION OUTSTRIPS OTHER CLASSES OF bas Pen- said | AX COLLECTOR LOSES SUIT EMARD COMPANY Important Decision Made Relative fo Social Se- curity Payments TACOMA, Jan. 6.—Holding that | persons selling fish to packing com- | pani will be considered as inde- | pendent contractors and not com- | pany employees, Federal Judge | Charles Leavy rendered a twelve- | page decision today in connection | FAST CARRIER FORCE FLAG- | with the Emard Packing Company | SHIP OFF FORMOSA, Jan. 3.—| at Anchorage e in relation to | (Delayed)—The United States Fleet | | Federal insurance contributions. spanned the Pacific today, Tuesday, | The decision on the act is expected | United States Time, sending car-| by observers to be far reaching in pased planes for the first time | the China coast, while hun- dreds of other Navy planes attacked ¥ormora and Japan’s Okinawa island | to the north FLEET SENDS 1 PLANES OVER - CHINACOAST First Time Dunng War for| U. S. Fleet to Span Pacific Ocean By REMBERT JAMES ABOARD ADMIRAL McCAIN'S | | | nery industries The decision, a finding for the | plaintiff, the Emard Company, in & | suit brought against Clark Squire, | This was the first time in Collector of Internal Revenue for more than three years of war that Washington and Alaska, will grant | the American fleet actually reached H. J. Loretta and Emard, copartners | the mainland of China. It drove | in the company, the recovery of $12,- | straight through Japanese waters. 694.99 plus interest paid to the gov- | The attack on Formosa, in which ‘ernment on Social Security taxes Navy planes were accompanied by from July, 1937, to September, 1942, | fighters, also marked the first time | The Deputy Collector of Internal|that the Marines have ever operated Hevenue, in checking fish company |in combat from carriers. ledgers, ruled that money paid to| Ninety-seven enemy planes were | | those selling fish to Emard should | shot down or wiped out on the| be classed as wages and a Socml;grcm)d 17 ship® including a 10,000~ | Security tax should be paid. The |ton transport, were sunk or de-| | company paid under protest and re- | stroyed, and four destroyer escorts fund claims were rejected by the "nnd 35 freighters were damaged. | Internal Revenue Depunmont > cma Basep 90 ENEMY SUPERFORTS pourp vugey SHIPS ARE WASHINGTON, Jan, 6. — Super- forts renewed attempts to knock out of the war the production cen- ters of Japan. By flying from their China bases, the giants smashed in-, targets on the island of the | | - {Planes Take Temflc Toll of Japanese Shipping | and Aircraft i By LIEF ERICKSON (Associated Press War L 1 ! Kyushu. | @ The raid was the sixth since the July daylight blow of Major General |Lemay’s Twentieth Bomber Com-| mand. Domei claimed in a broadcast that |the damage was “extremely light.” Correspondent) ‘Tl’h' force included 70 to 80 B29's. | U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- | Previous attacks were aimed at|QUARTERS AT PEARL HARBOR, | {the huge Omura Aircraft factories.|Jan. 6.—Pacific Fleet carrier-based | | Another Domei dispatch said that | planes destroyed 111 Japanese planes | 12 of the China-based Forts bombed |and sank or damaged 95 enemy | Nanking, coming singly or in for-|ships in a daring, punishing two- mations of three at long intervals. [ddy assault on China-guarding For- —_———————— i mosa and Okumv\a Iq]aml Hv(' Ad- FALLS TO ALLIES Sl riking all the way across the | | Pacific, the many planes of Vice Admiral John McCain's forces wing- ed down the 5,500 miles of the China KANDY, Ceylon, Jan. 6 rnm‘co&si searching for Japanese ship- city of Akyab, third largest port mtplug reported AP War Correspond- Burma and for two years an im- | |ent Rembert James. The attacl [portant Jap supply base, has r““m;werc made 1“‘“‘,“ and Wednesds Ito British and Indian sea-borne | £ 5. Time). Twenty-seven :ships |forsee. Allisd "headmiarters paid: to- | i Suok asid 68 damaged: 1 The Nimitz communique did not |day. 4 {mention the first China probing | r The communigue announced ““"“(tht by Navy carrier-based planes, | |the attackers swarmed ashore on | apparently because there was no |Akyab Island, on which the city is | material attack on the targets sight- | |situated, early Wednesday without |ed, Iflllcvu"lcring any opposition. American carrier planes now m.w | pessibly make shuttling air raids on‘ Chine mainland targets in majo: (orces after refueling and rearmm;, dozens of Marines in flying Corsai® were lost. HITINRAID Over 800 NAZI THRUST ° Planes Hif | THREATENING | WestReich, ALLIED LINE German Dri;;Now Bursts Through Seventh Army Front-Big Salient A AMER- ICAN FORCES IN BELGIUM, Jan. 6. — Von Rundstedt sud- denly stiffened his stand on the western point of the Belgian wedge teday and threw the Al- lied troops back as much as a | thousand yards at points. Y - | PARIS, Jan. 6.—The second Ger- | man winter offensive threatened Strasbpurg from three directions Troop Concentrations, Road, Rail Bridges At- tacked by Bombers LONDON, Jan. 6.—More than 800 American heavies, escorted by near-| attacked three road and rail bridges across the Rhine, at Cologne and Bonn today. They bombed several railyards and other| communication centers This was the fifteenth attack in| |14 days on Western Germany, bat- | 'tering it with 5,000 tons of bombs last night. The RAF bombed at I night. The British made five raids, |1y €00 Mustangs today as British and American troops butted a stonewall of Ger- | man resistance hard at the von Rundstedt wedge in Luxembourg and Belgium. | The second drive burst through Berlin and Han- lover, and one on German troop concentrations in and around Houf- falize, 10 miles northeast of Bas-, togne. There was a terrific night |battle in the Hanover area and 33! British bombers and three fighters U. 8. Seventh Army lines, 15 miles Ten enemy planes were in five days, southeast of Bitche in | northern Alsace. The Americans , still fought to try and wipe out the advance guard which filtered into Wingen on the Moder River, nine miles southeast of Bitche and 28 miles northwest of Strasbourg, where the Germans are within 12, mlles of Saverne in the Vosges, the backdoor to Strasbourg, The enemy landed in battalion \snmu,(h at least along the seven- ' mile stretch on the west bank of the Rhine, within seven miles of Strasbourg. He lashed out from the northern rim of his Colmar bridge~ | head and bas driven into Neunkirch, | [ 19 miles south of Starshourg. I Although front line dispatches said this new offensive has been blunted, it theatened to pinch out the 30-mile deep Allied salient be- | Boniface and caught the Germans yyeen the Saar and the Rhine which flat-footed. | had been pointed from the Wissem- | The Canadians fanned out from bourg gap toward the German Rhine | i the shores to Valli di Comacchio, ity i("én mh‘, Iurung the Nazis to withdraw east- | ward and westward under threat of being cut off. The Canadians im- mediately took chase toward Man- driole, three miles east of Saint Alberto. A few miles south, British and Canadian infantry completely de- | feated powerful counterattacks, each | at Alfonsine, beating back Nazi forces double their own strmgth. two each against | knocked down 'GERMANS TAKE , BEATING FROM CANADIAN BOYS, ROME, Jun. 6 i -Canadmn forces pushing forward through Italy's | eastern Po Valley have captured ! saint Alberto, eight miles above Ra- venna, Allied Headquarters an- nounced today. Climaxing a week-long drive through canals and waterways of | the Po Estuary, Canadian troops and armor pushed to the Voer Canal at IN TERRIFIC T BIG BATTLE COASTAL AIRLINES s FLIES 19 YESTERDAY | Germans Fight Desperate- Ataska coastat amtines carried 191 |y 10 Free Trapped Gar- passengers yesterday, taking the rison at Budapest follcwing to Eit) P\ te Klv\()vl\\ Stockton Webb, Mrs. Katheryn Webb, Brooks Hanford, Chris Bailey, { FEdwin Larson, Austin Rollin MOSCOW, Jan. 6.—Tank, artillery | tka to Juneau—Patricia O'Brien, anc air battles, virtually as fierce Russell Clithero, . as any fought since Germany at- Juneau to Gustavus—Cameron A, |tacked Russia, raged northwest of Rice, Henry Peterson, Mrs, Ray G.|Budapest today as the Germans clift, Willam Winebrenner. made a supreme bid to break Frank Holden.|through to the isolated garrison in Ji Sheldon Wil- | the battered Hungarian m])ll,n] |liarson, Wilbur Irving, Ralph Mize.! As the fighting re L Haines to Juneau — Edith Milne, neither side had B Laverne LABelle dication of the de| plh of the German | {penetration from the Komarom area a: | The report said that the Rus- sians held a zone possibly 30 miles |deep, and dispatches said that the whole sector north of the Danube |sounded Dr. H. !ied by Mike Johns and Oscar Pear- !body, the smaller one, |almost in half and morticians hud /to tape and wrap the remains to- BURNED T0 DEATH IN MORNING FIRE an Wd_r'—._gays President BODIES ARE BURNED PAST RECOGNITION Charred Remains Taped, Wrapped for Removal from Gutted House Two blackened corpses were found by members of the Juneau Voluntesr Fire Department this morning alter they subdued the blaze that gutted Charley Howard’s home between the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company’s power plant and the government hospital 8o burned are the bodies that immediate iden- tification 1s impossible. Neither could the officials tell whether they were man or woman. The alarm was turned in at 9:40 o'clock this morning by Pauline Smith, of the staff of the Govern- ! ment Hospita Shortly before the Kaack, alarm was accomparn - son ran to the house to try to arouse the occupants. They kicked in the bedroom door and were near- ly flattened hy the flame and smoke issuing forth. They could arouse no cne and could see no one in the smeke-filled house. The bodies were found in bed, one in the large, white metal bed aud the other on the steel cot. ~One was burned gether before they could be placed in basket-stretchers. Chief of Police John Monagle said efforts would be made this after- nou\ to have them identified at Carter's Mortuary, a job which one of the policemen said would be hard this time of the year, as many ot the natives and whites living in that area are out of town. Acting Fire Chief Minard Mill said the fire in the two-room house 'evidently started in the bedroom, as most of the flames were there when firemen arrived on the scene. Flames Many of the people on the scenc NAZ'S REDS { were mostly confined to the bedroom {thought the fire may have sparted from a cigarette, but officially the |cause has not been determined; Officials called to the scene were {U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, As- |sistant District Attorney Robert L. Tollefson, Deputy Marshal Sid 'fnompson, Chief of Police' John Monagle and Patrolman Ernest (_m— ligan. Vi VI(TORY CALLED MAJOR BOXING UPSET Wins Eighljr—t)—ll—nd Decision Over Younger Billy Arnold NEW YORK, Jan G ~Old Fritzip Zivic, Pittsburgh, sprang a major boxing upset by handing youthful Billy Arnold, Philadelphia, the first defeat of his meteoric career by win- ning an eight-round decision. Pacing himself beautifully, cagy READING IN JUNEAUlBEN STEWART IS ' TIE FOR [[AD IN LOS ANGELES OPEN 'SIXTH WAR LOAN ST S DRIVE SETS NEW JAP RADIO SAYS WORLD'SRECORD AMERICANS MAY are to meet for the first skiing of |Army collected the majors, lieu- the year. Werner said the new snow- |tenant-colonels and colonels from | — v'('"M or wIND fall would greatly improve the trail |both the Regular Army, National| Fiotion is by far the more popular ! making for fast, smoo!h rides down | Guard and Reserves who had|brand ef reading in Juneau, accord- The wind today played a tri the hill battle training in World War I,/ing to the Juneau Public Library on B. D. Stewart, Jr. whl!cvlm w ¢ | Hot dogs and coffee are to belcallmg many from civil life, and Yeport for December submitted to cutting down a tree in his yard.| fields, another t force of Admiral served to all skiers tomorrow at the |put them in charge of troop train-|the City Council Friday night by When half way through cutting | Nimitz mighty Ps mchFleet shelled 10 rest cabin, one mile from the Doug- | ling. As a result the army had. a 'Ann Coleman. |tree, a gust of wind knocked it into| Japanese bases at Haha and Chichi | Jim he By Frida; and former New York baseball | las road. Of the 1,714 books checked out| ithe power line and then it fell across!Jimi in the Bonins, Friday. jand | sizeable group of experienced field | o Fol | player Sam Byrd shot one under T ‘were ! Ithe street. In a terse report of the Formosa Y 9 { he Juneau Ski Patrol urges "“;omcers not easily stampeded. | during the month, all but 333 ‘wer (By A»sachted Press) beginning skiers to join the ski class- | fiction. Adults checked out 750 fic-| Ben said he had the undercut fig- and Okinawa strike, Nimitz said 220 |par with 70's to tie for the first| es which will be conducted on the | tion, 176 non-fiction and 79 mag- ,ured out so the tree would fall on|Japanese planes were damaged in [round leaders “m. in the; nineteenth 1 slalom course during the next two | McNAIR COPIES BRITISH azines, a total of 1005. Children|the lawn but that wind spoiled sweeps over virtually all operating unlnua(l) seve d w;' e}::le Los An- months. These, they said, are open| Then in June 1942, Gen. McNair, '€ad 631 fiction, 42 non-fiction and everything. Electric service in the| Snemy aw fields on the two island |geles Open Tournament. z 1 SR . . to both adult and junior skiers. |commanding the ground forces and| 36 magazines, a total of 709. {Osinouniareh Wi femporarty shut) SRS VoK SRpEE RN MO- FROM KODIAK “Certain fundamentals of skiingian A-1 general in most respects, No new borrowers registered, but|off as employees of the Alaska Elec- Arthur threatened Philippines. Ao 'v: '1 Il The Tokyo radio sald “the Amer + ny ——— harles Madsen ' a 4 I er- technique must be learned if one is gyqdenly decided to copy the|Rine names were, chnicelled. Five| jtric Light and Power Compan |billion dollars above the previous jcans may- have landed on Luzon.™ lall-time world financing record es-| This statement was recorded in be placed on controlled skiing dur-| g o ¢ ooy circulation. et 5 s o) . : s | : : = ing the coming season,” said Mr. |0 > Were around 45 years of age,| ™y, o5 for the month showed a ANCHORAGE VISITORS LOUISE M |tablished by the Fifth War Loan.London sfter Tokyo reparied & big Werner, so gave verbal orders that no Am-| .."o.in of $2350. Fines and the| Barbara Gomez and E. Jean B - | The pation. in:lts fitst Ohrist-| Ameriody SEEAGN W IS IRENE, Today members of the Juneau Ski | & '¢" ealonel ‘over 44 coula SerVe | nay sheif totalled $34, while stamps, kaw are registered at the Barano Louise Milves is registered at the |mas season H)un drive, took ““t\ and transports were off Luzon. Sim- Club are busy on the trail, clearing | W'.0 corbat troops. |laundry and a year’s postoffice box Hotel from Anchorage. * Gastineau _Hotel from 'Klehiniltheme that “the war's not over|ilar Japanese broadcasts wers heard {rent were $10.50. — - for the big day of skiing, tomorrow. | Africa, Gen. Eisenhower _xadme(l .- | FROM ANCHORAGE / - - times the quota of sl?,OO0.000.0(X). . o > |Gen. MeNair, later confirming the| 1, s Ferrs of the Stedman Hotel| J. W. Williams and Melvin J. M- Patricia M. O'Brien, from Sitka,| George Nelson of the A-J. stait] A hard-to-get quota of §2.600,000 W. R. Parkhurst is in Juneau Mrs. Sifnons is’ registéred at the ~ Ketchikan is in Juneau and is Daniel, from Anchorage, are regi-- | in Juneau and is staying at the|left Friday via PAA for the States. 000 i Series E bonds was also from Yakubst Sad.in vegipesed ok Gastineau Hotel from Yakutat, tered at the Baranof Hotel, Baranof Hotel. He will be gone several weeks, over-subscribed. the Gastinesu Hotel. | Zivic took everything Arnold had to offer twice in the fifth round. Eight rounds staggered his young- ler rival {bend is now ulmns! Hm(l !at Chinese American land fields. Following closely McCain’s air sweeps on Japan's strategically im- | portant Formosa and Okinawa air rd LOS ANC WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Total {sales in the record-smashing Sixth | |War Loan Drive were announced is today as $21,621,000,000. This is a W. E, Thomas and Louis Borronte HERE of the Arctic Club in Seattle, are, staying at the Baranof Hotel - .. to ski with safety, and emphasis will | gpipicy e ol it i co,_ibc’:ks were also withdrawn from Patched the wires together. registered at the Baranof Hotel. brush and in general getting ready | After the invasion of North| B FROM SITKA | River. yet,” and piled up one and a half | in the United States. T in (Continued on Page Four) registered at the Baranof Hotel,