The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1945, Page 1

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LXIV.,, NO. 9854 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1945 3 | SUPERFORTS LASH AT JAPANESE ISLES " Tank Battle Breaks Out In Blinding Blizzard (" FIGHTRAGES, ToAI Wave For e GOVERNOR HOME fS-Iar Admira’l-sAHold Confah TOKYO (lAIMS}EXTR—K | DEEP DRIFTS, R0 WASHNGION INVASION OF WEST FRONT Northward Urge of Pl LUZON STARTS INVASION ll~ Defensive FTgFiing of Ger-| in States Is Alask ‘ 1 ¥ ?’f;blsemas . {Unconfirmed Radio Re- 0': I.UZON 1 Reported by Gen- | S ports Tell of ""Attempt- ' m::lasl B?phz(ri{igoryne:yn ’ fi ed larfling" ‘\ SIARIED PARIS, Jan. 9—A big tank battle | (By Associated Press) broke out in a blinding blizzard " Tnl‘c_\'u ‘nuhu said Monday night, three miles northeast of Laroche 1U S. time, that Yank invusim\‘ V¢ where an American “hell on forces have begun attempts to get wheels” division fought violently lashore in the Lingayen coastal | MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = Alaska's Governor, Ernest Gruen- /ing and Mrs. Gruening returned tof the city y day after two months |in the States. i Wading into his coming message | to the Territorial Legislature, con- i\:nmy here January Gruening i {declared one of the things this ses- | |sion must discuss is the increasing i | desire of many in the States to come GEN. MuacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- PINES, Jan. 10 — Huge Yank forces have opened the invasion of Luzon Island in the Philip- itd for Samree on the severed main [ jarea of Luzon, Philippines, but| pines road through the Belgian bulge.| | to Alaska added they are “still unable to M Other Americans are within a mile “What we will do with these peo- secure even a foothold there.” nofi;:- l)lt;‘usln:n ly‘t;acArthur ml-- north of Laroche. The battle is Iple is a problem we must face” | The broadeast lacked confirma-| g A',”zmp:h:o ;]:"’q‘:l'"""m: o th” drtta ; ive fee | Gruening declared. “There will be {tion from any Allied source. o | Mo started, . raging in drifts four to five feet any Allied source. Mani- | way being paved by warships, people coming to live and people; | pulations by the Tokyo broadcaster, | | coming as tourists. We cannot as-| | high. There are heavy, new snow- irals C! r W. Nimitz and William Halsey are pic- r Admirals Ch recorded by FCC, left the impres- | land and navy planes, hitting ;;‘”"k“”f“l‘?‘“g :‘]‘sei‘?";‘_“" ’1‘:(’:“‘““”‘ | Some il who hope to make thelr| tured at a recent conference aboard Halsey's flagship. Nimitz is wear- | FECEE B T BIE T FIRRERE | cverything, including Japan, from The Germans are declared by | homes here, and it is likely trans-| ing the new insignia of an Admiral of the Flect. pulsion without - actually saying| ‘M Kuriles to the Philippines. one Field Marshal on Gen. Mont- portation facilities in the near fu- that the Americans had embnrkedi 1 ] gomery's staff to be defensive fight- | ture will not be equipped to bring| ; § ; : A2 % R S " : ips 3 i w el B from their transports. | [ [ 432 bl : » % i ¥ % all who hope for an Alaskan tour,| Thé broade " b s | . ing to resolutely bar the Allies from ¢, qwN ABOARD a Naval Air Transport Service plane with their in- . |, ‘of {hese groups that will in-| Ame"(an leglon Is »vmx’;y b:_;::i:f:|s§l.clls((l the words| ) = the one remaining escape route in o & % rst cla JAVES t di trainin; at present at- A structor are members of the first class of W IS to undergo g | evitably c ere sk 5 ¥ the bulge. This is the Ouffalize-St.| St Lgior 200 IELIERD e Patuxent Naval Air Station, Washington, | cyiaoy come hete Alaskans have) tempting to land,” but in the next | Vith road. The American First| p o They are (L tor.): Lt. Helen J. Merrill, instructor; Yeoman 2/¢ ‘Nf“w:’}l’(f"_ e IR P » M breath the announcer spoke of | Army is five miles or so from it| Ggrolyn Fish, St. Louis, Mo.; Seamen 2/c Gale Collier, Spokane, Wash.; | = A\l':k.q '|'u_ o aadar gt w ann'n or ' “what awaits the anticipated land- | | I and is cratering it with artillery.| Margaret Chapman, Portland, Ore.; Gloria Marx, New Britain, Conn.; | ' m‘ B 'f. 'C_g s ing operations.” The broadcast also On the southern, virtually| yeoman 2/c Helen Miravelli Wichita, Kan.; Seaman 2/c Marilyn Rer ne Siaves, GrueRIng Sl said the Yank invasion force is winter-bound flank of the buige,! Wheeler of Hagerstown, Md.; and Seaman 2/c Helen Ranlett of Jackson 12?;:”;‘{ \f\g::"; lm:ul' p‘,’,m;.dfl"‘zfd “estimated to be approximately one | e e e oo T B0 Ryt ondy _|Pmons S Lo o e ork Ahead Tomorrow < o o o . 4 4 pils o | 4 In the broadcast, beamed e | Gen. Patton’s Third Army one P Ao i [to come via the Inside Passage.” ed at the e | United States for American con- | ¢ b While in Seattle, Gov. Gruening’| e e — i > e On a three-mile front west of | S 5 P # ko e B 5 - f i L sumption, Domei, Japanese news | . Bastogne, Marshal Gerd von Rund- BUDGET FOR | n‘ t with fh: A]n?k«l- Committee of | | (Firet of Two Arbeles on the |ngency, claimed without l,,q_“mm_‘Formosal l.UZOfl, Ma”aflas | &n da the ‘Seattle Chamber of Commerc S 0 v I E TS l N‘ American Legion) [tion that the defenders had al-| stedt appeared to be trying to blast y or e 2 # o A open communications on the south ind: discussell 1he propieey el ready dealt ‘“a staggering blow" | Hlf in RaldS COOI’dlnaied VR 3 o : route Alaska highway which would| P i to, campentate -LH I8 yesteraay | [ bring that artery much closer to the | | By JACK STINNETT o eratie T DI | with Carrier Planes e, of Laroche on the st. Vith road. |SBast: G U N R A N G E | WASHINGTON, Jan. 0—The Am- | ‘ i The Americans threw half a o 4 e dezen attacks against the Ameri- .7 ! erican Legion is putting its house in 1 VK4 i | lorder for as many of the 11,000,000 | WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Armadas Can-Erenon CERat . arioy, aouthy oc | | | veterans of World War I1 as can be {of Superfortresses have plummeted By SHASONIEG I B e fro ‘STRIKE HAIJS | OF KOM AROM | interested in Legion objectives. | |new destruction for Japan on her [ b | Colmar where Gestapo Chief Himm- | Under ordinary circumstances, the !mmhty island bastion of Formosa. ler is still believed to be providing e i 2k | SIREEI’ (ARS ! expansion of any national organiza- | Lashing simultaneously from the leadership and inspiration. The . N [ | {tion hardly would be worth men- bases in the Marianas and in drive halted at Rossfled ana Herb- [Nt@rior Depi Makes Sec- Roosevelt Says Flgufe May ! T |tioning. But since World War T, it [China, Brig. Gen. Haywood Han- sheim, 16 miles from Strasbourg. | H | 1A | BUSSES IN B ( ! i has been generally conceded that Isell sent his Twenty-First Bomber ll “¢ Despite paralyzing storm drifts | Ond (:Ialm for Inves- | Vary SIO Billion Up i rol Germans Waglflg COS”Y |only the farm and labor hlor!cum-\s E(o N D DAY Command of B-29's ripping &t fne | which impeded equally the attack | ns as al dustrial targets in twne mnonsou IR and the German escape. figalion Fund } or Down ‘Thousands ‘of Workers | Battle South of Danube 1r'-)i‘::.s’x‘»l_vwi(lxll\lt(:glni.m:;“:.h::l'y[.:«:vs to pro- | !area, and Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay’s 3 The U. S. Second Armored Di- | 3 Pty et | !tection of their interests and ideals | U | Twentieth Bomber Command ham- ¢ vision struck heavily at Samree| 25 | ' Walkout as Strikers | Toward BUdapeSt in_ Congressional, State and local 7 . !mered at Formosa. against mobile and dug-in German | WASHINGTON, Jusx;.m)% s fThg‘d WASHINGTON, Jan, 9 — Presi- | | e Teglalatian } flfge's Scarce aSN!pS Send| “These two forays coincided with 9 tanks. The Second is the hell on|second request for a $1, und dent Roosevelt sent Congress an H i ian forces | In view of that, it may be im-| . . !a pounding of Luzon b; ier- wheels division that won fame in|for investigations preperatory tog3-billion dollar budget which he Seek ngher wages 5dlxg§i?xéfi:, e 1 “,?l:h.f‘pmltlam to follow the progress of the | ShlpS Heelng and vasea i i gt 0 North Africa, Sicily, and Normandy |the development of Alaska was said might swing more than 10-| : newly-shaping veterans' groups, to! . . searing blast of Japanese soils. and across France. Its commander made to Congress by the President billion dollars up or down, all de- Hlde A"' Fof(e 4 — | Danube approached to within gun | YABOODIEE B Dot e L know what they stand for, and to | oo lisiotanpsrmltas is. “old gravel voice” Maj, Gen.|Who included it in his 1946 budget. |pending upon the war | Thousands of workers plodded_to| range ;ggfi";:;;i{:’:i .‘;-‘:«?)1]-‘“'::' ;‘,’ml) understand their methods In ex- | const and about 225 miles morth 1. Ernest Harmon. | The recommendation for an ap-| The President refused to pl'ed{cli“"‘" Jjobs ,(m. {001. :n.d it is E“Jf[.uued’ the Germans are trying to reach the |Panding to a membership that may | ABOARD VICE ADMIRAL JOHN of Luzon, is Japan's rhightiest is- b The battle at Samree broke dur- | propriation of $1,072,000 to be spent when the shooting will stop m‘fh“‘ many ““‘M“}: e “f”q""'| shireian Isdavest Ao {control eventually 20 to 30 million |McCAIN'S FLAGSHIP, OFF THE land stronghold. It is the home~ ing the Morning and raged on until |for this purpose by the Interior Europe, or anywhere else. He wld‘;‘f“q L {fj—;"”fi ‘1"_,',0“ posie, When | R three-mile advance north of the | Voters. IPHILIPPINES, Jan. T—(Delayed)— |land staging point for air, troop | afternoon. The issue is still at Department was made by the congress, “my only prediction is i bt v ssagini Bomiegleatllyiyoggh | 5071 yesterday. carried General | |Carrier-based planes pounded Lu-|and supply reinforcements to the N stke. At 5 p. m, part of the Ger- House Appropriation’s Committee|that our enemies will be totally couver, Victoria and New W(slmm-‘Mammwk s poi e 4 {zon Island for the second straight how beleaguered Philippines. ' man force were captured by Am- last month but the House declined defeated when we lay down our|lster sthuck in proiest of the Na- | e tilos. from Komarom, | , Dock in the days that followed the |4y ‘o jirrery “Japanese sent ships| Honshu is the principal island of erican Sherman. tanks, Ilz p)xl'“,‘;:gfi‘ f;]e”‘::llg'::';u‘l'(:“‘l:;;“w“ mx‘l”” SR .]‘:,ljotf:gjr a‘:pe; o ;:2‘:9,-5‘.,:?,];02:: key. communications center for the | f{i;"‘““l‘{‘:(‘;;mtl“y;B':fiaql“‘l'mll}“;;‘l’l'l fleeing to sea and hid most of (the Japanese homeland and the AMSKA“ pRI"'ER |the 1945 budget for Alaska is $650,- of fury,” Roosevelt sent the n-| Every street car and most of the th? Rlzssmn.;“‘m'd'lps? Lh‘;‘-l.”lll Paris cafe one night. were selling nI.Hw benu:n:;":'n:":ilgr st lnf( sau;ce ;rhe twin S\:1 rior'. blows cam l000 for fisheries, an increase of nual budget méssage for the fiscal|buses remained in the barns. Picket| A5t o the "lh[“f”l'li")(%”(l'l A o | their idea of the American Legion to | iyt Pl FE P S Sl et Tokyo bmedpzonh L " y H H“S I.AST TRAILSH.oou: management pro-|year of 1946, starting July 1. |lines are expected hourly at me‘ml)l:fs ”°“‘“!"“r' ot Brastislava all_who would listen. In a few SO0 "flau““;“‘ e b roisicriess a!tem“! we‘;"f; of k- !tection, an increase of| In the budget he estimated that|main depots throughout the three|Yakiah capital. ¢ months, more than 200 veterans’ or- | FEEERR PR PECEE TR fod priicesiagfo g i o Lum:‘ \he ™ Charley Scheffler, oldtime printer|si41100; game law enforcement,|the total government spending cities. Picket lines have already| Dispatches said the German troons ganizations were in operation. Most |y ,,.y‘ . f’h - tl‘ vl d Bt 7 mem” nd i Thae with the Fairbanks Daily News-|g147000. a decrease of $3000; in-|would be 83-billion dollars, the low- | Patrolled the main bus depot at Vic- | Were last reported only 15 miles of these faded out or were incor- .- ]r;\-l?:'\zlv“ s a"dhmvm’l»w““greu urcmpxglu» ok . Alli:d (4 Miner, passed away recently in the|gigent relief, $24,000, an increase est in three years, being nearly toria three days while the drivers | northwest of Budapest and that they porated into other groups. Out of m:" e d"‘“’l : .kfl"‘ "‘l?h‘-“ Ollmnmmflmn‘ W:S"'mlhm""‘ Golden Heart City. of $4000; mineral reservations,|17-billion below the record spend- there struck, demanding equal pay|Were shifting the weight of thelr |ihe confusion, the Legion emerged PR IR | communiques ‘e L Scheffler was well known in the|g;s7000. & decrease of $20,000; gov- |ing of 100-billion during the fiscal| With the British Columbia Electric attacks southward in an apparent the most powerful of all. ‘I e i3 | )m“’ i :“' E;r °:‘ 8. "":& Territory and worked in manylemors office, $44,000, an increase year of 1945, now half over. | Company employees. effort to cut through to Budapest | i,y has a elaimed membership | f,, ,.f id n: s e::nve : "fh m‘; % ¢ Alaskan printing plants. Before be- of §3500; wagon roads consm:c-{ He based his 83-billion figure on| A last-minute appeal meeting of from due west. 4 lof 2,000,000 Legionnaires and aux- | Depatinaie: okt fa i coming a printer he was one of the ¢io; under the 1932 act, $1077.000,|a guess that the-war would require the Regional War Labor Board and The Germans are said to be USIng ' yjj, e in more than 12,000 posts. 1t | ” on om by i ;‘;u ;mrc\m Tfi:‘ Territory’s pioneer traveling men. |an increase of $77.000; Alaska 70-billion and the other lflvbilhonicump““y officials was rejected last| “large” tank forces. The RUSSIAN |y, real ‘estate, cash, securities, s i i s i | Tailroad. $2864000, an increase of{would be needed for ordinary gov-|Dight by representatives of the communique sald the Red Armyly,.gsand equipment valued at more F+ | ME Clogtarum A : $31,000, e e onetis ot | Street Railwaymen’s Union, AFL. | force disabled or destroyed 90 Ger- | 1, 100,000,000, And_while ,h,,.R d o l d:\"‘;;\ (Tvtzflmel:t_offlcmlsmsn;g v, The Washlngton: A, D e on public‘ Regional Board Administrator Mc- ' man tanks in that area in one day's | ;.o doesn’t fear much cmnpm:‘} a' n ulo ‘mu;luunu-u one"'::;;:m;s‘ :p‘;\:fluom | i " Geough said no further effort will fighting. Russians inside Budapest | from infant veterans' organ: gk} zefungiirio. taxp | e made. on behaif of the Board un- have captured another 130 blocks. | i i1 ity Yopupte. e i 2% f i B P ; tions that will spring out of this war, | . E A Wa 7= Merry-Go-Round TwWO BASKETBALL | e e e e Tl Bl S| . TWO ISLANDS LASHED v —— | | Board. McGeough conveyed an of- Legion is putting its house in order. | . , Jan. 9—Ameri- By DREW PEARSON { AM lED ’ED KlEIHAHN IS [fer of five and one-half cents over- (oAST AUXII_IARY R ecosnizing CIRRES Yelerans of | can carrier planes lashed Formosa (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | |all increase, but the offer wa: - | and the Ryukyu Islands Monday . service with the Army.) | 1 y | i this war may have other interests —_— i 4 e { RO'I'ARY SPEAKER |jected by the Union, which askec Io MEH IHURSDAY than their dads of 25 years ago, and | Ma(A”hu W“ N t c ‘:::m”: ;n:?:nvd raid within la weel|$ WASHINGTON—How important | I NIGHT !N GY | {for increases of from 12 and one- s il may not be interested in stringing | r | 0 on- 2 e enemy’s aerial supply efficient Military Intelligence is to| half to 20 and one-half cents per| . oo {ice-Commodore of | along with oldsters in the saddle, the | firm Jap R fs of lines hetwnaéis .Iapan. Hod, the HINES vigiary, ar defeal e Silstrsted by ¢l AI NOON TODAYI‘M‘"" the. Gonst. Gouard Auwsiliary for AL [Legion has adopted four expansion| HIM JAP KEPOris Qf fivpines. : come of the inside facts on the| The second half of the _19444.‘:, | — 4k, arnounced today thabsnybody | Program: [n . H - lhv.t raid was (;;)onimuled with %4 recent Germ an counter-attacks| basketball season opens tonight on | s'l'o(K ouo]'Anous destcing to become a member af the| * (1) ‘Ine estausment. of Warld | vasion, nowever Superfort bombardment, Admiral both in Italy d Belgium | the maple court of the Juneau High 5 e L v y . sl | Nimitz's brief announcement said. I v 2an) BN 1zed,| School at 7:30 olclock when te | Assembling at noon today, Juneau |, auxiliary or an associate member | War II posts in all Legion areas. | Pilots of Vice-Adm. McCain's fast ~ In Belgium, it is now recognized, | & ® | Rotarians i | it 4 > Ci i 'hese are a v 5 4| & il 8 5 oy s tgx? fti. | Beavers meet the Subport and the | Rotarians heard Ed Keithahn speak | ypw yORK, Jan, 9 — Closing| 0Wd come to ‘the City Council | These are and will be composed en- | By JAMES HUTCHESON carrier force swept over the air the U. §. Command was not suffi-| " '® lon “Why I Am a Museumator,” and | " | Chambers Thursday night at 8 tirely of World II veterans with no | B 4 s 4 . ¥ ciently aware of the massing of Signacs meet Juneau High Sm‘"’“‘m-ard another talk by RavtAdams, ‘quotauon of Alaska-Juneau Mine GONEE (5 perticipate L ifils tn: | buttng in st a { (A. P. War Correspondent) fields at Formosa and over three i 7 e il the | Crimson Bears in the second and e SEE S stock today is 7, American C: 4 . ¥ : MacARTHUR'S HEAD- major Ryukyu islands, flying with- German troops ready for A aant b scout leader, on his acnvmes\gz Anaconda’ 31%, Curtiss-Wright | Sructions to be held that night and | (2) The recognition of World|oyaprpps IN THE PHILIP- | in 300 miles of Japan proper. - counter-attack. The result was|" . i B et 192%, %, 55 ) i nighit s - by alvhe : R’ R » P- 3 " g e | sl RN, 54 [With the cubs. @ ead oa. the New|6%» Iiternational Harvester 80'i, TS raiseday g K‘)‘(’;; i rmerans by BN gt‘;z’l:" PINES, Jan. 9—A 12-ton aerial| Basic details indicated that the But in Italy, Military Intelligence"GERMANS MAKE Year's ‘:).”,W ind & committee was Kennecott 38%, North Americ e asts. - Alrcady the Legion has|0mb blast on Luzon, ,which the raid is continuing in apparent sup- spotted Nazi preparations against | | appointed to make plans for a vm_|Av}ation 10%, Nev’f _Yorkx entral HIGHWAY WAS ICY I&oun:;e,u s holding down dominanh""fi"t" ff“““v ”"le l?( ba.ln:\dy pm;t ::( S Mpcarhurs. FRR the all-Negro Ninety-second Division | lentine party next month., X25-», Northern Pacific 21%, U. 5 A | jobs both in local and State de[mrl.‘"" er pre-invasion attacl y Am- operations. in advance. So when the enemy | STAND '" IIA[Y 5 |‘Steel 62%, Pound, $4.04, Beech Al The warning given yesterday by | ments gerlc(m warships, was reported to-| The enemy’s army headquarters re attacked, the Ninety-second wa-s; | icraft 14%, Bethlehem Steel 70': | the Weather Bureau of icy condi- ? = fday by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. |on Formosa reported that 450 prepared. They had thrown up| ROME, Jan. S—After withdraw-| SCOUT COUNCIL MEETS Dow, Jones averages are as {cl- tions to prevail on Glacier HIighway | 3 The assumption of the prob-| The communique disclosed the sea-borne aireraft aftacked the is- L, strong defenses to fall back on, |11g five miles from San Alberto in lows: Industrials, 155.02; rails, 5065 this morning proved to be correct.|jéms of World War 11 veterans, The |Pombings of enemy airdromes, but lands from 6:40 a. m. until 4:30 withdrew to these and then held the past two days, the German| Meeting yesterday in the Alaska |utilities, 26.48. Glare ice covered the highway in| oy Legion objectives are being gave no confirmation of Nipponese p. m. “in concert with a small N2 firm. |forces have made a stand along Electric Light and Power Cumpany's‘ - e — all places where the wind did Dot | gtreamlined to take up the problems |FéPOrts that 450 American trans- force of large aircraft from China. It had been figured, both ig!the southern bank of the river penthouse the Girl Scout Council/ OPA MAN HERE sweep and trafficking was hazard- | ;¢ renabilitation and secufity. ports are moving on the prized|Enemy attacks were slack and » Washington and at Gen. Clark’s Reno, east of the Valli di Come discussed plans for the coming sum- | E. H. Toothaker of the OPA i ous. Vehicles operated with cau-| (4, The recognition of othey|istand or on the new war-pounded damage negligible.” macchio Lagoon, Allied Headquar- mer encampment after the new of- |guest at the Baranof Hotel. He tion and no mishaps have been re- | " )Lingayen Gulf as if to prepare for The communique claimed 15 U, (Continued on Page Four) ters announced today. ficers look charge of the meeting. ‘registered from Hoxie, Kansas. ported, = (Continued on Pagye Thiee) landings there. S. planes were downed.