The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA | “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” CMPIRE RiAL RECORD 1- 1945 o i QT VOL. LXIV., NO. 9855. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = YANKS INVADE LUZON; PROGRESS INLAND rdennes Salient Is Steadily Hamme FOUR ALLIED ARMIES CAUSE NAZI RETREAT SqueezeP_Iay Drives Through lcy Weather Without Air Support BULLETIN — PARIS, Jan. 10 Gen. Hodges’ First Army won the biggest tank battle of the Bel- gian Bulge today, capturing the secondary road center of Samree and further endangering the flee- ing Germans. Secondary roads lead throughout the ‘salient from Samree. PARIS, Jan. 10 — Four Allied | Armies hammered relentlessly through icy weather at the Ger- mans in the Ardennes salient to- day and squeezed its waist to nine miles at the Nazis began to re-| treat on the western tip of the Belgian Bulge. On the southern flank of the salient, the U. S. Third Army ad- vanced along a 20-mile front from north of Bastogne to a point east of Wiltz, gaining up to one and one-half miles. The One Hundred and First Airborne Division pushed to within (Continued on Page Sir) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ‘ (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON—Out of the \'al'i-: ous dark spots in the European political picture — Greece, Poland, | Belgium—there is one country | where things are going reasonably | well politically—France. One very important chapter of the inside story on French-American political operations can now be told. It shows that the British and the United States Treasury had a| lot to do with the successful out- | come of the French situation. | What happened was that before | the Allied invasion of* Normandy‘l F.DR. didn’t particularly like dc] Gaulle and his State Department | advisers didn't either. Some offi- | cials suspected that the State De- | partment was misinforming the President on de Gaulle’s inlen-’ tions. At any rate, things got so| bad that on June 4, two nights | before the invasion, de Gaulle with- | drew 180 French civil officers who | were to accompany the Allied land- | ing parties. 1 Whereupon Churchill, deeply dis- | FLEET JHEADQU HARBOR, Jan Naval flier turbed, summoned French Gen. Koenig to No. 10 Downing Street | in the middle of the night, and | begged him to change de Gaulle's;’ mind. Koenig said it was impos- sible. Churchill then routed Alfred Duff Cooper out of bed, rushed him off to plead with de Gaulle, who final- ly agreed to permit 20 French of- ficers to accompany the Allies into Normandy. In return, Cooper promised de Gaulle that the British would urge the U. S. State Department to adopt a more reas- onable attitude toward de Gaulle. al sl FDR INVITES DE GAULLE Carrying out this promise, Chur- | chill sent Roosevelt a strong but friendly cable advising that the Allies could not help dealing with de Gaulle and urging that de Gaulle be invited to Washington. Roosevelt promptly agreed and cabled de Gaulle, then in Algiers. | De Gaulle waited briefly, then ac- cepted the invitation for July 6. Meanwhile, Roosevelt asked the | State, Treasury and War Depart- ments to prepare a program that he could present to de Gaulle. g | NAIZI - DEATH FROM - RED HORDES LIKE MANNA FROM HEAVEN % | | | | | Budapest Battles Reach New Violence-Vienna | Next Red Stop j | | | MOSCOW, Jan. 10.—Red Army as-' | saults within Budapest are reported | increasing in fury while German re- | {lief columns, now menaced by a vast| | outflanking drive north of the Dan-| {ube and facing death, have failed| |completely in an attempt to break| |through to the besieged | within the city. The battle within the great me-| tropolis is now in its thirteenth day| of violent street fighting. Russian| forces claim control of more than| half of the once beautiful Hungm’-i ian capital. 'l To the northwest beyond the Dan- | ube, Malinovsky's armored infantry | is making rapid strides toward Kom- garrison | § FACE '{Amefican Legion Plan Has Two Objectives On - Program for After War DRAFT RATE WILL REACH NEW FIGURE |Hundred Pé}k;ni Boost of Induction Figure Revealed WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.- -Under Secretary of War Patterson told Jongress today that inductions into red JAPS ADMIT 'YANKS LAND NEW SECTION 'Former Jap—Commander Says Nippons’ Navy (Second of two articles on the American Legion) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 — The American Legion, in its bid to be} Will Now Get Busy No, 1 organization of veterans of World War II, as well as of the; LONDON, Jan. 10.—A Berlin radio |first World War, is at present | picked up here quotes a Tokyo dis- | willing to sink or swim on two patch as saying American forces main objectives. have already landed in the Lingayen 1—Postwar jobs for men just out area and the force is estimated at of uniform and proper care and | not less than 60,000 soldiers. rehabilitation of the disabled. There’s nothing much new in this. | IUs as old as the Revolution. It| 1 ONDON, Jan, 10. — John Leon- |starts with pensions and widow's|arq Reuters correspondent covering {pensions and progresses through |y’ janding of the American forces ! hospitalization, schooling and the |on Luzon cabled this observation: most modern plans for vucaum_'ml “It was a vast military move, one rehabilitation. The only interesting lof the best I have ever witnessed, phase in connection with this|cylminating weeks, yes, months of column is that the Legion argues | planning by Gen. MacArthur. It | | GREAT FEAT |the armed forces for the first six that rehabilitation of veterans and |was the most carefully planned drive Imonths of 1945 will total 800,000 men their proper readjustment to civil-| i HOLDING A LOCKET for her daughter Susan to admire is Mrs, Wesley De Quin, of Detroit, Mich., wife of an army private now in New Guinea. The locket was one of a number of Christmas gifts to arrive mysteri- ously near her home by parachute, with a note from her husband stat- ing that he hoped they would make up in part for his absence. No one heard the plane from which the chute was dropped and, the army is said to be investigating the mystery. » arom, the communications hub on o5 a minimum figure. the north bank of theDanube and| = ) this pasis the inductior® rate one of the springboards of the Ger-| wi; pe 150,000 men monthly, about ;mfln Jpine. pipONYe. e twice the rate previously indicated | In advances of three miles Ol|goy the early months of this year. {more, Malinovsky's troops yesterday| e Army and Navy took about captured the riverbank town Of gty thousand a month during the """‘-)“‘ 1lr1mpuf'»ww _l“‘“;‘ ;;‘"”’ and a0 months of 1944, which means one half miles east of RGmarofhline new figure for this month will and half a dozen other communities . jumped around 80,000 men. to the northeast in a great Wheeling| yroing quick enactment of na- movement. {tional service legislation, Patterson The maneuver could carry around |advised the House Military Affairs the big German base and on toward | Committee that only through some Aus ian life is as much a cost of war a: any shell fired at the enemy. | 2--That future wars must be avoided by: (A) An international | peace authority clothed by Con-| gress with power to act in u')y‘ emergency; (B) A universal mili- tary training program that never will see this country unprepared for any such attack as Pearl Har-| bor, or even for participation in knocking out aggressor nations be- fore they get a good start in up- setting world peace. have ever heard of to drive the| Japs from the Philippgines and there is absolutely no possibility of fail- ure WHAT PS5 PLAN LONDON, Jan. 10.—A Tokyo dis- patch relayed by Berlin radio quotes | Lt. Gen, Homma, former Jap Com- | mangder-in-Chief of the Philippines,’ as saying that with the American, landing on Luzon, “it may be taken for granted the Japanese Navy will now go into action and deal blows Nalion;l‘]ob BAudge! | Bratislavia on the rian border jand eventually Vienna itself, 87 ias I miles away. | Dispatches said signs of cracking s ew ro posl Ion in the core of enemy resistance | within Budapest are.showing. The Russians have now captured more than 2300 of the city's 4500 blocks. Coming Up, Congress e ‘Townsend Club Has WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—It’s just| D. WHITE in this theatre of operations.” : The DNB also said in a broadcast Edward N. Scheiberling, National that Homma declared “immediate counter measures are now essential, particularly as the enemy may make further landings and expose Malina to fresh dangers. The moment for action is now at hand.” {form of national service could the manpower needs of the war effort |be met. | Through the next six months !pending enactment of an overall statute, Patterson said the War De- | partment favors “work or fight” leg- }ikzlatinn for all men between 18 and 45. ; At the present time, such a bill is | being entertained in committee. - (Continued on P(lgé Two) e PLANS ANNOUNCED v i FOR OBSERVATION pocron BREAKS LEG THOUSANDS OF TROOPS 6O ASHORE Landings X(a)mplished— Soldiers Transferred from 800 Ships By JAMES HUTCHESON Associated Press War Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- PINES, Wednesday, Jan. 10.—Tens of thousands of the United States Sixth Army Forces, accompanied by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, landed Tuesday along 15 miles of the Lin- gayen Gulf coast, Luzon Island, from an 800-ship convoy and pushed deep into the flat lands leading 120 miles south to Manila over ideal tank war country. Tanks were among the equipment put ashore in strength that made possible a powerhouse offensive from the beaches that had been cleared of Japanese by fierce warship shell- and aerial bombings. Lightly opposed Yanks surged in- land over the same crescent of sand dunes the Japanese employed three years ago. Where Landings Made A field dispatch, disclosing that Gen. MacArthur has up his headquarters on Luzon, said the landings were on the southern extremity of Lingayen Gulf which includes the city of Lingayen. At one point of the landing, only 11 Jap snipers were found after a hunt of one hour. The American invaders got ashore at 9:30 a. m.,, and within two hours after the first transport disgorged soldiers to the landing boats, fol- lowing a dawn shelling of the areas, Gen. MacArthur was back on the island where he fought losing battles at the opening of the Pacific war and is now on the way for a show- dowa fight for all of the Philippines, paved by a multiplicity of warship and aerial attacks. 3 Krueger's Beachhead Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger's beach- head extended from near Lingayen City, on the southern shore, east- ward to San Fabian. The low American casualties re- ported refuted the enemy warnings | | | | already set 1Seventy-thre—e Ships Sunk defense orbit | toward the end of a | sional mill long run Now that another Congressional run has started, backers of the idea hope it will pop up well to the forefront and that something will STRIKE WIDE ;I)n( » The principle proposed is to estimate, allocate and expend jour manpower every year just as iwe do our cash. Sponso might have added that money is but the measure of energy and the goods fwhx( h energy creates. They are .asking, in effect, “why not keep /books more directly on our energy UNITED STATES PAcIFIG|I We can find the right ARTERS, PEARL Slicks to do so.” 9, — (Delayed) —| The idea of budgeting jobs comes lashing at Japan's sea|from the War Contracts subcom- h within the Luzon Mittee of the Senate Committee on sank or damaged 73 Military Affairs. Chairman of the ved or damaged 262 Subcommittee is Senator James E. or Damaged-262 Planes Put Qut of Commission nd air stren hips and d: STOCK QUOTATIONS | | : | The Juneau Townsend Club met {RMIY XORE, Ja 10, — Olosing last night and there was a good at- !quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | tendance as is usual when the holi- | Stock today is Qi hre Cit |Anaconda 33, Beech Aircraft 14, The,Weekly Flash, issued by na- Bethlehem Stecl 71%, Curtiss Wright | tional headquarters, w: read and | 6%, International Harvester 79, Ken- stated that Townsend sentiment was NeCOlt 38%, North American Avia- | strongly entrenched in the 79th |tion 10%, New York Central 26%, | Congress now in session and it is | Northern Pacific 212, U. S. Steel 63 | hoped to secure favorable action on Cow, Jones averages today are as | the Townsend bill before adjourn- (follows: industri 155.67, rails | ment. 51.03, utilities 26.47. Members reported ill are Andrew SR Rosness, now in a hospital iu Seat- | T§ tle, A. W. Willard and E. F. ‘Hoden- .Ilme wmng | burg in St. Ann’s Hospital in J”'E.lllneau wmflg {Address | neau. A card signed by all present | was mailed Rosness and members | of the organization will call on | The Club Council will meet next | Packages of “Melchoir”—foreicn | Saturday evening at the home of for music and a specific item tha' | Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Almquist, 329|We know to be a very large pack- | | | | | - Session Last Night | Willard and Rodenburg. WORLD PRAYER DAY Plans for Juneau's ohservance of the World Day of Prayer on Feb- ruary 16 were made by a group of 7, American Can 92'%, Juneau church women, who met at H the home of Mrs. Willis R. Booth. Mrs. Ralph E. Baker presided at the meeting. Two meetings will be held on the World Day of Prayer, which is the first Friday in Lent. At 2 p. m. there is to be a brief business meeting followed by an explana-| tion of the aims and purposes of | the Prayer Day. | At 8 p m., there will be a prayer | rvice following closely the service | outlined by the United Council uq |Church Women. Mrs, Ralph E.| |Baker will preside and Juneau | church members will xmrncmme.! Mrs. Robert Treat is chairman of the music committee and will pre-| sent musical interludes during both | servicess the invasion of Luzon would be a SUNDAY ON SKI RUN | costly undertaking and from the Dr. Leonard V. Lyon, public health start the Jap defenses ashore were dentist assigned to the Coast Guard, woefuly inadequate and some of is now recuperating in St. Ann's ospital from a broken knee-cap suffered on the Douglas Ski Trail Sunday when he had a bad spill, == OPERATIONS DINERS FOR ~ (ONDUCTED NEWALASKA ~ e Ero RA"' ROUTE Greafest_fln p hihious V ' Movement Weathered Deadly Air Attack (Continued on Page Sir) - — | | { | Giant NewEBoeing Trans- |ernment officials were attracted to- day to the Capitol's National Air-| {port to view the newest in mammoth | The War Department, represented |transport planes, the C-97, which | by far-sighted Assistant Secretary 1has been ‘credited, unofficially, with -day sweep over Murray, Democrat, Montana, with| Distin Avenue. Plans to stimulate planes in a thr : Harry Tru-|jnterest and action in the Townsend Luzon, Formosa and Okinawa area.|Vice President-elect |The Navy communique listed ad- man and Senator Chapman Rever-imovement will be formulated and| Sald Time, Juneau, Alaska, had of the services, which are part of | ditional damage to ships in harborscomb, Republican, West Virginia, submitted to the organization for and off shore during the pre-invas- as members. | consideration. B — {turned in a report on war contracts| meeting. Music was furnished by which looks to the end of the war|the Townsend Orchestra. AIR BEHEMOTH Ito peacetime economy which will| |have to be faced. One of these, it| | It cites President Roosevelt's plea | IN S'x H |for a national level of employment oull F I |jobs. It recalls that jobs held hy{ l u ure Americans produced less than half | ion of Luzon. The Murray subcommittee has| Dancing followed the business and the problems of re(:unversionk | L] HOPS COUNTRY = i the s o waona) A FAGATING |o |employment—a job for everybody.| !which would provide 60,000,000 | |the and services in goods 1929 PAU Coundil BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 10. - gentina’s government ha nounced that it will not participa in future Pan-American Union meetings. The announcement ! lowed the Union’s decision Mor to postpone consideration of Arge tina’s request for a consultive me« port Flies Non-stop Se- aftle fo Capital WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — Gov- |which Americans are producing | l !501221‘111'1 “on Page Two) "THIRTEEN FLY SOUTH TODAY ON PAA PLANE A PAA plane left for Seattle to- | | | | _|neau’s harbor froze every winter), -1 (a $10,000 package), and down on »|the docks | — o g 2 Alaska r: p |age—are not coming to Juneau, 2| Eyeryone in the community h“lFai;b:nl::“rk::?dlyrrgerzm'gdlm:::s;: :3 Time article, Jan. 8, not regarding.'peen urged to attend one or "om‘SQurdoughs e e taaned overnighted on the old road—but ‘thal, is the postwar plan revealed {here today for Alaska’s only real ]rmlrcud by its General Manager, Col. Otto Ohlson, who is conferring |with Federal Offices here on joint | development diate postwar period. plans for the imme- “We's putting on modern |been added to the far flung ser-!y world-wide observance of the day. Viccs of Community Concert Ser- ————— vice which ships famous names in i SR ML |music, in person, paid in person, | communities who go for the idea) Alaska Coastal Alrlines made four ,and the bill. | Says Jack Fletcher, Manager of | genial floor- | 5 yester | |flights yesterday carrying the fol-| .- “. ° o e It was all a|lowing passengers to Sitka: John H, | 0% hes, fast locomotives and dining {the Baranof Hotel scrubber-for-bonds, e s be giving a fast, comfortable ride, {Concert Service mail here by mi handling a lot more passengers and | Fletcher managed such a ser-| Berry {vice for Marysville, California, got| Sitka to Juneau—Dawson Muggy, |take, returned it, Concert ServiceHoward, Frank Price, Brooks Han- going through to Fairbanks in a ‘smglc day's run.” I 5- | H. Johnson, Ruby Rattluff, David !saw the Juneau dateline, evidently | ford. |leaped for the publicity office tele-| Juneau to Hoonah—Mr. and Mrs. | |phone before they read further. |Henry Douglas. Result: Seldom - wrong, Time| Pelican City \wrong again (once they said Ju- Page, L. O In line with increasing demands for tourist facilities, lodges and W, J_‘cabms are planned for construction Martha a0 lovely Wonder Lake, Walker. lend of road at 89-mile in Mount Hoonah to Juneau—Mike Thomp- | McKinley Park. : |son, Mrs. C. Thompson, | “Tou will get a perspective Juneau to Skagway — Rosemary|there of the entire Alaska Range,” Kromholz, Norm Gjerde. |Ohlson declared, and added, “T'v Skagway to Haines—Carl Ohm-|Seen all the Swiss Alps and other dahl, {famous mountain scenery, but what to Junea Jacobsen, {Jack Fletcher is embarrassed, Ju- |neau gets no Heifetz and Horowitz the e saying “What longshoremen are s the difference?” > aircraft waited for the convey now the gooperation, Dining cars and one-day service By SPENCER DAVIS in deep-seated coaches on the Associated Press War Correspondent ABOARD ADMIRAL KINCAID'S FLAGSHIP IN LINGAYEN GULF, PHILIPPINES, Jan. 10. — In the greatest amphibious operation of the Pacific War this invasion fleet, of some 800 ships, under Vice-Admiral Thomas Kincaid, has weathered the most deadly air attack the Japanese could contrive. While returning Gen. MacAr- thur’s forces to Luzon Island, the giant convoy bearing a force one- third larger than that which invaded Leyte, was ynder enemy observation from the time it started. Japanese to approach Luzon before attacking, then struck with all the fury of Tyl Brunt of the enemy air strike fel on the advance force of the Heavy Bombardment Group, including pre- Pearl Harbor battleships, escort car- riers, cruisers and destroyers, which shelled the beaches between Lin- gayen City and S8an Sebastian town Jack McCloy, urged full recogni- |flying here from Seattle in six hours day with the following passengers: | tion of de Gaulle, claiming it wasl-'md three minutes. Bert Rutherford, Mrs, Louise Stoll,| necessary for military reasons. | The double-decked transport ver- Miss Jean Brokaw, Miss Wanda other American nations. But the State Department, repre- ;Sion of the Boeing Superfortress was F st, Mrs. Rubye Rottluff, Le_s- The Pan-American Union sented by Jimmy Dunn, argued that | described by one observer as looking,|lie A. Sturm, William Tierney, Miss|been the Argentine’s only diplom the President would never agree.| Ssomething like the Empire State Barbara Gomez, Mrs. Phyllis Wilder, | link with most other nations of Dunn was quite stubborn and building with wings,” when it land-/ Mrs. Mary Gar dner, Jacques, Western Hemisphere since the p: claimed there was no use even €d here last night after zooming, Schurre, Mae Ferris. ent military government of Prc non-stop, across the 2335 miles from For Annette Island—Roy Robert-|dent Farrell failed to obtain reco AContinued on Page Four) Skagway to Juncau—Ada Winther,|You can see at Wonder Lake "tops to destroy eoastal batteries. |Sheldon Williamson, Ralph Mize, everything.” | Preliminary reports indicated that |Norm Gjerde. A pew tourist agency will be 79 enemy planes had been downed Haines to Juneau—Harry Ellengen,|opened in Los Angeles also, Col. by Yank combat fliers and ship John Demonstri. |Ohlson said. | anti-aireraft fire, We suffered some Excursion Inlet to Juneau—Shorty| Expecting to return to his An- losses and suffered ship damage Wilson, David McKinley, Peter Jack- | chorage office tomorrow by plane, which a high ranking fleet officer son, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Johnson,|Col. Ohlson is a guest at the said will not impair the efficiency Frank Ausmus, Baranof Hotel, of our force, FROM ANCHORAGE Vic G. Rowe is a guest at the ;| Hotel Juneau. He is registered from . Anchorage. ing to discuss her relations .. TOTTENS VISIT HERE Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Totten from Anchorage are guests at the Hotel Juneau, A | the Pacific Northwest city. L son, nition,