The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1945, Page 1

[4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NE WS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9857 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———— | AMERICANS ATTACK JAPS IN NEW AREA - SEESAW FIGHT RUNDSTEDT TONNALLY ASKS (L AST NAZIS SENATOR ASKS COAST FRENCH ' (ONTINUES ON 15 FEELING | WEST FRONT U. 5. WHIP Surrounded French Troops. Are Now Being Sup- plied from Air PARIS, Jan. 12—The German| rearguards are falling back through fog and snow in near-zero cold toward the Ourthe River line along roads that might have led to Ant-| werp, but to the south another enemy force is hitting with in- creased armor near Strasbourg with Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief of the German home army, perhaps the commander directing the at- tack. On both sides of the Alsation capital, the French troops are ap- parently surrounded because they | are being supplied by air. They lost Oberheim, 15 miles south of | Strasbourg. The Allies have lost Herrlisheim, 12 miles northeast of Strasbourg. A staff officer with Gen. Mont- gomery said the Germans pulled ! all their forces from the shell- splintered forest west of the La-! roche- St. Hubert road, a diffi-| cult tract about 120 miles square. The Nazis, however, still have remnants of some divisions behind | Ourthe and west of Houffalize. At least 13 towns fell to Allied arms as the First and Third Army | prisoners total since December 16 rose to almost 30,000. Ameri(an—STabs at Nazi Flanks Sending Ger- mans Reeling PARIS, Jan 12—The ~Allied armies have apparently sheared off | the western end of the Belgian| bulge and gouged tentatively into the northern and southern flanks as well as smashing well into the eastern half of the salient. The U. S. Third Army pene- trated twice into the German south flanks between Bastogne and Vian- den. The First across the Salm 10 miles of St. Vith. This action with those of the Third Army threatened to under- cut any attempt by von Rundstedt Army has stabbed| River to within {to hold the course of the Ourthe|be presented in the Senate or that| {there will River and yield only the western| half of his salient. i The Germans appeared to have pulled all but a few last remaining rearguards from the western end| of the Ardennes bulge where the| First and Third Armies have| netted more than 30,000 prisoners| and killed uncounted thousands. | It is estimated these armies have | or i jzlmn'oyvd the equivalent of six seven divisions of Germans. ! Tanks of the Sixth Army group | in Alsace Lorraine where the Ger-| {mans have threatened Strasbourg, SENATE 10 BAN roreioN TaLks [N BUDAPEST President Discloses Inter- national Views fo Bi- Partisan Delegation WASHINGTON, Jan 12—Senator | Tom Connally today returned from conferences at the White House to urge that the Senate withhold fur-| ther discussions on the Interna- tional situation, pending the new meeting of the “Big Three.” The chairman of the Senate Foreign row strip of Pest on the east bank Relations Committee did not, how- of the Danube with the Nazis ever, disclose any details of the |squeezed into an area approximately morning’s discussions between the |two miles long and one mile wide President and the eight man bi-| Savage German attacks on the partisan delegation from the Senate Soviet arc west of the Danube to Foreign Relations group. |relieve the desperately struggling A statement issued by Gen. Con- | Nazi garrison failed in. nally declared the President’s, Marshal Tolbukhin is reporied to views had been made known to the Dhave Sub-Committee, but said: “Until|there : the meeting of President Roosevelt, |any German breakthrough Premier Stalin and Prime Minister| In 10 days of fighting to relieve Churchill T hope no resolution wili | Budapest the Germans sacrificed 'Squeezed Into Narrow Strip of Pest But Two MilesLong MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—The last stark chapter in the siege of Buda pest is now being written in a na 650 tanks. | Russian reports, official and unof= {icial. be no general discus sions to disturb the delicate Inter- national situation.” on the verge of collapse. These re- R GEMM"-'- ATTORNEY | perts stirred hopes in the Budapes [public that the city, under direct |in the Red Army’s possession in a OF TWO FBI AGENTS “ = ™ ... | % R | SEATTLE, Jan. 12—A precept re- | questing the subpoena of FBI| |sions that the German garrison wi FOR FORCE T0 | RETAIN PEACE ARE TRAPPED{ VandenberkgAWants Allied’ i i Treaty Now for Joint ' . ; Peace Action WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Senator | Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican | Michigan, proposed that Congress |vote the President power to imme- 'diately use force to keep Germany 'and Japan demilitarized after the |war and called on the major Al- :nm Powers to negotiate a treaty now for joint action “to achieve |this dependable end.” |\ Vandenberg told the Senate that| this nation ought to demand that any unilateral agreements made on (world political questions be sub- |jected to a review by a proposed | peace organization, The chairman trengthened his position and|of (he Senate Republican Confer-|the co peared little likelihood of|ence took the floor to urge restate- meant an encirclement of {ment of specific American inter- national aims and anticipations. | During a Senate discussion of the that decla Senate write its of foreign policy the tion | ment lown American participation in a World Security Organization prepared to juse force to preserve pe: |emphasized this country’s deter- mination to stand by the principles of the Atlantic Charter. TREMENDOUS RISE, St. Hubert, southwest anchor of bagged 5294 prisoners in the cur- the contracting Belgian Bulge in rent campaign. ‘ Ardennes, has finally been entered. i The Germans announced evacua- tion two nights ago. Southeast of B | R Be i Bastogone a troublesome German | pocket has been all but erased in | a welter of enemy blood. NEw DRIVE | | C(OAST GUARD HAVING | | own MaRch oF oives QN POLAND |Agents Harold Anderson, Juneau, and Charles F. Flack, formerly of Juneau, and now assigned in Texa; has been filed in the Federal Court by Will G. Beardsley, attorney for Lynn J. Gemmill, United States Attorney of the PFirst Division of Alaska, who is charged with so- liciting and accepting a bribe from Cleo Patricia Wilkins on an a serted promise to obtain a su pended sentence in a larceny cas pending against “her. “Any money accepted by my client from Cleo Patricia Wilkins was in restitution,” Beardsley said {“Naturally, you may assume that | agents of the FBI called by us are subpoenaed to substantiate my client’s claim.” e VETERANS ARE GIVEN EXTENSION OF TIME FOR REINSTATEMENT Territorial Headquarters of Select- |levels and the results of the at-| ive Service announced today that tack were not observed because ollarmy fE N0 divulaed, bt Bl , orably discharge terans sep- > cover J in a dive ?10!! rably d ged ve sep- the cover of clouds. There was no 'LONDON NEWSPAPERW ANKS KEEP THANKS YANKS FOR 'BASTOGNE BATTLE 1 Than We Knew About” ! + (By Associated Pr | The London Daily Express today published under its headline, “Thanks to the Yanks,” a dispalch |from one of its Western Front cor- -espondents declaring that the Ger- mans might have captured Ant- werp and caught the British Se ond Army in a fatal trap if the Americans had not The dispatches by Allen Moor- |head said, “Everything for one |moment depended on the Ameri- cans holding Bastogne. Haad they lost it, there was reasonable chance for the Germans to sweep on to st, taking Antwerp, which British | Armies. There would have been no lescape route by sea this time. | “General Bradley and his Ameri- 16,000 men killed, and approximately| whole international situation, Sen-|cans hung on somehow. Now that This is on the basis ofigtor Ferguson proposed in a state- |full reports are coming in, the are saying in British headquarte that Bastogne compares in import- Russian reports produced impres- ye offered a resolution calling for |ance with EI Elamain in its effect war. It was we knew a bigger about, per- {upon the battle than and re- |haps one of the greatest American efforts of the war.” 'ALASKA SCHOOL * CHILDREN MAKE ‘It Was a'fiéqer Battle held Bastogne. | " WARPRODUCTION AR PURCHASES IS STRUCK 15 SEEN BY KRUG "o\ s BY BOMBERS .ccmsaon it Jeeps and Ducks for {grams will rise at a “tremendous Ameri(an Army rate” under the new speedup which !includes a three-fold increase in; Many of Uncle Sam’s Soldiers Iwill ride in war equipment bought Army PlanesH|IA|rdrome,[m,-m in six months, WPB Chair- | itated partly by Alaska school children . Iman Krug said tod: Cannery Area in . to equip the new French Army di-| It was revealed today by ,Mrs. The program is nec Kuriles sions and partly in the fight|Katherine Nordale, Deputy Man- | ainst Germany. lager of the War Savings Commit- About $2,500,000,000 worth of new tee. that 36 schools of the Te |arms output is being added to the tory have invested the impressi 1945 schedule. Expansion brings|sum of $95,50255 in war savings |the 1945 total output to some $64- 'stamps and bonds since last 500,000,000, slightly higher than the|November, 11944, N A | Alittle over half of this money "Tb is 8 more difficult programiwent into the purchase of flying to meet,” Krug told a news confer- and rolling equipment, with the ence. “There will be plenty of jobs|jigile farm community of Homer, for everyone in war industry,” he ,, cook Inlet, leading the field added. i |with $10,000 worth of purchases in The volume of munitions sched- . rorm of a pair of jeeps and to the French|,,. quck which, like similarly sub- ribed purchases,” will carry the name into battle. | (A. P. War Correspondent) | ELEVENTH AIR FORCE HEAD QUARTERS IN THE ALEUTIANS, iJan. 12—Army Liberators bombed Suribachi airdrome and cannery area on the lower west coast of' | Paramushiro Island in the Kuriles lon Tuesday as a follow up raid and ;bombm'dmcm by Navy surface craft | last week The planes from struck high! juled for shipment b i ression | | sources have given the impression| ., oo that it will be a substantial part of | ""po) o bought two liaison ber 8, 1944, but not more than 90 of enemy planes. All U. S. planes|yanted arms and material for more ated from service prior to Decem- signs of antiaircraft fire nor signs|iy. 9500000 increase. Italians| The local Coast Guard is conduct- i | ing its own March of Dimes cam- . et i eaordinacion witn the one OEYMans Declare Russian being conducted among civilians for . | T ot antat ratanite| " PUSHE IS On Agam ! Paralysis. | Recepticles have been placed in Near Kl'akOW H canteens and other convenient lo-| | cations, and posters have been; LONDON, Jan. 12—The German| placed on the bulletin boards. |radio reported today the Russians| Good results are anticipated. | nave opened an offensive on a broad NI i {front in southern Poland szriklngi IN FROM HAINES |from the Vistula bridgehead west of | 0. J. Lewis of Haines is regis-|Baranow towards Kracow. tered at the Gastineau Hotel , | This new push is 125 airline miles |south of ruined Warsaw. - During the summer e as lngion across the rolling Polish plain, the By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Republican Na- tional Committee Chairman Herbert | Brownell spent a restless two days in Washington last week trying to bind up the GOP’s wounds. He had come to the Capital hoping to get scme unity on only leaders were in revolt against the regular party organization, He had planned that the Dewey- dominated National Committee could take over entire control of a party program| to find that Congressional | |Reds struck to within 35 miles of | Krakow, the ancient capital of the | Polish kings, a city of 254,000 per- | sons. | The Germans asserted the “first; attacking waves were completely| | Wiped out by the fire of our guns, mortars and infantry weapons,” German radio announcers further ;declared “Succeeding columns which {reached the main battle lines were! forced back, but bitter fighting is| | on for some penetrated| | going areas.” When the Russian offensive! (ground to a stop beyond Baranow this summer, the Russians declared {they were within eighty miles of German Silesia, second only to the| Ruhr as a German arsenal. | measured from the date of the vet-| days before, are entitled to take ad-|returned safely. vantage of the time extension pro-| Later, photographs showed vided by the recent amendment 1o g the Selective Training and Service Act for reinstatement in their for- Twelve buildings that appeared in mer positions. photographs taken last November, The measure, which became ef-'had disappeared, presumably from fective December 8 when it Was the Naval shel fire. Large barracks signed by the President, extends pyjldings near the airdrome were from 40 to 90 days the period in 4150 destroyed. which veterans may make applica- BRI R tion for reinstatement in their for-| iner positions. The 90-day period is RELAIIONS ARE FINNISH GOVT. eran’s discharge or release from a scrvice hospital. Veterans dis- charged before the amendment be- came effective are entitled to the ex- tension, provided the 90-day period | has not expired as of December 8. | The hospitalization provisions of | active participation against the e | Nazis, Krug acknowledged, but “I| Its of the shells poured on thelqon't know if we are furnishing canning plant area by the Navy.| them any. “Hot - aircraft,” which include Superforts, C-54 Cargo planes, jet- propelled fighters and all navy fighters are scheduled to rise from $367,000,000 to $325,000,000 monthly lin six months and a nine percent |increase in all aircraft is planned. | Willow Run, instead of cutting the Liberator bomber output, will hold production steady or increase pro- duction. of actual production figures for Superforts, Krug said that the Boe- ing plant at Renton, Wash., will | have to boost its December output| trainers; Craig, a field ambulanci | Petersburg, a scout car; Anchorage, la liaison plane; Seward, jeeps; Sitka, a liaison plane; Ket- chikan High School, a field ambu- lance; the main Ketchikan school, a liaison plane; the White CIiff Scheol in the Pirst City, a field ambulance; Fairbanks, a duck, and Wasilla, a liaison plane. With 5,943 pupils participating in this drive, the figure subscribed |shows an average of more than $16 per pupil. The record shows |also that 16 of 36 schools have |earned the Sehools at War flag, In the unveiling for the first time |With better than 90 per cent par-| | ticipation. three | INDO-CHINA IS (BATTLE SCENE Highly Probable that Jap- anese Fleet May Be Target of Bombers BULLETIN—PEARL HARBOR, rha /Bl - XiiRS .!:m. 12—American carrier airmen Luzon have penetrated inland 12 | K 3 'l"‘" l;'“'"fl and Revily miles from the beachheads. B i Ajathaes in pihaid BH ) ack on four enemy convoys off the French Indo-China Coast, nearly 1,000 miles west of Manila, Admiral Nimitz reports tonight. - UP ADVANCE LUZON ISLE Nine Towns',rMény Villages Taken-Move Island Cautiously BULLETIN — M HEADQUAR/ 5 | GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD- | QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, |Saturday, Jan. 13.—American in- |vaders on Luzon Island, punching = seven to nine miles inland from | UNITED STATES PAGIFIO |their 25 mile wide Lingayen Guifi FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | teachheads, have seized five more | HARBOR, Jan. 12. — Carrier-based planes “are attacking the enemy off |towns and terminals of four main o |nighways and rallroads leading to|the coast of French Indo-China, | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an- |Manila and then found their first nounces, appreciable opposition at their deep- ¥ est spearhead. 2 It seems highly probable the Japa- Lt. Gen, Walter Krueger's Fifth Dese fleet was the target. Army unit has been advancing in! Adm. Nimitz cryptically stated the two days as far and as fast as rea- | Assault, constituting: the United sonable caution and movement of States Fleet's deepest penetation.of supplies permit. | Japan’s inner defenses, fell “between The Yanks have now taken nine Saigon and Amranh Bay.” towns and more than a score of | The Admiral did not specify what villages. | was attacked but it is very probable | The advance has carried the & Japanese reinforcement convoy, Americans well south of the maze of escorted by WBI'Shlpfi. was intercept- |swamp country at the mouth of ed while setting out for Yank-invad- |the meandering Agno River along ed Luzon in the Philippines. which the Japanese might have been | Blows Falling |able to make a delaying stand. Only | The briel pointed communique |at the extreme left flank along the Said the blows fell “off the coast.” | Posorubi road have the Yanks run | The Camranh coast is east bf |into_anything more than isolated Saigon, and is one of the finest | sniper resistance and this was quick- natural harbors in Asia and has a !ly eliminated. | large protécted anchorage for capital I !\\'arships. y | The coast of French Indo-China is some 700 or 800 miles due west of !the beaches on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon where Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | troops are pressing inland after the ‘inmal landing four days ago. The surprise announcement is the first information of an American fleet assault in that sector of French, Indo-Chine and gave no details of what kind of a Japanese force was under attack. ’ Attack Now On JAPS REPORT * NEW LANDINGS ~ BY AMERICANS Latest Assault Is Reported In Manl‘a Bay The communique merely said Am- i Area | erican carried-based planes are !“now attacking the enemy off the | o ___lcoast of French Indo-China between LONDON, Jan, 12. — A "“p"nc““‘samon and Camranh Bay.” radio commentator heard in AUs-| Tne yeference “off the coast” ilralia‘ said a‘xxolpel"Amcncuu“lux?d; might mean a naval dash by air is ‘Aug in the M.unlvu }’K.Iy nr?n followed progress or carrier-based planes |that one on ng.nyen” cannot be' gy hounding enemy shipping. “"’:é"";“;""fl‘rz‘“x‘o O;:ére American | The Pacific Fleet carrier force, eporte rican | convoys in Philippine waters, one of | which & iitle pyer b Week SgamL bout 150" ships, The I dio com_mlanes reconnoitering along 500 L\“mé’:"“mr :nd’”“ wa‘; siugmed ogr | miles of the China coast, during the ‘ | attacks on Formosa, has moved | Panay Island fmd another br:tween;::cmss the South China Sea to un- 1100 and 150 ships off Negros Island. | .och an aerial blow. | MORE coNvoy REPORT | NEW YORK, Jan. 12. — A JaD| npw YORK, Jan. 12.—Domei says radio broadcast picked up here .o BT Lo oy arrier-based claims a third American convoy hns‘ planes raided the “Cochin-China |arrived in Lingayen Gulf and land- sector around Saigon” for nine and | ings have been made. | one-half hours. ! B T This Jap broadecast was recorded by the FCC. | u S SolD'ER The Domei report also claimed the | Bl sind | Nipponese antiaircraft units downed | | “at least 20 American planes” be=- i sides damaging others. ~ BRITISHMURDER , . | | s (Ice-Locked Valdez Freed:Coast Guard JAPANESE REPORT ATTLEBRIDGE, Eng., Jan. 12—/ |A 12-man army court martial to-| day sentenced Private George Smith, Kewspaperman + | Pittsburgh, to hang for the the party and begin laying the| groundwork for a great Republican| MAGAI'"E FHIURES victory in the 1946 ‘Congressional | elections. Instead, Republican Con-| PICTURES OF LOCAL ;lhe amendment are intended 10 United States is resuming relations| 1o do so, Fortress | cover hospitalization in both GOV-|with Finland on an informal bfls‘-"v‘Eceing must be tran: ernment and private facilities. Althe State Department announced. ¢ production by red to Doug- WASHINGTON, Jan, 12—The 35 air dreadnaughts to 200 in July.| |1as and Lockheed with a stepping up| ling of Sirerich Teichman, British | diplomat. Smith, standing court, swayed as the sentence was | Name_tLIo Senat s lcebreaker at Work in front of the’ | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 12— gressional leaders, headed by Joe| Martin of Massachusetts and Char- | | ley Halleck of Indiana, advised | H'OWERS' AR"(lE‘ that House Republicans wWere - in{, A Series of pictures ' of. local] R Be mfled with, sug.|flowers and an article on “Alaska’s| gested that it would be better w‘F‘lowe)'y Pmm‘_ are featured m‘ Jet them have their head rm,dhc December issue of the “Journal | awhile. New York Botanical Most significant decision reached‘;G‘,’;:e"'"_- 2 by Brownell during his visit was e pictures, all taken in .the the agreement he gave GOP lead-|Yicinity of Juneau, were made \by ers that he would continue as Rc-;Mm' beMa"‘“e Williams, Juneau, publican National Chairman aftgr member of the local Botany Club the Indianapolis meeting January who is now writing a book on Al- 20. Brownell had planned to stepxas};; bo‘f‘?y‘ % out at that time and was not too| e article was written by Mrs. coricerned. over whé -would succeed|Saralt V. Goombs, Ney York Oity, him. Then he began a quiet survey;‘]mul:lh'el' of Mrs. J. deGanahl of of sentiment among party leaders,| " ¢4t found the organization badly split,| ) . .-|BETTY RICE, HAROLD put with many feeling that he is|” J the one man they could most agree DEROUX WED IN SOUTH - Miss Betty Rice, popular Juneau veteran does not have to remain| The President has approved the! o E in the latter plant. hospitalized at one particular hos-|assignment of a foreign service of- E pital or one particular type of hos-|ricer with the personal rank of Min- pital but may transfer from one.hos- |ister at Helsinki. pital to another, one or more times,| pending his arrival an officer has| FRAN(E Io HAVE g | JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Jan. 12| vead, but he recovered his composure Capt. Gordon W. MacLane, Alaskan |—Frank Briggs, Macon, Democrat, and left the courtroom handcuffed'gistrict Coast Guard Officer, has {newspaper publisher, was appointed to one of his escorts 11‘9(‘91»’?0 a telegram from Mayor C. today by Governor Donnelly as| Teichman was shot when he ac- j Egan of Valdez complimenting Senator for the unexpired two! costed Smith and a companion, Pvt.'the Coast Guard for its successful provided hospitalization is continu-|peen dispatched from Stockholm to ous except for the necessary time to handle American affairs. transfer. s Acting Secretary of State Joseph Further information may be ob-|Grew said the President has as- tained from the office of John L. signed Maxwell Hamilton as the McCormick, Territorial Director of foreign officer to represent the the Selective Service System. | United States in Finland. ! - e COME IN CAA PLANE SId(K 0‘“’0?“""6"5 Pilot Al Horning and Engineer H. NEW YORK, Jan. 12 — Closing L. Hinkle of the Civil Aeronautics quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| Administration flew to Juneau yes- | stock today is 7, American Can|terday in a CAA plane from An- 924, Anaconda 33, Beech Aircraft |chorage. 13%, Bel‘hlehem St{el 71, Curtiss-| The two have been checking fl Wright 6%, International Harvester ihg ranges and making routine su 8%, Kennecott 38%, North Ameri- | veys. can Aviation 10%, New York Cen-; oA Sib S SRR . 1,200,000 - MAN ~ ARMY BY SPRING PARIS, Jan. 12 France may} have an army of 1200000 strong| equipped well and armed with the! latest American materiel by the| end of Spring, War Minister Die: { thelm declared today on his re-| ‘lum from a tour of the Alsatian| battlefront. ‘ ————— | HAZEL COFFIN TO JAIL | | Hazel Coffin, arrested Thursday years of the term of Truman. Leonard Wojtac Detroit, while ———— | they were hunting on his estate De- MACHAN VISITS HERE cember 23. Wojtacha faces a charge O. B. Machan has arrived in of being an accessory. Juneau from Haines | Smith's defense contended that he SITKA VISITOR lis a Dan Moller of Sitka is a guest mental age of at the Baranof Hotel L nine. - - - ROGGES ARRIVE FROM WH ORSE | Senator Elect Leo Rogge and F. L. Carsall is a guest at the|Mrs. Rogge came in by PAA plane Gastineau Hotel from Whitehorse, |today from Fairbanks. —_——— Democrat Representative A former Office of Indian Af-|Territorial House, Rogge is fairs employee, Sam Kendricks, was |his first entrance to the reported killed in action in France,(The Rogges are residing December 8. Assembly Apartments Kendricks from 1933 to 1943 was fertimrerinirdieresey in the Senate at the homicidal degenerate with af A veteran' making | Brownell rejected suggestions that girl, and Harold DeRoux, well- tral 25%, Northern Pacific 21%,| REV. NYGAARD HERE {on a charge of disorderly conduct, FROM SAN FRANCISCO known Douglas young man, have |married in the south according to radiograms received here with no ‘parmulnrs given. he assume the post op a full-time paid basis, told Halleck and Martin (Continued on Page Four) U. S. Steel 62%, Pound $4.04. | The Rev. Ernest Nygaard of the Dow, Jones averages tcday are as| Lutheran Church in Sitka arrived on follows: industrials 15542, rails,|the Northland for a brief visit in 50.24,+ utilities 26.58, Juneau, -ntered a plea of guilty before @ unit manager with the Reindeer Commissioner Felix Gray and re-|Service and had many friends in| W. B Gilroy is a guest at the Lceived a sentence of six months in the Federal Jail, his Kuskokwim-Norton Suund-lBurnnof Hotel, registered from San Seward Peninsula area, Francisco, ‘wm'k clearing Valdez Bay of ice. The telegram said: “Ice breaker completed a very |efficient job of clearing the ice from Valdez Bay. We thank you.” The Coast Guard said it had dis- patched an ice-breaking cutter to the area when it was reported that {the city was ice-locked. After a few days the cutter completed its mission and slashed its bow through |the ice to make lanes to the city's docks. in - ee— - CAA MEN HERE W. R. Peterson, Allan F. Horn- ing, and H. L. Henkel, CAA men from Anchorage, are in Juneau on official business. They are staying at the Baranof Hotel