The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NE WS ALL THE TIME” FUE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 BOPY s e e ot GIFT —_— | VOL. LXIV., NO. 9859 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945 PRICE TEN CENLS — MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. PLANES IN ATTACK IN N. PACIFIC Fall Of Houffalize Now Appears Imminent GERMANS ARE RETREATING 10 SIEGFRIED [actical Planes Again Hammer Enemy as | Fog Lifts BULLETIN—PARIS, Jan. The American First Army 15— has pushed to within a mile and a e firgt American convoy carrying = Biddle half of Houffalize, pivot of the new improvised German defense line. Heavy fog, a blinding snow storm and a sharp drop in the | freezing temperatures slowed the pace of the three solidly linked | center is 262 miles from the starting | dle told a closed session of the Sen- Allied armies and grounded tac- tical airforces late today. Since von Rundstedt struck a month ago, he has lost at least 37,894 | prisoners. Eisenhower's armies | have taken 844,000 prisoners since | invading Normandy June 6. | PARIS, Jan. 15 — First tanks and infantry stormed proaches to Houffalize, and fall of that communication center and the flattening of the Belgian Bulge appeared imminent. | Germans ,apparently withdrawing all the way to the Siegfried line, Army ap- TRUCKS ROLL Anti-Black AGAINOVER BURMA ROAD Big Convoy Now at Burma Base with Loads of Guns, Men MYITKYING, Burma, Jan. 15.— war supplies overland from India to China in two and one-half ye: arrived here esterday. The historic caravan is the first to cross from India to Burma. This point in India, the first leg of a one | thousand-mile trip- from Ledo on | send up a, bill aimed at “black mar- the Indian border to Kunming, China. Heavy, medium and light trucks loaded with ammunition, jeeps, roll- ing artillery and ambulances make up the convoy. Along with the cara- van's drivers and -maintenance per- sonnel are the first American ground the | troops to enter China over this route. | At Myitkying the convoy will wait until either the few remaining miles of the newly-cut road from here to Teuchung are completed, or until the last 25 miles of the old Burma AFL FIGHTS - Marketiaw 4-F BILL IN IsProposed WASHINGTON Biddle Would End Sales of Socialist Pa—rt;and Union Railroad Tickets Above Demand New Wage Legal Price Boosts WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Francis| WASHINGTON, Jan, 15. — Con- the | gress has been called upon to sub- Attorney General of tates, today proposed that |stitute a higher industrial wage plan enact legislation to wipe | for the pending work-or-fight leg- illed black markets for the islation sale of railroad tickets. | A spokesman Chairman Pat McCarran said Bid- United for the AFL and the Socialist party told the House | Military Committee that breaking the Little Steel wage formula vides the best means of solving man- power problems Opposing legislative action to force 4-F’s into war plants or uni- | |ate Judiciary Committee he would kets.” | Generally, McCarran said, the leg- |islation will make it a criminal i offense to “split mon with the purchasers of tickets or on any serv- es or commodities sold above the ceiling pric ! e | representative said the current manpower shortages are the result of “low level freezing of wages by the War Labor Board in certain plants.” | Speaking for the Socialist part; Albert Hamilton, 31, expressed “ab- solute opposition” to pending draft proposals. BATTLES RAGE ACROSS ENTIRE pro- | forms, Lewis Hines, ALF legislative | EIGHTPRIME REFINERIES AREBOMBED Synthetic Plants Hit - Re- treating Nazis Also Scourged BULLETIN—LONDON, Jan. 15 —Almost 1,300 American bombers and fighters from Britain pound- ed railroad yards in southern Germany without interference | from Nazi fighters. | In a daylight blow, 600 Fort- | resses and Liberators, escorted by 675 Mustangs and Thunderbolts, aimed at Freiburg, Ausburg, In- | golstadt and Reutlingen, all-im- portant links in the rail routes Germans use to shift troops. \ | ! | LONDON, Jan. 15—U. S. Eighth | Army Air Force Fortresses and Lib- | erators raided Germany by daylight | continuing the mighty aerial of- | fensive. They blasted eight pnnn-{ | Nazi oil centers in a 36-hour period ending last night | The announcement said American long-range bombers were over Ger- | many again at noon after Royal Air " Where Yanks Invaded THIRD RAID MADE, BASE 1 | | 8 IN KuRis | | Paramushiro Airdrome Is Bombed by Liberators ~Qutpost Set Afire HEADQUARTERS, ELEVENTH R FORCE, ADAK, ALASKA, Jan. For the third i Eleventh Air Force Liberators have bombed the |Japanese home island of Paramu- |shiro in the Kuriles chain, As a curtain raiser, an hour |earlier, Mitchell bombers pounded |Torishima Retto, a small island ocutpost, approach to Paramushiro, ‘Th(‘ Mitchells hit the 1,000 foot |island with more than 8,000 pounds of incendiaries leaving the entire east end of the island in flames. Liberators arrived over Suribachi airdrome, which was the target for the Navy shelling on January 5, 'and pilots found clear weather for the second day in the series of |attacks. | Pilots also said all bombs landed on the target area. 2’ LINGAYEN :. Dasoly " % Hermos, Arrow indicates American landings, reported by General Douglas MacArthur, along the coast of the Lingayen Guif on Luzon, Philip- pines. It was announced that four beachheads have been established. attempted to stiffen their defenses Rcad from Namhkam to Wanting to save both Houffalize and -St.|are cleared of Japs. Vith. The cut-off north of Gen. Hodges' troops are within Burma Road may be the old completed EASTERN FRONT Hamilton said his statement was |approved by party head Norman Thomas. “If it i8 desirable the Government ‘underwrite the private enterprise< (AP Wirephoto) . 'WESTERN FRONT (Force heavies “in very gre |strength” heaped tons of explosives ton the Leuna synthetic oil plant at i Merseberg and the fuel depot at six and a half miles of St. Vith. Fog gave way to clear weather early this morning, and tactical (Continued on Page Sir) ————— The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON o service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — One of little realized tragedies about the | food situation is the wastage from bad warehousing and from storing | it too long. The situation has been so bad— and bhas been so completely ig-| nored by top War Food Admini- | stration officials that two import- | ant men have resigned. They arc:‘ Andy Current, veteran warehouse- | man, who came here in 1941 to set | up a warehousing system for foods; and J. E. Salisbury, an expert on the shipping of food. They quit War Food Administration because | they considered its purchasing and| storage methods impossible. New | head of the section is Eldon Rich- ardson, whose storage experience was gained with Lever Bros. soap | and shortening manufacturers. 1 Another reason Current and Salisbury quit was because WFA | was ignoring their ominous reports | concerning “overage” foods, i show- | ing huge stocks of food rottiug! Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | dered a within a week. NATIONTO DIM LIGHTS NOW TO CONSERVE FUEL WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The War Production Board today or- nation-wide “brown out” effective Feb. 1 but left an open- the |ing for exemption of areas that are p. . ciane opened a “big winter bat- not using scarce fuels to generate electricity. This order virtually eliminates the use of electricity for outdoor adver- |tising and ornamental display light- | e new Soviet attacks sprang | ing. — e — HIGHHEELERS T0 PLAY TONIGHT AT 7:30 ON ALLEYS The Sunday Pot Luck League bowling games scheduled to be play- ed yesterday at 2 o'clock in the same schedule is to be played next Sunday, Emil Galao, alley caretaker, announced today. Tonight the High Heel League takes over the alleys. At 7:30 p. m., on alleys one and two, Federals play the Baranof and the Elks meet the Skirts on alleys three and four. At 9 o'clock the Gals contest the away in warehouses while newer‘Auey Cats on alleys one and two foods were moved out. | 3 and the Dolls meet the Baranof on Lt. Col. George Olmstead told| ;ou¢ inree and four. the Mead Committee in February, | e 1944, WFA had only 380,873 poundsi y . of 1941 food in storage at that time. R 0 ( D However, when the warehousing ep' onno' 'es division of War Foods checked into | only 10 per cent of the WFA ware- ! houses, they found over 8,000,000 | peunds of 1941 food. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — Rep. But, wha@ has conscientious WFA | james Francis O’Connor, 66, Mon- officials biting their nails is al-|tana, Democrat, Chairman of the though most food is considered 'House Indian Affairs Committee, overage at from five months to a|died last night at his apartment. year, a lot of it doesn't move out| His was the first death of the of WFA warehouses until afterisflemy-mnm Congress. that period. As a result overage) stocks now in storage are reported ately determined. as around 300,000,000 pounds. The | i L T Mead Committee has been investi—l FROM SEATTLE gating food on hand since 1941,‘[ Phyllis La Sorta is registered at but has passed up the fact it the Baranof Hotel. She doesn't take four years to spoil|Seattle. some kinds of food and a great| deal of food stored in 1943 is now | COPLIN FLIES classed as “overage.” i | National Housing Administration |Regional Director George Coplin EXIT DRIED EGGS |flew to Wrangell and Ketchikan Last month a WFA agent in over the weekend checking housing Oregon threw 2,300 pounds of dried'needs in those communities and egg powder off a dock into the sea.|will return here tomorrow. It had been sitting in a warehouse | —— - for two years—about 18 monthsi MARTINEZ HEARING HELD longer than necessary for dried egg| A hearing was held this morning powder to spoil and begin to smell.| before U. S. Commissioner Felix The hapless agent, who thought hciG“‘Y in the case of Thomas Mar- was doing the agency a favor, got! tinez of Ketchikan, charged with family desertion. Sentence was de- ferred — (Continued on Page Four) In Washfllon, D.C. Cause of death was not immedi-’ is from |Germans-Say RUSSIaNS fom witn mot percentines punction about paying decent wages - Ito the work Hamilton asserted. LONDON, Jan. 15.—Battles are sweeping the entire 600 miles of the ' .- eastern front from Budapest in| Hungary to Memel on the Baltx(‘v! The German command said the Russians are launching new of- | fensives in Poland and East Prus-| FOR JAPS sia. The German communique said the Domei Says Nation Wanfs Big Shakeup - Koiso | May Get Boot ? tle between the Carpathians and Memel.” Altogether the Russians are storming westward in seven differ- ent sectors (after drumfire artillery barrages | launched at Poland from Russian ' bridgeheads at Pulawy and Varka south of Warsaw and from the Vis- | tula forming a big triangle north of Warsaw and the Narew bridgeheads | - in southeast Prussia. | (By Associated Press) The Germans said in addition that| Domei news agency in Tokyo hint- the Russians are attacking between |ed today at the possible ousting of | | Ebenrode and Scholasberg in East | Premier Koiso because of military | Prussia toward Krokow. reverses suffered by Japan. | southern Slovakia, Political circles in Japan are split I In north of | | afternoon were cancelled and the | pqapest the Germans admitted | in the face of “demands of the na- | that Marshal Konev’s offensive on |tion for stronger internal structures | southern Poland had forced a strong | to meet the growing seriousness of | ,bridgehead at Ovoy Nida where la: | the war,” the Nippon radio said. \night’s Moscow communique an-| The broadcast, sponsored by 'nounced penetration to within 64 Domei, said “newly developed fac- miles of the German-Silesian bor- | tions” among national leaders are | der and 32 miles from Krokow, an- | clamoring for a “bold unprucedmled] cient Polish capital. | political renovation and a second While the Russians have not yet:pulitical reformation.” | confirmed the launching of new at-| According to the radio reports in- | tacks, an Associated Press dispatch | tercepted by the FCC, Domei said | from Moscow said that there are the Koiso Cabinet will hold a special signs that the “Red Army may | meeting and suggested the crisis ! shortly engage every division on the | might come to a head before the | eastern front in some of the heaviest | Imperial Diet reconvenes January battles of the Russian-German war, | 21. eclipsing perhaps anything the So- Koiso came into office last sum- viets have yet thrown against the | mer to replace Hideki Tojo. | Nazis.” —_——————— g | BUCKET BRIGADE Wilson Is Named " sops FiRE AT To Ilrkish Post A. J, CAR SHOP WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 — Presi-| Bucket brigade fire fighting nominated Edwin |tactics were employed by the Ju- American diplo- neau Volunteer Fire Department in !dent Roosevelt |Wilson, veteran |mat, as ambassador to Turkey to- extinguishing a blaze at the A.-J. jcar shop at the gasin at noon | | day. This action filled the last of the ! today. !major diplomatic posts of this gov- Pipes were frozen and the booster |ernment still open in the European hose would not reach to the crec |area. The Turkish assignment was|so firemen carried water for the |formerly held by Laurence Stein- pump cans. {hardt, who was named ambassador | The blaze originated from efforts to Czechoslovakia some weeks ago_“to thaw water pipes. It was con- - |fined to the roof, and damage was THOMPSON RETURNS slight, The fire call came in at o'clock, and 2-9 was sounded though the A.-J. camp is outside |the city limits, one fire truck with jvolunteer firemen and several other vehicles went to the scene. The “out” signal was sounded at 110 o'clock this afternoon. 12:15 Sid Thompson, U. S. Deputy Mar- Al- shal, returned to Juneau Sunday | from Skagway with Frank Morris, in charge. Morris, long time resi- dent of Haines, Alaska, was recently adjudged insane at a hearing held in Skagway. |small daughters, Su Dulman last night. The use of the quoted phrase in Air Ministry com- muniques generally indicates a force of more than 1,000 bombers par- ticipated in a raid. T { A smaller force of raiders struck | a secondary blow on Berlin yester- | Great armadas of Aified planes | blasted Germany's oil resources and | communications in the best flying | weather in d and scourged the | retreating Nazis in Belgium. } Allied headquarters said 235 Ger- man planes were shot down in the air and eight destroyed on the ground. Allied losses were 53 planes including 19 heavy, one medium bomber and 33 fighter planes. RESCUER OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER IS KILLED IN ACTION Lt. Comdr. Eadie, Husband | of Douglas Girl, Loses i Life Overseas | Lt. Comdr, Willi Navy Air Force, has been killed in action, presumably in the South Pacific, according to a cabled m: age received by Mrs. Rosalia Lu dell, of Douglas. He was married to Mrs. Lundell's daughter Phylli and is survived by his dow, twc n and Dinab, adie, | -~ LRIKG g P i | s . 1 lied Casualfies' | . can losses from December, 15 to Attacked by 180 Sup- | Announced with Capture 40,000, including 18,000 reported forts yesterday landed twin blows on | Asseciated Press War Correspondent clared that during the same period without losing a single one of their | 15.—A 30-mile extension of the Unit- Prisoners and 50,000 killed and tock part in each attack, pouring an advance of five miles, is an- losses of the First, Third, Seventh Opposition was weak to moderate, | Manila, have crossed the Agno Riv- 083 killed, 27,645 wounded and 20,- Visual bombing was accomplished | /The western side of the beachhead BASKETBALL GAME IS more on the rategic island of in a swift drive northwestward, after lacking. One advance column has captured in the high school gymnasium ture seals off all Japanese in the son Bears meet the Subport in the i | | Germans Losing. Nearly ‘ Twice Number of Al- Prime Japanese Targefs Extension of Beachhead wasuivaron, san. 15-—amen- January 7, in the German counter- . . . . offensive battles are slightly under ers in Each Raid of Strategic Points e - missing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15— Super- By JAMES HUTCHESON Secretary of War Stimson de- prime Japanese targets on Formosa | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART- the Germans have suffered overall and the Empire island of Honshu 'ERS ON LUZON, Monday, January losses of 90,000 men, with 40,000 number in the action on the enemy. | ed States Sixth Army beachhead on Wounded. Upwards of 180 sky dreadnaughts Lingayen Gulf, and in some plac On the entire Western Front, destruction on military and indus- nounced by Gen. MacArthur. jand Ninth Armies during the 1 targets in daylight. Tank spearheads, probing toward period totalled 4, including 40,- the Twentieth Air Force communi- ' er on the south at Bayambang, 22 866 missing. que said. | miles inland. e on Formost with good resuits. " 5 e Supers also plunged bombs once |has been extended 20 miles almost to the road junction at Alaming o" ToMoRnow N'G"l Honshu, a link to the Philippines, Figher opposition con this attack was | the capture of Fort Sual. | Tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock » important rail and highway Douglas High School Huskies play KESSE junction of Damortis, whose cap- the Signacs and the J. H. S. Crim- west coastal area from the main second game. highway leading into the Benguet Mountains, including the summer Philippine Capital City of Baguol now believed to be the seat of RIVER LINE .- - passed the natural barrier for enemy’s possible long overdue stand northern Luzon The Yanks Mangatarem and other main highway to the Phil- by ippine capital and each seizure| D:. F. MacLeod of the Western means about a five-mile advance, (Facific Alrways, Ltd, is a guest The headquarters spokesman said ©f the Baranof Hotel. He is regis- only stiff resistance has been met tered from Prince Rupert. in the hill séction on the north- i' 2 Wkt AR r):‘/‘lixl,;l:;:” of the battlefront near 'Rdofl E|ed l:IeBDogo SRS Bt 10 epor 0 be Un M- o e e m. STOCK QUOTATIONS counirv K The regular monthly meeting of |t Was declared by Allled Head soubudks |Louniry noneymoon the AWVS will be held Wednesday |4Uarters. N YORE. Jan: 1 Gl {at 2 o'clock in the afternoon At ne announcement said strongly quotation of Alaska Juneau mine, WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Fala is the Governor's House, it 15 an-|ieinforced German forces are now | stock today is 7, American Can 927,|0P his honeymoon. Fesased today. |dug in along the farther banks of Anaconda 41%, Beech Afrcraft 13:,| The fact that romance has en- Ithese rivers from the Adriatic to|Bethlehem Steel 69%, Curtiss- tered the life of dogdom's most [CANADIAN INDIANS MAKE |the Apennines and it is’ apparent|Wright 6', International Harvester cligible bachelor was revealed yes- CITIZENSHIP DEMANDS Kcsselring intends to hold the line! 79, Kennecott 377%, New York Cen- terday by Mrs. Roosevelt to a group at all costs, Itral 24, Northern Pacific 19%, of war veterans touring the White |United States Steel 61%:. Pound| House. organizations, the Canadian Indians! In the western coastal regions of United States Steel 61 North Asked about the Presidential are demanding citizenship and the Fifth Army front, German pa- American Aviation 10'.. Pound| Scottie, the First Lady said: “I equal rights with white Canadians.|trols have stepped up activity, par- $4.04 |must make excuses for Fala. He's Recently 500 Indians met in Alert ticularly in the Serchio Valley| Dow, Jones are in the country. We hope he’s hav- Bay, B. C., to discuss demands for where a recent German counter as follows” Indu rails ing a wedding.” “full equality with the white men. offensive was beaten back. 48.96, utilities 26 That was all she said! and by his parents, who reside in | Chicago. | Lt. Comdr. Eadie received national recognition as one of the fliers who | rescued the great air “ace” of World | War I, Eddie Rickenbacker, at the time Rickenbacher’s plane and crew | were down in the Central Pacific on an official mission during the early | months of the Pacific War. The circumstances of ti® death |of Lt. Comdr. Eadie, which occurred | jon January 8 have not yet been made known here. He was married 1to Miss Lundell four ars ago, in| Michigan. His widow and children ‘yvill, for the present, continue to live, ROME, Jan. 15—Repeated Nazi In Marion, Massachusetts, from epqoris to set up outposts south of | where Mrs. ij,z.dw wired the news of the Reno River and east of the i her husband's death to her mother. River along the Adriatic ang battle line have been frustrated WILL with heavy I to the enemy, PRE-NATAL CLIN AT GOVT. HOSPITAL Crossing the twisted Agno at ayambang means the Yanks have A Pre--Natal Clinic will be held the tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 3 q o'clock at the Government Hospital. Dr. H. F. Kaack will be in charge, in t was announced today. :Showdowngms on Front in lfaly-Germans Digging In i also captured Catablan, the have AIRLINE MAN HERE Senio AWVS MEET Backed by several strong labor today 154.76, averages ials