The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ VOL. LXIV., NO. 9864 TIDE ROLLING ACROSS FRONT German s?e—port Fierce Fighting on Blazing 800-Mile Front LONDON, Jan. 20. — Russians firiving to cut off East Prussia, pene-|ture will go into session Monday Italian battlefront, Allied Headquar- |express censure of Prime Mini trated to within 62 miles of the Gulf morning in the Federal Building ters of Danzig and smashed to within 214 miles of Berlin in the south-|of Alaska Lew M. Williams firing | fighters and fighter-bombe: west, a German communique dis-|the opening gun by calling the of- ¢d ene closed teday The Germans told of fierce bat- tling against a rolling Red Army tide of 3,000,000 men everywhere along the blazing 809 mile front. As Moscow broadcasts indicated that a fyesh series of victory an- nouncements might come from the Kremlin, Marshal Konev's First Ukranian armor reached the are: of Kapno in a 20-mile adv: northwest of captured Krakow. The German home guard battal- ions, Volkssturm, battled to stop the smash along the upper Silesian bor- der, Berlin said. Kapno is only nine miles from the frontier and 38 miles northwest of Breslau, chief industrial center of German Silesia. Northwest of Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army reached or crossed the south- western border of East Prussia on a 35-mile front, stabbing the Bil- genburg. BULLETINS LONDON — Moscow radio an- nounces Soviet Russia has signed armistice terms with the new Hun- .garian Provisional Government. WASHINGTON—The State De- partment announces an armistice with the Hungarian Government has been signed on behalf of Russia, Britain and the United States and the last of Hitler's satellites has drt pped out of the war. TOKYO—Domei broadcast a re- port the Japanese Government be- lieves an American invasion of Luzon, south of Manila, may be developing as “enemy air forces are conducting reconnaissance opera- ' tions in the southern Luzon area.” NEW YORK — An intercepted broadcast from Tokyo says Japs are TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA; SATURD;\Y. JANUARY 20, 1945 _ PRICE This Sessiom Be Largest| and Most Colorful of All Alaska’s new jumbo-size legisla- { legislative chambers with Secretary | ficial roll. | | The roll today was 11 members short of being filled, with Senators | Whaley, Ling, Brownell, Scott and Collins yet to show, and Re] tatives Cros aylor, Landers, mond, Pollard and Huntley yet arrive. to] | seventeenth biennial | the Alaska Territorial| the of nce !Lfi‘glslfll\ll‘(’. will be the first under|, ... ity Ithe new combination of Sen- | lators and 24 Representatives, a considerable increase over the old |eight Senators and 16 Represena- tives arrangement. | still another new feature of this | legislature is the fac that where |the Federal Government formerly |paid the bill for 13 necessary legis- lative employees, the government |will now pay only salaries and !mileage of legislators. The Terri- tory will have to foot is own| bills for clerical and printing ex-| penses. H The Senate will be a veteran group, with but two neophytes in |legislative work, Grenold Collins of Anchorage and John Butrovich of Fairbanks, while the House, in comparison, will be as green as any since 1913, ! Of 24 members, the only House |veterans are Landers, Taylor, | Porter, Stanley McCutcheon, Peter- ison and Linck i | It is possible also that no other |Alaska Legislature has had the color of this assembly. | There are two natives in the Legislature this year, Representa- tives Frank Peratrovich of Kla- wock, and Andrew Hope of Sitka, representing the first sizeable {voting bloc evidenced by the Alaska Indian and perhaps auguring a new era in Territorial politics, and bringing to an end the “canoe vote” hopes veteran | |white men politicians. | There are two women in 8 !session, one a twice-comer, one a inew comer. The veteran carries a | | I of this | being conscripted for merchant and | name that makes more significant auxiliary vessels of the Army and the rise of the new generation Navy made necessary t0 ensureiyote in the North, a given name | f\upplges andrim!:’ a;:; pf:n"::"fl:;‘wnh an Alaska birthright—Alaska'| merican carrier-| s | Pinek: subs patrolling Jap seas. | The new-coming feminine vote, R R T 'also in the House, is that of p[l':l';];;‘:yléc'r];) :;3:320]\“ YS‘qllgsuclally prominent woman who runs g % — Sulia chain of trading ts in the Musial, slugging St. Louis Cardinal |, tic and when sfige mt went to outfielder from Donora, Pe‘l‘m., the outposts of the North, earned passed his pre-induction physical| ity per beauty the title “Queen _exnm\nat.lon and will be SWOID |or the Kobuk,” Bess Cross of' into the Navy Monday. Deering. | SO 5, 52 R There are two pioneer lather-i GERTRUI_)E HILL “ERE son combinations, Allen Shattuck| ‘Gertrude Hill, registering from |y, (ne genate and his son, Curtis, | Sitka, is staying at the Baranof';; (p. House. From Anchoragel Hotel. comes for the second time al & Hather-son combination, veteran H.! The w ashlngton@ McCutcheon and son, Stanley, Merry - Go - Round |Senate and House, respectively. By DREW PEARSON Legislators who have not yet| arrived in town are expected over (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | | i the weekend. At 10 oclock Monday morning, Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Wwil- | WASHINGTON — Closest person to the President as he stands at the threshold of his fourth term is no olgner Harry Hopkins, no longer Mrs. Roosevelt, but his attractive vivacious daughter, Anna Boettiger. g, For about two years, Anna has been where she has come to be not only hostess, but her father's confidant, friend and advisor. More and more personal appointments, more and more private reports dealing with important policy now pass through Anna’s hands. Sometimes during a conversation in his executive office, the President will pick up the phone and call his daughter in the residence of the White House .to ask her the status of a certain problem he is discussing. Anna has a good head, a refresh- ing point of view, and her mother’s indefatigable energy. When she lived in Seattle, where her husband, John Boettiger, was publisher of (Continued on Page Four) living at the White House| lliams will call the toll of the| House and District Judge George F. Alexander will administer the| oaths of office. Williams will then turn the meeting over to a speaker ipro-tem and repeat the process in | the Senate. | On election of permanent speaker | lof the House and President of the| Senate, the way will be paved for| Inaming committees on help and a‘ | committee on commitees. i |vided between veterans Jess Lander lof Fairbanks and Warren Taylor it is rumored more strongly, will be Ed Coffey of Anchorage. A First Division caucus, scheduled {in Secretary Lew Williams' office |at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, |and other divisional caucasus await- ing arrival of absent legislators will likely thrash these problems | out before Monday morning. Jobs to be filled on the Legis- lative clerical lists include a Chief ISATIEWPT — CHURCHILL'S TO INFILTRATE ACROSS SENI Planes P;)Eld German| Positions-Fifth Slowed by Mud and Slush | { ROME, Jan. 20. — The Germans | have attempted infiltration tactics | with small groups in a number of | places on the east bank of the Senio | River in the Adriatic sector of the | id today. bad yesterday, ‘ attack- | emy positions on the Eighth| Army front and a German bridge- | Despite weather |head on the east bank of the Senio|War Appropi was broken. | In the Fusignano area rain and | Patrols reported little contact with | the enemy. ! Canadian infantrymen and tanks | captured a strong point opposim} Fusignano after a temporary set-| 1 a flurry of grenades. | - - RAIN DROPS HOPES | FOR BIG Sii TIME - Rains washing Juneau's streels | clear of yesterday's snowfall have| also washed out the high hopes of | local skiers for a big weekend of | slope slipping. With naught buli more rain in the offing, but little ac- tivity in the skiing line is looked for, however, Juneau Ski Club officials declared that there should be skiable | snow above the Upper Cabin for| those hardy enough to overcome the | wearying trail conditions to gel| there. T It is pointed out to novices at the mountain-sliding art that the type of heavy snow to, be expected can be very hazardous to those unable to swing their turns ungder full control. | BURDICK 10 LEAVE ON OFFICIAL TRIP. Charles R. Burdick, Assistant Dis- | trict Forester, is planning to leave| Juneau this weekend for Seattle and | Portland. He expects to be gone approximately two weeks. His trip| is in connection with Alasks Spruce ! Logging Program, of which he is general manager. { Shortly after Mr. Burdick an- nounced his official trip, he received news of the death of his mother, in| Montana, which may cause a change| in plans for his journey. { Mr. Burdick's mother, Mrs. Mary | T. Burdick, died at Livingston, Mon-/ tana, from a heart attack. She was| 84 years old and is survived by Mr. Burdick and his two sisters now liv- ing in Seattle. Interment is to be at Glendive, | Mont. All three of her children will pilot’s service organization, a year HE, |attend. Following the funeral, Mr. & : Burdick will complete his official| trip to Seattle and Portland. ! SUPERSLAMHELL " OUT OF AIRCRAFT FACTORY ATKOBE B-29 BASE, SAIPAN, Jan. 20— Superfortress pilots and crews re- ported jubilantly, “we really lammed hell” out of Japan’s big aircraft en-| gine factory near Kobe yesterday. Brig. Gen, Emmett O'Donnell, who went along, is inclined to await pic- torial evidence, but said it seemed to have been’one of the best strikes ever made by his command. All planes returned. - MATHISEN HERE Sig Mathisen of Petersburg is a| guest at the Baranof Hotel. D FROM KETCHIKAN | Evelyn H. Falk is registered at' SRS i FROM TARZANA | is staying at the Baranof Hotel. | U. 8. Marshal William Mahoney ; sailed from Juneau aboard steamer North Sea, bound for: Sitka, on a brief official business trip. | grossing Clerks, Enrolling Clerks,! and a half-dozen clerks and ste- | nographers. Clerk for the House, one for the geant-at-Arms, Messengers, En- The Governor's message will not week. o' POLICY GETS "YES" VOTE Laborites Vote Favorably Due fo Technicality in Measure LONDON Wins! policy toward liberated lands was was beaten 340 to 7 Commons. It was technically a vofe on the tions Bill, and some critical Laborites announced before hand that although they opposed pl.‘\N.“_\slu.\h slowed the Fifth Army il{'“()lllthp British policy in Greece and Dia- |0 the lowest point in several days.|Italy, they would not vote against the bill on the grounds that they might be accused of impeding the | war effort. Churchill, himself in the House during the vote, was cheered wildly as he left with Anthony Eden. Shortly before the vote Eden told the Commons that Britain's place before the forthcoming “Big Three” ference demanded the creation machinery and power to deal quickly and jointly on international political problems. He said Britain is ready to go to almost any length “in order that the machinery may function.” con: f h Government, the For- eign ary said, is not “fully satisfied with the existing machin- ery for international cooperation on the political plane, and has been rathed troubled” for some about the setup. Barlier in the debate, Laborite Aneurin Bevan charged that Chur- chill distorted the facts and “had the worst record of intervention in other peoples’ affairs of any states- man.” TWO WASP PILOTS LEAVE JUNEAU TO ATTEND ALASKA U Girls Are to Attend Schoo! and Do Flying as Sideline Seeking new fields of adventure, two pilots of the now-disbanded Women's Airforce Pilots (WASP), Jan. 20—An attempt to | er | on Churchill's interventionist : in the House of | time | Soviet Attacks (alled ~ Diversionary Tadics By WILLIAM FRYE Asscciated Press War Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 20.—The possibil- ity that Russia’s astounding ad- vances may erush 'many in a matter of weeks fills military eircles in London with suppressed excite- ment, - No responsible military figure will ° . | pe ssions that the Red Army used diversionary attacks on ‘a scale hitherto undreamed of to catch the Germans off balance in Central | Poland and they may have pierced the only Nazi line of fortifications | on the eastern front. 5 As seen here, the Red Army kept important looking attacks jabbing the enemy left at isolated Latvia sinking of 24 additional enemy ves- |and cannily exploited the fanatical 'sels by American submarines in | German fervor over “holy soil of Pacific and Far Eastern waters was | the Fatherland” with other assault announced by the Navy today. threats at East Prussia. The bag included four combat They surged also Into’ Hungary ships. The new toll claimed in- while all the time they were massing cluded a destroyer, three escort ves- | their real strength for the big blow sels, a large cargo transport, two ' ngle area for the dash large tankers, two large cargo trans- Poland at the heart of Ger- ports, a medium cargo transport, eight medium cargo vessels, two| medium tankers, four small cargo vessels and a small tanker. | This announcement raised to 958 the total of Japanese vessels fallen victim to submarine warfare. The total included 103 Japanese combat- vessels sunk and 855 non-combatant ships. The toll of Japanese des sunk was raised to Other Japa- | néee-combatant ship losses to sub- | g | Observers lay the “apparent soft- marines totaled: cruisers, 13; tend- | oSO S8 nIn GTCT S the oo, {Ehaen Dijete 4 {Nazi underestimation of the Red Previous Navy announcements g .noih and failure to spot where Loss of Additional Tankers by Subs May Have Im- paired Jap Fleet WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The many. Observers point out the absence, as far as can be ertained, of any system of fortifications in eastern Germany comparable to the Sieg- | fried line. The enemy is believed to have some extensive field works west and back of the lower Vistula and some kind of pill-box system and ‘u!*cr fortifications in the gap be- {tween the Vistula and the Warta Rivers. If this is the case, the Red st emy vessels sunk by submarines 4 more than 3,500,000 tons. Today’s anuouncement increased o T o T et | KETCHIKAN MAY Fierce Nippon , 0\ PV AL Utilities Board fo Attempt (Oumer Blowsf Renegotiation with ' | Sommers Firm Thrown Back KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 20— The City Council here last night | deferred to Monday night final de- |cision on the rejection of all bids | > s> — sons make no secret of their im-| Army has already pierced this line., |in the WASP, test pilot for train- Jean McFarland of Seattle, and Futh Reily of Miwaukee, wis, AMbush of Twelve Japa- left Juneau by plane for Fair-| banks. where they will enroll in the University of Alaska to complete | their college training—interrupted | when they joined the WASP, Jac- queline * Cochran’s famed woman | { nese Tanks Destroyed by | Arillery, Bazookas GENERAL MacARTHU R'S ADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan loodily throwing back Jap 58 wearing an Amelia counter-attacks, Sixth Army in- Earhart - style wind - blown bob, said: “Alaska is a good country, that is why we decided to come up L-re.” She then told of her job go. 1 Reilly, the hills of the stubkornly held Lu- zon left flank and other Yank meanwhile wiped out a fierce am- bush of 12 medium tanks in a new flare-up at Binalonan, Headquarters Georgia. {reported teday. Her partner in the new ad\'en-1 The counts ttack, capping ture—they hope to find—said she least five days of bitter fighting in, towed sleeve targets from training the area, occurred Wednesday night | ships and B-26's. near the Rosario Mountain highway | When Miss McFarland was asked |leading to Baguio, summer capital if there was any danger in this of the Philippines. Associated Press| towing job, she replied. “Oh, not Correspondent Al Dopking reported much, every once in awhile a ship that counter-attacks merely in the gets shot out of the air.” |nature of pin pricks and sharp ing ships. She was stationed in at | harassing blows not 'on the Beaver Falls power expan-!| On the basis of bids total cost $600,- that sion project. received last Wednesday, of the installation would be 000. It is expected, however, the Public Utilities Board will tempt renegotiation with the R Sommers Construction Company, of Juneau, on certain parts of that J firm's offer. The Sommers company -had pre- fantrymen forced the Japanese Y0 youqy peen announced as low bid- | der on the project. Aflemhm;lé Jn Mussolini’s Life (By Associated Press) A dispatch reported by the Office of War creasingly evident that an attempt was made on Benito Mussolini’s life during his visit fo Milan in De- cember " JANUARY Information makes it in- | 1500 CANADA TROOPS DON'T Men Go AWOL When Home| Defense Contingent Sails Overseas OTTAWA, Jan. 20—“A very stantial number” of men w without leave, when a large contin-| gent of Canadian Home Defense| |troops drafted for overseas service| was embarked for Europe some time| ago, it was disclosed here officially| |last night. The announcement in- |dicated that many are still absent making them liable, after twenty one days, to classification as de- “:wm'( 'S, Y | Although there was no official statement as to the number of troops involved, rgports from various: |parts of Canas Quebec, Calgary, | Regina, Montreal—indicated that a| total of from 1,500 to 2,000 is absent. | 'he men were part of a contin-| gent of 16,000 drafted from Home Defense units for overseas service, | under a policy of partial conscrip- | tion adopted in November, | | vigorous protests, largely from the French-speaking population of Que- |bec. Canada had previously sent| cnly volunteers overseas. ! oo i DRAFTBOARD 3 ~ ~ PUTS TEN INTO CLASS ONE- Selective Service Local Board No. 3 has issued a new draft list. sub- sent despite | | A | |the | There were no pa | years scuffad ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED FOURTH TERM SOVIET ARMY|LEGISLATURE|MA 'BEGINS WORK NNEXT MONDAY | | | | | PRESIDENT TAKES OATH To Open Poland Route GO T0 EUROPE NOONTODAY Makes Shorfest Inaugural Speech on Record- 551 Words WASHINGTO! Jan setting of wintry whit dent Franklin D. I through the inaugura the fourth prosidential cated to winning a lasting The transition was unpretentions because that was the way he want- ed it. Wiih millions of Americans fighting abroad there’ware none of old-time inaugural (rappings. on fanfare, strewn on the 20 In Pre moved remony for term dedi- day peace. not even bunting was National Capital. As he pledged, he made the short- est inaugural speech on record, 551 words. “We shall work t and durable peace as tc and fight for total victory in war,” he stated. The smallest inaugural through ay inch of fresh snow on the White 'House lawn. Praying to God for vision to see a way towards leading a better life he said, “We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately but we shall strive, We may make mistakes but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandon- crowd in | ment of moral prihciples.” Vice-President-elect Harry 8. Truman was sworn in hy outgoing Vice-President Henry Wallace just before the President, who yested his hand on an ancient family bible, repeated after Chief Justice Harlan - ; A P 1-A—Hugh Norton, Michael Seiler, | Stone, the oath from the south pot- fixed tonnage of non-combatant en- . reay power drive would be aimed. [Norman D. Rinehart, Willlam D.{tico of the White House, which he Sheppard, Robert Pendleton, James himself selected for the ceremony. | McDonald, Richard McRoberts, Mar-|He looked upon u hushed park full tin J Barril. 1-C—Harold T, Wiley. Discharged servicemen Francis, Homer G. Nordling, James MecDonald, Lavritz Nielsen. | | 2-A-—Jack Gould, Walter Savikko, Maynard Peterson. 2-B—Henry Cropley, Harold Gath, Lars Vinje, Frank West, Harley Johnson, Stanwood P. Whiteley. 2-B (F) — Bjarne Olson, James ! Hudson, Thomas Hall, | 4-A—Frling O. Abrahamson, | George son, Charles Shrewsbury, | Corbett Shipp, Gust Swanson, Law- | rence Walker. | Haines | 1-A—Wilbur Donnelly. Skagway | 1-A—Walter Clayton. | 1-C— (Discharged servicemen) — .‘Gordon Blanchard 4-A—Percy Colton, Fred Nord. -, 23 LAST DUCK DINNER DAY up your ducks—put now, is| |the warning issued tcday by Jack | | O'Connor, Executive Officer of the | Alaska Wildlife Service. January 23 is last day for legal possession of | migratory waterfowl in the South- jeast Alaska district, the official | |pointed out from the regulations - -oo - FROM NOME A. T. Thorendal of Nome is stay ing at the Baranof Hotel. seph, Adatn Greenwald, Pedro of spectators |and snow. bers of his family and high govern- Ernest G.|ment dignitaries. tanding in the slush Around him were mem- - Seventh Arm Pushed Back By 3917!n’usls Fate of Strasbourg at Stake as Doughboys Battle Enemy Armor PARIS, Jan. 20. — British troops jumped the Maas River below Roer- mond unopposed last night, widen- ing the Second Army’s push in the Dutch Panhandle which forced the Germans back on the Roer River line, 38 miles west of Dusseldorf. However, three succ Ger- man attacks from the center across the Rhine corridor smashed the Seventh Army defense line back al- most five miles into the village of Weyersheim, eight miles above Strasbourg, & political asset that the Allied Command is admittedly anxious to hold, Just Below the British operations the U. S. First and Third Army troops drove in upon the St. Vith | highway stronghold of the diminish- ing Belgian bulge and advanced ared Diekirch Miss Reilly said she intended to finish her education major at the U, and then study civil engineer- ing, while Miss McFarland will finish her art course. Both said that as an extra-curricular subject they would do some flying. They have many hours of instrument flying time and hold commercial licenses. Both girls will- always remember the time in the great World War Current speaker hopes are di—}‘he Baranof Hotel from Ketchikan.|j1 when they served the Armed| |Forces by aiding the United States| pilots, | of Kodiak. President of the Senate,| Carol Robin Held, from Tarzana,|the pest gunners and the best air- to, have the best trained planes in the whole world. A fellow passenger on the air liner, as far north as Anchorage, the js F. C. Lorz, who will pilot a| plane for an Eskimo reindeer cor- poration to shoot wolves. The girls didn't say anything about obtain- ing a like position. AVUS Mr. and Mrs. R. Whitmore Senate; assistant chief clerks, Ser-|be delivered until the end of next|Gustavus are guests at the Bar- and child, of Washington, D. C.|Washington, D. C, is a guest at ® ' i anof Hotel. in strength " P car g Although the fact was hidden | north and cay from the population by the Fas Government, a band of Anti-Fascists Jean Sched- | and Communists succeeded in plac- ing a machinegun on the third floor An Alaska Airlines plane took the following passenger to Cordova to- day- James Jewett. Anchorage—F. C, Lorz Fairbanks—Ruth Reilly and Jean McFarland could have pushed back Lt Gen Walter Krueger's army along th same highway. | Associated Press man D ler reported that an American col-| |umn was fired upon by 12 medium|0f @ house, but as he approached, |tanks hidden under huts. The Jap-| they were discovered ahd the at-| anese were unable to depress their| tempt thwarted jguns enough to clean out United | Rl 172 |States troops hugging the ground.| HOSP“’M_ NOI'ES Yank 105 mm artillery knocked 10 a medical patient, wged from St. Ann's Thirty miles to the south in Luxembourg, British assault troop: crossing the Maas by boat, Stevensweert, seven miles southwest of Roermond, without opposilion The Germans apparently strengthening their armored forc and poured into the Rhine brid above Strasbourg over at t six pontoon bridges over ths river. The fate of - Strasbourg parently at sta as Doughboys battled furious punches powered by up to 10,000 enemy forces reinforced by tanks. The Germa the corridor on the Rhine's west bank which extends to within miles of the city @ | miles away on the south. - 'MARTINEZ GETS SIX MONTHS seized are > e o 0o 0 0 0o 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Weather Buieau) Temperature for 24-hour period ending at 7:30 o'clock this morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 42; minimum, 30. Precipitation, 80 of an inch At Airport. tanks out in short order, and| is ap bazookas disposed of the other two.! ROy (THis reference to the Japanese at has been disch Binalonan suggested that the enemy,Hospital had re-entered the highway town| Mrs. Annie and baby | which Gen. Dou MacArthur re- boy have been discharged from St ported captured last Sunday.) |Ann's Hospital Associated Press Correspondent| George A. Reidi, Spencer Davis said that the Japan- tient, has been dis ese lost 600 men in three days of Ann’s Hospital defending the Baguio road. The| Jeanne Tew has admitted | | Americans, advancing on all fronts,/to St. Ann's Hospital for surgical | |captured two highway towns. |attention. e FROM WASHI 5. John Linthicum| Tra W. Silver man, registered from |® Corey, Swanssen Maximum, 40; minimum, Precipitation, 46 of an inch e o 0o 0o o TOMORROW'S FORECAST e o Rain tenight and Sunday, with wind from 20 to 30 miles per hour, increasing Sunday. Temperatures will range between 37 and 42 a surgery pa- warged from St been ey Thomas Martinez was this morn- ing sentented to six months in jail by U. 8. Comumissioner Feli e Gray. Hearing on charges of family ® |desertion had been held before the e Commissioner’s Court heve earlier in the weck. AT Seeescecececsscscen - TON BARANOF Mr. and M are guests at the Baranof Hotel. the Baranof Hotel e o o 0 0 e o o 0