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HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIERARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1949 [ 2 D — <MPIRE et VOL. LXIV., NO. 9865 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS 17TH TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE OPENS Russian Columns Are Now Moving On Berlin ( | REDARMY APPEALTO PLUNGING FIGHT IS SENT INREICH T0 GERMANS Forces ‘Closer fo German Franfic Call Issued from Capital than Any Land Berlin Over Nazis' | Army, Present War Army Radio BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. | LONDON, Jan. 22—A call went 22. — Field Marshal Zhukov’s |out over the German armed forces 3000Nazi Vehicles | Dgslroyed \Destruction Means Prac- American Forces Gain Two tical Immobilization of 1 One Entire Army | PARIS, Jan, 22—Alled war-| planes caught 3000 German ve-! TARLAC I§ CAPTURED BY YANKS Airdromes as Thrust on Manila Made By JAMES HUTCHESON —— GERMANS FALLING BACK NOW Plodding "T;v;ard Sieg- fried Line - Allies Re- ported Advancing PARIS, Jan. 22—The Germans are today plodding back toward the onesxesignsasLommere . | ¥ WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Jesse spondence which was dated Janu-f . < | H. Jones discloses he has resigned ary 20, the day of the Presidm\t'mco"ey President of Senate | 3 |as Secretary of Commerce and fourth term inauguration. . . i “resarn” Rosevell. inends | eacion s mmediate on Captal -Both Organizations to give the post to Henry A. Wal- |gjll where Wallace’s nomination H {5 o droeae Bitkeat R e i Get fo Business | The T70-year-old Texan resigned tyoversy. L \ on the request of l?unsevr-l!., mv"“f! ¥ % The Seventeenth Alaska Territor- up the Cabinet post to make way WALLACE NOMINATED tal Legislature convened in Juneau (A. P. War Correspondent) |gjegfried Line in an outright with- | for the President’s’ nomination of drawal from the Ardennes salient the former Vice-President, termed {while the British and French by Jones as ‘“inexperienced in |Armies tightened pressure on the business and finance.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 — The today with all of the 40.members !formal nomination of Henry A.‘prervsnlt with the exlceptgm of gen-‘ ‘Wallnce to be Secretaly |ator-elect Don Carlos Brownell o of Com-| merce arrived in the Senate from | Seward, Third Division. the White House shortly after the| Jesse D. Landers, of the Fourth upper House convened at noon to- Division, is Speaker of the House. day. armor and cavalry forces, pound- |radio today for everyone in the hicles, the bulk of transport for| ing within 165 miles of Berlin, |nation to “join this Holy Battle|an entire army, in an attempted| GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- captured Gniezno, western Po- |for Liberty,” as the Russian forces, sneak-away in the Ardennes sali-!QUARTERS, LUZON ISLAND, land, after a 38-mile advance in | sweeping through Silesia, drove tojent through the Siegfried Line to MONDAY, Jan 22—Tarlac is to=- 24 hours, Stalin announced to- |a point six hours by fast express,the Rhine and tore them to pieces day smouldering from the torches | opposite flanks in the snow-| At the same time, Jones brushed | night in a Special Order of the from Berlin. !in a ruinous day-long attack. {of the Japanese. The Luzon city|drifted Western Front. aside the President’s suggestion he Day, which was his fourth. “Damned be to our enemies in| The planes attacked with bombs, was captured Friday along with| The United States Army closed |consider taking an ambassadorship. Zhukov's beeline drive from |this soulless, bestial, overwhelming|rockets and machine guns. The two adjacent airdromes as the Am=|to within two and cne-half miles| The President, addressing the Edward F. Coffey, of the Third Division, is President of the Senate. Warsaw toward Berlin has blast- |mass onslaught which must ed a path within 28 miles of Pozan, the last important Polish city before the central German | border. A twin offensive is to- night the most powerful ever reported. radio announcer shouted. | The announcer demanded that |“every man who can carry any ikind of a w on, in fact anybody iwho can shoct,” join the defense of the Reich. MOSCOW, Jan. 22 — The Red| The Nazis themselves Army, driving swiftly through yroadcasts, did not try to conceal - heavily fortified areas in Germany, that the “hour of the greatest peril broke through the first defense!ts the Fatherland has struck” and line, east of the Oder River infor the first time, Beérlin itself ad- Silesia, while in East Russiap troops reached positions has caused a most acute stage in 52 miles from the Baltic in a drive the military situation and the to cut off that province from the!tnreat on the Western Front is one rest of the Reich. Pushing northward from captured Tannenberg, Krokossovsky's tanks man Army radio said’he could not approached within 10 or 11 miles te]l his listeners where “our front ‘highways | Tactical in home |passed its own record of 833 Gex--:rcad towns of Lapaz and Victoria. | the be|Nazis waited too long to run the erican s |checked and held at all costs,” the|gauntlet down snow-drifted escape|tum in and were caught on two in concentrations so| thick that Allied pilots said after- ward, “We couldn’t miss.” By mid-afternoon the Nineteenth | Air Force, alone, sur-| roads man vehicles destroyed in a single; day. They continued to hammer enemy columns. There was[ \every indication the ruin would| Wehrmacht fled for the Seine| through the Falaise Gap. ) | Destruction of this equipment | iserve armies. | Allied "air power i intervened " as | teamroller gained momen- ts drive toward Manila, 65 airline miles away. Headquarters report two convergs ing Yank columns seized the im= portant rail and highway city of Tarlac while other United States infantrymen captured the nearby To the east, the Americans drove | another wedge into the main Ma- nila Highway. | Rosales has also been captured, Prussia, | mitted the advance of the Russians be the greatest since the wounded'according to the official report. American forces have also push- ed eight miles toward the hilis toward San Leon and are heading | presenting a “most serious aspect.” 'promised to immobilize at least one!for another highway which leads The commentator over the Ger-|of von Rundstedt’s two mobile re-|to Manila over the circuitous foot- hill route. The Japanese tried another of the main trunl_( rax_l\\'ay Con- runs, where our reserves are or the American Third Army fought | counter-attack at Moncada some necting East Prussia with Berlin. where the home guard has been|in the streets of Wiltz, southern |20 miles north of Tarlac but Gen. His big guns have already begun thrown in.” shelling railway approaches in| The commentator indicated several sectors. plainly that hysteria in Berlin is Tank Battle Raging growing. In the center of the great Soviet o SR LU winter front in Poland, Zhukov's| First White Russian Army is get-| ting the upper hand in a big tank | battle raging between the Warta and Prosna Rivers and has pushed | ? to within 200 miles of B(‘rlin.‘ Slows FIGHT Zhukov is fighting for routes into| Poznan and the German frontier is just beyond. His tanks, by striking through strong Panzer units, moved out to| halt him, have gotten closer Lu‘ the German capital than any land | army in this war. The Germans' are fighting back furiously in this area, field dispatches said. Bul Zhukov is still on the move and | there are no indications that his offensive is materially slowing' down. | Enemy Raitfin} Party Pen- efrates 2% Miles on Adriatic Front The First Ukranian Army, under| ROME, Jan. 22.—Fresn snowfalls Konev, achieved a great strategic on the already-snow-bcund moun- success in breaking the first line tain positions limite¢ even patrol| thrown up by the Germans east|activity along the Itaiian front on of the Oder River. It stretches the first anniversa through Oels, Mamslau and Kreutz- imndmgs &v.anzlo. berg down to Beuthen. Konev's| In the Adriatic sector an enemy tanks are now about 14 miles from the main railway connection between Silesia and Berlin. Russian columns, pushing to within 35 miles of Breslau, are re- ported to have caused a great panic 4 troops. in the entire area. | Further southwest, patrols were ‘active on both sides of the Senio |River, to which the Germans are clinging as a defense line in the | Eighth Army sector. | Allied headquarters said enemy i patrol action has been speeded up on the American front, south and |half miies into the Allied lines northeast of the Alfonsine River lafter a heavy artillery barrage, but |they were thrown back to their or- iginal positions by Eighth Army C. M. HOLMES HERE C. Morgan Holmes of Anchorage is registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington e s Merry -Go-Round pyy py ygs By DREW PEARSON | w SRR B0 o FLIGHTS, 2DAYS service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Georgia’s young | go-getting Governor Ellis Arnall | was standing at the Peachtree rail-|Passengers to Seattle yesterday: road station, outside Atlanta, wait- jHenry Seaberg, Violet Seabers, ing for a northbound train. Sud- | Karlene Seaberg and June Brode- denly a southbound train passed,|Yold. | Fairbanks to Juneau — Warren a door flew open and a voice said: | “Governor, here’s the Government’s’ Taylor. brief on your railroad case.” + From Seattle to Juneau—Leroy The other train pulled out. Gov- De Roux, Dorothy Geyser, William ernor Arnall never knew who it was|Bo¥d, Phyllis Meyers, Frank that shouted at him, but in a Ducker, Thomas Morgan and John puddle of rain,on the station: plat- Ahlers. ) form lay an amicus curiae brief| Leaving Juneau early this morn- A PAA plane took the following later presented by the U. S. Justice I8 Were the following passengers Department before |for Seattle — John - Newmarker, the Supreme ¥ Court of the United States. This|Charles Burdick, Mary Fitzpatrick, was the opening ineident in one | Marshal Erwin, Wayne Lucy, Laura of the most unusual cases ever Faddock, Darrell Naish and Edward argued before the Supreme Court, FiSher. (Continued on Page Four), L LIE SR BUY WAR BONDS ry of the hlstoric“ |raiding party penetrated two and a! |anchor of the German defenses in | | Luxembourg. ! | The First Army stormed into| ithe open from a forest belt pro-| !tecting St. Vith and, two and one| 1hali miles away, the British Sec- lend Army pushed forward above | | Geilenkirchen for a series of two- | | mile advances. They captured the | serman towns of Waldenrath and | |Putt. They also fought in the istx'eels of Laffeld and reached | | Sersten, all towns about three miles | [from the Roer River. | B BRI (HORACE ADAMS, JR. IN | MIDSHIPMAN SCHOOL AT NORTHWESTERN U. | | word from Horace O. Adams,| |Jr. navyman now in As—‘ bury Park, N, J., that he is being ‘Lramrmnzd to Northwestern Uni-{ |versity to attend = Midshipman's !School, was received by his par-| 'ents yesterday. | Horace Jr., who visited his par-| ents in Juneau last October, was} graduated from Juneau High ‘School and attended the University |of Southern California for two| |years before his enlistment in the | | Navy. ————— | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 22. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7, American Can 91,1 | Anaconda 30%, Beech Aircraft 137, | | Bethlehem Steel 67%, Curtiss- {erght 57%, International Harvester | 76%, Kennecott 3 North Am- | erican Aviation 9%, New York Cen- | | tral 227, Northern Pacific 18, U.| | S Steel 59%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: industrials, 152.06; rails, | | 47.66; utilities, 26.36. PRICES SATURDAY ! Glosing quotation of Alaska-Ju-“ ;ncau Mine stock Saturday was 7,} {American Can 917, Anaconda 30%, | | Beech Aircraft 12%, Bethlehem | |Steel 68, Curtiss-Wright -5%, Inter- |national Harvester 75%, Kennecott 36%, North American Aviation/ 9%, New Yeork Central 22%, Northern Pacific 18%. | | Dow, Jones averages Saturday were as follows: Industrials, 152.71; irails, 47.70; utilities, 26.37. | — e BACK TO SCHOOL John M. Newmarker, son of Lt. Comdr. John Newmarker, | Merchant Marine Inspection office here, left by plane for San Fran- |cisco, from where he is to return to King’s Point, N. Y. He is at- of the| MacArthur reports the enemy was repulsed bloodily. APPROVALIS GIVEN, BUILD 15 HOUSES Morgan Re;gr-is Go Ahead Signal After Confer- ence in Portland | ? The Portland FHA oifice has/ turned on the green light for con- struction of the 15 dwelling units approved for Juneau a month ago, according to word brought to Juneau by Thomas A. Morgan, of the Columbia Lumber Company, who returned to Juneau by plane Sunday.” He conferred in Portland last Wednesday and Thursday with Herb Redman, formerly of the Ju- neau FHA office, and now chief underwriter for Oregon and Al- aska for the Portland office. | Morgan said the construction of the units may start at any time. ! ‘The only thing, he said, that might hold it back is the weather. | Speaking on the FHA policy, as far as these 15 units are concerned, he said: “The FHA assured them they will cooperate in every way and if these houses are not enough an additional allotment will be made.” % | Morgan said Redman might be in Juneau shortly, within the next 60 days, to re-establish the Juneau FHA office, which would be the| head office for the territory. [ Speaking on the recent tighten- ing up of regulations on critical building material since the German break-through in Belgium, Morgan said he was told by the FHA people that there would be no dif- ficulty put in the way of the, Juneau Housing Program. He said considerable interest had been shown in the housing pro- gram here and nine houses had been allocated to different con- tractors. “No one in Juneau who Ineeds a house has anything to worry about. They can get per- | mission to build a house,” he said. When asked if people could re- jmodel their houses to make apart- ments out of them, Morgan said |“yes.” He further stated such per- mission was easy to obtain. “The tending maritime school there and has been in Juneau on vacation. imain idea is to provide places for people to live” 'érive. has been nf St. Vith. Gen. Eisenhower’s communique iisted 14 captured towns, nearly all in Belgium and Luxembourg where the deflated bulge is less than 150 square miles. ‘The United States Army has fought into the road center of w , the southern anchor of the receding Germ an lines ‘This marked an advance of one mile. The British have moved to with- in 35 miles of Dusseldorf - and within five miles of the Roer River in a fresh two-mile ‘advance through western Germany. A The French First Army is driv- ing up the Rhine Valley through Vosges from Mulhouse, but the slowed by deep SNOW. Germans are making attacks north of Strasshourg powered by five or six divisions but are re- ported repulsed The Germans, obviously, are in- fluenced in their new moves by the reports of terrific Russian blows against the eastern front. Eisenhower’s ‘and Stalin's armies are now slightly more than 500 miles apart. ANTI - UNION SHOP AMENDMENT IS PUT INMANPOWER ACT Person Dréfléd for Indus- trial Work Need Not Join Union WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — The House Military Committee today wrote an anti-closed shop amend- ment into the manpower legislation and refused to specify whether ag- ricultire was a critical industry. The amendment, which members said was approved 14 to 10 in a closed session, stiptilated that no man taking an industrial job at the request or direction of his draft board, was required to join a union as a condition of his émployment Opponents contended the amend- ment offered by Representative An- drews, New York Republican, would violate the closed or union shop contracts between industry and labor. - JAPAN SAYS IT WILL EXCHANGE WAR PRISONERS Especially WantsTule Lake Center Nippons Back Again WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, — The Japanese govern ment advised Washington today it expects to be able to carry cui an exchange of in- terned citizens between the two countries sometime this year. ‘The State Department made pub- Yic the note cent from Tokvo late last year through Spanish diplomatic channels giving the enemy’s official reaction to insistent American pro- posals that a third exchange be ar- ranged as soon as possible. The Japanese said they were par- ticularly interested in repatriation of their nationals held at Tulelake Segregation Center in California, Previously this morning, Wallace ued a statement calling for full and efficient employment | gentatives went into a slow opening thrbughout the Nation.” | before a fidgeting gallery this fore- Towan's vigorous campaigning dur- | After Wallace had been offici- | noon with Fourth Division Repre- ing the 1944 election drive. ally nominated by the President,|gentative Jesse D. Landers as Tem- | The President further declared in he issued a statement saying: “I|porary Speaker. his letter to Jones that Wallace am happy the President has named | Opening prayer was delivered by “deserves almost any service which me to a position providing con-|the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman, pas- he believes he can satisfactorily tinuous activity in public welfare tor of the Resurrettion Lutheran perform.” in the highly geared world of to- | Church. Secretary of Alaska Lew | Jones corre- day and tomorrow.” M. Williams called the official roil —— | and oaths of office were administer- WO JIMA FIRST BILL I§ [sree=sser ander. { Recently discharged Army Air | | Force Public Realtions Man Ben A. | I S B OMBED McManus of Anchorage was named i | UNITED STATES HEAD- QUARTERS, PACIFIC FLEET, PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 22 — An- other neutralizing aerial strike against Japan's Iwo Jima in the Volcanos, 750 miles south of Tokyo, is reported by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The admiral said the rocky Is- land hep-off of Japanese planes was hit January 18 by Superforts. Japanese interceptors rose i the air but were beaten off. No dam- age was suffered by the raiders. House Morning Session man he named to his Cabinet four i The Territorial House of Repre- years ago as “Dear Je: wrote to Jones that Wallace “is fully suited” for the post and cited the made public the !to answer roll call, Walter Huntley | of Palmer, and C. A. Pollard of An- chorage. The two were expected to arrive by plane from the Westward | early this afternoon. The first bill of the present session| kWelve Representatives are seat- of the Legislature was ntroduced in 64 chummily side by side to make the Senate this afterncon by Sen- Yo0m for the increase in member- ator Norman-R, Walkar .and ds -as.SPip from the old 16-member House follows: ‘lol‘lhekfittudaz.d e For an act entitled: “An Act re- ucklest seat draw was made lating to the qualifications of voters.” nheophyte Steve Vukovich, First Di- Be it enacted by the Legislature vision Republican, who will sit be- of the Territory of Alaska: side comely veteran Mrs. Alaska Section 1—That citizens of the Linck, Pourth Division Democrat. United States who are othorwise The House tf.wk adlourn‘ment qualified to vote in the Territory of shortly after 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock Alaska shall have the right to vote this afternoon to perfect arrange- r ig! ments. ~ b4 ;15:;1; reaching the age of eighteen 56 tha Honao ‘sadaldn. this willts Admiral Nimitz also reports that Section 2—This act shall become N0, Jesse D. Landers was elected Liberators hit two islands south effective upon validation by Con- Speaker. of Paramushiro Saturday with gress. Ben A. McManus was elected good ‘results. At the session of the Senate thig Permanent Clerk. |afternoon, the first plece of legisla- _The Rev. W. Robert Webb, of |tion to come before the chamber was the Church of the Holy Trinity, |genate Joint. Resolution No. 1, in- Was elected Chaplain. |troduced by Sen. Shattuck, provid-| Jack Langseth was chosen as {ing that the Finance Commiitee of Sergeant-at-Arms. |the Senate and the Printing Com- | In the Senate mittce of the House issue calls for| SUpping into high gear with the Jids for furnishing the Legislature first bang of the gavel in the hands ] = A REPORTS To with necessary printing of laws and of Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Wil- Under sus- liams, convening the session, the journals and supplies. 1 of the rules the resolution Senate of Alaska's Seventeenth Ter- wes passed to second reading, and ritorial Legislature, this afterncon on amendment by Sen. Cochran the set new marks for streamlined speed. Printing Committee of the Senate The chamber was called to order at was substituted for the Finance 1:37 o'clock this afternoon and be- into ' Committee. The resolution was then |fore adjournment at 2:38 o'clock, secret session, Tokyo broadcasts re-|fent into third reading and passed’| 61 minutes later, temporary and iported, to hear a detailed report unanimously, at 2:28 o'clock. | permanent organizations had been by Foreign Minister Shigemitsu,| Senate Bill No. 1 was introduced completed, a joint resolufion had after he announced that diplomatic by Sen. Walker. | been passed and two bills had been relations with the Soviet Unimfl A second bill, Senate Bill No. 2, introduced. were being “securely maintained m‘{was introduced by Sen. Green and Permanent President of the Sen- accordance with the neutrality referred to the Judiciary Committee, ate is Edward D. Coffey, of An- | pact.” | It provides for amending the Unem- | chorage, who was nominated by Sen. ! In a dispatch from occupied Asia,‘ploym-:nt Compensation law of the Howard Lyng of Nome, and elected |Domei, Japanese news agency, Territory to bring all employers without dissent. Fifteen of the 16 said the secret meeting would last under provisions of the act, ‘Seutors were present to answer to an hour and a half. “Shigemitsu TS |the call of the role. The only ab- i n ! sentee was los Brownell was questioned by members of ‘the sentee waz Don Carl k {Diet following’ his separt/* Domel GOVERNOR ASKS Seward, who had wired that poor added. This was intercepted by the flying conditions would prevent his | {FCC monitor. |reaching Juneau today. (By Associated Press) The Japanese Diet went et Following the opening prayer, de- livered by the Rev. G. Herbert Hil- lerman, and the oath of office, ad- ministered by Judge George F. Alex- ander, Sen, O. D. Cochran, of Nome, was nominated by Sen. Walker and | unanimously elected President Pro- lature has been asked by Gov. | tem. Sen. Coffey seconded the Emest Gruening for Thursday DOMInation. =Mrs. Margaret Cris- afternoon at 2 oclock to hear his retary. On opening of ::nu;};tlons anof Hotel. He is Secretary of the message. \for ex"manem President, the placing Alaska Miner’s Association. | The request eame in the form otjof t[kJLe Tatas o6 et Collfey tl:y Sen oo {a verbal message to the Senate this Lang, Was IollowedAby o fotidl by' MRS. GEYSER HERE afternoon by the committee sent‘Sen 'Leow Rogge, Fairbanks, that Mrs. William C. Geyser of An- to inform him the Senate had uon‘llnsliom'beclo;ed v 4 the‘elec- chorage is staying at the Baranof been organized. The Senate will tion of President be made unanims Hotel. take no action on the request “"m.ous, Ths motion carried. The Hen~ 1“'0 Pouse 15 crgamiieed. late was in temporary organization | FROM WHITTIER | for little more than three minutes. Mrs. Grisham was then selected as Permanent Secretary of the Sen- ate and the following other em- COLLINS HERE | Mrs. Dorothy Collins and Gren- old Collins, Legislator, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, They are! registered from Anchorage. oo FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and Mrs. Al Anderson of iFmrbnnks. are guests at the Bar- A joint session of the House and Senate of the Seventeenth Legis- - -e FOSS RETURNS Harold B. Foss, Juneau architect, ‘has returned to Juneau following la trip to the States of one week on business regarding the Hoonah] housing project, Walter Grace, registered from! Whittier, is a gugst at the Baranof Hotel, (Continued on Page Eight) | INIRODU(ED | Temporary Clerk of the House, i D | Two members of the House falled | |

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