The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA wl 0 G “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 GOPY e e et A e z» A \ A EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9866 " MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, jAN_lJ/\I{\' 23, 1945 RUSSIANS NOW 134 MILES American FIRST ARMY INACTION P'ungiflg Toward St. V“h,! UNITED STATES PACIFIC Important Road Cen- | LEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL | | HARBOR, Jan. 23—Making the fer in Belgium \ i | fifth strike of the month on For- | |mosa and nearby islands, Third |Fleet carrier airmen on Saturday destroyed 140 Japanese war planes and inflicted heavy damage on| enemy shipping and ground instal- | PARIS, Jan. 23—The American First Army tanks were plunging toward St. Vith at dawn today and lations. American fighters for the second| Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, an- straight day bombed German col- nouncing the forays, said: “One umns now in rout from the Ar-|of our major ships was damaged dennes salient. in the raid,” undertaken only five St. Vith was apparently evacuat- | days after the Third Fleet finished ed during the night and the Sev-|the first attack on the China Coast enth Armored Division expected to ports. make the capture any time of that, The disclosure that a majo last Belgian road center. St. Vith ——— is the hub of seven highways and two railroads. The Germans, until yesterday, fought desperately to hold the center, their last stronghold of any consequence in Belgium. } # German tank elements have been rushed up to stave off the capture of St. Vith but were unsuccessful.| The Germans are still pressing against the American Seventh Army in northern Alsace but Headquarters said the front from Bitche to Hagueneau to Stras- bourg remains substantially un- changed ) There is nothing to confirm the Berlin report of the collapse of g American attacks in northern Al- sace. { U # B —— ERWICK HERE Henry Erwick, of Ketchikan, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. — 3 FROM SITKA Mr: and Mrs. M. Anderson from Sitka are staying at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go-Round £ By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) ping tl of ' fantry went to the rescue of the heroi WASHINGTON — Presidents hrough slush and slipping over i the United States have been in- augurated all over the country, from New York where George! Washington took the first oath of | office, to a Vermont farghouse, where Calvin Coolidge was sworn in after Harding's death. But last| Saturday was the second time in history that a President has taken ‘the oath in the White House. Previous precedent was in 1876 when Rutherford B. Hayes, Re-| publican, ran neck and neck with! Samuel J. Tilden, Democrat. Tilden | had the larger popular vote, but| Hayes finally obtained a majority of one vote in the electoral college on March 2, 1877. | Harry Hop By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — For tsome years now, it has been trite Because of this late decision and:tn say, “Roosevelt, longer than any the closeness of the vote, there cther President.” It will become were t::efltsm:-‘k:a; Hayesk“"’u:‘d,duller before 1948. But it still makes never permitted to take the news—and argument—when you| oath of office. Also March 4 fell open up . Wi “Harry Hopkins, | ‘;el:"? :“;iz’l;-les? P}’efll‘:m'; C;"’t!;:-'longer than eny other man assoc-| rin rom the, fact the|iated with F.D.R~" | country might be without a Presi-| poning has been under the guns dentc]for a _f;:v k:imrs. invited Hayesgagain_ This time the attack came fo dine W‘M hm at the White rrom commentators and senators| T s 3. Chief Justice|yn, pitterly opposed some of the ro:(:wm:mer wésra:dg;?;t‘hi"sub;u b‘:’|new appointments in the State De- ’ ests | partment. into the.Red Room where Hayes M 3 ol is this time! was secretly sworn in as President | Hlsq prn‘:lpg] .l.;:m“lf, Lcr:;ndlllv: of the United States. |6 TED. A Bex SAPRY ol who professed to sce in the new| | appointmionts a State Department built by Hopkins. Chandler was asked rather sar< Roosevelt is one of the few Presidents who has never under- gone the ordeal of escorting al President-elect to the Capitol to be | Castically during one debate just| sworn in. The only other twoihow close he thought Hopkins was | Presidents who shunned this were 0 the President. He replied “fust the two Adamses. John Adams, the @S close as a dead heat, and down second President, had engaged in i My country (the blue grass, where a bitter campaign with Thomasg"he Kentucky Derby is'the annual Jefferson, and on daybreak of me:turt classic) _zhere is nothing closer.” inauguration, he quiely left the Most of this grows out of the fact | city. |that Harry Hopkins is the White Later his son, |House's No, 1 mystery man. There John Quincy |isn’t much mystery in the reasons Adams, did not attend Andrewfor that. Before his protracted ill- Jackson’s inaugural. Finding the‘lness some years back, when he was day “warm and springlike,” he Eecretary of Commerce, Hopkins was ordered his horse and rode off into|2bout as accessible as any one else the country. The younger Adams in peace-time Washington. Even i i {before that, when he was relief ad- (Continued on Page Four) ministrator, his press conferences .- 140 Planes Are Destroyed by YANKS ROLL TANK UNITS Third Fleet Airmen in Raid; SOUTHFAST, U. 5. Major Warship Damaged LUZON ISLE | American ted A A 'hOTSLOGGER’_ PITCHES | | BOTH DRAMATIC and typical is this camera shot of a “Footslogge: he crawls under a barbed wire fence, bayonet ready, while his fellows | of the U. S. 3rd Army make their way over snow covered fields—slop- men who, covering their ground slowly, painfully, but thoroughly, ¢ defenders of Bastogne. (International) kins Still (losest Man fo FDR; Inside Facls Given |into the W Fighters Bomb 9 1 jCapIure Capas Which Is| o Only 11 Miles from Big Clark Field YATES McDANIEL (A. War Correspondent) GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, LUZON ISLAND,Jan. fast-rolling American In- more than half way States warship was damaged is the first officially reported ualty of the Third Ficet'’s high-| speed force Indo-China, Formosa and China in the last two months. The high score of 140 Nipponese planes destroyed, with approxi-| mately 100 more damaged on the| ground, indicates the enem y of- fered much stronger air opposition 23—The against a pivotal base south of fantrymen, o Japan than at the Formosa strikes|t0 Manila, down the Central Luzon | on January 13, 14 and 15. The Plain, otured Capas as the re- communique added, however, the Sult of an 11-mile gain from fallen | losses were ‘“relatively Tarlac and today are only 54 alr| “ |miles from the Philippine capital fat the deepest penetration. | Headquarters reports the infan- trymen are fast approaching Pam- {panga Province, gateway to Ma- | nila, | Gen. Douglas MacArthur, an-| | nouncing gains in all Luzon sectors, and the throwing back of inef-} fective counter measures, disclosed | |the makeup of his liberation forces {on this main Philippine Island. He| {announced: | | “Our ground forces comprise T| lcorps on the left as the Sixth,| Twenty-Fifth, Forty-Third Divi- sions, 158th Regimental Combat 1anu' Fourteenth Corps; and on the |right, the Thirty-Seventh and‘ | Fortieth Divisior | Capas, captured by the infan- | trymen, is only 11 miles from the | | big Clark Field, the major airdrome in the Philippines, and adjacent is Fort Stotsenberg, important | military base. | | In exactly a fortnight after the linvasion on Lingayen Gulf, the | Americans hold the northern and {central half of the Luzon Plain land are rolling southward al- !most as fast as the supply trucks lcan travel. NAZIARMY, ITALY AREA, INCREASED Patrols of BT)IFBritish and American Armies Ac- five on Front ROME, Jan. 23—Field Marshal |Kesselring’s Army of Italy is re- !ported to have been increased to 28 divisions, the greatest strength since last spring. Patrols of the Allied Fifth and were a delight to the newsmen and Eighth Armies were active along radio corps. There wasn't any ques-:mc ent ire front in the bitterly tions too tough or personal for HOp-|cold weather, probing enemy po- kins to answer. Isitions. Then came his illness. For a long| time he disappeared from Washing-| American troops, stabbing north- |taoka Bay naval stations on Shi- ton. When he returned he moved ward, occupied a ridge a half mile Mmuchu Island at the northern end ite House. At the-1940 north of Colle Termine, just east|of the chain, convention in Chicago, Hopkins was of highway 64, and 15 miles from The raid was the one of the smoke-filled room man- Bologna. At the same time, the Kuriles in two da agers for the third term. In ‘hat|enemy sent strong raiding parties| St O RS campaign he became the Rresident’sto Gallicano before No. 1 whipping boy. |beaten back. shin marauding against . P By light Nl\ B General Deugl from his LST on the beach at Ling E Yanks Lan ! Soldiers, equipment swarm ashore ing machine (center) as it clears later leng lines of American trcops BOMBERS IH THREE RAIDS | | 1 | " as ce. They were among the U. S. in- o Triple SwerépAs~ -Made on‘ Islands North of Japan on Two Days PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 23— Adm !Chester W. Nimitz reports anothe: strike by bombers of the Eleventh AAP on Japan's Kuriles Island north of the homeland. | This strike was on January 20 |and bombs were showered on Ka- i third on the MacArthur, accompanied by mem crs of his statf, is picturéd as he walked shoreside ON KURILES Retreatin BYDGOSI(Z * (APTURED '~ BY SOVIETS Enfrance fo Polish Corridor Taken-German Sup- ply Line Sliced LONDON, Jan, 23—The Rus- sian Red Army troops have captured Bydgoszez, entrance to the Polish Corridor and are slicing the main supply line of the Germans in East Prussia, Stalin announced tonight. A Stockholm dispatch said the Russians have fought into Poznan, 137 miles from Berlin, and street fighting is going on. Poznan is the last bastion city short of the Reich frontier. The Stockholm dispatch was received from Berlin, accord- ing to the radio broadcast. The Russian troops to the south, in Silesia, are driving on Breslau and Oppelin and might have “temporarily” reached over the Oder River. Stalin, in his order of the day, proclaimed the capture of Bydgoszez, main rail and high- way junction at the entrance to the Polish Corridor, 87 miles below Danzig and only 65 miles northeast of Poznan. This thrust is by part of Zhukov's forces sweeping across Poland from Warsaw and has chopped the principal rail route from Berlin feeding supplies to the German defenders in East Prussia. < Btalin’s order saluted 20 Gen- erals and 27 other commanders. He described the city as the powerful strongpoint on the lower reaches of the Vistula River. A Swiss dispatch said German commanders from all fronts met at the German headquarters Satur- day and a lot of steps were taken for halting Stalin’s steamroller drives, and far-reaching decisions were made concerning employment of reserves from other fronts. One report said German divisiond are heing shifted from the Eisenhower irent to meet the Russians, as the Germans do not want the Sovlets to reach Berlin first, fearing an- nihilation. REsikUk HIMMLER Day and Night Attacks Aré IS SE NT To EASTFRONT Made-0il Plant Set Afire Hitler Orders Gestapo -Fuel qunt in Flames Chieffain Out with Full Powers for Action LONDON, Jan, 23—~Two hundred Fortr es today bombed the rail- yards of Neuss on the western edge of the Ruhr in a quick follow up a triple night assault on the Lieich targets when more than 500 | Pritish Lancasters, Halifaxes and 1oNpDON, Jan. 23—Hitler has American bombers, escorted by 100 cont” Heinrich Himmler and “his best army commanders” to the eastern front with “full powers to make drastic decisions and guar- antee their executions,” the Berlin radio announced in a broadcast. Himmler, Gestap o chieftain, ayen, Luzon, “backdcor” to the peninsula ef Bataan on Luzon. d al Bimfia!ey Beach, Luzon g in Luzon's Gulf of Lingayen. Nete dredg- the way for troops and machines to move swiftly inland, A few minutes were enfilading th oush rice paddies on their way to Manila. (Percentages of enlisted men; estimated by O.W.1.) Mustangs The burg was s synthetic oil plant at Duis- asily dfcernible in the moonlight last night and set afire. British flie truck within five miles } of the spot where American heavies | pai When he married and his wife moved into the White House, critic- ism flamed again. It's no secret around the presi- | dential mansion that all of this was Kflly embarrassing to Hopkins and\\ source of some amusement to the President. Insiders say F.D.R. even added to the ragging of his old- est official friend and intimate. Before the 1944 race reached the| fourth term announcement Mr. and | Mrs. Hopkins and his daughter by| a previous marriage had taken a home of their own. Hopkins might then have emerged from his “mys- tery man” role, but he had mean- while been given one of the most hush-hush jobs in Waghington—the | allocation of munitions to our Allies and the fighting fronts. Officially, there wasn't a word he could say. The “mystery” contihued. No doubt Hopkins is close to the «Conlinued on Ppage Two) | " SENATE WILL NOW e e v e INVESTIGATE DOG PLANE PRIORITY |eight scattered - attacks. One hit probably destroyed Allied planes. |Concentrated attacks on enemy| communications and storage dumps| {in northern Italy destroyed one| 'enemy plane. Ten Allied planes| WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. |failed to return. ;Scna'.e Military Affairs Committee today voted to inv ate the pri- STOCK 0“0““0"; ority system, under which a dog, NEW YORK, Jan, 23. — Cl(l*yilfl.{:lei‘.ve, when they were forced off quotation of Alaska Juneau mine an army cargo plane in Memphis stock today is 6%, American Can early last month while an English 91%, Anaconda 30, Beech Aircraft bull mastiff, traveling under a pri- | precedence over three servicemen, t 1121, Bethlehem Steel 67, Curtiss- |ority, was permitted to continue the | | Wright 5%, International Harvester flight. |75, Kennecott 36, North American| The investigation was suggested by Aviation 9%, New York Central 22, Semator Bridges, who said his mo- Northern Pacific 18%, U. S. Steel 59, |tion was carried without dissent. Pound $4.04. Bridges said it was “a disgraceful Dow, Jones averages today are as'incident.” follows: industrials, 151.36; ralls, —_——————— 47.06; utilities, 26.15, & Empire Classifieds Pay! ~— The owned by Col. Elliott Roosevelt, took | The three were flying west, on| esterday dealt a telling blow on the rade fuel plant. In night at- two tremendous explosions rved in the area still alight es as the result of the pre- ks, wer | from flam vious raid Targets were also saturated with incendiary bombs at Gelsenkirchen, s of heavy pieces of the Ger- man nsport service were destroy- ed or disabled by Allied aircraft yes- terday afternoon. nd Amer for the night and day attacks. SRR A FROM FAIRBANKS COLLEGE GRADUATES COAL FOR SALE The Coast Guard at Ketchikan ! has offered for sale approximately 100 tons of Colorado nut coal, - MAHONEY SOUTH Charles Erick son, registering from Fairbanks, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. e e BURLEY TO SKAGWAY MRS, Mrs, William T. Mahoney, wife| of U. 8. Marshal Mahoney, was a ' }paswngcr leaving Juneau south-| bound on the steamer North Sea. She is enroute to Arcadia, Calif,, to be with her sister, who was in- jured in a car accident, C. H. Burley is now giving a short mining course in Skagway and upon completion will go to Sitka, Peters. I burg and then Wrangell; Several British | an bombers are missing | commander of the German Rome Army, has been sent to the east because the situation “at focal points called for iron willed men like him,” said the broadcast by the Transocean news agency. -———— PARKER HERE Charles L. Parker, Skagway resi- dent, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. SRR e SITKA VISITORS Mrs. P. Morell and Mrs. William Youppi are staying at the ‘Hotel Juneau. They are from Sitka. - e - MISSING IN ACTION ! | Ernie Faber, 22, of Ketchikan, who joined the Territorial Guards and was inducted into the regular army at Chilkoot Barracks in September, 1941, has been missing in action, in Germany, since December 21, his parents have been informed. J