The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 1117 g——— EMPIR MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945 THE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9868 'RUSSIANS CONTINUE ADVANCE ON BERLIN Motorized Units At Big Airfield Near Manila AIRSTRIPIS ~ Army'sBiggestTransportinFlight | STATE OF RED ARMY ) For SIEGE AT " PUSHES ON SEIZED IN = BIG DRIVE PRAGUE AT FRONT st Br | Oder River Line of Ger- Americans Make Further § Mass Unrest Breaks Out as| mans Cracked-Many Gains-10 NipsKilled Russians Only 170 | for Ev_ery Yank Captures Reported (f;y ;‘ \‘\'IATFC M(‘UA::I‘I;‘ LONDON, Jan. 25—The Moscow . P ‘orres) n ' TG s unres 5 54 ::RTHURI";“ A " ‘mdm says “mass unrest has broken: Army and its vanguards are a little 3 AacAl | ‘lout” in Prague, old Czechoslovakian | more than 125 miles from Berlin and QUARTERS ON LUZON, Jan 3 Capital Cit; and the Germans| have cracked thi Motorized units of the Fourteenth | { 1 ; | have cracked the Oder River Line e S e o have announced a state of siege has | | before Breslau in the north and Army Corps drove to the edge of | # Z | i r it il oA el been imposed there and also in i apparently have sheared off most of the big Clark Airfiel d center d- i 2 3 2 o other cities of Czechoslovakia. | East Prussia, Stalin announced to- nesday in a quick bid for 13 air- | § . oy : ! y g lin discloses | | nig o ¢ ir- . . i s ; { The report from Berlin discloses _ night. ;u-‘ngg and seized one of the major 3 » |Lhc Russian Armies have driven | % g | The Russian forces have captured ields. i to within 170 miles of Prague from ¢ ; | Oels, communication cent B Bt ! @ J & & 3 er, 14 miles The. field was littered \ull? scores | it ; ; . v i 3 i the Oder River sector. 159 W | northeast of Breslau, Stalln also of wrecked Japanese planes. ;. v : 5 8 | The German report also revealed | 8 4 | announces, and the Red Army has The swift drive penetrated to ye i 1 v L o § | ! <! TR e sl |they are retreating in Slovakia. | captured Ostrow, 13 miles southwest \N}l hin a ]{tllL over ‘uu ine ""ll tl In Prague, the Moscow radio i !01’ Kalisz, Poland, 10 miles from the Ilk‘nlleM.anlla andk l\'lm(; fi;m.;e }\ \(1 {“ isays, the “workers have gone on| i | northern border of Silesia. the First Army Kille apanese ‘| German broadcast today said the | Russians have broken into Elbing for every American lost in the| sanguinary actions left | a:llm‘iun:i y [wfiuctla_r;seksonmofizt‘ lhtm | | on the Baltic in the drive to Danzig 6,000 Nips have been killed in all| Pt b ot o thirty divisions, from 200,000 to 300,- | 000 troops. . | Moscow broadcasts report fighting PRICE TEN CENTS — | “‘JANIE" IS BRIDE OF MARINE PILOT e e —————— i | } |a strike and the population is try-| ling to prevent German evacuation | jof machinery and other mdnstrialf matertal. The population is fighting the Gestapo in various distric | e — | | | The new Army transport C-97, the Air Forces’ biggest, wings threugh the sky on a trial flight. One of the C-97's flew from Seattle to Washington, D. a little more than six hours, which the War Department says 141 feet, 3 sectors of Luzon against the loss | of 657 Yanks. Total enemy casual- | | on the edge of Konigsberg, Junkers' new transcontinental fiying record. The plane is 110 feet, 4 inches long and has a wingspread of ties have reached approximately | ELLIOTT'S WIFE DINES QUT 1| Capital City. 1ches, (AP Wirephoto) 14,000, while the American figure | STIlell ‘\ I (K ES Stalin announces the capture of is given as 3,145. | 5 . g s | ; Y i 3 b e : § e & Glewitz, Silesian industrial center, The Central Luzon Plains drivc; 34 "«‘?w is moving so fast there has been | IS Go'NG | i sk ‘f%.‘*g“ 80 miles southeast of Breslau. | | The Germans are employing a | { units, o the Oder River to the southeast. i Two crossings have been made of { nounces the assignment of Gen.'(yre this morning when the House |Joseph W. Stilwell to command the of Representatives in 30 minutes 'JOYCE REYNOLDS, youthful screen actress, is the bride of Lt. Robert. | scorehed earth policy in retreat from | o . { ‘ f Will Take Command of Alaska House Urges Land Moscow adyices said the the Oder. Breslau is 138 miles from i ground forces, succeeding Lt. Gen. passed fro:n first to final reading a Lewis, Marine Corps fighter pilat, The, cou Vi i ; p . couple was married at the ' industr o wvosmood Covmmllml“y rhyrch near Hollywood. Miss Reynolds, recent A sz;:;hfi:sficcount says all men star of the picture, “Janie,” and her husband are both members of | hetween the ages of 16 and 60 have Ground Forces, Says Policies Be Put 'Governor ASkS 'or New ot Moo B e ’ olicies be Pu \ - | on Berlin and the advance will con- . ! ftinue “regardless of losses.” ey g il Taxes; Message Is Read Harold L. Ickes got his biennial 1 g a [ [ oday af Joint Session = | ; The Russian armies are menacing | Ben Lear, who has been assigned memorial 10 Corgress asking an im- the German armies in Austria, Hun- s Deputy Commander in the mediate investigation of Department ropean Theatre in charge of of Interior land policies. | Houston, Tex., f: lies Ve oers: . % amilies, but they were strangers-to each other until ' heen called from coal mines and The fall of Breslau appears im- WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Secre- ! gary and Slovakia. In a 54-page speech which led the present Federdl tax payment (Continued on Page Two) — e Walkerls Nominafed WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has nominated | Frank C. Walker for another term as Postmaster General, his only Cabinet position whose term is fixed by law, which lasts as long | as the Presidential term, plus ome | month. This requires a new nomi- nation every four years. they met in' Hollywood. ¢ b i ssisiddiides e i (ALY factories to fight in home guard | mient as the Soviets stormed across of War Henry L. Stimson an- «hajrcut” from the Alaska Legisla- The Washington Merry-Go-Round i | By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active( service with the Army.) President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roc | taraily, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt (left), nc WHILE IN WASHINGTON to spend the holidays with her husband’s cst daughter-in-law of the is shown lunching with Mrs. osevelt || Administrative matters concerning n troops. | Secretary Stimson said _ | immediately, Stilwell has been {California since his recall the China field of action. ——————— it Gen. pugns the Secreiiry of the Inter- “| | Stilwell is in Washington now and ior’s motives in creating reservations ; \will take over the new command and d-mai in! Four Freed from [ter be applied to Alaska as well as| The memorial, introduced by Rep- . off with a discussion of problems System. |resentative Cuitis Shattuck, im- o8 y the Territory must meet in the |post-war era, Gov. Ernest Gruen- |, _ ing this afternoon sounded the| Primary battle-cry for a new tax system| or Alaska which would include |a personal income tax on the Only oppositcn to the measure Worker's pay envelope, a corporate as a general feeling “Ickes could|income tax on business, and a s the principles of the ms and Atlantic Char-| ment is to do our part,” to helj | foreign nations. The chief executive prefaced his remarks with a statement that the task of our joint efforts [ as representatives of the legislature | and executive branches of govern-| p s NAZIS OPEN bring the war to a successful con- clusion and achieve a lasting peace. OFFENSIVE Possibly afrE_fiort fo Win Back Whole of North- east France PARIS, Jan. 75. — The Germans opened a desperate new offensive against the Western Front, today, in Northern Alsace, it was an- nounced by Supreme Headquarters. Possibly it is a supreme effort to win back the whole of Northeast France and the province, The ene- my is attacking on a 20-mile front, from the Hagenau, northwest into the Vosges Mountains. The enemy has ecrossed the Moder River, 15 miles below the Reich frontier. Far to the norih, the British Sec- Veterans | He spoke of the “over 5,000 Al- WASHINGTON—While: hammers were nailing up platforms for, the inaugural, the White House was| the scene of one of the grimmest e e Senators Come Up the Jack Frye, wife of an air line executive. (International Soundphoto) sional leaders met the President | and his military chiefs to solve the | manpower problem. Leaders of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees sat unsmiling as Gen. George Marshall and Adm. Ernest King outlined the gravity of the| present military situation. “It’s not a question of losing the war,” Gen. MArshall told the legis- | lators. “But to do our job right | we need legislation to provide the men and materials which will save | the lives of thousands of American| WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—If you He is the son of Harry B. Mitchell, boys and shorten the war con- | want to be a Senator, come up the | President of the Civil Service Com- | siderably.’ * hard way. There are 15 new faces pission, and was formerly a new Marshall, with customary caution, | in the Senate in the new 79th Con- | haper man with a particularly ob- did not talk in figures or months, gress, and only three of them can | garvant eye on both State and but there was no dotbt in the|boast of winning without any polit- | national politics. | minds of his hearers that he feels | ical background. | the saving can be important. | To dispose of these three first, The Army and the Navy need |they are: Senators Glen Taylor, the some 90,000 men .in the next six ex-singing cowboy from Idah months, and, without new legisla- | Homer Capehart, the music box tion, they will have to rely mainly |tycoon from Indiana; and Alexander upon 18 year olds, of whom there Smith, cf New Jersey. are not enough to make up half | Taylor and Smith are both avowed the call. Another 700,000 men are | internationalists. Capehart made his needed in production to assure a |campaign on a aight-out ant speedy victory. |administration ticket and is consid- President Roosevelt himself had |ered a certain member of the old | little to say during this round table (non-interventionist group. conference, He sat and listened. He | With these three exceptions, all was ready, he said, to send to c(m.Jof the new Senators are not only gress a -message demanding full | well schooled in politics but firmly national service legislation for ail |grounded in government administra- men under 60. his was opposed, | tion. The only one who wasn't elect- | however, by Andy May, Chairman|ed was 38-year-old Hugh Mitchell of the House Military Affairs Com- | of Washington, just appointed to fill mittee, and by Texas' Ewing|out the term (two years) of former Themason, its ranking majority Sen.vMun Wallgreen, now Governor - ) member; also by Senator Elbert|0f his State. | One important thing about all of Thomas of Utah, Chairman of the| s [tlw former Governors is that they Senate Military Affairs Committee,| Senator Mitchell knows his Way | ook their stand firmly with the tin, ranking Republican |about in Washington better than a | yqpinistration on postwar partici- Faen A o X via lot who have held elective positions |~ P P for years. He was Wallgren's execu- | Members Well Schooled _tive secretary and campaign man- | iager in the gubernatorial battle. | "y weather By JACK STINNETT (Continued on Page Eight) - ‘MAJ. BRINDLE ROME, Jan. 25.—Sleet and snow covered the Italian front today, but in spite of the wintery weather patrols were active along both the | Fifth and Eighth Army fronts. | Six of the new Senators have been, | Spirited skirmishes occurred at | among other things Governors of | several points, The action, gener- their States. They are Saltonstall, ‘ ally, was on a small scale. The dis- of Massachuestts, Hickenlooper of | charge of a booby trap by a United Towa, Hoey of North Carolina, John- | States raiding party in the vicinity son of South Carolina, Moses of |of Monte Cerere; south of Bologna, North Dakota and Donnelly of Mis- | rated mention in an official report souri. ‘nf the day’s operations. All made outstanding records as| Bad weather grounded most of the | chief executives of their States, and | Mediterranean Air Forc RESS OF THE UNl'TED within armed force and ‘'said that our . of both chambers in the House of women. [] [ | mib. to the canned salmon industry to organize available information and | | vising ways and means of safe- piities of additional pack taxes as answer the many inquiries of pros- ed Be(ause Of an- Jf]lct and of platning for a broader|ion,; tax of 5 cents per case which create opportunities in Alaska. statehood ‘for Alaska and that a The Other Way the vote is taken so the public |spoke on the salmon pack tax, RECIPIENI OF | ing the registration of all real simpler ways of raising amoney.” it Wi B P jact as a lien against the land by increasing the salmon pack tax, able. This proposal referred to A A A would be difficult “to present, of- iforious Duties Perform- may not be found. at least two of them are expected | [that he really is not In favor of a . time Commissioner of Health for| ander . Brondle, Alaska born, the existing patchwork” tax system. ! win the Republican election by a stock today is 7', American Can tians, has received the Legion of bers of the Legislature” he had ynumber thousands.” He said that|of the Alaska Teiritorial Legislature years in normally Republican North 1757, Kennecott 36%, North Ameri-|the loss of equipment despite heavy bill for the consideration of the 'of ndian Affairs after funds al-|Gastineau Channel pre all invited. Dow, Jones averages today are as|of the Alaska Department. the Legislature. He said the in-150-bed hospital at Seward, he said, | tOMOITOW. was | |have been called more names.” | Territorial property tax that wuul«l{ H The memcrial i< as follows: take in home owners outside of | TO THE HGNORABLE, THE!incorporated cities as well as those gska boys who have gone into the |cONG | STATES: “|" The Governor, delivering his bi- supreme duty is to make plans for | Your Memorialist the Legislatureé’ ennial message to a joint fon the discharged service men and. J lof the Territory of Alaska in the {Seventeenth Regular ion 4s- Representatives, and a packed He urged the establishment of gallery, issued an implied invitation an Alaska Development Agency to WHEREAS this Legislature now join sides in the campaign for a secure new information on oppor- ety |convened is facing the task of de-ineyw tax system or face the possi- tunities in Alaska in order to MOS' Ot AII' For(e Grol_md- |guarding the Territory’s population pigh g 75 cents per case. Two years pective residents—and more im- and welfare during the present con- a6 the Legislature levied an addi- |portant, to try to develop and jeconomic development that Will in-|pag “brought in an estimated half| He asked that consideration be |sure & sound future for our own fe-|yion dollars, Igiven to a referendum vote on | |pamphlet discussing the proposal be | After discussing the proposed grawn up and distributed before new tax program, the Governor { 4 ’ 18X, will pe well informed. |prefacing this discussin by saying:| rhe Governor urged a bill requit- |“Of course there are other and - é—! —-d—-— - property in Alaska with a fine (Confining: o8 Pagmr T ¥0) |He said it would be simple to raise for fajling to register, which would ;nmst of the new revenue needed —_ | 1 ] it Sid b which would, in time, be sold by the bl : that the industry could well afford perritory and again become avail- CI'ailon IS leen fOI’ Mer; it at present and that it probably | g, | “dead-band land ownership” or [position to such a tax.” But, he patented land of which the owners . . lended this discussion by saying 3 it ed in Aleutian Isles in favor of a Health Problems | % H because ‘woul e eSSE g i to do likewise as freshman Senators. pack tax i | He stressed the need for a full- These are Saltonstall, whe reversed SIO(K ouo"'lo"s SEATTLE, Jan. 25—Major Alex-| merely adding one more patch to the vote trend in Massachusetts to | s, 2 !Alaska and urged that a bcginnmg‘ NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — Closing Transport Service Office here on| The Governor revealed that/pe made toward taking care of | pRL staggering majority; and Moses who, | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine leave after 18 menths in the Aleu- | “after consulting with a few mem- «our tuberculosis cases which now| A public reception to the members as a Democrat, has béen one of the q s \ most popular political figures in |01, Anaconda 30%, Beech Aircraft!Merit for conduction of what his|again secured the services of Tax he former Army hospital of 150|Will be given by Gov, and Mrs. Ernest '13%, Bethlehem Steel 677, Curtiss- citation described for “most diffi- [Expert Alfred Harsch of the state pheds at Skagway has been ubmlnediGl'\l?"l:lK at the Governor's House | Dakota. | Wright 5%, International Harvester| cult small boat operation without of Washington, who has drafted a for the use of the Alaska Office | tomorrow night .and residents of can Aviation 9%, New York Central seas and severe gales.” Legislature, and who will be )m”“[uwjng the Territory to operate the| All receptions during the past year |22%, Northern Pacific 18%, U. 5./ The presentaticn was made by Col. 500n rmm Seattle to discuss the hogpital »were unobtainable from |have been formil but Mrs. Gruening Steel 59%. Pound $4.04. Charles Chubbock, Liaison Officer;bill or bills with the members of the Federal Government. But a!announces that dvess is optional for follows: industrials 15226, rails Major Brindle is a Ketchikan can-|come tax bill would be a “pay-as-| — . j The reception hours are from 8 4747, utilities 26.4C. nery owner, you-go” plan, evidently similar to) (Continued on Page Two) o’clock in the evening to midnight. (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Pagé Two)