The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1945, Page 1

FHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 1 - [ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9869 ! _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1945 MEMBHi ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY == i soldier. He is taught to believe that | charged through withholdings from r is 64. Secretary of State Joseph Grew at|whole federal budget five years ago. | | paychecks. .. Another billion or so { This unconfirmed broadcast has ¢ . —_ r S e T . sl SETBACK IN Paramushire Outpost Bombed JAPDEFENSE Yanks Halt German BIG DRIV _ aramushiro Oufpost Bo | | EARLY FIGHT peE . Dl ~ SYSTEM HIT Offensive Threals OF SOVIETS | | | | | i IS AVENGED ~ BY SEA, AIR On Western Front KEEPING UP ¥ . | ; [ | SR 1 1 ——— j_ e | ol i % i ‘ i (] BULLETIN—PAR| . Yanks Take Great Airbase| Supers and Liberators Join | —The Ametican | Spearheads N . § A e pearheads Now Close or -Also Fort-Jap Defend- | - N Batt | et ot the Stegtiod 1 : i < Navy In batiering | | section of the Siegfried Line and on Prussian Province ers Scatter fo Hills | Enemy Island | [ | gh b Sk s v Inehet i y | (AUGHT IN gap to the Roer River below | Border Lines — : o s | Duren. Strangely, the Germans | QS:};I_.FER!:MSS;::P; SSLA)}I{[’)E:AIDI‘}' UNITED STATES PACIFIC are abandoning fortifications | P THE PHILIPPINES, Jan. 26—Clark | HARBOR, Jun. 26 An American M] S D FE D e fed o the Cotorme - AF]OUT DRIVE STARTS Field, whose 13 airstrips constitu Naval task force shelled Iwo Jima' Whiteclad men, of the Ninth | one of the richest prizes of (hv‘ I!sland. in the Volcanos Tuesday, Army have closed to within 25 o" "ok'"[“ SK"O“ Zm-m:)- 4 ‘\\ Ja(:)lurod '{hm:-‘ while = Superforts and Liberator | — : miles of Dusseldorf. All Am- | — ay by southward-driving Yanks, | Pombers also attacked the eight- | n . erican lines lost to the Germans ¥ :vk:nu wn)}: udjellcent For‘l dSlM«\-i square-mile enemy island. More A"eged False AflldaVHS yesterday have been restored German Defenses on Oder enberg. Other columns pushed even than 187 tons of bombs were . . completely. | R " decper within . seant 40 arine| gen | Made Regarding His B | River "Crack Under miles remaining along the road to | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an- PARIS, Jan. 26.—American Ninth B e Sumy. ‘ o e - et e Ronfol Properly | - |e B seoma. sy wecws| I1ON Pressute Yesterday’s clumxv to the Durh‘ jtime in two months that Marian- | I cleared the entire west bank of the | Lo of more lhan 70 miles from L{H- ! nas-based B-29's have joined with| CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 26. — John |Roer River for 40 airline miles in BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. gayen Gulf, in a campaign which ships of the Pacific Fleet in co- Clark, Cook County Asssesor, today |Holland to below Duren, achieving; 26. — Marshal Rokossovsky’s has yet to come upon any concen- | ordinated sea-air attacks. " said Secretary of Interior Harold L.|a strategic springboard for attacks Sccond White Russian Army trated Jfllmne§9 resistance, avenged | With the blasting of the fortress ' Ickes obtained tax reductions of jon Arains, the industrial Ruhr and| burst through the last German one of Am_ef"\cn's major setbacksl lisland, 750 miles south of Tokyo, $8,548 in 1943 and 1944 on a Loop |the Rhineland. | defenses along the border of the of the Pacific wax'.‘clark Field, the air attack and Sixth Surface building he owns by filing an af- Flame-throwing infantry of the; former free State of Danzig, in where Japanese dive bombers Force shelling continued the steady fidavit concerning rental yields. Ninth Army advanced more than a| East Prussia, reaching the Bay wiped out Gen. Douglas MacAr- | ihflmmerlng of the Japanese island | Clark emphatically called the tax mile in a limited night attack, cap-| of Danzig and isolating the Ger- g;u;“s main mlr s_trexfim in l!lu\‘ ldefense system guarding the South reductions “erroneous” as investigat- [turing Brachelen, 27 miles south-| man forces in East Prussia. hilippines early in the war to Sea approaches to the Nip home- |ors from his office determined the |west of Dusseldorf, a short distance | Stalin announe facilitate Nipponese * t‘m\qll":‘ Of | The ominous shadow of an 11th Air Ferce Mitchell bomber darts across Japanese imt.mati?ns on T'f“" {tand annual rental of the ~five-story [from the Siegfried Line pillboxes.| that with the clp::r:l:lol\:.l‘:::f n(fr,1zlinu(d on l;agc Thaee) shima Retto, to picture coming events in the Kurile Tslands. The bombs were not dropped this thr'n-. being —————— building on South State Street, in |German survivors withdrew to "hp'l burg, the Russians stand only 24 P 3 e L saved for more important targets. Torishima Retto is an cutpost of Paramushiro. The oulpost is on an the heart of the shopping district,|east bank of the river. miles of Danzig where the Sec- island about 1,000 feet long and was bombed by Liberaters based at Adak. The bombs set the southern end | i was $61,350, also that Ickes, in his | “British patrols, just to the north,| ond World War started Sep- - 1" of (he isiand in flames. affidavit, stated it was three-story|reported they had reach(fd the‘Roer,l tember 1, 1939. It is estimated The Washlngton i ks ; ; A puilding and the annual rental was|in a front of several mileb, without| that perhaps 25 German @ivi- | $24,000. contacting Germans,” Wes Gallag-| siens are cut off in East Prussia. ) Merr 53 Go & Round . . | Says Rooseve“ —————— ‘hf‘r reported from the Ninth Army, Stalin also announced the cap- Y I! I a es a(e ‘ | & {{ront. . ture of Muhlhausen, another >May Be 0n Way | ! { 7 “Sector Cleared important rail center on line to By DREW PEARSON ! | \ “This clears the Second Army s2¢-| Konigsberg. o (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active " Io [on‘"en(e | " tor west of the Roer and liberates LS sarviee anin'the AFiay.) Be|ween i eralors ap i ' ! the Sittard sector in Holland," he| ; £ i | . H added. LONDON, Jan. 26—Russian tank -";fi\‘;"’{ n‘l;c"’_r—o“g"‘l“‘frh:‘ qun'l.—;;g: f J LONDON, Jan. 26. — The | A H E A D I N | "on the opposite flank of the West- spearheads have driven close to the advance of the Red Army compered ] ] . " | Transocean News Service, Ger- | ST . ern Front, Lt. Gen. Patch's Seventh | eastern border of the ian with the presenit stalsinate f ‘Am- I Iers In url es ea | many propugenda agency, in a | Also Would Take RFcAway Army appeared Lo have brought the Province of Branderiburg, of which can Rt Siites or: I West | broadcast from Wilbelmstrasse, | ! ‘new German offensive, north of Al- Berlin is the capital city, a Ger- by ‘ y der says it is regarded “quite vos- | from Deparf tof sace, to a standstill Associated man broadcast says, while the Red em Front, naturally has caused __ ______—————— - } ble President Roosevelt has al- | eparimenio {Press correspondent said the Am- Army newspaper, the Red Star, » some .sou]»,\l‘{\.xchmg among U. S. By LIN CLEMENTS ready left the United States for 0' commer(e ericans sealed off penetrations by asserted “we have reached the last A military_experts. s | Associated Press War Correspondent |, yoo ooine with Churchill ) Nlp Drive CU"Ing Ah-eady seven Nazi divisions and slowly road—the road we have dreamed However, lhe_le is one important | | ELE ‘\{li AIR FORCE HE:\_D—' ) | A hammered the line back to its orig- about for three. long years.” o {ifi‘m‘;re“e:“iw“‘p;‘t‘i’l‘g :}‘,ZSSR‘;:‘ ?U‘Al_t"rfiftf} ({u‘l“::;:mfihtl:) ARG R | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The Shm HOId on camon_ inal position, fighting during one The nearest point on the Bran- most the same type of advance as NAZI WEfipoN :lviir("l'fl ‘¢“:!Kur des ‘oyedpl'ml‘rz more | PAA PLANE ARRIVES ‘?:(:?;D 1(;6';mflctcucxzxj:xc?t:x(‘e ‘;ril’:f:: Hankow Ra"road K:Jirnf:";hvcvl)\:::tx Sn:v:es:iorms 4 Ms“e'a‘::b‘gglm?;d::pfi l‘)1 1:1111? :rmk:" < s ] AV and da A NE MVEE A 5 rejel reside) sincy started. er al city but the the American Army did in Nor- ednesday in a I i i g o1 ' St Seia b < W gt | A3 mandy six months ago. U. 5. troops, gy gk i ity sl v glcfmminig s s e Hotge to havae Fighting Atipued i Miselen mniiiuce Wiasiteul then fresh and rested, attacked in North Pacific. One American plane | passengers on a Pan American Air- |The nomination will be reported) CHUNGKING, Jan. 26. — U. 8.y sehillersdorf, 10 miles north of |though. the German radio dmy'mnc force, crashed through the At- was downed by enemy fighters. {ways plane: Wallaee Green, Alec |ynfayorably in the Senate on Mon- Fourteenth Air Force P-51¢ destroy-! (o Saverne Gap. The Allied life-|the distance was only about 91 lantic Wall f;long the coast of Most of the fighting took place ' Standfield, Af‘t Beaudin, R. S { -~ e ed 40 enemy aireraft, probably de-|jine js imperilled at Strasbourg, Wil-'miles away from Berlin. . Francv,vthen‘laced on (hrou%h the near Kashiwabara, the enemy army Brown, A. R. Seaton. (Continued on Page Two) oyed six and damaged two in @& gon sajd. The Germans are being! Moscow reported yesterday the \m;fwl::lv!]lii e‘r::zyR:genA ,‘;,[1 \”?;zc:{ : e | staging 1”1(‘1 at arh'xj: al:ltudr-, e e — o ';l::;ffi; p&'vs:ird:'yn ef;?rflt:ets:;“l:lfi:m:: herded into the southeast sector o(‘neu Army forces were 125 ‘miles Al S ‘my, 3 i mall’force o rators werst 5 @ Ct V) ' S ¥ several months to bring up fresh: Pai”o' Sab01age'May Pre‘ |uA ped ‘b}‘ MZ:L:L or 10 silqpofiumwrp ‘AI'er.ma'h 0' wa' Is . said. (m;‘nl:;::'w%ds just west of Haguc_ii:{‘:’l:f;:;mo!b'::‘em";‘l;:n‘zf;en‘;‘:":’;‘ e troops and ample supplies, crashed % il. Three of the enemy planes, twin- | Five enemy fighters were destroy- nay 15 miles morth of the Alsatian ti " through Germany'’s outer Poll' x Vem USB Of A{fll |engined craft, followed the. battle 2 @ ;rlmll“lt t:P lfl:‘re byvrf‘:"‘,“l’"“ ,"‘ff.;d capital, Americans are mopping up}lllery-r:;leua'?::'o¢her Capitals ’ defense along' the Vistula River Iery Submanne | but did not participate. " o fnu: ]&Em siiv'es“ y £ *3‘]"“” ck-|the Germans who crossed the Moder Two other capital cities in Ger- and is now racing across the fla‘ e Sl Jap antiaircraft fire was inaccur- olng o e penslve Bt i !oh- - t’"‘ I.'d “‘]fiw River between Neuborg and Sch-'man provinces are also threatened, ;?x?m:‘celhmdy unfortified pIsins of| L ONDON, Jan, 26.—Tne Frmrwmi}:h sitlir sR Bt ot 3ap ' Ansiian prmes‘ Tl i o e ¢ wufim sald the Ameri- the Russians announcing that “all & s 5 nch | e suddes o ap | | 4 lost., cans counter- o o The Red Army will soon hit News Agency quotes Ankara reports | fighters in numbrr: may indicate Chinese, on the - ground, were Ge)mnnsu co‘;fl?i fllc:(l’(s:e“zl;fire mt:x(; ;“r“:, SOMLGR IR, I D Germany’s bristling Todt Line. The | that one of G:’_‘ill““w"s Eg:'m:‘;“‘flf. the Japs are reinforced in the far ree Iems own p Mhnnfi Japfln:se ll'ocp-sk It was I“‘; bridgehead. The penetration easl‘(::rm;:f dfif;‘,eg“{h:‘;m‘:{‘: h:}x 3 i " weapons, “artillery s rine, R P i b ported by an Army spokesman that i 4 e Sk 4 ” N P i S ments of American coastal cities. Sor B . Fi 653 ern Hunan Province and cut into ¢ ‘ : o T roane has s(oPPed; ™ Geutral travellers, the French e 16 P amas ey, A By JACK STINNETT One 85-million-dgllar item is 10t the siim Chinese hold on the Can-' mightine broke out. ness, Bisch| pictc0% Pldces the Russian forces : In each case, it is important to|a8ency says, who have reached An- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Already construction and reconditioning of ton-Hankow Railway by occupying wijjer, four miles southeast of Hag. | istin Lve ipline | of BoRian Al note that artillery played a tre-|kars, declare the subs are in final we are beginning to get a foretaste |hospital facilitizs that the President Lokchofig, 150 miles north of Can- yenay, Snow is 18 inches deep $,|the German broadcast ssid; the ‘ mendous. role. I the Normandy | Stages of construction but the pro-y of what the war is going to cost us,|54id might ultimately have to in- ton. Pinkshek is 15 miles or 50 10 places bogging down infantry and Russians had driven past both sides invasin, Allied warships stood off |Bam is reported delayed by patriot | ASK (REA“ON OF not for shot and shell, but for thelclude 300,000 beds. [the_south. |tanks and grounding planes. {or this Koy, Sy iiie XowRng NS in the English Channel, laid down |Sabotage so there is little chance | ™ % |things which President Roosevelt, in | | The Chinese command announced | rhe Pirst and Third Armies ham- Brandenburg frontler. a curtan of stesl which scatfered |they can be used before theifalliaf | COMMISSION To |nis budget message, called “the| In connection with- veterans' ex-|the Jupanese were smashing north mereq the Ardennes bulge flatter. | ‘;"',‘ Dse'“"" Crack the Germans. Before the recent | Beriin: ! | aftermath Or W | penditures, the President made onejlong the railroad in Kwangtung —— e 5 g ar- newspaper. (s~ Russian advance, the Red Army N | Three items mn this “aftermath”]exceptionally interesting side point,|Province and had reached the sub-, s 1rep°r:h e Sean » lined up big guns and did the same ADMINISTER lAND category, somewhat overlooked in He said “the number of veterans m‘“,”j-\ of K"'f""g' provisional ”‘r‘"“l" by o “,z’.m 8 .Oder River u"fi thing. (When the Allies reached me‘HApPY BJRIHDAYS i |the excitement over estimated ex-|tl:é present war will increase until| 120 miles from Canton. i lD S i ORI HEer (1o DeA b Siegfried Line artillery was slow in | . penditures for war purposes, call for at full tide these veterans will con-) PR < 1 Nerresdolics s g 0 * sufficient). | Ical year of $9,848000000. These ana almost one-fourth of the labor| i ” Jy|Contact betwesn the Gevman firces | | Take Care of coun"’y !three items are: | force.” ‘ fon the vuatel’n frontier was broken. 1 TRAINING U. 8. TROOPS | IN p H l I_ I p p I NES o Veterans' pensions and benefits, Lil-':gTTEn EST ON fTm&: PUBEC\ . 14 .-dLfirLli\rusdots;::l g‘:fiatfifm;’:p‘::_ However, there is one other H H 1$2,623,000,000; interest on public : The estimate for 1946— $4,-| H b ol oDl g sk Sl Y PU o SR HEAPQEUA_R-( Unfil Elections S h800.000.000 tax Tefunds, $2.-| 500,000,000—represents an increase| SHlpS MEN i been cut off and the German N lsane e in siogron % Lok | TERE TN THE PHILIBPIPNES, Jan. | T8 e (40, | of $753,000,000 over the current fiscal| [] | (By Assoclated Press) | troops- there are isalated,, Western Pront and’ by men who|26-—Spearheading Americas "] WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — The! Together these three items cost year. The figure, of course, is out i A broadcast of a Japanese eom- 5 ‘Mop-up Operations have' trained 1 the U. 8.;Army fantrymen in Luzon presented Clark ynjted States has receiyed a me-|a comparatively paltry $1,600,000,000 of sight compared to anything minigae sy severnl Sy Fow Asselated | Bress ) Corresponeent 4 hore at home. It is the fact that|Ficld. one of the greatest single mili- | ynorandum from the Polish Gov-|in the 1039 fiscal yeat. In the cur-|dreamed of before the “defense era” heavyopthers” attacked Bipsapare) FOCY - CULOME ANk Mo NS + the German system of training and|!21Y Prizes n the Philippines, 25 ® jernment-in-Exile, ssking establish-|rent fiscal year, ending June 30.)0peRed in M5, today and added the usual claim, afe Now starting the “grim task also the Russian system may better bn'mda,\' Pxos?nh to Gen. Dmx%x:,' ment of an inter-Allied commission 1945, they are costing an estimated| TAX REFUNDS: A phenomenon A B 0 g absolutely no durflag(- was cnuscd‘g( storming Konigsberg and El- W develop the enlisted man. y;‘\{/{dcr:ll.{\ul and Lt. Gen. Walter |to administer their land until elec- |$7,200,000,000. |new to this war. About a bmkm"rok g » Al‘m»rjcan e : by the enemy nuisance raid | _lvnx‘ Lw? of the biggest centers of The German Army, for instance, 'I;,“:’;,‘ S R R Ll held. | The President pointed out that the | dollars will go to individual income{u“dy R e ‘l’n ettt |resistance, and wide mopping-up builds up the ego of the individual acArthur is 65 today and Kréu-| mpis was disclosed by Acting 1946 figure was larger than the | taxpayers who are temporarily over-| P]uli:)pm‘t-% for new attacks. SIO(K OI.IOMIIONS ‘;lx":x::u";x‘:;e s‘gng?fifmi’& mi |10 to 15 miles from Konigsberg.” he is the best fighter in the wt)rld,l [ The two Generals celebrated their| =) o " oonference. He also re-| been recorded by the FCC here! NEW YORK, Jan. 26. — Closing! Today's communique says bitter that no other soldier and no other| joint birthday by commanding the| . 1.4 that Russia had agreed to, The size of that veterans' pensions victorious Army in lands where each will go to corporations and others who pay wartime excess profits|@nd probably is linked with the quotaticn of Alaska Juneau mine fighting for Poznan, Bydgoszcz and 'my rme 2 5 | exempt the United < States and and benefits item can be better BAGLsap 4 2;g‘gflc’:‘n‘&“‘;"0:‘;‘c‘;- t:{:fgfz;n‘:;;ibe_gan their active career as a c“m"Bma& from the clauses in the appreciated if you consider that dur-|taxes. The law calls for ten per cent bombardment of Corregidor and stock today is 7%, American Can Torun is in progress. : AR fhs 'y | missioned officer. I d Ri R - ling the entire bist £ the coun- | of these taxes to be returned after|carrier aircralt cttacks on For- 90%, Anaconda 31':, Beech Aircraft| The German high command an- /4 » ceremony of singling out each! giouger is Commander of the|Hunsarian and PuiipRan attnls-iing the entire BROW 00 o mosa and Okinawa. che ) b | . enlisted man on his birthday and| g o : i |tices, giving the Soviets command try, up to June 30, 1926, care of vet-| Lhe war. Bosa an 134, Bethlehem Steel 70's, Curtiss- nounces a fierce tank battle has R lighting his cigarette in front i Army. He was born in East| “0 5000 "l communications erans of all wars cost only a little, The rest of the refunds will be} Japanese reports also said an Wright 5%, International Harvester developed southwest of Gleiwitz, the entire mess hall. e R including those in code from those more than 11 billion dollars. made: to persons- and_ corpdrtions|increasing number of U. 8. surface 78%, Keanecolt 31%, North Amert.|importint wiuing asd communice. | The > American. soldier, on “the 3 ltwo countries. | The recommended veterans' ap- who built emergency war factories,|craft is moving mlu»l.m.';fl_\'t'n Bay gun Aviation 9%, Neu{ York Central tions center in upper Silesia. bt kA s dupprese] The original drawing for the in-| s o | propriation for 1946 is about 20 per|Were taxed on their profits but who and waters sbuth of Luzon. 23%, N‘I’"h*"‘" Pacific 18%, U. S. ——————— ‘ his indivld\;ality 1t is drilled intofi"ig“m of the Army Chemical War- cent of the estimated appropriations find their profits will not be so| Domei broadcasts a statcmml_stefl 60'%. Pound $4.04. 3 fare Service reputedly was made on| The Catholic population of the'for other than direct war purp great as expected because their pro-|that the enemy intends to attempt| Dow, Jones averages today are FROM KETCHIKAN | | duetion is cut back or the factories New .airborne operations in the as follows: industrials 15330, rails] C. L. Harrell of Ketchikan is i hat i cog i Nl thet, he 1. merely B E i a cigarette wrapper by an officer who is now a clergyman. (Continued on Page Four) U. 8., ‘Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands numbers 23,000,000 ) It is more than double the current year's figure. . {closed entirely. Luzon area, 48.08, utilities 26.62. staying at the Gastineau Hotel.