The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1945, Page 1

YHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “= “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — - VOL. LXIV., NO. 9870 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ‘TWO SOVIET PRONGS AIMED AT BERLIN Japanese Push Now Begins NIP FORCES FIGHT BACK, FIRST TIME Clark Field Is Under Artil-| lery Fire from Cave- Placed Guns GENERAL MacARTHUR'S| HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 27. —Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita’ Japanese forces on Luzon showed the first signs of fight today. | In the central plains sector, south of the Bamban River on Friday Nipponese artillery also opened up{ on American-seized Clark Field aii center. Teday's communique reported noj iz ins anywhere on Luzon as the enemy maintained bitter resist- ance against the U. 8. First Army’s left flank. This resistance bas been almost constant since the January 9 invasion day, but the Fourteenth Cor whose “spearheads yesterday, were reported at angles, a little| more than 40 airline miles from, Manila, got the first real taste of ized resistance after easily ng through two natural enemy pas (Continued on Page Eight) { The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Even the ene- mies who opposed him so bitterly at Chicago now admit that Henry | Wallace has grown in stature. He| went out of the Vice-Presidency in defeat a bigger man. There was no! rancor, no trace of disappointment in anything he did, though by na-| ture Wallace is a sensative, easily| hurt man. Wallace was at his best when he gave the oath of office to his suc-| cessor, Harry Truman. There wasi a ring of sincerity in his voice which electrified those around him, and which made the Vice-Presi- dential ceremony almost more im- pressive than that which followed. And the night before, Henry was at his best when he introduced at, the Elector’s Dinner, the chief speaker of the evening, Vice Presi-| dent-elect Truman. “You know, Harry,” he said, “I'm | not supposed to leave office until | noon tomorrow. But I was talking! to the Fiscal Clerk of the Senate today and he said I go off thel| payroll at midnight. So if T show] up for work at the White House| tomorrow, I want you to know I'm| doing it on the cuff.” A few minutes later, Truman tol Wallace, “I've been off the payroll | for two days already myself. The| boys are talking about taking up' a collection to tide me over.” | NOTE Truman resigned hi Senatorial seat two days beIoref ucctigm. | | | WHEELER TAKES * | WALLACE'S OFFICE | Wallace’s office staff was none| too happy on inaugural eve. 'I‘he| fact that Montana's Senator Bur-| ton K. Wheeler was taking over the | Vice-Presidential office suite pour—i ed salt in their wounds. Though | Wallace still had several days to| run in office, electricians, tele-; phone men, and furniture movers | moved in a week ahead of schedule, virtually jerked the rug out from | under his legs. Then the Vice| President found painters crawling | around his office as he reported to work the last day. He took one | long, last look and fled. ! Wallace sent all his official | papers to -the Library of Congress | where many will be,sealed for 20 years, including complete reports on his globe-girdling trips. Behind, | he left only a battered tube of | shaving cream and a shabby hair‘ brush which his secretary, Mary | Huss, had purchased on January 15, 1941, to make him spruce up, |case.” PULLENS BACK |PANIC FEARED ON NAZI HOME FRONT, RUMOR FDR ACT LOSTIN | CHICAGO Judge Rulefiesidenl Has | No Right fo Take | Over Wards Reports of German Peace Feelers | (By Associated Press) | The German radio today called lon the home front in Germany to show neither “illusions nor panic,” CHICAGO, Jan. 27—The Aymy as rumors told.of mounting anxiety seizure of 16 Montgomery-Ward and even disturbances within the properties in seven cities under|Reich. Allied officials cautioned order of President Roosevelt hasagainst wishful thinking or Nazi declared illegal by Federal|propaganda efforts. Sullivan, | A British Foreign Office spokes- “It is with /man labeled “phoney” rumors been Judge Philiy Judge Sullivan said considerable reluctan arrived at the conclusions in this|that the Germans e fishing for | peace. Other reports, which includ- the Govern-|ed the Paris radio, said that civili- ment said affected the entire na-!ans had staged a protest demon- tion's wartime labor dispute and |stration when several high-ranking settlement machinery, assert ed,| German officers arrived in Berlin. our nation is engaged in- a global| Moscow radio said that clashes war and it is imperative we con- had occurred in Breslau between nd SS men. KANSAS CITY as The ruling, which tribute everything we have to in-|Volksstrum a sure a speedy and successful con- - clusion.” “So deeply do I feel on this subject,” Sullivan said, “I believe it is not too much to expect for the duration that employers, em- ployees and unions make a deter- mined effort to adjust their labor disagreements without resorting to strikes and lockouts. 1 ing the seizures omr De- Decl: cember 28 as illegal, Sullivan fur- ther said, “I am of the opinion that the President is without au- thority either under the War Labor KANSAS CITY Jan. 27. — Thomas Disputes Act or the war powers J. Pendergast, 72, former Kansas conferred upon him under the con- ' City political machine boss, died stitution to take possession of the | today. plants. The recommendations of The stocky Democratic boss made the War Labor Board are only Covernors and Senators and his nod advisory. of approval was sought by Missouri Attors General Francis Biddle Politicians for many years before previously had announced he would "I downfall in ‘:3}3- T appeal the case if it were lost in| FPendersast had been in the hos- | pital since Tuesday with an ‘un- this court. 3 4 A SRR 150 held the disclosed aflment. udge Sullivan also held the —pne ang of Pendergast rule came company was not a war production' gy he was sentenced to the Fed- R | eral Penitentia for income tax evasion. AVERY HAPPY 2 2 CHANDLER, Arizona, Jan. 27— Sewell Avery, Montgomery Ward Board Chairman, said the decl.-;ion:NO (HANGE means “a great day for us—the| labor battle of Ward's for seven | SHUTDOWN years has been to maintain u|de~1 pendent constitutional = rights to! join a union or not to join a union and to resign from the union if one wishes.” | DENVER, Colo.,, Jan. 27 — The CHICAGO, Jan. 27—On an ap-'Western War Mining Conference peal motion, Judge Sullivan stayed delegates have been told by Maj. APPEAL GRANTED | all proceedings pending a decision,|Gen. William Shedd, Commanding forces to|General of the Ninth Service Com- | thus permitting Army continue control of the establish- ments in question. On hange, Montgomery Ward common stock jumped $2.75. e {mand, that he could see no revi- |sion in the gold and silver mining | production is critically short. { |SHAW OFFERED AFTERAMONTHS _contHING W. S. Pullen, General Manager of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Ccmpany, accompanied by Mrs. Pullen, returned home last night| aboard the Princess Norah. The Pullens have been absent from | their home town for the past four months and during that time l\avc‘ visited their son and daughter and| grandchildren. They have been to Maine on the east coast and also to| points on the Pacific before hiking north again. STOCK QUOTATIONS ;Former Sanfa Clara Chief Gefs Nice Offer fo Succeed Horrell SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 Buck Shaw is most likely to be the new head football coach at the University of California at Los An- geles, provided he can arrive at a satisfactory agreement with his present business affiliates. The ”Phoney"l—fd)el Put on | that I have |from Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona | BOSS OF OLD at Leavenworth the New York Stock Ex-|order and also that lead and coal 'BERLINERS - PANICKED; RED HORDE JFatherIandé‘rs Flee Flood | ' of Advancing So- viet Armies LONDON, Jan. 27 — Germany' | Volkssturm, organized to defend ! the Reich, has been called out to help keep order on the home front ! tas the mass of westward fleeing | refugees swelled with each mile of the Russian advance. | While Nazi propagandists warned | the people to “prepare for more ,” other Nazi aders tried to whip up resistance | by threats their fate under 'Red domination. | The German radio reported home ‘guards had been called out to help |snarled traffic and jammed rail- | way stations. A Moscow of broadcast . told of “chaos and panic” in Berlin. | Tackling their toughest propa- | ;:;unda problem yet, the Nazi press | jand radio sounded the theme of | Istrength through fear. | The German radio warmmed Germans to “make no| bones” of Russian plans for mass |German ‘deportations #f Germany | is conquered. | The propaganda story was told (of the Silesian mother and four children who made the arduous | |rip to Berlin, declaring “a trip 'to Siberia would surely be longer and more strenuous.” EVACUATION OF BERLIN UNDER WAY announcer STOCKHOLM, Jan. 27. — Three travelers arriving here independent- ly frem Berlin declared a slow and graduzl evacuation of women and | children started this morning in the | erman capital. ! | A shortage of rolling stock and| ;I.uk of housing elsewhere handicaps |the movement, It is x’eporcc(l 25 trains have been | placed in readiness 10 miles south' jof Berlin. MEN AVAILABLE FOR JOBS NOW AT USES OFFICE Both skilled and unskilled work- | ers are now availakle for any sort |of job you may have, whether it's| |the basement that needs cleaning, |the roof repairing, or any of those humerous repair jobs you have| |been delaying these many months ! ;because of the lack of help, saj ;the USES. There are quite a inumbex‘ of unemployed in Juneau |at present who would welcome any | full-time or |may have. If you have a job to be done, row is the time to do it. Due to| the sfiortage of workers on the Pacific Coast, if these men do not secure work at this time they may have to" be shipped out to the states and will no longer be avail- |able for work in this area. | Just contact the U. S. Employ- |ment Service office, stating your partttime work you |- On Luzon HERE'S THE ARMY'S NEW ‘FLYING e carrying copy of the B-29 Superforts. The a was disclosed that the craft can carry more than 100 l‘ully egunpped infal above, or two light tanks. Four 2,200 horsepower engines give the huge miles mer hour. Its range is 2000 miles, non-stop. Air Forces photo. TOKYO GETS NEWARPLAN o 0 GETS ANNOUNCEDBY MOREBOMBS “Two Freed oms” air agreement —_— giving rights of transit and non 'ndo_china AISO H" in Far‘nmmm al stops to Trans-Atlantic | Ranging Raids of Superforts and 1s-Pacific planes. | The decision was announced at the conclusion of a two day Civil Air Transport conference between | officials of Canada and the United States. (By Associated Press) PP i T } Japanese Imper Headquarters { announced today in a communique . RE(EPTION IO ! that “about 70 Marianas-based B-* | LEGISLATORS IS | 29s raided the house of Tokyo last | night.” | Dropping explosives and incendiar- | | ies, damage was done, Tokyo report- | SO(IAL EVEN | ed, in “several places” and fires | | were not brought under control until ( AL dusk. | Hundreds of Gastineau Channel The Jap-controlled radio in Sai- yesidents attended the formal re gon, Indo-China, asserted the Sai-|ception last night in honer of mem- gon and Cholon areas in southern|pers of the Seventeenth Territorial| Indo-China were bombed “late this | Logislature given by Goy. and Mrs morning with some material dam- | Ernest Gruening at the Governor's age caused and twenty dead, tWo house from 8 @'elock to midnight hundred wounded.” Both aides of the Governor were The Nipponese report did not dis- ent, Lieutenaut Warren M. Caro, close the identity of the raiding |welcoming and receiving the gu pianes, but the 20th Air Force ¢ 231 i Major C. F. Schreibner giving announced that India-based B-20s introductions. had attacked Indo-China. | The receiving line was headed by ———— lGov. and Mrs. Gruening, next, Sec- |retary of Alaska Lew M. Williams nd Mrs. Williams, then the mem- be of the Territorial Senate and House and elected Territorial of- | fic sts, tl Music was furnished during the |evening and for the dancing in the | ballroom. i Pouring during the reception! | hours were Mrs. G. F, Alexander, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Sub- | Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, Mrs. Charles marines have sunk 21 more enemy | Burdick, Mrs. J. J. Connors, Sr., Mrs. vessels, including a light cruiser,|Don Mrs. Fred Geeslin, Mrs. in Far Eastern waters. | Arthur Glover, Mrs. Wéillman Hol- Included in the list of sunken - | brook, Mrs. Crystal Jenne, Mrs. Earl sels was a large tanker, a large | McGinty, Mrs. Gscar G. Olson, Mrs cargo transport ,a medium auxiliary | Jaimes Ryan, Mis. B. D. Stewart,| transport, nine medium cargo ves- | lke Taylor, Mrs, Hugh Wade sels. land Mrs. M. D. Williams, i This announcement brought to 979 | istants were Mrs. Gladys Over- the total of Jap vessels sunk p,v; y, Mrs. Katherine Alexander, Mrs submarines, Included in the total |Kutherine Nordale, Mrs. Henrietta are 104 combatant craft and fifteen | PO Mrs. Karl Theile, Mrs. Helen cruisers. Katherine Pinson, June Gabrielson, Etolin Coulter and Pearl | Peterson | - ,ee | - s HOSPITAL NOTES . AND-A-HALF TON TRUCK runs down a ramp leading from the fuselage of the new gignc C-97, cargo= A “Flying Freight Train” was unveiled at Wright Field, O., where it NEW YORK, Jan. 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 91, Anaconda 31%, Beech Aircraft 131, Bethlehem Steel 70%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 757%, Kennecott 38, North American Aviation 9%, New York Central 234, Northern Pacific 18%, U. S. Steel |61, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as (Continued on Page Four) follows: industrials, 154.13; rails, 48.17; utilities 26.65, |been tentatively offered the UCLA |requirements will be sent you, former Santa Clara mentor has needs, and a worke ing your i DeeRng "your Andrew Merculief has been ad- mitted to St. Ann's Hospital medical attention berth, to succeed Babe Horrell,|Jack Carvel. L who has resigned, the Associated i Press learned. { Jessie Fallis, a medical Shaw, who is now affiliated with | RosRptmIted to B - AXHY a contracting business, said hef Harold Anderson of Anchorage pital. will not make a final decision until he has conferred with his partners.|staying at the Baranof Hotel. Shaw agrees that the coaching po- IR A siticn is highly desirable, with | FROM ANCHORAGE many opportunities for the future.| Charles A. Parker, registering from Chris Jorgenson at St. Anu's Hos- The terms offered him are “very|Fairbanks, is a guest at the Baranof | attractive,” he said. Hotel, > AT BARANOF medical care. Weight, 5 pounds, 10 ounces. NO TAFT VOTE FOR WALLACE , has | Hos- | Jan, 27—Senator predicted that WASHINGTON, {Robert Taft tocay and A. E. Lucas of Fairbanks arc| Waller Thompson has been ad-imost Republicans will vote against mitted to St. Ann's Hospital for|wallace's cabinet nomination re- gardless of whether or not the post A baby girl was born to Mrs.|is stripped of lending authority. The Ohio senator voiced his pre-) pital at 1:45 o'clock this morning. diction after a Republican steering | jcommittee meeting. FREIGHT TRAIN' | — ¢ [RUSSIANS | ADVANCING SWIFTLY Spearhéads Penetrate Info German Positions, Says High Command BULLETIN—LONDON, Jan. 21—The Germans tonight an- nounce® the Red ~Army has knocked out Hitler’s war-vital industries in the rich upper Silesia and lunged to the Obra River, 97 miles from Berlin. Workers have been evacuated somewhere to the rear, BULLETIN—LONDON, Jan. 21—The Germans' permanent defense system in the Masurian Lakes region, East Prussia, has been smashed, Stalin says to- night in an Order of the Day. Stalin addressed the order jointly to Marshal Rokossovsky and Gen. Cherniakhovsky and also announced the capture of Rastenburg and other cities on the approaches to Konigsburg, The Masurian Lakes area stretches across the south and central area of East Prussia. ntrymen, a truck like the one shown plane a maximum speed of over 300 (International) ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE GAIN ROER idly in the Appenines, particularly before Bologna. A naval communique reported Al- lied warships have been bombarding enemy positions near the Franco- Italian frontier off the southern coast of France for the past nine ported in the Singu sector, 42|days, scoring direct hits on enemy miles north of Mandalay, but all at-|Supply dumps and occupied build- tacks were reported repulsed. | ings. -y oo — FROM WRANGELL C. P. MacCreary of Wrangell is a guest of the Hotel Juneau. LONDON, Jan. 27. — Red Army spearheads have advanced into Ger- man positions along the Oder River to the borders of Brandenburg Prov- ince, the German High Command |announced today. The river runs F lrn')m 75 to 95 miles east of Berlin. Germans Are Weakening , ™ German accounts indieate 1two,pl'flngs of Marshal Zhukov's as East Fron' Ca”S idrive outflanking Poznan, in 2 Central Poland, have reached or for More Aid crossed the border of Brandenburg Province, which nearest point is 91 Capgin |miles from Berlin, as admitted yes- PARIS, Jan. 27. — United States| "*Tday. Third. Army troops, striking on a| The German High Command said 20-mile front in Luxembourg and D¢ arm of this drive has advanced Belgium gained up to three miles to- | P6tWeen the Leszno Netze River, day and reached the river barrier | Which winds northeast, touching the o Germany, wiping out the last ves- | 20rder, and Schneidemuehle, 136 tiges of the Ardennes bulge. nylles northeast of Berlin and in- American Ninth and British Sec- |dicated the spearhead is storming ond Armies in the north consoli-|8Cr0ss the shortest route to the Ger- dated their hold along the west bank | & Capital City, of the Roer River inside Germany| The German High Command also within 25 miles of Dusseldorf :suys the Russians have made “many The Aliies held the initiative today | MaJjor penetrations” into the Ger- all along the winding Western Front. |Man lines in the upper Silesian in- The German offensive in the Al-|Gustrial area south of the Vistula sace has dwindled out. River, and meanwhile a force of per- Russia’s great offensive in the|Daps 200,000 Nazis are trapped in Fast are being felt along the snaw-IE“‘“ Prussia and face destruction bound front increasingly in the Nazi| 8 8 vesult of Marshal Rokossovsky's withdrawal to the Roer and a halt|Prilliant drive on the Danzig Bay in German air attacks in Alsace. R, For the second straight day pilots| A MOSCOW reports that so far the reported a steady flow of heavy rail|Russian winter offensive has cost traffic east and northeast of the the Germans 382,000 killed or ecap- Rubr, a stream that Allied airmen tured. hammered at steadily Fresh Red troops are said to have S e A bezn hurled into the drive through Central Poland and indications are BRITISH WIN Ui Germans ars carrying out_ Bt ried major shifts of troops also to ¥ the eastern front. FRESH GROUND The Russians are using a huge weight of tanks, artillery and infan- IN BURMA wAR‘Lry in the attacks now, | - Indian Troops Land on New: SLUSH.SLOWS Island-Nip Attacks = | ITALIAN WAR | Beafen Off S e ROME, Jan. 27.—Action along the SOUTHEAS ASIA COMMAND! Italian front has been limited to HEADQUARTERS AT CEYLON,|Patrol activity as driving rains Jan. 27-—British Fourteenth Army|turned the deep snows to slush. troops have captured Ondaw, 15) German prisoners taken by the miles northwest of Mandalay while| Fifth Army confirmed reports the Indian troops in Allied landing .on | Nazis are constructing defenses rap- the west coast of Burma, the fifth this month, invaded Cheduba Is- land, 100 miles southeast of Akyab The communique announced that other Indian troops took Myomaung, 38 miles northeast of Akyab, Renewed Japanese attacks were re D — CONVENTION TO END The CIO convention of all resident s S Alaska local unions will end to- MRS. ROMIG HERE morrow, it was announced today. Mrs. Howard Romig of Anchorage ! The convention, held in the Miners’ is staying at the Baranof Hotel, Union Hall, started Thursday. Island