The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1945, Page 1

SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 (71 3 Tm———— QFT ... THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9871 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY; ‘].~\.\‘UARY:’9. 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — STALIN'S GUNS FLASHES SEEN IN BERLIN Allies Deployed 200 Miles Alon NAZI TROOPS PUSHED BACK TOBORDER Third Army Reaches Ger- man-Luxembourg . Frontier PARIS, Jan. 29—Veteran div- isions of the First Army pushed a snow-plow attack northeast of St Vith to within a mile_of Germany, the beginning of the formidable Siegfried Line defenses. American and French troops ad- vanced m than two miles to a point barely more than half a mile from the outskirts of Colmar, 46,000 population, the historic cap- ital of Upper Alsace. Colmar is 38 miles southwest of Strasbourg The Third Army reached the German-Luxembourg frontier « an eight-mile stretch along a riv- er North of the First Army the United States Ninth and the British Second Army came close to the Roer River through the Sieg- fried Line in many places, poten- s tially threatening the Ruhr and the | Rhineland and their great cities. To the south, the Third Army is either near or across the border all the way to Saarbrucken, thus General Dwight Eisenhower’s for- ces are deployed along or beyond 200 miles of the Siegfried Line, all the way from Holland to the south- ern part of the Saarland. The slow reversal of the Arden- nes bulge squeezed perhaps 20 American divisions from the straightened salient, allowing them to rest for the next balle. From dusk to dawn today Allied Llanes swept over German areas behind the West Wall disrupting continued German movements from the Ardennes. Mosquito bombers took up where 2000 bombers left off at nightfall. ——— ALLIES HIT NO. ITALY WITHBOMBS Report s Given by Head- quarters that Brenner Pass Area Struck ROME, Jan. 29.—Allied bombers smashed again at enemy communi- cations in northern Italy yesterday as frigid weather continued to limit ground action along the entire Fifth and Eighth Army fronts. Headquarters said -the bombers concentrated on the Brenner Pass area. r AMERICANS GET CLOSER T0 MANILA Spearhead;—Pushed On- Several Stratégic Points Have Been Captured By RICHARD BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, LUZON ISLAND, Jan. 29. - The fast rolling American Arny | spearheads have reached. to within | 36 air-line miles of Manila Sunday. | Gen, MacArthur made this report | today as the Yanks crushed weak { opposition in taking the town Angeles and swent the enviro the vital highway city of San F ando Meantime, rst Army Cerps vturing the bitteriy defend- ed city of Rosario, pressed toward the junction of another U. S. col- 3e the Yanks Fi umn leading to Baguio, the summer | | capital city of the Philippines, by- passing stubborn enemy resistance in the hills. The main force of the seventh Division has pushed Angeles while other units continued ematic reductjon of heckling Japanese infantry in the Bamban | Hills. on R PRESIDENTIAL AID IS ASKED FOR WALLACE ‘SupportersW;li Direct Ac- i tion Taken by FDR to 5 Get Him Post | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Presi- |dent Roos t may take a direct (hand in the efforts to salvage a ! cabinet post for Henry Wallace, Sen- ate sources said. Roosevelt has been asked by sup- porters of Wallace to either trans- | fer the government lending agencies 'to the Department of Commerce by ) executive order or state publicly he | will approve legislation to accomp- llish this. These same persons said {they were informed when Mrs, | Reosevelt attends a dinner in Wal- lace’s honor in New York tonight she may take along a message from |the President to read | Senator Joe Guffey, Wallace sup- | porter, said, while he knew nothing labout any impending presidential |action he heard “some work had ibcen done over the week-end.” | e — Thirty- | of | G PR DECK CHAIRS used to line the deck of U Army Transportation Corps which sai | the liner, converted into a troopship, * one-time luxury liner which is now a part of the fleet of the out of the New York Port of Embarkation. Photo above shows ith GIs wearing lifebelts, crowded onto the ship which will take i them to a battlefront. This is an official Urited States Army Signal Corps photo. (Internationa)) Jet Planes Now in Alaska for Arctic Condition Tesfing WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 Army’s pet-propulsion planes undergoing Arctic tests in Alaska. These tests apparently are designed to fit the planes for use under any clithatic condition, as the American jet plane had its first secret tests under the_hot, sandy conditions of the desert, Muroe, Californ Disclosure b, al Army publication in the mdgazine Air Force of trials of jet planes under | extreme cold in Alaska is interesting 138 view of a recent dispatch from Moscow, reporting that a Red Air Force engineer had spent six months lin the United States studying jet planes. Air Force suggests that the Alaskan tests probably concern fuel | viscosity and other fuel problems, “Since kerosene does not act like gasoline at lower temperat i e BOSS PENDERGAST IS BURIED TODAY ON TOUR, EUROPE Been in Lofio_n for Wee But U. S. Censorship Prevented Story LONDON Jan. 29.—Harry Hop- kins has visited London and Paris, { meeting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Gen. Charles DeGaule and King George, and has gone on to Rome to see the Pope in an “information tour,” preceding | the President before the Big Three parley. American-imposed censorship ban- | ned any mention of Hopkins' move- LEDO-BURMA ' ROADTRUCKS " REACH CHINA |General Cifia;g Kai-Shek ' Wanls Highway Nam- ' ed After Stilwell 29—The first al- entered China Chungking, Jan lied truck convoy over the new Ledo-Burma Road and xolled toward Kumming, the final lap of the 900 mile journey from India which Chiang K Shek hailed as omen of de- feat” for Japan's war lords, ‘The convoy, than 100 vehicles supplies for China's armies crossed the negr Wanting yesterda after rumbling 470 miles acr moun- tains and through jungles in Nor- thern Burma. The historic event a three-year campaign new China. an numbering more and loaded with hard-pressed Chinese border culminated to open a route to brated with Chinese and American ceremonies, both at Wanting ané in Chung- king, during which Chiang broad- cast an address to the United FORMER LUXURY I.]NER CARRIES U S. TROOPS TO BATTLE ](Io Spokesman A"a(ks Empire’s T " FOR FINAL DITCH FIGHT Dr. Robert Ley States Fate of Berlin Is Now in Balance LONDON, began pre for the assault moning them Jan. 29 azi leaders ring the German people on Berlin by sum- to last-ditch resist- ance in the hinterlands. “We will fight before Berlin, around Berlin and behind Berlin,” a German | Lroadcast declared. ‘The slogan was given to the Ger- | mans by old-livie Nast party leader, | Dr. Robert Ley and broadcast over Transocean with this comment: “The fate of Berlin is in balance.” The summons broadcast was made on the eve of Hitler's twelfth an- | niversary as chancellor. ‘The Paris radio said many Nazi arty. leaders are moving to- Berlin and Munich to set up Istance | headquarters” there. E . “the Paris radio, quoting Stockholm re- ports said “serious riots had broken out in Fastern and Southern dis- tricts of Berlin. Police and SS troops were called out to quell the rising w: of unrest in the Reich tcapital” | The Brussels radio said refugees | arriving at Halle and Prankfurt on the Oder staged demonstrations when they found no food. In Leip- 1zig 8S men fired on a crowd demon- ing against sending home guard nits to the front. Brussels reports |said there is no confirmation of these report; - RAIL YARDS IN GERMANY AREBOMBED Kassel Receives Heaviest Pasting of Any Cities Hit LONDON, Jan. 29— Germany were hit by 1,150 American Six r.nhnmll‘ yards and a tank factory in western g West Wall RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ONBERLIN One City Encircled Only 35 Miles from Nazi Capi- tal, Germans Report reaiment of ‘The Daily Alaska Empire was ‘called” Saturday might on “its at- | tempted political skuldugery” in a I radio speech delivered by ' John | Wiese, chairman of the CIO Alaska | conference held in Juneau last week | For those who were unable to listen | e to the talk, the complete text is as| LONDON, Jan. 29~—The Rus- follows: |sians have surrounded the Prussian | “A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE rail center of Schneidumuhl, four |OF ALASKA. {miles inside the German border, | “"Good evening, fellow Alaskans. the German spokesman announced | “First, permit me to identify my- over the Berlin radio and Swedish self. I am John Wiese, Chairman eyewitnesses reports flushes of Sta- of the CIO Alaska-conference cur- lin’s guns already could be seen rently being held in Juneau. And,|frem Berlin in the night skies over in speakihg, I voice the decision of the eastern battlefront. the delegates to this conference who, German officials are moving represent inembership of CIO unions | offices from the threatened Nazi ranging the full length of the Alaska Capital City and 20 trains have coastline, I am a resident of Cor- evacuated part of the populace, dova; others in the conference come said a Swedish National report from Ketchikan,' from Sitka, from|from Berlin Juneau, from Anctprage, and from| Foreign diplomats are making many other of the communities in|preparations to leave Berlin and all between. foreign correspondents have been “We feel that the attention of the ordered to depart, according to a people of Alaska should be called to|Swedish correspondent who has the recent treatment accorded by reached Sweden. / the Juneau, Alaska Empire in its| The encirclement of Schneid- news and editorial columns to the umuhl, a city of 41,000 population, forward-looking program for thelhas cut the main Berlin-Danzig (people of Alaska that Governor Er- railway at a point 35 miles north- nest Gruening suggested to our Ter- east of Berlin, but directly east ritorial Legislature in his message of the Capital City, German reports ‘lmb Thursday afternoon. the Russitns about 95 miles from Empire “Called” Berlin, : “That” theatmient, we hold, de~) Bee-Line Drive serves cemsure. As The Empire| Latest Russian announcement should be ‘called’ on ils attempted|said the Russians are in a bee-line political skuldugery. It was thinly drive to Berlin, and were 109 miles veiled and just plain stupid. east of Berlin, but Moscow dis- { “The Governor's proposed pro- patches said it is helieved Zhukov's gram, our conference has unani- tanks have spurted further ahead mously decided after having studied|and’ crossed the fronties of Bran- it, was progressive and realistic. It{denburg Province at several dif- | took into account the factual things ferent points. that face the people of Alaska, and| While Zhukov's then, based on this factual analysis, cial Moscow report, it outlined a proposed course of ac- an tion, | frone, by offi- . has spread in 80 mile arc, within 100 miles of Stettin on the Baltic and 70 miles from Frankfurt on the Oder iver, the Russian forces in East | Prussia have virtually surrounded erg, capital of Prussia. Konigsberg Pounded | “But, if the treatment The Empire| twisted this proposal with, is taken as the basis for judging, the people (of our Territory can't possibly know | Konigsb !the proposal. And we charge that| | The Empire, by news distortion has The Konigsberg radio came on abrogated its moral license as the the alr six hours late today but medium on which the people of the 8nnounced a steady stream of gun- | Territory must depend for a know- | fire was being poured into the city. ledge of their government, This vio-| Breslau, Silesian bastion on the Ilation of that obligation is all the Oder, &nd Poznan and Torun in I more ‘important and all the more|FPoland, where encircled Nazi | cause for indictment of The Emmn-‘*“"_"df' garrisons are believed on |when it is yemembered that much|their last legs, are fighting des- lof the rest of Alaska depends on|Perately. The Dabrowa coal fields this paper for information of what/@nd most of the industrial centers | happens here in our Legislature. |in Silesia are now overrun by the ;’I’m‘nugh The Associated Press, and | Russians. through the practice among news-| A late German broadcast declares papers of ‘lifting’ news articles from Zhukov's frontal drive on Berlin The Empire for reprinting, the rest|as been temporarily stopped but of Alaska leans heavily on the Ju-|the broadcost told of fighting along neau Empire for information. And|'he Obra frontier area, 95 when distortions are made by this|{miles from Berlin. paper, they're reflected everywhere | in Alaska, Governor's Program i “Very briefly} I'd like to remind| those of you who heard Govenmr\I Gruening's message to the Legisla- ——— DEBATE ON- The Washington - IN'KANSAS €Ty States proposing that the road be |pe.vicocinnored by 700 Mustang % 3 at P progra as & named in honor of General Joseph U, of WUAY M0 PIORLAD) W65 S | ments until today. Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON 1 (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | | bers of - Congress who rode Jesse | Jones hardest for his failure to pro- | mittee meetings they heckled him' unmercifully for overriding the| 3 Four Ships anything about rubber. | But now the situation is reversed.| NEW YORK, Jan. 29. — Uncon- same Republicans who are now sup-|t¥ansports and an oil tanker off e Pacific Coast. For instance, GOP Senator Owen| - e ’ Brewster of Maine is leaning toward | &nese Domei wireless dispatch “from But as a member of the commxllee“]" A L Brewster's brilliant cross-examina-~ |1¢8°d sinkings occurred. In an English-language dispatch tinius, then in charge of raw ma_glhe ships were hit “quite recently. | - e terials for the National Defense, | ! A WASHINGTON — For about one yvear after Pearl Harbor, the mem- | vide synthetic rubber plants were| i i - the Republicans. In various com-| No conflfma."()!l on SUD posed Sinking of recommendation of The National! Defense Council and refusing to do; Apparently certain GOP._Senators| filmed Tckyo radio broadcasts said have short memories. It is these JaPanese submarines sank three . 5 | th porting Jesse Jones in their fight ™ against Henry Wallace. | The broadcast, recorded by FCC, attributed its information to a Japy Jesse Jones in the current fight.|® Certain base in the Central Pacific front.” It didn't say where the al- tion made Jones look like a monkey.| 3 Brewster brought out that Ed Stet- to the United States Domei declared Council had repeatedly urged, 1m-‘ Sl’l‘K;\\ VISIRORS : plored and demanded that Jomes Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Whitte- (Continued on Page Four) Baranof Hotel. | Hopkins is making a tour of| KANSAS CITY, Jan. 29. — Hun- .| Diplomats European capital cities in a role of }dneds of mourners, from Vice-Presi- | discussions of postwar problems and |dent Harry S, Truman to henchmen the political shape of Europe that and followers from the lower North may play a great part in the im-|side, turned out at the funeral of | pending conference. Thomas Pendergast, former Kansas | Hopkins spent one week in London | City political boss, whose rule ended and reached Paris last Friday. in 1939 when he was sent to the are speculating an im- Federal Penitenti: for income X nder call on Germany |€evasion. might be issued at a meeting of the| He died Friday night. Catholic | Allied leaders. 'services were ‘held at Visitation Hopkins himself made no great' Church for the former head .of one | secret of his arrival in London, even |of the country’s most powerful po- holding a conference with the news-.| litical machines. All 800 seats were men early last week. 5 filled long before 10 a.m. DAVID SCOTT OFF | STOCK QUOTATIONS FOR VIUORM B ( |quotation of Alaska Juneau min | v 0. A | quotation today 7%, American | {Can 91, Anaconda 31%, Beech Ail | David Scott, oldtime Canadian'craft 13'%, Bethlehem Steel 71 Pacific Steamship Company purser,, Curtiss-Wright 5%, left Juneau Sunday for Victoria, B. Harvester T Kennecott 37 | C., where he will spend a short va- North American Aviation 9%, New !cation at his home there before york Central 227, Northern Pacific signing on another coastal steamer 181, U. S. Steel 61. Pound $4.04 |of the CPR British Columbia run! Dow, Jones averages today | as pur: las follows: industrials 15406, 1 Scott took Harry Godson's place 4807, utilities 26.76. while the latter was on vacation. ———--——— 3 T FROM SITKA mediate suri International ar area of about 7,500 miles, of the Gastineau Hotel. ; order against accou Stilwell. >oe DIAMOND CARTEL IS PROSECUTED IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Jan. 29. ‘The government filed a civil injunction uit today in the Federal Court against what may be termed “a world cartel” in gem and industrial dlamonds which allegedly slowed up American war production. Nine foreign corporations and *ven individuals in the United tes are named defendants. he covernment also clamped *“a freeze” estimated at in 26 Manhat- millions of dollars an banks. D MRS. SHERMAN LEAVES Mrs. Dean Sherman and daughter Lynn, left Juneau for Seattle en- route to Portland, Oregon after visiting her parents here in Ju- more of Sitka are staying at -the | The Caribbean Sea includes an! M¢rtle Cashel of Sitka is a guest neau, Judge and Mrs. G. F. Alex- ander. | and Thunderbolt fighters. Fortresses and Liberators bombed | three freight centers around Coblenz and others at Hamm, Munster and | Ka Kassel got the heaviest | pa of all. A tank factory there | as well as the rail yards were draw- !ing bomb loads Royal Air Force Lancasters, corted by Mustangs, attacked freight yard ! noon In the operations last night Brit- ish bombers made three separate attacks on Berlin and dropped 3,000 tons of bombs on Stuttgard’s prin- ! cipal railyards es- the 'SECRETARY OF SENATE DEAD AT AGE OF 63 'ON, Jan, 29.—Col. Ed- of the Sen- | WASHING' | win A. Haleey, Secretar |ate, died today of a heart ailment, complicated by his preparations for the President’s inauguration. He ]was 63 and had been an employee of the Senate since 1897 and its secretary since 1933 at Kresfeld this after- | he proposed to our legislators, and | at the same time to take this op- portunity to acquaint those of you who didn't hear the message of its contents in principle. “First of all, the Governor took into! account that our nation is still at war and that this very basic and | fundamental fact must remain the biggest influencing element in our Legislators' deliberations. “At the same time, our solons were reminded that they and that lwe have an obligation to the return- ing soldiers to take into account in all of our planning and our actions. Those .boys want, and must have, a functioning home to come back to and a future to look forward to. MANPOWER ACTBEGINS Democralic House Leader Asks Partisan Politics Be Kept Out WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-—-Demo- cratic leader McCormack of Mas- sachusetts urged the House today (to refrain from partisan politics They want this, we want it for them, | *1'llé considering the manpower leg- and it's our special obligation to|!Station. at the opening of the debate fulfill that requirement jon the limited national service bill On top of that, Alaska also faces|‘° Men between 18 and 45. a future after the war in which un-| McCormack said its passage was told thousands of persons will be|'mPerative if the home front was coming to the, Territory to make| 0 “Make a real contribution towards \their homes and to participate in|“IIDINg the global war.” l,lhl‘ development of this country orw”l?e::’et:ngnlhe Mew of the. Souths [gurs. This pleases us, of course. We| &0 HOCK: Epeiacuininve . Cok hv Want them; we need them, in fact,S%1ed the measure as “pretense and to make Alaska @ better homeland.|\usion” and called for sr_rnngzhen- “Obviously these propositions con- % 1ts work, fight, or be jailed pro- front us with problems. Problems " 5008 (primarily of laying the groundwork | The first auto taxi in New York cruised on Fifth Avenue in 1904. 1 (Continued on Page Thiee)