The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA KEMPIRE THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MAR 1- 1945 COPY s e GIFT “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9873 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— == RUSSIANS PLUNGING TOWARD BERLIN Great: Push Is Started on Western EISENHOWER SMASHES AT FATHERLAND Snowplowi;gr 7Doughboys Make New Gains on Long Front BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. 31—White-ciad infantry of the American First Army stormed across the snow-drifted German border at two new places today and Gen. Hodge's artiliery started pouring shells into the main concrete works and thinly held Siegfried Line all along the 35-mile sector from below St. Vith to the Roer River. Northeast of Monschau the First and Third Armies had a full-scale assault underw and gains carried the st Army to the ramparts of the West Wall and broadened the Third Army’s foothold inside Germany to five miles. PARIS, Jan. 31—Ten or more American divisions have edged steadily forward into a 30-mile for- tified zone on the center of the Western Front, increasing pressure on the Germans, who have robbed their Siegfried Line defenses to bolster the swaying Russian front Berlin's radio said the Americans have launched a new attack with strong forces including tanks on both sides of Monschau along a broad front. Gen. Eisenhower massed 60 divisions, nearly half of them armored, for a full-scale offensive along the whole front. The Germans admitted some villages have been lost, but said the front nowhere has been broken. Driving Into Line One hundred thousand or more unidentified troops of the First and Third Armies are driving into the thinned out Siegfried Line and have advanced to within three miles of the two headwater dams said he has TheVW;;flingion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt WASHINGTON—The fight over Jesse Jones and Henry Wallace boils down largely to one thing: Control of the tremendous war machinery of the US.A. after the war is over. It is a repetition of World War i all ovei 2eain—only on a much greater scale, a scale that will affect the lives of the American people for years to come. With the beginning of World War I, Woodrow Wilson's reforms —the income tax, the Federal Re- serve, the Federal Trade Commis- sion—were frozen. They gave way 40 the war. And after the armistice, Wilson, busy with the Versailles Conference and the League of Na-|endments pending on the Man- he hegan his address with a short| ‘Moslr(dfi'g’réssidnal Talks Worth Dime a tions fight, let the war factories of the country be dismantled or converted by private industry to their own use, or in some cases remain idle. The Nitrogen-Fertilizer Plant at Wilson Dam, now part of the Ten- nessee Valley Authority, languished New Landing on Luzon Is Made by Yahks; Nof One Jap.Qun, Plane Inferferred By C. YATES McDANIEL | Associated Press War Correspondent GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS ON LUZON IS- (LAIMS BiLL INTRODUCED ~ BYBARTLETT ‘Would Extend Time for In- dians fo File Cases | in Court WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Alaskan |Indians will be given an extension of three years—to June 5, which to file their tribal claims before the U. S. Court of Claims, under a bill in the House today by Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett. ] | “I believe that these matters | |should be settled by the proper | |compensation being made to the |Indians,” said Bartlett. The Delegate told a reporter that ithe Haida and Tlinget tribes_de- manded settlement and claimed |aboriginal rights to the tidewater !lands and fishing waters of the! |Alaska coast from the Interior Department. The Merchant Marine and Indian |Affairs committees of the” House made separate investigations of the Rear Admiral Arthur Struble called situation last summer, and Rep.‘“" the customary prelanding bom- Holmes recommended that the In- | Pardment. dians be allowed compensat for | {any rights they cul}ld“ ;hzl;ll;(;:.“mm"”“ 1 A Ae ek | Bleul ani He declared that to give the In- Fort Stotsenburg area 1_‘rom falling dians the tidewater lands and any 92¢k on Bataan and will also trap |control over fishing waters would D€ Japanese in the Zamabales {interfere seriously with the valuable Mountains on Luzon's northeast commercial fishing industry. [oaest. Other reports are being prepared. tlett also filed a bill to in- - — crease from $100 to $300 the jamounts that may be spent by any department or independent NmBROAD(AST AMENDMERTS, BY HITLER MANPOWER for Luzon Island Monday morning when elements of Lieut. Gen. Rob- ert Eichelberger's new Eighth Army swept to a completely unopposed !landing just north of Subic Bay on | the west coast of Luzon and by inland toward a junction with the miles of Manila The new Eighth Army Yanks, landing at San Narcisco and San Antonio, seizing five miles of the | beachhead, 60 air line miles north- west of Manila, took the airfield at iSnn Marcelino ‘in a quick drive to to Bataan and also captured the vital Subic Bay naval base. Not a man was lost in the amphi- oious operation which caught the Japanese completely by surprise. Not a Japanese gun nor a Japa- nesé plane attempted to interfere or even observe as the Thirty-eighth |and Twenty-fourth division troops hit Zamabales Province coast beach- es which were lined with flag-wav- ing and cheering Filipinos. The American. flag had been planted by the Filipinos and was so clearly visible on the Subic Bay shorelines as the convoy of more than 100 v 1s approached, that T Says Tremendous Deeds A (]" KILLE D Achieved, More Planned » in Nazi Resistance LONDON, Jan. 31.—In a_broad- jcast to the German people Iast night, Hitler said “a horrid fate is : Passage Of work or in progress in the East. today ] Jall leglshhon | The Fuehrer promised however, ithat this state will “be mastered in | !spite of all reverses and stern tests | WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 In of this invaded and sorely beset {rapid order today the House of German Nation.” Representatives rejected the con-| Given in less than two hours no- troversial “anti-closed shop” and tjce'pby Hitler to mark the anni- {the fair employment practices 3m':versary of his assumption to power, | Way Now Smoothed forj power Utilization legislation. i review of the happenings since Jan- | The anti-closed shop amendment yary 30, 1933, and said: |was snowed under by a vote of| “we were given only six years of 1178 to 142. A standing vote of 148 peace but in those six years tre- to 113 defeated the amendment to mendous deeds were achieved and ! LAND, Jan, 31.—Another American | Army was thrown into the battle The new landing will prevent the nightfall they had driven 11 miles | Sixth Army which was within 30 1946—in | Seal the fate of the Japs retreating | Ko Down a steep slope among the maze o “budd tion hospital. all wounded are removed to safety. Aaska Statehoed Bill is infroduced by lrwin; Salien! Features Given GERMANSIN STRAFING OF AMERICANS First Air Action in Weeks Reported on lfalian Front ROME, Jan. 51.—The sent nine plane~ on a strafing and bembing mission over the American !Fifth Army sector south of Bologna last night, the strongest enemy air action on the Italian front in sev- |eral weeks. Ground operations are limited to patrol contacts in both the Fifth and Eighth Army sectors, Allied planes, challenging Nazi aircraft, destroyed one jdamaged another. Germans the and give statutory backing to the pro- more tremendous deeds are planned. | gram of the President’s Fair Em-'Resistance the German nation is \ployment Practices Committee, set now displaying was made possible for 12 long years—the years O“up to discourage di Harding, Coolidge and Hoover— |¢MPloyment because during which they were the center OF color. twa dmendments rimination in in-those six years and was only by of race, creed internal transformation of the Ger- {man people by National Soctalism.” when | - Dozen; Not Vandenbquis Carrying Wounded Pal Over Trail e Nt precipitous slopes on northwestern Leyte Island in the Philippines carry a wounded cemrade on a litter, covering tortuous miles between the front and an evacua- A little squad ¢f Americans and Filip incs does the job and others like them do likewise until SOMENAZIS WILLING TO SURRENDER Fight fo Death Is Appeal of German rropagand- ists Now WASHINGTON, Jan. Delegate E. L. Bartlett the unexpected support to Alaska Statehood indicated by the intre- duction of an authorization bill by Repr ative Joe W. Irwin, North “arolina Democrat. [ Iram happy to know of Irwin’s interest and more power to him, Bartlett told reporters, reiterating his own decision announced during the election campalgn in Alaska' patherland in this hour of that he would refrain from intro-|are relatively few among ducing a statehood bill himself un-| peqple, til the people of the territory affirm- “Germany will fight on no matter ed a desire through an election. where' or under what conditons, However, onc other bill is already|the broadcs continued. before Congress, Bartlett said, the| Meanwhile, other German radio measure sent to the Senate by Lan- yeports told of millions of refugees ger, who with Senator McCarran, ficeing toward Beilin from the introduced a bill last year a directly {hreatened by the Irwin's bill differs sightly from surging Russian edvance. the Langer bill, resembling more, One broadcast said five million closely the measure proposed last Germans are ' trudging westward session by then Delegate Dimond. from the threatened area, some in ¥ columns more than 35 miles long. Another transmission appealed to the Germdn women and children to help clear the roads of snow signieglo. bey ) and ice for the reinforcements that b, corresponded With ppe moying to the Eastern Front,” | Dimond, alzo Chairman May of the ‘g vine” wihe German homeland i House Military committee proposing , cw ot spake . a highway between the United L ~ SAYS OLDSTERS MAKING HELL OF MESS, BASEBALL Major W. 0. Briggs of De- troit Tigers Lets Loose Blast —Alaska velcomed Berlin ady LONDCN, Jan. 31-The radio says some Germans are r to surrender, but “those co" ) creatures who try to desert their neqd our Interested Ir Alaska Trwin said became inter in Alaka ear war when ed its | " (Continued on Page Two) ! By JACK STINNETT 1 {there Wwas no doubt that ad set {there was no doubt that he had st WASHINGTON, - Jan. 31.Aen Gordon Presides Over Secret Meeting Fresh from the floors of the legis- lature where Senators and Repre- sentative alike, eloquently expound- ed American ideals of equal rig a group of legislators this afternoon expelled two reporters from a joint committee meeting on coming Alaska taxation problems and continued in secret session ‘The joint committee fer with tax consultant Alfred Harsch and Interior Department counsel Ira Silverman on an income tax bill 100 pages long that will | shortly be introduced to the Seven- teenth Legit ~ture That it wht be necessary for reporters to fully understand such a bill from its conception and the Alaskan public thereby better ad- vised was considered unimportant by | Chairman of the meeting, Senator | Frank Gordon ' “This is a private meeting,” the | Rokert Burns quoting solon declared | without the gratuity of a smile, Representative Curtis Shattuck, defending the presence of report- ers “that the public might be bet- | ter informed” when the bill comea! out, called for a vote on the ques- | tion The reporters won, eight to sv:\/en,l but walked out on the meeting | twhen the youngster of the House, Rep. Stanley McCutcheon, who vot- ed “privacy”, began to rattle his| cradle slats for a ruling on the| “majority” status of the vote, to con- ! Front RED ARMIES FLANK NAZI QUEEN CITY Two Soviet Spearheads Nearing Juncture on Oder Battlefront BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan, 31—The Red Army has eap- tured Friedland and Heilsberg, south of Konigsberg, East Prus- sia, Stalir annonnced late to- night in a second Order of the Day. BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. 31. — Zhukov's troops have cap- tured LAndsberg, 68 miles east of Berlin, said Berlin broadeasts tonight and also said the Red Army has plunged into towns only 58 to 62 uiles from the Capital City. Landsberg is a great rail hub on the Berlin- Danzig line. Zhukov's forces have also broken through the German de- fenses guarding Frankfort on the Oder River and Soviet col- ums have also spearheaded to Soldin, 58 miles from Berlin. The reporters were Mrs. Winnie | Williams, wife of the Seeretary of| Alaska, covering for the Wrangell| | Sentinel, and Bob “Henning, cover- | ing for The Empire. | Sl German Radio Has Con-; ference All Figured ! Out Today ; | ROME, Jan. 31 — Seeretary of | State Edward R. Stettinjus and| Harry Hopkins, who next to Lhei President may have the most to do with shaping the international | policy of the United States, con- ferred at Allied Headquarters in Italy yesterday with two American military leaders, then devarted for undisclosed destinations. Their flying visits are said by Hopkins to be part of the prelimi- naries leading up to the Roosevelt- Stalin-Churchill meeting. | An official announcement on the | conference was issued after Stet-| tinfus and Hopkins, the latter per- sonal representative of the Presi- dent, boarded their planes and left this war theatre. The German radio, meanwhile, ideclared that ¥certain well-known ! signs of the past 24 hours make it/ {fairly obvious that a meeting of | [the Big Three is imminent. | “Last night Mrs. Roosevel spoke her husband at his birthday party. Yesterday, Clement Atlee, Deputy Prime Minister, answered 'questions in Parliament in place of Churchill. Today, Richard Law, British Minister of State, answered foreign affairs questions in Par- liament in place of Anthony Eden Hopkins, who recently visited Lon- don and Paris is now gone from Rome to an unknown destination. “All this adds up to one thing { Stalin’s Order ecf, the Day to- night shewed Zhukov is beating into Germany on a direct route to Berlin along a 50-mile front. LONDON, Jau. 31.—Russlan (-oops ave plunged into Zielenzig, only 55 miles due east of Greater Berlin, the German radio said today Indications were that the Ger- mans are preparing to fight street by street for Berlin. Zielenzig is 62 miles from Berlin’s city limits proper A German broadeast this noon said inlaiicymen of Marshal Zhu- kov's racing First White Russian Army are keeping up with armored spearhieads driving toward Berlin on a wide front. Moscow has put Zhukov 73 miles from Berlin, at Stolzenberg, 25 miles northeast of Zielenzig on the op- posite side of the Warthe River. Fierce Battles Fierce battles are raging in the bend formed by the Oder and Warthe rivers which merge at Kus- trin, 22 miles northea:* of the Oder River fortress city of Frankfurt, Huge Soviet flanking drives have increased the peril to Berlin. The Berlin broadcast declared Zhukov’s northern offensive wing bhas reached Soldin, only 36 miles from Stettin on the Baltic. Cut Off Move This push to Stettin will cut off all northeastern Germany from the h BIGTHREE MEETINGIS DISCUSSED | |Patherland and put Zhukov in 3 position to drive on Berlin from the north. Moscow said another Soviet col- umn is 60 miles from the Baltic port of Koslin about midway between Stettin and Danzig. Zhukov is also striking southwest- ward and has reached the Oder Riv- er at a point about 38 miles south- east of Zielenzig. Here his troops are close to a linkup with the First Ukrainian Army of Marshal Koney which has stormed over the Oder River at various poinst along a long front from German Silesia. In East Prussia, the capital city of that region, Konigsberg, is near- ly surrounded and a German escape route to the sea has thereby been blocked. e — CLOSING HOURS FOR of a bitter controversy between|{ These Government and private operation, |cancelled out removed virtually all' | WASHINGTON, Jan 31.—Specch- pjg ming to it. I_UBUN pOLES es on Capitol Hill are a dime & doz-| grore T must unfairly but neces- g len and most of them aren't worth t BARS AND LIQUOR vuning baseball are a bunech “of|th€ Dig conference. The only ques- until finally Roosevelt established |COntroversy from the bill designed beards who are making a hell| 10N Now is where they will meet. the TVA. |10 require men between At the end of the last war, the 0 18 and| |45 to work in essential jobs under lit, eloquence E'* sarily strip away that # and logic and say simply that Sen. B e of things,” Major Walter D STORES ON FEB. 1 naticn hdd enough gunpowderz"hrea‘ of fines or imprisonment. plants to manufacture a billion | S VP S | pounds of powder. But they wereiDEFENDERS OF : | | of this war in 1939, the U. S. Army | had only two weeks supply of gun-| powder on hand. All the powder | factories had to be built up over| again, all u‘:ined over to private industry | and converted. At the beginning (H'NESE ('IY WAR WEALTH CONCENTRATED | Province, fell to the Japanese Sun- day after two days' fighting, with| virtually all the defenders slain, the Chinese command said. War II, Roosevelt’s New Deal re- forms, like Wilson’s, stopped. But (Continued on Page Four) GET 0. K. FROM CZECH EXILES LONDON, Jan. 13—The Czecho-| slovakian Government in Exile to- night announced its formal recog-! the Provisional Polish of Lublin, and said nition of Government {that diplomatic relations are to be!fect on the destiny of the United CHQNGKING, Jan. 31.-—Kukong, started. Czechoslovakia issthe (irst'SLuu‘s and its now so vital foreig With the beginning of wOrld)KJm\'Ewmil capital of Kwangtung of the Allies, except Russia, torelations. recognize the Lublin Government. e The Army calls malaria the most important disease in the world. But when Sen. Arthur H. Vanden- | yandenberg called for an immediate erg (R.-Mich.) took the floor the|ang forthright alliance of the Uni- |other day, he hadn't spoken three|ieq Nations, with the primary and |paragraphs before his colleagucs | qyoweq objective of keeping “the radio and | ayis out of piracy for keeps.” jand those in the pr public galleries knew that here was| " Ho pleaded for an end to dal- {a speech with far-reaching jmplica- | jjance and distrust among the Al- tions; one of these modern rarilies|jjeq nations and an end to quibs bling. here at hcme over minor de. lin the chambers of Congress tails of that alliance, |speech that could well ha Even in bare essentials, there was much more to the speech than can be briefed here. It must have been heard or read in full text to be appreciated. t | | 0 When the big Michigander sets his mind to it, he can be one of the most eloquent and logical men in the Senate. On this occ (Continued on Page Two) Briggs declared. president of the De- civilian life, fired this 0. “Spike Briggs troit T blast as Club lunc Baseball ling the authority missioner, he said, wa be heading ouble happens. Only two or three men in the country qualified to fill Judge 1Kenesaw Mountain Briggs opined, specifically naming J. | Edgar Hoov {J. Farley, ‘eral. v about curtail the new cora- rning they wiil the day that ing speaker ai the Touchdown andis’ place, r, FBI head and Jmmeai rmer Postmaster-Gen- | s follows: industrials, 153.67; rails, | ! SIO(K ouorAHONS | The newly-amended City ordi- | it |nance for the control' and regula- | NEW YORK, Jan. 31. — Alaska |tion of liquor dispensaries goes |Juneau mine stock closed on the |into effect tomorrow, February 1, |last day of th January sessions |when the new hours will be from |at 7', Americari Can 91, Anaconda (10 a. m. to 12 midnight on week | 30%, Beech Alrcraft 12'%, Bethlehem | days, and from 1 p. m. to 12 mid- | Steel 71, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Inter- night on Sundays. On Saturday |national Harvester 78. Kennecott 'nights and the night preceeding |37%, North American Aviation 9%, |a heliday the hours are extended New York Central 22%, Northern to a elosing hour of 2 a. m. | Pacific 17%, U. S\Sleel 60, Pound| This ordinance, passed at the ;“04» last council meeting, applies to Dow, Jones averages today are bars, liquor stores and restaurants )holdmg beer and wine licenses, |47.08; utilities, 26.91. alike.