The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA IKMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” ™ THe LiBkARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD APRG 1945 CoPY. VOL. LXIV., NO. 9876 AU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS SAY SOVIET GA Two Yank Forces in | | BIG DRIVE ISNOW ON, ON LUION Veteran Cavalry Group Hotfooting Down High- way with Infantry GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, LUZON ISLAND, Feb. 3.--Two Yank forces are today rac- ing toward Manila and one of the forces is only 18 air line miles away geing down fine highways against ineffective Japanese resistance. “It is definitely a race between the forward elements of the First Cavalry and Thirty-seventh Infan- try to see who enters Manila first,” says a field dispatch from Richard Bergholz, Associated Press War Cor- respondent Maj. Gen. Verne Mudges' Fir; Cavalry veterans of the Leyte cam- paign, entered the lists with a sen- sational 57-mile drive which was last reported within 24 miles from Manila and still going strong. Cor- respondent Bergholz's dispatch further says “it is a strange thing but everything points to the fact we should get into Manila just in the space of time it takes us to move the men and material on the road.” | Arthur Feldman, Blue Network | War Correspondent, in a broadeast | from “Somewhere on Luzon Island,” | says the Yanks may be in Manila anytime within the next 48 hours, | if the present advance continues. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-| nounced the gathering drive in a| communique and reported all main | roads connecting the Japanese forces | in north and south Luzon are now | cut and the Yanks have pushed six | miles across the base of Bataan | Peninsula. Three Japanees destroyers were | spotted off the northeast coast of Luzon on Wednesday. One was sunk |gcka by and the other two severely dam-!famous aged in a running two-day battle [smith, owner and chief pilot of the in which American medium bombers | corde were cngaged. Merry - Go-Round, By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | | set with wheel equipment WASHINGTON — Several back- stage developments point with al- most tragic certainty to a nation- wide coal strike on April 1, spite the present desperate coal shortage. They are: 1—John L. Lewis has the proposal of Hard Coal Ad- ministrator Ickes to continue the| present coal agreement for another year. 2—Lewis has also rejected Ickes' proposal that negotiations for a, new wage agreement begin earlier than March 1, thus giving coall operators and miners more time| to sign a contract. 3—Within a few wecks, Lewis gigantic United Mine Workers Union finglly will be taken into the American Federation of Labor, at| which time several AFL leaders will back him in trying to break | the Little Steel Formula on behalf | of the miners. This latter point is where CIO- AFL rivalry comes in. . Phil Murray tried to up the Little Steel Formula on behalf of the steel workers, but failed. Now SKi PLANE % ! da The Washington : return the skis, so Smitly Red Underwood over his own radio bare damage the de- Teplaced for a matter of 10 bucks Cordova field, constructe rejected | ' equipped | rushed out to watch the impendin crack-up, !wings and, calmly winding up the stabilizer, settled to the field like a feather a ]w(‘re scratched by the shale, but , | needed shop. CIO Chief | if | the AFL, through John L. Lewis,| Attorney William L. Paul, Jr., filed can do what Phil Murray failed i} U. S. District Court here this YANKS BLAST CLARK FIELD | Berlin Smashed as Are In- . TAKEN FROM AN AMERICAN BOMBER, this photo shows fragmentation bombs attached to small parachutes floating down on vital Clark Field, the big air base near Manila. The picture, taken during a recent raid by American planes, shows enemy planes on the ground—and one, on the left, has just been knocked out by a direct hit. Several hangars and runways were destroyed during the raid on the former U. S. air base. Oflicial U. S. Army Air Force photo. (International Sourdphcto) DOUGLAS DOCK APPROACH GOES ol ¥ &0 KFIELD About 350 feet of the approach to the Douglas City Dock werg demol- | ished the recent storm ‘and the dams is estimated at between $30,000 and $35,000. The dock iiself was also damage but not so ex- tensively The s ferry s Doug. e Daring Alaska Bush Pilot Makes Spectacular Landing, Cordova ¥eb. 3—Al- have always been v flying, but Merle rm also took out the old ) and gangplank. esidents now look eagerly for the $12,000 recently asked to be appropr. by the Legislature for aid in dock maintenance. v be made, Dougla ials state, as the canner on the dock is expected to be oper- ated this season . The cannery is cne of the seasonal mainstays of ted CORDOVA Service, came up with this w was in ago, freighti quipped plane, Air the Interior 10 supplies in a and upon his here found there was o on the ground nor ice for contacted ing the gale of Thursday r ser minor damage was done, sev- 1dows being smashed, tele- phone irves blown down the garage across the street e City Hall was completely wed DIYORCE BILL PASSES EASILY Members of the Territorial House of Representatives today registered their approval of a proposal to shorten the time necessary to get an Alaskan divorce. The measure, House Joint Me- morial 3, would have Congress give Alaskans the right-to ask divorce after one year residence in the Territory instead of the present two-year period. Representative A, B. Cain, of the Alaska Catholic, continued a vigorous fight against the meas- ure, but was snowed under in an attempt to indefinitely postpcne action The bill passed to the Senate ULLE eral frc to see if he could supply him too busy, so, to Smitty de- down on the knew he migh could be Underwoed was e time and money ded to put his s field. He He therefore headed for the bare ck blasted from a hil Wise townspeople, seeing plane circling the ski- field, a But Smitty dipped his and came gracefully to stop. The metal bottom of the skis only polishing in a local - > INDIANS APPEAL CASE FROM U. 5. DISTRICT COURT SKI BULLETIN Alas and alack, skiing conditions peal to DURING STORM editor | 1 THOUSAND FORTS BOMB NATI CITIES stallations at Madgen- burg-Great Air Train LONDON, Feb. 3—More than 1,000 Ameri Flying Fortresses | {dvopped nearly 3,000 tons of bombs | con the heart cf Berlin today in! |the greatest air blow ever dealt) the German capital city. | The record attack was aimed| |directly on military communication targets in the central part of the| city. | More n { | than 400 Liberators, stag-| ling a diversionary attack to con-| {fuse the defenders, pounded syn- | thetic oil plants and railyards on/ |the cutskirts of Madgenburg, 60 | miles southwest of Berlin. | The Eighth Air Force was |shielded by more than 900 M | tangs and Thunderbolts wh |streamed over Madgenburg and Berlin in a swift protective shuttle. A Berlin broadcast said bombers! ‘:md fighters formed a sl train | stretching 300 miles to Berlin over |the Dutch frontier. e 9 raid was the 204th on Berlin 50,000 tons of | have heen dropped, seven the amount the Germans lumped on Lenden in aerial blows. | The attack tcday seemed to caus widespread confusion. The regular |German broadcas were delayed for more than an hour and propa- \ganda agencies seemed demoralized BREACH MADE DEFENSE ARC OF GERMANS Two Divi;iiorns‘ Break- through Nazi Pillbex Fortifications PARIS, Feb. 3. — Two American divicsions burst completely through o first pillbox belt of ths double opfried Line and surged across open country, two-thirds of the way through the whole defense system. Some troops gained three miles. The German High Command re- ported lively air activity gnd in- creasing artillery fire in Holland; Iso on the Roer River front in | Germany. Amid rising indications of an im- pending Allied offe: von Rund- stedt gave a cryptic command to his troops: “orders for what we have to do have been given our comrades. Now more than ever we must be | watchful.” | German resistance stiffened in the | 40-mile sector, one dispatch said |'They are springing a counterattack from cencrete hunkers. The fig ing was termed the heaviest since jthe height of the German break- through in Belgium. The battle was | particularly fiercein an area 10 miles southeast of Monschau, whert the Eighty-Second Airbone Division (seized the heights dominating the | Siegfried Line. At the Belgian-German frontier ! the Germans started throwing long- |range rockets on the rear areas of |the Third Army front. The effect hich nearly have not been Race to Capture Manila 5 REPULSED ALLIES STORM ASHORE F o) 3 : R CAPTURE OF AKYAB RUSSTROOPS PUSH ACROSS ODER RIVER \ But Germans Says Bridge- head Wiped Ou* in Fierce Fight LONDON, Feb. 3—Marshal Greg- jory Zhukov's Red Army vanguard {is reported by the Germans teday 'to have won, then lost, a bridge- |head across the Oder River bar- {rier in the Kustrin area, 40 nules |east of Berlin, as the Nazi capi- tal was battered again by Allied | bomber fleets. | Hard counter-blows | {wiped out the spearhead of the | Pirst Army which had | won a lodgement on the west bank 7 Russian of the Oder River. | According to a broadcast by Col. -4 | o FAKEN DURING THE INVASION of the west coast of Burma, which was quickly followed by the capture of the rtant port of Akyab, this photo shows large quantities of men and supplies being rushed to the beach. Tatest news dispatches tell of more Allied landings just behind the getreating Jap forces. (International) {ongressional Wralh Expressed on Housing ('Gndiiiqns, Washinglon AP WRITERSowma rLIES OVER MANILA AREA i Ajreraft Installations O | i et hombers e con jat noon today upon the Reich many of the new (and Japanese Base U"def Poveeiesiers v gl .1 VS:}:Tl)l':s to get housing Two.day Raid members | W Reporis ihat Jap Defenses Appear fo Be Very Weak | gees frightened into the city by the |sound of Russian guns. The defisl ‘number of | = ‘ left out in the cold isn't imposing.| UNITED' STATES PACIFIC| By FRED HAMPSON (AP War Cerrespondent) yesterday ivon Hammer, German military |commentator, the “western bank of (the Oder has now been mopped {up- The Russian forces east of ‘Kusmn and all Russian thrusts have been repelled.” Explosives from hundreds of inability of | some old) | acilities | I New Fight Raging Meanwhile, the Germans claim About 30 members of the House|FLEET HEADQUARTERS, FOR-|o.q ot prap) and a mere handful of WORD_ BASE, Feb, 3.—Army Lib-| o i a big battle is raging four miles Senators | jeast of Berlin, and fresh Germ were unable to get quarters, but the f‘“““”_b"mbfld Iwo Jima, Voleano | givicions” are éntermg t;xhe line. i p doesn’t end there. Secretaries island, 750 miles south of Japan, on | While Marshal Zhukoy souahi o and stenographers by the scores dis- | Wednesday and Thursday, setting |, oe o netoont S0P S8 covered themselves unroofed. Many |large fires in aireraft installatior eftard its A oy Planes based on Iwo Jima havé |Jcorerday, units of his right wing more e had to give so'much time| B8 { r p 's| been making raids on the Saipan s vEupariens s B 2 pESIia to house or room hunting that it’s 2 % |within 12 miles of the German WITH ADVANCED UNITS OF THE 37TH DIVISIQN ON LUZON, Feb. 3—If there’s any extensive a lapse; see, I An Alas plane Sricati the following chorage today: Lt (Continued on Page Two) | A COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Ceylon, Feb. 3 —British troops, driving through Mandalay, have completed occupa- tion on the north to do, even if it throws the entire|Morning a petition for ap country into an even more serious | the Circuit Court in San Francisco coal crisis, it will be regarded as|in the case of the Tee-Hit-Ton Tribe a big victory. |of Tlingit Indians against Clarence ! Olson and the Bureau of Fisher | The complaint was dismisse What Lewis demands is a wag anuary 8 by Judge George F. differential for miners working th | Alexander on the grounds that the second and third shift, plus $1.25 Tribe had no legal right to sue in mere daily for travel underground | he case. to and from the mouth of the The complaint had asked that the mine, plus a straight wage increase. 1942 Fisheries Regulations not be Last year is was recognized mm[applied to the Tribe in connection the miners had suffe.:d in com-|With the of the Indians’ “p-op- parison with wages paid in other | €rty right . industries. But this year Economic | = 3 Stabilizer Vinson believes the \\'nge. FROM PELICAN CITY . | W. G. Pege, of Pelican City, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel, WHAT LEWIS WANTS SHS TG . (Continued on Page Four) don't look so good on the Douglas|of harrassing fire Ski Run tomorrow, says Joe Werner. | disclosed, but it can be said that it The wind has undoubtedly crusted |was not particularly destructive or of Ywathitgyi bank of the Irawaddy River, about 17 miles west of the city. during this month. - Miss Simpkins came to Juneau 30 the snow and the only place he can think of where the powder snow that ! covered the mountains and valleys last week still may be is in a small sheltered spot in the “upper bowl, under the lee of a hill where the wind could not hit. - e GIRL BORN TO BRAWNERS OF KAKE BABY A baby girl was born to Mrs, A. H. Brawner of Kake at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in St. Ann's Hospital. The baby weighed 5 ! pounds, 14 ounces. la " STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Feb. 3 — Closing {quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine !stock today is 7%, American Can |91%, Anaconda 31%, Beech Air- craft 124, Bethlehem Steel 71 Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 77%, New York Central 23'%, Northern Pacific 19. Dow, Jones averages today as follows: Industrials, 154.74; 17 48.72: utilities, 27.49. ) The Southeast Asia Command an- nounced stubborn Japanese resist- | ance encountered after the vil- lage was penetrated in strength ye: terday. Meanwhile, on Burma's west coast furious fighting still raged at Kan- gaw, 30 miles east of Akyab as the Japanese attempted to keep open the escape route to the south. | A communique said 1000 Japanese | were killed there, and 20 guns cap- | becn impossible for them to check|base from where Superforts lmve‘Shm_hundmg ity ot Seathingy & The reason old-tir are chuck-| in nightly raids, harassing Jap ship- |\ 0 "% 0% o oan Wnieh e : m | South of Kustrin, other Russian ongressional aid for a long time. | I"} 'ER l ARE 4 S, ¥ |trcops plunged northward from There may be worse housing prob i ;’3'; | Drossen, . 14" falles’: Rorthases6r lawmakers are concerned. | A ( !' I %fl E o N AR In & fUBLE gver ] haicls) 4dny LuL!)cr‘ |sounded the theme of “Remember Visibility was poor Trom. what back a two-year| setbacks and Allied calls for sur- cld town in two years, but unlike| ' | The German newspapers declared arde hnd showed litlc Some Silesians and Poles 5% | ‘have a firm will and will not capi- the landlords and the hotel keep- l.ineS Neutral reports, at the same time, A% FOR ANCHORAGE TODAY ton e tion: 7,40 . large German cities. investigated before the American Fifth Army.no doubt that panic is reigning Col from Tdaho, parked enemy yesterday at several points,| Smith, Max Rogers and Mrs. Wiley. steps and (for benefit of photo-| The statement said a number| Allied medium bombers . attacked —_— ~ | | 5 | . | | I result of pneumonia after an illness ar plants and essential insli- jjperated, now totals more than years ago and had been a partner | tinue through April and include all'cagualties in the Leyte campaign|member of the Eastern Star in Ju- fuel shortages in the history of that ALASKA COASTAL TO {when informed his sister was ser- U. s ! tured. has issued a marriage license to ing passenger to Sitka — W. K. o into the office for the all-important; taken off to bomb Tokyo. Berlin port. \ling is that it’s something they have!ping in the Bonins. with Prankfurt is the last major lems in some cities than Washing- . e Y Frankfurt and 51 miles due east our observation plane drew no fire earian: gl 1918,” appealing to the Germans we could the HIONt e of the strangers Potrick knows “all of the gnemy aims caunoyile - - |said anti-Hitler posters and slogans , but {. ROME, Feb. 3 — Allied pati Airlines and the PBritish Eighth Army in many sections.” M. Wilder, T Roy | himself and family on the Capitoi|Allied headquarters announced. - | IR SR A graphers and reporters) improvised of Siles! and Poles, from a| " |bridges along the Brenner Pass we” KnOWfl Pio"eer OUU | K!LEED lEYTE Miss Nellie Simpkins, one of Ju- | of one week. |3—Japanese casualties in the futile to return to Juneau was recommended, by GOV.1131 000, Gen. MacArthur announced | with her brother, George Simpkins, normal business establishments, was on December 26, when the neau. state TKA YESTERDAY iously ill; Charies and a sister. West African troops occupied Hans E. Lonnberg and Edla Ander- Clark. Kathleen Norris thinks out the job of getting the new members off| Rocket-firing Mitchells flown by | y PR byl v & | Marine pilots have damaged 12 ships | Theé Moscow radio said Soviet a good artilierymen already are pumping 1 all along and something that o ik | barrier Bafore Basiin many have had to combat without % ton, but not so far as the nation’s| : vroaches to Manila, I could not of Berlin, see them. 1 The German press and radio Most outspoken is Rep. from the ground. It was flown by "* s Lt. Bert Williams of Syracuse. o the capital to stand firm against battlefield A lot has happened to the! 'render promising nothing. be quiet except for c b plig iwhat to do about it. He not only achieved if the German people [turned a little righteous wrath on H 9 ALINES OFF Desert to Fifth Army b hepping with their five-day limita- iare appearing on the walls in th. 4 bill to have the probing German defensive positions| The Moscow radio said “there is sen; oner Glen Taylor, the fronts, inflicted casualties on the| MeGinty, Mrs. I. Pennington, NEllIE SIMPKINS la little ditty—"Give Me a Home German division, deserted to the | Iroute into Germany. | | | e MANDALAY ACUTE FUEL neau Passes Away i N neau’s well known pioneers passed laway yesterday in Tacoma as the | o | GEN. . MacARTHUR'S HEAD-| Miss Simpkins went south several |{QUARTERS, LUZON ISLAND, Feb. months age on a visit and intended 0., Feb. 3—A five- fighy o hold Leyte, first major day week in all businesses in OhI0, jcland in the Philippines to be H Rl "f"l‘fl;'"“lf]“"" |today. in the bindery and stationery busi- This new werking week would con-| The Jatest report on American ness since that time. She was a schools and offices. The proclama- total was given as 11,217 p ta n as LT Survivor: tion is issued as Ohio faces the worst e Bt Sso::; ;"xx‘sd:;':";i% Alaska Coastal Airlines, in Funeral services will be held in Commissioner Felix Gray flight yesterday, carried the Xollow-j’l'ncoma on Tuesday. Minbya, a stratezic town on the son, both Juneau residents. Lonn-' Sitka to Juneau—Ray Gildner, |scenes for her novels while she Taungup Road in that sector. berg is engaged as a carpenter. W. Ruppel, W. G. Pege. plays solitaire.