The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD PRG 1945 HE DAILY ALASKA LL "'IIIC ;\'F" S HI THE TIME” VOL. LXIV.. NO. 9877 L A JUNE L ALASK A, MONDAY, nnRLn\R\s 1945 MlMBl R ASb()(L\'lII) PRESS MANILA Red Army on Oder, 35 Miles From Berlin =T - —= — GUNDUEL POLESWILL PRIONGES FLAY THER OWNDENTH SONG yariks Smash Through YANKS SNEAK IS FOUGHT, ADMINISTER 2%, &° A ~ Jap Prison Gafes fo INTO MANILA, HOT SECTOR NAZI TERR. YR &%% .. R , L:berale(ounlrymen NIGHT TIME N SCHEDLER and i oAl il R S ; ' el Stars and Stripes Float Marshal Zhukov Operating Already Will Take Over e P el L i ERRD FAMPION | & wpes - on 140-Mile F?ont— Administration of City | &%, : : i 4 B!G BREAK s g i Over Philippine Capital | New Threats Made on Oder River o TR : : 2 - | IS MADE B‘.’ \{:{\' e Bty e Cify A"er 3 Years Russian. force s reached. the |8 Dress conference that Poland was < 5 ; V4 and Liberzy idled before the chained Oder River at Kienitz, north- | immediately assuming control of the fio o : ; s ; gate of this war prison which held, est of fortress Kustrin, only civil administration of German o V% N X . ol we praved, some 3000 men and wo- | Malacasan Palace 0u|(kly 5 miles from Berlin. esia and East Prussia. A represen- men and children of the United Na- Lo tative of the Warsaw Provisional : Ta, s SR §% < Americans Push Deep Info tons Captured-Concentra- LONDON, Feb. 5—German and Government has aiready :41‘;1\'(4‘ t : ! : Wth M| | “Open up the God dam thing o . o .d across the OPpeln, first large city on the Oder i e i G . | oo 2 c T }(()'d}rdflmt:v‘:-h lfixgl\imu:“);;,._q::\(] River to be occupied by the Red | : g o5 k / e | e_fman_Y 1nin Mpe ll'rllm;’:rn;:;ml“"“ “‘i\i‘\t ‘:]m”:"“:; :::“ "0" amp aken ; " is First White Army in its drive through Silesia & SE S . S {and_ the order brought no respons s Zhukov moved his Fir t 0 10 e e Bk, i 5 . . legfrled Fortresses d the orde ught 1o respon By C. YATES MeDANIEL Russian Army tanks and infantry He disclosed that similar step: : IR ! from inside the_ prison. b to the river line front of 140 miles organize civil affairs would be taken o o | . | e Trom ThaBLthe aate s wea (AP War Corvespondent) threatening to outflank Berlin elsewhere in Silesia, incly 2 : i / PARIS, Feb. 5~The American heard a low, speculative murmur, Qum‘:ht':‘“;“z:gg:s#’fifi' through north Germany as well as lau and in hvzm Prussia S00m A8 | pisSIAN DISPATCHES recently told of a fantastically macabre composition called “The Tango of Death,” w First Army has fought 13 miles deep |1ising to a crescendo of cries con- | Foh"p——;lme'ricln tro; "”:. south Germany. military conditions permit i a prisoners’ orchestra was forced to play in the Lwow, Poland, camp where some 700,000 persons—including into Germany and are today within | taining fear, doubt and hope as some| LtP: S=Ametieon u'r * The German command said vio- Bierut said there will be Polish | op, 2, n and British—were reported killed and tortured . The e photo, which is fro: nile of the Siegfried line towns' prisoners sensed that this was not, §o “I° 1€ars 01 SanTe yester: lent Russian attacks are in prog- administration on "what we regard | epptyred German films, is described as showing a prison-c ng this special comp of Gemund and Schleiden just another of the endless Jap or- ‘:‘::I :'do:::si'; e f:"l':m'l""d ress against the Oder River fort | as Polish soil regardless of the opin- | pefore jts own members, the musicians, were sent to their deatt (International Radion Front line dispatches indicate the| gies. The voice beyond the gate was (P CHEE J1e KOO 5a Rebttr iles east of Berlin. ions that will be expre at t B i ke g . iy o pine capi or the first time of Rebttrin, 40 miles east of Berlin § P First Army has broken through the | American, and contained a resolu in mhere thall LHYER. SeRIL The latest official Moscow an- international conferences We've last double row of fort ations be- tion of its own kind. e > nouncements tell of the capture of seen the attitude the major powers i AR TAKES ND CHAMCES tween the two fortresses. But the gate dids't open ra::"k;.:.‘n ""mv".:.'.f'..' h‘nmn' Barwalde, 38 miles northeast of have taken and we don't think any-| The German radio said Hodges In-{ “Go on in but don't shoot unless! s % ry , in a il g it} " | wide encircling move by dark, e 3 -mile advance one will interfere with us, fantty’ entered Sehields: e u have to su rat W i Berlin, in an 18-mile dvance e i antry entered Schleiden but were!you have to; and'be sure they're teved the city Saturdsy ARG which outflanked Kustrin on the| He added the the | & e ot ey 2 later expelled. Japs,” the tank commander direct- north and placed the Russian, Teschen Area, a vich coal mining| & 4 i * 5 The Americans have reached with- ed quictly. Z“:':;%"fi:i’:‘"'.efez ;;l‘ll,:r spearheads within 45 miles of the district, annexed to Czechos B L ;" i & . in 28 miles of the Rhine City of The snorting tank pushed against' (a‘", qu "y c;‘:h s. '- Baltic port of Stettin at the mouth'in 1639, will be taken up Wwi 2 . ¥ oy W Bonn, just north of the cleared|the gate. » engine clattered and Tor::s c:n-u;“:.v:‘m :.m‘ni: of the Oder River. “friendly negotiations.” Bierut made g : ‘ § § Y Siegfried line break and the infantry the gate groaned, cracked and then' (0”0 ds of Beiti h" d it plain his government, would com- : : ¢ advanced to Urft Lake within crashed under the tank treads.s BARRES OF DU Thrust On Stettin 1sion along the by 3 ¢ 7 ? q Wi | American civilians may be in- Zhitkess R s i plete Peland’s expansion along the e o .,.f,m of the Roer River dams, con-| The prisoners, guant, hollow-eyed' (oo hukov's tanks are thrusting to-' gger River, from its mouth to south- ; 5 : ¥ ward Stettin in a threat to topple trolling the flood levels of that bar- and afraid of their own hopes, pour The northern half of Manila ern Brandenburg and along the ’ - 8 rier stream before Cologne ed- from the buildings. it in the circle around Berlin. s I 0 iy . o was in American hands as ele- Neis here it falls into the Oder . 2 brivegs ; 3 aafhbding Jou ¥ € wher alls 0 outh in Alsace, the Colmar death’ In the gathering dusk they saw ments of the First Cavalry and ranks ave. moving in radio silence e 30 miles south of Frankfurt SR . e TpAe Senaie fo D|s(uss Green pocket is fast becoming o memory. that this was an American tank—| pyisy-meerein ro ey and proe, oo D Gt oine to the feot of the Sudeten Moun- 3 . y £ The French and American troops and as from a single throat, thev| gonc"nrecced in for the knock. e tains : L Bill Tomorrow driving i to cross Rhine pocket poured out an agonizing cry of re-| gur blow, The German s actennte are ‘Tar A T SR R - - 5 : x ’ south of Strasbourg, moved to with- h',ll thanks and welcome ki ahead of the Moscow announce- p gms . ; Bt S : I Afternoon in eight miles of the junction, then| There was a pause—as if they ments. 46u Ghat Ak And tell of N : o : T * 4 s PR plit to dissolve the (‘vt'.xmun l:mn( were afraid to believe their eyes. The Japanese n the northern Red Army penetrations to the E s : . A : : : Senafor Joe Green's bill to amend hting within cne mile of Neuf- A.mm'uum tank stopped atop section of the city offered no major Schwedt area on the Oder Rjver % ¢ | ” : 2 \e Unemployment Compensation Fisach. Jite i I odgles e sighs g stance, but explosions . - were 28 miles th of Stettim, and st < : e T 3 : v 4 Law, making ull emplovers sUhect| The U, 8. Twenty-First Corps has ):m l'mnd.x;:v(. .n.uvl lf)wly.. ‘?A{ltLl\l-d d and rn:es seen in the south Pyritz, 22 miles southeast of Stet- 4 ¢ » o i3 ’ : to the payments under the act, will |, t “ rete rail aptivity began slipping AWeY. on the other side "fv where the i l ; ¢ /3 4 Mt : 0 ; g ¥ te e concrete ralll on the upper floor of one of the deep, wide Pasig River barrier tin. i ‘ an ope wearing before the sbrbek BRAT 1 : dant lits th ity. 1 : Simultaneously, Zhukov's forces . i ¥ ; 2 4 mittee of the Whole tomorrew + U. S. ‘Third Army i wduy“;‘“fif»l'h ‘"F~:}:n£’i§*;:'* ’:":‘l{:;‘"‘ e N the city in two. | wAth- his ormosan guards, Was rpe enemy may put up a bitter at the Frankfuri bulge, between 4 » ¥ \ AL = afternoon at o'clock, at the re- fighting six miles inside German: 'yeady for the fight, K the Oder and Warthe Rivers, push- g 4 pt L - quest of the bill's author. after capturing more than one di it Lhti 0 £ bloody fight for the historic com- ed goouthward in a flanking threat ] i & " ; G This action v decided on dur-'op Alsatian towns, including se\'ernl‘ The commandant, Colonel Hay- mercial center of Manila, but for and captured Zeibinger, 13 miles e g ing Saturday s in Germany. ashi, offered to surrender the pris- those who might surviver there southeast of Frankfurt and five e 3 i ¥ £ n after considerable debate on cdges Command’ has ndvanced on in return for safe passage Will be no escape. miles from the Oder. ; i : » bill, begun when Senator N. R.icne mile and this afternoon is with- | through the gates. The tank com-| While the Thirty-Seventh Divi- Flying Bombs Senate Committee Changes , . 7 4 er introduced an amendment t0 jn three an done-half miles of mander answered Hayashi’s mes-|$lon cautiously pushed through to German underground reports re- i e make the law apply to only em- y fortified Prum, one of the. hger: !Grace Airdrome from the north ceived in London sald the N Mind and fo Hear Cer- g7 e’ Dioyers of four or more workers. At g e Slegfried line. Hod-{ “Tell him nothing doing, 'l give Saturday night, the First Cavalry are already building flying bomb 2 only empleyers of e ons are within 16. miles him ten minute spearheads circled into the eity tamps, 50 miles west of Berlin tain Wiinesses ! . yorkers come under th g the major traflic center of Eu-| The Nipponese officer stood his from the east and yesterday morn- and facing the German capital for | & - i act., skirchen, capture of which will em-g nd, ing reached tm;‘ Smlm\ l'l'n)mm; use against that city if it falls to sp e ; . it bomuimdeaisl it e Umwmry grounds, throwing a Moscow dispatches failed to bear POver legislation ran the prospect - couple of Nazi SS troopers as he stands them against a wall in Sar nd pk Gordon - gpoke / against| * e e B ine Weatarn front bulidihg aod Began s ,.mm_u,_,.mm,Mntmuon camp. - il il —— lof indefinite delay when the Sen-| Beigium, The Germans were captured by men of the 83rd Infantry dur= | Walker'’s amendment whic or [ SE E T NIRRT T L B '“‘ t.” ki {1t waa jilat three’ years: eud e (Continued on Page Six) ate Military Affairs Committee ye- | jng g rapid advance. U. S. Signal Corps photo. (International) came to a vote L;r;xv of the 5 soners were feared Weeks ago that the last units of ——e versed an earlier fon and order- | ____ TR Valker said he believed e o have bt with the Japs, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s tired Ld hearings. Chairman Thomas led mall £ sman, who has mor ;,;u ‘();Pfxfi:]]n:,,:‘(‘rf,fi“l announdcl:ad and outnumbered Filipino and The W aShln IDn i Pemmeiies ket 4 b o IS Aringh . pageE | WOk, B - the that no prisoners or American American forces left the capital. g |ited executive he : present time, should not be requir- o eV With the First Cavalry and |troeps were killed, although several| W M He explained by limited that m‘!v ed to carry the additiona shich ‘M‘“_ el Thirty-Seventh Infantry Divisions errY Go Round tayiied otines \Nufl bf )hm | the: bill. mosild. spply. 3 2 | Other tanks and dismounted cay- alteady in Manila, a new para- He said Secret of War Henry L. | if the number of employees was re-| ‘!uhym‘n poured into Santo Tomas tFooP invasion behind the enemy’s By DREW PEARSON stimson, ‘m‘, ‘?fd t(};;d:::e‘i duged, Ao, four, sty woullibe. g 100 {where almost 2,500 American 'pris- lines in Batangas Province spear (@, Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive J2MES V. Fou e percent gain over the present sit- |oners engulfed them with embraces, headed the Eleventh {\:rb;)r:s service with the Army.) | retary o ar Ja uation, ,klsse» and handshaking. | Division's’ drive along e straight, T, would be invited to testify tomorrow. | President E. Coffey suggested hold- downhill road, 18 miles from the JAS Tt i g All night long as the weary cav- WASHINGTON—It is not often!| e gecision to conduct the hear- | ing the bill in second reading and ! ””lm‘,“"L i f; ot wy. on. |southern fringes of the city. that the Democratic membership mg\ was le'khul after the W'u De- i cper 8 i 411..- Tokyo radio strangely re- censidering it when experts of the e e| o) caucus, | hen it does, the sparks | manpower grols should be D”l(l‘d A Le available to answer questions. He i i 5 et ’, ? s e af. (b€ED “cut off” in the Clark Field iy oy andthe s sy o Sy Soenc vecior o1 | Fiffh Army Troops Gain Off Bombed Jap Base et e sricions e ' Berlin Radio Says. ISSue of the huna of their countrymen “, ‘out it 4n the Clark Phely m; down ]m ll(hP l;"ool.;) of what | war Mobilization. | $6,000,000 or more in the fund at Being DiS(ussed a' “l‘“:““l’l‘lz murf?:;u(\'iu uffering = the'’ e mow on the verEs. ot makes or breaks cratic 55 L A W b % Y g P 9 ¥ " % ) e i ke o s e Democratic e | Against Only Slight 1. Comes Back, However, e present time and there was a Behind the cavalrymen came the| !¢ isolated” The enemy ~radio between the con- question of whether or not the em- B'g Three Meet Filipinos and steadly growing ade o mention of MacArthur's ve north, " MILITARY MUST.- Enemy Opposition with Anfiaricraft Fire povew' 27 per cent payments < roar of welcome catry imto Nankh) { shouldr .u» reduced this year. i s That issue split the Democratic Senator Green secured the unani-| LONDON, Feb. 5 — The Bt-rlm: Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday Party wide open in the 1928 race OCCUPY GERMANY . radio reported there was fear in| abten he Empire réceived th %05 X A cei O\ir Feb. 5—Fiith Army troops UNITED STATES PACIFIC mous consent of the Senate to have 'aci I ‘ ' 3 ! . . afternoon the Empire receives e Rolween. Al Bmiih inc. Hebers reo Gallicano in the FLEET HEADQUARTERS, FOR- the open hearing tomorrow. |Tokyo that Russia may enter the Valenhne deer |good news of the entry of Gen. Hoover. Since then Franklin Roose- ) alan Wasb “ & T G war against Japan as a result of MacArthur into Manila. The news Ao dae pomn able 1 korR R0 g AFTER NAZ!S FAL Sm“m ey T URIEE e s W ABD, AREA, FHb. b Qi Liber . the “Big TI conference, NOw in a bulletin from the Associated wings of the party together—at coast, against only slght enemy ny,.; pomped Iwo Jima Friday and gy |oenerally believed &b be in seadion 9 o Allied Headgquarters B "I ' l ' |geners Press under date Gen. MacArthur’s least at election time. But the i opposition, the Allied Headquarters gaiyrday, concentrating on air in- aitie ior Leyle | “Undoubtedly, the problem of Headquarters on Luzon, as follows: crevice has been growing wider 7 5 _announced tod stallations and storage bases, re- Gu"" Ofli(ial common prosecution of the war “Clen. MasATthils " Ameiasi ik, P o WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—In Gov-| Other advan were made along - g ster W. Nimit and wider between elections. A . g orts Admiral Chester W. Nimitz A ) v s s e s ) Last weelvs closed door caucus ernment circles the idea of keeping| the Serchio River, regaining ground "0t pombed Iwo Jima, 730 miles against Japan is on the agenda of| aempers of the Senior Guild an- eration forces have entered Manila, g ms ary occupation|] einBar 4 > Na H jthe ‘Big Three',’. wrote a Japanese he usual Valentine Tea Headquarters announces.The Yanks over, Henry Wallace involved the 9l lensh Smab muliiary occupeloslost i s i S south of Tokyo, came back with in Hame o' Sea hgh' commentator in the newspaper xm]llm; (, e i l“ e Parish® Hall of en(m:d the greaj city by a wide same basic principle, with the I°T¢es in Germany for many years, jaunched a short-lived offensive in yonce anti-aireraft fire Friday and | will be given in the § i i X } S tAsahi, as quoted by the German the Church of the Holy Trinity encircling movement under cover : o is gaining in asing support > direction of Lucca. ‘one escorting vhter plane of ou ¥ he hurch o he oly rinity Asacionary Wisg Of; dthe pAKEY.|'se o e gTe 3 » “one escorting fighter plane of 0l ywagHINGTON, Feb. 5—The bigl Trans-Ocean news agency. from 2 to 5 o'clock Saturday after- of darkness. Elements of the vet- wanting to join with the Republi- ! Information reaching here are{ In the Central Front area, south gi.ot was lost." Says Nimitz. i iy cans to defeat the liberal wi [that conditions are generally inter-|and southeast of Bologna, SUrONZ Gpichi Jima. in the nearby Bon- oYY engagement off the Philippines| “A decision must be reached, inipoon, Febuary 1. The public is in- eran First Cavalry entered Manila e teth ;:,Cn erl;,.l,? bz b- {Pretated as entertaining little hope Fifth Army raiding patrols ran into i was also Y oatid last Pridny. now officially to be designated the the war against Japan. For this yiteq to attend. Plans were made by dark to secure safefy to several NI bty Glh :m‘;: D:]L:“E for a unified enemy surrender in-|considerable German resistance and = i s i 5 Battle for Leyle Gulf”, the Navy reason we must keep our attention for the tea at the meeting held thousand internees held by the succintly than anyone else when St¢ad of the belief the military will| casualtics were suffered on both nnounced. The new name is chos-|especially focused on this point jast Priday night at the home of | Japanese garrison. Advance units in the secret hearing he said: |disintegrate leaving the country in sides. A number of Germans, were Cleveland, O, came very near en to supercede the popular cond [more than ever.” Mrs. M. O. Johnson then penetrated to the heart of | : & o % SEa 1 Bi 3 ine Sea". ting German Foreign Office - - — 'the city and seized the concentra- IR b s eaat o . helpine | ® State of ¢ 2 captured being the automobile capital of Battle of the Philippine Sea | Quoting o - 3 thrwrht:;ul?liec:\xf ’g‘:;;’%reh 1:1‘:11311::; . | 5 Wl the United States, instead of D _——'“.v_ i P Txas SRR S S Bxg The first LL.D, of Harvard Col- e e 01' 'Sm‘m i o ok Ganm" AT techn‘i ue ofl The first degrees in Divinity at| Harvard College was expanded in- trcit, as more than 80 d HERE FROM ANCHORAGE ree’ conference was holding its ] g '} .‘ B ;,r(r ool Outside radio broadeasts were 5 ; 4 |Harvard Coliege were granted in|to Harvard University under th f cars were bullt there dur,, Cecil Metcalfe, of Anchorage, is a [Dew session on a warship in the)lege Was confetred on Professo ontinuet (Continued on Page Four) "the year 1692. L charter of 1650, g ing the early days of the industry. &uest of the Baranof Hotel. Black Sea or in a Black Sea port.! John Winthrop in 1773. (Continued on Page Six)