The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1945, Page 1

THE DAI LY ALASK “ALL THE NEW ALL THE TIME” M i 1R VOL. LXIV., NO. 9878 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945 ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRE s PRICE TEN CENTS ODER RIVER CROSSED BY SOVIET TROOPS Siegfried Line Being Smashed By Yank Forces e == AMERICANS GRIND ON, WESTWALL Colmar Pocket Now Furth- er Cut by Fresh Ad- vances of Allies PARIS, Feb. 6—Infantry of the | American First Army slashed into | the second concrete belt of German | fretitinations within 1500 yards of | Gemund and 1000 yards of Schleid- | ew, ... lasu two bastions of the | Siegfried Line. | Just to the north, the 78th Lightn- ing Division drove through West | Wall fortifications to within 1500 | yards of Schmidt, north of a net- | work of dams controlling the head- waters of the Roer River. | Two of five such dams were cap- tured by the Lightning Division. The Third Army is fighting seven | miles deep in Germany and cap- tured the Siegfried village of Hab- schied, six miles southwest of the fortified communications center of Prum. The Germans, however, moved back into Brandsched where the Third Army drove clear through the Siegfried Line. The Second Indian Head Division and the Ninth Division carried the assault to Gemund and Schleiden, | (Continued on Page Eight) ———— The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | KING GETS REJECTED Rebuff to Compromise Conscription in Canada Seen in Elefcion OWEN SOUND, Ontario, Feb. 6.— Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King's compromise conscription pol- icy received a rebuff when,Defense Minister General A. G. L. MeNaugh- | | | ‘i‘(CVAIIocaiibns Report; Ma — (NOTE—Drew umn teday takes the form of @ letter to his old friend, ex-Gov- crnor O. Max Gardner, of North Carolina.) February 3, 1945 Governor O. Max Gardner, Shelby, North Carolina, | Dear Governor: J We were talking last week about| Henry Wallace. And since you as an old friend have been so patient| and generous in defending me in| the past, I thought I owed you & further explanation of my ideas on! Henry Wallace. | ‘We were remarking that Wallacoj was politically inept. He has been | presiding over the Senate for [our‘: long years. Usually when a Senator or anyone close to the Senate comes up for confirmation for an admin- istrative appointment, he is con-l "o o Gerenied by a 1305 vote in firmed by acclamation, regardless| == o R % of his political views, regardlr}ss1 Oji:é;\glx(tl\x:f:\:y p”rl"*;)'::_“‘]!?;“‘l(;‘l‘ y North committee hearings, and regardless| Grey No |\ by ction gave OfTLiS%a;fi:wnx:ugshapvftéonnmmd"Gz\r[l('ki Case, Conservative candi- Jack Garner for the dual job of}da"i-. "“'“;1] "Ii‘,;f:;‘f:’f‘e‘ to King's Loan Administrator and Secretary 8OVCIRment by i '1 PR G of - Gomhrefon Atk ae anv tEadtas |- Ak pf. Oauads 1 stUAVIIEIME R, tion whatsoever. Also Charlie Curtis:mm i —though neither was banker nor businessman. They were skilled, however, at poker and smokefilled- olD J OBS room politics, and they would have | been confirmed. Henry Wallace, on the other, hand, has hardly made more than half a dozen close friends in four| years of presiding over the Senate.| He has no private refrigerator. He does not even smoke. When Sen- ators dropped in to see him he was timid and shy and talked about | foreign affairs and preclusive buy-| ing or seed corn. He just lacked the 3 f aptitude for winning close friends FRAtRE: tor, TGRS Shattuck Asks Extension 0 Woodrow Wilson and Wallace i But sometimes I wonder whether} G'I' nghfs. '0 AlaSka in the broader sense Wallace hasn't | OffI(eS while lacking friends in the Senate, i he has won millions throughout the A bill guaranteeing returning sol- nation. As you remarked, his devo- diers their old jobs in Territorial tion to principle, his austerity, his offices was introduced in the House inability to compromise is so much this morning by Representative like another great man the Senate|Curtis Shattuck. rebuffed—Woodrow Wilson. % As the world looks back on lective Ser_'lce_ Act of 1940 to in- Woodrow Wilson’s fight over me‘clgde Territorial offices as well as League of Nations, it is generally Private employers. recognized that that battle was the| The measure, House Bill No. 42, turning point toward a new war. reads: Reemployment benefits shall And what I am afraid of is that|3ls0 be granted to “any veteran the current Senate fight over Who Was in the employ of the immediate political future, been a very smart politician. For | 1 Henry Wallace (in which, he has |Tcrrilory of Alaska or any poli-’ already lost more than 50 per cent tical subdivision thereof at the time of his induction into the (Continued on Page Four) Gl DOG SHOES —Cpl. Charles W. Williams of Portland, Ind., fits his war dog with a pair of custom made shoes, devised after it was found that long hikes over Burma jungle terrain cut the dogs’ feet badly. In Present Standards |loting for a bearing on the Domin-| Shattuck would extend the Se- armed forces of the United States.”; LIBERATION OF MANILA PROCLAIMED ‘MacArthur Issues State- ment-Strike for Kill | Is Now Underway | By C. YATES MgDANIEL | (AP War Correspondent) | MANILA, Feb. 6—Manila, Am-| | erica’s bright jewel of the Ox'xem.‘ is reconquered. Gen. Douglas MacArthur official- lly proclaimed liberation of Manila s three Yank columns from north, |south and east, struck for the kill against any Japanese left in the jcity. MacArthur said: “Complete struction” of the enemy is immin- lent and freedom has come to 800 | prisoners of war, including 55 | civilian internees at the filthy | torture-chambered Bilibid peniten- | {tiary. They were liberated from |the vermin-infested prison by the! { Thirty-Seventh Division of Yanks land this made a total of about {5,500 when added to the others who were liberated at Santo Tomas hy {the First Cavalry Division | It is asserted many American | prisoners, capable of still doing! |manual labor, have been sent by |ship to toil or torture in Japan. | “Japan is our final goal,” Gen. MacArthur said in a statement of- ficially announcing the reconquest jof Manila, the city the Japanese |occupied on January 2, 1942, after it was proclaimed an “open city.” The doom of any lingering Nip- penese was sealed when the | Eleventh Airborne Division of the Eighth Army, which earlier seized fagaytay Ridge by paratroop ac- ion, rolled 35 miles, entering Ma- | nila from the south. The First Cavalry made the first entry Saturday night from the east and was followed by the Thirty- Seventh from the north. The wording of MacAtthii's |statement is interpreted as a bid for continuing command of the lation didn't fare so well. It isjcampaign against Japan proper o be moved to higher frequencies./@nd a move to spike the rumors Bute on top of these develop- that the Philippines will be the ments, the walkie-talkie of the war|{end of the road. The liberation o given a chance to do a Proclamation made it clear that a | peaceti " job, railroad radio gets|lightning cleanup is to be expected. recognition as another mew service.| Johnny Doughboy has thus ‘won | | | | | | de- | | Given ny Changes ! By C. E. BUTTERFIELD NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—-On the fac of the Federal Communications Commission’s report on air alloca-| | tions, tt wdvocates of postwar | television based on present stand- | ards rather than a switch to higher, !frequencies have won a point, at (least in the early stages. ! On the other hand, frequen [ medt lis to 15 | Business Section Fired by Trapped Japanese Garrison ‘ | MANILA, Feb. 6.—The business | district of Manila was in flames Monday night as trapped Japanese soldiers put the torch to the Escolita district. The Manila Fire Department is | doing its best to halt the spread S0 doss the rural radio telephone Manila back just 28 days after the for isolated communit] ‘:“‘“““[ on Xhmgflycn ]Gulr and &9 ays after the original landin, iy Allocations Tats: g RRdiag oo, These, it would seem, are the ba- L |sic high spots in the preliminary of the FCC just announced {as tentatively allocating radio ser- S E(T I o N 0 F vices in the spectrum from 25,000 E | ot 30,000,000 kilocyeles, or 25 to 2,000 ! megacycles. | In peointing out that the report is | |not final, with a further hearing set { |for February 14 for oral argument | | or objections, the commission stress-| | les that most of the proposed allo- | | cations cannot be made until equip- | ment and manpower are available for the necessary mechanical shifts.! g | | Thus it labels them a “preview of | | Amer post-war radio spectrum.” | It was the television situation that | {had created the most attention pri-/ | marily due to the position taken by |the Columbia Broadcosting System | which last spring started advocating | high definition and full cojor pic- tures cn higher frequencies, wherz the required wider bands would be available before full public intro- duction. Thesother side, which in-| ,cluded the National Broadgeasting { Company, inslsted television was |'Teady to go.” s Compromise Reache . | In settling this question, at least Of the flames but there is no water for now, the commission did make |Pressure and the firemen are about changes, yet gave certain|Delpless . The Japanese blew up the ni’ion to .tb; CBS position. It water pumping stations several days |assigned six felevision channels, be- 280 tween 44 to'84 megacycles, moving| The Escolifa is Manila’s main the lower side of the band back to business street on the north side of YT si p the Pasig River. In pre-war days it its former position,and cutting off § the upper end. Present assignments g“d such 5“;‘““”’5 “Sfihe Heacock |yange from 50 to 108 megacycles. ;S"‘m‘r"'"e:" '“’(‘1'9' Hamilton Brown's Six other. channels are provided|Stere and and many other im- ' sing buildings. in the space from 180 to 216 megg.‘PONHE g lcycles. This, it was explained, gives, The trapped Japanese are a “tok- television the same six channels it|€n” @arrison left in the city and has had belew 225 megacycles, but | they are fighting with savage futility does reduce the grand total {rom 18 '0 break the tightening American to 12 within that range. Each chan-|¢ordon. They left fires and ex- nel is six megacycles wide. plosions behind them”as they fell To ultra high frequency assign- | ments, the commission assigned 480 9eath trap of American doughboys s suppored by armor, that is bearing | relentlessly down on the enemy. “(Continued on Page Three) TOPICS OF THE BIG TALKS HOW Will NEW WORLD /ORGAN- IZATION WORK? WILL FRANCE REGAIN HER STATUS AS A GREAT POWER? WHAT STRATEGY TO K.O. GERMANY? WHAT POSTWAR PLANS FOR THE REICH? HOW WILL WAR CRIMINALS BE PUNISHED? WHAT RELIEF WILL ALLIES ACT AGAINST FRANCO? sU AND ALLIED PERVISION FOR LIBERATED NATIONS? AP Newsfeatures When President Rocsevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Marshal Stalin and possibly Gen. De Gaulle get to- gether in their meeting, maybe under way now, they will have a large number of troublesome questions ¢n Europe's postwar status to talk over. The map above shows some of the major questions, < It is possible that another big one—whether Russia will join the war against Japan—also will be discussed. Nafion's Health Recommendalions for improvementReported EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIDS HIT NAZIS Sky-train, 250 Miles Long, Bombs Targefsin | Three Cfifies LONDON, Feb. 6 — Scme 2,200 American planes staged one of the greatest raids of the war on Ger- many today, attacking Leipzi Madgeburg and Chemnitz, the latter less than 30 miles from the Czechoslovakian border. ! More than 12300 Forwesses and Liberators flew in a 250-mile-long sky train, broken into two sections.| Leipzig is 85 mile5 southwest of Berlin, where it is possible that| the Nazis fleeing the capital have, gone. Industrial Chemnitz is 40| miles iarfiher southeast. Madgeburg is 70 miles west and south of Berlin. Several other towns in central Germany were also appar- ently hit. A preliminary announcement said about 850 Mustangs and Thunder- bolts aided the bombers in reach- | ing the industrial and communica- tions targets. They flew escort on the day raids which were followed by night Mosquito attacks on Berlin, where delayed-action bombs were planted during Saturday’s huge Fortress raid. They are still exploding. — e - MATLOCK CONFESSES -GUILT IN THEFT OF LIQUOR FROM BAR’ Ted Matlock, arrested on a petit larceny charge after it was alleged he stole come liquor from the Dreamland Bar on South Franklin day. He will come up for sentence Saturday, ’uppr(vxlmatcly the |found to be prev with | \ | i By JACK STINNETT ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb, G.leth} war news absorbing most of the/ headlines, the interim report of Sen.| Claude Pepper’s subcommittee on| wartime health and education has| 1eceived far less attention than it de-) serves. It will get more when Con- gress gets around to doing some- thing about it, which Scn. Pepper tells me won't be too long. Twenty-two million men of draft age have had to face their “phy- sicals” in recent years; a smaller but still important number of wo- men have undergone examinations for various services; and millions more have gotten check-ups for war work There never has been an cpportunity for such a thorough ex- aminaticn of the health of the na- tion. The made Pepper subcommittee has the most of it and some of facts disclosed are staggering To mention only a few, more than| 9,000,000 young men have been found un for general military duty ;md’ same ratio 40 per cent—holds for the women. Illness and injury on the hom: front are costing the nation mur('i than 600,000,000 man-days of indus- | trial Jabor every year (nearly 50| times the number of man days lost| by strikes and lockouts in 1943). Al very high percentage of these in- juries and ilinesses the entable.. committee About 40 per cent of the nation’s 3,070 counties, with 15,000,000 popu- lation, have no registered hospitals or any kind of public health service.| The report emphasizes that, mea sured by modern world standar we are far from a nation of weak- lings, but it doesn't dodge the fact that there is much to be done be- for the “golden age” of health ar-| rives in the United States. Appar- ently, the committee made a con- scious effort to duck the highly con- troversial question of “socialized medical care,” but it isn't by any means a negative report It proposes that a national net- work of regional medical centers be established Hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories for research and medical schools would be set up in which physicians, nurses, medical back steadily in the constricting Street, plead guilty in U. S. Com- |research workers and post gradu- missioner Felix Gray’s court yester- | aias would be given an vpportunity Work. Before coming to Juneau (Contlm:e‘d on Page Six) i REDBATTLE | GLOW SEEN IN BERLIN Russian s-Sr_nash Three Bridgeheads Across Water Barrier BULLETIN—LONDON, Feb. 6. —The Red Army has smashed across the Oder River on a 5¢- mile front southeast of Breslau, Stalin announced tonight. German broadcasts declare the Soviets have flung three bridgeheads over the river east of Berlin and within 35 miles of the German Capital City. Stalin is still silent whether the Oder was forced at its closest point to Berlin. The First Ukrainian Army has rammed 15 miles beyond the Oder in Silesia, seizing six towns, including the west bank strong- holds of Brief, 24 miles south- west of Breslau, and Ohlau 14 miles southeast of Breslan, Silesia. WHAT GOVERNMENT AND BQUNDARIES FOR POLAND? WILL THE ATLANTIC CHARTER APPLY IN THE BALKANS? BULGARIA WHICHCOUNTRY WILL WIN THE BIGGESY INTER- EST IN fRAN OIL? LONDON, Feb. 6 — The Berlin radio declared the Russian troops have thrown three bridgeheads across the Oder River, last natural barrier east of Berlin. At the same time, the Nazi com- mand announced the loss of Stei- nau, '140 miles southeast of ithe Reich- capital, to Soviet troops lashing out in a new offensive in Silesla. * This afternoon’s broadcast from Berlin said Red Army Marshal Zhukov's men established two more bridgeheads south”of Frankfurt in the frontal assault on Berlin. The crossing, 35 miles northeast of Berlin in the area northwest of Kustrin, was announced earlier. The Berlin radio said one of the latest crossings was at Fursten- berg, on the Oder’s west bank, 14 miles southeast of Frankfurt and 47 miles southeast of Berlin. Third Crossing Soviet units won the third bridgehead about three miles south of Furstenberg. The German broadcast declared “a temporary” crossing was made between Frankfurt and Kustrin on a line 38 to 40 miles from Berlin, but this crossing was wiped out. Meanwhile, Red Army siege guns battered the Germans across the smoke-shrouded Oder River on a 73-mile front. The Moscow dispatches today in- dicated “important news” might soon be announced from that sector, The Moscow radio has kept silent for days on the activities of Mar- shal Konev's First Ukranian Army in Silesia, but Berlin told of heavy attacks and a push from Steinau, 32 miles northwest of Breslau, carrying flanking threats both to Breslau and Berlin. Not Confirmed The Moscow broadcast pointed: out that the ‘new bridgeheads across the Oder River to the north also outflanked Frankfurt and Kus- trin. However, Moscow has not of- ficially confirmed the establishment of the bridgeheads, Russian troops captured Zellin, 32 miles from Berlin on the Oder banks northwest of Kustrin, and seized Damvorst, suburb of Frank- TRADEUNION LEADER SAYS MEETING ON Big Three Thought fo Be Conferring at Sochi on Black Sea LONDON, Feb. 6.—Sir Walter Cit- rine, British de union leader, an- nounced today that Churchill was meeting Roosevelt and Stalin “at this very moment.” It was the first concrete disclos- ure in Allied quarters that they are i ion. Citrine made the state- opening sessfon of the British Trades Union Congress. A French telegraph agency said the leaders were conferring at Sochi, a port on the Black Sea, 20 miles above the border of Stalin's home provinee of Georgia The British Press association said no official announcement of the conclusions reached at the confer- ence “can be expected until it has taken place and the leaders have returned to their capitals B e 14TH AIR FORCE QUITS KAMYUNG BASE IN CHINA Jap-enclosed Field Was furt, further to the- south. Center for Hif-Run | rhe sow o bate s olains Air A"a(ks visible in the Reich capital, pris- oners told the Russians KUNMING, China, Feb. 6.—Ka- b KILLS PET SPANIEL air base, along with Suichwan, the| Yesterday evening at 5:30 o'clock U. S. 14th Airforce disclosed here. The 14th has maintained a compact striking force at Kamyung Field. hind the enemy lines, but is enclosed :("m('k‘ '?p(“!mg u.p Star Hill, sbove by Japs. The 14th's hit-and-run “enm’)(y Street, struck and killed attacks have snared a bag of Jap le pet golden. cacker spantel dog, being tabulated at headquarters, |ord Pevton. The Peytons had been Vo |bui'ding a fence this past week to NEW CLERK AT LOCAL | keep the dog off the street, but that The driver admitted he did not see Bob Esterday started this week‘lho dog, and many people on the as a clerk at the Piggly Wiggly hill wonder why just dogs and not much experience in grocery store not run down and killed too. Mrs. Peyton urges drivers not to with his wife and two-year-old | speed up the hill — it may be a The field is now not merely be- planes and shipping that is still, T uddie-Duddie” of Mr. and Mrs. Ed PIGGLY WIGGLY SW\ORE |{€0¢e Is of no use now. Grocery Company. He has had childgen, playing on the street, are daughter he resided in Fairbanks, child instead of a dog.