The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” MPIR JHE LIBRARY OF I CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD APRG 1945 CoPY VOL. LXIV., NO. 9879 jUNEAL—‘. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1945 Ml,\/lBl R ASSOC lATl D PRle PRICE TEN CENTS s RED ARMY KNOCKING AT HITLER'S DOOR Yanks Open Up Big Drive on Western Front THIRD ARMY NOW INSIDE AT COURTMARTIAL OF GI LOOTERS IN PARIS OF GERMANY Continuous 120-Mile Front | Is Established in Reichland PARIS, Feb, 7—Four divisions of the American Third Army have in- vaded Germany on a new 22-mile | storming across the Our and Sure Rivers between ancient Ech- terbach, at a point in northern Luxumbourg, to five miles east of Clervaux. Gen. Patton's shock troops cross- ed the river by boat and bridge at seven points to attack the Sieg- fried Line with intense small arms fire. Fortifications were encoun- tered, but artillery finished 'them In the light of the fresh invasion, this gave Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight D. Ylisenhowpr’'s Armies virtually a ‘continuous 120-mile front in western Germany between Holland and the. industrial city of Saarlautern. In the North, the United States Ninth and the British Armies are past 25 miles of the Siegfried Line and the U. S. Third Army is at or through the first Westwall fortifi- cations on a 57-mile sector from the upper Roer Road, near Schmidt, to Echterbach. These initial gains put Patton’s men half a mile inside Germany, front, 'Ez;lm‘x;ii o’n“Pa’ge Eight) e The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robcn 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — If the U. S. Army has any friends left on the Senate Military Affairs Committee when the work-or-fight bill is fin- ally passed, it will ot be the fault of the Brass Hats. Senators and even a lot of Congressmen boiling mad over the way the Army has said now-we-want-it, now-we- don’t-want-it, regarding vital am- endments to, the work-or-fight bill The climax came in a closed-door session of the Senate Military Af- fairs Committee last Saturday, which featured the stormiest debate seen in any committee for years. On the day previous, the commit- tee had adopted an amendment which the Army favored (or at least so it said in a formal letter) which would put the Administration of the work-or-fight bill under War Mobilizer Byrnes. This meant that Byrnes would delegate the Admin- istration to Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission, since Byrnes favors the WMC. The orig- | inal bill, as passed by the House, placed work-or-fight administra- tion in the hands of Gen. Lewis Hershey's Selective Service. Because of the small number of Senators present at Friday's com- | mittee meeting when the Byrnes amendment was adopted, a second meeting was held on Saturday, with a full quorum present. Forthright Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyo- ming opened thé secret session by delivering a sarcastic attack on the Army. He pointed to all the tragic mistakes of the War Department, and their repeated demands centralization of authority. Time after time the Army has demanded this or demanded that, O'Mahoney | charged, only to change its mind and find it was wrong. Now, they are not equally wrong in de- manding this bill? Following this, Senator Chan Gurney, South Dakota Republican, announced: “I have had a com- munication from the War Depart- ment, which desires a further am- endment to the bill.” The War Department, on to say, was opposed to Byrnes amendment adopted he went the the preceding day (though it had gone' on record as favoring it). At this point, Chairman Thomas of Utah rose halfway out of his chair. Senator Thomas is a mild (Continued on Page Four) are’ for | he | concluded, how can we tell whether ! north- | AN OFFICER AT THE COURTMARTIAL court in Paris is shown here as he stood to read the verdicts pronounced for the 182 enlisted men and officers charged with looting military supplies and selling them in the French Black Market. Some of the sentences, recently made public, ran up to 50 years. Cigarettes from the U. S. supplies were sold for as much as 250 francs (about $5 at the present exchange rate). (International) BIG SLASH IN AIRLINE 20, 000 Nurses Needed By Military at Once; Shortages Most Severe FARES LOOM By JACK STINNETT i 'Red (,m 8, Axm” and Navy 3 and hospital officials be BY MARINE possibility that nurses timate how many of these vclun- tary assistants could replace 20,000 | e the answer to recrait- m(‘nl. qf the 20,000 nu whick Exien;wefAMaRcks Miade ji[namen e te SR R acific, Reporls President*Roosevelt said so emphati- ly are needed the milita immediately n.u aides couldn't do without years of training, but the expansion of' Adm NlmltZ s’ aide duties has been one of STATES PA United Airlines Proposes Cut Rates from Seattle, Tatoma to Alaska CHICAGO, Feb. T.—A proposal to cut airline fares between Seattle and Tacoma to points in Alaska is on file with the Civil Aeronautics Beard. The United Airlines announced the proposal and officials said it is inned to reduce the time between attle and Fairbanks to 10% hours well as extending its New York attle flight on to Fairbanks. proposed rate from Seattle or Tacoma to Ketchikan is $37.75 com- pared to the present $75. Rate to Juneau will be $54 com- Nurses' aide officials refuse to es- ghtest spots in voluntary work | !done by women in this war. CIFIC! One estimate has it that four FOR- nurs aides can replace one train- th g pared to the present rate of $95.90 stations at Haha Jima ar Since the Nurdes' .Aides Corps & 9 to Fairbanks compared with on the Marianas road to|wa ed, 201,548 women have en- | (he present rate of $170. Tokyo, Army Liberatc in the 80-hour courses, con- b3 storage barracks Sund sting of 456 hours of lectures and 35 day, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said ' hours of supervised practice. of continuing widesp: , 162,644 have been gradu: in the ‘Pacific. about two-thirds of these Marine aircraft bombed barges ng full or part time. and buildings on the Palau Isla The training now is being given Bombers Fly from India Bases fo Raid Thailand and Indo-China and destroyed pier buildings 2,082 hospitals. Latest report on WASHINGTON. UNITED FLEET airway Iwo Jima, star are on Yap, western Carolines es’ service record showed they Flying through intense anti-air- are now working in 2,322 civilian csaft fire, another group Of Ma-| hos : 132 Army hospits 2 rine planes hit Ponape | veterans’ hospitals;*1,564 clinics and One Mitchell bomber was lost in 159 visiting nurses’ organizations. {the various attacks. ks R Afta, Cordoval Fire Traps Are ToGalnlo Gulf Although originally put to work taking temperatures, pulse and re- spiration, and giving bed baths, the duties of the volunteers have been' |gradually increased. They are being (used now in 12 hospitals for mental patients and in many obstetrical, amgunl and communicable disease F(b 7.—Separ- I military installations in nd Indo-China, flying Tho Army thinks so highly of n ses’ aide training that in recru ment of WAC medical and, surgi- in India. cal technicians, it writes off six! The Superforts were of months of WAC training for thoseiTwentieth Bomber Command and | CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. T—When who have completed the 80 hour|sprang the twin attacks at daylight “ WASHINGTON, Feb. |Gen. Francis Joseph Kernan, who organized and commanded the Dads are going to do the pushing. |vey completed in November indicat- \A S I S In the past, councils have tried to that nurses be drafted to fill immed- | by the owner, who had not been| expected next month. War No. I, [buildings are scen floating in the |3 oxberiment—employing murses somebody says “why doesn’t some- aide courscs. The war bulletin of Gen. Arnokd body push that old wreck into the National Red Oross officials hem‘(’m not dmluv any details. bay,” from now on the Cordova City'say that & nation-wide hospital sur- i The town counci] has passed ordi- ed that 29,000 nurses’ aides were!| nance 182 for doing away with un- needed at that time. This, of course, ‘sightly buildings marring the beau-'was before the President disclosed | ty of the city. the critical situation and suggested o“l(er In world war do away with ugly obstales, but they iate military shortages. It is likely | 2 H FI 'd had no power. {that the need for aides will have! ne 'es ln 0" a A few years back the council had! doubled shortly as the enlistment (an old building moved but was sued of civilian nurses reaches new highs 7-—Ma] heard of of several years, and the town was forced to pay. In some eastern Army hospit: But now the Cordova fire trap ypeve nurse shortages are most jowners must take notice lest their goiere Army officials now are trying 5 day | Guif of Alaska. | aides full time, six days a weck, gi : . 3 _ ling them meals and quarters and in| 7The General made hi y The automobile speed record in 1903 was one mile in 55 seconds. | home in Daytona, Florida, where died last Saturday afternoon. (Continued on Page Seven) ate fleets of superforts lashed Jap Thailand from bases Ramey's 86, Army Supply Service during World was buried in Arlington with full mili- DOWNTOWN OF MARILA IS ABLATZE tJaps Blow Up Water Pumps, Set Fire to Big Buildings By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) Manila’s liberatea business dis- trict was set ablaze by Japanese torches, Gen. Douglas MacArthur | announced today, but thre: Ameri- |can columns of troops were still liquidating the desperate enemy in a tightening three-way trap. CBS radio correspendent William | Dunn reported the fires had been burning for 36 hours. Arthur Feld- man of the Blue Network said earth- shaking explosions were followed by sheets of flame Monday at sun- down, and the business area was |soon a raging inferno. He quoted ene disappointed doughboy as say- ing, “Well, there goes our good time lin Manila Yesterday morning the flames had died down, but it was still impossible to assess the actual damage. House-to-house fighting wa; progress in some areas as Yanks m Thirty-Seventh z nd Eleventh Airborne di-| wsions elosed in for the final mop-' wp. he trapped and frustrated Jap- anese garrison wantonly set fire to the downtown business district and is practicing general sabotage and destruction which has no relation to military operations,” General Mac- Arthur announced. The nes soarved from building to building and spread toward: internees were freed troops Sunday. The water mains were empty the Manila fire department helpless. The enemy blew up the pumping station several days ago. by General MacArthur told his men ed German circles here.” in a general order: “You have inflicted the greatest military defeat in its history on your 'enemy. You have redeemed your |country’s pledge to recapture its lost land. You are restoring to the East its destiny. You have fulfill- €d a sacred mission for our hallow- ed dea(l For lhl‘v we llnmk God." BRITAIN IN GUARANTEE T0 FRENCH Would In(Al‘u*d-e France in Reshaping of Europe | Frontiers ROME, Feb. 7—The inclusion of France in the “Big Power” con- ference dedicated to the settlement | of “political decisions on re-draw- ing European frontiers,” is en- dorsed by the British Government, | With French feeling running high over apparent exclusion of Charles de Gaulle from the Roosevelt- | Churchill-Stalin talks, the British | Minister of State told the House of Commons that Britain believed the re-shaping of the European map “must be decided later by all | powers together. | He made th substitute for Churchill and Eden, | and also represented the govern- ment in foreign affairs debates last Wednesday. e .ee — i LUTHERAN LADIES’ AID PLANNING TWO AFFAIRS | Mrs. Peter Hll(h'(’. Chairman of, the Ways and Means Committee or the Lutheran Ladies’ Aid, announces ; xlnt they will sponsor a food sale‘ t Bert's Cash Grocery on Saturday, ‘bruary 17 at 11 o'clock. Also | there will be a rummage sale at the - church on February 28 at 10 o'clock in the morning. and control of Germany.” |lems of liberated Europe.” (sible establishment of a permanent an- hewspaper Aftonbladet today said i cient Bilibid prison from which 800 is believed a reorganizations of the Gove! prisoners of war and 500 civilian German Government, under wmd”BorllnI American Hitler will give up the title of Fueh- and dent, with Franz was Chancellor, is imminent. {a low level hop over Berlin. {tion of Berlin the streets appeared | Blg Three Announces Plans Completed for End of European Fight The statement promised that communique will be issued at conclusion of the conference. There was no designation as to the place of the historic gathering, nor any indication as to how long the conference will last, but the that at this point a detailed dec ation of the subjects under discus | sion would be made indicated strong hepes among the conferees for a high degree of success as to their purpose. The formal announcement said the purpose “is to concert plans for completing the defeat of the com- mon enemy and for building with their Aliles the firm foundations for a lasting peace. Meetings are pro- ceeding continuously.” It was stated that the three chiefs of state were accompanied by their foreign secretaries, chiefs of staff, and other adviso It was known ahead of time that Secretary of | State Edward Stettinius, Leahy and Harry Hopkir Roosevelt. His other ad | cluuded Jlmm\ Byrnes. German Government May Be Reshuffled fo Let Hitler Slide Out a WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.—Presi- the dent Roosevelt and Premier Josef | Stalin, meeting in the Black Sea area, have reached “complete agree- ment” on the )oint military opera- tions for a windup of the war against Germany. ‘This announcement Washington, London simultaneously “A discussion of the problems in- volving the establishing of a secure peace also has begun,” the announ- cement stated. The release issued here from the | white House is the first official dis- closure made of the gathering of the Big Three. It listed these political questions as now being under con- sideration at the conference: 1. “Joint plans for the occupation comes from | and Moscow “Political and ec nomic prob- 3. “Proposals for the earliest pos- were with international organization to main- rs in- tain |1mws‘" STOCKHOLM, Feb. 7. —’I‘hl‘ ‘ He was Ambass- the * Ankara with diplomatic service. t ador to Turkey when rmment broke relations ast August, | The report earmarks a German | trial-balloon designed to sound out | Allied reaction whether such a re- This information is attributed to| Vamped = Government has any “rumors in Berlin which have reach- | chance of suing for armistice term | while Roosevelt, Churchill and Sta |1in are reportedly in conference on war problems including Germany's rer and become the von Reich's Presi- Papen as Von Papen is ace of the German RESIDENTS OF BERLIN The Aftonblader, Which in the carly stages of the war was strengly pro-German, said Hitler's rcason for such a change is that “he no longer is able to manage both af- fairs of state and war leadership.” The newspaper quoted German sources in - Stockholm as saying Germany's central administration will be moved to southern Ger- many, probably Dresden, but lhe‘ people will be encouraged to be-! Iw ve the government is remaining in the Capital City until the last decision to move the remaining| Souihwestern nghways ' Are Jammed-Traffic |\ been reachea. - | Jams Obsefved Goebbels, most of the members | the Foreign Office, together with the Gestapo and General! _|Staff, are said to have fled to MOSCOW, Fek. 7 A gigantic Kreunnehuebel, 60 miles from | flight of civilians from Berlin along (B,pslau the roads southwest is described by | a Russian aerial photographer after |of ——,ee - U.S. WANTS FRANCE IN Lt. Maivei Pinchuk, photographer, said: “All cars, carts and p«*deqtuans\ are moving in three lanes and jam- | med all southwestern highways out | of Berlin. Here and there traffic| jams occurred. In the eastern sec- | to be deserted. Only in the factory | i | district on the west side did I oB- | | | serve smoke issuing from the big chimneys.” - | iy 4 | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Acting| Secretary of State Grew today re- :xII\rmt‘d "our Iul] u-.um\(mn 0‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS |c5r o ® 4 NEW YORK, Feb. 7. — Closmg‘mg of the Fumpmn pesice, 8RA 4h} statement as g Quotation of Alaska Juneau mine mw same time told a news confer-( stock today is 7%, American Can | ence the United States hopes to see| 907, Anaconda 31%, Beech Aircraft'a Yougoslav government establish-| ! 124, Bethlehem Steel 70%, Curtiss- |ed in Belgrade but is not enter-| Wright 57, International Harvester |ing into the differences between 71%, Kennecott 37%, North Ami-x-leg Peter and Marshal Tito. ‘ {1can Aviation 10';, New York Cen-| Grew made this statement tral 237, Northern Pacific 20'4, U. | France shortly after the British S Steel 617, Pound $4.04 Minister of State Law gave his gov- Dow, Junv\ averages are ernment's endorsement of the inelu- as follows: industrials, rails, | sion of France in the big power| 149.96; utilities, 27.58 | conference to redraw the map of Fu- - | rope FROM LOS ANGELES | e | ) ella Miller and Roberta Pohenix, Mrs. R. Pearl Johnston and Wil- | both of Los Angeles, Calif., are reg- liam Johnston, of Anchorage, are istered at the Baranof Hotel. guests of the Baranof Hotel , today 155.71; Admiral | on| BRIDGEHEAD BROADENED SAY NAZIS Russians Swarm Across Oder River in Many Sec- tors Is Ioday s Report LONDON, Ft‘b % Broadcasts _ | from Berlin this morning asserted the Red Army’s massive blows have broadened ominous bridgeheads over the Oder River, 35 miles or less east | of Berlin, and in the Silesian corner, to the southeast, Marshal Zhukov has expanded his foothold over the great water barrier in the area of Kustrin, 40 miles from Berlin The broadcast ays 12 tanks smashed “temporarily” into the cen- ter of Kustrin itself. The broadcast also added the So- | viets are aulting heavily “along the entire east front from Slovakia to East Prussia.” In Silesia, the Germans reported new gains by Marshal Konev's First | Ukrainian Army which reached the Oder on a 50-mile front and plunged 12'; miles beyond the big stream in a drive menacing Berlin’s flank and | the Berlin-Prague defense of the Axis. The Germans also report numer- ous crossings of the Oder in the Kustrin-Frankfurt area, east of Ber- lin, and farther southest at Steinau, 32 miles northwest of Breslau. Konev's breakthrough southeast | of Beslau is announced. Zhukov is hammering the Kus- | trin-Frankfurt area with Lo regord | concentation of nrtmex'f, { Moscow dispatches said Zhukov " |has not yet claimed a crossing of the Oder but Konev 150 miles from Dresden, is pushing westward to- ward central Germany to imperil the German plans to take a stand in southern Germany and Bohemia after Berlin is Iosl MacARTHUR ON VISIT T0 MANILA Jap. Shell Hits 100 Feet -from General at Prison Camp MANILA, Feb. 7.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned for a brief time to Manila today, fulfilling his pledge 'that he would return to the Philip- | pine capital. Meanwhile, a grim race developed between the Americans trying to clean out the city trapped remnants of the Japanese enemy, bent on des- | troyipg it The American commander visited Santo Yomas prison camp while it was being shelled by the Japs. He {left as one shell smacked into the learth within 100 feet of him, Enemy artillery bombarded fhe | are: Intermittently throughout Qesday night and today, wounding |some soldiers. The prison internees crowded around MacArthur when he arrived before noon and cheered lustily, as accompanied by his staff he alighted from a motor car amid cries of “there's MdrAthm He's back." {Hits Wlle with Three-Pound Steak; Gefs 90 Days NEW YORD, Feb. 7—After ad- mitting he slapped his wife’s face (with a 3-pound steak, Daniel Tier- ‘nrv 37, was sentenced to 90 days in l]flll by Magistrate Masterson on a dwarderly conduct charge made by ‘ms wife Madeline, mother of seven children. The woman testified during Tier- ney's arraignment she stood in line for three hours to buy the steak— J~umelhlng rare here, then got biffed with it,