The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 9, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR i “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD FRG 1945 VOL. LXIV., NO. 9881 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = NEW OFFENSIVE STARTED BY RUSSIANS Canadian Army Breach Nazi Lines In NEW THRUST Japanese Say This Is Their Fleet 'REDS WITHIN SLASHES AT REICH SOIL Two DutcAh*Towns Fall- | Many Prisoners Tak- en in Advance PARIS, Feb. 9—A powerful new Canadian First Army offensive has penetrated at least four and one half miles into Germany. The new drive is well into the Siegfried Line and forms the nor- thern jaw of an Allied pincers in a thrust against the Ruhr. Burning Kleve, the northern ter- | minal of the Siegfried Line, is im- minently menaced in the new at- tack. The fresh advance has widened to seven miles the front in the for- midable forests of the Reichwald. The German defenses here were considerably weakened by a ter- rific artillery and air bombard- ment. Plunging Canadian troops mop- ped up two Dutch towns swiftly and captured 1200 Germans, in- cluding two battalion commanders. The American First Army, 85 miles to the south, advanced to within a mile of the vast Schwagi- menauel Dam controlling the flood waters of the Roer River, a barrier to the Cologne Plain. The Third Army advanced within a mile of Pruem and reach- ed the Pruem River, eight miles within the Reich. The French First Army has broken the last of German resist- ance south of Strasbourg and drew up to the upper Rhine River banks on a 90-mile front north of Stras- bourg to Switzerland. Like a steadily moving avalanche, beginning slowly, Gen. Eisenhower" Western Front offensive is gather- ing power. German broadeasts said the Can- adian forces have breached Nazi lines in a large-scale offensive and the weight of Allied attacks on other fronts is also increasing, ac- cording to Berlin, The Was e hington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON-—The other day this writer visited Walter Reed Hospital to speak before a group of wounded combat veterans. They were a real imspiration. Many of them were handicapped * for life, but you didn't see a long face among them. The boys knew how to grin and keep their chins up, even those with an arm or leg off. Moreover, they do a lot of think- ing these days about\what's going to happen after thi:\(ar is over. Their questions proved that. Nat- urally they are watching the war, but even more, they seemed to be watching the snarled skeins of our diplomacy. They asked me many questions about Greece, and were intensely interested in the opera- tion of our new millionaire State Department. It was obvious doubts had arisen in their minds whether the peace they had been fighting for, had given their arms and legs for, would be thrown to the wolves of imperialism after the war. This was the biggest question in their minds. And one question in my mind when I came away was whether it v wouldn't be a very sound idea to have at least one representative of the 11,000,000 men who have been fighting this war sit at the peace table after the war is over. After the last war we saw a group of old men, one of them nearly eighty, write a peace which was torn to shreds. Certainly the GI couldn't do any worse. And they might do a lot better. $ CHURCHILL'S OUTWORN VIEWPOINT Today we have seen what older men already have started to do with the peace of the world. Win- ston Churehill, who is seventy, who (Continued on Page Four) | | to} North THREE YEARS IS A LONG TIME! 'YANKS CROSS , PASIGRIVIR - - - ~ ATMANILA "~ = | Wire Encircling Movement ' ; | Underway-Corregidor Is Being Blasted By C. YATES McDANIEL Associate Press War Correspondent MANILA, Feb. 9—Riding am-' s vehicles, the Thirty-Seven- on Yanks crossed the deep | Pasig River Thursday near the Mnl-i ,aganan Palace to root'out Japanese who wrecked the river bridges and | kindled fires in the closely congested | Intramuros district. | | The point of crossing into the last gector of Manila, in which Japanese suicide squads are- extensively ac- tive, was nearly two miles east of the docks This action suggested a wide cir- cling movement around the Intra- | muros and dock sections toward the Eleventh Airborne Division trying to | break into Manila from the south by ! way of suburban Pasay. 1 As the Yanks moved to secure the ! prized dock area of Manila, bomb- | ers kept blasting away at Corregidor | which guards the bay entrance. In north and central Luzon, Mac- Arthur's men have captured ' the towns of Munoz, Rizal and Lupac, pushing the Japanese into the foot- hills. Gen, Deuglas MacArthur reports enemy losses have been “very heavy' both in personnel and materiel in this stubbornly held sector. “Japanee (AP Wirephoto) Condifions in France | e , Appalling; No Work for OKLAHOMAN GOP Head WALKOUT. Thousands Unemployed CANOL OIL In Address ' | Plants Corporation, is back in the War Deparfil;nt Asked fo’ Dewey Pléii'g";wés Republi- S E A T T I' E Lay Out Figureson | cans o Aid, Buf Con- Nine Hundred and Fifty ON GERMANY % BRITISH FIGHTER SGT. DOUGLAS JAMES greets his wife and four-y old son, Douglas, Jr., as he retutns to Finsbury, England, after three years with the “Forgotten Army” in the hot jungles of Burma. James is one of many Tommics home on furlough, (Interhational) S air force and navy units leave a base to meet the American flee! ture radiced from Tokyo to Berlin, then sent to Stcckhclm and serviced by a Swedish picture agency. laska salmon pack for the 1945 se !duction but slightly more than the France: “Appalling.” | Maverick's objective was a study of Total Cost demns Policies . Welders, Cutters, Help- | o - | ‘ { g | rs Hit Syn- \ASHINGTON, Feb. | ers, Not Working ‘HeavY Bombers_Hif Sy production conditions, with a 9—Charac-; WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — Gov. | 3 4 terizing the Governmen i ihe"( Plan's and O’her SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—Nine hundred jview to what effect present and| anol | Thomas E. Dewey declared here Oil pipeline project in A g and fifty members of the United Industrial Targets | Maverick found there were hun- | dreds that easily could be put back | linto production of vital war sup-| Appmwmnlvl,\"““‘“\" if raw materials could be : bomb es-|supplied. The answer of course is| 0 t’igh[(:.*‘““"k of shipping. ihave on the smaller war plants in the jof the “Big Three” are not enough this country. [ In spite of the fact that retreat ling Nazis in France and Belgium | start,” Senator C. H. Moore of -—and that the United States must| g, ,herhood of Welders, Cutters and Oklahoma, a Republican, called on|be dealt in every day on the con- p.iners refused to report to work the War Department for detailed ferences re-shaping the world. in plants of the Todd Pacific Ship-| LONDON, Feb. 9 | future production over there might ka and last night that the “rare” meetings ‘have wrecked scores of plants,| Canada as “a failure from information as to its cost of opera-| The New York State Governor,|c..q anq the Todd Drydock Com-| 1300 American hea tion. in his first out-of-state appearance ., . on Harbor Island this morning | corted by more than 85 | | Said Moore: “The Canol project Since he was defeated in the Presi-|j, \echonse to a call by Henry Doty, | today attacked the German ofl | The result, Maverick says, 1s the| is one of the most rantastic and |dential election of Na\'ember.‘P,. dent of the Independent Un-‘hupplles and railways adding weight|{worst unemployment he has ever| assinine undertakings the Govern- | Pledged Republican support to!y, . to what may be a record 24-hour seen and idle manpower by the President Roosevelt and his aices ment has ever engaged in."It is|C f At the union office, J. E. Barr, assault. | hundreds of thousands at the same not based upon any judgement| il every step they take wmd”n.g:mlz"r said 700 men are out at! The main force attacked the syn-|time that manpower shortage is . |fd‘{‘.‘"°es the cause of a just and ¢ "ohinchrds only about 20 remain- | thetic oil plant at Lutzkendorf, a the No. 1 production problem in the | i [18sting; peace. : tire 250|few miles northeast of Leipiz United States. ator, an oil operator| isdus A ... iing on the job and the entire ! £ X h’T"]elf Stfv‘llgtz re| :orier thnrt) in a| Dewey, however, voiced —sharp|.cpperg of the union are out at the| Other Flying Forts and Libera-| For my money, Maverick's most s & Ak criticism of what he called “fals i |tors hit armament and motor trans- startling statemient was: “In spite letter to Gen. Somervell, he had! RIS |drydock plant. | a @ t asserted that several Congressional | lboralism” in - postwar domestic “rnere ‘are no picket lines up at|POrt factories at Weimar, Central of bitter cold, there wasn't one ton ;;ummlucba are interesied in Lhe‘mam' . ieimer plant, |Germany, switching yards ut‘Mu].:- of coal in the w_holu af Paris.” He development and success of the| 1IN an address before the REDUDN-‘ Most of the welders are off the deburg and several other undisclos- estimated Paris unemployment | Canol Project. ican Party’s Lincoln Day B"‘!‘?“e"jjob, a spokesman for the companyl‘?d communicating targets donn“at I;nore_ l?]nl? 600,000. | Moore asked the War Depm't-fhem' Dewey asserted the d(’C"‘O“S‘said. i Attt | Harry Hopkins is the man who has charge of allocating shipping of the future world “cannot be left | The walkout arose over a jurisdic-| {has. changhigt ipllaealing it {to relieve cf 5 al rope ment,;” which constructed Canol, to 5 rare meetings between the |tional dispute between the Brother-| | to furnish him a month-to-mont! > b : ; ; t ; i statement on crude oil runs from |Nheads of nations. {hood and AFL oilermakers Ullion | }'k‘\ (Ih(t)i( exxsltl:::; ml‘.Fh:]nvu, l’:le the Norman Wells field to thel y 'who hold a bargaining contract. The |has been working directly with |Richard Law of Great Britain on !the problem and some shipping is! NEW YORK—A radio broadcast being earmarked for relief sup-| from Ankara, Turkey, heard here plies and even raw materials. But| by the NBC, said the “Big ‘Three” it will be months at best before | Imeetings will continue another|this can make any appreciable week and also said the. Russians difference in France, Belgium, have completely cleared the N: |Holland or Italy from Budapest. ! Americans have been known for (years as a most provincial people. |Wlth distances as great as they are the United States, there was t desire to go out- for new sights and . Those days are gone. Not only will millions of men and women have seen foreign ser- PARIS — British Field Marshal [Vice from New Zealand to India be- | | walkout, Doty said, came after the' discharge of four Brotherhood weld-| | Whitehorse refinery for 1944. The| Senator also asks the statement| show the quality and grades of gas'i ers for what he called union activ-| 4V produced by the refine: how | ;m%_ many wells have been completed i“f IH R EE FIRES i the Norman Wellh_ field, the -acre-| i . B o iHospnaI for Insane AT OKIMURA' From Alaskals Now STOCKHOLM—A rumor is ci (intrusion and to what extent, and Proposed in Seattie cuuns i comnnacen wat e also total cost of the field develop- ment, pipeline and refinery con- 1 man Generals have refused to de- UNITED STATES PACIFIC| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Repre-\tond Berlin in accordance with or-| H | struction. | I | The War Department said this| ! information is being prepared. | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, FOR-|sentative Hugh DeLacy, Democrat of | qers already issued. WARD BASE, Feb. 9.—Army Liber- | washington State, has introduced & > |ators bombed Iwo Jima, 750 miles lpil) for construction and operation’ ! south of Tokyo for the sixty-second |of a hospital in Seattle for Alas- e and sixty-third cénsecutive times|kan insane patients to take the Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's ncw"“r"‘ this war is over, l?ut the move Tuesday and Wednesday, Admiral |place of Morningside near Portland, offensive toward the Ruhr has ™Move already is u“""’v way .w see Chester W. Nimitz announces. | Oregon. carried to within four miles tonight that Gold Star mothers and father Okimura, a town on Haha Jima, | of fire-wracked: Kleve, northernhave an opportunity to visit the adjacent to the Bonins, was hit terminus of the original Siegfried 8raves of their children when peace STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Feb. 9 — Closing ‘quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 7!z, American Can 90, Anaconda 31, Beech Aircraft! 1127, Bethlehem Steel 69'<, Curtiss- o AR HE ISN'T, B'GOSH! |Wright 57%, International Harvester | Wednesday, and three big fires were| In an article that Jim Langdon Line. Gt Ki:““ Arthur Hall 2 7%, North American Aviation 10%, ' started. had purchased the residence of M —— Jeap: Eqwin Arthur Hall JBings New York Central 22%, Northern! o ——— {D. Williams, it was stated that| PARIS — The Canadian First hampton, N. Y. Republican, vir- |Pacific 19%, United States Steél! McGINTY BACK {Langdon had taken over Kerry Army has advanced more than two tually grected the new Congress 160, Pound $4.04. | Barl McGinty, of the Federal Pub- | McKinley's Electric Shop. {miles deeper mto northwest Ger- With a bill authorizing appropria- | Dow, Jones averages today are as|to Juneau today from Fairbanks| 'Tain't so. Langdon has the radio many and captured six more towns, tions ‘r_“r ‘"l‘]“f"?"“"j* for Gold, Star follows: ~Industrials, 154.75; rails, lic Works Administration, returned 'department and McKinley still op- one of them three miles from the Mothers, fathers, or next “.f Mg | 49.35; utilities, 2747, Vafter a brief official trip, erates the electrical end. Rhine, | Wollowing World War 1, the Vet., e 25 MILES OF . BERLINPORT | EncirclemenT Ei Breslau in Silesia Is Also Now Threatened LONDON, Feb. 9.—The Russlans itoq‘ny have smashed to within 25 miles of Stettin, the port of Ber- ‘ltn. They have exploded a fresh |offensive northwest of Bredau, .Lhri‘;nenmg encirclement of that hyge Silesian industrial center. | Marshal zhukov unlimberea one of the world's heaviest artillery | barrages at the fortifications along |the Oder, temporarily blocking the says the caption for this pic- son is expected to total abouit 5,- 000,000 cases, which will be about 15 per cent below the normal pro- 1944 yield of 4,856,000 cases, smallest in many years. _ Ira N. Gabrielson, Director of the the Ashes Covr Roofs, Sireefs of One Town-Sun Obscured 'road to Berlim. One of the first towns to fall in the new offensive of Marshal Konev, |from his *Maltsch bridgehead over |the Oder was Parchwitz, 30 miles | west and northwest of Breslau. | The Berlin radio said a German | communique stater the First Uk- {rainian Army thrusts had carried “almost to the east fringe™” of Lieg- \nitz, a rail center of 76,000 popula=~ |tion, a little more than eight miles | southeast of Parchwitz. i T 77| Russian armies are within 40 { miles of closing the escape gap from SALM “ p K]Brcslau, a city of 615,000. The |town of Kurtsch, 12 miles south of | Breslau was captured yesterday. o | While Moscew aid not officially NEXT SEASON |confirm the launching of a new | drive, dispatches satd Marshal [Kanev was in heavy fighting and | “hitting at Liegnitz, guarding the IS ESTI MAIED"approaches to Saxony.” An Associated Press dispatch |placed the distance of the new |thrusts at Stettin at 25 miles: a . . Reuters dispatch said 19 miles. Gabrielson Predicis About i o 5,000,000 Cases Will GERM ANS IN BePutUpin 1945 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The Al- NEw A(IIO" i 3 ] Fish and Wildlife Service, said S"Oflg Counterattacks Are shortages of manpower and equip- . ment are responsible for dectines Launched Against of the normal yield, which is about . 5,849,000 cases per year. | Flflh Al’my b - — ROME, Feb. 9-—The Germans |bhave launched a counter-attack in strength against positions newly re- !gained by the Fifth Army in Ser- chio Valley north of Gallicano, the | Allied Headquarters says. \ | The enemy counter-attacks are a | few hundred yards north of the vil- |lage of Burca. ¢ I" The official report says fighting is still in progress. Brisk clashes are reported in oth- g i |er Fifth Army sectors, but on the whole there is no large scale action {on other fronts. B e ammeees NAMED SENATOR URUAPAN, Mexico, Feb. 9-— Particutin volcano has been in such | violent eruption for 24 hours that OF CONNE(‘"(I"' windows and doors rattled con-| stantly throughout this city, 23 ptctt miles distant Streets and roofs of Uruapan are covered with sand and hes The eruption of the volcano ob- scured the sun yesterday. The volcano has been in almost constant eruption since its birth two years ago, but now the erup- tion is intense. - >es ‘Governor Apb;)ints Him to Take Place of Late Sen. Malorey - HARTFORD, Con., Feb. 9.—Gov. | Baldwin formally appointed Admiral | Thomas Hart, as U. S. Senator from Cennecticut, a few hours after the | General Assembly empowered him to fill the vacancy created by the re- FROM ANCHORAGE Grant A. McMurray, Anchorage, is a guest at Hotel Juneau, .. |cent death of Senator Maloney, Republican. erans Administration conducted | The governor said: “In Admiral tours for thousands of Gold Star'gari the state will have an able, mothers to cemeteries in France, | conscientious, patriotic American England and Belgium. It was a'for her senator.” relatively simple matter then. Now | —————— there are American graveyards in ' North Afric in Italy, France, FROM KODIAK England, Guadalcanal, the Philip-| 3 pines, New Guinea, Saipan and a C. W. Bettinger, Kodiak, is a score of other places, guest at the Baranof Hotel. l l i