The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD IRG 1945 ~ L HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9882 MI-,,\IRI R \S ()(l\ll D PRI PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945 TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGING ON ODER Flood Threatens Armies on Western Front GREAT DAM OPENED IN ROER AREA Canadians Still Grind Over Siegfried Defenses Near Kleve | PARIS,. Feb. 10—Canadian First o e o J | Army troops, bursting through the 3 % | concrete belt of the Siegfried Line \ in the Reichschwald forest struck today to within two and one-half miles of Kleve. | On the United States Ninth Army’s front, the Germans flood- ed the Roer River through the gush- ing spillWays of the great Schwam-| menauel Dam. Canadian and Britisn forces gain- ed two more miles, assaulting the carthworks of the Siegfried Line's secondary defense in powerful drive rolling toward outskirts of Kleve, northern of the NIMBLE HEAVYWEIGHTS that step around fast on self-propelled mounts and hit for keeps with a big-caliber punch, these Soviet guns of Lt. Col. Kuznetov on the eastern front are of the type that has been blasting and pulverizing everything the Germans could set up to slow the grinding Russian advance on Berlin. (International Radiophoto) the anchor REDS' HEAVY GUNS SLUG THE NAZiS NMB[RAB[[ SPECTACUI.AR RESCUE OF AIRMEN ~ | WAR RAGES IN MANILA House 0 - House Fight Is: Bitter-Doughboys Reach for Port By C. YATES Mcl)A\lFL (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, Feb. 10—American in- fantrymen dviving down mined streets against pillboxes and mor-| tars firing from upper stories of! office buildings, gained 2,000 yards | toward Manila’s prized dock area vesterday | It became increasingly clear that | the Japane: defenders | wijl every yard of mound, Gen MacArthur in de-| scribing enemy’ Y Mnnce; there “final stand,” said house | to house fighting there is “of the| fiercest in this war.” Enemy-set fires are still burning! in three sections of Manila, but trapped centest Douglas the FROM OCEAN RED ARMY IS (LOSING ON KONIGSBERG | Russian Guns Subjecting City to Terrible Pounding Today 'NAVY VESSELS ARE REPORTED IN FIGHT ' First White Russian Army Is Slashing at Nazi Communications * BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb. 10—The Red Army has cap- tured Elbing, Stalin announces in a special Order of the Day. LONDON, Feb. 10 — The Red Army today closed toward Konigs- FIVE AIRMEN from the 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach, Cal,, are shown in this remarkable picture just as help had come and rescue was assured. When the plane they were ferrying crashed, some 800 miles at sea, the of the Fourteenth Corps, told As- men took to their rubber raft. The balloon anchored to the raft holds an aerial for distress signals, Spotted by sociated Press Correspondent Fred a Coast Guard plane, surface craft later picked them up. Coast Guard photo. (International Soundphoto) original West Wall. Other units battleq ior the Rhine| town of Miilingen, six miles north- west of Kleve. berg, apparently preparing to storm |the beleaguered East Prussian Capital City from all directions. | American amphibious tanks are appeared to be diminishing. Maj. Gen. Oscar , Griswold, commander 21 LIVES NIP CABINET armies’ to slice and the In the face of Allied swiftly developing threat around behind tne Rhine rich Ruhr industrial area, the Ger- mans opened the spillway flood gates on the Schwammenauel Dam. Waters of the lower Roer River, along which the Ninth Army is ar- ARELOST, | IS PARTLY BLIZIARD RESHUFFLED Thaws Thre*fien Eastern|Premier Koiso Still Heads States as Rain Falls, It But Two Mem- Temperatures Rise bers Dropped (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) A pronounced thaw is expected to| Japanese cabinet wa (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW W PEARSON (Lt. Coi. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) The eshuff- land state areas where 21 died in a|cism. It was reported that Pre- ord blizzard. | mier Koiso remains at the head. Two n Elsewhere in the nation, mild tem-'men were dropped; Washington, Constantin Oumansky, peratures predominated now permits publication of an un-|" noy york State authorities are retary told story regarding the Oumansky ... ehensive of flood possibilities —The c family. i as the result of the quick thaw and |month’s The airplane cr_ash in Mexico Was o cequent rain. {znese the last chapter in a trail of hard| g, 4 jn New England states arelcd with luck which dogged the family from blocked for hundreds of miles by the time of his recall from Wash- 4 ¢ yanging in' heights from 12 ington. Few top diplomats and to 20 feet, State Department officials WET€! pwelve thous: and telephones neutral about Oumansky. He was aut 'of commission either thoroughly liked or disliket e p)’ ot by all, After his return to Moscow, | o1& o BE0 7 Oumansky was made head of the 5 ik Y WASHINGTON—The tragic death of former Soviet Ambassador to the continuing Koiso met each criticism, yielding to his critics. are d shortages are) - SECRETARY WAR ug! powerful Tass Agency, which was! | something of a demotion. | But after Pearl Harbor, whr-n‘FRESH S"ow BRINGS ‘ the Soviet Union joined the United Nations, Stalin decided he needed FRESH HOPES FOR k a first-rate man in Mexico to cul- EXCELLENT SK"NG |Paiterson Will Carry Ran tivate = Russian friendship w‘xm.‘ Latin American powers. So Oum- | of Four Siar Genera' ansky was selected for this im-| A group of Juneau skiers, on re- portant task. At the time, Oum-|connaissance patrol up the Douglas on hew Mlss|0n ansky's beautiful 16-year-old ygapq Ski Run, yesterday reported | daughter, Nina, was a student at | {pere was plenty of fresh NOW, espec- | WASHINGTON, Feb, 10.—Unof- one of Moscow's finest schools.|jgiy gt the second cabin and as a | ficially, the Army and Navy Journal There she had met 8 young boYresult, the. course is in excellent |saiq President Roosevelt had chosen ¥ho, fel oy nclave Whih JBE | shape, | Under Secretary of War Robert Pat- | WIS NI 9 s were ampy o | e Committee of the [tarson as the American member of Outdoor Moscow and just before the family | ju- oo ‘i Club will have plenty of | ne Allied Commission for post-war |altacks have been repulsed in the knocking down one bember anc was to leave for Mexico City, the ¢ hot dogs and hot coffee tomorrow young . lads ;Signiiy ieased, (Killed | and everyone from 6 to 60 is wel- | Nll]fm Oumansky, then shot him-| ... hev said. A short slalom v A | time triais will be held The entire incident was hushed ::ffy ?x?dlh'}x:;(cm:t‘m completely at the timé, even was: ™, "y cup, breakfast will be held kept fiom Mrs. oumansky, Who| . ihe Baranof Coffee Shop between DA A S Too REES. of 18:30 o'clock tomorrow morning and daughter’s tragic end and lmheved‘9 o'clock. Transportation to the she had been accidentally killed in trail will be available, it was an- i a fall. American newspapers even nmulx cw(l ISHEYIEDIE ounced. Germany. He made the decision before Patterson will carry the rank of a four-star general. “Patterson has no desire for the job but as a good soldier is willing to accept,” he said. continue over most of the New Eng- led in response to continued criti-'q, i the education pjtter Bataan fighting, have reach- | minister and the chief cabinet sec-/eq the town of Moron. ange comes on the heels of Base in Subic Bay, American war- long criticism of the Jap-|planes v effort which has increas- gweeping Japanese again bombing orvmesunoer NAZIPUSH ON COMMISSION ‘Germans Hfi;d 20 Miles he | coastal area where the Fifth Army, left to go to the big three meeting. | ™ | the naval base of Spezia. counter-attacks near Tagaytay, where enemy air-borne paratroops landed to begin a lightning drive South Manila, were “bloodily repulsed.” Thirty-Eighth Division trcops, | gentl |dent” re: ]L in erican) | portant. It's because ic m.pnrumv not because it anything really new, nor it will lead directly to any action on the part of Con- to put its houses in order, cause of the man who came "flat-footed for those chang: OWMR director “Jimmy” Brynes {i8 one of the most powerful and {recpected figures in Washington to- day. In tive job, :Congre. }onsiders “dimmy” one af the boys l"ACH"l('Y A former r who has made FLEET HEADQUARTERS, FOR- good hy. his owst ability and' with WARD AREA, Feb, 10—Iwo Jima ocut samificing his independence. in the Volcanoes was hammered February 8 for the fourth con- secutive day as United Slates war planes made wide-rangir atte against Japanese-held bases f the Kuriles to Yap Admiral Chester nounced that Army Liberators of the Strategic Air Forc h(,mh.xi Iwo Jima, troublesome Jag J 1enda base on the B-29 road to Tok Three enemy interceptors 10.—German counter tacked the United States flight, From captured Olongapo Naval made the widespread China Coast Furmosa raids, and Hampson “a lot of this d(‘*HuL‘hm‘ A is wanton and has no milit o pu‘m)s(‘ anw]u ~.w1 Americans e o o e Byrnes Hils Congress lho mu--r\ dcmulmnn cre’ who have turned much of the heart of ™ M Manila into blackened ruins ] Thirty-Seventh Infantry Yanks %o'd Swag by Speaklng are driving south and westward from their amphibious crossing of the Pasig River, heading into the flame-swept old Intramuros Dis- u aylng evl a Ile trict, which became a virtual death trap for its concentrated populace. To the south, two Japanese i KK ‘,”1 VNETT lIBERATORS GTON, Feb. 10.—That ding that “second presi- yines gave Con- taliz and his magazine article is im- . . bu Sirategic Air Force Planes Continue Work on Tokyo Road (or mosp of it) UNITED STATES ITALY FRONT, IS REPELLED r Byrnes scmething than a reform” recommendations else “again. For g elked nti-reform in both wing 'd on those here’s my gu the Byrn have: mem- of W. Nizitz an many from Naval Base of Spezia recom- ations uction in the size of igress (it could only come in j1 the House, unless the Senate were cut in two) is a post-postwar dream t even he considered now, 1 Red ROME, Feb. |Serchip Valley in the Ttalian west losing a Jap fighter in return. 7 Eleventh Air Force Liberators ‘N ade limited advances in the last bombed Katacka on Shimushu Is-| Allied headquarze)\ an- land in the Kuriles and all returned safely. : wor ies (now. $10,000 bers. This will bg minuie that pub- Congress the green not while any on labor are ances for staf! have already s many " nge. the committee the standing’com- wround 80 to about fought every inch a preponder- will accom- however, be few days, nounced. The Nazis were halted at Stret- toia, three miles southeast of Ma- and about 20 miles southeast of very lic opinion ‘Ger_ma‘lfiilflbs Hit Convoysin ‘North Atlanti Sink Seven Allied Crafi- Threat fo Use of Can- adian Poris “4) C--umnn of a congressional o | cabinet, composed of commitiee HALIFAX, Num Scotia, Feb. 10— chajrmen, to confer with the presi- the North|dent at regular intervals, Depen- American artillery fire in the Ser- chip Valley cracked another coun-{ er-attack, in battalion strength,: in the v ity of Lama, 19 miles north of Lucca, headquarters said. Allied patrols, along the coastal area, enpcountered increased Nazi ¢ cpposition. Rising temperatures turned the snow and ice to mud and slush almong most of the front. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, ‘Feb. 10. — *Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7', American Can 89%, Anaconda 317%, Beech Aircraft 12%;, Bethlehem Steel 70, Curtiss- German subs prowling Wright 5%, International Harvester Atlantic are proving a mnslam‘d‘.m mostly on (3) A congression= 78, Kennecott 37'2, North American threat to Allied convoys using Cfl""al “cabinet” of 80 members would Aviation 10, New York Central 23, adian ports. During a 22-day per- pot be a very effective body. eased (due lw unll er e Revisic reducir from will b and only 3) of | system, ' mittess 20. Thi of the w {ance of public opinion ! plish it There may, pme slight revisions—such as tele- ping of cc tees whose activ {ities ovi 1,;» ¢ re-definition of i the wsibilities of some com- — o reported the fall as having oc-| EARTHOUAKE curred in the United States. i S ! | Members of the diplomatic cm»ps\BlOODY B AT'“.E | | who knew of the incident never ! | mentioned it publicly, and when' HI H Mrs. Oumansky crashed to her RAGING BAIAAN | death in Mexico, she was still ig- norant cf how her daughter died Some Russians felt there was By JIM HUTCHESON H EI perhaps poetic justice in the bad | (AP War Correspondent) luck which followed the Ouman-; WITH THE U. S ELEVENTH skys. They remembered how when CORPS ON BATAAN, Feb. 10—The | Oumansky was counsellor of the Thirty-Eighth ivisi for the| (By Associcled Press) Embassy in Washington and Am- ninth consecutive day, is locked in| The Japanese news agency re- bassador Troyanovsky was his chief, 2 bloody battle in the rugged nor- poned an earthquake hit the main Oumansky sent reports back to thern” Bataan region. !island of Honshu, which includes Stalin which caused Troyanovsky’s| Fighting along the zig-zag pass Tokyo. It said the earth temblor recall and dismissal from the dip- asainst the strongly-entrenched extended from Kokkaido, in the lomatic service. Oumansky then Japanese, they made an advance northernmost home islands, south- took his place as Ambassador. of approximately 300 yards in the !ward to the city of Hachinohe, in Many American officials and first several days. |eastern Honshu, which felt the members of the diplomatic corps’ The doughboys are armed with main weight of the shocks. felt that this was a mistake on the Phosphorous smoke grenades, de-| part of the Kremlin since Troya- | |molition charges and flame-throw- The Weston, Mass,, College seis- ers for use in clearing out pill- mograph recorded a severe earthias follows: industrials, 154.85; rails, ve (Continued on Page Four) boxes. quake. probabl in central Honshu. Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. Steel |icd they sank a Canadian warship (5) Authorize cabinet members 60, Pound $4.04. ‘w(l five merchantmen. Lifting of to appear on the floor of the house Dow, Jones averages today arc ce sorship disclosed that a seventh and senate to report and answer, sel was torpedoed at another) . time, (Continued on Page Tuu) 49.38; utilities, 27.49. TOKYOIS recent | pite of his présemt exeen-+ day. tbeing used by the Russians, it is said, in the push against Elbing, farther west, which is receiving a | terrible pounding by big Russian guns, The ~German report déclared Naval units, led by the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, are taking part in the Elbing de- fense. A tremendous battle for positions |raged up and down tife: River as Marshal Zhukov's First White |Russian Army maneuvered. | The Germans report the Russians Powerful Force of 3295;.;1;a feross the middle part of the Sweep Over Jap Capi: faouth” chcatulitoe vl e L e fal City in Waves Kustrin, Frankfurt and Fuersten- TWENTY - FIRST BOMBER berg, key cities of the fortfications COMMAND HEADQUARTERS ON of Berlin. Associated Press Correspondent GUAM, Feb. 10—A powerful force of B- probably the largest to Eddy Gilmore, at the front, says ever hit'Japan, bombed Tokyo in Aimed at Berlin and have pushed “Excellent results have been at-| G€rman accounts described a big i |Reds have reached the edge of Zhukov’s men are systematically broadening the base of the wedge rare good weather” today, return- to within seven miles of Stargard, ing pilots have radioed. miles southeast of Stettin. tained,” one Fort pijot has re- ’fe“’_ drive by Marshal Konev in ported on the home-bound flight, [Siesia as “gigantic” and said the intercepted by Liengnitz, 126 miles southeast of g0 Berlin broadcasts approximately bombers siruck in five this afternoon and “some Tokyo the FC imm amage said REPEAT TARGET. WELDERSNOW time), ml dm])umv of bmnba and incendiaries continued for an hour AllIED PLANES Workers May Be Imported from Other Cities o et o e MAY BRING st [N PORTLAND » NAZY SUB PENS Prevenplowdown Jet Aircraft Penefrate Fighter Screen for Bomb- ers Bound for Reich | SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—The paossi- bility that 400 Portland welders will be brought here to prevent a slowdown in shipbuilding as a re- sult of a walkout by members of the Independent United Brotherhood of Welders yesterday, was disclosed by M. E. McLaren, segretary of the AFL Ijmuiden, on the Netherlands Seattle Metal Trades Council who Cos The submarine base is om»lm\“l they would be brought if ac- of the most active which the Nazis comodations were available. ctill hold. Tt has been bombed four' Dr. George Bernard Noble, chair- times during the past week. Iman of the regional war labor xty-eight Nazi pianes, includingboard is keeping in touch with the jet-powered Messerschmidts, | dispute, were destroyed in daylight yester- Allied losses were 26 planes, the German ten-mile-a-min- raft penetrated the American reen of 900 planes which scorting 1,300 heavy bombers! key Reich targets. | -ee BACK FROM VACATION LONDON, Feb, 10.—Flying Fort- 1es atlacked the German motor fuel depot at Duelmen, in Southwest Muenster, and submarine pens at ,ee BARRICADES PUT UP ON HIGHWAYS REPORTS WRITER nill of the Alaska| STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10.—‘Masses and Loan Associa- Of barricades” are everywhere along tion, and representative in Juneau | the refugee-clogged highway east- of Libby, McNeill and Libby, re- ward from Berlin. The Oder River uuxwd on the Princess Norah from |front is a short motor trip away, vacation spent at Havre, Mon-|the Svenska Dabladets’ Berlin tana. correspondent reported.