The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1945, Page 1

© LICRARY OF CONGRCSS SERIAL RECORD THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9883 ER ASSOCIATED PRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1945 MEMB PRICE TEN CENTS —— | RUSSIANS DRIVE ON TODAY UNCHECKED Nazi Forts Are Engulfed on Western Fro r BATILE OF KLEVE IS ABOUTOVER Pruem s Also Reported Beaten-Floods Do Damage PARIS, Feb. 12.—Canadian Army troops have pushed beyond the de- vastated Siegfried Line anchor city of Kleve, leaving groups behind to| 5 mcp up the last nests of snipers in| ¥ basements and garrets of ruins in| the center of the city . | The United States Fourth Div jon has cleared half of the major| road junction of Preum behind the widely breached Siegfried Line. { This fortified traffic center is eight miles inside Germany and 45 w(’,‘mmnuéz; uh };ayc Fr:’c) - > The Washingion?g Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Cot. Robert S. Allen now on active 2 e i (Lt. service with the Army.) = WASHINGTON—Diplomats who' Dickie, 4, (left) for so studied the agenda of the “Big Three” Conference in advance, say | that Franklin Roosevelt faces the most crucial conference of hi: career. Out of it will come either World Peace and an ordered world for the next 50 years; or the early seeds of another war. Roosevelt’'s problem will be to persuade Stalin and Churchill to go along on broad unselfish peace plans, including Dumbarton Oaks, at a time when most of the trump | cards no longer are in his hands. Four years ago, just after France fell, Churchill would have given anything, any kind of broad peace machinery, any reasonable part of the Empire to secure American | Support. Today he will not even promise the return of Hongkong to China i Three years ago when Russia was fighting back to the wall at Stalingrad, Stalin would have given far-reaching pledges for a broad peace plan. Today he will not even accept Dumbarton = Oaks unless Russia has a veto of the Council of the United Nations-to block any disciplinary action against an ag gressor nation. i FDR. has to face the fact that: both Stalin and Churchill now have | most of what they want, and| Roosevelt is left with almost no, trump cards, except the humani- ! tarian appeal that the Allies must, not abandon the goal of peace for| which mankind fought, plus the| threat that the American people, if disillusioned, will become isola-| MANILA, Fels 12 — American tionist as never before. | troops and armor have poured g g |acress the Pasig River in increas- THE “BIG THREE” AGENDA !ing number Perhaps the toughest nut Roose-| Marine dive bombers added to velt has to crack is to secure the weight of artillery blasting Stalin’s acceptance of the Dum- Manila’s Japanese trapped in a barton Oaks peace machinery with-|wedge between the Pasig River out' erippling amendments. First,|and the shores of Manila Bay. however, let's examine the points| Tanks of the First Cavalry Di- on the agenda which should be vision, crossing the Pasig River, casier. There are six main items on|again thrust deep into South Ma- the “Big Three” Agenda, as fol- nila from the east and swept over lows: | Neilson Airstrip to turn northward 1. WAR AGAINST JAPAN-This through the Santa Ana district was promised by Stalin at Teheran|and fashion a vise on the Nip as soon as Germany was defeated. | forces. It was promised in return for the| -On the west side, 75 Marine Allied second front in Germany and |dive bombeis ripped Japanese po- there is no Yeason to believe Stalin |sitions near Fort William McKin- will not keep this pledge. He has|ley near Neilson Field. been meticulous in keeping prom- | Block-to-Bleck Fight ises once they have been given,| Thirty - Seventh Infantry Divi- and- F.D.R. expects no trouble about sion men were fighting block-to- this. 2 POLAND—Roosevelt is propos-‘Ermim (AP Wirephoto) Or Laziness, YANKGUNS PULVERIZE NIP FORCE Slow Clearing of Manila Goes Forward-Dive Bombers Join By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) District, along the Mikolajezyk, recently resigned from|frem heavy guns and enter the Russian-inspired Lublin of the medieval of Government of Poland. The United muros. States and Britain would thep! To the north, Associated Pr city recognize the Lublin Government. |Correspondent Fred Hampson, fly-| The President is also proposing that |ing above flame-blackened Manila, May's Twenty-First Bomber Com- Russia withdraw some of its claims said American artillery and rockel mand in the Marianas. | to old Poland as a conciliatory ges- |guns are hitting enemy positions| Details of the attack were not | kilometers in favor of Poland.” Also {with devastating accuracy. Other American guns ture to the Poles. 3. THE BALTIC PROVINCES—| ‘The United States will now recog-[tramcd on isolated enemy pcsitlons[fll'o received. pre-war ' nize Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in “Little Tokyo,” the as part of Russia. Thus far the|Japanese district. United States has recognized them| 7Troops of the Eleventh Airborne| (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Pz;pe Two) Thanks Brother for Rescue | Gary Williams, 21 months (right), shows his gratitude to his brother ing his life at Seattle by helding his head above water until help came. Gary fell into a pond. Gary and said: “I like him, ¥ Gidn’ Whether if's Pafriofism Taking Holiday, 1 9_1 Many block, house-to-house, through the bay ing a compromise whereby Premier shore in the face of withering fire mortars ' tieth nreiavailable when operational reports German territory in compensation EXTRA, ANNOUNCES WORLD PLAN Statement Is Issued from | History Making | Meeting Place | YALTA, CRIM IMEA, IS SCENE OF CONFAB Nine-Point Program Is Set Up for War and Peace - i | | | | [ ' i R L. Bembs burst and a raid by U. 5. carrier-b: to a 4,500-ten freight The yard is used pr Mg, { | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — —The| ¥ “Big Three Roosevelt, Churchill| and Stalin—have agreed on plans | for the “shortening of the war” in | Europe and for the complete elimi-| nation of both Nazism and Ger-| man militarism by cooperative ac-| tion in liberated Europe. ‘\ This is announced in a com-j munjque from the meeting ple 4" of the Big Three in the Crimea The conference was held at Yalta, and lasted eight days The conference resulted, the statement said, in the “continuing and growing cooperation and un- derstanding among our three coun- itries and among all peace-loving nations.” shops. Dickie hugged t want anything to happen {o him.” Feb. 12.—Relief from ge in Ju- SEATTL As for Germany, the statement the f nt housin went on, there was and will be no!yeqy, Alaska, ar effort to soften, and unconditional made § surrender will be forced. ! “It is not our purpose to destroy RC8IC Representative of the people of Germany,” the an- ticnal Housing Ag nouncement said, “but only when today that this localit the Nazis and militarism are ex- termined eligible for tirpated will there be any hope number of itial of a decent life for Germans and pricrities. This action a place for them in the comity of cordance with the recent anuounce- nations.” |ment of the War Production Board At another point, the communi- and the National Housing Agency que said, “Nazi Germany is doomed. |that such priorities would be made The Germans wiil only make the available in areas where NHA d cost of their defeat heavier to termines that housing shortages are themselves by attempting to con-|causing extreme hardship. tinue hopeless resistance.” | Apartinent houses and other ex- Nine Points isting dwelling units may now be re- The communique covered nine| ————— specific subjects: u L] (ordova Is just been ssible, George W. Coplen the Na- ne CORDOVA Alaska, Feb. 12—All of Cordova is closed today, Lincoln’s birthday. This in itself is not so unusual, even though in the States usually | only banks close. ! This mountain-snuggled Alaska ! fishing town really believes in cele- | brating holidays. 1 Outsiders have never been able to | figure this out, whether it is patriot- ism or laziness that makes every- | thing close on a holiday. | Flag Day, even Alaska Day and Columbus Day are celebrated re- verently here and funerals also! mean a day off for Cordovans. | One day last summer, after the business men, tired from a rushing busin the whole town closed down for a full day and had a community picnic. On the first day of the deer | season, school closed to allow the boys. to go hunting, But the most ambiguous holiday of all came last week when the boys {and girls traipsed to school only to be sent home again. There was no real excuse for .the holiday but the sun was shining and it was such a nice day the principal did not have the heart to keep them in | school. 3—A reparations commission is to ! R0 A be established with headquarters i |in Moscow to study compensation | (by Germany to Allied countries. | | On Poland | 4—The Big Three has agreed to i lwo jIMA merge Poland’s exiled “democratic | i unlimit sion ac- cony is in | | | | i 1—The defeat of Germany| through combined military plans agreed upon by the Big Three—a “very close working partnership among the three staffs was at- tained at this conference and will result in shortening the war.” 2—Occupation and ‘control of Germany through a three-way split of that country and occupation to be made under a three-power con- /trol commission in Berlin was' agreed upon, but France is to be| !invited to take over a fourth zone! of occupation and will be put on as a fourth member of the control | commission. Plans for controlling | Germany include disbanding all' German armed forces, weakening of the general staff, eliminating or controlling all enemy industry “that, could be used for military produc- tion.” Dog's Air Ride Serious Error Air Transport Chief Says Mrs. Boetfiger Asked No Priorities ileaders” with the provisional gov- ernment now functioning in War- saw to create a “Polish provisional \ | Government of National Unity.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — TWen- pyitish and American ambassadors | Department announced. |being. The Big Three also agreed | The mission was flown by Fort-ithat the eastern frontier of Po- esses of Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le- jand “should follow the Curzon "Line with digressions from it in some regions of from five to eight favor” to the Ge Anna Boettger, Senator reported, after Maj. Gen. George had testified before a Sen- ate Military Sub-Committee. Gen. George, chief Transport Command, sald whole business was a “serious mis- take.” Mrs. Boettiger be transported | immediately announced, but will be {yecognized is Poland's to right . |for what Russia gets from a0 ]Poles. but final settlement . MINES MAN HERE await the peace conference. B. S. Webber, of the U. S. Bureau | 5_Marshal Tito, Yugoslav leader of Mines, is a guest at Hotei| 34 “Bnrflnof. I the will/ (Continued on Page f‘i‘ght) orities. - transport. More Houses for Juneau; Priorifies Available for Malerial, §. Merchani Fleel After War 1o Present (emnlicaied Problem General Calls i 4 om WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — Brig. Air Force Super-Fortresses|to Moscow and Foreign Commissar Gen. Elliott Roosevelts dog, Blaze,| we the London-Polish Government, will | mounted behind 10-foot-thick walls have attacked Iwo Jima mllllal'Y‘MoloLov are named as a commis- | { . ¥ d t his celebrated high-priority ride | one-: Intra- |targets in a daylight raid, the War gion to bring this government into i country “just as a sort of | appy ral's sister, Mrs. Maybank H. L. of the: Air the | ed that the dog to Hollywood, but| Wit : |did not say anything about pri-|Shipping immediately after the war.]WLB will speak, and Rep. Stanley nlanes of the Third Fleet. f | | Coplen Repors. modeled or converted fo provide! smaller hceusing units. Applicar tions for permission to convert or remodel such structures should be with the Federal Housing Ad- ration, a constituent unit of in Portland, Oregon The t will be permitted use of materidgls contained in the War Housing Critical List and the rents charged will be under OPA regula- tions. Occupancy will not be limit- ed to war workers. Need for providing addifional liv- ing units for general occupancy in ested areas has long been re- cognized but little could be done, about it until materials needed to con, et housing for war workers could be released. By JAC STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—Even in this day when lack cf shipping facil- ties are harrying cur fighting men | | and the starved jeoples of liberated pecter of what to doj t merchant fleet after| causing plenty of worry vernment officials and men who can see few :yond their bows. days ago, a d out in high government circle$ suggesting that, through | lend-lease or some other means, a portion of our merchant fleet might | e transferred to other nations. The sauawk that went up is an indica- | tion of the political row that is | certain to come over this contro- | | ver | It might well now to ex- 1amine a few of the facts. | vent into this war with about venth of the world’s shipping, oximately 11,000000 tons. We !slm:(l second tF to Great Britain, " It is estimated now that when this | war is over we will own 50 to 60 iper cent of the world's shipping, | with something around 55,000,000 tons and that England will have ‘(Onhl(lel_'.\h'\' less than the tonnage {with which that maritime nation started the war. | nations, tae | with our | the i a | 1es | A few | was toss or , With a certain great demand for | Five) (Continued on Page {15 Navy Airmen Blas! H‘angkofi§ Dockyards ni BiG DRIVE ON SILESIA CONTINUES Red Forces Moving on Ber- ' lin from Two Directions -Many Towns Fall | LONDON, Feb, 12.-—The Russians, |encircling Breslau, except for a 15 3 lmflc gap, drove on unchecked to- }dk\y across Silesia. % | The Germans said Marshal Ko- |nev’s tanks have broken into Bunz- {lay, only 74 miles from Bresden, g | Capital City of the one time King- noke pours frem Japanese installations in the Taikoo dockyard at Hongkong, China, dur- Bemb esplosion at the left damaged and set Smoke and fire to the right rises from a direct hit on machine rily for repair work. (AP Wirepheto from U. 8. Navy- GOVERNOR EXPLODES ATEDITOR Gruening Attacks Writer in Talk fo Labor Convention Gov, Ernest Gruening, addressing delegates to the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor Convention at a luncheon this noon, apparently departed from his prepared text for minutes to deliver an attack against William R. Carter, Editor and Manager of The Daily Alaska Em- pire, who was also a guest at the luncheon. The Governor accused Carter of comparing him to a man living in a sh and desiring ‘the “extrava- gance” of moving to a house with 50 rooms and 57 bathrooms™ in dis- cussing the Governor’s proposed tax program and program for spending during the next biennium. A copy of the text of the speech was not available to The Empire in time for publication today. The Governor commended the delegates in the formation of the ATFL as an “act of statesmanship in the field of labor” as being in line with the desire for more self- governmenf in Alaska. He demned “excessive amounts of un- controlled absenteeism” in the field of industry, labor and government. Urges Pressure He urged that organized labor acting as a group make its demands heard by the Territorial Legislature now in session not only in the field of proposals primarily of interest to labor, but in all fields. “Labor,” he said, “should take an active interest in politics and find out who its friends are and who are not its friends.” Approximately 50 delegates and guests attended the luncheon as the first day of the convention got underway in the 1.O.OF. Hall. The Third Annual Convention was called to order at 10 a. m. by Dick Harris, President of the Juneau Central Labor Council. Several resolutions were introduced but none were acted upon, ‘This afternoon’s session was to be short and the rest of the day de- voted to work by the Credentials and Resolutions committees and or- ganizational business, Sharpe to Speak Scheduled to speak to the meeting tomorrow is Territorial Commission- er of Labor Walter Sharpe at 1:30 pm. Almer J. Pet- s Battin of the On Wednesd erson and Dr. R (Continued on Page Eight) con- {dom of Saxony. The smash took the first Ukrain- {ian Army forward almost to the Bober River, three-fourth of the way across lower Silesia and within 22 miles of the Czechoslovak frontier. On Berlin Front | On the Berlin front, Moscow dis- patches said some recent units have |been rushed up to battle over the new communication systems and | she bridge building outfits. It is | clear that this indicates that Mar- {shal Zhukov might be ready at al- any time to open the battle for - | Berlins two kingpins' on the Berlin | defense along the Oder. The Kus- trin-Frankfurt line is beginning to ! wear away under the incessant day and night artillery pounding. : | Moscow said the fire from Frank- furt forts is dominishing while So- | viet units crowded close to the rail- {way bridge supplying the Kustrin | Nazis. The supplies ran the block- ade last night to the stronghold, and these may be the last. A Northeast Of Berlin | Northeast of Berlin the Soviets have captured the strong point of Deutsch Krone and overran 30 other places in the offensive to- ward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. The Germans are still uncertain of the positions of many Soviet spear- heads. Moscow said “it is safe to say all connections between Danzig and Stettin are interrupted. | Tank units are close on the Oder near Stettin, | The fdil of Deutsch Krone, 62 | miles from the Baltic, has virtually settled the fate of the encircled German garrison and the railroad town of Schneidenmuehl, 12 miles southeast has been broken into, ac- {cording to the Germans. - R et AMERICANS RETIRE IN ITALY WAR ‘Germans Blow Up Flood Banks of Senio River to Stall Yanks e ROME, Feb, 12—American Fifth |Army troops who drove to within two and one-half miles of Massa on |the Itallan West Coast, have with- |drawn slightly in the face of re- peated enemy counter attacks. The counter attacking Germans threw heavy artillery and mortar |fire into the American ranks. Allied headquarters said Amer- ican forces have consolidated posi- tions about a half mile south of | Strettola, which is about three miles southeast of Massa. | Reports from the Eighth Army front said the Germans are continu !ing the dynamiting of the Senio |River flood banks. A wide area ad- joining the river became inundated when spring floods began. i THANKS The members of the Homber crew who leave Juneau today wish to |extend their thanks to the citizens | of Juneau and the personnel of the k Baranof, including Ray, Jimmie and Cliff, and also Zach Gordon, of the USO, for the courtesy extended during the 10-day stay in Juneau,