The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1945, Page 1

_,Y AL "41 L THE NE ‘“%*»M k fi“ N ”'.\' H[ TIII"”'”I"' JHE LIRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD APRG 1945 MLM[‘[ R Abb()( IA'l'l‘l) l’RlSS’ PRICE TEN CENTS — R T0 BERLIN Manila Civilians Slain in Cold Blood By Japs ( NIPS FIGHT FIERCELY IN CITY AREAS Use Dynamite and Torch Wreaking Destruction in Enraged Fury By C. !ATES MCDA\IFL (AP War Cerrespondent) MANILA, Feb. 15—Fighting for each street intersection, American Infantrymen pushed forward with caution Wednesday toward the South Manila Bay front while en- raged Japanese Kkilled civilians in cold blood, dynamited and fired sections of the city well known to tourists. Enemy demolition fires blackened the skies as the Yanks tightened the circle on the doomed Nipponese, weakened, but still fighting. In the area between the Pasig River and the mouth of the Manila Bay front, explosions and flames swept over the bay-side, a stretch from the port area south to the Pasay residential sector and devas- tation threatens to match that wrought on Manila’s ravaged Ex- colta business district on the north side of the Pasig, perhaps portend- ing the beginning of the end of the Japanese ability to resist. There is a marked falling. off of Japanese artillery fire in Manila, due in part to the fact the Ameri- can guns throughout Tuesday and Wednesday bore down with con- centrated deadliness upon the sys- tem of cennecting fortresses in the old Walled City adjacent to the dock area, There the tiring enemy has been battling day and night 07 wRI OVER ek Fingering his glasses President Roosevelt (top, left), confers with Prime Minister Winsten Churchill of Great Byitain, and below he The Thirty-Seventh Infantrymen fought Wednesday through the University of the Philippines’ cam- pus to half a mile from the High Commissioner’s residence. The Japanese have destroyed the General Hospital which had been converted into one of te strongest posmom R R The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round - By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on ume service with the Army.) n (left) of Soviet Russia, as the “Big to held cunversatiens at which were decided. (AP talks with Marshal Joseph Three” met at Yall nea, Ras military plans for the final defeat of Germany wirq-hom from Signal Corps) PEARSON.IS ROOSEVELT WHIZONBIG 15 DUE IN it THREE TALK TWO PLACES WASHINGTON—The memory B of man s very short. Todsy Lo« Comparison Is Made with Expected fo Relax lfalian chairmanned the = Reconstruction | H|S Fore(asf and Whaf Armlshce Tefms_ Adiually Occurred VisitFrance sia Finance Corporation —the agency which has been such a storm center in the Wallace-Jones ficht, In fact | | few people recall t! Jesse Jones | ; was preceded in t office by an- | (In view of Drew Pearson’s LONDON, Feh 15.: —That some re- other Democrat, H?d that Jones| umique coverage of e “Big |laxation in the. Itallan armistice did not succeed—as most people; Three” Conference in udta'lre. |terms is possible and inquiry of and from a stance of 7,000 miles, the following is a resume of what he reported the Big Three would dc, compared with believe—Charles G, Dawes as RFC Chairman. ». The man whom Jesse Jones ac-‘ tually succeeded was the late At-| | President Roosevelt into arrange- iments for relief to French civilians lis indicated in continental received here. lee Pomerene, formers Democratic, what the Big Three did.) 1‘ The best available information Senator from Ohio; and thereby| = | from Paris is that the American hangs an interesting story of how! DREW PEARSON | President has not 'reached France, Jesse got the job which his friends | of the although the Paris broadcast said in the Senate say should not be WASHINGTON he is on his way back from the Cri- given to Henry Wallace. ‘ MERRY - GO - ROUND I mea confersnee. In 1932 when Dawes stepped out i ¥ rseil or! as RFC Chairman, President| WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Readers| The Masseille newspapers Hoover waited until Andrew|of Drew.Pearson’s column got an| 7 SeET in Marseille.” Mellon, then ambassador to Gxeatlamazn‘.gly accurate insight of what | Britain, was back in the Umv.ed Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill| The President is expected to visil States on a visit, in order to ask|would do at thefr Black Sea con-|Italy and arsangements have been his advice on who should succeed |ference well in advance of the| made by both the Fsench Govern- Dawes. |meeting. A comparison of the “Big ment and Allied Headquarters for Hoover told Mellon that Jesse|Three” communigue with Pearsons| expected visit to France Jones, then a member of the RFC, .culumm of Febru 3, and 9,/ A pews story passed the Allied but not chairman, had asked for shows that he anticipated most of |(ZDSOIship anneuncing easing of the the appointment as chairman, so {the important points agreed upon. | Italian armistice terms to some ex- Hoover wanted to know what| Here is a comparison of whattent . giving greater economic aid Mellon thought of Jones’ fmanc:al Pearson reported in advance and 'O Iul\ foresight and ability. Hoover also|what the Big Three leaders an-|trolsare reported in the offing. explained that he was seriously| I nounced: o2 i) oo g considering appointing a Democrat| 1—The Big Three agreed that as chairman. { Mellon replied that he knew, Jones, but did not think too much | of his foresight in finance, citing, the faet that Jones had plunged! heavily in New York real estate! which at that time was seriously depreciated -in value. Mellon went on to say that if President Hoover was looking for | a Democrat as chairman, which they will each occupy a separate| zone of Germany. This was re-| ported in detail by Pearson in his colymn of Oobaber 6, 1044 |quotation of Alaska-Juneau "Mine 2—All war criminals will be stock today is 7%, American Can brought to just and swift punish- 92, Anaconda 32%, Beech Aircraft ment. Pearson listed this as point y5' petplenem Steel 71%, Curtiss- 4 in the agenda in his column of anhl 6% !memnliuz;al Har- Pelagom. b ‘vesln 80, Konmcou 38%, North Polish Issue {American Aviation 10%, New York STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb 15 — Closing N 3-——The Provisional Government Central 247, Northern Pacific 20%, , uld 3 > > g ;mgewhmtm:endaa gmo:: :f:‘: Be ih::gm“’[ Poland in Russia (Lublin Gov- U. 8. Steel 62%. {ernment) will be recognized by Lhn‘ Dew, Jones averages today are as had an unusual knowledge of cor- 158.34; ra United States and Great Britai (Continved on Page Seren) follows: Industrials, \59.21; utilitics, 28.15. e L R (Continued on Page Four) advices v only nd that some Allied con-| SUPERS IN NEW ATTACK (Huge Planes Operaiing; ' from Tinian Islands- Japan Raided Today WASHINGTON r‘l:l) ! forts again hit Japan’s home island | war industries. An enemy communique, broad- cast ter the War Department annouficement here, said the im- portant manufacturing city of Na- goya, as well as are in the Mie Prefecture, across Atsuta Bay, f- fered *seme rge” from" high explosive and incendiary bombs, The mission was flown in force by Superforts of Maj. Gen. Lemay's | Twenty-First Bomber tHe Marianas. A from Gen. H. H additional details The War Department that a new group of now operating from Tinian Island in the Marianas. Arnold said “it will increase the scope of bombing operations against Japan,” and added that the headquarters of the Twenty-Fifth Bomber Command had been established in Guam The original bases were on Saipgn. Full oy tions. from “all thiee of the wmgjor islands v $he Mal-7 anas group has now become an impressive center of B-: opera- (tons in the Pacific,” he said. The planes at Tinian are com- manded by Brig. Gen. John Davies Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son was evidently making reass. ments of his views on the air war against Japan. He said the Nippons “in the diminishing area of conquest are offered no secure haven of safety anywhere.” A week reporters that brief Arnold gave bombers ago Stimson told although the air attacks were doing damage to Japan's war indus “the Jap's productiver had yet been fun Today he said, not lamentally weakened.” the Japanese admit the present damage to their indus- tries is certainly much greater than expected and they speak of moving the airplane factories and other \'ital plants to Manchuria.” e ALLIED AIR MIGHT HITS WIDE AREAS Forts Hammer German Kail Center Up Against Red Armies LONDON, Feb. 15 — American heavy bombers, carrying out one of the greatest air offensives of the war, blasted Dresden again today, |smashed ‘at Berlin for the fourth time in two days, and plastered | :'the clogged railways of Cottabus, 12 miles from the sector in which Russian spearheads are op- 'erating. ¥ Still another force of American heavies again attacked the syn- thetic oil plants outside Madge- |burg, 75 miles southeast of Berlin Even while this great armada {of more than 1,100 Fortresses and [leelatoxs. escorted by 450 fighter iplanes, was making attacks, the German radio sounded a new alarm as fresh formations of Allied bomb- lers were reported flying over Hol- land and from the south, over ! Austria. | The attacks brought to about 11,- 1000 so far the number of planes |which have linked the eastern and western battle areas under a blan- ket of explosives and incendiaries during the past 48 hours. - eee — WILLS RITES TODAY Last rites for Joseph E. Wills, who died in St. Ann’s Hospital February 6 were held this afternoon from the |Charles W. Carter Mortuary Chap- el. The Rev. G. man officiated. Interment was ' Evergreen Cemelery, 2 / in Command 18 | bulletin! no | announced | is | Herbert Hiller-| Roosevelf Confersal Yalia FLIGHT OF Ba@ Three in Conference af Yalta Pa Prime Minister Winsten Churchiil (back to eamera, cigar in ( \.md from beft ! {able) and President Franklin . of affs in conference at Yalta Palace, Crimea. and General George C. mouth, Roosevelt ( aro Corps) ¥roposed Drafi of Hurses Is Taken for Ride by finowmg One ODENWALDER .. BOOSTS FOR HIS SYSTEM Alaska Airlines, Inc., Sec refary Talks Before Washington CAB WASHINGTON, Feb. By WASHINGTON, Ieb. cther day I talked to an irate young She wore the uniform of the Nurse Corps, the bar of a JACK STINNETT r\n» ben that comes with 14 ce in the Mediterranean thea- r, many of them within gun range the front lines. For reasons, I cannot use her name. Her anger grew out of the discus-! draft of ! sion over the urses. “Don’t misunder proposed stand me,” she |said. “If a draft is nece ry to {provide the Army and Navy with an !adequate corps of nurses, we will have to have it. What makes me mad is the im- tion that nurses haven't done 15— E. T. pl Odenwalder, secretary of Alaska | their patriotic bit in this war, Out Airlines, Inc, urged the Civil Aero- of all this talk the public has the nautics Board to speed the decisio trained ‘purses have lain 4 i ; the job. Nothing could on routes to Alaska without tyin: Sirkhar fhond: S teath, in service to the Orient to its con- sideration. we this war started, 75,000 Testifying at the hearing on a I se about one-third of ‘the Heatio leg | entir ticing professi n the group of applications for juled P i g P R Paciic| United States—have volunteered for air services in the North AClliC Aymy or ‘Navy service. If there is arca, Odenwalder d “it will be any profession that can equal that most unfortunate if this service is record, I never heard of it. delayed pending settlement of in- “Of these, nearly 16,000 have been . Yl rejected, ternational complications that may 4 as crocked teeth and siuusitis, An- be involved in cslubhsl'mf‘nl of | 511 10,000 have leit the services routes to the Orient. mostly for good reasors or on medi- He said more than three times as|..; gisch s, T ¢n't know the many persons travel between the fioures put I'm pesivive that the United States and Alaska than be-| . ccntace of dishonorable dis- twedn the United States and North- | oharges in the Nurse corps is low- east Asia. ter than any other branch of the Odenwalder testified his companys coyy stydies indicate 68,613 one-way air| .now. lets take the case of a G trips would be made between the |yyajneq n in a civilian hos- United States and Alaska in 1946.|pical (there are about 150,000 addition between 266,000 and nurses now) who wants to enlist. 306,000 pounds of mail would be | paying knowledge in such matters, ca ied since routes to Alaska from c¢he gnows that there is only about th Seattle and Chicago are pro- one chance in five that she °d by the Alaska Airlines. meet the physical standards. Odenwalder broke down the esti= | foreion service they should be mate to show approximately 146,700 | sprict (there v 30,000 Army pounds of mail originating - in{pyrges,ove ut the Army cattle and 119,300 pounds in Chi-|eould relax its requirement; cago. He estimated about 45 per!for corvice in hosy s in the United cent of the passenger traffic would giaqes go gateway. can now) rigid use the shorter Cr 3 “Then she '-w'y./us that in the Cdenwalder also said increased ny; e s little rlmn. of vice to Alaska would level off nyey yig a second lieuten- to some extent scasonal fluctuation | ang's rating & pay V\.’AC.s have 1 passenger traffic to Alaska and pecome captains, majors and lieut- ould bring permanent increase inlenant colonels, but a good nurse can populatien and increase COMMEICE. go on forever as a second lieuten-| 6 A e ant. You may think this is a FROM SKAGWAY seltish consideration, but it's eer- Merle E. Sipperell, Skagway, is| __ - + guesl at the Baranof Hotel. ] (Continued on Page Sir) lewer left) To left of Pre: Marshall, and extreme right, Admiral Ernest H, 15.—The | | first licutenant and the service nb-‘ months’ | obvious | some for such silly things! For | lace, Crimea/NAZI ARMY PARALYZED " BY THRUST Russian Force Sweeps 17 ' Miles Forward in One - Day’s Fighting i BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb. | 15.~—Stalin anneunces the cap- | « ture cf Chojnice, in the old Pol- . ish Corridor, a city of 14,000, on the Berlin-Danzig railway, and also Tuchola, 14 miles southeast of Chojnice. They were taken after penetration by Marshal Mokossovsky's Second White Russian Army through the dif- ficult heaths of the forest in northwestern Poland. LONDON, Feb. 15 — A German military spokesman said today that Russian tank and cavalry forces smashing ahead 17 miles in 24 hours have crossed the N River in an area - only 65 miles from . Berlin in a drive on the capital from, the southeast. Other.. spearheads, Moseow dis- patches said, have raced 22 miles in an offensive west of Breslau and reached Goerlitz on the Neisse River ‘only 53 miles east of Dres- den and are now battling for bridgeheads to southern Germany. A Tuass broadcast from Moscow later said the Russian forces have reached a point only 45 miles from Dresden. Speedy Blows Fall Marshal Konev's steadily ' rein- forced blows fall with such speed and success it is suggested that German resistance has been almost Marshal right rim of table) sident are King. UHITEDPUTS (ASEBEFORE ~ C.A.BOARD | Cfficers [élI_Why Flying Franchise Sought to ' Alaska from States Joseph Stalin with members Admiral William Leahy (AP Wirephoto from’ Signal paralyzed. A Berlin military spokesman said Konev's columns have reached Autobahns and military highways both northwest and southwest of Forst, 65 miles from Berlin. Forst is on the west side of the Neisse, 12 miles east of Cottbusand and 40 mileg north of Goerlitz, which in tum is a town 17 miles west of Sommerfeld, which the Germans said the Russians had reached yesterday. German- spokesmen said Marshal Newman and Koney in this area has established Richard A. Walsh, said United’s “locse connection” with Zhukov's route and experience in serving forces fighting east of Berlin where vAhlxku during wartime equipped 1t they established bridgeheads over advantagecusly to provide, service the Oder south of Puera’enherg between five Alaska points and and 27 miles north of Norst. Seattle, there joining its transcon- tinental and coastwise routes. | The examiners are hearing testi- GEORGE Blll !mony of various companies seeking franchises to operate from points in Test Vote Revealed as Key fo Confirmation of WASHINGTON, eb. 15.—-United Air Lines witnesses, testifying to- day before Civil Aeronautics Board Examiners Ross T the States to the Territory. with the proposals of other airlines to {ly from minneapolis or Lethbridge to Edmonton to the Territory, ng Pudget Sound. Harold Crary, Vice-President- Traffie, testified that United pro- poses, if the CAB approves its ap- plication, to operate four-engined, 240-mile-on-hour, 44 - passenger planes from Seattle to Juneau, Ketchikan, Yakutat, Anchorage, and y- Fairbanks. Uniteds flying time from Seattle to Juneau would be five Ao, Henry Wallace To Slash Fares —~— Crary testified that United also; WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 The Dem- proposss to radically slash exisiing ocrats barely won the first House air fares and to do so wi test of the Sedate-passed George ment of a Lype it is now fI " Bill" which is the key to the con- the Army under contract. ’ne fare| firmation of Henry Wallace as Sec- from Seattle to Juneau would be cut from $85 to $53 United proposes fares which would be, generally ukrm less than standard state- retary of Commerce, The House voted 202 to 192 to pro- ceed with consideration of the bill to rip the multi-million dollar RFC nmodations. Uni- out of the Commerce office prior ted wou xm provide passenger and ex- {o the Senate vote on Wallaee's ) Press serv to and from Alaska and confirmation. between Ala rates charged in th and United asks no an cities at the same United States, mail Two minor party members join- ed 200 Democrats in the test vote. subsidy Eigbteen Democrats joined 174 Re- rate. \publicnm in oppmmon United, operating a transcontin-| ental route and also serving 20 MENDE"HALL cities on the Pacific.Coast, would be tise and solicit . traffic to Alaska, Crary said, as United's service is virtually with all of the cities with which Alaska has its business. It FoR SKATERS would benefit Alaska, he, stated, to have United fly to the Territory shippers one-company operation | I8 declared “safe for ‘skating for from Alaska to all major cities on|Siall parties,” by John Bi t the Pacific Coast as well as to scores | Divisional Supervisor, U. 8. Forest of cities in the Middle West and|Service. He said, however that ac- Atlantic Seaboard cording to last reports, the fce is A irough and has not beggclenrcd of in a position to attractively adver- cause it would give travelers and| Mendenhall Lake was this morn- (Continued on Payc Sever) SDOW,