The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1945, Page 5

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19 1945 ‘AP Newsfeatures ORLD WAR Il is an underground war in the most literal sense of the word. It has heen fought in caves, man-made tunnels, rock-hewn forts, ancient catacombs and even sewers. Civilians too have gone under earth ~for protection against enemy bombs, to work _in guarded war plants, for guerrilla war. Here are samples of underground life. This picture, from a Japanese source, shows an underground hospital built deep in rock. ENGLAND Women sewed for Sevastopol’s defenders in bomb sheiters. At Odessa, 10,000 partisans used catacombs for o,:emlwm ugaum Nazis. People didn't just sleep in shelters at nighi— they practically lived there. Some munitions factories also went undevgraund Two Doughboys Duck Japanese Smper Flre SRR A Hoadel B SR & 'throughout the year. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNE GERMANY Siegfried Line, famous under- ground fortification, was held ‘invincible’ by Nazi leaders. Alrlme Poinis 95% Operahom North Pacific One of many Japanese who took to caves emerges. Tons of dynamite blasted foe. Russians Move On Toward Komgsberg Ferguson % Northwest § Plans “Constellations” Alaska-Orient Route WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—De-icing research and experience in flying to Alaska and the Aleutians will assure “immediate safety and re- liability” for North Pacific airlines operations, the Civil Aeronautics Board was told here by Kenneth Ferguson, Vice-President of North- ,west Airlines, Testifying at the CAB hearing on proposed Pacific aif routes, Fergu- son sald studies by’ Mis company had shown it could’ operate “at least 95 per cent o its 'scheduled mileage on - proposed: . routes. from .St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minne- ta, to Alaska and the Orient He said the .‘Gompany plafis to Use 54-passenger Twe Aluflnnn infantrymen, under hre of Japanese snipers, crouch-low as they dash through the ruins of tnmdjn;; in_downtewn Manila where the Nipponese put the lorch to many structures a§ the retreated. (AP 101, cipxml correspondents. '~ His oppon- ent was that little Yankee lady, Lockheed the service. As a result of research under- taken by the Army Air Forces, Ferguson 'declared, ' tHe company believes “we will ‘be < ‘able ‘so to equip our ‘aircraft ~that ice-forma- tion . in fbghv, will,mo: longer be a problem.” E 1. Whyatt, Northwest Airlines Treasurer, said he felt the opera- “Constellations for ‘Trocps of the Third whlla Russian Army move through a' German village at the lppl’nachex to Koni [s- (AP ercphom beru:, East Prussia. packaging of frozen fish'and other mgats. ‘The present compressor rbom will be enlarged for the in- | stallation of additional machlncxv‘ which will be required with lhe‘ expansion. Financing | The new. construction will be| financed by sale 6f first mortgage | gold bonds, bearing five per cent interest, dated April 2, 1945, issued | in denominations of $1,000 and $500, | to be redeemed by the company | over a period of 20 years, with | the provision to redeem sooner by ‘AU, ALASKA Nazis tried to move part of their last roller bearing resources in France to nean shelter after RAF air raids. via radio from Moscow) PACIFICSEA : COMMANDER : IN CAPITAL PAGE FIVE Cavos near Anzio were natural bomb shel- ters. At Cassino, British Tommies fought an underground battle for weeks in ancient :ryp!s. 2AIRLINES APPEARING ‘BEFORE (AB Northwest and Pan Amer- ican Give Facts - Roufes fo Alaska, Orient (Continued from Page One) this subterrm- menm Lockheed Constellations for the service to Alaska. £ Henry J. Friendly, PAA General Counsel, said the company esti- mated traffic of potentially 30,000 round trips annually between Seattle, Alaska and other points, » B¢hedules Planned. The PAA, he said, expects a minimum daily schedule of one | round trip and during the summer travel peak, four daily round trips. Friendly said he believes most 'of the traffic to Japan will go via Alaska (hecause of the distance ade vantage over the mid-Pacific route to. Hawaii, Wake, Midway and the Philippines. Pan American o o 0 0 0 o WFATH.ED. REPORT - W, S. Weallwr Bureait) ’lempen\lure Iur 24-hour period ending at 7:30 o'cleck this morning o o o In Jungau-~Maximum, 39; minimum, 31. Precipitation, /86 of an inch. At -Airport—Maximum, . 36 minimum, 32. Precipitation, .20 of an inch, e o o intends to eons tinue, as in the past, to serve Alaska by the only way, from Seattle, Friendly said, although the company has studiedy (’s y route, which would use m Minnesota, as the gateway. H said the historic pattern m business to Alaska originates on the west coast. Admiral Halsey Pays Sur- Elisabeth May Cralg, who represents tions, as planned, would “prove to a number of papers in Maine. Smith pe most sound, efficient, and -the isn't still fighting the war between jeast expensive” for North Pacific (ongressan Beals e paying 102 per cent. Local invest- | ors, George said, may participate | TEMPERATURES SUNDAY In Juneau—Maximum, 33; prise Visit fo Nation's Empue want ads get quick reaulq, the States and he is a south'n gen- tleman. ‘When he went to vote, he figura- tively tipped his hat and gallantly cast his ballot for his opponent (something no politician ever does, gentlcm'kn or not). When the bal- Marines fe Punch in Quest fo See Senator By JACK STINNETT, {were too busy thanking the con- \»on The vmg wfl§ 10& w ma WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Not.| gressman for the big time. RUSSIAN HERQ T4 meeting g senator. .is one of the, b oed best ways to. spegd,a fewshours be- | Government: officials are ,having tween trains, in.~Washingion. -Six | their manpower pains tod. The story ' young Marine officer candidates \\)ll is being told about the persennel vouch far it. Wihjthese 88 “hours | chief who spotted ‘a’ lively waitress| to{ kill, ‘they dflcide& to "Walk “over | at' his breakfast mook. .| Jm An ex- from thsmmn"btafio!m #ff§ Capitol| pansive_moment one morniflg, he add ‘mieet’ a senator’. |asked: “How would 'you' 1iké" to go Near the capitol, th(‘v ‘¢aught up | to .work for the government at with “‘a“portly, senatorial ‘looking|$1.620 a year?” . . gentlenfan headed'fn the same Qir-| « The girl withered him with one ection. 1. “Are you a senator?” one|look and then éxplained: “I quit a|tHis war, died Sunday from a of the Marines queried. The portly $2000-a-year government job to 80 wound suffered on the battlefield gentleman wanted to know why they |to work here. Now I get around of East Prussia, according to a asked. When he got his answer, he |$30 a week and I don't have to|dispatch from Moscow. The bril- said, ‘You boys come with me.” worry about paying income tax on|liant tank commander of the Third The result was a steak luncheon my tips.” ’ White Russian Army was the con- In the House: restaurant, a person- iqueror of Minsk, Wilno, Kaunas ally conducted tour of the capitol,| Scuthern chivalry still may pay and most of East Prussia. an introduction to Speaker Sam |cff somewhere but not in Washln!l-, Gen. Cherniakhovsky was born Rayburn, and a ' mcment in the ton press gallery politics. If there’s|y,‘the Ukraine, the son of a rail- speakers chair '‘for each of the six.|any doubt about it, ask that| .y worker. A broadcast from The: thing ' that their host, Rep- |south'n gentleman, Ralph Smith, poccow said he would: be given a resentative Frank W. Boykin, of | correspondent here for the Atlanta pere's funeral. Mobile, 'Ala.,” carefully avoided was | Journal. introducing thém to a senator. If| Smith was running for member-’ theé Marlnes noticed n at d]l theylshlp on the smndmg commmee of | RED ARMY TANKS RUMBLE ALONG ROAD TO BERI.IN LONDON, Feb. 19'— Gen. ‘Ivan Chcrmukhovsky, 37, Russia’s young- est gengral, g first} gengral officer to m\'ade ermian soil 'in Emplre want ads get qule results. ALONG A SNOW-COVERED military highway in Poland, Red Army tanks push in the general direction of , Berlin. A preponderance of heavy equipment like the weapons pictured above is responsible for the success "ot the- Russian offensives. The Nazis are still unable to check the drives, wau- (International Soundohote) DIES OF WOUNDS, service. IR | 'Bigger, Better (old { Storage Plant Will | i Be Consiructed Soon | {fimmt Jjob. He said that the company has jéntered §fbo. Contract with the Austin Compahy, engineers and builders of Seattle, and construction men will soon be on the job to start . assembling materials and supplies.: Orders for all building / materials and machinery ha%e al-| ready been placed. «Canlmutd Jrom Page One) to the s uary complete Other Improvements In addition to increasing the' plant’s storage capacity from foul, million to seven million pounds, | George said, the expansion program calls for increased ice storage, and, a third ice crusher will- be in- stalled on the face of the dock. | Fishermen will then be assured ,u‘ all times of being served with ice | that has been well seasoned in storage. ! “With this enlargement,” George | pointed out, “Juneau will have the finest and most complete cold stor- | age plant on the Pacific Coast and one equalling in size any in Alaska.” The Juneau Cold Storage Com- pany had its origin in Juneau in| 1903, and its growth has been steady and continuous. The firsi plant was on the site now occu- pled by Alaska Coastal Airlines, where it remained for 10 years. In 1913, the company built its first cold storage plant—a structure having a capacity of 200,000 pounds | —Ilocated on the City Dock prop crty, where the plant remained until 1927, when the present build- ing was constructed. Since that time the present plant has been | expanded to its present capacity | of four million pounds storage space. | . The new addition will be modern in every detail, of fireproof con- struction throughout, and will con- tain fish storage rooms, sharp, freezers and packing rooms. Equip- | |ment will be installed for lh(‘ " | ington, ‘pmn)ng Silver Wings on his son. in the purchase of the bonds. Complete plans and specifica- | tions for the construction of the | new Snow White Laundry building ! are ready, and the Austin Com- pany will also build this structure. | It is planned to start construction remnants of the Japanese fleet won't | for this project the latter part of 'come out and fight in the current " next month or the first part of | |April, and it is estimated that it 'will take six weeks to bring the project to completion. | As soon as the laundry has/ moved to its new plant, actual work will begin in demolishing the old building to make way for the cold storage addition, The ‘cold storage company also owns the land on: which the new laundry | plant wm be constructed, Lt. Peter Gruening, son of Gov. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening, amvcd in Juneau via Pan American lase Saturday afternoon on a 20-day, furlough, looking fine and ready to rest and. enjoy himself. Lt. Gruening was on the repor-| | toria} staff of the Empire and mak- | |ing good when he decid to go! |south and resume studies at col- lege. He later enlisted and last December was graduated with Lhci |class of aviation cadets of Williams Field's Arfiny Air Forces Advanced ‘ Pliot School at Chandler, Arizona.' and his father, flying from Wash- | D. C. had the honor of| Mrs. Gruening was also at the grad uation exercises. Following his furlough here, Lt. Gruening will report in the south for flying service at the front. g INFANT RITES TUESDAY Funeral services for baby Lillian | Guerrero, who died at the Minfield Home Saturday morning, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon from the Charles W. Carter Mortuary Chapel, the Rev. Edward | Budde officiating. Interment will| be in Evergreen Cemetery, } Committee that adjourned its mid- Chief City : WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-—Admiral William S, Halsey, paying a surprise | | visit to Washington, predicted the | Pacific operations. The commander of, the Third Fleet said, “Wg are going {0 have to’di | them out. - They havé got very little left to fight' with and what “lPV {have is 1 tone too good shape,” Halsey said he had not yet' re- ceived all the facts on the Tokyo | (and Iowa Jima operations but from | indi ations xL “was anmhcr _magni- | 4 d ficent and dete! LT. GRUENING ON FURLOUGH Jap Navy” Asked what his” optnion’ was nn} what was necessary to force the| Japanese navy to a showdown, Ha]—f | sey” replied, “I can’t get myself in a | | rat’s frame of mind. I don’t know | what it would take.” Asked about his pr ence in W'\slungton, Halsey said with a : “It is evident that even the | svupnd bestial Jap sees he is losing | Lumrol of the sea everywncre » lEWIS MINERS flmezg din Juneau today from Seattle on a minimum, 21. Precipitation, .02 of an inch. At Airport—Maximum, minimum, 20. . © e o 0. 0 0 0 0 0 TOMORROW’S FORECAST e o o Intermittent rain and snow tonight, Tuesday and Tues- day ' night. 'Warmest, 36”; coldest ' Tuesday ' night, 327 (I SR IR L B ' PAN AM BRINGS IN MANY PASSENGERS, g ! LA 5 058 B30 S Y . . . .o |® o ¢ o . e 32; ° . e {e e The following passengers arrived Pan American Airways plane; Al-, fred Cyre, Rod Darnell, Hermia} Darnell, Veva Beglinger, Ruth| Mears. | Juneau to Seattle: John R. Dodge | William Hiatt, Frank Wright, Hon-' best-liked confections : : ; here direct from the makess -§1.30 o 87.50: BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. * “The Rexall Store” orio J. Floresca. Juneau to Ketchikan: Dr. Ber-| neta Block, Elwin Scott, Oliver Mansfield, William E. Lewis, Gomer | V. Scorebrand, Mrs. May Wallner, Carlos Carlson. STILL NOT BACK IN fEDERATION {Stumbing Block Is Proviso that He Wait Turn on Council MIAMI, Feb. 19, |is still outside the American Fed- eration of Labor but he couldn't miss the main entrance if he Tol- lowed signs of the AFL Executive John L. Lewis winter session with a declaration by President William Green that négo- tians to bring the mine workers back to the federation had failed for the time being. The stumbling block was a proviso requiring Lewis to wait his tufn to get back on the Council — et BUY WAR BONDS Come to the TRADING POST And Play Your Favorite Game Sponsored by THE EMBLEM CLUB Tuesday Evening February 20 at 8 o'Clock in the Elks’ Hall Public enveted