The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1945, Page 1

THE DAIL ALASK “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME" I VOL. LXIV., NO. 9890 " MEMBE "THE LIGRARY GF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD 1945 \ R R ASSOCI: ATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1945 — NEW HOLES Pacific War Young Na PRESIDENT, | CHURCHILL HAVE TALK lmporlént -M—wing Now Revealed Affer Big Three Session WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Pr dent 'Roosevelt conferred with Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Alexandria, Egypt, after the “Big Three” meeting and received an- other pledge of full support in the war against the Japanese after| Germany'’s defeat. | In a formal summary of the President's activities since he left the Yalta meeting on the Black Sea Sunday, February 11, the White House said Roosevelt in- vited Gen. Charles de Gaulle to meet him in Algiers. De Gaulle, the statement said, replied that official business prevented ~him going to Algiers. “Questions of mutual interest and importance to France and the United States are pending and I wanted very much to see the Gen- eral before leaving for home,” the President said. Upon leaving Livadia Palace in the Crimea, the President motored along the Black Sea to Sevastopol and spent the night aboard an American Navy auxiliary ship. The President’s travel itinerary also in- cluded a conference aboard a U. S. warship in the Great Bitter Lake, through which the Suez Canal passes. King Visits King Farouk of Egypt discussed American-Egyptian relations, and Haile Selassie, Empercr of Ethi- opia, was received in this same setting. In this conference, - the President conversed in, French. King Ibn Saud of Saudia, Arabia, also received the President in an impressive ceremony during the aftérnoon of the day following the | recéption by King Farouk and; the Ethiopian Emperor. Algiers was descril the Presidents last stoppfhg place abroad before leaving for Wash- ington, the White House announce-' ment said. ! Other Travels Secretary of State Edward Stet- tinius is now enroute from Moscow to make official calls at Liberia, Southwest Africa; Brazil, and then| as (Continued on Page Two) PUNCHED IN NAZI DEFENSES i 4 u ' s American Army in Sc Captures Five Towns in Saarland PARIS, Feb. 2v—The Canadian First Army virtually cleared the five vigorous counte: wing on the Western Front On the opposite flank the Am-|Orient. erican Seventh Army widened its resurgent front inside the industrial | Ame Saarland and captured five towns| Aeronautics Board _at the hearing resulted in a move within three and a half [for a 1is Captured Twe young German SS troopers, wearing a wild arra kecp their hands up after they were captured by units of the Seventh ilersdorf, France. to the west from Norway. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps) CANADIANS ~ BIXBY GIVES - STHL HOLD PANAMSIDE, ROADTOWN ROUTE CAS American Seventh Army peclares Seattle Is Gate- ruins of Goteh, former Siegfried Line | Bixby, Vi road center and repellea at leastcan Air rattacks which |the air se in | checked the gains of the northern| BIGMANILA | FORTSEIZED BY YANKEES | “Heavy Mortars Tearing . Apart Walls of Defend- ed Intramuros Section - | MANILA, Feb. 20—Manila’s Fm‘tl William McKinley was seized Sun- | day as heavy mortars began telr- ing apart the outer:walls of the Intramuros section, where cornered ! Jap defenders holed up for a bloody | final stand. | Some 17,000 civilians, held tages within the ancient walled city may have reached freedom| already. At least a few are reported | to have filtered through to Ihe} waterfront and escaped in small! boats. i Japanese fire from the walls is still heavy. However, heavy mor-| & tars taken across the Pasig River| on pontoon bridges, were put to) work tearing chunks out of thick outer walls of Intramuros, so tanks and infantry could move in, Three day ago the Japanese - commander was asked to liberate civilians within the Walled City. No formal answer has as yet been received. Fort McKinley was entered by the Eleventh Airborne Division and First Cavalry spearheads. Other Yanks swarming over Cor- regidor mopped Japunése de- fenders on that island fortress, | while still others pursued enewmy ! remnants on Bataan Peninsula, e £ 66 ENEMY CPLANESARE 0% SHOTDOWN MIDNIGHT | { hos- ! b S of clothing, 1 Only the wal ings in downtewn Manila. wivel chair on his head. (AP W They were recently moved way fo Alaska - One Siop fo Orient WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Harold President of Pan Ameri- , expressed the view that ice to Alaska should “stand on its won” and be indepen- dent of transport operations to the Struck in Big Super- fort Attack U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- |{QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 20—The Bixby testified in behalf of Pan biggest Superfort raid of the war application to the Civil was made Monday on Tokyo and in the destruction and of 66 enemy planes, MANDATED Nigh Clubs, Theatres and Roadhouse Must Close | North Pacific route. damaging | ined standing after fires started Filipines make their way through the wreckage, one of them ecarrying a Want fo Buy a Yachit Navy Has Them; Markel Slow, Is Report Made IndusfrialfarigetsinTokyo (URFEW 'S ; war, our global nav by retreating Japan By JACK STINNETT ASHINGTON, Feb. The market in yachts is slow these days. y and War Shipping Ad- | vachts and small anging from sail ts to diesel-motored floating palaces to sell. They're discovering ! that if they aven't exactly a drug on the market, the trade in them isn't what you would call bris: When the United States went to just emerg- ing from the planning stage. From Maine around the Florida Keys to Corpus Christi; from the Aleutians | to Zan Diego, it became impera- tive patrol every yard of our ( pleasure craft W to Japanese Handiwork in Manila are Discussedat New Conference ( i RED FORCES - BATTER WAY ~ LONG FRONT |Russians Withstand Ger- man Counferattacks- Cling to Positions BULLETIN — LONDON Feb. 20—The Russians have brokem into the southern suburbs of the rich Silesian industrial city of Breslau and an ultimatum has been issued to the German garrison to surrender. This is according to a Berlin radio military commentator tonight. | LONDON, Feb. 20— Russian (troops have punched several deep breaches in the German lines on a 65-mile front, stretching within 59 to 60 miles of Berlin and Dresden, |the German command declared, in- dicating that Soviet Marshal Ko- nev’s forces have resumed the big {push on these two cities after b withstanding Germati Ccounters ese had burned out in these build- IWO JIMA BAFILEIS TOUGH ONE Fanatical Dje_fefinders Figh Furiously-Marines, Air Forces Put to It UNITED STAT PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUART! , GUAM, Feb. 20.—American Marines seized the southern airfield in southern Iwo Jima after smashing through Japanese defenses “as fanatically defended as any in the Paicfic,” Admiral Ches W, Nimitz an- noimeed today Veteran Marines mowed & path clear across the island, extending n irregular wedge formation from {attacks. | The German commuinique today |declared Konev's fotrces have ibreached the German lines in the jareas of Guben, 51 miles south- |west of Berlin, and at Sorau, 28 miles farther southeast of Lauban, 61 miles east of Dresden. A later broadcast said Konev.. is ..u.- attacking Lauban, thrusting from Goerlitz, 12 miles Reyond on the Neisse' River and 41 miles from Dresden. This broadeast said Ko- nev had cut the Sorau-Goerlitz |railway on a, stretch at an undis- |closed point “temporarily,” Moscow dispatches said the Red Army, despite Nazi counter-attacks, is clinging to positions in front of the Oder-Spree line southeast of Berlin “while carrying out what may be some of the most important consolidations in this phase of the wa Field dispatches to Moscow said both Marshals Konev and Zhukov jare warding off Nazi blows “in |strategic moves which promise to pay dividends when the drive to the capital city is resumed.” | The Russians have pushed for- {ward to the north and have ad- vanced to within 47 miles of Danzig, capturing the Polish Corri- !dor town of Nowe. p STASSE The Washingto Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | miles and in sight of the blackened | questioned by counsel of other bringing to a total since the first steel city of Saarbrucken. |airlines, Bixby said Pan American B-20 attack on Honshu (Tokyo's Seven, of at least 11 divisions of lfe1r that Alaska was particularly Island) l.ast Thanksgiving Day of 1155,000 men are applying increasing jmportant and schedules there 732 Maj. Gen. Cu_rns LeMay, head- WASHINGTON, ieb. 20.—A mid. pressure to its limited offensive on|shoulq not be dependent on con- ing the ’_l'wem.y-Flrst Bomber Com- night curfew has been proclaim {the fringe of the packed arsenal|pnections with services to the ,Far mand, disclosed today. |for night clubs, theatres, roa lcoasts day and night. Hundreds and undreds of pativl craft were neced- to supplement (he d fleet, to get private Doors at Stroke of 12 GOING T0 BIG MEET two and a half miles long on the east coast to 1,000 yards on the west. Territory Captured | The newly - captured territory reaches from the northern slopes of | Suribachi, a Japanese volcano fort- | { litle ¢ 1! 'The y e them at was from owners service with the Army,® | WASHINGTON ~ Though they won't be present in Mexico City, the shadows of two potent figures will hang over the Pan-American Conference beginning tomorrow. One is the sinister spectre of Ar-| gentine Dictator Farrell and his! Pascist Government. The other is/ the remote control of Cordell Hull. The latter still keeps his hand on the throttle regarding certain foreign policies, especially his de- | #ermination not to recognize Ar-| gentina. 2 After the gaunt, grey 73-year-old | Secretary of State first departed, significant changes started to take! place inside the State Department. Last summer, for instance, when| Brazilian Ambassador Martins urged and demanded that Pan- American nations gather to con- sider Argentine non-recognition, ‘Hull flatly refused. He didn’t want even to discuss the matter. Last spring when Mexican For- eign Minister Padilla made the same suggestion, Hull was politely but equally adamant. Argentina, to him, was like a member of the: family committed for insanity—a question you just did not discuss. This made a lot of Latin Am- ericans boiling mad. They did no! sympathize with Argentina, but they didn’t like to have the subject tabooed. They felt they had a right to talk about it. Then Hull resigned, and mem- bers of the State Department began to discuss Argentina. Among others, open-minded Nelson Rockefeller, 7 el Rl Sl A o' (Continued on Page Four) | | region in between. General George S. Patton’s Third Army stormed into Germany at a new point, capturing Wincheringen, a mile across the border, east of Luembourg City and five miles from the fortified road hub of Saarburg. The Ninety-fourth Division seized four towns along the four-mile front | between Saarbruecken and Trier, the | Germans’ oldest city and the birth- place of Karl Marx. . Patton’s army made a surprise crossing of the Moselle River to capture Wincheringen. The Roar River, like the Rhine and the Meuse, is receding as the flood w: turn to t the opened dam g The. American First i British Second will | Philippir ] R e, (the Twenty-Fifth Infantry be able to strike toward Cologn the Rhineland and the Ruhr. In- deed, the Germans said, the Ninth attempted a cressing at Linnich, where the Roer is still wide. THIBODEAY'S RETURN Mr. and Mrs. the Northland last night spending the past several weeks in Badge, L,the States. During their absence, performance Robert managed Thibodeau’s Sgt. File also wears the Asiatic| Cash and Carry Market on Wil- Pacific Ribbon son ue. -ee - VAN HORN TO TKA Edward Van Horn, of Sitka, visited in Juneau today while the steamer Northland was in port. He is on his way from Seattle to his home in Sitka. loughby Aven | | | i aters reé- | INFANTRY ir banks in 36 miles from ' ING) 1 § e a:\os to Roermund. 'PINES (Delayed)-T/Sgt. Philip File instruments and good results were|and said h and Ninth has landed on Luzon Island in the!obtained with the Naka Jima Mu- Manpower Control to “deny ceiling J. A. Thibodeau Fifth | land small son, Joey, returned on as a fighting unit, he is entitled after to wear the Combat Ihfantryman’s| That Monday’s big strike on houses, saloons and & Bixby said his company contem- Tokyo w?s d_ehvel"ed in suppor! of | of entertainment plated onz stop in the sghedule, lr}v M_arme invasion of Iwo Jima, Nation, Seattle to Tokyo, and that one to be 70 miles south of Tokyo, was also| This actior in the Aleutians. He also said he revealed. | War Mobiliz was convinced that Seattle was the| The big bombers shot down 21Byrnes and gageway to Alaska, and not Chicago. enemy fighters, probably destroyed 26 rther “place throughotit the East. has. heen taken icn Director Jame: effective February S i A58 20 others, and damaged 25. Three The order is expected to make| B-29's were lost. New York's Broadway and countless M.ASKA Bov Pmup | The B-20 force that battered other amusement centers in the n |urban industrial areas of Japan’s tion look like deserted villages. | war center Monday, was the largest| Byrnes’ mandate took the formg of F".E MNDS 0" lulo“ lever sent from the Marianas bases. a “request” on operators of enter- Indications are that 150 Super- tainment places to have their forts roared over the Tokyo region | patrons out tand doors locked by | WITH THE TWENTY - FIFTH Monday from bases on Tinian and midnight but Byrnes has also in- (TROPIC LIGHTN- Saipan Islands. vcked Manpower controls to make | DIVISION, IN THE PHILIP-| The B-29's bombed by precision compliance to all intents obligatory | would the War| ask establish- outstapding | enemy. | awarded for against the with * three gam- ¥ As announced at the Rotary Club lunch today all Juneau and Douglas former : servicemen have been invited to be (Tropic industrial targets attacked. and this would deprive Lightning) Division. | Gen. LeMay announced in his ments of employees.” Son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude File communique that fighter opposition — Byrnes said the purpose of . the of Central, Alaska, he enlisted in‘was light but anti-aircraft fire mandate is primarily to “save coal| the army in 1939 and was gent was heavy consumed in heating and in provid- to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, When ! e ing, elactribify, ‘it Ao MoLld Ba| the Japs struck Pearl, Harbor. | in the fields of manpower for trans- s i wa LOUDSPEAKER OF - 5oy oo New Georgia where the Twenty-| PRl il Division distinghished itself | GERMA“S DRAWS MORTAR FIRE ; U.S. MO 10 CHAMBER, LEGION ROME, Feb. 20—A German loud- » paign stars. speaker propaganda broadcast was He was a constiruction 'located and concentrated mortar worker and his present military fire stified it and relieved the e duty is as a platoon sergeant. He monotony on the Eight Army front the 'uue%ts of the Juneau Chamber has two brothers in Alaska, C. E.) Acaivity in Italy otherwise was 0f Commerce at their regular weekly File, a Private in the Infantry, confined to patrols and the Fifth|luncheon. Thursday, and also to be and J. M. File, a Private in the Army improved positions somewhat " #uests of the American Legion in the Signal Corps. in the Tyrrhenian Coastal area. Dugout on next Monday night. nes with a combat unit of ashine aircraft factory among the {o any place violating the mandate | | six boa | 17 of them. ned their be 5. Ot their Ecores of these t over to the Navy g mediately offered and fishing beats n pleasure craft For months this makes guarded our coastal waters, ything from depth bombs sidearms that couldn’t d armament at all. They not only served to shore up an important yreqch in our defense system, but they permitted hard-pressed manu- facturers and shipyards to give at- »ntion to the more important long - vessels and deadly PT boats. e Na has the situation hand, and many of these are being turned back to owners offered for sale un- Surplus Property Act. , it is up to the 'plus those craft r need and turn them Shipping Admin- WSA merely ad- o5 for bids, except in some in- former owners are them | batch of the went to war were ed just the other day. Twenty- s had been offi for sale, but high bids were accepted on only Bids on the other nine were so disappointing that WSA de- clared no sale and will offer them again, Bids are now the second batch of of the palatial now boz over to the istration for sale Bids on the ure fleet t being received on| 44 boats, None far is in th but there prob boa 1 s v (Continued on Page Thiee) ress, to the southern tip of the island, which is now cut off from its northern defenders. At the edge of the prized Moto- yama Airfield Number Ore last ~|night a battalion of Japanese at-| tacked in full strength down the runway fo the southern edge of the airstrip but the Twenty-seventh Marine Regiment beat it back fierce- ly and drove off the Japanees rem- nants Sporadic artillery and mortar fire fell on the American beaches on (Continued on Page Three) D $ STORES WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY; GIV ORDER TOMORROW City and Terriforial Offices, Banks, Schools Also Take Holiday Housewives should take notice and put in their orders for foods early tomorrow, stores will be closed in Juneau on Thursday, which is Washington's Birthday. City and Territorial offices will also remain closed for the day, as will banks and the public schools, with pupils returning for regular sessions on Priday. as Former Minnesofa Gov- ernor fo Aftend Confer- ence af San Francisco | WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — Com:: mander Harold F. Stassen, former | Governor of Minnesota, said he |considers his appointment by Presi- dent Roosevelt to the San Fran- cisco United Nations Conference a political liability. He told newsmen at a conference: | “However, you can't weigh a matter of that kind with anything as serious as the nation's hopes to prevent another world war. I'm a {Republican weighing the whole ‘thing. Republicans are apt to look jupon it as a political liability. |However, I have not the least |hesitation in accepting the ap- | pointment.” | Commander Stassen, a member |of Admiral Halsey’s staff, said he would be granted a leave by the |Navy to attend the conference, add- ing he would go “in civilian clothes and would act, speak and think jas T wish, il L e THREE FOUND GUILTY CITY POLICE COURT | In City Magistrate's. Court this | morning three persons were found | guilty of drunk and disorderly con- | duct and were each fined $25. They 'were Eathal McCammon, Hollace McCammon and Emma Mayeda.