The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1945, Page 1

CONGRLSS SERIAL RECORD THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” { : VOL. LXIV., NO. 9892 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDA ll"BRL/\R\ 22, 945 i "PRICE TEN CENTS —_ | FIERCE BATTLE RAGING ON IWO JIMA Russians Making New Gains Nea First Marines fo Die al Iwo Jima RED TROOPS ENTER NAZI HINGETOWN Germans Launch Surprise Counterblow, Reopen | Corridor * LONDON, Feb. 22.—Russian forces again 'have battered their way into Guben, German hinge point on the | Neisse River, 51 miles southeast of Berlin. The German military com- mentator reported street - fighting | going on in the town. He said | Guben had previously been by-pass- ed by the Russians. Russian advices announced gains up to the confluence of the Neisse and Oder rivers. In East Prussia, Col. Ernst von | Hammer, Berlin commentator, re- ported Russian pressure has They Got Midnight Blues WORK WILL - BEGINSOON ATHOONAH {Two Alaskan Firms Get in on ley Straifs Native Town Project A half million dollar contract for ‘xhe literal rebuilding of the Tcy | Straits native village of Hoonah w | announced as let today by H. B. Foss Company, on the housing project The Alaska Construction Com- pany headed by Henrik Valle of Seattle, Washington, received the % | contract a ard for a $586,000 figure. Jerry McKinley, of Juneau, will do the wiring of home units and street wiring for §24,000. Art Hicks and John Cushing of Sitka, known as the Territory Con- struction Company, worth of site improvement work. architect-engineers will do $100,000;, These two Marines, slumped. in death, lic the y fell cn Two Jima, first v s of Japanese gunfire as r Berlin 'ONE MORE ~ DIVISION - THROWNIN Invasion Force Increased Now to 45,000 Men- Many Are Dead !" UNITED STATES PACIFIC | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 22.—The Third Marine Division, inereasing the invasion force to pos- | sibly 45,000 men, has been thrown 1 into the furious battle for Iwo Jima | to fill in the gaps caused by casual- ties that are already exceeding 3,600. \ In disclosing these fresh commit- i ments in a communique, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz acknowledges | that Japanese resistance rose to | such a high pitch Wednesday after- noon, the third day of the invasion, that the hard-fighting Devil Dogs were virtually stbpped in their tracks. American ccnguest of that strategic Japanese island began the toughest fight the Marines have had for 168 on assignment with the war- sco by Navy radio. (AP Wire- creased to greatest ferocity,” more than 2,000 Soviet planes \um—( ing in the assault . He said Zinten, 17 miles south of Koenigsberg and | | The reinforced Leathernecks are | holding the wedge across the south tip. with flamethrowers, and tanks although they are unable to advance The project calls for building of eighty new housing units to replace | structures razed in last year's dis- years. This picture, made by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press phote time still picture pocl, was flown to Guam and transmitted to San Fi photo) & 15 miles from the coast, had been | evacuated by German forces. | While Russians have scoreG new‘ gains southeast of Berlin, other So- | viet troops have been forced to give some ground in East Prussia, in the | face of heavy German counterblows | west of Koenigsberg. The Berlin | radio said a surprise Nazi :oumer-, offensive has re-estabished the cor- ridor between Koenigsberg and its | port of Pillau, 20 miles to the south. The Russians have acknowledged | some German advances in that sec- | tor, but said the drive is costing the | Germans enoromously in men and equipment farther to the north. (Continued on Page Two) The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Mhert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.* WASHINGTON—Supreme A!hed leaders are now in a position where they expect the war with Germany to end any day; but they don't want to make the same over- optimistic mistake they did last; fall, when they were confident hos-, tilities would finish before Christ-' mas. At present, Geérman_ prisoners are reported being taken on the West- ern Front at the rate of about 1,600 a day, but there seems to be no general breakdown of German| Army morale. During three weeks; in late January and early February, the American Seventh Army and! French First Army took over 15,000 Nazi prisoners, which is a good haul. But it does not mean’ that large blocs of the German Army are surrendering en masse, as the| Italians did in North Africa. Judging by all the standards or‘ Three chorines at Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe in New York un- smilingly peruse the news about midnight closing of might elubs, ef- feetive February 26. Lefl to right: Joe Skylar, Marie Noel afid Virginia NEW GAINS éSIIMSON IN REPORTED DENIAL OF BYPATTION SURRENDERS 22—Gen. George s.| 3 5 A PARIS, Feb. 22-Gen, Georse S Gays Nazis Giving Up in | Patton’s American Third Army, running high- wide and hanesome again, stormed to within five miles of Triem They crossed the Sa2ar River against disintegrated Nazi resistance and swept up three more Nazi towns in the Moselie Valley.| Small Bafches—Re- sistance Stiff tary of War Henry L. Stimson said % (,da" ‘No mass surrenders” are oc- | Already tanks and infantry are .. ino on the Western Front, al-| wnhm sight of the main defense’ (hough more than 900,000 Nazis have works covering Trier, a city 88,000, and keystone to the whole| Germany defense system before thc; migdle Ritne. {cers” he had cabled Gen. Dwight They are a mile and a QUATEr gicenhower, who replied that pris- from Monz, site of a large fort aljopers were being taken but “there the coniluence of the Saar and \\as no indication of mass surren- Moselle Rivers. o 15" While Patton’s columns advanced | bl £ three miles or more immediately | rnfi:‘“mme ‘“":“m stiff along the | f e ¢ front, Eisenhower told Stim- north of the industrial Saar dis- Bt eines NovEmisE ABEE: the date trict, Gen. Patch’s Seventh Army ° f‘ ihc Allied landingé in I\}urt’l’) ‘M- |smashed into the district from the | © south, advancing within two,miles|HE8:. 1,194,000 ‘ensuly, prsoners had | He told a news conference that WASHINGTON, Feb, 22-Secre- | of 'heen taken prisoner in that theatre ! w of the rumors of mass suncn-‘ | astrous fire. Each home unit will | have two bedrooms, a large com- { bination living and dining room with stair access to the attic where further bedroom space can be had. The exteriors of the houses will be of cedar shakes, natural stain. Lots will average fifty by eighty feet to {leave twenty feet space between ! units. The homes will rest on reinforced concrete footings and contrary to nermal native | ce, none will be | placed on the beach. Contactor Valle is expected to ar- rive in Juneau next week and con- | struction will get under way 5001 as possible. A Federal Public Hous ! ing Authority engineer will supervise | the job which will take all summer. — o NIPS SEAL THEMSELVES IN TUNNELS | Blow Up Main Ammuni-. 4 tion Dump on Corregidor —Hofel Is Captured By C. YATES McDANIEL Associated Press War Correspondent | MANILA, Feb. 22.—The Japanese are hopelessly sealed in Corregidor’s | network of tunnels. They blew themselves up by touching off the ymain ammunition dump yesterday as the American forces tightened the ‘squeeze on the remaining enemy | garrison there. Marines charge over a rise on the beach at Iwo Jima where Japanese defenders a necks their toughest {ight in 168 years. This picture, b Joe Resenthal, the still picture pool, was radioed from Guam to San Francisco by the Navy. (AP Wirephoto) Luzon SIraIegy Is One Leathernedks (hége Ahead at Two B 8 AN ik e giving the Leather- Associated Press photographer with MMBS SINK | % | Airfield Number 1, | appreciably they hurled back a | counterattack in the vicinity, Drive Halted | = @n the north end, Nipponese mine “flelds and intense mortar and artil- ! lery fire temporarily halted the drive toward the airfield in the center of the island. The Third Marine Di- | vision has been Fourth Division and the Fifth, thus approximately 45,000 Leathernecks may have been committed to the op- era N against the Japanese. This is an estimate in today's unique, _The forces totalled 20,000 when e island was invaded Monday. The rines, having captured the main objective, big Motoyama Bomber were checked during an enveloping drive toward the island’s other airfield to the north. Admiral Nimitz, who, earliér dis- closed the Marine casualties, to 8 a. m. Wednesday, embracing 48 hours of activity, exceed 3,600, said in to- day’s communique that more than 850 Nipponese dead had been count- ed, making it clear that this is an incomplete count. ALLIES IN - VICTORY I BURMA AREA Chmese Flfheth Division Captures Rich Silver ‘and Lead Mines reinforced by the * | been taken by the Allies, mdudmg‘ The Yanks have captured the| F n a ki the capital. P! |of ruined Saarbrucken, the cap; \sou 000 in Western Europe since the | Manila Hotel, one of the luxury CALCUTTA, Feb. 22—Troops of ericans captured half of ofHis Americal it | Normandy landmg last June. ‘<pots of the Orient. { ‘lhe CUTTA, Feb. 32Truops of bach, French gateway to 5«.41—» September 28, 1918, six weeks be-|F0rba s | ' Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the under Lt. Gen. Sultan have cap- ! u s rea ove tured the rich Baldwin silver and lead mines 22 miles north of La- th |brucken, from raw conscripts, the ! . ::; ,fm‘;::’bxi?;e' ,::,"e L‘::,em:ggr Volkssturm, who were bolstered hy enemy in Corregidor fortress, at the minds that defeat was inevitable,|heavy German weapons. S(oried i«*mrance of Manila Bay, has been At that time, as now, it was meISpnche:en fell and the Slegfrie(l destroyed, except for final mopping |shio, scoring the greatest Allied o ’ Line is within view. 50 Ivictory in Burma since the cap- civilian government in Berlin which ture of Myitkyina. ‘up and declared a thorough comb- | wanted to resist longer. Drive Toward Ruhr i | ing of Bataan Peninsula showed not | One of the signmoam‘ documemg‘ The Canadian First Army in the; cn oo Mriatpnl by il b el (Sl Hindenbul'g; s Ve i Of‘ prison authorities as capable of producing reply to Prince Max of Baden, who | bitterly-contested Calcar, in the the last war, Germany should have; capitulated long ago. It was on| NNETT place, i alrmost i!!Ll!l‘.('l'(\';ll]]" WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Amer- 22.—Some | that MacArthur would approach | jcan bombs sank a Japanes alveady | through the hazardous Narrows up| ne (Lu-|the west co sinking at a news conference. The var Departmer: ex- | of the disaster. It occurred off the e P BERLIN PEACE RUMORS Knowing just what is going on| inside Germany today regarding an armistice is one of the Allied handicaps. A certain amount of in- formation leaks out via the neutral countries, It is reported, for in- stance, that Ge r m a n business leaders would like to use Hjalmar a single Jap left alive. By JACK ST The First Cavalry Division troops,| WASHINGTON, Feb | fighting on the south Manila shore- | armchair strategists here ship, loaded with 1600 Americans, enough lead to supply the entire m. |drive toward the Ruhr Valley. Ix; 4 ke off the' Philippines last December, Jap war machine, were left intact RO Lo S e |was reported from Gen. Omar| <Mamla Hotel battered but not be- ampaign as a bit of military £ & , by the enemy. The Japs gave up ment and who appealed to Hinden- ept | : Mg ey L S ‘ ¥ 4 et and of fewer than half who survived, . o 4 my. Gri {yond salvage. The cavalrymen 2 Others chalk it up as whole he enem 16 wrong on both the mines almost without a fight, burg on October 2, 1918, to con-|Bradley’s Twelfth Army Group . all e A ght, " 3 St- sale dunderheading on the part of count ) have, but they | all but two were apparently recap- | RBritish troops, meanwhile, en- N " 2 S p riangle 11 of Intramuros, in which the Japanese generals. Hindenburg, replying next day,|ance in the Saar-Moselle triangle —_r '““ ¥ ¢ y i 4 bty i :nd l‘; e o H’;‘js now virtually cleared, “completely | Japanese are holed-up for a bitter,| Over at the War Department the ings on Leyte and other is] 9| Lt. George Karl Petritz told of the 'awaddy River at Singu, 40 milee b disintegrated.” Ad Th d Y d wetually a d north of Mandalay, capturing the vance ousan arl S American howitzers are pounding [are a few who give their opinions|The Navy I village of Zigon after an advance on its demand of Sunday, 29th Sep_\bmg, was unopposed. Saarburg it- | {the walled city's thick eastern wall grudgingly, but ail of them agree it a successt tember, that a peace offer to our |Self is almost. cleared. There are| [to make way for tanks and thelthat Gen. Douglas MacArthur has cording to th enemies be issued at once.” |indications of a general German | H RESlSiafl(e ] Meantime, they have captured the | greatest strategies of this global war. in Berlin still held out, and it took |¥ald- . | | three-story Ermita Normal School,| Soon aiter he piled into Leyte, it| Sneaking up the west coast, he(both by submarine actlon, wexe re- (h nc on i 4 Despite these spectacular gai ROME, Feb. 22—American Fifth | southeast of the Manila Hotel, and | was determined that there were be- | put his force Lingayen Gulf | ported in the Pacific. One occurred | al es until November 11 to arrange an| & last October with the apparent loss | |chipping progress for the Blltlhh|aul"))ll§(’ assault which recaptured | | the City Hall, three blocks north of on Luzon. * Part of these were in Japans and Canadian troops in the north.|{Mount Belvedere, 30 miles south- |tht- school, |the north of the island, part in the | strategists here are positive that the aboard. ‘ It is evident that Gen. legh(,.“e«[ of Bologna. They have gained| There are still thousands of Japa- [south. With MacArthur’s forces recapture of the Philipzines will go| The other happened in Septem-| T.e Senate of the Alaska Legisla~ {full-scale offensive between these attack against stiffening German‘once strong enemy occupation forces |dora and Marindugue, they concen- | the better military strategles of all | survived., paychecks as the House of Repre- | ¥ P x forces, the greatest potential resistance. Elsewhere on the Italian | has retired or been pushed back into|trated on preventing a landing from | time. | Petritz, 27, told reporters that few |sentatives. weight on the whole Western Front. | Iront there were only minor clashes! the comparative safety of the moun-|the south. The battles above Baguio in the | prisoners involved in the latest| With today a National holiday, Fh‘s? _and Ninth Armies are stili — .- 1 - — was good reason for this conclusion.|Manila to the south may be almost attack. Some had already suffo- | Representatives are taking no chan- awaiting their hour as the flooded | FROM ANCHORAGE FROM FAIRBANKS In the first place all operations and{as fierce as the American retreat|cated and 90 per cent would havé|ces on The legality of holiday pay Roer River slowly receded before! Miss Margaret Heal, Anchorage, * Julius K. Peterson, Fairbanks, is hence all concentrations of force down Balaan. The Battle of the, died anyway had not the ship been |da; and are calling the roll at 2 ]me of Manila Bay, found the big are writing off the Phili i Headquarters that German | thus within 50 feet of the southern A > tinnue fighting. didn’t know M The land- | tured. One of the survivors, Navy larged their bridgehead on the Ir- qual fight. rts think differently. There |the sou “The Supreme Command insists| The Saar crossing, south of Saar- y said his was the first account |op \Nem, it Against Stiffening | Thirty-seventh Infantry Division. |pulled out of his cap one of the Perts here, didn't need to know any | west coast of Luzon. | s, e eiviian Govertment | Withdrawal into the Tugged Hoch- i more. Two previous prison ship sinkings, House Takes No | armistice. |by the Third Army it is slow, |Army troops are exploiting the\engaged the Japanese defenders of |tween 170,000 and 225,000 Japanese | almost exactly nalf way beiween the H l'd p | g O A daniagey Army | of all but five of the 1800 Americans | 1011AAY Pay |Eisephower has not yet loosed his| up to 1,000 yards in a new local | nese on Luzon but the bulk of the |striking through Leyte, Samar, Min- | down in military history as one of Lber. Only 83 of 750 Allied prisoners ture is not as worried about its The British Second, American as patrol activities continued, | tains and valleys of northeast Luzon.| From a military standpoint there|mountains to the north, and below sinking died as a result of the air|Senators are not convening at all. e e ot (Continued on Page Four) them, ins a guest at Hotel Baranof, a guest at Hotel Juneau. were in the south. In the second | (Continued on Page Two) | sunk, he asserted. o'clock this afternoon.