The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD KRG 1945 COPY e GIFT VOL. LXIV., NO. 9896 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1945 Ml;MBl R ASS0C IATl D PRESS FRlCE TEN CENTS MARINES ADVANCE THROUGH HEAVY FIRE Ninth Army Brea ALLIES PUSH Red CrossDrivelsto Start Thursday with | Big Rally On Fnday DEEPER INTO GERMANRUHR Forces of Amencan Flrst Army Are Ten Miles | from Cologne PARIS, Feb. 27—Truck-riding in- | fantry of the U. S. Ninth Army‘ broke completely through the Ger-| man defenses just west of the Ruhr. | In a 10-mile advance tanks raced across the ‘Rhine Valley into Konig- ] | | securing The Red Cross Drive in Juneau will start Thursday, and a big rally is to be held Friday night. On Thursday, the corps of so- licitors will begin their work contributions from various districts to which (have been Bsslgn@d ‘The rally Friday night will held in the Gold Room of Baranof Hotel, and will start 8:30 oclock. In the receiving line will be the the they be the at in | ISOVIETS IN | NEW PUSH IN REICH| | egion, wi o) nd, as wel s\ ?.:i e O anuee: YRG0 o ) Baltic While e Brigeheads Made at One Gate fo Berlin tertainers, and a speech by Major | C. F. Scheibner. | LONDON, Feb. 27.—The Red The quota for Gastineau Channel, | ArmY, breaking through for 30 miles including Juneau, Douglas, Thane‘"" Po"(‘f‘;:"“ in ‘; bid tuusllceRi);x‘\‘-i |and the Highway district, is set|%& and Glynia from = the 3 Legisla- | and members of The rally will be a pep affair with community singing, local en- | ks Through Nazis PLANE CRASH AT SEA JUST A WETTING FOR CREW Defenses 'YANKS IN GAINS ON IWO JIMA Capture of Isle Is Cerfain Within Few Days—Alr- field Now in Use | UNITED ETATES PACIFIC | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 27.—The capture of Iwo Jima | “in a few more days” was today pre- !dicted by Lt. Gen. Holland Smith, | | i | |at $13,065, but the hustling com-! | mittee in charge of the campaign shoven, 15 miles southwest of Dussel- {officers of the Juneau Chapter, ‘t‘xpcclx to top this figure before dorf, a bare mile from the E\[l‘ River. . The Ninth Army charge to Konig- shoven passed through town after| ‘town and outflanked the Ruhr basin | industrial communications center of Muenchen-Gladbach. Army men moved to within two and | a haif miles of Muenchen-Gladbach | and captured many villages on the southern and western approaches to | the city. ! One hundred and twenty-seven thcusand, American First Army1 troops fought closer than 10 mxles‘ from the outskirts of Cologne anerw advancing more than a mile down\ the main road from Duren, beyond Berghausen. The swift pace of General Dmght; Eisenhower'’s drive indicated (Continued on Page Two) ——— The Washington Merry- Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. lumen 8. Allen now on active | service with the Army.® WASHINGTON—Latin _American | diplomats have been seething back-| stage regarding a dynamite- loaded subject affecting Western Hemis- | phere relations more than any- thing in years—future U. S. mnh-‘ tary bases in Latin America. President Roosevelt has signed a| directive instructing the State De- | partment to secure certain bases, considered necessary by the A:my‘ and Navy after the war. The directive is drawn fin sich & way ]’ that the State Department has noj discretion. It is_ directe lo sgcun the bases, m{i} in fi ing the que 1§ of. wl;et American nations waht to 1ease the | bases or not t ple dx-‘ rective Almy and Ni cdnsu flng the| State Department, and that the| President apparently did not read it carefillp cbefare! signing. Since“then’ the ‘State Departmenv. has been secretly negotiating with| two countries—Brazil and Ecuador. Although it will be denied, Presi-| dent Vargas has definitely agreed that after the war, the United| States can maintain certain stra- | tegic bases on the bulge of Brazil opposite Dakar and the bulge of West Africa. '(This dovetails with the President’s Casablanca arrange- ment with Churchill for a giant JU. S. base at Dakar.) * % | U. S. BASE IN GALAPAGOS Meanwhile, - similar negothuonst are underway with Ecuador for a| naval base on the Galapagos Is- lands, just off the Panama Canal. Unfortunately, these military base plans are being handled in such 2 way that they are causing serious | Pan-American resentment. Prior to the departure of Sumner I Welles (real’ father of the Good: Neighbor Policy) from the State | Department, he had discussed with | Latin-American diplomats plans for a cooperative Western Hemisphere | defense. It was to be a mutuall matter, with all Pan-American na-| tions working together to defend the Americas. Under this plan,| U. S. troops working with other! American troops would have been welcomed in Latin American coun-{ tries on leased bases. However, the Good Neighbor na-| tions were left out in the cold at Dumbarton Oaks, are still sore about it, and are secretly ready to balk like a mule at the idea of | U. S. bases being rammed down! their throats. The Galapagos negotiations with! port will show primary flight train- | for alleged transporting four women |Henry E. Ronning, \ing fatal accidents to total less than | | from four Northwestern States, (Continued on Page Four) . Other Ninth ', Red Cross, and their wives. The Rainbow Girls, Nurses Aides, {in uniform, and servicemen on fur- lough, sponsored bY the American the end of the drive. Ultimate suc-| Ithrust to Bubiltz and Rummelsburg, | 28 and 38 miles from the Baltic, the | German Command said today in a Berlin broadcast. | after the Marines won a critically- important hill in the central plateau ‘dunng a 400 yard advance through ! prohably the heaviest fire of the bit- | 5 | The broadcast said the Soviets| |cess, however, means that eVery-|p,y. forced even beyond Rummels-| one must give just as much as he burg on the military highway, 81| 1)"“‘“5' can, | miles north to Stolp, communica-| the| @ AFTER DflIVING “his ioaded truck through a hail of Jap machine gun fire while tearing past enemy lemlo)y. takes, time for a short snooze in a shouid any Japs pop up unexpectedly. FOXHOLE SIESTA ON LUZON | tions center which is 62 miles east of Danzig. The Russians have thrown bridge- heads over the Neisse River, 50 to 60 miles southeast of Berlin but, ac-! cording to the Berlin broadeast, | these were knocked out and Reds| © forced back. Tank batties are reported raging along the Oder and Neisse rivers and suggested the First White Rus-| |siap and First Ukrainian Armies might have opened the offensive to topple Berlin. The bridgeheads on the Neisse river might indicate Soviet attempts, to outflank the river bastions of Cu- ben and Forst, but Moscow remained | silent on the activities at this gate | to Berlin. TAGGING DEATH WITH A WING-TIP, itself and everybody aboard. But ca: L who happened o be present and re .. TWONIPPON PLANTS ARE Pfc. Joe H. Powell, Lindsay, Okla., foxhole. He keeps his rifle handy (International) Reporl on Acidenfs In Air Is Coming Up; HasBeenforMonths . . ... ... By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Don't ask me to cut any clear lines in the controversy over the number of air- pl.me accidents in training for the services and in so-galled ‘“routine fllghls" which involve everything from training to trans-continental transport. I only know that it is comingi back into the news before long and lit is likely that after a year and half of silence, another report on fiying safety in the services will come out of a Senate investigating committee. Sen. William Langer, the North Dakota Republican firebrand and administration critic, is chief ram- rod in the upper chamber to get {some new report on safety condi- tions in non-combat service flying, {but the subject isn't one of party alignments. According to Senator Langer, the Truman committee (now the Mead committee), investigating war ac- |tivities, promised a report on air- plane service -accidents 17 months | ago, ‘but as yet nothing has been forthcoming. Sen. Langer says he is| informed that as late as October, 1944, Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, reported that| there had been 17,500 plane crashes in ‘the Unitetl States alone, more| |than had occurred at that time in| {the AAF on all the battle fronts, These figures are startling, even| | staggering, but they will have to be jbroken down much farther than |that before the true significance of | ithem is clear. For example, the | charge of the contract flight train-| ing for the Army Air Forces since mid-1939 will come out soon with| a complete report on safetv in the preliminary training schools. Indications are now that the .re- one to 60,000 hours of flight, Thlx Aeronauflcsl- |Training Society, which has had| HIT IN RAID |Aircraft Factories Near Tokyo Shot Up Sunday ~Ships Are Sunk NAZI BLOWS PUSH TENTH - DIV. BACK Brazilian Troops Break Up| Small Counteratfack QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 27—Car- i rier aircraft of Admiral Mitscher’s compares with the Army Air Force force heavily ‘damaged two Jap report some month earljer that the gjrcraft factories, destroyed or primary training “tue-n of fatality gamaged 233 planeés, and sank five was one to approximately 43,500 small enemy craft in strikes on s hours. Tokyo and Hachijo Jima, 175 miles in Italy Sector In World War I, the training fa- south, on Sunday and Monday. —— tality was reportedly’ one in every, Faced by only light opposition,| ROME, Feb. 27.—The U. S. Tunth ;1,146 hoyrs and by 1889, it had been although flying under “extremely Mountain Division has been thrown reduced to only one in 16,000 hours. adverse weather conditions,” the at- back by a strong German counter- | Now, if no breakdown mars thetacking force lost nine planes and attack in the area of Mount Della conclusions that may be drawn from' suffered slight damage to two Torracia, inflicting heavy casualties these figures, flight training at the others, while the lighter units were and capturing a number of prison- very peak of pilot output was safer withdrawing from the section, Ad-|ers. | ithan ever before — three to four miral Chester W. Nimitz announc-| The Allied Command said e times safer than in 1939 when eq, giving no indication as to the Germans, who have besn contesting training was a comparatively slow size of the air force making the every Allied gain, moved out in and easy process on a very small raids. The Japanese report varied counterattacks below Bologna after| seale. ‘lrom 600 to 1600 planes as the an intense artillery barrage. Afl.e)l There you have both sides of it. size of the attacking force. being forced to withdraw they con- IY Sen. Langer and those mtexesb»d Five pilots of downed American tinued to throw in heavy mo‘ with him are successful in drawing' planes were saved, Nimitz an-lagainst American positions in Lhe out.-a complete report, it should be nounces. | mountains. | interesting. In some respects, it| Prime targets in the Tokyo area| Brazilian troops, who moved to may be even sensational, turning were the Nakajima aircraft plams'Mount Castello when U. S." Moun- up inexcusable accidents due to'at Ota, 50 miles northwest of /tain trcops made a push to Mount faulty plane eonstruction as well as|Tokyo, and Kaizumi, three miles Belvedere and Mount Della Torra- | training carelessness. On the othm away. cia last week, were likewise sub-| .hand the overall picture may show, The Ota plant was 75 per cent jected to heavy enemy artillery fire. van air training safety quotient gestroyed as the result of the at- The Brazilians broke up a small| greater than driving an automobile |tack of the Superforts. Fifteen per | caunterattack near Ln qnm ' | for a couple of full lifetimes. MD"‘wcem of the remainder war dam- aviation officials here think that in ggeq, | thé long run, the emphasis will be‘ Hachijo Jima, which belongs to Housl“o AGE"(Y on the latter, with perhaps somelyye ygy Island chain, is situated ASKS FOR HOUSEs tstandil iti l that d 'Fairbanks and Kefchika Listed for Family |vices and postwar -civilian (llgm industrial area of Tokyo. Since trajning. Penrl Harbor, the Japs developed ‘Three divorce actions, all ground- | Unlfs ' ed on incompatibility, have been Sireiise | | Ithe Island for aviation purposes,! {filed here with W. J. Leivers, Act-| WASF|{INGTON, Feb 27—Con-| ! %exundmg the airstrip and develop- INDICTED, MANN i< ver. ! 4 1 ing Clerk of the U. 8. District gress has been asked to provide; Court. Complaints filed are: | 84 000,000 to relieve the housing - e —— DIVORCES FILED GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 27.— Lester Logan Martin, who is charged Margaret R. Moore vs. Canerwhmtnge in areas where it is pre- W. .Moore; Helen Ronning vs‘wnnng full war production. | with six violations of the Mann Act, and Irene A.' The National Housing Agency pleaded innocent yesterday at his arraignment in Federal Court. His William- asked for family units in Alaska as follows: Fairbanks, 40 Ketchikan, 20. | n | | trial date has not yet been set. A Pederal Grand Jury indicted him Williamson vs. Lloyd R. Canada and Alaska. { bers of the crew inflate their life-raft and get ready to float-at ease till rescue comes. The accident occurred in the Pacific in the course of a mission by carrier-based aircraft and was caught by an alert photographer Liberated Philippine Areas Are Now Given - To (ml Govemmenli ! nations.’ |based planes of the Third and th fleets {combate losses in the operations re. | covered, lagainst | ter campaign, As American planes flew from Iwo's main airtield for the first time, the top Marine commander of |the Pacilic told newsmen that heavy fighting was ahead for the Devil Dogs on Northern Iwo, but “we expect to take this island in a | few more days.” The General estimated almost s [of the fivé. mile long uw:wv i American hands at the start of the ' 1aecond week of the flercest battle of |the Pacific war. “I consider, that a U. S. Navy Avenger (left) cracksup ina shurp banking turn, dunklnz “pm‘"" satisfactoty,” Smith said. He suallies stopped there, for nobody was hurt, Working fast/(right), mem= | Teported the Yanks were becoming "more battle-wise and “casualties are relatively smaller nch dly" ¥ ady. U. 8, Navy photo. (International Soundphoto‘) { Motoyama e lon Southern Iwo, was pul to ug !or "|the first time yesterday aruilery | spoier panes, Jike Yoo | I seawbelnclme down the runways thl; are g put in shaj ron and’ boflwr’l" P R v? Japanese dead totalled 3,568 by | noon yesterday, 741 more than Sun- daya count,” Only nine Japanese prisoners were taken in all ~eight ‘dayb of the campaign. Maj. Gen. Graves Erskine’s Third Marines, in the center of the {American battle line, captured Hill 1382, just east of the central airfleld, {for a military triumph as significant jas the earlier seizure of Mount Suribachi on the south tip of the |island. SECURITY RESTS IN AIR FORCE . General Arnold Confends: Postwar America Must Maintain Superiority INVADED BY. . YANK FOR(ES m:;;:‘;;:.‘:::;' ganing i var s |mporiant ljr!k in Naviga-| Government of liberated areas of hon to Phlllppmes Re_ ported Taken Over the Philippines over to their Presi-| dent, Serio Osmena, in a cexemony‘ before wildly cheering Filipinos. Gen. MacArthur, after bm.erlv; dcnuuncing the Japauese for wrecks, ing Manila's: ¢hurches, monuments | ..‘ AP War Correspondent) and Gultural - centers, lifted fthe! MANILA, Feb. 27—The veteran' military rule from the freed sec-| | Twenty-fourth Diyision troops, tak- | tions, ytng the Japanese by surprise, in- MacArthur said the Common-|vaded the small Verde Island, be- wealth is now “at liberty to pursue|tween Luzon and Mindoro, on Sun-| its destiny in the family of free|day, securing the western end of | the vital shipping route through the| President Osmena, replying, spoke Phlh])pm“\ from the United Stnt,es of Gen. MacArthurs military opera- (0 Manila. \tions as a “crusade” and urged all| The Eigthth Army Yanks “went Filipinos to submerge political dif- |ashore with practically no loss,” ferences and quickly revive their|CG°h. Douglas MacArthur said in a commonwealth. He. expressed the | cOmmunique. hope the United States can accord, The General termed Verde “"r full freedom to the archipelago Key to control of the main naviga- this year. tion route through «he central' . My "C., YATES McDANIEL destroyed 1,610 Japanese planes and sunk 187 enemy vessels o | Philippines.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Gen. . Corregidor Dead |H. Arnold who contends that the With the battle for Manila end-|*€CUrity of postwar America mnst OVER I soo Nlp {ed, Gen. MacArthur announced 3056 FeSt With air power, declared “the | Japanese dead have been counted in Price Of freedom from conspiracies Pl ANES DoquD | Corregidor fortress besides those “:m assaults by international gang- {sealed off who have been blowlnx‘s"" i5 eternal vigilance and the lhem.sl-lves up by touching off un- Ppossession of men r_md weapons. cap- l“ IHREE MONTHS |derground stores of ammunition. ‘;?gl:’npfi; bg:;:;oz;n“de“?:" ::‘fmy Formosa Hit ! " Y Far ranging American bombers hit Ar?;z:;l ‘:m:‘:gl:z?::l v::;‘;’::“‘;' ‘:‘; Carier-based Pianes Also e o e erey | ATIDY AIf Forces which he heads, I . Wy ;- , © |an ably manned airforce of Shlpplng mokes the fifteenth MacArthur has :‘]:;’e‘;ed““’“':i"“:‘ bosdste” snd: b taken in the Philippine campaign. | ™S Arnoldegp:‘:edrccvnedor::n i WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—Carrie future aggressor would strike with |air power and the United States HEAR'NG FOR would be his first tardet. of all types in operations since De- HOUSE TODAY cember 1,'a Navy compilation an- ! SIO(K wo"m nounced. P ! v Included were two recent strikes) The House got a brief respite. NEW YORK, Feb. 27 — Closing against Tokyo, in addition, a Naval again this morning from the Ways|auotation of Alaska Juneau Mine spokesman said, 1,087 enemy planes and Means appropriations measure. Stock today is 7%, American Can' and 388 enemy ships were damaged. A hearing was scheduled for 2‘92 *i, Anaconda 33%, Beech Air- The cost was 178 American planes o'clock this afternoon to listen to craft 12%, Bethlehem Steel T3, ost. .There, were no Naval vessel|Col. George Hays, Executive Officer | Curtiss-Wright 6%, International lof the Public Health offices on‘Hfil’Vester 9, Kflmeco"fil», North Healt hand Sanitation appropria- American Awiation 10%, New York > — tions, and also to hear the Boerdwcenfl”fll 24%, North American DIVORCE HEARING jof Budget report on reasons for |Aviation 21%, U. S. Steel 62%. utting.- Public Welfare office| DOW, Jones averages today are as ecommendations. follows: Industrials, . 159.30; rails, P WS |51.22; utilities, 28.29. MOLLER HERE riON ROLLYWO0D Dan Moller, of Sitka, is staying| Brian O'Hara, registering from Baranof Hotel during his visit glon;:rood rcnmm—nm is a guest at e Baranof. The brought contested - divorce action, by Jasper Frambough Nellie Frambough was heard by Judge George F. Alex-| ander. The case was taken under advisement and no judgement has| at the yet been announced. | to Juneau.