The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD ‘PRG 1945 coPY. CFT VOL. LXIV., NO. 9897 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YANK FORCES WITHINS MILES OF CO LOGNE Roosevelt Returns From Big Three Conference PRESIDENT 10 REPORT ONMEETING 4 i | TAKIN s Chief Executive Arrives Home This Morning from Yalfa Big Three Meet | WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt e turned from the “Big Three” meet- | ing with buoyant hopes for an en- during peace and ready to repnrt,‘ to congress and the nation. | Everything agreed upon at. the| Yalta meeting will be disclosed im-| mediately, Roosevelt made known,‘ Some of the secret understandings. they reached necessarily, must re- | main secret for awhile, althodgh | they probably will become apparent | in time. Whether thése understand- | ings are in the military or political | spheres, or both, was not indicated.! As an aftermath of the cum’er-‘ ence at Yalta, the President has high hopes of a lasting peace and | world - wide reduction of arma-| ments, and in the weeks ahead he will have an active program of | travel and engagements to further | these hopes. To Report In Person | He is back from a five-week, 14,- | 000-mile journey to Russia by | b JUST WHAT THE JOKE WAS, no one this informal picture at Yalta, G TIME OUT FOR A LAUGH o - l | Russians ngbing Forcing | | | east of Stettin and 40 miles from the | Baltic. | the Russians have forced even closer | Neustettin, and are only about 20 | way escape route linking Danzig and | | ed the Danzig-Stettin coastal road | will ever know, but two of the “Big Three” found something to laugh about just as a cameraman sn_appe_d in the Russian Crimea, during the historic conferences. Both Marshal Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill appear in high good humor. British Official Radiophoto. (International) cruiser and plane. Roosevelt plans to report in person to Congress and the country tomorrow or Fri-| day on the meetings i which he, Churchill and Stalin blue-printed | “the final defeat of doomed” Ger- | many: | Strong machinery for perpetuat- | ing the eventual peace will make its appearance at the United Na- | tions’ Conference, opening in San Francisco April 25. As official host, President Roosevelt will probably | welcome the delegates with an ad- | dress. | He will have another of his periodic meetings with Churchill after the San Francisco parley has completed its work. The British | frequently have suggested that the President visit London. | Watershed Near Manila Is ‘Taken-Enemy Power in One Sector Ashore Last Night By C. YATES McDANIEL The President came ashore at an east coast port last night and reached Washington this morning by special train. He left here January 22 for eight days of mo-! mentous ‘talks on war and penceg at Yalta. The only other stops on the round trip were made at Malta, | in Egypt and Algiers. | In Egypt, the, President conferred —(Conemue;‘l‘an Page Seven) (AP War: Correspondent) 24 (ity Blocks of Toki]o' " Burned Outhy Bombsas Result pf Two-Day Raid . 5. PLANES The Washingion | MANW.A, Feb. 28—The Twenty- | By ELMONT WAITE | (AP War Correspondent) U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28 — Twenty-four city blocks in the heart of Tokyo were burned out by, bombs of more than 200 raiding Superfortresses, theé Twenty - First Bomber Command disclose. The burned section comprises approxi- mately 67 acres. | is fact was disclosed by re- .conn: ance flight photos and sub- stantiates the statement previously !made that the largest force of B-29s ever sent against the Japa- !ncse capital city did _extemsive | damage. 5% This devasfating blow * was de- ‘lx\'m'ecl last Sunday and Monday. NEW LABOR NAZICENTER, BALTICAREA, EVACUATED Way Closer fo Sea-In Sight of Water LONDON, Feb. 28. — Berlin has| announced the evacuation of Neu- ! stettin, a strategic Pomeranian com- | munications center which was by- { passed by the Russians in their push to the Baltic. Neustettin is 90 miles Moscow dispatches, however, said to the Baltic in the area northeast of miles from Moeslin on the last rail- | Stettin. | A Reuters dispatch from Moscow said Russian spearheads have reach- | “in sight of the Baltic.” The German Command announced | that Zhukov’s First White Russian | Army has expanded its Oder River | bridgehead south of Keustrin, 39| miles east of Berlin. ! The Germans said Konev's First | Ukraine Army crossed the Neisse | River at several points southeast of | Berlin, and east of Dresden but| declared the Russians were repulsed. | BORNEO IS sleuths going over the streets, Cross + War # Egnd. ‘campaign dents of to be raised for the local chapter. The solicitors are busy Fires Are Starfed in Var- ious Stations-Formosa Is Also Bombed U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- Starting at 8:30 o'clock. when they make their call. Then remember the |Cross Rally in the Gold Room of NATIVES HUNT FOR MI 4 % IT'S SAFETY FIRST in Manila, and hundreds of happy, liberated Filipino natives are (ak!pg no chances \fvllh the Japanese mines scattered through the streets of the Philippine capital. Here is a typical crowd of mine- yard-by-yard. Reports indicate that much damage already has been done, Gef Your Money Ready IWO JIMA For Red Cross; (ampaign Starts To | Solicitation in the Juneau Red of tif will, USO §Director, as master of cere- istart itomdrrow whén' an frmy iof monies. There will be community | workers ‘will begin contactihg resi- | the Gastineau Channel George Schmidt. Lillian Uggen will area, with the goal set at $13,056 also be on the program with some- | people, lof entertainment, so have your cash or check ready |Service and Game Commission will Tines, big Red'Senator Frank Whaley. the Baranof Hotel Friday night, this rally, which is incident to the Of Water and believed husbanding AMERICAN ~ ADVANCEIN ~ FULL SPEED \German s};ported Re- | freating in Disorder- Movements Secret BULLETIN—PARIS, Feb. 28 —First Army tanks and infan- try battled tonight within six and one-half miles of Cologne after throwing three ' bridge- heads across ¢he Erft River and only a flat plain lay ahead to the great city on the Rhine. PARIS, Feb. 28. —The American Army has crossed the Erft River in a swift advance and are today within eight miles of Cologne while [to the north the Ninth Army raced full speed across the Rhine Plain on the heels of the retreating and dis- ordered Germans. % & In the biggest breakthrough since Normandy, the news blackout cloak- ed gains and prevented disclosure of towns captured by the spreading Ninth Army tanks but the German defenses have collapsed and there was a ‘virtual rout when censors started damning up reports. At Edge of Ruhr Gates NES IN STREETS OF MANILA (International Soundphoto) morrow; Rally L. Keithahn will be chairman véning, with Zach Gordon, singing under the direction ' of show moving pictures, as will also The public is urged to attend |0 crack the foe, start of the campaign tomorrow. |Ammunition after a noticeable QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28—Bor-| neo has been pounded by over 100 tons of bombs dropped on concen-| trated airdromes and port facilities. | Huge columns of smoke arose from the bombed areas. Fires have also been started in the barracks area of Formosa, which was plastered with a 60-ton bomb droppage. Three coastal vessels were dam- aged and probably sunk later. o 80 House Invites By JACK STINNETT Alaska May Be Only Salmon Supply Source; One Se;vice Is Worri_ed Last night the Ninth Army was at - the edge of the Ruhr gates. of | | Muenchen-Gladbach, |+ 1Bk British_pilots. have spotted long | ing back to the Rhine for a getaway. ) 3 ‘The First Army plunged thead so l 3 | swiftly it captured one bridge intact 5 » across’ the ‘Erft, Cologne's last nat- e ural defense. i | . | Swarm Over River | Making Supreme Effort 0| intanery swarmea s e v A |in another ‘place where®it had not Crack FO&—S[IQM Ad- lbeen bridged. The Candian forces in the north vances Made have cleared 44 miles on the west |bank of the Rhine and are beating . ot the last swaying defenses at thing in her usual inimitable style U- S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- | upon ying R Forist QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 28—Ma- |the northwest corher of the Ruhr, along a line bisecting Iwo |205 miles from Berlin, the nearest |Jima, kept up a terrific pressure |approach from the west, fon the Japs in a supreme effort | Tk&% A‘i‘i‘efl?m-‘bflm‘t Cologne, known to be short | are miles deep in Germany and within 298 miles of Berlin. On 50-Mile Front |slackening of artillery and mormriAI" Lhedcenw;, the Awm;:“l:‘;hkd {ire. ; | Army advanced up miles on Monday ghe Japs loosed a heavy ® 50-mile front and'has started an |barrage but since ' then fire hag | enelrcling maneuver against the an- {been slackening. c:‘ent bastion of Trier, fortified by | The Leathernecks strenigthened|the Romans befofe the days |their line Tuesday with slight ad- | Christ. vances north up the high gmund: dThe American Ninth ad Can- blanketed by pillboxes and hlock-ifh;:‘"mm:ae:::‘i ;‘::c;;g‘u:nm 'houses. | The Marines have cut across me‘Rhineh;nd in & ’coup to trap 3§ or island at the center and have their |MOTe Of Gierman‘s best divisions. |tinger tips on one airfield whieh | .ithe Japs are fiercely defending. ‘The ‘Nips are being pmmdedi TWONEWBILLS {Egfth Division® of Yanks has comti- were farmed out in the headwaters' from | WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—Over in Merry - Go*Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen mow on sétive service with the Army.> pleted the destruction of the Japa- nese garrison on little Verde Is- land, invaded last Sunday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports. The island, between Luzon and Mindoro ,is astride the shortest WASHINGTON — Congress today | supply route from the United States is as unpredictable as Washington (o Manila. weather. Excitement ebbs and flows. | Important legislation sometimes gives way to a junior Madison' Square Garden or a sleeping con-! On the - celebration "of his tana are also secured. test. birthday, George Washington would The watershed east of the liber- ated capital city has been taken bye Manila forces and the south- west slopes of nearby Mount Ma- The First Cavalry Division has have been interested in seeing what pressed the attack on Antipolo, just:| happened in the helped sire, Congyess he inorth of Lagunade Bay, in the face of heavy enemy miortar and | MAN HERE ~ FORDUTIES David Edward Davis Spec- ial 12th Regional L. B. Investigator \rector Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson and | Army Troupe To leqislalure [his staff are holding their breath. I'They want to know what's going to If the Army actors that entertain-|Dappen to the post graduates of ed Juneau servicemen and civilians| 'Uncle Sam’s Fish college.” yesterday question the Success Don’'t take this tracheal constric- | their show they can take new heflr';“'vo“ lightly. 1If the good doctor and {from the comment in the House of his'stafl breathe easily again, it will | Representatives this morning. men fny; Quericns Ho- 1 B food | Said Representative Gill, “It's the | _S2mon—Wwill continue to be No. 1. best show some of us have e‘,el_"rhe alternative: Salmon may be- seen,” and the Chief Clerk was in-|COMe 88 scarce as caviar is outside | structed to write letters of apprecia- of UBSBR. offigial. banquets. tion. | It's a long story but I will try to “And you might add,” said Gill, boil it down. The Columbia river in ‘ |the Fish and Wildlife Service, Di-| In the Senate, McFarland of! Arizona delivered a dignified, statesmanlike speech on freedom of the press. Two of the 96 Senators | were in their chairs. Only Demo- crat was faithful Lister Hill of Alabama. Only Republican was conscientious Harold Burton of Ohio. i As McFarland spoke,’ other Sen- ators drifted in and out. Venerable new Senator “Admiral Tommy” | Hart of Connecticut, dressed in| snappy tan tweeds in sharp con- | AT (- (. MEE“"G trast to his former Navy Blues, | s i ! didn't even bother to listen, buried| TWwo speakers wiil talk on the work himself in a Congressional report. | of the Red Cross in war and peace Missouri’s GOP Forrest Donnell,|at the noon meeting of the Juneau who is alleged to look up the Con- Chamber of Commerce tomorrow, it stitution to see if it is legal for|ls announced today by Program him to go home at night, idled in,| Chairman Harry Godson. They will picking his teeth. Then he beat a|be the Rev. W. Robert Webb, drive hasty exit. chairman, and Superintendent of McFarland sat down. semm”.)uneau Public Schools A. B. Phillips. Hill rose to deliver an interesting/ I b K tribute to George Washington, FROM KETCHIKAN (Continued on Page Four) machine gun fire. This opposition reflected reports of gathering Jap power in that sector. Mopping up of Japanese rem- |nants continues in the hills flank- ing the eentral Luzon Plain and also on Corregidor. SPEAKERS T0 TELL OF RED (ROSS WORK registered at the Baranof, SEATTLE, Feb. 28—David Ed-"'that we will extend them in re- Oregon is the greatest natural sal- ward Davis has been appointed as turn the gallery rights to see our:mon hatchery in the world. Every |a special Twelfth Regional Labor show.” fifth year of their lives, these odd Board Investigator to be stationed >-—e— ‘fish come out of mnobody-knows- | in «Juneau. PETERSBURG ARREST |where in the briny, crawl and climb | His job will be to inquire into Elmer Johnson, arrested in Peters- ' tDeir way up freshwater streams to Alaska wages under the govern-|burg yesterday by U. S. Deputy Propagate in the very same waters ment's wartime control, and to help| Alaska employers who need infor-| mation on how wage regulations| | affect payrolls. Dr. George Bernard Noble, War, | Labor Board Chairman, said Davis, | an attorney who,has been with thel |{WLB for two years, has already “arrived in Juneau. He will work 'under Charles F. Battin, WLB's| Wage Stabilization Director for Al- aska. Together they will perform the Boards functions throughout |the Territory, Noble said. . | — e | STORMS ON VISIT | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Storms and son, John, arrived in Juneau today |by plane to visit Mr. and Mrs,| William E. Byrd, Ketchikan, is Arthur Geyer and Dr. ‘and Mrs. members reserve time for the meet-'greatest fish hatchery. | John Geyer. Marshals is to be returned to Juneau | that gave them birth. to face charges of allegedly issuing checks without funds, it was an-, nounced today by Marshal William WESH FERPATIe GOl . Tens istrueted on the Columbia, there T,J!;d::;x:ley@as s b tod: wasn’t much of a problem. It's just o b o AL et 15 T Scug Y | short of 75 feet high and it was no oY bt g et g ¥ U. S. Com- | trick at all to build ladders that the Y- salmon could take in their upstreagn — e |stride. Grand Coulee dam was MISSIONARY SOCIETY, {something different. Its 550 feet MEMORIAL CHURCH, IS height ruled out ladders and TO MEET TOMORROW | cajron. ok | The Missionary Society of Memor-| That's when Doctor Gabrielson's ial Church will meet at the home boys got busy. They started trap- of Mrs. Clara Barlow at 7:30 o'clock | ping salmon below Grand Coulee, tomorrow evening. |rushed them by truck to Leavon- Since business of importance will | worth, Wash,, in the Cascade moun- be discussed it is urged that all #ains andthere developed the world’s ing. erlings grown in these hatcheries | ‘ i The fing- |- | experiment in fish propagation. Sal- of Columbia river streams that the air. Battleships have blasted came in below Grand Coulee. Never the Japs with 16-inch guns and in history had there been such an 9ive bombers have raked them with machine gun fire. mon came back to their birthplace| S8t. Martin Lippman, on 25 to spawn five years after birth, Fish Missions over the island, said “It and Wildlife experts had to wait five|has been so bomb-scarred it looks vears to find out if the fingerlings 8 though nothing has been left| dumped in these tributary head-f‘” vegetation. The Japs are getting waters would come back there to N0 additional supplies, no rein- spawn or beat theémselves to death|forcements, and virtually no air in the rapids helow Grand Coulee. Support.” > — Last year the graduates of “Uncle| R Sam's Fish college” at Leavonworth | came through Grade-A with fins| flying. Like a perfectly drilled army | the platoons and battalions wheeled | off the Columbia into thé streams where they had been tragnsplanted and spent their youth, 4 Doctor Galbrielson and his staff were vindicated in dn experiment! that some ichthyologists thought | FOR WALLACE the sea and bombed m,m: : ‘RE‘((EPIE | | | Two new measures were intro- {duced in the House today and one “horseplay” measureethat caused a small riot. House Bill 79 by Representative |Mike Walsh would amend legal doe- |umentation laws to permit people in back country areas to legally at- test real estate documents without |the aid of attorneys or commission- |ers. Walsh asks a return to an old |real estate law by which the signa- |tures of two witnesses were all that was required. House Bill 80, by Representative Curtis Shattuck would set up an Al- aska Library Commission of five members with $2,000 for expenses, to !study and foster public libraries |through the Territory. The little riot was caused when {the Chief Clerk began to read an |evident prank measure introduced terest payment on millions of tax-| |under Representative Peterson’s payer money. They had proved that| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Presl-‘nflme‘id_er1dhl¢ the Republican party Salmon could be transplanted to dent Roosevelt has cleared the way and giving funds to the Democratic other than their native propagation,to the Cabinet Post for Henry A.'Party. Peterson called for a halt, but grounds and would go back to those| Wallace by signing the George Bill, it took a full-throated roar and the headwaters to spawn. legislation which separates huge assistance of Speaker Jesse Lander’s | Federal Lending agencies from t.heI‘GEVel to stop the Chief Clerk from Commerce Department. |reading further. . Adminigtration leaders told Presi-| When the uproar had quieted dent Roosevelt that his slgmture:dOWHv Peterson accused “some Third would be the price of getting Henry ! Divisioners” of “trying to pull a fast Wallace approved by the Senate asim’\e" and plucked the offending item Secretary of Commerce. }lram the Chief Clerk’s desk. — et —————.———— GRAYS VISIT FROM PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray, regis-| Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, of tering from Fairbanks, are staying Portland, Oregoh, are guests at the jat the Baranof. ‘Gastineau Hotel. foolhardy. In 194, they breathed| more easily than they had sinc 1939. They had made their first in-| The trouble now is that the story is only half told. Although only a small percentage of the Columbia river salmon spawned above the present site of Grand Coulee, most, of them used tributary streams be-| tween Grand Coulee and Bonneville In top drawer postwar plans are blyeprints for nearly a dozen more (Continued om Page Siz)