The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9899 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NINTH CAPTURES DUSSELDORF SUBURB Russian Troops REDSPUSH |Big Red Cross Rally ONTOWARD Will Be Held Tonight | | ' [ 2 B AlI |( SEA» The Red Cross Rally tonight | There will be community singing led |should be one of the biggest and |by George Schmidt; Lillian Uggen |(\'m‘ pulled off in Juneau. There is|ginal style; The Forest Service and no admittance and no contributions | Game Commission will show pic- fad-(oasfal Belt IS [ctfering by the Juneau Red Cross | flash on the screen his pictures of | Chapter with a highlighted program. | the north. Now ISOIa'ed |Gold Room of the Baranof hotel and there should be an overfiow into | ner during the program. Rokossovsky's Second White RuS-| 'p 1 Keithahn s chairman with | free, in the Gold Room of the Bar- sian Army has reached the Stettin- {7, Gordon master of ceremonies. |anof Hotel. and Schlawe in Pomerania, only seven miles from the Baltic Coast, nounces. | T This is a 22-mile advance from i poses, has cut Danzig off from contact with Germany and isolated | Pomerania and northwestern Po-; land fronting on the Baltic Guilf.| Russians have also broken into the main German lines north of Arns River. Fortress Stargard, 19 miles | § east of Stettin, is threatened. Konev has launched a large-scale offensive, with the First Ukrainian northeast of Prague, and is driving | toward the Sudeten Mountafns. , March 2—War | |most important events of the kind |will give something in her own ori- Dafllig CU’ 0" 'rOm con- solicited. It is a public good will |tures, and Senator Whaley will also | The affair stars at 8:30 o'clock in the A short address on the Red Cross LONDON, March 2 — Marshal |{ily il Remember—8:30 o'clock Danzig Highway, between Kreslin . i - REASBASISACOT L the German High Command an-‘ YANKS SEK SN'PERS IN W|sz Dublitz, and to all practical pur-| : a 150-mile coastal belt in eastern | The German command says the walde, after crossing the Inha| The German radio said Marshal Army at a-point about 145 miles | e ——— DETROIT, Mic! plant workers, striking despite ap- peals of the Army and their own United Auto Workers leaders, have closed five more Detroit area fac-| tories, halting output of aircraft, tank parts and army trucks. The total idle tops 33,000 men. PASSING A WALL cracked by shellfire, two American soldiers cautiously advance toward a wrecked house in Wiltz, Luxembourg, as they mop- up the town following its second liberation by U. S. troops. The Nazis bad recaptured it. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Soundphoto) The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 5. Allen now on active service with the Army. WORK, FIGHT ' SINGAPORE BILL IS TO IS BOMBED AIDFARMERS BY SUPERS WASHINGTON, March 2—Super- Exemp Them from Dran_ forts from India again ha}nmered I.abOI’ cei"ng for !t:ih‘mp naval base of Singapore Newspapers the force of approximately 40 air- craft, was lost, according to a Twentieth Air Force communique. +WASHINGTON, March 2—Sen-| The raiders ran into “moderate tor Millard Tydings amended the (¢, jntense” anti-aircraft fire dur- playing a minor role in the war.|pending manpower bill to tighten 'yng the yaid, which was the fifth Since the “Big Three” were bearing restricuqns against induction of i;¢tack of the war the main brunt of the war, Stalin farmers into the armed forces. TmsjBrmsh stronghold and the third said he saw no point in having de proposal remoygd from the bill, hOW- | cienin the month. Gaulle sit in on a conference con- | €ver, the provision under which 4-F| " cypners of the Superforts de- cerned largely with military |agricultural workers would be sub-1g,0veq one Jap fighter and dam- strategy. e 1 p gRte: yeir: prion term Or & |gge4 another. The bombers struck The Russian chief was quite| $10,000 fine for leaving farm jobs. the naval base by daylight, bombing definite and repeated the point On a standing vote the Senatelpy visual methods. that if the Yalta conference were | rejected an amendment which would concerned primarily with political | forbid placing an employment ceil- 3 and economic postwar problems, it|ing on newspapers or newsgathering | would be different. But when mili- JAP RADIO SAYS WASHINGTON—Those who sat at Roosevelt’s elbow during the/ Yalta conference give a new slam‘ to the reasons why sensitive Gen. | de Gaulle was not invited to join| the “Big Three” They say that neither the President nor Primei Minister Churchill had any objec- tion to de Gaulle's presence, but felt rather neutral about it. Stalin, | however, was the man Wwho flatly opposed it. | Stalin, according to those return- | ing from Yalta, pointed out that! this was to be primarily a military | conference and France was only | 2! | ber of employees in any month of | he just didn't want de Gaulle | 1944. This was proposed by Senator around. | Robert Taft. Then to clinch his views, Stalin O are e recalled that France surrendered to will be given by Major C. F. Scheib- | tonight, ‘ “good results.” One B-29, in| on the former iy Reach Importa PALAWAN ~ INVADED ~ BY YANKS Strategic Island of Philip-| pines Seized - Japs | Again Surprised | INFORMAL PHOTO AT CRIMEAN MANILA, March 2—American in- |, vasion forces landed Wednesday on |Palawan Island in the westernmost Philippines. Here they quickly cap- tured the main port, capital city land two airfields in a move to|+ Idommalc the South China Sea ap-| |proaches to Japanese-held Indo- | | China, Thailand, Malaya and Sin-| | gapore. ! | Achieving complete surprise, the| & invaders ‘seized control” of the |fifth largest island in the archi-| pelago, 250 miles southwest of Ma- inila, Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-! |nounced today. { | He pointed out that the success- |ful operation carried out by the| |sea transport” through the Sulu| e 20 | r: |all his conquests to the south to ‘ eavy jagain failed to diagnose plans prop- | Meanwhile, in Manila, the Thirty-‘ ST f AT | Total Cafch Limit Raised- German, Ausirian Targes, Ifight. Remaining holdout Japanese the 1945 Pacific halibut fishing sea- 2500 heavy bombers from Italy and rnational Fish- | Dresden, immediately ahead of the| | Iwo jApS | The later opening has bee { this | THe commission also decided the [81ant Allled:alr offenslve. | veteran Forty-First Infantry Divi-i \sion under Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe, |Sea, rendering the area hazardous | ! | ! recapture,” | i ‘ |erly and to prepare his defense.” |Seventh Infantry Doughboys cap- . | . | New Opening Date Including Cologne, ! |who are squeezed into the Finance |Building, are fighting it out to the son is set for May 1, 15 days later|Eritain shattered German and Aus-| American and Russian armies, the n re- chief targets for the first time since quested by fishermen who prefer the J4 summer months when the weather | BEAT BA(K st ! end of the period when halibut may % |battles over Germany and 20 more be caught in closed areas and also| /e SFE TN FEL 0 i hotographed. The phe een re! by the Signal Corps in {“would insure safe passage of our vhptographed. The photo has just bee g gl Corp ‘;!m' the enemy, and will “condemm i To the south of Palawan lie the | | ] | |rich Netherlands East Indies. | ? ~ o s ln ! Gen. MacArthur said the enemy,’™ | | | “engrossed in operations elsewhere, | rr % g |As a consequence, American losses opEN MAY 1 Ral o ay‘ {were termed “very light.” » | !tured the Agriculture Building in' jthe downtown area after a bitter Is Asked for 1 Dresden, Hit | last man. T e SR | | P P SPSE S, SEATTLE, March 2.—Opening of LONDON, March 2—Close to ‘DESPERATE than last year, Edward W. Allen, trian targets, with Cologne | Secretary of the Int | eries Committee, said. anuary 14. The German Air Force came l(p‘ is more favorable and the fish are In strength to give battle on more plentiful, he said nineteenth consecutive day of | . those incidentally caught while fish- bic =0 0) ; 24 'Cornered Enemy Still Con- ing for other species. will be No.! The Germans iost 166 planes when | . vember 15, instead of November 20. \]1&1‘;}(.”;\‘:: 2531‘7‘2-"»"”,‘.‘@3"1""“\ to fest Evefy Yard Gain- The prohibition against the use of | ¢ HCC ces nearly two H dory gear and net gear of any kind i Sl | continues in force. The total catch limit was raised U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- 1500000 pounds over last year, to A thes | QUARTERS, GUAM, March 2.— 52500000 pounds through e Tank-led United States Marines changes: Area Two—Willapa Harbor : ed by Marines | West of Cape Spencer, up 500,000 IN (ABINEI { Itield dispatches reported. The Jap-| Incidental catches of halibut after| | from every American advance. bor where there is little fishing there A. Wallace today officially became preme Court Justice Hugo L. Black |ton where the President said“ the, OUOTA'IIOHS ! piaiees Secretary Wallace announced the | | hammered ahead on smoking Iwo, 0 Cape Spencer, up 1,000,000 pounds; {Jima, compressing the island’s des- |10 24500000 pounds; Area Three— |perate Japanese garrison into the 4 | rugged tip for a final stand. | pounds, to 28,000,000 pounds permit- Fighting was fierce on Thursday,|'ed pos' Now‘ | anese were pushed to the shrinking the season’s clese will raise that| oy . |last third of the island. They are amount about 1,000,000 pounds and| | | re-grouping to exact a blood toll in area ome, south of Willapa Har- | WASHINGTON, March 2_“."“._‘,‘3 Confidence in the eventual out-|is 1O limit. Another estimated|c. ...\ of Commerce with the ! come of the bitter battle was voiced 500000 pounds will be caught there.| "', i L Tt ook THY S | |in the halls of Congress in Washing- | ¥ TR | after Wallace had taken the oath | situation is well in hand.” ! SIO(K of office. | While gains Thursday were limited | 1 against stiff opposition on Iwo's| ypw YORK, March 2 — Closing Commerce Department will “do its | jeastern shore, tWo divisions on the quoation of Alaska-Juneau Mine full part to facilitate magimum | Boinlnicad struck ahead under air o today is 7%, American Cancooperation between the nation’s over, preceded by a shattering ar- g4, " Apaconda 34, Beech Aircraft employers, investors, business, agri- iti]lery and naval barrage. 2% el 1 rtiss- culture and government to the end Maj. Gen. Erskine’s Third Divis- 12'%, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Curtiss 3 | CONFERENCE AS SECRETARY OF STATE Edward Stettinius leans over to whisper to President Roosevelt in Yalta, Russia, Marshal Josef Stalin looks at him attentively. Stalin is wearing the marshal’s uniform in which he is seldom (International) MacARTHUR ON "ROCK" General and Staff Refurn fo Scene of Defeat Three Years Ago By DEAN SCHEDLER (AP War Correspondent) WITH GEN. DOUGLAS MacAR- ‘Washington. and THUR ON CORREGIDOR, March powerful 2—Gen, Douglas® MacArthur re- turned to Corregidor today and ordered the Stars and Stripes raised to the peak of the flagstaff from which the Japanese tore it down three years ago. Also present were 11 members of g At least his staff who left the island with and €2 enemy planes were downed in him aboard a PT boat three years great Rhine port of Duisburg is ago, almost to the day. His officers surrounded him as he presided in the brief, impressive flag-raising ceremony as a color guard of the 503rd Infantry Divi- sion stood at attention. Turning to Col. George Jones, Commanding Officer of the Para- troopers, MacArthur said: “Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak and let no enemy ever haul them down.” It was the same flagpole, on the top-side of the parade ground, where the Japanese tore down Old Glory and trod on it, and ripped the colors to shreds. EISENHOWER, MONTGOMERY CONFERRING NEW YORK, March 2 — The London radio said Gen. Dwight D. Fl nt Highway ADVANCE IN WEST EDGE, RUHRVALLEY Retreaf of Germans Called Rout by Simpson’s Headquarters BULLETIN—PARIS, March 2 —The American Ninth Army won a stand on the Rhine and captured the western end of the Ruhr and its large cities of Krefel andd Neuss, the latter a suburb of Dusseldorf. Germany’s whole western front before the Rhine is ocol- lapsing. Far to the south, Trier fell to the American Third Army, which thus pried open the gate | to the Moselle Valley leading to | the Middle Rhine cities of Co- blenz, Mainz and Frankfurt. Cologne, the largest and most | important of all the cities' of the Rhineland, was placed under artillery fire again, while | the American First Army fought less than five miles away on plains as flat as those of Kansas. The First also beat within { 15 miles of Bonn, seven miles { from Euskirchen, important i i i Rineland’ fransit s The First, Ninth and Third = | Armies are waging the greatest all-American’ off in his- tory, scoring their gresmtest vic- tory since the Brittany break- through. Venlo and Roermund, Dutch bastion cities on the Maas, fell with scarcely a shot fired. The Ninth and Canadian First Armies are within 10 miles of joining hands ih a move that might trap thousands of Ger- man troops. PARIS, March 2 — The swift, American Ninth Army has fought to the Rhine and cap- tured Neuss, suburb of Dusseldorf, in a new, spectacular 15-mile ad- vance, overrunning the whstern edge of the Ruhr. | To the north, other Ninth Army troops plunged into the Ruhr stéel rail center of Krefeld. The only seven miles ahead. The !Eighty-Third Infantry Division fought swiftly through the bomb- blasted city of Neuss, which les on the west bank of the river, op- posite Dusseldorf, the administra- 'tive center of the Ruhr. A tremendous artillery duel is be- ing fought dcross the Rhine as Neuss and other towns on the west bank surrendered docilely. American shells poured on Dussel- dorf’s thick chimneys of blast fur- naces, oil plants, munitions works and coking ovens. v Chasing Fleeing Enemy | One hundred and fifty thousand men of the Ninth Army are in ‘swm, fruitful pursuit of von Rund- ;stedr.‘s fleeing, shattered forces. {Tanks and infantry of Gen. Simp- (son’s shock force spurred on miles to the north to seize the Dutch bastion, the rail center of Venlo, |and then moved to within 18 miles of the Canadian First Army, threatening to trap thousands of |Germany’s finest parachute and \tank troops. | Simpson’s headquarters called.the |German Fifteenth Army retreat a ""ruut." | On the Ninth Army’s south flank, Germany early in the war, and re- fused to turn over the French fleet to the British as per FIELDS MARSHALS organizations, lower than the num- tary matters were being discussed, Say New Fire-Spreading| | lion occupied the western end of the uncompleted Motoyama Airfield Number Three. The Devil Dogs had treaty ar-| rangement - IN CONFERENCE; “And,” concluded Stalin, fired on you.” That ended the matter. Roosevelt | who didn't care; and Churchill, much one way or the other, made no further suggestions about de Gaulle. . v LADIES OF CONGRESS The menfolk of Congress might take a lesson from the Ladies Con- gressional Club when it comes to holding their tempers and keeping their fists in their pockets. On the day that “Titular Re- . {Continued on Page Four) “when | you landed in North Africa, they| . Sir Harold Alexander, Allied Com- mander in the Mediterranean area, conferred with Marshal Tolbukhin, Commander of Russia’s Third | Ukrainian Army, during a visit to Yugoslavia and Hungary, Allied |Headquarters announced. Allied Headquarters - said talks with both Marshal Tito and Mar- jshal Tolbukhin “concluded with agreement on all points under dis- cussion.’ EVERYTHING 0.K. ROME, March 2—Field Marshal | | Missiles Are High- ly Destructive (By Associated Press) that Superfortresses were dropping ‘phosphorous incendiary bombs with |“highly destructive. power” and |“electron bombs” which spread the fire in an area 30 to 40 feet. The commentator said the Am- ‘erican bombers had recently begun to use a “large-size bomb, so we should watch closely for this phos- phorous bomb.” The Japanese Tokyo radio told| {the Japanese homeland last night! (already seized Iwo's two other com- | pleted airstrips. Maj. Gen, Rockey’s tank-led Fifth Division punched forward on the west side of the route. The few re- |maining Japanese are in fortified hill positions on the opposite side. The spearhead on the plateau Idrove 800 yards northeast and as- {staulted Hill 362, which is less than |a mile from the island’s northeast | shoreline. [ —— - — SALESMEN HERE A. L. Florence and T. R. Curtis, {salesmen, are guests at the Gas |tineau, while on a business trip ’in the Capital City. Wright 6%, International Harvester that in all America our assets and 80%, Kennecott 38%, North Ameri- our people may be busily and can Aviation 114, New York Cen- profitably employed.” | tral 24'%, Northern Pacific 217%,| Wallace has appointed a com- | U. S. Steel 64%. mittee of businessmen to make Dow, Jones averages today are suggestions that will enable small! as follows: Industrials, 159.97; rails, |businesses to do their full share in 52,03; utilities, 28.43. {providing maximum employment | - |after the war. | Secretary Wallace will receive a e e —— isalary of $15,000 a year. | The Senate voted 56 to 32 to confirm his nomination. B A VISIT IN JUNEAU WASHINGTON, March 2 — The| Mrs. Fred Sorri and her infant| billion and one-half dollar defi-/son recently flew to Juneau from ciency appropriation, most of which their home in Anchorage to visit lis for the Navy, passed the House‘Mrs. Sorri’s sister, Mrs. E. Iverson, today and was sent to the Senate who was a patient at St. Ann's| after three days of listless debate. Hospital. i i Eisenhower held an important con- |theé American First Army fought ference Thursday morning at his With great and growing power. They | Alliea headquarters with Field Marshal Montgomery. Other important figures in the High Command also tended the conference. - eee PORT OFFICER OUT Capt. William “Tex” Day, of the Juneau Subport, left for Seattle today where he will be attached on temporary duty at the Seattle Port of Embarkation for the next 15 days, before returning to his station here, — e — FROM ILLINOIS George Burnett, Springfield, Illi- nois, is a guest at the Baranof. at-| are less than five miles from Co- logne, rubbled anew after dawn by 1,000 British heavy bombers. | Fight In Trier Streets | Further 'south, the Third Army {fought in the venerable streets of |Trier, guardian city of the Mo- 'selle. Prisoners clogged the cages. The Ninth Army total yesterday rose to 15576 for the campaign that started west of the Roer River, February 23, ———————e FROM SITKA Registering at Hotel Juneau this morning are Mr. and Mrs. D. R. {Schiebel, who arrived on the North Sea from Sitka.