The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE N EWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9900 EMPIRE MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1945 — AMERICANS DRIVE ACROSS RHINE FRONT Nazi Forces Are Being Split By Russians RED ARMY IS NEARING BALTIC SEA German Troops Being Iso- | lated, Backed Against Norlhern Waters LONDON, March 3. — Second session, as he is in the States on a business trip. City Policewoman Isabelle Har- tung, turning in her first report since returning from vacation, stated 38 children have been sent home;.3 escorted home, 10 cases investigated, 10 homes visited, 8 juvenile passes issued, 7 juveniles sent out of bars &and pool halls, and 2 truants inves- | tigated. ——eo—— HOUSE HAS LAST RUSH |DELEGATES STATE NEEDS OF JUNEAU FISHING FLEET i Discussion Arises Over Re- newal of Lease of City Dock Juneau fishermen's representa- | tives, Dan Stanworth and Olaf Win- ther, appeared before the City Coun- leil last night to renew again the; | plea of fishermen in this vicinity for AIR CHIEF ON PACIFIC IS MISSING Extensive Search Made fos | Lt Gen. Harmon, 9 i Officers, Men | | ARMY HEADQUARTERS, PA- |CIFIC OCEAN AREAS, March 3— 55 VESSELS OFNIPPONS SENT DOWN ‘Ninety - one Planes Also ' Downed in Sweep of Ryukyu Islands ; U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, GUAM, March 3— | | | | | Treasury Rep Big Bala LUBANGIS TAKENBY | AMERICANS: White Russian Army tanks have |better facilities for care of their carrier severed communications between Danzig and Stettin, thus isolating | |boats and gear. Stanworth, speaking first, flsked; city FOR BILLS [Lt. Gen. Millard “F. Harmon, com- American planes swept |mander of Army Air forces operat- across the Ryukyu Islands, virtually |ing in the Pacific has been reported punopposed, Thursday, destroying or | Philippine —S;i;ils Cleared! the German troops, which are now |about the possibility of the being backed up against the Baltic | erecting a gear warehouse, the fish- in southern Pomerania-Polish Cor- |€rmen to pay a reasonable fee ror‘ ridor, in the Danzig territory. rent of gear lockers. Then Winthers | The Berlin radio said today the |told what facilities were provided in Russians are fighting within sight | Ketchikan, Petersburg and Sx_lkn of the Baltic in three places. | Both speakers emphasized the nsh-‘ Moscow clothed a security black- |€rmen would pay reasonable fees for| out on the exact extent of Soviet |Services such as lockers and use ufi penetration northward of Pomerania | electric lights to boats, if such were| but Associated Press corresopndent | provided. % : | Eddy Gilmore said Marshal Rokos- | This brought up a discussion of/ sovsky's wedge was driven between | electric rates. The flshermen_ told Rummelsburg, Bublitz and Koeslin, | the Council they felt the councilmen Representatives Get in Ten More as 40th Day Wanes The last curtain was rung down on bill introduction in the House of Representatives yesterday after- noon with Representatives introduc- ing ten more measures to bring the total to 97 hills. Now of All Enemy Opposition That night, a task force of Ad-‘| Raymond Spruance’s Fifth | By C. YATES McDANIEL ocean are being combed. Fleet followed up the daylight raid | pAgsociated Press War Correspondent The Army said Gen. Harmon's with a night-long bombardment of MANILA, March 3.—Gen. Doug- |plane is mysteriously missing on a‘Okimo Daity, 210 miles east of ]as MacArthur's men, making the routine flight without saying when}the main Ryukyu chain gunrdlns}lgm island invasion of the Phil- or where. When last heard trom‘the approaches to southern Japan |ippines, and the fifth in a little | the General's big converted bomber and the China coast. The bombard- | gver one week, landed on Lubang had ample fuel for a complete ing warships were only 350 miles Island, 35 miles southwest of the flight and was traveling through south of Japan, Admiral Nimitz entrance to Manila Bay, completing | 'good weather over calm seas, but /the clearance of the ‘shortest sea |missing with nine other officers damaging 55 Japanese ships nnd; 'and men in a trans-oceanic flight. 91 planes, Admirad Chester W | The greatest air and naval search ,Nimitz announces. {ever launched in the Pacific is now | under way, as vast areas of the miral and “has broken the German line as |could deal with the Alaska Electric a line.” By German account the Russian armored spearheads cut across Dan- zig-Stettin communications east of Koeslin, seven miles from the Baltic | coast. This is unconfirmed or the German statement that the Rus- sians are on the outskirts of Koeslin. The enemy deglared Russian at- tempts to wide nthe wedge were re- pulsed, in wild hand-to-hand fight- ing. The German communique an: nounced Soviet units had thrust southwest of Dramburg, indicating a new smash through Pomerania to- | ward the Baltic. Three Russian spearheads are jab- bing for Koeslin and the port of Kolberg, 24 miles to the west. Tanks drove a wedge between Rummels. burg and Bublitz. Long-range gun: hammered at the coastal railway running west of Danzig. In Silesia Russian storm units fought, building by building, the Germans in surrounded Breslau. —————— BACK FROM TRIP Mys. John McCormick, Wife of \eoper was referred to the street|bassage of Legislature measures. It the Territorial Director of Selective Service, returned to her Juneau home by plane yesterday afternoon, after an extended trip through the States that took her to New York City. and Washington, D. C. On her return she visited rela- tives in the State of Washington. better Introduced yesterday afternoon ight and Power Company | than they could. were the following measures: After the men said many fishing, House Memorial No. 7, by Hanford, boats would leave the town if better asking Congress to change the in- the 'debtedness limitations on incorpor- | Council decided to take it up and see fated Alaskan municipalities. At the "what could ke done. {present a town cannot incur debt The lease of the city dock to the;beyond its annual income, but Han- orthland Transportation Compfin_v!fol‘d would have the law changed to in April. the council being so | read five years of mcoqne. Inctifisd by R. E. Robertson, steam-| House Joint Resolution No. 7, by ‘Chip company attorney. After much Hennings, urges that Alaskan {discussicn as to the advisability of1branches of the War Labor Board |selling the dock and whether such offices be set up throughout Alaska Isale would enable the company to on the grounds that outside seasonal raise whorfage rates, the matter | cannery workers have a greater | was laid aside for the new council to' advantage today in securing uniform lsemg after spring elections. | wage rates and working conditions. i New Librarian House Bill No. 91, by Shattuck, Edna Lomen applied for the posi: sks a referendum vote be taken at on as librarian and was appointed. | the next general election on the She will begin working with Ann|questions of a single primary ballot Coleman on March 19, and take and direct election of national com- !Charge April 1. I;miueemen, measures for both of | A communication was read from|Wwhich were defeated earlier in the | Al White, stating the steps and walk session in the House. len East Street in front of his home| House Bill No. 92, by Linck, is and ending at the Darlin residence directed at Federal and Territorial /was badly in need of repair. ‘Theofficials who “lobby” for or against | facilities were not provided, | | N |is up | committee. {would require these officials to go A letter from W. A. Kelvie, asking (through the same registering and fee | for appointment as city policeman /paying process as do regular lobby- | was referred to the police depart-ists. ment. House Bill No. 93, by Peterson Following reading of reports from |and Vukovich is an “old girl in a new |the librarian, police chief, police- |dress,” a bill to create the “Collector | woman, street ‘commissioner and |of Revenue” which apparently is the i from H. 8. Henretta, tax-revaluation same bill as the indefinitely post | he narcotics ordinance was poned Peterson “Tax Commissioner it was undisclosed whether he was traveling through a combat zone. e | NIPS READ | FOR FINAL STAND, IW0 Japs Bein&cked Onto Cliff on Northern ‘ End of Island i UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, March 3.—Only 600 yards of terrain stood between the Third U. S. Marines and the point at which they may cut the last inter-connecting Japanese pillbox line along. blood- | soaked Iwo’s northern end which i. ibut a rugged stretch sloping ir- regularly downward to the cliff, which will probably be the last !stand of the Japanese. Between the Marine outpost and the cliff runs a system of half- | underground enemy defenses, The said. | Nimitz reported 13 enemy vessels | {sunk, 13 probably sunk, and 29' damaged, while 41 planes were | definitely destroyed and 50 others (either demolished or damaged on | the ground. The attack cost the American k,'orcm eight airmen and 13 planes. | “irfields, barracks, warehouses., !tadio and radar installatiohs, mills jand lumber yards were destroyed 'in the sweep over the six islands in the chain. ot — 'SWEDEN'S ACE RUNNERSLAND HERE FINALLY: | Hagg and Lidman o Show at IC-4A Meeton | Weekend . | | NEW YORK, March 3—Swedish | |track stars, “Gunder the Wonder” Hagg and Haakon Lidman have ar- | rived in the United States after a | (voyage from England which re-| quired more than three weeks. Originally scheduled to fly here, the pait was shunted to boats when The Washington | man, t |read for the third timeeand passed.;bill. | This ordinance now complies with | the Federal and Territorial laws. House Joint Memorial No. 16, by 'Johnson, asks the Highway Engineer Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Coi.” Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.® WASHINGTON — Biggest shake- up in the High Command since Gen. Eisenhower’s appointment a: European Commander is being dis-! cussed back-stage at the White House. Some of it also is reported to have been studied at- Yalta. The shake-up will be aimed at solving two difficult problems (1) Cooperation with the Russian Gen- Dr. W. P, Blanton asked why Lhe"and Board of Road Commisslonexs? | penalty of 30 days in jail and a $100to look into the possibilities of | 1ine was put in the law when it is ajspending $150,000 for a sixty mile ! Federal violation to peddle or possess | foad near Fairbanks provided $35,000 |drugs. Mayor A. B. Hayes told him |of the sum can be put up by resi-| this law gave the city police the/dents to be affected. The road power to arrest persons for ghL;'weuld be an extension of the Badger crime in order to hold them for the|Road. named after farmer-legisla- Federal authorities. itor Representative Harry Badger, ‘Eand would service about fifteen: homesteaders and open up country| for “one hundred more,” as well as| contact the popular Chena Hot i Bus Line Franchise The 20-year franchise, giving ‘Lloyd Reid and his successors the | Springs area. | right to operaté a bus line over cer- ! House Bill No. 94, by Shattuck, |tain streets in Juneau passed its‘ third reading. It now goes to the would change the mayorality elec-| |S i works, which are like others faced |plane passage became unavailable. lin the last 10 days, must be taken |They left Sweden February 1, and | the hard way. at that time hoped to compete in The Third Division, under Maj. the American Indoor Champion- | Gen. Erskine lunged forward 700 .ships, held February 24. | yards Friday to seize a 362-foot hill, 1 Both runners are scheduled to within rifle range of the cliff. jappear at this weekend's Intercol- —————— |legiate AAAA Indoor meet. Hagg i carded against four U. S. milers, I"AI' " F while Lidman is booked for a| |hurdle exhibition. | j —————— BROPHY OKE"DMOY(E STABS WAY WASHINGTON, March 3 — The | T 1 enate Indian Affairs Committee | - has approved the nomination of William Brophy, of Albuquerque, route through the Philippines from | the United States. { Gen. MacArthur's announcement | today of the seizure of the 18 by 8-mile Lubang Island at the west | end of the Verde Passage followed by | one day the disclosure that Palawan | Island had been invaded by the veteran . 41st, Division. under Maj. Gen. Jens A: Doe. A third airway ! on Palawan is now in the hands of | the Americans, as well as Puerto | Princesa Harbor and the Iwahig Penal Colony. | Elements of Gen, Frederick 8. 'Irvlng‘s 24th Division, which played a major role on Leyte Island and also helped recapture Corregidor Fortress, landed on Lubang against “negligible resistance,” Gen. Mac- Arthur said. | The seizure of Lubang completes secure the main navigational chan- nel through the island for ship e .- — PRODUCTION FOR JAPAN | WARNEEDED Military Landings Indicat- ed on Large Scale. Batt Reveals 1 | | NEW YORK, March 3—William Batt, War Production Board Chair- continue at full speed for “big mili- * tary landings” in the Pacific for man, told guests at a Rotary Club luncheon that war production must land fighting on perhaps the Euro- ‘ pean scale. Army and Air Forces orf Shows nce Remaining A report of treasury balances for | the past twelve years was released | today by Territorial Treasurer Oscar | Olson showing a cash balance for 1945 of close to $2,000,000, exclusive of a $600,000 purchase of war bonds. The report, reflecting a general upward trend since 1934, is as fol- | lows 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 $ 765,238.07 920,441.84 832,038.82 953,877.58 1,187,914.34 1,402,513.13 1,2417,039.85 1,206,330.50 1,196,358.75 1,524,001.61 1944 1,918,741.04 1945 1,908,410.33 The figures for 1944 do not include $300,000 worth of war bonds, and the figures for 1945 do not include $600,000 in war bonds. e - '3 VESSELS U.5.NAVY “ARE LOST WASHINGTON, March 3 -~ The Navy announced the loss of three more naval vessels, including the small salvage vessel Extractor, which was sunk by a U. S. submarine as the result of mistaken identity. The other ships were the 14,000-ton car- | g0 ship Serpens, manned by Coast Guard personnel, and a large in- | fantry landing craft LCI-600. All personnel of approximately 200 | capture of all key positions through men and officers aboard the Serp- | Isan Bernadino Straits and Verde ens, which was carrying ammuni- (Island Passage and is designed to ! tion, are reported lost. The infantry landing craft sank in the Central Pacific with a loss of | movements from the United States. two dead and one missing from the normal complement of about 25. Survivors of the Extractor were yescued by the attacking submarine, which made a thorough search of the area upon discovering their error, the Navy said. Six men are reported missing from the vessel's complement of about 60. ———— SYSTEM OF ESPIONAGE ON COAST LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 3.— An enemy espionage system is op- | erating on the Pacific Coast. This was the testimony given by Brig. Gen. William W. Wilbur, Chief of Staff, Western Defense Command. Wilbur was a witness in the case eral Staff, despite the fact that yoters for ratification. To pass, 55 tion laws from annual elections to have to be “pretty completely re- |of three Japanese seeking to restrain New Mexico, as Indian Commis- i | equipped” for the fight against|the Army from preventing their re- sioner. Brophy was nominated by | IN GARDEN FIGHT Russia is not in the war against Japan; and (2) The tug-of-war iper cent of the voters casting ballots lin the election must give approval. between Admiral Nimitz and Gen.| After must discussion on the op- MacArthur as to who will command |tion giving the city first chance to| the final drive on Tokyo. |buy the AB Hall it was decided to; The No. 1 problem, involving see what could be done about get- Russia, probably will be worked ting the option. | enable municipalities to elect their {mayors for five year terms if they wish. House Bill No. 95, by Hope, is a' maximum wage and minimum hour 'law providing for a 40 hour week, tion was unanimous. The nomina- | an eight hour day and time and a | Japan, he said. | NEW YORK, March 3.—Stabbing WPB Chairman Batt disclosed | President Roosevelt following the turn to this rea. “Things are constantly occurring |resignation of John Collier. {a rapier-like left into Ike Williams Senator Carl A. Hatch of New |face all the way and all but knock- Mexico said the committee’s ac-|ing out his opponent in the last |round, Willie Joyce from Akron, tion now goes to the Senate for|Ohio, scored an upset, unanimous action. {12-round decision over the Trenton,' heavy bombers, Liberators, Fortress- es and Superbombers into the air. These are among munitions totals announced for the first time, cov- out by setting up a separate branch of the combined chiefs in Europe with Gen. Omar Bradley, Field Marshal Montgomery, and Marshal Zhukov as its members. They will function in regard to the European war only, will have nothing to do with the war agajnst Japan. The No. 2 problem of who will command the knock-out blows against Japan has been the subject of considerable Army and Navy wire-pulling. Gen. MacArthur and his friends have been conducting Just as the meeting was getting|half pay for overtime. |ready to adjourn Ed Neilson brought |up an objection to the ways certain |bills were itemized. It was moved quantity, unit price and total. ]{ Then, at the last moment, Don Skuse moved that the Boy Scout | District Council be granted the up- jper end of Third Street, near the {court house, for use as a clubhouse isite. This was granted providing certain provisions were with. land, seconded that all department| beads see to it that bills showed the | Taylor, creates an Unemployment | compensation Act fund to be hand- led by a treasurer for that act alone. House Bill No. 9%, by Linck, is a {tire highway laws system under the 2uto vehicle code, a measure said to participation in Federal {Aid Act funds. House Bill No. 96, by Huntley and ! measure designed to revamp the en- | be necessary to enable Territorial! Highway | ering the period from the start of the Defense Program, July, 1940, to the end of 1944. All types of planes numbered 246,845 of which 79,776 were fighter planes and 19,- 547 were transports. 0, eI “In merchant vessels we produced | BOTH BURDICKS QUT 45,000,000 deadweight tons of ocean- Charles Burdick, Assistant Re-|going cargo ships: of naval vessels | |gional Forester, departed for Ket-| no fewer than 56,697, and turned out | {chikan on official business of a|75,000 tanks” said Batt. William Brophy, former govern-|New Jersey lightweight. ment attorney for Pueblo Indians| The bout, in Madison Square Gar- |in New Mexico, had been Chief of den last night, was one of the best the .Interior Department's Puerto| tights of the winter season. Willlams IRican Division since 1943, |was the aggressor throughout, but T Joyce boxed too skillfully. | (CLASS FOR MOTHERS T0 BE HELD MONDAY B complied | | Another in the series of Mothers’ Classes will be held Monday, March 5, from 2 to 3 o'clock, at the Public — e LUCAS RETURNS |routine nature. Mr. Burdick ex- |pects to be gone from his Juneau headquarters for about two weeks. MILL FOREMAN RETURNS ‘Thomas W. Maxwell, foreman at i | that the United States sent 28471 | that could not occur unless an | enemny espionage system is in oper- |ation. I am able to say that a number of incidents were dropped ! after the expulsion of the Japanese | population from the West Coast in July, 1942,” said Wilbur. Plangls_ Fast One WASHINGTON, March 3 — The new jet-propelled fighter Lockheed P-80 “Shooting Star” is described as the fastest airplane in the skies, having a substantial operating range. a vigorous back-stage campaign for his over-all appointment. ; Frank Harris, recently in U. 8. On the other hand, the Navinommesioner's Court on a trespass points out, with considerable truth, charge, was threatened with another Mr. and "Mrs. Harry I. Lucas re- turned to Juneau on the Princess Norah. They boarded the boat at Ketchikan. Mrs. Lucas has been Health Center. The subject for aTs- | cussion will be the “Baby’s Bath,” and there will be a demonstration. All mothers interested are invited to little over a week ago, is now in{turned to assume that position at |Dillon, Montana, where she was|the local mill. He is a guest at Icalled by the illness of her mother,‘}!otel Juneau. Mrs. Burdick, who left Juneau a the Juneau Lumber Mills, has re-! that if it were not for the tre- mendous concentration of ships around the Philippines and the skillful operations of Admiral Nimitz, Gen. MacArthur’s campaign " (Continued on Page Four) charge if he does not remove certain buildings from his city property. A letter on the matter has been mail- ed to him. adjourned. Councilman Elroy Nin- nis was absent from last night's south for several weeks. - .- attend this class, which is the fifth in the series now being held. |Mrs. Frank Buhrer. It is uncertain when Mrs. Burdick will return to e —————— ANCHORAGE VISITORS OIL MAN HERE After payment of bills the meeting| L. R. Wakefield, representing the / Standard Oil Company, is stopping at the Baranof. Thelma Chase and Ruth Good- man, both registering from An- is a chorage, are staying at the Baranof Hotel. her Juneau home. — ., — P. 8. McLain, Anchorage, guest at Hotel Juneau, ————— COMITO HERE J. L. Comito, of Fairbanks, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. It is announced by the Army Air Forces that the planes, which has | been flying more than a year, is | being made under a gigantic pro- gram involving four Lockheed Air- craft Corporation plants. This plane has several new fea- tures, including a pressurized cabin, the first of its kind built in any service model fighter. DOUGHBOYS IN SWEEP ON NAIZIS Two German Armies Be- ing Trapped - Thrust Closer fo Cologne | PARIS, March 3—United States troops, a quarter of a million strong, fighting for confgol of Rhine bridges, have battled to the river on a widening front thrust and are within five miles of clos- ing the Canadian and American trap on parts of two German ar- |mies, von- Rundstedt's divisions in {the north and the Fifteenth Ger- man Army, both reported attempt- |ing a headlong retreat. The American Ninth Army has reached the Rhine at new points on a five-mile sector and burst through Krefeld in a northward push and reached Gelderm later, ifive miles from the Canadian First Army, wheeling the Germans back across the Rhine just to the south. The First Army tanks and in- fantry spread the battle front be- fore Cologne into a dozen villages and slammed within easy artillery range of the great Rhineland stronghold along a curving 20-mil \front pnly four ll‘lfi*-hn{ (from Cologne at one point. = - | Berlin radio reports declared the Ninth Army forces are attempting to span the Rhine, and unofficial reports reaching here said the | Doughboys have already crossed the |Rhine near Neuss, suburb of shell- {ripped Dusseldorf, | The Third Army, driving toward Coblenz, has advanced up to three jand one-half miles on a 45-mile front, seized 13 more towns and taken 4,600 prisoners. - e 'WANTS ALASK " FOR ALASKANS; RANKIN TALKS Makes Remarks on Fish- | ing Industry Which Are Disputed by Bland WASHINGTON, March 3 — The people of Alaska deserve the right |to make a living at fishing, Rep- resentative John E. Rankin of Mississippi, declared, describing the Alaska fishing industry as a $60,- {000,000 industry. Rankin said fish traps are owned by monopolies who slip in Chinese coolies or other laborers during the short salmon season, thus depriving the people of Alaska employment, “We found no evidence of coolie |labor during our recent investiga- tion,” said Representative 8. O. Bland of Virginia, in reply. Rankin then said: “Some day |we are going to be called upon to make Alaska a state. Many young men who come back from the war want to go there and live. What I am after is to make it possible for them to make their own living out of Alaskan resources.” USO DANCE - ISTONIGHT | | | ‘The USO Club will give a Formal { Dance at the Scottish Rite Temple | tonight. Dancing will begin at 9:30 | o'clock. The music will be furnished by the Servicemen’s Band, under the lead- ership of its pianist Corporal George Schnell. All enlisted men and the Girls' Service Organization members are invited to attend. - e FROM PORTLAND Celia L. Sumner, registering from Portland, Oregen, is staying at Hotel Juneau.