The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA VOL. LX1V., NO. 9901 @#ONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY ¥ASHINGTON, D. €. ,d_.i‘fi\_ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE THIF" LA R 4 | VA% Jt B . » E » '_—‘ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MOI\DAY. 'VIARCHS I‘)45 Ml MBER ASS ()ClATl D PR}'SS PRICL TEN CE"ITS YANKS CLOSE IN FOR KILL AT COLOGNE New Powerful Attacks Are Launched ByReds SUBURBS OF STETTIN ARE UNDER FIRE Major, with Decorations, | Tried for Being AWOL in Attempt fo Get Info Fight PARIS, Mmch 5—Major Wllham | i i | | | U. S. MARINES MAKE GAmsl ON1WO JIMA § Main Alfar of Manila Refugee Haven TANKS WITH INFANTRY IN '(OLOGNE NOW Major Barrett testified he at |Barrett of Los Angeles, California, | § U. S. A, holder of several decora- i {tions for heroism, has been sen-\%flfmm*?m After several ‘!enced by a courtmartial to be| ol‘ inaction, he left the depot and reprimanded and forfeit $300 in fip(‘nt 34 days traveling from one| Ipay for being absent without leave | front to another tring to persuade | Three Russian Spearheads Have Now Reached months replacement depot awaiting re-| Final Powerful Attack on Great Rhineland City Is Underway ‘Screaming Japs Charge in Untamed Fury-Super Uses New Base Baltic Coast LONDON, March 5.—Marshal| Zhukov's big guns have begun shell- | ing the suburbs of Stettin, which lie| east of the Oder River, Moscow dis- | patches said. The Berlin High Command an-| nounced the fall of Stargard fortress, 19 miles east of the big Bal- | tic port after the Russians plunged ! triple spearheads to the Baltic. The Russians are reported launch- ing two new powerful attacks, unc from the Baltic toeholds wward Stettin Bay. Advanced units are already in sight of Stettin Bay. The two Russian spearheads on| the Baltic, near Kolberg and at Koeslin have been supplemented by /| a third, farther east, between Koe-| slin and Schlaw. The Germans am‘ reported cutting land commumca tions. Perhaps 200,000 German troops are} in Eastern Pomerania and the Dan- zig-Polish Corridor in one of the| biggest encirclement operations on| the Eastern Front, announced Mos- | cow last night. — - CHARLES BRYAN PASSES AWAY, 'LINCOLN HOME LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 5— Charles W. Bryan, 78, Democratic|; vice-presidential nominee in 1924, three times governor of Nebraska | and brother of William Jennings Bryan, is dead here at his home| after an illness of several months. For a quarter of a century he; was political secretary to his bro-| ther. The Washington Merry - Go - Round | By DREW PEARSON @t. Col. lubzrt 8. men Bov on sctive service with the Ar DRESDEN 1S | | Ocean propaganda agency, said: 44 NATIONS 'All United Nations Asked| in an attempt to get back into v.he|commandcrs to put him to work real fighting. agam Cleaning Up WIPED OFF Nipponese, NAZIS'MAP luzon Island Iens of Thousands of Citi- | Guerrillas Flghimg New, zens Are Buried Under | Warfare-Two More Ruins, Agency Claims | Islands Taken LONDON, March 5—A German | war correspondent said Dresden, | chief city in Saxony, was wiped lout by Allied air attacks last Feb- ruray 14 and 15, and “tens of Yank divisions (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, March 5—While three pushed steadily under the ruins. = jtainous northern Luzon, Filipino Rudolf Sparing, of ‘the - Trans- \guerrillas struck a heavy blow fls "the enemy's rear, clearing the Nip. “The Dresderi catastrophe is with- ponese from Tlocos Norte Province, out precedent. The town area is Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- devoid of human life, and a great nounces, clty is wiped off the map of| Two Islands Taken Eumpe." | The campaign to clean the Japa- The agency said not a single nese off Luzon, principal island in| block of buildings remained intact | the Philippines, is also implemented lor capable of reconstruction in the by the American divisions in the city, which had an estimated popu- seizure on Saturday of Ticao and lation cf a million before the raids'Burias Islands in the Sibuya Sea. began, including 600,000 refugees | The occupation of the islands will from eastern Germany. |result in evacuation or destruction —_———————— |of the Nipponese on neabry Bicol Peninsula, and would give the Am- ericans the key port of Legaspi, on | the east side, and an additional! airbase. | In Manila In Manila, units of the Thirty- | Seventh Division have cleaned out | the last Japanese resistance in the| downtown district with the capture | of the Finance building, one of the structures in which the Nipponese | made suicide stands after the fall | of the old Walled City to the| Yanks. Guerrillas In Fight Gen. MacArthur disclosed that Guerrillas, under Col. R. W. Volck- man, MAY ATTEND BIG MEETING fo Be at San Francisco | | Lfor, says Admiral Nimitz, By JAMES HUTCHESON \' ‘anas base. thousands of citizens were buried against Japanese freops in moun-| U. s. PACIF‘IC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, GUAM, Marc 5 United States Marines made limited gains on northern Iwo Jima Sun- ! day and hurled back a Jap counter- | attack in which hundreds of | screaming Japs were killed, Admiral; Chester W. Nimitz announces. ‘ The enemy dead numbered 12,- 864 as of 6 p. m. Saturday, out ori an estimated garrison of 20,000 Eighty-one prisoners, the ma-/ Jority Korean laborers, were taken in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. | The battle-worn Leathernecks, j. Gen. Clifton Gates' Fourth Division, continued tortuous ad- vances over the rough terrain. The tired Marines, however, could Isee what they were fighting for tand what their comrades had died Bomber Base Used One Superfort, returning from a raid on Tokyo, landed on the southern bomber field, repairs \were made to the fuel line, and the plane continued back to the Mari- nese who swept with a murdering g Almost half of the Superfort #we%" losses in strikes at the Japanese < Empire from the Marianas have resulted from crash landings on the last lap of the 1,500-mile home- ward flight. Now the cripples can land on Iwo Jima. Also, the Iwo Jima airfields mean substantinny increased bomb loads. The Japs, cornered on the north- ern top of the Island are fighting with untamed fury and Marines capturing a gun position, pillbox or blockhouse find the garrison resist- ing to the death. Raids on various islands held by the Japs were made Saturday and continued Sunday. | .- | & £ TREATIES TO BE PREPARED BY ROOSEVELT | Results of Cnmean Con-‘ INGALONG CHURCH in the Paco dbtllct of ss Pilipinos, people who somehow managed to eseape the terrifying fury of the retreating Japa- WASHINGTON—On the eve of| John L. Lewis' coal negotiations, | Conference from Tlocos Notre Province, in me have cleared tihe NipponESe\ t ference Decision Go fo Hard Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes rolled up his sleeves and did some tough talking about coal shortages to an off-the-record ses- sion of the War Production Board. He warned the closed-door ses- sion of production bigwigs that al- though coal was scarce this year, it was going to be worse next year. He predicted a deficit in bituminous | coal alone of 50,000,000 tons. Ickes praised the operation of both the mines and the miners, saying that the average age of the miners today is around 45, whereas their ages used to be under 30. He said that 30,000 men had been | drafted from the coal ‘mines last year and about 30,000 would be! drafted this year. Once these men were gone, Ickes said, they cannot be successfully replaced. Without saying so directly, Ickes implied strong criticism of the U, S. Army for drafting these men. “In England,” he said,.“they even drafted men and sent them to the coal mines. We do just the re- verse.” Ickes also indicated that he would take over the coal mines at the drop of a hat if negotiations | between John L. Lewis and the coal operators fail this month. He said the industry could not afford! to lose a single day’s production. “Both sides know what they! want,” Ickes told Army-Navy mo- guls also attending the meeting. “If they can get together at all, they can do it in the first few days of their talks.” Ickes also dropped some pointed (Continued on Page Four) extreme northwest corner of Luz m | Island, inflicting thousands of cas-‘ ualties while suffering only mmor( losses themselves. Gen. MacArthur describes the | fighting as of the “irregular type, | which the enemy .has. been unable to fathom.” He gave no further details, but the spokesman said the | Guerrillas were supplied with Am- erican ‘arms since the Yanks ar-| rived on Luzon, and have also been | receiving effective air support. ALASKA PROJECTS BE CONSTRUCTED AFTER WAR ENDS Riversand Krbors Appro- priation Bill Now Authorized WASHINGTON,. March, 5—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has signed a bill {authorizing the = expenditure of cil, even though the great power |$500,000,000 for rivers and harbors itself may object. work after the war. However, on any vote to decide| Projects in Alaska included in whether any great power is threat- this bill are: Metlakatla Harbor, ening the peace, or to take action!$160,000; Craig, $80,000; Meyers against that power, each of the five Chuck, $25,000; Wrangell, $189,000; | Great Nations would have in effect | Wrangell Narrows, $2,731,000; Sitka, a veto. $385,000; Skagway, $16,000; Peters- burg, $80,000; Port Alexander, $31,- {000; Gastineau Channel, $150,000; Elfin Cove, $38,000, and Seldovia Harbor, $50,000, | WASHINGTON, March 5—Gov- ernment officials have announced that all United Nations except Po- ?land are being asked to attend the | World Security Conference at San| Francisco. If all nations accept as! {is expected this would mean an at- tendance of representatives from 44 nations. { France has accepted the invita- tion to the conference, but refrained from joining in sponsoring the con- | ference, which leaves the sponsor- |ship to the United States, Russia, China and Britain. The official an- nouncement from France said she |had agreed to participate in the conference but felt, partly because | she had not helped to work out the | Dumbarton Oaks proposals she {should not join in sponsoring the invitdtions. Voting procedure agreed on by President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill at} Yalta to fill in the last gap in the | Dumbarton Oaks plan were also announced in substance. It provides |that a small nation may have the right to bring charges against a | great power and get them heard by the proposed World Security Coun- | | —_——.r— JOHNSON HERE G. Johnson, registering Seattle, is at the Baranof, from |dent Roosevelt, as the result of the ' | wars. Senate for Action By JOHN HiGHTOWER (AP Diplomatic News Editor) WASHINGTON, March 5—Presi- blood by the murderous and bruta safety within the people as they knelt in prayer. bodies of civilians. last rites of th Crimean Conference decisions, will | submit to the Senate six or more treaties relating to general prob- {lems shaping preserving of peace. Three- of the principal treaties will deal with establishing postwar world security organizations and .at least three more will concern liqui- | dation of the European and Pacific TWO BRIDGES ACROSS RHINE AREBLOWN UP Enemy Garrison of 35, 000’ Surrenders-Man HuntIsOn One subject to be introduced will ! include the United Nations Charter which will commit the United States to full and active member- | ship in the ‘world organization, pre- pared to use force to prevent war threats and another stating in de- tail the force of land, sea and air the United States is prepared to use. JAPS: PREPARED | | Germany, March 5— FoR I"v‘slo The Germans blew up two bridges |crossing the Rhine River to Duis- (By Associated Press) burg north and south.ur Hamburg, The Japanese people are “being while the Eighty-Fourth Division prepared for the possibility of in- was trying resolutely to seize them. vasion, and at the same time con- The enemy garrison in this vinced that invasion does not mean manufacturing city of 35,000 sur-| defeat,” Domei Agency said. rendered three hours after. mid- The Nazi correspondent in Tokyo, night. Hundreds of retreating reporting to Germany, is identified Nazis were caught on the west side as Dr. Lily A. Begg. of the Rhine, and are being flushdd The Trans-Ocean agency broad- from basements and cellars in a' cast was recorded by FCC, house-to-house manhunt CHRISTIAN BROTHERS of the De La Salle College in Mar sprawled in death oy the floor of the Chapel and in the corric scanetity of the C % [ weeks on | king, Manile, which is scythe throu;’h the Paco district. 1 retreating Japanese troovs. “hapel but, as his was but one of the m Church to the dying victims of the merciless Japs. hope Americans would gaze on scenes like this when the cry for u)mpromlse pcacz, is sent up by Tokyo, German male of military age. Many Nazi officers were caught trying to escape by donning civilian | clothes THREATS, S0 (OPS WATCH SAN }"RAN(‘IHC(J March 5 | Police patrol cars have been keep- ling a close watch for the past two the home of Mrs. Alma widow of the late sugar has been receiving letters and telephone calls from a “waterfront man,” who says: “We are getting damn fed up hearing how you are spending millions when our boys are getting legs and bodies torn to pieces.” Spreckles, whio threatening PHREYS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Humph- rey, Seattle, are guests at Gastineau. PR TN AT B C. H. Riding, registered at the hown in this picture, the | now serving as a refugee center for (hapel Vlchms of Relreaimg Japs »}u long with Filipino civx]mn.», are shown where It was evident that these people sought they were shot and killed in- cold the Japs slew these innocent atrocities which filled Manila with the A priest hid beneath the altar and emerged as the Japs moved on and administered the War Céorrespondnets expressed the | | NEW ‘{()RK, March 5 Alaska | Juncau Mine stock closed today at |7%, American Can 94, Anaconda 133%, Beech Aircraft 12%, Bethle- ‘ht»lu Steel T4'%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, | International Harvester 81, Kenne- |cott, 387, North American Aviation 11%, New York Central 24%, Nor- thern Pacific 22%, U. S. Steel 647% Dow, Jones averages today are as (nlluws: Industri 160.68; rails, 5225; utilities, 28.50. PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation on Alaska Ju- neau Mine stock Saturday was 7%, American Can 94, Anaconda 34%, Beech Aircraft 12%, Eethlehem Steel 73, Curtiss-Wright 6%, Inter- national Harvester 80'., Kennecott 387, North American Aviation 11%, New York Central 24%, Northern Pacific 22%, U. 8. Steel 63%. Dow, Jones averages Saturday' were as follows: Industrials, 159.71; rails, 52.10; utilities, 28.52. e e ROSS D. CRANE ARRIVES Ross D. Crane, of Ancherage, is for any Baranof Hotel, is here from Seattlestaying at Hotel Juneau, BULLETIN—PARIS, March 5 First Army tanks fought a mile deep inside Cologne tonight, driving through Bickendorf's northern section and to within two and one-half miles of the towering cathedral in the heart of the city. The capture of the city is expected by Thursday morning, at the latest. The whole First Army ham moved forward from one to four miles along the entire front. PARIS, March 5.—American tanks and infantry stormed into Cologne lat 7:10 o'clock this morning. In final, powerful attacks on the great Rhincland metropolis: they slowly fought towards the heart of Ger- many's fourth largest city. The final assault started in the cold and dark- ness of 4 o'clock this morning. Maj. Gen, Maurice Rose’s Third Armored Di passed the city limits, striking north through the suburg of = Bockelemuend. The tanks are about mree miles !ml the tower] 3 heal : beerd “most rnvnnd city ln the Rhmelxm‘ House to house fighting was touched off quickly. In For Kill Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, with the First Army, reported Cologne lay under a pall of smoke. The thunder of battle is rolling across the city and is in- creasing in fury as the Americans closed in for the kill on the eleventh day of the drive from the Roer River 21 miles behind. To the north, the American Ninth Army captured Homberg, a manu- facturing city on the west bank, and a suburg of Duisburg, the approach to two Rhine bridges. General Simpson and his men stood on the Rhine for 15 miles. The Canadians, to the north, held an- other 52-mile stretch of the west | bank of the meandering stream. Surrender The Germans surrendered by the thousands. The total. passed 60,000, A blackout was imposed partially on Third Army movements toward | Coblenz and the middle Rhine, sug- ,geeung an imminent breakthrough | there, | The Seventh Army fough the Sieg- ! fried Line just outside of the Saar Capital of Saarbruecken, which is | also under henvy artillery fire, | ;AMERI(ANS INADVANCE ~ ITALY AREA Capture Another Dominal- ing Hill - Mountain Division Active ROME, March 5—The American - Fifth Army troops have captured another dominating hill position, Monte Della Croce, and further |improved the position west of the Bologna-Pistoia Highway with the capture of several small villages, Allied Headquarters announces. In the Adriatic sector on the Ttalian front, the Eighth Army units, comprised also of Italian infantry, British artillery and tanks, have further cleared the forests south of the Podi Primaro River, |taking another 200 prisoners. American advances made in the sector southwest of Bologna, adja- cent to Monte Belvedere, resulted /in many positions being taken by |the U. S. Tenth Mountain Division. —ee FROM SEATTLE O. Bergreth, Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof,