The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LXIV., NO. 9903 ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 4 MPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — = | YANKS DASH THROUGH COLOGNE TO BONN Germans ODER RIVER AFLAME ON LONG FRONT Voteless D. (. Sparks Reform Move; Wantto Govern; Up I~o States | | | Berlin SaysR_ussians Have Broken Into Defenses of Kuestrin BULLETIN—LONDON, March 7—The Second White Russian Army has captured Starogard, 21 miles south of Danzig, Stalin announced tonight. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 7.—If there’s any truth in the talk around Capitol Hill, the voteless District of Columbia is closer to getting a vote | ‘MAKE HITS ON and some sort of representation in | Congress than at any time since ime oldest inhabitants got their first ! ET | mustache cups. | | The reason is the Sumners-Cap- | | ‘per proposed constitutional amend- | {ment Since you and you will have |to vote on it or at least make it }clear to your state legislators how‘ 7 Statin announcea tomgnt | 1WENMy-third Straight Day 3y e i aratin, s oaris- | Affack Made on Vifal |7, e miemats a. o | nic, in Slovakia, 80 miles north- | east of Bratisava by Marshal . . . { It's hard to see how Congress can | POIMS m REKh | refuse to pass the Sumncrs-Capper‘;‘ bill. Malinovsky’s Third Ukrainian LONDON, March 7—More than | Army, driving through the Car- | pathian Mountains. '900 U. S. bombers struck in a It is merely an enabling act. It LONDON, March 7.—German seven-pronged attack aimed at oil doesn't give the citizens of the Dis-| broadcasts declares the . Russians plants in'the Dortmund area, and trict a right to vote or any repre- | BULLETIN—LONDON, March | 5 MISSING STILL FROM BLAST SHIP | Vessel Rests on Rock Quf- side of Harbor-Not Much Is Known BULLETIN — VANCOUVER, B. C. March 7—The toll of | blasts that wrecked the 10,000~ GEMMILL TRIALIN - IND DAY Cleo Wilkins lesfifies as Government Wit- ness in Case SEATTLE, March T7—Cleo Pa- {tricia Wilkins, admitted prostitute, and key government witness in the ton freighter Greenhill Park alleged bribery trial’ of Lynn J.! is estimated this afternoon at [Gemmill, United States Attorney eight 'men missing and be- for the First Division of Alaska lieved dead. Eighteen were in- |with headquarters at Juneau, yes- jured and property damage is terday told the court that on No- approximately $1,300,000. Six yember 1, in a room in the Gowan longshoremen are missing and Hotel, Seattle, Gemmill promised to two crewmen are unaccounted recommend a suspended sentence for. provided she would pay him $3,000 -~ land testify against others indicted VANCOUVER, B. C, March 7— in the Sitka trunk case. The smouldering hulk of the $1,- She testified Gemmill asid: “This 600,000 Greenhill Park, wrecked by judge is a very friendly person but explosion and fire with the loss of give me $2,000 or $3,000 and I will Judge Richard Hanna, who heard {the claims of Alaska Indians to vast land and water areas in Al- aska, has issued an opinion which rules against the claims and holds |that “any rights aboriginally held” by the Indians to tidal waters have been voluntarily abandoned. This information was received in Juneau today by W. C. Arnold, Attorney representing the Canned Salmon Industry in the hearings. Judge Hanna held that aboriginal rights to tidal waters have been lost by the Indians by abandonment and do not presently exist. But, at the same time, he re- | jected the contentions that were | based on Russian history and the Treaty of Cession to the effect that | any rights to areas in Alaska which | may have been held by the In- dians were extinguished under the Russian ownership of Alaska. This would indicate that the In- dians voluntarily abandoned their rights, which may have existed under the Russian rule, after the purchase of Alaska by the United States. FIVE MILES have opened the battle for Berlin, at a large railway viaduct in the breaking into the northeastern de- Bielefeld railroad yards southeast | sentation whatever. at least five lives, rested today on It merely specifies that when and the rocky shore just outside Van- give it to the judge and he'll fix . fenses of Kuestrin on the Oder of Siegen, after steady RAF nigh!,iif three-fourths of the states adopt River, 39 miles from Berlin, and the ggsaults against German troops it as an amendment, then Congress Russians are assaulting Zehden on magssed at Wesel, on the Rhine. {shall determine the extent of the the Oder’s east bank, 31 miles from‘ The Eighth Airforce bombers franchise and representation in Con- Berlin. were covered by 250 fighter planes, |gress. There is no thought what- The Beriln radio said the Oder on their twenty-third straight day|ever that this will mean the Dis- River front is afl#me along a 70-mile of aerial blows which are closely | trict’s city government will be turn- stretch from south of Kuestrin al- coordinated with ground attacks|€d over to the people who live here. most all the way north to Stettin. against the Reich. | There’s also little argument in Tanks of Zhukov's First Army pritish night fleets numbering |COngress, as far as I can find, that _bave attacked _Zehden,. 28 miles'sonn. bombers hammered at two | the District sheuii-Bave tiiore tHafi northwest of Kuestrin, the - Berlin y,i evacuation sites on the west- |& non-voting delegate in the House, | radio reports, possibly trying to drive ey front, pounding at Wesel on |as Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines 2 wedge across to turn on Berlin or yy. phine in the longest air attack " and Puerto Rico are now represent- Stettin from the flank. |ever carried out against any Ger- ©¢: |man city. The resort harbor of | But those are matters Yvhnch Sassnitz on the Baltic island of | Would be left up to Congress, if the Ruegen, crowded with German | Sumners-Capper act should be- 1shipping, was hard hit. | |come a part of the Constitution. | The British lost three bombers| Is hard to see either why the lin these latest attacks. Privilege of Retirement of Alfla Judge WASHINGTON, March 7—Sena-| tor Pat McCarran of Nevada has introduced a bill in Congress to| extend the privilege of retirement | to Judges of the United States| District Courts in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and the Pan-| ama Canal Zone. { —— PIGEON RECORD GILLINGHAM, England—A young bird in the R.AF. pigeon service shas created what is believed a {world’s record pigeon flight —1,090 miles from Gibralter where he had been taken with a number of others| to replenish the lofts. The Washingion Merry-Go-Round _ —_— | railed six miles east of Skykomish, | By DREW PEARSON | in the heart of the Cascade Moun- | (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sotive | tains early today, killing Fireman SeYin with e Ay, { Harold Fleming of Seattle. WASHINGTON—The President’s| - Engineer Frank Clemons and | first Cabinet meeting after return- Brakeman Earl Kiloe, also of Seat- ing from Yalta was also Henry | tle, were injured when the loco- Wallace's first Cabinet meeting as|motive and six cars left the tracks| | voters of the nation would refuse to | place in Congress, where it belongs, AR/ MOsil: bowbers, atiacked (i) responsibility for giving resi- Berlin with two-ton bIOCk'bus"e"sidems of the national capital some ‘for the fifteenth straight night. sort of say-so about how they are governed, and equal rights with the |rest of the nation in voting for | President and vice president. Would Permit Finns To Come fo Alaska WASHINGTON, March 7—Repre- | jsentative Case, Republican, South iDakota, has introduced a bill in Congress that will permit a non- quota admission to persons of Finnish descent to Alaska. The difficulty that the proposed amendment probably will have, say its backers, is in lack of interest Why that should be is difficult to understand. Washington, D. C., belongs to the nation. Chairman Hatton Sumners (D.-Tex.) of the House Judiciary committee, co-au- thor of the bill, eall the District “the workshop of the Goverhment.” He and a great many others contend that as such the government of the District must remain in the hands of the representatives of the nation as a whole. 5 But they see no reason for a mil- lion persons, many of them with a 1 KILLED, 2 ARE INJURED AS MAIL TRAIN DERAILED SEATTLE, March 7.—A westbound reat Northern mail train was de- | 1 | | | o (&nnnued on Page Sir) SENATE OKEHS RETIRING ACT FOR TEACHERS couver harbor. Have Drinks The 10,000-ton vessel's holds still * Afper drinking four bottles of shroud in mystery the fate of the peer the Wilking woman testified, "nvc missing men, believed to have .o and Gemmill went to the Wil- |been the only victims of the series yinq apartment for more dripks, {of explosions that ripped asunder and talked until 3 o'clock in the ‘the_ forward part of the sleek, gray morning. % freighter at noon yesterday and = ynder cross-examination, Mrs. ‘shattered thm.munds of windows wilking denied the _go'num,ion of jover a wide area in the downtown 4ife' defense that Gemilll went to sections of the city. her apartment for a letter from Eighteen persons are in the hos- alaska. ‘pltal suffering from injuries and A y. s, Deputy Marshal later burns. The city’s downtown district admitted showing Gemmill an en- |is undergoing extensive repairs. velope. o |and scores of citizens were slightly | Mrs, Wilkins testified she sought |injured by flying glass. the advise of a Secret Service man, The government-owned vessel was om Carmody, who contacted the towed by tugs to Siwash Rock Pederals and that about 4 o'clock shortly after the explosions rocked in the afternoon of November 4, (her. Her cargo was said to contain pgent Marvin Stroble and another gunpowder and other explosives. man were at her apartment when e Gemmill telephoned. ! Money Deal ! She insisted she had arranged to " bring money, not a letter, to Gem- mill, after refusing to leave the money with a third party. “I said, ‘it will take only a min- ute to. dress. Tll put on some slacks and hurry down',” she stated. ! T, ' George W. Taylor, Vice- Chairman, Steps Up to w'-B Cha"manshlp | Mrs. Wilkins admitted participa- s gl ition in the Sitka trunk theft and WASHINGTON, March 7. — Th_E admitted drinking heavily that White House today announced Presi- night. She said she had been told| dent Franklin D. Roosevelt Wwas she had driven “the truck” that appointing William Davis, Chairman night, but denied receiving a share | | of the War Labor Board, to succeed of the contents. She did admit| | Fred Vinson as Economic Stabilizer. leaving Sitka a few days later with | Director Vinson has been named apout $12,000, but denied repeatedly | Federal Loan Administrator. lany arrests in Sitka. | 4 | The White House also announced | when confronted with a certified | the selection of George W. Taylor, record of Sitka arrests, she insisted | g::‘fi'scm‘:‘;m;::ozz ‘:":-'Bs;"bs;‘“fd she “absolutely never was nrrested.; 3 Aal zation All th 30 o Director, Davis is responsible in a £ R el 0. doun ance sense for some of the same problems oagls PO, RN MY 8 00, Tine, > but th S i he dealth exclusively with as WLB i ake 1% Auediad, ! she | | | Drops Purse She said she signalled Gemmill's arrest by dropping her purse after leaving the money. The testimony was marked with frequent clashes between the at- |torneys, with the defense sustained in obtaining character testimony. In Trunk Theft ARE GAINED, ITALY FRONT American MountainTroops. Make Strongest Ad- ~ vance in Weeks Mountain Troops have gained five' miles in the rugged Apennines southwest of Bologna in the strong- | bombardment of the Iwo Jima cam- est advance on the Fifth Army front in weeks, Allied Headquarters an-. nounced today. The action was described as “a most successful limited objective at- | tack.” Allied Fleadquarters has just permitted disclosure of the assault | which began March 3, with the ob- jective presumably to gain control of the Pistoia-Bologna Highway which the Germans have dominated far to the south for months, due to their control of a number of peaks. ‘The Americans have captured a number of dominating peaks around the town of Castel D'Aino, 20 miles from Bologna, taking more than 1200 prisoners. | Brazilian Lro_ops advancing simul- taneously, seized the town of Cas- telnuovu, three miles southeast of the American’s successful drive. MARRIED WOME NURSES WILL NOT BE DRAFTED NOW Can Get Exe_n;;fion If Mar- ried by Middle of This Month WASHINGTON, March 7 — The House today exempted from the proposed draft of women nurses all women married prior to March 15, Secretary of Commerce. He hnd: taken the oath -of office only three in the ravine near Foss River. ———vo—— ® o o o 0o 0 & o o hours before. |® The Territorial Senate this morn- ing responded nobly to pleas for ac- tion on House Bill No. 9, the Teach- Chairman. The problem is trying to keep a balanced relationship be- tween wages and prices. said. “They just paid and got a receipt.” She also admitted to falsifying a Vv | 1945. This was decreed by a voice ote. travel permit to enter the Terri-| However, all nurses not over 44 As the Cabinet members sa!.: . down, Wallace slipped into a place far down at the side corner of the ® table, since Cabinet members rank ® in the order that their depart-|® ments were created, and the Com-|® merce and Labor Departments rank | ® ninth and tenth on the list. |* The President, who sits at the ® head of the long table, remarked: “Do I see someone over in the corner?” Then, as the Cabinet turned to- ward Wallace, the President con-| tinued: “Tell us, Henry, did you| find a letter of welcome from your| predecessor when you arrived at!® the Commerce Department this|® morning?” bod Wallace grinned and replied in|® the negative. Note—Bets were about even in WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperatures for 24-hour period ending at 7:30 o’cldck this morning o o o In Juneau—Maximum, 38; minimum, 35. Precipitation, 57 of an inch. At Airport—Maximum, 37; minimum, 34. Precipitation, 23 of an inch. @ o 0 00 00 a0 TOMORROW’S FORECAST e o o Intermittent light rain or snow tonight, Thursday and Thursday night. Coldest to- night, 35°; warmest Thurs- afternoon. day, 38°. e | One minor, clarifying amendment @ o oo 0 o0 0 00 o o wasiirst voted into the bill by the iy . | Senate, but was later stricken in SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC order to avoid the delay of having ers’ Retirement Fund Act, in time to get the measure before the Ter- { ritorial Board of Education before | the board’s current meeting is ad- journed tomorrow. Sentors confined their discussion ® to questioning of James Ryan, Ter- ® ritorial Comissioner of Education, ® and H. L. Faulkner, Board of Educa- ® tion Chairman. When all points ® | were made clear to the solons they | speeded the bill, under suspended ® rules, into third reading and voted unanimously for its passage. The en- grossing committee was ordered to get right to work on the bill in order that it might be put ready for the Governor’s signature this She denied offering to restore lany money to Ruby Hazlewood be- OWNERSHIP PUSLIC UTILITIES. WILL BE |cause 7 aiant get anstning from i Former FBI Agent Stroble, in A public forum will be held Mon_jtestlrymg regarding the telephone |day evening at 8 o'clock in the High conversation in Mrs. Wilkins’ apart- School auditorium for the discussion ment, said she received a call from of the pros and cons of municipal an individual she addressed as ownership of public utilities. The;“Ml”- Gemmill.” He related that meeting is sponsored by the Juneau she said she was ‘“not able to ‘Woman's Club. |raise all of that, just $1,500.” He All residents of the community said he heard her ask the caller are invited to attend and express where he would like her to meet their views. A number familiar him, and mentioned the hotel. with municipal ownership and its| Mrs. Wilkins, Stroble said, showed problems will be among the speak- him $1,500 in currency which he ers. counted and then made a list of the money. Under questioning by U. 8. At- — e COUNCIL OF TOWNSEND land not under 20, must register. Only those not married are sub- ject to actual induction. Exemption from actual induction applies to women with dependent children, women with children under 18, and women married before Thurs- day of next week. —e.,——— LEGISLATORS GET ATTACKS OF FLU| Representative Steve Vukuvlch' |was still absent from his seat in | the House today, recuperating from | a bad cold. i | Vukovich has been down since the i weekend, but hopes to be back in the legal wars tomorrow. | | Representative Walter Huntley | ARTILLERY HELPS OUT, IWO JIMA Army Fighter Planes Also Aid Marines on Tiny Pacific Island U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Guam, March 7.—Pre- ceded by the most intense artillery paign, three Marine Divisions re- sumed the offensive to the north| (end of the tiny island and engaged the Japanese in “heavy fighting.” By 5:30 p. m. the Leathernecks had scored small gains. ‘The ,Marines were supported for the first time by land based Army fighter planes flying from the cap- tured Motoyama airfield, No. 1, at the south end of the island. Duke Is Not Mere Female;He'saMan AGAWAM, Okla. — Disregarding the record, W. W. Duke, Agawam grocer, is a man. Recently Duke went to the state health department for a birth cer- tificate and learned he was regis- tered as a female of the species. Now Duke is trying to convince the department that a son was born to the Duke family 28 years 80. Oh, yes, he's having a little tem- per trouble, too, since the word got out. RSN e R FROM FAIRBANKS Mr. and MYs. D. R. Heinen, registering from Fairbanks, are guests at the Gasineau Hotel. SO TN FROM ANCHORAGE Ivan Zanoff, of Ancherage, now at the Gastineau Hotel. - e, — LEAVE FOR SEATTLE The following passengers left: for Seattle today via Pan American Airways plane: James Conner, William Ebert, Charles H. Riding and Mrs. Mary L. Moe. I L S A FROM HAINES Howard C. Powell, Haines, now at the Baranof Hotel. —————— MAE NAUGLE HERE Visiting here from Skagway is Mrs. Mae Naugle, who is a guest at the Baranof during her stay. e e FROM SEATTLE E. H. Clingenpeel, from Seattle, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. - e — WELL BABY CONFERENCE The regular weekly Well Baby Conference will be held Thursday is is registering | the early morning before the Cabinet meeting that Jesse Jones —Even the dragon flies learn tactics to rewrite the measure and obtain CLUB MEETS TOMORROW torney Dennis, Stroble said he and Missed most of yesterday’s session afternoon, from 1 ‘to 4 o'clock, in Claim Reds Open Battle For Berlin EXTRA THIRD ARMY 'ROUT NATIS ALONGRHINE {Americans M_oving Fast on | West Front-Million Prisoners Taken BULLETIN — PARIS, March 7—The American First Army moved to within two miles of Bonn tonight, while the swift- moving Third Army closed to within 14 miles of the middle of the Rhine and less than 20 miles from Coblenz. A censorship blackout has been suddenly imposed on the First Armys operations, sug- gesting transcendent develop- ments are in progress. PARIS, March 7.—The powerful | American Third Army drove the |routed Germans to within 15 miles of the Middle Rhine, while the First Army fought today to within three miles of Bonn, 15 miles south of fallen Cologne. Dashing Third Army tanks are reported by Supreme Headquarters to be near Monreal, a crossroads town just short of Mayern. The re- port placed the Third Armored Di- vision within 20 miles of Coblenz, the fifth of the large Rhine cities. Maing, Weisbaden and Framkfort on Main afe 61 miles away. * = ey Prisoners Total 1,000,000 On this fateful anniversary of Hitler's militarization, the Rhineland is now overrun and the prisoner toll of all Allied armies on the West- ern Front passed 'the . 1,000,000 | mark. It rose from 100,000 at the start of the current campaign which started January 30 with Gen. George S. Patton’s plunge into the Sieg- ‘Xrl!d Line, east of Luxemburg. A graveyard of German cities stretched from Cologne 50 miles back to the Reich frontier, soon af- |ter.the fourth city of Germany fell, |late yesterday, | West Bank Cleared | The American First and Ninth Armies have eleared the whole west bank of the Rhine, from Rheinberg south to Cologne, save for a frac- tional pocket at Zons, just south of Dusseldorf. The distance is 45 air- |line miles, but nearer 70 as the Rhone flows, i The last sizeable German bridge- head, fest of the lower Rhone, and opposite Wesel, was hammered down to a strip eight miles long and up, to five miles wide on Monday. It |is estimated 50,000 Germans are in the pocket. Many have fled but now the last two bridges at Wesel are virtually impassable. Nazi troopers, who survived thé debacle of Cologne, fled south along the Rhine toward Bonn, a city of 101,000, the birthplace of Beethoven. Bonn Defenseless The Fifth Army’s Ninth Division | fought at dawn in the village of EMf- ! (Continued on Page T S e SEVEN LOSE LIVESINOHIO ' RIVERFLOOD | (By Associated Press) | The Ohio River, overflowing its |banks along nearly all of its 981 |miles, took the lives of seven per- 'sons and crippled war production, ’bm, a cheering note has appeared in the official forecast for clearing and cooler weather over most of |the valley. Heavy rains, which spilled as much as 131 inches by the time {it ended, have virtually stopped. The U. S. Weather Bureau at |Chicago " reported clearing and icolder weather is enroute. Cold |weather, extending below freezing, is expected to check the runoff, thus giving the river the oppor- I} w0) from Marine airmen, S/Sgt. Robert House concurrence. |the other agents followed Mrs. Wil- With a flu attack, and came late Room 108, Juneau Public Health would show up at the meeting as | Center. tunity of draining its crests. Federal Loan Administrator. Jones C. Peverly of San Diego says, tell.-l Commissioner Ryan declared that ing of one which drove other insects heavy support of teachers in the from a food supply by buzzing Territory for the bill had been them like a fighter plane going, indicated by results of a question- after a bomber, paire sent out to them, has been going to his office every day, signing official letters and (Continyed om, Page Four) The Council of the Townsend Club | will meet at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Goodman, at 124 Second Street, Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, |kins to the hotel, where a short today, “a bit shaky.” time later Gemmill was arrested. When asked where the money (Continyed on Page Two) hodinr il Fekad Howard Estelle and Leo Saarela, at the Baranof Hotel, —————— Louisville, Kentucky, where a 45- More than 100 million board feet foot crest is expected later today both of Anchorage, are registered 'of lumber is grown annually on one reported 155 inches of rain, while large tree farm JPittsburgh . reported 131 inches.