The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9906 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ELLISH FIRES SE Are Now Within Two Miles of Yank Armor Enters Cologne; Take City Tanks / ( | | YANKS BEAT BACKEVERY | NAZI BLOW Germans R;filsed in At-| tempt fo Counterattack 38 at Bridgehead PARIS, March 10.—Tank support-i RED CR(SSS FLAG SHELTERS WOUNDED ed German infantry struck at the | 50-square-mile American brigehead | § over the Rhine at Remagen, but were stopped cold as more thousands of doughboys and hundreds of tons of supplies sped over the bridge in | the race against Nazi columns, mov- ing the battle farther upstream. Third Army tanks smashed with- in two miles of Coblenz, and have | i trapped some 20,000 Nazis northwest | _ of that city, at the juncture of the‘ p First and Third armies. | A front line dispatch said several hundred Germans, buttressed with armor, were halted in their thrust | at the America bridgehead. German convoys are desperately using head-i lights for night travel. A major, perhaps decisive, battle impended but initial German count- erlashes failed to stop massive Am- erican power rolling over the bridge. One correspondent declared “the Germans have already lost the race as the Third Army’s Fourth Armored Division seized Ruebenach on the main road northwest of tot- tering Coblenz, a city with a popula tion of 80,000, and Bonn, with its| 101,000 - inhabitents, afid joined | hands with PFirst Army units. | .On the north flank, British, Can- | adian and American troops chewed the German pocket at Wesel on the | Rhine down to a width of five miles and a depth of three miles, captur- ing four towns. The Allies now hold the whole Rhine bank for a stretch pf 150 miles from just north of Coblenz into Holland, except for the Wesel bend. H ————————— | MARTHA SOCIET® GIVES ! $25 TO RED CROSS DRIVE | | | | The Martha Society at their meet- ing yesterday voted to make a dona- tion of $25 to the Red Cross in the| present drive. They also made plans to hold a rummage sale in the| parlors of the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church, Priday, March 23.1 The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on service with the Army.) active | WASHINGTON—OPA, never fa-| mous for its tact, recently hit a new low when officials threw three Congressmen out of a meeting of the Strawberry Growers Industry Advisory Committee. Present at the meeting, besides the growers, were Representatives Jimmy Morrison of the Louisiana strawberry district, Harold Earthman, Democrat, and John Jennings, ,Jr., Republican, both of Tennessee. The three Congressmen had been asked by the strawberry growers to attend their meeting with OPA. The strawberry people have been having OPA difficulties—the Florida and Louisiana growers feeling that the ceiling prices imposed last year are not high enough to cover crop loss through poor weather, while growers in other states now ready for planting don’t know what their ceiling prices will be. Some are convinced that OPA price heads Geoffrey Baker, form-| erly of General Foods, and John Gismond, formerly of the Atlantic | Shells Being Lobbed Into |lin, although thrown back from See- WHILE A BATTLE RAGES nearby, medical corpsmen of the British- Holland, plant a Red Cross flag ngaged in work (International) Canadian forces in the Nijmegen area, near wounded Tommies to show the enemy they are e of merev even as bitter fighting swings about them. REDS GAIN ~ NIPS TAKE FOOTHOLD CONTROLOF ATSTETTIN - INDO-CHINA |Charge French in Colony with Plofting with U. S. Air Force LONDON, March 10.—The Japan- ces apparently won some streets in]€S® mokvover full administration of Altdamm, on the east bank of this|Indo-China today after charging {that French officers had tried sec- suburb of Stettin, and may have; . gained a foothold on the west side|Tetly to join hands with the Allies, of Dammscher Lake, just north of Berlin's Baltic port. out the colony. _ Moscow dispatches reported today| A Tckyo broadcast said the Japan- that Stettin itseif is under artillery €se Army seized all key installations fire for the first time. The Russ- and facilities from “resisting” French ians are also lobbing shells into de- forces. The broadcast charged that fenses of Danzig, where the war French officials cooperated with the started in 1939, | United States Air Force and with Altdamm is three ‘and one-half American submarines. ‘It declared miles east of Stettin on the east|American planes had dropped sup- bank of the Oder, while Dammscher | Plies to the French forces. Lake is northeast of Stettin_ i £ German accounts said Russiand JAPS REPORT troops are pouring reinforcements| TOKYO, March 10—The Japan across the Oder on' both sides of €S¢ news agency Domel said in a embattled Kuestrin. broadcast “some French troops are The Paris radio said one RussianStill putting up resistance” in Indo- column driving toward Danzig broke China after, Japanese occupation into the city and street fighting ssl“’msv in a quick move last night, under way. "took over full administration from ————— Enemy broadcasts declared Mar- |the French. shal Zhukov's First White Russian S Army is consolidating on the west bank of the Oder River bridgehead,SEMI-Fl“Als in a frontal assault aimed at Ber~{ low after penetrating the town 25 REA("ED 'N miles from Berlin on Thursday. { The Russian drive from Kuestrin, | A-BALI. Golr which Berlin claimed was partly initial| MIAMI, Fia., March 10. — Byron { Nelson and Harold McSpaden led Danzig Defenses-Ac- | tion Is Shrouded LONDON, March 10.—Russian for- the move causing clashes through-! EXTRA GEMMILL ACQUITTED AT SEATILE Jury Out Only 12 Minutes ~Testimony (Com- { pleted Yesterday BULLETIN-SEATTLE, March 10-Lynn James Gemmill has | been acquitted on charges on both counts by the jury of 10 men and two women. The jury was out a scant 12 minutes and returned the verdict at 11:47 o'clock this forenoon, Seattle time. Gemmill shook hands with the members of the jury, and thanked them, as friends, in- cluding Former Gov. Martin, of Washington, crowded around him. The two charges were solicit- ing $3,000 and accepting $1,500. | ' SEATTLE, March 10—Lynn J. {Gemmill, U.'S. Attorney for the | Firgt Division, Alaska, charged by the GEVeriment, with solietttfig and | accepting ‘@ bribe from Mrs. Cleo| Patricia Wilkins, admitted on eross 'examination yesterday that after 'his arrést on November 4, a tele- | gram was sent at his request to| |Mrs. Ruby Hazlewood, operator of a Sitka house of prostitution, ask- | |ing for $5000. The question was, {asked by U. S. Attorney J. Chatles | ! Dennis. | “Do you mean to say that, knowing | Mrs. Hazlewood was a colored wo- | {man and running a house of prosti- | tution, you wired her for $5,000 | bail?” | | Gemmill replied: “If you were| lin the same position, dragged out ! of a hotel room before a District | Attorney, surrounded by FBI | Agents, you might not have used as good judgment,” his voice raised for the first time. | Pleads For Release ’ Gemmill said he pleaded with| District Attorney Hile to release him at least over the weekend to, |raise the money. He said he knew |Mrs. Hazlewood would understand Juneau man hoping that from {some _source he could raise bail {money, “so I would not have to ay in jail.” | | Gemmill was on the stand for Inearly five hours yesterday and told without hesitation his story of the circumstances leading to his |arrest, and assured the court of his |sincerity when telling the girls he {would recommend suspended sen- tences if they helped to convict two imilimry policemen. He personally By: JACK' STINNETT realized the recommendation would WASHINGTON, March 10.—While carry more weight if the girls made the War and Navy Departments are some restitution, and said that dur- moving pins about on the Philip- ing “his conversation with Mrs. pine map and thinking what recap- Wilkins he suggested she contact ture of the islands will mean in the Mrs. Hazlewood. In this regard, war against Japan, the Department Gemmill said, there, was the first of Commerce is rubbing its hands |indication that Mrs. Wilkins might over the same conquest for an en- |kick over the traces. She made a tirely different reason. Ithe situation after reading the o 0 2 newspapers. P Gemmill said also he wired a Recapure of Islands Means Raw Malerials ~ Will Soon Be Released ON ARNOLD overwhelmed, from all accounts ap-| peared to be at least the stages of a grand scale offensive in- | to the heart of the Reich, although | the Russian High Command has the four top-seeded teams into the semi-finals round here of the $7,500 | International Four-ball links tour- scene in the lobby of the Ingersol Hotel at Ketchikan, saying Gemmill was Mrs. Hazlewood’s attorney. Tollefson, assistant to Gemmill, Part of Manila may be a sham- bles. Other cities in the path of the Second Battle of the Philippines may be rubble. But once the is- shrouded this action in military| ney. The former “Gold Dust Twins” N ¥ § defeated Ben Hogan and Ed Dudley, | North of Stettin, Moscow said, !, and 3. was present at the time, and re- lands are reasonably clear of Japan- assured her that anything done was ese, Manila Bay is reopened and the |Russian troops took Woldshorst, a | mile from the narrow channel lead- | ing from Dammscher Lake to Stet- | Sammy Snead and his partner1 Bob Hamilton downed Craig Wood for the best. Talks With FBI Agent Gemmill said the attitude of Mrs. | crops are in, the United Nations are going to havéaccess to some needed raw material and the Filipinos will Trocps and armot nm Third Armored Division of t he First U. 8. Army wait in side street in the German city of Cologne befere driving for the heart of the cit whose capture was announced March 6, ene of the first pictures taken inside Cologne and was made by William C. Allen, Associated Press pho- tographer with the Wartime Still Picture Pool. (AR Wirephcto via Signal Cerps Radio) Yanks Rest OI{ Back Streef of % American soldiers take a rest in a back street of Cologne, German city on the Rhine, capture of ain on other sources, Luzon and Negros islands raise about four-fifths of the Philippine sugar. According to early and rather sketchy reports, the Japanese baven't done much earth-scorching in the Philippines outside of the cit- ies. That's probably because Mac- Arthur didn't give them time. First reports indicate that near- ly all Philippine crops in growth have a good stand, and there's no reascn to believe that plantings and | harvests won't be substantial once the Japanese are wiped out. ‘The expects here think that by the | end of 1945 the U. 8. will get half a million tons of Philippine sugar. Lend-lease, the military and UNR- | JUNEAU MAN TATTOKYO BY BOMBERS Coblenz 1300 TONS OF BOMBS HIT TOKYO Three Hundred Superfort- resses Make Terrific Raid, Nip Capital TWENTY -FIRST BOMBER J/COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, March 10—A record force jof more than 300 Super-Fortresses ispilled an estimated 1,300 tons of {incendiary bombs on the 10-square- ,mlle congested area of Tokyo today. | One returning flier said “hellish !fires spread across the whole town.” | Tokyo radio acknowledged flames set by raiders shortly after mid- night were still unchecked at dawn. The. first incendiaries dropped touched off an.inferno that sent smoke as higs as 10,000 feet. “I saw two o three square miles all aflame before we left,” Col. Carl Storrie, observer with one B-29, said. Target Area The target is a rectaneular eae- tion extending roughly four -miles north and south, and three miles east and west, with the Tokyo railroad station, just east of the R i Imperial Palace, in the area at- " tacked. The average population withiin the 10-square-mile area is S, TR, K . of Staff of the Twentieth Air Force, said a fleet of 1,000 B-20': could be put over the Japunese homeland if necessary to win the | war. The huge bombers struck from bases on Guam, Saipan and Tiniau For an hour ang a half, the giant planes poured incendiary bombs over sections of the city sejected for destruction. First Night Attack This was the largest force of Superforts ever put 'into the air, and the first large night attack on the Japanese homeland, as well as the first announced all-incendi- ary strike at Tokyo. The weather was clear, and bom- bardiers could see their targets. After hearing the initial reports, Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay said, “I can say with conservatism that it looks good from our point of view, and grim from the enemy’s point \of view, and there is conflagration - in Tokyo tonight.”” Later, after |interviewing returning pilots, Gen. [LeMay said, #this is uch the . !most successful operation to date. However, we are always conserva- \tive and will await photographs for fipal determination. Flight reports are very good, exceptionally good.” | This is (ologne e which was announced March 6 by the American First Army. Photo by William C. Allen, Associated Press pho- tographer with Wartime Still Picture Pool. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps Radio) GRAZIANO HANGS TKO ' IMPERIAL PALACE AFIRE GUAM, March 10—A Jap com- munique asserted fires broke out in the Imperial Palace but were put out before 3 o'clock this morning. Tokyo radio had previously said flames reached the Emperor's |stables, but the communique claim- \ed all fires were under control by NEW YORK, March 10—Rocky 8 o'clock this morning. Graziano, sensational New York 152-| Only two B-29 Superforts were pounder, scored one of the most lost in this raid, which Brig. Gen. startling form reversals of this box- Thomas Power said caused “fifty ing season when he stopped Billy times more damage” than the Arnold in the third round of their record February 26 raid, which scheduled eight-rounder at Madison devastated 240 city blocks in Tokyo. Square Garden. 1 Arnold was floored three times, for counts of nine, six and seven,| NEW YORK, March 10—A Soviet before the referee stopped the fight. Tass News Agency report said - Tokyo newspapers did not publish MR BLOOD ATIWO JiMA ANCH NO NEWSPAPERS today. ORAGE PEG/LE HOMEWARD BOUND and Pacific Tea Company, are out jtin. The Germans are said to h:slve;a"d Tony. Pesigs et ka6 and 3 RA will ge the rest. Mrs, Amy Lou Blood has just re: to protect the profits of the pro- cessors and handlers of straw- berries, rather than the growers.| They point to the high retail price for both canned and frozen berries, although ” the ceiling price they have been working upder was 32 cents per quart for most of the season. North Carolina farmers were so angry about the ceiling last year that they let about a third of their crop rot in the fields. Most grow-/ ers are willing to let the 32-cent price stand, but they have no as- abandoned Greifenhagen on the east | oount, © Henty CRAMES Waa Jobnay | and will meet Nelson and Mcspnden; IS posmum WEEK | the Frank Strazza-Joe Zarhardy | billy pump that is to be placed in! —— was announced today. |neau Volunteer Fire Department to bank of the Oder. |Revolta came through over Chick | | next week. combine and will meet Snead and the small boat harbor will not be| A fire nmm-s at 10 e |Irma Nowell's residence on Fifth | Wilkins alarmed him, and said he receive sorely needed foods and cash discussed the matter with FBI for them. Agent Anderson, who said: “Lynn, Before the war, raw and refined if you are going to Seattle, you sugar was the leading money crop of ought to contact her there and the Philippines. About a million maybe you can calm her down to tons a year was S5hipped to the keep her in line for the case.” | United States alone, representing Anderson was recalled to the nearly one-third of the island’s total stand late Friday and denied ask- export trade of scmething less than ing Gemmill to see Mrs. Wilkins in | $200,000,000. Seattle. | # Gemmill said that when he tele-| The fall of the Philippines hasten- phoned Mrs. Wilkins in Seame‘fed the rationing of sugar in this she rushed to his hotel, worried country. Their recapture won't im- | Rutan and Claude Harmon, 4 and 3, pUMP DEMO"SIR‘“o" | sam Byrd and Denny eliminated The demonstration of the handy' Hamilton today. held tomorrow, but on March 18, it 'o’clock this morning called the Ju- In recent months, France ex-/and Kennedy streets. A chimney about the case, also a possible suit|mediately relax it, but it will con- Coconuts and their. by-produc! (mainly copra) are the islands’ sec. ond largest export crop and these { should start moving out as soon as| the harbors are cleared and ship-! ping is avallable. This would make the soap-makers happy. Coconut oil is an important ingredient in many sudsy soaps; its also used ‘in | shortenings, margarine, paints, con- | fections and other products. The | shortage of coconut oil is one of the | principal reasons for ceived word by airmail, dated| Visiting in Juneau while the boat March 2, from her husband, Chiet is in port are Elmer A. Rasmuson, Petty Officer H, R. Blood, U. 8./wife and two children, of Anchorage Coast Guard, that he was on one of |who are returning home after sev- the first two ships to land Marines eral months spent traveling in the on Iwo Jima. There wasn't much States. he could tell except that the bom- bardment was terrific, and the Japs were too close for comfort when they landed the Marines on the beach, but none of the men taking part in the action were “a bit nervous.” Chief Petty Officer Blood was sta® tioned in Alaska, and was In Ju- Also on the boat is Mayor Ray | Wolfe of Anchorage. L ee- | The study of the art and science of perspective did not interest peo- ple particularly until 15th century, - ‘The Japs claim they use machine the collection & ineau about a year ago, when he was tools made of wood—but then they tribute importantly to the United ¥ !iranslerred to Florida, they claim to be sons of Heaven Nations stockpile and lessen the perienced its worst floods in fifty No dam- years, fire was quickly put out. age is reported, (Continued on Page Five) l(:(mtlflued'ml Page. Five) | (Continued ow Page Four)