The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1945, Page 1

Q THE DAILY ALASKA EKMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9907 3RD LARGEST CITY OF JAPAN SET Akl JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RE Allies Now Establish Front East of Rhine YANK BULGE OVER THREE MILES DEEP, Germans Ad?il Front 12% Miles Long-Nazis Un- able to Counter PARIS, March 12. — The First| Army attacks have bulged over three miles deep along the Rhine, several | hundred yards farther overnight | along the river strip, the Germans ! said in a broadcast which is ad- mitted to be a front of 12! miles long. Men, cannon and tanks have been thrown into the rugged country east of Remagen and nothing more than a major German counterattack can | bulge the Americans and there is no indication the Nazis will be able | to organize such a force from the | ashes of their defeat west of the Rhine. : | The dashing Third Army, just to the south, has eliminated all Ger- mans west of the Rhine except two | small pockets. Patton’s forces have captured 14 towns and won domination, except a small strip between Cochem and Erden. | At least eight towns in inner | Germany, east of the Rhine, are| under the American flag. The Germans have peppered the bridgehead but have' madé no new | counterattacks. The Canadian and American arm- | ies on the north have kept the “ Germans on tenderhooks by main- | taining a 40-mile smoke screen along | the lower Rhine. The Third Army, besieging Cob- leng, has yet to cross the mouth of the Moselle River. Across the Rhine from Coblenz is a towering sullen rock fortress, Ehrenbreitstein, which provides the | enemy with a formidable defense bastion. Ehrenbreitstein is Ger- many’s Gibraltar of the Rhine. ———————— MORGAN BACK | / Thomas A. Morgan of /fhe Col- umbia Lumber Company accom- panied by his son, Tom, Jr., re- m ;a;z:day from ’:-husmesa The Washijngton Merry - Go- JAound PR A2 O : service with the Jemy." WASHINGTON—TH} manner in which the Nazis hay: been treat- ing American prisontts recalls an experience I had with German prisoners last summer. ‘We were cutting corn to fill the silo. It was late in the season, labor was almost non-existent, and the Parm Bureau had efficiently ar- ranged with Camp ' Meade, Mary- land, for 100 German prisoners to work in batches of 10 on farms in the country, So I obtained 10| ~ Navy Secrefary Sees Iwo Fighting Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, (left), and Lieut. Gen. Howland Smith, Commander of the Marines in the Pacific, stand at a ship’s rail off Iwo Jima with Suribachi in the background and watch bitter fighting on the island. This picture, taken by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer en assignment with the wartime still picture pool, was transmitted to San Francisco from Guam via Navy radio. (AP Wirpehote) Arnofd Expeds Future Bombs Over Made fo Secrefary fo War BATTLE OF IWO JIMA NEARS END Rugged No—rméast End Is Captured-Defenders Elsewhere Fight By ELMONT WAITE (AP War Correspondent) U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, GUAM, March 12— The most rugged northeast end of Iwo Jima was captured by United States Marines yesterday, while the remaining Japanese defenders are fighting viciously to hold the nor- thern tip of this strategic island, U.S.;Repori By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 12.—Gov- ernment reports are so frequent around here you have to look sharp to keep from tripping over one. When you do, you generally find that it's something about “Daffodil Growing Since the War Between the States.” That’s one thing that makes the report of Gen. H. H. “Hap” Arn- old, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to the secretary of war and hence to the people of the United States, a rather remarkable document. It's full of interesting and enlightening facts about what our Army air arm has done in this war, But more important, I think, Is the conclusions which General Arn- old has reached. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Representatives of the aviation industry here say no one has stated more clearly the practical uses of aviation as a po- tential defense force than Gen. Arn- old in this, his second report to the nation. only 750 miles from Tokyo. Resistance in the 1,000-yard-deep triangle at the north end of the island is described as heavy in Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' com- munique, but Maj. Gen. Keller E. Using all his knowledge gained from the lessons of this global war, General Arnold starts with the pre- mise that it's positive now that air power is the 'weapon with which fu- . ture aggressors will strike first, ! “In this field,” he continues, prisoners to help cut the corn and|Rockey’s Fifth Division - Leather- . .0 oo present war has shown 1ill the silo. {necks are pressing forward With 4 40 gpject o revolutionary ad- They arrived by truck from Campnaval gunfire ana artillery supPOrt. uonces we can only dimly visualize Meade, accompanied by one U. S. soldier as guard, stowed their lunches in the shade and went to work. They worked very well, they required little direction, were given few orders, and didn’t loaf on the Job. The guard paid little attention to them, explaining that they worked better if .they felt they were not being guarded. He remained around the barn and the silo, while most of the prisoners worked half a nifle away in the cornfield. He said that few prisoners had run away, and if they did escape they had no place to go and were easily ap- prehended. Y Having had 100 Bulgar prisoners under me in Serbia just after the last war, I did not disagree with him. I had left Bulgar prisoners in groups of five or six in isolated mountain spots where they were rebuilding Serbian houses, com- pletely unguarded except for one) (Continued on Page Four) The bloody battle for Iwo Jima is clearly in its final phase, as tion in the future, Our first line Third and Fourth Division Marines, in the twenty-first day of fighting, drove through Japanese lines to reach the beaches and capture most of the cliff-fringed northeast coast. United States wouldn'% interfere,| PUBLIC UTILITIES MEETNG TONIGHT The Public Utilities meeting, which is being sponsored by the Juneau Women’s Club, will be held tonight in the Grade School Audi- torium at 8 o'clock. This meeting is open to the general public, and is being held for the purpose of discussion by all interested persons of city ownership of Public Uum,ies’ in Juneau. It is requested that those at-l tending the meeting use the Sixth Street entrance to the Grade School. the possibilities of such sudden ac- of defense must be in the air.” The general points out that in the two great world wars, the en- emy has attacked, hoping tbat the land that in each instance, the |United States has become the | de- |termining factor in the defense of civilization. The next aggressor, the general is |positive, won't be dumb enough to overlook that lesson. ‘The next time, he says, “The United States will be the first target.” There will be no opportunity for gradual mobil- ization as in these two world wars. That's why he argues that the United States must continues to be the “world’s first power in military aviation.” General Arnold underscores the necessity for technological develop- m-nts after this war. He admits that l (Continued on Page Thiree) JAP FLEET REPAIRED FOR FIGHT ‘But, Great Fleet of U. S. Warships Ready fo Re- ceive If in Combat SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 — The Japanese Imperial fleet is re- pairing the battle damage suffered in recent actions and is ready for combat again, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed here, but he em- phasized at a conference with the nrewspen the “Jap fleet is now so inferior in strength compared to the U. S. fleet, that it must choose its time to come out.” Admiral Nimitz added, signifi- cantly: “Our policy is to keep our fleet more or less concentrated so no matter what time the Japs choose, we will have a very large reception committee waiting.” The Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific said: “Soon the Japs will be unable to operate any shipping |whatever to the Netherlands East Indies or holdings south of the China Sea.” Nimitz said U. S. submarines are operating freely along the China coast, and our fleet is approaching the extreme westward part of the Pacific Ocean. POPE ADDRESSES (CATHOLIC WORKERS 'SUNDAY IN ROME ROME, March 12—The Pope de- clared yesterday the time had ar- rived for capital and labor to real- !ize the needs of the community {must be placed above their own individual interests. In the address, delivered before members of Catholic workers’ or- ganizations, the Pontiff appealed to men everywhere to “abandon the empty phrase” and recognize that a “higher unity” is binding all who collaborate in production. Commenting on the possibility of increased socialization, the Pope declared socialization was justified waste of the nation's production resources, ISLAND OF - MINDANAO . ISINVADED { Veteran Infantrymen Land | and Capture Villages- Take Over Airdrome By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) | MANILA, March 12—The veter- an Forty-First Infantrymen, under Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe, invaded Min- danao Island, Southern Philippines, landing last Friday against light opposition at Samboanga, after a thorough naval and air bombard- vmcnl . The infantrymen quickly captur-| HERE IS THE NEW LOCKHEED P-38 ed four coastal villages and drove toward the Samboanga municipal center and on towards the Woife airdome whose seizure put Ameri- can planes only 200 miles northeast | of the Japanese held northern Bor- pilot control of speeds heretofore plane to land on Leyte and Luzon. LOOK OUT, TOKYO-HERE'S NEW P-38 1, the 18th version of the famous { fighter-bomber. The added speed and bomb load help to maintain its reputation as the most versatile fighter in the world. The craft now flies faster than 425 m.p.h., and the new dive flap permits dives under full unheard of. It was the first Allied (International) neo. The amphibious operation was at the southeasternmost point of Min-| danao, the second largest island of the Philippines, The First Infantrymen troops on es after mines had been swept away from the 12-mile wide Bisalan Strait. American reconnaissance planes al- ready were operating in the area, Gen. Douglas MasArthur said. The zust Infantryment troops on Luzon are cohtinuing a systemapic reduction of' the Japanese pulboxes and cave positions along the stub« born Shimbu line east of Manila. HIGH COURT INREFUSAL OF RULING Decision Made on Seizure of Montgomery Ward Co. by U. S. Army WASHINGTON, March 12— The Supreme Court refused to rule on the validity of the government’s seizure of 16 ~Montgomery-Ward properties today. As its reason, the court said, a review' of petition in the case was filed “prior to judgment in the Circuit Court of Appeals. This means the court refused to hear it before the Circuit Court hears the arguments and reaches its decision. The Justice Department and Montgomery-Ward asked the court for a speedy, final determination as to whether the President has the authority, under the War Labor Disputes Act or the Constitution, to order the Army to take pos- session of Ward facilities in seven cities. Te U. S. District Court ip Chi- cago ruled the seizure illegal. The Department then filed an appeal |with the Seventh Federal Circuit Court but urged the Supreme Court to assume jurisdictiod Immediately so the argument before the Circuit Court could be obviated. Ward later joined in the request. - eee Supers Hit [ , Singapore; gapore, H [ SIx'h Tlme urdays court session. | For driving an automobile while WASHINGTON, March 12.—India | intoxicated, Mike Fuchs was fined based Superforts struck at Jap-held $100 and his driver’s license was Singapore for the sixth time with suspended for six months. “good results” today. A Twentieth| For following a fire truck before Airforce Headquarters communique the alarm had ceased sounding, |issued after the raid said all air- Orville Wagne. was fined $20. craft returned to their bases. Police Chief John Monagle said An earlier announcement describ-/all provisions of the traffic code led the force of Superforts which would be fully enforced even if the GERMAN AREA 1S BLASTED BY 4,000 PLANES Allied Planes Aid Russians | -Targefs Struck in Vast Sections LONDON, March 1z Allied |bombers from Britain are credited by an RAF spokesman with laying |waste to more than 450 square miles in the Ruhr Valley, as they attacked Stettin in support of the Russian Army. German reports said a 200-mile~ long train of bombers flew 600 miles across northern Germany, and also bombed the Baltic U-hoat base |at Swinemuende, 35 miles north- west of Stettin and only 20 miles ahead of the Red Army. The Russians were last reported attacking a suburb of Stettin across the Oder River from the important port. Widespiead Attacks The German alarm system indi- cated other widespread attacks were occurring as the Allied aerial offensive carried through its 28th day. Before noon sirens were sound- ing in every section of the northern Reich from Holland to Stettin, and from Vienna to Munich in the southern Reich as bombers thun- dered in from Italy. Essen Dead City Rome dispstchés said the Bren- ner Pass rail line to Italy has been closed to traffic for 44 straight days. The once great armament center ,of Essen, only 15 miles ahead ol JAllied Armies massing along the Rhine, is described as a dead city rafter yesterday's super-rai in which more than 1,000 R. eavy bombers dropped some 5,000 tons of explosives on the city. The assault on Essen, the heavi- est ever directed against one tar- lighted the day in which more than 4,000 Allied warplanes blasted Ger- many in more than a dozen places. TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS BRING HEAVY FINES Two ma jor violations of the trafiic code came before City Mag- |istrate William Holzheimer in Sat- only when the common welfare took part in the action, under Brig. Police Department had to hire ni required it to repair abuses or avoid | Gen. Ramey’s command as “medium | full-time traffic officer, for which | . sized.” Industrial targets and the they were granted the authority big naval base at Singapore were hlt.}stveral weeks ago by the Council RUSSIANS MASSMEN - _ON FRONT Apparently Geffing Ready for an All-Out Smash on Nazi Capital MOSCOW, March 12—The Red Army Supreme Command began to shift large forces to the Berlin front after smashing enemy resist- ance between the mouths of the Oder and Vistula Rivers. Only a |small chunk of territory in the /northern extremity of Pomerania | and the Polish Corridor remained to be overrun by Marshal Rokos-| sovsky's armored vanguards before | he will be avajlable to command | (the vital sector, the front facing | Berlin. | It seemed obvious he would again take a place on Marshal Zhukov’s right flank, from which he wheeled across East Prussia in mid-January and then speared into Pomerania | a little more than a month luter.{ Regrouping the Russian strength | is expected to mass the greatest' concentration of men and guns for offensive operations since the Red banner was first carried over to German soil. Zhukov now mans more than a 136-mile stretch on the Oder, from where it enters the Baltic to its eastward bend above Fuerstenberg. On his left flank, Marshal Konev holds the Neisse River line from its confluence with the Oder to the| !Sudeten foothills, a distance of 70 miles. Foreign observers in Moscow be- lieve that the great German river, the Elbe, the water link between Prague and the North Sea port of Hamburg, will be as significant in early spring operations by the Red Army as the Vistula was last |summer and the Oder since Janu- ary. The Elbe runs from south to get by the RAF in daylight, high- north, across the very heart of the | Reich, passing within 556 miles, to (the west, of Berlin. Zhukov has been only 25 to 40 miles east of | Berlin for more than a month. e — 'Utah Cult Case fo Be Reviewed High Court WASHINGTON, Match 12 — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to review the conviction in Salt Lake City, Utah, of nine mem- bers of a “Pundamentalist” cult which believes in plural marriage. Six cult members were convicted +ion Mann Act charges, while three others were held guilty of violating the Lindberg Kidnap Act. e ANDERSON HERE ' W. T. Anderson, of Fairbanks, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. {still NAGOYA IS SET ABLALE, FIRE BOMBS Fleet of 300 Su pers Hit Japan's Aircraft Pro- duction Cepier By VERNE HAUGLAND (AP War Correspondent) TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMMAND, GUAM, March 12— Another great fleet of American B-29's turned Nagoya, Japan's {third largest city and the Empire's most important aircraft production center, into an inferno today, while fires of Saturday's record raid on Tokyo were still smouldering. The weather was clear, as when Tokyo was raided, and returning crewmen reported immense de- struction appeared certain. | Some 300 big bombers, about the same number as raided Tokyo 48 hours earlier, swarmed over crowded Nagoya shortly after midnight. It was another low-level, all-in- cendiary raid and bombs were dropped as over Tokyo at an ele- vation of around 5,000 feet. Superfortresses usually bomb at higher levels. Fire bombs were scattered over Nagoya. The raid on N a the strike on Tokyo, 48 hours pre- viously, were discernable. The Tokyo raiders again said they started fires raging and converted a five-square- mile area into a hellish inferno. Results of Saturday's fires were discernable and ruins were still smoking. e ————— FIFTH ARMY PUSHSLOWS ITALY FRONT Increased German Resist- ance Is Encountered- Vergato Oufflanked ROME, March 12 — The Fifth Army, pushing toward the German stronghold of Vergato, southwest of Bologna, slowed as Allied Head- quarters reported increased German resistance along the Fifth's entire front. Patrols, probing enemy strength, are meeting the greatest opposition along the winter mountain line before Bologna. X Vertago, on the Pistoia-Bologna |Highway, is outflanked but its de- fenders continued to battle strongly. inIIer Expresses Only Forlorn Hope (oncer!h_w Vidory | LONDON, March 12.—Adolph Hit- ller in a grim phase-juggling pro- |clamation marking the Tenth anni- \versary of Nazi military conscription, | yesterday offered his people no more than a forlorn hope the Allies would | “get tired yet aud be broken.” | He rencwed the Nazi plea for | “fanatical resistance”, bolstering bis |appeal with the assertion the Allies |“drunk with their orgy of victory” were intent on the “extermination of the German Nation.” The proclamation which was |broadcast from Berlin, said the |“year of 1918 wiil not be repeated,” implying that Germany will fight on in guerrilla warfare if her armies are smashed. | —l ARNOLD HERE | Oberlin E. Arnold, principal |teacher for the OIA school at An- |goon, arrived in Juneau on the Es- ‘uheth on an official business trip for the next several days.