The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1945, Page 1

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LXIV., NO. 9909 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ——= ] REDS BREAK THROUGH BERLIN DEFENSE Americans Make Dawn Attack Rhine Front ADVANCE IS | SuperBombsStart”Huge MADEALONG Pit of Fire” RIVER AREA Troops Poured Over Bridges to Support Yank Shock Forces PARIS, March 14—First Army| troops today captured Honnef, thus providing a firm northern anchor for their Rhine bridgehead into which men and materiel streamed across | WASHINGTONA—Althougk} there the.two bridges to reinforce 70,000 has been a lot pt easy-going talk shock troops said to be already there. about 60,000,000 Jobs_afcer the war, Moving forward through forested the backstage truth is that nothing hills east of the Rhine in a dawn at-|tangible has been done about _60.- tack the Americans captured the 000,000 jobs or even 40,000,000 jobs town of St. Cathartnen, four miles and some of the Administration’s northeast of Linz and seven miles advisers are getting worried. in| directly east of the large bend in| What actually happened is that Qe fiek d,|the President is concentrating so The infantry moved on beyond, i 3 less than two miles from Frankfurt.|eXclusively on the necesary job of t- winning the war and setting up a ~the-Miain superhighway to Kre ;’n;aise‘ (?v; pem“egs e‘;st of the Peace machinery for after the war, Rhine and have also cleared Kal-|that domestic problems have gone |by the board. enborn. | i i has cleared the| Last fall, when a German victory due ThHl Any B | around the corner, western bank of the Moselle river, seemed just ; save for stragglers, and has opened certain Sgngtgrs such as Kilgore of a new drive across the top of the West Virginia and Murray of industrial Saar district which carried Montana gave a lot of thought to the Army nine and one-half miles Yeconversion and peace-time jobs. east of Saarburn and the Siegfried S0 also did Donald Nelson. They line. \did it, however, in the face of the Thirteen towns has been captured, military, who so bitterly objected mostly on the east side of the Mo- to Nelson's plans that they even- selle. |tually persuaded the President to Patton’s Army captured a record euchre him out of the War_Pro- bag of 6619 prisoners yesterday, duction Board and off to China. raising the nine day total to 27,127. Most of the prisoners surrendered in the Eifel pockets, sealed off by the‘Belgian Bulge, and since then no swift armored columns. lone around the War Production Honnef, picturesque watering Board has wanted to talk about place, with a population of 90,000 reconversion above a whisper for has been captured, the most impor- fear of having the brass hats ac- tant taken since the Remagen cuse him of interfering with mili- bridgehead. |tary operations. The Germans are increasinly ner-| L 4 vous about the Canadian and Brit-| wWAR GOODS FOR PACIFIC ish drive, assisted by the U. S.| Ninth Army on the lower Rhine and| Only temporary expedient has predicted “imminent Rhine crossing” been the decision to keep war between Emmeric and the Dutch!plants going almost full blast after border. 3 the European war is over in order to supply goods for the Pacific Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt Col. Robert S, Allen now on sctive | service with the Army. City of Japan Is Attacked: ‘The Washingion'! | After that came the bemporary" 'set-back to U. S. forces in the |war, instead of trying to ship European equipment to the Pacific. PUBLIC LANDS | However, many experts believe ithe Japs will fold up quicker than A new memorial was'introduced this morning in the House of Repre- | sentatives under suspension of the rules, asking a change in land con- Trols in the Matanuska Valley. ‘The memorial, No. 21, authored by Representatives Peterson and Taylor, asks Congress and the President to take action to rescind the Executive Order and the Act which gives the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corpor- ation control of and sale rights to Matanuska lands. It is requested the sales power of Matanuska Valley lands be returned to the Public Lands Office. Before recessing to attend Senate hearings on the graduated fish trap licensing measure earlier passed by the House, Representatives let down (real thinking might well be done| the bars by unanimous vote to ad- mit Senate Substitute for House Bill 11, a bill defining salary and powers of the Commissioner of La- bor. With but a small number of House measures remaining on the calendar, Representatives will likely begin tomorrow to dig into Senate bills, One Senate bill, defining the sal- |generally expected, once their Axis partner is out of the fighting. Meanwhile almost nothing has been done about those 60,000,000 jobs. Only Cabinet member who has done any thinking on the subject is Henry Wallace; but now that |the federal loan agencies have |been taken away from him, his current Commerce Department job las supervisor of the Census, Patent |Office, and the Geodetic Survey leaves him definitely circumscribed. | Meanwhile, what most people don't realize is that in our best boom times of peace, the most the United States ever employed was 48,000,000 people. Today we are employing 167,000,000 of whom 12,000,000 are /in the armed forces. When those 12,000,000 come home and start looking for their old peace-time 'jobs, putting 60,000,000 people to 'work is not going to be easy. Some |about it. TEXAS RULES WASiiiNGTON After a month in Washington most people get the idea that Texas, not New York, is the Capital of the United States. Not jonly are there dozens of Texans in key positions in Congress and throughout the Government, but their energy makes them even more ary of the Director of the Unem- ohvious than their numbers. But AVILLAGES ARESEIZED, MINDANAO i as Second | — i TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COM- MAND HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, | Disorganized Japs Pur-. M e Ok s at vapan| SUEA Info Hills—Anchor has been transformed into a “huge| Lme |S Capfllfed , pit of fire” by more than 2,000 tons | of incendiaries dropped by a huge| By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) force of Superforts which on Mon-}| day dropped fire bombs and com-| MANILA, March 14—Seizing four villages north of captured Zam- pletely burned out 47,600,000 square boanga, Forty-First Division troops I feet of industrial Nagoya. { pursued the disorganized Japanese The first Superfortress back from Osaga, where they gave the into the hills of Mindanao, against accorded Tokyo Saturday and Na- increasing resistance Monday, while goya Monday, reported four square miles of a solid sheet of fire was southern end of the bitterly-con- raging. tested Shimbu Line, Gen. Douglas quarter of an hour of the raid by the today. supers unloading their bomb cargo., Maj. Gens Jens A. Doe's battle-| |capturing the villages of Canelair, |Santa Maria, Sininig and Pitago, ! lon Mindanao. Tanks paced the drive on Anti-: ABANDON Shimbu Line, east of Manila, which |was captured after a fierce fight. to the south reached Los Banos, site of the former internment camp i and Santo Tomas, on the main 1 et | irail and highway route into south- | ¢ & . plosions in the Takao hydroelectric | es Ap”l 1, IS Ufldef plant in Formosa, and started large bombers ranging the China Sea left a 3,000-ton freighter transport WASHINGTON, March 14—Sen- ablaze, while medium bombers sank ator-Warren G. Magnuson told the a tanker off Indo-China. Highway is to be abandoned. The Army, he said, picked this route Highway Commission, created by "Congress, which studied the prob- ey e s o v o | TNOSE FRO@ Of Nippons same devastating treatment as was on Luzon the Yanks conquered the The reports included only the first MacArthur said in his communique |‘ ————a |tested Forty-First troops, after 5ARMY To |were in hot pursuit of the enemy polo, the southern anchor of the ! The Eleventh Airborne Division 2 : ern Luzon. (Canol Project, Which Clos- “%ieavy bomers causea neavy ex- { f 'fires in railway installations. Patrol Attack Again Senate he understands the Alaska without consulting the Alaska Manda'ay Is |lem for years. | Another Town Falls Affer clusive of bridges. I understand the Canadian Government stated it cannot maintain the southern end,” | Magnuson added. He expressed hope if the Canol Project cannot | be sold at a satisfactory price that it be dismantled and the machinery returned to the United States. CANOL ASSAILED WASHINGTON, March 14-Chair- man James W. Mead of the Senate War Investigating Committee dis- closed today the Army had agreed to close down the Canol Project “about April 1.” | Mead made the statement in the Senate during a speech in which Senator Moore assailed the War Department for what he described as a “bull-headed, arbitrary atti- tude” in going’ ahead. with t.}}e Pr0= yp nests of Japs in the business and JCT:;:I zi‘;;:;‘s ‘the advice of “petrol- iegigential districts 800 feet below 2 | the vantage point of Pagoda Hill, i Mead said the Whitehorse re-| Gurkha and Welsh troops, attack- finery will be closed as soon as it yno after a daring forty mile forced has refined the crude oil on hand. paron over an opium smugglers’ The workers, he said, should be tra) captured the Burma Road town mme_ available to the oil industry of Haymyo, 35 miles east and slight- in this country. !ly north of Mandalay. The fall of Moore said the property should this town placed Allied forces in the be sold by the Surplus Property path of Japs falling back along the Board instead of the Army. !Burma Road before the Chinese on- T N |slaught from Lashion in an area 100 AMERICAN LEGION JIGGS | miles northeast of Lashio. | i DINNER SATURDAY NIGHT | U, S. Fourteenth Airforce fight-' | B ers, based in China, hit targets in The American Legion Committee the Langson Area in French Indg- for the Jiggs dinner to be given at China, where continued fighting is the Odd Fellows Hall, Saturday, reported between Japs and French March 17, at 6:30 o'clock, in honor | troops. of Gov. Ernest Gruening and the| Americah planes attacked Jap Legislature, reports good progress headquarters. garrisons and storage in their plans for entertainment,|areas around Langson, according to and a good time is assured those an American communique issued Forced March Over Smugglers’ Trail PAGODA HILL, MANDALAY, March 14—Mandalay was rapidly being cleared of the Japanese army as infantry, artillery and tanks of the Indian Nineteenth Division smashed their way through the southern part of the city. Tanks and artillery firing point blank, blew ployment Commission, number 42, has passed under suspension of the the Texas Congressional Delegation was caught short last week, when attending. This Jiggs dinner is open to all| from Chungking. Berlin Radio relayed Tokyo di: rules, giving director R. E. Sheldon)| a 25 per cent salary boost to $5,250. ———————— BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED A building permit was obtalned | this week by Herb Waugh to install | a concrete basement in a house at 583 Main Street at an estimated cost of $300. Fred Jacobsen will do the work. it nearly forgot that March 2 was |the 100th anniversary of the inde- |pendence of Texas. It even took a mont, Charles Plumley, to remind to see what the Texans were plan- ning to do about commemorating their anniversary and to his sur- prise found not a single Texan on the floor. So Plumley arose and delivered a one-minute address congratulat- - - e — GREEN GOES TO FAIRBANKS | Major Richard S. Green, Director | 'rock-ribbed Republican from Ver-| them of it. Plumley looked around' of Sanitary Engineering, United States Public Health Service, 1eft|nDecember 29 will be the 100th an- ! rived in Juneau to visit their daugh- by plane today for Fairbanks on an inspection trip. A ing Texas and noting also that (Continued on Page Four) men on Gastineau Channel and|patches which asserted Jap troops tickets may be obtained from any|had killed more than 1,000 French | Legionnaire. ,troops, and captured ‘8500 in north-! ——————— {ern Indo China, and had seized 54 | ANTRIM TO HOONAH French planes and other military Hugh Antrim, consulting engineer ! supplies. 4 in the office of H. B. Foss Co., left | The DNB broadcast said the Japs today for Hoonah to do location!have disbanded French military work on the townsite, He will be |formations of police in the Inter- | gone about five days. national settlement at Shanghai be- | —_——— cause the formations “are part of PARENTS ON VISIT HERE those in Indo China.” | Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bakke, of Sl S N e | Vancouver, Washington, have ar- VISIT HERE 4 i Miss Peggy Long and Miss Betty | Seymour, both from Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel, It i ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. | Bruce Kelley and their children, CARLLUDY | DROWNED | NEAR SITKA Head of Coast, Geodelic‘E Survey Meefs Death | when Skiff Overturns SITKKA, Alaska, March 14—Carl Ludy, head of the Coast and Geo- detic Survey here, was drowned last night when the skiff in which he and his wife and Miss Ora Kuy- § kendahl had gone clam-digging, | overturned. Early yesterday afternoon, Mr. ¢ and Mrs. Ludy had visited Miss Ora Kuykendahl, a teacher at Sheldon Jackson School, at her vacation cabin on a small island in Jamestown Bay. This morning, Leslie Yaw, head § of ‘the Sheldon Jackson School, missed Miss Kuykendahl and went % to ker cabin, where he found the place open and evidences of last night's dinner. Returning to town to report to the 'Coast Guard, he found the latter already out investigating screams reported early this morn- ing from across the channel. At 9 o'clock this morning a Coast Guard boat brought in the two women, who reported the skiff cap- sized at 8 o'clock last hight when it struck a rock in the surf while making “a landing on an island across the channel, where they had gone in search of clams. Ludy was drowned immediately. The body was recovered at 10 o'clock this morning. Carl Ludy and his wife arrived in Sitka early last November from a Puerto Rico station. He had lived in Sitka as a child, when his father taught at the Sheldon Jackson School. In 1919 his father, Albert K. Ludy, became head of the local Geodetic Station, and left here in 1922, The elder Ludy retired from the service in Washington, D. C., and with his wife, is now residing in St. Petersburg, Florida. They had planned to visit their son in Sitka this summer. THREAT T0 VERGATOIS INTENSIFIED Mounfain I-Eps Beat Off German Counterat- facks on Peak ROME, March 14.—The threat to German positions at Vergato, im-. portant highway stronghold, 14 miles southwest of Bologna, was intensi, fied by strong Fifth Army patrols which, yesterday, wormed their way to a point north of the town. Vergato i5 astride the main high- way from Pistoia to Boolgna, previ- ously closely menaced by Fifth Army forces moving up from the south, east and west. Allied headquarters, announcing the new advance, also reported other Fifth Army forces to the southwest of Vergato had beaten off German counterattacks on newly-won posi- tions on 5,900-foot Mt. Spigolino. — | |WHALEY WILL SHOW MOVIES T0 CHAMBER weekly meeting of Cld Glory at Corregidor r—— [ The American Flag is being hoisted to the top of the flagstaff on Corregidor, island fortress in Manila harbor, from which the Japanese Geon. Douglas MacArthur (center), and troeps of the 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, stand at attention during ‘the flag-raising ceremony. (AP Wirephoto) IWO JIMA GERMANYIS tore it down three years ago. ROCKS ARE 0CCUPIED lealherneck_s—Make Land- ing-Enemy Sealed Up in Scores of Caves By VERN HAUGLAND POWERFUL OFFENSIVE ~ UNDERWAY Nazi Capila-l—Ciy fo Be De- fended fo Last Bullet Is Order Given LONDON, March 14.—Russian troops have broken through one of the main German lines west of the Oder River, in Berlin's forefield, a Reuters dispatch from Moscow said, | while the German commander in Berlin ordered the capital defended “above and under the ground” to the last bullet. The German Command announ- ced a powerful, new Russian offen- |eive, aimed at wiping out the Na- zis in East Prussia, but declared So- | viet attacks from the Lebus bridge- head west of the Oder, and north of Frankfurt, had “broken down.” | A Reuters dispatch said Marshal | Zhukov’s arms overran the main | German line on the 18-mile Oder | front, between captured Kuestrin |and threatened Frankfurt. Moscow |stiil maintained official silence on this Berlin front. German broad- casts said the front was aflame the 115 miles from Stettin, to the south, to Guben and Forst, Neisse River bastions, on Marshal Konev's front, in the southeast. Berlin is girding for the defense |of Germany's queen city. Lt. Gen. Bruno von Hauenschild, chief of |Berlin's defenses, declared the city would be defended to the last. “All |strategems” and tricks will be allow- |ed for, he said. Dispatches from Stockholm added |that all possibilities for defense are | being expedited. of weap- | [ Masses H I T F R o M e "EMERGENCIES AIR AGAIN " keeping pier ;'Many Hunders of Bomb- IN SESSION ers and Fighters Hit Jap Parliament fo Deal . Reich Day, Night | with Problems Arising | LONDON, March 14 — Germany Associated Press War Correspondent | Was mauled from the air for the UNITED STATES PACIFIC thirtieth straight day as the U. S. FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Fighth Air Force, carrying the March 14.—Elements of two Marine manpower equivalent of a full divisions landed unopposed Tuesday infantry division, made another on two barren rocks off the west mass bombardment of Nazi rail- coast of Iwo Jima to end their use |Ways, oil refineries, armament as mortar positions. The enemy has Plants and submarine pens. been lobbing shells from the rocks.| Hundreds of Allied fighters pro- The Leathérnecks are advancing|vided close cover to the Remagen into the Kitano Point sector north- | bridgehead. Other American ernmost on Iwo, where the Nippon-bombers from Italy struck into ese are making a last fierce stand, |Hungary and Austria in support of The rock landings and amphibious |Russian armies, *hitting railyards operations involve units of the Third |2t Komarom on the Danube and and Fourth Marine divisions, and!Wiener Neustadt, near Vienna, both landings flank the Iwo sector| A giant force of 1,250 U. S. heavy assigned to the Fifth Marine Divi- [bombers and 650 fighters from sion. . Britain split into a dozen attack Admiral Nimitz' communique re-; Broups after crossing the North porting the landings described the |Sea. two points as “rocks.” The big daylight blows were fol- During the day on Iwo Jima 115({lowed by five prolonged stabs at more in the maze of Japanese caves | targets between the Western Front were sealed. and Berlin by British night Army fighters based on Iwo made {bombers. new attacks north of Iwo Tuesday —————— i e onine A communiae | ASBESTOS MAN | | VISITING HERE belatedly listed attacks on Chichi, Sunday and Monday, by Army Lib- Gene Jack, Superintendent of Arctic Circle Exploration Company, erators. A <y e et of Candle, is a Juneau visitor. PICTURES OF GOLD from Bombings LONDON, March 14—The Japa- nese Diet, previously summoned only for a one-day meeting, is being kept in session to deal with prob- lems arising out of American air raids on the homeland, a Trans- Ocean radio dispatch from Berlin said. The Trans-Ocean dispatch said the Diet discussion covered air raid protection measures, and the mob- ilization of seamen for internal water traffic. | A Tokyo broadcast said the Em- \peror is “grieved by the effects of indiscriminate bombing of Tokyo's suburbs.” On March 10, the Em- peror sent Court Chamberlain |Hokodaijy to “visit the stricken lo- |calities and report to him personal- ly the extent of the damage, and the working out of relief measures.” | ‘Tokyo's Stock Exchange was re- (ported “temporarily closed until conditions recover.” The Trans-Ocean reports said | American raids had compelled the |reorganization of Jap papers, as Tokyo's six leading papers were printing out of one plant, and |added the remaining paper print- ing works will be moved outside the capital “in readiness for even- |tual emergencies.” ineer, Tomorrow noon at the regular geeded pictures of Gold Creek dur- country. the Juneau ing the flood two years ago. He said Chamber of Commerce in the there must be some pictures around at the Baranof Hotel. Baranof Hotel Gold Room, Senator |as local photo shops remember de- CREEK ARE NEEDED L, announced McNamara, city today he James still Frank Whaley, of Nome, will show veloping pictures for many people home movies of hunting and Eski- The Engineer’s mo life in the Nome district, ac- wants pictures showing the heighth to Program Chairman of water in the creek bed. cording Harry Godson. Whaley has never shown this particular reel before, he said. B T e FROM SEATTLE O. Bergseth, Seattle, is registered #t the Baranof, office especially ALGEAA A LSS SUSPENDED SENTENCE | Jack flew in from Fairbanks to-| |day to confer with Government of- | (ficials here regarding development STOCK QUOTATIONS en- of asbestos properties his company NEW YORK, March 14— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7, American Can 932, Anaconda 32%, Beech Aircraft |12, Bethlehem Steel 74, Interna- tional Harvester 79%, Kennecott 38%, North American Aviation 10%, ew York Central 23%, Northern acific 21%, U. S. Steel 63%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 157.83; rails, 5141; utilities, 27.98. is opening in the Kobuk River While here Mr. Jack is a guest —— e e TALKED PUBL Chris Hennings, member of the | Legislature, and not Ed Krause, | ' wellknown Juneau fisherman, made kthe talk at the public utilities > UTILITIE |suspended sentence in City Magis- | }dmnk and disorderly conduct, Fanny Pratt was given a 30-day meeting Monday night. Krause was working on his boat trate’s Court today on a charge of and it was stated in the Empire the made the talk. McCLAINS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Carl McClain and family are guests at Hotel Juneau,