The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1945, Page 1

-+ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . LA : “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” m— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1945 . MLMBH? ASbO(l/\TED PRESS PRICE TFN CENTS | VOE.LXIV.,NO. 9911 'YANK TROOPS NEAR SUPERHIGHWAY R Seven Mile Breakthrough Made By Soviets THE (ROSSROADS WHERE YOU CAN'T GO WRONG — |BRIDGEHEAD, == RHINE AREA, LENGTHENED |Germans Start Fllghl from Saarland fo Frankfurt ~Patton Moves On BULLETIN — PARIS, March WO JIMA BATTLE IS ~ NOWOVER Organ ize_d"Resistanceg Ceases-Terrific Toll of | 5 Marines Taken | | U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- RUSSIANS ADVANCING OVER ODER Violent New Attack in Ste!- | . fain Area - German | ' Forces Divided LONDON, March 16—The Rus- sians have opened a violent new | attack against the last German | positions east of the Oder in the | Stettin area and the drumfire bar- | ‘QUARTFRS, GUAM, March 17 — ! A Navy communique announces | |that 4.189 American Marines were | |killed in the conquest of Iwa Jima, | | strategic Jap island within ’iOr 16—The First American Army has cut the great Ruhr-Frank- furt super-highway east of the Rhine in two places and ex- tended the bridgehead at least rage was followed by masses of | tanks and infantry pouring over. | 13 miles in length. ] The Nazis report that in Esm‘ Prussia, the Russians have made a seven-mile breakthrough to the shores of Frisches Haff, Baltic la- | goon, which divided the remnants of 200,000 defenders in the Ko-| enigsburg zone, into two pockets. | Another. major attack has been started by Marshal Konev's Army | north of Ratibor and in the Grot-: tkau area southeast of Breslau. The German broadcast said sev- eral Russian divisions are involved | in the drive toward Moravsky, Mo- ravian gate, 17 miles south of Rati- | bor. | The German broadcast also says| the Russians are in a wide mopping up campaign preparatory to a great battle the Russians may | launch along the Berlin front. ! — !miles of Tokyo. | The Navy announced the h'mls'" {for Iwo had “been won,” and added | {thers were 15,308 Marines wounded land 441 missing, making a total of | 19,938 casualties sustained by the | three Marine Divisions. [ | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said | | the bloody battle of Iwo, the cost- | |liest invasion’ of the Pacific War, was won by the Marines, who‘ | fought “with the certain knowledge | lof the cost of the objective which ! had to be taken.” 1 Organized resistance ceased at 6 |c’clock Friday night, when elements lof the Third and Fifth Divisions | |broke through enemy lines at Ki- | {tano Point on the northern tip uf the island. | BULLETIN, LONDON, March 16—The Germans express con- cern about the expanding bridgehead across the Rhine at Remagen and the Third Army's breakthrough between the Moselle and the Rhone Valley. The German radio to- night said, “these developments begin to sume operational importance. PARIS, March 16 — American itroops have fought to within 200 !ynrds of the Ruhr-Rhineland Su- |perhighway, virtually severing it. In |an overnight advance of up to two miles into Koenigswinter, they have lengthened the East Rhine hflflCl- head to 13 miles. ‘i To. the - sotith’ Abott" 100 m |me new Seventh Army’ offensive (tolled forward : along a 40-mile front from Saarbruecken to the |Rhine. | Aerial reports indicated the Ger- jmnm have already started their flight to Frankfurt from the Saar- {land. | Gen. Pattan’s Thlrd Army, ap- plying a nut-cracker squeeze from |the north on the Saarland, broke out of its Moselle River bridgehead SIOCKQUOTATIONS 7250, STAREETS _ st “Ufimmflwo quotation of Alaska Juneau mine film. Hollywood natives, they skate, dance, and sing. stock today is 7', American Can Ihousa“ds of ja S Are IS UNDER ATTA(K 9375, Anaconda 32%, Beech Air- | Yoo craft 12, Bethlehem Steel T74%, . . Gurtiss - Wright 6, Internationai B Marines Close in on Corner Harvester 79%, Kennecott 38'%, urne 'o eal A i ers | . North American Aviation 107, [l of Island Agalnst New York Central 24!y, Northern . | Pacific 21%, United States Steel Mortar Fire 'just southwest of besieged and cut- loff Coblenz, and raced 12 milgs to 637, Pound $4.04. b= = , i 8 > : Inlured In Rald on Tokyo U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- _ . 5 "CO“”('SY Nflfih\m‘f Bannm {the southeast in a supreme effort T 'to trap the Germans tarrying in Dow, Jones averages today are as QUARTERS, GUAM, March 16 — ! the outflanked sections of the Sieg- | WAR oFFI(E fried Line. The famous Fourth Ar- | mored Division made a long dash follows: Industrials, 158.92; rails, 52.75; utilities, 28.13. | by |stand area of the Japanese on (he‘ ew e ar'men' or ! Many thousanas of Japanre northernmost end of Iwo Jima, on| were burned to death, severely - Thursday, twenty-fifth day of the| | {through and beyond the Moselle, i ,and crossed anew six miles south- DepartmenisSlatled ~ OF HITLER :aisi™ 18 miles south of Mayen. The waShlngton !jured or left homeless as the resvlt!:nyasion, is reported by the Navy, . of the recent Superfort incendiary s gains toward Kitano Point were Merr - Go -Round raids, Japan's chief propagandaregistered by Maj. Gen. Keller i 3 spokesman said, as the government Rocke's Fifth Marine Division | —————— lmsu ned evacuation of millions of against small-arms and mortar fire. ! By DREW PEARSON lans. trom Nippon's five largest | or a me' umor Maj. Gen, Graves Erskine’s Third b3l .'Z'?fi%?fim";’ni"fls“ s ““" |Marine Division, in the center of | | The Tokyo broadcasts, recorded|tne island, and Maj. Gen. Clifton | ___ E WASHINGTON—The fight against Ly the FCC, tell of the flight from'cates’ Fourth Marines, on the right, I ; T Aubrey Williams as Rural Electri- e the five cities and quoted Sflflflormopp(‘d up straggling. enemy ele-! » ','A(‘K HENNNEES Headqua['ers Bulld'ngs fication Administrator illustrates (Ru Associated Press) | Uguchi, spokesman for the Japa-!ments. WASHINGTON, March 16.—The i Pow far the Senate has been S0INE| pcause the war situation is so Dese Board of Information, as to New Air Attacks 1:';;;;':;‘]]H‘ s round and vound that — Rows of Barracks af Ol e 5 e wi e 4 new H recently - in ' unfair ~confirmation |, «“ i |the” extent of the casualties. | A communique reported E: 1 . Igrave and the “fate of the Nippon § uniq! ported new air r onts y | tactics. All sorts of wild charges gy i s gt stake,” Emperor Hiro-| Usuchi called the Super raids an |attacks were made on the Bonin SERR” woN IIAL’;::::“Q’:‘L l‘)’:‘n“:}i?“]‘;‘u‘:’;“ézm““‘(“L“_ Zossen Bombed | IS FEARED were thrown around against Wil-| . .q €ffort to “terrorize and weaken the and Marshall Island: hito today made an unprecedented nds, as well as on ‘p(‘slurl It will take congressional - { NEW YORK, March 16 — Closing By Assoclted Press) |A further reduction in the last| liams, but any careful Senator, i 3 2 morale of the Japanese people.” | wake Island. , move, asking Gen. Koiso, Premier, % | Wake Islan ¢ ¢ 4 o oo Pt taking the trouble to sift them |, o ;) on%\ meeting of the Japa- {He claimed the Tokyo area, bombed | Robert McCormick, NBC war cor- b(lulml é:u(‘i L.rlu suwu probably will -y GNPDON Mareh 16— Ameflcml down, found out they weren’t true.| ... General Staff. {last Saturday by 300 Superforts’ respondent, hroadcasting from 0 16 NOREY Burean, » heavy bombers smashed several| J M 150 000]‘ Williams was even attacked on = g0 extraordinary arrangement was “not even remotely connected!Guam, said it is believed Marine Blueprints have already been jeadquarters buildings and rows ol aps ass foops his war record, though it developed ;s 2nounced in a Domei dispatch |With war industries or located near |casualties on Iwo, including killed, (““““ there for a Department of parracks in yesterday's 60-plane Ch | E he had enlisted in the French m Tokyo and picked Military installations. Thousands wounded and missing, will total Transportation (as Was reported in getack on Hitler's army staff head- | m IHG—A SO fed broadcast fro: kyo 2 ! Foreign Legion even before the |y, o tne Fee. {were severgly injured and many|12,000. |this column months ago) and the guarters at Zossen, 20 miles south F "' : United States entered the last War,|' Domei said the move is necessary | (10usands were bombed out of their| Probably 4,000 among this number Now May Be Abl ful BB could now deliver an outline for of Berlin, it s officlally announced | orfifications had participated in the famous yecouse of the war, which has ar-|Pomes” he said. {had paid with their lives in this ow May be be fo Cut|a Department of Public Weltare. oy ay. et The Tokyo radio said “incendiary |costly invasion. Vice Admiral Rich- Nucleus of the ~new department| mne United States Strategic Air|- CHUNGKING, March 16 — The !tombs poured like rain on the|ard Kelly Turner indicated Thurs- nghway Behlfld Sfl’Oflg jwould be the Federal Security Ad- \Fomo Command made the an-|Japs have massed 10,000 troops and | | ministration, the ~ Women’s _and! rouncement. |erected fortifications in the battles of Chemin-des-Dames, Com- | i rived at Jaj zun doo! piegne and Chateau-Thierry. !n}l p this war, all four of his sons are| |heads of the people.” |cay it was unbelievable the Leath- in service. } | A Tokyo correspondent of Soviet ernecks could have taken the island hOId Of Verga'o \Ch”d‘“"‘ Bureaus of the Labor De-| ajrmen who had been waiting |Shanghai-Hangehow-Ningpo region, When this charge flopped, du| [Tass Agency, said the Japanese with no greater cost, considering| ‘p“m"““ and the Public Health to weeks to carry out the assign- end have completed defensive ar- Pont-financed Senator Bushfield of | |Capital City was thrown into althe intricate defenses, difficult ter- | Service ment on Zossen, did a bull's-eye rangements in' the Hong Kong- South Dakota brought various {panic Saturday during the raid and |rain and forced frontal assault. ROME, March 16 — Fifth Army| Sooner or later, there must be aljon the official bulletin says. |Canton area against feared Ameri- charges of ‘“radicalism” against! |people have fled from the city| forces captured the village of Serra|reorganization of the executive ™y wore made on many bar- can landings, a Chinese Army Williams, quoting from a publica- | [since then by train, trucks and| and won positions from which they branches of government. For more v,y and the major office build-|spokesman said tion called “Headlines” to substan- | rickshaws or on foot. JUVENIlE jAll!D may be able to cut Highway No,ithan a decade they have been y, o jncluding the administration! Defenses are also being rushed tiate his charges. | The correspondent said the hos- 64 behind the German stronghold Spreading all over the place and building. : /in the Foochow area on the east Finally, Senator Scott Lucas of | pitals “are overcrowded.” 1 |of Vergato, Allied Headquarters Overlapping each other so frequently Both high %xplosive and incendi- ' !coast, but have not been completed, Illinois exposed the fact that| |" The Japanese newspaper Asam‘ WHE" (AR STRIKES v-\ld jthat it often is impossible to tellly, ' yompeere used and great fires|he added. The enemy Is. pictured “Headlines” was published by the| |sqd transport facilities are so| fter occupying Serra, about!Wherc the authority of one leaves|opieag over n wide area laa pouring teoope. inio nacen notorious Joseph P. Kamp, whoj {iammed the “sufferers must wait| DOWN SMAll (H".D 1‘000 vards west of the highway, Off and the other begins. | The surprisé attack on the Nazi French Indo-China from the Hu- helped organize the friends of New| U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-| t\\o to four days or more before!| Allied troops pushed toward the "y chief’s workshop, where Hitler was nan-Kwangsi region to forestall a Germany which became the Ger- QUARTERS, Guam, March 16 — they can get out of town.” A 17-year-old juvenile, arrested village of Salvaro against stiff en- Over in Treasury, 'h"lw‘:i" Bond yoported in a conference several |possible American invasion. thae |boys are rubbing their hands in a man-American Bund, was frequent- The base at captured Iwo Jima has' Another Domei dispatch reportedon a charge of negligent driving cmy resistance. bt b ¢ % days ago, was carried out by pilots, | ly seen on the same platform with already saved about 30 Superforts the Nippons are suffering from after his speeding automobile, The Germans have clung stub- jttle justifiable glee. he cashing|,,ygeiors and bombardiers 95996‘: Fritz Kuhn, now in jail, and was and their crews from probable des- food shortage, such as salt, and the Proceeding up Franklin Street,|bornly for months to Vergato, a 'l of war bonds is taking & nose .y, “niovedq for the job . BER”" ARE‘ ls an intimate of George Sylvester |truction, the Twenty-First Bomber | authorities concerned are demand-|struck a child, received a severe highway center commanding the dive. Immediately after the Treas-| "y, %" ciougless sky, the bombers Viereck, now in jail as a NBZ“CDmmand reports. {ing that the Government take sentence in City Magistrate’s Court southwestern approaches to Bo- i Imada: A depl .\nth banks| . raded over the target in lwu agent. “I thought the Senator, The air force spokesman said 30 drastic measures.” lthis morning. He was ordered fo 16na. Both German and Allied pa- tProughout the country to pay cash| o™ ang dropped 6,000 blast- | HEAVII-Y BOMBED would llkehto see the }e:nlighlened Supers, returning from three great > — ipay a $25 fine and his driver's l'ul’s hhave been active on the :Z‘nnl:(:lxxdl\h{w‘.:f:f':‘l:imnauo(;s »m’):(‘: bombs weighing 1,500 tons, and addi-!| LONDON, March 16 — source of the testimony he is cross- |incendiary raids during the past |license was suspended for 60 days. Fighth Army front. i & . .| tional thousands of s 1 examining Mr. Williams on,” Sen- week on major cmesgol Jd)llun. HANSE" I-AST R"Es ;Bes!des he was given a suspended iR g ek 4:):{:"« V.v.i',f"..;f","“ a(;: l]h':l fxm‘,‘"\ ary mxs.fll:s,““ o g J:Jtl:b'::n?;f;g:x::;tc:mu‘::l?r:l::: ator Lucas said smiling sweetly at landed on Iwo Jima to refuel or| IONIGH" so" HERE Jail sentence of 30 days. SKIERS GOING up {so1" \\'rdx:‘lu.‘\-um‘A (‘»;;/icr.;l' k)old“%ou. TS of bombing by the Royal Airforce. Busnfield. o gonssponcy sossies j ' The child. although _uninjured. s Thaie thactr: whe irie GUEST AT BARANOF RAF night raiders also struck ithout the island, the spokes-| Paul Hansen arrived in Juneau last|was with such force as to tear Ide: oismade .| Mrs. Harry C. Frederi { OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT man said, most of the Supers would |evening from Ketchikan, to attend |Off ofie shos, Five witneases testi. TRAIL LATE TODAY Sendnojers. oould e made, 0 TOADN o 0 B W:»muuu::. \sLfiggpi:; ::\d"!‘;e hrltdul::"cl-u:n;uoi-e: s Finally, Williams was charged never have reached the Marianas tie funeral services for his father, fied that the car was speeding. bha Wr(“:l’; ]"“ld“:] fngitsad cash. |2t the Baranof lof Neusbourg, near !;lm oV o with desiring _to overthrow the bases and lives of approximately |the late Henry Hansen. The ser-| ————— — | Scheduled to leave town at 5:30 T}he r".‘sfm];: as b:“: st what t { —— e —_-‘“.—_l_’crv Government, with not being a good 330 men would have been at stake,|Vices are being held tonight at 8| CARL LOTTSFELDT HERE |oclock this evening are 25 skiers, war Bond boys expected. what e JoMN BRADY ARRIVES | COUNCIL TO MEET Presbyterian and with favoring [oclock, at the Lutheran Church,| Carl E. Lottsfeldt, of Ophir, is|who will hike to the upper cabin'turn.in flurry 1s un'::tlpdh'd as hold.| John Brady, of Anchorage, is in| The City Council will meet to- e D T — , of Sitka, is a guest|with the Rev. G.. Herbert Hiller-|visiti s s Ski e ! ' | i > Rev. G. - ng in Juneau. He is a guestjon the Douglas Ski Run, where L2 Juneau and staying at the Baranof (night at 8 o'clock in the (Continued on Page Four) at Hotel Juneau. man giving the eulogy. at the Baranof. supper will be cooked and served. | (Continved on Page Str) Hotel. jCouncil chambers, e E. R. Hi