The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1945, Page 1

¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9912 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = — KOBE IS SHOWERED WITH FIRE BOMBS 'Reds Maneuver For | BRIDGEHEAD | Escape from German Hospital OF GERMANS "u.. g IS REDUCED ' ' Griefhaven Is Captured by | Russians — Pontoons | Brought Up | | MOSCOW, March 17—Tanks and | infantry of the First White Russian | Army have thrust forward against | the reduced enemy bridgehead at| Stettin, to within four and one- half miles of that vital northern | gateway to Berlin. ‘The Russians also reported bring- | ing ‘pontoon equipment along a| three-mile stretch of the Oder ! River, in the vicinity of captured | ° Griefhagen, less than 11 miles south | - of Stettin. Heavy Pressure | The heaviest Russian pressure is | being exerted against the southern flank of the Nazi bridgehead ex- |§ tending' along the east bank of the Oder from Stettin's suburb of Alt- | damm on the edge of Dammscher | Sea, where the remaining Nazi bridgehead east of the river is only | two miles deep at some poinls,; s Seizure ‘of this sector in the tactical | preparation for the Berlin offen- sive and is second in importance |& only to the capture of Kuestrin | early this week, as the fall of | Criefhagen put Marshal Zhukov's | troops into another good jumping | off spot spanninng the Oder. | Meagwhile, the Third White Rus- | sian Army group, liquidating the Nagzis’ East Prussian fragments, have pressed closer to Braunsberg ' and have reached the outskirts of | the port of Brandenburg. Koenigs- | berg, 10 miles to the northwest of 2 Brandenburg, has already been cut | a r Ice off. | An uneasy lull is reported in the ! most crucial sectors of the eastern | ls Named Io ] Admin.Board front—a, five mile stretch through Mec- el - w from a German prisoner of war tion to the rear. Paris.) the middle of the Oder Valley due east to Berlin—where both German and Russian troops continued to | mass for the impending climactic battle. | Marshal Rokossovsky's Second (Continued on Page Three) iive Sianley The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col.” Robert 8. Allen now on active s reconsideration vote | yesterday on Senate Bill 45 to put the Commissioner ef Labor on the Board of Administration threw the House into an uproar this morning and brought a % radical change in the vote that killed the bill teday 12 to 11. | 0Old anti-Commissioner of La- Part of the 1,200 tattered and sick men of Allied Nations who escaped hospital after overpewering their guards, march into # quarry somewhere in France to wait transporta- Without weapons, they overpowered their guards and escaped in mass, making their way to American lines through heavy machine gun and sniper fire, according to the Signal Corps caption for this photo. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto, SENATE IRE AROUSEDBY HOUSE VOTE Senators Condemn Putting Personal Feeling Above Public Welfare House acuion uus morning in de- feating Senate Bill No. 45, to sub- stitute the Commissioner of Labor EXTRA COBLENZ ~ ENTERED | | | | { | ~ BY YANKS | E Third Army Troops Report- | Big Drive On Berlin | _ [FIVE SQUARE | | | | MILESECTION IS IN ASHES | Sixth Large;a'y of Japan | Set Afire by Mass | Raid of Supers /COMMAND HEADQUARTERS | GUAM, March 17-American Super- DISLOYAL JAPANESE LEAVE CALIFORNIA CAMP e | ed in City - Germans Being Entrapped BULLETIN-COBLEN 17—Third Army troo entered Coblenz The and Seventh Infantry Divis | fought their way into the city | of 58,000 population after an E | amphibious assault in boats across the Moselle River near the confluence of the Rhine. BULLETIN — PARIS, March | 17—German broadcasts declare | thousands of Germans are ‘ threatened with entrapment at the road hub southwest of | Mainz. PATTON ManES BURST - PARIS, March 17—Third Army | troops have lunged to points 40 miles southeast of ‘Coblenz in a' race down behind ‘the Siegfried line, where they are rapidly closing trap on thousands of Germans between the Rhine and Moselle Rivers the huge Saarland tri- angle. Gen a in Patton’s armored spearheads burst forward another 10 to 15| miles southeast, in a simmering drive which took them 25 miles south of Coblenz and 45 miles from the Remagen bridgehead. Other units drove down the Rhine south of Coblenz, isolating that city of 58,000, and pushed up the east side of the Moselle to the outskirts of the, ancient citadel. Third Army tank troops, already halfway between ' Coblenz and Mainz, threatened to pocket the | remnants of two,German armies in the triangle formed by the Rhine and Moselle Rivers. Third Army units are now only 45 miles from Gen. Hodge's Seventh Army, which is{pushing up from stage “a last ditch” battle to retpm! the south. The Seventh Army, at-|the 50 percent maximum duty re- tacking over a ;50-mile front, is duction. | | | P | 18 | { forts showered close to 2,500 tons {of incendiary bombs on Kobe from 'a high altitude today before dawn lin the heaviest bombing assault yet on any Japanese city. | Targets in this greatest of all (fire raids rapidly burst out in flames, turning huge sections of Japan’s industrial centers to ashes. Five square miles of the highly- | congested , core of Japan's sixth |largest metropolis have been re- duced to ashes. | Although the Bomber Command announced only |“a very large task force” of B-29's ] | | ettacked Kobe, indications are | |that more than 300 aircraft parti- | cipated in this fourth great all- incendiary strike on Japan's major cities in eight days of the first | 'mass B-29 assaults of the war. | s I Tokyo was hit one week ago, in- :nuguraung a new strategy of burn ‘COMING UP AT$10,546 MANILA AREA i = === SAPANESE-AMERICANS who have renounced their U. S. citizenship are pictured above as”they leave Tulelake Segregation center at Newell, Cal, for an undisclosed destination. Most of these segregees were members of the pro-Japanese Hokuku Seinan Dan, an organization which is made up of a large up of Jap loyalists. 2 Twenty - First | Nagoya was hit two days later, March 12, and Osaka on March 14, All raids have been staged in the Ofle Efld Of Ja p anese ;t'ark hours soon after midnight. Shimbu Line Destroyed no: et wvatabie buc . srent con- ~Other Gains Made flagration did result. By JAMES HUTCHESON | (AP War Correspondent) pvr(m't.«; rl{nmbed :h; vital stoirnxle kipedd e reas of Rangoon today, stral - lation to permit downward tariff | quota $13,065. MANILA, March 1i—Yank troops ]y-imp:)rmn(g e)ll\‘emy-“l:lelt;t ;‘e&f:r. adjustments on some important | Half the expenditures by the Am- | fighting on the scattered fronts of [ ver™ i Burma v items of as much as 75 percent |erican Red Oross during the coming | fuzon Island have destroyed one| "myo gien was hit by a medium- under the Smoot-Hawley Act levels, | year will be for service in Army and | eng of the Jap Shimbu Line, east | i, oq lol'ée of approximately 40 This has made its appearance in the y Navy hosptials at home and abroad, | of Manila, and have cut the enemy | \iaves from the Twelfth Bomber House, in Army and Navy stations and infcommunications line to southern|oon oo " & a " it . ex: combat zones, officials of the Juneau '170n in an advance which took | and 1n India. It proposed a three-year extension | OhRREs Ainsiosea [ SU%00 .. v This raid was staged a few hours of the reciprocal trade act and an | s them to within seven miles of g0 (he strike on Kobe, on the amendment allowing tariff reduc-| Of the totai goal being snught‘g)ag:m, Lh.e summer capital of the Japanese. TARIMIAAL |Fhilippines. Today’s attack was the fourth on tions. Representative Dough ton, | here, it is pointed out, about one- Chairman of the Ways and Means | third will go to the Juneau Chapter| Gen. Douglas MgcAthur's c”’“"lmxlgoox\. made by B-29's. announcing these S Committee, introduced the bill. | and the other two-thirds to National | munique, suc- | Juneau is getting nearer the top |in the Red Cross fund drive but a concerted effort is needed to put the campaign over with the usual great er Rates fo Be Fought | solicitors of one of the largest busi- ness sections has reported and the sum has now reached $10,546 of the Introdudio;of—Bill foLow- - RANGOON AREA BOMBED WASHINGTON, March 17— Su- WASHINGTON, March 17—The Administration has sponsored legis- | Republicans announced they will | Headquarte es today,. also recorded further | The Rev. W. Robert Webb, Cam- |gains by the American forces invad- | paign Chairman, makes a strong ing the Zamboanga sector of Min- appeal to his workers to complete |danao Island. driving the Germans back to the i 2 £ SRR £ Goubtful security of the Siegfried | their soliciting and urged them not to “let down” but to redouble their | efforts so that next Friday it can In the Shimbu sector on Luzon,! MI" El where one American General has| been killed and another wounded | service with the Army.' | ‘WASHINGTON—Word has leaked from Italy that the British are adopting strange tactics in foment- | ing the separationist movement in Sicily. Two hundred thousand American j Flag posters have appeared in the cafes of Sicily advocating the in- dependence of that strategic island | from Italy. But the funny part of | L it is that the printing of these | American flags has been traced to. Algiers and the people who paid | for them are the British. | /Accompanying these U. S. Flags | are placards reading: “Sicily, the 49th State.” | In other words, it looks as if the | ritish, knowing the number of | Italo-Americans who come from Sicily, are cleverly taking fldvnntagc‘ of American sentiment to propose | Sicily as the 49th. state of the | United States. { The importance of Sicily to the! bor Walter Sharpe wars came again to the fore and bitter per- sonalities were traded back and forth across the floor. Said Sharpe Supporter Joe Diamond, “I, Joe Diamond, will not have anything to do with throwing a man out of office who was elected by the people. We here are responsible to the people—not a group of men.” Declared Sharpe enemy Fred Hanford: “The President ap- points his own cfbinet so that he can have a group of men with whom he can work in harmony. Why not the Governor?” Voting for the bill to put the Labor Commissioner on the Board of Administration were, Shattuck, Diamond, Anderson, Hoopes, Johnson, Linck, Peter- son, Pollard, Porter, Vukovich and Walsh. Voting against the bill were Krause, Hennings, Peratrovich, Hope, Cain, Cross, Taylor, Mc- British is that it lies astride the sea-lane through the Mediterranean | tc Suez. The British already have | secretly been given the Italian| Cutcheon, = Huntley, Badger, Hanford and Lander. The Commissioner of Labor was islands of Pantelleria and Lampe- |voted to the Board of Administra- as entitled to similar freedom of | dusa by the Italian armistice, and ’nun yesterday afternoon by the it has been known for some time House of Representatives in the pas- that they were secretly financing | sage of Senate Bill 45. i the separationist movement in| The Senate Bill in question, num- Sicily. (ber 45, by Shattuck, makes the P jbuard, except for the Governor, com- SOL BLOOM SOLD VIOLETS |posed entirely of Territorial elective Congressman Sol Bloom, author officials. The Commissioner of Edu- of many song hits, first man to|cation, whose name is to be removed bring Salome Dancing from Egypt. iin favor of the Labor Commissioner, ' and ‘now the Chairman of the|iS DOW an appointee, though former- House Foreign Relations Committee, |1y _€lective. celebrated his seventy-fifth birth-| The vote of approval on the bill day Tecently with a party in [he}was 22 to 1 with one absent, but the House Restaurant and even bigger\m_" will have to be called again, parties at the Washington Chil-|With Representative Stanley Mc-, | Cutcheon asking for reconsideration (Continued on Page Four) Jof his vote, for the Commissioner of Education {on the Territorial Board of Admin- istration, touched off a major ex- plosion in the Senate. With almost full voice the upper body condemned the House very apparent placing of personal feeling | against Commissioner of Labor Wal- ter Sharpe above the welfare of the Territory. Senator Howard Lyng was | | vociferous in his protest of the House total disregard of the fact that the | purpose of the Board of Administra- i tion, and the fostering of self-gov- {ernment for the Territory, demand | “breach of major depth” in the . ¢ ;oo werner last evening en- | ! the inclusion on the Board of all | five elective Territorial officials. | | The senate, however, refused to follow the example the lower body | has frequently set this session, and ask for the House to reconsider its action on the bill. Senator O. D. Cochran received the concurrence | of his colleagues in his expressed | opinion that the junior chamber to freedom to act as it sees fit. | an independent body and is entitled | OF TONIGH' | The Senators did, however, gen- erally express a wish that the House would see fit to recognize the Senate action. R R Hugh De Lacy Would Create Commission WASHINGTON, March 17.—Rep- resentative Hugh DeLacy of Wash- ngton State, has introduced a bill to create a tional Highway Commission to study the possibility of having a highway io connect the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska Line, and have taken the Maginot fortress of Bitche. The First Army, expanding their Rhine bridgehead, deployed tanks along the superhighway connect- ing Frankfurt and Ruhr, where they took four more towns, and won two-thirds of Hoenningen on the southern end. The Remagen bridgehead is now 13 miles deep, as tank’' columns neared Bingen on the Rhine. Berlin broadcasts admitted west lower Vosges Mountains. el e LEGISLATIVE BALL EVENT long and seven miles | $KI CLUB MEMBERS ENJOY DINNER AT SECOND MEADOW Report Bes>1uSikriing Condi-| tion of Year on ¢ Douglas Run ‘l»rminr:d over 40 Juneau Ski Club enthusiasts at the Second Meadow cabin with a special feed which included fruit salad, hot hamburger, beans and hot dogs, complete with onions and the works. The evening was further enjoyed by everyone because of the excellent | snow conditions in the meadow and on the trail. Conditions today are unchanged and ski fans, say the be announced that the campaign is “over the top.” Out of every $100 contributed to the Juneau campaign the following | |approximate amounts will be spent { by the local Red Cross chapter in the fiercest battling of the Luzon campaign, the “entire south flank of the elaborate Wawa-Antipolo line has been destroyed with greaz; Mayor A. B, Hayes, at the City losses to the enemy, both in per- | Council meeting held last night, an- sonnel and supplies. nounced the election officials for the Horrios séevive, $2814: adiministra- |, TEets R LReRtys THEd Divisidp,| munioipal. sleoiiad diat s to be e L stipollesrattb e ek lg. |bas reached a point four miles east April 3. ; first ald’ and ‘Aoeldant preventian, o AAROIO).WRils, the) -dapaYees dudges. for RGN NO. 1N 8117 bome Hirslilg, 88 oents; other| DAL~ ne of communications on|William Byington, Mrs. Edwin Sut- S ome nursing, 83 cents; oWAEr | oo Luzon has been cut at|ton, Mrs. Sam Feldon; Clerks, Mrs. services not listed, 54 cents Juneau stiil has to raise approxi- {mately $4,000 to reach the goal set | by the National Headquarters. Tt is| {Maybancal at the base of Morong Harold Smith, Rev. G. Herbert Hill- Peninsula. | erman. A In a wide enveloping mow-nwmiL‘;"*Ckm;; NOGZ.B Jl:tm;imsb n;:-z 1 801 anila ” " | Lybeck, IS, o . ce, rs. Cath- | interesiing to note that both Eat-{toain Gf Banta ‘b Ballan Bay,| A T |the 158th Regimental Combat team | ¢in¢ Hooker; Clerks, Mrs. E. L. |hikan and Wrangell reached their| 0, %055 BRSPS SO A unter, Mrs. 5. G. Bhepard. quotas in the first flve days of the | ..., paogian on the western coast| Frecinct No. 3, Judges—Mrs. Gud. mund Jensen, Mrs. Thomas Parke, | drive while Juneau is still lagging |° Cnlidihan: PabliEaIa. aod” than ! behi: he seve penth 4 | - - P! - " i s . S & [behind on the seventeenth day. {}yghod eastward toward Mabinia st g,:;l;z,“ms. o | | Precinct One is at the Fire Hall; | Precinct Two, Pan American Air- | ways office; Precinct Three, Juneau CLEOWILKINS None Are lostas 5% Sma" Boa' (aPSiles | Voting hours will be from 8 o'clock new Alaska Interna- | | skiers, can be assured that this is the best skiing time so far this year. Many skiers are going up this | afternoon. Hot coffee and dogs will Tonight in the Elks Ballroom the be served at the cabin Sunday. Legislative Ball will be held. Camera fans will find execllent con- At 10 o'clock Gov, and Mrs. Ernest ditions and material today for good Gruening, Secretary of Alaska and |pictures, says Club President Bill Mrs. Lew Williams and Mayor and Hixson. {Mrrs. A. B. Hayes will lead the %grand march, followed by the legis- NEW PRI | lators. | | A seven piece orchestra will play | for the event. B DENT OF AIRLINES IN TOWN Theodore Law, newly-elected | arrived in Juneau yesterday and will | spend a ilew days here before pro- MARRIAGE LICENSE | ceeding to the Anchoragg headquart- A marriage license was granted |ers of the company, Law is an this morning to Ralph V. Bardi and | Oklahoma oil contractor. Thelma Veryl Lacey, both of Ju-| > neau, the U. S. Commissioner’s of-| The roofed-in gateway to church lnm: announced, yards: is called a lich-gate, guests of the House members.” ———.————— - The public is invited to be the President of Alaska Airlines, Inc, | IS IN JUNEAU | Cleo Patricia Wilkins, star gov- ’crmmnl witness in the recent trial of U. 8. Attorney Lynn J. Gemmill, |who was found not guilty of solicit- ing and pting a bibe, has ar- rived in Juneau. | She will be arraigned on an lalleged charge of taking a trunk, along with two soldiers and another woman, from a house in Sitka. She has also been made a defend- lant in a $20,000 civil suit, filed !several days ago in Seattle by Ruby Hazlewood, as an outcome of the trunk theft. e S | The earliest libraries were pro- I bably temples |in the morning to 7 oc’lock at night. b LN B MEAT RATION MAY VICTORIA, B. C, March 17—Nine | persons were lost when a 29-foot gas| boat upset in a whiripool in Sey-| mour Narrows. Two others, M. E. |Wilson and Andrew Mohlan, of Vancouver, were saved The missing are Boyde D. Lyon,| |C. W. Panson, D. Dimich, W 5' Einanson, A. Tiynels, Robert Blaine, '35 CONSUMPTION !John Surgemor and one unidenti-| tied. The home towns of the men| WASHINGTON, March 17—A new are unknown {slash in civilian meat supplies is ex- - < {pected on the heels of President NGS IN Rcosevelt’s request for more belt- FROM ANCHORAGE | tightening on the home front | . | From the April to June quarter the | A Woodley Airways plane arrived |civilian meat allocation may be cut at the Juneau airport from Anchor- |to an annual rate of 118 pounds, the |age yesterday afternoon with the | lowest level since 1935, when supplies following passengers: W. E. Dunkle.‘were curtailed by a severe drought Corp. V. McGowan, Mrs. Art Wood- |and the government hog production | ley, Miss Poulin, Karl Drager, Immml program, - WOODLEY BRI FAN == BE CUT BACK T0 L