The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1945, Page 1

&5’ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” #THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9913 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | SMASHING BLOW HIT JAPANESE ISLAND Americans Closin Viclims of Jap Mgchine Guns NAZIS NOW IN RETREAT, ONE SECTOR lautern. KOLBERG ON BALTIC SEA - ISCAPTURED ' Thukov Now Adds Impefus | of Budapest and within eight miles | v SR — ? ¥ ey s, g Trap on 80,000 Germans KYUSHUTS ATTACKEDBY - TASK FORCES {Vital Targets Bombed by of the carrier raid, came just be- | Third and Seventh Armies b _ | Coming Together-Pat- o Battle for Steftin- ' Hundreds of Yank ] ' | . g fon’s Forces Move Southern Maneuvers | Carrier Planes e | i { i LONDON, March 19. — Marshal | ! i By ELMONT WAITE 19—Third Army y tfls:sR:osd‘ayM;lrg:lm wlt’flin 14 milés‘ Zhukov has wheeled his First White (AP War Correspondent ) of Mainz and came within 45 miles Russian Army divisions westward | U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- of closing the trap, with the|g# | from operations _agound . capwired |QUARTERS, Guam, March 19 — Seventh Army, on pérhaps 80,000 | ;Kolborcz. on the Baltic, to add im—; |Hundreds of American carrier Germans making a confused re-| }petus to the battle for Stettin at | |planes, (the Japanese counted 1400) treat from the rich Saarland Pal-i | the mouth of the Oder | from the world’s mightiest task antinate. Kolberg, devastated after a 13-day |force, swept over vital targets of The Famous Fourth Armored | § | siege, fell to Zhukov's forces yester- | |the enemy’s southernmost main is- Division has captured Sprendlin- | | day, a Russian communique said, as lend, Kyushu, yesterday in the gen and moved closest to Mainz. | | the savage struggle mounted from | third devastating attack on the Patton’s Tenth Armored Division % " | the eastern suburb of Stettin, to | Japanese homeland in a little more has spurted to within 19 miles of 5 W N | Wollin Island in the Oder Estuary. | than one month, Admiral Chester G | gy — - " . —_—— | Meanwhile, German forces trapped |W. Nimitz said. &lwrlaulcm. key to the German | Affer the American forces breached the aged walled city in Manila | gouthwest of Koenigsberg in East < . “A strong fofoe” of carrier planes { ;f};e Ay AR PE v they came upon this scene cf Jap terror: This woman and child lying | prussia, reeled back into final de- | : : Gt % . . S attacked ' Rikedel NAd B2 | ey slo\;lly but | sdvanced .six| beside the bullet spaitered wall felled by Japanese machine guns, ac- | fensive positions on the outskirts of | BRITISH CROSS BAILEY BRIDGE — A sentry watches British soldiers iead paci |stallations on Kyushu but the f fortifications between besieged cording to the Signal Corps caption accompanying this picture. (AP | Braunsberg and Heiligenbeil. mules across a Bailey bridge thrown over the Mi river in Burma. / 'Tokyo radio claims Shikoku Island | Saarbrucken and the Rhine and| Wirephoto frors Signal Corps) In the Battlg for Hungary, a new — - - - — — ———— lof southern Honshu, was also vithi iles § ! Russian offensive has advanced to | raided. les - o ; Ji> 229 do- wapio agpuilive o JEwRer the north of more than 39 miles west | Defies Tradition ‘ YA N KS MAKE, e b e e The Third Army has captured Dillinger, and its great sieel mill and crashed into St. Wendel, only 16 miles from the Seventh Army. The 80,000 Germans, threatened | with being trapped along the Saar River, where virtually all Saar| mills are located, are retreating in | such - disorderly confusion - that| tanks, self-propelled guns and ar- | tillery are being abandoned. ————— SPANOVER ~COLLAPSE LEGION AUXILIARY TO [Central Part of Ludendorf MEET TUESDAY NIGHT | The regular social meeting of the American Legicn Auxiliary will be | held' " tomorrow evening at 8 cclock in the Legion Dugout. A'! short busingss session will precedet WITH THE AM ERICANS line, Goes Down BLOWSFROM RHINE IN ' SKY FALL ON REICHLAND Many Different] TargetsAre | Bridge, First Army Life- | Hammered in Day, Night | Weekend Bombings BULLETIN-LONDON, March 19-Only one of Germany's 20 lof Vienna the German command | said Konev Plunges i In southern Silesia the First Uk- rainian Army under General Konev | plunged forward for gains of 151 miles or more, reaching the area | aréund Neustagt. less than three | miles from the border of Czecho- | slovakia, and attacking both sides lof Neisee, 15 miles northwest of Neustadt, the German report said. Neustadt is 57 miles southeast "of | besieged Breslau. Other Soviet troops have punched ahead in southern Slovakia in the |low Tatras Mountains, west of ! Zvolen. Fiorella LaGuardia is on LA GUARDIA BREAKSLAW N CURFEW. | States Impossible for Night § Spofsin New Yorkto .| Close at 12 | 19 — Mayo! the end NEW YORK, Mz of grandiose verbal brickbats and AR YL e po eMakes bouquets after the city had gone | ahead on its own to a 1 o'clock NEW LANDING LUION ISLAN ! New Move.gfle ngthens American Drive Toward | Baguio, Capital By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, March 19—Elements of fore more than 300 Superfortresses, flying from bases in the Marianas, dropped more than 2,000 tons of |incendiary bombs on Nagoya, Nip- pon’s third largest city on Island. The attack was the first carrier strike of the war on Kyushu. g P e NIPPON BASE IN KURILES BOMBARDED o i ieian | -?SROiideE ? “fi',‘,fin:" "”;’,‘mif‘ synthetic ol plants and but 19 Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider's a ;;a“e conup:cdmsmurdu:.. PR 78 coke ovens are operating 158th Regimental Combat Team N on s : e oty il be 1n| 0 g INES, Keep. ggtuing in_the moming curfew. ; 'landed Saturday at Talaga, on the orth Pacific Warshlps e as lngtono paired and probably Wil be In| magtery dyer. “all forms of The mayor flatly stated, “a rigid | I northwest. coast of Batangas Bay, 8 . : e e “the 0. 5. Piny| movemst Mekks Germgsy. o ress QN i cciock curtew wont work in (in southern Luson, m a move w0 Blow Up Ammunition M G R d - ortin ; UISU) high personage in the British New York City,” yesterday. He | secure Calumpan Peninsula. . err Y' 0 - NOUIQ army operating east of the RhINC| war councils told a specially told operators of amusement places {7 As' Hdaoy Gombikrs poured 4 thes Dump_S'afl Fires - This® 15 - cxptomssd. by nited |y mmoned newspapermen’s they might move back the closing “nflc 337-ton load of explosives on |States Army officials who declared sctive |the loss of the structure even tem- By DREW PEARSON conference™today. Sure peace time one hour. last night and did Most of them did a land-office | | targets around Baguio, the Philip- | pines summer capital, the yanks By OLEN CLEMENTS (AP War Correspondent) (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on loss ADHie el The Hiatgment ‘was Piage 'as L e i el Lol a:l'l'i’ly“‘t’l‘) i;fj’l‘(’]”n:‘iu]':"m: 1,800 Anmn bombers and business during the “hour of tol- | | pushed quickly north from Talaga, WASHINGTON—One Nazi ques- [0 | O/ €8 gntesy’ DiCet plane:thalalie: | o ST L ] eranee: [ Ito reach the town of Nadini, east-| ALEUTIANS BASE IN ALASKA, o mark \Weh. DLUB Army obadl R e ation g |0 ONS TRnG WA G ECHBRE R e riay (ivged 1 Tt i yes?! His move, admittedly catching the {ern terminus of the road severing (Passed by Censor), March 17-(De- iy Sty et terday urged an emd to “idolatry of r.qe1q) officials by surprise, brought ' | Calumpan . Pentnsula, which juts layed)-North Pacific warships ap- servers have watched with greatest wariness is: When, if at all, will Adolf Hitler use poison gas? |Europe gave out a bulletin that the |bridge is “almost repaired,” but | there is no confirmation from Al- southern Germany. The RAF again ‘showered 116 tons of bombs on Arsnberg and Bielfeld viaducts in the Ruhr |ebsolute nationalism, pride of race no immediate official comment | {and blood, and the desire for hege- from Washington. | imony in the possession of worldly | REARED in the Castilian culture that frowns on careers for women, pretty Senorita Emilia Cacho was the first Mexican girl to become an | linto Verde Island passage between | Balayan and ‘Batangas Bay. A Japanese counterattack in the parently blew up a Japanese am- munition dump and started many fires, some of them heavy, in a Their pro-tem conclusion is that _ " 4 hed Headquarters. |goods,” as an important step to- e v o 5 S sk he will not — for t;vo reasons. He Sl T e BRI i last night. :ard e ”PBCIP T NO LET DOWN | air line stewardess for the Cia. w;ul lunul.-,ul l;:y ATerl;:mdl ;‘ur:g;iysf ?;T:.”d"x:;::tn:;ed umon igure: | . - : o 5 5 J ic faci i ighting i e watershe e) ::gre ;otle)xlmct g‘:lshteksm.n‘:;cui:a:i‘i’::blamed to the weakened main sup-| LONDON, Maron H.—RAF hoavy| Speaking _before thotsans, ot J‘Avrvn:sbfiynfleli (é:afifnafia:;ttll:x 1“9;—|; iv?sx}i::g;c’lg:fi‘?ha:lg::‘e?:;::i?\;;‘ area puslfi;l“fihuxi‘lit as thcya:u:h‘e’d against the 1mpon:nv. Japanese 3 | i r, da bombers hammered two vital Ger- Italians massed in St. Peter’s q A o : 5 s Bty s . iffic o se . which he is probably l:(-ighu. :;nd gg;;::;fimx:irig;rgd:smss;drebfhpf‘":"xgy et Bhmbmpie VU0 S s:‘?“r"{* Py . s Tt £ cm: Mobilization Board, said the govern- = she is now the senior of nine }l‘we:; m,mll-] lhmuul:1 dlf{jflcult tenslu :’(“::m‘:* Matsuwa Island, northern second, he pgcbably knows that b i s o f S ment “does not intend to withdraw” can stewardesses, all from highly jinto the secondary Japanese de- 4 3 ) S ' o SpAa hind the Western Front la: appes ar ] - 3 i ;. . & i some U. S. wa- chiefs are uchmg‘fl“ca““ captured the span on March Bl Mn‘;;\:ims d;iv‘erest ‘::fc}l‘:' :;;z;“(ld ptllx}:-lr:::vl/z ’::') I::":ém}‘é}:(‘; its request .or a midnight curfew blaced families, (International) :wnku‘ iswm-pmg 0.;: : pomlt. about Both Japanese military and air to use gas because of the tremen- ' & R 2 2 N .| of the nation’s entertainment places. o - |five miles west of Antipolo, once installations on the island, 960 3 i 4 « were twenty-seventh straight night raid by advocates of violence,” adding 2 = % shor i ¥ dous advantage it would be to us.| About 200 Army Engineers were ¢ i 4 ) 4 Commentin the stat t by the southern anchor of the bitterly miles from Tokyo, were targets of ; prasy e - time OD Berlin, which is still smoking. s s vers % on: \hiiempn.. D 5 i 4 / In the Pacific, Hitler probably working on the bridge at the time A xrcord-bre;kin: ilaylighmto rlnlxil ulx‘a; &??fix:ixal‘otfih;?:;al:z:nlo‘r‘rcorr:; Mayor Sicholis Letuisa §. 141 New ARMY NAVY ASKED i o ; 8 i G S e e Y 0" g g 7 Forty-First Division troops on the, No damage was inflicted on the knows that the war would be over of the collapse and were plunged York City amusement spots stay open in a few weeks if U. S. troops into the Rhine, 70 feet below, when S};\n;gg? U.'S. bombers’ was made :t“us(-;::;m\:%ner:lct;ll;ircogf)c'fi;:a:?r!—l until 1 a. m, Byrnes declared he island of Mindanao turned back American force although, shore turned oln the gas—take for m.‘]th;; cenrt;a_l isp;n;[ gmre l;&'ay.d i Tarkdts of tne JBEcn. heavies nli{y hias. led that* believed the controversial enforce- !hu\"l‘l"-ll cuuni';erau:cks in ?loody batteries returned the fire after i vl o icial tally of the dead or oo 3 i 4 ot AR laction, their i o S e B e oomince. e has been, gven ot . [nere Witien, 26 mils east of Duis- | The Fopo wamed, bovever, the, (i Siulll Uil upbont ot toca (o Bamvonnm. [ ieana s staried” e et % ' 8 burg, in the heart of the Ruhr “reconciliation of peoples will only ’'® . i N All DEM 4 5 suffered heav, About the same time, the Ger- y ible e L e P ogeptRes s and (o8] Vallgy, and Hanau, six miles east|be able to guarantee stability if it | Cfficials would be fimpossible. | o Axgiosions, Any effort to this end, Byrnes rertipn The raid was the third against this is written, are still trying to man High Command said four Ger- ! of Frankfort on Main. Both blows is carried out faithfully with large- said, will divert from the war effort, ITALIANS TAKE. Matsuwa and the seventh surface get stubborn Jap troops from caves man officers had been executed for ey api o e s Ry R A and tunnels. If gas were permis- cowardice or negligence in permit-| e 3 ¢ adding he was surprised at Mayor i bombardment sible on Iwo Jima, the Marines!ting the bridge to be seized intact. |reat strength. | He emphasized that mstory_would LaGuardia acnun.p % Wal' PrOdU(fIO n Board\ A ‘Kuriles snke 0f > the. D rane would merely drop a couple of tons| —————— | U. S. Fortresses and Liberatorspass judgement on any individual e — — chairman Wants No 'l ! e PO e 55 |hit Berlin Sunday and rained about |Who “might give in to the tempta- 3,000 tons of bombs on the battered |tion to profit by the present situa- icapital at the crushing rate of 50 |tion of affairs to turn ‘the or- Itons & minute. It was the thirty- |ganization of peace to his own ad- |fourth successive daylight assault vantage, against the dictates of for the results. They would not\ even need to land a man. Likewise on the main Jap islands,‘ of gas on the island and then wait | " HOLD UNDER FIRE CUBA REVOLT DEFERMENTS Break, Home Front 15 VESSELS Rome, March 19 Volunteer NEW YORK, March 19.—Chair- | Gas, too, could level Tokyo off in i ynily - | no time. No invading troops, no| Su pp R ESSED on Germany by American war-|Justice. man Walter Krug, of the War Pro- |1talian troops, fighting beside the! costly landing operations would be ‘planes, Seven hl_mdrcd u. S.‘ | duction Board, said he is asking|Allies, held out in a captured Ger- | necessary. | |tighters accompanied the great SOCIAI. DEMO(RAI I the military to scale down its de- |man strong-point between Cuffiano | Meanwhile, the United States, not | 1 mands sufficiently to protest 'bgd.;‘d'ld Riolo De Bangi, five miles! rock” war-supporting economy on South of the Bologna-Rimini road, ! being a series of islands, and now | Leing too far away for successful {at the hub town of Imola, while the home front actions along the rest of the Italian armada of heavy bombers. | BY l The Yank bombers concentrated | on the railroad yards in the heart of Berlin and armament plants in partyisteapive INDUSTRIES ARE SUNK time, increases in! airplane bombing from Japan, A | “Por the first would be virtually immune from( e |the industrial suburbs. One group | FIN“ISH EI.E(IION g Army and Navy production pro-|1ont were confined to patrolling. e tiacks 4 | HAVANA, March 19—Genovevo of American Mustangs ranged be- | WASHINGTON, March 19— Lib- gr,mf_;;rr i ",‘m’u Lgreic m,i';ia’n\ The Italians have been under | e udlk s B 2 s i |heavy Nazi bombardment since| WASHINGTON, March 19.—U. S, Earlier in the war when it was Ferez, chief of Cuba’s armed forces, yond and teamed up with 15 Rus- eralized draft deferments for young | piqer Kyyg said in an interview feared Hitler might use gas, and aPnounces the government has sup-sian fighters that were defending a (By Associated Press) men in five major industries, 3 The A":l’“'_ and ,:‘_”.y has agreed {taking this position two days agh | submarines added 15 more Japanese when the Japs did uncork gas Pressed a military rebellion against Russian-held airfield east of the Finland’s Social Democratic Party cluding coal mining, transportation, | ¢, y51q uwlr‘dvnvnlds within such |in @ daring raid. | vessels to their tally sheet. They twice against the Chinese, all these | GTau San Martin's adininistration. Oder River, from German dive holds the lead today over the Demo- steel, synthetic rubber and mining. yo.nds Krug said "mtl with |‘.h(-ir; The Eighth Army artillery har-|included five warships in their bag Former Army Chief Jose Ped- bombers. i i i Fn v o assed German probing parties along | of enemy shipping in the Pacific, the in- c, were an- things were carefully considered by U. S. war chiefs. But they also’!8%8, Was arrested with about 80 considered the fact that gas would Other former army and police offi-' have terrific repercussions against|Cers meeting in the town of Bata- | the Birtish Isles, for exactly the|Pano- same reason that they would on the Japanese Islands. PRE-NATAL CLINIC Though these factors are care-| 1he regular Pre-Natal Clinic will fully studied, gas will never be used Pe held in the Government Hospital | by the U. S. Army, despite its ad- tomorrow afternoon, from 1 to 3 (Continued on Page Four) L S NS T n'clock‘ with Dr. H. H. Kaack in Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof |is 24438¢ and four other political sieging Washington for similar re- in the parties are trailing far behind, i 'charge —_— - VISITS JUNEAU Arthur Berggren U. 8. Army is | | of yesterday's Finnish parliamentary ! "elecuuns returns continues slowly. cratic People’s Union. The counting of copper, lead and ounced by Selective Service heads The action, which will permit de- | The Finnish radio said the Demo- ferments to exceed the 30 per cent| now stationed at Sitka. He paid a|cratic People’s Union is strongly limitation which has been in effect | brief visit to his home town during | supported by the Russian press. With just one month, of men aged 18 11,497,553 votes so far tabulated the through 20 years, means more de~ the weekend. —— CLAYTON HERE E. B. Clayton, regigtering from Hotel, | 358,988. The Arrarian League vote | | Social Democratic total is 368201 ferred men over 30 will have to be| Mr. and Mrs. |and the Democratic Union total is drafted. Aircraft manufacturers are be- ef “very cooperative attitude,” there is no danger of a breakdown in the domestic economy. f i the Senio River both above and below Cuffiano R BRAWNS HERE Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Brawn, of Fairbanks, is a guest at the Bar- Ernest’' B. Collins anof Hotel. for their Fairbanks - —— - was House Speaker FROM FAIRBANKS legislature years' Grace E. Robinson, of Fairbanks, staying at the Baranof, COLLINS GO HOME left yesterday home. Collins first ago. is 2 3Navy said today. The latest report accounted for | the sinking of three Japanese de- [stroyers. two escort vessels, and 10 : merchant ships, ranging from a large tanker to a small cargo ship. ‘This new report brings to a total the number of enemy ships sunk by American’ submarines to 1,072. Of these 117 are warships and 955 are non-combatant vessels.