The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1945, Page 1

o - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALJ. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T —_—fes VOISEXIV.. NO. 9915 JUNEAU, ALASRA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———— JAP FLEET DAMA i ch Saar Valley Cap \RMY INS IN ww THRUST T ( German Forces Routed-| Rallying Strength Wans East of Rhine River BULLETIN-PORIS, March 21 —The Third Army has entered Ludwigshafen with the U. S. First Army, U. S. Seventy-eighth Division and has driven north to Bonn and seized more than seven miles of the southern bank of the Sieg River extending from the Rhine to the town of Nied- erpleis. PARIS, March 21.—Third Army| columns fought to within six miles | of the great chemical center of Lud- wigshafen ‘and Manheim, and into| the Hessiah capital, Mainz, in a| whirlwind conquest of the Saarland Palatinate 'which has already cost | the Germahs 80,000 or more casual-| ties. i { The rich; Saar Valley, with its| steel mills 4nd vast coal deposits ha béen won, taking from Germany he third largest industrial sector, as important zities such as Saarbrueck. en, Kaiserlautern, Worms an Zweibruecken were captured by surg- | ing American Third and Seventh Ar-| mies. Bi Daily Advance Some divisions of these armiesj have advanced fifteen miles or more| @ day, whik the destruction of the| German fcrees is so complete ii‘ seemed dowdtful Hitler's army could rally for a stand in strength east of | the Rhine, where greater on’ensivesl are currently in the making. { Extension 0f the First Army’s east | Rhine hrldgfilead to deployment in! an area at Iast 24 miles long up to| nine miles wide underscored a clear cut threat that Ruhr would be in- vaded on the West, with General Hodge's troops in Beuel, a suburb/ of Bonn, fourteen miles south of Ruhr. | Gen. Eisenhower wanted the Ruhr, | (Continwed on Page Sir) | The Washington|: Merry - Go- Round| i By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen mow on sctive | service with the Army.' | | WASHINGTON — Great Britain’s| newest member on the Anglo-Am- erican combined chiefs of staff, Field MarshallSir Henry Maitland | Wilson, had & private chat with| ‘Washington friends recently ! which he gflv1 the tip-off to Rus-; sia’s interest in the war against| Japan. 1 Wilson ‘told ‘his friends about the | backstage talks which American, | British and Russian staff officers/ bad at Yalta while Churchill,| Roosevelt and Stalin were talking of political matters, and remarked | that the Russians had not under- | stood the importance of the cam- | paign in Burma until it had been discussed at Yalta. He said that/| the Russians were never aware that | the Japanese had planned to in-| wvade India through Burma and that it was necessary to free Burma to keep China in the war as a communications and supply link. 1 PRAMS USED AS BARRICADE AGAINST GERMANS - * BABY CARRIAGES, of the type used by villagers in communities through which the Yanks are pressing into Germany, come in handy here as two infantrymen of the U. S. 3rd Army push them into the road leading to Dillingen, Germany, as a barricade against a possible Nazi counter-attack. To make certain (hgt no enemy intruders appear, a fellow soldier covers the road. Signal Corps photo. (International Soundrhoto) ATTACK ON NAZIFIELDS [Two Thousand American Bombers Swarm Over Airfield, Other Targets LONDON, March 21—A force of 2000 American bomber and fighter attacked nine airfields tern Germany and a at Plauen, ten miles from the Czecho-Slovak border, ywhile another fleet of British planes blasted a large oil refinery Bremen. Berlin said both blis- assaults were staged before | planes today in northw tank factory | at | tering | noon. | RAF Lancasters also hit a rail |viaduct across the Wesel River near {Bremen with the new eleven ton | volcano bombs, as well as the mar- |¢haling yards of Muenster on the main line between| Osnabrueck and | {Ruhr SWEPT UP BY THE U. S. NINTH ARMY on its surge to the Rhine, these | ' United States 15th Airforce bomb- enemy prisoners look anything but martial as they're checked by mili= 'ers from Ttaly were over Austria tary police somewhere in Gcrman}y. The capless nne_(center) seems 10 | 400in today continuing their blows have had his fill of war. They’re just another dozen in the bag of more | cocterday, and have knocked out shan a million prisoners taken since D-day. (International) 1.1 " t1y0u0h railway lines between Peace ai Home Spurs DAWfi: BU&K Peace Abroad; Senator | ATTACK ON Vandenberg HelpsOut' REICHLAND i When, in an exchange of l('Ll,m'>,i ’—.-—' Greatest Coordinated As- sault of War Takes K STINNETT WASHINGTON, March There's new day dawning United States foreign relations. It gressional appointees would go as| hasn’t come all at once, and there’ll! goents of the American people and | be clouds in the sky before moon,not as representatives of any party,| but it’s a new day nonetheless. | the Senator from Michigan nc long- Place Today It's hard to put a word to it. Un- ' ¢y hesitated. | e 21— | president Roosevelt made it clear| 5 | In that the Senator and all other con-| ity comes close, but it's more than| He needn't have delayed at all., LONDON, March 21.—Allied air- that. | No President has ever dipped deep- forces ripped Germany from dawn RED FORCES ' HOLD EAST ODERBANK Artillery on Edge of Stettin —Berlin Menaced by Lhukov Forces White Russian Army possession of virtually the entire east bank of the Oder from the Baltic to its confluence with the Neisse and Crow. | Artillery is on the very edge of | Stettin after wiping out the Alt- |damm bridgehead and the menace | |to Berlin grows hourly as Marshal | {Zhukov probed many places along | 1lhe river seeking his mext big attack east and north- ieast of ruined Berlin Marshal Konev is still engaged in liquidating trapped garrisons at | Breslau and Glogau and has moved | additional units of his First Ukra- line Army group to the Neisse line southeast of Berlin. | In East Prussia, lander Vasilevsky, for two years Chief of Staff of the Red Army, is staging a final kill in the dwindling |German pockets along the coast ;f,oulilwwv, of Koenigsberg. is now BERING SEA - SHELF URGED NOWFORU.S. Senators Confer with Ickes Who Is Going to Talk with FDR WASHINGTON, March 21. — Im- mediate claim to fishing rights in the Bering Sea for the United States was urged by Senators Hugh Mitchell and Warren G. Magnuson, Washington Democrats, in a confer- ence with Secretary ofuthe Interior Harold Ickes. Senator Magnuson told a reporter | that Secretary Ickes had promised to urge President Roosevelt to pro- claim the Bering Shelf United States territory. Magnuson also said he and Sen. Mitchell were urging that immediate advantage be taken of this source of food, adding they ! hoped to work out a plan for the release of sufficient ships by the War Shipping Administration as a fishing fleet for that area. SUB BARBEL 15 OVERDUE Na vy Communique Says Craft Presumed Lost with Officers, Crew WASHINGTON, March 21 — The | MOSCOW, March 21—The FirsL’ in | ‘ MAKE HOT GRIDDLE OF J | | ! | | AP PLANT ED IN DARING RAID tured By Americans I | | NIPPONNAVY ATTACKED IN INLAND SEAS | Boldest Expfiof War Car- - ried Out by Carrier- based Aircraft 115 70 17 WARSHIPS REPORTED DAMAGED M least 47_5—Planes Are " Also Destroyed-One U. Marshal Alex- | ringboards for | | & BURNING, SMOKING, SIZZLING, the huge Nakajima aireraft plant at | Ota, Japan, is pictured as U. S. Superfortresses from the Marianas plastered it with explosive and incendiary bombs. Miles away from the target, the smoke could still be seen, Official AAF photo. (International) OPA Freeting On | | Clothing Prices | Doesn't Hif Alaska | WASHINGTON, March 21-Office of Price Administration officials | announced that the markup and price freezing order which was an- nounced Monday night on clothing, | dry goods and house furnishings, does not affect Alaska. TURKEY IS DENOUNCED ADVANCESBY YANKS MADE, PHILIPPINES Important Airdrome on Panay Taken-Enemy Is Applying Torch By JAMES HUTCHESON (AP War Corvespondent) MANILA, March 21—Major Gen- S. Ship Damaged By MORRIE LANDSBERG (AP War Correspondent) U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- {QUARTERS, Guam, March 21 — | American aircraft, flying from one of the mightiest carrier fleets ever assembled, attacked the Japanese fieet in the Nippon Empire’s inland seas on Monday in one of the |boldest exploits of the present war land damaged 15 to 17 warships, including one or two battleships, and destroyed at least 475 planes, | One of the battleships damaged is known to be of the Yamoto class, 'a 45000 ton dreadnaught, the ! mightiest in the Japanese Navy. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz made the official announcement of daring Ateack In today's rque which also said “preliminary | surveys showed two or three air- |craft, four light carriers, two cruis- ers, four destroyers and various |other war vessels damaged and also |included a bag of six freighters sunk, The surveys showed a number of ground installations were de- stroyed. | Admiral Nimitz said the brilliant raid “inflicted ecrippling damage” on the Japanese fleet which was decisively whipped last October 2 in the second battle in the Philip- pines. Although Nipponese fliers made many attempts to bomb the Am- erican armada not one ship was lost. One ship, not identified as to class, was seriously damaged but is returning to port under her own jeral Rapp Brush's Fortieth Division power. BY Sov I EIs‘land, Monday, in a swift eastward year, |drive | Capital Russian G_o_vernment Would Break Friend- | ship Treaty Now | |done much to clear infantrymen captured the import- into the outskirts of the City. Another column spearing north- ward twenty-five miles from the Leachhead, overran the broad coastal plain, captured three towns and established contact with the |strong guerrilla band which had the southeast The Pacific Fleet, whose planes ant Tloilo airdrome on Panay IS-‘twlce routed the Japanese fleet last swung northeast after the day's destructive attack on the lenemy Air Force to Kyushu, south- ernmost Japanese homeland Island and 100 enemy planes were de- | stroyed. i - e PRICE CEILINGS ARE MOSCW, March 21—~8oviet RUS-'geotor of the big central !’mlippinesi URGED o" mle; sia last night denounced her 1925 treaty of friendship and neutrality I with Turkey and declared that “ser- | jous improvements” are needed in a pact. “Admitting the value of the| Island - Heavy fires were observed in floilo, indicating the enemy was putting the torch to the city. Meanwhile, on Luzon Island, guerrillas scored an important tri- | LSO TWO SHoPS WASHINGTON, March 21—Price | Soviet-Turkish treaty for the PUI-| ymph, capturing San Fernando, a|ceilings on movie tickets, as well | pose of upholding friendly relations, ' yiio) “sananese shipping port. Also |as barber and beauty shop services |the Soviet Union nevertheless con- siders it necessary to state that as jon Luzon, Yank doughboys drove north ten miles from Aringay to |were urged today by Price Adminis- trator Chester Bowles for their |a result of deep changes oCCUITIDG | oiye Bguang, six miles south of |“Psychological effect,” before the especially during the second World|g,,, pernando, and captured two Senate Banking Committee. War, this treaty dogs not correspond any longer to the new situation and |t is necessary to make seriovs im-| |sued by the Soviet Union. |bridges along the coastal road be-| |fore the Japs could blow them up.| On Mindanao Island, units of the counterattack north of San Roque, as they expanded their positions in the Zamboanga hills. Bowles argues that such costs are important items in the average |family’s budget, and their exemp- « provements,” is the statement is-ipo e i Division repulsed a night|tion from price control “had a de- |moralizing effect on our whole re- |tail price control program.” | He also said “we remain the best Actually, this was the first con- | D g . N | When Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg | er into the opposition to assure the to dusk with explosives, as 7,000 war- submarine Barbel is overdue on - ggcif,’;ystg'fgy'\ggdb::n3uccomed the President’s inviation people of this country and the|planes, including 2000 heavy bomb- patrol duty, and must be presumed Sincumsen " af, Matte: ¢ Pebviouly: | g 0one ol the delegaies 10 the | world at large that our foreign pol-|ers, unleased one of the greatest lost with its officers and crew of Roosevelt, Byrmes and Churchill! San Francisco conference of the | jcy and the determination of a just: coordinated attacks of the war. (sbout 65 men, a Navy communique » United Nations, one of the really|and lasting peace is strictly a non-! Bombers from Britain attacked said. all said the subject was not dis-|greqt hurdles was cleared. partisan matter, the Reich in relays, while tactical The vessel, commanded by Lt. > ABRAHAM SERIOUSLY ILL 1 |fed nation in the world,” but ac- resenting a majority of the packers, eral other significant points. He!jofused the appoint 5 voul¢ i i ¢ 1e appointment, all would is so frequently mentioned as the the American advance toward the . er X i TA, reh | reported overdue, and the fortieth| EDMONTON, ALBERTA, March|ajgep, juneau Gold Mining Com- basis for attack on price control.” However, Wilson pointed out that,|means of obtainin; i bence gy i ; . : a g world peace. ho has fought the administ: ra S 2 i 5 r : ‘ | ¥ who has foug e administration death trap is threatened by Gen.| 1t is the 273rd naval vessel of all U, S. Army Transport Command, | operations were trimmed, cutting Medical Corps, is due in Juneau up United Nations morale more |1eft no doubt that he had removed'; i . in astonishment. | Still another fleet of U. 8. 14th Brigadier General Dale Gaffney, pay retroactive wage increases,| e = NAZIS KEPT BUSY |integrity, he wanted it understood Teick . re| ck t took the Vandent h ick to it. It took the Vandenberg |hospital in Skagway, is critically| The citations said the men were| Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Albright, reg-|Walter A. Soboleff. Witnesses were | 'knowledged civilian meat supplies | leE“ AlR MEDA[S | will be shorter this year, asserting |the American Meat Institute, rep- LR 4] cussed. X . FOR AlASKA WORK - is attempting to ‘“capitalize” 4 ; |. Republicans had had their fingers. The appointment of Vandenberg; aircraft from Continental bases ¢ der Lel Raguet, is the | pting to “capifalize™ on Field Marshal Wilson made SeV- | crosceq for days. If Vandenber : : : OIIAREEE Loty oA | { James Byrnes statement on th S 3 ande 4 ma Har ol e V] ed Germa { { { irty- i " o i i y. Commanger Harold E. Stassen, who mauled German troops reeling from thirty-fourth American submarine SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.—The|meat situatign “by using it as a f:ml;!;:] ::“:"g‘n‘"?g; ‘h}‘)‘;fis l;le‘:rt‘b-e confusion again, and the Repub- G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1948; Rhine. lost from all causes, including four|21—Two civilian pilots of thel .o enoiie ar jncrease in the net e oot s bl liean party and the $enate again and Rep. Charles Eaton, of New Jer-| In the smoke-blanketed Ruhr sunk and two destroyed to prevent|Northwest Airlines, William Justiss ), R 18 an 1084 charntiois Cha e T 8 # -|would be split wide open on the!sey, a tall, grizz rmer minister | valley, ¢ 4 R L y é " |1oss, g @ CAPT. D 1 tall, grizzled former minister valley, a more and more potential capture. and Lloyd Milner, now with the o0 o net loss in 1943 of $174,346. Capt. Robert D. Livie, U. S. Army the invasion of Italy had cleared ik Vage g ’ " g = on almost everythin, but foreif Eisenhower, as I S, 8. | types o i 1w P p 9 o L | the Nazis out of the Mediterrancan, | Vandenberg's resitancy was un-| ey really has héit the- Regub. |and :)]ndges e e eay | ypes eparied. lowy JUCHIe: Bveen s ;‘W““{*‘?h“",, [ir Medal Mon- | revenues o $353000 from 51455000, today to make funeral arrange- had also gone a long way to build |derstandable. His recent speeches j;..."imonths around here wide Spen | with shells, rockets and bombs. | war. ay °T> echnica o N the when the company rejected a War|ments for his wife, who took her | | p 4 Aleutians. | Labor Board order issued in 1943 t0 own life late Monday afternoon. than a year before the liberdtion |{rom himself and his followers any ? i iy 5 e T Yaria y e — & arec: {taint of isolationism. But for the “lfc‘m‘:‘(‘;;"lh‘::prf,;fisg,’:fl‘,;"‘iui”‘i}:fi?"l;’fdbm:f‘Cf)‘:;:l“fi‘;’c’:n’f:f'“l]l" d Commanding General of the Al-|starting May 1, of that year Leslic 'S. Johnson and Frances B igood of his party and his personal pim;ms' el b SHEbs was mn‘]; A;:;m;; A ons K. Abraham of Juneau, now em-|askan Division, ATC, presented the | e |Emma Obert, both of Hoonah, were ¢ Tt for ; : | 3 FAEN |ployed as cook for the government|awards in a ceremony in this city. | ALBRIGHT ARRIVES married yesterday by the Rev. Wilson, who was former British|that he wasn't going to San Fran- . i, ificati Aaed NEITZER H . g $ arification letters” to c nce | { cLsc(_J as a rubber stamp for the ad- | __“_,7‘ & il e] Glen Neitzer, of Gustavus, is a(ill, Mrs. Abraham of Juneau has|placed on military flying opera-istering from Whitehorse, are stay-|Genevieve R. Soboleff and Harriet ministration. i (Continued on Page Four) guest at the Gastineau. been informed. itions at their own request ing at the Baranof. Roberts. (Continued on Page Four)