The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9916 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS = TERRIFICAIR FURY RAGES OVER GERMANY Reds Redouble Attack on Nort STETTIN IS/ARMYPLANE | UNDER HEAVY IN (RASH; 6 ATTACK NOW MENABOARD ' Rescue Pa;ti;:; Trying to Reach Victims on Al- | askan Peninsula | By OLEN CLEMENTS | | FORT RANDALL, Alaska, March |22—Three rescue parties are fight-| ing their wi forward over snow- inforcements Move Up on Oder-Berlin Front BULLETIN-LONDON, March 22—Stalin announced tonight the start of a mew offensive by Marshal Konev's First Ukra- | 4 <. |tipped mounts of this Alaskan Pen-| e e e 20" |insula in an effort to reach the German force southeast of Op- | wreckage of an Army ll'_oop transport lin has been captured. Stalin’s |plane that crashed in Cathedral i 7 gt e i e |Valley last Sunday wih six men order said Konev's army has aboard. i advanced 25 miles, captured seven towns and 400 ‘other smaller places on a 35 mile front near the Czechoslovakian border. The New offensive is in the form of a scythe sweeping across the remaining part of German Silesia At least two men have been seen !alive around the debris. Two medi-, ! cal men, a chaplain and three other |Army men dropped by parachute {near the wreck, but no report has| |been heard from them. Two dog sled teams are working toward the, ! wreckage from one point, a snow > 5 | jeep is moving in from another point LONDON, March 22—The Rus-|3n4 from still another point a crash sians redoubled the fury of theiriyog; crew landed within 30 miles of | " (the plane and started overland |try and reach the victims. - e — GOVERNORS The Washington EDEN HEADS | Fm':lv:][g] Merry - Go- Round DELEGAHON' Conference Is Scheduled in (Continued on Page Two) o E MAIL DROPS FROM THE CLOUDS | , | ” ‘ i i the railroad RESTORE LUZON STATION-uU. s. soldiers bring up motorized equipment to help in repairing YA station at Tarlac, Luzon Island, after rails and communications had been damaged by cross shelling. BLACKENED - i | ! cltv Parfia”y Des'l’oyed by!mumry of the German plains north i« DREW ON-- (Lt. Col. Robert S. Alleh now on sctive service with the Army." | WASHINGTON — Hard - boiled BIG SESSION Apn| % Agenda Is Leon Henderson did some tough, = talking to President Roosevelt when & he arrived back from his economic; survey of oceupied Germany. |Churchill Announces Brif- Henderson was sent by the White Announced CARSON CITY, Nev., March 22— German Cit ~ [RUHRAREA THOUSANDS ISSCENEIS QF PLANES ~ BIG FIGHT N ATTACK i : Allied Bombers On Blist- German Troops Jammed in Ruhr, Airfields, Army ering Attacks — New 1 ‘ Camps Blasted i 1 Vit | | i’l‘hlrd Army., The Seventh is lining up with the Third for the closing battle of ithe Palatinate. | The First Army has pushed along |the Sieg river points, 12 miles from the Ruhr. ———————— T AKEN NOW| The German broadcast expresses! 3 ? rervousness over the course. of ] M »ER=EN RNW ¥ 1evenu - e e SR % Latest dévelopments indicate at- 5 {of the Ruhr, marked for conquest or GERMAM ; by Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower. The | | West . Phalian flatlands leads to| !Berlin's north door. | | Three Allied armies are poised | jalong 63 miles of the lower Rhine Offensive Looms | PARIS, March 22 — The Third jand Seventh armies are crashing leNDON' Maish 28 - The fall ahead on the Rhine and Allied| WY Of the Allied air might has bombers by the hundreds are Eeen t.umed directly o the: G |pounding the German armies at-|™an troops that jammed the Ruhr | tempting to retreat from the Ruhr. ;f 1300 American heavy bombers Remnants of Nazi forces are Plasted nine of the largest army being cleaned up around the gen- ;::imps in western Germany and eral chemical city of Ludwigshaven. vIe m""l alrfields near the front. | sttt fight for Maing flared on | ‘hn‘]‘f“;"&;’”:[::m’;:;";’:‘m""';“: {the third day. | P 3 The Germans in Palatinate Sanr-f';‘:k r;‘" Geiman targets. {land alone will lose probably well libeout . e 05 Rorttessen: A |over 10,000 men as prisoners in one P Fators, protesied By 700 NN |ot the greatest debacles in Prussian n‘::_]bg:éuflfi t::“::l‘:‘ onmpe ane Military lore. s 2 The American Seventh Army has Mustangs “Slso-patsolles: the Sy {sped 20 miles north and passing|°" other widespread air operations |many positions captured by the ;au:le-‘l? from the North Sea to With hundreds of aircraft flash- ing in all directions over the Reich, |the Nazi radio finally gave up irying to follow them in its warn- ing service. tention is focused on the tank Fire Set by Japs—Har- bor Is Infact By JAMES HUTCHESON House to consult with Gen. Eisen-| ishers fo Attend hower regarding the economic set- F 7 M 1 up in Germany after the armis- T m tice. But, while the former OPA ad- 15¢o Mee g ministrator has kept very mum| e e S about it, he was quite critical in! LONDON, March 22—Prime Min- his verbal report to the Presldent“‘“" Winston Churchill said the - British delegation to the World regarding negligence on the part of | the Army, the State Depsnmemfsec“my Conference at San Fran- and and the Anglo-American- Russian Commission in Londan re-| garding plans for running Germany. Henderson had a long session at| the White House and is now writ- ing an equally long report. i Henderson told FDR that neither the U. S. Military nor the State| Department had done anything ex- | by Foreign {Eden, | Atlee, Lord President of the Coun- cil; |of Dominions, and Lord Halifax. feisco on April 25, will be headed Secretary Anthony and will include Clement Viscount Cranborne, Secretary cept the sloppiest sort of plnnping; E. E. pOWEll about running the difficult German | civilian economy after the armis- ' tice. U. S. Ambassador John Win- ant in London, Henderson indicated, had been sitting on his haunches as a member of the Tripartite Com- mission supposed to look into this, but doing nothing. Henderson reported that the plan for cutting Germany up into thiee | different sections under the British, | American and Russian Armies simply would not work economical- ly. He pointed out that the German railroads were set up to work as aiPc unit, not in three different sec- tions. Likewise with German indus- tries. Henderson proposed, there- fore, that German civilian economy be run by a civiian commission representing the Allies which would |y, have charge of the entire country. He also proposed that the military ! take orders from the civilian high | commission. H -~ [ SSES ON rospector Left stimated at 10,000 farch 22—Ellis E. zan prospector and * who died March ated $150,000 estate. i osed when the will bate. I 25,000 each to a nd two brothers. es included jrand nephew. e Development of western fisheries (AP War Correspondent) i:;m;:flx?u::e;i?'fn:o :‘l‘enhetim‘ rea{dy} —_ y tive Alaskan @ 3 1 [ nt now for (iyil: # o : 5 iR en 70 per cent devastated by Jap-| Blistering aerial attacks on the ¢ f“}hfi?fi?fid lxu (Lull:;h“\\e:: tllt‘i;fit;ll:‘; anese torches but the good harbor |GGermans are being made and these, | mg ‘o ES(BPG fl' om Mefl' “(.‘“m S L is mtpct. : %nccurdlng to Berlin broadcasts, are d R h v " arket will top the conference | Oloilo fell to the Fortieth Infan-|a prelude to great offensives on| (B KUNI Valley Xm-rd ¥ wo\tgl'n auvernors 51 try Division Tuesday, two daysi:he whole circle. agenda S |efter the invasion of Panay Island,| Rockets and incendiaries fell in| LONDON, March 22—Hundreds Reno on April 20 and 21. Chief Executives from Arizona, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Ore- gen, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are expected to attend the conferences. CHICHI IN ~ BONINS IS * HAMMERED By ELMONT WAITE (AP War Ccrrespondent) i U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Guam, March 22 — |Twenty Second Army Liberators, lonce so busy battering Iwo Jima |from Saipan, joined by Mustang |fighters, now based on the con- iquered Iwo rock, hammered Chichi {Jima in the Bonins on Tuesday and {Wednesday. Admiral Chester W.’ ’Nlmitz announces, LETTERS FROM HOME come “straight from heaven” to these Leathernecks | | on Iwo Jima. Flown in from “the States” by an aerial postman, the para- i packs of mail come drifting down from the sky to be picked up as shown in the above picture, Marine Corp: CRITICS HIT POLITICS IN TERR. GUARD Letter from TAG Field Of- ficer Is Storm Cen- fer in Senate Accepting a feeble plea of “quasi- s photo, (International) | a position susceptible to “repercus- | sions."” | | Political Units | | In an attempt to pre-explode any | powder charge that might be con-! | tained in the letter, Senator Lyng| |advanced a list of 15 native vil- lages in the Second Division, in each! of which ATG units and voting pre; cincts have been organized. Re- citing the vote of the 15 precincts jin the last Primary Election, Sena- tor Lyng declared the heavier vote/ given Henry Roden over the “Gover- nor's candidate,” E. L. Bartlett, was | ]e-ndmwe against charges that the| jGovernor had used the ATG for| political purposes, : ! Senate President Edward D. Cof-| fey’s ruling that the letter excerpts!| could properly be read by Senator| The Kuriles, Yap and Wake Is-'pita)y secrecy” advanced by Sena- Shattuck, was sustained by a 12 to 4/ |March 21. |front door key and excluded the WO 1ands were also attacked, the raids yo Howard Lyng, the Alaska Senate vOte of the members, (The portions |extending from March 19 through again this morning pulled out its Of the letter read are reported be- low. It was stated by Senator ! Headquarters announces. |Muenster and also the northwest The airdrome was captured and|corner of the Ruhr. rlanes can now operate from it on| ——— a patrol of the vast area of the, Central Philippines. The airdrome | |i:: being put into the best possiblei condition. | Doughboys seized the fire-black- | ened heart of Oloilo and the port cn Panay’s southeast coast. | ! Gen. Douglas MacArthur paid a! glowing tribute to guerrillas who he said virtually cleared the in-‘, terior and coastal sections of the Island before the American invasion | Sunday and except for a few minor pockets of Japanese, all organized ! resistance on Panay has h““"Amen(an Pfomise Of Ag' crushed. Three fourths of the city of 90,-| gfession Fu"i"ed AI- 000 population was destroyed by the | # Japanese before the Yanks entered' * most fo Hilt | from the west. S s YO S ) | By ELMONT WAITE lstrlke with 1,000 or more planes |into the Japan Inland Sea Sunday ] (AP War Correspondent) { U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- lQUAR’I‘E’RS, Guam, March 22 — H l T FR o M !nnd Monday, crippling 15 to 17 of Mippon homelands. The United States Fifth Fleet's! of thousands of German civilians |&re reported in full flight from the |Ruhr Valley menaced areas directly jeast of the Rhine and are gravely | hindering the Nazi military trans- port in frantic haste to escape the jedvancing Allied armies. | Swedish advices said the roads leading eastward are clogged with fleeing civilians and likened the situation to the dark days of 1940 when the conquering Nazi armies in\'ermn the low countries and France, driving before them refu- gees that impeded the Allied troops {in trying to stem the enemy tide. | Planes Cause Terror The exodus of the speeding mass was over news from Berlin |that disaster had befallen the Ger- |man armies along the Rhine and | predictions by the Berlin radio of |impending Allied airborne invasion ‘of the Ruhr. | About the time of the ominous |warnings, Allied planes swept over the region creating more Germans to flee for safety. The “Free German Committee” has broadcast an appeal urging Ruhr miners to protect the mines lnnd prevent destruction by Nazi Hitler's ilopes What the President will do about the Henderson report remains to be G ANT | Navy search Venturas arfd Amy puplic and the press from opening Shattuck that deleunn:s concel'ne‘d‘ (Mitchells and Liberators hit Para-. gjscussion on appropriations for the 0Mly the name of the writer and ref- jmushiro in the Kuriles Monday, alaska Territorial Guard. Adjutant €'énces that might disclose his iden- |enemy warships, fulfilled almost authorities because destruction to the hilt the American Navy's|Would make the gigantic task of |promlse of aggression against the|reconstruction nearly impossible ” | Swiss newspapers asserted Hitler | The Tokyo radio admitted Vice | is apparently resigned to the in- {Admiral Marc A, Mitscher un- seen. When he suggested that Hen- derson go back to Germany, the hard-boiled ex-OPA Administrator refused. He said it was impossibie | to work under the present set-up.| Instead he will go to China to! make a study of price controls for ! Chiang " Kai-Shek, (Note—What some White Houw advisers fear is that the same chac and inflation which killed demo cratic government in German; after the last war once again wil become so ruinous that the German people will fall back on another Hitler or Kaiser). s s HERBERT HOOVER ON RADIO In less than three months Chair- | man Paul Porter has won the re-|"’ spect of his entire staff at the Federal Communications Commis- sion plus that of his fellow Com- gEv s (Continued on Page Four) A0 ABOUT RLD POLICY Aarch 22—At the San nference, Canada will end the Big Three's ‘ity proposals, in order |striking buildings and other instal- | General of the Guard, Lt. Col, J. P. Uty lations. |SCOTTISH RITEREUNION | NOW BEING HELD HERE i Scottish Rite Masonic Reunion started Wednesday at the Temple with 8 candidates in the class. In | Williams, gave his arguments for the necessity of the Guard during | the “executive session.” | Those desiring to chew down the | Guard’s fund, however, held their |fire until after the doors were op- (ened before loosing questions aimed at rumored “political activities” con- |nected with administration of the so-called secondary na-|the evening the 18th degree was! arG, An inquiry on that point ad- egard for their power bilities. | tion was made clear facKenzie King, as he ite in Parliament yes- anada’s program for the San Farncisco sted Australia, The 1@ Brazil as ranking ary states entitled wmada to a greater t outlined at Dum- d Yalta. conferred under the direction of |W. R Booth aster. This evening th will be conferred wit ner as Commander in 1 banquet for all mer didates will be at 6:30 followed by the 32d orm at 7:30 p. m. T ki \ARRIVES R. Ketchikan, is a guest Juneau. ‘dressed to Col. Williams by Senator {Grenold Collins brought a response irom the Adjutant General: “Not to l’my knowledge.” { Senator N. R. Walker and Lyng iwaged strenuous opposition to Sena- tor Allen Shattuck’s request to read excerpts from a letter to a member of the Senate Finance committee, declared to be from a field oilicer of the Guard. Senator Shattuck re- fused to divulge the name of the writer on the ground that he hol(ls‘ iFour Attack Is Centered on | Supply Dumps at Lake Following reading of the letter, leashed task force planes only 60 miles off the coast of Japan and |ubout all that remains of the com- Senator Lyng offered that any or- ganization of voting precincts under- | taken by Gov. Ernest Grueéning, or! his agents, were only to carry out| instructions of “his boss.” Secretary | of the Interior Harold Ickes, Sen-f ator Shattuck immediately qu:stian-] ed Mr, Ickes' interest in politics of | the Territory of Alaska, also that of | the Attorney General of the United | States, who, Senator Lyng said, had | transmitted the Ickes' instructions' to former U. S. District Court Judge J. H. 8, Morison, of the Second Di vision. The excerpts from the dispu’ letter, as read by Senator Shatt this morning, follow: “Mail service has heen slow ¢ have just received the Decemb« S S T A PR s (Continued on Page T1 a A P |plete American promise is a direct Vldofla, Alrfleld {Naval bombardment of Japan's e s home coast. TWENTIETH BOMBER COM-; Yank airmen also destroyed 475 MAND HEADQUARTERS IN (Planes, damaged more than 100, INDIA, March 22—A sizeable force|2d sank six freighters as well as of Superforts smashed at Rangoon |destroying shore arsenals, shops today for the fourth time, centering |0d oll storage facilities. the attack on the supply and stor- | STEr e age dumps at Lake Victoria and (HUNGERFORD RESIGNS Mingaladon Airfield cantonment., MANAGER OF WRANGELL aircraft taking part in the raid, ' COLD STORAGE PLANT ted they loosed their bombs! biectives and returned | manager of the Wrangell Cold perforts encountered Storage, has resigned it has been anti-aircraft fire and |learned, and after spending a short oposition. The results were |Vacation in the States he will re- from good to' excellent.!turn to the Territory and will be- plosions were noted in the|Come associated with Oxenberg areas. H. H. Hungerford, for nine years | ‘Brothers, fish buyers of KetchlkAn.' evitable junction of the Allied and !Russian Armies somewhere west of Berlin in the near future and has completed preparations for a last stand in the mountainous | Berchtesgaden region, in southern |Germany, There, according to the Swiss newspapers Hitler hopes to |wait out the “twilight period” after !the war which he believes will end’ /In a reign of chaos and unrest and split the Allies asunder and permit (rebirth of the National Socialist Germany. —— FERRYS PLANE NORTH | Ray Renshaw, Ketchikan pilot iwho is now visiting in Juneau, recently returned from Anchorage to where he ferried a Seinson plane from Sitka for the Alaska Game ’Ccnmmhnlon. While in the Westward city he visited his brother at the Gold Cord mine. » i