The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXIV., NO. 9918 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS POWERFUL THIRD ARMY OVER Gov. Lauds " 17th House U.S. ESCORT. CARRIER IS SENT DOWN 6 INFANTRY DIVISIONS START OUT | | Bismarck Sea Lost when Marshal Zmov Strikes | Out with. Big Force | Jap Counierqttacked with Berlin Goal at Iwo Jima LONDON, March 24.—German re- | gy ppr HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, ports said Russian Marshal Zhukov | nrarep 34 —Admiral Chester W. had attacked “with the sttongest |Nimitz announced today the sink- forces™ from Oder bridgeheads 85 [ing of the escort carrier, U. S. S. part of the decisive drive on Berlin, | gjsmarck Sea, by Japanese planes with perhaps 1,200,000 men massed | whjoh, counter-attacked ~ United along the Oder ready to join the|gtates amphibious frees off Iwo | | | Says A(hie\gn—mnts of This Session Great But Not Enough Money | |ing, Gov. Ernest Gruening called the | achievements of the Seventeenth Session' of the Alaska Territorial ! Legislature “in the net result very | good,” but added the comment that | “They did not appropriate enough funds for the next two years.” For Acion: In a public statement this morn- | PRICE TEN CENTS RHINE Red Forces Hit Out From Oder Bridgeheads 'Weather Is . Good:Allies Now Aided LONDON, March 24.—The weath- er has finally turned against Hitler for one of the Allied big offensives. Brilliant sunshine favored the Allies as they strike across the Rhine. | In big operations heretofore, Hit- | ler has been able to count on bad | weather as an ally when the oc- | casion was crucial, but today it is | | | AIRBORNE TROOPS IN BIG MOVE SENATORS - INWIERD " 'DEADEND’ | Stalemate Tollows Pres-: Biggest Operation of Kind '\ sureDrive for Passage ' Takes Place on West | of Labor Measures German Front “Alaska’s Unicameral Leyislature",.i By ALEX LETON | —the Territorial Senate finally ad-y ABOARD FIRST ALLIE ¥ AIR- jcurned “sine die” at 9:28 o'clock{ BORNE ARMY GLIDER TUG, |different. | this morning—by unanimous consent{ March 24.—A powerful Allied Air- — e — 14/ the seven Senators present. borne Force of American parachute ' Senate President Edward D. Cof-|troops and British glider lroops'731 Nlp N fey was late for the appointment he!landed east of the Rhine in support | hed set when he strcde from the|of the major crossing of Field Mar- Senate chamber yesterday afternoon i shal Montgomery’s forces. - \ | | BOLD STROKE OFEUROPEAN " WAR MADE \Doughboys Inifial Thrust Bridgehead Established- Takes Germans by Complefe Surprise By EDWARD BELL WITH U. S. THIRD ARMY ACROSS THE RHINE, March 24.— The Third Army rapidly expanded its Rhine bridgehead which was es- | tablished yesterday after crossing the stream in one of the boldest strokes of the European war, Patton’s troops continued to pour SHORTROAD TO BERLIN IS GAINED Airborne Troops Are Safely Landed BULLETIN — PARIS, March 24.—Four Allied armies have won virtually all of a 25-mile stretch across the lower Rhine in and north of the rich Ruhr Valley driving up to four miles beyond the mighty land and air- borne offensive. | multiple east and west Allied as-|yyma February 21. sault. .| The Bismarck Sea, a 4,000 ton ve: Marshal Zhukov threw siX in-lga js the eleventh U. S. carrier fantry divisions, waves of tanks and |jjctaq as lost in the war. Ten of a tremendous armlery_barrage into |the eleven were lost in the Pacific. a new attack on both sides of Kues- |gjy of the fiattops lost were escorts, trin, and succeeded in reaching a gne a light carrier and four were | On the basis of his requests to the | Legislature in the opening days of !the session in his official message, the Governor pointed to the “satis- | fying” list of measures enacted for which he had asked—the Alaska De- | velopment Board, a referendum on —he did not appear until shortly af- ter 9 o'cloc. Three Senators, how- | ever, were present at the appointed | nour of 8 o'clock, Senators Dom| Calos Brownell, Joe Green and Leo W. Rogge. Straggling into the In history’s biggest operation of its kind, about 1500 transports and hundreds of fighters participated, a: airborne troops struck in broad day- light The German air force failed to chamber through the next hour were rise in opposition and the Allied - PLANES ARE " INU.5.BAG | across the river, steadily strengthen- | PARIS, March 24—The powerful ing the force on the eastern shore. United States Third Army assault Opposition remained light, but a!waves crossed the Rhine Thursday news blackout prevented correspond- | night without firing a shot and late ents reporting additional informa- |last night had established a solid tion, bridgehead on the short road to point only 31 miles from the German | ry)) carriers. Y |statehood, the land registration act, capital, German broadchsts reported. | Aqmiral Nimitz said “most” of creation of a full time Health Com- the estimated personnel of 1500 on mission, increased appropriations the Bismarck Sea were rescued, but|for tuberculosis controls, a second Capt, John Lockwood Pratt, skipper, Territorial veterinarian, attention in an interview, told correspondents to agriculture problems (the Legis- Eisenhower Warns Nazis on EXECUBONS . uu " o is, eparons sent i rested e Depariment of As- |ial torpedoes and fires which fol-|riculture), creation of a Tax Com- lowed the explosions. | missioner office, improvement of the Capt. Pratt added that many oth- | Unemployment Compensation laws ers were killed in the water by Jap-|—the act was extended to all em- anese pilots who returned to strafe ployees rather than the old ‘“eight | the survivors. |or more” rule, teachers’ retirement | - !funds, old age pension increases, 2 | creation of a housing authority, in- ‘(creases in Territorial salaries and a beginning on survey for a south- |east Alaska branch of the Univer- sity. | “Epoch Making” is the term the | Governor used in describing his ‘satisfaction over passage of anti- | discrimination measures, also asked {tor in his address. { | | LONDON, March 24—The Lux- embourg radio broadcast today an | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower proclama- tion warning the German Army that severe punishment awaits any Ger- man soldier taking part in execu- | tion of any Allied airborne troops. s Due to the illness of Judge George v R Bl AR(K - SEA FOR BLOW Newspaperman Eyewit- 'F. Alexander, District Court was not held today. The Grand Jury met | ness Reports on Sink- ing of Carrier Escort briefly this morning to continue By ROBERT GEIRGER fore them. | The Washingiofl Merry - Go - Round i “Three such measures in a single |session is a remarkable achieve- |ment,” Gruening declared. | Gov. Gruening lauded the House, \tut was vigorous in condemnation lof the Senate. “The House did an excellent job Senators H. H. McCutcheon, Frank |planes met only slight flak resist- Gerdon, Andy Gundersen and Cof- [ance. fey. Senatcr Andrew Nerland put{ From the copilot’s seat of a Stirl- in a brief appearance and then went |ing four-engined transport I watch- back to his hotel to pack up. | 'ed hundreds of troops spilling east- | Also “in at the death” of the “con-| ward while gliders, some laden with | founded” 17th Senate were, Secre-' jeeps and guns as big as 75s, dove | tary Olga Steele, Assistant Secretary, toward their assignment, shattering Betty Kirsten, Messenger William completely the German defense east | McKenzie, Doorkeeper Helmi Bach,' of the Rhine. and Judiciary Committee Secretary - Lawrence Kerr. Senater Regge offered the motion for adjournment - by = “unGRiMOuS) consent”. | | Mitscher’s T;;k Force Con- tinued Battle Off Japan Two Days BULLETIN — GUAM, March 24—The Tokyo makes a broad- cast today stating American carrier planes are bombing the big naval air base at Okinawa, ‘midway between - Japan® and Formosa, carrying the assault into the second straight day. Seattle Thugs Kill Two Men This Week‘ SEATTLE, March 24.—The second FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, in response to President Edward D, lfulling":g "huf thg wgei;ah:;:‘pen:;l March 24. — Vice Admiral Marc A. Coffey's closing announcement yes- | ¢rly tochy WieH BELE e oeisteq Mitscher's Task Force of carrier- | terday afternoon when he stalked | wasb;:ta ‘y 5: pe wu;nt ‘tregouth based planes which crippled Japan's | out of the hall ‘to end the most | TOPPeEr ‘t“t eumg “;’;’ ‘: was home fleet in its inland waters on hectic legislative scene in the his-| beameb:z ter?— f;el[ L erring Mazch 18 b’ 10, aiso. bagged .81 tory of Alaska law-making. | 1atally beaien obl JEAUCEY planes as sky duels with the enemy’s | ! With the House having already' £ S | )land-based air force raged two more !utaken the bull by the horns” and| R JHERE o davs: the Navy discloses in a com- | adjourning sine die yesterday at-‘s::me .is sz:;:‘n'g :f ihe l;‘aranor. ‘mumque. i ternoon, if the upper body did as-, s pt | This raised from 575 to 731 the | cemble it would be confronted by an | . | total number of enemy planes de- | i3 HODGINS HERE | impasse. Any other legislative ac-| B modving of Sitka, is a Stroved or damaged and also added | | | Foremost question at 8 o'clock this i morning: “Would some or any ori | the Senators show up at their desks We were permitted to say the Germans, who were utterly surprised by the doughboys initial thrust, re- counterattack that was repulsed, and another that was smeared easily last night. A record bag of prisoners yester- day totalled 11,699, processed through cages, and an estimated 3,000 addi- tional prisoners taken during the day. ANOTHER- " CAPTURE ONLUZON Clarkson'sii;ision Takes Naguilian-Moves on Baguio i | (AP War Correspondent | deliberations of the many cases be- | By DREW PEARSON PEARL HARBOR, March 24—The (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on sctive service with the Army." WASHINGTON — British Ambas-|the attack which sank the Bis- sador Lord Halifax held an oflwhe-“mmck Sea, “they looked like a record session with 75 Republican swarm of flies'on a boarding house Congressmen the other night and table.” was so well liked that for the first | This war time in several years no one walked |Lt. Comc cut of the meeting. Even when the |Texas ne late Wendell Willkie addressed this as Pub) group two years ago, there were escort frequent excursions to the hotel bar. jof an Halifax came to the Hotel Con-lof ya m given by Longview, 1er, assigned fficer to the \Ww the sinking wtop thousands | 'on the Workmen's Compensation |Act,” but the Senate never got |Japs sent over so many planes in ground to it,” Gruening declared, did not asseml land went further to declare “noth- ing was done to improve the tax structure,” citing the record of in- |come tax death in the Senate, fish tayv' death there, and failure of the Senate to bring up on the calendar ithe property tax measure passed by the House. “There has not been enough money appropriated for the next two years,” Gruening said but did tion would be only an idle gesture. | But—if a quorum of Senators| ble—what would be the | final disposition of the 17th Alaska| Territorial Legislature? Would the! Senate be technically in session for two years yet? A scarcely paralleled sequence of | events led to the stalemate that lock- | ed the upper chamber in inaction yesterday — a series of occurrences, that could hardly have come about| except under the pressure of nearly 30 hours of constant pressure and conflict. The storm center began to| guest at the Baranof. e s FROM WASHINGTON Irwin W. Silver, registering from Washington, D. C., is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ————————— FROM NEBRASKA Mrs, Leonard J. Benne and Karen Benne, are guests at the Baranof, registering from Nebraska. s A i BURDICK BACK Charles Burdick, of the Forest tinental ‘to tell the “78-79 Club” (first ‘and second term GOP Con- gressmen) about the British Par- liament. And the Congressmen sat o’ engrossed as this representative q!;o the British aristocracy and former Viceroy of India told them that England has more of a democrac than the United States. What m~* him popular with the Renmi Congressmen was his de planation of the relations the - executive departments British Government and the liament. “In England,” Lord Halifax sai “the executive departments cannot by-pass the Parliament — which!. means that they cannot by-pass| |dow. th re “o shooting Japs not discuss rumors rampant the es but two got past two days a special session may royer escort. One pe called at the end of the year. as shot down but :d right for us, but demnation The Governor's message of con- for the BSeventeenth 1ed us it turned and gession of the Legislature makes d the wounded Bls'!r.o mention of the Senate, except shich was a huge puff phy implication. It is as follows: flame. The Bismarck d forward for a while, ed dead, and with a tre- explosion everything sank.” | { TPITAL HOTES tarson has left St. v his home after rttention. a surgery pa- M the people.” harged from “The House of Representatives of the Seventeenth Legislature was a | model of what a legislative assembly should be. It was hard working, thoroughly conscientious, progressive ! and fully aware of the needs of the | Territory. It passed a great deal of excellent legislation, much of .which has now been enacted into law. Much other desirable legislation | which it passed died in the Senate. | The House of Represéutatives was gather last evening and continued 10 gervice, returned from Ketchikan | swell during the early morning ¢ the Princess Norah. | hours. The bursting point was fin-/ i e ally reached after the Senators had VAN MAVERN HERE been called together at 1 o'clock| in the afternoon and sat “twiddling yymed on the Priticess Norah from |their thumbs” while final process-| geattle. ing was completed on the General | Appropriations Bill and other enact-| |ments that still had need of signa-| gjser Mary Alena, of the staff RS PPl it SISTER RETURNS |two more days of action, March 20 {and March 21 when the enemy | third Infantry Division has moved | casts repeatedly reported “pur- | to within sixteen air miles of Baguio, | of the United States Task |reported to be the headquarters of | broad !suit” Force continues. The Navy's communique today | gives a definite figure of 200 enemy { based bombers sunk five ships, sunk | | planes shot down and also 275 de- | or damged eight or ten others and !stroycd on the ground. Ellaly Based Bombers ‘On Record Irlp Today ROME, March 24-—The U. S. Fifteenth Air Force in Italy made ! the longest escorted heavy bomber ing along the Naguilian highway, a A. Van Mavern, local broker, re- ' operations over Europe when they good hard-surfaced mountain road, bombed a section of Berlin today. GEORGE SCHMIDT'S SON AND FAMILY ARRIVE | MANILA, March 24—The Thirty- | Japanese troops on Luzon. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur's land- [dcstroyed twelve luggers, while | maintaining a blockgde of enemgy | communications. 1 Major General Percey Clarkson's | Twenty - third Division, operating with guerrillas, in a move toward Baguio, crossed the Naguilian River |to seize the town of Naguilian and | its airfield. | Clarkson’s infantry is now mov- | while other elements of the Thirty- | ! third, moving on Baguio from the | | south, were last reported in the tor- | | tuous Kennon Canyon, eight miles, south of the summer capital. | Berlin. The enemy was so startled by this ewift assault coming hot on the |acted late yesterday with one small |heels of Lt. Gen. George S. Pat- |ton’s tremendous victory west of the Rhine that not a single heavy |shell was fired until two hours after the first troops touched the east bank in the moonlight. This dazzling coup is comparable {o the United States First Army Ivictory in selzing the bridgehead |at Remagen. ook Nt American and British assault forces crossed the lower Rhine .on a broad front today, and fought swiftly into the cities of Wesel and |Icees, while thousands of airborne troops dropped onto the north German plain, above the Ruhr in a bold bid for victory this spring. The Ruhr is now caught in a vise, between Field Marshal Mont- . gomery's Twenty-First Army group and the American First Army's swiftly expanding Remagen bridge- head less than a dozen miles south of the great industrial basin. Farther to the south, Lt. Gen, Patton’s Third Army secured their bridgehead on the upper Rhine and debouched into the flat country leading 302 miles to the Russian ormies on the Oder. More Troops Crossing Southeast of Berlin, U. S. Ninth, British and Canadian troops crossed the lower Rhine, while the Navy manned assault landing craft in the darkness of predawn, protected by an earthshaking artillery bar- rage and bombing and strafing by thousands of planes. Nazi Commander Prisoner Field Marshal Montgomery an- nounced the German Commander at Wesel, in the northwest corner of the Ruhr, was captured, and Maj. Gen. Deutsch, commanding flak batteries in the area was killed, in the first identified bridge- head at Rees across the Xanten River. Troops captured Bislich on the = f | | { ; | Gen. MacArthur said Yoday the east side of the river, as 20,000 to bR, ; lof St. Ann’s Hospital returned to | With all measures finally signed in | jyeau on the Norah after visiting | open session shortly before 2 o'clock,!i, Canada for the past month. i Capt. George Lewis Schmidt, ac- | capture of the town of Naguilian | companied by his wife and two|opened another route to uio, and President Coffey sat bhck to await ——to—— children, Dorn and Kerry, al'rlved'np:pokuman for ,heaaqmers said the opening proceduces fo ad)ourn;’ HESSEYS RETURN in Juneau on the Princess Norah |the Naguillan airdrome is in good ment. Instead, came a “left Wing" Cpjer Machinists Mate Charles to visit his father and mother, Mr.|condition, capable of handling fight- drives to secure consideration of 1o, Hessey and his wife, Mar- and Mrs, George Schmidt. Follow-|er and transport planes. |the calendar of nearly 40 HOUSE |arier 3 month's trip to the States the States and will go overseas.| i 190,000 parachute troops of Lt. Gen. |Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied Pirst ' Airborne Army floated to earth be- |bind German lines, in this third and perhaps decisive crossing. Premier Winston Churchill, who |was at Montgomery’s Headquarters |when the offensive was launched, | | bills still not disposed of by the Sen here Mrs. Hessey sought medical His wife and children will make four “labor measures” that topped garet have returned to Juneau ing his leave he will report back to s‘o(K ouo“‘lo"s |declared “one river line has been Halifax did not need to add that in Washington the White House frequently by-passes Congress. He then told them that “if Par- liament decides on Friday that it/ no longer cares for the Prime Minister, he can be voted out on lef Al | tient, tient, £t. An. Mrs. & ft St. A. Carl J. S. has b nn's Hospital. a medical girl have home. ry pa- St. Monday.” Margaret Mck. ~'., Halifax hardly had to re-|patient, has t 4 the Republicans that our |the Governme iicat is elected for a four- ek arm, that Congress cannot i im out without impenchinéllulfl"‘l A and that the present incum- AG Hi <0 HERE outstanding, not only in its ideas and attitude, but in its execution. It wasted no time; it worked hard, long and late; it indulged in little bickering: This is all the more striking in that eighteen out of the twenty-four members were serving | | | interest in the Territory represented. Its members can go home with the consciousness of having served the people of Alaska admirably. It has given the finest example of democ- ate. A motion by Senator Don Car- ,itention.’ los Brownell brought up, for second B __..“_._ | reading, House Bill No. 76, a Work- FINED $25 i 3 o |men’s Compensation Act revision. preq Harris, Excursion Inlet na- | behind which strong organized 1abor ' yjve, was fined $25 in City Magis- | | support h;: bee: m“‘:":i"w< trate’s Court this morning on a ive For Action i chage of drunk and disorderly con- their home here with his father and mother until the ‘war. ———— LEAVES FOR SKAGWAY J. L. (Dolly) Gray left for Skag- end of the { NEW YORK, March 24. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can| | 9214, Anaconda 31%, Beech Aircraft | l Wright 57%, International Harvester | 111, Bethlehem Steel 71, Curtiss- | pierced and the crust of German 1esistance broken. A decisive victory in Europe is near.” Wesel Is Railhead Wesel is the industrial railhead { the Ruhr Basin and a city of 25,000 population and is 32 miles | for the first time : It was a truly | ord from| representative assembly, with every | | way on the Princess Norah to resume {the job he left several months ago | — ., — | when he was taken seriously ill. { MERCHANT BACK | Gray reports he is in fine shape ,i:‘:;:' ;1:19?:::: ;‘D:I:::ez;gi :‘2:521:: John Hermle, proprietor of the | now and ready and anxious to be | migaiines Mike BRSS e hektd on| Home Grocery and Market, has re- | back in the saddle again. { turned to Juneau after a business e, Senator Frank Gordon led the 4,.¢ rive for action on the bill and call- : led forth the ilrst applause heard GILBERT MONROE IN UTAH T1%4, Kenncott 36%, North American |10rtheast of Susseldorf. Aviation 10, New York Central 22%, Rees has a population of 4500 Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Steel[20d is 11 miles down the river 61%. ruorthwest of captured Bislich, half Dow, Jones averages today are"“ mile east of the river, nearly as follows: industrials, 154.36; rails, | Midway between Wesel and Rees 51; utilities, 27.51. and opposite Aanten. ‘hough sometimes vigorously d in Congress, has remained Walter H e Seattle racy in action that the people of | the Territory have ever witnesed. | The Houses performance illustrates jthe bill. He declared that any ef-| ;. | y { fort to adjourn would be an act ot| P I She igpes. “sabotage” to the welfare of the la- ————————— | NURSES RETURN Mrs. Minnie Monroe, elevator op-‘; erator in the Federal Building, has | | e — VISITORS LEAVE A tremendous artillery barrage preceded the assault and air land- ce 12 years. ally, of course, British Cabi- inisters are not required by ) appear for gquestioning by office® of th Revenue, I |where he v Internal 2 Juneau sed at the month. He boring people of Alaska. However,! | | better than anything I have seen | ... pefore th 4 in many a year the fulfillment °"No, i bee: r‘ei;l; gz nl;!::rsemil%ei" its part in the great assignment to " vy | which wa sbould all b dadicated of |So s Aok SROREIOUL far the ODPOSING June Brudevold and Edith Wick- strom, nurses at St. Ann’s Hospital, 1eturned from a visit to the States on the Princess Norah. just received a letter from her son, Gilbert, who is now in Bushnell fGeneml Hosptial at Brigham City, Utah. Mrs. Monroe had just re- Mrs. Venetia Reed, accompanied 11gs were made with “opposition by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr, Felatively light,” Montgomery's and Mrs. Karl Hahn and son, Karl ;beadquarters sald. {Jry left for their Skagway home “Some hundreds of prisoners were “arliament, nor is the Prime is {local office an Inte agent who returns. duty in the sit Seward, ks, not re- atil Novem- er required by law to resign face of a no-confidence vote, 1e custom is so strong that it ikely it would ever be ignored. Capital C 4 Halifax discovered early in|Anchorag — |turning t Continued on Page Four) ber, | specializes Followin | ‘making democracy work’.” — e — Miss Geraldine Ringstad, who has \been on leave of absence from the OPA office for several months, re- turned to Juneau on the Princess Norah, Aadhien (61108 - Saunts, Tadvibe . Lot s ansCp el | cently been notified that Gilbert was | on the Norah after visiting in iaken from the enemy forward po- |appointment of three to notify the House that the Senate stood ready| to adjourn. The motion lost by a Mothers' Classes will be } MOTHERS' CLASS The last in the present se alized in Ttaly. ————————— | Feldon, Juneau businessman, | returned to Juneau after |sitions not strongly held and more B il ity !rowerful forces of mobile reserves FROM ANCHORAGE |are yet to be met,” the statement W. S. Schoonover, registered from said. Juneau for the past two weeks, 5 to 9 vote, Senators O. D. Cochran % 108, of the Ter & R, 3 : nd N. R. Walker having already Building Monday afternoor (Continued on Page Eight) 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock, ing the past several months tioning in the States. Anchorage, is a guest at the Gas-| The Germans are fighting old tineau Hotel. |style, in trenches.