The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9919 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MO NDAY, MARCH 26, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = e NIPPON CONVOY OF 8 SHIPS SENT DOW Four American Armies Are Now QOver Rhine NOWUNDER | BIG ATTACK Patton’s Shock Troops Only | Six Miles Away-West- ern Front Is Fluid PARIS, March 26. — The Third Army besieged Frankfurt-on-Main, and sent its tanks crashing across the Main at Aschaffenburg into the plains of Central Germany, a bare GEN. IKE ' - & 250 miles from the Russian lines. | § One unconfirmed report said Frank- furt was entered last “dimmer out.” A battle account hours before had placed Gen. George S. Patton’s mighty shock troops six miles from the city, and the city’s radio went dead last night. The Fourth Armored Division again burst loose 40 miles beyond the Rhine in a sweep so swift the Germans were caught without time | to blow up the Aschaffenburg | Bridge, 22 miles southeast of Frank- furt, in a breakthrough coup so com- | plete Frankfurt is hopelessly out-j flanked. | Frankfurt, a city of 547,000 is the | ninth largest city in Germany, and | one of the Reich’s greatest railroad centers. River Line Shattered The First Army also broke from its original Rhine bridgehead at! Remagen and pushed nineteen miles east of the shattered river line. The) U. S. Ninth and British Sec- ond armies in and north of the Ruhr are ten miles past the river on a solid thirty-one-mile front. Battle dispatches said a general breakout there is expected momentarily. Decisive Fighting “Decisive fighting of the whole war is now unequivocally under way | in the west,” a German military spokesman said by radio from Berlin. ! Two hundred and fifty miles from | the vanguards of Gen. Patton’s Third Army, the Ninth Army fought in the northeast suburbs of Duis- |Plants, a gun factory and an ar- otors GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, supreme Allied commander on the West~ ern front, relaxes in a winning grin on his recent jeep-tour of the bagtle zone. News was good from every sector, with ground forces battering across the Rhine into enemy regions already ;hnttered b_y repe_aged bombings from the air. The General was especially warm in praising what he termed “the heroic work” of the air forces. (l!lturuatwml) STRATEGIC SENATORS IN BOMBINGIS QUERY ABOUT CONTINUING FOOD SUPPLY Slovakia at 4 a. m. yesterday, the Factories and Oil Plants! Think Britafiughi fo Get| More Meat, Butter from Canada WASHINGTON, March 26—Sen- have asked why Britain Being Blasted Again from Air Today LONDON, March 26 — Two oil berg, vast inland port of 431,000, mored car works in Southeastern coesn't get more meat from Canada within ten miles of rubble pHed Es- | Germany were attacked by 300 es- ¢nd less from the United States, sen, where the sprawling Krupp corted American bombers as the | as works were rebuilt seven times after la _ targets after a week-long bombing Germans reported fighting outside | Prelude for the Rhine offensive. bomber calls. Baden, capital of Karlsruhe, sug- ! gested yet another crossing by the split Seventh Army, which cleared the Leipzig; one went for the synthetic| (0il plant and the natural oil |finery at Zeitz, 20 miles south of (Continued on Page T0) they began a broad investiga- tion of the Nation’s food situation. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Mon- tana, told the Agriculture Commit- tee he understood the Canadians ibad ample meat and recommended an inquiry why more of it is not used for Lend-Lease saying he agreed it is a point that should be irmen switched back to strategic| | A small force of heavy bombers into two task forces over re- e Leipzig; the other flew to Plauen,|investigated 110 miles from Czechoslovakia’s| Senator Shipstead said his in- border and blasted twin war fac- formation stated that butter was The Washingto Merry -—G-Q_-Round?l.eavy bomber agsault over 'many in 42 days. It was another to pay for it if itwo way blow, coordinated with thelCanada," Shipstead replied. By DREW PEARSON | tories. unrationed in Canada. “Why can't This attack was the forty-first they send it to Britain,” asked Gef- |Senator Ellender. “The British have they get it from U. S. Fifteenth Air Force from| Wheeler said he had heard that (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active Ttaly that hammered communica-|the government wouldn't let meat service with the Army.> | WASHINGTON—Between - British | ‘wperations in Greece, and Russian | operations in Poland, patient, ideal- | istic ex-Governor Lehman, head of | UNRRA, is having serious diffi-| culties. Though Poland probahly{ has suffered more than any other | country, UNRRA has only just been able to start workers and relief to- | ward that war-torn country. It was last summer that the\ Lublin ~ Government asked that| UNRRA send a mission to help‘ Poland. Governor Lehman’s office| immediately drafted a reply. But| the U. S, Office of Censorship| stepped in and said that the reply could not be sent to the Lublin| Government by uncoded radio be- | cause it involved information re-| garding the movement of supply | ships and personnel. 1 Whereupon Governor Lehman’s| office asked the State Department 1o send the message in code to the American Embassy in Moscow, which in turn .was to ask tne Russian Foreign Office to deliver the message to the Lublin Poles. The State Department and the| Embassy in Moscow were glad to; comply and the message was| passed on to the Soviet Foreignj Office. Several weeks passed, and Governor Lehman assumed that the méssage had been delivered. | Then, suddenly, the Soviet| Foreign Office, in rather an ag- (Continued on Page Four) stead continued weére instances —_— are anxious to export it. | Lt. Col. Olmstead, director of Freezing Workers {bave made efforts to get large quantities” but the Canadian gov- WASHINGTON, March 26—The po goiq’ he understood the OPA compromise Manpower Bill, under ¢ oeq on that. workers on essential jobs is headed for further Senate opposition. j thes measure agreed upon by the Senate-House group, and said he FOR OIHER joBS tions in Austria, the German radio!le brought into this country from i {supply and the Commodity Credit P s Fadi roposa s a“ng (¢rnment wouldn’t permit exports. which Director of War Mobiliza-| Senator Joseph C. O'Mahohey de- could not support the compromise reported. Canada although the Canadians | Corporation answered Wheeler: “We k agn H Strong Opposition| | ard bought meat for household use. tion James Byrnes could freeze (A"ol woRKERS clined as Senate conferee, to sign when it reaches the Scnate floor. Little opposition to the bill is| WASHINGTON, March 26 — The expected in the House where it,War Manpower Commission took comes up tomorrow. Chairman steps to recruit workers from the Elbert D. Thomas, of the Senate Canol Refinery project in Canada, Military Affairs Committee, said he for jobs at high octane plants else- did not know whether the Senate|where, the agency announces. would accept the bill, In connection with the closure e {of the Canadian project soon by the ARNOLD LEAVES |War Department, the Petroleum — | Administration for War agreed to W. C."Arnold, counsel for the undertake the special recruitment icanned salmon industry, left Satur-|program. day for Seattle. During the legisla- | B, 00 tive session here he appeared be- | FROM SITKA fore the legislators many times to{ Mrs. Maude Anderson, registering fight restrictions on fish traps and;trom Sitka, is a guest at the Bar- increase of taxes for the industry, enof. What Wheeler probably heard Olm-l vhere Americans crossed the border ! REDS KEEP ~ ADVANCING, Overrun-Danzig Sub- urbs in Flames { LONDON, March 26—The Rus- !sian offensive has been launched to- (wards Gefmany's southern mouns | tain Redoubt, Beriin says, and Mos- |cow advices announced the enemy |has shifted divisions from Italy to | the sagging western front. Two Russian armies already have | overrun four-fifths of Hungary bé- |low the Danube and their spearh is within 36 miles of the Austri {border and 77 miles southeast Vienna where an attack is not fi | distant. | A Berlin broadcast said a new |sault has been sprung north on tl {Danube in Slovakia, while Marshi ! Konev's First Ukralian Army gmu!“x | continued to gring through the Mo+ ravian mountains north of Vienna. | Newest Attack The newest attack started on the {lower reaches of the Hron River in (German broadcast said, and al ' brideghead over the Hron was gain- | led at Leva, 50 miles northwest of | Budapest and 37 miles northeast of | | Komarom, 1 ! Marshal Tolbukhins Army and~ |Marshal Malinovsky's Army are (pushing up the Danube on the! south side of key city of Bratislava, and left the Vertes Mountains and Bakony. Forest behind'them. Tho,\-‘ are reported out-flanking Romaron. | Nothing To Report Official Russian announcements are silent concerning Marshal Ko- nev’s drive south and southeast of | Breslau, Silesia, where he is re- ported by Berlin to have crassed in- | to Czechoslovakia at several places. | The Red Army Command is silent another day on what is happening | on the Berlin front where the Ger- mans report heavy fighting west of | | Kuestrin, within 31 miles of Ber- Unofficial reports said, however, that large reconnaissance thrusts are occurring constantly. Meanwhile Marshal Rokossovsky drcve deeply into the Northwestern suburbs of @anzig, flaming many sectors. It is said the Germans be- gan evacuation of the port, sending ,persons out by submarines and sea- |planes after the Russians started| shelling the waterways and ports. | PR SIS N 15 sy Cordova Is Threatened, Big Blaze Flames Break Out During|j High Wind-Drug Store Badly Damaged | | CORDOVA, Alaska, March 26.--| | Fire caused by a shorted radio re- ceiver transformer ihreatened ihe entire western half of this town this morning at 1:45 o'clock. Only the quick work of the Volunteer Fire De- partment and U. 8. Coast Guard fire fighters brought under control the blaze, which was fanned by a williwaw blizzard. The blaze started in a radio in the Elks’ Club rooms, on the second floor of the McDonald Building, the lower | floor of which is occupied by Mc- 1 Donald’s Cordova Drug Company. The overheated transformer burn- ed out the top of the radio, and the i fire spread to the walls, window cur- s tains, and then into the attic, where it broke out through the cornice of the building, showering sparks and flame in the high wind. 3 Firemen poured tons of water into the attic, and water damage to the big drug store stock and fixtures will probably run into several thou- sand dollars. [ - SOUTH AREA Four-fifihsy(F Hungary: IsI; DEP F Aerial view of Cologne, Ggrmany, left is the cathedral structurally undamaged, while on the right the Hohenzollern bridge is half submerged in the Rhine River, after being blown up by the retreating German troops. This photo was taken by William C. Allen, Associated Press photographer withe the Wartime Still Picture Pool. e Service men Just Wanl 'Being Themselves' on Returning as Civilians JEWISH BRIGADE SEEING ACTION, TALIAN FRON Unit, Now Part of Brifish Army, Patrolling in 8th Army Sector ROME, March 28—German pa- trolling became more aggressive along the Fifth Army front in Italy with a number of sharp clashes, particularly in the area southwest f Bologna. The first all-Jewish Brigade was active in patrolling along the |Eighth Army front farther to the| cast. The brigade, led by Brig. Gen. Frank Benjamin, a Jew, is part of tne regular British Army. Many of the Brigade’s members were “held in Nazi concentration camps, and their family origins cover thirty- seven different countries. AUL MEETS OHIO FIVE IN TITLE FRACAS NYU and Oklahoma Ag- gies Tangle Tomorrow for NCAA Court Crown NEW YORK, March 26—DePaul, lof Chicago, and Bowling Green, of|L. Child of Yale and science writer| then released them. The others were |Ohio, with won-lost records of 22-|Marjorie Van de Water. Edwin G.|dead and-two and 24-and-two, respgct- ively, clash . tonight in Madison Square Garden in the final round cf the National Invitgiona] Baset- ball Tournament. Tuesday, New York University |and the Oklahoma Aggies tangle in the Garden for the National NCAA title. Thursday, the winners of thé two tourneys are scheduled to battle it out for the mythical national crown won last year by Utah. R R TS FROM HOONAH Martin Hegeberg, of Hoonah, is u guest at the Gastineau. This Is the Cify that Was (ologne (AP Wirephoto) PSR SR ARSI INCRASH OF PLANE | Bush Pilof Flies Three Sur- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 26.—Some {forts - 4 R wnm»lm uc‘\‘?uan.“’ CARRIER STRIKES | KEEP UP Fast Baftleships Also Bom- bard Minami Daito in Ryukyu Group By MORRIE i | | | | } LANDSBERG (AP War Correspondent) ' U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Guam, March 26 — U. 8. carrier pilots destroyed an |enght ship Japanese convoy west (0f the East China Sea, Saturday, off the island of Amami, in the Ryukyu group, while fast battle- ships were bombarding Minamji | Daito, a tiny island about 250 miles |to the southeast. These actions were a continua- tion of carrier strikes begun by Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's forces against the Japanese home- land on March 18. Today action was' announced just 24 hours after Fleet |Admiral Nimitz reported battleship bombardments which sent surface ships firing 16 inch explosive shells into targets only a few hundred miles south of Tokyo itself Big Plant In Ruins Both actions preceded by only # few hours Sunday morning’s de- structive Nagoya raid by plant in {1uins, as they attacked from dar- ingly low levels with both demo- |-tion and incendiary bombs. Three of the B-29 Superforts were lost in the Sunday raid. The carrier plane attack sank three large cargo vessels, two de- stroyers, and three other escort vessels, which may have been de- stroyer escorts or gunboats. Admiral Nimitz said action oc- curred west of Amami which would place the aftack in the East China Sea, less than 500 miles from the { time ago I sat with four service men | back from the battlefronts. Three!| | were from the Pacific. One had| | seen action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Freaace, | This last youngster |away a long time. Purple Heart. vicorsto Cold Bay from | Wrecked Transport By OLEN CLEMENTS COLD BAY, Alaska, March 26.—| “There’s an awtul lot of tripe pe- | Three injured survivors of troop‘ |ing written and talked,” he said, transport C-47 that crashed near “about how to treat veterans com-|Cathedral Valley, 30 miles from here ing back from overseas. That stuff on March 18, have been flown here | gives me a pain in the neck.” |by an Alaskan bush pilot, Erick/ “That’s right,” said a Marine ser-|Schutte, in a ski plane that landed! geant who was two years deep in near the wreckage. Dartmouth before he went off (0| Three other men aboard the plane| participate in three bloody landings weye killed. They were: Lt. Col, Sw-l in the Pacific. “You know, actually' phen G. Davison of Berkley, Calif.,| they're making both service men and | ttached to Headquarters of the| civilians so self-conscious about re- gieventh Air Force. | union that neither can go through| Second Lieutenant Ernest T, Joyn- | !that period without being afraid they ¢o; of Dunkirk. ! are saying or doing the wrong, Radio Operator Robert E. David- things. Why can't they just say ‘Be gi) of Rudgewood, Long Island, N. yourself,” and drop the subject?” |y | Davison and Joynson were pus.s-1 By just “being themselves” pro- cengers. Of the plane’s crew, those bably three-fourths of our civilians yegcyed, all injured but none criti-| and service men are going to read- | cally, were: just so rapidly after participation lnf First Lieutenant Joseph R. Alex- |this war that there will be no prob-|ander of Merchantville, New Jersey, | {lem. Many of them—millions of|pjlot, |them—are going to be better, not| Second Lieutenant Richard L. Co- | worse, for what they have been!canous, Snelling, California, co-pilot. | jthrough. But the minority, t00,| gergeant Paul Sundermier, of| |must be considered. jDelanco, N. J., aerial engineer. | | Of all the treatises on this prob-| The crash occurred at midmorning| jlem that T've run across, one of the 45 the plane was letting down Ibest is a little pocket book “Psychol- through the overcast for a landing ogy for the Returning Serviceman.” a¢ Fort Randall. { | f had been| | He wore the| | T don't like the title. 'm afraid! The ship hit part of a precipice |1t will frighten away a lot of veter-{and wreckage was strewn over the| tans ahd civilians who will think it snow-covered ground. | dry. } I Al survivors were knocked un- It isn’t. Sponsored by The In-|conscious. Three hours later, Sun-| fantry Journal, it was prepared by dermier regained consciousness and| a committee of the National Re-[saw the pilot and co-pllot still alive,| |search Council and edited by Irvin put pinned under the wreckage. He| Pilot Alexander was bleed-| | Boring of Harvard and Col. Joseph ing badly as the result of a head I Greene, of the Infantry Journal|wound ' P | ! staff, had a hand in it. But it| Searching planes spotted them| doesn't smack of academics. It isn't during the afternoon and dropped (full of words that send you to ’-helsupp]lfis | Idictionary. Apparently the authors have lrlcd}wfior‘;::f‘ iBuj-h F::mh,sfcm";‘e » |to cover the whole ground. Therei ; £ h Y e . T {are chapters devoted to the lads who["" © e::_ ihuve come back with limbs missing PILOT HERE iand have to revise their plans for| the future. There are those deal-! . | H 4 |ing with a Joe coming back to a wife | Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. Ramsdell PLANTON FORMOSA WRECKED Pafrol *Bombers Gel in Good Work-Cebu Isle Is Also Soffened By JAMES HUTCHESON (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, March 26—Nine freigh- ters and a destroyer escort were sunk in the China Sea by patrel hombers Saturday, while Liberators with 145 tons of 20,000 pound bombs wrecked the big hydroelectric plant on Formosa, and softened up Cebu Island in the central Philip- pines with two-ton bombs, General Douglas MacArthur reported. Meantime, six Japanese counter- cttacks on Luzon were repulsed as the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-third infantrymen converged on import- ant Balete Pass, leaing into the extensive Cagayan Valley, and the First Cavalry began a drive into the long peninsula of southeastern Luzon. Bombers patrolling the blockaded China Sea sank a 300,000 ton freighter transport, and probably sank another the same size, sent four smaller freighters to the bottom and damaged three other Ixmau freighters, plus a déstroyer cscort. One American plane was lost to antiaircraft fire in this action. Coadition of David lIo_yd George Worse LONDON, March 26—The condi- tion of David Lloyd George, ill for he had hardly got acquaint: lare staying at the Baranof Hotel. v got acqualnted With yo is 5 pilot for Ellis Alrlines of Ketchikan. i (Continued on Page Three) sbme weeks, is “becoming critical,” |says a bulletin issued today from his bedside.