The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE | VOL. LXIV., NO. 9920 fUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1945 MEMB] ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS . YANK FORCES 240 MILES FROM BERLIN Reds Make New Breaches on Berlin Front LONELY TREK ON ROAD TO THE RHINE [ 2PORTSON BALTICARE HAMMERED Third Ukrainian Army Now - Nearing Great Gap En- france fo Vienna BULLETIN—LONDON, March 27—Soviet troops have captured Strehlen and Rybnik in a two edged expansion of their Sile- sian offensive, Stalin announced tonight. Strehlen is 2!¢ miles south of % ) | Fresident Roosevelt wants his cabi- net officers |mats to stick to their jobs during |the San Francisco Conference next | month ALLIED COMMANDERS CONFER ON WASHINGTON STARTLED BY PEACE RUMOR Cabinet Off@s Asked to Stay at Posts — No San Francisco WASHINGTON, D. C, March 2% —The White House discloses that and American diplg- has started a torrent of rumors about immediate victory in Europe. WESTERN FRONT RESISTANCE OF GERMANS CRUMBLING American Tanks Burst Info Open Plains of Mid- dle Reichland SPECTACULAR GAINS ARE BEING REPORTED Enemy Retreat Appears to Be Rout-Ruhr Valley Breslau and Rybnik is 14 miles due west of Rattibor. LONDON, March 27—The Third Ukrainian Army struck to the lower | Rava River, which runs within ‘20 to 23 miles from the Austrian border, and 60 to 65 miles from | Vienna, a German Command broad- cast said. The German communique did not ! disclose the point where the Soviet forces reached the Raba in north- western Hungary, but the river flows into an arm of the Danube, at Gyro, a stronghold guarding' Bratislava Gap, the entrance to| Vienna. 1 The German communique also; declared thé Russians had scored rew breaches on the Berlin front near Kuestrin on the Oder, and said “superior” Soviet forces were, battling on the fringes of the Baltic ports of Danzig and Gdynia. David Lloyd George, Famous Statesmanof = Brifain, Passes Away Meanwhile, Russian forces far to the north seized 21,000 trapped German prisoners along the East LONDON, Mairch 27—David Lloyd George, 82, Britain’s Prime Min- World NEITHER FRIEND NOR FOE greets the eye of this G1 of the U. S. First Army as he tramps along what once was a street in Zulpich, Germany, put now is a battered pile of rubble. Making a check-up in this one= time key enemy position, taken by the Yanks in their drive to the Rhine, he is ready to report no trace of a living thing. (International) So far as the White House is| concerned, these lines of conver- sation are only rumors. ! The rumor wave began when Jonathan Daniels, Presidential press | secretary was asked whether or not he looked for a very large out- pouring from Washington to the World Security Conference begin- | ning April 25. Daniels replied: “No Very defi- nitely, we don’t. The President has | sent a message to the Secretary of | State and members of his cabinet pointing out the importance of all chiefs remaining at their post dur-| ing this critical time.” When''on the basis of Daniel's remarks the rumors of an imme-| ciate peace began to circulate, the White House was *deluged - with phone calls and Daniels’ office was kept busy explaining that the pri-“ mary purpose of the Presidential| request was to reduce the load on | transportation and hotels by keep-‘ ing diplomats at their posts in-‘ | | s\ G { stead of visiting San Francisco. ‘fiin’niell Hears FDR IN COMBAT COUNCIL with Field Marsha! Sir Bernard L. Montgomery (middle), commander of the 21st Army Group, somewhere on the Western front, are (L. tor.): Lt. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, commander of the 1st Cana- dian Army—which, according to late reports, has started a new drive; Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey, commander of the 2d British Army; Lt. Gen. William K. Simpson, commander of the U. S, 9th Army; and Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, commander of the R. A. F. 2d Tactical Air Force, which is supporting the 21st Army Group’s drive into the Ruhr and toward the Rhine. British Official Radiophoto. (International) EISENHOWER SAYS NAZIS ARE BEATE} | | Is Out in "48; Will Not Be (andidate 1 By JACK STINNETT | i {However, Tough Fighting Lies Ahead for Al- WASHINGTON, March 27—Some close friends of the President and| | many political observers here are | convinced the President has served | | notice that no matter what happens | in world affairs, he will not be a| lied Armies PARIS, March 27. General Now Outflanked BULLETIN—Paris, March 27 —The British Second Army east of the Rhine has broken com- pletely the enemy defenses be- yond Brunen, 15 miles north of Duisburg and the Army is now racing eastward almost unop- posed. | | | PARIS, March 27—The United ‘Stnnes Seventh Army hurdled the iRhine yesterday as six other Allied | Armies—paced by a 22 mile break- Ithmugh of the American Pirst Army—swept _toward Bop(n through oRx ke ' (German advices said the big push was the greatest in size and intensity ever mounted by the European Allies and de- clared the British and American Armies are using new arms and tactics.) American tanks burst into the open plains of middle Germany, less than 240 miles from Berlin, Prussian beaches, while storming ister and idol in the First Emaus, a half-mile west of Danzig'War, died last night following an after capturing Heele Polonken, one jllness of several weeks. He played | mile west and northwest of the'sy gypqued role in the second great | mer Free City of Danzig. — e, STOCK QUOTATIONS As the nation’s chief elder states- | NEW YORK, March 27. “CIOang’man, he had the ear of the policy | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ,agers gt 10 Downing Street, and | stock today is 6%, American Can o g was suficiently vigorous| 91'%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem .4 compelling to sway his audi- | Steel 70%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In-| oo ternational Harvester 751, Kenne-| y¢ yic yoice had become that of | cott 35%, New York Central 22%,l, mentor rather than that of an“ Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. Steel |, tive leader, it was because the | 61%. crucial times called for the presence | Dow, Jones averages today &re . vounger men at the helm. as follows: industrials, 152.78; raus,: His authoritative expressions in- | | | {conflict, but his eloquent voice, | | practical judgment and unflinching | # |integrity helped to shape the Gov- | {ernment’s pattern. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE ‘li WASHINGTON—Maj. Gen. Nor- man T. Kirk, efficlent Surgeon General of the Army whose Medi- cal Corps has done such a miracu- lous job of saving the wounded, has just come back from the Pa- cific Theatre, boiling mad. Gen. Kirk was on an inspection {rip of hospitals and Army medical units to make sure they were on their toes, talk with personnel, see what else they needed to give the 50.03; utilities, 27.21. |variably carried weight where it |counted, for notwithstanding the | g !policical rebuffs administered to| The Washlng‘ionlum in the interval of peace, the stood for parliament as representa- \country never quite lost that loyalitive of Carnarvon Boroughs. He M R d sicture of him as the dynamic!was elected by 18 votes and for el'I'Y- 0' Olln eader of 25 years before. imore than 40 years remained the His uncompromising directness of member for the same constituency. B‘I DREW PEARSON | purpose then, his insistence upon By the winter of 1918, however, the (Lt. Col. Rabert S. Allen new on active | the absolute defeat of the central pajority had grown to 12,898, and service with the Army.) ipowers, invited comparison with|even in 1929, when liberalism was a pger | Winston Churchill’'s embodiment of | ¢windling cause, he polled nearly, |aroused Anglo-Saxon spirit after 17,000 votes out of 28,000. /the tragic debacle of 1940. } { Fatherless In Infancy In the house of commons the new David Lloyd George was born member for Carnarvon displayed his | |January 17, 1863, at Manchester, 2udacity by coming into direct con-| |Fngland, where his father was an ilict with the ‘most formidable | Unitarian schoolmaster. But Wil- |figure of the 1890 assembly. Joseph, iliam George, the sire, was of old |Chamberlain then dominated par-| Welsh farming stock and while the liament and a joust with this bril- 'son was yet an infant he moved his liant, scornful debater was some- |family back to Wales. His death thing which even the most inveter- , _‘shon,ly afterwards, left his widow &t€ of his political enemies did not Wounded | the best. poasible. treal virtually destitute. Her brother, ek | But Lloyd George cared little rori Chamberlain’s grating voice and; flashing glance. He gave as good asi {he got and the duels between the| veteran and the recruit made par- | |liamentary history. ment. 3 But when he arrived at Leyte in|ichard Lioyd, village shoemaker, the southern Philippines Gen, |0k his sister’s boy under his wing " MacArthur refused to permit Gen,|“\d from- his small carnings at the Kirk to come to Manila. cobbler’s bench, provided the young- The Army’s most \ster with something approximating medical work by that 33, education. 2 passed from Leyte and the south| T° the end of nis days David to Manila. But despite that fact, -0Vd George held this hard work- | MacArthur flatly refused to let the .8 stern old uncle in the most af- |1, Army’s highest ranking doctor mdiffi”"é{‘fle remembrance. The the youthful Welshman's mettle. | chief of the Medical Corps inspect‘sur:’)i; R as an integral part of his|yjglently pro-Boer, his attitude and the hospitals in Manila or set foot ;- rst_':"’: a lasting evidence of /{he innumerable speeches in which there. s At gthel e B 'he gave expressions to it, drew on MacArthur took this flat stand| age of 14 David Lloyd |pim the loathing of the public. despite the fact that his own wife| G°0r8€ began to study law in the |iore than once he was in danger and son were in Manfls, 80 obvi-'omce- of a Portmadoc solicitor. A o L |of physical violence, and he was ously it could not have been con-”";,gall game over the rights of o)y saved from the fury of a mob sidered too dangerous. i non-conformists to be ;¢ Birmingham in 1900 by hastily Furthermore, Ger Ma cArthur important time had | Violently Pro-Boer | That was at the time of the Boer | Var, and ‘the circumstances tested | i | i NIGHT ATTACK |ers report. |buried in the yards of established | has refused to permit Brig. Gen, Guy B. Denit, the commanding of- ficer of the Medical Corps in the Pacific, to remain in Manila. Mac- (Continued on Page Four) |church parishes was his first major |victory. It brought the youthful ad- vocate to the attention of leaders of radicalism in northwest Wales, Off To Parliament So at the age of 27 Lloyd George {borrowing a policeman’s uniform land being smuggled out of the back idoor of a hall in whic hhe had beerd 'speaking. 4 | The history of the Lloyd George PRSI SRR S i S (Continued on Page Thiee) | candidate for the presidency in 1948, | | They conclude this from a recent| | change of policy which has been| | noted, but so far as I know never| | interpreted. When President Roose- | ' velt recently appeared before Con- gress to give that hour-long explan- | [ation of the Big Three conference at | i Yalta, he referred publicly, for l,he;- | first time (with one exception) to his | physical incapacity. | | the ou ES'I- I o N Ahead Sign - Closed o e— s | For more than 12 years, Franklin| w 'i A Wh 1h | WASHINGTON, March 27.—AN pelang Roosevelt has been more of- | on nswer €INET |aaditional 31000000 pounds of her- tan phoiographed, and more often| G H M d ring may be taken in the waters of noard on radio and in the newsreels| el'manS ave Madae | Alaska during the 1945 season under|ihan any other man in the world. new regulations announced by the 5 Peace Overfures |Depariment of mierior. | A3 far back as 1982, bis phyaical| "The summer quota has been doub- 91dition was ysed by opponents es LONDON, March 27—Prime Min- (led in the Prince Willlam Sound|§ POTHCR SHEUMERT | “ e ister Winston Chutchill, in " the |area to permit a take of 150,000 bar-| o, oy seovet, but there the sub House of Commons today, side- rels of herring, while limitations 1" " A0 SECPE BUE FRERE Fhm B0 stepped a direct answer to the ques- have been eniirely removed there © ") o0 T s o That the tion whether Germany sought peace |for the fall season after August 20"1;1'M1d'~m Had hean’ Saraliesd in the “during recent months.” In Southeast Alaska an increase of ;=0 " 0 "0 o lep by infantile Turning thumbs down on the de- 50,000 barrels has been authorized, = S; But nh neg:er z/()ulddl:av“ mand to answer the question, Chur- permitting a total catch of 250,000 fi‘,(‘wf.: it Iromy s:;lythmg he Presl: chill said Parliament would be noti- | barrels. ‘The 1944 quota of 300,000 gilet o MR FIFEENE Lot O fied when and if such a moment barrels of 250 pounds each for the oo o0, oo o camer};s “.p;“ ok arrivéa Kodiak area remains unchanged. ¥ have. disshasel zfi~ ok \ 1',_ The question was asked by Labor- | Other announced changes in W gy qs *;co:e m‘ i : Ay wl:)u ite Rhys Davies. fishing regulations shows the Ege- o8} B i ROpRONS ) Rl R A gik District in Bristol Bay will re- have been personally or politically | main closed to salmon fishing bc_‘flssociated with the President. In-' ‘N‘m? of anticlp.;xtcd poor runs. | variably their answers are: (1) That | A mid-weekly closed period of 24 F:DR- long ago determined that he, {hours has been provided for the Nu- | *Ould ot pergic Bisduthmisy toke [shagak, Kvichak and Naknek Dis- UScd a5 & political asset o gain] I TA I_Y M A K E\m”s to_provide additional protec- the Acm:fxodue!fwesyotptl\eypeopl)n wl?o’ “f‘f: of small runs antioipated thete 1y . 1o him for leadership should | Salmon purse seines in the Prince {wt be fhaken 'by the'[alvse. 1mpres-! willisz Eoubae. dres Snse T Bean sion that their leader was an in-| changed in size limitations from 90 valid, Rl | fathoms to 125 fathoms, and the For s i Loy | . . | season will be opened ten days earl- 20000 IR yoRrs, without | Charge on Brifish Eighth :o (i Sear, on the tirs of uty. |20, speciic taboos, there has been HH Actions were also taken to pro\'ide‘dl.l Wagerranding Sk N satien Dl" Army POS“IOI’IS US' greatar® irilackions e et o q | Pictures would be circulated playing : g ’ shrimp’ fisheries. {on Mr. Roosevelt’s infirmity. { Ing Seaf(hllgh'S Butter clam resources drew a new ' Why thea, >udd<-l'11y, has }"T, ap-; ruling that the legal commercia)‘pmvm the release of such stories as; ROME, March 27.—Using search-|minimum size limit will be ra)sed‘:‘:d"uvem;‘bl:l: lfie?’llg:gf‘r‘ ‘g_}'mn‘ lights to guide them, two German from two inches to two and one»halr‘whfel ity ;:ke ;Ih own? “vl;ha‘ platoons raided the British Eighth|inches. |has he so far dropped the veil i Army positions' north of captured! On clams, the Department of 'y " 0100000 in what may have Beon| Faenza last night, but were repulsed Interior has established a closed sea- his most widely circulated public with 14 raiders captured, two killed son from May 15 to September 15. {address before Congress the pmh‘.t‘ ” ——————— = =1 and five wounded, Allied Headquart- STILL DRIVING day for remaining seated and ex-! This was the strongest German, MIAMI—Back in the roaring 205, | PA(UAE (N1 0 fffi;i?;‘ifih"if::fifi gesture made by the enemy in that Eert Harvey was one of the hottest | o Loirie Siael brices on the lower area in weeks and the heaviest of riders in the country Now Bert is .. of ms‘mb? the day, marked by a number of “driving anything with wheels on " qy o opcoe ™ o pende ¢ it s A ) 8 ends and poli-| patrol skirmishes both on the Brit- i*” as & fireman at the Air Trans- 'tical a&sociaws?u{s that budw ngs:»: ish and American Fifth Army fronts. port Command’s base in Miami. |qent is through with running for| i e — | i g {office and even with. any further| FROM ANCHORAGE | FROM SITKA personal participation in politics, Ernest J. Rockne, of Anchorage,| Holly Evans, of Sitka, is in town| __ B A, | is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. |and is registered at the Baranof. | Dwight W. Eisenhower said the | through enemy lines which Gen. main German defense lines in the |Visenhower declared broken in a west have been broken and the wmassive defeat. Germans were whipped but the| Swift armor of both the First Army may still have tough fighting snd Third Armies raced across the ahead. Reich unchecked, because, as Gen. The enemy may form a new front Eisenhower said, the enemy has in- where the maintenance problem sufficient strength at hand with would handicap the Allies, he added.' which to make a stand. The Supreme Commander declar—l Sweep Toward Berlin ed he believed there would not be| Hours ago, First Army tanks a negotiated unconditional surren- junced into Weilburg, 240 miles der of Germany but rather an un-'couthwest of Berlin. A dispatch conditional surrender would be im-!fileq later but shrouded by censor posed when the Allies in the west plackout, said the victory flushed were linked with the Russian armies. larmy made spectacular new gains, The Germans, he said, have suf-'ang’ continued to sweep toward fered a defeat that they cannot pepjin against opposition which has stand and need more strength than fayen apart they now have in the west to estab-| ne enemy retreat became a rout lish another line but Allied troubles',. thousands of German captives are not over yet. He added there ¢ 4 5 s} i © streamed to the rear. may be stern 'fighting ahead, ca-‘; Enemy reports said Thirds Army s i | GsgTy 5y TS |Bavaria, 223 miles from Berlin, |reached Lobr, 225 miles from SUB pENS | Berlin. Wuerzburg and Lohr are |slovakia, long since heing rolled up ‘by mighty Russian armies charg- AT FARGE 'ing in from the east. | | 1In the north sectionof the Ruhr, !slugging out gains against collaps- |ing German resistance in a prelude to what may become a decisive H | Ninth Army troops fought in the Divers Also Blast Nazil, mume ‘™ ooicenes witnin ane ]‘anks Ahead of Lines |tillery range of such Ruhr indus- on wesi Front | Gelsenkirchen, Mulheim and Ober- i In Heart Of Germany Several miles were gained in the Force Lancasters hurled 11-ton vol-center and south of the north front, li[)eBrirsL tm:e 'uL Farge, n:rmwest;me rugged Rhineland hills into of Bremen, in heavy attacks |cpen, sparsely wooded farm coun- Weather curtailed operations on(yy in the heart of Germany, which ing but yesterday more than 100 fyom the south. enemy tanks were destroyed Or, The U. S. Seventh Army fighting crippled by American and British|south of the Third Army, was dis- support or record given the Allied|mjje long bridgehead north of out- AFmigs actosy (he Bhine, |tianked Mannheim, and driven four Several Nazi tanks and Se”pm'imlles into inner Germany in the hedgerows only 40 yards ahead of | ,riso i the British lines and Tommies|iotaren s5o00. - o e dave waved thelr tin hats to the pilots. Chaes Apparent pecially in the north. columns approaching Wuemmrg‘ in | both barely 200 miles from Czecho- Slugging Out Gains B o M B E D\Lhe Twenty-first Army group Is |Freakthrough campaign. Itrial cities as Essen, Dusseldorf, hausen. LONDON, March 27—Royal Airl’ cano bombs on submarine pens for in the First Army’s dash far past western Germany during the mor- oytflanked the whole Ruhr Valley dive bombers as the closest air|ciosed to have forged a nineteen relled guns were blasted out of first few hours. Seventh Army Yo Chaos is apparent in the German CUMMINGS BACK Mrs. Geraldine Cummings and’ two children arrived in Juneau to- retreat in some sectors, even in the enemy’s radio cries. The Berlin radio told officials of the cutoff troops to “report immediately to Cay. She is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Olaf Bodding. MELH il Tl ] (Continued on Page Thiee)