The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9921 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WED! NESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s YANKS FIGHT 218 MILES FROM BERLIN Soviet Smashes Seen On East Front New RED THRUST IS 48 MILES! FROM VIENNA New Crossing—of Oder Riv- er Is Also Reported by Nazis BULLETIN-LONDON March 28—Gdynia, Baltic port, the last big Polish city in German hands, has been captured by the Red Army along with 9,000 prisoners and to the south, Berlin says, Soviet troops have crossed the last river barrier guarding the Austrian frontier. The German broadcast also said the Russians have cap- | tured Lebus on the west side of the Oder River, 37 miles from Berlin. Stalin also announces the | capture of Csorna, northwestern | Hungary, 11 miles from the Austrian border. LONDON, March 28—Four Rus- | sian armies hammered in huge pincers on Czechoslovakia and Vi- enna, Berlin declared in a report | which said one thrust through | western Hungary to within 48 miles | of Vienna, has now rolled up to| the central Raba River guarding ! Austria. | The German broadcast declared the Soviet troops have forced a new crossing of the Oder River, north-, west of Kuestrin, 38 miles from' Berlin. i ‘Peace Charler”Between 4 WOMEN, Labor, Management Now PREPARE FOR UNITED NATIONS COAST PARLEY. Codle s MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION to the United Nations conference in San Francisco are shown as they met with President Roosevelt in Washington for s had called them to the Capital to go over prelim Sol Bloom, New York; Mrs. Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnar Edward Stettinius of Texas; Sect. of State Stettinius; Commdr, Harold Stassen, U. S. Navy, denberg of Michigan and Representative Charles Eaton of New Jersey. I{rgpése’d WASHINGTON, March 28— A A Moscow dispatch repo“rted the «peace charter” for labor and man- Russian supply system is “working gsgement intended to prevent indus- all out to prepare for the SPring tyja) strife when the nation's econ-| cffensive” on this front, which ‘Sv'“y contracts to a peacetime basis, ciosest to the Nazi capital Street Combat |is announced, with AFL President | Wm. Green, CIO Chairman Phillip Other Russian units, cleaning out Murray and U. S. Chamber of Com- Danzig where the opening shots merce President Eric Johnson join- of the war were fired, are fighting ing in making the announcement. nto nearby Gydnia, where the! German command 1eported fierce o private property, a free choice of | street combat in both cities. The charter declares the “support the “inherent ; Prevent Slrite; tempt to encroach upon the peroga- tives of management. As a coun- terbalance the charter pledges sup-| | port of the right of labor to organize and engage in collective bargaining. This is interpreted as a pledge by! | management to discourage any at- {tempt at “union-busting” in the | postwar period of a labor over-| | supply. { Announcing the charter at a | eaders declared they created a Na- | tional Committee, made up of| their first pre-conclave meeting. Secretary of State inary details. They are, left to right: Rep. d College, New York; Sen. Tom Connally of Minnesota; Senator Arthur Van= (International Soundphoto) 2 SAILORS LOSE LIVES 'Disabled Boat and Storm American Cause of Tragedy Out Near Kodiak KODIAK, Alaska, March 28.—The. lives of four women and two sail- ors were claimed by the icy waters of Kupreariof strait, near here, when action under the system of private news conference, labor and business a boat making a return trip with The Third Ukrainian AArincompetitive capitalism,” as the doc- | clammed through sagging Nazi de- yment recognized the occupants, after attending a movie show, capsized in rough wat- fenses below the Danube, Within yight and responsibility of manage-|spokesmen representing business and'er late Sunday night, according to 20 miles of Austria and 58 miles ment to'direct operations and enter- | labor organizations, rise.” srom Vienna yesterday, the German command said. Marshal Tolbukin's | wen have now thrust to the “emmllpledge of labor leaders not to at- and its principles.” In effect, its sponsors said, it is a (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service witn the Army.) WASHINGTON—The Army’s pr motion policy on general officers came in for a thororgh raking-over last week, when the Senate Mili- tary Affairs Committee met in a closed-door session to consider the recommended promotion of nine lieutenant generals to full gener- als. Chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah cpened the discussion by remarking H1 that he had never before known a Transportation 'Railway Operating By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 28 — The Association of American Railroads |the Goesn't like it. A great many of the |Lave been doing on the whole anaccident, but the names of the members of that division of the excellent jobin Franceand Belgium,| !Army Service Forces known as rail- | f,ghting the war in their way just way operating battalions don't like as hard as the boys up front. | either. I mean the has reflection on Corps that the single period in our history to pro- ‘uropped up over here because of the duce so many generals. Thomas was publicity given those black market | apparently making & simple obser- courts martial in France. Many of vation, struck a responsive chord. but soon found he had the His 'Army supplies for sale at fabulous jpiles, but as we continued to im- | men convicted of theft of in an attempt |to “promote understanding and a| | sympathetic acceptance of this code Baffalions at Front | Resent Recent Slurs |home. ! Reports reaching here are tha railway operating battalions One such report, now in the 1ailroad association files, for ex-| «mple, is from Capt. G. O. Larmer, | of the 723rd Railway Operating| Battalion. { “Originally, we operated a stretch of double track lines of about 60 committee refused to vote to con-{prices in the black markets came | prove and became the best battalion | firm the nine candidates without from one of the railway operating in the European theatre, we were: having Chief of Staff Marshall ap- battalions. pear before the Committee and explain the promotions. Hard-working Happy Chandler of Kentucky wanted to know how| these nine men had been selected. ond Simpson—the commanders on the Western Front—are all lieu- tenant generals now,” Chandler ob- served. “Why shouldn't they be promoted just as soon as these nine men suggested here?” Styles Bridges of New Hamp- shire seconded Chandler’s question, referring specifically to Patton and Hodges. Dakota pointed out that these four! men (Patton, Hodges, Patch and Simpson) are commanders of single | armies, rather than of army gmup&fi The generals recommended for pro- 2Pout They are justified in not liking it. . s The thievery of needed supplies it could But to condemn the Army as a whole or any corps in it for the cctivities of this criminal element | very wrong. Edgar Hoover has pointed this the comparatively small |given the territory formerly oper- ated by another battalion so that| |we now have double track line for 120 miles and two major termihals. | , “In Stars and Stripes in Febru- | land even such morale supplies as ary,” continues the captain, “it was| “Men like Patton. Hodges, Patch'cigarettes and candy is a shametul! as well as a criminal thing. In some lcases, as in the case of thefts of | vitally needed gasoline, even be a murderous thing. (Continued on Page Thiee) e - ST0CK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 28—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine; stock today is 7, American Can| 1 i | | ternational Harvester 75% Kenne-| cut, explaining on several occasions cott 36'%, New York Central 22%,‘ hat he isn't nearly as” worried | Northern Pacifiec 20%, U. S. Steel|Russian invasion. 617%. reports hrought here. A party of four women and four lors had made the trip from Afo- nak to Litnik, about five miles away. On the return trip the motor of the small boat failed and two seilors left in a dory to return to Litnik for aid, anchoring the dis- abled craft. During their absence the disabled craft apparently capsized in the rought weather and the six persons aboard were drowned. g The women were Mrs. Sophie Nelson, mother of five; her sister- in-law, Jéssie Nelson, mother of |two; Jean Michell, mother of one,! and Augusta Gregorioff, all of Afo- gnak. The Navy spokesman confirms the ser- vicemen are withheld pending no- tification to next of kin. The body of Jessic Nelson was found late Monday, the only one re- covered so far. — e RUSSIAN INVASION EXPECTED Well Equipp?i Manchur- ian Puppet Troops Moved fo North CHUNGKING, March 28—A Chi-|about the prospect of giving shelter miles south ; 4 A nese press report said 300,000 well|to Nazi or Fascist leaders, fearing damaging three small cargo ships,| Chan QGurney of South| Army >°mcmls_m France aug here':sxl_v, Avnncondu 307%, Betplehem:equlpped Manchurian puppet troops‘mgg it may make life harder for,and continued neutralizing harassing | have pointed this out. FBI Director Steel 71%, Curtiss Wright 5%, ln—|have been moved into northern|them than it already is. Manchuria to bolster Japanese de- tenses against the possibility of a Manchuria on the way here, said|Islands were carried out. } ! ‘The Chinese report said also that motion are Bradley, Devers and ‘fiminal element in the Army as he| Dow, Jones averages today are double-tracking of railroars through il AN S . AN R (Continued on Page Four) — 1s in the army of possible juvenile ¢s follows: Industrials, 158.79; rails, | delinquents growing up here at 50.40; utilities, 27.37. ’ Manchuria has been completed by the Japs, fas 950 FORTS | MAKERAID | ON BERLIN Fifth Daylidfi_Aitack Re ported-Hannover Also Receives Bombing | LONDON, March 28—A fleet of | epproximately 950 Flying Fortresses with 350 Mustangs for escort at- | tacked Berlin and Bannover today | a German radio broadcast a | warning to the Berlin populace | that all unneeded persons would be The German News Agency DNB} inade the announcement as Berlin tinderwent its 36th consecutive RAF | Mosquito raid last night. | Armament plants in Berlin and Hannover were today's targets. | | The raid today, the fifth major | daylight assault of the year on Berlin, was camried out by two| formations of Fortresses thunder- |1ng back and forth across the city 'an hour apart. LANDING ON . CEBUISLAND ~ CONFIRMED Division Went Ashore Monday Under Cover of Shellfire “{evacuated. JAMES HUTCHESON Associated Press War Correspondent MANILA, March 28—Major Gen- |eral William H. Arnold’s American | Division lJanded Monday on the east coast of the elongated Cebu Island under cover of the United States Seventh Fleet guns and bombing planes, and pushed swiftly inland and within less than three miles of important Cebu Island. This is the twenty-eighth island landing during the Philippine cam- paign and is confirmed by Gen.' Douglas MacArthur after an earlier Tokyo radio broadcast, picked up here, said American Yanks caught the Cebu defenders off guard and encountered only moderate resis- | tance. The Americans landed at Talisay,! ;mldwny along ‘the east coast and five miles south of the principal !port of Cebu City. The Tokyo radio reported the in- | vasion Tuesday, saying 1500 Amer- |ican troops reached -Talisay early Monday morning. HITLERTO | 1 SEEX HAVEN | ~ WITH JAPS MOSCOW, March 28.—A Ruman- lian diplomat, en route home from | Tokyo, asserted today the Japanese | firmly expect Hitler, Himmler and| Mussolini to seek refuge in Japan| ! at “almost any time” now that Ger- {many’s cause seems hopeless. | “The fact is they have been ex-l \pectlng them for a long time,” de- iclared the Diplomat, Victor Gutxu~’ |lesco, former head of the Rumanian (embassy staff who just arrived in Moscow. He stated the Japanese| |didn’t appear particularly pleased | | | | Gutxulesco, who travelled through!| {he found an unmistakable spirit of !delnt prevailing everywhere in| |anan, but anyone who thinks the 'Japanese are going to quit are gravely mistaken. | carrier aircraft “continued their at-| How lke (leared Rhine | GEMUENDEN - ENTERED BY - THIRD ARMY 000000000, FRONT MARCH 3 XXXy FRONT i | marcH4 | | ; | APy, FRONT o 7 MARCH Other American Forces ~t Race on Praclical- ly Unopposed | PARIS, March 28--The German |Command today said American Third Army tanks had crashed into Gemuenden, 218 miles southwest of Perlin, but were driven out. The |enemy assertion came while four cf Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower’s armies were surging through wide break-throughs in disintegrating German lines. | The American First Army reach- 'ed the Giessen area, 225 miles from Berlin. | The U. S. Seventh Army, driving i:l'z miles beyond the Rhine, reached |the River Main and formed with {the Third ana First Armies a solid (front on the rolling tank country |of inner Germany. ! British Menace Muenster | 'The British Second Army slashed g ! 2 12 miles deep into Westphalia, 3rd ARMY A 'menacing Muenster, its capital. @ WUPPERTAL DUESSELDORF GERMANY BONN 78 REMAGEN | The U. 8. Ninth Army is cleaning up the western part of the Ruhr 4| Valley, which. is completely out- |flanked by the First Army on the « |southern-half and ‘he on ithe north, Enter Another Bastion The Canadians’ First Army has NIMITZ IS SILENT ON ¥ ik » ¥ (AP News/feabures) The strategy that brought oeu.‘ Iisenhower's armies to the banks| { th | of the Rhine and across the nver‘bu"t into’ SHe’ aketiirn outiiiele 9 & was another exampie of the hit-| ‘em - where - they - ain’t method he | vsed so successfully in Normandy.|_ The first move came early in|VAS reached yesterday in a mighty February, when Gen. Crerar’s First SUrge of Gen. George S. Patton's BIG RA'DS-C“"““’" Army, |forces 45 miles east of tottering reinforced with| {Iritish Second Army units, opene and 110 miles from the Rhine bastion of Emmerich. The Germans said Gemuenden Part of the First Army drove east | (to Cologne. Another part shot q | Frankfurt, lan attack to the east and south uf\cucm’”l“““‘_‘ ST its sector, The enemy's communique said i German Marshal Von Rundsted 1 " Refuses io lee ‘Japs A“y must have recognized the danger of ';:“m“"d' '"‘L 1 l':‘“k’ z“"’}’gfl 1 s leaving other sectors undefended,|®nemy reports al g |nf0fma'l0n On RYU but he rushed reinforcements Army troops had captured and were ogainst the Canadians. using the radio inside Frankfurt on Main, Germany's ninth largest city, ' Then, at the other end of the which the Third Army is con- _BY ELMONT WAITE & {erican Army started a drive down | Victories Obscured Associated Press War Cormespondent ihe Moselle Valley towards Coblenz.| The full extent of victorles in the GI{:N: lr\d;‘f':hmz 8 S A;’::‘““l;’rhl.s drew off more of Von Rund-|west is obscured by partial security ‘“l‘]y g nf N" “‘s "E"w‘;“”l;om ;‘_‘_ ttedt's reserves, weakening the blackouts. A dispatch from Third (i e el" i (Zj ;eg?rmvnl i 2 g center and setting the stage for the ' Army headquarters, filed by Tho- rier planes and fa: PS Olipig smash. ‘ burn Wiant, four hours earlier than ; P 's\bhe German broadcast, sald the their intense bombardment of thel February 23, Lt. Gen. Simpson’s; " Ryukyus, while he totally lgnored U. S. Ninth Army and Lt/ Gen;{tasternmost advance of -Patton's repeated Japanese broadcasts that|Hodges' U. S. First Army attacked. 'T0OPs was still at Aschaffenburg, American troops made amphibious|The Ninth circled north to form a 22 miles southeast of Prankfurt and landings on strategic Okinawa, in Pincers with the Canadians on a 25 miles southwest of Gemuenden. - e — Admiral Nimitz did not even locate (ompleted, both armies pushed on | the targets of Tuesday's bombard- to clear out the west bank all along ment, but they were presumably on the Rhine north of Dusseldorf. { Okinawa, and possibly adjacent ! small islands, as were three others in the last four days, up to Tuesday. | southeastward to reach the Rhine! i FOK‘A;hel “im;‘d A C""-“:C“;‘fiw kidrys leap across the river on March 7 ice Admira, PR A On March 5, it was disclosed pilots bombed, rocketed and strafed (¢ patton was only 20 miles from | WITH UNITED STATES THIRD targets from southern Honshu coplens His army was the southern ! ARMY—The rampaging Fourth Ar- Island w"hth’e s‘o:t:erx} %y“ki‘:";mw of a clamp, and the l.‘gm‘:wredzbivmon of Lheu':.hird Army while for the fourth day in five, Ad-lcpearhead of the First Army was| 9roVe twenty-seven miles ni ot moral Raymond Spruance’s fast New '(y. northern jaw. | Hanau today, to a point six miles southeast of Giessen. ¢ the town of Gemuenden was ‘“re- ' kyus Attacks |front, Lt. Gen. Patton’s Third Am-!quering block by block. the U. 8. Pacific Fleet continued the center of the island chain. |pig pocket of GermaFs This job | Widespread Raids | between Bonn and Coblenz and to B UllEII "s sixteen-inch gun battleships poured| my s pigenhower cleaned up the ! explosive charges into OKINawa OF|geqt pank of the Rhine from its vicinity. Nijmel 5 Almost as if laughing at Tokyo's| Iuisgen, fo: Oobions, HUENXE, Germany—Ninth Army | troops captured Hanborn, the site | of one of Fritz Thyssen's steel works, | in their plunge north to block the | area around Duisberg. repeated “fishing for mrormamm”! s . broadcasts, Admiral Nimitz reporled; Te"“o"al in today's communique only that: Holiday Is | . On Fflday | WEISBADEN, Germany — Third | Army troops seized Wiesbaden, and Next Friday is Seward’s Day and on the north sped on to within Despnc":l'::" Frightened lence, . Territorial holidav made so by | seven rulieh of & funeHon VISR there is cause for speculation that|the Territorial Legislature in 1917.| irst Army nosth of the Main Rives. 4 ¥ | All Territorial offices will be| invasion-frightened Japan’s reports of landings on two tiny slands off Ciosed the entire day and the banks | Gen MONTGOMERY'S HEAD- the southwestern coast of Okinawa|©f Juneau will also hang out the|qyARTERS—Canadians have bat- may be the forerunner of amphi-|Sign “holiday.” tled into the Rhine city of Em- bious operations. | There will also bz no court ses-|merich in hard fighting. Admiral Ninimtz also reported Sion Priday. | s Navy Search planes had struck in! And listen kids, Supt. A. B. the vicinity of Hahijo Island, 150 Phillips announced this afternoon of Tokyo, Monday, “there will be no school Friday, aneneml Hodges’ far-ranging tank Iwill be a holiday.” | columns are racing eastward on clear Otherwise, business will continue | roads, with the enemy unable even to challenge their advances with a tack on enemy forces and defense| installations in the Ryukyus, while, surface units attacked coastal objec-| tives with naval gunfire.” WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY— air strikes on Marcus, Palau, Yap, ¢S usual Truc, Wake and the Marshall B S S SRS token resistance. Giessen, 225 miles FCC MAN HERE from Berlin and Bellnhausen, 221 —————— miles from Berlin, were overrun, 68 miles from the Rhine, but a news blackout cloaked the movements of the charge columns in their swift progress. . AUSTIN HERE Victor G. Rowe, of the Anchorage | William J. Austin, registermglbmce of the Federal Communica- from Seattle, is a guest at the tions Commission, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, Hotel Juneau.