The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1945, Page 1

P “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE NOL ANV L 90RE o NO. 9922 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THIRD ARMY 199 MILES FROM BERLIN Ships, I ISLANDS OF RYUKYU ARE PLASTERED (GIOVANETTI " ARRAIGNED HERE TODAY FDR Refurns ToDeskin Washingfon CREWS OF | NAZI SHIPS IN MUTINY ( | | i | Families of Coast Cuardsmen Ordered To Leave Territory Brownell added that he RED FORCES - AT BORDER OF AUSTRIA Planes Bombard Approaches to Japan ARMIES IN BIG BURST OF SPEED Both Sea and Carrier Raids TWo Sentenced This After- ap‘,’,”?éif,i‘iifi?iu‘ifil‘:’éo?gféi;‘; Refuse fo Obey Orders fo sp ARS w“l AT, it e~ Cuios Stalin Also Announces Re- | Ruhr Valley Nearly Cut Off Carried Ouf - Nimitz | noon inFederal Dis- | 'see eark atter u four-dey viat | -Scuttle Vessels-Ges- fiwc»i‘m“‘%ghrgfi c?ml sistance Over Along -Deep Penetration i i ilies of all mar en! oas . . frict Court e aoeoali e ot v tapo Gets Busy COME NOR"‘I Ciuardsmen in Alaska t lésve the| Baltic Coast in Germany Keeps Plans Secret By MORRIE LANDSBERG (By Associated Press) GUAM, March 29—Big American Lattleships blazed away in the cighth confirmed bombardment of the Ryukyu approaches to Japan Wednesday, while sky-dominating carrier planes plastered island de- fenses for the eleventh day of fiery | action, since they tore into the enemy homeland on March 18, the Charged with 15 counts of alleged | falsifications of records and one ‘count of fraudulently converting Postal funds to his own use, Edward J. Giovanetti, Juneau man formerly employed in the Post Office here, was this afternoon arraigned in U. S. District Court. Next Monday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon was set as time for him to plead. Represented by Attorney M. E. Monagle, the defendant waiv- of State Stettinus, presumably to| talk over the forthcoming World | Security Conferences in San Fran- cisco, and also with British Ambas- sador Lord Halifax, Oliver Lyttle- ton and Col. J. J. Llewellyn, who are in the United States to study the food situation. Another conference is scheduled with Senator Majority Leader Bark- of the Senate Military Affairs Com- gagements are talks with Secretary | ley and Senator Thomas, Chairman | LONDON, March 29—The Mos- {cow radio today said in a German language broadcast, the crew of the German aircraft carrier Graf Zep- |pelin mutinied at an unnamed |Baltic port against scuttling or-! |ders. The Gestapo scized the crew| of the ship and took them to Kiel. | The broadcast added that Grnnd | Admiral Doenitz Chief of the Ger-| man Navy, has issuea orders to “crews of all German warships in) - REPORTSAYS Kefchikan May Get 300 of| Feminine Guarders-Sit- ka and Juneau Also Territory. has sent Gov. note of protest. The Alaska Senator said there were a dozen Coast Guardsmen on the ship that brought him south to Seattle who had defied the or- der and were being transferred. The Coast Guard Office here re- fused to make any comment saying such action is under the supervision of the Seventeenth District Head- quarters at Ketchikan. Ernest Gruening a ‘ i | It is understood here that the mat-| BULLETIN-LONDON March 29—The Red Armv breaking | through the German fortified zone of northwestern Hungary in a surge up the Danube Valley, has reached the Sus- | trian border, Stalin announced tonight. The border was reached | at Koszeg, 42 miles south of Vienna and 20 miles west of Sarvar, captured yesterday. BULLETIN — PAKIS, March 29—The United Stotes First Army has wheeled north in a 40-mile burst of speed and came to within 68 miles of cutting off the Ruhr. The Taird Army raced to within 199 miles of Berlin and has made the deep- est penetration of Germany, only 125 miles from the western | tip of Czechoslovakia. The Third Army advanced within Navy announces. | i oY i rts : 5 | 240 miles of the Russian lin o ¥ ed reading of the lengthy indictment | jittee with regard to the manpower;Bfll“C ports to scuttle their ships Shes o G es Hesdquarters are. still gllent re- o, g against him by the Grand | jegislation. : |if they could not safely remove Jfer 1s/being hiSa duetily. ang B(iLLthN LONDON, eath along the Niesse, southeast of garding the continuing enemy oo i Gictment against Gio- eg 4 them.” | WASHINGTON, March 28 — A entirely by the District Coast Guard| 29—Stalin announced tonight Berlin. broadcasts that American forces "a“f:'m yoas "one ok Loir ‘:secret"( Moscow reports said mutinies |5 ;o of Coast Guard units in Headquarters at Ketchikan. Lt.| complete liquidation of German fave been on some of the Ryukyu Darie. X ‘Alaska has convinced three high|Warren M. Caro, Captain of the Port| resistance along the Baltic WIDE BREACH, NEAR LINES Jslands since Sunday. | indictments brought in. Liave occurred at other Baltic ports| Lanking officers of the Spars that here, declared that he has so far re-| NEW MURDER Coast southwest of Koenigsberg, PARIS, March 29—The United |+ 4 i Extensive Shelling Giovanetti was brought here from ‘““’"‘"“d by the Russians as crews | .gonment of Spars t. the Terri-|ceived mno communication from in a second order of the day |states Pirst Army today wheeled Admiral Nimitz, who reported nikan by Deputy Marshal | tefused kst ““"le their, shipe, tory will be well received | Ketchikan. and also said 80,000 Germans Y - y Ketcl y puty |tory | rorth in a 40-mile burst of s oattleships were shelling the Ryu-' james Nolan, of Wrangell. Bond was | | Commander Helen B. Schlcmun,; T TRt were killed and 50,000 have been |ond threatened to cut off the Lyus from PFriday through Wednes- to be set by the court later this Assistant Director of the Spars,! taken prisoners in the East |Ryuhr, day, along with continuous carrier afternoon. CHARGE FOR a7y ppisoN said, “There are many jobs in ((OALMINERS Prussian cleanup. | It advariced to the area of Lang- | | | | ( vaids, disclosed that carrier planes Also arriving here in custody of Alaska for which the Spars are well | R wiesse, only 48 miles southeast of destroyed 38 enemy planes, and Deputy Marshal Nolan and arraign- cualified. Both officers and en- Nearing Frontier lfl-mm' eastern exjt of the indps- Jamaged 19 or more ships, includ- ed this afternoon was. Kelso B. RM listed men are eager to, see -the LONDON, March 2¢—The Red tpial basin and reached Franken- g three warships. | Hartness. He is charged with al-| wspu take over their jobg. Many |Army, lancing through the shat-'perg, southeast of Langwiesse, 300 ” Sub Pens Smashed leged forgery and was served with Aor these men are anxious to be mred defenses of Bratislava Gap inr| miles southwest of Berlin. “4 Admiral Nimitz said p'anes had a warrant in Tacoma, Washington. sent to more active duty. Qthers {to the Danube Valley, reached | Al e cowned 25 Nipponese planes and His pleading time was also set m:f afi%muo'n. after ! the three-day period covering Sun- he had waived the reading of the | indictment and indicated that he sdestioyed 13 mrore on the rround in 2 o'clock Monday (Continued on pa” Eiqht) i would engage an attorney immed- iately. |cree murder in the death of Marvin | i o is- | The Fir rmy's surge s'o(K ouo""o"s ; Two guilty pleas were heard to- Frank, also of Ketchikan, Gefman S°|d|ers Ge' Meal 2’:1‘ SH:::qI::;{:Zs 'i\?ull(:c;xtkagls Parley for New co""ad at, fl“rc}’:“s "f P:m“h“"" 3 e W"-m:l 73"1713- o: !Mueilsgl:r?ed b | 7 G In dismissal of the jurors, Judge | ‘ : . outheast of Vienna, St. Johann on|menaced by the ] | day: lle admitted to a Assignment of Spars to other enaced by the forces north of ‘ggil,g:";“fiegfl’i‘gges;& pmpe""y |Alexander commendea the body as | of Potatoes, Allied [ IaGRiE SRR it suirissd | Strained Point at NLRB :;\;:sofl:m:::: 2 Fth;u::;:he;‘stmr:;: |Ruhr. NEW YORK, March 29. — Closing ' __, rifle, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | jished that he had been held here in stock today is 6%, American Can pederal Jail for approximately six 91%, Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem After it had been estab- | The Grand me was dismissed | Ly Judge George F. Alexander’ Tthis afternoon with receipt of a final lindictment charging Kunice Vivian Frank of Ketchikan witn first de-| IS REVEALED {having “set an enviable record” for | cxpeditious conduct of business. | He further declared the couvened‘ !Grand Jury had set an example for [NAZI PRISON Q ETAOIN HRDL Prisoners Peelings | {han organizations in Alaska com- havew«been. stationed n.Alaska {or} long periods’ and deserve t‘apher to the States’” \ Tentative plans cali for station- |ing about three hundred enlisted | TOAIDLEWIS under consideration | Commander Schleman said civi- | Taktfi_ Poll munities are ready to welcome the Sver the front, Ll lncgo along. the Austrian gmn!pr, Land mv'rm an w‘m 0 ‘\t i reported by Mascow. wide breaks in the German lines. Big Stalin tanks and armored| North of the Ruhr the armies jcars of Marshal Tolbukh'n's Third {are menacing Hannover? over 140 Ukrainian Army, smashing ahead miles west of Berlin. 'trom captured Csorna hammered News Blackout The Third Army is also advanc- ing along the southeastern flank southeast of Bratislava. | A German communique an- | {nounced a withdrawa! north of the| Steel 71%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 76, Kennecott 37, New York Central 22z, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 62%. Dow, Jones averages today are' as follows: industrials, 154.06; rails, ' 50.56; utilities, 27.48. months already, Judge George F.| | Alexander sentenced the prisoner to the time he has already been held and ordered him released next Mon- day. The prisoner was represented | | by Attorney Howard D. Stabler, who | had been appointed to his defense | by the court. !tuture jurors that will increase the respect for better administra-| ition of the law. In reference to the Grand Jury| report, which will be released to- morrow, Judge Alexancer added to| |his commendations that he will |*see that something i< done” about HEPPENHEIM, Gerwany, March 23~Eleven ‘hundrea en.ociated pris- oners, including 290 wounded Am- |ericans, so badly treated by their | Nazi captors they had lost an| average of 35 pounds weight, have meen freed from a (‘ermm prison camp. The prisoners were released wher Spars into various community ac- tivities. Says Nazis WASHINGTON, March 20-Thun- Danube to Nitra River, ahead of a (dering miners voting to strike at 25 mile advance by the Russians Lis call bolstered Jonn L. Lewis' {iom the broken Hron River Line. ;rosition today in the deadlocked Push In Slovakia |soft coal wage negotiations for a‘ This push in Slovakia, dovetail- new contract to follow that which /irg with the assault below the great | cxpires midnight Saturday. |1iver in southeastern Europe, has| A better than eight to one mar- "|pparenuy placed the Russians gin in favor of the strike, how- close to the city of Nitra, 40 miles cf the First Army, but most of the fiont is under a news blackout |which prevents full disclosure o (the whereabouts of the probing columns of armored tank-riding in- E antry. General Hodpes lifted the veil on Lis First Army to permit disclos- ure of his northward swing after - Just arrived in Juneau today on[mndnions reported by the jury and i The Washlngtonme steamer North Sea, a fourth|ihat by and large he is in agree-|the United States Seventh Arm: ea y ave lever, does not necossarily mean cast of Bratislava, rapital of the ;\hthtrty~nx hour sileuce, but even ¥ defendant in the M. S. Northland iment with the body. , infantry captured this town today.| that Lewis will eall a strike. i uppet government of Slovakia and |* ef;e-doutt;"un communications pre- whiskey-stealing ~ affair, Sydney| The indictment charging Mrs.| The pathetically happy liberated | Complete returns from ninety liossibly as close as thirty miles m::fi 58 en: :?nm”pmt“‘;n": Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON @s. Col H.oben 8. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.) WASHINGTON In a highly secret session before the Senate' Military Affairs Committee last Thursday, Gen. George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, refused to Quess when the end of the war | Samuel Balcom entered a guilty 3 plea to a charge of “knowingly buy- |ing and receiving inter-state cargo $150. Sandy Johnson. Skagway plead not guilty. Atworney M. Monagle has been apndinted by the | Court to conduct his defense Time for pleading was set over youth, charged with alleged rape, | Frank of Ketchikan with first de- |eree murder is the second such 'n- dictment of the present court term. |cictment is that of, Charles Axson, l'auve!"cc““d of a Kake slaying The District Court will be re! jcessed over the weekend, resuming ‘dutles Monday. — e, nen related how they had beenl .ubjected to filthy conditions and | {ted a slow starvation diet which} stolen from a vessel.” He was fined |The other first degree murder in-|Made it virtually impossible for the; {wounded to recover and caused some prisoners to lose as much as {one hundred pounds of weight. | An American lieutenant, who| with a major did all the surgical work among the American . prison-| |ers, sald the average daily diet was Secref Bomb Dufchman Declares Ger- man Rocket Gadget Be Last Resort polled areas covered by the Nn-“lhe border of Moravia. tional Labor Relations Board yes-| There is no word of a coordi- terday showed 208,000 votes for a nated offensive by Marshal Konev strike and 25,000 for no strike. from Silesia toward Vienna and | The question asked was, “Do you 'Prague from the northeast but wish to permit interruption of war the Russians are heavily bombing rroduction in war time as a result Maehrisch and Ostrau in the Mo- lof this dispute?” ravian Gap, in their approach from The wording was fixed by the that direction. | £mitn-Connally Lobur Disputes Act Toehold Evacual \\Andm which the ballot was taken.. In the north, the Germans an- the north. 20 Mile Advance It is known the British Second ‘nrmy made a twenty mile advance, while the U. S, Ninth Army, fight- ing along and into the northern fringe of the Ruhr, made anothei £ix mile advance along Hitler's broad highways, tearing up only .r-ccasloml enemy pockets of resist- with Germany will come. According | {about 700 calories in contrast to | Completion of the tallot cleared nounced evacuation of Kahlholz|gnce. til next Monday in the cases | PORTLAND, Me., March 29.—A to all logic, he said, the German' A the 3500 to 4,000 calories allot-| g d the way for Lewls to reply to Cape, last toehold on the East| Haltern, twen of Charles Axson, charged with, ! {member of the Dutch under- cecretary of the Interior Harold | Prussian mainland except North e ol resistance should be at an end now, but there is no sign that the army is collapsing. The Gestapo still re- snd Dan White, charged with al- glleged murder in the first degree, | CONTROL ACT IS {ment for wounded men in Ameri-| |can military hospitals. The lieutenant declared that re- ‘ {ground declared here Nazis actually do have a today “": Ickes' request the present contract Koenigsberg. Reports raid they had FoCHRN, be extended to May 1 ‘o( Dortmund and thirty five miles west of Hamm, the largest freighs withdrawn to Frische Hehrung, a|iard in Germany, was captured by 3 The court tains its hold of terror on Germany. l:ag::d :;l;e::,l,emm—.m Paeul Jr. to APPROVED 'I'OD Av | peated dpm::ests to the f’grma"_""3;’3{‘522“21&2?"2&.3 i L arroiw su]ndspit extending from fhe Ninth Army, while Daisburg in { Marshall pointed out that Ger-,;o gefense of White, alter the de- | lmmman ant were met With the| oicec of the Netherlands Infor- anzlg, almost to Koenigsberg, |the Ruhr ran up the white flay. man gasoline stocks are practically cried up, and that the Nazis do not Lave enough fuel to move their| supplies, let alone their armored ~ehicles and artillery. On the other hand, he said, their supply problem is far simpler than ours because they are fighting at home. Their repair and replacement - job for tanks and other vehicles is also!’ comparatively simple. When Allied | armor is knocked out, it means that it is lost if the damage is too much for the field repair bases, while a Nazi tank which has suffered far more serious damage can be taken right into a tank factory not so snany miles from where it was hit, This is a tremendous advantage, be said. The Chief of Staff also told the Senators that it is a mistake to figure that the Japs will fold up quickly once Germany is out of the fendant declared he had been un- cble to secure the services of a |lawyer. R. E. Robertson, appointed as counsel for Axson, requested the Court to name an interpreter who would be in a “privilezed” position | h regard to any confidences | <rom the defendant. Mr. Robertson WASHINGTON, March 29.—Ex-| jtension of the Price Control Act for cne year without change was ap- proved by the Senate Banking Com-| mittee today. The decision was reached after OPA officials assured the committee they would try, by administrative means, to adjust the policy practices that some business groups had com- plained about. Chairman Wagner told reporters he thought the committee action | Ipointed out that Axsen is not only ‘deaf but is unable to speak ‘much English—and “I can't talk Thlin-| get,” he remarked. Judge Alexan- !der took the matter under advise- iaent. CASUALTIES ON INCREASE course, change its mind and recom: report.” The Committee not only turned! down amendments asked by indus- \try but a series of changes propos- ed by Administrator Chester Bow- les in which he asked power to place ceilings on movie tickets, bar- {PrXcan turf history, 1eply that Nazis just couldn't get any more food themselves. In the meantime, the Lieutenant | rdded, the CHEBIADS cewR T, Db- ‘Alhes and Germany's last Tesort | |to-an ultimate weapon “so powertul-‘ lncan-I {tatoes and the prisoners were fed +hin soup made of the peclings. "BIGRED" HITS 28TH BIRTHDA LEXINGTON, Ky, March 29 — That ‘grand old man” Man Q' War, most famous horse in all Am- t~day reaches the 28th milestone of his now plu- | tocratic life, Big Red The greates! t | hoss of them all” is now in com- |against | mation Bureau, told an interviewer ithe war on the European front is| now a race between victory of the ly destructive ‘it is almost ceivable.” Van Berkel said: “The new weapon! is a tiny gadget which could be placed in a rocket bomb and may he‘ launched with complete effectiveness | the contlnentsl United State.” | The traveler declared the Germans' now was “all set but it could, of | Today’s an occasion in the rolling are saving it for a last stand, pro-| \B]ue Grass country, already tinted pably in the Bavarian Alps, mend amendments before filing melby 'he natural magic of Spring- “they are confident and their secre! weapon will wipe out civilization and save them in the very end.” Ingvald Varness Is Now Engaged ATTACKSOF NAZIS ARE BEATEN OFF | ROME, March 28.—German at- | \tacks on the Eighth Army positions 'near Cotignola, six miles hold Faenza, were repulsed yesterday (as the rest of the Italian front re- mained relatively quiet. Rain restricted visibility on the | Fifth Army front to the southwest.! > | Baby Boy Born north oI: " the Bologna-Rimini Highway strong- | |Letween the sea and Frisches La- goon. center of Danzig, which was left ialone by the fall of the rivall Polish port of Gdynia nearby, and numbers in the dty main stre:ts. CHURCHILL OPTIMISTIC LONDON, March 29. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill | | asserted today, “The hour of suc- cess” is near in the European war. Churchill’s prediction came out in {a letter endorsing Ronald Munro, Russian forces have reached '.he{ 1Germans are giving up in.large| Attacks at Frankfurt All of the city of Frankfurt-on- Main, except the nortbern outskirts (nas been captured by the Third Army, whose advance troops are |cperating in echelon formations. | First Army troops moved east- ward within 214 miles of Berlin as Hamborn, Weisbaden, Hanau, | Aschafffenburg and the northern half of Mannheim fell to General ‘vElsenhowers victory-ilushed armies fizhv.mg up to 145 miles deep into Germany. | Three Towns Threatened The full extent of advances in \w;tphnnn is hidden by a security | blackout, but AP correspondent, Ned |Nordness, said Muenster, Osna- 'brueck and Hannover were all threntened by sweeping gains. | oOutlanking the Ruhr to the rorth, the Seventh Army is fighting !thirty eight miles east of the Rhine war. Although its losses have been ber and beaut; | Liberal candidate for the House of y shops. plete retirement at Samuel D. i ‘Third ¥ heavy, Japan still+has a formidable| wASHINGTON, D. C. March 29 ——,——— Riddle’s Faraway Farm, near here.‘ { Commons in a special election to flll 08 & 2040 "mk‘l' The’ tuall, .end army and vast stores of ‘supplies.| american combat casualti WASHINGTON, March 29—Loss ——————— i a vacancy. Pirst Armies have virtually en- o eagunltion re- | 020 0 @IIS! " “The endurance of the British [circled the last defenders of Marn- He would not estimate the length rorted since Pearl Harbor have of a tank landing ship and a large CONRAD HERE The engagement of Miss Betty | people and the steadfast devotion of |heim by crossing the Neckar River A baby boy was born to the Rev.'our fighting services has at last |near Mannheim. Walter Soboleff in the|brought us near the hour of suc-| B . b R ST | cess,” Churchill wrote. FRED CAMPEN RETURNS of time needed to defeat the Island '’ Empire. But insisted it would be extremely tough going. Marshall said nothing during this| Thorson and Seamal ingvald Var- , USCG, was recently an- in Everett, Wash. Miss and Mrs. i T. Conrad, of Seattle, is staying ne€s at the Baranof Hotel. {1 ounced neared the 9000,000 mark. support landing craft i the Philip- The Army sets its losses at 780,000 I''es by enemy action has been an- end the latest Navy report declares|nounced by the Navy. i loss of 92,000. The support landing craft type —_—————— |Thorson is the daughter of Mr. ]Cvovernmem Hospital yeSterday session about his plan to take over % t losk. Weight of - e-e | es supreme commander in the Pa-|, ot EUE 0 m?“};:ofbm“es e grell g e el T SR S o "“,3‘2"?,‘3.‘;32 s o T G FROM PETERSBURG | Fred campen, wellknown rancher cific once Germany falls, but mem- ° e Wiinicier s o e 4 He joir Ider sistcr, Janet. The| Chris Dahl, of Patersburg, hasjon the Loop Road returned on the 'just week’s figures. |of 65 to 75 men. No annquncement| Larry Parsons, Robert Eide,| Seaman Ingvald Varness, son of He joins an olde arrived in Junewu and 1s & guest|North Sea after on absence of sev- bers of the committee now take all of Sitka, m—g‘Mls J. T. Holm, of Seattle, is a father is pastor of the Memorial ? lat the Baranof Hotel | \ Reported dead from the Army, Was made™of the total casualties | Johnny Anselm, 1 weeks in the south. i ave 153,000, from the Navy, 35000 in the loss of these two ships. ‘"‘ the Baranof Hotel. o H (Continued on Page Four) l‘v’resbytermn Church. Juneau High School graduate. 1